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With 13 newcomers, South Carolina Senate may tackle tough issuesKINGSTON, R.I. (AP) — Javonte Brown had 17 points in Rhode Island's 91-53 victory against Charleston (SC) on Sunday. Brown added seven rebounds and four blocks for the Rams (5-0). Jamarques Lawrence shot 6 for 11, including 4 for 8 from beyond the arc to add 16 points. Sebastian Thomas shot 5 for 10 (3 for 6 from 3-point range) and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points. AJ Smith finished with 10 points for the Cougars (4-2). Derrin Boyd added nine points and four assists for Charleston (SC). Deywilk Tavarez also had nine points. Rhode Island took the lead with 19:31 left in the first half and did not give it up. Brown led his team in scoring with 10 points in the first half to help put them up 45-16 at the break. Rhode Island outscored Charleston (SC) by nine points over the final half, while Lawrence led the way with a team-high eight second-half points. NEXT UP Both teams next play Wednesday. Rhode Island plays Detroit Mercy and Charleston (SC)plays Northern Kentucky at home. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Major stock indexes on Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish Friday, capping a rare bumpy week for the market. The S&P 500 ended essentially flat, down less than 0.1%, after wavering between tiny gains and losses most of the day. The benchmark index posted a loss for the week, its first after three straight weekly gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.2%, while the Nasdaq composite rose 0.1%, ending just below the record high it set on Wednesday. There were more than twice as many decliners than gainers on the New York Stock Exchange. Gains in technology stocks helped temper losses in communication services, financials and other sectors of the market. Broadcom surged 24.4% for the biggest gain in the S&P 500 after the semiconductor company beat Wall Street’s profit targets and gave a glowing forecast, highlighting its artificial intelligence products. The company also raised its dividend. The company's big gain helped cushion the market's broader fall. Pricey stock values for technology companies like Broadcom give the sector more weight in pushing the market higher or lower. Artificial intelligence technology has been a focal point for the technology sector and the overall stock market over the last year. Tech companies, and Wall Street, expect demand for AI to continue driving growth for semiconductor and other technology companies. Some tech stocks were a drag on the market. Nvidia fell 2.2%, Meta Platforms dropped 1.7% and Google parent Alphabet slid 1.1%. Among the market's other decliners were Airbnb, which fell 4.7% for the biggest loss in the S&P 500, and Charles Schwab, which closed 4% lower. Furniture and housewares company RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, surged 17% after raising its forecast for revenue growth for the year. All told, the S&P 500 lost 0.16 points to close at 6,051.09. The Dow dropped 86.06 points to 43,828.06. The Nasdaq rose 23.88 points to 19,926.72. Wall Street's rally stalled this week amid mixed economic reports and ahead of the Federal Reserve's last meeting of the year. The central bank will meet next week and is widely expected to cut interest rates for a third time since September. Expectations of a series of rate cuts has driven the S&P 500 to 57 all-time highs so far this year . The Fed has been lowering its benchmark interest rate following an aggressive rate hiking policy that was meant to tame inflation. It raised rates from near-zero in early 2022 to a two-decade high by the middle of 2023. Inflation eased under pressure from higher interest rates, nearly to the central bank's 2% target. The economy, including consumer spending and employment, held strong despite the squeeze from inflation and high borrowing costs. A slowing job market, though, has helped push a long-awaited reversal of the Fed's policy. Inflation rates have been warming up slightly over the last few months. A report on consumer prices this week showed an increase to 2.7% in November from 2.6% in October. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures index, will be released next week. Wall Street expects it to show a 2.5% rise in November, up from 2.3% in October. The economy, though, remains solid heading into 2025 as consumers continue spending and employment remains healthy, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY. “Still, the outlook is clouded by unusually high uncertainty surrounding regulatory, immigration, trade and tax policy,” he said. Treasury yields edged higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.40% from 4.34% late Thursday. European markets slipped. