fortune gems slot demo It’s a wet and wild showdown at Highmark Stadium this Sunday, where the Buffalo Bills will look to make a splash, both in the playoffs and, hopefully, in the highlight reel. As they face off against the New York Jets, Buffalo has a lot to play for, especially with the #2 seed and MVP aspirations on the line for Josh Allen. But the weather is playing a role too—expect slippery conditions as heavy rain pummels the field, perhaps inspiring some wet-n-wild drama on and off the field. You can only hope Hailee Steinfeld, who reportedly will be in attendance, stays dry—but who can blame her if she gets a little drenched ? The Bills come into the matchup with four players listed as QUESTIONABLE, three of whom are safeties. These include S Damar Hamlin, DB Cam Lewis, S Taylor Rapp, and WR Curtis Samuel. Could this be a sign that the Buffalo defense is about to get a little more loose than usual? With the postseason just around the corner, they’ll need all hands on deck to lock up that #2 seed and make sure Josh Allen’s MVP case doesn’t get washed away. As for the Jets, well, the only thing wetter than the field might be their season. With a 4-11 record, they’ve been sputtering toward the finish line. And who could forget the floundering documentary “Enigma” ? Not exactly the cryptic masterpiece Aaron Rodgers intended, but maybe that’s what happens when you mix football with too much ayahuasca. It’s hard to solve the mystery of this Jets season when the only thing clear is that their playoff hopes are about as likely as Rodgers turning that documentary into an actual success. For this one, the Jets have a whopping 9 players listed as QUESTIONABLE. These players include WR Davante Adams, S Tony Adams, CB Michael Carter II, CB Sauce Gardner, OL Morgan Moses, DL Hasson Reddick, and DL Quinnen Williams. With both teams dealing with some wet circumstances, we’re in for a sloppy, unpredictable game. Will the Bills lock up their playoff positioning? Or will the Jets, once again, find themselves drenched in disappointment? Stay tuned! S Taylor Rapp Taylor Rapp has been on the injury report with neck and/or shoulder injuries the past six weeks. He has missed the last two games, and it appears a collision with Rasul Douglas two weeks ago was the culprit. Rapp is listed with a ‘neck’ only the past two weeks and has been a limited participant in practice throughout. He is the most likely safety to play this week, as he was the only from the group who was out of the red non-contact jersey on Friday. Taylor Rapp was in a regular practice jersey. Damar Hamlin, Curtis Samuel, & Cam Lewis were still in red non-contract jerseys. S Damar Hamlin Hamlin was an interesting addition to the injury report two weeks ago because he was added on a Thursday, the day the Bills didn’t practice due to snow, yet he was a full participant the day prior. He has missed the last two weeks and is still only a limited participant in practice this week with ‘ribs’. Still seen in a red non-contact jersey at walkthroughs on Friday, Hamlin is not looking fit to return yet. Rib injuries take about 2-4 weeks. DB Cam Lewis Lewis has started at safety the past two weeks, in the absence of Rapp and Hamlin, but it is now dealing with a ‘shoulder’ injury. He played nearly 100% of the snaps last week but may need to nurse his injury this week, as he was limited all week and in a red non-contact throughout the entire week. He likely has a mild sprain, most common is the AC joint, and they take about 1-2 weeks to recover (1). WR Curtis Samuel Samuel has been listed with a ‘rib’ for the past two weeks. He missed last week’s game and was limited at practice all week for the second straight week. He also, was still in a red non-contact jersey on Friday and unlikely to play. Oddly, he was listed with a shoulder injury during the Lions’ game, but the team listed him with a rib thereafter. Again, ribs generally take 2-4 weeks. QB Josh Allen Allen is listed on the injury report this week with a ‘R shoulder/R elbow’. The shoulder injury was not listed last week but he took a rough fall