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2023 was a record-setting year for the live music industry.
According to research from Pollstar, the top 100 North American tours grossed over $6.6 billion. But in the digital age of ticket buying, consumers are also growing more annoyed over added fees and a lack of price transparency at the virtual box office.
"As you go through the process, there's additional fees that are then added on that can come to like 20% of the ticket price at the end of the day," said entertainment attorney Bryan Sullivan, a partner at the firm Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae.
In Colorado, a bill that would require ticketing companies to disclose the total cost of an event ticket is on its way to the governor's desk to sign or veto by June. Similar bills have already been signed into law in Minnesota and Maryland.
"Colorado, Minnesota and Maryland have been the three that have been leading regulation," said Sullivan. "And I believe there's a bill in the House of Representatives that is shockingly bipartisan, since it's rare that that happens nowadays, but that is actually moving forward."
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Artists selling tickets in person to help fans avoid online bots, fees
On the federal level, the house earlier this month passed the Transparency in Charges for Key Events Ticketing Act — or TICKET Act — which would require sellers to show music fans the total ticket price, including fees, at the beginning of the online process.
All of these regulations come as 145 million people attended concerts in 2023 — 20% more than the previous year, according to research from the U.S. Department of Justice.
But with that demand comes a sharp increase in ticket costs. According to research from Pollstar and Apollo Academy, the average price of a concert ticket increased from $90 in 2018 to $120 in 2023.
Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment have been the main target of criticism for added fees, but a spokesperson from the company told Scripps News in a statement: "We have long advocated for a nationwide all-in pricing mandate, including in Colorado. Live Nation venues and festivals already showcase all-in pricing across the country. Unfortunately, we routinely see resellers defy state laws requiring pricing transparency, so we strongly encourage regulatory scrutiny to ensure compliance so that these standards will be upheld uniformly across the industry."
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The route for sixth-seeded Indiana has also had some notable hurdles removed.
The Pacers needed six games to earn a first-round win over a Milwaukee team missing Giannis Antetokounmpo. They then outlasted a New York Knicks team that was leading the series 3-2 before tripping over a rash of injuries that included star Jalen Brunson breaking his hand in the Pacers' lopsided Game 7 victory.
But neither Boston nor Indiana is focused on the narratives surrounding the paths they took to get to this point. They’re here. And beginning with Game 1 on Tuesday night in Boston, it’s now NBA Finals or bust for both.
For the Celtics, that means blocking out reminders of the championship expectations that have hovered over them throughout the season.
“You just got to focus on what matters most,” Celtics forward Jaylen Brown said. “That’s your team. That’s each possession in front of you. That’s whatever your job is. ... Just be able to focus the mind on what matters because it’s easy to get distracted or eluded from what the overall goal and what the target is when you start to entertain kind of everything that’s going around you.”
Indiana guard Tyrese Haliburton said the expectations they’ve had internally were always high.
“We had preseason camp in Nashville – just players, no coaches. That’s what we communicated from the jump. That we expected to be here. This ain’t a surprise to us,” he said. “It’s not a fluke. We expect this from our group. Once we added (Pascal Siakam) we knew we could really take off.”
Pacers coach Rick Carlisle is fully embracing the idea that his team is the “uninvited guest” among the NBA’s final four teams.
“We had some good fortune to get to this moment,” he said. “But our guys did the work to put us in a position to be here.”
OFFENSIVE SHOWDOWN
The Pacers reached their first conference finals since 2014 with an offense that has continued to put up historic numbers by pushing the pace.
Indiana topped the NBA with 123.3 points per game during the regular season, the sixth-highest average in league history. That was on top of it scoring 140 points a record 11 times.
The Pacers’ regular-season offensive rating of 120.5 was second only to the Celtics (122.5). That flipped during the playoffs, with Indiana’s ranking improving to No. 1 at 121.7, followed by Boston at 118.9.
Haliburton and Siakam drove the Pacers’ attack against the Knicks. Haliburton averaged 21.3 points, shot 53.8% from the field and 43.9% from 3 in the series. Siakam averaged 20 points, was 52.8% from the field and 40% from 3. It made them the first duo to average 20-plus points, shoot above 50% from the field and above 40% from the 3-point line in a conference finals.
While Celtics All-Star Jayson Tatum has shown bouts of inconsistency this postseason, he’s still averaging 24.3 points and 10.4 rebounds. He’s also getting plenty of support from fellow All-Star Brown (23.1 points, 6.9 rebounds per game) and Derrick White, who’s seen both his scoring (18.2 points) and 3-point percentage (43.5%) jump this postseason.
“It’s going to be a challenge,” White said. “They get up and down and we like to as well. It’s going to be fun.”
INJURY UPDATE
Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis will be out for Game 1 on Tuesday as he continues to recover from a strained right calf.
The 7-footer sustained his injury in Game 5 of Boston’s first-round series with Miami. He then sat out the second-round matchup with Cleveland.
He has yet to participate in a full practice, but coach Joe Mazzulla said he is making progress.
“He’s out there studying, learning, film, doing everything he can to come back as fast as he can,” Mazzulla said
HISTORY LESSON
This will be the seventh playoff meeting between the Celtics and Pacers.
All six of the previous matchups (2019, 2005, 2004, 2003, 1992 and 1991) have been in the first round, with Boston winning four of the series.
The most recent matchup was in 2019, a 4-0 sweep by the Celtics.
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“The majority of Nevadans agree that the government should stay out of their personal and private decisions ... about our bodies, our lives and our futures,” Harmon said at a rally with about 25 supporters outside the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas.
Elections officials in Nevada’s 17 counties still must verify signatures and it's not clear how long that will take.
In Washoe County, spokeswoman Bethany Drysdale said advocates delivered several boxes of signatures to the registrar’s office in Reno. Boxes also went to officials in Clark County, the state’s most populous and Democratic-leaning area, which includes Las Vegas.
Nevada voters approved a law in 1990 that makes abortion available up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, a point considered a marker of fetal viability. But Nevada is one of several states where backers are pressing to strengthen abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Since then, several Republican-controlled states have tightened abortion restrictions or imposed outright bans. Fourteen states currently ban abortions at all stages of pregnancy, while 25 allow abortions up to 24 weeks or later, with limited exceptions.
Harmon said the effort to collect signatures was "very expensive" but declined to give an exact figure. She noted that the neighboring states of Idaho,Arizona and Utah have stricter abortion rules than Nevada.
Most states with Democratic legislatures have laws or executive orders protecting access. Voters in California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Vermont have sided with abortion rights supporters on ballot measures. Supporters of abortion rights have qualified measures for ballots in Colorado and South Dakota, and Nevada is among nine other states where signature drives have been underway.
The measure would ensure “a fundamental, individual right to abortion” while allowing Nevada to regulate “provision of abortion after fetal viability ... except where necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual.”
Melissa Clement, Nevada Right to Life director, told The Associated Press her organization will continue to fight the proposed amendment in courts and at the ballot box.
“As a woman, nothing makes me angrier than Democrats taking one of the most difficult and traumatic decisions a woman can make and using it for political fodder,” Clement said. “Scaring women. It’s despicable.”
Signature-gathering is one of two tracks being taken in Nevada to get the measure on the ballot.
To amend the Nevada Constitution, voters must approve a measure twice. If the abortion amendment qualifies and is approved by voters this year, they would vote on it again in 2026.
In the Legislature, Nevada’s Democratic-majority lawmakers passed a 24-week right-to-abortion measure last year along party lines, teeing the issue up for another vote when lawmakers return next year for their next every-two-years session in Carson City. If approved then, the proposed constitutional amendment would be put on the 2026 statewide ballot.
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Domino's franchisee in Pennsylvania sentenced to prison, ordered to pay millions over taxes
PHILADELPHIA - Tax crimes have landed a Domino's Pizza franchisee behind bars for over a year, in addition to paying millions of dollars back to the government.
Ammar Jali, 56, of Bethlehem, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to filing a false tax return for his businesses and himself.
He was the sole shareholder of 36 Domino's Pizza restaurants throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Officials say Jali caused more than $2.5 million in tax losses to the federal government after filing false tax returns and underreporting more than $10,000,000 in earnings from 2014-16.
"Anyone contemplating cheating on their taxes should know that IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agents work tirelessly, year-round, to investigate tax and financial crimes," said IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Denise Leuenberger.
Jali was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, and ordered to pay $2.5 million to the IRS for tax crimes.
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Family sues Delaware County after teen wrongfully convicted, executed over 90 years ago
DELAWARE COUNY - Alexander McClay Williams is known as the youngest person in Pennsylvania history to be executed at just 16 years old for a crime he didn’t commit.
The teen boy's story made waves for decades, with his conviction finally being overturned in 2022. On Monday, his remaining relatives are hoping to right a wrong over 90 years later by filing a civil lawsuit.
"Mr. Williams was legally abandoned by the court system and left to die at the hands of the state," Attorney Joseph Marrone stated as he read a 2022 proclamation signed by then-governor Tom Wolf.
The family's attorney says the 16-year-old's wrongful conviction and execution was an egregious miscarriage of justice.
"What we know is that back in 1930 Alexander McClay Williams was committed to Glenn Mills School for Boys. He was a 16-year-old boy trying to find his way," Marrone said.
In 1930, a horrific murder took place on the school's campus when 34-year-old Vita Robar, who worked at the school and lived in one of the cottages on campus, was found stabbed to death over 40 times.
"Within less than a day, somehow this investigation turned to Alexander. This 16-year-old was brought in for interrogation and interrogated multiple times with no lawyer and no parents. He was a minor," Marrone said.
After a coerced false confession on January 6, 1931, an all-white jury found Alexander guilty of first degree murder, sending him to the electric chair six months later.
"There was nothing to connect Alexander to this murder other than the fact that he was a convenient black boy at the hands of the detectives and the prosecutor," Marrone said.
The tragedy has haunted the boy's family for decades.
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"My mother kept saying Alex didn’t do that. There’s no way he could’ve done that. And he was right, but it affected us all."
Susie Carter is Alexander's last living sibling at 94 years old. She is the 11th of 13 children, and was just a year old when her brother was sentenced to death.
"I have 8 children. I can’t imagine what my father and mother went through," Carter said. "My sisters and brothers; it’s a terrible thing to live with something that they didn’t know really what happened."
Now, after all these years, Alexander's sister finally has her answer.
"The lead detective found that it was done by a strong man. Alexander was 5’5, 125 pounds. Very small," Marrone said. "It was later determined that the Robars filed for divorce on the basis that the husband committed extreme cruelty, but that evidence was never given over."
"All the evidence pointed to her husband."
With lifelong questions answered, the family is seeking justice.
"This case exemplifies prosecutorial and police misconduct to the highest degree. Alexander McClay Williams was nothing more than a scapegoat at the behest of racist detectives and prosecutors."
The family has filed a civil lawsuit, listing a number of defendants, including Delaware County, the estate of then-assistant district attorney Louis Bloom and the estate of Chief County Detective Oliver Smith.
"This lawsuit intends to hold those responsible accountable. This case represents a movement of change in our justice system for those who may become victims of the same horrible fate."
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Geane Herrera, former UFC fighter, dead at 33
Geane Herrera, an MMA fighter who fought briefly in UFC and competed in the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), died. He was 33.
The BKFC confirmed Herrera’s death in a post on social media. He reportedly died in a motorcycle crash in Florida.
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A GoFundMe was set up in Herrera’s name to pay for his funeral expenses.
"Our family is devastated by the tragic loss of our beloved Geane Carlos Herrera known in the professional fighting world as ‘La Pulga’, whose life was cut way too short at only 33 years-old," the GoFundMe read. "Geane leaves behind a 16 year-old son, his 3-month pregnant girlfriend, mother, father, sisters, a brother and a family that loves him and will deeply miss him.
"Geane was full of life, always trying to live life to the fullest, he was a dedicated athlete with big dreams of making a difference and leaving his print in this world. He was such a happy go lucky person that left a mark in everyone that came into his life."
ART 'ONE GLOVE' JIMMERSON, WHO FOUGHT IN VERY FIRST UFC EVENT, DEAD AT 60
The California native made his UFC debut in August 2015 at UFC Fight Night 73 and lost via unanimous decision. He fought again just three months later and defeated Joby Sanchez via technical knockout. He lost his final two fights and moved to Absolute Championship Berkut in 2018.
In July 2021, he made his BKFC debut against Abdiel Velazquez and won via technical knockout.
"Geane was a hustler and started doing all kinds of odd jobs to make ends-meet and make sure his kids and family was taken care of," the GoFundMe added. "Geane coming from an immigrant family wanted to make the difference and make his Colombian-American community proud.
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"We tell his story because we want everyone to know the amazing person Geane was, a man full of passion, life, love and big dreams."
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US pediatricians allow HIV-positive mothers to breastfeed under new guidelines
U.S. pediatricians are reversing a decades-old policy and are giving the greenlight for people with HIV to breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' latest move came in the form a new report, reversing recommendations it had in place since the start of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s.
Medical experts said that routinely prescribed drugs can reduce the risk of transmitting HIV via breast milk to less than 1%.
"The medications are so good now and the benefits for mom and baby are so important that we are at a point where it is important to engage in shared decision-making," Dr. Lisa Abuogi, a pediatric HIV expert at the University of Colorado, said,
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The drugs, known as antiretroviral therapy, don’t eliminate all risk of transmitting HIV through breast milk. Avoiding breastfeeding is the only certain way to prevent spreading the virus, Abuogi said.
In addition, parents must breastfeed exclusively for the babies' first six months because research shows that switching between breast milk and formula can disrupt an infant's gut in ways that increase the risk of HIV infection.
About 5,000 people who have HIV give birth in the U.S. each year. Nearly all take drugs to suppress the virus to very low levels, Abuogi said, though viral levels can rebound if they don't stay on them.
The AAP policy comes more than a year after the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed longstanding recommendations against breastfeeding by people with HIV. That guidance said people who have consistent viral suppression should be counseled on their options. It also emphasizes that health care providers shouldn't alert child protective services agencies if a parent with HIV seeks to breastfeed.
Breastfeeding provides ideal nutrition for babies and protects them against illnesses and conditions such as obesity and Type 2 diabetes, research shows. Nursing also reduces the mother’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure.
The World Health Organization has recommended since 2010 that women with HIV in developing countries breastfeed their infants and have access to antiretroviral therapy. The guidance weighed the risk of infants acquiring HIV through breastfeeding and the risk of babies dying from malnutrition, diarrhea and pneumonia in places where safe replacements for breast milk aren't available.
In developed nations, however, experts had recommended against breastfeeding because the wide availability of safe water, formula and human donor milk could eliminate the risk of HIV transmission, Yee said.
Abuogi said the AAP report provides crucial guidance for pediatricians, nurses and lactation specialists who work directly with children and families.
Some providers were already helping people treated for HIV to nurse their babies, despite the earlier recommendations. The new guidance should expand the practice, hopefully quickly, Abuogi said.
"This is a unique situation because it’s not just doctors and providers who are changing," Abuogi said. "Our patients are pushing this as well."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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Jon Wysocki, drummer and founding member of Staind, dies at 53
Jon Wysocki, the drummer and founding member of the rock band Staind, has died, according to the band’s official X, formerly known as Twitter, account. He was 53 years old.
Wysocki died on May 18 "surrounded by family and friends," according to the Lydia’s Castle Instagram account. Lydia’s Castle is another rock band that hails from Nashville, Tenn., which Wysocki joined in 2021.
While the official cause of his death has yet to be revealed, a Facebook post shared by Lydia’s Castle band member, Shawna Hornbeck, said that Wysocki was admitted to the ICU after he was "having issues with his liver."
FILE - Drummer Jon Wysocki from the band Staind performs at Fuse's IMX Studios in Midtown Manhattan Dec. 05, 2003 in New York City. (Mark Mainz/Getty Images)
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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Man with 12 DUIs learns his fate after most recent road rage arrest in Delaware County
MEDIA, Pa. - A 12-time DUI offender from Delaware County is going to state prison for as long as 11 years after facing a judge in Media court Monday afternoon.
Before his sentencing, Mark Perrotta enjoyed lunch as a free man for the last time in a long time. He spoke of his future, and if he expected to be jailed.
"Absolutely," he told Fox 29’s Jeff Cole. "I have no idea how long. It’s up to God."
The Delaware County man was awaiting sentencing for his 12th DUI on July 15, 2023, which was part of a road rage incident he pleaded guilty to.
"To walk a mile is all I can say," Perrota said. "All I can tell you is walk a mile. Obviously, I have issues, you know what I mean. They finally sent me to rehabilitation, and I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder."
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On the second floor of Delaware County court in Media, Judge Dominic Pileggi detailed the 60-year old’s decades of DUI convictions and license suspensions starting in 1982.
He expressed amazement that Perrotta hadn’t killed anyone, stating that he was concerned Perrotta had not "come to terms" with what he’d done.
The judge then sentenced Perrotta to a minimum of 4 years and a maximum of 11 in state prison.
Defense attorney Steve Schukraft, speaking after the sentencing, said,
"Twelve DUIs is a lot of DUIs," Defense Attorney Steve Schukraftsaid after the sentencing. "But he never received the treatment he should have received, and he went to impatient treatment and completed that."
Before facing the judge, Perrotta said, "I’m a man. I get knocked down I have to get up again. I have to keep moving."
When asked what he thought was a fair sentence, he said, "whatever God thinks is fair. I’m not the judge."
Following the sentencing, the owner of a plumbing, heating, and air conditioning company, who is married with adult children, was cuffed in court and taken away.
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Memorial Day weekend: Jersey Shore gears up for busy holiday despite beach erosion
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - The countdown to the unofficial start of summer has officially begun!
City leaders and business owners along the Jersey Shore are ready for the influx of Memorial Day beachgoers, but they are still dealing with on uncontrollable variable - Mother Nature.
"It’s a shame, but we’re staying at the north end and, unfortunately, the beaches are smaller," said Kim Cooke, a long-time visitor to Ocean City. "You get what you get, but it would never keep us from coming here."
Ocean City loves to hold onto its reputation as a quaint family resort town, one whose population grows tenfold in summer.
However, getting ready for all that takes nine months of preparation.
"We go from a small year-round community to summer, we're one of the largest cities in the state. It’s quite a task to undertake," said Michael Allegreto of the Mayor’s office.
As Memorial Day nears, there’s also work to do to deal with the damage from repeated nor’easter storms.
"It’s somewhere in the middle. A lot of it is gone, but it’s tough to say if it comes back on its own or not. Sometimes they put it back," said surfer Rosario Irwin.
In preparation, the mayor's office says they take beach trucks to smooth out the beach for sunbathers.
Any further beach replenishment won’t happen this season, and officials say there’s more room to spread out a little further south on the island.
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Pat Sajak’s final episode of ‘Wheel of Fortune’ airs soon: Here’s when to watch
LOS ANGELES - After more than four decades as host, Pat Sajak’s time as host of "Wheel of Fortune" will come to an end.
The 76-year-old has presided over the game show, which features contestants guessing letters to try to fill out words and phrases to win money and prizes, since 1981.
Sajak, who announced his retirement nearly a year ago, has already recorded his last episodes.
His farewell episode was taped in early April.
When is Pat Sajak’s last day?
Sajak’s final episode will air on Friday, June 7, according to Deadline.
Pat Sajak hosts "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune." (Credit:: Christopher Willard/ABC via Getty Images)
Sajak will continue to serve as a consultant on the show for three years following his retirement as host.
Why is Pat Sajak retiring?
In June 2023, Sajak announced he was leaving the show, stating that "the time has come."
"Well, the time has come," Sajak wrote in a statement. "I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last. It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all. (If nothing else, it’ll keep the clickbait sites busy!)."
