NoneNigeria, Brazil Sign $1.2bn MoU To Boost Agribusiness In 774 LGAsNEW ORLEANS — Just when it appeared the New Orleans Pelicans were beginning to regroup after a wave of injuries, leading scorer Brandon Ingram went down Saturday. Ingram landed awkwardly on the foot of Oklahoma City's Lu Dort early in the third quarter of Saturday night's 119-109 loss to the Thunder and severely twisted his left ankle. Ingram had missed six of the Pelicans’ 24 games this season with an assortment of injuries, and had just returned from tendonitis in his right foot. He battled back on Thursday night with 29 points on 10-of-19 shooting in a 126-124 victory over Phoenix. He left Saturday’s game with just five points on 1-of-5 shooting. Pelicans coach Willie Green said he could not shed any light on the severity of Ingram’s most recent injury. “No update right now,” Green said. “It’s extremely tough to see B.I. go down — adversity, once again. He had a really good game coming back (against Phoenix) and had a few really good practices. To see a tough play like that was a really tough break for us.” By a wide margin, the Pelicans have been the most injured team in the NBA this season, especially with their five players. Pelican players have lost 117 games due to injury in the first six weeks of the season. Zion Williamson has missed 18 of 24 games – the bulk coming after he pulled a hamstring on Nov. 11. Jose Alvarado has missed 13 games (hamstring) and Jordan Hawkins 13 (back). New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram (14) attempts a shot as Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5) defends in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Credit: AP/Tyler Kaufman Herb Jones returned to the lineup after missing 18 games with a right shoulder strain. Dejounte Murray came back after missing 17 with a left hand fracture, and CJ McCollum is back after sitting out 13 games with an adductor strain. Now, the Pelicans will have to wait on Ingram, who led the team by averaging 23.2 points before the loss to the Thunder.
Coleen Rooney reveals remark Trump made about her at White House meetingLisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? On Monday night, the entire Simpsons universe gets to experience it in a way not many could have imagined. The prime-time matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will also take place at Springfield’s Atoms Stadium as part of “The Simpsons Funday Football” alternate broadcast. The altcast will be streamed on ESPN+, Disney+, and NFL+ (on mobile devices). ESPN and ABC have the main broadcast, while ESPN2 will carry the final “ManningCast” of the regular season. The replay will be available on Disney+ for 30 days. Globally, more than 145 countries will have access to either live or on replay. “We’re such huge football fans, and the Simpsons audience and the football audience, I feel, are like the same audience of just American families and football. And the Simpsons are so much a part of the DNA of the American family and culture that for us to, like, mush them together in this crazy video game, it’s so fun,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of “The Simpsons.” While the game is the focal point, the alternate broadcast, in some ways, will resemble a three-hour episode of “The Simpsons.” It starts with Homer eating too many hot dogs and having a dream while watching football. Homer joins the Cowboys in the dream while Bart teams up with the Bengals. Lisa and Marge will be sideline reporters. “That’s the beginning of the story, and the story continues through the entire game until Homer wakes up from his dream at the end of the game. It is like a complete story, and the NFL game will happen in between. It’s just going to be an amazing presentation with tons of surprises,” said Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN’s VP of edit and animation. This is the second year ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game. It used the characters from “Toy Story” for last year’s Sunday morning game from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars. “The Simpsons” has featured many sports-themed episodes during its 35 seasons. Even though “Homer at the Bat” remains the consensus favorite sports episode for many Simpsons fans, there have been football ones such as “Bart Star” and “Lisa The Greek.” There also was a Super Bowl-themed one after Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 33 between Denver and Atlanta in 1999. Even though “The Simpsons” remains a staple on Fox’s prime-time schedule, it is part of the Disney family after their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. All 35 seasons are on Disney+. The show’s creators have worked with ESPN and the NFL to make sure the look and sound is definitely Simpsonsesque. The theme song is a mash-up of “The Simpsons” opening and “Monday Night Football’s” iconic “Heavy Action.” There have also been pre-recorded skits and bits to use during the broadcast featuring Simpson’s legendary voices Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, and Yeardley Smith. The telecast will be entirely animated, with the players’ movements in sync with what is happening in real-time on the field. That is done through player-tracking data enabled by the NFL’s Next Gen Stats system and Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology. While Next Gen Stats tracks where players are on the field with a tracking chip in the shoulder pads, there is skeletal data tracking and limb tracking data — which uses 29 points per player — to get closer to the player’s movements. The other data tracking will allow Beyond Sports and Disney to add special characters to the game. For example, there might be a play where Lisa catches the ball and goes 30 yards instead of Cincinnati’s Tee Higgins. “Lisa is much smaller than the rest of the players. So, in real life, the ball would go over her head, but now, with data processing, we can take the ball and make it go exactly into her hands. So for the viewer, it still looks believable, and it all makes sense,” said Beyond Sports co-founder Nicolaas Westerhof. The other major challenge is making “The Simpsons” two-dimensional cartoon characters into 3-D simulations. Szykowny and his team worked to make that a reality over the past couple of months. “That’s a big leap of faith for them to say, hey, we trust you to make our characters 3-D and work with it. Our ESPN creative studio team has done a wonderful job,” Szykowny said. Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph will be with Bart and the Bengals; while Carl, Barney, Lenny and Moe join up with with Homer and the Cowboys. The broadcast will also feature ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. ESPN’s Drew Carter, Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky will call the game from Bristol, Connecticut, and also be animated. They will wear Meta Quest Pro headsets to experience the game from Springfield using VR technology. For Kimes, being part of the broadcast and being an animated Simpsons character is a dream come true. She is a massive fan of the show and has a framed photo of Lisa Simpson — who she said is a personal hero and icon — as part of her backdrop when she makes appearances on ESPN NFL shows from her home in Los Angeles. “I didn’t have any input, and I didn’t see anything beforehand, so I wasn’t sure if it would look like me, but it kind of does, which is very funny,” said Kimes, who drew Simpsons characters when she was a kid. “To see the actual staff turn me into one was a dream.” Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Even though the Bengals (4-8) and Cowboys (5-7) have struggled this season, Selman thinks both teams have personalities that appeal to “The Simpsons” universe. “We were just so lucky also that the Cowboys are sort of like a Homer Simpson-type team, American team, and Mike McCarthy might be a Homer-type guy, one might imagine,” he said. ”And then you have Joe Burrow on the other side who is a cool young, spiky-haired, blonde bad boy — he’s like Bart. And that fits our character archetypes so perfectly. “If Homer is mad at Bart and has a hot dog dream while watching ’Monday Night Football’, and then it’s basically McCarthy versus Burrow, Homer versus Bart, and that’s the simple father versus son strangling — Homer strangling Bart dynamic that has been part of the show for 35 years. I don’t know if that would have worked as well if it was like Titans versus Jacksonville. We would have found something. We would have made it work.” ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Advertisement Advertisement
Concord Biotech Ltd, part of the pharma industry, underwent consolidation after hitting record highs in September but recent price action suggests that the stock is on the verge of giving a breakout from a potential Rounding Bottom pattern on daily charts.Short-term traders with a high-risk profile can go long in the stock only on a close above Rs 2,120 which can take it towards Rs 2,400-Rs 2,600 in the short to medium term, suggest experts.TheAllegheny County Council member Dan Grzybek will introduce a compromise tax-hike proposal Tuesday — one meant to bridge the gap between County Executive Sara Innamorato’s spending plan and a budget with a smaller hike put forward by council. Grzybek’s plan would raise the county millage rate to about 6.39 mills — 1.66 mills more than residents currently pay, or a 35% increase. It would represent an increase over a 1.35 mill proposal introduced by John Palmierie and other council members last week, but is still less than the 2.2 mill increase Innamorato says is necessary to fully fund county services. “I tried to meet in the middle between the 1.35 budget and the county executive’s 2.2 mill budget,” which is “just not going to get the ten votes necessary to pass,” Grzybek said. There was “a lot of confusion” about Palmierie’s proposal, Grzybek said, and a tight timeline left little time for members to discuss the plan or for county budget experts to weigh in. He floated his plan to council members last Wednesday, after consulting with county budget experts. Supporters of Palmieri's proposal contended that a 1.35 mill increase would avert layoffs and service cuts. But “It was pretty immediately clear to me that [the claim] was not going to be true” after rising personnel costs were factored in, Grzybek said. When those costs — which include cost-of-living increases and — were calculated, Grzybek estimated Palmierie’s plan would require officials to dismiss 20 county employees and cut 75 currently vacant positions. Those numbers represent just a small fraction of the county’s more than 6,000 employees. But Grzybek said those jobs should be preserved to maintain county functions. “I tried to make sure that we were cutting the millage as low as humanly possible to make sure that we were limiting the cost on taxpayers ... while making sure that we were fully providing the services that the county has been providing,” Grzybek said. Grzybek’s plan would give $4 million to the county’s Department of Human Services, allowing officials to take advantage of state and federal funding matches that will bring in another $16 million for the department. It would also restore funding to the Allegheny County Police Department and sheriff’s office — spending cut