The fans have spoken.
We asked our readers to vote for their local pro or college sports mascot and the University of Cincinnati's Bearcat won in a landslide.
1,035 votes were cast, and the Bearcat earned 466 of them, good for a total of 45.1% of the whole shebang.
And naturally, the Bearcat's biggest opposition was Xavier University. The Blue Blob came in second place at 14.%, while the school's other mascot, D'Artagnan, finished third with 8.6%
The rivalry: Check out 2026 Crosstown Shootout time, TV info

#university #mascot #shootout

The fans have spoken.
We asked our readers to vote for their local pro or college sports mascot and the University of Cincinnati's Bearcat won in a landslide.
1,035 votes were cast, and the Bearcat earned 466 of them, good for a total of 45.1% of the whole shebang.
And naturally, the Bearcat's biggest opposition was Xavier University. The Blue Blob came in second place at 14.%, while the school's other mascot, D'Artagnan, finished third with 8.6%
The rivalry: Check out 2026 Crosstown Shootout time, TV info

#shootout

Bessent's $6 billion buybacks left yields nearly unchanged against a $32 trillion market, prompting him to admit he can't set the equilibrium price.
The 10-year yield hit a 12-month high of 5.31%, dragging 30-year fixed mortgage rates near their 52-week high of 7.60%.
Cramer says bonds, not oil, reveal the long-term truth, making the daily 10-year yield close more important than Bessent's policy promises.
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Jim Cramer said on Mad Money October 5, 2026: "Treasury Secretary Bessent basically copped to not being able to stop a bond market slide with his meager multibillion dollar bond buys. He's plugging the dike with a finger, and it's got $31 trillion in Treasuries behind it.", according to Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer

#year #money #market #learn

Justin and Hailey Bieber's toddler son, Jack Blues, made a cameo in his father's pictures from the family's recent outing at a zoo. On October 3, the Canadian musician took to his official Instagram page to share a glimpse into his family life with his fans. This included pictures from his roaring-good adventures with his son.
Justin Bieber posted a new carousel of photos, bringing fans along for his adventures with son Jack Blues and their furry friends at the zoo. The cover photo captured Jack holding his dad's hand while they hung out with kangaroos. The Company crooner fed a baby kangaroo out of the palm of his other hand.
Bieber wore an off-white tee and white shorts, paired with a camouflage bucket hat and sporty sunglasses. Meanwhile, his son sported a ribbed white tank top and green shorts. The 12th slide showed Hailey Bieber holding her son in her arms as they fed a leaf to a giraffe. The Rhode founder wore a red baseball hat with her loose hair falling down her back. He captioned the photo dump with a single lip emoji.
In September, the 32-year-old shared adorable father-son moments on Instagram as the little one held onto his father's hand. He was wearing a green hoodie with relaxed trousers, while Jack Blues was dressed in a blue tee, denim, and a cerulean blue hat. In the caption, there was a single red heart.
The couple celebrated their son's second birthday on August 22. To celebrate the milestone, the runway star shared a carousel of photos featuring many sweet moments from the life of the family of three. She also included a clip of Jack Blues playing golf. He was wearing graphic-printed trousers and a matching full-sleeved tee as he swung the little golf club.

#jack #bieber #white #family

Tiffany Trump's toddler son Alexander is adorable in new photos with his mom. The youngest daughter of President Donald Trump took to Instagram on October 1 to share a carousel of photos to mark the end of September. It included a few pictures from her recent trip to India and snaps from the state dinner at the White House.
Tiffany Trump flaunted a full-glam look in the cover photo of her carousel. She wore a fluffy white robe as she smiled at the camera, with her long blonde hair styled in loose waves. The second slide captured her standing in Central Park holding her toddler son, Alexander, in her arms. She wore a dark brown leather jacket, jeans, and brown suede buckle boots. Meanwhile, Alexander was dressed casually in a white shirt, light pants, and white slip-on shoes.
In another picture, Alexander stood cheerfully in front of a custom-built, light-blue playhouse labeled with his name above the door. The little boy wore a light-blue striped polo, white shorts, and navy shoes, raising both hands with a big smile. The house featured a dark blue front door, white trim, small shutters, and flower boxes filled with blue hydrangeas.
The 32-year-old also shared a cute snap of the toddler running indoors wearing only a diaper and her father's necktie draped loosely around his neck. The black-and-white picture captured the 16-month-old mid-run with a big grin on his face.
Additionally, the dump included a family portrait of Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos, and their son, Alexander. It was from their trip to Mumbai, where they attended the Ambani family's lavish Ganesh Chaturthi celebration. In the picture, the couple was all smiles, with the toddler sitting in his father's lap. The little boy wore a bright red top and white pants, while his mother wore a beautiful lehenga.

