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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — LeBron James thought he added to his legacy with another big shot on his 39th birthday.
The NBA’s replay center had a different view, causing James to call out the league’s replay process.
James made what he believed was a game-tying 3-pointer with 3.3 seconds remaining as the Los Angeles Lakers were playing on the road against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the top team in the Western Conference.
However, it was ruled a 2-pointer and upheld via replay from the league’s replay center in Secaucus, New Jersey, and the Lakers lost 108-106 on Saturday night.
“It’s obviously a 3,” James said. “My foot is behind the line. I mean, you can see the space between the front of my foot and the 3-point line. You can clearly see a white, the wood on the floor, there’s a space in between the front of my foot and the 3-point line. So, you know, Stevie Wonder can see that, champ.”
James, who spent the day in bed with a non-COVID-19 illness, scored 26 points, 10 in the fourth quarter. But it was his shot, and the subsequent replay, that caused his ire toward the league’s replay center.
“They said it was out of their hands,” James said of the explanation he got from officials. “The Secaucus, whatever, over there in the replay center or whatever, somebody over there eating a ham sandwich or somebody made the call.”
In a pool report after the game, official Tony Brothers said the review wasn’t conclusive enough to overturn the call on the floor.
“The play was ruled a 2-point field goal on the floor during live play,” Brothers said. “After video review, there wasn’t clear and conclusive evidence to overturn it from a 2 to a 3, and that’s why it stood as a 2-point field goal.”
James felt the video evidence was clear enough. As soon as Brothers announced the ruling to the in-arena crowd, James immediately went to the scorer’s table and pointed to the replay monitor.
“It’s super frustrating in the sense of what the hell we got a replay for?” James said. “What do we have replay for if even the replay gets it wrong? It’s like, who’s the part of the replay center? Like, do we got robots in there that’s making the Teslas? What’s going on? If you don’t see that, that is clear, that is clear.”
The frustration came after James said he woke up with an illness and stayed in bed until 4:30 p.m. when he got ready to head to the arena.
“I took a few more naps and then I finally just got out of bed at like 4:30, got a shower,” James said. “It helped me a little bit. Caught the 5 o’clock bus and, I guess, felt OK to play. I felt I could make some plays to help us win the ballgame.”
The Lakers play Sunday afternoon for the second of a back-to-back in New Orleans. James said he was unsure if he’d be play to play Sunday and would wait to see how he feels a day later. | https://www.kark.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-lebron-james-questions-nbas-replay-center-after-late-game-shot-ruled-a-2-pointer/ | 2024-01-01T04:52:53Z |
According to Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, the Euro-American left-populist cycle of the ‘long 2010s’ is now over, its forces ‘sullen and spent’. Their book, which draws on earlier joint pieces for Jacobin, sets out to explain the fortunes of five electoral movements—Syriza, Podemos, La France insoumise, Corbynism and the Sanders campaign—by placing them in the context of two overlapping historical crises: the financial crash and its aftermath, and the erosion of civil society effected by neoliberalism. By creating a chasm between rulers and ruled, these developments allowed outsider candidates to enter mainstream politics. But these outsiders had the unenviable task of building hegemony in an atomized social landscape. Their aim—‘to rethink mobilization for an age of demobilization; to organize for an age of disorganization’—was admirable; but their tactics came up short. Jäger and Borriello, young Belgian political scientists at, respectively, the universities of Oxford and Namur, assess the historical reasons for this failure and the lessons that the left of the 2020s might learn from it.
The Populist Moment begins with a simple diagnosis: left populism in the Global North was a response to a political scene shorn of an active labour movement and mass politics—a twin decline accelerated by the former social-democratic parties’ embrace of the neoliberal order. After the economic slump of the 1970s, elites conspired to bring down the membership-based organizations that were previously able to negotiate a degree of societal distribution of wealth and power. Parties, unions, clubs, community associations and churches were decimated, to be replaced by lobbies and advocacy groups. National democracy was overridden by multinational institutions. Liberal luminaries commented complacently on the increasing irrelevance of parliaments and elections, while cheap credit and financialization instated a new model of ‘asset citizenship’. In this conjuncture, Borriello and Jäger write, the left confronted the dilemma identified in 1985 by Adam Przeworski’s Capitalism and Social Democracy: either tie its project to productive workers, despite their diminishing numbers, or form cross-class alliances at the expense of programmatic coherence. Its partisans chose the second option—aware that the industrial proletariat, ‘driven not only out of the factory but also out of the public sphere itself’, had become an unlikely vanguard. In so doing, they looked to Ernesto Laclau’s conception of ‘populist reason’, whereby a charismatic leader uses a hegemonic signifier to cleave society into new binary fractions: the many versus the few.
Against the various misuses of the term—generally deployed to dismiss any challenge to the liberal mainstream, regardless of political content—Borriello and Jäger define populism as a politics that traverses class divisions, and in which no social stratum enjoys a privileged role. Its adversary is not capitalism but ‘oligarchic corruption’, and its preferred societal oppositions are not workers versus bosses, capital versus labour, but debtors versus creditors or people versus elites. Populism has flourished in situations ‘where a social-democratic option was either unavailable or discredited, the channels of democratic mediation were clogged, and the main social groups of a popular coalition were relatively fragmented and isolated, and so crying out for unification.’ Amid crises of political representation, it calls for ‘democracy’, however hazily defined, as the solution.
The meltdown of 2008 created an opening for this modality, as homes were foreclosed and faith in the Third Way was eclipsed. Rule-by-technocrats, which promised home comforts for the middle class in exchange for political quietude, was suddenly inviable. Following the imposition of austerity, an outraged youth flooded the streets: occupying Zuccotti Park, blocking the Gran Vía and almost storming the Hellenic Parliament. But lacking a unified agenda, even the most radical action yielded no concrete results. In the Eurozone, this impasse led to the establishment of new political vehicles, which displayed a common set of organizational features: nimble, digitized, top-down, electoralist. Under the two-party systems of the us and uk, similar movements tried to capture the machinery of the existing centre-lefts. ‘If initial claims of injustice were a reaction to the mismanagement of the economic crisis’, Borriello and Jäger observe, ‘the organizations that arose in response reflected and even mimicked the rampant hollowing out of civil society over the past several decades’. In the absence of dense social networks, populism sought to mobilize voters via social media platforms, replacing an ineffective horizontalism with a strategy based on online communications and the personal brand of the leader.
The authors go on to provide a sober account of the contingent circumstances in which these various left-populist projects surged and then foundered. Syriza won the 2015 election but caved to the eu’s austerity demands within two months. Podemos made steady gains up until 2016, yet its popularity was damaged by fierce internal divisions, the polarizations over Catalan independence and the rise of Vox. lfi, though more successful in surpassing its centre-left opponents, failed to gain a majority in the Assembly. Its autocratic structure prevents it from building a mass base and it appears to have no answer to the continual rise of Le Pen’s Rassemblement National. Corbyn was catapulted to the top of the Labour Party against all odds, but he soon botched his Brexit policy as well as his response to relentless factional warfare and media smear campaigns. Sanders rejuvenated the American left with his first presidential campaign, before moving closer to the Democratic establishment during the Trump years and assimilating into it entirely under Biden.
As it turned out, the ‘pure’ populist approach, adopted most whole-heartedly by Podemos, was unable to create a durable power bloc. Borriello and Jäger identify three failed strategies that it employed. Leaderism—the personalization of the party—allowed a range of interests and frustrations to be condensed in a single figure, as Laclau had theorized; but these disparate constituencies went their separate ways as soon as the figurehead lost his magical aura. Digitalization could mobilize millions of disaffected or unaffiliated voters, yet it encouraged weak and ephemeral forms of activism which failed to educate them. Loose party structures enabled rapid decision-making, but they too deprived left populism of a strong organizational culture, creating political structures that were highly vertical yet lacking in discipline and accountability.
Overreliance on such methods helps to explain the outcomes of the populist moment in its various national contexts. Syriza, the authors write, was ‘neutralized’ by the eu. Corbynism crashed in the 2019 election and subsequently ‘disappeared’ from public life. Podemos has split and mostly abandoned its populist strategy, becoming ‘normalized’ as a parliamentary party by its role as junior coalition partner in Sanchez’s psoe government. lfi has succeeded in ‘reordering’ the French left, yet its power over other progressive parties is ‘majoritarian’ rather than ‘hegemonic’. And the Bernie movement has ‘splintered’, with the polarization between Democrats and Republicans causing many of its militants to be subsumed by the Biden apparatus, while others have spun off. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/cihan-tugal-after-populism | 2024-01-01T04:52:55Z |
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Inside billionaire pub baron Justin Hemmes' lavish New Year's Eve bash at his Narooma mansion - with model girlfriend Madeline Holtznagel and 'nude artist' Dina Broadhurst
Justin Hemmes hosted a spectacular tennis-themed New Year's Eve party at his breathtaking Narooma property on Sunday night.
The billionaire Merivale boss, 50, and his long-time partner Madeline Holtznagel, kicked off the festive season in grand style at his South Coast estate.
To welcome 2024, Hemmes and Holtznagel invited approximately 30 guests to their Narooma residence for a day filled with luxury and leisure.
The festivities began with a lavish champagne lunch at Quarterdeck Narooma, graced by socialites such as artist Dina Broadhurst and fitness entrepreneur Bernadette Fahey of Bodies by Berner.
Justin got into the holiday spirit, dressing up in a white polo shirt with horizontal red stripes across the chest, paired with white shorts and white sneakers with red and blue striped socks.
Justin Hemmes hosted a spectacular, tennis-themed New Year's Eve party at his breathtaking Narooma property on Sunday night. Pictured with girlfriend Madeline Holtznagel
The billionaire Merivale boss, 50, alongside his long-time partner Madeline Holtznagel, kicked off the festive season in grand style at their South Coast estate
Guests, dressed in pristine tennis whites and custom-made visors with 'Narooma Tennis Club,' written across.
The day continued with leisurely tennis matches, embodying the playful spirit of the event.
As the day turned to night, the party shifted back to Hemmes' property, transforming into an 80s tennis club-themed soirée.
The culmination of this extravagant day was a private fireworks display, lighting up the sky and ushering in the new year with a bang.
The day continued with leisurely tennis matches, embodying the playful spirit of the event
The festivities began with a lavish champagne lunch at Quarterdeck Narooma
As the day turned to night, the party shifted back to Hemmes' property, transforming into an 80s tennis club-themed soiree
Hemmes is known for hosting lavish parties at his Vaucluse home, and recently celebrated his partner Holtznagel's 27th birthday at the luxurious property.
Holtznagel began the joyful day arriving via boat to the waterfront property, where she discovered all her friends waiting to surprise her.
The genetically blessed beauty was all smiles when she finally made it to her birthday lunch and surrounded herself with loved ones.
Hemmes made a gushing toast to the blonde bombshell in front of friends and family.
The party was graced by socialites such as artist Dina Broadhurst and fitness entrepreneur Bernadette Fahey of Bodies by Berner.
Holtznagel began the joyful day arriving via boat to the waterfront property, where she discovered all her friends waiting to surprise her | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12915627/Inside-billionaire-pub-baron-Justin-Hemmes-lavish-New-Years-Eve-bash-Narooma-mansion.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2024-01-01T04:52:56Z |
Domas flirts with Kings rebounding history in win vs. Grizzlies
Domas flirts with Kings rebounding history in win vs. Grizzlies originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Domantas Sabonis was all over the glass in the Kings' 123-92 thumping of the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday at FedExForum.
Sacramento's big man scored 13 points while grabbing 21 rebounds and dishing out 12 assists for his sixth triple-double in December.
Sabonis also flirted with Chris Webber's Sacramento-era record of 25 rebounds in a game.
Domas and the Kings were all over the glass tonight 💪 pic.twitter.com/lwMExHnmtw
— Kings on NBCS (@NBCSKings) January 1, 2024
"It's a team effort," Sabonis said postgame of his performance on the glass. "I feel like we did a good job contesting their shots and I just got to fight down there with [Bismack] Biyombo, really strong guy and today was my night.
"We just kept switching the coverage, we were blitzing their main guys. That's all coach talked about, points in the paint that's where we've been struggling all year. To do that was big for us tonight."
The Kings outrebounded the Grizzlies 59-34 and outscored Memphis 58-32 in the paint.
De'Aaron Fox scored 24 points with four rebounds and four assists, but it was sixth-man Malik Monk's 27 points off the bench that helped the Kings build a significant lead.
Monk, who was born 71 miles northwest in Jonesboro, Arkansas, had family and friends in attendance at FedExForum on Sunday and was happy to put on a show for his loved ones.
Malik showed out in front of his family and friends in Memphis tonight 🙌 pic.twitter.com/RF7TwRYzB8
— Kings on NBCS (@NBCSKings) January 1, 2024
"I haven't played in front of a lot of these guys in a minute and I was able to put on a show for them," Monk told Kyle Draper and Matt Barnes on "Kings Postgame Live." "Luckily the shots were going in."
After a frustrating loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday, Sacramento capped off a 2-1 road trip with wins over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday and the Grizzlies on Sunday.
The Kings will return home to face off against the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday at Golden 1 Center. Tune in to "Kings Pregame Live" at 6:30 p.m. on NBC Sports California. | https://sports.yahoo.com/domas-flirts-kings-rebounding-history-042420469.html | 2024-01-01T04:52:56Z |
Kazakhstan to attract investments from 40 countries
"After the enlarged meeting of the Government held January 30, President Nursultan Nazarbayev set a task to establish a comprehensive eco-system of investments attraction, with a focus on investors from the developed countries. The Ministry immediately began fulfilling this Presidential instruction," Official Spokesperson of the MFA Aybek Smadyarov said at a briefing today.
"The Ministry was authorized to synchronize this work at all the levels - from the akimats (local administrations) to foreign missions of Kazakhstan. 40 countries have been determined for attracting investments," he noted.
In order to increase productivity and accountability of foreign missions, the Ministry has developed key performance indicators. "The point at issue is statistical data (gross inflow of direct foreign investments and commodity turnover), attraction of new investors and interaction with the investors (monitoring of active investors' mood, reinvesting), Smadyarov said and added that each embassy had been set certain objectives and key performance indicators. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-attract-investments-from-40-countries_a3494813/ | 2024-01-01T04:52:56Z |
High Cholesterol Symptoms: 10 Tips For Women in 40s
One serious problem that often endangers the heart is high cholesterol.
The female sex hormone, estrogen causes women to have higher amounts of HDL cholesterol than males.
To protect their heart health and control their daily LDL levels, women in their 40s should follow these tips.
Add running, cycling, swimming, or power walking to your regimen.
Prioritize eating a diet high in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and healthy fats.
Overindulgence in alcohol intake has been linked to several health problems, including excessive cholesterol.
Both cholesterol levels and general cardiovascular health can be enhanced by quitting smoking.
Lowering LDL cholesterol levels can be achieved by losing extra weight.
Make an appointment for routine examinations and cholesterol assessments with your physician.
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Some Nutramigen infant formula recalled due to possible bacteria contamination
(CNN) - Some powdered baby formula is being pulled from the shelves due to contamination issues.
On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers of possible bacterial contamination in Reckitt/Mead Johnson’s Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder products.
Manufacturers voluntarily recalled more than 675,000 cans of the formula.
The recall batches include ZL3FRW, ZL3FPE, ZL3FXJ, ZL3FQD, ZL3FMH, ZL3FHG with a UPC code of 300871239418 or 300871239456 and use by date of Jan. 1, 2025.
According to the FDA, the formula tested positive for Cronobacter bacteria, which can cause rare but potentially deadly infections in newborns.
The FDA says that no illnesses have been reported to date.
The company says no other Nutramigen liquid formulas or any other Reckitt nutrition products are impacted.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.wndu.com/2024/01/01/some-nutramigen-infant-formula-recalled-due-possible-bacteria-contamination/ | 2024-01-01T04:52:57Z |
Public sector bank Indian Overseas Bank has introduced ‘Savings Account Portability Online’, a scheme that is aimed at offering an easier savings account portability process for customers who move to different locations.
For individuals, who have to shift from one location to another due to career shifts, educational pursuits, or various life transitions, the new scheme will help avoid the cumbersome process of relocating bank accounts. With the new online scheme, customers don’t have to fill out those endless forms and wait for days and weeks for the account transfer to materialise.
To initiate an account transfer, customers need to log in to the IOB website (www.iob.in) and access the ‘Transfer of Savings Accounts’ section. Enter the account number and registered mobile number. A one-time password (OTP) will be sent to the registered mobile number. Once the OTP is entered, one may specify the desired branch for transfer and submit. A new page opens, revealing the account number and the name and code of the destination branch, confirming the successful transfer, according to a statement.
To partake in this seamless service, customers must ensure their phone numbers are accurately registered with the bank.
- Also read: Final decision on customer complaints should be communicated in 30 days: RBI tells Banks, NBFCs
“As part of our continuous endeavours towards making our customers’ banking journey more efficient and easier, we are introducing Savings Account Portability Online,” said Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Managing Director & CEO, Indian Overseas Bank. | https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/iob-introduces-savings-account-portability-online-scheme/article67692997.ece | 2024-01-01T04:52:57Z |
CUSA Football Promo Codes, Predictions, Computer Picks & Best Bets | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 1:44 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
The bowl season schedule features four CUSA matchups, with Western Kentucky (+4.5) against Old Dominion among the best bets against the spread, based on our projections. For more suggestions, including parlay possibilities, scroll down.
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Pick: Western Kentucky +4.5 vs. Old Dominion
- Matchup: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Old Dominion Monarchs
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Old Dominion by 0.5 points
- Time: 2:30 PM ET
- Date: December 18
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Pick: Fresno State +3.5 vs. New Mexico State
- Matchup: New Mexico State Aggies at Fresno State Bulldogs
- Projected Favorite & Spread: New Mexico State by 0.0 points
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Pick: Louisiana +3.5 vs. Jacksonville State
- Matchup: Jacksonville State Gamecocks at Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Jacksonville State by 1.5 points
- Time: 2:15 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
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Under 67.5 - Liberty vs. Oregon
- Matchup: Liberty Flames at Oregon Ducks
- Projected Total: 61.4 points
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN
Over 48.5 - Western Kentucky vs. Old Dominion
- Matchup: Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at Old Dominion Monarchs
- Projected Total: 54.2 points
- Time: 2:30 PM ET
- Date: December 18
- TV Channel: ESPN (Stream on Fubo)
Under 57.5 - Jacksonville State vs. Louisiana
- Matchup: Jacksonville State Gamecocks at Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
- Projected Total: 55.6 points
- Time: 2:15 PM ET
- Date: December 16
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Cartesian Growth Co. II (NASDAQ:RENE – Get Free Report) and UBE (OTCMKTS:UBEOY – Get Free Report) are both small-cap unclassified companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
74.1% of Cartesian Growth Co. II shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.0% of Cartesian Growth Co. II shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Cartesian Growth Co. II and UBE, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
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UBE has higher revenue and earnings than Cartesian Growth Co. II.
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This table compares Cartesian Growth Co. II and UBE’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Volatility & Risk
Cartesian Growth Co. II has a beta of -0.01, meaning that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UBE has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
UBE beats Cartesian Growth Co. II on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Cartesian Growth Co. II
Cartesian Growth Corporation II does not have significant operations. It focuses on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. Cartesian Growth Corporation II was incorporated in 2021 and is based in New York, New York.
About UBE
Ube Industries, Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the chemicals, construction materials, and machinery businesses in Japan, Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Chemicals, Construction Materials, Machinery, and Others. It offers synthetic rubber, engineering plastics, caprolactam, industrial chemicals, liquefied gas, polyethylene, ammonium sulfate, polyimide, battery materials, separation membranes, fine chemicals, ceramics, high purity chemicals, semiconductor gas products, products for polyurethane resins, aerospace materials, inorganic fiber, and high temperature paints. The company also provides contract manufacturing services for APIs and intermediates; aromatic SF5 compounds; FLUOLEAD, a novel nucleophilic fluorinating agent; and drug discovery and pipeline services. In addition, it offers cement products, ready mixed concrete, soil stabilizing cement, building materials, limestone, calcia and magnesia, specialty inorganic materials, and resource recycling, as well as imports and sells coal. Further, the company is involved in the supply of electric power. Additionally, it provides die-casting and injection molding machines, and extrusion presses; and UBE vertical mills, kilins, furnaces, dryers, water screening equipment, storage and transportation systems, bridges and steel structures, and steel billets and casting. The company also manufactures and sells nylon, plastic films, polypropylene molded products, fibers, fiber-reinforced plastics, electronic and information materials, magnesia clinker, quicklime, slaked lime, and cast iron; and offers coastal shipping, port transportation, containers, collection and transport of industrial waste, trading, and engineering services. In addition, it engages in the purchase, sale, and leasing of real estate properties. Ube Industries, Ltd. was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Sumedha Sharma
Gurugram, December 31
Gurugram and Nuh, the two districts of the state standing on different ends of the development horizon, were bound by a common notoriety this year: the Nuh clashes.
The only Muslim-dominated district in the state had been rendered as an epitome of communal harmony over half a century. However, communal clashes that erupted in the district this year left seven persons dead and residents scarred for their lives.
The violence spilling over to Gurugram was a major blow to the reputation of the popular IT hub. Although Gurugram is a potboiler of many cultures, the city had been simmering with communal under currents over open namaz and cow vigilantism for the past year or two.
The communal clashes highlighted the failure of the local police and authorities in maintaining law and order. Besides, the clashes triggered one of the biggest migrant exodus from the city after the Covid crises. The exodus, which started after local vigilantes threatened the Muslim migrants, led to a major service deficit.
While Gurugram residents were forced to plead to their maids and cab drivers to come back. Multinational companies declared work from home. It left a dent on many planned investments, said Gurugram MP Rao Inderjeet Singh.
However, on an optimistic note, the two districts saw the development of road infrastructure that is bound to change their fate. The opening of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway passing through Nuh has become one of the biggest achievements of the region.
Meanwhile, Gurugram also saw one of its worst sanitation crises. Failure of the MC in maintaining basic services and four strikes by sanitation workers in a year made netizens rechristen city as the ‘Kuda Gram’.
The latest strike that went on for over two months has turned various roads, empty plots, streets and green belts into garbage dumps.
Join Whatsapp Channel of The Tribune for latest updates. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/looking-back-2023-sanitation-workers-strike-raised-a-stink-in-gurugram-577170 | 2024-01-01T04:52:57Z |
Xiaomi had earlier confirmed that its Redmi Note 13 5G series will launch in India on January 4, marking the company's first smartphone launch in India in the New Year. The mid-range smartphone series which was earlier launched in China will make its Indian debut in three variants: Redmi Note 13 5G, Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G and Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G.
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Redmi Note 13 series pricing:
A post by tipster Abhishek Yadav on X (formerly Twitter) claims that the Redmi Note 13 5G will be priced at ₹20,999 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant, ₹22,999 for the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant and ₹24,999 for the 12GB RAM/256GB storage variant. Moreover, an ensuing image shared by Abhishek Yadav notes that the smartphone will be available in Prism Gold, Arctic White, and Stealth Black colour options.
The Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G could be priced at ₹28,999 for the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant and ₹32,999 for the 12GB RAM/256GB storage variant. The Pro series may be available in Arctic White, Coral Purple, and Midnight Black colour options.
Moreover, the premium Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G variant could be priced at ₹33,999 for the 8GB RAM/256GB storage variant and ₹37,999 for the 12GB RAM/512GB storage variant. The tipster notes that the Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G series could be available in Fusion White, Fusion Purple, and Fusion Black colour options.
Redmi Note 13 5G Series specs:
Tipster Sudhanshu Ambhore had earlier shared the complete specs sheet for the Indian and global variants of the Redmi Note 13 5G series in a post on X (formerly Twitter)
The leaked specifications show that the Redmi Note 13 5G vanilla variant could sport a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 2400 * 1080 pixels. The smartphone is expected to come with up to 120Hz refresh rate and up to 240Hz touch sampling rate.
In terms of processor, the mid-range phone is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6080 chipset based on a 6nm process and paired with a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU for all the graphics-intensive tasks. The Redmi Note 13 5G is expected to come with up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage.
Moreover, the smartphone could sport a 108MP main camera, an 8MP ultra-wide lens and a 2MP macro sensor. For selfies and video calls, there is expected to be a 16MP front-facing camera.
Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G specifications:
The Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor based on the 4nm process and based on an Adreno 710 GPU for graphics-intensive tasks. The smartphone is also expected to come with 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage.
Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G specifications:
The higher-end Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G is expected to be powered by the Mediatek Dimensity 7200 Ultra processor paired with Mali-G610 MC4 GPU. The smartphone could come in up to 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM variants and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage variant.
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The matter of national sovereignty was the clamorous stake in the 2016 referendum on the uk’s membership of the European Union. For the Leavers, whose rhetorical dynamism was unflagging, even in the midst of all the warnings of economic dislocation and slump, the struggle was one for rebirth, a reassertion of British independence in the face of an overbearing Brussels superstate and the launch of a recharged ‘Global Britain’. For the Remain camp, this was not only economically reckless and fanciful but a cultural nightmare, portending a future of inflamed racism and xenophobia as a rationally pooled sovereignty was undone in the name of an idealized national autarky. These projections came in numerous variants—with other arguments besides, though none making significant running in the polemical heat of the referendum’s campaigning and counter-campaigning—and both were fundamentally mistaken. So maintain the four authors of Taking Control, their manifesto (not their word) for Brexit’s ‘unfinished business’, which does indeed concern national sovereignty, though in a sense that neither ‘right-leaning Eurosceptics and populists’ nor ‘liberal and left Europhiles’ can understand.
The eu is not a superstate achieved or in the making, they argue. In fact its strategic purpose has been precisely not to be or become such a thing, but to create a mode of rule that is structurally ‘evasive’, combining a formal claim of democratic legitimacy (the European Council and Council of Ministers are made up of elected members of national governments) with an ever-ready political alibi for unpopular decisions (‘Brussels’, they shrug, and that’s that). In the shape of the eu, ‘Europe’s ruling elites have voluntarily surrendered national sovereignty in order to lock in their preferred neoliberal policies against popular opposition, and to avoid having to be responsive to their own domestic constituents.’ The complementary certitude, that Brexit rode to success on the votes of reactionary nationalists, racists, xenophobes and worse, sits ill on the tongues of the official cosmopolitans, whose compassion ends punctually at the borders of the Union. It is not vindicated by the available data, which do, however, support the plain hypothesis that a majority of those voting Leave felt alienated from public decision-making processes. (By 2016, more than half of all workers and non-degree-holders had stopped voting entirely.) The extent of popular disaffection was captured in the finding that nearly half of Leavers—46 per cent—expected the referendum outcome to be rigged. ‘The vote laid bare the enormous gulf between the electorate and the political elite’, the authors write, or, in the trope they borrow from Peter Mair, ‘the void’.
Taking Control includes a documented resumption of the referendum campaign and its still-unsettled aftermath, but its crucial historical span is longer, reaching back to the middle of the previous century, which witnessed the decisive shifts in the forms of political rule, and looking ahead to the prospects of a struggle for democratic renewal. Britain, as it took shape in the forties, fifties and sixties, was no longer primarily imperial in orientation: its priority was domestic, its governing rhetoric a kind of national collectivism in which Labour sounded the keynote even as the Conservatives held office. Then came the Thatcherite revanche of the seventies and the ascent of neoliberalism, which Blair’s New Labour would duly confirm as the new normal of economy and society, with destructive consequences for ‘the British nation as a political association’. There followed a decline in political participation expressed in reduced electoral turnouts, dwindling party loyalty, membership and activism, and fading party policy differentiation, all these favouring the emergence of a homogenized ‘governing class’ (Mair again) and its counterpart below, an unmoored, fragmented, ‘intersectional’ population—citizens of a void. The enfeebled sovereignty embodied in the status of ‘member-state’ is ‘the ideal shell for post-democratic neoliberal politics’. ‘The political spirit of European integration is appropriately characterized as “authoritarian liberalism”: the interests and protection of private property are elevated over the will of democratic majorities’—as voters in Greece and Ireland will not fail to recall. Its political content is ‘the opposite of national sovereignty, even if the formal shell of legal sovereignty ultimately remains intact and can be asserted, as Britain has now done’.
That distinction is crucial for Cunliffe and his co-authors, whose case is that the Conservative Eurosceptics’ inability to leverage their Brexit success for any wider project has been owing to their failure to comprehend the nature of the eu as a neoliberal entity and their own doctrinaire part in creating it. (The partisans of ‘Remain and Reform’, on the other hand, scarcely had the measure of the Union’s basic procedural documents, which were so crafted as to make success in any drive towards greater democracy a gruelling improbability.) Their own sketch for a programme of reform, hostile to the regressive ‘back’ in the Eurosceptic ‘Take Back Control’ and more so to ‘the Corbynite socialists, . . . the militant wing of the Europhiles’ authoritarian liberalism’, is a slate of ‘radical democratic’ demands specifically political in character and all ‘aimed at breaking up the existing oligarchy’ and recharging popular sovereignty. This is ‘the unfinished business’, of which Brexit was the necessary but misunderstood condition, in a political culture they repeatedly describe as ‘exhausted’.
‘Filling the void—rebuilding political representation—is the main task of democratic politics today’, Cunliffe and his co-authors insist, ‘and representation requires sovereignty.’ However, sovereignty can only be exercised within a delimited space and population, with an elsewhere in which other sovereignties prevail. The main task, more precisely then, is to build ‘democratic nations’. These would be ‘new nations’ not to be traced from exhausted traditions or homogeneous cultural or ethnic identities’. Emerging from ‘the contradictions and wreckage of member-statehood, . . . their only possible basis is a shared commitment to collective self-government.’
Eloquent and emphatic as it is, Taking Control is a book that does not escape the vices of its pedagogic virtues: methodically laid out and expounded, with patient signposting and summings up, it could have been significantly less repetitious. Here follows the democratic programme for the uk, focused on three basic contradictions in the uk state. First, the slogan of ‘Global Britain!’, launched by Theresa May, was a signal to the political and business elites internationally that Brexit would not fundamentally change Britain’s mode of operation in the world. Its political class knows no other, as the record since Brexit attests. This hubris should be rejected, in favour of a consistently democratic, sovereigntist foreign policy. Intergovernmentality such as that of the European Council entails an inescapable derogation of national sovereignty and has been rejected as such. The uk should quit the nato alliance, another intergovernmental body, establishing a wholly independent nuclear deterrent, and at the same time move to liquidate its remaining post-imperial territorial claims.
Second, Brexit was carried out by a political class upholding critical weaknesses in the constitution of the uk itself, above all in relation to Northern Ireland, where Westminster’s authority is chronically dependent on the cooperation of the Irish Republic. Britain claims to rule not only where it should not—the familiar nationalist claim—but where in fact it cannot. This state of affairs can be resolved only with the ending of the Union and the reunification of Ireland. A further weakness is devolution, which has promoted ‘a parochial, authoritarian separatism’ in Scotland and Wales. Defeating Scottish separatism is ‘a key test’, calling for ‘a vision of British democracy that can convince Scottish voters not merely to reject secession but to abandon devolution’. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/francis-mulhern-unfinished-business | 2024-01-01T04:53:02Z |
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UP: Lucknow police launches special campaign to curb drunk-driving
On New Year's Eve, the Lucknow police launched a special campaign to curb the drunk-driving and reckless behaviour of the public.