late in the Lions’ game that required an x-ray after the game. This is likely a very minor AC joint sprain of his throwing shoulder. #Bills #JoshAllen Right Shoulder injury Appears to be AC joint, throwing shoulder. Hurt on his last run on game. Only threw one pass after this (deflected dump off) #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/T0squxeEkL As for the elbow, this was more recent from the Patriots’ game. Allen banged his elbow on an opponent’s helmet which caused him to lose feeling in his hand for 5-10 minutes. This is hilarious. Another funny bone injury for #Bills Josh Allen #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/04vlx51h8E Josh Allen said he hit his funny bone and lost feeling in his throwing hand for a little bit during the game. Took about 5-10 minutes for it to come back. "Glad it's gone now." #BillsMafia @BuffaloPlus The injury was to his funny bone area, which essentially is compression of his ulnar nerve. Allen has two documented injuries to his elbow’s UCL (Tommy John Ligament), which creates some uneasiness about the overall health of the area. Regardless, the MVP hopeful was a full participant in practice this week and will be slinging it around in the rain. CB Rasul Douglas Rasul Douglas is dealing with a ‘knee’ injury after a tough hit during the Rams’ game three weeks ago. Initially listed with a back issue during the game, Douglas returned to the field for one series before being ruled out due to a knee injury. It appears he suffered a left MCL sprain, to the same leg he suffered and MCL injury last year. This was on the same play where he injured his back, after safety Taylor Rapp collided with him. #Bills #RasulDouglas appears to have another Left MCL sprain (same as in 2023) Likely mild, 1-3 weeks #TaylorRapp friendly fire (aggravated neck same play) #billsmafia https://t.co/Ng6tQZY7v3 pic.twitter.com/KHF7nh8AqV Mild MCL sprains typically require 2-4 weeks of recovery (2). Douglas missed the past two games, but was a full participant all week in practice and will play. LB Matt Milano Everybody’s favorite Italian Stallion is getting put through the ringer the past 14 months. After overcoming major knee surgery last year and a bicep tendon repair of the elbow in training camp, Milano was able to play three games. Unfortunately, he was dealt what appears to be a minor ‘groin’ injury during the Lions’ game and was inactive last week. Minor groin strains take about 1-2 weeks and Milano was able to practice in full on Thursday and Friday. He will be active on Sunday. TE Dalton Kincaid Kincaid left the Colts’ game in Week 10 with a ‘PCL’ injury. He missed three games (four weeks due to bye week). #Bills #DaltonKincaid Hope for bursitis, fear PCL. I believe this is the injury Lmk if he came back after that missed TD with :16 left in first #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/bmlutXf0EJ He returned two weeks ago against the Lions and has been wearing a knee brace since. Kincaid played 49% of the snaps against the Lions and only 34% against the Patriots, which is lower than his season average of 65% from Week 1-8. He has been practicing in full the past few weeks, but the limited snaps are alarming yet understandable. Has been wearing last 2 games Stabilization DonJoy brace to limit stress on PCL #billsmafia https://t.co/715422uI7Z OTHER LISTED PLAYERS The following players were listed on the injury report, but were full participants the whole week and will play; OT Spencer Brown (neck) DT DeWayne Carter (wrist) P Sam Martin (back) TE Quintin Morris (shoulder/groin) DT Jordan Phillips (back) DE Dawuane Smoot (wrist) LB Dorian Williams (elbow) Citation Total Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. (n.d.). AC joint separations in the NFL . Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.totalorthosportsmed.com/ac-joint-separations-in-the-nfl/ University of California, San Francisco. (n.d.). MCL tear . UCSF Health. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/mcl-tear This article first appeared on Buffalo Fanatics and was syndicated with permission.

