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To continue reading, please log in to your account or create your free account with us.By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network could face decades in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to federal fraud charges, admitting that he misled customers about the business. Alexander Mashinsky , 58, of Manhattan, entered the plea in New York federal court to commodities and securities fraud. He admitted illegally manipulating the price of Celsius’s proprietary crypto token while secretly selling his own tokens at inflated prices to pocket about $48 million before Celsius collapsed into bankruptcy in 2022. In court, he admitted that in 2021 he publicly suggested there was regulatory consent for the company’s moves because he knew that customers “would find false comfort” with that. And he said that in 2019, he was selling the crypto tokens even though he told the public that he was not. He said he knew customers would draw false comfort from that too. “I accept full responsibility for my actions,” Mashinsky said of crimes that stretched from 2018 to 2022 as the company pitched itself to customers as a modern-day bank where they could safely deposit crypto assets and earn interest. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a release that Mashinsky “orchestrated one of the biggest frauds in the crypto industry” as his company’s assets purportedly grew to about $25 billion at its peak, making it one of the largest crypto platforms in the world. He said Mashinsky used catchy slogans like “Unbank Yourself” to entice prospective customers with a pledge that their money would be as safe in crypto accounts as money would be in a bank. Meanwhile, prosecutors said, Mashinsky and co-conspirators used customer deposits to fund market purchases of the Celsius token to prop up its value. Machinsky made tens of millions of dollars selling his own CEL tokens at artificially high prices, leaving his customers “holding the bag when the company went bankrupt,” Williams said. An indictment alleged that Mashinsky promoted Celsius through media interviews, his social media accounts and Celsius’ website, along with a weekly “Ask Mashinsky Anything” session broadcast that was posted to Celsius’ website and a YouTube channel. Celsius employees from multiple departments who noticed false and misleading statements in the sessions warned Mashinsky, but they were ignored, the indictment said. A plea agreement Mashinsky made with prosecutors calls for him to be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison and to forfeit over $48 million, which is the amount of money he allegedly made by selling his company’s token. Sentencing was scheduled for April 8.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. On Monday, Trump sent shockwaves across the nation's northern and southern borders, vowing sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada , as well as China, as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social site Trump railed against an influx of immigrants lacking permanent legal status, even though southern border apprehensions have been hovering near four-year lows. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders. He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” The president-elect asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare. Economists are generally skeptical, considering tariffs to be a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money. They are especially alarmed by Trump’s latest proposed tariffs. Carl B. Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists with High Frequency Economics said Tuesday that energy, automobiles and food supplies will be particularly hit hard. “Imposing tariffs on trade flows into the United States without first preparing alternative sources for the goods and services affected will raise the price of imported items at once," Weinberg and Farooqi wrote. "Since many of these goods are consumer goods, households will be made poorer.” High Frequency Economics believes the threats are not meant to support new trade policy and are instead a tool to elicit some changes along the borders and for imports from Canada, Mexico and China. Though Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Trump’s tariff threats as unserious during her failed bid for the presidency, the Biden-Harris administration retained the taxes the Trump administration imposed on $360 billion in Chinese goods. And it imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. Indeed, the United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered trade and an increasingly aggressive China. They are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country. The tariff rates range from passenger cars (2.5%) to golf shoes (6%). Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the United States, Mexico and Canada tariff-free because of Trump’s US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. Trump insists that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers — American companies — that pay tariffs, and the money goes to U.S. Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That's why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs. Still, tariffs can hurt foreign countries by making their products pricier and harder to sell abroad. Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai’s Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the U.S. economy By raising the price of imports, tariffs can protect home-grown manufacturers. They may also serve to punish foreign countries for committing unfair trade practices, like subsidizing their exporters or dumping products at unfairly low prices. Before the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government. From 1790 to 1860, tariffs accounted for 90% of federal revenue, according to Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economist who has studied the history of trade policy. Tariffs fell out of favor as global trade grew after World War II. The government needed vastly bigger revenue streams to finance its operations. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government is expected to collect $81.4 billion in tariffs and fees. That's a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion that's expected to come from individual income taxes and the $1.7 trillion from Social Security and Medicare taxes. Still, Trump wants to enact a budget policy that resembles what was in place in the 19th century. He has argued that tariffs on farm imports could lower food prices by aiding America’s farmers. In fact, tariffs on imported food products would almost certainly send grocery prices up by reducing choices for consumers and competition for American producers. Tariffs can also be used to pressure other countries on issues that may or may not be related to trade. In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States. Trump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars. “I can do it with a phone call,’’ he said at an August rally in North Carolina. If another country tries to start a war, he said he’d issue a threat: “We’re going to charge you 100% tariffs. And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me, ‘Sir, we won’t go to war.’ ” Tariffs raise costs for companies and consumers that rely on imports. They're also likely to provoke retaliation. The European Union, for example, punched back against Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum by taxing U.S. products, from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Likewise, China responded to Trump’s trade war by slapping tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork in a calculated drive to hurt his supporters in farm country. A study by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, Harvard and the World Bank concluded that Trump’s tariffs failed to restore jobs to the American heartland. The tariffs “neither raised nor lowered U.S. employment’’ where they were supposed to protect jobs, the study found. Despite Trump’s 2018 taxes on imported steel, for example, the number of jobs at U.S. steel plants barely budged: They remained right around 140,000. By comparison, Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people in the United States. Worse, the retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on U.S. goods had “negative employment impacts,’’ especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports. If Trump’s trade war fizzled as policy, though, it succeeded as politics. The study found that support for Trump and Republican congressional candidates rose in areas most exposed to the import tariffs — the industrial Midwest and manufacturing-heavy Southern states like North Carolina and Tennessee.

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Van Nistelrooy has replaced Steve Cooper at the King Power Stadium and saw Jamie Vardy open the scoring after just 98 seconds. Bilal El Khannouss and Patson Daka added goals after the break to ensure the Dutchman started with three points in style. His task is to keep the Foxes in the Premier League this season and after ending a five-game winless run they moved up to 15th, four points clear of the relegation zone. West Ham’s hierarchy will have seen what impact a managerial change can have as the jury remains out on Lopetegui, with away fans making their feelings clear by chanting “You’re getting sacked in the morning”. Niclas Fullkrug scored a consolation goal at the death but it counted for nothing and forthcoming games against Wolves, Bournemouth, Brighton and Southampton could determine the Spaniard’s future. When Van Nistelrooy went to bed last night, even he would not have dreamt of his side starting as well as they did as they went ahead with less than two minutes on the clock. One of the Dutchman’s first conversations following his appointment was to take Vardy to task for breaking his record for scoring in the most consecutive Premier League games nine years ago. And the veteran striker rolled back to the years as, living on the shoulder of the West Ham defence, he raced clear from El Khannouss’ through-ball and slotted into the corner. The linesman’s flag immediately went up but a lengthy VAR review ruled Vardy had timed his run perfectly and the goal stood. Vardy could have added a second from a similar move but this time Lukasz Fabianski denied him. The Dutchman quickly learned about the frailties of his side as West Ham created a raft of chances in search of an equaliser. Jarrod Bowen forced Mads Hermansen into a stretching save when he cut in from the right before Ings’ header crashed into the post and Max Kilman slipped at the crucial point from the rebound. Bowen, a constant threat, sent a ball across face of goal which evaded everyone before the England international was denied by a reflex save from the busy Hermansen. The Danish goalkeeper needed to be alert to tip over Mohammed Kudus’ deflected effort early in the second half before he was saved by the referee’s whistle after after his attempted punch went into his own goal, Tomas Soucek the man penalised. Leicester remained a threat on the counter-attack and that is how they doubled their lead just after the hour. Kasey McAteer was set clear down the left and his ball inside was perfect for El Khannouss to find the bottom corner from 15 yards. It was almost three as Fabianski produced an acrobatic save from Wilfred Ndidi’s header before Leicester needed a heroic piece of defending to keep their 2-0 lead intact. Crysencio Summerville bundled the ball goalwards and it was heading over the line until Conor Coady adjusted his feet and poked it clear. The Foxes, who also had a goal from substitute Bobby De Cordova-Reid chalked off by VAR, wrapped things up in the 90th minute when Daka broke clear and emphatically converted into the roof of the net. West Ham did get on the scoresheet when Fullkrug headed a corner home, but the game was already done.JonBenét Ramsey 's dad has issued a new update nearly 30 years after his daughter's horrific murder. The six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant disappeared on Christmas night in Boulder, Colorado in 1996 before being found bludgeoned and strangled in the basement of the family home by her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. A long, rambling ransom note hours earlier had demanded $118,000 for her release. JonBenét's killing sent shockwaves across the US at the time, and has sparked countless conspiracy theories in the years since. But the police investigation that followed was marred by key errors, such as the police failing to secure the house, intense media scrutiny, and possible accidental removal of evidence, leaving the case unsolved three decades on. Now, ahead of the release of a new Netflix documentary on Monday, her dad John has spoken of his renewed hope that his daughter's killer can finally be found. Now 80 years old, he told NBC's Today show on Thursday that he believed advances in DNA technology could help bring the family closure - but claimed police were unwilling to accept outside helped. He said: "We want to keep the case alive and in front of people. I believe it can be solved if the police accept help from outside their system. That's been the flaw for 25 years." JonBenét's death has been the subject of many conspiracy theories over the years, with some people accusing the parents of being the killers themselves, or the authors of the ransom letter. In their initial investigation, police believed that the letter - said to be written "group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction" - had been staged by mum Patsy, before a federal court ruled this was highly unlikely. But many conspiracy theorists online continue to pin the blame on the family, who have received countless death threats. John said he remained hopeful the ongoing attention around his daughter's death meant someone would come forward with answers. He said on Thursday: "It's a double-edged sword. We're grateful that the public, and frankly the world , cares about the murder of our child. Hopefully there's someone who knows something that would come forward." The new three-part Netflix documentary series 'Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey' will be released on November 25, following the family's "decades-long quest for justice" and the failures that scuppered the police investigation. It will feature unseen interviews with dad John and other key figures surrounding the case.

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and these festive neighborhoods will prove it. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice, or Kwanzaa, there is joy in strolling a nearby block or hopping in the car where you can blast holiday tunes. You can even explore holiday lights in some of these neighborhoods via a boat. We compiled a list of 10 Southern California destinations known for their lit holiday hoods! Naples Island It wouldn’t be Southern California without some beachside holiday cheer and displays. Visitors can start their stroll at the marine or Mothers’ Beach for the best expedition. The neighborhoods surrounding Naples Island take the holidays to heart with some breathtaking Christmas light decorations that will guide Santa Claus in the dark night skies. Long Beach also puts on a beautiful Christmas tree lighting display and offers holiday light tours on a double-decker Big Red Bus that rides passengers around the best decorated private homes, the famous floating Christmas trees in Alamitos Bay, and near a Ferris Wheel. If you’re planning a more romantic festive date, Gondola Getaway Inc. provides gondola rides paired with a cup of hot chocolate for you and your sweetie. Where: Holiday Light Tours pick up is at Marni’s OC 620 Pacific Coast Hwy, Seal Beach. When: The Holiday Light tours are scheduled at 5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m., and 8 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday through Dec. 19, with the final night on Dec. 23. For tickets and reservations, call 562-852-9888 or email events@bigredbus.com. To book a Gondola ride, visit gondolagetawayinc.com . Venice Canals We’d be remiss, not to mention the other beautiful neighborhood nestled just steps away from Venice Beach. There is something so charming about shimmering lights over the neighborhood’s wooden framed bridges. Inspired by Venice, Italy, these man-made canals are a cozy display of Christmas lights where residents light up their homes and even some small boats that transform the area into a holiday paradise. It’s perfect for a nice winter stroll by the water. Don’t miss the Venice Canals Christmas Boat Parade on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4:30 p.m. The annual tradition since the ’80s is a community celebration that showcases some of the city’s best-decorated boats. Where: Right off 25th St., Venice Beach. When: Now through Dec. 29. Symphony Street While caroling may not be as prominent as it once was, there are still ways to enjoy those holiday jingles alongside some Christmas lights. This Orange County neighborhood allows visitors to drive-thru and tune into 89.1 FM for Christmas music. Keep up with the Lights on Symphony St Facebook page for the most up-to-date information. Where: 1816 N Symphony St., Anaheim. When: 5-10 p.m. now through Jan 1. Upper Hastings Ranch Holiday LightUp Organized by the Upper Hastings Ranch Association (UHRA) for more than 70 years, the neighborhood often drizzles its lawns with faux snow and decked-out decorations with no shortage of Christmas lights, attracting families from near and far to experience the festivities. The organizers’ Facebook page includes videos of live bands and community shows that have occurred in past celebrations. Where: Hastings Ranch Drive and Sierra Madre Blvd, Pasadena. When: 6-11 p.m. Dec. 6 through Dec. 31. Thoroughbred and Jennet Streets Holiday Lights The annual holiday tradition features over 125,000 lights, holiday figurines and decorations that bring people to the Inland Empire neighborhood every year. The city of Rancho Cucamonga restricts pedestrian access at this event to ensure safety and crowd control and passed a resolution to make it drive-thru only. Where: Thoroughbred, Sapphire and Jennett Streets, Rancho Cucamonga. When: 5-11 p.m. Dec. 6 through Dec. 24. Lights on Display in Sherman Oaks Curated by Sherman Oaks resident Mike Ziemkowski, Lights on Display returns with an impressive showcase of holiday magic. This display features a combination of computer-controlled lighting, DMX-driven intelligent lights, and synchronized animatronic characters—all set to a festive playlist. Perfect for all ages, this free experience delights visitors Wednesday through Sunday, weather permitting, from November 29 to New Year’s Day. Where : 3901 Longview Valley Rd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 When : Wednesdays-Sundays, beginning Nov. 29 through Jan. 1. Holiday Road Hosted at the picturesque King Gillette Ranch, the fifth annual Holiday Road transforms Calabasas into a holiday wonderland. Featuring over 1 million Christmas lights, a mile-long walking trail with over 20 immersive scenes, live Santa, carolers, and festive bars, it’s a must-see event for holiday enthusiasts. New highlights this year include cutting-edge projection mapping, innovative light technology, and exclusive Maker’s Mark and Minus One Nine Six Vodka Seltzer activations. Where : 26800 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302 When : 5-10 p.m., Nov. 29 through Dec. 28. Sparkle DTLA at The Bloc Celebrate the season in a vibrant display of lights at Sparkle DTLA, where 18 million hues illuminate the night in sync with festive music. Located at The Bloc, this event features one of the city’s largest multi-colored interactive holiday displays, making it a unique experience for all ages. The nightly light show starts at 5 p.m. and runs through December 31. Where : 700 W 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90017 When : 5-10 p.m., nightly through Dec. 31. 123 Farm Christmas Nights Bring the holiday spirit to life at 123 Farm Christmas Nights, where twinkling lights meet festive fun in a charming Christmas Village setting. Stroll the farm while savoring seasonal foods and drinks, surrounded by holiday displays perfect for a family outing. Where : 10600 Highland Springs Ave., Beaumont, CA 92223 When : 5-10 p.m., Tuesdays-Sundays through Dec. 23. Christmas Tree Lane Experience a mile of magic on Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, where towering cedar trees are adorned with twinkling lights and festive music fills the air. Beginning December 7 at 6 p.m., this annual tradition transforms Santa Rosa Avenue into a glowing wonderland, perfect for a stroll or a drive. Where : Santa Rosa Ave., between Altadena Dr. & Woodbury Rd., Altadena, CA 91003 When : Nightly starting Dec. 7.Albanese facing a new mood of pick and kickFormer Steeler Dick Hoak selected for Hall of Fame's Awards of Excellence program

Swiss National Bank lessened its position in shares of Range Resources Co. ( NYSE:RRC – Free Report ) by 0.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 473,600 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock after selling 2,300 shares during the quarter. Swiss National Bank owned 0.20% of Range Resources worth $14,568,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD grew its stake in Range Resources by 25.2% during the 1st quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 28,633,567 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $985,855,000 after purchasing an additional 5,759,883 shares during the last quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC grew its stake in Range Resources by 135.5% during the 3rd quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC now owns 112,008 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $3,445,000 after purchasing an additional 64,443 shares during the last quarter. TCW Group Inc. grew its stake in Range Resources by 186.5% during the 2nd quarter. TCW Group Inc. now owns 49,824 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $1,671,000 after purchasing an additional 32,433 shares during the last quarter. Mariner Investment Group LLC purchased a new stake in Range Resources during the 3rd quarter valued at about $1,077,000. Finally, Boston Partners grew its stake in Range Resources by 2.1% during the 1st quarter. Boston Partners now owns 6,531,086 shares of the oil and gas exploration company’s stock valued at $224,912,000 after purchasing an additional 133,565 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.93% of the company’s stock. Analysts Set New Price Targets RRC has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Scotiabank upgraded Range Resources from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and set a $45.00 target price on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, August 20th. Stephens upped their target price on Range Resources from $36.00 to $37.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 23rd. Barclays upgraded Range Resources from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lowered their target price for the stock from $35.00 to $34.00 in a research note on Wednesday, October 2nd. Piper Sandler lowered their target price on Range Resources from $31.00 to $30.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, November 18th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group lowered their target price on Range Resources from $40.00 to $35.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, September 6th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have given a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $34.94. Insider Activity In related news, Director Charles G. Griffie purchased 1,275 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, October 24th. The stock was acquired at an average cost of $31.46 per share, for a total transaction of $40,111.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now directly owns 5,921 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $186,274.66. This trade represents a 27.44 % increase in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link . Also, VP Ashley Kavanaugh sold 12,700 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $31.45, for a total value of $399,415.00. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now owns 9,670 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $304,121.50. This trade represents a 56.77 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Company insiders own 1.57% of the company’s stock. Range Resources Price Performance Shares of Range Resources stock opened at $35.72 on Friday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $31.61 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $32.60. Range Resources Co. has a 12 month low of $27.29 and a 12 month high of $39.33. The stock has a market capitalization of $8.62 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.04 and a beta of 1.80. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.28, a current ratio of 0.54 and a quick ratio of 0.54. Range Resources ( NYSE:RRC – Get Free Report ) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, October 22nd. The oil and gas exploration company reported $0.48 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.32 by $0.16. The business had revenue of $615.03 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $617.90 million. Range Resources had a return on equity of 13.69% and a net margin of 17.63%. The business’s revenue was up .9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.43 earnings per share. As a group, analysts predict that Range Resources Co. will post 1.88 EPS for the current fiscal year. Range Resources Dividend Announcement The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 27th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th were given a $0.08 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Friday, September 13th. This represents a $0.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.90%. Range Resources’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 16.16%. Range Resources Company Profile ( Free Report ) Range Resources Corporation operates as an independent natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, and condensate company in the United States. The company engages in the exploration, development, and acquisition of natural gas and crude oil properties located in the Appalachian region. It sells natural gas to utilities, marketing and midstream companies, and industrial users; NGLs to petrochemical end users, marketers/traders, and natural gas processors; and oil and condensate to crude oil processors, transporters, and refining and marketing companies. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Range Resources Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Range Resources and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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People in business are likely to make a lot of money today thanks to the help of a close friend. This money can help you with a lot of things. When you need help, your friends will be there for you. It will be hard for you to spend time without your loved one. Your ability to work together and communicate will be useful. As you and your partner laugh and joke around, an old problem may come up, which could lead to a fight. When someone wants to talk to you but you're not in the mood, you should tell them in a calm voice. Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23): What you need to do will only take half as long today because you'll be so full of energy. You can only make your money work for you if you don't lose it. Today, you'll really get this. Do not ignore your friends and family. Take a break from your busy life and go to an event with your family. This will not only make you feel less stressed, but it will also get rid of your doubts. Enjoy life to the fullest while you're out with your loved one. Do not decide things quickly so that you do not have to regret them later. You and your partner will be able to remember the good old days when you were in love. Today, being around other people will make you feel lonely. BY Dr. Sohini Sastri Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23): You need to keep your feelings in check. You can make a lot of money if you spend it for a long time. For some people, adding a new family member will be a time of excitement and happiness. There are times when life can follow a different path, which will alter the way love and romance develop. Whether you choose to smile and forget about your troubles or to let them consume you and worry about them, you have the option. Your decision is entirely up to you. Right now is the greatest time to give your lover the pleasure of being married to you. You can sleep a little longer because getting enough sleep is good for your health. Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22): Do not waste time thinking. Use your energy to do work that matters. There are times when investing can really pay off. You may understand this today because you're getting a return on an old investment. Say, thank you to family members who have helped you through hard times. This small thing you did will get them more excited. Being thankful makes life smell good while being angry ruins it. There is a chance of an unexpected romantic connection. Toward the end of the day, you'll want to spend time with your family, but you might fight with a family member during this time, which could ruin your mood. You'll think that being married is a wonderful thing. There may be talk of getting married at home today, but you won't like this. BY Dr. Sohini Sastri Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21): To stay fit, watch what you eat and work out daily. You could ask someone to return your loan and he would have ignored you up until now. But now he can do it without saying a word. Taking a short trip to see family will help you relax and calm down after a busy day. Today, the love of your lover will fill you up completely. Today is going to be a very nice day in this way. If you have some free time today, you can play any game you want. But be careful, because something bad could happen. Your partner can show you the world of love and happiness today. Someone in your family can talk to you today about a love trouble. You should tell them what to do. Capricorn (Dec 22–Jan 21): Have patience, because the combination of your experience and hard work will undoubtedly lead to your success. You will receive the money that has been pending, and your current financial situation will improve. Please do not forget the obligations you have to your family. Today, it will appear as though your heartbeat is in time with the pulse of your sweetheart. As you say, this is the intoxication that love brings. New information and data will be presented to you through various events such as seminars and exhibitions. This day will bring to your attention the significance of being in the company of your life partner. Should you choose to avoid squandering your valuable time on pointless conversations, it will be beneficial for you. Aquarius (Jan 22-Feb 19): Making art will calm you down. You will get money out of the blue, which will cover all of your bills, costs, and other things. Get everyone to come to your party. Today you have extra energy, which makes you want to plan an event or party. This could be the day that you give your loved one sweets, chocolate, etc. Someone from your past might get in touch with you today and make this day special. Today, your partner will be seen putting in a lot of work to make you happy. Other people can only give you advice, so you have to figure out how to solve your own problems. BY Dr. Sohini Sastri Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20): Because you're easily hurt, stay away from things that could hurt you. Someone may come to your door today and ask you to give them money. You might run into money problems if you give them the money back. It is suggested that you do not take money. Friends will make your day better by planning something fun for the evening. Give someone the help they need to make their love life dream come true. There are some things you should try to understand today. If you don't, you'll keep thinking about them when you have free time, which will be bad. Should you not believe what your partner says, you might end up in a fight. As far as your health goes, running is good for you because it is free and good for you.NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global financial landscape faces growing concerns over censorship and restricted access, with centralized institutions retaining the ability to freeze accounts and block transactions. 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Oliver Glasner declared Crystal Palace are on the right path after they finally broke their away duck with a 1-0 win at Ipswich. Jean-Philippe Mateta struck in the second half with the only real piece of quality in a nervy encounter between two struggling teams. It is now two wins and three draws from the last six matches for Glasner’s side, whose winter revival is gathering pace nicely following a sticky start to the campaign. “I feel very happy, we’re all very pleased with the result, it was not the best performance but the result was more important,” said the Eagles boss. “Most of the time we controlled the game and we scored an amazing goal, a fantastic finish from JP. “We had more chances to decide the game but we couldn’t, but I think the win was well deserved. “We didn’t give them any chances from open play and with a clean sheet you can always take the win. “It’s a big win. Now it’s not time to sit back and relax but to keep going. In four days we face Manchester City. We stay humble. There are still many things to improve but we are on the right path.” Ipswich looked the likelier to score as a low-key first half drew to a close and were denied by a point-blank save by Dean Henderson from Harry Clarke’s near-post header. Shortly after the interval Wes Burns got clear down the right and lifted an inviting cross towards Liam Delap, whose header was straight at Henderson. However, from out of nowhere Palace conjured up a lightning counter-attack to go ahead on the hour. Eberechi Eze led the charge before feeding Mateta, who surged forward with a couple of stepovers before brushing off the attention of Jacob Greaves and finishing superbly past Arijanet Muric. It was the French forward’s sixth goal of the season, and his first away from Selhurst Park. Back came Ipswich with Leif Davis fizzing in another cross for Delap, who somehow mistimed his jump and completely missed the ball from six yards. As time ticked down Greaves looped a header against the far post, with the rebound just eluding substitute Ali-Al Hamadi. “Frustrating night,” said Town boss Kieran McKenna. “It was a tight first half, we weren’t fantastic in terms of the flow of the game and didn’t create as many opportunities as we wanted. But having said that neither did our opponents. “In the second half we conceded a really poor goal and that proved decisive. We can do better than we did tonight.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Pittsburgh quarterback Eli Holstein was carted off the field and taken to a hospital with a left leg injury sustained while being sacked in the first quarter of Saturday's Atlantic Coast Conference game at Louisville. The redshirt freshman's left ankle was caught at an awkward angle beneath Louisville defensive end Ashton Gillotte's hip on a twisting tackle for a 4-yard loss at midfield. Panthers medical personnel rushed to Holstein's aid, with a cart arriving quickly on the field within minutes. Holstein’s leg was placed in a boot before he was helped onto the cart. He gave a thumbs-up to nearby teammates as he left the field to applause before being taken a hospital. Holstein started for the Panthers (7-3, 3-3 ACC) after missing last week’s 24-20 home loss to No. 17 Clemson with a head injury sustained in the previous game against Virginia while sliding at the end of a run. He left an Oct. 24 game against Syracuse after taking a hit, but returned against SMU the following week. Holstein completed 3 of 4 passes for 51 yards before being intercepted in the end zone by Louisville's Stanquan Clark on the game-opening possession. He was relieved by junior Nate Yarnell. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballFIIs likely to turn out consistent buyers in Indian markets soon

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South Korea lifts president’s martial law decree after lawmakers vote against itThe Dallas Cowboys are set to miss five players with a combined salary cap hit of $100 million when the NFC East franchise faces the Washington Commanders . On Sunday, Dallas will take to the field for the NFC East showdown without five key players - and it comes at a brutal time in the season. Dallas has slipped to 3-7, and have lost each of their five games at AT&T Stadium. With Dak Prescott out for the rest of the season following surgery on his torn hamstring, the Cowboys season is all but over before Thanksgiving. With Cooper Rush struggling, the Cowboys have not won a game since Oct. 6 when Prescott led a late win over the Pittsburgh Steelers - and they are in danger of picking up more losses down the stretch. Aaron Rodgers could suffer ultimate embarrassment with New York Jets future uncertain Shedeur Sanders drops huge hint at NFL future after Daniel Jones release from Giants Prescott is out for far longer, but he will be joined on the sidelines by DeMarcus Lawrence, Zack Martin, Trevon Diggs, and Brandin Cooks. Prescott earns $44.6 million against the cap, and with Lawrence ($20.4m), Martin ($15.5m), Diggs ($15.3m), and Cooks ($10m), the salary cap figure totals more than $100 million. Lawrence is signed through the 2025 season, along with Cooks. Martin is signed through 2026, while Diggs is through 2029m; the cornerback signed a five-year deal with the Cowboys worth $97 million. But Prescott’s injury represented the most devastating blow for the Cowboys. In September, the franchise agreed to terms on a four-year extension worth $240 million with Prescott, and the average of $60 million a year gives him the highest average annual value in NFL history. Follow us on X for the best and latest in sports news His injury fully derailed the Cowboys’ season, with the franchise suffering as Mike McCarthy coaches on an expiring contract. The 61-year-old, who won Super Bowl XLV with the Green Bay Packers , entered the season with a win percentage of 62.7 percent - the highest career win percentage of any coach in team history - while he guided Dallas to two NFC East titles in the past three years. The Cowboys have tallied at least 12 wins for three seasons in a row, which is the second stretch of such success in franchise history after the 1990s dynasty which won three Super Bowls in four seasons. But regular season success has failed to translate to the playoffs; the Cowboys are 1-3 in the playoffs over his four years at the helm. As a result, McCarthy is not expected to return in 2025. The Cowboys are unlikely to reach the playoffs this season, but can at least begin to appease disgruntled owner Jerry Jones with a gutsy road victory over the high-flying 7-4 Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 23. Want to watch more live sports? Peacock has your favorite sports, shows, and more all in one place. Peacock offers plans starting at $7.99 so you can stream live sports like NFL, Premier League, and Big Ten Football.

Love Christmas lights? Check out these 10 destination neighborhoodshas opened up on a tradition that has been broken this year amid the club’s poor run of form. , City have won just once in their last 12 games across all competitions and have slipped to seventh in the . Now 12 points behind league leaders Liverpool, it’s almost certain Guardiola’s side will not be crowned champions of England for a fifth year in a row as the target must surely be to ensure a top-four finish and Champions League qualification. With the Spaniard calling on his players to give it their all over the festive period in an attempt to turn around their dire form, has revealed City boss has called the squad in to train on Christmas Day. Ultimately this is with the Boxing Day clash at home to in mind. Though it’s not something that City players have become accustomed to in recent seasons. "We've been fortunate in the past couple of seasons that we haven't had to train on Christmas Day,” the City captain said when speaking on his ‘ . “We are doing this season because we've got Everton at 12.30 on Boxing Day. “But the last couple of seasons we've had Christmas Day off, which has been very nice..." Going into further detail with regards to training plans on Christmas Day, Guardiola issued a rallying cry to his players demanding total commitment. “We train today and we train tomorrow night, and then we stay here and then play on Boxing Day,” he said in the pre-match press conference. “Tonight and tomorrow, they will be with their families. Tomorrow night they will be here. Hopefully they want to be here - it is our job.” Guardiola will be hopeful for a change in fortunes on Boxing Day as there is a scenario where they can drop to 10th if they lose to Everton and other results go against them.

