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Ohio State Ties Longest Losing Streak in the Chris Holtmann Era With 63-60 Defeat to Nebraska
The hole keeps getting deeper for the Buckeyes.
Ohio State’s losing streak has now stretched to five straight games following a 63-60 Wednesday loss on the road at Nebraska, which was the second-to-last-place team in the Big Ten entering the night. The loss comes just six days after the Buckeyes fell to last-place Minnesota at home, and Ohio State has now tied its longest skid in the Chris Holtmann era.
| Team | 1 | 2 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| OHIO STATE | 22 | 38 | 60 |
| NEBRASKA | 21 | 42 | 63 |
Points were hard to come by in an opening half that saw both teams shoot 30% or under. After playing from behind for most of the period, the Buckeyes put together a quick spurt in the final minutes of the half to steal a lead before the intermission.
It didn’t stick, though, as frequent Ohio State turnovers and Nebraska’s pronounced advantage in interior scoring helped the Huskers take control late in the second half. The Buckeyes only trailed by two points with 10 seconds left, and still had a chance to send the game to overtime with a final shot.
With Brice Sensabaugh having already fouled out, Sean McNeil’s game-tying attempt rimmed out at the buzzer.
First Half
The offensive struggles that plagued the Buckeyes in the past few games followed them into this one. Ohio State hit just one of its first 11 shots from the floor, although the Huskers only hit two of their opening 10 on the other end.
But Nebraska had the edge early, holding a lead from 18:06 to 1:47 as the Buckeyes continued to struggle. Sensabaugh and Justice Sueing combined to miss their first 11 shots from the floor while the Huskers managed to be slightly more efficient on offense.
| OHIO STATE | STAT | NEBRASKA |
|---|---|---|
| 60 | POINTS | 63 |
| 20-56 (35.7%) | FGM-FGA (PCT.) | 23-56 (41.1%) |
| 5-17 (29.4%) | 3PM-3PA (PCT.) | 6-21 (28.6%) |
| 15-23 (83.3%) | FTM-FTA (PCT.) | 11-17 (74.1%) |
| 11 | TURNOVERS | 13 |
| 38 | TOTAL REBOUNDS | 39 |
| 6 | OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS | 4 |
| 32 | DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS | 35 |
| 12 | BENCH POINTS | 16 |
| 5 | BLOCKS | 3 |
| 6 | STEALS | 5 |
| 9 | ASSISTS | 11 |
Despite Ohio State’s offensive ineptitude, Nebraska’s own struggles left the door open for the Buckeyes to take a one-point lead on the back of a 7-0 run with less than two minutes to go in the half. The Buckeyes held that 22-21 advantage as the buzzer sounded, heading into the locker room with a lead despite trailing for 16:20 of the period.
Ohio State shot just 26.7% from the field and 14.3% from the 3-point line, but seven Nebraska turnovers and a 3:12 scoring drought to end the half helped the Buckeyes get back out in front. The Huskers hit just 30% of their first-half shots and missed three of their four free-throw attempts.
Second Half
Ohio State scored 10 of the first 16 points of the second half to earn some breathing room with a five-point lead at the 16:10 mark. But the Huskers responded with back-to-back 3-pointers in the following 58 seconds to retake the lead into the under-16-minute media timeout.
Zed Key scored five straight points from 14:22 to 12:45 to take Ohio State from down three to up two, and the Buckeyes had another chance to take a two-possession lead after Husker head coach Fred Hoiberg was whistled for a technical foul. But McNeil, who hadn’t missed a free throw all season entering the game, missed both attempts.
Both teams traded buckets and leads thereafter as each side heated up considerably from their first-half pace on offense. Sensabaugh scored seven straight points for Ohio State in a two-minute span to give the Buckeyes a two-point edge at 8:55, but Nebraska had an answer as it fired back with an 8-0 run to take a 55-49 lead. Three Ohio State turnovers in less than four minutes contributed to the Husker spurt.
