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vipp philippines Sod turned for $4.4B Moruca Regional HospitalArne Slot has admitted that Real Madrid were a 'pain in the a**' for Liverpool before their 2-0 Champions League triumph on Wednesday evening. The Reds had gone eight straight games without getting the better of Los Blancos, with their most-recent win coming in 2009. Goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo put that right this time round, sending Liverpool top of the European table with a perfect record of five wins, zero draws and zero defeats. After the game, Slot admitted that Real had been a thorn in his new club's side for years - albeit before he took the reins from Jurgen Klopp this summer. "I wouldn't say it's the same as any other game because we know how special it is to play against the club that has won the Champions League so many times, and the reigning champions as well," the Dutchman told TNT Sports . "They were a pain in the a** for Liverpool many times as well, so we knew it was a big week. Not only the result, but also the way we played - it's pleasing to see." Liverpool have now won six straight games in all competitions, with Slot opening up an eight-point gap over Manchester City in the Premier League title race, leading the way in the Champions League and battling through to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. The Merseysiders were expected to go through a tricky transition period in the wake of Klopp 's departure, but Slot has taken to life in England like a duck to water. And the ex-Feyenoord head coach is relieved that his new players have adapted to the new style of play so swiftly. "If you start at a new club, you want to implement your playing style as quickly as possible," Slot explained. "That was not so difficult because the playing style is so similar to Jurgen's, especially without the ball. "There are certain details, maybe with the ball, that we do a bit differently. It's very pleasing to see not only the starters but also the players on the bench today, if they are in the starting line-up they do the same." Liverpool are already in control of their own destiny, but they can make a real statement of Premier League intent this Sunday when they host City at Anfield. The reigning champions are on a dreadful run of form, losing five matches on the spin before surrendering a three-goal lead to draw with Slot's former club, Feyenoord, on Tuesday.ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani security forces launched an operation Tuesday night to disperse supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan who had gathered in the capital to demand his release from prison. The latest development came hours after thousands of Khan supporters, defying government warnings, broke through a barrier of shipping containers blocking off Islamabad and entered a high-security zone, where they clashed with security forces, facing tear gas shelling, mass detentions and gunfire. Tension has been high in Islamabad since Sunday when supporters of the former prime minister began a “long march” from the restive northwest to demand his release. Khan has been in a prison for over a year and faces more than 150 criminal cases that his party says are politically motivated. Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, led the protest, but she fled as police pushed back against demonstrators. Hundreds of Khan’s supporters are being arrested in the ongoing nighttime operation, and police are also seeking to arrest Bibi. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters that the Red Zone, which houses government buildings and embassies, and the surrounding areas have been cleared. Leaders from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, have also fled the protest site. Earlier Tuesday, Pakistan’s army took control of D-Chowk, a large square in the Red Zone, where visiting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is staying. Since Monday, Naqvi had threatened that security forces would use live fire if protesters fired weapons at them. “We have now authorized the police to respond as necessary,” Naqvi said Tuesday while visiting the square. Before the operation began, protester Shahzor Ali said people had taken to the streets because Khan had called for them. “We will stay here until Khan joins us. He will decide what to do next,” Ali said. “If they fire bullets again, we will respond with bullets,” he said. Protester Fareeda Bibi, who is not related to Khan’s wife, said people have suffered greatly for the last two years. “We have really suffered for the last two years, whether it is economically, politically or socially. We have been ruined. I have not seen such a Pakistan in my life,” she said. Authorities have struggled to contain the protest-related violence. Six people, including four members of the security services, were killed when a vehicle rammed them on a street overnight into Tuesday. A police officer died in a separate incident. Dozens of Khan supporters beat a videographer covering the protest for The Associated Press and took his camera. He sustained head injuries and was treated in a hospital. By Tuesday afternoon, fresh waves of protesters made their way unopposed to their final destination in the Red Zone. Most demonstrators had the flag of Khan’s party around their shoulders or wore its tricolors on accessories. Naqvi said Khan’s party had rejected a government offer to rally on the outskirts of the city. Information Minister Atta Tarar warned there would be a severe government reaction to the violence. He said the government did not want Bushra Bibi to achieve her goal of freeing Khan. “She wants bodies falling to the ground. She wants bloodshed,” he said. The government says only the courts can order Khan’s release. He was ousted in 2022 through a no-confidence vote in Parliament. In a bid to foil the unrest, police have arrested more than 4,000 Khan supporters since Friday and suspended mobile and internet services in some parts of the country. Messaging platforms were also experiencing severe disruption in the capital. Khan’s party relies heavily on social media and uses messaging platforms such as WhatsApp to share information, including details of events. The X platform, which is banned in Pakistan, is no longer accessible, even with a VPN. Last Thursday, a court prohibited rallies in the capital and Naqvi said anyone violating the ban would be arrested. Travel between Islamabad and other cities has become nearly impossible because of shipping containers blocking the roads. All education institutions remain closed. Pakistan's Stock Exchange lost more than $1.7 billion Tuesday due to rising political tensions, according to economist Mohammed Sohail from Topline Securities. Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Asim Tanveer in Multan, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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The New York Knicks face the Dallas Mavericks in a regular season game on Wednesday, Nov. 27 2024 (11/27/24) at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free via a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV . You can also watch via a subscription to Sling TV , which is offering half off your first month. Here’s what you need to know: What : NBA regular season Who : Knicks vs. Mavericks When : Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024 Time : 7:30 p.m. ET Where : American Airlines Center TV : ESPN Live stream : DirecTV Stream (free trial), fuboTV (free trial) *** Here’s a preview capsule via the Associated Press: New York Knicks (10-7, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (10-8, ninth in the Western Conference) Dallas; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: New York visits the Dallas Mavericks after OG Anunoby scored 40 points in the Knicks' 145-118 win against the Denver Nuggets. The Mavericks have gone 6-3 in home games. Dallas is 5-5 against opponents over .500. The Knicks are 5-5 on the road. New York ranks sixth in the NBA with 28.6 assists per game led by Jalen Brunson averaging 7.9. The Mavericks average 12.2 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 fewer makes per game than the Knicks allow (14.5). The Knicks are shooting 50.4% from the field, 5.5% higher than the 44.9% the Mavericks' opponents have shot this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Daniel Gafford is scoring 12.3 points per game and averaging 6.7 rebounds for the Mavericks. Karl-Anthony Towns is scoring 26.3 points per game and averaging 12.6 rebounds for the Knicks. LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 5-5, averaging 119.6 points, 45.9 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.6 points per game. Knicks: 7-3, averaging 123.2 points, 43.1 rebounds, 31.5 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 51.