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Tweet Facebook Mail Big tech companies could be forced to pay for Australian journalism under a reported plan from the federal government. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will today reveal a plan to impose financial penalties on tech companies such as Meta if they don't negotiate "in good faith" with news organisations. It's expected to pressure tech giants to commit to a bargaining code with publishers and pay for news content shared on their platforms. READ MORE: Baby toy pulled off shelves over choking fears  Tech giants could be penalised for not paying for Australian news under a new plan. (Getty) Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, is currently at the centre of the stand-off, after its existing agreements with news publishers expired. The other major player, Google, has current payment agreements in place but hasn't promised to renew them. Existing laws in Australia designed to encourage tech companies to pay for news can be circumvented if platforms such as Facebook remove traditional media entirely from their site. READ MORE: Meta 'working to fix' outage impacting Facebook and Instagram globally  Time's Person of the Year shortlist revealed View Gallery Meta has done just that in Canada, and reportedly has suggested it could do so in Australia. The Herald reported that the upcoming plan would also levy penalties on companies that were greater than the cost of publishing bargains, which are estimated to be worth a collective $1 billion over four years. DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP : Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play .

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted lower Tuesday in the runup to the highlight of the week for the market, the latest update on inflation that’s coming on Wednesday. The S&P 500 dipped 0.3%, a day after pulling back from its latest all-time high . They’re the first back-to-back losses for the index in nearly a month, as momentum slows following a big rally that has it on track for one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 154 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 0.3%. Tech titan Oracle dragged on the market and sank 6.7% after reporting growth for the latest quarter that fell just short of analysts’ expectations. It was one of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500, even though CEO Safra Catz said the company saw record demand related to artificial-intelligence technology for its cloud infrastructure business, which trains generative AI models. AI has been a big source of growth that’s helped many companies’ stock prices skyrocket. Oracle’s stock had already leaped more than 80% for the year coming into Tuesday, which raised the bar of expectations for its profit report. In the bond market, Treasury yields ticked higher ahead of Wednesday’s report on the inflation that U.S. consumers are feeling. Economists expect it to show similar increases as the month before. Wednesday’s update and a report on Thursday about inflation at the wholesale level will be the final big pieces of data the Federal Reserve will get before its meeting next week, where many investors expect the year’s third cut to interest rates . The Fed has been easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high since September to take pressure off the slowing jobs market, after bringing inflation nearly down to its 2% target. Lower rates would help give support to the economy, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. Expectations for a series of cuts through next year have been a big reason the S&P 500 has set so many records this year. Trading in the options market suggests traders aren’t expecting a very big move for U.S. stocks following Wednesday’s report, according to strategists at Barclays. But a reading far off expectations in either direction could quickly change that. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.22% from 4.20% late Monday. Even though the Fed has been cutting its main interest rate, mortgage rates have been more stubborn to stay high and have been volatile since the autumn. That has hampered the housing industry, and homebuilder Toll Brothers’ stock fell 6.9% even though it delivered profit and revenue for the latest quarter that topped analysts’ expectations. CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. said the luxury builder has been seeing strong demand since the start of its fiscal year six weeks ago, an encouraging signal as it approaches the beginning of the spring selling season in mid-January. Elsewhere on Wall Street, Alaska Air Group soared 13.2% after raising its forecast for profit in the current quarter. The airline said demand for flying around the holidays has been stronger than expected. It also approved a plan to buy back up to $1 billion of its stock, along with new service from Seattle to Tokyo and Seoul . Boeing climbed 4.5% after saying it’s resuming production of its bestselling plane , the 737 Max, for the first time since 33,000 workers began a seven-week strike that ended in early November. Vail Resorts rose 2.5% after the ski resort operator reported a smaller first-quarter loss than analysts expected in what is traditionally its worst quarter. All told, the S&P 500 fell 17.94 points to 6,034.91. The Dow dipped 154.10 to 44,247.83, and the Nasdaq composite slipped 49.45 to 19,687.24. In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in China after the world’s second-largest economy said its exports rose by less than expected in November. Stocks rose 0.6% in Shanghai but fell 0.5% in Hong Kong. Indexes fell across much of Europe ahead of a meeting this week by the European Central Bank, where the widespread expectation is for another cut in interest rates. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.

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Painting titled ‘Karam Kshetra — Field of Deeds’, which depicts Krishna’s chariot with Arjun, Garuda and Chanakya along with modern tanks, rocket launchers and attack helicopters against the backdrop of Pangong Tso in Ladakh and snow-capped mountains. The famous photograph of Pakistan’s Lt-General Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender in Dec 1971, and marking India’s historic military triumph and Bangladesh’s liberation. Painting titled ‘Karam Kshetra — Field of Deeds’, which depicts Krishna’s chariot with Arjun, Garuda and Chanakya along with modern tanks, rocket launchers and attack helicopters against the backdrop of Pangong Tso in Ladakh and snow-capped mountains. The famous photograph of Pakistan’s Lt-General Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender in Dec 1971, and marking India’s historic military triumph and Bangladesh’s liberation. Painting titled ‘Karam Kshetra — Field of Deeds’, which depicts Krishna’s chariot with Arjun, Garuda and Chanakya along with modern tanks, rocket launchers and attack helicopters against the backdrop of Pangong Tso in Ladakh and snow-capped mountains. 1 2 NEW DELHI: Faced with a backlash from many veterans as well as Congress functionaries like Priyanka Gandhi over the replacement of a painting of Pakistan's surrender during the Bangladesh war with a 'semi-mythological' one in the Army chief's lounge in South Block, the force on Monday said the 'iconic 1971 painting' has been 'relocated' to its 'most befitting place' in the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi Cantonment. A reproduction of the famous photograph showing Pakistan's Lt-General AAK Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender in Dec 1971, sitting alongside Lt-General Jagjit Singh Aurora and others, the painting had adorned the lounge - next to the Army chief's office where he meets visiting dignitaries - for several years. It was replaced few days ago with a painting titled 'Karam Kshetra - Field of Deeds', which depicts Krishna's chariot with Arjun, Garuda & Chanakya with modern tanks, rocket launchers and attack helicopters against a backdrop of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh & snow-capped mountains. The new painting portrays Army as a 'guardian of dharma' and its 'timeless commitment to righteousness', as drawn from teachings of Mahabharata, which is complemented by Chanakya's strategic & philosophical wisdom, while transforming itself into a technologically advanced integrated force, a senior officer said. Many veterans, however, dubbed it a "kitsch semi-mythological painting", with some taking to social media to condemn the move, describing it as an "assault on military history" and an "insult" to those who fought in the 1971 war. "The photo/painting symbolising India's first major military victory in 1,000 years, and the first as a united nation in 1971, has been removed by a hierarchy which believes that mythology, religion and distant fragmented feudal past will inspire future victories," former Northern Army commander Lt-General H S Panag (retd) said. Congress promptly latched onto the controversy, accusing the Modi govt of attempting to erase and rewrite history. "The picture showing the Pakistan army surrendering to India has been removed from Army Headquarters. That picture should be put back," Priyanka said in Lok Sabha Monday. Amid the criticism, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi, along with his wife, officers and veterans, installed the 1971 surrender painting in Manekshaw Centre - named after the architect of the victory, late Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw - on Vijay Diwas (Dec 16), celebrated to mark the occasion. "This painting is a testament to one of the greatest military victories of Indian armed forces and India's commitment to justice and humanity for all. Its relocation to Manekshaw Centre will benefit a large audience due to the substantial footfall of diverse audiences and dignitaries from India & abroad at this venue," an officer said. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .Formula 1 on Monday at last said it will expand its grid in 2026 to make room for an American team that is partnered with General Motors . “As the pinnacle of motorsports, F1 demands boundary-pushing innovation and excellence. It’s an honor for General Motors and Cadillac to join the world’s premier racing series, and we’re committed to competing with passion and integrity to elevate the sport for race fans around the world," GM President Mark Reuss said. "This is a global stage for us to demonstrate GM’s engineering expertise and technology leadership at an entirely new level.” The approval ends years of wrangling that launched a U.S. Justice Department investigation into why Colorado-based Liberty Media, the commercial rights holder of F1, would not approve the team initially started by Michael Andretti . Andretti in September stepped aside from leading his namesake organization, so the 11th team will be called Cadillac F1 and be run by new Andretti Global majority owners Dan Towriss and Mark Walter. The team will use Ferrari engines its first two years until GM has a Cadillac engine built for competition in time for the 2028 season. Towriss is the the CEO and president of Group 1001 and entered motorsports via Andretti's IndyCar team when he signed on financial savings platform Gainbridge as a sponsor. Towriss is now a major part of the motorsports scene with ownership stakes in both Spire Motorsports' NASCAR team and Wayne Taylor Racing's sports car team. Walter is the chief executive of financial services firm Guggenheim Partners and the controlling owner of both the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Premier League club Chelsea. “We’re excited to partner with General Motors in bringing a dynamic presence to Formula 1," Towriss said. “Together, we’re assembling a world-class team that will embody American innovation and deliver unforgettable moments to race fans around the world.” Mario Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, will have an ambassador role with Cadillac F1. But his son, Michael, will have no official position with the organization now that he has scaled back his involvement with Andretti Global. “The Cadillac F1 Team is made up of a strong group of people that have worked tirelessly to build an American works team,” Michael Andretti posted on social media. “I’m very proud of the hard work they have put in and congratulate all involved on this momentous next step. I will be cheering for you!” The approval has been in works for weeks but was held until after last weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix to not overshadow the showcase event of the Liberty Media portfolio. Max Verstappen won his fourth consecutive championship in Saturday night's race, the third and final stop in the United States for the top motorsports series in the world. Grid expansion in F1 is both infrequent and often unsuccessful. Four teams were granted entries in 2010 that should have pushed the grid to 13 teams and 26 cars for the first time since 1995. One team never made it to the grid and the other three had vanished by 2017. There is only one American team on the current F1 grid — owned by California businessman Gene Haas — but it is not particularly competitive and does not field American drivers. Andretti’s dream was to field a truly American team with American drivers. The fight to add this team has been going on for three-plus years and F1 initially denied the application despite approval from F1 sanctioning body FIA. The existing 10 teams, who have no voice in the matter, also largely opposed expansion because of the dilution in prize money and the billions of dollars they’ve already invested in the series. Andretti in 2020 tried and failed to buy the existing Sauber team. From there, he applied for grid expansion and partnered with GM, the top-selling manufacturer in the United States. The inclusion of GM was championed by the FIA and president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who said Michael Andretti’s application was the only one of seven applicants to meet all required criteria to expand F1’s current grid. “General Motors is a huge global brand and powerhouse in the OEM world and is working with impressive partners," Ben Sulayem said Monday. "I am fully supportive of the efforts made by the FIA, Formula 1, GM and the team to maintain dialogue and work towards this outcome of an agreement in principle to progress this application." Despite the FIA's acceptance of Andretti and General Motors from the start, F1 wasn't interested in Andretti — but did want GM. At one point, F1 asked GM to find another team to partner with besides Andretti. GM refused and F1 said it would revisit the Andretti application if and when Cadillac had an engine ready to compete. “Formula 1 has maintained a dialogue with General Motors, and its partners at TWG Global, regarding the viability of an entry following the commercial assessment and decision made by Formula 1 in January 2024,” F1 said in a statement. “Over the course of this year, they have achieved operational milestones and made clear their commitment to brand the 11th team GM/Cadillac, and that GM will enter as an engine supplier at a later time. Formula 1 is therefore pleased to move forward with this application process." Yet another major shift in the debate over grid expansion occurred earlier this month with the announced resignation of Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei, who was largely believed to be one of the biggest opponents of the Andretti entry. “With Formula 1’s continued growth plans in the US, we have always believed that welcoming an impressive US brand like GM/Cadillac to the grid and GM as a future power unit supplier could bring additional value and interest to the sport," Maffei said. "We credit the leadership of General Motors and their partners with significant progress in their readiness to enter Formula 1." ___ AP auto racing: https://apnews.com/hub/auto-racing

Nov 17, 2024; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) is sacked by Indianapolis Colts defensive end Kwity Paye (51) as time runs out during the fourth quarter at MetLife Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images/ File Photo Aaron Rodgers remains the quarterback for the New York Jets and there are no plans to shut him down because of nagging injuries, interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said Monday. Rodgers is "absolutely" the starting quarterback for the Jets (3-8) against the Seattle Seahawks (6-5), Ulbrich confirmed. Responding to questions centered around reports Rodgers was bypassing medical tests for minor leg injuries -- a swollen knee and a tender ankle -- Ulbrich said there has been no discussion about shelving Rodgers. "All I can say -- and you'd have to ask Aaron if he's fully healthy -- but he's better off today than he's been as of late," Ulbrich said. "So he's definitely feeling healthier than he has for probably the last month, and a healthy Aaron Rodgers is the Aaron Rodgers we all love. So, excited about what that looks like." Ulbrich, named interim coach in October, said coming back from the team's bye week he wasn't aware of Rodgers skipping scans or X-rays. "That's news to me," Ulbrich said Monday. The Jets have lost seven of their last eight games and Ulbrich said Monday one area of focus after a bye week is keeping players focused regardless of playoff chances. Rodgers turns 41 on Dec. 2 and said he is planning to return for the 2025 season despite disappointment over the results to date of what he framed as a redemption season. Rodgers, acquired in a trade from the Packers in 2023, was lost for the entire season when he ruptured his Achilles on the first possession of his debut with New York. He has 17 touchdowns and seven interceptions in 2024 but hasn't thrown a pick since the Oct. 20 loss at Pittsburgh. The Jets are making plans to move forward with front office interviews for general manager and a permanent head coach. Owner Woody Johnson's relationship with Rodgers has been questioned publicly, but a contradicting report emerged Sunday stating the two recently dined together in New York. --Field Level Media REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you. Read 3 articles and stand to win rewards Spin the wheel nowDolphins’ Anthony Walker, Kendall Fuller unlikely to play at Packers; Isaiah Wynn activatedThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers are suddenly at the top of the NFC South moving back into sole possession of first place in the division for the first time since Week Four. The Buccaneers made the biggest jump of any team in the NFC standings in Week 14, with their win moving them from eighth place into fourth in the NFC playoff picture. Atlanta has self-destructed as of late, but still beat Tampa Bay twice, so the Bucs will have to have a strong finish to the season to secure a spot in the playoffs. While Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers offense has been the bright spot as of late, Todd Bowles’ defense has struggled throughout the year and injuries have made it even harder on that side of the ball. Tampa Bay lost starting CB Antoine Winfield Jr. on Sunday adding to a laundry list of injured players who won’t be available as the Bucs attempt to make a push for the postseason. On Tuesday, they added a linebacker with Pro Bowl experience which will help with depth as the Buccaneers continue to attempt to string together wins for a chance to play in January. ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that the Buccaneers were adding former Pro Bowl linebacker Deion Jones, signing him to their practice squad. Jones had his best NFL season with the Atlanta Falcons in 2017 where he led the team with 138 combined tackles (91 solo) and also recorded ten pass deflections, three interceptions, and a sack in 16 games and starts. In his NFL career, which has included stops with the Falcons, Bills, Panthers and Browns, Jones has 731 tackles, 53 pass deflections, 13 interceptions, 12 sacks, 5 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers need depth at defense and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Jones is elevated to the 53-man roster sooner rather than later.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials won't order another recount in a close state Supreme Court race after a partial hand recount failed to suggest the trailing Republican candidate could overtake the Democratic incumbent. Following the completion of a machine recount of over 5.5 million ballots last week, Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs maintained a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin, who is currently a state Court of Appeals judge. Griffin then requested a partial hand recount in which randomly chosen ballots from 3% of the voting sites in all 100 counties were reexamined. The law says a statewide hand recount would have been required if the sample results differed enough so that the result would be reversed if the difference were extrapolated to all ballots. But the sample tabulations, which finished Tuesday, showed Riggs actually picking up more votes than Griffin. As a result, the State Board of Elections said a total recount won't be ordered. People are also reading... The election, however, has not been fully resolved. The five-member state board was scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday on protests previously filed by Griffin and three GOP legislative candidates who also are in very close elections. Riggs, one of two Democrats on the seven-member court, declared victory again on Tuesday, and her campaign renewed calls for Griffin to concede. Griffin didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment. The protests going before the state board, which question if well over 60,000 ballots should have been counted, cover three categories of voting. They include votes cast by people with voter registration records that lack driver’s licenses or partial Social Security numbers; overseas voters who have never lived in North Carolina but whose parents were deemed state residents; and military or overseas voters who did not provide copies of photo identification with their ballots. Separately Tuesday, a Court of Appeals panel unanimously declined Griffin's request to order the state board to rule on the protests before Wednesday's meeting to accelerate the process. The board could dismiss the protests or — if problems are found — order corrected ballot tallies, more recounts or new elections. Decisions by the board — with a 3-2 Democratic majority — can be appealed to state courts. Other protests filed by Griffin and the legislative candidates are being first considered by county boards. The state Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit last week seeking to block the State Board of Elections from ruling in any way to throw out the disputed ballots. The Democrats' lawyers say federal law prohibits such systematic challenges to voter eligibility for an election that has already passed. Some of the protests focus on activities that Republicans already sued over before the November election. Democratic officials and their allies held a news conference early Tuesday outside the state Supreme Court building and strongly criticized Griffin and other Republicans for initiating claims they say would disenfranchise legal voters. North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton said she fears the state Supreme Court could ultimately side with Republicans and remove the challenged ballots. “We are trying to make sure that people are raising their voices, that we are filing lawsuits where we can,” Clayton said. “And we are also trusting the process of our board of elections officials to do their job and to count every single vote.” Griffin led Riggs by about 10,000 votes on election night, but that lead dwindled and flipped to Riggs as qualifying provisional and absentee ballots were added to the totals. Other types of protests filed by Griffin and the legislators are being considered by county boards. The Associated Press has not called the Supreme Court race and two of the three legislative races highlighted in the protests. In one of the two, Republican state Rep. Frank Sossamon trails Democratic challenger Bryan Cohn. A Cohn victory would mean Republicans fall one seat short of retaining their current veto-proof majority starting next month. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

West Virginia is expected to bring Rich Rodriguez back to his home state as head coach of the Mountaineers, 17 years after he and the school had a messy breakup at the end of a successful and entertaining seven-season run, a source close to the negotiations told The Athletic . Rodriguez wrapped up his second season as head coach at Jacksonville State on Friday night, leading the Gamecocks to their first Conference USA title in a 52-14 victory against Western Kentucky on Friday night. Advertisement The 61-year-old native of Grant Town, W.Va., was one of the forefathers of up-tempo, spread-option offense, and he used it to turn West Virginia into a national contender with one of the most exciting teams in the country from 2001 to ‘07. Rodriguez went 60-26 with three double-digit victory seasons in his final three years. West Virginia was looking for a replacement for Neal Brown, who was fired after six seasons at the school, and found it in a reunion that seemed impossible when Rodriguez left the Mountaineers for Michigan in December 2007. Rodriguez’s departure came at an especially raw time for West Virginia, less than a month after the second-ranked Mountaineers were upset 13-9 in their regular-season finale by Pitt, costing the team a spot in the BCS Championship Game to play for a national title. Then he and the school got into an ugly legal fight over a $4 million buyout West Virginia said Rodriguez owed the school after agreeing to a new contract just four months earlier. A breach of contract lawsuit was filed by West Virginia and eventually settled with Michigan paying $2.5 million of the buyout and Rodriguez paying $1.5 million in installments. Rodriguez spent three rocky seasons at Michigan, going 3-9 in his first season and never really seeing eye-to-eye with the administration. As Rodriguez tried to flip the Wolverines’ roster to fit his style of play, Michigan made only marginal gains. He was fired after an embarrassing 52-14 loss to Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl, leaving Michigan with a 15-22 record. After taking a year off and working in TV, Rodriguez was hired by Arizona. It was a good fit, at least at first. The Wildcats went 26-14 in his first three seasons, winning 10 games and going to the Fiesta Bowl in 2014. The program slid back after that, and the end of his tenure was again tumultuous. A former administrative assistant accused Rodriguez of sexual harassment in a lawsuit that was eventually dismissed. After a three-month investigation by the school, Rodriguez, who admitted an extramarital affair, was fired. Advertisement Rodriguez spent the 2019 as offensive coordinator at Ole Miss and landed at Louisiana-Monroe as an assistant in 2021. Jacksonville State hired Rodriguez to help the program transition up to the Football Bowl Subdivision, and he delivered consecutive nine-win seasons. Now he returns to the scene of his greatest achievements in coaching, the hard feelings he left behind long gone as West Virginia searches for sustained success in the Big 12 after 13 years of mostly middling results. (Photo: Dave Hyatt / Special to the Gadsden Times / Imagn Images)Dr. Suganthan Kayilasanathan Launches New Personal Website to Inspire Future Generations of Healthcare Professionals 12-11-2024 11:24 PM CET | Politics, Law & Society Press release from: Getnews / PR Agency: Erase Technologies, LLC Dr. Suganthan Kayilasanathan, esteemed family physician and entrepreneur, is proud to announce the launch of his new personal website, a comprehensive resource dedicated to sharing his medical journey and offering valuable advice to aspiring doctors. 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"I believe that sharing my experiences and lessons learned can help others not only in their professional journeys but also in achieving personal fulfillment in this demanding field." The website also includes a blog where Dr. Kayilasanathan will regularly post articles on the latest advancements in medical technology, health care policies, and his own experiences in family medicine. Visitors to the site can also find information on Dr. Kayilasanathan's upcoming speaking engagements, workshops, and community involvement. For more information about Dr. Suganthan Kayilasanathan and to explore his new website, please click here [ https://www.suganthankayilasanathan.com/ ]. About Dr. Suganthan Kayilasanathan Dr. Suganthan Kayilasanathan is a family physician based in Toronto, Ontario. With a career dedicated to enhancing patient care through both traditional methods and modern technology, Dr. Kayilasanathan is committed to improving healthcare accessibility and effectiveness. 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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to bring down prices on groceries, rent and other basic necessities of life. U.S. presidents don’t typically have direct control over how much any of those things cost, but their policies can have an effect. In Trump’s case, the proposals that economists think could have significant influence are tariffs, or taxes on imports. On Monday, Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China — the United States’ three biggest trading partners — as soon as he takes office, on Jan. 20. The Republican said the new rate for goods from Canada and Mexico would be 25% as a pressure campaign to curb the illegal drug trade and immigration. Trump proposed an additional 10% on China after previously pledging a 60% tariff on products from there. He has also proposed anywhere from 10 to 20% tariffs on other imports. Trump says his plans would bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. But economic experts say Trump’s proposals will hurt American families’ wallets with more expensive cars, appliances and technology. Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow in economics at the right-leaning Pacific Research Institute, said additional tariffs will raise the price of not only foreign goods, but those produced domestically as well. “We import steel that goes into production of cars, so cars will be more expensive,” Winegarden said. “You may see prices going up.” Winegarden said he sees the tariffs as a broad-based consumption tax that will be bad for the economy. “How bad just depends on how high the rates are and there will be secondary effects in terms of how other countries respond as well,” he said. “Even if they don’t respond — I think that’s important for people to know, even if nobody raises their tariff in response to us — we’re still making U.S. families worse off.” Under a scenario with a broad 10% tariff and a 60% China tariff, the effect on households, even if there is no tariff retaliation, would be an additional $2,421 per household in 2023 dollars according to the Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center. The economy was a major concern for many voters in the presidential election, although inflation has generally slowed from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. In October, 62% of registered voters said the economy is in poor condition. Economists say, though, it’s unlikely that prices will broadly come down to where they were during Trump’s first term. If prices came down that much, it would likely be the result of a weak economy. Lauren Saidel-Baker, an economist at ITR economics, a nonpartisan economic research and consulting firm based in New Hampshire, said her forecast is that inflation will continue to slow through the end of the year and will pick back up early next year. Saidel-Baker said she had this expectation before considering Trump policies because the money supply is increasing, leading to a faster pace of transactions. But tariffs are one of her main concerns about how Trump’s policies will affect inflation next year. She said goods inflation is under control at the moment while the services sector is harder hit by inflation as the result of a tighter labor market. Under the Trump administration, goods inflation could start picking up again. “Tariffs could cause goods to catch back up. But we have long-term demographic problems that are going to keep the labor market tight. I don’t see service inflation getting materially better, especially if we do things like these mass deportations that’s going to cut from the working-age population,” Saidel-Baker said. During his first term, Trump imposed tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, solar panels and washing machines, to name a few. Several countries responded with retaliatory tariffs, including China. Although Trump’s tariffs boosted jobs in the steel and washing machine industries, the effect was a fall in the long run GDP by 0.2% and a loss in employment of 142,000 full-time jobs, the Tax Foundation, a tax policy think tank, estimated . “We already have evidence of what his tariffs are going to do from his first term. And those aren’t positive. It did not achieve what he says they’re going to achieve,” Winegarden said. Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at the NPD Group, a market research company, said a lot of companies have already moved their production away from China as a result of Trump’s first term tariffs. Steve Madden CEO Edward Rosenfeld explained in an earnings call that the company is implementing a plan to reduce its reliance on China, where more than 70% of its imports are from. Cohen said that despite this shift, certain goods could be more affected by tariffs, such as technology, cars, appliances, and the toy business that are based in or have many ties to China. Companies such as Columbia Sportswear, AutoZone, Stanley Black & Decker have said that they will raise prices in anticipation of tariffs. “If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,” Philip Daniele, CEO of AutoZone, said in an earnings call. Isabella Weber, associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently co-authored a paper on companies’ pricing strategies, said how much companies are comfortable raising prices depends on how much sales fall. “We have seen that companies were willing to increase prices even when it came at reductions in the volume sold. So, demand falling is not necessarily a reason for companies to not raise prices,” she said. “However, there comes a point of course at which further price increases no longer improve the bottom line if sales fall too much. In some segments, especially the ones where low-income households are important buyers like for example fast food, that point could have been reached.”Nigerian agency 'failed completely' to clean up oil damage despite funding, leaked files say

