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Navigating the Waves: The U.S. Soybean Industry’s Journey of Growth and Innovation
A staggering $124 billion economic contribution in 2022, versatility in food, fuel, and animal feed, and an ever-growing global footprint – this is the story of the American soybean industry. The U.S. has witnessed a significant growth in soybean farming since the 1960s, with yields increasing from an average of 31 bushels per acre in 1980 to a robust 51 bushels today. Soybeans have indeed transformed from a niche crop to a national powerhouse.
The Rise and Challenges of the U.S. Soybean Industry
The U.S., once a leading producer and exporter of soybeans, especially in the early 2000s, with exports valued at around $9 billion, saw this figure climb to an impressive $26.4 billion by 2021. However, the rise was not devoid of hurdles. The country’s dependency on the Chinese market, which accounts for about 60% of global soybean trade and half of U.S. soybean export value, proved to be a double-edged sword. The 2018 tariff dispute with China led to a deterioration in trade relations, pushing China to source more soybeans from Brazil, the world’s current leading producer and exporter of soybeans.
Exchange Rate Impact
Exchange rate fluctuations significantly impact soybean imports in countries like Indonesia and China. For instance, in Indonesia, the exchange rate had a positive and long-term impact on soybean imports. In contrast, China’s exchange rate policy significantly affected the world soybean and soybean products markets.
Looking Ahead: Innovation and Efficiency
In response to the competitive international market and increased export competition from Brazil, U.S. soybean stakeholders are exploring alternative uses for the crop, such as biofuels, renewable diesel, and bioplastics. This drive towards innovation is essential to remain competitive against low-cost producers like Brazil and Argentina and to capture market share. The U.S. soybean industry is set for further evolution as new generations of farmers are expected to address agricultural challenges more efficiently and creatively, using technology and data to enhance yield.
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College Football Bowl Game Computer Picks & Predictions
According to our projections, the best bet versus the spread out of 39 FBS postseason matchups is Florida State (+22.5) -- for more tips, including parlay possibilities, scroll down.
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Pick: Florida State +22.5 vs. Georgia
- Matchup: Georgia Bulldogs at Florida State Seminoles
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Florida State by 2.2 points
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: December 30
- TV Channel: ESPN
Pick: Tulane +11.5 vs. Virginia Tech
- Matchup: Virginia Tech Hokies at Tulane Green Wave
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Tulane by 3.9 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 27
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Pick: LSU -8.5 vs. Wisconsin
- Matchup: Wisconsin Badgers at LSU Tigers
- Projected Favorite & Spread: LSU by 21.3 points
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN2
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Pick: Ohio +1.5 vs. Georgia Southern
- Matchup: Georgia Southern Eagles at Ohio Bobcats
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Ohio by 10.7 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Pick: Boise State +6.5 vs. UCLA
- Matchup: UCLA Bruins at Boise State Broncos
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Boise State by 5.5 points
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
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Over 40.5 - Oregon State vs. Notre Dame
- Matchup: Oregon State Beavers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Projected Total: 55.0 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 29
- TV Channel: CBS
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Over 40.5 - Miami (OH) vs. Appalachian State
- Matchup: Miami (OH) RedHawks at Appalachian State Mountaineers
- Projected Total: 51.3 points
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
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Over 47.5 - SMU vs. Boston College
- Matchup: SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Projected Total: 55.6 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Over 46.5 - UTSA vs. Marshall
- Matchup: UTSA Roadrunners at Marshall Thundering Herd
- Projected Total: 54.5 points
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: December 19
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Under 66.5 - Georgia Tech vs. UCF
- Matchup: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at UCF Knights
- Projected Total: 59.6 points
- Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Date: December 22
- TV Channel: ESPN
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Michigan vs. Alabama Rose Bowl Semifinal Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - Monday, January 1
Based on our computer projection model, the No. 1 Michigan Wolverines will take down the No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide when the two teams come together at Rose Bowl on Monday, January 1, which starts at 5:00 PM. For our projections on the spead, point total, and final score, check out the rest of the article below.
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- Based on this game's moneyline, the Wolverines' implied win probability is 55.6%.
- The Wolverines have seven wins in 12 games against the spread this season.
- In games this season when favored by 1.5 points or more, Michigan are 7-5 against the spread.
- The Wolverines have seen seven of its 12 games go over the point total.
- The average total for Michigan games this season has been 47.7, 2.2 points higher than the total for this game.
Alabama Betting Info (2023)
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Crimson Tide have a 48.8% chance to win.
- The Crimson Tide are 8-4-0 ATS this season.
- Alabama is 1-0 against the spread so far this season when playing as at least 1.5-point underdogs.
- Crimson Tide games have hit the over in eight out of 12 opportunities (66.7%).
- The average point total for Alabama this season is 5.9 points higher than this game's over/under.
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The Rams looked like a veteran-heavy team entering the 2023 season. Matthew Stafford, older quarterback. Cooper Kupp, aging receiver. Sean McVay is a veteran coach. It looked like a team rolling out the same old stuff.
Another preseason narrative goes into the shredder. The best thing anyone could have done this fantasy season is prioritize a couple of emerging Rams right before the season, or in the first week of free agency.
The Rams escaped with a one-point win at the Giants on Sunday, and it was the fresh faces that paced the offense. Second-year running back Kyren Williams had 101 total yards and all three Los Angeles touchdowns, pushing to the top of fantasy's running back board. Rookie receiver Puka Nacua didn't break the game, but his 118 receiving yards were tops on the team. It was a fitting fantasy capper for two of the stories of the year.
Christian McCaffrey was probably the best fantasy player you could have rostered this year (an injury-clouded Week 17 to the side), but not everyone had a real chance at McCaffrey. He was an early pick in every room. If you were slotted late in the first round, he was never an option.
But anyone with summer intel to Williams or Nacua (or an aggressive FAAB tint in Week 1) was likely to land one of these guys, perhaps both. Williams and Nacua each had global ADPs outside the top 200 the final week of draft season and were unrostered in the majority of Yahoo leagues.
Nacua's signal was unavoidable in Week 1 — he threw a 10-catch, 119-yard masterpiece at the Seahawks. Williams was more subtle — although he had a pair of touchdowns, he managed a modest 52 yards on 15 carries. Cam Akers also had 22 rushes that day, though they went absolutely nowhere (29 yards), with a touchdown, too.
So after Week 1, we were wondering if Williams was good enough to take command of this job and if Nacua was good enough to hold onto significant market share even when Kupp (who would miss all of September) eventually returned.
An emphatic yes on both counts.
The Williams season had three parts to it. He rolled out an RB7, RB4, RB26. RB3, RB30 and RB2 opening to the year, before suffering an ankle injury in late October. Some shrewd fantasy managers might have traded for Williams while he was hurt, mindful of the delicious late-season schedule the Rams had waiting. Williams went into smash mode for the final third of the year, finishing RB1, RB9, RB18, RB5, RB11 and RB1 (in progress) the last six weeks.
That's what a league winner looks like.
Maybe Nacua isn't a grand slam like Williams, but he's still been a home run. He entered Week 17 as the WR7 in half-point PPR scoring (cumulative points), and the WR9 if you prefer a per-game average. He's had monster games with Kupp and without Kupp. It's amazing the Rams found this snappy rookie with the 177th overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.
It's been a quirky year for rookie pass catchers. Tight end Sam LaPorta is challenging for the TE1 spot, and Zay Flowers looks like a sure star. Jordan Addison and Rashee Rice have been reliable, Tank Dell was very good before a leg injury ended his year. Jayden Reed can play.
But there have been frustrating moments, too. Quentin Johnston might have been a first-round mistake. Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been part of a crowded and slightly underwhelming Seahawks offense. Marvin Mims Jr. teased us for weeks but never could do enough to get a Denver promotion. To be fair, Mims has made his share of rookie mistakes, too.
The LAR breakouts remind us that draft capital isn't the be-all and end-all. Williams was the 164th pick in the 2022 class, similar to where Nacua was taken last spring. No team is right with even the majority of its offensive evaluations, but if Sean McVay and Co. like a player, I'm at least going to take a second look.
And I know how important the September FAAB process often is. This year, there was a fantasy title, hiding in plain sight. You just needed to look west.
Other Week 17 Heroes
— It was no surprise to see mobile quarterbacks percolating to the top of the Week 17 leaderboard. To be fair, Lamar Jackson crushed Miami with his arm — five touchdown passes, 35 rushing yards. Looks like he'll lock up his second MVP before the ball drops in 2024. Hopefully, his second career playoff win isn't far behind. Jackson's 36.34 Yahoo points were easily tops for the position, with athletic maestros Justin Fields (313 total yards, two scores) and Kyler Murray (256 yards, three scores) settling in the 20s.
Josh Allen stands at QB5, and it was all from his legs — he only threw for 169 yards, but he ran 11 times for 44 yards and two scores. The Bills offense has been a strange watch since Joe Brady took over for Ken Dorsey.
— Arizona's stunning upset at Philadelphia had another hero: James Conner. He turned 27 touches into 133 yards and two scores. Volume and goal-line equity are wonderful things. If you kept the faith with Travis Etienne Jr. and De'Von Achane, you were rewarded. Etienne rushed for 102 yards and a couple of scores, and Achane was dynamic despite Miami's blowout loss, generating 137 total yards and a touchdown on 18 touches.
— Saturday night gave us a strong receiver push, with CeeDee Lamb (13-227-1) torching the Lions and Amon-Ra St. Brown (6-90-1) providing his usual drumbeat. They had name-brand company Sunday; Davante Adams was dominant (13-126-2) if you had the nerve to stick with him, DJ Moore (9-159-1) continues to click with Fields and Brandon Aiyuk (7-114-1) was part of San Francisco's expected get-back win at Washington.
Of course, there will always be plenty of receiver misses and disappointments; it's the ultimate boom/bust position. Tyreek Hill only posted a 6-76-0 line, not what we expect on 12 targets. He hasn't scored a touchdown since Week 13. The puzzling Stefon Diggs slump continued: four catches, 26 yards. His last spike came in Week 12; he's been a fantasy headache for two months. The Philadelphia passing touchdowns surprisingly went to Julio Jones (two) and Dallas Goedert (one), which meant A.J. Brown (4-53-0) and DeVonta Smith (3-30-0) came in well under their projections.
— Waiver-wire hawks were rewarded at tight end, where Juwan Johnson dominated at Tampa Bay (8-90-1) and Isaiah Likely picked up two touchdowns. It's also possible David Njoku (6-134-0) was scooped off the wire a few weeks back; he's looked like an All-Pro ever since Joe Flacco joined the Browns. Njoku would have had a much better game Thursday if the Jets fought back even a little bit.
As we send this piece to the editors, Travis Kelce is sitting on three targets, two catches, six yards. Other than Isiah Pacheco, no one on the Chiefs had a decent first half. Some things are too depressing to think about right now, but we'll have more Kansas City (and late-game thoughts) when I update this column later on Sunday.
I hope you get what you need. I hope you're planning a parade for the following week.
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NASHIK: State cabinet minister Chhagan Bhujbal said the OBC votes would play a crucial role during next year's general and assembly polls.
"Political parties and politicians, who have been critical of the OBC community's opposition to giving reservation to the Marathas under the OBC category, will pay a heavy price. The reservation issue has united the OBC community, which makes up 54% of the state's population," Bhujbal told TOI.
The senior OBC leader said that traditionally, OBC voters in Maharashtra had never voted en-masse for any specific party in the previous elections. "In the past, the OBC community members voted based on their leanings towards individual candidates in their respective constituencies. However, the reservation issue has united the entire community. The feedback that I am getting from grassroot-level OBC leaders and workers in different districts is that the OBC voters are determined to vote against political parties that are openly critical of the community on the reservation issue," he added.
To buttress his claims, he cited the 'impressive' turnouts at the five OBC rallies that he has so far addressed since November 17.
Bhujbal and other prominent OBC leaders in the state are at the forefront opposing reservation for the Marathas within the OBC category. They have been advocating that Marathas should be given a separate reservation quota. Talking about Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange, Bhujbal said Jarange's speeches at his rallies are repetitive and without any substance. "In his speeches, he invariably targets prominent leaders like deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, me and other OBC politicians just to ensure that everyone takes note of him," said Bhujbal.
The cabinet minister will restart addressing OBC rallies from Pandharpur on January 6, followed by another rally at Beed on January 13. He will also attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Savitribai Phule at her birthplace at Naigaon in Satara district on January 3.
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DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Pistons ended their NBA record-tying losing streak at 28 games with a 129-127 victory over the short-handed Toronto Raptors on Saturday night, as Cade Cunningham had 30 points and 12 assists.
The Pistons, who hadn’t won since Oct. 28, matched the Philadelphia 76ers’ record of 28, split over the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. They finished one shy of the record for the four major American and Canadian leagues, set by the Chicago Cardinals during World War II.
“I feel amazing,” Cunningham said. “We just kept battling. It’s been a long stretch, all these losses, but I’m just happy to be part of a group of guys who don’t quit.”
Jalen Duren had 18 points and 17 rebounds for Detroit (3-29) while Kevin Knox II scored 17 points.
“I’m just so happy we were able to get that,” Duren said. “We’ve been fighting hard for a couple of months to get one, and we’ve been through a lot of adversity.”
Pascal Siakam had 35 points and Dennis Schroder scored 28 for Toronto, which was playing the second half of a back-to-back. The Raptors traded OG Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn to the New York Knicks earlier in the day. They received RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley, but they were not available on Saturday.
“It was a very emotional day for everyone,” Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic said. “I’m really proud of the energy our guys had, taking everything into account.
“I also don’t want to take anything away from what Detroit did. They played a really good game and hit some very, very timely shots.”
The Pistons led 90-86 going into the fourth and neither team was able to put together a run until back-to-back 3-pointers by Cunningham and Jaden Ivey made it 110-99 with 5:50 to go.
Toronto responded with an 8-2 run, including six points from Scottie Barnes, but Cunningham’s jumper made it 114-107 and the Pistons got three straight stops against Siakam. Another jumper by Cunningham moved the margin to nine with 1:34 to play.
Siakam’s 3-pointer made it 126-122 with 17 seconds left, but the Pistons clinched the game from the line. Gary Trent Jr. hit a 3-pointer with a second left, but the celebration was already beginning.
“I’ve been in a ton of locker rooms my whole life, but that’s a first for me,” Pistons coach Monty Williams said. “Guys were screaming. I was almost in tears. I’m just so happy for our guys and for everyone in the locker room.”
The Raptors trailed by eight points at halftime, but Siakam and Trent scored 24 points in eight minutes to put Toronto ahead 75-74. Siakam finished with 20 of Toronto’s 42 points in the quarter, and more importantly, drove Cunningham to the bench with four fouls.
“I challenged both (Siakam) and Scottie at halftime,” Rajakovic said. “I told them that we needed more from them in the second half, and they both did a really good job.”
The Raptors scored 83 points in the second half after only putting up 44 in the first.
“We missed some free throws and we missed a bunch of layups that we usually make,” Rajakovic said.
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Raptors: Host Cleveland on Monday night.
Pistons: At Houston on Monday night.
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New Year’s Eve Travel Disrupted by Amtrak Delays at Penn Station
As the clock ticked toward the New Year, a significant transportation disruption unfolded at Manhattan’s Penn Station. The culprit was an unexpected signal issue with Amtrak services, leading to hours of delays and the cancellation of several Acela trains. A ripple effect ensued, with NJ Transit suspending services between Trenton and New York, and trains to and from Philadelphia also impacted.
The Morning Chaos: Delays, Cancellations, and Disruptions
The disruptions commenced in the early morning hours of New Year’s Eve. While services resumed by noon, residual delays persisted throughout the day, throwing a wrench into the travel plans of countless individuals. Among the affected were Chris Carver, a passenger stranded for over four hours, and Mike Cole, whose train to New London was abruptly cancelled.
Passengers’ Reactions: From Acceptance to Frustration
The situation elicited an array of reactions from passengers, ranging from resignation to mounting frustration. Walter Sawyers expressed strong dissatisfaction after encountering a second delay. Choosing to make the best of an unfortunate situation, he decided to attend a Phish concert instead of enduring further waiting. Michael Chrencik lambasted Amtrak for its lack of communication during the ordeal, comparing it unfavorably with airline updates.
Implications for New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Times Square
The rail delays coincided with the anticipated New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square. With a million people expected to witness the iconic ball drop, many were encouraged to use mass transit instead of personal vehicles. The unfortunate timing of the Amtrak disruption, therefore, added an extra layer of complexity to the already bustling New Year’s Eve in New York City.
In conclusion, the New Year’s Eve disruption at Penn Station highlighted the critical role of reliable transport services during major public events, and the potential chaos that ensues when these services falter. As we usher in the New Year, one can only hope for more robust contingencies to prevent such disruptions in the future.
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Michigan vs. Alabama Rose Bowl Semifinal Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - Monday, January 1
Based on our computer projection model, the No. 1 Michigan Wolverines will take down the No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide when the two teams come together at Rose Bowl on Monday, January 1, which starts at 5:00 PM. For our projections on the spead, point total, and final score, check out the rest of the article below.
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- Based on this game's moneyline, the Wolverines' implied win probability is 55.6%.
- The Wolverines have seven wins in 12 games against the spread this season.
- In games this season when favored by 1.5 points or more, Michigan are 7-5 against the spread.
- The Wolverines have seen seven of its 12 games go over the point total.
- The average total for Michigan games this season has been 47.7, 2.2 points higher than the total for this game.
Alabama Betting Info (2023)
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Crimson Tide have a 48.8% chance to win.
- The Crimson Tide are 8-4-0 ATS this season.
- Alabama is 1-0 against the spread so far this season when playing as at least 1.5-point underdogs.
- Crimson Tide games have hit the over in eight out of 12 opportunities (66.7%).
- The average point total for Alabama this season is 5.9 points higher than this game's over/under.
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NAVI MUMBAI: In order to ensure that the citizens in Navi Mumbai and Raigad police jurisdiction usher in the New Year's Eve celebration without any untoward incident so that law and order is maintained, both the police commissionerate chiefs have taken preventive measures by beefing up police security.
Police commissioner Milind Bharambe has claimed that more than 1000 cops from 20 police stations in the two DCP zones and police headquarters have been deployed on the streets at strategic locations and nakabandi spots.
Raigad SP Somnath Gharge informed that 109 police officers and 874 constables have been deployed across Raigad district, apart from 87 traffic cops and two Riot Control Police (RCP) teams. Both police chiefs have specially directed the senior cops of all police stations and traffic units to take stringent against drink-and drive for which breath analyzer kits have been provided to the traffic cops.
Police commissioner Milind Bharambe said, "The citizens of Navi umbai are being appealed not to drink and drive. Strict legal action will be taken against such offenders. Also, use of narcotics will not be tolerated and those caught intoxicated under the influence of drugs will be dealt with strictly."
Bharambe said, "Cops will be deployed near malls and restaurants to ensure that the citizens enjoying new year's even on December 31 night are not driving home in drunken state. Those caught consuming narcotics will be behind bars. Pubs and discotheques owners have been warned to ensure that the customers don't indulge in narcotics."
DCP zone-2 Pankaj Dahane said, "In zone-2, as many as 424 policemen will be deployed on the streets at 52 fixed points including the internal roads. The new year party organisers have been told to obtain permission for playing music systems and also liquor serving permission from the excise department. Also, they should ensure that no narcotics substances is served in their premises. Police is always there to help in case of any untoward incident."
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Sunday might have been the first look at next season's Denver Broncos offense.
It's not like they will have that many options in the offseason, if they do move on from Russell Wilson and eat an $85 million dead cap hit. The most likely solution for the Broncos is to stick it out with Jarrett Stidham for a season, and maybe draft a rookie. There won't be a lot of cap room to do much else.
Stidham wasn't too bad as he took over for Wilson at the end of a tumultuous week in Denver. He threw for 224 yards and didn't make any big mistakes in an ugly 16-9 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. The Broncos were still eliminated from playoff contention due to other results in the AFC on Sunday.
The Broncos' spin that they pushed was that Wilson being benched for Stidham was just a football move, and that coach Sean Payton wanted to spark the offense. That's impossible to believe, but Stidham at least played well enough to get a win.
Broncos take a lead into halftime
The Broncos offense mostly struggled in the first half, aside from one play. Stidham was rolling right and it looked like he'd run for a first down, but he saw Lil'Jordan Humphrey crossing the field. He hit Humphrey on a short pass to about the 40 and then Humphrey did the rest, spinning and juking to avoid multiple Chargers defenders on the way to the end zone.
Lil'Jordan with a big run after the catch for the TD!
— NFL (@NFL) December 31, 2023
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Stidham was 12 of 22 for 165 yards in the first half. It wasn't hard to see the difference in the Broncos' offensive approach with Stidham at quarterback. Wilson had fewer than 30 attempts in a game seven times this season. Payton wanted to play a ball control game with Wilson at quarterback.
With Stidham, things opened up a little bit. Perhaps that was to prove a point about the quarterback that was just benched.
Broncos hold lead into 4th quarter
In the second half, the Broncos' biggest play was a defensive pass interference. On fourth-and-1, Stidham threw to the end zone to heavily defended Jerry Jeudy. But Chargers safety Alohi Gilman was called for pass interference, keeping the drive alive and setting up the Broncos at the 1-yard line. A couple of penalties on the Broncos cost them a shot at the touchdown, but a field goal gave them a 10-point lead.
The Chargers missed a field goal after that, and their offense wasn't leading a comeback. Easton Stick, who has been forced into action due to Justin Herbert's season-ending injury, was not very good against the Broncos defense. The Chargers did cut the Broncos' lead to 16-9 late in the game and had a shot to recover a muffed onside kick, but Denver got on it and was able to run out the clock after that.
Denver's offense wasn't very good either, especially against a bad Chargers defense that allowed 63 points to the Las Vegas Raiders a couple weeks ago. Stidham finished with 224 yards, a touchdown and he didn't throw an interception. He wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly the shot in the arm the Broncos were saying they were looking for with the move. Stidham was just better than Stick, and that was good enough for the win to keep the Broncos' season alive.
The performance also won't give the Broncos a ton of confidence if they do have to settle for Stidham next season. That conversation can start now, since the Broncos' playoff hopes have been dashed.
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VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Southern California’s Ventura County issued a temporary evacuation warning Saturday for some coastal residents due to high surf that pounded the West Coast this week but has begun to calm down.
County officials warned that powerful waves, expected to reach up to 20 feet (6 meters) high, were forecast near a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, and the fire department told people to avoid coastal areas. Authorities lifted the evacuation warning in the afternoon.
People who gathered in the morning at Pierpont Beach in the city of Ventura to gaze at the churning waters were warned not to go beyond the large sand berms that were put up Friday to protect waterfront homes, and officials closed some streets.
Ventura Mayor Joe Schroeder called this week’s surf an “extraordinary event,” the likes of which he had not previously seen in his 14 years living in the city.
Fire department spokesperson Andy VanSciver said there were no reports Saturday of damage or injuries but the evacuation warning would remain in place until the waves recede. Earlier in the week, authorities rescued eight people who were injured by the surf.
Elsewhere along the California coast, flooding led to closures of some streets and bike paths. A high surf warning in the San Francisco Bay Area was downgraded to an advisory, with the National Weather Service saying wave heights had declined.
Some surfers took advantage of the waves in Seal Beach, a small city about 30 miles (45 kilometers) south of Los Angeles.
Miles Malohn, a 23-year-old from Irvine who has been surfing for about a decade, said it was one of the largest winter swells he has seen in years.
“It was pretty hectic out there for a few waves,” Malohn said. “You had to be really selective with which ones that you ride so that you don’t end up hurt or wiping out really bad.”
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Austin reported from Sacramento, and AP photographer Damian Dovarganes in Seal Beach, California, contributed. Austin is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Austin on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter: @sophieadanna
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Olivia Plath Reflects on a Year of Loss and Transformation
In a year that tested her strength and resilience, Olivia Plath, the 25-year-old reality star from ‘Welcome to Plathville,’ reflected on the trials and transformations of 2023 in a heartfelt Instagram post. A year marked by significant personal losses, including the tragic death of her 15-year-old brother Micah Meggs and her divorce from Ethan Plath.
Gratitude Amid Grief and Growth
Despite the profound hardships, Olivia expressed a deep gratitude for the year that pushed her to grow, grieve, and gain confidence. Her words echoed strength, resilience, and a newfound sense of self. She acknowledged the support of people and animals in her life, specifically mentioning rehoming her pet hedgehog. In her post, Olivia highlighted how the year allowed her to regain a sense of child-like wonder and joy. She emerged from 2023 feeling vibrant, curious, and at peace with herself.
Looking Forward with Optimism
Olivia looks toward 2024 with optimism, expecting it to be the best year yet. Her resilience and growth in the face of adversity resonated with her followers, offering a glimpse into her journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
Personal Losses of 2023
Olivia’s marriage to Ethan, which started in October 2018, came to an end after they faced irreconcilable differences. Their separation, announced in October 2023, was a significant marker for Olivia’s year of transformation. The couple discussed their relationship during the finale of their reality show. Ethan suggested Olivia reconnect with her family and the values she was raised with, but Olivia stood firm on her beliefs and priorities for her future. Their separation was amicable, with both parties expressing love and respect for each other as individuals, recognizing they were not suitable romantic partners. Olivia’s brother Micah tragically passed away after being struck by a car while riding an electric bike in Franklin County, Virginia, in May 2023, adding to the year’s poignant challenges.
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NOIDA: Residents of the Abadi plots in Greater Noida’s Knowledge Park 3 complained that sewer overflow on the internal roads of the sector is leading to large potholes forming there. The roads in the area have remained in poor condition for over a decade now and are not commutable, residents said, adding that even slight showers pose a high risk of accidents here.
“Here, the Authority’s apathy has led to very poor living conditions.
This is the farmers’ 5% Abadi plots area which has about 40-45 plots of around 1,500, 1,000 and 1,200 square metres where about 100 residents are currently living. But the roads in this area have not been revamped for the last 20 years. Also, there are no sewers or drains despite many requests and petitions. It’s as if we have been left on our own,” said Gurcharan Singh, a resident of the sector.
According to Singh, in the absence of sewers and drains, the sewer water overflows on the roads which are broken, littered with large potholes and muddied throughout the year.
“It’s difficult to commute on these roads, especially in the dark as well as during showers. In the past, there have been several incidents of accidents where residents have been injured due to these road conditions, but there is still no redress so far,” Singh added.
As of Sunday evening, there had been no response from the Greater Noida Authority on the matter.
At a mere 4.5km distance from Pari Chowk, the city’s main hub, Knowledge Park 3 is part of Greater Noida’s educational hub. The area is also surrounded by residential and commercial hubs and is close to the Expo Mart. The nearest metro station to the sector is the Knowledge Park 2 metro station on the NMRC’s Aqua Line metro route.
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PATNA: The murder case of a 60-year-old woman in Nawada district on December 26 took a dramatic turn on Saturday when the police claimed that she was gang-raped and then killed by slitting her throat. Moreover, the rapists had also damaged her private parts with a knife. Four persons were arrested in the case. Her body was recovered from Town police station area.
According to police, the woman was a resident of Gaya. She, along with her husband, was on way to her maternal home in Akbarpur during the last journey of martyr jawan Chandan Kumar, who died in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. Due to the crowd on the road, both husband and wife had got separated.
Town DSP Ajay Kumar said the woman was wandering and searching for her husband. “A young man, on the pretext of helping and dropping the woman at her destination, gave her a lift in his autorickshaw. On the way, four others boarded the autorickshaw. All the five took her to a deserted place and gang-raped her. After committing the crime, the criminals cut her private parts with a knife and slit her throat. They threw her body near Kharidi Bigha village under Town police station area,” he said.
“The FIR was registered by the woman’s husband. Four miscreants have been arrested. They are Sunil Yadav, Vipin Kumar, Pintu Kumar and Niranjan Kumar. One accused is absconding. Raids are being conducted to arrest him. The arrested criminals have confessed to their crime,” the DSP said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)We also published the following articles recently
Woman gang-raped after being offered lift in UP's Barabanki; 4 heldFour persons were arrested in Barabanki on Thursday for allegedly raping a 30-year-old woman on December 25 after offering her lift in their car. The accused, Riyaz, Bhure, Shabbu, and Islamuddin, have been sent to jail. The woman, who had a dispute with her in-laws, alleged that they forced her into the car and took her to a deserted place where they gang-raped her. The accused fled the spot and were later arrested with the help of CCTVs and their location. The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault. Minor abducted at gunpoint in Alwar town, gang-raped by 3A 17-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped after being kidnapped at gunpoint from Alwar. The rape survivor's mother lodged a complaint at Kherli police station. The girl was taken away in a car by the accused, who forced her to drink alcohol. She was left back in the town the following morning. The accused have been identified and an FIR has been registered against them.
