Nebraska will be trying to preserve its perfect in-state record when it hosts South Dakota on Wednesday night in a nonconference game in Lincoln, Neb. The Cornhuskers (4-1) are 3-0 at home and also won Friday at then-No. 14 Creighton, beating their in-state rivals on the road for the second straight time. But the last time they did that, in 2022, they followed that win with a 16-point loss at Indiana to open Big Ten Conference play. "Believe me, we've addressed a lot of things," Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg said. "A lot of people are saying some really positive things. You've got to find a way to put that behind you. I've liked how our team has responded and come back to work after that great win at Creighton." Brice Williams leads the Cornhuskers with 18.2 points per game and was one of five players in double figures against Creighton. Juwan Gary topped the list with 16. South Dakota (6-2) comes to town off a 112-50 home win Monday night over Randall, the third non-Division I school it has beat. The Coyotes' last game against a D1 opponent was Friday at Southern Indiana, resulting in a 92-83 loss. This will be South Dakota's second nonconference game against a Big Ten opponent, after a 96-77 loss at Iowa on Nov. 12. In December, the Coyotes also visit Santa Clara, hovering near the top 100 in KenPom adjusted efficiency, before jumping into Big Sky play. "The schedule is very good and that should help us," third-year South Dakota coach Eric Peterson said before the season. "We have some good nonconference games that should help prepare us for the end of the season." Nebraska has held four of its opponents to 67 or fewer points, with Saint Mary's the only one to top that number in the Cornhuskers' lone loss. Opponents are shooting 38.1 percent this season. South Dakota shot below 40 percent in its two previous games before shooting 62 percent against Randall. Isaac Bruns, who scored 20 to lead South Dakota in the Randall game, paces the Coyotes with 12.9 points per game. --Field Level Media
Board of Directors declares quarterly dividend OKLAHOMA CITY , Dec. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OGE Energy Corp. OGE , the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, announced today that Charles Walworth is appointed Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective December 4, 2024 . Walworth is a 25-year veteran of the company, holding a variety of finance roles during his tenure. Most recently, Walworth served as treasurer. "Chuck is a respected leader and the architect of one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry," said Sean Trauschke , OGE Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO. "He cares about our people, customers, communities and shareholders and I look forward to serving alongside him as we continue to grow the company." Additionally, the Board of Directors approved a first quarter dividend of $0.42125 per common share of stock, to be paid on January 31, 2025 , to shareholders of record on January 6, 2025 . CLASS OF STOCK: OGE Energy Corp. Common DIVIDEND PER SHARE: $0.42125 RECORD DATE: 1/6/25 PAYMENT DATE: 1/31/25 View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oge-energy-corp-appoints-walworth-as-chief-financial-officer-302323141.html SOURCE OGE Energy Corp. © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Miss Rev is quite beside herself. The Texas A&M College of Architecture made a life-size 3D printed model of the mascot Reveille X that is now on tour at various places in Aggieland. It is currently on display in the rotunda at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum through Dec. 2. “It’s a great location for people to come. The rotunda’s free and we get a lot of traffic this time of year,” said Amy Raines, the museum’s marketing and communications director. “She’s going to be here during the first time that we play the University of Texas in 13 years. It’s going to be a huge week next week.” The library and museum will be closed Thanksgiving Day but open all other days. “We would love all of the game traffic to be able to come over here and visit her and see her,” Raines said. According to Kelsy Hustead, director of marketing and communications for the College of Architecture, the idea to make a model of Miss Rev came out of a brainstorming session about ways to demonstrate the capabilities of the college’s Innovation Hubs. “When we were brainstorming how to showcase the amazing work of our College of Architecture Innovation Hubs, we thought, 'Why not Reveille? She’s the Queen of Aggieland!’” Hustead said. “In collaboration with the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, this 3D printed Reveille is a testament to the ingenuity of our MarComm team, our Innovation Hub team members, and the power of this technology. It’s been a fantastic way to engage the Aggie community and demonstrate the endless possibilities of 3D printing.” Along with the model there is a two-minute video showing the process of making the 3D Reveille. It is also available on YouTube. Langford Innovation Hub Supervisor Alex Nipper oversaw the project and did a lot of the work himself. “This was a really fun project for us and the outcomes have exceeded all of our expectations,” he said. “It was great to collaborate with those from the Corps of Cadets and I hope we can continue to collaborate with them and other university and city entities in the future.” The project began last spring when Reveille X was brought in to be scanned. Her handler brought her into the scanning room where she was photographed by 66 DSLR cameras. “We baited her with cheese. She didn’t want to be in the room,” said Sarah Wilson, marketing/ communications manager for the College of Architecture. According to Nipper, the model stands