Michail Antonio spoke to his West Ham team-mates via a video call from his hospital bed before they beat Wolves 2-1 on Monday night. Jarrod Bowen held Antonio’s number nine shirt aloft after scoring the winner in support of the Hammers striker, who is recovering after a horror car crash on Saturday. Boss Julen Lopetegui said: “He is not in his best moment but he kept his humour. It was a special moment for us. “I think we have a lot of reason to win matches but this was one reason more. He’s alive so we are happy.” MA9 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/fXwtdSQWYE — West Ham United (@WestHam) December 9, 2024 West Ham players wore ‘Antonio 9′ shirts while warming up and walking out before kick-off. The shirts will be signed by the players, including Antonio, and auctioned off with the proceeds going to the NHS and Air Ambulances UK. Tomas Soucek headed West Ham into the lead and held up nine fingers to a TV camera. The Czech midfielder told Sky Sports: “He’s been here since I came here. He is really my favourite. I said it would be tough for me to play without him. "He was here since I came and he's really my favourite" Tomáš Souček on dedicating his goal to Michail Antonio ❤️ pic.twitter.com/smNy26wmuX — Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 9, 2024 “I was so scared what was going to happen. It was a really tough week for him, his family and us.” Matt Doherty equalised for Wolves, and boss Gary O’Neil felt they should have had two penalties for fouls on Goncalo Guedes and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, both of which were checked by VAR. But Bowen’s winner – O’Neil believed there was a foul in the build-up – condemned Wolves to a 10th defeat of the season and a third in a row. While under-pressure Lopetegui may have earned a stay of execution, O’Neil’s future as Wolves manager is now in serious doubt. “A lot of things went against us but ultimately we have not found a way to turn the game in our favour,” he said. “But the players showed they are still fighting for me, for the fans and the group. “Where does this leave me? In the same place I was. I’m aware of the noise. But if anyone expected this to be easy – I’m happy to be judged on results but it should be done in context. “Whenever this journey ends with Wolves I’ll be proud of it.” There was an acrimonious end to the match as captains Bowen and Mario Lemina scuffled after the final whistle, with the Wolves midfielder angrily shoving people including one of his own coaches, Shaun Derry. “I just went to shake his hand after the game,” Bowen said. “He didn’t want to shake my hand, two captains together just to say ‘well done’ after the game. “I know it’s difficult when you lose. I’ve been on the end of that situation.” O’Neil added: “Mario is calm now. He’s a passionate guy and something was said that upset him. “The instinct of the staff was to make sure he didn’t get into trouble, but he took some calming down.”Mohawk Industries Inc. stock falls Tuesday, underperforms market
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LINCOLN — Young men, start your engines. Rev ‘em up, too. You’re the 2025 Nebraska football recruiting class — 20 strong — and probably should have been the story of NU’s Signing Day press conference. But you were at least the third story, and maybe fourth, behind the coaches who left, the ex-Huskers who hit the transfer portal and perhaps the players your school might take from the transfer portal. When you started high school, back in 2021, there was still some pageantry around this day, in late December though it may have been. Now, first week of December, you’re practically a doctor’s appointment squeezed into a Wednesday afternoon. You’re rookies in a sea of perpetual free agents. Most of you are enrolling early and that’s a good thing; the quicker you learn the playbook and hit the weight room, the better chance you’ll have to impress coaches. Coach Matt Rhule thinks you’ll succeed in that effort, as well. He likes you guys. For a couple of you, Dawson Merritt and Cortez Mills, he and his staff kept going back to the well again and again to flip you from Alabama and Oklahoma, respectively. How often does Nebraska beat those two schools for any recruit? This could be one of the strongest Husker recruiting classes in years. “We’ve got some guys who can come in and play early,” Rhule said, “because this class is going to have to come in and play early.” Hear that? He means it. Rhule has playing time to offer. For the 2025 team to win big, some of you have to step into major roles. On defense, so many seniors exhausted their eligibility, and so many other guys hit the transfer portal, that the coaches will be choosing between, say, sophomores, redshirt freshmen and, well, you. On offense, your coordinator is Dana Holgorsen, and he surely doesn’t care how old you are. At the skill spots, he’ll play whoever competes the best. Of course, he also said on NU’s in-house Signing Day special that he’s bringing “20 or 30” transfers in for visits and selecting the best from that pool. Maybe Holgo’s exaggerating. Do you want to test him? So you need to impress these guys. In an era of revenue sharing, NIL and unlimited transfers, you might get two spring camps to develop on a roster before you’re asked to be a key contributor. Three, maybe, if you’re a quarterback or a raw offensive tackle. After that, you’re a revenue-sharing dollar figure on a spreadsheet that might be replaced by another rookie — or transfer. Yeah, it is cutthroat. This isn’t 1986. Or even 2006, perhaps the golden age of the prep recruiting era, when the recruiting sites got big, the all-star games got max publicity, ESPN had a big blowout special in early February and drama practically dragged into the start of the next spring camp. It was hard to transfer back then even once, particularly if the coach wanted to block your release or you didn’t have a redshirt season to sit out one year of eligibility. In 2006, if seven guys left in December, before a bowl game, it was a mass exodus — cause for concern at the health of the program. In 2024, seven guys leaving is called “Monday and Tuesday.” And here you are in the midst of the chaos, not knowing for sure what the college football system will look like in 2025, much less 2027. You probably wouldn’t have teed it up this way. But here’s your swing. Over the next nine months, you’d be wise to make an impression. Good thing you can, Dawson Merritt. Nebraska needs a versatile edge rusher who can drop into coverage, and Princewill Umanmielen, athletic as he may be, did not quite develop into that guy before hitting the transfer portal. Ditto, Christian Jones. You looked