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A Colorado woman accused of killing two of her children and injuring a third was arrested in the United Kingdom on Saturday, authorities said.
According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, Kimberlee Singler, 35, of Colorado Springs, was arrested in the United Kingdom “without incident,” The Denver Post reported. No other details about the arrest were immediately available and the exact location where Singler was arrested was unclear, according to KUSA-TV.
Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Singler on murder and attempted murder charges after her 7-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter were found dead in a home on Dec. 19, while her 11-year-old daughter was hospitalized.
According to KUSA, the children’s father, Kevin Wentz, identified the deceased children as Aden Wentz, 7; and Elianna “Ellie” Wentz, 9.
Colorado Springs mom arrested in United Kingdom, suspected of murdering 9-year-old daughter, 7-year-old son https://t.co/7u3ZsL7Tez
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) December 31, 2023
Police had responded to a report of a burglary at the residence, but it turned out to be unfounded, according to The Associated Press.
Singler initially cooperated with authorities but then went missing as the investigation progressed, Colorado Springs Police Department spokesperson Ira Cronin said. She was last seen on Dec. 23, police said.
On Dec. 26, police issued a warrant for Singler’s arrest on four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of child abuse and one count of first-degree assault, KUSA reported.
The 11-year-old girl was hospitalized for a few days before being released, Cronin said. She is recovering in Colorado Springs, according to the AP.
The children’s deaths came during a legal battle between Singler and her ex-husband over parenting time and other issues, the AP reported, citing court filings. Hearings had been scheduled for next month.
“Detectives with the Colorado Springs Police Department’s homicide unit continue to work closely with multiple law enforcement agencies in pursuing the ongoing investigation,” the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement.
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones tip-toed around talk of their acrimonious split almost 30 years ago, when they had just teamed as coach and owner to win consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
Whether that breakup was the reason it took Jones so long to put Johnson in the team’s ring of honor doesn’t matter much at this point to both Pro Football Hall of Famers.
The bottom line is Johnson is joining Tom Landry as the only coaches alongside the 19 players and two executives in the exclusive group of one of the NFL’s storied franchises.
Johnson was greeted by the Hall of Fame “Triplets” who headlined his Super Bowl teams — quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith and receiver Michael Irvin — for the ceremony at halftime of Saturday night’s regular-season home finale against the Detroit Lions.
“Thank you, Jerry Jones, for bringing me to the Dallas Cowboys,” Johnson told the crowd.
Johnson capped his acceptance speech with a dramatic pause as he walked up to Irvin, turned and offered his famous catchphrase, “How ’bout them Cowboys!” He said it the first time in the locker room after Dallas won at San Francisco in the NFC championship game before the first Super Bowl victory.
“You can say whatever you want to about my human reaction or frailties,” Jones said before the game. “I say this today, he’s there because it’s the right thing. He was always going in the ring of honor, whether I put him in or my kids put him in.”
One of the theories behind the abrupt end of Johnson’s tenure in 1994 was a tussle over who should get credit for the dramatic turnaround in Dallas.
The Cowboys went from 1-15 in 1989 — the year Jones bought the Cowboys and hired Johnson after firing the only coach Dallas ever had in Landry — to the first back-to-back Super Bowl titles in franchise history to cap the 1992 and ’93 seasons.
“I think we’re past who gets credit,” Johnson said. “The two of us, working together, made history. When I say working together, we talked every single day. I don’t ever recall us having a difference of opinion.”
Others would suggest Johnson’s take is revisionist history, because he was incensed 30 years ago over suggestions from Jones, also the team’s general manager, that any one of 500 coaches could have won a title with the Dallas roster.
Barry Switzer did it two years after the split of Jones and Johnson, who were teammates at Arkansas in the early 1960s. But critics never stopped suggesting the 1995 title was with Johnson’s players, and the Cowboys haven’t even reached an NFC championship game since that season.
Aikman was working the game as an analyst for ESPN and hustled down from the broadcast booth to join the ceremony. He stood with Irvin and Smith during the presentation, which started with Johnson walking through a greeting line of dozens of players from his Super Bowl run.
“It means everything to me and my teammates and everybody that was a part of those teams,” Aikman said on ESPN during the first half. “And the circle has been closed tonight at halftime.”
After two years away from football, Johnson returned with the Miami Dolphins in 1996 and led them to the playoffs the last three of his four seasons. But Miami never got past the divisional round.
The 80-year-old Johnson, a Texas native, has been a Fox studio analyst the past two decades and was enshrined in Canton, Ohio, in 2020, three years after Jones.
Now Johnson’s name will be inside AT&T Stadium along with Landry, who led the Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1970s and is fifth on the career list with 250 regular-season victories.
“I don’t think anybody can ever imagine what this means to me,” said Johnson, who won the 1987 college national championship at Miami. “This was a special time in my life. This was something that paid dividends for me the rest of my life. We took over the worst football team in the NFL. Not only did we win Super Bowls, but we were able to put together the team of the ’90s.”
Because of that, the split left many, including Johnson’s players, wondering what might have been had he stayed. Not only is Johnson past the question of credit, he doesn’t think much about “what ifs” either.
“Sometimes I’m kind of like a gypsy,” Johnson said. “I’ve never been anywhere more than five years. Got the point after winning a couple of Super Bowls, almost to the point of, ‘I’ve accomplished what I want to accomplish.’ Sometimes you lose sight of what you can do because of what you’ve already done.”
Johnson suggested he and Jones weren’t communicating as well at the end of their time together in Dallas as they had at the beginning, when they both faced a firestorm of criticism.
Jones suggested he let the sudden success of the Cowboys go to his head.
“What Jimmy brings is a lot of the best of me, enthusiasm, what have you,” Jones recalled telling his parents just before the split became public in 1994. “When it’s going the other way, I don’t like myself. It’s taking away from it. That mentality probably caused me to be not as tolerant as maybe we could have gone.”
A sense of closure for many of those issues was coming a few hours later.
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Rabbi Akiva Block Highlights Importance of Family Through Biblical Story of Joseph
In a recent discussion with Fox News Digital, Rabbi Akiva Block, a renowned spiritual leader from New Jersey and a faculty member of the Judaic Studies at SAR High School in Riverdale, New York, underscored the importance of familial bonds and reconciliation. Drawing from the biblical story of Joseph as highlighted in Genesis 50:19-21, he emphasized the significance of prioritizing family, even in the face of past transgressions.
The Story of Joseph: A Testament to Forgiveness and Family
The narrative of Joseph, nestled at the conclusion of the Book of Genesis, serves as a potent illustration of rising above years of family conflict through the power of reconciliation and support. Despite his brothers’ past misdeeds, Joseph adopts a forgiving and caring approach, symbolizing the strength and resilience of familial ties.
Rabbi Block’s Interpretation and Application
Rabbi Block utilizes this narrative to emphasize that while advocating for universal well-being is crucial, it should not culminate in the neglect of one’s community and family. The lessons derived from Joseph’s story found resonance during Rabbi Block and his synagogue’s recent visit to Israel. The primary objective of the visit was to extend support and strength to the people there, thereby reinforcing the concept of unity and family.
Faith and Family: A Universal Theme
The article also briefly touches upon ‘Frasier’ star Kelsey Grammer’s personal journey of faith loss and rediscovery, subtly connecting it to the overarching theme of faith and family values. The Book of Genesis, which hosts the story of Joseph, is traditionally attributed to Moses and forms an integral part of the Torah or the Pentateuch.
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The slaying of the 41-year-old victim at the complex just off Route 17 near the Rockland County border in Ramsey around 7 p.m. Saturday was believed to be domestically related.
At least one of the two worked at the plant on Williams Drive, law enforcement sources said.
Police departments from surrounding towns, the Bergen County sheriff's officers and New Jersey State Police were among those who converged on the area searching for the shooter.
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Given what we know of them today, it’s ludicrous to apply the term ‘one-hit wonder’ to Status Quo. This is a band that has notched more than 60 hits at home in the UK, spending more than 500 weeks – almost 10 years – in the charts. And that’s just their singles. Nevertheless, from the success of 1968’s Pictures Of Matchstick Men, their first Top 10 hit, onwards, at several points in the band’s career the naysayers have thrown that undesirable tag at them.
To be fair, a succession of name changes, personnel switches and flop singles that preceded Matchstick Men had hardly marked them out as contenders for long-term stardom. And after following their breakthrough moment with another misfire, Black Veils Of Melancholy, it took a song by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the famous jazz musician), Ice In The Sun, to return Status Quo to the public eye.
But Status Quo (or The Status Quo as they were still known then) were made of hardy stuff. Six years of hard graft were not going to be wasted.
The ditching of their Carnaby Street psychedelic clobber and the arrivals of guitarist/vocalist Rick Parfitt and road manager Bob Young, both of whom would contribute hits at key moments, helped to galvanise Quo, who dropped the ‘The’, grew their hair and wore the tattiest, grubbiest jeans. Twelve-bar boogie became the name of their game, performed with unapologetic zeal in dimly-lit pubs and clubs up and down the country. Audiences that didn’t appreciate them were advised to fuck off as the band packed up and drove to the next venue.
But many people did get off on Status Quo’s new direction, laid down on their third and fourth albums, Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon and Dog Of Two Head. Although neither of those troubled the chart compilers, and the group’s second keyboard player, Roy Lynes, ran out of patience on a train from London to Aberdeen in-between those two releases in August ’70 and November ’71 and left – thus reducing the line-up to lead guitarist/vocalist Francis Rossi, bassist/vocalist Alan Lancaster, guitarist/vocalist Rick Parfitt and drummer John Coghlan – against all the odds an unlikely industry buzz began to grow.
With sympathetic backing at last, and in spite of an entanglement with Pye Records, their manager Colin Johnson persuaded Phonogram Records boss Brian Shepherd to sign Quo to his hip imprint Vertigo. Shepherd handed over a budget of £30,000 and entrusted the quartet to self-produce an album with just an engineer, Damon Lyon-Shaw, and his assistant, Richard Manwaring. The result was Piledriver, an album that matched its title with a shrewd distillation of tight, hard boogie and hook-friendly melodies. Its turbo-charged anthem Paper Plane returned Quo to the Top 10 of the singles chart, and the album climbed to No.5.
Within months Quo went from a support band to headlining two nights at London’s celebrated Rainbow Theatre, and even testing the waters for the first time in the US (where they shared stages with, among others, Savoy Brown, Canned Heat, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band and Blue Öyster Cult), Australia and New Zealand.
Such mental fortitude and sheer will to overcome was little short of remarkable. But then just six months later, Status Quo had to do it all over again, or face the fact that those who had dismissed them as a one-trick pony had been right after all. And there was absolutely no chance that was going to happen.
Vertigo sent the band back to where they’d made Piledriver, IBC Studios in Central London. The bunker-like, windowless facility, with its high ceiling, fostered an environment of hard work, and had been used by many of the world’s biggest stars including The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who and the Small Faces. Quo would record all of their early-70s albums there.
Producing themselves again, and reunited with Lyon-Shaw and Manwaring for technical support, they began work at IBC in mid-April ’73 on what would become Hello!. The place was theirs for a month, with some ‘tidying up’ time put aside in the summer after a return trip to North America.
Francis Rossi: After Piledriver had taken off the way it did, with Hello! we set out to do the same thing but at a higher level. The sound improved somewhat, and the band were better through all of the time spent on the road. Yeah, we felt some pressure in making a follow-up, but there was this cocky confidence that came out of Rick and mainly Alan that really pushed us forwards.
Rick Parfitt: At IBC Studios we were pretty wonga-d – there was some smoking going on – but they were such creative times. All four of us were seeing things the same way. Life was fantastic back then. Our writing was prolific and everything was opening up for us. We would arrive at, say, one o’clock in the afternoon and leave the following morning, unaware if there was daylight or darkness outside. You just buried yourself in the place and got creative. Those sessions will stay with me for ever – we played so loudly together. Who gave a fuck about the clock? We were still young; time didn’t matter.
Alan Lancaster: The brilliant thing is that nobody could tell us what to do. The record company didn’t get a say. Can you imagine what their reaction to a song as over-the-top as Forty Five-Hundred Times [the album’s 10-minute epic] would have been? Parfitt: We had a stockpile of great songs, many from the road, [but we also] wrote in the bath, on the loo… We were bubbling over with ideas. All of the licks had yet to be written, and we were finding them day by day.
Rossi: The super-confidence that came from Alan and Rick served us well at the time, but for me [ultimately] it proved to be… not nice. Alan almost saw us as ambassadors to Great Britain. He had that in him till he died. Status Quo was so important to him – overly important, in a way that it never was for me. But we went into the studio believing: “Yeah, we can do this.”
Photographs of Quo working at IBC during the early 70s show Rossi, Parfitt and Lancaster seated in a circle, in close proximity.
Rossi: That’s one of the reasons, good and bad, that the album sounded the way it did. Later on, when we did Rocking All Over The World, we worked the opposite way and everything was done in isolation. In theory, that’s the way you should make records. Listen to Caroline, and when the quiet part begins the compression [of the sound] comes up and you can hear the ambience around the kit, the guitars go ‘der-der-der-da-da-der-der’ [hums the riff]. You can hear the entire room. Then everyone comes back in. We were playing too loud. But having said that, the song still sounds great.
Parfitt: We played so loudly together that you became lost in the music.
Rossi: Playing together like that, able to stare into one another’s eyes, there was a real transference of vibe. That’s what happens now when I’m on stage with the current Quo. I love that we lock eyes again. But with Rocking All Over The World we were too far away across the room for that to happen, which wasn’t ideal.
Parfitt: The songs had all been learned, and we’d sit surrounded by amps. The magic just flowed. It gave you goose-pimples.
John Coghlan: An overriding memory of mine is that IBC studios was next door to the Chinese Embassy, and at times we received their Morse code signals through our amplifiers. It’s funny now, but we’d have to stop recording, so that was pretty frustrating.
Rossi: At that moment in time, Quo would have taken a bullet for each other. Alan and I had been together since we were twelve years old, and we’d known Rick since he was seventeen. John had been there since 1963. We’d been unfashionable, literally having to beg for gigs. I remember walking on stage at a gig supporting T.Rex at The Greyhound in Croydon and the audience turned its back on us. So we went: “Oh no, no, no…” and of course we’d win them over, which gave us a drive that in a way became part of the music.
Bob Young: IBC was Status Quo’s own Abbey Road, and it helped immensely that they had such a great team around them, from manager Colin Johnson to Brian Shepherd at Vertigo, and they had really tight crew of three or four people that were on-side with their every move.
With a thud that turns into a glorious chugging riff, Hello! begins via a genuine Quo rarity: a song written by all four members in association with road manager Bob Young, who besides being responsible for getting Quo from A to B also played harmonica on stage with them and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. Alan Lancaster remembers the group messing around with Roll Over Lay Down “on the piano backstage at gigs” long before it was recorded at IBC.
Lancaster: Songs are like a fine wine, they should be allowed to evolve. Where would that song have been without John’s tom-tom contribution? It was very much a band effort.
Rossi: Yeah, the band credit thing. Alan insisted he had written it with me, which of course he hadn’t. I got so annoyed that we credited everyone in the band. But really it’s by Bob and me.
Coghlan: It’s [built upon] four on the floor on the bass drum. Great fun to play live and it really gets the crowd going.
Rossi: The lyrics were about getting home from a gig early in the morning, and there’d be a note pinned to the door. ‘The drink cold from the fridge’ was a bottle of milk. It wasn’t about trying to get my end away. You’d be surprised how many people also think that’s what Down Down is all about.
Parfitt: A Quo show has always been pretty incomplete without Roll Over Lay Down.
Excluding collaborations with others, the team of Rossi and Young wrote three of the album’s seven songs – Claudie, A Reason For Living and Caroline, although the vexing subject of writing credits within Status Quo has bubbled away for decades. For example Softer Ride is officially a Lancaster-Parfitt composition, although half a century later Rossi still rues the omission of his name.
“Bob and I were writing so much together it really upset the rest of the band,” he explains. “Colin [Johnson] would often intervene with a political solution. I agreed to give it to Rick and Alan, when really it should have been the four of us.”
In fairness, Lancaster admits: “Rick and Francis had the basic idea, and I came in with some ideas of my own. Really, it should’ve been credited to those two as well.”
Fuck the paperwork, what a track Softer Ride is, beginning slowly then walloping in with a riff that’s right up there among Quo’s very best.
Parfitt: Quo have done quite a few slow shuffles, but after the intro Softer Ride is a really fast and powerful one. It’s such a turn-on… just magical.
Young: The subject of who wrote what within Quo, and also who didn’t, has been rumbling on for years. In a way it’s part of the band’s mythology. They worked by bouncing off each other. That’s where the magic came from.
Rossi: When Bob and I write together there are two books side by side. One is his, the other is mine. It works best when they overlap. ‘It’s so long since I sang songs for you.’ Yeah, I can see that in both of our relationships back then. ‘I’ve been living alone, in a house that wasn’t my home.’ That’s another tick. I think originally the chorus was: ‘England made a fool out of me’, but Bob picked the name Claudie out of the air and I fucking loved that. In my mind I was singing to my ex-wife. Bob may have been singing to all of his ex-wives!
Young: I’ve still got the original demo of Claudie, and it didn’t change much from how Francis and I envisaged it. Its roots came from the countryrock angle that the two of us liked so much.
Rossi and Young had written Caroline in a country-rock stylée on a hotel restaurant napkin in Cornwall four years earlier, though its full potential wasn’t realised until the day in rehearsals when Quo toughened it up. One of their most identifiable and enduring tracks, it took the band into the UK Top Five.
Young: When we recorded Caroline at IBC the hairs on the back of everyone’s neck really went up.
Rossi: It had worked so well as a shuffle, but I still remember Rick playing the [opening] riff [the way it became famous] because there was a feeling of real magic. It’s such a good little melody.
Young: If there was such a thing as a light-bulb moment, it was Rick’s rhythm playing in the intro. He deserves the credit for that.
Coghlan: When Caroline comes on the radio, from the first few notes you know it’s us.
There’s a perception of Hello! as a heads-down-see-you-at-the-end album, but despite ticking all of those boxes it’s much, much more besides. Rossi and Young’s And It’s Better Now, with an intro that harks back to Quo’s early, psychedelic years, was a more understated moment. Listeners awaiting the arrival of a sledgehammer riff did so in vain.
Elsewhere, introduced by Parfitt crooning the words: ‘I felt in need for some loving, so I sat down on a wall/I tried to find a reason for living, but I couldn’t find a reason at all’ over a plaintive riff, A Reason For Living takes a while to bubble into full-bodied fruition. A poignant and reflective song, it was another reminder that, before its dissolution, the Rossi-Parfitt alliance invariably spelled greatness.
Parfitt: Those lyrics to A Reason For Living came from the heart. Some things were going wrong in my life and I was a bit depressed.
Rossi: That, to me, is when Rick was still Rick. He had such a great voice. The later stuff where he sang much more gruffly, that’s not Rick. I liked it best when he used his voice in that [more melodic] way; it was such a big part of the band’s early sound.
Parfitt: All these years later, that song still stands up, and I’m glad we re-did it on the acoustic album [Aquostic, 2014].
Young: You can hear that country influence on And It’s Better Now. Francis and I always loved that style of music.
Rossi: I remember watching a TV programme about a really sad little fellow who’d been sent to boarding school. When he said that he had a god of his own, I thought: “Fuck, I’m having that.” The riff ended up becoming the melody. I really liked it.
Blue Eyed Lady, once described by Parfitt, who wrote it with Lancaster, as “an outand-out rocker that was a joy to have performed on the Frantic Four reunion tours”, was the first of many, many Quo tracks that featured Andrew Bown. The former keyboard player with Peter Frampton-fronted 60s pop band The Herd, Bown would work with Quo on and off before eventually becoming a permanent member.
Rossi: It was my idea to bring in Andrew on that song. I’d met him and Peter [Frampton] when we supported The Herd, and I really liked him.
Andrew Bown: The Herd and Quo knew each other for years. I remember at an awards ceremony, Francis being jealous that The Herd had a roadie.
Rossi [indignantly]: They had this bloke that we had thought was one of the band. We were thinking: “Who the fuck is he?” It really rubbed me up the wrong way. So we got one too.
Bown: All the bands knew each other back in those days. But more importantly, The Herd’s management shared offices with Quo on Wardour Street.
Rossi: Later in life I find it less threatening to admit it, but I always liked that more feminine side [of rock music]. The thing that Freddie [Mercury] did. Andrew was somebody I thought I could work with. It broadened out the sound with one instrument. Andrew and I spent a lot of time working out keyboard parts and became very close.
Bown: I had almost forgotten that I had played on played Blue Eyed Lady. So listened to it this morning and, sure enough, two minutes and forty-seven seconds in, there’s piano [from me]. There’s a fuck of a lot of notes in that song.
Rossi: There are also two saxophones [played by Steve Farr and Stewart Blandamer] on that song but you can’t fucking hear them.
Forty-Five Hundred Times, the epic song that closes Hello!, is a triumph of light and shade. It begins gently before accelerating off into pure boogie-rock nirvana. The song became an instant live favourite, and was often jammed out to twice its original duration of fractionally under 10 minutes – sometimes even more.
Rossi: Forty-Five Hundred Times was worked on at my first mother-in-law’s house, a prefab. We were trying to write a song with three movements, like we later did with Slow Train [from the following year’s Quo]. Rick and I were in a bit of a Yankee phase, hence the title. In real English it would’ve been called Four Thousand Five Hundred Times, which doesn’t quite work, does it?
Parfitt: Truthfully, I don’t remember much about the writing of Forty-Five Hundred Times, because for a lot of the time I was away with the fairies.
Rossi: It was one of the last songs by me and Rick. Each time we thought we’d got something good, Rick would try to improve it and we’d end up losing track of where we were. It was like pulling teeth, which is among the reasons why we stopped writing together.
Parfitt: If something had potential, I always tried to make it better. Sometimes it worked, and others it didn’t, but I pushed things to the limit. That didn’t always sit well with Francis.
Rossi: I wish Rick and I could’ve continued, but it became too difficult. So many good things were lost when our egos clashed.
Young: Francis and I had a lot of involvement in that one, even though it’s a Rossi-Parfitt song.
Bown: You know, I think I played on Forty-Five Hundred Times as well as Blue Eyed Lady. They asked me to play in B and jam for about fifty bars. I remember that very well. I think I got paid for it.
Rossi: Yeah, he did. It needed that extra embellishment. How did we find John Mealing, the guy who was credited with playing piano? I really don’t remember.
Young: Recording the song at IBC was a real magic moment. When the band cooked in the studio it was every bit as exciting as when they went for in on stage.
The album’s title was suggested by the band’s manager, Colin Johnson. Its artwork also introduced a logo that, just like the silhouette of the group’s four members, guitars and sticks raised aloft, which graced its front cover, would decorate denim jackets and waistcoats for decades to come.
Released on September 28, 1973, Hello! displaced Sladest, by the band’s good friends Slade, at No.1 and spent 28 weeks in the UK chart. It was the first of Quo’s four UK No.1 albums. Emotions were mixed as they reached the summit for a second time. However, with Hello! all four band members knew they had created something special.
Rossi: Colin Johnson had so many brilliant ideas, and he didn’t receive enough credit for that. He was not only a manager. Colin re-mortgaged his house and did everything within his power to make Status Quo a success. He truly, truly believed in us. Each night, we’d walk on stage and I’d say: “Hello”, and he recognised the power of that.
Young: The cover’s simplicity made it so eye-catching. The silhouette and the logo said everything you needed to know.
Rossi: I did love the cover, but later on [in post-Spinal Tap years] I liked it a bit less for the whole ‘none more black’ thing [guitarist Nigel Tufnel’s infamous comment on the cover of his band’s Smell The Glove album].
Parfitt: At the time of Hello!, we were out on our own and we knew it. It felt as though Quo were getting bigger by the hour. We suddenly realised that we were the band of the moment. We really didn’t think that anyone could touch us.
Lancaster: It’s one of my favourite Quo albums, if not the favourite.
Parfitt: Hello! is my favourite of our albums and I love everything about it – the cover, the content, and also the fact that it took us to the top of the charts for the first time.
Coghlan: It’s classic Quo, isn’t it? There’s not a bad track on it, and most of them went on to become live favourites.
Rossi: Hello!? Nice record. Very proud of it. But I got over [the success] quickly and wanted to know what was next. There’s rarely any time to savour things. When they told us we were number one I probably replied: “Yeah, but has it done the same thing anywhere else?”
When a band becomes a chart-topper, that’s when the big numbers start kicking in – rocketing record sales and gig attendances – along with lots more waiting around in airports, groupies and drugs. Then they realise they need to make another album. Quo’s next record, the balls-to-the-wall Quo, was released just eight months later.
Rossi: Cocaine wasn’t an issue yet, and I’d gotten over groupies – I think we all had. The thrill of a record you’d made being played and enjoyed by so many people was what I appreciated. I loved the way records used to sell. Now, of course, music doesn’t mean as much. Coming out of Hello! and into Quo, that was a problem because they [Parfitt and Lancaster] didn’t want that shit that me and Bob had been writing.
Parfitt: Francis had drifted off in a different direction, a little more countrified. I wasn’t having any of that. I preferred hard rock. Nuff [Lancaster] is from the leather wristband-and-spikes brigade. I wouldn’t go that far, but like him I was a rocker, and I loved to write those harder songs.
Rossi: I’m not saying Quo didn’t contain some really good songs, though you knew [Rick and Alan] had been out watching other groups – mainly Deep Purple. But Hello! was such an important album for us, it affirmed we could get to number one. Now it was all about the next transition. It’s always been about chasing that carrot. I have nightmares about catching it, which would be a complete disaster. Catch your carrot and you’re fucked.
Rick Parfitt and Alan Lancaster were interviewed in 2015. They passed away in 2016 and 2021, respectively. The current lineup of Status Quo play European shows throughout the summer.
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https://www.loudersound.com/features/status-quo-hello-interview
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From Tesla’s massive dashboard tablet to infotainment systems popping up in numerous new cars, screens are taking over the driving experience, and Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) are becoming the default. And for CES 2024, LG Display is bringing the next big innovation in this area.
Coming to the big event, the company will drop its take on the “smartphones on wheels” concept — providing a full-width dashboard display in the front, and two foldable screens in the back, which come with a huge safety feature to maintain driver concentration.
Specific details are a little thin on the ground, given it’s a concept. But based on what’s described, LG is on the precipice of taking a huge step forward in automotive entertainment. Just imagine what this could do when paired with Microsoft and Tom Tom's new in-car AI!
The tech specs
So, what’s LG bringing to the show? In their own words, there are “various large-sized automotive displays.” In the particular example, we see a vehicle’s dashboard completely covered in a giant screen.
This takes advantage of LG Display’s various technologies like P-OLED for plastic substrates that increase flexibility, Advanced Thin OLED for not adding additional thickness to the dash, and LTPS (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon) LCD for a dynamic refresh rate.
You can see this flexibility used on the drop down displays in the back seat, where the company will be showing off a variety of slidable and foldable OLED panels that can be hidden away or made bigger when passengers want that additional screen real estate.
Keeping safety in mind
So, the obvious question here is what happens to potential driver distractions? If the front seat passenger is watching something on their side of the display, it could potentially catch the driver’s gaze. That is where Switchable Privacy Mode (SPM) comes into play, which diverts any content being watched on the passenger side.
This is done automatically when driving, and is a huge step forward for ensuring the passenger can enjoy themselves just as much as those sitting in the back, while maintaining driver focus. We’ll find out a lot more about how this is done (my bet is limiting viewing angles through the P-OLED technology), when we go eyes-on with LG’s new automotive innovation at CES.
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https://www.tomsguide.com/news/lgs-take-on-smartphones-on-wheels-is-an-exciting-glimpse-into-the-future-of-the-car-heres-why
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Data protection, as the term implies, refers to the safeguarding of personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
Data protection revolves around the principles of integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Integrity ensures that data remains accurate and consistent during its lifecycle. Availability guarantees that data is accessible and usable when needed, while confidentiality ensures that sensitive information is only accessible to authorized individuals. These principles lay the foundation for various data protection strategies and mechanisms, such as encryption, backups, access controls, and more.
