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New first round of CFP averaged 10.6M viewers – Sports Business Journal
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The four games of the first round of the College Football Playoff averaged 10.6 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and truTV (plus streaming) on Friday and Saturday.
Being the first year of the expanded CFP, there are no comps to a prior first round. But the average for the four games in this year’s first round was 31% higher than the average for the four non-semifinal games within the “New Year’s Six” last season (Cotton, Peach, Orange, Fiesta). None of those games had playoff implications, and were played on Dec. 29, 2023, Dec. 30, 2023 and Jan. 1 of this year (all on ESPN with no simulcasts or alt-casts for an average of 8.1 million viewers).
The top game from the first round was easily Ohio State-Penn State on Saturday in primetime with 14.3 million viewers across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2. That’s the second-best CFB game this season, behind only the 16.6 million viewers for the Georgia-Texas SEC Championship on ABC/ESPN on Dec. 7. On Friday night, Notre Dame-Indiana drew 13.4 million viewers, which is the third-best CFB game this season after passing the 13.2 million for the first UGA-Texas meeting back on Oct. 19 on ABC.
On Saturday afternoon, up against NFL action on NBC, Texas’ win over Clemson averaged 8.6 million viewers across TNT, TBS and truTV (includes streaming on Max). That figure is the best on record for a college football game on TNT Sports networks, topping the 1996 CarQuest Bowl, and is also the company’s best sports audience ever in December. Earlier on Saturday, up against NFL action on Fox, the Penn State-SMU first round game drew 6.4 million viewers (same three networks), which is TNT Sports’ second-best CFB audience on record.
As a reference point: none of the first-round games came close to averaging what a CFP semifinal drew dating back to the start of the playoff for the 2014-2015 season. The lowest semifinal game under the prior format was 15.7 million on ESPN/ESPN2 for Clemson-Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl semi back in 2016-2016 season.
The average for the four CFP first round games also, as expected, did not draw better than the averages for any of the New Year’s Six bowl games since the start of the CFP system. The low under that setup was just under 11 million viewers during the pandemic season of 2020-21.
For a college basketball comparison, the four games of the CFP first round were slightly higher than what the four games of the men’s Elite 8 drew in March Madness last season across TBS and CBS (10.6 million for CFP vs. 10.4 million for college hoops regional finals).
Figures for the NFL games that went up against the CFP on Saturday afternoon will be available on Tuesday, but early figures showed that both the Fox and NBC telecasts easily beat all CFP first round games.
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International conference on artificial intelligence at NIT – The Tribune India
The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) hosted an international conference on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Device Computing, Communication and Signal Processing’ that concluded here on Sunday.
NIT Director HM Suryawanshi expressed his pride in the successful organisation of the conference. He stated, “This event reflects the institute”s commitment to fostering innovation and providing a global platform for knowledge exchange in emerging technologies. The participation of esteemed researchers and professionals has made this conference a true success.”
Earlier, Head of Digital Systems Dr Ravinder Zandu held detailed discussions on emerging digital technologies. Four plenary sessions featured thought leaders from around the globe. Prof RP Yadav of NIT-Jaipur provided an insights on AI’s future applications in communication and signal processing, Research Scientists Dr Amir and Dr Ajeet Kumar at the National Laboratory of Radar and Surveillance Systems at PISA in Italy, captivated the audience with talks on Machine Learning for Polarimetric SAR and Interferometry SAR Processing and SAR Processing for Target Detection in Surveillance Applications. The plenary sessions concluded with Prof Arun Khosla of IT-Jalandhar delivering a session on emerging AI trends in signal processing.
The conference featured theme-based research paper presentations across six meticulously curated technical sessions. The best paper awards for each session were given to Dr Deepanshu Kaushal, Dr Pallavi Ranjan, Pal Patel, Sumit Anand, Anubuselvan Kasilingam and Roopali Salwan Sharma.
Dr Ashok Kumar extended his gratitude to the attendees, reviewers, speakers, industry personnel and institute administration for their valuable contributions and support.
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Lottery results LIVE: National Lottery Set For Life draw tonight, December 23, 2024… – The Sun
THE National Lottery Set For Life numbers are in and it's time to find out if you've won the top prize of £10,000 every month for 30 years.
