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U.S. Stocks Turn Lower
U.S. stocks turned lower, with all three major indexes in the red. The S&P 500 had started the day hovering about 0.3% from its all-time high, before pulling further away.
Chicago business-activity index retreats in December
Chicago PMI falls to 46.9 after surging following the end of the United Auto Workers strike.
Pro Take: Dissenting Votes at the Fed Are Almost Extinct
Nay votes at the Federal Reserve's interest-rate-setting committee meetings during Jerome Powell's nearly six years at the head of the central bank are at the lowest since at least the Paul Volcker era in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The Blockbuster Year in Stocks No One Saw Coming
U.S. stocks are ending a topsy-turvy year near records, defying bearish predictions.
Carmakers Are Drowning in Cash
More stock buybacks are in the cards after another profitable year for companies that make gas guzzlers, but that won't cure their EV-related pains.
Why Oil Prices Never Surged to $100 This Year
Prices defied expectations but could prove more volatile in 2024.
Hollywood's Box Office Recovery Needs a Rewrite
The aftermath of labor strikes and superhero flops complicate the outlook for the movie industry in 2024.
Private Equity Faces Gloomy Fundraising Forecast for 2024
The giddy years now over, the buyout industry isn't expecting much recovery in the near term as investors pull back.
The Fed Alone Can't Make Gold Sparkle in 2024
Though potential interest-rate cuts are a positive for the precious metal, this year's experience shows that many other factors are at play.
How I, and Everyone Else, Got 2023 So Wrong
To invest wisely in 2024, we have to decide why the economy defied expectations.
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‘I was really scared’: Neighbor witnessed Austin house fire involving family of 10
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Fire Department told KXAN it had a busy weekend responding to nearly a dozen structure fires, which AFD Battalion Chief Mark Bridges said is more than usual.
PREVIOUS: AFD investigating series of ‘suspicious’ fires in SE Austin
“Many of those are just due to normal accidental circumstances. Several of those are being investigated as suspicious,” Bridges said. “So we’re still working to investigate the cause of those are investigators are working hard to figure out what started those fires and who may have been responsible if anyone was.”
AFD: 10 people ‘narrowly escape’ east Austin house fire
AFD said one of those accidental fires was at a home on Adina Street in east Austin.
‘I was really scared’
James Woods lives next to the home where AFD said it responded to a fire Sunday morning.
“I heard all that, boom, boom, boom,” Woods said. “I opened the door and looked out, flames was everywhere. The lady of the house, I heard her tell her grandson call 911.”
AFD said a 10-person family narrowly escaped the home.
“When I see those trees catching on fire, I was really scared.”
James Woods
The department said it did not have working smoke detectors.
“Luckily, the family that was there was able to wake up and they were able to get out of the house,” Bridges said. “Crews showed up and there was lots of fire and the house was heavily damaged but our crews were able to put a stop on the fire.”
According to AFD, the fire started from a cigarette that wasn’t put out properly.
Bridges said the Austin Police Department’s Victim Services and the Central Texas Red Cross are helping the family.
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On-the-spot fines for flytipping in Scotland will more than double from today, rising to £500.
Circular economy minister Lorna Slater said the Scottish Government made “no apologies" for taking "bold action”.
The rise from £200 comes after the government’s litter and flytipping strategy and action plan outlined plans to try to strengthen enforcement.
Slater said: “Scotland is a beautiful country and we all have a responsibility to keep it that way.
“We make no apologies for taking bold action on tackling litter and fly-tipping, which is a blight on our streets, communities and countryside, as well as threatening our natural environment and wildlife.
“Our vision is for a future where Scotland’s environment and communities are not blighted by litter and fly-tipping, and materials remain within a circular economy.
“Supporting behaviour change and strengthening enforcement are two key themes of the Strategy.
“I’m very pleased that we have been able to deliver on this commitment and I look forward to further measures to strengthen enforcement which will be taken forward through our Circular Economy Bill this year.”
Meanwhile the Circular Economy Bill, which is currently being considered by Holyrood, also includes measures to tackle the problems of litter and flytipping.
A new penalty regime will tackle those who throw rubbish from cars, as well as new powers to seize vehicles that have been involved in “waste crime”.
The legislation, proposed by the Scottish Government, could also see the introduction of fixed-penalty notices for householders who fail to dispose of waste correctly, by for example putting items in the wrong bin.
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(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Every individual desires additional income. Saving and Investing with Patience (SIP) is a continuous process. Like we say, every dollar should have a job to generate a dollar. Funds lying idle in savings account will not assist the individual to tackle rising prices and inflation. In the process of earning and investing part of these earnings to generate returns, investors make their own rules suiting their own needs. Long term wealth is not built in a short span of time. Here are some of the probable rules that you may wish to incorporate in your rule book –
Make your own rules, respect your rules, don't break them
First and foremost, rule for investing is to make your own rules and respect these rules during your investing journey. You make your own rules considering risk appetite, availability of funds for savings that can be invested, plan for future needs, emergency payments etc. Rules would differ for every investor. This discipline will keep a check on decisions that you may be tempted to initiate as an investor. Only amend your rules when you are convinced and not based on the influence of someone or some instance or emotion. Ultimately, be it right or wrong, you own the process, and you are the sole beneficiary of the outcome, be it profit or loss.
Practice what you can understand and understand better
Considering that your own money is involved here, you need to first understand the investment product and clear all your doubts. Rather than placing reliance on third parties and regretting later, spend some time to read through all the documents carefully, understand the risk involved, discuss your queries with the institution selling you the product and unless all your doubts are cleared, do not initiate a transaction. While it may be Sellers duty to sell a product, investors are not dutybound to buy this product. When it comes to your own work or profession, you endeavor to obtain proficiency and master the job. On similar lines, when it comes to investing, you need to learn and practice. Focus on avenues that you can understand and practice better rather than mastering all subjects within the investment curriculum. With practice and experience, your ability will eventually improve and you will be confident to initiate decisions.
Define risk appetite
Facing risk during investing journey is like a sailor of ship facing rough sea or tides during sailing. Investors must navigate through these tides during this investing journey with the aim of building a decent portfolio that would act as a catalyst in accumulating wealth. Extent of risk is defined by the investor. Investing is easier compared to holding the same investment (staying invested) during rough times when markets are volatile. In fact, volatile times are better for investing. Buy when there is panic and fear across. Ultimately, the world is not coming to an end. Intention is to invest long term and avoid frequent trades or transactions that may eventually impact or cause a dent on the capital available. Always limit your risk to the extent that you can afford in case prices of these investments drop to the downside. Aim is to build wealth from capital rather than erode capital.
Spend adequate time in learning and review at periodic intervals
Lets take an example, you own a few shares of a particular company. When was the last time you picked up annual report of a company and read through the entire compilation including future business outlook to understand how your company has performed in the previous year and what are the projections for the coming year? How will the company face headwinds in their business and what are the tailwinds that would propel growth of the company? Unless you have a basic understanding of the company's business and these questions answered, you are placing a bet on the company either based on tip or there is Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). In either case, you are taking a risk and that may affect your capital or savings. Following a tip without analysis is a catalyst to wealth erosion and investing during turbulent times and holding these investments leads to wealth accumulation. Losing opportunity is better than losing money. The pace at which business dynamics are changing globally requires adequate agility to change the course of action and your learning and experience will enable you to take decisions that may benefit you in the long run. Sound financial knowledge is the best recipe for financial fitness.
Fundamentals and Technical Analysis
Fundamentals and Technical Analysis play a vital role in evaluating price movements from time to time. Changes in fundamentals directly affect the price movement as markets are extremely dynamic to factor in price adjustments, both positive and negative. Carrying out Technical Analysis of price movements requires learning and training. Technical Analysis will allow an investor to chart price movements based on historic trends. A combination of Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis will strengthen investor's decision-making ability to prepare for entry or exit in a particular investment. Plethora of content is available on social media portals for learning. Several books are also available for investors to read and learn while they pursue their investing journey. Your unbiased analysis is supreme over any TIP that is being offered. Buy as per your analysis and sell as per your analysis.
Write what you intend to trade (Plan) and follow what you have written
Mind is always active with thoughts. To follow a systematic approach, investor should ideally note down a plan of action and follow this plan. Prepare a list of opportunities that you anticipate and make a choice depending upon the price movement. There may be deviations in the process, but the extent of deviations should be within the tolerance range defined by the investor. Price action demands agility and resilience on the part of investor when dealing with markets. Plan before execution, execute as per plan and monitor as per system, is an ideal plan of action. Failing to plan (raw material) is a perfect recipe for planning to fail (finished product).
Review investment portfolio, compare performance vs benchmark
Dhaval Jasani is founder and CEO of ZTI Global
At the beginning itself, you may choose to decide benchmark that you would follow when evaluating performance of your investment. Intention is to beat the benchmark return and generate alpha (over and above benchmark return). In the process of review, if the investment has underperformed, evaluate causes for such underperformance and decide next course of action. Reason for review and comparison is to improvise performance, thereby improvising returns. Learn from mistakes and avert these mistakes in future. Let these learnings remind you in future when you initiate any decision.
Preserve and review all communications thoroughly
In the process of investing, various communications drop into your email inbox, be it statements, notifications or alerts or messages relating to investments held. Please ensure that you read every such message and notification, keep track of important messages, important dates for payout or maturity and any alerts relating to investments should not go unnoticed. You may wish to have a dedicated email account specifically to keep track of communications relating to investments. Every line item in the statement should be reviewed and queries, if any, should be raised with the institution. Data and documentation were important yesterday, are important today and will be important tomorrow as well.
Plan for reinvesting profits
Have a systematic plan to book profits at periodic intervals and reinvest part of the profits in accumulating hard assets. This is how you can accumulate wealth. Building asset base will equip you to cover liabilities in future. Reward earned and reinvested will generate further rewards in future and this cycle should ideally continue. While reinvesting profits to generate returns, do not miss out to reinvest part of these rewards into improvise your learnings.
The above are some of the rules that you may wish to imbibe and let your investing journey be rewarding and your ability empowers you to navigate through challenges and achieve your desired goal. Wishing you the very best for this investing journey and may this journey be rewarding for you.
The writer is CEO of ZTI Global.
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Professor Tim Spector had his first manicure the other day. Bashfully, he splays his fingers to present the results. Very nice indeed. ‘I had it done for a TV commercial, they needed a close-up of my hands…’ It was, he concedes, one of a number of moments recently which have forced him to ponder just how much – at the age of 65, and after three decades of unglamorous medical research – his career has changed.
Another came over the summer. ‘I was at a food festival, under cameras, demonstrating how to make kimchi for 300 people. And I just thought, “Hang on a minute…” When I was a young doctor I’d never have guessed I’d be doing that. Or Instagram Lives with Jamie Oliver and Davina McCall. Or having all these [famous] people phoning up saying they want to have lunch. Or people recognising me in the street and asking for a selfie...’
He shakes his head. ‘It’s unimaginable.’ But what, I must ask, was the TV commercial for? ‘Hmm. When does this go out?’ 30th December. ‘Then I can’t say, I’m afraid.’ I’ll just put ‘Coca-Cola’ then. Spector laughs and stares at those immaculate hands again. Definitely Coca-Cola.
We’ve met in Spector’s office, which is found at the end of a long corridor at St Thomas’s Hospital in central London. Big Ben looms just across the river. The particular chaos of the NHS in pre-Christmas mode thrums in the buildings around us. But here in the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, all is calm, all are bright.
Spector certainly is. Dressed in a customary crisp blue shirt, dark chinos and trainers, he has a deep, near-permanent tan, a rich sprawl of cauliflower-white hair, light stubble and an almost pathological equilibrium. On a middle finger is an Oura sleep-tracking ring. He usually gets around seven hours.
This department has housed Spector’s TwinUK study – one of the most extensive collections of data about identical and non-identical twins in the world – for 30 years, and today serves as a useful reminder that he is, in fact, still a working academic. ‘It’s become more of a communal office now, as I’m only in one or two days a week. I’ve got three jobs, you see…’
Three at least. Spector remains a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, where his work has made him one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in the world. Alongside that, he co-founded the personalised nutrition app Zoe, which is now improving the gut and metabolic health of more than 130,000 paying members since its launch in April 2022.
And he writes best-selling books – including Food for Life and Spoon Fed, both of which involved myth-busting the most popular diets, eviscerating the idea of calorie counting and taking the fight to big food companies. His work in recent years has caused many to fundamentally rethink what ‘healthy eating’ means, to the extent that he’s become perhaps the most respected voice in the ever more-crowded larder of popular nutrition gurus.
It also means his wisdom is in fierce demand. People want more books, live appearances, TV adverts, in-person advice and, perhaps above all, podcasts. He frequently appears on Zoe’s own chart-topping ‘Science & Nutrition’ offering, but is also interviewed on others, including twice for Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO. Combined, they’ve been viewed on YouTube five million times. Each is well over 90 minutes long.
‘Everybody thinks I was only discovered in January on Bartlett’s programme, but actually I’ve been doing things for years,’ Spector says, with mild frustration. ‘This year, though, everything has massively kicked off, at three times the speed.’
To protect against having any time to relax, he will soon add a new Telegraph health column to his weekly to-do list. He is excited about it. Or as excited as Spector gets, which means a small smile and near-imperceptible widening of the eyes. Expect sensible advice and hearty rants, especially about the ‘disaster’ of the government’s food and public health policies.
‘I’m quite opinionated. I’ve found out that one of the reasons I’m popular is that I state my mind. Most academics stay on the fence, or have lots of caveats,’ he says. ‘You have to oversimplify, but there are lots of messages I feel I can get across to people who’ve not heard them before, and some of them are very important. We’re the sickest country in Europe and we’re not that concerned about it, so I want to empower people to do something about it.’
Spector has always been opinionated. ‘My teachers at school would probably say that, yeah. I wasn’t popular with them...’ Growing up in North London, his mother – ‘Australian, totally sporty’ – was a physiotherapist and his father – ‘totally unsporty, intellectual, Jewish’ was a pathologist.
Sciencey, then. ‘Yes, though my brother [Andy, who’s two years younger and lives in Brighton] went to art college, then did textiles, photography, a bit of meteorite hunting…’ He pauses. ‘He also holds the Guinness World Record for the most crisp packets.’ Sorry, what? ‘He’s got 3,000. Some of them are framed. He had 6,000 but some rats got into his attic.’
So dry is Spector that I am left unsure as to whether he’s pulling my leg or not, but once I’m back in the safety of the hospital lift I Google it and, sure enough, there’s a photograph of a man who’s clearly a Spector, buried up to his neck in his crisp packet collection, which the Brighton Argus informs us is worth £20,000.
‘We’re very different characters,’ Spector says, unnecessarily. Too right, you definitely don’t eat any crisps. ‘Er, I like crisps. Just not… 3,000 of them.’
Out of instinctive rebellion against his father’s wishes, as a teenager he resisted becoming a doctor, only giving in at the last moment by ‘scraping into medical school with grades you’d get laughed at today’, including a D in physics. That medical school was St Bartholomew’s in London, where he preferred the social side of things.
‘Sports, drinking, comedy… I took part in sketch comedy at cabaret nights, doing sketches and songs. It was started by Graham Chapman of Monty Python. Probably doesn’t exist anymore, it was all very non-PC.’ (He remains a keen fan of the arts, leaving our meeting to watch ‘a gay retelling of the Nutcracker’ at the Southbank Centre.)
Rote learning wasn’t for him, but he took to hands-on clinical work, and was taken with one early project looking at whether coffee is good for people. The answer, as he stresses often these days, was yes. ‘I liked that sort of thing, it was a bit like being a detective, I got a real buzz from it that I never got from rote learning biology essays.’
Once qualified, he took a junior doctor role with Barts in Hackney, east London, before rotating to Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Belgium. Bluffing through the interview with bad French, he ended up with 14 cardiac patients and une très grande barrière linguistique between him and them.
Quite brave, really. ‘Yeah, but I was fluent after about three months. And I got a wife out of it.’ At the time, Veronique Bataille was a medical student who wooed Spector with a box of croissants, before ‘showing me the good restaurants’ in Brussels. ‘In the 1980s, even what they served in their hospital canteen was better than what I’d had in restaurants in London.’
After a year, Bataille moved to London to be with Spector, and went on to work her way up to consultant, specialising in melanomas. They married in Belgium in 1988, and have two children: Sophie, 34, an immigration lawyer, and Tom, 31, who works for a medical start-up.
As a genetic epidemiologist, Spector’s primary interest has involved researching what role our life choices and life events play compared to our genes. His TwinsUK registry allowed him to study two people with remarkably similar genes and ask why one may get diabetes or cancer, or one may be slimmer than the other, or how each reacts to certain foods.
By 2012, this work had revealed that of all the things different about twins, they are most distinct in their microbiomes: the collection of millions of microbes, fungi, viruses and other single-celled organisms that teem around inside our bodies, but particularly our guts. Spector likens it to a rainforest: it only blooms if it has the right diverse balance of organisms. Give it too much of one thing, or the wrong thing, and the balance will be off, potentially seeding long-term damage.
The real key to good nutrition, then, might lie as much in learning about our individual microbiomes as it does in adhering to blanket rules, such as religiously observing calories in and calories out. Spector was preparing to look further into this when he suffered a small stroke while skiing with his family in the Alps. His symptoms were relatively mild, but it left him determined to sort out his health.
‘With the retrospectoscope on, that was the turning point. One of the key human drivers is selfishness. We all like to think we’re altruistic, but if you really want to focus, it’s quite good to have an event. I had an unexplained real event, and high blood pressure, and wondered what I should do,’ he says.
‘I discovered we knew nothing about how to give advice about nutrition, and that most of the stuff out there, especially on government websites, was plain wrong. I thought we must be able to use this new science to think about food in a new way.’
So began a prolonged period of nutritional self-experimentation, including a brief flirtation with veganism, while he fundamentally reassessed his diet. As his research continued, he wrote a book, The Diet Myth, including in it research gathered from an experiment in which his own son, then a university student, ate solely McDonalds for 10 days.
He ended up feeling sick, in a low mood, lacking in appetite, looking jaundiced, feeling constipated and losing 1,400 bacterial species in his gut. Other than that, he had a terrific time. ‘I took advantage of a student, really,’ Spector says.
Today, the health of Tom’s microbiome is still well below average compared with his father, who is in the top five per cent according to Zoe’s scores. Do either of them regret the experiment? ‘Um, I think so, yes. I really want him to get back. He’s still young, he has time to improve it, so my goal is to get him into the top five per cent with me.’
For the previous 20 years, Spector would eat a banana and muesli with orange juice for breakfast, then a supermarket sandwich and crisps for lunch. He will now often have a black coffee first thing, some natural yoghurt with kefir, chopped nuts, fruit and seeds at around 11am, a lunch of perhaps a salad or avocado on toast, and a vegetarian curry for dinner - aiming to eat 30 plants per week (that includes herbs and spices).
‘It’s always different, but people are forever asking me to outline what I eat in a day. Part of the point is that you should always be varying it.’
I ask if I can show him what I ate for breakfast. Before he can answer, I put a berry-flavoured protein bar and a banana in front of him. He picks up the bar by the tips of his fingers, as if it is radioactive, or evidence at a crime scene.
‘Well, anything in a plastic wrapper with what we call “health halos” is generally bad. It says on it “high in fibre, high in protein”, which is an immediate issue. And the list of ingredients on the back is a paragraph long – that tells me all I need to know about it. It’s ultra-processed food.’
I am the typical profile of somebody Spector comes across a lot: young(ish), and thinks they’re health-conscious but really I just exercise lots, so feel I can eat anything. ‘You go to the gym, you eat this and think you’re done. That’s nonsense. You’re not protein deficient. And the banana is OK, but it causes a sugar spike in me, so I try to vary it with different fruits.’
Almost nobody is protein deficient, yet it dominates nutrition supplements, being easy to add to things and even easier to market to young vain fools like me, usually at a vast mark-up. Spector dispares at the rise of the protein supplement industry, especially as we have ‘a fibre crisis’ in this country. He is just as disparaging of meal replacement powders and almost all supplements.
I wonder aloud at what it’s like to have Spector at the feast. I pity the poor dinner party hosts who have to work out what to feed him. ‘Well, I don’t get invited to dinner parties nearly as much as I used to… It’s really upsetting. I’m not critical at all, but they think I won’t like lasagna,’ he says.
‘Actually, on special occasions, all bets are off, and there’s nothing I wouldn’t eat if it was going to make it socially awkward. It’s much more important to sit down for a meal with friends and be sociable than worrying about an occasional lapse.’
Ideally, a lunch table filled with different dishes, allowing people to choose what and how much they eat, and meals stretching over many hours, is the set-up he’d consider healthiest. Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations do this well. One-pot meals, though convenient, are generally worse.
He isn’t strict in any way, he insists, and follows ‘about a 90/10’ rule when it comes to indulging – be it meals out, chocolate or alcohol (on the latter, it’s mainly red wine). After six years of not eating meat, he now does once a month or so, after realising how it can be beneficial in small amounts, so long as it is good quality.
‘What I’m trying to do is tell everybody they can have this lifestyle, you don’t have to give anything up that you love. You can’t alienate people by being too dogmatic, this should be a pragmatic view of food for life, and that’s got to include the pleasure of eating,’ he says.
An inveterate fermenter, at home he makes his own kombucha, sauerkraut and kefir, and adds a handful of seeds to basically everything. He is also a keen cyclist, spending summers clocking big miles in Spain, where he goes to write, and even partakes in the odd mid-ride lager. Generally, he does the cooking. How’s Veronique’s microbiome?
‘Hers actually is nearly the same as mine, which really annoys me, because she eats all sorts. She has a good baseline diet but then goes out and has Belgian cuisine like steak and chips… The key thing is that she always enjoys her food.’ He almost manages to say this without envy.
The idea for Zoe was originally presented to him. George Hadjigeorgiou and Jonathan Wolf, an engineer and a tech specialist respectively, saw Spector give a talk on his twins research and approached him about developing a personalised nutrition app. After raising the requisite £7m in 2017, progress was interrupted by Covid. In March 2020, a new side project, a symptom tracker app, was set up.
‘We just did a short term pivot purely for charitable purposes, thinking the government would take it over. But it never did, so we kept working at it, and became two teams eventually.’ The Zoe Covid symptom study has since seen millions of users logging their data via an app to help gain a better understanding of how Sars-CoV-2 spreads. ‘We had this realisation that the more you give people, the more data they give you back. They want to trust someone. Nobody thought that was possible, they thought oldies can’t use an app. Completely wrong.’
In a way, he says, ‘it showed us the failings of the NHS, and why people don’t give them their data, because this little start-up suddenly had more trust than most British institutions.’ He cannot hide his exasperation at the bureaucratic hurdles and risk-averse nature of the NHS over the private sector.
The fear over data protection, often used as an excuse to not embrace technology, is a case in point. ‘We are essentially killing people because of our mentality in this country. How is it that in this day and age, we have an NHS that cannot talk to each other? Hospitals still have fax machines. That’s the cost of being worried about data protection.’
Zoe is now back on track, with fans ranging from McCall and Bartlett (an investor) to Carrie Johnson. The appeal is obvious, given it is partly the brainchild of Spector, whose advice is trusted more than most health app founders, but joining is hardly cheap: a starter kit is £299.99, while membership starts at £24.99.
For that, members begin with an at-home test, involving a continuous glucose monitor, various kits for stool and blood sampling, and packets of standardised muffins that reveal how your body responds to different doses of fat and sugar. After two weeks of testing, users can learn their personalised scores for thousands of foods, with bespoke nutrition coaching and ideas.
‘The only people we don’t recommend it for are people with eating disorders. It’s not a strict regime of logging and tracking, but you can overdo anything,’ Spector says. The risk that users obsess over numbers is a criticism that apps like Zoe have to accept, but his argument is that traditional dieting, which sees all food as numbers rather than talking about quality, or experience, or how it’s affecting your body, is much worse.
It is expensive, though. ‘Well all products based on technology have to start more expensive at the beginning. We’re thinking about options for cheaper versions, but to make up for that we offer lots of free things, like the podcast.’
The perception, I tell him, is that it’s just for middle-class yuppies who already queue for sourdough at Gail’s and have the time and money to purchase arms full of fresh produce. ‘Well, that also says something about how much we spend on food as a country. We spend less of our GDP on food than any country in Europe. So once we start to value our nutrition… Besides, a Starbucks a day is the same price as a Zoe programme.’
He’d ideally like to ‘get this to millions of people’, so hopes he can one day work with the NHS. Also, he hastens to add, it’s not actually turning a profit yet. Zoe made a pre-tax loss of £10.5m in the year to the end of August 2022, up from £7.9m the year before.
There are now 400 employees, a lot of ‘money in the bank’, but ‘we’re definitely burning more money than we’re bringing in, so we’re a loss-making growing company. That’s the other key, when people ask when we’re going to cut prices. I think investors will expect us to make some money before giving theirs away…’
Still, he says, the nature of the app is that it gets better the more that people use it, ‘and that’s the exciting thing about it, it’s evolving all the time [...] And the scale is the exciting thing about doing science in a tech company. It’s really cool.’
He is beginning to sound like a tech bro, but he’s only just getting used to becoming a minor celebrity. ‘People say “Oh my God, you’re Tim Spector!” Or just thank you, either for Covid or for Zoe. That never used to happen. It’s very hard for me to go to a railway station or an airport without people wanting selfies.’
A new year dawns. Should we all be aiming for a new you? ‘No, but it is a time to experiment, to look at yourself and try different ways of eating, try new things in the supermarket, experiment with eating times, see how you are skipping breakfast or doing time-restricted eating, order fermented food once a week…’ he suggests.
‘It’s not about saying “Right, I’m not eating cake”. It’s easier to bring new things into your life than to exclude things. Definitely don’t say, “By February 1st I want to weigh X stone.” Just do healthy swaps, like you and your protein bar. Swap it for something that doesn’t make you more hungry and your teeth fall out.’
All right, all right. Ultimately, he urges us to ‘reject the dogmas’ around health in 2024. Eight hours of sleep; two litres of water… ‘Don’t just accept this, reflect on how your body reacts to things.’
Resolutions time, then. ‘Ugh, to not make any. Moderation in moderation,’ he says, reflexively. Then he thinks a little more. ‘No, there must be one... Oh, I need to improve my knife skills. I’m going to be on TV more, and people are always asking me to chop onions. I’m pretty hopeless at the moment.’