Data protection isn’t just an IT concern; it’s a business-wide responsibility. It’s about protecting the reputation of the business, safeguarding customer trust, and ensuring compliance with the law. In this regard, data protection should be an integral part of a company’s risk management strategy, involving stakeholders from all across the organization, from IT to legal, to human resources and beyond.
Overview of the Current Landscape in Data Protection and Security
The current landscape in data protection and security is both complex and rapidly evolving. On one hand, we have increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Cybercriminals are using advanced techniques to infiltrate systems, steal data, and hold businesses to ransom. This has led to an increased emphasis on proactive threat detection and response, with businesses investing heavily in security operations centers (SOCs), threat intelligence, and incident response capabilities.
On the other hand, there is an evolving regulatory environment. This includes regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the US. These regulations impose strict requirements on how businesses handle personal data, with hefty fines for non-compliance. As such, businesses today need to be mindful not just of external threats, but also of the potential legal and financial implications of non-compliance with data protection laws.
Data is now a critical business asset, and protecting it is paramount to maintaining trust with customers and stakeholders. As such, businesses need to adopt a holistic approach to data protection, encompassing both technical and organizational measures. This includes investing in security technologies, training employees, and establishing robust data protection policies and procedures.
Emerging Trends in Data Protection for 2024
Advanced Encryption Technologies
Looking ahead, one of the key trends that will shape the future of data protection is the continued evolution of encryption technologies. Encryption is a cornerstone of data protection, offering a robust defense against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, the ways in which we use and manage encryption are set to change dramatically in the coming years.
For one, we’ll see the rise of quantum-resistant encryption algorithms. These are encryption methods designed to withstand the power of quantum computers, which pose a significant threat to current encryption standards. Moreover, we’ll also see the growth of homomorphic encryption, a technique that allows for computations to be performed on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it first. This offers exciting new possibilities for secure data processing and analysis.
Growth of AI and Machine Learning in Threat Detection
Another key trend is the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in threat detection. These technologies offer the ability to analyze vast amounts of data at speed, identifying patterns and anomalies that could indicate a cyber-attack. This allows for faster and more accurate threat detection, helping businesses to respond to cyber threats more effectively.
AI and machine learning can also be used to predict new and unknown threats, based on historical data and trends. This predictive capability can help businesses to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals, proactively strengthening their defenses before an attack occurs.
Enhanced Cloud Data Encryption Methods
As businesses increasingly move their data to the cloud, we can expect to see a greater emphasis on end-to-end encryption for cloud data, ensuring that data remains secure both in transit and at rest.
In addition, we’ll also see the growth of cloud-native encryption solutions. These are encryption tools specifically designed for the cloud, offering seamless integration with cloud services and platforms. This not only improves security, but also simplifies the management of encryption keys and policies.
Focus on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Finally, with the growing emphasis on data privacy, we can expect to see a greater focus on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). These are technologies designed to minimize the amount of personal data that businesses collect and process, thereby reducing the risk of data breaches and non-compliance with data protection laws.
Examples of PETs include anonymization and pseudonymization techniques, which disguise personal data to prevent it from being linked back to an individual. We’ll also see the growth of privacy-preserving computation techniques, such as differential privacy and federated learning, which allow for data analysis without exposing sensitive information.
Data Protection: Predictions for Data Protection in 2024
GDPR Updates and Their Global Influence
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been a game-changer in the field of data protection since its implementation in 2018. This comprehensive legislation has forced businesses everywhere to prioritize data privacy. In the coming years, we can expect to see further updates to the GDPR as lawmakers strive to keep up with the ever-evolving landscape of technology.
One of the key predictions for data protection in 2024 is the global influence of GDPR-like regulations. As the importance of data privacy becomes more evident, countries around the world are likely to follow in the footsteps of the European Union. We can anticipate the adoption of similar data protection laws in regions such as North America, Asia, and Latin America. This global shift towards stronger data protection regulations will provide individuals with greater control over their personal information and hold businesses accountable for safeguarding user data.
Furthermore, the enforcement of GDPR is expected to become even more stringent in the coming years. Regulators will likely impose heavier fines and penalties on organizations that fail to comply with the regulations. This increased enforcement will act as a deterrent, encouraging businesses to invest in robust data protection measures.
The Rise of Decentralized Security Models
As data breaches continue to make headlines, it has become evident that traditional centralized security models are no longer sufficient. In response to this growing concern, decentralized security models are expected to gain prominence in the year 2024 and beyond.
Decentralized security models distribute data across multiple servers and networks, making it more challenging for cybercriminals to breach a single point of entry. Blockchain technology, with its inherent immutability and transparency, is likely to play a significant role in these decentralized models. By leveraging blockchain, organizations can ensure the integrity and security of their data, reducing the risk of unauthorized access or manipulation.
In addition to blockchain, other emerging technologies such as secure multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption will also contribute to the rise of decentralized security models. These advancements will enable organizations to protect sensitive data without compromising its usability, thereby striking a balance between security and functionality.
Consumer Privacy as a Business Imperative
In the wake of numerous high-profile data breaches and privacy scandals, consumer privacy is no longer just a legal requirement; it has become a business imperative. In 2024, we can expect businesses to shift their focus from mere compliance to proactive privacy protection.
Consumers today are more aware of their rights and demand greater transparency from the organizations they interact with. Businesses that prioritize consumer privacy will not only comply with the law but also gain a competitive edge. Companies that build trust by implementing robust data protection measures and providing clear privacy policies will attract more customers and foster long-term loyalty.
Moreover, privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy and federated learning will enable businesses to analyze and derive insights from customer data without compromising individual privacy. These technologies will allow organizations to strike a balance between leveraging data for innovation and respecting user privacy rights.
The Challenge of Managing Big Data
The sheer volume of data generated daily presents a significant challenge in terms of data protection. As we enter 2024, the management of big data will continue to be a pressing issue for organizations across various industries.
Big data encompasses vast amounts of structured and unstructured information, making it difficult to identify and protect sensitive data effectively. Additionally, as data sources become more diverse, including IoT devices, social media platforms, and cloud storage, the task of data protection becomes increasingly complex.
To address this challenge, organizations will need to invest in advanced data protection technologies that can handle very large volumes of data, enable automated discovery of private or protected information within datasets, and effectively protect it.
Conclusion
In conclusion, data protection is a critical concern that will continue to evolve and shape the digital landscape in the years to come. The predictions discussed in this article highlight the importance of staying ahead of the curve when it comes to data protection. By embracing the global influence of GDPR, adopting decentralized security models, prioritizing consumer privacy, and effectively managing big data, organizations can build a secure and trustworthy digital ecosystem for the future.
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https://tdan.com/data-protection-trends-and-predictions-for-2024/31402
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KUCHING (Dec 31): The name of the Sarawak state flag was unveiled tonight during the New Year Countdown celebration at Kuching Waterfront.
Sarawak Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg announced the Sarawak state flag’s name as ‘Ibu Pertiwi’, to rapturous applause by the thousands in attendance.
“If Malaysia’s flag is known as the Jalur Gemilang, then let Sarawak’s (flag) be known as Ibu Pertiwi. The area surrounding the flagpole will be known as Dataran Ibu Pertiwi,” he said in his speech.
During the rehearsal for the celebration last Friday, Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Minister Dato Sri Abdul Karim Rahmah Hamzah said the flagpole – also touted as the tallest in Southeast Asia – was poised to become another iconic landmark for Kuching City.
He said the monument is expected attract both local and international tourists eager to capture its magnificence through photographs.
Meanwhile, tonight’s festivities kicked off with a six-hour party featuring popular Sarawakian performers and renowned Malaysian artistes including Datuk Amy Search, Datuk Zainal Abidin, Hael Husaini, Floor 88, and DeFam, as well as a boat parade along the Sarawak river.
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https://www.theborneopost.com/2023/12/31/premier-unveils-ibu-pertiwi-as-name-of-sarawak-state-flag/
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BHAGALPUR: In Bhagalpur, Bihar, an accident took place on Ulta pul involving a truck carrying a train coach. The truck, transporting a coach from Indian Railways, reportedly faced the accident due to brake failure. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries or casualties in the incident.
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The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Sunday said that Reckitt/Mead Johnson is voluntarily recalling batches of powdered infant formula over bacterial contamination concerns.
According to a news release, the FDA said that Reckitt/Mead Johnson’s Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Powdered Infant Formula Products were being recalled. The specialty formula is a hypoallergenic infant product used by infants who are allergic to cow’s milk.
The formula came in 12.6-ounce and 19.8-ounce cans and was recalled over the possibility that the product had been contaminated by Cronobacter sakazakii, the FDA said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cronobacter sakazakii is a germ found naturally that can live in dry foods including powdered infant formula.
“Getting sick from Cronobacter does not happen often, but infections in infants can be deadly,” the CDC said. “Cronobacter infections in infants less than 12 months old are often linked to powdered infant formula.”
The FDA said that 675,030 cans of the formula were recalled on Friday after the agency was notified that the formula sent overseas tested positive for Cronobacter sakazakii by the Israeli Ministry of Health, CNN reported.
The FDA said that no illnesses have been reported so far and that most of the formula distributed in the U.S. has likely been consumed. Nutramigen in 12.6-ounce and 19.8-ounce containers was manufactured in June 2023 and distributed primarily in June, July, and August 2023, the agency said.
“All product in question went through extensive testing and tested negative for the bacteria,” Reckitt/Mead Johnson said in a news release.
The batch codes for the products are:
• ZL3FHG (12.6-ounce cans);
• ZL3FMH (12.6-ounce cans);
• ZL3FPE (12.6-ounce cans);
• ZL3FQD (12.6-ounce cans);
• ZL3FRW (19.8-ounce cans);
• ZL3FXJ (12.6-ounce cans).
The products have a UPC of 300871239418 or 300871239456 and “use by date” of “1 Jan. 2025,” the FDA said.
According to the agency, consumers with Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder bearing those batch numbers should not use them and dispose of them immediately.
Consumers with questions can call the company at 866-534-9986 at any time, or by email at consumer.relations@rb.com.
“We are committed to the highest level of quality and safety and it is for this reason that we have taken this measure,” Reckitt/Mead Johnson said in a statement. “Other testing of the batches in question tested negative for Cronobacter and other bacteria.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James thought he added to his legacy with another big shot on his 39th birthday.
The NBA’s replay center had a different view, causing James to call out the league’s replay process.
James made what he believed was a game-tying 3-pointer with 3.3 seconds remaining as the Los Angeles Lakers were playing on the road against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the top team in the Western Conference.
However, it was ruled a 2-pointer and upheld via replay from the league’s replay center in Secaucus, New Jersey, and the Lakers lost 108-106 on Saturday night.
“It’s obviously a 3,” James said. “My foot is behind the line. I mean, you can see the space between the front of my foot and the 3-point line. You can clearly see a white, the wood on the floor, there’s a space in between the front of my foot and the 3-point line. So, you know, Stevie Wonder can see that, champ.”
James, who spent the day in bed with a non-COVID-19 illness, scored 26 points, 10 in the fourth quarter. But it was his shot, and the subsequent replay, that caused his ire toward the league’s replay center.
“They said it was out of their hands,” James said of the explanation he got from officials. “The Secaucus, whatever, over there in the replay center or whatever, somebody over there eating a ham sandwich or somebody made the call.”
In a pool report after the game, official Tony Brothers said the review wasn’t conclusive enough to overturn the call on the floor.
“The play was ruled a 2-point field goal on the floor during live play,” Brothers said. “After video review, there wasn’t clear and conclusive evidence to overturn it from a 2 to a 3, and that’s why it stood as a 2-point field goal.”
James felt the video evidence was clear enough. As soon as Brothers announced the ruling to the in-arena crowd, James immediately went to the scorer’s table and pointed to the replay monitor.
“It’s super frustrating in the sense of what the hell we got a replay for?” James said. “What do we have replay for if even the replay gets it wrong? It’s like, who’s the part of the replay center? Like, do we got robots in there that’s making the Teslas? What’s going on? If you don’t see that, that is clear, that is clear.”
The frustration came after James said he woke up with an illness and stayed in bed until 4:30 p.m. when he got ready to head to the arena.
“I took a few more naps and then I finally just got out of bed at like 4:30, got a shower,” James said. “It helped me a little bit. Caught the 5 o’clock bus and, I guess, felt OK to play. I felt I could make some plays to help us win the ballgame.”
The Lakers play Sunday afternoon for the second of a back-to-back in New Orleans. James said he was unsure if he’d be play to play Sunday and would wait to see how he feels a day later.
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Randy Travis and Mary Davis: Enduring Love Amid Life’s Challenges
Randy Travis, a tour-de-force in the country music landscape, and Mary Davis, his formidable partner, share a love story that has weathered the brunt of life’s harshest storms. Their union, a testament to deep-rooted affection and unwavering commitment, took place on the 21st of March, 2015, after a friendship that spanned three decades.
A Previous Chapter
Prior to his relationship with Davis, Travis was married to Elizabeth ‘Lib’ Travis for 19 years. Their professional and personal lives were intertwined as she managed his booming career. The year 2010 marked the end of their marital journey. Similarly, Davis was previously wedded to Dr. Ritchie Beougher, a noted cosmetic dentist.
Facing Life’s Curveballs
The bond between Travis and Davis was put to a grueling test in July 2013 when Travis suffered a debilitating stroke. The event drastically impacted his speech and mobility, leaving him largely dependent on his partner’s support. Davis, however, rose to the challenge, not only acting as his voice but also assisting him in the minutiae of daily existence.
A Beacon of Hope
Despite the dark prognosis painted by the medical fraternity, Davis held onto a sliver of hope. Her optimism fueled Travis’s rehabilitation, which, against all odds, has shown periods of improvement. It was this spirit of resilience that saw Travis inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2016. On that momentous occasion, Davis stood in for Travis, articulating his gratitude and joy.
Today, the couple continues their journey together, often seen at various events and award shows. Davis, a constant presence at Travis’s side, is a beacon of support and love. Far away from the glitz and glamour, they cherish a tranquil existence on their ranch in Tioga, Texas.
Mary Davis, a native of Plano, Texas, graduated from Baylor University, majoring in Business Marketing. She has borne witness to the growth of her hometown and values the quality of life it offers. Her unwavering commitment to Travis is a testament to their profound love and partnership.
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One of the reasons why there’s always excess production in the textile sector is the stringent requirement of meeting set quality standards. It’s a simple case of accepting or rejecting a shipment, depending on whether it meets the requirements. As far as healthcare is concerned, surprisingly, only two out of five health executives believe they receive healthy data through health information exchange. Why, then, should healthcare organizations not take every measure to maintain data quality, especially when it comes to advancing medical research?
But how are the two scenarios connected? Consider this: The emphasis is on quality standards. In the textile sector, strict quality standards lead to excess production to ensure compliance. However, in healthcare, the concern is that a significant portion of health executives lacks confidence in the quality of data they work with, underscoring the need for healthcare organizations to place a high priority on data quality, especially for the advancement of medical research.
Why Data Quality Matters
One of the primary reasons for emphasizing data quality in clinical trials is to mitigate the risk of erroneous or misleading findings. Inaccurate data leads to flawed conclusions, potentially endangering patient safety and wasting valuable research resources. Therefore, clinical trial teams must employ stringent measures to ensure data integrity from the outset of a clinical trial.
Another thing to remember is that clinical trials often involve testing new treatments or interventions on human participants. Conducting trials based on poor-quality data can lead to a range of consequences, from mild to extreme. For example, errors in data collected for a trial can lead to incorrect dosing, which in turn may jeopardize not only the life of the participant, but also the credibility of the team and the foundation undertaking the research.
Then come the regulatory considerations that the healthcare organization must also factor in. Regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), require that clinical trial data meet specific quality standards. Complying with these standards is critical to avoid delays and even the rejection of proposed treatments or drugs.
The list goes on simply because there can be x number of reasons why data quality matters, especially when it comes to healthcare. Some more reasons to emphasize data quality in clinical trials are:
- Clinical trials often have far-reaching and long-term implications on healthcare practices. Making informed decisions based on these trials is only possible if the data is accurate and complete.
- Detecting and resolving data quality issues early in the process leads to cost savings. Generally, the later the problem is detected, the more expensive it is to address.
- Participants in clinical trials trust that their data will be used responsibly and ethically. Maintaining data quality respects this trust.
The Data Dilemma
Clinical trials have long been the cornerstone for developing new treatments, therapies, and drugs that can improve human health and save lives. These experiments form the foundation that healthcare organizations use to advance medical research. Yet, the integrity and reliability of the results derived from these trials hinge significantly on one pivotal factor: the quality of the data collected. This is exactly what makes it imperative that they yield accurate and reliable data.
Having said that, data quality management in clinical trials is a multifaceted endeavor as it encompasses a wide array of elements. So, the research team must consider as many components as possible to maintain the highest data integrity standards. Some of these include:
Recruiting Participants
Maintaining data quality in a clinical trial begins with the recruitment and consent of the participants. Organizations need to identify and enroll suitable participants according to their trial’s criteria. This means having a clear and consistent recruitment process to ensure the participant pool accurately represents the target patient group. Any biases in recruitment can skew the results, impacting data integrity.
When it comes to recruiting participants for medical research, obtaining informed consent from them is a fundamental ethical requirement. Participants must fully understand the purpose, risks, benefits, and procedures associated with the study before providing their consent. Informed consent documents should be clear and concise, as well as culturally sensitive. It becomes easier to protect the integrity of the data collected and, more importantly, the rights of the participants when they provide informed and voluntary consent.
Designing Data Collection Instruments
A well-designed data collection instrument is essential to generate high-quality evidence. Why? Because it is fundamental to making informed decisions about the safety and efficacy of new medical interventions. However, it is the very phase of designing optimal data collection instruments, especially in an industry that’s heavily regulated. It’s an intricate process and requires careful planning and consideration. And so, organizations must take several factors into account when doing so.
As is the case with any other process, designing a data collection instrument for clinical trials starts with establishing clear and precise research objectives. Understanding what information needs to be collected and why it is important is essential for shaping the instrument’s content and structure. It involves considering the broader context of the research. For example, the team should have answers to questions like: “Are there any external factors or trends that could impact the objectives of the research?” Involving experts, such as statisticians, clinicians, data professionals, and regulatory specialists not only streamlines the process, but also helps ensure compliance.
Among other factors, organizations also need to consider the type of data they need to gather and how they plan on doing so. Will it involve collecting laboratory and imaging data, or will clinical data suffice? Will it be through case report forms (CRFs), or will the team only rely on electronic health records (EHRs)? These factors, along with some best practices, for example, implementing continuous data monitoring and quality control processes and including patient perspectives in instrument design, go a long way in maintaining data quality.
Training Research Personnel
The success of a clinical trial hinges on the competence of the research team responsible for its execution. These professionals need to be well-equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to carry out their roles effectively, as they are at the forefront of data collection and management. This means getting familiar with the study protocols, such as the trial’s objectives, design, and specific procedures. A clear grasp of these protocols ensures that data is collected consistently and in accordance with the predetermined methodology.
Having said that, it’s not only the investigators who need proper training; patients also play an important role in maintaining data quality in trials. They should understand how to report their experiences and health-related information accurately. Providing clear and accessible information to participants about the trial’s expectations and how to document their responses empowers them to contribute to the trial effectively.
Recording and Storing Information
Recording data is not a separate step from data collection — it begins the moment information is collected from participants. It means that the trial team should be prepared with the necessary tools, such as structured questionnaires or data collection forms, to capture relevant data during interviews, observations, or experiments. While doing so, the team should prioritize data accuracy and timeliness because inaccurate data will lead to incorrect conclusions, and delayed data entry increases the risk of data corruption or misinterpretation.
Another critical element in enhancing data quality is the use of standardized data collection methods. Standardization ensures consistency and uniformity in how data is gathered from participants, reducing the potential for errors or variations in data recording. Additionally, implementing uniform processes for data capture and storage can minimize errors and inconsistencies in trial data. It improves the accuracy and quality of the research data and facilitates meaningful analysis and interpretation, eventually translating research findings into evidence-based medical practices.
Merely recording data is not enough; the research team must continuously transfer it to data storage systems to prevent data loss. Proper data storage practices ensure that the data remains unaltered and readily accessible throughout the trial’s duration and beyond.
But it does not stop here. Protecting participant privacy and maintaining data security are ethical and legal imperatives and, therefore, critical for the trial’s success. Participants expect that their data will remain safe from unauthorized access and data breaches. Accordingly, the trial team’s job is to use data storage solutions with robust security measures to prevent such incidences and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
A Collaborative Effort
Enhancing data quality in clinical trials is not the responsibility of a single entity. It’s a collective effort that involves multiple stakeholders.
Researchers are at the forefront of clinical trials. They are the ones who are responsible for designing and executing trials with robust methodologies. To ensure that the collected data is reliable, researchers develop clear and well-structured study protocols, recruit appropriate participants, and collect data in a systematic and consistent manner. Throughout the trial, they must act transparently and disclose their methods, potential conflicts of interest, and sources of funding to maintain the trust of both participants and the scientific community.
Healthcare providers serve as intermediaries between patients and clinical trials and guide patients toward making informed decisions regarding trial participation. Participants are more likely to provide accurate and relevant information during the trial when they have a clear understanding of its purpose and potential risks and benefits. So, healthcare providers must monitor participants’ health throughout the trial to identify and address any issues that could impact data quality.
The individuals who participate in clinical trials are central to this collaborative effort. Their trust and willingness to contribute to medical progress are the foundation for clinical research. Participants are often the source of critical information about their health and experiences, and their willingness to provide complete and truthful data is fundamental to the success of the trial. Suffice to say, it might not be possible to collect accurate and meaningful data without their cooperation, honesty, and commitment to following trial protocols.
Looking Forward
At the end of the day, using high-quality data quality in clinical trials benefits patients and advances medical research on multiple fronts. Healthy data fosters confidence in the results, accelerating the translation of research findings into clinical practice. Patients can have greater assurance that treatments are safe and effective, and healthcare providers can make more informed decisions about patient care.
Also, improved data quality enables researchers to identify subtle treatment effects they might otherwise miss. This is particularly crucial in the context of rare diseases or conditions with limited treatment options.
As we look to the future, one thing is certain: Enhancing data quality in clinical trials is key to accelerating medical advancements. The more accurate and reliable the data, the faster researchers can identify effective treatments, refine therapies, and find cures for some of the most devastating diseases.
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Gaya: Buddhist spiritual leader the 14th
Dalai Lama on Saturday said everyone in this world, whether believer of any religion or even non-believers, have a common wish of “world peace”.
While delivering sermons to a huge gathering of
Buddhist devotees at Kalachakra ground in Bodh Gaya, the Dalai Lama said, “It is the narrow-minded attitude of a few people that causes sufferings to nearly 70 billion people living on this earth.
In fact, no one wants suffering. But we have seen that people were indulged in first world war followed by World War-II and now are preparing for the third world war for victory for oneself. Therefore, they are building all kinds of weapons and armoury.”
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LAS VEGAS — Shecky Greene, a legendary stand-up comedian who was a headliner on the Las Vegas nightclub scene and worked with Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, died Sunday. He was 97.
Greene died at his home in Las Vegas, his daughter, Alison Greene, told The New York Times. His wife, Marie Musso Greene, also confirmed the comedian’s death to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The comic was a frequent guest on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.” But his real strength was in his high-energy, frenetic comedy routine that played well in Vegas, according to the newspaper.
Shecky Greene, Legendary Las Vegas Standup Comedian Who Worked With Sinatra and Elvis, Dies at 97 https://t.co/hA7FP8WwEg
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Greene worked as an opening act for Sinatra and for Presley in Las Vegas, Variety reported. He was a guest on “The Tonight Show” more than 60 times and sat in for Carson several times as a guest host, according to the entertainment news website.
He was also a guest host on “The Mike Douglas Show” and “The Merv Griffin Show” and appeared on “The Dean Martin Show” and “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour,” Variety reported.
Greene also was a favorite on the game show circuit, appearing on “Tattletales,” “Hollywood Squares” and “Match Game,” according to Variety.
In Las Vegas, Greene used his ad-libbing talents, made faces, sang and did impressions, doing just about anything for a laugh, the Times reported.
“I wasn’t an A-B-C-D comic. ‘Hello, ladies and gentlemen’ and then the next line,” Greene told comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff in 2011, according to the newspaper.
Fred Sheldon Greenfield was born on April 8, 1926, in Chicago and legally changed his name to Shecky Greene in 2004, long after his career had ended, the Times reported.
The comic, who lived in Las Vegas since the 1950s, made his last ticketed performances at the South Point Showroom in 2011, the Review-Journal reported. But he would still do shortened versions of his act in places like the Italian American Club and the Omelet House, according to the newspaper.
A versatile performer, Greene also appeared on television series like “Combat!” according to Variety. He also had guest roles on “Love, American Style,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” “Laverne & Shirley,” “The Fall Guy,” “The A-Team,” “Trapper John, MD,” “Roseanne” and “Mad About You.”
On the big screen, Greene appeared in “Splash,” Mel Brooks’ “History of the World: Part I” and “Tony Rome.”
Greene was just as unpredictable off stage, with bouts of drinking and gambling, the Times reported.
“I should have been fired maybe 150 times in Las Vegas,” Greene told the Las Vegas Sun in 1996. “I was only fired 130 times.”
Greene also drove his car into the fountain in front of Caesars Palace in 1968, according to the Times.
Presley appeared with Greene at the New Frontier hotel-casino in early 1956, the Journal-Review reported.
“Before then, it was all country and western. We had horses in the middle of the street,” Greene said in a 2021 Review-Journal story. “But when (Elvis) came in, it had started to be a dressy crowd and everything.”
Elvis and Greene eventually switched spots in the lineup, with Presley becoming the opening act.
Reflecting on his career to The Washington Times in 2017, he wondered “Why did I do this and that?”
“At 90 I still don’t know. Once in a while I’ll have a nice sleep,” he said. “Most nights I wake up yelling, ‘Why did I do that?’
“Life is strange, but if you’ve had a mixture of a life like I had, it’s all right.”
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Record $1 Trillion Credit Card Debt Amidst Rising Costs: A Test for American Consumers
At the zenith of American consumerism, credit card debt has ascended to a staggering $1 trillion for the first time, painting a concerning portrait of economic stress. This surge is a direct consequence of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, which have escalated the average credit card interest rates to an unprecedented 22%. It’s a steeper climb for retail credit cards, their rates now averaging nearly 29%.
The Weight of Rising Costs
These soaring borrowing costs arrive during a time of palpable economic strain. Consumers are grappling with inflated prices for essentials like rent, groceries, and gas. Housing affordability has plummeted, with home prices reaching an all-time high in 2023. The average rate for a 30-year mortgage reached its highest point since 2000. Amid these pressures, the real wages have declined, leading the consumers to lean heavily on debt to sustain their standard of living.
Consumer Behavior in the Face of Debt
Despite the financial tension, consumer spending remained robust over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. A record-breaking number of more than 200 million consumers flocked to shop, according to the National Retail Federation. Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey advises avoiding debt whenever feasible, but the reality of the situation indicates a different consumer behavior. A survey concluded that 52% of Americans incurred holiday credit card debt in 2023, and 31% still have not cleared their balances.
The Looming Threat to Retail
However, the continued spending spree raises questions about its sustainability. Major retailers like Macy’s and Nordstrom have reported a slowdown in credit card repayments over the summer, signaling a possible threat to their revenue. The long shadow of rising living costs and the looming resumption of student debt payments—set to resume in October after interest started accruing in September—adds to the challenges. The credit card delinquencies have risen above pre-pandemic levels, and the student loan debt itself rose to $1.6 trillion in the third quarter of 2023.
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Setting the Stage: Data as a Business Asset
This column presents a new model for licensing and sharing data, one that I call the “Decision Rights Data Licensing Model” (or the “Decision Rights Model,” in a shorter form) and one that has been met with acceptance in commercial transactions. The Decision Rights Model addresses current business and legal needs in licensing data in today’s environment. It’s a landscape where data has catapulted into a new business asset class, where as an asset class, it has distinctive features that distinguish it from traditional asset classes, and where conventional business and legal methodologies used with older classes do not readily address the business and legal risks and opportunities presented when commercializing data and protecting a company’s right to control the use of its data are necessary.
The Four Applications (or Use Cases) for the Decision Rights Data Licensing Model
The Decision Rights Data Licensing Model has four applications.
- First, it applies when a company licenses its data to third parties for commercial use.
- Second, it applies when a company enters a joint development agreement.
- Third, it applies to the internal sharing of data between a company’s business units.