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas won the Big 12 title in 2023 on its way out the door to the Southeastern Conference. It was still swinging open when Arizona State waltzed in and won the league title in its debut season. And now the old Big 12 champs meet the new Big 12 champs on the path toward a potential national title. The fifth-seeded Longhorns and fourth-seeded Sun Devils play News Years Day in the Peach Bowl in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff . Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Get updates and player profiles ahead of Friday's high school games, plus a recap Saturday with stories, photos, video Frequency: Seasonal Twice a weekAmericans' gambling addiction is 'seriously warping our politics': Paul Krugman

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently claimed that the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO earlier this month "was a killing that was intended to evoke terror." And now prosecutors have charged the shooter, Luigi Mangione , with terrorism. This cold-blooded execution on a New York City street in broad daylight was a shocking act of violence. But does it meet the threshold of terrorism? Political scientists have debated to death the definition of terrorism. And still there is no consensus. The terrorism scholar Alex Schmid spent decades researching the elusive definition of terrorism and concluded that the "search for an adequate definition is still on." He and other scholars such as Walter Laqueur have identified hundreds of terrorist definitions. This lack of consensus is understandable because the term terrorism is not value-neutral. Governments around the world apply the word terrorism instrumentally to isolate and discredit their enemies at home and abroad. In authoritarian countries such as China, Egypt, and Turkey, even peaceful political dissidents risk being treated as terrorists. Democracies, too, are sometimes guilty as well, such as when the mob of Donald Trump supporters were called terrorists for unsuccessfully trying on Jan. 6, 2021, to influence the presidential election outcome at the Capitol. Disagreements between countries also abound to serve their geopolitical interests, as reflected in the current international debate over whether Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria should be de-listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization given its savvy public relations campaign to re-brand itself away from its Al-Qaeda roots. These kinds of international disagreements are hardly new. In its zeal to combat Zionists, Iran has long described Hezbollah as a legitimate resistance group whereas the United States, Israel, and some European capitals view the "Party of God" as terrorists. Governments may even revoke the terrorism label when geopolitical circumstances change. Historically, the United States regarded the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as a terrorist group given its bloody attacks in Turkey for Kurdish independence. But when the United States came to rely on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against Islamic State in Syria, Washington brushed aside Turkish objections of their alleged PKK ties. That said, there is more definitional disagreement between countries than terrorism scholars who typically consider an act terrorism when it meets three criteria. At least in theory, a violent act is considered terrorism when perpetrated by a non-state actor against a civilian target for a political goal. That means a lone wolf, small cell, or larger organization using violence rather than a proper army; a soft target like a synagogue or school rather than a tank or military base; in pursuit of a cause like national self-determination, a caliphate, or Communist revolution rather than because of mental health problems, a personal dispute, or selfish reasons such as greed. All available evidence indicates that the suspect, Mangione, acted alone with no ties to a government or organization. Mangione could thus be understood as a " lone wolf ." The victim of the attack was also a private citizen walking around in Manhattan and therefore clearly a non-combatant target. And the motive was perhaps political. Mangione had undergone spinal surgery a year earlier for chronic back pain. The handwritten note found after Mangione was detained as a suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson referenced " parasites " in the health care system who " continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it ." But a political motive could certainly be clearer. Noticeably absent from the "manifesto" is any articulation of a desired political, social, or religious goal. Mangione doesn't call for the overthrow of the U.S. political system, an end to capitalism, or anything of the sort. He seems to have been motivated in part by anger over his continued chronic back pain after the spinal surgery. There are at least questions about how this pain could have impacted his mental health. In other terrorist attacks, the perpetrators were much clearer about their intended political aims. In 2013, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carved his message into wooden slats of a boat in which he was hiding: "Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop." The perpetrators of the December 2015 shooting in San Bernardino posted a pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State prior to committing their act of terrorism that killed 14 people. Similarly, Omar Mateen, the gunman behind the 2016 Pulse nightclub attack, spoke to a 911 dispatcher and said he was committing the attack for the leader of Islamic State. In cases such as these, the terrorist motivation leaves less to the imagination with little question about whether the violence was purely criminal in nature or was in furtherance of some broader cause. In our assessment at this time, the Mangione case has closer parallels to the 2010 attack on an IRS building in Austin, Texas. In that case, the perpetrator, Andrew Joseph Stack, deliberately flew his plane into an IRS field office, killing himself and an IRS manager. Before the attack, Stack also left behind a manifesto in which he discussed his financial difficulties, hatred of big business, and personal conflicts with the IRS and the tax code. Despite calls to label this a terrorist attack, the FBI and other local police officials considered it a purely criminal matter . Currently, it appears that Mangione was perhaps motivated more by anger toward a system than a desire to affect political change. Anger, however, motivates all sorts of crimes that are not considered terrorism. It is possible more evidence will emerge during the investigation and trial that shows a clearer political motive for the attack. But right now, this murder is not a clear-cut case of terrorism even though it shares several constitutive elements. Either way, Mangione will likely have plenty of quiet time to process whatever it is the tragedy was intended to achieve. Max Abrahms is a tenured professor of political science at Northeastern University. Joseph Mroszczyk is an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College. The views expressed in this article are the writers' own.

— BIRTH NAME: James Earl Carter, Jr. — BORN: Oct. 1, 1924, at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, the first U.S. president born in a hospital. He would become the first president to live for an entire century . — EDUCATION: Plains High School, Plains, Georgia, 1939-1941; Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, 1941-1942; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 1942-1943; U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1943-1946 (class of 1947); Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1952-1953. — PRESIDENCY: Sworn-in as 39th president of the United States at the age of 52 years, 3 months and 20 days on Jan. 20, 1977, after defeating President Gerald R. Ford in the 1976 general election. Left office on Jan. 20, 1981, following 1980 general election loss to Ronald Reagan. — POST-PRESIDENCY: Launched The Carter Center in 1982. Began volunteering at Habitat for Humanity in 1984. Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Taught for 37 years at Emory University, where he was granted tenure in 2019, at age 94. — OTHER ELECTED OFFICES: Georgia state senator, 1963-1967; Georgia governor, 1971-1975. — OTHER OCCUPATIONS: Served in U.S. Navy, achieved rank of lieutenant, 1946-53; Farmer, warehouseman, Plains, Georgia, 1953-77. — FAMILY: Wife, Rosalynn Smith Carter , married July 7, 1946 until her death Nov. 19, 2023. They had three sons, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip), Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff); a daughter, Amy Lynn; and 11 living grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Source: Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92. Singh was one of India’s longest-serving prime ministers and he was considered the architect of key liberalising economic reforms, as premier from 2004-2014 and before that as finance minister. He had been admitted to a hospital in the capital Delhi after his health condition deteriorated, reports say. Among those who paid tribute to Singh on Thursday were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wrote on social media that “India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders”. Modi said that Singh’s “wisdom and humility were always visible” during their interactions and that he had “made extensive efforts to improve people’s lives” during his time as prime minister. Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and a Congress party member, said that Singh was “genuinely egalitarian, wise, strong-willed and courageous until the end”. Her brother Rahul, who leads Congress, said he had “lost a mentor and guide”. Singh was the first Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after serving a full first term, and the first Sikh to hold the country’s top post. He made a public apology in parliament for the 1984 riots in which some 3,000 Sikhs were killed. But his second term in office was marred by a string of corruption allegations that dogged his administration. The scandals, many say, were partially responsible for his Congress party’s crushing defeat in the 2014 general election. Singh was born on 26 September 1932, in a desolate village in the Punjab province of undivided India, which lacked both water and electricity. After attending Panjab University he took a master’s degree at the University of Cambridge and then a DPhil at Oxford. While studying at Cambridge, the lack of funds bothered Singh, his daughter, Daman Singh, wrote in a book on her parents. “His tuition and living expenses came to about £600 a year. The Panjab University scholarship gave him about £160. For the rest he had to depend on his father. Manmohan was careful to live very stingily. Subsidised meals in the dining hall were relatively cheap at two shillings sixpence.” Daman Singh remembered her father as “completely helpless about the house and could neither boil an egg, nor switch on the television”. Singh rose to political prominence as India’s finance minister in 1991, taking over as the country was plunging into bankruptcy. His unexpected appointment capped a long and illustrious career as an academic and civil servant – he served as an economic adviser to the government, and became the governor of India’s central bank. In his maiden speech as finance minister he famously quoted Victor Hugo, saying that “no power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come”. That served as a launchpad for an ambitious and unprecedented economic reform programme: he cut taxes, devalued the rupee, privatised state-run companies and encouraged foreign investment. The economy revived, industry picked up, inflation was checked and growth rates remained consistently high in the 1990s. Manmohan Singh was a man acutely aware of his lack of a political base. “It is nice to be a statesman, but in order to be a statesman in a democracy you first have to win elections,” he once said. When he tried to win election to India’s lower house in 1999, he was defeated. He sat instead in the upper house, chosen by his own Congress party. The same happened in 2004, when Singh was first appointed prime minister after Congress president Sonia Gandhi turned down the post – apparently to protect the party from damaging attacks over her Italian origins. Critics however alleged that Sonia Gandhi was the real source of power while he was prime minister, and that he was never truly in charge. The biggest triumph during his first five-year term was to bring India out of nuclear isolation by signing a landmark deal securing access to American nuclear technology. But the deal came at a price – the government’s Communist allies withdrew support after protesting against it, and Congress had to make up lost numbers by enlisting the support of another party amid charges of vote-buying. A consensus builder, Singh presided over a coalition of sometimes difficult, assertive and potentially unruly regional coalition allies and supporters. Although he earned respect for his integrity and intelligence, he also had a reputation for being soft and indecisive. Some critics claimed that the pace of reform slowed and he failed to achieve the same momentum he had while finance minister. (BBC News) Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.Junior Chloe Williamson, a Stillwater High School Technology Theater student, isn’t someone most people would see when they attend a concert or production at the Performing Arts Center. But as one of 20 Tech Theater students at the high school, she’s responsible for much of what happens behind the scenes. Along with her classmates, the students hosted 12 events this semester – including concerts and a production called “Stardust.” This is Williamson’s second semester as a Tech Theater student. Stillwater Public Schools Junior Chloe Williamson works the sound board at the Performing Arts Center. “This is just such a community of people who work so hard to put on these productions,” Williamson said. “It’s amazing how many people (don’t) see us, but appreciate what we do.” Williamson worked as a “house manager” during the production, “Stardust.” But more often than not, she’s in the “fly loft,” or catwalk, raisi,ng curtains and making sure large set pieces are taken on and off the stage easily. Up in the 25-feet-high fly loft there’s a ladder and a series of ropes she raises for different scenes. Chole Williamson stops for a picture while in the fly loft at the Performing Arts Center. “You basically have to raise and lower the curtains by pulling on these ropes and timing it so that they go exactly on the dot,” Williamson said. “It takes a lot of practice.” Her favorite part about helping this semester is seeing new people come in and find a love for what makes technology complement theater, and helping to foster that in the other students. “It’s not like a lot of things – band, it’s a lot of people – (but this) is a very small community, very talented and dedicated people who we can really bond with,” she said. “It’s such a great experience.” Steve Shanks, director of the Performing Arts Center, has been teaching the Tech Theater class for two years. Most of his day is involved with facilitating the needs of the building, but the rest of the time he’s teaching. The students have to help with seven evening events to pass the class, in addition to attending every night of a production. The students are light technicians and sound technicians, as well as being to responsible to oversee live streaming options and to offer lobby etiquette. The students are easily recognizable by their blue vests. That’s because they don’t want to stand out, Shanks said. “We actually want our performers to stand out,” Shanks said. It’s important for the class to treat patrons with kindness and respect. The lobby crew helps patrons find their seats, and they know the difference between ADA accessibility and companion seats. “We ask (guests) to treat us with the same kindness and respect, and to treat the building nicely,” Shanks said. “(The students) try to help and facilitate. They just want to put on a really good event.” Junior Ella Edwards, a light technician, dresses in all black clothing, sits in the light booth and manages the light board. “She makes the ‘mood,’ to set the production and to make the students on stage appear the best that we can,” Shanks said. Stillwater Public Schools Junior Ella Edwards sits at the “light board,” ready to help set the mood with lighting during productions at the Performing Arts Center. Tech Theater has been a second home to her, Edwards said. “Mr. Shanks has taught me things I never would have learned how to do without him,” Edwards said, adding that the class has been both a “comfort and a constant” for her. “I love working events and shows, I love being behind the scenes,” Edwards said. “It gives me a sense of satisfaction after a show is finished. If I could work here for the rest of my life, I’d be content.” Shanks said other instructors have also been instrumental in the Arts department, including Vocal Music Educator Aprill Raines, Orchestra Director Scott Jackson, Band Director Kevin Zamborsky and Speech and Drama Educator Elizabeth Ziegler. “These people are pretty talented, and we have so many talented students,” Shanks said. “We have had 8,180 guests come through the front doors to meet our lobby crew and to watch a performance, whether it’s orchestra, band, choir or a production. ... We’re up here almost every night during a production.” Shanks said they also offer live streaming services, teaching the students how to run that part of the production, as well. “We had 4,381 people stream our concerts, for a grand total of 12,561 guests who either came or watched our performances,” Shanks said. Shanks mentioned the custodian who helps clean the building, adding that he thinks the PAC is the “cleanest building in the school system.” “We try to maintain a high level of excellence. And that’s who we are, and that’s what we do,” he said. In the spring, there will be 22 concerts and a musical, “The Addams Family.” “Mr. Shanks has been totally revolutionary to this program. He brings it out so much,” Williamson said. “I had never heard of the tech theater program before I joined, and he is doing great work and making sure that we’re seen even when we’re not supposed to (be seen).”

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Global stocks mostly rose Tuesday, with US and German indices posting records, as markets weighed Chinese stimulus hopes, political tensions in France and the US interest-rate outlook. Germany's blue-chip DAX stock index jumped above 20,000 points for the first time and Paris rebounded even as France braced for new political turmoil. In New York, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq narrowly rose to finish at records, while the Dow pulled back. Oil prices jumped more than two percent following reports that crude exporters were near an agreement to extend production limits. A closely-watched labor market report showed an increase in US job openings in October, but also a decline in new job postings during the month, a less upbeat sign. Samuel Tombs, chief US economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the data overall provides "good grounds" for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates again this month. Still, the choppiness of Tuesday's trading session in New York points to reticence among US investors following a series of post-election records that many pundits believe have left stocks overvalued. "There wasn't a lot of conviction behind the upside moves," said Briefing.com . "The overall vibe in the market was more negative." Stocks in Paris edged higher even as France headed into a new political crisis as opposition lawmakers vowed to topple the minority government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a no-confidence vote after just three months in office. Germany's DAX, meanwhile, scored a fresh milestone, defying multiple headwinds battering Europe's biggest economy. The German economy, hit hard by a manufacturing slowdown and weak demand for its exports, has struggled in 2024. Yet the DAX has advanced in large part because companies in the index do heavy business abroad. In addition, the euro's recent weakness has boosted Germany's export-oriented companies, while easing interest rates both in the eurozone and the United States have also helped sentiment. Investors greeted a Bloomberg report that China's top leaders, including President Xi Jinping, would hold a two-day economic work conference next week to outline their targets and stimulus plans for next year. The report followed manufacturing activity data on Monday that suggested China's economic struggles may be coming to an end, but investors are looking for Beijing to step up support for the economy. The news helped push Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets higher despite Washington announcing new export restrictions taking aim at Beijing's ability to make advanced semiconductors. The moves step up existing US efforts to tighten curbs on exports of state-of-the-art AI chips to China. Beijing hit back by saying it would restrict exports to the United States of some key components in making semiconductors. Oil prices jumped ahead of a meeting Thursday of members of the OPEC oil cartel and its allies "The forecast is that they will announce an extension until the end of the first quarter of 2025, and this should help put a floor under prices," said Trade Nation analyst David Morrison. New York - Dow: DOWN 0.2 percent at 44,705.53 (close) New York - S&P 500: UP 0.1 percent at 6,049.88 (close) New York - Nasdaq Composite: UP 0.4 percent at 19,480.91 (close) London - FTSE 100: UP 0.6 percent at 8,359.41 (close) Paris - CAC 40: UP 0.3 percent at 7,255.42 (close) Frankfurt - DAX: UP 0.4 percent at 20,016.75 (close) Tokyo - Nikkei 225: UP 1.9 percent at 39,248.86 (close) Hong Kong - Hang Seng Index: UP 1.0 percent at 19,746.32 (close) Shanghai - Composite: UP 0.4 percent at 3,378.81 (close) Euro/dollar: UP at $1.0511 from $1.0498 on Monday Pound/dollar: UP at $1.2673 from $1.2655 Dollar/yen: DOWN at 149.53 yen from 149.60 yen Euro/pound: DOWN at 82.94 from 82.95 pence Brent North Sea Crude: UP 2.5 percent at $73.62 per barrel West Texas Intermediate: UP 2.7 percent at $69.94 per barrel burs-jmb/dw

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System 're-design' to help right wrongs of the past for Aboriginal families and communitiesAnthony Albanese supports a very tongue-in-cheek suggestion that tech giants will comply with an under-16s social media ban if the government coughs up $1000 per child kicked off each platform. Last week, federal parliament passed a world-first ban on children under-16 from having social media accounts. The Prime Minister spoke to radio station NovaFM on Tuesday morning, receiving praise from the show hosts, who suggested pushback from the tech companies could be averted by cash incentives. “TikTok, in particular, they recognised 76 million people last year that were underage. They have the technology to do it,” radio host Michael Wipfli said. “If we, for example, hypothetical, said to Meta ‘hey we’re going to give you $1000 for identifying every person under the age of 16’, how’d you reckon they’d go? I reckon they’d be pretty good at it,” Wipfli said. “That’s exactly right,” Mr Albanese said. “Well, we’ve given them a financial incentive to get this right as well because we want to make sure that the obligations were on the social media companies, not on parents.” Under the new laws, social media companies like Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, is required to prevent under-16s from using their services. Failing to comply brings the prospect of a $50m fine when the ban becomes active in no less than 12 months. The Australian Human Rights Commission and Meta both said the legislation was rushed. Meta also tried to suggest there was a “lack of evidence” to suggest social media had a causal link with children’s mental health. UK technology secretary Peter Kyle told the BBC the British government was in contact with Australian counterparts and considering similar laws. “As you’d expect, I’m really interested in what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and the evidence they’re basing it on,” he said. Originally published as Anthony Albanese backs facetious cash sweetener for tech companies to follow under-16 social media ban

Voltaire once wrote, “L’oreille est le chemin du cœur.” – The ear is the way to the heart. Few would argue against the importance of listening. Yet, in reality, we often respond passively, offering merely superficial acknowledgment, instead of truly listening. We would rather have others listen to us, and the rise of social media has made it easier to demand just that. As a result, the world has become noisier. Thoughts are expressed more readily, and shared more widely, yet people are feeling lonelier, and less connected. Whether it is the anxiety and uneasiness in one’s heart, the misunderstandings and estrangements among family and friends, or political conflicts, a lack of listening cannot escape sharing in the blame. How long has it been since we stopped our busy steps and calmly talked with ourselves, listening to the true thoughts deep in our hearts? In this bustling world, we are always in a hurry, busy catering to a multitude of external norms and expectations, yet often forget to pause and listen to the voice within. Every day, we speak countless words, in meetings, messages, and emails, but how many of these words express our authentic selves? Very often, we either say things we don’t truly mean or, considering our environment, “rationally” divide our inner thoughts into what “should be said” and what “shouldn’t be said.” This makes it inevitable that our real desires and preferences are regularly restrained and suppressed. On the one hand, we have to become like everyone else, while on the other hand, we are rather reluctant to do so. As a result, we are afflicted with anxiety, nervousness, and hesitation. The heart is like a treasure house, hiding our most genuine desires, fears, dreams, and passions. Perhaps, if we take a moment and listen, we will hear the soft whisper of the voice that has been covered up by our busy lives, yearning to pursue the projects we abandoned due to life’s demands, and burning to show our true selves without fear. To be kind to ourselves starts with listening to ourselves. No longer blindly following the pace of others. Setting aside time for ourselves to be alone, feel the rhythm of our hearts, and let it guide our choices. Resisting the urge to deny or escape when our hearts feel anxious or uneasy, but gently soothing them and exploring the roots behind those emotions. Respecting our own feelings. Whether it’s choosing a career we love or ending a relationship that drains our energy, the comfort and peace of our hearts deserves to be given its due priority. Everything is constantly changing. You can’t step into the same river twice, Heraclitus said – and even if the river remained unchanged, the person stepping into it would not. Relatives and friends who were once close to us will inevitably develop ideas that collide with ours, in part simply due to differences in our lived experiences as time passes. It’s not uncommon that people become estranged from their parents and relatives, or part ways with friends because of differences in opinions, which fills what should have been beautiful stories with regrets. Often enough, the root cause is a failure to listen. Listening to those we care about is vital for maintaining strong emotional bonds. When loved ones share their experiences, attentive listening is the most precious gift we can give them. Listening to our parents talk about the past, we can find wisdom and hope in their stories. Our genuine attention will make them feel respected and cared for, and the family bond will thus become stronger. When friends confide their concerns to us, be they about troubles in relationships or problems at work, silent listening may calm their hearts better than any words of comfort. By listening, we offer them emotional support, letting them know that they are not alone. The United States just witnessed an astonishingly absurd election season, marked by an alarming level of political polarization. Democrats and Republicans are deeply entrenched in their respective positions, leaving little room for compromise. In Congress, legislative deadlocks are commonplace, as lawmakers from both parties prioritize partisan interests over the common good. This is especially evident in issues such as healthcare, immigration, and climate change. At the societal level, the public is also divided along political lines. People with different political views increasingly find it difficult to engage in rational discussions. Political polarization isn’t a uniquely American disease. It’s a global one that has afflicted societies and strained democracies from Brazil to Germany, and from Tanzania to Bangladesh. It often feeds on the words and actions of divisive leaders and infects the whole body of society, all the way down to the level of everyday interactions and relationships. Once entrenched, polarization tends to perpetuate itself, and there are no easy remedies. What’s an effective remedy depends on local context, with legal reforms being called for in some places, and change in political leadership in others. Although the problem is complex, listening is certain to be an essential part of its solution. Politicians, policymakers, and the public need to actively listen to the concerns and perspectives of those with opposing views. When politicians listen to each other, rather than simply dismissing the ideas of their political rivals, they can better understand the underlying reasons for different policy positions and strive to find common ground. Encouraging the public to listen to diverse viewpoints can help break down barriers, and foster a more informed electorate that is able to make decisions based on a comprehensive understanding of the issues, rather than being swayed by partisan rhetoric. By promoting a culture of listening at all levels of society, including the government, media, educational institutions, and the citizenry, we can hope to bridge political divides and move towards a more united and harmonious future. As we bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, opening the door to a hopeful 2025, let’s commit to listening – to ourselves, and to others.

