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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY — Miami Trace finished in sixth place at the Southwest District tournament held here Saturday, Feb. 24. Sixteen teams and 31 schools were represented.
Completing the 2023-24 season participating in the Southwest tournament, the Miami Trace gymnastics team scored a 128.45 which placed the team sixth of sixteen competing schools.
Centerville won the meet (138.425) and Troy received second (133). These two schools will represent the Southwest District at the State meet this weekend.
Seventy-six gymnasts performed on all four events – vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.
The combined scores of these events places the gymnast in the All-Around competition.
Miami Trace sophomore Tori Johnson ranked 15th. Johnson placed 15th of 101 gymnasts at the competition on balance beam with an 8.45 score.
The Panther athlete also placed 18th on floor exercise out of 104 with an 8.9 score. Johnson placed 22nd on uneven bars (8.15) and 35th on vault (8.05).
Teammate Bayley Carr achieved a 22nd rank in the All-Around. Carr finished in 12th place on vault (8.375). The senior, completing her four-year career, placed 17th on uneven bars (8.35) out of 96.
The season now comes to a close.
Head coach Susan Holloway expressed her excitement regarding the team's success this year.
"These girls have consistently competed against schools at invitationals from Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati," Holloway said. "The team has posted in the top four all season.
"We have had individuals stand among the top finishers," Holloway said. "This group of athletes have been such a joy to work with all through the years. I have been coaching most of the girls for the past 10 to 15 years. The coaching staff and I are very proud of these young ladies and of the season accomplishments the team has earned."
Vault — Bayley Carr, MT, 12th, 8.375; Zandra West, MT, 15th, 8.25; Maryn Mustain, W, 16th, 8.225; Claire Robinson, A, 21st, 8.175; Rhiley Keaton, MT, 30th, 8.075; Tori Johnson, MT, 35th, 8.05; Caitlyn Hayes, W, 43rd, 8.0; Caroline Watts, U, 53rd, 7.825; Abby McMahon, MT, 82nd, 7.375; Ava Crank, MT, 95th, 6.85
Uneven Bars — Bayley Carr, MT, 17th, 8.35; Tori Johnson, MT, 22nd, 8.1; Caitlyn Hayes, W, 26th, 8.0; Rhiley Keaton, MT, 30th, 7.875; Maryn Mustain, W, 34th, 7.825; Claire Robinson, A, 36th, 7.725; Zandra West, MT, 53rd, 7.15; Caroline Watts, U, 56th, 7.075; Kyana Sponseller, MT, 79th, 5.85; Abby McMahon, MT, 88th, 5.25
Balance Beam — Tori Johnson, MT, 15th, 8.45; Bayley Carr, MT, 42nd, 7.75; Claire Robinson, A, 45th, 7.7; Caroline Watts, U, 47th, 7.65; Caitlyn Hayes, W, 60th, 7.4; Maryn Mustain, 65th, 7.3; Kyana Sponseller, MT, 68th, 7.25; Zandra West, MT, 82nd, 6.75; Abby McMahon, MT, 83rd, 6.65; Rhiley Keaton, MT, 84th, 6.65
Floor Exercise — Tori Johnson, MT, 18th, 8.9; Maryn Mustain, W, 32nd, 8.7; Claire Robinson, A, 36th, 8.625; Rhiley Keaton, MT, 40th, 8.575; Caroline Watts, U, 46th, 8.45; Bayley Carr, MT, 51st, 8.4; Caitlyn Hayes, W, 52nd, 8.36; Kyana Sponseller, MT, 62nd, 8.15; Zandra West, MT, 66th, 7.925; Ava Crank, MT, 97th, 6.4 | <urn:uuid:af68e466-7c82-4f92-a4ea-92453c26a8bf> | {
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Federal prosecutors are asking for former President Donald Trump's classified documents to start on July 8.
Trump's attorneys and special counsel Jack Smith are asking for the trial in the classified documents case to be pushed, CNN reported.
Trump's attorney proposed August 12 as an alternative date, according to The Associated Press. Smith proposed July 8.
The August 12 date happens to come weeks after the Republican National Convention, the AP reported.
"As the leading candidate in the 2024 election, President Trump strongly asserts that a fair trial cannot be conducted this year in a manner consistent with the Constitution, which affords President Trump a Sixth Amendment right to be present and to participate in these proceedings as well as...a First Amendment right that he shares with the American people to engage in campaign speech," defense lawyers wrote, according to the AP.
The trial was previously scheduled to start in May. According to Reuters, District Judge Aileen Cannon is expected to address the trial date at a hearing Friday.
Trump faces dozens of charges related to his handling of classified documents. Also charged are his aide, Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveria.
The case involves 1.3 million pages of unclassified discovery, about 60 terabytes of closed-circuit television footage spanning at least nine months and 5,500 pages of classified discovery, court records show.
The United States Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear arguments to see if Trump gets presidential immunity in the election interference case which could impact the classified documents case as well, according to CNN reported.
Trump has several other criminal cases and the schedule for those remains unclear, according to CNN.
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Long hailed as an impossibility, harnessing nuclear fusion to power homes, businesses, cars and even airplanes is now widely viewed by scientists and engineers as a very real prospect that would undoubtedly and dramatically reshape energy consumption around the world.
"It's tremendously exciting in that we would have virtually limitless power," said Carl Bass, chairman of the company Alpha Ring, which is working to capture the power of fusion through miniature nuclear reactors. "It will happen in our lifetime – really, the question for me is just the scale at which it happens."
Tech companies race to harness nuclear fusion
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Globally, over 40 companies – including several in California – are now experimenting with more than 20 different methods to harness what is believed to be a cleaner and potentially cheaper energy alternative in nuclear fusion. The race to harness fusion comes as fossil fuels, including oil, coal, and gas, continue to drive climate change with the pollution they emit.
"We really can produce energy at a fraction of the cost with almost none of the problems of the current energy infrastructure," Bass said. "You could imagine a small reactor in a vehicle, certainly in a boat or a ship – almost everywhere where we need to use either heat or electricity, we could produce it differently and much more cleanly."
Alpha Ring's method, considered by industry leaders to be unconventional, is known as "electron-catalyzed fusion." The process relies on what the company describes as "miniaturized" nuclear reactors, which are designed to be small enough to fit on a tabletop, but large enough to power entire communities.
"It's a very complicated technology," said Steve Hwang, chief operating officer for Alpha Ring, who oversees the company's laboratories in Monterey, Los Angeles, and Taipei. "If we can produce abundant energy, that's how we're going to change the world."
Can nuclear fusion ever be commercially viable?
Despite the benefits, one major complication remains – no one has ever been able to turn nuclear fusion into a viable and sustainable energy source. The only place fusion occurs regularly is among the stars – powering, most famously, the sun.
Today, America's more than 50 nuclear power plants utilize nuclear fission, where atoms are split apart to produce massive amounts of energy, but the process can also emit harmful radiation. Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, relies on atoms being fused together to create bursts of energy. Fusion doesn't emit carbon or radioactive waste, and the materials needed to create the reaction are plentiful and found all throughout the world.
Unlocking the ability to harness nuclear fusion has largely remained a mystery, however, scientists believe we are the closest we have ever been to creating and sustaining that kind of power.
"Not a matter of if, but when," said physicist John Edwards, who is a senior advisor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Edwards previously served as director of the lab's Inertial Confinement Fusion program for seven years, and was part of the team of government scientists that made history in Dec. 2022 after achieving what was hailed to be the first-ever nuclear fusion reaction inside a lab, where more energy was produced than what it took to jump start the reaction.
"That showed, in principle, you could actually light this fusion fuel in a controlled environment on the earth, and that's the first step that you would need to take to be able to potentially produce this clean, limitless energy for the future."
Nearly 200 lasers helped ignite first-ever fusion reaction inside a lab
The ignition was sparked by 192 lasers, which used its beams to create temperatures topping 180 million degrees – six times hotter than the center of the sun. The Livermore lab was able to reproduce that success earlier this month, when it achieved a nuclear reaction for the fifth time in 14 months.
While the milestones have proved to be monumental, the amount of energy produced has been far from substantial. Even the lab's most successful fusion ignition only produced enough power to barely heat up two pots of coffee. In addition, the actual reaction only lasted less than a billionth of a second. To be considered commercially viable, the process would need to generate about 100 times more energy, according to Edwards. Plus, the frequency of reactions would have to increase exponentially – essentially running nonstop.
During the lab's most recent experiment on Feb. 12, the fusion reaction produced 5.2 units of energy, known as megajoules. That represented a net gain of energy when compared to the 2.2 megajoules the lasers "delivered" to spark the reaction, however, it took about 300 megajoules of power to energize the lasers enough to produce the ignition.
Edwards, whose current role at the lab now focuses on how transform nuclear fusion into a long-term, viable energy source, believes it will require more than just the work of the federal government to dramatically increase efficiency in the process and truly transform fusion into a feasible energy option that can be utilized across the globe.
"If we want to do this relatively rapidly, it's going to be critical that we will be partnering with the private sector," Edwards said. "It's a consumer product, so without the private industry I don't see how we get there."
Private companies received $6 billion in investments last year to solve nuclear fusion dilemma
Last year alone, private companies centering on fusion saw an influx of $6.2 billion in investments – that was $1.4 billion more than the previous year, according to the Fusion Industry Association, which represents more than 100 companies activity experimenting on nuclear fusion or working to support the industry, including Mitsubishi Corp. and Google.
"This was something that was always done by governments," said Andrew Holland, the association's CEO. "Now the private industry is coming in and saying we see a pathway to making money on this -- and not in 30 years, but in the timeline of a normal venture capital fund, which is a 10 to 15-year fund."
Holland believes "pilot plants" could begin to pop up over the next 15 years, which would be the first to introduce energy generated by nuclear fusion into the power grid, meaning the process could finally be used to create electricity for homes and businesses.
"Solving that problem would change life in a fundamental way," said Ed Morse, a Berkeley Professor, engineer, and author on nuclear fusion. "It changes a lot of things."
Morse, however, said he remains skeptical about tech companies touting scientific solutions to complicated problems that have remained unsolved for decades.
"If anything sounds too good to be true, it probably is," he said. "Some of these concepts are really bad…others are passable."
Alpha Ring vows to submit findings to independent researchers for review
Alpha Ring said its science has led to more than 15 nuclear reactions inside two of its labs. The energy generated each time has generally only been enough to power a light bulb overnight, but the company says some of its reactions have lasted more than 19 hours – which represents a significant increase from the reaction time achieved at the nation's premiere government lab in Livermore that measured less than a fraction of a second.
"The accomplishment of this is just such a big deal," Bass said, who also acknowledged the skepticism he and his company face in asserting such a milestone. "One of the important things when you make a claim like this, where many people will be skeptical, is that this will be able to be reproduced by others."
To prove the company's nuclear fusion reactions can, in fact, be reproduced, Alpha Ring plans to submit its findings to a slew of scientific journals for review. The company hopes independent researchers will eventually vouch for the technology and its ability to bring star power to Earth.
"This is a huge claim," Bass said. "So they rightfully are going to take their time, be very skeptical, try to poke holes in it in every way they can because the accomplishment of this is just such a big deal." | <urn:uuid:b91e85ca-31a7-43ee-9081-5f12b7200016> | {
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Maid, two others arrested for theft at doctor's house in T Nagar
Pondy Bazar police identified the three as V Vijayalakshmi, 22, her husband Vigneshwaran, 29, and her brother-in-law Varun Kumar, 23.
CHENNAI: Three people including a maid and a car driver were arrested for allegedly stealing 90 sovereigns of gold, mobile phone from the house of their employer, an orthopaedic doctor, at Sarangapani Street in T Nagar.
Pondy Bazar police identified the three as V Vijayalakshmi, 22, her husband Vigneshwaran, 29, and her brother-in-law Varun Kumar, 23. Vijayalakshmi has been employed as a domestic help at the house of the complainant Dr Pankaj Kumar for the past three years. Police said that the doctor's wife had noticed that gold jewellery in small quantities went missing from the house.
Last week, when she checked her cupboard, she found that a total of 90 sovereigns of gold jewellery and a mobile phone were missing. She then lodged a police complaint on Wednesday and told the police that she suspects Vijayalakshmi of theft. Based on the complaint, we conducted an inquiry and took Vijayalakshmi into custody. She confessed to stealing the jewellery and mobile phone. Based on her confession, we arrested her husband and brother-in-law, police said. | <urn:uuid:54231b4b-b5f0-49b3-a49b-aa36545a6d45> | {
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Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW – Get Free Report) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday. The home improvement retailer reported $1.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.68 by $0.09, MarketWatch Earnings reports. Lowe's Companies had a net margin of 8.94% and a negative return on equity of 51.42%. The company had revenue of $18.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $18.47 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.28 EPS. Lowe's Companies's quarterly revenue was down 17.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Lowe's Companies updated its FY 2024 guidance to 12.000-12.300 EPS and its FY25 guidance to $12.00 to $12.30 EPS.
Lowe's Companies Price Performance
LOW opened at $238.97 on Thursday. The stock's 50 day simple moving average is $221.23 and its 200 day simple moving average is $213.12. Lowe's Companies has a 1 year low of $181.85 and a 1 year high of $241.44. The firm has a market cap of $137.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.16, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 1.12.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Lowe's Companies
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Mather Group LLC. boosted its position in Lowe's Companies by 2.8% during the 1st quarter. Mather Group LLC. now owns 1,939 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $392,000 after buying an additional 52 shares during the period. Crestwood Advisors Group LLC raised its position in Lowe's Companies by 1.0% during the 2nd quarter. Crestwood Advisors Group LLC now owns 5,678 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $1,281,000 after purchasing an additional 57 shares during the last quarter. Gladius Capital Management LP raised its position in Lowe's Companies by 2.8% during the 3rd quarter. Gladius Capital Management LP now owns 2,427 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $505,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. Roundview Capital LLC raised its position in Lowe's Companies by 0.9% during the 1st quarter. Roundview Capital LLC now owns 7,614 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $1,540,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Atlas Capital Advisors LLC raised its position in Lowe's Companies by 14.3% during the 2nd quarter. Atlas Capital Advisors LLC now owns 544 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $95,000 after purchasing an additional 68 shares during the last quarter. 71.88% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
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Lowe's Companies Company Profile
Lowe's Companies, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. It also provides home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lawn and garden, lumber, kitchens and bath, tools, paint, millwork, hardware, flooring, rough plumbing, building materials, décor, and electrical.
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Wales ready to go 'pretty hard' early on in bid to tire out France's giant pack as coach Warren Gatland seeks to turn their fortunes around in Six Nations
- Wales have lost opening three games against England, Scotland and Ireland
- Warren Gatland's side next France, who have also struggled in the Six Nations
Warren Gatland has reminded his Wales rookies winning is the only thing that matters in the Six Nations as he hinted at a plan to tire out a giant France side.
After three rounds of the 2024 Championship, Gatland's Wales are yet to taste success after narrow losses to Scotland and England and a 31-7 defeat by Grand Slam-chasing Ireland.
Next up is a meeting with France in Cardiff a week on Sunday.
Les Bleus have not been at their best in the tournament so far, losing to Ireland, scraping past Scotland in arguably fortunate circumstances and only managing a 13-13 draw with Italy.
Gatland said the way Italy looked to move France's mammoth forwards around the park – admittedly with a man advantage for the second half after Jonathan Danty's red card – was noticeable.
Wales coach Warren Gatland hopes to turn their fortunes around in the Six Nations
Wales have made a winless start to the Six Nations losing to England, Scotland and Ireland
Powerhouse centre Danty won't feature in the rest of this Six Nations after copping a five-game ban for dangerous tackling.
'Test match rugby is all about winning. Hopefully in the next two games, we can come away with wins,' said Gatland.
'There is no doubt the red card had a significant influence on that game and then Italy got stronger. Some of those French forwards looked pretty tired at the end of the first half and some of them in the second half as well which allowed Italy to get back in the game.
'It's probably no different from the past in tactically how we've played against France and having the same sort of mindset. They are going to come pretty hard at you early on so you have got to stay in that battle and try and negate that physical dominance of their forwards.
'Hopefully when some of their forwards do begin to tire a bit you are able to take advantage of that.'
France have lost star man and captain Antoine Dupont for this Six Nations after he moved to play seven-a-side rugby ahead of featuring in the shorter format in this summer's Olympics.
In his absence, Fabien Galthie's men have looked rudderless and were particularly poor against Italy.
Had Azzurri fly-half Paolo Garbisi not suffered a kicking tee malfunction with the game's last play, France would have lost.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Lewis, an acclaimed comedian known for exploring his neuroses in frantic, stream-of-consciousness diatribes while dressed in all-black, leading to his nickname "The Prince of Pain," has died. He was 76.
Lewis, who revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2023, died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack, according to his publicist Jeff Abraham.
A regular performer in clubs and on late-night TV for decades, Lewis also played Marty Gold, the romantic co-lead opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, in the ABC series "Anything But Love" and the reliably neurotic Prince John in "Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men In Tights." He re-introduced himself to a new generation opposite Larry David in HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," kvetching regularly.
"Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he's been like a brother to me," David said in a statement. "He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I'll never forgive him."
Comedy Central named Lewis one of the top 50 stand-up comedians of all time and he earned a berth in GQ magazine's list of the "20th Century's Most Influential Humorists." He lent his humor for charity causes, including Comic Relief and Comedy Gives Back.
"Watching his stand-up is like sitting in on a very funny and often dark therapy session," the Los Angeles Times said in 2014. The Philadelphia's City Paper called him "the Jimi Hendrix of monologists." Mel Brooks once said he "may just be the Franz Kafka of modern-day comedy."
Comedians took to social media Wednesday to share their thoughts, including Albert Books who called Lewis "a brilliantly funny man who will missed by all. The world needed him now more than ever" on X, formerly Twitter. Other tributes came from Bette Midler, Michael McKean and Paul Feig, who called Lewis "one of the funniest people on the planet."
Following his graduation from The Ohio State University in 1969, the New York-born Lewis began a stand-up career, honing his craft on the circuit with other contemporaries also just starting out like Jay Leno, Freddie Prinze and Billy Crystal.
He recalled Rodney Dangerfield hiring him for $75 to fill in at his New York club, Dangerfield's. "I had a lot of great friends early on who believed in me, and I met pretty iconic people who really helped me, told me to keep working on my material. And I never looked back," he told The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2010.
"I'm paranoid about everything in my life. Even at home. On my stationary bike, I have a rear-view mirror, which I'm not thrilled about," he once joked onstage. To Jimmy Kimmel he said: "This morning, I tried to go to bed. I couldn't sleep. I counted sheep but I only had six of them and they all had hip replacements."
Unlike contemporary Robin Williams, Lewis allowed audiences into his world and melancholy, pouring his torment and pain onto the stage. Fans favorably compared him to the ground-breaking comedian Lenny Bruce.
"I take great pains not to be mean-spirited," Lewis told The Palm Beach Post in 2007. "I don't like to take real handicaps that people have to overcome with no hope in sight. I steer clear of that. That's not funny to me. Tragedy is funny to other humorists, but it's not to me, unless you can make a point that's helpful."
Singer Billy Joel has said he was referring to Lewis when he sang in "My Life" of an old friend who "bought a ticket to the West Coast/Now he gives them a stand-up routine in L.A."