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In response to Sajak's exit news, Vanna White, his longtime co-host, posted, "When we started @WheelofFortune who could have imagined we’d still be at it 41 seasons later? I couldn’t be happier to have shared the stage with you for all these years with one more to come. Cheers to you, @patsajak!"
Sajak has been nominated for 23 Daytime Emmy Awards, winning three of them, as well as earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Who was the original host of Wheel of Fortune?’
In 1975, the game show premiered with Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford leading the show as hosts. It was not until 1982 that Sajak and White stepped in as co-hosts.
In September 2022, Sajak surpassed Bob Barker, former host of "The Price is Right," as the longest-running host of any game show, having helmed the show for 40 years.
Who is taking Pat Sajak’s place on ‘Wheel of Fortune?’
A week after Sajak's retirement news was released, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest would be taking over as host in Season 42.
"I'm truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary Pat Sajak," Seacrest posted on X. "I can say, along with the rest of America, that it's been a privilege and pure joy to watch Pat and Vanna on our television screens for an unprecedented 40 years, making us smile every night and feel right at home with them."
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Seacrest described the accomplishment as a "full circle moment" after one of his first jobs involved hosting a game show called "Click" for Merv Griffin 15 years ago.
Seacrest not only hosts multiple shows across a variety of platforms, but he also works behind the scenes as a producer on some of the biggest television shows including "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
Is Vanna White leaving ‘Wheel of Fortune?’
Despite Sajak's exit, his co-host White said she would stay on the show through 2026 at least.
White renewed her "Wheel of Fortune" contract for at least two more years.
The news was confirmed by TMZ from exclusive sources who said she received a "substantial pay increase" from the $3 million per year she was reportedly making for nearly two decades.
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White, 66, previously suggested that if she was ever absent, Sajak’s daughter Maggie Sajak would be the right person for the role.
"I think she's a good replacement if I can't be there for some reason," White said during an interview with E! News.
Maggie, 28, previously took over White's hosting duties in early May as the latter competed on "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune."
White continued to gush over Maggie and added she brought a certain charm to the game show, just like her father.
"She's precious, she's beautiful, she's very good," White noted. "I think she learned a lot from her father because he's such a good interviewer. I think she's good for our show."
This story was reported from Los Angeles. FOXNews contributed.
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Black bear sighting reported in Bucks County for second time this month
BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Solebury Township Police say a bear may have been spotted in Bucks County nearly three weeks after another bear sighting in the area.
Monday police reports described a large black bear traveling near Aquetong and Upper Mountain roads.
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Police advise residents to keep their distance from the bear, and to refrain from feeding it or leaving out food that may attract it.
If residents do encounter the bear, police say residents should remain calm, make noise and back away slowly.
On May 1, police reported a black bear sighting in Upper Makefield Township near Street Road.
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'Yellowstone' and 'The White Lotus' inspiring luxe summer vacations, 'set-jetting' trend
The "set-jetting" trend in tourism is driving travelers to choose vacation destinations based on their favorite television shows, including the Montana mountains seen in the Kevin Costner-led "Yellowstone" and the sandy beaches of Maui featured in the first season of "The White Lotus."
According to Adam Duckworth, president and founder of Travelmation, "Set-jetting is a hot travel trend where travelers are building trips around their favorite TV shows or movies. This trend has exploded over the past year, thanks to the extreme popularity of shows like ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘The White Lotus.'"
Expedia’s Unpack ’24 Study surveyed 20,000 people, and more than half of the participants in the study said they researched a potential travel destination after seeing it on a television show.
Travelers participating in the study mentioned they get vacation inspiration from television shows over social media or travel agencies.
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National Geographic noted this trend is not new for television and movie super fans. The outlet reported one in five travelers to New Zealand are fans of "The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings."
Below are some hot travel destinations that have been highlighted on major television shows.
Montana, ‘Yellowstone’
Duckworth told Fox News Digital his company has seen a huge increase in demand for travel to Montana because people want to live like the Dutton family.
"We have clients contacting us regularly to set up trips to Yellowstone National Park. And get this — you can stay right where they film the Dutton Family Ranch, but you better book early," he explained.
FILE-Kevin Costner attends 'A conversation with Kevin Costner from Paramount Network and Yellowstone' during the Cannes Lions Festival 2018 on June 21, 2018 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Richard Bord/Getty Images for Cannes Lions)
The Washington Post reported in 2023 that the Bureau of Business and Economic Research and the University of Montana’s Institute for Tourism & Recreation Research's study showed that 2 million tourists said "Yellowstone" inspired them to visit Montana in 2021.
Lucy Beighle, communications director for Glacier Country Tourism of Western Montana, told The Washington Post, "We definitely have seen an uptick in interest because of ‘Yellowstone.’ If Montana wasn’t already on the map, and if people have seen ‘Yellowstone,’ it certainly is now."
FILE- Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Montana. (Photo by Samuel Wilson-Pool/Getty Images)
Hawaii and Italy - ‘The White Lotus’
There has been an increase in interest among families looking to vacation in Maui, Hawaii and Sicily, Italy. According to Duckworth, "The White Lotus" is largely responsible for the spike in travelers to those locations.
FILE-(L-R) Jake Lacy, Murray Bartlett, Sydney Sweeney, Natasha Rothwell, Mike White, Steve Zahn, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, and Connie Britton winners of Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for "The White Lotus", pose in the
"White Lotus has sparked the most interest with travelers," he explained. "Fans of the show want to experience the luxury of the resorts they are seeing on their screens. The first season was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, and the second season took place at the Four Seasons San Domenico Palace."
Four Seasons hotels might be a little pricey for someone looking to get "The White Lotus" experience.
"We've booked White Lotus fans at nearby hotels so they can still experience the beautiful scenery and destinations," Duckworth said. "Fans are willing to do whatever it takes to immerse themselves in these lavish worlds."
FILE-Wailea beach on Maui, Hawaii. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).
FILE-Panoramic view on in Taormina, Italy. (Photo by Santi Visalli/Getty Images)
According to Expedia, the travel agency saw a 300% increase in travel to Hawaii and Sicily, Italy, after the first two seasons of the hit show was released on HBO.
According to National Geographic, fans have the opportunity to stay in Jennifer Coolidge's exact room that appeared on the show if they ask for the "Royal Suite."
According to Deadline, season 3 of the hit series will be filmed in Thailand, specifically in or around Koh Samui, Phuket and Bangkok and begin filming in February. Duckworth says Travelmation is expecting to see an increase in travel to Thailand after the season is released.
FILE-Sydney Sweeney attends the Los Angeles premiere of the new HBO Limited Series "The White Lotus" at Bel-Air Bay Club on July 07, 2021 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images,)
"Season 3 will take place in Thailand, and we are getting ready for a huge increase in travel to that part of the world when the next season drops," Duckworth said.
"My top tip: Book that trip to Thailand now," Duckworth added. "We predict ‘White Lotus’ fans will drive up prices as demand increases."
Deadline noted the next season is expected in 2025.
Scotland, ‘Outlander’
Travelmation's travel adviser, Kristin Peterson, traveled to Scotland to immerse herself in the world that was showcased throughout the "Outlander" seasons.
"Scotland is the iconic destination for Outlander fans. I have even done this trip myself," Peterson said. "The obvious first stop is getting to Midhope Castle, but there are so many ways to experience the show in real life."
FILE-(L-R) Outlander actors Caitriona Balfe (Claire Randall) and Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser) attend the Season Two World Premiere at the American Museum of Natural History on April 4, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Randy Brooke/FilmMagic/Getty Image
Peterson added her recommendations for eager "Outlander" fans trying to get the most out of their Scotland vacation.
"I recommend walking the battlefield of Culloden, entering the drawbridge of Linlithgow Palace and, most importantly, going over the sea to Skye. These will certainly put the show front and center to the 'set-jetting' traveler," Peterson said. "Exploring standing stone circles, walking through fields of purple heather and thistle, and, of course, wearing a kilt add so much more dimension to the story. It’s the perfect destination for fans from all over the world."
FILE-Famous stone circle in Scotland. (Photo by: Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
According to the National Trust for Scotland Foundation, "Outlander" had a major impact on tourism to Scotland in the pre-pandemic era.
"The ‘Outlander Effect’ inspired an increase in tourism to Scotland, with fans of the story traveling to visit the real-life historic sites and landscapes that feature prominently in Gabaldon’s story," the foundation shared.
Paris, ‘Emily in Paris’
"Emily in Paris" fans have been flocking to France since its season 1 release on Netflix in 2020. In the show, a neighborhood bistro named Les Deux Compères is prominently featured. In real life, the restaurant is called Terra Nera.
FILE-The Terra Nera restaurant in Paris. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)
The restaurant's Instagram account highlights fans flying in from all over the world to take a photo in front of its famed entrance to the building.
The fourth season of "Emily in Paris" will debut on Netflix this fall.
"When that next season drops later this year, we will absolutely have clients asking to see these stunning locations firsthand," Duckworth explained.
Expedia's Unpack ‘24 study saw a 200% increase in searches for Paris after "Emily in Paris" debuted season 3.
FILE-Lily Collins attends the 39th Annual PaleyFest LA - "Emily In Paris" at Dolby Theatre on April 10, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
England, ‘The Crown’
The Telegraph reported about a study done by Barclays in 2017 about the effect "The Crown" had on travel to England.
FILE-Olivia Colman Carter attends "The Crown" Season 3 world premiere at The Curzon Mayfair on November 13, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Images)
At the time, Barclays interviewed 10,000 travelers, and one-fifth of them admitted the television series based on the late Queen Elizabeth's life influenced them to choose England for their next vacation.
The study showed a 63% increase in international tourists to England compared to recent years.
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Ruby was recently featured in the shelter’s “Mean Girls” photo shoot, but she is not mean! She is, however, the only “Mean Girl” that has not yet been adopted. Ruby is around eight months old and has some more growing to do. We anticipate she will be medium to large once fully grown. Ruby gets along with other dogs at the shelter and is very playful! She is doing well with leash training and is treat motivated. Ruby loves to cuddle! At the Shelter Dog Meet and Greet event this past Saturday at Maysville Tractor Supply Company, she met multiple children, including a toddler, and did well with all of them! She was so good, and we were surprised no one adopted her at the event!
Ruby came to the shelter as a stray and was not reclaimed. We do not know her breed mix, but she has an adorable hound bark! She will need an adopter who is willing to continue her training and provide lots of playtime and toys. Scan the QR code beside her picture to learn more about her and apply to adopt her now!
Thanks to generous community support and donations to Rock 4 Rescue, as of 5/8/2024, every dog adopted from Mason County Animal Shelter is being microchipped before they go to their fur-ever home. The microchips being used at the shelter are purchased and registered through HomeAgain Pet Recovery.
Pet microchips are a permanent way to identify your pet and reunify them with you if they should become lost. When a lost pet is taken to an animal shelter or veterinarian, they are scanned for the presence of a microchip. Our shelter scans each dog at least three times. If a microchip is present, the microchip number is displayed on the scanner’s screen. That number is reported to a database, which notifies the owner that their pet has been found. Unlike a collar and tags, the microchip is permanent and cannot get lost. Talk to your veterinarian about microchipping your pets!
Upcoming Events:
*6/8/2024: Mason County Animal Shelter Dog Meet & Greet at Maysville’s Limestone Family YMCA from 10 AM to 2 PM.
*6/15/2024: The Buffalo Trace Stampede benefiting Mason County Animal Shelter will start at 9 AM at Mason County Public Library. Register by 6/7/2024 to get a t-shirt at https://runsignup.com/Race/KY/Maysville/BuffaloTraceStampede
Adoption Information:
Adoption fees are half-priced thanks to the EnviroFlight Fur-ever Home Adoption Sponsorship Program! Adult dog adoption fees are $40, and puppy adoption fees are $60! One generous individual is willing to pay the adoption fee for a veteran to adopt a dog of their choice. Sponsors for the remainder of the adoption fee for any of the shelter’s dogs are welcome!
Adopters must complete a brief application online or at the shelter before they are approved to adopt. Go to the shelter’s Adopt-a-Pet website to view all available animals and fill out the application to adopt: www.adoptapet.com/shelter/90606/available-pets/pets
Or visit the shelter’s Petfinder website: www.petfinder.com/member/us/ky/maysville/mason-county-animal-shelter-ky421
MCAS needs more volunteers and foster homes! You can foster a dog for as long as you like, a few hours or a “Doggo Day Out,” a weekend, a few weeks, or longer. Volunteers can help in many ways, including walking dogs, grooming/bathing dogs, helping with playgroups, transporting, or helping at meet-and-greet events out in the community. If you want to become an MCAS volunteer and/or fosterer or sponsor a dog’s adoption fees, please call the shelter at 606-564-6067 or email [email protected].
Visit and follow the shelter’s Facebook page for more information on all available dogs, the volunteer program, foster programs, and upcoming events: https://www.facebook.com/masoncountyanimalshelter
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Spay/Neuter Resources:
We encourage everyone to spay/neuter their pets to help control the unwanted pet population. Go to https://www.rock4rescue.com/spay-and-neuter-resources for a list of spay/neuter providers that service animals in our area and spay/neuter voucher programs. This list includes organizations that advertise low-cost spaying/neutering and other services.
Humane Society of Buffalo Trace Spay/Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) vouchers are available to Mason County residents and can be used at the veterinarian of your choice. Apply online at www.bit.ly/hsbt-snap. Donations to the Humane Society of Buffalo Trace can be submitted via tinyurl.com/HSBTgive.
Pet Rehoming Resources:
If you need to rehome a pet, you can use one of these sites to do so yourself:
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Donations for the dogs are appreciated!
Purchase supplies locally and bring them to the shelter, or purchase via our Amazon Wishlist link available via the “Donate to This Shelter” option on our Adopt-a-Pet site. Gently used collars, leashes, dog crates, dog beds, and blankets are also greatly appreciated! You can donate to help the shelter dogs and other at-risk Mason County community pets via Rock 4 Rescue. Go to rock4rescue.com for information.
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- Coinshares reported that digital assets saw net inflows of $932 million last week after CPI data release.
- Hong Kong witnesses $82.5 million outflows, suggesting crypto ETFs in the region may not be worth the hype.
- Global ETF volume slightly increased last week but was still miles below volumes seen in March and April.
Coinshares weekly report of digital asset flows shows that crypto assets witnessed more than a 600% increase in net inflows last week after US Consumer Price Index (CPI) saw a softer-than-expected inflation increase.
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Digital assets inflows near $1 billion
Digital asset funds recorded consecutive inflows last week with $932 million in net inflows i.e., a 619% increase from last week's $130 million inflows, according to data from Coinshares.
Generally, increased fund inflows in an asset signify investor confidence and a potential price increase.
The increased inflows were triggered after the US reported on Wednesday that CPI only increased by a softer-than-expected 0.3%, indicating progress towards the Federal Reserve's 2% target. 89% of the reported total flows came in the last three days of the week after the CPI data release.
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Bitcoin accounted for a large chunk of total flows, with over $942 million in inflows. Solana and Chainlink also recorded inflows of $4.9 million and $3.7 million, respectively. Ethereum, on the other hand, recorded outflows of nearly $23 million following bearish sentiments last week regarding spot ETH ETF approval.
However, things are turning positive for the digital asset this week following rumors that the SEC is set to approve the ETFs as the May 23 deadline approaches.
By region, the US dominated with more than $1 billion in inflows. Canada continued seeing outflows for the second consecutive week, with about $17 million in outflows. Hong Kong saw outflows of $82.5 million, indicating the debut of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in the region may not be worth the hype.
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Total volumes across global ETFs also slightly increased from $8 billion to $10.5 billion last week. However, it's still miles below the $40 billion volume seen in March.
With the market opening the week on a positive note on Monday, global ETFs may record even more increased inflows.
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Everybody’s memory falters from time to time. But usually with little things, like an item you meant to pick up from the grocery store, or a snippet from a song. Some folks, however, take forgetfulness to a whole new level. Like me.
I am horrible when it comes to remembering names. Faces? Not a problem. But ask me to recall the name of the person to whom I am talking, not so much.
I do get it honest, though. Mom could never quite get the fact that I am Bob and my brother Chris is Chris. We look different and have different mannerisms. Add to that the fact I am five years older than Chris, and that should have been the kicker.
Be that as it may, I spent my formative years being called “Cri-bob” by my Mother. Accent on the second syllable in case you were curious. So again, I think my trouble with names is genetic.
Strike that – real, actual people. I seem to have a vast mental capacity for recalling television and movie characters. My Bride is no doubt annoyed every time I say, “You remember him, don’t you? He was the fourth extra to the left in that TV show we watched two decades ago.”
For what it is worth, it irritates me, as well. Would you like to know how bad it gets? One time I was with friends downtown, when another friend and his wife stopped to say hello. They being new to my group, I started to make the introductions. The only problem was, I could not recall the name of his bride if my life depended on it.
My feeble response? “Guys, I would like you to meet Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So.” Obviously, Mrs. So-and-So knew what had happened, and while doing a slow burn introduced herself. It goes without saying that I have never forgotten her name since then.
I used to be one of the house DJs at the Riviera Night Club in Ripley. Can you imagine the mortification you might feel if you introduce a live band by the wrong name? Yep, been there, done that.
The next one straddles the fence of being forgetful or just plain stupid. One day while in the fifth grade at Orangeburg Elementary School, our teacher distributed a ten-question test about North and South Korea. Simple enough. Basically, a true or false test with the countries replacing the truthiness or falsity of the questions. Remember, there were only one out of two answers that it could be. I was able to get all ten questions wrong.
What are the odds of that happening? I checked. The odds of getting all ten true-or-false (basically) questions wrong by random guessing are approximately 1 in 1024. I should have received a prize instead of an “F” for my skill. At being wrong. Anyway…
You would think that given my profession I would need to bring things to mind on a daily basis as part of the job. After 42 years, however, a lot of the things I do are a matter of second nature, not instant recall.
I would blame it on my ADHD, but that would be a copout. I prefer to consider my faulty memory like author Rita Mae Brown, who said “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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Peach Perfection: Peach genetics faces challenges such as long intergeneration times and limited genetic transformation systems, making gene identification and validation complex. Traditional approaches often fall short in predicting gene functions due to these limitations. Gene coexpression networks (GCNs), which map the relationships between gene expressions, offer a promising solution. By leveraging the 'guilty-by-association' principle, GCNs can predict gene functions based on shared expression patterns. Due to these challenges, there is a pressing need for innovative tools like GCNs to enhance our understanding of peach genetics.
Researchers from the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) and Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG) have made a significant stride in agricultural genomics. Published study (DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhad294) in the prestigious journal Horticulture Research on January 2, 2024, the study introduces a new tool that leverages GCNs to predict gene functions in peaches, potentially revolutionizing fruit breeding.
The study created four GCNs from 604 Illumina RNA-Seq libraries and evaluated their performance using a machine-learning algorithm based on the 'guilty-by-association' principle. Among the networks, COO300 showed the best performance, encompassing 21,956 genes. To validate COO300, researchers conducted two case studies. In the first case study, genes PpPG21 and PpPG22, involved in peach fruit softening, were analyzed. The coexpressed genes formed the melting flesh (MF) network, which was enriched with terms related to cell wall organization and phytohormone signaling.
The MF network included genes associated with cell wall disassembly and ripening-related phytohormones, demonstrating COO300's ability to predict gene functions accurately. In the second case study, the transcription factor PpMYB10.1, which regulates anthocyanin accumulation, was examined. The fruit color (FC) network identified genes involved in anthocyanin metabolism and regulation. By comparing the FC network with grapevine orthologs, researchers identified conserved regulatory networks, further validating COO300's predictive capabilities.
Dr. Iban Eduardo, a leading researcher at CRAG, stated, "The development of the COO300 network represents a significant breakthrough in peach genetics. By accurately predicting gene functions, this tool not only enhances our understanding of peach biology but also paves the way for more targeted and efficient breeding strategies."