Caitlin Clark raised the profile of women's basketball to unprecedented levels in both the college ranks and the WNBA, and Tuesday she was named the AP Female Athlete of the Year for her impact on and off the court. After leading Iowa to the national championship game, Clark was the top pick in the WNBA draft as expected and went on to win rookie of the year honors in the league. Fans packed sold-out arenas and millions of television viewers tuned in to follow her journey. Clark's exploits were far reaching, casting a light on other women's sports leagues along the way. A group of 74 sports journalists from The Associated Press and its members voted on the award. Clark received 35 votes, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles was second with 25 and boxer Imane Khelif was third, getting four votes. Clark is only the fourth women's basketball player to be honored as the female athlete of the year since it was first presented in 1931, joining Sheryl Swoopes (1993), Rebecca Lobo (1995) and Candace Parker (2008, 2021). "I grew up a fan of Candace Parker and the people who came before me and to be honored in this way, is super special and I'm thankful," Clark said in a phone interview. "It was a great year for women's basketball and women's sports." Shohei Ohtani won the AP Male Athlete of the Year on Monday for the third time. Clark broke the NCAA Division I career scoring record for both men and women finishing her career with 3,951 points while guiding Iowa to its second consecutive national championship game. After her Hawkeyes lost t South Carolina for the title, Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley took the mic during her team's celebration and said, "I want to personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport." For all the success Clark has had and the attention she has brought to women's basketball, she is often the centerpiece of debates and online toxicity towards her and other players in the league. For her part, Clark has disavowed the toxic discourse. Lobo also has been impressed with the way the 22-year-old Clark has handled the pressure and attention that has come her way. "I would say she's navigated it almost flawlessly. she hasn't had an big missteps or misspeaks at a time you're under constant scrutiny," Lobo said. "She's seemed to say and do all the right things. That's just incredible at a time when it's constant attention and scrutiny. She has not done anything to tarnish this sort of mild persona she has." As Clark handled the praise — and the backlash — during the heat of competition, it was hard for her to appreciate just what she was able accomplish over the past year. But after having time to reflect on the whirlwind tour, she appreciates those who were there alongside her for the ride. "I'm thankful for the people I got to do it with," Clark said. "A year ago I was still in the early part of my senior year in college. ... How fast things change, and now I can see how great a college season it was." Iowa sold out all of its games at home and on the road with Clark as the main attraction. That momentum continued into the pros. Her No. 22 jersey was prevalent wherever she played during her rookie season and will be retired at Iowa. "You'd be remiss not to acknowledge how crazy her fan base is and the eyes she gets with everything she does," said Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton, who was often spotted courtside at Clark's Indiana Fever games. "It's a different type of popularity, she's one of the most popular athletes in the world. It's not just women's sports anymore. "It's really cool to see and she just handles it with such grace." Clark said she enjoys spending time with fans at games, usually taking a few minutes before and after games to sign autographs. "For me it's still really fun," she said. "Whether it's 15 seconds or 10 seconds or 5 seconds can be very impactful in a young girl and young boys life. Seeing the fans going crazy an hour before tipoff, I never take that for granted. That's super cool and I never want that to go away." After a slow start to her WNBA career, Clark eventually found her stride there too. She set the single-game assist record with 19 and also had 337 assists on the season to break that mark as well. Clark, known for her logo-distance 3-pointers, was the fastest player to reach 100 3's when she did it in 34 games which helped Indiana reach the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Lobo, who won the AP female athlete of the year award after lifting UConn to its first national championship, was on the court for launch of the WNBA two years later. The ESPN analyst sees Clark's ascension as something different. "She's brought unprecedented attention both in the building, but also viewership to the sport that was worthy of it but didn't have it yet," Lobo said. "There's never been anything like this. "That timeframe from 1995-97 was a baby step in the progression of it all. This is a giant leap forward. I've never seen anything like this. There's more attention then the sports ever had." The numbers have been record breaking when Clark is part of a broadcast: — TV viewership in the WNBA was up 300% thanks in large part to Clark with ABC, CBS, ION, ESPN, and ESPN2 all having record viewers when Fever games were on. — The NCAA women's championship game outdrew the men on TV for the first time in the sport's 42-year history with 18.9 million viewers tuning it to watch the event. It was the second most watched women's sporting event outside of the Olympics in the history of U.S. television. — The 2024 WNBA draft was the most-watched in league history with 2.4 million viewers. Clark credits the community of women athletes for the popularity increase of women's sports, saying "we" did this or "we" did that when asked about it. "It's fascinating, you don't always appreciate how many people 18 million is," Clark said. "You see that number against a college football game or the Masters or whatever it is as far as the biggest sporting events in our country and it puts it in perspective. We outdrew the men's Final Four."GAZA, — An Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, a senior Palestinian health official said. Three of them were said to be employees of the charity World Central Kitchen , whose aid delivery efforts in the war-ravaged territory were temporarily suspended earlier this year after an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, most of them foreigners. World Central Kitchen could not immediately be reached for comment, and it did not mention the deaths on social media. The Israeli military said it struck a wanted militant who had been involved in the Hamas attack that sparked the war. In a later statement, it said that the alleged attacker had worked with WCK and it asked “senior officials from the international community and the WCK administration to clarify" how that had come about. The violence in Gaza rages on even as a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appears to be holding, despite sporadic episodes that have tested its fragility. Israel on Saturday struck what it said were Hezbollah weapons smuggling sites along Syria's border with Lebanon. The strike on the vehicle in Gaza was the latest in what aid agencies have described as the dangerous work of delivering aid in Gaza , where the war has sparked a humanitarian crisis that has displaced much of the territory's 2.3 million population and triggered widespread hunger. World Central Kitchen provides freshly prepared meals to people in need following natural disasters or to those enduring conflict. Its teams have fanned out in Gaza and across Israel and Lebanon since the war began and have often served as a lifeline for people in Gaza who have struggled to feed themselves and their families. Palestinian health official Muneer Alboursh confirmed the strike, and an aid worker in Gaza confirmed that three killed were workers with the WCK. The aid worker spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak with the media. At Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a woman held up an employee badge bearing the WCK logo, the word “contractor” and the name of a man said to have been killed in the strike. A heap of belongings — burned phones, a watch and stickers with the WCK logo — lay splayed on the hospital floor. Nazmi Ahmed said his nephew worked for WCK for the past year. He said he was driving to the charity's kitchens and warehouses. “Today, he went out as usual to work ... and was targeted without prior warning and without any reason,” Ahmed said. In April, a strike on a WCK aid convoy killed seven workers — three British citizens, Polish and Australian nationals, a Canadian-American dual national and a Palestinian. The Israeli military said the strike was a mistake. The strike prompted an international outcry and the suspension of aid to Gaza for a a brief period by several aid groups, including WCK. Another Palestinian WCK worker was killed in August by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike, the group said. The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’ October 2023 attack, when militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 hostage. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 44,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their count but say more than half the dead were women and children. Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have faltered repeatedly. But the U.S.- and France-brokered deal for Lebanon appears to holding after it took effect on Wednesday. Still, Israel has accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire and Lebanon has accused Israel of the same. On Saturday, Israel's military said it struck sites that had been used to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect, which the military called a violation of its terms. There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities or activists monitoring the conflict in that country. Hezbollah did not immediately comment. Israeli aircraft have struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, citing ceasefire violations, several times since the truce began. The Israeli strike in Syria came as insurgents there breached the country's largest city, Aleppo, in a shock offensive that added fresh uncertainty to a region reeling from multiple wars. The truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah calls for an initial two-month ceasefire in which the militants are to withdraw north of Lebanon's Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. Many Lebanese, some of the 1.2 million displaced in the conflict, were streaming south to their homes , despite warnings by the Israeli and Lebanese militaries to stay away from certain areas. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone attacked a car in the southern village of Majdal Zoun. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said three people were wounded, including a 7-year-old child. Majdal Zoun, near the Mediterranean Sea, is close to where Israeli troops still have a presence. Israel's military said earlier Saturday that its forces, who remain in southern Lebanon until they withdraw gradually over the 60-day ceasefire period, had been operating to distance “suspects” in the region, without elaborating, and said troops had located and seized weapons found hidden in a mosque. Israel says it reserves the right under the ceasefire to strike against any perceived violations. Israel has made returning the tens of thousands of displaced Israelis home the goal of the war with Hezbollah but Israelis, concerned that Hezbollah has not been deterred and could still attack northern communities, have been apprehensive about returning home . Hezbollah began attacking Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, in solidarity with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and its assault on southern Israel the day before. Israel and Hezbollah kept up a low-level conflict of cross-border fire for nearly a year, until Israel escalated its fight with a sophisticated attack that detonated hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah fighters. It followed that up with an intense aerial bombardment campaign against Hezbollah assets, killing many of its top leaders including longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah , and it launched a ground invasion in early October. More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel — over half of them civilians — as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon. ___ Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Mroue reported from Beirut. Mohammad Jahjouh in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, contributed.eLong Power Holding Limited Completes Business Combination with TMT Acquisition Corp

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Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products. “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time,” said a statement from OpenAI. Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide. His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends. Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT. “Suchir’s contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn’t have succeeded without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what made him such an exceptional engineer and scientist was his attention to detail and ability to notice subtle bugs or logical errors. “He had a knack for finding simple solutions and writing elegant code that worked,” Schulman wrote. “He’d think through the details of things carefully and rigorously.” Balaji later shifted to organizing the huge datasets of online writings and other media used to train GPT-4, the fourth generation of OpenAI's flagship large language model and a basis for the company's famous chatbot. It was that work that eventually caused Balaji to question the technology he helped build, especially after newspapers, novelists and others began suing OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement. He first raised his concerns with The New York Times, which reported them in an October profile of Balaji . He later told The Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright infringement cases and considered a lawsuit brought by The New York Times last year to be the “most serious.” Times lawyers named him in a Nov. 18 court filing as someone who might have “unique and relevant documents” supporting allegations of OpenAI's willful copyright infringement. His records were also sought by lawyers in a separate case brought by book authors including the comedian Sarah Silverman, according to a court filing. “It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.” He told the AP that he gradually grew more disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after the internal turmoil that led its board of directors to fire and then rehire CEO Sam Altman last year. Balaji said he was broadly concerned about how its commercial products were rolling out, including their propensity for spouting false information known as hallucinations. But of the “bag of issues” he was concerned about, he said he was focusing on copyright as the one it was “actually possible to do something about.” He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had not been deposed and it’s unclear to what extent his revelations will be admitted as evidence in any legal cases after his death. He also published a personal blog post with his opinions about the topic. Schulman, who resigned from OpenAI in August, said he and Balaji coincidentally left on the same day and celebrated with fellow colleagues that night with dinner and drinks at a San Francisco bar. Another of Balaji’s mentors, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, had left OpenAI several months earlier , which Balaji saw as another impetus to leave. Schulman said Balaji had told him earlier this year of his plans to leave OpenAI and that Balaji didn't think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence “was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe.” The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence,” Schulman said. Balaji's family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, not far from his hometown of Cupertino. —————- EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. —————-- The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.ssbet77 com 。

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Jools Lebron, a Chicago-based content creator, gained fame when her "very demure, very mindful" catch phrase went viral. The quote was quickly embraced by other influencers, celebrities and politicians but when Jools went to trademark the phrase, she learned someone had beat her to it. A man reportedly filed an intent to trademark for use in marketing, advertising and promotion. Despite the timing of the trademark applications, Alexandra Roberts, a law and media professor at Northeastern University, says that Lebron can still challenge the trademark. Memes like "Hawk Tuah," "Brat Summer," and Moo Deng dominated online conversations in 2024. Viral humor intertwined with societal reflection, influencing pop culture and even political campaigns. As TikTok faces uncertainty, meme culture is poised for change in 2025. LOS ANGELES - The internet in 2024 was a chaotic blend of creativity, humor, and commentary. Memes once again became the language of the digital age, transforming fleeting moments into viral phenomena that united, confused, or divided online audiences. From AI-generated absurdity to cultural moments like the Paris Olympics, memes acted as both a reflection of society and an outlet for humor amid serious issues. Here's a look at the most iconic memes that defined this year. The Paris Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics were not just about athletic achievements; they became a cultural and meme-worthy moment. Viral highlights included Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen’s muffin reviews and gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik earning the nickname "pommel horse guy." Céline Dion’s moving performance at the opening ceremony also sparked widespread online love. RELATED: Australian breakdancer Raygun breaks silence after controversial Olympics performance Charli XCX’s "Brat" summer: Charli XCX’s album "Brat" redefined the word "brat" as a rebellion against perfection. Its cultural impact extended far beyond music, inspiring memes and social media trends about embracing chaos and hedonism in an otherwise tumultuous year. RELATED: What is a 'brat summer'? Why are people using the term 'brat'? Skibidi Toilet: This YouTube phenomenon continued to dominate online discourse in 2024. What started as a surreal web series became a shorthand for chaotic humor, spawning countless reaction GIFs and fan recreations. AI-generated "slop" art: AI tools flooded the internet with bizarre, anatomically inaccurate images, including shrimp-like Jesus figures and unrecognizable children pleading for birthday wishes. These surreal creations blurred the lines between humor and horror while sparking debates about AI ethics in art. Moo Deng’s unexpected popularity: Few could have predicted that Moo Deng, an adorable pygmy hippo from Thailand, would capture the internet’s imagination in 2024. Videos of the hippo’s playful antics and charming expressions became instant hits, sparking a wave of memes and fan art. Moo Deng’s rise to fame also helped shine a light on wildlife conservation efforts, making it a symbol of joy and environmental awareness. FILE - Moo Deng splashes in a bucket of water in her enclosure at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo on November 11, 2024 in Pattaya, Thailand. Underconsumption core: TikTok saw the rise of "underconsumption core," a trend encouraging users to reject constant consumerism. This movement, which advocates for appreciating what you already own, resonated with audiences tired of fast fashion and fleeting trends. The great X-odus: The mass departure from Elon Musk's X platform (formerly Twitter) reached new heights during the 2024 election season. Frustrated users migrated to alternatives like Bluesky and Threads, showcasing dissatisfaction with X’s growing issues and prompting memes about its decline. The rise of "Hawk Tuah": Haliey Welch’s unapologetic Southern drawl in a viral clip cemented "Hawk Tuah" as a summer anthem and launched Welch into unexpected fame. Memes surrounding the phrase became symbols of bold self-expression. RELATED: 'Demure:' What does it mean and why is it trending on TikTok? "Brain rot" lingo from Gen Alpha: The Oxford word of the year, "brain rot," captured Gen Alpha’s unique online language. Terms like "gyatt" and "Skibidi" highlighted the influence of younger generations on internet culture and left older audiences scrambling to keep up.CEO killer suspect: golden boy who soured on US health systemCEO killer suspect: golden boy who soured on US health system

