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betway real money casino games Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) LEAVING NOTHING ON THE FIELD As the final sitting week of the year enters its last few days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been telling his MPs he’ll “leave nothing on the field” to ensure Labor wins another majority government next year. The Australian reports the PM said in his end-of-year address to caucus on Tuesday there would only be a short break over Christmas as he prepares for the upcoming federal election. The paper also highlights that Coalition leader Peter Dutton reckons the government is faltering and making decisions that will make life harder for Australian families. As we’ve mentioned all week, there’s still A LOT the government hopes to get passed before Parliament rises and The Australian flags Labor MPs have been told there might be an extra sitting day to try and get as much done as possible. One of the bills the government wants to get over the line is, of course, the social media ban. AAP flags the Senate inquiry into legislation banning under 16s from most platforms, which ran for just one day, has recommended the bill should be passed as the government hopes to get it rushed through despite a chorus of objections. The Australian says the legislation looks set to pass with Dutton in support of the plans, although it has divided the Coalition partyroom with “Nationals Senator Matt Canavan and Liberal Senator Alex Antic prepared to cross the floor and others reserving their right to do so”. The paper also quotes a Labor MP raising concerns over the speed at which the legislation is being pushed through — though they were not talking about crossing the floor. “It’s the wrong way to go about it. It’s simplifying a very complex issue.” In addition, the Oz reports Albanese is unlikely to be able to establish an environmental watchdog before next year’s ­election and he continues to eye a deal with the Greens on his Future Made in Australia agenda. As flagged in yesterday’s Worm , the government’s controversial migration bills are set to be debated today. AAP says with independents, the Greens, legal experts and human rights advocates condemning the legislation, the government is hoping to use Coalition support to get the bills across the line. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Immigration Minister Tony Burke has been holding talks with the opposition over the government’s plans to “pay countries to accept convicted criminals it has been unable to deport and revive its travel ban on nations that don’t take back citizens against their will”. The paper explains how the immigration package allows the government to put non-citizens back into detention once another country agrees to take them, and those who do not cooperate with moves to deport them face five years in jail. More than 80,000 people could be affected by the plans, an inquiry has said, but the Department of Home Affairs claims it will impact around 5,000 people on bridging visas and another 1,000 in immigration and community detention, AAP says. Immigration barrister Jason Donnelly is quoted by the newswire as saying: “These measures, in combination, raise substantial risks of undermining procedural fairness, individual rights and government accountability.” CHALMERS URGES CALM Donald Trump’s latest threat to hit China, Mexico and Canada with new tariffs on the first day of his presidency generated plenty of attention yesterday with the Australian Financial Review leading overnight on the fact the Australian dollar dropped to a four-month low after Trump’s comments while Treasurer Jim Chalmers attempts to calm everyone down . To recap, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform he would be imposing a 25% tariff on all products from Mexico and Canada, plus an additional 10% on goods from China. The BBC reports Trump said the tariffs on Canada and Mexico would remain in place until the countries clamped down on drugs, particularly fentanyl, and migrants illegally crossing the border. The broadcaster said he added “we will be charging China an additional 10% tariff, above any additional tariffs” until it cracked down on fentanyl smuggling. The AFR said on Tuesday the Australian dollar dropped to US64.32c in response — the lowest since early August — before recovering to just under US65c. The paper flagged the Australian dollar “has slumped US5c in just two months, and banks are warning that its future looks bleak”. Meanwhile, The Age reckons “the Australian economy has been destabilised” by Trump. ANZ chief economist Richard Yetsenga is quoted as saying Tuesday’s events marked “only the beginning” of what could be four years of economic uncertainty. “This is the United States increasing tariffs on its three largest trading partners. That represents a discrete change in global trade policy,” Yetsenga said. “He [Trump] does take a transactional approach to many things, so this may be the first sense of what we will see under Trump 2.0.” Responding to Tuesday’s events, Chalmers said : “The incoming US administration will bring a different suite of policies and we’re confident in our ability to navigate that change. “Our economic plan is all about making Australians big beneficiaries of the shifts