slot machine numbers
On perhaps the worst travel day in the U.S., American Airlines grounded its flights on Christmas Eve . Customers were left frustrated in the early morning hours on December 24, 2024, and of course, many want answers now. In a statement obtained by CNN , AA explained what was happening. “It’s all hands on deck as our team is working diligently to get customers where they need to go as quickly as possible,” the airline said in its statement. “We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.” A spokesperson for the airline also commented on the situation, telling CNN that customers should “expect some delays throughout the day, but [we’re] working to mitigate those and avoid cancels. We have a smaller schedule today and have the staffing to support the quick recovery.” Find out what caused American Airlines to ground its flights on Christmas Eve. BREAKING: American Airlines has grounded all flights due to a technical issue. The FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop at the start of Christmas Eve pic.twitter.com/jY3Xstnw8M — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 24, 2024 Why Were American Airlines Flights Grounded? According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) notice, American Airlines requested a full ground stop for its flights at around 7 a.m. ET. The FAA did not respond to inquiries about the halt. According to NBC Chicago , a “technical issue” caused the widespread ground stop to all AA flights. “A technical issue is affecting American flights this morning. Our teams are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, and we apologize to our customers for the inconvenience,” the airline explained. American Airlines Flights Status We have resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility. https://t.co/lAp094H8cx — americanair (@AmericanAir) December 24, 2024 At about 10:30 a.m. ET, AA issued a statement on social media with a status update. “We have resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning,” the airline’s official account tweeted. “We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility.” According to multiple outlets, most flights resumed by around 8 a.m. ET. What Happened to American Airlines Boarding Passes? Countless social media users complained online that their boarding passes for certain AA flights were not scanning properly around the time that the airline issued a ground stop.Cousins Properties Announces Pricing of Senior Notes OfferingAP News Summary at 11:27 a.m. EST
Scott Parker 's Burnley are set to host strugglers Coventry City at Turf Moor on Tuesday in their 17th match of the Championship season. The Clarets enjoyed another victory on the weekend after defeating Bristol City 1-0 on Saturday and are fourth in the second tier with 30 points, while their opponents are 17th with 17 points and are yet to appoint a permanent manager after sacking Mark Robins on November 7. © Imago The hosts played out an even first half against Bristol despite taking the lead thanks to Jaidon Anthony in the 23rd minute, but Burnley's quality ultimately shone through, with the team limiting Bristol to just one open-play shot in the second half. However, Parker's side were forced deeper towards the end of the match, and the manager spoke of how he was relieved by the win, saying: "For 20 minutes in the second half we were as good as we want to be and had great chances to extend our lead. But there was a clear momentum swing after we missed the best of them and we ended up camped in our own half." The Clarets are just two points from the two automatic promotion spots at the top of the table, and are four points ahead of seventh-placed Watford, who are one place from the playoffs. Burnley have scored 19 goals and conceded six times in the Championship, and these are the division's joint 10th best offensive and best defensive records. Parker's team have encountered goalscoring issues in recent weeks, with the club having netted just three times in their last six games, a period in which they drew three, won two and lost one. The hosts' form at home has been strong considering they are unbeaten at Turf Moor in 2024-25, winning four and drawing three, though their victory against