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Bulgaria Faces 3 Billion Leva Shortfall in 2024 Budget Due to Unspent Recovery Funds
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Finance has decided to abandon the proposed tax on subsoil resources
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance has projected a significant increase in the state debt over the period from 2025 to 2028, estimating a rise of about 1.7 times. According to the Draft Strategy for State Debt Management for this period, the ratio of state debt to GDP is expected to grow steadily, reaching 27.7% by the end of 2025, 29.3% by the end of 2026, 31.0% in 2027, and 32.8% by 2028.
The government plans to assume new debt to the tune of 16.9 billion BGN in 2025, 9.4 billion BGN in 2026, 10.4 billion BGN in 2027, and 10.9 billion BGN in 2028. This will cover both the refinancing of outstanding debt, which is estimated at 3.7 billion BGN in 2025, and the financing of the state budget deficits. The Ministry of Finance also noted that the new debt will help ensure sufficient liquidity for the fiscal reserve.
In absolute terms, the state's debt is forecasted to reach a maximum of 59.8 billion BGN by the end of 2025, with projections for 2026, 2027, and 2028 at 66.6 billion BGN, 73.7 billion BGN, and 81.1 billion BGN, respectively. This increase will contribute to a rising debt-to-GDP ratio through 2028.
Despite this increase, the Ministry of Finance emphasized that the main goal of debt management remains to ensure funds for refinancing current debt, financing the budget deficit, and maintaining the liquidity of the fiscal reserve. These objectives align with the goals outlined in the draft State Budget and Regional Development Act for 2025, as well as the updated Strategic Budget Plan for 2025-2028.
Source: econ.bg
Several institutions in Bulgaria are preparing to switch the fees they charge businesses and citizens to euros, as part of the country's upcoming transition to the eurozone
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Finance has decided to abandon the proposed tax on subsoil resources
The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has expressed strong opposition to the draft state budget for 2025, which is set to be officially submitted to the National Assembly by the caretaker government
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance has unveiled the draft budget for 2025, alongside the updated medium-term fiscal forecast covering 2025 to 2028
Thousands of Bulgarian consumers who invested in the British company BETL have reported that the company has stopped paying daily dividends and appears to have ceased its operations.
In recent weeks, there has been ongoing concern regarding the state's expenses for next year, with projections showing that costs far exceed available funds
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Rahul's Escape Velocity:10 Funny Tweets
Rahul Gandhi aka internet's Pappu adds another gem in his verbal gaffe series of 2013. This time he said that India's Dalits need Jupiter's escape velocity to attain success.
1. There is No Tweet Here, Just the Original Speech. Do See. It is Mind Boggling
Rahul Gandhi aka internet's Pappu adds another gem in his verbal gaffe series of 2013. This time he said that India's Dalits need Jupiter's escape velocity to attain success.
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2. One Small (Mis)Step for Man, Giant Leap for Dalit Kind
Example of a Dalit who was given Jupiter's escape velocity by Rahul Gandhi (see pic) pic.twitter.com/IMTSiY7Szp
— The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) October 8, 2013
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3. Jab Sabu Ko Gussa Aata Hai...
If Sabu is a Modi supporter, volcanoes are erupting on Jupiter right now.
— Faking News (@fakingnews) October 8, 2013
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4. It's All About the Timing, Honey
Btw The 2013 Nobel prize in Physics is about to be announced. #Escapevelocity. Hmm was he bidding for that?
— Shikha S (@shikha_shrivas) October 8, 2013
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5. An Education
Talking about Dalits using terms of Physics.It's like Sunny Leone giving a lecture on governing economics. #Pappu
— Siddharth Sharma (@siddharth426) October 8, 2013
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6. Giving Credit Where Its Due
Meanwhile, P Chidambaram has already credited Rajiv Gandhi for calculating Jupiter's escape velocity.
— Gappistan Radio (@GappistanRadio) October 8, 2013
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7. Bas, Ab Aur Saha Nahin Jaata
JUST IN : Stephen Hawking has filed a petition for Voluntary euthanasia after hearing Rahul Gandhi speak about #EscapeVelocity
— Neta Ji (@AapGhumaKeLeyLo) October 8, 2013
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8. Rahul Baba Jaisa Koi Nahin
RahulG : Dailts need Jupiter's Escape Velocity. Congress leaders soon : Jupiter's Escape Velocity is the best escape velocity! Rahul rocks!
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) October 8, 2013
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9. Ee Kaa Howat Hai?
Rahul Gandhi says Dalit in India needs Jupiter's escape velocity, and thereby educates them about Jupiter & Velocity. Ho Raha Bharat Nirman
— Bhak Sala (@bhak_sala) October 8, 2013
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10. Lost in Traslation
RG: Jupiter's Escape Velocity.. Assistant: Sir, its actually escape speed RG: Why PA: Its a Scalar quantity RG: Yes yes, we are Secular also
— Gappistan Radio (@GappistanRadio) October 8, 2013
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11. The Big Blooper Theory
Sheldon Cooper's reaction to Rahul Gandhi's #EscapeVelocity funda #pappu pic.twitter.com/EUm9t2fcDW
— Gourab Rout (@gourab2409) October 8, 2013
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Kane Williamson smashed another hundred in his Test cricket career. This takes up his tally to 33 centuries in the red-ball format of cricket. Kane Williamson scored his 20th Test century in New Zealand. Williamson's hundred helped New Zealand to take control in the NZ vs ENG 3rd Test 2024. Williamson now stands neck to neck with Australia's Steve Smith who also has 33 Test centuries to his name. England are already leading the Test series 2-0 and it will be interesting to see how beneficial Kane Williamson's century will turn out to be. Williamson scored a total of 156 runs and was dismissed by Shoaib Bashir. Tim Southee Walks Out For His Final Red-Ball Match With Daughter In His Arms As Wellington Crowd Applauds Star Pacer During NZ vs ENG 3rd Test 2024 (Watch Video).
Video Highlights of Kane Williamson's 33rd Test Century
King Kane brings up his 3️⃣3️⃣rd Test century 👑
A masterclass in precision, patience & perfection as Williamson brings up his 20th Test 💯 on home soil & his 7th at Seddon Park 🔥
Watch #NZvENG 3️⃣rd Test, LIVE on #SonyLIV 📲 pic.twitter.com/T7TUQ9Vts5
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Doncic Triple-double Leads Mavs Over Warriors In Record Duel
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 11:00 AM
San Francisco, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) Luka Doncic reeled off a triple-double with 45 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds to spark the Dallas Mavericks over Golden State 143-133 in a record-shattering NBA matchup on Sunday.
The Mavericks and Warriors combined for an NBA single-game record of 48 made three-pointers, breaking the old mark by four, with Golden State sinking 27-of-54 shots from beyond the arc and Dallas hitting 21-of-41 three-point attempts.
"No team could miss. They had 18 threes at half-time and we were still up, which is insane," Doncic said. "Felt like nobody could miss. It was a fun game. Lot of makes. But it was a physical game too."
Doncic made 16-of-23 shots from the floor, including 6-of-11 three-pointers, and the 25-year-old Slovenian guard added three steals and two blocked shots to his ninth career 40-point triple-double.
"The guy never ceases to amaze me," said teammate Klay Thompson. "He never rushes, plays at his own pace. Had 45 points easy as pie he made it look like."
It was the three-point sharpshooting that made the contest historic, crushing the old mark for combined three-pointers in an NBA game of 44 set in February 2023 by Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers, and matched two nights ago by Phoenix and Utah.
The Mavericks, who won for the eighth time in nine starts, and Warriors combined for a one-half NBA record of 30 three-pointers in the first half, which ended with Dallas ahead 81-74.
Dallas made 12-of-25 from three-point range in the first half while the Warriors matched another NBA record with 18 three-pointers in a half, coming on 32 shots.
That set the stage for ex-Warrior Thompson to sink the record-breaking 45th combined three-pointer with 4:32 remaining in the fourth quarter off an assist from Doncic.
"I've had a great history of shooting the ball well here so I try to tap into that every time I come back," Thompson said.
Thompson had a season-high 29 points, 12 in the last quarter, and sank 9-of-14 shots from the floor and 7-of-11 from three-point range against a club with which he won four NBA titles.
"Legendary stuff.
Now it's time to do some legendary stuff in Dallas," he said. "I truly believe in this team. We have all the ingredients to do something special."
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LeBron James made a triumphant return after missing two games with a sore left foot as the Los Angeles Lakers beat Memphis 116-110, snapping the Grizzlies' four-game win streak.
Anthony Davis led the Lakers with 40 points and 16 rebounds while James, the oldest active NBA player who turns 40 on December 30, added 18 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
Jayson Tatum scored 28 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics over league-worst Washington 112-98, but an injury to Kristaps Porzingis dimmed the joy of a road victory.
Porzingis, a 29-year-old Latvian center who missed the first month of the season following left ankle surgery, played only 11 minutes before leaving for good with right heel pain in the second quarter.
Porzingis has played in only seven games this season, averaging 20.3 points and 7.8 rebounds.
The Wizards fell to 3-21 while Boston improved to 21-5, second-best in the NBA to Cleveland (22-4).
At Orlando, the New York Knicks delivered the first home loss of the season to the Magic as Jalen Brunson scored 31 points and Karl-Anthony Towns added 22 points and 22 rebounds in a 100-91 victory.
Reserve Mo Wagner scored 32 to lead Orlando, which fell to 10-1 at home.
At San Antonio, Minnesota's Anthony Edwards scored 26 points to lead the Timberwolves over the host Spurs 106-92.
French star Victor Wembanyama led the Spurs with 20 points and added 12 rebounds and five assists.
Host Phoenix got 28 points from Devin Booker plus 20 from Kevin Durant to power the Suns over Portland 116-109.
At Indianapolis, Pascal Siakam scored 22 points to lead the Indiana Pacers over New Orleans 119-104.
The Pacers obtained Miami center Thomas Bryant in a trade deal while the Brooklyn Nets sent German guard Dennis Schroder to Golden State for forward De'Anthony Melton.
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Specifications for the 2021 Porsche 718 Boxster S. Details include engine, fuel usage, interior features, safety and more.
2021 Porsche 718 Boxster S 982 My21 2.5L Petrol 2D Roadster
Standard Features
- 12 Volt Power Outlet
- Dual Front Airbags Package
- Advanced Brake Functions
- Anti-lock Braking
- Auto Climate Control with Dual Temp Zones
- Automatic Climate Control Filtered
- Air Conditioning Charcoal Filter
- Apple Car Play
- Automatic Deploying Rear Wing
- Air Compressor
- Alarm System/Remote Anti Theft
- Alarm with Interior Movement Sensor
- Automatic Stop/Start
- Adjustable Steering Wheel - Tilt & Telescopic
- Anti-theft Wheel Bolts
- 20 Inch Alloy Wheels
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System
- Cruise Control
- Cup Holders - Front Seats
- Coat Hanger Hook/s
- Centre Console Box - Multi-purpose
- Central Locking Remote Control
- Convex Mirror Right Side
- Communication Management System
- Connect App Services
- Connect Plus
- Convertible Top Colour
- Digital Audio Broadcast Radio
- Dynamic Drive
- Driver Foot Rest
- Door Handle Courtesy Lights
- Digital Instrument Cluster
- Driver Mode Selection
- Door Pockets - Front Seat
- Door Sill Finishers - Embossed/Personalised
- Dry Sump Lubrication System
- Electrically Heated Windscreen
- Exterior Mirrors - Auto Dimming
- Electric Parking Brake
- Electronic Stability Program
- Front Footwell Lights
- Gear Shift Indicator
- Head Airbags
- Head Airbags - Front Seats (side)
- Headlights - Auto On/Off Function
- Headlights - Coming/Leaving Home Function
- Heated Front Seats
- Heated Rear Windshield
- Illuminated Glove Box Compartment
- Engine Immobiliser
- Leather Armrest - Front
- Luggage/Cargo Area Light/s
- LED Indicators
- Light Pack
- Multi-function Display
- Multi-function Steering Wheel - Heated
- Mobile Phone Connectivity
- Map/Reading Lights - Front
- Navigation System
- Park Assist 2
- Paddle Shifters on Steering Wheel
- Power Front Seat Driver 14 Way
- Positioning Lights LED
- Power Mirrors With Folding
- Power Exterior Mirrors - Heated
- Power Steering
- Power Front Seats 14 Way with Memory
- Powered Sports Seats
- Power Soft Top
- Power Soft Top - Remote Operation
- Power Windows
- Power Windows With One-Touch Operation
- Rain Sensor
- Red Brake Calipers
- Rear Lights - LED
- Rollover Mitigation System
- Rollover Protection System
- Reversing Camera
- Seatbelts - Lap/Sash for All Seats
- Storage Compartment - Centre Floor Console
- Solar Control Glass Roof
- Sports Exhaust System
- Side Front AirBags
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- Sports Pedals
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- Sports Steering Wheel
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- Sunvisors with Vanity Mirrors & Illumination
- Thorax Airbag(s)
- Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
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- Tinted Windows
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- Wind Deflector
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Windscreen With Sunband
- Xenon Headlights
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- Adaptive Cruise Control - $2,570
- Aluminium Gear Selector - $1,110
- Air Intake Grilles Painted - $1,060
- Aluminium Gear Knob - $500
- Alcantara Sunvisors - $860
- Alcantara Steering Wheel - $1,580
- Alloy Pedals - $550
- Adaptive Sports Seats Plus - 18 Way - $2,850
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System Plus - $1,150
- Climate Control Panel - Leather - $1,220
- Climate Control Panel - Painted - $1,220
- Ceramic Brakes - $15,370
- Carbon Floor Mats - $1,490
- Coloured Instrument Dials - $1,030
- Carbon Onboard Folder - $1,630
- Customization Package Gear Lever - $1,630
- Coloured Seat Belts - $570
- Carbon Sill Guards - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $2,440
- Carbon Steering Wheel Special - $930
- Coloured Tailpipes - $1,120
- Extended Leather Pack - $1,090
- Embossed Headrests - $470
- Exterior Pack - Painted - $2,960
- Gear Lever - Carbon - $1,050
- Home Link - $600
- Interior Pack - Painted (non leather) - $1,220
- Interior Pack - Painted (leather) - $1,460
- Interior Pack - Wood (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Wood (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Carbon (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Carbon (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (non leather) - $1,250
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (leather) - $1,470
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- Interior Trim Special - $5,750
- Keyless Entry & Drive - $1,470
- Leather Accented Upholstery
- Leather Backrests Sports Seats Plus - $2,810
- Lane Change Assist - $1,220
- Leather Dashboard - $2,520
- LED Dynamic Light System - $2,330
- Leather Interior Exclusive - $7,680
- Leather Interior Pack (without leather interior) - $1,290
- Leather Interior Pack (with leather interior) - $1,540
- Leather Interior Pack Partial Leather Seats - $830
- Leather Int Pack Partial Leather Seats - Two Tone - $1,200
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - $4,410
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - Premium - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Premium Two-tone - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Natural Leather - $6,910
- Leather Int Pk Leather Seats - Nat Leath Two-tone - $7,680
- Leather Interior Two-Tone - $4,410
- Leather Steering Column Surround - $940
- Leather Sill Guards - Special - $1,210
- Leather Sports Steering Wheel - $570
- Leather Sunvisors - $860
- Leather Upholstery
- Leather Upholstery Special - $1,000
- Metallic Paint - $1,870
- Metallic Paint Special - $18,490
- Porsche Active Suspension Management - $3,000
- Painted Alloy Wheels - Premium - $2,500
- Paint Colour Special - $4,920
- Painted Key - $840
- Rollover Bars - Painted - $1,060
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- Sports Chrono Instrument Dials - $720
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- Sports Seats - Bucket - $6,870
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- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - Illuminated - $1,370
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- Surround Sound System Premium - $8,220
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- Tail Lights - Special - $1,290
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- Wheel Centres - $340
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Santiago International Airport reports 25 millionth passenger of 2024
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Five Years On From The Pandemic, Long Covid Keeps Lives On Hold
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 16, 2024 | 10:40 AM
Vienna, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) Three years ago, Andrea Vanek was studying to be an arts and crafts teacher when spells of dizziness and heart palpitations suddenly started to make it impossible for her to even take short walks.
After seeing a succession of doctors she was diagnosed with long Covid and even now spends most of her days in the small living room of her third-floor Vienna apartment, sitting on the windowsill to observe the world outside.
"I can't plan anything because I just don't know how long this illness will last," the 33-year-old Austrian told AFP.
The first cases of Covid-19 were detected in China in December 2019, sparking a global pandemic and more than seven million reported deaths to date, according to the World Health Organization.
But millions more have been affected by long Covid, in which some people struggle to recover from the acute phase of Covid-19, suffering symptoms including tiredness, brain fog and shortness of breath.
Vanek tries to be careful not to exert herself to avoid another "crash", which for her is marked by debilitating muscle weakness and can last for months, making it hard to even open a bottle of water.
"We know that long Covid is a big problem," said Anita Jain, from the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme.
About six percent of people infected by coronavirus develop long Covid, according to the global health body, which has recorded some 777 million Covid cases to date.
Whereas the rates of long Covid after an initial infection are declining, reinfection increases the risk, Jain added.
- 'Everything hurts' -
Chantal Britt, who lives in Bern, Switzerland, contracted Covid in March 2020. Long Covid, she said, has turned her "life upside down" and forced her to "reinvent" herself.
"I was really an early bird.... Now I take two hours to get up in the morning at least because everything hurts," the 56-year-old former marathon runner explained.
"I'm not even hoping anymore that I'm well in the morning but I'm still kind of surprised how old and how broken I feel."
About 15 percent of those who have long Covid have persistent symptoms for more than one year, according to the WHO, while women tend to have a higher risk than men of developing the condition.
Britt, who says she used to be a "workaholic", now works part-time as a university researcher on long Covid and other topics.
She lost her job in communications in 2022 after she asked to reduce her work hours.
She misses doing sports, which used to be like "therapy" for her, and now has to plan her daily activities more, such as thinking of places where she can sit down and rest when she goes shopping.
A lack of understanding by those around her also make it more difficult.
"It's an invisible disease.... which connects to all the stigma surrounding it," she said.
"Even the people who are really severely affected, who are at home, in a dark room, who can't be touched anymore, any noise will drive them into a crash, they don't look sick," she said.
- Fall 'through the cracks' -
The WHO's Jain said it can be difficult for healthcare providers to give a diagnosis and wider recognition of the condition is crucial.
More than 200 symptoms have been listed alongside common ones such as fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive dysfunction.
"Now a lot of the focus is on helping patients, helping clinicians with the tools to accurately diagnose long Covid, detect it early," she said.
Patients like Vanek also struggle financially. She has filed two court cases to get more support but both are yet to be heard.
She said the less than 800 Euros ($840) she gets in support cannot cover her expenses, which include high medical bills for the host of pills she needs to keep her symptoms in check.
"It's very difficult for students who get long Covid. We fall right through the cracks" of the social system, unable to start working, she said.
Britt also wants more targeted research into post-infectious conditions like long Covid.
"We have to understand them better because there will be another pandemic and we will be as clueless as ever," she said.
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Bulgaria is gearing up for significant growth in winter tourism as the country prepares to open the new ski season in Bansko
The European Union has officially approved Bulgaria and Romania as full members of the Schengen area. The decision, announced on Thursday at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels, comes after the two countries partially joined Schengen by air and sea in March. Starting January 1, 2025, Bulgaria and Romania will join Schengen by land, completing their integration into the EU's free movement zone.
With this decision, border checks between Bulgaria and Greece will be entirely eliminated, allowing unrestricted movement across all points along the southern border. Sporadic checks may still occur, but travelers will no longer need to present documents regularly. However, the situation at the Bulgarian-Romanian border will differ slightly. For at least the first half of 2025, a light border control regime will remain in place due to an additional agreement with Austria. This measure will primarily affect select travelers and is part of Austria’s request to maintain limited checks during the initial months of Bulgaria and Romania’s full Schengen membership.
Austria had long opposed Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to Schengen, citing concerns about increased migration flows. Vienna's opposition eased following significant reductions in the number of migrants entering Austria via the two countries. Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner stated earlier this week that the decrease in migration played a key role in Austria’s decision to lift its veto. Similarly, the Netherlands had expressed reservations over issues related to corruption and organized crime but eventually dropped its objections.
The decision has been hailed as historic. The Hungarian EU Presidency called it a "great victory for Bulgaria, Romania, and Europe." European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also praised the move, highlighting its importance for European integration. Bulgarian Interior Minister Atanas Ilkov described the decision as a landmark moment for Bulgaria's citizens and businesses.
The inclusion in Schengen is expected to significantly boost the economies of Bulgaria and Romania. With the removal of border controls, trucks will no longer face lengthy delays, reducing transportation costs and improving trade efficiency. Additionally, the move is welcomed by diaspora communities, who often endured long waits at borders during holiday seasons.
The Schengen Agreement, signed in 1985, established a free movement area among European countries, abolishing internal border checks for people and goods. The Schengen zone now includes 25 EU countries, along with non-EU members Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. Cyprus and Ireland remain outside the agreement.
The Schengen area fosters easier trade, tourism, and cultural exchange while maintaining strict external border controls to ensure security. It also enables streamlined cooperation on security, immigration, and law enforcement. For visitors, a Schengen visa allows travel across member states for up to 90 days within a 180-day period.
While the principle of open borders is fundamental, Schengen countries can temporarily reinstate border controls in cases of national security concerns or public order threats. This flexibility ensures that individual nations can respond to emergencies while upholding the broader goals of the Schengen Agreement.
Bulgaria and Romania's full integration into Schengen marks a pivotal moment in their EU journey, paving the way for strengthened regional cooperation and economic growth.
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Rishabh Pant was also sent back to the dressing room by Australia. This feels like now Australia National Cricket Team has decoded the way Rishabh Pant plays. Rishabh Pant was the only hope for India. Pat Cummins bowled a sweet delivery which edged Pant's bat and Alex Carey grabbed an easy watch behind the wickets. Indian batting lineup saw an early collapse due to which they are under pressure. It will be interesting to see how will they make a comeback after being in a tough situation like this. Virat Kohli Wicket Video: Watch Josh Hazlewood Dismiss Star India Batter During IND vs AUS BGT 2024–25 3rd Test.
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Prince Harry Charms Australia: PICS
Britain's Prince Harry chatted and shook hands with a throng of excited fans on the Sydney waterfront Saturday as thousands of people celebrated the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first visit to the city's famed harbor.
Britain's Prince Harry chatted and shook hands with a throng of excited fans on the Sydney waterfront Saturday as thousands of people celebrated the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first visit to the city's famed harbor.
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Britain's Prince Harry salutes the troops at Garden Island during the International Fleet Review (IFR) in Sydney October 5, 2013. The review is being held to commemorate the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet into Sydney Harbour. The IFR visit marks Prince Harry's first official trip to Australia representing the royal family, local media said. REUTERS/Steve Christo (AUSTRALIA - Tags: ROYALS MILITARY POLITICS)
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Prince Harry is greeted by a large crowd during the International Fleet Review in Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Harry, fourth in line to the British throne, is in Australia's largest city for just one day as part of a quick trip Down Under and celebrates the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first arrival to the famed waterway on Oct. 4, 1913. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)
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Britain's Prince Harry, center, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott, second left, his wife Margie, second right, and daughters Bridget, left, and Francis pose for photos with the Opera House in the background at Kirribilli House, the prime minister's residence in Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Harry, fourth in line to the British throne, is in Australia's largest city for just one day as part of a quick trip Down Under. (AP Photo/William West, Pool)
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Prince Harry shakes hands with a small boy as he is greeted by a large crowd during the International Fleet Review in Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Harry, fourth in line to the British throne, is in Australia's largest city for just one day as part of a quick trip Down Under and celebrate the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first arrival to the famed waterway. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)
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Aircraft fly past the Sydney Opera House during the International Fleet Review (IFR) October 5, 2013. Britain's Prince Harry is in Australia for the IFR, which celebrates 100 years since the Royal Australian Navy fleet first entered Sydney Harbour. The IFR visit marks Prince Harry's first official trip to Australia representing the royal family, local media said. REUTERS/Jeremy Piper (AUSTRALIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY)
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Prince Harry makes a funny face at a young child as he is greeted by a large crowd during the International Fleet Review in Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Harry, fourth in line to the British throne, is in Australia's largest city for just one day as part of a quick trip Down Under and celebrates the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first arrival to the famed waterway on Oct. 4, 1913. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)
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Britain's Prince Harry and Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce, onboard the HMAS Leeuwin, participate in the 2013 International Fleet Review in Sydney, Australia Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The prince glided through Sydney's sun-dappled harbor aboard the navy ship on Saturday, as thousands of people crowded the shoreline to catch a glimpse of royalty and celebrate the centenary of the fledgling Australian navy fleet's first arrival to the famed waterway. (AP Photo/Ryan Pierse, Pool)
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A crowd watches from behind a fence as Britain's Prince Harry salutes the troops at Garden Island during the International Fleet Review (IFR) in Sydney October 5, 2013. The review is being held to commemorate the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet into Sydney Harbour. The IFR visit marks Prince Harry's first official trip to Australia representing the royal family, local media said. REUTERS/Steve Christo (AUSTRALIA - Tags: ROYALS MILITARY POLITICS)
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Britain's Prince Harry (L) and Australia's Governor-General Quentin Bryce (C) salute the troops on Sydney Harbour from aboard the HMAS Leeuwin during the International Fleet Review (IFR) in Sydney October 5, 2013. The review is being held to commemorate the centenary of the first entry of the Royal Australian Navy's Fleet into Sydney Harbour. The IFR visit marks Prince Harry's first official trip to Australia representing the royal family, local media said. REUTERS/Steve Christo (AUSTRALIA - Tags: ROYALS MILITARY POLITICS)
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Santiago International Airport to handle 1.06m pax from 20-Dec-2024 to 02-Jan-2025
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Sanya Airport exceeds 20m pax for 2024
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Hundreds Feared Dead On Mayotte After Cyclone Chido
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 09:40 AM
SaintDenis de la Reunion, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) A senior official said Sunday that the death toll from cyclone Chido's passage across Mayotte would be in the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, as France rushed in rescue workers and supplies.
Their efforts will likely be hindered by the damage to airports and electricity distribution in the French Indian Ocean territory.
Even before the cyclone's passage, clean drinking water was already subject to chronic shortages.
"I think there will definitely be several hundred, perhaps we will come close to a thousand or even several thousand" deaths, prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told broadcaster Mayotte la Premiere.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday pledged help from the bloc.
"Our hearts go out to France following the devastating passage of cyclone Chido through Mayotte," she posted on X. "We are ready to provide support in the days to come."
It would be "very difficult to reach a final count" given that most residents are Muslim, traditionally burying their dead within 24 hours, Bieuville added.
A previous toll shared with AFP by a security source had confirmed only 14 deaths.
And earlier Sunday, the mayor of Mayotte's capital Mamoudzou, Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, told AFP nine people were fighting for their lives in hospital, while another 246 more had been seriously injured.
"The hospital is hit, the schools are hit. Houses are totally devastated," he said. The storm had "spared nothing", he added.
Establishing an accurate will be doubly difficult given that France's interior ministry estimates around 100,000 people live clandestinely on Mayotte.
Some of them did not dare to venture out and seek assistance, "fearing it would be a trap" designed to remove them from Mayotte," said Ousseni Balahachi, a former nurse.
Many had stayed put "until the last minute" when it proved to late to escape the cyclone, she added.
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Ruben Amorin has led Manchester United to their first Manchester Derby win under him. Amorim also became the first manager after Sir Alex Ferguson to win a debut Manchester Derby. Manchester City took the lead first after Josko Gvardiol scored a header in the first half. Later Bruno Fernandes converted a penalty in the 88th minute and Amad Diallo netted a goal in the 90th minute which led the Red Devils to a 2-1 win over Pep Guardiola's men. Ruben Amorin now has four wins in seven games with Manchester United this season. Pep Guardiola Feels 'He Is Not Good Enough' After Manchester City's 1–2 Loss Against Manchester United in Premier League 2024–25 at Etihad Stadium.
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Relief For Srinivasan, Headache For BCCI
The Supreme Court appointed a three-member committee headed by former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal to investigate the allegations of spot-fixing and betting in the Indian Premier League.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday appointed a three-member committee headed by former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Mukul Mudgal to investigate the allegations of spot-fixing and betting in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice J.S. Kehar said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and its president N. Srinivasan would completely keep off the probe panel but will extend all the facilities required by the investigators.
Having appointed the probe panel, the court also lifted its order restraining Srinivasan from taking the charge of the apex cricketing body upon his election as then BCCI chief.
The other two members of the probe panel, which has been asked to submit its report as early as possible, preferably within four months are Senior counsel and Additional Solicitor General L. Nageshwar Rao and senior advocate Nilay Dutta.
The court order appointing the probe committee came after both the BCCI and the cricket Association of Bihar conveyed their consent to the court's earlier suggestion to appoint an independent probe panel to look into the allegations of spot-fixing and betting.