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 0.1%. Britain’s economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1% month-on-month in October, following a 0.1% decline in September, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. Asian markets closed mostly lower.Saudi Gazette report VIENNA — Saudi Minister of Commerce and Chairman of the Board of Directors of National Competitiveness Center (NCC) Majed Al-Qasabi highlighted that the growing global adoption of digitization has transformed trade, making it more efficient, reliable, and transparent. He made the remarks while speaking at the opening session of a high-level workshop titled "Emerging Trends in Digital Trade Law," organized by NCC in cooperation with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, Austria. Al-Qasabi emphasized that leveraging advanced and emerging technologies has reshaped local and international trade as well as consumer behavior. “Saudi Arabia is keeping pace with the trend through economic reforms,” he noted. Al-Qasabi headed a delegation of 32 officials representing 20 government entities who participated in the workshop sessions held on Thursday and Friday. The workshop was also attended by the Saudi Ambassador to Austria Dr. Abdullah Tawlah and UNCITRAL Secretary General Anna Joubin-Bret. In her speech, Joubin-Bret noted that digital trade plays a pivotal role in shaping the international trade landscape, explaining that UNCITRAL and its partners, most notably Saudi Arabia, are working to establish international trade laws that support digital trade, stressing the need for member states to collaborate on laws that bolster the digital economy. In the first working session, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation Deputy Director José Raúl Perale discussed the latest developments in global digital trade law and comprehensive trade digitization. The participating entities in the workshop included the Saudi Ministries of Commerce, Justice, Finance, Economy and Planning, Industry and Mineral Resources, Energy, Foreign Affairs, and Education; the General Authority for Foreign Trade; the Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority; the Capital Market Authority; the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority; the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence; the Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers; the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA); the Board of Grievances; the National Competitiveness Center; and the Bankruptcy Commission. 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THOOTHUKUDI : Employment crisis looms large in the district as several downstream industries have been hit following the closure of the Vedanta Group company Sterlite Copper power plant, said INTUC General Secretary P Kathirvel. According to Kathirvel, the shutdown of the Sterlite Copper plant has led to the closure of thermal power plants, salt pans, textile mills and numerous small and large industries in the district leading to significant job losses. "The closure of the Sterlite Copper plant alone directly displaced over 1,500 workers and disrupted the livelihoods of approximately 40,000 individuals who depended on it directly. Additionally, the halt in other industries has rendered nearly one million daily wage workers unemployed," he said in a statement on Saturday. He pointed out that Thoothukudi DMK MP Kanimozhi has appealed to the central government to establish semiconductor manufacturing units as such facilities would create employment for 30,000 people and be a catalyst in economic recovery in the region. Traditional spinning mills with a history spanning 125 years have struggled to modernise and adapt to contemporary technologies, Kathirvel, who is also the senior vice president at the Indian National Port and Dock Workers Federation, New Delhi, said. The reopening of Sterlite Copper Plant would generate employment opportunities for approximately 3,000 truck drivers engaged in raw material transportation and over 4,000 daily wage workers per shift in material handling, he said. Many truck owners were forced to sell their trucks for being unable to repay the loans following the closure of the plant, he added.
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OpenAI to partner with military defense tech companyMcDaniel shot 9 of 12 from the field and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line for the Lions (5-6). Markeith Browning II scored 18 points while going 8 of 19 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and added seven rebounds, five assists, and three steals. Reggie Bass shot 3 for 6 (2 for 5 from 3-point range) and 6 of 7 from the free-throw line to finish with 14 points, while adding seven rebounds and six assists. Paul Zilinskas finished with 18 points for the Jaguars (5-8). IU Indianapolis also got 13 points and two steals from Jarvis Walker. Alec Millender also recorded 11 points and five assists. NEXT UP Lindenwood's next game is Thursday against Tennessee Tech at home, and IU Indianapolis visits Florida International on Saturday. 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Number of women who are state lawmakers inches up to a record highMENLO PARK, Calif. — Evan Williams did not want to start another startup. He had already enjoyed the kind of rare, unfathomable success most entrepreneurs only dream of, starting tech companies that made products used by millions — the early blogging site Blogger, the social media giant Twitter, the publishing platform Medium. Along the way, Williams had grappled with corporate turmoil and angst. His last company, Medium, was a decade-long slog that never lived up to its $600 million valuation or lofty mission of solving the internet’s ugliest problems. By the time he stepped down as CEO in 2022, he had no desire to do it again, he said. But he was lonely. He had gotten divorced and moved cross-country twice in a few years. Before his 50th birthday in 2022, he realized he had “underinvested” in his friendships, he said. Post-pandemic, he did not even know where many