In 1989 at Carnegie Hall, he appeared with six feet of yellow legal sheets filled with material and taped together for a 2½-hour set that led to two standing ovations. The night was "the highlight of my career," he told The Washington Post in 2020.
Lewis told GQ his signature look came incidentally, saying his obsession with dressing in black came from watching the television Western "Have Gun – Will Travel," with a cowboy in all-black, when he was a kid. He also popularized the term "from hell" — as in "the date from hell" or "the job from hell."
"That just came out of my brain one day and I kept repeating it a lot for some reason. Same thing with the black clothes. I just felt really comfortable from the early '80s on and I never wore anything else. I never looked back."
After getting sober from drugs and alcohol in 1994, Lewis put out his 2008 memoir, "The Other Great Depression" — a collection of fearless, essay style riffs on his life — and "Reflections from Hell."
Lewis was the youngest of three siblings — his brother was older than him by six years, and his sister by nine. His father died young and his mother had emotional problems. "She didn't get me at all. I owe my career to my mother. I should have given her my agent's commission," he told The Washington Post in 2020.
"Looking back on it now, as a full-blown, middle-aged, functioning anxiety collector, I can admit without cringing that my parents had their fair share of tremendous qualities, yet, being human much of the day, had more than just a handful of flaws as well," he wrote in his memoir.
Lewis quickly found a new family performing at New York's Improv. "I was 23, and all sorts of people were coming in and out and watching me, like Steve Allen and Bette Midler. David Brenner certainly took me under his wing. To drive home to my little dump in New Jersey often knowing that Steve Allen said, 'You got it,' that validation kept me going in a big, big way."
He had a cameo in "Leaving Las Vegas," which led to his first major dramatic role as Jimmy Epstein, an addict fighting for his life in the indie film, "Drunks." He played Don Rickles' son on one season of "Daddy Dearest" and a rabbi on "7th Heaven."
Lewis' recurring role on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" can be credited directly to his friendship with fellow comedian, producer and series star Larry David. Both native Brooklynites — born in the same Brooklyn hospital — they first met and became friends as rivals while attending the same summer camp at age 13. He was cast from the beginning, bickering with David on unpaid bills and common courtesies.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Bears need a safety to replace Eddie Jackson. Perhaps they'll turn to someone who actually knows him.
Miami safety Kamren Kinchens has trained with Jackson in South Florida. He said Thursday he wants to "ask him all the details" and figure out the "loopholes to the NFL." He described Jackson as humble and a standout player.
Jackson, a fourth-round pick seven years ago, earned a four-year, $58.4 million extension four years ago that made him the highest-paid safety in the NFL. The Bears cut him two weeks ago rather than pay him an $18.1 million salary cap hit.
That leaves the Bears in search of a starter to play free safety opposite strong safety Jaquan Brisker. Kinchens, who is versatile enough to play both the free and strong spots, is Pro Football Focus' top-ranked safety prospect.
The Bears value takeaways, and Kinchens has a whopping 11 interceptions over 23 games the last two seasons. Landing him might be difficult, though, as the Bears currently don't own a draft pick between No. 9 and No. 75.
The Bears could solve their safety problem before the draft, too.
"If it's a free agent, he is gonna have to feel the temperature of the room and then dive into the leadership role," coach Matt Eberflus said this week. "If he's a rookie, then he's gonna have to develop with the other guys."
Every option
The Steelers have one quarterback under contract for 2024 — Kenny Pickett — but have vowed to add someone to compete with him for the starting job.
General manager Omar Khan said Thursday the team will look at all avenues of acquisition, from free agency to trades to the draft. He was asked about Bears quarterback Justin Fields, who figures to be traded soon. Wisely, Khan pointed out he was not allowed to tamper by addressing questions about another team's player.
"I'm not gonna talk about a specific player," he said, "but we'll look at every option."
Khan also raved about the professionalism of ex-Bears wide receiver Allen Robinson, whom he picked up in a trade with the Rams last year. Robinson caught 34 passes for 280 yards and no touchdowns, but played every game and was on the field for 72% of the offensive snaps.
"You saw the impact he had on the run game," he said. "It's been a great experience with him so far."
This and that
• Speaking for the first time about his injury, Iowa cornerback Cooper DeJean, a projected first-round pick, said he broke his leg in mid-November, had surgery and hopes to work out for teams in early April. He just started running full speed last week.
• The NFL has been testing optical tracking devices that could eventually replace the chain gang on first down measurements, NFL Network reported. The league won't consider using it until at least 2025.
• The league is not expected to outlaw the "Tush Push" or change the rule that awards a touchback when the ball is fumbled through the end zone at next month's annual meeting — but it could outlaw the hip-drop tackle.
• Leap Day weirdness: Illinois tight end Tip Reiman repeated tongue-in-cheek talking points for Birds Aren't Real, a satirical conspiracy theory that claims birds are, in fact, government-controlled robots. Not to be outdone, Texas Tech defensive back Tyler Owens said he didn't "believe in space" and called flat-earth theories "kinda interesting."
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Albuquerque police arrest suspect in bike shop break-in
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Court documents say Mario Moreno will be charged with commercial burglary after police say he broke into a bike shop and stole a bicycle worth hundreds of dollars.
It happened at the Routes Bicycle Tours & Rentals shop in Old Town Wednesday evening.
"This criminal may have made off with about, yeah, a $900 dollar giant hybrid," said Josh Arnold, owner of the bike shop.
Arnold said Moreno tried to open the lock with a knife. When that didn't work, they tried something else.
"Someone had essentially used a rock as a battering ram, a huge boulder basically to break down the door and the frame," Arnold said. "I mean he went through a steel-plated door, it actually broke the building."
Soon after the break-in, Albuquerque police found Moreno and the bike Thursday morning around 2 a.m. near Lomas and 12th Street.
Arnold says he's thankful officers found the bike as soon as they did, but knew Moreno couldn't have gone too far on the bike.
"The bike ironically had a flat tire, which is why we were fixing it, so he could not ride the bike, maybe part of it. So I kind of chuckle about that… kind of karma," he said.
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Aid groups, countries around the world condemn Israel for killing more than 100 waiting for food supplies in Gaza. | <urn:uuid:693e7342-553d-483c-813e-ab7d1756cafc> | {
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The Rock is cooking up some serious business moves ... because he's locked up the rights to some of his most famous stage names and catch phrases, all part of his WWE deal.
Dwayne Johnson's recent agreement with the new board, as it turns out, calls for him to own his stage name "The Rock," plus a wide range of other titles and zingers ... which just became public knowledge.
According to an SEC filing, Dwayne legally acquired popular taglines like ... "If you smell what The Rock is cooking" and "Know Your Role and Shut Your Mouth."
DJ also locked up the rights to his various wrestling nicknames and wrestling moves, including ... "The People's Champion," "The People's Elbow," "The Great One," "The Samoan Sensation," "The Brahma Bull" and "The Blue Chipper."
The Rock also owns "Jabroni" and "Candy Ass" ... plus "Roody Poo" ... among other items. Worth noting ... he owns these names/phrases in the context of WWE ... that's it. Everyone else can throw these lines around in public, DJ only has dominion in the wrestling world.
Of course, this is one of the major benefits of Dwayne's deal to become the newest board of directors member for TKO -- which now owns WWE and UFC as a new one-stop shop entity.
As we reported ... The Rock is also getting stock options valued at $30 million and some executive decision-making power. And yes, he's a major shot-caller as a board member now -- so he's got a nice little package of perks to himself ... including things only he can say. | <urn:uuid:d27d2d50-131d-4aa0-98b7-fe7e4031c4b6> | {
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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): District and Sessions Court, Bhopal, has awarded life imprisonment to 11 people including key conspirator Ajay Bhura in a murder case on Thursday. Shahjahanabad police had registered a case against eleven persons in connection with the murder of Ajay Choti on August 14, 2020.
ADJ Sachin Kumar convicted Ajay Sharma alias Bhura, Sagar Meena, Rupesh Bichaile, Sandeep, Ravi, Deepak, Arun Singh alias Khujal, Rocky, Kalu Yash alias Chinna, Anil Gautele for the murder of Ajay Choti and awarded them life term. According to special public prosecutor Ram Kumar Khatri, on August 14, 2020, Amit Kanade with his brother Ajay alias Ajay Choti and Prakash Kanade was heading to Shahjahanabad police station.
Ajay Bhura and others waylaid and attacked Ajay Kanade alias Choti with knife over an old enmity. Ajay Choti, who sustained multiple injuries in neck and thorax, was rushed to LBS Hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Police said it was a contract killing.
Gambling was said to be bone of contention between key accused Ajay Bhura and deceased Ajay Choti. Ajay Bhura has a criminal background, Ajay Choti was also involved in some crime. The two had clashed when they were imprisoned in Central Jail. During Covid time, both came out from jail and Ajay Choti took up a job as cook at a restaurant. He was the youngest in the family. | <urn:uuid:e7bacec8-8ec6-498c-9201-3b93b84e9cac> | {
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Atari is a company that has had a bit of a bumpy ride over the last few decades, thanks to a slew of questionable investments in areas like blockchain, wearable tech, and gambling. This has led to an at times prickly relationship with its core community — many of whom came to view the company as a shadow of its former self.
Over the past few years, however, ever since Wade Rosen took over as CEO of the company in 2021, it has made some encouraging steps in the right direction to win back player's trust, refocusing its energy on retro gaming with a bunch of exciting investments and well-received projects like Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, the Atari 2600+, and Atari 400Mini.
Last week, Time Extension had the opportunity to sit down with Rosen on a video call for roughly an hour to discuss a variety of Atari-related topics. We used the opportunity to learn more about the company's strategy moving forward, and the thought process behind some of its recent acquisitions in the video game space. You can read a transcript of that conversation below (with some minor edits made for both length and clarity).
Time Extension: To begin we'd love to know. What is your gaming background? How did you first discover Atari?
Rosen: I was more of a Nintendo kid growing up just given my generation and age. But there was still a lot of Atari's around. So I did play a lot of Atari as a kid. My personal experience with it kind of got started when I got a PC, because, for whatever reason, the PC we got came built-in with all of these classic Atari games.
I had played Asteroids in the arcades and encountered it in a few places, but that's where I got to play Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, Breakout — and I loved it. I played those games for hours and I just really became enamoured with those titles and how timeless they were. They were very simple and you could pick them up and play. I also thought Tempest was gorgeous. It was only years later I realized it was probably well over a decade old by the time that I played it. I couldn't believe it. I think just vector graphics in general have a very timeless look to them. So that was my personal experience with Atari.
As far as games themselves, I think some of my earliest core formative memories were seeing, playing, and witnessing video games. I think it's one of those things where it kind of got written on my soul a little bit early. And so, video games have just been a constant in my life. They're something that I'm really passionate about and I had the opportunity to step into video games later in my career than most people do. But I decided that I wanted to be focused on something that I care deeply about and that's what brought me to it.
Time Extension: It would be interesting to hear how you became Atari CEO. What led you to that role?
Rosen: What led me to it was - first off - a fascination with retro gaming. I think the term "retro gaming" is not a great term to begin with. Because most people I know (including myself) — who play retro games — we also play a lot of contemporary and modern games. People who usually like retro gaming oftentimes like Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3, so there's a crossover. So I've started calling it "classic gaming" a little bit more. But, anyway, I was fascinated with it and specifically, I started to ask myself, 'What happened to all of these games I loved as a kid?'
And I started to research them and look into them. And that was coincidentally when I first discovered Nightdive. This is a long time ago — long before we acquired them. I was like, 'What happened to System Shock? Oh. What happened to Wizardry 8? Oh. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream? Wait, Nightdive [rereleased all these]?' So, that's how I discovered Nightdive. But I also found that there were a lot of other titles that I loved that nothing seemed to be happening with.
So I started a game company focused on working with retro IP called Ziggurat Interactive and through that process I eventually met the (then) CEO of Atari and had the opportunity to acquire most of his stake in the company and step in as CEO myself.
So that was sort of the pathway to becoming CEO of Atari and that happened over a year or so. Ziggurat is still operating. I'm no longer actively managing it or running it. In fact, they just released a cool new game this week called Slave Zero X. | <urn:uuid:43b36ea4-4498-40b2-8e3f-63ae8903263b> | {
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CEDARVILLE — Caleb Sultan and the Cedarville men's distance medley relay team have qualified for the NCAA Division II Men's Indoor Track & Field Championship.
Sultan, a 2023 Cedarville High School graduate, along with Braedon Killion, Jaden Johnson, and Ramen Felumlee are ranked sixth out of the 12 DMR teams with their school record time of 9:42.48.
Johnson is one of 17 qualifiers in the 400 meters with his school record mark of 47.63 seconds.
The event takes place on March 8-9 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Johnson will compete in the prelims on Friday with the final set for Saturday night.
The distance medley relay final is scheduled for Friday evening.
Eckert returning to NCAA Indoor Championship
Pole vault school record holder Haleigh Eckert is heading back to the NCAA Division II Women's Indoor Track & Field Championship.
The senior from Mason will compete on the first day of the meet on March 8.
It will be the second appearance for Eckert at the NCAA Indoor. She also qualified as a sophomore in 2022.
Eckert is tied for the 14th-best mark entering the meet at 13-0.25 (3.97 meters).
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Florence Louise Hawkins, 83 of Corydon passed away on Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at the Lucas County Health Center in Chariton, Iowa.
Florence was born October 9, 1940 to Fred and Lola (Skinner) Soper in Osceola, Iowa.
Florence had three sons whom she loved deeply; Charles, Gene and Brad.
She enjoyed helping her father with his mowing business, which she would eventually operate on her own, together they mowed 23 cemeteries and 26 yards. Florence was a waitress throughout her life, she spent a good portion working at the Family Table Restaurant and Alley Bowl in Osceola.
In her free time, she enjoyed crafting, reading, doing puzzles and also loved making refrigerator magnets.
Survivors include her son, Charles Hawkins; daughter-in-law Julie Garrison; grandsons, Clayton Garrison, Nathan (Michaela) Maynard; niece, Cristi (Ron) Scadden and their children Randy and Julie, along with numerous extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; sons: Gene Garrison, Brad Garrison and sister, Flora Allen.
Per Florence's wishes, she was cremated and no services will be planned at this time. Memorials may be made to Wayne County Fair, and may be mailed to Thomas Funeral Home, ATTN: Hawkins family, 303 East Jefferson, Corydon, Iowa 50060. Condolences may be shared online at www.thomasfh.com or on our funeral home Facebook page, www.facebook.com/thomasfuneralhome. | <urn:uuid:2a1a7c32-d90b-4ee3-8d7d-25f4174f16ce> | {
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OWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa women's basketball star Caitlin Clark has announced that this season with the team will be her last as she plans to enter the WNBA Draft.
Clark has scored the most points by any major college woman's player ever on Wednesday, according to KCRG. She scored 33 points which helped her to pass Lynette Woodward, The Associated Press reported.
Clark had already broken the NCAA women's basketball career scoring record on Feb. 15 against Michigan when she poured in a school-record 49 points. That effort moved Clark, a senior, past University of Washington star Kelsey Plum's total of 3,527 points.
Clark is expected to be the number one pick for the WNBA by Indiana Fever, according to ESPN. On Wednesday, she broke a major women's college basketball scoring record by making 33 points.
Clark now has 2,650 points, ESPN reported.
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A former career U.S. diplomat told a federal judge Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba, an unexpectedly swift resolution to a case prosecutors called one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.
Manuel Rocha's stunning fall from grace could culminate in a lengthy prison term after the 73-year-old said he would admit to federal counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government.
Prosecutors and Rocha's attorney indicated the plea deal includes an agreed-upon sentence but they did not disclose details in court Thursday. He is due back in court April 12, when he's likely to be sentenced.
"I am in agreement," said Rocha, shackled at the hands and ankles, when asked by U.S. District Court Judge Beth Bloom if he wished to change his plea to guilty. Prosecutors, in exchange, agreed to drop 13 counts including wire fraud and making false statements.
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The brief hearing shed no new light on the question that has proved elusive since Rocha's arrest in December: What exactly did he do to help Cuba while working at the State Department for two decades? That included stints as ambassador to Bolivia and top posts in Argentina, Mexico, the White House and the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.
His post-government career also included time as a special adviser to the commander of the U.S. Southern Command and more recently as a tough-talking Donald Trump supporter and Cuba hardliner, a persona that friends and prosecutors say Rocha adopted to hide his true allegiances.
Peter Lapp, who oversaw FBI counterintelligence against Cuba between 1998 and 2005, said the fast resolution of the case benefits not only the elderly Rocha but also the government, which stands to learn a lot about Cuba's penetration of U.S. foreign policy circles.
Typically in counterintelligence cases, the defendant is charged with espionage. But Rocha was accused of the lesser crimes of acting as a foreign agent, which carry maximum terms of between five and 10 years in prison, making it easier for prosecutors and Rocha to reach an agreement.
"It's a win-win for both sides," said Lapp, who led the investigation into Ana Montes, the highest-level U.S. official ever convicted of spying for Cuba. "He gets a significant payoff and the chance to see his family again, and the U.S. will be able to conduct a full damage assessment that it wouldn't be able to do without his cooperation."
"There are details that can really only come from the defendant," he added.
Rocha was arrested by the FBI at his Miami home on allegations he engaged in "clandestine activity" on Cuba's behalf since at least 1981 — the year he joined the U.S. foreign service — including by meeting with Cuban intelligence operatives and providing false information to U.S. government officials about his contacts.
Rocha made a series of recorded admissions to an undercover FBI agent posing as a Cuban intelligence operative, praising the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro as "Comandante," branding the U.S. the "enemy" and bragging about his service for more than 40 years as a Cuban mole in the heart of U.S. foreign policy circles, prosecutors said in court records.
"What we have done … it's enormous … more than a Grand Slam," he was quoted as saying in one of several secretly recorded conversations.
Federal authorities have said little about what Rocha actually did to aid Cuba, and FBI and State Department investigators have been conducting a confidential damage assessment that could take years.
But a recent Associated Press investigation found there were plenty of missed red flags over the years.
Those included a tip that a longtime CIA operative received in 2006 warning that Rocha was working as a double agent. It was never pursued. And separate intelligence revealed that the CIA had been aware as early as 1987 that Castro had a "super mole" burrowed deep inside the U.S. government, and some officials suspected it could have been Rocha.
Rocha's decision to plead guilty Thursday came just hours after the widow of a prominent Cuban dissident killed in a mysterious car crash filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the former diplomat. The lawsuit accuses Rocha of sharing intelligence that emboldened Cuba's communist leaders to assassinate a chief opponent. | <urn:uuid:a5b9cdc2-0389-47be-84ed-78d13ab3ff3a> | {
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Casemiro's late winner sets up Man United-Liverpool clash
"We scored in the right moment," Ten Hag told the media. "Every win is important. This team, what they showed today, that's great. They have to show it every game."
LONDON: Brazilian Casemiro struck late to send Manchester United into the FA Cup quarter-finals with a 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forest as teenagers Jayden Danns and Lewis Koumas inspired Liverpool to a 3-0 win over Southampton on Wednesday.
United kept alive its last hope of lifting a trophy in a difficult season for the 12-times FA Cup winners when the 32-year-old Casemiro headed in a low bouncing free kick from Bruno Fernandes from close range, setting up an enticing quarter-final meeting with Liverpool.
United manager Erik Ten Hag and his team held their breath through a lengthy VAR check for offside before the goal was confirmed to the delight of the United fans at the City Ground.
