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Monday, October 31, 2022

Myles Turner - Lakers should take 'hard look' at potential trade with Pacers - ESPN

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Although the Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers stepped away from trade talks shortly before training camp that involved Russell Westbrook and draft capital going to Indiana for Myles Turner and Buddy Hield, the Pacers center says it's a deal that could be worth revisiting.

"If I'm the Lakers, I take a very hard look at this with the position that you're in," Turner said, responding to a question about the potential swap as a guest on ESPN's "The Woj Pod" with Adrian Wojnarowski. "I know what I can provide for a team -- my leadership, my shot-blocking, my 3-point ability and just my ability to make plays out there on the floor.

"And I take a very long look at it. But as far as pulling the trigger, I get paid to shoot. I'm not paid to make these calls, so I couldn't answer that."

The Lakers have been reluctant to include both their future first-round picks in 2027 and 2029 to upgrade the current roster with the hope of putting LeBron James and Anthony Davis back in position to contend for a championship.

"We all know picks are so valuable in this league, and someone like myself, I'm heading into the last year of my deal and you want to make sure you're getting a return for your assets," Turner added.

Turner, a 26-year-old center in his eighth season with Indiana, has career averages of 12.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game, while shooting 34.9% from 3. Hield, a former client of Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka during Pelinka's days as a player agent, has connected on 43% of his outside shots in seven seasons with New Orleans, Sacramento and Indiana.

Even with a 13-for-30 showing from the outside in their first win of the season on Sunday, the Lakers still rank dead last in the league in 3-point shooting at 26.6% as a team. And with only role players available to play center, Damian Jones and Wenyen Gabriel, Davis has been tasked to play the starting 5, even though he is battling lower back pain and has historically preferred the 4.

Wojnarowski reported earlier this month that the Lakers plan to reassess the roster after approximately 20 games and could look to reengage in trade talks around Thanksgiving.

Turner, who has played his entire career in small-market Indianapolis, said joining a marquee team like the Lakers would be appealing.

"I just feel like here in the Midwest we don't get the love that I think we deserve. ... It doesn't get taken on the national level," Turner said. "You are under the microscope out there at the West. When you are doing bad, you're going to hear about it. When you are doing great, you are going to get a lot of love, especially with the love that the Lakers get.

"I think that another aspect that is [appealing is] playing with greatness and playing under LeBron. I feel like he demands a certain level of excellency, especially at this point of his career. It's just one of those things; when you are out there, you got to perform. People are going to expect you to go out there and hold on to that legacy that the Lakers have built over the years."

Indiana has started the season 3-4. The Lakers are 1-5.

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The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard in the Harvard and UNC cases - Vox.com

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The Supreme Court spent an inordinate amount of time on Monday hearing arguments in two cases about affirmative action in university admissions. Virtually nothing said in those arguments is likely to change the final outcome.

The six justices appointed by Republican presidents appeared determined from the beginning to implement the Republican Party’s preferred approach to race and the Constitution, while the three justices appointed by Democrats appeared equally determined to adopt the Democratic Party’s stance. That means that the Court is highly likely to implement the GOP’s longtime position that affirmative action should be illegal.

That said, at least some of the Court’s conservatives seemed bothered by several difficult questions that are likely to arise if they hand down a decision banning affirmative action.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, for example, asked several questions about whether outwardly “race neutral” programs — such as admitting the top graduates from every high school in a state, a program implemented by Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the 1990s — are permissible even if those programs are enacted for the purpose of fostering racial diversity. Chief Justice John Roberts suggested that maybe affirmative action should still be allowed at service academies like West Point or the Naval Academy, after Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the military’s “strength, cohesiveness, and military readiness” will suffer without a diverse officer corps.

One of the biggest issues that plagued the justices is what to do about a university that decides to admit a student who writes a compelling essay focusing on their experience as a person of color. As Justice Amy Coney Barrett admitted at one point, it is “slicing the salami very finely” to say that a university cannot give a slight preference to a student who checks a box on their application identifying themselves as Latino, but that the university can give a preference the same student if they write an essay expressing pride in their Mexican American culture.

The Court heard two cases over the course of its interminable arguments on Monday, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. Students for Fair Admissions is largely a front group for Ed Blum, a white activist who frequently advances lawsuits attacking programs such as affirmative action or the Voting Rights Act.

But the stakes in these cases go far beyond the UNC and Harvard admissions policies that Blum and his legal team targeted in his most recent trip to the Supreme Court. Even if one of the conservative justices who expressed some reservations today surprises us, that would still likely leave five votes teed up against affirmative action. The Court, then, could very well forbid all universities, except for maybe the service academies, from explicitly considering race when making admissions decisions.

How affirmative action works right now

The Supreme Court’s previous affirmative action decisions are complicated and nuanced. Although the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which restricts race discrimination, was originally understood to permit government programs that seek to lift up a disadvantaged racial group, modern precedents acknowledge that the Constitution casts a very skeptical eye on government programs (including programs led by state schools) that draw distinctions on the basis of race. At the same time, the Court has acknowledged that society as a whole benefits from increased racial diversity, especially among its college-educated leaders.

(Although Harvard is a private university, the Court’s decision in 1978’s Regents of the University of California v. Bakke held that private schools are subject to the same rules governing race that the Constitution imposes on their public counterparts.)

As the Court explained in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), “numerous studies show that student body diversity promotes learning outcomes, and ‘better prepares students for an increasingly diverse workforce and society, and better prepares them as professionals.’” Students who learn to interact with people of diverse backgrounds and experiences in college are more likely to succeed when they graduate into their chosen professions.

