How to watch Buffalo Bills vs. Los Angeles Rams: TV channel, streaming infoCupertino Parks and Recreation will kick off the holiday season Dec. 6 with the annual Community Tree Lighting at Quinlan Community Center. A local choir will sing holiday tunes before the tree lights up, and after the tree lighting, families can visit Santa and take photos. Warm dress is suggested for this outdoor event. For more information, visit https://www.cupertino.org/our-city/departments/parks-recreation/community-events/tree-lighting-december . The Cupertino Village shopping center is hosting live musical performances by William “Henry” Concepcion and Victoria “Marivic,” members of the band Trilogy, on Saturday, Dec. 14-21, 5-7 p.m. on the lawn between Cupertino Optometry and 99 Ranch Market. The duo will perform holiday pop and classic favorites at these free shows. While the duo is playing, there will also be a balloon twister and face painter for children. Cupertino Village is located at 10869 N. Wolfe Road. For more information, visit https://cupertinovillage.shopkimco.com . Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), has relaunched its online customer resource center to include an all-new incentive finder for residential customers and updated resources for businesses and contractors. SVCE provides clean energy for residents of South Bay communities, including Cupertino. The SVCE eHub, located at https://ehub.svcleanenergy.org , is designed to help customers find rebates and other incentives to go all electric, as well as free expert advice and assisted home upgrades. An updated Appliance Marketplace helps renters and homeowners compare and select electric technologies. To learn how to navigate the new incentive finder and other tools, visit https://svcleanenergy.org/2024/11/15/incentives-finder .
The funding for re-lighting six Montrose bridges over I-69 is uncertain as city officials redirected the previously approved $2.6 million back to the city. What's happening? Houston City Council originally approved splitting $4 million with the Houston First Corporation to repair and/or replace the decorative lighting on the Southwest Freeway bridges in September 2023. However, over a year later, Finance Director Melissa Dubowski said the $2.6 million given to Houston First for the project is being sent back to the city. "In looking at all of the needs that we have at the city, in working with the administration and working with Houston First, that project isn't going to be moving forward at this time," Dubowksi said during a Dec. 4 city council meeting. Some context The lighting on the six Montrose bridges was originally completed in 2017 ahead of Houston's last Super Bowl at NRG Stadium, but the lights went out and became defunct the following year. According to previous Community Impact coverage, the lights were initially installed and maintained by the Montrose Management District, which dissolved in 2018, but relaunched in 2024. The approved agreement with Houston First included installation of the new technology and maintenance for the next decade. The discussion Council member Abbie Kamin, who's district encompasses the bridges, voiced her displeasure with the city's decision to give back funds that were already pre-approved. "When council has authorized funding, directed funding, and then it's redirected... that deserves transparency in the light of day," she said. Kamin also noted that the project wasn't just about the decorative lighting, but about creating a safe environment for drivers and pedestrians crossing the bridges. "There's no lighting for drivers on dark bridges," she said during the council meeting. "There's no street lamps. There's no nothing. It's not about the decorative lighting, but there has to be some form of lighting for drivers and pedestrians across the dark bridge." Dubowski said the bridges were inspected over the summer by the Texas Department of Transportation, but no evidence was found that the bridges posed a safety issue. What to expect Mayor John Whitmire hinted during the city council session that the redirected $2.6 million could be used for other important initiatives, including his recently announced plan to address homelessness in Houston. However, as of Dec. 4, the funds have not been fully transferred back to the city yet. Houston First CEO Michael Heckman said the corporation did finish the design work for the bridges and will be happy to work with the city to find additional sources of revenue to complete the project.
NoneI think that you and I can both agree that being a future space repairman is a cool job, which is why developers Beard Envy have made us Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop , a timeloop roguelite about being a strange four-eyed fox dude armed only with gumption and a very large universal spaceship repair manual who has to make cash fixing ships or face death at the electromechanical trotters of his terrible boss, Uncle Chop. (I'm sure you can find some other ways to die, too.) And that, I must say, is something like close enough to the space repairman fantasy. Probably. Except for the part where sometimes to fix a ship you open it up and have to play a brutally hard platformer. An unpleasant surprise, to be sure. Okay, fine, this isn't a hardcore spaceship repair simulator but it is a pretty funny one, and it just released this week. Boasting a funky sense of humor, a host of goofy minigames, and a big manual to read when fixing ships, Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop is something pretty much entirely unlike other games I've played—and for that I commend it. "Flaunt your basic literacy by consulting manual pages for guidance on diagnosing and correcting faults in spaceship modules, as well as operating workshop appliances," say the developers, "And if basic literacy isn’t your bag, then at least you’ve got pretty diagrams to gawp at!" Savage. Plus, every time you mess up real bad and don't make rent you die... but also you'll be able to pick up little upgrades for the next time loop around your fix-it-up purgatory. That's not to say that Uncle Chop's is inflexible. You can play one of two modes: The default timed, or the alternative that makes everything a bit harder and dings you for more money when you make mistakes. PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor enjoyed Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop quite a lot in a preview of the game, even if it apparently reminded her how fundamentally bad she is at reading directions . The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. "I still haven't been able to make that first rent payment after a couple hours," said Mollie. "But hey—I can do a fuel change now without even looking at the manual, and building that sort of knowledge is a satisfaction all its own. I promise I'll learn how to actually change a rebreather and pay Uncle Chop soon." As for the graphics? The story? The characters? "It's weird and wonderful in all the ways I want my games to be, like an interactive, deadlier episode of Regular Show," according to Mollie. You can find Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop on publisher Kasedo Games' website , and for sale on Epic and Steam for $20.
