The town of Superior is excited to announce its upcoming Kukur Dihar “Day of the Dog” festival!
Join us on Sunday, October 19, from noon to 2 p.m. at Autrey Dog Park for a fun-filled celebration honoring our beloved canine companions.
Don’t miss this special event—bring your furry friends and enjoy the festivities!
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**Key Takeaways**
– ETH hackers are facing significant losses after panic-selling over 7,800 ETH during a recent market dip, realizing $3.37 million in losses.
– Institutional investors’ confidence in Ethereum appears to be wavering, with ETH treasury firms struggling and ETF outflows steadily increasing.
– Despite these challenges, new developments hint at growing interest from Asia-based investors aiming to bolster Ethereum’s ecosystem.
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### Why Are ETH Hackers Facing Losses?
In a rare case of consistently poor timing in a notoriously volatile market, six hacker-linked wallets panic-sold 7,816 ETH worth approximately $29.1 million at around $3,728 per ETH amid the recent market dip. This move locked in a staggering $3.37 million in realized losses.
Data from Lookonchain reveals that these wallets have collectively lost over $13.4 million due to mistimed ETH trades, repeatedly selling low and subsequently buying back at higher prices. Unfortunately for these hackers, their attempts to capitalize on market movements have backfired spectacularly, leaving them unable to catch a break.
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### Institutional Investors Are Not Entirely Bullish
Ethereum’s biggest backers are showing signs of strain. Bitmine, one of the few treasury firms still actively accumulating ETH, has seen its stock price plunge nearly 30% in the past two weeks. Other ETH-heavy firms such as SharpLink and Bit Digital are also experiencing downward trends.
Meanwhile, ETF data highlights consistent outflows over the past week, signaling increasing bearish sentiment among institutional investors. Analyst TedPillows pointed out that treasury companies are running low on cash, and ETF redemptions are piling up, which could weigh heavily on ETH’s price unless these key players help fuel a strong rebound soon.
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### A New Wave of Asian Interest Emerges
In a potentially game-changing development, AMBCrypto previously reported that the focus may be shifting eastward. Huobi founder Li Lin is reportedly raising $1 billion for a new Asia-led Ethereum treasury firm.
This new venture, backed by major players such as HashKey, Fenbushi Capital, and Meitu, aims to focus on treasury management and Ethereum infrastructure. If successful, it would rank among the largest independent ETH-focused capital initiatives to date, potentially injecting fresh momentum into the market.
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### Ethereum Struggles to Find Its Footing
Ethereum’s recent price action suggests signs of exhaustion. At press time, ETH was trading near $3,878 after a week marked by lower highs. The candlestick pattern indicates weakening bullish momentum, with the 20-day EMA now acting as resistance around $4,136.
Trading volume has declined, and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is subdued at 41, reflecting limited buying interest among traders. Unless Ethereum can break firmly above the $4,000 level, this move looks more like a temporary pause within a larger downtrend.
For now, the market appears to be waiting for a clearer signal before committing to a decisive direction.
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**Conclusion**
While ETH faces significant headwinds—from hacker losses to institutional uncertainty—the emergence of new investment initiatives, particularly from Asia, could provide a critical boost. Traders and investors alike will be closely watching key resistance levels and market signals in the coming weeks to gauge Ethereum’s next move.
https://eng.ambcrypto.com/ethereum-hackers-lose-13-4m-bitmine-plunges-30-is-eth-in-trouble
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With the No. 17 Vanderbilt football team set to take on the No. 10 LSU Tigers, this game presents a crucial opportunity for the Commodores to prove they are a legitimate force on the national stage.
The senior quarterback has been impressive to start the season, throwing for 1,409 yards along with 14 touchdowns and four interceptions. He has also contributed significantly on the ground, rushing for 352 yards and two scores.
Speaking on “The Pat McAfee Show,” he described the team as a “bunch of misfits” who “don’t care what anyone thinks,” emphasizing how they block out the outside noise. “I hate losing, but a lot of guys here, you know, [wide receiver] Richie Hoskins, right here, he’s come from a D3 school and came up,” he said.
Regarding the team’s perception in the media, he added, “What the outside noise had to say, whatever. I was off the internet, but you guys told me, I guess we are favored for the first time, or whatever. So obviously, you know, I guess we’re making improvements there. I think Vegas just didn’t like losing so much money.”
One key factor fueling the Commodores’ success has been the growing belief within the team. He noted the biggest change as being that “everyone here wants to win.” Despite some stereotypes, he emphasized, “People think of us as, like, a smart school, a privileged school, kind of thing like that. But we’re real gritty here. You talk to our coaches, they want to win, you know, more than anyone.”
Currently sitting at 5-1, the Commodores are eager to add another win to their record against the Tigers. With tougher opponents like Missouri and Texas coming up on the schedule, Vanderbilt knows the challenge only intensifies from here.
https://clutchpoints.com/ncaa-football/vanderbilt-football-news-diego-pavia-gets-100-real-on-blocking-out-outside-noise
Several times a week, you can find Christophe Waggoner digging through piles of clothes at a thrift store in central Texas. Unlike some of the other shoppers, though, he’s looking for items that can be made into Halloween costumes.