- Fourth, it applies when data is shared between or among separate legal entities in a family of related companies. At the onset, I would like to thank Gwen Thomas for her insights and contributions in developing this model, especially in connection with the third application.
A Predicate Problem: Defining the Scope of Data Use Rights in Terms of a Business Field of Use
The legal objective for licensing data is to define the scope of use. A common way to do this is for one party to grant rights in a particular industry field of use. However, defining the scope of use as a field of use creates practical and legal problems. For example, when both parties are in the same field of use (such as “agriculture” or “healthcare”), using the field of use as the scope of use is often not workable because it does not provide precise boundaries. The party that is licensing the data (the “licensor”) would be giving away significant rights to the party receiving the grant of data rights (the “licensee”) in the same industry because by granting rights in the field of use, the licensor could be limiting its own rights in its own field of use. In extreme cases, the licensor could preclude itself from using its own rights in its own field of use. Similarly, it could limit its rights to use its own data in a manner that would equate to compromising its existing or future business.
Dividing a business field of use into subfields often does not work. For example, a licensee will want broad rights to use the data in a subfield that aligns with its scope of business, but that scope of business overlaps with the licensor’s business. If the scope of licensed rights were broad, here again, the license could limit the licensor’s own use of its own data in its own business because its own use would carry significant restrictions. In addition, if the licensee’s scope of business would define the subfield of use to contain many companies in similar business, then granting rights to the licensee could, as a practical matter, materially prevent the right to license the data to other companies in the same field, even when the licensing company would use the data for different purposes.
How Does the Decision Rights Data Licensing Model Work?
In place of defining the scope of license rights in terms of a field of use, the Decisions Rights Model defines data rights in terms of the decisions that can be made using the data. The set of decisions is defined with a precision that is not possible when using field of use or subfields of use. “Decisions” are a means to establish the scope of rights. Because data derives its meaning from context, decisions are a way to provide the context and the limitations to that context.
The First Application: External Licenses
The following example is a simplified hypothetical of how the Decision Rights Data Licensing Model could work. Assume a healthcare institution wants to prevent or improve the treatment of childhood malnutrition. It would be beneficial to obtain data from a hospital with a large pediatrics practice to obtain data from a large number of children with a large number of medical conditions. Using the Decision Rights Model, the hospital would license pediatric data to the malnutrition institution with the scope of license rights defined as the right to make decisions limited to determining malnutrition factors. Machine learning could identify previously unknown correlations. The decision rights include the right to test these correlations for identifying medical treatment.
Under the Decision Rights Model, the hospital would retain the right to license the same pediatric data for other purposes, including the right to license it to a pharmaceutical company, with the pharmaceutical company having rights to make decisions necessary to assemble a cohort for a clinical trial. Thus, the hospital can license the same data multiple times for different purposes with purposes defined as rights to make a set of defined decisions.
The Second Application: Shared Use of Data
The model can also be used when two companies enter a joint development agreement where each company has data useful to the other, and the joint development project includes sharing data. Company A can license its data to Company B for the limited purposes of improving a particular device of Company B. Company B would license data from the device, or about the operation of the device, to Company A so that Company A could improve its technology that generates the data that is useful to Company B. Put another way, Company B’s rights are the rights to make decisions to improve its device. In this way, the companies share data and are prohibited from disclosing it outside of the joint development engagement.
The Third Application: Internal Use of Data
The model applies to internal use of data as well as licenses to third parties. In the internal use scenario, the model converts from an external agreement into a set of internal corporate policies, setting boundaries around the business unit’s use scope. Using the Decision Rights Model in this way is the means to ensure that the receiving business units do not use the data in a manner that violates the regulatory regime to which the company is subject. It is also a means to enforce company data use policies. In addition, it is a way to control which employees have access to the data and for what purposes.
The Fourth Application: Sharing Data Between Separate Legal Entities in the Same Corporate Family
The fourth application is when data is shared between two companies that are separate legal entities but part of the same corporate family. This results in a hybrid combination of the first and third applications. In the fourth application, there will be licensing agreement(s) between or among the companies as formal legal documents. The subject of the license will cover the limited uses to which the receiving companies may use the data.
Conclusion
In addition to using the Decision Rights Data Licensing Model to define the scope of use, the model is also a way to ensure that the licensee or receiving company complies with applicable regulatory requirements to protect the licensor against regulatory sanctions. A risk in retaining personally identifiable information beyond its useful life in the organization is as follows: in the event of a database breach, that information will be disclosed and used to calculate fines and damages in litigation and costs of providing identity theft protection. All of this can be avoided if the decision rights license requires purging that data at the end of its commercial life. It cannot be hacked if it is not there.
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NAWADA: Ever heard of any 'All India Pregnant Job Agency'! If not, meet the eight cyber thugs arrested by Nawada police for running a racket by luring gullible people to deposit Rs 799 only as registration fee and avail a chance to get Rs 13 lakh on successfully making pregnant such women who have been unable to bear a child for some reason or the other.
The police busted the gang, which was running its agency from a bore-well shed located in a Nawada village, DSP Kaushal Kalyan, incharge of Nawada Town cyber police station, told the media on Saturday.
All the eight members of the gang were arrested Friday evening. Their modus operandi, according to the DSP, was to contact persons on their WhatsApp numbers seeking their help in impregnating unfortunate women who were unable to conceive by their respective husbands or live-in partners.
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A 39-year-old Hawaii man died after suffering a shark bite at Maui’s Paia Bay on Saturday, authorities said.
According to a news release from Maui County officials, police responded to the area at approximately 11:19 a.m. local time.
The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was transported by jet ski to the shore, where first responders performed life-saving measures, the release stated.
The man was taken to Maui Memorial Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead, KITV reported. It was unclear whether the victim was surfing alone or was with other people when he was attacked.
Authorities closed Baldwin Beach Park and Lower Paia Park after the attack and warning signs were posted, according to the television station.
Authorities said that warning signs would be taken down if no other incidents were reported on Sunday, KHON-TV reported.
According to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources database, Saturday’s attack was the only fatal shark attack during 2023, CBS News reported. There have been at least seven more incidents involving sharks in Hawaii over the past 12 months, the agency said.
“The preliminary investigation reveals no signs of foul play,” Maui County officials said in their news release. They added that an autopsy was scheduled.
It was unclear what species of shark attacked the surfer.
An investigation is ongoing.
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| 2024-01-01T01:58:23Z
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PATNA: A thick blanket of fog engulfed Patna and other parts of the state for the second consecutive day on Saturday, leaving people shivering in coldest daytime temperature of the season and disrupting flight operations.
The maximum temperature across the state significantly declined by 7.2 degrees Celsius in the last 24 hours owing to chilly winds.
The air traffic disruption at the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport continued for the second consecutive day as dense fog engulfed the city and the neighboring areas. Two flights were cancelled and at least 12 others delayed, causing inconvenience to the flyers who remained stranded at the airport for hours without any information regarding the status of flights.
IndiGo’s Delhi-Patna-Delhi flight 6E-2769/2134 and Bengaluru flight (6E-255) were cancelled on Saturday due to poor visibility. Of the 23 flights operating from the Patna airport, 12 suffered delays as the visibility at the airport and its vicinity hovered between 600-metre and 1,000-metre throughout the day. Departures of several flights were also affected.
According to the information provided by the airport officials, a Delhi-bound flight of SpiceJet arrived eight hours late at. The flight, SG-8721, was scheduled to arrive at the airport at 10.20am, but landed at 6.14pm.
Garima Singh, a flyer, who was travelling to Delhi said all the flights operated with minor delays but only the SpiceJet flight came in the evening. “I had an urgent meeting which I could not attend as the airline did not give any prior information about the delay,” she said.
Others also vented their ire on the airline officials. One Narendra Kumar said due to cancellation of flight for Delhi at the eleventh hour, he had to reschedule his journey by paying an additional Rs 4,700. “The airline claimed that the rescheduling was for free. However, they took additional money. I was forced to pay the amount as I had a connecting flight to Nagpur from Delhi,” he said.
Meanwhile, as the meteorologists said the foggy condition would persist in Patna and other parts of the state, several airlines operating from Patna airport asked the passengers to check the status of their flights on the official websites. SpiceJet on Saturday wrote on X: “Due to expected poor visibility in Patna (PAT) and Darbhanga (DBR), all departures/arrivals and their consequential flights may get affected (sic).” Of the five flights, three were cancelled at Darbhanga airport on Saturday and two others arrived late.
The maximum average temperature of Bihar was recorded at 23 degrees Celsius and the minimum at 13.6 degrees Celsius. Weathermen have ruled out any respite from the biting cold conditions in the state over the next three days. The foggy condition and cloud cover is likely to persist till January 1, with minor fluctuations in its intensity.
As per the morning bulletin issued by the Patna Meteorological Centre, Sheikhpura was the coldest place in the state on Saturday with a minimum temperature of 9.8 degrees Celsius, while maximum temperature of 29.2 degree Celsius was recorded at Forbesganj.
“Patna, Gaya, Valmiki Nagar and Gaya witnessed dense fog on Saturday while moderate fog was seen in other parts of Bihar,” the weathermen said.
“A layer of fog is seen all the way to the Indo-Gangetic Plains, starting from Punjab and Delhi to Bihar. The condition did not allow the sunlight to penetrate, which resulted in decline in day temperature. The maximum temperature will further decline by 2-4 degrees Celsius at some places in north and south Bihar while dense fog will persist in west and central districts,” said Rakesh Kumar, a meteorologist.
He added, “In Patna, the maximum temperature was 16 degrees Celsius and minimum stood at 14 degrees Celsius.”
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Scholar Rock CFO Sells Shares, Retains Significant Stake
Edward H. Myles, the CFO of biopharmaceutical company Scholar Rock Holding Co. (NASDAQ:SRRK), has sold 12,459 shares of company stock at an average price of $18.83 per share. This deal, totaling $234,602.97, was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Despite this sale, Myles retains ownership of 168,784 shares, currently valued approximately $3.18 million.
Company’s Stock Performance
The stock of Scholar Rock Holding Co. has been showing a promising performance with a 50-day moving average of $14.04 and a 200-day moving average of $9.49. The company’s shares have seen a 52-week trading range between $5.56 and $21.17. With a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30, the company’s current and quick ratios stand solid at 8.55.
Financial Outlook
In their most recent quarterly report released on November 7th, Scholar Rock met consensus estimates with earnings per share of ($0.53), which is consistent with the performance of the prior year. Analysts predict that Scholar Rock will post earnings of -$1.96 per share for the current fiscal year.
Analyst Ratings and Institutional Investment
The company has received varied ratings from research firms. Wedbush rated it as ‘outperform’, Jefferies upgraded it to ‘buy’, and HC Wainwright reaffirmed a ‘buy’ rating. Prominent institutional investors, including Fisher Asset Management, TD Asset Management, American International Group, Vontobel Holding, and Barclays PLC, have been actively adjusting their stakes in the company.
Scholar Rock, a key player in the biopharmaceutical industry, is currently developing two promising drugs. Apitegromab is being developed for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, and SRK-181 is aimed at treating cancers resistant to checkpoint inhibitor therapies.
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Data professionals often talk about the importance of managing data and information as organizational assets, but what does this mean? What is the actual business value of data and information? How can this value be measured? How do we manage data and information as assets? These are some of the questions that I intend to address in this series of articles.
In the first part of this series, we talked about the different ways data and information can be used to create business value. The next question we need to address is: What kind of an asset is data, and how should it be managed?
Data as a Circulating Asset
Data and information are a special type of asset called a circulating asset, as opposed to fixed assets such as buildings or vehicles. Circulating assets morph easily from one form into another (e.g., cash can be used to buy raw materials), and can be used and disposed of without having to obtain permission from, say, a creditor. There are many types of circulating assets such as floating assets (which includes cash and anything else that can easily be converted into cash), producer goods (which includes raw materials and fuel used one time in creating goods for market), and finally, data and information.
But data and information are very special types of circulating assets, with some very special properties that we need to take note of:[i]
- Data is immutable – It is not consumed as it is used and is therefore always available for additional reuse, up to the end of its useful life.
- Data is copyable – It can exist in multiple places at the same time and can be used simultaneously by multiple people.
- Data is indivisible – It must be used within a context that gives it meaning and business value. For example, what does the string of numbers “12345” mean? The answer is, it depends, and what it depends on is the context in which these numbers appear. If they appear on the odometer of a car, then they are a mileage figure. If they appear on an accounting ledger or balance sheet, then they’re probably an amount value. If they appear in the address section of an envelope, then they’re probably a zip or postal code (and, in fact, “12345” is one of the zip codes for Schenectady, New York).
- Data is accumulative – It can be combined with other data and transformed into additional data assets at will.
Another critical difference between data and other assets is that there is a “fitness for purpose” aspect to data that doesn’t exist for other assets. When you spend cash or liquidate stocks, you don’t have to ask whether they are fit for the intended purpose. With data assets, effort must be expended to ensure that their quality, timeliness and relevance qualify them for the purpose for which they are being used. The question, “Is this data good enough?”, must always be asked and answered.
These special characteristics of data give us some insight as to how data and information should be managed so as to generate value for organizations. For one thing, it means that the value of data assets is directly tied to their sharing and reuse. Data needs to be in motion, not static. It needs to be used to create “virtual value streams” of information that link organizations to their customers and other stakeholders in creative and engaging ways. Years ago, I said that most organizations do not get any significant ROI (return on investment) from their data because much of their data sits in application-specific databases or Excel spreadsheets and are only used to support one application or business function. Data and information that is not shared and reused across business units does not contribute significant value to an organization!
It also means that data and information must be managed to ensure their “fitness” for whatever purpose they are being used for. Organizations must be able to trust the quality, accuracy, timeliness, and business relevance of their data. All assets must be managed; the difference with data is that users must know enough about the data they are using (e.g., the source, quality, meaning, and timeliness of the data) to decide how to use it, and what to use it for. As mentioned above, data only has value when used within a context that gives it meaning and value.
This brings us to our third point: Because data only has meaning within a particular context, consumers of data and information need metadata to help them decide how to use it. This is an important difference between data and other assets. You don’t need much metadata when deciding whether to spend a $20 bill, but you do need metadata when trying to decide whether a given set of accounting data is fit for, say, a year-end report to shareholders, regulators, and auditors, or is only suited to be used for monthly trial balances.
It is these three aspects of data management (managing data for quality and fitness, assigning metadata/context to data, and managing data for reuse/repurpose) that transform data from mere resources to actual data assets.
One final point about asset management: Generally speaking, what is being managed is not the asset itself, but rather the behavior of stakeholders regarding that asset. We don’t manage money so much as we manage the behavior of people with regard to spending, and the reporting of their spending. An inventory manager controls when new inventory is ordered, and in what quantities. What data managers manage are the processes by which data assets are acquired, evaluated, enhanced, provisioned, used and (eventually) disposed of, in ways that ensure the maximum amount of value at least cost for the company. Asset management is never the management of things — it is always the management of people and processes.
In the next part of this series, we will explore in more detail the ways in which data must be managed to ensure its value to an organization or business.
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[i] This material is taken from Chapter 2 of my book “Growing Business Intelligence” (Technics Publications, 2016), pp. 18-20.
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PUNE: A caller used an online voice modulator to pose as the brother of an IT professional with a software company in Magarpatta City and mislead her into transferring Rs6.7 lakh to treat her ailing mother between September 15 and 16.
The woman, from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, had moved to the city for work. She reported the fraud to the Pune cyber police and post-verification, the case was referred to the Hadapsar police on Friday to register an FIR.
She told TOI, "I had responded to a call on my instant messaging service app as it showed my brother's name as the caller.
Even the voice on the other end matched his voice. The caller said my mother had been admitted to a hospital in Bilaspur and needed money for her treatment." The victim, in a state of panic, transferred Rs1 lakh to the bank account mentioned by the caller.
Senior inspector Ravindra Shelke of the Hadapsar police said, "The woman was at her workplace when she received the call. She told the caller that she would transfer Rs1 lakh to his bank account, but he tricked her by saying that he had exhausted the limit to withdraw money from his account and texted her another bank account number."
According to the police, as soon as the woman transferred Rs1 lakh to the account, she received a red alert (warning) on her cellphone.
"Later, the woman called back on the same number to enquire about her mother's health. The man said her mother was unwell and she would get a call from the hospital," Shelke said.
The IT professional then received a call from another number. "A man posing as a hospital staffer then called her and told her to transfer Rs5.7lakh for her mother's surgery," he said.
The IT professional borrowed money from her friends and acquaintances, and transferred Rs5.7 lakh to the account number given by the caller posing as a hospital staffer, the police said.
"I came to know of the fraud after one of my friends called my brother to enquire about my mother's health. My brother said he never made such a call," the woman said. "The woman then blocked the phone numbers," Shelke said.
"We have frozen two bank accounts of the caller(s) and have sent emails to the banks and the instant messaging service to share details of the financial transactions and communications made," the officer added.
Cybersecurity experts said mimicking voices using generative artificial intelligence (AI) was on the rise, posing a significant threat to people.
"Organisations are working to find a way to counter threats such as theft of digital properties due to this technology," Vinayak Godse, the managing director and chief executive officer of the Data Security Council of India (DSCI), had said in an earlier interaction.
A recent report of the DSCI revealed that cybercriminals were using advanced deep learning techniques to imitate trusted individuals to deceive targets into revealing sensitive information or taking undesired actions.
The report also stated that AI-powered malware was posing significant threats as it could capture keystrokes used to track passwords. With the development of AI, phishing tactics are also expected to become more personalised and effective.
The instances of voice scams are twice more in India compared to other countries as there are higher instances of people sharing their voice online, a 2023 study conducted by antivirus service provider McAfee revealed.
To counter the growing cyber threat, advanced versions of antivirus software - also called next-generation antivirus (NGAV) solutions - are equipped with behaviour-based detection components to identify these malware based on the user's traits. A behaviour-based solution observes system activities to differentiate between normal and abnormal behaviour to identify potential threats.
(With inputs from Shashank Didmishe)
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Secure 2.0 Act: A Game-Changer for Retirement Savings in America
The Secure 2.0 Act, a game-changing legislation passed by the US Congress in 2022, is set to redefine the retirement savings landscape for Americans. This Act, which came into effect this year, brings with it a slew of changes designed to bolster the financial security of citizens as they approach retirement. The changes introduced by the Secure 2.0 Act are a testament to the evolving needs of an aging population and the economic challenges facing those planning for retirement.
Changing the Age Requirement for Mandatory Distributions
One of the key amendments introduced by the Secure 2.0 Act is the alteration of the age requirement for mandatory distributions from retirement accounts. This reform offers an opportunity for Americans to maintain their savings for a longer duration, thereby providing a greater financial cushion as they approach the golden years of their lives.
Incentivizing Employee Contributions to Retirement Plans
Not stopping at merely adjusting age thresholds, the Secure 2.0 Act also permits companies to incentivize their employees for contributing to workplace retirement plans. By rewarding employees for being proactive in their planning for retirement, the Act seeks to encourage a culture of greater savings and financial security among the workforce.
Revamping 529 College Funds
In an innovative twist, the Act allows 529 college funds to be rolled over to a Roth IRA tax-free after 15 years. This provides a new level of flexibility and retirement security, making 529 plans more appealing to American families. Now, families can roll over unused 529 savings into Roth IRAs, penalty and tax-free, after 15 years, thereby addressing previous barriers that deterred some families from utilizing these plans.
Secure 2.0 Act: A Step Towards Enhanced Retirement Security
The Secure 2.0 Act is more than just a set of legislative changes. It reflects a nationwide recognition of the need for a more robust system of retirement savings. By offering more flexibility and encouraging greater retirement savings among workers, the Act promises to pave the way for enhanced financial security for Americans in the years to come.
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I was recently asked to present “Enterprise Ontology Design and Implementation Best Practices” to a group of motivated ontologists and wanna-be ontologists. I was flattered to be asked, but I really had to pause for a bit. First, I’m kind of jaded by the term “best practices.” Usually, it’s just a summary of what everyone already does. It’s often sort of a “corporate common sense.” Occasionally, there is some real insight in the observations, and even rarer, there are best practices without being mainstream practices. I wanted to shoot for that latter category.
As I reflected on a handful of best practices to present, it occurred to me that intelligent people may differ. We know this because on many of our projects, there are intelligent people and they often do differ. That got me to thinking: “Why do they differ?” What I came to was that there are really several different “schools of ontology design” within our profession. They are much like “schools of architectural design” or “schools of magic.” Each of those has their own tacit agreement as to what constitutes “best practice.”
Armed with that insight, I set out to identify the major schools of ontological design, and outline some of their main characteristics and consensus around “best practices.” The schools are (these are my made-up names, to the best of my knowledge none of them have planted a flag and named themselves — other than the last one):
- Philosophy School
- Vocabulary and Taxonomy School
- Relational School
- Object-Oriented School
- Standards School
- Linked Data School
- NLP/LLM School
- Data-Centric School
There are a few well known ontologies that are a hybrid of more than one of these schools. For instance, most of the OBO Life Sciences ontologies are a hybrid of the Philosophy and Taxonomy School, I think this will make more sense after we describe each school individually.
Philosophy School
The philosophy school aims to ensure that all modeled concepts adhere to strict rules of logic and conform to a small number of well vetted primitive concepts.
Exemplars
The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), DOLCE and Cyc are the best-known exemplars of this school. Each has a set of philosophical primitives that all derived classes are meant to descend from.
How to Recognize
It’s pretty easy to spot an ontology that was developed by someone from the philosophy school. The top-level classes will be abstract philosophical terms such as “occurrent” and “continuant.”
Best Practices
All new classes should be based on the philosophical primitives. You can pretty much measure the adherence to the school by counting the number of classes that are not direct descendants of the 30-40 base classes.
Vocabulary and Taxonomy School
The vocabulary and taxonomy school tends to start with a glossary of terms from the domain and establish what they mean (vocabulary school) and how these terms are hierarchically related to each other (taxonomy school). The two schools are more alike than different.
The taxonomy school especially tends to be based on standards that were created before the Web Ontology Language (OWL). These taxonomies often model a domain as hierarchical structures without defining what a link in the hierarchy actually means. As a result, they often mix sub-component and sub-class hierarchies.
Exemplars
Many life sciences ontologies, such as SNOMED are primarily taxonomy ontologies, and only secondarily philosophy school ontologies. Also, the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology is primarily a vocabulary ontology, it was mostly derived from WordNet and one of its biggest strengths is its cross reference to 250,000 words and their many word senses.
How to Recognize
Vast numbers of classes. There are often tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of classes in these ontologies.
Best Practices
For the vocabulary and taxonomy schools, completeness is the holy grail. A good ontology is one that contains as many of the terms from the domain as possible. The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) was designed for taxonomies. Thus, even though it is implemented in OWL, it is designed to add semantics to taxonomies that often are less rigorous, using generic predicates such as broaderThan and narrowerThan rather than more precise subclass or object properties such as “part of.” SKOS is a good tool for integrating taxonomies with ontologies.
Relational School
Most data modelers grew up with relational design, and when they design ontologies, they rely on ways of thinking that served them well in relational.
Exemplars
These are mostly internally created ontologies.
How to Recognize
Relational ontologists tend to be very rigorous about putting specific domains and ranges on all their properties. Properties are almost never reused. All properties will have inverses. Restrictions will be subclass axioms, and you will often see restrictions with “min 0” cardinality, which doesn’t mean anything to an inference engine, but to a relational ontologist it means “optional cardinality.” You will also see “max 1” and “exactly 1” restrictions which almost never imply what the modeler thought, and as a result, it is rare for relational modelers to run a reasoner (they don’t like the implications).
Best Practices
For relational ontologist best practices are to make ontologies that are as similar to existing relational structures as possible. Often, the model is a direct map from an existing relational system.
Modelers in the relational school (as well as the object-oriented school coming up next) tend to bring the “Closed World Assumption” (CWA) with them from their previous experience. CWA takes a mostly implicit attitude that the information in the system is a complete representation of the world. The “Open World Assumption” (OWA) takes the opposite starting point: that the data in the system is a subset of all knowable information on the subject.
CWA was and is more appropriate in narrow scope, bounded applications. When we query your employee master file looking for “Dave McComb” and don’t get a hit, we reasonably assume that he is not an employee of your enterprise. When TSA queries their system and doesn’t get a hit, they don’t assume that he is not a terrorist. They still use the X-ray and metal detectors. This is because they believe that their information is incomplete. They are open worlders. More and more of our systems combine internal and external data in ways that are more likely to be incomplete.
There are techniques for closing the open world, but the relational school tends not to use them because they assume their world is already closed.
Object-Oriented School
Like the relational school, the object-oriented school comes from designers who grew up with object-oriented modeling.
Exemplars
Again, a lot of object-oriented (OO) ontologies are internal client projects, but a few public ones of note include eCl@ss and Schema.org. eCl@ss is a standard for describing electrical products. It has been converted into an ontology. The ontology version has 60,000 classes, which combine taxonomic and OO style modeling. Schema.org is an ontology for tagging web sites that Google promotes to normalize SEO. It started life fairly elegant. It now has 1300 classes, many of which are taxonomic distinctions, rather than real classes.
How to Recognize
One giveaway for the object-oriented school is designing in SHACL. SHACL is a semantic constraint language, which is quite useful as a guard for updates to a triple store. Because SHACL is less concerned with meaning and more concerned with structure, many object-oriented ontologists prefer it to OWL for defining their classes.
Even those who design in OWL have some characteristic tells. OO ontologists tend to use subclassing far more than relational ontologists. They tend to declare which class is a subclass of another, rather than allowing the inference engine to infer subsumption. There is also a tendency to believe that the superclass will constrain subclass membership.
Best Practices
OO ontologies tend to co-exist with Graph QL and focus on json output. This is because the consuming applications are object oriented, and this style ontology and architecture have less impedance mismatch with the consuming applications. The level of detail tends to mirror the kind of detail you find in an application system. Best practices for an OO ontology would never consider the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of classes in a taxonomy ontology, nor would they go for the minimalist view of the philosophy or data-centric schools. They tend to make all distinctions at the class level.
Standards School
This is a Janus school, with two faces, one facing up and one facing down. The one facing down is concerned with building ontologies that others can (indeed should) reuse. The one facing up is the enterprise ontologies that import the standard ontologies in order to conform.
Exemplars
Many of the most popular ontology standards are produced and promoted by the W3C. These include DCAT (Data Catalog Vocabulary), the Ontology for Media Resources, Prov-O (an ontology of provenance), Time Ontology, and Dublin Core (an ontology for metadata, particular around library science).
How to Recognize
For the down facing standards ontology, it’s pretty easy. They are endorsed by some standards body. Most common are W3C, OMG and Oasis. ISO has been a bit late to this party, but we expect to see some soon. (Everyone uses the ISO country and currency codes, and yet there is no ISO ontology of countries or currencies.) There are also many domain-specific standard ontologies that are remakes of their previous message model standards, such as FHIR from HL7 in healthcare and ACORD in insurance.
The upward facing standards ontologies can be spotted by their importing a number of standard ontologies each meant to address an aspect of the problem at hand.
Best Practices
Best practice for downward facing standards ontologies is to be modular, fairly small, complete and standalone. Unfortunately, this best practice tends to result in modular ontologies that redefine (often inconsistently) shared concepts.
Best practice for upward facing standards ontologies is to rely as much as possible on ontologies defined elsewhere. This usually starts off by importing many ontologies and ends up with a number of bridges to the standards when it’s discovered that they are incompatible.
Linked Open Data School
The linked open data school promotes the idea of sharing identifiers across enterprises. Linked data is very focused on instance (individual or ABox) data, and only secondarily on classes.
Exemplars
The poster child for LOD is DBPedia, the LOD knowledge graph derived from the Wikipedia information boxes. It also includes the direct derivatives such as WikiData and the entire Linked Open Data Cloud.
I would put the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) in this school as their primary focus is sharing between enterprises and there are more focused on the ABox (the instances).
How to Recognize
Linked open data ontologies are recognizable by their instances, often millions and in many cases billions of instances. The ontologies (TBox) is often very naïve, as they are often derived directly from informal classifications made by text editors in Wikipedia and its kin.
You will see many adhoc classes raised to the status of a formal class in LOD ontologies. I just notice the classes dbo:YearInSpaceFlight and yago:PsychologicalFeature100231001.
Best Practices
The first best practice (recognized more in the breach) is to rely on other organizations IRIs. This is often clumsy because historically, each organization invented identifiers for things in the world (their employees and vendors for instance) and they tend to build their IRIs around these well-known (at least locally) identifiers.