that are shaping the global economy. We’re well placed and well prepared to work with the incoming administration in the US.” Elsewhere, the ABC flags China’s ambassador to Australia said yesterday there was “no reason” that Trump’s second stint in the White House should damage the relationship between Canberra and Beijing. “There are reasons for us to be responsibly managing relations bilaterally, well enough, maturely enough, so that our two peoples can continue to benefit,” Xiao Qian said. “There is no reason to compromise our respective interests for the sake of a third party.” ON A LIGHTER NOTE... An editor I once worked with banned coverage of the death of the world’s oldest person, because inevitably the stories never end — there’s always someone who takes over as the oldest person alive. That’s a fair point, but I think regardless we should pause and reflect on the life lessons John Tinniswood , who passed away on Monday aged 112, had for us. Tinniswood, from Merseyside, England, previously told the Guinness World Records his longevity was down to “pure luck”, CNN reports. “You either live long or you live short, and you can’t do much about it,” he said. As The Guardian points out he also suggested moderation was key. “If you drink too much or you eat too much or you walk too much, if you do too much of anything, you’re going to suffer eventually,” he said. The paper said Tinniswood managed his own finances and kept up with the news every day. His family said in a statement: “He was intelligent, decisive, brave, calm in any crisis, talented at maths and a great conversationalist. His last day was surrounded by music and love.” Say What? This word captures what many of us feel is happening to the world and to so many aspects of our lives at the moment. Macquarie Dictionary We’ve flagged previous words of the year in the Worm and today it’s Macquarie Dictionary’s turn — the dictionary has declared “enshittification” its word of 2024. The dictionary defines the word as: “The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.” CRIKEY RECAP Australia’s teen social media ban loophole means kids can still use TikTok and YouTube Shorts CAM WILSON Videos from TikTok and YouTube Shorts (Image: Crikey) Australia’s teen social media ban won’t require TikTok or YouTube to stop children from using their algorithmically driven short-video platforms, significantly undermining the government’s major motivations for the policy. Experiments by Crikey show that TikTok and YouTube Shorts users are algorithmically recommended videos by both platforms without needing to log in — meaning that these services won’t be affected by the Albanese government’s bill which seeks to regulate only logged-in users. Among the government’s justifications for a blanket ban on children under the age of 16 using social media are fears about the impact of social media algorithms on young Australians. Greens declare victory on housing and go home, mission accomplished BERNARD KEANE Nonetheless, by stymieing much of Labor’s housing agenda for the past two years, the Greens can rightly feel it’s mission accomplished. Their goal, like it or not, has been to delay or prevent the government from doing anything noticeable to address housing affordability, such as encouraging the construction of more housing or reducing migration, enabling the Greens to campaign against Labor at the election for failing on housing. You can object to the ruthlessness of the Greens’ tactic, but not the electoral calculation behind it, or its success. A last-minute backflip to allow two relatively modest additions to the policy suite on housing won’t do anything to change those political dynamics. Labor will continue to denounce the “Greens political party” (drink!) as obstructionist and “the party of protest”, but there’s no denying the Greens’ success in preventing reform on housing. To be fair, Adam Bandt might have pushed the whole charade a bit too far, though, when he declared he would “take the fight to the next election, where we’ll keep Peter Dutton out and then push Labor to act on unlimited rent rises and tax handouts to wealthy property investors”. Keep Peter Dutton out? The Greens? Consider the seats the Bandt has explicitly said the Greens will target at the next election: Sydney, Macnamara, Wills, Cooper, Richmond. All Labor seats. The Greens will keep Dutton out by... taking seats off Labor. Makes sense. The entire Greens project is to take seats off Labor, understandably. The extent to which a hard-left party cannibalises the vote of a notionally left party, however, matters little to the electability of a right-wing party, beyond the extent to which it makes it easier for the right-wing party to become the largest grouping in Parliament and thus best-placed to form government. Australian powerbrokers’ debut event aims for (and gets) five out of ten DAANYAL SAEED Asked by Spencer to first identify themselves on a political sliding scale of 1-10, with 1 being nominally left and 10 being nominally right, Aly opened proceedings by saying he liked to think he exists “on a third axis ... I’ve previously argued in print that left and right are meaningless terms”. “I would, however, say I’m contractually obliged to be a 5,” he joked. Lehmann, however, was more forthcoming, describing herself as “probably