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online game meaning Marginal rise in US import prices suggests inflation pressures may subsideThe ZX Spectrum was a 1980s icon which played a starring role in the revolution that brought computers into the UK’s homes for the first time. The 8-bit computer arrived in 1982 with its distinctive rainbow stripe, rubber keys and the high-pitched electronic screech as games loaded. More than five million were sold, giving people the chance to dabble in computer programming and play games like Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. The device was manufactured in Dundee, where The Speccy - as it was affectionately known - helped inspire a generation of games designers. Now its story is being told in The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, a new documentary which looks at its impact. Created by Sir Clive Sinclair and his team, the ZX Spectrum hit the high street in April 1982. It followed the hugely successful, if more technically-limited, ZX81, which had been many people's first encounter with home computing. The ZX Spectrum's games were downloaded via a cassette player and displayed on a TV screen - and they were in colour, unlike its monochrome predecessor. It cost £175 for the 48k model and £125 for the 16k version, which put it on many Christmas wish lists. "If you go back a few years to the 1970s, you've got a time where home computers didn't exist," said Anthony Caulfield, co-director of the new documentary. "Computers were in mainframes with air conditioning and cost many millions of pounds or dollars to create. "The whole concept of having a computer in your home was a completely new thing." Designer Rick Dickinson's rainbow design and rubber keys made for an eye-catching product, which was an instant success. "The Spectrum brought the arcade to your home," said Mark Ettle, who is now head of Dundee-based games designer Cobra Mobile. "There was a plethora of games you could play from the arcade, but there were also original games. "The Spectrum opened up a world of dabbling in computer programming and very basic graphics." With games selling for as much as £15, a lucrative black market trade in copies got under way in playgrounds across the country. Mark Ettle said: "If you came from a background that didn't have a lot of money you could take a tape and copy a game. "Copying became a fine art, because you had to have two tape decks wired and cabled in a particular way." Games like Manic Miner and its sequel Jet Set Willy, Ant Attack, Skool Daze and Sabre Wulf became instant classics. "I was particularly good at Sabre Wulf," said Mark. "I was one of the first people in the UK to complete the game and was sent a free game as a reward." The computer was manufactured at Dundee's Timex factory. Sinclair chose the Timex factory to make his computers because it needed the work after watch-making stopped, and he needed a skilled workforce. At its height, Timex produced a computer every four seconds - although not all of them ended up in stores. Mark Ettle said people in the area got access to Spectrums in the shops as well as through "the back door" of the Timex factory. "It got these computers into the hands of people who wouldn't necessarily get access to them," he said. "It kick-started the imagination of what the world could be." One of those who fell under its spell was Mike Dailly, one of the founders of Dundee-based DMA Design - which produced Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. He said: "My mum's work wanted a database written so they bought a Spectrum for me to work on. "It was just good fun tinkering with it and making it do things. "I did play games but I spent most of my time writing stuff and seeing how far I could push it." He said the Spectrum's influence on Dundee as a world-renowned computer gaming centre was "huge." He said: "The whole of the original DMA Design pretty much started on Spectrums." DMA Design co-founder Dave Jones worked at Timex and when he took redundancy he bought an Amiga computer. Mike Dailly said: "That kickstarted DMA and the whole of the Dundee industry. "So the whole of the gaming route comes from the Spectrum." Anthony Caulfield, who co-directed The Rubber-Keyed Wonder with his wife Nicola, said the Spectrum's name "came up continually" during their previous film on the history of the British gaming industry, From Bedrooms to Billions. He said: "The baby-boomer generation have got rock'n'roll, a new thing that exploded and evolved for them. "In a way, for many born in the 1970s or early 1980s, the microchip revolution was our rock'n'roll. "We kept hearing all these different experiences of when people got their first Spectrum and what it did for them. "So many people went off in different directions, that we thought it needed its own space to tell that story." Later Spectrum models - there were seven in total - failed to capture the public's imagination in the same way. Sir Clive's ill-fated electrically-powered tricycle the Sinclair C5 bombed, costing the inventor millions. He sold most of Sinclair Research to Alan Sugar's Amstrad for £5m in 1986, and the Spectrum was discontinued in 1992. Sir Clive died in September 2021, aged 81. Mike Dailly said retro gaming events starring the Spectrum were still hugely popular, with new models based on the computer still being produced by enthusiasts. He said the Spectrum Next was a fan-based version of what the Spectrum could have been. "So it's not just people of my age, there are lots of younger folk coming because they like the games," he said. "It's always been about the games."