Indeed, one perennial ritual that plays out every single time the Court hears a case about affirmative action in college admissions is that a raft of major employers file amicus briefs begging the Court not to overrule cases like Grutter.

This time around, dozens of major companies — ranging from Apple to Ikea to Starbucks — all joined a brief arguing that “racial diversity improves decision-making by increasing creativity, communication, and accuracy within teams.” A long list of the nation’s largest law firms warned that “the private bar and the legal profession” must “have a racially diverse pool of talent from which to recruit.” A group of retired admirals and generals told the Court that “diversity in the halls of academia directly affects performance in the theaters of war.”

Though the Court has historically paid some heed to these calls, it’s also placed strict limits on just how much of a role race can play in university admissions. The Court’s decisions forbid quota systems — a system where a certain number of seats are set aside for applicants from certain racial backgrounds. They also forbid “points” systems where applicants of a certain race are given a mathematically precise advantage over other applicants.

Instead, race may only be considered as part of a “holistic” process that, in Grutter’s words, considers “all pertinent elements of diversity,” and that will sometimes “select nonminority applicants who have greater potential to enhance student body diversity over underrepresented minority applicants.”

In the UNC case, for example, the university says that it considers “more than forty criteria” when determining which students to admit, ranging from academic record to “athletic or artistic talents” to the student’s status as a veteran. A Black or Latino candidate might receive a slight bump if their racial background will add diversity to an incoming class, but the school also gives a bump to students from rural areas and students who served in the military.

As a practical matter, this complicated system means that race won’t push a mediocre applicant into the pool of admitted students, but it may serve as a tiebreaker between multiple students with similar records — all of whom are likely to thrive at a particular university. A federal court found that “race plays a role in a very small percentage of decisions” at UNC, “1.2% for in-state students and 5.1% for out-of-state students.”

The Court’s Republican appointees are likely to overrule Grutter

The conservative response to Grutter’s core argument — the argument that society’s collective interest in having a leadership class that respects and draws from all parts of the nation justifies giving a slight advantage to individual college applicants from certain racial backgrounds — has historically been “so what?”

As Blum’s legal team argued in their briefs, the United States must be “colorblind.” Under this approach, any system that takes explicit account of race is forbidden — regardless of whether it seeks to lift up historically marginalized groups, or whether it benefits society as a whole.

It would be astonishing if the Court’s Republican appointees do not all share this view. Although some of them asked questions about how a decision overruling Grutter would operate around the margins, all six of them seemed committed to the colorblind theory — some of them very stridently.

When Seth Waxman, the lawyer defending the Harvard policy, compared Grutter’s diversity rationale to a university’s decision to admit an oboe player because it needs one for its campus orchestra, Roberts quipped back that “we did not fight a civil war over oboe players.” The idea is that any form of race-conscious program is uniquely suspect because of America’s dark history with race.

The prize for the cleverest argument for overruling Grutter goes to Justice Clarence Thomas, who pointed to the lower court’s finding that race only plays a role in a tiny percentage of applicants in the UNC case. If race really is only a factor in 1.2 percent of cases, Thomas seemed to argue, does UNC’s affirmative action program actually do enough to foster diversity in order to justify its existence?

Multiple conservative justices, including Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, pointed to language in Grutter predicting that “25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today,” or to language in Grutter suggesting that affirmative action must eventually have an “end point.” The clear implication was that we have reached that end point — even though 25 years have not passed since Grutter was decided in 2003.

In any event, a party-line decision overruling Grutter should not surprise anyone. Although conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy surprised most Court observers when he voted twice during the Obama administration to weaken, but not forbid, affirmative action programs, every Republican appointed to the Supreme Court since Thomas’s appointment in 1991 has consistently opposed affirmative action. Roberts, the least conservative member of the Court’s GOP-appointed majority, is known for his famously simplistic approach to questions of race — “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

And even if the Court follows Kennedy’s path and imposes new restrictions on university admissions without outright prohibiting it, the Court has already imposed such severe restrictions on affirmative action programs that a more restrictive approach is likely to function much like an absolute ban.

The future could be very difficult for university admissions officers

At least some of the Court’s Republican appointees appeared concerned that a too-aggressive opinion overruling Grutter could lead to undesirable outcomes. Roberts, for example, appeared open to the possibility that affirmative action could be permissible at the service academies — the Court has historically shown more deference to the military than to other institutions.

Kavanaugh, and, to a lesser extent, Roberts, also had several questions about what universities are still allowed to do if Grutter is overruled. What happens, for example, if Harvard replaces its race-conscious program with a new system that preferences traits — like a low-income upbringing or status as an immigrant — that correlate with race? Or what happens if Blum’s legal team, fresh off their victory in Harvard and UNC, decide to celebrate by targeting former President Bush’s signature Top Ten admissions policy in Texas?

Much of Team Blum’s arguments in the Harvard case focused on statistical evidence that Asian applicants are particularly unlikely to be admitted. If Harvard abandons its explicitly race-conscious policies, but Asian applicants continue to be admitted at lower rates than they apply, does it risk being sued again? For that matter, does every single university where white or Asian applicants are statistically less likely to be admitted than Black or Latino applicants become the target of someone like Blum?