A second best practice is entity resolution and “owl:sameAs.” Entity resolution can determine if two IRIs represent the same real-world object. Once recognized, one of the organizations can choose to adopt the others IRI (previous paragraph best practice) or continue to use their own, but recognize the identity through owl:sameAs (which is mostly motivated by the following best practice).
LOD creates the opportunity for IRI resolution at the instance level. Put the DBPedia IRI for a famous person in your browser address bar and you will be redirected to DBPedia resolution page for that individual, showing all that DBPedia knows about them. For security reasons, most enterprises don’t yet do this. Because of this, another best practice is to only create triples with subjects whose domain name you control. Anything you state about a IRI in someone else’s name space will not be available for resolution by the organization that minted the subject URI.
NLP/LLM School
There is a school of ontology design that says turn ontology design over to the machines. It’s too hard anyway.
Exemplars
Most of these are also internal projects. About every two to three years, we see another startup with the premise that ontologies can be built by machines. For most of history, these were cleverly tailored NLP systems. The original works in this area took large teams of computational linguists to master.
This year (2023), they are all LLMs. You can ask ChatGPT to build an ontology for [fill in the blank] industry, and it will come up with something surprisingly credible looking.
How to Recognize
For LLMs, the first giveaway are hallucinations. These are hard to spot and require deep domain and ontology experience to pick out. The second clue is humans with six fingers (just kidding). There aren’t many publicly available LLM generated ontologies (or if there are they are so good we haven’t detected that they were machine generated).
Best Practices
Get a controlled set of documents that represent the domain you wish to model. This is better than relying on what ChatGPT learned by reading the internet.
And have a human in the loop. This is an approach that shows significant promise and several researchers have already created prototypes that utilize this approach. Consider that the NLP / LLM created artifacts are primarily speed reading or intelligent assistants for the ontologist.
In the broader adoption of LLMs, there is a lot of energy going into ways to use knowledge graphs as “guard rails” against some of LLMs excesses, and the value of keeping a human in the loop. Our immediate concern there are advocates of letting generative AI design ontologies, and as such it becomes a school of its own.
Data-Centric School
The data-centric school of ontology design, as promoted by Semantic Arts, focuses on ontologies that can be populated and implemented. In building architecture, they often say “It’s not architecture until it’s built.” The data-centric school says, “It’s not an ontology until it has been populated (with instance level, real world data, not just taxonomic tags).” The feedback loop of loading and querying the data is what validates the model.
Exemplars
Gist, an open-source owl ontology, is the exemplar data-centric ontology. SchemaApp, Morgan Stanley’s compliance graph, Broadridge’s Data Fabric, Procter & Gamble’s Material Safety graph, Schneider-Electric’s product catalog graph, Standard & Poor’s commodity graph, Sallie Mae’s Service Oriented Architecture and dozens of small firms’ enterprise ontologies are based on gist.
How to Recognize
Importing gist is a dead giveaway. Other telltale signs include a modest number of classes (less than 500 for almost all enterprises) and eschewing inverse and transitive properties (the overhead for these features in a large knowledge graph far outweigh their expressive power). Another giveaway is delegating taxonomic distinctions to be instances of subclasses of gist:Category rather than being classes in their own right.
Best Practices
One best practice is to have non primitive classes have “equivalent class” restrictions that define class membership and are used to infer the class hierarchy. Another best practice is to have domains and ranges at very high levels of abstraction (and often missing completely) in order to promote property reuse and reduce future refactoring.
Another best practice is to load a knowledge graph with data from the domain of discourse to prove that the model is appropriate and at the requisite level of detail.
Summary
One of the difficulties in getting wider spread adoption of ontologies and knowledge graphs is that if you recruit and/or assemble a group of ontologists, there is a very good chance you will have members from multiple of the above-described schools. There is a good chance they will have conflicting goals, and even a different definition of what “good” is. Often, they will not even realize that their difference of opinion is due to their being members of a different tribe.
There isn’t one of these schools that is better than any of the others for all purposes. They each grew up solving different problems and emphasizing different aspects of the problem.
When you look at existing ontologies, especially those that were created by communities, you’ll often find that many are an accidental hybrid of the above schools. This is caused by different members coming to the project from different schools and applying their own best practices to the design project.
Rather than try to pick which school is “best,” you should consider what the objectives of your ontology project are and use that to determine which school is better matched. Select ontologists and other team members who are willing to work to the style of that school. Only then is it appropriate to consider “best practices.”
Acknowledgement
I want to acknowledge Michael Debellis for several pages of input on an early draft of this paper. The bits that didn’t make it into this paper may surface in a subsequent paper.
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PUNE: FC Road and MG Road will be shut to vehicular traffic from 7pm on December 31 to 5am the next day to facilitate New Year celebrations. The traffic police said similar restrictions will also be in place on JM Road, which might change depending on the need.
The Pune police have urged the revellers visiting these roads to use public transport to avoid any inconvenience.
“Partygoers also need to ensure that at least the designated driver in the group abstains from alcohol consumption as the traffic police will be conducting a special campaign to catch people driving under the influence of alcohol. Breathalysers will have use-and-throw pipes as a precaution against the spread of Covid 19,” a traffic police officer said.
Fergusson College Road will be closed to traffic from Goodluck Chowk to Fergusson College’s main gate, while MG Road will be a no-vehicle zone from 15th August Chowk to Hotel Aurora Tower. “Essential services, such as ambulances and fire brigade vehicles, among others, will be allowed to ply on these roads,” the officer said.
Pratty Kaur from Delhi, who is visiting her friends in Wakad, said she was looking forward to participating in the informal congregation of people on FC Road during the New Year’s Eve. “We plan to have dinner outside and then be part of the celebrations on FC Road around midnight to mark the new year. I think it is a wise decision to keep the road vehicle-free during the New Year’s Eve as it will allow people, especially children, to move on the stretch without worrying about vehicular traffic,” Kaur said.
Chaitanya Bhide, who stays near Vanaz, said he planned to take the Metro to either Deccan Gymkhana or Chhatrapati Sambhaji Udyan and then walk to FC Road for the new year’s eve. “It is fun to see so many people on the road celebrating the New Year. People release balloons in the air and wish people around a Happy New Year. The vibe is great. Besides, the weather is nice and cold too,” he said.
Bhide recalled visiting MG Road during the Christmas celebrations. “I just wish people don’t litter the road after the celebrations. Maybe PMC [Pune Municipal Corporation] can keep additional temporary waste bins for revellers to use,” Bhide said.
A statement issued by the traffic police read that traffic diversions will also be in place on JM Road too. “Traffic moving through JM Road towards Khandojibaba Chowk, Goodluck Chowk and other lanes towards FC Road will be stopped at Jhansi Rani Chowk and diverted towards PMC, Omkareshwar temple and Shivaji Road,” the traffic police statement stated.
It stated that vehicles headed to FC Road from Kothrud or Karve Road will be stopped at Khandojibaba Chowk. “They will be diverted via Law College Road, Prabhat Road and Alka Talkies Chowk,” the statement added.
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Kiwi icons The Feelers return to Waitara's Town and Country Club
Classic Kiwi rock band The Feelers return to a small Taranaki town this week after a hugely successful gig first time around.
The band first played the Waitara Town and Country Club in 2022 and will now visit again on their Reimagined - Greatest Hits NZ Tour.
“They were great last time and they’ll be great again,” club president Harley Langl said.
Drummer Hamish Gee has family ties to the area and Langl approached him to play for the first time when Gee was in town for a tangi.
Langl said ticket sales had initially been slow but had picked up over the last couple of weeks.
Tickets are $65 online or $60 directly from the club.
“Door sales will be available, too.”
A bus is available from Crowded House at 6.30pm returning around 11.30pm for $5 each way.
The gig kicks off at 7.30pm.
The band, known for hits such as Venus, Fishing for Lisa, and Larger Than Life, is playing 17 dates nationwide with guests Capital Theatre.
Langl had been working hard to get more gigs at the club, with Devilskin and Hello Sailor both playing last year.
The Mockers are set to play there in March and some others are in the pipeline.
“Watch this space.”
He said it had been a tough year for hospitality, but they pulled through and things were starting to pick up.
“The doors are open and people are still walking through them.”
The Feelers play Waitara Town and Country Club on Tuesday, January 2nd. Tickets are available through Eventfinda.
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Sirius: An In-depth Look at the Brightest Star in Our Night Sky
Sirius, colloquially known as the Dog Star, is a celestial marvel that has captured the attention of astronomers and stargazers worldwide. Its position in the Canis Major constellation and its status as the brightest star visible in the night sky are just the beginning of the fascinating facts that surround this astral entity. The star is approximately 8.6 light-years away from Earth, a distance that may seem vast, yet Sirius continues to shine with a luminosity 25 times that of our sun.
Unveiling the Stellar Giant
With a surface temperature of about 21,000 degrees Fahrenheit, Sirius is a hotbed of stellar activity. Its magnitude is impressive, boasting a mass equivalent to two suns and a diameter 1.7 times that of our sun, which measures about 1.5 million miles. Despite its grandeur, Sirius is significantly younger than our sun, clocking in at 240 million years old, a mere 5% of our sun’s age. Another intriguing aspect of Sirius is its rotation period, which completes once every 5.5 days, much shorter compared to our sun’s 24 to 30 days.
Decoding Sirius Through Starlight
Astronomers have gleaned extensive knowledge about Sirius, including its composition and motion, through careful analysis of its starlight. Technological advancements have contributed to the precision of measurements such as the distance from Earth to Sirius. The mass of Sirius has been calculated using Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation by observing the orbit of its companion star, Sirius B, affectionately nicknamed ‘the Pup’.
Chemical Composition and Motion of Sirius
The chemical composition of Sirius has been determined by analyzing the spectrum of its starlight, which contains lines caused by different chemical elements absorbing specific amounts of light energy. One can determine the star’s direction of travel, and its variations, using the Doppler effect. Furthermore, the theory of General Relativity has shed light on the extreme density of Sirius B, indicating that it is a white dwarf, a state our sun is expected to evolve into in about 5 billion years.
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Dark data remains one of the greatest untapped resources in business. This is due to the vast amounts of usable data that exists within an organization, but is not utilized or analyzed to serve a specific purpose. These untapped sources could include customer information, transaction records, and more.
Since dark data represents missed opportunities for companies to gain valuable insights that could help them make better decisions, it has become a growing concern. However, with the rise of big data and advanced analytics tools, organizations are beginning to recognize the potential of dark data and how it can be used to uncover hidden insights that were previously ignored.
In this article, we will explore the concept of dark data, identify some familiar sources, and discuss how unlocking its potential can be the key to your organization’s growth.
What Is Dark Data?
Dark data is simply data that is collected and stored by an organization, but is not actively used or analyzed by the appropriate personnel. Unfortunately, this data is often invisible to decision-makers, hiding in the background and going unnoticed. Due to the vast amount of knowledge collected and stored, it makes extracting these relevant insights is difficult.
Common Sources of Dark Data
To truly understand dark data, we must recognize the various sources it comes from. Let’s look at what could be considered dark data:
- Customer purchase history – Every time a customer makes a purchase, valuable data is generated, including what they bought, when they bought it, and how much they spent. This data can provide insights into consumer behavior and preferences.
- Website click data – Your website has a wealth of information. Every click, every page view, and every interaction can offer insights into user engagement, content popularity, and potential areas for improvement.
- Employee records – HR departments maintain plenty of data on employees, from their performance evaluations to training records. This data can be harnessed to optimize workforce management and employee development.
These are just a few examples of dark data sources, but any data collected by an organization can become dark data if it remains unused and unanalyzed.
Unlocking the Hidden Value of Dark Data
There are several reasons why dark data remains untapped within organizations. One big challenge is how commonly it appears in unstructured or semi-structured formats, which makes analyzing and extracting insights difficult. Here are a few ways organizations can overcome this challenge and unlock the value of their dark data:
Network Management Systems
When it comes to finding the unused potential of dark data, having strong network management systems in place is vital. These systems serve as the backbone, ensuring that data is accessible, secure, and readily available for analysis without the fear of cyberattacks.
Clear Data Governance Policies
It is important to provide precise data governance procedures to your organization to witness the full potential of dark data. Implementing these strategies will offer a balance that will allow your business to understand how to handle specific situations while being efficient and consistent.
Utilize Modern Technologies
To stay ahead of your competition, embracing cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is a must. These powerful tools can help companies detect patterns, trends, and abnormalities in unstructured data that could be difficult to identify manually.
Robert Smallwood, a leading expert from InfoGovWorld, emphasizes this point: “When you get rid of all that ‘data debris’ and shine a light on ‘dark data,’ knowledge workers can more easily find what they need to do their jobs and to satisfy regulators.” His statement highlights the value of unlocking dark data and how it can benefit internal decision-making and compliance efforts.
Implementing a Data-Centric Architecture
To truly discover the power of dark data, organizations should consider implementing a data-centric architecture. This approach ensures that data is central to all operations and decision-making processes. Here’s how it can help:
- Data accessibility – A data-centric architecture ensures that all relevant data is easily reachable to those who need it. This accessibility enables data professionals to explore and analyze dark data without barriers.
- Data protection – It is critical to prioritize data security. A robust data-centric architecture implements measures to safeguard sensitive data, ensuring confidentiality and security even while the system is being analyzed.
- Scalability – As organizations expand, so does their data. A data-centric architecture scales seamlessly with these growing needs, accommodating vast information without disrupting business operations.
Dark data has plenty of potential to help a company succeed, but it still needs to be explored in many ways. By understanding what dark data is, where it can be found, and how to use it properly, businesses can gain a competitive edge.
Benefits of Data-Centric Architecture
As organizations are more willing to embrace data-centric architectures and cutting-edge technologies, the path to innovation is paved. And the advantages this approach presents to companies is clear:
- Reduce long-term employee burnout by automating manual processes.
- Improve customer satisfaction with personalized experiences based on insights from dark data.
- Increase operational efficiency by utilizing all available sources to optimize decision-making processes.
- Meet regulatory compliance requirements by having proper governance policies in place.
Organizations must implement a data-centric architecture that allows them to harness its full potential. Doing so will unlock valuable insights and drive continual business growth.
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PUNE: Tourists headed to nearby hotspots like Lonavla, Mulshi, Shirdi, Nashik and Mumbai complained of losing one-and-a-half to two hours to traffic on Saturday in view of the revellers’ rush this New Year long weekend.
“On an average, a four-hour journey took six hours. For example, my Nashik-bound client left Pune at 5.30am on Saturday and reached the destination only six hours later, instead of the usual 3.5 hours,” Rizwan Shaikh, owner of Yash Travels, said.
A traveller returning to Pune from Mulshi on Saturday recounted being stuck in a slow-moving traffic for 30 minutes, taking three hours to reach Pune instead of the usual 2.5 hours.
“Both sides had a long line of slow-moving vehicles. In fact, motorists heading to Mulshi on Saturday seemed to be caught in a bigger jam than those who were returning to Pune,” the traveller returning to Pune said.
Santosh Gupta, owner of travel firm Shree Vinayak Holidays, told TOI, “In the ongoing long weekend, several of my clients are going by car to spots like Lonavla, Alibaug, Mulshi and Mahabaleshwar. The trend of visiting nearby tourist spots has picked up this New Year long weekend, one reason why there’s traffic rush on some popular routes.”
Yogesh Nankar, owner of RiccoRide Cab Service, said, “There was slow-moving traffic on several roads leading to tourist spots on Sunday, including Nashik, Ahmednagar, Kolhapur and Mumbai, among others. I was stuck in traffic on Nagar Road on Saturday as many had taken the road to get out of city for the long weekend.”
Pravin Ambekar, director, Shivneri Car Rentals Pvt Ltd, said NH 48 (Mumbai to Kolhapur route) had considerable traffic on Saturday. “There was heavy rush on Pune to Mahabaleshwar and Pune to Lonavla routes too, leading to a delay of about 1-1.5 hours in reaching the destination.”
Cab driver Palan Jadhav who went to Trimbakeshwar on Saturday was stuck in Chakan area for 45 minutes as early as 8.30am.
Lata Phad, superintendent of police, HSP (Pune), however, said, “There was no traffic jam on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. Vehicles were moving towards Pune from Mumbai without any hindrance. Vehicular movement on roads like Paud and Satara, leading to the Konkan and other southern cities, did not witness any traffic issues too.”
Assistant inspector Yogesh Bhosale of HSP, who manages traffic in the Khandala ghat section of the road, said, “The vehicles were moving freely on the expressway and on the old highway.” A Lonavla (City) police officer said, “All the hotels, bungalows and farmhouses in Lonavla, Khandala and Tungarli villages are full. The tourists from Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune arrived at the hill station on December 24 and a majority of them will stay in the hill station till January 2.”
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PUNE: Women heading out to party this New Year’s Eve can throw all their apprehensions literally to the festive air. For, bars and nightclubs in the city are going all out to ensure safety by employing additional women bouncers for the year-end events.
Akshay Pillai, representative of The House of Medici, a nightclub in Koregaon Park, said, “We hired four women bouncers for the party this year.
We expect the parties to go on till 3am. We are gearing up to serve around 800 people this time. The bouncers have been briefed to evict mischief mongers immediately to ensure the safety of party revellers, especially women.”
Several nightclubs will also check for prior intoxication, while some have decided to allow only couples or families to avert any untoward incident. Few nightclubs are also deploying female staffers on the floor to ensure complete safety of women.
Manu Mohan, manager at The Urban Foundry in Baner, said, “We specifically arranged for women bouncers due to the increased footfall this year. The party will go on up till 4 am. In case of emergency, we will alert the closest police station immediately. We have women as managers, chefs and hostesses on New Year’s Eve. We will ensure their safety as well by introducing the bouncers near counters and desks of our staff members.”
Many bars have also kept nearby hotels, cab drivers and other amenities arranged for the night in case of any emergency.
Organisations providing bouncers for New Year events are flooded with requests for women bouncers, sometimes booking even 15 days prior to the event. Deepa Deepak Parab, head of Ranragini lady bouncer security group, said, “We have deployed around 80 bouncers from my section and around 150 more from the groups under us. There is increased awareness among party-goers and establishments hosting the year-end parties. On New Year’s Eve, we will be at all areas like Koregaon Park and Baner up until 5am. At times, even our bouncers are at risk, which is why we provide them with sprays and safe transportation all through the night.”
The Pune police will also ensure stringent police patrolling through the night, especially in areas witnessing higher footfall of people on New Year’s Eve. “Police officers will be present to help women. The members of the Damini squad will also be deployed at all police stations and areas in the city,” Pune police commissioner Retesh Kumaarr said.
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Soybeans: Powerhouse of U.S. Agriculture Faces New Challenges and Opportunities
Soybeans, a crucial cornerstone of American agriculture, have become an economic behemoth with an annual contribution of $124 billion to the U.S. economy in 2022. Their versatility has seen them penetrate various sectors, including food, fuel, and animal feed, underpinning their growing significance.
A Soaring Soybean Saga
The soybean narrative in the U.S. is a story of remarkable growth and resilience. From an average yield of 31 bushels per acre in 1980, soybean production has risen to 51 bushels today. The National Oilseed Processors Association and the United Soybean Board reveal that this growth has, in turn, led to an increase in the sector’s total economic contribution, averaging $124 billion annually from 2019 to 2022.
Around half of U.S. soybean exports, worth a record $16.4 billion, are destined for China, highlighting the country’s pivotal role in the U.S. soybean market. The reinvigoration of exports following the Phase One Agreement signifies the sector’s resilience and the crucial need for diverse, robust markets.
Brazil: The New Soybean Superpower
Nevertheless, the international soybean market has not been without its challenges for the U.S. Brazil has emerged as a formidable competitor, leading the world in soybean production and exports. China’s pivot to Brazil amidst the U.S.-China trade dispute in 2018 further intensified competition, necessitating strategic responses from the U.S.
Exploring Alternative Avenues
As a result, the U.S. has begun exploring alternative uses for soybeans to maintain its competitiveness. The rise of biofuels, renewable diesel, and bioplastics from soybean oil represents a significant stride towards energy independence and reduced carbon footprints. With growing concerns over climate change and sustainable practices, soybeans are at the forefront of agricultural innovation.
The future of U.S. soybean farming is set to be marked by technological advancements and innovative methods. These will equip a new generation of farmers to navigate the intricacies of a highly competitive global market and continue the compelling journey of the soybean in American agriculture.
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LANDOVER — After thinking he lost his job as the Washington Commanders’ starting quarterback, Sam Howell was back on the field Sunday doing what he has been doing a lot lately: throwing interceptions.
With Jacoby Brissett sidelined by a hamstring injury that popped up late in the week, Howell threw two more picks in a 27-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. The second-year pro has thrown the most interceptions in the NFL this season with 19, and those mistakes continue to overshadow any of the progress he has made.
Howell said he didn’t know until about two hours before the game that he would be playing. He finished 17-for-28 for 169 yards.
“I didn’t get much work in practice, but I’ve gotten work all season long,” Howell said. “I feel prepared even when I didn’t get the reps this week.”
Howell made some strong throws, but the interceptions were clearly on him. He was sacked for a league-leading 61st time, and it didn’t help when Washington (4-12) fell behind and was in obvious passing situations for much of the second half.
“Early on, when things were balanced, it was one of those things that the situation gave him the opportunity and he performed,” coach Ron Rivera said. “I thought he made some good decisions, threw some really good balls. Obviously, there were a couple throws I promise you he would wish he had back, but he did a lot of good things.”
Rivera announced Wednesday the Commanders would be turning to Brissett after pulling Howell from each of the previous two games. Brissett’s hamstring was still tight, according to Rivera, leading to Howell getting the nod, with Jake Fromm elevated from the practice squad to back up.
With one game left against Dallas next weekend — one that could decide the NFC East between the Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles — Rivera was not yet ready to say who would start for Washington, which could pick as high as second in the draft.
It’s likely to be Rivera’s final game with the organization after four seasons, with new ownership poised to make major changes. But the veteran coach isn’t ready to give up on Howell having a future in the league.
“I still think he has that opportunity to be that guy,” Rivera said. “I believe he’s a guy that can be very, very good in this league. There’s some things he still has to grow on, obviously, and we can be better and help him, as well.”
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Why Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark won't have a coronation like King Charles
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II has announced that she plans to abdicate after 52 years and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik.
The move means that the beloved Australian-born Crown Princess Mary will become Australia's first ever monarch as she takes on the position of Queen Consort alongside her husband.
Margarethe announced that she will abdicate on January 14, meaning that in just over two weeks, Princess Mary will become Queen of Denmark.
But unlike King Charles and Camilla, the future King Frederik and Queen Mary will not have a coronation.
Things are done a little differently in Denmark, even though it, like Britain, is a constitutional monarchy – meaning that while the Sovereign is Head of State, the ability to make and pass legislation resides with an elected Parliament.
The House of Windsor and the House of Glücksburg are close, with Queen Margrethe a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Margrethe's great-great-grandfather was Christian IX. His daughter, Alexandra, married Edward VII, King Charles III's great-great-grandfather.
When Margrethe, who will be 83 in April, acceded the throne upon the death of her father King Frederik IX, there was little fanfare.
Instead of a coronation, there was a proclamation.
When her father died on January 14, 1972, she immediately became Queen of Denmark and the head of the House of Glücksborg – the family that has occupied the Danish throne for nearly 160 years.
The dynasty itself has been in power for more than 1000 years, making it Europe's oldest royal family.
On January 15, the day after her father's death, Margrethe was proclaimed Queen of Denmark.
She stepped out onto the balcony of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen in front of thousands of people gathered below.
Margrethe was accompanied by then Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag who turned three directions individually and proclaimed three times: "King Frederik IX is dead. Long live Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II."
The crowd responded with a nine-hurrah salute.
The Queen, then 31, then gave a speech where she asked God to help her with her new duties and expressed her sadness at the loss of her father.
"My beloved father, our King, is dead, and a great sorrow has befallen us all. But the greatest grief is for my mother".
Queen Margrethe had also chosen her royal motto which she read out on the balcony: "God's help, the love of The People, Denmark's strength".
She was then joined on the balcony by her husband Prince Henrik – who was never crowned alongside his wife (his gripe at never being made 'equal' to his wife meant he refused to be buried with the other royals in Roskilde Cathedral, instead choosing the gardens of Fredensborg Palace).
Queen Margarethe's proclamation was a sombre occasion with her dressed head to toe in black mourning.
That same day, she presided over her first State Council meeting as monarch.
The Queen and Prince Henrik then returned to Amalienborg Palace, their official residence in the capital, where they made a second balcony appearance and were joined by their two sons, Crown Prince Frederik, then three, and Prince Joachim, two.
Overall the day was a solemn one.
The Danish royal family scrapped its elaborate coronations in the 1800s in favour of a simple proclamation.
In essence, the act is simply one monarch accepting their new duties while also mourning the loss of the previous sovereign.
While Prince Frederik and Princess Mary's ascension to the throne will not be such a sombre occasion, it is still expected to be a similar process in terms of fanfare.
For the occasion, Prince Frederik and Princess Mary will be joined by Denmark's Prime Minister at Christiansborg, a building that has an 800-year-long history as Denmark's centre of power.
It is used by the monarch for official events such as gala banquets and public audiences.
The new King and Queen are then likely to face their subjects from the balcony of Amalienborg, just like Margrethe did, with their four children: Crown Prince Christian, Princess Isabella and twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine.
Some form of celebration will likely follow – such as a gala banquet or ball – as the Danes love the pomp and ceremony that comes with their royal family.
Mary's down-to-earth nature has endeared her to the Danes ever since she married the country's Crown Prince in 2004.
In 2022, to mark her 50th birthday, Crown Princess Mary's long-time dressmaker Jesper Høvring told 9Honey: "I think they love that she really is an ordinary girl, she's not born royal. She just transcends this kindness, she has a beautiful, smiley, kind nature".
Crown Princess Mary remains hugely popular in her adopted homeland as does the monarchy as a whole.
A 2020 Gallup poll found 84% of the country supports the monarchy and more recently, snap polls published in local media show love for the Queen and the royal family is strong even in the face of its recent title scandal.
In September 2022, Queen Margrethe stripped four of her eight grandchildren of their prince and princess titles, a decision she said was done as "a necessary safeguard for the future of the monarchy".
The four children of Prince Joachim are now styled as His Excellency Count of Monpezat or Her Excellency Countess of Monpezat, losing their His/Her Royal Highness privileges.
Crown Princess Mary was the first senior royal to publicly support the move, showing her allegiance with the Crown.
"Change can be difficult and can really hurt," she said.
"But this does not mean that the decision is not the right one," adding that she and Crown Prince Frederik would "look at our own children's titles when the time comes".
Although Queen Margrethe later issued an apology for causing her family any distress, admitting she "underestimated" how much they would "feel affected", she remained committed to her decision.
The drama ruffled a few feathers in Denmark's small aristocratic circles but largely, support for the royals remained firm.
"What the Queen is doing is very popular," Ulla Terkelsen, chief international correspondent of TV2 Denmark, said as reported in The Times.
"She is keeping the aura and the magic of the royal family – the big parties and the horses and all that – but she is also saying that she understands the spirit of the time and the need to get rid of unnecessary titles."
This story first appeared on Nine Honey and is republished with permission.
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RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai flagged off trucks loaded with 300 metric tons of rice for Ayodhya’s consecration ceremony of Lord Ram on January 22.
The Chhattisgarh Rice Millers Association organised a program at Ram Mandir on VIP Road in Raipur, where the chief minister flagged off 11 trucks filled with 300 metric tons of rice.
Accompanied by cabinet ministers, the chief minister performed puja and prayed for the well-being and prosperity of the residents, seeking blessings from Lord Rama, Mother Janaki, and Lakshman.
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Stephanie Land’s New Memoir ‘Class’ Unveils the Struggles of Single Mothers
Stephanie Land, renowned for her best-selling memoir ‘Maid’, has unveiled another heartrending tale, ‘Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education’, published on November 7. The memoir chronicles Land’s tumultuous journey from a state of homelessness and food insecurity as a single mother to becoming an accomplished writer.
Emerging from the Shadows of Poverty
Land’s narrative takes root when she had to abandon her unpredictable partner, taking her 7-month-old daughter Emilia with her. This marked the start of a period of homelessness, characterized by a constant struggle to secure food and childcare. Amid these challenges, she persisted in her pursuit of a college degree and a writing career.
Despite the considerable adversities, Land managed to complete her education, accumulating nearly $50,000 in student loan debt. Her story mirrors a larger societal issue, as a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that more than one-third of single mothers faced food insecurity in 2022.
