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Minecraft YouTuber Dream Reveals His Face To Followers
Minecraft YouTuber Dream has unveiled his face after years of smiley anonymity.
After many years of posting anonymously, Minecraft YouTuber Dream revealed his identity because there had been “a little bit too much” conjecture about him. Dream, a 23-year-old content creator with more than 30 million subscribers, has only ever made one public appearance while using a smooth, egg-colored cheerful face mask.
For years, Dream has been a well-known name among gamers, but they were unaware of his appearance. The primary focus of “Dream” is the video game Minecraft, and on October 2, he made his face visible via a YouTube live stream.
According to Forbes, 1.2 million viewers tuned in live, and 14 hours later, the video had more than 18 million views. Dream revealing his face was, to put it mildly, a big deal for his community and Minecraft as a whole. The dream has 5.6 million Twitter followers, 3.1 million Instagram followers, and 30.4 million YouTube subscribers. For context, Fortnite’s Ninja has 23.8 million. Dr Disrespect has 4.1 million. Taylor Swift has 47.5 million. The dream is a big deal.
The BBC said in a report that Minecraft is the world’s bestselling video game and Dream’s most popular videos have tens of millions of views, with one having been watched more than 115 million times. “Hi, my name is Clay, otherwise known as Dream,” he said in a five-minute video viewed more than 12 million times.
“Maybe you’ve heard of me, maybe not. Maybe you clicked on this video out of pure curiosity and you don’t care who I am. But now you’ve seen my face, ” he said while first revealing his face.
He continued by saying that he has come under pressure from those who are curious about his appearance. “People have been trying to leak my face, trying to find out what I look like. There’s too many, it’s a little bit too much,” he said.
First-year coach Clay Helton’s Georgia Southern Eagles ‘got after us,’ stun Nebraska Cornhuskers
LINCOLN, Neb. — Kyle Vantrease scored on an 8-yard run with 36 seconds left after Nebraska had taken its first lead, and Georgia Southern defeated the three-touchdown-favorite Cornhuskers 45-42 on Saturday night.
The Huskers’ Timmy Bleekrode was wide left with a 52-yard field goal attempt as time ran out, and Georgia Southern players ran onto the field to celebrate the program’s first win in 13 games against Power Five opponents.
It was also the third major upset of the day from Sun Belt Conference programs. Before the Eagles worked their magic, Marshall upended Notre Dame and Appalachian State knocked off Texas A&M. All three wins were on the road.
The loss again turns up the pressure on embattled Nebraska coach Scott Frost, who now faces a home game next week against No. 7 Oklahoma.
“That one hurt,” Frost said. “We win as a team and lose as a team, and we got beat today. We got beat on schemes, and I didn’t really have an answer.
“They got after us.”
The Huskers (1-2) had come into the Georgia Southern game 214-0 when scoring at least 35 points at Memorial Stadium. The Eagles (2-0) piled up 642 yards, none bigger than the 75 they moved in 11 plays for the winning touchdown.
Vantrease converted a fourth-and-2 pass and threw 27 yards to Khaleb Hood before he took off up the middle on a designed quarterback run for the go-ahead score.
Casey Thompson moved the Huskers from their 23 to the Eagles’ 34 before Bleekrode pulled his field-goal try to the left.
Nebraska had taken the lead on Thompson’s 1-yard run with 3:05 left after Marques Buford’s second interception of the game turned back the Eagles as they tried to build on a three-point lead.
Thompson led the Huskers 98 yards in 15 plays. Thompson and Anthony Grant churned out yards on the ground and Marcus Washington made a catch at the 1 that was upheld on video review before Thompson went over the pile at the goal line.
The victory comes in only the second game for Georgia Southern coach Clay Helton, and it came almost a year to the day that Southern California fired him two games into his seventh season.
“I’m so proud of our boys,” Helton said.