the part at linebacker for years leading the state’s best defense, and Mikai Gbayor just hit the transfer portal. Can you step into a role quickly? Same for you, Jamarion Parker. At running back, you can turn an eight-yard run into an 80-yarder, and that’s a skill Nebraska sorely needs. Malcolm Simpson and Kade Pietrzak, you’ve seen this program is unafraid to plug a freshman defensive lineman into a game. Your frames seem sturdy enough to play. Cortez Mills and Isaiah Mozee, you’re four-star receivers who flashed electric run-after-the-catch skills in high school. Bring those to campus like Jacory Barney did, and you might play as much as Jacory Barney has. TJ Lateef, you’re a quarterback and may have to wait your turn behind Dylan Raiola, but you’ll likely be doing so as Raiola’s backup, given Rhule’s openness to moving Heinrich Haarberg to different spots. Some of you need time with the nutrition and weight staffs — 18-year-old tackles rarely walk into a program ready to block 23-year-olds — but those guys are the exception at every school. Most of you will play, or transfer, by this rule: When you’re getting compensated more than anyone 10 years ago could have imagined, the standards for keeping that salary rapidly change. You’re a recruiting class full of promise and opportunity. You’ll face a heap of the other thing, too, though. “There’s bunch of these guys we expect to play,” Rhule said. “You don’t want to put that on the guys until they get here, but I want them to have the expectation.” Even if you don’t, the coaches will. Get local news delivered to your inbox!US says terror designation doesn't bar talks with Syrian rebel groupSubscribe to our newsletter Privacy Policy Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. 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This list, as you might expect, is eclectic, jump-roping between avant-garde short film and YouTube essays, feature-length investigative documentaries and the intrepid, iterative efforts of late-night talk shows. These works of moving image tell truths that cannot be as thoroughly or artfully conveyed in any other medium, such as the “whirring body” of Loïe Fuller in Obsessed With Light , which Eileen G’Sell likens to “a lambent flower.” Or the relentless use of extended footage of people doing the same repetitive work in sweatshops in Wang Bing’s Homecoming trilogy — “if you think it’s hard to sit through,” Dan Schindel writes, “imagine what it’s like to do that work.” Sorted by release date in North America, here are the top films of 2024. — Lisa Yin Zhang Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities No Other Land , directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor From the moment it debuted at the Berlinale Film Festival in mid-February, this was the most controversial documentary of the year, spawning death threats for its directors. This searing film, which looks into encroaching Israeli settlements in the West Bank, arrived just a few months into the country’s ongoing assault against Gaza. In the back and forth between the Palestinian and Israeli members of the filmmaking collective behind the camera, the movie captures how a synthesis of viewpoints frames every media object we see. Amidst 2024’s deluge of images of Palestinian suffering and resilience, this film’s contribution — its portrait of constant rebuilding, and protest, and resistance — should not go overlooked, even as it still can’t find a distributor in the United States. — Dan Schindel Read our original review. Pictures of Ghosts , directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho Among current filmmakers, Kleber Mendonça Filho is one of the most adept at portraying the relationships between people, their homes, and their communities. In this hybrid of history and memoir, he explores his hometown of Recife, Brazil through the lives (and afterlives) of its movie palaces. Many are now derelict, some are gone, but together they embody their city in miniature. One theater’s position next to a picturesque bridge, for instance, means it’s been in the backgrounds of countless photos shot on that bridge, creating a timeline of that neighborhood’s evolution. — DS The Other Profile , directed by Armel Hostiou How does a namesake shape identity? How does access to social media both exploit and empower individuals in the so-called Global South? When the French filmmaker discovers another “Armel Hostiou” via an active Facebook profile in the People’s Republic of Congo, he sets out to find the impostor in person, leading to a madcap survey of Kinshasa, the largest Francophone city in the world. A Gallic, often droll version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger , this provocative documentary challenges how we see our doubles in the digital age, especially one fraught with massive economic global inequalities. — Eileen G’Sell There Was, There Was Not , directed by Emily Mkrtichian Probing the fraught relationship between feminist solidarity and nationalist zeal, this debut documentary follows four ethnic Armenian women whose lives are riven by the Second Artsakh War. Mixing the fairy tales of her youth with the devastating reality of the region today, the Armenian-American director presents Artsakh as both a sun-swept “paradise” and a bastion of patriarchal control to which her diverse heroines refuse to succumb. A stirring tribute to a lost homeland, There Was... calls attention to the scourge of ethnic cleansing in corners of the world long overlooked by American media. — EGS Read our original review. Problemista , directed by Julio Torres Whimsical and irreverent, Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work. To stay in New York, a young Salvadoran has less than a month to secure a visa sponsor, who comes in the flamboyant form of an embittered middle-aged art critic (Tilda Swinton). Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, the film visually scans as a ludic mashup of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — but with an undercurrent of class consciousness that feels all too relatable to anyone hustling to get by on a creative’s salary.