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On New Year's Eve, the Lucknow police launched a special campaign to curb the drunk-driving and reckless behaviour of the public. Police personnel have been deployed with breath analysers at the main intersections of Lucknow.
"In order to ensure safe New Year celebrations, police forces were deployed in different areas of the district. The police will pay special attention to the timing of liquor in clubs and pubs," said Upendra Aggarwal, Joint Commissioner, Law and Order (Lucknow). Police forces have also been deployed outside clubs, restaurants and hotels of the capital city.
Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, a grand 'Aarti' was performed at the Ganga Ghat on New Year's Eve. Priests were seen playing instruments as the devotees were engrossed in prayers with folded hands.
The country is grooving with enthusiasm as the New Year celebrations have set in. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Jaren Hall, defense collapse as Packers destroy Vikings
The final game of the 2023 calendar year is a brutal one for the Minnesota Vikings, as they get slaughtered by the Green Bay Packers by a score of 33-10.
There was some excitement for rookie quarterback Jaren Hall getting his second start of the year, especially after he looked capable in his two drives as a starter against the Atlanta Falcons. Well, things didn’t go well at all.
Hall committed two turnovers against the Packers, completing just 5-of-10 passes for 67 yards, one interception and a strip sack that the Packers turned into seven points right before halftime.
The Vikings ended up making a change to start the second half to Nick Mullens but things didn’t get too much better. The Vikings drove down the field but turned it over on downs in the red zone before seeing the Packers drive down 91 yards in 13 plays for a touchdown.
The defense totally collapsed in another big moment on Sunday night. They allowed a depleted Packers receiving corps missing their top option and two of their top four to torch the secondary consistently with in-breaking routes. Defensive coordinator Brian Flores didn’t look to be making many adjustments to the defense, as the same issues kept coming to the forefront.
As painful as it feels, the Packers deserve a lot of credit. Jordan Love completed 24-of-33 passes for 256 yards and three touchdowns while making some great throws in the process.
With the loss, the Vikings will need a lot of help in order to make the playoffs. It will start with a victory over the Detroit Lions next Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m. CST. | https://sports.yahoo.com/jaren-hall-defense-collapse-packers-042454209.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:02Z |
Surfer dies after shark bite, officials say
PAIA, Hawaii (KHNL/Gray News) - A 39-year-old surfer died Saturday after suffering a shark bite at Maui’s Paia Bay, the Department of Land and Natural Resources confirmed.
Details on the injuries of Jason Carter oh Haiku were not released.
Maui Fire Department officials say the incident happened about 11 a.m.
A Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman confirmed about 5:30 p.m. that Carter had died.
Officials said water conditions at the time were “mixed” because of high surf conditions.
The County of Maui posted on its official Instagram that Baldwin Beach Park and Lower Paia Park were closed due to the shark incident.
First responders were patrolling the area on shore and on jet skis, according to Maui Fire Department. Department of Land and Natural Resources officials said shark warning signs are up one mile on either side of the incident site.
The incident is seventh shark encounter in Hawaii waters this year and the first resulting in fatal injuries, according to the agency’s shark incident database.
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College Football Bowl Game Computer Picks & Predictions
Based on our projections, the best bet against the spread out of 39 FBS postseason matchups is Florida State (+22.5) -- for more tips, including parlay possibilities, keep reading.
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Pick: Florida State +22.5 vs. Georgia
- Matchup: Georgia Bulldogs at Florida State Seminoles
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Florida State by 2.2 points
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: December 30
- TV Channel: ESPN
Pick: Tulane +11.5 vs. Virginia Tech
- Matchup: Virginia Tech Hokies at Tulane Green Wave
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Tulane by 3.9 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 27
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Pick: LSU -8.5 vs. Wisconsin
- Matchup: Wisconsin Badgers at LSU Tigers
- Projected Favorite & Spread: LSU by 21.3 points
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: January 1
- TV Channel: ESPN2
- Live Stream: Fubo
Pick: Ohio +1.5 vs. Georgia Southern
- Matchup: Georgia Southern Eagles at Ohio Bobcats
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Ohio by 10.7 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Pick: Boise State +6.5 vs. UCLA
- Matchup: UCLA Bruins at Boise State Broncos
- Projected Favorite & Spread: Boise State by 5.5 points
- Time: 7:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live Stream: Fubo
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Over 40.5 - Oregon State vs. Notre Dame
- Matchup: Oregon State Beavers at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Projected Total: 55.0 points
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: December 29
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 40.5 - Miami (OH) vs. Appalachian State
- Matchup: Miami (OH) RedHawks at Appalachian State Mountaineers
- Projected Total: 51.3 points
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: December 16
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 47.5 - SMU vs. Boston College
- Matchup: SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Projected Total: 55.6 points
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: December 28
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Over 46.5 - UTSA vs. Marshall
- Matchup: UTSA Roadrunners at Marshall Thundering Herd
- Projected Total: 54.5 points
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: December 19
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
Under 66.5 - Georgia Tech vs. UCF
- Matchup: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at UCF Knights
- Projected Total: 59.6 points
- Time: 6:30 PM ET
- Date: December 22
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live Stream: Fubo
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Kazakhstan to continue contributing to global peace and security - Nazarbayev
"We all are aware of the drastic changes taking place in international relations system today. Everyone is concerned especially over the confrontation of the countries possessing nuclear weapons. In this regard, we should particularly note the existing risk of breach of the INF Treaty. Of course, all the countries standing for peace, must counter this global catastrophe and take preventive measures. This is our historical responsibility before the mankind," said Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The Head of State stressed that Kazakhstan had always supported peace and harmony.
"Our activity as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council pursues namely this goal. The entire world knows Kazakhstan as a peaceloving country," he emphasized and added that Kazakhstan was planning to mark a special date this year - the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear weapon testing on Semipalatinsk polygon.
"Our strategic goal is to build a nuclear-weapon-free world by 2045. Kazakhstan conducts such a work," noted the President.
He added that Kazakhstan had already contributed to the regulation of conflicts in regions as part of the Astana Process and provided assistance to Afghanistan.
"Our country will continue contributing to the development of peace and security across the globe" he assured. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-continue-contributing-to-global-peace-and-security-nazarbayev_a3495420/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:03Z |
ShiftPixy (NASDAQ:PIXY – Get Free Report) and Syra Health (NASDAQ:SYRA – Get Free Report) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares ShiftPixy and Syra Health’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Syra Health has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ShiftPixy.
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Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for ShiftPixy and Syra Health, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
ShiftPixy presently has a consensus target price of $144.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2,537.36%. Given ShiftPixy’s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ShiftPixy is more favorable than Syra Health.
Profitability
This table compares ShiftPixy and Syra Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Summary
ShiftPixy beats Syra Health on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About ShiftPixy
ShiftPixy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides staffing solutions in the United States. It offers employment administrative services, such as payroll processing, human resources consulting, and workers' compensation administration and coverage. The company operates human resources information systems platform to assist in client acquisition for the onboarding of new clients into the company's closed proprietary operating and processing information system. It primarily serves restaurant and hospitality service industries. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
About Syra Health
Syra Health Corp., a healthcare services company, provides health education, population health management, behavioral and mental health, healthcare workforce, and digital health services in the United States. It offers health education services, including medical communications, patient education, and healthcare training; and population health management services, such as analytics as a service, epidemiology, and health equity analytics solutions. The company also engages in developing Syrenity, an on-demand telehealth platform for mental health services. In addition, the company provides healthcare staffing solutions; and digital health solutions comprising digital transformation, cloud and security, artificial intelligence, patient engagement, and health apps. It serves mental health hospitals and organizations, including government agencies, integrated health networks, managed care entities, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Syra Health Corp. was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.
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It’s highly offensive, but that’s not the problem with Ricky Gervais’ Armageddon
By Ben Pobjie
There’s a little sinking feeling that hits when, in the first couple of minutes of Ricky Gervais’s latest stand-up special Armageddon, he cracks out the word “woke”.
There’s something about that word: it tends to act as a signal that what follows is going to be some hard-right reactionary old-man-shouting-at-clouds tedium. Which is exactly what Gervais’s most strident critics expect from him, of course.
His previous special, Supernature, drew strong criticism for his jokes about trans issues, and for seeming to cross a line between ‘I don’t care who I offend’ to ‘I enjoy offending people’.
Armageddon, presently the number 1 show on Netflix in Australia, is arguably not as provocative as Supernature. But there does still seem to be an attempt to court controversy from a man who has proved himself invincible to cancel culture despite being high on the list of what might be termed problematic celebrities.
This doesn’t mean it’s as funny as Gervais can be, his focus in Armageddon seems to be on being edgy, rather than being hilarious.
Gervais’ musings on “woke” do not descend to Fox News-level lefty-baiting, and his mockery of those who might occasionally be tagged with that epithet is for the most part amusing enough.
But the very fact he pulls out such a tired, played-out term is suggestive of a certain lack of sharpness: a little laziness of thought that does not permeate the special, but does occasionally seep in, to the show’s overall detriment.
The show is not, thank goodness, all about wokeness, though Gervais’ delight in poking fun at modern sensitivities is always evident. His main subject, as usual, is the arrogance and stupidity of the human race, whether that takes the form of ludicrous cultural policing of movies, petty fixations on language, or our species’ peculiarly hubristic march to self-destruction – as hinted in the show’s title.
There are superb bits on humans’ tendency to overlook what’s important in favour of their own narrow obsessions – a sequence on a website’s monitoring of animal cruelty in Schindler’s List leads to some big laughs. Gervais is also quite happy to include himself in the mass of humanity at which he takes aim, and many of those who have absorbed a social media-based view of the man might be surprised at the level of self-awareness his comedy possesses.
At less inspired moments, however, there’s a sense that the star started with an idea to piss someone off, and worked backward to find a joke. Jokes about paedophilia and disability are clearly written with no concern for anyone’s feelings, which is no problem in itself, but you may find yourself wishing he’d edited his script more with an eye to maximum comedic impact rather than cheering his own willingness to offend quite so much.
Then again, the normal province of the stand-up is to rant about what irritates them, and people who are too sensitive to jokes really do irritate Ricky Gervais. Like his other specials, Armageddon is punctuated by asides on the nature and the purpose of humour, and frustration that the world is too full of people who take jokes both too literally and too seriously.
Previously Gervais has been pilloried in particular for his material on the transgender community, and even while he revels in the anger of his critics and the notoriety it affords him, it obviously does still rankle him to some extent that his jokes have been seen as harmful, particularly when contrasted with other problems of the world.
There are no rants on gender in this special, but the odd mention crops up, seemingly more as a nod to what he sees as the absurdity of past criticisms than anything particularly related to the subject at hand.
It is, to some extent, a fool’s errand to review a stand-up comedy show, because it is a self-reviewing artform. When you get on stage and tell jokes, the audience will either laugh or they won’t, and that reaction makes anything a critic can say kind of irrelevant.
He’s one of the world’s most successful stand-ups, and no matter how much that might rankle with some, it gives him pretty much the perfect riposte to any critic.
Nevertheless, from someone who’s been a diehard fan of everything Gervais has done for a couple of decades, Armageddon feels like a piece of work unworthy of its creator’s great talents. There are plenty of laughs, but they just don’t seem as plentiful, or as memorable, as they have been in the past. If Gervais has begun to rest on his laurels, after all he’s achieved, you might not blame him, but as he finishes his set with some trademark “but seriously” material, the feeling that the blade, if not entirely dulled, could use some sharpening before the next outing, is inescapable.
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Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, December 31
The Gurugram police arrested 466 persons in 352 cases and seized more than 360 illegal weapons from their possession this year. Besides, 338 others were arrested on the charges of drug smuggling.
According to the police data, the 466 persons were booked under the Arms Act for the possession and supply of illegal arms. On an average, the police seized more than one illegal weapon daily.
The seized weapons included 348 countrymade pistols, 11 revolvers, 511 cartridges, seven magazines and six knives. A large number of accused were involved in the supply of illegal arms from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi-NCR region.
There has been a rise in the drug smuggling network in Gurugram as revealed by the increasing number of cases registered under the NDPS Act. As per the police data, a total of 338 persons were arrested against 267 cases registered under the NDPS Act since January 1. Large quantities of illegal drugs, including 1,097 kg marijuana, 3.34 kg sulfa, 0.94 kg heroin, 6.65 kg chura post and 1.21 kg of other drugs and banned medicines were seized from the accused’s possession.
Apart from this, 1,927 others were arrested under the Excise Act this year. In 1,573 FIRs registered, the police seized 1,62,766 bottles of illegal liquor and 46 litres of handmade liquor.
On the other hand, Gurugram also witnessed a surge in the prostitution cases with the arrest of 40 persons.
“Our police teams are always on alert to keep tabs on criminal activities. Owing to this, the police was able to nab more criminals and seize illegal arms, liquor and drugs from them this year,” said ACP (Crime) Varun Dahiya.
Arms supplied from other states
The seized weapons included 348 countrymade pistols, 11 revolvers, 511 cartridges, seven magazines and six knives. A large number these weapons were supplied from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh
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Over the past few years, millions of people, mostly in the Global South, have accepted an enticing offer: the promise of free cryptocurrency—25 ethereum-based Worldcoins, to be airdropped into a Worldcoin Wallet app—in exchange for having their irises scanned by a fancy silver orb. The Worldcoin project is a brainchild of Sam Altman, formulated in 2019 just as he was stepping sideways from his position as President of Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley start-up incubator, to become ceo of Openai, the for-profit not-for-profit company supposedly dedicated to making sure that artificial intelligence would be ‘safe and beneficial’ for humankind. With billions from Microsoft, the computer scientists at Openai trained their deep-learning Large-Language Models (llms) to mimic the human use of language by crunching loot from Wikipedia and wider scrapes of internet content, producing dall-e—an image prompt generator—as well as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer systems (gpts), most famously Chatgpt, released in November 2022. This family of models could not only carry on a conversation but confidently filibuster on just about anything, disregarding facts and sources.
‘The global economy belongs to everyone’ is Worldcoin’s slogan. Altman, the project’s co-founder alongside ceo Alex Blania, has described its goals in lofty terms: not only a decentralized identity and financial network, owned by everyone, but a first step towards providing a global Universal Basic Income, sharing the wealth that ai would generate with those whom it would make redundant; or as the Worldcoin website puts it, a ‘more human’ internet, a ‘more human’ blockchain protocol and a ‘more human’ economic system, accessible to all.footnote1 In fact, as Altman and Blania made clear, Worldcoin is supposed to solve a problem that Openai and its rivals at Google, Amazon and the rest have created: how to distinguish online between digital entities and real human beings, now that ai systems can sail through captcha tests, recognize images and generate plausible text? Biometric data, Blania affirmed, would be the ultimate ‘proof of personhood’; an upgraded Turing test in the age of ai. Worldcoin was getting out ahead of the competition, with its proposition of trading iris scans for ‘fiat’ crypto-currency tokens. The company described the operation as ‘the biggest onboarding into crypto and Web3’ to date.footnote2
In their investigation of Worldcoin’s procedures, researchers at the mit Technology Review uncovered deceptive marketing practices, exploited workers, failure to secure informed consent and the collection of more biometric information than was acknowledged—as well as glaring inequalities between data collectors and data providers. The researchers were puzzled at first about the actual goal of the data collection, which Worldcoin representatives would only describe in the vaguest terms, while keeping their code and technology secret. Eventually they came to the conclusion that crypto and ubi were just an afterthought to incentivize people in countries outside the realm of data-privacy regulation to relinquish their biometric data, taking advantage of the difficult financial situation of the pandemic. The chief goal was to train Openai’s neural networks on this data. The scans turned out to be a scam. What appeared to be a crypto-currency onboarding tool was in fact a large-scale data-collection operation.footnote3
Twenty years ago, the Harvard anthropologist Michael Herzfeld coined the term crypto-colonialism to describe territories that are not colonies in the standard definition of the word, but suffer more indirect forms of oppression. Herzfeld wrote of ‘the curious alchemy’ whereby certain countries—he mentioned Greece and Thailand—‘were compelled to acquire their political independence at the expense of massive economic dependence’, this relationship being articulated in the ‘iconic guise of aggressively national culture fashioned to suit foreign models.’ Such countries were and are living paradoxes: ‘they are nominally independent, but that independence comes at the price of a sometimes humiliating form of effective dependence.’footnote4
Herzfeld wrote these lines long before Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin. But his approach may help to illuminate some of the deeper roots of the Worldcoin phenomenon, for ‘crypto-colonialism’ neatly maps the geopolitical relations that underlie the data thefts and cryptoscams carried out by ai corporations. The Worldcoin example connects two technologies, ai and blockchain, whose origins are quite distinct, though both have been subjects of techno-hype. A cryptocraze took off in 2021, during the pandemic lockdowns, fuelled in part by young American white-collar workers gambling their furlough cheques in online investment. In 2022, just as this bubble crashed, the exponential spread of generative machine-learning applications created another wave of tech speculation. Another year on, and multisystemic crises—wars, climate change, inflation, energy impasses, inequality—are interwoven with hype around llm-powered chatbots, image-generation tools and, most recently, boardroom drama at Openai, where Altman and the staff saw off an attempted coup by another board faction.footnote5
In the Worldcoin project, machine-learning and blockchain technologies come together in peculiar new ways. In addition to a potential scam to extract biometric data from vulnerable people in exchange for pseudo-money, the performative staging of Worldcoin involves a tangle of social and technological relations that range from magic ritual to machine learning, from the exchange of gazes to DeFi wallet apps. The silver orb seems to represent some higher knowledge and to connect the people who stare into it with some mythical planetary community. This aspect is documented in the promotional photos of Worldcoin scanning sessions, where the orb and the person being scanned appear locked in some kind of mutual gaze, oblivious of their surroundings, as if in a twisted endurance performance by an automated Marina Abramović.
As the scannee stares into the orb, its ‘contactless doppler radar detection’ supposedly records heartbeats, breathing and other vital signs, as well as iris and facial data.footnote6 Different modes of sensing confront and interpenetrate each other here, as the horizontal eye-level encounter characteristic of human communication is extended into the machinic realm. Seeing and scanning, observation and perception, concentration and recording: they create a sphere of communication and exchange that might be called ‘common sensing’, linking crypto fintech and a machine-learning quasi-monopoly to populations hard hit by pandemic conditions, in a relationship marked by deception and one-sided dependency. It is widely recognized that in a digital context, ‘sharing’ is usually a polite-slash-creepy expression for the expropriation of one party, the less well-off, by another. Here, the space shared between human and technical gadget turns out to facilitate cheap data acquisition. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/hito-steyerl-common-sensing | 2024-01-01T04:53:08Z |
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Aries (March 21 to April 19)
Issues in important relationships become even more important for you. You may find yourself swinging between the opposing needs – absolute independence versus compromise in committed relationships.
Be brave, you can find the gold in both opposites. Your ruler Mars looks like it's going backwards from July 25 to September 13, so do watch for delays and frustrations.
It's a great time to develop inner reflection. Mars starts the year for you achieving real wins in career! 2024 brings huge transformation around your hopes and dreams, friends and groups.
Taurus (April 20 to May 20)
Venus your ruler is full steam ahead this year, so relationships can make good ground and surge ahead!
You do of course need to be careful not to put significant partners (business and personal) on a pedestal, your own needs are important too.
However, you're normally pretty sensible and you'll figure this out. There are big changes in your career or with a parent or authority figure.
Good news on the money front as your finances improve mid-year as opportunities present then.
Gemini (May 21 to June 20)
Your ruler Mercury does its retrograde thing again mid-February to mid-March, mid-June to mid-July and October 30 to November 20.
It's not the best time for clear communications so double check all everything important. There's a metamorphosis of sorts around travel, spirituality or education.
Get your message out into the world so you can find your proper place. Your appearance, personality or identity becomes much larger, so do be careful not to put on weight if you don't need to.
Cancer (June 21 to July 22)
The moon is drawing your focus to relationships in a major way, although it's emotional, you realise you can't be beholden to another.
You have to find your own way and maintain some personal autonomy. Your career zone is calling you and this needs to be balanced with home and family considerations.
Intimacy and shared resources with another go through a major transformation along with your spiritual life which travels from strength to strength.
Leo (July 23 to August 22)
The lunar eclipses bring some challenges in March and September... do be careful with your communications, intimacy and joint assets however you can work this out!
On the upside you have likely international travel, spirituality or education in your destiny this year.
There's a 'revolution' around important relationships as you come to some insightful revelations.
Your friends, groups, hopes and dreams expand dramatically; finally... it's quite an exciting year for you!
Virgo (August 23 to September 22)
The old ways around your finances don't seem to work as well so you'll probably end up doing something around shared resources as this is the way of the future for you.
There's major transformation around your everyday work or perhaps your health.
Your career zone expands mid-year or perhaps a there's an improvement with an authority figure such as a parent.
Your ruler Mercury goes retrograde three times so do be extra careful with communications and travel mid February to mid-March, mid-June to mid-July and October 30 to November 20.
Libra (September 23 to October 22)
Relationships are very important this year and it's a major focus for you, especially as your ruler Venus charges ahead.
Find the balance between compromise and your own heart's desires. Beauty, peace and creativity get a big burst of energy due to a major transformation.
Romance looks good too! You may have more to do with children or leisure and pleasure is on the agenda.
Your horizons enlarge and you grow your space in the world by travel, spirituality, education or foreign affairs.
Scorpio (October 23 to November 21)
Your ruler Pluto is shaking up your home and family zone bring major transformation.
You may relocate or something huge occurs around your home, perhaps involving technology.
Your destiny involves your work or regular routine... for many working at home could become more important.
Good luck comes to your intimate life or perhaps involves the joint assets you share with another. Shared investments and assets are likely to expand whilst you get closer to someone special.
Sagittarius (November 22 to December 21)
Jupiter your ruler is blessing your significant relationships, and you could also have good luck with any legalities. If you have frenemies or downright enemies, these connections could also improve mid-year.
There's a major alteration around your communications or changes in your local area. The universe is also asking you to have more fun by living closer to the world of the child.
Get out and socialise! Increasing romance and creativity in your life is a good way to do this also.
Capricorn (December 22nd to January 19)
It seems your destiny is asking you to find a better balance between home and family and your career.
You're normally a hard worker and take your responsibilities seriously however doing this at home is probably possible this year. There's a major change around your finances, possessions and the things that you value, it's almost like a 'revolution'.
You could change your mind about these matters. Your regular routine, health or work get a big lucky boost mid-year.
Aquarius (January 20th to February 18)
You could be thinking about doing some retraining or advancing your education this year, at the very least your destiny involves stepping up your communications.
Promotion and marketing go quite well too! There's a major renewal of your identity and appearance as you present yourself to the world and get your message out in a new way.
People notice your 'new and improved' personality! Socialising, creativity and fun is on your agenda too and you are quite lucky in romance to boot.
Pisces (February 19 to March 20)
You pay more attention to your finances and it's your destiny to become more independent.
There are abundant blessings around your home and family which could become larger.
Perhaps new friends become like family, or your family grows in some way. Your spiritual life is transformed as you are spiritually born again.
Look to your dreams and the little flashes in your mind throughout the day for hints and clues about how to cause a minor revolution in your life.
Your intuition or psychic ability could dramatically grow this year.
Source: Rose Smith | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12887763/2024-astrologer-psychic-predictions-Prince-Harry-world-Leader-Taylor-Swift-popularity-star-signs-relationships-thrive.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:09Z |
Kyren Williams continues monster year with three more touchdowns vs. Giants
Kyren Williams had a massive couple of years at Notre Dame, being the workhorse of the Fighting Irish backfield in the 2020 and 2021 seasons. He left the program following his junior year to enter the NFL draft where he became a fifth round draft pick of the Los Angeles Rams.
At this point getting Williams in the fifth round is looking like an absolute steal.
Williams ran for three more touchdowns and 87 more yards in the Rams win over the New York Giants on Sunday. That puts the Rams at 9-7 on the year and gives Williams 12 rushing touchdowns and 1,144 rushing yards on the year. Only Christian McCaffrey of the San Francisco 49ers has rushed for more yards.
Not bad for a guy who missed four games earlier in the year. | https://sports.yahoo.com/kyren-williams-continues-monster-three-042140394.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:09Z |
CUSA Games Today: How to Watch CUSA Games, TV Schedule, Live Streaming Options - Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 2:10 PM EST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Searching for info on how to watch all of the college football postseason matchups now that bowl season and the College Football Playoff are here? Below, we highlight how you can watch all four games involving teams from the CUSA.
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Cody Gakpo, Liverpool FC (+130)
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Kazakhstan to export 9 mln tons of wheat
19:31, 29 January 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM "Kazakhstan will export 9 mln tons of wheat during the current year," director of the crop production department of the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry Azat Sultanov said.
"We have exported 1 200,000 tons of wheat more against the previous marketing year," Sultanov added.
As of January 20, the country's export of wheat and flour in grain equivalent made 6.8 mln tons.
According to him, in 2018 Kazakhstan harvested 22.4 mln tons of grain in bunker weight.
"Kazakhstan set a record for the past 20 years having exported 11.6 mln tons of wheat and flour in grain equivalent during the last calendar year," Sultanov resumed. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-export-9-mln-tons-of-wheat_a3492895/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:10Z |
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu wishes people a 'Happy New Year'
In an official statement, Naidu said that the people have personally experienced literal hell in 2023. ''We all have experienced how the state suffered when an inefficient person is allowed to hold power as he sought a single opportunity,'' he said.
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Former chief minister and TDP supremo, Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday wished people a 'Happy New Year.' ''Welcoming the new year with one crore hopes is our tradition and we always fondly hope that the bitter memories should never come back to our mind,'' said TDP supremo.
In an official statement, Naidu said that the people will personally experience literal hell in 2023. ''We all have experienced how the state suffers when an inefficient person is allowed to hold power as he seeked a single opportunity,'' he said. Asking the people to welcome the New Year with fond hopes and expectations, the TDP supremo said that the people should take an oath to build a state sans violence, corruption and irregularities.
''Let us all get ready to send this Sisupala home with the most powerful weapon of the vote,'' Naidu said in the press note. Calling upon the people of Andhra Pradesh for their contribution to the overall development of the country, the former chief minister said that the people are aware that an action plan is on for good governance that will run on the two wheels of welfare and development. As part of this, a mini-manifesto has already been released with six guarantees, he said, adding that the TDP and the Jana Sena combine will soon come out with a detailed manifesto.
''I am assuring you all that I will provide freedom to you from this atrocious rule in just another 100 days,'' Naidu said. Stating that he will personally take on the responsibility that no power on earth can create any kind of hurdle for the progress and reputation of the Telugu community, the TDP supremo said and wished that the new year bring all good for the people of the state. (ANI)
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Inpixon (NASDAQ:INPX – Get Free Report) was the target of a significant growth in short interest during the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 9,450,000 shares, a growth of 89.4% from the November 30th total of 4,990,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 15,610,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.6 days.
Inpixon Stock Performance
Shares of INPX remained flat at $0.06 during mid-day trading on Friday. 8,522,400 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 19,711,872. Inpixon has a 12-month low of $0.05 and a 12-month high of $2.15. The company has a 50-day moving average of $0.07 and a two-hundred day moving average of $0.13.
Inpixon (NASDAQ:INPX – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 14th. The technology company reported ($0.08) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Inpixon had a negative net margin of 258.48% and a negative return on equity of 462.03%. The firm had revenue of $2.02 million during the quarter.
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Inpixon Company Profile
Inpixon, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an indoor intelligence company in the United States, Canada, India, Germany, Philippines, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Indoor Intelligence, Saves, and Shoom. The Indoor Intelligence segment offers Internet of Things (IoT) software as a service platform that provides industrial IoT space, including enterprise class, multi-technology RTLS IoT platform for industrial automation; RTLS asset tracking hardware, such as end-to-end portfolio of IoT sensors, and tracking tags to track assets or personnel; Inpixon nanoLOC transceiver, a low-power, highly integrated mixed-signal chip; and video integration solution uses IoT analytics data and allows direct integration with leading video management systems and CCTV.
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How to make a New Year’s resolution stick, from the people who’ve done it
For many of us, the dawn of a new year means thinking about the kind of person we want to be in 2024. Each year, we vow to be fitter, more financially savvy, more charitable. Then, despite good intentions, we give up half way and promise to do better next year. So, rather than cajole you about why you need a New Year’s resolution or why most fail, we thought we’d go straight to the source and ask people who actually stuck to theirs.
Below, three Australians share how they smashed their goals in 2023, and what they learnt along the way.
‘I conquered my fear of ocean swimming’
In 2021, Senta Hoyne was on holidays when she encountered a near-death experience.“I found myself trapped in a dangerous un-patrolled surf and didn’t know if I was going to make it out alive.” Having always been a pool swimmer, she says she was never very confident in the ocean – something she decided to change at the beginning of 2023. By early December, the 47-year-old mother of three had achieved her goal of completing a two-kilometre ocean swim from Bondi to Bronte in Sydney’s east.
Being a night owl, the early mornings were a challenge at first. “I found the best thing was to not think about it and just move your body in the direction of where it needs to go. And by the time you’re fully conscious you’re too far committed to turn back,” she says. Hoyne started small, doing laps in the pool before choosing calm days to swim at Bondi. Her biggest fear to conquer, she says, was getting in and out past the waves.
Another challenge for Hoyne was asking to join a swimming group – she knew she’d need to be confident swimming with others if she were to compete in a race. She hesitated, asking herself, “was I going to be good enough? Fast enough? Will they look down on me because I’m a pool swimmer?”
Ultimately, Hoyne ended up joining three different groups, who she says were all “joyous and kind” despite her initial reservations. They also helped her become a better swimmer – one group helped increase her speed, while another helped hone her technique.
They also helped her overcome her fear. “Swimming with a group really made me realise that swimming in the ocean with its natural habitat and wildlife is a privilege and not something to be scared of.”
She says having time for herself each morning has been incredible for her mental health. “Being a mother of three young girls and being able to carve out time for yourself just sets you up for a win. You just feel that whatever happens that day you’re ready for it.” Hoyne adds that she’s proud to have shown her daughters they can achieve whatever they set their mind to.
‘I had dinner with a stranger each week’
At the beginning of 2023, Jessie Wright set out to have dinner with a stranger each week. A self-confessed introvert, her rather unconventional resolution was a bold step. The 30-something had moved to Melbourne during COVID and was going through a break-up. She was lonely, looking for new friends, and, after listening to an episode of former monk Jay Shetty’s podcast, set herself a weekly goal of having dinner with a friend. Wright posted about this resolution to her Instagram stories, prompting over 100 messages from women keen to have dinner with her.
She says the Thursday dinners were far more daunting than dating. “People go on [romantic] dates all the time, but there seems to be this natural understanding that it’s OK if they don’t like you. Whereas with friends, I just had this deep fear of going to meet these wonderful women and what if they didn’t like me?”