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.2 points. RECOMMENDED • nj .com What channel is the New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks game tonight (11/27/24)? FREE LIVE STREAM, Time, TV, Nov. 27, 2024, 1:30 p.m. What channel is the New York Knicks vs. Utah Jazz game today (11/23/24)? FREE LIVE STREAM, Time, TV, Channel Nov. 23, 2024, 11:00 a.m. INJURIES: Mavericks: Klay Thompson: out (foot), Dante Exum: out (wrist), Luka Doncic: out (wrist), Quentin Grimes: out (illness). Knicks: Precious Achiuwa: out (hamstring), Mitchell Robinson: out (ankle). Thank you for relying on us to provide the journalism you can trust. Please consider supporting us with a subscription.If history is an indicator, Utah’s role in President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to deport undocumented immigrants isn’t likely to be a big part of the national effort, according to federal data. Gov. Spencer Cox pledged on Tuesday to support the new Trump administration in “deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes and pose a threat to public safety.” But deportions from Utah account for a minuscule portion of those by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Between December 2002 and February 2024, ICE deported 995 immigrants from Utah, according to federal data collected by the Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse , a data gathering and research tool from Syracuse University. That’s around 0.02% of the 5.5 million ICE deportations during that time. According to that federal data, the number of deportations dipped significantly since President Joe Biden took office, with 64 people deported since January 2021. That’s four fewer than in 2020 and about half of the 123 individuals deported by ICE in 2018. On average, ICE has deported two people from Utah a month since January 2021. The average from January 2018 to December 2020 was seven people a month — and as high as 22 in July 2018. [READ: Utah Gov. Cox plans to help Trump deport undocumented immigrants who commit crimes ] Deportations by ICE also have dropped nationally from more than 200,000 annually in 2018 and 2019 to fewer than 100,000 since 2021 — with the exception of 2023, when the federal agency deported 182,412 people. The data does not include deportations by Customs and Border Protection — of which there are millions each year — unless an individual was transferred into ICE custody. One piece of the Republican governor’s five-part plan to aid the Trump administration includes creating additional training and guidance to assist “local and state authorities as they attempt to identify criminal illegal immigrants who should be turned over to [ICE] for deportation proceedings.” “Federal immigration authorities have failed in their duty to the American people and they’ve left states and localities to independently manage the fallout of those failures,” Cox said in a statement Tuesday. “We’re grateful to have an administration coming in who will take these problems seriously.” Megan Banta is The Salt Lake Tribune’s data enterprise reporter, a philanthropically supported position . The Tribune retains control over all editorial decisions.

The connections are clear between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers, longtime NFC South rivals. The teams get together for a meeting on Sunday in Charlotte and showed recent signs they can play with any team. "It's an NFC South battle," Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said. "All of them are going to be hard, none of them (are) going to be easy. ... They're playing pretty good football. They missed some games here and there, but they're playing very good football. It's going to be a tough battle." Few introductions are needed on Sunday, as first-year Panthers coach Dave Canales came to Carolina after serving as Buccaneers offensive coordinator a season ago. Canales' prized pupil last season, Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield was with the Panthers for part of the 2022 campaign. "There's some familiarity," Canales said of his connection to the Buccaneers. "Knowing coach Bowles, he's got a really sophisticated system and he attacks each team with a specific game plan. There's some principles that carry over. I know that he's going to have some things up his sleeve." The Buccaneers (5-6) playing a division opponent for the first time since an Oct. 27 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The goal will be notching back-to-back wins for the first time since the first two weeks of the season. Four different ball-carriers, including Mayfield, found the end zone on the ground during a 30-7 drubbing of the New York Giants last Sunday. Mayfield also completed 24 of 30 passes for 294 yards. "For me, the biggest thing was blocking and tackling," Bowles said of what his team did well last weekend. "We cleaned up the fundamental and technique part of it." Star wideout Mike Evans was back in action for Tampa Bay following a three-game absence due to a hamstring injury. He finished with five receptions for 68 yards against the Giants and now gets a crack at a Carolina team allowing a league-high 30.9 points per game this season. However, the Panthers have tightened up their play as of late, winning two games in a row before hanging with the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs in a 30-27 setback last Sunday. The outing against Kansas City may have been the most efficient performance of Panthers quarterback Bryce Young's two-year career. Young completed 21 of 35 passes for 263 yards and one score without throwing a pick. "It's not all Bryce, it's the whole unit," Canales said. "It's a collective effort, but he certainly needs to be the voice and driver of that." Wide receiver Jalen Coker (quadriceps), tight end Ja'Tavion Sanders (neck) and safety Lonnie Johnson (personal) were all missing from practice on Wednesday for Carolina. Defensive end LaBryan Ray is dealing with a hand issue and was among those limited. Safety Jordan Whitehead (pectoral) was one of four Buccaneers to miss practice on Wednesday. Evans practiced in full. Carolina and Tampa Bay might as well get used to each other, as the two teams will collide again in Week 17. --Field Level MediaBest Bets, Odds for the Titans vs. Texans Game – Week 12

TikTok's future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge to a law that requires the social media platform to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January. A panel of three judges on The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously that the law withstood constitutional scrutiny, rebuffing arguments from the two companies that the statute violated their rights and the rights of TikTok users in the U.S. The government has said it wants ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, to divest its stakes. But if it doesn't and the platform goes away, it would have a seismic impact on the lives of content creators who rely on the platform for income as well as users who use it for entertainment and connection. Here are some details on the ruling and what could happen next: In their lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance, which is also a plaintiff in the case, had challenged the law on various fronts, arguing in part that the statute ran afoul of the First Amendment and was an unconstitutional bill of attainder that unfairly targeted the two companies. But the court sided with attorneys for the Justice Department who said that the government was attempting to address national security concerns and the way in which it chose to do so did not violate the constitution. The Justice Department has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to its connections to China. Officials say