Published 5:33 pm Friday, December 6, 2024 By Rocky Hulne Sometimes you look at a date of when something happened and it blows your mind. When I was scrolling through social media and I saw that it’s been almost 10 years since the Lyle-Pacelli girls basketball team earned its first trip to the state tournament as a co-op. I remember that team quite well and the thought of some of its seniors being in their late 20s made me feel older than usual. The Athletics, who went on to capture a state title in 2018, were a very special group for many reasons. Most impressively, L-P provided a blueprint on how to build a program from the ground up. When I arrived in Austin in 2007, it was highly inconceivable that the L-P girls would ever play in a state tournament, but the team gradually improved every season. First came a couple of regular season wins, then came an improbable play-in game win in the Section 1A tournament. It’s a credit to the program’s coaches and players for sticking with it when times were tough to keep things positive. By the time Courtney Walter and her younger sister Brooke Walter were playing on varsity together, along with Sarah Holtz, the team was looking like a contender. With the Walters and much of the roster hailing from Lyle, pairing with Holtz, a Pacelli student, the team learned to play together on the court, despite the fact they went to different schools. Anyone who watched that team remembers Holtz’s explosiveness to the hoop, Brooke’s awareness as a freshman point guard, and Courtney’s ability to hit the big shot. To add to the passage of time was the fact that Madison Truckenmiller also played on that team. She was the first of three Truckenmillers to play for L-P over the years, with her sister Kendal playing on the state champion team in 2018, and her brother Jake playing in the state baseball tournament for L-P in 2023. Their father Carl is the current head boys basketball coach of L-P. L-P will honor the 2015 team that went to state at halftime of their girls varsity game on Dec. 20 at Pacelli High School and hopefully it’s a chance for the current L-P players to see that value of dedication and hard work. The 2015 team did not inherit a top level program, but by the time they were finished, L-P was well on its way to becoming a power in Southeast Minnesota for a four-year stretch.jili lucky slots 。

Minutes of an Executive meeting from June of that year state further action would be considered “as appropriate” if the DUP went ahead with a threat to rotate its ministers. The minutes are within files which have been declassified at the Public Record Office in Belfast. Devolved powersharing had been restored to Northern Ireland in May 2000 when Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble had received the backing of his party to go back into the Assembly, despite there having been no decommissioning of IRA arms at that point. Then DUP deputy leader Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds took up the offices as ministers for regional development and social development, but refused to attend Executive meetings due to the presence of Sinn Fein ministers. The party also said it would rotate its ministerial posts to prevent other parties from taking them. A minute of an Executive meeting on June 8 said Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds had refused a request from First Minister Mr Trimble and deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon to meet with them “to discuss recent public comments by the DUP concerning their positions as ministers”. The minute records that the Executive endorsed a proposal from the First and deputy First Ministers to write again to the two DUP ministers setting out sanctions against them. It says: “The First Minister and and Deputy First Minister would assume responsibility for representing the Executive Committee on transport matters at the British-Irish Council in place of the Minister for Regional Development. “The Minister for Social Development and the Minister for Regional Development would not be nominated to attend meetings of the Joint Ministerial Committee. “Pending the receipt of satisfactory assurances from DUP Ministers regarding the confidentiality and integrity of Executive Committee business, the Minister for Social Development and Minister for Regional Development would not receive Executive Committee papers as of right. “The First Minister and Deputy First Minister would seek briefing, as appropriate, from officials in the Department for Regional Development and Department for Social Development.” The minute continues: “If the DUP carried out their threat to change the holders of the two Ministerial offices on a frequent basis, the Executive Committee would consider other action as appropriate.” Mr Robinson and Mr Dodds resigned as ministers on June 27 and were replaced by party colleagues Gregory Campbell and Maurice Morrow. A minute from an Executive meeting that day says: “The Executive Committee noted that the Minister for Social Development and Minister for Regional Development would be resigning their posts that afternoon, and expressed concern at the proposed rotation of the ministries held by their Party Members.”The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing "intentions" in real-time to companies that can meet the need—before we even realize we have made up our minds. This is according to AI ethicists from the University of Cambridge, who say we are at the dawn of a "lucrative yet troubling new marketplace for digital signals of intent," from buying movie tickets to voting for candidates. They call this the "intention economy." Researchers from Cambridge's Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) argue that the explosion in generative AI, and our increasing familiarity with chatbots, opens a new frontier of "persuasive technologies"—one hinted at in recent corporate announcements by tech giants. "Anthropomorphic" AI agents, from chatbot assistants to digital tutors and girlfriends, will have access to vast quantities of intimate psychological and behavioral data, often gleaned via informal, conversational spoken dialogue. This AI will combine knowledge of our online habits with an uncanny ability to attune to us in ways we find comforting—mimicking personalities and anticipating desired responses—to build levels of trust and understanding that allow for social manipulation on an industrial scale, say researchers. "Tremendous resources are being expended to position AI assistants in every area of life, which should raise the question of whose interests and purposes these so-called assistants are designed to serve," said LCFI Visiting Scholar Dr. Yaqub Chaudhary. "What people say when conversing, how they say it, and the type of inferences that can be made in real-time as a result, are far more intimate than just records of online interactions" "We caution that AI tools are already being developed to elicit, infer, collect, record, understand, forecast, and ultimately manipulate and commodify human plans and purposes." Dr. Jonnie