At one point, Justice Samuel Alito appeared to take the extraordinary position that universities cannot even gather information on the racial backgrounds of their applicants, such as by asking them to check a box indicating which racial group or groups they identify with. But even many of Alito’s fellow Republican appointees — most notably Barrett — seemed to accept that admissions cannot be completely race-blind.

And, notably, both of the lawyers arguing against affirmative action on Monday acknowledged that a university could decide to admit a student based on an admissions essay that discusses the student’s racial background.

I want to acknowledge that the questions raised by affirmative action policies are difficult. Just how much race consciousness should we tolerate in service of diversity? And exactly how racially diverse should campuses be to serve the interests of employers? How racially diverse does the military’s officer corps need to be in order to inspire confidence in the men and women that they lead? How does a court draw a line between admitting a student because they are Black, and admitting them because they write eloquently about their experience as a Black person?

Indeed, these questions are so difficult that, in the Bakke decision that first held that universities may take some limited account of race in admissions, Justice Lewis Powell called for a degree of deference to universities. “It is the business of a university to provide that atmosphere which is most conducive to speculation, experiment and creation,” Powell wrote in Bakke, while quoting from a 1957 opinion. And Powell acknowledges that universities “must be accorded the right to select those students who will contribute the most to the ‘robust exchange of ideas.’”

This Court, by contrast, largely rejects judicial restraint as a virtue, and rarely sees the value in deferring to institutions with greater expertise than the justices themselves. That’s a recipe for a bold decision that could overrule every one of the Court’s university admissions decisions since Bakke.

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Inflation in Europe Reaches a Record 10.7% as Officials Face Hard Options - The New York Times

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Despite rapid interest rate increases by the European Central Bank, more than half of the 19 eurozone countries see double-digit rises in consumer prices.

A startling new jump in consumer prices in Europe signals that inflation has more stubbornly burrowed its way across the continent despite slowing growth, complicating policymakers’ efforts to steer economies through a difficult winter and possible recession.

Consumer prices in the 19 countries that use the euro as their currency rose at a record annual rate of 10.7 percent in October, the European Commission reported on Monday. In September, the rate was 9.9 percent. Twelve months ago, it was 4.1 percent.

The relentless upward march sharpens the tough choices facing Europe’s elected leaders and central bankers. Reiterating its determination to halt the rise in prices, the European Central Bank last week announced it was raising interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point for the second time in a row. Until September, the bank had not instituted such a big increase since 1999, in the very early days of the eurozone.

But there are growing concerns that efforts to corral inflation by making borrowing and mortgages more expensive will accelerate countries’ slide into recession, choking off investment and increasing unemployment.

As the International Monetary Fund recently warned: “European policymakers face severe trade-offs and tough policy choices as they address a toxic mix of weak growth and high inflation that could worsen.”

Although the commission reported that output grew by 0.2 percent over the quarter that spanned July, August and September — a higher-than-expected rate — many economists agreed that a recession in Europe is all but inevitable. Several said on Monday that they expected growth in the final three months of the year to deteriorate.

Year-over-year change in eurozone harmonized index of consumer prices

Source: Eurostat

By The New York Times

The problem of bringing inflation to heel without causing the economy to plunge in a downward spiral is particularly pointed for the European Central Bank.

When Christine Lagarde, the bank’s president, announced last week’s interest rate increase, she implied that the bank’s aggressive stance might ease. The elevated inflation levels now, though, are likely to encourage stronger pushback from members of the council who remain hawkish about the inflation fight.

“I expect this to reinforce the division inside the European Central Bank’s governing council,” Lucrezia Reichlin, an economics professor at the London Business School, said of this latest report from Eurostat, the commission’s statistical office.

The combination of higher-than-expected inflation and output, she said, suggests that supply shortages are not the sole problem; increasing demand from consumers is also contributing to rising prices.

Painfully high energy and food prices continued to push inflation to record levels. Over the past 12 months, energy prices rose by 41.9 percent while food prices increased by 13.1 percent. With Russia’s withdrawal from an agreement that allowed grain exports from Ukraine, grain prices are likely to go up even more.

Further worrisome are signs that inflation is broadening its reach to other sectors.

More than half of the eurozone countries recorded double-digit inflation rates in the year through October, including Germany (11.6 percent); the Netherlands (16.8 percent); Italy (12.8 percent) and Slovakia (14.5 percent). In the Baltic countries, rates spilled past 21 percent. France showed the lowest rate of 7.1 percent.

Consumer spending in part drove Germany, Europe’s largest economy, to a 0.3 percent annual growth rate during the third quarter. Italy’s economy grew by 0.5 percent, and Sweden’s by 0.7 percent. Overall output slowed from the 0.8 percent recorded over the prior three-month period. Elsewhere, growth slowed in the third quarter: Output in France and Spain each increased by just 0.2 percent, while the economies of Austria and Belgium shrank by 0.1 percent.

In the larger bloc of 27 countries that make up the European Union, third-quarter growth increased by 0.2 percent, the same as in the eurozone.

In the United States, consumer prices rose by 8.2 percent in the year through September. Britain’s inflation rate was 8.8 percent over the same period.

A grocery store in Paris. France’s inflation rate was the lowest among eurozone countries, at 7.1 percent.Nathalie Mohadjer for The New York Times

The International Monetary Fund has urged central bankers to stay the course possibly through next year. It noted that “almost half the recent surge in European core inflation remains unexplained by its usual drivers,” suggesting that the war in Ukraine and aftershocks of the coronavirus pandemic were contributing to a new inflationary dynamic.

