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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Stroud led South Florida past Webber International on Saturday with 16 points off of the bench in a 106-49 victory. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Stroud led South Florida past Webber International on Saturday with 16 points off of the bench in a 106-49 victory. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Stroud led South Florida past Webber International on Saturday with 16 points off of the bench in a 106-49 victory. Stroud shot 6 of 7 from the field and 4 for 4 from the line for the Bulls (7-6). Kobe Knox scored 15 points, going 5 of 8 (3 for 6 from 3-point range). Quincy Adekokoya went 5 of 11 from the field (3 for 6 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points, while adding seven rebounds. Gabriel Sorensen finished with 14 points for the Warriors and Khalyl Simmons added 12 points. South Florida took the lead with 12:25 remaining in the first half and did not relinquish it. The score was 54-26 at halftime, with Stroud racking up 12 points. South Florida extended its lead to 98-43 during the second half, fueled by a 16-2 scoring run. Knox scored a team-high 10 points in the second half as their team closed out the win. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. Advertisement
Moreover, the investigation also uncovered the use of pre-recorded virtual sets and backgrounds, which live streamers can switch between during their broadcasts. This allows them to create the appearance of a continuous live stream while actually cycling through different pre-designed scenes. The seamless transitions between virtual backgrounds make it difficult for viewers to distinguish between real-time content and pre-recorded footage.
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‘A LA CARTE RADIO’ In the absence of a web-based replay service, radio soap opera devotee Alexis Castillo of Havana’s Alamar neighborhood uploads each episode of a popular soap to a podcast and a WhatsApp group so these could be downloaded by fans, including Cuban exiles in Florida. —Agence France-Presse HAVANA, Cuba — Forget Netflix and telenovelas. In communist Cuba, many people still turn to the humble radio for their daily drama fix. Eighty years ago, radio soap opera “El Derecho de Nacer” (“The right to be born”) became an instant hit with its tale of a wealthy Havana patriarch trying to cover up the dishonor of his daughter falling pregnant out of wedlock. The series, which wrung tears out of listeners across Latin America and was later turned into a movie, created the template for the region’s hugely popular telenovelas. The love affair with radio plays, particularly period productions, has endured the advent of TV and streaming platforms. These days, the must-listen-to soap is “Amores en Subasta” (Love for auction), which is broadcast at midmorning every day on Radio Progreso, the self-described “happiness station” which has produced many of Cuba’s best-loved series. Set in Havana at the turn of the 20th century, the series revolves around the maid of a wealthy family who regales her employers every day with juicy gossip about Cuba’s high society. Alexis Castillo, a congenitally blind 54-year-old listener, tunes in daily at his home in eastern Havana. “It’s as if I were living in that period,” he told Agence France-Presse (AFP), clutching his small transistor. Across town, Milvia Lupe Levya, an 82-year-old pensioner, also listens transfixed to the stories of illicit affairs and other misadventures of Cuban nobility. Her radio, which her son brought back from Mexico “about 20 years ago,” hisses and crackles with age, but “the characters and performances captivate me,” she said. The soap, according to Levya, provides escapism from everyday life on the island. “I feel like the queen of the world!” she said. The radio soaps often touch on social themes. A Black nanny comes to the rescue of the disgraced expectant mother in “El Derecho de Nacer,” which gained a devoted following across Latin America, including in Brazil, thanks to a Portuguese translation. Social inequality and discrimination are also leitmotifs of “Amores en subasta,” which delves into the intrigues of Havana’s pre-revolutionary aristocracy. Castillo dismissed the notion that such broadcasts were the entertainment of stay-at-home mums or people with little formal education. “Radio soaps are not all melodramas with lots of sobbing and happy ending,” he defended. “Many of them are historical and biographical in nature and teach you things,” he said, while admitting to a fondness for a “well-written” romance. In Radio Progreso’s recording studio, time seems to have stopped somewhere in the 1950s. A group of actors stand in a circle, before a microphone, and bring their characters to life while reading scripts from a black screen. Nilas Sanchez, an elegant white-haired 76-year-old, has half a century of studio acting under her belt. She said that, despite the streaming revolution, she believed radio plays had many years of listenership remaining in Cuba. “Cuba has a strong tradition of listening to the radio and radio dramas,” Sanchez said. The artistic director of “Amores en subasta,” Yumary Cruz, swears by the recipe of the father of radio soaps, “El Derecho de Nacer” scriptwriter Felix B. Caignet. “Tears, whispers and happiness forever delayed are still very effective,” she said. But inside the studio’s padded walls, the country’s present-day economic and energy crises are keenly felt. To conserve energy in the face of repeated hourslong blackouts—the Caribbean island has suffered three nationwide blackouts in two months—airconditioning is forbidden in the studio, meaning the actors perform their lines drenched in sweat. Cruz also laments the fact that many actors have left Cuba, which is experiencing its biggest outflow of citizens since the 1959 revolution. Lovers of the genre, meanwhile, grumble at being deprived by the power cuts of their daily shot of drama. In the absence of a web-based replay service, the tech-savvy Castillo records each episode of “Amores en Subasta” and uploads it to a WhatsApp group so listeners across the country can tune in later. He has also turned it into a podcast, uploading episodes to the cloud so fans both inside and outside Cuba—including Cuban exiles in Florida—can download it. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . “It’s a la carte radio,” Cruz joked. —Agence France-Presse