that Chinese authorities can compel ByteDance to hand over information on TikTok's U.S. patrons or use the platform to spread, or suppress, information. However, the U.S. hasn't publicly provided examples of that happening. The appeals court ruling, written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, said the law was “carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary." The judges also rejected the claim that the statute was an unlawful bill of attainder or a taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Furthermore, Ginsburg wrote the law did not violate the First Amendment because the government is not looking to “suppress content or require a certain mix of content” on TikTok. TikTok and ByteDance are expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, but it's unclear whether the court will take up the case. TikTok indicated in a statement on Friday the two companies are preparing to take their case to high court, saying the Supreme Court has “an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech." "We expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue,” a company spokesperson said. Alan Morrison, a professor at The George Washington University Law School, said he expects the Supreme Court to take up the case because of the novelty of the issues raised in the lawsuit. If that happens, attorneys for the two companies still have to convince the court to grant them an emergency stay that will prevent the government from enforcing the Jan. 19 divestiture deadline stipulated in the law, Morrison said. Such a move could drag out the process until the Justices make a ruling. Tiffany Cianci, a TikTok content creator who has supported the platform, said she was not shocked about the outcome of the court's ruling on Friday because lower courts typically defer to the executive branch on these types of cases. She believes the company will have a stronger case at the Supreme Court. “I believe that the next stages are more likely to produce a victory for TikTokers and for TikTok as a whole,” Cianci said. Another wild card is President-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first term but said during the recent presidential campaign that he is now against such action . The Trump transition team has not offered details on how Trump plans to carry out his pledge to “save TikTok." But spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement last month that he plans to “deliver” on his campaign promises. After Trump takes office on Jan. 20th, it would fall on his Justice Department to enforce the law and punish any potential violators. Penalties would apply to any app stores that would violate a prohibition on TikTok and to internet hosting services which would be barred from supporting it. Some have speculated that Trump could ask his Justice Department to abstain from enforcing the law. But tech companies like Apple and Google, which offer TikTok's app on their app stores, would then have to trust that the administration would not come after them for any violations. Craig Singleton, senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said enforcement discretion — or executive orders — can not override existing law, leaving Trump with “limited room for unilateral action." There are other things Trump could potentially do. It's possible he could invoke provisions of the law that allow the president to determine whether a sale or a similar transaction frees TikTok from “foreign adversary” control. Another option is to urge Congress to repeal the law. But that too would require support from congressional Republicans who have overwhelmingly supported the prospect of getting TikTok out of the hands of a Chinese company. In a statement issued Friday, Republican Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, said he was “optimistic that President Trump will facilitate an American takeover of TikTok” and allow its continued use in the United States. ByteDance has said it won't sell TikTok . And even if it wanted to, a sale of the proprietary algorithm that powers TikTok is likely to get blocked under Chinese export controls that the country issued in 2020. That means if TikTok is sold without the algorithm, its likely that the buyer would only purchase a shell of the platform that doesn't contain the technology that made the app a cultural powerhouse. Still, some investors, including Trump’s former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and billionaire Frank McCourt, have expressed interest in buying it. This week, a spokesperson for McCourt’s Project Liberty initiative, which aims to protect online privacy, said participants in their bid have made informal commitments of more than $20 billion in capital. The spokesperson did not disclose the identity of the participants.DENVER (AP) — Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing. JonBenet Ramsey, who competed in beauty pageants, was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in the college town of Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996. Her body was found several hours after her mother called 911 to say her daughter was missing and a ransom note had been left behind. The details of the crime and video footage of JonBenet competing in pageants propelled the case into one of the highest-profile mysteries in the United States. The police comments came as part of their annual update on the investigation, a month before the 28th anniversary of JonBenet’s killing. Police said they released it a little earlier due to the increased attention on the case, apparently referring to the three-part Netflix series “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey.” In a video statement, Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said the department welcomes news coverage and documentaries about the killing of JonBenet, who would have been 34 this year, as a way to generate possible new leads. He said the department is committed to solving the case but needs to be careful about what it shares about the investigation to protect a possible future prosecution. “What I can tell you though, is we have thoroughly investigated multiple people as suspects throughout the years and we continue to be open-minded about what occurred as we investigate the tips that come into detectives," he said. The Netflix documentary focuses on the mistakes made by police and the “media circus” surrounding the case. JonBenet was bludgeoned and strangled. Her death was ruled a homicide, but nobody was ever prosecuted. Police were widely criticized for mishandling the early investigation into her death amid speculation that her family was responsible. However, a prosecutor cleared her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, and brother Burke in 2008 based on new DNA evidence from JonBenet's clothing that pointed to the involvement of an “unexplained third party” in her slaying. The announcement by former district attorney Mary Lacy came two years after Patsy Ramsey died of cancer. Lacy called the Ramseys “victims of this crime.” John Ramsey has continued to speak out for the case to be solved. In 2022, he supported an online petition asking Colorado’s governor to intervene in the investigation by putting an outside agency in charge of DNA testing in the case. In the Netflix documentary, he said he has been advocating for several items that have not been prepared for DNA testing to be tested and for other items to be retested. He said the results should be put through a genealogy database. In recent years, investigators have identified suspects in unsolved cases by comparing DNA profiles from crime scenes and to DNA testing results shared online by people researching their family trees. In 2021, police said in their annual update that DNA hadn’t been ruled out to help solve the case, and in 2022 noted that some evidence could be “consumed” if DNA testing is done on it. Last year, police said they convened a panel of outside experts to review the investigation to give recommendations and determine if updated technologies or forensic testing might produce new leads. In the latest update, Redfearn said that review had ended but that police continue to work through and evaluate a “lengthy list of recommendations” from the panel. Amy Beth Hanson contributed to this report from Helena, Montana.