Rising from Obscurity to Stardom
Land’s previous job, cleaning houses for a meager $9 per hour, transitioned into a Netflix series following the success of her memoir ‘Maid’. In a recent interview, she unfolded the emotional impact of her experiences, critically examining the inadequacies of government assistance and the child support system.
Unveiling the Realities of Single Mothers
The interview shed light on the hardships endured by single mothers in similar situations, outlining the perpetual struggle to afford essentials such as rent, food, and childcare. Notably, Land also shared her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence, underscoring the hurdles faced when seeking justice.
‘Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education’ serves as a testament to Land’s resilience and a stark demonstration of the intricate adversities faced by single mothers in today’s society.
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Tyreek Hill may indeed be the best receiver in the NFL.
But, after Sunday’s game, you’d have to go down a long, long list before you got to one of the Miami speedster’s highlights.
There was the Odell Beckham Jr. classic, a sideline grab 32 yards downfield that Next Gen Stats registered as the unlikeliest (13.3%) catch of Lamar Jackson’s career. There was the Isaiah Likely one-handed grab on fourth-and-7 for 35 yards and a touchdown. Zay Flowers broke two tackles on his 75-yard-score.
Pat Ricard got in on the action for his first touchdown catch of the year, using one massive paw to bat the ball down into his chest. Justice Hill had a reception taken away by an iffy interference call; later on the same drive, the Ravens called the same play for their first points of the game.
“I just said, ‘Hey, let’s dial it up again,’” Hill said. “The second time worked just as good as the first time.”
Tyreek Hill, on the other hand, had six receptions for 76 yards but no touchdowns. The one time Tua Tagovailoa found the Cheetah in the end zone, he caught it … then bobbled it out of bounds.
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Think about that. Who would have predicted, after a high-scoring game between Miami and Baltimore, the Ravens would have come out with the most spectacular skill position plays?
It seems to happen to teams when they play the Ravens. A 56-19 butt-kicking of the Dolphins highlighted a skill position group that isn’t highly lauded but has almost always delivered in the big games. It marked the second straight week that Baltimore’s opponent boasted a feared assortment of offensive weapons, yet the Ravens’ unheralded group outshined the competition.
Christian McCaffrey and De’Von Achane may have put up yards on the ground and even scored these past two games, but the Ravens are doing just fine with Gus Edwards (68 yards, 1 TD on Sunday) and Justice Hill (213 all-purpose yards, 1TD). Tyreek Hill, Deebo Samuel, George Kittle and Brandon Aiyuk have been elite playmakers this season – just not when matched up with the Ravens, being eclipsed by Flowers (106 yards, 1 TD) and Likely (42 yards, 2 TDs).
Offensive coordinator Todd Monken got so comfortable spreading the ball around to whoever and wherever he was down on the field before the game ended, dancing in celebration with the players who have made his job a little easier.
It is, in one sense, a reflection of Lamar Jackson’s brilliance. He was 18-for-21 and delivered throws on the money on Sunday. But, given the injuries Baltimore’s skill positions have taken — especially losing J.K. Dobbins early and Mark Andrews midseason — the gutsy performances by these supporting cast members are worth appreciating all the more.
Within the Ravens locker room, they’ve long been respected. Now the rest of the football world is getting a chance to see what they can do.
“I knew our skill position groups were second to none,” left tackle Ronnie Stanley said. “The depth that we have, the different types of players we have, that do different things, guys are just balling this year. Every single skill position has hands, they can catch and make plays. I have trust in all those guys to answer the bell in those critical moments.”
No one is confusing these guys with superstars (though wait a few years and Flowers might end up one). But the Ravens, as a group, simply deliver. It was evident early from Justice Hill as he converted third-and-16 on the opening drive, in a play eerily reminiscent of the famous “Hey Diddle Diddle” (Ray Rice, naturally, was in attendance). Hill hasn’t found much luck cracking big yardage on the ground, but through the air he was a reliable and elusive target, helping compensate for the loss of Keaton Mitchell two weeks ago.
Arguably no one has stepped up more than Likely, who has 19 receptions for 291 yards and four touchdowns in the five games since Andrews got hurt. The second-year tight end says he’s gaining confidence week by week, practice by practice and, with luck, the Ravens will have both Likely and Andrews back in the lineup in the playoffs — how frightening would that be for opponents?
The depth extends further than you might expect. On Sunday, even Charlie Kolar and Melvin Gordon III got in the end zone during the Ravens’ scoring bonanza. Tyler Huntley, by virtue of his single passing attempt that resulted in a touchdown, joined Jackson with a perfect quarterback rating.
Jackson may be the MVP, but he’s gotten a big lift from his teammates, he acknowledged. “I believe [general manager] Eric DeCosta does a great job going after guys who [are] going to have that Raven in them already.”
The other side of the Ravens’ skill players looking so good is that opponents simply haven’t. Without Raheem Mostert and Jaylen Waddle, Tagovailoa looked a little shaky, and especially in the middle of the game had trouble getting the ball to Tyreek Hill and Achane consistently. Two picks and three sacks didn’t help.
Hill was held in check (six catches on 12 targets) by a secondary missing its top two cornerbacks for most of the game. Rock Ya-Sin and Ronald Darby played outsize roles against the top passing offense in the NFL and held their own. Others, such as Patrick Queen and Arthur Maulet, played through obvious pain. As good as the Ravens’ top performers have been this year, Sunday’s win was a nod to their depth.
“Everybody busts their butt,” Maulet said. “That’s testament to those guys that’s not playing all the time, man. They bust their butt practicing against the [first-stringers] on offense, and they’re not taking it lightly.”
Nor should these Ravens be taken lightly. They’ve showed enough in recent weeks to think that no team is playing better than they are, that no team is more dominant against tough competition than they are.
It’s time to give them their due. But, even if they don’t get respect after this, they’re willing to earn it themselves and remove all doubt. As great as Jackson is, he’s not the only gamer in this group.
“We don’t want to be just one guy out there making all the plays,” Ricard said. “For Lamar, it gives him more options. He doesn’t have to be Superman out there. I’m just proud of all the guys that week after week just keep making plays. Just ignore the noise and stay locked in.”
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Delay over future of Foxton War Memorial Hall
A decision on whether the Foxton War Memorial Hall will be sold could be made in January.
The future of the earthquake-prone building has been uncertain since Horowhenua councillors voted in June to sell the hall.
The Foxton War Memorial Hall Society launched a last-ditch effort in November to stop the sale, after members found old documents from the then Foxton Borough Council, which implied there was a clause that prevented the hall’s sale.
The society said when the hall was built in the 1950s, community members raised £6000 and a Government subsidy matched that money, but there was an agreement the hall had to be retained as a community centre.
But the Horowhenua District Council believed it had followed the right processes to go ahead with the sale and councillors had been scheduled to consider expressions of interest in buying the hall at December’s council meeting.
But now a council spokesperson said the council was still awaiting finalisation of legal advice based on the information the society provided.
“Given the concerns that have been raised, it’s important this process is not rushed and appropriate time taken to ensure we are providing balanced, free and frank advice on a way forward.
“We anticipate a paper at the first council meeting of 2024.”
The main reasons behind the decision to sell the hall were the significant costs of getting a seismic assessment and remediation plan, and the society’s ability to meet those costs and secure an income to maintain the building.
Before the council voted to sell the hall, the society had lined up a tenant for the building which would have produced an income, but that fell over.
The society recently presented a business case to the council to be given authority to manage the building.
Members believed if the society was given the authority, it could be self-sustaining by bringing in new activities or tenants, and could also fundraise to cover the cost of earthquake strengthening.
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RAIPUR: The opposition Congress in
Chhattisgarh has constituted an eight-member fact-finding team to assess the tree-felling incidents in the Hasdeo forest areas for mining activities.
Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CPCC) president Deepak Baij has set up the committee with senior tribal leader and former minister Premsai Singh as the coordinator, former Deputy Chief Minister TS Singhdeo, former minister Amarjeet Bhagat, Dr.
Pritam Ram, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Gulab Kamro, Safi Ahmad, Rakesh Gupta, and Bhagwati Rajwade as members.
For Ghatabarra Coal Project in the Hasdeo Aranya area falling under the Udaypur development block of Surguja district, the district administration and the forest department have cut down trees on approximately 93 hectares of land, said the Congress state president. He said the committee members to visit the affected areas immediately, meet with local villagers and government officials, acquaint themselves with the situation, and submit a comprehensive report to the PCC after thorough investigation and discussion.
Baij noted that the Congress government in Chhattisgarh had passed a resolution on July 27, 2022, in the state assembly to cancel the coal block allocation in the forests of Hasdeo, Tamor Pingla, and Korba's elephant reserve area. However, he criticized the Coal Minister of the Modi government, who stated that the laws of the forest would not apply where the Coal Bearing Act is applicable, indicating the Modi government's intention to continue coal mining despite objections.
In response, the BJP accused the PCC Chief of playing politics regarding the forest cutting in the Hasdeo forest. The BJP claimed that the Congress government, previously involved in coal mining and tree cutting in Hasdeo forest, is now hypocritically raising concerns. BJP state spokesperson Devalal Thakur accused the PCC chief of misleading the tribal community and the people of Chhattisgarh by engaging in false politics regarding the forest-cutting issue.
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Eddie Bernice Johnson, former Democratic congresswoman from Texas, dies
Former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson died Sunday at age 88. As a Democrat from Texas, she represented parts of Dallas for 30 years before stepping down at the start of 2023.
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StockNews.com Initiates Coverage on Park City Group
In a recent development, StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Park City Group (NASDAQ: PCYG), issuing a hold rating on the technology company’s stock. The shares opened at $10.01 on Thursday. The company’s market capitalization stands at $181.93 million, with a price-to-earnings (PE) ratio of 37.07, and a beta of 1.10.
Performance Overview
Park City Group’s performance over the past year has seen a range between a low of $4.80 and a high of $10.50. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $10.01, while its 200-day moving average is $9.52. On September 28th, Park City Group reported quarterly earnings of $0.07 per share, mirroring consensus estimates, and revenue of $4.80 million.
Financial Health
The company’s financial health is robust with a net margin of 29.27% and a return on equity of 12.48%. Institutional investors and hedge funds have been actively adjusting their holdings in the company. There has been an increase in new stakes as well as existing positions.
About Park City Group
Park City Group is a North America-based software-as-a-service provider offering solutions like ReposiTrak MarketPlace, Compliance and Food Safety solutions, and Supply Chain solutions to manage supplier relationships. Its shares are owned 26.36% by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Comparative Analysis
Meanwhile, Park Hotels Resorts Inc (NYSE: PK) has earned a consensus rating of Hold from nine ratings firms covering the stock. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, and three have given a buy rating to the company. The company’s fifty-day moving average price is $14.40, and its two-hundred-day moving average price is $13.32. The company’s market cap stands at $3.21 billion, with a price to earnings ratio of 56.67, a PEG ratio of 0.87, and a beta of 1.97.
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If 2024 is anything like 2023, the Ravens are in for a thrilling January, and perhaps February.
Banner Ravens Podcast hosts Paul Mancano and Jonas Shaffer react to the Ravens’ dominant 56-19 win over the Dolphins, breaking down Lamar Jackson’s MVP-level performance and the defense’s impressive showing.
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With their playoff hopes on the line the New Orleans Saints defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-13 on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
The win improved the Saints to 8-8 and moved them into a tie for first with Tampa Bay (8-8) in the NFC South. The Saints will need to beat the Atlanta Falcons (7-9) next week and have Tampa lose to Carolina (2-14) in order to win the division. Getting a wild-card berth is more complicated.
The Saints offense started fast, scoring their first touchdown on an opening possession this season, and the defense squeezed the Bucs, holding them to 44 yards of offense in the first half and forcing four turnovers.
The Saints did have a tough day with injuries as running back Alvin Kamara left at the end of the first half with an ankle injury while right tackle Landon Young and linebacker Nephi Sewell left with knee injuries. Kamara surpassed the 10,000-yard mark from scrimmage before he left.
Quarterback Derek Carr had a strong game, completing 24 of 32 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns, the first a 4-yarder to tight end Juwan Johnson and the second a 22-yarder to Taysom Hill. Johnson had the best game of his career with eight catches for 90 yards. Kicker Blake Grupe had three field goals (45, 28 and 38 yards). Running back Jamaal Williams took most of the snaps after Kamara left, carrying 19 times for 58 yards and catching four passes for 13 yards.
New Orleans cornerback Alontae Taylor had his first career interception in the first half while safety Johnathan Abram had a key forced fumble and an interception in the second half. Linebacker Demario Davis recovered the fumble that Abram forced and returned it for 22 yards. Cornerback Isaac Yiadom recovered a fumble by Trey Palmer at the 13-yard line to end a Tampa scoring chance. Zack Baun and Bryan Bresee had sacks of Tampa quarterback Baker Mayfield.
The Saints are waiting to find out when their Week 18 game against the Falcons will be scheduled for the Caesars Superdome. It could be Saturday or Sunday.
Check out the game action shots from the New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season.
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Trucks carrying shipping containers line up as they are flagged for a secondary inspections at the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico.
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Supply chains disruptions have repeatedly come under the spotlight in recent years.An ongoing disruption in the Red Sea due to Houthi attacks on vessels is the latest risk to supply chains.Geopolitics, climate change, and shipping incidents all pose risks to supply chains.
Supply chains are the backbone of global trade, but they’ve been largely taken for granted — until recently. Over the past few years, supply chain woes have repeatedly come into the spotlight.
The vital link came under the spotlight when President Donald Trump launched a trade war against China in 2018, prompting investors to reassess their reliance on the factory of the world.
Since then, global integrated supply chain systems just seem to keep getting disrupted — be it by the COVID-19 pandemic or Russia’s war in Ukraine.
For decades, supply chains have been driven by a “just in time” model in which materials were moved right before they were needed. The model keeps business operations extremely efficient — but it also opens them up to risks should just one part of the system fail.
“While just-in-time supply chain strategies have been the ‘go-to’ for 40 years, you can only expect something held together by chewing gum and shoelaces to last so long,” Nari Viswanathan, a senior director of supply chain strategy at Coupa, a business spend management platform, told Business Insider.
Viswanathan said “the world has been on a roller coaster that won’t stop” over the last few years, which has in turn sent the world’s supply chains into tailspin after tailspin.
Given that risks impacting supply chains are intertwined, they pose multifaceted risks to operations, Julie Gerdeman, the CEO of Everstream Analytics, a platform for supply-chain risk management, told BI.
Here are three key reasons why supply chains just seem to keep screwing up in recent years.
1. Heightened geopolitical tensions
Geopolitics are one of the biggest drivers of risks in fields ranging from economy to technology. Supply chains are no exception.
The issue first came to the fore in 2018, when Trump imposed high tariffs on a range of Chinese imports. It has become more amplified because of the tech rivalry between the US and China.
Examining ongoing conflicts in the Black Sea and Red Sea respectively shows how geopolitical conflicts affect global supply chains.
Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea amid the war in Ukraine is preventing wheat and sunflower supplies from Ukraine from moving freely to other parts of the world.
As of December 21, the Red Sea — a vital trade route between Europe and Asia — is under siege by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
To avoid being caught in the Red Sea attacks, cargo-carrying ships are rerouting via the Cape of Good Hope around the southern tip of Africa — but that will prolong journeys.
Vessel volumes through the Suez Canal are down by over 40% in the week of December 17 from a week ago, supply chain platform project44 told BI. The transit times for ships that usually use the waterway are expected to increase by a minimum of seven to 14 days.
2. Climate change
In the summer of 2023, a historic drought affected rainfall that feeds into the Panama Canal, lowering the canal’s water levels and limiting the number and weight of ships that can float on it. The drought was caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon and its warming effects, which were more severe in 2023 due to climate change.
The fall in water levels at the Panama Canal caused a buildup in the number of ships waiting to cross the waterway, increasing transit time and prompting some vessels to reroute through the Cape of Good Hope.
Roughly 40% of US container traffic passes through the Panama Canal. By late November, the wait time for some ships waiting to pass through the waterway was around 20 days — up from five to seven days in October.
“The low water levels at the Panama Canal are a clear example of the effects of climate change in rainfall and weather patterns across the globe, which causes a ripple effect through the supply chain,” shipping giant Maersk told BI in September.
3. Shipping incidents
Ships transport 90% of the world’s trade, and the vessels themselves just keep getting bigger and bigger.
With the increase in size, the risk that something goes very wrong also increases.
“A number of recurring themes have emerged in major incidents in recent years, many of which are a consequence of the increased size of vessels,” Justus Heinrich, a shipping product leader at Allianz Commercial, a corporate insurer, wrote in a May 2022 report.
This is best exemplified by the case of the massive 1,312-foot Ever Given container ship, which ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal for six days in March 2021. The incident delayed about 16 million tons of cargo on hundreds of container ships at a time when COVID-19-related movement restrictions were already straining the global shipping system.
MARCH 29, 2021: High-resolution satellite imagery of the Suez canal and the container ship (EVER GIVEN) that remains stuck in the canal north of the city of Suez, Egypt.
Satellite image (c) 2020 Maxar Technologies.
To be sure, the number of serious shipping accidents worldwide has declined in the longer term, Allianz wrote in its report. However, incidents involving large vessels — in particular container ships and large vehicle carriers — are resulting in disproportionately large losses.
In fact, the cost of responding to incidents and clean-up is typically many times the ship’s value, per Allianz.
“Larger vessels mean larger losses,” Rahul Khanna, the global head of marine risk consulting at Allianz, wrote in the report.
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New Year's Eve festival turns muddy despite organisers spending $50K on weather protection gear
The promoter of a New Year’s Eve festival north of Auckland says they spent more than $50,000 to prepare for the forecasted wet weather. However, the persistent rain meant many party goers had to trudge through mud as they rang in the new year.
One festival goer said organisers had done what they could to prepare but because the rain was persistent some areas had become an “absolute mud bath”.
And while there was shelter, there was not enough for everyone.
Adam Bennett, promoter of the Highlife Festival at Ascension Wine Estate in Matakana, said they had brought in 800sqm of flooring and marquees which could accommodate 80% of festival goers.
“Every outdoor event in New Zealand faced that last night. Given the circumstances, we think it went quite well,” Bennett said.
It was the fifth year he had run the festival at Matakana. The previous four years the weather was good. “Usually we get sunshine, it’s a really magical experience.”
He had run New Year’s Eve events for the past 16 years, and the weather on Sunday night was the worst he had experienced in that time, although 2011 also had some bad weather, Bennett said.
Last night the worst of the rain had been over by 8pm, with some drizzle after that and a short downpour about 11pm.
“It definitely wasn’t cancellation weather... Yesterday I had 100% confidence we were able to deliver a safe festival.”
The electrics had all been fine, and there were no major incidents.
Stuff video content director Chris Reeder went to the event to see in the New Year.
By the time he got to the venue about 8pm it had been raining steadily for about six hours, and the ground was already quite muddy, he said.
The organisers had done what they could to prepare for the conditions.
“It was just the weather that let them down. They had rubber mats on the grass to try to keep it in check, but because there was so much rain falling it turned into an absolute mud bath,” Reeder said.
It was the worst weather he had experienced at a festival.
There was also plenty of cover, but not enough for everyone, and people had to go outside to get food and drink.
He felt the bus system taking people away from the event could have been run better, Reeder said.
He had to wait some time to catch a bus to Matakana, while at one point there were five buses that all seemed to be going to Auckland sitting partly full in the carpark, preventing other buses getting in.
“People were getting restless. They weren’t really moving them quick enough,” Reeder said.
Bennett said he had been conducting the buses, and considered the system had run “like clockwork”. At the most, some people might have had to wait half an hour for a bus.
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RAIPUR: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 29, for academic and research collaborations. The MoU was signed at IIT Bhilai in the presence of Professor Rajiv Prakash, Director, IIT Bhilai, and Professor K K Pant, Director,
IIT Roorkee.
The objective of this MoU is to preserve and promote Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) and to contribute to social-economic development in remote tribal areas, emphasizing research on traditional medicinal plants, tribal culture studies, their agricultural practices, and financial literacy among tribal people.
This joint effort of IIT Bhilai with IIT Roorkee will be a major thrust to progressing towards Prime Minister’s ambitious vision of Viksit Bharat@2047.
Furthermore, this collaboration will also support the initiatives of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and emphasize the inclusion of Indian Knowledge Systems into the education system. It will provide a clear sense of India’s future aspirations with regard to education, health, environment, etc., while also aligning with the PM’s vision of Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat.
On this occasion, Professor Prakash said that this partnership will create new opportunities for research and development. It will also promote our ancient knowledge and our heritage. Professor Pant stated that this MoU will contribute to the vision of Viksit Bharat. Both directors were happy to see this new partnership between IIT Bhilai and IIT Roorkee that will offer a long-lasting and mutually beneficial collaboration involving promotion of Indian culture, IKS, AI, sustainability, renewable energy, etc.
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RAJKOT: A female leopard and her two cubs were crushed under a train on a railway bridge near Dhoraji in Rajkot district on Friday night. The over Bhadar river is located on Upleta road.
According to forest officials, the train was coming from Bhavnagar and going to Porbandar and its speed was nearly 80kmph. The driver applied brakes but by the time the train could stop, a mother and her two cubs were run over.
Assistant conservator of forests (ACF) S K Kotadiya said, "All three leopards died on the spot.
They were on a railway bridge over a river, so there was no chance for the animals to escape."
The leopard's movements had been recorded earlier in Dhoraji taluka. The carcasses of the three animals were sent for postmortem.
Unlike in the greater Gir area where there is a restriction on the train speed in a lion corridor, there is no such restriction near Dhoraji. Also, there is no system to inform railway staff about the movements of wild animals on the tracks. The forest officials, according to the procedure, recorded the statement of the loco pilot. Meanwhile, forest officials have been looking for a leopard in Rajkot city for the last six days after they came across pugmarks and some people reported that they had seen a leopard. However, the forest officials denied the possibility that the leopard killed on Friday night could be the same.
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Streaming Deals for New Year’s Eve: Bringing the Festivities into Your Living Room
As the world readies to welcome 2024, streaming services are offering several deals and free trials to elevate your New Year’s Eve experience. Whether it’s the iconic Times Square ball drop or a host of musical and entertainment shows, viewers can indulge in the celebrations from the comfort of their homes.
FuboTV: A Gateway to ABC’s ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
For sports and entertainment aficionados, FuboTV is providing a seven-day free trial. With monthly subscriptions commencing at $74.99, viewers can stream ABC’s ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest’ from 8:00 p.m. EST on December 31. This show boasts performances by renowned artists like Green Day, Janelle Monáe, LL Cool J, Cardi B, and more. The special will also include comedy sketches and insightful commentary on the events of 2023.
Sling TV and Peacock: Tickets to ‘Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party’
Sling TV is offering a 50% discount on the first month of streaming, while Peacock is providing a 17% reduction on its annual plans. Both services will broadcast NBC’s ‘Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party’ from Miami. This event, co-hosted by Dolly Parton, will feature a lineup of A-list performers, with live coverage also expected from Times Square.
Paramount+: Country Music’s New Year’s Eve Celebration
For country music lovers, Paramount+ is making available a one-week free trial, with subscription rates as low as $5.99 per month after the trial. This service will air ‘New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash’ on CBS, beginning at 7:30 p.m. EST on December 31. The event will showcase over 50 sequential performances from artists like Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, and Carly Pearce.
These streaming deals offer a convenient way for individuals to bring the excitement of New Year’s Eve celebrations into their homes. Amid the global pandemic, viewers can still be part of the global celebration while maintaining safety, thereby ensuring a joyous start to 2024.
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Michael Pierce gets it, Ravens fans. Four years later, he’s still scarred by the 2019 season and the words “first-round bye.”
The Ravens were the NFL’s best team through the regular season. They won 12 straight games, earning a first-round bye. And then they welcomed the Tennessee Titans to M&T Bank Stadium and completely and utterly flopped in a 28-12 loss.
That’s not to mention that the Ravens fans who also root for the Orioles watched a magical, historic season come to a disappointing end when the team came out of a first-round bye and got swept by the Texas Rangers.
After the Ravens won the AFC, secured home-field advantage and earned a first-round bye with their 56-19 win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, Pierce acknowledged that earning the bye — before the last week of the season, allowing some players to sit out that game, too — has worked out poorly for this team in the past.
But, for this specific squad, it’s so, so necessary.
Twelve Ravens spent time on the injury report in the week leading up to Week 17′s game against the Dolphins. Ahead of the game, three key players were declared inactive.
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- Safety Kyle Hamilton was out with a knee injury, suffered the week before against the San Francisco 49ers.
- Cornerback Brandon Stephens injured his ankle between Wednesday’s walk-through and Thursday’s practice.
- Right guard Kevin Zeitler was out with a knee/quadriceps injury, also suffered against the 49ers.
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Then, during the game, the Ravens ...
- Lost cornerback Marlon Humphrey to a calf injury.
- Played without Pierce and safety Daryl Worley. Pierce said after the game that he went through concussion protocols and cleared them. Worley also cleared.
- Saw cornerback Arthur Maulet get injured — he hopped on one foot — but return to the game.
- Helped linebacker Patrick Queen, who was caught on camera during the 49ers game saying he hurt his collarbone, off the field. He clutched his shoulder throughout the game.
Coach John Harbaugh did not offer injury updates after the game, but it’s clear Baltimore has many players dealing with lingering pains.
“Everybody’s banged up,” Queen said. “Just being able to get that bye is huge, really, to fully rest up.”
The injuries aren’t a recent narrative for the Ravens. They started in Week 1 when they lost starting running back J.K. Dobbins (Achilles tendon) for the season — and then, when they finally found an answer in Keaton Mitchell (knee), they lost him, too. Veteran tight end Mark Andrews (ankle) is out for the regular season with a slim chance of returning in the postseason (he was also dealing with an ankle injury ahead of the game against the Titans in 2019). Those are some of the biggest injuries, but the list goes on.
“All year, we’ve just been battling adversity of key players getting hurt for long periods of time,” fullback Patrick Ricard said. “And so many guys have stepped up and filled those roles and we’ve been not missing a beat. It’s how the season’s been going. It’s definitely helpful we got the first-round bye.”
There’s a lot to be said for maintaining momentum and staying sharp. But not a single player interviewed by The Banner said he’d prefer to play rather than rest.
The Ravens don’t need to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 18. They’ve already secured a playoff spot and the conference title. Harbaugh said they have not made decisions about who will play in that game. But it’s another chance to rest starters.
The memory of 2019 will stay with left tackle Ronnie Stanley “forever,” he said. But Stanley, who has been dealing with injuries through the majority of the season, said there were lessons from that disappointing end to a wonderful season. Ravens players are going to rest, of course, but they’re also going to keep working on their fundamentals and keep up with their mental preparation, he said.
Pierce said he’s sure Harbaugh has something different planned for the layoff. Pierce also spoke to the team ahead of the Ravens’ trip to London about the disaster their previous overseas trip became. He said the organization learned from its mistakes and made changes to the structure of the week. The result, this year, was a 24-16 win over — guess who — the Tennessee Titans.
“We’re very aware of 2019,” Pierce said. “Different team, different year, obviously. But we are very aware, and nobody would like to repeat that. We’ll be working.”
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Nick Carter returned to Instagram a week after his sister Bobbie Jean Carter's shocking death to share a sweet family moment.
On Dec. 30, the Backstreet Boys singer, 43, shared a video of his and wife Lauren Kitt Carter's eldest son Odin, 7, golfing. After the child swings and hits a ball, Nick Carter tells him, "Great shot!"
Nick Carter, who also shares daughters Saoirse, 4, and Pearl, 2, with Lauren Kitt Carter, captioned the post, "Cherishing these moments."
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Bobbie Jean Carter was found unresponsive in a bathroom in her home in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 23 and rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said last week. The cause of the 41-year-old's death was not released.
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Bobbie Jean Carter's death marked the fourth major loss for Nick's family in 11 years. Their brother Aaron Carter died at age 34 in November 2022 after he was found unresponsive inside his bathtub. The cause of his death was later determined to be drowning and the effects of difluoroethane (compressed gas) and alprazolam (generic Xanax).
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The "I Want Candy" singer was preceded in death by sister Leslie Carter, who died of an overdose in 2012 at age 25, and dad Bob Carter, who passed away at 64 in 2017.
One day following Bobbie Jean Carter's death, sister Angel Carter—Aaron's twin—penned a message to her late sibling.
"You had a great sense of humor, and a lively spirit," she wrote on Instagram Dec. 24. "Growing up, I was your baby, and you were my best friend. Life wasn't fair to you, that I know. Sometimes, it feels like you didn't have a shot, no matter what."