More close-ups. That may have been the first manicure Tim Spector has had, but whether he likes it or not, I’d wager it won’t be the last. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/gut-health/tim-spector-interview/ | 2024-01-01T05:30:55Z |
THE Energy Development Corp. (EDC) announced it achieved international recognition for its “greening legacy” program.
According to the geothermal energy producer, it has been named among the Steward Leadership 25 (SL25) by several organizations, including the The Straits Times of Singapore. The list cites projects that “have significantly influenced stakeholders, society, future generations and the environment” across 14 countries in the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East.
EDC’s 15-year-old program called “binhi” (seed) aims to restore and safeguard forests within the firm’s geothermal project sites. According to the subsidiary of First Gen Corp., the program “focuses on propagating endangered and threatened Philippine native tree species, contributing to resilient ecosystems and communities.”
EDC Corporate Relations and Communications Head Allan V. Barcena was quoted in a statement as saying the firm shares the “honor” with its over-200 partners across the country.
“It is our tribute to the forests that we have been nurturing as part of our solution to climate change,” Barcena added.
The firm explained the program operates strategically across geothermal sites, covering 10,140 hectares of reforested areas and establishing 200 tree parks and arboreta. The program’s success lies in its multi-sectoral approach, fostering partnerships with forest communities, non-profit organizations, local government units, and private enterprises, according to the company.
Since its inception in December 2008, the program has revived 145 priority Philippine native and threatened tree species, making it the largest private sector-led forest restoration initiative in the Philippines, the firm added.
Barcena said they partnered with a “Global Tree Assessment (GTA)” program of the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).
As the sole Philippine partner in GTA, “Binhi” has contributed to the assessment of 1,470 Philippine endemic and near-endemic tree species, underscoring EDC’s dedication to global conservation efforts, according to the company.
The program has made an impact on carbon absorption and energy security, Barcena said.
In 2021, forests included in the program absorbed over 1.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, making EDC “the only Philippine company to achieve carbon negativity,” the firm said. Barcena added that this contribution aligns with EDC’s overarching mission of producing clean power, avoiding the use of coal or fossil fuels, and producing over 9,000 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy.
He said they see the program becoming a “testament to steward leadership,” emphasizing the company’s responsible use of natural resources.
Barcena said the firm plans to expand the program’s influence, creating a “decarbonized and green future not only for the Philippines but for the entire region and the world.” | https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/01/01/edc-named-steward-leader/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=edc-named-steward-leader | 2024-01-01T05:30:55Z |
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/news/kazakhstan-to-see-snowfall-on-friday_a3493866/ | 2024-01-01T05:30:56Z |
Written by Allen Foster
Start your day with these BestReviews-approved coffee makers
How you start your day matters. You don’t get a brew-over. That first cup of coffee needs to be perfect. As does every subsequent cup. That’s why it is vital to have an exceptional coffee maker.
Fortunately, BestReviews was focused on testing coffee makers during the last month of the year. The lab evaluated many models, including the OXO Brew 9-Cup Coffee Maker and the De’Longhi TrueBrew Drip Coffee Maker to find which was the best. After careful consideration, the Testing Lab picked seven favorites.
Essential gadgets for making cooking easier in the new year
Here’s what happens in the BestReviews Testing Lab
You may wonder what makes the BestReviews Testing Lab so special. It starts with individuals who research how products work and what makes exceptional products. Once a selection of items is handpicked, another team formulates a testing strategy. This strategy not only details a procedure for testing the key features in a real-world situation, it outlines a system so all models can be evaluated from a common baseline.
To test the products, the company employs real people. While some may have a particular expertise, others are new to the product. This lets the lab understand how different consumers view the same product. All testers take extensive notes, creating documents that are several pages long. They also photograph the products and take videos while using them. This comprehensive approach helps ensure no aspect is overlooked.
What happens with products after testing?
After a product has been thoroughly tested, BestReviews finds a home for it. This is done by donating the items to a local or national charity. It can also be done by dropping them off at a shelter or an institution that makes sure these gently used products get to people who truly need them.
Our 7 favorite coffee makers
Keurig K-Iced Single-Serve K-Cup Coffee Maker
This model is touted by Keurig as being able to brew both hot and cold beverages. While the lab loved the roomy reservoir and the exceptional brewing quality, it warned that the ice-brewing feature still brews hot and allows the coffee to cool. It is not a low-and-slow brewing process.
De’Longhi TrueBrew Drip Coffee Maker
The De’Longhi TrueBrew is not an inexpensive option. Because of this, the Testing Lab concluded it is best for a larger facility, such as an office. BestReviews liked De’Longhi’s versatility and consistent performance. The coffee maker is well-built and has all the options you could want.
Technivorm Moccamaster Coffee Maker
The BestReviews Testing Lab found this coffee maker to be very easy to use. It brewed great coffee consistently but didn’t have enough features to warrant the regular price. For a better value, wait to buy this model when it is on sale.
Mr. Coffee, 5-Cup Mini Brew Switch Coffee Maker
The Testing Lab gave this model high marks in being an extremely affordable coffee maker that still brewed a delicious beverage. The flawless programmability and ease of use make this a top choice for individuals on a budget.
Cuisinart Brew Central 12-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker
Admittedly, this model can be a little overwhelming because it has a steep learning curve. However, once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed by all this machine can do. The Testing Lab had no complaints about the quality or flavor.
If you want a sleek and modern coffee maker that looks and feels like it is worth every penny, this is a solid choice. The lab loved the showerhead water spout because it truly seemed to enhance the brewing process. Also, the coffee comes out hot and stays hot, which is always a bonus.
Keurig K-Compact Single-Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker
This Keurig was easily the best product for regular home use that the lab reviewed. It is affordable, has a reservoir, makes quality coffee and is easy to use and clean. If you want the best, this was the coffee maker the lab would choose.
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Jan 01 (The Hawk): In a rapidly evolving world, graduates must embrace adaptability and constant learning. Success depends on reinventing oneself and staying curious. Letting go of past knowledge opens new doors and by connecting multiple passions and pursuing a multidisciplinary path, students can create unique opportunities for themselves. Even the parents understand the importance of fulfilment and value non-traditional career paths. To prepare for the unknown, graduates should focus on their passions, deepen their understanding, and find connections that make them stand out.
Being true to oneself and embracing uniqueness leads to a fulfilling and prosperous future. Success lies in adaptability, constant learning, unlearning, finding one’s true calling, and integrating financial knowledge. High school graduates can confidently navigate the evolving world by following their own unique path to success. Beyond the disruptive innovations in existing fields, many new career avenues have emerged, that offer unique opportunities for students with diverse interests and passions.
Following are some of these exciting new- age careers for students:
Sound engineering and music
The realm of sound engineering offers an immersive experience for individuals with a love for music and audio production. Sound engineers play a crucial role in recording, mixing, and mastering music tracks as well as providing audio support for live performances and film production. This field combines technical expertise with creative flair.
Artificial Intelligence
The rise of AI has opened up a world of possibilities across various industries. AI specialists work on developing algorithms, machine learning models, and intelligent systems. From autonomous vehicles to personalised recommendation systems, AI professionals shape the future by harnessing the power of data and automation.
Digital marketing and advertising
In the digital age, businesses rely heavily on digital marketing and advertising to reach their target audience. Careers in this field involve creating engaging content, analysing consumer behaviour, and utilising various online platforms to promote products and services. Digital marketers combine creativity, analytical skills, and strategic thinking to drive brand success.
Drone and robotics
The field of robotics is advancing at an astonishing pace which presents opportunities for individuals interested in designing and programming robots and drones. Robotics engineers develop robots for industries ranging from manufacturing and healthcare to logistics and entertainment. This field requires a blend of engineering skills and a passion for innovation.
As the job market evolves, it is essential for graduates to explore the new-age career options available to them. These fields not only provide exciting opportunities, but also offer the chance to make a meaningful impact in the world. By embracing the power of technology, innovation, and creativity, students can pave the way for a successful and fulfilling career.
—Vijay GarG Retired Principal Educational columnist malout | https://www.thehawk.in/posts/new-graduates-should-think-beyond-conventional-roles-for-unorthodox-careers | 2024-01-01T05:30:56Z |
TPCC wants Sonia to contest Lok Sabha polls from Telangana
The TPCC is of the view that if one of the Gandhis contests from Telangana, it would create a wave in the entire state in favour of the Congress.
Ahead of Lok Sabha polls in 2024, as the Gorkhas, especially residing in Darjeeling and Kalimpong, have been asking about the implementation of the proposed Permanent Political Solution (PPS) and tribal status for 11 communities
Ahead of Lok Sabha polls in 2024, as the Gorkhas, especially residing in Darjeeling and Kalimpong, have been asking about the implementation of the proposed Permanent Political Solution (PPS) and tribal status for 11 communities, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, extending New Year wishes to this region, said that he was confident that 2024 would be the year when the two major issues of the region and people will be addressed.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, in a Press note, today said: “Looking ahead, 2024 promises to be a transformative year for all of us. Our nation will bear witness to one of the most significant events of our lifetime, the establishment of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
This monumental occasion holds historical and cultural importance, and as we approach it, let us embrace the spirit of unity and communal harmony that defines the fabric of our diverse nation.” “I am confident that 2024 will be the year when the two major issues of our region and people will be addressed,” Mr Bista added.
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“The year 2023, brought with it some happy tiding for our region and its people. Foremost among them is the resurrection of the Panchayat System in the Hill regions of Darjeeling and Kalimpong district. The revitalization of democratic institutions at the grassroots level is critically important for development and progress of our region, and the empowerment for our citizens,” the Darjeeling MP pointed out.
“I am pleased to share that the Central Government has disbursed a substantial allocation of Rs 162 crores under the 15th Finance Commission to the Hill Panchayats. This financial grant, previously withheld due to the West Bengal Government for not conducting Panchayat elections in our region, is now at the disposal of Panchayats in the Hills,” he said, adding: “I earnestly urge those at the helm of these local bodies to judiciously utilise these funds for ensuring the holistic development of our communities.”
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Rajasthan to witness dense fog for next 3-4 days
There is a strong possibility of cold day conditions being recorded at some places in the northern parts during the next 48 hours, Jaipur Met department director Radheshyam Sharma said.He said that there is a strong possibility that the weather in the state will remain mainly dry for the next 5-6 days.On Sunday, the lowest temperatures were recorded in Sriganganagar with maximum temperature at 11.7 degrees Celsius.
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The ongoing dense fog in Rajasthan is likely to continue for the next three to four days, a Met department official said on Sunday.
Very dense fog with visibility of less than 200 metres is also likely to be recorded at isolated places in the northern parts of the state in the next 48 hours, the official said.
''Due to the effect of dense fog, the maximum temperature of the day is likely to be recorded at 3-6 degrees Celsius below the average. There is a strong possibility of cold day conditions being recorded at some places in the northern parts during the next 48 hours,'' Jaipur Met department director Radheshyam Sharma said.
He said that there is a strong possibility that the weather in the state will remain mainly dry for the next 5-6 days.
On Sunday, the lowest temperatures were recorded in Sriganganagar with maximum temperature at 11.7 degrees Celsius. This was followed by a maximum temperature of 12.6 degrees Celsius in Sangaria of Hanumangarh.
Other major cities of the state recorded temperatures between 14 and 26 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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WATCH: Ohio state troopers catch loose pig at McDonald's drive-thru
A pig recently went hog-wild at a McDonald's drive-thru in Ohio last week, prompting state troopers to capture the wayward animal.
Ohio State Highway Patrol shared video of the adorable incident on Thursday. The confrontation happened in Enon, outside of Springfield.
The footage shows a trooper and the pig's owner leading the defiant animal away from the fast-food restaurant.
"Darn it," the pig's owner is heard saying in the video. The oinking pig trotted to the side of the road before being transported back to his owner.
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"There was a bit of oinking around in Springfield this week after a pig got loose and went hog wild," Ohio State Highway Patrol said in the Facebook post. "Fortunately, Springfield Post troopers were able to assist the owner and get the insu-boar-dinate pig into custody."
"In the end, the trooper & pig seemed to a-boar each other," the post added.
Ohio State Highway Patrol also shared a photo of a trooper petting the pig's muddy face.
There are no additional details about the incident at this time.
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Is the scent of a delicious roast dinner currently wafting from your oven, making you salivate? Will you feel just a smidge guilty as you tuck in?
Never mind the people trying Veganuary this month, all of us have been told that eating meat is bad. Not only for the planet, but for our health. Every bite of that brisket will raise your risk of cancer, heart disease and more. A second helping will send you to an early grave.
But will it? A growing body of research suggests that meat is a complex beast. Acres of difference stand between a high welfare, grass-fed sirloin steak and the impact on your body of a highly processed hot dog. The NHS advises that people who eat 90 grams of processed or red meat a day – equivalent to a couple of rashers of bacon – should cut down to 70 grams.
What’s clear is that, cooked with care and eaten selectively, meat may even boost your health. A recent report by the University of Edinburgh suggests that without better awareness of alternative sources of nutrients, the targets to reduce meat and dairy consumption by 20 per cent by 2035 might actually raise health risks, inadvertently exacerbating deficiencies in important minerals including selenium, iron and zinc.
But ethics and environment aside, what do we really know about the impact that eating meat has on our health?
Why we shouldn’t give up on meat
Veganism and vegetarianism have become shorthand terms for healthier lifestyles, says Dr Wenpeng You, biomedicine researcher at the University of Adelaide in Australia. But after he and his team examined the overall health effects of meat consumption in 175 countries, taking into account factors including affluence, obesity and overall calorie consumption, their results, published in the International Journal of General Medicine last year, suggest that meat consumption does not send people to an early grave. In fact, it extends life expectancy.
Dr You is not hugely surprised. Humans, he suggests, are hardwired to eat animal protein. “Until about 12,000 years ago, there were not many sources of other nutrients that we could digest.”
In fact, meat may become an increasingly useful and convenient source of nutrition as we age, suggests Prof James Goodwin, director of science at the Brain Health Network and author of Supercharge Your Brain. “From middle age onwards, a process called sarcopenia, or muscle loss, progresses at 1-2 per cent a year.” If you want to counter this loss, 30 per cent of your food should be protein, he suggests.
You could, of course, get all this protein from plants. It is just a lot more complicated. Nutritional therapist Lucy Miller says animal proteins are “complete” – meaning they contain all the amino acids our bodies need.
The odd BLT is OK but avoid processed meat when you can
There is strong evidence that processed meat – including ham, bacon, corned beef and some sausages – increases the risk of bowel cancer, says Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK. “Nitrates and nitrites, which are added to processed meat to keep it fresh for longer, can form chemicals called N-nitroso chemicals (or NOCs) during digestion that can damage the cells in the bowel,” she explains.
Processed meats are also high in blood-pressure-raising sodium, says consultant cardiologist Dr Neil Srinivasan. Eating two servings a week may raise your risk of heart and circulatory diseases by 7 per cent.
The other bad news is that processed meats have also been linked to Type 2 diabetes, while a 2021 observational study correlated the consumption of 25g of processed meat a day to a 44 per cent increase in risk of dementia.
The good news about red meat
“Red meat is one of the best available sources of iron, zinc and B vitamins, in particular vitamin B12,” says Dr Srinivasan. This means it has the potential to do your heart good, because low zinc levels have been linked to conditions including coronary artery disease and angina, while vitamins B6, B9, and B12 may lower the risk of heart disease and stroke.
It is also rich in haem iron, says Miller, a highly absorbable form of the mineral that is only found in animal-based foods, “meaning that if you have a purely plant-based diet, you may not be absorbing high enough levels of iron”.
That haem, however, is controversial. During digestion, it breaks down into cancer-causing chemicals, says Dr Sharp. Plus, “when processed and red meats are cooked at high temperatures, such as grilling or barbecuing, other cancer-causing chemicals are produced, called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).” Eating large quantities is therefore considered a likely cause of bowel cancer, although further research is needed to confirm that.
But what about heart disease? Red meat is higher in cholesterol than poultry or fish - a major reason it has, historically, been demonised. Yet “a number of studies now suggests it’s the mix of fats, sugar and refined carbohydrates in your diet that influences blood cholesterol, not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food,” says Miller. In fact, one study that came to this conclusion in 2010 criticised contemporary public health advice that promoted a move away from saturated fats found in animal products. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, said the advice “has spurred a compensatory increase in consumption of refined carbohydrates and added sugars – a dietary shift that may be contributing to the current twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes”.
And dementia? “There is definitely a relationship between the consumption of unprocessed red meat and dementia,” says Prof Goodwin. “It reduces the risk.” A 2021 study linked 50g of unprocessed red meat a day to a reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s. Not surprising, says Prof Goodwin: “The five most critical nutrients for the brain are all predominantly from animal sources,” he says. “Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, Omega 3 fatty acid, zinc and magnesium.” Modern Western diets are often low in them all.
How to choose your chicken
“White meat, such as chicken, and fish, are not linked to an increased risk of cancer,” says Sharp. In fact, good quality chicken is the best source of protein, says Miller, containing around 32g of protein in every 100g, compared to the 10g in the same amount of beans and legumes.
That said, in 2021, Oxford University researchers published a study involving 475,000 people – from voracious meat eaters to vegetarians. Keren Papier, the lead author, explains that “higher consumption of poultry meat was associated with higher risks of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, gastritis and duodenitis, diverticular disease, gallbladder disease, and diabetes.” There is, however, one crucial and familiar addendum. “Most of these positive associations were reduced if body mass index (BMI) was taken into account,” says Papier. “This suggests that regular meat eaters having a higher average body weight could be partly causing these associations.”
Control your weight, and a roast chicken may not be the death of you. But here’s the rub. Around 95 per cent of chicken consumed in the UK is factory-farmed, says Miller, making it liable to be less nutritionally dense, and also higher in fat. In other words, we’re being sold chicken that makes it harder to get the health benefits without the health risks.
Why the quality and cut matters
Choose meat from factory farms, where animals are confined and fed a grain-based diet, and the nutritional content of your meat will diminish, says Miller, citing a review spanning three decades which found that grass-fed beef not only had more healthy carotenoids, vitamin E and other antioxidants, but also contained less fat, of unhealthier sorts.
“Grass-fed beef has more Omega 3 fatty acids than grain-fed beef,” agrees Prof Goodwin. “On organic [beef], the jury is out. Few studies show, unequivocally, that its nutrient levels are better, just that there are no pesticides in it.”
The cut counts too. “Unprocessed, lean meats and cuts are healthier for your heart,” says Dr Srinivasan. “So ask your butcher for a lean cut and, if buying pre-packed meat, check the nutrition label to see how much fat it contains and compare products.”
The healthy way to eat meat – and how much
Back in 1996, a study was published that examined the health outcomes of 11,000 “health conscious” Brits, some vegetarian, others omnivore, recruited from places such as health food shops. After 17 years, both camps had half the death rate compared with the average population. The key influence appeared not to be whether or not they ate meat, but whether or not they ate lots of fresh fruit and raw salad.
“In the West, an estimated 75 per cent of all our calories comes from just five animals and 12 plants – a woefully narrow diet,” says Prof Goodwin. It is this narrowness that lies at the root of many health problems, he suggests. So, “ask yourself the following question: have I eaten 30 types of plant and more than five types of animal food this week?” The answer, he suggests, may not be to exclude meat altogether but “to eat a better quality, more balanced and diverse diet”.
Meat: the good and the bad for your health
1. Steak filet
Good: a source of iron, zinc and B vitamins
2. Chicken breast
Good: but avoid factory farmed chicken, which is higher in fat
3. Sausage
Bad: processed meat raises your risk of bowel cancer
4. Lamb chops
Bad: avoid barbecuing, as meat can become carcinogenic
5. Venison steak
Good: lower in fat than any other red meat
6. Bacon rasher
Bad: buy nitrate-free bacon to lower the cancer risk
7. Slice of turkey
Good: an excellent source of selenium, a mineral that can help prevent certain cancers
8. Parma ham
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Almost three million Scots have cut back spending on food and groceries as a result of increasing energy costs, according to advice charity Citizens Advice Scotland.
The organisation, which provides help to those struggling with bills, said it was still seeing “far too many horrific examples of people having to make impossible choices like heating and eating”. It highlighted the case of a pensioner with osteoarthritis who was using a sandwich toaster rather than turning on her oven to save electricity, and has also stopped using her gas central heating.
Citizen Advice Scotland said its analysis of figures from YouGov showed an estimated 2.8 million people in Scotland have cut back on groceries or food for the household as a result of increasing energy costs. That was after research by the polling firm in October found 63% had reduced spending on food and groceries over the last year.
It raised the issue as the energy price cap across the UK increased by 5% – or £94 a year.
Emma Jackson, social justice spokesperson for Citizens Advice Scotland, said: “As the energy price cap increases today, this analysis shows the sheer scale of people cutting back on food in various ways. Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) advisers see far too many horrific examples of people having to make impossible choices like heating and eating.
“With inflation driving food prices up and energy bills high, it’s understandable people will be worried this winter when it comes to bills and money. But the Citizens Advice network is here for people who are worried with free, confidential and impartial advice.
“The CAB network gets incredible results for people. Last year the average gain for someone who saw one after seeking advice was over £3,700. That can be absolutely life-changing money this winter.”
Her comments came as Frazer Scott, chief executive officer of Energy Action Scotland, said the ending of a UK Government support scheme that had cut bills for people last winter meant the 5% rise could “actually feel like a 19% increase”. As 2024 gets under way, he said people were “facing the prospect yet again of higher energy costs.”
Mr Scott told The Sunday Show on BBC Radio Scotland: “Energy is an essential element to our health and wellbeing. The biggest risk when it is unaffordable is people simply cannot heat or power their homes to the level that is important for their health and wellbeing.”
Energy Action Scotland is urging people to submit a meter reading to their energy provider, so they do not overpay on their power bills.
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Kazakhstan to switch over to own gasoline, diesel fuel this year, says Dossayev
Addressing the meeting, he said that the fuel and energy sector remains the main economic growth driver and that 2018 was a record year in terms of the sector's key indicators.
"Over 90 million tons of oil and over 55 billion cubic meters of gas were extracted. The modernization of all three refineries has been completed. At the end of the last year, the average retail prices for the main oil products did not rise. The domestic demand for gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and bitumen will be satisfied starting this year," he informed.
Yerbolat Dossayev also informed that at the yearend, Kazakhstan's GDP growth was 4.1%, and 70% of this growth was ensured by the non-energy sectors. According to him, the manufacturing industry growth was achieved by raising the machine-building manufacturing, oil refining, chemical industry and non-ferrous metallurgy production.
"The labor productivity in the economy as a whole grew by 2.9 percent. The inflation rate fell to 5.3 pct. The unemployment rate is at a safe level and amounted to 4.9% at the yearend. Fixed capital investment increased by 17 pct, while private investment rose by 22.5 pct," he said. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-to-switch-over-to-own-gasoline-diesel-fuel-this-year-says-dossayev_a3493140/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:03Z |
New Delhi [India]: The hat-trick of victories in three state assemblies, combined with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's immense popularity and emotive issues such as the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya, has made a third, straight term for the BJP at the Centre 'almost an inevitability', read a column in the UK-based daily, The Guardian.
The column, by Hannah Ellis-Peterson, pointed to the saffron sweep in the three heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan have added more strength and momentum to the BJP going into the crucial Lok Sabha elections next year.
After assembly wins in three states, PM Modi himself didn't hold back from predicting that "this hat-trick has guaranteed the 2024 victory", the column noted.
In India's current political landscape, the consensus among political analysts is that a win for Modi and the BJP is the "most plausible outcome", Ellis-Peterson added in her piece.
"The prime minister's popularity as a political strongman, alongside the BJP's Hindu nationalist agenda, continues to appeal to the large Hindu majority of the country, particularly in the populous Hindi belt of the north", the column read, adding, "At the state and national level, the apparatus of the country has been skewed heavily towards the BJP since Modi was elected (PM) in 2014".
The column noted further that while the regional opposition to the BJP was strong in pockets of south and east India, nationally it is seen as 'fragmented and weak'.
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"The main opposition -- Indian National Congress -- won the state election in Telangana this month but is in power in only three states overall and is perceived as "hierarchical and riddled with infighting", The Guardian reported.
"The recently formed coalition of all major opposition parties -- which goes by the acronym INDIA -- is yet to unite on crucial issues, though it has vowed to fight the BJP collectively," the piece read further, adding, "The general sense is that a BJP win is almost an inevitability at this stage," said Neelanjan Sircar, a fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. "The question is more: what factors will shape the scale of the victory?"
Pointing to the BJP's 'nationwide pre-election push' -- 'Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra', the column stated that it features the deployment of 'thousands of government officers' to towns and villages across the country over the next two months, "tasked with speaking about the BJP's successes over the past nine years".
The Ministry of Defence is also setting up 822 'selfie points' at war memorials, defence museums, railway stations and tourist attractions where people can take photos of themselves with a cutout of PM Modi, The Guardian reported.
"PM Modi rose to power in 2014 largely on the back of an anti-incumbency wave while his re-election victory in 2019 was all but secured after India carried out airstrikes on Pakistan, after a terrorist incident a few months before the polls, resulting in a storm of national security sentiment in his favour," wrote Ellis-Petersen.
However, she added in her piece that it was 'unclear' if the BJP would be able to repeat its landslide mandate like 2019.
The party's position remains uncertain in the crucial states of Bihar and Maharashtra, the column noted, adding that issues such as 'jobs and inflation' could affect voting the pattern.
"BJP's dominant victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh have reaffirmed PM Modi's popularity. Though (the) PM has little to do with state elections, which are designed to elect local assembly members, the BJP strategically put Modi front and centre of their campaigns in the place of local leaders, where he appeared at dozens of rallies to directly appeal to voters and present himself as the embodiment of the party," The Guardian column read further.
It added that "PM Modi's messaging in these campaign speeches combined an emphasis on the BJP's paternalistic welfare schemes along with (an) nationalistic agenda".
The column commended PM Modi's "role in elevating India as a global power - be that in international politics or in the recent its moon landing in August".
On the grand opening of the Ram Temple by PM Modi on January 22, the column noted that it was "one of the biggest issues likely to dominate the BJP's agenda" before the general elections.
The 'fanfare' around the inauguration of the temple later is expected to be a national event, the piece read.
The column quoted Baijayant Panda, the national vice president of the BJP, as saying that the party was very confident about its prospects for the Lok Sabha polls.