Wright, who has since gone viral on TikTok for her “dinner with 52 strangers” series, says her internet following helped hold her accountable. And she says no matter how bad her day, and how many times she wanted to cancel, she always came out feeling better for it. “There’s this magic thing about sitting down with somebody and getting to introduce yourself and getting to know someone. There’s nothing like sitting down and hearing about somebody else’s story or their life. These dinners had a really nice way of putting things in perspective for me.”
Besides gaining a host of new friends, Wright says she’s learned a lot about friendship itself through the process. “Sometimes we stay in our heads for a really long time about things. But I am just going to say to myself, ‘let’s just go for dinner with a new friend. You’re looking for new connections, do it, jump on it, let’s just make it happen.’”
“There’s something in that for me that I want to take into my everyday life moving forward.”
Her biggest piece of advice for those wanting to make new friends, is to be intentional. “We’re so intentional about dating. We’re so intentional about so many other aspects in our life. But when it comes to friends, we seem to be quite passive,” she says.
“The difference between 2023 versus 2022 for me is that I was really clear that I was looking to make new friendships. Being really clear with intentions and verbalising them has been a really big lesson.”
‘I rediscovered my love of reading’
For 30-year-old Lieza Jordan, her 2023 New Year’s resolution was all about investing in a hobby. “I used to be such a big reader when I was a child and as I grew up and got a little bit busier, I kind of dropped the ball on reading.” The Sydney-based communications coordinator set herself the goal of reading 25 books, which she had already exceeded by December.
At the beginning of the year, Jordan made a list of books she wanted to read, and aimed to finish about two per month. To help stay on track, she used the productivity software Notion, charting her progress using graphs and rating each book once she finished. BookTok, TikTok’s passionate community of avid readers, also became something of a virtual book club for Jordan – suggesting new books and connecting her with like-minded users. She says reading series also kept her motivated to complete her goal.
Jordan says her new reading habit has improved her day-to-day wellbeing by reducing her pre-sleep screen time and improving her mental clarity. “When I was reading before bed, I definitely felt like I had a better sleep,” she says. “At the same time, having that motivation to read when I woke up helped me get out of bed. I just felt like my brain was a little bit more switched on, instead of just scrolling through TikTok.”
Next year, Jordan is aiming to read 40 books, alongside smashing some other personal goals.
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Kurukshetra, December 31
Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda today said that the “arrogance” of the BJP-JJP government would be given a befitting treatment by the people of Haryana in the upcoming elections.
He was addressing a Jan Aakrosh rally at Ladwa grain market of Kurukshetra.
MP Deepender Hooda said, “Corruption, drug addiction, crime and unemployment are on the rise in Haryana. People of other states are getting jobs in Haryana while the youth of Haryana are forced to go abroad in search of jobs. People are selling their agricultural lands and houses to send their children to other countries through illegal routes and they are not even able to come back for years.”
“Our players are returning their awards to get justice. A woman coach is fighting for justice. It was the ‘Raj Dharma’ of the government to give justice and not support the accused but the government is arrogant and spoke nothing in support people seeking justice. Farmers, labourers, sarpanches, sanitation workers and other employees were cane-charged. The people of Haryana will teach a good lesson to the arrogant government,” he alleged.
Taking a dig at BJP-JJP coalition, Deepender said, “Before the elections, BJP gave the slogan of ‘75 Paar’ and JJP gave the slogan of ‘Yamuna Paar’, but after election, they became ‘paakey yaar’ (fast friends). The JJP has betrayed the people of Haryana. Corruption files were closed and a free hand was given to corrupt people. The BJP-JJP government formed on the alliance of selfishness has completely derailed Haryana from the track of development and made it a victim of corruption. The BJP and JJP failed to fulfil their promises.”
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state party president Udai Bhan, were scheduled to address the rally but due to poor weather, they had to skip the event. Deepender informed the gathering that due to foggy conditions, the helicopter couldn’t land and it was taken back to Delhi.
Deepender highlighted the work done during the Hooda government’s regime and said that the Congress is working hard to put Haryana back on the path of development and growth. He urged the voters to support the Congress.
He promised a bypass for Ladwa, 300 units of free power, Rs 6,000 old-age pension, reopening of the closed government schools and revival of Dadupur-Nalvi canal project, if voted to power.
Ladwa MLA Mewa Singh, MLA Bishanlal Saini, senior leader Ashok Arora, Harmohinder Singh Chatha and several former MLAs addressed the gathering.
Join Whatsapp Channel of The Tribune for latest updates. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/people-will-give-befitting-reply-to-arrogant-govt-deepender-577160 | 2024-01-01T04:53:14Z |
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It may seem odd to recall that Fredric Jameson—who has been justly lauded in the Anglosphere and beyond for a body of notably original cultural theory, written in prose of minatory richness—set out with a desire, as he put it, ‘to popularize’.footnote1 Born in Cleveland in 1934, Jameson became a Francophile during a period when, he has said, the whole French intelligentsia was ‘Marxist in orientation’, and spent time in Munich and Berlin just as the members of the Frankfurt School were returning from wartime exile. His first book, published in 1961, a study of Sartre’s style adapted from a dissertation supervised at Yale by Eric Auerbach, reflected these allegiances more in subject matter than method. But starting in 1967, he produced a series of more technically ambitious essays for the journal Salmagundi on Adorno, Benjamin and Lukács, which, together with accounts of Bloch, Marcuse and Sartre, and a lengthy conclusion, were collected, with revisions, as Marxism and Form (1971). The essays offered, he wrote, ‘a general introduction’, but one conducted crucially not as simplified sketch, journalistic survey, or anecdotal narrative, or even the patient unfolding of concepts and their expression, in the manner of its predecessor, but as a sympathetic internal analysis that aspired to replicate what it represented.footnote2 If Jameson was seeking to impart dialectical thinking, a system he recognized as ‘remote, complex and forbiddingly technical’, to an American readership raised on liberalism and empiricism, and consequently blinded by ‘anti-speculative’ and ‘anti-Communist’ bias—anti-Germanic too—he was obliged to offer a more tailored exhibition, a richer sampling, of its uses and its charms than ‘intellectual attitudes seized from the outside’.footnote3
Although he was content to make claims for the ambition of his approach, Jameson presented Marxism and Form as no more than ‘a preparation’ for criticism. But he was already beginning to pursue his own interpretive practice.footnote4 Like his parallel effort to popularize, it was rooted in his voracious passion for existing models. In the manifesto-like ‘Metacommentary’ (1971), Jameson argued that interpretation needed to proceed dialectically, by applying its strategies to itself: ‘The starting point for any genuinely profitable discussion of interpretation therefore must be not the nature of interpretation, but the need for it in the first place . . . every individual interpretation must include an interpretation of its own existence, must show its own credentials and justify itself.’footnote5 Introducing his own translation of Dilthey’s 1900 essay, ‘The Rise of Hermeneutics’ (which he called a ‘false start’), he wrote that any ‘successful theory of understanding must . . . begin after the fact, in the presence of an understanding or an interpretation already realized.’footnote6
Jameson’s decisive contribution during this period was the idea that works of literature possess a ‘political unconscious’, revealing traces of collective history even as they seem to tell stories of personal romance and destiny. An essay called ‘L’inconscient politique’ appeared in a French book on the novel in 1975, and the idea surfaced in his first author study, Fables of Aggression (1979), on Wyndham Lewis, but an elaboration of its premises didn’t arrive until The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, which was published in 1981, and established him, Terry Eagleton wrote in nlr, ‘as without question the foremost American Marxist critic, and one of the leading literary theorists of the Anglophone world’.footnote7 In the same article, Eagleton said that the book also prompted the question of how a Marxist-structuralist analysis of a minor novel of Balzac would help to shake the foundations of capitalism. Jameson had noted at least one of the reasons why a Marxist intellectual might choose, or need, to write about the literary and cultural sphere. History can only ever be ‘an absent cause’ and so narrative—in this case, the novels of Balzac, Gissing and Conrad—serves to manifest and reveal in textual form the fate of the bourgeois subject under capitalism, the crisis of the social totality, and the reification of daily life, as well as dramatizing or allegorizing the stubborn faith in forms of life untouched by such processes.footnote8 The Political Unconscious was an attempt at developing a Marxist hermeneutic that rejected class-based analysis of the old—empiricist—‘reflectionist’ model in favour of a psychoanalytic emphasis on, as Jameson put it in ‘Metacommentary’, ‘the distinction between symptom and repressed idea’.footnote9 Gissing’s late-Victorian novel The Nether World is read not for its documentary account of Victorian slum life, but for its insight into middle-class narratives about the lumpenproletariat and the fantastical search for solutions that help to manage or repress guilt.
Central to the approach was Jameson’s long-standing conviction that we never confront a text immediately but through what he now called ‘sedimented layers of previous interpretations’, or at least ‘sedimented reading habits and categories’.footnote10 In the chapter on Conrad, he offered a ‘historical and dialectical reevaluation’ of, among other interpretive modes, the ‘mass-cultural reading’ of Conrad as a writer of adventure tales; ‘stylistic analysis’ of his ‘impressionist’ tendencies; the ‘myth-critical’ account of Nostromo as an archetypal story of buried treasure; ‘ethical’ consideration of themes like heroism and honour; the post-structuralist belief, promoted by Edward Said and J. Hillis Miller, that Conrad was dramatizing the impossibility of narration. The twist in the tale was that Jameson’s seeming ecumenicalism served in reality as a means of paying tribute to the explanatory force of Marxism, the only body of thought that can give us, he averred, ‘an adequate account of the essential mystery of the cultural past, which, like Tiresias drinking the blood, is momentarily returned to life and warmth and allowed once more to speak, and to deliver its long forgotten message in surroundings utterly alien to it’. In an earlier essay, he wrote that ‘it is difficult to escape the conclusion that all exciting criticism is written . . . as though some privileged order of explanation existed’.footnote11 Now he asserted that Marxism was ‘the “master-code” within which literary texts are to be rewritten by criticism’, an ‘untranscendable horizon’ that assigns other critical operations what he called a ‘sectoral validity’, pertinence to this or that facet of a text.footnote12
Even the psychoanalytic paradigm, Jameson’s second favourite, is tarnished by sectorality, being a response to a particular phenomenon within the history of nineteenth-century capitalism, the product of the ‘psychic fragmentation’ caused by quantificatory and instrumentalizing tendencies. So The Political Unconscious is not just the application of a pathbreaking interpretive mode but his most dedicated attempt to rid cultural analysis of anything that smacked of empiricism, marking the union of his roles—never far apart—as ‘popularizer’ and theorist-critic. By the mid-1980s, Jameson claimed that Marxist thought possessed a significance calculated to astonish a time traveller from the 1960s. He said his work on behalf of this tradition was ‘a service that I’m still rather proud of’.footnote13 But he has also been keen to note the stubborn persistence of caricatures he views as ‘idiotic’.footnote14
To a later generation of academic critics, Jameson’s work acquired a different, narrow set of associations. The Political Unconscious has been re-defined by one sentence, its first and best-known, ‘Always historicize!’, and a reading practice which, in a formulation adapted from Ricoeur, writing about Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, became known as a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’. The feminist theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who was a professor at Duke, where Jameson has taught since 1986, invoked both of these shorthands in the introduction to an edited collection of queer readings, Novel Gazing (1997):
Always historicize? What could have less to do with historicizing than the commanding, atemporal adverb ‘always’? It reminds me of the bumper stickers that instruct people in other cars to ‘Question Authority’. Excellent advice, perhaps wasted on anyone who does whatever they’re ordered to do by a strip of paper glued to an automobile! The imperative framing will do funny things to a hermeneutics of suspicion.footnote15 | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/leo-robson-jameson-after-post-critique | 2024-01-01T04:53:15Z |
This is what the perfect lunchbox looks like if you want to smash your 2024 health goals - and the guilt-free food court picks I love
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A top dietician has revealed what to put inside the perfect healthy lunchbox to nail your New Year's diet resolutions.
Susie Burrell, from Sydney, shared the perfect ingredients to pack for a healthy and filling lunch as well as her favourite guilt-free food court options for meals on the go.
The health coach said packed lunches should contain carbohydrates, vegetables, a protein snack, a piece of fruit, and a handful of nuts.
In her book, The 30 Day Reset, Susie said the ideal carb to include would be a sandwich, leftovers or a salad with a protein like chicken or tuna.
She also suggested adding a soup or chopped vegetables as well as a protein snack like cheese, yoghurt, egg, roasted broad beans or a protein ball.
Nutritionist Susie Burrell (pictured) shared the perfect ingredients to pack for a healthy and filling lunch as well as her favourite guilt-free food court options for meals on the go
The health coach said packed lunches should contain carbohydrates, vegetable, a protein snack, a piece of fruit, and a handful of nuts
Susie said to top off the meal with a piece of fruit and a handful of nuts or a seed-based snack.
For her most filling lunch options, she suggested a stuffed jacket potato with salad or a chicken schnitzel with roasted vegetables.
Other healthy lunches include brown rice with tuna and vegetables, stir fry chicken or prawns with cauliflower rice and a toasted sandwich with soup.
Susie shared a number of tasty and healthy lunchbox ideas. In one she packed a slice of quiche with salad, carrot, cucumber and capsicum sticks and a fruit muffin with blackberries.
In another, she had a salmon and salad sandwich with crackers and dip, vegetables popcorn and almonds and a kiwi fruit.
For less organised days, Susie said there are plenty of take-away options at the food court that don't have to let your diet go astray.
She said to opt for a naked burrito bowl, low carb rice paper rolls or a meat, chicken or salad sandwich.
Susie also recommended going for chicken or fish with salad or a prawn or tofu stir fry with vegetables. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/health/article-12915599/Nutritionist-dietician-Susie-Burrell-healthy-lunchbox-ideas.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:15Z |
Luke Littler feels he can ‘beat even more records’ ahead of world quarter-final
Teenager Luke Littler wants to “beat even more records” as he continues his dream World Darts Championship campaign with a quarter-final against Brendan Dolan on Monday.
The 16-year-old has burst onto the scene at Alexandra Palace and became the youngest player to reach the last eight when he hammered five-time world champion and his hero Raymond van Barneveld in the last 16 on Saturday.
That set up a winnable tie with Northern Irishman Dolan, who has seen off former world champions Gerwyn Price and Gary Anderson in the last two rounds, on New Year’s Day and he is now dreaming of lifting the Sid Waddell Trophy on Wednesday.
If Littler was to win the title it would be one of the greatest sporting stories and he would out-do several famous young achievers.
WOW 👀 pic.twitter.com/gDnxGmJumB
— Luke Littler (@LukeTheNuke180) December 31, 2023
Pele was 17 when he won the World Cup with Brazil, Boris Becker claimed his first Wimbledon title at 18 while Mike Tyson was 20 when he became heavyweight world champion.
Littler, nicknamed ‘The Nuke’, has not heard of all of those names, including that of 2021 US Open singles champion Emma Raducanu, who his story shares many parallels with, but he believes there is more to come.
“Unbelievable, the names you have just said,” he said. “I know Mike, I only know Pele off FIFA and I don’t know the other ones.
“I have certainly broken the rules and records already but I know if my game is there I can beat even more records.
“My game is there, it is every darting kid’s, man’s, whoever’s dream to win it. I have certainly got the game, it is whatever happens on the day, whatever Luke Littler turns up.”
Littler’s impressive run has seen him hit the headlines around the world and enjoy celebrity status.
Littler and his family received complimentary tickets to watch Arsenal in the Premier League on Thursday night, with Gunners pair Declan Rice and Aaron Ramsdale asking him for a photo, while players from his beloved Manchester United sent him good luck messages before the match with Van Barneveld.
“It was unbelievable,” he added. “I was walking to my room and one of the security guards from Arsenal said to me Declan and Aaron wanted a picture with me and I just went ‘a picture with me’, and they came out for one.
“They said they have a dartboard up in the changing room. It is crazy for them to want a picture with me, it should be the other way around.
“It was incredible to get the messages, obviously United didn’t get the win (at Forest), but Jonny (Evans) and Gary (Neville) are United legends and Jonny is still playing for us, it was just incredible.”
Rob Cross plays Chris Dobey in the opening match of 2024 while Michael van Gerwen should have too much for controversial Scott Williams and Luke Humphries takes on Dave Chisnall in the other quarter-final. | https://sports.yahoo.com/luke-littler-feels-beat-even-043022612.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:15Z |
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Kazakhstan to focus on economic and environmental issues within OSCE
The meeting discussed the priorities of Slovakia's OSCE Chairmanship in the second dimension and the Action Plan of the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities . The Slovak side reported also about the first Preparatory meeting to the 27th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, the Kazakh Embassy in Vienna informs on its website .
Chairman of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Committee - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to International Organizations in Vienna Kairat Sarybay presented 2019 Action Plan of the second committee. In the framework of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Committee representatives of governments, private sector, civil society and field operations of the OSCE along with international experts will discuss the issues of digitalization, new technologies, good governance, anti-corruption, connectivity, sustainable development and energy cooperation.
The delegation of Kazakhstan noted that in accordance with the instructions of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on the economization of Kazakhstan's foreign policy, attracting foreign investment and promoting domestic products at foreign markets is one of the main priorities in the MFA activity. The Kazakh side expressed interest in boosting cooperation between Kazakhstan and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities. A letter from Vice-Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Madina Zhunusbekova addressed to the Coordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities V.Zugic about promoting cooperation in trade facilitation was also handed over. In addition, Kazakhstan expressed support to the priorities of the Slovak Chairmanship in the economic and environmental dimensions. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-focus-on-economic-and-environmental-issues-within-osce_a3492159/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:17Z |
J-K: As New Year fervour sets in, people groove to music in Srinagar
As the New Year fervour set in, people grooved to music at Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar. They danced with joy amid New Year celebrations.
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As the New Year fervour set in, people grooved to music at Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar. They danced with joy amid New Year celebrations. Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have tightened security in the Udhampur district ahead of the New Year celebrations. The JK police have put up barricades at strategic locations to conduct security checks on the Jammu Srinagar national highway for the safe and smooth conduct of the celebrations.
Police personnel will check four-wheelers and motorcyclists at the locations. The officials have also appealed to visitors to celebrate New Year's Eve safely. Senior Superintendent of Police, Udhampur Joginder Singh, said that he expects a large influx of visitors to Patnitop Hill Station and other popular tourist destinations on December 31. Singh said that the police department has made elaborate preparations to handle the expected crowds.
He said that police and traffic police personnel will be deployed on the roads to manage traffic and ensure the safety of visitors. Singh further appealed to visitors to be disciplined and to follow traffic rules. He said that everyone should be careful and look out for each other.
He also said that visitors should be aware of the traffic rules and guidelines. "We want everyone to have a safe and enjoyable New Year's Eve. Please cooperate with the police and help us make this a memorable event for everyone," Singh said.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir's Gulmarg is all decked up with colourful lights as the city is gearing up to welcome 2024. Meanwhile, on New Year Eve, 'Ganga' Aarti was performed at the Ganga Ghat in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh.
Visuals showed people gathered at the Ghat participating in the grand 'Aarti'. Some foreigners were also seen grooving with enthusiasm as the priests were performing the rituals and the crowd was doing 'Aarti' with fervour. An 'Aarti' was also performed at the Ganga Ghat in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Intchains Group Limited (NASDAQ:ICG – Get Free Report) saw a significant decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 7,100 shares, a decrease of 19.3% from the November 30th total of 8,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days.
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NASDAQ:ICG traded down $0.02 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $12.37. 8,047 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 14,463. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $9.33 and its 200-day moving average is $7.78. The firm has a market cap of $740.02 million and a PE ratio of -618.50. Intchains Group has a twelve month low of $5.81 and a twelve month high of $13.75.
Intchains Group (NASDAQ:ICG – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Thursday, November 16th. The company reported ($0.04) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Intchains Group had a negative return on equity of 2.17% and a negative net margin of 25.34%. The business had revenue of $0.94 million for the quarter.
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Hidden down a Sydney driveway lies a magnificent cliff-side mansion worthy of a James Bond film - but most have no idea it's there
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Perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Georges River is an extravagant mansion with an epic 'man cave', a waterfront terrace and a lavish master suite.
The ultra-luxurious pad is hidden out of sight from the street down an unassuming driveway in the southern Sydney suburb of Blakehurst, 22km from the city centre.
A modern marble and cobbled-stone structure sits at the end of the drive and a grand entry way with a twinkling chandelier welcomes guests into the home.
The sleek kitchen in the split-level family room features a geometric grey marble island bench and mirrored splashback and down a small set of steps lies a living room with double-height ceilings and its own mini bar.
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An ultra-luxurious pad is hidden out of sight from the street down an unassuming driveway in the southern Sydney suburb of Blakehurst, 22km from the city centre
Perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Georges River is an extravagant mansion with an epic 'man cave', a waterfront terrace and a lavish master suite
The lounge opens up to a covered entertaining terrace with an outdoor kitchen and spectacular views across the river
The sleek kitchen in the split-level family room features a geometric grey marble island bench and mirrored splashback. Past the dining area and down a small set of steps is the living room that has double-height ceilings and its own mini bar
On the top level are two stunning bedrooms as well as the opulent main bedroom fit for a queen with a huge open ensuite and dressing room worthy of Hollywood.
The chic bathroom has a double vanity and freestanding black bathtub with ceiling-height windows to offer uninterrupted views.
Flame torches sit atop a stone wall to add a touch of drama to the balcony by the living room which has a mosaic heated pool, lush garden wall and sun lounge and stairs snake down the cliff face past leafy garden beds down to a huge waterfront terrace that sits above the impressive boatshed slash man cave.
On the top level are two stunning bedrooms as well as the opulent main bedroom fit for a queen with a huge open ensuite and giant celebrity-worthy dressing room
The chic bathroom has a double vanity and freestanding black bathtub with ceiling-height windows walls to offer glimpses out to the stunning scenery
Flame torches sit atop a stone wall to add a touch of drama to the balcony by the living room which has a mosaic heated pool, lush garden wall and sun lounge
The mansion has a separate 'man cave' with a bar, surround-sound speakers, exposed brick walls, neon signage and a fully stocked bar as well as a James Bond-style garage that can fit three cars
Inside is a bloke's haven with a bar, surround-sound speakers, exposed brick walls, neon signage and a fully stocked bar.
A grassy area sits beside the man cave and a private jetty is the perfect spot to dock fishing boats and jet skis.
Another impressive feature of the five-bedroom house is the James Bond-style garage that can fit three cars and has floor-to-ceiling mirrors to exaggerate the space.
The spectacular home is on the market for a huge $9.5million well above Blakehurst's median price of $2.39million.
Listing agent Greg Tsaprazis of Liand and Simmons - St George told FEMAIL the show-stopping property is in the 'upper echelon of real estate' and he's already had a handful of interested buyers. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/homes/article-12887761/Mansion-cliff-Blakehurst-Sydney-property-real-estate-man-cave-James-Bond-style-garage-stunning-views-man-cave.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:21Z |
Some Sociological Notes
The term afropessimism was first used in print in 1987 by the French Minister of Cooperation (that is, African affairs), Michel Aurillac, in an editorial published in Le Monde cautioning against the view that economic development and political democratization in sub-Saharan Africa had permanently stalled.footnote1 The word was used and abused in subsequent decades by African economists and Africanist commentators who refused to see colonialism as the root cause of the continent’s predicament and stressed instead postcolonial corruption, ethnic dissension and the patrimonialization of the state as sources of societal stasis. ‘Afropessimism’ was later evoked in discussion of the prospects and pitfalls of foreign investment in Africa.footnote2
The term, but not its original referent, was then appropriated in the 2010s by a new generation of black academics in American departments of ethnic studies and humanities. In the words of Frank Wilderson, who has positioned himself as one of its leading exponents, Afropessimism refers to the notion that ‘Blackness is coterminous with Slaveness’. ‘Blacks’, Wilderson writes in his landmark book Afropessimism (2020), ‘are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for the execution of White and non-Black fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures.’footnote3 To the narrative of racial progress, Afropessimism counterposes an anti-humanist vision in which the denial of black humanity is everywhere built into the very makeup of civil society: ‘Afropessimism gives us the freedom to say out loud what we would otherwise whisper or deny: that no Blacks are in the world, but, by the same token, there is no world without Blacks. The violence perpetrated against us is not a form of discrimination; it is a necessary violence; a health tonic for everyone who is not Black.’footnote4 It is, moreover, perpetual and without recourse: workers can oppose and yearn to overthrow capitalism, women patriarchy, lgbt people heterosexism, colonial subjects imperialism. For blacks, however, there is no politics of liberation; they are excluded forever from ‘a narrative of redemption’ because the world finds ‘its nourishment in Black flesh.’ All nonblack people, however progressive their politics, are ‘junior partners’ of whites and objectively complicit in totalized and totalizing antiblackness. The plight of ‘people of colour’—the term Wilderson uses to refer to people who are neither white nor black—cannot be compared to and should not be conflated with the predicament of black people: ‘Analogy mystifies, rather than clarifies, Black suffering. Analogy mystifies Black peoples’ relationship to other people of colour.’footnote5
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What are we to make of these claims? Opening with a vivid depiction of a mental breakdown, Wilderson’s book is a disconcerting memoir and a provocative travelogue about being black in America from the vantage point of the cultural bourgeoisie of the early 21st century. Educated at Dartmouth, Columbia and Berkeley, Wilderson has had varied life experiences as an activist, a stockbroker and, now, an author and academic at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a professor of drama and African American studies. He is the son of a university dean father and a school administrator mother who also had a private practice as psychologists. He grew up mainly in an upscale district of Minneapolis, and his childhood was stamped by the cultural capital and racial bridging endeavours of his parents on and off campus. Wilderson presents Afropessimism as ‘storytelling when the narrator is a slave’.footnote6 Combining passages of genuine lyric power and beauty with heavy didacticism, it is perhaps best read as an exercise in ‘auto-theory’, the ‘commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography’, which Lauren Fournier describes, in her book on the subject, as a ‘critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing activism’.footnote7
Afropessimism is difficult to assess and critique because, when it takes leave from the gripping immediacy of its memoirist voice, it situates itself at a ‘meta-theoretical’ level so abstract that no historical reality can be brought to bear on it; and when the time comes for conceptual explication, it retreats back into narration.footnote8 The book proceeds by postulation rather than demonstration, by allegory instead of argument. It weaves a tapestry of childhood memories, family anecdotes, professional and romantic experiences, political sorties, academic encounters, allusions to novels, movies and philosophical texts, conceptual disquisitions and historical accounts, all of which it places on a plane of epistemic equality. How to evaluate this intellectual position from the standpoint of an agonistic sociology of ethno-racial domination?footnote9 Note that a principled defence might be that Afropessimism is a (or the) poetics of blackness, written by a dramatist; and so its claims should not be taken too literally, nor held up to social scientific standards. But Wilderson insists his approach is a ‘theoretical apparatus’ and an ‘analytic lens’, one that ‘labours as a corrective to Humanist assumptive logics’, and this analytic is being used by sociologists to develop and reorient empirical arguments or to deny their very possibility.footnote10
Afropessimism is an exclusivist brand of race primordialism. It is primordialist in that it sees race—or, rather, blackness as uniquely institutionalized in the United States and then universalized with a stroke of the pen—as foundational to being, knowledge and power; as permanent, pervasive and impossible to dislodge from its role as structural mooring and existential pivot.footnote11 It is exclusivist in that it reserves this ontological burden for blacks and for blacks alone. As the entry in Oxford Bibliographies, which Wilderson co-authored, explains:
Afropessimism is a lens of interpretation that accounts for civil society’s dependence on antiblack violence—a regime of violence that positions black people as internal enemies of civil society, and cannot be analogized with the regimes of violence that disciplines the Marxist subaltern, the postcolonial subaltern, the coloured but nonblack Western immigrant, the nonblack queer, or the nonblack woman.footnote12
Afropessimism asserts the uniqueness of the black plight, not through methodical genealogy and comparison, but on the authority of the author’s identity, experiences and meta-theoretical virtuosity.
The notion at the heart of Afropessimism is that of ‘slaveness’: ‘Afropessimism is premised on a comprehensive and iconoclastic claim: that Blackness is coterminous with Slaveness: Blackness is social death: which is to say that there was never a prior metamoment of plenitude, never equilibrium: never a moment of social life.’footnote13 Afropessimists claim that their use of slavery is not metaphorical but tautegorical, grounded in Orlando Patterson’s sociology of slavery: ‘The black is positioned, a priori, as slave. The definition of slave’, the Oxford Bibliographies entry explains, ‘is taken from Orlando Patterson who theorizes slavery as a relational dynamic between “social death” (the slave) and “social life” (the human).’footnote14 For Patterson, however, slavery is not a racial institution but an organization of extreme domination that may or may not be racialized. It is, moreover, an institution that not only varies immensely across the span of human history, from the familial to the genocidal, but also everywhere fails to quash the slave’s humanity. Indeed, slavery, in Patterson’s telling, is haunted by the slave’s refusal of the denial of their humanity. This is why it needs brute force to sustain itself. This is why an analysis of the internal relations of slavery must be articulated with an analysis of enslavement (entry) and manumission (exit): ‘Enslavement, slavery and manumission are not merely related events: they are one and the same process in different phases.’footnote15 Thus the master dangles the possibility of manumission before the eyes of the slaves precisely because they remain human under bondage: ‘The slave desires nothing more passionately than dignity, belonging and release. By holding out the promise of redemption, the master provides himself with a motivating force more powerful than any whip. Slavery in this way was a self-correcting institution: what it denied the slave it utilized as the major means of motivating him.’
Slavery, in other words, contains its own negation, and so ‘slaveness’, for Patterson, marks a liminal state, not an ontological one. Again, this is because human bondage curtails but fails to annihilate the humanity of the slave: ‘Everywhere the slave’s zest for life and fellowship confounded the slaveholder class; and in all slaveholding societies the existential dignity of the slave belied the slaveholder’s denial of its existence.’footnote16 To conceive of ‘the Black’ as ‘the Slave’ in the singular also elides the fact that slaves are not alone; they live in a community of slaves which is the crucible sustaining their humanness, as Patterson demonstrates in his ground-breaking 1967 study of the distinctive social relations and communal values of slaves on the plantations of Jamaica in the 18th and 19th centuries.footnote17
It follows that the violence of slavery is not ‘gratuitous’, indiscriminate and Pavlovian, as Wilderson and his followers would have it.footnote18 Patterson is clear that ‘it was necessary continually to repeat the original, violent act of transforming free man into slave’ because enslavement was never accepted. ‘The continuous violence in the slave order was also made necessary by the low motivation of the slave to work.’footnote19 Far from being needless and wanton, then, the brute force of the master was strategic and calibrated, and thus highly variable in both form and frequency across societies and epochs. It was needed to reduce a human to a living thing (res) which existed only as an extension of the master, but remained human all the same.