Celebrity osteopath admits spying on female university students as they got undressed in halls of residence By MILO POPE Published: 22:49, 24 December 2024 | Updated: 23:14, 24 December 2024 e-mail View comments A celebrity osteopath has admitted to spying on female university students while they got undressed in their halls of residence. Torben Hersborg, 63, made at least 60 videos of women over the course of four years and was caught by police while carrying a camera and a telescope, a court heard. According to the Standard , Hersborg, of Peartree Lane in Wapping, was wearing black gloves when he was arrested and had covered the back seat of his car with black bin bags. Hersborg, a Danish national, is said to be the childhood friend of actor Mads Mikkelsen and moved to the UK in 1984. The osteopath, who works to alleviate muscle and joint pain, boasts an extensive group of celebrity clients. These include the likes of Strictly Come Dancing contestant Viscountess Emma Weymouth. Hersborg also posted an image on his Instagram of himself and presenter Fearne Cotton after he helped her. Another image on his account from 109 shows him and famous musicians Ronnie Wood and Beverley Knight. Torben Hersborg, pictured with Mads Mikkelsen on his Instagram, has admitted to spying on female university students The osteopath boasts an extensive group of celebrity clients including the likes of KSI Here, Hersborg is pictured with presenter Fearne Cotton on his social media A video was posted on his social media where he helped Strictly Come Dancing contestant Viscountess Emma Weymouth The osteopath was pictured alongside famous musicians Ronnie Wood and Beverley Knight Hersborg has also helped British sprinter athlete Zharnell Hughes, pictured on his Instagram To add to this, Hersborg helped provide his services for a number of the Sidemen YouTubers during their charity football match. As well as posting images of himself massaging the pictures, he poses alongside internet superstar KSI. At Highbury Corner magistrates courts on Monday, Hersborg pleaded guilty to three charges of spying on women on December 10, 14, and 21 this year, at student halls of residence in Islington, north London. He was remanded in custody until sentencing next month. Police fear this could only be the 'tip of the iceberg' after electronic devices from his home in Wapping, east London, were recovered. Prosecutor Zahid Hussain said: 'He was outside university halls of residence, spying on female students, filming and recording them. 'The defendant's home and motor car were searched. Extensive digital equipment and IT storage devices were found at his home address. 'The devices have yet to be interrogated.' Ronnie Wood Strictly Come Dancing Mads Mikkelsen Share or comment on this article: Celebrity osteopath admits spying on female university students as they got undressed in halls of residence e-mail Add commentEx-OpenAI Engineer Who Raised Legal Concerns About the Technology He Helped Build Has DiedCLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s time for this week’s edition of the Terry’s Talkin’ podcast, featuring cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto and host David Campbell. On this week’s pod, we open with the Cavs , and how Evan Mobley was taking his game to another level before hurting his ankle on Sunday. We break down the 3-10 Browns , and how we think Kevin Stefanski is feeling about where things stand, and why Jameis Winston should keep playing games to finish out the season. We also talk some Guardians , and their recent signing of veteran starter Shane Bieber. This podcast was taped before reports broke Tuesday evening that Cleveland was trading second baseman Andrés Giménez to Toronto. What was your favorite Cleveland sports moment of 2024? And what are your Cleveland sports predictions for 2025? Send them in via email to us at sports@cleveland.com and put “Terry’s Talkin’” in the subject line, and we’ll feature the best responses in an upcoming podcast. Highlights: Don’t forget: Email us your favorite 2024 Cleveland sports moments, and your Cleveland sports predictions for 2025. Send them to sports@cleveland.com ; The Cavs are 21-4 and on pace to potentially surpass their best season record (66-16 in 2008-09) with 68-69 wins; Will casual Cleveland shift their focus to the Cavs? They should; Evan Mobley is taking off. Here’s what Terry is seeing; Donovan Mitchell’s numbers are down, and that’s good; How is Kevin Stefanski dealing with this 3-10 season; Jameis Winston: A listener asks if he brings back memories of former Browns QB Vinny Testaverde; Shane Bieber’s new Guardians contract -- the right move for both sides? A follow-up on postseason shares for the Guardians and other teams Some listener emails on our discussion last week about the OSU vs. Michigan game, and whether the college pass-interference penalty should become a spot foul, like the NFL, instead of just 15 yards. Here’s the podcast for this week: If the player above doesn’t work, you can listen to this week’s podcast here . If you have a question or a topic you’d like to see included on the podcast, email it to sports@cleveland.com , and put “Terry’s Talkin’” in the subject line. You can find previous podcasts below. The transcript below was generated by a computer, and so it contains many spelling and grammar errors. Stories by Terry Pluto Kevin Stefanski’s been through a lot in 5 years with Browns, but not this – Terry Pluto Yes, we’re back to ‘The Browns is the Browns’ & I hate it – Terry Pluto Browns defense solid, offense iffy as Jameis Winston is up & down – Terry Pluto’s Halftime Scribbles Check out Terry's new weekly newsletter that he's writing exclusively for subscribers. Learn more and sign up here. David Campbell (02:33.525) It’s time for this week’s Terry’s Talking podcast with Plain Dealer columnist, cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto and I’m your host David Campbell. How you doing Terry? You recovered from your trip to Pittsburgh. Terry Pluto (02:55.35) I’m WellDavid. Yes, I did. So it’s always an interesting thing for me, at least driving around downtown Pittsburgh finding where they thank God that there’s immediate a lot to park in, but they hide it. They tuck it away in corners with construction and one way streets. David Campbell (03:15.397) And all the bridges make it fun too, right? all the... Terry Pluto (03:17.236) Yeah, they do. Yeah, I always get on the wrong, going the other way. I wanted to give myself a lot of time, but I love watching games at that place. I really do. The press box from press by view is really good and it’s a live atmosphere. It’s loud. It’s fun. David Campbell (03:30.473) Yeah, there’s good tailgating scene there in the whole bit. It’s a good place to see a game. Yeah. Terry Pluto (03:32.8) Yeah, it is. Yeah. You know, there’s certain cities you go to, whether you like the opponent or not. I mean, Baltimore is another one, but it’s alive. I mean, it’s a football town. Kansas city is great. Obviously green Bay is legendary. I’m sure I’m missing some, but those Midwestern, towns that it there is just tremendous. love it. David Campbell (03:56.085) Good, good. Well, glad you’re back and able to get a little bit of downtime after the game Sunday. I do want to mention up top, we are taping this on Tuesday the 10th in the afternoon. We’re going to shoot to have a podcast next week, the 17th, and then we’re going to take off for Christmas Eve. And then I was thinking, and we’ve been mentioning this on the podcast on the 31st or that week, we’ll do the predictions maybe. We’ve been inviting listeners to email in. Terry Pluto (04:00.727) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (04:21.385) their favorite sports moments of 2024 and their Cleveland sports predictions for 2025. So we’ll try and do that last podcast of the year before we head into 2025. And also we’ve been getting some good emails of funeral stories of sports related funeral stories of people paying tribute through their sports fandom. So send all that to sports. That’s right. Terry Pluto (04:36.585) well there we are, Terry Pluto (04:42.538) of all the podcasts in the world, only here in the same calendar year will you get foul ball stories followed by funeral stories. David Campbell (04:50.953) We have the funeral, the Cleveland Sports Funeral Market stories covered and cornered on the market. So they can all come to sports at cleveland.com . Just put Terry’s talking in the subject line and we will get into it. So, all right, let’s start with the calves, Terry. Terry Pluto (04:54.265) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (05:06.008) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (05:08.021) 21 and four. And I was doing some math earlier today. I think they are on pace to win 68 or 69 games right now. The franchise record for wins is 66 and 16. So right now they’re still on pace even though they had a hard time in Miami. Take the temperature of Cleveland sports fans for me, Terry. Do you think Cleveland fans are engaged right now with this team in a big way? Terry Pluto (05:16.28) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (05:35.157) or not so much because it’s Brown season or how are you feeling about the way this team is being kind of consumed by the fans and enjoyed by the fans right now? Terry Pluto (05:44.024) Well, the hardcore, the big Cavs fans, mean, they’re loving it. They’re, all into it and they can’t get in, read enough, talk enough about it. But like when I’m at the health club or at the, you know, the shopping center or whatever, people come up to me and 80 % of the time they’re, what about the Browns? What are they going to do about the Brown? This, and finally, I’ve just started telling people last week or two, why don’t you just watch the Cavs for a while? Nobody’s getting fired. Nobody’s getting traded. They’re not making any of the big moves you want to talk about. Now during the football season, meanwhile, all the cows have been doing is winning and it’s, and they are a fun, likable team, not just simply because they’re women. I think that the players, it’s a great group to Kobe Altman put together and the decision to bring any Atkinson in who had the grand plan of I could make this all work or at least I want to try, look super right now. David Campbell (06:45.369) And we should talk about Evan Mobley, Terry, because we’ve been reading for the, ever since the Cavs drafted him about the potential, the potential, the potential. And it’s starting to happen right now. I was just looking at his last five games. Of course he hurt the ankle and he didn’t play much in Miami. But before that, Boston 10 rebounds, nine points. Washington 10 rebounds, 19 points. Denver nine rebounds, 20 points. Terry Pluto (06:47.64) Yeah. Terry Pluto (06:52.803) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (07:14.965) Charlotte 10 rebounds, 41 points. We’re starting to see not just the numbers, but the way he’s getting those numbers. this what you thought could happen at this point of the season? And is it happening the way you thought it might happen? Terry Pluto (07:18.968) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (07:31.892) I was not in the camp that Mobley could become this 20 point score or whatever. I was more, I thought he would be a really good defensive player, know, a 15 to 18 point guy getting double figures and rebounds elite defensively. Which by the way, that could be an all star too. What I just described. And now I, even early in the season, just watching it, for example, the foul line. his release and everything was different. And even though last year he shot fairly well from three point range, I think it was like 34 or 35%. I just still didn’t see that he could really become a pretty good outside shooter. I wasn’t buying it. Now you look at it and you know, he’s shooting 40 % on three, 55 % from the field. So that is big time. David Campbell (08:25.151) What looks different about his release, Terry? I know you get into the mechanics of shooting everything, but what looks different about his release? Terry Pluto (08:29.389) It’s on the, it’s not, it’s on the, it’s on the fingertips. Oftentimes it seemed like it was slipping, come off the palm of his palm of his hand. That’s there’s some other stuff that I’m sure that, basketball coaches listening to this would be able to break down. But to me, that’s the big thing. And he, think he keeps his left hand in the same spot all the time. Cause sometimes that’s what happens. Like a player goes to shoot it is offhand. In other words, he’s right handed. That’s the thing that guys, the ball, but it’s the left hand that holds it. in the right position. I mean, I was always a lousy outside shooter and that was part of the reason I couldn’t get my left hand and the left hand in the right place to help the right hand shoot. So, then again, I remember, I remember there was a play Chris Shackleford played for the nets or whatever. And they asked them about, you know, sometimes you shoot with the right hand and sometimes you shoot with the left hand. said, of course I’m amphibious. David Campbell (09:24.795) That’s right, he’s good on land and water. Terry Pluto (09:26.158) Yeah, I guess I was just amphibious shooting with flippers or something But this guy’s not amphibious and meantime, you know the defense remains there he’s From the moment he came into the league. He was so well schooled in basketball by and I’m sure it’s his father Because his younger brother who’s in the G League now? Just doesn’t have Evans talent or size, but it was the same way he sets greens and blocks out and gets rebounds and all the stuff that you want from a player sees the game the right way. mean, Mobley is, that’s why I think the Caz are just so enamored to him too once they had him. Like he’s just, he’s like no maintenance as a player. Forget woe maintenance, he’s no maintenance. I mean, he’s a young guy, had a lot come his way and you could never tell. mean, he acts like he’s been in the league for 10 years. David Campbell (10:23.905) And your points about his shooting motion, that makes me think of low maintenance too, because I mean, you’ve been out at the Cavs facility, Terry. mean, they have stuff mounted on the walls there that can tell you like your shot is coming off your hand at 42 degrees and it needs to be 45 or whatever. And they can measure the trajectory and I’m pretty sure the rotation of every shot you take. And if Evan Mobley is taking all the variables out of his shooting motion. Terry Pluto (10:26.766) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Terry Pluto (10:41.442) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (10:46.851) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (10:53.503) then the results are going to be more predictable every time. like not having to, having to low maintain or not maintain that shooting action because he’s done it so much. And if he’s got it where he’s really comfortable in seeing results with it, that’s going to just, his shooting percentage is going to stay where it is if not get better because of that consistency. Terry Pluto (10:53.613) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (11:13.946) Also be so tall so tall and so long if he Realizes that that most of time there’s no reason that rushes jumper who’s gonna block it So if you know if you have a little bit of room to shoot just go up and shoot your normal shot if they do go up and try to get it on either probably gonna follow you or They’re just not they’re go off to the side. So you don’t have to worry about that. You know, it’s not like You know, Garland or some of these other guys where you could tell when you’re smaller, sometimes you just have to rush to get that shot off. Cause you know, you’re six foot one, the six foot six guys coming at you. I don’t know when mobile is going to be guarded by anybody who’s taller than him when he’s on the perimeter. Cause most of the time there’s a switch off and, so yeah, that’s exciting to see just for his own confidence. So I could go out and get 41. Not that you. Want that all the time, but that he can. And also that the teammates will see that. And cause this is a guard dominant team in terms of the ball where it is. And when they see that, they’re more willing to really, the coaches could talk about, let’s create opportunities for Evan and that, but the players will look at, he taking advantage of the opportunities to score? If not, I want my shot. David Campbell (12:38.473) Yeah, I’m glad you brought that up, Terry. The Cavs kind of are at the quarter point of the season, right? And it’s, good to take a snapshot, but so their best player, Donovan Mitchell, like basketball is a little different because there’s only one ball. And if one guy takes a shot, that means somebody else isn’t taking it. if Evan Mobley and, and these other guys are getting more usage, that means Donovan Mitchell isn’t. I was kind of interested in like, again, a snapshot of a quarter away through the season. Terry Pluto (12:44.312) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (12:51.403) Mm-hmm. Correct. Terry Pluto (13:06.552) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (13:07.251) Looking at some of Donovan Mitchell’s per game numbers and there’s we’ve been tracking kind of as minutes so far, but there’s some other things I thought were kind of interesting too that I thought I would throw out. And then I wanted to kind of get your impressions of is Donovan Mitchell playing the right way, thinking about things the right way and producing the right way to get this team where it needs to go. But so 31.9 minutes per game this season. That is a career low, which I thought was interesting. His field goal attempts per game. Terry Pluto (13:12.92) Yep. Terry Pluto (13:33.496) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (13:36.213) are at 18.8. That’s the lowest he’s had since his rookie year in Utah when he had 17.2. So he’s only putting up 18.8 shots per game. His three point attempts per game are at 9.1. Yeah, last year, well, the last few years he’s been over nine, nine or above. But if you compare that to back in Utah, he never was, he was 7.0, 6.7, 6.9, 8.7. And you’re right, Terry, ever since he came here, it’s been nine or above. So. Terry Pluto (13:49.762) That’s up. Terry Pluto (13:54.167) Yeah. Terry Pluto (14:01.792) Yeah, that’s what I meant. Yeah, and they want them to get them over 10, actually. David Campbell (14:07.071) Yep, and his two point attempts per game are at 9.7 and he’s never been below 10 in his entire career. So this is kind of what happens when you have your star player trying to keep everybody else engaged, make sure they’re producing. Do you like the way this is working a quarter of the way through the season with Donovan Mitchell and how he’s deferring a little bit and letting these guys have their moments and produce? Terry Pluto (14:33.514) Absolutely, because I mean year ago I was enamored when the ball was in his hands and he was running everything. That was when Garland was hurt and Mobley and that’s that player is still there if that’s needed and we’ve seen sometimes he’ll just take over a quarter. But the big thing you want to do because he you know, he is a physical driver. He goes in there and he could get to the rim. I remember Mike Fratell told me when they tried to for him he goes because I just hadn’t seen a lot of it. I saw the numbers. He said, Terry, you’re going to love the guy. He gets to the rim anytime he wants. He’s got a strong lower body along with the ability to really almost jump out of the gym. And you’ll just see, but it’s a physical style of play. So as he gets older, if he can make more jumpers along with making the analytics people happy, it also will take some stress off the ball off his body. So you have him at 32 minutes, basically mobile at 31 Garland at 30 Allen at 30 and Who’s fifth in the minutes? I would have guessed for, Caris Laverte. Caris Laverte, who is shooting at what on three? This would maybe be the most incredible stat of the season. David Campbell (15:32.725) Kyrus Loverd? okay, I was right. David Campbell (15:43.605) 44. Terry Pluto (15:45.134) Nothing 49 49 and he’s playing 24 minutes a game The evolution of Laverte I think the last two years is really admirable because this is a guy who got into the league by Instant offense going to the rim. You know, he improved his jump shot over the years David Campbell (15:47.335) That was way off. Terry Pluto (16:11.63) But scoring, if I’m going to play 22 minutes, I’m going to get a bunch of shots and try to get 18 points. That’s how can get time. And he was wired that way. And there were players in the NBA that play a long time doing that. But he now, he started last year where he was really handling the ball and his passing. This was a revelation to me last year and his defense, you know, he can go at people. He’s got real long arms and he is very unselfish. And this goes back. to, we probably have mentioned this in the podcast before, but I’ll say it again. When he signed, I forgot what his contract is, something like two years. It’s like 18 million a year or something, which, you know, sounds like really high through the real world, but we’re not talking about the real world. The NBA, we’re talking about the NBA where the average player almost makes 12 million a year for two years. And a friend of mine was a top NBA agent said, Kairos most of actually, you always hear these guys that, you know, I really just wanted to play there and, I didn’t really look at other teams. goes, Keris must have really have done that. goes, I could have got him a longer contract somewhere else. And he didn’t mean there. just meant you hear players say that stuff and then they go and they signed for somewhere else for, you know, a ton of money. But you said this guy, he wanted to be part of it because he took a shorter contract for less money and to fit in at a place where he knows he’s not going to start. David Campbell (17:35.743) Well, part of that, Terry, I think when you’re a free agent in the NBA, you don’t get to look at every team in the league, really. You have to ask yourself, where am I going to be miserable going to work every day? Like there are some teams that guys would never want to play for because it’s just drudgery and you know you’re never going to win. And you’re right, Keras Levert, the deal he took reflects, I think, what the Cavs have going. And he wants to, he wanted to be part of it, which speaks to the organization. Terry Pluto (17:42.434) No. Terry Pluto (17:46.94) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (17:58.05) And and that, and that was, he came back with JB, cause he liked JB. Cause I think now he had bounced from Indiana to, I think it came in with the nets with Kenny, Kenny Atkinson course. He loved Kenny. Then Kenny got fired and that came to the Durant Irving show and they went through a bunch of stuff there. And I remember Caris also had the big heart problem, which was detected. And I believe he was treated at Cleveland clinic. And so that Cleveland always had a soft spot even before he got here. So, Keris Lever shooting 49%. There’s been a lot of incredible things, but to me, because we are a quarter, we’re 100, or excuse me, 25 games into an 82 game season. And he’s been terrific. know, Garland just goes right along with his scoring his 20 points and he does not seem to be showing. Any problems? You know, I have to admit I cringe every time it even looks like he got hit in the face. You know, well, you know, some of these. Rip Hamilton from Detroit when there he was a tall, thin guard a little like. Little like Garland and how he was built. He played differently. He didn’t shoot a lot of threes. He ran a lot off picks and he’s one of the best running creating shots off the ball. David Campbell (19:01.397) my gosh. They need to get him like a space helmet. I’ve never seen anybody like that get hit in the head that much. Terry Pluto (19:24.532) And he kept getting hit in the face. Finally, he just gave up and wore a mask. He did. And he just said, I can’t, you if I want to play, I just can’t deal with the broken noses, the busted jaws. And, and, but I haven’t seen too many other guys wear a mask for very long because it gets so hot and sweaty and steamed up. And, so that’s probably more than anybody wants to know about mask, but there you go. All right. Here’s one, by the way, here’s a surprise to me. David Campbell (19:46.229) All right, Terry. All right. Terry Pluto (19:55.074) The number one NBA team in terms of offensive efficiency is who? David Campbell (20:08.021) Oklahoma City. Terry Pluto (20:10.2) The New York Knicks. David Campbell (20:11.957) alright. Terry Pluto (20:14.07) And the Knicks are scoring a ton of points this year. They have completely transformed their roster and how they play. So it’s funny, the Cavs, you know, realize they had up, go up more up tempo, score more points, partly because of their problems with the Knicks in the past. The Knicks, who then would get to the next round, were in the same problems that the Cavs did. So they transformed their roster. to try and score more. But the Knicks are number one in offensive efficiency, Cavs are number two. And I was just stunned to see that. The Knicks, by the way, you know, they’re 15 and nine. I’ll tell you, he having a really good year as Orlando 17 and nine. And what’s his name? Ben Chero. He’s been hurt forever. Orlando’s really good. And people, because remember last year, I thought it was going be a tough series. I picked the Cavs in seven. Cause I watched Orlando and I just saw how athletic and young they were that they were just going to be a tough out for anybody. And they’re continuing to grow that way. And I liked their coach. And so, there you are, but yeah, the Cavs are 21 and four, then Boston’s 19 and five, Orlando 17 and nine. I’m talking about Eastern conference. the Knicks are 15 and nine. And of course you always get JV for me. JV’s got those pistons at 10 and 15. won only 14 games last year. So it is interesting to me how if you bring the right type of coach in, he can bring some order to these chaotic NBA situations. Cause it’s not like the Pistons went out and brought in a lot of high price free agents or something. They brought in a couple of veterans and they decided much like JB did here. This is the way we play. This is who we are. Now Kenny, take that as he said he built on that. Terry Pluto (22:13.87) Foundation that JB had and now he added his offense to it this is the way we play and this is who we are when we have the ball and They’ve been able to play both sides of it defensively The calves are ninth and defensive efficiency. I’d like to see that be a little higher but not too bad and no, excuse me. They are Yeah, they’re ninth. They’re ninth and they’re ninth and defensive efficiency ninth and pace. So Okay David Campbell (22:43.957) All right. So we’ve talked a lot, Terry, about how young this Cavs roster has been, and I guess still is, think, with Donovan. If you guys are 28. Yeah, Struis is 20. I think Sam Merrill might be 28. But George Niang, like, I didn’t expect this when he came here, but I can’t turn anything on, a TV, a computer, without seeing him with a headset on talking about interesting stuff. What has this guy brought that maybe you didn’t expect? Terry Pluto (22:44.056) Pretty decent. Yep. Terry Pluto (22:52.29) He’s 20. Yeah, he’s 28. Terry Pluto (23:06.89) I know. Did you see this stat says 2020? He’s been on, he has won more regular season games than any player in the NBA. Yeah, George, I’ll tell you all about it. I’m sure, but it is a, yeah, he is first of all, he got in better shape and admitted it. Secondly, he is. David Campbell (23:18.869) That’s something. Terry Pluto (23:34.282) You know, he gets into people’s face a little bit and that, and remember Kenny calls them the connector. He has these guys that are connectors. In other words, they connect by in terms of moving the ball. He likes kneeing either shoots it or passes it once in a while. It takes a couple of dribbles. It goes to the rim. but he’s also a connector with other people, you know, even Tristan Thompson doesn’t play, but it’s like they have like their own show, but on the bench, you could see they are talking to players and they must be saying the right things because the coaching staff. gives them to me a lot of latitude when they, you know, they’re pulling Garland over or whatever it is. So that is another key part of what’s going on where you’re building your culture. yeah, yeah, Nhi Anh, it’s just, you’re right. is, he’s a media star. David Campbell (24:22.259) Yeah, and that kind of gives the team a little bit of a different face and takes some of the media responsibilities off of some of the other guys. And it’s cool. I wasn’t expecting that from him when he came here and it’s kind of been fun. So think fans are having a good time with it. Terry Pluto (24:25.816) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (24:33.504) Yeah, and he’s more physical. know, one now and then they put him on a center or something and he goes out there. Now, now this dose of the NBA, the, the, the nineties when you couldn’t even score a hundred points. I mean, outcome, the elbows, he stepped on a guy’s feet. He shoved them around and he’s never committed a file. Just ask him. So, but you, you have, he’s not dirty, but he’s really annoying. He’s very annoying to when you, when he’s guarding you and. David Campbell (24:52.309) Yeah. Terry Pluto (25:02.284) That is another part that helps. Jared Allen goes along shooting 68%, 13 points, almost 11 rebounds. It’s a fun team. actually there was a guy at where I was working out and he stopped me and he was on the Browns and this said, well, you just watch the Cavs. And I go, well, do you like basketball? goes, well, sort of. I said, sort of will be good enough. If you sort of like basketball, you will enjoy this. It’s not just the winning, it’s the way they play the characters on the team. David Campbell (25:35.839) All right, so the Cavs were in Miami for the game Sunday and they actually are staying in Miami for a few days. They have a break here from Sunday to Friday because of not making the NBA Cup in Las Vegas. So they’re not playing Monday, Tuesday? No, not at all. I was like. Terry Pluto (25:43.405) Yeah. Terry Pluto (25:47.902) Nobody ever parties in Miami when they go down there do they? By when LeBron is a visiting player, I forgot what it is has this horrible record in Miami David Campbell (25:59.198) and the Cavs I don’t think are much better since he’s been gone. It’s like it’s a hard place to win. Terry Pluto (26:00.75) Yeah, right. They were bad when he was here. They were bad. I mean, obviously it’s a good record when he actually played for Miami, but I think with the Lakers, they get beat down there too. David Campbell (26:12.467) Yeah, you get beat by the nightlife the night before, and then you get beat by the heat the next day. Terry Pluto (26:15.36) Yeah, they just, yeah, exactly. You get it. You know, I’m sure all the wives and girlfriends want to make that trip. And so you’re, you’re on the beach and everything else. remember too, even when the guardians went down to Miami this year, Ben Lively pitched the next day. He has such a sunburn you could see on his neck and his arms. He was out on the beach and, he should know better because he’s from Florida. Remember his dad’s a commercial fisherman, I think around Tallahassee or somewhere. David Campbell (26:26.548) Yeah. David Campbell (26:45.492) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (26:45.772) But that didn’t stop him from, think his family was there and they had a great time on beach. He pitched okay, but it just looked painful to me. David Campbell (26:55.359) So they’re going be down there practicing, having some fun. And it’s too bad. They would never allow this. I thought the Cavs could just send the charge to play the Wizards on Friday. Maybe. And that way the Cavs could just go to New York and play at Brooklyn for their game on Sunday. for their next game on Monday, sorry. But that won’t happen. So any of the Cavs will be back home on Friday against Washington. And then they play Monday at Brooklyn. Terry Pluto (27:04.45) Yes Terry Pluto (27:17.166) Mm-hmm. By the way, I thinking of the NBA, did you, who has the best team? Okay, the best record in the West, Dave Campbell. This is all a surprise for me. I mean, I knew they were playing well, but I didn’t realize they were the best. David Campbell (27:31.565) I was going to say OKC as I guessed earlier, but is that not right? OK. Terry Pluto (27:35.727) Yeah, that’s correct. Okay. All right. Here’s a here’s a tricky one and well the next two are tricky number two and number three David Campbell (27:45.621) it’s not Denver Houston Okay, who’s number two? all right Terry Pluto (27:50.296) Houston is three. How about this Memphis? Yeah, that’s what I meant. If you were to name the top three, I would have probably gone OKC because I they were playing well Denver and Golden State now. Yeah, but yeah, so so there you are. The NBA is changing. It is yeah, Boston’s too, but you know you look at calves, you look at Orlando or even look at the top six right now. So you got Casey OKC Memphis and Houston in the West and he got Cleveland Boston in Orlando. Probably the only shoe one for that would have been Boston. David Campbell (28:03.049) Yeah, would have thrown Dallas maybe in there too, but yeah. David Campbell (28:27.273) Right? Yeah. And it’s a lot of these teams building young for the long-term stockpiling draft picks and trying to be good for a long time. So I think the calves might be a little further along in their, in their life cycle than maybe OKC is, but it’s going to be, yeah, it’s going to be fun. The East is going to be hard to get out of. You’re right. This, I think the calves in Orlando could be seeing each other for the next several years. Terry Pluto (28:33.27) Yes, they are. Yeah. Terry Pluto (28:40.302) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (28:48.384) Yeah, they could. And the New York thing is something to watch. That’s why I’m on the word people. They have changed how they play. They changed some of their roster and they changed how they play. You know, they have towns and now they still have Brunson who’s a calf killer, but I have to catch them on TV. I’ve not seen them. And this one, I was looking at these stats. It’s like, you gotta be kidding. I mean, they’re scoring a ton of points and they’re very good offensively where before, you know, they were a clunky team. lot of isolation and that’s all gone away. that is the NBA report. David Campbell (29:23.489) There you go. All right, so let’s take a break, Terry. When we come back, you had a column the last few days about how to evaluate Kevin Stefanski. I want to get into that. I also want to ask you how we should be evaluating Jamis Winston. We’ll get into that. Terry Pluto (29:36.334) and we will have a Vinnie Testa Verde comparison. David Campbell (29:40.566) OK, we’ll get into that and more when we return on Terry’s talking. David Campbell (30:38.259) Hey, welcome back to Terry’s talking. I do want to mention Terry’s newsletter. Comes out every Wednesday, all kinds of great stuff in there, stories, behind the scenes things. Terry does a lot of math in there where he’s crunching contracts and all kinds of stuff that you won’t find on cleveland.com . Sign up by going to cleveland.com slash Pluto. You’ll see all of Terry’s stuff there. At the top, there’s a blue bar. You can click on that. You get a two week free trial and then you can subscribe and. It’ll be worth every penny, I promise, because it’s a great read every week, comes out every Wednesday at noon. all right, time to get into some Browns, Terry. The three and 10 Browns, they are taking on the Chiefs on Sunday at one down on the lakefront. You had a column over the weekend about how to evaluate Kevin Stefanski after everything we’ve seen so far. And why don’t you talk about that for a second and kind of I wonder if you’ve gotten any reaction from fans to that the last couple of days in terms of what the Browns are going through, how he’s handling it. Terry Pluto (31:32.558) I have to admit I am like all over the place and trying to evaluate him so I’m going to ask you to go first. David Campbell (31:41.705) I think he’s having a really hard time with this team for a number of reasons. And I think this off season, we’re going to see a reset in a number of ways. And I think I might’ve hinted at this in previous podcasts. I think we’re going to see the 2025 Browns return to Kevin’s to Fansky football in terms of the offensive approach. I don’t think he’s happy with what they’re doing. I don’t think he’s happy with how they’re doing it. mean, the other day. The Browns got a delay of game penalty. The plays are coming in late. They got a delay of game penalty. And then after the penalty, they almost had another delay of game penalty because the play came in late. I think they snapped the ball with one second left. And I know he hates that stuff. And I don’t know what’s going on in terms of the assembly line of getting the plays into Jameis Winston. But I know he’s not happy with how things are going. I think it’s a combination of things. And I think it’s just time for a total reset for him and the whole. Terry Pluto (32:19.342) Yeah. David Campbell (32:37.703) Anyway, that was long-winded. don’t you just say it? Yeah. Terry Pluto (32:37.794) What? No, it wasn’t not at all. It plays in my point. First of all, I think the entire organization is in an utter state of shock. The last thing they expect to be was three and 10 at this point. They thought this would be a big game. You know, playoff consequences, all that stuff. Well, actually, it’s not for Kansas City. They probably they haven’t probably officially clinched a playoff. So I don’t maybe they have, but it’s over and. It’s the other team. Certainly he’s clenched a non-playoff spot. So it’s over for them. Meanwhile, the Browns kept, mean, Kevin’s never going to be really dynamic or anything, but he, he looks like he just cannot wait to get these press conferences over. He really is in the, the bunker of, know, the, the bill Belichick were on the Cincinnati bunker, you know, whatever question you ask, he’s, know, Kansas city. He, doesn’t want to. He doesn’t even want to talk about like young players he wants to look at or anything. I believe he’s, he’s just really shell shocked. And I probably, if you’ve rolled Andrew Barry out, you would hear the same thing because they don’t know what to make of this. And they’re at the point where you can’t do anything about it. David Campbell (33:56.469) That sums it up. so we need to start looking forward, right? And one of the key questions we’ve just been talking about Stefanski. What about Jamis Winston? We’re learning more and more about him every week. And how do you see him fitting? Well, a, the rest of the season and B going into next year, Kevin Stefanski has been getting questions about why don’t you put DTR and why don’t you put DTR and see what he can do, see what he can do. Terry Pluto (34:02.211) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (34:25.653) What you want to see happen with James Winston the rest of the way? And then how do you feel about him for next season going in? Terry Pluto (34:32.814) Well, to be fair to Jamis, he has played six games and four of them against teams that have been in the rank top six in defense. He’s got Pittsburgh twice and yet the Chargers and he had Denver. The last time I like Chargers and Denver were one and two and Pittsburgh is four. and that is a problem. That’s, that’s real challenge for any of them. Secondly, they can’t run the ball to save their life. So everybody and the defense is. Not anywhere close to being good. You know, some days, sometimes it’s okay. A lot of times it’s mediocre. So that’s put a lot of pressure on him. Now the, would you play him some more as opposed to DTR? Well, if you’re thinking even as a possible quote bridge quarterback for next year, or a guy like Jacoby Berset, when he had to open the season, you want him to get some more starts because this guy. I’m going to be looking, looking at as, as we’re talking now has not, you know, started a ton of games in a season since going back, believe you, when he was in, in, in Tampa Bay, that was 2019. So it’s important for him. If you really want to watch him to see how it plays out over time for him to, go and start some more games and start some more games for this team. And I just really wonder, you know how this will play out for him, but I’m just looking right now at, you know, like how many games he has started in his career. Okay. So he started, started six games this year in 2021. He started seven games for, the saints. This was the most interesting year for him. He was five and two for the saints with 14 touchdowns and three interceptions. How about that? They were five and two and he suffered an ACL. The next year he started three games. 23 didn’t start any games and now he started six. So he hasn’t played more than seven games since 2019 with Tampa Bay. And there you go. He needs to, I think needs to play more so they can evaluate him. He’s not some old guy. I mean, he’s 30. David Campbell (36:53.581) I agree. I mean, and this guy could be your starting quarterback going into next season. I mean, who else will you get that would be better? I don’t think there’s a very good free agent crop out there and certainly nobody who would be better than Jameis Winston. The other thing that I think is really interesting after watching him the last two weeks, Terry, I think this narrative of, it’s the Jameis Winston experience. You’re going to get three touchdowns and three interceptions every game. I think he’s getting really tired of that. Terry Pluto (36:58.881) Exactly. Terry Pluto (37:16.686) Ugh. Terry Pluto (37:20.833) Yeah. David Campbell (37:21.295) And it really hit me the other day after the game. Here’s a guy, Jamis Winston, who is all about his teammates is always trying to lift people up. And he took full responsibility for the pick six situation in Denver and said it was all on him. But after the Steelers game, here was his quote about the interception to Elijah Moore. It was a perfect throw, but we all have to be at the right place at the right time. It’s all about precision passing. I wish I had that one back because I had Jerome Ford. right in front of me when the team plays deep zone like that, you never go broke taking a profit. All right, so I’m looking at the first part of that quote. It was a perfect throw and we all have to be at the right place at the right time. For Jameis Winston, that is the equivalent of standing on top of a mountain and yelling, that was not my fault. And so if fans will watch a game, they’re like, you know what, why is he throwing so many interceptions? Well, you know what, if a receiver pulls up, Terry Pluto (37:58.84) Yeah. Terry Pluto (38:07.862) Exactly, yeah. And that shows what David Campbell (38:17.829) short on a route because he doesn’t want to get I’m not saying that’s what happened here but if a receiver pulls up short on a route or runs the wrong route and doesn’t go to the right spot against his own defense the quarterback takes the stat for the interception but it’s on the receiver and I think Winston was he’s tired of this narrative and he wants to prove that that’s not him anymore and that quote really spoke to me in terms of that so sorry I cut you off there go ahead Terry Pluto (38:19.438) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (38:40.33) No, and then how he didn’t stop there, then he said, you know, I had Ford open in the flat, I should have gone there. And then he did the famous thing that they say in the stock market, you know, the people to play the market, you know, you never go broke taking a profit. You never lose money taking a profit. And so that’s, that is a comment that I did appreciate because had he stopped there, then he kind of hanging them out. But You said you really had to listen closely, but he might’ve been delivering a message, maybe one or two of these guys. And I, I agree this, you know, we go back and I keep harking back to what I saw at that scrimmage with Minnesota. And I was talking to Mike Snyder, WTAM, cause I’m on the air with them three times a week. 10 to seven on Tuesdays and Friday mornings. And then on the Brownsburg game show and Mike. David Campbell (39:15.135) That’s true. Terry Pluto (39:36.938) Along with Jim Donovan, who sat with me for two of those days and was helping me. Mike Snyder was there one day and Mike, Mike didn’t bring it. Mike brought it up himself. He goes, you know, Terry, I just was thinking that that Minnesota thing, there’s just something called disjointed and messed up. said, exactly. This is how it is continued. Like you mentioned the trouble getting plays in and lined up and all this junk. Some of that is on Stefanski. You know, a lot, the plague that hangs over the great clouds, I’ve been harping, beating this thing to death is about Watson, but you go back and you know, maybe breaking up that coaching staff on offense had even more, obviously losing Callahan was a big deal. That was not their fault. Yeah. But in terms of the other stuff, you know, Dorsey and this and. David Campbell (40:23.645) It would have been for anybody losing him, right? Yeah. Terry Pluto (40:32.246) And I’m not blaming Dorsey, just that he was brought in to run a different type of offense. And now, like you said, they’ll probably go back to Kevin’s office, but just because the national media is saying there won’t be any changes and my, my general sense is there won’t be any big changes. They still got four games to go. And this is the Brown. You remember, I hated to write that thing. You know, the Browns is the Browns. Juju Seuss is back from the quote that, hangs over there. when you’re three and 10, you is the Browns losing. Pittsburgh like that and play that kind of game they played. It was really disappointing to me. And meantime, you just watched Mike Tomlin and those guys, a friend of mine was telling me, says, you know, they’re, they’re kind of like the guardians. They’re just like good all the time, or at least they’re never awful. And you just have sense that you have confidence that, okay, maybe they don’t win the whole thing, but they got a clue. And where the Browns is like, yes, they had a clue in 20. And they had a clue in 23, but in 21, you’d go, there’s that lost season playing Baker hurt all the time. Then 22, the suspension season. And now whatever this mess is. David Campbell (41:47.015) all right. Well, we promised fans. I think we’ve said it all. I think we’ve said it all there. Terry Pluto (41:48.718) There’s your chance. I handed you the ball. You felt like Jamus, I’m just running my own pattern. go, where is that going? And so therefore, if you’re Jimmy Haslam, you’re probably trying to figure all that out. And then if you go away from them, where do you go to? David Campbell (42:15.103) Well, the thing is, Terry, whoever was responsible for the Deshaun Watson decision is probably going to see some repercussions this season. like, we don’t know the answer to that really. Like, and that’s the biggest thing that has set this franchise back. There’s three number one draft picks who are not playing for this team right now because of Deshaun Watson. Terry Pluto (42:24.334) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (42:33.399) Yeah, it is. Terry Pluto (42:38.088) And I think a second rounder and a fourth round, I forgot what the other ones were. Yeah. David Campbell (42:40.937) yeah, that’s just the top of the draft. So if you see depth issues, there’s three number one draft picks and more, as you point out. Terry Pluto (42:48.918) And then also then you look at Andrew’s second round picks have been much better than his first. the cause you have Jedrick Wills, he’s done. now Newsome he’s on the injured list, isn’t he? For the pop list or whatever it is. And so he’s just been, I don’t know, how would you evaluate Newsome? David Campbell (43:03.017) Yes, yeah. David Campbell (43:09.395) So so and I mean we saw he wasn’t at his best the other day, but that’s because he got hurt and yeah so Terry Pluto (43:14.286) Yeah. So, you know, whereas like JLK, JLK was on his way to having a breakout season. He made the Pro Bowl last year, I believe. And then I’m sitting there in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh like causes me to like become reflective on the Browns. Usually not in a good way, but I’m sitting there and I’m thinking at this point last year, they started to really click with Flacco and everything else. They ended up, remember 11 and six, they were in such great shape. They didn’t even try to win that last game at Cincinnati. And the season ended and Kevin’s coach of the year and Schwartz’s offensive, excuse me, assistant of the year or coordinator, whatever they call it. And Flacco’s comeback player of the year. And you just look at that. And now you look at this. So did everybody get stupid or what? I don’t have a great answer. I just know that you don’t have these huge swings in Pittsburgh. Now Kansas City, Andy Reid is a great coach. There’s no question about it. He is. But he’s got a great quarterback now, but he was good even before that with being in Philadelphia or that. But he doesn’t have these big swings either. The interesting thing though, by the way, David Campbell (44:24.757) He’s amazing. Terry Pluto (44:43.274) let me ask you this. Will Belichick a Tar Heel coach? David Campbell (44:50.003) Yeah. What do think of that? I think it’d be a great thing. he’s got history there. Well, I think for him, I mean, I think they had some good seasons with Mack Brown. think Belichick could do some good. He’s such a smart football mind. I don’t know how we would relate to college kids. That would be interesting, but, but he’s got some history there and I think they could do a lot worse. I really do. Terry Pluto (44:51.618) Well, I’m asking you. Terry Pluto (44:55.854) For who? Well yeah! Terry Pluto (45:12.494) That’s what I meant for who? Terry Pluto (45:19.542) Well, if he were to go with a bunch of younger assistants and everything else, there’s a possibility there. Now the flip side is bill Belichick without Tom Brady as a very average NFL head coach record wise. I’m not saying it’s all Tom Brady, but a lot of times it’s the marriage of the two. know, Andy Reid was very good. Now Andy Reid is a Mount Olympus with Mahomes. and the bumble yeah there you go John Dorsey will say I wanted to draft my homes you know well Dor you know Dorsey let’s just bring this up I’m not saying he should be there Dorsey’s actually in the right spot you know where he is don’t you David Campbell (45:53.909) It’s all because of the bundle Ruski. Terry Pluto (46:12.872) Yeah, John, John Dorsey, do know where he is? He is number two with the Detroit Lions. He’s been there since he got fired here. think perfect spot for him player evaluation and everything else, but he’s not making the final call because what hurt John, John needed an owner a couple of times to say, Antonio Callaway, this arrest record is not good. David Campbell (46:16.671) No. David Campbell (46:20.882) OK. Terry Pluto (46:42.818) to say, John, know, this is, find me someone else. And meantime, when he comes in and says, I know the rest of the NFL thinks Chubb should go on the third round or lower because of that knee. I love the guy. We’re taking him to second round. See, that’s where he is. And you go back and look at that draft of the quarterbacks in 18. Let’s just bring them out. I’ll just bring them up right now. So yeah, Josh Allen. Well number one was Baker and he had Josh Allen and you had Josh Rosen and you had What’s what’s his names with? Minnesota now from USC Darnal and Then you had a guy nobody talked about which was Lamar Jackson So, how would you rate them right now? David Campbell (47:24.821) Darnold, Sam Darnold. David Campbell (47:35.667) Whoo, that’s a good question. think Lamar probably number one and and then I would go with Josh Allen number two. And then beyond that. Baker number three, I don’t know. Yeah. Terry Pluto (47:37.102) Yep. Terry Pluto (47:44.344) Yep. Terry Pluto (47:51.0) That’s how I would do it because Baker, mean, Donald’s playing really well now. Donald four and to just totally embarrass myself. The guy I liked best out of that draft was, was Rosen. Yeah. Mine was Rosen one Allen to Baker three. I did not like Donald at all because of all the turnovers and everything. He was, he was fumble, itis at USC and Lamar. David Campbell (48:02.357) Josh Rosen. Right. Terry Pluto (48:18.51) Nobody talked about him. I just thought always the second round pick. He’s an athlete I just fell into right into that trap at which everybody else thought except one guy Ozzie Newsom who trapped remember Yeah, and remember he traded up to get him in the same way Dorsey and I think his assistant there got him bowered and read all together. They traded up to get my homes So two of the best David Campbell (48:27.049) Yep, that was one of his last great moves as the player picker there. Terry Pluto (48:46.91) moves for quarterbacks have been guys traded up and guys taken. I believe Mahomes on 11th or something like that in the draft. And Lamar was right at the bottom of the first round. So that’s why when you go, got to have a top three pick to get a really good quarterback. You don’t. David Campbell (49:07.071) You don’t. Yeah. Look at Nick’s in Denver, what he’s doing there. So I got to tell a quick Ozzie story. She just reminded me of it. I saw this podcast a few months ago and they were talking about one of the guys worked with Ozzie. He was like a scouter in their draft room. And he said that the Ravens were interviewing guys on Michigan’s defense one year and they brought a guy in and they said, Terry Pluto (49:10.434) Yeah, exactly. Yes. David Campbell (49:34.111) who runs the defensive meetings when you guys get together at Michigan and look at film? And the guy said, well, I do. And they said, OK, all right. And they brought in another guy from the Michigan defense. And they asked him, who’s the leader in the film room when you guys are watching film? And he goes, I am. And then as he steps in and he goes, who holds the clicker? Terry Pluto (49:42.094) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (49:53.919) Hahaha! Terry Pluto (49:59.584) Yep. David Campbell (50:00.871) And the guy goes, well, this other guy did. And Ozzy goes, well, you weren’t the leader then. And I think they ended up drafting or getting both of those players at one point. But just to show you how Ozzy’s mind would work, most GMs would have just taken that answer on his face. But Ozzy said, who held the clicker in the meeting? I thought that was a great Ozzy moment. I wish I could remember the name of that podcast because it was a good story. Terry Pluto (50:11.202) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (50:16.884) Yeah, who held that? Exactly right. Terry Pluto (50:23.276) Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was they they And see the thing you’re in a division We talked about the Steelers are always good Baltimore’s always good I think they had a seven and nine or you know a few years ago. So it’s not like Tomlin with 17 years without a losing season, but Baltimore’s always good Pittsburgh’s always good. I want the Browns to always be good. I Mean where you’re not sitting there David Campbell (50:50.185) You’re not alone. Terry Pluto (50:51.906) going three and 10 and you’re not sitting there, you know, with quarterbacks or suspended. mean, just sick of this stuff. I really am of that kind of, moves that are so high risk. See the Lamar Jackson thing. It was a great move by Ozzy. You trade up into the first round. They didn’t use a regular first round pick. They traded up to get them. And if it works great and probably thinking of nothing else, I got an athlete here. I could do something with them. but he also had Flacco and I think he thought at the very least I will have a different look than Flacco. And that was a, that was a gutsy pick by Flacco. I think they took him, I forgot what it was 12th or 15th. That you’re out of Delaware and he had always shot been out of the shotgun. And, Kevin Byrne told me this story because we, often make fun of you Jackson, but we got it. We got to give the man credit. So he was like quarterback coach or something. He wasn’t even offensive coordinator for the Ravens. And it was huge job to teach Flacco how to play under center. And he did. David Campbell (51:39.859) Delaware, yeah. Terry Pluto (52:06.094) Because now when you watch Flacco, think that’s how we always play. at Delaware, he was a pure shotgun, heave it down the field quarterback. David Campbell (52:16.169) Well, like you said, Terry, low risk, high reward. And just like the Steelers have right now with their two quarterbacks that they signed for hardly any money at all in terms of quarterback salary. all right. We were talking about Bill Belichick and which ties into the 1990s Browns. And we promised a Vinnie Testaverde thing. I mentioned to you that we got an email about Vinnie Testaverde and this comes from Raleigh Drussi and Raleigh says, hi, Terry, does Winston’s prolific passing numbers? Terry Pluto (52:24.044) Yeah. Terry Pluto (52:27.561) wait, yeah. Terry Pluto (52:31.98) There you are, good. David Campbell (52:44.403) with untimely Terry Pluto (52:50.846) It is, know, big guy, strong arm, great guy. Vinny’s a great guy, by the way. What a wonderful teammate too. He was another one. I remember one game he threw a couple of interpix and it was very obvious. Remember like when, was it Cedric Tillman last year? Of course, two interceptions for Flacco. You could just see. And Flacco, well, one of them, Flacco had enough. For the second time he mentioned it was that, but Vinny would always there. But this is, this is stunning stats. 21 years, first of all, Vinny plate, 275 touchdown passes, 267 interceptions. It was a one to one ratio and James goes, yelling at me. 154 to one away. There I am. David Campbell (53:37.909) Yeah. There was never a Vinnie Testa Verde experience, was there, back in the day? Terry Pluto (53:44.066) No, there was, and it also shows how football has changed the analytics influence on how damaging interceptions are and turnovers, and you don’t want to have those. But I really think it’s unfair to simply take a guy like Jameis Winston, who is a marginal and NFL starter and certainly a terrific backup and teammate, and just put him in the, he throws a bunch of interceptions box. Well, there’s a bunch of guys who are backup quarterbacks in his league. They won’t throw a whole lot of interceptions. They’re not going to throw any touchdown passes. They’re not going to do anything. You’re going to hand off and as, and yeah, check down Charlie’s. That’s what the, I forgot who Joe Thomas was telling me about a quarterback that I, or somebody like that said, called him check down Charlie. That’s what he is. And now granted, you don’t want to like, David Campbell (54:23.039) Check down. Terry Pluto (54:36.61) Vinnie Testa Verde and James sometimes I’m trying one I’m feeling it just let it let it fly but you also don’t want guys that don’t even give it a shot don’t give you a chance to win David Campbell (54:50.933) All right. Well, I, I mentioned drew Aller, the Penn State quarterback last week as a possible guy that the Browns could look at. If he comes out, I think he’s just finishing his third year. So he’s eligible, but he might go back, but he, they lost in the big 10 championship game, but he had, he had one of the best throws of the season. thought the other day, and I’m not just saying that cause he’s from Medina, but he would be one of these low risk, high reward guys, Terry, a former five star recruit, one of the top quarterbacks in his class. And he has a gun for an arm. don’t think he’s maximizing his production there. So. Terry Pluto (54:54.371) Yes. Terry Pluto (54:59.672) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (55:20.575) Keep an eye on him during the playoffs. Terry Pluto (55:20.598) I it, I’ve heard some, I haven’t watched enough of him to have a big opinion other than what you mentioned, the physical stuff and that. But I’ve heard him project a second and third round. I mean, if that’s the case, he probably should come out. David Campbell (55:33.481) probably yeah but he was they were in a in the red zone he was being pulled down by his shirt and stood in there and just delivered a rope into the end zone and they lost so anyway we’ll see how they do in the playoff I’ll be keeping an eye on him so Guardians Terry big news the last few days the signing of Shane Bieber who’s coming back to Cleveland why don’t we start with an email from Steve Ronsky listener who’s from Grayslake Illinois Terry Pluto (55:40.525) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (55:59.369) He says, Hey guys, enjoy the podcast very much. I wanted to get your takes on the Bieber contract. I feel it was an odd deal for a very fiscally conservative organization like the guardians. I wouldn’t have made the deal unless Bieber made a hard commitment beyond 2025, not just the player option. If he has a good second half, he’s gone after the season. All you’ve done is rehab him for the Yankees or some other big market team. Of course, if he pitches great down the stretch and leads the guardians to a world series title, I’ll happily eat my words. Thanks for that Steve. Just for background, so the deal is 10 million in 2025 and there’s a player option for 16 million plus a 4 million buyout in 2026. So how do you feel about all that Terry? Terry Pluto (56:38.422) Here’s how, well first of all, let’s explain how this works exactly. So his salary is 10 million then and his salary for 26 is the 16 million. But if he decides to skip it, he still gets 4 million bucks to leave. It’s not a 4 million buyout. It’s the other way. you’re, it’s correct. It’s a different kind of contract. Drew Rosenhaus did that contract. David Campbell (56:42.037) All right. Terry Pluto (57:04.735) Of Drew Ozenhouse should have signed him for 40 or $50 million that the guardians were offering several Springs ago. My guess is they would decide that here’s what I think they believe that the Bieber, we won’t really know what Bieber’s like till 26, that he may come back and pitch some nice games, much like Matthew Boyd did. But if you watch, they were watching Boyd on like 80 pitches and five innings, and they were very careful. I did the timing on it in my column on Bieber. if it’s a, and Boyd kind of, It’s usually 12 to 18 months, but really is getting closer to 18 months for most of these guys with, with Tommy John Boyd came back in 14 months and he pitched, early August finally in the big leagues is when that was. So if you roll that into Bieber, that would be sometimes around, early July, something like that. Yes. And they would be. David Campbell (58:10.645) was was heard in April, right? Terry Pluto (58:16.077) he’d have to go through the minors and that kind of stuff. So I think the guardians felt that if he’s pretty good, he’ll probably still be with us, but you never know. Scott Borrell’s got $29 million for two years for Matthew Boyd. David Campbell (58:35.925) All right. Well, that’s, I keep think they’ve lost both Cobb and Boyd in this off season already. And you’re right. This, this does feel like that a little bit where it’s, it’s a good deal to get him through the second half of next season. And then they can see where they’re at and they’ve got them signed. So they don’t, they won’t lose him if he decides to, well, unless he decides he wants to leave for more money, which would be hard to make that case in half a season. Yeah. Yeah. Terry Pluto (58:55.118) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (58:59.046) I mean he could, he could, but probably if he does it means he’s pitched very well this year. I think that’s what they’re figuring this upcoming season. By the way, wouldn’t it surprise us thing the Guardians, the Guard Fest is like now at every three years or something? David Campbell (59:06.196) Right. David Campbell (59:13.639) Every three years, yeah. They’ve just announced that this week. We’re trying to find out. It’s a big undertaking, right? And I don’t know if it was a money-loser. There’s a lot of questions about it. But I’ve often found it weird, too, that they’re the only team that does something like that. Like, the other teams don’t have one either. Terry Pluto (59:15.446) What’s that about? Terry Pluto (59:22.637) I guess. Yeah. Terry Pluto (59:31.554) Yeah. The fans, the fans seemed to like it when I went down every year or so. I mean, what do I know? by the way, did you see the, the, Paul Hoynes did not make the hall of fame. Tom, Tom Boswell did from the Washington post. And that that’s probably one of those things where a lot of the people voting, Boswell being at the Washington post, bigger, you know, bigger media outlet and. David Campbell (59:36.735) Yeah. So, yeah. David Campbell (59:43.913) Yes, we’re going to keep pulling for him next year though. Terry Pluto (01:00:00.332) You know, Paul Hoynes is a, he’s the everyday beat guy. Even when I was in Baltimore and. Basel was the quote beat man for the Washington post covering the Orioles. He, there was no Washington, nationals or senators or anything at that point. He really wasn’t there all the time. He would come in and write features and those kinds of things. So he was not a traditional baseball beat guy at all. not to. And Tom is a wonderful, elegant writer and he loves baseball. But it was, when I think about that, that award, think about guys who are, you know, long time beat guys, know, Sheldon Ocher made it from here. Lebowitz was in help. People can think about Hal as a columnist, but early in his career at the old Cleveland news, he covered, he covered the tribe for years and years. You know, Gordon Cobbledick is in another guy playing dealer beat writer for years and years. In fact, I Cobbledick was actually my dad’s favorite writer. He liked Hal too, but he loved Cobbledick. David Campbell (01:01:05.538) Well, Tom Boswell, as you mentioned, Terry is a standing writer and he is a national and he’s got books and a lot of people have read his baseball books over the years and it’s but Hoynes is going to get in one of these years and we know that’s going to happen. So we’ll be pulling for him. To wrap up the Guardians real quick, Terry, I think we got a couple of emails last week or maybe it was one about the players shares for the playoffs and Paul Hoynes, I think it was the next day, got the information and did a story on it. Terry Pluto (01:01:10.349) Yep. Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (01:01:26.487) Yes. David Campbell (01:01:32.501) But MLB has announced the shares for the 12 teams. The Guardians received 15.4, almost 15.5 million as their portion of the gate receipts. they have, yeah, they’re handing out 72 full shares worth $182,663. They also handed out 12.48 partial shares. Yeah, so I just wanted to throw that on there. According to the... Terry Pluto (01:01:43.438) It like 180 grand a player, I think. Terry Pluto (01:01:50.19) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (01:02:00.039) A green basic agreement players and managers get it the certified athletic trainers and the strength and conditioning coaches get a percentage share. So basically teams decide who’s going to get the money and how they’re going to break it up. Terry Pluto (01:02:10.574) You know, for a lot of these guys, well, first of all, it’s a lot of money for anybody, but even if you get, you know, you’re a trainer or something like that and you get say half a share of 90 grand, that probably just doubled your salary or more. And that’s a, and that was always the, in the old days. I remember when I did the book with the, on the 61 Yankees with Tony Kubik and the Yankees, like when he was a younger player, they went to kind of slump and they weren’t playing well. he said, David Campbell (01:02:23.128) yeah. Terry Pluto (01:02:39.982) I forgot who a couple of the veterans were, Yogi Bear and some others pulled Kubik over. think Bobby Richardson said, you guys are messing with our money because we need that World Series share. Because that almost was half of their regular season salary. And the Yankees would tell you this when you would negotiate it. Well, don’t have, you know, we’ll pay you $20,000, but you know, we’re going to make the World Series and that’s at least another 10. It could be even 12,000. David Campbell (01:02:55.807) Crazy. David Campbell (01:03:06.549) Yeah, Hoynsey added in a story. 17 of the 26 players on the Guardians’ playoff rosters were making at or just above the Major League minimum of $740,000. So that’s a big chunk for guys who are making, that’s 50 % of what they made the whole season. The Dodgers’ share for winning it all was $477,441. The Yankees were number two at the... No, not at all. Terry Pluto (01:03:19.085) Yeah? Terry Pluto (01:03:23.298) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (01:03:32.226) Yeah, but they don’t have any high-pay players. David Campbell (01:03:35.413) The Yankees were number two at 354,572 and then the Guardians had the third biggest share at 182,663. Terry Pluto (01:03:43.31) Yeah, I don’t know how they figure that. David Campbell (01:03:46.581) It’s a combination of gate receipts and how many games you win. think I don’t have that but Terry Pluto (01:03:50.466) Yeah, I how many games you play too. David Campbell (01:03:53.641) Yeah, that’s probably part of it and winning matters. The Braves. Terry Pluto (01:03:55.15) because see Cleveland had they had a five they had a five game series with Detroit and the Yankees was a five game series. David Campbell (01:04:01.927) Mm-hmm the Braves were got the lowest that their players got nine thousand five hundred and forty eight because they had a very short run so Do you want to talk about this golden bat proposal real quick Terry? It’s a little timely so we probably should jump on it for a minute just to for background MLB is kicking around this thing where you would have a golden bat at bat once a game and You could pick any player from your lineup and send them up at any time at a key point of the game. I Think they should actually have a gold bat like Terry Pluto (01:04:13.175) A little bit. Terry Pluto (01:04:32.024) Yeah. David Campbell (01:04:32.029) Hey, you ever tour the Louisville Slugger Museum, can paint the bats or whatever, but I think the guy should go up and bat with a gold bat. I think that’d be really cool if they did it. What do you think, Terry, of the golden bat proposal? Terry Pluto (01:04:43.064) Well, first of all, if you do it, if you, all right, let’s, let’s do the, think Joe Noga first mentioned that, this example, you know, it’s the eighth inning and the bases are loaded with one out, guardians are down by a run. Hedges is up. So instead of hedges, Jose gets to bat. Okay. So he gets to bat, see what happens. Now Jose’s batting his regular third spot in the lineup. now one of the proposals be, well, then he also then gets to bat third. No, he doesn’t not under my rule. No, if you pull him out of that spot, you’ve taken them out. You’re not giving your best player an extra lineup appearance. You’re just moving that thing somewhere. And I think it creates now I’m doing the positive part first. it creates a lot of kind of fun, second guessing managers in some ways will hate it because they’ll keep wondering, do I hold it’s almost like a basketball timeouts or something to when do I call it? When do I use it? Who do I even use it with? But it. It does. And some people will say it’s, you know, altering with the, the, the, the sanctity of the game. I remember I’m old enough to remember when they, the pitcher stopped batting, they had this designated hitter thing. What do you mean he’s going to bat and not have to play the field and just keep doing that? Yes. And of course now it’s just, it’s like, you think it’s always been there. So. I would be willing to look at it in the minors. That’s the cool thing about baseball. You have the minors, you could try all this stuff out and sort of see how it goes. But at first I would think, well, that’s stupid, that’s crazy. Then I started thinking about it and whoa, I remember people saying about the designated hitter. And so I’m intrigued enough to try it in the minors, not just there. I know Manford got, I guess, skewered by a lot of people. And Salaki is back in office on the commissioner on this. But he should say, no, let’s look at it in rookie ball or somewhere. Yeah. David Campbell (01:06:38.643) Yeah, what’s the harm? And this is what you explained about starting in the minor leagues. And I think that’s a really good idea is that’s what exactly would happen when the pitch clock came out. All these baseball purists were clutch and clutching their pearls. my, we can’t put a clock on baseball. And they tried it in the minor leagues and it worked and it made the game faster. And now everybody loves it. So. Terry Pluto (01:06:44.834) Yeah. yeah. Terry Pluto (01:06:57.75) As I wrote I wrote a lot about the role changes I challenge you to go back because a Caleb Mackey is one of our listeners said he watched a 2019 game with the Sun on video. I don’t know why he was doing that, but he did And he said it was like he started throwing the ball get in the batter’s box I mean it was painful how slow the pace was and then you look at what do you mean? You’re not allowed to shift players should be able to stand anywhere. They want on the diamond. Well, not anymore David Campbell (01:07:25.907) Yeah. But I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s Rob Manfred’s job to come up with ways to grow the game and make it better. And if he doesn’t throw stuff out like this, like this out, he’s not doing his job like for discussion. Terry Pluto (01:07:27.062) No they’re- no they can’t? Terry Pluto (01:07:37.306) And the fact, mean, the fact is, what do you mean a reliever has to pitch the three batters? Never used to be that way. It is now. Thank goodness. I mean, can you imagine if that rule wasn’t in and we have bullpen games already teams, teams that only have like nine guys on the roster and they’d have, you know, 94 pitchers. So David Campbell (01:07:55.829) Yeah. And now, and look what happened to, were talking about this in the middle of December and people are talking baseball about this golden bad thing in December. So mission accomplished for Rob Manfred, right? Terry Pluto (01:08:03.734) Yeah, and you can look at it. But also, do want to adapt. The fact is, last couple of years with the rule changes, attendance is up everywhere. And I know the Guardian’s internal data showed a lot of people say that it is a better game to watch. It’s a better game to watch moving along so fast. And at first, I thought I wouldn’t like the Ghostrunner on second. I remember when that came out. midway through that season, think it was the COVID season. I’m like, this is really interesting. Let’s see what you’re gonna do. Yes, it did. Yeah. So, I mean, please, so you can move in a bat one, but you don’t let this guy bat, because one guy said, we can just move, judge up one spot in the roster, here in the lineup, and then he gets to bat twice in a row. No, he doesn’t. You can’t have that. No, this is like, if you put him in there, David Campbell (01:08:39.573) And that’s another thing that started in the minor leagues, right? Yeah. Terry Pluto (01:08:59.788) That’s where he bats and he loses that spot in the lineup. And there you go. I don’t know. That’s all I feel. And I’ll tell you another thing, David. I got an email from a fan. said, just what the Yankees need, you know, where they could have put Aaron judge or whatever, anywhere. Actually the Yankees golden bat wouldn’t, don’t think it helps them because they probably have six guys going to hit the ball, the ballpark anyway. It more likely will be a benefit. David Campbell (01:09:05.862) You got like a double switch. Yeah. All right. Well, let’s see where that goes. It’s going to be something to... Terry Pluto (01:09:29.006) to a good mid-marketing Cleveland, Kansas City, et cetera, where you have, you know, they could take Bobby Witt and drop them in somewhere where they want to put them, or you could take Jose and drop them into a spot, because you don’t have three Jose’s in the lineup like the Yankees have. so that’s, I want people to really think about this beyond the, no, you can’t do that. I mean, once upon a time, nobody thought they should have automatic transmission in cars. David Campbell (01:09:48.351) Very interesting. David Campbell (01:10:01.298) That’s really old school Terry that’s going back. All right hey we- Terry Pluto (01:10:03.774) What they did? I won’t even use an indoor plumbing reference. What do you mean this device? What happens if it doesn’t work and we’re inside? David Campbell (01:10:13.973) Alright. Hey, so we are going to close with some Ohio State. We talked a little Ohio State Michigan last week and we did get a couple of listeners who wrote in about that. The first one is from Scott Goodman and he says, Hey Terry, I’m listening to your December 3rd podcast and your discussion of the OSU Michigan game. Terry Pluto (01:10:17.454) Alright, enough of that. David Campbell (01:10:35.445) After watching the game and experts reviewing the tape of the game, I wanted to share my thoughts. You questioned why Will Howard didn’t throw a pass more than 20 yards down the field. I think that was a stat that I mentioned, Terry. Will threw two passes more than 20 yards. Both throws the Michigan defensive backs, grabbed the OSU receiver and gave up 15 yards for penalty for pass interference instead of a large gain or a TD. Another reason the college rules should change pass interference to a spot foul like the NFL as opposed to 15 yards. Terry Pluto (01:10:44.759) Yes. Terry Pluto (01:10:54.304) Aha! David Campbell (01:11:04.925) I agree the play calling was unacceptable, but the offensive line blocking was poor, very poor in the fourth quarter, especially the last drive. Will Howard had immediate pressure in his face right over the backup center. Thank goodness for the Cavs and Jamis Winston to make the Browns games fun to watch since the Browns are out of the playoffs and need high draft picks. Thanks for the articles and podcasts. Best to you and Roberta. Again, that’s from Scott Goodman. And we got another one from Tom Hearn and he says, yeah. Terry Pluto (01:11:28.12) by the way, let’s give Scott some, he had a couple things like, number one was, they went deep and there were the penalties. so that actually, you can keep going deep, you get 15 yards or is it 10? I’ve forgotten the college game, 15, so that’s 15 yards. Secondly, he’s also right about, it should be to the spot of the foul. David Campbell (01:11:40.434) It worked. 15. Yep. David Campbell (01:11:52.981) I agree and Tom Hearn, our next listener says similar sentiments. He says, hi guys, I was listening to last week’s podcast. You and Terry discussed the Michigan game against Ohio State. Made the comment that they did not complete pass down the field. Also you stated that they did not throw many long passes, but they did throw two over 40 and they were tackled by the Michigan player. In college, it’s a 15 yard penalty. This is much different than the pro game, which is a penalty on the two yard line. I see this as a very unfair rule. My friend who was an SEC referee sends me the weekly review of NCAA officials. They discussed this difference, but said that the committee was not interested in changing the rule. I think it’s a terrible decision. so yeah, just like you were saying, Terry, to me, it was proof that it works. And the other thing teams can do, the biggest advantage Ohio state had on offense was that amazing group of receivers. Terry Pluto (01:12:42.551) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (01:12:42.825) That was the biggest advantage they had in the whole game. And we’ve, we see the Browns do this or other teams. When you’re having pass protection problems, you keep in seven, eight guys, you keep in running backs and tight ends and you send one, two or maybe three guys out into a pattern and you max protect and let your receivers win. And I think all the shoes receivers, especially Jeremiah Smith were good enough to win with not as many guys out in patterns and they just didn’t push it down. Ryan Day said this last week, we had too many interior runs was I think a direct quote of what he said. We had too many interior runs. Terry Pluto (01:13:16.398) It’s it’s remarkable that Chip Kelly, not calling the place, not Woody Hays, it’s just astounding to me. Because given his history. David Campbell (01:13:27.049) Yep. Anyway, Ohio State is, that Michigan game is now in the rear view mirror, at least on the schedule. And I’m seeing predictions that they could win the whole thing. That people are thinking they’re going to go on a run that that Michigan loss will set them off on a championship run. So that we will see that is going to be starting a week from Saturday down in Columbus. I have, he’s good. He’s good. I’m trying to think of a comparison. He’s Terry Pluto (01:13:45.742) Have you seen us running back from Boise steak as I have not? And? How good? David Campbell (01:13:58.717) He’s part scat back but he’s also part, he’s got power and he’s not just a third down guy. You know how you see some guys who are a little bit slight? He’s built, he’s built really thick and I think he could be a good pro. I don’t know how high I would take him but he’s a good football player. Terry Pluto (01:14:04.173) Yeah. Terry Pluto (01:14:18.36) Cause I just saw a little bit and you know. David Campbell (01:14:22.495) Sorry, we’re talking about Aston Giante from Boise State. Terry Pluto (01:14:24.246) Yeah, and he is he beat Barry Sanders’s record or where is he on that? He’s like right there. He’s like right there. Yeah. Mm hmm. Italy. Yes. That was in the army. I’ve heard a nice story on him in the Wall Street Journal recently. And see a guy like that to me is intriguing. You know, third round pick, something like that. The Browns. We don’t know what Chubb’s going to be able to do next year. David Campbell (01:14:28.423) I am not sure, but he’s close. Yeah. And it’s interesting. He grew up in Florida. I mean, in Florida, in Italy, playing football. Yeah. Terry Pluto (01:14:52.215) I think we’ve seen enough about Jerome for to think, okay, he’s okay. How’s that? That’s it. So. David Campbell (01:14:58.281) Well, every time I watch the Cowboys return a kick, I think about the Browns. How many guys are on this team right now who can run a kickoff or a pass or a jet sweep 90 yards? How many guys you think are on the team? Maybe Jerry Judy? They have nobody who’s a game breaker in terms of speed like that, and they need guys like that, not just on offense, but to return kicks. So I think somebody like him would Terry Pluto (01:15:14.36) Judy, Judy’s your big athlete, that’s it. Yeah. Terry Pluto (01:15:24.151) Mm-hmm. David Campbell (01:15:26.781) would be a perfect fit. You could do a lot. Terry Pluto (01:15:27.406) I mean, is it, an interesting pick. And if you take him to third round, just, okay. Well, okay. It’s a third round pick. so I, I would like to see them look at a running back third round, fourth round like that, because you’d have other, know, they’ve got to get something. The offensive line going. I really want to tackle one here. well, well, they’re gonna have to one drones back and you have a conch on state healthy. Well, conquest stayed healthy for the first time. We’ll see if he finishes the year healthy, by the way. I don’t mean there just to say, cause he, don’t know when was the last time, but I think 20 was the last time he got through the whole year healthy. And then, the one now the last two years has ended up on the injured list and the season. David Campbell (01:16:09.301) Yeah, you look across the roster, they’re relying on a lot of guys coming back from injury and they need to get younger, bigger, faster and meaner. they’ll be, I’m curious to see how the draft, some years are really good safety drafts. Some years it’s really good running back draft. I’m really curious to see how that shakes out this year when all the declarations come out. So, all right, we’re good, right Terry? We done? All right. Hey, don’t forget again, check out Terry’s newsletter and send us your. Terry Pluto (01:16:16.46) Mm-hmm. Terry Pluto (01:16:31.519) I’m done! David Campbell (01:16:36.885) 2024 favorite moments and your 2025 Cleveland sports predictions, sports at cleveland.com . We will talk to you next week when we return on Terry’s talking.