Most central bankers remain resolute. The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point when policymakers meet on Wednesday. It would be the sixth increase this year. The Bank of England, which meets on Thursday, is also expected to raise rates by the same amount.

The sting from the Fed’s interest rate increases is acutely felt in regions around the world. Higher interest rates attract investors, which pushes up the value of the dollar. For emerging nations with big bills for loans borrowed in dollars, though, their already heavy burden grows even larger. At the same time, countries that must import American goods or essentials like energy and food that are often priced in dollars are seeing them get much more expensive. They become poorer.

While most economists have urged a hard line on inflation, there are an increasing number of voices questioning whether central bankers are going too far, too fast. Higher interest rates will not suddenly increase the supply of oil, wheat and microchips, and may even exacerbate shortages by stunting investment.

Output for July, August and September dropped by 0.6 percent from the 0.8 percent tallied during the previous three months.

Claus Vistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a note on Monday that “the slowdown may have been even stronger than the headline suggests,” and added that growth was expected to decline in the last quarter as “higher interest rates discourage investment and still-high inflation leads consumers to tighten their belts over the winter.”

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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Israel's Haredi voters drift hard right in leadership vacuum - ABC News

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JERUSALEM -- One of Israel's most extremist politicians, known for his inflammatory anti-Arab speeches and stunts, is attracting new supporters from a previously untapped demographic — young ultra-Orthodox Jews, one of the fastest-growing segments of the country's population.

Itamar Ben-Gvir's sharp rise in popularity in the last three years has transformed him from a fringe provocateur to a central player in Tuesday's parliament election. Polls indicate his Religious Zionism party could emerge as the third-largest and help return former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to power.

His appeal is a reflection of the ongoing right-ward shift of the Israeli electorate over the years, with Ben-Gvir and his party also attracting voters who previously supported other right-wing parties.

This shift is particularly noticeable among Israel's 1.3 million ultra-Orthodox Jews who make up 13% of the population.

The community, known in Hebrew as Haredim, is growing at a breakneck rate, with an average birth rate more than twice the national average. Children make up half of their population, and young adults between 18-35 another quarter.

Ben-Gvir's appeal among young Haredim reflects a shift in the political preferences of a community that cleaves to a strict adherence to religious tradition. For decades, the ultra-Orthodox largely voted for two Haredi political parties — United Torah Judaism and Shas.

Those parties promoted the community’s interests in exchange for supporting coalition governments with a range of ideological flavors — though the Haredim had a preference for center-right factions that tended to be more culturally conservative.

But several prominent rabbis who served as spiritual leaders for these parties have died in recent years. Analysts say younger and middle-aged Haredim are growing disillusioned with the old guard.

“The majority of relatively younger ultra-Orthodox — under the age of 50 — have turned right-wing, and sometimes staunchly right-wing, something that in the past didn’t exist,” said Moshe Hellinger, a political scientist at Israel’s Bar Ilan University.

The Haredi political leadership lacks a strong, charismatic leader “and this vacuum allows (voters) to go in different directions,” Hellinger said.

Into that void steps Ben-Gvir.

Voting records from predominantly Haredi communities indicate that since Ben-Gvir entered politics in 2019, support for him in those areas has increased over Israel’s four successive elections — though he still lagged behind the established ultra-Orthodox parties.

Ben Gvir’s campaign declined requests by The Associated Press to interview him or officials managing outreach to the ultra-Orthodox community.

Several factors appear to be driving his growing popularity in the community.

Some Haredim prefer the Religious Zionism party's mix of Orthodox Jewish and ultra- nationalist messaging to that of Netanyahu’s Likud party which, while hard-line, remains predominantly secular.

Recent years have also seen an uptick in attacks by Palestinian assailants targeting ultra-Orthodox Jews, as part of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In March, shortly after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on the streets of Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, killing five Israelis, Ben Gvir arrived on the scene and delivered statements to TV cameras surrounded by a throng of young Haredi men shouting racist screeds.

The scene repeated itself in May, after a Palestinian killed three Israelis in the central town of Elad.

At a recent campaign rally in Elad, Ben-Gvir whipped up a gender-segregated crowd, calling for the death penalty for convicted Palestinian militants. The audience, many of them young men in white button-down shirts and black skullcaps, responded with cheers and whistles, then chants of, “Death to Arabs” and “Death to terrorists.”

David Cohen, a resident of Beit Shemesh, a heavily ultra-Orthodox city west of Jerusalem, said he would vote for Ben-Gvir, comparing him to former U.S. President Donald Trump and describing him as a straight-talking man of action.

“He seems to be the only one that will really accomplish anything," Cohen said of Ben-Gvir. “He’s a guy that says what he means and means what he says."

Ben-Gvir first entered parliament in 2021, after his Jewish Power party merged with the Religious Zionism party. Jewish Power, which failed to cross the electoral threshold in the 2019 and 2020 elections, is the successor to the outlawed Kach party of the late ultra-nationalist politician Meir Kahane.

Ahead of Tuesday's vote, the Religious Zionism party has surged in the polls. It's forecast to win twice as many seats as in the previous election and could make the difference between Netanyahu returning to power or remaining in the opposition.

It will be the fifth election in under four years, largely fought over whether Netanyahu is fit to rule while facing corruption charges.

Ben-Gvir, who was convicted of offenses that include inciting racism and supporting a terrorist organization, went on to make a legal career out of defending Jewish extremists charged with violent offenses.