of his friends were living. “I was doing a lot of reflecting,” Williams said. “In this stage of life, I really wanted to focus on relationships.” Pouring so much energy into his startups was one reason he had this problem. But maybe a startup could also help fix it. In 2022, Williams began working on a Rolodex app that would tell him where his friends were living and traveling. It would be more “social” than “social media,” with none of the comments, stories, posts, likes, hearts or follows that made his previous creations so addicting. But Williams still didn’t want to run a company. Through mutual friends, he met Molly DeWolf Swenson, an entrepreneur, who became a co-founder and the CEO. Last month, they raised $6 million in funding from Obvious Ventures, an investment firm co-founded by Williams, as well as WndrCo and BBG Ventures. This week, they plan to unveil their app, Mozi, which is aimed at helping people foster in-person connections with their social circle. It lets people tell their friends about upcoming plans that may overlap. Those who join the app will see a private friend list based on their phone contacts. They get notifications if a contact plans to visit their city or attend the same event. Profiles include user-supplied information such as dietary restrictions, relationship status, family members and pet names. Organizing contacts by location and travel plans may appeal to a certain type of jet-setting tech worker whose friends are spread around the world. Mozi’s founders hope it will be just as useful for people who don’t travel but want to know when their friends are in town. The company also plans to promote itself around events like music festivals and business conferences. Williams views Mozi as an attempt to return to social media’s original intention, which was about interacting with people you already knew. Over the years, social media companies evolved into just plain media — a place for watching videos from influencers and professional entertainers, reading links to news stories, sharing memes or impulse shopping via highly targeted ads. Many of the apps are optimized to get users hooked on an endless scroll of new information. Williams once spoke out about how wrong he had been about the promise and benefits of social media like Twitter and how he was determined to address thorny problems such as harassment, misinformation and extremism at Medium. He is now more at peace with the role of the internet and its trade-offs. “The internet did make us more connected,” he said in an interview in Menlo Park, California. “It just also made us more divided. It made us more everything.” Mozi is meant to be a utility. If a user wants to message a friend in the app to make plans, the app directs them to the phone’s texting app. “We’re not trying to keep people on the app,” said DeWolf Swenson, 37, who was a founder of RYOT, a virtual reality startup, and was head of global partnerships at Community, an app that allows public figures and brands to text their fans. “If we’re doing our job well, you’re finding that information as quickly as possible and then getting off the app.” As a power networker who created an elaborate spreadsheet tracking her friends and business contacts, DeWolf Swenson was Mozi’s ideal user. But even the best system could not tell her if someone would be home when she visited their city, she said. Consumer apps like Mozi are out of step with the tech zeitgeist, which has centered most recently on artificial intelligence. But James Joaquin, a co-founder of Obvious Ventures, said he was compelled to invest in Mozi after talking to its early testers. They shared stories about reconnecting with old friends via the app — moments that seemed valuable enough that customers might pay for it, he said. Mozi is free, but plans to charge for premium features it develops. Other founders also see the potential of using online tools to help people connect in person. Andy Dunn, a founder of the e-commerce company Bonobos, raised $24 million over the past four years for Pie, an app that lets creators organize events like running clubs and game nights with the goal of helping people make new friends. The app, available in Chicago and San Francisco, took off this year with 50,000 monthly users, he said. “Even people who love social media or use it frequently know it’s not necessarily that social,” Dunn said. “Mostly it’s an experience we do alone.” Williams also invested in Pie. The two entrepreneurs spent time together last year in Brazil, where they debated social media’s future at the beach. Williams wore a T-shirt that said “More social less media,” Dunn recalled. They determined that the challenges created by social media wouldn’t be solved by making a better social media product. Williams said he decided Mozi was worth building after reflecting on the importance of relationships. Looking back, he said, “everything that had gone really well, even in work, was about relationships, and everything that went poorly was mismanaging relationships.” He added that he was not raised with good relationship models. “I learned late in life what a healthy relationship and conflict resolution looked like, and that was a cause of a lot of my pain and suffering,” he said. When Williams turned 50, his son called it “halftime.” The analogy made him feel optimistic, he said, since “a lot can be determined in the second half of the game.” This article originally appeared in .