Bristol was their first in the past three matches. © Imago As for Coventry, they drew 2-2 with third-placed Sheffield United on November 23, though they may feel they could have earned more than a point given the Blades were reduced to 10 men in the 44th minute. To caretaker boss Rhys Carr 's credit, the draw was the second time they have held a team in the top three to a stalemate in their last two outings having also drawn 2-2 with second-placed Sunderland on November 9. Former Derby County, Chelsea and Everton head coach Frank Lampard appears to be leading the race to replace Robins , but with no official confirmation regarding his appointment, Carr is set to lead the team out on Tuesday. The Sky Blues picked up just eight points in their first 10 league games of the season, but they are in good form having picked up nine points in their last six matches, winning two, drawing three and only losing one. However, while Carr will be pleased that his players are unbeaten in their three most recent away fixtures in the Championship, he will no doubt be concerned that his team were defeated in five and drew three of their prior eight outings on the road. © Imago Burnley have an extensive injury list and will be without the likes of Aaron Ramsey until late December, though midfielder Josh Brownhill is only expected to miss out for a few days due to a knock. Parker has numerous absentees in defence, including left-back Hannes Delcroix , as well as centre-backs Hjalmar Ekdal , Joe Worrall and Jordan Beyer , so perhaps Connor Roberts , CJ Egan-Riley , Maxime Esteve and Lucas Pires will start in a back four. Forwards Lyle Foster , Manuel Benson and Mike Tresor are all ruled out until early next month, and this could mean that Jay Rodriguez continues to lead the forward line in front of a supporting cast of Jaidon Anthony, Hannibal Mejbri and Luca Koleosho . Coventry have considerably fewer injury concerns but will still be unable to select goalkeeper Ben Wilson , as well as forwards Haji Wright and Raphael Borges Rodrigues . The visitors are likely to field Victor Torp and Norman Bassette as a pairing in attack, while Bradley Collins may be protected by centre-backs Joel Latibeaudiere , Bobby Thomas and Luis Binks . Midfielder Josh Eccles is suspended and wing-back Jay Dasilva is a doubt, so expect Jake Bidwell to replace Dasilva and for Carr to select a midfield three consisting of Jamie Allen , Ben Sheaf and Jack Rudoni . Burnley possible starting lineup: Trafford; Roberts, Egan-Riley, Esteve, Pires; Cullen, Massengo; Anthony, Mejbri, Koleosho; Rodriguez Coventry City possible starting lineup: Collins; Latibeaudiere, Thomas, Binks; Van Ewijk, Allen, Sheaf, Rudoni, Bidwell; Torp, Bassette Given Burnley's resilience at home this term, it is difficult to see them losing on Tuesday at Turf Moor. However, the hosts have struggled for goals of late, and they come up against a Coventry side that have snatched valuable points against the division's best. For data analysis of the most likely results, scorelines and more for this match please click here .
P/E Ratio Insights for TotalEnergies
E ddie Hearn would take it as a compliment to be described as pathologically competitive. The not so much burning as pyromaniac desire to outperform his father, Barry, still fuels his very existence and has meant that, by his own estimations, he has “not taken a break from promoting boxing for 16 years”. That pursuit of bragging rights and the desire to deter silver spoon jibes at the family dining table in Essex has led to him guiding Anthony Joshua to superstardom and a rapid global expansion of the Matchroom empire. It has all rendered Hearn a celebrity in his own right, whose fame far exceeds the vast majority of his fighters. There is almost nothing he cannot sell, be it the virtues of Saudi Arabia or, as he once proved, punnets of strawberries on a market stall in Hull, but a rare exception might be the state of modern Britain. A judge of the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year awards, it is while discussing the evolution of the women’s half of the sport, in which Hearn has played a significant role, and how his youngest daughter boxes at a local gym, that he takes an unexpectedly bleak target.