Penn, an historian of technology from Cambridge's LCFI, said, "For decades, attention has been the currency of the internet. Sharing your attention with social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram drove the online economy." "Unless regulated, the intention economy will treat your motivations as the new currency. It will be a for those who target, steer, and sell human intentions." "We should start to consider the likely impact such a marketplace would have on human aspirations, including free and fair elections, a free press, and fair market competition, before we become victims of its unintended consequences." In a paper, Penn and Chaudhary write that the intention economy will be the attention economy "plotted in time": profiling how user attention and communicative style connects to patterns of behavior and the choices we end up making. "While some intentions are fleeting, classifying and targeting the intentions that persist will be extremely profitable for advertisers," said Chaudhary. In an intention economy, Large Language Models or LLMs could be used to target, at low cost, a user's cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, online history, and even preferences for flattery and ingratiation, write the researchers. This information-gathering would be linked with brokered bidding networks to maximize the likelihood of achieving a given aim, such as selling a cinema trip ("You mentioned feeling overworked, shall I book you that movie ticket we'd talked about?"). This could include steering conversations in the service of particular platforms, advertisers, businesses, and even political organizations, argue Penn and Chaudhary. While researchers say the intention economy is currently an "aspiration" for the tech industry, they track early signs of this trend through published research and the hints dropped by several major tech players. These include an open call for "data that expresses human intention... across any language, topic, and format" in a 2023 OpenAI blogpost, while the director of product at Shopify—an OpenAI partner—spoke of chatbots coming in "to explicitly get the user's intent" at a conference the same year. Nvidia's CEO has spoken publicly of using LLMs to figure out intention and desire, while Meta released "Intentonomy" research, a dataset for human intent understanding, back in 2021. In 2024, Apple's new "App Intents" developer framework for connecting apps to Siri (Apple's voice-controlled ), includes protocols to "predict actions someone might take in future" and "to suggest the app intent to someone in the future using predictions you [the developer] provide." "AI agents such as Meta's CICERO are said to achieve human level play in the game Diplomacy, which is dependent on inferring and predicting intent, and using persuasive dialogue to advance one's position," said Chaudhary. "These companies already sell our attention. To get the commercial edge, the logical next step is to use the technology they are clearly developing to forecast our intentions, and sell our desires before we have even fully comprehended what they are." Penn points out that these developments are not necessarily bad, but have the potential to be destructive. "Public awareness of what is coming is the key to ensuring we don't go down the wrong path," he said.Trump names David Sacks as White House AI and crypto czar

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The Cleveland Browns have elevated tight end Blake Whiteheart from the practice squad for the team’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That move comes after the team ruled out tight end Geoff Swaim , who is dealing with a concussion. Whiteheart has played in four games for the Browns this season. He has three receptions for 13 yards and a touchdown this year. The Wake Forest product has played in six games over the first two years of his career. The Browns will now have David Njoku, Jordan Akins, and Whiteheart as their three tight ends against the Steelers. The team still runs a good deal of 12 personnel, so having at least three tight ends to pull off those sets seemed essential to the offense. Without Swaim, it simply would not have been possible. With projections for wind and snow in the forecast as well for the game, it could be a run-heavy gamescript this week, which would lend itself to heavier personnel for the Browns at times. BETTING: Check out our guide to the best PA sportsbooks , where our team of sports betting experts has reviewed the experience, payout speed, parlay options and quality of odds for multiple sportsbooks. More Pittsburgh Steelers News Live Updates: Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns, Thursday Night Football Bill Belichick reveals how Steelers’ Cam Heyward nearly joined Patriots Cleveland Browns lose hard-nosed blocking tight end for Steelers game Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns predictions: Who will win AFC North battle? Son of ex-Pittsburgh Steelers player arrestedThe Jacksonville Jaguars placed quarterback Trevor Lawrence (concussion) on injured reserve Wednesday, likely ending his season after a vicious illegal hit in last week's loss to the Houston Texans. Lawrence, slammed in the head and neck by Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair after giving himself up, would be eligible to return Week 18. However, the 2-10 Jags are already eliminated from playoff contention. Mac Jones will start for the Jags this week against the Tennessee Titans. Al-Shaair, meanwhile, was suspended three games by the NFL on Tuesday. Lawrence, 25, has thrown for 2,045 yards, 11 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 10 starts this season. He also missed time with a left (non-throwing) shoulder injury. Lawrence was carrying the ball and went into a feet-first slide at Houston's 45-yard line during the second quarter of Sunday's game. Al-Shaair launched into him and delivered a forearm shot near the quarterback's head and shoulder. Multiple skirmishes erupted as Lawrence lay prone on the field. Al-Shaair was ejected, along with Jaguars cornerback Jarrian Jones. Lawrence immediately displayed the hand motion known as the fencing posture that is associated with traumatic brain injury. However, he was able to stand after being attended to briefly, and he sat up while being taken to the locker room on a cart. Al-Shaair took to social media Monday to apologize but the NFL was unmoved, announcing the three-game suspension on Tuesday. He is appealing. Al-Shaair, 27, is a repeat offender this season, having just been fined $11,255 for a late hit on Tennessee Titans running back Tony Pollard last week. He was also fined $11,817 for punching Chicago Bears running back Roschon Johnson in a Week 2 game. That came after a sideline skirmish that began after Al-Shaair hit Bears quarterback Caleb Williams late out of bounds but wasn't flagged. Lawrence has thrown for 13,815 yards, 69 TDs and 46 INTs since being selected No. 1 overall by the Jags in the 2021 draft out of Clemson. --Field Level Media