4070 super game benchmark Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. stock underperforms Wednesday when compared to competitorsManchester United teammates Rasmus Hojlund and Amad Diallo exchanged words after the final whistle of a 2-1 victory on Thursday. And manager Ruben Amorin has no problem with it. “For me, it’s a very, very good sign,” Amorin said after his team beat Viktoria Plzen to stay unbeaten in the Europa League. Hojlund scored two goals and hoped for a centering pass from Diallo to go for a hat trick in the final minutes. The Denmark striker didn't get the pass, though. Viktoria had been pushing forward looking for an equalizer, which created space for United counters. On another break shortly afterward, Hojlund opted to keep the ball. The pair then had a heated post-game exchange. “We need to feel something,” Amorin said. “If we need to fight each other, it's like a family. When you don't care, you don't do nothing. When you care — you fight with your brother, with your mother, your father.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

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Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of material from 11 contributing columnists , along with other commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• Moving to a new neighborhood often comes with some apprehension, but when I moved into my neighborhood a little more than a dozen years ago, I felt at home right away. The neighborhood was new and I was surrounded by others who wanted to build a special culture. I became friendly with many of them. I never knew who was going to drop by to share an intriguing point of view or a laugh. As neighbors, we looked out for each other and lifted each other up. Of course, I didn’t see eye-to-eye with everyone in the neighborhood. But we were all able to smile, nod or wave to each other in passing, like good neighbors do. When I refer to this neighborhood, it is not the home where I physically live with my family — but shoutout to the folk who live on my street in Cottage Grove: Traci, Mike, Phil, Jeannine. Y’all have always been terrific. No, I’m talking about the neighborhood where I’ve lived virtually — my Twitter community. (I know it was renamed X, but it’ll always be Twitter to me.) It’s where I engaged in intellectual debate and discussion with lawyers, professors, activists, celebrities and above-average Joes from all over the world. On Twitter, I found my voice and created content that built my career and buttressed my business. But lately, a new crew has muscled its way into my Twitter community, let in by new owner Elon Musk, who allows and even encourages them to dump daily loads of toxic waste. That changed the rules, spoiled the atmosphere and violated every norm of my precious neighborhood. It’s not healthy to live in this polluted space any longer. So I thought about packing up and leaving. My WCCO Radio colleague Chad Hartman advised me against it, saying, Don’t let them win. Use your voice and use the platform. But I kept hearing the words a wise old gambling man told me many years ago: “You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run.” I loved Twitter so much. I would wake up extra early every morning, and before I grabbed a cup of coffee, said my prayers or got my kids ready for school, I’d grab my phone and scroll through posts for hours to get news updates, see celebrity stories and read political commentary, all while laughing at jokes and viral videos. It was always a beautiful day in the Twitter neighborhood, until suddenly it wasn’t. I woke up one morning and all my favorite social media sidekicks were gone, replaced by renters who didn’t care anything about following the rules or junking up the place. When you see that things have changed for the worse and they can’t or won’t ever go back to the good ol’ days, the smart money lands on running away and not looking back. It’s against my nature to walk away from a good fight. But under X’s current incarnation, set in motion by Musk and his minions, Twitter’s intelligent and thought-provoking commentary is not celebrated, it’s attacked. The guardrails are off. It’s become common for threats and slurs — yes, the whole alphabet soup, the B-word, the C-word and the N-word — to be leveled. I’ve even experienced insults mocking my children with autism — yes, the R-word. It used to be when bad neighbors got downright disgusting, I could block them. Under Twitter’s new homeowner’s association rules, anyone I had blocked could now see my posts and find a way to respond with their sickening, predictably nasty comments. My friend Paul Douglas calls me Hurricane Sheletta because of the way I energize a room. But honey, I’m not Storm and there is no way my blood pressure will allow me, without medication, to hang around with these X-men and women. So with a heavy