Late kickoff return TDs by Turpin and Thomas spark the Cowboys as they end their 5-game skidIn a cavernous warehouse north of New York City, a 16-foot robot outfitted with a cutting tool etched intricate grooves into a faceless marble head atop an alien-like torso. Water sprayed into the air as an image created with artificial intelligence entered the physical world. In February, during a three-month stint as OpenAI’s first artist in residence, Alexander Reben gained early access to the startup’s Sora text-to-video tool, which instantly generates videos up to a minute in length from written or spoken prompts. Reben, a technologist trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used Nvidia’s neural radiance field technology to turn Sora’s AI-generated imagery into 3D models. The cutting tool, run by a small company called Monumental Labs, turned one of those into a 4-foot-tall sculpture carved from white Italian marble veined with black and gray. While many artists view AI as a threat to their livelihoods, Reben, whose residency ended in April, embraces it as a collaborator. “I got a closer view of how innovation happens within an AI company, and got a better idea of why it’s important to push the edges and try new things,” Reben, 39, said. Toward the end of the residency, he focused on a prototype system that turned photos of real objects into AI-generated images, poems and even short, satirical blurbs. His setup consisted of his phone, a Fujifilm Instax photo printer and another printer that spit out receipts and labels. A web browser-based system combined Reben’s code with a version of the large language model that powers ChatGPT. The “conceptual camera,” whose interface appeared on Reben’s phone screen, had 15 “modes.” One of them, which Reben calls “Silly AI Label Maker,” assigns a name to any item pictured. When he snapped an image of a yellow zinnia, for example, out popped a label designating the flower a “sunny puffball.” The vase containing the flower got a new name, too: “sunflower sipper.” Sunglasses became “shady peepers.” To demonstrate his conceptual camera, Reben held his phone above a rudimentary sketch of a face, a lone tear falling from each eye, alongside a shape that passed for a tree. Almost as quickly as he took the photo, an image sprang from a hand-held printer. The setup turned the drawing into a bizarre, AI-generated picture that blended the face and the tree into a tearful, ghoulish man with a neck and shoulders that looked like they had been carved from wood. OpenAI, which is based in San Francisco, says artists like Reben help it understand the potential of its AI tools. His projects “showed our technology in a new light, inspiring our teams to see the creative possibilities of what we’re building,” a spokesperson for the company said in an email. But Hugh Leeman, an art lecturer at universities such as Duke, Colorado State and Johns Hopkins, wonders if the residency is just a marketing move to appease artists who worry their work is being used to train AI systems without permission, payment or credit. Some are concerned that AI could alter the very nature of creativity. “From a company standpoint, they’re getting out ahead of the curve here,” Leeman said. “This is a mechanism of saying: ‘Look, we’ve always loved artists. In fact, we’ve worked with artists.’” But he is a fan of Reben. Leeman started researching his work after seeing it last year at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. Leeman was most struck by the cheeky mischief — like the AI-generated snubs of the artist’s show that rotated on a wall display, declaring it, among other insults, a “masterstroke of blandness.” “It was both criticizing AI and criticizing him for using it,” Leeman said. “I thought, what a beautiful sense of humor and self-awareness on this that is very needed in the art world.” That humor comes through in Reben’s camera. One of its modes takes images and gives them an absurd twist: Imagine a battalion of tiny toy soldiers climbing a scone as if it were a hilly battlefield. Reben took a photo of sunglasses sitting on a table at his home in Berkeley, California. (He had set out those and other random objects for his demonstration.) The camera produced eight paragraphs under the headline “Local Sunglasses File Restraining Order Against Unrelenting Sun.” The overworked glasses, according to the text, are simply asking for more temperate working conditions: “a few clouds” now and then, or an “occasional overcast day.” “The sun has yet to respond to the allegations,” the passage continues. “Legal experts speculate that the solar defendant might struggle to appear in court given its 93-million-mile commute and busy schedule keeping the solar system in order.” Reben’s works, including some created during the OpenAI residency, are on view at the Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles. In December, they will appear as part of an exhibit by the Bitforms Gallery at Untitled Art, a contemporary art fair in Miami Beach. Reben said that he understood and empathized with the concerns roiling the artist community as AI evolved, but that new technologies always face growing pains. “There are different types of art,” he said, “and different reasons that art exists.” This article originally appeared in .