December is Prematurity Awareness MonthIdris Elba Now Has His Own Cognac BrandFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Related Articles Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department’s operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Before Biden’s commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Berman said Trump’s statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump’s rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl’s mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden’s decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President- elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as counselor to the president. Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending time with the president-elect since the election at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago. “She has been unwavering in her loyalty and unmatched in her resolve — standing with me through numerous ‘trials,’ battles and countless days in Court," Trump posted on his social network Truth Social. “Few understand the Weaponization of the ‘Injustice’ System better than Alina.” Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes when a New York jury in May found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. In Trump's first term, the position of counselor was held by Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway. Habba has Iraqi ancestry and is Chaldean, which is Iraq’s largest Christian denomination and one of the Catholic Church’s Eastern rites. Habba frequently accompanied Trump on the campaign trail and was one of the speakers at the late October rally in New York's Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump also announced he is bringing back former staffer Michael Anton to serve as director of policy planning at the State Department. Anton served as the National Security Council spokesman from 2017 to 2018. Trump said he also will be appointing Michael Needham, a former chief of staff for Sen. Marco Rubio, as counselor of the State Department. The Florida senator was chosen by Trump to be his next secretary of state.

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Some of B.C. Conservative leader's critic picks questionedWASHINGTON — Senate Democrats reelected Chuck Schumer as party leader on Tuesday as the party moves into a deeply uncertain time, with no real consensus on a strategy as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. From left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., gather after Senate Democratic leadership elections for the next session of Congress on Tuesday in Washington. Schumer faced no opposition in the party leadership elections, in which Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin was also reelected to the No. 2 spot and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar became the new No. 3. In a statement, Schumer, of New York, said he was honored to move the party forward “during this crucial period for our country.” “Our preference is to secure bipartisan solutions wherever possible and look for ways to collaborate with our Republican colleagues to help working families,” Schumer said. “However, our Republican colleagues should make no mistake about it, we will always stand up for our values.” While Schumer remains popular with his colleagues, it is a bleak moment for Senate Democrats, who were hopeful that they could hold the majority for the third election in a row. Instead they lost four seats and will be in the minority, 53-47, as Trump takes office and pressures the Senate to quickly confirm his Cabinet nominees. People are also reading... Unlike eight years ago, when opposition to Trump’s narrow election win fueled enthusiasm in their party, Democratic lawmakers and many of their voters are exhausted and looking for answers. So far, Democrats have stayed relatively quiet on Trump’s nominees and plans for office – a stark contrast from the loud opposition to Trump when he was elected eight years ago. Schumer has declined to comment on specifics of any nominees, instead allowing Republican reaction to dominate the conversation. On Monday, Schumer wrote a public letter to South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the incoming Republican majority leader, asking him to resist Trump’s pressure to allow him to appoint some of his nominees without a Senate vote and to insist on full FBI background checks for all nominees. But he has said little else about Trump’s upcoming presidency. While some have been more aggressive — Washington Sen. Patty Murray, a former chairwoman of the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee, said that Trump’s nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department is “dangerous” and “nothing short of disaster” — several Democratic senators say they are saving their strength and figuring out a focus. “Everybody’s in kind of a wait-and-see mode right now,” said Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who is part of Schumer’s leadership team. “Under the previous Trump administration, there was chaos all the time, all the time. And I do think it is important to pick your battles.” It’s still unclear which battles they will pick. And Democrats have differing opinions on how to fight them. Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, who is also in Democratic leadership, says that “anyone who has a grand strategy is full of crap,” but thinks that Democrats, for now, “need to keep things simple.” “We need to talk about people, protect people, advocate for people,” Schatz said. “Do not talk about protecting institutions. Do not talk about advocating for institutions. It’s a not just a rhetorical shift, but an attitudinal shift. We have to remind ourselves, that we’re not fighting for programs and projects and line items and agencies or norms. We’re fighting for people.” Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said that he’s spent a lot of time reflecting, and “I don’t think anyone can claim this was a policy election,” and Democrats need to look at cultural issues. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says Democrats just need to “pace ourselves” and avoid the “massive freakout” of Trump's last term. Democrats should be preparing, says Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal. He says Schumer is picking his battles “very thoughtfully and strategically.” “We’re thinking about how we protect against using the FBI, or the prosecutorial authority of the Justice Department for retribution against critics,” said Blumenthal. “How we elevate these issues in a way that American people understand them.” Democrats know better now, after eight years, “the extraordinary challenges we’re going to face,” Blumenthal said. November's best images from around the world Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S. compete in the ice dance rhythm dance program at the Grand Prix of Figure Skating series competition in Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) A discarded plastic bag floats in the waters of Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) China's President Xi Jinping, left center, and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, walk into the Alvorada palace after attending a welcoming ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova competes against Great Britain's Katie Boulter during a Billie Jean King Cup semi-final match at Martin Carpena Sports Hall in Malaga, southern Spain, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., closes a door to a private meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance and Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) A surfer rides on an artificial wave in the river 'Eisbach' at the 'Englischer Garten' (English Garden) downtown in Munich, Germany, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) A woman carries a gift basket as she arrives at a park to attend a friend's birthday party, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Kampala, Uganda. (AP Photo/David Goldman) Tania hugs her brother-in-law Baruc after rescuing some of their belongings from their flooded house after the floods in Paiporta, Valencia, Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris looks at a monitor backstage, just before taking the stage for her final campaign rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President-elect Donald Trump listens during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A resident returns to his burned village, Monday Nov. 25, 2024, one day after a fire broke out leaving about 2,000 families homeless at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) Isaac Young rests his cheek on the family horse Rusty's forehead during farm chores before homeschooling, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Sunbury, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Students from anti-discrimination movements attack an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu) A young girl holds a "Black Voters for Harris-Walz" sign outside of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris' election night watch party at Howard University, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams) A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. 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Hong) Israeli soldiers holding their weapons bathe with residents in a hot water pool coming from a drilling project which exposed a subterranean hydrothermal spring near Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, on the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Voters stand in line outside a polling place at Madison Church, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York) Molten lava flows on the road to the Blue Lagoon, Grindavik, after the volcanic eruption that started Wednesday, on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco) Firefighters and sheriff's deputies push a vintage car away from a burning home as the Mountain Fire burns in Camarillo, Calif., on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Supporters of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) celebrate the victory of candidate Yamandú Orsi in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) People gather at the site where former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed by Israeli airstrikes late September during a memorial ceremony in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Katia, 11, with her grandmother and mother sit in an armored minivan during en evacuation by the "White Angels" police unit in Kurakhove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka) People clean mud from a house affected by floods, in Algemesi, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Cattle stand on a heap of textile waste at the Old Fadama settlement of Accra, Ghana, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu) Family members accompany the coffin that contain the remains of Mexican actress Silvia Pinal, during a memorial service at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024. Pinal, an actress from Mexico's Golden Age of cinema in the 1940s and 50s, died Thursday. She was 93. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario) A family arrive to cross into Lebanon through the Jousieh border crossing, between Syria and Lebanon, Nov. 28, 2024, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) Get Government & Politics updates in your inbox! Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.