"We scored in the right moment," Ten Hag told the media. "Every win is important. This team, what they showed today, that's great. They have to show it every game."
The goal was reminiscent of Mark Robins' famous stooping header against Forest in 1989 which secured victory for United in a crucial FA Cup tie that helped save manager Alex Ferguson's job.
Ten Hag's side are sixth in the Premier League and last weekend's loss to Fulham left their hopes of a top-four finish and Champions League berth hanging by a thread.
With injuries to key players including Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez, Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp fielded a young team against Southampton -- 23 spots below them in England's football pyramid.
"It was an incredible game. It was so intense and they ran themselves into the ground, we needed to find a way and we did that," Klopp told media.
"The whole situation is horribly difficult," he added about the team's injuries. "Any positive mood around the changing room and training room, we accept we're in a difficult moment and try and find solutions. It's great to be in the quarter-finals and we don't take these things for granted." | <urn:uuid:1e1aa74c-34be-4bd2-b8b4-6c743fc9a5ea> | {
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New York sues beef producer JBS for 'fraudulent' marketing around climate change
Updated February 29, 2024 at 5:59 PM ET
New York state Attorney General Letitia James sued beef producer JBS in state court for allegedly misleading the public about a pledge the company made to slash its climate pollution in the coming decade. Prosecutors said JBS continued making deceptive marketing claims even after a consumer watchdog group recommended the company stop advertising because it didn't have a strategy to achieve its climate target.
JBS is among hundreds of companies around the world that have promised to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming. The Brazilian food maker said in 2021 that it would eliminate or offset all of the heat-trapping emissions from its operations and supply chains by 2040. "Agriculture can and must be part of the global climate solution," Gilberto Tomazoni, chief executive of JBS, said in a statement announcing the goal. "We believe through innovation, investment and collaboration, net zero is within our collective grasp."
But prosecutors in New York said that even if JBS had developed a plan, the company couldn't "feasibly" deliver on its climate commitment. The state said there aren't proven ways right now to zero out agriculture emissions at the scale of JBS's operations, and offsetting the company's emissions with things like carbon credits "would be a costly undertaking of an unprecedented degree."
"As families continue to face the daily impacts of the climate crisis, they are willing to spend more of their hard-earned money on products from brands that are better for the environment," James said in a statement. "When companies falsely advertise their commitment to sustainability, they are misleading consumers and endangering our planet."
JBS didn't respond to a message seeking comment. The New York lawsuit was filed against JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings.
The food company has faced growing criticism as it considers listing shares on a U.S. stock exchange.
In 2023, the BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division (NAD), a nonprofit that the advertising industry uses to regulate itself, said that JBS should stop claiming that it is committed to being "net zero by 2040." While the company appeared to make a "significant preliminary investment" to cut its climate pollution, the NAD said there was no evidence that it was carrying out a plan to achieve its target. A review panel upheld the finding on appeal, saying JBS "is in the exploratory stage" of trying to meet its climate pledge.
U.S. lawmakers have also raised concerns about the company. Earlier this year, a bipartisan group of senators told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street's top regulator, that JBS has a history of "exaggerating environmental stewardship and downplaying other risks."
New York state prosecutors are trying to force JBS to stop making "fraudulent and illegal" marketing claims about its climate efforts. The state is also seeking civil fines, among other penalties.
Independent researchers say a lot of companies with net-zero climate targets haven't put forward credible plans to cut or offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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- READ MORE: Married At First Sight 2024 cast reveal their wildest stories - including a very unexpected A-list celebrity encounter
Married At First Sight bride Tori Adams has publicly apologised to fellow bride Cassandra Allen after her brutal outburst during Wednesday night's episode.
The business development manager, 27, unleashed a 'gross' torrent against the administration officer, 29, and claimed she wasn't 'top of the food chain'.
Now Tori has walked back her 'feral little outburst' on radio on Wednesday, telling Star 104.5's Gina and Matty she was just 'harboring a lot of frustration'.
Host Gina Jeffreys commended Tori for being 'really composed and gracious' throughout the whole season until this week's dinner party.
'You kind of lost your cool. What's that like watching back?' she said.
Married At First Sight bride Tori Adams, 27, (pictured) has publicly apologised to fan favourite Cassandra Allen, 29, after her brutal outburst during Wednesday night's episode
'To be honest, I was watching that episode with my mother and she was just a bit like, alright Tori what the hell is that?' the blonde beauty said.
'It was pretty gross in so far as how I displayed myself. I was angry and harboring a lot of frustration. It just came out and Cass copped the brunt of it. Poor thing.'
Matty Baseley then asked if Tori and Cass had been in contact since the blow out, to which Tori responded she has since 'messaged' her co-star about the incident.
'I messaged her yesterday... and I was like, I just want to reiterate how sorry I am for that feral little outburst,' Tori said.
'Sorry about that. You just have to own it and say sorry, and probably never do it again.'
The business development manager, 27, unleashed a 'gross' torrent against the administration officer (pictured) and claimed she wasn't 'top of the food chain'
Married At First Sight fans mercilessly mocked Tori for her 'embarrassing' and 'classless' remark during Wednesday night's drama-packed dinner party.
Tori took centre stage during the latest group dinner as she became embroiled in fierce rows with both Timothy Smith and Cass.
But viewers were left shocked over a 'disgusting' remark she made during her war of words with Cass, who has become a fan favourite on the dating experiment.
Tori - who is 'married' to controversial groom Jack Dunkley - fumed over Cass siding with Timothy after she accused him of looking 'smug' following his blazing fight with Jayden Eynaud.
Now Tori has walked back her 'feral little outburst' on radio on Wednesday, telling Star 104.5's Gina and Matty she was just 'harboring a lot of frustration'
Married At First Sight fans mercilessly mocked Tori for her 'embarrassing' and 'classless' remark during Wednesday night's drama-packed dinner party
Speaking to camera, Tori fumed that Cass wasn't 'top of the food chain' on the show as she slammed the brunette beauty for picking a fight with her.
She seethed of Cassandra's criticism: 'Small bites babe, don't come for the top. There's a f**king food chain here and you are not at the top. Shut up.'
However, fans were quick to take to X - formerly known as Twitter - to mock Tori for her 'immature' remark as they compared her to a high school student.
Likening her to infamous Mean Girls' character Regina George, one fan said: 'Tori thinking she's top of the food chain at 28 years of age is proof that she peaked in high school.' | <urn:uuid:8210f16c-2b88-4f08-9338-54d2d47f7f17> | {
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FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) — Jalen Jackson scored 27 points, Maximus Nelson made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:09 left in overtime to cap the scoring, and Purdue Fort Wayne defeated Wright State 79-77 on Wednesday night.
Jackson shot 11 for 22, including 3 for 7 from beyond the arc for the Mastodons (19-11, 10-9 Horizon League). Nelson scored 12 points while finishing 4 of 6 from 3-point range, and added five rebounds. Anthony Roberts had eight points and was 3 of 11 shooting (1 for 4 from 3-point range).
Tanner Holden led the way for the Raiders (17-13, 12-7) with 19 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals. AJ Braun added 16 points and 10 rebounds for Wright State. In addition, Alex Huibregste had 15 points and seven rebounds. | <urn:uuid:8c6df44f-05d0-4986-9a1f-4d19441a3b31> | {
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Bears' QB decision comes down to talent, and that's perfectly fair
Justin Fields has faced plenty of hurdles with the Bears, but few rookie quarterbacks walk into perfect circumstances. He had a high bar to clear last season, and that's how it should be.
INDIANAPOLIS — There's a popular sentiment that if Bears quarterback Justin Fields gets traded, which now seems like it could happen any day, it'll be unfair to him.
But in the sports world, it's actually very fair. The Bears' decision between Fields and presumptive No. 1 draft pick Caleb Williams is all about merit. If they think Williams' future is brighter, they'll do what they would at any other roster spot.
That's how general manager Ryan Poles sees it, too, as he listens to offers at the NFL scouting combine. While Fields could point out various hindrances he has encountered at Halas Hall, no team would turn down what it thought was an upgrade at the most important position.
"It is a part of the business," Poles told the Sun-Times. "If we went down that path, there would be leverage on his end that would probably benefit him as well. If you go back to the beginning and how things have transpired and the talent around him, that part, I understand.
"One of the more difficult parts of having a young quarterback is having that infrastructure around him to be successful and gain confidence. It's been a choppy start, for sure, but when it comes to this part of it, when you find yourself in a unique situation with different options, it is a part of the business of playing professional sports."
Fields hasn't complained publicly about his three haphazard seasons with the Bears, but he could make a long list. Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy mishandled him as a rookie. The roster was awful in his second season. Last season brought to light what a bad fit he and former offensive coordinator Luke Getsy were.
But most highly drafted rookie quarterbacks encounter rough situations. The best ones, those who ultimately make it as stars, rise above the mess and leave little doubt where they're headed. The most recent was C.J. Stroud just last season.
The Texans went 3-13-1, losing in overtime to the Bears, the season before drafting Stroud, had no wide receivers of note and hired a first-time, defensive-minded head coach. No one predicted they'd turn it around.
But Stroud made it work and elevated them. He was an MVP contender with a 100.8 passer rating, 23 touchdown passes against five interceptions and a league-high 273.9 yards passing per game. The Texans went 10-7 and won a playoff game.
The Bears are looking for someone on that level, and if they think Williams has a better chance than Fields, that's the call they should make.
Last season Fields ranked 27th in completion percentage (61.4), 22nd in yards passing (2,562), and 20th in touchdown passes (16) and passer rating (85.6) among 29 qualifying quarterbacks. He also cut back on interceptions and rushed for 50.5 yards per game.
With the Bears holding the top pick from the Panthers, he had to clear a high bar, but that's how it should be. And even without that, the Bears surely would be weighing their options at quarterback if they had only the No. 9 selection.
Plenty was working against Poles when he got to Halas Hall, too, by the way. He didn't bring any of that up, but it's obvious.
He began his rebuild with a quarterback he didn't draft. Pace left him a six-win roster, a salary-cap mess and depleted draft capital. He got hired in late January, and some of his competitors had head starts in assembling coaching staffs. One year in, the Bears gave him a new boss that he had to win over in team president Kevin Warren.
Is that unfair, or just how it often goes in the NFL?
It was on Fields to overcome imperfect circumstances, and he did that only in flashes. Had he been more convincing, his future with the team would be clear. More than anyone else, it was up to him. That's fair. | <urn:uuid:c86505b8-c3b5-475e-a47c-5aa2c0aa62a5> | {
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Police: Student stabbed at Hobbs High School
HOBBS, N.M. — Police are investigating a stabbing that happened Thursday at Hobbs High School.
According to the Hobbs Police Department, a student was stabbed several times by a male juvenile, who was detained shortly after police responded to the scene.
The victim was flown to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas for medical care. They are listed in critical condition.
Police say they will have a large presence on campus Friday as a precautionary measure.
This is a developing story. Stay with KOB 4 Eyewitness News and KOB.com for updates. | <urn:uuid:7a400089-c52a-481d-9343-469c9bc0e7b2> | {
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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A delegation of Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission (MPPSC) led by its chairman Rajeshlal Mehra presented the 66th report of the Commission to Governor Mangubhai Patel at Raj Bhavan on Thursday. During the meeting, the Governor was apprised that the Commission had issued 61 advertisements for recruitment to 5,391 posts in 2022-2023.
Also, 11 exams for MPPSC were conducted between 2020 and 2023. Mehra informed Patel that the Commission has sent a recommendation to the government for recruitment to 554 posts in various departments. He also said that the Commission has recommended department and disciplinary inquiries in 145 cases.
Bhopal: Children urge CM, MLA, Mayor To Save Shivaji Nagar Playground
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): School children on Thursday sent postcards to CM, MLA, Mayor, collector to save their playground and stop shifting of shops from 5-no bus stop market (RSS Market) under re-densification project. The MP Housing Board is undertaking a re-densification plan for a 5-number market so residents as well as traders are being shifted.
Around 150 families and 65 traders are being shifted to the adjacent playground in Shivaji Nagar. The children of class 5 wrote letters to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, Bhopal South MLA Bhagwan Das Sabnani, collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh, Mayor Malti Rai, Municipal Corporation chairman Kishan Suryavanshi.
They have appealed to the CM and the top officials not to rob off their childhood and save the playground and relocate the shops somewhere else. The children residing in the government houses of Shivaji Nagar have a playground in front of their houses, where they celebrate holi, Ganesh chaturthi as well as Durga Utsav.
They also play cricket and football on the ground. However, now there is a sound of rumbling machines amid the ongoing exams of class 10 and 12 students. Nagrik Vikas Samiti president Ramesh Rathore said, "If the rights of the residents are violated then the people will protest in support of the residents of Shivraji Nagar." | <urn:uuid:f257181f-05f4-4305-a429-bb900d1b39ac> | {
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Panic held the first Playdate Update of 2024 yesterday and revealed a host of new games for the pint-sized handheld.
16 other new games were announced during the presentation, which we've listed for you below.
The Off-Colony Community Support Center offers a wide variety of help sessions for qualifying Martians.
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Faraway Fairway is arcade golf game that is procedurally generated and you'll never play the same game twice! Explore and interact as you make your way to the goal and uncover secrets as you progress and complete your photo album!
As a mental health golf game, Faraway Fairway game is designed to be a relaxing pick up and play. Taking care of your mental health should be like a vacation that never ends.
What kind of secrets will you uncover as you play?
So you wanna enter the Fish Bowl — the biggest boat-racing event of the year. But! Evil RowBots have taken over the entire circuit, and the competition's only getting worse. It's up to one bunny, and their scrap RowBot pal, to renew the sport's former glory.
You gotta Use the Crank™, tandem-row with a junkyard left-turnin' RowBot of your own, and put a stop to Robo-X, the evil-bot-making corpo-conglomerate. Can you win back the spirit of the Fish Bowl and, perhaps more importantly, that big golden trophy?
With a lengthy story mode, hand-animated cutscenes, on-line leaderboards, and more; RowBot Rally is the definitive top-down boat-racing game for Playdate!(Trust me, it's a competitive field.)
Your quest is to recover the power stones that were stolen from your hometown. Fight your way through enemies and creatures to find out what lies, not only in the depths of the forest, but discover the mystery of the power stones.
+ Beat 'em up play style
+ Attack combos
+ Acquire abilities such as roll, jump kick, and more
+ Use the crank for special game mechanics such as riding a bike and opening gates
Solve riddles, decipher cryptic messages, and piece together the fragments of an elusive truth about my personal gamedev journey.
Unroll the newspaper and reveal the 7 gamedev enigmas through allegorical figures.
Use the crank to discover 7 enigmas. Solve each one by employing the appropriate interaction. The further you scroll, the more clues you'll uncover.
A one-hour unique escape game experience.
Tips: The newspaper is read in an infinite loop. Each loop rewards you with fresh clues, but you'll score fewer points. If you want a high score, try scrolling back and forth. Just know, it'll make things tougher and take longer but it will be way more satisfying.
Some enigmas are harder and some other are really simple.
Pay close attention to the messages you receive when you solve the puzzles. They have clues to help you find the latest code.
Be patient in the last enigma and take note if needed.
In this Playdate-exclusive kinetic visual novel from the creators of Bloom, embark on a personal journey through a shattered post-apocalyptic world, where your pursuit for answers unveils the remnants of both a forgotten past and uncertain prospects for the future.
As Ayumi, confront fears, navigate the delicate balance between hope and despair, and immerse yourself in a captivating narrative that resonates with echoes of both resilience and vulnerability.
Can you make it home?
In "For Home", embark on an intimate RPG adventure through space and time designed exclusively for Playdate. As Satsuki, traverse star systems, gather resources on planets, and fight Sentinels in turn-based action combat. Caught between personal aspirations and distant connections, unravel Satsuki's heartfelt journey of loss, love, and self-discovery.
Explore a casual escape room game!
"Escape the Arcade" is an interactive comic adventure packed with mind-bending puzzles to help you crack your way out.
Picture this: you're enjoying a casual afternoon at the arcade hall in the 1980s. You decide to try your luck with the crane claw machine, hoping to snag some teddies - what could possibly go wrong?
Suddenly, with a puff, you find yourself inside the machine, and to top it off, you've shrunk to the size of a teddy! The teddy bears, not accustomed to having humans in their domain, attempt to trap you.
Within the arcade machine, they've created a series of quirky worlds with mysterious, and adorable, puzzles for you to solve.
Embark on this nostalgic and absurd journey, immersing yourself in cool illustrations and cryptic riddles.
The game lasts 60-180 min. But take your time to enjoy the artwork – no rush!
A work in progress isometric 3D game for the Panic Playdate!
Sporestory is a humorous, weird RPG for Playdate. Explore the world as you meet unusual characters, rebuild a fallen village, and try to put a stop to the monsters, who recently showed up without warning to scavenge the world for its resources.
In 2024, the original Shadowgate returns exclusively on the Playdate console as Shadowgate PD.
Shadowgate is one of the most well-known and beloved point-and-click adventure titles in gaming history. As one of the original titles in the popular MacVenture series that went on to be celebrated on the NES, GBC, and Nintendo 64, Shadowgate quickly endeared players with its fantastic atmospheric soundtrack, perilous locations to progress through, countless puzzles to solve, and more ways to gruesomely die than gamers previously thought possible.
A light-hearted puzzle adventure where you play as the exuberant Stella who confronts her fear of the dark to search for her brother.
After a world-changing event occurs before your eyes, your brother disappears in the middle of the night. You embark on a journey to follow his trail and find some answers.
Crank up the light on your lamp as you foray into the dark and travel across an island stirred by stardust magic.
Solve puzzles, collect trinkets, query islanders, and uncover the secrets of an island fascinated by the Comet.
In the Spring of 2025, it started snowing. It never stopped. The Whiteout is an upcoming adventure game for Playdate from the developer of Post Hero, Generations, and Shift.
SOLAR DESCENT is a WIP action-adventure game (playable tech demo available below) for the Playdate handheld console in the vein of classic The Legend of Zelda games combined with modern ideas found in e.g. Dark Souls and Hollow Knight.
SOLAR DESCENT features real-time combat, two attack buttons, on the fly switching of abilities, clever combat integration of the crank, elaborate menus and map systems.
Despite being made in Pulp, a simple but heavily limited game engine for uncomplicated adventure games, SOLAR DESCENT manages to squeeze a lot of gamey gameplay into a tiny, yellow package.
A sequel to the Playdate favorite lo-fi adventure
Play as a little crow who is a little bit angry and a bit bitter. Why is he so angry and causing trouble? Find out in this smash and bash side platform game.
This is a short but sweet game and should take only a few minutes to complete. However, feel free to come back to beat your highscore and grab those combos!
Fasten your seatbelts, prepare to engage thrusters, and launch into an action-packed space adventure with Voidblazers!
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Lowe's Companies (NYSE:LOW – Get Free Report) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The home improvement retailer reported $1.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.68 by $0.09, MarketWatch Earnings reports. Lowe's Companies had a negative return on equity of 51.42% and a net margin of 8.94%. The business had revenue of $18.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $18.47 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.28 EPS. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 17.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Lowe's Companies updated its FY 2024 guidance to 12.000-12.300 EPS and its FY25 guidance to $12.00 to $12.30 EPS.