— EGS Read our original review. “REFORM!” by Secret Base For years, Jon Bois has quietly been building a playbook for making data on a computer screen cinematically riveting. His series Pretty Good (2015–17), which looks at different odd and interesting cultural moments, had long been on hiatus. Its triumphant return came in the form of this three-part essay about the ridiculous history of the Reform Party, the last real attempt at creating a viable third political party in the United States, which quickly succumbed to petty infighting. It’s a chamber drama of political grievances and machinations, acted out mainly with charts. — DS Gasoline Rainbow , directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross Directors Bill and Turner Ross tag along with a group of teens on a postgrad road trip from Oregon down the Pacific Coast, and turn it into an epic journey. The brothers’ films often straddle a line between believability and unreality; every scenario reveals itself as carefully constructed, once you think about it. Did the kids really just happen onto a party on a ferry? Probably not. It doesn’t matter, though, because the emotions of the rambling conversations and heart-to-hearts feel completely genuine. It is, as the kids say, an incredible vibe. — DS Read our original review. Janet Planet , directed by Annie Baker Shot on grainy, intimate 16mm, this debut film is grounded in the spare but potent dialogue of its Pulitzer-winning playwright of a director, whose early ’90s Massachusetts upbringing serves as the bucolic backdrop. Adopting the perspective of an 11-year-old (Zoe Ziegler) who is as pessimistic and guarded as her hippie mother (Julianne Nicholson) is naive, Janet Planet offers a resolutely unsentimental depiction of their filial bond. A slow burn with a daring final act, the film reminds us that so much depends on shot composition, acting, and a brilliant script. — EGS Daughters , directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Co-directed by a former journalist and the Chief Executive Officer of Girls for a Change, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Black girls, Daughters may be the most heart-wrenching documentary of the year. Following four young girls anxiously awaiting the “Date with Dad” dance held at a Washington, DC prison, the film offers a layered account of their fathers’ preparation for the event, much of which resembles group therapy for men traumatized by their own troubled pasts. A tender portrait of families caught in the correctional system, this documentary reveals the extent to which mass incarceration perhaps punishes the innocent most of all. If “our daddies are our mirrors,” as the film posits, what does it mean if they are completely off-limits to those who need them most? — EGS Sugarcane , directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat Unlike last year’s overhyped Killers of the Flower Moon , this disquieting investigative documentary puts native voices front and center. Prompted by the 2021 discovery of unmarked graves at a former Catholic “residential school” for Indigenous children, the filmmakers embark on a fact-finding mission that takes them from British Columbia to Vatican City. Brilliantly edited and sensitively shot, this exposé of institutional brutality and ensuing intergenerational trauma never reduces its native subjects to the status of passive victims. “Indigenous peoples are still dying from residential schools,” the film asserts. “And still living, despite them.” — EGS Read our interview with the filmmakers . Will & Harper , directed by Josh Greenbaum Partnering A-list celebrity Will Ferrell with writer Harper Steele, this charming film plays off the classic road trip genre but adds a twist in the form of Steele’s gender transition, which she began in 2022. We are taken along for the ride as the two explore their longtime friendship, navigating gender, fame, and the blue/red divide in the United States. The drama that ensues at a Texan steakhouse proves that trans people still have to navigate an intolerant world, in which there exist people with the best of intentions who just don’t get it. But the film also shows that some of those people eventually do, and that this country is often more tolerant than it can seem online. Touching, truly. — Hrag Vartanian Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming) , directed by Wang Bing Wang Bing, one of the chief nonfiction chroniclers of China’s shifting capitalist fortunes, completed his trilogy about young migrant textile workers this year with these two features. Through a relentless use of extended footage of people doing the same repetitive work in sweatshops — if you think it’s hard to sit through, imagine what it’s like to do it — the film drives home the tedium of this labor. But this also makes the moments of comradery and familial love, like a return home for a wedding, all the more poignant. — DS Read our original review . Allo la France , directed by Floriane Devigne When the French director witnesses the gradual, then rapid, removal of public phone booths across her country, she sets out to find and document the last vestiges of a pre-digital era. With its mid-century color palette and stunning symmetrical shot composition, Allo La France may initially seem a Wes-Andersonian tribute to the endearing, yet obsolete, world of phone booths, but ultimately serves as a quiet polemic against the dangers of privatization and the dissolution of public services in France. You’ll never look at, or remember, a payphone the same way again. —EGS Scénarios , directed by Jean-Luc Godard It has been more than two years since Jean-Luc Godard’s death, but he continues to live on through new short film releases. Completed the day before he passed, Scénarios feels like Godard’s final thoughts embodied in film, dense with allusions and experimental free associations between different depictions of mortality, from Howard Hawks movies to social media war footage set in rapid montage. Like much of his work, it demands rigorous attention and thought, yet remains widely open to interpretation. To the very end, no one was doing it like him. — DS Black Glass , directed by Adam Piron Eadweard Muybridge is famous for his motion studies in the 1800s, which constitute some of the earliest approximations of moving images. He also accompanied the US Army during the Modoc War , staging photos of Indigenous aggressors for propaganda purposes. Setting these photographs against modern footage of the landscapes where they were shot, Adam Piron creates a brief but powerful intonation of how photographic images have been part of the colonizer’s war on indigeneity. People die, the film suggests, but the land and the memory endure, however warped. — DS American Muslims: A History Revealed These six short documentary films tell unlikely stories about being Muslim in the United States. Among the incredible stories they share is the unusual tale of the first mosque in North Dakota and the moving story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861 and fought in the Union Army before sparring with the US government for the veteran pension he deserved. This series may shift some of your thinking about the history of