In the last lap toward year’s end, critics, journalists, and awards season pundits might find themselves in squabbles over the classification of Elizabeth Sankey’s startling new movie, Witches . Is it a documentary , or a “visual essay”? A film about horror films , or a horror film unto itself? An autobiography, or a series of mini-biographies? The simplest way to resolve disputes like these is to take Sankey’s work as a personalized chronicle of oppressive patriarchal fearmongering through centuries; it’s about her own experience with postpartum anxiety, which she relates to both the historical record and to popular culture. “Documentary” doesn’t quite fit the bill. Sankey wouldn’t mind if viewers described it that way, of course. But Witches is a looser project than the term suggests, connecting the stories of women like Daksha Emson to movies in the range of The Witchfinder General and Black Sunday , and then connecting those to atrocities committed during England’s witch trials . The result, one part memoir, one part exercise in film criticism, and one part testimonial to the sad reality that little has changed for women in either popular culture or modern medicine, is wholly unique; Sankey lets cinema speak with her rather than for her, cutting together clips from witch movies and movies about women under duress while she narrates, pausing her speech to interview with women who struggled with their postpartum mental health as she did. There’s an informal daring to the marriage between each of the subjects comprising the film’s scope. Witches plays almost casually; Sankey presents her arguments not so much as matters of fact but as matters of individual truth. Taking her movie as scholarly would be a mistake. Ultimately, it’s about sensations and sympathy. Ahead of Witches ’ premiere Nov. 22 on the streaming service MUBI, we chatted with Sankey about the self-described “mad thing” she has made from pieces of movie history, world history, and her own history. In your narration, you talk about how you found out about the women murdered in the witch trials just a few months after first viewing The Wizard of Oz . That feels like a very foundational moment for you. It’s no wonder that there’s this connection that you make between popular culture and actual, real-life history. It feels like that’s the root of it for you. Yeah, I think so. It was quite a palatable way, as well, to talk about that, and to talk about that connection that I had found, and also it’s interesting because in America, the witch trials are very different to the European witch trials. You have Salem, and that was obviously horrific, but that’s what is mostly depicted in Western cinema, whereas the European witch trials went on for a very long time, and at least 50,000 women were killed. So that itself is quite interesting, I think. Wow. That’s a huge number. And also in cinema, it just, there are so many things that are repeated again and again and again, these tropes that come back up, and you think, “Wow, yeah, this is something that is actually quite prescriptive in terms of how we believe, as a society, women should behave, how mothers should behave.” So yeah, it was all linked to The Wizard of Oz and the good witch and the bad witch, but God bless L. Frank Baum. He did not mean for that to be the case. He was trying to do something really positive, but oh well. You don’t really have control over how someone receives or how culture receives your art. People just will take it and run with it whichever direction. But Glinda was based on his mother-in-law - do you know about this? I do not know! She was this amazing proto sort of feminist, a suffragette, who was one of the first people to talk about the women in the witch trials, and say that they were just ordinary women. [Baum] loved her so much. So he based the character of Glinda on her. But at the same time, unwittingly, as I say, he created this thing of, “There’s a good woman and there’s a bad woman, and the bad woman is ugly, and the good woman is beautiful, and soft, and maternal.” And he doesn’t really have the capacity to stand up and say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, you’re getting the wrong message!” It’s a bit late now. That’s very moving, even if the end result is the representation you get into in the film. In my head, I divided the film into two distinct, but intrinsically related, components: The component focused on popular culture, and the component focused on how the healthcare industry treats mothers. I don’t get the sense that one of those things has more influence on you, or is a higher priority for you, than the other. Are they one and the same? It kind of all feeds in together. I think it’s funny as well, even with these illnesses, these types of illnesses, they are hormonal, but they’re also based on societal expectations. They come from trauma that you might have had, mental health illnesses that you might have had, whether they were diagnosed or undiagnosed—childhood trauma, your relationship to your own parents. All of these different things come into play. But then as well, I think for me, it was all exacerbated and heightened by the feeling that I was supposed to be a certain way as a mother, as a woman, and that if I didn’t conform to that, then there was something wrong with me; I wasn’t fit, I shouldn’t have been doing this. So yeah, all of that stuff worked together in a sort of horrible ballet. It all links up, for me. You’re right, there’s not one specific thing that was more powerful, in terms of my illness. I feel that dynamic at play in the selection of movies referenced in the visual essay. Some aren’t witch movies, or are not traditionally witch movies. It feels like the idea is to erase the boundary between films that are about witches, that represent and reflect those cultural perceptions about, and expectations of, women’s