Aberdeen win Scottish Cup: ‘I could retire today and be a happy man’
Aberdeen win Scottish Cup: ‘I could retire today and be a happy man’
Before Saturday, Shinnie had suffered defeat in four previous domestic cup finals – three against Celtic – across two spells with Aberdeen.
But the former Derby County man says leading the Pittodrie side to their first Scottish Cup success in 35 years makes “all that heartache well worth it”.
It looked like it would be another hard-luck story for Shinnie as Aberdeen went behind when Alfie Dorrington diverted into his own net in the first half.
But their change of system to a 5-3-2 shape severely restricted a Celtic side that had put at least five goals past them on three occasions this term.
Continuing to remain solid after the break, Aberdeen got their equaliser when goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel palmed Shayden Morris’ cross into his own goal.
Shinnie hailed manager Jimmy Thelin’s decision to change the team’s approach, as did penalty hero Dimitar Mitov, who saved two spot-kicks in the shootout.
“Everybody doubted we could do it,” Mitov told BBC Scotland. “But we knew with a good game plan, following instructions, working hard, we’d get a victory.
“We were outstanding. Sometimes, penalties go to luck. We rode our luck. We are cup champions, nobody cares how we did it.
“[Thelin] is the best manager I’ve ever worked with. On a day-to-day basis, how he manages us, how he trains us, the little details he puts in.
“He always said ‘when we win the final’. That mentality went into the boys, and we believed it. Everyone said ‘when’, not ‘if’. That was the turning point.”
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Millions of Aussies about to cop more wild weather
Millions of Aussies about to cop more wild weather
Australia is set for more wild weather this week – but of a different kind after torrential rain and flooding buffeted NSW.
The Bureau of Meteorology says that a cold front is due to sweep into south-eastern Australia, bringing rain, destructive winds and even snow.
With winter just a week away, meteorologist Jonathan How described it as the most powerful cold front of the year.
The cold front is moving in from the Southern Ocean and is expected to make its mark on southern Australia on Sunday and Monday.
The BOM says that residents in southern states can expect strong northerly winds and there is the risk of dust storms across the agricultural regions of South Australia and Victoria.
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On Sunday night, the cold front will reach Adelaide, bringing rain, strong winds and thunderstorms.
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The bureau has issued strong wind and gale warnings for large swathes of South Australia and Victoria for Sunday.
The BOM also warns that winds over 90km/h are expected in the NSW Snowy Mountains and alpine regions.
Conditions are expected to ease across south-eastern NSW on Sunday before northerly winds pick up again the following day.
On Monday, the cold front will push across the rest of south eastern Australia.
“We see these very strong winds coming up from the south, with widespread damaging winds expected to across much of south east South Australia, Victoria, and also New South Wales,” Mr How said.
Sydney is expected to be mostly sunny on Sunday, but rain is forecast to return next week.
Tuesday is expected to be cold, with sub-10 degree minimums expected in Adelaide and Melbourne, with possible snow in the alps.
Camera IconWarragamba Dam spill during a spill last year. NCA NewsWire. Credit: News Corp Australia
DAM SPILLS
Meanwhile, Sydney’s Warragamba Dam has spilled after a week of heavy rain.
WaterNSW said that Warragamba Dam – which services much of Sydney – reached 100 per cent capacity on Saturday afternoon.
It said that inflows into the dam were slowing as rain clears, however it was now at capacity.
“Residents are reminded to remain alert to warnings,” WaterNSW said in a statement.
“If you are downstream of the dam, stay away from fast flowing or deep water near waterways and floodplains.”
An outflow of 20 gigalitres is expected on Sunday.
78.7mm of rain has fallen across the Warragamba catchment over the last week, according to WaterNSW.
Several other smaller dams across greater Sydney are already spilling including Woronora, Nepean, Cataract, Avon and Tallowa.
Warragamba spilled three times last year, in April, May and June.
Camera IconThe clean up has begun in Taree. Scott Calvin/ NewsWire. Credit: News Corp Australia
CLEAN UP BEGINS
The NSW SES says the clean-up is beginning, while they are looking to resupply residents that have been cut off due to rising waters during record floods across the NSW Mid North Coast and Hunter regions.
NSW SES acting assistant commissioner Allison Flaxman said they estimate 10,000 properties have been impacted by the floods.
“As the river levels begin to subside, NSW SES members and our partner agencies are today commencing the task of assessing properties which have been flood affected,” she said.
The SES is warning residents to let damage assessments take place before anyone tries to return home.
“It’s important we need to evaluate the extent of property and infrastructure damage to ensure your property is safe to return to,” Ms Flaxman said.
At the same time she said the SES will continue to carry out re-supply operations of essential foods and medications to stranded residents.
“The NSW SES has carried out 200 resupply requests in the last two days,” she said.
“There are still many communities that remain isolated, with 50,000 people estimated to be impacted.”
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Ukrainian prisoners of war embrace loved ones after release
Ukrainian prisoners of war embrace loved ones after release
STORY: :: Crowds welcome home freed Ukrainian service personnel after a prisoner exchange with Russia
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As buses carrying released POWs arrived, people chanted ‘Welcome!’ and held portraits of their relatives missing or in captivity, hoping that someone will recognize their family member.
Saturday’s release took place a few hours after the Ukrainian capital was rocked by an overnight Russian bombardment using long-range drones and ballistic missiles, in which 15 people were injured.
The prisoner exchange was agreed at short-lived talks in Istanbul on May 16 between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, who had come together at the urging of Trump.
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A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts | *********** education
A new room for a doomed loom – and the battle to save Australia’s slowly dying crafts | *********** education
“Rachel, bad news,” the text message read. “They’re disconnecting the loom tomorrow.”
Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 Jacquard loom that had been a cornerstone of RMIT’s renowned weaving and textile design courses for 20 years.
Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the textile industry and a modern tool for weaving strands of yarn into intricate fabrics. Halton knew she couldn’t let it end up in landfill.