By the 3:41 mark, Ohio State hadn’t hit a shot in well over five minutes of game time as Nebraska held onto a two-possession lead.
The Buckeyes cut it to a three-point game with 2:20 to play, and Ohio State was within two points of the Huskers with 1:48 left on the clock. Ohio State still had a chance in the final 40 seconds as Sensabaugh knocked down a 3-pointer to make it a three-point deficit late.
Ohio State had a final chance to tie the game up in the waning moments, but McNeil’s 3-pointer was off the mark.
Game Notes
- After coming off the bench on Sunday, both Brice Sensabaugh and Zed Key returned to the starting lineup against Nebraska. Bruce Thornton, Sean McNeil and Justice Sueing were the other three starters for the Buckeyes.
- Ohio State dropped its lone meeting with the Cornhuskers last season, a 78-70 upset loss at the Schottenstein Center with the Buckeyes holding the No. 23 ranking in the AP poll.
- Before last year’s loss, Ohio State had won six straight games against Nebraska and 10 of the previous 11 matchups.
- Fred Hoiberg lost four of his first five matchups against Ohio State since taking over as Nebraska’s head coach in 2019-20.
- Starting Nebraska forward Juwan Gary (shoulder) did not suit up for the Huskers.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 overtakes Guinness record holder Duke Nukem Forever as game longest in development
The long-awaited sequel to Beyond Good & Evil has overtaken Duke Nukem Forever as the game with the longest-ever development period.
Duke Nukem Forever, which finally released in 2011, previously held the Guinness World Record for the longest development period for a video game project, at just over 14 years.
But Beyond Good & Evil 2 has now beaten that, as noted on Twitter by GamesIndustry.biz’s Brendan Sinclair.
“Duke Nukem Forever went 5156 days from its announcement in 1997 to its release in 2011,” Sinclair wrote on Twitter over the weekend. “It has been 5234 days since the first Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer was released,” he added. That’s 5237 now.
Both projects saw work put on hold during their times in development, as teams changed and console hardware shifted.
Duke Nukem Forever went 5,156 days from its announcement in 1997 to its release in 2011.
It has been 5,234 days since the first Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer was released.
— Brendan Sinclair (@BrendanSinclair) September 28, 2022
Ubisoft first began officially discussing Beyond Good & Evil 2 back in 2008, when a CGI trailer for the project was released – though at the time, series creator Michel Ancel had already been working on the project for at least a year.
Work continued on the game over the years, off and on, and Ubisoft repeatedly maintained that the project was still in the works to some extent – though it eventually began to be thought of as vapourware.
In 2016, Ubisoft publicly recommitted to the project once more, with a big E3 announcement and the launch of a series of regular development updates dubbed the Space Monkey Program. But as the years went on, things seemed to go quiet once again.
In 2020, Ancel left Ubisoft amidst reports of trouble at the game’s development studio. Ubisoft stated that work on the game would continue, but did not give any expectation on when to actually expect it to arrive.
Still, we know things are continuing. In August this year, narrative designer Sarah Arellano, formerly of Blizzard, announced she had joined the project as Beyond Good & Evil 2’s new lead writer.
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Broadway’s longest running show, ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ closing in 2023
NEW YORK (WABC) — “Phantom of the Opera,” Broadway’s longest-running show and an icon of New York City theater, will close early next year.
The show announced Friday it will commemorate its 35th anniversary Jan. 26, and then stage its final performance on Broadway on Feb. 18.
Mayor Eric Adams attended the show earlier this month, kicking off Broadway Week with an appearance to celebrate the theater district’s resilience in the wake of the pandemic.
Phantom has been the longest-running show in Broadway history for well over a decade.
On Broadway alone, the musical has played more than 13,500 performances to 19.5 million people at The Majestic Theatre on West 44th Street.
The show says it has been the largest single generator of income and jobs in Broadway and U.S. theatrical history. In the New York production alone, an estimated 6,500 people, including 400 actors, have been employed during its more than three decades run.