under the 1.35 mill plan — to bring the departments back in line with Innamorato’s initial proposal. Grzybek said the change will allow county police to hire five officers currently in training and keep 12 sheriff’s deputy positions open. Grzybek’s plan still represents nearly $30 million in spending reductions from Innamorato’s proposal. Much of that reduction comes from scaling back plans to replenish the county’s “rainy day” fund, which the county has drawn on to make up for deficits in recent years. Innamorato’s budget calls for $33 million to be paid back into it; Palmierie’s plan would use just $5 million for that purpose, while Grzybek’s plan suggests $20 million. Grzybek’s proposal, like Palmierie’s, would also keep the homestead exemption at $18,000. Innamorato had proposed a more generous exemption that would leave the first $21,000 of a home’s assessed value untaxed. The homestead exemption has not changed since 2013. Under Grzybek’s plan, the owner of a home assessed at the county’s median value, $110,400, would pay about $590 in property taxes each year, or roughly $12.75 more each month than they currently pay. Under Palmierie’s proposal, the same homeowner would pay about $10 more each month, and under Innamorato’s plan, they would pay about $15 more each month after taking the increased homestead exemption. “For what is a relatively limited cost, I do believe that we're getting a good amount out of” a proposed 1.66 mill increase, Grzybek said. Innamorato administration officials said they agree in principle with Grzybek’s proposal, and added that his proposed millage rate is closer to where they believe the county will end up. But it’s not yet clear if Grzybek’s proposal has the two-thirds supermajority of support required by the Home Rule Charter to approve any change to real estate tax rates, either. Officials indicated other proposals could be introduced before Tuesday’s vote. Council is slated to discuss all three proposals at their Dec. 3 meeting. County law requires annual operating and capital budgets for the next calendar year to be adopted no later than Dec. 6.
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Maps reveals all the UFO sightings reported in Surrey“Out of the mouths of babes”, or so the Bible-y expression goes. Its meaning is simple: Sometimes those most naive among us accidentally reveal the most. Whether you think that Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex is a babe, and using whichever definition of the word you fancy (hottie or immature tyke), well, that’s between you and your god slash browser history, but a line from his nearly two-year-old memoir has taken on a grim new light. As shocking as it might be to consider, it is less than two years since he published his roman-a-tone-deaf, Spare , a book that carved a swath through the bestseller lists and the sleepless nights of Buckingham Palace courtiers. We all know the high notes – that he lost his virginity in a field behind a pub, Prince William clocked him in a row over wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and he thought it was fine to describe an Eton house matron as THING. It feels like I’ve been writing about Spare since long before my fingers were bleeding nubbins thanks to oh-so-much keyboard tappity-tapping, but here we are. But it’s a line in chapter one that we need to revisit. The scene: The lush gardens of Frogmore House on April 9, 2021, the day the royal family laid Prince Philip and his favourite barbecue tongs to rest. Only one month earlier, the Sussexes’ Oprah Winfrey interview had aired and jaws had dropped so extravagantly reams of physios were put on high alert. Charles walks behind Prince Philip’s coffin during the Ceremonial Procession at Windsor Castle on April 17, 2021. Picture: Leon Neal/WPA Pool/Getty Images The duke had flown back for the sombre day and Charles and Prince William joined him to talk. Picture: Leon Neal/WPA Pool/Getty Images The duke had flown back for the sombre day and Charles and Prince William had joined him to talk. In the ensuing conversation, he writes that the King begged his sons, “Please, boys – don’t make my final years a misery”. “His voice sounded raspy, fragile. It sounded, if I’m being honest, old,” Harry writes. Just think about that line, knowing what we know now: “Please, boys – don’t make my final years a misery”. Yes, the “please boys” line got plenty of media play at the time when it was read entirely through the lens of a plaintive father pleading for some peace from his warring sons and, to some degree, taking the paternally avoidant route out. (The House of Windsor might have come to grips with 21st century technology, but their emotional bandwidth is distinctly still 19th). But today, that “final years” bit, a throwaway reference you’d have to assume, well, it’s a different story entirely. Prince Harry and Meghan talk to Oprah Winfrey. Picture: Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions/AFP Prince Harry’s Spare. Picture: Adam Berry/Getty Images We are fast approaching the 10-month mark since the Palace knocked socks and sundry other garments off us all by announcing that, what was meant to be a relatively routine treatment for an enlarged prostate, had revealed the monarch has cancer. (Side note: It’s never been revealed what sort of cancer the 76-year-old actually has). Then, with a hitherto unthinkable degree of honesty and plain dealing, which is to say, a teeny smidgen of the stuff, Crown Inc embarked on trying to keep the ship of monarchy afloat as the King started, and continues to undergo, weekly treatment. There have been green shoots and signs of hope that things are going well. His