He lives in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron, the West Bank's largest Palestinian city. Until recently, he displayed a photo in his home of Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli who killed 29 Palestinians and wounded over 100 in a shooting attack as they knelt in prayer at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1993.

On Saturday, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israelis in Kiryat Arba, killing a 50-year-old man and wounding several others.

While a hawkish booster of Israeli security forces — advocating immunity from prosecution for soldiers and the death sentence for Palestinians convicted of attacks on Jews — Ben-Gvir did not serve in the military; he was issued an exemption because of his extremist ideology.

In the run-up to the election, Ben Gvir told public broadcaster Kan that he advocated dismantling the Palestinian self-rule government and annexing the West Bank, while simultaneously denying its roughly 2.5 million Palestinian residents the right to vote for Israel’s Knesset.

“There’s no such thing as Palestine, this is ours, this is our land,” he said.

Political scientist Shira Efron, who heads the Israel Policy Forum think tank, said she believes the rise of Ben-Gvir is a result of what she described as systematic incitement, mostly by Netanyahu and his Likud party, against Israel's large Arab minority.

Ben-Gvir is “shrewd, charismatic and expresses what many Jewish Israelis sadly think but until now didn’t feel comfortable saying out loud," she said.

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Associated Press writer Eleanor H. Reich contributed to this report.

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'U' Falls in Hard Fought Battle to UW - GopherSports.com

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MADISON, Wis. -- The No. 9 Minnesota Golden Gophers volleyball team fell to the No. 5 Wisconsin Badgers in four sets, 20-25, 20-25, 25-16, 23-25 on Saturday night at the UW Fieldhouse.

Taylor Landfair and Mckenna Wucherer led Minnesota with had 15 kills each while Carter Booth led the Gophers defensively with 10 blocks.

As a team, Minnesota (13-7, 8-4 Big Ten) hit .211 with 56 kills, 14 team blocks, 69 digs and one ace. Wisconsin (17-3, 11-1 Big Ten) hit .192 with 58 kills, 11 team blocks, 59 digs and seven aces.

Sarah Franklin led Wisconsin with 18 kills.

Set Breakdown:
Set 1: The two teams split the first four points with Carter Booth and Taylor Landfair each tallying a kill for Minnesota. Wisconsin went on a run to take the lead in the early part of the set, scoring eight of the next 11 points to take a 10-5 lead, forcing a Minnesota timeout. They had five kills and an ace in the spurt. Two kills from Mckenna Wucherer and an attacking error from the Badgers cut the lead to 10-8 after the break. The two teams exchanged points to make it 11-9 before UW went on a 4-1 spurt to take a five-point lead at 15-10. The 'U' would fight back, scoring four of the next five to make it 16-14. Naya Gross and Landfair tallied a block while Jenna Wenaas posted her third kill of the set. UW kept fighting off the Gophers runs, however, stretching the lead out to five again at 20-15 after a pair of Minnesota attacking errors. A kill from Wucherer and a block from Booth and Wucherer cut the lead to three before a pair of Badgers points stretched it out to 22-17 and forced coach McCutcheon to take his final timeout. The deficit would be no closer than four the rest of the way as UW closed out set one, 25-2. The Gophers, led by Wucherer with five kills, hit .132 for the set compared to .244 for the Badgers. Sarah Franklin had five kills to lead all Badgers.

Set 2: Wisconsin jumped out to an early 4-1 lead in set two before kills from Landfair and Wenaas cut the deficit to two at 6-4. The Badgers would extend their lead out to as many as five at 9-4. The Gophers would get back into it, however, cutting the lead to one at 10-9, 11-10, and 12-11 before tying the set up at 13, the first tie since the score was 0-0. A block from Arica Davis and Wenaas tied it up just after a trio of kills from Booth, Shaffmaster and Wucherer. UW would take a 15-14 lead into the media timeout. After the break, the Badgers scored three straight to take an 18-14 lead before two kills from Wenaas cut the deficit in half. A Gophers blocking error and a UW ace put the home team back up four at 20-16, forcing a timeout from coach McCutcheon. The 'U' cut the lead to two three separate times but couldn't get closer. UW extended their lead to four after an ace to go up 24-20, forcing coach McCutcheon into his last timeout of the set. A block by the Badgers sealed set two, 25-20.

Set 3: The Gophers went up 2-0 right away after a kill from Wucherer and an ace from CC McGraw before the Badgers registered the next three to take the lead. The 'U' would tie it up at 3-3 and 4-4 before UW scored three of the next four to go up 7-5. A UW service error followed by a block and a kill from Booth gave Minnesota back the lead at 8-7. The Badgers would tie it up at eight before the 'U' erupted on a 5-0 run, paced by an ace and a kill from Landfair. With Minnesota leading 13-8, Wisconsin called a timeout. A Wucherer kill put her team up 14-9 before three straight Badgers points cut the lead to 14-12, causing 'U' to take a timeout. The Gophers responded by scoring four of the next five, getting kills from Landfair, Wucherer and Davis to go up 18-13, forcing a Badgers timeout. The Gophers would accelerate after the break, scoring four of the next five to take a commanding 23-15 lead. Landfair had three kills in the run. The 'U' would close out set three with another kill from Landfair and a block by Booth and Landfair to win, 25-16.

