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Georgia quarterback Carson Beck underwent elbow surgery Monday and will not play in the College Football Playoff, the school announced. Beck had successful surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right (throwing) elbow. He saw Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles for the procedure. That leaves Gunner Stockton in line to guide No. 2 seed Georgia into the CFP, starting with the Bulldogs' quarterfinal game against No. 7 seed Notre Dame at the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1 in New Orleans. "(Stockton) got lots of reps prior to these practices, but he's getting much more now," Georgia coach Kirby Smart said earlier in the day. "I do think ... when you get ready for an opponent like Notre Dame, you need time, and we have time." It also means Beck may have played his final game of college football, as before the injury he was expected to be a high pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. Beck, the Bulldogs' starter all year, missed most of the second half of the Southeastern Conference title game with the injury. Stockton helped guide the Bulldogs to a 22-19 overtime win over Texas and clinch a first-round bye in the first 12-team playoff. Beck threw for 3,485 yards, 28 touchdowns and 12 interceptions this season, his second as Georgia's starting quarterback. Stockton has amassed 206 passing yards, no touchdowns and one interception in three appearances this season. --Field Level MediaALERT! NTPC Green Energy IPO: Check Your Allotment Status Online – Easy Steps To FollowJake Paul makes feelings clear on fighting Conor McGregor instead of brother Logan
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--dec 12, 2024-- Shurick Agapitov, oprichter van Xsolla en visionair in de game-industrie, kondigt met trots de release van Once Upon Tomorrow Fortnite Island aan. Deze meeslepende Fortnite Creative-kaart neemt spelers mee naar de rijke verhalende wereld van zijn roman. De innovatieve ervaring, ontwikkeld in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), combineert op meesterlijke wijze razendsnelle parkour-uitdagingen met diepgaande thematische elementen uit Once Upon Tomorrow . Spelers worden uitgenodigd om hun vaardigheden te testen terwijl ze door een visueel boeiend landschap reizen dat de veerkracht en het avontuur van de personages uit het boek belichaamt. Dit persbericht bevat multimedia. Bekijk hier het volledige persbericht: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241212642158/nl/ (Graphic: Xsolla) “Once Upon Tomorrow in Fortnite Creative is onze manier om het bereik en de diepgang van de roman te vergroten en spelers een interactieve reis te bieden die zowel hun vaardigheden als hun begrip van de thema's van het verhaal uitdaagt," aldus Shurick Agapitov, oprichter van Xsolla. “We hebben deze map ontworpen om spelers te boeien die naar een flinke uitdaging verlangen. We willen hen meenemen in een wereld die visueel rijk is en diep geïnspireerd op het boek. Het is een avontuur dat gebruik maakt van de technische sterke punten van UEFN om het vertellen van verhalen in Fortnite te verbeteren op een manier die de game''ervaring echt transformeert.” Once Upon Tomorrow is gemaakt om de grenzen van Fortnite Creative te verleggen. Het spel biedt spelers een dynamisch, verhalend parkouravontuur in een zorgvuldig gemaakte omgeving geïnspireerd op Agapitovs boek en visie. Elk parkour bestaat uit een reeks behendigheidsuitdagingen waarbij spelers met precisie en snelheid moeten sprinten, springen en klimmen, terwijl ze worden ondergedompeld in een wereld vol visuele aanwijzingen die de thema's uithoudingsvermogen en ontdekking uit het boek weerspiegelen. Agapitov heeft een ervaring gecreëerd die verder gaat dan traditionele parkourkaarten door gameplay te verweven met verhalen, waardoor zowel opwindende gameplay als een betekenisvolle band met de wereld van het boek ontstaat. Once Upon Tomorrow is een project binnen Fortnite Creative, waarin parkour op het scherpst van de snede naadloos wordt gecombineerd met verhalende diepgang. De kaart laat zien wat er mogelijk is met UEFN en biedt een boeiende en gelaagde ervaring die aantrekkelijk is voor de grote spelersgroep van Fortnite en fans van nieuwe en verhalende spelervaringen. Elk aspect van de kaart, van de intense gameplay-mechanieken tot het meeslepende, sfeervolle ontwerp, is gemaakt om een nieuwe standaard te zetten in Fortnite Creative. Ga voor meer informatie over Once Upon Tomorrow en de meeslepende Fortnite Creative-ervaring naar xsolla.blog/outf Over Shurick Agapitov Agapitov is de visionaire oprichter van Xsolla, een wereldwijd erkende leider op het gebied van handel in videogames. Bekend om zijn bijdragen aan gaming, Web3 en de metaverse, heeft Agapitov Xsolla ontwikkeld tot een essentiële bron voor gameontwikkelaars en -uitgevers wereldwijd. Zijn toewijding aan het verbeteren van digitale en interactieve ervaringen wordt weerspiegeld in de lancering van Once Upon Tomorrow , waarmee hij zijn visie uitbreidt van de pagina naar de dynamische wereld van Fortnite Creative. Over Xsolla Xsolla is een wereldwijd videogamehandelsbedrijf met een robuuste en krachtige set tools en services die speciaal zijn ontworpen voor de industrie. Sinds de oprichting in 2005 heeft Xsolla duizenden gameontwikkelaars en uitgevers van alle omvang geholpen hun games wereldwijd en op meerdere platforms te financieren, op de markt te brengen, te lanceren en te gelde te maken. Als innovatieve leider in gamehandel is het de missie van Xsolla om de inherente complexiteit van wereldwijde distributie, marketing en monetisatie op te lossen om onze partners te helpen meer geografische gebieden te bereiken, meer inkomsten