Rutgers 77, Georgia Southern 60As the dust settles on this latest scandal, let it serve as a cautionary tale for those who choose to walk the path of toxic masculinity and misogyny. The consequences of promoting harmful behaviors and attitudes are severe, and the repercussions can be swift and unforgiving. It is time for all individuals, especially those in positions of influence, to stand up against toxic ideologies and strive towards a more inclusive and respectful society.In a recent turn of events, a top advisor to former President Donald Trump made headlines by taking aim at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's wardrobe choices during a public appearance. The criticism, which was delivered via social media, quickly ignited a firestorm of controversy and debate both domestically and internationally.
The City boss is enduring the worst run of his glittering managerial career after a six-game winless streak featuring five successive defeats and a calamitous 3-3 draw in a match his side had led 3-0. The 53-year-old, who has won 18 trophies since taking charge at the Etihad Stadium in 2016, signed a contract extension through to the summer of 2027 just over a week ago. Yet, despite his remarkable successes, he still considers himself vulnerable to the sack and has pleaded with the club to keep faith. “I don’t want to stay in the place if I feel like I’m a problem,” said the Spaniard, who watched in obvious frustration as City conceded three times in the last 15 minutes in a dramatic capitulation against Feyenoord in midweek. “I don’t want to stay here just because the contract is there. “My chairman knows it. I said to him, ‘Give me the chance to try come back’, and especially when everybody comes back (from injury) and see what happens. “After, if I’m not able to do it, we have to change because, of course, (the past) nine years are dead. “More than ever I ask to my hierarchy, give me the chance. “Will it be easy for me now? No. I have the feeling that still I have a job to do and I want to do it.” City have been hampered by a raft of injuries this term, most pertinently to midfield talisman and Ballon d’Or winner Rodri. The Euro 2024 winner is expected to miss the remainder of the season and his absence has been keenly felt over the past two months. Playmaker Kevin De Bruyne has also not started a match since September. The pressure continues to build with champions City facing a crucial trip to title rivals and Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday. Defeat would leave City trailing Arne Slot’s side by 11 points. “I don’t enjoy it at all, I don’t like it,” said Guardiola of his side’s current situation. “I sleep not as good as I slept when I won every game. “The sound, the smell, the perfume is not good enough right now. “But I’m the same person who won the four Premier Leagues in a row. I was happier because I ate better, lived better, but I was not thinking differently from who I am.” Guardiola is confident his side will not stop battling as they bid to get back on track. He said: “The people say, ‘Yeah, it’s the end of that’. Maybe, but we are in November. We will see what happens until the end. “What can you do? Cry for that? You don’t stay long – many, many years without fighting. That is what you try to look for, this is the best (way). “Why should we not believe? Why should it not happen with us?”In addition to providing greater support for the real estate sector, the Central Government is also expected to introduce measures to address some of the key challenges facing the market. These challenges include speculation, over-leveraging, and an imbalance between supply and demand. By tackling these issues head-on, the Central Government aims to create a more transparent and efficient real estate market that benefits both developers and homebuyers.
The City boss is enduring the worst run of his glittering managerial career after a six-game winless streak featuring five successive defeats and a calamitous 3-3 draw in a match his side had led 3-0. The 53-year-old, who has won 18 trophies since taking charge at the Etihad Stadium in 2016, signed a contract extension through to the summer of 2027 just over a week ago. Yet, despite his remarkable successes, he still considers himself vulnerable to the sack and has pleaded with the club to keep faith. “I don’t want to stay in the place if I feel like I’m a problem,” said the Spaniard, who watched in obvious frustration as City conceded three times in the last 15 minutes in a dramatic capitulation against Feyenoord in midweek. “I don’t want to stay here just because the contract is there. “My chairman knows it. I said to him, ‘Give me the chance to try come back’, and especially when everybody comes back (from injury) and see what happens. “After, if I’m not able to do it, we have to change because, of course, (the past) nine years are dead. “More than ever I ask to my hierarchy, give me the chance. “Will it be easy for me now? No. I have the feeling that still I have a job to do and I want to do it.” City have been hampered by a raft of injuries this term, most pertinently to midfield talisman and Ballon d’Or winner Rodri. The Euro 2024 winner is expected to miss the remainder of the season and his absence has been keenly felt over the past two months. Playmaker Kevin De Bruyne has also not started a match since September. The pressure continues to build with champions City facing a crucial trip to title rivals and Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday. Defeat would leave City trailing Arne Slot’s side by 11 points. “I don’t enjoy it at all, I don’t like it,” said Guardiola of his side’s current situation. “I sleep not as good as I slept when I won every game. “The sound, the smell, the perfume is not good enough right now. “But I’m the same person who won the four Premier Leagues in a row. I was happier because I ate better, lived better, but I was not thinking differently from who I am.” Guardiola is confident his side will not stop battling as they bid to get back on track. He said: “The people say, ‘Yeah, it’s the end of that’. Maybe, but we are in November. We will see what happens until the end. “What can you do? Cry for that? You don’t stay long – many, many years without fighting. That is what you try to look for, this is the best (way). “Why should we not believe? Why should it not happen with us?”