She continued, "Experiencing innocence instead of being burdened by trauma, pain, and suffering is incredibly important for children, particularly at such a young age. I know why Leslie, Aaron, and now you ended up in the circumstances that you did. I share that pain we experienced during our childhood and I'm sorry you didn't have an opportunity for a better life."
Angel Carter called on people to "break down barriers, reduce stigmas, and cultivate a society where seeking mental health support is met with understanding and encouragement."
She continued, "This starts with our children, and creating healthy conversation within the home."
Aaron' Carters team also shared a message to his family following Bobbie Jean Carter's death. "This year has definitely been one with such loss and tragedy," read the statement to E! News. "May you be filled with love and comfort from supporting fans and friends through this tough time. You are not alone. We know Aaron is in heaven with his sisters and reunited. May they rest in peace."
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New York City police officers on high alert ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations
New York City police officers were on high alert Sunday ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations. Police said they were on the lookout for protests and using drones for the first time ever to monitor for potential dangers. Astrid Martinez has the latest.
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Hundreds of thousands of people crowd into NYC's Times Square to celebrate the New Year Eve countdown - as man reveals how he pees his pants while waiting in line
- Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Times Square as the New Years Eve countdown begins
- The celebrity-filled event will include live performances from Flo Rida, Megan Thee Stallion and LL Cool J
- Crowds started forming early in the morning and people have found creative ways to relieve themselves without losing their spot
Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Times Square as the New Years Eve countdown begins, and one man at the front of the live reveals how he relieves himself while waiting in line.
One million people are expected to watch the ball drop in person and another billion are anticipated to watch on TV.
Crowds have been building throughout the day, rushing to closer to the event stage and to get the best view of the ball drop.
Video post on TikTok shows crowds that had been waiting since 5 a.m. eagerly waiting to get past the police barriers. One man at the front of the pack revealed his secret to going to the bathroom while waiting in line.
'See these pads? You have to pee in these pads. It don't matter who you are,' said the man wearing an orange jacket and Kiss hat.
One million people are expected to watch the Times Square ball drop in person and another billion are anticipated to watch on TV
Crowds have been building throughout the day, rushing to closer to the event stage and to get the best view of the ball drop
Video post on TikTok shows crowds that had been waiting since 5 a.m. eagerly waiting to get past the police barriers
'If you leave and you have to use the bathroom or even get water, that's the problem. '
He said, 'Whatever you decided to do, you gotta make the best of it.'
The celebrity-filled event will include live performances from Flo Rida, Megan Thee Stallion and LL Cool J, as well as televised appearances from Cardi B and others.
Organizers said in-person attendance is expected to return to pre-COVID levels, even as foot traffic around Times Square remains down slightly since the pandemic.
CNN will broadcast Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen's New Year's Eve Special celebrations. It will be Cooper and Cohen's seventh year hosting the extravaganza.
Alongside CNN, hosts from other big outlets will also be broadcasting live from Times Square, where the protests are threatening to reach.
ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest will be co-hosted by Rita Ora - and performers will include LL Cool J, Megan Thee Stallion, Jelly Roll, and Sabrina Carpenter.
Megan Thee Stallion wore a purple matching two piece set while performing some of her hit songs.
Celebrations in Times Square kicked off at 6 p.m., when the six-ton crystal ball will be lit and raised up. At 11:59 p.m., the ball will start its one-minute drop in front of hundreds of thousands of cheering party-goers.
Cable networks are preparing for the worst amid fears that their live broadcast plans on New Year's Eve may have to change if disorderly pro-Palestine supporters take over Times Square.
Anti-Israel protesters are threatening to derail December 31 celebrations in the Big Apple.
The NYPD is pulling out all the security stops ahead of the potential violence on the streets of New York City. Protests have been occurring in the city since Hamas brutalized Israeli civilians, triggering a conflict in the Middle East on October 7.
At a press conference on Friday, Mayor Eric Adams said that 'there are no specific threats to the city,' but 'as we saw last year, after having no specific threats we get a threat, and we are going to be ready.'
New York Police Department officers check people entering Times Square for the celebration
Rita Ora and Ryan Seacrest pose at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve in Times Square
Jonathan Bennett speaks onstage during the Times Square New Year's Eve 2024 Celebration
Megan Thee Stallion performed during the Times Square New Year's Even 2024 Celebration in Times Square
He was referencing when three cops were attacked by a Maine man, 19, with a machete over US support for Israel on December 31, 2022.
Assistant NYPD Commissioner Kaz Daughtry stated on December 29: 'We're going to have tow trucks strategically parked along the actual New Year's Eve festivities, and we're going to have drones deployed around the outer perimeter so we can monitor the protests, potential protests that are coming in real time.'
Adams added: 'Hundreds of thousands of people will be out here lined up, and no matter how often we see it, you never get used to it, the excitement remains over and over again.'
Times Square will be closed off from around 12 p.m. on New Year's Eve and those who want to get into the area have to go through police checkpoints and security screenings.
Homeland Security and the FBI will be in Times Square, alongside state police, cops on horseback, and canine units.
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SIBU (Jan 1): The Malaysian Chinese Medical Association (MCMA) has been asked to bring the Customs Department’s demand for service tax arrears purportedly due from traditional and complementary healthcare services since 2018 to court for adjudication.
In suggesting this, Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Central assistant organising secretary Wong Ching Yong pointed out that Customs has no legal basis to collect an indirect tax, namely sales and services, retrospectively unless the department has sufficient evidence that there is fraud, willful default and negligence on the part of the taxpayer.
“As such, I advise MCMA to consult tax experts and legal counsel to ascertain if such directive from Customs is legal. I strongly encourage MCMA to bring the matter to court for adjudication.
“I am happy to advise them as tax consultant on pro bono basis. I am willing to help look for senior tax lawyers in Sibu to assist,” he told a press conference here yesterday during the SUPP Dudong mobile service counter at Farley Café.
Wong, who is SUPP Dudong branch chairman, said it was unacceptable and inappropriate to classify Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the same category as ‘Night Club, Dance Hall, Cabaret, Health and Wellness Centres, Massage Parlours, Public Houses and Beer Houses’.
He reasoned that this was because the Health Ministry (MoH) also provides TCM services in several government hospitals, with multiracial patients receiving the treatment in Malaysia.
He then cited MoH’s portal where Sarawak General Hospital is listed as one of several hospitals in the country offering traditional and complementary medicine services.
Furthermore, he said TCM is being taught in universities locally such as TAR University and International Medical University, as well as abroad.
He also pointed out that Malaysia has legislation in the form of the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act 1976.
“In the eyes of the relevant department’s ‘Little Napoleon,’ is traditional medicine, including Chinese medicine, deemed to be less important to warrant such discriminatory treatment?
“The bewilderment felt by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners can be easily imagined and are understandable.”
Wong explained that service tax is a form of value-added tax collected from customers when they settle bills for services or goods purchased, which is the point of sales.
“If it is collected from customers after five years, how can traditional healthcare providers recover and collect the outstanding indirect taxes?
“Finding the customers is already a big challenge. Even if they can be located, do you think customers will be willing to pay the purported service tax dated 2018?
“The clients might view it as extortion,” Wong highlighted.
He also took Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying to task over her recent statement that the matter was not a sudden decision by the current government, but has been applicable since 2018.
“I can say she did not do her homework because she said it has actually been implemented since 2018.
“Absolutely nonsense, because they do not have a correct categorisation for Chinese physicians. Therefore, she did not do her homework.”
Among those present was SUPP Dudong vice-chairman Dr Wong Chya Wei
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The New Orleans Saints scored on their opening possession for the first time this season and used that to power their way to a 17-0 halftime lead over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.
The Saints (7-8), who need to win their final two games to have any shot at the playoffs, marched 73 yards in 14 plays capped by a 4-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Derek Carr to tight end Juwan Johnson. The tight end had a big half with six catches (a career high) for 70 yards.
The Saints pushed their lead to 14-0 on a beautiful 22-yard touchdown catch by Taysom Hill with 1:53 left in the second quarter. The Saints added a 45-yard field goal by kicker Blake Grupe with nine seconds to play. Carr was 17 of 21 for 140 yards with two touchdowns.
Alvin Kamara, who had 10 carries for 45 yards, passed the 10,000 mark for career yards from scrimmage in the half.
Cornerback Alontae Taylor made his first career interception to end a Buccaneers drive at the 2-yard line and the defense kept Tampa quarterback Baker Mayfield in check all half. The Bucs had just 44 yards of offense, 33 of which came on one completion to receiver Mike Evans. Linebacker Zack Baun had a sack of Mayfield.
The Saints lost right tackle Landon Young and linebacker Nephi Sewell to injuries in the first half. Cameron Erving replaced Young.
The Buccaneers (8-7) will get the ball to start the second half.
Check out the game action shots from the New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season.
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RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sent a letter to
Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren asking him to indicate his choice of place and time for recording his statement in a Ranchi land scam case.
The probe agency has specified that the letter "may be treated as summons", the seventh in the case, and asked the CM to get back within two days. Soren had skipped the six previous summonses.
ED sources said there was no response from the CM till Saturday, adding this would be the last summons to him. The case pertains to alleged forgery in land deals. While skipping previous summonses, Soren had written to ED alleging a ploy to malign him as he was not aligning "with a particular political alliance".
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WhatsNew2Day – Latest News And Breaking Headlines
A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and wounding a third was arrested Saturday in the United Kingdom, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Kimberlee Singler’s 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were found dead Dec. 19 when police responded to a report of a burglary at their home. Police later said the report turned out to be unfounded.
Singler, 35, initially cooperated with police but disappeared during the investigation, said Ira Cronin, a spokesman for the Colorado Springs Police Department. Authorities were unable to arrest her after obtaining an arrest warrant Tuesday on charges of murder and attempted murder, among other accusations.
Singler was not under surveillance and was last seen in Colorado Springs on Dec. 23, Cronin said.
Authorities did not provide further details about the overseas arrest but said they are working with multiple law enforcement agencies.
Attempts to reach Singler for comment through the phone numbers listed were unsuccessful. Cronin said he did not know if she has an attorney.
When police first responded to Singler’s home, they found her with minor injuries, the bodies of the two children, and Singler’s 11-year-old daughter injured. At first, Singler was treated as a robbery victim, Cronin said.
The injured girl was hospitalized for a few days before being released and is recovering in Colorado Springs, Cronin said.
The children’s deaths came amid an ongoing legal battle between Singler and her ex-husband over parenting time and other issues, according to court documents.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
Colorado mother suspected of killing her 2 children and wounding a third arrested in United Kingdom
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Tax Law Shakes Up Ticket Resale Market: New Reporting Requirements Unveiled
As the year draws to a close, the world of event ticket reselling faces a significant tax shift. A legislative change mandates that ticket resale platforms like Ticketmaster and StubHub report any users selling over $600 worth of tickets within a year to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This measure is part of a broader initiative aimed at enhancing tax compliance across the board.
Unveiling Hidden Income
The driving force behind this new legislation is to expose income streams that have, until now, managed to avoid significant tax scrutiny. Whether it’s reselling tickets for Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated ‘Eras Tour’ or Lionel Messi’s inaugural games in a bubblegum-pink jersey, these transactions can add up to substantial income. The law aims to close a tax loophole, ensuring that all income from the resale market, no matter how small-scale, is accurately reported and taxed.
Impact on Resellers
For individuals using ticket reselling as a source of income, this new reporting requirement could have a considerable financial impact. It’s not just the big players who will feel the effects, as the threshold for reporting is relatively low. Even casual resellers who exceed the $600 mark will find themselves in the IRS’s sights. The move will push many to reevaluate their reselling activities and potential tax obligations.
Wider Tax Crackdown
The ticket resale tax law is part of a larger tax crackdown. It extends to platforms like Vinted and Depop, requiring them to record and report the income earned by sellers. Renters on Airbnb are also not exempt from this new measure. The first reporting deadline is set for January 31, 2025, and platforms failing to submit reports or submitting inaccurate records face hefty fines.
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| 2024-01-01T01:59:11Z
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- The New Orleans Saints defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-13 Sunday.
- The Saints improved to 8-8. They move into a tie for first place in the NFC South with the Buccaneers. For the Saints to win the NFC South, they will need to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Week 18 at the Caesars Superdome and the Buccaneers will have to lose to or tie the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte.
- The Saints improve to 40-24 all-time against Tampa Bay, including 19-10 on the road. They have won six of their last seven contests at Raymond James Stadium.
- The Buccaneers became the second team the Saints have 40 wins against, joining the Falcons.
- New Orleans tallied 310 yards and allowed 349 yards, including giving up 305 in the second half.
- The Saints outgained Tampa Bay on the ground 108-57.
- The Saints outgained the Buccaneers 202-44 in the first half. They held the ball for 19:46 compared to just 10:14 for Tampa.
- Forty-two of Tampa's 44 yards in the first half came on one drive. Outside of that nine-play, 42-yard drive, the Bucs totaled three yards on 10 plays. The 44 net yards surrendered were the lowest first half total given up by New Orleans in 2023.
- The Saints converted 13 first downs and allowed just three to the Buccaneers in the first half.
- New Orleans allowed the Bucs to complete just two of eight (25.0%) third-down attempts.
- The Saints dominated time of possession, 36:38-23:22. They ran 70 offensive plays to Tampa's 50.
- New Orleans won the turnover battle 4-0, forcing two fumbles and intercepting quarterback Baker Mayfield twice. It was the first time Mayfield was picked off twice in a game this season
- Quarterback Derek Carr completed 24-of-32 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns, zero interceptions and a 111.1 passer rating.
- Carr surpassed Jim Kelly to move into 31st all the all-time passing touchdown list, tossing his 238th score in the second quarter.
- Tight end Juwan Johnson had a monster day, tallying six catches for 70 yards and a touchdown in the first half alone. Johnson finished with a career-high eight catches for a career-best 90 yards and the score.
- Running back Alvin Kamara carried the ball 10 times for 45 yards before leaving the game at halftime with an ankle injury. Running back Jamaal Williams carried the load in the second half, totaling 19 attempts for a season-high 58 yards.
- Tight end Taysom Hill completed one pass for 11 yards, carried the ball twice for one yard and caught two passes for 30 yards and, including a 22-yard touchdown. It is Hill's fourth career game with a touchdown catch and a pass completion.
- Receiver/returner Rashid Shaheed had two catches for 14 yards, returned two punts for 27 yards and two kickoffs for 47 yards.
- The New Orleans offensive line surrendered only one sack.
- Linebacker Pete Werner led the Saints with nine tackles (eight solo).
- Rookie defensive tackle Bryan Bresee finished with two tackles (one solo) and one sack.
- Linebacker Zack Baun finished with three solo tackles, one sack, one pass defense and one special teams stop.
- Defensive back Johnathan Abram recorded his first career forced fumble and first interception of the season to go with one pass defense. He finished with five solo tackles.
- Linebacker Demario Davis finished with four tackles (one solo), one stop for loss and one fumble recovery.
- Cornerback Alontae Taylor recorded his first career interception in the second quarter, picking off Mayfield at the Saints' 2-yard line.
- Punter Lou Hedley pinned his 30th punt of the season inside of the 20, moving into second place for most punts inside the 20-yard line in Saints history.
- Kicker Blake Grupewent a perfect three-for-three on field goals. He is now tied with Wil Lutz (2016) for the most field goals by a rookie in New Orleans history.
Check out the game action shots from the New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season.
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COACH DENNIS ALLEN
Opening statement:
"Happy New Year to everybody. Good team win for our football team. (I) still feel like there were some things that we could have done better. (I) still felt like there were a few things that we left out there on the field, but I thought, particularly in the first half, I thought we played really well in the first half in all three phases. I thought the field position in the game was a big part of the game. I think the takeaways in the game were a big part of the game. I think we ran the ball a little bit better offensively, which opened up some things in the passing game. We did a good job on third down, converting on third down. Look, there's a lot of good things that we did. Obviously the first drive of the game, taking it down there, being able to score points, putting seven on the board I thought was big for our football team. I'm proud of the way that our guys continue to compete. I'm proud of the way our guys continue to fight, and I'm proud of the way that they played today. Now we (have) to digest this and then get ready for Atlanta."
On if this game was a hard effort performance to pull off after the state of the team following last week's loss:
"I think state of the team is probably… I'm sure everybody has their own opinions about the state of the team, right? But I've never questioned the mindset of our team. I've never questioned the toughness of our team. I've never questioned the [competitiveness] of our team. Look, this game we play is hard. It's not easy. There are some times that you have to fight back after a tough loss, but I told the team last night we've got to handle hard well, and I thought our guys did that today."
On how he feels about how his team responded to his message about doing hard well:
"Look, it's positive. I think when we have faced some adversity, I think our guys are generally respondent. We knew our backs were against the wall and we knew that if we didn't take care of business today, that it didn't matter what happened anywhere else. We knew that we had to win this game, and I think our guys had the mindset that we were coming in here to win. And that's what they did."
On safety Johnathan Abram's performance:
"I thought he played really well. I was extremely proud of him, happy for him. The way that he played — great effort play on the strip to cause the fumble that Demario (Davis) recovered. There [were] a number of things he did well, obviously that play stands out, but here's a guy that's been kind of on the practice squad, then he's on the roster. (He) probably hadn't gotten as many opportunities as he would like, but he's one of the ones that's got probably the most time on the iPad in terms of studying what the opponents are doing. He works extremely hard at it, and he got his opportunity, and he performed well."
On what went into the decision of Abram playing:
"Well I think… look, primarily it was because we had a rookie player that missed the early part of the week practice and I think, particularly for a young player, I think you've got to practice to be able to play and play well. And look, it doesn't really matter how he gets the opportunity, it's about taking advantage of the opportunity and I thought he did a good job of that."
On tight end Juwan Johnson's performance:
"I thought he played really well today. Here's another guy that… look, we've had a number of guys that have kind of gotten challenged a little bit, and they've responded to the challenge. Juwan Johnson being one of them. I think the last couple of weeks Juwan has really responded to it and performed well. Obviously, the touchdown was a big play in the game. The third down catch down the middle of the field was a huge play in the game — it changes field position. He catches the boot, I guess it was the fourth quarter there, and gets us in some good field position, so I thought he played well. I thought he played through a little bit of a shoulder injury and came back out and played and competed, so I was really proud of him."
On the first half being the best the team has played collectively on both sides of the ball:
"Yeah, look, it has been a long season, so I think there's been some times where I feel like our team has played really well in a lot of spurts. But yeah, I do. I feel like that was all three phases, I think, that contributed to us being able to get out to that lead in the first half."
On quarterback Derek Carr taking a different approach:
"Well, I think A, he' s feeling a little bit better. Obviously, he's had a couple of things that have nagged him throughout the season, and I think he's probably… look, nobody is 100% healthy at this time of the year, but I think he's closer to that now than maybe where he was a month or a month-and-a-half ago. So yeah, I think he's been performing much better over the last month or six weeks of the season. I think a lot of that is health related."
On if the team's performance today is in line with his expectations for the team:
"Still not perfect, but it's been improved. We're guaranteed one more opportunity to go and prove it a little bit more and that's what we're going to focus on."
On cornerback Alontae Taylor's performance today:
"Alontae was awesome today, really. Again, that's the enjoyment that I get out of coaching – when the guy hits a rough patch and you challenge him. Look, he got benched. That's hard, that's hard to take [but] he responded the right way. You guys asked me, 'How is he going to respond?' I think he responded the right way. I think he did that today, so I was extremely proud of him."
On the use of tight ends today:
"The fact that we used the tight ends says we felt like there was something maybe we could hopefully take advantage of. And again, look you never know exactly how the game is going to play out. I mean, we kind of have an idea of what they may try to do and yet we don't have a contract with them, they can kind of do whatever they want to do and we have to be able to react to it. In this game, there are some things that I think that they were trying to do to obviously take away some of our receivers. So, the tight ends played a little bit of a bigger role – specifically, Juwan (Johnson)."
On Johnson's confidence:
"You guys have heard this because I got it from one of my mentors, but confidence is born from demonstrated ability. That's the same thing for us as coaches – when we see you do it, we have more confidence that you can do it again. When you as a player see yourself do it, you have more confidence that you can do it again. So, I think all of those things work together. But yeah, certainly we have confidence in him and throwing him the football."
On Alvin Kamara's injury:
"Yeah, so he sprained his ankle... I think it was on the sideline over there, in the first half right before the end of the half, when he got tackled on their sideline over there. (He) kind of came in, got it looked at, came out after the half to try to test it out, and just didn't feel like he was going to be able to be functional enough to help us win."
On if it was a high-ankle sprain:
"I don't know that. I know it's an ankle sprain, I haven't gotten into all of the details as to what it is."
On the players that got pulled out for knee injuries:
"Nephi (Sewell) has a pretty significant knee injury that he's going to miss significant time with. Landon (Young), I think it's the same knee he hurt earlier in the training camp, so very similar situation with him. I have to get all my injury report, but I know that was a couple that were pretty significant."
On Cameron Ervin stepping in and replacing Landon Young:
"Obviously, when you're watching the offense, it's much more difficult to see everything that's happening inside. Usually, if I don't hear his name being said, then I'm assuming he's doing some pretty decent things. I didn't hear his name (being) called out a lot so, nothing stood out to me like, 'Ah, that was not good.' So, I'm assuming that he at least stepped in and did a decent job."
On the key to slowing down the Buccaneers offense:
"The biggest thing for this game was we had to win the line of scrimmage. We had to win the line of scrimmage on offense, we had to win the line of scrimmage on defense. Our OL and our DL had to play well for us for us to have a chance to win this game. Like I said earlier, it wasn't perfect, but I thought, overall, we were able to make enough plays up-front on both sides of the ball to do enough to win the line of scrimmage, to give ourselves a chance to win."
On what went wrong in the final minutes:
"We can't let the ball get over our heads. We didn't play as well as we needed to in those two instances. That's why when you look at the game you say, 'Well it wasn't perfect.' So, we've got to go back, make the corrections, (and) we got to fix that because that's inexcusable to let the ball go over your head. When you get in those situations, you've been playing well for such a long time during it one way, don't change how you're playing. There's that fine line of, 'Well am I just going to play soft and easy and let them throw the ball underneath? Or am I going to play the way I've been playing for the last 58 minutes?' So, we'll look at it and our guys will learn from it."
QUARTERBACK DEREK CARR
On the need to start fast:
"We needed to start fast against this team. They're leading the division – excellent on defense. Coach challenged us this week. He challenged us individually (and) he challenged us as a team – certain units. So, getting that score early, I think just lit everybody up. Juwan made a great, tough catch – tight window. Had to take a hit for us, he did, and I think that ignited everybody. I really do. The belief – it's one thing to keep being positive. But, when it comes to fruition, I think the belief gets higher."
On his on-field connection with Juwan Johnson:
"I thought we began to do things nice and see certain things and then he gets hurt. Then you saw Taysom (Hill) step up and fill that role – how many catches he's had – can't remember - the Houston game and so on and so forth. But, making big plays for me and for us - especially down in the redzone again today. I think you've seen that position and that role get filled by Taysom and other guys. Then, Juwan comes back healthy and his role is his role. When the plays are dialed to him, he's able to make those plays. None bigger than the one down the middle to get us out of (being) backed up. To catch that and make a front flip, one of the best safeties in the league hitting him, that was unbelievable."
On if his early chemistry in training camp with Juwan Johnson affects their play now:
"Yeah, absolutely. (Juwan Johnson) is another guy, that when the defense is doing their thing and I'm doing my extra work, he's down there catching balls for me. He's down there working with me – getting me extra reps. We threw that route, I think, three or four times extra on that left side in practice. We felt like we didn't really like it and we needed to work on it. Man, he catches it – catches a touchdown today. So, we're always working at that chemistry. It's never perfect. This is NFL football – it's never going to be perfect. But, we definitely rely on all those reps we've had together, for sure."
On Dennis Allen saying his play has been better since he has been healthier:
"You know me, man. I can't make an excuse or because I've been playing well. 'Oh, yeah. My shoulder – I feel better.' I do feel better – I can always be honest with you. I do feel better. But, I'll let DA and other guys talk on that."
On the touchdown pass to Taysom Hill:
"Well, he did a great job of using help to get a pick. Taysom's so fast that he got the guy in a trail position and I was able to not overthrow him – just give him a ball that he can react to. He made an outstanding play and I'm thankful he landed in the end zone."
On being able to get fullback Adam Prentice a carry after his fumble last week:
"Yeah, that was awesome. I'm not going to lie to you, when I went to hand that ball, that's usually AK back there. When I went (back), I was like, 'Adam!' – and he took off. It was a huge run for us to take some time off of the clock. But, I know for his confidence, too, he was probably thinking of the last time he played these guys. I even told (running backs coach) Joel (Thomas) on the sideline that was huge for (Prentice) to be in there for that play and have that opportunity to show – because I'm sure he was thinking of the last game. Just like I was thinking of the last game. I think I was fresh off the Green Bay game. I was very frustrated with certain things with things I could and couldn't do. So, it's always good to win a division game to get back at somebody and get a win because they got after us the first time."
On players stepping up to combat the loss of Landon Young and Alvin Kamara:
"Those are two guys, you know, again you can't just replace guys. You know, Landon [and AK are great teammates, great players, great people for our locker room and for our team and I thought that Cam [Erving] stepped up huge for us coming in in that role. He's done that before for us in the season and he's played well. I thought he did a great job. I thought Jamaal (Williams) stepping up - that's no shock to me - Jamaal's, you know, one of the best running backs - power running backs that you're going to find. And he's one of the most enthusiastic – he's a different cat, but he's one of my favorite teammates I've ever had because of his love for, not only the game, but his love for his teammates. You know, he tells us all the time 'I'm going to run through someone's face for y'all, this ain't for me.' You know, and when you have a guy like that you can always go to bat with him and Taysom could probably talk about him even more, you know, with the years they spent together, but the short time I've been with him, he brightens my day every time I see him and to see him get a lot of carries, make some tough yards for us today, against a really good run defense, I thought he did a good job."
On Jonathan Abrams's successful performance:
"I was so happy. You know, we obviously were together with the Raiders. I've seen his development, I've seen his growth, and I'm more proud of who he's become off the field and the type of man he's become, you know, the type of father he wants to be. You know, as much growth as he's made on the field, off the field he's done even better and I'm so proud of that because he's worked hard at it. I thank God for him because he's a great teammate, you know, even though on the scout team sometimes he's a saboteur and it is what it is because that's Jon. You know, but when he got his chance he made a lot of great plays."
On team's playoff mentality mind-set:
"We're still alive playing for something – job's not done. You know, one of my favorite - my favorite athlete of all time, that's one of his most famous quotes. You know, 'job's not finished.' So until we run out of time I'm going to keep believing, I'm going to keep working. We can't feel satisfied because we have to win. You know, we came in with the expectation to win, we had to win, we did, it feels good, but we have to play another team that we didn't beat this year. And so I'm looking forward to that matchup and we'll start on them as soon as we can."
On success against the Buccaneers defensive pressure:
"That was some of the most - that was the saw capital of the world today. They were bringing every form of corner, nickel, you know, safeties, and, you know, base linebackers, SAM, WILL, inside pressure, outside pressure, picks, stunts, and our guys didn't give up a sack. I know it says one on that sheet, that was my fault I thought I threw it away. So I want to credit our offensive line with an amazing job that they did. You know, our two offensive line coaches with the plan that they gave us. Because, you know, when they give us a plan and we go out there and execute it, it's awesome when you come away with those results. Because that's really tough to do against this team. They have a lot of disguises, they hide their pressures better than anybody else, they do a fantastic job, and they've played a lot of football together, you can tell. So, to come out of that with one sack, which was my fault, but none by the offensive line, that's an amazing feat that they had and they deserve a lot of credit.
TIGHT END TAYSOM HILL
On his touchdown reception
"Yeah, I mean Derek (Carr) described it very well. We came out, we knew it was man, and that's what you're kind of hoping for when you're in my position. We had a nice natural pick and Derek gave me a good ball. That was it."
On getting the tight ends involved and what it does for their offense:
"I don't know. I guess, typically, at the tight end role, you're catching balls over the middle and some of those balls typically end up being high-percentage throws. I look at some of the receptions that we had in that room today and I felt like a lot of them moved the chain, so that was fun to see. And I think it was also one of those things [where] you don't know who it's going to be when you are playing the Saints offensively – is it going to be outside, 'Sheed' (Rashid Shaheed), Chris (Olave), Lynn (Bowden Jr.), A.T. (Perry), or are we going to have the guys inside in the tight end room and running backs? So, we have a lot of weapons and [there were] a lot of opportunities for the tight ends today."