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Esmail Beghaei, spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, strongly condemned the continued brutal attacks by the Zionist regime on Palestinian refugees places of residence and their tents in Gaza, including in the Nuseirat camp, which resulted in the martyrdom and injury of dozens of innocent people, including innocent children.
Describing as shameful the continued inaction of the international community and the UN Security Council against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians due to the all-out support of the United States for the Zionist regime, the spokesman called for urgent action from the world to stop the genocide in Gaza and to bring to justice and punish the leaders of the occupation regime for committing heinous crimes.
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Bulgaria Joins Schengen Fully by Land: What Changes on January 1, 2025?
The European Union has officially approved Bulgaria and Romania as full members of the Schengen area
The government of North Macedonia has declared its readiness to continue advancing European integration, but only under conditions it deems constructive and fair. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski stated that the government is prepared to respond positively if Brussels proposes a viable solution for the country to progress toward EU membership. However, he emphasized that no further concessions would be made, adding that it is up to Brussels to show genuine commitment to the Western Balkans. He warned that if the current administration is not acceptable to Brussels, "let them find another government" to negotiate with.
Ahead of the upcoming EU-Western Balkans summit, Mickoski criticized what he described as the EU's reliance on outdated political arguments, noting that such an approach hinders integration efforts. He underscored North Macedonia's commitment to implementing European reforms and harmonizing its foreign and defense policies with EU standards, asserting that the country remains aligned with EU values despite the obstacles it faces.
Mickoski’s remarks reflect growing frustration with what he sees as repeated vetoes imposed on North Macedonia's EU accession process. He referred to past blockades by Greece and Bulgaria as examples of a troubling trend where bilateral disputes are used to obstruct EU integration. Such practices, Mickoski argued, damage not only North Macedonia's progress but also the credibility of the EU as a whole.
Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski echoed these concerns, stressing the need for a predictable and secure path toward EU membership. He called for a clear framework outlining the steps North Macedonia must take and what it can expect in return. Mucunski highlighted the numerous concessions the country has already made, only to face repeated vetoes. He questioned whether the proposed constitutional changes, a key demand from the EU, would finally put an end to these recurring obstacles or simply lead to further demands.
In recent months, Mucunski and Mickoski have engaged in international outreach to present their position and seek support from EU member states and strategic partners. Mucunski noted that North Macedonia has adopted an extensive reform program, which he described as one of the best in the region. Additionally, the country has fully aligned its foreign and security policies with the EU and signed landmark agreements such as the Strategic and Security Agreement with the bloc. Despite these achievements, Mucunski argued that North Macedonia’s efforts have not been met with the same level of commitment and principled behavior from the EU.
The delegation, led by Mickoski, is set to attend next week’s EU-Western Balkans summit in Brussels. Bilateral meetings with high-ranking EU officials and representatives of member states are planned as part of the visit. Both Mickoski and Mucunski stressed the importance of the EU demonstrating a genuine commitment to resolving these issues and restoring trust in the region’s integration prospects.
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Libya Farmer Breaks New Ground With Outlier Date Variety
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 10:40 AM
Misrata, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) In the Libyan countryside, farmer Ismail Ben Saoud has launched an agricultural experiment, banking on Mejhoul dates -- a premium variety cherished across the Arab world but untested in such a humid coastal climate.
Ben Saoud's five-hectare (12-acre) farm in Misrata, western Libya, stands out in the landscape that is dotted by olive and citrus trees.
Eight years after taking the leap, he says his 700 palm trees now produce high-quality Mejhoul dates which he hopes will reach international markets soon.
"People have claimed that these palms couldn't survive here, especially near the sea," said Ben Saoud, 42.
"But with persistence and careful experimentation, we are proving them wrong."
Mejhoul dates, native to Morocco's semi-arid regions, are famed for their large size, tender texture and rich sweetness.
Traditionally thought unsuitable for Mediterranean climates, the variety has exceeded Ben Saoud's expectations.
Using organic fertilisers and refining techniques over time, Ben Saoud now anticipates reaching full production capacity in just two years.
"The harvest has been very satisfactory," he said about this year's output.
"Another year or two and it will be optimal. We improve from year to year."
For Libyans and others across the Arab world, dates are a treasured food.
A staple sweet during festivities, they hold cultural as well as religious value, traditionally eaten to break the daily fast during the Muslim month of Ramadan.
Mejhoul dates go for up to 80 Libyan dinars (around $16) per kilogramme in local markets, far more than the price tag attached to other varieties, as low as six and up to 20 Dinar.
But for many customers, Mejhoul prices match their quality, with an unwavering demand among Libyans preferring locally produced goods.
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The country has faced a host of woes since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising overthrew and killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi, plunging Libya into instability and conflict.
Even before that, decades of near-exclusive reliance on oil revenue left many of Libya's sectors underdeveloped.
But many have been striving to bring around Libyan agriculture.
In Misrata, a major port city and commercial hub about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the capital Tripoli, supermarkets are stocked with a variety of date products.
They run the gamut from molasses and pastes used in traditional pastries like makroudhs, to novel concoctions such as stuffed dates smothered in chocolate.
"The quality of Libyan dates has improved noticeably since the 2011 war," said Najwa, an Egyptian nurse on vacation, shopping for her favourite varieties.
"There's more care put into growing and preparing them now."
Salah Shagan, a Libyan agriculture expert, said that "more Libyans are turning to farming in recent years", with a "growing interest" in olives, vegetables and dates.
"These efforts not only bring income, but also revive our connection to the land."
Libya now has over 10 million date palms, producing more than 50,000 tonnes of fruit annually, according to the agriculture ministry.
Much of this production satisfies local demand, but farmers also aim to make it to international markets.
For Ben Saoud, exporting Mejhoul is his next major bet.
"Our local demand is already strong, so we must ensure we can meet that before expanding further," he said, walking through his orchard with his two young daughters, their mouths full of fresh dates.
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Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (previously Twitter) has reclaimed the top position in the news category on the US App Store. The platform now leads in the free and grossing categories, which shows its significant achievement. The update was shared by DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) on December 15, 2024, which highlights X’s growing popularity for news consumption. Reacting to the post, Musk kept it short and simple and said, “Cool.” X Search Engine: Elon Musk’s Social Platform To Introduce New Search Engine, Says Report.
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PICS: CLT20 Discovers Pravin Tambe @ 41
The 41-year-old unknown spinner was a nightmare for batsmen at the Champions League Twenty20.
The 41-year-old unknown spinner was a nightmare for batsmen at the Champions League Twenty20.
The 41-year-old Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner has emerged as the surprise package of the Champion League T20. He won the 'golden ball' award after picking 12 wickets in 5 games (19 overs). (Photo: BCCL)
He also emerged as the second most economical bowler (after Suresh Raina) with the rate of 4.10 per over. Tambe didn't concede even one single six in the tournament. (Photo: PTI)
The leg-spinner played for the Shivaji Park Gymkhana from 1996 to 2004, while being employed by Orient Shipping from 1994 to 2004, before 'settling down' at DY Patil nine years back, where he is the captain. (Text: TOI, Photo: PTI)
Despite toiling on the maidans since 1996, Tambe was ignored by the Mumbai's selectors due to the presence of top class-spinners. It was only in February this year that he found his name in the Mumbai team, when he was picked in the squad for the Vijay Hazare knock-outs. (Text: TOI, Photo: PTI)
He was ignored from the list of Mumbai Ranji probables this year and was left with little choice but to head back to the grind of local cricket - a scene he quite is familiar with. All this was of course until a surprise contract with the Royals changed his life. (Text: TOI, Photo: PTI)
Tambe's CLT20 show, interestingly, has put the Mumbai selectors, who are intent on focusing on youth, in a dilemma. The Ranji champions recently lost the services of two of their best spinners- Ramesh Powar and Ankeet Chavan, due to various reasons. In their absence, the cupboard does look a bit bare. (Text: TOI, Photo: PTI)
Tambe may not have played for Mumbai, but has tonnes of experience in local cricket, where the standard is top-notch. The only factor that has impeded, and may hurt his case yet again, is his age. (Text: TOI, Photo: BCCL)
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N. Korea State Media Slams South's Yoon As 'ringleader Of Rebellion'
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 10:40 AM
Seoul, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) North Korean state media on Monday issued its first report on South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, dubbing him a "ringleader of rebellion" for having launched a bid to impose martial law.
Nearly two days after the impeachment vote, the dispatch from the state-run Korean Central news Agency (KCNA) did not provide any quotes from North Korean officials, who have been relatively tight-lipped over the South's political turmoil.
Less than a dozen sentences long, the KCNA report gave a brief outline of the events surrounding Yoon's impeachment, claiming he had attempted to shift responsibility for the "foolish emergency martial law declaration" onto opposition parties.
"The investigation into puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, the ringleader of rebellion, and his accomplices is under way," KCNA said.
"The puppet Constitutional Court will finally decide" on whether to remove Yoon, it added.
North Korean state media often refers to the South's leaders and institutions as being a "puppet" of its treaty ally, the United States.
KCNA did not comment on the December 3 martial law declaration until about a week later, describing the South as being "in chaos" over the order.
Relations between the two Koreas have been at one of their lowest points in years, with the North launching a flurry of ballistic missiles in violation of UN sanctions.
It also has been bombarding the South with trash-carrying balloons since May, in what it says is retaliation for anti-Pyongyang propaganda missives sent North by activists.
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2021 Porsche 718 Cayman 982 My21 2.0L Petrol 2D Coupe
Standard Features
- 12 Volt Power Outlet
- Dual Front Airbags Package
- Advanced Brake Functions
- Anti-lock Braking
- Auto Climate Control with Dual Temp Zones
- Automatic Climate Control Filtered
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- Apple Car Play
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- Connect Plus
- Convertible Top Colour
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- Dynamic Drive
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- Driver Mode Selection
- Door Pockets - Front Seat
- Door Sill Finishers - Embossed/Personalised
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- Power Steering
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- Interior Pack - Wood (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Wood (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Carbon (non leather) - $2,640
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The Champions League T20 Dream Team
What if a dream team is selected on the basis of performance at the Champions League Twenty20. Here is our pick...
1. Pravin Tambe (Bowler-Rajasthan Royals)
What if a dream team is selected on the basis of performance at the Champions League Twenty20. Here is our pick...
How can we not have the man with the golden ball in the team? He claimed 12 wickets conceding 78 runs in 19 overs.
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2. Sunil Narine (Bowler-Trinidad & Tobago)
He is still a mystery for most of the batsmen. He claimed 11 wickets conceding 86 runs in 20 overs.
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3. Ravi Rampaul (Bowler-Trinidad & Tobago)
He is arguably the best T20 bowler in the world. He claimed 6 wickets conceding 144 runs in 18.4 overs.
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4. Nathan Coulter-Nile (Bowler-Mumbai Indians)
A bowler who bowled with impeccable line and length! He claimed 6 wickets conceding 119 runs in 18.4 overs.
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5. Kieron Pollard (All-rounder-Mumbai Indians)
He is the most dangerous batsman at number 7, besides he is also a utility bowler and fielder. Scored 113 runs in 5 innings (two unbeaten), with an average of 37.66. As a bowler he claimed 5 wickets conceding 105 runs in 13.5 overs.
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6. Misbah-ul-Haq (Batsman-Faisalabad Wolves)
His team failed to make it to the group stage of the tournament, but was in terrific form in the qualifiers. Scored 195 runs in 3 innings (two unbeaten), with an average of 195.00.
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7. Suresh Raina (Batsman-Chennai Super Kings)
How can India's best Twenty20 player miss the bus? He scored 221 runs in 5 innings, with an average of 44.20. Raina is also the most economical bowler at the rate of 3.50, claiming 3 wickets conceding 28 runs in 8 overs.
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8. Rohit Sharma (Captain/Batsman-Mumbai Indians)
The Mumbai Indians skipper is relishing his job. Scored 173 runs in 5 innings (one unbeaten), with an average of 43.25.
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9. Sanju Samson (Wicketkeeper/Batsman-Rajasthan Royals)
The brightest Indian spark in the tournament! Scored 192 runs in 6 innings (one unbeaten), with an average of 38.40. He is also the second most successful wicketkeeper (6 dismissals) in the tournament.
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10. Dwayne Smith (Opener-Mumbai Indians)
One of the most aggressive openers in the tournament! Scored 223 runs in 5 innings (one unbeaten), with an average of 55.75.
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11. Ajinkya Rahane (Opener-Rajasthan Royals)
The man with the golden bat is the obvious choice as an opener. Scored 288 runs in 6 innings (one unbeaten), with an average of 57.60.
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Wetware 160: Use of ELF and Near Field to go Stealth for US Police, Sheriffs and First Responders to Understand (Our Front Line)
I've been able to work my way out of the China Trap that utilizes audio-video-communications nanotechnology CNT and weaponized-pathogen nanotechnology WPT. By hacking CCP, their tricks are laid out.
This is an important brief for our brothers and sisters serving on the front lines in democratic nation states that are getting “boon-doggled” by ChinaCCP unethical global deployment of “NeuroStrike” technologies that are based upon audio-video-nanotechnology communications CNT and weaponized-pathogen nanotechnologies WPT.
I’m in a unique position, CCP PLA tried to covert murder me with CNT and WPT (e.g. what I call “wetware” which is an industrial espionage wire tap inside of the skin), but CCP and their proxy terrorists failed.
Our intelligence community holds this technology close to vest, by it being engineered into their OODA loop as they are in-the-loop, even if an intelligence agency member wanted to discuss this, our AI by NATO would prevent them from doing so in the clear as part of the AI’s defense mechanism to prevent the spread of this information. However, CCP PLA AI knows this and takes advantage of the “chink” in the NATO AI BCPS armor and exploits our nation states that embrace democracy, the least worst known system of governance today. If our intelligence community and those that have top secret and associated clearance were to talk or even think about talking about what I’m writing here they would be immediately locked up and removed from their position by the NATO AI BCPS as they’re in-the-loop and not fully cog
nitively free to discuss this information.
So, here is where I add-value to our democratic intelligence community as well as remove-value from ChinaCCP PLA Xi’s Magic Weapon that is AI BCPS based and attacking America, In God We Trust, but also all of NATO and God fearing people on earth.
So this is how to unplug from CCP AI BCPS if they snuck one of their covert non-invasively dosed audio-video-communications nanotechnology CNT and weaponized-pathogen nanotechnology spy bugs in you.
The use of Global Psionic ELF transmitters entrains your brain (analog brain, not cybernetically enhanced nanotechnology based brain overlay (e.g. synthetic biology)).
The first step to get out of the ChinaCCP trap is to ensure you have an eSIM with 5G+ mmWave technology from a big tech firm that is not committed to long-term manufacturing in China. This rules out Apple (why Warren Buffet and team dumped their stock), keeps Google in Play and gives Samsung an awesome position to capitalize upon as Samsung in S. Korea is independent of China and China is gunning down S. Korea due to this fact (recall the recent riots).
The second step is to ensure you have an on-body ELF transmitter that utilizes the H-field (magnetic field). This locally disconnects you from China CCP ELF transmitter, the world’s largest. In figure 1 from an ELF perspective if the lines connect to you the proton from the ELF signals, you’re psionically captured by ChinaCCP PLA or any other group for that matter. The lack of a continual line can be accomplished safely by the use of a local PEMF H-field ELF transmitter that is strong enough to over-power the world’s background ELF as well as local electrical grid power 60 Hz and 50 Hz magnetic field harmonics.
The third step is to clean-up your body, like angelic clean and then go into the near field to heal from the prior degradation. In order to do this without dying the use of DNA-TX H-field transmitters are required to ensure any parasites, bacteria, mold/fungus and other junk is being killed as it grows from the life-giving near-field. Your body also needs to be free from yeast, no added sugar and honestly needs to subscribe to www.electrostasis.com to ensure you don’t accidentally kill yourself.
By default, NATO AI BCPS assumes you are “national security” as the front line police, sheriffs and first responders at local, state and federal level can’t cybernetically interrogate you when you are able to live in the near-field and in the ELF far-field. I confirmed this on the week of December 8th 2024 in a professional and respectful manner, while hacking ChinaCCP use of their “technocommunism” via Tik Tok in America’s suburbs, while by a 5G+ mmWave tower by toggling on and off ELF and near-field.
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The Moto G35 sale will begin today, December 16, in India. The Motorola budget smartphone was launched on December 10, 2024, with a 6.7-inch display with FHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. The Moto G35 offers 4GB RAM, 128GB expandable storage, a 50 MP primary camera, an 8 MP secondary camera and a 16 MP front-facing camera. It features a T760 processor and supports 12 5G bands with VoNR (Voice over New Radio or Voice). Moto G35 price in India starts at INR 9,999, and the device comes in Leaf Green, Midnight Black and Guava Red colour options. It has a 5,000mAh battery and premium design. Realme 14x 5G Launch on December 18 in India, Will Feature 50MP Camera; Check Price and Specifications.
Moto G35 Goes on Sale Today in India
#MotoG35 -Segment's Fastest 5G Phone with 12 5G Bands | Best FHD+ 6.7” 120Hz Display | 50MP+8MP Quad Pixel 4K Video Recording
— Motorola India (@motorolaindia) December 10, 2024
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As we blast toward the end-of-year holidays, our industry continues punting out various bikes, not least of which are featured in today’s column:
- Krämer has finally released their EVO2-690R!
- Kawasaki’s Ninja 7 Hybrid has been undergoing testing with MCN… but a software-related recall has halted all riding, and there’s additional news of welding issues.
- The new 2025 NT1100 remains a popular bike… the only problem is that Honda’s first debut of the bikes has been reserved as a model for police forces.
- Bosch’s second-gen ARAS tech is going to be big, and the first bike to feature the tech will be KTM’s 2025 1390 Super Adventure S Evo.
Let’s start with Krämer’s two-wheeled speed demon, shall we?
Krämer Releases the EVO2-690R
“Redefining the Track Experience”
Did you know that Krämer Motorcycles (and purveyor of spiffy machines) began as a hobby in 2009 (via Krämer Motorcycles)?
Fast forward to 2013, and the HKR EVO1, a track-only bike using KTM’s RC8R engine, was born, cementing a long-term partnership between Krämer and Austrian bike brand KTM.
Today, we get to ogle the newest machine birthed from this alliance: The EVO2-690R.
Per Krämer & KTM’s typical moto melange, the EVO2-690R carries a KTM heart; in this case, a LC4, single-cylinder, 4-stroke, 690cc engine capable of 80hp and 72Nm of torque, the latter specs of which are felt all the more keenly given that this is but a 276lb bike.
The weight-to-power ratio of 3.45 (lbs/hp) is further complimented by a slew of top-tier componentry:
- Fully-adjustable WP Suspension (WP Apex Pro 7543 closed cartridge at the front and WP Shock with KMC at the rear)
- Brembo brakes with 19mm titanium front brake calipers courtesy of Brembo Stylema (2x 290mm fully floating discs at the front)
- Formula 4 piston (1x 220mm fully floating disc at the rear)
- A stainless steel racing exhaust system
- Aluminum forged rims (Dymag UP7X 3,5 “x17” & 5,5 “x17”)
- AIM Mxm GPS dash logger
- CNC’ed triple clamps with offset adjustment 26 & 28 mm
- 520 DID ERV Racing chain
- Hyper Pro RCS steering damper
- Self-supporting tank made of XPE [12 liters]
- 25CrMo4 steel trellis tube chassis
- Quickshifter
- Variable engine brake mapping
- Racing DNA air filter
- Titanium front brake caliper bolts
- Frame crash pads
- fork fist crash pads
- Brake lever guards
- Wired Oil screws
- E-starter
We know that the 2025 EVO2-690R is currently available in Europe for €24.990, and that includes a 19% VAT pricing; time will only tell what this machine will cost in the US.
Based on 2024’s Krämer EVO2-690R, which flattened the wallet at a nifty MSRP of $25794 US (the latter price not including a $1,000 freight charge), we’re assuming the 2025 model will be floating around an MSRP of $27,000 USD.
Here’s an additional image showing the full specs of Krämer’s EVO2-690R beauty:
What do you think? Are you going to sign up to purchase a 2025 Krämer EVO2-690R?
Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid Pulled Due to Dual “Do Not Ride” Recalls
Software Fault Joins Badly Welded Steering Head Pipe
Sometimes, that new car smell comes with a bump or two in the performance department; in this case, Kawasaki’s Ninja 7 Hybrid can no longer be tested by MCN’s team due to a “Do Not Ride” recall.
According to MCN, the following statement was made on a recent recall concerning Kawasaki’s new hybrid bikes, roughly 1,150 or 1% of which Kawasaki deems to be affected (via NHTSA):
Since the transmission on Kawasaki’s Ninja 7 Hybrid sports a 6-speed automated manual transmission that is managed electronically, we’re told that this issue is a software-related issue and that reconfiguring the transmission will allow the bike to be completely fixed… for this recall, that is.
Owners who are concerned that this recall may affect them can ring up the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov with Campaign #24V-680.
As if the above weren’t enough, MCN’s findings are accompanied by an additional recall document showing Kawasaki’s 2024 Z7 HYBRID ABS & NINJA® 7 HYBRID ABS both being recalled for “Improper Shifting & Improper Welding,” citing the following welding issue below:
Unfortunately, both of these recall issues mean that 100% of Kawasaki’s hybrid bike inventory (both sold and unsold) are being pulled for reprogramming and repairs.
The owner notification schedule has not been completely determined yet, but Customer Care will begin contacting customers and dealers on November 27; in the meantime, owners can contact KMC customer service at 1-866-802-9381, with the transmission issue’s KMC number being MC24-13.
Do you have (or know of someone who has) a Kawasaki Z7 Hybrid or Ninja 7 Hybrid?
Honda NT1100 Remains Reserved for Police Forces
…For Now.
Back in 2021, we covered that Honda had released type-approval documents for an “NT1100.” this machine was destined to house the perfect touring package, and when it debuted in 2022, many a rider enjoyed the thrill of that 1,084cc parallel-twin engine capable of ~100hp (75kW) @ 7,500rpm and 77lb-ft (104Nm) of yank available @ 6,250rpm.
Fast forward to today, and Honda’s finally released the 2025 model… only it’s called the “NT1100 Police,” and this particular bike variant won’t be available to the masses.
The news has stung more than a few communities; according to Motorcycle Sports, Honda’s NT1100 is, “one of the best-selling sport-touring motorcycles in Europe,” and the 2025 model year debuted with a slew of extra-nice componentry, including the following:
- Side cases
- An engine guard
- Rear rack
- A document box
- A modified (more spacious) saddle
- Adjustable windscreen
If you’re unsure if this news is a real deal, check out the following excerpt from Honda’s statement, courtesy of RoadAndTrack:
To make matters even more… unfortunate, Honda has lowered the price of their 2025 NT1100 Police, pricing the bike at a limbo-low MSRP of $14,499 USD.
Of course, we have to ask: Why did Honda reserve one of their more popular models for the police forces?
Easy answer here: They didn’t.
For those worried at the plethora of inaccurate articles out there, rest assured; we’re getting a civilian variant of the 2025 NT1100, and it’s on track for a debut to our communities as we speak.
Check out Miller’s additional contributions via RoadAndTrack below:
There is no notice of what the MSRP will be for this pleb-happy variant, but we can assume that riders not sporting a police badge will likely be charged extra for the benefit of the NT1100’s various upgrades.
What do you think of Honda’s 2025 NT1100?
Bosch’s New Tech to Debut on KTM 1390 Super Adventure S Evo
Meet the Second-Gen “ARAS” (“Advanced Rider Assistance Systems”)
Bosch is officially giving us a new bit of tech designed to keep riders both happy and safe – and this particular generation will be installed on KTM’s 2025 1390 Super Adventure S Evo.
This news follows Bosch’s recent partnership with Ducati, the results of which saw a Ducati Multistrada V4 endowed with Bosch’s first radar tech system back in 2020 (MCN).
Now, according to another article published by the good team over at MCN, Bosch’s second generation of radar tech will feature the following perks:
- Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC): Automatically adjusts the motorcycle’s speed to maintain a safe following distance from the vehicle in front.
- Blind Spot Detection: Warns the rider of vehicles hidden in their blind spots.
- Forward Collision Warning: Alerts the rider if they are approaching a vehicle or obstacle too quickly and are at risk of a collision.
- Rear Collision Warning: Warns the rider if a vehicle is approaching from behind at high speeds, aiding in awareness to prevent collision.
- Emergency Brake Light: Automatically activates the motorcycle’s brake light in emergency braking situations to warn other road users.
In addition to the above, Bosch tells us that there are two additional features that will be present in Bosc’s next round of tech and that the bikes showing off the tech aren’t too far off.
Woohoo!
What do you think of radar technology, and would you like to try out KTM’s 2025 1390 Super Adventure S EVO?
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https://www.webbikeworld.com/ktms-1390-super-adventure-s-evo-sports-cutting-edge-tech/
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North Korean Soldiers Join Russian Offensive Operations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Russia has begun deploying a significant number of North Korean soldiers in military operations, particularly in the Kursk region. Speaking during his evening address, Zelensky confirmed that these troops are being integrated into mixed combat groups exclusively for offensive maneuvers in the area. He added that the use of North Korean forces may expand to other sections of the front line, based on intelligence assessments. Initial reports suggest these soldiers have already suffered noticeable casualties in the ongoing battles.
The involvement of North Korean troops aligns with information provided by the United States and South Korea, which estimate that Pyongyang has sent over 10,000 personnel to support Moscow. This development follows a defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea earlier this year. Notably, in August, Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into the Kursk region but were eventually pushed back after Russia reinforced its positions. Ukrainian forces continue to control approximately 800 square kilometers of territory in this area.
In addition to the use of North Korean troops, Russian military bloggers have recently claimed that these soldiers participated in the capture of the village of Plekhovo, located south of Sudzha, on December 6. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) corroborates that North Korean forces have been deployed for assault operations but notes that this tactic could significantly hinder North Korea's ability to adapt lessons learned from combat alongside Russia. The attritional nature of these offensives has reportedly strained both Russian and North Korean forces.
The ISW also analyzed the implications of Russia’s continued reliance on North Korean forces, emphasizing that their deployment in high-casualty roles could weaken their long-term effectiveness. Zelensky’s remarks mark the first official acknowledgment of large-scale North Korean involvement in combat operations, following earlier claims of smaller engagements in the region by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
Meanwhile, intense fighting continues near Pokrovsk, a strategically important city in the Donetsk region. Russian forces have advanced rapidly, achieving their fastest gains since the invasion began in February 2022. Ukrainian military command reported losing positions in surrounding villages after fierce battles, forcing a tactical retreat. In response to these developments, General Oleksandr Tarnavsky has been appointed as the new commander of Ukrainian forces in the region, replacing General Oleksandr Lutsenko, who faced criticism for his inability to halt the Russian advance.
Last night saw significant air activity as well. Ukrainian air defense reported shooting down 56 out of 108 Russian drones launched overnight, with additional drones disappearing from radar or returning to Russian territory. The attacks caused damage to infrastructure, residential buildings, and vehicles across multiple regions, including Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Kharkiv, resulting in civilian casualties.
Elsewhere, drones targeted the Chechen capital of Grozny, reportedly striking facilities associated with riot police and special forces. Social media reports suggest the strikes hit a military site frequently used to dispatch personnel to Ukraine. This escalation follows intensified activity on various fronts, highlighting the widespread impact of the conflict.
In addition to ground developments, Russian air defenses claimed to have intercepted 15 Ukrainian drones overnight, including several over the Black Sea and in border regions like Kursk and Belgorod.
Sources:
- Telegram
- ISW
- Ukrainska Pravda
- Meduza
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A recent survey by the New Europe Center, published on December 10, reveals that 44.6% of Ukrainians trust U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
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SIA Engineering (Philippines) completes 14C 2ISI maintenance check on Korean Air A320
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SIA Engineering Company was involved in various maintenance activities recently, including completing the ninth and final A350 cabin modification for Delta Air Lines and painting all nine aircraft1. It also completed five Boeing 777 C Checks for Air India2. SIA Engineering Philippines completed the 12th six-year maintenance check on Hawaiian Airlines' A321 aircraft3.
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https://centreforaviation.com/news/sia-engineering-philippines-completes-14c-2isi-maintenance-check-on-korean-air-a320-1296084
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North Korea State Media Slams South's Yoon As 'ringleader Of Rebellion'
Muhammad Irfan Published December 16, 2024 | 10:40 AM
Seoul, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) North Korean state media on Monday decried the South's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as a "ringleader of rebellion", its first reaction to his removal from office over a short-lived martial law decree.
Pyongyang has been relatively tight-lipped over South Korea's political turmoil, which culminated Saturday in the country's parliament voting to impeach him over "insurrection".
Yoon has been suspended while South Korea's Constitutional Court deliberates the impeachment, with Prime Minister Han Duck-soo serving as interim leader.
As of Saturday, the court had 180 days to rule on Yoon's future.