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Rep. Kay Granger, Republican of Texas, has missed four months of votes in Congress after "having some dementia issues late in the year," her son Brandon Granger told The Dallas Morning News. “It’s been a hard year,” said the 52-year-old Brandon, who also shared that his mother is living in Traditions Senior Living in Fort Worth, Texas. Questions regarding Granger’s deteriorating health were raised when The Dallas Express reported that she had been seen wandering the neighborhood “lost and confused.” Granger, who is 81 years old, cast her last vote on Capitol Hill in July. She was chair of the House Appropriations Committee until she stepped down in April. She did not run for reelection in November, and her days in Congress are waning with her term ending in January. Her absence was felt last week during the chaotic negotiations as House Republicans tried to legislate their way out of a government shutdown. Even her Republican colleagues decried her running for office despite the first signs of decline, calling the government a “congressional gerontocracy.” “The fact that Kay Granger is unable to leave her nursing home to participate in the most important congressional vote of the year suggests she was already in visible decline when she ran for re-election in 2022,” State Republican Executive Committeeman Rolando Garcia said on X on Friday. “A sad and humiliating way to end her political career. Sad that nobody cared enough to ‘take away the keys’ before she reached this moment. And a sad commentary on the congressional gerontocracy.” Granger’s absence reignites a debate on age and term limits in Congress and the White House, including whether public officials should be required to pass a cognitive test to serve. Americans have witnessed the inevitable slowing that comes with age among other elected officials such as the late Dianne Feinstein ; 91-year-old Chuck Grassley ; 84-year-old Nancy Pelosi ; and Mitch McConnell and President Joe Biden , both 82. This past month, Democrats, forced to map out a new agenda after their defeat in November, have been clinging to long-held government positions and committee roles even as younger, more progressive candidates and officials vie for their roles. In a backroom deal reportedly led by Pelosi , 35-year-old Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was passed over for 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly for ranking member of the House Oversight Committee last week. While candidates must be at least 25 years old to be elected to the House, 30 to be elected to the Senate, and 35 to become president, there are currently no term or age limits for members of Congress despite being backed by the majority of Americans across party lines. Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, says the lack of term or age limits reflects the self-interest of members of Congress. “The incentives are all wrong: Stay too long, spend too much, serve The Firm & you’ll find yourself in powerful positions ... for far too long. Meanwhile, staffers wielding power in your name will hide your declining mental and physical condition,” Lee said on X on Sunday. For many, Granger’s case underscores the risks of allowing career politicians to remain in power for decades, even when they’re no longer capable of performing their duties. It also raises an uncomfortable question: Is the political system doing enough to protect the interests of voters when their representatives no longer can? Right now, Daily Kos is falling short of our 2024 goal. Your donations are how we make ends meet. Can you please donate $5 right now so we can close the books on 2024?
One of the regions that could feel the reverberations of this shift is the Asia-Pacific, where longstanding tensions and disputes could be exacerbated by the US' recalibration of its priorities. Taiwan, in particular, finds itself in a precarious position, as it navigates the delicate balance of power between the US and China. The island nation has long been a flashpoint in US-China relations, with Beijing asserting its claims over Taiwan and Washington providing support to Taipei.BillionToOne to Present at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare ConferenceZarina Wahab reveals she was asked to QUIT non-vegetarian food for film Gopal Krishna?
Columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. I had no doubt Dennis Connors would share the feeling. He is a deeply respected upstate historian, curator emeritus for the Onondaga County Historical Association, but a part of him is always a Lackawanna guy. The steel industry brought his family to that lakefront community, where he grew up in a classic double across the street from the towering Our Lady of Victory Basilica. As a kid, Connors embraced the same point I hope to make this morning about light and wonder − and where so many of us, since our Western New York childhoods, have found it at Christmas. The Electric Tower, built in 1912, is framed by holiday lights in a nearby tree in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Connors remembers nighttime Yuletide rides with his parents through downtown Buffalo, looking out at window displays and decorated streets and a magnificent landmark that in December always burned in reds and greens: The Electric Tower, skyline monument to the season. Dennis Connors, curator of history emeritus from the Onondaga Historical Association: A sensibility shaped by a Lackawanna childhood. Touching off our conversation was an email I received a few weeks ago from Jared Paventi, who works in public affairs for National Grid. The company, he told me, was formally relighting the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse – which the late Ada Louise Huxtable, renowned critic of the New York Times, saw as one of the great examples of art deco in the nation. The connection to Buffalo lies in the hands of the designers. Deco was an exuberant and wildly eccentric style, intertwined with the breakout of electric-powered technology in the 1920s and '30s − which means this region, home to the hydroelectric pioneers of Niagara Falls, was often a treasury for the form. An international audience was treated to firsthand views of the Electric Tower, illuminated for the Yuletide, a skyline icon unique to Buffalo, on Sunday night. The soon-to-be-called-NiMo building went up in 1932 as headquarters for Niagara Hudson, which brought together many power companies under one roof. Electricity was transforming everyday life, and the designers sought to capture that feeling in Syracuse with an Oz-like explosion of stainless steel, aluminum, chrome, black glass and much more. Those features were made to be amplified by light. It was a philosophical statement involving Buffalo architects Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman. For this landmark, they helped create rippling patterns of white light, soon extinguished due to of fear of World War II bombing raids. The Niagara Mohawk Building − regional headquarters of National Grid in Syracuse − at Christmas. Those lights weren't truly restored until 2000, when NiMo brought in the late international lighting master Howard Brandston – the guy who lighted the Statue of Liberty – to illuminate the building in a stop-in-your-tracks array of color. An image of the Electric Tower, more than 60 years ago, at Christmas. Brandston’s system “started experiencing problems” two years ago, Paventi told me. A deco monument abruptly went dark. National Grid, which took over the building decades ago, hired a group of design specialists to update and reignite a vast system of LED lights, all centered around a stunning deco sculpture called “The Spirit of Light.” The result reaffirms what Brandston told me decades ago, when I wrote for the Post-Standard in Syracuse. “You have no idea how special this building is.” With respect, I gently told him: I think I do. That story – with Christmas at the heart of it – begins in Buffalo, with a building architect Mike Chadwick of Iskalo Development affectionately calls a "wedding cake rocketship." My central Yuletide memories involve that “Electric Tower,” though when I was a kid we knew it as the Electric Building − because that is the way my dad and his co-workers described it. My father spent his career moving coal along the waterfront for Niagara Mohawk. He started at the now-shuttered Huntley station in Tonawanda and then became a coal handler at Dunkirk's now-long-closed steam station. Every year, not long before Christmas, we would head to Buffalo, where the first stop was always the tower. My father would go into the deco lobby to pick up his savings, and then we would hit Sears and Roebuck on Main Street and Jefferson Avenue − my parents somehow trying to shop, without us seeing − before going downtown to find Santa Claus at the department stores. The spiritual highlight, each December, was when night fell and Yuletide lights snapped on atop the Electric Tower. This was long before the tower, owned now by Iskalo, became the centerpiece of New Year's Eve celebrations. I was a little kid. I had no idea it had been designed in 1912 by Esenwein & Johnson, who were inspired by a similar landmark at the Pan-American Exposition and by an ancient lighthouse in Alexandria. M&T Bank's gold dome branch, left, the Hiker statue, center, and the Electric Tower are lit up by lights in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. I didn’t know the original lighting was a design statement by W. D'Arcy Ryan, a global pioneer in outdoor illumination – both at Niagara Falls and the Manhattan skyline. And I didn’t know a guy named Paul Schoellkopf, as president of Niagara Hudson in the early 1930s, brought in Bley and Lyman to do extensive deco work in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Syracuse. In this regard, Michael Kless speaks for much of Buffalo. He is chief engineer at the Electric Tower, the Washington Street landmark owned by Iskalo Development. That means he has 14 floors worth of equipment and wiring to deal with every day, creating a building that to an engineer almost becomes