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Sending festive greetings on social media platforms like Instagram has become an engaging way to share the excitement of the New Year. Instagram is known for its Stories and Direct Messages feature, which allows users to add colorful stickers to their posts and messages. With 2024 fast approaching, here is a step-by-step guide on how to send Happy New Year 2024 stickers on Instagram, adding a cheerful vibe to your shared moments.
To start, launch the Instagram app on your mobile device and make sure you are logged into your account. Then, tap on your profile picture or swipe right from your feed to access the Stories camera. When the camera is open, look for the sticker icon at the top of the screen. It usually looks like a square smiley face.
Next, tap on the sticker icon to open the sticker library. In the search bar, type “Happy New Year 2024” or simply browse through the available sticker options. When you find the desired Happy New Year sticker, tap on it to add it to your Story. You can resize, rotate, or place multiple stickers on your post to create a customized festive greeting.
Instagram offers various text styles and customization options. Add a personalized message or change the font style and color to complement your sticker. Once your Story is ready, tap the "Your Story" button at the bottom of the screen to share it with your followers.
If you prefer a more direct approach, access Direct Messages by tapping the paper airplane icon on the top right corner of your feed or within someone's profile. Start composing a message, tap on the sticker icon, and add New Year stickers to enhance your greeting.
That's it, now you know how to send Happy New Year 2024 stickers on Instagram. Happy New Year!
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:42Z
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PAIA, Hawaii (AP) — A surfer in Hawaii has died after being injured in a shark encounter off Maui’s northern shore, according to the Maui Police Department. Authorities stopped short of calling the event an attack and didn’t describe the man’s injuries.
Ocean Safety Officers grabbed and transported the man by jet ski to shore, where responders performed life-saving measures until medical personnel arrived and took the victim to a hospital for further treatment, police said in a news release.
The man’s identity was not immediately released pending the notification of extended family and friends. Authorities did say the man was from Haiku, a small community on Maui’s north side.
There were no initial signs of foul play. The investigation is ongoing and an autopsy is scheduled, according to the police department.
The man was injured on Paia Bay, near Haiku, and shark warning signs were placed on beaches one mile on either side of the bay, according to Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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20 World Tour teams to participate in 2019 UAE Tour
This is the first year the Dubai and Abu Dhabi Tour have joined forces to create the combined UAE edition, organized by Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah Sports Councils, WAM reports.
The inaugural UAE Tour's seven stages will embrace all seven United Emirates. The first three stages will be hosted by Abu Dhabi, the fourth by Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, the fifth stage crosses Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah, the sixth is in Ajman, Umm Al Qaiwain and Ras Al Khaimah, while the final stage sees a return to Dubai.
The 2019 UAE Tour has a total distance of 1,090km with a significant elevation gain of around 4,500 metres, mostly concentrated into stages three, four and six. 20 World Tour teams plus two UCI Professional Continental Teams are set to start. With each team comprising seven riders, a total of 140 athletes will line up at Al Hudayriat Island for the opening stage Team Time Trial. Among them are some of the world's finest riders including the only two current professionals to have won all three Grand Tours: six-time Grand Tour champion Chris Froome, the Briton - starting a UAE race for the first time - goes head-to-head with his rival the Italian Vincenzo Nibali boasting four Grand Tour titles so far.
Mubadala Investment Company, which has signed a sponsorship partnership agreement with the 2019 UAE Tour, will also present the ‘UAE Tour Educational Project', consisting of an hour-long workshop created exclusively for students aged between 8 and 12 years old from UAE schools. The program focuses on familiarizing young people with the history of the bicycle, the health benefits of cycling and key road safety skills.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:43Z
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By this point, Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift should be recognized as one of the biggest gifts the NFL can receive.
American football has always been popular, but it did not become something the majority of women could gravitate toward until the pop star was seen in the stands of Arrowhead in September. But unbeknownst to the general public at the time, she was already dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end.
X/Twitter user LavenderKelce recently shared a theory about their relationship, saying that Swift wore a yellow dress (one of the defending Super Bowl champions' colors) at an August 7 (8/7 in US writing) concert and sand cryptic lyrics.
Naturally, the rest of the fanbase caught on to it:
Biggest performers in Travis Kelce, Chiefs' divisional clincher vs. Bengals
Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are officially AFC West champions for the eighth consecutive season after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 25-17 on Sunday, but the eight-time Pro Bowler's individual performance has left much to be desired.
Travis Kelce had just three catches for 16 yards, one less than Noah Gray, who had the same number of receptions.
Not that it would have mattered, as Patrick Mahomes found other ways to attack: rookie wide receiver Rashee Rice, who amassed a game-high 127 yards from just five catches, and sophomore running back Isiah Pacheco, who had 130 rushing yards from 18 carries and caught the team's only touchdown pass.
The defense, however, was the true star of the show, sacking Jake Browning six times. Safety Justin Reid had two of them on his own, while three others, including captain Chris Jones, had at least one each.
And finally, kicker Harrison Butker had a prolific day, hitting six consecutive field goals to end the Bengals' playoff hopes.
Next up for the Chiefs is a visit to the already-eliminated Los Angeles Chargers. Head coach Andy Reid is already considering resting Kelce and the rest of the starters. Regardless, Mahomes is ready for whatever happens, as he told reporters after the game (NBC Sports):
“If he wants us to build off this momentum, I’ll be ready to roll. If he wants to give us some rest I’ll get that rest, prepare for whoever we’re going to play, and get ready for the playoffs.”
The date and time of the game will be announced after the end of the playing week.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:43Z
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Denmark's Queen Margrethe II announces she's stepping down after 52 years on the throne
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, currently the world's longest-serving monarch, revealed in her New Year's speech that she's stepping down after 52 years on the throne. She'll be succeeded by her son, Prince Frederik.
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Alyssa Rodgers talks about weekend events Published December 31, 2023 at 4:52 PM AKST Listen • 1:26:54 Ways To Subscribe Apple Spotify
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Sending festive greetings in the digital world has become more exciting with the introduction of expressive and colorful stickers on WhatsApp. These stickers are perfect to celebrate various events, including the New Year. As 2024 is approaching, here is a guide on how to send Happy New Year 2024 stickers on WhatsApp to add a vibrant festive spirit to your chats.
- Open WhatsApp
- Next, navigate to the chat window of the individual or group where you want to share your New Year wishes.
- Tap on the text input field to bring up the keyboard and look for the smiley face icon beside the text input area. Tap on it to access the emojis and stickers section.
- At the bottom of the screen, adjacent to emojis and GIFs, you’ll find a sticker icon. Tap on this icon to access WhatsApp's vast sticker library.
- Explore the available sticker packs, and if you haven’t already downloaded the New Year-themed sticker packs, you can do so by tapping the ‘+’ or ‘Add’ icon to access various collections.
- Once you have access to the Happy New Year 2024 sticker pack, simply tap on the sticker you wish to send, and it will automatically be inserted into the chat window.
- You can send several stickers in succession by tapping on different stickers within the pack before hitting the send button.
- Some sticker packs allow customization options such as resizing, rotating, or adding text to the stickers before sending. Explore these options for a more personalized touch.
- WhatsApp also allows you to mark stickers as favorites for quick access in the future. Long-press on a sticker and select the "Add to Favorites" option.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:48Z
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The Kansas City Chiefs have averted disaster.
Despite another sluggish Sunday, they rallied for a 25-17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.
The win didn't do much to quell concerns about a tepid offense that anchored Kansas City through a 2-4 stretch following their Week 10 bye. But it did secure the AFC West title, avoiding a Week 18 scenario that could have seen them eliminated from the postseason.
The Chiefs got off to a strong start with a 75-yard opening drive that ended with a touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes to Isaiah Pacheco. They wouldn't find the end zone from there.
After the Bengals answered with a touchdown to tie the game, the Chiefs turned the ball over with a fumble on their next possession. The Bengals then took a 17-17 lead that the the Chiefs cut to 17-13 at halftime. From there, kicker Harrison Butker and the Kansas City defense did the bulk of the work.
Butker successfully kicked four second-half field goals to extend a personal 18-0 scoring run over the Bengals as Kansas City shut Cincinnati out in the second half.
The Bengals had a chance to tie the game after Butker's sixth field goal extended Kansas City's lead to 25-17. They converted a fourth-and-18 after Justin Reid sack of Jake Browning at the Cincinnati 38-yard line. But Chiefs defenders sacked Browning two more times to force a fourth-and-27 that the Bengals would not convert.
The stop allowed the Chiefs to run out the clock and clinch an eighth consecutive AFC West title.
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Emma Raducanu recently expressed that she is ready to tackle any challenges that the upcoming year may bring while looking ahead to her comeback at the 2024 ASB Classic.
Raducanu's 2023 season was significantly impacted by a series of injuries that necessitated three surgeries- in her right ankle and both wrists. Consequently, her participation in the season was limited, with only five tournaments under her belt.
The former US Open champion was unable to compete in three out of the four Grand Slam events - the French Open, Wimbledon Championships, and the US Open.
Emma Raducanu will return to court this season and make her comeback at the 2024 ASB Classic, an event that is scheduled to take place from January 1 to January 7. In her first match, the former World No. 10 will go head-to-head against Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Before commencing her tournament in New Zealand, Raducanu took to social media to express her anticipation for the upcoming 2024 season. Reflecting on the challenges she faced in 2023, she stated that she is eagerly looking forward to the opportunities and experiences that the new year will bring.
"No secret 2023 had its obstacles. however, after the initial disappointment, it only made me appreciate the life i have more. looking ahead to 2024 from down under, feeling grateful and up for facing whatever this new year presents 🙏 been training well and proud of the steps i’ve made, now for the exciting part 😇 . thank you for everyone’s support throughout the year, i’m happy to see you all again. i missed this," Emma Raducanu captioned her Instagram post.
After the ASB Classic, Emma Raducanu will use her Special Ranking of World No. 103 to secure a spot in the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of 2024. However, this Special Ranking will only grant her entry into the qualifiers and not the main draw.
Emma Raducanu: "I feel fresh, I feel ready, I feel happy, I feel excited"
During a press conference ahead of the ASB Classic, Emma Raducanu expressed that she is ready to return to the tennis court after what has been a long hiatus. She stated that she is "fresh", "ready" and "very positive and lighter" ahead of the season.
Raducanu also expressed that this is the first time in two years that she has felt a slight sense of relief and that a little bit of weight was off her shoulders since winning the US Open title in 2021.
"Yeah, I feel reborn in a way. I feel fresh, I feel ready, I feel happy, I feel excited. So overall, I'm feeling very positive and lighter. I think that for two years after the US Open, I felt maybe a bit more like weight on my shoulders, but now I feel completely fresh," Emma Raducanu said.
The 21-year-old also revealed that she had casts and braces on her hand and foot as a result of the surgeries, which made it challenging for her to perform simple tasks.
“I had casts, braces on my hand and foot,” Raducanu said. “It was really difficult to do anything, really. As soon as I was able to start doing fitness and tennis again it was really nice -- just sweating. Having the time away, it only made me appreciate so much more playing tennis and moving your body.”
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:50Z
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2020 Tokyo Games organizers seek total smoking ban
According to sources, it would be the first time for such a measure to be taken at the Summer Olympic Games.
In 2017, the committee announced plans to ban smoking within buildings used for the Games. However, it had been carefully studying a ban on smoking outside of the building, as there were smoking areas on the premises of the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
According to the sources, the Tokyo committee's move will be in line with the wishes of the International Olympic Committee, which promotes smoke-free Olympic Games. It plans to not set up smoking areas on the premises of the facilities.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, a total smoking ban was imposed on the grounds of the venue, but cigarette butts ended up scattered around the entrance. So, the Tokyo committee will discuss measures with local governments, including the Tokyo metropolitan government.
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games intends to impose a total smoking ban at Games venues in 2020, including the entirety of both indoor and outdoor areas of each site, according to The Japan News.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Security forces in Afghanistan killed a number of Tajik and Pakistani nationals and arrested scores others involved in attacks against religious clerics, the public, and mosques, a senior Taliban official said Sunday.
Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Taliban’s appointed defense minister, during a press conference in the capital, Kabul, said dozens of Tajiks and more than 20 Pakistanis were killed in the past 12 months “in operations by security forces.”
He said scores of Tajiks and hundreds of Pakistanis involved in various incidents were also arrested during that period.
Mujahid called on neighboring and regional countries to strictly monitor their borders.
Tensions between Kabul and Islamabad spiked as hundreds of thousands of Afghans left Pakistan after authorities started pursuing foreigners they said were in the country illegally, going door-to-door to check migrants’ documentation, following an Oct.31 deadline.
Mujahid also said there has been a 90% decrease in attacks by an Islamic State group affiliate in the past year.
The militant group has carried out major assaults on schools, hospitals, and mosques, and has also attacked Shiite areas across the country.
The IS affiliate has been a major rival of the Taliban since the latter seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021. IS militants have struck in Kabul, in northern provinces and especially wherever there are Shiites, whom IS considers to be apostates.
Since taking power, the Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and work and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of harsh measures they imposed, as U.S. and NATO forces were pulling out of Afghanistan following two decades of war.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:49Z
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Kansas City Chiefs eliminate Cincinnati Bengals from AFC playoffs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) - Playing such a meaningful game in Arrowhead Stadium brings back some memories for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Reminders of all eyes turning to quarterback Joe Burrow and putting the season in the hands of one of the best players in football. Reminders of goal line stands, incredible turnovers and second half adjustments on defense.
For a while, the 2023 Bengals haven’t had any of that. And now, their playoff hopes are extinguished.
The Kansas City Chiefs eliminated the Bengals with a 25-17 win at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. Bengals quarterback Jake Browning had two chances to be the hero, and neither drive ended anywhere close to the end zone.
The game was far from a flashback of the Bengals’ greatest hits. Instead, it was another example of where the Bengals have struggled all season.
The Bengals allowed more big runs, missed more tackles and allowed more deep receptions down the sideline. They committed more drive-changing penalties. They couldn’t convert another short-yardage situation. They got beat by blitzes. They were set back by more injuries.
These will be the characteristics that will define the 2023 Bengals.
In the middle of the third quarter, the Bengals were up, 17-13, on 4th and 1 inside of the red zone. A run up the middle got stuffed for a loss. Just like in last week’s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bengals failed in a short-yardage situation in one of the biggest sequences of the game.
Three plays later, the Bengals’ secondary got beat by another deep throw on third down. Just like Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph did last week, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes connected on a pass deep down the field. Chiefs wide receiver Justin Watson, who has 26 catches all season, reeled in a 41-yard catch against Bengals cornerback DJ Turner and set up a field goal for Kansas City.
The Bengals’ young secondary has faced a steep learning curve all season, and Turner got benched on Sunday as the Bengals went with a more experienced Chidobe Awuzie. Turner was in the game as a part of a special third down package, and Mahomes took advantage of the opportunity.
Following a four-play drive and a punt from the Bengals, Mahomes connected on another deep pass. Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt was playing in his first game in a month following an ankle injury. He has been the Bengals’ best defensive back all year, but this time he got beat badly by Chiefs rookie Rashee Rice for a 67-yard pickup. The Chiefs’ drive ended with a field goal that gave them the lead.
This time, there was no magical adjustment that stumped Mahomes. There was no red zone turnover and no air tight coverage. On offense, the Bengals’ big plays to Tee Higgins and Ja’Marr Chase were kept in check.
Bengals quarterback Jake Browning had a strong bounce back game and kept the Bengals in it with his toughness and his accuracy. But without a consistent run game and without Higgins for a lot of the game due to a hamstring injury, the Bengals didn’t have enough answers.
In the first half, the Bengals only punted once and consistently sustained long drives. In the second half, the Bengals’ offense looked stuck.
The 2023 season ended with two chances for the Bengals to keep their season alive. The first sequence was a disaster. Quarterback Jake Browning took an intentional grounding
penalty on first down, he threw a short pass to Ja’Marr Chase on second down and he took a sack on third down.
To add insult to injury, the Chiefs provided another crushing punt return. On the ensuing punt by Brad Robbins, Richie James ran for 37 yards to set up a field goal that gave the Chiefs an 8-point lead.
Browning had one more shot to tie the score when the Bengals took the field with 2:59 left. On 1st and 10 from midfield, Browning held onto the ball too long and took a crushing sack. On second down, he got sacked again.
They say that you can’t zero blitz Joe Burrow. But you can zero blitz Jake Browning.
On fourth down, Browning threw a prayer down the field to Higgins. But the Bengals won’t have any more luck go in their favor.