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NEW YORK , Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Visa Inc. ("Visa" or the "Company") (NYSE: V ). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased. The class action concerns whether Visa and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices. You have until January 20, 2025 , to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class if you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Visa securities during the Class Period. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained a t www.pomerantzlaw.com . [Click here for information about joining the class action] On September 24, 2024 , the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Visa has abused its dominant position in the debit card market to force businesses to use Visa's network instead of competitors' and to prevent new alternatives from entering the market. On news of the DOJ's lawsuit, Visa's stock price fell $15.85 per share, or 5.49%, to close at $272.78 per share on September 24, 2024 . Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York , Chicago , Los Angeles , London , Paris , and Tel Aviv , is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz , known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud , breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered billions of dollars in damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com . Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes. CONTACT: Danielle Peyton Pomerantz LLP [email protected] 646-581-9980 ext. 7980 SOURCE Pomerantz LLP

Icy conditions weathered Thanksgiving travelers and Mizzou Tiger fans as the first snowfall of the year landed in Columbia on Saturday. Roughly 3.2 inches of snow fell in Columbia from roughly 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service . A 17-person crew was on call from the Columbia Public Works Department during the snowfall to address the buildup, John Ogan, a spokesperson for the Public Works Department, said in an email to the Missourian. Crews continued cleanup through the weekend. Ogan said that as of Monday, all roads were in passable condition. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported 362 crashes and four fatalities across the state between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday. One fatal crash occurred in the westbound lane of Interstate 70 in Columbia on Saturday morning, according to the Highway Patrol, which temporarily blocked both westbound lanes. Ogan also said that increased traffic from the Mizzou football game likely contributed to road congestion in Columbia on Saturday, and noted that the Public Works Department encouraged attendees to use the free Go COMO shuttles to reach the stadium. The conditions over the weekend met the city's expectations, Ogan said. "We don't control Mother Nature, but what we do control is how we plan for it and how we respond to it with the personnel and resources available to address the situation by adopted policy," Ogan said. Some Mizzou football fans took to social media to share their experience with the ice and snow at the stadium. Douglas Edgar commented under Mizzou Athletics' Facebook post that he saw several people slip on the stairs during the Saturday game. Photos were posted by Edgar that showcased the stairs coated in ice and snow. Eric Maze, public relations manager at MU Health Care, wrote in an email that at least one patient was treated at University Hospital on Saturday night related to a weather-related fall at the football game.A member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Hon. Abel Nansak Nimchak, on Monday at plenary urged the state government to provide adequate funding, modern equipment, and infrastructure to the Plateau State Fire Service. This call came amidst a series of devastating fire outbreaks across the state, including the recent incidents at Katako market, Zamko market, and the old airport roundabout, which resulted in significant losses. According to the lawmaker the Plateau State Fire Service “is currently facing challenges due to insufficient funding, outdated equipment, and inadequate staff, hindering its ability to respond effectively to fire emergencies”. He recalled that in November 2024 alone, there were 35 recorded fire incidents across the state. Nimchak appealed for adequate funding and equipment, provision of sufficient funds for modern firefighting vehicles, communication equipment, and personnel, as well as allocating necessary funds to upgrade the State Fire Service’s infrastructure, including headquarters and stations, amongst others.

Real Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Real Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. Harrowing video shows a beauty influencer being swept to her death in a flash flood in Brazil as onlookers desperately try to rescue her with a ladder. Jennifer Soares Martins — a 28-year-old influencer known as Jhei Soares — and her husband, Wallison Lima, were spotted clinging to a car in waist-deep water in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, during the early hours Sunday, CNN Brazil reported. Video of the tragedy shows several people leaning out a window and holding an extended ladder, which is not quite long enough to reach the pair. Martins and Lima — who had leapt out of the car after crashing during the flash flood — initially try to use the vehicle to shield them from the torrent as the ladder remains painfully out of reach. Jennifer Soares Martins — a 28-year-old influencer known as Jhei Soares – drowned after being swept away by a flood in Uberlandia, Brazil. Picture: NF/Newsx She had been driving in a car with her husband Wallison Lima when their vehicle crashed, putting them in the torrent of water. Picture: NF/Newsx But the flow is so strong, it eventually moves their car, which is seen drifting out of view as the couple desperately try to cling on. Martins was later found dead, while her husband somehow managed to survive, officials said, according to the New York Post . “I just wanted her back,” he wrote with several crying emojis on social media later Sunday. Lima and Martins had been married for eight years and together for over 14. The two frequently made posts about their trips and family celebrations. Onlookers tried to help the couple with a ladder that was painfully out of reach. Picture: NF/Newsx But the beauty influencer lost her battle and was eventually dragged away. Picture: NF/Newsx Martins has over 82,000 followers on Instagram and often posted videos of her outfits, shopping hauls, and life in Brazil. Her comments have since been full of users grieving her sudden, tragic death. Despite the rain and flooding that led the young beauty influencer to her death, the government insists the conditions in Uberlandia are under control and the rain in the region has been closely monitored. “We inform you that the situation in the city of Uberlândia is under control. Electricity, water supply, internet, and telephone services have not been affected. There are no isolated communities or blocked highways,” the government told the outlet. This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission More Coverage Beloved Sydney make-up artist dies age 27 ‘World first’ Macca’s item lands in Australia Claudia Poposki Originally published as Video shows horror moment influencer swept to death in flash flood More related stories Real Life Huge cost of vegan’s bizarre rant A notorious vegan activist must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after accusing a suburban vet of eating her animal patients. Read more Real Life If your boyfriend does this, leave him now Experts are warning that a worrying relationship “red flag” has become normalised after new data revealed it’s on the rise in Australia. Read morebetfred com 。

What a week it was for Quinn Hughes . First, there’s his overtime efforts against the Buffalo Sabres on Friday, where he helped guide the opening three minutes of overtime: the Sabres literally never touched the puck in that time, Hughes driving a remarkable possession bus for the Canucks. When the Canucks did finally give up possession, the Sabres’ Tage Thompson had gilt-edged chance that Kevin Lankinen needed his best effort to stop. And then after that Hughes showed us all he’d had enough. Did you really understand what happened on Friday’s game winner? With the puck finally back on his stick, Hughes attacked the slot as he has done so many times this season, with an audacious cutback on Jack Quinn, attacking literally into the rear of Quinn, putting the Sabres’ defenders totally off-balance, then cutting back across the slot with control and finding Conor Garland just about sitting on his rump, who whacked the puck into the yawning Buffalo cage between his legs. It was a highlight reel goal that should be played over and over and over again all season. But it wasn’t even the best goal Hughes was involved in this week. No, the best goal was one he scored himself against Pittsburgh on Wednesday. It deserve more attention that it’s received so far. Sure, the Garland goal has all kinds of wizardry and fun in it and it was also a game-winner. It deserves the attention its getting. But consider Hughes’ goal vs. Pittsburgh. It’s an end to ender. It features Hughes accelerating through the neutral zone, putting on a crossover skating clinic. It features Hughes barely making a stride in the offensive zone. And it finishes with the deftest of shots. Had this been a goal by Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews, surely it would be on highlight reels, on repeat, everywhere. Hughes’ goal is purity in form. It’s hockey as it should be played. The way Hughes is able to manipulate the space around him, to keep defenders constantly on their back foot makes him a modern Bobby Orr. Orr changed the game in showing how a beautiful skater could thrive attacking from the rear. In the years that followed, teams came to understand how to defend against such attacks, then the game evolved again to figure out how to break down defences that had adjusted to puck-carrying blueliners. Making defenders move by passing the puck tactically, opening up lanes that weren’t there before, these were a refining of the game that emerged 20 years ago. Now we’re in another era, where the individual is able to break down the opposition through pure artistry again. It’s all just that much faster. It takes a special player like Hughes to put it all together. Both these goals — Wednesday’s against Pittsburgh, Friday’s against Boston’s — are beautiful examples of where the game is now. Hughes is a fascinating contrast with Orr: Orr’s greatest asset was his amazing straight-ahead speed. He could simply outrace defenders. Hughes isn’t the NHL’s fastest skater, but he may be the NHL’s most agile. Those cutbacks are his bread and butter. The amazing thing is how he’s using them now not just to control the space around him near the blue-line, but also to create space at the top of the faceoff circles and in the slot. To create the final gap for his goal on Wednesday, he used the deftest of weight shifts to get into the gap between the Pens’ defenders and then flicked a charming little shot that goalie Tristan Jarry had no chance to adjust to. So, go tell your friends about this goal. Get them to tell their friends. Let’s talk about this goal more. pjohnston@postmedia.com

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Insider Reveals His Urgent Plan for Auston Matthews' Injury RehabNeuroscience Study Aboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Reveals Cognitive Benefits of Slow Travel at SeaBOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis is slated make his season debut Monday night against the Los Angeles Clippers following offseason ankle surgery. The 7-foot-2 Latvian center was upgraded from probable to available about an 90 minutes before tipoff, though Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said how much he'd play was to be determined. Veteran center Al Horford, who has started 14 of the Celtics 17 games this season, is out Monday with an illness. Fellow big man Luke Kornet is also sitting out as he continues to deal with hamstring tightness. “He has worked hard, he's in good shape. We'll put him in position to be healthy and be successful and do what's best for the team,” Mazzulla said. “He's been pretty consistent, just based on his work ethic and what he's done to get to this point.” Porzingis had surgery to fix a tear in the tissue that holds the ankle tendons in place. The issue limited him to seven playoff games during the Celtics' NBA championship run last season. Boston is 14-3 this season, but has missed his presence on the inside, with teams routinely outscoring the defending champions in the paint. Mazzulla acknowledged that how Porzingis plays on the offensive end, particularly how he operates sometimes out of the high and low post, will force some adjustment from how the team has played this season without him on the floor. “I think last year we had an opportunity to see how teams were guarding him,” Mazzulla said. "That'll take a little bit of time to figure out what the coverages are, just get used to that spacing. That'll take some time. ... Then we'll figure out how we go from there." The original window for Porzingis' return following surgery was five to six months. But Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens said before the season that they didn't want to hold to a specific timeline because of the uniqueness of the injury. Porzingis injured his ankle in Game 2 of the NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks and missed the next two games. He returned for Game 5, contributing five points and one rebound in 16 minutes as the Celtics beat Dallas 106-88 to clinch their record 18th title. Porzingis averaged 20 points and seven rebounds in 57 games for last season. He signed a $60 million, two-year extension with Boston in the summer of 2023 after the Celtics acquired him in a trade with Washington. AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . CYPRESS LAKE, Fla. (AP) — Kam Craft and Peter Suder both had 18 points in Miami (OH)'s 70-58 victory against Siena on Monday. Craft added five rebounds for the RedHawks (3-2). Suder shot 7 of 9 from the floor, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and 3 for 3 from the line. Eian Elmer shot 4 for 8 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points. The Saints (3-3) were led by Major Freeman, who recorded 15 points. Brendan Coyle added 12 points for Siena. Justice Shoats had 12 points. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Jaipur: The Adivasi Aarakshan Manch (AAM), a coalition of tribal groups from southern Rajasthan, on Friday announced a rally in Dungarpur on Jan 6 to demand a 6.5% sub-quota within the existing 12% reservation for Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the state. The group further proposed reserving constituencies with 25% or higher ST population exclusively for ST candidates in the delimitation process set to begin in 2025. The AAM emphasised its stand against allowing non-ST candidates to contest from tribal-dominated districts such as Pratapgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara, and Udaipur, excluding Udaipur City. In reaction, the OBC Adhikar Manch countered the AAM demand by seeking urban assembly seats in TSP districts—Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh and Salumber—be reserved for OBC candidates. Kanakmal Katara, founder of the AAM, told TOI, "Successive govts failed to allocate the rightful share of reservation to tribal people living in TSP (Tribal Sub-Plan) areas. A significant portion of the 12% ST quota is taken by Meena communities in central and eastern Rajasthan. Tribal in TSP areas are now aware of their rights and will not remain silent until a 6.5% sub-quota is reserved for them." The rally is open to political functionaries from BJP, Congress and Bhartiya Tribal Party (BTP), with tribal people supporting the cause encouraged to join. "This is a community-driven program. We understand that achieving change requires political backing," Katara added. Sources confirmed that Banswara MP Rajkumar Roat (BTP) and BJP's Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya, a former minister, are likely to attend the rally. These politicians, alongside the Congress members, supported a prior meeting in Banswara in Nov. A BTP functionary said, "We will raise this issue in the budget session of the state assembly starting late Jan." The AAM urged tribal people to resist any attempt to declare non-tribal seats in TSP areas. However, Naresh Patel, coordinator of OBC Adhikar Manch, said, "OBCs are the second-largest group in TSP areas but have lacked representation, causing them to face numerous challenges. Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma should uphold equality and ensure OBC representation from these regions." Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , Location Guesser and Mini Crossword .Nintendo Switch Mario Kart Bundle Is $249 In Walmart's Black Friday Sale

betfred contact details New Orleans (4-8) at New York Giants (2-10) Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, Fox BetMGM NFL Odds: Saints by 5. Against the spread: Saints 5-7; Giants 3-9. Series record: Giants lead 17-15. Last meeting: Saints beat Giants 24-6 on Dec. 17, 2023, in New Orleans. Last week: Saints lost to Rams 21-14; Giants lost to Cowboys 27-20. Saints: overall (12), rush (10), pass (19), scoring (14) Saints defense: overall (30), rush (26), pass (29), scoring (19) Giants offense: overall (T26), rush (15), pass (31), scoring (32) Giants defense: overall (19), rush (29), pass (6), scoring (18) Turnover differential: Saints plus-2; Giants minus-8. Derek Carr. The quarterback completed 23 of 28 for 218 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions in the previous meeting and had a 134.8 quarterback rating. Drew Lock. The veteran quarterback is going to make his second straight start with Tommy DeVito (forearm) hurt. He threw for 178 yards and ran for a career-high 57 yards in the loss to the Dallas. He scored on an 8-yard run and had a 28-yard scramble to set up another. He also made mistakes, throwing a pick-6 and losing a fumble on a scramble. Saints offense vs Giants defense. The Giants defense is banged up. DT Dexter Lawrence (elbow) was put on injured reserve Monday and fellow starter Rakeem Nunez-Roches (neck) missed practice earlier in the week. Leading tackler and ILB Bobby Okereke is dealing with a back issue. Saints: Tight end Taysom Hill's knee injury last week will sideline him the rest of the season. Running back Kendre Miller (hamstring) is eligible to come off injured reserve and could return to the lineup Sunday. Guards Cesar Ruiz (concussion) and Nick Saldiveri (knee) have been held out of practice this week. Center Erik McCoy (groin) , who sat out last week's game, returned to practice early this week on a limited basis. Guard Lucas Patrick (calf) has practiced on a limited basis after sitting out the past three games. Tyrann Mathieu (forearm) has returned to full practice this week after sitting out much of the second half of last week's loss to the Los Angeles Rams. Giants: Lawrence and rookie TE Theo Johnson (foot) were placed on injured reserve and probably are out for the season. ... DeVito (forearm) and LT Jermaine Eluemunor (quad) missed the Dallas game but they are making progress this week. DeVito will back up Lock. ... Eluemunor and RT Evan Neal (hip) may be game-time decisions. ... CB Deonte Banks (ribs), Okereke (back) and Nunez-Roches (neck) are unlikely to play. WR Malik Nabers was added to the report Thursday with a nagging groin issue. The Saints have won two of the past three meetings. The Giants are winless in all six games at MetLife Stadium this season. The Saints are 2-1 under interim coach Darren Rizzi, who was born in New Jersey and grew up a Giants fan. ... Carr ranks sixth among qualified passers with a 103.3 rating in 2024. ... WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling has had TD catches in his past three games. ... TE Juwan Johnson had five catches against the Rams. ... DT Bryan Bresee has a career-high 6 1/2 sacks and is looking for his third straight game with a sack. He had two sacks against New York last season. ... DL Chase Young has two sacks and three tackles for loss against the Giants in December. ... LB Demario Davis had 10 tackles and a sack in the previous meeting. ... CB Alontae Taylor is the only player with at least 10 passes defended and five tackles for loss in each of the past two seasons. ... Mathieu needs five tackles for his eighth straight season of at least 50 tackles. ... Giants: RB Tyrone Tracy ranks second among rookies with 619 yards rushing. He has run for four touchdowns. ... WR Malik Nabers has 75 catches for 740 yards. His reception total is the most by a rookie in his first 10 games. .... Wan'Dale Robinson has career-high 63 catches. ... OLB Brian Burns has a career-high eight passes defended and 10 tackles for loss. ... Okereke needs seven tackles for his fourth straight season of 100 or more tackles. ... S Tyler Nubin leads all rookies and ranks fourth among DBs with 93 tackles. ... The Giants have set an NFL record going 11 straight games without an interception. They have one interception this season. The NFL record for fewest in a season is two by the 2018 San Francisco 49ers. The fewest in a season by the Giants was six in 2022. Look for running back Alvin Kamara to have a big game. He has 894 yards rushing on 206 carries and he has caught 59 passes for 450 yards. He has seven touchdowns, six rushing. The 29-year-old has had eight games of at least 100 yards from scrimmage this season and he is third in the league with 1,344 yards from scrimmage. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflThe record will show that tight end Trey McBride had a great season, Marvin Harrison Jr. has a promising future, the Cardinals’ defense played over its head for much of the year and Arizona was almost a good football team in 2024. Key word — almost. A frustrating stretch continued on Saturday when the Cardinals (7-9) lost 13-9 to the host Los Angeles Rams . Arizona was pushing for a go-ahead touchdown in the final minute, but Kyler Murray’s pass took an unlucky bounce off McBride’s helmet and LA’s Ahkello Witherspoon made a spectacular grab for the interception, snagging the ball just before it hit the turf. “I think we can compete with anybody, but again, that doesn’t count,” second-year coach Jonathan Gannon said. “It’s about winning and losing, you what I mean? I just got to do a better job, but I know they’re doing the right things.” The Cardinals did a lot of things right against the Rams. Despite being eliminated from the postseason, Arizona competed hard. Murray completed 33 of 48 passes for 321 yards and a touchdown — but also had two interceptions. McBride caught 12 passes for 123 yards, including his first TD catch of the year. Harrison had one of his best games with six catches for 96 yards. “I’m going to choose to be positive about it,” Murray said. “I see a light at the end of that tunnel. I think we’re a couple plays away, a couple of plays away from being a 10-win team or right where we want to be, going to the playoffs or winning the division.” The Cardinals’ defense played well for most of the game, limiting the Rams to 257 yards. But in the end, it was another loss. The Cardinals have dropped five of six after starting 6-4. “I know we’re close, man, and I know it’s hard to see that,” Gannon said. “For me, that’s hard to take on the chin but we’ll get better from it. We’ll get better.” What’s working The Murray-to-Harrison connection was much better on Saturday, producing several big plays. Gannon challenged Harrison to be more physical against opposing defensive backs last week, and the receiver responded, looking much more like the player the Cardinals expected when they selected him with the No. 4 overall pick. “I think the physicality of it, coming from college to the league, guys don’t realize how physical you can be when you get to the league,” Murray said. “He’s going to be big time.” What needs help After doing a great job of taking care of the ball over the first 11 games, Murray has thrown seven interceptions over the past five. A few of those came in late-game situations when he had to take a chance and force a pass, but it’s still not a good trend. Stock up McBride had his third 100-yard game of the season, showing sure hands and fighting through contact for extra yards. The third-year player has 1,081 yards receiving this season, becoming just the second tight end in franchise history to exceed 1,000 yards. The other was Hall of Famer Jackie Smith, who had 1,205 yards in 1967. He has 104 catches and is just the 10th tight end in NFL history to top 100 in a season. Stock down Arizona’s special teams have been very good for most of the year, but Los Angeles’ block of an extra point attempt by Chad Ryland in the third quarter proved costly. If the Cardinals had trailed by three points on the final drive instead of four, they would have had the option of kicking a tying field goal in the final minute. Injuries RB James Conner tried to battle through a knee injury against the Rams, but gained just 4 yards on the ground. His status for the season’s final game is uncertain. LB Joey Blount (ribs) and CB Elijah Jones (ankle) were inactive. Key number 822 — Harrison’s receiving yards on the season. That ranks third for a rookie in franchise history behind Anquan Boldin (1,377 in 2003) and Frank Sanders (883 in 1995). Next steps Arizona’s final game will be at home on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, who are also eliminated from the playoff race. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

Short Interest in Energous Co. (NASDAQ:WATT) Increases By 24.3%Despite a resounding defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan in 1980, the Democrat forged a new path promoting causes such as electoral probity abroad, social justice and drives to rid the world of medical conditions. His first foreign visit as president was to the UK where then prime minister James Callaghan, as well as the usual visits in London, took his guest to the North East with a visit to Newcastle, Sunderland and Washington – the village bearing the name of the first ever president. Mr Carter delighted crowds in the North East by saying “Howay the lads” during a speech to the assembled throng. He also received a miner’s lamp from 12-year-old Ian McEree in Washington. The 39th US president also carried out more traditional presidential duties, including meetings with western European leaders during his time in London while the Cold War was still ongoing. The practising Baptist continued his globetrotting ways after leaving power, even without Air Force One as his vehicle. He was also part of the Elders, a group of experienced statesmen and women drawn from all corners of the world.

NoneAfter coming off the bench for most of November, forward Jonathan Kuminga has started four of the last five games for the Golden State Warriors. And on Friday, the 22-year-old got the nod over Draymond Green to open a back-to-back series with the Minnesota Timberwolves. While Kuminga has received praise for his performance in a larger role for the Warriors, some have wondered why the former No. 7 overall pick didn't get back into the starting five sooner. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Thanks for the feedback.

Federal appeals court upholds law requiring sale or ban of TikTok in the US A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok as soon as next month, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the law - which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January — is constitutional, rebuffing TikTok’s challenge that the statute ran afoul of the First Amendment and unfairly targeted the platform. TikTok and ByteDance — another plaintiff in the lawsuit — are expected to appeal to the Supreme Court. Executive of Tyler Perry Studios dies when plane he was piloting crashes in Florida ATLANTA (AP) — The president of Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios has died when the small plane he was piloting crashed on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The studio confirmed on Saturday that Steve Mensch, its 62-year-old president and general manager, had died Friday. The crash happened in Homosassa, about 60 miles north of Tampa. Photos from the scene show the plane having come to rest upside down on a road. Mensch helped advocate for Georgia’s film tax credit of more than $1 billion a year. Perry hired Mensch to run his namesake studio in 2016. Mensch died as Perry released his war drama, “The Six Triple Eight." The film was shot at the Atlanta studio. US added a strong 227,000 jobs in November in bounce-back from October slowdown WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s job market rebounded in November, adding 227,000 workers in a solid recovery from the previous month, when the effects of strikes and hurricanes had sharply diminished employers’ payrolls. Last month’s hiring growth was up considerably from a meager gain of 36,000 jobs in October. The government also revised up its estimate of job growth in September and October by a combined 56,000. Friday’s report also showed that the unemployment rate ticked up from 4.1% in October to a still-low 4.2%. The November data provided the latest evidence that the U.S. job market remains durable even though it has lost significant momentum from the 2021-2023 hiring boom, when the economy was rebounding from the pandemic recession. Stock market today: Wall Street hits more records following a just-right jobs report NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose to records after data suggested the job market remains solid enough to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about inflation. The S&P 500 climbed 0.2%, just enough top the all-time high set on Wednesday, as it closed a third straight winning week in what looks to be one of its best years since the 2000 dot-com bust. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.8% to set its own record. Treasury yields eased after the jobs report showed stronger hiring than expected but also an uptick in the unemployment rate. Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO spotlights complex challenge companies face in protecting top brass NEW YORK (AP) — In an era when online anger and social tensions are increasingly directed at the businesses consumers count on, Meta last year spent $24.4 million to surround CEO Mark Zuckerberg with security. But the fatal shooting this week of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson while walking alone on a New York City sidewalk has put a spotlight on the widely varied approaches companies take to protect their leaders against threats. And experts say the task of evaluating threats against executives and taking action to protect them is getting more difficult. One of the primary worries are loners whose rantings online are fed by others who are like-minded. It’s up to corporate security analysts to decide what represents a real threat. Days after gunman killed UnitedHealthcare's CEO, police push to ID him and FBI offers reward NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly four days after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police still do not know the gunman’s name or whereabouts or have a motive for the killing. But they have made some progress in their investigation into Wednesday's killing of the leader of the largest U.S. health insurer, including that the gunman likely left New York City on a bus soon after fleeing the scene. The also found that the gunman left something behind: a backpack that was discovered in Central Park. Police are working with the FBI, which on Friday night announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. USDA orders nationwide testing of milk for bird flu to halt the virus The U.S. government has ordered testing of the nation’s milk supply for bird flu to better monitor the spread of the virus in dairy cows. The Agriculture Department on Friday said raw or unpasteurized milk from dairy farms and processors nationwide must be tested on request starting Dec. 16. Testing will begin in six states — California, Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The move is aimed at eliminating the virus, which has infected more than 700 dairy herds in 15 states. Words on ammo in CEO shooting echo common phrase on insurer tactics: Delay, deny, defend A message left at the scene of an insurance executive’s fatal shooting echoes a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims. The words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” were written on the ammunition used to kill UnitedHealthcare's CEO. That's according to two officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday. The words are similar to the phrase “delay, deny, defend.” That's how attorneys describe insurers denying services and payment, and the title of a 2010 book critical of the industry. Police haven’t officially commented on the words. But Thompson’s shooting and the messages on the ammunition have sparked outrage on social media and elsewhere, reflecting frustration Americans have over the cost and complexity of getting care. Michigan Democrats move to protect reproductive health data before GOP takes control of House LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats in Michigan are pressing to pass reproductive health care legislation before the party loses its majority with the new legislative session next year. A bill to protect digital reproductive health data including data logged on menstrual cycle tracking apps is a Democratic priority as lawmakers meet this month. Democratic women and supporters of the legislation say they are acting with new urgency before President-elect Donald Trump takes office because they don't believe his campaign promise to leave abortion to the states. The rush is also a reaction to Republicans taking control of the state House in January. Democrats kept control of the state Senate in the November election. Japan's Nippon Steel sets sights on a growing overseas market in its bid to acquire US Steel KASHIMA, Japan (AP) — The signs at Nippon Steel read: “The world through steel,” underlining why Japan’s top steelmaker is pursuing its $15 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel. Japan's domestic market isn't growing, so Nippon Steel has its eyes on India, Southeast Asia and the United States, where populations are still growing. Nippon Steel gave reporters a tour of one of its plants in Japan on Friday. The bid for U.S. Steet is opposed by President-elect Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and American steelworkers. If the deal goes through, U.S. Steel will keep its name and its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but become subsidiary of Nippon Steel.The Colorado Avalanche made their second goaltending trade in less than two weeks, shipping out No. 1 netminder Alexandar Georgiev to the San Jose Sharks for Mackenzie Blackwood. The contending Avalanche have the fourth-worst goals-against average by team in the NHL. They had made another goalie move on Nov. 30, acquiring backup goaltender Scott Wedgewood from the Nashville Predators for backup Justus Annunen. The Avalanche also get forward Givani Smith and a 2027 fifth-round draft pick in the deal with San Jose. Forward Nikolai Kovalenko, a conditional 2025 fifth-round pick and a 2026 second-rounder head to the Sharks. Goergiev had a 4.62 goals-against average in October, and though he improved in November, he was pulled in a Dec. 3 start after giving up four goals on 12 shots. Colorado rallied to win that game. Blackwood, meanwhile, made 49 saves in his last start. He has a .904 save percentage compared to .874 for Georgiev, who rebounded with a win in his last start. The Avalanche have a powerful offense but their early goaltending woes have cost them in the standings . The 2022 Stanley Cup champions entered the week in the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Both goalies will be unrestricted free agents at season's end. The rebuilding Sharks have prospect Yaroslav Askarov waiting in the pipeline after acquiring him in the offseason. Conditions on the Avalanche-Sharks deal Colorado will retain 14% of Georgiev’s contract. Conditions for Colorado’s 2025 fifth-round pick: Colorado will instead transfer the worse of their current fourth-round picks in 2025 (Colorado’s own or Vancouver’s selection) if at least two of the conditions are met: The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast . 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NextNav CEO Mariam Sorond sells $4.15 million in stockOTTAWA — The federal government is adding hundreds more types of firearms to its list of banned guns and looking to send some of them to Ukraine. On Thursday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the Liberals were adding 324 more “unique makes and models” of what he called “assault-style” firearms to its list of banned guns, taking effect immediately. All current and future variants of these guns would be prohibited. The total number of affected firearms sits around 14,500, according to Public Safety Canada. The announcement comes on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique shooting in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989, where a gunman targeting women killed 14 and injured 10 others. Honouring those killed in mass shootings means taking action on gun control, LeBlanc said. In May 2020, the Liberal government announced it was banning some 1,500 types of firearms, promising to compensate gun owners and businesses through a still yet-to-be-functioning buyback program, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates could cost upwards of $750 million, depending on its design. An amnesty order protecting gun owners and businesses with prohibited inventory they acquired lawfully from prosecution is currently in place until October 2025. LeBlanc said on Thursday that the pilot phase of the program targeting businesses is underway, with four having participated. It would be open for all businesses “in the coming days.” “As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine,” he said. Defence Minister Bill Blair said the Liberals reached out in October to see if Ukrainian troops could use some of the guns Canada has banned in their war against Russia . “They confirmed that indeed, some of the weapons that are part of the program, would be suitable,” said Blair. Companies that choose to work with the defence department on the initiative would be compensated, he said. LeBlanc said more gun control measures are coming, with the RCMP studying what to do about the SKS, a popular hunting rifle, which he committed would happen by next February, when the government will come out with its next list. He pointed to how many First Nations and Inuit hunters use this weapon, which makes potentially banning it complicated. National Post staylor@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here . Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here .Merchants of Rosewall - Official Trailer | PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Merchants of Rosewall is a shopkeeper simulator that lets you set up your own shop to help out the citizens of Rosewall. Coming to PC in March 2025