Jacquard looms use punchcards – an early form of code – to guide the lifting and lowering of threads. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian
“It was my day off and I got up, jumped out of bed and just went down there,” Halton says.
The loom was the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and one of only a handful in the world, bought for the university’s Brunswick campus in the early 2000s, soon after Halton started teaching there. It “elevated what you could do as an artist”, she says. Students enrolled just to have access to it. International artists visited especially to weave on it. It became integral to Halton’s creative practice.
When she arrived at campus that October morning, ready to “chain myself to that tree”, the only other person there was the man coming to decommission it.
“He disconnected it in front of me,” Halton says. “It felt like taking a family member off life support.”
Others felt the same. Word spread that the loom was headed for the skip and a ramshackle collective of weavers, teachers, students and alumni hashed out a plan to save it. They paid a sympathetic technician a case of beer to disassemble it safely, hired a trailer from a service station to transport it and squeezed the whole thing into a former student’s lounge room while they tried to find it a more permanent home.
One member of that collective, a textile artist, Daisy Watt, says the episode felt like “a perfect snapshot of the state of everything” about the way higher education treats fine arts and crafts: where valuable tools and increasingly rare skills are condemned by, as Halton says, “a decision at the end of a spreadsheet”, while community groups and guilds with scant resources do their best to salvage the remnants.
The warp and the weft
The loom’s clunky name belies its significance. Traditional Jacquard looms used punch cards – slips of cardboard with rows of holes, an early form of code – to guide the lifting and lowering of vertical (warp) threads, as fabric is assembled, thread by thread, across the horizontal (weft). This ARM AG CH-3507 loom could be operated by computer or by hand, enabling complete control of every thread, making the design possibilities endless.
Watt and technician Tony de Groot work together to restore the loom. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian
Watt has “a very special affinity” with the loom. It isn’t just the time she spent working on it at RMIT, or that it sat in her home for months after it was rescued. She’s also been using her coding skills – self-taught – to update its electronics. It’s as though technology is lapping back on itself, given that Jacquard punch cards inspired the basis of modern computing.
“We normally think of craft in isolation from technology but it’s just this gorgeous, messy thing,” Watt says. “A piece of effective craft technology based on making something beautiful.”
At the time the loom was bought, textile design at RMIT was taught as a stream within a diploma of arts – a course that “people would relocate their whole lives for”, according to a teacher, Lucy Adam.
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So much energy is spent on compliance that the actual core skills we’re teaching are collateral damage
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In 2008 RMIT replaced the diploma with a certificate four training package – part of a broader, contested, national reconstruction of vocational education. This dispensed with a traditional curriculum and focused instead on job-oriented “units of competency” determined by industry and subject to strict oversight.
Federal and state governments claimed the reforms were necessary to streamline qualifications and weed out subpar training providers. Teachers and trade unionists argued they would diminish education and result in systematic de-skilling, whittling down what the labour theorist Harry Braverman called “conscious and masterful labour” to the performance of “simple and ignorant tasks”.
The testimonies of textile design teachers at RMIT suggest that, despite their best efforts otherwise, this is exactly what occurred.
De Groot looks through instructional literature that was salvaged with the device. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian
The course became “extremely dry and lowest common denominator”, Adam says. Resources were throttled and student contact hours cut by more than half. Despite the drawcard of the loom, there was no longer time to properly teach students to use it. Halton incorporated it into students’ work where she could, doing the setup, pack-up and maintenance herself.
Adam, whose masters thesis interrogated the impact of the changes to vocational education, says that for trades that are simultaneously technical crafts and creative arts – textile design, ceramics, cookery, metalsmithing, woodworking and others – a checklist of competencies is “not really the point”.
“It’s a really old-school rote way of teaching, unless you’re an incredibly skilled teacher and can work around the blandness of it,” she says.
An artist and teacher, John Brooks, also rues the narrowness of the course structures. For example, one unit’s assessment requirements include describing the process of turning a computer on and off. “So much energy is spent on compliance that the actual core skills we’re teaching are collateral damage,” he says.
Adam once had a student who described the training package as akin to “filling out a visa application over and over again”. “That just made me really sad,” she says. “Where is the mastery? Where is that deep skill?”
The loom’s new home in Ballarat. Photograph: Stuart Walmsley/The Guardian
It’s a decline not restricted to Tafe. Ella*, a third-year fine arts student at the University of Tasmania, tells Guardian Australia that there are no classes there beyond first year in 3D mediums including ceramics, which is her focus, or furniture, sculpture or time-based media. There are no art history classes either.
“It’s really affecting how developed students’ knowledge is of the contemporary arts scene,” Ella says. Her lecturers try to adapt the courses as much as they can to “freshen it up”, she says – but students desperately need a better technical and theoretical foundation.
Prof Lisa Fletcher, from the University of Tasmania’s arts faculty, says the university understands the importance of the arts, strives to provide “a strong and sustainable offering” for students, and is keen to to hear feedback as the department prepares for a regular review of its fine arts degree.
Crafting the future
The loom is now in a loading dock in Ballarat, an incubator space for which the rescue collective pays peppercorn rent. The city has pledged to maintain and nurture rare and endangered crafts. Some have nearly been lost: leadlighting, for example, was an almost-extinct trade in Australia until a small group of artists revived it, lobbying hard for years to bring it back into the Tafe system and establishing a course at Melbourne Polytechnic. But it is an exception to the rule.
Watt and the other weavers hope the loom will eventually be accessible for people to work, teach and create on again. As Brooks says, the less these skills are practised, the fewer places there are to learn them, “the more chance we have of losing them”.
A spokesperson for RMIT says the university decommissioned the loom because it needed upgrading, and that it was obliged to give students access to “reliable, modern equipment” that would prepare them for their entrance to the workforce. Meanwhile, the space the loom inhabited is now occupied by a military-funded textiles project. The rooms require a security clearance to enter. At the end of last year, RMIT closed enrolments for its certificate four in textile design, after the state government ended subsidies for the course.