diversity in this country — it’s longer, for instance, than you might think — and new revelations finally allow a fuller story to be told. Highly watchable. — HV Exhibiting Forgiveness , directed by Titus Kaphar “Relationships are hard. They’re hard, ” a mother tells her resentful son, who is estranged from his abusive father. Few films depict the depth and complexity of childhood trauma — or Black masculinity — more cogently and sensitively than this debut film from artist Titus Kaphar, whose lived experience serves as the backdrop. Both an indictment of the art world’s racial hypocrisies and a tribute to the tenets of forgiving on one’s own terms, Exhibiting is a work of art about the art of survival — and of healing — when neither necessarily serves the bottom line. — EGS “Silverback,” from the series Nature I wasn’t sure what to expect in this 43-minute documentary, but by the end, I was moved by the connection between filmmaker Vianet Djenguet and a protective 500-pound silverback gorilla in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly the empathy the former showed toward the latter. Djenguet’s three-month journey, often surrounded by security forces, gives you a peek into the psychology of a great ape who has never been habituated to humans, and the distrust he has built after decades of mistreatment and familial tragedies. It was the first time a documentary made me consider the impact of generational trauma on apes. The film works, too, because Djenguet learns as much about his own desire to connect with an animal that isn’t as eager to do the same. — HV Dahomey , directed by Mati Diop In less than an hour, Mati Diop finds ways to approach the issue of artifact repatriation from a multitude of perspectives – including that of the artifacts themselves. Through voiceover, the documentary gives an inner life to a statue of a Dahomeyan king being given back to Benin by France. The statue’s anxieties about his return to his homeland poignantly crystallize ideas about cultural alienation and homecoming. — DS Read our report on the film here. Black Box Diaries , directed by Shiori Itô Editor’s Note: The following contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org . Based on her memoir of the same name, Itō’s investigative documentary examines, in painful detail, the director’s sexual assault at the hands of television reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, only to witness her criminal case tossed out by police. In a country where only 4% of women report rape, Black Box Diaries reveals the extent to which the #MeToo movement in the United States both galvanized and overlooked victims in other countries and from other cultures. “I’m not an activist or a propagandist,” Itō vents to a loved one when facing national pushback. In this film, she achieves her own kind of justice in confronting the hypocrisy of Japanese officials head-on, precipitating actual legal changes. — EGS Read our interview with the filmmaker here . Leonardo da Vinci , directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon In classic PBS and Ken Burns style, this two-part, four-hour documentary tells the story of the original Renaissance man, who seemed to march through history with a sense of purpose that makes him continually relevant to this day. Combining interviews with experts and images of his art, Burns and team don’t demystify Leonardo so much as contribute to his mystique as a universal genius — though I never quite understood how likable and funny the Renaissance master was to his contemporaries until this film. This is a good primer for the novice, and kudos to the documentary team for not ignoring the artist’s sexuality, but instead including it in a very matter-of-fact way that helps normalize queerness in historical people, creating a fuller picture of their often wondrous lives. — HV Obsessed with Light , directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum Less in-depth biography of Loïe Fuller’s life than a chronicle of the dancer’s impact on the last 100-plus years of culture, this documentary heralds “La Loïe” as a singular agent of her own success, a woman as unapologetically brash as she was creatively ingenious. A lustrous tribute to the lesbian icon’s vision, Obsessed with Light juxtaposes archival footage with contemporary iterations Serpentine Dance , a genre she created. To see original footage of Fuller onstage, her whirring body a lambent flower, is to reconsider what makes dance — or any art form — “modern.” — EGS Read our original review. The Girl with the Needle , directed by Magnus von Horn With its stark chiaroscuro lighting and Michal Dymak’s haunting black-and-white cinematography, The Girl with the Needle exudes a shadowy aesthetic redolent of German Expressionism. Following one woman’s struggle to survive during the devastating aftermath of World War I, this visual tour de force pierces the dark, banal heart of misogyny in early 20th-century Denmark. Bracingly relevant to ongoing discussions of reproductive and bodily autonomy, this is a film best viewed with little knowledge of its true-crime basis. — EGS Last Week Tonight with John Oliver During a trying year, it was great to have John Oliver offering his highly researched and entertaining takes on a world gone awry. From Trump’s plans for mass deportation to Israeli settlements in the West Bank to hospice care in the United States, Oliver finds a way to combine his unique and hardcore nerdiness with his need to produce a highly watchable story that challenges the attention span of audiences normally deathscrolling on personal devices. I’m not sure the American mediascape has anyone like Oliver, who can discuss Indian or British elections with the same intensity as corn production, pig farming, or student loan debt, while still finding a way to go viral in the process. Oliver demonstrates that some are still committed to the political purpose of education, and the portion of the public that knows that journalism is key to keeping them informed. — HV We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. 