The study's impact is profound, offering breeders a powerful tool to enhance peach varieties. By decoding gene functions, the PeachGCN v1.0 and its scripts, accessible to all, will drive advancements in flavor, longevity, and nutrition of peaches. This genomic insight is a harbinger of change, signaling a shift towards data-driven breeding in agriculture. Newswise/SP
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Drivers who risk getting behind the steering wheel after sinking a few bevvies have been warned by police following a single-vehicle crash on a road near Horrabridge.
Sgt Tom Ottley took to his Twitter/X account in the early hours of January 1 to highlight the dangers posed by drink drivers on the region's road. He revealed the remains of a severely damaged grey Renault car which appears to have careered off the road an into a muddy ditch a few yards short of Horrabridge early this morning.
As a result, he revealed that two people had been arrested and were in custody.
PS Ottley - formerly a neighbourhood beat manager with Plymouth's city centre policing team - wrote: "Two drink drivers In custody in the Tavistock and Horrabridge areas. Unfortunately 2024 has continued where 2023 left off…"
He went on to add: "Nothing quite like working New Years Eve. Have fun and stay safe!"
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Police have handed a large grant to a Devon-based charity which aims to support people affect by suicide. Devon and Cornwall Police’s Chief Constable's Foundation handed over £6,000 to Pete’s Dragons, who specialise in offering help to people who are suffering bereavement as well as suicide prevention.
The force said the work of the charity aligns with its own mission to help the most vulnerable in the communities it covers. . As part of their work Pete’s Dragons provides highly skilled and experienced training and consultancy through workshops and courses in all aspects of suicide bereavement and wellbeing.
Lindsay Barry from Pete’s Dragons said: "Pete’s Dragons are so grateful for the Chief Constables Foundation for supporting us this year. This donation of £6,000 will go a long way in helping us to continue providing our bespoke services to adults and children from all over Devon affected by suicide. Thank you to all the staff of Devon and Cornwall Police who have gone to such effort to help us."
The cheque presentation was carried out by T/Chief Constable Jim Colwill and Plymouth-based PCSO Debbie Hollinson who lost her daughter Darcy in 2021. Family and friends of Darcy have since gone on to take on a range of challenges to raise money for Pete's Dragons.
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Devon and Cornwall Police Inspector Miranda Pusey said: "It is an absolute pleasure for me to lead a small team of volunteers who go above and beyond their normal policing role to raise money by planning and delivering events throughout the year. We have had a successful 2023 being able to support a number of projects from across the Force area.
"Having Pete’s Dragons as our Charity of the Year for 2023 has enabled us to not only present them with the £6,000 but also raise awareness of their charity throughout our organisation and wider. It has been a pleasure working alongside them, by providing them clothing for their store in Exmouth and also including them in our Charity Ball earlier this month".
To find out more about their work, visit their website: https://www.petesdragons.org.uk/.
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Homes and businesses in Matford, near Exeter may be experiencing a loss or water, South West Water has said. A local resident has told DevonLive a water pipe has reportedly burst on Sanneville Way this evening (January 1), which is causing supply issues in the area.
Posting to X, formerly known as Twitter, South West Water Help said: "Customers in EX2 0 - Matford, Exeter may be experiencing lower pressure or loss of supply, we have an engineer on the way to investigate. Thank you for your patience & apologies for any inconvenience."
This is a live blog; scroll below for more updates as we get more information.
Are you without water? Get in touch via email at shannon.brown@reachplc.com.
Some properties without water
DevonLive has also been told that some properties are without water in the EX6 area.
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Customers in EX6 8 - Cheriton Bishop may be experiencing lower pressure or loss of supply, we have an engineer on the way to investigate. Thank you for your patience & apologies for any inconvenience. pic.twitter.com/yt342fayGW
Burst pipe causing issues in the area
South West Water has confirmed to DevonLive that there is a burst water pipe in the Matford area.
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Citation
Kettle L, Herrera KMG, Pithayarungsarit P, Simpson KL, Lee YC. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1154-1160.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192927
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Abstract
Vehicle manufacturers are advancing their automated driving system (ADS) capabilities with enhanced transparency features. Research supports driving assistants (DA) and augmented reality (AR) displays for conveying the ADS status, actions, and road environment elements. However, providing continuous or irrelevant information degrades driving performance and attitudes towards the ADS. Therefore, the current study sought to create a framework for specific communication features that would enhance drivers' trust and situation awareness via DA and AR stimuli. Participants watched various driving scenarios and provided their desired communication features to improve trust and situation awareness across modalities. RESULTS identified key themes consistent across events (i.e., current/intended vehicle actions) as well as context-dependent themes such as police presence or pedestrian detection and location. In contrast, auditory cues were identified as redundant across events. These findings can support researchers to focus on relevant information to enhance drivers' attitudes, awareness, and safety while operating ADS-equipped vehicles.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:13
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Citation
Jiang H, Mizobuchi S, Chignell M. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 747-754.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192859
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Abstract
Driver mental workload may represent a mismatch between task demands and available mental resources. If driving mental workload arises from a mismatch involving executive functions, then drivers with more executive function ability should perceive less mental workload in driving situations. To test this hypothesis, 33 participants rated the mental workload associated with 16 driving scenarios and also carried out three cognitive assessment games designed to measure executive functions (response inhibition, working memory updating, switching/shifting). We found a significant relationship between two of the executive function abilities (response inhibition, and switching/shifting, but not working memory updating) and mental workload ratings. With an increase in the age of participants, we observed lower response inhibition and higher perceived mental workload after viewing representations of driving scenarios. These results demonstrate that previous results showing higher perceived mental workload for older drivers may be, at least partly, due to decreases in executive function ability as people age.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:19
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Citation
Arizpe JM, McAnally RE, Hart MV, Kuyk TK, Smith PA, Goettl BP. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 902-907.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192650
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Abstract
Intense light can cause flash blindness, a temporary visual impairment. We investigated how various factors influenced time to recover from flash blindness for a task resembling reading a cockpit heading display. Prior studies used only reflective displays while modern cockpits now include emissive displays, so recovery differences between display types were of interest as was the influence of ambient luminance level. Flash blindness recovery times ranged from five seconds to two minutes. Greater flash intensity and smaller (higher acuity) letters led to longer recoveries. For the reflective display, as ambient luminance increased, flash intensity had weaker influence on recovery times and recovery shortened overall. For the emissive display (white at 16 cd/m2) however, ambient luminance did not appreciably modulate recovery times. The reflective display was more advantageous for flash blindness recovery in high (100 cd/m2) ambient luminance and the emissive display was more advantageous in low (1 cd/m2) ambient luminance.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:25
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Liang N, Lim C, Yu D, Prakah-Asante KO, Pitts BJ. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 914-919.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231194993
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Abstract
Conditionally automated vehicles require drivers to take over control occasionally. To date, takeover performance has been mostly evaluated using only re-engagement time and quality metrics. However, the appropriateness of takeover decisions, which has not been considered by previous research, should also be included as a performance indicator as it reflects one's situation awareness of the takeover scenario. The goal of this study was to use eye-tracking, demographic factors, workload, and non-driving-related task (NDRT) conditions to predict takeover decisions. Forty-three participants drove a simulated conditionally automated vehicle while performing visual NDRTs and needed to decide the most appropriate maneuver around a roadway obstacle. Six classifiers were used to predict takeover decisions. The Random Forest model achieved the best performance, and driving experience and perceived workload were the most influential features. FINDINGS may be used to assist in the design of adaptive algorithms that support drivers taking over from automated vehicles.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:32
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Amre SM, Steelman KS. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1214-1220.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192858
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Advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) enable drivers to relinquish operational control of the vehicle to automation for part of the total drive. While these features are engaged, drivers have an increased risk of losing awareness of their environment. Current ADAS broadly utilizes hands-on-the-wheel or eyes-on-the-road driver supervision strategies to continually monitor steering-wheel torque and drivers' head and eye positions to ensure driver attention. The current work examines the effect of hands-on-the-wheel and eyes-on-the-road driver supervision strategies on change detection, mind wandering, and gaze behavior in a low-fidelity semi-autonomous driving task.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:38
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Song M, Ayoub J, Tian D, Perez M, McClafferty J, Moradi Pari E. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1239-1244.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
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10.1177/21695067231192593
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Drivers need to constantly communicate their intention while sharing the road with other road users to attract attention, reduce confusion, and avoid collisions. With current advancements in the transportation system, particularly the increasing penetration of various levels of automation, the need to communicate intentions has become even more demanding and complex. Thus, it is critical to investigate the limitations and consequences of the existing communication channels and examine the need for improved communication. This study focused on two representative event types: lane change/merge and stop sign-controlled intersection in the SHRP 2 NDS dataset. Communication was deemed essential to the successful navigation of these maneuvers. Through exploratory analysis of driving behavior, insights were gained into the prevalence of lack of communication (LOC) among target events. Identified LOC events were further classified based on the scenario type. Moreover, descriptive observations of the interaction between drivers in these situations were developed and categorized.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:45
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Yu D, Nasir M, Pitts BJ, Shutko J, Bao S, Monk C. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1285-1288.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
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10.1177/21695067231192644
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As of early 2023, only a limited number of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Level 3 (L3) automated driving systems are available on the market, and they are primarily offered by luxury vehicle brands. SAE L3 automated driving systems are classified as conditional automation (CA), meaning that the vehicle can undertake some well-defined driving tasks under specific conditions, but the driver must be ready to assume control of the vehicle when prompted by the system. It is anticipated that an increasing number of L3 CA systems will be introduced on public roads in the next few years. However, L3 systems pose unique Human Factors (HF) challenges that require thoughtful consideration to ensure that production systems are feasible without compromising driver or road safety. This panel discussion brings together HF researchers and practitioners with expertise in human behavior and usability design for automotive applications to discuss and delineate key issues specifically related to L3 systems, as well as potential approaches to tackle these issues.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:51
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Molloy O, Molesworth B, Li J. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1331-1336.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
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10.1177/21695067231193652
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Road related fatalities are a global problem. Speed management remains an elusive skill for many young drivers. The main aim of the study is to understand self-reported speeding behavior, as well as the situations in which young novice and young experienced drivers exceed the speed limit. Three hundred and thirty-four young drivers completed the online driving survey. All participants were grouped based on experience (i.e., novice vs. experienced) and type of drivers (i.e., conformer, dettered, manipulator and defier). Overall, the results showed similarities between responses about their speeding behavior for both young novice and young experienced drivers. The results illustrate that the most common situations in which young drivers exceed the posted speed limit are road design, poor signage, rush, human error, and low traffic volume areas. These results are valuable in developing training to 'calibrate' young drivers' actual and perceived behavior and improve their speed compliance.
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| 2024-01-01T20:26:57
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Lammert K, Huang G, Etu EE, Quientero D, Jiang L. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 1786-1787.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192452
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This study presents the design and implementation of a human-centered wearable robotic glove for driving training using a lead-follower control methodology and haptic stimuli. The glove captures and analyses biometric signals, including piezoelectric sensors on fingers, Electromyography (EMG) for muscle strength, and inertial measurement unit (IMU) for hand position, to monitor hand and forearm behaviour during operation. Real-time motor controllers generate guidance cues for leader-follower gloves based on feedback from sensors, which are wirelessly communicated through the ESP-Now WIFI protocol. An experimental test was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the haptic cues on hand pressure and motion. 2-way ANOVA statistical analysis is used to measure the significance of the relevance between haptic cues and driving training outcomes. While haptic cues did not affect hand trajectory, they have statistical significance to driving outcomes. The proposed system has the potential to enhance driving safety training and improve performance.
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| 2024-01-01T20:27:04
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Quesnel A, Yang X. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 2191-2197.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192619
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Cellphone has become an integral part of people's daily life. Anxiety may arise from cellphone separation. Although negative cognitive effects of cellphone separation were reported, the mechanism of how cellphone separation anxiety influences cognition. In the present study, we examined the effects of cellphone separation on state anxiety and physiological indicators of cognitive engagement, heart rate (HR), and high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV). Seventy-five college-aged participants were assigned into three groups (explicit separation, implicit separation, and control groups) and performed a Stroop task. Anxiety, HR and HF-HRV at baseline and during the task were measured. Additionally, trait anxiety, working memory capacity, and daily cellphone usage were measured as covariates. The dependent variables were submitted to repeated-measure mixed-model analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Although there were no group effects on state anxiety and HF-HRV, the implicit cellphone separation group showed the highest level of HR response and the Stroop effect on RTs. The results suggest that the activation of the mental representation of a cellphone, which occurred in the implicit separation group, facilitates cognitive engagement and enlarge the effects of inhibition on the speed of Stroop responses.
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| 2024-01-01T20:27:10
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Wu J, Jiang J, Duffy V, Zhou J, Chen Y, Tian R, McCoy D, Ruble T. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 2267-2273.
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(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
DOI
10.1177/21695067231192639
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Abstract
Effective speed management in transition areas is crucial. Although numerous studies have proposed countermeasures to ensure driving safety, little research has been conducted on identifying effective and low-cost countermeasures for speed management when transitioning from rural roads to small towns. This study proposes two countermeasures: roadside vegetation and change in lane width and investigates the impact of these countermeasures on speed management performance in this context using a driving simulator experiment. Thirty participants completed eight scenarios, and countermeasures were evaluated based on stabilized speed, minimum speed, and in-town average speed. RESULTS showed that stabilized speed and minimum speed decreased significantly in the combination of narrow lane and different vegetation designs compared to the baseline. Post-countermeasure in-town average speed didn't decrease significantly in all scenarios. These findings suggest that roadside vegetations and narrow lane width can be effective for speed management in the transition from rural roads to small towns.
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| 2024-01-01T20:27:16
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Nasir M, Sonawane K, Bekkanti N, Talamonti W. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 2023; 67(1): 2366-2371.
Copyright
(Copyright © 2023, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)
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10.1177/21695067231192630
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Abstract
The work presented herein quantifies the limitations of the technology provided by two prominent suppliers in Emotion AI. Each Software Development Kit (SDK) performance was measured for accuracy using image and video databases. The results indicate that while the SDKs show high accuracy in detecting positive emotions (e.g., Happy), the performance suffered for negative emotions (e.g., Angry) due to missed and false detections. The results were worse for structured video datasets and degraded further when subjects were in naturalistic settings. Although Emotion AI have improved greatly in recent years, the current versions are not reliable enough for automotive applications. The paper provides perspectives on the reasons for subpar performance and guidance for improvement for future emotion estimation software.
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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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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that he will allow Mississippi officials to move forward with creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson, over objections from the NAACP.
Attorneys for the civil rights organization had sued on behalf of several Jackson residents, saying the new court undermines democracy because local voters or local elected officials won’t choose its judge or prosecutors.
The new Capitol Complex Improvement District Court will have a judge appointed by the state Supreme Court chief justice and prosecutors appointed by the state attorney general — officials who are white and conservative.
In a ruling filed late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate dismissed requests to block the new court, which was created by the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature. Jackson is governed by Democrats.
“None of the Plaintiffs has alleged that he or she is in actual or imminent danger of experiencing any concrete and particularized injury resulting from the establishment of the CCID Court or the challenged appointment of a judge or prosecutors for that court,” Wingate wrote.
Under a law signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves during the spring, the new court will come into existence Jan. 1 and will have jurisdiction in a part of Jackson that includes state government buildings and some residential and shopping areas.
Reeves and legislators who support the new court say it is part of an effort to control crime in Jackson — a city that has had more than 100 homicides for each of the past three years, in a population of about 150,000.
The Capitol Complex Improvement District Court will have the same power as municipal courts, which handle misdemeanor cases, traffic violations and initial appearances for some criminal charges. People convicted in most municipal courts face time in a local jail. Those convicted in the new court will be held in a state prison, near people convicted of more serious felony crimes.
Most municipal judges are appointed by city officials. Jackson has a Black mayor and majority-Black city council. The judge of the new court is not required to live in Jackson.
Legal arguments in the case touched on racial discrimination, public safety and democracy.
In response to plaintiffs’ saying they do not feel represented by the chief justice or attorney general, Wingate wrote that they failed to prove they had ever complained to local officials or that local officials had been open to listening.
“Further, had the local officials been so obliging, this court is mystified why Jackson’s system of criminal justice is in the deplorable shape it is in, with an overcrowded docket requiring defendants to jettison any notion of a speedy disposition,” Wingate wrote.
NAACP attorneys intend to appeal the ruling.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office will continue to defend the law and “perform our duties to help protect the people of Jackson from stifling, suffocating crime that plagues the city,” chief of staff Michelle Williams said Sunday.
The state law creating the new court also expands the patrol territory for Capitol Police. The state-run police department previously patrolled near state government buildings in downtown Jackson, but the new law added other parts of the city, including more affluent residential and shopping areas.
In September, the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down the part of the same law that would have required the state chief justice to appoint four circuit judges to serve alongside the four elected circuit judges in Hinds County. The county includes Jackson and is also majority-Black and governed by Democrats.
Justices wrote that longstanding Mississippi law allows the chief justice to appoint some judges for specific reasons, such as to deal with a backlog of cases. But they wrote that “we see nothing special or unique” about the four appointed Hinds County circuit judges in the 2023 law, “certainly nothing expressly tethering them to a specific judicial need or exigency.”
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Associated Press/Report For America reporter Michael Goldberg contributed to this report.
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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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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — The Disney icon Mickey Mouse has waltzed on into the public domain — or at least, a version of him has.
On Jan. 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 became public domain in the United States, meaning they are free for everyone to copy, share or use to build upon. Among those works is the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, otherwise known as “Steamboat Willie”.
The black-and-white classic animation is the first feature showing what would become the iconic Mickey and Minnie Mouse. There are still caveats to using the Steamboat Willie and associated characters, of course.
Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain Director Jennifer Jenkins, who writes an annual Jan. 1 column for “Public Domain Day,” explained that Disney still owns Mickey Mouse’s copyright as well as the trademarks for Mickey as a brand identifier. So long as you don’t use the mouse in a way that makes people think your work is made or sponsored by Disney and you don’t use any newer versions of Mickey, you’re in the clear.
“Ever since Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, people have associated the character with Disney’s stories, experiences, and authentic products,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “That will not change when the copyright in the Steamboat Willie film expires.”
Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.
“More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright, and Mickey will continue to play a leading role as a global ambassador for the Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme park attractions, and merchandise,” Disney’s statement said.
Not every feature or personality trait a character displays is necessarily copyrightable, however, and courts could be busy in the coming years determining what’s inside and outside Disney’s ownership.
“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” the company said.
Disney still solidly and separately holds a trademark on Mickey as a corporate mascot and brand identifier, and the law forbids using the character deceptively to fool consumers into thinking a product is from the original creator. Anyone starting a film company or a theme park will not be free to make mouse ears their logo.
Disney’s statement said it “will work to safeguard against consumer confusion caused by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other iconic characters.”
“Steamboat Willie,” directed by Walt Disney and his partner Ub Iwerks and among the first cartoons to have sound synced with its visuals, was actually the third cartoon featuring Mickey and Minnie the men made, but the first to be released. It features a more menacing Mickey captaining a boat and making musical instruments out of other animals.
Steamboat Willie isn’t the only iconic character that now belongs to the public for free use either. According to Jenkins, A.A. Milne’s “House at Pooh Corner” entered the public domain, which introduced Winnie the Pooh’s loveable bouncy, trouncy, flouncy and pouncy friend Tigger.
The Pooh Bear himself entered public domain in 2022 and has since starred in an R-rated horror slasher film. A sequel to “Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey” is reportedly in the works and set to be released later in 2024, with the cast including a role for Tigger.
Other properties entering the U.S. public domain are Charlie Chaplin’s film “Circus,” Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” and Bertolt Brecht’s musical play “The Threepenny Opera.”
