Domo Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 Financial ResultsWhat's On Tap in Chicago Bulls news ? Welcome to the 52nd edition of "Tasting Flight," a daily newsletter to keep fans updated on all the latest news in Bulls Nation. Bulls Set for 1st 2024 NBA Cup Home Game The Bulls return home Friday to host the Atlanta Hawks in their second 2024 NBA Cup group-play game. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. CT and the game will air on Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) . Cup Night action at the UC! ⏰: 7:00 pm CT : https://t.co/dLgvAjfc2T : @670TheScore @MotorolaUS | #SeeRed pic.twitter.com/1wYi1L11eL As Friday marks the first Bulls home game of the 2024 NBA Cup, the United Center will feature a new court design. The stage is set! @MotorolaUS | #SeeRed pic.twitter.com/z3n7MvuhI1 Stacey King Gives Josh Giddey Defensive Advice Bulls television broadcast analyst and three-time NBA champion Stacey King spoke at length about what Josh Giddey should do to improve his defense. Delivered via his "Gimmer the Hot Sauce" podcast, King's advice covered nuanced fundamental details such as angles, help defense, and more. On Today’s Episode... Stacey King gives a message to Josh Giddey Talks about Billy’s lineup rotations and the impact of Torrey Craig And his thoughts on the new All Star Game setup⭐️ OUT NOW: https://t.co/QnHxOv8Eln pic.twitter.com/VJysZ5krTA Torrey Craig , Zach LaVine, Nikola Vucevic Appear in Latest NBA Trade Rumors Brett Siegel of Clutch Points published notes on the Golden State Warriors' trade options with guard De'Anthony Melton out for the season. Siegel suggests the Warriors are looking for a "home-run" talent in a trade, but Zach LaVine and Brandon Ingram are the only big names currently on the market. Additionally, Siegel states teams like the Warriors might proceed with caution at the trade deadline and instead seek salary-cap-friendly talent, such as Nikola Vucevic. While LaVine and Vucevic are the Bulls' most frequent subjects of trade rumors, Torrey Craig is reportedly drawing interest from the Milwaukee Bucks. Siegel notes the Bucks have made MarJon Beauchamp and Pat Connaughton available in discussions as they search for wing help. With De'Anthony Melton out for the year, he now becomes a possible trade chip for the Warriors to utilize. New on @ClutchPoints - Breaking down the Dubs' options on the trade market with intel and rumors from around the NBA: https://t.co/Iq3xFKF98T Ayo Dosunmu Speaks on NBA Cup Stakes Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu discussed the NBA Cup with K.C. Johnson of CHSN before Friday's game against the Hawks . Dosunmu specifically touched on the $500,000 reward each player gets if they win the tournament and how it incentivizes players to perform with more effort. Asked Ayo Dosunmu if players talk about NBA Cup games: “Yeah, for sure. That’s $500,000. [share for players on winning team] Everybody in top 4 gets money. You’re getting paid on top of getting paid so that’s fun. I think it brings more competitiveness.” Gotta love the honesty This article first appeared on On Tap Sports Net and was syndicated with permission.WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row — including two Florida men convicted of killing a family in 2006 — converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump , an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings , including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities. It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are: Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. “I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a statement . “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.” Two of the 37 people whose sentences were commuted were from Florida: Richard Sanchez Jr. and Daniel Troya, sentenced to death three years after the execution-style killings of Luis Escobedo, 28; his wife, Yessica Guerrero Escobedo, 25; and their children Luis Julian, 4, and Luis Damian, 3. The killings, prosecutors said, stemmed from a drug debt Escobedo accumulated from a cocaine trafficking operation. At the time, the Sun-Sentinel reported , U.S. District Judge Daniel Hurley characterized the pair as “living in a Scarface fantasy” and committing “some of the most violent, anti-social conduct one could contemplate.” Sanchez and Troya’s federal death sentences marked the first being given in a Florida court since its reinstatement more than two decades prior. The decision to commute their sentences drew the ire of Sheriff Keith Pearson of St. Lucie County, where the murders took place along the Florida Turnpike. In a statement issued following the White House’s announcement, he called the decision to commute Sanchez and Troya’s sentences “an example of the woke ideology this current administration exhibits,” adding, “Where is the justice for the Escobedo family that was murdered in cold blood?” “These two earned their right to die for the heinous crimes they committed,” Pearson said. The Biden administration in 2021 announced a moratorium on federal capital punishment to study the protocols used, which suspended executions during Biden’s term. But Biden actually had promised to go further on the issue in the past, pledging to end federal executions without the caveats for terrorism and hate-motivated, mass killings. While running for president in 2020, Biden’s campaign website said he would “work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level , and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example.” Similar language didn’t appear on Biden’s reelection website before he left the presidential race in July. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden’s statement said. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.” He took a political jab at Trump, saying, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has spoken frequently of expanding executions. In a speech announcing his 2024 campaign , Trump called for those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.” He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers and even praised China’s harsher treatment of drug peddlers. During his first term as president, Trump also advocated for the death penalty for drug dealers . There were 13 federal executions during Trump’s first term, more than under any president in modern history, and some may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the spread of the coronavirus at the federal death row facility in Indiana. Those were the first federal executions since 2003. The final three occurred after Election Day in November 2020 but before Trump left office the following January, the first time federal prisoners were put to death by a lame-duck president since Grover Cleveland in 1889. Biden faced recent pressure from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The president’s announcement also comes less than two weeks after he commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, and of 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes, the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The announcement also followed the post-election pardon that Biden granted his son Hunter on federal gun and tax charges after long saying he would not issue one, sparking an uproar in Washington. The pardon also raised questions about whether he would issue sweeping preemptive pardons for administration officials and other allies who the White House worries could be unjustly targeted by Trump’s second administration. Speculation that Biden could commute federal death sentences intensified last week after the White House announced he plans to visit Italy on the final foreign trip of his presidency next month. Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences will be commuted. Martin Luther King III, who publicly urged Biden to change the death sentences, said in a statement issued by the White House that the president “has done what no president before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty’s racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness.” Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was converted, said the execution of “the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.” “The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, “and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” Cristobal Reyes of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. Weissert reported from West Palm Beach, Florida.

This weekend is one of the busiest of the year for Christmas tree farms all over the region, as the holidays approach and people start decorating their trees. At Johnston Brothers Tree Farm, located about 71 kilometres south of Ottawa, it's no sweat for founder Pud Johnston. Johnston is 99-years-old and it's his 72nd season selling Christmas trees. "I'm 99 and going for 100," he said. Johnston started the business in 1952 with his brother Eric and they worked alongside each other until he passed away in 2009. Johnston's son Kerry is now the main operator of the farm but he is still engaged every day, spending Sunday pruning some of the smaller trees. "I think it's a healthy activity," Johnston said. "I think it's provided lots of exercise and kept me fit and kept me young, and I wouldn't be 99-years-old now if I hadn't been Christmas tree farming." Pud didn't start the business until his late 20's but for Kerry, it's all he's known his whole life, cutting his first tree when he was about 8-years-old. "Ever since then, I've been in the tree business," Kerry said. "I know nothing else apart from growing up on a tree farm." As for the trees themselves, they can take up to a decade to fully grow. The Johnston's say it takes patience and discipline to run a Christmas tree farm. The Johnston Brothers Tree Farm allows customers to either cut their own trees or choose from the wholesale section. Trees start at $80 with the price depending on the size. Some of the trees on the lot can grow up to 20 feet. Because they've been established in the community for so long, it's allowed them to build a strong clientele, despite customers only needing to visit once per year. "Generally, our business is steady, It's the same people," said Kerry. "They come here because the trees are good. It's a different experience." Christmas trees at Johnston Brothers Tree farm near Kemptville, Ont. on Dec. 8, 2024. (Jack Richardson/CTV News Ottawa) Picking out a tree at the farm has become a tradition for Lisa Haddow-Green, her husband Mike and their 5-year-old son Jack. "We came here our first year with Jack when he was just a baby," she said. "So, we make it a tradition to come here every year." Brockville, Ont. resident Jackson Traynor has cut down a tree here with his dad and sister every Christmas for over 20 years. They say it wouldn't be the holidays without a real tree in their home. "It's just part of the tradition at this point," he said, after cutting down a tree that stood about six feet tall. "Something about the smell of a fresh Christmas tree and the process of you coming out here and you spend way too long picking the right one." Family is what drives Kerry to continue the operation for years to come, just like his dad. 