Lowe's Companies Stock Performance
Shares of LOW traded up $1.44 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $240.24. 465,062 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,576,114. Lowe's Companies has a 52 week low of $181.85 and a 52 week high of $241.44. The company has a market cap of $138.16 billion, a PE ratio of 18.16, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 1.12. The firm's 50 day moving average is $221.23 and its 200-day moving average is $213.12.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Lowe's Companies
Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Aspect Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Lowe's Companies during the 4th quarter worth about $32,000. O Dell Group LLC acquired a new position in Lowe's Companies in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $38,000. Sanctuary Wealth Management L.L.C. acquired a new position in Lowe's Companies in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $35,000. True Wealth Design LLC acquired a new position in Lowe's Companies in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $42,000. Finally, Covestor Ltd raised its holdings in Lowe's Companies by 74.6% in the 1st quarter. Covestor Ltd now owns 295 shares of the home improvement retailer's stock valued at $60,000 after acquiring an additional 126 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.88% of the company's stock.
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About Lowe's Companies
Lowe's Companies, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a home improvement retailer in the United States. The company offers a line of products for construction, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and decorating. It also provides home improvement products, such as appliances, seasonal and outdoor living, lawn and garden, lumber, kitchens and bath, tools, paint, millwork, hardware, flooring, rough plumbing, building materials, décor, and electrical.
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- MusicDrake Matches Nails With Fan, Much To Her DelightDrake continues to experiment with different colors of nail polish.By Alexander Cole
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Biden and Trump were both at the border today, staking out ground on a key 2024 issue
Updated February 29, 2024 at 5:57 PM ET
President Biden squared off against former President Donald Trump on Thursday on one of the issues expected to dominate the 2024 presidential election: immigration.
Both Biden and Trump visited two Texas border communities a few hundred miles apart that have been grappling with large numbers of migrants seeking asylum. Biden went to Brownsville, and Trump to Eagle Pass.
The trip was heavy on symbolism and short on new ideas to tackle the issue. Trump sought to paint a picture of uncontrolled crime and violence, which he blamed on Biden — while Biden sought to show he had agreed to a get-tough bill, blaming Trump and his Republican allies in Congress for blocking it.
It's only the second time during his presidency that Biden has been to the border. The trip comes as Biden goes on the offensive, trying to turn the tables on an issue that has been a liability for him.
Only 29% of respondents in a recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist pollsaid they approve of the way Biden is handling immigration.
Biden is trying to flip the script on this issue
Biden met with Border Patrol agents and local leaders in Brownsville as he blamed House Republicans for failing to pass border funding and policy changes that the community has been seeking.
Biden has said Trump saw a political advantage for his party to block bipartisan legislation that would have tightened rules for asylum, expanded detention facilities and provided more money to hire more border agents. Had the legislation passed, it would have helped Biden show he was willing to get tough on the issue.
On Thursday, he urged Republicans to revive the package, and wrapped up his remarks by inviting Trump to work with him — something that is highly unlikely to happen in this election year.
"We can do it together. You know — and I know — it's the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country has ever seen. So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don't we just get together and get it done?" Biden said.
Trump sees the border as a winning issue for him
Trump — the front-runner in the race to be the Republican nominee in November — announced his trip to the border first. His team said Biden had chased him to the border and said that strategy would backfire.
Trump went to Eagle Pass, a community where the state government has been trying to play a bigger role in enforcement, and highlighted recent crimes committed by migrants in major cities.
Trump blamed Biden for the death of a 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia. An undocumented Venezuelan immigrant has been arrested for the crime.
"I spoke to her parents yesterday. They're incredible people. They're devastated beyond belief. But she was beautiful, just so beautiful in so many ways. And brutally assaulted, horrifically beaten," Trump said.
Biden's campaign said Trump was fear mongering and said that violent crime had fallen during Biden's time in office — something the White House highlighted with police chiefs the day before the border visit.
"All he cares about is stirring up hate, stirring up division ... going even further than the extremism that we saw when he last held power," said Michael Tyler, a Biden spokesperson.
The stakes for both leaders are high
Polls show a majority of Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats on securing the border.
A new Monmouth University poll found that 53% of respondents support building a border wall, the first time a majority of Americans have backed the proposal since Trump launched his first presidential campaign.
As he did in his first run for office, Trump has made border security a central theme for 2024. He has promised to launch the largest domestic deportation operation in American history if elected.
Democrats saw an opening in a New York special election
But Democrats see an opportunity to counter a prevailing narrative that they are soft on border security while Republicans are viewed as hawkish.
House Democrat Tom Suozzi won his special election in New York earlier this month by campaigning hard on Republicans spoiling the bipartisan border bill.
Evan Roth Smith, a Democratic pollster for the political strategy group, Blueprint, said that showed it's possible for Democrats to paint Republicans as "unserious about border security."
He said it's not unlike the opportunity Democrats seized to effectively campaign against Republicans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
"We now have proof-positive in this latest election that Republicans are out over their skis again on immigration. They don't know what to do," Roth Smith said. "And they've handed Democrats something they can run on for months or maybe years."
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5,890 students clear NMMS exam, Salem tops
"Rs 12,000 per year will be given to students who clear NMMS. Overall, Rs 48,000 will be given till Class 12," said a government school teacher in-charge of the exam.
CHENNAI: In the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship (NMMS) exam held by the Directorate of Government Examination (DGE), as many as 5,890 Class 8 students have cleared the exam in Tamil Nadu.
Salem district topped the list with as many as 353 students successfully clearing the exam.
The scholarship exam organised by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) is an entrance exam to provide scholarships to eligible students studying in government, aided, and panchayat schools in the State. And, the students are graded on the Mental Ability Test (MAT) and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
Class 8 students who clear the exam will be given Rs 1,000 per month, starting from classes 9 to 12.
"Rs 12,000 per year will be given to students who clear NMMS. Overall, Rs 48,000 will be given till Class 12," said a government school teacher in-charge of the exam.
As per the department, after Salem, 339 students cleared the exam in Dharmapuri, 315 in Tirunelveli, 312 in Thoothukudi and 301 students in Virudhunagar.
Additionally, 296 students cleared the exam in Madurai, 283 students in Trichy, 208 in Coimbatore.
However, in the case of Chennai and neighbouring districts, the performance was rather dull.
In Chennai, 145 students cleared the exam, followed by 147 students in Kancheepuram, 82 in Chengalpattu, and 164 students in Tiruvallur district.
Meanwhile, students of Nellukadai Street Municipal Middle School in Nagapattinam have been showing consistent performance over the years.
The number of students clearing the exam in the particular school through the years has been; 2016-2017 – (1), 2017-2018 – (1), 2018-2019 – (5), 2019-2020 – (4), 2021-2022 – (3) and 2022-2023 – (1) and 2024 – (2). | <urn:uuid:4b932891-cfbf-4c87-ac92-cb2ff60927c9> | {
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A 49-year-old stripper who performs under the name "Viva Las Vegas" is running for mayor in Portland, Oregon.
The middle-aged exotic dancer, whose real name is Liv Osthus, has no experience in governance but takes her clothes off for cash at a strip club called Mary's in Portland.
When asked by Willamette Week what she would say to older Portlanders who might balk at electing a stripper mayor, Osthus said she would invite them to watch her strip.
"If the stripper thing is so damning, they could watch my TED Talk, or read the book, or watch the movie," Osthus said. "Strippers are amazingly strong, graceful human beings inside and out. I would invite them into Mary's to let me change their minds."
Osthus also claims that her 27 years of stripping prepared her for politics by giving her experience listening and connecting to people.
Asked, "What managerial experience can you point to?" Osthus replied, "I have none, and the team I'm pulling together will be the people who guide me on that."
Willamette Week notes, "She's well known in the Portland arts world as an outspoken sex workers' advocate as well as a published author, writer and musician. After graduating from Williams College in 1997, she moved to Portland to pursue her music career, and soon after began stripping. She's been dancing ever since, often on the stage at Mary's Club."
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March 1 marks six months since Jimmy Buffett sailed away. I've been a card carrying Parrot Head for decades. It seems only fitting to write a tribute to him. You see, he was not just a Trop Rock troubadour. Jimmy was a singer/songwriter, author of eight books, a sailor, pilot, businessman and philanthropist. However, his most cherished assets of his life were his wife, Jane, and children, Savannah Jane, Sarah Delaney and Cameron Marley.
He was probably more well traveled than any of us will ever be, but he took us with him through songs. His music made us dance and sing, and educated. He soothed us and touched our hearts to tears.
Jimmy was quite the historian, receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1969 from the University of Southern Mississippi. During college he worked in a shipyard as an electrician and welder. He spoke three languages, and was an avid surfer.
His career netted 32 studio albums, 11 compilations, 14 live albums, one soundtrack, and 67 singles. JB's final album, "Equal Strains On All Parts", was released Nov. 3.
He wrote a song for each of his children: "Little Miss Magic" for Savannah; "Delaney Talks To Statues" for Delaney; "Beach House On The Moon" for Cameron.
For me some of his most inspiring songs included "Breathe In Breathe Out." The message is to live in the now, and shake off negativities. Then breathe in, breathe out, move on.
"One Particular Harbor touts the Tahitian words: "la ora te natura
E mea arefa there au mei"
This translates to nature lives, love the earth.
I could probably fill volumes writing about favorite songs. Jimmy gave us so many nuggets for life.
After four years of treatments, Jimmy passed at age 76 from Merkel cell carcinoma. Approximately 3,000 are diagnosed each year. The lethal skin cancer affects the neuroendocrine system through nerve endings in the skin. With early detection 75% may live to five years.
We Parrot Heads miss him terribly. Jimmy will always live through his music and musings. Who knew the last concert we attended would be the last concert.
Before passing he told his sister, Lucy, "Have fun." Delaney shared that he told them to not be sad or scared, but to keep the party going. He definitely loved life and enjoyed it all.
From his farewell to us:
"Bubbles up
They will point you toward home
No matter how deep or far you roam
They will show you the surface, the plot and the purpose
So when the journey gets long
Just know you are loved
There's light up above
And joy, there's always enough
Bubbles Up"
As he says in "It's Been A Lovely Cruise":
"Drink it up, this one's for you
It's been a lovely cruise
I'm sorry it's ending
Oh, it's sad but it's true
It's been a lovely cruise"
Thanks, Jimmy. Our clubs will continue the philanthropy as we party with a purpose. Sail on! See you on the other side.
Side note. We are members of the Coast of Carolina Parrot Head Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A total of $50,000 has been distributed to various local charities from money raised in 2023. We will keep the party going! | <urn:uuid:5e402e59-a8a7-4092-8b6a-c02e5cf7aec1> | {
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Verdict reached: Izaiah Garcia found guilty in Pokémon Go murder
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Guilty on all counts – that's the verdict in the murder trial of Izaiah Garcia. After hours of deliberation, a jury decided Garcia killed Cayla Campos, 21, while she was playing Pokémon Go with her boyfriend.
The killing of Cayla Campos is the final of three violent crimes Garcia has been responsible for. In this case, he was facing eight charges, including first-degree murder.
In 2019, Campos was playing Pokémon Go with her boyfriend when they stumbled upon an armed robbery in the middle of Granite Avenue NE. Garcia, who was 19 at the time, shot Campos in the head as she was trying to escape in her car. She then crashed into a home.
Attorneys argued Garcia was targeting a different person and shot at Campos, thinking it was someone named Christian.
"I am extremely proud of the fact that we were able to secure justice for Cayla's family, but I also know that nothing we accomplished in the courtroom will ever heal their pain or replace the loss to our community,"Attorney General Raúl Torrez said.
Garcia is already serving a life sentence for killing Sandia High School senior Sean Markey at a homecoming party weeks before the Campos murder. He also took a plea for stabbing another inmate while he was awaiting trial in MDC.
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Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh): Ratlam's farmer leader Rajesh Purohit surprised onlookers by bowing before joint collector Anil Bhana at the collectorate in a unique form of protest. As a member of a Congress delegation advocating for farmers' rights, Purohit clarified that his gesture represented their need for equitable treatment from the administration, underscoring the difficulties farmers encounter.
Later, district Congress president Kailash Patel led a significant gathering to submit a memorandum to joint collector Bhana, addressing Governor Mangubhai Patel. The memorandum emphasised the BJP government's pledge to purchase wheat from farmers at Rs 2,700 per quintal and urged immediate action on online registration issues hindering farmers. Furthermore, the memorandum called for the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations for farmers' welfare.
Criticising the government's double standards in honouring Swaminathan with the Bharat Ratna while neglecting his policies, the memorandum highlighted agricultural challenges such as wildlife destroying crops in the district. If the demands are not met, a protest is slated for March 11 at the agricultural produce market, with a multitude of Congress leaders and workers, including former Krishi Mandi president Dinesh Sharma and Congress leaders Abhishek Sharma, Dashrath Bhabhar, MulkrajJat and Harish Patel, poised to participate. The protest underscores the urgency of addressing farmers' grievances and safeguarding agricultural interests in Ratlam. | <urn:uuid:e3042ddd-4aa6-40d6-a3be-1d1516e64107> | {
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And ever since, they've clearly been busy, posting regular updates of their continuing attempts to digitize their impressive video game-related Keshi-Gomu collection, which are essentially small rubber figures that were originally distributed in gachapon machines.
Last August, Mr. Talida let it be known that they had collected and scanned a full set of Legend of Zelda Bandai figures from 1986, telling us at the time that they were also near to completing Bandai's 1986 set for Super Mario Bros. 1. Well, now, as of this week, it appears they've finally finished the job, uploading the full set of Mario figures to Archive.org for you to download, print, and paint yourself.
The download includes 21 STL files for characters like Blooper, Bowser, Princess Peach, Mario, and Toad, as well as a 1200dpi scan of the gachapon cardboard display.
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Paisley
- SongsThe Game, Big Hit & Hit-Boy Drop Dual Music Video For "Paisley Dreams / P Fiction": StreamThe two crisp and compelling West Coast cuts come from the trio's new collaborative nine-track EP to start the year, "Paisley Dreams."By Gabriel Bras Nevares
- MixtapesThe Game, Hit-Boy & Big Hit Drop Surprise Mixtape "Paisley Dreams": StreamThis trio linked up to just do one song or remix, and they ended up connecting so deeply that they just kept the train going.By Gabriel Bras Nevares
- SneakersAir Jordan 1 High OG "Paisley" Slated For 2021: First LookThis Air Jordan 1 is supposed to come with some bandana aesthetics.By Alexander Cole | <urn:uuid:e49f1215-7410-4c43-8823-97f29d5bad04> | {
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BJP functionary among 8 booked for seeking Rs 50 cr ransom from Mutt
Four of the accused have been detained, while the police are still looking for the other four, including the district president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
TIRUCHY: Eight people were charged by the Mayiladuthurai police for allegedly threatening to distribute 'obscene' videos of Dharmapuram Adheenam among the public and post the footage on social media and demanding Rs 50 crore.
Four of the accused have been detained, while the police are still looking for the other four, including the district president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sources said that Viruddagiri, brother of Dharmapuram Adheenam 27th Gurumaha Sannidhanam Srila Sri Masilamani Desiga Gnanasambantha Paramacharya Swamy, complained on February 21 at the Mayiladuthurai SP office stating that a gang has been threatening the Aadheenam that it has a few 'obscene' audio clips and videos of the seer and would upload them on the social media if the ransom demanded was not paid.
Acting on the complaint, the police registered a case on February 25 and began investigations.
Viruddagiri in his complaint said that Vinod from Aduthurai along with Senthil, a staff of Dharmapuram Mutt, approached him and claimed that they possessed a few objectionable videos and audios of the Adheenam and demanded money. The gang even threatened to kill Viruddagiri and a few staff if they approached the police. Viruddagiri also accused the gang was acting under the directions of Kudiyarasu, correspondent of Sembanarkoil Kalaimagal Educational Institutions, Advocate Jayachandran of Seyyur and Agoram, Mayiladuthurai district BJP president.
After conducting detailed investigations, the police, arrested Kudiyarasu, Aduthurai Vinod, Vignesh, and Srinivasan a couple of days ago and produced them before the court. Later they were lodged in the Mayiladuthurai sub-jail. A search has been launched to arrest the BJP district president Agoram, Dharmapuram Adheenam staff Senthil, advocate Jayachandran, and Adheenam photographer Prabakaran, who have gone underground.
Cops have also taken possession of mobile phones of the arrested persons. "A clear picture of the entire episode will be available only after the arrest of the absconding persons," the police added. | <urn:uuid:f50ff41f-cbe4-4b5a-96f7-c60c5be1197b> | {
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A professor from Penn State University will look at the emergence of trauma as a psychological category among survivors of the World War II atomic bombings of Japan. The program, which is sponsored by Wilmington College's Peace Resource Center, is planned for March 6, at 6:30 p.m., in the T. Canby Jones Meetinghouse in Boyd Cultural Arts Center.
The public is invited to join members of the campus community in hearing Ran Zwigenberg, professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies, present "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts — by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other social scientists — to tackle the complex ways human minds were affected by the advent of the Nuclear Age. "Nuclear Minds" traces these efforts and the ways they were interpreted differently across communities of researchers and victims.
Zwigenberg's research focuses on modern Japanese and European history, with a specialization in memory and intellectual history. He has taught, lectured and published on issues of war memory, atomic energy, psychiatry, heritage, regionalism and survivor politics. His book, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture, won the 2014 Association for Asian Studies' John W. Hall Book Award.
The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College is the only academic center and archive in the United States wholly devoted to the human experience of nuclear war through the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The PRC works with Wilmington College student staff to carry out the preservation of historical materials and creates programming for the campus and community regarding the need for global peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons. | <urn:uuid:39e44688-f62a-4556-a3b1-b8cd1aa80efc> | {
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Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC lowered its holdings in shares of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY – Free Report) by 7.3% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 19,153 shares of the company's stock after selling 1,500 shares during the period. Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC's holdings in Eli Lilly and Company were worth $10,288,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the business. Texas Capital Bancshares Inc TX grew its stake in shares of Eli Lilly and Company by 1.2% in the third quarter. Texas Capital Bancshares Inc TX now owns 1,771 shares of the company's stock worth $951,000 after purchasing an additional 21 shares in the last quarter. Gotham Asset Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Eli Lilly and Company by 111.3% during the third quarter. Gotham Asset Management LLC now owns 7,386 shares of the company's stock valued at $3,967,000 after purchasing an additional 3,891 shares during the last quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Eli Lilly and Company by 60.5% during the third quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 231,129 shares of the company's stock valued at $124,146,000 after purchasing an additional 87,164 shares during the last quarter. Ancora Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Eli Lilly and Company by 2.9% during the third quarter. Ancora Advisors LLC now owns 6,935 shares of the company's stock valued at $3,725,000 after purchasing an additional 198 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Teza Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Eli Lilly and Company during the third quarter valued at $4,313,000. Institutional investors own 81.38% of the company's stock.
Insiders Place Their Bets
In other news, major shareholder Lilly Endowment Inc sold 14,388 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $630.28, for a total value of $9,068,468.64. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 99,754,422 shares of the company's stock, valued at $62,873,217,098.16. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Insiders sold a total of 195,055 shares of company stock valued at $125,254,657 in the last 90 days. Corporate insiders own 0.13% of the company's stock.