Jenkins said the public domain should be celebrated as a “wellspring for creativity” In the United States. Copyright culture only reaches the public domain after a long wait – in the case of Steamboat Willie, for example, it took 95 years.
“When works go into the public domain, they can be legally shared, without permission or fee,” Jenkins said. “Community theaters can screen the films. Youth orchestras can perform the music publicly, without paying licensing fees.”
Jenkins said the whole point of copyright is to promote creativity and the public domain plays a central role in that. As more work enters the public domain, other creatives can reimagine previous works creating new movies, cartoons, books, plays, video games and music based on those works.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — To underscore how much Iowa means to Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor was unwilling to put his campaigning there on hold even in the waning hours of 2023.
At a New Year’s Eve event in a Sheraton Hotel ballroom in West Des Moines, jeans and cowboy boots outnumbered tuxedos and cocktail dresses, and Miller Lite seemed more popular than champagne.
But the modesty of the affair, where roughly 200 people turned out for the last campaign event of the busy year in Iowa, belied its importance to the host, who has wagered the future of his Republican bid for president on the leadoff Iowa caucuses, just two weeks away.
“Are you ready to work hard over these next two weeks and win the Iowa caucuses?” DeSantis asked supporters who turned out at the suburban hotel Sunday evening.
While Donald Trump prepares to return this week for a series of rallies, DeSantis did not leave Iowa alone during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. He campaigned in the suburbs of Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport, revisiting spots he had gone to in 2023 as part of his drive to touch all 99 of Iowa’s counties as a gesture of commitment to the leadoff nominating contests.
But Trump holds a large advantage in Iowa polls as well as a sophisticated campaign organization in the state, threatening to deny DeSantis the win he needs to justify his claim to be the leading alternative to the former president.
Appearing Sunday night with his wife, Casey, and their young children, DeSantis urged his audience to defy the odds. “I think we have an opportunity to just make a statement that in this country it’s we the people that ultimately decide these things,” he said. “Because I think you have a lot of media, they don’t think you even matter.”
DeSantis wasn’t alone in Iowa between Christmas and New Year’s, a period typically free from politics. The Jan. 15 caucuses’ earlier-than-usual spot on the election-year calendar lured former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to eastern Iowa stops Friday and Saturday, as she competes with DeSantis as a Trump alternative.
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy also stormed the state, trying to remain part of the conversation despite curtailing his advertising spending. Ramaswamy held more than two dozen Iowa events last week and over the weekend.
No one has more riding on Iowa than DeSantis, who reshuffled a campaign viewed early as national in scope after summer staff shakeups prompted by overspending and internal disagreements. He stood onstage Sunday evening in West Des Moines with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and evangelical Christian leader Bob Vander Plaats, who have risked their own influence by backing DeSantis.
DeSantis and his supporters asked the audience Sunday to ignore polls that show him trailing Trump appreciably.
“Everywhere I go the polls do not match up with reality,” Vander Plaats told the crowd. “Going up in northwest Iowa — heavy Trump country — they all say the same thing to me. They like what he did, but it’s time to turn the page.”
DeSantis has an unrelenting Iowa schedule ahead of him beginning early this week. Trump, who has drawn hundreds — even thousands — more to fewer events, plans his own blitz over the final two weeks, including in deeply conservative northwest Iowa.
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How to make your 2024 resolutions stick
(CNN) - It’s that time of year when we set out to make a better version of ourselves, but research shows many people give up on resolutions within weeks, sometimes even days into a new year.
From exercising more to eating better, if you are looking to make changes in the new year, you’re not alone. But bad habits can be hard to shift.
“Change is not like a light switch. It is a process,” said Susan Albers, a clinical psychologist at Cleveland Clinic.
Albers says the first way to help make resolutions stick is to be specific about your goals.
”Our brains love to know the direction that we are going. So instead of saying ‘I want to exercise more,’ make a specific goal such as 20 minutes of walking a day. This is going to make you much more successful in completing this goal,“ she said.
Albers says to also be realistic. Setting goals that are not sustainable can make resolutions fall flat.
”This is because we tend to set behaviors that are too different from where we are at at this very moment, anticipating obstacles. This is a helpful strategy for continuing resolutions,” she said.
Albers says stopping a behavior is harder than starting one. She says instead of trying not to eat junk food, try to set a goal to eat more fruits and vegetables.
She also suggests linking a new behavior to an existing one.
”For example, if you drink coffee every morning, but you want to start exercising, link the exercise to drinking the coffee. Have it be the very next behavior that you do,” she said.
Albers says it is always good to set resolutions with other people. Creating a goal list with your family can help keep everyone accountable, engaged, and help everyone stay on the same page throughout the year.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s not uncommon for twins to have different birthdays, but a different birth year? That’s what a new set of twins in Connecticut will have for a lifetime.
Souli Morris was born at 12:02 a.m. at Yale New Haven Hospital, becoming the hospital’s first baby of 2024.
But she’s still younger than her brother, Seven, who was born at 11:59 p.m.
It’s unknown exactly how close he was born to midnight, according to the hospital, because births are only recorded in minutes.
The brother and sister — both weighing six pounds, nine ounces — were welcomed by Mykel and Aliyah Kiyomi Morris, of Hamden.
Every year, there are about 120,000 twin births, USA Today reports. The chance of twins having different birth years, like Souli and Seven Morris, is about 1 in 2 million, according to Natividad Medical Center.
A set of twins born in 2020 have an even wilder story: they were born 30 minutes apart but in different years and different decades.
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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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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, who gave voice to the character of “Mama Coco” in the popular Pixar film “Coco,” has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.
Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murguía’s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.
“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.
“Coco,” which was released in 2017, brought Murguía to an international audience late in life.
But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including ‘Life Sentence’ (1979) and ’The Queen of the Night’ (1994).
In the animated “‘Coco,” she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family’s musical history.
In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murguía its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving “an indelible mark” on Mexican film and theater.
In her acceptance speech, Murguía displayed her typical humility, asking “Why me?” She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.
“This career has been my life,” Murguía said. “It has been the passion of my life. I’ve loved it.”
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills acquired cornerback Rasul Douglas at the trade deadline to shore up a depleted defense and reverse the team’s slide in the standings.
The ballhawking Douglas delivered Sunday, and now Buffalo is on the doorstep of another playoff berth.
The 29-year-old Douglas returned one of his two interceptions for a score and tipped a pass to cause a third turnover in helping the Bills maintain their clear path to the playoffs with a 27-21 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday.
“I don’t know what we gave up to get him,” safety Micah Hyde said of the deal in which Buffalo also acquired a fifth-round draft pick by sending a third-round selection to Green Bay. “But we won that trade.”
Josh Allen made up for his poor passing by scoring twice on 1-yard runs, and the three-time division champion Bills (10-6) now prepare for a season-ending showdown at Miami (11-5) next weekend that will decide the AFC East title. Buffalo has already defeated the Dolphins this year, and Miami blew a chance at clinching the division with a 56-19 loss to Baltimore on Sunday.
The Bills will have to wait until Week 18 to clinch a playoff berth after Pittsburgh (9-7) defeated Seattle 30-23.
The Buffalo enters the final week seeded sixth in the AFC race. Barring ties, the Bills could still secure their fifth consecutive playoff berth with a loss to Miami if Pittsburgh loses at Baltimore or Jacksonville (9-7) loses at Tennessee.
However things go, a patchwork defense that’s spent much of the season without cornerback Tre’Davious White (torn Achilles tendon) and linebacker Matt Milano (right leg) rose up in forcing four turnovers and limiting the Patriots to 16 first downs and 294 yards. Tackle Ed Oliver had an interception on a pass tipped by Douglas, and cornerback Christian Benford forced a fumble by stripping the ball from receiver Pharaoh Brown.
“Resilience. Relentless. We always fight,” Douglas said. “I think that we got our identity now and know what we are capable of doing.”
Buffalo won its fourth straight and fifth in six games by overcoming an inconsistent offense which settled for a touchdown and two field goals off three defensive takeaways inside the Patriots 30 in the first half. The Bills also responded after the Patriots opened the game with Jalen Reagor’s 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
Buffalo went up 10-7 and never relinquished the lead after Allen’s first 1-yard run with 6:37 left in the first quarter, which was set up by Douglas’ first interception at New England’s 14. Douglas made it 20-7 by scoring on his 40-yard interception return 2 1/2 minutes into the second quarter.
New England (4-12) proved both stout in a game it had little to play for and sloppy in a season the Patriots will finish with their most losses since going 2-14 in 1992. It could be the fewest wins in coach Bill Belichick’s tenure, which he opened with a 5-11 record in 2000.
“Obviously a terrible first 20 minutes. From there, we battled away, but obviously gave them too big of a lead and couldn’t quite get it back,” Belichick said. “Just stop turning it over. Once we did that, we were competitive.”
Bailey Zappe finished 16 of 26 for 209 yards and also scored on an 18-yard run.
“I don’t think it was difficult to keep fighting because it was more about us than it was about them,” Patriots center David Andrews said. “The first half, you can’t do that. You can’t turn the ball over four times. But no one lost belief. Not one lost faith. Obviously, no one quit.”
Zappe had more interceptions (three) than the Patriots had first downs (two) during New England’s first six possessions. The Patriots, however, pulled within 27-21 on Ezekiel Elliott’s 6-yard run with 11:01 left.
Following a three-and-out on New England’s next possession, the Patriots never got the ball back.
Allen converted three third-down opportunities on Buffalo’s final drive to run out the final 5:02. He capped the time-consuming drive by lowering his head on a 4-yard run on third-and-3 from the Patriots 16.
Allen finished 15 of 30 for 169 yards and an interception. He lamented not putting the game out of reach earlier.
“Three possessions down there in the first quarter, and we only scored one touchdown, so that’s not good enough,” he said. “We lucked out and our defense played a heck of a game. Just trying to find a way to win.”
BY THE NUMBERS
Allen scored his team-leading 15th TD rushing, one short of matching the team’s season record set in a 14-game season by O.J. Simpson 1975. … Allen had his streak of games throwing a touchdown end at 23. … WR Stefon Diggs had four catches to reach 100 this season. He became the NFL’s third player to have four or more consecutive seasons with 100 catches, joining Antonio Brown (2013-18) and Marvin Harrison (1999-2002).
UP NEXT
Patriots: Close season hosting New York Jets.
Bills: Close season at Miami Dolphins.
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Searching for details on how to watch all of the college football postseason matchups now that bowl season and the College Football Playoff are upon here? Below, we highlight how you can catch all eight games involving teams from the Big Ten.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Minutes after rolling to a 27-10 victory at Washington, the San Francisco 49ers watched the final minute of Philadelphia’s game at Arizona together in the visiting locker room.
A loud cheer erupted when the Eagles lost to Arizona in stunning fashion. After Brock Purdy threw two touchdown passes to bounce back from the worst game of his NFL career and results elsewhere fell their way, the Niners clinched the top seed in the NFC and the first-round bye and home-field advantage that comes with it.
“Thank you, Cardinals,” linebacker Fred Warner said. “Back in ’19, it took us winning in Seattle on the very last play of the game to secure the 1 seed, and the fact that we were able to get it with one game left in the season is big.”
Wrapping up the No. 1 seed before Week 18 could be a significant advantage for San Francisco (12-4) after losing Christian McCaffrey to a calf injury against the Commanders. The do-it-all running back left the game in the third quarter after gaining 91 scrimmage yards on 18 touches, and coach Kyle Shanahan thinks it could be a strained calf muscle.
“We think he’ll be all right,” Shanahan said. “I don’t know if he would’ve been able to go next week or not, but we’ll have to find out more (Monday). He was moving around all right on the sideline, so hoping it’s not too bad.”
The Niners got touchdown catches from Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk and a rushing TD from Elijah Mitchell. Purdy, coming off throwing four interceptions in a humbling home loss to Baltimore, was 22 of 28 for 230 yards to reach 4,280 and break Jeff Garcia’s season franchise record of 4,278 set in 2000.
“To be able to come back and get the ball moving, throw it around to the guys and obviously get the offense to flow again and feeling it, it felt good,” Purdy said.
The defense, also looking to atone for some struggles against the Ravens, intercepted Sam Howell twice — once each by Charvarius Ward and Deommodore Lenoir.
Washington (4-12) was not much of an obstacle for the conference’s top team, as Howell added to his NFL lead in interceptions with his 18th and 19th of the season. He was starting only because journeyman Jacoby Brissett was sidelined by a hamstring injury after coach Ron Rivera decided earlier in the week to bench Howell.
“I thought Sam had some really good moments,” Rivera said. “Obviously there were a couple throws I promise you he would wish he had back, but he did a lot of good things.”
The Commanders have lost seven in a row, and as a result of the Cardinals win, could be in line to draft as high as second. While they’re looking ahead to an offseason of change under new ownership, the Niners have their eyes set on a long playoff run.
“We’re going to continue to get better,” Warner said. “We’ve got to make sure we’re our best when our best is needed for when our moment comes.”
HOMECOMING DAY
Former Washington left tackle Trent Williams and edge rusher Chase Young each played his first game back at FedEx Field as a visitor. They walked out of the tunnel and onto the field together for warmups.
Williams was traded to the Niners in 2020 after sitting out the ’19 season because of a dispute with Washington’s front office. Young was sent to San Francisco on Oct. 31 amid reports the coaching staff found him undisciplined and considered his departure addition by subtraction.
Shanahan also spent four seasons as a Washington assistant from 2010-13, working as the offensive coordinator for his dad, Mike. Shanahan said he used to have emotions about facing Washington but that they’re gone now .
“It’s a totally different place here now and different people,” Shanahan said. “Nothing’s personal here anymore. Personal stuff’s gone.”
INJURIES
49ers: Played without injured DT Arik Armstead (foot, knee), S Ji’Ayir Brown (knee), TE Ross Dwelley (ankle), WR Jauan Jennings (concussion) and OT Jaylon Moore (concussion).
Commanders: CB Tarik Castro-Fields left in the first half with a shoulder injury. … CB Christian Holmes was concussed early in the fourth quarter. … RT Andrew Wylie (elbow) was out after being listed as questionable. Trent Scott had a rough, penalty-filled day starting in his place.
UP NEXT
49ers: Host the Los Angeles Rams on Jan. 6 or 7.
Commanders: Host the Dallas Cowboys on Jan. 6 or 7.
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Who Will Score a Goal in the NHL Today? - January 1
Published: Jan. 1, 2024 at 6:10 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
We have only one game on the NHL menu Monday, and anytime goal-scorer odds are available below.
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Jack Eichel (Golden Knights) +150 to score
Golden Knights vs. Kraken
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Eichel's stats: 16 goals in 37 games
Jonathan Marchessault (Golden Knights) +195 to score
Golden Knights vs. Kraken
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Marchessault's stats: 17 goals in 37 games
Mark Stone (Golden Knights) +210 to score
Golden Knights vs. Kraken
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Stone's stats: 12 goals in 37 games
William Karlsson (Golden Knights) +250 to score
Golden Knights vs. Kraken
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Karlsson's stats: 15 goals in 37 games
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Jared McCann (Kraken) +250 to score
Kraken vs. Golden Knights
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- McCann's stats: 14 goals in 36 games
Oliver Bjorkstrand (Kraken) +300 to score
Kraken vs. Golden Knights
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Bjorkstrand's stats: 11 goals in 37 games
Jordan Eberle (Kraken) +310 to score
Kraken vs. Golden Knights
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Eberle's stats: 4 goals in 33 games
Andre Burakovsky (Kraken) +330 to score
Kraken vs. Golden Knights
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Burakovsky's stats: 0 goals in 8 games
Eeli Tolvanen (Kraken) +350 to score
Kraken vs. Golden Knights
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Tolvanen's stats: 9 goals in 37 games
Ivan Barbashev (Golden Knights) +350 to score
Golden Knights vs. Kraken
- Game Time: 3:00 PM ET on Monday, January 1
- Barbashev's stats: 9 goals in 37 games
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Conor McGregor announced Sunday he’s returning to the octagon for a fight against Michael Chandler on June 29 in Las Vegas.
McGregor made the announcement in a video posted to one of his social media accounts.
A UFC spokesperson did not confirm or deny the fight. The 35-year-old McGregor, who hasn’t fought in the octagon since 2021, appeared to be at a restaurant drinking a glass of wine in the video. He said the bout would be in the middleweight (185-pound) class.
“Ladies and gentlemen, happy new year to you all,” McGregor says in the video. “I’d like to announce the return date for myself, the notorious Conor McGregor, the greatest comeback of all time, will take place in Las Vegas for International Fight Week.”
McGregor previously held UFC titles in the 145-pound and 155-pound classes. His last UFC match on July 10, 2021, was a TKO loss to Dustin Poirier after McGregor broke his leg.
McGregor and the 37-year-old Chandler have coached against each other on “The Ultimate Fighter” television series.
Chandler posted Sunday on social media in response to McGregor’s announcement.
“I always said I wanted you at your biggest, your baddest and your best,” Chandler wrote. “185 would look good on me.”
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ELDORET, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat, whose body was found with stab wounds inside his brother’s car on Sunday morning, a local official said.
Kiplagat had been driving the car before his body was discovered in the vehicle on the outskirts of Eldoret, a town located 312 kilometers (163 miles) west of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, according to Stephen Okal, police commander from the nearby Moiben area.
“This was murder, but we do not know the motive for now,” Okal said.
As a long-distance runner, Kiplagat specialized in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He represented Uganda in six World Athletics Championships and at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
He reached the semi-finals of the 2012 London Olympics.
Athletics Kenya official Barnabas Korir mourned the athlete’s death.
“We urge the police to speed up investigations and … book his killers,” Korir said.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have grown accustomed to wrapping up the AFC West by the middle of December.
Turns out they’re perfectly fine with clinching it on New Year’s Eve.
Amid an up-and-down season in which the Chiefs have been forced to rely on their defense while their high-profile offense sputtered, Patrick Mahomes and Co. still managed to clinch their eighth consecutive division championship Sunday with a come-from-behind 25-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals — their opponent in each of the past two AFC title games.
Harrison Butker was a career-best 6 for 6 on field-goal attempts, Mahomes had 245 yards passing and a touchdown, and Isiah Pacheco ran for a career-best 130 yards to help Kansas City (10-6) secure the No. 3 seed for the playoffs.
“Obviously, we’re not winning this in Week 12 or Week 13 like before. We had to battle through adversity and find a way to win,” said Mahomes, who went over 4,000 yards passing for his sixth consecutive year as the starter. “Now you’re in the playoffs, it’s one game, single elimination, and I think we can play with anybody.”
The Bengals (8-8), fighting to avoid postseason elimination, led by 10 early but found themselves trailing 25-17 when Butker hit the last of his field goals — a 46-yarder through blustery wind — with 2:59 remaining in the game.
Four of Butker’s six field goals were from at least 43 yards, including his 54-yarder in the first half.
With one last chance, Bengals quarterback Jake Browning hit Tyler Boyd over the middle to convert a long fourth down and get them into Kansas City territory. But back-to-back sacks by George Karlaftis and Chris Jones ultimately dashed their hopes.
Browning finished with 197 yards passing and a touchdown. Joe Mixon ran for 65 yards and had the TD reception.
“Every guy left it all on the field,” Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor said. “It was an emotional game. Physical game. All the things we knew would happen, happened. You have to give Kansas City credit. They got it done down the stretch.”
The Bengals and Chiefs are accustomed to playing high-stakes games when the weather turns frigid, meeting for down-to-the-wire nail-biters in each of the past two AFC championship games. And they are usually accompanied by plenty of trash talk, be it from fans, elected officials or — in the case this past week — players such as Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase.