a seven”, later describing herself as “centre-right”. It was in contrast to Kelty, a key figure in the establishment of the Keating-era Accords , who said he stopped referring to binary left-right scales “when he was 13 or 14”. Kelty went on to describe himself as “unashamedly socialist”. READ ALL ABOUT IT Eight men detained over suspected Laos methanol poisoning that killed six backpackers (ABC) Netanyahu urges cabinet to approve ceasefire with Hezbollah ( The New York Times ) ($) Five survivors rescued day after tourist boat sank in Red Sea — as search for missing ‘intensifies’ (Sky News) Fugitive on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list arrested in UK (CBS News) No 10 dismisses Russia spy claims as ‘baseless’ (BBC) Relevance! Relevance! Relevance! Microsoft at 50 is an AI Giant — and still hell-bent on domination ( WIRED ) THE COMMENTARIAT What has happened to gambling reform under Labor? It’s simple — the government has been cowed by vested interests — Tim Costello (Guardian Australia): 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. Mr Trump, do you realise how much the world has changed since you were president? — Thomas L. Friedman ( The New York Times ): President-elect Trump, you may think that your second term will be judged by how many tariffs you impose on China. I beg to differ. When it comes to US-China relations, I think your legacy — as well as President Xi Jinping’s — will be determined by how quickly, effectively and collaboratively the United States and China come up with a shared technical and ethical framework embedded in each AI system that prevents it from becoming destructive on its own — without human direction — or being useful to bad actors who might want to deploy it for destructive purposes. History will not look kindly on you, President-elect Trump, if you choose to prioritise the price of toys for American tots over an agreement with China on the behaviour of AI bots.Israel is carrying out its most intense wave of strikes on Lebanon's capital Beirut and its southern suburbs since the start of the 13-month war with Hezbollah, apparently signaling it aims to pummel the country in the final hours before any ceasefire takes hold. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech Tuesday evening saying he would ask his ministers to adopt a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. Less than an hour later, Israeli jets targeted a building in a bustling commercial area of Beirut and Israel's military issued new evacuation warnings, sending residents fleeing into the streets. Hezbollah also fired rockets into Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country’s north. The ceasefire deal seeks to push Hezbollah and Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon. More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon the past 13 months, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The bombardment has driven 1.2 million people from their homes. Hezbollah began attacking Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after Hamas’ attack on southern Israel, in support of the Palestinian militant group. That has set off more than a year of fighting escalated into all-out war in September with massive Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon and an Israeli ground invasion of the country’s south. It’s not clear how the ceasefire will affect the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, where more than 44,000 people have been killed and more than 104,000 wounded in the 13-month war between Israel and Hamas, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. ——— Here's the Latest: WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump’s designate to be national security adviser, credited Trump’s victory with helping bring the parties together toward a ceasefire in Lebanon. “Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump,” he said in a post on X on Tuesday. “His resounding victory sent a clear message to the rest of the world that chaos won’t be tolerated. I’m glad to see concrete steps towards deescalation in the Middle East.” He added: “But let’s be clear: The Iran Regime is the root cause of the chaos & terror that has been unleashed across the region. We will not tolerate the status quo of their support for terrorism.” BEIRUT — Israeli jets targeted a building in a bustling commercial area of Beirut for the first time since the start of the 13-month war between Hezbollah and Israel. The strike on Hamra is around 400 meters (yards) from the country’s central bank. A separate strike hit the Mar Elias neighborhood in the country’s capital Tuesday. There was no immediate word on casualties from either strike, part of the biggest wave of attacks on the capital since the war started. Residents in central Beirut were seen fleeing after the Israeli army issued evacuation warnings for four targets in the city. Meanwhile, the Israeli army carried out airstrikes on at least 30 targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs Tuesday, including two strikes in the Jnah neighborhood near the Kuwaiti Embassy. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that 13 people were injured in the strikes on the southern suburbs. BEIRUT — Hezbollah has said it accepts the ceasefire proposal with Israel, but a senior official with the group said Tuesday that it had not seen the agreement in its final form. “After reviewing the agreement signed by the enemy government, we will see if there is a match between what we stated and what was agreed upon by the Lebanese officials,” Mahmoud Qamati, deputy chair of Hezbollah’s political council, told the Al Jazeera news network. “We want an end to the aggression, of course, but not at the expense of the sovereignty of the state.” of Lebanon, he said. “Any violation of sovereignty is refused.” Among the issues that may remain is an Israeli demand to reserve the right to act should Hezbollah violate its obligations under the emerging deal. The deal seeks to push Hezbollah and Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon. JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he would recommend his Cabinet adopt a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as Israeli warplanes struck across Lebanon, killing at least 23 people. The Israeli military also issued a flurry of evacuation warnings — a sign it was aiming to inflict punishment on Hezbollah down to the final moments before any ceasefire takes hold. For the first time in the conflict, Israeli ground troops reached parts of Lebanon’s Litani River, a focal point of the emerging deal. In a televised statement, Netanyahu said he would present the ceasefire to Cabinet ministers later on Tuesday, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting. Netanyahu said the vote was expected later Tuesday. It was not immediately clear when the ceasefire would go into effect, and the exact terms of the deal were not released. The deal does not affect Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which shows no signs of ending. BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state media said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 10 people in Baalbek province the country’s east. At least three people were killed in the southern city of Tyre when Israel bombed a Palestinian refugee camp, said Mohammed Bikai, a representative of the Fatah group in the area. He said several more people were missing and at least three children were among the wounded. He said the sites struck inside the camp were “completely civilian places” and included a kitchen that was being used to cook food for displaced people. JERUSALEM — Dozens of Israeli protesters took to a major highway in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to call for the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, as the country awaited news of a potential ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Protesters chanted “We are all hostages,” and “Deal now!” waving signs with faces of some of the roughly 100 hostages believed to be still held in Gaza, at least a third of whom are thought to be dead. Most of the other hostages Hamas captured in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack were released during a ceasefire last year. The prospect of a ceasefire deal in Lebanon has raised desperation among the relatives of captives still held in Gaza, who once hoped that the release of hostages from Gaza would be included. Instead of a comprehensive deal, the ceasefire on the table is instead narrowly confined to Lebanon. Dozens of Israelis were also demonstrating against the expected cease-fire, gathering outside Israel’s military headquarters in central Tel Aviv. One of the protesters, Yair Ansbacher, says the deal is merely a return to the failed 2006 U.N. resolution that was meant to uproot Hezbollah from the area. “Of course that didn’t happen,” he says. “This agreement is not worth the paper it is written on.” FIUGGI, Italy — Foreign ministers from the world’s industrialized countries said Tuesday they strongly supported an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and insisted that Israel comply with international law in its ongoing military operations in the region. At the end of their two-day summit, the ministers didn’t refer directly to the International Criminal Court and its recent arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over crimes against humanity . Italy had put the ICC warrants on the official meeting agenda, even though the G7 was split on the issue. The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, isn’t a signatory to the court and has called the warrants “outrageous.” However, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said all the other G7 countries were signatories and therefore obliged to respect the warrants. In the end, the final statement adopted by the ministers said Israel, in exercising its right to defend itself, “must fully comply with its obligations under international law in all circumstances, including international humanitarian law.” And it said all G7 members — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – “reiterate our commitment to international humanitarian law and will comply with our respective obligations.” It stressed that “there can be no equivalence between the terrorist group Hamas and the State of Israel.” The ICC warrants say there's reason to believe Netanyahu used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeted civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny. BEIRUT — An Israeli strike on Tuesday levelled a residential building in the central