behavior, and films like The Babadook . That isn’t a witch film, but it is directly about those expectations. Is that intentional? I think you’re right. The use of the archive reflects my own journey through working out what the film was, and what I wanted the film to be, and it starts off with that quite naive thing of how I felt, which was, “Maybe I would’ve been a witch! That seems quite appealing to me, so I’ll just watch loads of witch films.” Then, gradually, I could start to see links, as you say, between something like The Witch and The Babadook , because in both of those, you have women, mothers, who are mentally unstable, who are going through something, who are maybe not being the most compassionate figures that we expect mothers to be to their children, and you also have women living on the outskirts of society. It reached a point where all bets were off for me, and I thought, “If I can find something that is representative of my experience or the experience of the other women in the film, then I’m gonna go for it.” That makes sense. I remember there was one point where one of my producers said, “We have a lot of Girl, Interrupted .” [ Laughs .] But what was so interesting for me as well was that you have films like The Snake Pit , which is from 1948, which is about a woman in a psychiatric ward, and it’s like nothing has changed! The depiction, actually, of psychiatric wards in cinema is very, very good. They do it really well. Psychiatric wards have always been the way that they are, and that, to me, felt like a very valuable thing to talk about, too, in this film. But it’s not a super tight thesis or analysis, for me. It’s very much just, “That felt right.” This was a film made by a mad woman. Don’t be mistaken on that. I was still very much in recovery. Well, but that makes sense. To me, this is a documentary, it’s a visual essay, but it’s still art . So the fact that there’s a little messiness to it is necessary. You’re not a social worker; you’re a documentarian! Yeah, yeah. I wouldn’t even necessarily call this a documentary. It’s really actually just me, and the other women in the film, and David Emson in the film, trying to convey what it feels like to have an experience like this, because we didn’t have anything like that when we were going through our illnesses, and it would’ve been helpful. So I wouldn’t even say that it’s a documentary, and I definitely wouldn’t say that it’s rigorous in terms of sticking to any sort of rules. To me it’s a weird, mad thing that I made. But a weird mad thing that’s, disappointingly, timely and relevant. I was wondering what kind of conversation we would have, based on how [the U.S. ] election went; that aside, mental health treatment of new mothers, of women in general, [hasn’t] shifted much. The story hasn’t changed. At the same time, I don’t know how much pop culture representation has changed, either. Do you feel like there’s been meaningful change in the last few years in terms of either cultural or social perception? It’s really hard to say. I watched Agatha All Along the other day, and I thought, “This is great, this is interesting.” But it’s still tying in this thing where a woman is a mother and the reason that she is evil is because of her child. I think we always have to find excuses for why women should be badly behaved. It’s very difficult, I think, for women to just say, “No, I’m just mad. I’m just mad, and I don’t want to engage with the society that has been set up around me, and I reject the patriarchal structure, and it doesn’t fit with me.” I think the witch comes back up whenever we’re in peril. She becomes much more popular, and much more potent, as a sign of rebellion for women. But also I think what’s happening in your country is terrible for men, too. Patriarchy isn’t great for men, either. Yuuup. It does feel like there’s a regression, looking at America from the outside. But it’s so complex and complicated. It does feel like since the film has come out, the responses, at least from America, have been much more charged. On the one hand, I feel like it’s something that is helpful as a way of talking about the feelings that people are having, that men and women are having. But also I think it’s this depressing sense, as you say, that, “Oh, wow, nothing has changed.” We are still living in a very puritanical society. We are still living in a world where women’s bodies are controlled and there is a need, for some reason, there is an immense feeling that we must control women’s bodies, and that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. It’s common and correct to describe America as a country built on slavery, but it was built on patriarchal oppression and control over women’s bodies, and behavior, too. It’s baked into the American experience. Yeah, and you don’t have the same protections. In the U.K., we have the Infanticide Act, which means that if a woman hurts her child after a year of giving birth, or it might even be two years now, she’s given more lenient sentencing and there’s a lot more sympathy. Whereas you have Lindsay Clancy, who killed her children in 2023 and is currently on trial for murder. There was an amazing New Yorker piece about her husband, and it’s kind of like, “Well, we think that she might have had postpartum psychosis, but we just don’t know!” I was reading it and I was thinking to myself, “Oh, I cannot believe that you’re putting a woman on trial for murder after Andrea Yates in 2001!” I love America. I grew up wanting to be American, and watching American films. I wanted to live there. But I think that actually that puritanical, very white, very oppressive way of seeing the world and the way that we should all function within the world has fed back into policy, and has fed back into racism, and sexism, and all this stuff. I live in tony New England, which is more liberal than other parts of the