Could tonight's jackpot see you start ticking off that bucket list every month or building your own start-up as a budding entrepreneur?
You can find out by checking your ticket against tonight's numbers below.
Good luck!
Tonight’s National Lottery Set For Life numbers are: 02, 18, 19, 23, 28 and the Life Ball is 03.
The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.
The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.
Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.
Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.
Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.
The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.
Another winner, Karl managed to bag £11million aged just 23 in 1996.
The odds of winning the lottery are estimated to be about one in 14million – BUT you've got to be in it to win it.
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ROSEN, A LEADING LAW FIRM, Encourages Symbotic Inc. – GlobeNewswire
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NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Symbotic Inc. (NASDAQ: SYM) between February 8, 2024 and November 26, 2024, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), of the important February 3, 2025 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action first filed by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Symbotic securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Symbotic class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=31796 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 3, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company at the time. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs’ Bar. Many of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Symbotic improperly accelerated revenue recognition in its 2024 financial statements; and (2) as a result, defendants’ statements about Symbotic’s business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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President Biden commutes death sentence for Philadelphia drug lord Kaboni Savage who killed 12 people, including children – WPVI-TV
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, including a Philadelphia drug lord who was convicted of killing a dozen people.
Their punishments were converted to life in prison.
Biden said the decision was guided by his conscience, and comes just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
"These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder," Biden said.
One of those inmates is Kaboni Savage, who was convicted of killing 12 people, including four children.
The youngest victims died when Savage ordered the firebombing of the house where they lived in an act of retribution against a witness.
Family members of the children who died are devastated. That includes Tina Fox, who told Action News she is disappointed in the president.
Many of Fox's relatives were murdered at Savage's direction at a home on North 6th Street in 2004.
"This crime is beyond violent," she said. "They were children. They would've been adults now but they don't have a say. You can't hear their voice. They were killed innocently."
RELATED: President Biden commutes sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates
Fox's cousin, Eugene Coleman, became a federal informant against Savage. The fire killed two adults, including Coleman's mother, and four children, including an infant.
Savage was convicted of those murders that he ordered from prison. He was also found guilty in six other murders, including a man scheduled to testify against him and rival drug dealers.
Attorney Fortunato Perri Jr., who does not represent Savage, explained Biden's announcement is not a surprise after seeing a major push by critics of the death penalty to abolish it nationwide.
"The national trend has been going away from the death penalty," Perri told Action News.
Perri said Biden's decision is final.
"That simply means that the individual will remain incarcerated with a life sentence, as opposed to an effort to have him executed down the road. That's something now that can never happen," Perri said.
In a statement, President Biden said he believes America must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level except in cases of terrorism and hate motivated mass murder. The three death row inmates that remain, he says, fit that category.
The Five Forces Reshaping Higher Education – Forbes
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Michael Porter’s model of the Five Forces for Competitive Strategy provides a powerful framework for analyzing competitive pressures within industries. Although it serves as a centerpiece for business strategy, the Five Forces model has yet to be widely applied to higher education. Even though higher education is technically not an industry, universities face the same forces that guide the fate of businesses. These five forces – competitive rivalry, the threat of new entrants, the bargaining power of suppliers, the bargaining power of buyers, and the threat of substitute products or services – provide a powerful lens for analyzing the future of higher education.
The most visible manifestation of competitive rivalry in higher education is the intensifying battle for students. U.S. colleges and universities are grappling with demographic shifts that have reduced the pool of college-aged individuals, with an “enrollment cliff” predicted in the coming years. Declining enrollments have already begun. According to the Digest of Education Statistics, 2020 enrollments in four-year, for-profit colleges were down by about half from their 2010 peak, while two-year colleges declined about 40% from a 2010 peak. In the competition for students, the private non-profit sector is performing better and showed only a 10% decline in enrollment in this same period. The Department of Education projects about a five percent drop in the number of new high school graduates by 2031, and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education forecasts a 12% drop by 2037.