The court's acting head, Moon Hyung-bae, has said he will convene a meeting of its judges at 10 am (0100 GMT) Monday to plan a timetable for the case.
Also on Monday, Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Yoon had attempted to shift responsibility for the "foolish emergency martial law declaration" onto opposition parties.
"The investigation into puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, the ringleader of the rebellion, and his accomplices is under way," KCNA said.
"The puppet Constitutional Court will finally decide" on whether to remove Yoon, it added.
North Korean state media often refers to the South's leaders and institutions as being a "puppet" of its treaty ally, the United States.
KCNA previously described the South as being "in chaos" over the martial law order.
Relations between the two Koreas have been at one of their lowest points in years, with the North launching a flurry of ballistic missiles in violation of UN sanctions.
- Mounting investigation -
An investigation into Yoon and his inner circle over last week's martial law declaration rumbled on as the turmoil deepened.
Yoon remains under a travel ban while the probe is ongoing.
On Sunday, the prosecution said in a press release they had summoned Yoon for questioning over insurrection allegations "but he refused to comply".
They said they would issue a "second summons", with Yonhap news agency reporting that could come on Monday.
Vast protests both for and against Yoon have rocked the South Korean capital since the December 3 martial law decree.
Demonstrators in both camps have vowed to keep up the pressure campaign as the Constitutional Court mulls Yoon's fate.
On Sunday, police arrested both the current and former heads of the Defence Intelligence Command in connection to the insurrection allegations, Yonhap reported.
Prosecutors said they were also seeking an arrest warrant for the head of the Army Special Warfare Command Kwak Jong-keun, according to Yonhap.
Kwak is accused of sending special forces troops to parliament during the martial law bid -- sparking a dramatic confrontation between soldiers and parliamentary staff.
The head of Yoon's ruling People Power Party (PPP), who is facing growing calls to resign and who had expressed support for the impeachment, is also due to hold a press conference on Monday at 10:30 am.
The South Korean government has meanwhile sought to project an air of business as usual.
Acting president Han on Sunday held a call with US President Joe Biden, who underscored the strength of bilateral ties.
Han has also ordered the military to "enhance vigilance" against North Korea, with which the South technically remains at war.
burs-oho/dhc
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Specifications for the 2021 Porsche 718 Cayman. Details include engine, fuel usage, interior features, safety and more.
2021 Porsche 718 Cayman 982 My21 2.0L Petrol 2D Coupe
Standard Features
- 12 Volt Power Outlet
- Dual Front Airbags Package
- Advanced Brake Functions
- Anti-lock Braking
- Auto Climate Control with Dual Temp Zones
- Automatic Climate Control Filtered
- Air Conditioning Charcoal Filter
- Apple Car Play
- Automatic Deploying Rear Wing
- Air Compressor
- Alarm System/Remote Anti Theft
- Alarm with Interior Movement Sensor
- Automatic Stop/Start
- Adjustable Steering Wheel - Tilt & Telescopic
- Anti-theft Wheel Bolts
- 19 Inch Alloy Wheels
- Black Brake Calipers
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System
- Cruise Control
- Cup Holders - Front Seats
- Coat Hanger Hook/s
- Centre Console Box - Multi-purpose
- Central Locking Remote Control
- Convex Mirror Right Side
- Communication Management System
- Connect App Services
- Connect Plus
- Convertible Top Colour
- Digital Audio Broadcast Radio
- Driver Foot Rest
- Door Handle Courtesy Lights
- Digital Instrument Cluster
- Door Pockets - Front Seat
- Door Sill Finishers - Embossed/Personalised
- Dry Sump Lubrication System
- Electrically Heated Windscreen
- Exterior Mirrors - Auto Dimming
- Electric Parking Brake
- Electronic Stability Program
- Front Footwell Lights
- Gear Shift Indicator
- Head Airbags
- Head Airbags - Front Seats (side)
- Headlights - Auto On/Off Function
- Headlights - Coming/Leaving Home Function
- Heated Front Seats
- Heated Rear Windshield
- Illuminated Glove Box Compartment
- Engine Immobiliser
- Leather Armrest - Front
- Luggage/Cargo Area Light/s
- LED Indicators
- Light Pack
- Multi-function Display
- Multi-function Steering Wheel - Heated
- Mobile Phone Connectivity
- Map/Reading Lights - Front
- Navigation System
- Park Assist 2
- Power Front Seat Driver 14 Way
- Positioning Lights LED
- Power Mirrors With Folding
- Power Exterior Mirrors - Heated
- Power Steering
- Power Front Seats 14 Way with Memory
- Powered Sports Seats
- Power Soft Top
- Power Soft Top - Remote Operation
- Power Windows
- Power Windows With One-Touch Operation
- Rain Sensor
- Rear Lights - LED
- Rollover Mitigation System
- Rollover Protection System
- Reversing Camera
- Seatbelts - Lap/Sash for All Seats
- Storage Compartment - Centre Floor Console
- Solar Control Glass Roof
- Sports Exhaust System
- Side Front AirBags
- Side Impact Protection
- Sound Package Plus
- Sports Pedals
- Sound System with 6 Speakers
- Sports Steering Wheel
- Stainless Steel Exhaust System
- Sunvisors with Vanity Mirrors & Illumination
- Thorax Airbag(s)
- Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
- Tyre Repair Kit
- Tinted Windows
- Vehicle Stability Management System
- Wind Deflector
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Windscreen With Sunband
- Xenon Headlights
Optional Extras
- Adaptive Cruise Control - $2,570
- Aluminium Gear Selector - $1,110
- Air Intake Grilles Painted - $1,060
- Aluminium Gear Knob - $500
- Alcantara Sunvisors - $860
- Alcantara Steering Wheel - $1,580
- Alloy Pedals - $550
- Adaptive Sports Seats Plus - 18 Way - $2,850
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System Plus - $1,150
- Climate Control Panel - Leather - $1,220
- Climate Control Panel - Painted - $1,220
- Ceramic Brakes - $15,370
- Carbon Floor Mats - $1,490
- Coloured Instrument Dials - $1,030
- Carbon Onboard Folder - $1,630
- Customization Package Gear Lever - $1,630
- Coloured Seat Belts - $570
- Carbon Sill Guards - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $2,440
- Carbon Steering Wheel Special - $930
- Coloured Tailpipes - $1,120
- Extended Leather Pack - $1,090
- Embossed Headrests - $470
- Exterior Pack - Painted - $2,690
- Gear Lever - Carbon - $1,050
- Home Link - $600
- Interior Pack - Painted (non leather) - $1,220
- Interior Pack - Painted (leather) - $1,460
- Interior Pack - Wood (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Wood (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Carbon (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Carbon (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (non leather) - $1,250
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (leather) - $1,470
- Interior Trim Pack - $4,250
- Interior Trim Special - $5,750
- Keyless Entry & Drive - $1,470
- Leather Accented Upholstery
- Leather Backrests Sports Seats Plus - $2,810
- Lane Change Assist - $1,220
- Leather Dashboard - $2,520
- LED Dynamic Light System - $2,330
- Leather Interior Exclusive - $7,680
- Leather Interior Pack (without leather interior) - $1,290
- Leather Interior Pack (with leather interior) - $1,540
- Leather Interior Pack Partial Leather Seats - $830
- Leather Int Pack Partial Leather Seats - Two Tone - $1,200
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - $4,410
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - Premium - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Premium Two-tone - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Natural Leather - $6,910
- Leather Int Pk Leather Seats - Nat Leath Two-tone - $7,680
- Leather Interior Two-Tone - $4,410
- Leather Steering Column Surround - $940
- Leather Sill Guards - Special - $1,210
- Leather Sports Steering Wheel - $570
- Leather Sunvisors - $860
- Leather Upholstery
- Leather Upholstery Special - $1,000
- Metallic Paint - $1,870
- Metallic Paint Special - $18,490
- Painted Alloy Wheels - Premium - $2,500
- Paint Colour Special - $4,920
- Painted Key - $840
- Rollover Bars - Painted - $1,060
- Seatbelt Buckles - Leather - $1,000
- Seatbelt Passage - Painted - $1,030
- Sports Chrono Instrument Dials - $720
- Sports Design Black Pack - $6,220
- Special Identifying Badging - $540
- Solid Paint
- Solid Paint Special - $18,490
- Sports Seats - Bucket - $6,870
- Sports Seats - Special - $3,060
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - Illuminated - $1,370
- St/Steel Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $1,760
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - $500
- Surround Sound System Premium - $8,220
- Surround Sound System - $2,470
- Ventilated Front Seats - $1,950
- Wood Gear Selector - $1,050
- Wheel Centres - $340
- Wood Steering Wheel Special - $930
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Ashley Cole Out of World Cup Qualifier
32-year-old England left-back Ashley Cole will miss this week's World Cup qualifier with Montenegro at Wembley, the Football Association said on Monday.
England left-back Ashley Cole will miss this week's World Cup qualifier with Montenegro at Wembley, the Football Association said on Monday.
The 32-year-old picked up a rib problem during Chelsea's Premier League win at Norwich on Sunday and a scan confirmed he can not play in the first match of England's crucial double header.
He is also uncertain for the following Tuesday's game against Poland. Arsenal's Kieran Gibbs has been added to Roy Hodgson's squad, with Everton left-back Leighton Baines set to start.
England are top of Group H, one point ahead of Ukraine, but to be certain of reaching next summer's finals in Brazil they need to beat Montenegro, who are also a point adrift of them, and Poland, who are three points behind them.
AFP
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https://www.indiatimes.com/sports/football/ashley-cole-out-of-world-cup-qualifier-105609.html
| 2024-12-16T06:15:57Z
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Week 15 NFL best bets from sharp handicappers
50 best bets to make from respected handicappers and betting info from sportsbooks
It’s a terrific slate of Week 15 NFL games today, especially the afternoon slate, which will feature the Buffalo Bills at the Detroit Lions (-2.5, 54.5) in a potential Super Bowl preview.
The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t covered seven straight games, but they are the most-bet side by total bets and total dollars at BetMGM. The public is also loving the Cincinnati Bengals to cover as 5.5-point road favorites at the Tennessee Titans. Tennessee is a putrid 2-11 ATS this season, and 86% of bets at DraftKings Sportsbook (along with 88% at BetMGM) are on the Bengals to cover.
Here are four sharp plays from Joe Brennan over at Prime Sports:
➡️Cardinals -6
➡️Commanders -7.5
➡️Cowboys +2.5
➡️Texans -2.5
Below, I’ve aggregated 50 Week 15 NFL best bets from respected handicappers for you, along with public betting info from DraftKings, BetMGM and ESPN BET. I’ll add more sharp plays from my conversations with oddsmakers in the paid chat throughout the day.
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BetMGM Week 15 NFL public betting info
Most bet games (tickets)
Chiefs-Browns
Bills-Lions
Bengals-Titans
Most bet teams (tickets)
Chiefs -4
Lions -2.5
Bengals -5.5
Most bet teams ($$)
Chiefs -4
Bengals -5.5
Lions -2.5
ESPN BET
Bengals @ Titans
89.9% of bets and 71.6% of handle are on Bengals (-5.5, opened –5)
96.6% of bets and 97.6% of handle are on Bengals ML (-250)
43.9% of bets and 67.5% of handle are on UNDER (46.5, opened 48.5)
Chiefs @ Browns
64.1% of bets and 58.6% of handle are on Chiefs (-4.5, opened –6.5)
89.7% of bets and 92.6% of handle are on Chiefs ML (-225)
60% of bets and 59.2% of handle are on OVER (41.5, opened 42.5)
Ravens @ Giants
64.7% of bets and 54.5% of handle are on Ravens (-16.5, opened -14)
95.7% of bets and 89.8% of handle are on Ravens ML (-1800)
69.9% of bets and 82.2% of handle are on OVER (42.5, opened 43.5)
Commanders @ Saints
74% of bets and 74.9% of handle are on Commanders (-8, opened –7)
92.9% of bets and 93.4% of handle are on Commanders ML (-400)
52.8% of bets and 85.4% of handle are on UNDER (44.5, opened 43.5)
Cowboys @ Panthers
32.7% of bets and 77.9% of handle are on Panthers (-3, opened –1.5)
33.5% of bets and 80.3% of handle are on Panthers ML (-150)
61.3% of bets and 82% of handle are on OVER (42.5, opened 43.5)
Dolphins @ Texans
51.2% of bets and 55.7% of handle are on Dolphins (+2.5, opened +2.5)
35.5% of bets and 56.8% of handle are on Dolphins ML (+130)
81.1% of bets and 82.2% of handle are on OVER (46.5, opened 47.5)
NY Jets @ Jaguars
71.3% of bets and 80.9% of handle are on Jets (-3, opened –3.5)
81.6% of bets and 91.6% of handle are on Jets ML (-170)
52.4% of bets and 69.7% of handle are on UNDER (40.5, opened 40.5)
Buccaneers @ Chargers
53.6% of bets and 59.1% of handle are on Bucs (+3, opened +3)
63.3% of bets and 78.4% of handle are on Chargers ML (-150)
62.2% of bets and 63.3% of handle are on OVER (45.5, opened 46.5)
Steelers @ Eagles
77.9% of bets and 69% of handle are on Steelers (+5.5, opened 4.5)
59.3% of bets and 50.3% of handle are on Eagles ML (-260)
60.6% of bets and 52.7% of handle are on OVER (43.5, opened 44.5)
Bills @ Lions
48.3% of bets and 52.2% of handle are on Bills (+2.5, opened +2.5)
61.9% of bets and 63.5% of handle are on Lions ML (-140)
72.3% of bets and 65.9% of handle are on OVER (54.5, opened 53.5)
Colts @ Broncos
69.5% of bets and 57.6% of handle are on Broncos (-4.5, opened –4.5)
90.6% of bets and 88.9% of handle are on Broncos ML (-210)
50.9% of bets and 55.9% of handle are on OVER (43.5, opened 43.5)
Patriots @ Cardinals
70.9% of bets and 59.9% of handle are on Cardinals (-6, opened –6.5)
94.9% of bets and 86.8% of handle are on Cardinals ML (-275)
36.8% of bets and 82.9% of handle are on OVER (46.5, opened 45.5)
Packers @ Seahawks
60.1% of bets and 53.1% of handle are on Packers (-2.5, opened –2.5)
67.7% of bets and 71.9% of handle are on Packers ML (-140)
74.5% of bets and 67.7% of handle are on OVER (46.5, opened 46.5)
Bears @ Vikings
78.9% of bets and 90.2% of handle are on Vikings (-7, opened –7)
96.7% of bets and 90.5% of handle are on Vikings ML (-320)
74.5% of bets and 69.7% of handle are on OVER (43.5, opened 42.5)
Falcons @ Raiders
79.3% of bets and 71.4% of handle are on Falcons (-5.5, opened –4.5)
94.5% of bets and 87.4% of handle are on Falcons ML (-250)
42.5% of bets and 55.9% of handle are on OVER (44.5, opened 41.5)
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POCO India announced the launch of its upcoming budget smartphone, the POCO C75 5G with a 5,160mAh battery. The upcoming POCO C75 5G will likely have similar specifications and features as the global variant. The device may retain the same 6.88-inch 120Hz display with 600 nits, 50 MP AI Dual Camera, 13 MP selfie camera, and MediaTek Helio G81 Ultra. The device will likely come with a premium design and a quad-camera module on the rear. POCO C75 5G will be launched tomorrow, on December 17, 2024. Moto G35 5G Sale Begins Today in India; Check Specifications, Features and Price of New Motorola Budget Smartphone.
POCO C75 Launch Confirmed for December 17 (Tomorrow)
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SMBC Aviation Capital delivers one A220-300 to Breeze Airways
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Rain Wipes Out Session On Day Three Of NZ-England Test
Sumaira FH Published December 16, 2024 | 08:10 AM
Hamilton, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) Rain wiped out the entire first session on day three of the third Test between New Zealand and England on Monday, with the hosts holding a 340-run advantage.
Steady overnight rain continued through the morning, forcing match officials to leave the covers on Hamillton's Seddon Park pitch.
However, the wet weather had cleared about an hour after the scheduled start time of 11 am (2200 GMT Sunday) and the weather forecast was brighter for the remainder of the day
Lunch was taken early, with a new resumption time of 1:30 pm announced.
New Zealand had forged a strong position on day two, dismissing England for 143 to be 204 runs ahead on the first innings.
By stumps, the home side had reached 136 for three in their second innings, with Kane Williamson on 50 and Rachin Ravindra on two.
England have already wrapped up the three-match series, leading 2-0 after emphatic wins in Christchurch and Wellington.
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Over 100,000 Bulgarians Expected to Travel Abroad for the Holidays
Over 100,000 Bulgarians are expected to travel abroad during the upcoming holiday season
Forbes magazine has once again celebrated the achievements of young Bulgarians with its annual "30 Under 30" selection. Now in its 12th year, the prestigious list highlights over 30 exceptional individuals under the age of 30, chosen from a pool of 150 nominations. The honorees were selected by an expert jury, recognizing their significant accomplishments across various fields.
Among the standouts is 17-year-old Viktor Lilov, the youngest Bulgarian to make the list this year. An Olympic gold medalist in chemistry and biology, Lilov is currently studying natural sciences at Cambridge University. Reflecting on his inclusion, he expressed excitement about appearing on the magazine’s cover:
"It's certainly very nice. I've never been so in profile on a cover, and it’s amazing to see myself there. The photo shoot was also a wonderful experience."
Another honoree, Tsveta Stratieva, better known as Flora, represents the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) in the "Culture, Art, and Media" category. She described her selection as a great honor and a motivational milestone for young people striving to excel:
"In the world of freelancers, where it's not always easy to measure how well you’re doing, this recognition is a huge honor for me. I’m very grateful for it. On screen and in my YouTube videos, I project a much more energetic and fun image compared to my real-life self."
Joining Flora in the same category is vlogger and director Kris Zahariev, who is currently working on several projects, including his first feature-length film. He shared his disbelief and gratitude at being recognized:
"It’s an incredible honor. I never imagined that I could make it onto the cover or be part of this ranking. When Forbes reached out to me, it was a moment of great excitement."
Another honoree, Ivilina Gavazova, 29, is the founder of a digital animation agency. Gavazova, who also appears on the cover, admitted that the recognition felt surreal:
"One of the first things I put on my vision board, which I still have to this day, was the cover of Forbes. Now that it has happened, it feels truly unbelievable."
Forbes emphasizes that the achievements of these young individuals serve as a source of inspiration for others, encouraging them to chase their aspirations and believe in their potential. Each honoree represents the future of Bulgarian talent, offering hope and motivation to their peers.
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Bulgaria is gearing up for significant growth in winter tourism as the country prepares to open the new ski season in Bansko
The Bulgarian Ministry of Finance has projected a significant increase in the state debt over the period from 2025 to 2028, estimating a rise of about 1.7 times
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PICS: Football at Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is all set to stage the first football match in its 308-year history.
Buckingham Palace is all set to stage the first football match in its 308-year history.
Britain's Prince William (R) watches referee Howard Webb (3rd L) toss the coin before the Southern Amateur League football match between Polytechnic FC and Civil Service FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Britain's Prince William (FRONT R) and Chairman of the Football Association Greg Dyke (FRONT L) speak to players of Polytechnic FC before their Southern Amateur League football match against Civil Service FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Groundsmen clear away leaves before the Southern Amateur League football match between Polytechnic FC and Civil Service FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Britain's Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Polytechnic FC (BLUE) play Civil Service FC in a Southern Amateur League football match in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Britain's Prince William (2nd L) walks behind a goal in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Britain's Prince William, as President of the Football Association, will host a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Britain's Prince William (REAR 2nd R) poses for a photograph with Polytechnic FC before their Southern Amateur League football match against Civil Service FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Britain's Prince William (REAR 5th L) poses for a photograph with Civil Service FC before their Southern Amateur League football match against Polytechnic FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: reuters)
Britain's Prince William (REAR 5th R) poses for a photograph with Polytechnic FC before their Southern Amateur League football match against Civil Service FC in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
Polytechnic FC (BLUE) play Civil Service FC in a Southern Amateur League football match in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Prince William, as President of the Football Association, hosted a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
The Civil Service football team warms up in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, in central London October 7, 2013. Britain's Prince William, as President of the Football Association, will host a reception and football match to celebrate The Fa's 150 grassroot heroes. (Photo: Reuters)
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Cyclone Chido, the strongest storm to ever hit Mayotte, has left widespread destruction on the French Indian Ocean island. With winds exceeding 225 km/h (140 mph), the storm struck on Saturday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and leaving thousands homeless. François-Xavier Bieuville, Mayotte’s prefect, fears the death toll could reach thousands, particularly in the island’s poorest areas where makeshift metal shacks were obliterated. Mayotte’s vital services, including water and electricity, have been severely disrupted. Rescue efforts are underway, but damaged roads, airports, and power lines hinder relief operations. Emergency teams and medical staff from Réunion have arrived, with French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau set to visit the island on Monday to assess the devastation. Bieuville described the scene as “apocalyptic,” adding that Muslim burial traditions complicate tracking the true human toll. France has pledged additional support to aid recovery efforts in this unprecedented disaster. Cyclone Chido Update: Tropical Cyclone Batters France’s Mayotte, Hundreds Feared Dead.
Cyclone Chido Devastates Mayotte
The small French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte has been absolutely devastated by Category 4 Cyclone Chido, with entire neighborhoods flattened and hundreds feared dead.
The island was battered by extreme winds over 136 mph (220 km/h). pic.twitter.com/g5lcMfVwBQ
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) December 15, 2024
🧵 I wonder if the catastrophic situation in Mayotte will get more attention than drones that aren't drones. Where's the hysteria about this. Where's MSM 🤬
Cyclone Chido has devastated Mayotte, a small island in the Indian ocean with gusts of at least 226 kilometres per hour… pic.twitter.com/Mk65WPGCte
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) December 15, 2024
Cyclone in Mayotte: "Everything has flown away, there is almost nothing left", say, devastated residents.
Cyclone Chido killed at least 14 people on the French Indian Ocean island territory of Mayotte, a security source told AFP Sunday.#Mayotte #Mozambique #Rain #Wind #Chido pic.twitter.com/c54sTnW4ss
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Spring Airlines pax up 11% in Nov-2024
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Scientists Struggle To Explain Record Surge In Global Heat
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 08:20 AM
Paris, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper into uncharted territory -- and scientists are still trying to figure out why.
Over the past two years, temperature records have been repeatedly shattered by a streak so persistent and puzzling it has tested the best-available scientific predictions about how the climate functions.
Scientists are unanimous that burning fossil fuels has largely driven long-term global warming, and that natural climate variability can also influence temperatures one year to the next.
But they are still debating what might have contributed to this particularly exceptional heat surge.
Experts think changes in cloud patterns, airborne pollution, and Earth's ability to store carbon could be factors, but it would take another year or two for a clearer picture to emerge.
"Warming in 2023 was head-and-shoulders above any other year, and 2024 will be as well," said Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in November.
"I wish I knew why, but I don't," he added.
"We're still in the process of assessing what happened and if we are seeing a shift in how the climate system operates."
When burned, fossil fuels emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide that trap heat near the Earth's surface.
As fossil fuel emissions have risen to record highs in 2023, average sea surface and air temperatures have curved upwards in a consistent, decades-long warming trend.
But in an unprecedented streak between June 2023 and September 2024, global temperatures were unlike anything seen before, said the World Meteorological Organization -- and sometimes by a considerable margin.
The heat was so extreme it was enough to make 2023 -- and then 2024 -- the hottest years in history.
"The record global warmth of the past two years has sent the planet well into uncharted territory," Richard Allan, a climate scientist from the UK's University of Reading, told AFP.
What occurred was "at the limit of what we would expect based on existing climate models", Sonia Seneviratne, a climatologist from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, told AFP.
"But the overall long-term warming tendency is not unexpected" given the amount of fossil fuels being burned, she added.
Scientists said that climate variability could go some way to explaining what happened.
2023 was preceded by a rare, three-year La Nina phenomenon that had a strong cooling effect on the planet by pushing excess heat into the deep oceans.
This energy was released back to the surface when an opposite, warming El Nino event took over in mid-2023, boosting global temperatures.
But the heat has lingered even after El Nino peaked in January.
Temperatures have not fallen as fast as they rose, and November was still the second-warmest on record.
"It is difficult to explain this at the moment," said Robert Vautard, a member of the UN's climate expert panel IPCC. "We lack a bit of perspective.
"If temperatures do not drop more sharply in 2025, we will really have to ask ourselves questions about the cause," he told AFP.
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Mumbai, December 16: Skipper Pat Cummins joined the wicket-takers’ party by dismissing Rishabh Pant as India fell into more trouble on day two of third Test at the Gabba on Monday. At tea, taken due to rain stopping the proceedings yet again, India are at 48/4 in 14.1 overs, trailing Australia by 397 runs. After lunch was taken early due to persistent rain, there were eleven balls of action where Pant and KL Rahul resorted to rotating the strike before the drizzle came in the way again. Rishabh Pant Wicket Video: Watch Pat Cummins Take Down India's Star Wicketkeeper-Batsman With a Beautiful Delivery During IND vs AUS BGT 2024-25 3rd Test.
Post resumption, Pant and Rahul played for 4.3 overs, before rain again came to force them off the field. After rain relented, Rahul leaned into a gorgeous drive off Cummins for four. But Cummins bounced back to when he angled one across the stumps and forced Pant to play at it, and he ended up nicking behind to Alex Carey for nine.
It also marked the third time Cummins dismissed Pant in this series, after not taking his wicket previously in Tests. Rahul drilled Starc through cover for four, before looking despondent and Starc giving a frustrated look as rain came again and forced the tea break to be taken. IND vs AUS 3rd Test 2024: Jasprit Bumrah Adds Another Feather to His Cap With Memorable Six-Wicket Haul in Brisbane.
With 246 runs needed for India to avoid the follow-on, a lot will depend on Rahul, who is unbeaten on 30 and has played with discipline, soft hands and exquisite strokeplay, as well as skipper Rohit Sharma to save the visitors’ from losing in a rain-hit Test match.
Brief Scores: Australia 445 in 117.1 overs (Travis Head 152, Steve Smith 101; Jasprit Bumrah 6-76, Mohammed Siraj 2-97) lead India 48/4 in 14.1 overs (KL Rahul 30 not out; Mitchell Starc 2-24) by 397 runs
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PICS: Footballers Celebrate Oktoberfest
Bayern Munich players, officials and WAGs took part in Oktoberfest beer festival.
Bayern Munich players, officials and WAGs took part in Oktoberfest beer festival.
Thiago Alcantara of Bayern Muenchen from Spain and his girlfriend Julia Vigas attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich from France attends the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Dante of Bayern Munich poses with his wife Jocelina during their visit at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Pep Guardiola, head coach of Bayern Munich and his wife Cristina Guardiola, from left, attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Mitchell Weiser, Jerome Boateng and Xherdan Shaqiri, from left, of Bayern Munich attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Daniel van Buyten of Bayern Munich from Belgium attends the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, CEO of Bayern Munich, Pep Guardiola, head coach of Bayern Munich and his wife Cristina Guardiola, from left, attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Javier Martinez of Bayern Munich from Spain attends the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Philipp Lahm, right, of Bayern Munich and his wife Claudia Lahm attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
Thomas Mueller of Bayern Munich, right, and his wife Lisa Mueller attend the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich southern Germany, Sunday, Oct 6, 2013. (Photo: AP)
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Sri Lanka welcomes 184,000 tourist arrivals in Nov-2024
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Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka experienced a notable increase in recent months, with October 2024 seeing 135,907 arrivals, marking a 24.5% rise year-on-year, and September 2024 recording 122,140 arrivals, a 9.1% increase year-on-year1 2. The third quarter of 2024 reported 474,559 arrivals, a 21.3% rise compared to the previous year2.
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W.Africa Bloc Gives Military Leaders More Time To Stay
Faizan Hashmi Published December 16, 2024 | 09:50 AM
Abuja, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2024) West African leaders on Sunday gave three countries led by military governments six months to reconsider their decision to quit the regional group ECOWAS.
They also approved the creation of a special court to judge crimes committed during the rule of former dictator Yahya Jammeh in Gambia.
The decision on the military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger came after all three countries said their decision to quit the Economic Community of West African States was "irreversible".
They condemned the bloc as subservient to ex-colonial ruler France.
The imminent departure of the three Sahel states could have a major impact on free trade and movement as well as on security cooperation in a region where militants tied both to Al Qaeda and Islamic State are gaining ground.
Under the bloc's regulations, their quitting the group would have become effective next month, a year after their initial January 2024 announcements.
But following a meeting of West African leaders in Abuja, the group said in a statement: "The authority decides to set the period from 29 January, 2025, to 29 July, 2025, as a transitional period and to keep ECOWAS doors open to the three countries."