heart and itchy trigger finger, I deactivated my Twitter account this week. That meant that my timeline was lost, and with it a big chunk of my own history and great memories. No one can go back and read my viral posts, which have run from heartbreaking to hilarious. Even I can’t scroll back and relive some of the high points in my life that happened on Twitter. Here are just a few times Twitter flipped my script: In 2020, when Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis posted that he was looking for a worthy family to give a camper to, I suggested that he could do no better than my fabulous brood. Pretty soon my Twitter neighbors jumped into the conversation, explaining that if our family had a camper, we would be able to go on vacation with our special-needs children who, at the time, found most other travel options overstimulating. Lemonis was impressed and not only upgraded the camper to a Class A RV (which we quickly named The Brundidge Bus), but also signed me and my children to an endorsement deal with a contract to travel and produce content for his billion-dollar company. Two years later, our family was camping in our RV when my son Brandon saw “Let’s Go Brandon!” signs at a Texas campsite and regarded them as personal signs of encouragement. That inspired me to write a children’s book, “Brandon Spots His Sign,” about the importance of building confidence in kids with autism. One of my tweets about the book was seen by NASCAR driver Brandon Brown, the source of the original “Let’s Go, Brandon” chant. Over Twitter, Brown introduced himself and soon our whole family was invited to join him at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., where an imprint of my book was plastered on the hood of his car and my son got to take a thrilling first lap around the track with another confident Brandon. This winter, I posted a video on Twitter of my oldest son, Andrew, dancing while shoveling snow during a winter storm and it quickly went viral. His fancy footwork landed him a segment on Good Morning America and a pretty cool friendship with the show’s host, NFL great Michael Strahan. I also had a productive talk with Toro about a possible partnership. Every day I wake up and say the prayer of Jabez found in 1 Chronicles 4:10, asking the Lord to enlarge my territory and make my name great. That prayer was answered time and time again on Twitter. So it wasn’t easy to leave, but as I packed my things and planned to deactivate my account, I saw that many of my neighbors were packing up and leaving for the same reason. Now we’re looking for each other on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Threads. I even found Nancy Lyons, CEO of consulting firm Clockwork, on TikTok. It’s like I’m still lost in these new neighborhoods, though. I’m looking for groups with my shared, lived experience — where are my autism moms? I’m a newbie on these other platforms, going from 7,000 followers on Twitter to seven on TikTok. I’m having to build my new social media house from scratch. Let’s hope this time that the new homeowner’s association president, Mark Zuckerberg, will make sure everyone follows the rules, so it’ll be more like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood on PBS and less like the parody Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood that Eddie Murphy created for “Saturday Night Live.” Please, former Twitter friends and followers, as I search for you, come look for me. Let’s start over and build great social media neighborhoods again. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won’t you be my neighbor?

Algert Global LLC Takes Position in Dynatrace, Inc. (NYSE:DT)BOISE, Idaho — Freshman wide receiver George Dimopoulos threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Dane Pardridge on the first play of double overtime and Jordan Hansen ended the game on a fourth-down sack to give Northern Illinois a 28-20 victory over Fresno State on Monday in the Idaho Potato Bowl. Dimopoulos, who played quarterback in high school, also converted the two-point conversion when he passed it to quarterback Josh Holst for his second completion of the season. Holst, a freshman walk-on, was making just his third start at quarterback as NIU was without starter Ethan Hampton, who entered with 1,600 yards and 12 touchdowns to go with six interceptions. Holst completed 18 of 30 passes for 182 and two touchdowns for Northern Illinois (8-5). He was also intercepted on the first play of the game. Both teams missed a 35-yard field goal in the final three minutes of regulation, including Dylan Lynch's third miss of the game on the final play to send it to overtime. Fresno State started overtime with a touchdown when Bryson Donelson was left wide open out of the backfield to haul in a 9-yard touchdown pass. NIU needed five plays, and a defensive holding penalty, to score as Holst found