ASML FINAL DEADLINE: ROSEN, A GLOBAL AND LEADING LAW FIRM, Encourages ASML Holding N.V. Investors with Losses in Excess of $100K to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action – ASMLThe Ukrainian president said the use of a ballistic missile to hit Dnipro was a “clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war” and he warned that Russian president Mr Putin would attack or destabilise other countries unless stopped. Mr Putin said the use of the new weapon was in response to the UK and US allowing missiles they have supplied to Ukraine to be used to strike targets in Russia. “In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the Ukrainian defence industry,” Mr Putin said in a televised address. “One of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems was tested in combat conditions, in this case, with a ballistic missile in a non-nuclear hypersonic warhead.” He added: “We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.” But Mr Zelensky urged world leaders – his “dear partners” – not to be cowed by Mr Putin’s actions otherwise there will be “endless Russian strikes” and “not just against Ukraine”. Today, Putin admitted to taking a second step this year toward escalating and expanding this war. A new ballistic missile was used. Putin struck our city of Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest cities. This is a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war—a... — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 21, 2024 “A lack of tough reactions to Russia’s actions sends a message that such behavior is acceptable,” the Ukrainian president said on X, formerly Twitter. “This is what Putin is doing. Putin must feel the cost of his deranged ambitions. “Response is needed. Pressure is needed. Russia must be forced into real peace, which can only be achieved through strength. “Otherwise, there will be endless Russian strikes, threats, and destabilisation-not just against Ukraine.” The UK is believed to have allowed its Storm Shadow missiles to be used by Ukrainian forces within the Kursk region of Russia, while the US has given permission for its ATACMS weapons to be fired at targets in Mr Putin’s country. Mr Putin confirmed Russia has tested the new intermediate-range weapon in an attack on Dnipro in response. The US said the weapon was a new, experimental intermediate-range missile based on Russia’s existing RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile. In Westminster, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “My understanding is that it is the first time that Russia has used a ballistic missile in Ukraine with a range of several thousand kilometres.” Defence Secretary John Healey said it was “yet another example of Putin’s recklessness”. He said: “Since the illegal invasion of Ukraine began, Russia has consistently and irresponsibly escalated the conflict while Ukraine continues to fight in self-defence for a democratic future.” The missile’s range far outstrips that of newly authorised US and British-supplied weapons, which can hit targets around 250-300km away. The distance from Moscow to London is around 2,500km, suggesting the range of the new missile could threaten the UK. Mr Healey said the UK knew Russia had been “preparing for months” to fire a new ballistic missile. Downing Street and the Ministry of Defence have repeatedly declined to comment publicly on Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow. “It risks both operational security and in the end the only one that benefits from such a public debate is President Putin,” Mr Healey told MPs. I had a meeting with the UK delegation led by Chief of the Defence Staff @AdmTonyRadakin_ . We discussed defense cooperation between Ukraine and the United Kingdom, focusing on developing and enhancing the technological capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Particular... pic.twitter.com/EcjqfTuR49 — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 21, 2024 The head of the UK’s armed forces, Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, met Mr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss the war on Thursday. Mr Zelensky said: “We discussed defence co-operation between Ukraine and the United Kingdom, focusing on developing and enhancing the technological capabilities of the armed forces of Ukraine. “Particular attention was given to Ukraine’s current military needs and the continued support from our partners.”