Vantrease, who was quarterback for Buffalo when it lost at Nebraska last year, was 37 of 56 for 409 yards. Gerald Green ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns and Jalen Allen had 85 yards and two scores.
“They ran a lot of what we had already seen,” Frost said of Georgia Southern, “but I don’t think we won very many one-on-one matchups.”
Thompson ran for three touchdowns and was 23 of 34 for 318 yards and a score. Grant carried 27 times for 138 yards and a score.
The Eagles began the transition from the Championship Subdivision to the Bowl Subdivision in 2013, the same year they defeated Florida for their only other win over a Power Five team.
Yankees Place Clay Holmes On 15-Day Injured List
The Yankees have placed closer Clay Holmes on the 15-day injured list due to back spasms, as one of a series of transactions. Miguel Andujar and Tim Locastro were optioned to Triple-A, while Ron Marinaccio, Estevan Florial, and Oswaldo Cabrera were all called up from Triple-A. (Florial and Cabrera’s promotions were reported earlier today.)
Holmes’ placement is retroactive to August 14, and he hasn’t pitched since August 12. There was increasing expectation that Holmes would need an IL trip to fully recuperate from his back problem, though New York manager Aaron Boone told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand and other reporters that the team is hopeful Holmes only misses the 15-day minimum.
Since being acquired from the Pirates prior to the 2021 trade deadline, Holmes has been outstanding in the pinstripes, posting a 2.10 ERA over his 77 innings in New York. This outstanding performance elevated Holmes to the closer’s job when Aroldis Chapman went on the IL himself earlier this season, and with Chapman struggling even before he got injured, the Yankees kept Holmes as the top ninth-inning choice even after Chapman’s return.
However, just as the Yankees have looked shaky over the last five weeks of play, Holmes has also come back to earth after his incredible start. The righty has a 9.00 ERA over his last 12 games and 11 innings pitched, and he has blown four of his last five save chances. As a result, it now appears quite possible that Chapman (who has pitched better since his return from the IL) will reclaim the closer’s job in Holmes’ absence, and perhaps for the remainder of the season. The Yankees could also essentially use both pitchers as closers or set-up men depending on the situation, rather than have a strict order to their game plan late in games.
Rafael Nadal’s dominance on clay continues with epic French Open win over Novak Djokovic | French Open 2022
As the two greatest rivals converged at the French Open once more, plenty of factors pointed in favour of Novak Djokovic. While both he and Rafael Nadal had arrived in the clay court season full of uncertainty, only Djokovic had taken notable steps forward since. Nadal, meanwhile, still searched for his best form after his fractured rib. His preparation was complicated with a flareup of his chronic foot injury. His form in Paris was, so far, subpar.
But this is Nadal at Roland Garros, the man who has won 110 times in his home with just three losses, who has shown over the course of his 17 years that form and other frivolous trivia have little relevance in the face of total, unprecedented dominance. In a match that began in May and ended in June, Nadal blew Djokovic away in the opening stages, then absorbed a multiple strong fightbacks before rising to win 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(4).
In the historic 59th meeting of the rivalry that never ends, Nadal moves to 29-30 against Djokovic in their head-to-head record. He will face Alexander Zverev in the semi-final, who played the best big match of his career as he smothered the hype and edged past an often erratic Carlos Alcaraz, snuffing out the surrounding hype as he won 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(7).
When they met each other for the first time in their careers in 2006 on these courts and in this very round, Nadal was a one-time grand slam champion while Djokovic represented Serbia and Montenegro. Sixteen years on, this occasion marked the first time in the Open era that two players with 20 grand slam titles have faced each other.
Nadal arrived on his court and set the tone from the beginning, forcing his way inside the baseline and looking to unload on his forehand down the line, the historic barometer of his confidence. He moved extremely well, constantly countering under ample early pressure. During the numerous tight early games, Nadal broke Djokovic’s serve in the opening game after several deuces and then immediately consolidated it.