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What is it? The latest in virtual aviation that includes the highest-fidelity recreation of our planet in any videogame to date Expect to pay : $70/£70 Developer : Asobo Studio Publisher : Xbox Game Studios Reviewed on : Ryzen 7 3700X, GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 32 GB RAM, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick Steam Deck : Unsupported Multiplayer? Leaderboards Link : Official site Presenting the entire Earth in even greater fidelity than its 2020 predecessor, it's hard to overstate what a remarkable technical accomplishment Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 represents. The aircraft and cockpits are astoundingly detailed, both visually and in how they function. The physics of flight are delightfully authentic, and while it has its quirks, no one has ever even tried to include our entire planet in a game with such fine-grain detail. Before we get ahead of ourselves, I want to acknowledge the horrendous state of the servers at launch that prevented me and many others from even being able to play at all. These have been, at least for me, almost entirely resolved as of the writing of this, though I still do run into occasional issues like the fact that I can never seem to get all of the high-res geometry in the Grand Canyon to load. It was not an acceptable launch day experience, by any means. But I have seen no indication in my testing that you will have that bad of an experience today, so I'm willing to let the past be the past. It is worth noting, though, that due to the streaming nature of modern Flight Simulator, you will have a variable experience depending on your network set-up. I'm lucky enough to be soaring on gigabit wired ethernet, and allocated 200 GB on a fresh SSD to FS2024's "rolling cache" that stores things like terrain data for frequently-visited locations. The load times, especially for a first-time launch, are much better than they were in FS2020 regardless, but Microsoft does recommend at least 100 Mbps of bandwidth for playing on max settings. I haven't needed that much—the most I've seen FS2024 use at any given time is around 46 Mbps. But it's something to be aware of. You are a pilot Microsoft has identified three types of players Flight Simulator aims to cater to: hardcore simmers who want the most realistic experience, gamers who want to earn rewards for completing challenges, and sightseers who want to visit cool world landmarks. I like to think I have a little bit of all three wolves inside of me. I appreciate a lot of the little touches of realism, I'm a geography and architecture nerd who is easily delighted by things like being able to fly under a faithful recreation of the Golden Gate Bridge, and I sure do like it when number goes up. While I'd say the simmers and sight-seers are well served, FS2024's attempt at a goal-driven career mode is a little bit underwhelming. I did enjoy practicing and taking exams to earn new certifications for stuff like IFR flight and jet aircraft, but the actual economics of being a freelance pilot are shallow and not that interesting to manage. It takes many, many hours of mercenary work on borrowed wings, handing over most of your pay in finder's fees, before you can even afford to own the cheapest plane available. And while the mission variety—from dropping off skydivers at 10,000 feet to helping put out forest fires—is enough to keep things interesting, I never got the feeling of running a small business that I was looking for. Blue Yonder It hardly mattered when I was cruising in and out of gorgeous volumetric clouds or diving down almost low enough to dip my toes in the sparkling Nile, however. FS2024 truly looks incredible. At least from 1000 feet up, or when you're admiring the many bespoke airports and landmarks—both new and returning from FS2020—it's probably one of the best-looking games I've ever played. Beyond the bounds that human artists have touched up, though, it handles certain things better than others at eye-level. I know, I know. This isn't Microsoft Walking Simulator 2024. But if you give me the option to exit my aircraft and trudge around with a custom avatar, of course I'm going to put it through its paces. And what I found was a startling level of believability across a multitude of distinct biomes... as long as you stick to rural or wilderness, inland areas. Walking through the wooded hills around Divide, CO that I spent a lot of my childhood in was almost eerie in how faithful it felt. But if you get to more populated areas, things get surreal and bizarre pretty quick. Don't expect to be able to walk around the streets of Tokyo without wondering if your graphics card is malfunctioning or you're maybe having a bad trip. This engine also still can't handle places where land and water meet that well, which is unfortunate if you want to take a cruise up the Pacific Coast or around the fjords of Norway. Waves often look painted on and unmoving, and river banks frequently defy gravity in wacky ways. It's still damn impressive. I mean, they modeled the whole Earth! But these details stick out more because of how unbelievable a recreation it is otherwise. Different yokes for different folks Aside from a good internet connection and a good GPU, the remaining entry cost to have an ideal experience with FS2024 is some kind of a dedicated peripheral. You don't have to splurge on a full HOTAS if you don't want to—my trusty Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, which will run you about $30 on sale, served perfectly admirably with a keyboard beside it to give me access to more hotkeys. Each excursion in a new vehicle [feels] almost like getting to know a new person. But I also tried to tough it out with an Xbox controller for about 12 hours, and I can only just barely recommend this experience if that's your only option. It's playable, but not having fine throttle control is a constant issue, and all of the control surfaces are really, really touchy with that tiny thumbstick. I definitely got cramps trying to hold the correct angle of attack for climbing, and I had to adjust the sensitivity per aircraft to not put myself into a death spin on every take-off and landing. I can't even imagine trying to play with a mouse and keyboard alone. If you're less interested in the simulation aspects, there are a lot of options to tweak your flying experience. With all of the assists turned on, it can feel pretty arcadey. Much too arcadey for my taste, but it's nice that they give you that choice. On the other end of the spectrum, you can go through a pre-flight checklist and manually flip every switch in the cockpit before takeoff, and the air traffic control system is much more detailed than FS2020. You're still going to hear a lot of uncanny AI voices, which I don't love. But given the number of missions and different airports, it's not like they could have recorded human dialogue for all of it. Final destinations The variety of aircraft, with 70 even in just the base