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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. consumers who were “tricked” into purchases they didn't want from Fortnite maker Epic Games are now starting to receive refund checks, the Federal Trade Commission said this week. Back in 2022, Epic agreed to pay a total of $520 million to settle complaints revolving around children’s privacy and payment methods on its popular Fortnite game. The FTC alleged the video game giant used deceptive online design tactics to trick Fortnite players, including children, into making unintended purchases “based on the press of a single button."Jammu, Nov 26: Minister for Youth Services and Sports, Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Information Technology, Science and Technology and ARI & Trainings, Satish Sharma, today flagged off Constitution Day Padyatra rally. The rally was organised by Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, J&K, under the aegis of MY Bharat to commemorate the 75th Constitution Day, celebrating the adoption of Indian Constitution on November 26, 1949. Present on the occasion were Director General, Youth Services & Sports Department, Rajinder Singh Tara, Transport Commissioner, Bhawani Rakwal, State Director, Nisar Ahmed Batt, RTO, Pankaj Bagotra and Principal GCW Parade, Ravinder Kumar Tickoo. The Minister administered the “Read the Preamble” pledge to the participants before the flag off ceremony. The rally commenced from Government College for Women Parade and proceeded towards Ambedkar Chowk through Parade Chownk, Indira Chowk and Gumat before culminating at Govt MAM College, covering a distance of more than 7 km. It was attended by more than 1000 participants including MY Bharat Volunteers, students, sportspersons and staff. The Minister paid floral tributes to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on the occasion. The Padyatra then proceeded towards Government MAM College where it was received by Bharat Anand, Principal MAM College and others. A cultural bonanza was also presented by the students of Government MAM College. While speaking on the occasion, the Minister lauded the efforts of NYKS, YSS Department, NSS, Colleges and Education Department in successfully holding the mega padyatra. Satish Sharma urged the youth to stay away from drugs while asking them to bring to his notice the incidents of drug abuse in their surroundings. The Minister said that B.R Ambedkar being the Chairman of the Drafting Committee was successful in drafting the longest written constitution of the world. Satish Sharma, while highlighting government endeavours towards welfare and development of youth in J&K, said that enhanced facilities would be ensured for the sportspersons and students. The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Principal MAM College. The proceedings of the valedictory ceremony were conducted by Dr Gurpreet Kaur, PO NSS GCW Parade.

Title: The Focus of "Western Street Observation" Platform on RightsAt the heart of Argentina's success are their midfield maestros, whose creativity and vision have propelled the team to new heights. The dynamic duo of Lionel Messi and Giovani Lo Celso has been nothing short of sensational, orchestrating play with precision and finesse that few can match. Their seamless connection on the field has been a joy to watch, as they thread passes, make incisive runs, and score breathtaking goals that leave spectators in awe.In the Serie A this season, the once-mighty AC Monza, led by head coach Christian Brocchi and sporting director Filippo Inzaghi, find themselves in a precarious position. With only 1 victory in 15 matches under the leadership of Fabio Cannavaro, the former World Cup-winning captain Andrea Pirlo's team sits in second-to-last place in the standings, just one point above the relegation zone.