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Bansko Kicks Off Ski Season with Optimism for Growth in Bulgarian Winter Tourism
Bulgaria is gearing up for significant growth in winter tourism as the country prepares to open the new ski season in Bansko
Bulgaria is set to enter a new chapter in tourism with its upcoming membership in the land Schengen area, effective January 1, 2025. The role of media and the communication approach were highlighted as essential components of the Bulgarian tourism industry during the forum "BG Tourism - Winter 2024/2025." The event, organized by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) and the Bulgarian Union of Balneology and SPA Tourism (BSBSPA), brought together key figures, including Minister of Tourism Evtim Miloshev, Deputy Minister of Tourism Irena Georgieva, municipal mayors, and representatives from the business and academic sectors.
Minister Miloshev emphasized that Bulgarian tourism should project its identity with confidence, especially following the announcement of its Schengen membership. He noted that Bulgaria could position itself as a peaceful, safe, and hospitable destination for 2025. Highlighting the country's exceptional value-for-money offerings, Miloshev stated that Bulgarian tourism experiences often exceed visitor expectations. Despite adjustments to the VAT rate for ski facilities, Bulgarian winter resorts remain competitive in Europe due to their added value and diverse services.
Dr. Meglena Plugchieva echoed this sentiment, pointing out that tourists who discover Bulgaria often fall in love with the country. She described this admiration as a vital asset and a long-term investment in the success of Bulgarian tourism. The forum participants agreed on the importance of stronger collaboration among institutions, municipalities, businesses, and the media to further enhance Bulgaria's tourism potential.
Razlog and Bansko municipalities were cited as examples of effective partnerships that deliver high-quality and diverse tourist products. Minister Miloshev remarked on Bulgaria's unique combination of natural beauty, culture, history, traditions, cuisine, wine, and modern amenities, which make it a destination where experiences consistently surpass their cost. Malin Bystrin, President of the Union of Tourist Business in Bansko, illustrated the region's diverse offerings, explaining that visitors could enjoy a different activity each day of a week-long stay—from skiing and golf to wine tasting, exploring historical landmarks, and savoring local cuisine.
BTA Director General Kiril Valchev summarized potential messages to promote Bulgaria as a destination in 2025, including the slogan "Land of Skiing, Sun, and Spa." The forum participants emphasized that such messaging, combined with the country's rich tourism assets, positions Bulgaria as a leading European destination for a wide range of travel experiences.
Source: Ministry of Tourism press release
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The Denver Broncos overcame 3 interceptions from rookie quarterback Bo Nix to notch a 31-13 win over the Indianapolis Colts.
Nix also threw 3 touchdown passes, but he was still the target of criticism from some fans in attendance. That did not sit well with one of his biggest supporters on the team, wide receiver Courtland Sutton.
Sutton did not hold back.
“Courtland Sutton said hearing fans talk poorly about Bo Nix after a couple of bad series is “disheartening” and ‘b.s.’” DNVR Broncos’ Zac Stevens posted on X on December 15.
“Added the team has full confidence in Bo.”
Fans of other teams certainly took Nix to task on social media over his early-game struggles in the eventual win.
“Bo Nix and Anthony Richardson are having the most disgusting QB battle known to man,” one fan posted on X. “Both over 20 attempts both under 100 yards passing.
“Both with turnovers
“Bo Nix throws 3 awful picks and throws for 130 yards but his team still wins by 3 scores [sad face emoji],” posted another fan.
“It’s a must-win game for the Broncos and Bo Nix did not show up to play,” The Sports Place’s Arye Pulli posted. “He has three interceptions already.”
Sutton finished the game with a team-leading 32 receiving yards on three receptions. The game snapped his streak of 70-plus-yard performances at six games dating back to Week 8.
Bo Nix Finds ‘Maturity’ in Adversity of 3 INT Day in Broncos Win
Nix described what he goes through in a situation like he had versus the Colts. The Broncos QB admitted it is “challenging.”
“It gets to where you feel like, ‘Man, every time I throw it, is it going to be picked?’ And you start having those mental thoughts. But it’s challenging. It’s probably the toughest part of our position because you know what you’re capable of, you know that you know the read, you know how to – you know your footwork, how to go through it. And then you just got to keep from being gunshy and keep from being – don’t let one turn into another you know false vision and see things that that aren’t actually there,” Nix told reporters on December 15.
“I felt like I saw the game well today, but that didn’t keep me from … turning the ball over. So what is it? I got to get back to the sideline and regroup, and I feel like the guys over there do a great job of keeping me encouraged and you know reminded me that, ‘It’s a long game. Go out there and do what you do.’
“I’m not going to lie, it’s tough,” Nix said. “You start getting a little bit in your head and you start questioning, ‘Am I actually seeing it? What was that?’ Anso it’s tough. But we’re all – I feel like everybody goes through it, so. The ones that can get out of it and finish the game and win and not let it dictate the outcome of the game, that’s usually when you find some maturity and you find some growth and that I just got to keep continue to do that.
“Unfortunately, it’s not the first time I’ve thrown three in a game … Hopefully, it’s the last. But, probably [not]. Football will tell you it’s not going to be if you play it long enough. So just got to move on to the next play and get the next completion.”
2-Time Super Bowl Champion QB Praises Bo Nix
NBC analyst Jason Garrett commended Nix for overcoming his poor start and leading the Broncos to victory.
“I want to give a shoutout to that rookie quarterback. Interceptions early, but again, a rookie who doesn’t go away when it gets hard. He hangs in there and ends up throwing three touchdowns,” Garrett said about Nix during the Sunday Night Football pregame show, per 9News’ Mike Klis on December 15.
“He was much better in the second half and later in the ball game. He’s handled everything about being a starting quarterback in the NFL really well, and again it goes back to that mental toughness. He showed it today.”
Garrett was a two-time Super Bowl-winning QB during his playing career. He played for Broncos head coach Sean Payton when the latter was the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys in 2000.
Garrett also stepped into Payton’s vacated offensive coordinator role in 2007. That was one year after the latter took over as head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
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1971 war: When Indian veterans met B'deshi veterans
December 16, 2024 10:28Rajnath Singh pays tribute on Vijay Diwas
Eight Indian military veterans of Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War have reached Dhaka while eight war veterans of the Bangladesh Army arrived in Kolkata to join the Vijay Diwas celebrations in the two countries, officials said. Vijay Diwas commemorates the Pakistan military's surrender to Indian forces.
India's historic victory led to the liberation of Bangladesh. Bangladesh officials and the Indian High Commission in Dhaka said two serving officers from both sides, comprised of the delegations, will attend the celebrations in Dhaka and Kolkata. They reached their destination cities on Sunday.
The Bangladeshi delegation comprised Mukti Jodhas, who were part of the guerrilla resistance force in East Pakistan opposing the Pakistan rule there. The Vijay Diwas celebration and the visit by the two countries' delegations come amid strains over the alleged violence against the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh since the ouster of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina's Awami League regime in a student-led uprising on August 5. Hasina fled the country and has since taken refuge in India.
The interim government of Muhammad Yunus has firmly rejected any major communal violence. Hindus constitute around eight per cent of Bangladesh's population. The exchange of veterans' visits is a reminder of friendship forged in 1971, a political analyst in Dhaka said.
He said Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri's one-day Dhaka visit on December 9 for foreign office consultations with his counterpart Jashim Uddin partly eased the tensions in bilateral ties as he also met Yunus and his de facto foreign minister Touhid Hossain. Now the exchange of the veterans' visits is expected to manifest the goodwill of both the countries for each other, the analyst said. Both India and Bangladesh celebrate the victory over Pakistan on December 16, 1971, and every year, they invite each other's war veterans and serving officers to participate in the celebrations in two countries.
Bangladesh celebrates its Independence Day on March 26 but Dhaka emerged as the free capital of a free country on December 16 after nine months of Liberation War with crucial Indian assistance.
"These annual bilateral visits provide a platform for Mukti Jodhas and Liberation War veterans to celebrate the unique friendship of the two countries, the Indian High Commission said in a statement. It added that the occasion renews memories of the Liberation War which epitomises the shared sacrifices of the armed forces of India and Bangladesh for the cause of Bangladesh's freedom from occupation, oppression and mass atrocities". -- PTI
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Madsen has the Ducks in his Top 3 schools alongside BYU and UCLA. Here is everything he had to say.
Signing day is over but there's still a ton of news from the 2026 class: Brandon Arrington, Ryder Lyons, Brady Smigiel.
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Alabama dishes out more superlatives for its California signees, especially for "Defensive MVP" Dijon Lee Jr.
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STARLUX Airlines receives seventh A350-900
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Suryakumar Yadav is known for hitting sixes at will, and this ability helped the maverick batter surpass MS Dhoni in most T20 sixes for the Indian batter list, which the former achieved during a match-winning knock during Mumbai vs Madhya Pradesh Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25 Final. Mumbai Win Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 2024; Suryakumar Yadav, Suryansh Shedge Shine As Shreyas Iyer and Co Defeat Madhya Pradesh By Five Wickets to Clinch Title.
From 280 innings, Suryakumar has 341 sixes, while Dhoni has slammed 338 maximums from 342 outings, and can add to his tally during the upcoming IPL 2025 edition playing for Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Surya hit three sixes during his knock of 48, which helped the batter get third on the list of Indian batters with the most T20 sixes.
Indian Batters With Most T20 Sixes
Leading the elite list with 525 sixes is India's Test and ODI captain Rohit Sharma, who achieved this number in 435 outings, while former captain Virat Kohli sits handsomely in second spot with 416 from 382 innings. Both players have ample time to further stretch their lead with the Indian Premier League and Champions Trophy 2025 on the horizon. Bizarre! Third Umpire Reverses His Own Decision, Apologises to Rajat Patidar After Madhya Pradesh Captain Opts For Second-Time Referral of Wide During MUM vs MP SMAT 2024 Final, Fans React.
Sanju Samson rounds off an impressive list of players, coming in at fifth position with 334 sixes from 277 innings, the 30-year-old has several years to surpass most of the other veterans, who are nearing the end of their careers, baring Suryakumar.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 16, 2024 10:41 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
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The Washington National Opera takes on The Jungle Book for it's holiday opera
Jungle Book is the latest in Washington National Opera’s long-running tradition of putting on family-friendly, often original operas during the holiday season.
The mission and commitment to this programming is truly admirable. For one thing, opera’s long-term future depends on younger generations. The potentially imminent extinction of the art form has long been a concern, especially in America, where opera was never as culturally relevant as it had been in many European cities. Peter Gelb, General Manager over at the Metropolitan Opera, has often spoke about taking on his role at a time when the average age of a Met subscriber grew by one year, every year.
But, more generally speaking, the future of everything depends on younger generations, which is why it feels so incredibly important to invest in high quality, high value children’s entertainment; especially at a time when the competition for their attention is in a coldhearted, algorithmically-fueled race to rock bottom.
And if very high quality art for a very young audience is the goal, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is ideal source material to adapt. While Kipling’s legacy can certainly be critiqued, his work treated its young readers with the utmost respect. Published in 1894, the short stories of The Jungle Book convey complex lessons with beautiful prose. The enduring potential of this work is fairly definitively proven by the countless and varied adaptations that have been inspired almost entirely by its opening story, "Mowgli's Brothers."
This iteration, composed by Kamala Sankaram with a libretto by Kelley Rourke, tells a much simplified and revised version of “Mowgli’s Brothers.” The tiger Shere Khan (performed by understudy Nicholas Huff in place of Sahel Salam on press night,) is in pursuit of a human girl, Mowgli (a role alternated between Vivian Warren and Anoushka Sharma,) who has been taken in by a pack of wolf cubs. Led by their strong and empathetic matriarch Raksha (Michelle Mariposa,) and with guidance from their teacher, Baloo the bear (Sergio Martínez,) the wolves unite in hiding Mowgli to keep her safe from Shere Khan, even though she is not technically one of them.
Standing together against the fierce but lonely tiger, the pack is able to able to communally protect Mowgli. Still, the unity of the naturally suspicious wolves around such an outsider seems tenuous at best — except for immediately loyal and loving Little Brother (Declan Fenell.)
After the black panther Bagheera (Kresley Figueroa) tells Mowgli of a red flower—fire, that is—in the human village that even Shere Khan is afraid of, Mowgli elects to run off in the middle of the night in order to wield the red flower and defeat Shere Khan once and for all.
Waking up to find Mowgli gone, many of the wolf cubs believe that Mowgli has abandoned them, validating their initial distrust of her, and the wolf pack splits into two divided tribes. Shere Khan shows up, ready to capitalize on this chaos, when Mowgli reappears, now armed with the red flower that all animals in the jungle fear more than anything else.
Shere Khan is immediately humbled by the red flower. At that point Little Brother suggests that Shere Khan might be happier and less mean if he also had a pack, and so the wolves decide to take in the tiger and his single ally, the Hyena (Viviana Goodwin.) They all sing together about how their differences make them stronger together, and the show ends.
If all this is coming across as surprisingly simple and saccharine to those with some memory of the original story — well, you’re not wrong. In Kipling’s telling, “Mowgli’s Brothers” is a challenging and bittersweet fable about abandonment, found families, and our place as individuals within rigid societies.
Changing the majority of the male roles to female ones is a largely superficial alteration that does little to either augment or diminish the original story. But the dumbing down of its more difficult themes and its less happy ending leaves this Jungle Book feeling dewclawed and toothless.
Gone are Kipling’s immersive and nuanced explorations of the hierarchies and rules that govern the vicious jungle. Gone is Mowgli’s heart-wrenching eviction from the jungle after triumphing over Shere Khan in a way only a man could, further cementing his status as an outsider to the pack. Gone, also, are Kipling’s poetry and prose, replaced by a simple and safe text that asks little from its audience.
It’s disappointing, in the end, that Jungle Book finds itself, like Mowgli, lost between worlds; too childish to hold adults’ interests, too long and operatic to hold childrens’.
It helps then that the production is colorful and lavish. Set designer James Rotondo and lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker give the audience plenty to look at. Erik Teague’s costumes are straightforward but very convincingly convey a large array of creatures and critters.
The uncontested highlight of the production is its cast. The adult soloists sing powerfully with plenty of emotional range and comic timing — Mariposa and Martínez especially. But the kids in the cast are the most impressive.
The Washington National Opera Youth Chorus, centrally on stage for almost the entire runtime, performs with such ease as if they’ve been doing this sort of thing for many more years than they’ve even been alive. This is a Washington National Opera debut for both Sharma and Fennell, which you’d never guess from their assured and confidant leading performances.
So it definitely can’t be said that the production won’t have been an enduringly inspiring and educational experience for the many young artists who have taken part. It’s only a shame that the same can’t necessarily be said for the young audience members watching it.
Jungle Book performs December 13 - 16, 2024 at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. Performances are approximately 80 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.
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If you’re wondering why Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts hasn’t been throwing the ball great lately, we may have found out the reason why.
Hurts told The Associated Press he’s playing with a broken finger on his left, non-throwing hand following a 27-13 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15 in which he went 25-of-32 passing for 290 yards, 2 touchdowns and no interceptions while also rushing for 45 yards and 1 touchdown.
It’s the 10th consecutive win for the Eagles, who improved to 12-2 and have clinched a spot in the NFC playoffs.
From the AP: “It’s broken, and it did impact my play,” Hurts said. ““I’ve known it’s been at the state it’s at all week, and I don’t really want to put too much more into it. I can say I don’t think it got any worse today. If it’s shattered, it’s shattered. It is what it is.”
Hurts apparently hurt his finger in a Week 14 win over the Carolina Panthers in which he was 14-of-21 passing for 108 yards, 2 touchdowns and no interceptions while also rushing for 59 yards and 1 touchdown.
Hurts was listed on the injury report leading up to the game against the Steelers as having an issue with a finger on his left hand.
It was the lowest passing total for Hurts since the regular-season finale in 2023 — a 27-10 loss to the New York Giants in which Hurts also dealt with a finger injury. In that game, he threw for just 55 yards and sat out the second half.
Eagles’ Passing Game Under Fire Within Locker Room
It should not go unsaid that Hurts just went through what was probably one of the toughest weeks of his professional career — in the middle of a winning streak — after wide receivers DeVonta Smith and A.J. Brown called out the passing game after the win over the Panthers.
That talk from the two star wideouts set off a media firestorm that ended with all 3 players having to address the issues with the media multiple times. Veteran linebacker Brandon Graham even had to issue an apology after he weighed in on the drama between his teammates.
Brown (8 receptions, 110 yards) and Smith (11 receptions, 109 yards) both had big games against the Steelers and both scored touchdowns. Brown and Hurts even did a poorly choreographed version of the iconic Kid ‘n Play dance from the 1990 movie “House Party” as a celebration following Brown’s touchdown.
Hurts One of NFL’s Most Durable Quarterbacks
Hurts has been incredibly durable throughout both his college and pro careers.
Since becoming the Eagles’ full time starter in 2021, Hurts has missed just 4 games — 2 games in 2021 with a high ankle sprain and 2 games in 2022 with a shoulder issue. He played all 17 regular-season games for the Eagles in 2023.
Were Hurts be forced to miss any time, his backup is former first-round pick in Kenny Pickett, who the Eagles obtained in a trade with the Steelers in March 2024, sending a pair of 2025 seventh round picks and a 2024 third round pick to Pittsburgh in exchange for Pickett and a 2024 fourth round pick.
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Heartbroken: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan on Zakir Hussain
December 16, 2024 10:39Sarod virtuoso Amjad Ali Khan, sarangi exponent Kamal Sabri as well as film stars Akshay Kumar and Kamal Haasan paid rich tributes to Zakir Hussain, calling the tabla maestro a "phenomenon" and "one of the most loved Indian musician in the world".
Hussain, 73, died at a San Francisco hospital from complications arising out of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the family said on Monday.
"Words fail me at this point," said Amjad Ali Khan in an X post. "I am completely heartbroken and devastated to hear about Zakir Bhai. Ustad Zakir Hussain was a phenomenon. He was indeed one of the most loved musicians the world saw," he wrote.
Sabri called Hussain's death a "great loss" to all forms of music, be it Indian classical or global. "He was an amazing musician who represented Indian music on the global stage for a long time," he told PTI.
"He was an inspiration. It's an irreparable loss... He was the most famous Indian musician world over," classical vocalist Wasifuddin Dagar told PTI. Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar said he is "pained" to know about the multiple award-winning percussionist's death.
"He was truly a treasure for our country's musical heritage. Om Shanti," he wrote on X.
"Maestro forever," Kareena Kapoor Khan said on Instagram. Kamal Haasan shared a picture of himself with Hussain playing the tabla on social media. "Zakir Bhai! He left too soon. Yet we are grateful for the times he gave us and what he left behind in the form of his art. Goodbye and Thank you," the veteran Tamil actor posted on X. There will never be another Ustad Zakir Hussain, said music composer Vishal Dadlani on Instagram.
Musician Karsh Kale, known primarily for his experimental tabla playing within electronic music contexts, shared an image of a black square on social media set to the instrumental music piece called 'Zakir' by Hussain. The caption read: "No words."
"You made India richer. Thank you for your contribution," wrote BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut on her Instagram Stories alongside an old video of Hussain. According to US-based vocalist Anuradha Palakurthi, Hussain was beyond any gharana, or a musical lineage in Indian classical music. "There are so many gharanas in Hindustani Classical music but I think Zakir Hussain sahab was one man who transcends gharana. He was not of one gharana but of every gharana," Palakurthi told PTI.
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta also condoled the illustrious musician's passing. "The maestro, Ustad Zakir Hussain passed away a few hours ago. Goodbye Ustadji. The man who made the tabla sexy, who brought an accompanying instrument to the forefront is gone. Deepest condolences to his family, fans and students around the globe," Mehta said on X.
On Sunday evening, unconfirmed reports of Hussain's death started doing rounds on social media with many celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Ranveer Singh, Nimrat Kaur, Riteish Deshmukh, and Anupam Kher falling prey to speculation. -- PTI
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What’s next for the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
By Ashley R. Williams, Gloria Pazmino, Kaitlan Collins, Rebekah Riess, Chris Boyette, Dalia Faheid and Kara Scannell, CNN
(CNN) — The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in Manhattan remains in a Pennsylvania state prison, while a possible indictment looms in New York as a grand jury considers evidence on charges he faces there, including one count of murder.
Luigi Mangione, who faces a possible sentence of 15 years to life in prison if convicted on the charge of second-degree murder, is set to appear in a Pennsylvania court for a preliminary hearing next week on state charges following his December 9 arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona.
Mangione, 26, has been fighting extradition to New York after being accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Friday it is possible the suspect could soon waive his right to fight being handed over to New York authorities.
“Indications are that the defendant may waive, but that waiver is not complete until a court proceeding, which my understanding from court officials in Pennsylvania cannot happen until Tuesday,” Bragg said. “So until that time, we’re going to continue to press forward on parallel paths and we’ll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he’s going to contest extradition.”
Here are the latest developments in the case:
- After a San Francisco Police Department officer recognized Mangione from a surveillance photo as the possible suspect on December 5, the day after the shooting, they shared the tip with the FBI.
- Mangione has retained attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Manhattan prosecutor, to represent him in New York.
- A Center for Internet Security report released Saturday found “widespread support” of Thompson’s killing could lead to potential copycats of the shooting likely to feel “emboldened and encouraged.”
- A defense fund set up on Mangione’s behalf raised more than $115,000 by Sunday, according to a campaign page on GiveSendGo. It is unclear whether his defense team will accept the funds.
Authorities tracked down Mangione in Altoona last week after being alerted he looked similar to the person who gunned down Thompson in front of a Midtown Manhattan hotel as the health care executive prepared to attend his company’s investors’ conference.
Mangione faces charges in both Pennsylvania and New York. He remains in custody in Pennsylvania Monday on charges related to a gun and fake ID police say they found at the time of his arrest.
In New York, prosecutors have charged him with one count of second-degree murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to online court documents.
Investigators in New York believe Mangione, a former high school valedictorian and Ivy League graduate born into a well-to-do family, appeared to be driven by anger against the health insurance industry and “corporate greed,” according to an NYPD intelligence report obtained by CNN.
Mangione is scheduled to appear at a hearing in Pennsylvania on December 30 in response to his petitions for writ of habeas corpus and imposition of bail, court documents from Thursday show. The habeas corpus petition is a key factor in whether Mangione can be extradited to New York.
Thomas Dickey, Mangione’s attorney in Pennsylvania, denied his client’s involvement in Thompson’s killing and said he anticipates a not guilty plea from Mangione to the charges he faces in New York.
Dickey also said Mangione, who was denied bail last Tuesday at an extradition hearing, plans to plead not guilty to the charges in Pennsylvania.
Following Bragg’s comments on Mangione possibly backing down from the extradition fight, CNN has sought comment from Dickey regarding whether he and his client have changed their position on extradition.
Mounting evidence against suspect, authorities say
New York authorities have executed as many as three search warrants as part of their investigation, including at least two warrants for a backpack found in Central Park and a burner phone discovered along Mangione’s believed getaway route away from the crime scene, sources told CNN.
The mounting evidence against the suspect accused of killing Thompson, authorities say, includes a 3D-printed gun they allege Mangione had when he was arrested, which matches three shell casings found at the crime scene.
Mangione’s fingerprints match those found on items near the scene, New York City’s police commissioner has said, and investigators discovered a three-page handwritten “claim of responsibility” and writings in a spiral notebook pointing to the suspect’s involvement, a law enforcement source briefed on the matter told CNN.
Three 9 mm shell casings from the crime scene had the words “delay,” “deny” and “depose” written on them, according to NYPD’s Chief Detective Joseph Kenny. The words are similar to a title of a 2010 book critiquing the insurance industry.
Dickey has said he wants to see the ballistics and fingerprint evidence for himself.
“Those two sciences, in and of themselves, have come under some criticism in the past, relative to their credibility, their truthfulness, their accuracy, however you want to do it,” Dickey said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Wednesday.
Business leaders to discuss safety in wake of Thompson killing
The office of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is convening business leaders and law enforcement to discuss safety this week.
Kathryn Garcia, Hochul’s director of operations and infrastructure, will hold a call with several business leaders and law enforcement on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the governor’s office told CNN.
Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit organization which represents New York City’s global business leaders and major employers, told CNN the call will include top State Police officials and counterterrorism law enforcement.
A source familiar with the planning told CNN the state is also considering setting up a hotline for CEOs so they can call to report security concerns or threats.
The hope is the call will “provide a forum for questions and sharing of best practices regarding threats to business leaders around the city,” Wylde said.
Approximately 200 people, mostly security people as well as some CEOs are expected to join, according to Wylde.
The call comes as C-suite leaders across the country are left shaken in the wake of Thompson’s killing and reassessing preparedness for potential threats.
The NYPD, in an intelligence report obtained by CNN last week, said it believed Thompson’s killing was a “symbolic takedown” and could inspire others to act violently toward business leaders.
CNN’s Jason Hanna, Karina Tsui, Steve Almasy, Andy Rose, Brynn Gingras, Michelle Watson, Bonney Kapp, Dakin Andone, Emma Tucker, Meg Tirrell and Jason Carroll contributed to this report.
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Lewis Hails Vettel as 'Great Champion'
Lewis Hamilton hailed F1 rival Sebastian Vettel as a great champion, only days after suggesting the German's dominance was sending fans to sleep.
SEOUL: Lewis Hamilton hailed Formula One rival Sebastian Vettel as a great champion on Tuesday, only days after suggesting the German's dominance was sending fans to sleep.
The Mercedes driver told his 1.7 million followers on Twitter that he felt a need to clarify his thoughts about Red Bull's runaway championship leader and winner of the last four races.
"Seb is great champion!!," he declared on his feed (@LewisHamilton). "Not only that, he is a great human being who is funny and humble. Deserves all the success he is having.
"I admire his dedication & ability to consistently perform without mistakes. This is the mark of a true champion," added the Briton, who won the 2008 title with McLaren before Vettel had won the first of his three to date.
Vettel, who does not use Twitter, has a 77-point lead over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in the championship with five races remaining and can clinch his fourth successive title in Japan this weekend.
"Regardless of what you & I may think about his car, at the end of the day he's doing the perfect job," continued Hamilton, whose earlier comments triggered a rash of newspaper headlines. "I'm just grateful I get to drive in an era with so many great drivers like him."
The Briton had told reporters after finishing fifth in Sunday's Korean Grand Prix won by Vettel that the 26-year-old's dominance would have been a turnoff for some fans.
"Personally, I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning," he had said. "I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today."
Hamilton is no stranger to apologies and U-turns performed after Twitter gaffes.
Last year, he apologised to then-McLaren teammate Jenson Button after the Japanese Grand Prix for accusing him of disrespect by 'unfollowing' him only to find out that his compatriot never had followed him.
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Bansko Kicks Off Ski Season with Optimism for Growth in Bulgarian Winter Tourism
Bulgaria is gearing up for significant growth in winter tourism as the country prepares to open the new ski season in Bansko
On December 16, Bulgaria will experience windy conditions with moderate to high wind speeds and strong gusts, particularly in the Danubian Plain. Winds will blow predominantly from the west-northwest. The day will be mostly sunny, though Northern Bulgaria is expected to see more pronounced cloudy periods in the afternoon. Morning temperatures will range between minus 3°C and plus 2°C, with Sofia expected to record lows around 1°C. Daytime highs will vary from 5°C to 10°C, with Sofia reaching about 5°C. Atmospheric pressure will rise significantly, exceeding the average for December.
Along the seacoast, the weather will be windy but mostly sunny. The wind, blowing from the west-northwest, will range from moderate to temporarily strong. Daytime temperatures will range from 7°C to 9°C, while sea water temperatures will be between 10°C and 12°C. Sea waves are expected to reach 2 to 3 degrees on the Douglas scale.
In the mountains, windy conditions will prevail, with moderate to strong winds blowing from the north-northwest. Cloud cover will vary throughout the day, often becoming thick in the afternoon over the Balkan Range, though no precipitation is expected. Temperatures will reach highs of 3°C at 1,200 meters above sea level and minus 2°C at 2,000 meters.
Source: National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH)
This weekend, Bulgaria is expected to experience snow and ice, with temperatures hovering around freezing
At the recommendation of WWF Bulgaria, two new protected areas have been declared in the country, the Ministry of Environment and Water has announced
The weather on December 13 will feature mostly sunny conditions in the western and central regions of Bulgaria
Wednesday’s weather across Bulgaria is expected to be predominantly sunny
Overnight, light rain showers are expected, with no significant precipitation forecasted during the day
On December 10, the weather across Bulgaria is expected to be mostly cloudy with periods of rain
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Stralis Aircraft completes hydrogen-electric powered propellor spin test at Brisbane Airport
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Brisbane Airport confirmed that Stralis Aircraft received funding from Australia's Government to convert a Beechcraft Bonanza into a hydrogen-electric aircraft, with plans for a test flight in 20251. Stralis Aircraft plans to retrofit a Beech 1900D aircraft for Skytrans to launch flights from Brisbane to Gladstone in 20262. The development is part of a collaboration to support Australia's first hydrogen-powered flight3 2.