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(Bloomberg) — The man who led Canada’s trade negotiating team during Donald Trump’s first term said the US President-elect “likes tariffs even more now” and will be less constrained about about using them in his second. Steve Verheul, who was Canada’s chief trade negotiator from 2017 to 2021, said Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports would be a significant economic hit to all three countries, creating “a highly disruptive period of time.” But if the Trump administration tries to levy tariffs on all manufactured goods from Canada, but not oil and agricultural commodities, Canada has a card it can play — it can place export levies on those goods as a negotiating tactic, said Verheul, who’s now a private consultant. Canada is by far the largest external supplier of oil to the US and a huge exporter of agricultural goods. Export levies would quickly drive up the cost of fuel and food to American consumers. Some US refineries are highly dependent on Canadian heavy oil and would have few alternatives. “I agree that the first areas that would be potentially subject to exemption would be oil and gas and food,” Verheul said at an event organized by Bank of Montreal. But in the context of a trade fight, “it might even make sense for Canada to apply export taxes to those products, in order to try to negotiate a broader exemption across all the sectors.” Such a move would likely be a last resort for Canada, which would find its economy in a tough spot if Trump were to follow through with tariffs at that level. Doug Porter, Bank of Montreal’s chief economist, said financial markets clearly believe the risk of broad tariffs is overstated, given the relative stability of the Canadian and Mexican currencies after they initially sold off in the hours after Trump’s social media post last week. “I suspect that that calm is highly questionable,” Porter said. “I think we should take the threats seriously, or at the very least, prepare and consider what broad-based tariffs could mean for the economy.” Tariffs of 25% against Canada and Mexico would leave the two North American trading partners in a worse position for exporting to the US market than other members of the World Trade Organization, Verheul said. “We would really be in a place where only Russia, North Korea and a handful of other countries would have worse access.” In the case where Trump imposes big tariffs and Canada retaliates, Canada’s gross domestic product could be reduced by 3% or more, leading to major monetary and fiscal policy responses, Porter said. The Bank of Canada may be forced to cut the benchmark interest rate as low as 1.5% in the extreme case of broad-based tariffs, Porter said. It’s currently 3.75%. Meanwhile, the government “would be quite reasonable to provide all kinds of support” through spending, Porter said. “I think we would be talking, roughly speaking, on the order of about half a per cent of GDP of fiscal support.” Tariffs can be partially counteracted by currency depreciation, and in the worst-case scenario, “I think a depreciation of the Canadian dollar of 5% to 10% from current levels would be within reason, it’s entirely conceivable,” Porter said. The latter would take the Canadian dollar down to about C$1.56 per US dollar, a level not seen since 2003. —With assistance from Erik Hertzberg.South Carolina has won six straight games, and one of the catalysts has been the improved free-throw shooting of Nick Pringle. When South Carolina (9-3) faces Presbyterian (7-7) in the final nonconference game for both teams on Monday in Columbia, S.C., the Gamecocks won't have to hold their breath when Pringle toes the line. During South Carolina's surge, which includes wins over three power conference teams, Pringle has made 26 of 30 (86.7 percent) free-throw attempts. It's a remarkable improvement from his 51.7 percent career success rate entering the season. Last month, in his South Carolina debut after transferring from Alabama, Pringle's foul shooting woes continued as he shot 3-for-8 in stunning 74-71 upset at the hands of the visiting North Florida. But video work with coach Lamont Paris convinced Pringle that he needed to quicken his routine and tweak his set point, which is where a player's eyes focus on the rim. "How long it was taking him to release the ball once he started his free throw process was really long, really, really long," Paris said. "So he shortened it." In a 74-48 win over Radford on Dec. 22, Pringle made all 10 of his free throws. His work at the line is no small matter, as he has taken the second-most free throws on the team (61). Pringle averages 10.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, combining with Collin Murray-Boyles (16.2 points, 9.3 rebounds) to give the Gamecocks a formidable duo inside. Presbyterian enters after suffering its first home loss this season, 86-81 in overtime to Manhattan on Dec. 21. It was a frustrating defeat after the Blue Hose led by 19 points in the first half. There was a positive, however, as Carl Parrish delivered 23 points and nine rebounds, both career highs. It was a performance that sixth-year coach Quinton Ferrell has been awaiting. "Seeing him play like that offensively is not a shock to me because that's really what he's capable of," Ferrell said. "He's a big-time offensive player." Parrish combines in the backcourt with the Blue Hose's top two threats: Kory Mincy, who averages 14.9 points and 4.6 assists per game, and Kobe Stewart, who scores at a 14.4 ppg clip. Located just 60 miles apart, South Carolina and Presbyterian (Clinton, S.C.) have a long history, with their first game coming nearly 108 years ago. The Gamecocks lead the series 33-8. --Field Level Media
The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2025 was just released by the Social Security Administration, and recipients can anticipate a 2.5% increase in their Social Security check starting next year, for the typical retiree, which would amount to about $50 per month. However, there will be other changes to Social Security as well. Numerous new income restrictions could impact you in some ways as the year progresses. While many of these modifications would raise your monthly payout, some will not be as advantageous, especially if you make a larger salary . Here’s what to expect in 2025. A new $5,108 Social Security check will be eligible for beneficiaries in 2025 The maximum taxable earnings limit is an income limit that directly affects your Social Security check amount. The closer your wages are to this maximum, which is the highest annual earnings subject to Social Security taxes, the larger your benefit will be. Keep in mind that the yearly limit is set at $168,600 in 2024, and will rise to $176,100 by 2025. Because the wage cap is designed to keep up with changes in the cost of living, it typically rises year after year. Beneficiaries should know that all people are impacted by these restrictions, but those with greater incomes may be more severely affected. You will pay taxes on a larger portion of your income each year if your earnings are at or over the limit. For people making between $168,600 and $176,100 annually, the 2025 rise may have the greatest effect because they will be subject to Social Security tax