edition, is also pretty incredible—with everything from commercial airliners to fighter jets to hot air balloons. Each has its own distinct quirks and handling challenges to learn, which makes each excursion in a new vehicle feel almost like getting to know a new person. Helicopters and I never quite saw eye-to-eye, but I'm particularly partial to the rugged "taildragger" bush planes that let me take off and land quickly in the middle of some random field in Africa. And many of these wild areas are now populated by migrating local wildlife, too, with the highly-detailed and excellently-animated models borrowed from Frontier's Planet Zoo. They don't have a wide variety of behaviors, unfortunately. You can walk right up to a polar bear or a water buffalo and they really won't even acknowledge your existence. But it's a cool little touch, and yet another excuse to use the full-featured photo functions. There's even a whole new World Photographer mode that challenges you to snap pics of various animals and landmarks, which I found to be a relaxing break from career mode. If you want to really put your piloting skills to the test, there's also a selection of challenges with weekly leaderboards, ranging from perfecting difficult landings to doing what I can only describe as "some Top Gun shit," trying to fly through locales like the Grand Canyon in an F-18 while maintaining as low an altitude as possible. These are neat, but definitely a lot more stressful than the other modes as well. The core of what makes this long-running franchise great is stronger than ever. And this sim is also not without some quirks, glitches, and oversights. One issue I ran into multiple times was at some of the smaller, procedurally-generated airports you might fly out of for certain missions, where my plane would spawn with one wing partially stuck inside of a structure, making it impossible to take off. Other times, I'd get dinged for infractions like using my flaps at too high of a speed when my plane was standing completely still with the parking brake on. These issues tend to be small, infrequent, and with an easy workaround of simply picking a different mission. But they are still annoying. None of that gets in the way of what Flight Simulator 2024 represents in its entirety, though. It takes the mind-boggling ambition of the 2020 sim and executes on it even better—launch woes notwithstanding—which is already a massive accomplishment. Some of the new things it tries to do work better than others, but the core of what makes this long-running franchise great is stronger than ever.Fine Gael won 35 seats in the 2020 election, but 18 of those TDs did not seek re-election in Friday’s poll. An exit poll puts the party’s support at 21%, a fraction of a percentage behind the main opposition party Sinn Fein. Mr Harris, the outgoing Taoiseach, was elected with 16,869 first preference votes, well above the quota. He celebrated with his wife Caoimhe, his parents Bart and Mary, his sister Gemma and his political team at the count centre in Greystones, Co Wicklow. Ahead of his re-election, Mr Harris told reporters he was “cautiously optimistic” about the election result and said it was “clear that my party will gain seats”. “It’s also clear that Fine Gael will top the poll in at least 10 constituencies, many more than we did the last time, that we will gain seats in constituencies where we haven’t had seats in many years, like Tipperary South and Waterford, and that we will add second seats in other constituencies as well,” he said. “I think the people of Ireland have now spoken. We now have to work out exactly what they have said, and that is going to take a little bit of time.” In one of the five consecutive broadcast media rounds he did from the Greystones count centre, he said there were a lot of areas where there were “straight shoot-outs” between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael for final seats. He described the Sinn Fein vote as “pretty significantly down”, the Fianna Fail vote as “marginally down” and the Fine Gael vote as “static” compared with its 2020 vote. He said it was “a very close, a very competitive election” and that “we haven’t seen a Sinn Fein surge or anything like it”. He said: “It was predicted by many that I would become the Taoiseach for a brief period of time, take over from Leo Varadkar, and then have to rebuild my party from the opposition benches as Sinn Fein led a government. “We don’t know what’s going to happen on government formation yet, but that is now looking less likely than it was.” He acknowledged that it was “a very difficult day” for the Green Party and paid tribute to their work in the coalition government, alongside his party and Fianna Fail. “Definitely, politics in Ireland has gotten much more fragmented,” he said. Fine Gael minister Helen McEntee said that her party’s campaign had been “positive”. “The feeling on the doors was very much that people were relatively happy with the government,” she said on RTE Radio. “It will come down to the last seats and it will come down to transfers,” she said of the final result, adding that Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were performing better than the exit poll estimated.Davenport council denies tax incentives for proposed riverfront hotel in Davenport

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Robert Lewandowski converted a first-half penalty kick to become the third player to score 100 goals or more in the Champions League, behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Lewandowski calmly sent a low shot into the net from the spot in the 10th minute to give Barcelona a 1-0 lead against Brest. He scored his 101st goal from inside the area in second-half stoppage time to seal the Catalan's club 3-0 victory. Lewandowski trails the 129 goals of Messi and the 140 of Ronaldo, according to UEFA. Lewandowski needed 125 games to reach his milestone — two more games than Messi and 12 fewer than Ronaldo, who also scored once in the qualifying round. “I'm delighted, it's a nice number,” Lewandowski said. “In the past I didn’t think I could score more than 100 goals in the Champions League." It was Lewandowski's sixth and seventh Champions League goals this season. It's the ninth season in which the Poland striker has scored six or more goals. The 36-year-old Lewandowski is having a standout campaign, having scored 22 goals for Barcelona in 19 appearances. He is the Spanish league’s scoring leader with 15 goals from 14 matches. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated PressLucknow: After the 15-member Samajwadi Party (SP) delegation was stopped from going to Sambhal on Saturday, party chief Akhilesh Yadav lambasted the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government, calling the ban a “failure” of its governance and administration. Heavy police security was deployed outside Leader of Opposition (LoP) Mata Prasad Pandey’s house in Lucknow ahead of the 15-member Samajwadi Party delegation’s visit to Sambhal. On the instructions of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, a 15-member delegation was to visit Sambhal on Saturday. Formed under the leadership of Mata Prasad Pandey, the delegation’s job was to collect detailed information about the incident. A report was to be prepared and submitted to the SP National President. However, before the leaders could leave Pandey’s residence for Sambhal, the security officials stopped them. The leaders then decided to go to the party’s office in Lucknow, however, they were not allowed to leave the residence. प्रतिबंध लगाना भाजपा सरकार के शासन, प्रशासन और सरकारी प्रबंधन की नाकामी है। ऐसा प्रतिबंध अगर सरकार उन पर पहले ही लगा देती, जिन्होंने दंगा-फ़साद करवाने का सपना देखा और उन्मादी नारे लगवाए तो संभल में सौहार्द-शांति का वातावरण नहीं बिगड़ता। भाजपा जैसे पूरी की पूरी कैबिनेट एक साथ... pic.twitter.com/7ouboVnQu4 Yadav slammed the UP government and said that the “BJP has lost.” Taking to X, the SP chief wrote, “Imposing a ban is a failure of the BJP government’s governance, administration and government management. If the government had imposed such a ban earlier on those who dreamed of causing riots and made people raise frenzied slogans, the atmosphere of harmony and peace in Sambhal would not have been spoiled.” “Just like the BJP changes the entire Cabinet at once, similarly, the entire administrative board from top to bottom in Sambhal should be suspended and dismissed for negligence and charged with conspiracy. Strict action should be taken against them, and a case should also be filed against them for murder,” he wrote, adding again that the “BJP has lost.” सपा प्रतिनिधिमंडल से डरी योगी सरकार! सत्ता के इशारे पर पुलिस ने माननीय प्रदेश अध्यक्ष श्री श्याम लाल पाल जी को संभल जाने से रोका, घर में किया नज़रबंद। संविधान और लोकतंत्र की धज्जियां उड़ा रही भाजपा सरकार। घोर निंदनीय! pic.twitter.com/u1kHQRwweF At the same time, the Samajwadi Party wrote on its X handle, “Yogi government scared of SP delegation! At the behest of the government, the police prevented the honourable state President Shyam Lal Pal from leaving the house and placed him under house arrest.” “The BJP government is tearing the Constitution and democracy to shreds. Totally reprehensible!” the post read. Apart from Mata Prasad Pandey, the delegation includes Legislative Council leader Lal Bihari Yadav, state president Shyam Lal Pal and other MLAs, MLCs and other prominent officials.

On March 22, 1895, the Lumière brothers — Auguste and Louis — held a private screening of moving pictures at a Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale meeting in Paris. The brothers had invented a new device for recording, developing and projecting moving images called the Cinématographe, which they patented in France on February 13, 1895. The device improved the Kinetoscope, invented by Thomas Edison and his assistant William Dickson in 1891. While the Kinetoscope was a “peepshow” device that could show a motion picture to one individual at a time, the Cinématographe allowed a motion picture to be projected onto a screen for multiple viewers. The brothers shot their first film, La Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon), in March 1895 using their new apparatus. The 45-second film shot outside their photographic goods factory in Lyon showed workers leaving at the end of the day and was shown at the Paris event. On December 28, 1895, the brothers held the world’s first public and commercial demonstration of the Cinématographe at the Le Salon Indien du Grand Café, a room in the basement of the Grand Café, on the Boulevard des Capucines, Paris. The twenty-minute program featured 10 films of between 38 and 46 seconds, including Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, Repas de bébé (Baby’s Breakfast, which showed Auguste and his wife feeding their baby) and L’arroseur arrosé (The Sprinkler Sprinkled), possibly the first comedy, showing a boy tricking a gardener into being soaked with water. As an aside, one of the individuals in the audience that day was Georges Méliés, a magician and one of the pioneers of cinema, most famous for Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902). After this successful exhibition, the brothers opened theatres in New York, London and Brussels. They also trained opérateurs (cinematographers) to use the Cinématographe. Many of these individuals travelled to far-off places such as India and China to show motion pictures using the new contraption. One of these opérateurs, and someone important to the story of cinema in Fiji, was Marius Sestier, a pharmacist from Sauzet, Drome, France. It may seem odd to employ a pharmacist to disseminate moving pictures globally, but Jean Claude Seguin (1994) explains that while Sestier was fascinated with the Cinématographe, Auguste Lumière was interested in medicine. It was through this mutual love of moving pictures and medicine that their paths crossed. The Lumière brothers sent Sestier as a cinematographer to India in 1896 to showcase their short films. The first screening was held at Watson’s Hotel in Bombay (now Mumbai) on July 7. From India, Sestier travelled to Australia to showcase the Lumiere Cinématographe. Sestier and wife Marie-Louise arrived in Sydney on September 16 on board the F.M.S Polynésien from Bombay via Colombo. He invited journalists to a private screening on the 18th at the Lyceum Theatre on Pitt St. On September 28, Sestier gave a public exhibition of the Cinématographe at the Salon Lumière, Australia’s first movie theatre, at 237 Pitt St, a few doors from the Lyceum. Sestier was surprised to learn that the Cinématographe was not Australia’s first motion picture apparatus. Two other apparatuses were in operation at the time of his arrival, and there were two others within six weeks. The shows proved to be a hit as described by The Daily Telegraph (October 12, 1896): “The management of the Cinematographe Lumiere must have deeply regretted on Saturday that the improvised theatre in the Pitt-St shop was not 10 times its size. There were about 12 performances during the afternoon and evening, and a packed audience witnessed each while several hundreds of people were gathered on the pavement outside awaiting their turn.” During the Sestiers’ time in Sydney, they stayed with Eugène Boivin, secretary to the French consul in Sydney, and his family at Glebe. Before Sestier left Australia in May 1879, he sold about four Lumière Cinématographes to Eugène’s son Georges Boivin, another individual important to the story of cinema in Fiji. Although Georges Boivin’s occupation was listed variously as a language teacher, a lecturer on historical events or social issues, a poet, a shipping agent and a warehouseman, Sally Jackson of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia says it was “his work in the global dissemination of the cinema which gives him an international significance.” In April 1897, Auguste Plane, an exhibitor, arrived in Noumea aboard the French mail steamer Ville de la Ciotat to hold the French colony’s first picture shows. The exhibition was