This season was always going to be over when Burrow tore ligaments in his wrist in November. Over the next two months, Browning ended up proving he belongs in the NFL, and the Bengals made it interesting. But it’s a quarterback-driven league, and the Bengals revolve around Burrow.
When Burrow was fully healthy this year, the Bengals were 4-1. They were a dropped touchdown away from being 5-0. Burrow looked like he might be enough for the Bengals to make up for all of their missed tackles and blown coverages.
Without him, the Bengals are a last-place team in the AFC North.
The secondary has been the team’s glaring weakness all season, and that group made some devastating mistakes on Sunday in addition to the deep balls that Mahomes completed. The Chiefs scored their first touchdown when two Bengals’ defenders followed Rice and left Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco wide open. Missed tackles by rookie safety Jordan Battle gifted the Chiefs two big runs.
The Bengals’ defense is a group without any specific strengths, aside from star pass rusher Trey Hendrickson. The Chiefs’ offense was sputtering entering Sunday, and the offense found its groove again against the Bengals.
The Bengals were never able to replace defensive tackle DJ Reader following his season-ending quad injury, and they’ll have to adjust to life without him in 2024 as the team’s best run stopper hits free agency. The rest of the starters on defense will likely return, and the Bengals will bank on their development.
On the other side of the ball, the Bengals have decisions to make with Higgins, Tyler Boyd, Joe Mixon and Jonah Williams. They entered this season with a Super Bowl-caliber core, and now the Bengals head into the offseason with uncertainty.
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Russia launches new wave of drone and missile attacks against Kharkiv, other Ukrainian cities
Russia launched a new wave of drone and missile attacks against Kharkiv and other cities in Ukraine on Sunday, in apparent retaliation for a deadly Ukrainian attack against Belgorod, Russia, the day before. At least 20 people in Ukraine were injured.
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Vehicle owners have often experienced the frustration of losing their parked cars in areas like busy streets and parking lots where there are multiple cars parked at the same time. In some situations, pressing the key fob button also doesn’t help users to find their vehicles. For such instances, Google Maps offers a handy solution that can help users to locate their vehicles swiftly.
Google’s popular navigation service, Maps, offers multiple helpful features for its users. However, these features often go unnoticed by most users. Google Maps users can either ask the Google Assistant or can directly save and later find their parked car with just a few taps within the app on both Android and iPhone devices. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use Google Maps to save and find parked cars.
Google’s blog claims that parked car locations can be saved easily in Maps. Here are the steps:
How to save car parking location on Google Maps
1Open the Google Maps app on Android or iPhone once you reach your parking spot
2Tap the blue location dot icon
3Select the "Save Parking" button near the bottom of the screen.
In the blog post, Google claims that this is the easiest way to save your car’s parking location. However, users can also tap "More Info" to add a parking note and how long they plan on being in the spot. Users can also tap the "Share" option and send the saved location to others in their group or even text it to themselves so it becomes easy to find later.
Users can also access Google Maps to find the location where they have parked their car. Here’s how to use it:
How to find parked cars on Google Maps
1Once you're ready to find your vehicle, reopen Google Maps on iPhone or Android
2Look on the map for a little grey icon that says, "You parked here" (or use the link you sent yourself earlier).
3Once you find the spot, walk towards it, or tap the "You Parked Here" icon and select "Directions" to use Google Maps navigation.
4Now, you'll get turn-by-turn directions right to your car.
Google also allows users to type "Parking Location" in the search bar, showing where you parked. However, in such cases, Google Maps shows every possible parking location nearby.
If the user is walking or taking public transport back to their vehicle, they should change the navigation type from driving to walking or whatever method they’re using.
It is important to note that the location may face issues if the user is parked in a garage with multiple levels. However, Google Maps will help users to reach at least the correct building. Once the user is safely back in their car, they can tap the parking icon again and select "Clear.” By doing this, the location won't surface later when they’re using the Google Maps parking feature.
For CarPlay or Android Auto users, Google Maps can automatically save your parking location. Some parking venues also support the "Pay for Parking" feature. By hitting this option, users can also pay ahead of time.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:54Z
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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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Bianca Andreescu recently opened up about her highs and lows of 2023 and revealed what she has learned from them. Andreescu, who has been out of action for months due to a back injury, shared some of her personal and professional moments that shaped her year.
Andreescu, who rose to fame after winning the 2019 US Open, suffered a stress fracture in her back in August 2023, forcing her to withdraw from several tournaments, including the US Open, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, and the Cincinnati Open. She recently announced her withdrawal from the 2024 Australian Open, citing her back injury.
Despite the hardships, Andreescu has not lost her optimism and resilience. On Sunday, December 31, she took to Instagram to reflect on her year and share some personal insights and photos with her fans.
In her post, the Canadian shared some of the highlights of her year with her fans, such as playing at different tournaments, enjoying different cuisines, suffering a knee injury, traveling to various places, and spending time with her family and friends.
Along with the photos, Bianca Andreescu posted a screenshot of her notes, where she listed what she has been working on and learning this year. She shared insights into her personal growth, emphasizing self-prioritization. Acknowledging the significance of mental health, she advocated kindness, unity, and the power of stillness for finding answers.
The 23-year-old urged self-compassion and gratitude for each day and emphasized the transformative nature of time. She finished her notes with one of her favorite quotes from Bruce Lee: "As you think, so shall you become."
"I never thought I’d be where I am today at the beginning of the year," she wrote. "I had goals for my career and personal life that just didn’t go the way I thought. It was very saddening at first - thinking I’ve let myself and many other down once again, but like that one person once said… that’s life. This year took so many turns. I’ve never felt so hurt. I’ve also never felt so happy."
"But the one thing that always keeps me going is continuously learning and the saying “everything happens for a reason”. So to end this year I want to share with you the moments where I’ve felt the most joy, sadness, and contentment. Along with a little list of things I’ve been practicing and things that just need to be said. Enjoy :)" Bianca Andreescu added.
A look at Bianca Andreescu's performance in the 2023 season
Bianca Andreescu's journey through the 2023 tennis season unfolds as a tale of resilience and determination to regain her form amidst challenges.
The year began on a challenging note with an early-round defeat at the Adelaide International 1 and Australian Open, setting a less-than-ideal start for the Canadian.
The 23-year-old's campaigns in the Abu Dhabi and Dubai Open concluded in the initial round. At the same time, the Indian Wells and Miami Open saw her progress to the third and fourth rounds, respectively. The Madrid Open and Italian Open marked her exit in the second round.
The Grand Slam events presented a mix of promise and hurdles for Andreescu, with her battling to the third round at the Roland Garros and Wimbledon Championships.
At Roland Garros, she notably secured a victory against Victoria Azarenka in the first round but faced elimination at the hands of Lesia Tsurenko in the third round. Similarly, the Wimbledon Championships witnessed her triumph over Anna Bondar and Anhelina Kalinina in the initial rounds, ultimately succumbing to eventual runner-up Ons Jabeur.
Bianca Andreescu recorded her best performance of the season when she reached the semifinal of the Thailand Open in February, where she was forced to retire against Tsurenko during her second set, due to a shoulder injury.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:56Z
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27 Russian children returned from Iraq to Russia
"The IL-76 plane of the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived from Baghdad at the Ramenskoye Airport with 27 Russian children aged from 4 to 13 years onboard," the spokesman said.
According to the ministry, the children had a good flight, they were accompanied by rescuers, pediatricians and psychologists.
Earlier, an official with the press service of the Presidential Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Anna Kuznetsova told TASS that children from 10 regions of Russia would be brought to Moscow from Baghdad.
The official added that the children will be taken to the National Medical Research Center for Children's Health. There they will be handed to their relatives and guardians. All the necessary documents for custody are ready.
On December 30, the Russian Emergencies Ministry's flight evacuated 30 Russian children aged between three and 15 years from Iraq. According to Kuznetsova's press service, an inter-agency commission dealing with the return of children from combat zones has information about 699 underage Russian nationals whose parents took them to the Middle East.
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| 2024-01-01T02:16:57Z
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BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. “We’re going to act in a self-defense going forward,” a White House official said.
In a series of statements, the U.S. Central Command said the crew of the USS Gravely destroyer first shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired at the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou late Saturday, after the vessel reported getting hit by a missile earlier that evening as it sailed through the Southern Red Sea.
Four small boats then attacked the same cargo ship with small arms fire early Sunday and rebels tried to board the vessel, the U.S. Navy said.
Next, the USS Gravely and helicopters from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier responded to the Maersk Hangzhou’s distress call and issued verbal warnings to the attackers, who responded by firing on the helicopters.
“The U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense,” sinking three of the four boats and killing the people on board while the fourth boat fled the area, the U.S. Central Command said. No harm to U.S. personnel or equipment, or casualties from the cargo ship, were reported.
The Houthis acknowledged that 10 of their fighters were killed in the confrontation and warned of consequences.
In Washington, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council sidestepped a question about the possibility of a preemptive strike against the Houthis to safeguard commercial shipping in the vital waterway.
“I won’t say what’s on or off the table right now,” John Kirby told ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding, “We’re going to do what we have to do to protect shipping.” He said the United States has “significant national security interests in the region” and “we’re going to put the kind of forces we need in the region to protect those interests and we’re going to act in self-defense going forward.”
He said the U.S. has made it clear to the Houthis that “we take these threats seriously and we’re going to make the right decisions going forward.″
The events surrounding the Maersk Hangzhou represented the 23rd illegal attack by the Houthis on international shipping since Nov. 19, the Central Command said. It was the first time the U.S. Navy said its personnel had killed Houthi fighters since the Red Sea attacks started.
For over a month, Iran-backed Houthis have claimed attacks on ships in the Red Sea that they say are either linked to Israel or heading to Israeli ports. They say their attacks aim to end the Israeli air-and-ground offensive in the Gaza Strip that was triggered by the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Oct.7 attack in southern Israel.
However, the links to the ships targeted in the rebel assaults have grown more tenuous as the attacks continue.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called on President Joe Biden “to look at what actions need to be taken in Yemen to be able to prevent the Houthis to continue to put commercial and military vessels at risk.”
Noting Iran’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told ABC’s “This Week” that the Biden administration should be more aggressive “in responding to escalation by Iran.’’
The Denmark-based shipping giant Maersk, owner of Maersk Hangzhou, said Sunday it would suspend shipping through the Red Sea again after the two attacks on its freighter.
“In light of the (most recent) incident — and to give time to investigate the details of the incident and assess the security situation further — it has been decided that all transits through the area will be postponed for the next 48 hours,” Maersk was quoted as saying by the Danish public broadcaster DR.
On Saturday, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East said Houthi rebels have shown no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up.
Earlier this month, Washington announced the establishment of a new international coalition to protect vessels traveling through the waterway. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain are also part of the new maritime security mission.
Since the Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian to counter the attacks just over 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have traveled through the Red Sea region, and none had been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper told The Associated Press in an interview on Saturday.
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Associated Press writer Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, contributed to this report.
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Michigan home explosion heard for miles kills 4 and injures 2, police say
DETROIT (AP) — Four people died and two others were injured Saturday in a Michigan house explosion that could be heard miles away, police said.
The explosion happened before 4 p.m. in Northfield Township, about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) west of Detroit. The structure was destroyed, leaving only the basement, Northfield Township Police Lt. David Powell told reporters Saturday.
The blast, which could be heard about 9 miles (14.4 kilometers) away, sent debris into the air that landed on both sides of a nearby highway. Neighboring homes were not damaged, Powell said.
Six people were in the home, with four fatalities discovered at the scene and the two surviving victims hospitalized in critical condition. Police did not immediately know if the victims were related, Powell said.
Authorities have not determined the cause of the explosion.
Northfield Township police did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking additional information on Sunday.
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Frederic scores 2 goals as Boston Bruins win 3rd straight by downing Detroit Red Wings, 5-3
Trent Frederic scored twice, Charlie Coyle had the go-ahead goal and the Boston Bruins beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 on Sunday.
Boston forward Pavel Zacha scored an empty-net goal in his 500th regular-season game.
Jake DeBrusk also added an empty-netter and Charlie McAvoy had two assists for the Bruins, who have won three straight. Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves.
Jake Walman scored his third goal in two games for Detroit. Ben Chiarot and J.T. Compher had the Red Wings' other goals, and Alex Lyon stopped 23 shots.
The Atlantic Division opponents split their four-game season series.
Frederic scored his first goal of the game with 51.8 seconds left in the first period. David Pastrnak flicked the puck out of his own zone as Frederic got behind Detroit's defenders. Frederic backhanded the puck over Lyon's left shoulder.
Frederic crashed into Lyon, who was checked out by the team's trainer but remained in the game.
Frederic's second goal and ninth of the season came at 4:25 of the second. He skated in along the right boards and wristed a shot that whistled through Lyon's pads.
Walman notched his ninth goal this season at 13:01. He lifted a shot from the left circle over Swayman's shoulder.
Chiarot scored his third goal later in the period from the slot to tie it at 2. Boston's challenge of goalie interference was denied.
Boston regained the lead at 3:52 of the third. McAvoy passed the puck to Coyle, who scored his 13th goal from the slot.
DeBrusk's empty-netter came with 2:01 remaining. Following a Boston penalty, Compher scored on a rebound with 1:22 left.
Zacha's empty-netter with 24 seconds to go clinched the Bruins' victory.
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Microsoft has released an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS, shortly after launching the Copilot app on Android. Both versions of the app are now available on Apple App Store.
This app provides access to Microsoft Copilot (previously known as Bing Chat) and functions similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile app. Copilot uses OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-4, while ChatGPT's free version is powered by an older language model, ChatGPT-3.5.
You can ask questions, draft emails, summarise text and a lot more.
Users can also use the Copilot to create images from their words. This feature is powered by OpenAI's DALL-E 3 text-to-image AI system. OpenAI has claimed that this system is capable of better understanding the final image that you want to create based on the text that you type in. DALL-E 3 is also designed to be better than its predecessors at rendering difficult elements such as human hands.
As mentioned above, Microsoft Copilot has also been released as an app on Android. This AI chatbot has also been integrated into Windows 10 and Windows 11, which means that users can also access it on PCs. The chatbot is also available on Microsoft’s Edge browser.
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| 2024-01-01T02:17:00Z
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Rafael Nadal has addressed Novak Djokovic's recent claims of feeling 'intimidated' by him in their encounters at the French Open.
In their 18 meetings at Grand Slam tournaments, Nadal and Djokovic have locked horns 10 times at the French Open. While the Spaniard holds a dominant 8-2 winning record in their encounters at the claycourt Major, the Serb remains the only player to have defeated him twice at Roland Garros.
In a recent interview, Djokovic recalled his experience of sharing a locker room with Nadal in Paris. He disclosed that being confronted with the Spaniard's pre-match routine in such close quarters would 'piss him off' before they stepped onto the court.
"I'm playing Nadal in Roland Garros, and I have his locker next to my locker, right? So, we are so close. And we're tryin' to give each other space. But then the locker room is also not that big," he said on CBS' 60 Minutes.
"And, the way you jump around like Nadal does before we go out on the court. In the locker room, he's doing sprints next to you. I can even hear the music he's listening to, you know, in his headphones. So, you know, it's pissing me off," he added.
The 24-time Grand Slam champion admitted to feeling 'intimidated' by this initially, before he eventually began to view it as added motivation.
"Absolutely. Early in my career, I didn't realize how all that's part of the scenario, right? So, I was getting intimidated by that. But it's also motivating me to do stuff myself and to show that I'm ready, you know? I'm ready for a battle, for a war," he said.
However, Nadal has clarified that it was never his intention to intimidate the World No. 1, asserting that his sole focus had been on completing his typical warm-up routine to gear up for the contest ahead.
"It was never, never, never my intention. I warm up like this, I try to be prepared and ready to go, and I exercise, nothing more. I haven't heard what he said, honestly," Nadal told Spanish publication El Pais.
"Novak Djokovic has greatly enhanced his virtues, but he has not adapted his game radically" - Rafael Nadal
In the same interview, Rafael Nadal shed light on his different approaches to facing his arch-rivals, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. Nadal asserted that while the Serb had significantly improved his strengths over the years, he hadn't made any drastic adjustments to his game.
The Spaniard then likened his battles against Federer to a "chess game," highlighting the constant awareness they had of each other's intentions during a match.
"He (Novak Djokovic) has greatly enhanced his virtues, but he has not adapted his game radically. To play against Federer I had a very clear tactic; He knew what I was going to look for, I knew he would try to defend himself. It was a chess game. And when you were wrong, you knew it," Nadal said.
He contrasted his matches against Federer to those against Djokovic, disclosing that defeating the 24-time Grand Slam champion relied less on strategy and more on maintaining a consistently high level of performance.