Eli Lilly and Company Stock Performance
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY – Get Free Report) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 6th. The company reported $2.49 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.30 by $0.19. The company had revenue of $9.35 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $8.95 billion. Eli Lilly and Company had a net margin of 15.36% and a return on equity of 51.22%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 28.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.09 earnings per share. On average, sell-side analysts expect that Eli Lilly and Company will post 12.48 earnings per share for the current year.
Eli Lilly and Company Increases Dividend
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 8th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 15th will be issued a $1.30 dividend. This represents a $5.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.69%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, February 14th. This is a boost from Eli Lilly and Company's previous quarterly dividend of $1.13. Eli Lilly and Company's dividend payout ratio is presently 89.66%.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities research analysts have recently commented on the company. Truist Financial upped their target price on Eli Lilly and Company from $650.00 to $850.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Wednesday, February 7th. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on Eli Lilly and Company from $805.00 to $950.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Friday, February 16th. Barclays upped their target price on Eli Lilly and Company from $680.00 to $810.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 7th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft began coverage on Eli Lilly and Company in a report on Thursday, November 9th. They set a "hold" rating and a $535.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reissued an "overweight" rating and set a $815.00 price objective on shares of Eli Lilly and Company in a report on Tuesday, February 20th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seventeen have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $663.33.
Eli Lilly and Company Company Profile
Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, and markets human pharmaceuticals worldwide. It offers Basaglar, Humalog, Humalog Mix 75/25, Humalog U-100, Humalog U-200, Humalog Mix 50/50, insulin lispro, insulin lispro protamine, insulin lispro mix 75/25, Humulin, Humulin 70/30, Humulin N, Humulin R, and Humulin U-500 for diabetes; and Jardiance, Trajenta, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes.
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"Love Is Blind" is facing a conspiracy theory that the show is staged after a supposed script was spotted in a scene from season 6 -- but TMZ knows the truth ... and it's all live, baby!
A still shot of contestant Jessica Vestal from earlier this season is making the rounds online -- which shows the single mother with a notebook filled with printed-out text sitting on her lap during a pod date with Jimmy Presnell.
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Since the notebook was presented like a regular ol' journal ... fans were quick to speculate that the Netflix reality series might be hiding something -- namely, that the whole thing is staged, to be exact, and that Jess wasn't taking notes but rather ... reading lines.
Despite the rampant speculation, a production source with direct knowledge tells TMZ ... the show is absolutely not scripted, and the printouts in question are merely questions the contestants are provided in case they need some ideas on topics to hit in conversation.
For example, we're told some of these questions seen in the journals could be something like ... "What's your favorite color," or something else personal to keep the vibes flowing.
Our sources tell us that the prompts you see are simply meant to help the contestants get to know each other. Remember, the 'LIB' contestants initially meet with a wall between them -- so a little assistance isn't wildly unexpected, and that's exactly what this is.
Watching Love is Blind I realized Cole's notebook seems to have a printed out sheet glued in. Could it be a script? Do they have access to computers/printers for their notes? Does Cole bullet journal/scrapbook? I have so many questions. 👀 pic.twitter.com/GbYKTdA7NS
Now, whether the contestants are overselling the notion these are just plain old notebooks to scribble things down in -- when there are clearly things written in there ahead of time for them -- is a different story ... because yes, they most certainly do seem to be playing it up.
The point is, though ... there's no scandal here, and there's no script either. We're told 'Love is Blind' is 100% live reality TV -- and what you see is what you get in terms of interactions.
BTW, this isn't the first time the notebooks have been questioned by viewers.
The journals were actually called out way back in season 3 -- when a similar photo ... this time featuring Cole Barnett -- was posted to X. At the time ... one fan declared they were left with "so many questions" over the journal.
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Sailana (Madhya Pradesh): The police booked Sailana MLA Kamleshwar Dodiyar on the complaint filed by a local medical store operator. In the complaint, complainant Tapan Rai accused MLA Dodiyar of demanding a hefty sum of Rs 1 crore.
The operator, in a video released on Friday, claimed that the MLA threatened him with jail if he did not comply with the demand. Sailana police have registered a case against MLA Dodiyar under sections 323, 294, 506, 327, 384, and 34 of the IPC.
Ratlam SP Rahul Kumar Lodha confirmed that an FIR has been lodged after a thorough investigation into the matter. The sections under which the case has been registered are non-bailable and carry a provision of punishment of up to 10 years.
MLA Dodiyar, however, has defended his actions, stating that the medical store in question had been operating illegally in Bajna for the past 30 years. He claimed to have protested against the illegal operation for three hours, demanding action.
The incident took a new turn when on February 24, medical director Tapan Rai approached SP Rahul Lodha to lodge a complaint against the MLA. However, as the SP was unavailable, Rai submitted his complaint to the inbound and outbound branch.
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Brazil's finance minister proposes global tax on the super-rich at G20 meeting in Sao Paulo
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's finance minister told his peers Thursday at a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion.
Fernando Haddad said tax evasion can be resolved through international cooperation so that "these few individuals make their contribution to our societies and to the planet's sustainable development."
He added that Brazil is pushing for a declaration on international taxation by G20 members that he hopes would be ready in July. But in a press conference at the end of the meeting, he recognized the path would be far from smooth.
"There will be a lot of debate about this, which is absolutely natural, especially because not every country feels the same way about this problem that was brought to the G20 by Brazil," he said.
Brazil currently has the presidency of the 20 leading rich and developing nations and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has put issues that concern the developing world – such as the reduction of inequalities and the reform of multilateral institutions — at the heart of its agenda.
"Brazil has a role to play, a legitimacy to use on the issues that need to be addressed and that are not always represented in the G20," Haddad said, pointing to environmental, social and fiscal issues.
According to a 2023 study by advocacy group Tax Justice Network, countries around the world could lose up to $4.8 trillion in tax revenue over the next decade due to tax havens. And a report earlier this year by the EU Tax Observatory cited by Haddad, found that billionaires worldwide have effective tax rates equivalent of between 0% and 0.5% of their wealth.
In recent years, scandals such as the Panama Papers Leak and the Paradise Papers have shone a light on the pervasiveness of tax evasion and avoidance in business practices.
Meanwhile, the gap between the super-rich and the bulk of the global population has been supercharged since the coronavirus pandemic, according to anti-poverty organization Oxfam International.
"There are fewer taxes on assets today than two or three decades ago. The global movement has tended towards reducing taxation on companies and wealth," said André Vereta-Nahoum, a sociology professor at the University of Sao Paulo.
But with inequalities soaring, more are calling for higher taxes on the wealthy – including U.S. President Joe Biden, who has pushed for a billionaire minimum income tax although the likelihood of Congress passing that proposal is minimal.
In a sign of growing global consensus on the matter, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution late last year backing stronger international tax cooperation to "make it fully inclusive and more effective."
"The difficulty is no longer putting the issue on the table, the data is there. The difficulty is arriving at a common document," said Carla Beni, an economist from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university and think tank.
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Back in October of last year, Atari CEO Wade Rosen made headlines after suggesting in an interview with the gaming YouTube channel MinnMax that the company was willing to accept pitches for a new Bubsy game after re-acquiring the IP.
This inevitably led to a bunch of pitches from indie developers, including one interesting prototype from the Frog Nimble developer Jon D (who claimed he sadly never got a reply from the publisher).
Here at Time Extension, we recently had the chance to talk to Rosen in an interview that is now up on the site and during that conversation, the topic once again turned to the ill-fated Bobcat, with the CEO reiterating the company's intention to make a good Bubsy game:
"We're going to do something great with Bubsy, right? That's something that we really aspire to do. Do we want to be the group that made a great Bubsy game? Yeah, we want to be that group. Because that would be really cool.
Out of curiosity, we, therefore, asked Rosen whether Atari had been in contact with any developers following that initial call for pitches and whether those conversations had actually gone anywhere. Here's what he had to say:
"So, more to follow on that one, but yes! And apologies, if people didn't hear back from the team. We were probably still processing at that point. The response was much greater than we had anticipated from that and so there was a lot to digest. But the short answer is one way or another, we're going to find a way to move forward with a Bubsy project, and that most likely will have been the result of something that came out from that and that general request for proposals."
In other words, it looks like we might be seeing the return of the mascot in the future, and that it will likely be a result of Rosen's appearance on MinnMax.
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By Lisa Barrington and Joyce Lee
SEOUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The sale of Asiana Airlines' 020560.KS cargo business has attracted offers from four South Korean low-cost carriers, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
Jeju Air 089590.KS, Eastar Jet, Air Premia and Air Incheon all submitted non-binding bids, the source said.
Korean Air 003490.KS, South Korea's biggest carrier is set to purchase nearly two-thirds of Asiana for about $1.4 billion, but EU antitrust authorities have stipulated that Asiana's cargo business must be sold before they will give the deal their final approval.
Korean Air, Asiana, Air Premia and Eastar Jet declined comment.
Representatives for Jeju Air and Air Incheon could not be immediately reached for comment.
An acquisition of the cargo unit would encompass Asiana's freighter aircraft, airport slots, employees and contracts.
All sources were not authorised to speak to media about the deal and declined to be identified.
The airline sector has seen a wave of consolidation in recent months, with Lufthansa LHAG.DE seeking a 41% stake in Italy's ITA Airways and British Airways and Iberia owner IAG's ICAG.L bid for the remaining 80% of Spanish carrier Air Europa it does not already own.
Korean Air has obtained a green light from competition authorities for the Asiana deal in 13 of 14 jurisdictions. It is still awaiting a U.S. decision.
($1 = 1,336.1100 won)
(Reporting by Joyce Lee and Lisa Barrington; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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- CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors why he thinks the market was able to rally on Thursday, citing continued momentum in the tech sector and tepid inflation data.
- "What mattered was the one-two punch of an economy that's just right—meaning still potentially ripe for rate cuts, it could happen—and the fact that AI is alive and well," he said. "It reminded us why you can't leave stocks, even if you think we've had a nice run so far this year and it'd be safer to move to the sidelines."
CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors why he thinks the market was able to rally on Thursday, citing continued momentum in the tech sector and new inflation data suggesting the economy might be amenable to interest rate cuts.
"What mattered was the one-two punch of an economy that's just right—meaning still potentially ripe for rate cuts, it could happen—and the fact that AI is alive and well," he said. "It reminded us why you can't leave stocks, even if you think we've had a nice run so far this year and it'd be safer to move to the sidelines."
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The Nasdaq Composite advanced to its first record high since 2021, popping 0.9% as tech and chip stocks saw gains. The S&P 500 also hit a new record, gaining 0.52%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 0.12%.
Cramer pointed to figures from January's personal consumption expenditure price index, one of the Federal Reserve's key metrics when deliberating about interest rates. The report showed that inflation rose in line with expectations, and he was encouraged by these tepid figures, even if they don't necessarily signal imminent rate cuts.
Wall Street had also been worried the artificial intelligence craze is winding down, Cramer said, with some especially disheartened by Snowflake's 18% drop spurred by weak guidance and its CEO's departure. Salesforce also issued a light forecast on Wednesday night, but the stock managed to recover and finished up about 3% on Thursday, bringing up other tech stocks with it, Cramer said. And a "usually tempered" Citi analyst indicated on Thursday he was bullish on semiconductors, which bodes well for AI stocks, according to Cramer.
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These factors helped elevate the Magnificent Seven, Cramer said. He was further optimistic about the tech sector because Dell managed to soar in extended training after its quarter beat expectations and the company indicated there is high demand for its AI servers.
"Now, there were some laggards today, of course, I get that—there were plenty of safety stocks that weren't so safe," Cramer said. "That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the rally continues tomorrow given that the PC and server giant Dell shot the lights out after the close today—one more data point showing that tech's got a lot more strength than people think."
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Chinese flag in ad designer's mistake: Anitha Radhakrishnan
BJP leader and Union Minister L Murugan, however, demanded that the DMK apologise to the people for publishing that advertisement.
THOOTHUKUDI: A day after his advertisement related to ISRO's new launch complex in Tamil Nadu caused a row for featuring Chinese flag, DMK leader and Fisheries Minister Anitha R Radhakrishnan on Thursday said it was a gaffe by the designer. The Minister stressed that it was only a mistake and they (DMK) had no other intentions.
"A small mistake happened in the advertisement. We have no other intention. We have only love for India in our hearts," Radhakrishnan said, adding that it is his party's stand that India should stay united without giving any room for clashes on the grounds of caste or religion.
The Minister said it was the late DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi who first voiced the demand for a new launch complex of ISRO at Kulasekarapattinam. Also, Chief Minister MK Stalin and Thoothukudi Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi had all along urged the Centre to set up the launch complex in the state, he told reporters. This is why it was decided to give an advertisement to highlight the efforts made by the DMK leaders to bring the project to Tamil Nadu, the Minister said. Those who designed the advertisement made a gaffe, which went unnoticed by them, the Minister said.
BJP leader and Union Minister L Murugan, however, demanded that the DMK apologise to the people for publishing that advertisement.
On the DMK's stand that the 'China' reference was a mistake, Murugan said, "It is our duty to put the Indian flag (in advertisement) and they (DMK) must apologise to the people. Only India's achievements have to be showcased. The country's achievements in space technology and the new ISRO complex in Tamil Nadu are the nation's pride."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Hunting and fishing licenses for 2024-25 are on sale now, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
An Ohio hunting or fishing license opens endless opportunities to spend time outdoors and contributes to wildlife conservation. Licenses can easily be purchased at wildohio.gov, on the HuntFish OH mobile app, or at participating agents statewide.
License sales fund the Division of Wildlife's projects and programs that benefit wildlife and people. The Division of Wildlife manages or cooperatively manages more than 2 million acres of water and 750,000 acres of diverse wildlife areas. These habitats support popular game species such as deer, turkey, and walleye as well as key species such as bald eagles and monarch butterflies.
Ohio's resident fishing licenses are $25, are valid for one year from the date of purchase, and can be purchased up to 30 days prior to the expiration date. A fishing license is required to fish in Ohio public waters for anyone 16 and older.
Ohio's annual resident hunting licenses for the 2024-25 seasons are $19 for adults ($10 for youth) and are available now. Hunting licenses are valid immediately after purchase through Feb. 28, 2025. All hunters, regardless of age, are required to carry a valid hunting license to hunt or trap in Ohio.
Multiyear hunting and fishing licenses are also available, with three-year, five-year, 10-year, and lifetime licenses on sale.
Download the free HuntFish OH mobile app to buy your license. Deer and turkey hunters can use the app to check their harvest, even without a cell phone signal. Anglers can find boat ramps, public waters, and wildlife areas on the map. App users can also purchase permits, report wildlife sightings, and read current regulations.
Funds from the sale of hunting and fishing licenses, along with excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment, directly benefit wildlife management and habitat conservation efforts here in Ohio. Funds also support improvements to fishing access, shooting ranges, and wildlife areas. Visit wildohio.gov to learn more.
The mission of the Division of Wildlife is to conserve and improve fish and wildlife resources and their habitats for sustainable use and appreciation by all. Visit wildohio.gov to find out more.
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Less snowfall in the Mountain West puts strain on ski industry, water supplies
New research shows less snow is falling in many parts of the U.S., including the Mountain West, a region that relies heavily on snow.
Since the early 1970s, less snow has fallen in nearly two-thirds of snow stations across the country, according to research group Climate Central, which analyzed decades of annual snowfall trends in over 2,041 locations.
In the Mountain West, snowfall has decreased in many areas of Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. What's more, some of the nation's steepest declines are in the region. Notable examples include Gascon, N.M., where snowfall has decreased by 76 inches; Red Lodge, Mont. (69 inches); Crested Butte, Colo. (65 inches); Ruxton Park, Colo. (59 inches); and Fillmore, Utah (50 inches).
Each state has a few areas where snowfall has increased over the past 50 years. But the broader trend of less snowfall, which impacts the West in many ways, is driven by human-caused climate change, said Kaitlyn Trudeau, a senior research associate at Climate Central.
"What winter means, what snow means to people culturally, just for our environment, and for our ecosystems, for our water supplies, it's just incredibly important," Trudeau said. "As we see snowpack decline, it not only means that we have more unstable and less water resources, but it also means that it's going to take a big hit on the mountain economies, the places where they really rely – ski resorts, snow parks."
Less snow is also bad for farmers, who face the risk of not having enough water to irrigate their crops.
This story was produced by the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration between Wyoming Public Media, Nevada Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio in Idaho, KUNR in Nevada, KUNC in Colorado and KANW in New Mexico, with support from affiliate stations across the region. Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | <urn:uuid:d608c129-4a4e-45c3-a025-a851e00d9513> | {
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Austin Peay (16-14 | 9-6 ASUN) vs. Bellarmine (8-22 | 4-11 ASUN)
Friday, March 1st, 2024 | 7:00pm
Clarksville, TN | F&M Bank Arena
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) basketball team enters its final game of the regular season with a No. 4 seed in the upcoming Atlantic Sun Conference Championship and home game in the tournament already locked, but before it can look ahead to the postseason, the Governors host Bellarmine for Senior Day in a Saturday contest on Gary Mathews Court at F&M Bank Arena. Tip-off is at 7:00pm.
Senior Day festivities will begin approximately 25 minutes before tipoff, as APSU will recognize DeMarcus Sharp, Ja'Monta Black, Dezi Jones, Jordan Wilmore, Sai Witt, and Jalen Ware ahead of the contest against the Knights.
Austin Peay (16-14, 9-6 ASUN) defeated Eastern Kentucky on Wednesday in the Governors' penultimate game of the season after outscoring the Colonels 46-36 in the second half while making 58.1% of their attempts from the field across the final 20 minutes.
Wednesday's game also featured the return of Sharp – who missed the previous six games – making his first appearance off the bench, and connected on all five of his second-half attempts while also scoring all 10 of his points in the second half.
Witt (26 points) and Isaac Haney (22 points) paced the Govs in scoring against the Colonels, as APSU secured its sixth win in the last seven games and ninth home win in its last 10 contests at F&M Bank Area.
The APSU Govs will close the ASUN slate with the same team they opened it against, with APSU earning an 84-68 victory against Bellarmine on January 4th in Louisville, Kentucky. Jones scored a game-high 21 points in the wire-to-wire victory.
Bellarmine (8-22 | 4-11 ASUN) has three players averaging double-figure scoring throughout ASUN Conference play and is led by Bash Wieland's 16.9 points per game, and has scored at least 14 points in 10 of his 11 ASUN appearances thus far.
About Austin Peay Men's Basketball
Austin Peay State University concludes the regular season with a Friday 7:00pm game against Bellarmine.
APSU is locked into the No. 4 seed in the upcoming ASUN Men's Basketball Championship and will host the No. 5 seed on March 5th, with the opponent and game time to be determined.
Austin Peay State University has won six of its last seven games and nine of its last 10 home games.
On Wednesday, the Governors are coming off an 83-79 victory against current top-seeded Eastern Kentucky.
Bellarmine is 8-22 on the season, and 4-11 in ASUN Conference play.
The Knights are coming off a 90-74 loss at Lipscomb on Wednesday but have won two of their last three games.
Austin Peay State University is 12-7 all-time against Bellarmine and ended a two-game losing streak to the Knights on January 4th in Freedom Hall.
Dezi Jones leads APSU with 17.0 points per game in ASUN play and has tallied seven 20-point performances.
Ja'Monta Black needs four three-pointers to become the Governors' single-season record holder. He enters the regular-season finale with 99 in 2023-24.