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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is counting down the weeks until she meets her soon-to-be daughter and ahead of the big day, she has shared the baby's name. Blanchard and her boyfriend Ken Urker have decided on the name Aurora Raina Urker, the couple told People . The parents-to-be held a baby shower with friends and family at LARC's Arcadian Village in Lafayette, Louisiana on Nov. 16. In an Instagram post , Blanchard shared photos from the day, which featured food, sweet treats and decorations from Louisiana small businesses. USA TODAY emailed Blanchard's media team for confirmation but had not heard back by Monday afternoon. Baby's name shared just weeks after paternity test results In early November, Blanchard turned to social media to share the results of a paternity test. The test followed questions about who was the baby's father: Urker, who is also Blanchard's ex-fiance, or Ryan Scott Anderson, Blanchard's now ex-husband. Blanchard married Anderson during the final two years of her eight-year prison sentence for the murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard. Blanchard and Anderson split in March and around the same time, Blanchard and Urker reconnected. Blanchard shared the news of her pregnancy in July. Blanchard shared paternity test results that showed that Urker is the baby's father. In addition to squelching rumors, the paternity test was necessary for Urker to be the baby's legal father, despite the fact that the baby always was. In Louisiana, law states that, "If the mother is married to someone other than the biological father when the child was conceived or has been divorced for less than 300 days at the time of birth, the husband/ex-husband shall be the presumed father, unless paternity is established for the biological father." Therefore, if Blanchard had not completed the paternity test, Anderson would have been named the legal father. What was Gypsy Rose Blanchard's case about? Blanchard was involved in perhaps the most recognizable suspected case of Munchausen by proxy, a mental condition in which someone makes another person ill for sympathy or gain, which Blanchard was subjected to by her mother, Dee Dee. Dee Dee alleged to have made Blanchard appear to have a range of physical and development ailments, including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy in order to gain disability payments and gifts from charity. Blanchard spent most of her childhood wheelchair-bound. While living in Springfield, Missouri, where Dee Dee and Blanchard moved to in 2008 after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in Louisiana, Blanchard met Nick Godejohn online. Blanchard sought help from Godejohn, who became her boyfriend, to escape from her mother. In 2015, Godejohn traveled from Wisconsin, where he lived, to Springfield, where the two made plans to kill Dee Dee. Following Dee Dee's murder, Blanchard and Godejohn were nowhere to be found, as they had traveled back to Wisconsin. Following the pair's arrest, Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years for her role in the fatal stabbing of her mother. She became eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence. Blanchard was released after serving eight years in December 2023. Godejohn remains behind bars. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Follow her on X and Instagram @gretalcross. Story idea? Email her at gcross@gannett.com .PUMA Teams Up with Adam&EveDDB for Bold New Global Brand Strategy

Jharkhand to transfer hiked monthly amount of Rs 2,500 to 5.5m womenSOLON, Ohio , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tarkett, a global leader in innovative and sustainable flooring solutions, recently led the renovation of the Niles Township Respite Center near Chicago, Illinois . The initiative was part of the company's charitable giving program, Tarkett Cares , which encourages employees to share their time, talents and corporate flooring donations with local communities where the company operates. While planning Design Days 2024, an annual, three-day interior design show in Chicago , the Tarkett team wanted to find a way to contribute to their host city in a new way. "Instead of focusing on one-off customer giveaways, we wanted to invest in something that could create lasting value for the community that hosts our industry each year," said Roxane Spears , vice president of sustainability for Tarkett. Spears contacted Lisa Kaplan , a Chicago -area resident and former commercial flooring professional, who directed her to the Niles Township Respite Center as a place in need. Located in Skokie, Illinois , the Niles Township Respite Center provides relief to residents facing housing and food insecurities. The space offers access to showers, laundry facilities, a clothing closet, food pantry and more. "The Respite Center's efforts to serve community members struggling with housing and food insecurity align perfectly with Tarkett's commitment to social equity and the Tarkett Cares program," Spears said. "While the center operates on a tight budget, it does