lobo 777 jogo The Ducks were on to Ottawa, rambling by rail to face the Senators on Wednesday after picking up a point from a shootout loss in Montreal on Monday. They’ll remain in the province of Ontario on Thursday for the final leg of a two-games-in-two-nights challenge that’ll pit them against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Despite Monday’s debut of trade acquisition Jacob Trouba (five hits, one shot on goal), the Ducks have been winless in their past three games and gone 2-4-2 since their best five-game stretch of the year (4-1-0). They nearly slammed the brakes on their current skid in a tightly contested battle with Montreal that gave way to a lopsided shootout in which the Habs went two-for-two while the Ducks failed to score at all. Troy Terry’s attempt was stopped to cement the result, and he also pinged the crossbar late in overtime after scoring his team-topping seventh and eight goals of the season in regulation. “I felt good tonight so I was hoping that I could get it done,” Terry told reporters, before he praised the Ducks’ overarching effort in a game as lively as its Original-Six atmosphere. “That’s just kind of the way it goes.” The way it’s gone for the Ducks, again, is that their schedule has been packed with white-knuckled, bitten-nail affairs. Exactly half of their 108 outings under second-year coach Greg Cronin have been either one-goal games or matches that had a one-goal margin late before an empty-netter or two was tacked onto the score. Half of their 16 defeats this season have come by just one goal, including four in either overtime or a shootout. They’ve also won eight games either by one goal or after leading by a goal before finding the back of an empty net. Last season, 38 of their outcomes were determined either by one goal or that margin plus an empty-net tally (or, as in the case of their win over Carolina, two empty-netters). They dropped 24 decisions by either a goal or two goals with a late empty-netter, while winning only 14 such contests en route to a franchise record 50 regulation defeats. Their next overtime loss will already equal their total from all of last season (five). While the Ducks have found a way to win – and somehow also play in – more tight games this season, the number of close losses highlights their lack of offensive pop as well as the sporadic quality of their overall game. Stretches and periods have been nearly ideal, but seldom has a full hour of game action gone smoothly. “The first period was one of the best periods we’ve played,” Cronin told reporters after the Montreal game. “It kind of resembled the way we’ve been playing when we’re winning.” The Ducks have hardly been alone in trying to create consistent momentum. Ottawa was one of eight teams in the Eastern Conference that’s within two points of .500, in one direction or the other, entering Tuesday’s schedule. After losing five straight games, the Senators reeled off a 4-1-1 spurt that included a shootout loss to the Ducks at Honda Center on Dec. 1. Most recently, they lost 4-2 to the New York Islanders. Tim Stützle leads the Sens in assists (24) and points (34), while captain Brady Tkachuk’s 13 goals, including two against the Ducks, kept him atop the team leaderboard. Mitch Marner tops Toronto (16-9-2) in scoring by a full 10 points, in part because Auston Matthews missed nearly a month with an upper-body injury for which he sought treatment in Germany. Matthews has three goals and seven points in four games since returning to the Leafs’ lineup. Ducks at Ottawa When: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday Where: Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario How to watch: Victory+, KCOP (Ch. 13) Ducks at Toronto When: 4 p.m. Thursday Where: Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario How to watch: Victory+

The Giants were on the wrong end of another lopsided loss on Sunday and things were just as ugly in the locker room as they were on the field. Rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers ripped the team for being “soft as fuck” in their 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers and said it was obvious that quarterback Daniel Jones wasn’t the issue with the team based on how things played out against Tampa. Some of Nabers’s older teammates shared similar sentiments. Edge rusher Brian Burns said, via Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com, that he spoke to the team after a performance he described as “ass” and left tackle Jermaine Eluemunor said that he doesn’t “think everybody is giving 100 percent.” Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence said his frustration is at a 10 and used the same word to describe the team as Nabers. “We played soft and they beat the shit out of us today,” Eluemunor said, via SNY. Lawrence suggested he wasn’t on board with the decision to bench Jones this week and Jones was waived on Saturday. He seems likely to wind up with a new team and it will likely be one with a lot more to play for than the Giants, who will have to balance an unhappy locker room with a short turnaround to their Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys.Giants QB Tommy DeVito has a sore throwing arm after loss to Bucs‘Fight, fight, fight’: Trump markets the smell of victory

Dylan recently attended a Bad Seeds show in Paris and said he was "really struck by that song 'Joy'" Nick Cave has described receiving a complimentary tweet from Bob Dyan about a recent Bad Seeds show as “a lovely pulse of joy”. READ MORE: Nick Cave interviewed: “There’s no metric that says virtuousness makes good art” The Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter attended the band’s concert at the Accor Arena in Paris on November 17, writing on X after the show that he had been “really struck by that song ‘Joy’ where he sings “ We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy ”. Dylan added, “I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.” Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right. — Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) November 19, 2024 Cave has written a reply to the comment on his website The Red Hand Files , noting: “I hadn’t known Bob was at the concert and his tweet was a lovely pulse of joy that penetrated my exhausted, zombied state.” “I was happy to see Bob on X, just as many on the Left had performed a Twitterectomy and headed for Bluesky,” he continued. “It felt admirably perverse, in a Bob Dylan kind of way. I did indeed feel it was a time for joy rather than sorrow. There had been such an excess of despair and desperation around the election, and one couldn’t help but ask when it was that politics became everything. “The world had grown thoroughly disenchanted, and its feverish obsession with politics and its leaders had thrown up so many palisades that had prevented us from experiencing the presence of anything remotely like the spirit, the sacred, or the transcendent – that holy place where joy resides. I felt proud to have been touring with The Bad Seeds and offering, in the form of a rock ‘n ’roll show, an antidote to this despair, one that transported people to a place beyond the dreadful drama of the political moment.” “I was elated to think Bob Dylan had been in the audience, and since I doubt I’ll get an opportunity to thank him personally, I’ll thank him here. Thank you, Bob!” ‘Joy’ is a track from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ latest album ‘Wild God’, which arrived in late August and scored a four-star review from NME . The review read: “Bad Seeds records are infamously loaded with gothic doom and gloom. Of course, this ain’t a poptastic LOLfest, and still coloured with the many shades of a life so challenging and weathered.” “But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “ Jumping for love and the opening sky above ” as “ Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t washed for years “. With a lust for life, the once-dark prince is letting the light in.” In April, Cave wrote a blog post about the artists – Dylan included – that have “disappointed” him in some form: “They have often not travelled in the direction I would have hoped or wished for, instead following their own confounding paths (damn them!) to their own truths. “In the course of this I have sometimes been discomforted by things they have done, disagreed with things they have said, or not liked a particular record they have made. Yet there is something about them that keeps me captivated, and forever alert to what they might do next.” In September, Cave chose 1969’s ‘I Threw It All Away’ as his favourite Dylan song for a Mojo compilation . Cave said of the track: “The production is so clean, fluid and uncluttered, and there is an ease and innocence to Dylan’s voice in its phrasing, in its tone that is in no Dylan recording before or after. There is a perfectly measured emotional pull to the singing... I can put this song on first thing in the morning or the middle of a dark night and it will make me feel better, make me want to carry on. The song serves the listener as it should and that’s its genius.” Related Topics Alternative Bob Dylan Nick Cave Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds RockHow WWE can quickly turn up the volume on its Roman Reigns-CM Punk Survivor Series story

NoneIsrael cracks down on Palestinian citizens who speak out against the war in Gaza UMM AL-FAHM, Israel (AP) — In the year since the war in Gaza broke out, Israel's government has been cracking down on dissent among its Palestinian citizens. Authorities have charged Palestinians with “supporting terrorism” because of posts online or for demonstrating against the war. Activists and rights watchdogs say Palestinians have also lost jobs, been suspended from schools and faced police interrogations. Palestinians make up about 20% of Israel's population. Many feel forced to self-censor out of fear of being jailed and further marginalized in society. Others still find ways to dissent, but carefully. Israel's National Security Ministry counters that, “Freedom of speech is not the freedom to incite.” Israel says rabbi who went missing in the UAE was killed TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found, citing Emirati authorities. The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Sunday said Zvi Kogan was killed, calling it a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.” It said: “The state of Israel will act with all means to seek justice with the criminals responsible for his death." Kogan went missing on Thursday, and there were suspicions he had been kidnapped. His disappearance comes as Iran has been threatening to retaliate against Israel after the two countries traded fire in October. Israeli strike kills Lebanese soldier and wounds 18 as Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army center has killed one soldier and wounded 18 others. The Hezbollah militant group meanwhile fired around 160 rockets and other projectiles into northern and central Israel on Sunday, wounding at least five people. Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's military has largely kept to the sidelines. The Israeli military expressed regret over the strike, saying it occurred in an area of ongoing combat operations against Hezbollah. It said it does not target the Lebanese armed forces and that the strike is under review. The rising price of paying the national debt is a risk for Trump's promises on growth and inflation WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has big plans for the economy. He also has big debt problem that'll be a hurdle to delivering on those plan. Trump has bold ambitions on tax cuts, tariffs and other programs. But high interest rates and the price of repaying the federal government’s existing debt could limit what he’s able to do. The federal debt stands at roughly $36 trillion, and the spike in inflation after the pandemic has pushed up the government’s borrowing costs such that debt service next year will easily exceed spending on national security. After Trump's Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles WASHINGTON (AP) — During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump had hailed what would become Project 2025 as a conservative roadmap for “exactly what our movement will do." Trump pulled an about-face when Project 2025 became a political liability. He denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous and abysmal” plans, even though some were written by his former aides and many allies. Now, after winning the 2024 election, Trump is stocking his second administration with key players in the effort he temporarily shunned. Trump has tapped Russell Vought for an encore as director of the Office of Management and Budget; Tom Homan, his former immigration chief, as “border czar;” and immigration hardliner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of policy. Forecasts warn of possible winter storms across US during Thanksgiving week WINDSOR, Calif. (AP) — Forecasters in the U.S. have warned of another round of winter weather that could complicate travel leading up to Thanksgiving. California is bracing for more snow and rain this weekend while still grappling with some flooding and small landslides from a previous storm. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for California's Sierra Nevada through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at high elevations. Thousands remained without power in the Seattle area on Saturday after a “bomb cyclone” storm system hit the West Coast earlier in the week, killing two people. Parts of the Northeast and Appalachia also began the weekend with heavy precipitation. Pakistan partially stops mobile and internet services ahead of pro-Imran Khan protest ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has suspended mobile and internet services “in areas with security concerns” as supporters of imprisoned former premier Imran Khan gear up for a protest in the capital. The government and Interior Ministry made the announcement on X, which is banned in Pakistan. Sunday's protest is to demand Khan's release. He has been in prison for more than a year but remains popular. His supporters rely heavily on social media and messaging apps to coordinate with each other. Pakistan has already sealed off Islamabad and shut down major roads and highways connecting the city with Khan's power bases. Here's what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. But it’s a far-from-perfect arrangement, with many parties still unsatisfied but hopeful that the deal will be a step in the right direction. Japan holds Sado mines memorial despite South Korean boycott amid lingering historical tensions SADO, Japan (AP) — Japan has held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines despite a last-minute boycott of the event by South Korea that highlighted tensions between the neighbors over the brutal wartime use of Korean laborers. South Korea’s absence at Sunday’s memorial, to which Seoul government officials and Korean victims’ families were invited, is a major setback in the rapidly improving ties between the countries. The Sado mines were listed in July as a UNESCO World Heritage Site after Japan moved past years of disputes with South Korea and reluctantly acknowledged the mines’ dark history. Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83 NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died. He was 83. Mark Young, Woolery’s podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. Woolery, with his matinee idol looks, coiffed hair and ease with witty banter, was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007 and earned a daytime Emmy nomination in 1978. He teamed up with Young for the podcast “Blunt Force Truth” and became a full supporter Donald Trump.New Delhi, Dec 25 (PTI) Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested a total of 114 hardened criminals in 2024, including 40 parole jumpers, 40 wanted offenders, an official said on Wednesday. The other arrested criminals included 18 interim bail jumpers, nine proclaimed offenders, four carrying a reward on their head and three non-bailable warrant evaders, the officer added. Also Read | Bharat Ratna for Nitish Kumar: Union Minister Giriraj Singh Demands India's Highest Civilian Award for Bihar CM and Former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. The Crime Branch is a dedicated unit of Delhi Police focused on apprehending hardened criminals and solving difficult cases registered at police stations. "A year of tireless effort and precision, the Crime Branch adopted a multifaceted approach, combining advanced technological tools and traditional intelligence methods. With the use of technical surveillance, CDR and IPDR analysis, and informant networks, various dedicated teams traced and captured offenders who had evaded arrest for years," said Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Devesh Chandra Srivastva. Also Read | IndiGo Flight 6E 6021 Flyer Develops Health Emergency Mid-Air, Timely Intervention by Doctor Saves His Life. He added that among the arrested individuals, six had been absconding for over 10 years, three had evaded capture for 8 years, five had been on the run for 5 years, and 14 had been at large for 1–3 years. Additionally, 60 individuals were apprehended within a year of their absconding. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Sanjay Bhatia noted that the operations were not confined to Delhi but extended across India, highlighting the Crime Branch's tenacity and capability to operate at a pan-India level. Each arrest was the result of meticulous groundwork, including analysis of technical data, deployment of informants, and field operations in diverse locations, he said. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)

Today, on International Human Rights Day , we celebrate the enduring vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. Despite progress over the past 75 years, much remains to be done to realize these rights for everyone, everywhere. As we navigate the complexities of the 21st century, generative artificial intelligence emerges as an intriguing tool to finally bridge the gap between human rights ideals and the lived experiences of people worldwide. Time is overdue, but are our mindsets ready? The Unfinished Journey Toward Universal Human Rights Global poverty reduction has reached a near standstill, with the decade from 2020 to 2030 projected to be a lost period in the fight against poverty. Today, nearly one in ten people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line for low-income countries, according to the World Bank . Additionally, 44% of the global population, around 3.5 billion people, live on less than $7 per day, which is the poverty line for upper-middle-income countries. While we are excited about the fast-paced technology that changes life as we know it, billions of people lack access to clean water and healthy food, health care, and education. To make this gloomy picture even darker, unjustifiable gender disparities continue, as do exploitation, violence, and abuse. Generative AI: A Tool For Human Advancement Generative AI, capable of producing human-like text, images, and other media, offers innovative solutions to these complex problems plaguing society for centuries. Some examples: Education Accessibility : AI-powered platforms like Khan Academy use AI tutors to provide personalized learning experiences, helping bridge educational gaps. Their new initiative, Khanmigo, uses AI to simulate prosocial AI-powered one-on-one tutoring for students worldwide. Healthcare Innovation : AI is changing healthcare diagnostics. For instance, DeepMind's AlphaFold has predicted the 3D structures of over 200 million proteins, accelerating drug discovery and disease understanding. Eventually, advancements of this type can lead to treatments for diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations and that have received little funding in the past. Human Rights Monitoring: The Human Rights Data Analysis Group employs AI to analyze data from conflict zones, identifying patterns of human rights abuses that might be overlooked. This assists international organizations in holding perpetrators accountable. Economic Inclusion : AI-driven financial services are extending credit to underserved communities. Companies like Branch use machine learning algorithms to offer microloans via mobile platforms, reaching millions without access to traditional banking. Two shifts are needed to harness the social benefits. One is material, starting with the actual access to the internet for those who are excluded from the virtual world. Today, 2.6 billion people do not have access to the internet. Taking the benefit of generative AI to scale means Increasing