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So much for slavery and violence. What of blackness now? In his critique of Afropessimism, the New Yorker writer Vinson Cunningham wryly describes Wilderson’s book as ‘the story of an American who thinks of his Blackness as normative and therefore as characteristic of Blackness around the world.’footnote20 Indeed, mired in the racial doxa of his home country, Wilderson takes blackness as a self-evident, fixed and homogeneous category. He never stops to ponder the question posed by the sociologist F. James Davis in his classic book Who Is Black? (1991), which establishes that the us definition of blackness through strict hypodescent (the ‘one-drop rule’), disregarding phenotype, social status and non-African ancestry, is a global outlier.footnote21 Even within the United States, a rival system of ethno-racial classification built on gradations of colour that recognizes intermediate categories between blacks and whites (mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, sambo, mango, etc.) was operative in southern states such as South Carolina and Louisiana until the mid-19th century under the influence of Caribbean migration and imports from Catholic French and Spanish culture.footnote22
So the clearcut black–white or black–other dichotomy is neither universal nor transhistorical: the racial classification of ‘blacks’ varies across societies and eras and so does their racial stratification. In his little-known yet cardinal essay, ‘Four Modes of Ethno-Somatic Stratification’, Orlando Patterson—Wilderson’s favourite sociologist—shows how the same root population, the descendants of African slaves, were differentially defined and incorporated in the United States (‘binary mobilization’), Latin America (‘hegemonic whitening’), the Caribbean (‘pluralistic underdevelopment’) and northern Europe (‘proletarian incorporation’). ‘Each mode refers to a unique configuration of ethno-racial ideology, ethno-demographic mix, ethno-class stratification, and level of societal racialization.’footnote23 This historical variation in modes of racial domination is just what the rhetoric of Afropessimism unknowingly denies and magically disappears.
But there is more when it comes to blackness in the United States specifically. The notion that it is a compact construct is a social fiction and thus a literary facility that ignores the long, ongoing history of skin tone differentiation and discrimination among both blacks and nonblacks. It is well established that since the days of Emancipation, African Americans have been ‘colour struck’, establishing invidious distinctions among themselves based on complexion along a gradient nested inside descent-based categorization that has operated to diffract life chances and inflect social strategies such as marriage, social club membership and political allegiance.footnote24 Whites also distinguish African Americans, native and immigrant, by phenotype, including complexion, facial features, body size and corpulence. In a string of innovative papers, the Harvard sociologist Ellis Monk has, moreover, revealed that the disparity between light-skin and dark-skin blacks is greater than the white–black disparity for a range of critical life outcomes, including education, household income, health and ageing, police contact and incarceration.footnote25 This suggests that, at a minimum, Wilderson’s proposition that ‘Blackness is a locus of abjection to be instrumentalized on a whim’ needs to be qualified to connect with historical reality.footnote26
Is the protrusive and suffusive tenor of blackness beautifully conveyed by Afropessimism’s rhapsodic prose a property of the social world or a projection of the racially obsessed and obsessive gaze that Wilderson trains on that world—that is, the product of a thoroughly racialized habitus?footnote27 The answer is both. There is no question that the United States is a historical formation resting on a deep and enduring caesura relegating the descendants of African slaves to a subordinate position in symbolic, social and physical space, and in which the black/nonblack binary operates in multiple domains, each echoing and reinforcing the others. It is also abundantly evident that, as a properly socialized member of that society, Wilderson has been trained to see, feel and act in racially inflected ways—as vividly demonstrated by all the episodes of his childhood recounted in Afropessimism.footnote28 The meeting of social structure and mental structure, position and disposition, produces a spontaneous agreement such that racialized world and racialized gaze reinforce and validate each other. The proposition that ‘without Black people, Human existence would be unintelligible’ might, with suitable qualifications, apply in ‘race-divided societies’ such as the United States and South Africa, where Wilderson sojourned to join the fight against apartheid, and where ethno-racial division remains highly salient, suffusive and consequential.footnote29 But it is questionable whether it holds in ‘societies with race’ where ethno-racial division is ancillary to the makeup of social space, the state and subjectivityfootnote30—think of China and its one-and-a-half billion citizens, for instance, compared to the roughly 164 million persons of African ancestry, part or whole, residing in Europe and the Americas. Wilderson speaks of the World, capital W, Life, capital L, Slave, capital S and Human, capital H, but these are scholastic archetypes that erase essential distinctions between historical epochs and geographical formations that an adequate theory of racial domination must imperatively capture.
The racial exceptionalism of the United States is reinforced by what might be described as a rhetoric of extremism. At multiple points in his narration, whether recounting scenes from everyday life, political episodes or academic encounters, Wilderson presents extreme cases or extreme interpretations as the baseline against which antiblackness is tallied. Thus, in his account of the violence of slavery in the us South, he draws on the stunning 1853 memoir by the former slave Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, which depicts in vivid detail the sadistic and seemingly gratuitous brutality of Northup’s master. But this account needs to be read alongside those evoking the paternalistic cast of American slavery well established by historians of the South’s ‘peculiar institution’.footnote31 To say that American slavery was paternalistic takes nothing away from the horror, violence and immorality of human bondage. It is simply a statement of historical fact born of the comparative study of different regimes of enslavement, both in the Americas and around the world, which ranged from domestic to paternalistic to despotic.footnote32 Contrary to Wilderson’s thesis that such violence against blacks is ‘beyond the grasp of reason’ and ‘secures the order of life itself’, horrific punishment is perfectly intelligible in the prosaically materialistic—as opposed to ontogenetic—terms of instilling terror into the slaves who witness it in order to enforce discipline and facilitate the extraction of labour on the plantation, as well as in the symbolic logic of affirming caste superiority.footnote33
Another germane technique Wilderson uses is to resort to analytic hyperbole as though the dramatization of a claim were its own validation because it silences the would-be critic: ‘You can’t make an analogy between the violence immigrants, Native Americans and workers are subjected to and the violence that attends to Black people. It is absolutely necessary for Blacks to be castrated, raped, genitally mutilated and violated, beaten, shot and maimed.’footnote34 Or when he presents ‘the logic of White feminism, the logic of working-class struggle, the logic of multicultural coalitions, and the logic of immigrant rights’ not as disconnected from, or impediments to, the struggles of blacks (insofar as such a notion makes sense anymore), but as partaking of the ‘unrelenting terror’ that threatens black thought, ‘an essential terror as constitutive of an anti-Black world as the military or the megachurch’. Another example: ‘Whoever says “rape” says Black, whoever says “prison” says Black; and whoever says “aids” says Black—the Negro is a phobogenic object: a past without a heritage, the map of gratuitous violence, and a programme of complete disorder.’footnote35 These associations may be operative in us history and public culture, but everywhere and at all times? Even in the United States, it is highly questionable whether such connotations are transhistorical: the dominant image of the convict in the postwar decades, for example, when the prison population of the country was 70 per cent white, was a bumbling, socially incompetent white male, not a violent black man.
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Where does this time-stamped Americanocentric ontologization of blackness based on the ‘structural antagonism’ between humans and blacks lead us on the political front? It is hard to see light at the end of an intellectual tunnel dug on the principled negation of black agency, individual and collective. Indeed, the only goal one can meaningfully pursue according to Wilderson is to expedite ‘the end of the world’—real or metaphorical, it is hard to say.footnote36 The Afropessimistic diagnosis of the black predicament yields a conviction in the futility, worse the utter impossibility, of a politics of freedom. For Wilderson, ‘Blackness is a positionality of “absolute dereliction”, abandonment, in the face of civil society and therefore cannot be liberated or be made legible through counter-hegemonic interventions.’ Instead of seeking to liberate blackness, Wilderson urges us to ‘embrace its disorder, its incoherence’.footnote37 This may be a comfortable attitude to adopt for a tenured university professor and kindred specialists in cultural production who trade in symbolic representations, the more captivating the better, but for a black janitor, a black fast-food worker, a black accountant or a black physician in their day-to-day?
At most, the paradoxical quietism of Afropessimism yields an ethic, sustained by those ‘in the know’ about the necessary eternity of black enslavement, that fuels a negative solidarity of eternal exclusion. Occasionally, Wilderson vacillates, perhaps sensing that his radical racial essentialism could be plunging his reader into an abyss of despair, so he gestures in the direction of constructivism: ‘Like class and gender, which are also constructs, not divine designations, social death can be destroyed. But the first step toward the destruction is to assume one’s position (assume, not celebrate or disavow), and then burn the ship or the plantation, in its past and present incarnations.’ But this concession is quickly withdrawn: blacks are ‘often psychically unable and unwilling to assume this position’, which ‘is as understandable as it is impossible.’ And so, Wilderson writes, ‘Black people form a mass of indistinguishable flesh in the collective unconscious, not a social formation of interests, agendas or ideas.’footnote38
This raises a conundrum: what is the status of Wilderson’s own discourse as the ‘narrative’ of a ‘slave’? Does its author not believe that Afropessimism offers a sober, accurate assessment of the quandary of blackness? Would that not mean that there is an ‘outside’ to the condition of ‘slaveness’ from which a black author can speak—and possibly ‘speak truth to power’?footnote39 An erudite ‘slave’ writing for an attentive audience of educated readers, black and nonblack, is surely more than a generic Slave capital-s. His very existence points, if not to an outside of slaveness, at least to gradations within the category. Does Wilderson’s ability to reflect on his own social position and existential injuries suffered on the sole account of being black in American society, to share his insights, broadcast his view in and outside academia, and enlighten his readers not invalidate his account of blackness as paralysing slaveness?footnote40 Otherwise what would be the point of propagandizing ‘a looter’s creed: critique without redemption’?footnote41
Afropessimism is not a theory so much as a mood coalescing in the hangover from the Obama years and a paradoxical expression of the yearning of the African American cultural bourgeoisie for black solidarity, be it negative, made more tenuous by upward class mobility or inheritance. It offers a rhetorical radicalization of racial nihilism in the face of shifting yet enduring black oppression that leads straight to political abdication. It is ironic and revealing that Afropessimism would thrive in the academy and seduce college-educated black millennials at the very moment when Black Lives Matter, the most significant movement of black mobilization since the Civil Rights Movement, surged in the streets, challenging the premises of white rule across the gamut of American institutions, starting with the university.footnote42 Ultimately, Afropessimism flounders because it denies the varieties of blackness and the historicity of racial domination that have been demonstrated time and again—first and foremost by the long string of hard-fought victories of black struggles for dignity in America, Africa and beyond.footnote43 | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/loic-wacquant-afropessimism-s-radical-abdication | 2024-01-01T04:53:22Z |
Magic lose to star-studded Suns on road, 112-107
The Magic dominated second-chance opportunities, scored more points in the paint and out-rebounded the Suns at Footprint Center but came up short in Phoenix on Sunday night.
Although Paolo Banchero (28 points) and Franz Wagner (27) combined for 55, the star-studded trio of Kevin Durant (31), Bradley Beal (25) and Devin Booker (21) proved to be too much for Orlando.
It didn’t help that the Magic turned the ball over 15 times in the 112-107 loss at Phoenix, who scored 16 points off those defensive takeaways.
Orlando continues its four-game road trip on the West Coast Tuesday with a meeting against the Golden State Warriors.
Starting 5
Although Wendell Carter Jr. (right knee tendinitis) was available to play at Phoenix after missing one game, he did not start for the Magic.
Instead, reserve center Goga Bitadze made his second start in a row in place of Carter. Bitadze previously made 20 starts while Carter was treating a fractured left hand.
Bitadze (six points) joined rookie Anthony Black, Jalen Suggs, Franz Wagner and Paolo Banchero as part of Orlando’s first group on the floor.
Black earned the 26th start of his rookie campaign after Markelle Fultz (left knee tendinitis) was downgraded from questionable to out prior to the game. Fultz sat out his 24th consecutive contest.
Banchero sunk his first three field goals of the night and scored 11 points in the opening frame by attacking the basket early and often.
After a two-point second quarter, the reigning NBA Rookie of the Year totaled 15 points in the second half. He added nine rebounds and seven assists in 37 minutes.
Following a quiet start, Wagner scored seven points in the second quarter after he missed his first three shots. He opened the fourth frame with three consecutive drives to the basket, scoring six straight Magic points.
Orlando opened the fourth quarter making its first four shots. The rest of the final frame, however, the team shot four of 16 from the field as Phoenix pulled away late.
Suggs missed all six attempts from the field in the first half as his one point before the break came at the free throw line. He shot one of seven from 3-point range on the night and totaled just four points after scoring 20+ in each of the last two games.
Bitadze picked up his fourth foul 30 seconds into the third quarter. All six of his points came in the paint while he added seven rebounds.
Orlando’s starters struggled to shoot the long ball. They went five of 22 from 3-point range.
Second Unit
Carter joined Cole Anthony, Moe Wagner, Caleb Houstan and Gary Harris as part of Mosley’s 10-man rotation against the Suns.
Harris (right calf strain) was upgraded from questionable to available prior to the game after he missed two games straight due to the leg injury.
Carter pieced together an efficient first half off the bench. In just 10 minutes of action before the break, he scored 12 points (four of four FG, including two of two from 3), three rebounds and an assist.
He played 24 total minutes and only scored five points in the second half.
Anthony also offered scoring in his usual reserve role. Sinking two of four attempts from 3-point range, he totaled 13 points to go with five rebounds in 18 minutes.
Moe Wagner (5 points) also hit first 3-pointer of the game and grabbed four rebounds.
Although Harris was available to play, the Magic were without Joe Ingles (left ankle sprain) and Jonathan Isaac (right hamstring strain) in Phoenix. Ingles hasn’t played since Dec. 15 at Boston while Isaac missed his fourth game in a row.
Although those two weren’t available, Orlando’s second unit had success against the Suns, outscoring them 40-6 in bench points. That was in large part due to accurate shooting.
Unlike the starting group, the Magic’s second unit went seven of 15 from 3-point range. Still, Orlando as a whole shot 32.4% (12 of 37) from distance.
Rookie watch
Black offered reliable defense in 22 minutes of action but shot one of three from the floor for just two points.
The 6-7 guard turned the ball over twice in the road loss. | https://sports.yahoo.com/magic-lose-star-studded-suns-044000302.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:22Z |
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Ravinder Saini
Rohtak, December 31
A meeting of the General House of Rohtak Municipal Corporation (RMC) is scheduled to be held on January 3 and agenda items pertaining to issues of their wards have been taken from councillors for discussion or approval.
But, questions were being raised over the ‘logic’ of seeking agenda items from the councillors as the tenure of the RMC councillors is going to end on January 9, while many projects/proposals were already lying unexecuted even after the approval of the General House.
“The meeting is nothing except eyewash as many ambitious projects have failed to take off even after a long time despite being accorded a nod by the General House of the RMC. A proposal to set up the RWA office, multipurpose hall and dispensary was approved in the general house meeting in September 2019 but it has not yet been executed,” said Kadam Singh Ahlawat, the councillor from Ward-11.
Ahlawat maintained similarly, another approved proposal for extension of community Center in Sector-14 failed to take off following the want of funds. “It is beyond my understanding what logic is behind seeking agenda items from the MCs when already approved projects are not being executed,” he asked.
Another councillor having affiliation with the ruling BJP said there was not a single ward where all approved projects had been executed so it would have been better to organise a get-to-gather-cum-farewell party instead of discussing/approving the agenda items at the meeting of the General House.
RMC Mayor Manmohan Goyal admitted that many ambitious projects and proposals had not yet been executed due to lack of funds. “The meeting has to be called following pressure from the councillors.”
Join Whatsapp Channel of The Tribune for latest updates. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/questions-being-raised-on-meeting-called-by-outgoing-rohtak-mc-577169 | 2024-01-01T04:53:20Z |
Kazakhstan to launch 16 renewable energy facilities in 2019
"The renewable energy market is growing every year. In 2018, the country generated 1.3 billion kWh of green power, which was 118% in contrast to 2017. In 2018, five renewable energy facilities were commissioned in Mangistau, Zhambyl, Almaty and Karaganda regions," said Bozumbayev.
According to him, in 2018, Kazakhstan's renewable energy sector attracted large investment by signing a number of agreements and memorandums totaling KZT 100 billion ($283 million).
Kanat Bozumbayev also informed that in 2019, it is planned to launch 16 facilities of renewable energy sources with a total capacity of 629.35MW and generate 2.3 billion kWh of electricity from renewable energy sources. Presently, there are 67 operating renewable energy facilities with a total capacity of 531MW in the country.
In 2018, Kazakhstan generated 106.8 billion kWh of electricity, which is 104.4% as compared to 2017. The target for 2019 is 105.7 billion kWh. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-launch-16-renewable-energy-facilities-in-2019_a3494292/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:24Z |
Intuitive Machines, Inc. (NASDAQ:LUNR – Get Free Report) was the target of a significant decline in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 610,700 shares, a decline of 26.3% from the November 30th total of 828,900 shares. Currently, 3.2% of the company’s shares are sold short. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 389,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.6 days.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
Several research analysts recently commented on LUNR shares. Cantor Fitzgerald reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $4.00 target price on shares of Intuitive Machines in a research note on Tuesday, December 5th. Roth Mkm reissued a “buy” rating and set a $12.00 target price on shares of Intuitive Machines in a research note on Wednesday, September 6th. Benchmark lowered their target price on Intuitive Machines from $14.00 to $10.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, November 14th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group reissued a “buy” rating and set a $14.00 target price on shares of Intuitive Machines in a research note on Monday, October 2nd. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $10.00.
Intuitive Machines Trading Up 5.1 %
Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ:LUNR – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November 13th. The company reported ($0.22) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.12) by ($0.10). The firm had revenue of $12.73 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $23.00 million. As a group, analysts anticipate that Intuitive Machines will post 0.01 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Cypress Financial Planning LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Intuitive Machines in the 3rd quarter valued at about $39,000. State Street Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Intuitive Machines in the 2nd quarter valued at about $111,000. Virtu Financial LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Intuitive Machines in the 2nd quarter valued at about $130,000. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC lifted its holdings in shares of Intuitive Machines by 1,887.5% in the 3rd quarter. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC now owns 43,606 shares of the company’s stock valued at $159,000 after purchasing an additional 41,412 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Intuitive Machines in the 2nd quarter valued at about $242,000. 5.17% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Intuitive Machines Company Profile
Intuitive Machines, Inc designs, manufactures, and operates space products and services in the United States. Its space systems and space infrastructure enable scientific and human exploration and utilization of lunar resources to support sustainable human presence on the moon. The company offers µNova, a lunar rocket-fueled drone, lunar surface rover services, fixed lunar surface services, rideshare delivery services, lunar access services, lunar orbit delivery services, and lunar data network services, as well as content sales and marketing.
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Israel Embassy blast case transferred to special cell of Delhi Police
Israel Embassy blast case has been transferred to the special cell of Delhi Police which will lead the investigation further, said Delhi police.
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The Israel Embassy blast case has been transferred to the special cell of Delhi Police and an FIR was registered at Tughlak Road Police Station. As per Delhi Police, now special cell will lead the further investigations in the case. The suspicious blast that took place near the Israel Embassy on December 26.
"The case has been transferred to the special cell of Delhi Police. The special cell will further investigate the matter; the FIR was registered at Tughlak Road Police Station of New Delhi District. New Delhi district also handed over the initial observation report of central agencies to a special cell," said a statement from Delhi police. According to Delhi Police, the component of the blast was yet to be ascertained and therefore, they have been waiting for forensic reports to come. The samples of leaves and soil from the spot were collected by forensic experts from the National Security Group (NSG) and Delhi Police on Wednesday.
The Delhi Police have launched a search operation in the whole area, in which the people who passed the spot just before the incident were interrogated. Apart from this, all the taxi and auto drivers who had passed Prithvi Raj Road and Abdul Kalam Road were also interrogated thoroughly. On Tuesday, Delhi Police received a call that a 'blast' was heard near the Israeli Embassy in the Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave, but officials said that nothing as such was found at the spot of the incident.
Paramilitary forces have been deployed outside the Israeli Embassy in Delhi, two days after the police received a call about a 'blast' being heard near the area. The sound of the blast was heard by the security official standing near the Israel embassy, which informed an official of the FSL team. Delhi Special Cell, Dog Squad and NIA officials carried out an investigation outside the Israel Embassy. The Delhi police have zeroed in on two 'suspects' after examining the CCTV footage of the area.
Officials have, however, not confirmed the duo's involvement in the same. Israel's Deputy Ambassador to India, Ohad Nakash Kaynar, confirmed that all the workers and the diplomats at the Israel embassy were safe. "All our workers are safe, and all our diplomats are safe. Our security teams are working in full cooperation with the local Delhi security and they will investigate the matter further," he said.
A security guard standing near the embassy said," I heard a loud noise at around 5 p.m. The noise was similar to a tyre burst. I also saw smoke going up near a tree." (ANI)
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce pile into his Rolls Royce en route to their New Year's Eve festivities after his Chiefs came back to beat the Bengals in front of the adoring pop star at Arrowhead
- Kelce and Swift were seen arriving separately earlier on Sunday morning
- The two are believed to be spending New Year's Eve with friends and family
- READ MORE: Swift and Chiefs fans rejoice as Kansas City beats Cincinnati, 25-17
Travis Kelce's 2023 ended with a win and his 2024 is beginning with another: Some quality time with girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
The All-Pro tight end had only three catches, but his Kansas City Chiefs still came back to beat the visiting Cincinnati Bengals, 25-17, to clinch their eighth straight AFC West crown.
Afterwards the couple was chauffeured in a golf cart to the players' parking lot, where DailyMail.com cameras caught Kelce absconding with Swift in his Rolls Royce. While Swift sported a Chiefs varsity jacket adorned with her nickname, 'Tay-Ta,' Kelce was dressed comfortably in sweats and a knit hat covering his shaved head.
And, like the gentleman he is, Kelce was sure to open the door for his New Year's Eve date.
The two are believed to be ringing in 2024 with family and friends at a private party in the Kansas City area. Kelce's mother, Donna, was seen in Swift's luxury box earlier in the evening.
Afterwards the couple was taken in a chauffeured golf cart to the players' parking lot
Kelce and Swift are in the players' lot next to Chiefs assistant coach Connor Embree's space
Travis Kelce is seen opening a rear passenger door for Taylor Swift before riding shotgun
The 6-foot-5 Kelce is seen towering over Swift in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot
Taylor Swift shoots a glance into the crowd at Sunday's Chiefs-Bengals game at Arrowhead
Not only was Swift wearing a Chiefs varsity jacket, but it was embroidered with her nickname
Taylor Swift reacts during Sunday's Chiefs-Bengals game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City
Late in the fourth, cameras caught Swift celebrating the impending victory with a young fan when Kansas City's Chris Jones sacked Bengals quarterback Jake Browning on Cincinnati's final drive.
Kelce was nearly a non-factor for Patrick Mahomes & Co., finishing the game with only three catches for 16 yards on four targets. He remains only a few yards short of his eighth consecutive 1,000-yard season.
But for the 10-6 Chiefs, the victory was significant. Not only does Kansas City win its eighth consecutive AFC West crown, but it comes after a miserable 3-8 stretch that threatened their entire season. Naturally, many have suggested that Swift was somehow to blame for distracting Kelce, and the Chiefs from the job at hand, but that wasn't the case on Sunday as Kansas City came back to beat the Bengals, who fell to 8-8.
Swift joyously reacted to the victory along one young fan, sticking her finger in the air and screaming in the boy's face.
Travis Kelce's Rolls Royce pulls out of Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night in Kansas City
Travis Kelce's Rolls Royce pulls out of Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night in Kansas City
And as a number of fans noticed, Swift was wearing a Chiefs jacket with 'Tay-Tay' embroidered near the pocket - a reference to Kelce's rumored nickname for the 34-year-old singer. Swifties went wild over this on social media, noting that they are happy he's adopted the fan base's nickname for her.
And as has become a familiar scene at Arrowhead, fans brought signs in hopes of catching her attention.
One clever Chiefs supporter referred to the romantic couple as 'T-N-T,' writing that: 'They're Dynamite!'
Another young attendee wrote that she was 'only here for Taylor.'
Harrison Butker was a career-best 6 for 6 on field-goal attempts, Kansas City held the Bengals scoreless over their final seven possessions.
Kelce (right) greets injured Bengals QB Joe Burrow (left) after beating Cincinnati on Sunday
Swift laughs as she watches the first half of Sunday's rematch of last year's AFC title game
Kelce had just three catches vs. Cincinnati and remains a few yards short of 1,000 for the year
Swift has become friendly with the families of Chiefs players amid her romance with Kelce
Patrick Mahomes had 245 yards passing and a touchdown for Kansas City (10-6), which also secured at least the No. 3 seed and one home playoff game. Isiah Pacheco ran 18 times for 130 yards while Rashee Rice had five catches for 127 yards.
The Bengals (8-8), fighting for their own playoff lives, led by 10 early but found themselves trailing 25-17 when Butker hit the last of his field goals — a 46-yarder through blustery wind — with 2:59 remaining in the game.
With one last chance, Jake Browning hit Tyler Boyd to convert a long fourth down and get into Kansas City territory, but back-to-back sacks by George Karlaftis and Chris Jones gave the Chiefs eight on the day and ended the Bengals' comeback hopes.
Browning finished with 197 yards passing and a touchdown. Joe Mixon ran for 65 yards and had the TD reception.
Butker converted from 54, 43, 27, 24, 48 and 46 yards, accounting for the game's final 18 points.
Kelce is only a few yards short of registering his eighth consecutive season with 1,000+ yards
The Bengals and Chiefs are accustomed to playing high-stakes games when the weather turns frigid, meeting for down-to-the-wire nail-biters in each of the past two AFC championship games. And they are usually accompanied by plenty of trash talk, be it from elected officials or — in the case this past week — players such as the Bengals' Ja'Marr Chase.
The animosity usually spills onto the field, too. Midway through the second quarter, Chase and Chiefs cornerback L'Jarius Sneed got into a heated argument, and eventually a team-wide scrum resulted in offsetting personal fouls.
The Bengals jumped ahead 10-7 when an 8 1/2-minute drive resulted in a field goal and a 6 1/2-minute march ended in Mixon's touchdown catch. Cincinnati then got the ball back when Trey Hendrickson ran right around rookie right tackle Wanya Morris, stripped Mahomes from behind and Sam Hubbard was there to pounce on the loose ball.
Kelce only had 3 receptions for 16 yards vs. Cincy, with his longest reception being 10 yards
Pass interference on Sneed in the end zone set up Browning's 1-yard TD run.
Butker's first field goal got the Chiefs within 17-10, and they had a chance to take the lead when Mahomes saw Marquez Valdes-Scantling wide open on their next possession. But yet another dropped pass — the NFL-leading 40th by Kansas City this season — forced the Chiefs to settle for a field goal to trail 17-13 at the break.
As the Chiefs' defense stiffened in the second half, their offense began showing signs of life.
They stuffed the Bengals on fourth-and-1 at the Kansas City 6, then drove 82 yards for Butker's third field goal. And after the Bengals had to punt, Mahomes hit Rashee Rice for 67 yards to set up Butker's chip shot and give the Chiefs the lead for good. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12915331/Taylor-Swift-Travis-Kelce-2024-Chiefs.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:28Z |
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The Left against Dialectics?
Since the turn of the millennium, the Swedish sociologist Göran Therborn has been developing a series of formidably ambitious arguments in these pages, providing a near comprehensive overview of global politics, its principal forces, trajectories and tensions, plus the changing aims and tactics of the left.footnote1 At the core of these expansive essays is a juxtaposition between the shape of twentieth-century history and that of the contemporary period—the primary processes by which capitalism has been consolidated or resisted in each era. Its basic premises are as follows. If the industrial age was governed by grand dialectics, pitting capital against labour and colonizer against colonized, its successor does not have the same binary structure. The productive system is no longer primed to create a singular emancipatory subject; which renders visions of an egalitarian future, whether in socialist theory or oppositional culture, increasingly opaque. Menaced by entrenched inequality, climate collapse and hostile geopolitics, the current course of societal evolution defies easy prediction. Perpetual crisis will likely determine the terrain of struggle in the coming years. Marxism was the foremost method of understanding the old reality, but its status in the new one is less certain. By drawing ecumenically on left social thought, however, we can still map the existing political-economic landscape in granular detail, locate its contradictions and identify ‘new masses’—mostly peripheral and surplus populations—that could plausibly transform it.
This project began with ‘Into the 21st Century’ (2001) and culminated in ‘The World and the Left’ (2022). It is marked by several features of Therborn’s wider oeuvre, which stretches back to the 1960s: a gift for extracting theoretical insights from stacks of empirical data, like a miner chipping precious gemstones from a rockface; and a mastery of comparative analysis, drawing cross-connections between protest movements in the Sahel and political experiments in South America, currency crises in the eu and demographic changes in East Asia. The author’s range has always been immense—few others would have the audacity or the ability to produce a two-hundred-page primer titled, simply, The World: A Beginner’s Guide (2011). And his prose has always had an urgent pedagogical tone: lucid and unvarnished, pitched at front-line organizers as much as fellow scholars. Yet alongside these consistencies of method there has also been a significant reorientation of his writing, as it registers the recession of socialist prospects over the past four decades. The insurrectionary spirit of his early work has given way to a more sober and reflective register, even if his political commitment has not wavered. How should we assess this intellectual transformation and the texts that emerged from it? What do they reveal or occlude in the present conjuncture?
Born in 1941, the only child of a provincial landowning family from Kalmar, Therborn had an affluent and bookish upbringing, with the Hungarian uprising and Second Arab–Israeli war helping to crystallize a radical outlook during his teenage years. He studied at his local Gymnasium, where he acquired English, German and French, before attending university in Sweden’s ‘ecclesiastical metropolis’, the medieval city of Lund. As a student activist his affiliations were fluid: by turns he established an anarcho-syndicalist society, drifted into the orbit of the Social Democrats, played a leading role in the independent Socialist Association—running unsuccessfully for parliament on its ticket—and served a stint in the Communist Party. In his twenties he became a regular contributor to the Stockholm-based journal Zenit and eventually ascended to its editorial committee, aiming to rebrand it as ‘the New Left Review of the far north’, with a multidisciplinary staff dispersed across the Scandinavian capitals.footnote2 At the same time he made contact with nlr itself, publishing his first article—a critical survey of the Swedish left—in 1965. Yet it was not until the worldwide rebellion erupted three years later that his name became familiar to readers in the Anglosphere.