Maryland Association of Community Colleges & BCR Cyber Receive Accelerating Cyber Careers GrantThe Philadelphia Eagles are looking more and more like they're going to need to start back up Kenny Pickett on Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys. Starting quarterback Jalen Hurts, who is in concussion protocol, did not practice for the second day in a row. Meanwhile, Pickett (ribs) was a full participant in Thursday's practice after being limited on Wednesday. Linebacker Nakobe Dean (abdomen), wide receiver A.J. Brown (knee/rest), and defensive end Josh Sweat (ankle/rest) were limited on Thursday after being sidelined on Wednesday. A handful of other Eagles key starters, including left guard Landon Dickerson and running back Saquon Barkley, who rested on Wednesday as well without an injury returned to practice as full participants. Thursday’s Injury Report #DALvsPHI pic.twitter.com/zSwJpkix2w Eagles Week 16 Injury Report Observations Nick Sirianni has discussed resting his key players when they need it in order to keep them ready to go for their playoff run, which is why several players kicked off the week sidelined. Quarterback Jalen Hurts happened in Week 16's loss to the Washington Commanders . Head coach Nick Sirianni wouldn't rule him out yet but he will need to pass through concussion protocol and it's not looking good. Kenny Pickett was injured in Week 16 but finished the game. It's a good sign he was a full participant on Thursday. Pickett made it seem like he was starting vs. Dallas when he told reporters, "I’ve got a lot of family coming. It’s a surreal feeling having this opportunity. I’m doing everything I can to be prepared and get ready for it. I’m excited." The Eagles signed quarterback Ian Book to the practice squad on Thursday which also hints at Hurts' availability for Sunday. Wide receiver Britain Covey has now missed the last four games with a neck injury, despite practicing during the week. Rookie Cooper DeJean has done a good job stepping in for him on punt return. Wide receiver A.J. Brown injured his knee ahead of Week 16's matchup but played through the injury. The Eagles must activate Bryce Huff off Injured Reserve in order for him to return to action. He is still wearing a cast on his left hand. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.The "silly season" of news coverage used to refer to the dog days of summer, when there was so little of importance happening that newspapers and cable channels filled the vacuum with fluff. Not this year. Starting in October and gaining intensity through the season, Americans have found themselves awash in panicky health and safety warnings about previously unappreciated threats. It started with warnings about your black plastic spatulas and other such implements. Spurred by a study and press release issued Oct. 1 by the Seattle nonprofit Toxic-Free Future, news organizations from coast to coast — including The Los Angeles Times — posted articles advising consumers to ditch their black food utensils and children's toys with black plastic pieces. The black spatula panic was soon outrun by the drone panic, which has Americans scanning the skies for menacing aircraft. As is typically the case, both of these panics springs from a nugget of truth. It's true, for example, that chemicals that could theoretically harm people's health at high exposure levels can be found in some household products — chiefly chemical flame retardants in black plastic electronic devices that have been banned from new uses but have been getting recycled into the consumer stream. It's also true that drones, ranging in size from the lightweight models deployed by hobbyists to large commercial models, are becoming a pain in the neck, with the largest craft posing a real danger to commercial aircraft . But the distance between those nuggets of reality and the level of public hysteria is so great that the latter can be explained mostly by two factors: the desire for clicks on news sites and to fill newspaper columns, and the impulse of preening politicians to show they're attentive to constituents' concerns, no matter how dubious. Let's take these panics in order, starting with the black utensils. For a time, press advisories that people ditch their black spatulas were impossible to ignore. The most alarmist was probably an offering from The Atlantic, which was headlined: " Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula /It's probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil." The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green. It gave prominent space to the Toxic-Free Future study, as well as to research papers by the British scientist Andrew Turner, who has been studying the contamination of household goods by those electronic flame retardants for years. A few points about the Toxic-Free Future paper, which spurred all that news coverage. First, it's based in part on a massive mathematical error. The paper calculates that users of "contaminated kitchen utensils" would have a median intake of BDE-209, one of the common flame retardants, of 34,700 nanograms per day. (A nanogram is a billionth of a gram.) The paper states that this daily exposure "would approach" the reference dose set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of 7,000 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per day, which the the paper says pencils out at 42,000 nanograms per day for a 60-kilogram adult. Pretty good ground for concern, since the EPA uses the reference dose to measure the level of health risk from exposure to a toxin. Except: 7,000 times 60 isn't 