On if this was their most complete game of the season:
"Yeah, I think that's fair – offensive, defensive, special teams. It felt like it was a really clean game – defense forced four turnovers. You have a defense that creates four turnovers, and we don't turn it over. Special teams played a clean game, and man, it was great from every aspect."
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David Warner made the emotional decision to retire from one-day international cricket in the run-up to his final Test match, announcing his decision in front of wife Candice and children Ivy Mae, Indy Rae and Isla Rose on Monday.
The veteran Australian opener on Monday said he felt “comfortable” that it was the right time to conclude his ODI career following Australia’s World Cup triumph in India late last year.
Warner scored 6932 runs in 161 ODI matches for Australia, including his career-best score of 179 against Pakistan at the Adelaide Oval.
He also enjoyed making his doubters “look stupid” as he played a leading role in Australia’s victory at the 2023 World Cup in India, making 535 runs in the tournament, including a high score of 163.
David Warner has announced that he will also retire from ODI cricket after ending his Test cricket career.
The opening batsman will play his last Test match for Australia against Pakistan in the New Year’s Test, weather permitting.
Warner noted the decision would create opportunities to play franchise cricket overseas and will not rule out a return if Australia needs an ICC Champions Trophy opener in 2025.
After facing the media to talk about his final Test match in Sydney, he made the unexpected call to retire from ODI cricket as well.
“It was a decision I felt very, very comfortable with. Winning in India, from where we were, was absolutely incredible,” Warner said.
“The team, not only under Patty’s leadership but also under coach Andrew McDonald, everything is very calm and relaxed within the team.
‘We go out, we’re adults, we support each other to train the best we can and then we go out and play. There’s never any extra pressure, it’s the same old thing: go in, do what you have to do. We love to win.
“When we lost two games in a row in India, the bond between us became stronger and it is no coincidence or coincidence that we were able to get to where we were.
“Maxi’s heroics, the captaincy and the skills and execution of the way we played against India was phenomenal, and don’t discount the semi-final in Kolkata as well.”
But Warner also left the door open for one last ODI hurray in two years’ time in the Champions Trophy.
“I know the Champions Trophy is coming up… if I play decent cricket in two years’ time and if they need someone, I’ll be available.”
Warner arrives at his press conference with his wife Candice and children Ivy Mae, Indy Rae and Isla Rose.
Warner has left the door ajar for a return to the Champions Trophy if asked within two years.
Warner has been a divisive figure in world cricket, largely due to his role in the 2018 Sandpapergate scandal that saw him and captain Steve Smith suspended for 12 months.
While the retired batsman has received a deluge of negative messages over his retirement announcement, many Australian cricket fans hailed him as one of the greatest of all time.
“Congratulations on a great Test and ODI career. Australia will find it difficult to replace a batsman of Dave Warner’s caliber on the Test and ODI field in the future. His numbers compare with Australia’s best opening batsman,” a fan posted.
“Congratulations on your career David Warner, some will miss you, some won’t, good luck to you and your family for the rest of your life,” added another.
“Congratulations Davey, congratulations on what you’ve done for Straya,” another posted.
The 37-year-old will play his final Test match against Pakistan at the SCG starting Wednesday.
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If this is the matchup we get in the AFC championship game, Ravens fans might as well book their tickets to Las Vegas. And, if last week’s matchup was a Super Bowl preview, start planning the parade.
All right, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. But it’s hard to be anything less than impressed by the Ravens’ 56-19 domination of the Dolphins on New Year’s Eve.
Here’s how each position group graded out.
Quarterback
Lamar Jackson’s performance against the 49ers vaulted him to the top of the MVP race, and his “quarterbacky” outing against the Dolphins gave him the inside track to the award with one game remaining. Jackson needed only 21 pass attempts – completing 18 of them – to rack up 321 yards and five touchdowns. Despite missing tight end Mark Andrews and running back Keaton Mitchell, Jackson has only gotten better as the season has progressed. With the AFC’s top seed secured, he can kick up his feet for the next two Sundays.
Grade: A+
Running backs
If the Ravens hope to make a deep playoff run, they’ll need more performances like this from Justice Hill. The 2019 fourth-round pick hit a career high with 64 receiving yards on five catches, including a touchdown on the team’s opening drive, and chipped in 48 yards on the ground. Gus Edwards found the end zone as well, collecting 68 yards on 16 carries (4.3 average). Things were so out of hand by the end that even veteran Melvin Gordon received touches.
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Grade: B+
Offensive line
Facing a Dolphins defense that came into the game second in the NFL in sacks (behind only the Ravens), Baltimore’s offensive line kept Jackson on his feet and away from pressure most of the game. Ben Cleveland, receiving the start in place of the injured Kevin Zeitler, held up well at guard, while tackle Ronnie Stanley held defensive end Bradley Chubb in check. Former Raven Zach Sieler notched the Dolphins’ only sack of the day.
Grade: B
Pass catchers
When Jackon is in sync with his weapons, this offense is nearly impossible to stop. The Dolphins witnessed that firsthand, allowing the Ravens to average an absurd 14.4 yards per pass play. Thanks to a 75-yard bomb from Jackson, rookie Zay Flowers topped 100 receiving yards for the first time in his career. Odell Beckham Jr. and Isaiah Likely made impressive grabs. Even Rashod Bateman hauled in four catches for 54 yards, both season highs.
Grade: A
Defensive line
Tackle Justin Madubuike added to his ridiculous sack total by bringing down quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the third quarter. Defensive end Odafe Oweh collected his first sack since Week 11. Michael Pierce plugged up the middle early, making three tackles, but left the game as he was evaluated for a head injury. Had it been a closer game, perhaps the Dolphins would have called more upon the services of running back De’Von Achane, who gained 107 rushing yards on just 14 carries.
Grade: B-
Inside linebackers
Roquan Smith has been one of the Ravens’ most important contributors in 2023, but he hasn’t had the flashy numbers to show for it. It was good to see the $100 million man grab his first interception of the season, undercutting a Tagovailoa pass in the second quarter and returning it 30 yards. As they did in last Monday’s game against the 49ers, Smith and his running mate Patrick Queen allowed some easy completions over the middle to Dolphins tight end Durham Smythe. But they limited a Miami offense that typically feasts on explosive plays.
Grade: B+
Defensive backs
We were robbed of witnessing a top-tier battle between Dolphins star receiver Tyreek Hill and Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who left the game with a calf injury in the first half and never returned. It’s been a frustrating 2023 season for Humphrey, who has been in and out of the lineup with injuries. Still, Baltimore’s defensive backs impressed in the three-time Pro Bowler’s absence, holding Hill to 76 yards and Tagovailoa to 6.2 yards per play.
Grade: B+
Special teams
Justice Hill opened the second half with a bang, taking the Jason Sanders kickoff 78 yards to set up the Ravens on the Dolphins’ 18-yard line. Justin Tucker’s services were needed only for extra points, and he nailed all eight of them. Tylan Wallace returned just one punt for 6 yards.
Grade: A
Coaching
Defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald has (justifiably) received the most hype of anyone on the coaching staff this season. But his offensive counterpart, Todd Monken, has continued to impress. Scoring 56 points on a defense that came into the game fourth in the NFL in yards per game allowed is no easy feat.
Grade: A
Ravens’ jumbotron
Anybody else notice some weird outages? Hopefully things get tightened up by the divisional round.
Grade: D
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The year 2023 marked a rollercoaster of emotions for Chicago sports fans. And sadly, the city lost some indelible figures in the sports scene.
Here are some of the Chicago sports legends we lost in 2023.
Rocky Wirtz
The Blackhawks' principal owner and CEO, Rocky Wirtz, died in July. He was 70.
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Wirtz, who was also the owner of the Wirtz Corp, which included Breakthru Beverage Group, took over as the owner in 2007 after his father Bill passed away. Rocky was the fifth principal owner in franchise history; his grandfather Arthur purchased a stake in the Blackhawks in 1950 and acquired majority ownership in 1966.
Wirtz immediately revitalized hockey in Chicago, which started by televising home games and spending money, whether it was inside the organization or for the on-ice product. Shortly after he took over, the Blackhawks' popularity exploded, they became a staple in outdoor games, and put together a dynastic run in the salary cap era by winning three Stanley Cups in six years.
Wirtz hasn't made a public appearance since March 2022 when Blackhawks GM Kyle Davidson was introduced as the permanent general manager. The appearance came a month after Wirtz made headlines for his comments about the Kyle Beach sexual assault scandal.
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During Wirtz's tenure as the chairman, the Blackhawks made the postseason 10 times, won 17 rounds, reached five Conference Finals and won three Stanley Cups.
"Our hearts are very heavy today,” Rocky's son and Blackhawks CEO Danny Wirtz said in a statement. "Our dad was a passionate businessman committed to making Chicago a great place to live, work and visit, but his true love was for his family and close friends. He was a loving father, a devoted husband to Marilyn, a brother, a nephew, an uncle and a doting grandfather to his six remarkable grandchildren. His passing leaves a huge hole in the hearts of many and we will miss him terribly."
Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus, one of the most fearsome defensive players in Chicago Bears history, died in October. He was 80.
Over his career, Butkus earned eight Pro Bowl nods, five All-Pro selections and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His No. 51 was retired by the Bears, and he has long been one of the team's most iconic figures.
Before his NFL career, Butkus was a defensive star at the University of Illinois, and is one of only two players to have their numbers retired by the university.
"Dick was the ultimate Bear, and one of the greatest players in NFL history. He was Chicago's son. He exuded what our great city is about and, not coincidently, what George Halas looked for in a player: toughness, smarts, instincts, passion and leadership," Bears Chairman George McCaskey said in a statement.
Bobby Hull
The Blackhawks' all-time leading scorer, Bobby Hull, died in January 2023. He was 84.
Hull spent 15 of his 16 NHL seasons in Chicago, where he ranks first in goals (604), third in points (1,153), fifth in assists (549) and sixth in games played (1,036). Over that span, "The Golden Jet" won the Art Ross Trophy three times, the Hart Trophy twice, the Lady Byng Trophy once and was named a first-team NHL All-Star 10 times.
Hull helped lead the Blackhawks to their third Stanley Cup win in franchise history in 1961, finishing third in the playoffs with 14 points.
Off the ice, Hull made some headlines for the wrong reasons. He was accused of domestic violence by two of his wives, and was also quoted by a Russian newspaper in 1998, allegedly making reprehensible comments. He vehemently denied those quotes in a statement published by the LA Times, saying he was "deeply offended" by the "false statements."
Hull was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983 and had his No. 9 retired by the Blackhawks that same year. His statue, along with Stan Mikita, was unveiled outside the United Center in 2011.
Joey Meyer
Joey Meyer, a former DePaul University men's basketball player and head coach, died. He was 74.
Meyer served over 30 years at DePaul University as a player, assistant coach and head coach of the men's basketball team.
He played under his father, Ray Meyer, as a player before succeeding him as the head coach of the basketball team in 1984. He coached the Blue Demons through the 1996-97 season.
During his time as a head coach, he recorded a 231-158 record with the team. He brought the Blue Demons to seven NCAA tournament appearances in his first eight seasons as head coach. They qualified for the Sweet 16 portion, too, in back-to-back seasons in 1985-86 and 1986-87. They made three NIT tournament berths, also.
Johnny LuJack
Johnny LuJack, the 1947 Heisman winner and All-Pro quarterback for the Bears, died. He was 98.
In the 1940s, LuJack led Notre Dame to three different championships. He is considered one of the greatest Notre Dame players of all time, having won the Heisman in 1947 and leading the Irish to national titles in 1943, 1946 and 1947.
Lujack intercepted eight passes as a rookie with the Bears and in 1949 he threw for 468 yards and six touchdowns in a 52-21 win over the Chicago Cardinals. He played in the Pro Bowl his final two seasons before retiring.
George Frazier
George Frazier, former Cubs pitcher and acclaimed broadcaster, died in June. He was 68.
Frazier helped the Chicago Cubs win their first division title in 1984 and became a World Series champion with the 1987 Minnesota Twins, pitching two scoreless innings in Game 4 against St. Louis. He had a 4.20 ERA with 35 wins and 29 saves in 415 major league appearances.
After that, he spent 18 years as a television broadcaster with the Colorado Rockies.
Andrew McKenna
Andrew McKenna, partial owner and board member for the Chicago Bears, died at the 93-years-old.
A Chicago native, McKenna earned his undergraduate degree in business administration and marketing from Notre Dame and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from DePaul University College of Law.
Most notably, he was the chairman of McDonald's from 2004-16. He wore many hats as a businessman, serving as the director of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the Big Shoulders Fund, the Ireland Economic Advisory Board, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, Civic Committee and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago.
"This afternoon we lost a friend of more than 40 years to our family and the Bears," chairman George McCaskey said in a statement from the team. "Few people have had a larger impact on our great city. Andy spent his life dedicated to institutions across sports, media, museums, academia, health care and more sharing his insights and leadership.
"His guidance helped us make sound business decisions, most recently with our selection of Kevin Warren as our next President & CEO. We are grateful for his many contributions to the Bears and his wisdom will be missed. Our prayers are with his family."
Gary Peters
Gary Peters, a star pitcher for the White Sox in the 1950s and 60s, died in January 2023. He was 85.
Peters made his MLB debut with the White Sox in 1959 but only pitched 21 innings over 12 games from 1959-1962. He became a fixture in the White Sox rotation in 1963 and found immediate success in his new role. Peters had a 19-8 record that year, led the A.L. with a 2.33 ERA and led all of baseball with a tiny 0.3 HR/9 rate. He was recognized with a Rookie of the Year award that year.
From that point forward, Peters was a force in the White Sox rotation. He led the league ERA again in 1966 (1.98) and led the league in wins in 1964 (20). Peters was a two-time All-Star and finished in the top-10 in MVP voting three times. His 1,098 strikeouts with the White Sox rank eighth in franchise history.
Peters was no slouch at the plate, either. He slashed .212/.240/.344 with 15 home runs and 71 RBI over his 11 seasons on the South Side. Peters even had one pinch hit, walkoff homer according to Baseball Almanac. That came off of Wes Stock in the 13th inning of a game against the A’s in 1964.
Donald Savage
Donald Savage, the Chicago Bears' longest season-ticket holder, died in December. He was 106.
“One of our longest season ticket holders passed away [Thursday] at 106, Don Savage," Bears head coach Matt Eberflus said. "I just wanted to recognize him. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. Don was the head usher at Queen of All Saints for 50 years. One of our most loyal Bears fans. Just a special shoutout to him and his family."
According to his obituary, Savage was quite the athlete himself. Savage was inducted into the 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame in 2014. He also worked for Gateway Erectors for 72 years in sales, retiring as vice president.
“Don Savage has been a member of a 16-inch softball team for 78 years, from 1935 to the end of the 2013 season. His teams have won more than 40 championships, and Don has played in or managed in approximately 35 senior leagues at parks throughout Chicago and the suburbs,” the Hall of Fame wrote of Savage years ago.
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Back to full strength! Cheese company that 'castrated' the Cerne Abbas Giant of his 35ft manhood reinstates the historic appendage on its vintage cheddar packaging
- Oxford Cheese Company was slammed for 'defacing' the Cerne Abbas Giant
- Company says the censored label was designed following shopper's complaint
A cheese company accused of 'castrating' the Cerne Abbas Giant has now reinstated the iconic chalk figure's manhood on their packaging.
In June, the Oxford Cheese Company was accused of 'culturally appropriating' the famous figure to help sell their Cerne Abbas Man vintage cheddar - ironically not made in the Dorset village or in Oxford.
They added insult to injury when they censored the giant's phallus from the label.
Following accusations they had 'emasculated' the giant, the company now appears to have u-turned on the decision.
Oxfordshire resident Ivan Kirby recently bought the cheese from a shop in Yarnton, Oxfordshire. He described said the change as a 'victory for common sense'.
He added: 'I think it's splendid that they've seen sense and truly made their vintage cheddar full strength.'
The Oxford Cheese Company has been slammed for depicting the famous Cerne Abbas Giant on its packaging without his oversized phallus
The 180ft figure, which has a 35ft manhood, is one of Dorset's most famous landmarks, thought to have been created by the Anglo-Saxons in the 8th century as a tribute to Helith, their god of health
The Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180ft chalk figure cut into the side of a hill, boasts a 35ft manhood and is one of Dorset's best known landmarks.
He is said to have been created by the Anglo-Saxons in the 8th century.
A spokesman for the Oxford Cheese Company suggested in June that the manhood may have been removed so not to make the image on the packaging appear too cluttered.
But company founder Robert Pouget then said they had sold the cheese with the uncensored giant for 15 years but had developed a second label several years ago without the manhood after complaints from a supermarket customer.
He claimed the censored version is only sold in one supermarket but it appears with the censored label on the websites of several farm shops and even on the company's own website.
Vic Irvine, head brewer at Cerne Abbas Brewery, which uses a picture of the giant in all his glory on its branding, said: 'It's abhorrent to castrate him'
Locals criticised the Oxford Cheese Company for 'defacing' the club-wielding man on the label of its Cerne Abbas Man vintage cheddar
Vic Irvine, head brewer at Cerne Abbas Brewery, which uses the giant in all his glory on its branding, said he is pleased the phallus has been restored.
Mr Irvine said: 'It's obviously nice to see our Giant restored to his former glory after being emasculated so disrespectfully.
'However the original 'cheddar' wasn't even made in the Somerset parish with the famous gorge and then for the mystery substance to be marketed by a cheesemonger of Oxford smacks of desperation.
'We are proud of our Dorset heritage and we can see the Giant from our brewery and more importantly he can see us! We love our village and we love our Giant.'
A spokesman for the Oxford Cheese Company last night confirmed that the manhood had now been returned to the cheese.
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SHIMLA: In a green push for
Himachal Pradesh, chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has directed all government departments not to buy diesel or petrol vehicles from January 1. If necessary, the departments can purchase these after obtaining approval from the state cabinet.
In his first budget speech, Sukhu had announced various provisions to promote e-vehicles in the state.
The number of e-vehicles with the government departments has reached 185, while the count of private electric vehicles registered in the state stands at 2,733.
Sukhu said that his government is promoting e-vehicles in Himachal Pradesh in a big way. He said that the transport department has become the first to replace its official vehicle fleet with e-vehicles and the other departments are to follow suit in a phased manner.
Sukhu said this shift shows the commitment of his government to environment preservation. Giving details of other initiatives, he said that to meet the requirement of vehicles in departments, permission has been given to ply e-taxies on contract basis.
Under the Rs 680 crore Rajiv Gandhi Self-Employment Start-up Scheme, e-taxi permits are being provided to the youth by providing them 50% subsidy on their purchase. The government is also developing infrastructure for charging e-vehicles at home. The transport department has finalized 54 locations for setting up e-vehicle charging stations in the state, some of which are almost ready, as is developing 6 highways as green corridors.
Apart from this, all the diesel buses of the Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) are being converted into e-buses in a phased manner. In a recent meeting, the ebus manufacturing companies were requested to take into consideration the geographical conditions of Himachal.
SHIMLASukhu said that the state government is soon going to run e-buses on long routes as well. For this, type-1, 2 and 3 e-buses are being included in the HRTC fleet in a phased manner, so that the target of making Himachal a clean and green energy state by March 31, 2026, can be achieved.
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Tampa, Fla. – For the better part of three-and-a-half quarters, the New Orleans Saints played some of their best, most complementary football of the season.
The result, a 23-13 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium, kept alive New Orleans' playoff hopes as the Saints evened their record at 8-8 heading into the regular-season finale against Atlanta in the Caesars Superdome next weekend.
OFFENSE: New Orleans operated the perfect gameplan: Protect the ball (no turnovers), convert on third down (8 of 18), eat some clock with the run game (35 carries for 108 yards, and 36:38 in time of possession) and distribute the wealth (10 players caught passes). The Bucs never were able to get comfortable defensively, and the Saints were confident in what they were doing and what the result would be. It was proof that 500 yards of offense – the Saints totaled 310 – isn't necessary when all other facets fall into place. One of the best offensive showings of the season.
DEFENSE: And speaking of executing a gameplan to near perfection – the Saints held Tampa Bay to 44 yards of offense in the first half, produced four turnovers (interceptions by nickel corner Alontae Taylor and safety Johnathan Abram, fumble recoveries by linebacker Demario Davis and cornerback Isaac Yiadom) and got off the field on third down (Tampa Bay was 2 for 8). Even a couple of penalties wound up not being detrimental, because the Saints kept the Bucs out of the end zone. Yes, you'd like to see the defense have a little better finishing kick and keep them out of the end zone totally, but all in all the Saints flew around and created havoc. They stopped the run (15 carries for 57 yards) and they harassed quarterback Baker Mayfield (two interceptions, two sacks). It was a major undertaking to stop an offense that averaged 29 points during Tampa Bay's four-game winning streak, but New Orleans handled the job.
SPECIAL TEAMS: The kicking game, too, carried its weight. Blake Grupemade three field goals and half of Lou Hedley's six punts pinned Tampa Bay inside the 20. Not sexy, but efficient and effective when the Saints needed them to be. Rashid Shaheed had two punt returns for 27 yards; hopefully, he's on the verge of popping another one, against Atlanta.
Check out the game action shots from the New Orleans Saints game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 17 of the 2023 NFL season.
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A Chicago suburb made the top 10 safest cities in America for 2024, according to a new ranking, and a Midwest city was named in the top three.
According to the list from from MoneyGeek, Naperville, Illinois, ranked as the eighth-safest city in the U.S.
The ranking looked at more than 300 cities with populations over 100,000 people and analyzed them based on crime statistics from the FBI to determine the cost of crime per capita.
According to the list, Thousand Oaks, California, was named the safest city in the country, with a crime cost of only $241 per capita. Following closely were Fishers, Indiana, and Pembroke Pines, Florida.
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The only other Midwest city to make the top 10 was Carmel, Indiana, though MoneyGeek noted that "2022 data was limited for cities in Florida, Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania."
A separate ranking was done for small cities in the U.S., but the only Midwest cities to make the top 10 were Zionsville, Indiana, and Mason, Ohio.
See the full ranking here.
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New Year’s Eve magic shows tonight
SPARTA. Shows will be at 7 and 10 p.m. at Sparta Avenue Stage and will feature the award-winning sleight-of-hand artist Eric DeCamps.
For the first time in its 10-year history, the Sparta Avenue Stage will be hosting a New Year’s Eve magic performance.
Shows will be at 7 and 10 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31 and will feature the award-winning sleight-of-hand artist Eric DeCamps.
He will be joined by his friends: escape artist Thomas Solomon, illusionist/puppeteer John Bundy and magician Joe Garsetti.
Proprietor Diane Garsetti said, “It is really a terrific line-up of performers with great credentials. Eric has produced his own off-Broadway show, “Pure Magic;” Thomas has starred in his own TV special, “Solomon, the Escape Artist,” on the BBC; and John Bundy has performed illusions all over the world. We are looking forward to watching their different styles come together on New Year’s Eve.”
Light snacks will be complimentary at the 7 p.m. show. After the 10 p.m. show, guests are invited to stay for a reception to ring in 2024.
Co-proprietor Joe Garsetti said guests also are welcome to bring refreshments.
The theater will be set up cabaret-style with small tables and with an overhead camera that projects the close-up magic on a screen above the performer.
DeCamps, who is based in New York City, said, “I am looking to spending New Year’s Eve with my magician friends who are all accomplished performers and with the Sparta Stage crowd who have been so receptive in the past. What a great way to ring in 2024 and celebrate the new year.”
Tickets are $40 a person and may be purchased online at spartastage.com
Call 973-903-6052 for information.
The event is made possible by Sparta Stage, a nonprofit organization formed to educate and promote performance arts in general, with an emphasis and prominence placed on supporting the art of magic and prestidigitation.
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“It’s total madness,” said German tourist Janna Thomas, who waited in line since 7:30 a.m. to secure a prime waterfront location.
Some 90,000 police and security officers were deployed around France including along Champs-Elysees Avenue, where large crowds took in a multidimensional light show projected onto the Arc de Triomphe showcasing the history of Paris and sports on the menu for next year's Summer Olympics in the city.
In New York, people lined up early to nab a spot in Times Square for the midnight ball drop. Officials and party organizers said they were prepared to keep tens of thousands of revelers safe in the heart of Manhattan, as the city has seen near-daily protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.
FIREWORKS LIGHT UP THE NIGHT
Stunning fireworks displays bloomed at iconic locations like the Acropolis in Athens, Greece; reflected in the sleek glass walls of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates; and accompanied a collective cheer filling the air in Nairobi, Kenya.
China celebrated relatively quietly, with most major cities banning fireworks over safety and pollution concerns. Still, people gathered and performers danced in colorful costumes in Beijing, while a crowd released wish balloons in Chongqing. During his New Year address, President Xi Jinping said the country would focus on building momentum for economic recovery in 2024 and pledged China would "surely be reunified" with Taiwan.
In Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, the mood was upbeat as revelers gathered for a fireworks show at the bamboo-shaped Taipei 101 skyscraper and at concerts and other events citywide.
In India, thousands of revelers from the financial hub of Mumbai watched the sun set over the Arabian Sea. Fireworks in New Delhi raised concerns that the capital — already infamous for its poor air quality — would be blanketed by a toxic haze on the first morning of the new year.
Across Japan, people gathered at temples such as the Tsukiji Temple in Tokyo, where visitors were given free hot milk and corn soup as they stood in line to strike a massive bell.
POPE HIGHLIGHTS THE HUMAN COST OF WAR
At the Vatican, Pope Francis recalled 2023 as a year marked by wartime suffering. During his traditional Sunday blessing from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, he offered prayers for “the tormented Ukrainian people and the Palestinian and Israeli populations, the Sudanese people and many others.”
“At the end of the year, we will have the courage to ask ourselves how many human lives have been shattered by armed conflict, how many dead and how much destruction, how much suffering, how much poverty,” the pontiff said.
GAZA AND UKRAINE WARS GRIND ON
In Russia, the country's military actions in Ukraine overshadowed end-of-year celebrations, with the usual fireworks and concert on Moscow’s Red Square canceled, as they were last year. Even without the festivities, people gathered in the square,and some cheered and pointed their phones at a clock counting down the year's final seconds.
After shelling in the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 24 people, some local authorities across the country also canceled their firework displays, including in Vladivostok. Millions were expected to tune in to President Vladimir Putin's New Year's prerecorded address, in which he said no force could divide Russians and stop the country's development.
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 35 people Sunday, hospital officials said, as fighting raged across the tiny enclave a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war will continue for “many more months,” resisting international calls for a cease-fire.
Skyscrapers in Tel Aviv were lit up in yellow to call for the release of hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza for more than 80 days.
“While you are counting down until the new year, our time and our lives stopped," said Moran Betzer Tayar, the aunt of Yagev Buchshtab, a 34-year-old hostage.
In the Gaza Strip, displaced Palestinians huddled around fires in a makeshift refugee camp.
“From the intensity of the pain we live, we do not feel that there is a new year,” said Kamal al-Zeinaty, who has lost multiple family members in the conflict. “All the days are the same.”
In Iraq, a Christmas tree was decorated with Palestinian flags and symbolic bodies in funeral shrouds, placed beside a liberty monument in central Baghdad. Many Christians in Iraq have cancelled this year’s festivities in solidarity with Gaza, and have chosen to limit their celebrations to prayers and rituals.
“We hope that the new year, 2024, will be a year of goodness, prosperity and joy,” said Ahmed Ali, a Baghdad resident.
In Muslim-majority Pakistan, the government banned all New Year’s Eve celebrations in solidarity with the Palestinians.
GLOBAL TENSIONS SPUR SECURITY VIGILANCE
New York Mayor Eric Adams said there were “no specific threats” to his city’s annual bash. Nevertheless, police said they would expand the security perimeter around the party, creating a “buffer zone” that would allow them to head off potential demonstrations. On New Year's Eve 2022, a machete-wielding man attacked three police officers a few blocks from Times Square.
Security was also heightened across European cities on Sunday.
German authorities said they etained three more people in connection with a reported threat of a New Year's Eve attack by Islamic extremists on the world-famous Cologne Cathedral.
In Berlin, some 4,500 police officers were expected to keep order and avoid riots like those seen a year ago. Authorities also banned the traditional use of firecrackers for several streets across the city. They also banned a pro-Palestinian protest in the Neukoelln neighborhood of the German capital, which has seen several pro-Palestinian riots.
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