‘From Petrograd to Saigon’, written in the early months of 1968 while Therborn was still a graduate student, presented the Tet Offensive as a volta in the history of socialist struggle. Hitherto, the Cold War was widely if erroneously perceived as an equal confrontation between rival systems: liberal-democratic capitalism and authoritarian communism. As long as that was the case, the repression and scarcity associated with the ussr served to quell revolutionary impulses among subaltern populations in the West. Geopolitical antagonism diminished class division. Yet the hot wars of the 1960s could not be framed as a contest between equals. Their asymmetry was unavoidable—as plebian uprisings across Asia, Africa and Latin America met the full force of us firepower. With this shift, socialism mutated from an ‘alien social model’ into a ‘source of emulation’ for the oppressed strata of the capitalist world, led by the insurgent generation that flooded the streets that May. The projection of imperial power in the peripheries had reactivated internal conflicts in the core.footnote3
Therborn’s writing over the following decade was imbued with this sense of imminent upheaval. Its tone is anticipatory, preparing for a moment of political reckoning amid the hegemonic crisis sparked by Vietnam. At this juncture his intellectual priorities were twofold—to develop a rigorous, Althusserian Marxism capable of directing the international workers’ movement, and apply it to what was at once the most pressing and most neglected strategic issue: the dynamics of state power in the First World. His doctoral thesis was a systematic investigation of the ‘social disciplines’—economics, sociology, historical materialism—which sought to define their conditions of emergence and objects of study. Published in English as Science, Class and Society (1976), it argued that each of these traditions had discovered a distinct ‘pattern of societal determination’: the market, with its operations of supply and demand; the ideological community, with its matrix of values and norms; and the laws of historical motion, based on contradiction and class division. Marxism distinguished itself from its predecessors by grasping society as a ‘unity and conflict of opposites’, a field of structural incongruities shaped by the imperatives of accumulation. It replaced the ‘social whole’ with the ‘complex totality’, ‘sovereign individuals’ with ‘relations of production’, ‘cause-and-effect’ with ‘overdetermination’. Any relapse into earlier economic or sociological discourses would, Therborn claimed, betray its unique scientifico-political mission.footnote4
This search for a purified Marxist methodology also motivated Therborn’s scathing attack on the Frankfurt School, whom he accused of pedalling a ‘metaphysical humanism’ that abjured any concrete assessment of the social structure. In the work of Horkheimer et al., theories of man eclipsed conjunctural analysis; a simple dichotomy between capitalist alienation and the human essence obscured the real processes by which the system condensed or displaced its contradictions. The retreat into speculative philosophy, occasioned by the horrors of the thirties, offered no guide to political action after ’68.footnote5 Having diagnosed a similar disjunction between theory and practice, Perry Anderson’s Considerations on Western Marxism (1976) summarized the most critical questions for post-classical socialism: ‘what is the real nature and structure of bourgeois democracy as a type of State system . . . ? What type of revolutionary strategy is capable of overthrowing this historical form of State—so distinct from that of Tsarist Russia? What would be the institutional forms of socialist democracy in the West, beyond it?’footnote6 As if taking his cue from Anderson, Therborn’s next book, What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? (1978), set out to address these problems with an organizational theory of the advanced capitalist state, contrasted with its feudal forerunner and proletarian successor.
This apparatus was conceived not merely as a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie, nor a materialized concentration of class relations, but a locus of ‘political technologies’. Among the most important were Weberian bureaucracy and parliamentary government. The first contained the chaos of market competition with a regime of impersonal rationality: a framework of calculable rules that generated specialized and hierarchized forms of knowledge.footnote7 The second managed the conflicting interests of capital’s different factions (mercantile, financial, industrial, agrarian) by institutionalizing disunity—using deliberative decision-making to mediate between rival profiteers.footnote8 During the post-war period these technologies were adapted to accommodate parallel developments in the economies and polities of the West. A growing need for targeted state intervention in private industry supplemented bureaucracy, based on fixed protocols and vertical networks, with technocracy, in which experts would adjust and refine their policies to guarantee optimal efficiency. The widening of democratic participation—a desideratum to secure national cohesion—meanwhile rendered classical parliamentarism obsolete, giving rise to a political culture in which candidates tried to convince the public of their outstanding personal qualities: competence, fortitude, sound judgement and so on.
The anatomy of a workers’ state was fundamentally distinct. Whereas capitalism economized the political sphere, socialism politicized the economy. Whereas bourgeois politicians were bound by no specific mandate once they had sold themselves to the electorate, the legitimacy of proletarian officials was contingent on their ‘class representativeness’. To switch from one mode to the other would require more than sweeping nationalization or revolutionary repression, wrote Therborn. It would mean altering the class character of the state itself: empowering mass organizations at the expense of expert advisory panels, ‘dismantling bureaucracy, technocracy, and the exclusive and ritualistic forms of parliamentary and plebiscitary politics.’footnote9
Convinced that such a transition had ‘again become a concrete possibility in certain developed capitalist societies: especially France and Italy’, Therborn concluded with an analysis of far-left strategy spanning the Second International, the early Comintern, the Popular Front and, most pertinently, Eurocommunism—described as an attempt to end the domination of monopoly capital by assembling a coalition of progressive forces with allied workers’ parties at its centre.footnote10 Like the Swedish Left Party, of which Therborn was a prominent supporter, the pcf and pci hoped to capture bourgeois institutions through electoral campaigns supported by non-violent mass struggle, under the banner of la démocratie jusqu’au bout. They had so far succeeded in rejuvenating the labour movement and exploiting the fissures in Fordism.footnote11 Yet in their repudiation of ‘proletarian dictatorship’ they had not developed a viable plan, tailored to each national context, for overhauling the state machinery: an omission which meant that breakthroughs at the ballot box were unlikely to amount to social revolution. The next frontier for Marxism was therefore to create robust political and ideological defences against the ‘bureaucratic-managerial reproduction of the subordination of the workers’.footnote12
The self-described sequel to What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules? was an immanent critique of Althusser’s theory of interpellation, and an alternative conception of the procedures by which the state produces docile subjects. The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (1980) levelled a number of charges at its author’s theoretical lodestar: that he had understood ideology too narrowly as an ‘imaginary distortion of real relations’, that the consequent separation between true and false consciousness was untenable, and that he had failed to interrogate ideology’s role in curbing or sharpening class conflict. For Therborn, the notion that workers had a fixed set of ‘rational interests’ was a utilitarian hangover in contemporary Marxism with little explanatory value. It elided ‘how members of different classes come to define the world and their situation and possibilities in it in a particular way’. A more accurate theory would focus on the ‘mechanisms of subjection’ operative in different ideological systems: the means they employ to establish a basic sense of ‘what exists, what is good and what is possible’. According to this typology, a regime could sustain itself by presenting its form of rule as inevitable, as morally righteous, or as the best option within the present historical parameters. Where these methods failed, substitutes could be found: compensating for a loss of active support by instilling an attitude of deference in citizens, for instance, or attaching a sense of fear to the pursuit of political alternatives.
Therborn conceded that such techniques had effectively restabilized bourgeois-democratic governments amid the economic shocks of the late seventies: overcapacity, stagflation, rate hikes. He wagered that a revolutionary situation could still take shape, but only with the outbreak of another political crisis in which the socialist movement could dislodge existing interpellative mechanisms and mobilize its own. Straying from the usual vocabulary of structuralist Marxism, he predicted that victory in this endeavour would hinge on ‘harnessing the existential dimensions of human subjectivity’—‘meanings related to being a member of the world, i.e., the meaning of life, suffering, death’, typically addressed by ‘mythologies, religions, and secular moral discourse’.footnote13
Realignment
By 1980, then, Therborn had gone from forecasting the socialist conquest of the state to explaining its resilience. While he had hoped to reconnect social theory with political activity after the detour of Western Marxism, his prescriptions for transcending bourgeois democracy appeared increasingly remote from conditions on either side of the Iron Curtain, as labour was disciplined and expectations were lowered by a redoubtable new right. On a practical level, he reflected, the necessary steps for renewing Eurocommunism were evident, if not easily implementable: mediating between mass politics and parliamentarism, cooperating with social-democratic parties, articulating popular alternatives to austerity and wage restraint, and forging an internationalism that could encompass non-Communist forces in the developing world.footnote14 But the most productive theoretical pathway was less clear, for the central precepts of Therborn’s earlier research had been seemingly called into doubt. The scientific study of capitalist contradictions had little practical purpose if it could not grasp the subjective processes that enabled or inhibited class politics. And preparations for proletarian government were futile if they neglected the more proximate battleground of civil society.
This changing balance of forces prompted a range of neo-Hegelian and neo-Gramscian responses: Jameson’s Kulturkritik, Rose’s metaphysics, Laclau’s left populism. Therborn, however, gravitated closer to the traditional concerns of his discipline—becoming president of the Swedish Sociological Association and publisher of the academic quarterly Acta Sociologica. While teaching in Nijmegen and Gothenburg during the eighties and nineties, he embarked on what were perhaps his most generative works of scholarship: retaining his radical commitments and totalizing reach, but without the same atmosphere of political urgency. If Science, Class and Society claimed that sociological inquiry was anachronistic after the advent of Marxism, Therborn later seemed to resile from that position. Why Some People Are More Unemployed than Others (1986) scrutinized employment patterns and industrial strategies in the oecd countries, demystifying their divergent outcomes, while European Modernity and Beyond (1995) sketched the condition of the continent from the post-war period to the latest fin de siècle, reviewing the major transformations in its social institutions, demographic composition, collective identities, moral foundations and ideological conflicts.footnote15 Therborn also began to draw up an exhaustive account of the ‘geocultural’ family systems of the twentieth century, based on the interlocking norms of patriarchy, marriage and fertility.footnote16 Such monumental studies are beyond the scope of this essay; but for our present purposes we can simply register the shift they represented: away from an engagé standpoint towards an Olympian one; substituting retrospection for prospection; abandoning doctrinal Althusserianism for a comparativist historical sociology which at times seemed to dispense with Marxism—if not leftism—altogether.footnote17
Yet the décalage between early and late Therborn was not just the result of Eurocommunism’s fading prospects. It was symptomatic of a larger world-historical process that he would go on to describe in a compendium of articles for nlr: the left’s gradual relinquishment of a ‘modernist’ perspective, one that ‘turned its back on the past—the old, the traditional, the passé—and looked into the future as a reachable, novel horizon’.footnote18 For decades, this temporal orientation had sustained socialist agitators amid intolerable conditions and rallied countless numbers to their cause. Marxism had proven itself ‘without rival’ as an ‘interpretation, a criticism, an analysis, and, occasionally, a government of modernity’.footnote19 Yet by the year 2000 Therborn was sceptical about not only whether political conditions were favourable to this emancipatory outlook, but whether its fundamental bases still existed.
From its inception, he now wrote, Marxism was rooted in two grand dialectical processes: the opposition between forces and relations of production, and the confrontation between capital and labour, or metropole and colony. These were the active ingredients of twentieth-century history, shaping its major events and inspiring its primary agents. In this dichotomous structure, the dominant side had an ineluctable tendency to generate its antithesis. Inherent in the apparatus of exploitation was a destabilizing element (the industrial proletariat, the colonial subject) capable of effecting its collapse. Alternative realities were imaginable on account of this anti-systemic agent. Socialism was foreseeable because its progenitors already existed in the here-and-now. The future was latent within the present.footnote20
Yet from the eighties onward a new political logic emerged, as ‘labour was weakened and embryonic systemic alternatives fell apart, or were completely marginalized’.footnote21 Therborn began to trace the outlines of this era in ‘Into the 21st Century’ by contrasting the modern state structures that were lost to history with those that had weathered its violent course. He noted that the ‘economically inward-looking, little-trading’ model, in its multiple incarnations, was an abject failure: Communist nations had been prised open, postcolonial socialism in Africa had foundered, import-substitution had run aground in Latin America, and Europe’s traditionalist autocracies had embraced eversion. The general explanation was the rise of intra-industrial trade after wwii, which, by setting in motion technological advances which bypassed states isolated from the world market, compromised their ability to implement coherent national programmes and prompted their relative decline. Outward-looking welfarist and developmentalist models, on the other hand, had benefited from such runaway progress. Years of globalization had so far failed to unravel these formations. The richest countries had seen their public sectors continually expand along with their expenditures, while peripheral export-oriented economies had devised effective methods of controlling and directing capital. Corporations had grown, but not as much as states, which were more capable than ever of undertaking large-scale transformative projects, so long as they could remain competitive internationally.footnote22
The problem, then, was not humanity’s potential to determine its destiny; ‘humankind today is at a historical peak of its possibilities, in the sense of its capability and resources to shape the world, and itself’.footnote23 It was rather that the waning of ‘dialectical modernity’ had routed the socialist movement and eclipsed its totalizing vision for society. For Therborn, the left’s successes over the past century were considerable: discrediting racism and colonialism, establishing the post-war social settlement, beating back cultural reaction and gendered oppression. Its losses, however, were incalculable: misalignment between the ’68 protesters and the labour unions, retreat from the distributive conflicts of the seventies and eighties, geopolitical fractures among Communist regimes and their eventual evaporation. Thanks to these serial defeats, he argued, the secular trend towards the socialization of productive forces had been reversed, nullifying their contradiction with productive relations. The key industries of the developed world were privatized, fragmented, outsourced—their workers deracinated and scattered across supply chains. Class struggle had given way to new forms of contestation centred on ‘life politics, ecology, cultural expression’, left parties to looser activist coalitions.footnote24 Rulers and ruled did not form a divided unity in which the empowerment of one side met the collective resistance of the other. ‘Industrial capitalism has mutated into a form of digital-financial capitalism which does not produce or develop its own adversaries.’footnote25
This marked the transition to a post-dialectical age, in which the working class no longer constituted one pole of a binary societal antagonism. Socialism, by extension, lost its erstwhile meaning as the immanent triumph of this pole over its opposite. This, Therborn stressed, was not quite the ‘historical defeat’ registered by Anderson’s ‘Renewals’ (2000), in which ‘capital had comprehensively beaten back all threats to its rule’.footnote26 It could be better described as a situation of ‘impasse and exhaustion’, where ‘an industrial era of revolution and reform’ had finally run its course.footnote27 What were the implications? Intellectually, it was uncertain whether Marxism could retain its relevance. Since the late nineteenth century, he wrote in ‘After Dialectics’ (2007), this system of thought had triangulated between social science, philosophy and politics—focussing variously on the process of capitalist development, its dynamic of alienation and fetishization, and the power structure that protects it. The final element was the determinant one. Only a political current with revolutionary ambitions could bind the other discourses into a world outlook. In its absence, Marxism had mostly retreated into the corridors of the academy. There was no ruling out a left resurgence in the new millennium, yet its content would probably be novel, perhaps unrecognizable: ‘the underdevelopment of Marxist political theory, together with the social restructuration of capitalist societies, make it unlikely that an ascendant socialist politics would be very Marxist . . . Marx will be rediscovered many times over in the future; novel interpretations will be made and new insights found—but conducive to little ism-ish identification.’footnote28
Without this forward-looking and politically-oriented social theory, much of the left had succumbed to postmodern stasis, while the right had steadily consolidated its own modernist worldview. Neoliberalism promised liberation from backwards regimes, limitless growth and perpetual innovation. Under the project for a New American Century, the dream of socialist revolution had been supplanted by the doctrine of capitalist ‘regime change’.footnote29 One could still imagine alternative futures, but they were increasingly beholden to the market. Therborn’s ‘Class in the 21st Century’ (2012) noted how the utopian energies drained from the industrial proletariat had been reinvested in the middle-class fantasy of ‘boundless consumption’: ‘taking possession of the earth’, liberalizing its every corner, luxuriating in its cheap credit and commodities. This gave the global middle classes an ambiguous political subjectivity. It excluded anyone without the requisite assets or income, demonizing them as ‘deplorables’ and in some cases debarring them from democratic participation. But it also sparked conflagrations like the Arab Spring or Argentine riots, in which intermediate layers aligned with the masses in defence of their economic prospects or personal freedoms.footnote30
This created a temptation for plebeian classes to accept the ‘burgeoning bourgeoisie’ as their political vanguard—hoping that, when neoliberalism failed to deliver on its promises, downwardly-mobile professionals would rise up against the oligarchy.footnote31 But even the most optimistic version of this scenario offered no relief from capitalist realism. The likelihood was that any populist alliance based on a politics of consumption rather than production would split the moment it took power, with poorer fractions banished to its margins. The other option was for the poor themselves to become protagonists. In ‘New Masses’ (2014), Therborn examined three groupings that might do so: pre-capitalist indigenous peoples; extra-capitalist surplus populations—peasants, migrants, casual labourers, slum-dwellers; and manufacturing workers in emerging centres of accumulation—China, Bangladesh, Indonesia. None of these sectors, on its own, was powerful enough to pose a systemic challenge. The first was relatively small and isolated, the second was rarely activated without a ‘triggering event’, while the third was pacified by consumer capitalism and weakened by abundant labour supplies.
A serious opposition movement would therefore need to enlist the salariat as a junior partner—which relied, in turn, on the articulation of a hegemonic ideology that could take the place of Marxism. In pursuit of this vision, Therborn considered the foremost ‘critical themes’ in contemporary culture. During the 2000s, the drive for total commodification and its corrupting effects had generated public interest campaigns targeting corporate racketeers and their political conduits. Climate breakdown had spawned environmental and conservationist movements, giving rise to a ‘planetary consciousness’. And imperial arrogance had provoked reactive forms of solidarity in the Global South, manifest in institutions like the World Social Forum.footnote32 These were not dialectical negations of the regnant order, but disruptive tendencies within it. Their sense of futurity, where it existed, was abstract and often accommodationist. Whether they could metastasize into a societal alternative was unclear.
New lefts
Therborn’s appraisal of the new century, then, yielded several striking conclusions: that the state forms descended from the previous era laid the foundations for continuous human progress; that seizing them from the oligarchy would involve a contest between the working and middle classes to hegemonize anti-neoliberal politics; and that ‘the twenty-first-century left is most likely to be de-centred’, since ‘Europe can no longer provide a global perspective for emancipation’ and no other part of the world-system was primed to take its place.footnote33 Still, without the guiding compass of Marxism, concrete strategies and predictions—of the kind Therborn posited in the seventies and eighties—were out of reach. ‘In the current situation’, he wrote, ‘a certain defiant humility seems to be the most adequate intellectual stance. Defiance before the forces of capital and empire, however powerful. Humility before the coming new world and the learning and unlearning that it will call for.’footnote34 What that meant in practice was sifting patiently through the empirical evidence: tracking the slow mutation of these forces and the moments of resistance they encounter, so as to gauge their primary patterns in the post-industrial age.
This approach was demonstrated most comprehensively in ‘The World and the Left’—a survey spanning every continent, in which Therborn profiled the myriad ‘new lefts’ that have appeared over the last twenty years and the constraints acting upon them. Such oppositions, no longer relying on the propulsive force of structural dialectics, and often disinherited from their political progenitors, were instead driven by an affective impulse in the present: an unmediated indignación at the cruelty of late capitalism. ‘Ignoring the bleak old era of their mothers and fathers, the new left from around the turn of the millennium took radical politics onto a new level.’ It had not revived anything resembling left-modernism; yet its success in preserving socialist politics beyond the historical conditions that spawned it was astonishing. For Therborn, it was only because of the ‘creative dynamism’ of these agitators and organizers, ‘in contrast to the fatigue and despondency of the left in the early neoliberal era’, that social transformation remained conceivable. Such movements, ‘stepping out of the shadows of the great moulders of the twentieth century’, had ‘updated and revitalized the entire radical tradition’. That alone provided ‘rational grounds for cautious optimism’.footnote35
The actors that accomplished this momentous task were varied. The starting-gun was fired by alter-globo, which contrasted an internationalism rooted in solidarity to one based on outsourcing and speculation. Its example of an intransigent left, as heedless of national borders as its adversaries, was followed by militant climate activism, which gained momentum in the mid-2000s and sparked ‘the fastest-growing social movement in history’, Fridays for Future, in the late-2010s. In parallel, urban rebellions—Occupy, 15-M, Gezi Park—skirted the barriers to class consciousness by pitting an undifferentiated ‘people’ against a parasitic ‘elite’. They foreshadowed the combative social democracy embodied by Corbyn, Sanders, Iglesias and Mélenchon, which combined the concrete proposals of twentieth-century reformism with a ruptural strategy to wrest state power from elites.footnote36 Peripheral countries were meanwhile roiled by perpetual industrial revolt, even if the struggles of the new manufacturing proletariat were largely constricted to pay and conditions. In Africa, the ‘imf riots’ against structural adjustment plus ongoing protests against the cost of living and corruption had partially renewed the contestatory spirit of anti-colonialism. And in Latin America, the Pink Tide managed to curb inequality and improve social provision while instating new models of participatory democracy and cooperative production: a considerable achievement given the stranglehold of the world hegemon. Morales and Correa, in particular, combined indigenous communitarian traditions with bold redistributive policies—their focus on conservation and bien vivir offering an antidote to the ‘modernist myopia’ of the old left.footnote37
Twenty-first-century leftism was, moreover, distinguished by its novel tactics and instruments. In lieu of the mass party, the social network; alongside elections and industrial action, divestment campaigns and reclamations of public space. ‘Democracy’ had become integral to its discourse: no longer a means to the end of socialism, but a synonym for it, and a telos in itself. Therborn conceded that none of these movements could boast a perfect record. Alter-globo failed to programmatize its demands; environmentalism was largely assimilated by the liberal centre; transatlantic left populism was repelled at the ballot box; African insurgencies were ephemeral and easily repressed; while the Pink Tide struggled to reconcile communitarianism with developmentalism—splitting its social base and exposing it to right-wing counter-offensives. In each case, ‘the left’s great lacuna was a vision of transformative power or a strategy for winning it’. Outbursts of popular anger may have signalled the enduring possibility of a revolutionary subject by convening ‘coalitions of workers, peasants, students, professionals, indigenous people’s organizations, the precariat and the unemployed youth’ in various configurations. But even when this bloc was powerful enough to topple governments, it stumbled in trying to administer its own.footnote38
If the left struggled to dream up ‘an inspiring imaginary future’—a clear direction for its long march—it could at least take solace in the fact that liberalism, too, had abandoned its modernist orientation. The us-led project of extending ‘market sovereignty over the entire world’ had, by enabling the precipitous rise of China, generated a contradiction between the unfettered advance of capital and the interests of the American juggernaut. In attempting to shore up its strength, Trump and Biden had facilitated the shift away from neoliberalism towards a monopoly capitalism ‘bent upon accumulation within state-defined geopolitical parameters’. With the advent of the New Cold War, this had rapidly calcified into a doctrine of ‘sado-liberalism’. While the us had previously deployed sanctions or shock and awe as the necessary precursors to liberalizing reform, it had since become obsessed with punishing aberrant states ‘without any realistic prospect of behavioural change’, merely for the ‘satisfaction of punishing’.footnote39 Illusions of free-market utopia had vanished. In their place was a weakened empire, unable to accept the prospect of multipolarity, enflaming proxy wars and lashing out at competitors with no pretence of ‘progress’.
This ubiquitous lack of vision leaves humanity in a precarious position when confronting the processes that are beginning to shape contemporary history in lieu of grand dialectics. Therborn concludes his study by identifying three: climate spoliation, as wealthy nations continue to exceed emissions records; Great Power conflict, with America the primary agent of escalation; and monstrous inequality, aggravated by deregulation and austerity. These bequests of the last century are likely to create a political landscape ravaged by recurrent crisis and disaster. The author, defiantly humble, offers no practical solutions; but he does attempt to define the left’s conceptual priorities in each area. The ecological threat, he urges, should prompt serious engagement with the capabilities of green finance—the climate settlement it could install and the conditions for organizing therein. Geopolitical antagonism should give rise to a ‘truly global and planetary’ perspective, in which the horrors of us domination are acknowledged along with the virtues of a pluralist alternative. And the combustibility of class relations, at a time when subaltern populations have never been more connected to the outside world and to each other, should not be understated.footnote40
The triadic present
The scale of Therborn’s intellectual achievement, in synthesizing these contemporary trends and situating them within an original, globe-spanning narrative, is remarkable. And his political prescriptions are useful, as far as they go. But the first step in evaluating this global snapshot is to consider its foundational assertion that Marxian dialectics have been surpassed. ‘The World and the Left’ describes the dialectic as ‘an endogenous process’ marked by constitutive contradiction, ‘deriving from the developmental logic of the social system’—the primary example being capital and labour, whose collision appears to demand a new historical synthesis.footnote41 Yet a different characterization can be found in Science, Class and Society, where Therborn writes that
The opposition and struggle of classes . . . does not in itself point to the necessity of a solution, to a transformation of the system of classes or to their abolition. Indeed, as a matter of fact Capital does not speak of contradictions between classes, but of contradictions within the structure and processes of the capitalist mode of production, which develop in the course of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, and which determine the mode of existence of their antagonism and the relations of strength between them.footnote42
For the young Therborn, the only genuine ‘systemic contradiction’ adhered to the mode of production: its forces and relations. This was the determinant dialectical opposition—the engine of history and futurity. It could intensify or attenuate a highly contingent realm of class struggle; but class struggle, in itself, did not ‘point to the necessity of a solution’, nor was its dynamic inherently contradictory, given the potential for particular material or ideological conjunctures to prevent mass challenges to capital. As a result, the contraction and fragmentation of the twentieth-century proletariat would, by Therborn’s earlier criteria, have little bearing on the question of dialectics as such. It would rather be downstream from more fundamental processes in the structure of accumulation. The halting of labour’s ‘forward march’ may have neutralized the conflict between socialized forces and capitalist relations, but this hardly precludes the existence of new primary contradictions.
With this in mind, we might look again at Therborn’s triad of contemporary politics: ecology, geopolitics, inequality. Can any of these be said to have a dialectical structure? It is worth recalling, initially, that the term ‘productive forces’ applies not only to the given stage of technological development, but also to the technical organization of production—its coordination in the slave plantation, the factory system, the digital economy and so on. Accordingly, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the rise of fossil capital and the recoil of climate breakdown constitutes a dialectic in the strictest sense. The capitalist imperative of self-sustaining growth could only be fulfilled, from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onward, through the switch to coal power as the energetic basis of production, since it was more amenable than air or water to private sequestration. Fossil fuel subsequently became what Andreas Malm calls ‘a necessary material substratum for the production of surplus value’, creating a novel paradigm in which ‘the exploitation of labour by capital is impelled by the consumption of this particular accessory’.footnote43 The transition to oil preserved this function, enabling productivity breakthroughs and cheaper manufacturing which underpinned the post-war expansionary cycle. Now, carbon-intensive commodity production is mostly delegated to the East and financed by the West—whose belated attempts at ‘green onshoring’ have had minimal impact, and have been offset by increases in environmentally ruinous military spending.footnote44 Extreme weather events show that this fossil regime is already facing the revenge of its structural antithesis: a natural world which, as it breaks down, threatens the conditions for accumulation by leaving stranded assets, depleting demand, rupturing supply chains and destroying vital infrastructure. The transgression of planetary boundaries elicits their reassertion. The system’s ‘developmental logic’ subverts itself.footnote45
Although Therborn treats them separately, this dialectic of climate crisis is bound up with the dynamic of geopolitics. The two are inextricable and co-constitutive. For it was partly us state investment in petrochemical innovation during wwii that allowed the country to exercise control over the inter-state system in its wake. Adam Hanieh writes of a ‘mutually reinforcing relationship between the rise of American hegemony, the shift to an oil-centred global energy regime and the revolution in commodity production inaugurated by petrochemicals.’footnote46 America’s status as the source of world liquidity—its role as the organizing centre of global production, and its attendant seignorial privileges—were rooted in its petroleum feedstock. When this hegemony was imperilled by increasing industrial competition with Germany and Japan—which, along with heightened labour militancy and global monetary disorder, began to exert downward pressure on American manufacturing profits in the 1970s—the us policy response represented another turning point in the history of fossil capital: one which strengthened both the imperial matrix and its energetic foundations. By hiking interest rates, raising the value of the dollar and incentivizing speculation, the us under Reagan orchestrated something close to an industrial ‘shakeout’, in which firms were forced to reroute investment from fixed capital into financial channels. This shift was instrumental to winning the Cold War, as America’s self-reinvention as the primary debtor nation granted access to vast capital flows that allowed it to outpace the ussr in the arms race.footnote47 At the same time, though, it precipitated China’s remaking as ‘the chimney of the world’, with mobile capital flooding into its growing export economy. To secure an energy supply for these industries, and meet Western demand for their output, the prc deregulated its domestic coal market while ramping up fossil fuel imports in the 1990s.footnote48 Global emissions rocketed from 25 to 33 billion annual metric tonnes of co2 over the first decade of the new century. By 2020, China’s annual share of worldwide discharges had risen to 31 per cent.footnote49
Climate crisis is therefore entangled with another, equally dialectical process: Great Power conflict. In the twentieth century, the oil-based development of the productive forces entrenched asymmetrical productive relations in which America reigned supreme. Yet this led to the problems of industrial overcapacity and falling profit rates described by Robert Brenner, necessitating a volte-face in imperial strategy: from encouraging domestic manufacturing to uprooting it abroad. That outsourcing operation created the conditions for a new coal-fired superpower in the East. China’s high-speed growth subsequently enabled its emergence as a nonconforming actor in the international system—expanding its influence by forging Third World trade partnerships, investing in strategic sectors and increasingly prioritizing its internal market. The us, still suffering from persistent stagnation and sapped state capacity, has come to view this as an impingement on its sovereign authority, and responded with an aggressive programme of economic containment and military encirclement. The head of the us Air Mobility Command now predicts the two countries will be at war by 2025.footnote50 How else to describe this historical trajectory, other than an endogenous dialectic in which forces of fossil-backed production enter into contradiction with relations of American domination?
Inequality—Therborn’s third category—might not have the same dialectical structure, since it is not a historical inevitability that oppressed populations will rise up against their rulers. But given the effects of environmental collapse and geopolitical tension, there is every reason to believe that wealth disparities could produce forms of class antagonism that are just as sharp and binary as those of the last century. Inadequate climate adaptation measures will leave more people vulnerable to failing ecosystems, blurring class distinctions between the lower strata. Attempts to minimize the fallout through welfare policies will be compromised by inflated arms budgets and sluggish growth rates. Elites and their state relays will resort to further ‘politically driven upward redistribution’ to maintain their position amid the ensuing instability.footnote51 In this context, we might get what Gopal Balakrishnan terms ‘Pikettyian’ class struggle—‘in the simplified, more abstract, and classical form of rich versus poor’.footnote52 Here the primary social cleavage will be fiscal. When Therborn writes, somewhat obscurely, that class in the twenty-first-century is not a ‘structural category’ but a ‘compass of orientation’,footnote53 perhaps this is what he means: not a fixed position in the system of production, but a location on one side of the division between those with the resources to insulate themselves from crisis and those without them. Mutatis mutandis, the polarization of society into these rival blocs would resolve Therborn’s uncertainty about whether the consumptionist middle class or the atomized working class will lead the movement for liberation—as the line between the two might be erased, politically if not materially.
Rise of the right
If, on this basis, we can posit the existence of new dialectical currents with the potential to ignite class struggle, then Marxism may not be as obsolete as Therborn assumes. Still, there are determinate reasons why it seems to have lost much of its political relevance since the apex of the labour movement. These are related to the transformation of historical dialectics that occurred with the deindustrialization of the Global North. Before this process took hold, the socialization of production meant that Marxism, and the movements that grew out of it, could root themselves in an inherent trend in the process of capitalist development. Their aims involved unfettering this trend from private property relations—unleashing progress by allowing one side of the dialectic to win out over the other. This enabled the intuitive adoption of a futurist disposition. Yet that outlook has since been shattered by the ‘neoliberal interlude’ and replaced by the grand dialectics of climate and geopolitics: two structural trends with no progressive character. Here, the ‘oppositional’ forces (with the potential to destabilize present relations of production) are, respectively, the poisoning of the biosphere and the rise of China. The left can ally itself with neither. Its sense of futurity therefore cannot come from bringing to fruition an existing tendency within the system; for, rather than prefiguring emancipation, these binaries merely pit differently destructive forces against each other. They may still end up deepening class divisions over the coming decades. But in this new reality, no single class can occupy the proletariat’s erstwhile role as the bearer or embodiment of dialectical negation.