doctors signed off on him undertaking October’s hugely successful tour of Australia and Samoa (just ask the 10,000 people who headed to the Opera House to see him and Queen Camilla) and taking an 11-day break from his treatment regimen. This month, the Telegraph reported he has “moved into the next phase” of his “cancer journey”, whatever that quite means. Earlier this month, a source close to His Majesty told Vanity Fair ’s Katie Nicholl that the King is “doing very well and that’s very apparent”. But set against the backdrop of this year’s events, that reference to his “final years” takes on a much more ominous and depressing hue. Maybe we could be particularly liberal and read “final” to mean another 20 or so. Maybe. What is clear is that the discovery of Charles’ cancer has up-ended and overturned whatever sense of certainty formerly existed when it came to the calculus about how much time he would have on the throne. The King begged his sons, ‘don’t make my final years a misery’. Picture: Max Mumby/Pool/Indigo/Getty Images The discovery of Charles’ cancer has up-ended and overturned whatever sense of certainty formerly existed about his time on the throne. Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP Those Windsor genes of Charles’ are ferric stuff. Before his diagnosis, I would have said that the very healthful King, a man with a strong lifelong relationship with muesli and the benefits of long, hilly walks, could well surpass the late Queen who passed away at 96. Hell, why not shoot for his grandmother’s example and refuse to go anywhere before his 101st birthday? Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine and the army of homoeopathic tinctures, drops, balms and unguents that His Majesty is no doubt deploying alongside the best that a test tube can offer, he might very well yet hit his century and have to send himself a congratulatory 100th birthday letter. But what that Spare line does is to drive home the uncertainty and darkness the world is operating in when it comes to His Majesty’s health. The ancient Romans liked to dissect an occasional dove to divine the future and this Charles situation has a certain feel to it. Straws have and will continue to be clutched as we all operate in a vacuum. All tea leaves can and will be read. At least there is one thing that we can say with some confidence – despite the challenges of 2024, he is ‘happier than ever’. That royal source told Vanity Fair’s Nicholl: “I think the past year has shown the king to be very human. He recognises that there’s a limit to what he can do, but I do think he’s happier this year than last year. There’s a levity about him and a sense of joy. You see him hugging people and laughing. He’s happy to be here doing what he loves”. 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Andrej Stojakovic made 11 free throws to help craft a team-high 20 points, freshman Jeremiah Wilkinson had his second consecutive big game off the bench and Cal ran its winning streak to three with an 83-77 nonconference victory over Sacramento State on Sunday afternoon in Berkeley, Calif. Wilkinson finished with 16 points and Rytis Petraitis 13 for the Golden Bears (5-1), whose only loss this season was at Vanderbilt. Jacob Holt went for a season-high 25 points for the Hornets (1-4), who dropped their fourth straight after a season-opening win over Cal State Maritime. Seeking a fourth straight home win, Cal led by as many as 12 points in the first half and 40-33 at halftime before Sacramento State rallied. The Hornets used a 14-5 burst out of the gate following the intermission to grab a 47-45 lead. Julian Vaughns had a 3-pointer and three-point play in the run. But Cal dominated pretty much the rest of the game, taking the lead for good on a Petraitis 3-pointer with 14:50 remaining. Stojakovic, a transfer from rival Stanford, went 11-for-15 at the foul line en route to his third 20-point game of the young season. Cal outscored Sacramento State 26-17 on free throws to more than account for the margin of victory. Coming off a 23-point explosion in his first extended action of the season, Wilkinson hit five of his 10 shots Sunday. The Golden Bears outshot the Hornets 47.2 percent to 43.1 percent. Joshua Ola-Joseph contributed 10 points and six rebounds, Mady Sissoko also had 10 points and Petraitis found time for a team-high five assists. Holt complemented his 25 points with a game-high eight rebounds. He made four 3-pointers, as did Vaughns en route to 18 points, helping Sacramento State outscore Cal 30-21 from beyond the arc. EJ Neal added 16 points for the Hornets, while Emil Skytta tied for game-high assist honors with five to go with seven points. --Field Level Media
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service is seeing a surge in private support bigger than anytime in its 108-year history, as it also faces a maintenance backlog of more than $23 billion, made worse this fall by hurricane damage to its most popular location. Three years after setting a goal of raising $1 billion, the Park Service’s official charitable partner, the National Park Foundation, is almost there, having raised $840 million since 2021, the foundation’s outgoing president and CEO Will Shafroth said. That fundraising under the Campaign for National Parks is in addition to efforts of park partners across the country — such as the Trust for Public Land, American Battlefield Trust, Conservation Legacy and the Student Conservation Association — that collectively want to raise another $3.5 billion. Visits to national parks rose from about 275 million in 2010 to 325 million last year. Shafroth said many of these visitors, inspired by the beauty of