connectivity to ensure everyone who wants to go online can do so. Digital inclusion is not abstract. The second shift is mental; from the ambition of AI as merely a driver of commercial profitability, we need to zoom in on the aspiration of positive social outcomes. Seizing The Opportunity: AI As A Means To An End To harness AI effectively to address the issues listed earlier, we must approach it as a means to achieve human rights goals, not an end in itself or a mere instrument for commercial benefit. Pro-social and pro-business are not an either-or equation; instead, they can be mutually beneficial – making them a win-win-win-win for the people we are, the communities we belong to, the countries we are part of, and the planet we depend on. However, in pursuing an expressed ambition of human rights respect as a prime concern rather than a secondary consideration, the priorities are reversed, and the need to focus systematically on ethics and inclusion becomes evident. Ethics: As evidenced ever and again by cases where AI systems have exhibited racial and gender discrimination in hiring or lending decisions, the old saying garbage in, garbage out still holds – biased data leads to biased outcomes. Moving towards an AI-saturated future, it is important to ensure that AI systems are systematically designed to be unbiased. Inclusion : Developing AI solutions that consider the needs of marginalized communities requires us to expand the scope of interest beyond the usual target audience or people in high and middle-income countries. For example, UNICEF's Innovation Fund invests in open-source AI projects that address challenges faced by children worldwide, particularly in low-income countries. Reframing The AI Welfare Debate The AI welfare discussion, which dives deep into the moral considerations for advanced AI systems and the potential rights of future sentient entities, presents an opportunity to refocus our attention on human well-being. Rather than diverting resources from pressing human rights issues to speculate about the rights of hypothetical AI beings, this heightened interest can reinforce our commitment to empowering humanity. By contemplating the ethical dimensions of AI, we are reminded of the importance of addressing the challenges people worldwide face today. While ethics and inclusion may appear as abstract lofty goals, they start with practical, straightforward actions by those who create and utilize these technologies. Diverse development teams are essential for building unbiased AI systems that serve everyone equitably. When people from different backgrounds contribute to AI development, the resulting technologies are more likely to be fair and inclusive. Transparency and accountability in AI practices foster trust and encourage responsible use, ensuring that AI systems are held to ethical standards. Furthermore, educating users about AI empowers them to make informed decisions, enhancing the likelihood that technology positively influences society. Double literacy, combining a holistic understanding of our natural intelligence and artificial assets, is central to that endeavor. Building Collaborative Frameworks For ProSocial AI As we observe International Human Rights Day amid the relentless hype surrounding generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, it's important to recognize that while AI holds immense potential for humankind, its ultimate value lies in how we harness it to advance human rights and global well-being. The concept of ProSocial AI — AI systems that are tailored, trained, tested, and targeted to bring out the best in and for people and the planet — embodies this philosophy. By focusing on ProSocial AI, we commit to developing technologies that are: Tailored to address specific challenges different communities face, ensuring relevance and effectiveness. Trained on diverse and representative data to eliminate biases and promote fairness. Tested rigorously to ensure safety, reliability, and ethical compliance. Targeted toward initiatives that promote social good, environmental sustainability, and global equity. ProSocial AI offers a pathway to leverage technology that uplifts humanity, reduces inequalities, and fosters shared prosperity. It aligns with the urgent need to accelerate progress on human rights, especially in light of recent stagnation in poverty reduction and rising inequalities. Now, we have the means – do we have the desire?LOS ANGELES — Top-ranked South Carolina felt something it hasn't known in over 2 1/2 years. The sting of defeat after being thoroughly dominated in a 77-62 loss to No. 5 UCLA on Sunday. Gone was the overall 43-game winning streak. Done was the run of 33 consecutive road victories. And the No. 1 ranking it's held for 23 consecutive polls will disappear Monday. "This is what we usually do to teams," coach Dawn Staley said. "We were on the receiving end of it." South Carolina hadn't lost since April 2023, when Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat the Gamecocks in the national semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins (5-0) shot 47% from the floor and 3-point range, hit 11 of 14 free throws and had five players in double figures. "They actually executed our game plan to a T," Staley said. The Gamecocks (5-1) were held to 36% shooting, had just two players in double figures and neither was leading scorer Chloe Kitts, who was held to 2 points on 1 of 7 shooting. They never led, got beat on the boards, 41-34, and were outscored 26-18 in the paint and 8-1 in fast break points. They only made eight trips to the free throw line. "Our kids fought," Staley said, "but we ran into a buzzsaw." South Carolina did manage to limit 6-foot-7 UCLA star Lauren Betts, who had 11 points and 14 rebounds, despite no longer having a dominant center of their own. The Bruins responded by getting the ball to others and eight of their 10 players scored. "We did an excellent job on Betts and we got killed by everyone else," Staley said. Tessa Johnson was the only other Gamecock in double figures with 14. "We needed a lot more than Tessa today," Staley said. The Gamecocks never got their offense in gear, starting the game 0 for 9 before trailing 20-10 at the end of the first quarter. They were down 43-22 at halftime. "Our shot selection is something we're dealing with on a daily basis," Staley said. The Gamecocks outscored UCLA 40-34 in the second half, but the Bruins' big early lead easily held up. "Beautiful basketball by UCLA," Staley said. "You can't help but to love up on it cause it was fluid on both sides of the ball." Given that it's only late November, the Gamecocks have plenty of time to figure things out. "We had some really good contributions from people that don't play a whole lot and we could probably give a little bit more minutes to," Staley said. "Taking a loss will help us focus on anybody that we play." Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!