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In a surprising legal move, special counsel David Weiss filed a motion in the California federal court where Hunter Biden’s tax case is being conducted, calling on the judge not to dismiss the charges following President Joe Biden’s pardon that was announced on Sunday. Biden’s covers the period from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024. That time frame includes Hunter’s jury-trial convictions in June for lying on a federal form about his drug use when he purchased a handgun. It also covers his September conviction on nine charges related to his failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 through 2019. Hunter faced a maximum of 17 years in prison for his tax offenses. “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Biden in a statement accompanying . In a Monday in a federal district court in California, Weiss wrote, “There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case.” “The defendant [ ] made similar baseless accusations in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Those claims were also rejected,” he added. “In total, eleven different [federal] judges appointed by six different presidents, including his father, considered and rejected the defendant’s claims, including his claims for selective and vindictive prosecution.” New: Special Counsel David Weiss’s office opposes Hunter Biden’s motion to completely dismiss his indictment based on the pardon. “The Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy. But that does not mean the grand jury’s decision to... — Matt Rice (@matt____rice) The special counsel’s office urged the judge not to dismiss the tax charges, but instead just close the docket indicating a pardon had been issued. This would allow the record to continue to exist. “[I]t has been the practice of this court that once an Executive Grant of Clemency has been filed on the docket, the docket is marked closed, the disposition entry is updated to reflect the executive grant of clemency, and no further action is taken by the Court,” wrote. He also pointed out that Hunter Biden has not docketed yet with the court, nor has his office seen it. “If media reports are accurate, the Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy. But that does not mean the grand jury’s decision to charge him, based on a finding of probable cause, should be wiped away as if it never occurred. It also does not mean that his charges should be wiped away because the defendant falsely claimed that the charges were the result of some improper motive,” Weiss wrote. He concluded, “No court has agreed with the defendant on these baseless claims, and his request to dismiss the indictment finds no support in the law or the practice of this district.” Mark Osler, an expert in presidential pardons at the University of St. Thomas, ABC News that Weiss’s filing raises “a technical issue — either way, the case goes away — but an important one.” “[Prosecutors] want the indictment to remain on the record,” he said. reported, “U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who is overseeing Hunter Biden’s tax case in California, has not yet ruled on dismissal.” The news outlet pointed out, “U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, the federal judge in Delaware overseeing Hunter Biden’s gun case, said she intends to terminate the proceedings against him once the pardon is docketed but asked Weiss to inform her whether his office objects to dismissal in that case, too.” We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. .After-hours movers: Oracle, MongoDB, C3 AI, Lilly and moreIn the summer of 2016 and 2017, it was reported that Manchester City's manager at the time, Pep Guardiola, had made a staggering offer close to €100 million to acquire Bonucci's services. Guardiola, known for his admiration of ball-playing defenders who can contribute to the team's build-up play, saw Bonucci as the perfect fit for his tactical system.

As the global economy continues to navigate through uncertain times, all eyes are on the signals being sent by central banks around the world. In particular, the recent trend towards moderate easing has sparked conversations about the potential impact on next year's economic landscape and the shift in monetary policy that may accompany it.

As the defenders of Salzburg prepare to take on Paris, they are acutely aware of the talent and firepower that the French team possesses. Led by superstars like Neymar and Mbappe, Paris Saint-Germain boasts an attacking prowess that is unmatched by many. But for the Salzburg defenders, this only serves as motivation to rise to the occasion and showcase their defensive abilities.In order to thrive in the competitive fintech market, Ant Group must also enhance its combativeness and strategic agility. The company needs to be bold and proactive in seizing opportunities for growth and expansion, while also being vigilant and prepared to mitigate risks and challenges.West Fargo Sheyenne stymies Fargo Shanley to return to Class A volleyball championshipLONDON: On my 13th birthday, my parents gave me a portable CD player and the masterpiece that was Fresh Hits 1997. Like more than 600 million other people, I have long since swapped my box of CDs for the Spotify app on my phone. But I found my old birthday present recently and discovered it still worked. Even using headphones from the 1990s, I was staggered by the richness of the sound. My ears didn’t deceive me. CDs have a bit-rate of 1,411 kilobits per second, which is a measure of how much data is used to represent sound. Spotify Premium ranges from 24 kbps to 320 kbps, while free Spotify listeners are limited to 160 kbps at best. I realise this is hardly news to music aficionados. Neil Young, who grudgingly returned his music to Spotify this year after a spat involving Joe Rogan , complained: “There is so much tone missing that you can hardly feel the sensitivity.” If hundreds of millions of normal music listeners (like me) have decided to trade audio quality for convenience and variety, then fair enough. But what disconcerted me is that I didn’t know that’s what I’d done. I had simply forgotten how much better music used to sound. THE OPPOSITE OF ROSE-TINTED GLASSES There should be a word for this phenomenon. Qualitynesia, perhaps? If wearing “rose-tinted glasses” is the act of thinking something was better in the past when it objectively wasn’t, this is its opposite: Forgetting something was better in the past when it objectively was. This is hardly new. In 1937’s The Road To Wigan Pier, George Orwell argued that a century of mechanisation had worsened the quality of food, furniture, houses, clothes and entertainment, but that most people didn’t seem to care. He blamed “the frightful debauchery of taste” rather than collective amnesia, though. “Mechanisation leads to the decay of taste, the decay of taste leads to the demand for machine-made articles and hence to more mechanisation, and so a vicious circle is established,” he wrote. Most of the time, high-quality options carry on in a niche way, but they become more expensive or inconvenient, relatively speaking, and fewer people either remember what they’re missing, or are willing or able to pay the extra. In the United Kingdom, for example, clothing accounted for 10 per cent of the average family’s spending in 1957; last year it accounted for 3 per cent. PEOPLE LIKE AI CONTENT WHEN THEY DON’T KNOW IT’S AI There are, of course, plenty of counter-examples of products which have improved in quality over time, such as computers and phones. All the same, my realisation about music left me with the question: What is there in the world today which people will have qualitynesia about in the future? One obvious place to look is the creative sector upon which AI is now beginning to encroach. Research so far suggests that when people know something “creative” was made by AI, they find it mediocre and soulless. But if they don’t know, they quite like it. A recent study found that people couldn’t distinguish AI-generated poems from human ones, and actually preferred AI poems “in the style of” famous poets such as William Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath to real poems by those poets. The researchers’ theory is that the AI poems were less challenging. Similarly, Coca-Cola’s new AI-made Christmas advert, a version of its famous Holidays Are Coming one from the 1990s, was popular when tested on people who weren’t told it was AI. Andrew Tindall from System One, which performed the tests, told me that was because the AI version was leaning heavily on "a great creative idea invented over 30 years ago, by a human marketing team that has built that idea and invested in it over 30 years". That sounds reassuring for people who want to believe in the irreplaceable value of human creativity. And in any case, just because people liked one AI advert doesn’t mean they would enjoy AI films or novels, which matter more to most of us. STEADILY WORSENING REMIXES What’s more, history does offer some examples of people reacquiring a taste for quality. A new generation of young people is now driving a small rise in CD sales, for example. Yet the unsettling thought lingers. If people do like AI-remixes of familiar-feeling, once-human content, and if they’re increasingly hard to detect and much cheaper to produce, we could drift into a world of steadily worsening remixes of previous remixes of previous remixes. And by that point, would we even know what we’d lost? Joni Mitchell once sang: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” But there is a sadder possibility: That by the time it’s gone, you don’t even remember that paradise was better than the parking lot.

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Agilent Technologies A is preparing to release its quarterly earnings on Monday, 2024-11-25. Here's a brief overview of what investors should keep in mind before the announcement. Analysts expect Agilent Technologies to report an earnings per share (EPS) of $1.40. Investors in Agilent Technologies are eagerly awaiting the company's announcement, hoping for news of surpassing estimates and positive guidance for the next quarter. It's worth noting for new investors that stock prices can be heavily influenced by future projections rather than just past performance. Earnings Track Record Last quarter the company beat EPS by $0.06, which was followed by a 0.16% increase in the share price the next day. Here's a look at Agilent Technologies's past performance and the resulting price change: Quarter Q3 2024 Q2 2024 Q1 2024 Q4 2023 EPS Estimate 1.26 1.19 1.22 1.35 EPS Actual 1.32 1.22 1.29 1.38 Price Change % 0.0% -10.0% 3.0% 9.0% Market Performance of Agilent Technologies's Stock Shares of Agilent Technologies were trading at $132.06 as of November 21. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 5.86%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be satisfied going into this earnings release. Analyst Observations about Agilent Technologies Understanding market sentiments and expectations within the industry is crucial for investors. This analysis delves into the latest insights on Agilent Technologies. Analysts have provided Agilent Technologies with 3 ratings, resulting in a consensus rating of Neutral. The average one-year price target stands at $149.0, suggesting a potential 12.83% upside. Comparing Ratings Among Industry Peers In this analysis, we delve into the analyst ratings and average 1-year price targets of IQVIA Hldgs, Waters and Illumina, three key industry players, offering insights into their relative performance expectations and market positioning. The prevailing sentiment among analysts is an Outperform trajectory for IQVIA Hldgs, with an average 1-year price target of $261.21, implying a potential 97.8% upside. The prevailing sentiment among analysts is an Neutral trajectory for Waters, with an average 1-year price target of $370.0, implying a potential 180.18% upside. For Illumina, analysts project an Neutral trajectory, with an average 1-year price target of $173.56, indicating a potential 31.43% upside. Summary of Peers Analysis The peer analysis summary provides a snapshot of key metrics for IQVIA Hldgs, Waters and Illumina, illuminating their respective standings within the industry. These metrics offer valuable insights into their market positions and comparative performance. Company Consensus Revenue Growth Gross Profit Return on Equity Agilent Technologies Neutral -5.62% $855M 4.65% IQVIA Hldgs Outperform 4.28% $1.38B 4.17% Waters Neutral 4.02% $438.65M 10.71% Illumina Neutral -3.49% $745M 39.60% Key Takeaway: Agilent Technologies ranks in the middle among peers for Consensus rating. It is at the bottom for Revenue Growth. For Gross Profit, it is at the top. In terms of Return on Equity, Agilent Technologies is at the bottom compared to its peers. Delving into Agilent Technologies's Background Originally spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Agilent has evolved into a leading life science and diagnostic firm. Today, Agilent's measurement technologies serve a broad base of customers with its three operating segments: life science and applied tools, cross lab consisting of consumables and services related to life science and applied tools, and diagnostics and genomics. Over half of its sales are generated from the biopharmaceutical, chemical, and advanced materials end markets, which we view as the stickiest end markets, but it also supports clinical lab, environmental, forensics, food, academic, and government-related organizations. The company is geographically diverse, with operations in the US and China representing the largest country concentrations. Agilent Technologies: A Financial Overview Market Capitalization: Positioned above industry average, the company's market capitalization underscores its superiority in size, indicative of a strong market presence. Revenue Growth: Agilent Technologies's revenue growth over a period of 3 months has faced challenges. As of 31 July, 2024, the company experienced a revenue decline of approximately -5.62% . This indicates a decrease in the company's top-line earnings. As compared to competitors, the company encountered difficulties, with a growth rate lower than the average among peers in the Health Care sector. Net Margin: Agilent Technologies's net margin excels beyond industry benchmarks, reaching 17.87% . This signifies efficient cost management and strong financial health. Return on Equity (ROE): Agilent Technologies's ROE stands out, surpassing industry averages. With an impressive ROE of 4.65% , the company demonstrates effective use of equity capital and strong financial performance. Return on Assets (ROA): Agilent Technologies's financial strength is reflected in its exceptional ROA, which exceeds industry averages. With a remarkable ROA of 2.58%, the company showcases efficient use of assets and strong financial health. Debt Management: With a below-average debt-to-equity ratio of 0.5 , Agilent Technologies adopts a prudent financial strategy, indicating a balanced approach to debt management. To track all earnings releases for Agilent Technologies visit their earnings calendar on our site. This article was generated by Benzinga's automated content engine and reviewed by an editor. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.