GENE MONIN: Sins of indifference, commission and omissionChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated Milma’s new milk powder factory at Moorkanad near Valanchery on Tuesday. Set up at a cost of ₹131.3 crore, the factory has become the latest milestone of Milma in the State. While the Dairy Development department gave ₹15 crore, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) provided ₹32.72 crore. The remaining cost was met by Milma’s Malabar zone union. Built by Tetra Pak, a well-known Swedish company known for milk powder processing, the Milma factory has deployed the latest technology for converting milk to powder. The factory can produce 10 tonnes of milk powder a day by converting one lakh litres of milk. Milma chairman K.S. Mani said the factory would enable Milma to procure all the milk produced by dairy farmers in the State. E.T. Mohammed Basheer, MP, launched the Milma milk powder on the occasion. Milma dairy whitener will soon be available in the market in packets of 25 kg, 10 kg, 1 kg, 500 grams, 200 grams, 50 grams, and 20 grams. Milma officials said supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) would monitor and control the whole process of powder making. Mr. Mani said that only milk that met the standard would be collected for conversion to powder. Milma will no longer have to take the blame for refusing to procure excess milk from farmers. Even if procured, Milma had to depend on other States for converting milk into powder. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said the government and Milma were on a joint drive to bring about self-sufficiency in milk production. The Chief Minister called upon Milma to increase value-added products in the dairy sector. Nutrition food products are getting much attention, and Milma should explore this potential, he said. Mr. Vijayan said climate change was causing hurdles to milk procurement. “It will be addressed by starting more chilling plants in the State,” he said. Minister for Dairy Development J. Chinchurani presided over the function. Manjalamkuzhi Ali, MLA, district panchayat president M.K. Rafeekha, vice president Ismail Moothedam, District Collector V.R. Vinod, Kerala Dairy Farmers Welfare Fund Board chairman V.P. Unnikrishnan, and NABARD chief general manager Baiju N. Kurup spoke. Published - December 24, 2024 09:29 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unauthorized events, and on games that had already ended. In information made public Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also levied $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting technology company Kambi. According to documents released by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball game between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the game had already concluded with a UNC victory. Kambi told the enforcement division that a trader had failed to manually remove that game from its betting markets, saying it had stopped receiving messages from its own sports data provider due to a network connectivity error. Kambi said it has updated its guidelines and retrained its traders to prevent a recurrence. Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Monday. Rush Street declined comment, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped using Kambi in 2021. In March 2022 Rush Street took seven bets totaling just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai games after the results were already known. Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity issue that allowed the bets to be accepted after the games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to address the situation was blacked out in documents released by the division. A month earlier Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match odds on a Professional Golf Association match after the event had already begun. In this case, Kambi told the division a newly hired trader failed to enter the correct closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a supervisor underwent retraining. DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the money to customers after being directed to do so by the state. In this case, Kambi told the division it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not catch the error, either. In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly enabled the events for wagering without conditions required by the state, the division said. In Feb. 2022, the division said DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving specific players but did not give the state specific information on what information was to be included in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth nearly $7,000 that were later voided and refunded to customers. Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC

Priceless audience reaction to asylum comment on BBC Question TimeBy Connor Smith The stock market was rallying across the board, but the Nasdaq Composite was having an especially merry Christmas Eve session. The tech-heavy index was up 1%, which would be its best performance on Christmas Eve since 2000, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500, up 0.7%, was on track for its best Christmas Eve since 2011. The Dow, up 0.4%, would mark its best performance on the holiday since 2022. Technology stocks have been rallying for much of the month as Wall Street seemed to favor Big Tech and chip stocks in the face of sticky inflation data. The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF is up 1.6% today, while the iShares Semiconductor ETF is up 0.8%.

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David Madison/Getty Images The final day of the November Grand Sumo tournament begins in Fukuoka, Japan in just a few hours. But the last two weeks of the tournament have likely felt more somber than exciting following the recent news that legendary sumo wrestler Kitanofuji passed away. He was 82 years old. On Wednesday, reports came out that Kitanofuji Katsuaki passed away on November 12. His passing had been kept private for over a week. Though he had been working as an analyst for Japan's NHK network, he had not appeared on camera since July. Kitanofuji was only the 52nd man to reach the highest rank of Yokozuna in the sport's centuries-old history. Competing between 1957 and 1974, he would win 10 championships in the top division of sumo wrestling - a mark that is still tied for the 10th most in the last 110 years. Former yokozuna Kitanofuji, who was popular in recent years for his witty comments during live sumo tournament broadcasts, died on Nov. 12. He was 82. https://t.co/Y1hgJcYvnZ He was promoted from the rank of Ozeki to Yokozuna in 1970 and promptly won two of his first three tournaments at the rank. Between 1971 and 1972, he would win four more tournaments, going a perfect 15-0 in three of them. Unfortunately, the passing of his longtime friend and rival Tamanoumi late in 1971 caused him to go into a slump that would severely impact him in the ring. His final tournament win came in 1973, but after sitting out most of the first four tournaments of 1974, he announced his retirement. Kitanofuji's final record as a sumo wrestler was 784–426–69, winning over 64-percent of his matches. After retiring, he became the head of the Kokonoe sumo stable, where he oversaw two more wrestlers - Chiyonofuji and Kitanoumi - also achieve the rank of Yokozuna. The two men would combine for 39 top division championships during their respective careers. Kitanofuji went into broadcasting after the end of his coaching career but had to undergo heart surgery in 2017. Nevertheless, he continued to be a regular on sumo broadcasts for several more years after recovering. He is the second Yokozuna to pass away this year following the passing of 11-time champion Akebono this past April. Our hearts go out to the sumo legend's family and loved ones. Related: Former Sumo Wrestler, Actor Taylor Wily Dead At 56