Both Oklahoma and Providence are hoping they'll have key pieces back in place when the two undefeated teams square off in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis on Wednesday in Paradise Island, Bahamas. The Friars (5-0) are expected to have Bryce Hopkins available, according to a report from Field of 68. Hopkins was averaging 15.5 points and 8.6 rebounds last season before suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament Jan. 3. He returned to full-go practices last week, and Tuesday, Providence coach Kim English said Hopkins would be a "game-time decision" against the Sooners. "It's been a process," English said. "We're not rushing it." But English praised Hopkins' progress since the Friars' last game, Nov. 19, when Hopkins went through pregame warmups. "I thought he looked better than I remembered," English said. "He's been in our system for the past year. His patience, his understanding, his versatility on offense and defense ... it's been great to see him in practice." The Sooners (4-0) are hopeful that they'll get Brycen Goodine back. Goodine played for the Friars for two seasons from 2020-22 before transferring to Fairfield for two seasons and then to Oklahoma this offseason. Goodine suffered an ankle injury in the Sooners' opener Nov. 4 and has not played since. "He's a really tough kid and trying to push through it," Oklahoma coach Porter Moser said. "It will truly be one of those game-time decisions. He hasn't gone a full practice yet, just been pieces of practices." Playing with Goodine and Jadon Jones, expected to be two of the Sooners' top outside shooters, Moser said he's learned plenty about his team's offense. "When you're down those shooters, it's really a great weapon to know that a lot of other guys can knock down the open shot," Moser said. "It's been a huge takeaway." The Sooners have been led by Jalon Moore, who is averaging 18.8 points per game, and freshman Jeremiah Fears, who is averaging 15.5. Providence has been led by senior guard Bensley Joseph, who is averaging 11.8 points and 4.0 assists per game. Oklahoma has not played a game closer than 16 points yet this season, with an average margin of victory of 24 points. Providence has won its five games by an average of nearly 17 points per game. The teams will square off against either Davidson or No. 24 Arizona in the second round Thursday, with the winners playing each other in one semifinal while the losers play in a consolation semifinal. --Field Level Media

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Sports Fodder: Jeff Choate, no matter what happens this Saturday night in Las Vegas with the Fremont Cannon on the line, deserves a passing grade for his rookie season as the Nevada Wolf Pack's head coach. How, you might be wondering right now, can a coach get a passing grade for a 3-9 record and a current five-game losing streak with one game remaining in the season? Nobody is saying Choate has turned one of the worst programs in the nation the last two years into the hottest ticket in town. You can't, after all, even give Wolf Pack tickets away right now. If you went to a Wal Mart parking lot and stuck Pack tickets under everyone's windshield wipers, they'd toss them away like they were an offer to blacktop their driveway. Make no mistake, Choate's not the best thing to enter the Wolf Pack world since the first, second and third coming of Chris Ault. But he's also not Chris Tormey, Brian Polian and Ken Wilson. He's not all that innovative or creative and he never met a cliche he didn't like. He's just a coaching lifer blessed with a non-stop work ethic, toughness, confidence and a belief he's going to succeed. And that, right now, is certainly good enough. Choate's grade right now is a respectable C+ and we'll elevate that to a B-minus if he stuns those cocky Rebels on Saturday and opens a few cans of blue paint when he gets back to Northern Nevada. Yes, the Pack has lost nine of 12 games this year and that will likely be 10-of-13 by late Saturday night, if you believe the oddsmakers (who have been kind to the Pack and listed UNLV as just a 17-point favorite). Those oddsmakers, no doubt, have noticed that six of the Pack losses have been by seven points or less. Oddmakers tend to notice those things. Those six losses have also been by a combined total of a mere 25 points. Ken Wilson's Wolf Pack, as a reminder, lost by 36 in the final game of his head coaching career (42-6 to Wyoming). Wilson went 4-20 at Nevada with just four of his 20 losses by seven points or less. Turn just half of Choate's six close losses into wins and we're looking at a 6-6 record right now with a bowl game invite on the line on Saturday. Choate has restored competitiveness and confidence to this Pack program after two years of Wilson excuses following double-digit losses. Nobody is laughing at the Pack anymore. Choate deserves to come back for a second year. The wins will come soon. ••• All Wolf Pack seasons, we're well aware, are judged on a pass-fail system depending on the UNLV game. No B-minus, C-plus, A, B, C or D. Just pass