The animosity usually spills onto the field, too. Midway through the second quarter, Chase and Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed got into a heated argument, and eventually a team-wide scrum resulted in offsetting personal foul penalties.
“I just be under people’s skin sometimes, I guess,” Chase said afterward. “Just trash talking. (He) can’t handle it.”
The Bengals jumped ahead 10-7 when an 8 1/2-minute drive resulted in a field goal and a 6 1/2-minute march ended in Mixon’s touchdown catch. Cincinnati then got the ball back when Trey Hendrickson ran right around rookie right tackle Wanya Morris, stripped Mahomes from behind and Sam Hubbard was there to pounce on the loose ball.
Pass interference on Sneed in the end zone set up Browning’s 1-yard TD run.
“It wasn’t the smoothest early,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
Butker’s first field goal got the Chiefs within 17-10, though, and they had a chance to take the lead when Mahomes saw Marquez Valdes-Scantling wide open on their next possession. But yet another dropped pass — the NFL-leading 40th by Kansas City this season — forced the Chiefs to settle for another field goal to trail 17-13 at the break.
But as the Chiefs’ defense stiffened in the second half, their offense began showing signs of life.
They stuffed the Bengals on fourth-and-1 at the Kansas City 6, then drove 82 yards for Butker’s third field goal. And when the Bengals had to punt again, Mahomes hit Rashee Rice for 67 yards to set up Butker’s chip shot and give the Chiefs the lead. Two more field goals gave them some breathing room in the closing minutes.
“Everybody contributed in this, which I think was great. Nobody gave up hope,” said Reid, whose ninth consecutive 10-win season moved him past the 49ers’ George Seifert for the second-longest such streak in NFL history. “The guys executed well, and that is the most important thing right now, at this time of year.”
INJURIES
Cincinnati WR Tee Higgins left in the second quarter with a hamstring injury. He returned to the game but didn’t have another catch, finishing with one for 19 yards.
Kansas City WR Justin Watson hurt his chest in the third quarter but returned to the game. The Chiefs are thin at wide receiver with Skyy Moore on injured reserve and Kadarius Toney inactive due to a hip injury.
UP NEXT
Bengals: Host Cleveland next weekend.
Chiefs: At the Los Angeles Chargers next weekend.
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Freshman guard Kanaan Carlyle scored 25 points, Spencer Jones added 21 points on 8-for-9 shooting and Stanford surprised No. 4 Arizona 100-82 in a Pac-12 matchup Sunday.
Andrej Stojakovic scored 16 points and center Maxime Raynaud had 12 points and seven rebounds for the Cardinal (6-6, 1-1), who made a school-record 16 3-pointers in the victory.
Caleb Love led Arizona (10-3, 1-1) with 23 points and center Oumar Ballo added 12 points and seven rebounds.
The victory was Stanford’s first over a ranked opponent since beating Arizona last season and its eighth over a ranked team since 2020.
“I think this will absolutely be the peak moment of this season for 2023,” Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. “For 2024, we’re going to start from scratch and see new peaks and new highs. Usually I tell them to enjoy the win until midnight. This time I told them they could enjoy this one for the rest of the year.”
Stanford raced to an early lead, scoring the first seven points. After Ballo made a layup to bring the Wildcats within a point at the 6:56 mark of the first half, Stanford went on a 21-7 run for a 43-28 lead with under three minutes left in the first half.
The Cardinal got a big boost from both of its freshman guards off the bench in the first half. Carlyle scored 13 of his 25 points in the first half while making all four of his 3-point shots. Stojakovic scored nine points and grabbed two rebounds.
Haase praised his young players and said they were a big part of the win.
“(Kanaan) was fearless out there,” Haase said. “With Kanaan and Andre, their eyes are full of wonder and excitement. I think we can all feed off that.”
Arizona struggled to find a its rhythm in the first half, shooting 41.2% from the field and 25% from long distance.
Stanford led 44-35 at halftime.
Stanford’s hot shooting continued in the second half. Jones scored 11 of the Cardinal’s first 16 points after halftime.
Arizona closed within 11 points at 80-69 when Ballo made a second-chance layup with just over seven minutes left in the game.
A layup by Jones gave Stanford a 95-75 lead with 2:57 left in the second half for its largest advantage of the game.
The win could give Stanford a huge confidence boost as it will go on a three-game trip against UCLA, USC and Oregon State in the coming weeks.
“The people in the locker room all believe what we can do,” Stojakovic said. “We knew we were able to accomplish a win like this. We had a couple games not go our way, but I think this one was finally the game to show that we are one of those teams and we can make a lot of noise in the Pac-12.”
The Wildcats, who are third in the country in fast-break points per game (18.67), were held to just six points in transition by Stanford. Arizona made just seven of its 26 3-point shots and allowed Stanford to make 58.1% of its shots.
“They outplayed our guys,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. “I don’t care who it was, they outplayed us.”
UP NEXT
Stanford: At UCLA on Wednesday.
Arizona: Home against Colorado on Thursday.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts’ desperation heave was intercepted to seal the Eagles’ fourth loss this month and one that meant so much more.
Philadelphia’s shot at the top spot in the NFC? Gone. The bye and home-field edge goes to the 49ers. The NFC East crown? Once in their grasp, the Eagles now need help from — yikes, Washington — to win a second straight division title.
The team that opened December 10-1 and looked like a favorite to return to the Super Bowl unraveled Sunday with a 35-31 loss to the Arizona Cardinals and now faces the grim reality of opening the playoffs on the road.
“We’ve got to get things fixed,” coach Nick Sirianni said. “And we’ve got to get them fixed fast.”
Where to start is the hard part.
James Conner ran for a 2-yard touchdown with 32 seconds remaining and Kyler Murray threw three TD passes for Arizona, which rallied from a 15-point deficit.
Former Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon returned to Philly and got his biggest win yet in his first season as Arizona’s coach. Granted, there haven’t been many of them for the Cardinals (4-12).
The Eagles (11-5) could have won the NFC East with wins against Arizona and the New York Giants next week. Now, Dallas can win the division with a win next week at Washington.
The Eagles could still earn the No. 2 seed with a win at the Giants and a Cowboys loss.
“Man, I’m not worried at all but there’s a lot to learn from a game like this,” defensive end Brandon Graham said.
Maybe he should be concerned. The Eagles have played more like a team bound for a quick playoff exit than one that could make a second straight trip to the Super Bowl.
There was plenty of blame to go around: a discombobulated offense that included indecisive play-calling late in the game, a running game that never got going and a defense that couldn’t get off the field.
The series of blunders included Sirianni running out of timeouts on the Eagles’ final drive and a late-game first-and-20 (because of offensive holding) that saw the Eagles run twice and try a short pass that only got them 5 yards.
“We’re in the playoffs. Lot of teams want to be in the playoffs,” Sirianni said. “We can still do some things here.”
Murray finished 25 of 31 for 232 yards and got stronger as the game progressed, overcoming a 99-yard pick-6 by Sydney Brown early in the second quarter. Conner rushed for 128 yards on 26 carries.
“With everything that’s happened, a lot of disappointment this year, a lot of tough losses,” Murray said. “But trying to finish the season off the right way.”
The Cardinals rallied from a 21-6 halftime deficit on the strength of Murray’s two TD tosses in the third quarter that tied the game at 21-all.
Hurts put the Eagles ahead in the fourth with his third TD pass of the game, a 9-yarder to Dallas Goedert.
Normally, that would be enough to win a game at the Linc. But Philly’s defense couldn’t hold on. Cornerback Kelee Ringo was flagged for pass interference and the Cardinals used the extra 29 yards to help tie game 28-28 with 5:26 left. Murray hit Michael Wilson for a 5-yard TD.
Jake Elliott kicked a 43-yard field goal with 2:33 left to give the Eagles their last lead.
Murray had plenty of time to move the Cardinals into scoring position. He hit Greg Dorch for a 36-yard gain that brought Arizona to the Eagles 5 and set up Conner’s decisive score.
The Cardinals finished with 449 yards of offense and scored touchdowns on all four possessions in the second half.
Gannon certainly had reason to gloat — his successor, Sean Desai, already had his play-calling duties stripped during this morbid stretch and turned over to Matt Patricia. No matter who is calling the shots this month, the Eagles’ defense has been steamrolled. The Cardinals rushed for 221 yards and never punted.
“We still have everything in front of us,” Hurts said.
FAST PHILLY START
The Eagles at last made solid use of 34-year-old receiver Julio Jones, signed in October to provide some depth.
The seven-time Pro Bowl selection had just seven catches for 27 yards and two touchdowns entering the game. He wasn’t supposed to be a top target, of course, not with A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith both topping the 1,000-yard receiving mark this season.
Jones caught a 12-yard TD pass in the first quarter and had a 22-yard TD with 16 seconds left in the second.
Hurts’ three TD passes brought his total to a franchise-record 38 touchdowns this season. He had already set an NFL QB record with 15 rushing touchdowns. Hurts in 2022 and Randall Cunningham in 1990 both accounted for 35 TDs for the Eagles.
DEFENSIVE GEM
Brown, a rookie safety out of Illinois, circled under a pass from Murray at the Eagles 1-yard line and streaked down the sideline, then zig-zagged into the end zone to give Philly a 14-3 lead. Brown reached a top speed of 21.52 mph and traveled 126.7 total yards on the 99-yard return, per Next Gen Stats.
FAKE OUT
The Eagles used a fake play off the tush push to get a first down. Hurts lined up under center on third-and-1 and flipped the ball to Kenneth Gainwell, who threw a 17-yard pass to Smith. Hurts found Jones for the 22-yard TD on the next play.
INJURIES
Cardinals CB Garrett Williams left with an ankle injury, and OL D.J. Humphries suffered a knee injury.
UP NEXT
While the Eagles try to finish strong against the Giants next weekend, the Cardinals will try to play spoiler to another playoff contender, hosting the Seattle Seahawks.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens clinched a division title and the top seed in the AFC.
There’s no mathematical way to tell if the star quarterback wrapped up the MVP award, too, but his fans made their views on the topic clear.
Serenaded throughout by “MVP!” chants, Jackson threw for 321 yards and five touchdowns as the Ravens eviscerated the Miami Dolphins 56-19 on Sunday. Baltimore won its first AFC North title since 2019, when Jackson was named MVP. He might be closing in on that honor again.
“He played a perfect football game in terms of the passing game,” coach John Harbaugh said.
The stat sheet agreed. Jackson went 18 of 21 without an interception. He finished with a perfect passer rating of 158.3.
Jackson missed the end of the past two Baltimore seasons because of injuries. Now the Ravens can rest him voluntarily next week if they want, although Harbaugh was noncommittal on that.
Baltimore (13-3) has won six straight, and the Ravens rolled through a grueling December stretch that included games against the Rams, Jaguars, 49ers and Dolphins.
“I don’t know if I’ve seen a more impressive performance in a game. I’m not sure I’ve seen a more impressive performance in a season to date,” said Harbaugh, whose team will have a first-round bye before hosting its postseason opener. “Obviously we have a lot more to do. We’ve got a lot of work to do in front of us, but this is a mature football team.”
Miami (11-5) is also postseason bound, but now the winner of next weekend’s Dolphins-Bills game will take the AFC East. Miami was without two offensive stars in receiver Jaylen Waddle (ankle) and running back Raheem Mostert (knee, ankle).
And now the Dolphins face another potentially significant injury. Linebacker Bradley Chubb — with his team down 30 points — had to be carted off with 3:05 remaining after hurting his knee.
That raised obvious questions about why Chubb was still in the game.
“There’s times like this one where I would like a time machine for sure,” Miami coach Mike McDaniel said.
Jackson had more touchdown passes than incompletions. That’s a feat Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa also accomplished in a 70-20 win over Denver in Week 3.
Jackson also had a perfect passer rating against Miami in 2019. He joins Tom Brady (against Detroit) as the only quarterbacks with two perfect ratings against the same team, with a minimum of 20 attempts.
“I love the guy,” Ravens linebacker Patrick Queen said. “He proved everything he had to prove. If anybody else saying otherwise, they just don’t like Lamar. That’s what it is. They don’t like us, they don’t like Baltimore, they don’t like Lamar.”
This matchup featured Miami’s top-ranked scoring offense and Baltimore’s top-ranked scoring defense. In the early going, the Dolphins had the upper hand. They scored on the game’s first drive when Tagovailoa threw an 8-yard pass to Cedrick Wilson Jr. Jackson answered with a 20-yard scoring strike to Justice Hill.
Miami would have had another touchdown on its second drive, but Tyreek Hill bobbled the ball in the end zone and the Dolphins kicked a field goal.
The Ravens took the lead for good in the second quarter when Gus Edwards capped an 89-yard drive with a 1-yard scoring run. After another Miami field goal, Jackson immediately found Zay Flowers open deep for a 75-yard touchdown that made it 21-13.
The Ravens struck again 94 seconds later thanks to a pair of one-handed catches. The first was an interception by Roquan Smith, the second a 35-yard catch-and-run TD by Isaiah Likely on fourth-and-7.
Justice Hill returned the second-half kickoff 78 yards, setting up Jackson’s 7-yard TD toss to Likely that made it 35-13.
Miami trailed 35-14 with under 13 minutes remaining last season before rallying to a 42-38 win over the Ravens. The Dolphins started the fourth quarter with a touchdown this time, a 1-yard pass from Tagovailoa to De’Von Achane, but it was Baltimore that closed strong.
“Last year, the score was looking like that at halftime and third quarter. Then those guys started making plays and we didn’t do anything,” Jackson said. “The only thing that was on my mind was to finish the game, and today we did it.”
The Ravens marched right back down the field and scored on Jackson’s 4-yard pass to Patrick Ricard to go up 42-19. Melvin Gordon III added a 7-yard touchdown run, and a Miami fumble led to a another TD. Tyler Huntley threw a scoring pass to Charlie Kolar on third-and-goal from the 19.
(That was Huntley’s only pass attempt. He also finished with a perfect 158.3 passer rating.)
“We’ll look at the film tomorrow, see what we can do better and move on to the Bills,” Tagovailoa said. “Everything is still in front of us for what we want to accomplish as a team.”
STREAKS AND MILESTONES
The Ravens rushed for at least 100 yards for a 32nd consecutive game and had a sack for a 37th straight. … Jackson reached 800 yards rushing on the season, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to do that three times. … This was the second-highest scoring total in franchise history for the Ravens, behind only their 59-10 win at Miami in that 2019 romp. … Tyreek Hill surpassed 10,000 yards receiving for his career.
INJURIES
The teams weren’t at full strength at the start, and the injuries continued throughout the game. Miami lost CB Xavien Howard (foot). Baltimore CB Marlon Humphrey (calf) went down as well. Ravens NT Michael Pierce and S Daryl Worley were both evaluated for head injuries.
UP NEXT
Dolphins: Host Buffalo next weekend.
Ravens: Host Pittsburgh next weekend.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri rewarded coach Eliah Drinkwitz a contract extension through the 2028 season on Sunday after he led the Tigers to an 11-2 record and a victory over Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.
Drinkwitz’s contract was due to expire after the 2027 season. The extension approved by the Missouri Board of Curators also is expected to include a bump in pay, though the school had yet to announce the financial details.
Drinkwitz was hired before the 2020 season after a single but ultra-successful season at Appalachian State, where he went 12-1 and won the New Orleans Bowl. The timing could not have been worse — the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for him to build the program — and the result was three straight .500 regular seasons and two losses in bowl games.
Despite the relatively mediocre results, Missouri gave the 40-year-old coach an extension in 2022 that took his pay to $6 million per year, and Drinkwitz made it pay off this season. Picked to finish in the middle of the SEC, the Tigers’ only losses came against Georgia and LSU, and they beat rival Kansas State along with Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida and Arkansas.
“You can’t do this alone,” Drinkwitz said in a statement, “and our players, coaches and staff have worked tirelessly and believed in the process of building a championship program. The passion of our fan base, alumni and donors is awesome. We are extremely grateful for the resources they provided and the continued investment from our administration.”
Drinkwitz was The Associated Press SEC coach of the year and finished third in voting for the national award.
The Tigers were considered heavy underdogs in the Cotton Bowl against Ohio State, which barely missed out on a spot in the College Football Playoff. But they rallied in the fourth quarter for a 14-3 victory to cap their season.
They could be in the mix for a playoff spot next year, too, when the field expands to 12. Quarterback Brady Cook, standout wide receiver Luther Burden III and several other key players are expected to return, and the Tigers already have supplemented them with a top-25 recruiting class highlighted by five-star defensive end Williams Nwaneri.
“Coach Drinkwitz and his staff have done a tremendous job in this modern era of intercollegiate athletics,” Missouri athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois said. “Continuity is important in implementing a championship culture, maximizing student-athlete potential and recruiting future Tigers. Our program is positioned to continue our momentum into the future.”
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jordan Love and Aaron Jones put on party hats and popped a sparkling drink in the apex of an all-night celebration for the Green Bay Packers — at Minnesota’s expense.
Love threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score to put the Packers in control of a spot in the playoffs with a 33-10 victory Sunday after the Vikings benched another turnover-prone quarterback.
Jones rushed for 120 yards and Jayden Reed had two touchdown catches for the Packers (8-8), who can get the NFC’s last wild-card spot by beating Chicago at home next week. Seattle’s loss earlier in the day allowed them to climb above the cut.
“At the beginning of the season everybody tried to count us out. In the middle of the season everybody tried to count us out,” Jones said. “I think that speaks to a lot of these guys in this locker room, tuning out the noise and just getting to work.”
Love went 24 for 33 for 256 yards in what was surely the finest game of his first year as the starter in the post-Aaron Rodgers era.
“He’s playing at an incredibly high level. I’m super happy for him, because he’s put in a ton of work to get to this point,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. “I really think the sky is the limit for us. He’s just showing a glimpse of what he can ultimately be.”
Last season, Rodgers and the Packers lost a win-and-in finale at home to Detroit and missed the playoffs.
“It’s an awesome vibe in the locker room, but at the same time everyone’s focused on what we’ve got in front of us,” Love said.
The Vikings (7-9) watched an interception and a fumble by Jaren Hall in the first half were converted into touchdowns by the Packers. Nick Mullens took over for Hall for the second half, the fifth time the Vikings have switched quarterbacks since Kirk Cousins tore his Achilles tendon in the fourth quarter of a 24-10 win at Green Bay on Oct. 29.
Detroit clinched the NFC North by beating Minnesota here last week, marking just the second time in 13 seasons the division wasn’t won by either the Packers or the Vikings, but a prime-time game between these border-state rivals always generates plenty of energy in the stadium.
Cousins got the party off to a rowdy start when he — wearing a thick gold chain around his neck — and his son ripped off their shirts to lead the crowd in the “Skol!” chant and blow the Gjallarhorn. “Go Pack Go!” serenades soon joined the soundtrack, though, and this became quite a New Year’s Eve blowout.
Love was flustered two months ago by the Vikings defense, but despite his penchant for overthrows he has come a long way. The abundant optimism the Packers have for the future is missing in Minnesota with Cousins set to become a free agent and no clarity about a potential return or replacement.
Hall, who was the first reliever for Cousins two months ago only to be forced out of his first start with a concussion, hardly had any time to throw. Green Bay’s defense that was shredded over the last three games by the Giants, Buccaneers and Panthers — and now missing starting cornerbacks Jaire Alexander ( suspension ) and Eric Stokes ( hamstring ) — took full advantage of the rookie from BYU.
Hall’s off-target throw in the first quarter glanced off the hands of Johnny Mundt — in an elevated role after the season-ending knee injury to Pro Bowl tight end T.J. Hockenson — and in the air to Corey Ballentine for an interception. Love’s 33-yard touchdown pass to Reed came two plays later.
“I just didn’t do them any favors,” Hall said.