Beirut district of Basta — the second time in recent days warplanes have hit the crowded area near the city’s downtown. At least seven people were killed and 37 wounded in Beirut, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. It was not immediately clear if anyone in particular was targeted, though Israel says its airstrikes target Hezbollah officials and assets. The Israeli military spokesman issued a flurry of evacuation warnings for many areas, including areas in Beirut that have not been targeted throughout the war, like the capital’s commercial Hamra district, where many people displaced by the war have been staying. The warnings, coupled with fear that Israel was ratcheting up attacks in Lebanon during the final hours before a ceasefire is reached, sparked panic and sent residents fleeing in their cars to safer areas. In areas close to Hamra, families including women and children were seen running away toward the Mediterranean Sea’s beaches carrying their belongings. Traffic was completely gridlocked as people tried to get away, honking their car horns as Israeli drones buzzed loudly overhead. The Israeli military also issued warnings for 20 more buildings in Beirut’s suburbs to evacuate before they too were struck — a sign it was aiming to inflict punishment on Hezbollah in the final moments before any ceasefire takes hold. TEL AVIV, Israel — The independent civilian commission of inquiry into the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel has found Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly responsible for the failures leading up to the attack, alongside former defense ministers, the army chief and the heads of the security services. The civil commission presented its findings today after a four-month probe in which it heard some 120 witnesses. It was set up by relatives of victims of the Hamas attack, in response to the absence of any state probe. The commission determined that the Israeli government, its army and security services “failed in their primary mission of protecting the citizens of Israel.” It said Netanyahu was responsible for ignoring “repeated warnings” ahead of Oct. 7, 2023 for what it described as his appeasing approach over the years toward Hamas, and for “undermining all decision-making centers, including the cabinet and the National Security Council, in a way that prevented any serious discussion” on security issues. The commission further determined that the military and defense leaders bear blame for ignoring warnings from within the army, and for reducing the army’s presence along the Gaza border while relying excessively on technological means. On the day of the Hamas attack, the report says, the army’s response was both slow and lacking. The civil commission called for the immediate establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the Oct. 7 attack. Netanyahu has opposed launching a state commission of inquiry, arguing that such an investigation should begin only once the war is over. JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says its ground troops have reached parts of Lebanon’s Litani River — a focal point of the emerging ceasefire. In a statement Tuesday, the army said it had reached the Wadi Slouqi area in southern Lebanon and clashed with Hezbollah forces. Under a proposed ceasefire, Hezbollah would be required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the Israeli border. The military says the clashes with Hezbollah took place on the eastern end of the Litani, just a few kilometers (miles) from the border. It is one of the deepest places Israeli forces have reached in a nearly two-month ground operation. The military says soldiers destroyed rocket launchers and missiles and engaged in “close-quarters combat” with Hezbollah forces. The announcement came hours before Israel’s security Cabinet is expected to approve a ceasefire that would end nearly 14 months of fighting. BEIRUT — Israeli jets Tuesday struck at least six buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs Tuesday, including one that slammed near the country’s only airport. Large plumes of smoke could be seen around the airport near the Mediterranean coast, which has continued to function despite its location beside the densely populated suburbs where many of Hezbollah’s operations are based. The strikes come hours before Israel’s cabinet was scheduled to meet to discuss a proposal to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The proposal calls for an initial two-month ceasefire during which Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the southern border south of the Litani River. There were no immediate reports of casualties from Tuesday’s airstrikes. FIUGGI, Italy — EU top diplomat Josep Borrell, whose term ends Dec. 1, said he proposed to the G7 and Arab ministers who joined in talks on Monday that the U.N. Security Council take up a resolution specifically demanding humanitarian assistance reach Palestinians in Gaza, saying deliveries have been completely impeded. “The two-state solution will come later. Everything will come later. But we are talking about weeks or days,” for desperate Palestinians, he said. “Hunger has been used as an arm against people who are completely abandoned.” It was a reference to the main accusation levelled by the International Criminal