“I’m trying to see if anything catches my attention,” Waggoner says. “It’s usually either shiny, furry, or sparkly.”
His vision is to create costumes out of thrifted treasures and donate them to those in need.
“I want everybody, all the kids, their parents, whatever, to feel like they’re getting the same thing that somebody went out and bought,” Waggoner explains.
At his home in Austin, he washes, glues, and sews the costumes he finds, redesigning the garments into something new. He then hosts events in the fall where kids can pick out their Halloween costumes for free.
While he’s been doing this for nine years, Waggoner says this year has been the busiest yet.
Consumers are spending an average of $37.62 on a single Halloween costume this year, an 11% increase from 2024, according to the National Retail Federation. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, costumes were almost $7 less than they are now. Tariffs on Chinese imports also contribute to higher prices.
When families are forced to cut costs, it’s easy to eliminate a single-use item like a costume. But this also comes at the expense of childhood memories.
That’s where Waggoner steps in, giving children and parents the ability to celebrate Halloween no matter their financial situation.
Despite the impact it has on his own finances, he still works full-time at 62 years old and spends more than $5,000 annually on storage for the costumes. Yet, he says the payoff is worth it.
“The goal is to make people better than they were before the event,” he says. “If there’s somebody there to help you, then you’re more than likely to turn around and help somebody else.”
That’s exactly what happens when families return or donate their old costumes to his cause.
And to anyone who might say it’s “just a Halloween costume,” Waggoner has a simple sentiment:
“Everybody should deserve a chance to be a kid.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/halloween-costume-prices-rising-how-one-man-is-making-and-donating-them-to-help-families/
**The Twits (Now on Netflix) Review: A Gross-Out Animated Misfire**
*The Twits* opens with a deceptively halcyonic Disney-like vibe—swelling strings and choir fill the air—before it abruptly KABOOFs out of existence, as if all goodness is repelled by rancid flatulence. From that moment on, the film replaces niceties with bugs, toilets, and eyeball soup, plunging viewers into relentless blecch.
This animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1980 children’s book expands the story into a feature-length film by inserting sad orphan characters and, if you’re feeling particularly pilled, a half-hearted political allegory. Paul Johnston, known for writing *Zootopia* and the *Wreck-It Ralph* movies, co-directs this first Dahl adaptation since Netflix acquired the IP. The result? Enough poop and fart jokes to fill three movies. For better or worse. Mostly worse.
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### THE TWITS: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
**The Gist:**
Roald Dahl, known for his sharp tongue, thought beards were gross—so he wrote *The Twits*. (Fair warning: he also held some problematic views, including antisemitism, so reason wasn’t always his strong suit.) The film begins inside a disgusting man’s beard, where a mama flea (Emilia Clarke) narrates a putrescent bedtime story about the Twits, a truly horrible married couple living in the town of Triperot.
The beard they inhabit belongs to Mr. Twit (Johnny Vegas), who shows affection to Mrs. Twit (Margo Martindale) by playing nasty pranks on her, to which she retaliates. Their unifying dream is a capitalist one: opening *Twitlandia*, a theme park designed to give paying customers staph infections, lice, tetanus, or hepatitis A. Imagine rides made of outhouses; a bouncy pit filled with insect-ridden mattresses; an enclosed slide resembling a winding colon. Still, it might be preferable to Six Flags.
At this point, mama flea announces it’s time for a song, revealing *The Twits* as an “animated musical comedy.” The kid protests, “It’s only one song, settle down!”—which is a lie. There are three songs, none memorable or complete, written by David Byrne, as revealed in the end credits. The Twits sing:
*“We’re the only ones out here who are freeeeee!”*
Later, a turquoise fantasy creature called a Muggle-Wump, voiced by Natalie Portman, sings too. No, you weren’t hallucinating.
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Elsewhere in Triperot, in a home for orphans, live 12-year-old Beesha (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and her younger friend Bubsy (Ryan Lopez). They exist so we have someone to root for. The kids are sad because no one wants to adopt them—especially after the city condemns Twitlandia. In retaliation, the Twits steal a tanker truck filled with “liquid hot dog meat” and flood the city’s water supply, leading a family to reject Bubsy’s adoption, branding him “contaminated.” Life is pain.
Determined, Bubsy and Beesha sneak around the Twits’ compound, which is filled with dead fish, grotesque taxidermy, and stolen bowling pins. In the barn, they find the Muggle-Wumps—definitely not to be confused with the Mugwumps from *Naked Lunch*. The Muggle-Wumps, much cuter than everything else, are imprisoned by the Twits, whose tears fuel Twitlandia’s rides, an energy source that feels neither ethical nor friendly to sentient creatures.
As the children seek to free the Muggle-Wumps, the Twits decide to run for mayor to lift the condemnation of their junkyard carnival. This plot twist leads to a debate with incumbent Wayne John John-John (Jason Mantzoukas), who literally balloons and explodes onstage after eating tainted liquid-hot-dog-meat cake. So, the political allegory is perhaps less half-baked than expected.
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### What Movies Will It Remind You Of?