Preston Smith’s strip-sack of Hall with 26 seconds left before halftime sealed the deal. Karl Brooks recovered at the Minnesota 37, and the Love-to-Reed connection got Green Bay in the end zone three plays after that for a 23-3 lead.
Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said he told the players afterward, “I wasn’t good enough for us.”
REED IS BOOKING IT
Reed has 10 touchdown catches this season. The second-round draft pick from Michigan State set the franchise rookie record with 60 receptions, passing Sterling Sharpe (1988).
Both of Reed’s scores belong on the highlight reel. Love did the work on the first one with the prettiest pass of the game to hit Reed in stride on a post route. Reed did the heavy lifting on the second one by dodging two tacklers after the catch and dragging another defender into the end zone.
Reed hurt his chest on that play and didn’t return for the second half. With Christian Watson and Dontayvion Wicks already sidelined, the Packers are banged up at wide receiver after Samori Toure also left the game. Reed was taken for additional tests after he was hurt.
“Hopefully he’ll be all right for next week,” LaFleur said. “I know if there’s anybody who can get through it, it’s him.”
INJURY REPORT
Packers: LB Isaiah McDuffie (concussion) was carted off in the second quarter when he collided with Lukas Van Ness and Colby Wooden during a sack. McDuffie started in place of De’Vondre Campbell (neck), who missed his second consecutive game.
Vikings: RG Ed Ingram (shoulder) left in the third quarter. … CB Byron Murphy (knee) was sidelined for the second straight game.
UP NEXT
Packers: Host Chicago next Sunday.
Vikings: At Detroit next Sunday.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Panthers owner David Tepper threw the contents of a drink into the visiting crowd near the end of Carolina’s 26-0 loss at Jacksonville on Sunday.
Tepper’s reaction came after rookie Bryce Young was intercepted with less than 3 minutes to play. It was unclear whether Tepper was reacting to something said to him or the latest miscue for the team with the NFL’s worst record.
General manager Scott Fitterer was standing near Tepper when he tossed the remnants of his drink while watching the game from a club suite.
The Panthers (2-14) dropped to 0-9 on the road and were shut out for the first time since losing to Atlanta in Week 12 in 2002. They also clinched the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft in April — a selection that will go to Chicago.
Nothing went right in this one for Carolina, and had Jacksonville not gone 1 for 5 scoring in the red zone, the outcome likely would have been way more lopsided.
Bryce Young completed 19 of 32 passes for 112 yards, with an interception, and was sacked six times. He now has been sacked a whopping 59 times.
“Yeah, not fun. Not fun at all,” Young said. “It’s on us. It’s what we put out. It’s our tape. It’s what we did. We own it, accept it. It is what it is, but it’s not fun.”
Carolina had issues before the coin flip.
Kicker Eddy Pineiro injured his right hamstring in pregame warmups and was unable to go. Starting linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill handled the opening kickoff, and interim coach Chris Tabor kept his offense on the field for a fourth-and-7 play in normal field-goal range on the team’s opening drive.
Young was sacked and took a shot to his back. He spent several minutes getting checked on the sideline and returned in time for the next series.
“Obviously when there’s only one kicker on your 48, that’s a tough deal,” Tabor said.
Cornerback Jaycee Horn (toe) also was a late scratch after going through warmups. Horn had been scheduled to play, and Tabor even made CJ Henderson inactive. But Horn couldn’t go, so Shaquill Griffin was thrust into the starting lineup.
Griffin was burned for a 48-yard gain, part of a lackluster performance all around for the visitors.
“I’m disappointed, obviously, and that’s a pretty generic answer,” Tabor said. “Did not see it coming. I will tip my hat to the Jaguars. The way we were trending, I did not see this performance coming down.
“We never got on track. We talked a lot about starting fast this week, and we did not do that. … How are you going to deal with it? There’s only two choices: It’s either character or compromise. Those are questions for everybody.”
The Panthers had more injury issues during the game. Guard Cade Mays left with a finger injury and then linebacker Marquis Haynes, a sixth-year pro who grew up in Jacksonville, was carted off the field in the third quarter with a concussion. He was taken to a hospital for further testing and did not fly home with the team.
Haynes flashed a thumbs-up sign to the crowd as he left the stadium. It was one of the few occasions Carolina fans had to cheer.
The Panthers finished with 124 yards, were 1 of 13 on third down and had defensive lineman Derrick Brown ejected along with Jacksonville left tackle Cam Robinson late in the fourth. They ripped off each other’s helmets after a play.
“Missed opportunities. Just execution top to bottom,” Young said. “There’s a long list of stuff I’ve got to do better, and then offensively we all take responsibility. We all look in the mirror, and I think ‘disconnected’ is a good word.
“Just wasn’t executing, wasn’t translating, and as far as the offense, that’s on me.”
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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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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, who gave voice to the character of “Mama Coco” in the popular Pixar film “Coco,” has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.
Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murguía’s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.
“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.
“Coco,” which was released in 2017, brought Murguía to an international audience late in life.
But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including ‘Life Sentence’ (1979) and ’The Queen of the Night’ (1994).
In the animated “‘Coco,” she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family’s musical history.
In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murguía its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving “an indelible mark” on Mexican film and theater.
In her acceptance speech, Murguía displayed her typical humility, asking “Why me?” She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.
“This career has been my life,” Murguía said. “It has been the passion of my life. I’ve loved it.”
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SEATTLE (AP) — Najee Harris rushed for a season-high 122 yards and bullied his way into the end zone for a pair of touchdowns, and the Pittsburgh Steelers kept their playoff hopes alive into Week 18 with a 30-23 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
Using a punishing running attack that faced little resistance from Seattle, the Steelers (9-7) pushed their way into the final week of the regular season with a chance at the postseason and ensured that Mike Tomlin’s team would yet again avoid a losing record.
Harris had not hit the century mark rushing this season, his closest coming when he ran for 99 yards against Cincinnati. But he combined with Jaylen Warren for a running punch that Seattle struggled to stop.
Harris averaged 4.5 yards per carry and reached the 100-yard mark for the first time since Week 17 of last season against Baltimore. Warren added another 75 yards rushing and scored on a 18-yard run in the first quarter.
Harris scored on a 9-yard touchdown run in the second quarter breaking several tackles on his way to the goal line before a final lunge to break the plane. In the third quarter, Harris scored on a 4-yard run with a big assist from his linemen pushing the pile into the end zone to give the Steelers a 24-17 lead.
Pittsburgh thrived against Seattle’s run defense that has been awful for more than half the season and finished with 202 yards rushing and a season-high 468 total yards. Pittsburgh was the sixth straight opponent to rush for at least 135 yards against the Seahawks.
Quarterback Mason Rudolph was 18 of 24 for 274 yards and hit the big throws when needed, none more important than a 34-yard completion to George Pickens on third-and-6 early in the fourth quarter. Pickens made a terrific diving finger-tip catch and led to Chris Boswell’s 26-yard field goal that gave the Steelers a 27-20 lead with 7:07 left.
Rudolph also hit Pickens for 24 yards with two minutes left and Seattle desperately needing a stop. Pickens had seven catches for 131 yards.
Seattle (8-8) had its two-game win streak snapped and while the Seahawks weren’t eliminated from the postseason, they will need a victory and a lot of help in Week 18.
Geno Smith threw for 290 yards and a 12-yard TD to Jaxon Smith-Njigba in the first half. Kenneth Walker III added 53 yards rushing and a 13-yard TD in the first half, but the Seahawks settled for three field goals in the second half and Smith committed one big turnover.
Nick Herbig forced and recovered a fumble sacking Smith with seven minutes left, giving the Steelers possession at the Seattle 16 and Boswell’s 21-yard field goal with 4:31 left pushed the Pittsburgh lead to 30-20.
INJURIES
Seattle took two major hits to its offensive line. Starting right tackle Abe Lucas played the entire first half, but went to the locker room early before the second quarter ended and was ruled out with a knee injury when the second half started.
Three plays into the third quarter, center Evan Brown had to be helped off the field and was ruled out with a concussion.
UP NEXT
Steelers: Pittsburgh will be at Baltimore in Week 18.
Seahawks: Seattle closes out the regular season at Arizona next week.
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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — The Disney icon Mickey Mouse has waltzed on into the public domain — or at least, a version of him has.
On Jan. 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 became public domain in the United States, meaning they are free for everyone to copy, share or use to build upon. Among those works is the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, otherwise known as “Steamboat Willie”.
The black-and-white classic animation is the first feature showing what would become the iconic Mickey and Minnie Mouse. There are still caveats to using the Steamboat Willie and associated characters, of course.
Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain Director Jennifer Jenkins, who writes an annual Jan. 1 column for “Public Domain Day,” explained that Disney still owns Mickey Mouse’s copyright as well as the trademarks for Mickey as a brand identifier. So long as you don’t use the mouse in a way that makes people think your work is made or sponsored by Disney and you don’t use any newer versions of Mickey, you’re in the clear.
“Ever since Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, people have associated the character with Disney’s stories, experiences, and authentic products,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “That will not change when the copyright in the Steamboat Willie film expires.”
Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.
“More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright, and Mickey will continue to play a leading role as a global ambassador for the Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme park attractions, and merchandise,” Disney’s statement said.
Not every feature or personality trait a character displays is necessarily copyrightable, however, and courts could be busy in the coming years determining what’s inside and outside Disney’s ownership.
“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” the company said.
Disney still solidly and separately holds a trademark on Mickey as a corporate mascot and brand identifier, and the law forbids using the character deceptively to fool consumers into thinking a product is from the original creator. Anyone starting a film company or a theme park will not be free to make mouse ears their logo.
Disney’s statement said it “will work to safeguard against consumer confusion caused by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other iconic characters.”
“Steamboat Willie,” directed by Walt Disney and his partner Ub Iwerks and among the first cartoons to have sound synced with its visuals, was actually the third cartoon featuring Mickey and Minnie the men made, but the first to be released. It features a more menacing Mickey captaining a boat and making musical instruments out of other animals.
Steamboat Willie isn’t the only iconic character that now belongs to the public for free use either. According to Jenkins, A.A. Milne’s “House at Pooh Corner” entered the public domain, which introduced Winnie the Pooh’s loveable bouncy, trouncy, flouncy and pouncy friend Tigger.
The Pooh Bear himself entered public domain in 2022 and has since starred in an R-rated horror slasher film. A sequel to “Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey” is reportedly in the works and set to be released later in 2024, with the cast including a role for Tigger.
Other properties entering the U.S. public domain are Charlie Chaplin’s film “Circus,” Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” and Bertolt Brecht’s musical play “The Threepenny Opera.”
Jenkins said the public domain should be celebrated as a “wellspring for creativity” In the United States. Copyright culture only reaches the public domain after a long wait – in the case of Steamboat Willie, for example, it took 95 years.
“When works go into the public domain, they can be legally shared, without permission or fee,” Jenkins said. “Community theaters can screen the films. Youth orchestras can perform the music publicly, without paying licensing fees.”
Jenkins said the whole point of copyright is to promote creativity and the public domain plays a central role in that. As more work enters the public domain, other creatives can reimagine previous works creating new movies, cartoons, books, plays, video games and music based on those works.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one following a series of major earthquakes Monday but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. It was unclear how many people might have been killed or hurt.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported more than a dozen strong quakes in the Japan Sea off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures starting shortly after 4 p.m. local time.
At least six homes were damaged by the quakes, with people trapped inside, government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said. A fire broke out in Wajima city, Ishikawa Prefecture, and electricity was out for more than 30,000 households, he said.
The meteorological agency initially issued a major tsunami warning for Ishikawa and lower-level tsunami warnings or advisories for the rest of the western coast of Honshu, as well as for the northernmost of the country’s main islands, Hokkaido.
Hayashi stressed that it was critical for people to move away from coastal areas.
“Every minute counts. Please evacuate to a safe area immediately,” he said.
The warning was downgraded to a regular tsunami several hours later, meaning the sea could still generate waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet). Aftershocks could also slam the same area over the next few days, the agency said.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV initially warned that torrents of water could reach as high as 16.5 feet. The network continued to air warnings hours later as aftershocks rocked the region.
People returning to get their wallets and other belongings have been known to be swept away and drowned even hours after the first evacuation warning. People were evacuated to stadiums, where they will likely have to stay for a few days.
Japanese media footage showed people running through the streets, and red smoke spewing from a fire in a residential neighborhood. Photos showed a crowd of people, including a woman with a baby on her back, standing by huge cracks that had ripped through the pavement.
Some people sustained minor injuries when they tripped and fell while fleeing, or objects fell off shelves and hit them, according to NHK.
Hayashi said no reports of deaths or injuries were confirmed from the quakes, saying the situation was still unclear. Japan’s military was taking part in rescue efforts, he said.
Bullet trains in the area were halted, although some parts of the service were restored by evening. Parts of a highway were also closed, and water pipes had burst, according to NHK. Some cell phone services in the region weren’t working.
The Meteorological Agency said in a nationally broadcast news conference that more major quakes could hit the area over the next week, especially in the next two or three days.
More than a dozen strong quakes had been detected in the region, with risks of setting off landslides and houses collapsing, according to the agency.
Takashi Wakabayashi, a worker at a convenience store in Ishikawa Prefecture, said some items had tumbled from the shelves, but the biggest problem was the huge crowd of people who arrived to stock up on bottled water, rice balls and bread.
“We have customers at three times the level of usual,” he said.
Tsunami warnings were also issued for parts of North Korea and Russia.
The Japanese government has set up a special emergency center to gather information on the quakes and tsunami and relay them speedily to residents to ensure safety, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement that his administration was in touch with Japanese officials and “ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Japanese people.”
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday’s had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
Government spokesman Hayashi told reporters that nuclear plants in the affected area did not report any irregularities Monday. Nuclear regulators said no rises in radiation levels were detected at the monitoring posts in the region.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s not uncommon for twins to have different birthdays, but a different birth year? That’s what a new set of twins in Connecticut will have for a lifetime.
Souli Morris was born at 12:02 a.m. at Yale New Haven Hospital, becoming the hospital’s first baby of 2024.
But she’s still younger than her brother, Seven, who was born at 11:59 p.m.
It’s unknown exactly how close he was born to midnight, according to the hospital, because births are only recorded in minutes.
The brother and sister — both weighing six pounds, nine ounces — were welcomed by Mykel and Aliyah Kiyomi Morris, of Hamden.
Every year, there are about 120,000 twin births, USA Today reports. The chance of twins having different birth years, like Souli and Seven Morris, is about 1 in 2 million, according to Natividad Medical Center.
A set of twins born in 2020 have an even wilder story: they were born 30 minutes apart but in different years and different decades.
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As seasonal virus activity surges across the United States, experts stress the importance of preventive measures – such as masking and vaccination – and the value of treatment for those who do get sick.
Tens of thousands of people have been admitted to hospitals for respiratory illness each week this season. During the week ending December 23, there were more than 29,000 patients admitted with Covid-19, about 15,000 admitted with the flu and thousands more with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nationally, Covid-19 levels in wastewater, a leading measure of viral transmission, are very high – higher than they were at this time last year in every region, CDC data shows. Weekly emergency department visits rose 12%, and hospitalizations jumped about 17% in the most recent week.
And while Covid-19 remains the leading driver of respiratory virus hospitalizations, flu activity is rising rapidly. The CDC estimates that there have been more than 7 million illnesses, 73,000 hospitalizations and 4,500 deaths related to the flu this season, and multiple indicators are high and rising.
RSV activity is showing signs of slowing in some parts of the US, but many measures, including hospitalization rates, remain elevated. Overall, young children and older adults are most affected.
“It’s a wave of winter respiratory pathogens, especially respiratory viruses. So it’s Covid, it’s flu, and we can’t diminish the importance of RSV,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. “So it’s a triple threat, and arguably a fourth threat because we also have pneumococcal pneumonia, which complicates a lot of these virus infections.”
Respiratory virus activity has been on the rise for weeks. Now, flu-like activity is high or very high in two-thirds of the United States, including California, New York City and Washington, as well as throughout the South and Northeast, according to the CDC.
“Remember, all of these numbers are before people got together for the holidays,” Hotez said. “So don’t be disappointed or surprised that we even see a bigger bump as we head into January.”
Vaccines can help prevent severe illness and death, but uptake remains low this season – despite a historic first, with vaccines available to protect against each of the three major viruses. Just 19% of adults and 8% of children have gotten the latest Covid-19 vaccine, and 17% of adults 60 and older have gotten the new RSV vaccine, CDC data shows. Less than half of adults and children have gotten the flu vaccine this season.
“We have, as a population, underutilized both influenza and the updated Covid vaccines, unfortunately,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University. “But it’s not too late to get vaccinated, because these viruses are going to be around for a while yet.”
According to the CDC, hospital bed capacity remains “stable” nationally, including within intensive care units. But with high levels of respiratory viruses, hospitals in at least five states are returning to requiring masks.
Mass General Brigham spokesman Timothy Sullivan said it will require masking for health-care staff who interact directly with patients starting Tuesday, and patients and visitors will be “strongly encouraged to wear a facility-issued mask.”
In Wisconsin, UW Health and UnityPoint Health – Meriter have expanded mask policies to cover more people. UW requires all staff, patients and visitors to wear a mask for patient interactions in clinic settings, including waiting areas and exam rooms.
UnityPoint Health – Meriter says masks continue to be required for team members and visitors in patient rooms.
Bellevue, a public hospital in New York City, said on social media last week that it had reinstated its mandatory masking policy due to an uptick in respiratory illnesses.
In Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has required everyone to wear a mask when entering or inside since December 20. The systemwide masking policies were adjusted to “address the increase of respiratory virus cases” but may change when there is a “marked decrease in respiratory health cases,” according to the health care system.
An order posted last week by the Los Angeles County Health Officer requires all health-care personnel and visitors to mask while in contact with patients or in patient-care areas, based on the CDC’s categorization of Covid-19 hospital admission levels.
During the week ending December 23, more than 230 US counties were considered to have “high” levels of Covid-19 hospital admissions, defined by the CDC by at least 20 new hospital admissions for every 100,000 people. Nearly a thousand other counties, about a third of the country, have “medium” Covid-19 hospital admission levels, with at least 10 admissions for every 100,000 people.
Vaccines and masks can help reduce the risk of severe illness before getting sick, but treatments are also available to help prevent people from getting very sick if they do become infected.
Antiviral treatments for Covid-19, such as Paxlovid, and flu, such as Tamiflu, can be especially helpful for people who are more likely to get very sick, including people who are 50 or older and those with certain underlying conditions, such as a weakened immune system, heart disease, obesity, diabetes or chronic lung disease.
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“If more people at higher risk for severe illness get treatment in a timely manner, we will save lives,” the CDC said in a recent blog post. But “not enough people are taking them.”
Seasonal respiratory virus activity can be hard to predict, but CDC forecasts suggest that hospitalization rates will continue at elevated levels for weeks and that this season, overall, will probably result in a similar number of hospitalizations as last season.
“One of the ways to help us all go into a happy new year is for us to be as protected as we can against these viruses,” Schaffner said.
“Of course, I continue to recommend vaccination, prudent use of the mask by high-risk people and, should you become sick, do not go to work and spread the virus further. Call your health care provider, because you may have some treatment available that will get you healthier sooner.”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, who gave voice to the character of “Mama Coco” in the popular Pixar film “Coco,” has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.
Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murguía’s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.
“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.
“Coco,” which was released in 2017, brought Murguía to an international audience late in life.
But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including ‘Life Sentence’ (1979) and ’The Queen of the Night’ (1994).
In the animated “‘Coco,” she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family’s musical history.
In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murguía its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving “an indelible mark” on Mexican film and theater.
In her acceptance speech, Murguía displayed her typical humility, asking “Why me?” She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.
“This career has been my life,” Murguía said. “It has been the passion of my life. I’ve loved it.”