But there is a glimmer of hope. Adam didn’t give up. She proposed a new diploma, which has just been approved. And she’s not the only person at the university trying to maintain space for her craft, even as that space keeps shrinking. At the time of writing, the university was about to take delivery of a new piece of equipment: smaller, less sophisticated but still a $100,000 computer-controlled Jacquard loom.
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Trump rushes to announce largest Russia-Ukraine POW swap of the war – politico.eu
Trump rushes to announce largest Russia-Ukraine POW swap of the war – politico.eu
Trump rushes to announce largest Russia-Ukraine POW swap of the war politico.euRussia will reveal peace terms to Ukraine after prisoner exchange, Lavrov says The Kyiv IndependentRussia and Ukraine swap hundreds more prisoners hours after a massive attack on Kyiv AP NewsUkraine and Russia Begin Largest Exchange of Prisoners of War The New York TimesRussia and Ukraine swap 307 soldiers on second day of POW exchange Reuters
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi speaks out against regime after Palme d’Or win
Iranian director Jafar Panahi speaks out against regime after Palme d’Or win
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has previously been put in prison and banned from film-making in his home country, spoke out against the restrictions of the regime after winning the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Panahi picked up the prestigious Palme d’Or for It Was Just an Accident, described by BBC Culture as “a furious but funny revenge thriller that takes aim at oppressive regimes”.
He was cheered as he urged fellow Iranians to “set aside” differences and problems.
“What’s most important now is our country and the freedom of our country,” he said. “Let us join forces. No-one should dare tell us what kind of clothes we should wear, what we should do, or what we should not do.”
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Panahi received the award from Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett
Panahi’s last spell in prison, from which he was freed in 2023, was for protesting against the detention of two fellow film-makers who had been critical of the authorities.
His trip to Cannes was his first appearance at an international festival in 15 years, after being subject to a long travel ban.
It Was Just an Accident was shot in secret and based partly on Panahi’s own experiences in prison.
“Before going to jail and before getting to know the people that I met there – and hearing their stories, their backgrounds – the issues I dealt with in my films were totally different,” the director told the Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s really in this context (…) with this new commitment that I had felt in prison, that I had the idea, the inspiration for this story.”
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It Was Just an Accident “slowly but surely builds into a stark condemnation of abusive power”, The Hollywood Reporter said
The film tells the tale of five ordinary Iranians who are confronted with a man they believed tortured them in jail.
The characters were inspired by conversations he had with other prisoners and “stories that they told me about, the violence and the brutality of the Iranian government”, the director added.
Panahi spent seven months of a six-year sentence in jail before being released in February 2023.
He was previously sentenced to six years in 2010 for supporting anti-government protests and creating “propaganda against the system”. He was released on conditional bail after two months, and was banned from making movies or travelling abroad.
He has vowed to return to Tehran after the festival despite the risks of prosecution.
“As soon as I finish my work here I will go back to Iran,” he told reporters in Cannes. “And I will ask myself what’s my next film going to be.”
The Guardian’s review described It Was Just an Accident as Panahi’s “most emotionally explicit film yet: a film about state violence and revenge, about the pain of tyranny that co-exists with ostensible everyday normality”.
“It’s another very impressive serio-comic film from one of the most distinctive and courageous figures in world cinema,” the paper’s critic Peter Bradshaw wrote.
Variety said Panahi had transformed “from understated humanist to open critic of the Iranian regime, as revealed in his punchy new political thriller”.
Panahi was presented with the Palme d’Or by French actress Juliette Binoche, who is this year’s Cannes jury president, and *********** actress Cate Blanchett.
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Introducing the award, Binoche said cinema and art are “provocative” and mobilise “a force that transforms darkness into forgiveness, hope and new life”.
“That is why we have chosen for the Palme d’Or It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi.”
In her introduction, Blanchett said: “I applaud the festival’s understanding that cinema creates openings for wider social conversations to take place.”
The award ceremony went ahead as planned despite a five-hour power cut that local officials put down to suspected attacks on a substation and electricity pylon.
Panahi, 64, has now completed the rare feat of winning the top prizes from the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals – and could now be in line for recognition in Hollywood.
Four of the past five Palme d’Or winners have been nominated for the Oscar for best picture.
However, It Was Just an Accident is unlikely to be nominated for the Oscar for best international feature. Films must have a cinematic release in their country of origin to be eligible for that prize, and Panahi’s films are banned in Iran.
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Make Your Limveld Journey Easy With These Character Synergies in Elden Ring: Nightreign
Make Your Limveld Journey Easy With These Character Synergies in Elden Ring: Nightreign
Nightfarers are you ready to sieze Limveld in Elden Ring: Nightreign? You should be as the release is only a few days away, as it will be released on May 30, 2025. The journey will surely be tough, and your peers should be tougher to secure victories.
Elden Ring: Nightreign won’t really be like its predecessor as it’ll be a team-based game, and synergies are important here. Even before the release, fans are already discussing synergies they’d like to try. Some of them are interesting, and maybe it’ll give you a good insight beforehand.
These team compositions might give you a lot of victories in Elden Ring: Nightreign
There are bits and pieces of information regarding Nightfarers already on the internet. People are pre-planning their approach with each of them, depending on their primary roles and abilities in Elden Ring: Nightreign. These aren’t based on gameplay, but rather a speculation on what could work together.
One of the concept teams consists of Raider, Ironeye, and Duchess. By looking into their ability sets and strengths, people have some idea about what to do. If you want to speculate for yourself, you can check out the wiki to plan your approach.
Raider has strong abilities that are focused on damage, particularly. Players can use the character to deal a lot of damage, but he himself isn’t enough. Ironeye can assist Raider by marking the enemy. Marking lets Ironeye mark weaknesses of enemies, which others can benefit from.