or fail. Don't believe it? Jay Norvell's first Pack team in 2017 went 3-9 but he beat UNLV in the last game of the season. Pass. Chris Ault's 1994 Wolf Pack went 9-2 but he lost to UNLV in the last game of the season with a Las Vegas Bowl and Big West outright championship on the line. Fail. Yes, Ault still claims a share of the title since UNLV, the Pack and Southwestern Louisiana all finished 5-1 atop the Big West and gave everyone rings after the year. But that's Chris Ault, who was his own boss at the time. Pack fans, on the other hand, had a sick feeling in their stomach after losing to UNLV in 1994 that lasted until they played UNLV in 1995. You don't like it? Well, go coach Sacramento State. But if you do, you better beat UC Davis or you'll be picking up trash on the side of I-80 the next fall. That's college football. It's all about the rivalry game, the thing that separates college football from the less fortunate sports. A Wolf Pack win on Saturday would immediately jump into the top 10 of all Wolf Pack wins in school history. It's one thing to whip UNLV when the Rebels are inept, barely give an effort and are coached by guys who couldn't get a job parking cars at Caesar's Palace. It's quite another thing to beat a cocky, confident and motivated Rebels team coached by a guy who thinks Las Vegas is the epicenter of college football. This is the greatest UNLV football season in the history of its program. They've already won nine games. They are headed to a bowl game and they expect to be playing for their first Mountain West championship at Boise State on Dec. 6. The Rebels also clearly believe they will destroy the Pack this week and Boise State the following weekend and will deserve a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff. It's hard to argue with them right now. The Rebels have won 18-of-25 games since coach Barry Odom took over the program before the 2023 season. Odom has yet to win fewer than nine games in a season since he moved to Las Vegas. The Rebels under Odom have taken over the state and aren't looking back. They play in one of the most lavish and garish stadiums in the country that just so happens to sit in arguably the most lavish and garish cities in the world. The Wolf Pack, though, could destroy it all on Saturday and also take home a red, soon-to-be-blue, cannon as a prize. It would be a victory not soon forgotten north of Tonopah and one that would ruin the Rebels holidays. In other words, it would be Pack perfect. ••• Saturday night could be more than just a little weird for Wolf Pack fans. We could be looking at a scenario where the Wolf Pack could be doing former head coach Jay Norvell (the last Pack coach to beat UNLV, in 2021) a huge favor. Norvell's Colorado State Rams need to beat Utah State on Friday and also need the Pack to beat UNLV in order for the Rams to earn a spot in the conference title game. Imagine that. The Wolf Pack doing Norvell, the man who sent the Pack into the tailspin in which it still spins, a solid. The guy deviously abandons the program and takes with him half a coaching staff and a dozen or so players and recruits and the Pack could help send him to the league title game. But don't worry, Pack fans. Sending Norvell to the title game wouldn't spoil a Wolf Pack victory celebration on Saturday because, well, a blue Fremont Cannon is the No. 1 goal of every Pack season. And don't forget, you'll likely get to witness Norvell and the Rams get destroyed in the Mountain West title game. But the best scenario, then, for Wolf Pack fans this weekend is for Utah State to beat Norvell and the Rams on Friday and for the Pack to beat UNLV on Saturday. It's not perfect. UNLV would still go to the league title game. But it would make for a wonderful post-Thanksgiving Saturday night for Pack fans, who deserve something to celebrate this year. We wouldn't have to watch Norvell in the league title game and we could also then watch UNLV in the title game knowing they took a loss to the Wolf Pack with them to Boise State. Dare to dream, Pack fans. ••• It is still a bit difficult to figure out how the Wolf Pack got to this point. We are all a bit numb because of all the losing the last three years. It now just seems like part of our fall ritual, you know, like we are the new UNLV fans of the 1990s. It's difficult to believe this is actually happening. The Wolf Pack, believe it or not, has lost 30 of its last 37 games since Norvell left town. Did you ever think you'd see the day when Pack football would lose 30-of-37 football games? Of course not. Chris Tormey, don't forget, was laughed at and fired after going 16-31 from 2000-03. The next Pack coach to go 16-31 will get a three-year contract extension. Did you ever think you'd see the day when Nevada would lose 20-of-22 conference football games? Are you kidding? Two league wins in three years? This is the same program, after all, that won three or more league games every year from 1978 through 1997 and again from 2001 through 2021. The Pack, by the way, is still looking for its first league win under keep-'em-close