about 31 inches tall, weighs just over 20 pounds, and took 9.5 kilograms (almost 21 pounds) of PLA (Polylactic Acid plastic) filament to print. A digital 3D scan of Miss Rev was taken to the ILSQ Innovation Hub and printed using the BigRep ONE printer. It took 69 hours to complete. Nipper then hand-painted the model. “The painting process took about a week, maybe two weeks, but it was mostly time spent letting the paint dry completely before layering on another coat of paint,” he said. “The actual painting time is approximately four or five days. I used about nine different colors of paint on the model; she has a lot of different colors in her fur that I really had to narrow down to the most essential ones. I think I got it pretty close, but we had the real Reveille meet the 3D printed model after painting and her actual coat was slightly darker than the paint I chose for her.” A football field pedestal was made at the RELLIS Innovation Hub to display the model. The video shows Reveille X returning to meet her lookalike for photographs, but the meeting wasn’t as amicable as it looked. “She came back and met her own twin," Wilson said. "She was not interested in her own twin.” The 3D Miss Rev has been on tour around campus and the community. When it leaves the Bush museum it will head to public libraries. It will be at Bryan’s Clara B. Mounce Library from Dec. 9-16 and then the Larry J. Ringer Library in College Station from Dec. 16 to Jan. 2. The primary reason for making the 3D Reveille is to demonstrate the creative capabilities of the Innovation Hubs and Makerspace in the College of Architecture. The 3D printers and laser cutters are available to students, faculty and staff at Texas A&M. Pricing varies depending on the project. To learn more, visit arch.tamu.edu/about/facilities/makerspace/ .
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Emeka Kalu, has condemned the purported expulsion of Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere from the party in Imo State, describing the move as a joke, which should be treated with a pinch of salt. Kalu, who is also the National Coordinator of PDP Coalition in Nigeria, expressed dismay at the attempt by some people in PDP in Imo State to further put the name of the party in disrepute despite the attempt to rebuild it. Kalu, in a statement he personally signed on Saturday and made available to journalists, also described the purported dismissal of Ugochinyere as a fraudulent act, which must not be allowed to stand. Recall that PDP in Imo State in a letter signed by one Lancelot Obiak, its Publicity Secretary, had on Friday, purportedly expelled Ugochinyere, a House of Representatives member for Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency of the State, from the party, by the Umuopia/Umukegwu Ward Chapter of the party in the state. The party in Imo State had claimed that Ugochinyere was expelled from PDP due to gross indiscipline, insubordination, and anti-party activities. Kalu insisted that Ugochinyere had remained the most committed federal legislator elected under PDP in fighting the gross injustice, sabotage and political prebendalism hampering the unity of the party. Rather than sack, he insisted that Ugochinyere should be commended for standing by the party at all times. He insisted that the purported sack, amounted to bias and political immaturity that guided some sections of the party in the state. He said: “At a time the party is gradually working towards rebuilding her broken walls, some persons who failed to see the realities of power tussles in political leadership took to fraudulently abuse processes by raising their ill-fated pen to publish Ugochinyere’s expulsion from the party he has continued to give his best for. “A party that has been captured by the enemies within with all readiness to destroy it should concentrate on fighting to retrieve its glory from the hands of traducers than resorting to fight a man who has never relented in working to ensure the party is robustly strengthened. “It is a show of shame that while the party at the national level is battling conflict of interest and sabotage within the party structure and those who are bent on ensuring these wrongs are corrected, became the victims of circumstance orchestrated by his haters who think their interest are no longer protected.” The PDP National Coordinator, therefore, called on the national leadership of the party to as a matter of urgency, intervene by reversing the decision of the state, maintaining that a stakeholder like Ugochinyere deserved more recognition and honours for his unwavering commitment to ensure the party was vehemently united. He declared that the central organ of the party must not treat the issue with levity if PDP was to stand the test of time. Besides, Kalu totally condemned the issuance of the expulsion letter, warning that such action may lead to eventual collapse of PDP.French Lawmakers Vote To Oust Prime Minister In The First Successful No-Confidence Vote Since 1962