42,000; it's 420,000. The median intake for a 60-kilogram adult, in other words, isn't anywhere close to the EPA's reference dose. Toxic-Free Future has issued a correction to its paper , acknowledging that the daily intake it calculated doesn't "approach" the EPA reference dose but is one-tenth of the reference dose. (The Times has followed up with an article about the correction ; several other publications that went to town on the black utensil threat have also done so.) But it also says "the calculation error does not affect the overall conclusion of the paper." Megan Liu, the paper's lead author, told me that it wasn't really designed as a risk assessment, but chiefly as a study of how much of these contaminants has entered the consumer economy through kitchen utensils, children's toys and other products. "Flame retardants shouldn't even be in these products at all," she says, which is true. Yet the issue for the average consumer is how dangerous are these products, really? The answer is, not very. In a study cited by Liu's paper, researchers found that some chemicals leached from a black spatula into cooking oil. The Atlantic's take on this was that the paper "found that flame retardants in black kitchen utensils readily migrate into hot cooking oil." Not so readily, however: The researchers cut a black spatula into small pieces and basted them in 320-degree cooking oil for 15 minutes . Who does that? As epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz points out, "most people don't leave their spatulas in the fryer and walk away for a quarter of an hour ." More issues are related to this paper. One is that 60 kilograms, or about 132 pounds, isn't the average weight of American adults. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places the average weight for an adult male at about 200 pounds, and for a female about 171. Using those weights would have shown that the potential for health effects is even more remote than the overheated news coverage of the paper suggests. In any case, the evidence for long-term human health effects from the normal exposure to these chemicals is scanty. It comes almost entirely from experiments on lab mice and rats subjected to doses unlikely to occur in the real world, and to an experiment on human cells also in the laboratory. Of course, if you're inclined to eliminate all artifacts of modern commerce from your life, no one is stopping you. Liu and her colleagues observe that kitchen implements made from wood or stainless steel are widely available. They've also properly noted that among the real problems with the recycling of plastics in consumer goods is that we don't know anything about how much goes into which products and where they've come from. Some legislatures have moved toward requiring more disclosure, which is to the good. But if you spent the last few weeks or months doing a hard target search for black implements in your house, you probably didn't have to. Now on to the drones. When I first heard of New Jersey residents expressing panic over mysterious lights overhead, I flashed on the Firesign Theatre line, "Big light in sky slated to appear in East." Except that the Firesign Theatre was a satire troupe of the 1960s and '70s, the line originated in their parody of a post-apocalyptic news broadcast, and the game was given away by the title of their best album, "Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers." The current panic appears to be for real. All the worrying got me thinking about the interview I conducted in September with Sean M. Kirkpatrick , who had recently retired as the Pentagon's chief investigator of UFO reports. As he had written in a Scientific American op-ed , he and his team had been overwhelmed by a "whirlwind of tall tales, fabrication and secondhand or thirdhand retellings of the same," producing "a social media frenzy and a significant amount of congressional and executive time and energy spent on investigating these so-called claims." Sound familiar? The claims of an invasion of the Eastern seaboard by swarms of drones has every marker of a groundless social media frenzy. This started with some truly baroque partisan speculation; on Dec. 11, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) cadged himself some airtime on Fox News by claiming that his home state was under attack from Iran. "I'm going to tell you the real deal," he said. "Iran launched a mother ship that contains these drones. It's off the East Coast of the United States of America. They've launched drones." Three days later, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, declared "this has gone too far," grousing that mystery drones had closed down a metropolitan New York airport. The bare-bones reporting on this event might have made people think that JFK or LaGuardia had been attacked by mystery drones. In fact, the airport was Stewart Airport, which is 60 miles from Manhattan, is served mostly by the ultra-low-cost Allegiant Airlines with routes to Florida, and was closed for one hour. My favorite performance was that of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, who reported via X that on Dec. 12 he "personally witnessed (and videoed) what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence ... (25 miles from our nation's capital). I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes." It didn't take long for Hogan to be inundated with responses from astronomers and meteorologists that what he had videotaped weren't drones flying over his house, but the constellation Orion, which as meteorologist Matthew Cappucci informed him crisply, is "made up of stars between 244 and 1,344 light years away. " Since then, neighborhood groups in New Jersey have organized "sky watches" to track the invading swarms and traded reports via their Ring doorbells. Donald Trump advised people to shoot the drones down, which is a good way to make things worse. Some people conjecture that the drone hysteria is the product of the public's mistrust of government. That doesn't explain much, since a large share of the hysteria has been promoted by elected officials themselves. Politicians are naturally averse to calling their constituents idiots, so they have been responding by demanding more transparency from government officials at the Pentagon and other agencies. It's always safe for politicians to assure voters that they'll hold bureaucrats' feet to the fire. The problem here is that government agencies have been very clear about what's happening overhead. The "drone" sightings, they say, are of commercial or U.S. military aircraft, helicopters, and perhaps drone flights by hobbyists wanting to get in on the fun. Most of it is surely the product of ignorance. How much more do we need federal agencies to explain? "Most people don't look at the sky," notes Cheryl Rofer, a retired nuclear scientist . "They don't know what airplanes look like up there, particularly at night, and they don't know what the stars and planets look like. They can't estimate distance — which is tricky in the sky — and they aren't aware of how things can seem to move. They aren't aware of how to check if those objects in fact are moving." There may be one other explanation for why there are so many purported drone sightings in New Jersey. As the blogger Kevin Drum writes , there are a lot of drones in New Jersey, in part because a state law "indemnifies drone fliers against lawsuits from New Jersey landowners for use of their property for drone overflights." So, sure. New Jersey loves drones, which nobody noticed until a local congressman decided to blame Iran. That should cover the hysterias of the moment. Black spatulas won't kill you, and the lights in the sky aren't alien spaceships or Iranian bombers. Any questions? Michael Hiltzik is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit at latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Playoff hopes in the balance when the Broncos face the Bengals in Cincy
Fantasy football waiver wire Week 13 adds: Eight players to pick up
It looked like a recipe for disaster. So, when his country's swimmers were being accused of doping earlier this year, one Chinese official cooked up something fast: He blamed it on contaminated noodles. In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who'd tested positive for that same drug, per the . In April, reporting from the and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so they weren't sanctioned. The World Anti-Doping Agency accepted that explanation, didn't press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the "no-fault findings," as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report, however, lawyer Eric Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by the AP via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. "There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie," said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete, who points to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. More .New York Jets star cornerback Sauce Gardner isn't planning on recruiting Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins ahead of his impending free agency. "PAY THE MAN," Gardner commented under an Instagram post from Higgins on Sunday, as the wideout is set to become a free agent at the end of the season. When a fan asked him to attempt to sway the Bengals receiver to come to New York, he declined. Gardner, who spent his college career at Cincinnati, previously advocated for the Jets to sign Higgins following the 2023 season. The 25-year-old eventually received the franchise tag from the Bengals, though. New York has its own wide receiver situation to deal with, as the future is uncertain for the team's current duo of Davante Adams and Garrett Wilson. Adams is under contract next season but his deal must be renegotiated due to a prohibitive base salary of a non-guaranteed $35.6 million (h/t ESPN's Rich Cimini ). If his contract isn't restructured, the six-time Pro Bowl receiver will be released. Wilson, the 2022 Offensive Rookie of the Year, will be eligible for an extension once the regular season comes to a close. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported on Sunday that Wilson has been "frustrated at the lack of looks" he's generated from Aaron Rodgers, clouding his long-term outlook with the team. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has expressed optimism that Higgins will re-sign with Cincinnati during the offseason. "Those discussions are ongoing," Burrow said on Dec. 9, per ESPN's Ben Baby . "I'm confident that I think we're going to do what it takes to bring Tee back. I know that I'm going to do what it takes to get him back and so is he. We've had those talks. Those are going to be offseason discussions. But I think we're excited about that opportunity." The former second-round pick has put together an impressive 2024 campaign, hauling in 69 receptions for 858 yards and a career-high 10 touchdowns in 11 games. Higgins should receive interest from multiple teams once he hits free agency, but don't expect Gardner to be part of the recruiting effort.New Report Warns Against Pentagon Project Potentially Developing “Killer Robots”