He credited the confidence in part to 'the Modi premium', elaborating that the BJP tended to perform better in national than state elections because of the "stratospheric popularity" of Prime Minister Modi, according to The Guardian.
"On the ground, there's a huge surge of optimism, even in areas which we haven't traditionally won", Panda was quoted as saying in the report.
"Having had this kind of victory in the state elections completely cements our position," he added.
Amid concerns by some detractors around a third term for PM Modi and what it portends for the country, Panda affirmed that it would be defined by economic success and India becoming the world's third-largest major economy.
Pushing back against allegations of communalism against the BJP, Panda added, "I dare anyone to point out where a minority, whether a Muslim or a Christian or Buddhist or a Sikh has been discriminated against in the governance of India, you will not find a single example."
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Clothes made for moving and resting
Maybe one day you’re feeling motivated and want to get some exercise with a brisk jog. Or maybe you’ll change your mind and do some much-needed relaxing on the couch instead. This type of perfectly relatable indecisiveness calls for a most versatile ensemble: workout clothes that are also great for lounging.
Marked by its comfort (and therefore lack of compression), athleisure works just as well at a barre class as on a lazy Sunday at home. And don’t think that means you have to compromise on style — our favorite workout/loungewear is just as cute as it is cozy.
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Our favorite places to shop for comfy athleisure clothes
Athleisure clothing is more popular than ever, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, which came with ample time spent at home and, therefore, spawned a new appreciation for ultra-comfortable clothing. There are lots of great places to buy cute workout clothes that are also excellent for lounging. These are a few of our favorites.
Universal Standard
The inclusive clothing retailer has a robust athleisure section. We love that every versatile piece comes in an excellent size selection. Nearly the entire line comes in the same colorways, so it’s super easy to mix and match various pieces to create several great outfits.
Vuori
Browse the pages of Vuori’s website, and practically everything you find will fall into both the activewear and the loungewear categories. Of all the California-based brand’s high-quality offerings, we’re partial to its DreamKnit and BlissBlend lines. The DreamKnit line, which includes the comfiest silky sweats dubbed the Performance Jogger, is crafted from a lightweight-but-durable supersoft fabric that feels amazing. Meanwhile, the new BlissBlend line of leggings and sports bras is made from a high-stretch fabric with a luxuriously airy feel.
Abercrombie & Fitch
In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Abercrombie & Fitch is officially cool again. Among our favorite things to shop from the more inclusive brand is its activewear under the YPB label. (By the way, that stands for Your Personal Best, a message we can certainly stand behind.) The coziest offerings include soft and stretchy leggings and a relaxed-fit, quick-dry, long-sleeve T-shirt.
Colorfulkoala
These budget-friendly yoga pants, which are available on Amazon, are among our favorites for their super-comfy matte finish that’s reminiscent of pricier Lululemon styles. Though they’ll stay securely put through even the most intense workout class, they can be worn just as well around the house with an oversized sweater and slippers. There are tons of fun patterns and colors to choose from, as well as iterations with and without pockets.
Quince
Though best known for its $50 Mongolian cashmere sweater, this direct-to-consumer brand also offers an impeccable selection of activewear. Though motion-ready, everything is highly comfortable, so you don’t have to work out if you don’t want to.
Halara
This brand specializes in all kinds of comfortable clothing and its Cloudful Fabric line feels exactly the way it sounds: heavenly. We especially love the cross-waist leggings, which have a flattering fit, but are designed to stay put despite activity. They come in a ton of fun colors in two different lengths.
Best athleisure clothes to shop
Universal Standard Mia Movement Tee
This versatile top makes a great workout item but can be paired just as well with your favorite pair of jeans (which we sincerely hope are also your comfiest pair). The cotton fabric is light and breathable, as well as sweat-wicking and antimicrobial.
With a lightweight yet supportive fabric, Vuori’s newest leggings are breathable and supremely soft. The performance-stretch material is designed to stay put while you move, and the high waistband is comfortable and flattering. We especially love that it comes in three length options and pairs with the Vuori BlissBlend Bra to make the perfect ensemble.
These dreamy, supersoft bottoms are crafted from a silky fabric that’s equally great for jogging and lounging. They have a tapered leg with an above-the-ankle cuff and a drawstring waist. They come in a bunch of gorgeous hues, as well as a long-length option.
Abercrombie YPB powerSOFT Long-Sleeve Easy Tee
This supremely comfortable top is the perfect length to partner with a pair of leggings and wear to a winter workout class. Don’t worry if you sweat. The quick-dry fabric can handle it without issue. However, if a Netflix marathon is on the agenda instead, you’ll be equally impressed with the top’s roomy and perfectly drapey fit.
Abercrombie YPB studioSOFT 7/8-Length Legging
We love a legging that’s available in multiple length options to help everyone get the perfect fit. This delightfully comfy, lightweight pair has a ton of stretch. If you wear them to the gym, you’ll appreciate the convenient card pocket. If you wear them to lounge, you’ll love the supersoft feel of the fabric.
Colorfulkoala High-Waisted Yoga Pants
It doesn’t matter if you wear these stretchy bottoms to a yoga class or to your couch — you’re bound to be impressed by the buttery-soft fabric. Even better, there are over 20 colors and patterns to choose from, and since the price tag is so agreeable, you can load up with a bunch.
Quince Ultra-Soft Fitted Long-Sleeve Top
With a close-but-not-constricting fit, this long-sleeve top is an excellent choice for a winter workout class or a work-from-home day. We love the thumbholes, which make it great for layering and add some sporty flair.
Quince Ultra-Form High-Rise Flared Pant
These flared yoga pants have a secure high-rise fit. They’re crafted from a moisture-wicking, antimicrobial fabric that’s perfectly suitable to sweat in — or not! The flared bottoms add a fun retro-inspired look to these versatile pants.
Halara Everyday Cloudful Fabric 3.0 Crossover Pocket Plain Leggings
These leggings are perfect for yoga or lounging, and the flattering crossover waist makes them especially cute to wear with a cropped top. The four-way stretch fabric offers comfort and durability, and the side pockets are convenient for when you’re on the go.
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Where to watch fireworks, things to do on New Year’s Eve in San Diego
SAN DIEGO — The new year is approaching fast and there are many ways to ring in 2024. San Diego, ranked the second best place in the U.S. to celebrate New Year’s Eve in a recent study, has lots to offer during the holiday season.
From family-friendly events to holiday pop-up bars and bottomless mimosas, to a music festival in Petco Park, a party on the beach and a cruise on a mega yacht, and of course watching fireworks, there’s no shortage of things to do.
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Watching fireworks on New Year’s Eve is a staple. So here’s a list of NYE events and locations to end 2023 and ring in 2024:
SeaWorld San Diego’s New Year’s Eve Family Bash
Bring the whole family to SeaWorld San Diego to ring in the new year. Ride some rides and catch some animal shows. The park transforms at dusk with lights and music. Dance the night away with your favorite SeaWorld characters with live entertainment, party hats, and more. Then end the night at 9 p.m. with a NYE countdown and fireworks show.
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LEGOLAND Kids’ New Year’s Eve
This kid-friendly NYE celebration at 6 p.m. features a dance party, park rides, activities, a “kid standard time” countdown, and a fireworks shows that explodes in 3D LEGO bricks with special viewing glasses.
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Gaslamp Quarter New Year’s Eve celebration 2024
This adult NYE celebration features great views of downtown San Diego, a live DJ, craft cocktails and a midnight champagne toast from the Altitude Sky Lounge rooftop above the Gaslamp Quarter. You might even get a glimpse of some fireworks as midnight rolls around.
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Party into 2024 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront with bands, DJs, and a buffet with multiple party areas to choose from. Leave your wallet at home because a VIP ticket includes everything you’ll need all night.
On The Boardwalk San Diego New Year’s Eve Cruise 2024
Party into the new year on a three-hour cruise aboard the Inspiration Hornblower Mega Yacht, which offers food, cocktails, two decks of entertainment and a dance floor. End the night with views of the San Diego skyline, the Coronado Bridge, U.S. Navy Ships and you might even spot some fireworks along the shore.
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CRSSD Proper NYE/NYD music festival at Petco Park
Party the night away in downtown San Diego at a two-day techno/house music festival in Petco Park, featuring a lineup including Chris Lake, Jimi Jules, Biscits, Claptone, 8Kays, Cloonee, Diplo, and many more.
Free bus, Trolley, SPRINTER, and COASTER service on New Year’s Eve
Grab the whole family and head to your favorite beach or NYE event to watch the fireworks as the West Coast celebrates the start of 2024. When near water this weekend, keep in mind the high surf warning and coastal flooding advisory that are still in place tonight.
If you do go out drinking, be sure to designate a sober driver, grab a rideshare or use the free public transportation in San Diego that runs from 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve past 2 a.m. New Year’s Day.
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If you don’t want to leave the house, don’t miss the Las Vegas Countdown to 2024 live on FOX 5 (channel 69.1) starting at 9 p.m. Sunday, or online on fox5sandiego.com.
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MUMBAI, Jan 1 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee rose slightly
on Monday, aiming for a positive start to the new year, aided by
dollar sales from exporters and foreign banks.
The rupee was at 83.1725 against the U.S. dollar as
of 10:15 a.m. IST, compared with its close of 83.2075 in the
previous session.
The rupee hovered between 83.2350 and 83.1550 in early
trading. Most global markets are shut for the New Year's
holiday.
The dollar index snapped a two-year winning streak to end
about 2% lower in 2023, as growing expectations of a U.S. rate
cut pressured the greenback.
On the other hand, while the rupee fell for a sixth straight
year in 2023, that was its smallest drop in at least 20 years as
persistent intervention by the Reserve Bank of India drove
volatility to decadal lows.
On Monday, the rupee's early gains were aided by dollar
sales by foreign banks and exporters, a foreign exchange trader
at a state-run bank said.
Strong foreign inflows should keep the rupee well-supported
in the near-term but it will be key to see how much of an
increase the RBI will stomach, the trader added.
Overseas investors bought Indian equities and shares worth
$28.7 billion in the year gone by, according to NSDL data.
While the rupee's "fundamentals are solid," it'll be
intriguing to watch how the local unit fares on potential
appreciation above the 83 handle, said Amit Pabari, managing
director at fx advisory firm CR Forex.
Investors await U.S. economic data due later in the week,
including the closely watched U.S. non-farm payrolls and
unemployment data due on Friday.
The data is expected to show the U.S. unemployment rate
ticked up to 3.8% in December, from 3.7% in November, per a
Reuters poll.
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(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Published: Mon 1 Jan 2024, 8:01 AM
Last updated: Mon 1 Jan 2024, 8:06 AM
Dynamic Australian opener David Warner called time Monday on one-day international cricket ahead of his farewell Test against Pakistan this week, but kept the door open to play the 2025 Champions Trophy if needed.
The 37-year-old will pad up in his 112th and final Test in his home city Sydney on Wednesday, having plundered 8,695 runs at an average of 44.58, with 26 centuries and 36 half-centuries.
At a press conference at the Sydney Cricket Ground, he also announced his retirement from ODIs, where he has been a fixture since his debut in 2009, helping the team win the World Cup in 2015 and 2023.
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"I've got to give back to the family and also on the back of that I'm definitely retiring from one-day cricket as well," he said.
"That was something that I had said through the (2023) World Cup, get through that, and winning it in India, I think that's a massive achievement.
"So I'll make that decision today, to retire from those forms, which does allow me to go and play some other (Twenty20) leagues around the world and sort of get the one-day team moving forward a little bit.
"I know there's a Champions Trophy coming up," he added. "If I'm playing decent cricket in two years' time and I'm around and they need someone, I'm going to be available."
The Champions Trophy has not been played since 2017, but is set to be resurrected in 2025 in Pakistan. Traditionally 50-over cricket, reports have said there is a push underway to make it T20.
Warner leaves ODIs after 161 matches, smashing 6,932 runs at an average of 45.30, with 22 centuries. Among Australians, only Ricky Ponting with 30 has scored more one-day tons.
He will continue to be available in the T20 format, with the 2024 World Cup in the Caribbean and United States a target.
Warner's decision to depart one-dayers means Australia will need a new opener for their three-match series against the West Indies in February, which follows a two-Test series in Adelaide and Brisbane.
Ahead of his ODI announcement, Cricket Australia chief Nick Hockley paid tribute to Warner's "amazing Test career".
"We are all extremely grateful for his immense contribution to this form of the game," he said in a statement.
"David's wonderful attacking style not only played a vital role in many Australian victories, it also enthralled and entertained fans across the world and drew many to Test cricket."
A larger-than-life character, Warner was described by Australia coach Andrew McDonald over the weekend as "probably our greatest ever three-format player".
But he will forever be remembered for the role he played in the notorious ball-tampering scandal of 2018 in South Africa.
Along with skipper Steve Smith, he was banned for a year for his part in the third Test debacle in Cape Town that saw Cameron Bancroft use sandpaper to scuff the ball before a crude attempt to conceal the evidence down his trousers.
Reflecting on his Test career, Warner said it was a "fairytale ending" to hang up his gloves in Sydney.
"I would have never imagined opening the batting for New South Wales or anyone to be honest when I first started but to be here, 112 Tests I think, I still pinch myself," he said.
He added that he would like to be remembered as someone "authentic and honest" who has "gone out there and given it his all".
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A married daughter and her fiancée crushed the father under the wheels of a speeding vehicle when he tried to stop them from fleeing from his house at Bolpur in Birbhum district early morning today.
Tepantar Theatre Village, the only of its kind to promote local theatre is coming up as a cultural tourism hub.
Tepantar Theatre Village, the only of its kind to promote local theatre is coming up as a cultural tourism hub. The village is situated at Satahania village, Kanksa block, Durgapur subdivision in Paschim Burdwan. The village developed by Ebong Amra, a group of local people in 1994.
The campus which was set up in 1999 stands on 4 acres of land and is situated between Panagarh and Bolpur. There are poultry and fishery farms along with seven cottages and five dormitories and can accommodate 70 people. There are open air stage and indoor performance space. Ebong Amra organises annual national theatre festival and Tepantar mela when various articles made by local artisans are showcased.
There is a school where local art and cultural are taught to the students. Kallol Bhattacharya, artistic director of Ebong Amra said Tepantar Village and the local heritage and culture is becoming very popular. The school authorities in Purba and Paschim Burdwan are showing keen interest and already 300 students and teachers visited the village. “ We take them to the nearby places which include Ichhai Ghosh’s Deul, 300 year old brass made Rath,300 year old Nilkuthi, ASI protected monuments among others. We had observed World Tourism Day on 29 September, 2023 supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Eastern Region”
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Mr Sagnik Chowdhury, DDG and Regional Director (East) ministry of Tourism visited Tepantar Theatre Village site on 30 December 2023 and interacted with local people. He visited the heritage sites. It may be mentioned that Korea Partnership Initiative of Sustainable Tourism, is an initiative of the Government of Republic of Korea. It has 25 countries as members including India. KOPIST had organized a global plan contest in 2022.
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Mall of Asia kept closed on Dec 31 keeping in mind police's apprehensions, management tells HC
The court recorded the submission of the Mall and the police that deliberations would be held to sort out the issue and arrive at an amicable solution.A meeting was scheduled at the police Commissioners office at 3 PM on Sunday and the decision would be submitted to the High Court at the next date of hearing on January 2.
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At a special hearing of a petition by the Phoenix Mall of Asia challenging the order passed by the City Police Commissioner to ''restrict access to the public'' to the mall between December 31 and January 15, the mall management promised to keep it shut on December 31 considering the apprehensions raised by the police. The court recorded the submission of the Mall and the police that deliberations would be held to sort out the issue and arrive at an amicable solution.
A meeting was scheduled at the police Commissioner's office at 3 PM on Sunday and the decision would be submitted to the High Court at the next date of hearing on January 2. The HC bench of Justice MGS Kamal directed that ''no precipitative action shall be taken till the matter is resolved amicably or further order is passed by the Court'' and posted the hearing to January 2. Following the police Commissioner's order under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code directing restriction of entry of public to the Mall between 31-12-2023 and 15-01-2024, the Mall approached the HC. The HC noted the urgency and heard the matter on Sunday. ''The petitioner is before this court and considering the urgency pleaded, the matter is listed today,'' the HC noted. The Mall at Byatarayanapura, Yelahanka Hobli is on the Ballari Road leading to the Kempegowda International Airport and opened to the public on October 22, 2023. The police issued a notice on October 11, 2023 seeking information about the precautionary measures taken by the mall management about parking facilities, regulation of traffic among others. The mall responded on October 20. Thereafter the police after gathering information available and intelligence passed the order on December 30 restricting public entry. The order cited congestion, noise pollution and inconvenience to the public in surrounding areas.
On Christmas eve, there was major congestion caused by people visiting the mall. Citing this and the apprehension that the situation would result in the commission of cognizable offences in the future, the order was passed.
The counsel for the mall argued that the order was unsustainable as it did not meet the parameters of Section 144 of the CrPC.
It was also claimed the order was ambiguous as it says the mall should restrict public access to the premises. It was also submitted that the issue was not so grave that it needs such serious action.
The HC in its order clarified the police order that ''Restricting public access to Phoenix Mall of Asia shall not be read as an order completely preventing the petitioners from conducting business.'' ''It is a matter of deliberation between the petitioner and respondent. This is only a matter of implementation of the order,'' the HC said.
The Court said that the order has to be passed in its letter and spirit but if it is ambiguous, it becomes unsustainable.
Recording the submission that the meeting would be held the same day, the HC directed that the decision and the solution arrived at be submitted to the court on January 2 and adjourned the hearing.
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I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions because they rarely work. But this year, I urge you all to make one: cut down on how much fake food you eat.
What do I mean by fake food? I mean the packaged, glossy, edible food-like substances lining our shelves that are slowly reducing our life and health span.
Choosing what we eat is the most important decision we can make to improve our health and the health of the planet, so in 2024 let’s make it a priority.
In 2023, ultra-processed food (UPF) regularly made headlines – and for all the wrong reasons. In my view, each year these products make 2.5 million people sick and prevent them from working and living healthy lives.
Everyone in the UK would benefit from reducing their intake of UPFs and increasing their intake of real food.
Now, I’m partial to a chocolate digestive, and I enjoy them as a treat every so often. But for many of us in the UK, UPFs make up a large percentage – around 60 per cent – of our total calorie intake each day. And worryingly, for children that percentage is even higher.
Compared with other countries, we are doing quite poorly. Only the US consumes more UPFs than us.
UPFs are designed to be easy to eat and difficult to stop eating. Their texture and lack of fibre make them quick to digest, leading to spikes in blood sugar and blood fat, which cause inflammation. UPFs also leave you feeling hungry, causing you to eat more than you need.
So how do you spot UPFs in the supermarket?
Although there are academic arguments about the precise definition of UPFs, in practice they are easy to spot. If you couldn’t find most of the ingredients listed on the packet in your kitchen, it’s ultra-processed.
While it’s probably no surprise to you that chocolate digestives are classed as UPFs, it’s likely you consume more of these products than you realise. For instance, most supermarket breads, breakfast cereals, snacks and juices are also UPFs. They are everywhere and they are increasingly difficult to avoid.
I was recently at a conference about the future of nutrition in the UK, and not one speaker mentioned the elephant in the room: UPFs. There was some talk of fibre and the complexity of polyphenols, liquid soups and miracle shakes that reverse Type 2 diabetes, lots of reformulating and “fortifying” foods, and plenty of excitement about drugs like Ozempic.
Fortifying food is certainly a good idea for countries where access to enough food is challenging. But in the UK we have more than enough to go around.
We cannot reformulate and medicate our way out of our nutritional slump. The problem is that the vast majority of the food we eat is rubbish: UPFs are very low in nutrients. Fortifying them is not the answer. It’s like putting a sticking plaster on an amputated limb.
I was invited to join the panel at the end of the conference alongside esteemed academics, a community dietitian and some industry voices. Like the line-up on Have I Got News For You, everyone had a statement.
The science and the talks were interesting, but because industry representatives were in the room, nobody wanted to be the person to raise the biggest issue: the quality of our food.
My friend Henry Dimbleby closed the conference by outlining the huge cost of NHS care directly caused by poor diet. The evidence is clear: epidemiological studies involving hundreds of thousands of people show a very obvious relationship between eating more UPFs and worse health outcomes.
Brilliant research based on data from the UK Biobank shows that changing our Western diet to a healthy diet could add 10 years to our lives. People are losing an entire decade of life because Big Food has a stranglehold on the discussion surrounding these products. Adding extra calcium, protein or fibre to an otherwise nutrient-free lump does not constitute a health intervention.
Most of the people at the conference likely don’t get the majority of their calories from UPFs, but they are in the minority in the UK. According to an apocryphal story, Marie Antoinette said “Let them eat cake” when she learned that the peasants were starving. Today, we are showing a similar disregard for the general population. We are essentially saying “Let them eat edible food-like substances that make them sick”.
So why aren’t we doing something about this? It is a disgrace that the government is largely ignoring this problem, but it is not altogether surprising. Modern politics is short-term. Any intervention is unlikely to make a difference before the next election, so if making a positive change won’t help them stay in power, their motivation to make that change is low.
But they are allowing our nation to sleepwalk deeper into a health crisis.
Another issue is our susceptibility to marketing. We don’t question the motives of advertisers. It is important to remember that if a company has paid big bucks to push their product, they have zero interest in your health. They simply want you to buy it. They do not add fibre or protein to UPFs to help you stay healthy. They do it to lure you in under false pretences with their carefully pitched “health halo”.
Added to this, many of us these days cannot cook or have limited abilities in the kitchen. This is partly because cooking is no longer taught in schools. Of course, this suits the food companies – 10 of which control almost 80 per cent of our food.
These immense companies make billions annually, providing ample money to lobby MPs and health ministers and influence food scientists with new labs and grants. It is not dissimilar to how the tobacco industry operated in the Eighties and Nineties.
Research shows that it costs the country £98 billion each year to treat the conditions associated with the UPF-rich Western diet, increasing the burden on the taxpayer.
UPFs increase the risk of developing obesity, some cancers, heart disease, stroke, and mental health conditions. With the NHS already under immense pressure, it could do without the extra burden caused by the food industry.
Personally, uncovering this information while researching my books has been a real journey. And it is a problem that seems to be getting worse.
So what can we do about it? We might approach the UPF problem in a similar way to the tobacco problem – start with adding warning labels. Block the use of health halos. Expand the current sugar tax and use the profits to subsidise real food.
There is no need to ban UPFs, but the population deserves to know how these products affect their health. It needs to be made clear. And giant food companies should not be allowed to infer that their edible food-like substances are in any way benefiting people’s health. It is nothing short of a lie.
This year, it’s time for us to vote with our wallets. UPFs are incredibly profitable for food manufacturers. They’re cheap to make, scientifically designed to be overeaten and have a long shelf life.
Together, let’s stop making them so profitable. If we leave these products on the shelves, they won’t go off for months, but they will stop making Big Food richer and us sicker.
If you only make one New Year’s resolution, cutting back on your UPF intake is a strong choice. Your health will thank you for it. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/nutrition/tim-spector-health-resolution/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:07Z |
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Bowl season and the College Football Playoff are here, with eight games involving teams from the Pac-12 on the schedule. For details on how to watch all of the postseason action, read on.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have grown accustomed to wrapping up the AFC West by the middle of December.
Turns out they’re perfectly fine with clinching it on New Year’s Eve.
Amid an up-and-down season in which the Chiefs have been forced to rely on their defense while their high-profile offense sputtered, Patrick Mahomes and Co. still managed to clinch their eighth consecutive division championship Sunday with a come-from-behind 25-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals — their opponent in each of the past two AFC title games.
Harrison Butker was a career-best 6 for 6 on field-goal attempts, Mahomes had 245 yards passing and a touchdown, and Isiah Pacheco ran for a career-best 130 yards to help Kansas City (10-6) secure the No. 3 seed for the playoffs.
“Obviously, we’re not winning this in Week 12 or Week 13 like before. We had to battle through adversity and find a way to win,” said Mahomes, who went over 4,000 yards passing for his sixth consecutive year as the starter. “Now you’re in the playoffs, it’s one game, single elimination, and I think we can play with anybody.”
The Bengals (8-8), fighting to avoid postseason elimination, 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.
Four of Butker’s six field goals were from at least 43 yards, including his 54-yarder in the first half.
With one last chance, Bengals quarterback Jake Browning hit Tyler Boyd over the middle to convert a long fourth down and get them into Kansas City territory. But back-to-back sacks by George Karlaftis and Chris Jones ultimately dashed their hopes.
Browning finished with 197 yards passing and a touchdown. Joe Mixon ran for 65 yards and had the TD reception.
“Every guy left it all on the field,” Cincinnati coach Zac Taylor said. “It was an emotional game. Physical game. All the things we knew would happen, happened. You have to give Kansas City credit. They got it done down the stretch.”
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 fans, elected officials or — in the case this past week — players such as Bengals wide receiver 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 foul penalties.
“I just be under people’s skin sometimes, I guess,” Chase said afterward. “Just trash talking. (He) can’t handle it.”
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.
Pass interference on Sneed in the end zone set up Browning’s 1-yard TD run.
“It wasn’t the smoothest early,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
Butker’s first field goal got the Chiefs within 17-10, though, 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 another field goal to trail 17-13 at the break.
But 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 when the Bengals had to punt again, Mahomes hit Rashee Rice for 67 yards to set up Butker’s chip shot and give the Chiefs the lead. Two more field goals gave them some breathing room in the closing minutes.
“Everybody contributed in this, which I think was great. Nobody gave up hope,” said Reid, whose ninth consecutive 10-win season moved him past the 49ers’ George Seifert for the second-longest such streak in NFL history. “The guys executed well, and that is the most important thing right now, at this time of year.”
INJURIES
Cincinnati WR Tee Higgins left in the second quarter with a hamstring injury. He returned to the game but didn’t have another catch, finishing with one for 19 yards.
Kansas City WR Justin Watson hurt his chest in the third quarter but returned to the game. The Chiefs are thin at wide receiver with Skyy Moore on injured reserve and Kadarius Toney inactive due to a hip injury.
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Bengals: Host Cleveland next weekend.
Chiefs: At the Los Angeles Chargers next weekend.
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Kazakhstan, U.S. keen to launch direct flights
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Civil Aviation Committee is close to signing the air service agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the U.S., Kazinform has learnt from the Committee.