The Solano County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve a Capital Improvement Plan for Fiscal Year 2024/2025 through Fiscal Year 2029/2030, as well as a proposed project list for the upcoming fiscal year. Matt Tuggle, the county’s engineering manager, presented the five-year plan, which is presented annually to offer a more flexible approach to spending for county government. Each year, new items need updates across the county, he said, and the CIP process functions as a priority cue for county infrastructure spending. Items covered by the capital improvement plan include county-maintained roads, bridges, culverts, signage, drainage, corporation yards and maintenance equipment, and the updated CIP must be submitted to the California Transportation Commission in compliance with SB 1 by May 1 of 2025. “The big stuff, we have to dream about, and this starts that process,” Tuggle said. SB1 transportation funding, approved by the voters in 2018, is allocated through this process, Tuggle said. “We can do things like some drainage enhancements along the roads,” he explained, “and then quite a bit of stuff like curve improvements, we can do bike lanes, we can add in pedestrian facilities. Not just necessarily safety but we can actually add in things that actually do add to the community more than just ‘here’s a road and here’s a shoulder.'” Using state funds, the immediate priorities for the county include Foothill Drive, McCormack Road, Vallejo Area Sidewalk Improvements Phase One, culvert rehabilitation, shoulder widening and chip sealing for roads in the Dixon, Fairfield, Suisun and Vacaville areas. The total expenditure of gas tax revenues in the upcoming fiscal year on CIP projects will be nearly $10.8 million in HUTA gas taxes and $9.8 Million in SB 1 gas taxes. “This is the infrastructure that got forgotten for 15 to 20 years,” Tuggle said of culvert maintenance, as the work that needs to be done underneath roads is often overlooked for pothole and sealing concerns. The county will continue to do about 21 miles per year of crack and chip sealing with gravel topping. While residents sometimes complain immediately after these improvements are made, within two or three years the pavement settles and seals the road. “It is lotion to the road’s skin,” Tuggle said. “If you want a dry road, you’re going to end up with those cracks opening and you’re going to end up with water in the subgrade. If you treat the road and keep it in good condition, the skin of the road, the structure can handle a lot more, so it’s really done an amazing job.” During the next five years, Tuggle said, SB 1 and HUTA funding will provide the stability to take on deferred projects and the flexibility to plan and build more complex projects. Public Works will continue to focus on pavement maintenance, safety projects and new board priorities including the Solano 360 Mobility Hub and the Stevenson Bridge Rehabilitation Project, which the team expects to deliver in the next two years. “What I would say is on the funding side, we’re good,” he said. Supervisor John Vasquez said consistent funding and maintenance of county roads during the last 25 years has been critical to the county government, which is why Solano County enjoys high-quality roads now. While cities are following the trend of chip seal treatment, the farming community appreciates the seriousness with which the county has taken this issue over the years. “In this case, those dollars come in for transportation projects and they go out for transportation projects,” Vasquez said. “Nobody likes more taxes but SB 1 has been somewhat of a godsend for us. It doubled our capacity and allowed us to deliver good roads in the unincorporated and that’s why you have a high standard.” Supervisor Monica Brown noted Cordelia Road’s potholes, which she said she endures every morning. Tuggle noted that the road winds through multiple jurisdictions, and thus the county can only do so much to improve it. “I think that’s the struggle is there are perceptions of the public as to ‘this is a county road,’ or ‘this is a city road,'” Tuggle said. “‘Some of the collaborative projects will remain where we do try to coordinate, can we get a pavement improvement on both?”
Filipovity 3-8 2-2 8, N.Tshimanga 1-5 0-0 2, Cook 3-12 0-0 9, Harris 5-9 4-4 18, Jackson 1-7 0-0 2, Carpenter 4-11 2-4 10, Pickens 0-3 0-0 0, Bostick 2-6 0-0 5, E.Tshimanga 1-1 0-0 2, Cherenfant 1-1 0-0 2, Osborne 1-2 0-0 2, Nnamoko 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-65 8-10 60. Exacte 0-0 0-0 0, M.Johnson 7-13 7-7 23, Butler 4-15 5-5 15, Campbell 1-9 10-12 12, Thomas 0-6 0-0 0, Felt 0-4 4-6 4, Green 2-3 0-0 4, Squire 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 15-52 26-30 61. Halftime_Bowling Green 26-23. 3-Point Goals_New Mexico St. 8-22 (Harris 4-5, Cook 3-9, Bostick 1-2, Filipovity 0-1, Jackson 0-1, Carpenter 0-2, Pickens 0-2), Bowling Green 5-21 (M.Johnson 2-5, Butler 2-7, Squire 1-2, Campbell 0-1, Felt 0-2, Thomas 0-4). Rebounds_New Mexico St. 43 (Filipovity, Harris 9), Bowling Green 34 (Felt 12). Assists_New Mexico St. 17 (Filipovity, Cook 4), Bowling Green 10 (M.Johnson 3). Total Fouls_New Mexico St. 22, Bowling Green 15.