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Pride, bragging rights and more than $115M at stake when final college playoff rankings come outThe Reds ultimately left St James’ Park with only a point after Fabian Schar snatched a 3-3 draw at the end of a pulsating encounter, but Salah’s double – his 14th and 15th goals of the season – transformed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead before the Switzerland defender’s late intervention. The 32-year-old Egypt international’s future at Anfield remains a topic of debate with his current contract running down. Asked about Salah’s future, Slot said: “It’s difficult for me to predict the long-term future, but the only thing I can expect or predict is that he is in a very good place at the moment. Two goals and an assist for Mo tonight 👏 pic.twitter.com/tMXidgeA0P — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 4, 2024 “He plays in a very good team that provides him with good opportunities and then he is able to do special things. “And what makes him for me even more special is that in the first hour or before we scored to make it 1-1, you thought, ‘He’s not playing his best game today’, and to then come up with a half-hour or 45 minutes – I don’t know how long it was – afterwards with an assist, two goals, having a shot on the bar, being a constant threat, that is something not many players can do if they’ve played the first hour like he did. “That is also what makes him special. If you just look at the goals, his finish is so clinical. He’s a special player, but that’s what we all know.” Salah did indeed endure a quiet opening 45 minutes by his standards and it was the Magpies who went in at the break a goal to the good after Alexander Isak’s stunning 35th-minute finish. Slot said: “The shot from Isak, I don’t even know if Caoimh (keeper Caoimhin Kelleher) saw that ball, as hard as it was.” Salah set up Curtis Jones to level five minutes into the second half and after Anthony Gordon has restored the hosts’ lead, levelled himself from substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 68th-minute cross. He looked to have won it with a fine turn and finish – his ninth goal in seven league games – seven minutes from time, only for Schar to pounce from a tight angle in the 90th minute. Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe was delighted with the way his team took the game to the Reds four days after their disappointing 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace. Howe, who admitted his surprise that VAR official Stuart Attwell had not taken a dimmer view of a Virgil van Dijk shoulder barge on Gordon, said: “It’s mixed emotions. “Part of me feels we should have won it – a big part of me – but part of me is pleased we didn’t lose either because it was such a late goal for us. “Generally, I’m just pleased with the performance. There was much more attacking output, a much better feel about the team. “There was much better energy, and it was a really good performance against, for me, the best team we’ve played so far this season in the Premier League, so it was a big jump forward for us.”
“Tried To Channel Carlos Alcaraz...”: Jessica Pegula Reveals Experiment Which Failed Against Emma Navarro at Garden Cup 2024Italgas, which two years ago acquired DEPA Infrastructure and renamed Greece’s gas grid company Enaon, announced this week it is preparing a total investment of 1 billion euros in Greece as part of the group’s 2024-2030 Strategic Plan. This program will be executed by its subsidiary Enaon, focusing on four main pillars to support Greece’s ongoing ecological transition: Methanization of areas not yet connected to the gas distribution network and contributing to the phaseout of more polluting fuels like lignite and coal; digital transformation of the network, including the replacement of traditional smart meters with “H2 ready” technology; development of renewable gases, primarily biomethane and green hydrogen, to bolster decarbonization efforts; and repurposing the existing network to make the energy infrastructure more flexible, ready for a more sustainable energy future. The plan allocates €650 million for the construction of over 3,000 kilometers of new network, extending service to areas not yet connected. This expansion will introduce a new energy source to 18 cities (including Patra, Ioannina, Kastoria, Florina, Grevena and Orestiada) and increase the customer base served by Enaon from the current 615,000 to 920,000 by 2030.