Court in its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister. Borrell said the signatories to the court, including six of the seven G7 members, are obliged under international law to respect and implement the court’s decisions. Host Italy put the ICC warrants on the G7 agenda at the last minute, but there was no consensus on the wording of how the G7 would respond given the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has called the warrants “outrageous.” Italy, too, has said it respects the court but expressed concern that the warrants were politically motivated and ill-advised given Netanyahu is necessary for any deal to end the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon. “Like it or not, the International Criminal Court is a court as powerful as any national court,” Borrell said. “And if the Europeans don’t support International Criminal Court then there would not be any hope for justice,” he said. Borrell, whose term ends Dec. 1, said he proposed to the G7 and Arab ministers who joined in talks on Monday that the U.N. Security Council take up a resolution specifically demanding humanitarian assistance reach Palestinians in Gaza, saying deliveries have been completely impeded. “The two-state solution will come later. Everything will come later. But we are talking about weeks or days,” for desperate Palestinians, he said. “Hunger has been used as an arm against people who are completely abandoned.” It was a reference to the main accusation levelled by the International Criminal Court in its arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister. Borrell said the signatories to the court, including six of the seven G7 members, are obliged under international law to respect and implement the court’s decisions. Host Italy put the ICC warrants on the G7 agenda at the last minute, but there was no consensus on the wording of how the G7 would respond given the U.S., Israel’s closest ally, has called the warrants “outrageous.” Italy, too, has said it respects the court but expressed concern that the warrants were politically motivated and ill-advised given Netanyahu is necessary for any deal to end the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon. “Like it or not, the International Criminal Court is a court as powerful as any national court,” Borrell said. “And if the Europeans don’t support International Criminal Court then there would not be any hope for justice,” he said. (edited)

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Here are some quick-hitting notes from the availability: » Virginia Tech had four quarterbacks going through drills during the open portion of practice. Pop Watson and Davi Belfort were getting the first reps, followed by walk-ons Jackson Sigler and Ben Locklear . Kyron Drones and Collin Schlee were not on the practice field while in “treatment protocol,” according to Hokies coach Brent Pry . Pry and Bowen both said they are preparing four quarterbacks this week. Drones and Schlee will likely go back and forth between treatment and the practice field, while Watson and Belfort get the bulk of the on-field reps. “We’re preparing multiple guys to play, we’re preparing four guys to play right now. And I was impressed with the young guys today at practice,” Bowen said Tuesday. “We’ve got a lot of growth to do in that room. We’ll see where we get to from a health standpoint by the time we reach Saturday, but it’s certainly a challenge getting that many guys ready to play. There are only so many reps at practice, but I don’t view it as a challenge in a negative way but in a positive way with opportunities and we can kind of shape a game plan around what people’s strengths are and have multiple versions of that and see where we get by Saturday.” » Watson appeared in two games in 2023 and made two appearances this season before playing for three quarters last weekend at Duke. Pry said Watson gained “good film” by being thrown into the fire for the first time at Tech. He completed 12 of 25 passes for 146 yards and one interception, and he was credited with minus-4 rushing yards because of being sacked seven times. Watson, with the game experience, will have a better understanding of what he needs in the game plan. “You’ve got to think, he’s played sparingly here and there, a lot of it being mop-up time last year. A little bit this year. To see him in live action when the game’s on the line and you’re in the flow of the game, you’ve got the full game plan at your disposal when you’re playing quarterback,” Bowen said. “I thought it was good to see him and his confidence in that. I didn’t think the moment was too big. Then I think now you go down from that, that’s a big piece of it. You don’t find that out about a quarterback until you get in the game. Then the next piece of it is, OK, well where is our process in the decision-making and that stays true in the game. And those are the things that certainly I think need to get a lot better to play winning football on offense at the quarterback position.” » Belfort has spent most of the season serving as the scout team quarterback. Defensive players have raved about Belfort’s speed and what he’s brought to preparing the starting defense for the opposing quarterbacks. Belfort has moved up to No. 2 quarterback this week and will need to be ready in case