A spokesperson said other international productions will continue, including the flagship London production, which will celebrate its 36th anniversary on Oct. 9 and continues to play with no end in sight.
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1st Capitol rioter to stand trial gets 7 years, the longest sentence for a Jan. 6 defendant so far
A federal judge on Monday sentenced the first Capitol rioter convicted at trial to 87 months, or just over seven years in prison — the longest term of incarceration thus far for a defendant in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of the Jan. 6 assault on Congress.
Guy Wesley Reffitt, 49, of Wylie, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury in March of five felony counts, including obstruction of justice as well as entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a firearm.
Federal prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice had asked that Reffitt be sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prosecutors had also — for the first time — asked a federal district court judge to apply a terrorism enhancement, which would effectively define under law that a rioter’s actions amounted to domestic terrorism.
“We do believe that what he was doing that day was domestic terrorism and we do believe that he’s a domestic terrorist,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said Monday.
But the judge overseeing Reffitt’s case, Dabney Friedrich, turned down the request, saying that there have been multiple other defendants from the Jan. 6 attack where DOJ chose not to pursue the terrorism enhancement, despite their conduct appearing to be much more serious and threatening than what Reffitt was convicted of at trial.
Reffitt’s attorney, Clinton Broden, argued the DOJ was unfairly seeking to make an example of Reffitt simply because he took his case to trial.
“This is the only case where the government has asked for the terrorism enhancement, and this is the only case where the defendant has gone to trial,” Broden said. “I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure that out.”
Reffitt is among the more than 850 people who have been charged in connection with the deadly breach of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Over 200 defendants have already pleaded guilty to a variety of misdemeanors and felony charges, with some being sentenced to years in federal prison.
Reffitt’s attorney, Clinton Broden, asked that his client be sentenced to no more than two years. He said he was shocked by the prosecution’s recommendation, since his client wasn’t accused of entering the Capitol or assaulting any police officers that day.
“It’s absolutely absurd,” Broden told The Associated Press during a telephone interview last month. “I certainly don’t condone what Mr. Reffitt did. And I think everybody realizes the seriousness of the offenses. But at the same point, there has to be some proportionality here.”
Federal sentencing guidelines in Reffitt’s case called for a prison sentence ranging from nine years to 11 years and three months.
During the trial, prosecutors sought to cast Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia group, as a ringleader of one of the first waves of the mob that breached the Capitol from the building’s west side.
Videos played in court showed Reffitt climbing a stone banister near where scaffolding had been put up in advance of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, and Reffitt confronting U.S. Capitol Police officers who warned him to back down before they fired less-than-lethal ammunition and pepper spray to stop his advance. Other videos presented in court showed Reffitt gesturing to the crowd behind him in what appeared to be an attempt to get them to move up the stairs toward multiple entryways that lead into the building.
At one point in the trial, prosecutors played first-person footage that Reffitt had recorded with a 360-degree camera mounted on his helmet while in the crowd at the “Save America” rally prior to the attack.
“We’re taking the Capitol before the day is out,” Reffitt says in the video. “Everybody is in the same harmony on that … dragging ’em out kicking and f***ing screaming.”
“I didn’t come here to play games … I just want to see Pelosi’s head hit every f***ing stair on the way out,” he says later. “I think we have the numbers to make it happen … without firing a single shot.”
The Justice Department’s case also relied on two key witnesses: Rocky Hardie, a former member of the Texas Three Percenters, who testified against Reffitt in exchange for immunity to cooperate, and Reffitt’s 19-year-old son, Jackson, who submitted an online tip to the FBI first alerting them to his father’s plans weeks before the riot, ultimately leading to Reffitt’s arrest on Jan. 16, 2021.
During an interview with ABC News from jail last December, Reffitt said he “never expected anything like this to happen.”