This marks the transition away from a hopeful dialectic towards a darker one. So far, socialists have struggled to respond to these shifting sands, whereas the nationalist right has rallied, becoming the main beneficiary of popular discontent with neoliberalism across greater Europe and North America. Therborn does not deal at length with this phenomenon. He attributes it to the ‘peripheralization of working-class heartlands’, their neglect by both the left and the centre, and the arrival of ‘skilful political entrepreneurs’ who have enflamed resentments against migration.footnote54 But this account, more descriptive than explanatory, fails to capture the underlying logic of the right’s ascent. A fuller analysis might begin, instead, with Therborn’s suggestion that liberalism has lost its modernist perspective. No longer invested in the fantasy of endless growth, unable to deliver social progress at home or abroad, it is reduced to superintending distributive conflicts in conditions of stagnation. It has replaced technocracy (policy fixes that promise perpetual improvement) with managerialism (easing social tensions in the absence of such fixes). This is a symptom of the broader ideological condition known as ‘presentism’: confinement to the horizon of the immediate.footnote55 The left, too, suffers from this affliction, since its rejection of capitalism is based on an affective revulsion rather than an alternate vision. The dialectics of the twenty-first century have deprived it of a spontaneous futurism. Which means that the right alone can claim a monopoly on opposition to the present—by retreating into the past.
This regressive movement is presented as a defensive response to insecurity and precarity: a position that resonates instinctively with workers seeking refuge from capital’s onslaught. An age of escalating crisis may further heighten its appeal. Yet it is important to note that hardline nationalism operates not by posing any real threat to the dominant liberal ideology, but by appropriating and repurposing its elements. The Third Way was, among other things, a means of enforcing market discipline on racialized communities, whose members were subjected to punitive forms of surveillance, monitoring, incarceration and deportation. Under this regime, interventionism abroad was complemented by authoritarian crackdowns at home, and national chauvinism was mobilized in the cause of selling one’s country to investors. As centrist parties have fallen out of favour, the ‘new rightists’—from Trump to Farage to Meloni—have leant into these trends while styling themselves as an alternative. Their performative invocations of the past allow them to affect dissent from the status quo, yet they also speak the common sense of the present: the values of Blair or Clinton, without the same sanctimony or hypocrisy. This Janus-faced nature allows the nationalist right to reap the benefits of liberal ideology—its persistently hegemonic status in public life—while also capitalizing on frustration with it. It dislodges the political centre by accelerating its project and borrowing its tropes.
Yet if such basic conformity with liberalism gives the right its strength, it is also a potential weakness. Once in power, nationalist politicians betray the continuities with their ‘globalist’ predecessors: identical fealty to corporate interests, disregard for rustbelt populations, subservience to American empire. Nostalgic paeans to the nuclear family and gestural attacks on migrants may not be enough to mask this resemblance in the long run—which creates an opportunity for the left to offer a genuinely counterhegemonic programme, rather than its simulacrum. It can only do so, however, if it outgrows the presentist constraints by which it is entrapped—the anti-futurist reformism famously advocated by T. J. Clark.footnote56 For what Therborn calls the ‘disaster-generating legacies’ of the twentieth century cannot be confronted by a socialism whose primary basis is immediatist and affective. Mere outrage, of the kind that propelled the progressive populism of the 2010s, is a flimsy foundation for transformative politics. It neither distinguishes the left from its adversaries (who are equally capable of marshalling indignation) nor equips it with a coherent plan for government. It thus leaves socialists facing the same crisis of credibility as centrists: hurtling towards a bleak future, without the necessary temporal orientation to change course.
Contra dialectics
The central question then becomes: can the global left regain its modernist momentum? Can it reconstitute itself as the sole representative of opposition to the present—outflanking the populist right? Writing in Jacobin, Alyssa Battistoni argues that radical politics in this century starts from the premise that current conjunctural trends have no long-term direction other than generalized devastation. ‘Told we’d reached the end of history, it turns out that we’ve actually arrived at the end of the future, or at least the one we knew.’ Once this is acknowledged, the association between optimism and utopianism breaks down, since the assumption that everything will be alright is precisely what beckons Armageddon. It is only ‘clear-eyed pessimism’, unflinching recognition of our predicament, that opens up a hopeful space beyond it.footnote57 An apocalyptic sensibility, then, is not incompatible with a utopian one. The former may even be the precondition for the latter—providing the necessary impetus to effect a terraformation. Therborn described this prospect some four decades ago in The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology, when he wrote that ‘it is possible to mobilize the future against the present’: ‘In the really dramatic socio-political mobilizations . . . the future has predominantly taken the form of an imminent threat flowing from current tendencies, which has called for pre-emptive action in the present. We might term this process mobilization by anticipatory fear’.footnote58 This is surely the appropriate formula for our times. Contemporary dialectics may not have a progressive structural trend with which the left can ally itself. But they do have a tendency towards calamity which could, out of sheer terror, incite the imagination of alternative realities.
By organizing on this basis, the left would become the nemesis of dialectics. In the two-sided conflicts between capital accumulation and climate breakdown, America and China, it would be a third force: an exit-route from these various cycles of catastrophe. This is not an easy position to occupy. It was simpler for twentieth-century socialism to play its historic role, since it could rely on certain in-built tendencies of capitalist production. The absence of such tendencies today means that socialists are working against the forces of history rather than with them. This leaves their movement more susceptible to splintering, disorientation, despair; for how can it decide on a positive direction when its relation to the present is seemingly one of absolute negation? Perhaps these maladies can only be avoided if the new left coheres around its own history. Rather than ‘ignoring the bleak old era of their mothers and fathers’, its partisans could draw strength from the struggles of their predecessors. As the early Therborn writes, ‘it is possible to mobilize on the basis of the past, of what has existed, of past experiences, values, symbols . . . If such mobilization by revival is to be successful, it must be possible for the experiences and values of the past to enter into the order of the day’.footnote59
Mobilization by anticipatory fear and mobilization by revival. The first allows socialism to position itself outside the existing dialectical structure and criticize its trajectory. The second allows it to fall back on a distinct historical tradition that acts as a bulwark against dejection. Together, they create a link between past and future that transcends the present. For Enzo Traverso, the seeds of this temperament can already be seen in the twenty-first-century left. Though it appears to be a presentist creature, it is actually defined by an inability to forget its history—a persistent if largely unconscious melancholia following the collapse of communism, experienced as ‘both a finished experience and an irreplaceable loss’. This feeling of lack can have a stultifying effect, in that it inhibits the development of new political projects, ‘obstructing the separation from the lost beloved ideal as well as a libidinal transfer toward a new object of love’. But, at the same time, refusal to mourn the death of utopia keeps it alive—for ‘successful mourning could mean identification with the enemy: lost socialism replaced by accepted capitalism’.footnote60 The failure to develop new attachments prevents capitulation to a fallen reality. The presence of a haunting, spectral past helps the left to maintain its critical distance from the current system: a precondition for reclaiming futurism as its own. Were it to make this presence conscious—no longer a repressed origin, but a proud inheritance—then perhaps it could ‘enter into the order of the day’ with greater force. Therborn’s world-casting essays stop short of theorizing this endeavour. Yet in tracing the long arc of socialist organizing across decades and continents, they will be a vital resource for realizing it. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/oliver-eagleton-therborn-s-world-casting | 2024-01-01T04:53:28Z |
Nets’ Cam Thomas discusses team needing more trust on defensive end
The Brooklyn Nets’ defense has not been good this season at any point and as the losses pile up, it seems that the same issues happen time and again. After plenty of talk in the offseason about this team’s identity being defense, this season has shown the opposite over the first 33 games.
Brooklyn (15-18) lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday 124-108, marking the 17th time this season that the Nets have given up at least 121 points to their opponent. As with any other team in the NBA, the chances of winning are borderline-impossible when you allow the other team to score that much in a game.
Sunday was arguably Brooklyn’s worst defensive performance this season as they allowed the Thunder to shoot 54.2% from the field, 54.5% from three-point land, and go 16-of-20 from the free-throw line. While the Nets understandably had issues defending potential MVP candidate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who had 24 points, Brooklyn allowed six Thunder players in total to score in double-figures, including rookie Cason Wallace who had 10 points off the bench.
What Brooklyn has been used to this season is trying to outscore the opponent if they couldn’t stop them and third-year guard Cam Thomas, who scored 20 points, is an important part of that task. Unfortunately for the Nets, he could not get much offensive help from his teammates and Brooklyn had no way to keep up with Oklahoma City.
With regards to the defensive end, Thomas said, according to Brian Lewis of the New York Post, that the Nets have to build more trust on that side of the floor if they want to improve their performance. Not a bad idea for a team that came into this game ranked 23rd in defensive rating and after this showing, that rank will either stay the same or get worse.
Cam Thomas on how much the #Nets need to work on trust to solve defensive woes: “A lot obviously. A lot. Everybody feels like if nobody has your back on a rotation then we’re not gonna help as much. That’s with anybody. So obviously that's a part of it."
— Brian Lewis (@NYPost_Lewis) January 1, 2024 | https://sports.yahoo.com/nets-cam-thomas-discusses-team-044229332.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:28Z |
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Hisar, December 31
The Haryana Right to Service Commission (HRSC) has incurred an expenditure of Rs 23.66 crore from 2014 to 2022 while hearing 801 complaints, reveled a reply obtained from it on a Right to Information (RTI) application.
Interestingly, the commission that was set up with an objective of providing an effective framework for time bound delivery of services by government departments in 2014 did not receive even a single complaint in the first year of its inception (2014) and received only seven complaints next year (2015).
The Commission, however, got maximum 311 complaints in 2022. Till September this year, the HRSC received 81 complaints, but it did not disclose the expenditure incurred during this period. Overall, the HRTC informed that 69 of the total complaints were pending till September.
RTI activist Subhash of Haryana Soochna Adhikar Manch said a simple calculation indicated that on an average, it costs the commission Rs 2.95 lakh per case.
Besides, the HRSC informed that it had imposed penalty on 126 officials who were found negligent in disposal of their services. However, it revealed that 22 officials had not deposited the fine imposed by the commission.
Notably, the HRSC takes up suo moto cognizance or complaints filed by the aggrieved consumers to ensure delivery of notified services within notified timelines. The state government has notified 655 services by 43 government departments and organisations under the Section 3 of the Act which has been given a timeframe for delivery of services. Retired IAS officer TC Gupta is chairperson of the Commission.
HRSC didn’t give complete info: Activist
RTI Activist Subhash said the HRSC had failed to provide complete information on his application filed under the RTI Act. “I sought information on seven points, including appointment of its chairman, other officials and their salaries, allowances etc, steps taken to make people aware of the Right to Service Act, besides the complaints taken up by the Commission. For greater efficiency and accuracy, we advise you to file separate RTI applications for each specific subject matter as your application covers multiple subject matters making it challenging to segregate and obtain information from different branches.”
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Kazakhstan to open 10 more trade missions abroad - Minister Kassymbek
"119 countries of the world consume the products manufactured in Kazakhstan. The key markets for us are China, Central Asia, EAEU and EU countries. As per preliminary data, in 11 months of 2018, domestic products export increased by 26.4% and made $54.7bn. The share Kazakhstani export at the EU markets is 52%, at Chinese market is 10%, at the EAEU market is 10% and at the Central Asian market is 5%," the Minister posted on his Facebook account.
He noted that Kazakhstan is a leading country in supply of uranium, copper, titanium, ferroalloys, yellow phosphorus, flour, cotton oil, wheat and flax seeds. One third of the products exported abroad falls on non-primary sector of economy.
"In 11 months of 2018, we observed 28% growth in Kazakhstani products supply to the Central Asian countries. The cumulative volume of exports to these countries made $2.6bn. We have recently exported the first batch of 30 home-made micro-buses to Tajikistan. In total, Hyundai TransCom Kazakhstan plans to export 300 buses to Dushanbe. Last year, Kazakhstan signed a contract with Afghanistan on supply of home-produced rail tracks. At the President's instruction, a package of measures will be launched to increase non-primary exports. 500bn tenge will be envisaged for financial and service support measures in 2019-2021," the Minister adds.
According to Zhenis Kassymbek, one of the key tools of Kazakhstan's exports promotion will be the establishment of a wide range of trade missions.
"In 2019, we plan to additionally open 10 trade missions in Russia, China and CA countries. The trade missions will let us settle the problems in overcoming administrative and trade obstacles and will help expand the range of promising buyers and set effective routes of supply. These measures are aimed at increasing the share of non-primary exports in the country's total exports," he added. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-open-10-more-trade-missions-abroad-minister-kassymbek_a3492129/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:31Z |
Investar Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ISTR – Get Free Report) was the target of a significant growth in short interest in the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 20,600 shares, a growth of 90.7% from the November 30th total of 10,800 shares. Currently, 0.2% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average trading volume of 22,400 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.9 days.
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Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on ISTR shares. Piper Sandler upgraded shares of Investar from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and set a $13.50 target price for the company in a research note on Thursday, October 5th. StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Investar in a research note on Thursday, October 5th. They set a “hold” rating for the company.
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Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of ISTR. Fourthstone LLC grew its stake in Investar by 19.9% in the 1st quarter. Fourthstone LLC now owns 967,273 shares of the financial services provider’s stock worth $18,465,000 after acquiring an additional 160,309 shares during the period. Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Investar by 76.9% during the 2nd quarter. Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC now owns 217,700 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $2,636,000 after buying an additional 94,610 shares during the period. M3F Inc. grew its stake in shares of Investar by 13.8% during the 1st quarter. M3F Inc. now owns 344,447 shares of the financial services provider’s stock valued at $4,808,000 after buying an additional 41,795 shares during the period. Susquehanna International Group LLP purchased a new stake in shares of Investar during the 1st quarter valued at $575,000. Finally, Boothbay Fund Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Investar during the 2nd quarter valued at $484,000. 55.10% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Investar Price Performance
Investar stock traded down $0.08 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $14.91. The company had a trading volume of 13,072 shares, compared to its average volume of 23,696. Investar has a 1 year low of $9.07 and a 1 year high of $22.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.45, a current ratio of 0.94 and a quick ratio of 0.94. The company has a market capitalization of $145.37 million, a P/E ratio of 6.75 and a beta of 0.65. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $11.59 and its 200-day simple moving average is $12.09.
Investar (NASDAQ:ISTR – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 19th. The financial services provider reported $0.33 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.32 by $0.01. Investar had a net margin of 16.43% and a return on equity of 9.85%. The business had revenue of $34.80 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $19.96 million. On average, equities analysts predict that Investar will post 1.77 EPS for the current year.
Investar Dividend Announcement
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 31st. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, January 2nd will be paid a $0.10 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 29th. This represents a $0.40 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.68%. Investar’s payout ratio is currently 18.10%.
Investar Company Profile
Investar Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Investar Bank that provides a range of commercial banking products to individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in South Louisiana. The company offers various deposit products and services, such as savings, checking, money market, and individual retirement accounts, as well as various certificates of deposit; debit cards; and mobile banking services, as well as credit cards.
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Telangana: Police arrest 3 inter-state drug peddlers, 15 grams of heroin seized
According to the police, the arrested persons transported the drugs from Rajasthan to Hyderabad. The arrested were identified as Umesh Tiwari,35, a resident of Sultanpur, Uttar pradesh, Suresh Dewasi,26, a resident of Bhinmal, Rajasthan, and Ravla Ram, 22, a resident of Sanchore, Rajasthan.
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Police on Sunday apprehended three inter-state drug peddlers in Hyderabad and seized from them 15 grams of heroin drugs, said the police. According to the police, the arrested persons transported the drugs from Rajasthan to Hyderabad.
The accused have been identified as Umesh Tiwari, 35, a resident of Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Suresh Dewasi, 26, a resident of Bhinmal, Rajasthan, and Ravla Ram, 22, a resident of Sanchore, Rajasthan. The police said that they sourced the contraband from the Jalore district of Rajasthan. The police also seized from them one two-wheeler, Rs 10,000 in cash and three cell phones.
The accused were arrested under Meerpet Police Station limits in the city. Further investigation is on. (ANI)
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NFL announces crucial week 18 schedule as Cowboys, Eagles share timeslot
The Dallas Cowboys are one win away from keeping a two-decade tradition alive. No team has repeated as NFC East champions since the 2003 and 2004 Philadelphia Eagles. With both the Cowboys and Eagles sporting identical 11-5 records, the tiebreaker process is a central conversation piece entering Week 18.
If the Cowboys win their sixth and final division match, at Washington, they take the divisio for the second time in three years. If they lose the opportunity is afforded the Philadelphia Eagles, . As such, the NFL will have both teams kick off at the same time, 3:25 pm Central on January 7.
The league holds the kickoff time for all Week 18 games until the playoff scenarios are pretty much locked in. Here’s a look at all of the key NFC matchups, along with the full slate.
Dallas Cowboys (11-5) @ Washington Commanders (4-12), 3:25 pm Central, Fedex Field, Landover, MD
If the Cowboys win, they’re the No. 2 seed. If they lose, they are still NFC East champs if the Eagles also lose. If the Eagles win and Dallas loses, the Eagles are the NFC East champs and the No. 2 seed.
Philadelphia Eagles (11-5) @ New York Giants (5-11)
NFC South Matchups
Atlanta Falcons (7-9) @ New Orleans Saints (8-8), Noon ET
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-8) @ Carolina Panthers (2-14), Noon ET
If the Bucs win, they are NFC South champions and the No. 4 seed. If they lose, the winner of the Falcons and Saints takes the division.
Wildcard Matchups
Minnesota Vikings (7-9) @ Detroit Lions (11-5), Noon ET
The Vikings need help now to make the playoffs, and the Lions need help to get to the No 2 seed instead of being third. They get this one out the way early.
Chicago Bears (7-9) @ Green Bay Packers (7-9), 3:25 pm ET
Seattle Seahawks (7-9) @ Arizona Cardinals (4-12), 3:25 pm ET
Los Angeles Rams (9-7) @ San Francisco 49ers (12-4), 3:25 pm ET
The Rams are the fifth team in the NFC to have already clinched a playoff berth. | https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-announces-crucial-week-18-044008127.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:35Z |
Terry Eagleton’s new book, Critical Revolutionaries, contains a short preface and five long chapters, on T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, William Empson, F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams; each provides a vivid intellectual portrait. Eagleton is no stranger to any of them. Eliot, Leavis and Williams, in particular, have accompanied him throughout his fifty-year career as a Marxist literary theorist and critic. At times, these figures have seemed to goad or haunt him; at others, they have inspired his respect. In Critical Revolutionaries, his approach to them undergoes a step-change: now they are re-cast as thinkers and practitioners in a vital literary-critical tradition which he fears is in danger of falling into neglect today, although we can and should still learn from it how to be better readers and critics ourselves.
Eagleton’s return to a specifically English thread of literary criticism—the critical milieu which helped to form him, as he says—is part of his larger turn towards the problem of reading. In his field-altering Literary Theory: an Introduction (1983), it was the sister articulation—the problem of literature—which held him. Twenty-odd years later, at the height of neoliberal globalization, he worried that we needed to sharpen how we read literature if we were to have any hope of understanding why we did so. How to Read a Poem (2006) was the first full demonstration of this concern. There, Eagleton tackled head-on the then common rebuke that a literary theorist had no business fretting about critical reading practice. The idea that literary theorists had killed poetry because they were incapable of spotting a metaphor, let alone a tender feeling, was ‘one of the more obtuse critical platitudes of our time’:
The truth is that almost all major literary theorists engage in scrupulously close reading. The Russian Formalists on Gogol or Pushkin, Bakhtin on Rabelais, Adorno on Brecht, Benjamin on Baudelaire, Derrida on Rousseau, Genette or de Man on Proust, Hartman on Wordsworth, Kristeva on Mallarmé, Jameson on Conrad, Barthes on Balzac, Iser on Henry Fielding, Cixous on Joyce, Hillis Miller on Henry James, are just a handful of examples.
The concern with how to read stemmed from what he saw as a lack of interest in reading for form. Close reading had become closer to sociological ‘content analysis’, while language practices were ignored. For Eagleton, matters of punctuation have never been separate from matters of politics, and How to Read a Poem contained chapters on punctuation, syntax, rhythm, metre and tone as well as dexterous close readings of the formal patterns of ‘nature’ poems from William Collins, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edward Thomas. It was a rich response to the question literature undergraduates frequently ask: what is form? In How to Read Literature (2013), these concerns were addressed to narrative. Again, the impulse was clear: ‘one cannot raise political or theoretical questions about literary texts without a degree of sensitivity to their language.’
Eagleton’s return to the work of his forebears should be read in part as a continuation of this thread. It is not a rejection of the need for theoretical work but rather a deeper grounding of it, not least through attention to pedagogies of form. The tradition of reading founded and contested by his quintet is laid out for critical consideration, as a repertoire of practices that are still highly relevant today. If it can be dubbed ‘Cambridge English’—and Cambridge was where Eagleton, who hailed from Salford’s Irish-Catholic working class, studied with Williams in the 1960s, attended Leavis’s last lectures and gazed with awe at Richards, glimpsed at a garden party—the book makes plain that the tradition was elaborated ‘in spite of Cambridge’, as Leavis said, and in many respects against it. Indeed, T. S. Eliot, Eagleton’s founding figure, had no connection to the place. Rather, his importance lies in his supremely contradictory role as high-conservative critic and revolutionary-modernist poet—for both modernism and the new literary criticism were products of the same historical crisis.
Eliot, a scion of the New England intellectual aristocracy, was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. Educated at Harvard, where he encountered French Symbolism, he left for Paris, then England, where he met Pound. ‘The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock’ was published in 1915 and ‘The Waste Land’ in 1922 in the first number of Eliot’s vanguard literary quarterly, the Criterion. Richards, born in Cheshire in 1893, was the son of a works manager and chemical engineer and himself had a strong scientific bent, as a linguistic philosopher and psychologist, as well as an internationalist one; after transforming the Cambridge English Tripos in the 1920s, he taught in China and Japan, then Harvard. Empson, born in 1906, was the son of a Yorkshire landowner. Sent down from Cambridge for the scandal of having condoms in his room, he made a living as a bohemian freelancer in London, writing for Eliot’s Criterion and drafting Seven Types of Ambiguity, before following Richards to China and later teaching at Kenyon College, Ohio, alongside Robert Lowell, John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks and Delmore Schwartz. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where his father ran a musical-instruments shop, and spent four years as a stretcher-carrier in the First World War; he taught English at Downing College, founding Scrutiny with his wife Queenie Leavis in 1932. Williams was a railway-worker’s son, born in 1921 in rural south Wales, who taught for a decade in adult education before warily taking up a Cambridge chair.
Their political outlooks, Eagleton stresses, were as varied as their backgrounds: Eliot an Anglo-Catholic royalist, Richards a liberal, Empson a maverick social democrat; Leavis drifting rightwards from a more radical inter-war stance, Williams a student communist who moved left from the 1960s. Their styles were a study in contrasts, too: | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/patricia-mcmanus-ways-of-reading | 2024-01-01T04:53:35Z |
Injured Vikings QB Kirk Cousins and his four-year-old son go shirtless to pump up fans before crucial game with rival Packers in Minneapolis
- The chant typically ends with someone blowing into a massive Gjallarhorn
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Kirk Cousins' affinity for going shirtless has clearly been inherited by his four-year-old son, Cooper.
The injured Minnesota quarterback led team fans in their customary 'Skol Vikings' chant before Sunday night's crucial matchup with the rival Green Bay Packers.
Cousins handled his solemn duties topless with the help of Cooper, who was also seen removing his own shirt before leading the crowd in a slow clap alongside his father.
Roughly translated from a number of Scandinavian languages to 'Cheers Vikings,' the chant typically ends with someone pretending to blow into a massive Gjallarhorn, a horn associated with the Norse god, Heimdallr.
And Cousins, wearing his customary gold chain sans shirt, played the part to the raucous approval of Vikings fans. To soccer fans, the spectacle is reminiscent of Iceland's ultimate Viking chant at Euro 2016 in France.
Unfortunately for Cousins' teammates, the chant didn't translate to the field, where the Packers cruised to a 33-10 win, effectively ending the Vikings' playoff hopes.
Injured Minnesota Vikings QB rallied fans for their home game against the Packers on Sunday
Cousins, 35, showed off his tone body in front of a Gjallarhorn before kickoff in Minneapolis
In Norse mythology, the Gjallarhorn, which Cousins blew into, can be heard around the world
Cousins and his son, Cooper, also seen clapped in similar fashion to Iceland's Euro 2016 team
Cousins has been injured since late October, when he suffered a torn Achilles tendon 24-10 win over the Packers in Green Bay.
Journeyman quarterback Joshua Dobbs was brought in from Arizona and won his next two starts for the team before dropping two and being benched during a 3-0 win over the Raiders in Las Vegas on December 10.
Cousins first embraced shirtlessness last season, when his teammates gave him gold chains, which the bare-chested quarterback was seen wearing in a viral video of him dancing aboard the team flight following a 2022 win over his old former team -- the Washington Commanders.
The devout Christian and his wife Julie are parents to two boys: Cooper, four, and Turner, three.
Vikings fans show their appreciation by clapping along with Kirk and Cooper Cousins
Cousins embraced shirtlessness in '22 on a flight returning from D.C. after beating his old team
Cousins - a devout Christian - and his wife Julie are parents to two boys: Cooper, 4, & Turner, 3
With Cousins' future up in the air after this season, star receiving Justin Jefferson once again made his feelings about his quarterback be well known after losing to the Detroit Lions on Christmas Eve.
'I feel like I'm always voicing my opinion on Kirk,' Jefferson said. 'As much as people downgrade him and not want to give him his credit, I'm always the person that always gives him his credit. I'm always blessed and just accepting of the person that he was for me, the player that he was for me and this team just by being that leader and being that captain, controlling the game, controlling where the ball goes and making great throws. I think the rest of the world definitely realizes that at this very moment.'
Cousins was putting together another strong season before getting injured. He had 2,331 passing yards, 18 touchdowns and five interceptions. His 291.4 passing yards per game currently leads the league and his 103.8 quarterback rating is fourth.
Cousins is on a one-year, $35million contract with the Vikings that will expire in February.
Detroit clinched the NFC North by beating Minnesota in Minneapolis last week, marking just the second time in 13 seasons the division wasn’t won by either the Packers or the Vikings. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12915637/Injured-Vikings-QB-Kirk-Cousins-pumps-fans-Packers-shirtless.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:34Z |
Shimla, December 31
Leaders of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) have announced that they will stage protests on January 24, January 29 to February 5 and then on February 16 all across the state against union government’s anti-labour and anti-employee friendly policies. The decision was taken during a state-level meeting held in Bilaspur on Sunday.
Vijendra Mehra, state president of CITU, said, “On a call given at the national-level, protests would be held in all states on February 16. For non-fulfilment of long-standing demands of aanganwadi workers, mid-day meal and ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers, protests will be held in the state on January 24. On the issue of revival of financial benefits under labour welfare board and pending demands of MGNREGA and construction workers, protests would be held all across the state from January 29 to February 5.”
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Invivyd, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVVD – Get Free Report) saw a large decline in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,870,000 shares, a decline of 20.1% from the November 30th total of 2,340,000 shares. Approximately 4.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. Based on an average trading volume of 1,308,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.4 days.
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Separately, Morgan Stanley raised shares of Invivyd from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $1.00 to $4.00 in a research note on Tuesday, December 19th.
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Shares of NASDAQ IVVD traded up $0.02 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $3.94. The stock had a trading volume of 299,507 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,936,960. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $2.00 and a 200-day simple moving average of $1.70. The company has a market capitalization of $433.83 million, a PE ratio of -2.54 and a beta of -0.06. Invivyd has a 1 year low of $0.98 and a 1 year high of $4.71.
Invivyd (NASDAQ:IVVD – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November 9th. The company reported ($0.36) earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.54) by $0.18. As a group, analysts expect that Invivyd will post -1.48 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Invivyd, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of antibody-based solutions for infectious diseases in the United States. The company's lead product candidate is adintrevimab, a neutralizing antibody that is in Phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment and prevention of coronavirus disease, as well as developing monoclonal antibody candidates, including VYD222 and VYD224, which provides neutralizing protection against SARS-CoV-2.
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Kazakhstan to open 10 trade delegations abroad
"15 trade missions are to be held in 2019 to back the domestic exporters. Seven events are to take place to promote trademarks, no less than 50 enterprises are supposed to take part in international exhibitions, six national pavilions will be arranged," he added.
Besides, Kazakhstan will open 10 trade delegations in Central Asia, China, Turkey and the UAE to bring their number from 1 to 11. We have only one representation in Russia, while Russia has 57, Belarus 40 and Uzbekistan 12 trade missions. As experience of these countries shows, the trade missions help boost export threefold within a year.
"The export.gov.kz portal has been updated to ease receiving of state measures. Besides, it is planned to integrate the portal with the leading market places, logistics services operators and customs declaration e-system. Kazakhstan will also invite inspection commissions from China, the UAE and Iran to visit the domestic exporters in order to facilitate an access to their markets," he resumed. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-open-10-trade-delegations-abroad_a3492500/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:38Z |
FOREST CITY, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man is facing multiple charges after police seized multiple marijuana plants.
On December 31, The Forest City Police Department said they began an investigation into an alleged marijuana growing operation at a home on the 700 block of Delaware Street.
A search of the house by police found two specialized marijuana grow tents containing 27 live marijuana plants which were then seized by police.
Police say 44-year-old Forest City resident Christopher Walter Sklanka is facing multiple charges, including manufacturing controlled substances and other offenses. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/man-facing-charges-after-police-seize-marijuana-plants/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:38Z |
How to Watch EFL Championship Soccer Today: TV & Live Streaming Links - Monday, January 1
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 10:12 PM EST|Updated: 41 minutes ago
There is no shortage of excitement on Monday's Championship schedule, including Plymouth Argyle squaring off against Watford on ESPN+.
Watch your favorite EFL Championship team this season on ESPN+ and Fubo!
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- Game Time: 7:30 AM ET
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NFL announces kickoff time for Week 18 Saints-Falcons game
There it is: the NFL announced that the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons will kick off in Week 18 at noon CT on Sunday, Jan. 7. There are a couple of paths the Saints can take to get to the playoffs, but everything starts with a win at the Caesars Superdome. The game will be broadcast on CBS.
So what other games should be on Saints fans’ radar? The most important matchup is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers-Carolina Panthers tilt which will be broadcast in the same window on FOX. If the Saints and Panthers both win, New Orleans clinches the NFC South and a home playoff game.