After dealing heavy damage to the enemies, the Duchess comes to play. With the Restage ability, she can reapply all damage the enemy has received overall within the last few seconds. So if you deal a critical hit, Duchess can replicate the damage to make the enemy feel that pain twice.
Some players prefer the use of Wylder instead of Raider. Wylder can use the Onslaught Stake Ultimate ability, as it has a lot of explosive prowess. Repeat the similar process of using Ironeye to mark, and Duchess to repeat the damage dealt. Either way, the boss or enemy will bleed hard. That’s the point, right?
But again, if you want to launch hellfire on enemies and make it double. You can use Raider and Wlyder together, assisted by Duchess. Both Raider and Wlyders are heavy hitters, and combining their abilities can prove to be useful. If a lot of damage is dealt within mere moments, Duchess can be a power play during that fight.
Who are the best characters to pick in Elden Ring: Nightreign?
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Elden Ring: Nightreign hasn’t been released just yet, and all the synergies are just speculative. However, judging from what has been revealed so far, some suggestions can be made.
If you’re going for a damage-dealing playstyle, picking characters like Wylder and Raider seems the best theoretically. All their abilities are focused on hurting the enemy badly, which can help the team. Executor can be added to the list as well, as he’s damage-focused.
For players who prefer to be supportive, using characters like Recluse, Duchess, and Ironeye, as they are the best at their job. They might not be heavy hitters, but they are good catalysts. Using their skills at the right moment can even the odds during tense situations.
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Fire investigators suspect arson after blaze guts former Lubbock elementary school gym
Fire investigators suspect arson after blaze guts former Lubbock elementary school gym
Lubbock fire officials are investigating a Saturday morning blaze that gutted the old Wright Elementary school gym as a case of arson.
Lubbock Fire Rescue is asking for public tips or information after the fire that was reported just after 4 a.m. in the elementary gym located in the 1300 block of Adrian Street. Wright was one of three schools that closed after 2021 when it was consolidated into a new campus, according to previous reporting from the Avalanche-Journal.
LFR’s 911 dispatch center received a notification from an alarm company regarding a fire alarm activation in the building. Initially, a single-unit response was initiated. Upon arrival, crews reported smoke visible from the eaves of a medium-sized standalone gymnasium and immediately requested a full structure response, which includes three engines one truck and two battalion chiefs.
Crews forced entry into the gymnasium, where they encountered heavy smoke and fire conditions.
As they advanced, firefighters observed that the fire’s fuel appeared to be a liquid substance. They also reported hearing popping and explosion-like noises as the fire began spreading beneath and behind them. Due to these hazards and the delay in additional units to arrive, the crew held their position and paused further advancement until a water supply was established and additional manpower were on scene.
Once additional crews arrived, firefighters were able to advanced further into the structure and discovered that the fire involved several pallets of hand sanitizer and books stored inside the gym. With the use of foam, crews were able to extinguish the fire with no injuries.
Preliminary findings of the Lubbock Fire Rescue Fire Marshal’s Office have determined that the cause of the fire is criminal in nature, although officials didn’t immediately release additional information about what may have sparked the blaze. Anyone with any information regarding this incident can contact the Lubbock Fire Rescue Fire Marshal’s Office at 806-775-2635 or email *****@*****.tld
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Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over – Yahoo
Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over – Yahoo
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There’s a Secret to Defeating Every Mime in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
There’s a Secret to Defeating Every Mime in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
There’s no denying that the world of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 brings an impressive variety of challenges for players. The title’s roster of unique bosses requires good sense and strategy to defeat to get your hands on some incredible rewards.
One of the many bosses you can encounter in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 during your journey is the ultra-creepy Mime. These automatons can be found in almost every corner of the region you’ll explore.
If you’re finding it difficult to take down Mimes in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, don’t worry, as there’s a secret way through which you can wreak havoc upon them.
The secret trick to beat Mime bosses in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
One might find Mimes quite terrifying at first glance in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, especially when compared to enemies such as Petanks. However, they’re quite easy to take down once you learn our special technique.
When you go up against a Mime, one of the first things you’ll notice is that they build a wall before you get the chance to land a blow. This wall isn’t just for show, as it’s a significant defense mechanic that reduces the damage Mimes receive while it’s active on the field.
Brute-forcing your way into this simply won’t work out, as most of the attacks will barely chip away at their health. To defeat the Mime, you must switch your strategy and focus on filling its Break Meter, the yellow bar beneath its health, by using powerful attacks.
Beating a Mime boss in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is easy. (Image via TipSeerch)
Once the gauge is completely full, it’s time to utilize the skill ability that can break enemies. After you’ve done that, the Mine will be stunned temporarily, and its defense will be lowered for the battle. This is your golden opportunity to use the most powerful attacks and obliterate the Mime.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is breaking records
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has set new standards for the gaming industry. (Image via Kepler Interactive)
One look at Clair Obscur: Expedition 33‘s Steam Page will show that players simply can’t get enough of the title’s boss fights, characters, lore, and gameplay. The RPG has managed to reach an “Overwhelmingly Positive” score on the Valve platform, with 95% of the players leaving a positive review.
Players across social media platforms are busy congratulating the development team and have promised to purchase anything developed by Sandfall Interactive in the future. Seriously, this game puts everything done by the AAA industry in the last couple of years to shame.
As Clair: Obscur Expedition 33 is breaking records, players are starting to wonder if it will get any sort of DLC or expansion in the future. Luckily, the title’s head writer, Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, has addressed that query (via XDA) and stated that although there are no plans, the chances of a DLC are good.
Players also believe that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will benefit from a Nintendo Switch 2 port. We’re already seeing massive titles coming for the upcoming handheld, and a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will also be a welcome addition. Although nothing is concrete, Sandfall Interactive’s CEO, Guillaume Broche, is interested in making this port a reality in the future.