To this end, Kazakhstani and U.S. aviation authorities held bilateral consultations on September 21, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
According to the Committee, the sides are putting the finishing touches to the text of the agreement.
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Ras Al Khaimah broke two Guinness World Records on January 1, 2024, as the UAE welcomed 2024.
The emirate rang in the new year with an eight-minute-long firework and drone display, breaking two titles for the 'Longest chain of aquatic floating fireworks' for a grand total of 5.8km and the 'Longest straight-line drones display' for a total length of 2km.
The show featured groundbreaking techniques using a combination of 1,050 LED drones, a 'carpet' of aquatic floating fireworks and acrobatic pyro planes display inspired by Ras Al Khaimah's natural wonders – the desert, the sea and the mountains – all choreographed to music specially composed for the occasion.
The city which already holds several Guinness World Records for its iconic New Year's Eve shows, made history as the stunning spectacle lit up skies along the 4.5km stretch of Ras Al Khaimah's waterfront.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Indian rupee will open little changed on Monday, with the U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate outlook and the Reserve Bank of India's forex strategy expected to be the key to begin the New Year.
Non-deliverable forwards indicate the rupee will open nearly unchanged from 83.2075 on Friday. Other Asian markets were off.
"The most important things I can think of to begin the year are the Fed and RBI," an FX trader at a bank said.
The balance of risks for USD/INR is on the downside (on USD/INR, "simply based" on the dollar's struggles premised on the Fed pivot and "hope of a different RBI", he said.
The RBI has persistently intervened in foreign exchange markets on both sides over the last several weeks, keeping USD/INR in a narrow range, according to traders.
Over the last two months, expectations that the Fed will cut rates several times in 2024 have hurt demand for the dollar.
The dollar index has declined 5% over November and December on the back of investors pricing five or six Fed rate cuts this year.
The first rate cut is expected to be delivered as soon as March.
Some analysts see an uncertain period at the beginning of the year.
"Given the moves we've seen in November/December, 2024 is unlikely to start with clear trends," Societe Generale said in a note.
Important U.S. data is due this week, which could impact the interest rate outlook and, consequently, the dollar.
The US ISM manufacturing data is due Wednesday, followed by services and non-farm payrolls print on Friday.
KEY INDICATORS: ** One-month non-deliverable rupee forward at 83.30; onshore one-month forward premium at 8.25 paise
** Brent crude futures dropped to $77.04 per barrel on Fri ** Ten-year U.S. note yield at 3.87% on Fri
** As per NSDL data, foreign investors bought a net $679.7mln worth of Indian shares on Dec. 28
** NSDL data shows foreign investors bought a net $105.4mln worth of Indian bonds on Dec. 28
(Reporting by Nimesh Vora; Editing by Sohini Goswami)
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CAIRO—Israel and Hamas on Monday gave cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war. But the longstanding enemies stopped short of rejecting the plan altogether, raising the possibility of a new round of diplomacy to halt a devastating Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian plan calls for a phased hostage release and the formation of a Palestinian government of experts to administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, according to a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat familiar with the proposal.
The Egyptian official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal, said the details were worked out with the Gulf nation of Qatar and presented to Israel, Hamas, the United States and European governments. Egypt and Qatar both mediate between Israel and Hamas, while the US is Israel’s closest ally and a key power in the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not comment directly on the proposal. But speaking to members of his Likud Party, he said he was determined to press ahead with Israel’s offensive, launched in response to an Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and took 240 others hostage.
“We are expanding the fight in the coming days and this will be a long battle and it isn’t close to finished,” he said.
Hamas has continued to fire rockets into Israel throughout the fighting. Late Monday, it launched a barrage of rockets, triggering air raid sirens in the southern city of Ashkelon. AP video showed what appeared to be several interceptions by Israel’s rocket defense system. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The Egyptian proposal falls short of Israel’s declared goal of crushing Hamas. It also appears to be at odds with Israel’s insistence on maintaining military control over Gaza for an extended period after the war.
But Netanyahu faces heavy domestic pressure to reach a deal to bring home the more than 100 Israeli hostages who remain in captivity in Gaza.
As he vowed to continue the war during a speech in parliament, relatives of the hostages interrupted him and called for their immediate return. “Now! Now!” they shouted.
The rising death toll of Israeli soldiers from the ground operation also threatens to undermine public support for the war. The Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers Monday, bringing the total killed in the war to 156.
Netanyahu’s War Cabinet was expected to meet late Monday. It was unclear if they would discuss the Egyptian proposal.
Hamas did not officially react to the proposal. But it is unclear if Hamas would agree to relinquish power after controlling Gaza for the past 16 years.
Izzat Rishq, a senior Hamas official who is believed to be based in Qatar, issued a statement repeating the group’s position that it will not negotiate without a “complete end to the aggression.” He said Hamas would not agree to a “temporary or partial truce for a short period of time.”
Word of the proposal came as Israeli airstrikes heavily pounded central and southern Gaza.
In the Maghazi refugee camp Monday, rescue workers were still pulling bodies from the wreckage of a strike the previous night. Records at the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital seen by The Associated Press showed at least 106 people killed, making it one of the deadliest strikes of Israel’s air campaign.
The United Nations’ World Health Organization visited the hospital on Monday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“The hospital is taking in far more patients than its bed capacity and staff can handle. Many will not survive the wait,” he said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
The war has devastated large parts of Gaza, killed more than 20,600 Palestinians and displaced almost all of the territory’s 2.3 million people.
U.N. officials have warned that a quarter of the population is starving under Israel’s siege of the territory, which allows in only a trickle of supplies.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Hamas admitted to shooting dead a 13-year-old boy who was among a group of people who tried to seize aid from a truck. The shooting prompted a violent protest and rare public criticism of Hamas.
Egyptian proposal
The Egyptian proposal is an ambitious bid not only to end the war but also to lay out a plan for the day after.
It calls for an initial cease-fire of up to two weeks during which Palestinian militants would free 40 to 50 hostages, among them women, the sick and the elderly, in return for the release of 120-150 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, the Egyptian official said.
At the same time, negotiations would continue on extending the cease-fire and the release of more hostages and bodies held by Palestinian militants, he said. Israeli officials estimate that 20 of the hostages have died or been killed in captivity.
Egypt and Qatar would also work with all Palestinian factions, including Hamas and the rival, internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, to agree on the establishment of a government of experts, he said.
The government would rule Gaza and the West Bank for a transitional period as Palestinian factions work toward presidential and parliamentary elections, he added.
In the meantime, Israel and Hamas would negotiate a comprehensive “all-for-all” deal, he said. This would include the release of all remaining hostages in return for all Palestinian prisoners in Israel, as well as the Israeli military’s withdrawal from Gaza and the Palestinian militants’ halting of rocket attacks into Israel.
More than 8,000 Palestinians are held by Israel on security-related charges or convictions, according to Palestinian figures. Some have been convicted in deadly attacks on Israelis. While their release would be controversial, Israel has a history of agreeing to lopsided releases.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry spoke by phone Monday with Iran’s chief diplomat, Hossein Amirabdollahian, on the war in Gaza, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said. The statement said Shoukry discussed efforts to achieve a comprehensive cease-fire. It didn’t offer further details. Iran is a major supporter of Hamas.
In Washington, the White House declined to comment about the Egyptian proposal.
US officials remain in close contact with Egypt and Qatar about getting more hostages released and several proposals have been floated, according to a person familiar with the talks. While the Egyptian proposal is viewed as a positive sign, the US is skeptical it will result in a breakthrough, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss behind the scenes diplomacy.
Inside Gaza
Israel’s offensive has been one of the most devastating military campaigns in recent history. More than two-thirds of the 20,674 Palestinians killed have been women and children, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants among the dead.
The offensive has led to a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with shortages of food, medicines and other basic supplies.
With aid shipments limited, crowds have tried to seize some of the goods coming in on trucks. Hamas gunmen have been seen on top of some of the vehicles. The group says it is protecting the shipments, while Israel accuses it of stealing aid.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Hamas acknowledged that a policeman with the Hamas-run Interior Ministry shot dead a 13-year-old boy, saying the shots were fired when a group of people tried to seize aid from a truck near the city of Rafah on Sunday, an official with Hamas government media office said Monday.
The shooting prompted a violent protest and rare public criticism of Hamas, which has shown little tolerance for dissent during its rule.
Enraged relatives of the slain boy, Ahmed Brikeh, attempted to attack a police station, burning tires and demanding the policeman be held accountable.
A relative, Mosaad Brikeh, blamed Hamas for the killing in video comments circulated on social media, accusing the policeman of shooting the boy “directly in his head.”
He said the family has previously cooperated with Hamas to secure the border area with Egypt. He called for the policeman to be held accountable, warning the family would prevent “any vehicles” from passing through the area.
The devastation of the war over the past weeks has brought sporadic eruptions of anger against Hamas, something that has previously been unthinkable during the group’s 16-year rule over Gaza.
Israel faces international criticism for the civilian death toll. It blames Hamas, citing the militants’ use of crowded residential areas and tunnels. Israel says it has killed thousands of Hamas militants, without presenting evidence.
Late on Monday, the Israeli army said it had discovered the stolen car of the family of an Israeli hostage, Samer Al-Talalka, in a hospital compound in northern Gaza. Al-Talalka was among three hostages mistakenly shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza earlier this month.
The army said grenade fragments and bloodstains of another hostage were found in the vehicle. “The finding of the vehicle directly links the hospital to the brutal events of Oct. 7,” it said.
Christmas amid war
Dozens of members of Gaza’s tiny Christian community held a Christmas Eve service in the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, which they have also used as a shelter. Last week, Catholic officials said that two Christian women were killed by Israeli sniper fire at the compound.
“This is not a feast,” said Kamal Ayad, whose wife and daughter were killed in the shooting. “This is a feast of pain for the Palestinian people.”
He said his only wish was for “peace and hope for a cease-fire.”
The service was held late Sunday, but details only emerged on Monday due to frequent Internet outages.
Bethlehem was hushed for Christmas, its holiday celebrations called off. Jobain reported from Rafah, Gaza Strip, and Federman from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Kareem Chehayeb contributed reporting from Beirut.
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4 Bhangar police stations to come under Kolkata Police tomorrow
In a significant move, four police stations in Bhangar are set to form ally come under the jurisdiction of the Kolkata Police on Tuesday.
Trinamul Congress leaders and workers are anxiously waiting to listen to the party’s chairperson Mamata Banerjee tomorrow, 1 January when the party will be celebrating its foundation day.
Trinamul Congress leaders and workers are anxiously waiting to listen to the party’s chairperson Mamata Banerjee tomorrow, 1 January when the party will be celebrating its foundation day. Miss Banerjee set up Trinamul Congress on 1 January 1998 after she realised that Congress would never organise any movement to dislodge the CPI-M from power in Bengal.
A senior party leader said the party flag would be hoisted at the main office and all the offices in the districts up to the block level. There will be blood donation camps organised by the party in different areas across the state. He said the party rank and file were waiting to get a message from Miss Banerjee. He said as the Lok Sabha election is drawing near, the party is gearing up for it. It was learnt that the full bench of the Election Commission of India would come to Kolkata in January.
In March they are likely to announce the date of the election . While addressing the party leaders in North 24-Parganas recently, Miss Banerjee had asked them to bury the hatchet and work together to ensure victory of the candidates in 2024 elections. She has said over and over again to build contacts with the people coming from all walks of life. The party will launch an intensive campaign from January.
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More than 10 days have lapsed since Miss Banerjee along with other party MPs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delh seeking his intervention to clear the long standing dues of the state. Though Mr Modi had given assurance, nothing has been done so far. Trinamul Congress will highlight how the Centre had deliberately deprived the state of its dues.
Those who had worked for 100 days under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ( MGNREGA) scheme have not received their dues. The funds meant for construction of houses for the poor have been withheld. Miss Banerjee has always wanted that youths should join politics and on 2 January she will address the youths at Netaji Indoor Stadium.
She is likely to give a road map which they should follow and inform people about various schemes that the state government has taken for the welfare of the masses. Just before the foundation day of Trinamul Congress some people with vested interests circulated a rumour that Mr Abhishek Banerjee, party’s national general secretary had told people close to him that he would campaign only in Diamond Harbour, which is his Lok Sabha constituency, during the polls.
Party leaders said the report was baseless and circulated just to create confusion amongst the public before the party’s foundation day
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A rescued XL bully dumped outside a vets on Christmas Eve was sent to Scotland before the crackdown began in England and Wales.
Cookie is now settling in to a new home in Aberdeen after an appeal on social media resulted in offers of help flooding in.
Rebecca Smyth of Surrey-based dog charity Pawprints to Freedom, was heartbroken when she received a call to say Cookie had been abandoned.
With severe infections in both of her badly cropped ears, Cookie had been used for breeding and thrown away a week before the new XL rules came in south of the Border.
Rebecca was told the vet would be left with no choice but to put Cookie down unless she found a new home before the deadline.
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Within 48 hours of a social media appeal, Cookie had been offered a safe space in Aberdeen, several transportation offers and the funds required to cover the cost of medication.
Delighted Rebecca drove Cookie on the first leg of the five-person relay journey to Scotland.
She said: “My heart just broke when I saw her. I’ve never seen a dog in the UK in such a horrendous condition.
“The support has been incredible though – she has thousands of people rooting for her now.”
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Top 25 College Football Streams & TV Channel Info | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 2:46 PM CST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
The 2023 college football bowl game schedule features a matchup between the No. 3 Texas Longhorns and the No. 2 Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl.
You can find info on live coverage of the week's top college football action right here.
How to Watch AP Top 25 Games
No. 24 James Madison Dukes at Air Force Falcons
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 23
- Venue: Amon G. Carter Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Air Force (-2)
Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 23 Tulane Green Wave
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Virginia Tech (-11.5)
No. 16 Louisville Cardinals at USC Trojans
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Petco Park
- TV Channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Louisville (-4.5)
Texas A&M Aggies at No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: NRG Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Oklahoma State (-3.5)
No. 17 SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Fenway Park
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: SMU (-13)
No. 19 NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ACCN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Kansas State (-3)
No. 14 Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Alamodome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Arizona (-2.5)
No. 21 Oregon State Beavers at No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: Sun Bowl Stadium
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Notre Dame (-5.5)
No. 9 Missouri Tigers at No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: AT&T Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Ohio State (-4)
No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels at No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Penn State (-6)
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs at No. 4 Florida State Seminoles
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Georgia (-22.5)
Wisconsin Badgers at No. 13 LSU Tigers
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Raymond James Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: LSU (-8.5)
No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 25 Tennessee Volunteers
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Tennessee (-5.5)
No. 18 Liberty Flames at No. 8 Oregon Ducks
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Oregon (-17.5)
No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 1 Michigan Wolverines
- Time: 5:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Rose Bowl
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Michigan (-1.5)
No. 3 Texas Longhorns at No. 2 Washington Huskies
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Caesars Superdome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Texas (-3.5)
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Who does which household chores – or who does the most – is a perennial source of tension for many couples. From cleaning the toilet to taking out the trash, it’s sometimes the little things that can cause the biggest trouble.
Not without reason, either. Research shows women still do the bulk of the housework and caregiving in most heterosexual couples. And this unequal labour can lead to burnout, health problems and financial stress.
We also know same-sex couples often have a far more equitable division of labour than heterosexual couples. But it’s not clear how same-sex couples manage to achieve this fairer split of household chores.
Our recent research aimed to shed some light on this. We surveyed same-sex couples in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, and identified three key factors that enabled them to share the chores in ways they both feel is fair.
The couples in our study focused on achieving a sense of fairness and equality over time, rather than a strict 50-50 split. They all had different patterns of dividing tasks. However, they shared some common strategies that offer valuable lessons for any couple, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
1. Keep changing things up
We know that when couples negotiate roles based on their individual availability and what they like doing – or what they least despise – it contributes to a sense of fairness and satisfaction.
Same-sex couples we interviewed embraced flexibility when it comes to dividing housework. They negotiated chores based on their specific needs, preferences and availability. Flexibility is key – if the person who usually takes the children to swimming lessons has a lot on at work, the other partner would step in.
Beyond the day-to-day, same-sex couples often play the long game, balancing unpaid labour with each other’s career progression. Some couples in our study planned their working and family lives so both partners could progress at work by taking turns as the main caregiver when their children were born.
Others recognised that task specialisation – such as one person always doing the taxes, and the other always cooking – could lead to dependence and rigidity. So they consciously practised task sharing to avoid this.
2. Communicate
Couples who engage in honest conversations about their labour responsibilities tend to view their household division as fair. On the flip side, negative communication – aggression, avoidance or criticism – fosters a sense of unfairness.
In our research, effective and open communication was key to achieving an equitable division of unpaid labour. But these conversations weren’t always easy.
Couples who felt guilty about not doing enough around the house, or frustration with their partner for not pulling their weight, found simple conversations could become emotionally intense.
We all have different standards of cleanliness, gender socialisation and family background that shape how we approach housework. And this can also make it difficult to understand a partner’s perspective or expectations.
Couples in our survey navigated disagreements through candid conversations, transforming conflict into opportunities for greater mutual understanding and agreement.
It’s not just about talking, but also about regular “check-ins” to see how each person is feeling about the labour load, and renegotiating things when household circumstances or feelings change.
3. Remember unpaid labour is valuable
Housework is often devalued when compared with paid work. Previous research has shown how undervaluing housework diminishes the quality of relationships.
Same-sex couples in our research sought to revalue unpaid labour by assigning it equal worth to paid labour. As one person said:
The domestic tasks, we might not enjoy them, but we both value them equally. We both think they are important.
Some couples actively acknowledged and appreciated difficult and time-consuming tasks, such as their partner cleaning the bathroom. Participants also found value in unpaid labour beyond the chores themselves, viewing them as acts of love, and found joy in small tasks.
One couple even turned household chores into a game, writing tasks on slips of paper and randomly selecting them from a bag – including enjoyable activities like walks or coffee breaks as rewards.
This not only lightens the mood but is also a strategy for involving children with less fuss.
4. Do a stocktake of the unpaid load
We often fall into patterns of domestic labour without realising it. In our study, we found completing simple time-use surveys and discussing them can illuminate disparities in responsibilities.
Why not try it yourself? List down the household tasks done last week, including physical chores (like shopping or cleaning), emotional tasks (caring for children or pets), and mental tasks (planning meals, managing finances).
Estimate the time both you and your partner spent on each task. Then, have a heart-to-heart about who is doing what, how you both feel about it, and how it can be fairer.
Lessons for all couples
Adapting these strategies in heterosexual relationships isn’t easy. Deep-seated gender norms and societal expectations about the feminine “homemaker” and masculine “breadwinner” can be tough to shake.
And same-sex couples are more likely to both be working part-time rather than having one partner at home and one working.
But that’s the challenge – to redefine and negotiate labour in a way that works for your unique relationship. Start by tossing out the old gender scripts about who should do what. Next, open a dialogue about chores.
Flexibility, communication and revaluing unpaid labour are strategies available to everyone.
Alice Beban, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University and Glenda Roberts, Postgraduate Researcher/Project Manager, Massey University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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MP: 10 IAS officers transferred, Sandip Yadav new Public Relations dept secretary
The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday transferred ten IAS officers in the administrative reshuffle, appointing Sandeep Yadav as the new secretary cum commissioner of the Public Relations Department.The district collector and the municipal commissioner of Ujjain, the home turf of chief minister Mohan Yadav, were also shifted.Earlier last week, Vivek Porwal, a 2000 batch IAS officer, was appointed as secretary of the public relations department besides secretary to the chief minister.Sandeep Yadav, who was commissioner and secretary of the revenue department, has been transferred as secretary cum commissioner of public relations.
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The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday transferred ten IAS officers in the administrative reshuffle, appointing Sandeep Yadav as the new secretary cum commissioner of the Public Relations Department.
The district collector and the municipal commissioner of Ujjain, the home turf of chief minister Mohan Yadav, were also shifted.
Earlier last week, Vivek Porwal, a 2000 batch IAS officer, was appointed as secretary of the public relations department besides secretary to the chief minister.
Sandeep Yadav, who was commissioner and secretary of the revenue department, has been transferred as secretary cum commissioner of public relations. Porwal will be the new commissioner and secretary of the revenue department, as per a government order.
Ujjain collector Kumar Purushottam has been transferred as deputy secretary of the General Administration Department (GAD). He is replaced by Narmadapuram district collector Neeraj Kumar Singh. Sonia Meena has been named as the district collector of Narmadapuram. Narendra Kumar Suryavanshi has been appointed as Betul district collector in place of Amanbir Singh Bains, who will be the Guna collector. Guna's district collector Tarun Rathi was transferred on Thursday following a bus accident, in which 13 people were killed.
Ujjain Municipal Commissioner Roshan Kumar Singh will be the new Chief Executive Officer of Smart City in place of State Administrative Service (SAS) officer Ashish Kumar Pathak, who is named as the new civic chief of Ujjain.
Jabalpur's municipal commissioner Swapnil Wankhede has been transferred as joint director (Finance).
Ujjain's additional collector Priti Yadav has been made Jabalpur's municipal commissioner.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Abu Dhabi ushered in the New Year with a spectacular and record-breaking display of fireworks and drones at the Sheikh Zayed Festival on Monday.
The festivities kicked off with an astonishing 30-minute drone show featuring an impressive 5,000 UAVs, followed by a breathtaking 40-minute fireworks extravaganza that left visitors in awe.
Throngs of residents from across the UAE flocked to the Festival to partake in the New Year celebrations. The enthusiasm was palpable as people arrived well before Monday's scheduled 4 pm opening time. Such was the overwhelming response that the authorities had to close the gates more than an hour before the start of the festivities due to reaching maximum capacity.
Khadjia Ahmed, a Bangladeshi national, expressed her delight, saying, "It was an amazing fireworks display. I never saw a firework which lasted so long. I just loved it. This is the best fireworks display I've ever watched." Ahmed even went on to capture a 28-minute fireworks video, but her mobile phone ran out of space due to the extended duration of the mesmerising show.
Even before reaching its full capacity, the venue was buzzing with excitement as visitors queued up at various food and beverage outlets, ticketing counters, gaming stations, and other entertainment spots. The overwhelming response underscored the event's success and the community's eagerness to come together and celebrate the arrival of the New Year at the Sheikh Zayed Festival.
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Kazakhstan weather forecast for Monday
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - No precipitation is expected in most of Kazakhstan, except for the western, southern and eastern parts of the country. Patchy fog, ice slick, blizzard, and winds strengthening up to 15-20 meters per second are expected, Kazhydromet Weather Service informs.
In Kyzylorda and Zhambyl regions, there will be patches of fog, ice slick, and 15-20 mps wind with gusts up to 23-28 mps.
West Kazakhstan region will see patchy fog, blowing snowstorm, ice slick, and 15-20 mps strong wind.
In Kostanay and Aktobe regions, snowstorm, wind strengthening up to 15-20 mps are predicted. Besides, there will be patches of fog in Kostanay region.
In Atyrau and Mangistau regions, patchy fog and wind strengthening up to 15-20 mps are expected. In addition, the roads in Atyrau region will be icy.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — In a sport long defined by its coaching giants, Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh are among the few larger-than-life figures still standing.
Saban has won six national championships at Alabama, establishing the most successful program of the 21st century. Harbaugh has completely revitalized his alma mater, reaching three straight College Football Playoffs at Michigan with style and controversy.
They’ll face off on opposite sidelines for only the second time Monday in the Rose Bowl. The Crimson Tide (12-1) take on the Wolverines (13-0) in a tantalizing CFP semifinal pitting the two winningest schools in major college football.
In no small part because of the coaching matchup, this 110th edition of the Granddaddy of Them All is also one of the most anticipated games in the 10-year history of the playoff, with the winner headed to Houston next week to face Washington or Texas for a title.
Yet to varying degrees, Saban and Harbaugh both reflect the truism that the price of incredible success is an inability to enjoy it, at least while it’s happening.
While both coaches have been gracious throughout their public appearances in Southern California, the magnitude of this showdown clearly weighs on their shoulders.
“I don’t reminisce much about what’s happened in the past,” Saban said Sunday before posing stiffly with the Rose Bowl trophy and an equally formal Harbaugh. “I’m kind of looking forward to today, and the next day.”
After a perfect regular season in which he got to attend only half of the games because of a pair of three-game suspensions, Harbaugh has been his usual exuberant self at the Rose Bowl, whether riding in a horse-drawn carriage at Disneyland or giving a humorous scouting report on Jesus (“He would have been a five-star player, no doubt about it. He would have been a Hall of Fame coach.”).
But the archetypal Michigan Man also spoke solemnly about the motivation he’ll impart to his players. While Harbaugh has achieved his goal to restore the Wolverines as a powerhouse, they have yet to win a CFP game (0-2).
“What it means is that your players know what it’s like to be a champion,” Harbaugh said. “That’s the special feeling. Their parents know what it’s like to have a son or a brother or a grandson who’s a champion. … It’s for all them, and all that we’re associated with.”
Saban has known Harbaugh’s family since the 1970s, when Saban was an up-and-coming defensive assistant who got tips from Michigan secondary coach Jack Harbaugh, Jim’s dad.
They coached against each other in the 2020 Citrus Bowl, with Alabama beating Michigan 35-16 to cap the only season in a seven-year stretch in which the Tide weren’t in the playoff. Harbaugh’s ballyhooed rebuilding of the Wolverines appeared to be a failure at that point — but after the abbreviated 2020 season, Michigan has soared to a 38-3 record in the past three years.
“There were just some really dark days that we had to get through,” said Michigan offensive lineman Trevor Keegan, who was there. “After the season, coach Harbaugh sent us a long email saying we’re going to change this program together. And our first team meeting, it was either you get on the train and we’re moving, or you’re getting off. Ever since then, we’ve been working our tails off to get where we are and have the success that we’ve had.”
Alabama hasn’t gone more than three seasons between national championships in Saban’s 17-year tenure, but the Tide need to win this one to keep the streak alive. Saban is also back at the venerable stadium where he won his first national title for Alabama, beating Texas in 2010.
Most observers agree Saban did one of the most impressive coaching jobs of his career this year. After getting two new coordinators in the offseason, Saban revitalized a team that stumbled in September and led it to 11 consecutive wins and an SEC title.