Set 4: The Badgers came out of the gates hot in set four, working their way to a 9-4 lead before coach McCutcheon called timeout to slow the momentum. The Gophers cut into the deficit slightly with kills from Landfair, Booth and Davis to get it to four at 14-10, but UW scored three of the next four to go up 17-11 and take a set-high six-point lead. Minnesota called timeout No. 2 of the set after that. Another kill by Franklin after the timeout put the badgers up 18-11. The 'U' wasn't done fighting, however, as three kills from Davis and one from Landfair cut the lead to just three at 19-16, forcing a Badgers timeout. UW extended the lead to five again with a pair of kills from outside Julia Orzol to go up 22-17. A pair of kills from Booth, one from Wucherer and a pair of attacking errors from UW helped the Gophers climb back to within one at 24-23, with match point on the line. Minnesota had a couple opportunities to tie it up, but after a long rally, UW finished the set off with a kill, winning 25-23.

UP NEXT: Minnesota (13-7, 8-4 Big Ten) takes on Michigan (13-8, 4-7 Big Ten) on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. B1G+ will provide streaming coverage.

Notable:
-Minnesota is now 53-37 all-time against Wisconsin, including a 12-10 record under Hugh. The Gophers are 5-7 on the road at UW Fieldhouse under Hugh.
-CC McGraw (11) tallied her 95th career 10+ dig outing. She's now up to 1,779 for her career, just 91 behind Dalianliz Rosado for the No. 3 spot in Minnesota laurels.
-Jenna Wenaas tallied 1x digs, her fifth double digit dig match of the year.
-Taylor Landfair (15) totaled double digit kills for the 20th time this season and 38th time in her career. She's one of two players in the country to have double digit kills in every match.
-Carter Booth posted 10 blocks, her seventh 5+ block match of the year and second 10+ block match
-The Gophers posted 14 blocks Saturday night, the 13th time in 20 matches they've had 10+. Minnesota currently ranks No. 7 nationally in blocks per set.
-Saturday was the first time this season Minnesota outhit, outdug and outblocked its opponent and did not win.
-Arica Davis had her best match as a Gopher, tallying a season-best eight kills on .545 hitting.

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Verstappen trailed Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in both Q1 and Q2 in qualifying at the low-grip Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track, but then led from the off in the final segment before sealing pole with a fastest time at the death in Q3.

That put him clear of George Russell and Hamilton by 0.304s and 0.309s, taking his sixth pole of the 2022 campaign.

Speaking in the post-qualifying press conference, Verstappen was delighted with his result after coming back against the Mercedes pair in qualifying. 

He was also pleased his team produced a smooth effort to seal pole at a track where the high altitude reduces the available downforce and leaves cars sliding on a surface some drivers have described as ‘like ice’.

“It was a bit of a tricky start to qualifying because the track was a bit warmer than FP3 – so I think everyone was sliding around a bit more and it was a bit more difficult to find your rhythm,” Verstappen explained.

“So, it was really about [learning changes from] Q1-to-Q2-to-Q3 – trying to find the balance in the car again.

“At the end of the session it got a little better and I think in Q3 we finally could push a little bit more with the car and [I did] two decent laps, I think.

“Of course, I’m very happy with them because around here it’s very hard to – for me at least – to nail the lap.

“It’s just very low grip and there are a few kerbs you have to perfectly hit to actually gain time.

“So, it’s definitely not the easiest of qualifyings or races. And the same for the tyre warm-up. But it seems like in Q3 we had the right picture.”

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Verstappen also said that he and Red Bull were just “just fine-tuning a few things on the [steering] wheel [that] everyone is allowed [to do]” to find “a good balance” in time for the critical Q3 runs.

After setting a 1m17.947s on his opening Q3 effort, Verstappen improved to a 1m17.775s on the lap that secured pole – his first at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez after he lost the accolade in 2019 for a yellow flag infringement.

When asked where he had improved between the two runs by Autosport/Motorsport.com. Verstappen replied: “Honestly, I think everywhere I just gained a little bit – it was not like I made a mistake on my first lap.

“It was just a couple of corners where [there] was maybe tiny track evolution as well. Just trying to nail it the whole time.”

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One North Carolina man’s longtime support of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt paid off big-time when he won over $200,000 in the lottery.

Luther Dowdy, a 63-year-old grave digger, bought three “Quick Pick” tickets in honor of the No. 3 on Earnhardt’s race car, according to a news release from the North Carolina Lottery

His Earnhardt-inspired technique succeeded: He won the $235,001 Cash 5 jackpot on Monday and went to the lottery headquarters to claim his earnings on Wednesday, says the release. After taxes, his winnings amounted to $166,875.

Dowdy was shocked when he realized how much he had won, according to the release.

“I about fell out of my chair when I saw how much I won,” he said in the release. “Now I might be able to retire at the end of this year.”

The odds of winning the Cash 5 jackpot in the North Carolina Lottery are just 1 in 962,598, according to lottery officials.

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COVID 'variant soup' is making winter surges hard to predict - Nature.com

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Some call it a swarm of variants — others refer to it as variant soup. Whatever it’s called, the current crop of immunity-dodging offshoots of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is unprecedented in its diversity. This complexity makes it harder to predict coming waves of infection. It might even lead to a ‘double wave’ in some places, as first one variant and then another overtakes a population.

But amid the chaos, patterns are emerging. The swarm has helped scientists to pinpoint a handful of immunity-evading mutations that power a variant’s spread. Globally, a few heavyweight variants have emerged, yielding different outcomes in different regions — at least, so far.

In Europe, North America and Africa, the prevalence of Omicron offshoots in the BQ.1 family is rising quickly, even as overall cases seem to fall. In Asian countries including Singapore, Bangladesh and India, a lineage called XBB has already set off fresh waves of infection. Scientists are closely watching several regions where both are circulating, to see which has the edge.