#toddler #picture

Ryan Seacrest doesn't get many days off, but when he does, he knows how to make the most of them. The Wheel of Fortune and American Idol host, 51, recently gave fans a glimpse of his day away from work. Fans had plenty to say about his shirtless photos, which immediately grabbed their attention.
On October 3, Seacrest took to Instagram and Facebook to share a recent outing. With the Kid Cudi song "Day 'N' Nite" playing, Seacrest first shared a photo showing him shirtless with his face tilted up to the sun.
He wore black shorts and sunglasses as he sat atop a bike while out on a trail. In the caption, he wrote, "This is what a day off looks like from start to finish. Go dawgs Georgia Football."
On Instagram, the shirtless shot that showed off his incredibly fit physique came first, and a short video was shared on the second slide. It seems the shirtless bike ride was how Seacrest started off his day.
The video showed Seacrest still with his bike, shirtless, but it was dark. He seemed to be in the same general area outdoors, but in this case, he was looking out at the moon shining brightly in the nighttime sky.

#Instagram #ryan

George Armstrong, a fitness influencer who is known for preaching against cheating, found himself accused of the very thing on Friday when his account was accused of doing just that.
The posts came from his wife, Bailey Scarlett, who accessed his account and released a series of slides that appeared to be Armstrong confessing to cheating on her with Indonesian prostitutes and Dubai escorts. The posts were taken down quickly after they were published, and Scarlett later apologized, explaining that the behavior described in the slides did not take place during their relationship.
Each slide was written from Armstrong's point of view and addressed his followers, who are used to seeing him share fitness tips. The first slide was rather harsh.
Published on his Instagram, it said: "I like to cheat on the mother of my child and wife bailey.scarlett with Indonesian Prostitutes. And I definitely don't practice what I preach on Instagram, I also w**k to p**n and frequently get escorts in Dubai. But I will act like it's the most weakest thing in the world on Instagram to other men and shame them for it! I have no respect for the mother of my child or my wife. I am no outstanding father anyone should look up to. I am nothing more than a cheat who has portrayed this image for Instagram but sadly that's all it is. An image:)"
The slide was a direct hit on Armstrong's carefully constructed image.

#Dubai #prostitutes

Dua Lipa showed off her wedding ring stack—including her $65,000 engagement ring—in a new Instagram carousel.
She recapped her recent trip to Italy in the slideshow.
Callum Turner proposed to Lipa in 2024, and the couple married four months ago.
It's been four months since Dua Lipa and Callum Turner tied the knot, but the "Levitating" artist is still loving some bridal white. Lipa wore a plunging top in the classic shade, pairing it with her ring stack in a new Instagram post.
The singer flashed her $65,000 engagement ring—plus her gold wedding band—in the carousel, which served as a recap of her recent trip to Italy. "Milan...such a cool place," Lipa, 31, wrote in the caption.

#lipa #callum #turner #stack

Ruby Rose is widely known for her acting roles, including as the first lesbian superhero to play Batwoman. However, her life in the spotlight was not always easy, as she faced several personal struggles. Now, she has opened up about one of them, revealing that she was accused of murder at 15.
Recently, the Australian actress appeared on the Off the Vine podcast with host Kaitlyn Bristowe, where the two discussed several topics related to her life on and off screen. During the conversation, Ruby Rose revealed that she was wrongly accused of murder.
The actress, who was 15 at the time, explained that she went outside with her friend to have a smoke near the play equipment. At the time, she thought she saw a doll on the playground slide.
Rose said, "My friend and I locked eyes and we started walking towards it. As we got close enough, we could tell this was a real human."
"There was blood coming out of his ear, nose, mouth. It was very traumatic," she added.