“This has been disastrous for me and my family, especially for my girls, my son — actually, all of my family,” Reffitt told ABC News
Exercise more than recommended amounts for longest life, study says
Adults should get 150 to 300 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity a week, according to the World Health Organization. But people who surpass those levels live longer than those who don’t.
“It is also important to note that we found no harmful association among individuals who reported (more than four times) the recommended minimum levels of long-term leisure-time moderate and vigorous physical activity,” he added in an email.
Examples of moderate activity include a very brisk walk, mowing the lawn or playing tennis doubles, while vigorous activity includes things like hiking, jogging or playing soccer, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
The study results support WHO’s current physical activity guidelines, but also pushes for higher levels to see even more benefit in living a longer life, Lee said.
How to add more movement
You may be thinking, “10 hours a week of moderate activity sounds like a lot. There is no way I can work that in with all my other responsibilities.”
And yes, it may take some intentionality and effort. But studies have also shown the best ways to work in exercise into routines so that they stick.
A megastudy published in December 2021 showed that the best exercise programs include planning when you work out, getting reminders, offering incentives and discouraging missing more than one planned workout in a row.
“If people are hoping to boost their physical activity or change their health behaviors, there are very low-cost behavioral insights that can be built into programs to help them achieve greater success,” said the December study’s lead author Katy Milkman, the James G. Dinan Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of “How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.”
And you don’t have to add it all in at once. Just 11 minutes of exercise a day made a difference on life span, according to a 2021 study.
You can make it a brisk walk outside or on the treadmill, do four sets of a three-minute body-weight exercise sequence, practice a yoga flow or pick three upbeat songs to dance to, said CNN fitness contributor Dana Santas, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports.
Stocks rise but still head for longest weekly losing streak since 2001
U.S. stocks rose on Friday, though the major indexes still headed for steep weekly losses as concerns over the resilience of corporate profits in the face of inflation resurged this week.
The S&P 500 advanced by about 0.8% just after the opening bell, following equities in Asia and Europe higher after China’s central bank unexpectedly cut a benchmark interest rate to offer some relief to borrowers in the country still grappling with a widespread COVID-19 outbreak.
The Dow rose by more than 150 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq added more than 1%. Treasuries steadied, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note hovering below 2.9%, and U.S. crude oil prices edged up to more than $112 per barrel.
The gains Friday for the major U.S. stock indexes, however, did not fully offset the slide in stocks seen earlier this week. As of Thursday’s close, the S&P 500 was on track for a weekly loss of 5.4% — its biggest since January. The index was also down 18.7% from its recent record close from Jan. 3, bringing it within striking distance of a bear market, or drop of at least 20% from a recent all-time high. And the S&P 500 was also on track to post a seventh straight weekly loss, or its longest losing streak since 2001. The Dow and Nasdaq paced toward weekly losses of 5% and 6.2%, respectively.
The latest bout of volatility came in the wake of weaker-than-expected earnings results and guidance from some of the major U.S. retailers, which appeared to confirm fears that companies were having more difficulty passing on rising costs to consumers. Ross Stores (ROST) late Thursday became the latest major retailer to cut its full-year guidance, joining Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) in highlighting the impact inflation and supply chain disruptions have had on profitability. Shares of Ross slid 25% just after market open for the stock’s biggest slide since 1986, and Target and Walmart each headed for weekly losses of about 30% and 20%, respectively.
“Unfortunately there’s no safe haven. When we see the news that came out of consumer discretionary and staples … that shows the struggles that companies have regardless of their size,” Eva Ados, ER Shares chief operating officer, told Yahoo Finance Live. “And ironically, these are the sectors, staples and consumer discretionary, that are viewed as safe havens in a bad economic market.”
The mounting, visible consequences of rising prices have also offered justification for the Federal Reserve to prioritize raising rates and tightening monetary policy to bring down inflation running at the highest level since the early 1980s, even at the expense of some growth in the broader economy. At the same time, however, other strategists suggested some of the factors that led to the major companies’ earnings misses this week — such as stockpiling more inventory than they could sell — could ultimately have a deflationary impact down the line even in absence of a more aggressive policy response.