“We had some really good rat poison early,” Saban said, referring to his preferred name for outside noise. “It was almost like Wheaties, because everybody criticized us and said we weren’t any good, and we were done, and Coach Saban is past his prime and all that. It was like eating Wheaties, ‘Breakfast of Champions.’ That helped us.”
LAST CHAPTER?
Behind the excitement is the quiet possibility that this could be the last game at his school for whichever famed coach loses.
Saban is 72, and retirement rumors have circulated throughout college football’s back channels in recent months. Saban has shrugged it off publicly with humor.
“Yeah, I’ve heard them before,” Saban said. “I think when you get my age, everybody is waiting for you to — you know.”
And with NCAA investigators circling Harbaugh and the Wolverines, few will be surprised if the 60-year-old Harbaugh elects to return to the NFL. If Michigan wins a national title as punctuation, it would make even more sense.
BIG FINISHES
The Tide are in the CFP for the eighth time in 10 years, while Michigan has its third consecutive berth.
Alabama got here by surviving the Iron Bowl on Jalen Milroe’s miraculous touchdown pass to Isaiah Bond on fourth-and-31 before upsetting two-time defending national champion Georgia, which had won 29 straight, in the SEC title game.
Michigan steamrolled into the playoff with its first No. 1 ranking since 1997, beating Ohio State in The Game and blanking Iowa in the Big Ten title game.
ALABAMA’S OFFENSE
Milroe has grown into the Tide’s starting job since getting benched for a week in September, and Michigan must protect against both his arm and his legs. Milroe has a knack for big plays — none bigger than his 31-yard TD pass on fourth down to beat Auburn last month.
Leading rusher Jase McClellan is expected back after he missed the SEC title game, while Milroe can throw to big-play receivers Isaiah Bond and Jermaine Burton.
MICHIGAN’S OFFENSE
J.J. McCarthy is a polished passer who put up 2,630 yards and 19 TDs against four interceptions with a wealth of talented targets, including 500-yard receivers Roman Wilson, tight end Colston Loveland and Cornelius Johnson. Blake Corum is a standout rusher with 1,028 yards and 24 TDs.
LONG TIME COMING
Michigan is making its 21st Rose Bowl Game appearance, more than any school except USC — but its first since 2007, reflecting the program’s struggles before Harbaugh.
Alabama hasn’t played in a Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena since 1946. Saban’s Tide won the 2021 Rose Bowl, which was played in Texas because of COVID-19 safety concerns.
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KHERSON, Ukraine—Their first battle plan was outdated the moment the dam crumbled. So the Ukrainian Special Forces officers spent six months adapting their fight to secure a crossing to the other side of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine.
But it wasn’t enough just to cross the river. They needed backup to hold it. And for that, they needed proof that it could be done. For one of the officers, nicknamed Skif, that meant a flag—and a photo op.
Skif, Ukrainian shorthand for the nomadic Scythian people who founded an empire on what is now Crimea, moves like the camouflaged amphibian that he is: Calculating, deliberate, until the time to strike.
He is an officer in Center 73, one of Ukraine’s most elite units of Special Forces—frontline scouts, drone operators, underwater saboteurs. Their strike teams are part of the Special Operations Forces that run the partisans in occupied territories, sneak into Russian barracks to plant bombs and prepare the ground for reclaiming territory seized by Russia.
Their mission on the more dynamic of the two main fronts in the six-month counteroffensive reflects many of the problems of Ukraine’s broader effort. It’s been one of the few counteroffensive successes for the Ukrainian army.
By late May, the Center 73 men were in place along the river’s edge, some of them almost within view of the Kakhovka Dam. They were within range of the Russian forces that had controlled the dam and land across the Dnipro since the first days after the February 2022 full-scale invasion. And both sides knew Ukraine’s looming counteroffensive had its sights on control of the river as the key to reclaim the occupied south.
In the operation’s opening days, on June 6, an explosion destroyed the dam, sending a wall of reservoir water downstream, killing untold numbers of civilians, and washing out the Ukrainian army positions.
“We were ready to cross. And then the dam blew up,” Skif said. The water rose 20 meters (yards), submerging supply lines, the Russian positions and everything else in its path for hundreds of kilometers. The race was on: Whose forces could seize the islands when the waters receded, and with them full control of the Dnipro?
For most Ukrainians who see them on the streets in the nearly deserted frontline villages of the Kherson region, they are the guys in T-shirts and flip-flops — just regular people. The locals who refused to evacuate have all become accustomed to the sounds of war, so even their unnerving calm in the face of air raid alarms, nearby gunfire and artillery doesn’t seem unusual.
AP joined one of the clandestine units several times over six months along the Dnipro. The frogmen are nocturnal. They transform themselves from nondescript civilians into elite fighters, some in wetsuits and some in boats. In the morning, when their operations end, they’re back to anonymity.
They rarely take credit for their work and Ukrainians rarely learn about their operations. But Russian military statements gleefully and erroneously announcing the destruction of Center 73 are an indication of their effectiveness.
June 2023
The men had the most modern equipment, night-vision goggles, waterproof rifles that can be assembled in a matter of seconds, underwater breathing apparatus that produces no surface bubbles, and cloaks that hide their heat signature during nighttime raids.
It was a matter of days before the start of the counteroffensive, and Center 73 had already located the Russian positions they would seize on the Dnipro River islands. Skif’s men were within earshot of the June 6 explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam, flooded vast stretches of the Kherson region, and upended Skif’s attack plan.
An AP investigation found Russian forces had the means, motive and opportunity to blow up the dam.
Both the Russians and Ukrainians retreated from the river to regroup – Russians to the south and Ukrainians to the north.
Abandoned homes, clubs, shops became headquarters, with banks of computer screens filling the rooms and improvised weapons workshops nearby. Always secretive, frequently changing locations, they meticulously plan every operation, they sleep only a few hours during the day with curtains closed.
They wake around sunset, load gear into a 4X4 and drive to a different point on the riverbank to scout new routes for a counteroffensive, provoke Russian forces into shooting at them to pinpoint the enemy’s location, retrieve soggy caches of supplies with their boat. Periodically, they captured a Russian soldier stuck in a tree or found a clutch of landmines washed up on shore.
And they themselves were stuck. Other special forces took part in battles in eastern Ukraine, the other main front in the counteroffensive. Skif’s men waited patiently for the water to subside so they could seize positions and lay the groundwork for the arrival of infantry and marines in the Kherson region.
Skif, a veteran of the 2022 battle for Mariupol who had survived 266 days as a prisoner of war, wanted to fight. He had been part of Center 73 before Mariupol and rejoined after he was freed in a POW exchange.
Ukraine created its special forces in response to Russia’s lightning-fast annexation of Crimea and invasion of Donbas in 2014, a precursor to the wide-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“We realized that we were much smaller in terms of number than our enemy,” said Oleksandr Kindratenko, a press officer for Special Operations Forces. “The emphasis was placed on quality. These were supposed to be small groups performing operational or strategic tasks.”
He said they were trained and equipped in part by Europeans, including those from NATO countries, but their own recent battle experience means they are now as much teachers as students.
Tasks that the unit considers routine – scouting as close to Russians as possible, planting explosives under their noses, underwater operations – most soldiers would consider high-risk. High-risk missions are practically a death wish.
Skif knew he first had to plan and persuade the generals that if his men could secure a bridgehead – a strategic crossing point – it would be worthwhile to send troops. And that would mean high-risk river missions.
“My phone book is a little graveyard,” he said. “A lot of good, decent people are dead. They were killed on the battlefield. One burned to death in an armored truck. One was shot by howitzers. Somebody stepped on a landmine. Everyone died differently, and there are so many of them.”
July-August 2023
The water retreated in July. The Russians and Ukrainians advanced again toward the river from opposite directions, the Russians from the south and Ukrainians from the north.
Groups of Center 73 scouted and advanced along the river. The mission for Skif’s unit was to reclaim an island near the dam, now a web of cracked mud and dead trees. Their network of spies in the Kherson region, as well as drones and satellite images, told them where Russian forces had re-positioned.
They disembarked the boats and moved in, walking through the bare branches of the forest through swarms of mosquitoes so loud their bodycam picked up the sound. One of the men tripped a wire connected to a grenade and flung himself as far as he could away from the Russian explosive.
Just as the shrapnel pierced his back, mayhem broke out. The injured Ukrainian crawled toward the unit’s waiting boat 3 kilometers (2 miles) away, as the Russian troops who set the boobytrap rained gunfire on them. Skif’s men made it to the boat, which sprang a leak, and retreated back to their side of the Dnipro. Russians established their position on the island, and it took weeks more for the Ukrainians to expel them.
Then new orders came. Go upstream and breach Russian defenses beneath a destroyed railway bridge.
The men had an often-underestimated advantage over their Russian enemy: Many Ukrainians grow up bilingual and understand Russian communications intercepted in real time, while Russian soldiers need a translator for Ukrainian.
So when Skif’s unit started picking up Russian radio communications by the railway bridge, they immediately grasped how many men they were up against and the kind of munitions they would face. They made the crossing, avoided the Russians, and waited for backup.
That’s when their advantage evaporated. In a single battle, the Russians sent Iskander missiles and dozens of drones, dropping hundreds of grenades.
“In the air, they had absolute dominance compared to us and they held the ground,” he said.
The backup was nowhere near enough. Ukrainian forces retreated under heavy fire. More men out of commission and another difficult task ahead.
September-October 2023
A lucky thing happened soon after that battle. A Russian officer who claimed he’d been opposed to the war since its beginning was sent to the front in Kherson. It was, he later said, every bit as bad as he’d feared.
He made contact with Ukrainian intelligence and said he had 11 comrades who felt similarly. The group surrendered to Skif and his men.
The Russians told Skif exactly what he needed to know about their unit on the island they were now tasked with taking, just outside the village of Krynky.
He was sure he could take the island and more with 20 experienced men. But not without the promise of sufficient backup so Ukrainian regular forces could hold the territory. Fine, his commander said. He’d get the backup – if he returned with footage of his unit in the village hoisting the Ukrainian flag.
And that’s how, in mid-October, a Ukrainian drone carrying the national blue and yellow flag came to fly above Krynky at just the moment Skif and his men made their way to the occupied village across the river. They got their photo op to prove the road was cleared, sent it to the military headquarters, and established the bridgehead.
November-December 2023
Multiple Ukrainian brigades were sent to hold the position and have been there ever since.
But nighttime temperatures are dipping well below freezing, and Ukrainian forces are vastly underequipped compared to the Russians nearby. Holding and advancing in winter is much harder on soldiers’ bodies and their morale.
In recent weeks, Russia has sent waves of glide bombs – essentially enormous munitions retrofitted with gliding apparatus to allow them to be launched from dozens of kilometers (miles) away, as well as swarms of grenade-launching drones and Chinese all-terrain vehicles, according to the Institute for the Study of War and the Hudson Institute, two American think-tanks analyzing open-source footage from the area.
In a news conference earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the battle and acknowledged Russian forces had pulled back “several meters.” But he insisted Ukrainian forces were battling pointlessly and losing far more than they gained.
“I don’t even know why they’re doing this,” Putin said.
Despite having never fully controlled the territory during the six-month counteroffensive, Russia claims it as its own.
And Ukrainian forces and Center 73 keep fighting into the New Year.
“This is our work,” Skif said. “No one knows about it, no one talks about it, and we do it with little reward except to benefit our country.” Contributors include Lori Hinnant in Paris, Felipe Dana in Kherson, and Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov in Kyiv.
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Again and again the science tells us that the key to living well for longer is all about keeping fit and eating better. And while we might indulge in a wedge of creamy Stilton, a chunk of chocolate or the odd glass of red now and again, we need the right information in order to make smart decisions about how to live healthily. Expert-led, reliable advice has never been more valuable. It’s against this backdrop that we have decided to introduce Telegraph Health – a new-look website that has been curated to provide you with all the answers to make understanding your health and taking early preventative action as easy as possible.
Our experts include scientist Tim Spector, nutritionist Sam Rice and fitness trainer Matt Roberts, while Telegraph writer Bryony Gordon is starting a new agony aunt column called ‘How are you really?’ and Boudicca Fox-Leonard is writing regular health features in which she sifts the fads from the facts. Alongside these you’ll find a new host of health guides to a range of conditions, all informed by the world’s leading healthcare experts, as well as intriguing and heartfelt first-person stories. Over the coming months and years we will continue to build and add more and more guides to ensure Telegraph readers always find what they need.
We hope that when you visit Telegraph Health you’ll discover what you want to know – and what you did not know you needed to know. We hope you enjoy it and please do tell us what you think. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/stress/telegraph-health/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:19Z |
MUMBAI, Jan 1 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee is likely to
take cues this week from moves in the dollar index while keeping
an eye on key U.S. labour market data, and bond yields are
expected to trend lower going into 2024.
The rupee ended slightly lower at 83.2075
against the U.S. dollar on Friday, pressured by dollar demand
from importers and a slight recovery in the dollar index.
Investors are currently pricing-in an 85% chance of a U.S.
rate cut in March, per the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
The domestic unit ended 2023 down about 0.5%
year-on-year and logged its sixth straight annual decline.
Through last week, the rupee remained in a range between 83.10
and 83.35.
"Our view is that rupee should appreciate from here amid
broadly supportive global cues," said Abhilash Koikkara, head of
forex and rates at Nuvama Professional Clients Group.
If the labor market data reinforces the view of potential
cooling in the U.S. economy, the dollar index may decline
further, aiding the rupee, Koikkara added.
Other key U.S. data scheduled for release this week include
initial jobless claims on Thursday, followed by the closely
watched non-farm payrolls and unemployment print on Friday.
The non-farm payrolls likely fell to 158,000, down from
199,000 in November, according to a Reuters poll.
A pickup in foreign inflows into Indian markets has also
offered some support to the rupee, but the domestic unit has
been unable to gain much as the central bank likely intervened
in last few weeks to absorb the inflows, according to traders.
Of the total $28.7 billion of inflows into Indian
equities and bonds in 2023, about $10.1 billion came in December
alone, according to NSDL data.
Meanwhile, Indian government bond yields are expected to
fall further, with attractive levels enticing value investors.
India's 10-year benchmark bond yield ended
marginally lower last week at 7.1754%, after rising the
preceding week.
Traders expect the yield in the 7.10%-7.20% range this week,
and anticipate volumes to pick up after shallow trading in the
last week of 2023.
The Indian government bond yield curve is set to steepen in
2024 as bets of rates cuts from the Federal Reserve and Reserve
Bank of India gather steam. Bonds will also remain supported as
state-run banks, the largest holders of bonds and which were net
sellers in November and December, are expected to turn into
buyers, traders said.
Investor focus will also turn to U.S. Treasuries and whether
the 10-year yield is able to breach new levels after
easing below the key technical level of 3.85% towards the end of
December.
Market participants have aggressively bet on U.S. rate cuts
and are eyeing over 150 bps of cuts in 2024, even though the Fed
has signalled only 75 bps of cuts.
"Bonds over the next quarter are likely to remain
range-bound, with a mildly bullish bias on the back of global
bond sentiment and in anticipation of eventual moderation in
headline inflation in the coming quarters," said Sandeep Bagla,
CEO of Trust Mutual Fund.
KEY EVENTS:
** U.S. Dec S&P Global manufacturing PMI - Jan. 2, Tuesday (8:15
p.m. IST)
** India Dec S&P Global manufacturing PMI - Jan. 3,
Wednesday (10:30 a.m. IST)
** U.S. Dec ISM manufacturing PMI - Jan. 3, Wednesday (8:30
p.m. IST)
** U.S. Jan-Mar overall comprehensive risk - Jan. 3
Wednesday (10:30 p.m. IST)
** U.S. initial weekly jobless claims week to Dec. 25 - Jan.
4, Thursday (6:00 p.m. IST)
** U.S. Dec S&P Global services and composite PMI - Jan. 4,
Thursday (8:15 p.m. IST)
** India Jan-Mar overall comprehensive risk - Jan. 5, Friday
(8:30 a.m. IST)
** India Dec S&P Global services PMI - Jan. 5, Friday (10:30
a.m. IST)
** U.S. Dec non-farm payrolls and unemployment rate - Jan.
5, Friday (7:00 p.m. IST)
** U.S. Nov factory orders - Jan. 5, Friday (8:30 p.m. IST)
** U.S. Dec ISM non-manufacturing PMI - Jan. 5, Friday (8:30
p.m. IST)
(Reporting by Dharamraj Dhutia and Jaspreet Kalra; Editing by
Sonia Cheema) | https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/currency/EURO-US-DOLLAR-EUR-USD-4591/news/WEEKAHEAD-Indian-rupee-eyes-key-US-data-bond-yields-seen-easing-as-2024-kicks-off-45654011/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20231231 | 2024-01-01T05:31:18Z |
Not against Ram temple: Siddaramaiah clarifies after minister’s ‘stunt’ remark
His remarks came after Karnataka minister Sudhakar termed the Ram temple inauguration a "stunt".
Weeks ahead of the grand consecration of Ram Mandir in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, a racket is allegedly defrauding people in the guise of collecting donations to support the construction of the temple.
Weeks ahead of the grand consecration of Ram Mandir in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, a racket is allegedly defrauding people in the guise of collecting donations to support the construction of the temple.
This scam has prompted the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) to approach Uttar Pradesh police. The VHP has also issued a warning on social media, asking people not to fall prey to the scam.
“Alert..!! Some individuals are attempting fraud by creating fake IDs in the name of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirth Kshetra to deceive people. @HMOIndia @CPDelhi @dgpup @Uppolice should take prompt action against such individuals,” VHP’s National Spokesperson Vinod Bansal said in a post on X on Sunday.
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“Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Nyas has not authorized anyone to collect funds for this occasion. We have sent the formal complaint to the @dgpup and @Igrangelucknow to take immediate steps in the matter of faith,” he added.
The VHP spokesperson also issued a video message, claiming that they had been informed about the racket trying to loot devotees in the name of donations for the temple.
“We have been informed that some people are trying to collect money through social media by creating a fake ID in the name of Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra and generating a fake QR code,” Bansal said in the video message.
“Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra has not given anyone any right to collect money in any way. And those who are making such efforts want to cheat people in a fraudulent manner, and action should be taken against them. For this, I have immediately informed the Ministry of Home Affairs, DGP Uttar Pradesh, and the Delhi Commissioner of Police and demanded that the strictest action be taken against such people. And people should also be careful. This is a time of celebration, and we are going to give invitations and not accept any donation or gift of any kind,” he added.
According to the VHP, a miscreant identified as Abhishek Kumar sought funds for Ayodhya Temple Development on social media.
“He has posted the UPI QR codes in Facebook groups with the line ‘Ram Mandir Ayodhya Chanda pradarshan Karen.’ On scanning the QR Code, UPI will direct the user to UPI ID ‘9040914736@Paytm’ with the name Manisha Nallabelly,” Girish Bhardwaj, a VHP member said in a letter to the Uttar Pradesh DGP and IG.
He further mentioned in the letter that the Shri Ram Janmbhumi Teerth Kshetra Trust has clarified many times that no private person or people are authorized to collect funds for the temple.
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra is a trust set that has been given the responsibility of the construction and management of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
“There seems to be a malicious motive to deceive unsuspecting devotees and use social media to collect money illegally. At a time when the entire nation is rejoicing over the Ram Temple inauguration, such preposterous activities should be nipped in the bud. I have attached screenshots for your reference. Please do the needful in this regard,” Bhardwaj added in his letter.
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What kind of New Year’s resolution you make depends on your unique goals—which means you need a way to track your progress that is just as unique. If your goal is to quit social media and your friend’s is to run a faster mile, you won’t measure success the same way, right? There are different apps out there that will help you actually reach your goals this year.
This story is going to recommend some apps that can help you track specific resolutions. Here’s a rundown of the best general progress tracking apps.
What are the most common New Year’s resolutions?
Per Statista, the top New Year’s resolutions among people who have made one or several in 2023 are as follows:
- To save more money (59%)
- To exercise more (50%)
- To spend more time with family and friends (40%)
- To lose weight (35%)
- To spend less on living expenses (26%)
- To spend less time on social media (19%)
- To reduce job stress (19%)
The best app for saving money
There are a bunch of great apps out there that help you budget, but if you’re ready to get serious this year and save money in a big way, try Qapital. This one is great for a New Year’s resolution because it makes you do a little work, unlike some of the AI-powered budgeting apps that use algorithms to set aside money for you. With Qapital, you set your own rules, which means you still have to flex your own self-control muscles and actively strive toward your resolution. For instance, you can set up a rule that says when you buy a coffee, the app also moves a certain amount into savings. You can also program it to round up change on purchases and move it into your savings account. You can set goals within the app and it will create visual representations of how much you’ve saved toward them, which is great for people who need to see their progress. It’s free for a month, but after that, you’ll pay US$3, US$6, or US$12 per month, depending on what features you want. A basic plan lets you create unlimited savings goals and transfer money between them, plus partner with another user to save together and track joint spending. More advanced versions get you the option to have a Qapital debit card or track your weekly cash spending.
The best app to track exercise frequency
If you want to work out more, it will help you to see your progress with each trip to the gym (or at-home session, whatever). For that, try Strong, an app that lets you input the exercises you do and creates graphs showing you your gradual improvement in weight, sets, body fat percentage, and more. It includes instructions on how to do a variety of exercises, which is nice if you aren’t really a fitness person (yet) and feeling nervous about trying new moves in front of other people keeps you away from the gym. The free version will save unlimited workouts, but you can only add three custom routines. For everything else, it’s US$4.99 per month or US$29.99 per year.
The best app for prioritizing family and friend time
If you want to spend more time with your loved ones, try Cozi, a simple organizer that gives you a clear visual representation of your whole family’s schedule. Not only can you see when everyone is free, but you can see how much time you devote (or don’t devote) to the people with whom you share the app—which can motivate you to schedule more time together. It’s also free, which is a plus. Use the money you saved to pay for a nice night out with the people you set a resolution to spend more time with.
The best bill-tracking app
Spending less on living expenses gives you more to spend on the fun stuff, which is a worthy resolution. To do it, try Rocket Money, which helps you budget, but also offers services like bill negotiation and income analysis, so you can see where you’re spending your money every month—and get rid of recurring fees you don’t actually need to be paying. Some of it is free, but if you want to create unlimited budgets, get credit reports, and access the all-important cancellation concierge (which not only identifies your recurring payments, but cancels them for you and even tries to get you fee refunds), you’ll have to pay. The app offers a sliding payment scale, so you’ll pay between US$4 and US$12 per month, depending on whether you want to pay monthly or annually.
The best app to spend less time on social media
It might seem counterintuitive to download another app when you’re trying to stay off the apps in the first place, but One Sec really might be the answer. All it does is cause a 10-second delay between when you tap a specific app, like Instagram, and when the app actually opens. It encourages you to take a deep breath, then tells you how many times you’ve attempted to open that app in the last 24 hours, letting you see just how often you’ve tried—and determine if you want to proceed. There are other apps out there that straight-up lock you out of your socials, but that removes the accountability from your resolution and cuts you off in a way that will be jarring and hard to stick with. Something low-stakes that doesn’t penalize you for being human and daring to open Facebook is much nicer. It’s free if you’re trying to reduce your use of one particular app, but to tackle them all, you’ll need to upgrade to a pro version for US$19.99 per year or US$2.99 per month.
The best app for reducing stress at work
There are lots of mindfulness and deep breathing apps out there, but those aren’t great for seeing any progress, which is what resolutions are all about. Moodfit, on the other hand, gives you not only tools for managing your mood, but insights into your various mood-based patterns. You can track your mood, gratitude, mindfulness, and breathing while seeing your progress in numbers and on a chart. You can even track nutrition, sleep, and medications to see how those play a role in your mood, too. Seeing it all laid out will help you home in on what besides work is affecting you, but also see exactly when and how during work you’re getting upset, then make the effort to adjust when necessary to reduce stress. A basic version is free, but it’s $8.99 to access all the features, including personalized reports and unlimited goals. | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2024/01/these-apps-can-help-you-track-any-new-years-resolution/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:20Z |
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a helicopter flight on Sunday to check the flooded regions in the northwest of the country, where rivers have swelled and overflowed homes, roads and fields after weeks of heavy rain.
In recent days, hundreds of people have been evacuated from affected areas in northern and eastern Germany as a precaution.
Scholz landed in the morning in the town of Verden in Lower Saxony where dikes along rivers were soaked with water and close to bursting in some parts of the state.
Talking to reporters near the Aller river which has flooded parts of Verden, Scholz thanked ''the police, the fire department, the federal agency for technical relief and the German Armed Forces” for their joint efforts.
“It is important that we stick together,” he said.
The chancellor also expressed gratitude to the “countless citizens of our country who are now sacrificing their time and putting themselves in danger to ensure safety for us all.” Thousands of volunteers have helped fill and distribute millions of sandbags used to protect homes from the floods, said the governor of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, who accompanied Scholz on his tour of the hard-hit region.
In Haren in the region of Emsland close to the Dutch border, emergency services used sandbags to repair part of a dike on Sunday night. In Wathlingen near the city of Celle, hundreds of people helped stabilize parts of a dike that was washed out, German news agency dpa reported.
In the eastern state of Thuringia, the county of Mansfeld-Suedharz declared a state of emergency on Sunday as several villages on the Helme river were threatened by the rising waters, dpa reported, where around 130 emergency staffers also secured a heavily soaked dike with thousands of sandbags to keep it from bursting.
Lauding the combined efforts, Scholz said, ''I believe that this shows that there is solidarity in our country and a willingness to stick together.” The chancellor also promised the federal government would help support affected states and local authorities in coping with the crisis “to the best of its ability''.
In the summer of 2021, Germany and Belgium were hit by deadly floods that killed more than 230 people.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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The UK Government has failed on every aspect of policy from the economy to Brexit and public services.
But one of the very few things the Sunak administration has got right is the ban on XL bully dogs.
Breeding, selling or abandoning these dogs is illegal as of yesterday. The dangerous breed must also be kept on a lead and muzzled in public as part of a crackdown in England and Wales.
Despite the dogs posing a threat to public safety, the Scottish Government has failed to follow suit.
The two-tier system has now created a genuine fear that Scotland could become a dumping ground for XL bully dogs.
These fears were confirmed when an animal rescuer promised to provide a home for these banned dogs.
Kerryanne Shaw, chair of All Bullie Charity Rescue, has vowed to provide a rescue centre in a secret location. She says she is getting applications from all over the UK to rehome dogs in Scotland.