so much to help so many. If we can support the center's work by providing cleaner, safer spaces for people as they work through challenging circumstances—that's the impact we want to make." With a deep knowledge of how thoughtfully designed interiors and healthy materials can contribute to better indoor air quality and an overall sense of well-being, the team updated the center's flooring with third-party certified products featuring soothing patterns and colors that would help everyone at the center feel more at home and at peace. Tarkett donated new floors (including the costs of labor for installation) for a quiet room, multi-purpose room, entryway and stairs. The team's enthusiasm for the project spread to other local contractors; FloorsMD provided installation services and their president, Michelle DeLuco , served as an onsite coordinator throughout the project. Tarkett's ethos® carpet tile was installed in the quiet room. ethos is Cradle to Cradle Certified® Silver and has a non-PVC backing that can be recycled back into itself. Contour LVT, which can be recycled into auto mats when taken back through Tarkett's ReStart® take-back and recycling program, was installed in the entryway and multi-purpose room. Coordinating Johnsonite® stair treads were also added to enhance safety and durability. After seeing the newly installed floors, DeLuco felt energized and determined to find a way to go a little further. The project scope grew to include a room expansion, ceiling height adjustment, fresh coat of paint and additional carpet tile for four offices that had suffered flood damage. The additional flooring materials and labor were covered by Tarkett and FloorsMD. ECI and its Executive Construction Foundation, Maxxon and Aspen Commercial Painting also contributed to the expanded project scope. The Respite Center was not charged for any portion of the renovation. "The center had such good bones and was already doing tremendous work for the community. It was very heart-pleasing to see what impact we could make with just a little bit of elbow grease and a group of people who cared," DeLuco said. Ruth Orme-Johnson , a social worker for the Respite Center, said the renovations drastically improved the energy of the space. "It was just wonderful to know that we're giving our clients the kind of calm, positive and inviting environment that we really have always wanted to. You can just feel everyone relax a little bit," Orme-Johnson said. "Our new floor, our new space has been such a gift in terms of being welcoming to everybody. It's also helped me feel proud of the work I do. The space allows the people we help believe they're capable and have the agency to take those steps that will have a positive impact on their lives long term." Mike Isaacs , public relations outreach coordinator for Niles Township Government, said the impact of the renovation exceeded everyone's expectations. "It's been really inspiring," he said. "Our gratitude is forevermore, that's for sure." In addition to corporate giving, the global Tarkett Cares program empowers employees to donate two days of volunteer activity each year. Globally, Tarkett employees have volunteered 3,800 days and contributed to over 900 community initiatives between 2017 and 2023. Take a virtual tour of the renovated Niles Township Respite Center. About Tarkett With a 140-year history, Tarkett is a worldwide leader in innovative and durable flooring and sports surface solutions, generating net sales of 3.4 billion euros in 2023. The Group has around 12,000 employees, 23 R&D centres, 8 recycling centres, and 34 production sites. Tarkett designs and manufactures solutions for hospitals, schools, housing, hotels, offices, shops, and sports fields, serving customers in more than 100 countries. To build "The Way to Better Floors", the Group is committed to the circular economy and sustainable development, in line with its Tarkett Human-Conscious Design ® approach. Tarkett is listed on the Euronext-regulated market (compartment B, ISIN: FR0004188670, ticker: TKTT). www.tarkett-group.com Every Step Matters For years, Tarkett has raised the sustainability standards of the flooring industry. The company designs floors with transparency you can trust as it creates healthy impacts on indoor spaces and protects our air, water, soil, and every living thing. Tarkett's ReStart ® take-back and recycling program will either repurpose or recycle every type of flooring from any manufacturer. Its near-term science-based carbon emissions reduction targets have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and are fully aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement objective to limit global warming by 1.5 degrees Celsius. 