Forthright and fearless, the Nobel Prize winner took pot-shots at former prime minister Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush among others. His death came after repeated bouts of illness in which images of the increasingly frail former president failed to erase memories of his fierce spirit. Democrat James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr swept to power in 1977 with his Trust Me campaign helping to beat Republican president Gerald Ford. Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, he sought to make government “competent and compassionate” but was ousted by the unstoppable Hollywood appeal of a certain Ronald Reagan. A skilled sportsman, Mr Carter left his home of Plains, Georgia, to join the US Navy, returning later to run his family’s peanut business. A stint in the Georgia senate lit the touchpaper on his political career and he rose to the top of the Democratic movement. But he will also be remembered for a bizarre encounter with a deeply disgruntled opponent. The president was enjoying a relaxing fishing trip near his home town in 1979 when his craft was attacked by a furious swamp rabbit which reportedly swam up to the boat hissing wildly. The press had a field day, with one paper bearing the headline President Attacked By Rabbit. Away from encounters with belligerent bunnies, Mr Carter’s willingness to address politically uncomfortable topics did not diminish with age. He recently said that he would be willing to travel to North Korea for peace talks on behalf of US President Donald Trump. He also famously mounted a ferocious and personal attack on Tony Blair over the Iraq war, weeks before the prime minister left office in June 2007. Mr Carter, who had already denounced George W Bush’s presidency as “the worst in history”, used an interview on BBC radio to condemn Mr Blair for his tight relations with Mr Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq War. Asked how he would characterise Mr Blair’s relationship with Mr Bush, Mr Carter replied: “Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient. “I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.” Mr Carter was also voluble over the Rhodesia crisis, which was about to end during his presidency. His support for Robert Mugabe at the time generated widespread criticism. He was said to have ignored the warnings of many prominent Zimbabweans, black and white, about what sort of leader Mugabe would be. This was seen by Mr Carter’s critics as “deserving a prominent place among the outrages of the Carter years”. Mr Carter has since said he and his administration had spent more effort and worry on Rhodesia than on the Middle East. He admitted he had supported two revolutionaries in Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, and with hindsight said later that Mugabe had been “a good leader gone bad”, having at first been “a very enlightened president”. One US commentator wrote: “History will not look kindly on those in the West who insisted on bringing the avowed Marxist Mugabe into the government. “In particular, the Jimmy Carter foreign policy... bears some responsibility for the fate of a small African country with scant connection to American national interests.” In recent years Mr Carter developed a reputation as an international peace negotiator. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his commitment to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts, his work with human rights and democracy initiatives, and his promotion of economic and social programmes. Mr Carter was dispatched to North Korea in August 2008 to secure the release of US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labour after being found guilty of illegally entering North Korea. He successfully secured the release of Mr Gomes. In 2010 he returned to the White House to greet President Barack Obama and discuss international affairs amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Proving politics runs in the family, in 2013 his grandson Jason, a state senator, announced his bid to become governor in Georgia, where his famous grandfather governed before becoming president. He eventually lost to incumbent Republican Nathan Deal. Fears that Mr Carter’s health was deteriorating were sparked in 2015 when he cut short an election observation visit in Guyana because he was “not feeling well”. It would have been Mr Carter’s 39th trip to personally observe an international election. Three months later, on August 12, he revealed he had cancer which had been diagnosed after he underwent surgery to remove a small mass in his liver. Mr Obama was among the well-wishers hoping for Mr Carter’s full recovery after it was confirmed the cancer had spread widely. Melanoma had been found in his brain and liver, and Mr Carter underwent immunotherapy and radiation therapy, before announcing in March the following year that he no longer needed any treatment. In 2017, Mr Carter was taken to hospital as a precaution, after he became dehydrated at a home-building project in Canada. He was admitted to hospital on multiple occasions in 2019 having had a series of falls, suffering a brain bleed and a broken pelvis, as well as a stint to be treated for a urinary tract infection. Mr Carter spent much of the coronavirus pandemic largely at his home in Georgia, and did not attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in 2021, but extended his “best wishes”. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Mr Carter during his term as US president, died in November 2023. She had been living with dementia and suffering many months of declining health. “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Mr Carter said in a statement following her death. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”

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Police arrested a 26-year-old man on Monday in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO after they say a Pennsylvania McDonald's worker alerted authorities to a customer who resembled the suspected gunman. The suspect, identified by police as Luigi Nicholas Mangione, had a gun believed to be the one used in Wednesday’s attack on Brian Thompson , as well as writings expressing anger at corporate America, police said. Here are some of the latest developments in the ongoing investigation: Mangione was taken into custody at around 9:15 a.m. after police received a tip that he was eating at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 85 miles (137 kilometers) east of Pittsburgh, police said. Mangione was being held in Pennsylvania on gun charges and will eventually be extradited to New York to face charges in connection with Thompson’s death, said NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. In addition to a three-page, handwritten document that suggests he harbored “ill will toward corporate America,” Kenny said Mangione also had a ghost gun , a type of weapon that can be assembled at home and is difficult to trace. Officers questioned Mangione, who was acting suspiciously and carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a U.S. passport, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference. Officers also found a suppressor, “consistent with the weapon used in the murder,” the commissioner said. He had clothing and a mask similar to those worn by the shooter and a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching one the suspect used to check into a New York City hostel before the shooting, Tisch said. Kenny said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, has ties to San Francisco and that his last known address is in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mangione, who was valedictorian of his Maryland prep school, earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania, a university spokesman told The Associated Press on Monday. He learned to code in high school and helped start a club at Penn for people interested in gaming and game design, according to a 2018 story in Penn Today, a campus publication. His social media posts also suggest that he belonged to the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. They also show him taking part in a 2019 program at Stanford University, and in photos with family and friends at the Jersey Shore and in Hawaii, San Diego, Puerto Rico, and other destinations. The Gilman School, from which Mangione graduated in 2016, is one of Baltimore’s elite prep schools. Some of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent people, including Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr., have had children attend the school. Its alumni include sportswriter Frank Deford and former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington. In his valedictory speech, Luigi Mangione described his classmates’ “incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things,” according to a post on the school website. He praised their collective inventiveness and pioneering mindset. Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family. His grandfather Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978. The father of 10 children, Nick Mangione prepared his five sons — including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione — to help manage the family business, according to a 2003 Washington Post report. The Mangione family also purchased Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore in 1986. On Monday, Baltimore County police officers blocked off an entrance to the property, which public records link to Luigi Mangione’s parents. A swarm of reporters and photographers gathered outside the entrance. Luigi Mangione is one of 37 grandchildren of Nick Mangione, according to his obituary. Luigi Mangione's grandparents donated to charities through the Mangione Family Foundation, according to a statement from Loyola University commemorating Nick Mangione’s wife’s death in 2023. They donated to various causes ranging from Catholic organizations to colleges and the arts. One of Luigi Mangione’s cousins is Republican Maryland state legislator Nino Mangione. A spokesman for the lawmaker's office confirmed the relationship Monday. Police said the person who killed Thompson left a hostel on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 5:41 a.m. on Wednesday. Just 11 minutes later, he was seen on surveillance video walking back and forth in front of the New York Hilton Midtown, wearing a distinctive backpack. At 6:44 a.m., he shot Thompson at a side entrance to the hotel, fled on foot, then climbed aboard a bicycle and within four minutes had entered Central Park. Another security camera recorded the gunman leaving the park near the American Museum of Natural History at 6:56 a.m. still on the bicycle but without the backpack. After getting in a taxi, he headed north to a bus terminal near the George Washington Bridge, arriving at around 7:30 a.m. From there, the trail of video evidence runs cold. Police have not located video of the suspected shooter exiting the building, leading them to believe he likely took a bus out of town. Police said they are still investigating the path the suspect took to Pennsylvania. “This just happened this morning," Kenny said. "We’ll be working, backtracking his steps from New York to Altoona, Pennsylvania,” Kenny said. Associated Press reporters Lea Skene in Baltimore and Cedar Attanasio in New York contributed to this report. 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Swiss National Bank reduced its holdings in shares of Masimo Co. ( NASDAQ:MASI – Free Report ) by 0.2% during the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 88,300 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock after selling 200 shares during the quarter. Swiss National Bank owned approximately 0.17% of Masimo worth $11,773,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of MASI. NBC Securities Inc. raised its stake in shares of Masimo by 47.1% during the 3rd quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 228 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $30,000 after purchasing an additional 73 shares during the period. GAMMA Investing LLC raised its position in Masimo by 75.0% in the second quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 259 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $33,000 after acquiring an additional 111 shares during the period. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its stake in Masimo by 133.3% in the second quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 350 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $44,000 after acquiring an additional 200 shares during the last quarter. HHM Wealth Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Masimo by 25.0% during the 2nd quarter. HHM Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 625 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock valued at $79,000 after acquiring an additional 125 shares during the period. Finally, Lazard Asset Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Masimo by 5,730.0% during the 1st quarter. Lazard Asset Management LLC now owns 583 shares of the medical equipment provider’s stock worth $85,000 after purchasing an additional 573 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.96% of the company’s stock. Masimo Price Performance MASI stock opened at $172.96 on Friday. Masimo Co. has a 12 month low of $91.60 and a 12 month high of $174.34. The company has a current ratio of 2.01, a quick ratio of 1.11 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 119.28 and a beta of 0.97. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $143.48 and a 200-day moving average of $128.00. Analysts Set New Price Targets MASI has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price objective on Masimo from $160.00 to $171.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. Stifel Nicolaus reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $190.00 price target (up previously from $170.00) on shares of Masimo in a research report on Friday. Raymond James raised Masimo from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $170.00 price objective for the company in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Piper Sandler upped their price objective on shares of Masimo from $165.00 to $180.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 6th. Finally, BTIG Research lifted their target price on shares of Masimo from $166.00 to $170.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, October 14th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Masimo currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $167.00. Check Out Our Latest Analysis on MASI Masimo Company Profile ( Free Report ) Masimo Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets various patient monitoring technologies, and automation and connectivity solutions worldwide. The company offers masimo signal extraction technology (SET) pulse oximetry with measure-through motion and low perfusion pulse oximetry monitoring to address the primary limitations of conventional pulse oximetry; Masimo rainbow SET platform, including rainbow SET Pulse CO-Oximetry products that allows noninvasive monitoring of carboxyhemoglobin, methemoglobin, hemoglobin concentration, fractional arterial oxygen saturation, oxygen content, pleth variability index, rainbow pleth variability index, respiration rate from the pleth, and oxygen reserve index, as well as acoustic respiration monitoring, SedLine brain function monitoring, NomoLine capnography and gas monitoring, and regional oximetry. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Masimo Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Masimo and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .CM Naidu unveils plans for Andhra Pradesh as Maritime Hubbetfred darts 。

Daily Post Nigeria ICPC arraigns ex-bank MD, CEO over alleged money laundering Home News Politics Metro Entertainment Sport News ICPC arraigns ex-bank MD, CEO over alleged money laundering Published on November 27, 2024 By John Owen Nwachukwu The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has arraigned a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN, Gimba Kumo Ya’u. He was arraigned alongside two others over an alleged diversion of $65,000,000. The money was meant for the development of 962 units of residential housing units in Kubwa District in Abuja. Ya’u was brought before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, alongside Mr Bola Ogunsola, former Executive Director and Tarry Rufus, Managing Director of T-Brend Fortunes Nigeria Limited. The ICPC told the court in a charge sheet marked FHC/ABJ/CR/333/24 that the alleged offences of the defendants go against the Public Enterprises Regulatory Commission Act and Section 19 of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022. In a five-count charge, the anti-graft commission told the court that the ex-bank CEO made payment to Good Earth Power Nigeria Limited in the sum of N3,785,000,000 out of the total contract sum of $65,000,000. The money was meant to erect 962 units of residential housing in Kubwa, Abuja, named “Goodluck Jonathan Legacy City.” ICPC alleged that Yau and Ogunsola, in their roles as CEO and ED of the bank in August 2012, had secured a loan of N14 billion from Ecobank Nigeria PLC on behalf of the bank. ICPC further alleged that Yau, as the then CEO of FMBN, awarded the $65 million contract despite knowing that the company lacked the capacity to carry out the contract. It added that the project remains incomplete “as of today.” The other defendants were accused of giving and receiving $3,550,000 of the contract sum in cash in contravention of the Money Laundering Act. Tarry Rufus, Good Earth Power Nigeria Limited and T-Brend Fortunes Limited were accused of directly converting the sum of N991,399,255 into $3,550,000 and handing over the same to one Jason Rosamond (now at large) in cash, contrary to Section 18(2) (b) and punishable under Section 18 (a) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022. The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them. Following their plea, the judge adjourned the case until February 6, 2025, for the commencement of trial. Related Topics: ICPC Money Laundering Don't Miss Former UNIZIK VC Odoh sues FUGUS over denial of professorship, employment status You may like Illegal degree mill: ICPC re-arraigns professor, two others ICPC tracks N4bn constituency projects in Imo ICPC tracks N13.9bn FG projects in Niger ICPC tracks N610bn constituency projects in 21 states, FCT Supreme Court dismisses suit by 19 States challenging constitutionality of EFCC, ICPC, NFIU ICPC presents annual scorecard to Senate, identifies challenges Advertise About Us Contact Us Privacy-Policy Terms Copyright © Daily Post Media LtdArticle content (Bloomberg) — FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he will resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, prematurely ending his historic and tumultuous tenure as head of the nation’s top investigative law enforcement agency. Recommended Videos Wray said in a speech to agency staff Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of Joe Biden’s term as president next month. Trump, who will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, made it clear he won’t keep Wray on as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, even though he’s serving a 10-year term that doesn’t end until 2027. Wray told the the agency’s workforce that stepping down is the “best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray.” “What absolutely cannot, must not change is our commitment to doing the right thing, the right way, every time,” Wray said, in a speech provided to reporters. “Our adherence to our core values, our dedication to independence and objectivity, and our defense of the rule of law — those fundamental aspects of who we are must never change.” Trump posted on his Truth Social network on Nov. 30 that he plans to nominate as FBI director Kash Patel, a loyalist who has pledged to overhaul the bureau and even said he would shut down the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Trump will be able to pick an acting director to serve until the Senate confirms his nominee. Trump chose Wray to lead the FBI in June 2017 after he fired then-Director James Comey, who launched the investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. The probe was later taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But Trump and his allies eventually turned on Wray and have repeatedly lambasted him for actions the FBI took that they didn’t approve of or for not taking certain actions that they wanted. “We will now restore the Rule of Law for all Americans,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday. “We want our FBI back, and that will now happen.” Meanwhile, Attorney General Merrick Garland praised Wray in a statement, saying he “has worked tirelessly to protect the American people and to lead an agency of 38,000 dedicated public servants, many of whom put their lives on the line every day to serve their communities.” Wray said in his speech that his “goal is to keep the focus on our mission.” He decried those who judge actions based on whether or not they liked the result. “That’s not how independence and objectivity work,” Wray said. “We’re not on any one side. We’re on the American people’s side. The Constitution’s side” Mild mannered and soft spoken, Wray, a New York City native, tried to steer the bureau away from political turbulence during his tenure. He replaced the bureau’s leadership when he took over as director and worked to stay out of the public spotlight as he emphasized the agency’s core missions of investigating corporate crime, espionage cases, cyber attacks and violent offenses. He also oversaw implementation of new restrictions on how analysts can search intelligence databases and obtain classified warrants. But Wray was never able to escape controversy. He came under heated criticism by conservatives when FBI agents carried out a court-authorized search of Trump’s Florida resort in 2022 to retrieve classified documents. His agents also participated in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and investigated Trump supporters who attacked the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop the congressional certification of the election. The classified documents and election probes led to indictments of Trump. However, Smith had to dismiss the election case because of the Justice Department’s policy barring prosecution of a sitting president. A federal judge dismissed the classified documents case but the department wants to reinstate it without Trump. Wray also became the target of criticism by conservatives for an assessment generated by an FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, in 2023 that warned of possible threats posed by “radical-traditionalist” Catholics. The assessment was withdrawn and Wray has condemned it, but critics have alleged without evidence that it represented an effort to persecute Catholics and conservatives over their beliefs. Meanwhile, Patel has vowed to carry out reforms to defeat what he calls “the deep state” in the FBI and elsewhere. In his book Government Gangsters, Patel endorsed calls to fire government employees who undermine the president’s agenda. “We must identify the people in government that are crippling our constitutional republic,” Patel told the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year.

Soccer-Huijsen heads Bournemouth to win over ragged TottenhamEINDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) – Malik Tillman scored two late goals before substitute Ricardo Pepi netted five minutes into stoppage time to see PSV Eindhoven stage a dramatic comeback against 10-man Shakhtar Donetsk and win 3-2 in the Champions League on Wednesday. Danylo Sikan and Oleksandr Zubkov had the Ukraine club 2-0 up at halftime but after Pedrinho was sent off with 21 minutes remaining, PSV were able to fashion a remarkable recovery that stretched their two-year unbeaten home record to 47 games. Tillman squeezed home a free kick in the 87th minute and then on 90 minutes thumped home a shot from outside the box to level the scores. American international Pepi then got the winner as PSV went one better than the heroics of their Dutch counterparts Feyenoord, who came back from 3-0 down to draw at Manchester City on Tuesday. (Writing by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Clare Fallon) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. ThePrint holds no responsibilty for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );Resorts World Las Vegas Establishes Board of Directors with Jim Murren as Chairman, Appoints Alex Dixon as Chief Executive Officer

It sometimes seems that we have lost the ability to truly communicate with one another. It is not so much what we say to one another, but how we listen. Even friends can find it difficult to hear opposing views from each other. But the outcome can be rich if we can learn to listen well. It is worth it to move beyond the angry, divisive, rhetoric-driven communication that we typically hear, so we can concentrate on the real issues. For us, what started as one cup of coffee together to discuss cities’ Climate Action Plans, has morphed into years of coffee discussions about local, state, national and global political issues. In our earlier discussions, we discovered that we often had differing views on prominent issues, views often — though not always— following positions taken by opposing political parties. Here’s one example: Ken has a burning desire to ensure governments are doing all they can to stave off global warming while Nicole has a burning desire to ensure citizens know the consequences of governments’ actions in controlling global warming. Nevertheless, our discussions have always been congenial, reflecting the respect we have for each other. We have learned from each other, and each of us acknowledges that our respective positions have occasionally changed with respect to issues that we have discussed. Surprisingly for today’s culture and climate, we have remained friends, and we keep having those cups of coffee and lively discussions. No canceling here. The warm smell of java and friendship is a stronger pull than politics. Related Story: Turning the Sierra National Forest Into a National Monument But now we are faced with an issue that has brought out strong emotions in both of us, since we both have strong connections with our local forests. Like others, we have found forests to be a respite from the storms of our daily lives. The proposal in question is to convert one million acres of Sierra National Forest into monument status. It is called the Range of Light proposal, and it would designate as a national monument this large forest tract, alongside and between the boundaries of Yosemite and Kings Canyon-Sequoia National Parks. Nicole’s primary concern is about being denied access to the forests in question that she responsibly enjoys hiking each week — something she cannot always do in the nearby national parks with their reservation systems, fees, and regulations. Ken’s focus is on how the proposal might be useful in preserving the quality of the forests themselves. Monument? No Monument? Forging our way through those cups of coffee, we ultimately found that our interests are essentially aligned. It is how those interests are brought to bear in the actual management of the forest that we see things differently. It is hard to believe that anyone would not want to preserve the pristine nature of the Sierra. Yet, there are over 10,000 signatures on a petition to stop the Range of Light (Nicole is proudly one of those). So, what is the issue? Related Story: We Part Ways on Forest Issues We have brewed up a list of forest issues that are dividing us, and we surmise that if we focus on these, we may have more in common regarding the Sierra than the simple argument of “Monument or no Monument” would have us believe. These are:  Private property  Public access  Logging  Cattle grazing  Forest thinning/prescribed burning  Motorized recreation Let’s Promote Forest Health While Maintaining Access So rather than debate about Monument status, let us sit down and talk about how to promote the health of the forest while maintaining access so that many can enjoy the Sierra. We don’t yet agree on specific solutions, but we do agree that proposals such as this should be transparently and publicly debated, without shortcuts. Each of us has resolved to investigate and discuss these issues before reaching a conclusion after considering the following: What does science say? What are the trusted information sources? What are the consequences of this proposal? Throughout the process, we promise to be open-minded and respectful of all points of view and messengers. At the conclusion of our investigation, we plan to report the results to people who care about the forest and its management. We will then have another friendly cup of coffee together while debating the various topics that confront us daily.