"With Djokovic there is not that level of strategy in the matches. You have to play at a very high level and for a long time to beat him, it's different," he added.
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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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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST|Updated: 16 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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3.7trn tenge invested in Atyrau region's fixed capital in 2018
The total volume of investments increased by 136% compared to 2017. To date, the region successfully cooperates with more than 50 countries of the world. Over 1,000 joint and foreign enterprises are functioning today in the region. Global Oil&Gas Atyrau and Atyrau Build exhibitions are organized annually for the purpose of attracting investments to the region's economy.
A regional council of investors attraction and investment climate improvement has been established by the region's administration. The council consists of chiefs of governmental authorities, heads of public associations, foreign companies and representatives of embassies. The council was established to promptly solve the problems arising from investment activity of the region.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would “surely be reunified” with Taiwan during his televised New Year’s address, renewing Beijing’s threats to take over the self-ruled island, which it considers its own.
Taiwan split from China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing continues to regard the island of 23 million with its high-tech economy as Chinese territory and has been ramping up its threat to achieve that by military force if necessary.
“China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose,” Xi said in his annual address, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
China has described Taiwan’s Jan. 13 presidential and parliamentary elections as a choice between war and peace.
Beijing considers the presidential front-runner, William Lai, who currently serves as vice president from the ruling Democratic People’s Party, a “separatist” and has accused him and Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen of trying to provoke a Chinese attack on the island.
On Saturday, Chen Binhua, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, called Lai a “destroyer of peace” following a televised debate earlier that day in which Lai defended Taiwan’s right to rule itself as a democracy.
Chen said Lai’s discourse at the debate was “full of confrontational thinking,” adding that the vice president is “the instigator of a potential dangerous war in the Taiwan Strait.”
Lai had said during the debate that Taiwan is not subordinate to China and that he was open to communications with Beijing “as long as there is equality and dignity on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.” While Lai doesn’t describe himself as seeking independence from Beijing, he generally maintains Taiwan is already an independent country.
Lai’s election rivals include Hou Yu-ih from the more China-friendly Kuomintang party, and Ko Wen-je from the Taiwan People’s Party.
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Promate has announced the launch of its Transparent Series in partnership with Amazon. This series debuts with products: AuraFold, TransFold, and MagRing, which are designed to redefine the charging experience for mobile and wearable devices.
All wireless charging products in the Transparent Series are engineered with MagSafe charging technology, which can cater to all mobile phones, including iPhones.
These products are exclusively available on Amazon for Indian consumers, with prices ranging from 1999/- to 7999/-, catering to a diverse range of preferences and needs.
The TransFold and AuraFold charging stations offer a seamless solution to cable clutter and numerous adapters. These stations have a sleek and transparent foldable design, equipped with a 15W MagSafe charger for mobile phones, a 3W charger for Apple Watch, and a 5W wireless charging pad for AirPods. Priced at 3999/- and 4999/- respectively, these stations combine a unique transparent design with advanced multi-device fast charging technology, delivering an unparalleled and sophisticated charging experience.
MagRing embodies a slim, transparent ring-like design fused with dual-device fast charging capabilities, offering a unique charging experience. This 2-in-1 solution caters to mobiles and smartwatches, featuring a 15W MagSafe charger for mobiles and a 3W charger for smartwatches. Its 180° foldable design ensures stable dual-device charging while maintaining a lightweight, portable form factor.
Promate plans to unveil additional products –TransPack 5, TransPack 10, MagnusQi, and TransDrive 65W – in the Transparent series within the upcoming month.
Gopal Jeyaraj, Head of India & SAARC at Promate Technologies, shared, "At Promate, our commitment is to continually redefine innovation. With the Transparent Series, we are confident in reshaping user experiences, prioritizing both convenience and safety. We are eagerly anticipating the response to these products in India, aiming to set new benchmarks in charging solutions."
"At Promate, our aim is to continually push the boundaries of innovation, and with the Transparent Series, we are confident that these charging solutions will redefine user experiences, emphasizing both convenience and safety. We are excited about the reception these products will receive in India and look forward to setting new benchmarks in the charging solutions." Jeyrad added further.
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PGA Tour seeks extension on commercial deal with Saudis, private investors
(AP) - The PGA Tour believes it has made enough progress with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf to extend their negotiations into next year for a new commercial deal that would include a U.S. investment group and the European tour.
Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo to players on Sunday afternoon, just seven hours before the deadline to finalize the deal that was set in the June 6 framework agreement.
The PGA Tour board unanimously agreed three weeks ago to negotiate exclusively with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of American-based professional sports teams owners led by Fenway Sports Group.
Monahan said the tour has made “meaningful progress” with SSG and provided the group with all the information it requested.
“As we move forward in our discussions, we are focused on the finalization of terms and drafts of necessary documents,” Monahan said.
Far more complicated are the negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the financial supporters of the rival LIV Golf League which lured away Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka in 2022, and most recently Masters champion Jon Rahm earlier this month.
Monahan described conversations with PIF and the European tour as “active and productive.”
The framework agreement was to expire Dec. 31, though it included language that the deadline could be extended if all parties agreed. “We are working to extend our negotiations into next year based on the progress we have made to date,” Monahan said in his memo.
Monahan said the goal for 2024 was to reach agreements with SSG, PIF and the European tour to bring them in as minority co-investors in the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
“These partnerships will allow us to unify, innovate and invest in the game for the benefit of players, fans and sponsors,” Monahan said.
Under the framework agreement, PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan would have a seat on the PGA Tour board. The agreement also included PGA Tour Enterprises doing an “objective, empirical-driven evaluation” of LIV and to determine if team golf can be integrated into the PGA Tour and European tour.
It also was to determine a “fair and objective” process for LIV players who might want to return to the PGA Tour or European tour, which is said to be a sticking point because of the players who turned down Saudi riches to remain on the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour season begins Thursday at The Sentry on Maui, the first of eight “signature” events with a $20 million purse and limited field. LIV Golf already has announced the bulk of its 2024 schedule and $20 million purses. It starts the first week of February.
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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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-40°C cold forecast in N Kazakhstan Feb 8
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PETROPAVLOVSK. KAZINFORM The National Meteorological Service predicts further air temperature decrease in North Kazakhstan region, Kazinform reports.
Thus, on February 8, nighttime temperature will drop to -40°C in some areas. Blizzard will strike the region in the daytime. Gusts of southeastern wind will increase to 15-20mps, sometimes to 25mps. Storm possibility is 90-95%.
Extreme cold weather has stayed in the region for several days. Classes are cancelled at schools, and roads remain closed in all directions.
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Popular dating site Tinder will be celebrating the first Sunday in January as “Dating Sunday”, also known as Swipe Sunday. The company claims that it is “one of the busiest days of the year on dating apps as singletons bring their new year energy and intentions into their quest for making new connections.”
As per new data from Tinder, the number of Likes increases by 18.2% and the number of DMs sent increases by 22% on Swipe Sunday.
From then until Valentine’s Day there are 11.4 million more messages sent globally compared with the rest of the year, and 58.7 million more likes sent compared to the rest of the year.
How to increase your chance of likesFor many singles, this period is the perfect moment to get their Tinder profile ready for whatever the new year's connections may bring, the company suggests. The company also claims that on ‘Dating Sunday’, Tinder users respond on average 19.4 minutes faster than on other Sundays of the year.
OnePoll on behalf of Tinder conducted a study of 1000 18-25 year old dating singles across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kochi, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Guwahati between April - May 2023. These are findings from this study
Tips from Tinder’s Year in Swipe reportThis recently released report shows that 2023 was the year of dating “For the Plot”, with singles less concerned with where their relationship was heading, and were more concerned with creating memorable experiences and opportunities - also known as N.A.T.O Dating (a.k.a. Not Attached To Outcomes).
To help singletons live their best main character lives and maximize their chances of finding a match this New Year, Tinder is sharing the best profile trends, from its recently released Year in Swipe report.
- The optimal amount of words in a Tinder bio is between 15-45 - During peak season there are 519 Tinder bios edited a minute. So don’t hold back - in 2023, singles in India passionately voiced their values, championing social causes such as Environment, Mental Health, and Animal Rights to their dating mantras like Authenticity, No Labels, and Emotionally Available in their Tinder bios.
- Share at least five photos: Focus on images that capture your personality at different times. During peak season, 2263 photos are added to Tinder profiles every minute2. And don’t forget to photo verify to get a blue tick on your profile showing your potential Tinder matches that it’s you in the photos. 65% of young daters in India said a verified profile makes a match more attractive.
- Discover attractive interests - Finding common ground is one of the easiest ways to meet someone compatible with you. Use Tinder’s newest features Profile Quiz to check your compatibility with potential Tinder matches through a fun quiz about yourself. Share your responses on your Tinder profile, offering a glimpse into your preferences and interests. The most attractive interests in India right now are makeup, cafe hopping, self-care, skin care and pinterest.
- Be open about what you are looking for - Be clear with your intentions. Tinder’s Relationship Goals feature, where Tinder users can share what they are looking for in a relationship, reveals that a quarter (25%) of Tinder users in India are “still figuring it out”.
- Quality Time - Including your love language on your profile helps indicate your communication style for future relationships. Spending quality time together is the most popular love language for singles on Tinder.
Spark conversations beyond ‘hi’ - It can be pretty hard to start a conversation out of thin air but Tinder’s new profile prompts help users in expressing their unique personalities and show all their sides, from the fun humor to the ‘real talk’. By selecting and responding to Prompts, you can spark engaging conversations that dig deeper than a mere Like or Nope. The three most popular prompts globally are: “The key to my heart is”, “The first item on my bucket list is”, and “Two truths and a lie”.
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Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades.
A sitting president tried to overturn an election and his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the winner from taking power. Supporters of that attack launched a campaign against local election offices, chasing out veteran administrators and pushing conservative states to pass new laws making it harder to vote.
At the same time, the past three years proved that American democracy was resilient.
Former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results failed, blocked by the constitutional system’s checks and balances, and he now faces both federal and state charges for those efforts. Then the voters stepped in. In every presidential battleground state, they rejected all candidates who supported Trump’s stolen election lies and were running for statewide offices that had some oversight of elections.
The election infrastructure in the country performed well, with only scattered disruptions during the 2022 midterms. New voting laws, many of which are technical and incremental, had little discernable impact on actual voting.
“Voters have stepped up to defend our democracy over the past few years,” said Joanna Lydgate, chief executive officer of States United, which tracks those who refuse to believe in the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. “State and local officials have done a tremendous job in protecting our free and fair elections.”
So why all the worry? As Lydgate and anyone else who works in the pro-democracy field quickly notes, the big test — what Lydgate calls “the Super Bowl” — awaits in 2024.
Trump is running for the White House again and has been dominating the Republican primary as the first votes approach. He has called for pardoning those prosecuted for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, continues to insist falsely that the 2020 election was “stolen” and says he will use the federal government to seek revenge on his political enemies.
Trump has used increasingly authoritarian rhetoric as he campaigns for the GOP nomination. If he wins, allies have been planning to seed the government with loyalists so the bureaucracy doesn’t hinder Trump’s more controversial plans the way it did during his first term.
It’s gotten to the point that Trump was recently asked by conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt whether he planned to be a dictator: “Not at all,” Trump responded. “No, I’m gonna rule as somebody that’s very popular with the people.”
The 2024 election could cause all sorts of conflict, including scenarios that have notably not materialized despite widespread concern since 2020: violence at the polls, overly aggressive partisan poll watchers or breakdowns in the ballot count.
It seems unlikely, though, that Trump could return to the White House if he loses the election. That’s what he failed to accomplish in 2020, and he’s in a weaker position now.
His strategy then was to use Republican dominance in swing state legislatures, governorships and secretary of state offices to try to send slates of fake electors to Congress even though Democrat Joe Biden won those states and captured the presidency.
Since then, Republicans have lost two of those swing state secretary of state offices — in Arizona and Nevada — as well as the governor’s office in Arizona and control of the state legislatures in Michigan and Pennsylvania. In Congress, lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill closing some of the loopholes in the counting of Electoral College votes that Trump tried to exploit to stay in office, making it harder to challenge state certifications on the House floor.
The upshot is it will be far harder for Trump to try to overturn a loss in 2024 than in 2020. The most likely way he returns to the White House is by winning the election outright.
“It’s not to say the risks are gone,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It’s to say we’ve successfully fought the last war.”
History is full of examples of authoritarians who first came to office by winning a legitimate democratic election. But the risk to democracy of someone legitimately winning an election is different than the risk of a candidate trying to overturn an election loss.
When Trump began to falsely claim he had won the 2020 election and urged Republicans to overrule their states’ voters and send his electors to Congress, every GOP official with the power to do that refused. The Republican leaders of the Michigan Legislature turned down his request to overrule voters. In Georgia, where the presidential ballots were counted three times and affirmed Biden’s win, Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger earned Trump’s fury by rejecting him. So did then- Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the Republican leaders of that state’s legislature.
Some Republicans did try to aid Trump. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a group of 17 GOP attorneys general in filing a lawsuit urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the election. The high court swiftly dismissed the case. Trump lost all but one of more than 60 lawsuits he and his allies filed in states to overturn the election, sometimes before judges he had appointed.
Then in November 2022, every swing state candidate who backed Trump’s effort to overturn his loss and who was running for a statewide office with a role in elections lost.
“There’s little doubt our democracy has gotten dinged up in a couple of moments of late, but we have decided we like it compared to the alterative,” said Justin Levitt, who served as adviser for democracy and voting rights for two years in the Biden White House and is now a law professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Election deniers have been able to make gains in one area — offices where they simply have to win a Republican primary. That’s meant they have taken power in local governments in many rural areas, often disrupting elections and embracing conspiracy theories or procedures such as hand-counting, which is less reliable and more time-consuming than tabulating thousands of votes on machines.
They also have been able to expand their power within Republican legislative bodies from statehouses to Congress. U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who helped organize a brief supporting the quickly thrown-out lawsuit to overturn Biden’s victory, is now the House speaker.
If Johnson retains his speakership in January 2025, he could be in a position to disrupt certification of a Biden victory. Republicans more willing to subvert democracy also could have greater sway in state legislatures.
Then there’s the view of Trump backers. They report being even more worried about democracy than those who oppose him. Normally members of the party out of power feels like democracy isn’t working as well for them, but Trump’s situation is different. He’s the first president in history to face prosecution and is promoting the narrative that he’s being persecuted by his likely general election opponent.
Trump says the criminal cases and separate attempts to bar him from the ballot under the insurrection clause of the Constitution are a form of election interference.
The Colorado Supreme Court found his role in the Jan. 6 attack was sufficient grounds to remove him from the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment, a ruling Trump’s campaign said it will appeal soon to the U.S. Supreme Court, where three of his nominees help form the conservative majority. On Thursday, Maine’s Democratic secretary of state struck Trump from that state’s primary ballot, becoming the first election official to take such action. Shenna Bellows suspended her ruling until Maine’s court system rules on the case.
While campaigning, Trump has adopted an “I’m rubber and you’re glue” approach, accusing Biden of being the actual threat to democracy.
A more revealing argument comes from a contention one of the former president’s attorneys made before the Colorado Supreme Court. Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state, was arguing against attempts by a liberal group to boot Trump from the ballot.
“If the entire nation chooses someone to be president, can that be an insurrection or is that a democratic choice?” Gessler asked.
Gessler was addressing the hypothetical case of a former Confederate winning the White House in the 19th century, but it’s easy to see how this applies to the election before us.
Or, as Levitt said of American democracy: “It is kind of up to us how resilient we make it.”
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Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. Reminds Investors That Class Action Lawsuits Have Been Filed Against Dollar General, and Estee and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm
NEW YORK, Dec. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized shareholder rights law firm, reminds investors that class actions have been commenced on behalf of stockholders of Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG), and Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL). Stockholders have until the deadlines below to petition the court to serve as lead plaintiff. Additional information about each case can be found at the link provided.