'Strong' filters: Innovative technology for better displays and optical sensors - Science DailyVegans, caviar and petrostates: the irony-free world of Cop29LOS ANGELES — Top-ranked South Carolina felt something it hasn't known in over 2 1/2 years. The sting of defeat after being thoroughly dominated in a 77-62 loss to No. 5 UCLA on Sunday. Gone was the overall 43-game winning streak. Done was the run of 33 consecutive road victories. And the No. 1 ranking it's held for 23 consecutive polls will disappear Monday. "This is what we usually do to teams," coach Dawn Staley said. "We were on the receiving end of it." South Carolina hadn't lost since April 2023, when Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat the Gamecocks in the national semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins (5-0) shot 47% from the floor and 3-point range, hit 11 of 14 free throws and had five players in double figures. "They actually executed our game plan to a T," Staley said. The Gamecocks (5-1) were held to 36% shooting, had just two players in double figures and neither was leading scorer Chloe Kitts, who was held to 2 points on 1 of 7 shooting. They never led, got beat on the boards, 41-34, and were outscored 26-18 in the paint and 8-1 in fast break points. They only made eight trips to the free throw line. "Our kids fought," Staley said, "but we ran into a buzzsaw." South Carolina did manage to limit 6-foot-7 UCLA star Lauren Betts, who had 11 points and 14 rebounds, despite no longer having a dominant center of their own. The Bruins responded by getting the ball to others and eight of their 10 players scored. "We did an excellent job on Betts and we got killed by everyone else," Staley said. Tessa Johnson was the only other Gamecock in double figures with 14. "We needed a lot more than Tessa today," Staley said. The Gamecocks never got their offense in gear, starting the game 0 for 9 before trailing 20-10 at the end of the first quarter. They were down 43-22 at halftime. "Our shot selection is something we're dealing with on a daily basis," Staley said. The Gamecocks outscored UCLA 40-34 in the second half, but the Bruins' big early lead easily held up. "Beautiful basketball by UCLA," Staley said. "You can't help but to love up on it cause it was fluid on both sides of the ball." Given that it's only late November, the Gamecocks have plenty of time to figure things out. "We had some really good contributions from people that don't play a whole lot and we could probably give a little bit more minutes to," Staley said. "Taking a loss will help us focus on anybody that we play." Get local news delivered to your inbox!

For people who cook, eat or take an interest in history, geography, sociology, literature or anthropology, America’s Test Kitchen's new cookbook will not disappoint. “ When Southern Women Cook ” is the brainchild of Cook’s Country editor-in-chief Toni Tipton-Martin and executive editor of content Morgan Bolling . It’s an homage to the American South and Southern women — Black, white, Indigenous and immigrant — and the food that empowered them to become activists, leaders and role models, shaping the region’s history and economy. The book is divided into 14 chapters, each beginning with an essay and some historical context for the recipes that follow. For example, cookbook author Keia Mastrianni explains in one essay how cottage bakers have reclaimed and transformed the domestic space. In another section of the book, author Psyche Williams-Forson dives into the legacy of Southern fried foods. Though the recipes are robust and varied, the Southern region — as fast north as the Mason-Dixon line and as far west as central Texas — serves as the throughline. “We also were aware that this is a nation of immigrants. We all brought our foodways with us,” Tipton-Martin says. “It has been striking for some people to see that we have so many immigrant stories in this book, but the reality is that people have been migrating and coming and going to this region and throughout the U. S. from the beginning.” Book excerpt: 'When Southern Women Cook' By Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling Introduction Throughout history, food and cooking have sustained women as they have carved out a place for themselves in society and their communities. This is particularly poignant when you listen to women’s stories in the American South; in this book, we highlight those stories, exploring how food has enabled women to over- come adversity, provide for themselves and their families, advance society, exercise their creativity, and claim their identities. It certainly has done those things for me. I moved to Boston from North Carolina in 2014 to work on the Cook’s Country team at America’s Test Kitchen. When I first started, the brand published regional American cuisine, with a focus on what we considered (from our Northeast, coastal, mostly white perspective) country cooking. The recipes were interesting to learn about, developed with care, and delicious, but over the years, our approach evolved. We shifted from defining “American food” to exploring “how Americans eat”—a subtle but important change that broadened our storytelling and allowed us to embrace a broader narrative of what it means to be American. Advertisement In 2014, I also started volunteering at the Cambridge Women’s Center, a community support space for women of all backgrounds and identities in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I come from a line of women who gave me a crash course in feminism through their lived, sometimes difficult, experiences. My mom, who wanted to be an artist, became a doctor after learning from her mother a hard lesson about the importance of creating economic independence. Their resilience inspired me, at a time when I was defining my own feminism to do some- thing to empower women in need. I started answering a helpline (some called looking for advice; many were lonely and just looking for someone to listen) and eventually co-facilitated a support group for women and nonbinary trauma survivors, which I still do today. I learned that, like me, so many turned to art, writing, and, notably, food to navigate life’s trials. My work at Cook’s Country and at the Women’s Center fueled me, but the idea of melding my culinary career with my passion for supporting women seemed improbable. That was until Toni Tipton-Martin became Cook’s Country editor in chief, and we began to explore this intersection of food and empowerment. It turns out, both Toni and I had been thinking a lot about how to give women space in a world that tells us to be smaller. When Southern Women Cook is the outcome of many meaningful conversations. With Toni’s journalistic approach to telling stories in Cook’s Country magazine, we were positioned to make the book of our dreams. To start, we already had a deep archive of well-tested recipes. As I learned more than 10 years ago, we start recipe development with research, from reading cookbooks to interviewing experts. From there we cook five versions to cover different ways people make a dish. Then it all gets kind of scientific: We facilitate side-by-side taste tests until we are satisfied that a recipe is foolproof. And while this creates a recipe that is reliable, flavorful, and accessible to as many