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New Delhi, December 16: India has seen a record smartphone exports in November this year, surpassing the Rs 20,000 crore mark for the first time in a month, which was led by Apple. According to industry data, smartphone exports crossed Rs 20,300 crore, a more than 90 per cent rise from the same period last year. Apple led the exports last month, followed by Samsung. In November last year, the smartphone exports from the country was over Rs 10,600 crore, as per the industry data.
The smartphone market in the country is expected to exit 2024 with a single-digit annual growth. Meanwhile, riding on the government's production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, Apple’s iPhone production in the country reached $10 billion in the seven months of this fiscal (FY25), with $7 billion in exports alone which is a record. Moto G35 5G Sale Begins Today in India; Check Specifications, Features and Price of New Motorola Budget Smartphone.
The tech giant manufactured/assembled $14 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal (FY24), with exporting more than $10 billion worth of iPhones. According to Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, this is yet another milestone for the smartphone PLI scheme in 7 months. "$10 billion iPhone production by Apple with $7 billion exports.
Total smartphone exports from Bharat crossed $10.6 billion in 7 months," the minister had posted on X last month. India’s smartphone market is estimated to grow 7-8 per cent this year, driven by strong demand for premium, 5G and AI smartphones. The mobile handset market in India is expected to maintain steady growth. Apple’s Chipset Shipments Increases 18% Globally in Q3 Amid Launch of A18 Chipset.
According to industry experts, to achieve the goal of $500 billion local electronics manufacturing by FY30, the industry must prioritise export growth to emerge as one of the top three global exporters in this domain by 2030, led by mobile manufacturing. As per the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) data, mobile phone production surged from Rs 18,900 crore in 2014-15 to an estimated Rs 4.10 lakh crore in FY24, registering an increase of a massive 2,000 per cent, driven by the PLI scheme.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 16, 2024 10:39 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
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1 in 4 parents are using the threat of no gifts to address their children’s behavior, survey finds
By Julianna Bragg, CNN
(CNN) — If your child is riding the line between naughty and nice this holiday season, it may be tempting to use the impending threat of Santa withholding gifts as leverage to curb bad behavior.
One in 4 parents of preschool-age children have used Santa or the threat of no gifts to address misbehavior, according to a new C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health released on Monday.
“It can be a challenge for parents to know the best ways to handle discipline issues, so we wanted to explore their approaches (to see) where they get resources from to help them make decisions about disciplining young children,” said Dr. Susan Woolford, Mott Poll codirector and pediatrician at the University of Michigan Health in Ann Arbor.
The Mott Poll, conducted in August, surveyed 725 parents who have at least one child aged 1 to 5 years old. The margin of error is plus or minus 1 to 6 percentage points.
More than half of the parents polled said they sometimes have used incentives or bribery to encourage good behavior.
Experts warn that both threats and bribes can backfire, encouraging further misbehavior and causing stress for young kids, according to Dr. Michelle Janning, professor of sociology at Whitman College in Washington state.
“Even 5-year-olds look at each other in terms of what cool things they have, and if you don’t get them a present you said you would, it creates a real threat in society where kids scrutinize each other,” Janning said.
Troubles with consistent discipline
Although half of parents polled said they are consistent with disciplining their children, others face challenges in establishing a routine. These difficulties stem from different factors, including their child being too young to comprehend the discipline, the fear of public breakdowns or finding that their strategies just aren’t working.
Thirty-one percent of respondents are apprehensive about disciplining their children in public for fear of tantrums, a concern that Janning suggested may be amplified by the growing concern of negative judgment on social media.
“There’s a different kind of audience assumption about who is watching you and whether it will be scrutinized in a certain way … in all of the reels and TikTok videos of parents doing things to their kids,” Janning said.
It’s important for parents to stick to their planned strategies in these situations, Woolford said. “I think parents would be really surprised at how much empathy they might get from others in a store who could recall when they had to deal with such a situation,” she said.
Parents can also avoid public outings when children are tired or hungry, or when parents are feeling drained to avoid unnecessary frustrations.
Still, Woolford explained that consequences need to be consistent and directly related to the behavior so children can easily understand the connection between the two factors.
Woolford also recommended that parents not use threats to fix misbehavior. “Threats don’t work very well because, in general, parents tend to not follow through with them, and then they lose credibility,” she said, “and children learn there really won’t be any consequence.”
Instead, she encouraged parents to practice positive reinforcement when their child exhibits desired behaviors while also being specific about the actions with which you’re satisfied.
“Rather than saying, ‘Oh, what a good girl,’ you want to say, ‘Wow, that’s so good how you helped Mom pick up the toys,’” Woolford said.
Using specific statements will help children recognize which behaviors you want them to repeat, encouraging them to continue performing those actions to receive more praise.
In addition to words of affirmation, some parents may use rewards as reinforcement. However, if you’re considering this route, Woolford encouraged parents to be careful with the types of incentives they use. For instance, food-related incentives such as candy can create unhealthy associations.
“We really don’t recommend using food as a reward or threat to take it away because, in the long term, it’s often associated with having a poor relationship with food,” Woolford said.
As an alternative, Woolford recommended using natural rewards from activities that your child already enjoys such as more reading time.
Finding your discipline style
Even when parents choose to discipline their children, many are unsure if their methods are effective. Almost 40% of parents believe their techniques are highly successful, while 57% feel they’re only somewhat effective, according to the survey.
The discipline strategies parents choose will also vary greatly with age.
For young children, especially around the age of 1 year, Woolford recommended redirecting them from dangerous behaviors such as touching electrical outlets by offering them a toy or another activity since they may not yet understand why their behavior is inappropriate.
Most parents polled said they’ve turned to a variety of sources for guidance, including family, friends and the child’s other parent, or sought information from parenting books, social media and online articles.
Still, one in 8 parents said they haven’t even thought about the discipline strategies they use with their children, and 42% of parents admit to sometimes spanking their child, a strategy that experts do not recommend.
Many parents are under an immense amount of stress, balancing concerns about time and money, making it difficult to develop new strategies for certain overwhelming behaviors, according to Janning.
For those parents needing extra help, Woolford recommended consulting with your child’s primary care doctor or utilizing the American Academy of Pediatrics parenting site.
“Pediatricians are a good resource, even when someone is just thinking about what their (discipline) plan would be,” Woolford said, “not just when problems.”
Janning also advised parents to follow their instincts and adapt their approaches based on their unique family needs.
“Parents should go easier on themselves and stop shaming each other because it’s a hard enough job as is,” she said.
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SL president given ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan
December 16, 2024 11:23Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was accorded a ceremonial reception at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday, the second day of his state visit to India.
President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
President Dissanayake inspected a Guard of Honour by the combined defence services.
On this occasion, President Droupadi Murmu and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake introduced each other to their respective ministers, diplomats, and officers.
The Sri Lankan President is on a state visit to India from December 15 to December 17.This is the first bilateral visit of Dissanayake to India after assuming office in September.
Earlier on Sunday, the Sri Lankan President was received by Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan in Delhi.
Following his arrival, President Dissanayake also met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.
In a post on X, Dissanayake said, "During my official visit to India, I had the privilege of engaging in productive discussions with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, and National Security Advisor Shri Ajit Doval. Our conversations focused on strengthening Indo-Sri Lanka economic cooperation, enhancing investment opportunities, fostering regional security, and advancing key sectors such as tourism and energy. These engagements reaffirm the commitment to deepening the partnership between our two nations."
Jaishankar, during his meeting with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday, highlighted the island nation's prominent role in India's Neighbourhood First policy and SAGAR Outlook. -- ANI
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PICS: Roger Federer Plays Doubles
Roger Federer paired with Zhang Ze in a doubles match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in China.
Roger Federer paired with Zhang Ze in a doubles match at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in China.
Roger Federer of Switzerland, right listens as his partner China's Zhang Ze during a doubles match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland, right and his partner China's Zhang Ze cheer each other on during a doubles match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland, prepares to return a shot during a doubles match with China's Zhang Ze against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland attempts to block a shot near China's Zhang Ze during a doubles match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round in the doubles match of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland crouches before his partner China's Zhang Ze serves against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round in the doubles match of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland, right chats with his partner China's Zhang Ze during a doubles match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland prepares to play a doubles match with China's Zhang Ze against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round in the doubles match of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
Roger Federer of Switzerland, right chats with his partner China's Zhang Ze during a doubles match against Kevin Anderson of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov of Russia at the first round of the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament at Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Center, in Shanghai, China, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Federer and Zhang won 6-2, 6-1. (Photo: AP)
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Sunwing Airlines receives one 737-800 on wet lease
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Mumbai, December 16: Named Time's 2024 CEO of the Year, Lisa Su, the CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), recently shared insights into the work culture at the USD 210 billion chipmaker. She revealed that weekend work and early morning calls following midnight memos are routine practices at the company.
Lisa Su shared that she considers herself fortunate in the early stages of her career, noting that she took on new challenges every two years. She joined AMD in 2012 as a Vice President, and within just two years, she became the CEO. Today, AMD is valued at USD 210 billion. AMD To Invest USD 400 Million in India With Company’s Design Centre in Bengaluru for 5 Years To Promote R&D: CEO Lisa Su.
Lisa Su expects her executives to thoroughly discuss detailed documents during morning calls, even after distributing them at midnight. She is also known for personally reviewing prototype chips upon their delivery from the factory. AMD Confirms Acquistion of ZT Systems for USD 4.9 Billion To Address USD 400 Billion Data Center AI Accelerator Opportunity in 2027.
Who is Lisa Su?
Lisa Su is the CEO of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), a leading chipmaking company. She became CEO in 2014, taking over at a time when the company was struggling with financial issues and lagging behind competitors like Intel and Nvidia. With her strong technical background in electrical engineering, she focused on innovation, working hard to develop new products that could compete in the market.
Su was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States at a young age. She grew up in New York City and showed an early interest in technology. After earning degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, she worked at companies like Texas Instruments and IBM before becoming a leader at AMD.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 16, 2024 09:58 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).
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2024 was big for bitcoin. States could see a crypto policy blitz in 2025 in spite of the risks
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses that, together, could push states to become more open to crypto and for public pension funds and treasuries to buy into it.
Proponents of the uniquely volatile commodity argue it is a valuable hedge against inflation, similar to gold.
Many bitcoin enthusiasts and investors are quick to criticize government-backed currencies as prone to devaluation and say increased government buy-in will stabilize bitcoin’s future price swings, give it more legitimacy and further boost an already rising price.
But the risks are significant. Critics say a crypto investment is highly speculative, with so much unknown about projecting its future returns, and warn that investors should be prepared to lose money.
Only a couple public pension funds have invested in cryptocurrency and a new U.S. Government Accountability Office study on 401(k) plan investments in crypto, issued in recent days, warned it has “uniquely high volatility” and that it found no standard approach for projecting the future returns of crypto.
It has already been a landmark year for crypto, with bitcoin hitting $100,000, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approving the first exchange-traded funds that hold bitcoin and crypto enthusiasts being cheered by Trump’s promise to make the United States the “bitcoin superpower” of the world.
More legislation on crypto could be coming
Lawmakers in more states can expect to see bills in 2025 to make them crypto-friendly as analysts say crypto is becoming a powerful lobby, bitcoin miners build new installations and venture capitalists underwrite a growing tech sector that caters to cryptocurrencies.
Meanwhile, a new crypto-friendly federal government under Trump and Congress could consider legislation from Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, to create a federal bitcoin reserve on which states can piggyback.
A bill introduced last month in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives sought to authorize the state’s treasurer and public pension funds to invest in bitcoin. It went nowhere before the legislative session ended, but it caused a stir.
“I had a friend who is a rep down the road text me, ‘Oh my god, I’m getting so many emails and phone calls to my office,’ more than he ever did about any other bill,” said the measure’s sponsor, Republican Mike Cabell.
Cabell — a bitcoin enthusiast who lost his reelection bid — expects his bill to be reintroduced by a colleague. And leaders of bitcoin advocacy group Satoshi Action say they expect bills based on their model bill to be introduced in at least 10 other states next year.
But what about public pension funds?
Keith Brainard, research director for the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, said he doesn’t expect many public pension fund investment professionals, who oversee nearly $6 trillion in assets, to invest in crypto.
Pension fund professionals take risks they deem to be appropriate, but bitcoin investing has a short track record, might only fit into a niche asset class and may not fit the risk-to-reward profile they seek.
“There might be a bit of dabbling in bitcoin,” Brainard said. “But it’s difficult to envision a scenario in which pension funds right now are willing to make a commitment.”
In Louisiana, Treasurer John Fleming helped make the state the first to introduce a system by which people can pay a government agency in cryptocurrencies.
Fleming said he’s not trying to promote cryptocurrency, but rather sees the step as a recognition that government must innovate and be flexible in helping people make financial transactions with the state. He said he would never invest his money, or the state’s, in crypto.
Fleming recalled meeting with a bitcoin lobbyist recently and came away unconvinced that bitcoin makes for a good investment.
“My concern is that at some point it’ll stop growing and then people will want to cash in,” Fleming said. “And when they do, it could tank the value of a bitcoin.”
In Pennsylvania, Treasury Department officials said they have the authority to decide for themselves if cryptocurrencies meet the agency’s investment standards under state law and don’t need new legislation.
Still, a highly volatile asset is ill-suited to the agency’s need for predictability, considering it writes millions of checks a year. The overwhelming majority of the roughly $60 billion it invests at any given time is in short-term, conservative investments designed for an investment period of months, officials there said.
Pension boards, which invest on a 30-year time horizon, may already hold small investments in companies involved in mining, trading and storing cryptocurrencies. But they have been slow to embrace bitcoin.
That could change, said Mark Palmer, managing director and a senior research analyst at The Benchmark Company in New York.
Pension boards got investment tools they like this year when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the first exchange-traded funds that hold bitcoin and, in October, approved listings of options on those funds, Palmer said.
Many “are likely in the process of getting up to speed on what it means to invest in bitcoin and kicking the tires, so to speak, and that’s a process that typically takes a while at the institutional level,” Palmer said.
Several major asset managers like BlackRock, Invesco and Fidelity have bitcoin ETFs.
Some states already are investing in crypto
In May, the State of Wisconsin Investment Board became the first state to invest when it bought $160 million worth of shares in two ETFs, or about 0.1% of its assets. It later scaled back that investment to $104 million in one ETF, as of Sept. 30. A spokesperson declined to discuss it.
Michigan’s state investment board later reported about $18 million in bitcoin ETF purchases while a candidate for New Jersey governor, Steven Fulop, said that if elected he would push the state’s pension fund to invest in crypto.
Fulop, the Democratic mayor of Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, has been preparing for months to buy bitcoin ETF shares for up to 2% of the city’s $250 million employee pension fund.
“We were ahead of the curve,” Fulop said. “And I think that’s what you’re eventually going to see is this is widely accepted, with regard to exposure in all pension funds, some sort of exposure.”
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Teen scolded for screen time runs away; found dead
December 16, 2024 11:17Representational image
A 15-year-old girl, who left her house earlier this month after her mother reprimanded her for spending too much time on mobile phone, was found dead in a creek after nine days in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.
The girl resided with her family in Dombivli area in Thane district.
On December 5, her mother asked her not to spend too much time on her mobile phone and rather pay attention to her studies. The girl, in a fit of anger, later left the house, the official from Vishnu Nagar police station said.
After failing to find her, her family members filed a missing complaint with the local police the next day. The police subsequently registered an FIR on charges of kidnapping.
According to the official, the police had also got a message that on December 5, a girl jumped into a creek from Motagaon bridge in Dombivli.
On Saturday afternoon, a body was in the creek and was identified as that of the teenager by her family members, he said. The body was later sent for postmortem to a government hospital and a case of accidental death was registered, the police said, adding a probe was on into the girl's death. PTI
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Swissport workers at Leeds Bradford Airport call off industrial action
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Maria Withdraws From WTA Championships
Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova has reportedly withdrawn from the season-ending Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Championships in Istanbul on Monday due to an injury on her right shoulder which has nagged her before US Open.
JOHANNESBURG: Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova has reportedly withdrawn from the season-ending Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Championships in Istanbul on Monday due to an injury on her right shoulder which has nagged her before US Open.
The world number three, who had to withdraw from the US Open because of the injury and a previous hip problem, has played just one match since a second round exit at Wimbledon in June.
Confirming her withdrawal, Sharapova said that she would miss the energy, passion, warmth and excitement which the fans in Istanbul bring to the year-end tournament, adding that she is hoping to play in Turkey sometime in the future, Sport24 reports.
Meanwhile, the WTA announced that Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, Italy's Sara Errani and Serbian player Jelena Jankovic will join the already qualified Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwanska and Chinese star Li Na in the season-end tournament, which will take place from October 22-27.
The WTA Championships, which features the top eight singles players and the top four doubles pairings competing for a record six million dollars in prize money, is being hosted in Istanbul for a third successive year, the report added.
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As schools cut back on bus service, parents are turning to rideshare apps
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool.
On the way across Chicago, El-Amin’s daughter spotted a classmate riding with her own dad as they drove to their selective public school on the city’s North Side. For 40 minutes, they rode along the same congested highway.
“They’re waving to each other in the back. I’m looking at the dad. The dad’s looking at me. And I was like, parents can definitely be a resource to parents,” said El-Amin, who went on to found Piggyback Network, a service parents can use to book rides for their children.
Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods. As responsibility for transportation shifts to families, the question of how to replace the traditional yellow bus has become an urgent problem for some, and a spark for innovation.
State and local governments decide how widely to offer school bus service. Lately, more have been cutting back. Only about 28% of U.S. students take a school bus, according to a Federal Highway Administration survey concluded early last year. That’s down from about 36% in 2017.
Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s fourth-largest district, has significantly curbed bus service in recent years. It still offers rides for disabled and homeless students, in line with a federal mandate, but most families are on their own. Only 17,000 of the district’s 325,000 students are eligible for school bus rides.
Last week, the school system launched a pilot program allowing some students who attend out-of-neighborhood magnet or selective-enrollment schools to catch a bus at a nearby school’s “hub stop.” It aims to start with rides for about 1,000 students by the end of the school year.
It’s not enough to make up for the lost service, said Erin Rose Schubert, a volunteer for the CPS Parents for Buses advocacy group.
“The people who had the money and the privilege were able to figure out other situations like rearranging their work schedules or public transportation,” she said. “People who didn’t, some had to pull their kids out of school.”
On Piggyback Network, parents can book a ride for their student online with another parent traveling the same direction. Rides cost roughly 80 cents per mile and the drivers are compensated with credits to use for their own kids’ rides.
“It’s an opportunity for kids to not be late to school,” 15-year-old Takia Phillips said on a recent PiggyBack ride with El-Amin as the driver.
The company has arranged a few hundred rides in its first year operating in Chicago, and El-Amin has been contacting drivers for possible expansion to Virginia, North Carolina and Texas. It is one of several startups that have been filling the void.
Unlike Piggyback Network, which connects parents, HopSkipDrive contracts directly with school districts to assist students without reliable transportation. The company launched a decade ago in Los Angeles with three mothers trying to coordinate school carpools and now supports some 600 school districts in 13 states.
Regulations keep it from operating in some states, including Kentucky, where a group of Louisville students has been lobbying on its behalf to change that.
After the district halted bus service to most traditional and magnet schools, the student group known as The Real Young Prodigys wrote a hip-hop song titled “Where My Bus At?” The song’s music video went viral on YouTube with lyrics such as, “I’m a good kid. I stay in class, too. Teachers want me to succeed, but I can’t get to school.”
“Those bus driver shortages are not really going away,” HopSkipDrive CEO Joanna McFarland said. “This is a structural change in the industry we need to get serious about addressing.”
HopSkipDrive has been a welcome option for Reinya Gibson’s son, Jerren Samuel, who attends a small high school in Oakland, California. She said the school takes care to accommodate his needs as a student with autism, but the district lined up the transportation because there is no bus from their home in San Leandro.
“Growing up, people used to talk about kids in the short yellow buses. They were associated with a physical disability, and they were teased or made fun of,” Gibson said. “Nobody knows this is support for Jerren because he can’t take public transportation.”
Encouragement from his mother helped Jerren overcame his fear about riding with a stranger to school.
“I felt really independent getting in that car,” he said.
Companies catering to kids claim to screen drivers more extensively, checking their fingerprints and requiring them to have childcare or parenting experience. Drivers and children are often given passwords that must match, and parents can track a child’s whereabouts in real time through the apps.
Kango, a competitor to HopSkipDrive in California and Arizona, started as a free carpooling app similar to the PiggyBack Network and now contracts with school districts. Drivers are paid more than they would typically get for Uber or Lyft, but there are often more requirements such as walking some students with disabilities into school, Kango CEO Sara Schaer said.
“This is not just a curbside-to-curbside, three-minute situation,” Schaer said. “You are responsible for getting that kid to and from school. That’s not the same as transporting an adult or DoorDashing somebody’s lunch or dinner.”
In Chicago, some families that have used Piggyback said they have seen few alternatives.
Concerned about the city’s rising crime rate, retired police officer Sabrina Beck never considered letting her son take the subway to Whitney Young High School. Since she was driving him anyway, she volunteered through PiggyBack also to drive a freshman who had qualified for the selective magnet school but had no way to get there.
“To have the opportunity to go and then to miss it because you don’t have the transportation, that is so detrimental,” Beck said. “Options like this are extremely important.”
After the bus route that took her two kids to elementary school was canceled, Jazmine Dillard and other Chicago parents thought they had convinced the school to move up the opening bell from 8:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., a more manageable time for her schedule. After that plan was scrapped because the buses were needed elsewhere at that time, Dillard turned to PiggyBack Network.
“We had to kind of pivot and find a way to make it to work on time as well as get them to school on time,” she said.
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Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport introduces live kerbside wait times feature
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We Need To Tax Billionaires: Piketty
December 16, 2024 10:34French economist Thomas Piketty said countries should emulate the progressive wealth taxes of some European nations in the 20th century and formulate a similar tax system in the global context.
"Billionaires and progressive wealth taxes were part of the progressive tax package introduced in many European countries in the 20th century to finance their welfare state and public services. We just need to do the same in the 21st century, in a more global context," he said in an email reply to a question.
Many European countries such as Sweden, France, Germany, Norway and Netherlands -- in the 20th century -- imposed taxes, including taxes on high incomes, inheritances, and wealth to redistribute resources and reduce inequality. While these taxes played a role in funding welfare States, many countries phased out or reduced wealth taxes in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
This was due to capital flight and tax avoidance, administrative difficulties in valuing wealth accurately and shift in economic policy toward less redistributive models. Some European countries like Norway and Spain still retain forms of wealth taxation, while others, like France, have restructured their approach to target specific assets, such as real estate, rather than broad wealth. India abolished wealth tax in 2015, holding that it had become burdensome to the administration without substantial collections.
And, it was replaced with a 2 per cent surcharge on persons declaring more than Rs 1 crore income. Piketty has been advocating wealth tax on the ultra-rich to finance social infrastructure like health and education.
-- Asit Ranjan Mishra/Business Standard
Also read: 'Taxing Billionaires Is Not A Bad Idea'
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Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 10,000 Jobs
Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent plans to reduce its staff by 10,000 as part of a cost-cutting drive to save 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) by 2015, Les Echos and Le Figaro newspapers reported on their websites.
PARIS: Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent plans to reduce its staff by 10,000 as part of a cost-cutting drive to save 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) by 2015, Les Echos and Le Figaro newspapers reported on their websites.
The group, which employs 72,000 staff worldwide, will axe 15,000 posts but create 5,000 new jobs, the newspapers said.
The company intends to cut 900 net posts in France, or roughly 10 percent of the domestic workforce, as well as closing sites at Rennes and Toulouse, and selling plants at Eu and Ormes, Les Echos said.
Le Figaro said the cuts would hit all regions, with 4,100 planned in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 3,800 in Asia, and 2,100 in the Americas. A spokeswoman for Alcatel-Lucent declined to comment.
The cuts are part of an effort by Michel Combes, who took the helm of Alcatel-Lucent in April, to streamline the company to focus on fewer products so as to reverse losses. The group, which competes with larger rivals Ericsson, of Sweden, China's Huawei and Finland's Nokia, has posted five straight quarters of net losses.
Last year it swung to a net loss of 1.2 billion euros - the biggest since 2008 - largely because of a writedown on its mobile unit and restructuring costs from an earlier plan to lay off 5,000 workers.
Combes, who used to run telecom giant Vodafone's European businesses, is the third CEO to try to right Alcatel. He said in June when announcing his turnaround plan, which also calls for 1 billion euros of unspecified asset sales by 2015, that the group needed to bring its cost structure in line with peers.
The layoff plan is the latest in a series at Alcatel-Lucent. In autumn 2012, it announced moves to trim 5,000 workers from its base of 76,000 at the time, with the heaviest burden falling in France.
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Photographs are the best tangible depictions of moments frozen in time. And thanks to current digital technology, anyone can capture a fascinating snapshot and share it with the online world for posterity.
These images are excellent examples. We’ve collected eye-catching pictures from various subreddits, each representing perspectives from different people. Many of these are mundane life snippets presented in a way that grabs attention. You may take a few double-takes as you browse through.
Enjoy scrolling, and hopefully, this makes your day more interesting.
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Grandmas Delicious 21 Layer Jello
I Like To Make Little Drawings Of People That I See
My Grandparents Have A Glassed-Over Well In Their Kitchen
Well, well, well, what have we here? A well? Oh well. It's awesome 👍
We’re living in the age of social media, where anyone can be a photographer in their own right. With the slew of selfies and landscape snapshots on Instagram feeds, standing out would be a challenge.
If you want a photo that grabs attention, UK-based photographer Victoria Tapper says it’s about making your personality stand out.
“Let them see ‘normality’ in action, especially when it comes to your surroundings, what you wear and how you really work, then beautifully photograph it,” Tapper wrote in an article for LinkedIn.
The Sun Hit This Freshly-Paved Tarmac Just Right And Made A Real-Life Rainbow Road Through Polarized Lenses
I Built A Miniature Audience Out Of Ads I Got In The Mail
The social media age also brought on many “plastic” personalities where people often mask their true selves. However, everyone else tends to see through the artificiality, which is why Tapper pushes for authenticity.
“Be proud of your individuality and quirkiness, it’s what makes you unique. Show your weaknesses and failings and you’ll be loved for it,” she stated.
Found The Cliff This Clif Bar Came From
The Corrosion On This Water Tap Looks Like A Map
I Made A Hidden Glow-In-The-Dark Galaxy In My Resin Kitchen Floor
But what makes a good photograph? According to events photographer Ivan Martinez, it’s not necessarily about achieving perfection in a technical sense. Rather, it’s about making your unique view of the world stand out.
“Making a great photo is a matter of being creative and being able to apply your personal drive to your pictures,” Martinez wrote in his personal blog, adding that a “great” photo is born out of inspiration, which you find through practice and exploration.
This Restaurant Named "Thai Food Near Me"
These Wild Burros Hang Out In My Neighborhood Often
This Caterpillar That Looks Like An Anime With Wet Eyes My Nephew Found Today
She's pretending to be a snake, now fear the snake worm and then release her!
However, that isn’t to say that technical abilities don’t play a role. Martinez provided some tips on using different color combinations and tones. According to him, warmer hues are often used to project gentleness and romance.
On the other hand, harsher colors often convey stronger emotions like danger, passion, and fear.
My Friends Giant Sunflower
Clouds I Caught At The Right Angle
Last Night My Wife's Uber Had A Duck In It
Now, we would like to hear from you. Which of these photographs connected with you the most and why? Was there a particular element that resonated? Comment your thoughts below!
This Black Car Looks Like A Mirror After Being Washed
My Friend’s Smoked Cauliflower Looks Like An Explosion
Painted Electrical Boxes To Match Bricks
The Pilot In My Flight Had To Dump Fuel Before Emergency Landing. That’s How It Looks Like
I Got A Warning For Leaving My Laptop Unattended In The Library
I Have A Hereditary Gap In My Eyebrow
The Guy Who Does The Grass For My Building Left A Rectangle Of Wild Flowers So The Bees Can Use Them
The Chain Of Starburst Wrappers I've Been Building For Three Years
I remember seeing people doing this with chewing gum wrappers when I was growing up. Don't know if people still does this with chewing gum wrappers today?
Vending Machine At Work Made An Error And Distributed Everything All At Once
My Dog And I Have The Same Hair
My husband and dog also have the same hair and beard (my dog is a miniature schnauzer). He is an example of someone who looks like their pet
I Have A Tile Of Uranium Glass
My 2x4 Came From The Very Center Of The Tree
This Window That Makes My Back Yard Look Like It’s In 4 Different Seasons
This Tree Looks Like Straight Up Broccoli
A Storm Literally Picked Up And Moved This Road
The base of the road is still there. Doesn't look like they put a very thick layer of asphalt down.
