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Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way — a phenomenon known as “ ” that poses a threat to people and property. That’s what searchers in Westmoreland County, just southeast of Pittsburgh, fear led to the disappearance of . Pollard and a young granddaughter were looking for a lost cat when she went missing Monday evening. At about the same time, appeared roughly 20 feet (6 meters) from where she had parked her car, in an area above an old coal mine. The granddaughter was found safe inside the car hours later, while the difficult and potentially dangerous search for Pollard continues. Mine subsidence has caused billions of dollars in damage in areas of the U.S. where mining once took place. In Pennsylvania alone, coal was mined in nearly half of the state’s 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind hazards that officials say can arise at any time. The Marguerite Mine that authorities believe resulted in the sinkhole was last operated in 1952 by the H.C. Frick Coke Co., according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The coal seam in the area is about 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the surface. The state Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene when the search concludes to see if the sinkhole was indeed caused by mine subsidence, spokesperson Neil Shader said. There are as many as 500,000 abandoned mines in the U.S. — far outnumbering those that are still active, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. In many cases their owners simply walked away from coal or precious metals mines when they became uneconomical to operate and declared bankruptcy, leaving behind safety hazards and costly that public agencies must handle. Old mines , with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines. Mine shafts can extend hundreds of feet beneath the surface and often are unmarked. State and federal agencies have sealed off many old mines. But more are discovered every year and officials have yet to conduct basic risk analyses on most of the abandoned mines on federal land. Besides the safety hazards, millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flows daily from contaminated mine sites without being treated.

Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll Sunday, and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC and across college football in general. Oregon is No. 1 for the sixth straight week and Ohio State, Texas and Penn State held their places behind the Ducks, who are the last unbeaten team. The shuffling begins at No. 5, where Notre Dame returned for the first time since Week 2 after beating Army for its ninth straight win. No. 6 Georgia and No. 7 Tennessee each moved up two spots, No. 8 Miami got a three-rung promotion and No. 9 SMU jumped four places for its first top-10 ranking since 1985. SMU clinched a spot in the ACC title game and would play Miami, if the Hurricanes win at Syracuse this week, or No. 12 Clemson. Indiana dropped from No. 5 to No. 10 following its first loss, 38-15 loss at Ohio State. The Buckeyes would play Oregon in the Big Ten championship game if they beat Michigan for the first time in four years this Saturday. The SEC’s hopes for landing four spots in the College Football Playoff took a hit with two of their teams losing as double-digit favorites. Texas, Georgia and Tennessee are the only SEC teams with fewer than three losses after Alabama lost 24-3 at Oklahoma and Mississippi lost 24-17 at Florida. Alabama and Mississippi each dropped six spots in the AP poll, the Crimson Tide to No. 13 and the Rebels to No. 15. Texas A&M was the third SEC team to lose, 43-41 at Auburn in four overtimes. The Aggies tumbled five places to No. 20 but would play Georgia in the SEC championship game if they knock off Texas this week. Losses by BYU and Colorado created a four-way tie for first in the Big 12. No. 14 Arizona State, picked to finish last in the conference, handed BYU its second straight loss and is the highest-ranked Big 12 team. No. 17 Iowa State earned a five-rung promotion with its win at Utah. BYU is No. 19, and Colorado, which lost to Kansas, is No. 23. If the four teams each finish 7-2 in conference play, it’s Iowa State vs. Arizona State in the Big 12 championship game. No. 11 Boise State is first among the four ranked Group of Five teams. The Broncos got a one-spot bump despite struggling to beat a two-win Wyoming team. Tulane is No. 18, UNLV is No. 21 and Army is No. 25. Oregon, which was idle, was the consensus No. 1 team for the fourth straight week. The Ducks will be unbeaten in the regular season for the first time since 2010 if they beat Washington at home Saturday. Boise State’s ranking is its highest since it was No. 8 in the final poll of the 2011 season. Arizona State’s ranking is its highest