cooks as possible, it can also obscure a recipe’s origins. With this book, we would bring the people and traditions that inspired us to recreate these recipes in the first place to the front. We studied the archives to pull out the recipes that were both distinctly Southern but also windows into women’s culinary experiences. And we brought on food historian KC Hysmith to help us put the recipes into context: The South is a place, as the U.S. Census Bureau defines it, but it’s also, as KC taught us, well, a feeling. And so, the South in this book is vast. It includes Florida and Texas (even though each is so diverse, it could carry its own book). Within these Southern borders, we tour many corners—from the multinational Latinx communities in Miami baking festive pan de jamón and pouring out coquito to the Gullah Geechee women of the South Carolina Lowcountry celebrating their ancestral ingredients in brilliant rice dishes and deeply flavored gumbo stews. We go back in time to capture those who built the foundations of Southern food—unnamed women firing the flames of stew stoves at Monticello; enslaved women like Marie Jean, who carried on Black and Indigenous tradition through the outdoor barbecue; chefs like Zephyr Wright, who cooked for presidents while changing history; entrepreneurial women selling handmade fried chicken to hungry railroad travelers, piping-hot fried calas or sweet pralines in New Orleans, or bowls of chili in San Antonio. And we highlight women innovating the cuisine today. These are women like Teresa Finney and Chanel Watson with cottage businesses baking Mexican conchas of every shape, flavor, and color. Like Alba Huerta, who captures the global flavors of Houston in each updated julep variation on the menu of her chic cocktail bar of the same name. Like Jordan Rainbolt, who amplifies the South’s Indigenous roots through outdoor dinners and dishes like her Grit Cakes with Beans and Summer Squash, a creative take on the Three Sisters. To tell a fuller story, we opened the writing to more than 70 Southern women—food writers, authors, journalists, historians, chefs, aficionados, and culture keepers—to cover topics close to them and their stitch in the tapestry of Southern food history. Find my fellow North Carolinian, chef Vivian Howard, writing on the painful challenges of cooking in a male-dominated world, and poet Crystal Wilkinson honoring her ancestors through her hands, through baking blackberry jam cake. Read Virginia Willis’s piece on the complexities of weight management for women raised in traditional Southern society— on a traditional Southern food diet. Or learn from Carlynn Crosby about the Prohibition-era women who ruled the sea with their lucrative rum enter- prises. Their stories season the recipes they appear alongside for a cookbook that, while not exhaustive, shares the tastemakers as much as it does the tastes. Although I spent the majority of my life in the South, this book gave me a new view of what Southern food means. While it does have its fair share of recipes for fried chicken (we’ve included eight) and biscuits (also eight), it has so much more than that. The stories in this book show that food can be a lens through which to learn about our shared history, to pay homage to those who came before us, and to help build a better, tastier future. Cooks like Fannie Lou Hamer and Georgia Gilmore pushed the Civil Rights Movement forward through pork and slices of pound cake. Queen Maggie Bailey sent kids to school through bootlegging. Today, another queen, Dolly Parton, raises money for children’s literacy through her cookbooks, and chefs like Maneet Chauhan and Asha Gomez broaden the definition of Southern food through what it means to be “Brown in the South.” From them, I learned that melding a food career with women’s empowerment was never improbable; food is and always has been a tool for women’s empowerment. So whether it’s baking messages for social justice into pies like Arley Bell or just getting the grits on the table to fuel another long day, Southern recipes represent a part of our place in a world where we increasingly take up more space. In the trauma support group, we end each session asking women to share one way they’re planning to take care of themselves in the upcoming week. Without fail, someone mentions food, whether it’s to cook something healthy, enjoy ice cream, or just force themselves to eat anything at all. I hope this book gives you a little sustenance in this complex world. Yes, it can be hard, but it can also be damn delicious. by Morgan Bolling Foreword In the summer of 1999, I received an invitation to a weekend meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, from the Southern sage and award-winning journalist John Egerton, who cleverly Southernized his signature with these words: “on behalf of the add hock organizers.” Egerton’s fiddling with the term ad hoc intrigued me. I looked up the definition: “A group organized for a specific purpose; a temporary opportunity to accomplish something great.” I was awed by the way that he substituted the spelling of “hoc” with the word for a fatty pig bone that spends most of its time in the mud. As a Southern California native, I reasoned that my participation would be like seasoning a kettle of simmering greens with a piece of smoky pork. I accepted the invitation to get into a little hot water by stirring the pot of Southern food history. This call to action was anything but spontaneous. Years earlier, both author Edna Lewis and food editor Jeanne Voltz had led efforts to “establish an organization that would bring together people from all over the region and beyond who grow, process, prepare, write about, study, or organize around the distinctive foods of the South. “The women failed. Egerton, the author of the acclaimed book Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, in History, knew that I also shared this belief in the power of food to unify people, because he helped cultivate it. Since our chance meeting in Atlanta five years earlier, he and I bonded over our desire to untangle the knotty history and mixed messages ingrained in American race, gender, class, and food conversations. A month after his letter arrived, I joined nearly 50 other invitees at Southern Living magazine’s offices; by the end of the weekend we had founded the Southern Foodways Alliance, an organization dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and promoting the diverse food culture of the American South. We gathered annually in Oxford, Mississippi, after that, listening to scholars and folks with lived experience as they challenged established notions about the region. Attendees came as strangers from all over the country and between bites of barbecued quail, corn pudding, and slaw, we grieved together about prejudice and bias. And yet, come Sunday morning, everyone departed with a sense of hope. We believed that eventually these honest conversations would bring about a kind of equity that politicians, educators, historians, and others had failed to achieve. I reveled in the strength and power of the women I met each fall. While shopping in one of Oxford’s secondhand stores, author and anthropologist Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor taught me to trust my cultural impulses, while Marcie