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FORT CAVAZOS, Texas (FOX 44) – The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center has welcomed its first baby of the new year!
The Fort Cavazos Media Center says Chance Lee Davis arrived at 12:30 a.m. Monday. He weighed six pounds and two ounces, and was 19 inches.
The proud parents and veterans are Alexa, a culinary specialist and a native of West Palm Beach Florida, and Douglas, an infantryman and native of Gainesville, Virginia.
Alexa and Douglas are most looking forward to companionship as a family, and seeing Chance and sister 20-month-old Emery grow up together and form a brother-and-sister bond.
We at FOX 44 News would like to say congratulations to the new family!
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WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – In typical January fashion, gyms will see lots of traffic this month – with people trying to stay true to their New Year’s resolutions.
FOX 44 News caught up with a health professional to learn the secret to staying committed and disciplined in the new year.
Dr. David Winter shared that according to a recent study, “One week after people make a resolution, 25 percent of them drop it. You look at two months out, 80 percent of people have abandoned their New Year’s resolutions.”
So how can you successfully accomplish your resolutions for 2024?
Dr. Winters says the resolution needs to be three things – reasonable, obtainable and specific. He recommends journaling or keeping a diary as a way of staying on track, and also to share your resolutions with a friend who will keep you accountable all year long.
The most common resolutions are eating better and exercising more in order to lose weight. Winters says, “Those are pretty broad ideas. If you really want to make those work, need to get down to the details about that and have a plan.”
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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — The Disney icon Mickey Mouse has waltzed on into the public domain — or at least, a version of him has.
On Jan. 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 became public domain in the United States, meaning they are free for everyone to copy, share or use to build upon. Among those works is the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, otherwise known as “Steamboat Willie”.
The black-and-white classic animation is the first feature showing what would become the iconic Mickey and Minnie Mouse. There are still caveats to using the Steamboat Willie and associated characters, of course.
Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain Director Jennifer Jenkins, who writes an annual Jan. 1 column for “Public Domain Day,” explained that Disney still owns Mickey Mouse’s copyright as well as the trademarks for Mickey as a brand identifier. So long as you don’t use the mouse in a way that makes people think your work is made or sponsored by Disney and you don’t use any newer versions of Mickey, you’re in the clear.
“Ever since Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, people have associated the character with Disney’s stories, experiences, and authentic products,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “That will not change when the copyright in the Steamboat Willie film expires.”
Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.
“More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright, and Mickey will continue to play a leading role as a global ambassador for the Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme park attractions, and merchandise,” Disney’s statement said.
Not every feature or personality trait a character displays is necessarily copyrightable, however, and courts could be busy in the coming years determining what’s inside and outside Disney’s ownership.
“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” the company said.
Disney still solidly and separately holds a trademark on Mickey as a corporate mascot and brand identifier, and the law forbids using the character deceptively to fool consumers into thinking a product is from the original creator. Anyone starting a film company or a theme park will not be free to make mouse ears their logo.
Disney’s statement said it “will work to safeguard against consumer confusion caused by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other iconic characters.”
“Steamboat Willie,” directed by Walt Disney and his partner Ub Iwerks and among the first cartoons to have sound synced with its visuals, was actually the third cartoon featuring Mickey and Minnie the men made, but the first to be released. It features a more menacing Mickey captaining a boat and making musical instruments out of other animals.
Steamboat Willie isn’t the only iconic character that now belongs to the public for free use either. According to Jenkins, A.A. Milne’s “House at Pooh Corner” entered the public domain, which introduced Winnie the Pooh’s loveable bouncy, trouncy, flouncy and pouncy friend Tigger.
The Pooh Bear himself entered public domain in 2022 and has since starred in an R-rated horror slasher film. A sequel to “Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey” is reportedly in the works and set to be released later in 2024, with the cast including a role for Tigger.
Other properties entering the U.S. public domain are Charlie Chaplin’s film “Circus,” Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” and Bertolt Brecht’s musical play “The Threepenny Opera.”
Jenkins said the public domain should be celebrated as a “wellspring for creativity” In the United States. Copyright culture only reaches the public domain after a long wait – in the case of Steamboat Willie, for example, it took 95 years.
“When works go into the public domain, they can be legally shared, without permission or fee,” Jenkins said. “Community theaters can screen the films. Youth orchestras can perform the music publicly, without paying licensing fees.”
Jenkins said the whole point of copyright is to promote creativity and the public domain plays a central role in that. As more work enters the public domain, other creatives can reimagine previous works creating new movies, cartoons, books, plays, video games and music based on those works.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one following a series of major earthquakes Monday but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. It was unclear how many people might have been killed or hurt.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported more than a dozen strong quakes in the Japan Sea off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures starting shortly after 4 p.m. local time.
At least six homes were damaged by the quakes, with people trapped inside, government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said. A fire broke out in Wajima city, Ishikawa Prefecture, and electricity was out for more than 30,000 households, he said.
The meteorological agency initially issued a major tsunami warning for Ishikawa and lower-level tsunami warnings or advisories for the rest of the western coast of Honshu, as well as for the northernmost of the country’s main islands, Hokkaido.
Hayashi stressed that it was critical for people to move away from coastal areas.
“Every minute counts. Please evacuate to a safe area immediately,” he said.
The warning was downgraded to a regular tsunami several hours later, meaning the sea could still generate waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet). Aftershocks could also slam the same area over the next few days, the agency said.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV initially warned that torrents of water could reach as high as 16.5 feet. The network continued to air warnings hours later as aftershocks rocked the region.
People returning to get their wallets and other belongings have been known to be swept away and drowned even hours after the first evacuation warning. People were evacuated to stadiums, where they will likely have to stay for a few days.
Japanese media footage showed people running through the streets, and red smoke spewing from a fire in a residential neighborhood. Photos showed a crowd of people, including a woman with a baby on her back, standing by huge cracks that had ripped through the pavement.
Some people sustained minor injuries when they tripped and fell while fleeing, or objects fell off shelves and hit them, according to NHK.
Hayashi said no reports of deaths or injuries were confirmed from the quakes, saying the situation was still unclear. Japan’s military was taking part in rescue efforts, he said.
Bullet trains in the area were halted, although some parts of the service were restored by evening. Parts of a highway were also closed, and water pipes had burst, according to NHK. Some cell phone services in the region weren’t working.
The Meteorological Agency said in a nationally broadcast news conference that more major quakes could hit the area over the next week, especially in the next two or three days.
More than a dozen strong quakes had been detected in the region, with risks of setting off landslides and houses collapsing, according to the agency.
Takashi Wakabayashi, a worker at a convenience store in Ishikawa Prefecture, said some items had tumbled from the shelves, but the biggest problem was the huge crowd of people who arrived to stock up on bottled water, rice balls and bread.
“We have customers at three times the level of usual,” he said.
Tsunami warnings were also issued for parts of North Korea and Russia.
The Japanese government has set up a special emergency center to gather information on the quakes and tsunami and relay them speedily to residents to ensure safety, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement that his administration was in touch with Japanese officials and “ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Japanese people.”
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday’s had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
Government spokesman Hayashi told reporters that nuclear plants in the affected area did not report any irregularities Monday. Nuclear regulators said no rises in radiation levels were detected at the monitoring posts in the region.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It’s not uncommon for twins to have different birthdays, but a different birth year? That’s what a new set of twins in Connecticut will have for a lifetime.
Souli Morris was born at 12:02 a.m. at Yale New Haven Hospital, becoming the hospital’s first baby of 2024.
But she’s still younger than her brother, Seven, who was born at 11:59 p.m.
It’s unknown exactly how close he was born to midnight, according to the hospital, because births are only recorded in minutes.
The brother and sister — both weighing six pounds, nine ounces — were welcomed by Mykel and Aliyah Kiyomi Morris, of Hamden.
Every year, there are about 120,000 twin births, USA Today reports. The chance of twins having different birth years, like Souli and Seven Morris, is about 1 in 2 million, according to Natividad Medical Center.
A set of twins born in 2020 have an even wilder story: they were born 30 minutes apart but in different years and different decades.
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2 injured in 2-vehicle accident Saturday in Jones County
From Jones County Fire Council Public Information Office
JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - A two-vehicle collision early Saturday night in Jones County injured two, with both being taken to an emergency room for treatment.
According to the Jones County Fire Council, first responders from Powers and M & M volunteer fire departments responded to an accident on U.S. 84 near Eastview Drive about 7:30 p.m. Friday.
On arrival, firefighters found two individuals with what appeared to be serious injuries after the Jeep in which they were riding rolled over multiple times after being struck by a second vehicle.
The two occupants of the Jeep were treated at the scene before being taken to a hospital by Emserv Ambulance Service.
The single occupant of the passenger car hitting the Jeep declined transport.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol made one arrest at the scene.
Both vehicles sustained significant damage.
The MHP and Jones County Sheriff’s Department also were on scene.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) between May 28, 2020 and August 30, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the January 26, 2024 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Dollar General common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Dollar General class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=20693 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 26, 2024. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) 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; (2) 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; (3) 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; (4) 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; (5) Dollar General's reported revenue and earnings during the Class Period were artificially inflated by defendants' over-pricing scheme; (6) 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; (7) Dollar General was not on track to achieve the 4Q22 guidance provided to investors of 6% to 7% same-store sales growth or quarterly diluted earnings per share ("EPS") of $3.15 to $3.30, and was running more than one hundred million dollars behind Dollar General's annual net sales guidance of 11% growth; and (8) as a result, defendants' statements about Dollar General's business metrics, operations, and financial prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable factual basis when made. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Big Brother Reindeer Games Recap for 12/18/2023
We are at the halfway point of Big Brother Reindeer Games on CBS. Six players remain in this fast-paced game and it is truly anyone’s to win.
Frankie, Britney and Nicole are working together while Taylor Xavier and Josh are in their own alliance. Xavier worries about going to the Santa Showdown again.
The ladies are also planning their own alliance, but Nicole and Taylor worry about letting the men on their teams down.
Derek returns for the Naughty and Nice Challenge. Jill Frost is kidnapped and the players must find clues to figure out whodunit. As they search, they find grey hairs, reindeer mugshots and collars, hoof prints and other such things.
The players each put in their guesses, with Frankie being one to correctly guess first. He is able to choose his partner for the next challenge and also give another pair a penalty. He contemplates what to do since he recalls how Cody made the wrong decision and ultimately got sent home.
He assumes that the losing pair will go to Santa’s Showdown, so he chooses to work with Taylor in order to keep his alliance safe. Taylor herself is upset because she wanted Frankie to lose, so now she has to make sure they win.
Josh and Britney pair together, while Xavier and Nicole team up due to the guys not wanting to work together and risk losing.
The teams must pack oversized sleighs with blocks that form a puzzle. The winning team will be safe and get to decide who goes into Santa’s Showdown. Frankie also has the power to freeze a team for 45 seconds for the penalty.
Nicole and Xavier end up in the lead, so Frankie uses the penalty on them. Britney and Josh struggle.
Taylor lets Frankie lead them, which ultimately gives them the win. They must now choose one person from each team to compete in the showdown.
They draw ornaments out of a hat to decide who to choose from each team.
The two of them discuss who to choose. Taylor is in two alliances and is torn on what to do. Josh is worried that he may get chosen since Frankie has no loyalty to him.
Frankie wants to put the two guys against reach other.
The two teams talk to Frankie and Taylor to pitch their cases as to why they should be safe.
In the end, Nicole and Josh are chosen. Frankie is upset because he thought he and Taylor agreed to put both guys up. Taylor tells Nicole she knows she can beat Josh. However, Nicole is very unhappy with this turn of events.
The Showdown has them on spinning candy canes. The one who lasts the longest wins. The longer they hold, the more they move and the harder it gets.
The two of them lose grip and fall at the same time, but since Josh fell first, he is eliminated.
More tomorrow, stay tuned!
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Freud’s Last Session Sneak Peek
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SALT LAKE CITY — Not even an hour into 2024, a baby boy and baby girl made their grand entrances into Utah, welcomed by overjoyed families as fireworks and cheers rang out to celebrate a new year.
Both the baby boy, who was not named by Intermountain officials, as well as the baby girl, named Mira, were born at 12:18 a.m.
The baby boy weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and measured 20 inches long when he was delivered at IMC in Murray.
Not only was he the first baby born in 2024 at the hospital, but he is also the first-born son of proud parents Yasmin Valdez and Victor.
“He is a miracle baby," Valdez said in a statement. "He had complications with the umbilical cord and needed to be born by 37 weeks, so labor was induced. And I have spinal issues, a neurological condition that occurred 11 years ago called Cauda Equina which has left me with limited use of my ankles and feet.”
Valdez said coincidentally her baby is the exact same weight she was when she was born.
Nearby, in Millcreek at St. Mark's Hospital, another baby made her grand entrance into the world at the same time, 12:18 a.m.
The darling bundle of joy was named Mira by her parents, mom Arti and dad Fiaz.
“It’s a great way to welcome the New Year," the proud parents reflected. "It was unexpected, but it’s been nice news for our family.”
Mira weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces at birth and her parents thought it was extra special their daughter was one of the first babies born in Utah in 2024.
“It’s neat – everyone talks about resetting at the beginning of the new year. But she’ll get to do that every year because that’s when she was born and that’s really cool,” Arti said.
FOX 13 News has reached out to the University of Utah Health to learn more about the first baby born in their healthcare system.
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SAG-AFTRA Reaches Deal to End Strike
It’s over! After 118 days, SAG-AFTRA negotiators have come to a tentative agreement to end the actor’s strike. It is set to officially end at 12:01am on Thursday.
More details will be released this Friday, when it goes to the national board for approval.
As per Variety, SAG members ‘will see the first-ever protections for actors against artificial intelligence and a historic pay increase. The deal will see most minimums increase by 7% — two percent above the increases received by the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.’
More details will be released as they become available.
This is a developing story.
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Taylor Swift is starting 2024 the same way she finished off 2023. Her album "1989 (Taylor's Version)" is No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the fifth consecutive week.
Her albums have now accounted for 68 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Swift now holds the record for solo artist with the most weeks at No. 1. The record was previously held by Elvis Presley.
He had 10 albums reach No. 1 from 1956-2022, and Swift has had 13 albums reach that top spot.
Fearless was Swift's first album to reach No. 1. It debuted in 2008 and remained at No. 1 for 11 weeks.
Swift now only trails the Beatles, who had 132 weeks at No. 1.
As a fixture in media for more than a decade, Swift may have had her best year yet in 2023. Her Eras international tour became the highest-grossing tour of all time, according to Pollstar. It passed the $1 billion mark just nine months after kicking off in the U.S., Mexico and South America in March.
The tour was turned into a film, which AMC said surpassed $250 million in ticket sales.
To cap off 2023, Swift was named Time's Person of the Year. She was also enjoying a whirlwind romance with NFL star Travis Kelce.
SEE MORE: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and box office success boosted the economy
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Snark and Highlights for 11/12/2023
-Ashley and her mom shopping for flowers is so cute.
-I think it is smart for Ashley to stay out of the Candiace/Michael issue. No need to get involved in drama with her ex when they are coparenting and trying to make things work.
-I hate when people say ‘you know what you did’ because nine times out of ten, the person has no idea what they did.
-This Karen/Mia talk is lovely and it is nice that they can be civil, but there is no way it is going to last.
-Candiace is continuing to kill it with this music…I am so proud of her!
-Juan and Robyn seem so blase about their relationship issues and the allegations against him….and that is troubling.
-I already love Nnkea…she seems like a fun, smart and sassy one.
-How does one lose track of how many properties they own?
-Nneka’s husband is Dr. McModel Nightclub is cute!
-Starting and ending the day with bubbly is…..a choice.
-Wendy getting a talk show was not on my Housewives bingo card, but I cannot wait to see it when it airs.
-Do ladies really name their breast implants or is it just a Housewives thing?
-Karen is really smart to inform the ladies about cardiovascular health and to bring them to Pilates to help them become healthier.
-This class is quite….interesting…..even as a trainer, I have never done this before and I don’t think I ever will.
-Gizelle was graduating high school when Jason was in Pampers…when you put it that way, being a cougar isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
-This party seems kind of boring. I know that it will end in a fight later, but right now not much is happening.
-The Mia/Karen interaction subtitles are making me laugh harder than they should…no hugs, but acquaintance handshakes and acknowledgements instead.
-Ashley’s decor is gorgeous….the shade of blue she has in her living room is exactly what I want for my room when I repaint.
-Nneka is going to fit in just fine with these ladies.
-Wendy and Ashley being mature about their issues and talking things out like adults is a refreshing change from the drama we usually see.
-Wendy talking about her culture (in regards to the cursed blog article) is quite interesting.
-More next week, stay tuned!
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Big 12 Football Promo Codes, Predictions, Computer Picks & Best Bets | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 9:44 PM CST|Updated: 52 minutes ago
According to our projections, the best bet in terms of the total for the nine Big 12 bowl season matchups is Georgia Tech vs. UCF -- for more tips, including parlay possibilities, see below.
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Pick: Kansas State -3 vs. NC State
- Matchup: NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Kansas State by 15 points
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Pick: Oklahoma +2.5 vs. Arizona
- Matchup: Arizona Wildcats at Oklahoma Sooners
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Oklahoma by 6.6 points
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Pick: Texas A&M +3.5 vs. Oklahoma State
- Matchup: Texas A&M Aggies at Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Texas A&M by 1.2 points
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: December 27
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
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Best Week 18 Big 12 Total Bets
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 (Stream on Fubo)
Over 54.5 - Cal vs. Texas Tech
- Matchup: California Golden Bears at Texas Tech Red Raiders
- Projected Total: 60.2 points
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Under 62.5 - Texas vs. Washington
- Matchup: Texas Longhorns at Washington Huskies
- Projected Total: 57.5 points
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN
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The Hawthorne police said a male victim who suffered gunshot wounds was transported to a hospital from the scene near a shopping mall on Crenshaw Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue, KABC reported.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said four other victims arrived at area hospitals by other means. An adult female victim was later pronounced dead. One of the others was listed in critical condition and three were listed as stable, KABC reported.
There were no immediate arrests in the shooting, which was being investigated by the sheriff's department.
Hawthorne is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area in southwestern Los Angeles County.
Authorities said they were also investigating a separate shooting early Monday at a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles that killed two people and wounded three others, one critically.
It wasn't immediately clear what led up to the shooting and no suspect information was immediately available, police Officer Sandra Olivaras told the Los Angeles Times.
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Taylor said a winning record “is better than the alternative,” but more importantly, the Bengals want to end on a high note.
“Our fans that supported us, we get a home game, chance to reward ourselves with a hard-fought win,” Taylor said. “We’ve got to find a way to get that done, momentum to finish the season and some positivity that’s there. ... The fans that have continued to support us and cheer for this team and put their heart and soul into supporting us, get a chance to watch us play hard in a home game and find a way to win. So (there’s) a lot left to play for.
“The encouraging thing is ... we got a roster of guys that I know are going to put their best effort forth all week in practice and in the game. So we’re going to have a great plan. We’re doing everything we can to win this game and end the season on a high note.”
Zac Taylor speaks to the media. https://t.co/eLCKWQwQfG
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) January 1, 2024
The Bengals have had several players fighting through injuries this season, including Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. Both played at less than 100 percent at Kansas City when a playoff berth was on the line. Chase informed the staff as they were boarding for the trip Saturday that he wanted to play but told media after the game he was only at 70 percent. Higgins tweaked his hamstring in the first half and ended up checking himself back into the game in the second half.
Taylor said he appreciated that Chase and Higgins wanted to help their team, like many others who are dealing with lesser-known injuries. Asked if anyone already has been declared out for the finale, Taylor said it’s too early to know, but he made one thing clear: The Bengals aren’t looking at this game as a chance to throw in a bunch of backups and see what they’ve got for the future.