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Gene editing tool reduces Alzheimer's plaque precursor in miceHigh school girls basketball season is barely underway, but the top four has already rearranged itself – and there's a new No. 1 team in the country. Here are TSN's national high school girls basketball rankings for the week of Monday, Nov. 25. Top 25 High School Girls Basketball Rankings Montverde Academy (FL) (2-0 – 2 nd last week) The new-look Eagles opened the season with a 75-69 victory over Purcell Marian and cruised past Magnificat before departing Ohio. With Etiwanda going down, bumping the three-time defending Chipotle Nationals champion up to No. 1 was a fairly easy decision. Ontario Christian (CA) (3-0 – 4 th ) More surprising than Ontario Christian’s upset over Etiwanda is the fact that plenty of scouts and media are still barely catching on to the Knights as national title heavyweights. Especially now that long-awaited freshmen Sydney Douglas and Tatianna Griffin have officially begun their high school careers – and are as good as promised. Douglas had 23 points, eight rebounds, and two blocks on 9-12 shooting in the 74-66 win against Etiwanda while Griffin registered a double-double. Etiwanda (CA) (2-1 – 1 st ) The loss to Ontario Christian is Etiwanda’s first against a California opponent since before the 2023 state playoffs. But it was close, and there’s no need to sound the alarm – thanks largely to a second-half surge to make it close led by Grace Knox (30 points, 10 rebounds). It’s early, and Etiwanda will likely get cracks at Ontario Christian three months from now when championships are on the line. Before the loss, the Eagles posted statement wins against Corona Centennial and Sage Hill. Princess Anne (VA) (0-0 – Bubble) Princess Anne was the last team left out of the top 25 in our preseason rankings, so they got first dibs on Legion Prep’s spot despite being yet to tip off. Fittingly, they Cavaliers are less than two weeks out from battling Thomas Dale, ranked one spot higher, for status as Virginia’s top team. Teams on the bubble: Boswell (TX) Centennial (NV) Clovis West (CA) DME Academy (FL) Loyola Academy (IL) Millard West (NE) Princess Anne (VA) Putnam City North (OK) St. Francis (GA) Whitney Young (IL) Winter Haven (FL)

I had a visit on Sunday this week from a secondary school teacher who was asking how he can help his students who are all underage and who have sports betting apps and accounts. He is distressed that they have absorbed the gambling ad message and that their passion for sport is expressed through gambling. I assured him that given Labor and the Coalition would legislate a ban on social media for 16-year-olds they cannot enforce, it was surely a fait accompli that we would see a gambling ad ban which they can enforce. Exactly the same anxiety that parents feel about social media, they feel about gambling ads grooming their kids. Just a few hours later I saw the news that the prime minister, Anthony Albanese , seems to have squibbed any gambling ad reform at all. I was profoundly shocked. A year ago, I had witnessed the emotion of the PM when he spoke at Peta Murphy’s funeral and I had been assured that Labor would honour her groundbreaking legacy on gambling reform. I honestly believed that. She showed us the pathway to address one of our biggest health issues, in the country with the world’s highest per-capita gambling losses. The only question, I believed, was whether they would adopt her recommendation for a full ad ban or legislate just a partial ban. Would they move gambling out of racing and sport to address it in our health departments? Would they implement a national gambling regulator or continue to allow the Northern Territory to continue as the de facto regulator of these ads? Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email But to squib any reform at all, and dishonour her legacy so totally, never entered my mind. What has just happened? Well, it was not public opinion that defeated any reform. More than 70% of the public wanted a full ad ban and everyone wanted some limits placed on the ubiquity of these predatory ads normalising gambling in children’s minds with the AFL and NRL. The AFL supporters’ survey showed that 76% wanted a gambling ad ban from TV and radio. With more than a million ads a year on free-to-air television, the Australian public has had enough. There is a collective psychic vomit every time an ad appears, as well as parental incomprehension about why, 18 months after the Murphy inquiry, our children are still being subjected to this. Peter Dutton knew this. Months before the Murphy recommendations were handed down, he promised in his 2023 budget reply to limit gambling ads and received an overwhelmingly positive response. The Coalition has not responded to Murphy and was waiting to react to the government’s response. Now that the government has squibbed any reform, Dutton has a big opportunity. Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion What happened is pretty simple in my view. The vested interests cowed the PM into dishonouring Murphy’s legacy. Those vested interests start with the obscenely rich foreign-owned sports betting companies. The British online gambling company Bet365 is well connected through their peak body Responsible Wagering Australia, which had former Labor senator Stephen Conroy as CEO followed by former Liberal chief of staff Kai Cantwell. Sporting bodies are often associated with gambling companies. The former CEO of the AFL is now CEO of Tabcorp. The AFL have been lobbying the PM not to implement the Murphy recommendations. Peter V’Landys is the chair of the NRL as well as chief executive and board member with NSW Racing. Media companies Seven, Nine and Foxtel have also been lobbying against the Murphy recommendations. In the same week that the federal government squibbed reform, the gambling industry achieved other successes. The Tasmanian government backflipped on its pokies reforms even though public opinion supports a cashless card. Tasmania Labor supported the Liberals signing the death warrant for promised reform. In New South Wales, the pokies industry sitting at the table of