There's growing concern for legendary NFL quarterback turned broadcaster Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw, 76, has had quite the 2024 season. But is it time for the legendary NFL quarterback, who won four Super Bowls, to retire? NFL fans have been calling for Bradshaw to retire from the broadcasting world for a while now. Bradshaw's had some tough moments this year, sparking controversy with a North Carolina accent and a comment on Deshaun Watson . Bradshaw is known for speaking off the cuff, so it's no surprise when he makes headlines for a bold comment or two, but this year, viewers have been concerned about his performance in other areas. The four-time Super Bowl champion does a lot of the highlight montages for Fox Sports, at halftime and postgame. Viewers have noticed that Bradshaw seems a bit off this year. One former NFL quarterback is even getting worried. FOX. Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason admitted this season that he's "worried" about his fellow quarterback turned broadcaster. “I worked up against them for the last 22 years, I haven’t seen a lot of their show,” Esiason said earlier this year. “Obviously, I see it during the Super Bowl or when there’s one game for a playoff game, but I felt like it was a little disconcerting yesterday. I was worried about him. Is that the way it’s been?” Unfortunately, it's been that way for most of this year. Bradshaw is still having fun, but he's made some missteps throughout the season, especially on the highlight packages. These postgame highlights were a struggle for Terry Bradshaw to get through: pic.twitter.com/vAEQ8oWK7d Bradshaw has made it clear that he doesn't want to retire anytime soon, but NFL fans are continuing to call for him to step aside - at least for highlight packages. "@NFLonFOX please get rid of Terry Bradshaw," one fan said. "He is the worst I have switched to watching CBS because of him," one fan added. Bradshaw, though, has said repeatedly that he doesn't want to stop. At least not yet. He appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show earlier this fall and spoke about his love for the job. "I'm one of those people that are lucky to go to work and can't wait to get there. It's so much fun to get up early as you, we work all day, we're 12 hours in the studio working all the games throughout." He added: "The people here in New York may see us do one show but we do 12." Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Still, that's not stopping fans from expressing their worry for Bradshaw. Hopefully, he'll have a fun rest of the season and look good while doing it. But at some point, NFL on FOX might be forced to make a tough decision on the legendary NFL quarterback.Maura Higgins has earned admiration from her I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! co-stars after recounting a tale of how she got back at a cheating ex. The 33 year old Irish star, who first gained fame on Love Island's fifth season in 2019, opened up about her motivations for joining the show following a sudden split from her then-boyfriend upon discovering his infidelity. Maura, who is currently linked to TOWIE and Strictly's Pete Wicks, shared with campmates Jane Moore and Danny Jones her story of deceit and retribution. When Jane inquired about Maura's journey to Love Island, the Irish celebrity recounted: "So I had a boyfriend at the time" - and proceeded to describe her shock at finding incriminating messages on his phone, which made her feel like she "didn't know him at all". She went on to describe her vengeful act in full: "I had a plan and no word of a lie, when he went to the gym the next day I got his toothbrush and I filmed myself scrubbing in the verges [of the toilet], he had a dentist appointment that day!" READ MORE: ITV I'm A Celebrity star seals 'first elimination' as he 'shows true colours' Maura Higgins left her fellow campmates in shock when she confessed: "I considered taking a dump on it.", reports the Mirror . Danny couldn't help but react, saying: "You don't wanna mess with Maura! " The Love Island star then explained how the incident motivated her to go into the villa with full force, saying: "I went in like a bull in a china shop because I was so angry about that whole thing" Maura Higgins revealed how she once got revenge on a bad boyfriend (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock) Jane from Loose Women praised her spirit, commenting: "You are fierce! I love it! " and gave her a high-five. This revelation had fans rallying behind her on social media, where they expressed their support. One fan posted: "Obsessed with Maura's villain origin story being cheated on and scrubbing the loo with a toothbrush to then going on love island. A true diva #ImACeleb #imacelebrity." Another added: "Maura is super funny. #ImACeleb." Further praise came from another viewer who said: "Maura Higgins I am OBSESSED with you! #ImaCeleb." Since her stint on Love Island in 2019, Maura has been in the spotlight for her personal life as well, having dated Curtis Pritchard post-show, and later being linked to Chris Taylor, Giovanni Pernice, and Hollywood stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton, known for doubling for Chris Hemsworth. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and, Breaking News group by clicking this link
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