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Sunderland roar back into the Premier League big-time
Sunderland roar back into the Premier League big-time
Teenage substitute Tom Watson has scored a stoppage-time winner as Sunderland rallied to beat Sheffield United 2-1 in the Championship play-off final and earn promotion back to the Premier League.
The 19-year-old Watson struck from the edge of the penalty area five minutes into injury time after Kieffer Moore gave the ball away, and then slid on his knees with his jersey off in celebration at Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
Sunderland, a club with a distinguished history in English football, could celebrate returning to the top-flight for the first time in eight years.
For Watson, it was the ultimate farewell gift for his club as he’ll be joining Brighton next season.
But after ripping off his shirt and sliding toward the celebrating fans on his knees, he told Sky Sports after the game that his “celebration said it all”.
Sunderland defender Luke O’Nien, who needed oxygen treatment early and went off after hurting his right shoulder, later joined in the celebrations with his arm in a sling.
Sunderland join Leeds and Burnley in getting promoted from the second tier to the money-spinning EPL.
The play-off final is the most lucrative one-off match in world soccer, with Sunderland in line for an estimated revenue uplift of around Stg 200 million ($A417 million) in match-day, broadcast and commercial revenue.
“Honestly it’s incredible, I don’t think I can put it into words,” Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson said. “It’s not even sunk in what’s happening but I’m gonna enjoy every moment now.”
Striker Tyrese Campbell gave Sheffield United the lead and his side dominated the first half.
Spanish forward Eliezer Mayenda equalised in the 76th for Sunderland, three minutes after Sunderland coach Regis Le Bris sent on Watson.
It was a heartbreaking defeat for United, who were relegated from the Premier League last season after winning just three games and conceding 104 goals.
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Bitcoin To $120,000 Next? Here’s What Technical Analysis Says
Bitcoin To $120,000 Next? Here’s What Technical Analysis Says
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Prominent cryptocurrency analyst Kevin says Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) decisive move above $106,800 signals a fresh leg in its bull cycle, with eyes now on the $116,000–$128,000 range as the next key resistance.
What Happened: In his podcast update on May 21, Kevin highlighted that this breakout aligns perfectly with a long-standing technical roadmap he’s followed since late 2024.
He had flagged $106,800 as a critical level, noting it was the site of a previous double top that triggered last cycle’s major correction.
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Back in January, Kevin accurately forecasted a correction window between 114–174 days, which culminated with Bitcoin bottoming out near $74,000 on April 7.
That reversal was confirmed by a key MACD signal on the 3-day chart, which has historically supported the broader bull market.
“We literally bottomed on April 7, started heading higher on April 9,” Kevin said. “The MACD hit that exact support channel we’ve been watching the whole time.”
What’s Next: Looking ahead, Kevin sees $116,000–$128,000 as the next battleground for BTC. “There’s a cluster of resistance here,” he noted, but said the breakout will be confirmed only if Bitcoin closes multiple days above $106,800.
Kevin cautions against jumping blindly into altcoins.
Instead, he advises a methodical Bitcoin-first approach: start with a full BTC analysis. Once you’re confident in where Bitcoin is headed, only then zoom into altcoin-BTC pairings to see what’s showing relative strength.
Using this strategy, Kevin has spotlighted Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) as an outperformer, noting it’s “holding up better than most altcoins against Bitcoin.” In contrast, many others are still printing new lows on BTC pairs.
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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift spotted on date night in Florida as popstar unwinds after Blake Lively drama – Daily Mail
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift spotted on date night in Florida as popstar unwinds after Blake Lively drama – Daily Mail
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Western Australia’s Arise Racing at forefront of producing country’s best race car drivers
Western Australia’s Arise Racing at forefront of producing country’s best race car drivers
Western Australia is on the cutting edge of producing Australia’s next generation of elite race car drivers, and little-known Wanneroo-based team Arise Racing is at the forefront.
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Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the ‘great late’ Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address
Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the ‘great late’ Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address
President Donald Trump gave a politically-charged, rambling speech about DEI programs, golf and Al Capone while addressing the 2025 graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Trump’s Saturday morning address in West Point, New York, stretched on for over an hour. The speech was originally focused on West Point graduates and their accomplishments, but Trump soon turned toward other topics.
The commander in chief of the U.S. military used his keynote address to highlight his efforts to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the country. He claimed to have “liberated our troops from divisive and demeaning political trainings,” and said there will be “no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody.”
Trump reads from his autocue at West Point. He diverted from his prepared remarks on several occasions (AFP via Getty Images)
This follows his January executive order that sought to deny the existence of transgender, intersex and nonbinary people throughout government.
“The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place.”
West Point disbanded several clubs based on race, ethnicity and gender in the wake of Trump’s anti-DEI executive order earlier this year. These groups included the Asian-Pacific Forum Club, the National Society of ****** Engineers, the Native American Heritage Forum, the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers Club.
Trump, wearing a red cap featuring his political slogan “Make America Great Again,” went on to praise his administration’s crackdown on immigration. This comes just hours after a federal judge ordered the administration to return a Guatemalan man “wrongfully” deported to Mexico.
“Our country was invaded for the last four years, and they’ve allowed people to come into our country that shouldn’t be, they shouldn’t be here…We’re getting them out and bringing them back where they came from,” Trump said.
“Hopefully the courts will allow us to continue,” he added. “You know, we had the greatest election victory. This was November 5. We won the popular vote by millions of votes.”
Trump arrives to deliver his commencement speech at West Point. The president discussed his efforts to end DEI programs and his crackdown on immigration (AP)
Trump also brought up some of his favorite famous names, including retired professional golfer Gary Player.
“To be really successful, you’re always going to have to work hard,” Trump said. “An example is a great athlete, Gary Player, great golfer. He wasn’t as big as the other men that were playing against him. Great, big, strong guys. Gary was a smaller guy.
“He’s a friend of mine, he gets a little angry at people. He hits the ball just this far,” Trump continued. “He said, ‘I hit the ball further than them. Why am I small?’ But he worked very, very hard. He was always doing exercise. He was always he was well ahead of his time. He never stopped.”