Online education has significantly lowered the barrier to entry in higher education and created opportunities for new online “mega-universities,” such as Western Governors University, ASU Digital Immersion, and Southern New Hampshire University. These universities dwarf enrollment from traditional universities and serve an ever-increasing share of the market of college students. For example, in 2024, the top five non-profit four-year institutions in the US enrolled over 720,000 students, more than double the enrollment of the top five ten years ago, and these five institutions alone enroll nearly 7 percent of the 10.8 million students in 4-year institutions in the US.
Universities and colleges have long enjoyed a monopoly on delivering and providing credentials. Their power has been further enhanced by traditional loyalty from students and their families, as well as the value of social networks and intergenerational connections enjoyed by alumni after graduation. Administrative and financial difficulties make it difficult for students to transfer to other schools, further strengthening the power of higher education suppliers.
Despite these barriers, universities are seeing increasing student mobility, between and across institutional sectors. Transfers from two-year colleges to four-year institutions grew by 7.7 percent in 2024, and transfers across institutions grew by 5.3 percent in 2023 compared to 2022. This mobility unfortunately also means leaving higher education altogether; for example, only 16 percent of community college students ultimately earn bachelor’s degrees within six years. The result has been a rising population of “some credit, no-credential” or SCNC students, which has risen to 41.9 million students in 2024, compared to just 36 million in 2019. In the 2022-23 academic year, 63 percent of the SCNC students who re-enroll switched institutions, and 67% of these students change sectors.
Students and their families wield significant bargaining power due to rising tuition costs and growing skepticism about return on investment. The cost of college in the United States has surged by over 169% since 1980, causing many students to reconsider the value of a 4-year college degree altogether, with only 51% of Gen Z high school students considering pursuing a four-year degree, down from 71% in May 2020.
To attract price-sensitive students, many universities are freezing or reducing tuition. Purdue University, for example, has frozen its tuition at $9,992 annually since 2012, and Colby-Sawyer college dropped its tuition from $46,000 to $17,500 for the 2023-24 academic year. Other schools are eliminating tuition altogether for students based on their income level. For example, students with family income less than $200,000 pay not tuition at MIT and University of Pennsylvania, while Stanford is tuition free for family incomes less than $150,000.
Perhaps the greatest threat to traditional universities and colleges is substitution by entirely new kinds of credentials. These “micro credentials” include skills-focused bootcamps and courses provided by leading tech companies, often at a very low cost. A 2023 report by Credential Engine identified over 1,000,000 programs provided by a diverse array of companies and institutions. Major suppliers include Coursera, offering specializations and Professional certificates, in partnership with companies like Google, IBM and Meta. EdX provides verified certificates, MicroMasters, MicroBachelors, and full degree programs in collaboration with major universities such as University of London, George Washington University, and New York University. Udacity’s nanodegrees, and LinkedIn’s paths also offer hundreds of alternatives to traditional degree programs.
A recent survey showed that while most employers are familiar with these alternative credentials, they need proof of their effectiveness. In response, the American Council of Education (ACE) and others have developed recommendations of specific micro credentials and their equivalent levels of academic credit. International frameworks for such as India’s National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) or the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) also provide guidance in evaluating online certificates.
Some traditional universities have responded by developing alternative credentials of their own. The Georgia University System has introduced a Nexus degree program allows a mix of experiential learning and coursework to stack toward bachelor’s degree, while Oregon State University allows its own micro credentials to count towards bachelor’s degrees. A 2024 Coursera report describes how the University of Texas Permian Basin integrates its professional certificates into degree programs. Other examples include Harvard Business School’s Credential of Readiness or program for foundational business skills, and Georgia Tech’s $11,000 online Master’s degrees in Computer Science.
As Michael Porter noted in his 1979 article, “The key to growth—even survival—is to stake out a position that is less vulnerable to attack from head-to-head opponents” and “less vulnerable to erosion from the direction of buyers, suppliers, and substitute goods.” Porter suggests a firm’s survival requires “solidifying their relationships with their customers” and “differentiating their product.” Sadly, too many universities are not attending to these requirements and their long-term sustainability may be questionable.