held on April 9 at the Hôtel de Ville of Noumea. Accompanying Plane in New Caledonia and listed as L’agent général in advertisements from April 7, 1897, was Georges Boivin. In March 1898, Boivin returned to New Caledonia for a six-week tour with his two new business partners, G. Mitchell and Henry Schultz. It is possible that Mitchell was an electrician or a mechanic, but Schultz was an importer/exporter based in Fiji and Samoa. From Noumea, the trio left for Fiji for an exhibition of the Lumière Cinématographe. The Lumière Cinématographe Exhibition arrived at Suva on the steamer Birkagate on Sunday, May 8, 1898, for a season of picture shows under Henry Schultz’s management. Schultz claimed the Lumière Cinématographe “[was] the best show of its kind that [had] been on view in Australia, and [was] prepared to mobilise the opinion of a Suva audience as to the excellence of the entertainment which he [proposed] to regale them with [that] evening and nightly for the remainder of the week” (The Fiji Times, Wednesday, May 11). The company’s year-long tour of Australia included exhibitions at the Princess Theatre Melbourne, the Criterion in Sydney, the Royal Theatre in Adelaide, and Brisbane. Schultz revealed that the Australian tour was an overwhelming success, receiving special patronage from Lord Thomas Brassey, Victoria’s governor, and Lord Lamington, the Queensland governor. But, according to Schultz, the Lumière Cinématographe had created a sensation not just in Australia but worldwide during the last two to three years because of its novelty. The first showing of the Lumière Cinématographe Exhibition at Suva was held in a crowded house on the evening of Wednesday, May 11, at the Mechanics’ Institute. Among the pictures shown was the Melbourne Cup series. The Fiji Times issue of Saturday, May 14, gave the following report of the event: “This modern invention proved a thorough success, and those present witnessed a real treat. The machine was properly handled by experienced men, and not a single hitch eventuated during the evening. The pictures shown were excellent and highly interesting from start to finish, many having to be repeated so great was the applause.” The exhibition ran for several weeks, and new pictures were added daily. During the tour, some pictures included the Diamond Jubilee Pictures, the Coronation of the Czar, animated pictures of the Queen and the Prince of Wales, the Emperor of Germany, and other potentates and a short called The High Divers. A single night’s program included up to 40 pictures, and Mr Lyons’s piano performance accompanied them. The Lumière Cinématographe Exhibition picture shows drew full houses at Suva each night. The Fiji Times (Saturday, May 14) said that never before had the folks of Suva “had the pleasure of visiting such an enjoyable show in their midst,” adding that those who had never heard about the Cinématographe “were more than pleased”. Many Suva citizens could not get enough of this new technological and visual wonder and returned for a second and even a third viewing. The Fiji Times suggested that those who had not seen “this first-class attraction” were “missing more than they think”. It also said that those wishing to reserve seats could do so at the establishment of A. Stevens. Because of its popularity, the season at Suva had to be extended. The attendance was so high that many people were turned away from the venue each night. The Mechanics’ Institute was packed to the rafters at every screening, and those who could not find a seat had to stand to view the pictures. The Fiji Times issue of Wednesday, May 18, reported that the picture shows were particularly popular with the “coloured public.” The season at Suva closed on Saturday, May 21, with a 3 o’clock matinee for children and an evening performance. The exhibition then moved to Navua, where there were screenings at the Company’s Mill on Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27. Shows at Nausori followed this on Monday and Tuesday, the 30th and 31st of May. The picture company then proceeded to Levuka for a short season starting Thursday, June 7. There is some dispute over the claim that this was the first time motion pictures were exhibited in Fiji. While some authorities suggest it was, Jackson says it was “not the first time a cinematographe was screened in Fiji”. In my book The Fiji Times at 150: Imagining the Fijian Nation (Or, A Scrapbook of Fiji’s History), I suggest the following: “But this was not the first exhibition of moving pictures in the colony; there had been itinerant showmen with little to no knowledge of the “Cinématographe Apparatus,” who toured the islands putting on picture shows. But the Lumière Cinématographe Exhibition was the first professional outfit to visit the colony, having the services of two individuals trained in the use of the equipment.” With the benefit of more research, I will have to revise this position. Firstly, there is no mention in The Fiji Times of a previous tour of moving pictures. I had considered this when writing The Fiji Times history book, but concluded that perhaps the exhibitions weren’t noteworthy enough for mention. Second, we must consider that most exhibitors took the Sydney-Fiji or Sydney-New Caledonia-Fiji route. If motion pictures arrived in Sydney for the first time with Sestier, it is unlikely an exhibitor would skip a market as big as Sydney and come straight to Fiji before him. Hence, it seems likely the Lumière Cinématographe Exhibition was probably the first time Fijians witnessed picture shows. n DR ANURAG SUBRAMANI is an academic and writer. His new book, The Fiji Times at 150, is a history of the newspaper from 1869 to 2019 and a social history of Fiji. It is available at the Fiji Times Pte Ltd office, the USP Bookshop and all Prouds outlets in Fiji. The views expressed in this article are his and not of this newspaper. Georges Boivin is seated on the ground with a cricket bat. Picture: australiancinema.info An advertisement from the Fiji Times, Saturday, May 14, 1898. Picture: FILE