“We saw retailers trying desperately to catch up to consumer demand by ordering a lot of goods. It took a long time to get through supply chains but it’s finally hit the store shelves. And now they’re finding they have a little bit too much,” Christian Ledoux, CAPTRUST director of investments, told Yahoo Finance Live.
“So we could see a deflationary effect on some of the CPI [Consumer Price Index] elements coming in the future months,” he added. “And if that does indeed come through, the Fed may feel a lot more comfortable going slower or even stopping at a lower interest rate point sometime in the future.”
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9:47 a.m. ET: Foot Locker shares jump after company forecasts full-year results on top end of range, bucking trend of retail gloom
Foot Locker (FL) shares more than 6% Friday morning after the retailer said it expected its full-year profit and sales results would come in on the high end of its previously issued ranges. The guidance came in as unexpectedly upbeat amid the bevy of disappointing retail results offered earlier this week.
For the full year, Foot Locker said it sees its adjusted earnings per share coming in at the “upper end” of its prior range of $4.25 to $4.60. While it still sees a sales decline this year, it expects that will come in on the high end of its prior range of down 4% to down 6%.
“We are off to a strong start in 2022, reporting a solid quarter against the tough comparisons of fiscal stimulus and historically-low promotions from last year,” Foot Locker CEO Richard Johnson said in a press statement. “Our progress in broadening and enriching our assortment continues, as we continue to meet our customers’ demand for choice. These efforts helped drive our strong results in the first quarter, and we believe will allow us to more fully participate in the robust growth of our category going forward.”
First-quarter comparable same-store sales were down 1.9%, but this came after comparable sales soared by more than 80% in the same quarter last year. The drop was also shallower than the 3.5% decrease Wall Street was expecting, according to Bloomberg data. Adjusted earnings per share of $1.60 for the first quarter exceeded estimates by 7 cents.
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9:33 a.m. ET: Stocks open higher, Nasdaq gains more than 1%
Here were the main moves in markets as of 9:33 a.m. ET:
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S&P 500 (^GSPC): +35.28 (+0.90%) to 3,936.07
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Dow (^DJI): +205.35 (+0.66%) to 31,458.48
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Nasdaq (^IXIC): +119.72 (+1.05%) to 11,508.21
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Crude (CL=F): +$0.02 (+0.02%) to $112.23 a barrel
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Gold (GC=F): -$1.00 (-0.05%) to $1,840.20 per ounce
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10-year Treasury (^TNX): -0.9 bps to yield 2.846%
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7:15 a.m. ET: Stock futures head for a higher open
Here’s where markets were trading Friday morning:
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S&P 500 futures (ES=F): +40.75 points (+1.05%) to 3,938.50
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Dow futures (YM=F): +267.00 points (+0.86%) to 31,469.00
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Nasdaq futures (NQ=F): +163.50 points (+1.38%) to 12,041.75
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Crude (CL=F): +$0.24 (+0.21%) to $112.45 a barrel
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Gold (GC=F): +$2.20 (+0.12%) to $1,843.40 per ounce
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10-year Treasury (^TNX): +0.2 bps to yield 2.857%
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Super Flower Blood Moon of 2022, longest total lunar eclipse in 33 years, wows stargazers
The moon turned an eerie blood-red color in a total lunar eclipse overnight Sunday (May 15) that was visible to potentially millions of stargazers across four continents.
The lunar eclipse, celebrated as the Super Flower Blood Moon, was the longest total lunar eclipse in 33 years, according to Space.com’s skywatching columnist Joe Rao. It was visible, weather permitting, from a wide swath of the world that spanned the Americas, Antarctica, Europe, Africa and the east Pacific. You can see amazing photos of the Super Flower Blood Moon from skywatchers with clear skies to see it.
