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CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — Elias Cato scored 23 points as Central Arkansas beat UNC Asheville 92-83 in double overtime on Sunday. Jordan Morris made two free throws with one second left for UNC Asheville (2-3) to force overtime tied at 71. Fletcher Abee's 3-pointer with 33 seconds left in the first overtime tied the game at 79 and led to the second extra period. Michael Evbagharu's layup gave Central Arkansas (2-4) the lead in the second OT and Cato followed with a 3-pointer as the Bears outscored the Bulldogs 21-12 to pull out the victory. Cato added nine rebounds for the Bears. Layne Taylor totaled 19 points, seven assists, six rebounds and five steals. Brayden Fagbemi pitched in with 19 points, seven assists and five steals. The Bulldogs (2-3) were led by Fletcher Abee, who recorded 27 points. UNC Asheville also got 17 points from Josh Banks. Toyaz Solomon finished with 15 points, 15 rebounds and three blocks. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .With a solid foundation of innovation, user experience, and strategic partnerships, Alibaba Games is well-positioned to make a significant impact in the gaming industry. As the global gaming market continues to grow and evolve, Alibaba Games is poised to capture new opportunities, engage new audiences, and drive growth and success for the Alibaba Group.
Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83
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Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83. Mark Young, Woolery's podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. "Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a tremendous man of faith, life will not be the same without him," Young wrote. Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and ease with witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978. In 1983, Woolery began an 11-year run as host of TV's "Love Connection," for which he coined the phrase, "We'll be back in two minutes and two seconds," a two-fingered signature dubbed the "2 and 2." In 1984, he hosted TV's "Scrabble," simultaneously hosting two game shows on TV until 1990. "Love Connection," which aired long before the dawn of dating apps, had a premise that featured either a single man or single woman who would watch audition tapes of three potential mates and then pick one for a date. A couple of weeks after the date, the guest would sit with Woolery in front of a studio audience and tell everybody about the date. The audience would vote on the three contestants, and if the audience agreed with the guest's choice, "Love Connection" would offer to pay for a second date. Woolery told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003 that his favorite set of lovebirds was a man aged 91 and a woman aged 87. "She had so much eye makeup on, she looked like a stolen Corvette. He was so old he said, 'I remember wagon trains.' The poor guy. She took him on a balloon ride." Other career highlights included hosting the shows "Lingo," "Greed" and "The Chuck Woolery Show," as well as hosting the short-lived syndicated revival of "The Dating Game" from 1998 to 2000 and an ill-fated 1991 talk show. In 1992, he played himself in two episodes of TV's "Melrose Place." Woolery became the subject of the Game Show Network's first attempt at a reality show, "Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned," which premiered in 2003. It shared the title of the pop song in 1968 by Woolery and his rock group, the Avant-Garde. It lasted six episode and was panned by critics. Woolery began his TV career at a show that has become a mainstay. Although most associated with Pat Sajak and Vanna White, "Wheel of Fortune" debuted on Jan. 6, 1975, on NBC with Woolery welcoming contestants and the audience. Woolery, then 33, was trying to make it in Nashville as a singer. "Wheel of Fortune" started life as "Shopper's Bazaar," incorporating Hangman-style puzzles and a roulette wheel. After Woolery appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show" singing "Delta Dawn," Merv Griffin asked him to host the new show with Susan Stafford. "I had an interview that stretched to 15, 20 minutes," Woolery told The New York Times in 2003. "After the show, when Merv asked if I wanted to do a game show, I thought, 'Great, a guy with a bad jacket and an equally bad mustache who doesn't care what you have to say — that's the guy I want to be.'" NBC initially passed, but they retooled it as "Wheel of Fortune" and got the green light. After a few years, Woolery demanded a raise to $500,000 a year, or what host Peter Marshall was making on "Hollywood Squares." Griffin balked and replaced Woolery with weather reporter Pat Sajak. "Both Chuck and Susie did a fine job, and 'Wheel' did well enough on NBC, although it never approached the kind of ratings success that 'Jeopardy!' achieved in its heyday," Griffin said in "Merv: Making the Good Life Last," an autobiography from the 2000s co-written by David Bender. Woolery earned an Emmy nod as host. Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Woolery served in the U.S. Navy before attending college. He played double bass in a folk trio, then formed the psychedelic rock duo The Avant-Garde in 1967 while working as a truck driver to support himself as a musician. The Avant-Garde, which toured in a refitted Cadillac hearse, had the Top 40 hit "Naturally Stoned," with Woolery singing, "When I put my mind on you alone/I can get a good sensation/Feel like I'm naturally stoned." After The Avant-Garde broke up, Woolery released his debut solo single "I've Been Wrong" in 1969 and several more singles with Columbia before transitioning to country music by the 1970s. He released two solo singles, "Forgive My Heart" and "Love Me, Love Me." Woolery wrote or co-wrote songs for himself and everyone from Pat Boone to Tammy Wynette. On Wynette's 1971 album "We Sure Can Love Each Other," Woolery wrote "The Joys of Being a Woman" with lyrics including "See our baby on the swing/Hear her laugh, hear her scream." After his TV career ended, Woolery went into podcasting. In an interview with The New York Times, he called himself a gun-rights activist and described himself as a conservative libertarian and constitutionalist. He said he hadn't revealed his politics in liberal Hollywood for fear of retribution. He teamed up with Mark Young in 2014 for the podcast "Blunt Force Truth" and soon became a full supporter of Donald Trump while arguing minorities don't need civil rights and causing a firestorm by tweeting an antisemitic comment linking Soviet Communists to Judaism. "President Obama's popularity is a fantasy only held by him and his dwindling legion of juice-box-drinking, anxiety-dog-hugging, safe-space-hiding snowflakes," he said. Woolery also was active online, retweeting articles from Conservative Brief, insisting Democrats were trying to install a system of Marxism and spreading headlines such as "Impeach him! Devastating photo of Joe Biden leaks." During the early stages of the pandemic, Woolery initially accused medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort to hurt the economy and Trump's chances for reelection to the presidency. "The most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it," Woolery wrote in July 2020. Trump retweeted that post to his 83 million followers. By the end of the month, nearly 4.5 million Americans had been infected with COVID-19 and more than 150,000 had died. Just days later, Woolery changed his stance, announcing his son had contracted COVID-19. "To further clarify and add perspective, COVID-19 is real and it is here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel for of those suffering and especially for those who have lost loved ones," Woolery posted before his account was deleted. Woolery later explained on his podcast that he never called COVID-19 "a hoax" or said "it's not real," just that "we've been lied to." Woolery also said it was "an honor to have your president retweet what your thoughts are and think it's important enough to do that." In addition to his wife, Woolery is survived by his sons Michael and Sean and his daughter Melissa, Young said. Obituary
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What Prospects Do You See for the Smart Agriculture Market in 2025?Cyclone Tracy left 66 people dead, and tens of thousands more homeless and dislocated. One of Australia's worst natural disasters, part of what made Tracy so shocking was the way it struck, when the city least expected it. December 24, 1974, Eileen Clough was snapped in Casuarina for the front page of the Northern Territory News. The moment is eerily frozen in time. Her hair is done up, she's smiling at her kids and her shopping trolley is filled with food. Eileen Clough was doing what many of Darwin's 43,000 residents were doing that day — preparing her stocks for Christmas Day lunch, a meal she would never live to see through. Kim Clough remembers that afternoon with her mum with perfect clarity. "We did a huge shop on Christmas Eve, like a two-trolley shop," Kim says. "We took the groceries home, did our Christmas wrapping, put our presents under the tree ... then it was just a matter of waiting for Christmas Day." At the same time, over in the suburb of Moil, Renata Papantoniou was organising a feast for her extended family. "We were going to have the piglet, a turkey, cheesecakes, salads and all the rest – it was going to be a big lunch," she says. "Which we didn't get around to eating, in the end." Days before Christmas, a tropical low was gathering strength out on the Arafura Sea. On December 21 off the coast of the Tiwi Islands, it formed into a cyclone. It was given a name — one that would prove fateful, historic and deadly: Cyclone Tracy. Darwin residents were told the system posed no immediate threat to their city, with forecasters predicting it would move west, out over the ocean. But tropical cyclones are notoriously difficult to predict, and the system continued to strengthen. Then, on Christmas Eve it