on income that was not previously subject to taxation in 2024. With the present payroll tax rate of 12.4% (which incorporates both employee and employer taxes), the extra $7,500 in income will result in a $930 annual tax increase. The good news that beneficiaries might be unaware of regarding higher income limits Even though paying more taxes might not be ideal, there is a bright side: you will eventually receive a bigger benefit and might even be eligible for the maximum monthly checks. In 2025, Social Security’s maximum monthly benefit will increase from $4,873 to an incredible $5,108. To be eligible for this payout, you must work for at least 35 years, wait until you are 70 years old to claim benefits, and continuously earn more than the maximum taxable earnings limit. Moreover, earning the maximum Social Security check is becoming increasingly challenging as the earnings threshold keeps increasing annually. However, if your income is sufficient to meet that income threshold, you have already overcome what may be the most difficult obstacle to receiving this benefit. What if your annual income is completely below $176,100? Although that will regrettably prevent you from receiving the full payout, there are still ways to raise the amount of your compensation. One strategy for increasing benefits is to delay claiming. You will earn a little greater compensation for each month you wait after age 62. Filing at your full retirement age (66 or 67, depending on your year of birth) will result in 100% of your Social Security check, but if you wait until age 70, you will earn at least a 24% bonus on top of the total amount you receive. In December 2023, the Social Security Administration stated that retirees get an average of $1,298 per month at age 62, increasing to $1,884 at age 67 and $2,038 at age 70. Delaying benefits can significantly raise the size of your checks, even if you can only do so for a year or two. Working longer than 35 years is another option for enhancing your payments. Calculating your Social Security check begins with averaging your earnings throughout the 35 years of your employment during which you made the most money. Since your average includes only your highest earning years, you’re probably making more money now than you did thirty-five years ago. You can get a larger benefit by replacing lower-earning years with additional years of higher-earning employment. If you’re a high earner, a higher 2025 maximum earnings cap might result in a greater tax burden, but it will also get you closer to a higher maximum Social Security check amount . Little actions can have a big impact on your monthly paycheck, even if you’re behind schedule for that payment.
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Virginia played a recurring role in President Jimmy Carter's long life , from his Navy stint in Norfolk in the 1940s when the young ensign sought to save money for a Buick, to a 1976 presidential debate at the College of William & Mary, and a 2019 Loudoun County stop in which he questioned the legitimacy of President Donald Trump's election. Carter, who died Sunday at 100, came out of nowhere to win the presidency in 1976, largely on his strength in the South, but Virginia was the exception — the one Southern state he did not carry. Forty years later, Virginia again was an outlier as the only Southern state that Trump did not carry in 2016. Carter took part in Virginia's first foray in the modern era of televised presidential debates. On Oct. 22, 1976, he faced off with President Gerald Ford at William & Mary’s Phi Beta Kappa Hall . The debate, moderated by ABC’s Barbara Walters, came 10 days before the election and drew an estimated 62 million viewers. Virginia reacts to death of former President Carter In April 1979, Carter became the first president to address Virginia Democrats' Jefferson Jackson fundraiser, touting his energy plan during an appearance at the Hotel John Marshall in Richmond. The 39th president was a frequent speaker at Virginia colleges and universities after he left office in 1981. Carter, who taught at Emory University in Atlanta following his presidency, kicked off a 1987 talk with students at the University of Virginia by referring to Thomas Jefferson: "When he left the White House (he) had better judgment than to become a professor at a college." Carter spoke fondly of his family's roots in Virginia. One of his ancestors, Thomas Carter, came to Virginia from England in 1635. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter — who died in November 2023 at 96 — married in July 1946. The Carters spent the first two years of their married life in Norfolk as Carter embarked on his Navy career, serving as an ensign on the USS Wyoming. Jimmy Carter and President Gerald Ford participate in a debate at the College of William & Mary in 1976. TIMES-DISPATCH During a campaign stop in Norfolk in September 1976, Carter said he and his wife moved to Norfolk four days after they were married in July 1946. Their first son, Jack — now 77 — was born at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth in July 1947. In November 1976, weeks after Carter was elected president, Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Wilford Kale interviewed three Norfolk residents who had known the Carters in the 1940s. The Carters lived in the Bolling Square Apartments on Buckingham Avenue and were saving their money to buy a Buick. Their one-bedroom apartment rented for about $100 a month. Kale noted that in Carter's book "Why Not the Best?" the future president wrote that when he served on the Wyoming, he was paid $300 per month. Beyond the rent, he paid $54 for his food aboard the ship and $75 for a war bond, leaving $71. Donald Cottingham served as a junior officer with Carter on the Wyoming, a former battleship that had been converted as an experimental vessel on which the Navy tested prototypes of electronics, gunnery and other equipment. Cottingham said the ship was known as the "Chesapeake Bay Raider" because it headed out into the bay on a Monday and would return on a Friday. Cottingham said he and his wife, Christine, socialized with the Carters and other young couples during those postwar days. Christine Cottingham showed the reporter a small green autograph book that she used as a guest book at parties. One of the pages was marked "Mrs. and Mr. J.E. Carter Jr. Plains Ga. 5-12-48." Christine Cottingham said the Carters were not along one night when the young couples went to a familiar haunt at the Officers' Club, which they dubbed the "Wyoming Room." "We were having a ball, but the Carters were not with us. So, we decided to send them a collect telegram, saying that we