the premier Chris Minns’ expert panel has slowed down any cashless card reform to way beyond the next election. To have them at the table is a bit like having tobacco at the table to get smoking reform. In the US, despite overwhelming public desire to get gun reform, guns remain entrenched and it remains the US’s blind spot. In Australia, despite overwhelming desire to get gambling reform, gambling remains entrenched. What now seems clear is that, a year after her death, the recommendations of the brave Peta Murphy with multi-partisan support showed us a path forward, but our government caved in to vested interests. Tim Costello is chief advocate of the Alliance for Gambling ReformDarts hero Stephen Bunting reveals Liverpool star is huge fan and wore his shirt along with brothers and pals on stag doNeighbors: Cañon City High School junior Ashlynne Goss aims to make the world a better place

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If you still need to buy a bottle of wine to accompany your Thanksgiving feast, hurry in to a Utah liquor store as soon as possible. Michelle Schmitt, spokesperson for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services, said Monday that the days leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday are the busiest for state liquor stores. “We anticipate stores to be fairly busy, from open to close, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,” she said, with Wednesday expected to be the busiest. If you do still need to stop at a liquor store, pack your patience, and “plan to potentially wait in line,” Schmitt said. “Hopefully, that’s not the case, but it might be.” Liquor store staff, however, are “working really hard to ensure that the shelves are stocked and to ensure that there’s always somebody at that register ready to close somebody out to make their purchases,” she said. The most popular beverages for the holiday? Chardonnays, Schmitt said, along with red wines — in particular, pinot noirs and Beaujolais Nouveau. Anticipating the release of that fresh and fruity wine from France is a favorite Thanksgiving tradition, she said. Liquor stores will be closed on Thanksgiving and be back open on Friday.Popular brunch spot, , in the west end of is looking for a new owner. The unit on Queen Margaret Drive in North Kelvinside is a local favourite, known for their tasty rolls. However, following the sad passing of owner Jenny earlier this year, her husband Chris has decided to sell the business and search for a new dedicated owner. Listed with Kirkstone Property Consultancy, offers in the region of £45,000 are expected, this includes the goodwill of the business, fixtures and fittings - with stock also available at valuation. The current lease is £11,000 per annum and will soon increase to £12,000 in 2027. The unit, situated in a busy prime location, is on the ground floor of a mixed use four-storey tenement red sandstone building and is accessed via a single aluminium framed and glazed door. Internally, the café is rectangular in shape with customers table and chairs to the front and serving counter to the rear. Behind the serving counter is the commercial kitchen which, as expected, is fitted out to a professional standard with extract ventilation and a range of stainless steel sink units, utility basins and fitments. A comprehensive range of floor and wall mounted style units are installed with appropriate worktops. The walls are covered in stainless steel and PVC splashbacks and the suspended ceiling incorporates LED lighting. Part of the listing description reads: "Comet Pieces is an established café / takeaway business which enjoys regular all year round trade from customers, such is the trading position. The bespoke menu the current operators offer is reflective of the success of the business and, in turn, benefits from high levels of repeat custom from locals. "The business trades Monday to Saturday from 9am to 8pm. The current operators have decided to sell the business due to a change in circumstance, thus creating an exciting self-employment opportunity. Proof of sales will be made available to seriously interested parties post viewing stage." For more information, click .Cowboys' Zack Martin not thinking about next year after deciding on season-ending surgeryDURHAM, N.C. — Duke's Cooper Flagg knows what's coming from older and stronger defenders. So too does Auburn coach Bruce Pearl when it comes to the pressure facing his frontcourt star, Johni Broome. On Wednesday night, the two preseason Associated Press All-Americans headlined a heavyweight matchup worthy of March, though from very different positions: Flagg as the 17-year-old touted freshman mentioned as a possible No. 1 overall NBA draft pick long before showing up on campus, Broome as the 22-year-old fifth-year senior who started his career at a mid-major. Yet they're each shouldering the burden of top billing on a team with national title aspirations, all on display as the ninth-ranked Blue Devils beat the second-ranked Tigers 84-78 in the ACC/SEC Challenge. The 6-foot-9, 205-pound Flagg finished with a game-high 22 points and 11 rebounds with four assists, three steals and two blocks. The 6-10 240-pound Broome had 20 points, 12 rebounds and three assists before fouling out late. They didn't match up directly, but remained the gravitational force at the center of everything — from offensive plans to collapsing defenses — all the same. For Flagg, it was sign