Trump then pivoted to a discussion about real estate developer William Levitt, who is widely considered the inventor of the modern American suburb. Levitt died in 1994.
“He was great at what he did,” Trump said of Levitt. “You see him all over the country, still Levittowns. This was a long time ago, but he was a first of the really, really big home builders, and he became very rich, a very rich man, and then he decided to sell.
Trump shakes hands with West Point superintendent Steven W. Gilland (Getty Images)
“And he sold his company, and he had nothing to do. He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but it doesn’t – that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell ya. A lot of trophy wives.”
The president also spoke about his past legal challenges, claiming he was investigated more than the infamous mob boss Al Capone. Trump made this comparison several times on the campaign trail last year. Last spring, he also made history by becoming the first criminally convicted former president.
“I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone,” Trump told the West Point graduates. “Alphonse Capone was a monster. He was a very hardened criminal. I went through more investigations than Alphonse Capone, and now I’m talking to you as president. Can you believe this?”
Trump left the ceremony before noon and flew to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
It was almost five years since a previous address at West Point led to negative news coverage that Trump brought up repeatedly over the next few years. After finishing his address in June 2020, Trump visibly struggled to walk down a ramp from the stage, leading to questions over his physical fitness.
Trump reacted angrily, saying the ramp had no grip and that he was walking slowly because he didn’t want to slip.
Following the latest speech at West Point, the president exited the stage not by the ramp at the front but by walking to the side and down a short staircase.
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Massive power outage disrupts Cannes Film Festival – BBC
Massive power outage disrupts Cannes Film Festival – BBC
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Ben Stokes says Jacob Bethell comments were ‘twisted to suit agenda’
Ben Stokes says Jacob Bethell comments were ‘twisted to suit agenda’
While neither the question nor Stokes’ answer on Wednesday specifically mentioned the England squad or playing XI, the 33-year-old believes his comments about Somerset batter Rew, who was unused member of the squad for the Test against Zimbabwe, made it clear he was referring to Bethell’s place in the squad, rather than the XI.
Speaking after a three-day victory over Zimbabwe was completed, Stokes told Test Match Special: “I personally felt that it was a bit of a, not a vendetta, but I got asked a simple question about Bethell, said put two and two together he comes back into the squad, and then all of a sudden it turns into something that suits the agenda of the time.”
While Pope may have been most vulnerable to Bethell, opener Zak Crawley would have been another candidate to make way and also made a hundred at Trent Bridge. Bethell’s left-arm spin could have also potentially pressurised off-spinner Shoaib Bashir, who took nine wickets in the match.
On Thursday, after his innings, Crawley said he had not felt pressure on his place, then on Friday morning Pope said he had “learned to live with the noise”.
Pope also said he had not seen Stokes’ pre-match comments, but the captain said on Saturday he discussed them with Pope the night before the Test.
Stokes added: “He is a very important player in this team, not only with his runs at number three, because he has been exceptional since he has been given that opportunity, averaging over 40 now and he is my vice-captain.
“I value his input especially when we are out there in the middle. Not only are his runs great but his leadership has gone from strength to strength.”
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One dead in NYC sewage-boat explosion on Hudson River
One dead in NYC sewage-boat explosion on Hudson River
A man has died after an explosion on a boat carrying raw sewage that was docked on the Hudson River in New York, authorities said.
Two other workers on the city-owned Hunts Point were hurt and taken to the hospital after the blast around 10.30am local time on Saturday, New York City Fire Department Deputy Assistant Chief David Simms said at a news conference.
The boat takes raw sewage to be treated, Simms said.
The men on the boat were doing work involving a flame or sparks when the explosion happened, the US Coast Guard said on social media.
First responders answering a 911 call found a 59-year-old man unconscious in the river, and he was declared dead at the scene, New York police said.
The explosion happened near the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The blast spread raw sewage over the deck of the boat, and firefighters and other first responders had to be decontaminated, Simms said.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the explosion. The man’s name was not released.
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Private spacecraft circling moon snaps photo with strange optical illusion
Private spacecraft circling moon snaps photo with strange optical illusion
A Japanese commercial spacecraft has sent home another close-up image of the moon, its intended landing destination in a matter of days, but this picture can play tricks on the eyes.
Tokyo company ispace released a fresh photo from its lunar lander Resilience as it orbits the moon. The snapshot reveals the rugged landscape of the lunar south pole, a highly sought region by NASA and other spacefaring competitors because of its ice within permanently shadowed craters. That ice could be a valuable commodity for future space voyages if it can be converted into rocket fuel, oxygen, and drinking water.
But some viewers may not see the pictured craters denting the surface as they are.
“This image presents an optical illusion to some,” the company said in a post on X. “Although the image is filled with concave craters, from this orientation they may look like they are convex to the eye.”
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Loading the Resilience lander into a shipping container
Engineers for ispace load the Resilience lunar lander into a transport container before shipping it to Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: ispace
Make no mistake: Those are hollowed out dips, not bumps. The reason they may appear as the latter, though, is a relief inversion phenomenon — a common problem when interpreting spacecraft photography. Astronomers have even coined names for it, calling it the “crater illusion” or “crater-dome illusion.”
“Upon first glance, it is difficult to tell if ground is rising up, sinking down, or a mix of both,” according to the European Space Agency.
The crater-dome illusion, explained
The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that’s not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, the light source is almost horizontal to the surface. That makes it easy for the patterns of light and shade to fool our brains.
Where sunlight illuminates south-facing slopes and leaves northern slopes in shadow, for instance, many viewers experience the issue, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory. For that reason, astronomers often orient satellite images so that north is up.
Four months after Resilience’s mid-January launch, it reached the moon and has flown laps around it since in preparation for ispace’s second attempt at a lunar landing. The company’s first try two years ago failed when its spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed on the moon.