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG)
Class Period: May 28, 2020 - August 31, 2023 (Common Stock Only)
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: January 26, 2024
The Dollar General class action lawsuit alleges that defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Dollar General stores were chronically understaffed and suffering from logistical and inventory management problems which left stores with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of outdated and unwanted inventory, mispriced goods, and lost and damaged items; (ii) large backlogs of unsellable merchandise had built up at Dollar General’s stores, which inventory had not been timely written down due to understaffing and Dollar General’s failure to manage its inventory; (iii) the allotment of employee hours per store per week imposed by Dollar General management placed employees in virtually impossible situations where assigned tasks, including those necessary to effective store operations, could not be completed within the allotted time; (iv) Dollar General was systematically overcharging customers for items upon checkout above the listed price in violation of state laws, including state law violations identified by state regulators in Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio; (v) Dollar General’s reported revenue and earnings during the Class Period were artificially inflated by defendants’ over-pricing scheme; (vi) Dollar General’s failure to manage store inventories and accurately price items upon checkout risked the loss of customers, lower sales, adverse regulatory actions, and reputational fallout; and (vii) Dollar General was not on track to achieve its guidance during the Class Period and such guidance lacked a reasonable factual basis.
On February 23, 2023, Dollar General announced that fourth quarter of 2022 sales and earnings would come in materially below what Dollar General had led investors to expect as recently as December 2022. On this news, the price of Dollar General common stock fell.
Then, on March 16, 2023, Dollar General revealed, among other things, that it missed its prior annual net sales guidance by approximately $140 million. On this news, the price of Dollar General common stock fell nearly 3%.
Thereafter, on June 1, 2023, Dollar General reported first quarter of 2023 revenue of $130 million below analysts’ estimates. Dollar General also slashed its full year 2023 financial forecast and that it further only expected full year 2023 net sales growth in the range of 3.5% to 5%, down 26% at the midpoint from the prior 5.5% to 6% range provided in March 2023. On this news, the price of Dollar General common stock fell nearly 20%.
Finally, on August 31, 2023, Dollar General reported lower than expected second quarter of 2023 financial results and again slashed its sales and profit outlook for full year 2023. Dollar General blamed weaker consumer spending on non-essential purchases and increasing theft for the shortfall. On this news, the price of Dollar General common stock fell more than 12%.
For more information on the Dollar General class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/DG
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL)
Class Period: August 18, 2022 - May 2, 2023 (Common Stock Only)
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: February 5, 2024
The filed complaint alleges that defendants misled investors with unrealistic and materially false statements about market demand Estee’s products and its inventory levels. These statements concealed the truth about Estee’s weakness in the market until, on May 3, 2023, Estee announced weaker sales and profit for the year than estimated and accordingly cut its fiscal year outlook for a third consecutive time.
As a result, the price of Estee stock declined from $245.22 per share on May 2, 2023 to $202.70 per share on May 3, 2023.
For more information on the Estee class action go to: https://bespc.com/cases/EL
About Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C.:
Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. is a nationally recognized law firm with offices in New York, California, and South Carolina. The firm represents individual and institutional investors in commercial, securities, derivative, and other complex litigation in state and federal courts across the country. For more information about the firm, please visit www.bespc.com. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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US Navy helicopters fire at Yemen’s Houthi rebels and kill several in latest Red Sea shipping attack
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces opened fire on Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea, killing several of them in an escalation of the maritime conflict linked to the war in Gaza. “We’re going to act in a self-defense going forward,” a White House official said.
In a series of statements, the U.S. Central Command said the crew of the USS Gravely destroyer first shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired at the Singapore-flagged Maersk Hangzhou late Saturday, after the vessel reported getting hit by a missile earlier that evening as it sailed through the Southern Red Sea.
Four small boats then attacked the same cargo ship with small arms fire early Sunday and rebels tried to board the vessel, the U.S. Navy said.
Next, the USS Gravely and helicopters from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier responded to the Maersk Hangzhou’s distress call and issued verbal warnings to the attackers, who responded by firing on the helicopters.
“The U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense,” sinking three of the four boats and killing the people on board while the fourth boat fled the area, the U.S. Central Command said. No harm to U.S. personnel or equipment, or casualties from the cargo ship, were reported.
The Houthis acknowledged that 10 of their fighters were killed in the confrontation and warned of consequences.
In Washington, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council sidestepped a question about the possibility of a preemptive strike against the Houthis to safeguard commercial shipping in the vital waterway.
“I won’t say what’s on or off the table right now,” John Kirby told ABC’s “Good Morning America,” adding, “We’re going to do what we have to do to protect shipping.” He said the United States has “significant national security interests in the region” and “we’re going to put the kind of forces we need in the region to protect those interests and we’re going to act in self-defense going forward.”
He said the U.S. has made it clear to the Houthis that “we take these threats seriously and we’re going to make the right decisions going forward.″
The events surrounding the Maersk Hangzhou represented the 23rd illegal attack by the Houthis on international shipping since Nov. 19, the Central Command said. It was the first time the U.S. Navy said its personnel had killed Houthi fighters since the Red Sea attacks started.
For over a month, Iran-backed Houthis have claimed attacks on ships in the Red Sea that they say are either linked to Israel or heading to Israeli ports. They say their attacks aim to end the Israeli air-and-ground offensive in the Gaza Strip that was triggered by the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Oct.7 attack in southern Israel.
However, the links to the ships targeted in the rebel assaults have grown more tenuous as the attacks continue.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called on President Joe Biden “to look at what actions need to be taken in Yemen to be able to prevent the Houthis to continue to put commercial and military vessels at risk.”
Noting Iran’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told ABC’s ``This Week” that the Biden administration should be more aggressive “in responding to escalation by Iran.’’
The Denmark-based shipping giant Maersk, owner of Maersk Hangzhou, said Sunday it would suspend shipping through the Red Sea again after the two attacks on its freighter.
“In light of the (most recent) incident — and to give time to investigate the details of the incident and assess the security situation further — it has been decided that all transits through the area will be postponed for the next 48 hours,” Maersk was quoted as saying by the Danish public broadcaster DR.
On Saturday, the top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East said Houthi rebels have shown no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea even as more nations join the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic begins to pick up.
Earlier this month, Washington announced the establishment of a new international coalition to protect vessels traveling through the waterway. The United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and Spain are also part of the new maritime security mission.
Since the Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian to counter the attacks just over 10 days ago, 1,200 merchant ships have traveled through the Red Sea region, and none had been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Adm. Brad Cooper told The Associated Press in an interview on Saturday.
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Associated Press writer Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, contributed to this report.
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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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The Clipboard Protection feature in Android 13 and 14 is your new guardian angel for sensitive information copied on your phone. Essentially, it acts like a gatekeeper, monitoring and managing app access to the clipboard, helping you avoid the risk of sensitive data like passwords, addresses, or credit card numbers leaking to unapproved apps.
Here's how it works:Notification of Clipboard Access:
- Whenever an app tries to access the clipboard, you'll see a persistent notification informing you about it. This transparency allows you to stay aware of which apps are snooping on your copied data.
Automatic Clearing of Sensitive Content:
- If you copy text containing potentially sensitive information (like a password or credit card number), the clipboard automatically clears that content after a short period (around 1 hour by default). This prevents malicious apps from grabbing snippets that shouldn't be shared.
Preventing Visual Leaks:
- Android 14 further strengthens protection by hiding sensitive content previews in app notification toasts. This means even if an app accesses the clipboard before it's automatically cleared, the sensitive information won't be visible in the notification preview.
How to Use Clipboard Protection:
- There's no specific setting to enable or disable this feature. It's built into the core functionality of the clipboard in Android 13 and 14. You just need to be aware of the notifications and trust the automatic clearing mechanisms to keep your copied data safe.
Remember:
- While Clipboard Protection is a valuable security feature, it's not foolproof. Always exercise caution when copying sensitive information and avoid entering it into untrusted apps or websites.
- Some specific apps, like password managers, may require continued access to the clipboard for their functionality. You can grant them permission on a case-by-case basis through the notification, ensuring only trusted apps have access.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
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amount-spellout.10000 Swedish kronor to Salvadoran colóns
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(FOX40.COM) — A 10-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly shooting another 10-year-old with his father’s gun in Sacramento.
Around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) deputies responded to a call of a shooting on the 4700 block of Greenholme Drive. Upon arrival, deputies said they found an unresponsive juvenile in the middle of the parking lot who was bleeding from his head and neck. Officials said he was shot.
Initial reports from witnesses stated that the victim was 13-14 years old, however, he was identified by medical personnel to be 10 years old. Deputies reportedly began life-saving efforts, including CPR, until Sacramento Metro Fire Department arrived on the scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Witnesses told deputies the people responsible for the shooting ran into a nearby apartment. Deputies said they called out all individuals from that apartment and detained everyone inside, including a man, his 10-year-old son, and another juvenile.
Deputies said the detained 10-year-old allegedly went to his father’s vehicle to get him cigarettes. He then took a gun from inside the vehicle and bragged that his father had a gun. He then proceeded to shoot the victim once and ran into a nearby apartment.
Officials said the gun was found in a nearby trashcan, where deputies suspect the father tried to dispose of it. Detectives confirmed that the father was legally prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. The recovered firearm was also reported stolen in 2017, according to law enforcement.
SCSO arrested the 10-year-old boy under suspicion of murder and transported him to the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility. The father was arrested and transported to the Sacramento County Main Jail under suspicion of several felony firearm-related charges, child endangerment, and accessory after the fact. Davis is being held on $500,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 3, 2024.
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Augustana can’t get revenge against Notre Dame, fall in overtime
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (Dakota News Now) - Augustana hockey (6-10-2) fell short in overtime to Notre Dame (10-8-2) by a score of 3-2 inside Compton Family Ice Arena. Zack Rose made 37 saves in his first game since Nov. 26th while Ryan Naumovski skated in his 150th consecutive NCAA career game.
Viking hockey jumped out to an early 1-0 lead as Ben Troumbly potted his second of the season off a Will Howard rebound. Augustana continued its momentum throughout the first half of the first period as it controlled the majority of possession. Notre Dame evened the score with just over five minutes remaining in the frame as Michael Mastrodomenico slotted in the rubber short side.
ND’s offense carried its late first period goal into the second frame as Paul Fischer fired in a shot from the top of the circle through traffic to take its first lead of the game. Augustana bounced back with just over two-minutes remaining in the period as a trio of freshmen compiled for a Vikings’ goal, Owen Bohn rifled in his third of the season off passes from Quinn Rudrud and Callum Gau.
The third period started out hot as both teams found offensive chances but Rose and Ryan Bischel stood tall throughout the entire 20 minutes. A quick break led by Luke Mobley turned into a premier scoring chance for the Vikings as the puck nearly slid into the net midway through the period, after a quick review by the officials the Vikings chance was diminished.
Before the start of the overtime period, Notre Dame challenged a hit that occurred in the final 17.1 seconds of the third period. After a successful challenge the Vikings were forced to play 4 on 3 for the entire extra period of play. ND took advantage of its man-advantage as Cole Knuble potted his fourth of the weekend to grab the Fighting Irish win.
Game Moments
- Ryan Naumovski skated in his 150th NCAA career game.
- Zack Rose made 37 saves in his first start in over a month.
- A trio of freshmen connected for the Vikings second goal.
- Only first-year players collected points for the Vikings.
- AU blocked a total of 24 shots led by Anthony Stark with a team-high of three.
Goals
- Ben Troumbly chipped in his second of the season off a play set up by Will Howard and Hayden Hennen.
- Michael Mastrodomenico evened the score at 1-1 with a short side goal.
- Paul Fischer grabbed the ND lead with a wrist shot from the slot through traffic.
- Owen Bohn slotted in his third of the season off passes from Quinn Rudrud and Callum Gau.
- Cole Knuble scored the game-winning goal in overtime to secure an ND win.
Augustana will look to bounce back in the win column as it faces off against Minnesota State Mankato on home ice inside the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. The two-game series is slated for Friday, Jan. 5 at 7:07 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 6 at 6:07 p.m. The weekend series will be the last time Augustana plays inside the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center before the opening of Midco Arena on Friday, Jan. 26.
Recap courtesy of Augustana Athletic Communications.
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CUSA Games Today: How to Watch CUSA Games, TV Schedule, Live Streaming Options - Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 2:10 PM EST|Updated: 53 minutes ago
Looking for info on how to watch all of the college football postseason action now that bowl season and the College Football Playoff are here? Below, we highlight how you can watch all four games involving teams from the CUSA.
Watch college football all season long on Fubo and ESPN+!
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AMSTERDAM: Climate activists blocked part of the main highway around
Amsterdam near the former headquarters of ING bank for hours on Saturday to protest its financing of fossil fuels.
Dozens of Extinction Rebellion protesters were detained by police late in the afternoon after ignoring orders to end their blockade. Police said the operation to clear the road was peaceful.
Activist Sebastiaan Vannisselroy said the protesters were demonstrating "for the safety for us all. The Netherlands is a low-lying country. We're threatened by ocean rise. So we want to ... safeguard the future for all of us."
Amsterdam Municipality said in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that traffic authorities closed part of the road and diverted traffic "to prevent a life-threatening situation."
Hundreds of activists walked onto the road in the latest road blockade organized by the Dutch branch of Extinction Rebellion. Earlier this year, the activist organization repeatedly blocked a highway leading into The Hague.
Some of Saturday's protesters walked along the closed A10 highway carrying a banner emblazoned with the words "Change or die" as two police vans drove slowly behind them.
Another person carried a handwritten banner that said: "ING get out of oil and gas now!" Others glued their hands to the road surface.
Police criticized the protesters for blocking the road close to the VU medical center, one of Amsterdam's main hospitals.
"The blockade is very undesirable given its impact on the traffic in the city and, for example, employees at the nearby VU medical center and people visiting patients," Amsterdam police said in a statement.
The protest took place despite ING announcing earlier this month that it is accelerating its moves to phase out loans for fossil fuel exploration.
ING made its announcement a week after nearly 200 countries at the COP28 climate meeting in Dubai agreed to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a document that critics said contained significant loopholes.
Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Let de Jong said the phase-out plan was not fast enough.
"We demand that ING immediately stops all fossil fuel financing," De Jong said in a statement ahead of the protest. "Every day, people are dying around the world because of the climate and ecological crisis. That has to stop."
At past protests, in The Hague, police used a water cannon to force activists off the road and arrested hundreds of people.
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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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Written by Allen Foster
Start your day with these BestReviews-approved coffee makers
How you start your day matters. You don’t get a brew-over. That first cup of coffee needs to be perfect. As does every subsequent cup. That’s why it is vital to have an exceptional coffee maker.
Fortunately, BestReviews was focused on testing coffee makers during the last month of the year. The lab evaluated many models, including the OXO Brew 9-Cup Coffee Maker and the De’Longhi TrueBrew Drip Coffee Maker to find which was the best. After careful consideration, the Testing Lab picked seven favorites.
Essential gadgets for making cooking easier in the new year
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To test the products, the company employs real people. While some may have a particular expertise, others are new to the product. This lets the lab understand how different consumers view the same product. All testers take extensive notes, creating documents that are several pages long. They also photograph the products and take videos while using them. This comprehensive approach helps ensure no aspect is overlooked.
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Our 7 favorite coffee makers
Keurig K-Iced Single-Serve K-Cup Coffee Maker
This model is touted by Keurig as being able to brew both hot and cold beverages. While the lab loved the roomy reservoir and the exceptional brewing quality, it warned that the ice-brewing feature still brews hot and allows the coffee to cool. It is not a low-and-slow brewing process.
De’Longhi TrueBrew Drip Coffee Maker
The De’Longhi TrueBrew is not an inexpensive option. Because of this, the Testing Lab concluded it is best for a larger facility, such as an office. BestReviews liked De’Longhi’s versatility and consistent performance. The coffee maker is well-built and has all the options you could want.
Technivorm Moccamaster Coffee Maker
The BestReviews Testing Lab found this coffee maker to be very easy to use. It brewed great coffee consistently but didn’t have enough features to warrant the regular price. For a better value, wait to buy this model when it is on sale.
Mr. Coffee, 5-Cup Mini Brew Switch Coffee Maker
The Testing Lab gave this model high marks in being an extremely affordable coffee maker that still brewed a delicious beverage. The flawless programmability and ease of use make this a top choice for individuals on a budget.
Cuisinart Brew Central 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker
Admittedly, this model can be a little overwhelming because it has a steep learning curve. However, once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed by all this machine can do. The Testing Lab had no complaints about the quality or flavor.
If you want a sleek and modern coffee maker that looks and feels like it is worth every penny, this is a solid choice. The lab loved the showerhead water spout because it truly seemed to enhance the brewing process. Also, the coffee comes out hot and stays hot, which is always a bonus.
Keurig K-Compact Single-Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker
This Keurig was easily the best product for regular home use that the lab reviewed. It is affordable, has a reservoir, makes quality coffee and is easy to use and clean. If you want the best, this was the coffee maker the lab would choose.
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5.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northwest Turkey
09:05, 21 February 2019
ISTANBUL. KAZINFORM A 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey's northwest late Wednesday, the disaster authority said, Anadolu Agency reports.
Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Twitter the quake hit Canakkale province.
The earthquake occurred at 9.23 p.m. (1823 GMT) as the epicenter was Ayvacik district of Canakkale, 237 miles (384 kilometers) west of Istanbul.
No casualties were reported.
AFAD chief of Canakkale office, Levent Yilmaz, told Anadolu Agency there was not a negative situation or collapse as AFAD teams are doing investigations.
Separately, the Governor's Office in Istanbul said it does not have any negativity in Istanbul as the quake was felt across the region.
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Basketball Edition
We focus on basketball in the first segment, which included some incredible individual performances, like Jemarl Baker’s ten 3-pointers and career-high 43 points for the Bulldogs last March against Chicago State, which tied a Save Mart Center arena record.
Or just recently at a holiday tournament in December, when Sierra High’s Logan Kilbert scored 71 points in a tournament, a school and Central Section record.
And how about that special night in February, when Yvette Roberts saw her number 24 retired by the Fresno state women’s basketball program.
And team-wise, there were three championship moments that stood out above the rest.
The San Joaquin Memorial boys, and the Central girls, making a little first-time school history, as both won Division II state titles.
And even though they got knocked out in the state’s Open Division, the Clovis West girls kept the dynasty rolling, capturing their 11th straight Central Section championship.
Basketball Honorable Mention
–The Clovis High girls basketball team beating Clovis West during the regular season and snapping the Golden Eagles 33-game winning streak.
-The Sierra High School boys making a run all the way to the championship game of the Division V state tournament before losing to Lynwood.
-Former Clovis West star Cole Anderson helps UC Santa Barbara win the Big West Tournament championship, and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
Football Edition
We turn our attention to football next, which included some incredible individual performances as well, like running backs Bryson Donelson of Central Valley Christian and Hunter Babb of Caruthers finishing ranked first and second in the entire state of California, in both rushing yards and total touchdowns.
Or how about Fresno state running back Malik Sherrod’s night against Boise in early November – 255 all-purpose yards, a spectacular kick return touchdown on the final play of the first half, and a game-sealing rushing touchdown late in the fourth quarter – as the Bulldogs got the Milk Can back for the first time since 2017.
That was certainly one of the high points this season for the Bulldogs, and so was the dominating New Mexico bowl win under acting head coach Tim Skipper.
And in the high school ranks, Clovis North won their first 13 games on their way to a Division I Central Section title, while both Strathmore and CVC captured state titles.
The Spartans doing it after their head coach had a life-threatening health scare over the summer, and the Cavaliers making a little city history with their state title, as they became the first-ever high school football state champion from the city of Visalia.
Football Honorable Mention
-Former Fresno State defensive back and current Dallas Cowboys cornerback DaRon Bland breaks the NFL single-season record with his fifth pick-six of the season on Thanksgiving day.
-Fresno State senior linebacker Levelle Bailey seals three different games with defensive plays – a late deflection in the final minute at Purdue, an overtime interception against Eastern Washington, and an interception in the final seconds against UNLV.
-Fresno State defensive back Carlton Johnson intercepts three passes in the Bulldogs’ shutout win at Arizona State.
-Former Fresno State head football coaches Jim Sweeney and Pat Hill go into the program’s newly created Ring of Honor in separate halftime ceremonies during the regular season.
-Fresno Christian finishes off a third straight undefeated season with another 8-man football Central Section championship.
-Former San Joaquin Memorial and Central High receivers Jalen McMillan and Xavier Worthy help lead Washington and Texas respectively, into spots in the College Football Playoff.
Best of the Rest
Of course, there were other non-basketball and football Central Valley sports moments from 2023 that also stood out above the rest.
In the high school ranks, the Clovis North boys soccer team popped into the national rankings during the winter season, on their way to an undefeated Division I Central Section title.
The Clovis North girls made it a Broncos Section championship double, as they captured their third Division I Central Section title in the last four years.
And speaking of Central Section championship doubles, the McLane boys and girls soccer teams did it as well, which got them parades on campus.
In wrestling, the Buchanan boys captured an astounding seventh consecutive state title, despite not having an individual champion, while there were four girls from our area who did come out on top, including Redwood’s Jenna Creason – the first Tulare County girl to ever win a state title – and Clovis freshman Leilani Lemus, who combined with her older brother Dario to become the first Cougar siblings to win state titles at the same meet.
A little over three months later, Clovis High senior Sydnie Vanek and Caruthers senior Nailea Fields pulled off an impressive feat, repeating as state champions in track and field, in the girls long jump and discus respectively.
They both moved on to big programs at the next level, and speaking of college stars from the Valley, last January, former Buchanan star-turned Georgia running back Kendall Milton scored a touchdown in the Bulldogs’ dominating national championship-win over TCU.
And his Georgia classmate, San Joaquin Memorial alum Ethan Quinn, won an NCAA singles tennis championship as a freshman, then turned professional, and made his main draw debut in singles at the U.S. Open three months later.
Fellow SEC standout Riley Cooper – by way of Kingsburg and Clovis North high schools – played an important bullpen role in LSU winning the College World Series.
Even though they didn’t win national titles like those three individuals, there were a couple Fresno State teams who played for a national championship, as the Bulldog women’s water polo team made a third straight trip to the NCAA Tournament, and the Bulldog women’s volleyball team went from one win a year ago to the NCAA’s this year.
And mid-November provided a very special weekend at Fresno State, as Mike Batesole and Aaron Judge had their numbers retired by the Bulldog baseball program.
Best of the Rest Honorable Mention
-Clovis East graduate Bryson DeChambeau becomes the fourth-ever player on a top level tour to shoot 58 in competition, when he posts the number, on his way to winning, in the final round of a LIV golf event in August.
-Former Bulldog Aaron Judge becomes the first New York Yankees player to hit three home runs in a game twice in one season.
-Fowler High School alum Jocelynn Budwig wins the Mountain West title in the Hammer Throw.
-Caruthers multi-sport star Morgan Trigueiro is named Cal-Hi Sports’ Division 3 State Athlete of the Year, the first girl from Caruthers to ever get that honor.
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The success of market forecasting is always a mixed bag, however 2023 stands out as a particularly terrible year for forecasts. At the beginning of the year the consensus view was a recession would arrive in the third or fourth quarter. Instead, by the end of the year most major indices had achieved all-time highs and the labor market continued to be historically strong.
Remarkable Resilience
When looking back on 2023, the word that comes to mind is resilience. The U.S. economy and stock market demonstrated remarkable resilience in the face of tremendous challenges.
In March and April Silicon Valley Bank failed followed by other significant banks. These events had the potential to be a catalyst for further market declines, especially in the broader context of tightening monetary policy and a deeply inverted yield curve. However, the Fed stepped in to provide lending facilities and the market and economy brushed off the failing banks.
Another striking element of 2023, especially in the middle of a monetary policy tightening cycle, was the absence of significant volatility. The VIX ended the year at the remarkably low level of 12.5%. The VIX spent about two thirds of the year below the longer-term average of 19%. In the absence of any periods of significant or sustained volatility, there was no fuel to drive markets down in a meaningful or sustained way in 2023.
Going into 2023, small caps had been indicating an economy continuing to weaken but rallied from a 52-week low to a 52-week high in a matter of weeks, completing a wild ride that ended with gains on the Russell 2000 of 16.5% for the year.
Extreme Concentration
Extreme concentration was a defining characteristic of market capitalization weighed indexes like the S&P 500 in 2023. Seven mega-cap technology companies dubbed the Magnificent 7 started the year weighted 19% and ended the year making up 30% of the S&P 500 index, the highest concentration of just seven stocks in the index history. These seven stocks not only dominated the index by market cap, but also drove 70% of the index total returns in 2023.
Robust Labor Market and Extremely High Government Spending
The Magnificent 7 powered by the AI narrative played a primary role in the performance and resilience of the U.S. stock market, but the economic resilience seen on main street can most likely be attributed to extremely high levels of government spending, which is also supporting a strong labor market.
Deficit spending is offsetting much of the Fed tightening that might otherwise slow the economy into a recession. The annual budget deficit is expected to be about $1.8 trillion in 2024 and is currently 6.8% of GDP. Only twice in history has the annual deficit spending represented a larger percentage of GDP, during the great financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic.
Stock markets, labor markets and the economy can remain extremely resilient when the government is contributing almost 7% of GDP directly to the economy through deficit spending. The sustainability of this fiscal policy cannot be known, but investors should be watching the labor market and longer-term bond yields in 2024 for guidance on how much risk in stocks to take.
If the 10-year treasury yields make their way back above 5%, this could signal that deficit spending is exceeding the demand for treasuries and presents a significant risk to valuations of both stocks and bonds. Further, if labor conditions begin to deteriorate on a sustained basis, the conditions needed for a recession may finally become present and begin to overpower the positive effects government spending has had in stabilizing the economy.
A Change In Strategy for 2024
The Magnificent 7 returned 109% on average in 2023 and delivered most of the total returns for the S&P 500. Passive S&P 500 index investors clearly had the winning strategy in 2023, will 2024 be a repeat?
It is exceedingly rare to repeat such outsized returns over a series of years and there is no reason to believe that momentum in the mega cap leaders will not diminish and possibly reverse in the coming year. Investors should consider reducing cap weighted index exposures that are heavily invested in the Magnificent 7 and diversifying into equal weighted or factor-based indexes.
Importantly, don’t forget the primary lesson of 2023, most market forecasts are wrong. Diversify, and only make small portfolio tilts, never completely change your investment strategy or allow your portfolio to become too concentrated by following the predictions of market prognosticators.
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City, restaruants expecting a busy New year's Eve celebration in Halifax
Tonight’s countdown to a New Year promises to be lively as the City of Halifax gears up for festivities.
City crews have been at work early in the day setting the stage at the Emera Oval in the Halifax Commons.
“For the first time the municipality will be hosting our New Year’s Eve celebration right here at the Emera Oval and will have an evening full of entertainment and fun for folks to come down and enjoy,” said Ryan Nearing, Halifax Regional Municipality’s public affairs advisor.
The city is set to have numerous performances and fireworks throughout the night.
Nearing said that there will be a countdown and firework at 9 p.m., “for any kids that needs to get home before midnight.”
Then, the main event happens from 10 p.m. until midnight, he said.
Some restaurants opened their doors earlier in the day.
Owner of Silver Dragon Restaurant, Chiu Wahong, said they have been accepting orders days in advance. Usually, the restaurant opens at 4 p.m., but today they opened earlier.
“People booked their orders already from last night and paid so they (can come) on time to pick it up.”
A NEW YEAR’S EVE TRADITION
Since opening his restaurant 38-years ago, Wahong said Chinese food on New Year’s Eve is a tradition.
“New Year’s Eve is always really bust at the end of the year because Chinese restaurants are always open. All other restaurants (are) closed.”
Restaurants and bars downtown are also ramping up. From DJ’s to special menus, preparations are underway to ring in 2024.
“We’re expecting a fairly busy night starting all the way from brunch this morning, going into a busy dinner and then a fairly big late night crowd to ring in the New Year,” said Jessica Kaastra, general manager for Salt and Ash, a restaurant on the Halifax waterfront.
While there’s plenty of hustle and bustle downtown tonight, others are planning a low-key evening.
“I’m just going to be indoors. Just relaxing and chilling. Culturally, normally you would spend it in a mode of gratitude,” said Andrew Omojwa.
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday turned his focus to the promise, and shortcomings, of artificial intelligence in the federal courts, in an annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal controversies involving Donald Trump.
Describing artificial intelligence as the “latest technological frontier,” Roberts discussed the pros and cons of computer-generated content in the legal profession. His remarks come just a few days after the latest instance of AI-generated fake legal citations making their way into official court records, in a case involving ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
“Always a bad idea,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report, noting that “any use of AI requires caution and humility.”
At the same time, though, the chief justice acknowledged that AI can make it much easier for people without much money to access the courts. “These tools have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system,” Roberts wrote.
The report came at the end of a year in which a series of stories questioned the ethical practices of the justices and the court responded to critics by adopting its first code of conduct. Many of those stories focused on Justice Clarence Thomas and his failure to disclose travel, other hospitality and additional financial ties with wealthy conservative donors including Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers. But Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor also have been under scrutiny.
The country also is entering an the beginning of an election year that seems likely to enmesh the court in some way in the ongoing criminal cases against Trump and efforts to keep the Republican former president off the 2024 ballot.
Along with his eight colleagues, Roberts almost never discusses cases that are before the Supreme Court or seem likely to get there. In past reports, he has advocated for enhanced security and salary increases for federal judges, praised judges and their aides for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and highlighted other aspects of technological changes in the courts.
Roberts once famously compared judges to umpires who call balls and strikes, but don’t make the rules. In his latest report, he turned to a different sport, tennis, to make the point that technology won’t soon replace judges.
At many tennis tournaments, optical technology, rather than human line judges, now determines “whether 130 mile per hour serves are in or out. These decisions involve precision to the millimeter. And there is no discretion; the ball either did or did not hit the line. By contrast, legal determinations often involve gray areas that still require application of human judgment,” Roberts wrote.
Looking ahead warily to the growing use of artificial intelligence in the courts, Roberts wrote: “I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”
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SEJONG: Using ultrasound energy to target specific millimetres of the brain, including deep areas, focused ultrasound technology is a non-invasive therapeutic approach that treats neurological disorders without necessitating opening the skull.
Because it doesn't harm nearby good tissue and reduces side effects like infections and difficulties, it has been used to treat a range of resistant brain disorders, including depression and Alzheimer's disease.
Its use has been restricted, nevertheless, because it is challenging to reflect in real-time the distortion of ultrasonic waves caused by the various shapes of patients' skulls.
An acoustic simulation technology based on generative AI has been developed by a research team led by Dr. Kim, Hyungmin of the Bionics Research Centre at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST).
This technology can be used to predict and correct the distortion of the ultrasound focus position caused by the skull during focused ultrasound therapy in real time. Thus far, there has been no validation of the clinical usefulness of AI simulation models in the field of non-invasive focused ultrasound therapy technologies.
However, its application has been limited thus far since it is difficult to reflect the distortion of ultrasound waves generated by the varied shapes of patients' skulls in real-time.
A research team led by Dr. Kim, Hyungmin of the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has developed a real-time acoustic simulation technology based on generative AI to predict and correct the distortion of the ultrasound focus position caused by the skull in real-time during focused ultrasound therapy.
Until now, the clinical applicability of AI simulation models in the field of non-invasive focused ultrasound therapy technology has not been validated.
To predict the location of the invisible acoustic focus, navigation systems based on medical images taken before treatment are currently utilized, which provide information about the relative position of the patient and the ultrasound transducer.
However, they are limited by their inability to account for the distortion of ultrasound waves caused by the skull, and while various simulation techniques have been used to compensate for this, they still require significant computational time, making them difficult to apply in actual clinical practice.
The research team developed a real-time focused ultrasound simulation technology through an artificial intelligence model based on a generative adversarial neural network (GAN), a deep learning model widely used for image generation in the medical field.
The technology reduces the update time of three-dimensional simulation information reflecting changes in ultrasound acoustic waves from 14 s to 0.1 s while showing an average maximum acoustic pressure error of less than 7 per cent and a focal position error of less than 6mm, both of which are within the error range of existing simulation technologies, increasing the possibility of clinical application.
The research team also developed a medical image-based navigation system to verify the performance of the developed technology to rapidly deploy it to real-world clinical practice.
The system can provide real-time acoustic simulations at the rate of 5 Hz depending on the position of the ultrasound transducer, and succeeded in predicting the position of the ultrasound energy and focus within the skull in real-time during focused ultrasound therapy.
Previously, due to the long calculation time, the ultrasound transducer had to be precisely positioned in a pre-planned location to utilize the simulation results.
However, with the newly developed simulation-guided navigation system, it is now possible to adjust the ultrasound focus based on the acoustic simulation results obtained in real-time.
In the future, it is expected to improve the accuracy of focused ultrasound and provide safe treatment for patients by being able to quickly respond to unexpected situations that may occur during the treatment process.
"As the accuracy and safety of focused ultrasound brain disease treatment has been improved through this research, more clinical applications will emerge," said Dr. Kim, Hyungmin of KIST.
"For practical use, we plan to verify the system by diversifying the ultrasound sonication environment, such as multi-array ultrasound transducers."
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Clothes made for moving and resting
Maybe one day you’re feeling motivated and want to get some exercise with a brisk jog. Or maybe you’ll change your mind and do some much-needed relaxing on the couch instead. This type of perfectly relatable indecisiveness calls for a most versatile ensemble: workout clothes that are also great for lounging.