#life #several

SENSUAL ALLURE: Roberto Cavalli is all about hedonism in its new campaign staged in Los Angeles.
The brand selected "The Shards" star Hayes Warner, who was lensed by Indiana Piorek in a villa that overlooks the city.
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Cardi B Slides Into Wildlife-inspired Pumps to Sit Front-row at Roberto Cavalli's Spring 2027 Milan Show

#roberto #shards #warner

Nebius Group (NBIS) bounced 5% Wednesday but remains down 21% over the past month, raising the question of whether sellers have finally exhausted their case.
CoreWeave (CRWV) fell nearly 20% over the same period as NBIS, signaling a shared repricing of pure-play AI cloud names rather than a Nebius-specific problem.
Only buying that holds across multiple sessions, especially without CoreWeave rising in lockstep, would confirm a real floor rather than another failed bounce.
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Shares of Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) are bouncing Wednesday, but the question worth asking is whether the move ends the slide or just adds to a string of one-day bids that haven't held. Nebius stock is still down sharply over the past month, and today's gain has to fit inside that context to matter.

#nbis #past #month #question

Interested in Qualcomm Incorporated? Here are five stocks we like better.
Qualcomm trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of just 22, well below rivals like NVIDIA, Broadcom, and AMD, despite its ties to the AI boom.
Analysts, including Rosenblatt Securities with a $235 price target, see upside from Qualcomm's expansion into AI data centers, automotive chips, and on-device AI processing.
Apple's shift to in-house modem chips and a sluggish Android market in China threaten to offset Qualcomm's diversification gains, keeping its consensus rating at Hold.
There's a certain irony in a stock that has just rallied hard still being written off, yet that's exactly where chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) finds itself right now. After a brutal 44% slide through much of the summer, its shares staged an impressive comeback, climbing around 30% since the start of August.

#incorporated

Ciena stock rebounds 4% as investors reprice CEO Gary Smith's projection of a $10B backlog by fiscal year-end, despite a 19% monthly slide.
Arista rises just 2% and Cisco barely moves at 0.4%, confirming today's surge is Ciena's own order book story, not a broad networking rally.
CFO Marc Graff guided for at least 30% revenue growth next fiscal year, backed by backlog that extends beyond that period.
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Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) stock is climbing early Wednesday, up 4% to $347.60. The advance is a rebound rather than a breakout, since Ciena stock is down 19% over the past month. No fresh company news landed this morning, and the market is re-pricing disclosures Ciena made at the start of September, when the company reported record quarterly results with revenue at the top end of guidance.

#backlog

QS stock has fallen 51% year to date to near its 52-week low of $4.77, despite a Q2 earnings beat and $859 million in liquidity.
Enovix and Eos Energy are down 59% and 65% YTD as battery ETF LIT gained 8%, showing the market penalizing pre-revenue companies.
No **** ysts rate QS a buy, and production milestones stretch well into the late 2020s, yet Honda's rigorous technology validation strengthens the long-duration bull case.
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Shares of QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) are down 1% to $5.14 in Tuesday afternoon trading, extending a slide that has left the solid-state battery developer down 51% year to date. QuantumScape stock now trades near the bottom of a 52-week range that topped $19 last fall.

#Stock #date #near #week

Applied Digital turned negative for the year after a 24% monthly slide, while peers Core Scientific and Cipher Mining each fell between 4% and 5% on Tuesday despite staying positive year to date.
The sector ETF DTCR fell just 0.6% as selling stays concentrated in leveraged buildout names, not the broader infrastructure basket.
Despite $36 billion in contracted lease value and strong Q4 results, Applied Digital's $2.7 billion debt load raises dilution risk as its share price falls.
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Applied Digital's slide Tuesday afternoon matters most for what it does to the year. Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) stock is down 4% to $23.72, pushing the year-to-date figure to a decline of 3%. That's a stark reversal for a name that was among the market's most favored artificial intelligence (AI) capacity plays earlier in 2026, and it caps a month in which the group has bled steadily lower.