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Great politicians seem to have two main things in common: they pick the right time to be born and they pick the right time to leave office. Everything in between will be recast in their favour if they only get these two things right. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel recently released her memoir . She, without a doubt, picked the right time to be born. She was 35 when the Berlin Wall fell, creating a cause – an East German voice and self-determination in reunifying with the West – that impelled her into politics. She was undeniably smart, but also the right age and the right symbolic vehicle to catch chancellor Helmut Kohl’s eye and become his protegee. In just under 15 years, she became chancellor. If she’d left after one term – two at most – her greatness would never have been questioned. But after that, her legacy as a crucial advocate for East Germans in the process of unification and her historic ascent was overwritten by a series of decisions that have turned out to be disastrous for Germany, economically and geostrategically. A shadow has fallen over Anthony Albanese’s prime ministership in 2024. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen US presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton could also be said to have picked the right time to be born and, thanks to term limits in the US, also the right time to leave office. Reagan performed a necessary service in deregulating a sclerotic US economy, mired in stagflation, while presiding over the end of the Cold War. Clinton presided over a peaceful age of free trade and international co-operation. While neither was a flawless leader and the numerous mistakes they made can easily be identified, they avoided leading their nations into catastrophe. Anthony Albanese also picked the right time to be born: at the beginning of the ’60s, as the fruits of a social revolution against the rigid morality of the war generation were ripe and not yet spoiled. He was a beneficiary of the blossoming of the self-actualisation century, in which the chains of the traditional family were being rejected, to be replaced by a paternal social welfare state. As the child of a single mother, his timing was especially fortuitous; he and his mother were poor, but in highly relative terms historically. They lived in government-owned housing and his mother was entitled to (and received) a disability pension, as she was unable to work. His own university degree – nominally in political economy, mainly in ruthless campus politics – was free (to him, but of course not the taxpayer). Loading Albanese was, as it were, born into a cause: to call for more of this, which made him possible: more social solidarity delivered by the state to replace the sticky ties of family and community obligation that had been found to be unreasonably oppressive by his generation and some in the one before it. Though it wasn’t visible at the time – transformations of this kind are mostly visible only with the benefit of hindsight – Albanese was in on the ground floor of the transformation of Labor from the party of the worker to the party of the left-liberal, the party of welfare. Operating the politics of this movement, Albanese gained the respect of his colleagues and parts of the public. In retrospect, his ideal moment to leave, with this legacy at its zenith, might have been the day in 2013 when he fronted cameras to lament the self-harm playing out within the Labor Party during yet another spill of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era. Had he left then, he would have gone out channelling the disgust of Australians at the shenanigans of self-absorbed politicians, an avatar and hero of the people. Or maybe he could even have drawn it out a little longer and left a few years later, at the height of his “everyman” identity (according to The Daily Telegraph , which campaigned to “Save our Albo” in the face of a challenge to his seat from a group of further-left candidates).
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Russian energy giant Gazprom says it will suspend gas exports to Moldova from January 1 due to unpaid debt by Moldova, which is bracing for severe power cuts. or signup to continue reading It said the company reserved the right to take any action, including terminating the supply contract with Moldova. Russia supplies Moldova with about two billion cubic metres of gas per year, which is piped via Ukraine to the breakaway region of Transdniestria where it is used to generate cheap power that is sold to government-controlled parts of Moldova. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean condemned the Russian decision, which is a precursor to a total shutdown of Russian gas exports via Ukraine and to Europe, where it flows further to Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and Italy, once a current transit deal with Ukraine expires on December 31. Moldova will be hit the hardest by the shutdown. "This decision confirms once again the intention of the Kremlin to leave the inhabitants of the Transdniestrian region without light and heat in the middle of the winter," Recean wrote on Facebook, accusing Russia of using energy as a political weapon. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed those allegations. Russia, which is critical of Moldova's West-leaning central government, has said Moldova should pay a debt on past supplies. According to Russian calculations, the debt stands at $US709 million ($A1.1 billion). Moldova has put the debt at $US8.6 million ($A13.8 million). Gazprom has said previously it wants Moldova to pay the debt before it starts to pump gas to the country via alternative routes. Transdniestria and the government in Chisinau agreed in 2022 that all Russian gas received by Moldova would flow to the breakaway region, which traditionally does not pay for fuel. Without gas supplies, the power-generating plant could stop working and Moldova and Transdniestria would face hours-long blackouts similar to those experienced by Ukraine due to Russia's attacks on its energy infrastructure in their war. Recean said Moldova had diversified sources of gas supply "in order to reduce dependence on a single supplier". "Our country is prepared to handle any situation that arises following the Kremlin's decision," he added. Moldova's population of 2.5 million has been preparing for long power cuts since Ukraine's government said it will not extend its transit contract with Gazprom. Moldova and Transdniestria have both declared states of emergency over the threat of disrupted gas supplies, and Moldova said on Friday it will curb power exports and introduce measures to reduce consumption by at least a third from January 1. Moldovan President Maia Sandu has accused Gazprom of provoking an energy crisis, saying it was refusing to supply gas through an alternative route. DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement Advertisement
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