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Kylian Mbappe hoped his move to Real Madrid would finally see him end his wait to win the Champions League. Instead, the France international and defending champion Madrid are in danger of being eliminated from European club soccer’s elite tournament at the first stage after Wednesday’s 2-0 loss to Liverpool leaves them in a fight just to make the playoffs for the next round. And if Madrid does make an early exit, Mbappe may look back on a miserable night at Anfield where he was humbled by a young defender and then missed a penalty that would have leveled the score. World Cup winner Mbappe looked a shadow of himself against a Liverpool team that leads the way in the Premier League and the Champions League this season. He was brought crashing down by a crunching tackle from 21-year-old right back Conor Bradley when threatening to burst through on goal in the first half — sparking a huge cheer from the home crowd. It got worse for Mbappe after the break when he had the chance to make it 1-1 from the penalty spot after Alexis Mac Allister had given six-time European champion Liverpool the lead. But with Caoimhin Kelleher to beat, he saw his effort pushed away by Liverpool’s back-up goalkeeper. Mohamed Salah also missed a spot kick of his own, but substitute Cody Gakpo doubled the home team’s advantage. Record 15-time European Cup winner Madrid is 24th in the new-look 36-team league phase of the Champions League. The to the round of 16, while teams ranked ninth to 24th go into a playoff. Victory saw new Liverpool head coach Arne Slot manage something his predecessor Jurgen Klopp never could by beating Real in the Champions League. His team extended its perfect record in the competition and is top of the standings after five games. Each team plays eight games in the opening phase. Madrid plays Atalanta next month and Liverpool faces Girona. ___ James Robson is at ___ AP soccer:Emma Shaw from the Phoenix Education Centre Stormont decision makers need to rethink how they hand out funding if they want to make real difference in disadvantaged communities, a major conference is expected to hear on Thursday. Emma Shaw, Executive Director of East Belfast ’s Phoenix Education Centre, says huge sums have been paid out over the years and many reports written on educational disadvantage but the problems they aim to address persist. Meanwhile, the community activist is running a programme aimed at helping steer young people away from trouble who might otherwise be getting involved in anti social behaviour. Emma helps young people some of whom have not left home in two years and others who are tackling trauma including drug and alcohol addiction as well as interactions with paramilitaries. Read more: Life-saving defibrillators to be rolled out to all NI schools Read more: Belfast children 'deserve better' as youth club wrecked during Storm Bert But she insists that staff at the Phoenix who are “on the ground” could do much more if funding providers stopped “playing it safe” by funnelling large sums to “established” groups. On Thursday, the Summit on Educational Disadvantage, at the Stormont Hotel, will “bring together educators, community leaders, and youth advocates to address the pressing issue of educational inequitable access to resources in East Belfast”. Emma told Belfast Live: “I feel like we’ve had so many reports about educational disadvantage in East Belfast, so many people weighing in about it in terms of policy makers, politicians. But it’s always a very top-down approach. But I feel like no one really engages with the people who live there or the people who work there and do this sort of work and actually understand what the complexities are.” She adds that reports and policy decisions “really miss out working class opinion”, with authors and decision makers “engaging with policy makers, politicians and big charities” but not “people like me on the ground”. Grass roots projects run by Phoenix include Step Up For Change which Emma says has been ongoing since October and has 11 “young people on it who were not going to school or were involved in anti-social behaviour getting referred into it”. Among them are young lads “some of those young people haven’t left the house in two years” but are now getting up every morning much to the delight of their families. The larger organisations that Emma says swallow up much of the funding aimed at tackling educational disadvantage are not on the ground and “don’t have that relationship component, whereas smaller organisations like ourselves, we’re able to be more flexible, we’re having those one-to-ones with them [young people] on a regular basis”. Emma says “the people who are doing the work are maybe overlooked” for much funding. Thursday’s summit is being co-hosted by Unite the union. Susan Fitzgerald, Unite’s regional secretary said: “Educational disadvantage is a class issue. Academic selection and an education system built around the interests of grammar and private schools are failing working class children. “Northern Ireland has the highest proportion of young people leaving school without five GCSEs as a result. A staggering one in twelve 16-24 year olds are not in employment, education or training - higher than anywhere else on these islands. “Poverty and inter-generational deprivation reinforce and perpetuate educational disadvantage. Even the apprenticeships which used to offer an alternative to working class young people these days have academic entry grades beyond reach of young people from working class areas, added to the fact that there simply aren’t enough genuine apprentice opportunities in the first place. “Educational disadvantage feeds into wider social problems. Young people suffering social exclusion, especially young men, can be easy prey for divisive narratives. We have to force our Governments to make sure no child is left behind and that those who have already been failed are given access to skills, decent employment and the respect they deserve.” Join our Belfast Live breaking news service on WhatsApp Click this link or scan the QR code to receive breaking news and top stories from Belfast Live. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice . For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage here and sign up to our daily newsletter here. Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Follow BelfastLive Facebook Twitter Comment More On East Belfast Stormont Education Real Life

TotalEnergies SE Puts New York Offshore Wind Farm Project on Hold in Wake of Trump's Election VictoryLAS VEGAS , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Resorts World Las Vegas LLC announced today the formation of a Board of Directors, with industry veteran Jim Murren as the Chairman, and the appointment of Alex Dixon as its Chief Executive Officer as a key part of the Company's plan to deepen and strengthen its leadership. The new team, with a combined 130 years of experience in the gaming industry, will accelerate the Company's growth strategy and continue its mission to remain Las Vegas's premier resort destination for unmatched luxury and entertainment experiences and unforgettable moments. This announcement underscores Resorts World Las Vegas's path of evolution as the appointments bolster the property's governance structure to help drive the go-forward business strategy. The members of the Board assumed their roles on December 4, 2024 and Dixon will assume his position as CEO effective January 16, 2025 . "As Resorts World Las Vegas continues to establish itself as the premier resort destination in Las Vegas , we are excited to welcome this group of industry leaders overseeing and guiding the Leadership Team to deliver unparalleled guest experiences while fostering our commitment to compliance," said Kok Thay Lim , the Chairman and Chief Executive of Genting Berhad. "With over 40 years of collective experience in the global gaming and hospitality industry, we are confident that Alex and Jim, alongside the Board, will help drive the Company forward in pursuing our strategic goals for years to come." Industry veteran Murren will assume the role of Chairman, bringing a depth of expertise in the global gaming and hospitality industries. He previously served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors at MGM Resorts, where he led the company through a period of expansion and growth. He currently holds leadership positions with Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority in the United Arab Emirates , Cirque du Soleil, and Playstudios, as well as serving as a trustee on Howard University's Board of Trustees. Dixon, a Las Vegas native, will assume his role following his tenure as CEO at Q Casino & Resort and Dubuque Racing Association. He has more than 20 years of combined global gaming, hospitality, entertainment, real estate, and banking industries experience across iconic and Fortune 500 businesses, including MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment Corp., and Goldman Sachs & Co. Additionally, Dixon brings extensive experience in building winning teams, developing underutilized real estate, re-invigorating legacy brands, and driving clarity of purpose from the Boardroom to front-line operations. "Resorts World Las Vegas has transformed the Vegas Strip with its unceasing focus on providing the ultimate guest experience, which is why I'm thrilled to join the team and help continue setting the standard for premier hospitality," said Murren. "The Board and I are excited to continue building on the strong foundation set by the Executive Leadership Team and driving continued growth and innovation to benefit all of RWLV's key stakeholders." In addition to Murren as Chairman and independent member, the newly established Board of Directors includes three additional, prominent members, two independent and one non-independent from diverse backgrounds: Dixon added, "We have a bright future ahead of us, and I look forward to supporting and collaborating with Resorts World Las Vegas's leadership alongside the Board to continue showcasing the best the Strip has to offer. We have an incredible team of talented and committed employees throughout the organization and are confident we can achieve amazing things together." For more information about Resorts World Las Vegas, please visit www.rwlasvegas.com . About Resorts World Las Vegas Resorts World Las Vegas LLC is the owner and operator of Resorts World Las Vegas (RWLV), a world-class integrated resort with over 3,500 hotel rooms and suites, and includes a multitude of gaming, convention, retail, food, beverage, and entertainment amenities. Located on approximately 86 acres on the northern end of the Strip, RWLV brings state-of-the-art technology and distinctive entertainment and experiential amenities to Las Vegas . Additionally, the Resort has over 42 acres of undeveloped land, which offers significant growth potential which few of its peers can match. Resorts World Las Vegas LLC is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Genting Berhad, an investment holding and management company focused predominantly on the global gaming and hospitality industry. The Genting Group has a track record of close to six decades relating to sourcing, developing and operating integrated resorts in various parts of the world, including in highly rated and regulated jurisdictions such as Malaysia , Singapore , the U.K., the United States and the Bahamas . The Genting Group comprises Genting Berhad (KLSE: Genting) and its listed companies including Genting Malaysia Berhad (KLSE: GENM), Genting Plantations Berhad (KLSE: GENP) and Genting Singapore Limited (SGX: G13), as well as principal unlisted subsidiaries Genting Energy Limited and Resorts World Las Vegas LLC. View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/resorts-world-las-vegas-establishes-board-of-directors-with-jim-murren-as-chairman-appoints-alex-dixon-as-chief-executive-officer-302324364.html SOURCE Resorts World Las VegasNone

Behavioral Biometrics Market Predicted to Reach $7.4 Billion by 2031 | BioCatch Ltd., Nuance Communications, Inc., LexisNexis Risk Solutions 11-27-2024 07:41 PM CET | Business, Economy, Finances, Banking & Insurance Press release from: DataM Intelligence 4 Market Research LLP Behavioral Biometrics Market The Behavioral Biometrics Market study by DataM Intelligence offer an in-depth analysis of the market, presenting insightful observations, statistics, historical data, and industry-validated market insights. The report delves into the competitive positioning of key companies, examining factors such as product offerings, pricing strategies, financial health, product portfolios, growth initiatives, and geographical reach. Download a Free sample PDF (Use Corporate email ID to Get Higher Priority) at: - https://datamintelligence.com/download-sample/behavioral-biometrics-market What is the projected growth rate (CAGR) of the Global Behavioral Biometrics market from 2024 to 2031, and what is the market value expected to change by 2031? The Global Behavioral Biometrics Market reached US$ 1.6 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 7.4 billion by 2031, growing with a CAGR of 20.5% during the forecast period 2024-2031. Behavioral biometrics is a security technology that identifies individuals based on unique patterns in their behavior rather than physical traits. It analyzes actions such as typing rhythm, mouse movements, touchscreen interactions, gait, or voice patterns to verify identity. Unlike traditional biometrics like fingerprints or facial recognition, behavioral biometrics continuously monitor user behavior, making it harder for unauthorized users to mimic. This technology is commonly used in fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and authentication systems, enhancing security without disrupting the user experience. Key Developments: ❁ In April 2023, Onbe, a leading financial technology company specializing in disbursements, introduced OnbeGuard, an enhancement to its suite of fraud prevention tools. 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Former Tulane quarterback Darian Mensah has already found a new program in Duke, while Mississippi State's Michael Van Buren Jr., Wisconsin's Braedyn Locke and Cal's Fernando Mendoza are exploring changes of their own in the transfer portal. Mensah, a redshirt freshman with three years of eligibility remaining, told ESPN on Wednesday he has transferred to Duke. He attended the Blue Devils men's basketball game against Incarnate Word on Tuesday night. The Blue Devils (9-3) will face Mississippi in the Gator Bowl, but without 2024 starting quarterback Maalik Murphy and backup Grayson Loftis, who also entered the portal. Mensah, viewed as one of the top players in the portal, threw for 2,723 yards and 22 touchdowns and completed 65.9% of his passes. He led the Green Wave to a 9-4 record and the American Athletic Conference championship game, where they lost 35-14 to Army. Tulane will play Florida in the Gasparilla Bowl on Sunday. Van Buren, Mendoza and Locke announced on social media they had entered the portal. Van Buren started eight games as a true freshmen for the Bulldogs. He threw for 1,886 yards on 55% passing with 16 total touchdowns and seven interceptions for the Bulldogs (2-10, 0-8 Southeastern Conference). He took over as the starter when Blake Shapen suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in a 45-28 loss to Florida on Sept. 21. Shapen has said he plans to return next season. Van Buren, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound passer from St. Frances Academy in Maryland, had two 300-yard performances for the Bulldogs, including 306 yards and three touchdown passes in a 41-31 road loss against Georgia. Mendoza threw for 3,004 yards in 2024 with 16 TDs, six interceptions and a 68.7 completion percentage. "For the sake of my football future this is the decision I have reached," he posted. Locke passed for 1,936 yards with 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions for Wisconsin this season. He said he will have two years of eligibility remaining at his next school. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan cornerback Will Johnson has joined defensive tackle Mason Graham in the NFL draft. Johnson declared for the draft on Wednesday, one day after Graham decided he would also skip his senior season with the Wolverines. Both preseason All-America players are expected to be first-round picks. Johnson was limited to six games this year due to an injury. He had two interceptions, returning them both for touchdowns to set a school record with three scores off interceptions. Johnson picked off nine passes in three seasons. Graham played in all 12 games this season, finishing with 3 1/2 sacks and seven tackles for losses. He had 18 tackles for losses, including nine sacks, in his three-year career. Tennessee running back Dylan Sampson is The Associated Press offensive player of the year in the Southeastern Conference and South Carolina defensive lineman Kyle Kennard is the top defensive player. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia was voted the top newcomer on Wednesday while the Gamecocks' Shane Beamer is coach of the year in voting by the panel of 17 media members who cover the league. Sampson led the SEC and set school records by rushing for 1,485 yards and 22 touchdowns. He is tied for third nationally in rushing touchdowns, recording the league's fifth-most in a season. Sampson was chosen on all but two ballots. Mississippi wide receiver Tre Harris and his quarterback, Jaxson Dart, each got a vote. Kennard led the SEC with 11-1/2 sacks and 15-1/2 tackles for loss. He also had 10 quarterback hurries and forced three fumbles. Beamer led the Gamecocks to just their fifth nine-win season, including a school-record four wins over Top 25 opponents. They've won their last six games and ended the regular season with a win over eventual ACC champion Clemson. South Carolina plays Illinois on Dec. 31 in the Citrus Bowl. Pavia helped lead Vandy to its first bowl game since 2018 after transferring from New Mexico State. He passed for 2,133 yards and 17 touchdowns with four interceptions. He ran for another 716 yards and six touchdowns, directing an upset of Alabama. AMES, Iowa — Matt Campbell, who led Iowa State to its first 10-win season and became the program's all-time leader in coaching victories, has agreed to an eight-year contract that would keep him with the Cyclones through 2032. University president Wendy Wintersteen and athletic director Jamie Pollard made the announcement Wednesday, four days after the Cyclones lost to Arizona State in the Big 12 championship game. “Given all the uncertainty currently facing college athletics, it was critical that we moved quickly to solidify the future of our football program,” Pollard said. “Matt is the perfect fit for Iowa State University and I am thrilled he wants to continue to lead our program. Leadership continuity is essential to any organization’s long-term success." The Cyclones won their first seven games for their best start since 1938 and are 10-3 heading into their game against Miami in the Pop Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 28. BRIEFLY FLAG PLANT: Ohio Republican state Rep. Josh Williams said Wednesday on social media he's introducing a bill to make flag planting in sports a felony in the state. His proposal comes after the Nov. 30 fight at the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry football game when the Wolverines beat the Buckeyes 13-10 and then attempted to plant their flag at midfield. MALZAHN: Gus Malzahn, who resigned as UCF’s coach last month to become Mike Norvell’s offensive coordinator at Florida State, said he chose to return to his coaching roots rather than remain a head coach distracted by a myriad of responsibilities. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Maverick McNealy birdies the last hole at Sea Island to finally become PGA Tour winnerLarge scale hydrogen storage sites could reduce customer energy costs by £1bn per year A landmark report by Centrica and FTI Consulting has confirmed the vital role that hydrogen can play in delivering a secure, decarbonised electricity system. The report found that a future energy system without an established hydrogen market would leave the UK at risk of huge swings in electricity generation from renewables, with no way of addressing the shortfalls and the surplus. By 2050, there could be excess electricity generation, driven by renewables around 15% of the time. Electricity generation from renewables could also rise or fall by as much as 100GW over the course of a single day making it incredibly difficult to balance the grid. Group Chief Executive of Centrica, said: Not only would hydrogen storage and transportation help address these issues, but the report also found that large scale hydrogen storage could reduce customer energy costs by as much as £1bn per year by 2050. The UK currently has the lowest levels of energy storage of the world’s major economies. While the UK has committed to net zero by 2050 and made more progress towards this ambition than other major economies, significant delivery challenges remain. By providing a means of storing energy over a longer period of time, and transporting energy over a greater distance, hydrogen can address the major issues with renewable generation – intermittency and curtailment. For this to be successful, the report found that the development of a hydrogen transportation network and sufficient large-scale storage facilities will be necessary. Repurposing underground gas pipes to be used as a hydrogen transport network would create an underground ‘superhighway’ to move renewable electricity as hydrogen gas. This could also reduce the volume of above ground electricity transmission infrastructure needed and significantly reduce the cost of net zero for consumers. Increased dependence on renewable generation will introduce greater supply volatility and increase cost on both a daily and seasonal basis. The report illustrates that making hydrogen when there is excess energy that can be stored and used when the wind isn’t blowing, and the sun isn’t shining, will be an essential part of the solution required to balance intermittent renewables. The report took a ‘whole-systems approach’ to explore a net zero future, reviewing all available and established methods for decarbonising the UK. Its publication comes as the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has been tasked with ensuring a secure and affordable future British energy system and planning for Britain’s electricity and gas networks. It concluded that both salt caverns and depleted gas fields will be required for hydrogen storage, with salt caverns being used for short term responses, and depleted gas fields, such as Rough, used for longer term storage. The modelling illustrates how both types of storage would work together to ensure hydrogen was in the right place, at the right time. Group Chief Executive of Centrica said: “What this report clearly demonstrates is the vital importance of hydrogen in decarbonising the UK’s energy system. By providing a way to store excess electricity, hydrogen will be crucial to managing more intermittency. We now have a blueprint for the role that hydrogen could play as a very big battery in a net zero energy system, providing electricity when the wind doesn’t blow, and the sun doesn’t shine. All we need now is the green light from regulators and the government to unlock £2bn of investment to transform our existing Rough storage facility to become the world’s biggest hydrogen storage facility and start building out the energy system of the future.” Centrica has offered to invest £2bn in upgrading and redeveloping the Rough gas storage facility. The site is currently responsible for 50% of the UK’s gas storage but requires significant investment to enable it to store hydrogen. To unlock the £2bn investment in the facility, Centrica requires a cap and floor model for the asset, similar to the model used for other forms of long-duration energy storage. If the facility had been able to operate at maximum capacity over the peak of the energy crisis (a scenario unreachable without regulatory certainty) it would have saved UK consumers over £5bn. the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at Large scale hydrogen storage sites could reduce customer energy costs by £1bn per year, UK Oil & Gas PLC – Placing and Retail Offer to fund new hydrogen storage site UK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that it has successfully raised gross proceeds of £0.5 million... SoCalGas, GKN Hydrogen and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Begin Innovative Solid State Hydrogen Storage Demonstration Project LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Southern California Gas Co... TNO – Dutch consortium participates in EU research project on large-scale hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields In the future energy system, which is primarily going to rely on wind and solar power, large-scale...

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betfred ddhh When passengers are booking a flight, especially a long one, they anticipate a good In-Flight Entertainment system, one of the features that makes the time at 35,000 feet bearable. Even though it could appear that the movies are chosen randomly, airlines pay a lot of time and money to select the proper titles for their clients. In this article, you will get an insight into how the process of selecting movies for In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) is determined by the airlines. The content selection process Airlines usually have their own movie selection teams or hire content service companies to select their movies. For instance, Delta has an In-Flight Entertainment team and some of them travel to film festivals to look for more content. Much like the world of film, aviation has the power to inspire, and is is therefore unsurprising that aircraft and the people involved in their operations have formed the basis of countless films over the years. On the commercial side, my favorites are Tom Hanks' 'The Terminal' and the raucous comedy 'Airplane!', while the two 'Top Gun' movies are a must-watch on the military side. Let us know your favorites in the comments! United Airlines currently works with more than a hundred content partners to complete its list of movies, TV shows, and podcasts. These teams study data, track trends, and get feedback from passengers to develop numerous and interesting movie selections. Content service providers help in developing the concept collections. The choice of which movies are offered is determined by data. Airlines monitor passenger’s viewing preferences like the most popular films and the time spent on them. For instance, Delta Air Lines has improved the content selection and focused on Hispanic heritage for September and October 2024 as the airline supported the Hispanic heritage month. As part of the codeshare agreement with Aeromexico, Delta offered content from Televisa/Univision with movies in September and TV series in October. Also, the external feedback from the surveys and social media postings is taken into account by the airlines. For example, United included “The Devil Wears Prada” because it saw a new interest in the sequel to the movie. Here are the best ways to make the most of United’s inflight entertainment options. Is there 'censorship' on IFE? Yes, in most cases, the airlines rely on third-party content providers to clean up and remove any prohibited content in the entertainment material. While the airlines decide which movies to provide, it is third-party editing companies that decide on specific cuts in accordance with the airline’s requirements. This is done for many reasons, including passenger safety concerns, culture and religion and finally, sexually explicit material such as violence, nudity and language. To cater to everyone in society, the movies go through the ‘airline edit’, which makes them safe for children to view. The practice is a topic of debate: some people consider it respectful to diverse audiences, while others view it as excessive censorship that can undermine artistic integrity. One of the problems which airlines face is the need to consider cultural taboos while at the same time responding to the shift in viewers’ expectations and meeting the legal requirements of different countries. Airlines also do not invest in types of movies that may cause discomfort. Films about plane crashes are allowed on In-Flight Entertainment systems, but airlines are very careful. Some airlines, such as Delta, may not show such films because they may make passengers feel uncomfortable, while others, such as Virgin Atlantic, may show them, provided they warn passengers beforehand. In an attempt to meet the needs of all passengers, airlines usually use content warnings to guide passengers while providing entertainment for those who do not have anxiety disorders. A guide for first time flyers about the different types of IFE available. Impact of partnerships on IFE content Partnerships have a critical role in defining In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) and the quality of content provided to the passengers. Many airlines work with content suppliers such as Anuvu , which owns a large portion of the aviation content market, to source and provide relevant multimedia content. This way, different airlines can obtain a carefully chosen set of movies, TV shows, and even live performances that would not only fit the image of the airline company, but also would offer a suitable choice for passengers. Anuvu attends film festivals in search of new content and is involved with brands to provide exclusive programming. Sponsorships also affect the kind and uniqueness of the content that is produced. Airlines can bring in specialized content, for example, branded sports events or regional film festivals that add on to the video library. These arrangements benefit both airlines and brands: passengers get to view interesting content, while sponsors get an opportunity to have their content seen by the passengers. Such technology was first introduced by TWA on flights in 1963. How much do airlines spend on IFE? Spafax, a global provider of IFE content , estimates that global air carriers update their libraries every 30 days, and that the top carriers spend between $150-200 million annually on content acquisition and distribution. The selection process starts months before the movies get to be aired on seat back screens. Airlines rely on Communications Service Providers (CSPs) who directly deal with movie studios and distributors to determine the content to be displayed. These providers assist airlines to overcome the tangled system of licensing and distribution rights within regions. For a limited time license, one movie costs between $5,000 to $30,000, depending on the popularity of the movie and how current it is. For instance, Dune, which grossed $400 million in theaters, could bring $2.7 million in airline sales, with lower-budget films getting a more significant percentage. Deals depend on parameters such as the passenger capacity of the airline, and larger airlines like Turkish Airlines get better content because of the exposure. IFE spending is still increasing, and the industry is expected to reach $6.6 Billion by 2030 , making passengers have a wider choice of new and interesting content during the flight. We have everything on this list: action, drama, comedy, noir... How has In-Flight Entertainment changed over the years? IFE has evolved significantly since its start in 1921 with Aeromarine Airways, which showed a film called Howdy Chicago to passengers on a Felixstowe F. 5 flying boat as it flew around Chicago. The first scheduled IFE started with a projected movie on TWA in 1961 . This was followed by great innovation in the early 1980s when Northwest Airlines began funding personal LCD screens on seat backs. These innovations moved to modern LED Screens with an extensive content portfolio, USB charging, and better-quality content. However, IFE is still used in the form of seat-mounted screens, which provide content that fits passengers' field of vision. Some airlines are gradually migrating to streaming services, which means that the content is downloaded to the passenger's device through the airplane's WiFi, which may be the next stage of the evolution of IFE technology. Looking at Singapore Airlines' inflight offering. The overall quality of IFE has risen, with more advanced screens on many carriers. The largest IFE screen measures 43 inches and is used in Japan Airlines' Airbus A350-1000 and All Nippon Airways' Boeing 777-300ER. The next one is Emirates, which provides 32-inch screens in first class. Qatar Airways provides 26-inch screens, and Singapore Airlines' A380 first-class has 24-inch screens. The airline with the best IFE in the world Emirates won the World's Best In-Flight Entertainment Award at the 2024 World Airline Awards by Skytrax , ahead of Cathay Pacific Airways in 2nd and Qatar Airways in 3rd place. The airline's ice entertainment system offers over 5,000 channels of content. Emirates’ In-Flight Entertainment system has the best collection of movies , TV programs, music, podcasts and games in more than 40 languages and with up to 6,500 channels. The Emirates app allows passengers to create their own playlists, and there is programming available for children, with 150 children’s channels, as well as programming that is seasonal. These are Spotify connectivity, improved moving maps, exterior cameras, and exclusive behind-the-scenes programs on onboard dining.Lamar Jackson set an NFL record, Derrick Henry achieved a single-season franchise mark and the visiting Baltimore Ravens moved into first place in the AFC North with a 31-2 rout of the Houston Texans on Wednesday. Jackson rushed for 87 yards, including a 48-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, to give him 6,110 rushing yards for his career. That's one more than Michael Vick, making Jackson the all-time leader in career rushing yards by a quarterback. Henry rushed for 147 yards and a score on 27 carries, giving him 16 touchdowns for the year, the most for a single season in team history. His performance helped Baltimore (11-5) take a one-game lead on Pittsburgh with one week left in the season. The Ravens can clinch the AFC North title next week with a home win over Cleveland. Jackson completed 10 of 15 passes for 168 yards with two touchdowns and another 87 yards on the ground with the score as Baltimore earned a 432-211 advantage in total yardage. The Ravens collected five sacks and came up with a goal-line stand in the second quarter with the game still up for grabs. C.J. Stroud hit 17 of 31 attempts for 185 yards with an interception for Houston (9-7), which lost its second straight game and is now locked into the No. 4 spot for the AFC playoffs. Henry initiated the scoring at the 10:08 mark of the first quarter on a 2-yard touchdown run, capping a 75-yard drive. Baltimore made it 10-0 the next time it touched the ball as Justin Tucker drilled a 52-yard field goal with 2:47 to go in the first. The Texans got their only points with 10:09 left in the first half when Kamari Lassiter tackled Henry in the end zone for a 4-yard loss and a safety. Houston had a chance to score a touchdown on the ensuing possession but Joe Mixon was stopped at the 1 on a fourth-and-goal pass. Baltimore sailed 99 yards down the field on its next possession, with Jackson throwing a 9-yard strike to Isaiah Likely with 1:51 remaining for a 17-2 halftime lead. The Ravens made it a rout in the third quarter on Jackson's long scoring run and his 1-yard touchdown pass to Mark Andrews at the 5:50 mark. --Field Level Media