te genereren en relaties met gamers wereldwijd op te bouwen. Xsolla heeft haar hoofdkantoor en is gevestigd in Los Angeles, Californië, met kantoren in Londen, Berlijn, Seoul, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Raleigh, Tokyo, Montreal en steden over de hele wereld. Xsolla ondersteunt toonaangevende gamingpartners zoals Valve, Twitch, Epic Games, Take-Two, KRAFTON, Nexters, NetEase, Playstudios, Playrix, miHoYo, en anderen. Ga voor meer informatie of leer meer op xsolla.com Deze bekendmaking is officieel geldend in de originele brontaal. Vertalingen zijn slechts als leeshulp bedoeld en moeten worden vergeleken met de tekst in de brontaal, die als enige rechtsgeldig is. Bekijk het oorspronkelijke bericht op businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241212642158/nl/ CONTACT: Mediacontact Derrick Stembridge Global Director of Public Relations, Xsolla d.stembridge@xsolla.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE METAVERSE ENTERTAINMENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FINTECH DATA MANAGEMENT CONSUMER ELECTRONICS PAYMENTS TECHNOLOGY WEB3 FINANCE ELECTRONIC GAMES SOURCE: Xsolla Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/12/2024 05:46 PM/DISC: 12/12/2024 05:47 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241212642158/nl
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WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill Thursday that would create dozens of new federal district court judgeships for the first time in decades, although the Biden administration has threatened to veto it. Supporters of the legislation, which passed the House 236-173 on Thursday and the Senate via unanimous consent in August, say the bill is aimed at addressing case backlogs in the federal court system. The measure would add 63 permanent positions to the federal judiciary and three temporary positions. The permanent positions would be created in phases between 2025 and 2035. In total, 207 House Republicans and 29 House Democrats voted for the measure. Members of both parties agreed the federal judiciary needs more judges. But the timing of the vote drew opposition from the Biden administration and some House Democrats, who said Republicans were playing political games by refusing to bring the bill up for a floor vote until after the November general election. By waiting to vote on the bill until after the election, there is no longer uncertainty over which presidential candidate would get to appoint the first two tranches of judgeships, which would come in 2025 and 2027, Democrats argued. New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, argued that when the bill arrived in the House, Republican leadership refused to touch it. “If Republican leadership had brought the bill to the House floor in September, we could have passed it on suspension in no time,” Nadler said. “Back then, the president would still have been unknown, and the underlying promise of the bill was still present.” Speaking on the floor, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., acknowledged the bill would have passed by unanimous consent had it been brought up sooner. “I apologize to everyone here for the hour we’re taking for something that we should have done before” the election, he said. But Issa said it would only be “pettiness today if we were to not do this because of who got to be first.” He compared the situation to a coin flip at the start of a football game, where the flip winner gets to decide whether they kick or receive the ball. “Afterwards, it will go back and forth for a very long time. This is a very long time, and we should be the long thinkers on the most permanent body in government,” Issa said. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, said on the floor that sudden opposition to the bill from Democrats was “nothing more than childish foot-stomping.” The Biden administration threatened to veto the bill earlier this week, saying in a statement of administration policy that the bill is “unnecessary to the efficient and effective administration of justice.” The statement said the bill would add new judgeships in states where senators “have sought to hold open existing judicial vacancies.” “Further, the Senate passed this bill in August, but the House refused to take it up until after the election,” the statement read. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said when the bill arrived in the House, Republican leadership injected politics into the legislation. He argued bringing the bill to the floor until after the election isn’t fair. “You don’t get to pick the horse after that horse has already won the race, but that’s exactly what my Republican colleagues are seeking to do today,” he said. Issa weighed in after Johnson’s speech. “We often hear the term here in the House and throughout our country: ‘country before party.’ It’s clear we didn’t hear that here yet today on the other side of the aisle,” Issa said. Congress has added a relatively smaller number of district court judgeships since 1990, created using appropriations or authorization bills, but the federal courts say they need much more based on an increase in caseload over the years. The Judicial Conference in 2023 called for 66 new district court judges and seven temporary judges to be made permanent. Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, said in press releases that Biden should reconsider his veto threat given “the bill’s bipartisan origins, its broad support among Democratic judicial appointees and its importance to Delaware, whose federal court would get two new judgeships — a 50 percent increase.” “As someone who’s worked for years on adding judgeships, I know how difficult it is to get to the right formula of which judgeships to add when, how much money is needed for appropriations and when in an election cycle to move legislation,” Roth said. “We finally had each of these things in place and now comes a veto threat? That’s a slap in the face to our overworked federal judges, Democratic and Republican appointees alike, who say they desperately need the help,” Roth said.I was excited to go to the Christmas markets for first date with dream man – then I discovered cruel truth