The new mission, dubbed Hakuto-R, is gearing up for a touchdown near the center of Mare Frigoris at 3:24 p.m. ET on June 5. (It will be June 6 in Japan.) Livestream coverage will begin about one hour earlier, at 2:15 p.m. ET, with English translation.
ispace’s moon landing plan
If the Hakuto-R mission aces the landing, it will spend two weeks running experiments on the lunar surface before powering down for the brutally cold lunar night. Credit: ispace infographic
Landing on the moon remains onerous — demonstrated by numerous flopped landings. Though Firefly Aerospace succeeded in landing in March, another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, didn’t fare as well, ending up on its side in a crater less than a week later.
The difficulty arises from the moon’s exosphere, which provides virtually no drag to slow a spacecraft down as it approaches the ground. What’s more, there are no GPS systems on the moon to help guide a craft to its landing spot. Engineers have to compensate for those challenges from 239,000 miles away.
Whether ispace is better positioned for success this time remains to be seen. For now, flight controllers are enjoying the spacecraft’s scenery. And for those who are having trouble appreciating the moon’s southern craters in the new image, ispace has a tip.
“Flip the image,” the company said, “or tilt your head to change your perspective!”
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Federal judge orders the Trump administration to return a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico to the U.S.
Federal judge orders the Trump administration to return a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico to the U.S.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico in spite of his fears of being harmed there.
The man, who is gay, was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge’s order at the time. But the U.S. put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead, a removal that U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy found likely “lacked any semblance of due process.”
Mexico has since returned him to Guatemala, where he is in hiding, according to court documents. An earlier court proceeding determined that the man, identified by the initials O.C.G., risked persecution or torture if returned to Guatemala, but he also feared returning to Mexico. He presented evidence of being ****** and held for ransom there while seeking asylum in the U.S.
Court documents stated the Guatemalan man said he was only told about his deportation to Mexico, essentially as it was happening and that he begged to speak to his attorney but was denied.
“No one has ever suggested that O.C.G. poses any sort of security threat,” Murphy wrote. “In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just ****** and kidnapped.”
O.C.G. entered the U.S. in March 2024, without prior authorization, according to court documents. The man said he had asked for asylum, was denied an interview and was deported shortly thereafter to Guatemala. In April 2024, O.C.G. decided to try again and crossed Mexico where, he said, he was ****** and held hostage until a family member paid ransom.
In May 2024, he arrived in the U.S. and was referred to an asylum officer after expressing fear of return to Guatemala. The officer determined he had had a credible fear of persecution or torture and initiated withholding-only proceedings. Two days later, he was sent to Mexico, court documents show.
A message seeking comment was left with the Department of Homeland Security.
Murphy’s order adds to a string of findings by federal courts against recent Trump administration deportations. Those have included other deportations to third countries and the erroneous deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran who had lived in Maryland for roughly 14 years working and raising a family.
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. from a notorious Salvadoran prison, rejecting the White House’s claim that it couldn’t retrieve him after mistakenly deporting him. Both the White House and the El Salvadoran president have said they are powerless to return him. The Trump administration has tried to invoke the state secrets privilege, arguing that releasing details in open court – or even to the judge in private – about returning Abrego Garcia to the United States would jeopardize national security.
In his Friday ruling, Murphy nodded to the dispute over the verb “facilitate” in that case and others, saying that returning O.C.G. to the U.S. is not that complicated.
“The Court notes that ‘facilitate’ in this context should carry less baggage than in several other notable cases,” he wrote. “O.C.G. is not held by any foreign government. Defendants have declined to make any argument that facilitating his return would be costly, burdensome, or otherwise impede the government’s objectives.”
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The Israeli embassy shooting was a stupid and horrific attack | Moustafa Bayoumi – The Guardian
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Tommy Watson: From outcast to eternal Sunderland hero
Tommy Watson: From outcast to eternal Sunderland hero
What is also remarkable is that in the first home game at the Stadium of Light last month after the move was announced, Watson was booed by some fans in light of his pending switch to the south coast.
Former ****** Cats striker Marco Gabbiadini described that response as “brainless”, but there is no doubt Watson has had the last laugh in a way nobody will ever forget.
In his 22nd and final game for the club and with only his third goal – the two others came against Stoke City in December – the teenager delivered in the grandest manner.
For head coach Regis Le Bris, the key thing was the squad had no issue with Watson still being involved in these crucial last few weeks.
“It was probably a tough decision for him, but it was clear in our mind and his mind that he was still a player of Sunderland,” said the Frenchman.
“The group, the squad accepted this decision as well, knowing that he is a good player and that he can help and we don’t know what can happen and he had his opportunity this afternoon.”
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Player Breaks NDA, Leaks 1.5 Hours of Unfiltered Battlefield 6 Gameplay Footage
Player Breaks NDA, Leaks 1.5 Hours of Unfiltered Battlefield 6 Gameplay Footage
In the wild world of video games, leaks are like birthday presents you weren’t supposed to open yet, but you tear through the wrapping anyway. That’s exactly what’s happening with Battlefield 6, the hotly anticipated next entry in EA and DICE’s beloved FPS franchise.
While the devs are teasing tidbits here and there, one playtester said, “Nah, let’s show it all.” The 90 glorious minutes of unapproved Battlefield 6 footage have hit the internet, briefly, before EA’s copyright hammer came down. But the internet never forgets, and the hype is now off the charts.
Battlefield 6 is in testing… but secrets are hard to keep
For the past few months, Battlefield 6 has been undergoing closed playtesting under EA’s hush-hush initiative known as Battlefield Labs. The goal? Gather feedback from handpicked players while keeping the game’s features and mechanics under wraps.
Participants are asked to sign NDAs that strictly prohibit them from sharing anything about the experience. But, as always, there are some who ignore the warning and leak things anyway. That’s exactly what happened recently (via TheGamePost): a tester uploaded 90 minutes of raw PS5 gameplay.
