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Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "Prepare to be eaten" — is quite tricky, even when you have a few answers on the board. Below, we've compiled some useful hints for Strands #279, as well as the answers, should it come to that. We'll start off with some clues, before building up to the full answer for Strands #279, so read on if you need a little help. Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for Strands #279. Today's NYT Strands answer — Today's theme and hints The official theme for NYT Strands #279 is... "Prepare to be eaten". And here's an unofficial hint from me: "How do you like your carbs?" If you're still in the dark, here are some useful words to give you those valuable clue tokens: Still struggling? The spangram will give you a hint about the connection word. Today, it starts with 'H' and ends with 'O'. Scroll down to find out what it is... It's HOTPOTATO. Today's Strands answers So, what are today's Strands answers for game #279? Drumroll, please... ...and the spangram was HOTPOTATO. Strands #279 “Prepare to be eaten” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵🔵 Hi Strands fans. I found this one quite tricky, even when I'd stumbled on a few answers by chance. The theme of "Prepare to be eaten" suggests something a bit more cannibalistic than what it ultimately proved to be about: ways of preparing potatoes. I found BAKED first on the top line of the grid. That made me assume this was just about general cooking methods, which led me to FRIED in the bottom left and ROASTED in the matching top corner. But then I ran out of cooking methods to find (I did find "poach" but it turned out to be nothing, hence it's amongst the clue words above), so I opted to use a clue which revealed MASHED. Right, so this is about potatoes then? That makes things a bit easier. I duly got the spangram of HOTPOTATO spelt backwards from bottom to top, and then tried to unpick the remaining two anagrams. FONDANT was the one on the left of the board, while SCALLOPED was on the right. Good thing I used the clue, as I'd never have got either of those otherwise... Yesterday's Strands answers Reading this in a later time zone? You can find the full article on yesterday's Strands answers for game #278 right here .
Lionel Messi wins MLS MVP award, the latest trophy on a long list of honors for the Inter Miami star FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi is the MVP of Major League Soccer for 2024. The award comes after a season where he missed 15 of Inter Miami’s 34 regular-season matches with injuries or commitments to Argentina’s national team. He still factored into a league-high 36 goals by scoring 20 and assisting on 16 others. His 2.1 goal contributions per 90 minutes played is the best by any player in any season in MLS history. MLS revealed the voting results Friday. Messi edged out Columbus Crew forward Cucho Hernández for the award, which is determined by a poll of players, club technical staff and select media members. NFL ends investigation into sexual assault allegations against Browns QB Deshaun Watson CLEVELAND (AP) — The NFL has closed an investigation into sexual assault allegations against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. The league has been reviewing the case for months, trying to determine whether Watson should be punished. League spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email that "there was insufficient evidence to support a finding of a violation of the personal conduct policy.” Watson, who served an 11-game suspension in 2022, was accused of assault by a woman in September. She was seeking more than $1 million in damage before the sides reached a confidential settlement. Watson has played in just 19 games over three seasons for the Browns. Former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber returning to Cleveland Guardians on 1-year deal, AP source says CLEVELAND (AP) — A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that right-hander Shane Bieber is returning to the Cleveland Guardians after making just two starts and undergoing Tommy John surgery last season. Bieber had been expected to leave the AL Central champions, but will be back after agreeing to a one-year, $14 million contract that includes a $16 million player option for 2026. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced. The 2020 AL Cy Young winner made just starts in 2024 before having the surgery on his troublesome elbow that bothered him the previous campaign. The 29-year-old Bieber has spent all seven big-league seasons with Cleveland. NBA returning to China for pair of Suns-Nets preseason games in 2025 The NBA is returning to China next season. The league has struck a deal to play preseason games there more than five years after the league was effectively banned for Commissioner Adam Silver not punishing Daryl Morey for tweeting support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. Brooklyn and Phoenix will play games in China’s gambling hub of Macao on Oct. 10, 2025, and again two days later. There are more games planned for China in 2026, a source told The Associated Press. American ski racer Lindsey Vonn is picking up speed in her comeback bid at 40 years old COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — American ski racer Lindsey Vonn darted through the shadows on the speed course at Copper Mountain on a frigid morning. She was on the hill Friday as she tries to make a comeback to skiing nearly six years after her last race. Vonn plans to enter a series of lower-tier FIS downhill and super-G races this weekend at Copper Mountain, Colorado. It could be the first step toward seeing her on the World Cup circuit again. Scottie Scheffler goes on a run of birdies in the Bahamas and leads by 2 NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler used a big run of birdies to take a two-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Scheffler had seven