Cohen Ferris helped me value my journalistic instincts as we crunched on North Carolina peanuts. From novelist and cookbook author Dori Sanders I learned the important art of storytelling while pondering the sweet, nuanced flavor of freshly picked South Carolina peaches. Mildred Council (aka Mama Dip) taught me to value examples of culinary excellence hidden in a pot of green beans. Ronni Lundy and I became friends while debating whether sugar belongs in cornbread. And Nathalie Dupree’s “pork chop theory” of mentorship became the foundation of my passionate pursuit of culinary sisterhood. Once I became president of the organization, one woman after another confided her frustrations about the ways Southern women were still being portrayed, in history generally, but also by SFA, specifically. The whispers turned into open criticism in 2020 when former founders, board members, alliance staff members, and others called for SFA to change its structure and programming. When Southern Women Cook is a child of these experiences. Written, edited, and designed by a diverse group of female changemakers, this curated collection of recipes and stories became a reality shortly after I became editor in chief of Cook’s Country , the same month that SFA was responding to demands for progress. With past as present, we invited more than 70 bold, bright women contributors to explore the womanish side of Southern food through their particular lens. The book is by no means a complete story, but it could be the starting point for a movement. For as long as I can remember, I have fantasized about restoring a Victorian house in the South as a place where women would come together, cook for one another, and exchange cultural stories. With this book, and my own nonprofit organization, I am reimagining that goal. We will still want to learn more about Pardis Stitt and Subrina Collier, women who masterfully operate iconic restaurants alongside their chef husbands. More must be said about the women thriving in the beverage world—women like Ann Marshall, co-founder of High Wire Distilling; Susan Auler, a pioneer in Texas winemaking; master sommelier and award-winning hospitality group leader June Rodil; and Tahiirah Habibi, founder of the Hue Society, a group that provides uplifting cultural wine experiences. We want to dig deeper into the history- and science-based baking lessons taught by Stella Parks, Kentucky pastry chef and award-winning author of Bravetart: Iconic American Desserts . And we are eagerly looking forward to the day when articles describing the mouthwatering cooking of successful American men, such as James Villas and Craig Claiborne, also consider the mothers, aunties, and grandmothers who inspired them to greatness. In the meantime, this collection, written by scholars, journalists, chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, and poets, brings you authentic truths shared by women who are resisting marginalization with determination and supporting each other with tales of female perseverance. They do so while making amazing food. To describe this book more simply, I adapted a quote from the French feminist writer Hélène Cixous: “We [are learning] to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.” by Toni-Tipton Martin Stuffed turkey wings Gobi Manchurian Buttermilk coleslaw Aunt Jule's pie Banana pudding pie Chocolate-lemon Doberge cake Excerpted from "When Southern Women Cook" by Toni Tipton-Martin and Morgan Bolling. Published by America's Test Kitchen. All rights reserved. Karyn Miller-Medzon produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Mark Navin . Grace Griffin adapted it for the web.NEW YORK — It’s almost that time of year: Spotify is gearing up to release its annual Wrapped, personalized recaps of users' listening habits and year in audio. Spotify has been giving its listeners breakdowns of their data since 2016. And each year, it’s become a bigger production — and internet sensation. Spotify said its 2023 Wrapped was the “biggest ever created,” in terms of audience reach and the kind of data it provided. So, what will 2024 have in store? Here’s a look at what to know ahead of this year’s Spotify Wrapped. What exactly is Spotify Wrapped? It’s the streaming service's annual overview of individual listening trends, as well as trends around the world. Users learn their top artists, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, all wrapped into one interactive presentation. The campaign has become a social media sensation, as people share and compare their Wrapped data with their friends and followers online. Past iterations have provided users with all kinds of breakdowns and facts, including whether they’re among an artist’s top listeners, as well as a personalized playlist of their top 100 songs of that year to save, share and listen to whenever they’re feeling nostalgic. Spotify also creates a series of playlists that reflect national and global listening trends, featuring the top streamed artists and songs. In 2023, Taylor Swift was Spotify's most streamed artist , unseating Bad Bunny who had held the title for three years in a row. Each year has something new in store. In 2019, Wrapped included a summary of users’ streaming trends for the entire decade. Last year, Spotify matched listeners to a Sound Town based on their artist affinities and how it lined up with those in other parts of the world. When is the expected release date? So far, the streaming platform has kept the highly anticipated release date of Wrapped under ... er, wraps. In past years, it’s been released after Thanksgiving, between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. Each year, rumors tend to swell on social media around when Spotify stops collecting data in order to prepare their Wrapped results, and this year was no exception. Spotify quickly squashed those presumptions , assuring on social media that “Spotify Wrapped doesn’t stop counting on October 31st.” A representative for Spotify did not respond to a request for comment on when the company stops tracking data for Wrapped. Where can I find my Spotify Wrapped? When Wrapped is released, each user's Spotify account will prompt them to view their interactive data roundup. It can be accessed through the Spotify smartphone app, or by logging on to the Spotify website . Wrapped is available to users with and without Premium subscriptions. What else can I learn with my Spotify data? There are a handful of third-party sites that you can connect your Spotify account to that will analyze your Wrapped data. How Bad is Your Spotify is an AI bot that judges your music taste. Receiptify gives you your top songs on a sharable graphic that looks like, yes, a receipt. Instafest gives you your own personal music festival-style lineup based on your top artists. How NPRCore Are You assesses how similar your music taste is to NPR Music's. What if I don’t have Spotify? Other major streaming platforms such as Apple Music and YouTube Music have developed their own versions of Wrapped in recent years. Apple Music’s Replay not only gives its subscribers a year-end digest of their listening habits but monthly summaries as well — a feature that helps differentiate itself from the one-time Spotify recap. That's released at the end of the calendar year. YouTube Music, meanwhile, has