During the lunar eclipse, the full moon spent about 85 minutes inside the Earth’s umbra, or darker, shadow, according to Space.com columnist Joe Rao. That’s compared with 96 minutes in August 1989, according to TimeandDate.com.
Even New Zealand, eastern Europe and the Middle East got a subtle view of the penumbral, or lightly shadowed, version of the eclipse. But it was the Blood Moon that caught the attention of people around the world.
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Riste Spiroski caught a view of the moon in Macedonia at 4:45 a.m. local time. “It looks like Saturn, with a long thin cloud in front of her, while the partial eclipse is happening — and you can see it clearly. I was amazed by the view,” Spiroski told Space.com in an email. You can see the photo below.
Some Space.com readers commented on the beauty of the eclipse. “Beautiful view of the moon from Tucson, Arizona,” wrote one reader Bod Read.
Michelle Jensen, another reader, used a smartphone to capture the eclipse from New Prague, Minnesota, roughly 45 minutes south of Minneapolis.
“Caught a few neat shots of the beginning of the eclipse. It’s nothing fancy, but I thought it was pretty cool that my phone picked that much up,” Jensen wrote. You can see the photo below.
The timing of the Super Flower Blood Moon depended upon your location. TimeandDate.com said the partial eclipse phase of the moon eclipse began May 15 at 10:28 p.m. EDT (0228 GMT on May 16). It reached the Blood Moon peak May 16 at 12:11 a.m. EDT (0411 GMT). Then the event ended at 1:55 a.m. EDT (0555 GMT). The penumbral eclipse started and ended an hour earlier than the total eclipse.
Several webcasts discussed the art and science of the Blood Moon, for people outside the viewing zone, in cloudy conditions or otherwise unable to see the show in person.
“The things that are awe-inspiring, almost spiritual, don’t require modern technology,” Slooh astronomer Bob Berman said during the astronomy webcaster’s live broadcast.
As the Blood Moon shone live in remotely operated telescopes streaming live to Slooh, the company’s director of curriculum talked about how light around our planet gets refracted and falls upon the moon’s surface. “You’re watching the sunrises and sunsets that are occurring on our planet, right now, with the light from those hitting the moon,” John Boisvert said.
Eclipse scientist Fred Espenak said the full moon was a so-called supermoon, taking into account the variability of perigees (closest approaches) and apogees (furthest approaches) the moon has to our planet.
NASA, however, follows another definition suggesting that a supermoon occurs when the moon is within 90% of its closest approach, which the agency says next happens in June.
Supermoon or no, the full moon turning red for a time attracted a lot of attention around the world.
If you’re hoping to photograph the moon, or want to prepare your gear for the total lunar eclipse, check out our best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography. Read our guides on how to photograph a lunar eclipse, as well as how to photograph the moon with a camera for some helpful tips to plan out you lunar photo session.
Totality!Tonight’s #LunarEclipse, seen from Florida’s Space Coast against a beautiful field of stars. pic.twitter.com/7EiO4gH1utMay 16, 2022
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Total lunar eclipse! Taken with an iPhone attached to my 8” telescope. 🌕📱🔭 #lunareclipse2022 pic.twitter.com/MBweZp6AvkMay 16, 2022
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Project Sunrise: Qantas plans to have the world’s longest flights
(CNN) — Qantas has taken an important step toward launching Project Sunrise, its long-dreamed-of goal to establish direct flights between Australia and the cities of New York and London.
The airline has ordered 12 Airbus A350-1000s planes, with hopes that the ultra-long-haul routes can begin operating in 2025.
In total, there will be 238 total seats on each plane, which is the lowest number for any Airbus A350s currently in service. Those seats are spread between four classes of service — first class, business class, premium economy and economy.
Comfort will be a must, as these flights will clock in over the 19-hour mark, making them the world’s longest non-stop flights.
Renderings for the plane interiors give some clues about what Qantas is planning for passengers on board.
Images of the first class cabins show separate beds, reclining lounge chairs and even closets.