Tech titan Oracle weighs on US stock market; mega-supermarket merger dealt a new legal setbackLONDON — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73. Hussey died Friday "peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones," a statement posted to her Instagram account said. Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also starred Vanessa Redgrave. "Romeo and Juliet" won two Oscars and Hussey won a Golden Globe for best new actress for her part as Juliet, opposite British actor Leonard Whiting, who was 16 at the time. "Romeo and Juliet" movie director Franco Zeffirelli, left, and actors Olivia Hussey, center, and Leonard Whiting are seen Sept. 25, 1968, in Paris after the Parisian premiere of the film. Decades later Hussey and Whiting brought a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment and fraud over nude scenes in the film. They alleged they were initially told they would wear flesh-colored undergarments in a bedroom scene, but on the day of the shoot Zeffirelli told the pair they would wear only body makeup and the camera would be positioned in a way that would not show nudity. They alleged they were filmed in the nude without their knowledge. The case was dismissed by a Los Angeles County judge in 2023, who found their depiction could not be considered child pornography and the pair filed their claim too late. Leonard Whiting, left, and Olivia Hussey arrive April 26, 2018, at the screening of "The Producers" at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Whiting was among those who paid tribute to Hussey on Saturday. "Rest now my beautiful Juliet no injustices can hurt you now," he wrote. "And the world will remember your beauty inside and out forever." Hussey was born April 17, 1951, in Bueno Aires, Argentina, and moved to London as a child. She studied at the Italia Conti Academy drama school. She also starred as Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the 1977 television series "Jesus of Nazareth," as well as the 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile" and horror movies "Black Christmas" and "Psycho IV: The Beginning." She is survived by her husband, David Glen Eisley, her three children and a grandson. Photos: Notable deaths in 2024 Glynis Johns Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, died, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2023. She was 100. Adan Canto Adan Canto, the Mexican singer and actor best known for his roles in “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Agent Game” as well as the TV series “The Cleaning Lady,” “Narcos,” and “Designated Survivor,” died Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, after a private battle with appendiceal cancer. He was 42. Bud Harrelson Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. He was 79. The Mets said that Harrelson died at a hospice house in East Northport, New York after a long battle with Alzheimer's. Dejan Milojevic Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former star player in his native Serbia, died Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, after suffering a heart attack, the team announced. He was 46. Jack Burke Jack Burke Jr., the oldest living Masters champion who staged the greatest comeback ever at Augusta National for one of his two majors, died Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Houston. He was 100. Mary Weiss Mary Weiss, the lead singer of the 1960s pop group the Shangri-Las, whose hits included “The Leader of the Pack,” died Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 75. Norman Jewison Norman Jewison, a three-time Oscar nominee who in 1999 received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died “peacefully” Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024, according to publicist Jeff Sanderson. He was 97. Charles Osgood Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. He was 91. Melanie Safka Melanie, a singer-songwriter behind 1970s hits including “Brand New Key,” died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. She was 76. Born Melanie Safka, the singer rose through the New York folk scene and was one of only three solo women to perform at Woodstock. Her hits included “Lay Down” and “Look What They've Done to My Song Ma.” Chita Rivera Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists, died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. She was 91. Carl Weathers Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator” and teaching golf in “Happy Gilmore,” died Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. He was 76. Wayne Kramer Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the Machine, died Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, according to Jason Heath, a close friend and executive director of Kramer's charity, Jail Guitar Doors. Heath said the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. He was 75. Ian Lavender Actor Ian Lavender, who played a hapless Home Guard soldier in the classic British sitcom “Dad’s Army,” died Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. He was 77. Toby Keith Country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, whose pro-American anthems were both beloved and criticized, died Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. He was 62. Henry Fambrough Henry Fambrough, the last surviving original member of the iconic R&B group The Spinners, whose hits included “It’s a Shame,” “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love,” and “The Rubberband Man,” died Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, of natural causes, according to a statement from his spokeswoman. He was 85. Bob Edwards Bob Edwards, right, the news anchor many Americans woke up to as founding host of National Public Radio's “Morning Edition” for nearly a quarter-century, died Saturday, Feb. 10, 20243. He was 76. He's shown here with sports announcer Red Barber. Don Gullett Don Gullett, a former major league pitcher and coach who played for four consecutive World Series champions in the 1970s, died Feb. 14. He was 73. He finished his playing career with a 109-50 record playing for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees. Lefty Driesell Lefty Driesell, the coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs, died Feb. 17, 2024, at age 92. Andreas Brehme Germany players celebrate after Andreas Brehme, left on ground, scores the winning goal in the World Cup soccer final match against Argentina, in the Olympic Stadium, in Rome, July 8, 1990. Andreas Brehme, who scored the only goal as West Germany beat Argentina to win the 1990 World Cup final, died Feb. 20, 2024. He was 63. Golden Richards Despite the effort of Denver Broncos defensive back Steve Foley (43), Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Golden Richards hauls in a touchdown pass during NFL football's Super Bowl 12 in New Orleans on Jan 15, 1978. Richards died Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, of congestive heart failure at his home in Murray, Utah. He was 73. Richards' nephew Lance Richards confirmed his death in a post on his Facebook page. Richard Lewis Comedian Richard Lewis attends an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2012. 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,” died Feb. 27, 2024. He was 76. He died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday night after suffering a heart attack, according to his publicist Jeff Abraham. Nikolai Ryzhkov Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov attends a session of the Federation Council, Russian parliament's upper house, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Ryzhkov, former Soviet prime minister who presided over failed efforts to shore up the crumbling economy in the final years before the collapse of the USSR, died Feb. 28, 2024, at age 94. Brian Mulroney Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico relationship, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mulroney died at the age of 84 on Feb. 29, 2024. Akira Toriyama Akira Toriyama is pictured in 1982. Toriyama, the creator of one of Japan's best-selling “Dragon Ball” and other popular anime who influenced Japanese comics, died March 1, 2024. He was 68. Iris Apfel Iris Apfel, a textile expert, interior designer and fashion celebrity known for her eccentric style, died March 1, 2024, at 102. Andy Russell Andy Russell, the standout linebacker who was an integral part of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ evolution from perennial losers to champions, died Feb. 29, 2024. He was 82. Russell won two Super Bowls during a 12-year NFL career between 1963-76 that was briefly interrupted by a stint in the military. Russell played in 168 consecutive games and spent 10 years as a team captain. He was named to the Pro Bowl seven times. Russell remained active in the Pittsburgh community after retiring, writing several books and launching the Andy Russell Charitable Foundation. Ed Ott Pittsburgh Pirates' Ed Ott slides across home late out of reach of Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey to score the winning run in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the World Series at Baltimore, Oct. 11, 1979. Ott, a former major league catcher and coach who helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1979 World Series, died March 3, 2024. He was 72. He batted .259 with 33 homers and 195 RBIs in 567 major league games. Ott and Steve Nicosia were the main catchers when the Pirates won it all in 1979. Chris Mortensen In a photo supplied by ESPN, Chris Mortensen appears on the set of Sunday NFL Countdown at ESPN's studios in Bristol, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2019. Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died March 3, 2024. He was 72. Mortensen announced in 2016 that he he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Even while undergoing treatment, he was the first to confirm the retirement of Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning. Mortensen announced his retirement after the NFL draft last year so that he could “focus on my health, family and faith.” Steve Lawrence Singer Steve Lawrence, left, and his wife Eydie Gorme arrive at a black-tie gala called honoring Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas on May 30, 1998. Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at age 88. Gorme died on Aug. 10, 2013. Naomi Barber King Martin Luther King III, right, the son of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., walks with his daughter Yolanda, and Naomi Barber King, left, the wife of Rev. King's brother, A.D., through an exhibition devoted to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, in Atlanta. Civil rights activist Naomi Barber King died Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Atlanta, according to family members. She was 92. Paul Alexander A Texas man who spent decades using an iron lung after contracting polio as a child died March 11, 2024, at the age of 78. Paul Alexander's longtime friend Daniel Spinks says Alexander died Monday at a Dallas hospital. Spinks called his friend one of the "bright stars of the world.” Friends of Alexander, who graduated from law school and had a career as an attorney, say he was a man who had a great joy for life. Alexander was a child when he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air in and out of his lungs. Thomas P. Stafford Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford stands near the NASA Motor Vessel Retriever during training Aug. 23, 1965, in the Gulf of Mexico. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died March 18, 2024, at 93. Chris Simon New York Rangers' Chris Simon celebrates his second-period goal against the New York Islanders, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Former NHL enforcer Chris Simon has died. He was 52. Simon died March 18, 2024, according to a spokesperson for the NHL Players' Association. M. Emmet Walsh M. Emmet Walsh arrives at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards, March 1, 2014, in Santa Monica, Calif. Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unsettling presence to films including “Blood Simple” and “Blade Runner,” died March 19, 2024, at age 88, his manager said Wednesday. Laurent de Brunhoff "Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant-king, has died at 98 after being in hospice care for two weeks. De Brunhoff was a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s. He died March 22, 2024, at his home in Key West, Florida. Just 12 years old when his father, Jean de Brunhoff, died of tuberculosis, Laurent drew upon his own gifts as a painter and storyteller and as an adult released dozens of books about the elephant who reigns over Celesteville, among them "Babar at the Circus" and "Babar's Yoga for Elephants." Obit Angelos Baseball Longtime Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos has died at the age of 94. His family announced in a statement that Angelos, who had been ill for several years, died March 23, 2024. Angelos was owner of an Orioles team that endured long losing stretches and shrewd proprietor of a law firm that won high-profile cases against industry titans such as tobacco giant Philip Morris. Angelos’ death came as his son, John, was in the process of selling the Orioles to a group headed by Carlyle Group Inc. co-founder David Rubenstein. Peter Angelos purchased the team for $173 million in 1993, at the time the highest for a sports franchise. His public role diminished significantly in his final years. Joe Lieberman Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, left, and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, wave to supporters Oct. 25, 2000, at a campaign rally in Jackson, Tenn. Lieberman died March 27, 2024. He was 82 and died Wednesday of complications from a fall. Lieberman nearly won the vice presidency on Democrat Al Gore's ticket in the disputed 2000 White House race. Eight years later, he came close to joining the GOP ticket as John McCain’s running mate. The Democrat-turned-independent stepped down from the Senate in January 2013 after 24 years. His independent streak often irked Senate Democrats he aligned with. Yet his support for gay rights, civil rights, abortion rights and environmental causes at times won him the praise of many liberals over the years. Louis Gossett Jr. Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” died March 28, 2024. He was 87. Gossett always thought of his early career as a reverse Cinderella story, with success finding him from an early age and propelling him forward, toward his Academy Award for “An Officer and a Gentleman.” He also was a star on Broadway, replacing Billy Daniels in “Golden Boy” with Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964 and recently played an obstinate patriarch in the 2023 remake of “The Color Purple.” Joe Flaherty Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival on March 6, 1999, in Aspen, Colo. Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” died Monday, April 1, 2024 at age 82. John Sinclair John Sinclair talks at the John Sinclair Foundation Café and Coffeeshop, Dec. 26, 2018, in Detroit. Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died at age 82. Sinclair died Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at Detroit Receiving Hospital of congestive heart failure following an illness, his publicist Matt Lee said. Larry Lucchino Boston Red Sox president Larry Lucchino, right, tips his cap to fans as majority owner John Henry holds the 2013 World Series championship trophy during a parade in celebration of the baseball team's win, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, in Boston. Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, has died. He was 78. Lucchino had suffered from cancer. The Triple-A Worcester Red Sox, his last project in a career that also included three major league baseball franchises and one in the NFL, confirmed his death on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Christopher Durang Playwright Christopher Durang appears on stage with producers to accept the award for best play for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on June 9, 2013 in New York. Also on stage are actors, background from left, Shalita Grant, Kristine Nielsen and Billy Magnussen. Durang died Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at his home in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, of complications from logopenic primary progressive aphasia. He was 75. Jerry Grote In this Oct. 16, 1969 file photo, New York Mets catcher Jerry Grote, right, embraces pitcher Jerry Koosman as Ed Charles, left, joins the celebration after the Mets defeated the Baltimore Orioles in the Game 5 to win the baseball World Series at New York's Shea Stadium. Grote, the catcher who helped transform the New York Mets from a perennial loser into the 1969 World Series champion, died Sunday, April 7, 2024. He was 81. Schappell Twins In this July 8, 2003 photo, Lori, left, and George Schappell, conjoined twins, are photographed in their Reading, Pa., apartment. Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died April 7, 2024, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. They were 62. Peter Higgs The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson, died April 8, 2024, at 94. Higgs predicted the existence of the particle in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the its existence could be confirmed at a particle collider in Switzerland called the Large Hadron Collider. Higgs’ work helps scientists understand of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, alongside Francois Englert of Belgium. Ralph Puckett Jr. A retired U.S. Army colonel who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War died April 8, 2024, at age 97. A funeral home says that Ralph Puckett Jr. died Monday at his home in Columbus, Georgia. President Joe Biden presented Puckett with the Medal of Honor in 2021, more than seven decades after Puckett was seriously wounded leading an outnumbered company of Army Rangers in battle. Puckett refused a medical discharge and served as an Army officer for another 20 years before retiring in 1971. Puckett received the U.S. military's highest honor from President Joe Biden on May 21, 2021, following a policy change that lifted a requirement for medals to be given within five years of a valorous act. O.J. Simpson O.J. Simpson, left, grimaces June 15, 1995, in a Los Angeles courtroom as he famously tries on one of the leather gloves prosecutors say he wore the night his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered. Simpson, t he decorated football star who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but wound up in prison years later in an unrelated case, died April 10, 2024. He was 76. His family made an announcement Thursday in a statement on Simpson's X account. Simpson said last year that he was battling prostate cancer. Simpson’s gridiron legacy was forever overshadowed by the 1994 knife slayings of Brown Simpson and Goldman. A criminal court jury found him not guilty of murder, but a separate civil trial jury found him liable. Simpson's nine-year prison stint in Nevada was for the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers. Eleanor Coppola Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. Coppola died April 12, 2024, at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. Eleanor, who grew in Orange County, California, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film “Dementia 13.” Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman, and Sofia. After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies. Robert MacNeil Robert MacNeil, seen in February 1978, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died April 12, 2024, at age 93. Faith Ringgold Artist Faith Ringgold poses for a portrait in front of a painted self-portrait during a press preview of her exhibition, "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, June 19, 2013. Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and detailed quilts combining painting, textiles and storytelling, died Friday, April 12, 2024, at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 93. Steve Sloan Alabama coach Bear Bryant, left, talks with his former star quarterback Steve Sloan, right, after practice in Miami for the Orange Bowl game New Years' night against Nebraska, Dec. 29, 1968. Former college coach and administrator Sloan, who played quarterback and served as athletic director at Alabama. has passed away. He was 79. Sloan died Sunday, April 14, 2024, after three months of memory care at Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, according to an obituary from former Alabama sports information director Wayne Atcheson. Ken Holtzman Oakland A's pitcher Ken Holtzman poses for a photo in March 1975. Holtzman, who pitched two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs and helped the Oakland Athletics win three straight World Series championships in the 1970s, died April 14, 2024. He finished with a career record of 174-150 over 15 season with four teams and was the winningest Jewish pitcher in baseball history. Carl Erskine Carl Erskine, center, pictured with teammate Duke Snider, left, and manager Charley Dressen in 1952, after beating the Yankees 6-5 in Game 5 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York, Oct. 5, 1952. Erskine, who pitched two no-hitters for the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series, has died. Among the last survivors from the celebrated Brooklyn teams of the 1950s, Erskine spent his entire major league career with the Dodgers. He helped them win five National League pennants from 1948-59. Erskine won Game 3 of the 1953 World Series, beating the Yankees 3-2. He appeared in five World Series, with the Dodgers beating the Yankees in 1955 for their only championship in Brooklyn. Erksine died April 16 in his hometown of Anderson, Indiana, according to a hospital official. He was 97. Whitey Herzog St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog lets umpire John Shulock, right, know how he feels about Shulock's call on the tag attempt on Kansas City Royals Jim Sundberg by Cardinals catcher Tom Nieto, second from left, in the second inning of Game 5 of the 1985 World Series in St. Louis. Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title and perfected an intricate, nail-biting strategy known as “Whiteyball,” has died. Herzog, affectionately nicknamed “The White Rat,” was a manager for 18 seasons, compiling an overall record of 1,281 wins and 1,125 losses. He was named Manager of the Year in 1985. Under Herzog, the Cardinals won pennants in 1982, 1985 and 1987 and won the World Series in 1982, when they edged the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games. He died April 15, 2024, and was 92. Bob Graham Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., gestures as he answers questions regarding the ongoing security hearing on Capitol Hill, June 18, 2002, in Washington. Graham, who chaired the Intelligence Committee following the 2001 terrorist attacks and opposed the Iraq invasion, died April 16, 2024. He was 87. His family announced the death Tuesday in a statement posted on X by his daughter Gwen Graham. Graham served three terms in the Senate and two terms as Florida's governor. He made an unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, emphasizing his opposition to the Iraq invasion. But that bid was delayed by heart surgery in January 2003, and he was never able to gain enough traction with voters to catch up. He didn’t seek re-election in 2004 and was replaced by Republican Mel Martinez. Dickey Betts Guitar legend and Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dickey Betts died April 18, 2024, at age 80. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer wrote the band's biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man.” Manager David Spero told The Associated Press that Betts died early Thursday at his home in Osprey, Florida. He says Betts had been battling cancer for more than a year and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Betts shared lead guitar duties with Duane Allman in the original Allman Brothers Band to help give the group its distinctive sound and create a new genre: Southern rock. Acts ranging from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Kid Rock were influenced by the Allmans’ music, which combined blues, country, R&B and jazz with ’60s rock. Mandisa Contemporary Christian singer Mandisa, who appeared on “American Idol” and won a Grammy for her 2013 album “Overcomer,” died April 18, 2024. She was 47. Mandisa gained stardom after finishing ninth on “American Idol” in 2006. In 2014, she won a Grammy for best contemporary Christian music album for “Overcomer,” her fifth album. She spoke openly about her struggles with depression, releasing a memoir that detailed her experiences with severe depression, weight-related challenges, the coronavirus pandemic and her faith. David Pryor David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator who was one of the state’s most beloved and active political figures, died April 20, 2024, at the age of 89. His son, former two-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, says the Democrat died Saturday of natural causes in Little Rock surrounded by family. David Pryor was considered one of the Democratic party’s giants in Arkansas and remained active in public life after he left office, including serving on the University of Arkansas’s Board of Trustees. Roman Gabriel Roman Gabriel was known for his big size and big arm. He was the first Filipino-American quarterback in the NFL. And he still holds the Los Angeles Rams record for touchdown passes. Gabriel died April 20, 2024, at age 83. His son posted the news on social media. He says Gabriel died at home of natural causes. Gabriel starred at North Carolina State and was the No. 2 pick by the Rams in the 1962 draft. The Oakland Raider of the rival AFL made him the No. 1 pick. Gabriel signed with the Rams and later played with the Philadelphia Eagles. Andrew Davis Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, died April 20, 2024. He was 80. Davis died Saturday at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia. That is according to his manager, Jonathan Brill of Opus 3 Artists. Davis had been managing the disease for 1 1/2 to 2 years but it became acute shortly after his 80th birthday on Feb. 2. Davis was music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1975-88, Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival from 1988-2000, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2000, then was music director of the Lyric Opera from 2000-21. Terry Anderson Former hostage Terry Anderson waves to the crowd as he rides in a parade in Lorain, Ohio, June 22, 1992. Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages, died April 21, 2024. Anderson was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years. Anderson, who was tortured and chained to a wall, wrote about his experiences in the best-selling memoir, “Den of Lions.” After returning to the United States in 1991, Anderson gave public speeches, taught journalism and, at various times, operated a blues bar, Cajun restaurant, horse ranch and gourmet restaurant. He also struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder. Bill Gladden British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didn’t come home. It was not to be. Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis during World War II, died April 24, his family said. He was 100. With fewer and fewer veterans taking part each year, the ceremony may be one of the last big events marking the assault that began on June 6, 1944. Duane Eddy Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road" and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, died April 30 at age 86. With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar’s bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones. Paul Auster Author Paul Auster has died at age 77. Auster was a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1." Auster’s death on April 30 was confirmed by his literary representatives. Auster completed more than 30 books, translated into dozens of languages. He never achieved major commercial success in the U.S., but he was widely admired overseas for his cosmopolitan worldview and erudite and introspective style. Auster’s novels were a mix of history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-conscious references to writers and writing. Dick Rutan Co-pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager, no relationship to test pilot Chuck Yeager, pose for a photo after a test flight over the Mojave Desert, Dec. 19, 1985. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, who along with copilot Yeager completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling, died late Friday, May 3, 2024. He was 85. Steve Albini Music producer Steve Albini, seen in his Chicago studio in 2014, produced albums by Nirvana, the Pixies and PJ Harvey. Albini died at 61. Brian Fox, an engineer at Albini’s studio, Electrical Audio, says Albini died after a heart attack May 7. In addition to his work on canonized rock albums such as Nirvana‘s “In Utero,” the Pixies’ breakthrough “Surfer Rosa,” and PJ Harvey’s “Rid of Me,” Albini was the frontman of the underground bands Big Black and Shellac. He dismissed the term “producer” and requested he be credited with “Recorded by Steve Albini." Jimmy Johnson San Francisco 49ers Hall of Fame football player Jimmy Johnson, left, is honored by owner Jed York before a 2011 game between against the St. Louis Rams in San Francisco. Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade Team of the 1970s, has died. He was 86. Johnson's family told the Pro Football Hall of Fame that he died May 8. Johnson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994. He played his entire 16-year pro career with San Francisco. He played in 213 games, more than any other 49ers player at the time of his retirement. Sean Burroughs San Diego Padres third baseman Sean Burroughs fires a throw to first from his knees but is unable to get Los Angeles Dodgers' D. J. Houlton at first during the third inning of a baseball game June 22, 2005, in San Diego. Burroughs, a two-time Little League World Series champion who won an Olympic gold medal and went on to a major league career that was interrupted by substance abuse, has died. He was 43. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s online records said Burroughs died Thursday, May 9, 2024, with the cause of death deferred. Roger Corman Producer Roger Corman poses in his Los Angeles office, May 8, 2013. Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and directors an early break, died Thursday, May 9, 2024. He was 98. A.J. Smith A.J. Smith, a longtime NFL executive who was the winningest general manager in Chargers history, has died. He was 75. His son, Atlanta assistant general manager Kyle Smith, announced in a statement released by the Falcons that his father died May 12. Kyle Smith said his father had been battling prostate cancer for seven years. The Chargers won five division titles during Smith’s 10 seasons as GM. The franchise’s 98 wins, including the playoffs, were the sixth most in the league from 2003-12. David Sanborn Saxophone player David Sanborn performs during his concert at the Stravinski hall at the "Colours of Music night" during the 34th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 10, 2000. Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie's “Young Americans” and James Taylor's “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and enjoyed his own highly successful recording career as a leading performer of contemporary jazz, died Sunday, May 12, 2024, at age 78. Alice Munro Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died. The Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history’s most honored short story writers was 92. Munro achieved stature rare for an art form traditionally placed beneath the novel. She was the first lifelong Canadian to win the Nobel and the first recipient cited exclusively for short fiction. Munro was little known beyond Canada until her late 30s but became one of the few short story writers to enjoy ongoing commercial success. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro died May 13 at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Dabney Coleman Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in “9 to 5” and the nasty TV director in “Tootsie,” died May 16. He was 92. For two decades Coleman labored in movies and TV shows as a talented but largely unnoticed performer. That changed abruptly in 1976 when he was cast as the incorrigibly corrupt mayor of the hamlet of Fernwood in “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” a satirical soap opera. He won a Golden Globe for “The Slap Maxwell Story” and an Emmy Award for best supporting actor in Peter Levin’s 1987 small screen legal drama “Sworn to Silence.” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not in photo, during a joint news conference following their meeting at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 24, 2024. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were found dead at the site of a helicopter crash site, state media reported Monday, May 20, 2024. Jim Otto Jim Otto, the Hall of Fame center known as Mr. Raider for his durability through a litany of injuries, died May 19. He was 86. The cause of death was not immediately known. Otto joined the Raiders for their inaugural season in the American Football League in 1960 and was a fixture on the team for the next 15 years. He never missed a game because of injuries and competed in 210 consecutive regular-season games and 308 straight total contests despite undergoing nine operations on his knees during his playing career. His right leg was amputated in 2007. Ivan Boesky Ivan F. Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked open one of the largest insider trading scandals on Wall Street, has died at the age of 87. A representative at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, owned by his daughter, confirmed his death. The son of a Detroit delicatessen owner, Boesky was once considered one of the richest and most influential risk-takers on Wall Street. He had parlayed $700,000 from his late mother-in-law’s estate into a fortune estimated at more than $200 million. Once implicated in insider trading, Boesky cooperated with a brash young U.S. attorney named Rudolph Giuliani, uncovering a scandal that blemished some of the most respected U.S. investment brokerages. Boesky died May 20. Jan. A.P. Kaczmarek Jan. A.P. Kaczmarek poses with the Oscar for best original score for his work on "Finding Neverland" during the 77th Academy Awards, Feb. 27, 2005, in Los Angeles. Polish composer Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the movie “Finding Neverland,” has died on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at age 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation. Carlie Colin Train bassist and founding member Charlie Colin has died at 58. Colin’s sister confirmed the musician's death Wednesday to The Associated Press. Variety reported Colin slipped and fell in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels. Train formed in San Francisco in the early ’90s. Colin played on Train's first three records, 1998’s self-titled album, 2001’s “Drops of Jupiter” and 2003’s “My Private Nation.” The track “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also earned two Grammys. Colin left the band in 2003. He also worked with the Newport Beach Film Festival. Colin died May 22. Morgan Spurlock Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died of cancer. He was 53. Spurlock made a splash in 2004 with his groundbreaking film “Super Size Me,” and returned in 2019 with “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” — a sober look at an industry that processes 9 billion animals a year in America. Spurlock was a gonzo-like filmmaker who leaned into the bizarre and ridiculous. His stylistic touches included zippy graphics and amusing music. Spurlock died May 23. Richard M. Sherman Richard M. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who helped form millions of childhoods by penning classic Disney tunes, has died. He was 95. Sherman, along with his late brother Robert, wrote hundreds of songs together, including songs for “Mary Poppins,” “The Jungle Book” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” — as well as the most-played tune on Earth, “It’s a Small World (After All).” The Walt Disney Co. announced that Sherman died Saturday due to age-related illness. The brothers won two Academy Awards for Walt Disney’s 1964 smash “Mary Poppins.” Robert Sherman died May 25 in London in 2012. Bill Walton Basketball Hall of Fame legend Bill Walton laughs during a practice session for the NBA All-Star basketball game in Cleveland, Feb. 19, 2022. Walton, who starred for John Wooden's UCLA Bruins before becoming a Basketball Hall of Famer and one of the biggest stars of basketball broadcasting, died Monday, May 27, 2024, the league announced on behalf of his family. He was 71. Albert Ruddy “The Godfather” producer Albert S. Ruddy died May 25 at 94. The Canadian-born producer and writer won Oscars for “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby,” developed the raucous prison-sports comedy “The Longest Yard” and helped create the hit sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes." A spokesperson says Ruddy died Saturday at the UCLA Medical Center. Ruddy produced more than 30 movies and was on hand for the very top and the very bottom. “The Godfather” and “Million Dollar Baby” were box office hits and winners of best picture Oscars. But Ruddy also helped give us “Cannonball Run II” and “Megaforce,” nominees for Golden Raspberry awards for worst movie of the year. Larry Allen Larry Allen, one of the most dominant offensive linemen in the NFL during a 12-year career spent mostly with the Dallas Cowboys, died June 2. He was 52. The Cowboys say Allen died suddenly on Sunday while on vacation with his family in Mexico. Allen was named an All-Pro six consecutive years from 1996-2001 and was inducted into the Pro Football of Hall of Fame in 2013. He said few words but let his blocking do the talking. Allen once bench-pressed 700 pounds and had the speed to chase down opposing running backs. Janis Paige Bob Hope and Janis Paige hug during the annual Christmas show in Saigon, Vietnam, Dec. 25, 1964. Paige, a popular actor in Hollywood and in Broadway musicals and comedies who danced with Fred Astaire, toured with Bob Hope and continued to perform into her 80s, died Sunday, June 2, 2024, of natural causes at her Los Angeles home, longtime friend Stuart Lampert said Monday, June 3. Parnelli Jones Parnelli Jones, the 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner, died June 4 at Torrance Memorial Medical Center after a battle with Parkinson’s disease, his son said. Jones was 90. At the time of his death, Jones was the oldest living winner of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Rufus Parnell Jones was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1933 but moved to Torrance as a young child and never left. It was there that he became “Parnelli” because his given name of Rufus was too well known for him to compete without locals knowing that he wasn’t old enough to race. Chet Walker Boston Celtics' John Havlicek (17) is defended by Philadelphia 76ers' Chet Walker (25) during the first half of an NBA basketball playoff game April 14, 1968, in Boston. Walker, a seven-time All-Star forward who helped Wilt Chamberlain and the 76ers win the 1967 NBA title, died June 8. He was 84. The National Basketball Players Association confirmed Walker's death, according to NBA.com . The 76ers, Chicago Bulls and National Basketball Retired Players Association also extended their condolences on social media on Saturday, June 8, 2024. The Rev. James Lawson Jr. The Rev. James Lawson Jr. speaks Sept. 17, 2015, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95. His family said Lawson died on Sunday after a short illness in Los Angeles, where he spent decades working as a pastor, labor movement organizer and university professor. Lawson was a close adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who called him “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.” Lawson met King in 1957, after spending three years in India soaking up knowledge about Mohandas K. Gandhi’s independence movement. King would travel to India himself two years later, but at the time, he had only read about Gandhi in books. Jerry West Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Jerry West, representing the 1960 USA Olympic Team, is seen Aug. 13, 2010, during the enshrinement news conference at the Hall of Fame Museum in Springfield, Mass. Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died June 12, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He was 86. West, nicknamed “Mr. Clutch” for his late-game exploits as a player, was an NBA champion who went into the Hall of Fame as a player in 1980 and again as a member of the gold medal-winning 1960 U.S. Olympic Team in 2010. He will be enshrined for a third time later this year as a contributor, and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called West “one of the greatest executives in sports history.” Ron Simons Actor and director Ron Simons, seen Jan. 23, 2011, during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, died June 12. Simons turned into a formidable screen and stage producer, winning four Tony Awards and having several films selected at the Sundance Film Festival. He won Tonys for producing “Porgy and Bess,” “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” and “Jitney.” He also co-produced “Hughie,” with Forest Whitaker, “The Gin Game,” starring Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones, “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,” an all-Black production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the revival of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf" and the original work “Thoughts of a Colored Man.” He was in the films “27 Dresses” and “Mystery Team,” as well as on the small screen in “The Resident,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Law & Order: SVU.” Bob Schul Bob Schul of West Milton, Ohio, hits the tape Oct. 18, 1964, to win the 5,000 meter run at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Schul, the only American distance runner to win the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, died June 16. He was 86. His death was announced by Miami University in Ohio , where Schul shined on the track and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 1973. Schul predicted gold leading into the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and followed through with his promise. On a rainy day in Japan, he finished the final lap in a blistering 54.8 seconds to sprint to the win. His white shorts were covered in mud at the finish. He was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1991. He also helped write a book called “In the Long Run.” Willie Mays San Francisco Giants superstar Willie Mays poses for a photo during baseball spring training in 1972. Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, died June 18. He was 93. The center fielder, who began his professional career in the Negro Leagues in 1948, had been baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer. He was voted into the Hall in 1979, his first year of eligibility, and in 1999 followed only Babe Ruth on The Sporting News’ list of the game’s top stars. The Giants retired his uniform number, 24, and set their AT&T Park in San Francisco on Willie Mays Plaza. Mays died two days before a game between the Giants and St. Louis Cardinals to honor the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham , Alabama. Over 23 major league seasons, virtually all with the New York/San Francisco Giants but also including one in the Negro Leagues, Mays batted .301, hit 660 home runs, totaled 3,293 hits, scored more than 2,000 runs and won 12 Gold Gloves. He was Rookie of the Year in 1951, twice was named the Most Valuable Player and finished in the top 10 for the MVP 10 other times. His lightning sprint and over-the-shoulder grab of an apparent extra base hit in the 1954 World Series remains the most celebrated defensive play in baseball history. For millions in the 1950s and ’60s and after, the smiling ballplayer with the friendly, high-pitched voice was a signature athlete and showman during an era when baseball was still the signature pastime. Awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2015, Mays left his fans with countless memories. But a single feat served to capture his magic — one so untoppable it was simply called “The Catch.” Donald Sutherland Actor Donald Sutherland appears Oct. 13, 2017, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more than half a century of films from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” died June 20. He was 88. Kiefer Sutherland said on X he believed his father was one of the most important actors in the history of film: “Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that.” The tall and gaunt Sutherland, who flashed a grin that could be sweet or diabolical, was known for offbeat characters like Hawkeye Pierce in Robert Altman's "M.A.S.H.," the hippie tank commander in "Kelly's Heroes" and the stoned professor in "Animal House." Before transitioning into a long career as a respected character actor, Sutherland epitomized the unpredictable, antiestablishment cinema of the 1970s. He never stopped working, appearing in nearly 200 films and series. Over the decades, Sutherland showed his range in more buttoned-down — but still eccentric — roles in Robert Redford's "Ordinary People" and Oliver Stone's "JFK." More, recently, he starred in the “Hunger Games” films. A memoir, “Made Up, But Still True,” is due out in November. Bill Cobbs Actor Bill Cobbs, a cast member in "Get Low," arrives July 27, 2010, at the premiere of the film in Beverly Hills, Calif. Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, died June 25. He was 90. A Cleveland native, Cobbs acted in such films as “The Hudsucker Proxy,” “The Bodyguard” and “Night at the Museum.” He made his first big-screen appearance in a fleeting role in 1974's “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." He became a lifelong actor with some 200 film and TV credits. The lion share of those came in his 50s, 60s, and 70s, as filmmakers and TV producers turned to him again and again to imbue small but pivotal parts with a wizened and worn soulfulness. Cobbs appeared on television shows including “The Sopranos," “The West Wing,” “Sesame Street” and “Good Times.” He was Whitney Houston's manager in “The Bodyguard” (1992), the mystical clock man of the Coen brothers' “The Hudsucker Proxy” (1994) and the doctor of John Sayles' “Sunshine State” (2002). He played the coach in “Air Bud” (1997), the security guard in “Night at the Museum” (2006) and the father on “The Gregory Hines Show." Cobbs rarely got the kinds of major parts that stand out and win awards. Instead, Cobbs was a familiar and memorable everyman who left an impression on audiences, regardless of screen time. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding limited performance in a daytime program for the series “Dino Dana” in 2020. Kinky Friedman Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman speaks with the media Nov. 7, 2009, at his campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas. The singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie Nelson, and dabbled in politics with campaigns for Texas governor and other statewide offices, died June 27. He was 79 and had suffered from Parkinson's disease. Often called “The Kinkster" and sporting sideburns, a thick mustache and cowboy hat, Friedman earned a cult following and reputation as a provocateur throughout his career across musical and literary genres. In the 1970s, his satirical country band Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys wrote songs with titles such as “They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed.” Friedman joined part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1976. By the 1980s, Friedman was writing crime novels that often included a version of himself, and he wrote a column for Texas Monthly magazine in the 2000s. Friedman's run at politics brought his brand of irreverence to the serious world of public policy. In 2006, Friedman ran for governor as an independent in a five-way race that included incumbent Republican Rick Perry. Friedman launched his campaign against the backdrop of the Alamo. Martin Mull Martin Mull participates in "The Cool Kids" panel during the Fox Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on Aug. 2, 2018, at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Mull, whose droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including “Roseanne” and “Arrested Development,” died June 28. He was 80. Mull, who was also a guitarist and painter, came to national fame with a recurring role on the Norman Lear-created satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” and the starring role in its spinoff, “Fernwood Tonight." His first foray into show business was as a songwriter, penning the 1970 semi-hit “A Girl Named Johnny Cash” for singer Jane Morgan. He would combine music and comedy in an act that he brought to hip Hollywood clubs in the 1970s. Mull often played slightly sleazy, somewhat slimy and often smarmy characters as he did as Teri Garr's boss and Michael Keaton's foe in 1983's “Mr. Mom.” He played Colonel Mustard in the 1985 movie adaptation of the board game “Clue,” which, like many things Mull appeared in, has become a cult classic. The 1980s also brought what many thought was his best work, “A History of White People in America,” a mockumentary that first aired on Cinemax. Mull co-created the show and starred as a “60 Minutes” style investigative reporter investigating all things milquetoast and mundane. Willard was again a co-star. In the 1990s he was best known for his recurring role on several seasons on “Roseanne,” in which he played a warmer, less sleazy boss to the title character, an openly gay man whose partner was played by Willard, who died in 2020 . Mull would later play private eye Gene Parmesan on “Arrested Development,” a cult-classic character on a cult-classic show, and would be nominated for an Emmy, his first, in 2016 for a guest run on “Veep.” Robert Towne Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel, March 7, 2006, in New York. Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, died Monday, July 1, 2024, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles, said publicist Carri McClure. She declined to comment on any cause of death. Vic Seixas Vic Seixas of the United States backhands a volley from Denmark's Jurgen Ulrich in the first round of men's singles match at Wimbledon, England, June 27, 1967. Vic Seixas, a Wimbledon winner and tennis Hall of Famer who was the oldest living Grand Slam champion, has died July 5 at the age of 100. The International Tennis Hall of Fame announced Seixas’ death on Saturday July 6, 2024, based on confirmation from his daughter Tori. James Inhofe In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Former Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma died July 9. He was 89. The family says in a statement that the Republican had a stroke during the July Fourth holiday and died Tuesday morning. Inhofe was a powerful fixture in state politics for decades. He doubted that climate change was caused by human activity, calling the theory “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” As Oklahoma’s senior U.S. senator, he was a staunch supporter of the state’s military installations. He was elected to a fifth Senate term in 2020 and stepped down in early 2023. Joe Bonsall The Oak Ridge Boys, from left, Joe Bonsall, Richard Sterban, Duane Allen and William Lee Golden hold their awards for Top Vocal Group and Best Album of the Year for "Ya'll Come Back Saloon", during the 14th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., May 3, 1979. Bonsall died on July 9, 2024, from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Hendersonville, Tenn. He was 76. A Philadelphia native and resident of Hendersonville, Tennessee, Bonsall joined the Oak Ridge Boys in 1973, which originally formed in the 1940s. He saw the band through its golden period in the '80s and beyond, which included their signature 1981 song “Elvira.” The hit marked a massive crossover moment for the group, reaching No. 1 on the country chart and No. 5 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100. The group is also known for such hits as 1982’s “Bobbie Sue." Shelley Duvall Shelley Duvall poses for photographers at the 30th Cannes Film Festival in France, May 27, 1977. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” died July 11. She was 75. Dr. Ruth Westheimer Dr. Ruth Westheimer holds a copy of her book "Sex for Dummies" at the International Frankfurt Book Fair 'Frankfurter Buchmesse' in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. Westheimer, the sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, died on July 12, 2024. She was 96. Richard Simmons Richard Simmons sits for a portrait in Los Angeles, June 23, 1982. Simmons, a fitness guru who urged the overweight to exercise and eat better, died July 13 at the age of 76. Simmons was a court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better. Simmons was a former 268-pound teen who shared his hard-won weight loss tips as the host of the Emmy-winning daytime “Richard Simmons Show" and the “Sweatin' to the Oldies” line of exercise videos, which became a cultural phenomenon. Jacoby Jones Former NFL receiver Jacoby Jones died July 14 at age 40. Jones' 108-yard kickoff return in 2013 remains the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history. The Houston Texans were Jones’ team for the first five seasons of his career. They announced his death on Sunday. In a statement released by the NFL Players Association, his family said he died at his home in New Orleans. A cause of death was not given. Jones played from 2007-15 for the Texans, Baltimore Ravens, San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers. He made several huge plays for the Ravens during their most recent Super Bowl title season, including that kick return. Shannen Doherty The "Beverly Hills, 90210" star whose life and career were roiled by tabloid stories, Shannen Doherty died July 13 at 53. Doherty's publicist said the actor died Saturday following years with breast cancer. Catapulted to fame as Brenda in “Beverly Hills, 90210,” she worked in big-screen films including "Mallrats" and "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and in TV movies including "A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story," in which she played the "Gone with the Wind" author. Doherty co-starred with Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano in the series “Charmed” from 1998-2001; appeared in the “90210” sequel series seven years later and competed on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2010. James Sikking Actor James Sikking poses for a photograph at the Los Angeles gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Organization for Women, Dec. 1, 1986. Sikking, who starred as a hardened police lieutenant on “Hill Street Blues” and as the titular character's kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” died July 13 of complications from dementia, his publicist Cynthia Snyder said in a statement. He was 90. Pat Williams Pat Williams chats with media before the 2004 NBA draft in Orlando, Fla. Williams, a co-founder of the Orlando Magic and someone who spent more than a half-century working within the NBA, died July 17 from complications related to viral pneumonia. The team announced the death Wednesday. Williams was 84. He started his NBA career as business manager of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1968, then had stints as general manager of the Chicago Bulls, the Atlanta Hawks and the 76ers — helping that franchise win a title in 1983. Williams was later involved in starting the process of bringing an NBA team to Orlando. The league’s board of governors granted an expansion franchise in 1987, and the team began play in 1989. Lou Dobbs Lou Dobbs speaks Feb. 24, 2017, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. Dobbs, the conservative political pundit and veteran cable TV host who was a founding anchor for CNN and later was a nightly presence on Fox Business Network for more than a decade, died July 18. He was 78. His death was announced in a post on his official X account, which called him a “fighter till the very end – fighting for what mattered to him the most, God, his family and the country.” He hosted “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on Fox from 2011 to 2021, following two separate stints at CNN. No cause of death was given. Bob Newhart Bob Newhart, center, poses with members of the cast and crew of the "Bob Newhart Show," from top left, Marcia Wallace, Bill Daily, Jack Riley, and, Suzanne Pleshette, foreground left, and Dick Martin at TV Land's 35th anniversary tribute to "The Bob Newhart Show" on Sept. 5, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Newhart has died at age 94. Jerry Digney, Newhart’s publicist, says the actor died July 18 in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses. The accountant-turned-comedian gained fame with a smash album and became one of the most popular TV stars of his time. Newhart was a Chicago psychologist in “The Bob Newhart Show” in the 1970s and a Vermont innkeeper on “Newhart” in the 1980s. Both shows featured a low-key Newhart surrounded by eccentric characters. The second had a twist ending in its final show — the whole series was revealed to have been a dream by the psychologist he played in the other show. Cheng Pei-Pei Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” died July 17 at age 78. Her family says Cheng, who had been diagnosed with a rare illness with symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, passed away Wednesday at home surrounded by her loved ones. The Shanghai-born film star became a household name in Hong Kong, once dubbed the Hollywood of the Far East, for her performances in martial arts movies in the 1960s. She played Jade Fox, who uses poisoned needles, in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” which was released in 2000, grossed $128 million in North America and won four Oscars. Abdul 'Duke' Fakir Abdul “Duke” Fakir holds his life time achievement award backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 8, 2009, in Los Angeles. The last surviving original member of the Four Tops died July 22. Abdul “Duke” Fakir was 88. He was a charter member of the Motown group along with lead singer Levi Stubbs, Renaldo “Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton. Between 1964 and 1967, the Tops had 11 top 20 hits and two No. 1′s: “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and the operatic classic “Reach Out I’ll Be There.” Other songs, often stories of romantic pain and longing, included “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “Bernadette” and “Just Ask the Lonely.” Bernice Johnson Reagon Sculptress Elizabeth Catlett, left, then-Washington D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon, center, and then-curator, division of community life, Smithsonian institution Bernice Johnson Reagon chat during the reception at the Candace awards on June 25, 1991 in New York. Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles around the world, died on July 16, 2024, according to her daughter's social media post. She was 81. John Mayall John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, died July 22. He was 90. He is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style rhythm and blues that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s. A statement on Mayall's official Instagram page says he died Monday at his home in California. Though Mayall never approached the fame of some of his illustrious alumni, he was still performing in his late 80s, pounding out his version of Chicago blues. Erica Ash Erica Ash, an actor and comedian skilled in sketch comedy who starred in the parody series “Mad TV” and “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” has died. She was 46. Her publicist and a statement by her mother, Diann, says Ash died July 28 in Los Angeles of cancer. Ash impersonated Michelle Obama and Condoleeza Rice on “Mad TV,” a Fox sketch series, and was a key performer on the Rosie O’Donnell-created series “The Big Gay Sketch Show.” Her other credits included “Scary Movie V,” “Uncle Drew” and the LeBron James-produced basketball dramedy “Survivor’s Remorse.” On the BET series “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” Ash played the ex-wife of Kevin Hart’s character. Jack Russell Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy '80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting his band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. He was 63. Chi Chi Rodriguez Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. Susan Wojcicki Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, died Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, after suffering with non small cell lung cancer for the past two years. She was 56. Frank Selvy Frank Selvy, an All-America guard at Furman who scored an NCAA Division I-record 100 points in a game and later played nine NBA seasons, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. He was 91. Wally Amos Wallace “Wally” Amos, the creator of the cookie empire that took his name and made it famous and who went on to become a children’s literacy advocate, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, from complications with dementia. He was 88. Gena Rowlands Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and who later charmed audiences in her son's tear-jerker “The Notebook,” died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. She was 94. Peter Marshall Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” died. Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 He was 98. Alain Delon Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. He was 88. Phil Donahue Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, after a long illness. He was 88. Al Attles Al Attles, a Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than six decades with the organization as a player, general manager and most recently team ambassador, died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. He was 87. John Amos John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. He was 84. James Darren James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. He was 88. James Earl Jones James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen has died. He was 93. His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Sept. 9 at home. Jones was a pioneering actor who eventually lent his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King” and Darth Vader. Working deep into his 80s, he won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor. Frankie Beverly Frankie Beverly, who with his band Maze inspired generations of fans with his smooth, soulful voice and lasting anthems including “Before I Let Go,” has died. He was 77. His family said in a post on the band’s website and social media accounts that Beverly died Sept. 10. In the post, which asked for privacy, the family said “he lived his life with a pure soul, as one would say, and for us, no one did it better.” The post did not say his cause of death or where he died. Beverly, whose songs include “Joy and Pain,” “Love is the Key,” and “Southern Girl,” finished his farewell “I Wanna Thank You Tour” in his hometown of Philadelphia in July. Joe Schmidt Joe Schmidt, the Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Detroit Lions win NFL championships in 1953 and 1957 and later coached the team, has died. He was 92. The Lions said family informed the team Schmidt died Sept. 11. A cause of death was not provided. One of pro football’s first great middle linebackers, Schmidt played his entire NFL career with the Lions from 1953-65. An eight-time All-Pro, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973 and the college football version in 2000. Born in Pittsburgh, Schmidt played college football in his hometown at Pitt. Chad McQueen Chad McQueen, an actor known for his performances in the “Karate Kid” movies and the son of the late actor and racer Steve McQueen, died Sep. 11. His lawyer confirmed his death at age 63. McQueen's family shared a statement on social media saying he lived a life “filled with love and dedication.” McQueen was a professional race car driver, like his father, and competed in the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona races. He is survived by his wife Jeanie and three children, Chase, Madison and Steven, who is an actor best known for “The Vampire Diaries.” Tito Jackson Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the beloved pop group the Jackson 5, died at age 70 on Sept. 15. Jackson was the third of nine children, including global superstars Michael and Janet. The Jackson 5 included brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael. They signed with Berry Gordy’s Motown empire in the 1960s. The group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and produced several No. 1 hits in the 1970s, including “ABC,” “I Want You Back” and “I’ll Be There.” JD Souther John David “JD” Souther has died. He was a prolific songwriter and musician whose collaborations with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt helped shape the country-rock sound that took root in Southern California in the 1970s. Souther joined in on some of the Eagles’ biggest hits, such as “Best of My Love,” “New Kid in Town,” and “Heartache Tonight." The Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee also collaborated with James Taylor, Bob Seger, Bonnie Raitt and many more. His biggest hit as a solo artist was “You’re Only Lonely.” He was about to tour with Karla Bonoff. Souther died Sept. 17 at his home in New Mexico, at 78. In this photo, JD Souther and Alison Krauss attend the Songwriters Hall of Fame 44th annual induction and awards gala on Thursday, June 13, 2013 in New York. Dan Evans Sen. Dan Evans stands with his three sons, from left, Mark, Bruce and Dan Jr., after he won the election for Washington's senate seat in Seattle, Nov. 8, 1983. Evans, a former Washington state governor and a U.S. Senator, died Sept. 20. The popular Republican was 98. He served as governor from 1965 to 1977, and he was the keynote speaker at the 1968 National Republican Convention. In 1983, Evans was appointed to served out the term of Democratic Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson after he died in office. Evans opted not to stand for election in 1988, citing the “tediousness" of the Senate. He later served as a regent at the University of Washington, where the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance bears his name. Mercury Morris Eugene “Mercury” Morris, who starred for the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins as part of a star-studded backfield and helped the team win two Super Bowl titles, died Sept. 21. He was 77. The team on Sunday confirmed the death of Morris, a three-time Pro Bowl selection. In a statement, his family said his “talent and passion left an indelible mark on the sport.” Morris was the starting halfback and one of three go-to runners that Dolphins coach Don Shula utilized in Miami’s back-to-back title seasons of 1972 and 1973, alongside Pro Football Hall of Famer Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. Morris led the Dolphins in rushing touchdowns in both of those seasons. John Ashton John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the “Beverly Hills Cop” films, died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. He was 76. Maggie Smith Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for 1969 film “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Sept. 27 at 89. Smith's publicist announced the news Friday. She was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench. “Jean Brodie” brought her the Academy Award for best actress in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for “California Suite” in 1978. 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GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, S.A.B. de C.V., PAC GAP ("the Company" or "GAP") announces preliminary terminal passenger traffic figures for November 2024, compared with November 2023. For November 2024, the total number of terminal passengers at GAP's 12 Mexican airports increased by 2.5%, compared to November 2023. Tijuana, Guadalajara, Los Cabos, and Puerto Vallarta airports presented an increase in passenger traffic of 5.3%, 5.0%, 0.5%, and 0.1%, respectively, compared to November 2023. On the other hand, Montego Bay presented a decrease in passenger traffic of 7.4%, compared to November 2023. Domestic Terminal Passengers (in thousands): Airport Nov-23 Nov-24 % Change Jan- Nov 23 Jan- Nov 24 % Change Guadalajara 1,015.2 1,021.8 0.6% 11,472.4 10,855.8 (5.4%) Tijuana* 672.0 716.9 6.7% 8,158.8 7,717.0 (5.4%) Los Cabos 240.6 225.6 (6.2%) 2,712.9 2,578.7 (4.9%) Puerto Vallarta 220.0 240.2 9.2% 2,629.4 2,593.4 (1.4%) Montego Bay 0.1 0.0 (100.0%) 0.1 0.0 (100.0%) Guanajuato 203.8 187.5 (8.0%) 2,154.7 1,925.9 (10.6%) Hermosillo 186.8 188.5 0.9% 1,930.9 1,883.5 (2.5%) Kingston 0.2 0.0 (81.6%) 1.6 2.5 52.1% Morelia 58.2 62.6 7.5% 729.2 580.5 (20.4%) La Paz 94.3 103.0 9.2% 996.9 1,083.3 8.7% Mexicali 136.4 82.5 (39.5%) 1,449.6 922.9 (36.3%) Aguascalientes 54.0 57.7 6.8% 586.9 579.5 (1.3%) Los Mochis 44.0 55.3 25.6% 420.0 519.6 23.7% Manzanillo 11.9 12.8 7.2% 101.0 116.1 14.9% Total 2,937.6 2,954.4 0.6 % 33,344.3 31,358.8 (6.0 %) International Terminal Passengers (in thousands): Airport Nov-23 Nov-24 % Change Jan- Nov 23 Jan- Nov 24 % Change Guadalajara 413.8 478.5 15.6% 4,675.7 5,302.3 13.4% Tijuana* 348.9 358.3 2.7% 3,928.9 3,691.9 (6.0%) Los Cabos 383.1 401.5 4.8% 4,301.7 4,214.7 (2.0%) Puerto Vallarta 371.4 351.8 (5.3%) 3,460.2 3,524.6 1.9% Montego Bay 403.6 373.9 (7.4%) 4,716.7 4,590.2 (2.7%) Guanajuato 74.0 85.6 15.6% 791.7 943.0 19.1% Hermosillo 6.9 6.2 (10.3%) 68.2 75.6 10.8% Kingston 122.9 132.8 8.0% 1,590.5 1,597.2 0.4% Morelia 48.4 55.6 15.0% 538.5 592.2 10.0% La Paz 1.5 2.1 42.9% 12.8 11.9 (6.9%) Mexicali 0.6 0.6 (2.6%) 6.4 6.6 3.2% Aguascalientes 23.5 26.6 13.4% 262.6 295.7 12.6% Los Mochis 0.5 0.5 1.1% 6.2 7.2 15.7% Manzanillo 6.2 8.3 34.2% 57.5 77.8 35.4% Total 2,205.1 2,282.1 3.5 % 24,417.7 24,930.8 2.1 % Total Terminal Passengers (in thousands): Airport Nov-23 Nov-24 % Change Jan- Nov 23 Jan- Nov 24 % Change Guadalajara 1,429.0 1,500.2 5.0% 16,148.2 16,158.1 0.1% Tijuana* 1,020.9 1,075.2 5.3% 12,087.6 11,408.9 (5.6%) Los Cabos 623.7 627.1 0.5% 7,014.6 6,793.4 (3.2%) Puerto Vallarta 591.4 592.0 0.1% 6,089.6 6,118.0 0.5% Montego Bay 403.6 373.9 (7.4%) 4,716.8 4,590.2 (2.7%) Guanajuato 277.8 273.1 (1.7%) 2,946.4 2,868.9 (2.6%) Hermosillo 193.7 194.7 0.5% 1,999.1 1,959.2 (2.0%) Kingston 123.2 132.8 7.8% 1,592.2 1,599.7 0.5% Morelia 106.6 118.2 10.9% 1,267.8 1,172.7 (7.5%) La Paz 95.8 105.1 9.8% 1,009.6 1,095.2 8.5% Mexicali 136.9 83.1 (39.3%) 1,456.0 929.5 (36.2%) Aguascalientes 77.5 84.4 8.8% 849.5 875.2 3.0% Los Mochis 44.5 55.7 25.4% 426.3 526.8 23.6% Manzanillo 18.2 21.1 16.4% 158.5 193.9 22.3% Total 5,142.6 5,236.5 1.8 % 57,762.0 56,289.6 (2.5 %) *Passengers in Tijuana who use CBX in both directions are classified as international. CBX users (in thousands): Airport Nov-23 Nov-24 % Change Jan- Nov 23 Jan- Nov 24 % Change Tijuana 346.3 351.8 1.6% 3,896.5 3,634.3 (6.7%) Highlights for the month: Seats and load factors : The seats available during November 2024 decreased by 1.0%, compared to November 2023. The load factors for the month went from 82.8% in November 2023 to 85.2% in November 2024. New routes: Hermosillo – Monterrey: Volaris La Paz – Los Angeles: Alaska Los Mochis – Monterrey: Volaris Morelia – Monterrey: Volaris Mexicali – Monterrey: Volaris Los Cabos – Frankfurt: Condor Los Cabos – Winnipeg: WestJet Manzanillo – Atlanta: Aeromexico Montego Bay – Nassau: Bahamasair Montego Bay – Hartford, Connecticut: Avelo Company Description Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, S.A.B. de C.V. (GAP) operates 12 airports throughout Mexico's Pacific region, including the major cities of Guadalajara and Tijuana, the four tourist destinations of Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, La Paz and Manzanillo, and six other mid-sized cities: Hermosillo, Guanajuato, Morelia, Aguascalientes, Mexicali, and Los Mochis. In February 2006, GAP's shares were listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "PAC" and on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "GAP". In April 2015, GAP acquired 100% of Desarrollo de Concessioner Aeroportuarias, S.L., which owns a majority stake in MBJ Airports Limited, a company operating Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica. In October 2018, GAP entered into a concession agreement for the Norman Manley International Airport operation in Kingston, Jamaica, and took control of the operation in October 2019. This press release may contain forward-looking statements. 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The statements are based on many assumptions and factors, including general economic and market conditions, industry conditions, and operating factors. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. In accordance with Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Article 42 of the "Ley del Mercado de Valores", GAP has implemented a "whistleblower" program, which allows complainants to anonymously and confidentially report suspected activities that involve criminal conduct or violations. The telephone number in Mexico, facilitated by a third party responsible for collecting these complaints, is 800 04 ETICA (38422) or WhatsApp +52 55 6538 5504. The website is www.lineadedenunciagap.com or by email at denuncia@lineadedenunciagap.com . GAP's Audit Committee will be notified of all complaints for immediate investigation. 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The prospect of a tariff war and deepening of the battle for technological hegemony between the US and China has left businesses and high-net worth individuals assessing their positions. “If you think about Trump 2.0, which potentially can bring on more tariffs, I think that ‘China plus one’ will gather even more momentum,” she said in comments reported by Reuters, referring to Chinese companies relocating manufacturing offshore to minimise the impact of potential US trade barriers. “We’re seeing a lot of our [China] onshore clients — the small and medium enterprises — looking to go outside of China.”Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Isaiah Smith ran for a career-high 205 yards on 31 carries and scored a touchdown and San Diego beat Morehead State 37-14 in a season-ending contest for both teams on Saturday. Grant Sergent threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns for San Diego (8-3, 6-2 Pioneer Football League) which ended the season with a four-game win streak and winners of six of seven. The Toreros finished in sole possession of second place in the PFL behind Drake (7-1), which clinched the league outright with a 49-10 win over Stetson on Saturday. Drake beat San Diego 30-28 on a walk-off field goal on Sept. 28 in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryce Patterson threw for 133 yards and a touchdown and James Louis ran for a touchdown for the Eagles (7-5, 5-3). ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP collegebasketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