birdies on the front nine for a 29. The world No. 1 added one birdie on the back nine to lead by two over Justin Thomas and Akshay Bhatia. Scheffler found no need to apologize for only one birdie on the back nine. He says it simply was a matter of the ball being a little closer to the hole and a few more putts going in. Scheffler already has eight victories this year, including Olympic gold. Hall of Famer Randy Moss is stepping away from ESPN for an extended time to deal with health issue Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss is stepping away from his ESPN analyst role for an extended time to focus on a personal health challenge, the network said in a statement. Moss revealed last week that he’s dealing with a health issue and asked fans to pray for him and his family. The 47-year-old ESPN football analyst made his announcement on Instagram from the set of the network’s “Sunday NFL Countdown” show. He directed his message to men and urged them to get checkups and bloodwork done, without specifying any particular illness. No Bevo? SEC tells Texas there's no room for its 1,700-pound longhorn at title game vs. Georgia ATLANTA (AP) — The Southeastern Conference championship game will not feature another mascot showdown. The league says there's not enough space on the sideline at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for No. 2 Texas to bring along its 1,700-pound longhorn Bevo XV for the game against No. 5 Georgia. The teams have two of college football’s most famous mascots. There should be enough sideline space for Georgia’s pure white English bulldog, Uga XI. Before the 2019 Sugar Bowl at the Superdome in New Orleans, Bevo XV toppled his barrier and began to charge at Uga X. Texas handlers were able to pull Bevo back before any harm. The Big Ten and SEC are set to gobble up CFP bids. That could squeeze the ACC and other leagues The Big Ten and Southeastern conferences are set to gobble up the majority of the bids to the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. That could squeeze the Atlantic Coast Conference and other leagues trying to maintain their footing. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips told The Associated Press he wants clarity on the process that put two-loss Miami behind three-loss Alabama in the latest rankings. Mountain West Conference Commissioner Gloria Nevarez said she wouldn't support future changes for guaranteed numbers of bids to power conferences. The Mountain West is set to have its champion in the playoff as a Group of Five winner. NFL's next coaching cycle will feature an impressive list of candidates: Analysis The next NFL coaching cycle will feature an impressive list of candidates ranging from proven champions to up-and-coming coordinators. Six-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick heads the list of recognizable names that includes 2021 AP Coach of the Year Mike Vrabel. Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Buccaneers OC Liam Cohen, Bills OC Joe Brady and Eagles OC Kellen Moore are among a lengthy list of young offensive-minded coaches who will garner plenty of interest.NEW YORK — A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames is awaiting arraignment on Tuesday. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, is facing murder and arson charges in the woman’s death. Federal immigration officials said Zapeta is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally after he was previously deported in 2018. The apparently random attack occurred Sunday morning on a stationary F train at the Coney Island station in Brooklyn, police said. Authorities say Zapeta approached the woman, who was sitting motionless in the train car and may have been sleeping, and used a lighter to set her clothing on fire. The woman quickly became engulfed in flames, while Zapeta then sat at a bench on the subway platform and watched as police officers and a transit worker doused the fire, according to police. The woman, whose identity has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene. Zapeta was arrested Sunday afternoon while riding a train on the same subway line after police got a tip from some teenagers who recognized him from images circulated by the police. It was unclear if Zapeta has an attorney. A Brooklyn address for Zapeta released by police matches a shelter that provides housing and substance abuse support. The shelter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez called the attack a “gruesome and senseless act of violence against a vulnerable woman” that would be “met with the most serious consequences.” The crime — and a graphic video of it that ricocheted across social media — deepened a growing sense of unease among New Yorkers about the safety of the subway system. Violent crimes on trains in the city can put riders on edge, in part because most New Yorkers take the subway multiple times each day and often have their own experiences with uncomfortable interactions in the system. Policing the subway is also difficult, given the vast network of trains constantly moving between the system's 472 stations, with each stop containing multiple entry points and, in many stations, multiple floors and platforms. On Sunday, police at the station where the woman burned to death were patrolling a different area and responded after seeing and smelling smoke, authorities said. Overall, according to authorities, crime is down in the transit system this year when compared to last year. Major felonies declined 6% between January and November of this year and in 2023, data compiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority show. But murders are up, with nine killings this year through November compared to five in the same period last year. At the same time, high-profile incidents on the train — such as the case of Daniel Penny , a military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this month — often attract national attention and further frighten passengers.