#year #despite #date #billion

Patrick Mahomes was back in the lineup for Week 1. And he showed in the Kansas City Chiefs' first drive that he's all the way back.
Any concern about Mahomes' mobility coming off a torn ACL was quelled right away. After Bo Nix threw an interception to start the Denver Broncos' night, the Chiefs went on a long drive that was mostly Kenneth Walker III rushes. But when Mahomes needed to make a play with his legs he did so. Twice.
Mahomes ran for a touchdown but it was called back due to holding. It was still good to see Mahomes scrambling and getting into the end zone. Then on the next play, he did it again from further out.
Mahomes scrambled and ran up the middle for a 15-yard score. There had to be some worry on the sideline as he took off, but Mahomes made it to give the Chiefs a 7-0 lead. Mahomes didn't slide to be safe, instead lunging into the end zone for the score. There was a clear hold by Travis Kelce on the play but no flag was thrown, and Mahomes' score stood up on his second try.
There was concern that Mahomes would miss some or most of the 2026 season when he tore his ACL last December. But his recovery was smooth and there wasn't a question by mid-summer that he'd be playing Week 1. There was some question over what his mobility would look like though.

#chiefs #concern

On September 10, IBEX Limited (NASDAQ:IBEX) held its fourth-quarter and full fiscal year 2026 earnings call, and the numbers backed up a message management has been building toward for months. The company posted record full-year revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow, all while pitching itself as a business that has flipped the AI narrative in its favor rather than becoming its next casualty. For a sector that has spent the last two years bracing for automation to gut it, that is a notable claim to back with actual client wins.
Full-year revenue hit $644.1 million, up 15.4% organically, and fourth-quarter revenue reached $164.3 million, up 11.6% from a year earlier. That marked the sixth straight quarter of double-digit growth, a streak that suggests the momentum is not a one-off. HealthTech led the charge, climbing 38.5% to $114 million for the year and blowing past the $100 million target management had set for the segment, driven largely by demand from large insurance payers. Technology grew 27.4% in the quarter, while travel and logistics added 17.8%, helped by a new AI agent partnership with Philippine Airlines.
That Philippine Airlines deal is the clearest evidence that IBEX's Sierra AI partnership, formalized in January and announced publicly in May, is more than a slide in an investor deck. During the proof of concept, the AI agent handled interactions in English, Tagalog, and Taglish, hit resolution rates above 20%, and scored a 4.7 out of 5.0 on customer satisfaction, on par with human agents. A separate deployment for BJ's Wholesale pushed resolution rates above 40% and matched that same satisfaction score, beating the marks the client's prior BPO vendor had put up with human agents alone. The company added 17 new trophy logo clients across the year, and its top five clients now make up 33% of revenue, down from 36%, a sign the business is not leaning on a shrinking handful of accounts to carry it.
Not every line moved in the right direction. Fourth quarter GAAP net income slipped to $8.7 million from $9.6 million a year earlier, and diluted EPS fell to $0.59 from $0.66. Management pointed to training costs tied to all those new client wins, a temporary hit from shifting work out of nearshore centers into offshore ones, and higher fuel prices hitting utility and transportation costs, particularly offshore. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter slipped to 12.3% from 13.9%, the same set of pressures showing up in the profitability line rather than just net income.