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General Motors, after pouring billions of dollars into its Cruise robotaxi unit over the past eight years, said it’s ending the subsidiary’s stand-alone efforts and will combine it with in-house efforts to develop autonomous driving technologies for personal vehicles. The Detroit-based automaker said it will no longer fund Cruise’s robotaxi work as it will take too long and cost too much to scale the business to compete with competitors it didn’t identify. Presumably, its biggest challenge is catching up with Waymo, which is carrying hundreds of thousands of riders in its robotaxis every week and is about to expand the service to Miami, Austin and Atlanta. “This is the latest in a series of decisions that GM has announced that underscore our focus on having the right technology for the future of our company and the industry,” Mary Barra, GM’s chair and CEO, said on a conference call. “GM made this decision to refocus our strategy because we believe in the importance of driver assistance and autonomous driving technology in our vehicles.” “Cruise has been an early innovator in autonomy, and the deeper integration of our teams, paired with GM’s strong brands, scale, and manufacturing strength, will help advance our vision for the future of transportation.” Cruise, acquired by GM in 2016, was among the best-funded robotaxi companies, raising more than $8 billion, including investments from SoftBank and Honda. For years it was locked in a tight competition with Alphabet’s Waymo to be a dominant player in the emerging autonomous vehicle space. However the company struggled to regain its footing after an October 2023 accident when one of its robotaxis struck and dragged a woman in San Francisco, shortly after the company had opened up the robotic ride service to the public. Cruise recently announced plans to work with Uber and was focused on rebuilding trust in the brand, but those efforts were not seen as sufficient by GM’s management. The move is reminiscent of a 2022 decision by Ford and Volkswagen to shut down Argo AI , their joint-venture autonomous driving unit, which like Cruise had also raised billions from the automakers. Ford CEO Jim Farley at the time also said funding a robotaxi startup was too costly and would take too much time. Uber, which now partners with Waymo in some cities, shut down its efforts to develop robotaxis in 2020, months after a fatal accident in which one of its test vehicles killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix. Barra made no mention of the Cruise accident, instead focusing on the need for GM to use its funds more efficiently. “Given the considerable time and expense required to scale a robotaxi business in an increasingly competitive market, combining forces would be more efficient and therefore consistent with our capital allocation priorities,” she said. Though Tesla’s Elon Musk has set a goal for his company to be a leader in robotaxi technology, it hasn’t yet demonstrated the ability to achieve that , at least not in the near term. Instead, Waymo appears to be in a unique position of being the only large-scale player in the robotaxi space. The company last month said it’s carrying more than 150,000 paying customers in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, a number that will likely jump dramatically next year as it enters new cities and expands its vehicle fleet. So far, it’s also managed to avoid any serious accidents that could slow its growth plans. Amazon’s Zoox unit, which is preparing to launch a robotaxi service in Las Vegas, for now appears to be one of Waymo’s few U.S. competitors though its scale is much smaller. GM owns about 90% of Cruise and will acquire the remaining shares in it from other investors after receiving approval from the Cruise board. It expects to save more than $1 billion a year after completing the restructuring plan next year. Barra didn’t say exactly how many Cruise employees would be moved over to GM during the conference call. More From Forbes

SANTA CLARA — Brock Purdy is charged with distributing the ball to the 49ers’ still-plentiful array of offensive weapons. On Tuesday, he threw disgruntled wide receiver Deebo Samuel his full support. “I want to get Deebo the ball every play if I could,” Purdy said. “I want to have him break all the records as best as possible. I want Deebo to do Deebo things, and we all do in this building.” Thing is, Samuel’s sub-par production this season has mirrored the 49ers’ rocky road to a 6-7 record entering (7-6). “Not struggling at all just not getting the ball!!!!!!!” Samuel wrote Monday in a since-deleted post on the social media platform X. The timing off that complaint was peculiar. The 49ers had just shaken a three-game losing streak with a 38-13 win over the Chicago Bears, a game Samuel acknowledged was their best offensive showing and most complementary outing. But the 49ers did so with minimal production again from Samuel, who had two catches for 22 yards and five carries for 13 yards. “You read what you read. A little frustrated, for sure,” Samuel said Tuesday at his locker before practice. General manager John Lynch asked 49ers fans to give Samuel “some grace,” and coach Kyle Shanahan also threw support behind Samuel’s gripes. “Deebo and I talk every day so I understand Deebo saying that,” Shanahan said. “Deebo wants to help us out, and the only way he is helping us is getting the ball more. And we’d like to get him the ball more.” Samuel, a two-time captain, has scored just two touchdowns (Week 1 run, Week 5 reception) after 12 last regular season; he had 14 in 2021. He missed the 49ers’ Week 3 loss in Los Angeles because of a calf injury. Three years removed from his All-Pro breakout season, Samuel’s production has taken a nosedive this season, even though he is getting the ball. His 72 touches (40 receptions for 533 yards, 32 carries for 92 yards) are second to only now-injured running back Jordan Mason’s 164. In an X post 10 minutes after complaining about his opportunities, : “Just cause I voice my opinions don’t mean I’m hating on any of my teammates!!” Jauan Jennings (57 catches, 774 yards, six touchdowns) and tight end George Kittle (56-800-8) have seized more on their targets from Brock Purdy, while 2022-23 mainstays Brandon Aiyuk and Christian McCaffrey have missed most of the season injured. “We’d always love things to stay in-house,” Shanahan said. “It’s probably why I don’t go on social media: I’d get worked up if I was reading stuff all the time. Is it a distraction in our building? No.” “He’s one of my best friends on this team. I absolutely love Deebo and what he’s done for me,” Purdy said. “He’s right: he’s doing great right now with what we ask of him the offense. He’s not struggling. Like Ricky (Pearsall) or Aiyuk last year a little bit, there are moments through a season where guys just don’t get the ball, depending on defensive schemes and taking guys away.” Samuel has flourished in the 49ers’ rivalry against the Rams, including three years ago when his “wide back” persona emerged as he scored on both a run and a reception to lead the victorious 49ers out of a 3-5 rut and toward the playoffs. That dual-threat duty is not such an inventive concept anymore, however. “They’re not surprised anymore,” Samuel said. “We’ve been doing it almost three years now, so you’ve got a 50-50 chance whether I’m in the backfield getting a handoff or anything along those lines. They have a glimpse of what’s going on. ... There’s three or four (defenders awaiting) no matter who has the ball.” “Deebo has created such a high standard, the things he’s done, the innovation which we’ve created things for Deebo. That’s part of the problem,” said Lynch, noting that multiple teams now deploy Samuel-esque, dual-threat players that no longer surprise defenses. “... That frustration mounts. But he’s made so many plays for us, I think we need to give this guy some grace and bring him along, because we need him the rest of the way,” Lynch added. “We need him Thursday night. Deebo’s a big part of this team. We’re alright. We can all learn from different situations and a lot of things in the world these days that you can get caught up in.” Some of Samuel’s most productive efforts this season have come as a kick returner (11 returns for 333 yards, including six returns in their Dec. 1 loss at Buffalo). “We’ve got a lot of big football to play and he’ll be a big part of our season moving forward,” Lynch said. As for next season, Samuel carries a $16 million mark on the salary cap. The 49ers restructured his contract in March, so he would incur a $31.6 million hit if he’s released or traded before June 1; after that date, an exit would count $11 million in 2025 and $21 million in ’26. Running back Isaac Guerendo’s foot sprain Sunday kept him out of Tuesday’s light walkthrough and it’s uncertain whether he’ll make a second straight start. Guerendo ran for 78 yards and two touchdowns, and he had 50 yards on two catches, before exiting and bequeathing the backfield to Patrick Taylor Jr. Guerendo got clocked at 20.2 mph on a 30-yard, second-quarter carry that was the NFL’s fastest by a running back in Week 14. The 49ers remain reluctant to declare whether linebacker Dre Greenlaw will make his season debut Thursday night, the date pegged for his comeback from an Achilles tear in the Super Bowl. Shanahan said there’s been no setback, that he merely wants to talk first to Greenlaw and see how the next two days go. Defensive end Nick Bosa (oblique, hip) and left tackle Trent Williams (ankle) will officially miss the fourth week of practice, albeit this week’s only consisting of Tuesday’s walk-through that began at 5:10 p.m. Shanahan has not indicated whether they’ll miss a fourth straight game. While left guard Aaron Banks practiced for the first time since a Nov. 24 concussion in Green Bay, guard Ben Bartch (ankle) did not practice and is expected to go on Injured Reserve before Thursday’s kickoff. Limited were defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos, safety Malik Mustapha, and linebackers Dee Winters and Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles. Defensive tackle Javon Hargrave’s bloated contract was restructured to lessen the 49ers’ financial restraints next year. While that could stage his potential release after two seasons, as pointed out by OverTheCap.com, Hargrave is also more affordable to keep, seeing how his 2025 salary was chopped from $19.9 million to $2.1 million, and his salary cap mark fell from $28 million to $10.3 million. “The plan for him is to be a Niner,” Shanahan said, deferring business matters to the front office staff. “The mechanics of contract stuff, those are things I don’t look into until after the offseason.” Hargrave, 31, has been on injured reserve since tearing a biceps in the Sept. 22 loss at Los Angeles. He made the Pro Bowl last season and totaled seven sacks in his first year with the 49ers. Jordan Elliott replaced him in this season’s lineup next to Maliek Collins, with rookie Evan Anderson, Kevin Givens, Kalia Davis and Khalil Davis also in the interior rotation.

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The first high-level talks between Bangladesh and India should be seen both as a recognition of the challenges straining our bilateral relationship and as a welcome attempt to recalibrate it in light of the new reality following Bangladesh's political changeover four months ago. During his daylong visit to Dhaka on Monday, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held separate discussions with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain, as well as his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Jashim Uddin. Media reports on the meetings indicate that both camps used the occasion to address key areas of contention while laying the groundwork for what they hope to be a mutually beneficial partnership. This is something we indeed welcome, as a constructive partnership between our two nations is essential not only for addressing existing challenges but also for unlocking the vast potential of mutual cooperation in areas of shared interest. The first step in that direction, as Prof Yunus has rightly pointed out, would be addressing the "clouds" or sources of tension that have overshadowed our relationship in recent months—a responsibility that India must lead on, given its involvement in these issues. Chief among them is the harmful narrative propagated by certain Indian media outlets and politicians regarding the treatment of minorities in Bangladesh, which undermined its reputation and sovereignty and even led to assaults on its diplomatic missions . It is imperative for the Indian authorities to take decisive steps to counter such propaganda to prevent continued erosion of trust between our peoples. Of equal concern are Sheikh Hasina's inflammatory speeches and statements coming out of her place of refuge in India, which is further fanning tensions and divisions. While Vikram Misri has emphasised that India's ties with Bangladesh transcend party politics, the continuation of such rhetoric from its territory must be prevented to rebuild confidence in our shared journey. The longstanding issue of border killings—with the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunning down a suspected cattle lifter along the Panchagarh border as recently as Friday—remains another test for the durability of the drive to recalibrate our partnership. The recurring loss of Bangladeshi lives at the border contradicts the spirit of neighbourly interactions. While we acknowledge India's concerns about border crimes, there is no justification for extrajudicial killings. We urge India to adopt humane and sustainable solutions to all border law enforcement issues. Among other key bilateral issues discussed during the talks are trade, agreements on transboundary rivers, including the Teesta, flood management, electricity imports from India and beyond, Rohingya repatriation, etc. The future of our ties with India will largely depend on how it responds to Bangladesh's position on these and other issues. One thing is certain, however. Increasing collaboration and cooperation from both sides will not only boost regional stability and economic integration, but can also help build a partnership that is reflective of the aspirations of both nations. We value our ties with India, and appreciate its desire to work closely with the interim government. But going forward, our relationship must be grounded in mutual respect and fairness. The first high-level talks between Bangladesh and India should be seen both as a recognition of the challenges straining our bilateral relationship and as a welcome attempt to recalibrate it in light of the new reality following Bangladesh's political changeover four months ago. During his daylong visit to Dhaka on Monday, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held separate discussions with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain, as well as his Bangladeshi counterpart Md Jashim Uddin. Media reports on the meetings indicate that both camps used the occasion to address key areas of contention while laying the groundwork for what they hope to be a mutually beneficial partnership. This is something we indeed welcome, as a constructive partnership between our two nations is essential not only for addressing existing challenges but also for unlocking the vast potential of mutual cooperation in areas of shared interest. The first step in that direction, as Prof Yunus has rightly pointed out, would be addressing the "clouds" or sources of tension that have overshadowed our relationship in recent months—a responsibility that India must lead on, given its involvement in these issues. Chief among them is the harmful narrative propagated by certain Indian media outlets and politicians regarding the treatment of minorities in Bangladesh, which undermined its reputation and sovereignty and even led to assaults on its diplomatic missions . It is imperative for the Indian authorities to take decisive steps to counter such propaganda to prevent continued erosion of trust between our peoples. Of equal concern are Sheikh Hasina's inflammatory speeches and statements coming out of her place of refuge in India, which is further fanning tensions and divisions. While Vikram Misri has emphasised that India's ties with Bangladesh transcend party politics, the continuation of such rhetoric from its territory must be prevented to rebuild confidence in our shared journey. The longstanding issue of border killings—with the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunning down a suspected cattle lifter along the Panchagarh border as recently as Friday—remains another test for the durability of the drive to recalibrate our partnership. The recurring loss of Bangladeshi lives at the border contradicts the spirit of neighbourly interactions. While we acknowledge India's concerns about border crimes, there is no justification for extrajudicial killings. We urge India to adopt humane and sustainable solutions to all border law enforcement issues. Among other key bilateral issues discussed during the talks are trade, agreements on transboundary rivers, including the Teesta, flood management, electricity imports from India and beyond, Rohingya repatriation, etc. The future of our ties with India will largely depend on how it responds to Bangladesh's position on these and other issues. One thing is certain, however. Increasing collaboration and cooperation from both sides will not only boost regional stability and economic integration, but can also help build a partnership that is reflective of the aspirations of both nations. We value our ties with India, and appreciate its desire to work closely with the interim government. But going forward, our relationship must be grounded in mutual respect and fairness.