country, and it’s still like that; go to parts of New Hampshire and you’ll see Confederate flags hanging outside of people’s houses. It’s wild. But I have to hope that there’s a moment where those things start to fade and change. I look at movies like Witches , and think, “This could change people’s minds.” That’s a lot to put on a piece of art, so I’m curious if you feel like popular culture can wake people up to the realities of what these patriarchal policies and beliefs do to people and what they do to society? Absolutely. I think that for me, just from a personal perspective, watching these witch films, I was taking them not in the context that they were supposed to be taken. I was watching films like The Witch and thinking, “God, I wanna be like The Bad Witch in that,” or The Witches of Eastwick , and thinking, “Yes, that’s the kind of mother I wanna be.” You know, we already have the ability to see past the intent sometimes of culture and to take from it what works for us and leave what doesn’t. But from what I can see with the film that has been so lovely, has been people sharing it, if it connects with them. We always said we wanted it to be like a spell book people would share if it resonated with them, and it would spread like a kind of grassroots activism. Because that’s what I’m all about, and that’s what the group that I was in, Motherly Love , that support group, is about—people making community. I think especially when you feel so let down, maybe by the people in power, that reaching out in community can be such a salve, and can be so helpful, and that’s what I want the film to do. I want it to save lives. The statistics in the U.K. and in the U.S. are absolutely horrific in terms of these illnesses, so the idea that this could be something that would be a resource for people is so helpful. And yeah, sure, I would love it if it changed people’s minds in terms of how they saw women in society and mothers in society, but I don’t know if it’s quite got the power to do that. There’s so much going on. But yeah, that’s what I really want the film to do.

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If Simon Harris had awoken on Sunday suffering anything close to a crisis of confidence, and believing his party might need a miracle, his diary had him in the right place. Not just because Knock has historical previous with healing, but because Mayo is Enda Kenny country and the former taoiseach had been tapped to introduce the Wicklow man to the party faithful who had gathered at Ireland West Airport. The news that Fine Gael support was down four points in Sunday's opinion poll didn't seem to faze many, but the weekend's other issue did. The Taoiseach's interaction — or lack thereof— with carer Charlotte Fallon in a Kanturk supermarket on Friday night is a worry for Fine Gael. The Taoiseach has apologised and attempted to own the situation and, in some way, make his contrition a virtue. Too often, he said in Mayo, there are issues in campaigns, both foreign and domestic, where candidates obfuscate, equivocate, and refuse to apologise — but this was not his style. While the apology appears genuine and Mr Harris deserves credit for not dragging out his response — by midday Saturday he had addressed the video on social media and spoken by phone to Ms Fallon — so much about the incident could haunt Fine Gael come polling day. Firstly, the issue at the heart of Ms Fallon's impassioned exchange with the Taoiseach was an area in which many within Government parties accept there hasn't been the kind of change they would want to see. The chair of the Oireachtas Disability Committee, Fianna Fáil TD Michael Moynihan, has consistently said as much. Secondly, and most importantly, Fine Gaelers are troubled by what the incident says. Mr Harris's dismissal of Ms Fallon, walking off only to return, gives ammunition to those critics of the party who seek to paint them as unfeeling technocrats — good with numbers, bad with people While among the party there is some sympathy for Mr Harris — the campaign has seen him hit nearly every constituency, wherein he has hundreds of interactions a day is a common theme — there is no pretending that Friday's exchange was and looked bad. Not just in isolation, but in the context of a Fine Gael campaign that has been beset with mis-steps. From Michael O'Leary's comments on teachers, to CCTV of Louth candidate John McGahon, Fine Gael's election has not got going . Now, with just days left, it has to fight fires on a number of fronts. The party has put a lot of eggs in the Harris basket. With a huge number of TDs retiring and a cadre of new candidates, this was partly unavoidable. However, it also reflected the summertime polling. Mr Harris was cruising in the dog days of summer, his ascension to the Taoiseach's office galvanising and energising the party faithful and it's parliamentary party A strong showing in the local elections — losing just 10 seats after 13 years in Government is a good result, make no mistake — solidified a belief that he could lead Fine Gael to over 50 seats in this election. As Mr Kenny was brought out to fire up the Mayo masses, he spoke passionately (his default setting, really) about how Fine Gael could win not just two, but three and maybe four seats — an achievement pulled off in 2011 as Mr Kenny was swept to office. However, with detailed constituency maps dotted around the event, there was a reminder that this was not just a national campaign but 43 local ones too. Mr Kenny praised the Taoiseach's "humility" in apologising for the incident with Ms Fallon, and said the four candidates were "the best Mayo team we've had". "They may not bring back Sam, but they'll bring back Simon." In the room, it worked. The Mayo man was greeted with loud cheers. However, away from Knock, away from Fine Gael, the public will watch the next five days of interactions closely.