This is an unacceptable situation and could lead to an increase in the number of dangerous dogs in our communities.
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In Scotland, dad-of-five Adam Watts was killed by an American XL bully dog when he attempted to restrain the animal at Juniper Kennels in Angus in 2021.
We sincerely hope there are no more incidents of this type.
The curbs south of the Border are proportionate and should be copied by the Scottish Government.
It is widely accepted that irresponsible dog owners are the main problem rather than particular breeds being inherently bad.
But XL bullies are simply too dangerous to allow them to be freely bred and kept as pets.
Public safety is paramount and Scotland must not become a safe haven for dangerous dogs.
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07:42, 04 February 2019 | GMT +6
Kazakhstani player Rybakina wins ITF title in Australia
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan won the ITF tournament in Launceston, Australia this weekend, Kazinform has learnt from Sports.kz.
Rybakina's opponent in the final fourth-seeded Russian Irina Khromacheva was forced to withdraw due to an injury being 7-5, 3-3 down.
This is the second ITF title for the 19-year-old Rybakina. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstani-player-rybakina-wins-itf-title-in-australia_a3494557/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:24Z |
Traditionally incoming Argentinian presidents give an inauguration speech inside of Congress to other politicians. Javier Milei, a former “tantric sex instructor” turned libertarian economist, symbolically gave his speech with his back to the Congress facing towards the people.
“For more than 100 years, politicians have insisted on defending a model that only produces poverty, stagnation, and misery,” President Milei said. “A model that assumes that citizens exist to serve politics, not that politics exists to serve citizens.” He also promised an “end a long and sad history of decadence and decline” and promote a new era based on peace, prosperity, and freedom.
Since his headline-making election victory last month, media portrayal of Milei has ranged from dismissive to condescending, often depicting him as an eccentric “far-right populist.” Yet, since taking office, Milei has shelved many of his campaign’s more contentious proposals and begun implementing a radical but, by international standards, orthodox reform plan to revitalize Argentina’s faltering economy.
Milei inherited a challenging situation. Argentina’s economy has shrunk by 12 per cent over the last decade, annual inflation reached an extraordinary 160 per cent in November, while the poverty rate increased to 40 per cent in the first half of 2023.
Argentina has a fascinating economic history that led up to this point. In the 19th century post-independence Argentina adopted a liberal constitution that helped deliver an impressive economic expansion.
By the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries, driven by agricultural exports. Real wages were comparable to Britain and only slightly below the United States. Millions fled destitution in southern Europe for a new life in Argentina. Buenos Aires has been labelled the “Paris of South America” because of spectacular neoclassical architecture built during this era.
This turned to disaster over the subsequent decades because of collectivist rule – from military dictatorships to avidly socialist leaders. Argentina nationalised industries, subsidised domestic production, limited external trade, and introduced an unaffordable welfare state. This has become known as the Peronism, named after 20th century president Juan Domingo Perón, a leftist populist leader who supressed opposition and controlled the press.
This agenda accelerated in recent decades under self-identifying Peronist leaders, turning Argentina into one of the world’s most closed and heavily regulated countries. The latest Human Freedom Index places Argentina at 163rd in the world for openness to trade and 143rd for regulatory burden. This has culminated in an economy on the precipice of economic disaster.
Not wasting any time, Milei has proposed a mega package of over 350 economic reforms to open the economy and remove regulatory barriers. This includes privatising inefficient state assets, eliminating rent controls and restrictive retail regulations, liberalising labour laws, lifting export prohibitions, and allowing contracts in foreign currencies.
There has been a notable absence of some of most radical ideas – such as legalising organ sales or banning abortion. He has also put on hold plans to dollarise the economy and abolish the central bank. Instead, at least by international standards, the agenda contains several orthodox economic reforms.
Many of the measures – such as cutting spending to get the deficit (currently at 15 per cent of GDP) under control, opening the country up to international trade, and liberalising the airline industry through ‘open skies’ policy – would be required to join the European Union. The government is eliminating capital and currency controls and allowing the peso to devalue – measures that the IMF’s managing director Kristina Georgieva said these are important to stabilise the economy.
There are undoubtedly significant challenges ahead and some darker elements to agenda.
Milei has been, uncharacteristically for a politician, honest that “in the short term the situation will get worse”. The removal of price controls, for example, will increase inflation until demand and supply can stabilise to end shortages. But, he says, “then we will see the fruits of our efforts, having created the foundations of a solid and sustainable growth over time.”
The government is facing significant opposition, with the union movement organising mass protests and threatening a general strike. The government has responded by proposing questionable new anti-protest laws, that include lengthy jail sentences for road-blocking and requirements to seek permission for gatherings of more than three people in a public place. Milei, who could struggle to get much of his agenda through Argentina’s Congress, is asking for sweeping emergency presidential powers until the end of 2025. This raises serious questions about democratic accountability.
Nevertheless, there are some positive early signs. Since Milei’s election Argentina’s flagship stock index has risen by almost one-third and the peso’s value has not collapsed. Argentina could soon benefit from a major new shale pipeline pumping one million barrels of crude a day (helped along by reforms that allow exports of oil and sales at market prices) and the mining of the second largest proven lithium reserves in the world.
Argentina has long served as a solemn reminder that prosperity is neither inevitable nor unassailable. Misguided policies can transform mere challenges into a profound crisis. Milei is offering a glimmer of hope: redemption may just be possible. Let’s also hope that Britain’s leaders can similarly take the path of reform, ideally before things get as bad as Argentina.
Matthew Lesh is the Director of Public Policy and Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/01/01/javier-milei-argentina-economic-reform-stock-index-reform/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:25Z |
LONDON (AP) — Arsenal is limping into 2024 after a damaging stretch that culminated in what coach Mikel Arteta called “the worst performance of the season” on the final day of the year.
A toothless Arsenal side lost 2-1 at Fulham on Sunday despite taking the lead in the fifth minute, a second straight defeat that means the team stayed in fourth place in the Premier League — when a victory would have lifted it into first.
“It’s a really sad day because today we didn’t deserve to win the game,” Arteta said. “That was the worst performance of the season.”
It continued a worrying run that has seen Arsenal end 2023 with just one win in its last five league games, including its first home loss of the season to West Ham on Thursday.
Arsenal would have provisionally climbed above Liverpool atop the table with a win, but could find itself five points off the lead if Jurgen Klopp’s team beats Newcastle on Monday. Arsenal stayed in fourth — having been top of the table at Christmas — and is now just one point ahead of fifth-place Tottenham after its north London rival beat Bournemouth 3-1 at home.
This latest setback came despite Bukayo Saka putting Arsenal ahead after just five minutes as he turned in the rebound from a shot by Gabriel Martinelli, who had made a marauding run from inside his own area.
There was little in the way of attacking threat from the visitors after that, though, and bad defending helped Raul Jimenez equalize in the first half and Bobby De Cordova-Reid poke in the winner after a corner in the 59th.
“Not good enough from us again today,” Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice said. “The game against West Ham we had 30 shots, so many touches in the box but couldn’t put it away. Today when (we) go one up we have to have more control. We need to demand more from each other. We had to push on again and go for more. In this league there is no room to mess up. It is a tough one to take.”
Fulham had lost its last three league games by a combined score of 8-0 but was boosted by the return of Jimenez from a suspension. The striker has now scored four goals in his last four league games — equaling his tally from his previous 50.
TOTTENHAM BOUNCES BACK
Don’t count Tottenham out of the title race just yet.
Ange Postecoglou’s team is three points behind Liverpool after bouncing back from a 4-2 defeat at Brighton on Thursday with a convincing win against Bournemouth.
Tottenham was boosted by the early return of Rodrigo Bentancur from an injury at a time when Postecoglou is without a handful of starters. But the win was marred by Senegal international Pape Sarr leaving the field in tears with an injury in the first half — just two weeks before the start of the African Cup of Nations — after he had scored the opening goal in the ninth minute.
Tottenham had to wait until the 71st minute for another goal, but Son Heung-min and Richarlison scored late to make the game safe before Alex Scott pulled one back for Bournemouth.
After a great start to the season under Postecoglou, Tottenham fell out of the top four after a five-game winless run but could soon be back in the Champions League places.
“We’re still in there and fighting,” Postecoglou said. “We’re three points off the top so if that is the difference between having a great season and where we are I’ll take it.”
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AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-arsenal-limps-into-2024-after-worst-performance-of-the-season-tottenham-closes-in-on-top-four/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:24Z |
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Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has taken aim at Pakistan batsman Babar Azam for being too “timid” when batting.
Gambhir wants to see the 29-year-old step up and be more daring as it will enable him to enjoy more success.
Going forward, Azam will have less pressure on his shoulders as he stepped down as Pakistan captain in all three formats.
Since he is now free to focus solely on his batting, Gambhir wants to see the Lahore-born cricketer play with more confidence.
“Babar Azam has been extremely timid,” he told Star Sports as quoted by Cricket Pakistan.
Azam’s last assignment as captain was the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup, where he scored 320 runs in nine matches, which included four half-centuries, at an average of 40.
Pakistan began by beating the Netherlands and Sri Lanka before losing four in a row to India, Australia, Afghanistan and South Africa.
Despite fighting back to defeat Bangladesh and New Zealand, the men in green failed to advance to the semi-finals.
Pakistan concluded their World Cup campaign on a sour note as England crushed them by 93 runs.
Azam is now playing in Pakistan’s three-match Test series against Australia and has made 77 runs in the first two Tests at an average of 19.25.
Pakistan are 2-0 down in the series and will look to claim a consolation win in the third Test, which gets underway on January 3 in Sydney.
Pakistan Squad for Australia Test Series: Shan Masood (captain), Aamer Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Nawaz and Shaheen Shah Afridi | https://battingwithbimal.com/2024/01/01/be-more-daring-gautam-gambhir-takes-aim-at-timid-pakistan-batsman/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:26Z |
INTERNAL Audit functions must remain agile when developing their 2024 audit plans as their organizations face evolving challenges.
The uncertainty and disruption that was seen across the global business landscape last year continue to intensify pressure on the risk and control environment. Most organizations continue to suffer supply chain uncertainties, impacts of inflation and geopolitical uncertainties.
To support Heads of Internal Audit, we have identified and compiled the key thematic areas and related risks which Internal Audit functions should consider. The thematic areas below include both emerging and established risks which Internal Audit should consider when preparing its agile annual Internal Audit plan for 2024.
While the list of thematic areas below is not exhaustive, it can serve as a starting point from which the Internal Audit function can leverage when assessing the organization’s risk profile and control environment throughout 2024. We have provided further information on each thematic area overleaf.
External pressures
RECENT years have been described as the age of the “polycrisis.” The term coined by the World Economic Forum (WEF) describes the interaction between the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, as well as, the energy, cost-of-living and climate crises.
The elevated levels of economic, geopolitical, and environmental uncertainty are creating new risks, threats and opportunities at an unprecedented rate and impacting the economy in many ways, including disruptions in supply chains, monetary policy adjustments and stakeholder expectations. This means that organizations’ risk management processes and functions need to be more prognostic and dynamic than ever before in order to navigate these challenges.
Operational challenges
GIVEN the current business landscape, operational excellence is critical for success in 2024. In light of the current external pressures, organizations must ensure that they are able to efficiently adapt, capitalize new opportunities and emerge stronger, regardless of the nature of the disruption.
As previously discussed, external environmental factors highlight the importance of attaining and sustaining operational excellence in a continuously evolving business landscape. The convergence of new technologies, the impact of the “polycrisis,” and shifts in employee and consumer expectations have created a dynamic environment necessitating agility and adaptability. This involves enhancing internal processes, minimizing waste and optimizing productivity. Attaining operational excellence will allow organizations to effectively respond to external challenges.
Technology
TECHNOLOGY is an integral part to the success of running an organization. Technology is constantly changing at a rapid pace and in 2023, we have seen an increase in the use of AI technology.
Another major technological advancement in recent years is the integration of Cloud Computing which will continue to increase further in the future. The proliferation of digital business models and the growing dependence on technology within organizations have given rise to the amounts of personal data being handled by organizations as part of their operations. This increases the risk of data privacy breaches and also increases the likelihood of cyber attacks. Organizations need to implement robust IT security to mitigate these risks.
Regulatory challenges
THERE is constant and complex regulatory change in areas such as technology, disruption, ESG and data privacy for organizations regardless of what industry they are operating in. The complexity and pace of these regulatory changes puts pressure on executive management, and they must adopt an agile approach to ensure compliance to new regulation.
In order to effectively evaluate an organization’s compliance with regulation, the Internal Audit function must gain a comprehensive understanding of the existing regulatory landscape for the Industry the organization currently operates in.
This excerpt was taken from the KPMG Thought Leadership publication: https://kpmg.com/ie/en/home/insights/2023/11/internal-audit-key-thematic-areas-2024.html. © 2023 KPMG Int’l Ltd. is a private English company limited by guarantee. R.G. Manabat & Co., a Philippine partnership, is a member firm of a global organization of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG Int’l Ltd. All rights reserved.
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This article is for general information purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice to a specific issue or entity. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the BusinessMirror, KPMG International or KPMG in the Philippines. | https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/01/01/internal-audit-key-thematic-areas-to-consider-in-2024/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=internal-audit-key-thematic-areas-to-consider-in-2024 | 2024-01-01T05:31:25Z |
The vagina is an internal organ with a complex ecosystem, influenced by circulating hormone levels which change during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause.
Around and after menopause, there are normal changes in the growth and function of vaginal cells, as well as the vagina’s microbiome (groups of bacteria living in the vagina). Many women won’t notice these changes. They don’t usually cause symptoms or concern, but if they do, symptoms can usually be managed.
Here’s what happens to your vagina as you age, whether you notice or not.
Let’s clear up the terminology
We’re focusing on the vagina, the muscular tube that goes from the external genitalia (the vulva), past the cervix, to the womb (uterus). Sometimes the word “vagina” is used to include the external genitalia. However, these are different organs and play different roles in women’s health.
What happens to the vagina as you age?
Like many other organs in the body, the vagina is sensitive to female sex steroid hormones (hormones) that change around puberty, pregnancy and menopause.
Menopause is associated with a drop in circulating oestrogen concentrations and the hormone progesterone is no longer produced. The changes in hormones affect the vagina and its ecosystem. Effects may include:
- less vaginal secretions, potentially leading to dryness
- less growth of vagina surface cells resulting in a thinned lining
- alteration to the support structure (connective tissue) around the vagina leading to less elasticity and more narrowing
- fewer blood vessels around the vagina, which may explain less blood flow after menopause
- a shift in the type and balance of bacteria, which can change vaginal acidity, from more acidic to more alkaline.
What symptoms can I expect?
Many women do not notice any bothersome vaginal changes as they age. There’s also little evidence many of these changes cause vaginal symptoms. For example, there is no direct evidence these changes cause vaginal infection or bleeding in menopausal women.
Some women notice vaginal dryness after menopause, which may be linked to less vaginal secretions. This may lead to pain and discomfort during sex. But it’s not clear how much of this dryness is due to menopause, as younger women also commonly report it. In one study, 47% of sexually active postmenopausal women reported vaginal dryness, as did around 20% of premenopausal women.
Other organs close to the vagina, such as the bladder and urethra, are also affected by the change in hormone levels after menopause. Some women experience recurrent urinary tract infections, which may cause pain (including pain to the side of the body) and irritation. So their symptoms are in fact not coming from the vagina itself but relate to changes in the urinary tract.
Not everyone has the same experience
Women vary in whether they notice vaginal changes and whether they are bothered by these to the same extent. For example, women with vaginal dryness who are not sexually active may not notice the change in vaginal secretions after menopause. However, some women notice severe dryness that affects their daily function and activities.
In fact, researchers globally are taking more notice of women’s experiences of menopause to inform future research. This includes prioritising symptoms that matter to women the most, such as vaginal dryness, discomfort, irritation and pain during sex.
If symptoms bother you
Symptoms such as dryness, irritation, or pain during sex can usually be effectively managed. Lubricants may reduce pain during sex. Vaginal moisturisers may reduce dryness. Both are available over-the-counter at your local pharmacy.
While there are many small clinical trials of individual products, these studies lack the power to demonstrate if they are really effective in improving vaginal symptoms.
In contrast, there is robust evidence that vaginal oestrogen is effective in treating vaginal dryness and reducing pain during sex. It also reduces your chance of recurrent urinary tract infections. You can talk to your doctor about a prescription.
Vaginal oestrogen is usually inserted using an applicator, two to three times a week. Very little is absorbed into the blood stream, it is generally safe but longer-term trials are required to confirm safety in long-term use beyond a year.
Women with a history of breast cancer should see their oncologist to discuss using oestrogen as it may not be suitable for them.
Are there other treatments?
New treatments for vaginal dryness are under investigation. One avenue relates to our growing understanding of how the vaginal microbiome adapts and modifies around changes in circulating and local concentrations of hormones.
For example, a small number of reports show that combining vaginal probiotics with low-dose vaginal oestrogen can improve vaginal symptoms. But more evidence is needed before this is recommended.
Where to from here?
The normal ageing process, as well as menopause, both affect the vagina as we age.
Most women do not have troublesome vaginal symptoms during and after menopause, but for some, these may cause discomfort or distress.
While hormonal treatments such as vaginal oestrogen are available, there is a pressing need for more non-hormonal treatments.
Dr Sianan Healy, from Women’s Health Victoria, contributed to this article.
Louie Ye, Clinical Fellow, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Melbourne and Martha Hickey, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Lead Image Credit: iStock | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2024/01/what-happens-to-your-vagina-as-you-age/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:26Z |
India was amazed with the first sunrise of the New Year 2024. The lovely sunrise view from Odisha’s Puri Beach, Guwahati, Kolkata’s Howrah Bridge, and Mumbai’s Gateway of India left people amazed.
People were seen capturing the beautiful moment and the hues of an exquisite sunrise from across the country.
Here are the visuals of the first sunrise of the year 2024 across cities:
People in Maharashtra were seen witnessing the first sunrise of the year 2024 from Mumbai’s Gateway of India.
Here is a visual of first sunrise of the New Year from Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Meanwhile, people in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota witnessed the first sunrise of the first of 2024.
Guwahati rings in the new year with the first sunrise of 2024, leaving people amazed and mesmerised.
In Odisha’s Puri Beach, a large number of people gathered at Puri Sea Beach to witness the first sunrise in Odisha for the New Year celebration.
The first day of the year 2024 is here and here are the beautiful visuals of the sunrise from West Bengal’s Howrah bridge.
A new dawn in the new year 2024 as the Sun rises in Maharashtra’s Pune.
As the nation welcomed the year 2024 with various celebrations, some entered the new year with prayers and offerings at temples.
Visuals from different places showed people across the nation thronging temples to offer prayers on the first day of the New Year.
Devotees throng the Meenakshi Amman temple on the occasion of the new year 2024
Meanwhile, a large number of devotees throng to the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Katra in Jammu and Kashmir on the first day of the new year 2024.
Pilgrims who had darshans on the first day of the year said that this is very auspicious for us and we want to start the new year with the blessing of Mata Vaishno Devi.
Individuals worldwide are celebrating a promising New Year filled with resolutions and aspirations. The New Year festivities definitely calls for a grand celebration, catching up with your loved ones and levelling up your aspirations. | https://www.thestatesman.com/india/people-across-india-enjoy-first-sunrise-of-new-year-2024-1503255029.html | 2024-01-01T05:31:26Z |
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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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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Bills acquired cornerback Rasul Douglas at the trade deadline to shore up a depleted defense and reverse the team’s slide in the standings.
The ballhawking Douglas delivered Sunday, and now Buffalo is on the doorstep of another playoff berth.
The 29-year-old Douglas returned one of his two interceptions for a score and tipped a pass to cause a third turnover in helping the Bills maintain their clear path to the playoffs with a 27-21 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday.
“I don’t know what we gave up to get him,” safety Micah Hyde said of the deal in which Buffalo also acquired a fifth-round draft pick by sending a third-round selection to Green Bay. “But we won that trade.”
Josh Allen made up for his poor passing by scoring twice on 1-yard runs, and the three-time division champion Bills (10-6) now prepare for a season-ending showdown at Miami (11-5) next weekend that will decide the AFC East title. Buffalo has already defeated the Dolphins this year, and Miami blew a chance at clinching the division with a 56-19 loss to Baltimore on Sunday.
The Bills will have to wait until Week 18 to clinch a playoff berth after Pittsburgh (9-7) defeated Seattle 30-23.
The Buffalo enters the final week seeded sixth in the AFC race. Barring ties, the Bills could still secure their fifth consecutive playoff berth with a loss to Miami if Pittsburgh loses at Baltimore or Jacksonville (9-7) loses at Tennessee.
However things go, a patchwork defense that’s spent much of the season without cornerback Tre’Davious White (torn Achilles tendon) and linebacker Matt Milano (right leg) rose up in forcing four turnovers and limiting the Patriots to 16 first downs and 294 yards. Tackle Ed Oliver had an interception on a pass tipped by Douglas, and cornerback Christian Benford forced a fumble by stripping the ball from receiver Pharaoh Brown.
“Resilience. Relentless. We always fight,” Douglas said. “I think that we got our identity now and know what we are capable of doing.”
Buffalo won its fourth straight and fifth in six games by overcoming an inconsistent offense which settled for a touchdown and two field goals off three defensive takeaways inside the Patriots 30 in the first half. The Bills also responded after the Patriots opened the game with Jalen Reagor’s 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.
Buffalo went up 10-7 and never relinquished the lead after Allen’s first 1-yard run with 6:37 left in the first quarter, which was set up by Douglas’ first interception at New England’s 14. Douglas made it 20-7 by scoring on his 40-yard interception return 2 1/2 minutes into the second quarter.
New England (4-12) proved both stout in a game it had little to play for and sloppy in a season the Patriots will finish with their most losses since going 2-14 in 1992. It could be the fewest wins in coach Bill Belichick’s tenure, which he opened with a 5-11 record in 2000.
“Obviously a terrible first 20 minutes. From there, we battled away, but obviously gave them too big of a lead and couldn’t quite get it back,” Belichick said. “Just stop turning it over. Once we did that, we were competitive.”
Bailey Zappe finished 16 of 26 for 209 yards and also scored on an 18-yard run.
“I don’t think it was difficult to keep fighting because it was more about us than it was about them,” Patriots center David Andrews said. “The first half, you can’t do that. You can’t turn the ball over four times. But no one lost belief. Not one lost faith. Obviously, no one quit.”
Zappe had more interceptions (three) than the Patriots had first downs (two) during New England’s first six possessions. The Patriots, however, pulled within 27-21 on Ezekiel Elliott’s 6-yard run with 11:01 left.
Following a three-and-out on New England’s next possession, the Patriots never got the ball back.
Allen converted three third-down opportunities on Buffalo’s final drive to run out the final 5:02. He capped the time-consuming drive by lowering his head on a 4-yard run on third-and-3 from the Patriots 16.
Allen finished 15 of 30 for 169 yards and an interception. He lamented not putting the game out of reach earlier.
“Three possessions down there in the first quarter, and we only scored one touchdown, so that’s not good enough,” he said. “We lucked out and our defense played a heck of a game. Just trying to find a way to win.”
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Allen scored his team-leading 15th TD rushing, one short of matching the team’s season record set in a 14-game season by O.J. Simpson 1975. … Allen had his streak of games throwing a touchdown end at 23. … WR Stefon Diggs had four catches to reach 100 this season. He became the NFL’s third player to have four or more consecutive seasons with 100 catches, joining Antonio Brown (2013-18) and Marvin Harrison (1999-2002).
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Kazakhstani Putintseva slips down WTA rankings
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - This week Kazakhstan's №1 in tennis Yulia Putintseva moved down the updated WTA rankings, Kazinform has learnt from Sports.kz.
Putintseva slid two spots down to №43. Another representative of Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas retained the 96th line of the rankings.
Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan lost 27 spots and plummeted to №196.
Japanese Naomi Osaka tops the rankings with 7030 points. She is followed by Czech Petra Kvitova and Romanian Simona Halep ranked 2nd and 3rd, respectively. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstani-putintseva-slips-down-wta-rankings_a3494606/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:31Z |
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II to abdicate after 52 years on the throne
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 next year after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik, she said her annual New Year's speech on Sunday. "I leave the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik," she said. In Denmark, formal power resides with the elected parliament and its government.
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Denmark's Queen Margrethe II will abdicate on January 14 next year after 52 years on the throne and will be succeeded by her eldest son Crown Prince Frederik, she said her annual New Year's speech on Sunday. The 83-year-old queen, who took over the throne in 1972, is the longest-serving monarch in Europe following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
In February, she underwent a successful back surgery. "The surgery naturally gave rise to thinking about the future - whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation," she said in the speech.
"I have decided that now is the right time. On 14 January 2024 – 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father – I will step down as queen of Denmark," she said. "I leave the throne to my son, Crown Prince Frederik," she said.
In Denmark, formal power resides with the elected parliament and its government. The monarch is expected to stay above partisan politics, representing the nation with traditional duties ranging from state visits to national day celebrations. Born in 1940, Margrethe has throughout her life enjoyed broad support from Danes, who are fond of her tactful and yet creative personality.
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Pakistan Under-19 head coach Mohammad Yousuf believes 6 ft 8 in pace prospect Mohammad Zeeshan is an “extraordinary talent” with a bright future ahead of him.
Yousuf noted that the 17-year-old from Faisalabad “has a strong body and height, which greatly aids him.”
Zeeshan has been a dominant force for the Pakistan Under-19 team and earned a lot of praise for his performance against the Nepal Under-19 side in the Asian Cricket Council Under-19s Asia Cup as he finished with figures of 6-19.
“Zeeshan is an extraordinary talent. He has a strong body and height, which greatly aids him,” Yousuf told PCB Digital.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan national team is currently involved in a three-match Test series against Australia, where they trail 2-0 after losing the first two Tests.
The men in green will look to conclude the series on a high by claiming a consolation win in the third Test, which gets underway on January 3 in Sydney.
Pakistan Squad for Australia Test Series: Shan Masood (captain), Aamer Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Nawaz and Shaheen Shah Afridi | https://battingwithbimal.com/2024/01/01/extraordinary-talent-mohammad-yousuf-sees-bright-future-ahead-for-6-ft-8-in-pakistan-pace-prospect/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:32Z |
Sun exposure can accelerate ageing, cause skin burns, erythema (a skin reaction), skin cancer, melasmas (or sun spots) and other forms of hyperpigmentation – all triggered by solar ultraviolet radiation.