sharply changed direction. "Everybody just kept going on with their lives," Ms Papantoniou says. "We just said, 'oh well, it'll be nothing, just like the other one'." A few weeks earlier, the city had a scare. A system named Cyclone Selma was tracking towards the Northern Territory coastline. But as many Territorians now recount, that cyclone fizzled out. "Nothing happened, and when they gave us the warning that this other cyclone was coming, we just didn't take much notice," Ms Papantoniou says. Direct hit on Darwin predicted As Tracy thundered towards the NT capital, Roland Chin was working at his father's general store. Late that afternoon, the weather took a hostile turn. "There was a lot of rain and it was starting to get a bit horizontal," he says. "Water was coming in under the door ... and the wind was getting stronger and stronger." By evening, Raelene McAdam, then a Nightcliff Primary School student, was readying herself for her first midnight mass. Then the news came through: the mass was cancelled. Sirens began blasting through the radio. The warnings were coming through that Tracy's trajectory had shifted and it was going to be a direct hit on Darwin. The McAdams realised they were in for a rough night. 'An evil wind' Cesarina Gonzadi had just finished Christmas Eve dinner and put her children to bed – restless as they were that Santa may not be able to land in the ferocious wind. Ms Gonzadi says there was something sinister in the sky that night. "The sky was green," she says. "Never was a sky like that. "Wind and rain really strong, and the house in front ... was already going. "We weren't prepared for this cyclone [to] come." In the city's north, Larrakia-Warumungu woman Christine Fejo-King was house-sitting with her sister. The seriousness of the situation was dawning on her. "As it started to get quite strong, we said let's go and put on our jeans and we'll put on some boots, 'cause we weren't gonna be found in our nighties dead in our beds the next day," Dr Fejo-King recounts. By 10pm, she says the wind was screaming like "a banshee". "The wind was evil. "The wind wanted to get you and kill you." Despite best efforts of authorities to get the message out that Tracy had become a significant threat to human safety, for some the word wouldn't come through in time. Dwyn Delaney was at a house party hosted by some of the hospital's health workers. Late that evening, he stepped outside to assess the conditions. "I saw a bus sign go past at about 120 kays an hour. It weighed a tonne," he says. "And I'd had a few and I thought, 'I'd better go back to the party'." By 3am, the wind had reached 217 kilometres per hour and was growing stronger. Nobody will ever know just how fast Tracy's winds reached – the city's wind measurement device was destroyed. 'A maelstrom of destruction' Suddenly, everything fell eerily silent. The cyclone's eye was sitting over the city. "We were so scared," says Roland Chin. "My memory of the eye is just silence." Some took that moment of pause to find a safer space in cars and neighbours' homes. But the worst of Tracy's wrath was yet to come. "It went from this lull to full power, instantly, in the other direction," says Jared Archibald, the NT Museum and Art Gallery's curator of Territory History. "And that's when so much damage was done. "That's when houses exploded off piers, when trees were uprooted and pulled out of the ground, when everything turned into a maelstrom of destruction." Trisha Sheppard was sheltering at home with her husband and four-year-old son. "The walls of the house were moving in and out, like they were pulsating," she says. "The noise was absolutely unforgettable. "It was like the house was screaming in its death throes." At 12 Keene Place in Millner, the Clough family huddled underneath a bed as Kim's mum Eileen sang Silent Night to soothe her children's nerves. That's the last thing Kim remembers before she woke up outside, frantic, on the cold and wet grass. Her house was gone, exploded into shards. "We were on the ground and it was pelting with rain and it was cold, and there was lightning," says Kim. She saw her mother lying, pale, and a terrible realisation shuddered through her. "She'd been hit by a roofing beam on the way down," says Kim. Eileen Clough lost her life that night, and her three children were left without a mother. Dawn breaks over a destroyed city Dawn on Christmas Day. Complete silence. No birds, no trees, no wind. In Nightcliff, a young newspaper reporter emerged out from underneath a table, where he'd spent the storm hunkered with his housemates. Now, after a storied career in Australian journalism, Alan Kohler can't forget the terror of Tracy or the eeriness of its immediate aftermath. "It was biblical, the darkness was complete," the ABC's finance presenter recalls. That morning, he and his friends were confronted by an apocalyptic scene. "As far as I could see, every house was demolished," he says. "There wasn't a house standing in Nightcliff at all. "And I thought at that moment that we must be the