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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Following the holidays, most people have more than they need and even want. But many shoppers still look to capitalize on the overstocked, post-holiday sales of late December and early January as stores ring in the New Year with new merchandise. Jorge “There are a lot of deals and holiday decor that are already marked down right now. And of course they’ll get marked down even more after the holiday season,” said Kaylin Jorge, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce director of communications. While not every store features as good of deals on electronics post holiday season as they do on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, there are still many retailers that look to clear their shelves to make room for the latest and greatest. “Black Friday and Cyber Monday are big days for electronics, but technology is always changing and prices are constantly falling,” Jorge said. Many clothing retailers often discount the last season of winter wear as the New Year approaches so they can make room for the next year’s newest trends, Jorge said. Additionally, many retailers also discount wrapping paper, gift bags and other holiday-specific accessories and decor. Spiker Hallmark at the Meadowbrook Mall holds a promotion for half-price holiday ornaments and boxes of holiday cards the day after Christmas, said Jean Spiker, store manager. “A lot of Hallmark customers know that our ornaments and our box cards will be going on sale, 50% off, the day after Christmas. So, there’s usually a line out there waiting for us to open the gate,” Spiker said. This gives people the opportunity to stock up on the essentials before the next holiday season. But it only works if they actually remember to do it. 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Australia rejects Elon Musk's claim that it plans to control access to the internet MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian Cabinet minister has rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s allegation that the government intends to control all Australians' access to the internet through legislation that would ban young children from social media. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Friday that Musk’s criticism was “unsurprising” after the government introduced legislation to Parliament that would fine platforms including X up to $133 million for allowing children under 16 to hold social media accounts. The spat continues months of open hostility between the Australian government and the tech billionaire over regulators’ efforts to reduce public harm from social media. Parliament could pass the legislation as soon as next week. 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The law doubles the time tenants have to respond after receiving an eviction notice from five business days to ten. Lawyers who work with renters say that what may seem like a minor procedural change could make a big difference in allowing people to stay in their homes. RELATED: California’s housing crisis worse, not better, over 30 years Tenants who are served an eviction notice and don’t respond in writing within the legal timeframe can lose their case by default, potentially incurring financial penalties and a black mark on their record that affects their future ability to obtain housing. That’s true even if a tenant has a valid legal defense – for example, if their landlord increased the rent above state limits or refused to fix problems like lack of heat or broken door locks. About 40% of California tenants lose their cases this way, researchers have estimated . “Five days has never been enough for a tenant to find legal assistance and try to decipher the complaint filed against them, find out what kind of defenses they have, fill out the paperwork and make it to court,” Lorraine López, a senior attorney with the Western Center on Law and Poverty, told CalMatters earlier this fall. Related Articles Housing | Los Angeles City Council finalizes Measure ULA programs and expands funding Housing | Landlords are using AI to raise rents; California cities are leading the pushback Housing | California rent hikes: Where are the biggest increases in November? Housing | 20%-plus of US spends entire paychecks on rent, poll says Housing | Why US sued to stop landlords colluding on rents Access to legal services varies widely across California . San Francisco guarantees legal representation to any tenant facing eviction, and in other cities like Oakland and Los Angeles, robust networks of pro-bono lawyers help renters file responses. But Californians who live in so-called “legal deserts” – often in rural areas – must travel many miles to meet with an attorney. Tenants with lawyers are less likely to get locked out of their homes , some studies have shown – though fewer than 5% of renters in eviction cases nationwide have legal help , compared with more than 80% of landlords, the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel estimates. Authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra , a San Jose Democrat, the new law also offers something for landlords, who generally like eviction cases to move faster. It limits the amount of time tenant lawyers can take to file certain motions alleging errors in a landlord’s complaint. Landlord representatives said lawyers would use those motions to drag out cases unnecessarily. “The longer these things take, the more expensive it is (for landlords) and the more rent is lost,” said Daniel Bornstein, an attorney who represents property owners. Lea esta historia en EspañolNone