What a Win Would Mean
Austin Peay State University would improve to 17-14 on the season, and 10-6 in ASUN Conference play… APSU's 17 wins would mark a +8 win turnaround from the previous season, which is tied for the fourth-most in program history. It also would be one win away from marking the most by a head coach in their first season… APSU Govs improve to 12-2 at home this season… Govs head into the postseason winners of seven of their last eight games.
Last Time Against Them
Last Game & Win… Austin Peay State University defeated Bellarmine 84-68 on January 4th in the ASUN opener. Dezi Jones led the game with 21 points in the wire-to-wire win. Jones was one of four Govs to score in double figures.
Follow The APSU Govs
For news and updates throughout the Governors 2023-24 season, follow the APSU men's basketball team on X and Instagram (@GovsMBB), on Facebook (Austin Peay Men's Basketball), or check back at LetsGoPeay.com.
Next Up For APSU Men's Basketball
The Austin Peay State University men's basketball team's first-ever postseason appearance as a member of the ASUN. The Governors will host the No. 5 seed – either North Florida or FGCU in a March 5th game at F&M Bank Arena. The time is to be determined.
If UNF defeats Stetson in its regular-season finale, the Governors will host the Ospreys. If UNF loses and FGCU wins at Jacksonville, the APSU Govs likely will host the Eagles. | <urn:uuid:c39eda1c-30d2-42ea-8296-86145a176caa> | {
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Scot Pollard's having a really good Thursday ... the ex-NBA champ is leaving a hospital just two weeks after undergoing heart transplant surgery -- and to celebrate, he had a little bit of a hallway party at the medical facility!!
Check out footage of the former Kings center as he made his way out of the Nashville building some 13 days after getting a new ticker ... he danced his tail off -- before he rang a victory bell.
Docs and aides were all there to congratulate him on the big moment ... as was his wife, Dawn, who shared video of it all.
"HE MADE IT!!" Dawn wrote on her X page. "13 days post heart transplant and he got to ring the bell."
The scene is obviously an emotional one for the Pollard family ... 'cause a few months ago, many wondered if it would ever happen.
If you weren't familiar, the 49-year-old 7-footer -- who played for five different teams in his NBA career -- revealed earlier this year a genetic issue caused by a flu-like virus affected him to the point where he needed a new heart. But due to his size, the task to get a suitable one was not easy.
In mid-February, though, he found a match ... and docs put it in place ASAP.
Today was productive & Scot is feeling stronger. Had 2 hours of post heart transplant education where we learned ALL the things about how to best care for his new gift-no rejection allowed! His remaining wires were removed, he's off all IV meds & did 3 laps without a walker!💪🏼❤️🩹 pic.twitter.com/g4ocWsYOV6 | <urn:uuid:bec9bdd1-2e07-4d3f-8ca8-7632f660133d> | {
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The good news is that the Atari 2600+ – a modern-day recreation of the console that turned the company into one of the biggest entertainment brands on the planet in the '70s and '80s – was successful enough for Atari to consider reviving more of its past hardware releases.
Speaking to Time Extension, Atari chairman and CEO Wade Rosen had this to say about 'new' hardware:
We've been really happy with the reception from fans and just the reception from the market. So there will certainly be more projects in that vein. We also like it because it just fits who we are in our DNA.
Rosen wouldn't give specifics on what systems could be resurrected, but could we potentially see the Atari Jaguar or handheld Lynx make a comeback?
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Broncos' Browning headlines new investment platform for fans to buy stock in their favorite players
DENVER (AP) — A new investment platform that allows fans to buy and sell shares in the future on-the-field earnings of college and professional athletes has received federal approval to begin trading on the U.S. stock market.
Denver Broncos linebacker Baron Browning will headline Vestible Inc.'s initial offering the week of March 18.
Vestible is entitled to 1% of Browning's on-field income, which will be distributed to shareholders, for the remainder of his NFL playing career.
Vestible announced on Thursday the launch of its app for iPhone and Android after it received clearance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Fans who register on the platform can buy stock in athletes beginning with Browning, a rising young edge rusher who is entering a contract year in 2024, when he'll make about $3.1 million with the potential for a substantial pay raise with free agency a year away.
Vestible will make available up to 100,000 shares at $10 apiece in Browning's public offering. Shareholders will receive monthly dividend distributions or they can trade Browning's stock on the platform which operates alongside Templum Markets, Vestible's broker dealer.
Browning, who will receive 80% of the proceeds from his IPO, fits Vestible's profile as an up-and-coming player with a massive upside potential.
"You see the potential for what his next contract could look like, the potential for what kind of player that he could be in this league," said Vestible cofounder Yves Batoba. "That type of upside is really where the intrigue is. Not just from a football standpoint, but of course from an investment standpoint, as well."
Browning made a successful switch from inside linebacker to edge rusher in 2022 but he also suffered a partially torn right meniscus that season that caused him to miss training camp last summer and the first six games in 2023. Upon his return, he played a major role in Denver's defensive-fueled turnaround.
"It's cool to think I'm going to have my own stock," Browning told The Associated Press recently, calling the new investment platform "a game-changer not just for me, but for athletes everywhere."
Vestible is the brainchild of Batoba and Parker Graham, former teammates on Oklahoma State's football team more than a decade ago who each had brief stints in the NFL — Graham as an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens in 2014 and Batoba as the Miami Dolphins assistant director of player development for several years.
After football, Graham went to work in investment management and founded the banking software company Finotta. This is his second start-up. After several years with the Dolphins, Batoba branched out into comprehensive athlete development.
As they tell it, they found out how to combine their skills three years ago when they cofounded Vestible to allow athletes to sell equity in their professional playing careers with fans investing via IPOs.
Other platforms have attempted to unite the sports and investment worlds, but those ventures used tracking stocks with values tied to an athlete's on-field performance. Vestible's securities are solely based on market demand.
Vestible intends to follow Browning's launch in the coming months with other athletes from across the NFL, NBA, college football and NCAA men's and women's basketball. But the focus now is on Browning and other football players.
"Baron is an athlete who is waiting on his next contract. It's kind of like a prove-it season for him," Graham said. "So he's got a lot of his future (earning) potential locked away from him right now. And so a part of what we're doing is helping him access that capital that helps him create that brand value he has today.
"And a lot of athletes are experiencing that exact same problem. So, a lot of them will be similar to that sort of persona, folks who haven't really made their big second contract yet but are excelling and outperforming the contract that they're currently in."
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Paper Route Empire Presents: Long Live Dolph
- NewsListen To "Love For Me" From Paper Route EMPIRE's "Long Live Dolph" ProjectDolph and Chitana speak on love and women on PRE's "Long Live Dolph" project.By Taiyo Coates
- NewsKey Glock Admits He's Lost On Young Dolph Tribute Track "Proud"Key Glock addresses the death of his cousin on new banger "Proud."By Rose Lilah
- MusicPaper Route Empire Announces "Long Live Dolph" Tribute Mixtape For Young DolphThe project is slated for arrival later on this month and PRE's Jay Fizzle has already released his single, "LLD."By Erika Marie | <urn:uuid:b4fbb7cf-ea73-448b-a729-634911039e92> | {
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Alexander Lavake, Coordinator at Lane County Talks Fentanyl Awareness
You'd be forgiven if your thinking right now that our drug policy in Oregon is kind of back and forth. One moment drug possession is decriminalized, yet now it seems like the legislature is going to reverse that stance. Whatever the outcome, both sides of this issue agree on one thing – the widespread use and availability of illicit fentanyl is a massive public health problem.
On this edition of Oregon On The Record, listeners hear from Alexander Lavake, the coordinator of Lane County's Fentanyl awareness program and how they hope to educate the public about the dangers of this drug, promote life-saving overdose prevention and promote a community-wide collaboration.
It's a big departure from the old axiom of Just Say No To Drugs, and a more judgment free and practical guide to staying safe and staying alive. | <urn:uuid:f085e4b9-412a-417d-9ccc-a120ee7fd24f> | {
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Quincy Olivari's 32 points led Xavier over DePaul 91-58 on Wednesday night.
Olivari also had five rebounds for the Musketeers (14-14, 8-9 Big East Conference). Dayvion McKnight and Trey Green added 13 points each.
Elijah Fisher led the Blue Demons (3-25, 0-17) in scoring, finishing with 14 points and six rebounds. Jalen Terry added 12 points and six assists for DePaul, which extended its losing streak to 16 straight.
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'Corpn budget not for people, but for DMK'
Motorists are facing hurdles every day and a few have lost their lives due to the pathetic conditions of the roads in Tambaram.
CHENNAI: Accusing the corporation of not working for people's welfare the AIADMK Councillors walked out from the council meeting held in Tambaram on Thursday. They also claimed that the budget presented in the council meeting was designed for the benefit of the ruling party.
The AIADMK Councillors participated in the corporation meeting wearing a black dress. When the Budget for 2024-2025 was presented during the council meeting the opposition party councillors started protesting that there is no useful scheme for the people in this year's budget. The councillors said that the budget fails to address or rectify the problems of the people.
Motorists are facing hurdles every day and a few have lost their lives due to the pathetic conditions of the roads in Tambaram. In addition, the incidents of stray dogs and cattle menace are increasing in the Tambaram corporation. Despite the announcement of the construction of homes for cows, the officials have not taken any steps to implement it.
The opposition party councillors mentioned that two people have died due to dog bites so far and people are losing their lives due to bad maintenance of speed breakers. The government is constructing speed breakers but not placing the reflectors. The corporation should check whether the speed breakers are placed as per Indian road laws and that should be mentioned in the road laying work order, said P Vishwanathan, an activist from Chitlapakkam.
After a heated argument in the council meeting, all the AIADMK councillors walked out from the meeting and they said that the budget which was presented was not for the people and was specifically made for the ruling party. They said that many times we requested the Mayor and Commissioner to look into the issues with roads and stray dogs but they did not take any steps. The Tambaram corporation Commissioner R Alagu Meena said that all necessary steps are taken and everything will be sorted out soon. | <urn:uuid:a3c469e7-3a88-4710-a1e5-b060f2141318> | {
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, issuing explicit nuclear threats to the West even as he assured Russians their country could both emerge victorious from the war in Ukraine and thrive economically at home.
The Kremlin billed the speech as akin to a campaign platform reveal — no less than Putin's vision for Russia's future ahead of a March election in which he faces no serious competition for a fifth term in office.
But the Kremlin leader made no mention of the vote, as he blended belligerence with optimism in a sprawling, two-hour-plus speech before Russia's Federal Assembly that in its opening moments touched most heavily onthe now 2-year-old war in Ukraine.
Putin warned that if Ukraine's Western backers deepened their involvement in the war, such as sending troops, the consequences for the "invaders" would be "tragic" and it would risk starting a nuclear war.
"They must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory," Putin said, in apparent reference to increasingly lethal Western weapons provided to Kyiv. "What they are now suggesting and scaring the world with — all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization."
The remarks came just days after French President Emmanuel Macron said Western countries should not rule out deploying ground troops in Ukraine. NATO allies, including the United States, publicly rejected the suggestion.
Putin denied recent U.S. accusations that Russia intends to launch nuclear weapons in space, calling the accusations U.S. "demagoguery" and an American election-year stunt designedto lure Russia into arms negotiations talks.
He also accused the West of deliberately drawing the Soviet Union into a self-depleting arms race — and vowed Russia would play it smarter this time around.
"Our task is to develop a military industrial complex in a way that increases the scientific, technological and industrial potential of the country," Putin said.
Domestic issues and a Russian version of the GI bill
As he has in the past, Putin touted the Russian economy's ability to withstand Western sanctions over the war — praising a decade-long government effort to buffer the Russian market even as he acknowledged there was much work still to be done.
The Kremlin leader unveiled a list of long-term goals, from increasing the national birthrate and workers' wages to improving outputs in agriculture and industry. It felt at times like an echo of the five-year economic plans much touted but rarely implemented in the heyday of the USSR.
Much of the address was dedicated to a slew of new government programs aimed at improvingRussians' lives — with Putin promising more money for families, children, schools and small-to-midsize businesses.
Putin also announced a program akin to the U.S. GI Bill for Russian veterans of the war in Ukraine, calling them the country's "new elite," destined to fill the future ranks of business and government.
If there were concerns over how Russia's government could afford both the war and social spending, they were left unsaid.
Applause from increasingly fidgety dignitaries kept coming.
The fight for a silent majority
As he has throughout the conflict, Putin insisted Russians had united behind the war effort, despite growing evidence of divisions and war fatigue.
One anti-war politician who was gaining popularity toward a campaign for the presidential election was disqualified by the electoral commission, which said there were irregularities in signatures gathered to get his name on the ballot.
The death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny under mysterious circumstances in a remote Russian prison colony this month has drawn only further global attention to government repression of anti-war sentiment.
And families of civilians mobilized for the war effort in 2022 have also grown increasingly vocal with calls to bring their loved ones home from the front.
It appears they are not alone.
A new independent poll suggests that a large majority of Russians — 75% — would endorse Putin signing a peace agreement "tomorrow."
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Florida is releasing Jeffrey Epstein's grand jury report
MIAMI — Florida says it will soon release the grand jury proceedings in Jeffrey Epstein's 2006 sexual abuse case.
More than a decade earlier, a grand jury convened in Florida's Palm Beach County investigated allegations that he was sexually abusing teenage girls and young women at his estate. The grand jury ultimately returned a single charge of soliciting prostitution. Following a federal investigation, Epstein pleaded guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and received a lenient sentence. He served just 13 months in prison, leaving the jail almost every day as part of a work release deal.
At a news conference in Palm Beach, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill authorizing the release of Epstein's grand jury records, calling it "long overdue." He also called for the release of records from the FBI investigation of Epstein. "I would challenge Joe Biden to do that now," he said. "There are still a lot of unanswered questions about how this happened."
The Florida grand jury records are expected to be opened when the law goes into effect in July.
Some of Epstein's victims were with DeSantis at the bill signing. Haley Robson was 16 years old when she was recruited and began working for Epstein. She said she hoped releasing the grand jury report will finally provide some answers. "Why was Jeffrey Epstein given such grace and mercy for his inhumane crimes? And why were we outed in the media and treated so poorly?"
Epstein had several homes, often flying guests and girls to his estate on a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prince Andrew, former President Bill Clinton and attorney Alan Dershowitz were among his high-profile guests. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking while with Epstein.
More than a decade after Epstein completed the terms of his plea deal and probation, a series of reports in the Miami Herald brought new attention to Epstein and his victims. He was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges when he was found dead in his jail cell, a death that was ruled suicide.
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Atari is one of the most famous names in the video game business, even if the brand itself has changed hands many times over the decades.
The company is currently undergoing something of a revival thanks to the efforts of chairman and CEO Wade Rosen, who came on board in 2021 – the same year that Atari relaunched its VCS system as a Linux-based "computer in a box" complete with streaming services and compatibility with games developed for Windows.
While Atari remains committed to the platform in terms of firmware updates and software, Rosen has admitted that, had be been in charge when the VCS was being pitched, it probably wouldn't have made it to market.
Speaking to Time Extension in a new interview, Rosen said:
So the VCS is a great case study of something that is probably a little outside of what we would go towards today. It had been in the works for quite a few years when I stepped in. And it had been released shortly before I came on board.
So, while it's probably not what we would design or put out today, we still wanted to make sure that we continued to support the people who supported us with that. So we've continued to invest in firmware updates for the platform, we have new content coming out for it all of the time.
Rosen gives the VCS title Neo Sprint as an example of how Atari remains committed to supporting the VCS' audience, even if it's smaller than it would like it to be:
If you're playing Neo Sprint and you provide feedback to us, we're reading it and we're responding to it and taking it into consideration. We've also started using it as a platform to put out some of our games to understand what's resonating and what's not, and tap into our dedicated community. And also, it's started to take on more of a retro focus as well. So that's how we will continue to support the VCS, with our own content and as a direct means to tap into a passionate community.
It's also noted that Atari will seek to leverage its relationship with Polymega maker Playmaji in the future, which we would assume means having the Polymega app on the VCS. "We're also hoping that our partnership with Polymega will continue to unlock functionality with the VCS too. So more to follow on that this year," says Rosen.
The Atari VCS remains on sale, costing $239 for the 'base' bundle and $299 for the 'all in' bundle. It is not to be confused with the Atari 2600+, which is a recreation of the original '70/'80s system, made in collaboration with Plaion. | <urn:uuid:02f1d1c1-9337-4eff-be31-8100b34ceb37> | {
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Clark's final regular-season home game to be among priciest tickets in women's college hoops history
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark's final regular-season home game at Iowa is likely to bring one of the priciest tickets in women's college basketball history.
The cheapest secondary-market ticket listed Thursday on TickPick.com for the Sunday game against No. 2 Ohio State was $481 after Clark announced on social media that this would be her final season at Iowa.
Among TickPick's most expensive available seats was a $5,503 ticket in the first row near midcourt. At least four tickets were listed for over $6,200.
Clark became the all-time leading women's scorer in major college basketball by scoring 33 points to pass Lynette Woodard and post her 17th career triple-double in a 108-60 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday night.
She has 3,650 career points. Woodard had 3,649 points for Kansas from 1977-81, before the NCAA sanctioned the sport. Earlier this month, Clark broke Kelsey Plum's NCAA scoring record (3,527 points).
Next up is the overall NCAA scoring record of Pete Maravich, who is just 17 points ahead of her. Clark has a good chance at surpassing "Pistol Pete" on Sunday. She averages 32.2 points per game.
Carver-Hawkeye Arena has a listed capacity of 14,998. The school sold out of season tickets long ago and is not selling seats for the rematch with Ohio State.
TickPick's $577 average price for Sunday's game surpassed the $394 cost of the Feb. 15 game in which Clark broke the NCAA women's major scoring mark, USA Today reported.
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paper route illuminati
- NewsYoung Dolph & The Paper Route Empire Shine On "Beat It"Young Dolph, Paper Route Empire, and Big Unccc shine on the orchestral "Beat It." By Mitch Findlay
- MusicYoung Dolph Explains Why He Chose Not To RetireYoung Dolph explains why he chose not to retire, citing a responsibility to the ones he inspires. By Mitch Findlay
- MusicYoung Dolph Announces New Album "Paper Route Illuminati"Young Dolph has sparked discussion after unveiling the album cover to his new project "Paper Route Illuminati." By Mitch Findlay | <urn:uuid:fdf59d90-1f6a-487b-b140-bd575671e28a> | {
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"Life happens, but coffee helps."
That's the simple message that Londonderry, New Hampshire, police shared on their Facebook page on Wednesday after an SUV tipped over on its side in a Dunkin' drive-thru lane.
No one was injured in the Wednesday morning crash at the All Town gas station, the department said.
The Londonderry Fire Department told The Eagle-Tribune that the incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. The driver was checked out at the scene but did not require medical attention.
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Commenters (over 200 in all) had a field day with the photos, cracking jokes at the driver's expense.
"The drive thru is not big enough," Carlos Gomez remarked.
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"They must have taken it too hard on the corner!" said Nikki Jarek.
Others wondered how the bizarre accident could have even happened in such tight quarters.
"How the heck?" said Jackie Keating.
"yikes, how on earth did they manage that?" added Johanne Petterson Tournas.
"SOmeone had to have seen this happen that can fill us in... I can't tink of any way this happened," said Joelene Arnold.
Commenter Tamara Jo said she thinks she spotted the culprit, a yellow post sticking out of the ground that it appears the vehicle might have run into, forcing the car onto its side.