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Quarterbacks in spotlight when No. 6 Miami visits SyracuseDe La Rosa scores 27 points as Columbia tops Fairfield 85-72Former Fresno State quarterback Mikey Keene is transferring to Michigan with one year of eligibility remaining. Confirming earlier reports, Keene posted an image of himself in a Wolverines uniform on social media on Monday. Keene passed for 2,892 yards with 18 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 12 games for the Bulldogs in 2024. Fresno State opened the season with a 30-10 loss at Michigan on Aug. 31, with Keene throwing for 235 yards with one touchdown and two picks. Including two seasons at UCF (2021-22), Keene has completed 67.8 percent of his passes for 8,245 yards with 65 TDs and 28 interceptions in 39 games. Keene's competition for the starting job at Michigan includes incoming freshman Bryce Underwood, the 247Sports Composite's No. 1 overall player in the 2025 recruiting class. --Field Level Media

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After spending over half a decade at the top with seven straight state championships, Governors football had one of their most interesting seasons in recent memory in 2024. “The adversity this year was way different than any other year,” senior captain Elijah Boutchee said. “We’ve had very good teams the last few years, and this year, losing four games and still making it that far made it that much better.” Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Thanks for the feedback.

The average investor can easily find new investment ideas by following well-known asset managers. One of those managers is Cathie Wood , who heads up Ark Invest, an investment fund that focuses on disruptive and innovative businesses. In the Ark Innovation ETF , the flagship product that the asset manager offers to clients, fintech enterprise Block ( SQ -0.47% ) is a top holding. As of Nov. 21, it's the eighth largest position. Should you buy this top Cathie Wood stock while it trades below $100 per share? Bullish on fintech Cathie Wood and her team at Ark Invest are bullish on numerous technological trends. One of the areas the investment manager is optimistic about is the fintech industry. In particular, the excitement relates to how companies are offering holistic solutions to customers for all their financial services needs. Block falls squarely into this investment theme. Ark Invest believes that in the future, the business' vertically integrated offerings, like digital wallets, bank accounts, and debit cards for consumers, and payroll, working capital, and bill pay for merchants, will result in a powerful and more widely used closed-loop payments system. Block is at the forefront of this trend. Indicative of how much Ark Invest is bullish on the fintech niche, the firm offers the Ark Fintech Innovation ETF , which primarily focuses on these types of businesses. Block is the third largest holding in that fund, making up 6.3% of the assets. Block's positive traits Investors probably appreciate Block's growth potential. Through the first nine months of 2024, the company reported a 20% year-over-year increase in gross profit . Both of the critical segments, Square and Cash App, saw double-digit gains with this key performance metric. On the merchant side, Square processed $59.9 billion in gross payment volume in the three-month period that ended Sept. 30. The segment continues to attract larger sellers. On the consumer side, Cash App now has 57 million monthly active users. Management continues to drive further adoption of the Cash App Card, which can boost spending activity and, ultimately, the revenue and gross profit that Block generates. Like many other tech-enabled companies in recent years, Block has made an effort to streamline its operations and drive greater efficiencies. We're seeing this play out right before our eyes. The business posted $323 million in operating income in the third quarter. That's a massive reversal from the $10 million operating loss reported in the year-ago period. The leadership team upped their full-year 2024 guidance, which now calls for an adjusted operating margin of 18%. In theory, Block's business model should scale up in a profitable manner. Large expense items, like product development and sales and marketing, should constitute a lower percentage of total revenue over time, showcasing operating leverage. Shareholders must pay close attention to this going forward to ensure the strategy is working. Betting on earnings growth Block shares were once some of the best-performing on Wall Street. From the company's initial public offering in November 2015 to the stock's peak in August 2021, the share price skyrocketed more than 2,000% higher. That gain was hard to beat. It's been a totally different story since then. As of this writing on Nov. 21, the stock trades 67% off that all-time high. The market is adopting a more tempered view of the business and its prospects. Investors looking to buy shares must pay a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.9. That's very reasonable. However, the stock should only be purchased by those who believe the company's top- and bottom-line growth are set to continue at a solid clip. Cathie Wood thinks this will be the case. Based on recent trends, I believe this is a likely outcome as well, which makes the stock look like a compelling buy below $100.