a living thing. Yet this is no ordinary They were "maybe the leading deco firm in the city,” said architectural historian Martin Wachadlo – though he gave a respectful nod to John J. Wade, architect of City Hall. Wachadlo noted Bley and Lyman created a 1930s pamphlet about deco style, available in the research library of the Buffalo History Museum, in which they wrote: “The public’s attention is attracted to a building at night, it is true, by brilliant illumination, but where a number of buildings are equally striving for attention that building which exhibits an ingenious and imaginative use of light will finally win the attention of the public. Cars drive by the Electric Tower in downtown Buffalo on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. “Such a building,” they wrote, “will fix itself in the mind of the public more strongly and will be remembered long after the others have been forgotten.” Certainly they saw proof in the Electric Tower, graceful beaux arts neoclassical design elevated by what Ryan did with lights at night. Bley and Lyman put their deco principles to work in a smaller but striking Niagara Hudson building, in Niagara Falls. Yet the dizzying apex of their deco vision was part of what became known as the Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse. Melvin King was listed as supervising architect. Still, as Chuck LaChiusa’s Buffalo Architecture and History site asserts, Bley and Lyman were “listed as consulting architects but they had designed other structures for the company ... and it is thought that the design came out their office.” The building was a vessel for the entire idea of how power could transform the world, and the design took that notion, as Dennis Connors said, “to the nth degree.” The Niagara Mohawk building, burning pure white in Syracuse. “It was kind of this unique and specific aspect of upstate New York, this idea of electricity and power and so much starting with the Falls, and it all fits right into the whole stream of art deco,” he said. In their 1930s essay, Bley and Lyman reflected on how deco architects could utilize the way light and shadow play with intensity "upon different materials,” as well as “command (of) not only color but movement.” All of it is evident, today, in the NiMo Building. Paventi said it's coincidence that the relighting happened during the holidays, but the building's shifting array of colors included reds and greens of the season when my son and I stopped by a few days ago. How beautiful is it? At 65, I felt the kind of awe I felt at 5, beneath the Electric Tower. The effect was so spectacular that many motorists, overwhelmed, pulled over, parked their cars and tried to somehow capture what they were feeling, with their phones. Erie Bouelvard entrance to a Bley and Lyman masterpiece, the NiMo building in Syracuse. The enduring love and passion of Buffalo fans – dogged, raucous loyalty that's now part of the international football persona of this city – helps explain why these championship Bills still live in greater Buffalo, six decades later. It left me thinking of the dreams of Bley and Lyman, how Bley died in 1940 and Lyman in 1966, though their hope − in Buffalo and beyond − was to do something that would be "remembered long after." Standing there last week, I thought: They pulled it off. We talk a lot, with good reason, about the scholarly legacy of great architects. But the real gift of a truly stunning building is something more elemental, the power to raise a child’s eyes toward the sky and to cause that kid to realize – in a sudden communion of light and structure, with a spark of genius – the daily presence of unexpected, soul-lifting beauty. In Buffalo, looking up, I call that Christmas. Sean Kirst is a columnist with The Buffalo News. Email him at skirst@buffnews.com . 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Montreal Canadiens (8-11-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. New York Rangers (12-9-1, in the Metropolitan Division) New York; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST Rangers -206, Canadiens +170; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers host the Montreal Canadiens after the Canadiens knocked off the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 in overtime. New York has a 12-9-1 record overall and a 5-4-1 record on its home ice. The Rangers are 5-2-1 in games they score one or more power-play goals. Montreal has a 3-6-1 record on the road and an 8-11-3 record overall. The Canadiens serve 10.6 penalty minutes per game to rank eighth in league play. The teams square off Saturday for the second time this season. The Rangers won the last meeting 7-2. TOP PERFORMERS: Artemi Panarin has 12 goals and 13 assists for the Rangers. Will Cuylle has five goals and five assists over the last 10 games. Cole Caufield has 13 goals and five assists for the Canadiens. Nicholas Suzuki has scored four goals and added three assists over the last 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.7 assists, 2.9 penalties and 5.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game. Canadiens: 4-4-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.9 penalties and 9.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game. INJURIES: Rangers: None listed. Canadiens: None listed. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from . The Associated PressAs news of Mr. Zhang's unexpected fortune spread like wildfire throughout the city, whispers of excitement filled the air, and a sense of hope and possibility swept through the hearts of many. For a city where dreams sometimes feel just out of reach, this extraordinary stroke of luck served as a powerful reminder that miracles can indeed happen to anyone, anywhere.
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