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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken a brutal swipe at his Russian counterpart for remarks he made during an annual press conference, calling him a “dumbass”. The annual televised sit-down event with the Russian President, called ‘Results of the Year with Vladimir Putin’, featured questions from hand-picked journalists. The conference lasted more than four hours. During the lengthy discussion, Putin vowed he would “kick out” Ukrainian forces inside Russia and expressed he was “ready” to meet with Donald Trump if the president-elect “wants it”. In a segment of the conference, the moment Zelensky took particular issue with, Putin spoke of a “technological experiment” of ballistic missiles in an apparent missile measuring contest. Putin suggested Ukraine and the West conduct a “high-tech duel” and called for Kyiv to harbour all their vital defences in the one spot to allow one of Russia’s newest missiles to come off the conveyor belt, one which is supposedly unstoppable, to hit it. “Let them propose to us and let them propose to those in the West and in the United States to carry out some kind of technological experiment,” Putin said. “Let’s say, some kind of a high-tech duel of the 21st century. Let them determine some object to be hit, for example, in Kyiv, concentrate all their air and missile defence forces there and we will strike there with the Oreshnik. “And we’ll see what happens. We are ready for such an experiment ... We will conduct such an experiment, such a technological duel and see what happens. It’s interesting.” Zelensky posted the clip of Putin’s response on X along with the following caption: “People are dying, and he thinks it’s ‘interesting’... Dumbass.” The Ukrainian President met with bloc leaders in Brussels on Thursday, and claimed Putin did not care about human life and “loves to kill”. “I think Putin is very dangerous, he doesn’t care about human lives ... I think he is crazy, really,” he told journalists after the meeting with EU leaders. Zelensky said he did not want a “ceasefire” because it would not prevent Russia from continuing its conquest indefinitely, rather, “everyone will lose” if such a deal was made. “We need to have a real plan,” he said. As Putin also extended his welcome to Trump during his mammoth speech , so did Zelensky, who said he wanted the incoming president to “help us finish this war”. The Oreshnik , meaning ‘hazelnut tree’ in Russian, is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) which can drop multiple payloads across a targeted area and was first used on November 21 when it was dropped on Dnipro, Ukraine.Buy Baby Buy: 3 Energy Stocks Riding The Trump Presidential Victory
Our valley’s lovely towns are full of wisdom. According to the last census , the average age in the United States is 39. Eagle is a shade below the national average at 36, compared to Edwards at 38 and Avon at a young 35. In Vail, the average age is 49. Vail’s second-highest age group by population is 60-64 , with the 25-29 group coming in first. Our towns are also delightfully multi-lingual — 76.8% of Eagle households only speak English at home compared to 70% in Edwards, 70% in Edwards, and 87.4% in Vail. Why am I sharing census demographics with you and what does it have to do with cybercrime? Within our community, we have two groups who are particularly susceptible to cybercrime: older adults and non-English speakers. The Vail Daily has covered many aspects of scams and technology-facilitated crime, from AI-driven crime and investment scams to phone scams and even rental scams . This column focuses specifically on cybercrime and serves as a call to action. To steal an old line from Smokey Bear, you too can prevent your friends, neighbors and family members from becoming victims of cyber-crime. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center , in 2023, scams targeting individuals aged 60 and older caused over $3.4 billion in losses, and those are only the crimes that the FBI knows about. The Internet Crime Complaint Center noted that while investment scams were by far the most lucrative for scammers targeting the 60-plus population, tech support cybercrime and business email compromise came in second and third. Tech support cybercrime occurs when a cybercriminal tricks someone into installing a program onto that person’s computer, which then allows the criminal to access highly sensitive information, including from banking websites. The criminal then walks that person through transactions that unknowingly send money from that user to the criminal. Business email compromise occurs when someone receives an email that looks exactly like a legitimate email from a company with which that person has regular dealings, but it is a spoofed email or it has minor changes in the sender’s email that are imperceptible to the average customer. It also occurs when a business is “hacked” and the person sending and receiving actual emails is not an employee but a criminal who gained access to that email system. Foreign language speakers in the United States also experience higher than average cybercrime due to what Ahmad Sultan from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity calls the “digital divide.” According to Sultan, foreign language speakers may be “less likely to know whether they have been victimized by a cyber-attack, and they have a lower awareness of cybersecurity risks.” In his study, Sultan notes that these individuals reported being “more likely to refer to friends and relatives for advice on cybersecurity issues than any other resource.” While many of us take a break from work during the holidays, it’s high season for cybercriminals. The Department of Treasury’s Office of the Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection recently published a holiday alert with 10 tips to protect yourself online, including never clicking on email links, calling the bank or business yourself and not using the phone number in an email, never sharing sensitive information, and being aware of “urgent account notifications.” These tips will be old hat for most Vail Daily readers. But how about your elderly neighbor? Grandma and grandpa? The sweet widow down the street? The non-English speaking family around the corner? This holiday season, give them the gift of knowledge and remind them to be alert. Give them your contact information and be their trusted source if something seems fishy to them. I recently reminded my septuagenarian parents in Cleveland to immediately call me if someone emails them seeking information or remote access to their computer. They took that offer of help with grace and love. Let’s keep our community safe this holiday season.