#revenue #fourth

On September 10, 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. (NASDAQ:FLWS) reported fiscal 2026 results that read like a company still finding its footing after a hard year. Full year revenue fell 10.8% to $1.5 billion, and the fourth quarter alone dropped 12.9% to $293.1 million, as consumers stayed selective with discretionary spending on gifts and gourmet food. Buried under those declines, though, is a different story: inventory shrank, free cash flow improved by $55 million, and the company hit a two-year cost savings target a full year early. The question now is whether that discipline can outrun the sales slide.
1-800-Flowers spent fiscal 2026 tearing down the walls between its brands. Instead of separate teams running each brand in silos, the company shifted to functional teams built around marketing, merchandising, and the digital shopping experience, with one team now acting as store manager for every website. That shift already shows up in products: the floral business combined its florist-fulfilled and direct-ship merchandising teams, so the same popular arrangements are available either way, instead of competing against itself on one landing page. Harry & David rolled out a redesigned, mobile-first website with AI-powered search that is currently in A/B testing, and several low-traffic standalone sites were folded into harryanddavid.com to concentrate traffic rather than split it.
The financial discipline behind that reorganization is real. The company reached its $50 million cost savings run rate a full year ahead of schedule and has already lined up another $15 million to $20 million in savings for fiscal 2027, with the full benefit landing in fiscal 2028. That, combined with tighter working capital management, pushed free cash flow up $55 million year over year and cut inventory to $153 million from $177 million. Average order value rose 5.5%, third-party marketplace sales through Amazon, Walmart, and DoorDash are growing at double-to-triple-digit rates and are already contribution margin positive, and BloomNet grew 1.9% on the back of local delivery partnerships with apps like DoorDash and Instacart.
The rest of the story is bleaker. Total transactions fell 17.6% for the year, and the fourth quarter's decline was broad-based: consumer floral and gifts dropped 13.4% to $182.8 million as the company pulled back on promotional discounting, and gourmet foods and gift baskets fell 15.4% to $85.8 million, a decline made worse by the timing of Easter. Adjusted EBITDA for the year collapsed to $2.9 million from $29.2 million, and adjusted gross margin slipped 110 basis points to 38%. Even the fourth quarter's 34.7% gross margin leaned on a one-time $7 million tariff refund.

#fiscal

Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell did not think the hit that concussed quarterback Kyler Murray during Sunday's season opener was a dirty or malicious play by Green Bay Packers defender Javon Bullard.
The hit was penalized 15 yards for unnecessary roughness, and Murray is now in concussion protocol, but O'Connell was not willing to blame anyone for the resulting injury given Murray's slide at the end of the play.
"No. It was a violent, physical play," O'Connell said. "As fast as those things happen out there, it would be one thing it was a head-first slide and a clear declaration, but I don't put any fault on anybody there."
Murray slid late and sideways, and he ended up getting sandwiched between Bullard and Lukas Van Ness as he went to the ground.
Here's the play from Sunday's first quarter:

#o 'connell #play #first #minnesota

HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than a decade ago, threatening ‌water security as the region approaches "peak water" by mid-century, according to ‌a study released this month.
The findings come after the collapse of a Himalayan glacier in late August along the Nepal-Tibet border, which caused cascading landslides and flash floods in the valleys below. At least 1,300 people have been confirmed dead and more than 5,300 are missing across Nepal and China's Tibet region.
As glaciers ‌retreat, they are leaving ⁠behind unstable glacial lakes held back by little more than loose rock and ice, above valleys where millions of ⁠people live, the study found.
The study was produced by Systemiq, a sustainability advisory firm, together with the Integrated Mountain Initiative, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, and India's G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment.
Himalayan glacier mass loss ‌had accelerated in recent decades, while only 21 glaciers were currently monitored on the ground out of an estimated 40,000 glaciers across the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, a vast mountain system spanning eight countries from Afghanistan to Myanmar, the study found.

#mountain #region #nepal

Nkechi Diallo, the disgraced former NAACP official, formerly known as Rachel Dolezal, is embarking on a new career as a ******* coach.
Diallo shared the news on Instagram on Saturday (September 12), writing, "I'm thrilled to share that I've graduated from the ******* ology Institute's 300+ hour certification program — and that Bandwidth, my online intimacy and relationship coaching practice, is officially open!"
"This work is personal," she continued. "As a single mom of three boys, I know what hypervigilance, burnout, and carrying the mental load do to connection — and I believe joy, closeness, and aliveness in your body aren't luxuries. They're capacities we can design, develop, and expand.
Alongside the caption, Diallo shared a video slideshow of herself in her graduation cap and gown, holding a desk nameplate that read, "Certified ******* Coach."
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#nkechi #rachel #saturday

Intel's 7% drop and AMD's 6% slide outpace NVIDIA's 3% pullback, an order that is the reverse of AI exposure ranking, suggesting a positioning unwind rather than a demand shift.
SOXX falling 6% against QQQ's 2% drop confirms the sell-off is chip-specific, not a broad Nasdaq retreat.
Amodei explicitly ruled out halting AI training, and Anthropic itself committed to deploying AMD's MI450 GPUs in a disclosed partnership.
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Chip stocks are sliding in early Monday trading after an AI pacing appeal over the weekend rippled beyond memory suppliers and into logic and accelerator names. Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) stock is falling 7% to $95.96, AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) stock is down 6% to $486.80, and NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock is declining 3% to $212.50. Intel is falling hardest of the three, NVIDIA is falling the least, and AMD sits in the middle, an ordering that runs opposite to each name's exposure to AI accelerator demand.