Grayson Barnes for a 3-yard touchdown. Donelson finished with 15 carries for 82 yards and a touchdown for Fresno State (6-7). He added three catches for 28 yards and another score. Dual-threat quarterback Joshua Wood was 16 of 23 for 180 yards and a touchdown. Mac Dalena made six catches for 118 yards to help go over 1,000 yards for the season. Fresno State was without 14 players, including starting quarterback Mikey Keene after he transferred to Michigan. Two top-three receivers, Jalen Moss and Raylen Sharpe, also did not play as the Bulldogs were forced to use five new starters. UTSA 44, COASTAL CAROLINA 15: Owen McCown threw for 254 yards and a touchdown and UTSA scored the opening 27 points of the Myrtle Beach Bowl to cruise past short-handed Coastal Carolina in Conway, S.C. UTSA (7-6) broke away in the second quarter by scoring a touchdown on three straight drives for a 21-0 lead. McCown was 14 of 17 in the first half, including a 6-yard touchdown pass to Patrick Overmyer. McCown also scored on a 35-yard run after breaking two tackles near the end zone. The other score was a 9-yard touchdown run by Brandon High. Coastal Carolina (6-7) finished the first half with just 140 total yards — 60 coming on the final drive. The Chanticleers punted on five straight drives to begin the game — with the longest possession lasting seven plays for 25 yards. UTSA added short field goals on its opening two drives of the second half, while Coastal Carolina started with two straight three-and-out drives. UTSA ended CCU’s third drive on Jakevian Rodgers’ first career interception to extend the program's single-game streak with an interception and a sack to 23 games. CCU’s first touchdown came on the first play of the fourth quarter when Bryson Graves caught a 50-yard touchdown pass from Tad Hudson. But UTSA’s Chris Carpenter returned the ensuing kickoff for a 93-yard touchdown to make it 34-7. It was the largest margin of victory in the five-year history of the Myrtle Beach Bowl.

Five research projects will focus on the difficult issue of weeds in pulses. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers (SPG) will provide over $3.67 million for weed science research. SPG Chair Winston van Staveren said growers have consistently identified weed control as one of the top issues facing pulse production. “SPG’s funding keeps weed control at the forefront of research investments and aims to provide growers with more options,” he said. The program will run for six years starting in 2025. It will build on the work of previous SPG-funded weed programs, including Weed Science and Herbicide Technology for Pulse Crops (2011–2016) and Enhancing Weed Science in Pulse Crops: Towards a robust strategy for long-term weed management (2016–2022). The research will address developing and adopting effective weed control strategies, building information to support herbicide label expansions, and creating recommendations on new herbicide options in pulses, including tank mixes and layering strategies. Work will also investigate cultural methods to reduce the impact of weeds in pulses, including managing kochia in saline areas, cultural weed control under varying levels of pre-emergence weed control, and strategies to reduce the weed seed bank. Also to be studied will be the potential for direct energy to destroy the viability of seeds of common weed species for future use as a combine attachment. The research program will also work towards identifying weeds or rotational cover crops that can serve as alternative hosts to disease including Aphanomyces and Fusarium. The adverse impacts of excluding glyphosate in cropping systems will be explored, including the economic costs and long-term implications for weed management strategies. There will also be evaluation and development of tools to manage weed escapes. The complete list of projects, including researchers and SPG’s investment: Framework for a collaborative Kochia management program in pulses , Dr. Steve Shirtliffe, University of Saskatchewan – $2,470,285 Investigating the potential of directed energy (blue light and mid-wave infrared light) as a method of harvest weed seed control on Canadian weeds , Dr. Breanne Tidemann, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Lacombe – $92,000 Investigating weeds as alternative hosts to root rot disease complex in pulses , Dr. Breanne Tidemann, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Lacombe – $276,075 Developing robust weed management strategies for pulse and soybean crops by integrating herbicides, cultural strategies, and drone spot spraying , Dr. Dilshan Benaragama, University of Manitoba – $686,000 Utilization of crop life cycle diversity and crop diversity to manage herbicide-resistant kochia in pulses , Jessica Enns, Western Applied Research Corporation, Scott – $146,503 – alice.mcfarlane@pattisonmedia.com On X: @farmnewsNOW