Former Fresno State quarterback Mikey Keene is transferring to Michigan with one year of eligibility remaining. Confirming earlier reports, Keene posted an image of himself in a Wolverines uniform on social media on Monday. Keene passed for 2,892 yards with 18 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 12 games for the Bulldogs in 2024. Fresno State opened the season with a 30-10 loss at Michigan on Aug. 31, with Keene throwing for 235 yards with one touchdown and two picks. Including two seasons at UCF (2021-22), Keene has completed 67.8 percent of his passes for 8,245 yards with 65 TDs and 28 interceptions in 39 games. Keene's competition for the starting job at Michigan includes incoming freshman Bryce Underwood, the 247Sports Composite's No. 1 overall player in the 2025 recruiting class. --Field Level MediaTwo-Tier Keir, or as he is now known 'Starmer the Stalinist' following his Soviet-style attack on farmers, has proposed 'Respect Laws' to target anti-social behaviour.... Flat White , Richard Stanton , Michael De Percy , Peter Swan , Dimitri Burshtein , Daniel Rey , Declan Mansfield , Charlie Gammell , Ian Williams , Sean Thomas

The Trojans moved up three spots in the AP Top 25 after beating the then-No. 4 Huskies 72-70 on Saturday night in a rematch of last season's Elite Eight game that UConn won. "It feels great to get the dub always," USC star JuJu Watkins said after the victory. "I think it hit a little different knowing the history of last year and how they sent us home." This was the Trojans' first win ever over UConn. "This is a really significant win, and it's a really significant win because of the stature of UConn's program and what Geno Auriemma has done for our sport," USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. "It doesn't matter to me that they haven't won a championship in a couple years. There's still a way that they prepare, a way that they play, that makes you better, and it made us better." UCLA, South Carolina and Notre Dame remained the top three teams. The Bruins received 30 of the 32 first-place votes from a national media panel. The Gamecocks and the Fighting Irish each got one first-place vote. UConn fell to seventh behind Texas and LSU. Maryland, Oklahoma and Ohio State rounded out the top 10 teams. Falling Blue Devils Duke dropped five spots to No. 14 after losing to South Florida on Saturday. The Blue Devils' other two losses this season were to Maryland and South Carolina. The Bulls are 7-6 on the season, with four of those losses coming against ranked opponents (UConn, Louisville, TCU and South Carolina). Welcome back Alabama jumped back into the poll at No. 20 two weeks after falling out. The Crimson Tide had an impressive 82-67 victory over Michigan State, handing the Spartans their first loss of the season. It was Alabama's first victory over a ranked opponent this year. Conference breakdown The Southeastern Conference has eight teams in the poll this week with Alabama's return. The Big Ten is next with seven. The ACC has six while the Big 12 has three and the Big East one. Game of the week No. 23 Michigan at No. 4 USC, Sunday. 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Aethlon Medical (NASDAQ:AEMD) Now Covered by StockNews.comNoneNoneTAMPA, 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

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Cameron Huefner scored 20 points as Sam Houston beat Dallas 111-65 on Saturday. Huefner added eight rebounds for the Bearkats (7-6). Lamar Wilkerson went 7 of 13 from the field (3 for 8 from 3-point range) to add 17 points. Dorian Finister shot 5 for 11 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points. Thomas Fleming led the Crusaders in scoring, finishing with 16 points. Dallas also got 15 points from Johny Olmsted. Chandler Holmes finished with 13 points. Sam Houston took the lead with 16:32 remaining in the first half and did not give it up. The score was 50-34 at halftime, with Huefner racking up 11 points. Sam Houston extended its lead to 91-53 during the second half, fueled by a 17-2 scoring run. Erik Taylor scored a team-high 10 points in the second half for the Bearkats. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from .