Watson has to exit the game and both Drones and Schlee aren’t available. “He’s really improved his speed. Davi’s very conscientious. Good decision-maker. Still coming along in a lot of ways, he’s a young guy. But Davi puts in the work. He’s prepared. He’s prepared like a starter all year,” Bowen said. “We have the quarterbacks go through, if you’re not the two guys, there’s a lot of time invested in that position during the week. Way more above and beyond what the normal required hours are in meetings and things like that. And what Davi’s done, what we have those young quarterbacks do, they do scouting reports every week on the opponent to really keep them in the game, to teach them how to watch film. Both myself and Coach Crist, that’s a crucial part of their development. It’s not just seeing the film and understanding the defense and understanding the game plan. It’s understanding how to do those things. You don’t do those things at that level in high school. So he’s done that all year, as well as Pop, as well as Jackson and Ben, and I think that’s kept them in the flow. I think he does a really good job of, although not getting the reps, of going through the mental process as though he’s going to play. And I think that makes it easy when you’re getting some reps in practice, whether that be with the twos or the threes, it makes that transition a little bit easier.” » Keli Lawson rotated between Will and Star linebacker in last weekend’s game at Duke. He had five tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss while backing up Caleb Woodson at Will and Keonta Jenkins at Star. Lawson played at Star during the 2022 season before moving to Will and playing inside the box during the 2023 campaign. Jenkins and Kaleb Spencer had been the primary Star linebackers through 10 weeks. “He can cover a lot of ground. We joke he can reach the Lane Stadium lights from the practice field with his arms as long as he is,” Quinn said of Lawson. “He covers a lot of ground when you bring him on a pressure. He is deceptively fast and, as long as he is, he’s able to stay off blocks a lot of times. He’s got such a great wingspan that when he gets into windows of throws and things like that, he does a really nice job. But is it nice having long, tall guys that can run. Obviously we’ve tried to recruit those kind of guys to the position if you look at him, Keonta, Gabe Williams and the body types. That’s the type of guys we want to play with.” » Jenkins delivered what could have been a potential game-altering play with less than two minutes remaining against the Blue Devils. Jenkins punched the ball out of Star Thomas' grasp, and defensive end Cole Nelson recovered it to give the Hokies a chance to potentially tie the game in the final minutes. "When I caused the fumble, it kind of surprised me. I seen the ball, I seen it laying on the ground, I for sure thought it was a scoop-and-score. That’s what I was hoping," Jenkins said. "That’s kind of what I wanted. I was disappointed in anything else. But we got the ball and got our offense a chance to go out there and score. I was happy that I made a play, but I really wish it was a scoop-and-score to win the game." » Tailback Bhayshul Tuten originally injured his left ankle late in the Hokies’ win over Georgia Tech and aggravated the injury two weeks later against Clemson. The setbacks derailed Tuten’s special season that had vaulted him into consideration for All-America status. He could have opted out for the remainder of the season and turned his attention to a professional career, but elected to finish out the season with the Hokies. “Just finishing with my guys. Since winter we’ve been grinding out to finish the season strong, and that’s my goal to stick by my brothers and not give up so early because of a little bang up,” Tuten said. “I’ve got time to heal after the season, so I’d rather finish out the last couple of games for the year and take a couple of weeks off to get healthy.” » Tuten rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown last week at Duke to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark. He became the 19th player in program history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. “Definitely a big achievement. I didn’t get to hit it last year, so coming in with the year I’ve had this year, definitely a great feeling,” Tuten said. “That’s a team goal for the offense. The O-line did their thing. It’s not just a goal for me, but it’s a goal for everyone. When I accomplished that goal, it’s a team effort.” » Xayvion Turner-Bradshaw has shifted focus to defense in recent weeks. The Graham High School product arrived at Tech as a slot receiver and he served as Jaylin Lane ’s primary backup last season, but he fell on the depth chart behind Lane, Ayden Greene and Takye Heath this season. Turner-Bradshaw was seen warming up with the defensive backs prior to last weekend’s game at Duke. “We started messing with it a few weeks back. You know, like all these skill guys, if it’s not working out on one side, you want to give them a shot on the other,” Pry said at his Tuesday press conference. “Right now, he’s embraced it. He’s giving it a go. He’s got great speed and quickness. It’s hard, whether you’re covering the receiver in the slot or out to the big field. You need a really good skill