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Opposition fighters are closing in on Syria’s capital in a swiftly developing crisis that has taken much of the world by surprise. Syria's army has abandoned key cities in the west and south with little resistance. Nervous residents in Damascus describe security forces on the streets. The state news agency has been forced to deny rumors that President Bashar Assad has left the country. Who are these opposition fighters ? If they enter Damascus after taking two of Syria’s largest cities , what then? Here’s a look at the stunning reversal of fortune for Assad and his government in just the past 10 days, and what might lie ahead as Syria’s 13-year civil war reignites . This is the first time that opposition forces have reached the outskirts of the Syrian capital since 2018, when the country’s troops recaptured the area following a yearslong siege. The approaching fighters are led by the most powerful insurgent group in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias called the Syrian National Army. Both have been entrenched in the northwest. They launched the shock offensive on Nov. 27 with gunmen capturing Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and the central city of Hama, the fourth largest. The HTS has its origins in al-Qaida and is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the United Nations. But the group said in recent years it cut ties with al-Qaida, and experts say HTS has sought to remake itself in recent years by focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday from Syria that the aim of the offensive is to overthrow Assad’s government. The HTS and Syrian National Army have been allies at times and rivals at times, and their aims might diverge. The Turkish-backed militias also have an interest in creating a buffer zone near the Turkish border to keep away Kurdish militants at odds with Ankara. Turkey has been a main backer of the fighters seeking to overthrow Assad but more recently has urged reconciliation, and Turkish officials have strongly rejected claims of any involvement in the current offensive. Whether the HTS and the Syrian National Army will work together if they succeed in overthrowing Assad or turn on each other again is a major question. While the flash offensive against Syria’s government began in the north, armed opposition groups have also mobilized elsewhere. The southern areas of Sweida and Daraa have both been taken locally. Sweida is the heartland of Syria’s Druze religious minority and had been the site of regular anti-government protests even after Assad seemingly consolidated his control over the area. Daraa is a Sunni Muslim area that was widely seen as the cradle of the uprising against Assad’s rule that erupted in 2011. Daraa was recaptured by Syrian government troops in 2018, but rebels remained in some areas. In recent years, Daraa was in a state of uneasy quiet under a Russian-mediated ceasefire deal. And much of Syria's east is controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led group backed by the United States that in the past has clashed with most other armed groups in the country. Syria’s government now controls just four of 14 provincial capitals. Much depends on Assad’s next moves and his forces' will to fight. A commander with the insurgents, Hassan Abdul-Ghani, posted on the Telegram messaging app that opposition forces have started carrying out the “final stage” of their offensive by encircling Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian troops have withdrawn from much of the two southern provinces and are sending reinforcements to Homs. If that city is captured, the link would be cut between Damascus, Assad’s seat of power, and the coastal region where he enjoys wide support. “Homs to the coastal cities will be a very huge red line politically and socially. Politically, if this line is crossed, then we are talking about the end of the entire Syria, the one that we knew in the past,” said a Damascus resident, Anas Joudeh. Assad appears to be largely on his own as allies Russia and Iran are distracted by other conflicts and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah has been weakened by its war with Israel, now under a fragile ceasefire. The U.N. special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, is calling for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition,” saying the situation is changing by the minute. He met with foreign ministers and senior diplomats from eight key countries including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Egypt, Turkey and Iran on the sidelines of the Doha Summit. President-elect Donald Trump in his first extensive comments on the developments in Syria said the besieged Assad didn’t deserve U.S. support to stay in power. “THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT,” Trump posted on social media.DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — RJ Felton had 21 points in East Carolina's 71-64 victory over Stetson on Friday. Felton also added eight rebounds for the Pirates (5-1). Joran Riley scored 14 points while going 4 of 11 and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line and added five rebounds. Cam Hayes shot 3 for 7 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points. The Hatters (1-5) were led in scoring by Mehki, who finished with 15 points and two steals. Abramo Canka added 14 points for Stetson. Jordan Wood had 12 points. East Carolina led Stetson at the half, 39-33, with Hayes (10 points) its high scorer before the break. East Carolina took the lead for good with 6:56 left in the second half on a free throw from Felton to make it a 60-59 game. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — RJ Felton had 21 points in East Carolina's 71-64 victory over Stetson on Friday. Felton also added eight rebounds for the Pirates (5-1). Joran Riley scored 14 points while going 4 of 11 and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line and added five rebounds. Cam Hayes shot 3 for 7 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line to finish with 13 points. The Hatters (1-5) were led in scoring by Mehki, who finished with 15 points and two steals. Abramo Canka added 14 points for Stetson. Jordan Wood had 12 points. East Carolina led Stetson at the half, 39-33, with Hayes (10 points) its high scorer before the break. East Carolina took the lead for good with 6:56 left in the second half on a free throw from Felton to make it a 60-59 game. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