Meanwhile, the least expensive economy class seats will have a pitch of 33 inches, which compares with an average 30-31 inches on most carriers.
“Wellbeing Zones” will use communal areas of the plane to store healthy snacks and drinks as well as provide travelers a place to get up and stretch.
Qantas’ custom planes will have beds in all First Class cabins.
Qantas
A dream years in the making
Australia’s national flag carrier has made no secret of its goal to run direct flights between Melbourne and Sydney in Australia and New York City and London.
Qantas has dubbed the scheme “Project Sunrise.” The name was inspired by clandestine World War II flights that were made from Perth to Sri Lanka en route to London. They were fraught with danger, and lasted so long they saw two sunrises.
“For more than 100 years, Qantas has been at the forefront of transforming the way the world travels, particularly through direct flights,” Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said in a statement.
“Now, the A350 and Project Sunrise will make almost any city in the world just one flight away from Australia. It’s the last frontier and the final fix for the tyranny of distance that has traditionally challenged travel to Australia.”
In 2019, the airline ran a series of test flights on the Sydney to New York City and Sydney to London routes as an experiment.
The crew and passengers on board had their health monitored during the journey to see how such a long flight could affect future fliers. Tracking devices monitored sleep patterns, activity cycles, food and drink consumption and other data.
Like many travel projects around the world, Sunrise was derailed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Last year, the CEO told CNN’s Richard Quest that “once we finish (upgrading Qantas’ domestic fleet), which we’ll do early in 2022, we’ll revisit Sunrise and the likelihood is somewhere like 2024 or 2025 for the first aircraft arriving, given the delay.”
An onboard “Wellbeing Zone” will give passengers access to healthy snacks and fitness videos.
Qantas
What happens next
Although the first Project Sunrise flights are still years away, Qantas has already started thinking about expanding its ultra-long-haul offerings.
The airline confirmed that Paris and Frankfurt are also being considered for future direct flights after the New York City and London routes are established.
In 2019, Qantas also included the city of Brisbane as one of the eastern Australia hubs for these flights, but it’s unclear whether that remains part of the Project Sunrise plan.
Those on Both PS Plus and PS Now Will Get Premium Upgrade Equal to Their Longest Subscription
PlayStation users who currently have both a PS Now and PS Plus membership will be getting upgraded to the new PlayStation Plus Premium Tier when it launches this year. The length of the upgrade will be equal to the longest subscription owned.
As reported by PushSquare, this means if you’ve got both subscriptions, and you’ve stacked your PS Plus for a number of years, you’re going to end up with a seemingly good deal.
This was confirmed within a new PS Plus FAQ section which states: “If you are subscribed to both services [PS Now, PS Plus] when the new PlayStation Plus launches, you will be migrated into the PlayStation Plus Premium membership plan and you will have a new single payment date based on the longer of your two subscriptions.”
So, for example, if you have PS Now subscribed up until August 2022 and an active PS Plus membership until September 2025 – that means you’ll be upgraded to PS Plus premium until September 2025 (or vice versa).
It was also previously confirmed that anyone with a PS Now subscription would be upgraded to PS Plus Premium at no extra cost, with a 1:1 conversion ratio on any subscription time you had left.
It wasn’t long before PlayStation users quickly began to take advantage of this, stacking PS Now subscriptions for several years in order to get the most out of the conversion. But, this loophole was quickly shut down.
PS Plus Premium is the highest tier in the revamp of the PlayStation subscription service, and aims to have more than 700 games for streaming or download (including streaming on PC). It will launch in the US and Europe in June, with an earlier launch in Asia (excluding Japan) in May.
Game demos are also going to be a big part of PS Plus Premium, with developers now reportedly required to create timed game demos for PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers.
Correction: IGN has received a report that Sony has temporarily disabled the ability to redeem PS Plus codes bought from online retailers. While we investigate further, we have removed any affiliate links related to PS Plus. Sony has been contacted for comment.
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