“In the end, probably, some variants are going to dominate, but it’s less decisive than it was in the past,” says Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

One big family

The variants that have driven past waves, such as Alpha and Delta, all arose from distinct branches of the SARS-CoV-2 family tree. But since Omicron emerged in late 2021, it has spawned a series of subvariants, including BA.2 and BA.5, that have sparked global waves of infection. Many countries put their BA.5-led surges in the rear-view mirror in mid-2022, but most scientists thought it was only a matter of time before another sublineage came to the fore.

For the past few months, variant trackers have been combing through global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data to identify candidates. But instead of one or two fast-rising lineages, they have identified more than a dozen to watch.

Growing family: Illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 family tree from origin to the Omicron variant soup.

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“It’s a collection or swarm or soup of variants together — not as we have seen before,” says Yunlong Richard Cao, an immunologist at Peking University in Beijing, whose team has been studying the variants’ immune-evading capacities.

The members of the swarm come from various parts of the Omicron family tree. But their rise seems to be due to a handful of shared genetic mutations, most of which lead to amino acid changes in a portion of the viral spike protein called the receptor binding domain (RBD). This part of the protein is required to infect cells, and is the target of antibodies that deliver a potent immune response.

Work from Cao’s team this month1 suggests that the RBD mutations help the virus to evade infection-blocking ‘neutralizing’ antibodies that were triggered by COVID-19 vaccines and infection with earlier Omicron offshoots, including BA.2 and BA.5. (That work has not yet been peer reviewed.)

Ringing the changes

Roemer and others have observed that the more of these RBD changes a variant possesses, the faster it seems to grow, as measured by the number of sequences reported to global databases. For instance, variants, such as BQ.1,with five key RBD changes (relative to BA.2) seem to be growing in number at a slower rate than variants with six changes. A descendant of BQ.1 called BQ.1.1 has six such changes, and is rising rapidly across Europe, North America and other places.

Level alert: Line chart showing the percentage of sequence samples containing 4 to 7 RBD mutations since May 2022.

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A seventh RBD change seems to lead to still swifter growth (although scientists caution that the estimates are approximate, particularly when the number of sequences recorded is small). The main ‘level 7’ variant scientists are tracking is XBB. The sub-lineage is a hybrid, or recombinant, of two Omicron sublineages, both descendants of BA.2.

Of the swarm, BQ.1.1 and XBB seem to be rising to the top. The BQ.1 family is already dominant in France and is likely to drive infection waves across Europe and North America as these regions enter winter. It is also a common ingredient of the variant soup in South Africa, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. XBB, by contrast, looks likely to dominate infections in Asia, where it recently drove a wave of infections in Singapore.

Variant swarm: Bar chart showing the proportion of Omicron sublineages found in 8 locations worldwide.

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Researchers are also monitoring countries where BQ.1.1 and XBB are co-circulating, to see which spreads faster. In Australia, there are some early signs that XBB is gaining an edge, notes Roemer. This also seems to be happening in India, according to Rajesh Karyakarte, a microbiologist based at the BJ Government Medical College in Pune, who coordinates SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequencing in the state of Maharashtra. “We will be in a position to tell which one survives here. We suspect XBB.”

XBB’s advantage over the BQ.1 family might be due in part to changes outside the spike RBD, says Cao. The variant also has mutations in part of the genome encoding a region of the spike protein called the N-terminal domain (NTD). Our immune systems also target this portion of spike with neutralizing antibodies, and people who have recovered from BA.2 and BA.5 infections mount especially strong immune responses to NTD, according to preliminary data from Cao’s lab.

XBB’s ability to dodge antibodies targeting the NTD might allow it to infect people who were immune to BQ.1 and its relatives, Cao adds. But “BQ.1 is picking up NTD mutations crazily fast”, he says. Unpublished work from his team suggests that such additions substantially enhance those variant’s ability to evade neutralizing antibodies raised by vaccination and previous infection.

It’s possible that BQ.1.1 will cause a spike in cases, only for XBB to overtake it in some places, says Roemer. “If it turns out that XBB is going to dominate globally in the end, we might see some sort of double wave in Europe and North America,” he says.

Double immunity?

A key determinant will be the extent to which infection with BQ.1 lineages protect against XBB. Cao’s team is currently working on this. “I have a feeling that if you’re infected with BQ.1, you might have some protection against XBB,” he says. “We don’t have data yet.”

Whether driven by XBB, BQ.1.1 or another member of the swarm, large infection waves can disrupt society, and even mild infections might result in long-lasting health effects. But researchers are keeping an especially close eye on whether the coming waves lead to high numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.

In an unpublished, preliminary study of 28 people with XBB infections, Karyakarte’s team found that none had severe symptoms. Karyakarte says his colleagues in Bangladesh report similar patterns. Singapore has recorded a small rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths during its XBB wave, but these severe effects have been smaller than in past waves.

But factors such as seasonality — the Northern Hemisphere winter weather is likely to give SARS-CoV-2 circulation a boost — prior waves, and policy mean that Singapore’s experience might not predict what other countries are in for, says Roemer. “It’s probably not a blueprint for what’s going to happen.”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.— The folks at Hard Truth Distilling Co. have the perfect flavors to sip for the fall and holiday seasons. Its Maple Bourbon Cream invokes maple candy, toasted pecan, sweet cream and oak, while its Cinnamon Vodka brings a pure cinnamon taste to those seeking a delicious drink while warming up next to a fire.