set to do that, and he has that, as far as speed and quickness. So we’ll give him a shot at it and see where it goes.” » Freshman Quentin Reddish did not play for the first time since the season opener. Pry said Reddish was injured and it came down to a “pregame decision” for him to not play. Reddish wore No. 25 for the game. Reddish’s injury meant Devin Alves got his most extensive playing time as the third safety. He primarily played at field safety with Jaylen Jones dealing with an undisclosed injury. “He dressed for the game and the medical staff didn’t feel good about him going, so he didn’t play at all,” Pry said of Reddish. “Devin got some snaps, did a nice job in pass coverage. Got a couple guys on the ground in perimeter tackling. We didn’t ask him to do much down in the box, but I thought from a coverage standpoint he did fine.”

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By Anna Tong (Reuters) – The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse, the company said Thursday. James Owen spent over 28 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focused on weapons engineering. The New Mexico-based lab, set up in 1943 as the top-secret facility for the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, maintains the nation’s largest nuclear weapons arsenal, and oversees the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. At San Francisco Bay Area-based Fuse, Owen will be leading the company’s efforts to sell to U.S. governmental agencies, in areas including radiation services, a critical component of nuclear fusion energy. Fuse is one of a number of startups, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-backed Helion, that is racing to commercialize nuclear fusion technology as a source of clean energy, though some experts have said its commercial viability is still decades away. “If I thought it was well outside of my career horizon, I’d be less interested in trying to solve this problem,” Owen told Reuters. “Some argue it’s within a decade, others argue it’s beyond that, but recent advancements give me hope.” Fusion, which fuels the sun and stars, is in the experimental stage on Earth, but could one day generate enormous amounts of energy that emits virtually no greenhouse gas and without generating large amounts of long-lasting radioactive waste. Fusion is of particular importance to the artificial intelligence industry, which has been hamstrung by not having enough power to fuel the ever-growing computing clusters it needs to train smarter AI systems. 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Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );AKRON, Ohio , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining" or the "Company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders at 428 South Seiberling Street, Akron, Ohio , US on January 7, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., New York time. Holders of record of ordinary shares and Class A preference shares of the Company at the close of business on December 20, 2024 , New York time (the "Record Date") are entitled to receive notice of, and to attend and vote at, the annual general meeting or any adjournment thereof. Holders of the Company's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying ordinary shares must act through the depositary of the Company's ADS program, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. The notice of the annual general meeting, which sets forth the resolutions to be submitted to shareholder approval at the annual general meeting is available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://ir.btcm.group . The Company filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on May 15, 2024 . Shareholders may obtain a copy of the Company's annual report, free of charge, from the Company's website at https://ir.btcm.group and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov , or by contacting BIT Mining Limited at 428 South Seiberling Street, Akron, Ohio , US, attention: Victor He , telephone: +1 (330) 676-2680, email: ir@btcm.group . About BIT Mining Limited BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company with operations in cryptocurrency mining, data center operation and mining machine manufacturing. The Company is strategically creating long-term value across the industry with its cryptocurrency ecosystem. Anchored by its cost-efficient data centers that strengthen its profitability with steady cash flow, the Company also conducts self-mining operations that enhance its marketplace resilience by leveraging self-developed and purchased mining machines to seamlessly adapt to dynamic cryptocurrency pricing. The Company also owns 7-nanometer BTC chips and has strong capabilities in the development of LTC/ DOGE miners and ETC miners. Safe Harbor Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 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For more information: BIT Mining Limited ir@btcm.group ir.btcm.group www.btcm.group Piacente Financial Communications Victor He Tel: +1 (330) 676-2680 Email: BITMining@thepiacentegroup.com View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bit-mining-limited-to-hold-annual-general-meeting-on-january-7-2025-302327447.html SOURCE BIT Mining Limited

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