Choate. There is simply no excuse for such utter destruction to a once-proud football program. Norvell didn't do it. Yes, he put it in motion. But the Pack has nobody to blame but itself for what has happened in the last 37 games. Norvell is not the cause of a 7-30 record overall and 2-20 in league games. Chris Ault left the program three times, and the Pack never went more than one season without a winning record after he left all three times. The Pack hasn't even had a true winning month since Norvell left unless, of course, you count the 1-0 record in August 2022 to start the Wilson era and the 2-1 record in October 2023 when the Pack smartly scheduled a bye week to start the month. The Pack has had only seven winning weeks since Norvell's been gone. Ault had 25 winning seasons out of 28. The Pack, a program that once was competing with Boise State for league titles, has now turned into New Mexico and San Jose State. Then again, New Mexico is 5-6 and San Jose State is 6-5 this year so, truth be told, the Pack hopes to grow up someday to become New Mexico and San Jose State. This is how you can legitimately give a passing grade to a coach with a 3-9 record. ••• Choate, if he is going to mature into a truly great coach, needs to learn how to win games as much as his players need to learn that skill. Players, after all, come and go all the time. Bad coaches tend to linger for a while, stinking up the football landscape. Choate might think he knows how to win after spending so many years coaching at successful programs, such as Boise State from 2006-11 and Texas from 2021-23. But it's one thing to be an assistant coach at winning programs and quite another to be the head coach. See Ken Wilson. Choate has been a head coach for five seasons (four at Montana State) and already has three losing seasons. A loss on Saturday will give him an overall record as a head coach of 31-32. His conference record in the Big Sky and Mountain West will be 18-21. None of that screams College Football Playoff. That doesn't mean he's a mediocre coach waiting to be fired like so many others down through the years at Nevada not named Chris Ault. Choate, we remind you, is still a rookie Division I-A FBS head coach. He talks like he's Barry Switzer or Bear Bryant but that's just his personality. If he was an experienced FBS head coach this year he likely would have pushed, pulled and magically transformed that 3-9 record into something along the lines of 7-5. He's done it before. When he was a rookie FCS head coach at Montana State in 2016, his first four losses were by six points or less. The following year he lost three games by four points or less. Over his final two years at Montana State, he lost just two games by seven points or less. He matured. He grew. The Pack needs that same type of growth from him starting, well, now. The other improvement Choate needs to make is to continually upgrade his expectations. Choate, it seems, has understandably tempered his expectations this year. The guy, after all, went from the national title game with Texas last year immediately into the Pack mess. Choate has been content this year to simply do everything in his power to keep games close and keep his fingers crossed that the ball will bounce just right at critical times. He's said as much almost every week, constantly reminding us that his goal is to make sure it is a one-score game in the fourth quarter. Congratulations. Mission accomplished. Eight of the dozen Pack games this year were one-score games at the final buzzer and the Pack lost six of them. That's what tends to happen when you don't reach for the stars and simply reach for the mashed potatoes across the table at dinner time. Choate will learn that turning close losses into close wins, just like turning a winning record as an assistant coach into one as a head coach, can't just be based on keeping games close and hoping for the best. We'll accept mashed potatoes as the prize this year. Next year, the stars need to start coming into focus.Satellogic Announces Closing of $10 Million Private Placement and Filing of Shelf Registration Statement

Bitcoin has been dealing with a lot of uncertainty during the second and third quarters of 2024, but the general market sentiment remained positive. The most recent shows that investors weren’t wrong to remain optimistic, as BTC just rallied considerably, reaching $99K. During times like this, it is more difficult to determine the direction the marketplace will take, an already challenging task to perform in a market known for its volatility and fluctuations. As a result, investors are likely to have an even harder time coming up with comprehensive strategies that can ensure profitability. As always, your best bet is to do your research so that you can learn more about the latest developments in the marketplace, as well as have a look at historical data patterns. You mustn’t let yourself be swayed by the fear of missing out since it will most definitely do you much more harm than good and cause you to lose large amounts of capital for nothing. Bitcoin was