It appears she was correct, as firefighters told The Eagle-Tribune that the SUV apparently drove up onto a concrete-filled metal pipe and tipped over.
For everyone else who needed their caffeine fix on Wednesday, service at the Dunkin' drive-thru was only temporarily disrupted while the vehicle was removed. | <urn:uuid:d5e19117-7c9a-4828-988f-aa44d878251e> | {
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Periyar varsity staff protest against Registrar continues for second day
Registrar Thangavel, who was holding the post, retired with a farewell organised in the Department of Computer Science, where he was the head of department.
COIMBATORE: Periyar University Vice-Chancellor R Jagannathan allowed K Thangavel, who is facing corruption charges, to retire on Thursday despite directives from the Higher Education Department Secretary A Karthik.
Registrar Thangavel, who was holding the post, retired with a farewell organised in the Department of Computer Science, where he was the head of department. Karthik had sent two directives to the Vice-Chancellor to place him under suspension before retirement.
Further, the members of Periyar University Employees Union (PUEU) and Periyar University Teachers Association (PUTA) staged a demonstration for the second day against the Vice-Chancellor for allowing Thangavel to retire. They dubbed his act as a challenge to the elected government. Periyar University Registrar (in-charge) P Viswanathamurthi on Wednesday issued notice to the protesting staff for holding a stir without prior permission and raising slogans against the university administration and higher authorities. | <urn:uuid:50124624-9eb0-4998-bcb3-3450d22895ae> | {
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Parrett Insurance Agency Inc. of Washington Court House has earned the distinction of "Presidential Agency Partner" from Western Reserve Group Insurance Company.
Parrett Insurance Agency Inc., an independent insurance agency, has represented Western Reserve Group, a property/casualty insurance company of Wooster, Ohio since August 1996.
The designation of "Presidential Agency Partner" is awarded to those agencies that have achieved superior results with Western Reserve Group through sound business practices, professional advice and superior service. | <urn:uuid:eca206ac-efaf-4f19-b6c8-394682b2ceb3> | {
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The late Terry Pratchett's Discworld series turned 40 at the close of 2023, and there's been an increased amount of interest in the comedic fantasy novel series as a result.
We recently spoke to Gregg Barnett, the designer of the Discworld video games, and he delivered a wealth of information on their development – including the news that Discworld II's iconic "That's Death" song was created by Eric Idle (who also voiced prognostic Rincewind) for nothing.
Barnett explains that the origins of the song sprang from a gag which would reference another famous Idle composition – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, from the movie Monty Python and The Life of Brian.
"I had a scene with Eric on the cross as 'Bone Idle'," says Barnett. "I remember getting to that part and Eric saying, 'You're causing me childhood trauma. They used to call me bone idle at school'. I actually asked him whether he could just do another version of Bright Side of Life but make it 'Look on the Bright Side of Death' because I was obviously trying to play around with those words."
Idle was initially receptive to the idea but came back with something different. "He said, 'Yeah, maybe,' and he went away," continues Barnett. "He came back to me and said, 'Look, I don't want to collaborate. I'll do something for free. I'm in Las Vegas, and I've got some mates who are the best jazz musicians in the world. We've all agreed we're going to spend a few days and just have a great time and do something and I'll give it to you at the end. If you're happy, you can use it. We're not going to charge you anything for it.' And he came back, and it was good, and so we then took it, and we animated it where we had the band and death and everything, and the skeleton singers and skeleton chorus girls and whatever."
Discworld 2 was followed by Discworld Noir, but we've sadly not seen any other Discworld video games since then – although Barnett thinks that could happen, and we could also see remasters of the original trilogy before long. | <urn:uuid:02390928-5eaa-4f1e-a23f-4243d3f09dc9> | {
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parkway gardens
- GossipSomeone Bought O Block, But It's Not Lil Durk: ReportChicago's O Block was reportedly sold before Lil Durk could enter a bid.By Alex Zidel
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- LifeO Block In Chicago Listed For SaleParkway Gardens, also known as O Block in Chicago, is up for sale.By Alex Zidel | <urn:uuid:79fa1b34-aa36-4fef-be39-0257261da1f9> | {
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Colombia pauses buying Israeli weapons and president calls war in Gaza 'genocide'
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's President Gustavo Petro announced Thursday his government is suspending purchases of weapons from Israel after Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food in Gaza, marking an escalation of tensions between both countries over the Israel-Hamas war.
Describing the deaths as "genocide," Petro said he blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the violence around the aid convoy. Health officials in Gaza say at least 112 people were killed, bringing the war's death toll to more than 30,000 people. Israel said many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic stampede for the food.
Petro's statement came months after Israel suspended security exports to Colombia in a diplomatic spat over online messages by Colombia's president comparing Israel's siege of Gaza to the actions of Nazi Germany.
"Asking for food, more than 100 Palestinians were killed by Netanyahu," Petro said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "This is called genocide and is reminiscent of the Holocaust even if the world powers do not like to recognize it. The world must block Netanyahu. Colombia suspends all purchases of weapons from Israel."
Colombia has been a key U.S. ally for years and one of Israel's closest partners in Latin America. Relations with Israel and the U.S. have cooled since Petro was elected as the country's first leftist president in 2022, although Bogota and Washington have stayed on relatively good terms despite differences over U.S. drug policy and Venezuela.
Colombia uses Israeli-built warplanes and machine guns to fight drug cartels and rebel groups, and both countries signed a free trade agreement in 2020.
Colombia deepened its military ties with Israel in the late 1980s by purchasing a group of Kfir fighter jets capable of using laser-guided bombs. They were used by Colombia's air force in numerous attacks on remote guerrilla camps that debilitated the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, helping push the group into peace talks that resulted in its disarmament in 2016.
Weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that sparked the current war in Gaza and killed some 1,200 people, Petro also recalled Colombia's ambassador to Israel as he criticized the country's military offensive.
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A 7-year-old girl walking to school was injured Thursday when she was attacked by a dog in a Victorville, California, neighborhood.
Deputies responded at about 7 a.m. to the 13800 block of Mesa Linda Avenue in the San Bernardino County community after a report of a dog who bit two children. One child ran away, but the 7-year-old girl suffered multiple injuries, according to the sheriff's department.
A neighbor ran outside to help the girl, and the dog ran off, authorities said.
Maria Hernandez said she was getting her daughter ready for school when the girl noticed the attack. Security camera video showed the dog dragging the girl in front of a home.
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"I found the first thing that I found, which was my broom," said Hernandez.
The dog and girl were on the neighbor's front yard when Hernandez arrived on the scene, wielding her broomstick. The dog appeared to rip off some of the girl's clothes and drag her by the hair.
"I was able to pull the little girl away from the dog, and tried to keep him away with my broom," Hernandez said. "He just kept insisting to come after her."
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Video showed Hernandez, broomstick pointed at the dog, holding onto the girl as they walked toward her home. She told the other children to run inside her house.
The 7-year-old girl remained hospitalized late Thursday morning. Details about her condition were not immediately available, but Hernandez said paramedics told her she is recovering.
The dog was captured and taken to animal control, authorities said. Hernandez said the same dog was seen overnight in the neighborhood.
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Numerology Prediction for February 2024: Astro-numerologist Reveals What's in Store for You Based on Your Name
If you're eager to unravel the mysteries of January's influence on your life, we can surely help. This monthly Numerology prediction may have all your answers.
The new year 2024 is knocking on our door, and a new year is set to begin on a positive note. This year has qualities of numbers 2 and 4, which suggests a year of self-reflection and self-evolution.
The first month of the new year i.e., January will begin on a positive note i.e., both birth number (BN) and destiny number (DN) of each day will be the same, empowering us to take action in this new year and adopt a habit that empowers evolution in the life journey.
Based on NPS (Numerology Positioning System), KPS (Karm Positioning System), and zero numerology, let's find out how the first month of the year 2024 will treat you as per your name.
Number 1 (If the first letter of your name is A, I, J, Q, or Y)
When entering into commercial partnerships and joint ventures, it is important to check the agreements before signing them. The stress of the workplace will persist. The higher-ups will be envious of your fame. Both the postponement of promotions and arguments in the workplace will add fuel to the flames. Those looking for work do confront challenges. Steer clear of people who talk too much. Make sure the numbers are accurate before investing. Stay out of legal trouble. Having a sound financial plan will ensure that the boat stays afloat. Do not anticipate any earnings from your real estate endeavors. The stock market will also be a source of disappointment.
Singles are attractive to people who prefer them in their natural state. Couples who struggle to maintain a healthy work-life balance and heavy responsibilities find it challenging to spend time together. There may be tension in your relationship with your father. Sweet tooth appetites are expected to increase in January. You might want to think about replacing sugary foods and drinks with healthier alternatives. There may be issues with the heart. Maintain a lower blood pressure. Try some gentle aerobics, yoga, and meditation to keep your body in shape.
Number 2 (If the first letter of your name is B, K, or R)
The success of enterprises will be aided by profitable cooperation and victories in competitive situations. Promotions, praise, and recognition are all opportunities that successful professionals strive to take advantage of. Freelancers and others looking for work will make progress. Investing in the past will result in financial advantages. Make use of any additional funds to pay off loans and debts. Avoid making any loans this month. Concerning the real estate transaction, take immediate action. Investments that appear to be too good to be true will get you bankrupt.
Stop trying to please other people. Ensure that your requirements are communicated in every partnership. The futures of lone people are protected by reassuring partnerships. Misunderstandings and resentments in love relationships are the result of ineffective communication. Instead of restricting your diet, you should eat meals that are high in nutrients. Be wary of any eye symptoms. Appropriately apply your feelings. Headaches brought on by stress can be alleviated by letting go of frustration.
Number 3 (If the first letter of your name is C, G, L, or S)
Be conscious of the opportunities for growth and success. There is the possibility of promotions, lucrative positions, and career shifts. Set deadlines and goals that are within your reach. In corporate alliances and joint ventures, it is important to avoid making hasty decisions. Before investing in stocks, be sure the numbers are accurate. Deals in real estate promise to be successful in January. Anticipate losses due to speculation.
There is a possibility that previous loans require more attention. Feelings should be addressed before they have the opportunity to destroy relationships. Singles will have their faith in love restored when they view charming love prospects. Things are going to become worse with your father. Disagreements between spouses regarding their lifestyles will deepen. When it comes to your mental health, keep a journal, meditate, and discuss your worries with a loved one. In that case, it will have an impact on your health. Pain in the chest, throat, and knees may get greater. Focus on getting enough rest and eating well.
Number 4 (If the first letter of your name is D, M, or T)
When it comes to making long-term profits with a new launch, patience and strategy are essential. When competitors are blindly prodded, it will never work out. Avoid engaging in gossip in the workplace. To acquire interesting jobs, you need to improve your talents by learning new material. After January 15, there is a possibility that spending will grow. Stay away from that, or you will lose money. Do not accept guarantees of monetary value. In contrast to plans involving foreign investment, market share investments will not discourage cash flow. Conversations should be made with empathy, not to prove people wrong.
The heart of a single person will be touched by an unexpected person. It will be difficult for couples to resolve their differences. Whether it be stress or illness, your whole focus will be required for your health. Your vitality may be depleted if you are helping a sick spouse or child recuperate after the sixteenth of the month. Those who have issues with their stomach or blood circulation need to exercise caution. Practicing yoga and meditation regularly, individualized according to one's birthdate and name, may help alleviate stress.
Number 5 (If the first letter of your name is E, H, N, or X)
The 15th will bring about the failure of significant launch decisions, according to the profession. When coworkers argue with one another, it can be tough. Before taking on additional work, business owners and freelancers need to prepare a schedule for themselves. Observe how your financial balance increases. Having a steady work and passive income will allow you to maintain your wealth. Take control of your expenditure that is not required. Problems might arise when hasty decisions are made regarding property. It is important to keep your temper in check if you want to keep your mother. Single people will eventually find someone they enjoy, depend on, and trust.
Abandonment and ineffective communication are detrimental to love partnerships. Your close friends and relatives will be there to support you. January will be a sluggish month for health. Sometimes you could feel exhausted and lethargic. Regular exercise, yoga, and tanning in the morning are all great ways to maintain your energy levels. The second half of the month may cause muscle pain.
Number 6 (If the first letter of your name is U, V, or W)
Entrepreneurs are people who put their ideas into action. This will make it harder for you to have a happy attitude because your superiors will micromanage projects and interrupt your work. Plan for conflicts in the workplace. Get better at what you do if you are looking for a new job. When it comes to wealth, high spending will cause more concern. Your spouse may provide financial aid. Move forward with a plan for your finances. Both your investments in the stock market and your passive income will be successful. After the 16th, real estate transactions will prove to be fortunate.
Relationships that are significant for singles are often formed through feel-good bonds. It is going to be difficult for couples to spend time together. There is a possibility that a conversation with your mother will result in a conflict. The absence of straightforward home-cooked meals will be detrimental.
Number 7 (If the first letter of your name is O or Z)
In the professional world: From a statistical standpoint, worldwide commercial linkages and expansion are favorable for business owners. Your management and coworkers will put your patience to the test. Despite them, you can accomplish your professional objectives. Your strong network might provide you with job referrals. You are in a position to resolve legal concerns. Get ready to be impressed by your previous efforts. Investments and ancestry will both contribute to a growth in your wealth. Real estate deals, market share, and insane investments should be avoided at all costs. When it comes to speculation, this month will be fortunate.
Those who are not in a relationship will love themselves rather than others. Expect compassion and self-care from them. Excursions, workouts, movie dates, and meditation are all activities that might help couples become closer. There will be good company surrounding you. You might be concerned about the health of your partner. It may be necessary to seek medical assistance for chest and eye problems. The need for healthier eating choices arises from poor digestion and low energy levels.
Number 8 (If the first letter of your name is F or P)
When it comes to your professional life, the New Moon on the 29th brings forth fruitful partnerships, triumphant fights, and mutually beneficial interactions. Freelancers and artists have a broad perspective. You will be successful if you are looking for a job. Recognizance in the workplace is waiting for experts. Steer clear of schemes that promise rapid wealth. Investing in stocks with only a limited amount of expertise will put your wealth at risk. For real estate transactions to be successful, in-depth research and a long-term strategy are required. Steer clear of loans and guarantees at all costs.
Singles will give love another shot by locating a partner who is compatible with them. Love is eroded by suspicion. Reach out to loved ones you have lost due to power struggles and conflicts with your ego. If you are ignorant, it will show up in your physique. Pain in the muscles and throughout the body will be a symbol of unrestrained tension, suffering, and hopelessness. Supplements and natural therapies are effective in boosting immunity. You should be on the lookout for infectious diseases including seasonal flu.
DIY Remedies for the month
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MIAMI — (AP) — A former career U.S. diplomat told a federal judge Thursday he will plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba, an unexpectedly swift resolution to a case prosecutors called one of the most brazen betrayals in the history of the U.S. foreign service.
Manuel Rocha's stunning fall from grace could culminate in a lengthy prison term after the 73-year-old said he would admit to federal counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government.
Prosecutors and Rocha's attorney indicated the plea deal includes an agreed-upon sentence but they did not disclose details at a hearing Thursday. He is due back in court April 12, when he is scheduled to formalize his guilty plea and be sentenced.
"I am in agreement," said Rocha, shackled at the hands and ankles, when asked by U.S. District Court Judge Beth Bloom if he wished to change his plea to guilty. Prosecutors, in exchange, agreed to drop 13 counts including wire fraud and making false statements.
The brief hearing shed no new light on the question that has proved elusive since Rocha's arrest in December: What exactly did he do to help Cuba while working at the State Department for two decades? That included stints as ambassador to Bolivia and top posts in Argentina, Mexico, the White House and the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.
"Ambassador Rocha," as he preferred to be called, was well known among Miami's elite for his aristocratic, almost regal, bearing befitting his Ivy League background. His post-government career included time as a special adviser to the commander of the U.S. Southern Command and more recently as a tough-talking Donald Trump supporter and Cuba hardliner, a persona friends and prosecutors say Rocha adopted to hide his true allegiances.
Peter Lapp, who oversaw FBI counterintelligence against Cuba between 1998 and 2005, said the fast resolution of the case benefits not only the elderly Rocha but also the government, which stands to learn a lot about Cuba's penetration of U.S. foreign policy circles.
Typically in counterintelligence cases, the defendant is charged with espionage. But Rocha was accused of the lesser crimes of acting as a foreign agent, which carry maximum terms of between five and 10 years in prison, making it easier for prosecutors and Rocha to reach an agreement.
"It's a win-win for both sides," said Lapp, who led the investigation into Ana Montes, the highest-level U.S. official ever convicted of spying for Cuba. "He gets a significant payoff and the chance to see his family again, and the U.S. will be able to conduct a full damage assessment that it wouldn't be able to do without his cooperation."
"There are details that can really only come from the defendant," he added.
But the abrupt deal drew criticism in the Cuban exile community, with some legal observers worrying it amounted to a slap on the wrist.
"Any sentence that allows him to see the light of day again would not be justice," said Carlos Trujillo, a Miami attorney who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States during the Trump administration. "He's a spy for a foreign adversary who put American lives at risk."
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
Rocha was arrested by the FBI at his Miami home on allegations he had engaged in "clandestine activity" on Cuba's behalf since at least 1981 — the year he joined the U.S. foreign service — including by meeting with Cuban intelligence operatives and providing false information to U.S. government officials about his contacts.
Rocha made a series of recorded admissions to an undercover FBI agent who posed as a Cuban intelligence operative who reached out to Rocha on WhatsApp, calling himself "Miguel" and saying he had a message "from your friends in Havana."
Rocha praised the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro as "Comandante," branded the U.S. the "enemy" and bragged about his service for more than 40 years as a Cuban mole in the heart of U.S. foreign policy circles, prosecutors said in court records.
"What we have done … it's enormous … more than a Grand Slam," he was quoted as saying.
Federal authorities have said little about what Rocha actually did to aid Cuba, and FBI and State Department investigators have been conducting a confidential intelligence damage assessment that could take years.
But a recent Associated Press investigation found there were plenty of missed red flags over the years.
Those included a tip that a longtime CIA operative received warning in 2006 that Rocha was working as a double agent. It was never pursued. And separate intelligence revealed that the CIA had been aware as early as 1987 that Castro had a "super mole" burrowed deep inside the U.S. government, and some officials suspected it could have been Rocha.
Lawrence Gumbiner, a retired career diplomat, said the fact that Rocha went undetected for so many years underscores the sophistication of Cuba's intelligence services.
"It's a day for reflection for all of us who knew and worked with him," said Gumbiner, who served as acting U.S. ambassador to Cuba in 2017 and 2018. "Although the full extent of the damage he caused isn't yet revealed, it's hard to believe he didn't pass along some very serious information that compromised our intelligence services and our own efforts against the Castro regime."
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Mustian reported from New York.
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Residents stop work on railway foot-over bridge at Vasanthapuram
The Railways put up posters announcing the proposed move to construct the foot-over bridge some days ago.
VELLORE: Work started by railway officials attached to the Tiruchy railway division to construct a foot-over bridge across the railway line at Vasanthapuram level crossing in Vellore town came to a halt following locals demanding an alternate method which did not affect their daily commute, on Thursday.
The Railways put up posters announcing the proposed move to construct the foot-over bridge some days ago. When work started on Thursday, the public gathered at the spot demanding that the work be stopped as the closure of the LC would necessitate a detour of around 2 kilometres which would affect the daily commute of school and college students and office goers.