Marked by its comfort (and therefore lack of compression), athleisure works just as well at a barre class as on a lazy Sunday at home. And don’t think that means you have to compromise on style — our favorite workout/loungewear is just as cute as it is cozy.
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Our favorite places to shop for comfy athleisure clothes
Athleisure clothing is more popular than ever, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, which came with ample time spent at home and, therefore, spawned a new appreciation for ultra-comfortable clothing. There are lots of great places to buy cute workout clothes that are also excellent for lounging. These are a few of our favorites.
Universal Standard
The inclusive clothing retailer has a robust athleisure section. We love that every versatile piece comes in an excellent size selection. Nearly the entire line comes in the same colorways, so it’s super easy to mix and match various pieces to create several great outfits.
Vuori
Browse the pages of Vuori’s website, and practically everything you find will fall into both the activewear and the loungewear categories. Of all the California-based brand’s high-quality offerings, we’re partial to its DreamKnit and BlissBlend lines. The DreamKnit line, which includes the comfiest silky sweats dubbed the Performance Jogger, is crafted from a lightweight-but-durable supersoft fabric that feels amazing. Meanwhile, the new BlissBlend line of leggings and sports bras is made from a high-stretch fabric with a luxuriously airy feel.
Abercrombie & Fitch
In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Abercrombie & Fitch is officially cool again. Among our favorite things to shop from the more inclusive brand is its activewear under the YPB label. (By the way, that stands for Your Personal Best, a message we can certainly stand behind.) The coziest offerings include soft and stretchy leggings and a relaxed-fit, quick-dry, long-sleeve T-shirt.
Colorfulkoala
These budget-friendly yoga pants, which are available on Amazon, are among our favorites for their super-comfy matte finish that’s reminiscent of pricier Lululemon styles. Though they’ll stay securely put through even the most intense workout class, they can be worn just as well around the house with an oversized sweater and slippers. There are tons of fun patterns and colors to choose from, as well as iterations with and without pockets.
Quince
Though best known for its $50 Mongolian cashmere sweater, this direct-to-consumer brand also offers an impeccable selection of activewear. Though motion-ready, everything is highly comfortable, so you don’t have to work out if you don’t want to.
Halara
This brand specializes in all kinds of comfortable clothing and its Cloudful Fabric line feels exactly the way it sounds: heavenly. We especially love the cross-waist leggings, which have a flattering fit, but are designed to stay put despite activity. They come in a ton of fun colors in two different lengths.
Best athleisure clothes to shop
Universal Standard Mia Movement Tee
This versatile top makes a great workout item but can be paired just as well with your favorite pair of jeans (which we sincerely hope are also your comfiest pair). The cotton fabric is light and breathable, as well as sweat-wicking and antimicrobial.
With a lightweight yet supportive fabric, Vuori’s newest leggings are breathable and supremely soft. The performance-stretch material is designed to stay put while you move, and the high waistband is comfortable and flattering. We especially love that it comes in three length options and pairs with the Vuori BlissBlend Bra to make the perfect ensemble.
These dreamy, supersoft bottoms are crafted from a silky fabric that’s equally great for jogging and lounging. They have a tapered leg with an above-the-ankle cuff and a drawstring waist. They come in a bunch of gorgeous hues, as well as a long-length option.
Abercrombie YPB powerSOFT Long-Sleeve Easy Tee
This supremely comfortable top is the perfect length to partner with a pair of leggings and wear to a winter workout class. Don’t worry if you sweat. The quick-dry fabric can handle it without issue. However, if a Netflix marathon is on the agenda instead, you’ll be equally impressed with the top’s roomy and perfectly drapey fit.
Abercrombie YPB studioSOFT 7/8-Length Legging
We love a legging that’s available in multiple length options to help everyone get the perfect fit. This delightfully comfy, lightweight pair has a ton of stretch. If you wear them to the gym, you’ll appreciate the convenient card pocket. If you wear them to lounge, you’ll love the supersoft feel of the fabric.
Colorfulkoala High-Waisted Yoga Pants
It doesn’t matter if you wear these stretchy bottoms to a yoga class or to your couch — you’re bound to be impressed by the buttery-soft fabric. Even better, there are over 20 colors and patterns to choose from, and since the price tag is so agreeable, you can load up with a bunch.
Quince Ultra-Soft Fitted Long-Sleeve Top
With a close-but-not-constricting fit, this long-sleeve top is an excellent choice for a winter workout class or a work-from-home day. We love the thumbholes, which make it great for layering and add some sporty flair.
Quince Ultra-Form High-Rise Flared Pant
These flared yoga pants have a secure high-rise fit. They’re crafted from a moisture-wicking, antimicrobial fabric that’s perfectly suitable to sweat in — or not! The flared bottoms add a fun retro-inspired look to these versatile pants.
Halara Everyday Cloudful Fabric 3.0 Crossover Pocket Plain Leggings
These leggings are perfect for yoga or lounging, and the flattering crossover waist makes them especially cute to wear with a cropped top. The four-way stretch fabric offers comfort and durability, and the side pockets are convenient for when you’re on the go.
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5 killed, 5 policemen wounded in mass shooting in Midwest U.S.
Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said in a news conference that the gunman, who was also killed and identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, attacked his place of employment, the Henry Pratt Company in the city, around 65 km west of Chicago, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois.
The Henry Pratt Company is one of North America's largest manufacturers of valves for potable water, waste water, power generation and industrial markets.
Police officers responded to the shooting just before 1:30 p.m. local time (1930 GMT) and two officers were fired upon immediately as they entered the company's manufacturing building, the chief said.
The motive of the shooting is under investigation.
Sarah Sanders, U.S. President Donald Trump's press secretary, issued a statement that read "The President has been briefed and is monitoring the ongoing situation in Aurora, IL."
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation tweeted that agents from their departments were responding to the scene.
This is the third mass shooting where five or more people died since the beginning of this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. And this is also the deadliest mass shooting so far in 2019. The U.S. Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to possess firearms.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The founder of Peppermill Casinos Inc., the company behind the iconic Peppermill Restaurant and Fireside Lounge on the Las Vegas Strip, has died at the age of 85.
Bill Paganetti’s death was announced in a company news release on Friday.
“A native of Petaluma, California, Bill, alongside his lifelong friend, Nat Carasali, established the original Peppermill Coffee Shop and Lounge in Reno, Nevada, in 1971. This establishment later evolved into the renowned Peppermill Resort Spa Casino,” according to the statement.
It’s one of Reno’s biggest hotels with 1,621 rooms.
Paganetti’s empire expanded almost immediately and eventually grew into casinos in Reno, Sparks and Wendover.
But Las Vegas knew him from the lounge on the Strip. The Peppermill, which opened in 1972, remained a stand-alone restaurant through the years, now in the shadow of Wynn Resorts, Resorts World and the Fontainebleau Las Vegas — newcomers in the Peppermill’s lifetime.
When it arrived, the big names on the block were the Desert Inn, the Stardust, the Riviera and the Landmark — all long since gone.
The restaurant brand extended into California in 1973.
“His contributions to the industry and the regions where his businesses operated have left a lasting impact, as well as his history of kindness and generosity. Embodying his life’s philosophy of ‘family first,’ Bill was a remarkable family man, married for over 50 years to his wife, Maryanne, with 5 children and 19 grandchildren he was very proud of,” the statement said.
“Paganetti’s iconic legacy in the hospitality and casino industry extends to several other properties. These include the Western Village Inn & Casino in Sparks, Nevada, and the trio of Rainbow, Peppermill, and Montego Bay in Wendover,” the statement said.
The Peppermill on the Strip is a popular meeting spot, a late-night coffee shop frequented by Strip graveyard workers. It has been featured in a number of movies including “The Cotton Club” (1984), “Showgirls” (1995), “Casino” (1995), and “The Trust” (1996).
It has also appeared in television’s “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” and “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
The Peppermill lounge on the Strip also shows up in music videos by Adam Lambert (“Another Lonely Night”) and Santana and Diego Torres (“Feel It Coming Back”).
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Happy New Year’s! 2024 is here. Burn your calendars and drown your expectations. Pin those new year’s resolutions on the wall. Fire up the barbeque and turn on the football game. It’s time for one last day of merrymaking before we get back to brass tacks, back to the business of starting anew—again.
January 1st has been the first day of the new year for quite some time now. It dates all the way back to 153 BCE—though it’s likely the day was considered by many the start of the new year much earlier, beginning with Roman king Numa Pompilius who replaced March 1st on the Roman Republican calendar sometime during his reign between 715 and 673 BCE. It was Julius Caesar and his sun-based Julian calendar that solidified the day as the start of the new year in 46 BCE.
Over 1,600 years later, the Gregorian calendar solidified January 1st as the new year even further. Many regions had begun celebrating the new year on Christmas (December 25th) or the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25th after the fall of Rome, and Pope Gregory XIII sought to not only unify, but rectify, the calendar for all of Christendom in 1582. Great Britain and the American colonies didn’t adopt the Gregorian calendar for nearly two more centuries, and continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on March 25th until 1752.
China still celebrates Chinese New Year, but adopted the Gregorian calendar and January 1st as New Year’s Day in 1912. The Orthodox Church celebrates New Year’s on January 14th. Ethiopia celebrate the New Year—called Enkutatash—in September. Whenever you celebrate, have a terrific New Year’s Day!
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Alright, let’s Wordle!
How To Solve Today’s Word
The Hint: A very large painting.
The Clue: This word ends with a consonant.
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See yesterday’s Wordle #925 right here.
Wordle Bot Analysis
After each Wordle I solve I head over to the Wordle Bot homepage to see how my guessing game was.
I opened with nadir because often by the end of the year, we have reached some kind of low point in our lives and thus come up with all these resolutions in order to make changes for the new year—changes that will renew and revive us.
This was more of a unique opener than it was a successful one, leaving me with 142 remaining possible solutions. Then I got lucky with a pretty bad follow-up guess. Cloud, you’ll notice, re-uses the grey ‘D’ from nadir. I blame someone else—anybody else, god or the president or maybe my dogs—for this blunder. Far be it from me to take personal responsibility!
Thankfully, I lucked out and was left with just three options, though I could only think of two: Rural and mural. I went with the word that didn’t have a double letter in it, as I often do, and got lucky. Huzzah!
Today’s Competitive Wordle Score
A sad, sad wash today. I get 1 point for guessing in three but lose it immediately for losing to Wordle Bot, who snagged the answer on guess #2. I guess slate really paid off today!
Today’s Wordle Etymology
The word "mural" comes from the Latin word "murus," which means "wall." This origin is reflected in its usage, as murals are large paintings or artworks directly applied or affixed to a wall or ceiling. The term "mural" started to be used in English in the mid-19th century to specifically refer to these large-scale wall paintings. The practice of creating murals, however, dates back thousands of years, found in ancient civilizations such as those in Egypt and Mesoamerica.
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I’ve been playing a cutthroat game of PvP Wordle against my nemesis Wordle But. Now you should play against me! I can be your nemesis! (And your helpful Wordle guide, of course). You can also play against the Bot if you have a New York Times subscription.
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- 1 point for getting the Wordle in 3 guesses.
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Maritime Players eager for the puck to drop on inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League season
Ahead of the puck dropping on the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League season, it still feels like the holidays for some players.
“We just went through Christmas buts its almost like that Christmas morning feeling of something extraordinary that is about to unveil here,” says Montreal goaltender Marlené Boissonnault.
“It’s hard to put into words how excited we are,” admits teammate Sarah Bujold. “In a couple of days we are going to be hitting the ice with thousands of fans and thousands of people watching on air so I mean we are all so pumped and obviously a little bit nervous but excited in general to be able to finally play with and against the best.”
The season gets underway New Years Day when Toronto hosts New York. It will be the start of a 72-game regular season for the PWHL. There are a total of six teams in the league that also include Montreal, Ottawa, Boston and Minnesota.
Having a best on best league is a long time coming for women’s hockey after the Canadian Women’s Hockey League folded in 2019, and the U.S. based National Women’s Hockey League was bought out in June to pave the way for what is being seen as the best chance for a professional women’s hockey league to succeed.
“The goal of us creating this league was so that it would be something sustainable so young girls can dream to be apart of it one day,” Jill Saulnier, a forward for New York says. “The goal is so girls can go out and buy a jersey of their favourite female player and I think that is just kind of the direction that we’re heading and for young girls to be able to dream to play pro it’s pretty special. Obviously we didn’t have that opportunity so being a part of it is an honour and I’m excited to see the future.”
The opening game in Toronto is sold out, as are most of their games this season. Montreal finds themselves in a similar spot, while Ottawa has sold upwards of 8,000 tickets for its opener.
“It’s a pretty special time in women’s hockey and I think the word historic has been thrown around quite a bit because it is just that,” says Saulnier. “It’s going to be a big day and the start of something pretty wonderful and I’m honestly privileged to be a part of it.”
MARITIME PRIDE
Six Maritimers have cracked the opening day rosters across the league. There are a trio of Nova Scotians playing in Toronto led by team captain Blayre Turnbull from Stellarton, N.S. Yarmouth, N.S., Allie Munroe and Carly Jackson of Amherst, N.S., are also on the team. Spryfield, N.S., native Troy Ryan is the head coach of Toronto.
Halifax’s Jill Sauliner is the lone Maritimer playing south of the border in New York. She says she is good friends with Turnbull and the other Maritime players around the league, but she promises that won’t carry over into the games.
“I’m excited to play against Allie and Blayre tomorrow and Blayre is one of my best buddies but not really when we are on the ice and I think we both know that,” Saunier jokes. “Coming from the Maritimes when we were little there weren’t that many girls playing so to be able to hop on the ice and pretty much guarantee you’re going to see another Maritimer is pretty special.”
There are two New Brunswickers set to lace up their skates, both of whom play for Montreal who open their season January 2 against Ottawa. Sarah Bujold of Riverview, N.B., and Marlené Boissonnault of Dundee, N.B., are looking forward to playing alongside one another, especially given their history.
“So her uncle is my godfather,” Boissonnault laughs. “New Brunswick is a very small area so I think it’s that much more exciting that there’s that weird little fun connection there but I think it is obviously very exciting to have the Maritimes being represented.”
“It’s a funny connection we have,” chuckles Bujold. “But it is cool to be on her team and have a fellow New Brunswicker with me.”
For the pair, they are also excited for the opportunity to play close to home. Boissonnault has been out west with the national program for a number of years, while Bujold has spent the past four seasons playing overseas in Sweden and in the United States.
Bujold played post-secondary hockey at St. Francis Xavier University, but since then her parents hasn’t been able to see her play live.
“This is going to be the first time in our season opener they will actually be able to come and watch a game in person,” beams Bujold. “They are so excited to come watch as are my friends and family so it’s going to be awesome.”
“Being within driving distance is very exciting,” says Boissonault, with about seven and half hours of driving distance between Montreal and her hometown. “Being able to drive home for the holidays is something I haven’t done in nearly ten years so that’s very exciting for me.”
FUTURE FOR THE SPORT
It has been a long time coming to get women’s hockey to this point. All the games will be broadcasted on TV, and there is a collective bargaining agreement in place between the league and players through 2031.
Tennis legend Billie Jean King is on the board of the PWHL, and her influence along with the deep pockets of Los Angles Dodgers owner Mark Walter and his wife Kimbra are big reasons for getting the league to the “starting line.”
Everything is moving in the right direction for a sustainable league for years to come, and it’s something the players have been searching for since they first picked up a hockey stick.
“As a player growing up in Riverview there wasn’t that many options for me to play women’s hockey,” reflects Bujold. “I played boys all the way up until grade ten and then I switched over to girls so now that there people girls and the young players can look up to I mean it’s huge. Now they can dream and play about being in the PWHL one day.”
“The generations that have come before us, they didn’t have the opportunity that we are about to have tomorrow,” Saulnier says. “I think we are playing for ourselves to have this wonderful experience but more so for them and definitely for the next generation as well so it’s pretty special to be a part of.”
And for those out there that aren’t interested in the sport, the players say once you see a game you’ll have a different opinion.
“I promise you that if you watch it once you’ll be hooked,” Boissonnault iterates. “It’s one of those things where you can’t speak badly about it, you can turn away until you see it and see the product.”
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Mount Olive’s Pickle Drop brings in the new year
MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (WITN) - One city here in the East stepped into the new year a few hours early with a different take on the annual ball drop.