originally designed to have the same properties and use cases as fiat currencies, only in digital format. However, that plan didn’t become a reality, and right now, Bitcoin is considered more of a store of value than anything else. This is precisely why so many investors are bringing Bitcoin to their portfolios since the king of crypto helps with both asset diversification and value retention. However, there has been a lot of discourse within the community regarding the ability to spend cryptocurrencies the same way as other coins. A service that allows this to happen could be one of the first steps Bitcoin takes into the mainstream, attracting a growing number of potential investors that will bring more engagement on the blockchain. Recently, Mastercard has joined forces with a global payments ecosystem known for building and harmonizing solutions that can host both crypto and traditional currencies. Analysts have long debated the possibility of connecting these two financial worlds, and while naysayers definitely do exist, the number of those who believe both ecosystems would have a lot to gain from the interaction is much larger. Mastercard decided to expand support for non-custodial crypto wallets and enable a new euro-denominated debit card that will allow users to spend Bitcoin at more than 100 million merchants that are part of the Mastercard network. Self-custody is a fundamental concept of the crypto environment. It refers to storing assets in a manner that doesn’t depend on the use of a centralized platform or institution, such as a bank. This is one of the key features that attracted investors to this ecosystem in the first place since many are drawn by the anonymity the blockchain is able to offer, as well as the inherent security associated with it. Unlike custodial wallets, the self-custodial variety needs the user to take full responsibility for their funds. You become the only owner of the private key that lets you access the wallet and your funds. As a result, losing or forgetting this password means that you won’t be able to access your capital. Sharing the code with anyone else can also be a security risk since many crypto investors fall prey to scams in which malicious individuals manage to earn their trust and extract this information from them. Afterward, their accounts would be left entirely drained. So, why does an established credit card company want to work with custodial wallets? The general consensus is that traditional and digital finance have nothing to do with one another and that blending them together cannot end well. However, some analysts consider the movement to be perfectly natural and the logical progression Bitcoin was bound to make toward becoming a payment option. The fact that cryptocurrencies are slowly entering the mainstream is also essential to remember. While they are still relatively new assets, they have been considered a niche class for the majority of time. The technology surrounding cryptocurrencies can indeed be quite intimidating for those who are not familiar with it. According to a social media post made by the company, the project will enable users to spend their coins while also addressing the complexities that come with buying and selling cyber coins through the means of a centralized exchange. Exchange-traded funds have been widely discussed ever since before their launch. The reason for the hype surrounding them is their potential to drive significant price action. In Bitcoin’s case, the predictions came true, and the coin managed to beat its previous all-time high. The reason for the price rally is the potential ETFs have to bring more investors to the ecosystem, something that will drive engagement levels and naturally result in a marketplace that is more active. But compared to their United States counterparts, the Hong Kong bitcoin ETFs had a much slower start. During the last week of August, the three spot exchange-traded funds based on Bitcoin in Hong Kong had net inflows of around 247 BTC, meaning that the total holdings are currently around $4,450 BTC. That brings the total AUM for the ETFs and HK $2.1 billion, or $269 million. The gains are excellent news for the ecosystem, given that the Hong Kong assets underperformed significantly compared to their counterparts in the United States. During the launch on April 30th, they attracted $262 million in inflows during the first seven days. However, a majority of that number was subscribed before the listings went live. As such, the actual asset inflows were a much smaller $14 million. This is a sizable contrast when compared to the billions that went into the US Bitcoin ETFs when they were launched in January. Hong Kong has been looking forward to establishing itself as a global hub for crypto investments and trading, and these events have been a setback, showing that the market still has some catching up to do. When you’re an investor, you need to find the best ways to establish your strategy. Do your research and keep your goals in mind, as these are the main factors that should influence your decisions.