49ers' Christian McCaffrey Breaks Silence on Potential Season-Ending InjuryDuncanville High School faces Rockwall High School in the second round of the UIL playoffs on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, at 7 p.m. CT in Allen, Texas. Here’s how you can watch the game on NFHS Network. Watch: Duncanville vs. Rockwall LIVE STREAM How can I watch Duncanville vs. Rockwall? Fans can subscribe to NFHS Sports Network , a nationwide streaming platform for more than 9,000 high school sports. You can find the list of available schools here. How much does an NFHS subscription cost? Is there a free trial to NFHS Network? An annual subscription costs $79.99, or you can pay monthly for $11.99 per month. Can you watch NFHS on your phone or TV? NFHS Network is available on smart TVs like Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Google Chromecast, as well as on iOS and Android smartphones. Top 25 high school football rankings (MaxPreps) 1. Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) 2. Milton (Milton, Georgia) 3. Duncanville (Duncanville, Texas) 4. Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nevada) 5. Carrollton (Carrollton, Georgia) 6. North Shore (Houston, Texas) 7. St. John Bosco (Bellflower, California) 8. St. Frances Academy (Baltimore, Maryland) 9. North Crowley (Fort Worth, Texas) 10. Archbishop Spalding (Severn, Maryland) 11. Buford (Buford, Georgia) 12. Centennial (Corona, California) 13. Orange Lutheran (Orange, California) 14. Lakeland (Lakeland, Florida) 15. Chaminade-Madonna (Hollywood, Florida) 16. Mission Viejo (Mission Viejo, California) 17. Boyle County (Danville, Kentucky) 18. IMG Academy (Bradenton, Florida) 19. Venice (Venice, Florida) 20. Atascocita (Humble, Texas) 21. Corner Canyon (Draper, Utah) 22. Bergen Catholic (Oradell, New Jersey) 23. De La Salle (Concord, California) RECOMMENDED • nj .com Buford (GA) vs. Lowndes (GA) LIVE STREAM (11/22/24) | How to watch Georgia high school football playoff game Nov. 22, 2024, 6:00 p.m. Central-Phenix City (AL) vs. Hoover (AL) LIVE STREAM (11/22/24) | How to watch Alabama high school football p Nov. 22, 2024, 6:00 p.m. 24. DeMatha (Hyattsville, Maryland) 25. DeSoto (DeSoto, Texas) Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust.
The Gophers men’s basketball team overwhelmed Morgan State 90-68 on Sunday, but it was the final bullet point on how underwhelming Minnesota’s nonconference schedule has been this season. The Gophers (8-5) have a “strength of resume” ranked 156th in the nation, according to ESPN on Sunday. And Minnesota’s spot in the overall NET ranking (155) won’t improve come Monday, not with a win over a Morgan State team ranked nearly 200 spots lower at 353. ADVERTISEMENT Minnesota was a 22-point favorite and received a huge 22-point first half from Mike Mitchell to win easily in its final tune-up before Big Ten play resumes Thursday at home versus Purdue. Gophers head coach Ben Johnson in August expressed the difficulty to balance the competitiveness of the nonconference slate with who’s available to book and what’s best for this year’s team. “Sometimes the hardest thing for fans to grasp fully is so much of it is a numbers game,” Johnson said at the Minnesota State Fair. “It’s a give and take. You don’t know your team fully and you don’t know the other teams. Sometimes you can roll the dice and go with a team that, quote, might not have the name, but you know will be really good in their league, where if you play a Power Five team and they aren’t good in their league, the game means nothing. It’s great to have a name (opponent), but if they finish bottom four, the numbers go down.” Minnesota joined a multi-team, neutral-site event in Orlando around Thanksgiving but lost both games, to Wichita State and Wake Forest. They also lost to North Texas at The Barn earlier in November. Those three teams each have NET rankings in the Top 80. “There are a couple (of games) that we wish we had back,” Johnson said of the overall nonconference schedule. “Obviously Wichita State still stings. You feel like if you had a healthy Mike and play in the North Texas game. ... But when you have a new team, so much of it is hitting adversity and being able to figure it out.” While Morgan State (6-10) won’t help the U’s resume, the win should aid confidence before facing a Boilermakers team picked in preseason to win the Big Ten come March. Morgan State, which lost by 61 points to Xavier and by 27 to No. 3 Iowa State, played Sunday without leading scorers Winston Tabbs (16.1 points per game) and Amahrie Simpkins (12.7). Minnesota staked a 55-37 lead at the half on the back of Mitchell’s perfection. He made all eight jump shots, including six 3-pointers, for 22 points; that total bested his previous U high of 20 points against Ball State last season. Mitchell missed both of his two shots in the second half and sat during garbage time, falling one point short of his career-high while with Pepperdine in 2022. ADVERTISEMENT “I think it kind of built into that,” Mitchell said. “Teammates found me when I was open and the ball went in.” How did it feel once he finally missed? “Dang,” he said. The Gophers’ poorer start to this season came with Mitchell sidelined for seven games with a high ankle sprain — including all three defeats — and his return is vital as the U looks to dig out of an early 0-2 hole in conference play next week. Dawson Garcia added 18 points and eight rebounds, while Parker Fox chipped in 11 points as Minnesota used 11 players. Frank Mitchell returned Sunday after missing the Dec. 21 win over Farleigh Dickinson while in concussion protocol. He scored 10 points in 11 minutes on Sunday. “You want to come off (the holiday) break and have a little bit of momentum going into January,” Johnson said. “I think we did that.” ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .
The University of Maine System board of trustees meeting in September 2023. Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald, file The board of trustees for the University of Maine System will not take up demands to divest financially from Israel, the board’s chair announced in a letter Friday. The decision is a response to a petition , signed by hundreds of students, faculty and alumni across the system, asking the trustees to end all investment in Israeli companies or U.S.-based companies that sell weapons to Israel, as well as end academic ties with the country. That would have applied to about $1.6 million in investments, or about .22% of the system’s holdings as of last April, according to system records. In November, more than a dozen students, faculty members and alumni spoke during the board’s public comment period, arguing in favor of divestment and pushing back on changes to a proposed free speech policy. Many spoke about the high civilian death toll and academic losses in Gaza, and reminded trustees of the system’s history with divestment: In 1982, it was among the first higher education institutions to divest from apartheid South Africa. The trustees hosted a special meeting of the executive committee on Dec. 17 to consider putting the six demands on the agenda for January. But after a 25-minute executive session, the board publicly deliberated and came to a consensus that it would not advance the issue. Board of trustees Chair Trish Riley said she had met with students about their concerns, but that the board’s responsibility is to foster open discourse. “The question here is, is it appropriate for the board of trustees, given our statutory responsibility to assure that this university is a place of open discussion and discourse, is it appropriate for us to take a position on these demands?” she asked executive committee members. In the letter Riley authored on Friday, she told students that the board would not support their demands, and to do so “would compromise the critical role of our public universities in fostering understanding, discussion, and examination of complex issues through academic inquiry and research.” “Furthermore, we believe it would not promote the inclusivity that we strive to create on our campuses and in the community,” Riley wrote. She said it is not the trustees’ place to weigh in on foreign policy matters, and said taking a position would shut down discourse and undermine the board’s educational mission. Willow Cunningham is a computer engineering graduate student at the University of Maine, and an organizer with the UMaine chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. They said the board’s decision is not surprising, and that it has emboldened student groups. “There’s a lot of energy going forward to make it clear to the board that they can’t just not consider this issue, that it’s actually quite important to all of us,” Cunningham said. Student organizers plan to comment at future trustee meetings, organize rallies and gather a larger coalition across the university system. And Cunningham said dismissing Israeli divestment as too political, despite the 1982 South Africa divestment decision, makes the system look bad. “At the time, the board held that apartheid ‘conflicts with the moral values of the university’ and that since corporations had been identified to be part of the problem of perpetuating the system, just as they are today, it was our obligation to divest,” Cunningham said. “This idea that the board is staying in their lane, or not taking a position, fundamentally ignores the fact that we currently have over a million dollars invested in complicit corporations. We already have a position, and it’s to support genocide, to support apartheid.” On its Instagram , the UMaine Jewish Voice for Peace chapter said the fight for divestment is not over, and encouraged supporters to show up and speak at next month’s trustees meeting. “We will continue to amplify demands in solidarity with Palestinians, confront administrative complacency and strengthen student coalitions until divestment is actualized,” the post reads. Some American universities have considered divestment, although many have decided against the move. A few city governments have taken up the issue as well. The city of Portland voted to divest from companies doing business in Israel in September, and in late November the Belfast City Council approved a divestment from companies associated with the Israeli military. Comments are not available on this story. Send questions/comments to the editors. « Previous