When Djokovic generated break points in his second service game with a short burst of spotless returning, Nadal rose to immediately snuff them out and he broke for a second time with a thunderous forehand down-the-line winner.
In those early stages, as a sublime Nadal took the set, Djokovic struggled. His backhand sprayed atypical unforced errors, returns landed short and he struggled to keep up. Nadal punished him accordingly, winning four of Djokovic’s first six service games and establishing a 6-2, 3-0 lead with a double break.
It was only a matter of time before Djokovic asserted himself on the match, and it was at this moment that he did. Djokovic scythed Nadal’s serve down with his return and he slowly moved on top of the baseline as it was he who dictated the exchanges, crushing the ball and rushing the Nadal forehand as the Spaniard began the ball short. Despite how he flitted through six of the next seven games, they played out a series of interminable, brutal deuce games as Djokovic levelled up the match.
Djokovic’s level sharply rose, but it did not last. Nadal opened the third set by continually looking to reach the net and he again broke serve immediately. As he did so, Djokovic struggled to keep up. He played a sloppy game at 3-1, offering up the double break with a loose backhand error. As Djokovic’s errors continued to flow, there would be no response in the third set.
But the momentum only continued to swing. Djokovic dialled back in on his return of serve, landing countless returns at Nadal’s feet. As he broke serve in Nadal’s opening service game, he had again returned to the top of the baseline, putting constant pressure on Nadal and presenting himself a chance to serve out the set. But Nadal charged, saving two set points then nailing an inside-out forehand winner to break.
As the fourth set tiebreak began, Nadal soared. He was timing his down-the-line forehand better than at any point since the opening set. He nailed three forehand winners in a row to begin the tiebreak and with every point the task before Djokovic became increasingly bleak. His time in Nadal’s home this year ended with a thunderous backhand down-the-line winner off the Spaniard’s racket.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, Zverev played one of the best big matches of his young career, remaining rock solid against Alcaraz and snuffing out the surrounding hype as he won 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(7). With his victory, Zverev has unlocked a notable milestone by attaining a top 10 win at a grand slam for the first time in his career.
More notably, once the tour’s great young hope himself, Zverev gave a clear reminder of his own ability and the threat he is to the best players at the top of his game. Alcaraz, meanwhile, fought until the end and departed his first grand slam tournament with a lesson that should only further augment his growth. “I leave the court, leave the tournament with the head very high,” said Alcaraz. “I fight until the last ball. I fought until the last second of the match, and I’m proud of it.”
Rafael Nadal Falls Apart on Clay, Just in Time for the French Open
ROME — Quick and dominant in the first set against Denis Shapovalov, Rafael Nadal was quite the opposite down the stretch at the Italian Open on Thursday night.
Late to the ball. Limping between points. Grimacing and wincing even on changeovers. His distress was so visible as the double faults and unforced errors piled up late in the final set that even the Canadian fans sitting high in the center court stands were offering up sympathetic applause for Nadal as their compatriot Shapovalov put the final touches on his victory, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2, in the round of 16.
Shapovalov, an elastic and explosive left-hander ranked No. 16, has the tools to trouble even a healthy Nadal. He beat him in their first match in 2017 when Shapovalov was still a teenager, and should have beaten him in last year’s round of 16 at the Italian Open when he failed to convert two match points. He also pushed Nadal to five sets at this year’s Australian Open.
But this was far from a healthy Nadal, with his chronic left foot problem, known as Müller-Weiss disease, resurfacing on his favorite surface. With the French Open looming, his mood in the aftermath was as downbeat and pensive as I can recall in nearly 20 years of following his career.
“I imagine there will come a time when my head will say ‘Enough,’” Nadal, a 10-time Italian Open champion, said in Spanish, pursing his lips and shaking his head. “Pain takes away your happiness, not only in tennis but in life. And my problem is that many days I live with too much pain.”