only people alive." Out of the detritus of the fallen city, a car suddenly appeared on the horizon. The group realised they weren't the lone survivors, and started walking towards the nearby school. When they opened the gates, the miracle sunk in: many others had also made it through. "Everyone was there," Kohler says. Makeshift emergency centres cropped up in schools across Darwin. Eventually, the news began to trickle out: Cyclone Tracy had destroyed the city and thousands of people were now left without power, limited water, food and communications. What happened next would prove to be the biggest evacuation in peacetime Australia. Time to go Those injured were the first evacuated from the disaster zone. Kim Clough, her brothers David and Perry, and her badly injured father Colin would be among them, taken onboard a Hercules and shuttled to Sydney's Royal North Shore. "My worry was that [Dad] was going to die too," Ms Clough says. "That was my biggest fear." Colin and 12-year-old Kim were interviewed in hospital. Within 10 days, more than 25,000 residents would be flown out of Darwin. "It was scary because we are Larrakia people, we had never been away from country," Christine Fejo-King says. "The army had come in ... they said 'all the men have to stay behind'. "So, my dad had to stay. And the children and my mum, we had to go. "We didn't know where we were going." Families were separated at the airport — some voluntarily, some by force. Dr Fejo-King said some men tried to disguise themselves as women so they could stay with their families. For the Gonzadi family, as they packed a suitcase and bid a tearful farewell to their father, the path before them was full of unknowns. Emilio Gonzadi was just six years old, but clearly remembers touching down in Adelaide, braced by the cool summer air. "We got into the airport, and it was an eye-opener," Mr Gonzadi says. "Adelaide had opened their hearts up. "Trestle tables everywhere of food, clothing ... people were just so welcoming, like, you'd get hugs from strangers." While many began their new lives outside the doors of southern city airports, for around 10,000 others, the Stuart Highway offered another route out of ground zero in Darwin. All along the track to South Australia, townspeople greeted a steady stream of Top End stragglers in their cyclone-damaged vehicles with warmth and assistance. Those who stayed behind Reduced to a fraction of its population, some workers were allowed to remain in Darwin. Armed with trucks, tarps and tools, those who stayed spent long, gruelling days under the territory sun to clean the streets, and eventually start rebuilding the city from scratch. With her husband and son, Maureen Waldmann was among those who stayed to chip in. "We were an army of squatters," Ms Waldmann says. "We found places that had a roof, not always power, and moved from one place to another. "I think it was a new adventure." In a moment of national unity, Australia pulled together to help Darwin in its time of need. The navy mobilised to clean the suburbs, linesmen tackled the lack of power, and interstate police patrolled the streets, trying to prevent inevitable incidents of looting and lawlessness. "The rest of Australia just rallied and came to our aid," Ms Waldmann says. "It was just one miracle after another." Five decades on, the memory lingers Fifty years since Tracy, signs of the cyclone that tore Darwin apart are barely visible. But former power technician Steve Allen, who helped restore the city's electricity, can still spot the telltale reminders. "The reconstruction was astonishing," he says now. "[But] you could still see ... a lot of evidence of the destruction." In Tracy's wake, many residents never returned. But many others did, and continue to prosper in the resilient tropical city — a city razed twice in the 20th century, once by Tracy, once by war. While Tracy remains the most powerful cyclone to have ever lashed Darwin, there have been other direct hits, like Cyclone Marcus in 2018. "Darwin has gone through numerous cyclones, and it still will," Dr Fejo-King says. "But the resilience of the people remains strong." For those who lost nearly everything in Tracy, the grief has never truly abated. On a still morning at a Darwin cemetery, a quiet sob escapes Kim Clough. "God bless you, mum," she whispers, as she places flowers by her mother's gravesite. She's been reluctant to make this journey for decades — to finally see her mother's resting place in Darwin, 50 years since she lost her life. "She was sensitive, she was caring, she was soft, and ... just there," she says. But as Tracy's 50th anniversary arrives, for Kim, a calm acceptance has also settled in. "You can't predict these things," she says. "You just gotta accept them, and move on. "How can you resent an act of nature?" Credits Related topics Accidents and Emergency Incidents Cyclones Darwin HistoryOttawa Senators place Zack MacEwen on waivers
Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83
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