would all be over soon to have a drink with them," she recalled. "It was about midnight, and we were all happy and having a good time," she said. "Well, we really didn't get over there until later and when we arrived" around 2 a.m., "our telegram was plastered on the front door (of the apartment complex) and written on it was: 'Go home. You are not welcome!' " The Carters left Norfolk in 1948, when he was accepted for submarine duty. "We weren't thinking of Jimmy or anyone else becoming president," Donald Cottingham recalled. "As ensigns, what we were thinking about was becoming lieutenant." When Carter’s father, James Earl Carter Sr., died in 1953, he was released from the Navy and returned to Plains, Georgia, where he took over the family’s peanut farming business. Carter served on the local board of education, in the Georgia state Senate from 1963 to 1967 and as Georgia’s governor from 1971 to 1975. As he contemplated a bid for national office, Carter came to Virginia and campaigned for Henry Howell's bid for governor in November 1973. During his 1976 presidential run, Carter made multiple campaign stops in Virginia, including to Alexandria and to Roanoke. He also made news when his campaign sent a mistaken missive to Lt. Gov. John Dalton, a Republican, thanking him for his supposed endorsement. Dalton, a future Virginia governor, wrote back: "The letter was obviously misdirected, as is your position favoring repeal of Virginians' right-to-work law and your running on a platform that is liberal, anti-defense, pro-busing and expensive." One of the notable aspects of Carter's 1976 campaign was that he spoke openly about his "born again" Christianity. In a June 1976 Richmond Times-Dispatch story about Carter's faith, Dwight C. Jones, then pastor of First Baptist Church in South Richmond and a future state delegate and Richmond mayor, said: "I think it's going to have an effect on the religious community. It's been a long time since we've heard a political candidate come out with that kind of explicit religious tone." Jones said Carter "has hit a major chord by campaigning in Black churches." But Jones added that he hoped Black people would "require an affirmation" from Carter on his stands that affect them "before we would run en masse to him." William & Mary government professor John McGlennon said Carter's debate in Williamsburg "came at a critical time in the 1976 campaign" as he worked to contrast himself with President Richard Nixon and Vice President Gerald Ford. "Carter carried his own luggage into the Williamsburg Lodge, where he and his staff prepared for the debate. The campus and community were buzzing with excitement about the attention coming with the debate, even if the student body was distinctly Republican, overwhelmingly favoring President Gerald Ford in a campus survey," McGlennon said in a statement on Sunday. In the 1976 post-Watergate presidential election, Carter won nationally, but narrowly lost Virginia to Ford by about 23,000 votes out of 1.7 million cast. (No Democrat would carry Virginia for president until Barack Obama in 2008.) U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., worked with Carter as a young law school graduate. “Jimmy Carter gave me my first job out of law school, and I have deeply admired his service since leaving the Oval Office," Warner said in a statement on Sunday. "His dedication to building homes through Habitat for Humanity has always brought back warm memories of my father, who also volunteered with the organization well into his eighties. Like much of the Greatest Generation, President Carter will be remembered by what he built and left behind for us — a model of service late into life, a tireless devotion to family and philanthropy, and a more peaceful world to call home.” During his presidency, Carter made appearances in Virginia related to politics, policy and recreation. Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, campaigns ib Oct. 23, 1976, in the Old Town section of Alexandria. ASSOCIATED PRESS For example, in September 1977, he campaigned in Roanoke, Norfolk and Williamsburg with Howell, who was making his third and final unsuccessful bid for governor. In April 1979, Carter attended the Democratic fundraiser at the Hotel John Marshall. The former Navy man made multiple trips to Hampton Roads, including a Memorial Day trip to Norfolk in May 1980, where he spoke aboard the USS Nimitz and welcomed home the Indian Ocean Battle Group after a lengthy deployment. As for recreation, Carter went fishing off Virginia Beach twice as president and once at Camp Hoover, a camp in Shenandoah National Park. During his 1980 reelection bid, Carter was beset by troubles — from the Iranian hostage crisis, including a failed rescue mission — to rising inflation and a nomination challenge from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. That March, Rosalynn Carter addressed Virginia Democrats' annual fundraising dinner at the Hotel John Marshall. She shook hands with a Goochland County Democrat who wore a lapel button that read: "Still for Carter, Despite Everything." Then-state Sen. Doug Wilder, D-Richmond, endorsed Carter for reelection, though he said Carter’s domestic performance was "dismal." President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter wave to reporters as they walk to a car that took them to visit Camp Hoover in the Virginia mountains on Oct. 25, 1978. The Carters flew by helicopter to the late President Herbert Hoover's fishing camp 100 miles west of Washington, D.C., to spend a short time there. Charles Tasnadi, Associated Press Late in the campaign, Carter made two trips to the Virginia suburbs. He signed a $48 billion education appropriations bill at the Loudoun County campus of Northern Virginia Community College . Then, he signed a $796 million mental health package at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Fairfax County. In the 1980 election, Republican Ronald Reagan swamped Carter in Virginia by more than 135,000 votes — nearly 13 percentage points — as part of his national landslide. Wilder, the nation’s first Black governor, met with Carter in Virginia while he was president and in Georgia after he left the White House. In a telephone interview on Sunday, Wilder credited Carter as "the first American president I knew of who spent significant time on the need to invest in Africa" and establish independent nations there. "I was always impressed with his straightforward acumen," he said. Similarly, Wilder commended Carter, "a man of the South," for his appointment of Black people as judges and other high-ranking positions, such as Andrew Young, a former civil rights activist and congressman, as