The 23rd annual pickle drop was held at the University of Mount Olive at 7 p.m. Hundreds of people watched as the glowing New Year’s Eve pickle went down into a giant pickle jar with help from the Mount Olive Volunteer Fire Department. It was held earlier than usual as 7 p.m. here in eastern North Carolina is midnight Greenwich Mean time and that’s the tradition they have decided to keep.
The pickle drop was ranked 7th on USA today’s best New Year’s Eve drops, drawing in an even larger crowd this year. Many people like Jessica Hutchens drove hours to see the drop but said it was worth it.
“I thought it would be fun to make the most of the pickle drop and do all things pickle”, Hutchens said. “I got pickle stickers to hand out, my pickle costume, pickle socks even.”
If you missed the fun in person, you can watch the stream on Yearly Pickle Drop Event | Mt. Olive Pickle Company (mtolivepickles.com)
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Madison Co. loosens restrictions for New Year’s Eve alcohol sales
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Alcohol sales are often discussed at the local level of government across the commonwealth.
Liquor stores in Madison County are typically restricted to selling their products between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Sundays.
However, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which both fell on Sundays in 2023, were granted an exception to this rule through a local ordinance. Sales were permitted to take place between 6 a.m. Sunday through 1 a.m. Monday.
“I know in this area, a lot of people are wanting that to kind of dissolve,” said Griffin Walton, a customer at Boozy Barn Liquor, Wine, And Spirits in Richmond. “Less people would be upset if it got changed than if it continued the way it was.”
The typical pause in sales until the afternoon can lead to customers awaiting when stores eventually open their doors at 1 p.m.
“As soon as we open there’s people lining up on Sundays because we can’t stay open until regular hours. We have to open at 1 p.m., and people just have to wait until 1 p.m., so everyone’s just rushing in,” said Kishan Patel, owner of Boozy Barn Liquor, Wine, And Spirits.
For those working at liquor stores, there are pros and cons to the Sunday hour restrictions, such as the benefit for work-life balance.
“I kind of like that it’s 1 p.m. to 9.m. on Sundays,” said Patel. “We can get our time throughout the day and do our own thing early.”
However, it is a regulation that can be less convenient for customers.
“I understand people have other stuff do and they want their alcohol after 9pm or before 1 p.m.,” said Patel, talking about the benefits later closing times would bring. “It gives people the time so if you’re working third shift, you can still get off and get alcohol if you need.”
While an exception was made for those looking to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s with extra spirits, some customers are still looking for a more permanent change to the typical Sunday hours.
“You’ll have football games or anything that just kind of falls on a Sunday and have to think ‘well, the liquor store closes,’ and plan around that, and it can just be kind of frustrating sometimes,” said Walton.
This year was the first New Year’s Eve that alcohol sales have been available county-wide in Madison County.
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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 7:57 PM CST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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The payloads of the space-tech start-ups and other research institutions will be housed on the fourth stage of the PSLV rocket that will be placed in a low earth orbit for carrying out various experiments.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — In a sport long defined by its coaching giants, Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh are among the few larger-than-life figures still standing.
Saban has won six national championships at Alabama, establishing the most successful program of the 21st century. Harbaugh has completely revitalized his alma mater, reaching three straight College Football Playoffs at Michigan with style and controversy.
They’ll face off on opposite sidelines for only the second time Monday in the Rose Bowl. The Crimson Tide (12-1) take on the Wolverines (13-0) in a tantalizing CFP semifinal pitting the two winningest schools in major college football.
In no small part because of the coaching matchup, this 110th edition of the Granddaddy of Them All is also one of the most anticipated games in the 10-year history of the playoff, with the winner headed to Houston next week to face Washington or Texas for a title.
Yet to varying degrees, Saban and Harbaugh both reflect the truism that the price of incredible success is an inability to enjoy it, at least while it’s happening.
While both coaches have been gracious throughout their public appearances in Southern California, the magnitude of this showdown clearly weighs on their shoulders.
“I don’t reminisce much about what’s happened in the past,” Saban said Sunday before posing stiffly with the Rose Bowl trophy and an equally formal Harbaugh. “I’m kind of looking forward to today, and the next day.”
After a perfect regular season in which he got to attend only half of the games because of a pair of three-game suspensions, Harbaugh has been his usual exuberant self at the Rose Bowl, whether riding in a horse-drawn carriage at Disneyland or giving a humorous scouting report on Jesus (“He would have been a five-star player, no doubt about it. He would have been a Hall of Fame coach.”).
But the archetypal Michigan Man also spoke solemnly about the motivation he’ll impart to his players. While Harbaugh has achieved his goal to restore the Wolverines as a powerhouse, they have yet to win a CFP game (0-2).
“What it means is that your players know what it’s like to be a champion,” Harbaugh said. “That’s the special feeling. Their parents know what it’s like to have a son or a brother or a grandson who’s a champion. … It’s for all them, and all that we’re associated with.”
Saban has known Harbaugh’s family since the 1970s, when Saban was an up-and-coming defensive assistant who got tips from Michigan secondary coach Jack Harbaugh, Jim’s dad.
They coached against each other in the 2020 Citrus Bowl, with Alabama beating Michigan 35-16 to cap the only season in a seven-year stretch in which the Tide weren’t in the playoff. Harbaugh’s ballyhooed rebuilding of the Wolverines appeared to be a failure at that point — but after the abbreviated 2020 season, Michigan has soared to a 38-3 record in the past three years.
“There were just some really dark days that we had to get through,” said Michigan offensive lineman Trevor Keegan, who was there. “After the season, coach Harbaugh sent us a long email saying we’re going to change this program together. And our first team meeting, it was either you get on the train and we’re moving, or you’re getting off. Ever since then, we’ve been working our tails off to get where we are and have the success that we’ve had.”
Alabama hasn’t gone more than three seasons between national championships in Saban’s 17-year tenure, but the Tide need to win this one to keep the streak alive. Saban is also back at the venerable stadium where he won his first national title for Alabama, beating Texas in 2010.
Most observers agree Saban did one of the most impressive coaching jobs of his career this year. After getting two new coordinators in the offseason, Saban revitalized a team that stumbled in September and led it to 11 consecutive wins and an SEC title.
“We had some really good rat poison early,” Saban said, referring to his preferred name for outside noise. “It was almost like Wheaties, because everybody criticized us and said we weren’t any good, and we were done, and Coach Saban is past his prime and all that. It was like eating Wheaties, ‘Breakfast of Champions.’ That helped us.”
LAST CHAPTER?
Behind the excitement is the quiet possibility that this could be the last game at his school for whichever famed coach loses.
Saban is 72, and retirement rumors have circulated throughout college football’s back channels in recent months. Saban has shrugged it off publicly with humor.
“Yeah, I’ve heard them before,” Saban said. “I think when you get my age, everybody is waiting for you to — you know.”
And with NCAA investigators circling Harbaugh and the Wolverines, few will be surprised if the 60-year-old Harbaugh elects to return to the NFL. If Michigan wins a national title as punctuation, it would make even more sense.
BIG FINISHES
The Tide are in the CFP for the eighth time in 10 years, while Michigan has its third consecutive berth.
Alabama got here by surviving the Iron Bowl on Jalen Milroe’s miraculous touchdown pass to Isaiah Bond on fourth-and-31 before upsetting two-time defending national champion Georgia, which had won 29 straight, in the SEC title game.
Michigan steamrolled into the playoff with its first No. 1 ranking since 1997, beating Ohio State in The Game and blanking Iowa in the Big Ten title game.
ALABAMA’S OFFENSE
Milroe has grown into the Tide’s starting job since getting benched for a week in September, and Michigan must protect against both his arm and his legs. Milroe has a knack for big plays — none bigger than his 31-yard TD pass on fourth down to beat Auburn last month.
Leading rusher Jase McClellan is expected back after he missed the SEC title game, while Milroe can throw to big-play receivers Isaiah Bond and Jermaine Burton.
MICHIGAN’S OFFENSE
J.J. McCarthy is a polished passer who put up 2,630 yards and 19 TDs against four interceptions with a wealth of talented targets, including 500-yard receivers Roman Wilson, tight end Colston Loveland and Cornelius Johnson. Blake Corum is a standout rusher with 1,028 yards and 24 TDs.
LONG TIME COMING
Michigan is making its 21st Rose Bowl Game appearance, more than any school except USC — but its first since 2007, reflecting the program’s struggles before Harbaugh.
Alabama hasn’t played in a Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena since 1946. Saban’s Tide won the 2021 Rose Bowl, which was played in Texas because of COVID-19 safety concerns.
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DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado woman accused of killing two of her children was arrested in the United Kingdom on Saturday, according to police.
Kimberlee Singler, 35, is suspected of killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son and attempting to kill her 11-year-old daughter in Colorado Springs.
On Dec. 19, police said they responded to a 911 call reporting a burglary at an apartment complex at around 12:30 a.m. and found the the bodies of the two deceased children.
Officers also located Singler and her 11-year-old daughter at the scene. They were both injured and taken to hospitals for treatment, according to Colorado Springs Police Department spokesperson Ira Cronin.
Singler’s injuries were minor. The 11-year-old girl was hospitalized for a few days and then released. She is recovering well physically in Colorado Springs. Cronin said he could not release details about how the children or Singler were injured.
Police said the initial report of a burglary was unfounded.
Singler was initially cooperative with police investigating the homicides and alleged burglary. She went missing after the probe, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
“In the initial stages of the investigation, we were treating her as a victim of a burglary,” Cronin told the Associated Press.
On Dec. 26, investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Singler on multiple charges, including multiple counts of first degree murder, child abuse and assault.
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 filings. Court hearings had been scheduled for next month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Wholesale prices for used cars and trucks are down a bit, but “down” is a relative thing — down, relative to fairly recent record highs, and still much higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The average used vehicle sold at wholesale, dealer-only auctions in November sold for $14,012, according to the latest monthly report from ADESA Auctions. That’s down 4.6% vs. a year ago, but it’s still an increase of $2,938, or 26.5%, vs. pre-pandemic November 2019, when it was $11,704, according to Tom Kontos, chief economist for ADESA Auctions.
The latest peak in the average, wholesale used auction price was $17,843, in May 2022, according to ADESA Auctions data. The company reported earlier that the average topped $16,000 for the first time in September 2021.
Part of the latest small decline in wholesale auction prices is a typical seasonal pattern, in which used values decline on average as the year goes on, bottoming out in the winter and peaking in the spring.
“Average wholesale used vehicle prices fell for the second month in a row in November and into December, which is not unusual for the year-end/holiday season period,” Kontos said in the monthly report.
“Dealers appear to be amply stocked for the softer retail demand they face,” he said.
Analysts are closely watching how much high prices and high interest rates are hurting consumer demand for autos and auto loans. Auto loan share is down, for instance, for borrowers with subprime credit. But demand is still strong among prime-risk, new-car customers.
Separately, some of the nation’s biggest new-car dealership groups report that because of high prices, they’re trying to avoid buying used cars at auctions. Instead, they’re working to “self-source” used cars.
That is, dealers try harder to buy trade-ins to resell, or buy cars “off the street,” from customers who don’t necessarily buy a car from the dealer.
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RCMP investigating suspected arson in Bible Hill, N.S.
RCMP is investigating an early Sunday morning house fire in Bible Hill, N.S., as suspected arson.
Colchester District RCMP along with emergency and fire crews were called to a house fire on Pictou Road at about 2:30 a.m, according to a news release from the RCMP.
All the occupants of the home escaped safely, RCMP learned upon arrival. Firefighters put the fire out. RCMP investigated the scene and suspect arson caused the fire, police say.
At about the same time, an RCMP officer saw a vehicle travelling the wrong way along N.S. Highway 104, near the highway 102 exit, north of Truro. The 2008 Honda Accord had a GJU921 N.S. license plate, the news release says, and police later found the abandoned vehicle on the side of the highway.
Police say no one was located in the area of the vehicle.
Police searched the car and found items they believe are related to the suspected arson in Bible Hill, N.S. Police seized the car and plan to conduct a forensic exam of the vehicle.
Police are asking anyone with any information related to the ongoing investigation to contact Colchester County District RCMP at 902-893-6820 or Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
For more Nova Scotia news visit our dedicated provincial page.
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Missing teens found
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:17 PM EST|Updated: 56 minutes ago
ROWAN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Update: The two children have been located.
ORIGINAL: Morehead Police posted to Facebook on Sunday that two Rowan County teens are missing.
Hunter Stevens and Cassandra Erwin, both around 14-years-old, were last seen in the Clearfield/Morehead area December 31 at 12:00 AM.
Police believe the pair ran away together.
If anyone has seen them or know where they may be, police are asking that you contact the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office at (606) 784-5446.
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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST|Updated: 15 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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5-year-old survives building collapse in Istanbul
Havva Tekgoz remained buried underneath for nearly 18 hours, said Istanbul Governor Ali Yerlikaya.
A seven-story building collapsed on Wednesday in Kartal district with some 30 residents inside.
So far, three people have died and 13 others have been injured, with three in critical condition. The surrounding buildings were evacuated due to safety concerns.
Yerlikaya, speaking at the crisis desk established near the collapse area, pointed out that the rescue teams of Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) first contacted the child while she was under debris and comforted her.
He added that she was later rescued and taken to the nearest health facility.
The governor said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was closely following the developments and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu monitored rescue operations till dawn.
Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum on Thursday said the rescue teams have heard voices from the debris and vowed continued efforts to reach survivors.
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PGA Tour seeks extension on commercial deal with Saudis, private investors
(AP) - The PGA Tour believes it has made enough progress with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf to extend their negotiations into next year for a new commercial deal that would include a U.S. investment group and the European tour.
Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo to players on Sunday afternoon, just seven hours before the deadline to finalize the deal that was set in the June 6 framework agreement.
The PGA Tour board unanimously agreed three weeks ago to negotiate exclusively with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of American-based professional sports teams owners led by Fenway Sports Group.
Monahan said the tour has made “meaningful progress” with SSG and provided the group with all the information it requested.
“As we move forward in our discussions, we are focused on the finalization of terms and drafts of necessary documents,” Monahan said.
Far more complicated are the negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the financial supporters of the rival LIV Golf League which lured away Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka in 2022, and most recently Masters champion Jon Rahm earlier this month.
Monahan described conversations with PIF and the European tour as “active and productive.”
The framework agreement was to expire Dec. 31, though it included language that the deadline could be extended if all parties agreed. “We are working to extend our negotiations into next year based on the progress we have made to date,” Monahan said in his memo.
Monahan said the goal for 2024 was to reach agreements with SSG, PIF and the European tour to bring them in as minority co-investors in the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
“These partnerships will allow us to unify, innovate and invest in the game for the benefit of players, fans and sponsors,” Monahan said.
Under the framework agreement, PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan would have a seat on the PGA Tour board. The agreement also included PGA Tour Enterprises doing an “objective, empirical-driven evaluation” of LIV and to determine if team golf can be integrated into the PGA Tour and European tour.
It also was to determine a “fair and objective” process for LIV players who might want to return to the PGA Tour or European tour, which is said to be a sticking point because of the players who turned down Saudi riches to remain on the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour season begins Thursday at The Sentry on Maui, the first of eight “signature” events with a $20 million purse and limited field. LIV Golf already has announced the bulk of its 2024 schedule and $20 million purses. It starts the first week of February.
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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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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
- Live Stream: Fubo
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SRIHARIKOTA: ISRO is set to welcome the new year with the launch of its first X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite that would offer insights into celestial objects like black holes, onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket on Monday.
The launch comes after the success of its Gaganyaan Test Vehicle D1 mission in October.
The PSLV-C58 rocket, in its 60th mission, would carry primary payload XPoSat and 10 other satellites to be deployed in low earth orbits.
The 25-hour countdown commenced on Sunday for the lift-off scheduled at 9.10 am from the first launch pad at this spaceport, located about 135 kms east of Chennai on January 1.
“The countdown commenced for PSLV-C58 at 8.10 am today,” ISRO sources said.
The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is aimed to investigate the polarisation of intense X-ray sources in
space.
According to ISRO, it is the first dedicated scientific satellite from ISRO to carry out research in space-based polarisation measurements of X-ray emission from celestial sources.
Besides ISRO, the US-based National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) conducted a similar study -- the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer mission in December 2021 on the remnants of supernova explosions, the particle streams emitted by black holes and other cosmic events.
While space-based X-ray astronomy has been established in India focusing on imaging, and time domain studies, Monday's mission marks a major value-addition to the scientific fraternity, the space agency said.
The objective of the PSLV-C58 mission includes measuring polarisation of X-rays in the energy band 8-30 keV emanating from about 50 potential cosmic sources, to carry out long term spectral and temporal studies of cosmic x-ray sources.