Unsurprisingly, the video quickly spread across forums and social media like wildfire, before EA caught wind and issued a takedown. The original upload (from a channel called Gambf) is now taken down, but not before the community dissected every frame.
Ever since the start of the closed testing, EA has been keeping a tight lid on all the information, but situations like this continue to slip through the cracks. While leaks like this are a headache for developers, they’re also a goldmine for fans hungry for more details.
Fans are hopeful that an open beta (possibly by the end of the year) will offer the full experience (full hands-on one). For now, this leak gave us our most revealing look yet at what’s brewing behind EA’s curtains.
Here’s what the leaked footage revealed
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Even though the leaked gameplay didn’t come from an official source, it revealed a lot. Battlefield 6 is looking like a serious step up from its predecessor. First off, the footage confirmed a return to the franchise’s roots, with classic destruction mechanics front and center.
Buildings and cover structures were torn apart piece by piece, or completely obliterated by heavy artillery, just like in the series’ golden days. The chaos? Beautiful. The destruction? Satisfyingly detailed.
Players got to see multiple matches played across a variety of maps and modes, including Domination. There were match introduction animations, distinct combat classes in action (like medics and engineers), and glimpses of large-scale vehicle combat alongside tight infantry skirmishes.
On top of that, the footage revealed some of the new movement mechanics, making combat feel faster and more dynamic. Players also got a look at various UI elements, loadout customization, and even in-game settings.
That said, it’s clear this is still a work-in-progress. While the game appeared more polished than previous leaks, some textures and models were still incomplete, and the menus looked a little rough around the edges.
Still, what’s shaping up underneath is exciting: a noticeable evolution from Battlefield 2042 and a real promise of something special. Whether we get a full reveal or open beta later this year, one thing is certain: the battlefield is about to get very loud.
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UNC-Chapel Hill announces site for first new dorm in almost 20 years
UNC-Chapel Hill announces site for first new dorm in almost 20 years
UNC-Chapel Hill plans to open a new residence hall in 2028, its first new dorm since 2006.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees announced the site for what it’s calling New Residence Hall 1 in a meeting on Wednesday.
It will be located between Stacy Residence Hall and Cobb Residence Hall on the north end of the campus, on the current site of Jackson Hall. In order to begin the project, the 83-year-old Jackson Hall, which houses the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, will be demolished.
The location of a planned UNC-Chapel Hill residence hall.
The new dorm is expected to house anywhere from 600 to 700 students and is anticipated to cost $93 million. The university plans to begin construction in 2026.
“It’s going to be in a terrific location right there in the heart of North Campus,” UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts said Thursday. “We’re excited about it.”
This project is just one of many housing improvements in the university’s “decade-long plan to expand and renew Carolina’s undergraduate and graduate student housing portfolio,” according to a statement to The News & Observer from UNC Media Relations.
Roberts also told reporters Thursday that the renovation in Avery Residence Hall, which has been ongoing since late 2024, is nearing completion.
Roberts said he wants more of UNC’s students to live in the dorms.
Twenty-nine percent of UNC students live in the residence halls, according to a report to the Board of Governors in January detailing the housing rate of each institution in the UNC System. However, roughly half of all undergraduate students live in UNC’s residence halls.
“But as everyone who goes to school here knows, some of our housing is pretty old,” Roberts told reporters. “Because housing is always aging out and requiring renovation, we also have an obligation to look at building new housing.”
The location of a planned UNC-Chapel Hill residence hall.
The university is still looking for a new location for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, according to its statement to The N&O.
“On behalf of students, thank you. I think it’s the beginning of a new plan to modernize our housing, and finally lets us catch up to our peer institutions,” said UNC Student Body President Aldolfo Alvarez, who also serves as a member on the Board of Trustees.
Enrollment increase, housing concerns
The announcement comes as UNC’s admissions rise. The latest class to enter the university had a record 73,192 applicants, and 5,624 of them were accepted and enrolled, contributing to the university’s 7.7% enrollment increase since 2020.
UNC has not yet released the number of new students enrolled for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Roberts wants the university to continue growing. He announced in a January Board of Trustees committee meeting that UNC would open 500 additional slots for students for admission in 2025.
The N&O reported that Roberts intends for the university’s undergraduate enrollment to increase by 5,000 students in the next decade.
With the increase in enrollment, some UNC students have expressed concerns about housing availability for students after their first year, the Daily Tar Heel reported.
Freshmen are required to live on campus, with some exceptions. Because students with a higher amount of credits receive second priority, sophomores often are least likely to get a housing assignment, the newspaper reported.
One student wrote a column in the Daily Tar Heel and likened the housing process at UNC to the game show “Survivor.”
Last June, the university asked some students to voluntarily opt out of their housing assignments for the upcoming year to make more rooms available for incoming freshmen, the Daily Tar Heel reported. If enough students did not volunteer to move to another residence hall, the newspaper reported, the university said it would use a lottery system to reassign housing.
Enough students volunteered, so the lottery system was not used.
Additional UNC building projects
UNC will also continue demolishing the remaining buildings in Odum Village, its long out-of-commission undergraduate, graduate and family housing built in the 1960s.
Demolition of Odum Village’s 47 buildings began in 2016 due to their inability to meet fire safety standards. Evan Yassky, UNC’s executive director of facilities planning and design, said that it was more cost effective to demolish the unusable dorms rather than renovate them, UNC Media Hub reported.
However, the project was not completed due to insufficient funding, Yassky said at Wednesday’s Board of Trustees meeting. More than 20 buildings remain.
Just three buildings in Odum Village are still used by the university, one of which is the Carolina Veterans Resource Center, according to UNC Media Hub. The university is “actively working to relocate” the center, UNC Media Relations said in a statement to The N&O.
The other two buildings are being used by UNC Police and contractors for the construction of Steven D. Bell Hall, which is set to finish by the end of this year, the university said.
Yassky hopes to demolish 20 more buildings “roughly by the end of 2025.”
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