Approximately 80% of skin cancer cases in people engaged in outdoor activities are preventable by decreasing sun exposure. This can be done in lots of ways including wearing protective clothing or sunscreens.
But not all sunscreens work in the same way. You might have heard of “physical” and “chemical” sunscreens. What’s the difference and which one is right for you?
How sunscreens are classified
Sunscreens are grouped by their use of active inorganic and organic ultraviolet (UV) filters. Chemical sunscreens use organic filters such as cinnamates (chemically related to cinnamon oil) and benzophenones. Physical sunscreens (sometimes called mineral sunscreens) use inorganic filters such as titanium and zinc oxide.
These filters prevent the effects of UV radiation on the skin.
Organic UV filters are known as chemical filters because the molecules in them change to stop UV radiation reaching the skin. Inorganic UV filters are known as physical filters, because they work through physical means, such as blocking, scattering and reflection of UV radiation to prevent skin damage.
Nano versus micro
The effectiveness of the filters in physical sunscreen depends on factors including the size of the particle, how it’s mixed into the cream or lotion, the amount used and the refraction index (the speed light travels through a substance) of each filter.
When the particle size in physical sunscreens is large, it causes the light to be scattered and reflected more. That means physical sunscreens can be more obvious on the skin, which can reduce their cosmetic appeal.
Nanoparticulate forms of physical sunscreens (with tiny particles smaller than 100 nanometers) can improve the cosmetic appearance of creams on the skin and UV protection, because the particles in this size range absorb more radiation than they reflect. These are sometimes labelled as “invisible” zinc or mineral formulations and are considered safe.
So how do chemical sunscreens work?
Chemical UV filters work by absorbing high-energy UV rays. This leads to the filter molecules interacting with sunlight and changing chemically.
When molecules return to their ground (or lower energy) state, they release energy as heat, distributed all over the skin. This may lead to uncomfortable reactions for people with skin sensitivity.
Generally, UV filters are meant to stay on the epidermis (the first skin layer) surface to protect it from UV radiation. When they enter into the dermis (the connective tissue layer) and bloodstream, this can lead to skin sensitivity and increase the risk of toxicity. The safety profile of chemical UV filters may depend on whether their small molecular size allows them to penetrate the skin.
Chemical sunscreens, compared to physical ones, cause more adverse reactions in the skin because of chemical changes in their molecules. In addition, some chemical filters, such as dibenzoylmethane tend to break down after UV exposure. These degraded products can no longer protect the skin against UV and, if they penetrate the skin, can cause cell damage.
Due to their stability – that is, how well they retain product integrity and effectiveness when exposed to sunlight – physical sunscreens may be more suitable for children and people with skin allergies.
Although sunscreen filter ingredients can rarely cause true allergic dermatitis, patients with photodermatoses (where the skin reacts to light) and eczema have higher risk and should take care and seek advice.
What to look for
The best way to check if you’ll have a reaction to a physical or chemical sunscreen is to patch test it on a small area of skin.
And the best sunscreen to choose is one that provides broad-spectrum protection, is water and sweat-resistant, has a high sun protection factor (SPF), is easy to apply and has a low allergy risk.
Health authorities recommend sunscreen to prevent sun damage and cancer. Chemical sunscreens have the potential to penetrate the skin and may cause irritation for some people. Physical sunscreens are considered safe and effective and nanoparticulate formulations can increase their appeal and ease of use.
Yousuf Mohammed, Dermatology researcher, The University of Queensland and Khanh Phan, Postdoctoral research associate, Frazer Institute, The University of Queensland
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A Scots animal rescuer says she has received death threats since vowing to provide a home for XL bully dogs banned in England. Kerryanne Shaw, of All Bullie Charity Rescue, spoke as a bitter row over the future of the breed intensified ahead of the crackdown.
Restrictions on the breed in England and Wales came into force yesterday and a ban – which has not been supported by the Scottish Government – will begin in February. Dog lovers have donated thousands to help Kerryanne’s charity create a rescue facility in Scotland, at a secret location in the Dundee area.
Kerryanne said: “We’ve had emails wishing that our dogs will maul us and we die, and saying we’re putting Scottish children at risk. It’s a sad day for humanity that people think it’s acceptable to attack volunteers in this way and we’re already struggling with the impact the ban is having. These people say the dogs are dangerous and vicious but they are behaving as viciously as any dog I know.”
From yesterday, breeding, selling and advertising XL bullies became illegal south of the Border following several attacks. In Scotland, dad-of-five Adam Watts was killed by one of the dogs while attempting to restrain it at Juniper Kennels in Kirkton of Auchterhouse, near Dundee, in December 2021.
In September, Prime Minster Rishi Sunak announced the ban following a spate of attacks, including the death of Ian Price, 52, in Walsall, Staffordshire. People who already own XLs in England can apply for an exemption certificate but must also obtain active public liability insurance and ensure the dog is microchipped and neutered.
The dogs must be muzzled and kept on a lead in public and from February 1, owning an XL bully will be a criminal offence, unless the dog has a valid exemption. Since the announcement, rescuers have been working around the clock to try to rehome animals who face being put down as a result of the ban.
Kerryanne, from Glasgow, has seen hundreds of people donate more than £20,000 in a matter of days to help her take over kennels in Dundee where she hopes to care for dozens of dogs, including XL bullies from England. But she says the majority of the animals her charity has helped have so far found suitable homes down south.
She said: “There’s actually not that many we’ve rehomed in Scotland – around eight or so. There have been a lot of homes coming forward in England wanting to save an XL and take it through the exemption process.
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“We’ve always operated all over the UK so it’s not that we have suddenly started to bring dogs to Scotland. It’s not like we’re flooding Scotland. We are getting a lot of people in Scotland saying they’re happy to take in an XL but it has been difficult to get everybody home checked and matched to a suitable dog. We’re getting applications from all over the UK.”
Kerryanne, who wants to see stricter breeding and rehoming laws and stronger penalties for irresponsible owners in Scotland rather than a ban on the breed, hopes to get her new base set up next month.
She said: “It’s always been a goal we would have our own kennels and be able to live on site and work with the dogs but, with the ban coming, it’s been a decision I’ve had to make sooner. We do have XL bully types in kennels in England and they are going to have to move up and that is part of the reason why we are taking the kennels, because kennels in England won’t legally be allowed to keep them.
“We’re having a lot of trolling because of our plans. There are quite a few relentless trolls, who troll rescues in general, who are particularly nasty. I have been thinking about reporting it all to the police. What people don’t seem to realise is that this can badly affect rescuers’ mental health.”
Other Scottish rescuers have ramped up efforts to get the animals to new homes. English organisation Hope4Bullies is crowdfunding for support, saying it has secured a base in Scotland to build kennels where the dogs “will be safe”.
The UK Government says it has taken “quick and decisive action to protect the public” from dog attacks and is engaging with Holyrood about whether it has plans to take forward a ban. Other Scots animal charities say extending the ban north of the Border is not the solution.
The Scottish SPCA says the Dangerous Dogs Act has “proven ineffective in reducing dog bites and attacks” but believes the focus needs to be on putting “more responsibility on owners.”
Those who support a ban say Scotland is being complacent. Bully Watch UK said it is “baffled” by the Scottish Government’s stance, saying it has “consulted on dangerous dogs for over three years and has not lifted a finger”.
The Scottish Government says any change to the rules must be “evidenced-based”
and it is carefully considering all evidence, saying “public safety is paramount” to its deliberations.
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JAPANESE stocks rounded out their biggest yearly gains in a decade as the weak yen, corporate governance reforms and signs of sustained inflation lured buyers.
The benchmark Topix posted an annual return of 25 percent, and the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rallied 28 percent. That’s the best performance for both gauges since 2013, when aggressive monetary and fiscal easing policies fueled hopes of a turnaround in the third-largest economy.
The world-beating indexes ended the year near the highest since 1990, boosted by investors seeking alternatives to Chinese equities and authorities’ push for companies to improve value. The slump in Japan’s currency helped boost profits of exporters such as carmakers. Warren Buffett’s renewed endorsement drove trading houses’ shares to record highs.
“Japan’s stock rally this year is really quite meaningful,” said Ayako Sera, a market strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd. “It’s a sign that we’re finally returning to a normal situation, a non-deflationary environment where the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy easing has likely supported the market.”
Investors may become even more bullish into 2024 given that the currency remains relatively cheap and corporate earnings have become less susceptible to foreign-exchange fluctuations, though some are cautious about near-term risks given lackluster consumer spending and signs yen weakness may be over.
The Topix gained 0.2 percent, while the Nikkei 225 slipped 0.2 percent on Friday, the last trading day of the year.
Japan’s equity gains this year have still outpaced peers in Asia. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index rose less than 9 percent as investors fretted about a slowdown in Chinese growth, as well as lingering geopolitical tensions, regulatory risks and fears of state meddling in the world’s No. 2 economy.
This year’s rally is the best since the Topix jumped 51 percent in 2013 on optimism that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policies, dubbed Abenomics, would give a much-needed jolt to the economy. Those hopes faded in the ensuing years, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic stymied Abe’s goal of ending deflation.
Now though, there are finally signs of sustainable inflation, which has been above the central bank’s 2 percent target for more than a year and half.
Financial stocks in particular have been beneficiaries of optimism banks’ lending margins will improve. The sector has outperformed the broader Topix since the BOJ’s shock move to loosen its hold on yields just over a year ago fueled bets of an end to the world’s last negative interest-rate regime. | https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/01/01/japanese-stocks-post-best-yearly-gains-in-a-decade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japanese-stocks-post-best-yearly-gains-in-a-decade | 2024-01-01T05:31:32Z |
A 14-year-old boy with a failing kidney is seeking a donor
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) -- A Tennessee family is sending an urgent message seeking help for their 14-year-old son.
The teen known for a positive spirit has only one kidney and is looking for a donor because it is slowing and failing.
While the search continues, his family made sure this holiday season was one he will remember.
“We’re good. We’re good. We’re good. Still 13 and 13,” said 14-year-old Noah Garcia.
His new place is a grand Christmas gift.
His father Eli and mother Melissa Garcia of have just converted a space in the garage into a room for Noah.
“OK. We’re good. I have a big TV and a football field on one of my walls, which I’m excited about,” Noah said.
“I told him when he goes to school, I’m going to be in there hanging out,” Eli Garcia said. “He’s really good at video games. I used to be the champ, but not anymore.”
“Very true,” Noah said.
“I kind of let them win, to be honest with you,” Eli Garcia said.
“He claims he’s the best, but it’s not true,” Noah said.
“He’s a really good kid. I always feel bad for him because of what he’s had to go through,” Eli Garcia said.
Noah’s struggles began before he was born.
“He had something wrong with his kidney. He had hydronephrosis,” Melissa Garcia said.
Before kindergarten, one of his kidneys was removed, and his problems continued.
“He’s only got one kidney that barely works,” Eli Garcia said.
“It’s not functioning all the way, and it’s at 15%, and it’s slowly failing, so,” Noah said.
“He’s on the transplant list right now,” Eli Garcia said.
“I’m not a match. My husband can’t be a donor, and his siblings can’t be donor,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Blood type is B or O,” Noah said.
“We just need somebody who is willing to see if they could be a match,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Sometimes I forget that he’s just a 14-year-old little boy. Sometimes because of the surgeries, I’ve seen him, he’s had to go through. It’s tough. No parent wants to see their kids go through that,” Eli Garcia said.
But during the tough Christmas season, the family’s been there for Noah all the way.
They’re doing social media pushes on Instagram at Kidney for Noah Jack.
And his room, this Christmas present, was built so that after surgery Noah wouldn’t have to go up and down stairs for a while.
It’s a powerful gift as Noah waits for another gift.
“The whole family is supportive of Noah. We are there for each other,” Melissa Garcia said.
You can visit Kidney for Noah Jack on Instagram if you would like to help in the family’s search.
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A 14-year-old boy with a failing kidney is seeking a donor
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) -- A Tennessee family is sending an urgent message seeking help for their 14-year-old son.
The teen known for a positive spirit has only one kidney and is looking for a donor because it is slowing and failing.
While the search continues, his family made sure this holiday season was one he will remember.
“We’re good. We’re good. We’re good. Still 13 and 13,” said 14-year-old Noah Garcia.
His new place is a grand Christmas gift.
His father Eli and mother Melissa Garcia of have just converted a space in the garage into a room for Noah.
“OK. We’re good. I have a big TV and a football field on one of my walls, which I’m excited about,” Noah said.
“I told him when he goes to school, I’m going to be in there hanging out,” Eli Garcia said. “He’s really good at video games. I used to be the champ, but not anymore.”
“Very true,” Noah said.
“I kind of let them win, to be honest with you,” Eli Garcia said.
“He claims he’s the best, but it’s not true,” Noah said.
“He’s a really good kid. I always feel bad for him because of what he’s had to go through,” Eli Garcia said.
Noah’s struggles began before he was born.
“He had something wrong with his kidney. He had hydronephrosis,” Melissa Garcia said.
Before kindergarten, one of his kidneys was removed, and his problems continued.
“He’s only got one kidney that barely works,” Eli Garcia said.
“It’s not functioning all the way, and it’s at 15%, and it’s slowly failing, so,” Noah said.
“He’s on the transplant list right now,” Eli Garcia said.
“I’m not a match. My husband can’t be a donor, and his siblings can’t be donor,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Blood type is B or O,” Noah said.
“We just need somebody who is willing to see if they could be a match,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Sometimes I forget that he’s just a 14-year-old little boy. Sometimes because of the surgeries, I’ve seen him, he’s had to go through. It’s tough. No parent wants to see their kids go through that,” Eli Garcia said.
But during the tough Christmas season, the family’s been there for Noah all the way.
They’re doing social media pushes on Instagram at Kidney for Noah Jack.
And his room, this Christmas present, was built so that after surgery Noah wouldn’t have to go up and down stairs for a while.
It’s a powerful gift as Noah waits for another gift.
“The whole family is supportive of Noah. We are there for each other,” Melissa Garcia said.
You can visit Kidney for Noah Jack on Instagram if you would like to help in the family’s search.
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A 14-year-old boy with a failing kidney is seeking a donor
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) -- A Tennessee family is sending an urgent message seeking help for their 14-year-old son.
The teen known for a positive spirit has only one kidney and is looking for a donor because it is slowing and failing.
While the search continues, his family made sure this holiday season was one he will remember.
“We’re good. We’re good. We’re good. Still 13 and 13,” said 14-year-old Noah Garcia.
His new place is a grand Christmas gift.
His father Eli and mother Melissa Garcia of have just converted a space in the garage into a room for Noah.
“OK. We’re good. I have a big TV and a football field on one of my walls, which I’m excited about,” Noah said.
“I told him when he goes to school, I’m going to be in there hanging out,” Eli Garcia said. “He’s really good at video games. I used to be the champ, but not anymore.”
“Very true,” Noah said.
“I kind of let them win, to be honest with you,” Eli Garcia said.
“He claims he’s the best, but it’s not true,” Noah said.
“He’s a really good kid. I always feel bad for him because of what he’s had to go through,” Eli Garcia said.
Noah’s struggles began before he was born.
“He had something wrong with his kidney. He had hydronephrosis,” Melissa Garcia said.
Before kindergarten, one of his kidneys was removed, and his problems continued.
“He’s only got one kidney that barely works,” Eli Garcia said.
“It’s not functioning all the way, and it’s at 15%, and it’s slowly failing, so,” Noah said.
“He’s on the transplant list right now,” Eli Garcia said.
“I’m not a match. My husband can’t be a donor, and his siblings can’t be donor,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Blood type is B or O,” Noah said.
“We just need somebody who is willing to see if they could be a match,” Melissa Garcia said.
“Sometimes I forget that he’s just a 14-year-old little boy. Sometimes because of the surgeries, I’ve seen him, he’s had to go through. It’s tough. No parent wants to see their kids go through that,” Eli Garcia said.
But during the tough Christmas season, the family’s been there for Noah all the way.
They’re doing social media pushes on Instagram at Kidney for Noah Jack.
And his room, this Christmas present, was built so that after surgery Noah wouldn’t have to go up and down stairs for a while.
It’s a powerful gift as Noah waits for another gift.
“The whole family is supportive of Noah. We are there for each other,” Melissa Garcia said.
You can visit Kidney for Noah Jack on Instagram if you would like to help in the family’s search.
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A San Benito police officer is in the hospital after being struck by a vehicle while conducting traffic control early Sunday morning.
The city said in a news release that a passerby at around 1:30 a.m. informed officers — who were investigating an unrelated crash on South Expressway 83 near the Oscar Williams Road overpass — of the incident.
“While officers were on scene, they were informed by a passing motorist that an officer conducting traffic control further down on the expressway had been struck by a vehicle,” the city said in the release.”
The officer who was struck, and whose identity is being withheld by the city, was found lying in the road and was later transported to Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen with “several fractures and other injuries.”
The injured officer is currently in stable condition, according to the release.
The driver of the vehicle that struck the officer, Yasser Ismail Abu Awwad Martinez, 21, of Brownsville, stayed at the scene and was subsequently charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Martinez is currently out on a $75,000 bond.
Police are “still investigating if drugs or alcohol played a factor in the collision.” | https://myrgv.com/alerts-vms/2023/12/31/san-benito-police-officer-in-stable-condition-after-being-struck-by-vehicle/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:33Z |
Plants ‘offensive and repulsive’ to rats to keep them out of your garden for good
Rats often enter gardens during winter in search of food and shelter, which can be incredibly irritating. To help deter them, an expert has shared plants which will keep them away.
Instead of laying out any traps that could harm the animals, an expert has recommended a range of “offensive and repulsive” plants for rats.
Jordan Foster, pest control expert at Fantastic Pest Control, explained: “There is no doubt rats are smart. They're good at hiding until it's too late.
“Rats usually get into your garden because it's an excellent place to hide and a constant food source. You've got to use some serious rat control methods or hire a pro to get rid of the rodents once they're settled.
“Most rats burrow 45 cm to 60 cm deep but can dig even deeper. Keep in mind, however, that they can dig their way into a house by digging beneath its foundations.
“Your focus should be on not only catching the rats but deterring them. The first thing that comes to mind is poison and traps.
READ MORE: Three ‘easiest ways’ to deter rats from your garden which ‘really work’
“Surrounding your garden with traps and poisonous stuff is not very convenient if you have pets and children nearby. Some organic pest control methods can help you.
“People have known for quite some time that certain plants are effective at deterring rodents. Remember that this method is only effective during the spring and summer months when you can cultivate plants.
“You should keep the garden clean during the winter months, store your garbage under a lock, and keep an eye on your shed if you have one.”
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According to Jordan, plants such as mint are “very offensive” towards rats so planting it around the perimeter of the garden could be a good idea to keep them out.
They can also be helpful in the home such as on a kitchen windowsill which receives lots of sunlight and warmth.
The smell of garlic is also “repulsive” to rats and if they get too close to the plant “they’ll think twice”, according to Jordan.
He added: “Try squirting garlic water down a rat burrow. Rats rely on their sense of smell to find food and avoid dangerous situations like predators or something repulsive.
“Imagine that one of our favourite smells, lavender, can have quite the opposite effect on rats. It can keep them from finding food because of its potent smell. Place it around decks, garden structures, and around the perimeter of your yard where rats might be attracted.
“Create a border of herbs like basil, thyme, and echinacea around the outside of your garden.
“If the rats smell them, they'll think your place has nothing to offer and run to your neighbour, who probably doesn't have a 'repulsive' border around the garden.”
To make a DIY garlic spray, simply add some garlic in a spray bottle with some water and spray it around the garden. | https://www.the-express.com/lifestyle/garden/122875/rats-garden-plants-garlic | 2024-01-01T05:31:33Z |
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“Wishing everyone a splendid 2024”: PM Modi extends New Year wishes to people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended New Year greetings on Monday and wished that 2024 would bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all.
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday extended her greetings to all the countrymen on the first day of the new year, saying she hoped that 2024 would bring happiness, peace and prosperity to the people.
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday extended her greetings to all the countrymen on the first day of the new year, saying she hoped that 2024 would bring happiness, peace and prosperity to the people.
“Warm New Year greetings to all! May the Year 2024 bring happiness, peace and prosperity for everyone. Let us welcome the New Year with a renewed commitment to contribute to inclusive and sustainable development,” President Murmu posted from her official handle on X on Monday.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, too, extended his New Year greetings to fellow citizens, saying that he hoped 2024 would bring happiness to ‘each and everyone’.
Taking to his official handle on X, Vice President Dhankhar posted, “Greetings to every Indian for the New Year 2024! May the New Year bring in peace, prosperity and happiness to each and every one. Let us embrace the dawn of the #NewYear with a resolute commitment to contribute towards wholesome progress and prosperity of Bharat.”
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Earlier, on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished fellow countrymen on the new year, saying that he hoped that 2024 would bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all.
“Wishing everyone a splendid 2024! May this year bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all,” PM Modi posted on X.
As the country ushered in 2024 with colourful celebrations and fervour, devotees were pictured making a beeline for popular shrines and other places of worship to offer their prayers on the first morning of the new year.
Meanwhile, people across cities erupted in jubilation as the new year dawned and immersed in unbridled celebrations long into the night.
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How to Watch EFL Championship Soccer Today: TV & Live Streaming Links - Monday, January 1
Published: Dec. 31, 2023 at 9:12 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour 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!
How to Watch More Sports Today
EFL Championship Soccer Streaming Live Today
Watch Sunderland vs Preston North End
- Game Time: 7:30 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN+
- Live Stream: Watch on ESPN+!
Watch Plymouth Argyle vs Watford
- Game Time: 10:00 AM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN+
- Live Stream: Watch on ESPN+!
Watch Sheffield Wednesday vs Hull City
- Game Time: 12:15 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN+
- Live Stream: Watch on ESPN+!
Make sure you're following along with EFL Championship action all year long on Fubo and ESPN+!
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Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood wants all-rounder Faheem Ashraf to step up and provide some much-needed assistance in both the batting and bowling departments.
Faheem was picked for the ongoing three-match Test series against Australia, but failed to have much of an impact in the first Test in Perth, where he made scores of 9 and 5, and took one wicket.
Despite being benched for the second Test in Melbourne, Masood still has faith in the 29-year-old from Kasur.
“We are hoping Faheem Ashraf grows into this role and provides us something with the bat and something good with the ball so we have quite a lot of options,” he was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.
Having lost the first Test by 360 runs and the second Test by 79 runs, Pakistan will be determined to claim a consolation win in the third Test, which starts on January 3 in Sydney.
Pakistan Squad for Australia Test Series: Shan Masood (captain), Aamer Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Nawaz and Shaheen Shah Afridi | https://battingwithbimal.com/2024/01/01/hoping-he-grows-into-the-role-shan-masood-wants-pakistan-all-rounder-to-step-up-and-take-his-chance/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:38Z |
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Kazakhstani Putintseva to take part in St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan's №1 in tennis Yulia Putintseva will take part in the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Kazinform reports.
Yulia's opponent will be revealed after the qualifying round is over.
The prize fund of the tournament that will bring together the best tennis players of the world, including defending champion Petra Kvitova totals over $757 000.
It should be mentioned that Putintseva slid three spots down to №41 in the updated WTA rankings this week. | https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstani-putintseva-to-take-part-in-st-petersburg-ladies-trophy_a3492424/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:38Z |
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — After thinking he lost his job as the Washington Commanders’ starting quarterback, Sam Howell was back on the field Sunday doing what he has been doing a lot of lately: throwing interceptions.
With Jacoby Brissett sidelined by a hamstring injury that popped up late in the week, Howell threw two more picks in a 27-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. The second-year pro has thrown the most interceptions in the NFL this season with 19, and those mistakes continue to overshadow any of the progress he might have made.
Howell said he didn’t know until about two hours before the game that he would be playing. He finished 17 of 28 for 169 yards.
“I didn’t get much work in practice, but I’ve gotten work all season long,” Howell said. “I feel prepared even when I didn’t get the reps this week.”
Howell made some strong throws, but the interceptions were clearly on him. He was sacked for a league-leading 61st time, and it didn’t help when Washington (4-12) fell behind and was in obvious passing situations for much of the second half.
“Early on, when things were balanced, it was one of those things that the situation gave him the opportunity and he performed,” coach Ron Rivera said. “I thought he made some good decisions, threw some really good balls. Obviously there were a couple throws I promise you he would wished he had back, but he did a lot of good things.”
Rivera announced Wednesday the Commanders would be turning to Brissett after pulling Howell from each of the previous two games. Brissett’s hamstring was still tight, according to Rivera, leading to Howell getting the nod instead, with Jake Fromm elevated from the practice squad to back up.
With one game left against Dallas next weekend — one that could decide the NFC East between the Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles — Rivera was not yet ready to say who might start for Washington, which could pick as high as second in the draft.
It’s likely to be Rivera’s final game with the organization after four seasons, with new ownership poised to make major changes. But the veteran coach isn’t ready to give up on Howell having a future in the league.
“I still think he has that opportunity to be that guy,” Rivera said. “I believe he’s a guy that can be very, very good in this league. There’s some things he still has to grow on, obviously, and we can be better and help him, as well.”
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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.
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Top 25 College Football Streams & TV Channel Info | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 3:46 PM EST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
The 2023 college football bowl game schedule features a matchup between the No. 3 Texas Longhorns and the No. 2 Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl.
You can find info on live coverage of the week's top college football action right here.
How to Watch AP Top 25 Games
No. 24 James Madison Dukes at Air Force Falcons
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 23
- Venue: Amon G. Carter Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Air Force (-2)
Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 23 Tulane Green Wave
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Virginia Tech (-11.5)
No. 16 Louisville Cardinals at USC Trojans
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Petco Park
- TV Channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Louisville (-4.5)
Texas A&M Aggies at No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: NRG Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Oklahoma State (-3.5)
No. 17 SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Fenway Park
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: SMU (-13)
No. 19 NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ACCN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Kansas State (-3)
No. 14 Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Alamodome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Arizona (-2.5)
No. 21 Oregon State Beavers at No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: Sun Bowl Stadium
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Notre Dame (-5.5)
No. 9 Missouri Tigers at No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: AT&T Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Ohio State (-4)
No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels at No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Penn State (-6)
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs at No. 4 Florida State Seminoles
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Georgia (-22.5)
Wisconsin Badgers at No. 13 LSU Tigers
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Raymond James Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: LSU (-8.5)
No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 25 Tennessee Volunteers
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Tennessee (-5.5)
No. 18 Liberty Flames at No. 8 Oregon Ducks
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Oregon (-17.5)
No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 1 Michigan Wolverines
- Time: 5:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Rose Bowl
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Michigan (-1.5)
No. 3 Texas Longhorns at No. 2 Washington Huskies
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Caesars Superdome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Texas (-3.5)
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Here are the top photos of the year, curated by staff photographer Joel Martinez.