Phoenix Suns stars Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal are expected to return to action Tuesday night when the Phoenix Suns host the Los Angeles Lakers. Both players have been dealing with strained left calf injuries. The Suns listed both players as probable for the game. "Brad and Kevin did everything today," Suns coach Mike Budenholzer said after Monday's light workout. "So they came out of yesterday in a good place. ... We'll kind of wait to see how they feel, but we're expecting that they'll play, we're hopeful that they'll play and I think they're excited to play." Durant has missed the past seven games and Phoenix is 1-6 without him. The Suns are 0-5 since Beal went down. Tuesday will be the Suns' first game since losing 138-122 at home to the New York Knicks on Wednesday to stretch their skid to five games. "I definitely feel a lot better," Beal said Monday. "I'm thankful we had the schedule we had so we had some rest days, Kev and I." Durant, 36, was playing superb before the injury with averages of 27.6 points and 6.6 rebounds. The two-time NBA Finals MVP has made 24 of 56 shots (42.9 percent) from 3-point range. Beal, 31, is averaging 17.8 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists. Budenholzer doesn't foresee much problem integrating the two back into the attack. "Those two guys are veterans. It's basketball," Budenholzer said. "They have to go out and play. ... Just lean on their IQ and experience and just get them to go out and compete and play together." --Field Level MediaJayden Daniels and the offense stalling have the Commanders on a three-game losing streak

By Ashley Erika O. Jose, Reporter LISTED airline companies are expected to deliver mixed results for 2024, primarily due to the anticipated recovery in the sector, which may be counterbalanced by the volatility of the airline industry, according to analysts. “Lots of factors influenced profitability, such as fuel costs, passengers, and competition. The third quarter is traditionally the weakest because of the typhoons and off-peak season. Hopefully, the fourth quarter sees a turnaround,” Luis A. Limlingan, head of sales at Regina Capital Development Corp., said in a Viber message on Sunday. For the third quarter, both listed airlines saw their third-quarter attributable net income decline. Cebu Air, Inc., the operator of Cebu Pacific, incurred an attributable net loss of P173.19 million from an attributable net income of P1.28 billion in the same period last year as higher expenses put pressure on the company’s profit for the period. PAL Holdings, Inc. saw its third-quarter attributable net income plunge to P789.79 million, more than fivefold lower than last year’s P4.28 billion due to lower passenger revenue during the period. “The first nine months for both airlines showed a mixed picture. Both experienced fluctuations in their quarterly revenues,” First Grade Finance, Inc. Managing Director Astro C. del Castillo said in a Viber message. The outlook remains cautiously optimistic for airline companies as the industry continues to face rising operating costs, increased competition, and fragile economic conditions, Mr. Del Castillo said. “The overall profitability of PAL and CEB will depend on how effectively they can manage these dynamics as they navigate through the final months of the year,” he said. For the flag carrier, PAL President and Chief Operating Officer Stanley K. Ng said the company is expecting to end the year with lower profit than last year. “Definitely lower than last year,” he told reporters on the sidelines of an event last week. For December, air passengers may see steady airfares after the Civil Aeronautics Board kept the fuel surcharge for December unchanged at Level 4, marking the third time this year the fuel surcharge was set at this level. Air passenger volume at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport continues to increase for the first nine months of the year after surpassing pre-pandemic levels, driven by growth in domestic travel, according to the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA). Data from MIAA showed that air passenger volume totaled 37.38 million for the nine months ending September, 10.7% higher than the 33.75 million in the comparable period last year and 4.2% higher than the 35.87 million in the January-to-September period in 2019. For Globalinks Securities and Stocks, Inc. Head of Sales Trading Toby Allan C. Arce, the profitability of airlines will be influenced by many factors. He said the potential drivers for growth will be the holiday and peak travel seasons and the expected recovery in tourism. “Any rebound in local and international travel demand can contribute significantly to earnings. Effective fuel-hedging strategies and operational efficiency improvements could offset revenue dips,” he said. Cebu Pacific, the budget carrier, is optimistic about its growth prospects for next year. The company anticipates that its recent route launches will begin to contribute positively, driven by its ongoing expansion plans. “We are quite positive for next year. We think the height of the leverage, the early investments in the aircraft are already done. It has made our capex (capital expenditure) heavy this year, but this is it, by next year, we will feel the contributions of these as the revenue grows,” Cebu Pacific Vice-President for Controllership and Investor Relations Trina E. Asuncion said in a virtual briefing last week.