Juan Soto joining the Mets marked a major shift in the New York baseball landscape ... at least that's what Dwight Gooden thinks, 'cause he tells TMZ Sports his former team can no longer be considered the Yankees' "little brother!!" We caught up with the Gooden -- who spent time with both clubs during his career -- after Soto inked a 15-year $765 million deal with the Metropolitans ... and he says the narrative about the team in Queens is about to be a thing of the past. "The first time I heard it, Reggie Jackson said it," Gooden said. "I have nothing against the Yankees, but I was somewhat offended by it. I understood what he meant by that, saying that the Mets are little brother, but now things are starting to change." "I think it's great for baseball seeing both New York teams in the position they're in, and it's going to be like this for years to come." So, now that the Queens-based org. stole the superstar slugger from the Bronx Bombers ... can Gooden finally unleash some pro-Mets trash talk?? "Not just yet," he said. "We gotta get a pennant first. But I think we're on our way." When asked to offer advice to the Mets' newest acquisition, Gooden would tell Soto to keep being himself -- and don't add any unnecessary pressure. "Just go out and play the game," he said. "Because it can be a lot of expectations from the media, can be a lot of expectations from the fans and probably from himself. If he just goes out and be himself, he will be fine."SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Most ruling party lawmakers were boycotting a parliamentary vote Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority sought by the opposition to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law , as protests grew nationwide calling for his removal. The likely defeat of the motion is expected to intensify public protests calling for Yoon’s ouster and deepen political chaos in South Korea, with a survey suggesting a majority of South Koreans support the president’s impeachment. Yoon’s martial law declaration drew criticism from his own ruling conservative party, but it is also determined to oppose Yoon's impeachment apparently because it fears losing presidency to liberals. Impeaching Yoon would require support from two-thirds of the National Assembly, or 200 of its 300 members. The opposition parties who brought the impeachment motion have 192 seats, meaning they need at least eight additional votes from Yoon’s People Power Party. The opposition-controlled parliament began a vote earlier Saturday, but only three lawmakers from PPP took part with opposition members. If the number of lawmakers who cast ballots doesn't reach 200, the motion will be scrapped at midnight, according to National Assembly. Opposition parties could submit a new impeachment motion after a new parliamentary session opens next Wednesday. National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik urged ruling party members to return to the chamber to participate in the vote, stressing that it was closely watched by the nation and also the world. “Don’t make a shameful judgment and please vote based on your convictions,” Woo said. “I plead to you, for the future of the Republic of Korea.” Earlier Saturday, Yoon issued a public apology over the martial law decree, saying he won’t shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration and promising not to make another attempt to impose martial law. He said would leave it to his party to chart a course through the country's political turmoil, “including matters related to my term in office." “The declaration of this martial law was made out of my desperation. But in the course of its implementation, it caused anxiety and inconveniences to the public. I feel very sorry over that and truly apologize to the people who must have been shocked a lot,” Yoon said. Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through an opposition-controlled parliament and grappled with low approval ratings amid scandals involving himself and his wife. In his martial law announcement on Tuesday night, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” bogging down state affairs and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces.” The turmoil resulting from Yoon’s bizarre and poorly-thought-out stunt has paralyzed South Korean politics and sparked alarm among key diplomatic partners, including neighboring Japan and Seoul’s top ally the United States, as one of the strongest democracies in Asia faces a political crisis that could unseat its leader. Tuesday night saw special forces troops encircling the parliament building and army helicopters hovering over it, but the military withdrew after the National Assembly unanimously voted to overturn the decree, forcing Yoon to lift it before daybreak Wednesday. The declaration of martial law was the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea. Eighteen lawmakers from the ruling party voted to reject Yoon's martial law decree along with opposition lawmakers. The passage of Yoon’s impeachment motion appeared more likely Friday when the chair of Yoon’s party called for his removal on Friday, but the party remained formally opposed to impeachment. On Saturday, tens of thousands of people packed streets near the National Assembly, waving banners, shouting slogans and dancing and singing along to K-pop songs with lyrics changed to call for Yoon’s ouster. A smaller crowd of Yoon’s supporters, which still seemed to be in the thousands, rallied in separate streets in Seoul, decrying the impeachment attempt they saw as unconstitutional. Lawmakers on Saturday first voted on a bill appointing a special prosecutor to investigate stock price manipulation allegations surrounding Yoon’s wife. Some lawmakers from Yoon’s party were seen leaving the hall after that vote, triggering angry shouts from opposition lawmakers. If Yoon is impeached, his powers will be suspended until the Constitutional Court decides whether to remove him from office. If he is removed, an election to replace him must take place within 60 days. Opposition lawmakers say that Yoon’s attempt at martial law amounted to a self-coup, and drafted the impeachment motion around rebellion charges. Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party, told reporters that Yoon’s speech was “greatly disappointing” and that the only way forward is his immediate resignation or impeachment. On Friday, PPP chair Han Dong-hun, who criticized Yoon's martial law declaration, said he had received intelligence that during the brief period of martial law Yoon ordered the country’s defense counterintelligence commander to arrest and detain unspecified key politicians based on accusations of “anti-state activities." Hong Jang-won, first deputy director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing Friday that Yoon called after imposing martial law and ordered him to help the defense counterintelligence unit to detain key politicians. The targeted politicians included Han, Lee and Woo, according to Kim Byung-kee, one of the lawmakers who attended the meeting. The Defense Ministry said it had suspended the defense counterintelligence commander, Yeo In-hyung, who Han alleged had received orders from Yoon to detain the politicians. The ministry also suspended the commanders of the capital defense command and the special warfare command over their involvement in enforcing martial law. Former Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun, who has been accused of recommending Yoon enforce martial law, has been placed under a travel ban and faces an investigation by prosecutors over rebellion charges. Vice Defense Minister Kim Seon Ho has testified to parliament that it was Kim Yong Hyun who ordered troops to be deployed to the National Assembly after Yoon imposed martial law.ssbet77 slot 。

By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a pretty sick joke and it disparages the people that did work there. And why would you want to even bring it back up again?” said former Enron employee Diana Peters, who represented workers in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. Here’s what to know about the history of Enron and the purported effort to bring it back. What happened at Enron? Once the nation’s seventh-largest company, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2, 2001, after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions of dollars in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable. The energy company’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered $60 billion in Enron stock worthless. Its aftershocks were felt throughout the energy sector. Twenty-four Enron executives , including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling , were eventually convicted for their roles in the fraud. Enron founder Ken Lay’s convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease following his 2006 trial. Is Enron coming back? On Monday — the 23rd anniversary of the bankruptcy filing — a company representing itself as Enron announced in a news release that it was relaunching as a “company dedicated to solving the global energy crisis.” It also posted a video on social media, advertised on at least one Houston billboard and a took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle In the minute-long video that was full of generic corporate jargon, the company talks about “growth” and “rebirth.” It ends with the words, “We’re back. Can we talk?” Enron’s new website features a company store, where various items featuring the brand’s tilted “E” logo are for sale, including a $118 hoodie. In an email, company spokesperson Will Chabot said the new Enron was not doing any interviews yet, but that “We’ll have more to share soon.” Signs point to the comeback being a joke. In the “terms of use and conditions of sale” on the company’s website, it says “the information on the website about Enron is First Amendment protected parody, represents performance art, and is for entertainment purposes only.” Documents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show that College Company, an Arkansas-based LLC, owns the Enron trademark. The co-founder of College Company is Connor Gaydos, who helped create a joke conspiracy theory that claims all birds are actually surveillance drones for the government. What do former Enron employees think of the company’s return? Peters said that since learning about the “relaunch” of Enron, she has spoken with several other former employees and they are also upset by it. She said the apparent stunt was “in poor taste.” “If it’s a joke, it’s rude, extremely rude. And I hope that they realize it and apologize to all of the Enron employees,” Peters said. Peters, who is 74 years old, said she is still working in information technology because “I lost everything in Enron, and so my Social Security doesn’t always take care of things I need done.” “Enron’s downfall taught us critical lessons about corporate ethics, accountability, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Enron’s legacy was the employees in the trenches. Leave Enron buried,” she said. Follow Juan A. Lozano on X at https://x.com/juanlozano70

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Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? On Monday night, the entire Simpsons universe gets to experience it in a way not many could have imagined. The prime-time matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will also take place at Springfield’s Atoms Stadium as part of “The Simpsons Funday Football” alternate broadcast. The altcast will be streamed on ESPN+, Disney+, and NFL+ (on mobile devices). ESPN and ABC have the main broadcast, while ESPN2 will carry the final “ManningCast” of the regular season. The replay will be available on Disney+ for 30 days. Globally, more than 145 countries will have access to either live or on replay. “We’re such huge football fans, and the Simpsons audience and the football audience, I feel, are like the same audience of just American families and football. And the Simpsons are so much a part of the DNA of the American family and culture that for us to, like, mush them together in this crazy video game, it’s so fun,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of “The Simpsons.” While the game is the focal point, the alternate broadcast, in some ways, will resemble a three-hour episode of “The Simpsons.” It starts with Homer eating too many hot dogs and having a dream while watching football. Homer joins the Cowboys in the dream while Bart teams up with the Bengals. Lisa and Marge will be sideline reporters. “That’s the beginning of the story, and the story continues through the entire game until Homer wakes up from his dream at the end of the game. It is like a complete story, and the NFL game will happen in between. It’s just going to be an amazing presentation with tons of surprises,” said Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN’s VP of edit and animation. This is the second year ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game. It used the characters from “Toy Story” for last year’s Sunday morning game from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars. “The Simpsons” has featured many sports-themed episodes during its 35 seasons. Even though “Homer at the Bat” remains the consensus favorite sports episode for many Simpsons fans, there have been football ones such as “Bart Star” and “Lisa The Greek.” There also was a Super Bowl-themed one after Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 33 between Denver and Atlanta in 1999. Even though “The Simpsons” remains a staple on Fox’s prime-time schedule, it is part of the Disney family after their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. All 35 seasons are on Disney+. The show’s creators have worked with ESPN and the NFL to make sure the look and sound is definitely Simpsonsesque. The theme song is a mash-up of “The Simpsons” opening and “Monday Night Football’s” iconic “Heavy Action.” There have also been pre-recorded skits and bits to use during the broadcast featuring Simpson’s legendary voices Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, and Yeardley Smith. The telecast will be entirely animated, with the players’ movements in sync with what is happening in real-time on the field. That is done through player-tracking data enabled by the NFL’s Next Gen Stats system and Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology. While Next Gen Stats tracks where players are on the field with a tracking chip in the shoulder pads, there is skeletal data tracking and limb tracking data — which uses 29 points per player — to get closer to the player’s movements. The other data tracking will allow Beyond Sports and Disney to add special characters to the game. For example, there might be a play where Lisa catches the ball and goes 30 yards instead of Cincinnati’s Tee Higgins. “Lisa is much smaller than the rest of the players. So, in real life, the ball would go over her head, but now, with data processing, we can take the ball and make it go exactly into her hands. So for the viewer, it still looks believable, and it all makes sense,” said Beyond Sports co-founder Nicolaas Westerhof. The other major challenge is making “The Simpsons” two-dimensional cartoon characters into 3-D simulations. Szykowny and his team worked to make that a reality over the past couple of months. “That’s a big leap of faith for them to say, hey, we trust you to make our characters 3-D and work with it. Our ESPN creative studio team has done a wonderful job,” Szykowny said. Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph will be with Bart and the Bengals; while Carl, Barney, Lenny and Moe join up with with Homer and the Cowboys. The broadcast will also feature ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. ESPN’s Drew Carter, Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky will call the game from Bristol, Connecticut, and also be animated. They will wear Meta Quest Pro headsets to experience the game from Springfield using VR technology. For Kimes, being part of the broadcast and being an animated Simpsons character is a dream come true. She is a massive fan of the show and has a framed photo of Lisa Simpson — who she said is a personal hero and icon — as part of her backdrop when she makes appearances on ESPN NFL shows from her home in Los Angeles. “I didn’t have any input, and I didn’t see anything beforehand, so I wasn’t sure if it would look like me, but it kind of does, which is very funny,” said Kimes, who drew Simpsons characters when she was a kid. “To see the actual staff turn me into one was a dream.” Even though the Bengals (4-8) and Cowboys (5-7) have struggled this season, Selman thinks both teams have personalities that appeal to “The Simpsons” universe. “We were just so lucky also that the Cowboys are sort of like a Homer Simpson-type team, American team, and Mike McCarthy might be a Homer-type guy, one might imagine,” he said. ”And then you have Joe Burrow on the other side who is a cool young, spiky-haired, blonde bad boy -- he’s like Bart. 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Super Micro Computer ( SMCI 6.78% ) roared into the year with strength as a leader in the high-growth area of artificial intelligence (AI). The company makes a variety of equipment, such as servers and full-rack scale solutions, crucial to AI data centers, and this has helped revenue soar in the triple digits in recent quarters. The share price followed, climbing 188% in the first half of the year. But a series of troubles that started with a short report in late August set off a decline in investor confidence -- and a drop in the share price. The shares tumbled 22% in the four trading sessions after the short report alleging accounting problems at Supermicro. They continued their declines as the company delayed filing its 10-K annual report and a 10-Q quarterly report and lost its auditor. Since that news several weeks ago, though, Supermicro seems to have turned things around. The company hired a new auditor to catch up on those filings, and in the latest positive news, a special committee investigating Supermicro's accounting practices found no evidence of fraud. Could Supermicro, now trading at bargain levels, become the biggest recovery story of 2025? Let's find out. Supermicro's successes and troubles First, let's walk through Supermicro's successes and troubles over the past year. The company started 2024 off on the right foot, reporting its first $3 billion quarter, with revenue that surpassed annual revenue as recently as 2021. Demand from AI customers was soaring, and catalysts such as the launch of Nvidia 's new Blackwell architecture promised to help this momentum continue. Supermicro incorporates chip designers' innovations into its systems, so their new releases translate into growth for the equipment maker. Another victory for Supermicro: The S&P 500 invited the stock to join, showing that Supermicro had become one of the major companies powering today's economy. Finally, Supermicro shares climbed so high -- beyond $1,000 earlier this year -- that the company announced a 10-for-1 stock split , with the new split-adjusted shares to start trading as of Oct. 1. By lowering the per-share price through the issuance of new shares to current holders, stock splits open up the investment opportunity to a broader range of investors. Then came the difficult period, launched by a Hindenburg Research short report alleging "glaring accounting red flags" and other problems. Supermicro called the statements "false or inaccurate." But the shares continued to decline as the company delayed its annual report and a quarterly report and its auditor quit. This delay in reporting prompted the Nasdaq to send Supermicro a non-compliance letter, the first step to a possible delisting . The special committee's conclusions Meanwhile, an independent special committee formed by the Supermicro board reviewed points brought up by former auditor Ernst & Young and recently completed its mission. The special committee recommended the appointment of a new chief financial officer and the addition of executive-level positions to keep everything on track, considering Supermicro's rapid growth in recent times. But the committee, in its review, found no evidence of fraud. Supermicro also recently said it sent a compliance plan to the Nasdaq and aims to file reports according to the exchange's timetable. Importantly, the company said it doesn't expect any restatements from the fiscal year that ended in June or previous fiscal years. These two elements -- the special committee's conclusion and Supermicro's compliance plan -- are excellent news, showing that the worst of outcomes may have been avoided. I'm talking about findings of fraud, a Nasdaq delisting, and major financial restatements. Is Supermicro out of the woods? That said, before we can truly breathe a sigh of relief, it's important to see the audited financial statements once they're available. Right now, it's too early to say Supermicro is completely out of the woods. So, even though Supermicro shares trade at the bargain level of 14 times forward earnings estimates , it's still risky to buy the stock today. Now, let's get back to our question: Could Supermicro become the biggest recovery story of 2025? This will depend on the contents of those financial statements and whether they're filed according to the Nasdaq's requested timetable. If Supermicro misses those targets, it's unlikely the shares will take off. But if the company does satisfy investors with its earnings and the Nasdaq with compliance, Supermicro shares may soar -- and this AI equipment giant could become the top recovery story of the new year.Q. I recently retired as a customer service specialist in the healthcare industry. I loved my work, the connection to people and feeling I made a difference. I have been slow to look for volunteer work. When I finally decided to do so, I could not find the right fit. Any suggestions? L.G Great news, you made the decision to volunteer. In addition to doing good for individuals or organizations, volunteering in later life has many personal benefits, and that’s for the volunteer. Here are a few reasons to volunteer: Promotes physical and mental health. We know aging ultimately is a declining and gradual process. Volunteering can counter the risk of decline of one’s physical health, reducing risks of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and even mortality. That’s according to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine . The National Institute on Aging reports that volunteering also can affect cognitive aging by keeping the brain engaged, thereby lowering the risk of dementia. Prevents loneliness. Social isolation is a major challenge for many older adults and is considered a public health crisis , according to the U.S. Surgeon General. Volunteering can be part of the solution by providing opportunities to socialize and even make best friends. It can support those suffering from depression. Those who volunteer report their depression is shorter compared to those who do not volunteer, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service . Provides a feeling of purpose. For many, retirement can be a period of relief and at the same time, uncertainty about one’s purpose. In the workplace, purpose typically is well defined. In retirement, not so much. Volunteering can be a reason to get up in the morning, to make a difference or have an opportunity to learn something new. 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Bank of New York Mellon Corp raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 854.1% in the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 182,622,629 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $22,561,200,000 after acquiring an additional 163,482,580 shares in the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 870.3% in the second quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 102,422,225 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $12,658,922,000 after acquiring an additional 91,867,031 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP raised its holdings in shares of NVIDIA by 1,123.2% in the second quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 92,039,713 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock valued at $11,371,255,000 after acquiring an additional 84,515,429 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA raised its holdings in NVIDIA by 808.6% in the second quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 82,689,605 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $10,215,474,000 after purchasing an additional 73,589,208 shares in the last quarter. 65.27% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Insider Buying and Selling at NVIDIA In other news, Director Tench Coxe sold 1,000,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $119.27, for a total transaction of $119,270,000.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 5,852,480 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $698,025,289.60. This trade represents a 14.59 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website . Also, Director John Dabiri sold 716 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 25th. 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NVIDIA ( NASDAQ:NVDA – Get Free Report ) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, November 20th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.69 by $0.12. NVIDIA had a return on equity of 114.83% and a net margin of 55.69%. The company had revenue of $35.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $33.15 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.38 EPS. NVIDIA’s revenue for the quarter was up 93.6% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Co. will post 2.76 earnings per share for the current year. NVIDIA declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, August 28th that authorizes the company to repurchase $50.00 billion in outstanding shares. This repurchase authorization authorizes the computer hardware maker to purchase up to 1.6% of its stock through open market purchases. 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Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNT) Shares Bought by Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.As the 2024 showbiz calendar winds up, we are taking stock of each genre today. These include music, visual arts (painting, sculpture, and photography), film and television, theatre, fashion, literary arts, and spoken word. This annual stock-take is critical to establish which artists excelled and those who need to up their game in 2025. With the demand for Zimbabwean art collections rising overseas, we certainly need to elevate our standards if we are to maintain the dominance shown in other genres, especially visual arts. The same dominance should also be exhibited on home turf. Without fear or favour, research has shown that the young “Turks” of showbiz, especially in music, excelled beyond expectations. Music, which commands a huge following, was dominated by youthful musicians who showed consistency throughout the year. Killer T’s track “Kana Ndanyura” can easily pass as the song of the year. It remains a hit at parties, weddings, clubs, and even in some church gatherings like picnics. He represented the Zimdancehall genre with pride and aplomb. Consistent Zimdancehall chanter, Sylvester “Freeman” Chizanga, had a successful season, which saw him holding a fully attended HKD Music Festival at Alex Sports Club in Harare. Master H was the best find of 2024, as the youngster has been performing well. Master H He participated in major festivals including the Castle Tankard, OK Grand Challenge, and Chibuku Road to Fame after-party, among other events. His work ethic has made him a favourite of many. There was also Nisha Ts, who did well for the greater part of the year. Born Anisha Tashinga Shonhiwa and raised in Chegutu, she defied the odds of a poor background that could have hindered her progress. She advanced on merit, which is why she remains a favourite among many. Her benefactor, Tinashe Mutarisi, has also helped her realize her potential in this particular genre. She has managed to put the sponsorship to good use, much to the delight of her fans. With sound management, she is destined for the stars. In Zim Hip Hop, it’s hard to ignore the impact of Holy, Saintfloew, Voltz JT, and Bagga, among other rappers. They left their mark each time on stage whether controversial or not but the good thing is that, it is expected in the genre. In gospel world , the old guard in the genre, led by Baba Mechanic Manyeruke, Shuvai Wutawunashe, Pastor Charles Charamba, and his wife Olivia, Carol Mujokoro, Pastor Bonnie Deuschle and Prince Mafukidze among others shocked many as they bounced back on stage as they did their best to revive the genre at the Gospel Legends Night held at the Harare International Conference Centre early this month. Hosted by United Kingdom based Zimbabwean award winning songstress Eleana Makombe, the inaugural event was a success and it was applauded by many locals for such initiative. Eleana and John Makombe The new crop of gospel musicians, including Minister Michael Mahendere, Janet Manyowa, Ellard, Sharon Cherayi, Elenaa Makombe, and Everton Mlalazi, had a successful year. However, the script was not the same for both seasoned and upcoming sungura musicians. There was nothing to write home about this year, as the majority pursuing sungura failed to produce hits. It appears that they need to recharge their waning vocal batteries. Of course, sungura has stood the test of time, but artists in this genre can do better. Major successes were recorded by visual artists who had a year to remember. Many of these artists toured the world and showcased the unique essence of Zimbabwean art on a global scale. Visual art, which encompasses various mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, installation, and digital arts, is a significant industry internationally. The sad reality is that locals are yet to embrace it despite its impact overseas. A change of mindset is needed to ensure that local entrepreneurs, corporates, and individuals buy our art first. With most visual artists relying on international buyers, credit goes to arts regulatory chiefs, curators, and artists working closely with the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, and Victoria Falls. NGZ executive director Raphael Chikukwa has done his best to promote this art form. Besides the NGZ headquarters in Harare, other galleries like Dzimbahwe Arts and Cultural Heritage Hub, Nhaka Art Gallery, Mbare Art Space, Chapungu Sculpture Village, and the Swiss-Zim Heritage Gallery in Domboshava have been churning out top creatives. Individuals like Dominic Benhura and David Ngwerume also need no introduction. Zimbabwe’s participation at the 60th International Exhibition of Biennale in Italy was good news to the sector. Often referred to as the “World Cup of Arts,” this prestigious event featured Zimbabwean artists such as Moffat Takadiwa, Gillian Rosselli, Victor Nyakauru, Sekai Machache, Troy Makaza, and Kombo Chapfika. Their participation exemplifies Zimbabwe’s growing presence on the international art stage. Moffat Takadiwa The legacy of Zimbabwean artists at the Venice Biennale includes luminaries like Portia Zvavahera, Virginia Chihota, Misheck Masamvu, Calvin Dondo, and many others. Their ability to captivate audiences both at home and abroad highlights the country’s rich artistic heritage and the potential for future growth in the global art market. The continued efforts to promote local art appreciation will be crucial in ensuring that Zimbabwean artists receive the recognition and support they deserve. In theatre, credit goes to Daves Guzha, Peter Churu, Jasen Mphepo, and Malawi-based producer and director Stanley Mambo, who is doing well at Madsoc Theatre in Lilongwe. Daniel Maposa and Silvanos Mudzvova are some of the top acts who have ensured that theatre maintains its dominance. The same can be said of United Kingdom theatre practitioners who are still in touch with fellow directors in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, Guzha, Churu, and Mphepo have been holding shows in Harare venues like Theatre in the Park, Jasen Mphepo Little Theatre, and Reps Theatre. Mudzvova and Maposa have been conducting a series of workshops to equip creatives in this genre. Their efforts were meant to ensure that creatives monetise their work and embrace technology, especially the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Stand-up comedians including Doc Vikela, King Kandoro (real name Mukudzei Kandoro Majoni), Nigel “Tha Sleek Pasto” Maritinyu, and Admire “Bhutisi” Kuzhangaira have also shown their potential despite challenges such as a shortage of venues. Like theatre, comedy relies on a live audience and a serene environment where creatives can easily express themselves. In fashion, we have seen the potential that the sector has, although it needs funding, proper regulation, and unity. This was the case when the Fashion Council of Zimbabwe (FCoZ) issued a statement distancing themselves from the organisation and management of the Zimbabwe Fashion Week 2024, which did not live up to expectations. The Zimbabwe Fashion Week 2024 was marred by chaos, with FCoZ’s name being dragged into the mess. FCoZ set the record straight and pledged their commitment towards fostering a vibrant and inclusive fashion industry. Zimbabwean fashion designers have continued to show both locally and internationally, and it takes sacrifices from organizations like FCoZ to regulate the sector. Some fashion enthusiasts also expressed their disappointment in the manner the industry is being run. The refreshing news from the sector was Sakhile Dube’s national dress, designed by Ivhu Tribe Brand, named “The Soaring Eagle,” which she donned at the Miss Universe finals held in Mexico recently The world now knows Zimbabwe’s capacity in this sector, where we have plenty of talented fashion designers. In modelling, Zimbabwe was well represented by Sakhile at Miss Universe, made it into the top 30. Although she missed out on the crown, she performed admirably at the global contest. Sakhile is not the only one who managed to raise the country flag high, there was also model Amanda Peresu-Moyo who won the Miss Intercontinental Africa title at a pageant held at the Sunrise Remal Resort in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. Amanda, was in the top five, following the success of Tendai Hunda, who won the same title in 2015. After finishing in the top eight last year at Miss Universe Zimbabwe, Amanda expressed joy over her new crown. On to the dance floor, dancer Victoria Kjær Theilvig (21) of Denmark won the 2024 edition, becoming the first Dane ever to land the crown. People’s favorite and Nigerian beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina was voted first runner-up, and the second runner-up is Mexico’s Maria Fernanda Beltran. The top five finalists at the beauty pageant included Thailand’s Opal Suchata Chuangsri and Venezuela’s Ileana Marquez. In film and television, Zimbabwe has shown a lot of potential despite the lack of funding crippling the sector. However, the recent launch of the five-year blueprint strategy for Film and Television by the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), in conjunction with the Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts, and Culture, has brought relief to the sector. A billion-dollar industry globally, Zimbabwe, which boasts some of the best brains in the sector including Stephen Chigorimbo, Aaron Chiundura Moyo, and Nakai Tsuro, can thrive with proper funding. The birth of new awards for this sector, like the Zimbabwe Annual Film and Television Awards (ZAFTAs), which cultural ambassadors like Tongayi Chirisa, Danai Gurira, and Chipo Chung support, is great news for the sector. Zimbabwe can also benefit from utilising the expertise of filmmakers like Joe Njagu, Eddie Sandifolo, and Charlene Furusa, who are dedicated to the sector. The European Union Film Festival (EUFF) roundtable held at Mbare Art Space from October 10-13 was also a game-changer for the sector. In literary arts, the sector has been lamenting the decline of the reading culture. However, some literary arts gurus reckon there is not enough reading material in certain communities, which should be made available first. On a sad note, 2024 was the year we lost historian Phathisa Nyathi after a long illness at the age of 73. Many are still reeling from the loss of the popular arts practitioner, famed for his research as a preservationist and his writing style. In summary, a collective mindset shift is vital for the arts sector to thrive and create more opportunities. ELECTIONS by their nature and at any level of society, are a delicate process often characterised by controversy, mudslinging, contestations and a lot of jockeying. Elections are emotional, too. The intensity of those characteristics also varies with the kind of interest, which the elections in question, would have generated and the players involved in those [...] Brandon Moyo, Zimpapers Sports Hub LED by three centurions, Zimbabwe broke records on Day Two of the historic Boxing Day Test against Afghanistan at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. The Chevrons began Day Two on 363/4 and ended their innings on a mammoth 586 runs from 135.2 overs. The 586 runs scored over the five [...] Nqobile Tshili, Bulawayo Bureau VICTORIA Mudyanembwa, a brilliant young student from the rural heartland of Lukosi in Hwange District, who just earned a first class honours degree from the University of Zimbabwe in Pharmaceutical Chemistry as the top student in her year, is now moving to Oxford University for a post-graduate degree on the prestigious [...]

Man Utd chiefs locked in blame game over expensive shambles that saw Ten Hag get new deal before being sackedBREAKING NEWS Easey Street suspect to face murder and rape charges By WILLIAM TON FOR AAP Published: 23:32 GMT, 3 December 2024 | Updated: 23:48 GMT, 3 December 2024 e-mail Almost five decades on from the frenzied stabbing murders of two women in their home, the prime suspect in the investigation is set to finally face court. Perry Kouroumblis landed in Melbourne late on Tuesday night after being extradited from Italy , marking the first time in about eight years he has set foot on Australian soil. It is expected he will be interviewed by police on Wednesday and subsequently face the Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Kouroumblis will formally be charged with two counts of murder and one count of rape during the court appearance. He was arrested at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in September over the alleged slaying of Suzanne Armstrong, 28, and Susan Bartlett, 27, in January 1977. Dubbed the 'Easey Street murders', the friends were found dead with more than two dozen stab wounds in their home on Easey Street in Collingwood in Melbourne's inner north. Ms Bartlett's 16-month-old son Gregory was found unharmed in his cot. The 65-year-old Kouroumblis was filmed sporting a white beard and wavy grey hair as he flew back to Melbourne on a Qatar Airways flight flanked by Victoria Police officers late on Tuesday. Perry Kouroumblis landed in Melbourne late on Tuesday night after being extradited from Italy, marking the first time in about eight years he has set foot on Australian soil Reports described him as docile on the plane, taking advantage of a meal service and watching movies Police had issued an INTERPOL red notice alert for Kouroumblis on two charges of murder and one of rape. The Greek-Australian dual national was not able to be arrested in Greece due to a 20-year statute of limitation on the initiation of murder charges. Following his arrest, he told Italian authorities he was 'happy' to be extradited and his lawyer said he was prepared to face trial but that a judge will have final sign off. Kouroumblis maintains his innocence. Ms Armstrong and Ms Bartlett were last seen alive on January 10, 1977, and their bodies were found three days later. Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has described the murders as 'an absolutely gruesome, horrific, frenzied homicide'. Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong were murdered in their home on Easey St, Collingwood in 1977 He said advances in technology, investigative techniques and retracing statements had contributed to the breakthrough in Victoria's 'most serious cold case and longest cold case' ever solved. 'There is simply no expiry date on crimes that are as brutal as this,' he said. The force offered a $1million reward in 2017 to catch those responsible. The women went to school together at Benalla in Victoria's north and their families said their deaths changed many lives irrevocably. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 Interpol Italy Share or comment on this article: Easey Street suspect to face murder and rape charges e-mailTimberwolves bounce back with win over Cruisers

Avowed dev channels Baldur's Gate 3 by admitting that "the core of RPGs is missable content" that most players might not ever seeThe semiconductor industry, renowned for its impressive growth over past decades, is rallying on the back of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements. Though economic slowdowns raise concerns, the demand for cutting-edge devices continues to boost the need for more sophisticated chips. A recent IDC report forecasts a 15% expansion in the semiconductor market by 2025, driven by AI. This development could present a prime opportunity for investors, especially in stocks like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Micron Technology (MU), which have seen a dip in their stock values despite healthy revenue growth in the data center sector. AMD, which has seen a significant increase in its server CPU market share, anticipates a surge in demand for its GPUs within data centers. This promising demand outlook resonates with Wall Street’s optimistic predictions for AMD’s stock, which currently trades significantly below its peak. The company forecasts that the market for AI accelerators will grow substantially, suggesting a long-term growth trajectory. Meanwhile, Micron Technology, a leader in memory and storage solutions, has enjoyed a notable recovery since 2022. Despite recent market fluctuations, Micron’s sales to data centers have soared, particularly with their high-bandwidth memory outperforming expectations. The company remains optimistic about returning to record revenue by 2025, but unknown variables in demand make future predictions challenging. Both AMD and Micron present tantalizing prospects for 2025, yet AMD’s consistent growth positions it as a potentially safer bet for investors aiming to capitalize on Wall Street’s bullish outlook. Why the Semiconductor Boom Driven by AI Presents Unmatched Opportunities The semiconductor industry is poised for an exhilarating transformation sparked by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). With a projected market expansion of 15% by 2025, as reported by IDC, AI is set to redefine the landscape while offering exceptional investment prospects. This article explores new dimensions that could shape the industry’s future, including innovations, opportunities, and strategic insights. Emerging Trends and Innovations The semiconductor sector is experiencing groundbreaking innovations, particularly in AI-specific chip design. Companies like Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Micron Technology are leading this charge with their focus on developing high-performance chips for AI applications. AMD’s strategic investment in GPU technology gears up to power more robust and efficient AI processors, while Micron’s advancements in high-bandwidth memory are setting new benchmarks in data handling capabilities. Investment Opportunities and Predictions For investors keen to enter the semiconductor market, the dip in stock values of key players like AMD and Micron Technology presents an attractive entry point. Analysts remain optimistic about these stocks, with a consensus on AMD’s continued growth driven by increased demand for GPUs in data centers. Predictions indicate a substantial rise in AI accelerator market share, hinting at AMD’s long-term growth potential. Similarly, Micron aims to recover to record revenue levels by 2025, powered by innovations in memory and storage solutions critical for AI and machine learning processes. However, potential investors should remain cautious due to possible demand fluctuations that could impact projections. Market Analysis and Strategic Insights The semiconductor market’s future hinges on its ability to adapt to AI’s evolving needs. Key insights suggest focusing on AI-driven demand could be the linchpin for sustained growth. Data center sales illustrate a robust demand for high-performance computing solutions, underlining the importance of developing chips optimized for AI tasks. Challenges and Limitations While the industry’s growth outlook is promising, challenges such as supply chain disruptions and fluctuating demand could impede progress. The reliance on rare materials and international market conditions also pose logistical and operational challenges that stakeholders must navigate to maintain momentum. Concluding Thoughts The semiconductor industry’s trajectory is closely tied to AI innovations, offering promising yet complex prospects for businesses and investors alike. Embracing AI’s potential, particularly through strategic investments in companies like AMD and Micron Technology, could prove transformative. As the sector evolves, staying informed and agile will be essential for capitalizing on the nascent opportunities in this rapidly advancing field. Learn more about semiconductor trends at IDC and explore investment opportunities through AMD and Micron Technology .

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