*The Twits* feels like a nausea-inducing blend of *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*’ manic hallucination and a child-friendly bleakness reminiscent of *Memoir of a Snail*. It pales in comparison to Netflix’s more appealingly offbeat animated films like *The Willoughbys* and *The Mitchells vs. the Machines*.
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### Performances Worth Hearing
Margo Martindale’s involvement is always a boon, yet even her talents can’t fully rescue this uneven film.
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### Memorable Dialogue
**Mr. Twit:** “I’m playing wit me diarrhea!”
**Mrs. Twit:** “You think squishing your face around in diarrhea is somehow gonna bring them Muggle-Wumps back?”
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### Sex and Skin
None.
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### Our Take
I’m no prude—a good fart joke can go a long way. But what about an endless barrage of them? Alongside jokes featuring hairballs, boogers, chiggers, diarrhea, phlegm, worms, and toad toe-licking? Has the movie missed anything? Only those obsessed with toe jam and clumping cat litter might complain.
*The Twits* is already pretty gross, possibly grosser than “gross.” Imagine opening an oven only to be greeted by a rump roast farting with about one-seventeenth the frequency of the film’s flatulence and poop jokes. Surely this grossness is intentional and partly in line with Dahl’s wicked spirit—though comparative nostalgia is best left to those familiar with the book (which, for me, stopped at *James and the Giant Peach*).
The orphan characters feel like a manipulative addition, designed to balance the film’s relentless visual and verbal ickiness and shrill, tinny tone. But they don’t tame the movie’s unapologetic obnoxiousness.
Visually, the film embraces a purposely ugly, rough-around-the-edges look, with 3-D animation that sometimes appears chintzy. Perhaps this is meant as an active resistance against the clean, glossy aesthetic common in kids’ animation. Still, it often feels like the film tries too hard to be “anti-” and fails to establish a coherent core aesthetic or theme.
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### Where the Film Falls Short
The screenplay by Paul Johnston and Meg Favreau feels thrown together rather than thoughtfully crafted. The musical numbers, ramshackle plot, generic characters, and political subtext (which you’re free to ignore) all feel disjointed. The rickety framing device and the late introduction of new characters stretch the pacing thin.
Attempts to temper pessimism with obvious moral lessons about empathy, love, and truthfulness come across as treacly and on-the-nose, dropped in as an afterthought. The film finally shifts to a pro-message stance at the very end—too late when the audience is practically swimming in diarrhea jokes.
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### Our Call: Skip It
Apologies for the imagery, but it’s in the spirit of the movie: *The Twits* might just give you the trots. This animated adaptation is a messy, rude, and relentlessly gross ride that struggles to offer coherence or charm. For a film aiming to entertain children—and nostalgia-tinged adults alike—it misses the mark.
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*John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.*
https://decider.com/2025/10/18/roald-dahl-the-twits-netflix-movie-review/
A cyber-squatter has been occupying the domain slipknot.com for 24 years. During this time, they have been using the URL to advertise counterfeit merchandise associated with the metal band Slipknot.
Now, Slipknot has taken legal action and is suing to reclaim the domain name. This move aims to protect the band’s brand and prevent the sale of unauthorized products.
https://www.stereogum.com/2326947/slipknot-sue-slipknot-com-domain-squatter-after-24-years/news/
The shutdown became one of the three longest in U.S. history on Friday, with lawmakers indicating they believe it will drag on. There are few signs emerging of progress toward reopening the government.
That isn’t stopping questions about what could force lawmakers toward the negotiating table to figure out a resolution, especially with a number of…
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5561093-shutdown-end-dates-to-watch/
To learn how our Universe grew up, we have to look at large numbers of galaxies at all distances. This helps us understand the processes that shaped the cosmos over time.
Good thing we have the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to aid in this exploration!
Continue reading on *Starts With A Bang!* »
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/starts-with-a-bang-podcast-122-galaxy-evolution-and-jwst-5dbd00aa0540?source=rss—-458a773bccd2—4
CHICAGO (WLS) – Two people died and three others were injured in a crash on Chicago’s South Side Friday night, officials confirmed.
The Chicago Police Department reported that the collision occurred around 9:30 p.m. near West 75th Street and South Vincennes Avenue in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
According to police, a 37-year-old woman was driving a grey Buick sedan westbound when she attempted to turn southbound but failed to yield at the intersection. The Buick then struck a black Dodge vehicle that was traveling eastbound. The crash also involved an unoccupied, parked grey Mercedes sedan, which was hit as a result of the impact.
Video footage from the scene showed extensive damage with debris scattered across the area. Witnesses reported that at least two people were ejected from vehicles during the crash.
Two occupants of the Dodge were transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified them as 20-year-old Matthew Cuadra and 18-year-old April M. Valencia, both from Lansing.
The Dodge’s driver, a 26-year-old man, along with two passengers—a 15-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman—were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver of the Buick was cited by police for failure to yield while making a left turn.
The Chicago Police Department’s Major Accidents Unit is currently investigating the crash. Further information has not been released.
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https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-investigating-serious-car-crash-west-75th-street-south-vincennes-avenue-greater-grand-crossing/18031634/