This Morning Reflection From My Front Door
A Camera-Less iPhone Issued To My Buddy That Works At A Nuclear Plant. No Cameras Allowed
My View Of The New Volcano Eruption In Iceland
6ft Cheese Wheel At Local Market
This Purely Golden Bee Landed On My Car Today
My Grandfather’s Retirement Home Has An Emotional Support Skunk That Comes In
The Logo On My Umbrella Only Shows Up When Wet
These Water Jugs Look Like They're Getting Married
Today I Saw A Woman Walking Her Child On A Leash And Her Dog Without A Leash
Surprised considering the dog is a Corgi and they have minds of their own. I inherited a Corgi last year. My Zoe is much better behaved. 😉
My Uber Driver Offered A Conversation “Menu” For His Ride
My Hotel Phone In Iceland Has A Special Button That Will Wake You Up If There Are Northern Lights In The Sky
Two, Random, Yet Almost Identical, Boomers
Eagerly awaiting folks to be as eager to id and mock the Silent Gen, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z. Alpha’s still a bit young.
My Lava Lamp Threw Me The Peace Sign Today
Bubbles In My Coffee This Morning
This Blue Stop Sign I Randomly Encountered Today
The Intense Colors Of This Gym Rainbow
Entrance To A Furniture Store My Dad And Stepmom Checked Out Today
Saw The North Sentinel Island While On The Return Flight From Port Blair, South Andaman
Got A Cashew Fruit As Gift Today
I Built The ~$800 LEGO Millennium Falcon Set Out Of Parts I Already Had
My Parents’ Christmas Tree Is 25 Years Old, Still Using The Same Box It Came With
Had one of those. Started to smell really bad and my cats had chewed all the “needles” off the bottom branches. Real tree was the way to go. Smells better and the cats don’t eat it
My Rice Pointing Upwards After Cooking
My Neighbors Pig Wandered Into My Yard
That’s How Birds Are X-Rayed !!
The Biggest Tires I've Ever Seen!
The Inside Of A Water Tower Tank
1977 vs. 2003 vs. 2017 Hundred Dollar Bills
My Bank Sent Me 64 Copies Of The Same Debit Card
My Friend Met A Stranger At A Wedding That Looked Just Like Him And Was Wearing The Same Thing
This Tree Grew Over The Sign, But Under The Paint
How is that possible? Wouldn’t it be more likely that someone repainted over it?
TV Light Simulator
This Fallen Post Looks Like A Discarded Cigarette
Southern Los Angeles Looks Like A Computer Motherboard
My Left Eyebrow Is Suddenly Turning White
My Daughter’s Freckles Are In A Straight Line
The Dog I'm Sitting Looks Like Scooby Doo
Thomas Edison's Last Breath, Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Mich. (4000x3000)
Flying Over Antartica From Chile To Australia
Was At The Beach And Found A Shell With Barnacles On It That Makes It Look Like An Anatomically Correct Heart
My Friends Cat Got Shaved At The Vet And Now She Looks Like A Game Of Exquisite Corpse
Our Cat Mia, Rests Her Front Paws On Her Tail To Keep Them Off A Cold Surface
My cat does this but when she’s sat on carpet too, I wonder if it’s a comforter?
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As schools cut back on bus service, parents are turning to rideshare apps
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool.
On the way across Chicago, El-Amin’s daughter spotted a classmate riding with her own dad as they drove to their selective public school on the city’s North Side. For 40 minutes, they rode along the same congested highway.
“They’re waving to each other in the back. I’m looking at the dad. The dad’s looking at me. And I was like, parents can definitely be a resource to parents,” said El-Amin, who went on to found Piggyback Network, a service parents can use to book rides for their children.
Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods. As responsibility for transportation shifts to families, the question of how to replace the traditional yellow bus has become an urgent problem for some, and a spark for innovation.
State and local governments decide how widely to offer school bus service. Lately, more have been cutting back. Only about 28% of U.S. students take a school bus, according to a Federal Highway Administration survey concluded early last year. That’s down from about 36% in 2017.
Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s fourth-largest district, has significantly curbed bus service in recent years. It still offers rides for disabled and homeless students, in line with a federal mandate, but most families are on their own. Only 17,000 of the district’s 325,000 students are eligible for school bus rides.
Last week, the school system launched a pilot program allowing some students who attend out-of-neighborhood magnet or selective-enrollment schools to catch a bus at a nearby school’s “hub stop.” It aims to start with rides for about 1,000 students by the end of the school year.
It’s not enough to make up for the lost service, said Erin Rose Schubert, a volunteer for the CPS Parents for Buses advocacy group.
“The people who had the money and the privilege were able to figure out other situations like rearranging their work schedules or public transportation,” she said. “People who didn’t, some had to pull their kids out of school.”
On Piggyback Network, parents can book a ride for their student online with another parent traveling the same direction. Rides cost roughly 80 cents per mile and the drivers are compensated with credits to use for their own kids’ rides.
“It’s an opportunity for kids to not be late to school,” 15-year-old Takia Phillips said on a recent PiggyBack ride with El-Amin as the driver.
The company has arranged a few hundred rides in its first year operating in Chicago, and El-Amin has been contacting drivers for possible expansion to Virginia, North Carolina and Texas. It is one of several startups that have been filling the void.
Unlike Piggyback Network, which connects parents, HopSkipDrive contracts directly with school districts to assist students without reliable transportation. The company launched a decade ago in Los Angeles with three mothers trying to coordinate school carpools and now supports some 600 school districts in 13 states.
Regulations keep it from operating in some states, including Kentucky, where a group of Louisville students has been lobbying on its behalf to change that.
After the district halted bus service to most traditional and magnet schools, the student group known as The Real Young Prodigys wrote a hip-hop song titled “Where My Bus At?” The song’s music video went viral on YouTube with lyrics such as, “I’m a good kid. I stay in class, too. Teachers want me to succeed, but I can’t get to school.”
“Those bus driver shortages are not really going away,” HopSkipDrive CEO Joanna McFarland said. “This is a structural change in the industry we need to get serious about addressing.”
HopSkipDrive has been a welcome option for Reinya Gibson’s son, Jerren Samuel, who attends a small high school in Oakland, California. She said the school takes care to accommodate his needs as a student with autism, but the district lined up the transportation because there is no bus from their home in San Leandro.
“Growing up, people used to talk about kids in the short yellow buses. They were associated with a physical disability, and they were teased or made fun of,” Gibson said. “Nobody knows this is support for Jerren because he can’t take public transportation.”
Encouragement from his mother helped Jerren overcame his fear about riding with a stranger to school.
“I felt really independent getting in that car,” he said.
Companies catering to kids claim to screen drivers more extensively, checking their fingerprints and requiring them to have childcare or parenting experience. Drivers and children are often given passwords that must match, and parents can track a child’s whereabouts in real time through the apps.
Kango, a competitor to HopSkipDrive in California and Arizona, started as a free carpooling app similar to the PiggyBack Network and now contracts with school districts. Drivers are paid more than they would typically get for Uber or Lyft, but there are often more requirements such as walking some students with disabilities into school, Kango CEO Sara Schaer said.
“This is not just a curbside-to-curbside, three-minute situation,” Schaer said. “You are responsible for getting that kid to and from school. That’s not the same as transporting an adult or DoorDashing somebody’s lunch or dinner.”
In Chicago, some families that have used Piggyback said they have seen few alternatives.
Concerned about the city’s rising crime rate, retired police officer Sabrina Beck never considered letting her son take the subway to Whitney Young High School. Since she was driving him anyway, she volunteered through PiggyBack also to drive a freshman who had qualified for the selective magnet school but had no way to get there.
“To have the opportunity to go and then to miss it because you don’t have the transportation, that is so detrimental,” Beck said. “Options like this are extremely important.”
After the bus route that took her two kids to elementary school was canceled, Jazmine Dillard and other Chicago parents thought they had convinced the school to move up the opening bell from 8:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., a more manageable time for her schedule. After that plan was scrapped because the buses were needed elsewhere at that time, Dillard turned to PiggyBack Network.
“We had to kind of pivot and find a way to make it to work on time as well as get them to school on time,” she said.
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AMMAN - Material culture did not experience break between the Bronze and the Iron Age at Pella, a site in north-western Jordan. It has been proposed that phase Iron B belongs to the earliest Iron Age 1 period.
“Actually, at the beginning of their excavations at Pella the excavators mentioned that no Iron IIA architectural remains were registered at the site. Nevertheless, the followed seasons of excavation in Stratum 8 produced a small domestic courtyard having several post-holes containing charred wood,” said the professor Zeidan Kafafi from Yarmouk University.
Moreover, in Area III at Pella a fragmentary structure and pits were found and assigned to the Iron I-Iron IIA period.
The central room of it had an apse measuring 2.6 m wide at the western end, and seems that it was left opened to the south where a pit lined with stones from the interior was dug into the floor, Kafafi explained, noting that at Tell Abu Kharaz at phase IX–XV several types of structural remains were yielded.
“Phases X (Iron IB/IIA 1050–930 BC) and Phase XI (Iron IIA in Area 2 North-West which is located close to the steep northern slop a 4.2 metres wide Early Bronze Age city-wall) was excavated, and just below it an Iron Age rectangular structure measuring 10 m × 8 m, looking like a tower, was exposed,” Kafafi said.
He added that the excavator believes that the foundation of this Iron IIA building was originally built during the Late Bronze Age period.
“A stone-paved passage-way with a tabun built on top of it that connected between the tower compound and a domestic structure was visible,” Kafafi underlined, adding that paved spaces with flag stones were also registered at other areas of Tell Abu Kharaz such as in Area 3, Trench 3.
In addition, and in this area, Trench XI, two fairly intact structures belonging to Phase XII were excavated. In this area, perhaps a courtyard, bread oven (tawabeen) and several other objects such as pottery utensils, flint blade, shells and a basalt millstone were recorded.
“To sum up, the pure Iron IIA domestic structures at Tell Abu Al Kharaz were encountered in Phase XI, and they were moderately well-preserved and characterised by repairing the earlier structures,” Kafafi underlined.
He pointed out that during the 1984 and 1987 seasons of excavations at the eastern side of the summit of the Tell a complex of a domestic buildings and a sequence of a half meter thick deposit at some places belonging probably to the 11th and 10th centuries BC were registered.
The complex consisted of a storage room in which 14 large storage jars, 12 of them filled with liquids, were encountered. Scholars found the thick deposit consisted of dirt mixed with animal bones, large pottery sherds, mud brick fragments, chunks of bread ovens and two children skeletal remains.
Tell Hammeh is located approximately 2.5 km to the east of the Tell Dayr 'Alla, and situated on the northern bank of the Wadi ez-Zarqa, in a distance of ca. 150–200 m from the water-bed of the Wadi.
“Tell Hammeh is situated in an area close to Mugharet Wardeh in the Ajlun mountain ranges which are considered being an extensive source of Iron ore,” Kafafi noted.
The professor added that the archaeological excavations conducted at the site indicated that it was occupied from the Pottery Neolithic through the end of the Persian periods, but witnessed few intervals of occupation in between.
Late Iron Age II period is represented by a huge pit (6–7 m in diameter) lined with mud-bricks, and with stones at the bottom, cutting through all phases. In addition, a large number of pottery sherds, loom-weights and two grinding stones were found in this phase.
“The 2009 joint excavation of Tell Hammeh yielded a wealth of 10th century BC remains of iron smelting activities, and subsequently studied by Xander Veldhuijzen. The Iron IIA architectural remains uncovered at Tell Hammeh consisted of small rooms built of medium unhewn boulders," he said.
Due to the small size of the excavated area, no complete plan of a house could be retrieved, Kafafi underscored.
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Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport to deploy 15 new CT lanes at T1 International terminal
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Tamil Nadu: World Chess Champion Gukesh D returns to the country, days after winning 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore and becoming the youngest-ever World Chess Champion.
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Google Smartwatch Google Gem Coming Soon
If leaks are anything to go by, Google’s smartwatch will be titled Google Gem. But will the watch shine and dazzle everyone with its brilliance?
Smartphones with touch-screens and big, big, BIG displays are now passé. Or so tech trends are pointing at. After all the hoopla over touch-screen smartphones, it is now time to rave and rant over an all new gadget, the smart-watch. After making our mobiles ‘smart’ is only justified that the next in line be that one gadget which we use daily. A watch.
Sony and Samsung both launched their respective smartwatches. While Sony did not really experiment and named their Smartwatch Sony Smartwatch, Samsung decided to go ahead with Samsung Galaxy Gear as the name. However, irrespective of the name, both watches fell flat when it came to interest and sales. Should this have been an indication that the market is perhaps not yet ready for a smartwatch?
Google doesn’t seem to think so. The tech giant is the latest to jump in on the smartwatch bandwagon. And if leaks are anything to go by, Google’s smartwatch will be titled Google Gem. But will the watch shine and dazzle everyone with its brilliance?
And what’s best? Unlike the Apple smartwatch whose release seems to be pushed farther away with each passing year, Google Gem is set for an October launch. By the end of this month, Android lovers will not just get a brand new bite of KitKat but tagging along will be a cute li’l smartwatch. No surprises for guessing which device the Gem watch will tag along with!
According to a report by Fox News, a few months ago, Google had published a smartwatch patent, which detailed a watch with a user interface similar to Google Glass and featuring two touchpads on its wristband that can understand gestures such as pinching or stretching, just like Glass's single pad.
However, just announcing the gadget might mean the end of it and users might have a considerable wait before they can lay their hands on Google Gem. Google’s ambitious Google Glass gadget which was announced last year is yet to hit stores and go global. While developer versions have shipped, the common man is in for a long wait to get the futuristic sci-fi like device.
Google Gem might set standards for upcoming smartwatches as so far none of the smartwatches have managed to impress. A Gem in the smartwatch wars, is it Google?
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Specifications for the 2021 Porsche 718 Cayman S. Details include engine, fuel usage, interior features, safety and more.
2021 Porsche 718 Cayman S 982 My21 2.5L Petrol 2D Coupe
Standard Features
- 12 Volt Power Outlet
- Dual Front Airbags Package
- Advanced Brake Functions
- Anti-lock Braking
- Auto Climate Control with Dual Temp Zones
- Automatic Climate Control Filtered
- Air Conditioning Charcoal Filter
- Apple Car Play
- Automatic Deploying Rear Wing
- Air Compressor
- Alarm System/Remote Anti Theft
- Alarm with Interior Movement Sensor
- Automatic Stop/Start
- Adjustable Steering Wheel - Tilt & Telescopic
- Anti-theft Wheel Bolts
- 20 Inch Alloy Wheels
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System
- Cruise Control
- Cup Holders - Front Seats
- Coat Hanger Hook/s
- Centre Console Box - Multi-purpose
- Central Locking Remote Control
- Convex Mirror Right Side
- Communication Management System
- Connect App Services
- Connect Plus
- Convertible Top Colour
- Digital Audio Broadcast Radio
- Driver Foot Rest
- Door Handle Courtesy Lights
- Digital Instrument Cluster
- Door Pockets - Front Seat
- Door Sill Finishers - Embossed/Personalised
- Dry Sump Lubrication System
- Electrically Heated Windscreen
- Exterior Mirrors - Auto Dimming
- Electric Parking Brake
- Electronic Stability Program
- Front Footwell Lights
- Gear Shift Indicator
- Head Airbags
- Head Airbags - Front Seats (side)
- Headlights - Auto On/Off Function
- Headlights - Coming/Leaving Home Function
- Heated Front Seats
- Heated Rear Windshield
- Illuminated Glove Box Compartment
- Engine Immobiliser
- Leather Armrest - Front
- Luggage/Cargo Area Light/s
- LED Indicators
- Light Pack
- Multi-function Display
- Multi-function Steering Wheel - Heated
- Mobile Phone Connectivity
- Map/Reading Lights - Front
- Navigation System
- Park Assist 2
- Power Front Seat Driver 14 Way
- Positioning Lights LED
- Power Mirrors With Folding
- Power Exterior Mirrors - Heated
- Power Steering
- Power Front Seats 14 Way with Memory
- Powered Sports Seats
- Power Soft Top
- Power Soft Top - Remote Operation
- Power Windows
- Power Windows With One-Touch Operation
- Rain Sensor
- Red Brake Calipers
- Rear Lights - LED
- Rollover Mitigation System
- Rollover Protection System
- Reversing Camera
- Seatbelts - Lap/Sash for All Seats
- Storage Compartment - Centre Floor Console
- Solar Control Glass Roof
- Sports Exhaust System
- Side Front AirBags
- Side Impact Protection
- Sound Package Plus
- Sound System with 6 Speakers
- Sports Steering Wheel
- Stainless Steel Exhaust System
- Sunvisors with Vanity Mirrors & Illumination
- Thorax Airbag(s)
- Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
- Tyre Repair Kit
- Tinted Windows
- Vehicle Stability Management System
- Wind Deflector
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Windscreen With Sunband
- Xenon Headlights
Optional Extras
- Adaptive Cruise Control - $2,570
- Aluminium Gear Selector - $1,110
- Air Intake Grilles Painted - $1,060
- Aluminium Gear Knob - $500
- Alcantara Sunvisors - $860
- Alcantara Steering Wheel - $1,580
- Alloy Pedals - $550
- Adaptive Sports Seats Plus - 18 Way - $2,850
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System Plus - $1,150
- Climate Control Panel - Leather - $1,220
- Climate Control Panel - Painted - $1,220
- Ceramic Brakes - $15,370
- Carbon Floor Mats - $1,490
- Coloured Instrument Dials - $1,030
- Carbon Onboard Folder - $1,630
- Customization Package Gear Lever - $1,630
- Coloured Seat Belts - $570
- Carbon Sill Guards - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $2,440
- Carbon Steering Wheel Special - $930
- Coloured Tailpipes - $1,120
- Extended Leather Pack - $1,090
- Embossed Headrests - $470
- Exterior Pack - Painted - $2,690
- Gear Lever - Carbon - $1,050
- Home Link - $600
- Interior Pack - Painted (non leather) - $1,220
- Interior Pack - Painted (leather) - $1,460
- Interior Pack - Wood (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Wood (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Carbon (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Carbon (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (non leather) - $1,250
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (leather) - $1,470
- Interior Trim Pack - $4,250
- Interior Trim Special - $5,750
- Keyless Entry & Drive - $1,470
- Leather Accented Upholstery
- Leather Backrests Sports Seats Plus - $2,810
- Lane Change Assist - $1,220
- Leather Dashboard - $2,520
- LED Dynamic Light System - $2,330
- Leather Interior Exclusive - $7,680
- Leather Interior Pack (without leather interior) - $1,290
- Leather Interior Pack (with leather interior) - $1,540
- Leather Interior Pack Partial Leather Seats - $830
- Leather Int Pack Partial Leather Seats - Two Tone - $1,200
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - $4,410
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - Premium - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Premium Two-tone - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Natural Leather - $6,910
- Leather Int Pk Leather Seats - Nat Leath Two-tone - $7,680
- Leather Interior Two-Tone - $4,410
- Leather Steering Column Surround - $940
- Leather Sill Guards - Special - $1,210
- Leather Sports Steering Wheel - $570
- Leather Sunvisors - $860
- Leather Upholstery
- Leather Upholstery Special - $1,000
- Metallic Paint - $1,870
- Metallic Paint Special - $18,490
- Painted Alloy Wheels - Premium - $2,500
- Paint Colour Special - $4,920
- Painted Key - $840
- Rollover Bars - Painted - $1,060
- Seatbelt Buckles - Leather - $1,000
- Seatbelt Passage - Painted - $1,030
- Sports Chrono Instrument Dials - $720
- Sports Design Black Pack - $6,220
- Special Identifying Badging - $540
- Solid Paint
- Solid Paint Special - $18,490
- Sports Seats - Bucket - $6,870
- Sports Seats - Special - $3,060
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - Illuminated - $1,370
- St/Steel Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $1,760
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - $500
- Surround Sound System Premium - $8,220
- Surround Sound System - $2,470
- Ventilated Front Seats - $1,950
- Wood Gear Selector - $1,050
- Wheel Centres - $340
- Wood Steering Wheel Special - $930
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Let’s be honest, nailing a funny gift is hard. For the person to truly enjoy it, the present has to perfectly align with them and their interests so they get the meaning behind it and be subtle enough so it doesn’t offend them. Preferably, it should also be practical, as no one really enjoys shoving gifted things into their drawers to collect dust. Ticking all these boxes can be tricky, so we rounded up some of the best hilarious gift examples people have shared online. If you’re looking for Christmas present ideas for the funny uncle or prankster mom, scroll down to find them in the list below!
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My Mom Has Been Begging My Dad For A Dog Since Ours Passed Away In May. He Surprised Her Christmas Morning With This Gift. He's A Man Of Few Words
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Christmas Gift From My Teens Has Proven More Useful Than Expected
Hey, I bought myself one of these a couple of years ago. When you're retired and not tied to a work schedule, it can be easy to forget what day of the week it is.
The so-called ‘gag’ gifts are especially great for a white elephant or a secret Santa exchange during holiday parties. Or when a person prefers simple but witty presents. Whoever you decide to give such a gift, it’s guaranteed that they’ll be surprised and giggly, that is, if it’s done right.
The owner of Offensive Crayons, Alice Vaughn, says that the trick is to make sure that the joke is made for the right reasons. The goal here is that they get the joke and it doesn’t stir up any trouble or conflict.
White Elephant With $50 Limit. How’d I Do
Every Christmas, I Photoshop My Cousin Rob As A Gag Gift. I Don't Think I Will Be Able To Outdo Myself Anymore
I Got One Of My Christmas Presents A Little Late. But It Was Totally Worth The Wait
“The whole purpose of a gag gift is the joy you get out of making someone laugh more than anything else. It’s usually a little silly or weird, and part of the fun is the surprise factor when someone first sees it,” she says.
“The gifts aren’t meant to be expensive or necessarily useful; it’s just more about getting a good laugh in the moment. You know, like those quirky things you wouldn’t buy for yourself but are funny to get as a gift.”
My White Elephant Gift This Year Was A Picture Of Elephants Participating In A White Elephant
Made My 87 Year Old Dad A Christmas Present
Uncle Kept Entombing The Gifts He'd Send In Packing Tape. This Year, His Gift Card Is Cast In Concrete
Arik Nordby, Co-Founder of Prank-O, says that a gag gift should cost between $10 and $15. “Any time you hit that $20 price point, your brain starts to go ‘Is this really worth it?’ for a gift that’s simply supposed to create a moment of joy and humor.” David Wahl, VP of Creative Services at Archie McPhee, agrees, noting, “Once you get past $20, you get into ‘real gift’ territory, and that’s not what you’re going for.”
He also believes that the perfect funny gift is one that recognizes a person's individuality, catches them by surprise and makes them laugh.
The Ever-Growing Commemorative Plate Collection That I Gift To Friends And Family Every Year. Handing Them Out Tomorrow
Found The Perfect Gifts For My Office
How I Wrapped My Sister’s Present This Year. It’s A Wallet
In case of white elephant exchange, it can be hard to know what people will find funny, therefore, Erin Ransom, SVP of Strategic Growth at Tofurky, suggests going for something that ‘hits.’
“Meaning, do people pick it up and want to keep it, or are they trying to get rid of it because they’d be embarrassed to walk away with it? Both reactions can be fun, and as the gift giver, you want to walk in and bring something so novel that it creates energy in the gift exchange. The stories you tell afterward are the best part of a White Elephant party,” she says.
My Cousin Got A Pretty Special Gift This Year
No One At The Office Is Exchanging Gifts This Year, But I Still Thought They All Needed A Little Something To Put On Their Desks
Out Of All His Gifts, My BF Loves These The Most
Before gifting a jokey present, a person really has to take into account the advice of these experts, as people in general tend not to favor these kinds of gifts. In fact, a GiftingWho survey found that only 4.5% of respondents would like to receive a gag gift. This number grows with the younger folk (13–18 years old), with 28.5% saying that they like getting gag gifts the most.
My Mother In Law Got Me This For Christmas
I Tried To Knit A Giant Sock! It Was A Christmas Present For My Boyfriend And He Loves It
My Secret Santa Gift From A Work Buddy, I Am Laughing So Hard
Nevertheless, if you’re giving a funny present to older adults, chances are it will be returned, as 79% of recipients return at least some of their holiday gifts. So in case you aren’t completely confident about the gag gift you're planning to give, it might be better to think twice about it. This may not apply to white elephant or secret Santa parties, but it does when giving presents to friends, family, and other loved ones.
My Sister Gave Me The Most Thoughtful Gift Of All
My BF Gifted Me This Metal Binding Clip Thinking It Was A Hair Clip
Pranked My Sister With Some Shrek Crocs And A Jimmy Choo Box For Christmas
SurveyMonkey data suggests that instead of jokey gifts, people should think about giving their loved ones tickets to concerts or other events, as 67% of people prefer to receive an experience rather than a physical item. Second on the Christmas wishlist are classes or adventures, which also stick to the theme of experiences.
Love The Fish Flops
My Nephew's Christmas List Mentioned That He Liked Nicholas Cage
My Uncles Gift To The Family This Year Wasnt Really Apreciated
Next up were gadgets like tablets, phones, laptops and homemade gifts. 71% of recipients believe that “it’s the thought that counts” when talking about presents. A few other things on people’s Christmas list include trips, self-care experiences or products, foods and drinks, and items related to their hobbies and interests.
Best Gift I Got This Year
Someone Gifted Me Eggo Waffles Underwear
My Dad Took Me To The Hospital When I Blacked Out From Drinking Too Much Of Captain Morgan. When They Asked What I Had To Drink I Told Them Morgan Freeman. Hopefully My Dad Will Enjoy His Xmas Gift To Remember That Night
I hope this list gave you some last-minute gift inspiration for upcoming Christmas. If you couldn’t find the perfect one, try checking out our previous articles on funny presents and wholesome ones right here.
Christmas Present For My Little Brother
Pot Holders My Grandma Made Me For Christmas A Few Years Ago. I Didn't Really Appreciate Them Until I Started Quilting This Year
For Christmas, My Dad Received The Exact Outfit That He Was Wearing
So, he's all set for when he spills gravy on himself at Christmas Dinner.
My Apple Watch From Last Christmas Was Stolen, My Boyfriend Got Me A Replacement This Year That Doesn't Have That Risk
My Mom Spaced Out While Wrapping Gifts This Year... Guess I Know Where She Got This One
For Secret Santa At My New Job I Got Some Girl I've Never Spoken Too. I'm Sure She'll Like My Gift
I'm So Glad My Brother And His Girlfriend Are Enjoying Their Christmas Presents
Mug My Brother Got Me For Christmas (I Love It)
Early Christmas Gift From My Sister... She Might Be One Of Us
I Asked For A Gaming Chair For Christmas. I Want To Be Mad
Hand With Obligatory Banana For Scale. LOL My Brothers Christmas Gift To Me
So I Gave My Parents A Pretty Damn Cool Christmas Gift
I Told Jenny If She Didn't Stop Scuffing Her Feet Across The Floor I Was Going To Buy Her Mop Slippers And Tell Her To Clean The Floor....well She Didn't Listen. LOL And So I Kept My Word
I Know It’s A Little Late, But Look At What My Auntie Got For Christmas. My Parents Are So Jealous Right Now
My Work Bestie Bought Me This Awesome Badge Reel For Christmas! Thought I'd Share With You Guys
Maybe The Best Christmas Present I've Ever Gotten. For Any Reason. Whatsoever
This Is Funny
We Always Get Each Other Ironic Gifts, My Little Sister Killed It This Year: Batteries Not Included
Another fun thing we do is wrap things which people forget at each other's places and give it back to them for Christmas, you win if the person doesn't realize that their gift is something they lost through the course of the year.
One Of Our Carpenters Always Leaves His Pencils Behind So This Is A Part Of His Christmas Gift This Year
My Dad Started As A Maintenance Man At My Former High School Last Summer. He Gave Me This As A Gift Today. A Failed Test Of Mine He Found Folded And Stuffed In An Air Vent From 10 Years Ago
Yikes! Gee, thanks Dad! Actually, it's kind of creepy that he found this after so many years. I guess this means Dad is a more thorough maintenance man than those who came before him.
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China’s economy logs a lackluster performance in November as retail sales slow
AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — China has reported its economy logged a mixed performance in November, with retail sales slowing as consumers refrained from spending on non-essentials like cosmetics, alcohol and jewelry. The government reported Monday that retail sales rose 3% year-on-year, down from 4.8% in October. Factory output rose 5.4%, nearly flat compared with the previous month, while investment in fixed assets like factories slowed. Officials said the economy was stable but domestic demand was weak and the “external environment” was more complicated, highlighting risks ahead as Beijing braces for potential tariff hikes once U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The report came days after top leaders ended an annual planning meeting that produced no major new policy initiatives.
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Southampton Sack Manager Russell Martin After Loss To Spurs
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12/15/2024 11:15:05 PM
(MENAFN- IANS) Southampton, Dec 16 (IANS) Following a 5-0 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, Southampton sacked their manager Russell Martin with the Saints currently bottom of the Premier League table.
Current Under-21s Manager Simon Rusk will take charge of the team on an interim basis until the announcement of a permanent replacement.
"The board have supported Russell and his staff and been open and transparent regarding our expectations. We have all been on the same page in recognising the urgency of needing results to improve," the Southampton statement read.