While the test of a great spirit is how it tastes on its own—and that’s where Hard Truth’s Maple Bourbon Cream and Cinnamon Vodka really deliver—the fall and holiday seasons spark some delicious and creative cocktail recipes for both brands.

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“I know mixologists, professional and amateur alike, will have fun with Maple Bourbon Cream,” says Bryan Smith, Hard Truth Distilling Co. Master Distiller. “But I encourage everyone to start out drinking it neat or over ice to really understand and appreciate it because there is a lot going on in that bottle.”

Smith said his team spent many months finding the perfect balance points and complexity among Hard Truth Maple Bourbon Cream’s elements — the bold depth of the straight bourbon whiskey, the richness of natural, fresh dairy cream, and the familiar, sweet indulgence of pure maple syrup.

Hard Truth Maple Bourbon Cream’s aroma and taste profile sound like something off a dessert menu (for adults, of course). Take a sip and taste a beautifully complex combination of luscious cream, sweet maple, bold bourbon, brown sugar, marshmallow, and pecan—with a finish that is rich and creamy with notes of toffee and nougat, plus warm bourbon and maple.

Smith said his team’s own personal tastes were not the only factor that drove the development of Hard Truth Maple Bourbon Cream. Research indicated that, since 2021, food trends have been leaning heavily toward comfort and simplicity. Givaudan, a Swiss multinational manufacturer of flavors, reported in their proprietary Mood & Emotions research that consumers associate maple with the emotion of happiness.

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Made from a proprietary wheat-based vodka and premium natural ingredients, Hard Truth Distillery’s Cinnamon Vodka is number one in the category thanks to a pure cinnamon taste that makes it perfect for an icy cold shot right out of the freezer, or a wide range of creative cocktails such as an Autumn Mule or Hot Truth Hot Cider.

“Hard Truth Cinnamon Vodka is the official shot of the Hard Truth Distillery,” said Smith. “We like to say it’s campfire over hellfire! Or in plain English, spicy up front and smooth going down. But we are hearing from fans that it is also perfect for some highly creative cocktails, unlike some other brands in its category.”

Smith credits the brand’s unique flavor profile for its cocktail success. It’s a little spicy, with a slightly sweet taste, super clean finish, and a pure cinnamon flavor. If you love cinnamon, you are going to love this vodka.

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Hard In The Paint: The Gawd's Second Coming - Sports Illustrated

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The New Orleans Pelicans are off to a 3-1 start with one of the deepest and most talented rosters in the NBA. But, do the Pelicans have everything they need for a deep journey into the playoffs? Lito the Gawd of Boot Krewe Media returns to HITP to discuss what there is to like about the start and what potential potholes could be on the road ahead. We talk talent vs. expected roles, and dig in on the mindset of championship teams.

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Following its quarterly earnings report, Apple has seen its stocks go up 7% — and seemingly rising — while all other Big Tech firms have seen steep declines.

Apple reported that it had earned $90.15 billion in its latest financial quarter, and also that it was unable to make enough of the iPhone 14 Pro to meet demand. The combination of demand, sales, and a difficult economic market had already seen investors recommending Apple.

"We're hard pressed to find a company in our coverage that is operating at the level of consistency that Apple is," wrote analysts for Morgan Stanley.

Wedbush summarized the results by describing Apple as a "Rock of Gibraltar name in large-cap tech with Cook flying Cupertino through this economic storm."

As markets opened on Friday, the day after the financial earnings call, Apple stocks began rising an initial 6%, then 7%, and at time of writing verging on 8%.

In comparison, CNBC reported that Amazon's stock dropped 8% the day after its own financial earnings call. In short order, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta all missed analysts' expectations of the earnings.

And CNBC says Facebook owner Meta saw its shares drop 24.5%, again immediately after its earnings call. Both Meta and Amazon issued a warning about their next quarters, but so did Apple.

The difference is that investors seem to have more faith in Apple's longterm plans than, for instance, Meta and Facebook's metaverse ones.

"We believe tonight's results demonstrate the durability of Apple's product and services ecosystem," reported Morgan Stanley analysts. They also say that "there remain a number of micro and macro factors that Apple needs to contend with over the next few months," they said Apple had given "what we thought was solid December quarter guidance."

Previously, CNBC's Jim Cramer has described Apple as "the greatest stock of all time."

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: We're Working Hard to Meet Demand for iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max - MacRumors

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During today's earnings call covering the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple has been constrained on the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max "from the beginning," which has had an impact on sales.

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Cook went on to say that Apple is "working very hard to fulfill demand" and that customer demand was "strong" and ultimately better than Apple anticipated. He expects that supplies will continue to be constrained "for a little while."

Apple was happy with iPhone sales during the quarter, with revenue up by 10 percent. In fiscal 2021, ‌iPhone‌ revenue grew by 39 percent, which made for a "tough compare" year over year. "We feel very good about how we performed in Q4," said Cook.

At the current time, many ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ and Pro Max models are not delivering until November in the United States when ordered from Apple's online store.

The 14 Pro and Pro Max have been especially appealing this year as they offer a new Dynamic Island, A16 chip, and camera improvements that are not available in the standard iPhone 14 models. Rumors have suggested that the ‌iPhone 14‌ has not sold as well, with customers particularly uninterested in the new 6.7-inch ‌iPhone 14‌ Plus.

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