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Frustrated by ever-changing algorithms and limited visibility, the creator landscape will be fueled by the 3 D’s: data, direct messaging and durable partnerships. This is according to new predictions from industry insiders. In relation, with stricter data privacy regulations and the reduction of third-party cookies, affiliates are increasingly turning to first-party data. Tom Zsomborgi, CBO at Kinsta , a managed WordPress hosting platform, and Erin Gagnon, general manager of affiliate marketing platform BrandCycle , have provided Digital Journa l with the following predictions on how creators and brands will navigate the next 12 months. Creators Turn to Telegram According to Gagnon: “We’re seeing a shift not just with mass media publishers, but also among influencers who are increasingly turning to direct messaging platforms like WhatsApp. Frustrated by algorithms that can delay or limit the visibility of their content, creators are seeking dedicated channels where their followers can reliably see everything they share.” Telegram has social networking features, allowing users to post stories, create large public groups with up to 200,000 members. He adds: “This trend is especially effective for influencers using affiliate models, as it allows them to perfectly time their messages and pair them with strong calls to action—whether promoting a flash sale, product launch, or special offer.” Affiliate Partnerships Will Prioritize Stable Rates Over Commissions Zsomborgi opens by looking at influencers: “Affiliate partnerships are evolving beyond commissions alone. High-value influencers now prefer a stable rate, regardless of sales numbers, emphasizing quality over quick conversions. This reflects a new standard in affiliate marketing where content creators focus on reputation and long-term brand alignment.” Creators Will Turn to Data for Competitive Advantage Affiliates are using AI-driven tools to streamline tasks like content creation, audience targeting, and data analysis. With the exploutation of data, Gagnon steps in: “ Next year, we’ll see affiliate creators gain a competitive edge through access to detailed sales data, empowering them to better understand and serve their audiences. While campaigns and collaborations that align with creators’ personal brands will remain popular in 2025, those relying solely on brand partnerships or sponsored posts may lack access to the valuable and timely insights affiliate creators can tap into.” As to the advantages, he adds: “This data-driven approach positions affiliate creators for greater success in refining strategies and optimizing earnings next year.” Brand Awareness > Direct Sales What can benefit business-to-business? Zsomborgi opines: “With the rise of ad blockers and reduced data visibility, brand awareness is becoming essential for success in affiliate marketing across both B2C and B2B. While B2C brands can still leverage influencers to drive direct sales for impulse buyers, B2B will need to focus on brand building and long-term engagement. The shift away from direct sales tactics means that creating an unforgettable brand presence is now crucial to keep customers coming back.” Dr. Tim Sandle is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for science news.Tim specializes in science, technology, environmental, business, and health journalism. He is additionally a practising microbiologist; and an author. He is also interested in history, politics and current affairs.Canadian foreign, finance ministers meet Trump's team on tariffsTrump picks his son-in-law's father, real estate mogul Charles Kushner, as France envoy

Luke Humphries bid for back-to-back World Championship titles on track after winIn early September the foreign press made a big fuss because President Maduro “brought Christmas forward” to October 1st. In truth, this is something the Venezuelan leader had done before, nearly always as an effective strategy to cool down political, economic and social tensions. Press buzz aside, the measure is welcomed by retailers who could seamlessly move from their Halloween decorations to Christmas trees and glittered ornaments. It also generated an incentive for people to buy things “ahead of time,” “before the December price hike,” etc. But beyond that, the truth is that in Venezuela Christmas is felt way before December 24. In fact, our country is a living example of a famous slogan created by a Colombian radio station: “Since September it feels like December is around the corner.” Venezuelans have the holidays on their minds during the last trimester, and they start planning the most important gastronomic traditions: , ham bread and chicken salad. The is the main event, with its long preparation often becoming an opportunity for families to gather and catch up. There are many theories concerning its origin. One says that it was created from the scraps that the elites gave to their slaves during colonial times. Another is that it takes on a Spanish pie but made out of corn flour due to the shortage of wheat. But the theory I like the most – with solid bibliography to back it up – says that the can be traced back hundreds of years, to pre-Hispanic times, when Indigenous peoples prepared a corn dough wrapped in its own leaves and cooked in clay pots. Now, the stew that fills the does have a lot to do with the Spaniards, and it was later adapted and perfected. So a deconstructed has pre-colonial elements: corn and (achiote). As for the elements that came from the Iberian peninsula, some of them are clearly Spanish: onion, garlic, beef, pork, sugar cane and wine. But the rest, like olives, capers, raisins and almonds is actually inherited from the Moorish presence in Iberia for hundreds of years. All things considered, the hallaca is synonymous with Venezuela’s (mixing). It involved a brutal colonization, which shapes us to this day, but the traditions were adopted and molded by the people, with variants in different regions. The final result has a glorious balance between savory, sweet, acid and bitter. Not just that, have a perfect sidekick in ham bread ( ). The recipe was created in 1905 in a central Caracas bakery called Ramella. Its sole goal was to make use of leftover ham. How Venezuelan is that? We’re a country that always finds a workaround, making use of all scraps, itself as many times as it takes. As Venezuelan culinary editor Miró Popic points out, “ham bread was born before the discovery of oil, in a poor, austere country, where one day of Christmas tried to make up for 364 days of hardship.” And history can be cyclical. Still, during the worst economic crisis of the Fourth Republic (1958-1999) and the tough years of economic siege we’ve lived through, with 2016 and 2017 having been especially terrible, Venezuela held firm to its legitimate right to celebrate the holiday season. Rightly so, because our traditions are unique and full of life. The most traditional music genre is the , a popular rhythm from western Zulia state which bears African, Spanish and possibly Berber influences. In fact, the very name originally referred to , an Arab flute. This genre is furthermore traced back to slaves’ protest chants against their masters. Plantation owners granted their slaves a single day a year to hold their festivities. That meant a grand party, during which the enslaved peoples also voiced their discontent with all the oppression around them, not just from slave masters but also the Church. “Why has God abandoned us?” they asked. As a result, as time went on, became an instrument for popular classes to express their hopes and frustrations. There are plenty of songs denouncing inequality in cities like Maracaibo, where the oil riches and the poverty of the majority have always stood in stark contrast. This political facet of has remained heavily present to this day. When I was a little girl, before Hugo Chávez arrived in power, there was a that radio stations played all the time. “ ” by the Gran Coquivacoa group was a theme criticizing the government led by Social Christian Rafael Caldera, who held the presidency twice (1969-1974 and 1994-1999). Apart from the political songs, I have two favorite that are quite bittersweet. One is “ ” by Ricardo Cepeda: The other one is “ ” by Argenis Carruyo: Apart from , there are other synonymous with the holidays, with a stronger presence of religious themes. Aguinaldos and parrandas are two examples which in turn have different variants depending on the region. Then there are the crazy traditions, with origins that are harder to trace and a lot more dependent on people’s levels of superstition. One case is eating lentils on Christmas Eve to invoke prosperity. Never mind how often we already eat lentils throughout the year... Other examples include yellow underwear to attract riches, taking a suitcase out so that next year is full of traveling, or breaking out new clothes so that new experiences abound. No one actually in these things, but many will do them just in case! Nevertheless, my favorite one are the skateaways (“patinatas”), which are public celebrations carried out on the streets. Major avenues and roads are closed so that young and not-so-young kids can take over with their skateboards, bicycles and skates. It is often an occasion for kids to break out their Christmas gifts. As I watch them, I’m usually reminded of the essence of Christmas: working and fighting for children to be happy. And if we recall where Christmas is from, we wish and struggle so that children in Gaza can smile too.

High schools Friday: Gray-New Gloucester slips past Edward LittleThe Game continues to live up to expectations as one of college football's greatest rivalry games. But, unfortunately for Ohio State, Michigan will have bragging rights for another year after the Wolverines fourth consecutive win on Saturday. Ryan Day and the Buckeyes entered the game at 10-1 with a spot in the Big Ten Championship Game potentially on the line. On the other side, first-year head coach Sherrone Moore and the Wolverines were looking for a bright spot in the midst of a five-loss season. Despite having one of the most-talented rosters in the sport, the Buckeyes couldn't get past mistakes by quarterback Will Howard. The senior threw two interceptions and completed just 19-of-33 passes with one touchdown. But it wasn't all on the Kansas State transfer, as Ohio State's dominant ground game was stuffed by the Michigan front. Star running backs Quinshon Judkins and TreVeyon Henderson combined for just 67 yards rushing on 22 carries. While Michigan's offense was equally as disappointing, totaling just 234 yards, the Wolverines' ground game found success with 172 yards. Kalel Mullings shouldered the load with 116 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries. Even with two interceptions from Michigan quarterback Davis Warren, the Wolverines stunned Ohio State at home, 13-10, on a game-winning field goal by Dominic Zvada. Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Chaos ensued after the game went final. As Michigan players attempted to plan a UM flag on the Ohio State logo at midfield, the two teams got into a major brawl that ended with police officers using pepper spray on multiple players. That moment will be remembered for years to come and only adds to the drama in a series that dates back to 1897. However, the Wolverines took another subtle shot at their rivals in a social media post after the midfield frenzy was sorted out. 〽️〽️〽️〽️ https://t.co/hmA8IauI6B Michigan moves to 7-5 with the win on Saturday. In what was previously viewed as a major disappointment, the Wolverines are going bowling with another win over the Buckeyes under their belts. For Ohio State, there is still a potential Big Ten championship birth on the line as the Buckeyes await the outcomes of Penn State-Maryland and Indiana-Purdue. Even if Ryan Day and company fail to reach the conference title game, a spot in the playoff is likely secured. Related: Sherrone Moore’s Gesture in Final Moments of Michigan-Ohio State

This year brought many surprises and not all of them were pleasant ones. In the automotive space there were also plenty of things that happened in 2024 in Australia, and 2025 doesn’t look like being any different. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, here’s a rundown of what each member of the CarExpert editorial was surprised about in 2024. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today 100s of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now . Paul Maric: The Kia Tasman’s design Styling is entirely subjective, but I thought the direction Kia went in for styling the Tasman was ambitious and brave to a degree. But it was more of a surprise with the drivetrain they chose to go with. It enters the segment significantly under its main rivals and doesn’t offer a compelling on-paper reason to buy it ahead of those rivals. Perhaps Kia is going with a value proposition and will price the Tasman in line with some of the value Chinese propositions. But then the interior tech level and finish suggests it’s going for a premium approach. It’ll be interesting to see how it pans out, because the ute segment is very different to what it was when Kia would have commenced product planning for Tasman. Marton Pettendy: The speed at which Chinese carmakers are arriving in Australia When the Volkswagen Polo Classic sedan controversially became the first Chinese-made model to arrive in Australia in 2004, who would have predicted that five major Chinese auto brands would be popular here within just two decades? And when Great Wall Motors (now GWM) became the first Chinese carmaker to set up shop in the local auto market in 2009, who would have been unsurprised by the presence of at least 10 Chinese car brands here little more than 15 years later? The rate at which Chinese auto brands have arrived Down Under this year has been literally awesome – and frightening for many legacy carmakers – even given Australia’s geographical proximity to the world’s largest auto market, and its suitability as a testbed for ambitious Chinese auto exporters in terms of this market’s safety, technology and emissions requirements. If carmakers can be profitable in a car market as mature and competitive as Australia’s, it’s likely to be successful in other larger Western countries, except perhaps in a tariff-protected US market under Trump. SAIC is China’s largest carmaker and its biggest brand, MG, was relaunched in Australia in 2016 (two years after SAIC sister brand LDV), before becoming China’s major export auto brand in 2019, cracking the list of top-10 brands here in 2021 and placing seventh in last year’s record new-vehicle market. Since MG reincarnated itself here just eight years ago, GWM has launched its Tank sub-brand, Chery has reintroduced itself and announced its Jaecoo sister brand, and BYD has captured a solid foothold since arriving here in earnest in late 2022. And while Polestar has joined fellow Geely brands Volvo and Lotus on sale here (followed this month by Zeekr), Chinese-produced Teslas have also become Australia’s top-selling EVs. So far there’s no sign of the FAW Group or Dongfeng in Australia, but the final member of China’s big-four carmakers, Changan, is also landing here this month via the Deepal brand, courtesy of Subaru and Peugeot distributor Inchcape. Other Chinese brands confirmed to target the best-selling Tesla Model Y with all-new mid-sized electric SUVs within weeks include Xpeng, Skywell, Leapmotor (via Jeep parent Stellantis), followed by Geely, which may also bring its Radar/Riddara and Lynk&Co sister brands. Foton will relaunch itself here in early 2025 with two big new utes, and there’s also GAC Motor brand Aion, and perhaps Nio and Chery’s Jetour as well. Of course, while BYD boldly claims it will eventually outsell Toyota in Australia, and MG plans to be a top-three auto brand here, some Chinese brands could well disappear from the local market as quickly as they appeared here. But many of them will go on to become household names – just as Korean marques like Hyundai and Kia have, and before them Japanese brands led by Toyota. James Wong: The anti-PHEV agenda It still boggles my mind that there are vocal factions in Australia that are very anti-PHEV, since on paper they’re a great middle ground for local car buyers looking to step into electrification. With the right consumer education and more choice, PHEVs have the potential to do a lot of good Down Under and become a mainstay option in the local auto market, in the same way they have become in Europe. However, the EV-angelists and greenwashing governing bodies wanting to appear more progressive than they really are continue to poo-poo the powertrain technology as if it has no benefit at all. Have they forgotten that a big part of the substantial increase in EV sales (and PHEV sales, to an even greater extent) in recent years has been due to government incentives at both the state and federal level? Rather than forcing consumers to jump directly from ICE to EV overnight, we should be incentivising the majority to move more progressively across to HEVs and PHEVs (and EVs, where appropriate), because when used as intended they can have a bigger impact on overall emissions reductions, while putting less pressure on infrastructure and eliminating range anxiety. For me personally, I’m much closer to buying a PHEV as my next car rather than an EV. William Stopford: The sheer number of Chinese brands announcing Australian launches I knew more Chinese brands would come to Australia. It seemed entirely inevitable, as they continue to be frozen out of the US market and earlier this year the European Union increased tariffs. Competing in Australia now seems to be a feather in Chinese brands’ caps – if you can make it here, you’ve shown you likely have product that meets tough safety standards and which can hold its own against a legion of more established brands in an extremely competitive market. What I wasn’t expecting was the sheer number of brands announcing their entry into Australia. Geely, for example, wants to throw yet another brand into the mix here with its namesake marque. Chinese big four player Changan had unusually stayed out of Australia all this time, only to announce a play at our market with its Deepal EV brand, distributed via Inchcape. This came shortly after the same distributor announced it was bringing back the Foton brand. What we end up having is a dizzying number of Chinese brands coming here. It’s hard to keep track of them all, and while some are coming through established distributors, others are arriving through new importers, which is making things even more interesting. Let’s see what shakes out in 2025. Jordan Mulach: Hybrid vehicle sales Hybrid vehicle sales hitting the afterburner in Australia isn’t something many expected to happen, but looking back it was probably the most inevitable and logical outcome. We’ve been told for years that fully-electric vehicles (EVs) and even plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) would be the way forward, but Australian buyers are now being offered more conventional hybrid models than ever before, and they’re buying them in droves. Plugless hybrids now account for almost 15 per cent of new car sales in Australia. While this is largely due to Toyota clearing its order backlogs, traditional hybrid powertrains are now more widely available across a wide spectrum of the market. This could be the shot in the arm Australia needs to reduce its overall transport emissions, and the encouragement some car companies require to start bringing more efficient vehicles to local showrooms. Jack Quick: Toyota Tundra pricing We all knew the Tundra wouldn’t be cheap and the infamous ‘Toyota tax’ is always pretty hefty, but my socks were blown off when this pricing news dropped. At $155,990 before on-roads, the Tundra is the most expensive full-sized pickup available in Australia before you start looking at heavy-duty options like the Chevrolet Silverado HD and Ram 2500 / 3500 variants, some of which require a heavy vehicle license. And it makes the Tundra the most expensive Toyota model ever sold in Australia. I know Toyota needs to recoup the cost of local right-hand drive development and conversion by Walkinshaw, but in the US the equivalent Tundra Limited i-Force Max pickup starts at US$58,005 (~A$90,500). Josh Nevett: Toyota’s shock Supercars entry Well, this certainly wasn’t on my bingo card. Japanese giant Toyota will join the Australian Supercars Championship grid from 2026, pitting the Supra up against American muscle in Australia’s biggest motorsport category. While the homegrown series is best known for fostering the rivalry between Ford and Holden (now Chevrolet), it’s not unheard of for manufacturers to come from further afield – who can forget the domination of the Nissan Skyline GTR, otherwise known as ‘Godzilla’, in the 1990s? More recently, European players Mercedes-Benz and Volvo both tried their hand at the Supercars formula. However, after Ford and Chevrolet were announced as the brands to debut under the latest Gen3 regulations back in 2020, the manufacturer rumour mill went quiet. It was widely accepted that Supercars would remain a two-horse race... until a couple of months ago. Toyota’s entry came out of nowhere, and it left us with more than a few questions. Why would Toyota jump into a declining race category when it already has extensive motorsport exposure Down Under? And why race the Supra, a model that’s expected to be axed at least in its current form in the not-so-distant future? Those questions remain, but Toyota’s leap of faith can only be a good thing for motorsport and the dominant auto brand’s road-going performance vehicles in Australia. Max Davies: The Kia Tasman’s design There was a lot of talk for a long time in the lead up to the Tasman’s reveal in October, and plenty more after Kia’s first ute broke cover. And the simplest way to describe its design is... surprising. I won’t say it looks good, but it will certainly get people talking and set it apart from the competition. In a segment where most of the choices look pretty similar, Kia has at least managed to design something that’s unique and will stand out in the real world, which isn’t easy these days. I can vouch for that because I was able to instantly recognise a camouflaged Tasman on the Hume Freeway just last month, when I was equally surprised by just how massive it looks compared to regular traffic. While (single- and dual-cab) body options and (diesel) drivetrain choices will be less of a surprise, the biggest factor in whether the Tasman hits Kia’s relatively conservative sales target (at least the one it’s stated publicly) in Australia’s sprawling ute landscape is likely to be price. But knowing Kia, it’s likely to be sharp, and backed by a long warranty. As for the controversial styling, there will definitely be some fairly major tweaks to improve the Tasman’s controversial appearance down the track, perhaps even before it’s released here in mid-2025. As it stands though, it caught my attention in a way I didn’t quite expect it to.Even with technology taking over much of our day-to-day lives, board games still offer quality entertainment that can’t be beaten. Of course, the popular board games of today are a far cry from the games your parents grew up playing. Board games are perfect for encouraging your family to work together or for bringing your group of friends around the table for an evening. If you’d like to start up a weekly game night, let this helpful list of the most popular board games be your guide. Utter Nonsense Ages 8+ This game will have every player rolling in stitches with each ridiculous phrase that’s uttered. Combine crazy accents and hilarious phrases to impress the Nonsense Judge and win the round. The player with the highest number of wins ultimately wins the game, but the true fun of this card game is listening to your fellow players trying to say some of the most entertaining phrases of all time. This game is perfect for game nights or parties. Speak Out Ages 8+ This hilarious game is perfect if you have teenagers or are hosting a party with all adults. To play, you insert a mouthpiece that alters the sound of your speech, making every word sound silly. Set the timer and read one of the phrases on the cards and try to help your teammate guess what you’re saying. Speak Out easily provides hours of fun that even grandparents will love. Escape Room in a Box Ages 13+ What’s the next best thing to trying to break out of a room? Escape Room in a Box, of course. This thrilling, immersive game involves solving 2D and 3D puzzles in order to prevent a mad scientist from turning you and your friends or family into werewolves. Work together to escape your fate and use Amazon Alexa to enhance the experience. Codenames Ages 14+ This fun strategy game is perfect for anyone with teenagers. Form two teams and select a spymaster on each team. Using clues, spymasters try to help their teammates find all 25 of the agents they’re in contact with, hopefully without selecting the other team’s agents or running into the deadly assassin. This innovative game offers a challenging and rewarding time working together. ​​​​​​​Harry Potter Clue Ages 9+ Excite your kids on game night with this modern twist on a classic. Play as six recognizable Hogwarts characters — Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Ginny or Neville — to solve the mystery behind a fellow student’s disappearance. It’s up to you to figure out who attacked the student, what bewitching spell they used and where it occurred. Watch out for the Dark Mark, moving staircases and secret passages as you travel along in this magical family game. ​​​​​​​Pandemic Ages 8+ If you’ve ever wanted to save humanity from a deadly outbreak, you’ll love spending an hour playing Pandemic. You and your teammates must fight to contain four deadly diseases threatening the human race. Players must learn to work with their teammates to control outbreak hotspots and treat diseases. 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As the new year quickly approaches, many people are likely to be re-evaluating their work-life balance and On December 16, Resume Genius released its list of the highest-paying jobs that also reported . Their study describes “low-stress jobs” as ones that typically require fewer demands, more predictable work hours, supportive environments, and manageable workloads. In some cases, these jobs also allow more remote options. Not only are these jobs considered to be less stressful, they also pay well. “Heading into 2025, prioritizing mental health in the workplace is essential for job seekers to feel more at ease,” said Eva Chan, a career expert at Resume Genius. “With remote work and hybrid setups becoming the norm, work-life boundaries are increasingly blurred. Our report on low-stress, high-paying jobs shows you don’t have to sacrifice a competitive salary to achieve a healthier work-life balance. With the right role, it’s possible to thrive both financially and mentally.” All of the require the person to have at least a Bachelor’s degree. The list was compiled using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the career site . The high-stress jobs were filtered out using O*NET and then cross-referenced against the BLS’s with the national median salary set at $48,060 and viewing jobs that showed “faster-than-average growth.” Here are the jobs ranked by salary: Water source specialists make a median annual salary of $157,740. There were 100,100 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of 8 percent within the next 10 years. The only requirement is to have a Bachelor’s degree. A water source specialist monitors both regional and municipal water supplies to make sure the water is clean and sustainably managed. Astronomers make a median annual salary of $149,530. There were 23,500 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of 7 percent within the next 10 years. The education required is typically a doctoral or professional degree. Astronomers study stars, planets, and other space-related incidents. Their job is largely based on research in an academic setting. Actuaries make a median annual salary of 120,000. There were 30,200 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of 22 percent within the next 10 years. The education required is typically only a Bachelor’s degree. Actuaries analyze financial risks using math, statistics, and other financial data. Environmental economists make a median annual salary of $115,730. There were 17,500 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of five percent within the next 10 years. The education required is typically a Master’s degree. Environmental economists typically work with governments or other organizations to evaluate the costs and benefits of specific sustainable projects. Mathematicians make a median annual salary of $104,860. There were 34,800 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of 11 percent within the next 10 years. The education required is typically a Master’s degree. Computer systems analysts make a median annual salary of $103,800. There were 527,200 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of 11 percent within the next 10 years. The education requirement is typically a Bachelor’s degree. Computer systems analysts aim to help businesses make the most out of the technology they use such as software and computers. Fuel cell engineers make a median annual salary of $99,510. There were 291,900 in 2023 with an expected growth of 11 percent within the next 10 years. The education requirement is typically a Bachelor’s degree. A fuel cell engineer designs, develops, and improves systems that generate clean energy for vehicles, buildings, and other applications. Remote sensing scientists and technologists make a median annual salary of $92,580. There were 26,000 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of five percent within the next 10 years. The education requirement is typically a Bachelor’s degree. Remote sensing scientists and technologists use satellite data to analyze various problems such as climate change and urban planning. Geographers make a median annual salary of $90,880. There were 1,600 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of three percent within the next 10 years. The education requirement is typically a Bachelor’s degree. Geographers study the Earth and the distribution of its land, features, and inhabitants with their studies being used to enhance aspects of urban planning and disaster management. Transportation planners make a median annual salary of $81,800. There were 45,200 jobs in 2023 with an expected growth of four percent within the next 10 years. The education requirement is typically a Master’s degree. Transportation planners come up with solutions to various transportation-related problems such as traffic and making cities more bike-accessible.GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs left his team’s game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday because of a concussion. Doubs’ injury came on a third-quarter play in the end zone that resulted in a pass interference penalty against San Francisco’s Renardo Green. Doubs stayed down briefly after the play, then got up slowly before heading to the sideline. He went into the injury tent before walking to the locker room. The Packers then announced Doubs was out for the rest of the game because of a concussion. He had three catches for 54 yards before leaving. San Francisco defensive tackle Jordan Elliott left in the first half of the game to get evaluated for a concussion and was ruled out at halftime. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL

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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — A rare win as a double-digit underdog came just in time to let the Dallas Cowboys believe their playoff hopes aren't completely gone in 2024. Cooper Rush probably will need three more victories in a row filling in for the injured Dak Prescott for any postseason talk to be realistic. The thing is, the Cowboys (4-7) could be favored in two of those games, and already are by four points as an annual Thanksgiving Day host against the New York Giants (2-9) on Thursday, according to BetMGM. Not to mention the losing record at the moment for each of the next four opponents for the defending NFC East champions, playoff qualifiers each of the past three seasons. The Cowboys have a chance to make something of the improbable and chaotic 34-26 win at Washington that ended a five-game losing streak. “Behind the eight ball,” Micah Parsons said, the star pass rusher acknowledging the reality that Dallas hadn't done much yet. “Let’s see how we can handle adversity and see if we can make a playoff run. But we got a long way to go.” It was a start, though, powered in part by the best 55 minutes from the Dallas defense since the opener, when the Cowboys dismantled Cleveland and looked the part of a Super Bowl contender. The last five minutes for the Dallas defense against the Commanders looked a lot like most of the nine games after that 33-17 victory over the Browns. Which is to say not very good. Jayden Daniels easily drove Washington 69 yards to a touchdown before throwing an 86-yard scoring pass in the final seconds to Terry McLaurin, who weaved through five defenders when a tackle might have ended the game. The Cowboys kept a 27-26 lead thanks to Austin Seibert's second missed extra point, and withstood another blunder when Juanyeh Thomas returned an onside kick recovery for a TD rather than slide and leave one kneel-down from Rush to end the game. Dallas will have to remember it did hold a dynamic rookie quarterback's offense to 251 yards before the madness of the ending in the Cowboys' biggest upset victory since 2010 at the New York Giants. That one was too late to save the season. This one might not be. “We needed it,” embattled coach Mike McCarthy said. “It’s been frustrating, no doubt. We’ve acknowledged that. We’ve got another one right around the corner here, so we have to get some wins and get some momentum.” Rush ended a personal three-game losing streak with his best showing since the previous time he won as the replacement for Prescott, who is out for the season after surgery for a torn hamstring. The 117.6 passer rating was Rush's best as a starter, and the NFL's second-worst rushing attack played a solid complementary role with Rico Dowdle gaining 86 yards on 19 carries. KaVontae Turpin's electrifying 99-yard kickoff return did more than lift the Cowboys when it appeared an 11-point lead might get away in the final five minutes. It eased the worst day of special teams for Dallas since John Fassel took over that phase four years ago. Suddenly struggling kicker Brandon Aubrey had one field-goal attempt blocked and missed another. Bryan Anger had a punt blocked. For the second time in five games, Aubrey's attempt to bounce a kickoff in front of the return man backfired. The ball bounced outside the landing zone, putting the Commanders at the 40-yard line to start the second half and setting up the drive to the game's first touchdown. CB Josh Butler, whose NFL debut earlier this season came five years after the end of his college career, had 12 tackles, a sack and three pass breakups. The pass breakups were the most by an undrafted Dallas player since 1994. Rookie LT Tyler Guyton, who has had an up-and-down season with injuries and performance issues, was benched immediately after getting called for a false start in the fourth quarter. His replacement, Asim Richards, could be sidelined with a high ankle sprain that executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones revealed on his radio show Monday. Veteran Chuma Edoga, who was the projected starter at Guyton's position before a preseason toe injury, was active but didn't play against the Commanders. He's awaiting his season debut. The status of perennial All-Pro RG Zack Martin (ankle/shoulder) and LG Tyler Smith (ankle/knee) will be a question on the short week after both sat against Washington. Stephen Jones indicated Smith could be available and said the same of WR Brandin Cooks, who hasn't played since Week 4 because of a knee issue. TE Jake Ferguson may miss at least a second week with a concussion. The short week might make it tough for CB Trevon Diggs (groin/knee) to return. 75% — Rush's completion rate, his best with at least 10 passes. He was 24 of 32 for 247 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. His other game with multiple TDs and no picks was a 25-10 victory over Washington two years ago, when he went 4-1 with Prescott sidelined by a broken thumb. There's some extra rest after the short week, with Cincinnati making a “Monday Night Football” visit on Dec. 9. The next road game is at Carolina on Dec. 15. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nflBiostimulants Market: Trends, Size, Share, Growth, and Demand Outlook to 2031

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Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs leaves game because of concussionNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes fell Thursday following some potentially discouraging data on the economy . The S&P 500 slipped 0.5% for its fourth loss in the last six days. It’s a pause for the index, which has been rallying toward one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 234 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.7% from its record set the day before. A report early in the morning said more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week than expected. A separate update, meanwhile, showed that inflation at the wholesale level, before it reaches U.S. consumers, was hotter last month than economists expected. Neither report points to imminent disaster, but they dilute one of the hopes that’s driven the S&P 500 to 57 all-time highs so far this year : Inflation is slowing enough to convince the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates, while the economy is remaining solid enough to stay out of a recession. Of the two reports, the weaker update on the job market may be the bigger deal for the market, according to Chris Larkin, managing director, trading and investing, at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley. A surge in egg prices may have been behind the worse-than-expected inflation numbers. “One week doesn’t negate what has been a relatively steady stream of solid labor market data, but the Fed is primed to be sensitive to any signs of a softening jobs picture,” he said. Traders are widely expecting the Fed will ease its main interest rate at its meeting next week. If they’re correct, it would be a third straight cut by the Fed after it began lowering rates in September from a two-decade high. It’s hoping to support a slowing job market after getting inflation nearly all the way down to its 2% target. Lower rates would give a boost to the economy and to prices for investments, but they could also provide more fuel for inflation. A cut next week would have the Fed following other central banks, which lowered rates on Thursday. The European Central Bank cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point, as many investors expected, and the Swiss National Bank cut its policy rate by a steeper half of a percentage point. Following its decision, Switzerland’s central bank pointed to uncertainty about how U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory will affect economic policies, as well as about where politics in Europe is heading. Trump has talked up tariffs and other policies that could upend global trade. He rang the bell marking the start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to chants of “USA.” On Wall Street, Adobe fell 13.7% and was one of the heaviest weights on the market despite reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company gave forecasts for profit and revenue in its upcoming fiscal year that fell a bit shy of analysts’. Warner Bros. Discovery soared 15.4% after unveiling a new corporate structure that separates its streaming business and film studios from its traditional television business. CEO David Zaslav said the move “enhances our flexibility with potential future strategic opportunities,” raising speculation about a spinoff or sale. Kroger rose 3.2% after saying it would get back to buying back its own stock now that its attempt to merge with Albertsons is off . Kroger’s board approved a program to repurchase up to $7.5 billion of its stock, replacing an existing $1 billion authorization. All told, the S&P 500 fell 32.94 points to 6,051.25. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 234.55 to 43,914.12, and the Nasdaq composite sank 132.05 to 19,902.84. In stock markets abroad, European indexes held relatively steady following the European Central Bank’s cut to rates. Asian markets were stronger. Indexes rose 1.2% in Hong Kong and 0.8% in Shanghai as leaders met in Beijing to set economic plans and targets for the coming year. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.6% for its third straight gain of at least 1%, as it pulls back following last week’s political turmoil where its president briefly declared martial law. In the bond market, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose to 4.33% from 4.27% late Wednesday. AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.If You’re Dreading All The Traveling You Have To Do, These 36 Products Will Help Make It Easier

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India's former prime minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India's economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the United States, has died. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to "sudden loss of consciousness at home," the hospital said in a statement. He was "being treated for age-related medical conditions," the statement added. A mild-mannered technocrat, Singh became one of India's longest-serving prime ministers for 10 years and earned a reputation as a man of great personal integrity. He was chosen to fill the role in 2004 by Sonia Gandhi, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. But his sterling image was tainted by allegations of corruption against his ministers. Singh was elected to a second term as prime minister from 2009-14 that was clouded by financial scandals and corruption charges over the organization of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. This led to the Congress Party's crushing defeat in the 2014 national election by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi. Singh adopted a low profile after relinquishing the post of prime minister. Prime Minister Modi, who succeeded Singh in 2014, called him one of India's "most distinguished leaders" who rose from humble origins and left "a strong imprint on our economic policy over the years." "As our Prime Minister, he made extensive efforts to improve people's lives," Modi said in a post on social platform X. He called Singh's interventions in Parliament as a lawmaker "insightful" and said "his wisdom and humility were always visible." The hospital said Singh "was brought to the Medical Emergency" at the hospital at 8:06 p.m. "Despite all efforts, he could not be revived and was declared dead at 9:51 p.m.," the statement said.In a surprising turn of events, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) witnessed a slight dip of 0.8% in its stock price on Thursday, closing at $139.04. This price movement saw a significant reduction in trading volume, with only about 44.6 million shares exchanged compared to the usual 379.6 million, marking an 88% decline in average daily volume. Analysts’ Optimism Despite the Dip Despite the unexpected stock performance, brokerage firms remain optimistic about NVIDIA’s future. Recent evaluations from firms like Phillip Securities and Oppenheimer highlight an upward revision in price targets. Notably, Stifel Nicolaus and Wells Fargo have set their sights on higher targets, emphasizing a “buy” and “overweight” rating, respectively. Strong Financials Fuel Confidence NVIDIA’s latest earnings report offers even more reason for investor optimism. The company outperformed expectations, with revenue hitting $35.08 billion for the quarter, signifying a significant 93.6% increase from the previous year. Earnings per share also surpassed forecasts, coming in at $0.81 against the anticipated $0.69. Share Buyback and Dividend News NVIDIA has also declared a quarterly dividend and announced a substantial share buyback program worth $50 billion, indicative of confidence in its undervalued stock. This move could potentially drive share prices higher as the company repurchases up to 1.6% of its outstanding shares. Insider Transactions in the Spotlight Recent insider transactions have garnered attention, with directors like Mark A. Stevens and John Dabiri selling significant shares. However, these sales haven’t dampened market sentiment, which continues to view NVIDIA as a strong player with robust growth prospects. Institutional Interest on the Rise Several institutional investors and hedge funds have ramped up their holdings in NVIDIA, underscoring the tech giant’s appeal. With analysts maintaining a “Moderate Buy” rating, NVIDIA remains a compelling investment opportunity amidst temporary market fluctuations. Is NVIDIA a Good Buy Right Now? Analyzing the Latest Trends and Financial Moves NVIDIA, often seen as a cornerstone in the tech industry, recently experienced a slight dip in its stock price, closing at $139.04—a 0.8% decrease from previous figures. Despite this fluctuation, the company’s financial undertakings and market performance continue to capture the attention of investors and analysts alike. Innovative Financial Strategies Provide Stability One of NVIDIA’s most compelling moves is its announced share buyback program worth $50 billion. By repurchasing up to 1.6% of its outstanding shares, NVIDIA sends a strong signal of confidence in its valuation and financial health, which investors regard as a catalyst for potential stock price growth. Solid Financial Performance Amidst Market Challenges In terms of financial performance, NVIDIA has outdistanced previous predictions. The latest quarterly results showcased a revenue influx of $35.08 billion—an impressive 93.6% increase from the year before. The earnings per share also exceeded forecasts, confirming the company’s operational efficiency and market demand. Growing Institutional Interest Signals Confidence The increased interest from institutional investors and hedge funds demonstrates NVIDIA’s resilience and potential long-term value. This uptick in attention shows the company’s promising trajectory and has spurred more confidence among market analysts, maintaining a “Moderate Buy” consensus despite brief stock market volatility. Anticipated Price Increases Reflect Market Faith Analysts from brokerage firms such as Stifel Nicolaus and Wells Fargo have raised their price targets, with “buy” and “overweight” ratings signaling continued confidence in NVIDIA’s future capitalization growth. This positive outlook is bolstered by NVIDIA’s recent financial performance and strategic maneuvers. Examining Insider Transactions: Market Sentiment Remains Positive Recent insider transactions have captured the market’s attention, as significant share sales by directors such as Mark A. Stevens and John Dabiri were observed. Yet, these actions have not overshadowed the prevailing bullish sentiment regarding NVIDIA’s growth outlook. Sustainability Innovations on the Horizon As part of its long-term strategy, NVIDIA is continuously innovating in AI technology and sustainable computing solutions. These developments are expected to drive future revenue streams and align with global trends towards sustainability in tech, ensuring competitiveness in a rapidly evolving sector. Final Insight: Rising Stars in the Tech Market NVIDIA stands out as a robust investment opportunity thanks to its dynamic market approach, financial resilience, and strategic innovations. For more information about NVIDIA’s financial strategies and market presence, visit their official website . In conclusion, NVIDIA remains a favored entity among investors seeking potential growth in the semiconductors and tech industry, suggesting that the current dip might be an entry point for foreseeing investors.

November 21 - Quarterback Sam Darnold kickstarted the Vikings' offense on Thursday as he has most of the 2024 season, and plans to play Sunday in a meaningful NFC North road game at Chicago. Darnold returned to practice after being listed as a limited participant on Wednesday because of a foot injury. The Vikings (8-2) are anticipating another close matchup with the Bears (4-6), who won a field-goal battle at Minnesota last season while head coach Kevin O'Connell was shuttling quarterbacks in and out of the lineup to replace the injured Kirk Cousins. That's not a problem these days. After Cousins left for greener pastures in Atlanta, the Vikings signed Darnold to a one-year deal and drafted Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy in the first round. Darnold already has eight wins, beating the 7-10 mark the Vikings cobbled together with a QB room that spun on fast forward from Cousins, Jaren Hall, Nick Mullens, and Joshua Dobbs. "What we're trying to get from Sam is play the best football of his career," O'Connell said. Darnold is delivering and the Vikings have a three-game winning streak in tow when they arrive at Soldier Field on Sunday. He has posted a 100.0 passer rating in 10 starts. He has completed a career-best 67.9 percent of his passes for 2,387 yards, 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. The next touchdown pass will mark a career high for Darnold, who sputtered with the New York Jets and Carolina Panthers before serving as the San Francisco 49ers' backup last season. "I just feel like, you know -- not talking about past experiences at all -- but I think here it's the detail that we've had ever since OTAs, ever since April," Darnold said. "We've been able to lock in our progressions. Just our feet, our eyes, where they're supposed to be. And just being on time with the concepts. "If you play like that, it makes the quarterback position a little bit easier." --Field Level Media Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tabBy MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania conceded his reelection bid to Republican David McCormick on Thursday, as a statewide recount showed no signs of closing the gap and his campaign suffered repeated blows in court in its effort to get potentially favorable ballots counted. Casey’s concession comes more than two weeks after Election Day, as a grindingly slow ballot-counting process became a spectacle of hours-long election board meetings, social media outrage, lawsuits and accusations that some county officials were openly flouting the law. Republicans had been claiming that Democrats were trying to steal McCormick’s seat by counting “illegal votes.” Casey’s campaign had accused of Republicans of trying to block enough votes to prevent him from pulling ahead and winning. In a statement, Casey said he had just called McCormick to congratulate him. “As the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard, whether their vote was the first to be counted or the last,” Casey said. The Associated Press called the race for McCormick on Nov. 7, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead. As of Thursday, McCormick led by about 16,000 votes out of almost 7 million ballots counted. That was well within the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania law. But no election official expected a recount to change more than a couple hundred votes or so, and Pennsylvania’s highest court dealt him a blow when it refused entreaties to allow counties to count mail-in ballots that lacked a correct handwritten date on the return envelope. Republicans will have a 53-47 majority next year in the U.S. Senate. Follow Marc Levy at twitter.com/timelywriter

ISLAMABAD: In a landmark step toward judicial reform, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Yahya Afridi chaired a pivotal meeting at the Supreme Court’s Peshawar Branch Registry the other day. The meeting resolved to form a sub-committee dedicated to reforming prison systems in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and drafting a comprehensive package of reforms, said a press release issued on Saturday. The sub-committee, led by Justice Ijaz Anwar Khan of the Peshawar High Court, includes retired Justice Qalandar Ali Khan, social worker Ms. Ayesha Bano and members from both government and opposition, alongside representatives from the Inspector General of Prisons and the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP). This committee will assess prison conditions, address issues of under-trial prisoners, and propose rehabilitative programs like vocational training, mental health support, and education to prepare inmates for reintegration into society. These efforts aim to align provincial reforms with a forthcoming National Jail Reform Policy, ensuring a fairer, more humane criminal justice system nationwide. Justice Yahya Afridi praised the Peshawar High Court for releasing 1,289 prisoners involved in petty crimes and lauded the bravery of KP Police in countering terrorist threats. He also emphasized the urgent need to upgrade forensic science facilities to strengthen evidence-based investigations. The meeting, attended by prominent judicial and administrative leaders, including KP Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel and Inspector General Police Akhtar Hayat Khan, also prayed for victims of a recent tragedy in Kurram. The National Jail Reform Policy aims to establish a rehabilitative, transparent, and constitutionally compliant correctional framework aligned with international standards. This collaborative initiative marks a significant step towards addressing inefficiencies in Pakistan’s criminal justice system. Read More: CJP Yahya Afridi chairs Judicial Commission’s maiden session Earlier on November 5, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting held today with Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi in chair, ARY News reported on Tuesday. Senior Puisne Judge Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Munib Akhtar, and Justice Aminuddin Khan were among the Supreme Court judges attended the session. The meeting was also attended by Federal Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan, Pakistan Bar Council’s representative Advocate Akhtar Hussain, People’s Party’s Farooq H Naik, PML-N’s Shaikh Aftab Ahmed and Roshan Khurshid Barrucha. The meeting discussed the agenda items, including formation of Constitutional Benches and the setup of the Judicial Commission’s Secretariat. Chief Justice Yahya Afridi had summoned the maiden Judicial Commission of Pakistan meeting on November 5 (today). Earlier, the Supreme Court’s full court had vowed to decide around 60,000 pending cases at the earliest.Rapper turned politician Moses “ has been making the rounds to promote his new Hulu documentary, “The Honorable Shyne.” Throughout his press tour, he’s been revealing some interesting stories from Bad Boy Entertainment’s peak late-‘90s/early 2000s era, when he was on the label. During an appearance on “ ,” he may have delivered the most shocking bit of tea we’ve heard in a while. Shyne explained that when he signed with the label and got a taste of celebrity life, forgot why he was there and became involved in a shocking love triangle. “Ma$e was dating a girl and I started dating the girl, and that caused a big thing. We had to have a family meeting,” he said. “It was like Kobe coming to the Lakers and going after Shaq’s joint. You can’t do that.” Barrow elaborated on how he wasn’t taking his artistic responsibilities seriously, getting caught up in his own perceived success. “That’s what I was on in ’98, I wasn’t focused,” he said. He goes out of his way not to reveal the woman’s identity, rebuffing Charlamagne Tha God’s attempts to get a name, but notes that says her name in the documentary. In the doc, the DJ alleges that the woman dating both Shyne and Ma$e was superstar singer/actress Brandy. Neither “The Boy Is Mine” artist nor the “It Is What It Is” podcast host have commented on the story. But apparently, it was Brandy who snapped Barrow back to reality with an epic takedown that knocked some sense into him. “We had an argument and she said, ‘You’re nobody. You ain’t sold one record. You think you’re stylin’, you think you’re that — you’re nothing. You haven’t sold a record,’” he said. “And that hit me like the hand of God to slap me back into reality because she was telling the truth.” The Belize native’s music career came to an abrupt end when he became involved in the alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs and ended up spending nine years in prison. Since his release, he’s turned to politics and is now the Leader of the Opposition in the Belize House of Representatives.

ALLEGANY – Mark Schmidt designated specific responsibilities to the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team as it prepared to face Bryant: Get the ball to Noel Brown. St. Bonaventure Bonnies center Noel Brown (24) works against Bryant University Bulldogs forward Kvonn Cramer (1) during the second half at the Reilly Center on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. It gave the Bonnies a huge advantage – literally and figuratively. The Bulldogs had no answer for Brown, a 6-foot-11 center who rose to the occasion in an 85-70 win against Bryant on Sunday at the Reilly Center. As good, he has helped the Bonnies to a 6-0 start for the first time since 1973, a byproduct of coaching, a well-distributed offense and the Bonnies’ livelihood, its defense. “It takes, one, good coaching,” said Brown, who had a game-best 22 points and seven rebounds against Bryant and is averaging 12.6 points and 5.2 rebounds. “It takes a lot of dedication and practice, every day, and it takes a team effort. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but over the spread of a few games, the points have been spread out, over player to player to player, and it begins on defense. Honestly, I think it just begins with an identity that starts with hard work.” Bona guard Melvin Council Jr. explained what Brown has done to lift himself from being a role player in his first season at Bona, as a transfer from George Washington, to being the center in charge in his second year with the Bonnies. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team began the weekend 5-0 for the first time since 2021, and is now 6-0 for the first time since 1973 after an 85-70 win against Bryant on Saturday at the Reilly Center in Allegany. “A lot of people don’t know this, and I don’t want to give the secret out for Noel, but he comes back late at night to work on paint touches and stuff like that, so it looks easy,” said Council, who scored 18 points. “We always tell him, ‘We’re going to run through you for the offense. We’ve got to get you a touch before we do anything.’ That’s what we try to do, every game.” Brown scored in double digits for the fourth time in five games and bested his previous career high of 18 points on Feb. 14 at Fordham. He and his teammates even got into a little trash talking with former Bona guard Barry Evans, now with the Bulldogs (3-3). Evans hit a jumper with 8:12 left in the first half ... and got called for a technical foul after having words with the Bona bench. “We expected that to happen,” Council said, chuckling. “He said, ‘You know how I get!” Bona’s 6-0 start hasn’t come without some stress – including Sunday. Bryant wiped out two significant leads for the Bonnies. The Bulldogs used a 15-1 run in the final five minutes of the first half to cut the Bonnies' lead to 46-40 at halftime. In the second half, they came within at least eight points twice in the final seven minutes, but the Bonnies slowed down the pace, capitalized in transition and opened a 75-66 lead to 82-66 inside the final two minutes. Brown took the lead in the locker room at halftime and gave his team instructions: Lock in on defense and the offense will unfold. No excuses in the second half. Come out with an edge. Lajae Jones hit a 3-pointer 20 seconds into the second half, which kicked off an 18-4 run and opened Bona’s lead to 64-44. Now, the Bonnies take their undefeated record on the road, but to a technically neutral court, when they face Utah State at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in the ESPN Events NIT Season Tip-Off tournament in Kissimmee, Fla. The field also includes North Texas and Northern Iowa. “We’re trying to celebrate this one,” Schmidt said, wryly, when asked about preparing for the multi-team event at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. “You have a chance to play good teams on a neutral court, and those neutral courts, that’s like playing in the Atlantic 10 tournament,” Schmidt said. “It gets our guys more comfortable playing away from home, against a really good team. You don’t want to play those teams at their place.” But the Bonnies aren’t putting too much stock in their undefeated start. “We can’t be satisfied being 6-0,” Schmidt said. “We’ve got to improve. We can’t listen to the noise and everybody talking about how we’re 6-0, and this and that. It’s the next game. We’ve got to prepare for the next game.” Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! College/high school sports enterprise reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.Stock market today: Wall Street’s rally stalls as Nasdaq pulls back from its record