since it was No. 12 in the final poll of the 2014 season. Indiana-Ohio State was the final top-five matchup of the regular season. The five were the most in a regular season since 1996. There also were five in 1936 and 1943. No. 24 Missouri, a 39-20 winner at Mississippi State, returned to the Top 25 after a one-week absence. Washington State’s four-week run in the rankings ended with its second straight loss, 41-38 loss at Oregon State.Symbotic ( NASDAQ:SYM – Free Report ) had its price objective decreased by Needham & Company LLC from $46.00 to $35.00 in a research report released on Wednesday, Benzinga reports. Needham & Company LLC currently has a buy rating on the stock. A number of other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports on SYM. Citigroup lowered their price objective on Symbotic from $62.00 to $49.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, July 30th. The Goldman Sachs Group dropped their price target on shares of Symbotic from $40.00 to $30.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, July 31st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on shares of Symbotic from $58.00 to $59.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 30th. TD Cowen increased their target price on Symbotic from $43.00 to $50.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Finally, DA Davidson cut Symbotic from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and reduced their price target for the company from $50.00 to $35.00 in a research report on Wednesday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $42.69. Get Our Latest Stock Report on SYM Symbotic Stock Up 12.1 % Symbotic ( NASDAQ:SYM – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 18th. The company reported $0.05 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.05. Symbotic had a positive return on equity of 6.54% and a negative net margin of 0.32%. The business had revenue of $576.77 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $470.24 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned ($0.08) earnings per share. Symbotic’s revenue for the quarter was up 47.2% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Symbotic will post 0.2 earnings per share for the current year. Insider Activity at Symbotic In other news, insider Michael David Dunn sold 5,266 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $23.81, for a total value of $125,383.46. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 85,224 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,029,183.44. This represents a 5.82 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link . Also, Director Todd Krasnow sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.75, for a total value of $37,500.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 214,036 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,013,175. This represents a 0.93 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Insiders have sold 49,878 shares of company stock valued at $1,378,056 over the last three months. 38.30% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders. Institutional Trading of Symbotic Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of SYM. Castleview Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Symbotic by 50.0% in the 3rd quarter. Castleview Partners LLC now owns 1,500 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,000 after acquiring an additional 500 shares during the last quarter. Arcadia Investment Management Corp MI purchased a new position in Symbotic in the 3rd quarter worth $49,000. RiverPark Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Symbotic by 147.1% in the third quarter. RiverPark Advisors LLC now owns 2,034 shares of the company’s stock worth $50,000 after purchasing an additional 1,211 shares during the last quarter. RFP Financial Group LLC boosted its position in Symbotic by 22.4% during the second quarter. RFP Financial Group LLC now owns 1,692 shares of the company’s stock valued at $59,000 after buying an additional 310 shares during the period. Finally, Quest Partners LLC grew its stake in shares of Symbotic by 19,307.7% during the third quarter. Quest Partners LLC now owns 2,523 shares of the company’s stock valued at $62,000 after buying an additional 2,510 shares during the last quarter. Symbotic Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Symbotic Inc, an automation technology company, engages in developing technologies to improve operating efficiencies in modern warehouses. The company automates the processing of pallets and cases in large warehouses or distribution centers for retail companies. Its systems enhance operations at the front end of the supply chain. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Symbotic Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Symbotic and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .

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Rarely does a college basketball game provide such stark contrast between the sport's haves and have-nots as when Jackson State faces No. 9 Kentucky on Friday in Lexington, Ky. While Kentucky claims eight NCAA Tournament crowns and the most wins in college basketball history, Jackson State has never won an NCAA Tournament game and enters the matchup looking for its first win of the season. Impressive tradition and current record aside, Kentucky (4-0) returned no scholarship players from last season's team that was knocked off by Oakland in the NCAA Tournament. New coach Mark Pope and his essentially all-new Wildcats are off to a promising start. Through four games, Kentucky is averaging 94.3 points per game, and with 11.5 3-pointers made per game, the team is on pace to set a school record from long distance. The Wildcats boast six double-figure scorers with transfer guards Otega Oweh (from Oklahoma, 15.0 ppg) and Koby Brea (from Dayton, 14.5 ppg) leading the team. The Wildcats defeated Duke 77-72 on Nov. 12 but showed few signs of an emotional letdown in Tuesday's 97-68 win over a Lipscomb team picked to win the Atlantic Sun Conference in the preseason. Kentucky drained a dozen 3-pointers while outrebounding their visitors 43-28. Guard Jaxson Robinson, held to a single point by Duke, dropped 20 points to lead the Kentucky attack. Afterward, Pope praised his team's focus, saying, "The last game was over and it was kind of on to, ‘How do we get better?' That's the only thing we talk about." Lipscomb coach Lennie Acuff also delivered a ringing endorsement, calling Kentucky "the best offensive Power Four team we've played in my six years at Lipscomb." Jackson State (0-5) and third-year coach Mo Williams are looking for something positive to build upon. Not only are the Tigers winless, but they have lost each game by nine or more points. Sophomore guard Jayme Mitchell Jr. (13.8 ppg) is the leading scorer, but the team shoots just 35.8 percent while allowing opponents to shoot 52.3 percent. The Tigers played on Wednesday at Western Kentucky, where they lost 79-62. Reserve Tamarion Hoover had a breakout game with 18 points to lead Jackson State, but the host Hilltoppers canned 14 3-point shots and outrebounded the Tigers 42-35 to grab the win. Earlier, Williams, who played against Kentucky while a student at Alabama, admitted the difficulties of a challenging nonconference schedule for his team. "Our goal is not to win 13 nonconference games," Williams said. "We're already at a disadvantage in that regard. We use these games to get us ready for conference play and for March Madness." Jackson State has not made the NCAA Tournament since 2007. The Tigers had a perfect regular-season record (11-0) in the Southwestern Athletic Conference in 2020-21 but lost in the league tournament. Kentucky has never played Jackson State before, but the game is being billed as part of a Unity Series of matchups in which Kentucky hosts members of the SWAC to raise awareness of Historical Black Colleges and Universities and provide funds for those schools. Past Unity Series opponents have been Southern in December 2021 and Florida A&M in December 2022. --Field Level MediaEvery half hour and hour, a home in Colorado Springs comes to life. Gongs and chimes ring out, melodies from once upon a time. Dozens of old clocks sing their old songs — wooden grandfathers standing tall, German cuckoos hanging on walls. Those little birds spring through little doors. Dancers twirl among other fantastical characters alive in their ornate, fantastical boxes. “I find it very therapeutic,” Todd Nipp says. “Very calming.” This is Nipp’s home, though it appears to be a hobbit’s home. The fireplace crackles with the ticking and tocking of his 60-plus clocks, some of them more than 100 years old. Other antiques are around, wooden furniture and rare books between festive, fall decor. Yes, you might expect to find a hobbit here — or a man practicing an art of the Old World. That’s Nipp, whose office is down the hall lined with black-and-white photographs. Drawers keep various springs and gears, clips and screws, hooks and nails, ornamental hands for telling the hour and minute for some clock that has forgotten. One desk keeps Nipp’s tools under anchored magnifying glasses: micro screwdrivers, micro pliers, “micro everything,” Nipp says with a grin. “You can’t be shaky.” And then there’s his current project: a box-shaped clock back on its cast iron legs, returning to life. The customer called from Arizona, Nipp says. “He called me and said, ‘There’s no way I can get rid of this clock. It’s been in my mom’s family for two generations; she used to wind it as a child every Sunday morning. Can you restore it?’” That’s what Nipp does best. “Everybody either has one or remembers their grandparents having one, and it’s in the box in the attic,” he says. “They’ll bring me a box with an old cuckoo clock covered with 20 years of dust.” Nipp goes by the Clock Doctor on his Facebook page, where customers tend to find him. Or they find his Etsy page, where he lists for sale some of the antique clocks he collects and restores. Those are the ones he can bring himself to sell. It’s a struggle to let go of others — the common struggle of the horologist, the clock craftsman and student of time. There is something oddly intimate about these old clocks, about the