"We would like to take this opportunity to thank Russell and his staff for all the hard work and dedication they have given the club on and off the pitch over the last 18 months. Everyone connected with Southampton FC will always have fantastic memories of last season, especially the Play-Off Final win in May," it read.
Martin, 38, took charge of Southampton in July 2023, helping them earn promotion through the playoffs to the Premier League in his first season at the helm.
However, since returning to the top flight, Southampton have earned just one win, beating Everton 1-0 in November.
Martin is the fourth Premier League manager to leave his role this season, after Erik ten Hag, Steve Cooper and Gary O'Neil.
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Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport to open P1 Prime Park facility
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Tallinn Lennart Meri Airport renews its winter service fleet
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https://centreforaviation.com/news/tallinn-lennart-meri-airport-renews-its-winter-service-fleet-1295746
| 2024-12-16T06:16:56Z
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Gadgets Lead to Increased Back Ache
A new survey has revealed that young adults in the age group 18 to 24 years are increasingly experiencing back pain as a result of slumping their shoulders and slouching the middle and lower back, called 'iPosture', with excessive gadget use.
A new survey has revealed that young adults in the age group 18 to 24 years are increasingly experiencing back pain as a result of slumping their shoulders and slouching the middle and lower back, called 'iPosture', with excessive gadget use.
The survey states that young adults lost 1.5 more days of work on average due to back pain, as compared to older adults.
Experts said that excess screen time was likely to blame for the health implications, as young adults averaged 8.83 hours in front of digital devices each day.
They added that people must learn the basics of correct posture to avoid future heath issues.
Slumping and hunching over computers and handheld devices is a contributory factor in the different types of back pain.
ANI
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https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/gadgets/suffering-from-backpains-blame-your-gadgets-105406.html
| 2024-12-16T06:16:56Z
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'It has also outlived its initial purpose of reducing physical gold imports.'
With an increased emphasis on reducing government debt, the finance ministry is considering discontinuing the issuance of Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) from the next financial year (2025-2026).
"The government is obligated to repay SGB investors the gold-equivalent value at maturity, which increases the government's liability. The regular payment of interest also adds to the government's fiscal burden. Now that the government has decided to sustainably bring down the debt-to-GDP ratio from FY27, there is no reason why such a scheme should be continued. It has also outlived its initial purpose of reducing physical gold imports," a senior government official said, requesting anonymity.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to announce details regarding debt reduction in the FY26 Budget. The Centre expects the debt-to-GDP ratio to come down to 56.8 per cent in FY25 from 58.2 per cent in FY24.
'The fiscal consolidation path announced in 2021 has served our economy well, and we aim to reach a deficit below 4.5 per cent next year (2025-2026). The government is committed to staying the course. From 2026-2-27 onwards, our endeavour will be to keep the fiscal deficit each year such that the central government debt will be on a declining path as a percentage of the GDP,' Sitharaman said in her Budget speech in July this year.
The government has not issued SGBs in FY25, though it has budgeted for Rs 18,500 crore (Rs 185 billion_ in the FY25 Budget, down from Rs 26,852 crore (Rs 268.52 billion) pencilled in the interim Budget of FY25.
The Reserve Bank of India last issued SGBs on February 21 worth Rs 8,008 crore (Rs 80.08 billion).
D K Srivastava, chief policy adviser at EY India, said the government need not get involved in a scheme like SGB.
"The price of gold in the international market is rising and may continue to rise. The overall idea that it need not be done in a way that adds to the government's debt is quite welcome," he added.
SGBs were launched in November 2015 to encourage retail investors to migrate from physical gold to paper gold.
SGBs have a maturity period of eight years at the then prevailing gold rate, which can be redeemed after the fifth year.
The investment limit was enhanced to 4 kg per financial year for individuals and Hindu Undivided Family, and 20 kg per financial year for Trusts and similar entities during 2017-18.
The interest is payable on the face value of the bonds at 2.75 per cent on SGBs issued in 2015-2016 and at 2.5 per cent on the SGBs issued in the subsequent years.
According to the latest data, the total issuance under the SGB scheme amounted to Rs 45,243 crore (Rs 452.43 billion) till FY23, with the outstanding amount increasing to Rs 4.5 trillion by the end of March 2023.
RBI announced an early redemption for SGBs issued between May 2017 and March 2020 in August this year to reduce the government's financial burden.
The FY25 Budget also reduced the import duty on gold from 15 per cent to 6 per cent, to check smuggling of the yellow metal.
Devendra Kumar Pant, chief economist, India Ratings & Research, said the scheme was introduced at a time when India's current account was not in good shape.
"The commodity, which was impacting the current account was gold," explained Pant. "Since the current account and fisc are in a relatively better situation now, if more physical gold is imported, they will be able to withstand it."
Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
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https://www.rediff.com/business/report/sovereign-gold-bonds-on-way-out/20241216.htm
| 2024-12-16T06:16:56Z
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Specifications for the 2021 Porsche 718 Cayman S. Details include engine, fuel usage, interior features, safety and more.
2021 Porsche 718 Cayman S 982 My21 2.5L Petrol 2D Coupe
Standard Features
- 12 Volt Power Outlet
- Dual Front Airbags Package
- Advanced Brake Functions
- Anti-lock Braking
- Auto Climate Control with Dual Temp Zones
- Automatic Climate Control Filtered
- Air Conditioning Charcoal Filter
- Apple Car Play
- Automatic Deploying Rear Wing
- Air Compressor
- Alarm System/Remote Anti Theft
- Alarm with Interior Movement Sensor
- Automatic Stop/Start
- Adjustable Steering Wheel - Tilt & Telescopic
- Anti-theft Wheel Bolts
- 20 Inch Alloy Wheels
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System
- Cruise Control
- Cup Holders - Front Seats
- Coat Hanger Hook/s
- Centre Console Box - Multi-purpose
- Central Locking Remote Control
- Convex Mirror Right Side
- Communication Management System
- Connect App Services
- Connect Plus
- Convertible Top Colour
- Digital Audio Broadcast Radio
- Dynamic Drive
- Driver Foot Rest
- Door Handle Courtesy Lights
- Digital Instrument Cluster
- Driver Mode Selection
- Door Pockets - Front Seat
- Door Sill Finishers - Embossed/Personalised
- Dry Sump Lubrication System
- Electrically Heated Windscreen
- Exterior Mirrors - Auto Dimming
- Electric Parking Brake
- Electronic Stability Program
- Front Footwell Lights
- Gear Shift Indicator
- Head Airbags
- Head Airbags - Front Seats (side)
- Headlights - Auto On/Off Function
- Headlights - Coming/Leaving Home Function
- Heated Front Seats
- Heated Rear Windshield
- Illuminated Glove Box Compartment
- Engine Immobiliser
- Leather Armrest - Front
- Luggage/Cargo Area Light/s
- LED Indicators
- Light Pack
- Multi-function Display
- Multi-function Steering Wheel - Heated
- Mobile Phone Connectivity
- Map/Reading Lights - Front
- Navigation System
- Park Assist 2
- Paddle Shifters on Steering Wheel
- Power Front Seat Driver 14 Way
- Positioning Lights LED
- Power Mirrors With Folding
- Power Exterior Mirrors - Heated
- Power Steering
- Power Front Seats 14 Way with Memory
- Powered Sports Seats
- Power Soft Top
- Power Soft Top - Remote Operation
- Power Windows
- Power Windows With One-Touch Operation
- Rain Sensor
- Running Boards
- Rear Lights - LED
- Rollover Mitigation System
- Rollover Protection System
- Reversing Camera
- Seatbelts - Lap/Sash for All Seats
- Storage Compartment - Centre Floor Console
- Solar Control Glass Roof
- Sports Exhaust System
- Side Front AirBags
- Side Impact Protection
- Sound Package Plus
- Sound System with 6 Speakers
- Sports Steering Wheel
- Stainless Steel Exhaust System
- Sunvisors with Vanity Mirrors & Illumination
- Thorax Airbag(s)
- Tyre Pressure Monitoring System
- Tyre Repair Kit
- Tinted Windows
- Vehicle Stability Management System
- Wind Deflector
- Wi-Fi Hotspot
- Windscreen With Sunband
- Xenon Headlights
Optional Extras
- Adaptive Cruise Control - $2,570
- Aluminium Gear Selector - $1,110
- Air Intake Grilles Painted - $1,060
- Aluminium Gear Knob - $500
- Alcantara Sunvisors - $860
- Alcantara Steering Wheel - $1,580
- Alloy Pedals - $550
- Adaptive Sports Seats Plus - 18 Way - $2,850
- Bi-Xenon Dynamic Light System Plus - $1,150
- Climate Control Panel - Leather - $1,220
- Climate Control Panel - Painted - $1,220
- Ceramic Brakes - $15,370
- Carbon Floor Mats - $1,490
- Coloured Instrument Dials - $1,030
- Carbon Onboard Folder - $1,630
- Customization Package Gear Lever - $1,630
- Coloured Seat Belts - $570
- Carbon Sill Guards - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - $1,120
- Carbon Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $2,440
- Carbon Steering Wheel Special - $930
- Coloured Tailpipes - $1,120
- Extended Leather Pack - $1,090
- Embossed Headrests - $470
- Exterior Pack - Painted - $2,960
- Gear Lever - Carbon - $1,050
- Home Link - $600
- Interior Pack - Painted (non leather) - $1,220
- Interior Pack - Painted (leather) - $1,460
- Interior Pack - Wood (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Wood (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Carbon (non leather) - $2,640
- Interior Pack - Carbon (leather) - $3,110
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (non leather) - $1,250
- Interior Pack - Brushed Aluminium (leather) - $1,470
- Interior Trim Pack - $4,250
- Interior Trim Special - $5,750
- Keyless Entry & Drive - $1,470
- Leather Accented Upholstery
- Leather Backrests Sports Seats Plus - $2,810
- Lane Change Assist - $1,220
- Leather Dashboard - $2,520
- LED Dynamic Light System - $2,330
- Leather Interior Exclusive - $7,680
- Leather Interior Pack (without leather interior) - $1,290
- Leather Interior Pack (with leather interior) - $1,540
- Leather Interior Pack Partial Leather Seats - $830
- Leather Int Pack Partial Leather Seats - Two Tone - $1,200
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - $4,410
- Leather Interior Pack Leather Seats - Premium - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Premium Two-tone - $5,190
- Leather Int Pack Leather Seats - Natural Leather - $6,910
- Leather Int Pk Leather Seats - Nat Leath Two-tone - $7,680
- Leather Interior Two-Tone - $4,410
- Leather Steering Column Surround - $940
- Leather Sill Guards - Special - $1,210
- Leather Sports Steering Wheel - $570
- Leather Sunvisors - $860
- Leather Upholstery
- Leather Upholstery Special - $1,000
- Metallic Paint - $1,870
- Metallic Paint Special - $18,490
- Painted Alloy Wheels - Premium - $2,500
- Paint Colour Special - $4,920
- Painted Key - $840
- Rollover Bars - Painted - $1,060
- Seatbelt Buckles - Leather - $1,000
- Seatbelt Passage - Painted - $1,030
- Sports Chrono Instrument Dials - $720
- Sports Design Black Pack - $6,220
- Special Identifying Badging - $540
- Solid Paint
- Solid Paint Special - $18,490
- Sports Seats - Bucket - $6,870
- Sports Seats - Special - $3,060
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - Illuminated - $1,370
- St/Steel Sill Guards Illuminated - Personalised - $1,760
- Stainless Steel Sill Guards - $500
- Surround Sound System Premium - $8,220
- Surround Sound System - $2,470
- Ventilated Front Seats - $1,950
- Wood Gear Selector - $1,050
- Wheel Centres - $340
- Wood Steering Wheel Special - $930
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https://www.whichcar.com.au/specs/2021-porsche-718-cayman-s-982-my21-petrol-2d-coupe-z67Tpt9n4j
| 2024-12-16T06:16:57Z
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Former FBI informant will plead guilty to lying about phony bribery scheme involving the Bidens
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI informant is set to plead guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
Alexander Smirnov is expected to make the plea in Los Angeles to a felony charge in connection with the bogus story, along with a tax evasion charge stemming from a separate indictment accusing him of concealing millions of dollars of income, according to court papers.
Smirnov has been behind bars since his arrest in February on charges that he told his FBI handler that executives from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid President Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each around 2015.
Prosecutors and the defense have agreed to recommend a sentence of between four and six years in prison, according to the plea agreement.
Smirnov had been an informant for more than a decade when he made the explosive allegations about the Bidens in June 2020, after “expressing bias” about Joe Biden as a presidential candidate, prosecutors said.
But Smirnov had only routine business dealings with Burisma starting in 2017, according to court documents. An FBI field office investigated the allegations and recommended the case be closed in August 2020, according to charging documents.
No evidence has emerged that Joe Biden acted corruptly or accepted bribes in his current role or previous office as vice president.
While his identity wasn’t publicly known before the indictment, Smirnov’s claims played a major part in the Republican effort in Congress to investigate the president and his family, and helped spark a House impeachment inquiry into Biden. Before Smirnov’s arrest, Republicans had demanded the FBI release the unredacted form documenting the unverified allegations, though they acknowledged they couldn’t confirm if they were true.
During a September 2023 conversation with investigators, Smirnov also claimed the Russians likely had recordings of Hunter Biden because a hotel in Ukraine’s capital where he had stayed was “wired” and under their control — information he said was passed along to him by four high-level Russian officials.
But Hunter Biden had never traveled to Ukraine, according to Smirnov’s indictment.
Smirnov claimed to have contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials, and told authorities after his arrest earlier this year that “officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story” about Hunter Biden.
The case against Smirnov was brought by special counsel David Weiss, who also prosecuted Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges. Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced this month after being convicted at trial in the gun case and pleading guilty to federal charges in the tax case. But he was pardoned earlier this month by his father, who said he believed “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
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https://kvia.com/news/2024/12/15/former-fbi-informant-will-plead-guilty-to-lying-about-phony-bribery-scheme-involving-the-bidens/
| 2024-12-16T06:17:00Z
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Any near-death experience is a terrifying thing to go through, especially when someone attempts to end your life. But many people have found themselves in such an awful position—often under the craziest of circumstances.
Some of these people, who were probably born under a lucky star, shared their stories on a thread started by a member of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community. The Redditor addressed netizens who have been close to losing their lives, asking them not only about how their situations unfolded, but how they managed to get out of them, too. If you’re interested in reading their stories, scroll down to find them on the list below, but beware—some of them might be seriously disturbing.
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Worked as a bouncer and had a few drunkards who got violent. I got very good at dodging thrown bottles. One day I get the usual call to come and give someone the walk of shame. Well, I grab his shoulder and start walking him out and before I realise something’s happened he stabbed me in the thigh and was about to go for my throat before he got glassed by a patron. A few stitches and a funny walk for a few weeks and I was fine but that guy always got free drinks. His only problem with glassing the dude was “well now I’ve got no beer, that’s a bit sad”.
Ex-wife tried to hit me with a car three times. I would be walking on the street and she will come roaring out of parking lots. It was evident she would pull in the parking spaces and stay hidden for a length of time before coming at me. Hit me twice. First time I went to hospital And second time was minor. .
I was 21. He drove me into a river at 2:00am on a below-freezing night about 30 miles from town.
I was asleep in the passenger seat and woke up when the water hit my legs. The doors wouldn’t open due to the pressure, but luckily the windows were down. We swam out (I dragged him to shore). He laid on the river bank and cried while incoherently apologizing. I led us through the woods for hours until we found a farm house.
I was mostly fine, but had hypothermia and a torn ACL. I told him to [end] himself asap and leave me out of it. 😬 then I never spoke to him again.
We were not together, nor had we ever been. We were just friends and former roommates. I’ll never understand why he wanted to take me with him.
My mom tried to push my stroller in front of a train but my dad saved me.
When I was 18, my ex boyfriend stalked me and basically ambushed me in a municipal parking lot in my small hometown as I was unlocking my car to get in and go home. He punched me in the face twice and I decided to just be compliant and go with him. It was broad daylight and there were other people in the parking lot, but either they didn’t notice or didn’t want to assist. I won’t go into minute details here unless some really wants to understand the ins and outs of why someone you know might do this to you, but he brought me to his parents house where he SAed me and stabbed me 27 times over a period of 4 hours. I survived by not speaking a single word to him the entire time and not reacting to anything that he did to me. I innately knew he wanted to cause me pain and I disconnected myself from the pain and emotion purposely so not to give him anything at all. He eventually stopped and fled and just left me there. When I was sure he was gone, I got dressed the best I could and started walking on the road where a guy I went to high school with previously (we had both already graduated) picked me up and drove me to a friends house in town (I lived in a rural Wisconsin town.) I stayed at her house for over a day before she convinced me to go to the hospital. I was afraid my parents would be angry with me, which was why I was hesitant. They cleaned and debrided my wounds best they could but because I had been walking around like that for so long they couldn’t do much more than that for me. My wounds didn’t go deep enough to hurt my internal organs, but many did cut into my muscle layers. Yes. I had extensive scarring over my torso for a large part of my life until I was able to have cosmetic surgery to remove a lot of my damaged skin and muscle in my chest and abdomen when I was in my 30s.
Nothing happened to my stalker. Stalking laws were not something that were a common thing in 1990. No charges were pressed. My attacker stayed low for a few years in Minneapolis and then moved back to my hometown area where he married a couple of times and had 5 daughters. About 15 years ago he reached out to me on FB and wanted to be “friends.”
My father didn’t want any charges pressed and felt that I had gotten what I deserved for dating the guy in the first place. My mother went along with what he wanted. We never spoke about what happened to me ever again. It was up to me to work through on my own. My dad is dead now and my mom has apologized to me in her own way. I don’t speak with her about it to this day because she feels so guilty and horrible and I honestly do not want to do more to her that would make her feel that way. She somehow felt controlled by my dad for many years until she divorced him after 35 years of marriage. I have gone to therapy in the last 15 years of my life and it helped, but most everything I’ve done to survive and live has been based on spending a lot of my time being honest and introspective of myself. Trying to become as much of an expert on myself as I can. That started the minute that I got into the car with him and we headed out to his parents house and it hasn’t stopped since.
I survived by not giving my attacker what he wanted, despite being compliant with what he asked.
My partner tried to strangle me. I was already seeing black and a few stars in the black universe on my way to death. Then the police rang the door bell and he stopped. The neighbour a 11-13 old boy called the police, he had his room directly at the house close by and he could see through the window. He saved my life and the life of my unborn baby.
I was at a summer camp when I was in my early teens. It was at a small school since it wasn't used during the summer anyways. An older kid who I often got into fights with was strangling me against a wall. But on the other side of the wall was a classroom, and I could hear people in it. So I when I couldn't get him off me, I repeatedly banged my fist against the wall as hard as I could. It didn't take long for a counselor to investigate, and they pulled him off of me.
Got shot in the abdomen during a house invasion. Was bleeding out and the only thing that kept me alive was focusing on my breath and my buddy smacking me across the face and telling me "nobody dies from a shot to the stomach".
Obviously lying to me, but it helped keep me focused.
And I guess the doctors too when I made it to the hospital.
I was coming home from my restaurant job at like 2 am. I stopped at a sketchy Walgreens to grab some snacks. I was getting into my car when a dude ran up behind me yelling “my friend! My friend! please you must help me!” So startled, I turned and saw a large man in front of me, he had thick Haitian accent. He started frantically explaining that he had just arrived from Haiti and desperately needed a ride to his friends house to reunite with his family.
FYI the giant earthquake in Haiti had just happened. Normally I try and help everyone I can but this dude was giving me weird vibes, like he was on a lot of d***s. I politely declined and he got aggressive and I ended up just hopping into my car driving quickly away. The next morning I saw on the news he had convinced two young girls to give him a ride. He pulled out a knife and forced them to drive about a hundred miles away. He then made them park on a side road somewhere and started stabbing them. One died and the other ran away and got help. He got shot by the police trying to get away.
When i was a kid, my little brother had a mild obsession with knives, to the point where he collected them under his pillow. once, for reasons i've forgotten since, he got mad at me and stabbed me in the back, literally, with a seam ripper. had he used any of the knives under his pillow i'd be dead now.
When I was 23, I was robbed at gunpoint by a guy who was about my age, maybe a bit younger.
I disassociated immediately after the encounter, so my memories of the event are sort of in the third person and weird. But I remember he asked me if I had any valuables that he hadn't already taken, while he was pointing the gun in my face. I told him he could check my pockets. He briefly got this look of shame on his face and let me go.
I guess pointing a gun is impersonal, but reaching into a woman's front and butt pockets felt wrongly intimate and crossed a boundary for him.
FWIW, the only "valuables" he got were $14 USD, an almost three-year-old Android phone, and a third generation Kindle. .
Was 16 my friends and I were out in the woods with a .22 rifle and some cans and Zombie targets. I finished my lil magazine and handed the rifle to a buddy. Went out to set up the cans and targets back up and a shot whizzed passed my left ear within 2 inches.
Walked up to him grabbed rifle and punched him straight in the face. He was ostracized from the group not long after that.
I got stabbed in the chest a few years ago, during a fight with some bike thieves. Didn't notice at the time, and escaped the fight and rode the bike away. Then I checked myself and discovered lots of blood. Went to nearby shop and sat down inside, put my finger in the hole and called the ambulance. I had a punctured lung and blood in the plureal cavity, but I was otherwise ok. The lad that did it went to prison.
I was kidnapped, beaten, and had a gun held to my head while in the vehicle. I just agreed with everything he said, apologized for who knows what, and promised to do whatever he said and to not call the police. He let me out of the car at my workplace and I immediately went in and called the police. I felt stupid for years afterward but now I realized whatever I did to live through that was the correct thing to do at the time.
When I was 7 years old I was locked (master lock, key was with one of em) in a dog kennel I barely fit into by my mom's bfs kids. They took the kennel out to the above ground pool and held it on the edge joking like they were going to drop it. They ended up doing just that and I was under in seconds. The plate at the bottom of the kennel made it hard for them to pull it back out so they had to turn it on its side and then pull it out. They didn't bother setting me down though, they just dropped me. I remember the feeling of my hands crammed through the holes in the kennel with grass between them. I heard some arguing and what I assume was fighting, the old brother came to my rescue and let me out. I slept in his room for the rest of the summer till I went home to my dads.
When I was an early teenager, I went to a friend's house whose older sister was having a party. It had alcohol, but very limited. Her parents were home and we mostly played video games and cards. But, more people than expected showed up, including some people who had already graduated.
This one guy was a former high school jock loser who started in on making fun of me/hitting on me. The parents asked him to leave and he did, making a bit of a fuss but eventually walking out.
I was all upset and crying and wanted to go home, but home was a mile-ish walk through some woods and dark roads, so her parents told me they would drive me home in a bit when the party was over.
I was still upset and I was very dumb, so after a bit, I snuck out and walked home.
A few hundred yards from my house, someone hit me with something(I was told it was a baseball bat) and stabbed me in the stomach several times. I do not remember any of this, nor do I remember someone finding me bleeding in a ditch and taking me to a hospital.
If I had been there for much more time, I probably would have bled out and died in a ditch.
I had a gun pointed in my face while fishing near a weed grow.
‘06/‘07ish. I was hiking up a river fishing for the day. Going up smaller tributaries for trout in the fall. I was a few miles in and came around a bend to riverside plants as tall as me. I was 16 and didn’t care. I was fishing. As I’m working up the water I hear some rustling, turn around and there’s a man with me at gunpoint maybe 10’ away. I said “I’m so sorry. I’m just here to fish. I’ll turn around. I’m so sorry.” He just stood there. Said nothing. I begin walking back down stream waiting for my time to end. Longest minutes of my life.
Now here’s the kicker. I forgot my stringer. I was in cargo shorts. I had a couple fish with deep hooksets so I kept them to eat. I put them in a cargo pocket and dipped my legs into the water here n there. Through this ENTIRE INCIDENT they were floundering in my pocket making noise. I could only laugh about it in hindsight. My shaking in fear accompanied by my left leg pocket bouncing erratically.
I was cpr'd for 45 mins to bring me back.
I went into hiding, He got off on a technicality
Went to court.
I got him fired so he wouldn't beat the s**t outta any more patients.
He was someone i was dating, a security guard at a hospital, he'll never work again. Not in security at least.
My ex wife was behind the wheel of her car with the door open, I was standing between her and the door trying to talk to her. She reversed hard out of the parking lot and the door knocked me back. She then floored it straight at me as I was trying to get up. Only recourse was to jump on the hood. Got my fingers on one hand in the hood lip by the windshield, and hung on for dear life. Got thrown off and hit my back and head against the curb when she went around a curve in the apartment complex. She ran before she got tracked down by the SPs on the base we worked at.
I don’t know how fast she was going, probably not more than 15-25 mph, but don’t let the action movies fool you. Jumping on a hood is neither easy, nor fun. It’s f*****g terrifying.
I [made love] with a girl I met at work. She apparently had a boyfriend that found out about her infidelity. He was stalking me for months that followed. One night, I looked outside my window and saw the guy standing in the shadows beside my house. I didn't leave out of fear for quite some time. The guy was later executed for several unrelated deaths he caused. I would have been one of them had I not seen him hiding that night.
Someone threatened me with a knife... probably trying to rob me? However at that point I was on the phone with my dad cause my mom had an accident and completely ignored the guy. I think he just let me go cause he realized how stressed I was.
Was basically a functional light d**g addict when I was a teenager. An acquaintance and I were held against our will and she didn't make it, I did, it took 3 days.
It was a normal day, went out with a "friend" and two acquaintances, to a relatively normal house but our drinking water was d***ged. Ended up at the other "friends" house. I realized once we got inside that there were no doorknobs, windows were nailed shut, etc. Phones and clothes were taken, the other girl was far more gone and already working the streets (I never did) so they'd take her out and bring her back. Was beaten up pretty badly, d***ged out of my mind, etc. Stopped fighting back. They didn't take me out of the house except to lock me in a shed sometimes. I pretended to be more d***ged than I really was and listened to what the guys talked about. It was where to leave our bodies.
One day she and the other two were out doing what she did, the guy watching the house (and me) fell asleep. He'd been strung out for days and had just failed at a suicide attempt in front of me so it was a DEEP sleep. They hadn't locked me in the shed that day, but left me in the main house as I'd become compliant and learned to act more d***ged than I really was. Got my phone out from under the guy (they were trying to make it look like I left of my own accord/ throw off friends and family) charged it for 10 minutes while I found someone else's clothes and shoes, ripped out most of my fingernails getting a window open. Ran until I couldn't breathe, called for help.
And got clean. Over a decade ago. The other girl was never seen again.
Almost stabbed in Columbus. My friend was so high and didn't know what was going on and just grabbed the dude by the shoulders and moved him aside. Knife guy didn't know how to respond. Later saw him get tased and arrested.
Way back in 8th grade, another student attempted to stab me in the throat.
The situation was the teacher left the room for a few minutes, I don't remember why, but it's not important. The friend sitting next to me got up to go talk to someone on the other side of the room but left all his things, including a completed homework assignment that was due in our next class. The girl sitting in front of us turned around and grabbed it. Now, while we weren't close friends, I had always considered myself on good and friendly terms with this girl. I made a comment along the lines of "hey, don't copy his work, do it yourself," but I completely meant it in a joking way as I often joked with her and thought she was just taking it to check his answers against hers. She responded in a rather blunt tone "why don't you mind your own business." I don't know why I said it, I don't know why it came to my mind, and I do absolutely regret it, but I just blurted out "why don't you go eat a donut." Again, I don't know where that came from, if it was a line from a show or cartoon buried in the back of my mind, but there's no real excuse for saying it. We jokingly made fun of each other a lot, but I had never once made fun of her weight before this.
Anyway, she didn't respond; she simply stood up and walked away. I sat there for another minute or two before I heard someone across the room shout my name followed by "look out." Still sitting at the desk, I turned my head just in time to see her behind me with an arm raised that she thrust down toward me. She had gotten up to go sharpen her pencil before coming back up behind me to attempt to stab me in the throat. I got both of my arms up in time to stop her and slightly redirect the trajectory of the pencil, but it still grazed my neck, scrapping the skin and causing some minor bleeding, but luckily, it didn't directly penetrate my throat like she was intending. I sat there holding off the arm holding the pencil while she pounded me in the head with her other hand for a few minutes until a couple of teachers rushed in following the commotion and were able to pull her off.
In the end, she was only suspended for a week, but was removed from my class when she came back. I did play down the event when talking to the school administrators because I felt bad about what I said to instigate it and because, again, I did feel like we were friendly before this and didn't want her to get expelled with less than a month left in the school year. I found out after the fact from others in the class that she had previously [ended] her step-father at a young age after a few years of enduring serious physical abuse from him. Apparently, this was common knowledge to most of the class who had grown up around her, but I had no idea as I had only transferred into that school for that one school year. So yeah, even though she very much tried to [end] me, I still feel bad for her.
Tweaker came at me with a knife in Seattle when I was parking a work truck out back behind our shop. He wanted my cheap work gloves (at least that's what I deduced from the broken language).