What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth sign. For Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 For those of us who have any leftover work or last-minute holiday prep to complete, today is a good time for getting it done. The tone for the day is busy and productive, which will be useful for wrapping up any unfinished business. However, toward the late afternoon, we may need to be mindful of how much we take on, as our to-do lists could quickly become overwhelming. Having a targeted plan for the day may be helpful in keeping us on track, while also keeping us as stress-free as possible. ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You may have chores to finish or responsibilities to handle. Try not to take on more than you can realistically do. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Seek joy today. Be wary of allowing negative thinking to impede your fun. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might feel a bit reclusive. Enjoy some private time with yourself or with your family. The rest of the world can wait. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) You may have lots to do and people you need to connect with or meet. Just don't spread yourself thin or overcommit your time. LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Be practical with your money. Avoid impulse-shopping. VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) Take good care of yourself. If you're feeling moody, pay attention to what your mind and body need. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) You need rest. Set aside a quiet moment for yourself and tune out for a little while. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) It's OK to lean on your friends. You don't always need to do everything yourself. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Don't get distracted from your mission. Stick to a plan. Stay on course. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) You may be lacking the clarity needed right now for sound decision-making. Be patient. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) You may need a break from people. Put a pause on socializing or social media. PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) Be brave enough to ask for help when you need it. FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY You have a warm and charismatic nature. You also have a way of making people smile and have fun. You're witty, generous, and always up for trying something new. Others admire your courageous and adventurous spirit. With you, there's always a party or a good time! Though, as a natural leader, you sometimes have to learn to compromise or be more cooperative. Still, because of your strong moral compass, you're always going to step up and do the right thing, especially if your integrity is on the line. This year, if you want to make a difference in the world, lead by example. Birthdate of: Jonah Hill, actor; JoJo, singer/author; De'Aaron Fox, professional basketball player. Get more of Mecca's astro-guidance at www.mylifecreated.com . Her book "Astrology for Happiness and Success" is available now. (c) 2024 King Features Syndicate, Inc.Winners, losers as Rams beat 49ers 12-6 on Thursday Night Football
NEW YORK , Dec. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH) between April 25, 2023 and October 22, 2024 , both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 11, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline. So what: If you purchased Enphase securities 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 Enphase class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=25593 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com 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 February 11, 2025 . 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 litigate 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 achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company at the time. 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 materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts, about Enphase's business and operations. Specifically, defendants systematically overstated Enphase's ability to maintain its pricing levels and market share for microinverter products in Europe in the face of competition from low-cost, Chinese alternatives. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages. 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Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?" 1914 translation by H. Rackham "But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?" 1914 translation by H. Rackham "But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. 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For “Hysteria!” actresses Anna Camp and Julie Bowen, horror is harder than comedy. “Horror is really hard actually because there is a fine line you have to walk; you have to make it feel grounded and you’re put in these extreme circumstances: You’re being possessed or pulled through the air, there’s nothing you can do to relate to that,” explained Camp of “Pitch Perfect” fame. “With comedy, you can have a relatable situation and go, ‘I’ve been in situations like that.’ There’s nothing you can compare (horror) to, so you have to use your imagination. I find it harder. Your imagination goes home with you at the end of the day. You’re still thinking crazy thoughts.” Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on “Modern Family,” agreed. “Comedy’s pretty binary because it’s like either you can make people laugh or you don’t. I can’t watch horror. I’m terrified, terrified! I am the easiest scare in the world, so as far as doing (horror), I want to make it as real as possible. It was hard because I had to be really, really crazy. There were times when I’d get back to my hotel room at 3 a.m., I didn’t want to be alone in my head,” said Bowen, laughing. Camp, Bowen, Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead”), showrunner David A. Goodman (“Futurama”), and Ypsilanti native/creator Matthew Scott Kane (“American Horror Story”) were promoting “Hysteria!” at the New York Comic Con in October. The horror series is streaming on Peacock. Set in the fictional Michigan town of Happy Hollow, the first episode of “Hysteria” begins with a popular quarterback’s disappearance and a pentagram is discovered on a garage door. As a result, rumors of the occult and satanic influence run rampant through the town. A trio of outcasts in a heavy metal band called Dethkrunch exploit this by rebranding themselves as a satanic metal band, which leads to them becoming the targets of the town’s witch hunt. “Something on my mind a lot in 2019 was we’re living in this post-factual age with social media. It seemed like decades and decades ago, you could trust the news. Now everything is in question. When lies end up getting disseminated as truth, that starts to warp people’s version of reality. Suddenly, they’re living in a world other people are not. That was going on in the world I was living in and I very quickly connected it to the 1980s satanic panic. It’s not really that different because people were saying Ozzy Osbourne, Jason Voorhees (of ‘Friday the 13th’), and the Smurfs were going to turn your kids into satanists and kill you in your sleep. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t true, but so many people got worked up into such a fervor over it, bad things happened. ... It was smoke without fire,” Kane said. “Disinformation is not new,” Campbell said. “Disinformation will tear a town apart.” Campbell portrays Happy Hollow Police Chief Ben Dandridge. “This guy’s a reasonable cop; he’s a rational person who doesn’t treat the teenagers like they’re idiots. It’s all very refreshing,” he said. “I want to play that guy again. I want cops to be that guy. I’m playing the cop (that) cops need to be. That’s my whole motivation for playing this guy: How would you like cops to be, especially the guy in charge, the chief of police? They’re lucky to have Chief Dandridge.” “It was truly an exciting moment when Bruce signed on,” Goodman said. By the end of the first episode, a supernatural phenomenon happens to Linda Campbell, played by Bowen. “Linda seems like one thing, then you realize she’s bananas. She’s either bananas or she’s possessed. Either way, it’s a complicated thing to play,” Bowen said. “With Julie, you can have your cake and eat it too,” Kane said. “She’s this fun, quirky mom. ... As the episode goes on, she’s pulled deeper into this thing and crazy stuff starts happening. That final act of the first episode was my favorite moment with her because this announced that this is not Claire Dunphy. We’re not doing that again; we’re pushing her as a performer. “Julie was so excited about doing stunts. She told us on many occasions she’s very sturdy and can take it. The same goes for Bruce and for Anna. We didn’t ask anyone to give us a flavor of the thing they did before. We cast people we loved so much (in their famous projects) that we wanted to give them the opportunity to do the exact opposite.” Added Bowen: “I got this script and was like, ‘Oh great. She’s a mom. How fun.’ I love moms. I’m a mom, but I felt this was not worth flying out of town to Georgia and being away from my kids. Then I got to the end of the pilot and was like, ‘She’s crazy!’ Is she possessed? There’s a lot more questions. It’s fun to just stretch again and do things I haven’t done in a while, which I found really exciting.” Kane said he felt lucky Bowen signed on at the beginning. “She was the first adult actor to sign on. That gave us such credibility to have a two-time Emmy-winning actor leading this show. Suddenly, it goes from this script from a relatively unknown writer into the new Julie Bowen show,” he said. It was the quality of the writing that attracted Camp, Bowen and Campbell to “Hysteria!” “I loved the script; it was incredibly well-written. It was immersed in the time period. It was such a good coming-of-age story, too — the feeling of being in high school again, being in the 1980s,” Camp said. “I talked to Matt who said my character (Tracy) was incredibly pivotal to the series and we’ll learn about why she is the way she is. So I was like, ‘I’d love to do this!’” For Campbell, the writing is everything. “A lot of times, I’ll get a script that could make the words interchangeable with every other character because the writing is very bland and just doesn’t have the detail you need. This was different. Every character was pretty distinct and pretty well-drawn,” he said. “It’s quality. It’s not a (expletive) show. It’s a real show that’s playing around with interesting themes. A lot of it is still relevant to this day.” “Hysteria!” has other Michigan connections, including University of Michigan alumnus Jonathan Goldstein (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and Dondero High School alumnus Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”), who both serve as executive