painstaking, sure-handed, micro process behind their revival. Nipp looks at this current project now, this generational timekeeper that came to him in dusty, rusted pieces. “I’ll be sad to send it back,” he says. Nipp is somewhat new to this niche world; just this fall he received his certificate of horology from Denver’s Emily Griffith Technical College. It was the culmination of an education that started a few years ago with the repair of his grandparents’ cuckoo clock from the 1970s. Nipp is somewhat new, while one he admires, Mike Korn, descends from two generations of Denver horologists. Korn knows the odd intimacy well. “Sometimes you open the back of the clock and you stick your nose in there, and it has this aroma to it,” he says. “Sometimes you see a spider that died in its web.” You find other things. Not long ago, at his Keenesburg antique shop called A Step Back in Time, Ken Gfeller took a close look inside an old grandfather clock. “I got the light just right, and I was able to find where different clockmakers had written in pencil when they worked on it,” he says. “I think maybe 1844 was the oldest signature I could find. And then it went up through 1977, and then us.” Gfeller was Nipp’s instructor at Emily Griffith. Nipp thought the man was someone else — “big white beard, saggy droopy eyes. His voice is super smooth and calming,” Nipp says. “I was joking with my wife, Santa Claus is my instructor.” At 53, Nipp’s classmates appeared much older than him as well. There aren’t many more than a dozen at a time, Gfeller says, and indeed there aren’t many youngsters. “They didn’t seem to have the patience for this,” recalls Korn, the instructor before Gfeller. Students tended to be engineer types, he says, and “usually guys about ready to retire or retired.” That’s the demographic of the occasional, small workshops and gatherings Korn oversees as president of Denver’s chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. It counts about 10,000 members worldwide, according to its website, which also speaks to the vitality of the interest, however obscure: “Timekeepers began keeping everyone and everything on schedule, from farmers to pharmacists, from sailing ships to space shuttles. Today, almost nothing is coordinated without using a timepiece.” The website adds: “Horology offers an impressive record of engineering genius.” The record spans time and space, stretching as far back to the days our eyes first watched the sun and moon move across the sky. The National Institute of Standards and Technology traces the record to ancient Egypt. As early as 3500 B.C., massive obelisks were erected to cast shadows under the sun — early sundials. The national institute also credits the Egyptians for an early timekeeper “that didn’t depend on the observation of celestial bodies:” The pharaoh Amenhotep I was buried with a contraption that tracked time by the steady dripping of water. Ancient Greeks called such contraptions clepsydra, “water thieves.” Millenia gave way to other time-measuring concepts depending on controlled, repetitive phenomena; Galileo is credited as the first to conceive the pendulum. This was ahead of a Dutch scientist, Christiaan Huygens, developing a balance wheel and spring assembly around 1675 — a concept that prevails in some wristwatches still today. There were other advances along the way, most notably the “main spring” concept of Peter Henlein. The German inventor died long before cuckoo clocks rose out of the country’s Black Forest through the 1700s. William Clement claimed another key concept, “anchor and recoil.” His London home would go on to make famous the grandfather clock. Europeans continued to advance concepts toward timekeeping’s atomic and digital ages. And here we are now, deep in this age of timekeeping by phones, car dashboards and kitchen appliances — further and further from generations that cherished those ornate, hand-carved grandfather clocks and cuckoos on the wall. The clocks were necessary and artful before they were just artful. “The market right now is pretty much gone,” Gfeller says from his antique shop. “The current trend is smartwatches and all of that stuff.” Stuff from Walmart, Nipp says. “Designed to be thrown away.” The future of horology? “I kind of think it’s a bleak future,” Korn says. “Just because the ages of the people that are getting into it.” But every now and then someone on the younger side comes along. Someone like Nipp. He was someone who wanted his grandparents’ cuckoo clock repaired, someone who was told it would be cheaper to buy a similar antique rather than pay for the repair. “That’s not what nostalgia is about,” Nipp says. Nostalgia is about a certain time and place, a certain loved one, a certain chime. In Nipp’s home, the clocks chime and the birds cuckoo, and he is filled with the kind of comfort that nostalgia provides. And wonder. “I look at that clock, and I wonder how many homes that was in. Who looked at it? Who was excited about the time when they were looking at it, and who was maybe having a bad day and not excited about it when they were looking at it? There’s so much history and emotion in a clock.” Maybe the future of horology depends on that appreciation. Or maybe, simply, a memory. Nipp thinks back to a customer now. “I had one lady totally break down in my shop,” he says. “She started crying when her clock started cuckooing again, because she just remembered it as a child.”