Trane Technologies PLC stock falls Monday, underperforms marketNovember 22, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked trusted source proofread by Faith Pring, University of Nottingham A ultrasound technique from the University of Nottingham will allow the production of sharper images inside live cells without causing damage at resolutions that were previously unattainable. The project, from the Faculty of Engineering's Optics and Photonics research group, explores a way to look deep inside tiny structures, such as single cells, that regular light-based microscopes cannot, and without harming them. The work is published in the journal Photoacoustics . This technique has been used to measure the stiffness of cancer cells at a single-cell level, which could allow for new methods of early cancer diagnosis to be developed. The new technique uses sound waves, traveling through materials, to create detailed images. To achieve this, the research team, led by Dr. Mengting Yao, a research associate at the University of Nottingham, developed upon the technique called "phonon microscopy," which relies on tiny sound waves (in the gigahertz range, 10 9 Hz, 1000 times the frequency of normal medical ultrasound) generated by ultrafast lasers. These sound waves do not naturally focus, which limits the clarity of the images they are able to obtain. To address this, special opto-acoustic lenses are being developed that can focus these sound waves in 3D. These lenses, some of which have features as small as ~100 nm, have the potential to produce sharper images at resolutions that were previously unattainable—all without causing damage. Dr. Yao said, "Acoustics holds great promise for achieving high-resolution imaging at the microscopic and even nanoscopic scale. However, generating and detecting acoustic waves with wavelengths comparable to light, and thus achieving equivalent resolution, has posed significant technical challenges. "Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM), pioneered at Stanford 40 years ago and widely adopted across various fields, demonstrated the potential of acoustics for high-resolution imaging, including proof-of-concept studies on biological cells. However, it required cryogenic freezing of samples, limiting its application to living systems. "Our technique, combined with newly developed optoacoustic lenses, enables 3D imaging of subcellular components in living cells, overcoming these barriers." This breakthrough will also allow biologists to dynamically monitor processes like the cell cycle, cancer cell progression, and the intracellular effects of various drugs in real time. By offering insights into cellular behavior at the single-cell level, this technique has the potential to advance research in cancer biology , drug development, and regenerative medicine. Sal La Cavera III, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering, said, "Developing an 'acoustic microscope' that matches or exceeds the performance of an optical microscope is a holy grail of microscopy. Extremely high resolution optical microscopes typically require potentially toxic fluorescent labels and chemical stains, and/or harmful wavelengths of light (e.g., ultraviolet). "Acoustics avoids these problems, significantly reducing harm to the specimen ( acoustic waves deliver 100,000 times less energy to the specimen than visible optical waves), and even more, provides access to quantitative mechanical information about the specimen. "Dr. Yao's opto-acoustic lens technology is the first solution that can actually deliver on these benefits in a practically feasible way. The ability to detect mechanical properties in biology at the nano-scale is a huge bonus, since recent scientific breakthroughs have shown that many diseases are driven by changes in mechanics at the cellular scale." More information: Mengting Yao et al, Optoacoustic lenses for lateral sub-optical resolution elasticity imaging, Photoacoustics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.pacs.2024.100663 Provided by University of NottinghamOZARK-How to apply for and get those congressional appropriations for your organization was the featured topic at the Lunch and Learn hosted by the Ozark Dale County Economic Development Corporation and the Ozark Area Chamber of Commerce. Representatives from city and county governments, law enforcement, education, and nonprofit organizations heard a legislative update and learned tips on walking through the appropriation process from Melanie Hill, Southeast Alabama Representative for U.S. Sen. Katie Britt. In the second year of her first term in office, Britt has field offices in Tuscaloosa, Hunstville, Aniston, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, and Dothan. Each has a field representative serving as a liaison for citizens with issues involving federal agencies. The Dothan office is base for the 13 Wiregrass counties Hill is responsible for, she said. Hill encouraged those interested in more information about appropriations that have been preliminarily approved to visit Britt’s website, https://www.britt.senate.gov , and clicking on “appropriations requests” under the “priorities” tab. “Our team goes and fights for the money” requested by Britt’s constituents, Hill stressed. The office hopes to be able to fund about 100 projects. The money granted is distributed in the next calendar year, she said. ‘“I’ve known her since she was six years old,” Hill said about the first-term senator and Enterprise native. “I told her when she was 13 years old standing in the Coppinville Junior High School parking lot that I wanted to work for her when she became governor one day,” Hill said. “What she is doing on behalf of people is tremendous,” Hill said. “She reaches across the (political) aisle because she knows the value of doing that. “A lot of the things she deals with are issues for everybody, regardless of their political affiliation,” Hill added. “To get America back where we want it to be, we have to reach across the aisle and come to some agreements.” Britt accepts applications for congressional appropriations via her website, Hill said. Those organizations interested in more details about whether they may qualify for congressional appropriations, can contact her at melanie_hill@britt.senate.gov . 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J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. closed $37.11 short of its 52-week high ($219.51), which the company reached on February 15th.The US airline has resumed all of its flights after it was cleared to fly by regulators about an hour after a national ground stop order was issued, halting all American Airline flights across the world. In a social media post to frustrated travellers, the airline said: “We have resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility.” We have resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility. There were 1,447 delays for flights entering or leaving the U.S. early in the day, with 28 cancellations. The groundings couldn’t come at a worse time for the millions of travellers expected to fly over the next ten days. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 40m passengers over the holidays and through January 2. The airline said in an email that the problem Tuesday morning was caused by a vendor technology issue that “impacted systems needed to release flights.” Many flights during the holidays are sold out, which makes cancellations more disruptive than during slower periods so just a brief outage can have consequences days later. A post on the Federal Aviation Administration’s website earlier acknowledged the airline’s request for a “nationwide groundstop” for all American Airlines planes and their subsidiary airlines. Get all the latest news from around the country Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country