places like Yellowstone National Park, say the parks and staff have “created an amazing experience for me and my family. I want to give back.” Hundreds of thousands more give back by volunteering, whether rebuilding trails, clearing trash, serving as docents or organizing special events. “National parks experienced substantially increased public interest over the past two years,” according to the 2024 Park Partners Report commissioned by the foundation. There are now at least 470 partner groups, many of them “Friends” organizations that coordinate volunteer work with superintendents of individual parks. That community provided nearly 1 million volunteer hours in the park system last year, the equivalent of 122,500 days or 471 full-time employees, according to the report. One of those groups is Friends of the Smokies, which has about 2,000 members who volunteer for projects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, the most popular of the 63 national parks with 13.3 million visitors in 2023. The park, which stretches over 816 square miles, sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Helene in late September, and many roads and trails are still closed to the public, said Dana Soehn, president of Friends of the Smokies. But the group is eager to get to work when the Park Service completes its assessments and makes restoration plans, she said. “We stand at the ready to really push and raise funds,” Soehn said. “The public-private partnership in helping meet these challenging times is something that’s critically needed. Our organization is able to provide $2 million to $4 million of funding each year to help support the national park.” Funding needs The private funding goes a long way to help the cash-strapped National Park Service, with an operating budget of $3.3 billion in fiscal 2024, which supports about 20,000 full-time employees. The Senate’s Interior-Environment Appropriations bill would provide $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025, as the Biden administration requested, but the House version would cut the funding to $3.1 billion. The Great American Outdoors Act passed by Congress in 2020 provided up to $1.3 billion per year for five years through 2025 to help reduce $23.3 billion in deferred maintenance projects. Private donations won’t do much to reduce the maintenance backlog because most people aren’t interested in funding infrastructure projects like roads and bridges that are the government’s responsibility, Shafroth said. “We’re never going to be very effective at convincing donors to pay for pothole repair and water systems and things like that,” he said. “So we really need to focus on the things that are resonant to donors and also are a high need for the parks.” When Lilly Endowment Inc. announced a $100 million contribution in August, Shafroth’s foundation said the funds would go toward four priorities: creating environmental stewardship opportunities for young people, protecting fragile ecosystems and diverse species in the parks, developing new technologies to improve visitor experiences, and providing “a more comprehensive historical narrative” about national parks and the communities around them. Many donors to the park system, especially corporate givers, are also motivated by the knowledge that public lands used for recreation are an economic driver. Outdoor recreation generates $1.2 trillion in annual economic activity and supports 5 million jobs, according to a report released in November by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable using data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. The ORR is a coalition of more than 110,000 businesses in the sector. The Interior Department reported last year that visitor spending in communities near national parks totals more than $50 billion a year, supporting nearly 400,000 jobs. Other legislation Advocates for the parks are urging Congress to rev up this economic engine by passing a package of bills that would overhaul how public land agencies distribute passes and permits, encourage technology to improve visitor experiences, restore campgrounds and address housing shortages near outdoor recreation areas, among other things. The House passed the legislation sponsored by Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., in April by voice vote under suspension of the rules. Dozens of groups are urging the Senate to pass the measure in the lame-duck session. “Despite the profound and widespread benefits that parks and outdoor recreation offer, they are chronically underfunded with many systems facing a significant backlog of capital improvement projects,” more than 50 organizations said in a Nov. 12 letter to Senate leaders urging them to prioritize the legislation. Aside from their economic importance, Shafroth noted that national parks play a role in uniting Americans. “You know, our country just feels so divided in so many ways, especially politically,” he said. “It feels like those divisions just dissolve when people enter a national park. They’re just citizens of the United States. They’re just lovers of the outdoors, appreciators of America’s story.” Shafroth announced this fall that he plans to step aside as president and CEO of the National Park Foundation and turn over the reins to Park Service veteran Jeff Reinbold, most recently the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington. The pair will work together on the transition in December and January, then Shafroth said he plans to develop a new program at the foundation addressing issues facing the park system, including climate change, housing shortages near parks and development of new technologies.