producers. Kane explained why he set “Hysteria!” in Michigan. “You write what you know. I grew up in Ypsilanti, so that had a lot to do with it. More importantly, when you’re in a small town in the Midwest — somewhere like Michigan — these things don’t ever happen and word spreads fast and paranoia spreads quickly and (everything’s) blown out of proportion and takes up a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “Whether or not something is real doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there are people willing to believe it does and willing it into the world. What does it matter if it’s objectively real or living rent-free in someone’s head?”President Claudia Sheinbaum canceled her Thursday morning press conference due to Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe , but she returned to the Treasury Hall of the National Palace to address reporters on Friday morning. The organization of the upcoming judicial elections, recent raids on stores selling Chinese goods and the proposed appointment of a former governor to a high-ranking diplomatic position in the United States were among the issues she spoke about. The lower house of Congress this week voted in favor of reducing the 2025 budget of the National Electoral Institute (INE) from just over 40 billion pesos to 27 billion pesos . The electoral authority will have 7 billion pesos to spend on the organization of next year’s judicial elections, almost 50% less than it requested. Sheinbaum emphasized that 7 billion pesos (US $347.5 million) is a lot of money, highlighting that’s how much it cost to build the first two elevated cable car ( cablebús ) lines in Mexico City. “Seven billion pesos is a lot more than what over half of the states receive ... annually [from the federal government],” the president added. Still, Sheinbaum said, the INE “wants more.” “They’re talking about at least 2 billion pesos more. I believe it’s important to tell the people of Mexico what [the money] will be used for because I think: What could it be used for?” she said. “For the ballot boxes? How much can a ballot box cost?” Sheinbaum asked. “... The majority of the officials at the polling places are volunteers, just like in the elections,” she added. The president acknowledged that there are some significant costs associated with organizing large elections such as those that will be held on June 1, 2025. But she insinuated that 7 billion pesos will be more than enough. “The question is, how are they going to use these 7 billion pesos that the Chamber of Deputies allocated to them? Let it be public, open. Let the people of Mexico know,” Sheinbaum said. “And if they need more resources, [say] why they need more resources? It’s not just a matter of saying, ‘I need 10 billion pesos,’ but rather [saying] why you need 10 billion pesos,” she said. “... That’s the request — for the INE to be transparent,” Sheinbaum said. A reporter noted that authorities seized more than 1 million illegally imported and counterfeit Chinese products in Hermosillo, Sonora, on Thursday. The raids on stores in the state capital came two weeks after authorities raided a Chinese goods plaza in the historic center of Mexico City, seizing more than 200,000 counterfeit products . The reporter asked Sheinbaum whether the confiscation of Chinese goods had “any relation” to her discussions with United States President-elect Donald Trump during a telephone call on Dec. 27 — one day before the Mexico City raid. “No, it has no relation,” the president bluntly replied. “The Economy Ministry is doing these actions with some of the states,” Sheinbaum said. “... Contraband, or the illegal entry of products, can be controlled in several ways,” she added. “One way is through customs,” Sheinbaum said, explaining that the government is “developing different actions with the goal of reducing the entry of illegal products” and ensuring all applicable taxes are paid on imported goods. The other is by carrying out operations targeting “different places” where counterfeit and illegally imported goods are sold, she said. Trump launched a trade war against China during his first term as president, and has accused Mexico of being a transshipment hub for Chinese goods. In October he pledged to “seek strong new protections against transshipment” in an updated USMCA trade deal “so that China and other countries cannot smuggle their products and auto parts into the United States tax free through Mexico to the detriment of our workers and our supply chains.” “They smuggle this stuff in. They don’t pay anything. We’re going to have very strong language on that,” Trump said. Mexico is seeking to reduce its reliance on goods from China and other Asian countries via the development of an import substitution plan . Toward the end of her press conference, Sheinbaum was asked about her decision to nominate former Chiapas governor Rutilio Escandón as Mexico’s consul in Miami, Florida. “If special circumstances arise, he has the capacity to support all our brothers and sisters in Miami,” she said of Escandón, who concluded his six-year term as governor last Saturday. Sheinbaum was referring to Trump’s plan to deport immigrants from the United States on a mass scale. She said last week that Mexico will be prepared to welcome large numbers of deportees if need be. Trump, Time magazine’s “person of the year,” told Time that in executing his deportation plan he will “go up to the maximum level of what the law allows.” “And I think in many cases, the sheriffs and law enforcement is going to need help. We’ll also get National Guard. We’ll get National Guard, and we’ll go as far as I’m allowed to go, according to the laws of our country,” he said. 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