a similar end-of-the-year release for its listeners, as well as periodic seasonal releases throughout the year. It released its annual Recap for users earlier this month.JERUSALEM — Israel approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon's Hezbollah on Tuesday, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. In the hours leading up to the Cabinet meeting, Israel carried out its most intense wave of strikes in Beirut and its southern suburbs and issued a record number of evacuation warnings. At least 24 people were killed in strikes across the country, according to local authorities, as Israel signaled it aims to keep pummeling Hezbollah in the final hours before any ceasefire takes hold. Israel's security Cabinet approved the ceasefire agreement late Tuesday after it was presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his office said. U.S. President Joe Biden, speaking in Washington, called the agreement “good news” and said his administration would make a renewed push for a ceasefire in Gaza. An Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire would mark the first major step toward ending the regionwide unrest triggered by Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. But it does not address the devastating war in Gaza. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring peace to the Middle East, but neither he nor Netanyahu have proposed a postwar solution for the Palestinian territory, where Hamas is still holding dozens of hostages and the conflict is more intractable. Still, any halt to the fighting in Lebanon is expected to reduce the likelihood of war between Israel and Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and Hamas and exchanged direct fire with Israel on two occasions earlier this year. Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. Netanyahu presented the ceasefire proposal to Cabinet ministers after a televised address in which he listed a series of accomplishments against Israel’s enemies across the region. He said a ceasefire with Hezbollah would further isolate Hamas in Gaza and allow Israel to focus on its main enemy, Iran, which backs both groups. “If Hezbollah breaks the agreement and tries to rearm, we will attack,” he said. “For every violation, we will attack with might.” Netanyahu's office later said Israel appreciated the U.S. efforts in securing the deal but "reserves the right to act against every threat to its security.” It was not immediately clear when the ceasefire would go into effect, and the exact terms of the deal were not released. The deal calls for a two-month initial halt in fighting and would require Hezbollah to end its armed presence in a broad swath of southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops would return to their side of the border. Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor all sides’ compliance. But implementation remains a major question mark. Israel has demanded the right to act should Hezbollah violate its obligations. Lebanese officials have rejected writing that into the proposal. Biden said Israel reserved the right to quickly resume operations in Lebanon if Hezbollah breaks the terms of the truce, but that the deal "was designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.” Hezbollah has said it accepts the proposal, 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.” In this screen grab image from video provide by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a televised statement Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Jerusalem, Israel. Even as Israeli, U.S, Lebanese and international officials have expressed growing optimism over a ceasefire, Israel has continued its campaign in Lebanon, which it says aims to cripple Hezbollah’s military capabilities. An Israeli strike on Tuesday leveled 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, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. Strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs killed at least one person and wounded 13, it said. Three people were killed in a separate strike in Beirut and three in a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Lebanese state media said another 10 people were killed in the eastern Baalbek province. Israel says it targets Hezbollah fighters and their infrastructure. Israel also struck a building in Beirut's bustling commercial district of Hamra for the first time, hitting a site that is around 400 meters (yards) from Lebanon’s Central Bank. There were no reports of casualties. The Israeli military said it struck targets in Beirut and other areas linked to Hezbollah's financial arm. The evacuation warnings covered many areas, including parts of Beirut that previously have not been targeted. The warnings, coupled with fear that Israel was ratcheting up attacks before a ceasefire, sent residents fleeing. Traffic was gridlocked, and some cars had mattresses tied to them. Dozens of people, some wearing their pajamas, gathered in a central square, huddling under blankets or standing around fires as Israeli drones buzzed loudly overhead. Hezbollah, meanwhile, kept up its rocket fire, triggering air raid sirens across northern Israel. Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee issued evacuation warnings for 20 buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a major presence, as well as a warning for the southern town of Naqoura where the U.N. peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, is headquartered. UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told The Associated Press that peacekeepers will not evacuate. A police bomb squad officer inspects the site where a rocket fired from Lebanon landed in a backyard in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. The Israeli military also said its ground troops clashed with Hezbollah forces and destroyed rocket launchers in the Slouqi area on the eastern end of the Litani River, a few kilometers (miles) from the Israeli border. Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah would be required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border. Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel, saying it was showing support for the Palestinians, a day after Hamas carried out its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, triggering the Gaza war. Israel returned fire on Hezbollah, and the two sides have been exchanging barrages ever since. Israel escalated its campaign of bombardment in mid-September and later sent troops into Lebanon, vowing to put an end to Hezbollah fire so tens of thousands of evacuated Israelis could return to their homes. 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. Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members. Hezbollah fire has forced some 50,000 Israelis to evacuate in the country’s north, and its rockets have reached as far south in Israel as Tel Aviv. At least 75 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians. More than 50 Israeli soldiers have died in the ground offensive in Lebanon. Chehayeb and Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press reporters Lujain Jo and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut contributed. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.

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