But if the Buccaneers win, they’ll take the division for themselves and send the Saints scurrying for a wild-card seed. If that’s the case, here are the games to watch, and who fans should be rooting for marked in bold text:
Chicago Bears (7-9) vs. Green Bay Packers (8-8); 3:25 p.m. CT on CBS
Seattle Seahawks (8-8) vs. Arizona Cardinals (4-12); 3:25 p.m. CT on FOX
If the Packers win and the Seahawks lose, Green Bay gets the seventh playoff seed. The reverse is also true. Both teams need to lose for the Saints to clinch that seventh playoff seed. The Saints dug themselves quite a hole. They’ll need help getting out of it, but their season isn’t over just yet.
The full Week 18 schedule: pic.twitter.com/VFuZlvCLQW
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 1, 2024 | https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-announces-kickoff-time-week-042151639.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:41Z |
Maharashtra Police tightens security on New Year's Eve in Thane
In the wake of New Year celebrations, Maharashtra Police has tightened security in Thane.
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In the wake of New Year celebrations, Maharashtra Police has tightened security in Thane. Vehicles are being checked by the police as a security measure.
Meanwhile, Nagpur traffic police welcomed motorists with flowers on New Year's Eve, appealing to citizens to follow traffic rules. Nagpur traffic police also launched anti-drunken and driving action against drunk drivers in various squares of the city. While the Delhi Police conducted a flag march in Connaught Place on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
Additional DCP New Delhi District, Ravikant Kumar said, "Heavy police force has been deployed in the crowded areas of Connaught Place. The force has been briefed on handling the situation. To avoid mishappening, the force has been deployed in the inner and the outer circle, vehicles are being checked, and we are using an alcometer too." Meanwhile, a large number of tourists flocked to different places in the country to celebrate the New Year with enthusiasm along with their family members. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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At the centre of An Archaeology of Silence, the American painter Kehinde Wiley’s exhibit at the 2022 Venice Biennale, hung a contradictory object: a gigantic image of perfection dedicated to an anti-racist, anti-capitalist resistance movement and owned by the world’s largest luxury brand. Femme Piquée Par Un Serpent (Mamadou Gueye) (2022), is an oil portrait nearly eight metres wide and three metres tall. It is a vast painting, on the scale of a wayside billboard (not an innocent comparison). It shows a beautiful young man reclining—or should that be sprawled?—on a nondescript patch of ground. Gueye’s legs are twisted, his back arched across a rock. His clothes have crumpled up. You can see his stomach and the waistband of his underpants touchingly exposed. But his face, lit strongly from the right, shows repose. He is either dead or asleep, it is hard to say which—the painting offers both as possibilities. The pose looks too uncomfortable for sleep. Then again, his body is lithe, youthful, and unmarked, shining like armour. It has none of the marks of trauma or illness that might have sent its bearer sprawling to the ground. There is not one speck of dirt on his clothes.
Wiley’s paintings are typically discussed in terms of historical atonement. He combines the hyperreal depiction of Black figures with art historical citation and a rhetoric of inclusion that promises to ‘redress historical absence and marginalization’ as Christine Riding, curator at the National Gallery, put it on the occasion of The Prelude, Wiley’s 2021 exhibition.footnote1 Mamadou Gueye addresses itself to various famous artworks. The referent here is not only the Femme piquée par un serpent (1847) invoked by Wiley’s title—a notorious sculpture by Auguste Clésinger in which the snakebite signalled by a tiny decorative serpent twined around the naked model’s wrist like a bracelet does nothing to defuse the vital erotic charge of her convulsive posture. There is a sexual charge to Wiley’s painting, but it is rooted in details of colour and texture rather than any sense of bodily animation. More relevant to Gueye’s repose are those 18th- and 19th-century paintings of martyred heroes in which the tragic glory of a heroic death is singled out by the suspension of death’s usual signs. Think of the nude drummer boy in Jacques-Louis David’s La Mort du Jeune Bara (1794) who crawls along the floor, his body unmarked, his cheeks still flushed; or of the crowd of comrades who flock to catch John Singleton Copley’s Major Peirson (1783), lifting his body clear of the floor. Copley’s major is clean and beautiful. Only a tiny spot of blood marks his garments. Behind such heroic representations was Homer’s Iliad: the moment in Book 24 when the gods intervene to keep Hector’s body intact in spite of the violence done to it by Achilles. Alexander Pope’s translationfootnote2 shows the sentimental weight the lines were given by the 18th century:
While foul in dust the unhonoured carcass lies,
But not deserted by the pitying skies:
For Phoebus watched it with superior care,
Preserved from gaping wounds and tainting air.
Mamadou Gueye is another Hector, another martyred hero. The space between Wiley’s picture plane and the background of floral wallpaper is a vacuum chamber. Gueye too will never taint. And yet no matter how assiduous the painter might be in his citation of historical precedent, Gueye’s recumbent form no more speaks the language of 18th-century martyrdom than Pope’s rhyming couplets speak that of epic Greece. Nor is it really intended to. In spite of all the curatorial puff lavished on Wiley that celebrates his citations of canonical artworks as ‘redressing absence’ or ‘eradicat[ing] feelings of . . . exclusion’, Femme Piquée is much more concerned with the present than the past.footnote3 Major Peirson and Bara the drummer boy were both killed in wars of national and popular struggle, of revolution and counter-revolution. Mamadou Gueye, by contrast, isn’t really dead. He is a friend of Wiley’s from Senegal who posed for the painting (or rather for the photograph on which the painting was based) during the coronavirus pandemic. And if he takes up the posture of martyrdom here it is because Wiley made An Archaeology of Silence in response to Black Lives Matter and the 2020 George Floyd protests. It is to American police violence and its echoes around the world that the painting is addressed. Gueye’s uncertain position between death and life can only be understood in terms of the heightened Black vulnerability revealed by such violence: what Saidiya Hartman calls ‘the afterlife of slavery’ and the ‘skewed life chances’ that are its result.footnote4
Wiley is part of a generation of Black figurative painters who matured before blm but have found a new visibility in the decade since the murder of Trayvon Martin. Like Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mickalene Thomas, Wangechi Mutu and Kerry James Marshall, he has seen his work taken up and promoted at the same time as it is asked to speak to new political requirements. This is a multi-faceted process. In Yiadom-Boakye’s work, for instance, it is the refusal of the signs of contemporary politics that marks out the fantasy space inhabited by her Black figures. Politics registers on her canvases, but in the negative (perhaps this detachment accounts for the astronomical prices her work reaches at auction, far exceeding Wiley’s).footnote5 Mamadou Gueye is not so absolute. The painting is a reorientation rather than a reinvention. It responds to blm by reprising themes and motifs Wiley has been exploring for twenty years—Black masculinity, queer beauty, camp, kitsch, the cribbing of iconography from Old Master paintings, the lush, obsessive rendering of branded commodities, from basketball trainers to William Morris wallpaper. Kitsch is the key term here. It is Wiley’s lodestar: both the cultural expression of commodification and the vehicle by which his paintings weave together the various traditions to which they are indebted. His use of kitsch follows painters and photographers of the 1970s and 1980s. An early work like Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005) already sits somewhere between the racial pastiche of Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975) and the saturated portrait photography of the French duo Pierre et Gilles. Colescott painted out of the conjunction of blackness and commodification. His racially stereotyped figures and luridly coloured impasto surfaces—‘textures good enough to eat’, as Peter Schjeldahl put it—resuscitated history painting, but in a manner that made visual pleasure as sickening as the past it conjured up.footnote6 In a portrait by Pierre et Gilles such as Saint Sébastien (1987) or Le Jeune Pharaon (1985), it is the conjunction of visual and sexual pleasure achieved in popular culture and advertising that forms the basis for the staging of queer sexuality. Wiley’s Napoleon puts both traditions in play: both the genealogy of ambivalent queer delight in the commodity, from Warhol to Sontag to Pierre et Gilles, and the fraught history of Black commodification, from slavery’s production of ‘human commodities’ to the reappropriations of Colescott.
This is the unstable synthesis at work in Mamadou Gueye. It is Wiley’s third painting of a Black man titled after Clésinger’s sculpture. In earlier versions from 2008 and 2010 he hewed closer to his archetype, posing his models on white sheets strewn with flowers, their bodies contorted, eyes open—locked on the viewer’s. In these paintings Clésinger’s erotic charge is repeated all the way down to details of posture and setting, only to be enhanced by that typical feature of a Wiley painting: the acid heat of hyperreal surface, from the vivid green of a polyester jacket to the fluff of a man’s goatee or the sheen of his skin. In Mamadou Gueye, the shimmer and dazzle of synthetic colour overwhelms even more of the image than in previous versions. Only see how the livid sunburst of Gueye’s shirt and hoodie spreads as far as the nail of his left index finger and the highlights of his underpants. Colour has an active force in the painting. Clésinger’s snake is nowhere to be seen; but the drawstring of Gueye’s hoodie slithers across the rock by his head like a gaudy orange viper.
What does this ostentation add up to? Wiley describes his subject in An Archaeology of Silence as ‘the spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young black and brown people all over the world’.footnote7 Doubtless this ghost is present. But there are others, carried over from his earlier work. The uncanny vibrancy of Gueye’s attire, his spotless Nike trainers and Louis Vuitton monogrammed shirt (in which the creases from the box are still visible), announces one of these: consumer capitalism. Drenched in colour, draped across a beautiful young body, the logos of the world’s two most valuable clothing brands recall the demands of the market and the manipulations of advertising. The painting does look like a billboard. Its brilliant colours and pseudo-classical iconography speak the world language of advertising kitsch. And what does this mean for the politics on show—for the rhetoric of resistance spoken by the artist and his curators? Must it signal an art that denounces ‘police violence and state control’ while staying silent about the economic conditions that enable them? A reduction of resistance to a cultural pose—dispensing with any critique of capitalism? Haven’t we been here before? The fact that Louis Vuitton’s parent company lvmh owns the painting suggests an answer to such questions. I imagine ceo Bernard Arnault looking at Mamadou Gueye and smiling. Nothing out of the ordinary here: just another happy customer. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/saul-nelson-high-art-kitsch | 2024-01-01T04:53:41Z |
iShares Core Total USD Bond Market ETF (NASDAQ:IUSB – Get Free Report) was the recipient of a large growth in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 732,000 shares, a growth of 88.3% from the November 30th total of 388,800 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,068,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.2 days.
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NASDAQ:IUSB traded down $0.08 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $46.07. 2,085,811 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,608,595. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $44.55 and a 200 day simple moving average of $44.55. iShares Core Total USD Bond Market ETF has a fifty-two week low of $42.56 and a fifty-two week high of $46.86.
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The business also recently declared a monthly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, December 20th. Investors of record on Friday, December 15th were paid a dividend of $0.1454 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, December 14th. This represents a $1.74 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.79%.
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WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — For a local fire department in Luzerne County, they have something a little more unique waiting for the countdown to the New Year.
The Wilkes-Barre Township Volunteer Fire Department will drop a six-foot-wide blueberry to bring in the new year.
The importance of the blueberry ties back to traditions in Wilkes-Barre Township that took place decades ago.
The people of the township would pick blueberries and sell them to bakeries to make a living.
The event Sunday featured food, beverages, and live music with over 100 people anticipated to pay tribute to the area’s homestead.
“If you forget the tradition of your homestead, then what really is your homestead? Do you know what I mean? All different towns, townships, cities, they all an originating history factor behind it,” said Wilkes-Barre Township Volunteer Fire Department Firefighter Brianna Mandak.
All proceeds from the New Year’s Eve celebration will go towards the Wilkes-Barre Township Fire Department. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/fire-department-rings-in-new-year-with-blueberry/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:45Z |
Construction material was dumped by someone along the sharp curve on the road going to lower Panthaghati and it has become extremely difficult for vehicles to cross. It is causing traffic snarls, as to make way, the vehicles have to be reversed upwards or downwards. The authorities concerned should take note of the situation. – Raman, Kasumpti
Abandoned cattle pose threat
DRIVING has become risky in the Baddi industrial area these days as dense fog engulfs the area and the abandoned cattle roaming on the road pose a huge risk of accidents. – Raghav, Baddi
Mask up in hospitals
THE local hospitals should make it mandatory for people to wear masks, especially in wards and lifts, as there are reports of spread of a new Covid variant. People should not come to the hospital without wearing a mask. — Rekha, Shimla
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When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre like the Jewish family saga.
“I want the characters to be flawed and complex, and for the turns that they take to come out of their intersections with both history and their own very particular circumstances,” she told me.
The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the qualities that I look for in a good book. Below are some of the Jewish books I read and enjoyed in 2023.
Nearly all reflect Jewish reality before October 7; I suspect next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the crisis in Israel or will be read through the lens of the war.
Nonfiction books
Jonathan Rosen’s memoir, “The Best Minds: A Story Of Friendship, Madness, And The Tragedy Of Good Intentions,” deserves all the accolades it has received. The former arts editor of the Forward writes about his friendship with Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School graduate whose brilliance and schizophrenia made him a sort of poster child for the successful mainstreaming of the mentally ill until it all went tragically, shockingly wrong.
It’s also a beautifully told story about growing up precocious and Jewish in suburban New Rochelle, New York, and how Judaism can be both a balm and an astringent for those under the throes of psychosis.
In “Happily,” fairy tales are the prompts for a series of dreamy and rigorous biographical essays by Sabrina Orah Mark on “motherhood, and marriage, and America, and weather, and loneliness, and failure, and inheritance, and love.” And, as the New York Times noted, Mark deals with raising two “Black Jewish boys in a time of rising antisemitism.”
I also enjoyed another collection of biographical essays, “Immigrant Baggage,” by Boston College professor Maxim Shrayer. A former Soviet refusenik who immigrated to the United States in 1987, Shrayer writes about life as a “translingual” father, husband, and writer who finds wisdom and the absurd in all the languages that he speaks.
“Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History” is a page-turning literary detective story by Benjamin Balint, exploring the all-too-short life and unlikely legacy of enigmatic Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz. Balint’s book prompted me to finally read Schulz’s best-known book, the hallucinatory “The Street of Crocodiles,” and two contemporary works of fiction that draw on Schulz’s biography: “The Prague Orgy” by Philip Roth and “The Messiah of Stockholm” by Cynthia Ozick.
In “The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature,” Joshua Lambert debunks the myth that Jewish intellectuals had an iron grip on what was read and reviewed in the post-war years — even as he celebrates the era’s undeniable burst of Jewish creativity and influence. One of those influential figures was Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, whose charming, gossipy memoir, “Avid Reader,” I avidly read (actually, listened to: Gottlieb narrated the audiobook) after he died in June. That led me to Gottlieb’s 2013 biography, “Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt,” which helps the reader understand the appeal of the beloved French Jewish actress in the context of the theatrical conventions of her day.
Bernhardt’s florid stagecraft couldn’t have been more different from the naturalistic acting style that Isaac Butler describes in “The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act.” The Jewish acting teachers Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg and Harold Klurman play central roles in Butler’s engaging history of the modern theater.
And just before the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas, I read “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” by the Jerusalem-based Jewish writer Nathan Thrall. The book, a challenging account of a deadly school bus crash in East Jerusalem, is a forensic examination of the inequalities and indignities that stateless Palestinians face on a daily basis. You don’t have to agree with Thrall’s politics to learn from the realities and complexities that he describes.
Fiction books
Many of the short stories in Iddo Gefen’s collection “Jerusalem Beach” start with a high concept — What if a start-up could manufacture dreams? Or a radio could pick up the thoughts of passers-by? — but they are always grounded in the Israeli reality. Indeed, one of his concepts, about a geriatric soldier who returns to the front, foreshadowed a real-life event, when retired general Noam Tibon raced from Tel Aviv to Kibbutz Nahal Oz to rescue his son’s family from Hamas terrorists.
James McBride’s “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” was inspired by his own Jewish grandmother, who ran a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania in the 1930s and ’40s. McBride’s recreation of the place and time is a rollicking story of two communities coming together around a common, racist enemy.
I love how “The Golem of Brooklyn” starts with a summary of a novel that Adam Mansbach decided not to write, then literally lurches into a hilarious imagining of an avenging Jewish Frankenstein’s monster coming to life in one of the less-hip neighborhoods of Brooklyn. It’s a Jewish road trip novel that confronts the persistence of antisemitism.
If you are yearning for a sprawling satirical novel about a liberal Jewish family making spectacularly bad choices, then “Hope” by Andrew Ridker is the book for you. Set in Brookline, Massachusetts, “Hope” has good, smart fun with synagogue social justice committees, Birthright Israel trips and Obama-era optimism.
Authors
I interviewed a number of authors this year about their books:
Eric Alterman took a deep dive into the political and personal relationships between American Jews and Israel in “We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel.”
Jenny Caplan’s book, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials,” deals with the way North American Jewish comedy has evolved since World War II, with a focus on how humorists relate to Judaism as a religion.
In “Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew,” Jeremy Dauber describes the parody Brooks mastered as “nothing less than the essential statement of American Jewish tension between them and us, culturally speaking; between affection for the mainstream and alienation from it.”
In “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” the religion reporter and writing professor Jeff Sharlet chronicled his recent journeys across America interviewing QAnon acolytes, Christian nationalists, proud misogynists, unrepentant January 6ers, armed militia men and strict anti-abortion activists — all still in thrall to Donald Trump.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s latest book, “Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy,” is about a generation of Jews and new Americans “bent on saving face and determined to be, if not exemplary, at least impeccably respectable.”
Rabbi Diane Fersko wrote “We Need to Talk About Antisemitism” in response to congregants who were experiencing anti-Jewish hatred as they never had before.
In “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair,” art conservator Rosa Lowinger, uses the tools and materials of her profession — stone, tile, metal, marble — as metaphors to tell how her Jewish family came to Cuba and fled after the revolution, and what they found and lost when they settled in Miami. “Try as I might,” she writes, “I can never get my mother to understand that conservation is not about repairing what is old. It’s about sustaining all fabric of human endeavor, what people treasure, where we live, and what we honor, no matter when it was made.”
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media. | https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-780261 | 2024-01-01T04:53:48Z |
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NFL Power Rankings entering Week 18
The end is near ... for some
For one week, let’s add a No. 33 to the Power Rankings. That dishonor goes to Brad Allen’s officiating crew in the Lions-Cowboys game. Maybe they should apply to the United Football League. Elsewhere, more of the playoff picture was set, with a few teams still hanging on to hope as the regular season winds down. Here’s how all 32 teams stack up heading into Week 18…
32. Carolina Panthers (2-13, lost to Jacksonville Jaguars)
The Panthers were blanked in a battle teams with cat nicknames.
31. Washington Commanders (4-12, lost to San Francisco 49ers)
This season can’t end fast enough for the Commanders, who have lost seven in a row.
30. New York Jets (6-10, lost to Cleveland Browns)
Another double-digit-loss season for the Jets. And this one can’t be entirely blamed on the loss of Aaron Rodgers. Other teams have overcome the loss of their quarterbacks.
29. Los Angeles Chargers (5-11, lost to Denver Broncos)
The Chargers took a stiff-arm to the face from the Broncos, who didn’t need Russell Wilson to down them.
28. New England Patriots (4-12, lost to Buffalo Bills)
The Patriots need a refreshing. They have gone S-T-A-L-E, stale.
27. Atlanta Falcons (7-9, lost to Chicago Bears)
Dull. Boring. Predictable for the Falcons to go into Chicago and lay an egg. Next.
26. New York Giants (5-11, lost to Los Angeles Rams)
The Giants put up a good fight against the Rams. They got a special-teams TD from Gunner Olszewski. They didn’t get a 54-yard field goal from Mason Crosby that would have given them a late lead and likely a victory.
25. Tennessee Titans (5-11, lost to Houston Texans)
See the New England Patriots’ comment, please.
24. Arizona Cardinals (4-12, defeated Philadelphia Eagles)
The Cardinals have now defeated the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. They are 2-12 against the rest of the NFL. Peculiar.
23. Minnesota Vikings (7-9, lost to Green Bay Packers)
The Vikings were on QB IV, Jaren Hall. Or is he QB III? Either way, he was engulfed by the Packers in a loss. It got so bad Kevin O’Connell turned to Nick Mullens again. The Vikings aren’t eliminated but they might as well be.
22. Chicago Bears (7-9, defeated Atlanta Falcons)
Forget Justin Fields keeping his job. Matt Eberflus is doing everything he can to remain as head coach in Chicago.
21. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8-8, lost to New Orleans Saints)
The Bucs’ possible roll to another NFC South crown hit a huge pothole against the Saints.
20. New Orleans Saints (8-8, defeated Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
The Saints pulled it together — about time — and went into Tampa Bay and came away with a huge win in the NFC South race.
19. Green Bay Packers (8-8, defeated Minnesota Vikings)
Jordan Love had a big game. He has shown enough for Green Bay to stick with him next year. The Packers are looking for a winning season next week. Bottom line: The team Aaron Rodgers left is still looking for answers.
18. Las Vegas Raiders (7-9, lost to Indianapolis Colts)
The Raiders compete for Antonio Pierce. It will be interesting to see if they stay with him… if the team winds up with a 10-loss season.
17. Indianapolis Colts (9-7, defeated Las Vegas Raiders)
The Colts are one of the most fun teams in the league, and you can easily say one of biggest overachievers in 2023.
16. Cincinnati Bengals (8-8, lost to Kansas City Chiefs)
The Bengals won’t make the postseason but they gave the Chiefs a battle. Imagine if this team had Joe Burrow for an entire season. Jake Browning has made himself some coin with the performances in Burrow’s absence. The Vikings could use him.
15. Seattle Seahawks (8-8, lost to Pittsburgh Steelers)
Pete Carroll is going to have to work with John Schneider to figure out how to take the Seahawks from a team that wins 8-9 games… to one that picks up a couple more next season.
14. Jacksonville Jaguars (9-7, defeated Carolina Panthers)
The Jaguars managed to get their claws into the Panthers and pitched a shutout against feeble Carolina.
13. Denver Broncos (8-8, defeated LA Chargers)
Could it be Sean Payton knows what he is doing? Granted, the Russell Wilson move seemed diabolical. But the coach didn’t lose the team and it went out and beat the Chargers.
12. Pittsburgh Steelers (9-7, defeated Seattle Seahawks)
Still can’t fathom why anyone anywhere would want anyone but Mike Tomlin coaching this team.
11. Houston Texans (9-7, defeated Tennessee Titans)
Have to give a long look at DeMeco Ryans for Coach of the Year. Especially if this team gets into the playoffs.
10. Los Angeles Rams (9-7, defeated New York Giants)
The Rams may never trade a draft pick again after realizing how their scouting staff recognizes college talent.
9. Miami Dolphins (11-5, defeated by Baltimore Ravens)
The win over the Cowboys was a mirage. The Dolphins play strong contenders and get clobbered. Is anyone going to be surprised if they lose to Buffalo in Week 18 and whiff on being AFC East champs?
8. Kansas City Chiefs (10-6, defeated Cincinnati Bengals)
There was a time when most of the six field goals Harrison Butker kicked against the Bengals would have been PATs after TDs. Not anymore. The Chiefs have a rough road getting to Las Vegas with the offense not in high gear.
7. Cleveland Browns (11-5, defeated New York Jets)
A marvelous coaching job by Kevin Stefanski. And Robert Saleh of the Jets watched living proof of what a team can do after it loses quarterbacks.
6. Philadelphia Eagles (11-5, lost to Arizona Cardinals)
The Eagles were 10-1 at one point. They are 1-4 in their last five and basically booted the opportunity to win the NFC East.
5. Dallas Cowboys (11-5, defeated Detroit LIons)
The Brad Allen officiating crew presented the Cowboys with a belated Christmas gift. Of more concern to Mike McCarthy should be his clock mismanagement and how life and death Dallas was trying to contend at home.
4. Detroit Lions (11-5, lost to Dallas Cowboys)
Aside from getting royally skewered by Brad Allen’s officiating crew, let’s find the positives. The Lions went into Dallas, played the Cowboys to a standstill, and actually should have won the game. These are not the Lions of recent years and decades.
3. Buffalo Bills (10-6, defeated New England Patriots)
Buffalo has won four in a row and can win the AFC East by toppling Miami in Week 18. Things have gotten back to normal in Western New York after an abnormal run through more than half of the season.
2. San Francisco 49ers (12-4, defeated Washington Commanders)
The 49ers should send a gift to the Cardinals, who defeated the Cowboys and Eagles in 2023, which helped SF clinch the No. 1 seed in the NFC.
1. Baltimore Ravens (13-3, defeated Miami Dolphins)
A powerhouse. | https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-power-rankings-entering-week-042442460.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:48Z |
Colorado mom wanted for killing 2 of her children arrested in United Kingdom
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - A mother wanted in connection with the deaths of two of her children has been arrested in the United Kingdom, according to police.
Colorado Springs Police say Kimberlee Singler was taken into custody without incident.
On December 19, just after midnight, police responded to a call about a burglary in the 5300 block of Palomino Ranch Point.
When police arrived, they found two children, a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, dead inside the residence.
Singler and an 11-year-old girl were found with injuries and taken to a local hospital. All three children are Singler’s children.
As the investigation continued, a warrant for Singler’s arrest was issued on December 26. The arrest warrant included charges of murder in the first degree, child abuse, and assault.
A $10,000,000 bond was set by the court.
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NBA Injury Report & Inactives Today - Monday, January 1
For Monday's NBA games, which players are sidelined, and which are expected to suit up and hit the court? Here's a look at the updated injury report, which covers every team around the league.
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Knicks vs. Timberwolves Injury Report
3:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on NBA TV, MSG, and BSN (Watch this game on Fubo)
Knicks Injuries: Mitchell Robinson, C: Out For Season (Ankle)
Timberwolves Injuries: Jaylen Clark, SG: Out (Achilles)
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Raptors vs. Cavaliers Injury Report
7:30 PM ET on Monday, airing on SportsNet and BSOH (Watch this game on Fubo)
Raptors Injuries: Garrett Temple, SG: Questionable (Ankle), Christian Koloko, C: Out (Respiratory)
Cavaliers Injuries: Ricky Rubio, PG: Out (Personal), Ty Jerome, SG: Out (Ankle), Evan Mobley, C: Out (Knee), Darius Garland, PG: Out (Jaw)
Rockets vs. Pistons Injury Report
8:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on Space City Home Network and BSDET (Watch this game on Fubo)
Rockets Injuries: Jabari Smith Jr., PF: Questionable (Ankle), Tari Eason, SF: Questionable (Leg), Dillon Brooks, SG: Out (Oblique), Victor Oladipo, SG: Out (Knee)
Pistons Injuries: Monte Morris, PG: Out (Quadricep), Isaiah Stewart, C: Out (Toe)
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Bucks vs. Pacers Injury Report
8:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on BSWI and BSIN (Watch this game on Fubo)
Bucks Injuries: Jae Crowder, SF: Out (Groin), Thanasis Antetokounmpo, SF: Out (Personal), MarJon Beauchamp, SF: Questionable (Illness)
Pacers Injuries: Bruce Brown, PG: Questionable (Knee)
Jazz vs. Mavericks Injury Report
9:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on KJZZ and BSSW (Watch this game on Fubo)
Jazz Injuries: Simone Fontecchio, SF: Questionable (Illness)
Mavericks Injuries: Seth Curry, SG: Questionable (Illness), Kyrie Irving, PG: Questionable (Heel), Maxi Kleber, PF: Out (Toe)
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Suns vs. Trail Blazers Injury Report
9:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on AZFamily and ROOT Sports NW+ (Watch this game on Fubo)
Suns Injuries: Nassir Little, PF: Out (Knee), Damion Lee, SG: Out (Knee)
Trail Blazers Injuries: Robert Williams III, C: Out For Season (Knee), Anfernee Simons, SG: Questionable (Illness), Shaedon Sharpe, SG: Questionable (Adductor), Deandre Ayton, C: Questionable (Knee), Duop Reath, C: Questionable (Back)
Nuggets vs. Hornets Injury Report
9:00 PM ET on Monday, airing on ALT and BSSE (Watch this game on Fubo)
Nuggets Injuries: Vlatko Cancar, PF: Out (Knee), Aaron Gordon, PF: Questionable (Face/Hand), Reggie Jackson, PG: Questionable (Calf)
Hornets Injuries: Mark Williams, C: Questionable (Back), LaMelo Ball, PG: Out (Ankle), Gordon Hayward, SF: Out (Calf), Frank Ntilikina, PG: Out (Leg)
Clippers vs. Heat Injury Report
10:30 PM ET on Monday, airing on BSSC and BSSUN (Watch this game on Fubo)
Clippers Injuries: Mason Plumlee, C: Out (Knee), Kawhi Leonard, SF: Questionable (Hip), Moussa Diabate, PF: Out (Hip)
Heat Injuries: Dru Smith, SG: Out For Season (Knee), Jimmy Butler, SF: Out (Foot), Josh Richardson, SG: Questionable (Back), Kyle Lowry, PG: Questionable (Head), Haywood Highsmith, SF: Questionable (Jaw), Caleb Martin, SF: Questionable (Ankle)
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Olympians pay tribute to 'beautiful soul' Melissa Dennis née Hoskins following her tragic death in Adelaide
- The 32-year-old mother of two died on Saturday
- Was allegedly struck by a ute in Adelaide
- Husband Rohan Dennis has been charged
Melissa Dennis is being remembered as a popular and talented competitor with a beautiful soul as Australian cycling reels from her tragic death in Adelaide after she was struck by a ute on Saturday night.
Olympic gold medallist Anna Meares paid tribute to Dennis on Monday morning, while AusCycling also released a statement.
The 32-year-old mother of two died in hospital after she was struck on Saturday night in Adelaide's inner north.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that the 33-year-old man arrested by police and charged over Dennis' death is her husband Rohan, an Olympic cycling medallist and former world champion who retired from competition in 2023.
He is charged with causing death by dangerous driving, driving without due care and endangering life, and was bailed to appear in court in March.
SA Police have scheduled a media conference for Monday morning in Adelaide.
Dennis competed as Melissa Hoskins, but used her married name on Facebook.
Olympic gold medal winner and current Olympic Chef de Mission Anna Meares has paid tribute to Melissa Hoskins
She competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics on the track in the team pursuit and was in the squad that won the 2015 world title in the event.
That world title made Australia one of the gold medal contenders at the 2016 Rio Games, but a training crash days before qualifying cruelled their chances.
Hoskins was among the cyclists injured in the pile-up and after riding in the qualifying round, she was forced to sit out the rest of the event as Australia finished fifth.
Hoskins and Meares were members of the track cycling team at the London and Rio Games.
'I have a very heavy heart,' Meares said in a statement provided to News Corp.
'My thoughts are with their children, family and fellow friends.
'This is a very difficult and tragic time for us all.'
Three-time world champion Annette Edmondson also paid tribute to her good friend and former Australian teammate.
'She had an amazing smile and an infectious laugh,' Edmondson told News Corp.
'She was just full of energy and absolutely hilarious. She was the most incredible dancer as well if you caught her.
'I had the privilege of riding and racing and training with her for eight years from junior worlds until 2016 at the Rio Olympics and we had some pretty amazing moments along the way with a world record and a world title together (in 2015).
'I think that moment standing on the podium sharing that and signing the national anthem was one of the best moments of my life and I will never forget that.
'It is just an absolute tragedy to lose such a beautiful soul who just adored her family and just loved those kids,' she said.