As a result, reports of college closures have become commonplace. Between 2004 and 2020, over 860 colleges closed, primarily in the for-profit sector. While the quality of small, private, non-profit institutions helps assure their survival, many are vulnerable to the same forces that can affect businesses. In 2023 alone, 14 non-profit, four-year institutions closed, including some with illustrious histories extending deep into the 19th century. A few institutions, such Sweet Briar College and Hampshire College, escaped closure through dramatic restructuring and aggressive fundraising, and a renewed consideration of their purpose and relationship with alumni, students and surrounding communities. For our universities and colleges to survive, they will need similar levels of courage and imagination in responding to these forces.
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Yakuza Fiancé episode 12 review: Yoshino finally confirms Kirishima and her relationship – Sportskeeda
Winner of New Jersey’s $1.13 billion jackpot finally claims prize – WRAL News
(CNN) — A life-altering payday will soon be in store for one lucky New Jersey Lottery winner.
The winner of a $1.128 billion Mega Millions jackpot has finally come forward to claim their staggering windfall nearly nine months since the ticket was drawn, according to a New Jersey Lottery press release.
Lottery officials say the jaw-dropping prize is the fifth-highest in the game’s nearly three-decade history.
The winning ticket was drawn on March 26 at a ShopRite supermarket in the coastal township of Neptune, according to the Lottery.
Like many other lottery winners, the lucky ticket holder has opted to take a cash prize, which is $537.5 million before federal and state taxes are taken out, lottery officials say.
The player “values privacy” and has chosen to remain anonymous, according to the lottery, thanks to a law passed in 2020 that allows lottery winners to conceal their identities in public records indefinitely. Officials say it is not uncommon for winners to wait before coming forward to claim their prize, as they have a full year to do so.
The state of New Jersey raised $77 million in ticket sales from this drawing, and the ShopRite that sold the winning ticket will receive a $30,000 bonus commission.
Mega Millions drawings are held every Tuesday and Friday around 11:00 p.m. ET. The next drawing is on Christmas Eve – and the jackpot stands at $970 million – the ultimate holiday bonus!
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Breaking News Live Updates: Bill Clinton is hospitalized with fever but in good spirits, says spokesperson – The Times of India
Bill Clinton is hospitalized with fever but in good spirits, says spokesperson
Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington on Monday after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the afternoon for testing and observation, according to a statement from Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff.
2 rescued after California wharf partially collapses due to heavy surf from major Pacific storm
Two people were rescued after a partially collapsed pier under construction in California fell into the ocean on Monday, as heavy surf from a major storm battered the state’s central coast. The storm, which is expected to bring hurricane-force winds to the Pacific Northwest, caused the collapse near the Santa Cruz Wharf, located about 70 miles south of San Francisco. Authorities have warned residents to avoid low-lying beach areas as the storm quickly intensifies.
Company official charged in 2022 oil-chemical discharge into Michigan’s Flint River
The president of a chemical company has been charged in connection with an unauthorized oil discharge that created a miles-long dark sheen on the Flint River in Michigan more than two years ago. Rajinder Singh Minhas, 60, of Rochester, Michigan, was arrested and arraigned last week on multiple charges, including falsifying public records, substantial public endangerment, discharging harmful substances into state waters, and making false statements related to air pollution control. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the charges on Monday. Minhas also served as director and treasurer of Lockhart Chemical, a Flint-based company that manufactures coatings, metalworking additives, hydraulic fluids, and lubricants.
FAA probes holiday drone show accident that injured a boy in Florida
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Monday that it is investigating the cause of a drone collision that occurred during a holiday show in downtown Orlando, Florida, over the weekend. The incident, which took place at Lake Eola Park on Saturday night, resulted in several drones falling into a crowd of thousands, injuring a 7-year-old boy who required surgery. The show had been approved by the FAA.
NeueHealth to be taken private by New Enterprise Associates in $1.3 billion deal
Health insurer NeueHealth announced that it would be taken private by an affiliate of New Enterprise Associates and a group of investors, with an enterprise value of approximately $1.3 billion. Following the announcement, the company’s shares surged by 62.4% in after-hours trading. The acquisition offer, priced at $7.33 per share in cash, represents a 70% premium over NeueHealth’s closing stock price on Monday.
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