Auxiliary Bishop of Brownsville, Mario Aviles, uses the thurible to cense the alter as worshipers celebrate Midnight Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023, in San Juan.
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Grace Young, 3, looks over a toy she picked out during a Christmas toy give away at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, in Mission.
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McAllen Memorial’s Amare Hernandez on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, in McAllen.
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Nicole Hernandez hugs an attendee at a candlelight vigil as they remember Yi Min Jiang, also known as Amy, at Coast Asian Bistro and Bar on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in McAllen.
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Rio Grande Valley Vipers forward Cam Whitmore (7) rebounds the ball against the Oklahoma City Blue in a NBA G League game at Bert Ogden Arena on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Brownsville Veterans’ Zeke Zarate (53) yells in celebration near the end of a Region IV-5A DI semifinal playoff game against PSJA North at PSJA Stadium on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, in Pharr.
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Brownsville Veterans team members attempt to touch the regional semifinal trophy after defeating PSJA North in a Region IV-5A DI semifinal playoff game at PSJA Stadium on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, in Pharr.
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Brownsville Veterans wide receiver Jerry Gomez (10) reaches out for a pass near the end zone in a Region IV-5A DI semifinal playoff game against PSJA North at PSJA Stadium on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, in Pharr.
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Children play on the playground as attendees line up in the background for a ticket to receive a free turkey and fixings as 1000 turkey dinners were given away during the Harvest Festival at Hidalgo County Precinct 2 Community Resource Center on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in San Juan.
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Jesse Vela Jr. receives greetings from well-wishers during a ceremony to change the name of Alamo Middle School to Jesus “Jesse” Vela Jr. Middle School at Jesus “Jesse” Vela Jr. Middle School on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, in Alamo.
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McAllen High defender Nick Moss (42) forces McAllen Rowe quarterback Elijah Garza (15) to lose the ball in the end zone which resulted in a safety in a District 15-5A DI game at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in McAllen.
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Alfredo Trevino, 9, stretches out after gazing at the Sun with eye protection during the annular solar eclipse at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Edinburg.
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The sun, partially blocked clouds, positioned next to the top of a Sun dial during the annular solar eclipse at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Members of the McAllen Rowe cross country team cheer on their team during the varsity boys run in the District 31-5A cross country meet at the McAllen Sports Park on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in McAllen.
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PSJA North’ wide receiver Markus Rendon (18) celebrates his touchdown in the first quarter against La Joya Palmview in District 15-5A DI game at PJSA Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Pharr.
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Former Dallas Cowboys football player Michael Irvin speaks during a press conference about the McAllen Holiday Parade at the McAllen Miller International Airport on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in McAllen.
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Members of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley first marching band walk out onto the field during practice at UTRGV on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Supporter Anita Ratcliff cheers during a speech by RNC Co-Chairman Drew McKissick during the opening of RNC Republican Community Center on Friday, July 7, 2022, in Edinburg.
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Spectators watch the floats and other participants as they pass by during the McAllen Independence Day Celebration parade along Main Street on Tuesday, July 4, 2022, in McAllen.
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Spectators watch the floats and other participants as they pass by during the McAllen Independence Day Celebration parade along Main Street on Tuesday, July 4, 2022, in McAllen.
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Ramon Catindi kisses his wife Luz after she crossed the finish line as they run together in the inaugural Tacos & Toros 5K Run & Walk at HEB Park on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Edinburg North’s San Juanita Leal celebrates at the finish line after winning gold as she competes in the Class 6A 3200 meter run during UIL state track and field championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Austin.
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Rio Grande City’s Serina Ramirez competes in the Class 5A shot put during UIL state track and field championships at Mike A. Myers Stadium on Friday, May 12, 2023, in Austin.
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Harlingen High’s Charlotte Hughes walks on the red carpet as local high school drama attend the 5th annual Palm Awards at the McAllen Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in McAllen.
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Attendees raise their hands in prayer as Texas Governor Greg Abbott addressed the Parent Empowerment Coalition at Covenant Christian Academy on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in McAllen.
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Protestors march outside on the sidewalk as Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the Parent Empowerment Coalition at Covenant Christian Academy on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in McAllen.
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Protestors march outside on the sidewalk as Gov. Greg Abbott addressed the Parent Empowerment Coalition at Covenant Christian Academy on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in McAllen.
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Catholic worshipers listen to Bishop Daniel Flores’ words at one of the Stations of the Cross at the Basilica Of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle National Shrine on Friday, April 7, 2023, in San Juan.
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and former Edinburg Vela baseball player Isaac Lopez hugs his former coach Jaime Perez as they greet each other after his game against Tarleton at the UTRGV Baseball Stadium on Saturday, April 1, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Rio Grande Valley Vipers guard Trhae Mitchell (6) reacts after a play against the Delaware Blue Coats in the second of three NBA G League finals game at Bert Ogden Arena on Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Edinburg.
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A visitor walks along a path near the new Hidalgo County Courthouse under construction on Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Altar boy Joshua Rodriguez rests after walks with others from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church to La Lomita during Palm Sunday celebrations on Sunday, April 2, 2023, in Mission. The walk resumed after a three year hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The sun sets behind the tree line at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, in Edinburg.
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Alex Verdugo (29) pitches against Houston Christian in a game at the UTRGV Baseball Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Children wait for the start of the race during the 10th annual McAllen Marathon Scott Crane Run at McAllen Convention Center on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, in McAllen.
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Valley View’s Ever Arredondo (1) and PSJA Southwest’s Jorge Lopez (21) battle for the ball in a District 31-5A contest at PSJA Southwest High School on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Pharr.
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Deborah Ogayemi (33) gains control of the ball against University of Texas Arlington in a WAC game at Bert Ogden Arena on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Jesse Alvarez lights soap bubble on fire to demonstrate the energy in hydrocarbons as elementary students enjoy the Energy and U science show University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Mud dried hand prints on the border wall Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, in Mission.
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Iyana Dorsey (2) attempts to move passed University of Texas Arlington’s Kayla White (32) in a WAC game at Bert Ogden Arena on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in Edinburg.
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Taylor Swift celebrates wildly as Chiefs win AFC West despite Travis Kelce struggles
Taylor Swift was jumping for joy in attendance at the Kansas City Chiefs vs Cincinnati Bengals game as boyfriend Travis Kelce's team clinched a Playoff berth
Taylor Swift was over the moon as her boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs team won their game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
The pop star was spotted at Arrowhead Stadium on New Year's Eve, cheering on Kelce and his team. Unlike last time when she watched the game with her family, this time, the Eras Tour songstress exited her routine golf cart ride alone, appearing to be there by herself.
A fan shared a video of Taylor jumping up and down in the Kelce family suite with joy. She was seen wearing a vintage Chiefs jacket and holding a drink.
Fans loved seeing Taylor so happy. One fan wrote: "We are loving it! Don't EVER blame Taylor for the Chiefs losing again! AFC Champs!" Another added: "Such a delightful start of this year seeing Taylor this happy. Taylor's excitement made my morning, day, week, month, and year."
Swifties created even more buzz on social media when they noticed Kelce was wearing the same jacket as Swift at the game. The jacket showcased a white front trimmed with a sewn-on Kansas City Chiefs chest logo. It also featured several team patches on the black sleeves of the jacket.
Kelce has been captured in photographs sporting a similar jacket on multiple occasions, notably during the Chiefs' Christmas game, where he added a festive touch with a Santa hat. He has also been seen wearing the jacket when leaving the locker room after a game.
Swift's consistent choice of red and yellow attire at games underscores her preference for team-branded clothing to support her partner. While Swifties continued to express their admiration for their favorite singer's love story, some NFL fans voiced concerns that Swift was receiving too much attention during the broadcast.
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Kelce did not perform his best during the game, catching only three passes for 16 yards. This was surprising, especially since he usually plays better when Swift is there to cheer him on.
The win secured a playoff spot for Kansas City and marked their eighth consecutive year winning the AFC West division. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes played a key role, completing 21 of 29 passes for 245 yards and scoring a critical touchdown.
Kansas City used their strong running game and determined defense to win. A critical moment came in the third quarter when linebacker Willie Gay tackled running back Joe Mixon three yards behind the line of scrimmage on a crucial fourth-and-1 from the Chiefs' 6-yard line.
Even though the Chiefs offense was not perfect, they still showed they have what it takes to go for another title. The game's big moment showed off the Chiefs' defense, especially cornerbacks L'Jarius Sneed and Trent McDuffie. They managed to keep Bengals star receiver Ja'Marr Chase to just three catches for 41 yards. | https://www.the-express.com/sport/american-football/122944/taylor-swift-chiefs-bengals-nfl | 2024-01-01T05:31:39Z |
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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Magnitude 4.8 quake hits Indonesia's West Java, no casualties
A series of shallow earthquakes hit Indonesia's West Java province on Sunday with the biggest at magnitude 4.8 during night causing residents to flee their homes, damage to buildings but no casualties, local authorities said. The quake's epicentre was 2 km (1.25 miles) northeast of Sumedang in West Java province at a depth of 5 km, while two previous quakes were in smaller magnitude, the country's geophysics agency (BMKG) said.
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A series of shallow earthquakes hit Indonesia's West Java province on Sunday with the biggest at magnitude 4.8 during night causing residents to flee their homes, damage to buildings but no casualties, local authorities said.
The quake's epicentre was 2 km (1.25 miles) northeast of Sumedang in West Java province at a depth of 5 km, while two previous quakes were in smaller magnitude, the country's geophysics agency (BMKG) said. Authorities in Sumedang said no casualties had been recorded so far, but three residents suffered minor injuries and there had been damage to houses and two hospitals where patients had to be evacuated to emergency tents.
BMKG asked residents and local authorities to stay vigilant because of the risk of aftershocks and advised people to avoid hilly areas due to the risk of landslides. Indonesia straddles the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire", an area of high seismic activity that rests atop multiple tectonic plates.
In November 2022, more than 300 people died after a magnitude 5.6 quake hit the town of Cianjur in West Java province.
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DAVAO CITY—The flagship housing program of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is underway in the Davao Region despite the delays, a Presidential aide here has said.
Secretary Leo Abellera Magno, the Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao, said he was bullish that the Marcos’s Pambansang Pabahay para sa Pamilyang Pilipino (4PH), in Davao Region would be implemented soon.
He said proposals were currently being reviewed as the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has also identified three areas owned by the City of Davao.
He said he recently met with DHSUD and disclosed that it was finalizing the proposals and design “so they can coordinate it with the City Government of Davao.”
“The developers will look into the site and they would submit the proposal to Mayor Sebastian Duterte. It is the LGU that will decide if the design is correct and if it can be presented to Dabawenyos,” Magno said.
“We are really hoping that proposals and designs will be completed by the different developers this year or at least in early January,” Magno said as he hoped that “the much anticipated housing program will be implemented next year.”
The identified 4PH housing sites in Davao City were in the areas of Lasang, Talomo, and Langub. He said the DHSUD also suggested to have several other areas in downtown Davao City.
Magno said the Office of the Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao was assigned to coordinate the 4PH program in the region. President Marcos Jr. adopted the 4PH as his flagship program on housing to address the 6-million housing backlog in the country.
Magno’s office announced in February this year that the program has a target of constructing one million houses per year for indigent families in the eastern part of Mindanao.
Magno said Davao City has an identified backlog of 180,000 units which 4PH would seek to address.
“What we are praying, my office and the DHSUD, is that the project will start so that the people will see that the government is serious about implementing the housing project,” he said.
He added that if the people see the construction of the housing projects, they would be convinced to avail themselves of the housing units. | https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/01/01/marcos-flagship-housing-underway-palace-aide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marcos-flagship-housing-underway-palace-aide | 2024-01-01T05:31:39Z |
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Premier League Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bets & Odds in the US Today, January 1
Published: Dec. 20, 2023 at 10:33 PM CST|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The Premier League has only one match on its Monday slate -- continue reading for anytime goal scorer odds.
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Mohamed Salah, Liverpool FC (-105)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 12
Darwin Nunez, Liverpool FC (+125)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 5
Cody Gakpo, Liverpool FC (+130)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 17
- Goals: 2
Diogo Jota, Liverpool FC (+150)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 13
- Goals: 5
Luis Diaz, Liverpool FC (+160)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 18
- Goals: 3
Ben Doak, Liverpool FC (+185)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 9
- Goals: 0
Callum Wilson, Newcastle United (+210)
- Opponent: Liverpool FC
- Games Played: 14
- Goals: 7
Alexander Isak, Newcastle United (+220)
- Opponent: Liverpool FC
- Games Played: 15
- Goals: 8
Anthony Gordon, Newcastle United (+350)
- Opponent: Liverpool FC
- Games Played: 18
- Goals: 6
Dominik Szoboszlai, Liverpool FC (+350)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 2
Harvey Elliott, Liverpool FC (+350)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 1
Curtis Jones, Liverpool FC (+400)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 12
- Goals: 0
Ryan Gravenberch, Liverpool FC (+450)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 14
- Goals: 0
Miguel Almiron, Newcastle United (+450)
- Opponent: Liverpool FC
- Games Played: 19
- Goals: 3
James McConnell, Liverpool FC (+450)
- Opponent: Newcastle United
- Games Played: 8
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Final Instagram post before champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins’ death as husband charged
World champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins was seen in an Instagram post shared by her husband just days before he allegedly struck his Olympian wife with his ute.
Ms Hoskins’ husband and former star cyclist, Rohan Dennis, 33, shared the social media post showing himself smiling alongside Ms Hoskins, 32, and their two children.
‘Merry Christmas from our family to yours,’ the caption reads.
Ms Hoskins was allegedly struck by a vehicle in Adelaide’s inner-north on Sunday, December 31. She was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital suffering serious injuries, and died hours later.
South Australian Police arrested Mr Dennis, who was allegedly behind the wheel of a ute that hit the mother of two.
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Find out moreMr Dennis has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, driving without due care and endangering life.
He was released on bail to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court again in March.
A host of sporting organisations and fellow cyclists have paid tribute following Ms Hoskins’ tragic death.
Among them is the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), who Ms Hoskins represented at the 2012 and 2016 Games.
“The AOC has expressed the utmost sadness at the loss of Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins after the tragic events in Adelaide,” it said in a post on X.
“Our condolences go to Melissa’s family, friends and the cycling community at this extremely difficult time.”
Marne Fechner, chief executive of AusCycling, the national governing body for the sport in Australia, labelled Ms Hoskins’ death as a “tragic incident”.
“Melissa, a mother, daughter, and wife, was also a champion cyclist who thrilled and inspired us with her exquisite skills on the track and road,” Ms Fechner said in a statement.
“Melissa began her competitive cycling career at just 16, and by the time she retired at the age of 25 she had shown the world that she was an athlete of rare prowess.
“Melissa described her team Pursuit Gold Medal at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships as the highlight of her career, but for the rest of us, the highlight was just having her around.”
Retired track cyclist, Anna Meares who has also been appointed chef de mission of the Australian Olympic Team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, posted a condolence message on her social media channels.
“I have a very heavy heart,” Ms Meares said in a post to X.
“My thoughts are with their children, family and fellow friends.
“This is a very difficult and tragic time. RIP”
Ms Hoskins’ former team, GreenEDGE, which has since rebranded to Jayco-AlUla similarly expressed its grief at the news.
“Our thoughts are with her family and friends and the whole cycling community at this deeply saddening time,” a statement from the team said.
“She will never be forgotten.”
Originally hailing from Perth, Ms Hoskins married Mr Dennis in 2018. The couple have two children.
Aside from her Olympic achievements, Ms Hoskins won gold in the women’s team pursuit at the 2015 world championships. She retired from professional cycling in 2017.
Mr Dennis was a podium finisher at the 2013 and 2020 Olympics, a two-time world champion and a stage-winner in the 2015 Tour de France.
He only retired from professional cycling at the end of 2023.
Originally published as Final Instagram post before champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins’ death as husband charged
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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announces abdication after 52-year reign in New Year’s eve speech
After more than 50 years in power, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II has unexpectedly declared she will step down early in 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended New Year greetings on Monday and wished that 2024 would bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended New Year greetings on Monday and wished that 2024 would bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all.
“Wishing everyone a splendid 2024! May this year bring forth prosperity, peace and wonderful health for all,” PM Modi posted on X.
As the nation welcomed the year 2024 with various celebrations, some entered the new year with prayers and offerings at temples.
Visuals from different places showed people across the nation thronging temples to offer prayers on the first day of the New Year.
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Devotees at Jhandewalan Temple in Delhi offered their prayers on the occasion as the temple held its first aarti of the year.
Meanwhile, cities across the country welcomed the new year with lavish celebrations and joy.
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Top 25 College Football Streams & TV Channel Info | Bowl Season
Published: Dec. 25, 2023 at 12:46 PM PST|Updated: 33 minutes ago
The 2023 college football bowl game schedule features a matchup between the No. 3 Texas Longhorns and the No. 2 Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl.
You can find info on live coverage of the week's top college football action right here.
How to Watch AP Top 25 Games
No. 24 James Madison Dukes at Air Force Falcons
- Time: 3:30 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 23
- Venue: Amon G. Carter Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Air Force (-2)
Virginia Tech Hokies at No. 23 Tulane Green Wave
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Virginia Tech (-11.5)
No. 16 Louisville Cardinals at USC Trojans
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: Petco Park
- TV Channel: FOX
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Louisville (-4.5)
Texas A&M Aggies at No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- Date: Wednesday, December 27
- Venue: NRG Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Oklahoma State (-3.5)
No. 17 SMU Mustangs at Boston College Eagles
- Time: 11:00 AM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Fenway Park
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: SMU (-13)
No. 19 NC State Wolfpack at Kansas State Wildcats
- Time: 5:45 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ACCN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Kansas State (-3)
No. 14 Arizona Wildcats at No. 12 Oklahoma Sooners
- Time: 9:15 PM ET
- Date: Thursday, December 28
- Venue: Alamodome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Arizona (-2.5)
No. 21 Oregon State Beavers at No. 15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Time: 2:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: Sun Bowl Stadium
- TV Channel: CBS
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Notre Dame (-5.5)
No. 9 Missouri Tigers at No. 7 Ohio State Buckeyes
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Date: Friday, December 29
- Venue: AT&T Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Ohio State (-4)
No. 11 Ole Miss Rebels at No. 10 Penn State Nittany Lions
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Penn State (-6)
No. 6 Georgia Bulldogs at No. 4 Florida State Seminoles
- Time: 4:00 PM ET
- Date: Saturday, December 30
- Venue: Hard Rock Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Georgia (-22.5)
Wisconsin Badgers at No. 13 LSU Tigers
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Raymond James Stadium
- TV Channel: SECN
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: LSU (-8.5)
No. 20 Iowa Hawkeyes at No. 25 Tennessee Volunteers
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Camping World Stadium
- TV Channel: ABC
- Live stream: Fubo
- Favorite: Tennessee (-5.5)
No. 18 Liberty Flames at No. 8 Oregon Ducks
- Time: 1:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: State Farm Stadium
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Oregon (-17.5)
No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 1 Michigan Wolverines
- Time: 5:00 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Rose Bowl
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Michigan (-1.5)
No. 3 Texas Longhorns at No. 2 Washington Huskies
- Time: 8:45 PM ET
- Date: Monday, January 1
- Venue: Caesars Superdome
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Favorite: Texas (-3.5)
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A Scots paramedic has been struck off for telling a patient he would “break her f****** arm”.
William Munro, from Glasgow, was banned from the profession after a watchdog found he swore and used unnecessary physical force while transferring a patient to a wheelchair.
The former Scottish Ambulance Service worker, who was previously rapped for refusing to attend 999 calls, was working in Wales at the time of the incident.
A hearing of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service struck the 68-year-old’s name from the register following two previous suspension orders.
Munro was working for the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust when he was called to help colleagues with an intoxicated patient who was being verbally abusive in January 2019.
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He was found to have held the patient by the arm and face and told her: “Do that again and I will break your f****** arm.”
In its report, the watchdog said: “The HCPC submits that a strike-off order would be both necessary for the protection of the public and it is otherwise in the public interest.
“In light of the gravity of the allegations, lack of insight and remorse, the HCPC submits that a second extension of the suspension order would not be proportionate.”
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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
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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
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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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HARLINGEN — There’s the heaving and the metallic clanking and the whispering of the pulleys throughout the large area filled with weights and mirrors and aspirations for a better life filled with health and opportunity.
“Everybody has an extra 20 pounds and I’m trying to lose at least 10,” said Juan Vela, 34, as he prepares to do a bench press at TruFit Athletic Club at 1001 N. Ed Carey Drive in Harlingen.
It’s a time of resolution before the end of one thing and the beginning of another, when people stop and reflect over their past and set goals for their futures. Throughout many places people make all manner of determinations about how they’d like to pursue life going forward.
They speak of mended relationships, they plan for the completion of projects and the beginning of others, they look forward to career advancement and prosperity. Most often, however, people hit the gyms in search of greater health.
“I want to get on track for my health for the New Year,” said Ilda Garcia, 40, as she paused between sets on a weight machine.
“I have been coming to the gym but this New Year I am going to lose weight and try to get off my meds for my sugar levels,” she said.
Gyms everywhere are filling up for the New Year. The phenomenon of New Year’s resolutions and the jump in gym memberships has been the rule for many generations. People seeking new health flood the gyms for a few weeks after the New Year and then gradually decline as life gets in the way.
However, the pandemic three years ago knocked this pattern completely off the rails. Gyms closed for a time as people sheltered in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. In fact, almost all businesses shuttered their doors until gradually things began to open again.
A slow rebounding has been in process since the virus came under control, but with a much altered trajectory from before the pandemic.
At TruFit, numbers have actually increased from before the pandemic, said Jahira Coronado, sales representative.
“Gym memberships have been going up since the pandemic because everyone wants to come back and to actually get back to working out and set their goals,” she said. “I think the pandemic cut them off from what they wanted to do. I think now it’s more people coming in than before.”
There is, however, the new complication of high inflation. That presented a new challenge.
“It is hard to bring people back because of inflation,” she said. “I try my best to bring people in, talk to them into coming back in. I call them and I tell them, ‘I saw that you were interested in the gym.’ Like what can I do to bring them in? How can I help them?”
In spite of all these challenges, sales have been good. People are coming in for new memberships and New Year’s resolutions.
Young Elias Ramirez plays football and runs track, and he was at the gym Thursday afternoon to improve his performance.
“I just started yesterday,” said Elias, 13. “I want to gain weight.” | https://myrgv.com/life/community/2023/12/31/resolutions-help-harlingen-gym-grow-membership-despite-inflation/ | 2024-01-01T05:31:43Z |
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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5 PGA Tour stars that LIV Golf would still love to sign after Jon Rahm deal
LIV Golf acquired the services of Jon Rahm ahead of 2024, but there is no doubt the breakaway league would like to add a few more big names to their roster.
Jon Rahm completes LIV Golf switch
Jon Rahm became LIV Golf’s latest mega-money signing, after the Masters champion signed on the dotted line earlier this month. Rahm made golfing history with his Saudi switch, after being handed a reported £450 million deal to join Greg Norman and the LIV setup.
The Spaniard is the latest PGA Tour star to make the controversial jump, following in the footsteps of the likes of Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and fellow countryman Sergio Garcia. In the meantime though it appears the breakaway league are keen to add more big names to their history.
Tony Finau
One man who looked destined to follow in the footsteps of Rahm was six-time PGA Tour winner Tony Finau. According to the Telegraph Finau was in talks to join the breakaway league, with rumours circulating that he was set to join Rahm’s soon-to-be-announced team.
The rumours were soon put to bed though, after Finau confirmed he would be returning to the PGA Tour in 2024 in a statement on social media. “I'm excited for 2024 and looking forward to playing my 10th season on the PGA Tour,” he wrote before signing off with the hashtag #Imnotleaving.
Tyrrell Hatton
Alongside Finau, one other big name who the LIV setup were reportedly keen to get their hands on was Tyrrell Hatton. Hatton played alongside Rahm in Europe’s 16.5-11.5 Ryder Cup victory over the USA, and there were hopes the pair would reunite on the breakaway series.
It appears however that the Englishman is going to stay put for now, after it was announced he would join the likes of Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood in competing at next month’s Dubai Desert Classic on the DP World Tour.
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Ludvig Aberg
Similar to Hatton, Swede Ludvig Aberg also accompanied Rahm in October’s Ryder Cup win, and was also given the chance to sign with LIV Golf. The Swede has announced himself as golf’s hottest prospects since turning pro in June, and was unsurprisingly on the radar for Norman and his team.
Aberg however has opted to turn down the offer from the breakaway league, one he has received on more than one occasion. In an interview with Eurosport he pledged his loyalties to the PGA Tour, admitting he saw a number of ‘red flags’ when it came to the LIV setup.
Scottie Scheffler
It would take something special for LIV Golf to better the signing of Rahm, but one name who may just do that is Scottie Scheffler. Scheffler has announced himself as the best golfer on the planet in the past two seasons, and aside from the lucrative names of Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, would prove to be a dream signing for CEO Norman.
Like Aberg however Scheffler is said to have rejected the chance to join the breakaway league earlier this year after being offered a deal worth ‘tens of millions’ according to Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee.
Will Zalatoris
As well as stalwarts of the game, LIV has been keen to add some of golf’s biggest rising stars to their roster, and there is no doubt Will Zalatoris would be a sought after addition. The American burst onto the PGA Tour scene in 2021, landing three second place major finishes in 12 months.
Since then though Zalatoris’ progress has been halted by a torrid back injury that kept him out for nine months during 2023. In that time, the 26-year-old admitted he received a “very intriguing offer” from the LIV setup, but has since opted to remain with the PGA Tour. | https://www.the-express.com/sport/golf/122823/Jon-Rahm-LIV-Golf-signings | 2024-01-01T05:31:43Z |
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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