'Yeah just sending all my love in the world to her family and friends and those she loved.'
Melissa Hoskins (left) hugs Annette Edmondson as they celebrate after winning the Women's Team Pursuit Finals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 2015
Edmondson (left) has described Hoskins as a beautiful soul in a touching tribute to her former Aussie teammate
The sport of cycling and wider community is in mourning after the shock death of Hoskins
AusCycling chief executive Marne Fechner also spoke of the sport's shock and sorrow.
'Melissa described her team pursuit gold medal at the 2015 world championships as the highlight of her career, but for the rest of us, the highlight was just having her around,' Fechner said.
'Although she retired in 2017, her presence as an alumnus of the sport has been felt and appreciated by many in the cycling and riding community.'
Her former team, now called Jayco AlUla, wrote, 'We are devastated to learn of the passing of former GreenEDGE Cycling rider Melissa Dennis nee Hoskins.'
'Our thoughts are with her family and friends and the whole cycling community at this deeply saddening time. She will never be forgotten. RIP Mel.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12915687/Olympians-pay-tribute-beautiful-soul-Melissa-Dennis-n-e-Hoskins-following-tragic-death-Adelaide.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:48Z |
Going against the majority of French and international opinion, your editorials in Le Monde diplomatique have argued that the 2022 National Assembly elections demonstrated the strength of the ‘bourgeois bloc’ in France and the weakness of the left, even though Macron lost his parliamentary majority, dropping from 350 seats (out of 577) to 245 seats, while the Nouvelle Union populaire écologique et sociale (Nupes), led by Mélenchon’s La France insoumise ( lfi ), saw a large swing in its favour, with lfi taking 75 seats for a total of 142 with its coalition partners. Many saw Macron’s position as having been decisively weakened since 2017, after a term marked by police brutality against the Gilets jaunes and a highly repressive pandemic lockdown. Despite the difference in the number of seats, both the Nupes and Macron’s parliamentary coalition, Ensemble, won 26 per cent of the popular vote. Could you explain why you saw this as a sign of the strength of the political establishment and of the right? Has anything happened to change your mind since?
Eighteen months after the re-election of Macron without a parliamentary majority, three major forces still define French politics: Macron’s centre right, the far right, and what used to be the Nupes. But while the first one is holding, and the second strengthening, the third is fragmenting. There used to be a traditional right, the parties backing Giscard d’Estaing in the 1970s, then Chirac until 2007, finally Sarkozy. Most of it has been eaten by Macron already, and what’s left of it—between 5 and 10 per cent of the vote—is increasingly tempted to rejoin either Macron and the bourgeois bloc, or Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (rn). The left, on the other hand, is not a magnet for anyone, all the more so because it is increasingly divided between its four constituent parts: La France insoumise, the Greens, the Communists, the Socialists. lfi is at once the largest—Mélenchon polled 22 per cent in 2022, whereas the Greens, Communists and Socialists received less, sometimes much less, than 5 per cent each—and the one most disliked by the other three. In other words, the outlook is quite grim for the left. Its four parties are going to compete against each other next June during the European election which the extreme right is very likely to win handily at this point. The war in Gaza has only strengthened the Rassemblement National and weakened the Nupes. The rn managed to be welcome in a demonstration against anti-Semitism, whereas lfi was stigmatized as anti-Semitic, including by some of its left-wing partners, because of its pro-Palestinian position.
In other words, the ‘cordon sanitaire’, the ‘republican arc’ which used to unite most of the traditional parties against the far right, explaining how in 2002 Jacques Chirac could receive 82 per cent of the vote against Jean-Marie Le Pen, is now starting to operate against the stronger party of the left. Meanwhile, when it comes to immigration, crime, Islam—issues which are increasingly merged in the dominant political discourse and gain importance with each terrorist attack in France—the differences between Macron, the right and the far right are fading away as the get-tough ideas of the Rassemblement National become hegemonic. One conservative paper summed it up this way: lfi is now easier to hate, the rn more difficult to fight.
Your renowned anatomizations of the French media and political-cultural sphere, Les Nouveaux Chiens de garde (1997) and L’Opinion, ça se travaille (2000) have detailed a lockstep ideological Atlanticism among pundits far more thoroughgoing than is to be found in the political world, where Macron, for example, will occasionally hint at more pragmatic positions—the possibility of negotiations on Ukraine, for example, or the desirability of European ‘strategic autonomy’.
Macron is always criticized by the media’s ideological watchdogs when he says something sensible—that Russia won’t be an enemy forever, for example—which he’ll contradict two days later. Even his greatest admirers say, ‘Ah! What a mistake to say that we shouldn’t humiliate Russia! Thankfully, he’s gone back on that, and now he’s corrected his mistake, he’s great again.’ Macron hasn’t been echoing the line that China will be tamed if it sees Russia being beaten, which French media figures picked up from the Biden Administration. The worst is France Inter, our equivalent of the bbc. It has a very wide audience because it’s public radio, with no advertising—unlike commercial broadcasting, which is impossible to listen to because it’s so stuffed with ads. France Inter’s line is ultra-hawkish, not unlike that of The Economist. But overall, opinion-makers in the public media are not that keen on Macron. Some like him, but most would vote Socialist or Green, whose candidates have got barely 5 per cent in recent elections—Anne Hidalgo, the last Socialist presidential candidate, got less than 2 per cent.
On the other hand, Mélenchon is really loathed by the French media, public and private, to an extent you can’t imagine—or maybe you can, post-Corbyn. He’s attacked for everything, constantly, and now some are even presenting Marine Le Pen as a better, quieter option. This is something new. When her father led the party in the 1990s and early 2000s, the far right was so repulsive to everyone, including the right, that there was a sense one should vote for any candidate but the National Front, even a Socialist, perhaps even a radical leftist. That’s no longer the case. Mélenchon has been tarred with the suspicion of radicalism, anti-Semitism and Islamo-leftism because of his condemnation of the Israeli assault on Gaza and his concern for Palestinians. While Le Pen seems very tame, almost domesticated by the media, not so far from the reactionary mainstream, Mélenchon has been made into a fanatic, a Robespierre, a stooge of dictators. The right is against him, but the so-called left-leaning media hate him passionately too: Mediapart, Le Monde (though Libération maybe not to the same extent because they will calculate that many of their readers voted for La France insoumise). The public broadcast media detest Mélenchon with a vengeance; it’s incredible—they are sometimes much worse than the right-wing press in this respect. I’ve been advocating for public media most of my political life, and, worryingly, now it’s reached the point where I wonder, do I want to pay for this?
Mediapart’s speciality has been to police and intimidate the left. Any time a left voice strays from Atlanticist orthodoxy, they try to whip it back into line. Edwy Plenel, the ex-Le Monde, ex-Trotskyist founder of Mediapart, has been particularly virulent on Ukraine. He’s recently recycled his pro-nato analysis of the Yugoslav war and his verbose charge against Régis Debray, trying to associate Mélenchon with Milošević, while Zelensky would be the new Trotsky and Putin, Stalin. It’s obvious from his book that he knows almost nothing about Ukraine. But attacking Mélenchon has become the national sport, of which Mediapart is a keen practitioner. | https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/serge-halimi-condition-of-france | 2024-01-01T04:53:48Z |
Tamil Nadu: Tourists swarm to Kanyakumari to witness last sunset of 2023
Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent and the southernmost city in mainland India, it is referred to as 'The Land's End' and is famous for its unique sunrise and sunset points.
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Tourists have started flocking to witness the last sunrise of the year in Kanyakumari, one of the most popular tourist destinations and pilgrimage centres in Tamil Nadu, on Sunday, New Year's eve. Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent and the southernmost city in mainland India, it is referred to as 'The Land's End' and is famous for its unique sunrise and sunset points.
Tourists say the sunset at Kanyakumari looks ethereal, with an orange background and the sound of the waves hitting the rocks. Others say it's a breathtaking experience, with the setting sun against a bright blue sky and blue waters.
The other sources of attraction at the destination include the 41-metre (133 ft) Thiruvalluvar Statue and Vivekananda Rock Memorial off the coast. Policemen have been deployed for protection and to guide the tourists who have arrived at Kanyakumari to enjoy the sunset.
Similarly, on the eve of the new year in Kanyakumari, the District Superintendent of Police has warned that if the youth disturb the traffic in two-wheelers in the name of Reels, their licence will be revoked. The District Superintendent of Police in Kanyakumari has issued a warning on the eve of the new year that youths who cause traffic disturbances while riding two-wheelers while making 'reels' will have their licence revoked.
With just a few hours remaining for the New Year's Eve celebration, cities nationwide have devised traffic advisories for revellers to brave and beat the road congestion. State police have also deployed personnel to prevent untoward incidents amid the celebration.
The Delhi Traffic Police have issued their traffic advisory for New Year's Eve celebrations in the national capital well in advance. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the police wrote, "Naye saal par nahi karna mix drink and drive...Naye saal mein safely karo apne ghar mein arrive," (Don't mix drink and drive in the new year and arrive safely at your home).
"The deployment will be at important locations like Connaught Place, India Gate, Aerocity, Qutub Minar, Greater Kailash, Saket Mall, Netaji Subhash Place, Mukherjee Nagar area, Vasant Kunj Mall, EDM Mall, Pacific Mall, Champa Gali, Hudson lane, Hauz Khas and other crowded places," added the police. (ANI)
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Parts of Tamil Nadu to witness rainfall over next seven days
Tamil Nadu's Kotagiri, Coonoor areas experience intermittent rains with heavy fog | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/2762534-tamil-nadu-tourists-swarm-to-kanyakumari-to-witness-last-sunset-of-2023 | 2024-01-01T04:53:48Z |
DENVER (KDVR) — A Colorado woman accused of killing two of her children was arrested in the United Kingdom on Saturday, according to police.
Kimberlee Singler, 35, is suspected of killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son and attempting to kill her 11-year-old daughter in Colorado Springs.
On Dec. 19, police said they responded to a 911 call reporting a burglary at an apartment complex at around 12:30 a.m. and found the the bodies of the two deceased children.
Officers also located Singler and her 11-year-old daughter at the scene. They were both injured and taken to hospitals for treatment, according to Colorado Springs Police Department spokesperson Ira Cronin.
Singler’s injuries were minor. The 11-year-old girl was hospitalized for a few days and then released. She is recovering well physically in Colorado Springs. Cronin said he could not release details about how the children or Singler were injured.
Police said the initial report of a burglary was unfounded.
Singler was initially cooperative with police investigating the homicides and alleged burglary. She went missing after the probe, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
“In the initial stages of the investigation, we were treating her as a victim of a burglary,” Cronin told the Associated Press.
On Dec. 26, investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Singler on multiple charges, including multiple counts of first degree murder, child abuse and assault.
The children’s deaths came amid an ongoing legal battle between Singler and her ex-husband over parenting time and other issues, according to court filings. Court hearings had been scheduled for next month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/colorado-mother-suspected-of-killing-2-of-her-children-arrested-in-the-uk-police/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:51Z |
iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF (NASDAQ:IMCV – Get Free Report) saw a large growth in short interest during the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 65,800 shares, a growth of 90.7% from the November 30th total of 34,500 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 35,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.8 days.
iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF Stock Down 0.5 %
Shares of NASDAQ IMCV traded down $0.31 during trading on Friday, reaching $67.72. 27,180 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 25,813. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $63.09 and a 200-day simple moving average of $63.06. The stock has a market capitalization of $589.16 million, a PE ratio of 14.20 and a beta of 1.08. iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF has a 52-week low of $57.34 and a 52-week high of $68.50.
iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF Increases Dividend
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, December 27th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 21st were issued a dividend of $0.469 per share. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.77%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, December 20th. This is an increase from iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.44.
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The iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Value ETF (IMCV) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the Morningstar US Mid Cap Broad Value index. The fund tracks a market cap-weighted index of US mid-cap stocks companies selected based on their value characteristics. IMCV was launched on Jun 28, 2004 and is managed by BlackRock.
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Kazakhstan to see patchy fog, ice slick on Sunday
09:28, 03 February 2019
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - On February 3, clear weather is expected only in northwestern and southeastern Kazakhstan, while other regions will see precipitation. There will still be patchy fog, ice slick, blowing snow, and strong winds.
According to Kazhydromet Weather Service, Turkestan region will see patches of fog, ice slick, and wind strengthening up to 15-20 meters per second.
In East Kazakhstan region, there will be patchy fog and blowing snow with 15-20 mps wind.
Mangistau and Atyrau regions will see patchy fog and ice slick.
In Kostanay, Zhambyl and Karaganda regions, patches of fog and 15-20 mps wind are predicted.
In Kyzylorda, West Kazakhstan and Almaty regions, there will be patchy fog.
Akmola and North Kazakhstan regions will see blowing snow. Besides, patchy fog is expected in North Kazakhstan region. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-see-patchy-fog-ice-slick-on-sunday_a3494417/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:52Z |
Dalhousie, December 31
“It is necessary for students to prepare for competitive examinations in a stress-free manner. Taking stress may adversely affect their ability and performance,” Chamba Deputy Commissioner Apoorv Devgan said while addressing students at a career counselling and awareness programme organised under the ‘Bhavishya Setu’ initiative at a government school at Chaned village in Chamba district.
The DC also gave tips to the students for clearing civil services examinations.
He advised students to memorise the school curriculum, not just for the sake of the examinations, but also to lay a strong foundation for their life.
Tanu Kumari, a young professional, told the students about many employment options and various schemes of the Labour and Employment Department and the Himachal Pradesh Skill Development Corporation. Various officials from police and health departments also addressed the students.
Join Whatsapp Channel of The Tribune for latest updates. | https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/dc-gives-tips-to-crack-civil-services-exams-577133 | 2024-01-01T04:53:51Z |
As the Gregorian calendar new year begins, we pray that 2024 sees a speedy and safe return of the estimated 129 hostages still being held by Hamas and a successful realization of the goals set by the government for Operation Swords of Iron.
We stand united behind the security forces serving in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere to defeat Israel’s enemies, starting with Hamas, and safeguarding the country in the coming year. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, “We give full backing to our forces. They are doing amazing work in a difficult war.”
Our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones in battle and terrorist attacks over the past year, to the families of the hostages, to the wounded, and to the estimated half-a-million people who have been evacuated from their communities due to the war.
Since the Hamas massacre on October 7 until the end of 2023, some 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed, including more than 500 IDF soldiers, almost 170 since the ground invasion began in the Gaza Strip on October 27. The Defense Ministry says about 3,000 members of the country’s security forces have been wounded, including almost 900 soldiers. The death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is said to have surpassed 20,000, at least 8,000 of whom were Hamas terrorists, although these figures are difficult to verify.
The Gaza war has threatened to expand into a war on multiple fronts, including the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Yemen-based Houthis, but so far Israel has managed to contain the conflict.
We are grateful, and we are hopeful, in these challenging times
We salute all those Israelis who have banded together and volunteered to contribute to the war effort, and the many institutions and organizations working tirelessly to help out and urge others to follow their lead.
We express our heartfelt appreciation to those countries – headed by the United States – that have rallied behind Israel, to Diaspora Jewry and pro-Israel communities of various faiths for their unwavering support, and to foreign officials and celebrities who have shown their solidarity by visiting the country in recent months.
We welcome the strong pro-Israel stand taken by Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, at the opening ceremony of the Pan-American Maccabi Games in Buenos Aires. “I want [to extend] a warm greeting to all the Jewish people and in particular to those who have family or loved ones near the front lines,” JTA quotes Milei as telling some 10,000 people who gathered in the stadium. “I want to ratify at this moment my unalterable commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish people in their fight against Islamic terrorism, for peace and freedom.”
On the other side of the coin, at the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu slammed South Africa’s “mendacious pontificating” that Israel is perpetrating genocide. “No, South Africa, it is not we who have come to perpetrate genocide, it is Hamas,” he declared. “It would murder all of us if it could. In contrast, the IDF is acting as morally as possible; it is doing everything to avoid harming civilians while Hamas is doing everything to harm them and is using them as human shields.”
Due to the ongoing war, the cabinet approved Netanyahu’s proposal to reschedule local elections from January 30 until February 27 “to enable as many reservists as possible to participate in the elections.” As part of a pre-war coalition deal, the cabinet also approved the appointment of Eli Cohen as Energy and Infrastructure Minister in place of Israel Katz, and the appointment of Katz as foreign minister in Cohen’s place.
As 2023 drew to a close, the population stood at 9.8 million, an increase of 179,000 people or 1.9%, according to the CBS, which said the population is set to pass a watershed of 10 million in 2024.
Israel, a nation of innovation and resilience, faces formidable challenges in the year ahead – strategic and military, political and diplomatic, financial and economic – but has much to look forward to as well. In keeping with the slogan that has become synonymous with this war, we urge the people of Israel to remain united, strong, and patient until victory is achieved. Together we will win!
No one knows how long this war will go on, but we can only hope that it will be remembered as the war of 2023 – and not 2024. | https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-780250 | 2024-01-01T04:53:54Z |
Some Nutramigen infant formula recalled due to possible bacteria contamination
(CNN) - Some powdered baby formula is being pulled from the shelves due to contamination issues.
On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers of possible bacterial contamination in Reckitt/Mead Johnson’s Nutramigen Hypoallergenic Infant Formula Powder products.
Manufacturers voluntarily recalled more than 675,000 cans of the formula.
The recall batches include ZL3FRW, ZL3FPE, ZL3FXJ, ZL3FQD, ZL3FMH, ZL3FHG with a UPC code of 300871239418 or 300871239456 and use by date of Jan. 1, 2025.
According to the FDA, the formula tested positive for Cronobacter bacteria, which can cause rare but potentially deadly infections in newborns.
The FDA says that no illnesses have been reported to date.
The company says no other Nutramigen liquid formulas or any other Reckitt nutrition products are impacted.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.kcbd.com/2024/01/01/some-nutramigen-infant-formula-recalled-due-possible-bacteria-contamination/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:54Z |
NFL sets Week 18 Saturday doubleheader for ABC/ESPN
There will be a Saturday doubleheader on ESPN and ABC in Week 18 of the regular season.
The NFL announced that the first game, which will kick at 4:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 6 will be the Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens in an AFC North clash.
The nightcap will feature up-and-coming teams that bring 9-7 records into the final week of the regular season.
The Houston Texans will visit the Indianapolis Colts. That game is set for an 8:15 p.m. ET kickoff. | https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-sets-week-18-saturday-042410496.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:54Z |
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Kelsea Ballerini writes about 'healing' after her divorce from Morgan Evans and makes a reference to boyfriend Chase Stokes in her year-end message
Kelsea Ballerini made a reference to 'healing' from her divorce from Morgan Evans in a post that was shared on her Instagram account on Sunday.
The 30-year-old country singer shared a photo of herself enjoying a coffee on a balcony not far from the Eiffel Tower in commemoration of the coming new year.
The performer - who recently opened up about her sex life - also wrote a lengthy message in which she discussed the experiences she had gone through over the course of 2023, and she also made a reference to her boyfriend, Chase Stokes.
Morgan began by expressing that she had been. 'Following the breadcrumbs of life to the next right thing. Still sometimes getting it wrong. Still sometimes getting it right.'
The hitmaker also expressed that she had become used to 'Crying. So much crying. Stained cheeks in front of strangers, guttural exhales to those safest.'
Kelsea Ballerini made a reference to 'healing' from her divorce from Morgan Evans in a post that was shared on her Instagram account on Sunday
The Love Me Like You Mean It then made a reference to the end of her marriage to Evans, 38, whom she initially began seeing in 2016.
The pair tied the knot during a wedding ceremony in Cabo San Lucas in 2017, and they remained together until last August, when they separated.
The performers' union lasted for another two months before it was officially dissolved in November of last year.
Ballerini wrote that she was enthusiastic about 'healing the past and falling in love in the present happening in lockstep, unabashedly existing in the art of starting over.'
The singer then spoke about the downsides of life as a touring artist and how she had accepted the negatives of living on the road.
She said that she had come to terms with 'resenting airports and home on wheels, exhaustion outweighing presence, guilt for knowing my luck should override it all.'
Ballerini went on to express that she had been 'writing music like nothing is off limits, earning my artistic freedom.'
The songwriter then gave her fans a bit of insight into her current interests and stated that she had been 'leaning into whimsy. Adventure. Magic. Mystery. Horoscopes. Full moons. Manifesting. Breathing.'
The performer - who recently opened up about her sex life - also wrote a lengthy message in which she discussed the experiences she had gone through over the course of 2023, and she also made a reference to her boyfriend, Chase Stokes; they are seen in August
Ballerini wrote that she was enthusiastic about 'healing the past and falling in love in the present happening in lockstep, unabashedly existing in the art of starting over'; she is seen with Evans in 2019
The singer then spoke about the downsides of life as a touring artist and how she had accepted the negatives of living on the road
The hitmaker concluded her message by making an apparent reference to Stokes, 31, and their relationship; they are seen in October
The hitmaker concluded her message by making an apparent reference to Stokes, 31, and their relationship.
'Leaving his boots by the front door to let me know he's coming back to me. Im coming back to me too,' she wrote.
The singer and the actor were first linked this past January, although they initially refrained from publicly acknowledging their romance.
Ballerini and Stokes went Instagram official with their relationship in February, and they made their red carpet debut in April. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12915549/Kelsea-Ballerini-healing-divorce-Chase-Stokes.html | 2024-01-01T04:53:54Z |
BEDFORD, Pa. (WTAJ) – Multiple humane societies and Pennsylvania State Police responded to the scene of a home on Old Route 220 in Bedford where, reportedly, over 90 dogs were discovered to have been inside.
It is reported that eight troopers and two crime investigators were on the scene. Bedford County Humane Society and six other county humane societies, including those from Blair and Adams, also responded to help home and care for the dogs.
According to Joe Zolna, Board President of the Central PA Humane Society in Blair County, the dogs were kept in completely filled kennels stacked three high. Most of the dogs are reported as being alive at this time, but their conditions are unknown.
“It’s tough to see that many dogs like that, caged up and in the condition they were in,” Zolna said. “There are still more dogs that need to be taken out of the home.”
Zolna, who was on scene, told WTAJ that this is the worst scene he has ever witnessed while working with the humane society. He also noted that the Bedford County Humane Society will be taking in the majority of the animals.
Bedford County Humane Society is asking for volunteers to help bathe the dogs on Monday. Anyone willing to volunteer is asked to come to the shelter as early as 8 a.m. on Jan. 1 and to wear old clothing. The shelter also said they are in desperate need of blankets, towels and funds to help care for the dogs. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/state-news/over-95-dogs-recovered-from-home-in-bedford-county/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:57Z |
NIA registers 94.70 pc conviction rate in 2023, attaches assets worth Rs 56 cr
In its fight against terrorism, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered stupendous conviction rate of 94.70 per cent and attached assets worth around Rs 56 crores during 2023.
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In its fight against terrorism, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered stupendous conviction rate of 94.70 per cent and attached assets worth around Rs 56 crores during 2023. As compared with 490 accused arrested in 2022, the total number of arrests made by the NIA this year stood at 625 - a nearly 28 per cent increase over the previous year. These include 65 accused arrested in ISIS cases, 114 arrested for jihadi terror cases, 45 accused of human trafficking cases, 28 accused of terrorist and organized criminal activity and 76 accused of Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) cases. The anti-terror agency registered a total of 68 cases in 2023, covering a wide spectrum of terror related incidents. These encompass 18 Jihadi terror cases in multiple states, three cases from Jammu and Kashmir, 12 cases of LWE, seven cases involving terrorist and organised criminal activity in Punjab, five cases of the Northeast, and two cases related to Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN).
The number of persons chargesheeted and convicted stood, respectively, at 513 and 74, as against 459 and 79 in 2022. The 74 accused convicted during 2023 were sentenced to various quantums of 'Rigorous Imprisonment' and 'fines' as punishment. As far as absconders go, the NIA managed to track down and arrest 47 accused in 2023, which was 14 more than last year. One of the biggest breakthroughs in this regard came with the arrest of a key absconding accused in the Attari border heroin seizure case, involving smuggling of over 102 kgs of the narcotics from Afghanistan via the India-Pak border.
Also, arrests made upon deportation and extradition signify NIA's commitment to pursuing offenders across its international borders. While Amritpal Singh alias Ammy, Amrik Singh, Manpreet Singh alias Peeta and Mandeep Singh were deported from the Philippines, Vikram Brar was arrested upon deportation from the United Arab Emirates. The number of searches and raids by the NIA also recorded a significant increase over the previous year, going up from 957 in 2022 to 1,040 in 2023.
In 2022, the agency had attached a total of 37 properties worth Rs 10.53 crore, while in 2023, the figure went up to 240 (including 156 bank accounts) with a total value of Rs 55.90 crore. These properties belonged to the accused and suspects involved in terrorism, LWE, explosives and other prominent cases. The attachments, made under various provisions of UA(P)A, included 12 properties (of which four were bank accounts), worth Rs 1.5 crore, of six listed 'Individual Terrorists'. The crackdowns on violent Jihad across India proved to be a huge accomplishment for NIA during 2023, which saw several modules of the banned global ISIS being busted through nationwide raids and searches.
A total of 15 accused were arrested in December, following raids at 44 locations in Maharashtra and Karnataka, which also led to the seizure of huge amounts of incriminating materials. A similar crackdown led to the arrest of eight operatives of the ISIS Ballari module on December 18, thus enabling the NIA to foil the banned global terrorist organisations's plans to carry out a series of terror acts, especially IED blasts, across the country. Crackdowns were also carried out against such radicalized ISIS and HuT modules in Jabalpur and Bhopal in separate cases in September. Dismantling of the terrorist-gangster nexus has been another priority of the NIA investigations. As part of its crackdown on this network, NIA registered two cases, charge-sheeted 55 persons, conducted 253 raids, arrested 27 persons and attached 18 properties in 2023.
Further, consistent coordination with international agencies has resulted in action against foreign nodes of the Syndicate. The arrest of Deepak Ranga, the prime accused in the RPG attack on the intelligence headquarters of Punjab Police, has been one of the most significant achievements of the NIA against terrorist-gangster syndicates. Wanted in several cases of terrorism and criminal acts, Ranga was the Chief executioner of terrorist activities of Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda who is based in Pakistan and Lakhbir Singh Landa who is based in Canada- both are members of the proscribed terrorist organisation Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and both are designated 'Individual Terrorists'.
Another significant action against the terrorist gangster syndicate was the arrest of Manpreet Peeta, the right-hand man of Designated 'Individual Terrorist' Arsh Dala who was running widespread terrorist and extortion activities for Arsh Dala while based in the Philippines. The year 2023 also witnessed a sharp focus by the NIA on human trafficking involving Bangladesh and Myanmar nationals at the Indo-Bangladesh border. The arrest of four more accused from Tripura in December marked a major triumph for the NIA, which had earlier, in November, arrested 29 key operatives following nationwide raids on transnational Human Trafficking Syndicates involved in the case.
In another major success for the NIA, six individuals, namely Mohammed Amin Khubaiab alias Abu Khubalab alias Pinna alias Muhammed Amin Butt, Arbaz Ahmad Mir, Dr Asif Maqbool Dar, Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dala, Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda and Lakhbir Singh Landa, were designated as 'Individual Terrorists' by the Government of India during the year. In addition, four terrorist organisations - The Resistance Force (TRF), People's Anti-Fascists Front (PAFF), Jammu and Kashmir Ghanzavi Force (JKGF) and Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF)) - have been banned in response to the proposal made by the NIA. The agency is actively pursuing necessary actions against these designated individuals and terrorist organisations to effectively counter their activities. The attacks on the High Commissions of India in Ottawa and London, as well as on the Consulate General of India, San Francisco, USA, also remained the focus of the NIA actions offences against Indian interests abroad through the year, which witnessed more than 50 raids and searches as part of the agency's efforts to unravel the conspiracy behind the attacks on Indian Missions abroad. The attacks had involved criminal trespass, vandalism, damage to public property, and attempts to cause hurt to Indian officials and damage the Consulate building through acts of arson.
The NIA has used several innovative methods of investigation, including crowd sourcing of information while investigating the larger conspiracy of attacks on Indian Missions, which resulted in identification of 43 suspects. The NIA has stepped up its investigation in these cases in recent months and examined more than 80 persons in India suspected to be part of the conspiracy of the attacks.Overall, the year witnessed the NIA scale up its operations manifold across India as against the previous year. (ANI)
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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ITOCHU Co. (OTCMKTS:ITOCY – Get Free Report) was the target of a significant growth in short interest in the month of December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totalling 8,400 shares, a growth of 86.7% from the November 30th total of 4,500 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 37,900 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.2 days.
Institutional Trading of ITOCHU
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Todd Asset Management LLC raised its stake in ITOCHU by 0.5% in the second quarter. Todd Asset Management LLC now owns 553,571 shares of the company’s stock worth $43,899,000 after buying an additional 2,877 shares in the last quarter. Rhumbline Advisers bought a new position in ITOCHU in the second quarter worth approximately $707,000. Captrust Financial Advisors raised its stake in ITOCHU by 111.7% in the first quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 1,562 shares of the company’s stock worth $106,000 after buying an additional 824 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Atlas Capital Advisors LLC raised its stake in ITOCHU by 1,238.0% in the second quarter. Atlas Capital Advisors LLC now owns 1,231 shares of the company’s stock worth $98,000 after buying an additional 1,139 shares in the last quarter.
ITOCHU Trading Down 0.4 %
Shares of ITOCHU stock traded down $0.34 on Friday, hitting $81.44. 10,999 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 17,227. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $78.45 and its 200-day moving average price is $77.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a current ratio of 1.28. ITOCHU has a 52 week low of $58.76 and a 52 week high of $84.88.
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ITOCHU Corporation engages in trading and importing/exporting various products worldwide. The company's Textile segment produces and sells fiber and garment materials, textiles fabrics, apparel, and industrial materials; and imports lifestyle brands, fashion accessories, and garments in various areas, such as luxury, casual, and sports.
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Kazakhstan to see snowfall on Friday
In Almaty region, there will be patchy fog, ice slick, and winds strengthening up to 15-20 meters per second. In the area near Lake Zhalanashkol, the wind speed will reach 20-25 mps.
East Kazakhstan region will see a snowstorm and a wind strengthening up to 15-20 mps with gusts of 23-28 mps.
In Kostanay and North Kazakhstan regions, patchy fog and snowstorm are expected. Besides, the wind will strengthen up to 15-20 mps in North Kazakhstan region.
Patchy fog is expected in Mangistau, Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, Turkestan, and Akmola regions. Blowing snowstorm and 15-20 mps winds are expected in Akmola and Turkestan regions, respectively. In Pavlodar and Karaganda regions, there will be a blizzard caused by 15-20 mps winds. Moreover, severe frost is expected in Akmola, North Kazakhstan, and Pavlodar regions.
Zhambyl region will see a snowstorm, ice slick, and 15-20 mps strong winds.
In Kyzylorda region, patches of fog, ice slick, and wind strengthening up to 15-20 mps with gusts reaching 25 mps are expected. | https://en.inform.kz/amp/kazakhstan-to-see-snowfall-on-friday_a3493866/ | 2024-01-01T04:53:59Z |
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