“The No. 1 thing for us is to win the game,” Taylor said. “Whatever we gotta do to win the game. I think that’s something we have done because we have a lot of young talent on the team, is find roles for these guys, whether it be special teams or offense or defense as the season has gone. These guys have played a lot for us. So, when you just overall, over the course of the season, look at young guys and what are their roles as they get more experience as the season goes, a lot of those guys play significant roles for us. It’s not like there’s a lot of guys out there who haven’t done anything for us. But our No. 1 objective is to win this game by any means necessary. However, that looks is however it looks.”
Taylor said he was proud of the effort the players gave Sunday, despite coming up short.
The Bengals had a 17-13 lead at halftime and didn’t score in the second half, while the defense struggled with explosive plays that led to field goals on six drives and eventually piled up to a 25-17 win for the Chiefs. Taylor believed the game would have gone differently if Willie Gay Jr. hadn’t blown up the fourth-and-1 run attempted by Joe Mixon at the Kansas City 6-yard line. He believed it was the correct call but the Chiefs’ defensive front deserved credit for the stop.
“There were different things we thought we were putting ourselves in decent position, but a play sets you back and got yourself in a situation where its third-and-long, which we’d done a good job of avoiding all game,” Taylor said. “That’s really when they teed off on teams and had a lot of success and that’s the game in the fourth quarter. That became tough.”
It’s been a roller-coaster kind of season for Cincinnati, which started 1-3.
Prior to Burrow’s wrist ligament tear, the Bengals had a stretch of four wins in five games where it seemed things were starting to head in the right direction. Even after a three-game losing streak that included Jake Browning’s first start, the Bengals won three straight and were in position for the No. 6 seed before dropping back-to-back games at Pittsburgh and Kansas City. Now, they are left wondering “what if.”
“Life in the NFL is you’re not always gonna have all your guys, and you just have to find a way, and there were stretches where we found ways,” Taylor said. “We obviously came up short the last two weeks in two critical games. That’s tough to swallow for all of us because of the work that’s put in and the expectations we have for ourselves.”
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If you were ever tickled by the many times Anderson Cooper has succumbed to a giggle fit on national television, prepare to be delighted again.
After getting boozed up with Andy Cohen while hosting CNN’s live New Year’s Eve show on Sunday night, Cooper found himself cracking up after singer John Mayer dialed into the show alongside some unexpected guests — a whole gang of cats.
After Cohen noted that the Grammy winner was calling from a cat bar in Tokyo, a visibly off-guard Cooper launched into a fit of laughter as Mayer sat at the bar surrounded by furry friends.
The “Your Body Is a Wonderland” crooner maintained a deadpan expression throughout the interview as a variety of well-fed cats inched by him, adding to the hilarity of the situation.
“This doesn’t look sanitary, John!” Cohen commented as Cooper continued giggling. A totally unbothered Mayer casually replied, “I believe it passes all health codes, so I think it’s just fine.”
As Mayer continued talking about the bar, Cooper fought back his laughter before stepping away from the camera.
“He’s gone. He’s off with the fairies here,” Cohen joked of his co-host.
“Just the shot of the cat’s ass in your face is making him delirious,” Cohen added as Mayer impressively maintained a straight face while Cooper tried to hold it together.
Fans on X (formerly Twitter) couldn’t hold back from reacting over the amusing moment.
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A California law that bans carrying firearms in most public places took effect Monday after an appeals court halted a federal judge’s ruling against the law.
On Dec. 20, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney temporarily blocked the law from going into effect, calling it “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit delayed that order Saturday to give the court more time to consider the constitutionality of the law, meaning it could take effect Jan. 1 as planned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) praised the decision in a statement Saturday.
“Californians overwhelmingly support efforts to ensure that places like hospitals, libraries and children’s playgrounds remain safe and free from guns,” he said in a statement.
Newsom signed several pieces of gun control legislation into law in September, including Senate Bill 2, which restricts the ability to carry firearms in “sensitive places,” such as schools, zoos, religious institutions and sporting events, and on public transportation. In his decision, Carney argued the law “turns nearly every public place in California into a ‘sensitive place.’”
The California Rifle and Pistol Association is suing to block the law.
Senate Bill 2 is one of many state laws going into effect Monday. Minnesota and Colorado also have gun-related laws going into effect.
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Considering that Donald Trump has been indicted four times on 91 felony counts, there is a possibility that he may eventually be convicted of a crime and end up behind bars ― even if he’s elected president in November.
Although the idea of Trump running the country from a prison cell instead of the West Wing might be disturbing to many Americans, at least one commentator on Monday’s episode of “Outnumbered” seemed OK with it.
Panelists on the Fox News show were discussing the upcoming GOP primary season and how it may affect Trump’s chances of retaking the White House when attorney Paul Mauro predicted that Trump would be the candidate “left standing” by the time Super Tuesday rolls around on March 5.
But co-host Kennedy wondered what might happen if the former president, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces, is “indicted at some point.”
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was quick to proclaim a simple solution.
“He can be president from jail if he has to,” she said, adding that Republicans are still rallying around Trump despite the multiple trials he faces.
Although Nesheiwat and others might be comfortable with the leader of the free world governing from behind bars, many users of X, formerly known as Twitter, weren’t as enthusiastic, with some saying that her suggestion smacked of “cult” like behavior.
Could Trump actually become president if convicted? Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told CNN in August that the Constitution “has very few requirements to serve as President,” but “does not bar anyone indicted, or convicted, or even serving jail time, from running as president and winning the presidency.”
That is one reason why many opponents to Trump’s reelection are instead looking at the Constitution’s 14th Amendment as a way to keep him from appearing on ballots. They argue that Trump’s links to the 2021 Capitol riot would prohibit him from holding office under the so-called insurrectionist clause.
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(NEXSTAR) — A massive solar flare — the largest in years — was spotted on the sun on New Year’s Eve, sparking a warning to some high-frequency radio users.
In an update Sunday evening, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) released an image of the flare, which appeared as a large, glowing spot on the sun. You can see that image below.
“A flare is an eruption of energy from the sun that generally lasts minutes to hours,” the SWPC explains. This one in particular, which peaked just before 5 p.m. ET on Sunday, was categorized as an X5 flare.
Solar flares are classified based on their strength, much like earthquakes, according to NASA. The scale ranges from B-class on the lowest end to C-class, then M-class, and finally, X-class. Each letter represents a ten-fold increase in energy output, and there is a scale of 1 to 9 in each class, except for X-class. X-class flares can exceed 9, with the largest-ever recorded being an X45 that occurred in 2003.
Flares that are B- or C-class are too weak for us to notice on Earth, NASA explains, and M-class flares “can cause brief radio blackouts at the poles and minor radiation storms that might endanger astronauts.” X-class flares can cause more noticeable impacts, like radiation storms that can impact satellites and give small radiation doses to airplane passengers flying near the poles. NASA notes that they can also cause “global transmission problems and world-wide blackouts.”
At an X5, Sunday’s flare was much smaller than the flare recorded in 2003. It was, however, the strongest since September 2017, when an X8.2 flare was detected, according to the SWPC. This flare also supersedes an X2.8 solar flare reported in the same region of the sun on December 14. At the time, the SWPC reported that flare was “likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded.”
The SWPC said those using high-frequency radio signals (like emergency managers) may notice a “temporary degradation or complete loss of signal on much of the sunlit side of Earth” as a result of Sunday’s solar flare.
For the rest of us, the SWPC said we “need not be concerned.” While a coronal mass ejection (CME) — which can cause northern light displays on Earth — was detected in connection with Sunday’s solar flare, the chances of any of us seeing the aurora Monday night appear slim.
The SWPC’s current forecast shows only a few states have a chance at catching the auroras Monday night. Much of Alaska and Canada have a high likelihood of seeing the northern lights while some states — Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine have slim chances (denoted by the light green and red “view line” on the map below).
The aurora “may become visible along the horizon,” the SWPC said Monday.
A minor geomagnetic storm watch is in effect for Tuesday, though the likelihood of seeing the aurora appears even slimmer then, per the SWPC’s current forecast.
Solar activity and CMEs are only expected to be more common in 2024 as the sun continues through Solar Cycle 25. Solar cycles are 11-year periods when the sun flips its magnetic poles, sparking space weather like flares and CMEs, which are explosions of plasma and magnetic material from the sun that can reach Earth in as little as 15 to 18 hours, NOAA explains.
Those CMEs that do impact Earth not only cause auroras but can impact our navigation, communication and radio signals.
While it may sound alarming, you shouldn’t expect a five-day blackout and grounded flights if the aurora brightens up your sky.
There are resiliencies built into our electrical grids, flights, and communication systems to prevent or diminish any impact, Dr. Delores Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Nexstar in October. In fact, you may not even notice a solar storm has hit us (like Sunday’s solar flare). SWPC’s Rob Steenburgh previously told Nexstar that they “happen all the time and are no cause for alarm.”
“Some people worry that a gigantic ‘killer solar flare’ could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible,” NASA previously explained. Plus, solar cycles repeat every 11 years. That means anyone over the age of 11 has already lived through a solar maximum (and probably didn’t notice its occurrence).
An added bonus of the current solar cycle? The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, will occur near cycle maximum, meaning a good show for skywatchers, NOAA explains.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — It was below freezing in Saratoga Springs, but that didn’t stop some people from starting the New Year off and running…literally.
The First Day 5K race in Saratoga Springs took place around noon. 23-year-old Cameron Davis of Delmar crossed the finish line first, in second came his training partner 49-year-old Nick Conway of Albany.
“Did you think you were going to win?” asked NEWS 10’s Zion Decoteau.
“I knew that my training partner Nick over here was someone that would be around my fitness [level]. I wasn’t sure who else was going to show up, and I like to win” Cameron replied.
“We were training hard so we figured we would do well, but you never know who shows up. There’s a lot of talented runners here” added Conway.
As for Conway’s athletic wear on this sub-freezing day:
“You want to feel light in fast but I probably should’ve worn a shirt today,” said the shirtless runner wearing only shorts.
Charles Woodruff of Fleet Feet who sponsors the event said the race’s popularity is growing as fast as the runners.
“We had 630 people last year, just under 800 participants this year so it’s growing nicely so we think this is going to be a real thing as the years go by.”
The bigger the event, the better for business says Todd Shimkus. The Saratoga Chamber of Commerce President traded in a suit and tie for runner’s wear, getting in on the action himself.
“The 5K is part of the New Year’s fest. We started on Friday so we’ve made it into a whole weekend of activities” sah Shimkus.
“It’s great for the economy. People are staying at the hotels participating in events last night, coming out for running today” he added.
What’s next for the champion?
“Just getting out there and enjoying myself kind of working out with people if I feel I’m fit, I’ll sign up for races,” said Davis.
Runners and spectators alike were treated to hot chocolate after that frigid race.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, who gave voice to the character of “Mama Coco” in the popular Pixar film “Coco,” has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.
Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murguía’s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.
“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.
“Coco,” which was released in 2017, brought Murguía to an international audience late in life.
But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including ‘Life Sentence’ (1979) and ’The Queen of the Night’ (1994).
In the animated “‘Coco,” she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family’s musical history.
In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murguía its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving “an indelible mark” on Mexican film and theater.
In her acceptance speech, Murguía displayed her typical humility, asking “Why me?” She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.
“This career has been my life,” Murguía said. “It has been the passion of my life. I’ve loved it.”
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare delivered El Paso’s first baby of 2024 on Monday morning, Jan. 1.
Las Palmas says baby Penelope was born right at 12 a.m. on New Year’s Day, weighing 6 pounds, 7 ounces and measuring 18.25 inches long.
Penelope’s mom says “she’s already the star of the show.”
At William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Kenny was born to Spc. Kevin Martinez and Claymil Ramirez-Diaz at 12:55 a.m. on Monay, Jan. 1.
He was the first baby at WBAMC in 2024. Martinez is a soldier with the 6th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As another year came to an end, some Kansas City-area families with little ones rang in 2024 early at the Lenexa Public Market.
“We wanted to have something that families could come and enjoy the countdown and I know with my son being as young as he is, I don’t want him up until midnight,” Lenexa Public Market manager Tessa Adcock said.
During the Noon Year’s Eve pajama party, families could participate in a Time Capsule activity, board games, fun giveaways and try out some local food vendors to wrap up the memories of 2023.
“I remember staying home and having pajama parties and watching movies and playing games on New Year’s Eve with my family, so I think it’s awesome to have that for others,” Adcock said.
One of the food vendors at the event, Cardboard Corner Cafe, is opening a new location at the market in the new year.
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SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — The Disney icon Mickey Mouse has waltzed on into the public domain — or at least, a version of him has.
On Jan. 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 became public domain in the United States, meaning they are free for everyone to copy, share or use to build upon. Among those works is the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, otherwise known as “Steamboat Willie”.
The black-and-white classic animation is the first feature showing what would become the iconic Mickey and Minnie Mouse. There are still caveats to using the Steamboat Willie and associated characters, of course.
Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain Director Jennifer Jenkins, who writes an annual Jan. 1 column for “Public Domain Day,” explained that Disney still owns Mickey Mouse’s copyright as well as the trademarks for Mickey as a brand identifier. So long as you don’t use the mouse in a way that makes people think your work is made or sponsored by Disney and you don’t use any newer versions of Mickey, you’re in the clear.
“Ever since Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, people have associated the character with Disney’s stories, experiences, and authentic products,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “That will not change when the copyright in the Steamboat Willie film expires.”
Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.
“More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright, and Mickey will continue to play a leading role as a global ambassador for the Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme park attractions, and merchandise,” Disney’s statement said.
Not every feature or personality trait a character displays is necessarily copyrightable, however, and courts could be busy in the coming years determining what’s inside and outside Disney’s ownership.
“We will, of course, continue to protect our rights in the more modern versions of Mickey Mouse and other works that remain subject to copyright,” the company said.
Disney still solidly and separately holds a trademark on Mickey as a corporate mascot and brand identifier, and the law forbids using the character deceptively to fool consumers into thinking a product is from the original creator. Anyone starting a film company or a theme park will not be free to make mouse ears their logo.
Disney’s statement said it “will work to safeguard against consumer confusion caused by unauthorized uses of Mickey and our other iconic characters.”
“Steamboat Willie,” directed by Walt Disney and his partner Ub Iwerks and among the first cartoons to have sound synced with its visuals, was actually the third cartoon featuring Mickey and Minnie the men made, but the first to be released. It features a more menacing Mickey captaining a boat and making musical instruments out of other animals.
Steamboat Willie isn’t the only iconic character that now belongs to the public for free use either. According to Jenkins, A.A. Milne’s “House at Pooh Corner” entered the public domain, which introduced Winnie the Pooh’s loveable bouncy, trouncy, flouncy and pouncy friend Tigger.
The Pooh Bear himself entered public domain in 2022 and has since starred in an R-rated horror slasher film. A sequel to “Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey” is reportedly in the works and set to be released later in 2024, with the cast including a role for Tigger.
Other properties entering the U.S. public domain are Charlie Chaplin’s film “Circus,” Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” and Bertolt Brecht’s musical play “The Threepenny Opera.”
Jenkins said the public domain should be celebrated as a “wellspring for creativity” In the United States. Copyright culture only reaches the public domain after a long wait – in the case of Steamboat Willie, for example, it took 95 years.
“When works go into the public domain, they can be legally shared, without permission or fee,” Jenkins said. “Community theaters can screen the films. Youth orchestras can perform the music publicly, without paying licensing fees.”
Jenkins said the whole point of copyright is to promote creativity and the public domain plays a central role in that. As more work enters the public domain, other creatives can reimagine previous works creating new movies, cartoons, books, plays, video games and music based on those works.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, who gave voice to the character of “Mama Coco” in the popular Pixar film “Coco,” has died, Mexican officials said. She was 90.
Mexico’s National Fine Arts Institute announced Murguía’s death Sunday without providing a cause of death.
“She leaves an enormous void on our country’s sets,” Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto Guerrero said in a statement.
“Coco,” which was released in 2017, brought Murguía to an international audience late in life.
But the actor had a long acting career in Mexican film and television, and on the stage. She appeared in some 70 plays and 90 movies, including ‘Life Sentence’ (1979) and ’The Queen of the Night’ (1994).
In the animated “‘Coco,” she voiced the soft-spoken great-grandmother of a boy discovering his family’s musical history.
In April, the National Autonomous University of Mexico awarded Murguía its Ingmar Bergman Medal for leaving “an indelible mark” on Mexican film and theater.
In her acceptance speech, Murguía displayed her typical humility, asking “Why me?” She said she was exhausted by all of the recognition and plaudits.
“This career has been my life,” Murguía said. “It has been the passion of my life. I’ve loved it.”
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan dropped its highest-level tsunami alert after issuing one following a series of major earthquakes Monday but told residents of coastal areas not to return to their homes as deadly waves could still come.
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west coast of Japan’s main island, Honshu. It was unclear how many people might have been killed or hurt.
The Japan Meteorological Agency reported more than a dozen strong quakes in the Japan Sea off the coast of Ishikawa and nearby prefectures starting shortly after 4 p.m. local time.
At least six homes were damaged by the quakes, with people trapped inside, government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said. A fire broke out in Wajima city, Ishikawa Prefecture, and electricity was out for more than 30,000 households, he said.
The meteorological agency initially issued a major tsunami warning for Ishikawa and lower-level tsunami warnings or advisories for the rest of the western coast of Honshu, as well as for the northernmost of the country’s main islands, Hokkaido.
Hayashi stressed that it was critical for people to move away from coastal areas.
“Every minute counts. Please evacuate to a safe area immediately,” he said.
The warning was downgraded to a regular tsunami several hours later, meaning the sea could still generate waves of up to 3 meters (10 feet). Aftershocks could also slam the same area over the next few days, the agency said.
Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV initially warned that torrents of water could reach as high as 16.5 feet. The network continued to air warnings hours later as aftershocks rocked the region.
People returning to get their wallets and other belongings have been known to be swept away and drowned even hours after the first evacuation warning. People were evacuated to stadiums, where they will likely have to stay for a few days.
Japanese media footage showed people running through the streets, and red smoke spewing from a fire in a residential neighborhood. Photos showed a crowd of people, including a woman with a baby on her back, standing by huge cracks that had ripped through the pavement.
Some people sustained minor injuries when they tripped and fell while fleeing, or objects fell off shelves and hit them, according to NHK.
Hayashi said no reports of deaths or injuries were confirmed from the quakes, saying the situation was still unclear. Japan’s military was taking part in rescue efforts, he said.
Bullet trains in the area were halted, although some parts of the service were restored by evening. Parts of a highway were also closed, and water pipes had burst, according to NHK. Some cell phone services in the region weren’t working.
The Meteorological Agency said in a nationally broadcast news conference that more major quakes could hit the area over the next week, especially in the next two or three days.
More than a dozen strong quakes had been detected in the region, with risks of setting off landslides and houses collapsing, according to the agency.
Takashi Wakabayashi, a worker at a convenience store in Ishikawa Prefecture, said some items had tumbled from the shelves, but the biggest problem was the huge crowd of people who arrived to stock up on bottled water, rice balls and bread.
“We have customers at three times the level of usual,” he said.
Tsunami warnings were also issued for parts of North Korea and Russia.
The Japanese government has set up a special emergency center to gather information on the quakes and tsunami and relay them speedily to residents to ensure safety, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters.
U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement that his administration was in touch with Japanese officials and “ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Japanese people.”
Japan is an extremely quake-prone nation, but a tsunami warning of the magnitude of Monday’s had not been issued since a major quake and tsunami caused meltdowns at a nuclear plant in March 2011.
Government spokesman Hayashi told reporters that nuclear plants in the affected area did not report any irregularities Monday. Nuclear regulators said no rises in radiation levels were detected at the monitoring posts in the region.
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