Nadal said he also had to live with taking “a ton of anti-inflammatories daily to give myself the ability to train.”
“That is my reality,” he said. “And there have been many days, like today, when the moment comes that I can’t do it.”
He finished with 34 unforced errors and just 13 winners on Thursday, and the question now is whether the most successful clay-courter in history will even be able to play at the French Open, the Grand Slam tournament he has won a record 13 times.
“I’m going to keep dreaming about that goal,” Nadal said of the tournament. “The negative thing is today it’s not possible to play for me, but maybe in two days things are better. That’s the thing with what I have on my foot.”
The French Open will begin in nine days on May 22, although Nadal might not have to play until May 24 because the French Open, which starts on a Sunday, stages its first round over three days.
Though Nadal, who will turn 36 next month, has often shown astonishing fighting spirit and recuperative powers, this will be a challenge like no other for him in Paris in the springtime.
“Definitely tough to see him in pain there at the end; I never want to see that, especially with a great legend like Rafa,” said Shapovalov, who still had to produce bold tennis and big serves to win on Thursday. “Hopefully he’s OK. He brings so much to our sport. Hopefully he’s fit and ready to go for the French.”
The only time Nadal has triumphed at Roland Garros without winning a clay-court tournament earlier in the year was in 2020, the pandemic-shortened season when the start of the French Open was moved to October and nearly the entire clay-court season was canceled.
This year, the schedule has been back to normal but not for Nadal. After a torrid start to the season, with 20 straight victories and a record 21st Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open, his clay-court campaign was delayed by a stress fracture in his ribs that kept him from competing or practicing normally for six weeks.
He returned for the Madrid Open this month and was upset by the 19-year-old Spanish sensation Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals and has now experienced his earliest defeat at the Italian Open since 2008, when Juan Carlos Ferrero, a former No. 1 who is now Alcaraz’s coach, surprised Nadal in the second round.
Nadal went on to win the 2008 French Open anyway, overwhelming his archrival Roger Federer in the final, but Nadal had already won the titles in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Hamburg that year.
This season, he is short on matches and victories on clay while established threats like Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas, and new ones like Alcaraz, have established firmer footing.
“Ultimately even the greatest players can’t beat Father Time,” said Brad Stine, the veteran American coach now working with Tommy Paul. “It’s getting to that point for Rafa. What he did in Australia was beyond exceptional, but I think we have been seeing the collateral damage of his great start to the season. If healthy, he is still a favorite week in and week out, but that if is a big one. ‘If the body breaks down’ is not included in Kipling’s poem.”
That is a reference to “If,” an excerpt from which is posted at the players’ entrance to Wimbledon’s Centre Court.
It is difficult after 15 years of watching Nadal nearly always prevail over adversity and the opposition at Roland Garros to imagine that he truly won’t find a way to pose a challenge.
“I will fight for it,” he said grimly. “I will continue to believe during this week and a half.”
What is clear is that, for a change, he should not be the favorite. “No way,” said Mark Petchey, the veteran coach and analyst. “Lots of co-favorites and players with genuine chances to win.”
His longer list includes the defending champion, Djokovic; last year’s other finalist, Tsitsipas; Alcaraz; Alexander Zverev; Casper Ruud; and the young Italian Jannik Sinner.
Nadal, since losing to Djokovic in a four-set semifinal in Paris last June, has played just five matches on clay, losing two of them.
Watching him struggle, then eventually hobble on Thursday, was a reminder that nothing is eternal, not even Nadal on the surface that he has made his own.
Mysterious Signal of Hidden Lakes on Mars May Not Be What We Thought
The likelihood of lakes of liquid water hidden under Mars’ southern polar ice cap is receding before our very eyes.
Last year, a paper found that temperatures were likely far too cold for water to remain unfrozen in the region. Now, a new study has found that the radar signal interpreted as liquid water was likely another resource Mars has in abundance: volcanic rock.