of big-game growth after late stumbles in losses to Kentucky and Kansas, along with handling the physical play of the Tigers. "That's something I'm going to start to see more and more," Flagg said. "It's definitely going to be a game plan for the other team, just to try and be physical with me. I think that's something that I've been dealing with since I was in sixth, seventh grade. People look at me and think they can just out-tough me, be more physical with me, and it would take me out the game. "But I've just got to keep playing through it, keep learning how to use that against them and just keep getting better." He did that against the veteran-laden Tigers, scoring 16 points and drawing seven fouls while getting to the line nine times after halftime. He felt several of those, too, such as Chaney Johnson's off-ball bump that knocked him to the hardwood midway through the second half and left him wincing. "I told him all week: 'They're going at you the whole time,'" junior teammate Tyrese Proctor said. "They had a couple of dirty plays. I just told him to keep his head composed and poised and just trust himself." Flagg pushed through regardless and showed some of his smooth moves, particularly in the second half. A dribble drive into the lane for a fallaway jumper over 6-11 big man Dylan Cardwell; pouncing on a defensive switch to drive and easily score over 6-4 guard Denver Jones; a spinning drop-step score in the paint while being fouled, leaving Pearl staring at officials and pointing to the Tigers' end of the court about an earlier no-call. Flagg also had no turnovers in his 37 minutes, a reversal after losing late turnovers in the losses to the Wildcats and Jayhawks. "To be able to coach him, he never fights you," Duke coach Jon Scheyer said. "He just never fights you. In a game, you can get on him. In practice he's always wanting to get better and in every aspect of his game. "I've always felt like Cooper's a one-time guy. He needs to experience something one time to get adjusted." As for Broome, he was coming off a dominating run through the Maui Invitational that made him the AP men's college basketball national player of the week Tuesday. Auburn also jumped two spots in Monday's latest AP Top 25, erasing nearly all of top-ranked Kansas' previous margin on the No. 2-ranked team. And that made the Tigers just the second top-2 nonconference team to play in Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1965 and first since top-ranked Michigan's "Fab Five" lost here December 1992 — exactly 32 years ago Thursday. Broome, who played his first two college seasons at Morehead State, offered matchup concerns with his ability to handle the ball on the perimeter, alter shots and attack the glass. And he was unbothered by the hostility of Duke's famously rambunctious "Cameron Crazies" fans, staring at them through much of pregame warmups with a grin and even laughing multiple times. He didn't shoot well early (2 for 9 in the first half) but started thriving in the pick-and-roll after halftime with Duke's defense stretched by Auburn's 3-point shooters. He nearly had a double-double in the second half (15 points, nine rebounds), including when he finished at the rim through Mason Gillis' foul and knocked Gillis to the ground — then gave him a lengthy stare as he stood over him. Broome led the Tigers until fouling out with 15 seconds left with Blue Devils fans starting to chant "Our house! Our house!" to mark another home win in their famed arena. He never flinched, even in the face of Auburn's first loss. "I think he's handled (the pressure) really well," Pearl said. "One of the reasons our team has played well so far this year is Johni's been a tremendously consistent player. Clearly a (national) player of the year candidate. If our team continues to win, he's our best player. ... He's able to do it on both ends, and he's able to do it inside and out." 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Stock market today: Wall Street rises toward more recordsBy ALI SWENSON and BARARA ORTUTAY Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner’s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms. Related Articles Technology | The internet is rife with fake reviews. Will AI make it worse? Technology | Who’s who in Donald Trump’s new Silicon Valley entourage Technology | South Bay tech data site is bought by big California real estate firm Technology | As we enter the shortest days of the year here’s the history of light bulbs Technology | Albania to shut down TikTok for a year over violence, bullying The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter’s core mechanic . That’s unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky’s growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms. But with growth comes growing pains. It’s not just human users who’ve been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites. The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October. Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil . “They got this spike in attention, they’ve crossed the threshold where it is now worth it for people to flood the platform with spam,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and a member of Issue One’s Council for Responsible Social Media. “But they don’t have the cash flow, they don’t have the established team that a larger platform would, so they have to do it all very, very quickly.” To manage growth for its tiny staff, Bluesky started as an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February. That period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other distinctive features to attract new users , such as “starter packs” that provide lists of topically curated feeds. Meta recently announced that it is testing a similar feature. Compared to the bigger players like Meta’s platforms or X, Bluesky has a “quite different” value system, said Claire Wardle, a professor at Cornell University and an expert in misinformation. This includes giving users more control over their experience. “The first generation of social media platforms connected the world, but ended up consolidating power in the hands of a few corporations and their leaders,” Bluesky said on its blog in March. “Our online experience doesn’t have to depend on billionaires unilaterally making decisions over what we see. On an open social network like Bluesky, you can shape your experience for yourself.” Because of this mindset, Bluesky has achieved a scrappy underdog status that has attracted users who’ve grown tired of the big players. “People had this idea that it was going to be a different type of social network,” Wardle said. “But the truth is, when you get lots of people in a place and there are eyeballs, it means that it’s in other people’s interests to use bots to create, you know, information that aligns with their perspective.” Little data has emerged to help quantify the rise in impersonator accounts, artificial intelligence-fueled networks and other potentially harmful content on Bluesky. But in recent weeks, users have begun reporting large numbers of apparent AI bots following them, posting plagiarized articles or making seemingly automated divisive comments in replies. Lion Cassens, a Bluesky user and doctoral candidate in the Netherlands, found one such network by accident — a group of German-language accounts with similar bios and AI-generated profile pictures posting in replies to three German newspapers. “I noticed some weird replies under a news post by the German newspaper ‘Die Ziet,’” he said in an email to The Associated Press. “I have a lot of trust in the moderation mechanism on Bluesky, especially compared to Twitter since the layoffs and due to Musk’s more radical stance on freedom of speech. But AI bots are a big challenge, as they will only improve. I hope social media can keep up with that.” Cassens said the bots’ messages have been relatively innocuous so far, but he was concerned about how they could be repurposed in the future to mislead. There are also signs that foreign disinformation narratives have made their way to Bluesky. The disinformation research group Alethea pointed to one low-traction post sharing a false claim about ABC News that had circulated on Russian Telegram channels. Copycat accounts are another challenge. In late November, Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, found that of the top 100 most followed named individuals on Bluesky, 44% had at least one duplicate account posing as them. Two weeks later, Mantzarlis said Bluesky had removed around two-thirds of the duplicate accounts he’d initially detected — a sign the site was aware of the issue and attempting to address it. Bluesky posted earlier this month that it had quadrupled its moderation team to keep up with its growing user base. The company also announced it had introduced a new system to detect impersonation and was working to improve its Community Guidelines to provide more detail on what’s allowed. Because of the way the site is built, users also have the option to subscribe to third-party “Labelers” that outsource content moderation by tagging accounts with warnings and context. The company didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment for this story. Even as its challenges aren’t yet at the scale other platforms face, Bluesky is at a “crossroads,” said Edward Perez, a board member at the nonpartisan nonprofit OSET Institute, who previously led Twitter’s civic integrity team. “Whether BlueSky likes it or not, it is being pulled into the real world,” Perez said, noting that it needs to quickly prioritize threats and work to mitigate them if it hopes to continue to grow. That said, disinformation and bots won’t be Bluesky’s only challenges in the months and years to come. As a text-based social network, its entire premise is falling out of favor with younger generations. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that only 17% of American teenagers used X, for instance, down from 23% in 2022. For teens and young adults, TikTok, Instagram and other visual-focused platforms are the places to be. Political polarization is also going against Bluesky ever reaching the size of TikTok, Instagram or even X. “Bluesky is not trying to be all things to all people,” Wardle said, adding that, likely, the days of a Facebook or Instagram emerging where they’re “trying to keep everybody happy” are over. Social platforms are increasingly splintered along political lines and when they aren’t — see Meta’s platforms — the companies behind them are actively working to de-emphasize political content and news. The Associated Press receives support from several private foundations to enhance its explanatory coverage of elections and democracy. See more about AP’s democracy initiative here . The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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