American ambassador to the United Nations in 1977, the first African American elevated to the position. "You pick a Black man to bring nations together, a Black man of the South, that was bold," the former governor said. Wilder said he was always impressed with Carter's intelligence and professional accomplishments, which he often hid beneath his image as a humble peanut farmer. Wilder "I feel that history will accord and afford him his rightful place in the pantheon of great world leaders," he said. Following his presidency, Carter tapped Virginia scholar Steven H. Hochman , who had helped research Dumas Malone's multi-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, to help research his presidential memoir. In 1984, Carter delivered a lecture at Roanoke College, where he said the U.S. should work to reduce nuclear arsenals and to safeguard human rights. In July 2015, Carter visited the Costco on West Broad Street in Henrico County to sign copies of his book "A Full Life: Reflections at 90." During that stop, he had a reunion with former shipmate John Kaufman, 92, of Earlysville, after 68 years. Carter was 94 and his vice president, Walter Mondale, 91, when they appeared together in Loudoun County in 2019 for a donor retreat and auction at the Lansdowne Resort and Spa. Carter caused a stir in the Loudoun County appearance, when he suggested that Trump was an illegitimate president. "There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election and I think the interference — although not yet quantified — if fully investigated would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016," Carter told interviewer Jon Meacham at the time. "He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." Trump, traveling in Japan, told reporters that Carter was a nice man, but "a terrible president." Trump posted on social media on Sunday: " The challenges Jimmy faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude." President Jimmy Carter addresses the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Virginia coast on May 26, 1980, upon its return from nine months in the Persian Gulf. The president said, “Your presence has been the major factor in protecting the lives of the 53 hostages still held.” Bob Daugherty, Associated Press In a 2015 interview with The Times-Dispatch, ahead of his book signing at the Henrico Costco, Carter said he wished he had done a few things differently. "I'm sorry I didn't send another helicopter to rescue the hostages in Iran, and I'm sorry that I didn't get a second term," Carter said. But the nation’s 39th president said he had few regrets. "I've had some regrets," he said, "but most of the time I have been overwhelmingly grateful and gratified at the way things have worked out in my personal and political life." Jimmy Carter and President Gerald Ford participate in a debate at the College of William & Mary in 1976. TIMES-DISPATCH Carter in Virginia, April 8, 1979 Masaaki Okada 09-25-1977 Jimmy Carter visits Virginia. Bob Jones 04-08-1979 Jimmy Carter in Virginia. Masaaki Okada 04-08-1978 Carter in Virginia Richmond Times-Dispatch In late October and early November 1973, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter (left) visited Virginia to campaign for Henry Howell. BOB BROWN Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, campaigns Oct. 23, 1976, in the old town section of Alexandria, Va., a Washington suburb. (AP Photo) Anonymous President Jimmy Carter shows off his catch after an excursion on the yacht Gannet in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 29, 1978. The Carters were hosted by Norfolk attorney Peter Decker, who owns the vessel. Carter’s wife Rosalyn and daughter are behind and at his side. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma) Barry Thumma President Jimmy Carter holds up two of the fish he caught off Virginia Beach, May 14, 1979. At left is Norfolk attorney Peter Decker who hosted the president. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty) Bob Daugherty FILE - President Jimmy Carter attends memorial services for eight servicemen killed in the unsuccessful attempt to rescue the American hostages from Iran, May 9, 1980, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) Dennis Cook FILE - Jimmy Carter, left, and Gerald Ford, right, shake hands before the third presidential debate, Oct. 22, 1976, in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/File) STF President Jimmy Carter addresses the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Virginia coast on May 26, 1980, upon its return from nine months in the Persian Gulf. The president said, “Your presence has been the major factor in protecting the lives of the 53 hostages still held.” Bob Daugherty, Associated Press President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter wave to reporters as they walk to a car that took them to visit Camp Hoover in the Virginia mountains on Oct. 25, 1978. The Carters flew by helicopter to the late President Herbert Hoover's fishing camp 100 miles west of Washington, D.C., to spend a short time there. Charles Tasnadi, Associated Press President Jimmy Carter lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 11, 1978 to commemorate Veterans Day. Carter was slated to speak after the wreath-laying at the cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington. Soldiers assisting Carter are unidentified. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz) Ira Schwarz Jimmy Carter, Democratic Presidential nominee, stands under the spot light during his audio check at the Beta Kappa Theater, Oct. 22, 1976, Williamsburg, Va., prior to his debate with President Gerald Ford. (AP Photo) Anonymous Jimmy Carter, Democratic Presidential nominee, stands under the spot light during his audio check at the Beta Kappa Theater, Oct. 22, 1976, Williamsburg, Va., prior to his debate with President Gerald Ford. (AP Photo) Anonymous 04-08-1979: President Carter, with Richmond Mayor Henry L. Marsh III, approaches the Hotel John Marshall. Don Long 09-06-1976 Jimmy Carter in Va. Richmond Times-Dispatch 04-07-1979: President Carter greets State Sen. Adelard Brault (left) upon his arrival in Richmond, while Lt. Governor Chuck Robb (right) son-in-law of the late President Lyndon Johnson peers over his shoulder. Also on hand are (center) Richmond Mayor Henry Marsh III and his wife. President Carter is making a brief visit to Richmond to attend a democratic fundraiser. amk/BennettSupreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee's ban on treatments for transgender minorsMLB Winter Meetings Notebook: Juan Soto, Roki Sasaki drive Day 1 chatter
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