“Here, we aim to determine if Martian terrains today could produce strong basal echoes if they were covered by a planet-wide ice sheet,” the researchers write in their paper.
“We find that some existing volcanic-related terrains could produce a very strong basal signal analog to what is observed at the South polar cap.”
The detection of underground reservoirs of liquid water at the Martian south pole was announced in 2018.
Radar signals bounced from just below the planet’s surface revealed a patch of something highly radar-reflective 1.4 kilometers (0.87 miles) under the ice, consistent with nothing so much as an underground pool of liquid water, the researchers said.
Subsequent searches turned up more shiny reflective patches, suggesting a whole network of underground lakes.
This would be huge. Here on Earth, underground bodies of water are places where we can find microbial life that relies on chemical reactions, rather than sunlight, to survive. If there’s life on Mars, we might find it in a similar environment. But Mars is likely way, way too cold for such liquid reservoirs.
“For water to be sustained this close to the surface, you need both a very salty environment and a strong, locally generated heat source, but that doesn’t match what we know of this region,” says planetary scientist Cyril Grima of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.
This raises the question: Just what the heck are those shiny patches?
A subsequent paper examining the data found that frozen clay could produce similar reflectivity to the signal detected by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe.
Grima and his colleagues took a different approach. They laid a virtual ice sheet over the entire radar globe of Mars, comprising three years’ of MARSIS data, showing what the red planet looks like through 1.4 kilometers (0.87 miles) of frozen water.
Then, they looked for reflective patches similar to those interpreted as water – and found them, scattered across all latitudes. Where they could, the researchers then mapped these patches against the known geology of Mars. The patches very neatly matched with volcanic terrain.
(Cyril Grima)
Above: Mars as it might appear covered in ice. The red spots are volcanic/reflective patches.
Just as frozen clay is highly radar-reflective here on Earth, so too is volcanic rock that is rich in metal such as iron. We know that Mars has volcanic rock in abundance, and also an absolute whackload of iron.
Future remote-sensing missions could probe the ice cap to try and work out if this interpretation is likely – or, indeed, if frozen clay might be the culprit.
But the research offers new avenues for exploration, too. Namely, they can help us better understand the history of water on Mars.
“I think the beauty of Grima’s finding is that while it knocks down the idea there might be liquid water under the planet’s south pole today, it also gives us really precise places to go look for evidence of ancient lakes and riverbeds and test hypotheses about the wider drying out of Mars’ climate over billions of years,” says planetary scientist Ian Smith of York University in Canada, who led the frozen clay study.
The two scientists are now going to be working on mission proposals to use radar-based remote sensing to try and locate water on Mars, both pertaining to future crewed Mars missions, and to learn more about Mars itself.
“Science isn’t foolproof on the first try,” Smith says. “That’s especially true in planetary science where we’re looking at places no one’s ever visited and relying on instruments that sense everything remotely.”
The research has been published in Geophysical Research Letters.
St. Louis woman Terika Clay charged with assault after shooting McDonald’s worker
A Missouri woman accused of shooting a McDonald’s restaurant employee has been criminally charged, officials said.
Terika Clay, 30, of St. Louis, was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action after she allegedly shot an unidentified employee after an argument over a discount on French fries escalated, FOX 2 of St. Louis reported.
The incident initially started when Clay pulled up to the drive-thru and argued with the victim, who was working the drive-thru window, over the price of the French fries. Clay then threatened to shoot the victim, court documents said, according to the report.
Sometime later, the victim went on break and left the restaurant, where Clay was waiting. Clay confronted the victim then struck and shot the victim — all on surveillance cameras, Normandy police said, FOX 2 reported. The victim was hospitalized with a minor wound and was later released.
Clay was being held on $150,000 bond, though she has a bond reduction hearing is scheduled next week, FOX 2 reported. Clay was not permitted to make contact with the victim or be within 1,000 feet of the victim or the restaurant, a judge ordered, according to the report.