Tweaker 2 showed up out of nowhere and talked Tweaker 1 down. I gave Tweaker 1 my gloves anyways as it was cold and walked calmly back to my shop. I had a box of like 100 anyways and would have just given them to him without having to involve the knife.
Georgetown used to be a rough place. I guess it's gentrified now.
Ex-wife during our last argument with my back to her threw a 5lb stone ashtray tray at my head from a few feet away. I turned around at the right time avoiding my skull from being crushed. The ash tray put a huge hole in the wall instead of me.
When i was around 10 years old my abusive father decided i need to learn how to swim. He just threw me into the lake. I was struggling and he did nothing. I lost consciousnes and almost drowned. Random adult guy saved me from drowning. My father twisted the story to make it seem like he lost me out of his sight when i clearly remember him standing near, watching as i sank down. Im still scared of deep water, im almost 30 and i cant swim, i never tried again after that experience.
Commenting from a throwaway because it’s an ongoing case and keeping details vague for the same reason.
I was a teenager, she was an adult, we were sexually involved. I started realizing how dangerous of a situation I got in, so I was trying to break things off. She was a generally well known person in my community and worked with kids (how we met, actually- I was a child she worked with) and she lured me up to a remote part of my town near a massive forest. She zip tied my ankles and wrists, and attempted to strangle me. I survived because I played dead and she was too out of her mind terrified to check if that was actually the case. I ended up walking nearly four miles to my friend’s house (the nearest by thing I could make my way to) and saw her the very next day.
The look on her face I will never, ever forget.
My ex beat the s**t out of me. My neighbors called the cops. Cops called his parole officer. I was rushed to the hospital with a fractured skull and a broken arm. They let him out of jail 2 days later. And within 2 months he was off parole and disappeared. It’s been almost 13 years but I’m still terrified he’s going to catch up to me one day.
When I was 7 I was beaten up by two people and then one of them choked me until I had no heartbeat.
Clinically dead for one minute and thirty four seconds :)
My ex boyfriend was abusive the entire time we were together, but it culminated in him trying to strangle me with an electric cord.
Our elderly neighbor randomly knocked on our door because she needed help shoveling her driveway (snow,) right as I was starting to lose consciousness.
He was a police officer so he had an appearance to keep up and immediately switched his mask back to answer and go help her.
I found out later when my ex left for his overnight shift that she had long suspected something bad was happening because she would see me with bruises and gotten a bad feeling out of nowhere that night, and that is why she came over to “ask for help.”
She called her son to take me to the hospital and that was when I was finally able to leave him.
I will always consider her my guardian angel.
**Sidenote for anyone reading this: if a partner ever makes you feel unsafe- LEAVE. Make a safety plan and gtfo. They will always do it again and it will always get worse.**
Edit: Wow thank you for all of the awards & kind responses! If you relate to this experience I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart & hope you are safe.
For further context- I was 16 years old and he was 26. I had been kicked out of my house (whole different story,) and he “swept in,” and “saved” me.
I (naively & ironically,) thought I would be safe from my abusive family situation with a police officer.
This situation was indeed reported by ER staff as I was a minor and did eventually give his name.
This happened in a small-ish township where the whole department were his coworkers.
Many charges were technically filed but he was never actually arrested and everything was dropped after alibis were provided by his coworkers & a general coverup was done.
I made a post on a DV sub about the situation awhile ago that included snippets of some of the reports as proof but it kinda blew up and I deleted it out of fear he’d somehow find it.
I was granted a short RO basically as a “stfu,” measure but he would still have other officers bother me around town and harass me with fake numbers so nothing could ever be directly linked to him. Then the second it expired he began physically stalking me again.
It has been many years. I have since moved over halfway across the country, changed my legal name, changed my number at least a dozen times, and if you were to look my name up online it’s like I don’t exist.
He still will pop up occasionally with a random letter or spam texts from fake numbers as a little “Hey I’m still here and watching you,” I guess.
It doesn’t affect me much anymore- as crazy as that may sound. You become numb to it. I’ve basically had to accept that he will probably never fully leave me alone.
Moral of the story is again: LEAVE and don’t look back. No matter what gender you and the abuser are, no matter what ages, no matter “how bad,” the abuse is-*no. matter. what.*.
A father took his wife's life, then came to the school looking to do the same to his son. The staff convinced him his son was not there after he threatened to [end] everyone in my class. He was caught in Indiana on his way to [end] his parents. He was schizophrenic, could not afford his medicine anymore, and had an episode where he thought the world was ending, so he was going to [end] his family so they would not suffer.
Him holding a knife at someone's grandmother's throat while yelling,
"I'll [end] them all, they are already dead
", was extremely terrifying to a class of 7-year-olds.
I got jumped by 3 guys outside a bar in Seattle. I was holding my own til one of them put a .22 shell into my head. After that they all scattered.
Nighttime, I left from my location and turned on to a main road when I had the green light. I stayed in the lane I was in for a couple miles when suddenly someone over took me and cut me off from the other lane. Whatever. I don't like to speed in that area because it is a known speed trap. Because he is speeding, there was quite a bit of distance between us. As we both approached the red light soon after, that person felt like I was following him too closely as we approached the intersection and suddenly he slammed his brakes. Because of the adequate distance between the two of us, I did not have to slam my brake but just came to a quicker stop while still leaving enough room between the two of us. Since he broke suddenly to try and check me, he still had much room before the intersection so he creeped up slowly to the line. weirded out, I kept my distance. We made our left turn. He pulled to the far right lane and slowed down thinking I was going to pass him, well, I had to turn right so I also went to the far right lane. After we made the right turn again he pulled off to the side and let me pass. Then as soon as I passed, he pulls behind me tailing me hard and turning on his high beams.
Obviously this was trouble, so I drove pass the street to go to my house and continued driving. A minute later, he pulls off to a side street. I kept driving up a hill and thought he left me alone. So at the top of the hill, I turned around to go back down, thinking it was safe. Apparently he was still there and started following me again, this time being more aggressive.
I thought if I would be able to a well lit place like a gas station but I felt continuing to drive would anger him more. So I pulled off to the side immediately. He then pulls next to me and gets out of his car, I roll down my window and calmly ask him "hey man, what's going on?" He walks toward me, pulls a gun from his waist band and shoves his gun in my face. Literally the end of the gun was pressed up against my cheek. He starts yelling and swearing at me saying I was tailing him (I obviously was not) and that I was putting his family at risk. Meanwhile his girlfriend was yelling at my ex-wife for looking at them while they are yelling at me. Obviously at this point, it's not a matter of who's right or wrong, I just want to get my wife and I out safe. So I apologize multiple times over and over just saying "hey I don't remember doing that, but I am sorry I did". After what felt like 5 minutes of that (it was probably less) he pulled his gun away, I shook his hand and let him drive off.
Before that, I was indifferent to guns and gun ownership, but now, it's hard for me to look at guns in a positive light. You can do everything right and still p**s off someone because you looked at them wrong or did something they didn't like and they'll escalate the situation to 100 in the blink of an eye.
I went out with a woman who was separated from her husband. She had filed for divorce and had a restraining order against him. She stayed over one night and the fire alarm at the building across the street went off. Everyone ended up outside at 2am in October. Her car had been parked around the side of that building.
Fast forward 6 weeks and her stbx followed her then boyfriend from her house in the morning. Tried to run him off the road and shot him 3 times including in the face.
Stbx admitted that he knew she was at the apartment complex I lived in. Her mechanic also later found a gps tracker that had been wired into the fuse box to track her movements (how he found her that night).
I’m pretty sure he was armed that night and by chance picked the building she was parked next to and activated the alarm. Thankfully the wrong building.
Cartel tried to kidnap me and my parents in Mexico. We were in a rented Mexican car, and are American, but are obvious Hispanic, my step dad being white with blue eyes, so the only white person.
I was expecting a decision from a top law school program, and was hellbent on coming back home.
Three trucks blocked us in, but the one on the driver side didn’t pull up far enough to block us in all the way. Masked men got out of the vehicles and surrounded us with assault rifles, banging on the glass trying to shatter it.
I began yelling at the masked men, telling them you’re going to regret this. My parents were frozen, and I started yelling at mom to put the car into drive, pop the curb, and not look back. She did, and we got away luckily. In America we are taught to comply, but my instincts told me otherwise in Mexico, and I’m so glad I listened to it.
I got into the program, and I realized the little powerless girl in my childhood became a fearless, fast thinking bada*s. 😂.
I was letting a guy who had fallen on hard times stay with me for a bit. He was difficult to live with, but I was understanding because he was autistic ans had a TBI. He also carried more than his weight on household chores and stuff. But he crossed a few too many lines, mostly through absent mindedness or misunderstanding but it was difficult. He finally crossed one willfully and knowingly that really pissed me off. So later that day I told him he had 24 hours to get out of my house. He flew off his chain, as I expected he might have. Lots of yelling, threats, crying, even hitting me occasionally. I recorded it all and reacted as little as possible. Finally he charged into my bedroom with a knife. I didn't think that when I decided I was going to kick him out he'd escalate to that level, but I knew it was a possibility and was ready for it. So I had my handgun on me. Luckily he had trouble getting it open and I think he hesitated after charging at me. That gave me enough time to draw, and when he realized that he ran to the other side of the house.
I went out to the porch and called the cops, he told them a wildly different story that they believed over mine at first. When they came out of the house to cuff me after all this, I told them I had a video, they let me show it to them, and that changed things real quick.
When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, me and my friends were playing ding dong ditch (knocking on doors and running away). I used to hang around with some older guys too, basically we knocked on this door like 2 or 3 times and the guy was mad.
The older guys convinced me to knock on the door one more time, even made a deal that I wouldn’t have to knock on a door again for weeks. So I took it. I ran up to the door and before I even finished knocking, the door swung open at light speed.
The guy who owned the house grabbed me, picked me up like how you’d pick up a baby (I guess I was still pretty small) took me inside, closed the door and had a knife in his hand. The knife was pretty close to me but I think after a few seconds he kind of realized the knife was a bit much and that I was a kid and not some older teenager so he tried hiding it behind him. He told me never to come near his house again and asked me if I understood. Being really scared I just nodded I think and didn’t even speak, he put me down, opened the door and I ran.
Never told my parents because I was scared I’d get in trouble for knocking on the door in the first place, but that was pretty scary.
When I was 14 I went to a local fair with a couple of friends. There were some older guys there causing trouble. Some people I knew were going to try and fight them. I didn't want any part in it and left. On my way back the ones I knew ran past me.
One of the older guys was chasing them, stopped Infront of me and asked if I was with them. I said no, he called me a lying c**t and hit me. I fell over and he started kicking me, then his mates joined in.
I woke up about 10 minutes later, head was pounding, I couldn't see properly, couldn't breathe properly and was dizzy for 3 weeks.
One of them threw a brick at the back of my head while I was on the ground. Apparently he had tried to lift a stack of bricks still cemented together to drop on me but couldn't pick it up. Only reason I'm alive is because he wasn't strong enough.
That was 22 years ago and I'm still part deaf in my left ear, have a spot on my head that hurts if I press it and get nervous if my backs not against a wall when I'm out.
When I was about five years old, my family was having dinner at a family friends house. They had a kid my age so after dinner we went up to his room to play.
I don’t remember what happened but my dad said that he realized that after a while of us playing that we were suddenly making no noise. And anyone who has kids knows that kids going from making a ton of noise to no noise is a bad sign.
So he went upstairs to check on us, thinking we had broke something. And when he opened the door to the room he saw me lying on the ground and the kid, choking me by pressing his foot against my windpipe while smiling.
My dad shoved him off of me obviously since I’m typing this, and as far as I’m aware I didn’t have any brain damage from losing oxygen. .
I was drunk and another drunktard put a butcher's knife to my throat. Did I say I was drunk ? I just laughed in his face, explaining that it was stupid and that he was probably about to ruin everyone's night. For example, me lying in blood on the pavement, my friends calling an ambulance and spending the night in the hospital or the morgue, him getting handcuffed by the police and spending some time in jail, his friends having to testify, the paramedics and the cops having a s**t night for nothing. I didn't particularly mind dying, but he was just going to be in deep s**t.
So he put his knife away and went off to have a fistfight with some other drunktards in an adjacent street.
Walking on street in Johannesburg, South Africa after dark, thought I could quickly go two blocks without getting hassled. Right away sensed someone following me. A block later they are close so I stop and turn around. Two teenagers are sizing me up and can't tell what weapons they have or what other friends are also approaching. They ask if I wanted to party. Just said, nah I'm trying to get to McDonalds for a burger. They then pushed forward raised their voices and asked, how much money you got? I remained as calm as I could and said I'm not rich I just have some Canadian money. They paused. Looked a bit confused. Then asked if I had any US money. I didn't. They shrugged and walked away.
My brother (8) was choking me (7) out and wouldn't stop even as I struggled and hit him and tried to get away. He covered my mouth and held my nose, and I was blacking out. I took my nails and DUG THEM into his arms so hard I drew blood and caused deep, lasting gooves. He snapped out of it let go and I scurried away into the bathroom and locked myself in.
My parents later punished me severely for "being dramatic" about it. They didn't see his eyes while he was holding me down and strangling me. Totally calm, emotionless. Dead eyes. They KNEW he had heavy behavioral issues before that. They still chose to believe I was just being a drama queen.
Can we include government policies that sees people so frightened to seek medical care because of costs. Taxes so high that affording to eat or heat is costing people their lives too.
Can we include government policies that sees people so frightened to seek medical care because of costs. Taxes so high that affording to eat or heat is costing people their lives too.
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Prez Murmu, PM Modi Lead Nation In Paying Tributes On Vijay Diwas
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(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh led the nation in commemorating Vijay Diwas on Tuesday, paying homage to the martyrs of the 1971 war.
This historic victory not only ensured India's military triumph over Pakistan but also led to the creation of Bangladesh as an independent nation.
President Murmu, in her post on the social media platform X, expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Bravehearts, writing: "On Vijay Diwas, I pay homage to our valiant soldiers who displayed indomitable courage during the 1971 war, securing victory for India. A grateful nation remembers the ultimate sacrifice of our bravehearts whose stories inspire every Indian and shall remain a source of national pride."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also reflected on the immense courage and dedication of the soldiers who fought in the 1971 war.
In his tribute, he wrote: "Today, on Vijay Diwas, we honour the courage and sacrifices of the brave soldiers who contributed to India's historic victory in 1971. Their selfless dedication and unwavering resolve safeguarded our nation and brought glory to us. This day is a tribute to their extraordinary valour and their unshakable spirit. Their sacrifices will forever inspire generations and remain deeply embedded in our nation's history."
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh highlighted the unyielding spirit of India's armed forces, stating: "Today, on the special occasion of Vijay Diwas, the nation salutes the bravery and sacrifice of India's armed forces. Their unwavering courage and patriotism ensured that our country remained safe. India will never forget their sacrifice and service."
Vijay Diwas marks the day when India achieved a decisive victory over Pakistan in 1971, resulting in the liberation of Bangladesh. India's role included military intervention, training the Mukti Bahini (Bangladeshi freedom fighters), and direct support that culminated in the surrender of a large number of Pakistani soldiers.
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Seven foreign tourists were hospitalized in Fiji after drinking cocktails at a resort bar, Fijian authorities said on Monday.
The cause of their illness was not known and officials said it was too soon to know if tainted alcohol was involved.
Those who became ill at the five-star Warwick resort near the town of Sigatoka on Saturday included Australians and an American, according to local news reports. They were hospitalized with nausea, vomiting and neurological symptoms, said Jemesa Tudravu, a Fiji Health Ministry spokesperson.
Two people remained in the hospital, conscious and in stable condition, Fiji's Tourism Minister Viliame R. Gavoka told reporters on Monday. One person was discharged on Sunday and four others on Monday.
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David Sandoe, an Australian man who said his daughter and granddaughter were hospitalized, told Sky News Australia that his relatives had been released from the hospital and were due to fly home on Monday night.
Local news outlets reported on Sunday that the cause of the foreigners' illness was suspected alcohol poisoning, similar to a case in Laos in November in which six tourists — including two Australian teenagers — died after consuming tainted drinks.
But Tudravu said no cause had been identified in the Fiji episode. Police have ordered toxicology tests and are awaiting results — which are expected to take three or four days — Gavoka said.
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The bar was full of customers on Saturday night and many had ordered piña coladas, the drink consumed by those who became ill, said the official.
Gavoka said no other reports of similar illness were recorded at the resort or across Fiji, a South Pacific island nation of 930,000 people.
“The resort management has assured us that they have not engaged in practices such as substituting ingredients or altering the quality of drinks served to guests,” Gavoka said. The hotel, located on the picturesque Coral Coast of the largest island, Viti Levu, has operated for many years and “holds a strong reputation,” he added.
“This is the only reported case of its kind that we’ve experienced in recent memory, and certainly nothing like this has been experienced this year,” Gavoka said.
Australia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that officials are providing consular assistance to two Australian families in Fiji.
The ministry did not comment on the cause of the Australians' illness, but its website advising tourists was updated on Monday to caution travelers about “potential risks around drink spiking and methanol poisoning through consuming alcoholic drinks.”
A spokesperson for the resort, Savaira Molaucake, said staff were “conducting a thorough investigation” of the incident and were working closely with authorities.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean law enforcement authorities are pushing to summon impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his short-lived martial law decree as the Constitutional Court began its first meeting Monday on Yoon’s case to determine whether to remove him from office or reinstate him.
A joint investigative team involving police, an anti-corruption agency and the Defense Ministry said it wants to question Yoon on charges of rebellion and abuse of power in connection with his ill-conceived power grab.
The team on Monday morning tried to convey a request to Yoon’s office that he appear for questioning on Wednesday but was rerouted to Yoon’s personal residence, Son Yeong-jo, an investigator with the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, told reporters.
Son cited presidential secretarial staff as claiming they were unsure whether conveying the request to the impeached president was part of their duties. He declined to provide specifics when asked how investigators would respond if Yoon refuses to appear.
Yoon was impeached by the opposition-controlled National Assembly on Saturday over his Dec. 3 martial law decree. His presidential powers have been subsequently suspended, and the Constitutional Court is to determine whether to formally remove him from office or reinstate him. If Yoon is dismissed, a national election to choose his successor must be held within 60 days.
Yoon has justified his martial law enforcement as a necessary act of governance against the main liberal opposition Democratic Party that he described as “anti-state forces” bogging down his agendas and vowed to “fight to the end” against efforts to remove him from office.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have poured onto the streets of the country’s capital, Seoul, in recent days, calling for Yoon’s ouster and arrest.
It remains unclear whether Yoon will grant the request by investigators for an interview. South Korean prosecutors, who are pushing a separate investigation into the incident, also reportedly asked Yoon to appear at a prosecution office for questioning on Sunday but he refused to do so. Repeated calls to a prosecutors’ office in Seoul were unanswered.
Yoon’s presidential security service has also resisted a police attempt to search Yoon’s office for evidence.
Also Monday, the Constitutional Court met for the first time to discuss the case. The court has up to 180 days to rule. But observers say a ruling could come faster.
In the case of parliamentary impeachments of past presidents — Roh Moo-hyun in 2004 and Park Geun-hye in 2016 — the court spent 63 days and 91 days respectively before determining to reinstate Roh and dismiss Park.
Kim Hyungdu, a court justice, told reporters earlier Monday that the court will “swiftly and fairly” make a decision in the case. He said Monday’s court meeting was meant to discuss preparatory procedures and how to arrange arguments at formal trials.
Upholding Yoon’s impeachments needs support from at least six out of the court’s nine justices, but three seats are vacant now. This means a unanimous ruling by the court’s current six justices in favor of Yoon’s impeachment is required to formally end his presidency. Kim said he expected the three vacant seats to be filled by the end of this month.
Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who became the country’s acting leader after Yoon’s impeachment, and other government officials have sought to reassure allies and markets after Yoon’s surprise stunt paralyzed politics, halted high-level diplomacy and complicated efforts to revive a faltering economy.
Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung urged the Constitutional Court to rule swiftly on Yoon’s impeachment and proposed a special council for policy cooperation between the government and parliament. Yoon’s conservative People Power Party criticized Lee’s proposal for the special council, saying that it’s “not right” for the opposition party to act like the ruling party.
Lee, a firebrand lawmaker who drove a political offensive against Yoon’s government, is seen as the frontrunner to replace him. He lost the 2022 presidential election to Yoon by a razor-thin margin.
Yoon’s impeachment, which was endorsed in parliament by some of his ruling party lawmakers, has created a deep rift within the party between Yoon’s loyalists and his opponents. On Monday, PPP chair Han Dong-hun, a strong critic of Yoon’s martial law, announced his resignation.
“If martial law had not been lifted that night, a bloody incident could have erupted that morning between the citizens who would have taken to the streets and our young soldiers,” Han told a news conference.
Yoon’s Dec. 3 imposition of martial law, the first of its kind in more than four decades, harkened back to an era of authoritarian leaders the country has not seen since the 1980s. Yoon was forced to lift his decree hours later after parliament unanimously voted to overturn it.
Yoon sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the parliament in an effort to stop the vote, but they withdrew after the parliament rejected Yoon’s decree. No major violence occurred.
Opposition parties have accused Yoon of rebellion, saying a president in South Korea is allowed to declare martial law only during wartime or similar emergencies and would have no right to suspend parliament’s operations even in those cases.
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Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they're able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces.
Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. On each edge of an M-Block, and on e...Read More
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2025 to see new growth opportunities in tier 2, 3 cities for Indian real estate sector
By IANS | Published: December 16, 2024 11:25 AM2024-12-16T11:25:01+5:302024-12-16T11:25:03+5:30
New Delhi, Dec 16 After witnessing a bumper growth in 2024 across residential, office and industrial domains, 2025 ...
New Delhi, Dec 16 After witnessing a bumper growth in 2024 across residential, office and industrial domains, 2025 is likely to be a year of consolidation and continued innovation for the Indian real estate sector, a report showed on Monday.
While residential and office markets can potentially stabilise after consecutive peaks, industrial and warehousing demand can witness heightened traction, fuelled by rising manufacturing output and a thriving logistics industry, according to a Colliers India report.
In 2025, rapid urbanisation, key infrastructure project completion and industrial corridor development will create new growth opportunities, particularly in tier 2 and 3 cities.
In 2024, annual gross leasing across the top six cities reached 47 million square feet by the third quarter of the ongoing year, reflecting a 23 per cent year-on-year increase.
On the residential front, supported by stable interest rates, launches and sales across major cities of the country are likely to end on a strong note this year. Average housing prices across the top eight cities have already surged 11 per cent annually in 2024.
The first nine months of 2024 saw a 17 per cent annual growth in industrial and warehousing demand, registering 20.2 million square feet of leasing across the top five cities. Almost half of the leasing activity is expected to come from Delhi-NCR and Chennai.
Institutional inflows in Indian real estate continue to remain healthy in 2024, indicating sustained investor confidence. Of the $4.7 billion real estate investments during the first nine months of 2024, office and industrial and warehousing segment together accounted for over 70 per cent share.
Buoyed by domestic growth prospects and long-term returns, institutional investments are likely to be around $5-6 billion by the end of 2024.
“2025 could be another year, wherein multiple real estate classes ride high on investor and end-user optimism. Notably, alternative asset classes such as data centres, co-living and senior housing are likely to witness accelerated growth, reflecting a broader and steady shift in demographics and consumer preferences,” said Badal Yagnik, Chief Executive Officer, Colliers India.
A supportive regulatory environment and recent regulatory push such as SM-REITs (Small and Medium REITs) and refinement of state-specific RERA (Real Estate Regulation and Development Authority Act) regulations have enhanced transparency and institutionalisation in the real estate sector.
Policy frameworks have also driven a sense of fair pricing across real estate segments, attracting both developers and investors.
“Leasing activity from both domestic occupiers, as well as Global Capability Centres (GCCs) is likely to end on a strong note in 2024. Residential activity is expected to match 2023 levels, with strong sales across affordable, middle-income and luxury segments,” said the report.
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After three consecutive ODI defeats, Bangladesh finally returned to winning ways with a narrow 7-run victory over the West Indies in the 1st T20I at Arnos Vale Ground in Kingstown.
The West Indies managed to make it out a nail-biting affair, courtesy of skipper Rovman Powell's blitzkrieg, But in reality, the hosts never really recovered from the damage caused by Mahedi Hasan in the powerplay.
While chasing a modest 148-run total, the Caribbean side faced problems as Mahedi made early inroads through their batting lineup.
The West Indies had already lost Brandon King before Mahedi was introduced to bowl in the powerplay. In his second delivery of the match, Mahedi caught the big fish, Nicholas Pooran. He invited him to step out of the crease to have a go at him. Pooran shimmered down the crease, went for a swing and missed the ball, which held a straight trajectory. The explosive batter was well short of the crease as Litton gathered the ball and dislodged the bails in a jiffy.
West Indies found reprieve in the next over with Johnson Charles going berserk against Tanzim Hasan Sakib. He tonked two sixes and followed it up with a crisp four to accumulate 25 runs from the over.
But the impending end from Mahedi ended Charles' deal with the boundaries. The opener took the aerial route, but the desired elevation was something that was missed dearly. The ball landed in Hasan Mahmud's hands at mid-off.
With the West Indies tottering at run-a-ball 36 and three wickets down after the first six overs, Mahedi dealt a massive blow to make their chase a lost cause.
He delivered a match-defining over to remove Andre Fletcher for a four-ball duck and then Roston Chase for 7(13). With the West Indies looking down and out at 39/5, Powell knew his side needed something special from him.
Powell kept the hopes alive with Romario Shepherd playing the second fiddle to his skipper. The duo paced their knocks according to the situation and brought down the equation to 20 needed in 18 balls.
With victory once again in sight, Bangladesh pacers held their nerves to see off the game. Taskin Ahmed removed Shepherd (22), but Powell's threat continued to loom in the atmosphere.
In the final over, Hasan Mahmud had 10 runs to defend while facing Powell. Mahmud bowled it wide, and Powell went for a flashy drive. He only found an outside edge, which was taken by the wicketkeeper. Mahmud castled Alzarri Joseph to seal a 7-run victory for Bangladesh.
Earlier in the match, after being put to bat by the hosts, Bangladesh needed moments of individual brilliance to find their way to 147/6. Soumya Sarkar played a blistering knock of 43(32), while Jaker Ali (27), Mahedi (26*) and Shamim Hossain (27) made invaluable contributions towards the end, which took the visitors to a fighting total.
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Reasons Your Business Should Destroy Old CDs and DVDs
Businesses have moved far beyond physical media, such as CDs and DVDs. Today, digital storage is the gold standard for managing and preserving your work. Digitally storing data offers unparalleled convenience, and physical discs quickly become relics of the past. Explore reasons your business should destroy old CDs and DVDs.
Environmental Impact
Old CDs and DVDs might seem harmless, but they contribute significantly to e-waste. Millions of these discarded discs are added to landfills each year, where they take centuries to break down. Businesses often rely on sustainability to communicate their values to clients. Make sure you find eco-friendly ways to destroy your CDs and DVDs.
Technological Obsolescence
CDs and DVDs are obsolete in today’s world of cloud storage and high-speed internet. Most modern computers don’t even come with optical drives anymore. Sticking to these outdated formats risks appearing out of touch and potentially losing client credibility. Moving on from CDs and DVDs modernizes your workflow and ensures you remain competitive in an evolving industry.
Security Risks
Physical discs have some serious security flaws. CDs and DVDs, especially those used to store sensitive client files, can easily be lost, stolen, or damaged beyond recovery. If these discs fall into the wrong hands, your client’s privacy could be compromised, along with your business’s reputation. Destroying old CDs and DVDs removes the risk of sensitive data being accessed or leaked, giving you peace of mind and protecting your business.
Cost Savings
Holding onto outdated disc-based storage solutions isn’t just inconvenient—it’s expensive in the long run. DVDs and CDs may seem cheap, but the expenses add up quickly once you factor in the cost of secure storage, maintenance, and potential losses due to hardware failures or security breaches. Digital storage offers a cost-efficient alternative that scales with your business without requiring regular investment in physical storage.
Space Efficiency
Businesses thrive on creativity, and cluttered workspaces can make it harder to stay organized. Physical CDs and DVDs take up valuable space that you could use for more important equipment or a cleaner, more streamlined environment. Destroying old CDs and DVDs frees up that space and makes your studio or office look and feel more professional.
Accessibility and Convenience
Accessing files on CDs or DVDs can be a tedious process. You need the right equipment, time to sift through discs, and patience to load files that may take longer than expected. Digital storage eliminates these hassles. You can manage your portfolio faster, find files instantly, and save precious time for shooting, editing, or running your business.
Transitioning from CDs and DVDs to digital storage isn’t just a smart move; it’s necessary for any modern business. The benefits of destroying your business’s CDs and DVDs far outweigh the effort it takes to make the switch. There are efficient ways to eliminate old CDs and DVDs safely and responsibly, so what are you waiting for? Take time and start getting rid of those outdated pieces of media.
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