Talks held by railway officials and the railway protection force with the public failed. Finally, DMK Vellore MP DM Kathir Anand spoke to the Tiruchy DRM stating that with the advancement of technology, an alternate method that did not affect the public should be tried out. After this, the work was stopped. | <urn:uuid:6ef8ffc5-b6c9-4399-8dff-14ac95202beb> | {
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New York sues beef producer JBS for 'fraudulent' marketing around climate change
Updated February 29, 2024 at 5:59 PM ET
New York state Attorney General Letitia James sued beef producer JBS in state court for allegedly misleading the public about a pledge the company made to slash its climate pollution in the coming decade. Prosecutors said JBS continued making deceptive marketing claims even after a consumer watchdog group recommended the company stop advertising because it didn't have a strategy to achieve its climate target.
JBS is among hundreds of companies around the world that have promised to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming. The Brazilian food maker said in 2021 that it would eliminate or offset all of the heat-trapping emissions from its operations and supply chains by 2040. "Agriculture can and must be part of the global climate solution," Gilberto Tomazoni, chief executive of JBS, said in a statement announcing the goal. "We believe through innovation, investment and collaboration, net zero is within our collective grasp."
But prosecutors in New York said that even if JBS had developed a plan, the company couldn't "feasibly" deliver on its climate commitment. The state said there aren't proven ways right now to zero out agriculture emissions at the scale of JBS's operations, and offsetting the company's emissions with things like carbon credits "would be a costly undertaking of an unprecedented degree."
"As families continue to face the daily impacts of the climate crisis, they are willing to spend more of their hard-earned money on products from brands that are better for the environment," James said in a statement. "When companies falsely advertise their commitment to sustainability, they are misleading consumers and endangering our planet."
JBS didn't respond to a message seeking comment. The New York lawsuit was filed against JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings.
The food company has faced growing criticism as it considers listing shares on a U.S. stock exchange.
In 2023, the BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division (NAD), a nonprofit that the advertising industry uses to regulate itself, said that JBS should stop claiming that it is committed to being "net zero by 2040." While the company appeared to make a "significant preliminary investment" to cut its climate pollution, the NAD said there was no evidence that it was carrying out a plan to achieve its target. A review panel upheld the finding on appeal, saying JBS "is in the exploratory stage" of trying to meet its climate pledge.
U.S. lawmakers have also raised concerns about the company. Earlier this year, a bipartisan group of senators told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street's top regulator, that JBS has a history of "exaggerating environmental stewardship and downplaying other risks."
New York state prosecutors are trying to force JBS to stop making "fraudulent and illegal" marketing claims about its climate efforts. The state is also seeking civil fines, among other penalties.
Independent researchers say a lot of companies with net-zero climate targets haven't put forward credible plans to cut or offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Yesterday, Panic demonstrated some of the new titles Playdate owners can look forward to over the rest of 2024, but, if you're hankering for some action right now, you'll be pleased to know that five new titles dropped on the Playdate catalog the day beforehand.
These five titles are:
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EPA to delay rules for some power plants until after November election
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it is delaying planned rules to curb emissions from existing natural gas plants that release harmful air pollutants and contribute to global warming.
The agency said it is still on track to finalize rules for coal-fired power plants and new gas plants that have not come online, a key step to slow planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change.
But in a turnaround from previous plans, the agency said it will review standards for existing gas plants and expand the rules to include more pollutants. The change came after complaints from environmental justice groups, who said the earlier plan allowed too much toxic air pollution which disproportionately harms low-income neighborhoods near power plants, refineries and other industrial sites.
"As EPA works towards final standards to cut climate pollution from existing coal and new gas-fired power plants later this spring, the agency is taking a new, comprehensive approach to cover the entire fleet of natural gas-fired turbines, as well as cover more pollutants," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
He called the new plan a "stronger, more durable approach" that will achieve greater emissions reductions than the current proposal. It also will better protect vulnerable frontline communities suffering from toxic air pollution caused by power plants and other industrial sites, Regan said.
Still, the plan was not universally welcomed by environmentalists, who the said the new approach will likely push rules for existing gas plants past the November presidential election.
"We are extremely disappointed in EPA's decision to delay finalizing carbon pollution standards for existing gas plants, which make up a significant portion of carbon emissions in the power sector," said Frank Sturges, a lawyer for the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.
"Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have gone uncontrolled for far too long, and we have no more time to waste," he said.
Other environmental groups hailed the decision, saying the new plan would ultimately deliver better results.
"We have always known that the fight for a clean power sector wouldn't be a quick one.," said Charles Harper of Evergreen Action. "EPA's first order of business should be finalizing strong and necessary limits on climate pollution from new gas and existing coal plants as quickly as possible."
"We are glad that EPA is committed to finishing the job with a new rule that covers every gas plant operating in the U.S.," Harper added.
"Tackling dirty coal plants is one of the single most important moves the president and EPA can make to rein in climate pollution," said Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice. "As utilities propose new fossil gas plants, we absolutely have to get ahead of a big new pollution problem."
EPA issued a proposed rule in May 2023 that called for drastically curbing greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and gas-fired plants, as well as future gas plants planned by the power industry. No new coal plant has opened in the U.S. in more than a decade, while dozens of coal-fired plants have closed in recent years in the face of competition from cheaper natural gas. The Biden administration has committed to create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.
The EPA proposal could force power plants to capture smokestack emissions using a technology that has long been promised but is not used widely in the United States.
If finalized, the proposed regulation would mark the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate about 25% of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution, second only to the transportation sector. The rule also would apply to future electric plants and would avoid up to 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, equivalent to annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles, the EPA said.
Almost all coal plants — along with large, frequently used gas-fired plants — would have to cut or capture nearly all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2038, the EPA said. Plants that cannot meet the new standards would be forced to shutter.
Much of the EPA plan is expected to be made final this spring and is likely to be challenged by industry groups and Republican-leaning states. They have accused the Democratic administration of overreach on environmental regulations and warn of a pending reliability crisis for the electric grid. The power plant rule is one of at least a half-dozen EPA rules limiting power plant emissions and wastewater treatment.
The National Mining Association warned of "an onslaught" of government regulation "designed to shut down the coal fleet prematurely″ when the EPA proposal was announced last year.
Regan has denied that the power plant rule is aimed at shutting down the coal sector, but acknowledged last year that, " we will see some coal retirements."
Coal provides about 20% of U.S. electricity, down from about 45% in 2010. Natural gas provides about 40% of U.S. electricity. The remainder comes from nuclear energy and renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower.
Peggy Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a New York-based group, said she was pleased that the concerns of environmental justice communities will be factored into EPA's rulemaking.
"The power sector is one of the top sources of carbon emissions and pollution," she said. "With this pause to take a deeper dive into developing the most comprehensive and thoughtful rulemaking for existing gas plants, we have an opportunity to do this work correctly and effectively to protect the human and environmental health of the most overburdened, neglected and vulnerable people across the country."
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Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, is expected to plead guilty in his federal case, according to court papers filed Thursday.
Prosecutors asked the judge to schedule a change of plea hearing for Monday, but no other details were immediately available. Teixeira had previously pleaded not guilty.
Teixeira was indicted on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. Each count is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The Massachusetts U.S. attorney's office declined further comment. An attorney for Teixeira didn't immediately return a phone message Thursday.
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Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, has been behind bars since his April arrest for a leak that left the Biden administration scrambling to assess and contain the damage among the international community and reassure allies that its secrets are safe with the U.S.
He was accused of sharing classified military documents about Russia's war in Ukraine and other sensitive national security topics on Discord, a social media platform popular with people who play online games. Investigators believe he led a private chat group called Thug Shaker Central, where enthusiasts shared jokes, talked about their favorite types of guns and discussed wars, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Authorities say Teixeira, who enlisted in the Air National Guard in 2019, began around January 2023 sharing military secrets with other Discord users — first by typing out classified documents and then sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings. Teixeira worked as a "cyber transport systems specialist," essentially an IT specialist responsible for military communications networks.
Authorities have said that Teixeira was detected on April 6 — the day The New York Times first published a story about the breach of documents — searching for the word "leak" in a classified system. The FBI says that was reason to believe Teixeira was trying to find information about the investigation into who was responsible for the leaks.
Prosecutors say he continued to leak government secrets even after he was warned by superiors about mishandling and improper viewing of classified information. After being admonished by superiors, he was again seen viewing information not related to the intelligence field, not his primary duty, according to internal Air National Guard memos filed in court.
Authorities have provided few details about an alleged possible motive, but accounts of those in the online private chat group where the documents were disclosed have depicted Teixeira as motivated more by bravado than ideology.
Prosecutors had urged the judge to keep Teixeira jailed while the case played, in part because of an arsenal of weapons found at his home and his history of disturbing online statements. They included one social media post saying that, if he had his way, he would like to kill a "ton of people" because it would be "culling the weak minded."
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani last year denied Teixeira's bid for release, saying "No set of release conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community, or prevent destruction of evidence."
In pressing for their client to be freed from jail, Teixeira's attorneys pointed to the pretrial release of former President Donald Trump and others in high-profile classified documents cases. Teixeira's lawyers noted that prosecutors did not seek to detain Trump — or his co-defendant, Walt Nauta — even though they said the former president and his valet "possess extraordinary means to flee the United States." | <urn:uuid:63705098-1ec6-4636-a5b8-2a3a633461ac> | {
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ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action
Updated February 29, 2024 at 6:46 PM ET
ExxonMobil faces dozens of lawsuits from states and localities alleging the company lied for decades about its role in climate change and the dangers of burning fossil fuels. But now, ExxonMobil is going on the offensive with a lawsuit targeting investors who want the company to slash pollution that's raising global temperatures.
Investors in publicly-traded companies like ExxonMobil try to shape corporate policies by filing shareholder proposals that are voted on at annual meetings. ExxonMobil says it's fed up with a pair of investor groups that it claims are abusing the system by filing similar proposals year after year in an effort to micromanage its business.
ExxonMobil's lawsuit points to growing tensions between companies and activist investors calling for corporations to do more to shrink their climate impact and prepare for a hotter world. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could unleash a wave of corporate litigation against climate activists. It is happening at a time when global temperatures continue to rise, and corporate analysts say most companies aren't on track to meet targets they set to reduce their heat-trapping emissions.
"Exxon is really upping the ante here in a big way by bringing this case," says Josh Zinner, chief executive of an investor coalition called the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, whose members include a defendant in the ExxonMobil case. "Other companies could use this tactic not just to block resolutions," Zinner says, "but to intimidate their shareholders from even bringing these [climate] issues to the table."
ExxonMobil said in an email that it is suing the investor groups Arjuna Capital and Follow This because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) isn't enforcing rules governing when investors can resubmit shareholder proposals. A court is the "the right place to get clarity on SEC rules," ExxonMobil said, adding that the case "is not about climate change."
Other corporations are watching ExxonMobil's case, says Charles Crain, a vice president at the National Association of Manufacturers, which represents ExxonMobil and other industrial companies.
"If companies are decreasingly able to get the SEC to allow them to exclude proposals that are obviously politically motivated, then the next question is, well, can the courts succeed where the SEC has failed — or, more accurately, not even tried?," Crain says.
Activists push companies for more aggressive climate strategies
The shareholder proposal from Arjuna and Follow This called for ExxonMobil to cut emissions faster from its own operations and from its supply chain, including the pollution that's created when customers burn its oil and natural gas. That indirect pollution, known as Scope 3 emissions, accounts for 90% of ExxonMobil's carbon footprint, according to Arjuna and Follow This. The proposal is similar to others that the investor groups submitted to ExxonMobil in recent years and which ExxonMobil says received scant support from other shareholders.
After ExxonMobil sued the groups in federal court in Texas in January, Arjuna and Follow This withdrew the proposal and promised not to submit it to ExxonMobil again. But ExxonMobil refuses to drop its case.
Arjuna declined to comment. The firm said in a court filing that ExxonMobil''s climate targets aren't as ambitious as those of other big oil and gas companies, and that its shareholder proposal was meant to "foster better investment outcomes by addressing the material threat that climate change poses" to the company.
Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, said in a statement that ExxonMobil is trying to stifle shareholders.
"Apparently, Exxon does not want shareholders to vote on whether the company should accelerate its efforts to reduce emissions," van Baal said. "This is the concern of more and more investors who want [to] safeguard the long-term future of the company and the global economy in view of the climate crisis."
Companies are offering more transparency on climate, but activists say they need to see action
Last year was the hottest ever recorded on Earth, and the effects were devastating. Rising temperatures are driving more extreme weather, from heat waves to floods and droughts. And scientists say the impacts will only get worse because humans keep putting more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.
Thousands of peoples' lives are disrupted or harmed by extreme weather, and the economic costs are enormous. Weather disasters in the United States last year inflicted at least $92.9 billion in damages, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Those threats put pressure on companies. Corporations regularly issue reports on climate change and sustainability. And many, including ExxonMobil, say they're trying to eliminate or offset their greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. But independent researchers say few companies have shown credible plans to achieve their targets.
"What we've seen, unfortunately, is that even in the face of disclosure and more transparency from these companies, not much has actually changed from a strategy perspective," says Kevin Chuah, an assistant professor at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
The impact of rising temperatures has also led states and municipalities to sue ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies for the threats that their communities are facing, and the industry's alleged efforts to muddy the public's understanding of climate science. The latest lawsuits were filed by the city of Chicago and the state of California.
An industry group called the American Petroleum Institute says the lawsuits are meritless and politicized. ExxonMobil says it has acknowledged repeatedly that "climate change is real." The company noted in its statement to NPR that it is pursuing more than $20 billion of "low emission investments" between 2022 and 2027. ExxonMobil said that would be on top of the nearly $5 billion it recently spent buying a company that specializes in capturing carbon dioxide emissions and injecting them into oil wells to boost production.
However, those investments are a fraction of what the company is spending on its traditional energy business. A deal ExxonMobil struck last year to buy the oil and gas company Pioneer Natural Resources alone is valued at almost $60 billion.
Critics say ExxonMobil's lawsuit is part of a broader effort to limit investor activism
Activist investors like Arjuna and Follow This use shareholder proposals to push corporations to go further on climate. But they've struggled in recent years to get support from broader groups of shareholders. Experts say investors are hesitant to back new climate proposals when companies already have policies to disclose and cut emissions. And they say investors worry that proposals have gotten too prescriptive and might interfere with how companies are run.
Despite a drop in support for shareholder proposals on climate change, investors aren't giving companies a pass, according to an investor survey by the accounting firm EY. The firm said 56% of the investors it talked to still want companies to make climate change and environmental conservation a priority this year.
"I think these are financially material issues," says Chuah of Northeastern University. "And therefore many investors are bringing these concerns up."
ExxonMobil says it is committed to cutting emissions from its operations. But the idea that activist investors like Arjuna and Follow This can quickly push the company out of the oil and gas business with new climate policies is "simplistic and against the interests of the vast majority of ExxonMobil shareholders," the company said in a court filing in Texas.
ExxonMobil said in a statement to NPR that while shareholders are entitled to submit proposals to the company, they don't have "an unlimited right to put forth any proposal to do anything."
"Their intent is to advance their agenda rather than creating long-term value for shareholders," ExxonMobil said of Arjuna and Follow This.
Parts of corporate America have grown frustrated with the shareholder proposal process since the SEC issued guidance in 2021 that made it harder for companies to turn away some resolutions. The SEC specifically cited shareholder proposals that ask companies to set targets and timeframes to address climate change, saying it would no longer view those kinds of resolutions as inappropriate as long as companies are free to decide how to meet the goals.
The National Association of Manufacturers has argued that forcing companies to publish shareholder proposals that deal with "contentious issues unrelated to [their] core business or the creation of shareholder value," including climate change, violates their First Amendment right of free speech. And Republicans in Congress introduced legislation last year that would allow companies to reject shareholder proposals concerning environmental, social or political issues.
"Certainly, there are material climate-related topics that are going to be relevant for a company considering its growth into the future," Crain says. But he says activists too often pursue a "political goal" rather than try to help companies "understand and mitigate those climate related risks or opportunities for their operations."
Crain declined to discuss individual companies or shareholder proposals, and he says there isn't an objective way to determine when a shareholder proposal is politically motivated.
ExxonMobil's critics say its lawsuit is part of a broader effort to curtail shareholder activism, especially around social and environmental issues. "And the reason is because it's one of the few effective avenues left to hold companies accountable," says Zinner of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — (AP) — A court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Missouri, authorities said.
A second officer was critically injured, but is expected to survive, police said.
Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman said Thursday afternoon at a news conference that two of his police officers were met with gunfire while coming to the aid of Drexel Mack, the man who had been trying to serve the eviction notice.
Mack had called 911 saying he had been shot, Dustman said. The officers responded at about 1:10 p.m. and approached Mack to help him when someone shot at them, he said.
"I'm very tragically sorry to report that we lost one of our own," Dustman said, identifying the officer as Cody Allen.
The second officer, whose name wasn't released, underwent surgery and is expected to recover, Dustman said.
Dustman called Allen a hero and described the police department as a "broken family," over Allen's death.
A male suspect was in custody and sustained minor injuries, Corporal Justin Ewing with Missouri State Highway Patrol said during an earlier news conference.
Independence Police Department spokesperson Officer Jack Taylor said no details were immediately available about what led to the shooting.
Mack had worked for Jackson County for over a decade, officials said.
"We are devastated that a court employee, who is a public servant, was shot by a member of the public while performing their job," Presiding Judge Jalilah Otto said in a statement. "Our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with our employee, our entire Court family, and the Independence Police Department."
Helicopter video from KMBC-TV showed emergency vehicles converged around an isolated house in the middle of a field. The media was cordoned off in an area about 1 mile (1.61 kilometers) from the crime scene. The area was a mixture of woods and farmland with a smattering of houses on large, multi-acre lots. A church was mixed in among the houses.
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SEOUL, Feb 28 (Reuters) - South Korea's fertility rate, already the world's lowest, dropped to a fresh record low in 2023, defying the billions of dollars spent by the country to try to reverse the trend as the population shrank for a fourth straight year.
The average number of expected babies for a South Korean woman during her reproductive life fell to 0.72 from 0.78 in 2022, data from Statistics Korea showed on Wednesday.
Since 2018, South Korea has been the only member of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) to have a rate below 1.
The South Korean government has made it a national priority to reverse the falling birth rate and in December promised to come up with "extraordinary measures" to tackle the situation.
Meanwhile, ahead of elections in April South Korea's major political parties vowed more public housing and easier loans in an effort to stem population decline, aiming to allay fears of "national extinction" as fertility rates crumble.
The parties' focus on population in their election planks reflects growing alarm after spending of more than 360 trillion won ($270 billion) in areas such as childcare subsidies since 2006 has failed to reverse record low fertility rates.
Being married is seen as a prerequisite to having children in South Korea, but marriages are also falling in the country with high financial burden cited as the main reason.
South Korea is not alone in the region struggling with a rapidly ageing population. The fertility rate in neighbouring Japan's hit a record low of 1.26 in 2022, while China recorded 1.09, also a record low.
In South Korea, the capital Seoul had the lowest fertility rate of 0.55 last year.
South Korea has previously projected its fertility rate is likely to fall further to 0.68 in 2024.
($1 = 1,331.2100 won)
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