The X-Ray polarisation serves as a crucial diagnostic tool for examining the radiation mechanism and geometry of celestial sources.
The primary payload of XPoSat is POLIX (Polarimeter Instrument in X-Rays) which is designed to measure polarimetry parameters by Raman Research Institute and XSPECT (X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing) built by the U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru. The Mission life is about 5 years.
The space-based study of X-Ray polarisation is gaining utmost importance internationally, and in this context, the XPoSat mission would play a significant role, ISRO added.
XPoSat is anticipated to bring substantial benefits to the Astronomy community globally. Apart from its capability of timing and spectroscopy-based observations, the insights derived from X-ray polarisation measurements on celestial objects like black holes, neutron stars, and active galactic nuclei, hold the potential to significantly improve the understanding of their physics.
The mission is poised to play a pivotal role in building expertise in X-Ray polarimetry in India, providing a foundation for future advancements and fostering a collaborative network within the astronomy community.
The 44.4-meter-tall PSLV rocket would first deploy the primary satellite into a 650 km Low Earth Orbit around 21 minutes after lift-off and later the scientists would bring the satellite to a lower altitude of about 350 km by restarting the fourth stage of the vehicle, for conducting the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module-3 (POEM-3) experiment.
It may be recalled that the space agency conducted a similar scientific experiment using POEM-2 in the PSLV-C55 mission in April 2023.
The rocket that will fly is the PSLV-DL variant which has a lift-off mass of 260 tonnes. The fourth stage is configured as a 3-axis stabilized Orbital platform for conducting experiments.
The payloads are Radiation Shielding Experiment Module by TakeMe2Space, Women Engineered Satellite by LBS Institute of Technology for Women, BeliefSat (an amateur radio satellite) built by K J Somaiya Institute of Technology, Green Impulse Transmitter by Inspecity Space Labs Pvt Ltd, LEATTD -- Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Technologies Technology Demonstrator by Dhruva Space Pvt Ltd, RUDRA 0.3HPGP and ARKA 200 developed by Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt Ltd, Dust Experiment (DEX) built by PRL, ISRO and Fuel Cell Power System and Si based High Energy cell built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
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LONDON (AP) — Arsenal is limping into 2024 after a damaging stretch that culminated in what coach Mikel Arteta called “the worst performance of the season” on the final day of the year.
A toothless Arsenal side lost 2-1 at Fulham on Sunday despite taking the lead in the fifth minute, a second straight defeat that means the team stayed in fourth place in the Premier League — when a victory would have lifted it into first.
“It’s a really sad day because today we didn’t deserve to win the game,” Arteta said. “That was the worst performance of the season.”
It continued a worrying run that has seen Arsenal end 2023 with just one win in its last five league games, including its first home loss of the season to West Ham on Thursday.
Arsenal would have provisionally climbed above Liverpool atop the table with a win, but could find itself five points off the lead if Jurgen Klopp’s team beats Newcastle on Monday. Arsenal stayed in fourth — having been top of the table at Christmas — and is now just one point ahead of fifth-place Tottenham after its north London rival beat Bournemouth 3-1 at home.
This latest setback came despite Bukayo Saka putting Arsenal ahead after just five minutes as he turned in the rebound from a shot by Gabriel Martinelli, who had made a marauding run from inside his own area.
There was little in the way of attacking threat from the visitors after that, though, and bad defending helped Raul Jimenez equalize in the first half and Bobby De Cordova-Reid poke in the winner after a corner in the 59th.
“Not good enough from us again today,” Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice said. “The game against West Ham we had 30 shots, so many touches in the box but couldn’t put it away. Today when (we) go one up we have to have more control. We need to demand more from each other. We had to push on again and go for more. In this league there is no room to mess up. It is a tough one to take.”
Fulham had lost its last three league games by a combined score of 8-0 but was boosted by the return of Jimenez from a suspension. The striker has now scored four goals in his last four league games — equaling his tally from his previous 50.
TOTTENHAM BOUNCES BACK
Don’t count Tottenham out of the title race just yet.
Ange Postecoglou’s team is three points behind Liverpool after bouncing back from a 4-2 defeat at Brighton on Thursday with a convincing win against Bournemouth.
Tottenham was boosted by the early return of Rodrigo Bentancur from an injury at a time when Postecoglou is without a handful of starters. But the win was marred by Senegal international Pape Sarr leaving the field in tears with an injury in the first half — just two weeks before the start of the African Cup of Nations — after he had scored the opening goal in the ninth minute.
Tottenham had to wait until the 71st minute for another goal, but Son Heung-min and Richarlison scored late to make the game safe before Alex Scott pulled one back for Bournemouth.
After a great start to the season under Postecoglou, Tottenham fell out of the top four after a five-game winless run but could soon be back in the Champions League places.
“We’re still in there and fighting,” Postecoglou said. “We’re three points off the top so if that is the difference between having a great season and where we are I’ll take it.”
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What a year it’s been! Tax professionals, taxpayers, banks and financial institutions, and, of course, the IRS, had a lot to talk about this year. I was fortunate enough to be able to cover many of the stories that had tongues wagging—236 in 2023.
In case you missed some of those stories, here’s a look at the top ten tax stories that readers clicked through this year, based simply on views:
- Your First Look At 2024 Tax Rates: Projected Brackets, Standard Deduction Amounts And More. Bloomberg Tax has released its annual Projected U.S. Tax Rates Report, giving you an early look at what brackets and other key tax figures will look like in 2024.
- Debt Ceiling Agreement Lifts Student Loan Pause, Cuts Some IRS Funding. After a few days of speculation about the debt ceiling agreement between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we finally have the details.
- By Scoring A Lucrative Deal At Inter Miami, Lionel Messi Is Playing A New Financial Game. The greatest soccer player in the world chose state income-tax free Florida, a destination for other big names in sports like Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter, and Tom Brady.
- Your Quick Guide To Tax Refunds In 2023. It already looks like a smoother tax season. Here's what you need to know about tax refunds in 2023.
- After Sen. Feinstein’s Death, Family’s Fight Over Assets Likely To Intensify. In her last days, Feinstein’s daughter and step-daughters battled in court over the Senator’s access to assets left by her very rich late husband, Richard C. Blum.
- What You Need To Know About Taxes If You Sold Your Home In 2022—Or Plan To Sell In 2023. It has been a wild ride for buyers and sellers in the US housing market over the past year. Homeowners may be grappling with gains and losses on sales, and that can translate to confusion at tax time. Here's what you need to know.
- New Laws Threaten To Limit Foreign Ownership Of Land Across The Nation. Increasing concerns about national security–and some political grandstanding–could close doors in the U.S. to foreign buyers, particularly when it comes to farmland.
- How To Beat High Interest Rates By Borrowing From The Bank Of Grandma. With affluent Baby Boomers sitting on loads of cash, intrafamily loans can be a win-win, so long as you pay attention to the tax rules and the paperwork.
- Social Security Administration Announces Most Popular Baby Names Of 2022. The Social Security Administration has announced the most popular U.S. baby names of 2022 based on applications for Social Security cards. Did your name make the list?
- Taylor Swift Says Thank You To Eras Tour Workers By Handing Out Checks. Swift reportedly gave bonuses totaling millions to those working on her show. Here's a look at what that means for tax purposes.
Of course, just because an article gets clicks doesn’t mean that they’re your favorites— or mine. And highlighting the stories which most impacted taxpayers the most can be tricky since it can often be subjective. It often depends on who you are—you probably cared more about the focus on Employee Retention Credit, for example, if you were a tax professional, and Messi if you were a soccer fan.
With all that in mind, here are some of my favorite stories—in no particular order—that I loved working on that didn’t make your top ten most read list. I hope you’ll check them out.
- So You’re Getting A Divorce: Do You Need A Forensic Accountant? They show up in celebrity divorces (think Kevin Costner), big bankruptcies (think FTX) and financial fraud cases. But you don’t have to be famous to benefit from the help of a deep diving accounting pro—tax and accounting professionals explain how you can benefit from a forensic accountant, too.
- You Can Still Cut Your 2023 Tax Bill With These Moves. Fund retirement accounts. Give to charity. Harvest losses. Get energy efficient. Here are some strategies to shrink your taxes for 2023–and beyond.
- Taxing Tips: Untangling The Hairy Situation Between Beauty Salons, Restaurants And The IRS. Congress created a big incentive for restaurants and bars to report employees’ tips, which can be good for workers, too—even if many don’t believe it. So why hasn’t it done the same for the largely female-owned beauty industry? I loved talking with beauty salon owners across the country about why it matters to them.
- Inside Anna Nicole Smith’s Battle Over Her Billionaire Husband’s Estate. Ok—a quick explanation on this one. Celebrity tax stories aren’t always my favorite stories to write, but I’ve been covering this one for decades. When a new Netflix
NFLX documentary rekindled interest in the late Playboy model who almost walked away with $475 million from her 90-year-old husband, J. Howard Marshall, I took a look back at the tabloid tale that made its way to the Supreme Court—twice. - Americans Are Tipping More—And More Often. The IRS Wants Its Cut. Thanks to gratuity-goosing point of sale terminals, the tip take is on the rise. Now the feds are eyeing that same digital path to collect more of the taxes owed on tip income.
- IRS, Citing Rampant Fraud, Stops Processing Covid Era Employment Tax Credit. The idea of the Employee Retention Credit was to get money into the hands of employers during the pandemic. Now, the IRS worries it's become a money grab. In September, the agency announced a moratorium on processing the credits. Since then, the focus on ERC-related fraud hasn’t dimmed.
- A 94-Year Old Grandmother Fights Back After Government Sold Her Home—And Kept The Profit. Geraldine Tyler's case landed before the Supreme Court with a case that could change tax seizure practices in more than a dozen states. (Spoiler alert: she won!)
- What Companies, Including Small Businesses, Need To Know About A New Federal Law. Starting Jan. 1, 2024 (yes, that’s New Year’s Day), many companies will be required to report information about who ultimately owns and controls them. Here's what we know so far.
- Meet The IRS Special Agent Earning His Stripes As An NFL Referee. During the week, Eugene Hall uses his tech savvy to chase down tax cheats, identity thieves and other fiscal frauds. And on football Sundays, he assesses penalties—five and ten yards at a time. As a football fan, this was so much fun to research (and I had a great time talking with Eugene).
- A Deep Dive Into SCOTUS Arguments In Moore, A Case With Big Tax Implications. Moore v. U.S., a Supreme Court case focused on a narrow provision from the 2017 tax reform laws, has the potential to upend the tax code—but will it? Here's a look (keep watching the news on this one, it has legs).
And finally, thank you for such an amazing year. I have so much fun writing and talking about tax, and a huge part of that is having readers who are so energetic and engaged.
I’m looking forward to seeing what 2024 holds for all of us. And keep an eye out for information about our new tax newsletter, debuting soon!
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Thousands show up for second annual Family Fun Fest in Moncton
Downtown Moncton was packed on Sunday afternoon as the second annual Family Fun Fest got underway to celebrate the New Year.
Starting at 2 o’clock there were free events both outside the Avenir Centre and inside that were aimed at residents of all ages.
Grace and Gwen, two children at the celebration, both put face painting at the top of their list when it came to a favourite activity.
Face Painting at the Moncton Family Fun Fest.“My favourite part about Family Fun Fest is probably the snow and getting my face painted,” says Grace.
Shortly after, Gwen echoed the same thoughts.
“Probably the glitter tattoos and face painting because they’re super fun and you get to pick what you want,” she says.
People skating at the Moncton Family Fun Fest.The day brought forward everything from skating to tasty treats, including local food trucks and maple on a stick, to live music with The Mainlanders, Beauxmont and The Mellotones all scheduled to hit the main stage Sunday evening.
A photo of maple on a stick at the Moncton Family Fun Fest.“As you know, Moncton and Halifax both hosted the World Juniors last year, terrific events for both cities, both provinces and the City of Moncton. The organizing committee felt very strongly that they wanted to keep that momentum going,” says co-chair of the New Year’s Eve Family Fun Fest organizing committee, Shane Esson.
“Last year we had about 6000 people on New Years Eve, and we said, ‘Why not do it again?’ We’re optimistic tonight that we’ll probably have over 10,000.”
He says over the last six months, a committee of 19 volunteers have helped bring this vision to life. On Sunday, that number jumped to include 70 volunteers who helped make sure the event went smoothly.
“It really does take an entire community,” he said.
Live entertainment at the Moncton Family Fun Fest.While there was a reason for everyone to be downtown on Sunday, Esson says the day was going to bring an extra special experience for a lot of local families as well.
Esson said that the Moncton Wildcats hockey game sold out on Saturday, partially because 30 local businesses bought tickets and donated them to United Way, who then gave them to people who could use them.
There are two firework shows scheduled to ring in the new year in Moncton – one at 8:30 and one at midnight.
The city is also offering free bus services from 5:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. on select routes.
“It’s just nice to get everybody together after a rough couple of years, right? That’s the way I look at it,” says Riverview resident Dwayne Vriesendorp.
“It should be done more and more,” says Daniel LeBlanc, who was visiting from Bathurst.
“We should have it in Bathurst also,” says Suzanna Bosse.
Esson says he is confident that next year will manage to be even bigger and better than this year.
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Nearly half of all states will raise the minimum wage in 2024
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 8:57 PM EST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
(CNN) - Millions of workers will get a pay bump when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, January 1.
Nearly half of all U.S. states and the District of Columbia will increase their minimum wage in 2024.
Washington state will continue to have the highest minimum wage in the country at $16.28 an hour. That’s up from $15.74 an hour.
And over in Hawaii, workers will receive the largest increase, raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour.
And Washington D.C. will have the highest hourly minimum wage in the country at $17.05. The city will raise its minimum wage again this summer.
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PGA Tour seeks extension on commercial deal with Saudis, private investors
(AP) - The PGA Tour believes it has made enough progress with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf to extend their negotiations into next year for a new commercial deal that would include a U.S. investment group and the European tour.
Commissioner Jay Monahan sent a memo to players on Sunday afternoon, just seven hours before the deadline to finalize the deal that was set in the June 6 framework agreement.
The PGA Tour board unanimously agreed three weeks ago to negotiate exclusively with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of American-based professional sports teams owners led by Fenway Sports Group.
Monahan said the tour has made “meaningful progress” with SSG and provided the group with all the information it requested.
“As we move forward in our discussions, we are focused on the finalization of terms and drafts of necessary documents,” Monahan said.
Far more complicated are the negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the financial supporters of the rival LIV Golf League which lured away Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka in 2022, and most recently Masters champion Jon Rahm earlier this month.
Monahan described conversations with PIF and the European tour as “active and productive.”
The framework agreement was to expire Dec. 31, though it included language that the deadline could be extended if all parties agreed. “We are working to extend our negotiations into next year based on the progress we have made to date,” Monahan said in his memo.
Monahan said the goal for 2024 was to reach agreements with SSG, PIF and the European tour to bring them in as minority co-investors in the for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
“These partnerships will allow us to unify, innovate and invest in the game for the benefit of players, fans and sponsors,” Monahan said.
Under the framework agreement, PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan would have a seat on the PGA Tour board. The agreement also included PGA Tour Enterprises doing an “objective, empirical-driven evaluation” of LIV and to determine if team golf can be integrated into the PGA Tour and European tour.
It also was to determine a “fair and objective” process for LIV players who might want to return to the PGA Tour or European tour, which is said to be a sticking point because of the players who turned down Saudi riches to remain on the PGA Tour.
The PGA Tour season begins Thursday at The Sentry on Maui, the first of eight “signature” events with a $20 million purse and limited field. LIV Golf already has announced the bulk of its 2024 schedule and $20 million purses. It starts the first week of February.
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69 killed in devastating Bangladesh fire
Mahfuz Riven, a duty officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defence, told Xinhua that the fire, triggered by an explosion of a gas cylinder, quickly spread into a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a five-storey building, and tore through a row of crowded buildings in Chawkbazar in the old part of the city.
"The fire that originated at about 11:00 p.m. local time Wednesday following explosion of the cylinder killed 69 people," he said.
Abdur Rahim, an eye-witness, told Xinhua on site Thursday morning that the fire broke out to the entire area within five minutes after the explosion, keeping no scope for many to escape for safe place.
"I can't tell you what a horrendous situation it was then in Chawkbazar area," he said.
According to the fire service officials, thirty-seven units of firefighters brought the fire under control at around 3:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, but they have still been working to extinguish burning materials.
The death toll is feared to rise as rescue operation has not finished till filing of this report Thursday.
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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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Michigan vs. Alabama Predictions and Picks
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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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