As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over the next five years to pursue a first-of-its-kind full eye transplantation. “This is no easy undertaking, but I believe we can achieve this together,” said Dr. Kia Washington, the lead researcher for the University of Colorado-led team, during a press conference Monday. “And in fact I’ve never been more hopeful that a cure for blindness is within reach.” The CU team was one of four in the United States that received funding awards from the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health , or ARPA-H. The CU-based group will focus on achieving the first-ever vision-restoring eye transplant by using “novel stem cell and bioelectronic technologies,” according to a news release announcing the funding. The work will be interdisciplinary, Washington and others said, and will link together researchers at institutions across the country. The four teams that received the funding will work alongside each other on distinct approaches, though officials said the teams would likely collaborate and eventually may merge depending on which research avenues show the most promise toward achieving the ultimate goal of transplanting an eye and curing blindness. Dr. Calvin Roberts, who will oversee the broader project for ARPA-H, said the agency wanted to take multiple “shots on goal” to ensure progress. “In the broader picture, achieving this would be probably the most monumental task in medicine within the last several decades,” said Dr. Daniel Pelaez of the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which also received ARPA-H funding. Pelaez is the lead investigator for that team, which has pursued new procedures to successfully remove and preserve eyes from donors, amid other research. He told The Denver Post that only four organ systems have not been successfully transplanted: the inner ear, the brain, the spinal cord and the eye. All four are part of the central nervous system, which does not repair itself when damaged. If researchers can successfully transplant the human eye and restore vision to the patient, it might help unlock deeper discoveries about repairing damage to the brain and spine, Pelaez said, as well as addressing hearing loss. To succeed, researchers must successfully remove and preserve eyes from donors and then successfully connect and repair the optical nerve, which takes information from the eye and tells the brain what the eye sees. A team at New York University performed a full eye transplant on a human patient in November 2023, though the procedure — while a “remarkable achievement,” Pelaez said — did not restore the patient’s vision. It was also part of a partial face transplant; other approaches pursued via the ARPA-H funding will involve eye-specific transplants. Washington, the lead CU researcher, said she and her colleagues have already completed the eye transplant procedure — albeit without vision restoration — in rats. The CU team will next work on large animals to advance “optic nerve regenerative strategies,” the school said, as well as to study immunosuppression, which is critical to ensuring that patients’ immune systems don’t reject a donated organ. The goal is to eventually advance to human trials. Pelaez and his colleagues have completed their eye-removal procedure in cadavers, he said, and they’ve also studied regeneration in several animals that are capable of regenerating parts of their eyes, like salamanders or zebra fish. His team’s funding will focus in part on a life-support machine for the eye to keep it healthy and viable during the removal process. InGel Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based Harvard spinoff and the lead of a third team, will pursue research on 3-D printed technology and “micro-tunneled scaffolds” that carry certain types of stem cells as part of a focus on optical nerve regeneration and repair, ARPA-H said. ARPH-A, created two years ago, will oversee the teams’ work. Researchers at 52 institutions nationwide will also contribute to the teams. The CU-led group will include researchers from the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, as well as from the National Eye Institute . The teams will simultaneously compete and collaborate: Pelaez said his team has communicated with researchers at CU and at Stanford, another award recipient, about their eye-removal research. The total funding available for the teams is $125 million, ARPA-H officials said Monday, and it will be distributed in phases, in part dependent on teams’ success. U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat who represents Denver in Congress, acknowledged the recent election results at the press conference Monday and pledged to continue fighting to preserve ARPA-H’s funding under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. The effort to cure blindness, Washington joked, was “biblical” in its enormity — a reference to the Bible story in which Jesus cures a blind man. She and others also likened it to a moonshot, meaning the effort to successfully put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon nearly 50 years ago. If curing blindness is similar to landing on the moon, then the space shuttle has already left the launchpad, Washington said. “We have launched,” she said, “and we are on our trajectory.”

Yogi: Youth can use tech to serve nation & societyAfter a far-right pro-Russia candidate secured a surprise lead in Romania's presidential election Monday, the eastern European NATO member is bracing for a high-stakes parliamentary vote on Sunday, amid fears it could bring about a strategic shift in the country. Calin Georgescu was in pole position with almost 23 percent after the first round of voting, a political earthquake in the country of 19 million people that has so far resisted nationalist appeals that have gained traction in Hungary and Slovakia. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.

Researchers launch “moonshot” to cure blindness through eye transplants