#nvda

Dire warnings on AI from the CEOs of Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) could weigh especially heavily on the business of CoreWeave if the tech is reined in.
"The most exposed name in our coverage is CoreWeave," Bernstein ******* yst Madison Rezaei wrote in a note on Monday. "We estimate that 25% of their existing active U.S. power, with an additional ~74% of their contracted power, is situated in Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets. The backlog is primarily comprised of take-or-pay contracts, so we do not anticipate a threat there, but could see a pullback in demand for the contracted, not-yet-sold rural power if training development slows."
CoreWeave shares fell nearly 7% in premarket trading, one of the worst slides in the AI stock patch on the fresh CEO warnings.
Within the course of two days, AI ******* ans at Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), CEO Dario Amodei, and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), CEO Sam Altman, have managed to scare the ******* out of the human race with the powerful technology they created and pushed their teams full of pioneering super-coders to supercharge.
"Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up," Amodei stated in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of A.I. models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain."

#power #anth #openai #warnings

BOISE, ID — For the first time in the Charles Huff era, Memphis football lost.
The Tigers (2-1) lost 38-20 to Boise State (1-1) thanks to a 35-3 run by the Broncos that started at the end of the first half and carried over into a dominant second half. It's a loss that establishes Boise State as the top team in the Group of Six even before conference play has started for most teams.
"What's delayed is not denied," Huff said after the game. "We've still got a long road ahead. No one in our building talked perfection. We all talked about getting better each week. Although the scoreboard doesn't reveal us getting better, we can learn from how we played today."
Both teams came in planning to lean heavily on their running game. Boise State ultimately won that battle by a landslide, as the Broncos ran for 357 yards and averaged 7.6 yards per carry.
Huff said after the game that he thought Memphis' defense wore down a little bit in the second half. He also said Boise State didn't do much schematically that confused the Tigers.

#huff

Apple (AAPL) is selling iPhones and Macs faster than it can build them, but the number a holder should fear most is the gross margin underneath those sales. Leaving out tariff refunds, that margin fell in the June quarter and is guided lower again for the September quarter. Management puts both steps down to rising memory prices, while the stock's price-to-earnings multiple sits near the top of its 10-year range.
Excluding Tariff Refunds, Apple's Margin Slips As iPhone And Mac Set June-Quarter Records
Demand is not the worry. iPhone revenue rose 22% from a year earlier in the June quarter and Mac revenue rose 29%, both June-quarter records. Management says the brake on sales is supply of the advanced nodes its chips are made on.
Reported gross margin was 50.1% in the June quarter, but tariff refunds supplied about two points of it. Without them, the margin fell 120 basis points from 49.3% in the March quarter, and the September-quarter guide takes off another 160 basis points at its midpoint. On $466.8 billion of revenue over the past year, each point of gross margin is worth about $4.7 billion of gross profit.
And Management Says Memory Prices Explain All Of That Slide

#gross #tariff #year

Amal Clooney was spotted leaving Athens at the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport on September 11.
She wore an asymmetrical olive-green dress with brown sandals.
She was in the city to give a panel talk on AI.
After a brief stop in Athens, Greece, it appears that Amal Clooney is back on the road. The human rights lawyer was spotted leaving the city on September 11 along with her mother journalist Baria Alamuddin. In a photo obtained by W Magazine, the mother-daughter duo were seen making their way through the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. Amal opted for a comfy olive-green dress with an asymmetrical slit. She paired the dress with simple brown leather slider sandals, a large brown weekender tote bag, and her signature oversized brown shades. Her long dark hair was styled smooth and straight, marking a change from her usual loose waves.
Amal and George Clooney in Venice.
Credit: Getty