WATERBURY – Jenna Riccio introduced her husband Tim to the Danish concept of hygge – creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. Tim Riccio said his family – son Nate, now 12, and daughter Julien, 2 – experienced hygge in their home recently when they were all playing with leftover birthday party balloons, laughing as they did their best to keep the helium-filled orbs from touching the ground. It’s been nearly two years to the day since Jenna and Tim, teachers at Walsh Elementary School, drew national attention from The Washington Post, ABC News, People, not to mention nearly every media outlet in Connecticut, when they adopted Nate, then a fifth-grader at the school. At the time, the Riccios, who fell in love with Nate’s infectious personality, were concerned that Nate wasn’t receiving the care he needed for his sickle cell anemia. When he was younger, Nate had both legs amputated below the knee, as well as his left arm and some of the fingers on his right hand, due to complications from his condition. He also has liver and kidney problems, and requires appointments with specialists in hematology, oncology, hematology, nephrology, gastroenterology, orthopedics and prosthetics. But there was such optimism and joy when Nate was adopted that none of that mattered; hence the widespread media attention. Fast forward to the Saturday before Thanksgiving 2024, and the only thing that’s changed is Nate and his little sister, Julien, have gotten taller and, if anything, the family has gotten even stronger. “I thought it would be a really fun, happy, special moment, either way, but I didn’t think it would go everywhere,” Nate said. “It’s going really great. We’re all happy. We’ve been having a really fun time, all of us, and I’m glad that we could be together as a family, and I’m happy that I found a family.” Jenna Riccio agreed. “It’s been amazing,” she said. “I definitely never thought all those people would care so much about our story.” Nate is no longer at Walsh. He’s a seventh-grader at Waterbury Arts Magnet School, where he’s a thriving student with an A average in every class but one. (He’s carrying a B+ average in language arts.) His teachers all commented on the effort he puts in. “That’s my favorite part,” Jenna said. “When I met him as a student in first grade, I always tell my students, work hard and be nice. And if you could do those things, everything else will fall into place.” Nate’s still pursuing his passion for acting. He’s auditioning for two shows, including “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” “I love theater,” he said. “Theater has been my main thing in school.” Save for his growth spurt, he’s still the same warm, kind kid with the infectious personality that you can’t help but to want to be around. He loves his teachers. He loves going to gym class. He adores his parents and his little sister. The feeling is mutual – Julien often has to be pried from Nate’s room in their Waterbury home. “It’s great, I love it,” he said of having a younger sibling. “I love having a little sister. When we had the gender reveal, I actually wore pink because I really wanted a little sister since I already had an older brother.” Nate stays in touch with his brother, Giovhany Mondestin, 24, who will be joining the them for Thanksgiving dinner today. The family makes frequent sojourns to the Silas Bronson Library. They went on vacation to Jamaica. They celebrate holidays – Nate wants Percy Jackson books, a basketball video game, a yo-yo and a Rubik’s Cube for Christmas. He goes to the Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, where, much to his parents’ chagrin, he rock climbs and zip lines. He recently emceed the organization’s 33rd annual Big Apple Bash at Tavern on the Green. “The Hole in the Wall is so important to me because of everything that they have done for kids like me,” he said. “When you’re there, you’re not only having fun, but you’re with kids like yourself. Camp also lets you feel free and alive from the second you wake up until you go to bed. I love camping, everything that they do for kids and families.” Two years after his adoption, Nate is a stellar student, actor, athlete, friend, brother and son. Most of all Nate, apropos of the holiday, is thankful. Thankful for his family, as they are for him. Two years since his adoption, Nate has been a Riccio. He will be forever.

Brittany Mahomes' Thanksgiving Post Catches AttentionA new report marking the 16th anniversary of the UK's pioneering Climate Change Act has warned that despite its "transformative" influence on battling climate change, current progress is at risk. Friends of the Earth have highlighted concerns that the political unity on climate policies is loosening while business leaders argue that such initiatives promote economic growth. The campaign group notes "climate delays and U-turns" by the previous Government and says the country is not on course to fulfill emission reduction targets for the 2030s or to meet the international commitment to cut emissions causing rising temperatures by 68% come 2030. Though the Labour Government has been a self-styled climate champion, Friends of the Earth claims that actions since the General Election have fallen short of delivering on prioritised recommendations by the independent Climate Change Committee. With legal challenges deeming past Governmental climate action plans unlawful, and a demand for a new strategy by May 2025, the organisation is beckoning ministers to craft a just and effective plan for climate battle, urging for funding from local to global levels, access to clean and affordable energy, reliable and budget-friendly public transportation, and the development of good green jobs, especially in sectors and regions facing the disadvantage of being overlooked. Following a campaign spearheaded by Friends of the Earth, the Climate Change Act was enacted in November 2008 with almost unanimous cross-party political support. This law mandated an 80% reduction in UK emissions by 2050, a target that has since been revised to 100%, or net zero. The report from Friends of the Earth reveals that emissions have dropped by 41% in the 15 years since the Act was passed, compared to a mere 16% in the 15 years prior. However, progress stagnated under Rishi Sunak's government, and new Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has expressed doubts about achieving net zero, the report says. It also warns that the new Labour Government has only fully implemented one of the 10 priority recommendations for this year, specifically on renewable power auctions, and partially implemented four others, such as removing planning obstacles for heat pumps and wind, and reversing policy rollbacks. This is despite business leaders asserting that climate targets provide investment certainty and stimulate growth and innovation. Lord Deben, former chairman of the Climate Change Committee, said that the Climate Change Act has compelled ministers to pay greater attention to this "existential issue", but criticised the "substandard" plans produced by the previous government. He added: "The plan which this new Government must produce has to show clearly how we reach net zero by 2050 and put us back on track to meeting legally binding commitments."

Senate pushes for inclusion of cassava in flour productionGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — After losing to San Francisco in the playoffs three of the last five seasons, the Green Bay Packers wouldn’t mind seeing the 49ers get left out of the postseason entirely. The Packers (7-3) could damage San Francisco’s playoff hopes Sunday by beating the 49ers at Lambeau Field. San Francisco (5-5) dropped to .500 after losing at home to the Seattle Seahawks, though the 49ers remain just a game behind the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC West. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.Alberta pulls plug (again) on regional planningAdvisors Asset Management Inc. Has $122,000 Stock Holdings in AerSale Co. (NASDAQ:ASLE)