#venizelos #airport #spotted

By the end of the third inning, Friday's game against the Padres didn't seem to promise much of a contest. The tally: 7-1 in favor of the visiting San Diegans after a barrage of extra basehits and two-out knocks. A
nthony Molina, who looked somewhat sharp in the 1st with two strikeouts with his four-seam, ran out of ideas in the 2nd and 3rd. He pressed hard on that fastball and the Padres bats welcomed it. Jackson Merrill bounced an outside fastball over the wall for a ground-rule double to start the 2nd. Molina retired the next two hitters he faced but couldn't find a way out of the frame cleanly. Dustin Harris deflected another elevated fastball to score Merrill. Freddy Fermin punched another 340 feet, easily scoring Harris from first.
Molina tried to adapt, shifting off his primary weapon his second time through the San Diego order, but nothing worked. Jake Cronenworth set the tone in the 3rd with a feisty 8-pitch scuffle that ended with a 107 MPH single off a change-up. Luis Campusano plated him by punishing a hanging slider. That double would be the first of four RBI extra base knocks in the inning. Seven Padres reached, five scored in all. Molina became less as a road-block and more as a facilitator, the operator of a fast food drive-thru, the In-N-Out at Tejon Ranch, taking each hitter's order, efficiently moving the high-volume of customers from window to window before sending them on their way with exactly what they asked for.
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As Molina's fortunes plummeted, San Diego starter, Robbie Ray, making his first start against the Giants since his trade, steadied himself after a prolonged 1st inning.

#molina #fastball #merrill #knocks

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby doesn't have time for endless meetings.
Instead, he sleeps eight and a half hours a day and reads roughly 2 books a week.
Does his advice change how you would structure your day?
Don't think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck.
"If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we're just going to talk about it, but you're not going to read slides to me," Kirby told Semafor's "CEO Signal" podcast.

#airlines #scott #deck #don 't

The Braves had 'em all the way. Yep, had 'em all the way. At least, that's what we'll tell ourselves whenever a scintilla of a memory of this game pops into our brains, right? It took 12 innings, a brief blip from Chris Sale, and run-scoring scrambles in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh, another huuuuge hit from Ha-Seong Kim, and finally, a walkoff rope off the bat of Drake Baldwin, but the Braves ultimately prevailed in the opener of the final series against their division rivals.
How do you recap this game? It felt like living a few different lifetimes. I guess we'll just go sequentially, but this is a game that warrants watching the highlights.
After a 45-minute weather-related delay, things got started and Sale pretty much picked up where he left off. The top of the Philadelphia order went down on a flyout and two nasty strikeouts. Aaron Nola retired the first two Braves he faced, but then Matt Olson broke a two-week homerless slide with a slice the other way that juuust managed not to go foul and instead became his 38th longball of the year. A homer from the recently homer-shy Braves offense seemed to be an auspicious sign, but things quickly took a turn for the worse.
After the first two outs of the eighth, Edmundo Sosa caught a Sale slider and yanked it for a single. Sale then issued a rare walk to Bryan De La Cruz of all people, and then hit J.T. Realmuto with the next pitch, loading the bases.
***Derek Hill complaints interlude***

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Major indexes climbed Friday afternoon, holding to early momentum as investors took in stride inflation data showing consumers continued to pay higher prices for goods and services in August. Among movers rounding off the holiday-shortened week, shipping and logistics provider Matson (MATX) broke out.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1%, or about 590 points, as the S&P 500 moved up 1.1%. Ten of the index's 11 sectors moved higher. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite tacked on 1.2%, and the Russell 2000 small-cap index picked up 0.7%.
Stocks found some relief from a nearly 3% slide in West Texas Intermediate crude futures to just below $100 a barrel. The 10-year Treasury yield was steady at a 52-week high of 4.95%. Bitcoin rose to roughly $77,700.
Matson (MATX) broke out of a consolidation at a 230.74 pivot. The Hawaii-based company's fleet of vessels includes containerships and barges. Matson is on the IBD Ready List – a list of stocks that are or may become actionable soon.
Meanwhile, Best Buy (BBY) neared a buy point of 91.27 in a consolidation base. The stock was the biggest gainer on the list on Friday.

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