Percentages: FG 42.029, FT .571. 3-Point Goals: 2-17, .118 (Olsen 1-4, Gyamfi 1-1, Stuelke 0-1, Affolter 0-2, Feuerbach 0-3, Mallegni 0-3, McCabe 0-3) Blocked Shots: 7 (Heiden 3, Stuelke 1, Affolter 1, Mallegni 1, Stremlow 1) Turnovers: 14 (O'Grady 2, Affolter 2, Feuerbach 2, Stremlow 2, Stuelke 1, Olsen 1, Ediger 1, Heiden 1, Guyton 1, Mallegni 1) Steals: 7 (Affolter 2, Olsen 1, Ediger 1, Gyamfi 1, Mallegni 1, Stremlow 1) Technical Fouls: None Percentages: FG 27.419, FT .667. 3-Point Goals: 7-30, .233 (J.Villa 3-9, Wallack 3-8, E.Villa 1-3, Tuhina 0-3, Mendes 0-2, Abraham 0-3, Gardner 0-2) Blocked Shots: 5 (Covill 2, Wallack 1, Mendes 1, Gardner 1) Turnovers: 20 (E.Villa 3, Wallack 3, Alsina 3, Abraham 2, Dart 2, Covill 1, Tuhina 1, J.Villa 1, Mendes 1, Kpetikou 1, Chiu 1, Gardner 1) Steals: 9 (Tuhina 2, Gardner 2, E.Villa 1, J.Villa 1, Abraham 1, Alsina 1, Chiu 1) Technical Fouls: None A_14,998 Officials_Cameron Inouye, Missy Brooks, Lauren NiemieraA CHRISTMAS party for Buckingham Palace staff spiralled “out of control” with cops called to a nearby bar after glasses were hurled and punches thrown. Trouble flared when up to 50 servants arrived for a pre-arranged All Bar One bash after Palace drinks. A woman believed to be a housemaid aimed a punch at the manager, smashed glasses and was arrested. 4 A Buckingham Palace maid has been arrested for assault after a staff Xmas party descended into a boozy brawl Credit: Getty 4 The incident took place in an All Bar One in Victoria Street, London Credit: Simon Jones 4 Police raced to the bar after 9pm on Tuesday and the woman, 24, was arrested for common assault, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly (stock image) Credit: Alamy Security tried to calm her down but she continued to throw glasses, it is claimed. A witness to the chaotic scenes said: “I’ve never seen one person get that crazy during a night out. She was on another level.” Police raced to the bar after 9pm on Tuesday and the woman, 24, was arrested for common assault, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly. She was thrown in a cell for the night and was released almost 24 hours later with a fine. READ MORE ROYAL NEWS EYE SAY Charlotte shares Di's hobby - after fans say she also inherited the ‘Spencer stare’ SMILES BETTER Wills places supportive hand on Kate's shoulder as she greets Qatar's royals A source admitted to The Sun it had been a “tough night” for everyone involved. Another said: “Someone kicked off outside, was smashing glasses, and then got arrested.” Details of the drama emerged as offices across the country hold Christmas parties with warnings they can spiral out of control ahead of Black Eye Friday, or Mad Friday, next week. Royal staff had enjoyed drinks at the Palace at 4pm, with the event passing without incident. Most read in Royals FAIR CARNAGE Horror as Birmingham fairground ride 'collapses' with several people injured STAYING POSITIVE Max George to undergo major heart surgery after terrifying health scare ALL CHANGE Another Rangers executive quits club just a week after key role at club's AGM NEWBORN JOY Huge Scots DJ becomes dad as he reveals baby boy in emotional social media post A group of around 50 including the woman later arrived for a pre-arranged party at the All Bar One — a nine-minute walk away in Victoria Street. One insider told The Sun: “The group walked in and this one girl just got hysterical. Moment raging driver BODYSLAMS man to the floor ‘like something out of a WWE bout’ in horrific CCTV “She started smashing glasses and abusing our staff members, so we had to call the police. “I’ve never seen one person get that crazy during a night out. She was on another level.” Another added: “It had been a crazy night, we were incredibly busy and we had to deal with so many bookings. She started smashing glasses and abusing our staff members, so we had to call the police A witness “We were fully booked and then we had to deal with a party of 50 people on top of that.” The pub has security and is a popular destination for Christmas parties. 'Drunk and disorderly' It is understood Met Police officers also seized its CCTV. A force spokesperson said: “At 21.21hrs on Tuesday, December 10 officers were called to a bar in Victoria Street, SW1, following reports that a customer had smashed glasses and attempted to assault a member of staff. “Officers attended and arrested a 24-year-old woman on suspicion of common assault, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly. “She was taken into custody and released the following evening having been given a penalty notice for disorder.” A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “We are aware of an incident ­outside the workplace involving a ­number of Household staff who had previously attended an early evening reception at the Palace. Read more on the Scottish Sun WARMING UP Scots set for 21C swing as temperature rise to bring an end to sub zero freeze HOT BUY Shoppers race to Primark for fleecy £14 hoodie will keep you cosy on frosty days “While this was an informal social gathering, not an official Palace Christmas party, the facts will be fully investigated, with a robust ­disciplinary process followed in relation to individual staff and appropriate action taken.” Additional reporting by Emily-Jane Heap and Sam Creed 4 The housemaid aimed a punch at a bar manager and smashed glasses Credit: GettyBBC Strictly Come Dancing fans scream 'help' minutes into latest live show over judges

Incarnate Word beats East Texas A&M 38-24 to finish undefeated in conference playSANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — When the San Francisco 49ers used a third-round pick to draft Jake Moody last year, the hope was it would settle their kicking position for years to come. A shaky second half to Moody’s second season with San Francisco has put that into question headed to the offseason. Moody missed his sixth field goal in the past seven games last week, leading to questions about whether the 49ers will need to replace him or at least bring in competition for next season. Coach Kyle Shanahan expressed confidence in Moody on Thursday, attributing some of the struggles to a high ankle sprain he suffered in his kicking leg earlier in the season. “I still feel the same about him, that I believe he is going to be our guy,” Shanahan said. “Everyone has got to perform and do things like that and I think he has had a tough year. ... I thought he was doing really well and then had a high ankle sprain to his kicking foot. Since he’s come back, he hasn’t been as consistent, obviously. But I think a lot of that probably has to do with that, just common-sense wise.” Moody got off to a strong start this season, making all six field goals he attempted in the season opener and going 13 for 14 before injuring his ankle while attempting to make a tackle on a kickoff return in Week 5. He missed three games and has struggled since he returned. He missed three field goals in first first game back at Tampa Bay, two more in the snow at Buffalo in Week 13 and then a 41-yarder last week against the Dolphins. “That’s the great thing about kicking is, you can be as talented as whoever and you can struggle,” Moody said. “I feel like this year, I’ve struggled. It doesn’t really waver my confidence or anything. I feel like, throughout my entire life, I’ve gone through struggles, I’ve gone through high points. The biggest thing is to just stay consistent, not change anything.” Moody had an up-and-down rookie season, making 21 of 25 field goals in the regular season and missing only one extra point. But he missed a potential game-winning kick in a loss at Cleveland and missed field goals in playoff wins against Green Bay and Detroit. Moody then made three field goals in the Super Bowl with two coming from more than 50 yards, including a go-ahead 53-yard kick late in the fourth quarter against Kansas City. But Moody also had an extra point blocked in that game. “I believe we’ve got the right guy and I think that eventually, I think he has shown that at times,” Shanahan said. “I thought he showed that at times his rookie year. I thought he showed that big time being 12 out of 13 to start this year. And I think he’ll show us all that in the future.” NOTES: The Niners placed LT Trent Williams on IR after his ankle injury hasn’t healed as quickly as hoped. Shanahan didn’t think there were any long-term issues. ... LB Dre Greenlaw (calf) will be shut down for the rest of the season after playing parts of two games in his return from a torn left Achilles tendon. ... OL Spencer Burford (calf) didn’t practice but might be able to play this week. ... San Francisco has signed two OL this week, adding Matt Hennessy and Charlie Heck. ... RB Isaac Guerendo (hamstring, foot) was limited but appears on track to play this week. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLEven with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight

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WASHINGTON (AP) — She’s an Iraq War combat veteran and sexual assault survivor who has advocated for years to improve how the military handles claims of sexual misconduct. But when Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, appeared initially cool to the nomination of President-elect Donald Trump ’s choice of Pete Hegseth to serve as defense secretary — a man who once said women should not serve in combat and who has himself been accused of sexual assault — she faced an onslaught of criticism from within her own party, including threats of a potential primary challenge in 2026. “The American people spoke,” said Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of the Family Leader and a conservative activist in Ernst’s home state. “When you sign up for this job, it’s a big boy and big girl job, and she’s feeling the pressure of people vocalizing their disappointment, their concern with how she’s handling this.” The pressure campaign against Ernst, once a rising member of the GOP leadership, shows there is little room in Trump’s party for those who can’t get to yes on Hegseth or any of his other picks for his incoming administration It underscores the power Trump is expected to wield on Capitol Hill in a second term and serves as a warning to other lawmakers who may be harboring their own concerns about other Trump selections, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary and Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence. “If the king wants a different senator from Iowa, we’ll have one. If he doesn’t, we won’t,” said Iowa talk show host Steve Deace, suggesting on his show Monday that he would be willing to jump in against Ernst if Trump wanted a challenger. “I think someone’s got to be made an example out of, whether it’s Joni or someone else.” People close to Ernst, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, stress her mettle and say her eventual decision will depend on her assessment of Hegseth, a former “Fox & Friends Weekend” host and veteran, and nothing else. “Has there been Twitter pressure? Sure. But Joni’s a combat veteran. She’s not easily pressured,” said David Kochel, an Iowa Republican strategist and longtime Ernst friend and adviser. Ernst has worked steadily to shore up her relationship with Trump after declining to endorse him before the Iowa caucuses that kicked off this year’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. During a recent visit to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida club, she met with Trump and billionaire Elon Musk with ideas for their budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency. She heads up a newly formed DOGE caucus in the Senate. Trump has not tried personallty to pressure Ernst to back Hegseth, according to a person familiar with their conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose them. And he has not targeted her — or any potential holdouts — publicly in social media posts. He also hasn’t had to. The response to Ernst built quickly, first in whispers following her initially cool remarks after meeting with Hegseth, then into a pile-on from powerful figures in the “Make America Great Again” movement. Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Hegseth’s nomination, according to Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs polling . About one-third of Republicans approve of him as a pick, and 16% disapprove. Another 1 in 10 Republicans, roughly, are neutral and say they neither approve nor disapprove. Trump allies had been concerned that a successful effort to derail Hegseth’s candidacy would empower opposition to other nominees, undermining his projections of complete dominance of the party. In the narrowly held Senate, with a 53-47 GOP majority in the new year, any Trump nominee can only afford a few Republican “no” votes if all Democrats are opposed. Those piling on included Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who warned that Ernst’s political career was “in serious jeopardy” and that primary challengers stood at the ready. One social media post from the CEO of The Federalist featured side-by-side photos comparing Ernst to ousted Rep. Liz Cheney , R-Wyo., whom Trump recently said deserves to be jailed, along with other members of the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot. Building America’s Future, a conservative nonprofit, announced plans to spend half a million dollars supporting Trump’s pick of Hegseth, the Daily Caller first reported . The group has already spent thousands on Facebook and Instagram ads featuring Ernst’s photo and is running a commercial urging viewers to call their senators to back him. Criticism mounted at home, too. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, who quickly endeared herself to Trump when she became the highest-ranking state official to endorse him ahead of this year’s caucuses, wrote an op-ed for the conservative Breitbart news site that was seen as a not-so-subtle warning. “What we’re witnessing in Washington right now is a Deep State attempt to undermine the will of the people,” she wrote. Local Republican groups also encouraged Iowans to call Ernst’s office and urged her to back Trump’s picks. While incumbents have particular staying power in Iowa, Trump has a track record of ending the careers of those who cross him. Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller defended the tactics. “Right now, this is President Trump’s party,” he said Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in Washington. “I think voters want to see the president being able to put in his people.” Ernst has gradually appeared to soften on Hegseth. By Monday, after meeting with him once again, she issued a statement saying they had had “encouraging conversations.” Ernst said Hegseth committed “to completing a full audit of the Pentagon” and to hire a senior official who will “prioritize and strengthen my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks.” “As I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources,” she said. But for many Republican senators who have found themselves on the wrong side of Trump, it was hard not to see the campaign against Ernst as a warning. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who also met with Hegseth this week, said the attacks seemed “a little more intense than usual,” while acknowledging that she is “no stranger” to similar MAGA-led campaigns. She was reelected in 2022 after beating a Trump-endorsed challenger. Murkowski said the potential attacks don’t weigh into her decision-making, but added, “I’m sure that it factors into Sen. Ernst’s.”

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a class action was filed on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) securities between January 25, 2024 and October 28, 2024. Xerox and its subsidiaries offer workplace technology that integrates hardware, services, and software for enterprises in the Americas, and internationally. For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX) Misled Investors Regarding its Business Prospects According to the complaint, during the class period, defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) after a large workforce reduction, the Company’s salesforce was reorganized with new territory assignments and account coverage; (2) as a result, the Company’s salesforce productivity was disrupted; (3) as a result, the Company had a lower rate of sell-through of older products; (4) the difficulties in flushing out older product would delay the launch of key products; and (5) therefore, Xerox was likely to experience lower sales and revenue. Plaintiff alleges that on October 29, 2024, Xerox revealed “lower-than-expected improvements in sales force productivity” and “delays in the global launch of two new products” had led to “sales underperformance.” The Company disclosed that for third quarter 2024, quarterly revenue was down 7.5% year-over-year to $1.53 billion, net loss fell to -$1.2 billion (down $1.3 billion year-over-year), and equipment sales declined 12.2% year over year to $339 million. In a corresponding earnings call, the Company’s COO revealed the product delay was in fact a “forecasting issue” where the Company “had higher expectations that we were going to flush through the older product” which it needed to “sell through” in order to “make those transitions.” On this news, the Company’s share price fell $1.79, or 17.41%, to close at $8.49 per share on October 29, 2024. What Now : You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Xerox Holdings Corporation. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by January 21, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP : Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Xerox Holdings Corporation settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/513fb6e4-a34e-4150-8fe5-2c133087d380Article content The annual AWS re:Invent conference just wrapped up at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center in Las Vegas, where more than 60,000 attendees – including yours truly – traveled to learn about the latest in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, powered by Amazon Web Services. Recommended Videos Oh, in case you’re not aware, AWS is the biggest cloud computing platform in the world, with an estimated 31% market share, compared to Microsoft’s Azure at 20% and Google Cloud at 11% (The Big Three), according to Synergy Research Group, citing the latest 2024 data. While there are hundreds of separate services a business or government agency can take advantage of, “cloud computing” simply refers to relying on remote servers – complex computer systems on the internet – to store, manage, and process your information, opposed to running your operations on a local server or a personal computer. Cloud computing is cost-effective and scalable, and generally more secure than traditional computing. Now in its 13th year, AWS re:Invent features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, technical sessions, an exhibitor fair, and after-hours events. Yes, we geeks like to party, too. ‘Amazon Nova’ enters the AI arms race As you might expect, generative AI (gen AI) remains the primary buzzword among businesses today, as it could empower companies to do much more with less: streamlining customer service (including much smarter chatbots), generating free-to-use images and videos for a website or social media posts, writing marketing copy, analyzing sales reports, conducting market research, offers personalized production recommendations to customers, and summarizing meetings with actionable items – just to name a few applications. AWS re:Invent kicked off with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy unveiling Amazon Nova, a new and “groundbreaking” set of AI models designed to efficiently and accurately handle a variety of tasks involving text, images, and videos. For example, the AI can generate content, like a video, or understand the content inside of a video (or document or audio file). Upping the AI arms race against the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta and Google Gemini, Amazon Nova’s upcoming “speech-to-speech” model – expected in early 2025 – will be like talking to a real human instead of text prompts that mostly power gen AI today. In fact, Jassy discussed its ambitious “any-to-any” model coming next year. “So, you’ll be able to input text, speech, images, video and output text, speech, images and video,” he said. “This is the future of how frontier models can be built and consumed.” Jassy also highlighted Nova’s affordability, claiming the models are up to 75% less expensive than competitors, which could help level the playing field for smaller organizations on tighter budgets. Wearable device is like a digital ‘guide dog’ for the blind Nova aside, the most impressive demos at AWS re:Invent were tied to accessibility. For one, .lumen is a company that makes wearable glasses that mimic the core features of a guide dog. Resembling a VR headset, the user could navigate around city streets by relying on a combination of audio cues and haptic (vibration) feedback – based on what the headset “sees” – to guide the wearer not unlike pulling their hand in a given direction as a guide dog would. “These glasses are designed to be a scalable solution to the needs of the roughly 300 million people who are visually impaired, of which 40 million are fully blind,” .lumen CEO Cornel Amariei explained to Postmedia at AWS re:Invent. “Guide dogs are a great solution, they can do amazing things, but there are only about 28,000 service dogs in the world, and so we asked ourselves, ‘How can technology do something about this?” said Amariei, who traveled from Romania to Sin City to showcase the .lumen glasses. Along with feeling the cues for obstacles and directions, the wearer hears feedback, such as “curb up” or “stairs down,” as well as info tied to street crossings, escalators, park benches, pedestrians, and more. The headset processes info up to 100 times per second. Users can give the glasses voice commands to navigate to specific places. Maps are downloaded to be used offline to preserve battery life, which is a “full day” of moderate use, or about 2.5 hours of continuous walking, Amariei said. If you need more, the user can plug in a battery pack. Amariei was excited to share the news .lumen is working on integrating public transportation features. “So, you just put a location, which may be far away, and the device will take you to the bus station, help you get onto the right bus and help you get off of it – it’s pretty incredible,” he said. The headset is coming out in Europe early next year. “As for costs, subsidies and reimbursement programs will vary by country, but we’re working to make this either free or at a very low cost,” Amariei said. ‘Sign-Speak’ leverages AI to help deaf individuals More than 430 million people worldwide are deaf or hard of hearing, and currently there are two ways to communicate with a non-deaf person: texting or through an interpreter. Texting is limited and interpreters can be cost prohibitive. Sign-Speak adds a third option. Powered by AWS, the startup has developed AI technology that recognizes American Sign Language (ASL) and translates it into spoken words – and vice versa. So, imagine you’re on a video call with someone deaf or hard of hearing and when you speak, an avatar, of sorts, will sign what you say to a deaf person in near real-time, and when they sign back, captured by a webcam, you’ll hear a human voice translate the signing. “Our goal is really making sure deaf people get access everywhere,” Sign-Speak CEO Yami Payano explained at AWS re:Invent. While the primary focus is on online video communication between employees, such as a platform like Microsoft Teams or Zoom, Payano said they’re also developing a free tool for smartphones for in-person communication. “Yes, so, just as we’re now both in the same room, we could also communicate effectively with Sign-Speak, with the phone as the virtual interpreter,” she said. “Right now, our system is equal to the latency of an interpreter, a few seconds, which deaf people are used to, since ASL and English are two completely different languages,” Payano added. Expect a 2025 rollout, including social media integration, which is also being tested. – Marc Saltzman is the host of the Tech It Out podcast and the author of the book, Apple Vision Pro For Dummies (Wiley)None

LUQUE, Paraguay — Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly chilled for special toasts. The smooth rice wine that plays a crucial role in Japan's culinary traditions was enshrined on Wednesday by UNESCO on its list of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity." At a meeting in Luque, Paraguay, members of UNESCO’s committee for safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage voted to recognize 45 cultural practices and products around the world, including Brazilian white cheese, Caribbean cassava bread and Palestinian olive oil soap. Unlike UNESCO’s World Heritage List, which includes sites considered important to humanity like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Intangible Cultural Heritage designation names products and practices of different cultures that are deserving of recognition. Japan's Takehiro Kano, ambassador to UNESCO, reacts after the traditional Japanese brewing of sake was officially named to UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" list during a World Heritage Convention in Asuncion, Paraguay on Wednesday. A Japanese delegation welcomed the announcement in Luque. “Sake is considered a divine gift and is essential for social and cultural events in Japan,” Kano Takehiro, the Japanese ambassador to UNESCO, told The Associated Press. The basic ingredients of sake are few: rice, water, yeast and koji, a rice mold that breaks down the starches into fermentable sugars like malting does in beer production. The whole two-month process of steaming, stirring, fermenting and pressing can be grueling. The rice — which wields tremendous marketing power as part of Japan's broader cultural identity — is key to the alcoholic brew. For a product to be categorized Japanese sake, the rice must be Japanese. Japanese sake, a nominee for UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" list, are displayed on Japan's delegation table, during a UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Asuncion, Paraguay, on Wednesday. The UNESCO recognition, the delegation said, captured more than the craft knowledge of making high-quality sake. It also honored a tradition dating back some 1,000 years — sake makes a cameo in Japan’s famous 11th century novel, “The Tale of Genji,” as the drink of choice in the refined Heian court. Now, officials hope to restore sake's image as Japan's premier alcoholic drink even as the younger drinkers in the country switch to imported wine or domestic beer and whiskey. Japanese breweries also expressed hope the listing could give a lift to the country's export economy as the popularity of sake booms around the world and in the United States amid heightened interest in Japanese cuisine. “I hope that this will also be an opportunity for Japanese people to take another look at sake, shochu and awamori, which are the essence of their culture," Hitoshi Utsunomiya, director of the trade group Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association, said in Tokyo. "I would like them to try it even once and see what it tastes like,” he said. Sake exports, mostly to the U.S. and China, now rake in over $265 million a year, according to the association. Japan's Takehiro Kano, ambassador to UNESCO, reacts as the traditional Japanese brewing of sake was named to UNESCO's "intangible cultural heritage of humanity" list during a World Heritage Convention in Asuncion, Paraguay on Wednesday. Japan's delegation appeared ready to celebrate Wednesday — in classic Japanese style. After the announcement, Takehiro raised a cypress box full of sake to toast the alcoholic brew and cultural rite. “It means a lot to Japan and to the Japanese,” he said of the UNESCO designation. "This will help to renew interest in traditional sake elaboration.” In Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was “delighted” by UNESCO's recognition of traditional sake-making techniques, and he congratulated those dedicated to preserving and promoting the tradition. The crisp autumn air ushers in more than just pumpkin spice latte season. Consider cozying up inside with friends for a wine tasting and sharing delicious food and drinks with more complex flavors than cinnamon and sugar. Perhaps once thought of as stuffy affairs only for wine connoisseurs, today a tasting can be as casual as pouring a few bottles while doing another activity—say, bar games like darts or art activities like painting. The tasting can also be more traditional, especially if held at a winery or local wine shop, which is a great way to learn about what wines you might like to later serve at home. To host the ultimate wine tasting, it pays to do some R&D. One of the best aspects of hosting a wine tasting at home is that you get to establish the mood, tone, and guest list for the gathering—you can't pick a playlist when you sample wines at a bar or wine shop or make the dress code loungewear. So whether the mood is serious or playful, sophisticated or laid-back, the key to a successful tasting is enjoying and appreciating the wine and having fun with friends and family. Of course, there are a few other things to figure out along the way. Peerspace put together a few tips for hosting your wine-tasting party. A tasting party is all about sampling different wines and evaluating and hopefully enjoying them—and there are a variety of ways to do that. Would you like to host a playful gathering where each guest brings a mystery bottle of wine within a certain price range—a BYOB affair? Or would it be better to have more control over which wines are featured by curating and supplying all the wines as a host? This decision sets the tone—a tasting where guests contribute wine can be a bit of a free-for-all, whereas one where you select wines you supply allows guests to sit back and simply enjoy. And you don't have to break the bank to buy excellent wines—there are lots of wine experts ready to share their affordable picks. How much folks know about wine differs—and that's a good thing. Tastings are group learning experiences. Expertise isn't necessary to host or attend a tasting, but it is helpful to think about what will keep guests comfortable and having fun. Decide whether the vibe will be relaxed and laid-back, like friends sipping wine fireside, or more upbeat and formal. Think about elements like the atmosphere and the location, and consider whether folks will be seated or standing. Will you have a spirited playlist (couldn't resist) or live music? Do you want an expert to introduce each wine, or will you be that expert? Consider how guests will share their thoughts on what they are tasting. Do you want to just talk about them or do something more organized, like take notes or give ratings? Then supply notebooks or notecards and pencils, with categories or questions established ahead of time—all of which can reflect your evening's tone as well. How many people to invite is a question largely informed by the answers to tip #1: Are you having a big, formal affair or an intimate catch-up with close friends? Or something in between? Whatever the case, an RSVP is essential because not only do you need to plan the setup of the space, but you must also make sure there's enough wine for everyone to taste, including each of the wines featured. There's nothing worse than a tasting that runs dry! The math to determine how much wine you need considers the size of the tasting pours—a full glass of wine at a restaurant is usually around 5 ounces, which yields around five glasses of wine from a standard bottle. For tastings, you'll want to do less, depending on how many wines you are featuring—say, 2 ounces if you'll be trying a lot of different wines. Experts agree, having more wine than you need is always a good idea—that way you can send guests home with a bottle should there be a prize at the end of the night. Picking a theme is essential to curating the selection of wines—it's the organizing principle behind your selections. Otherwise, your tasting might as well be just walking down the wine aisle at the grocery store and taking sips from random bottles. There's too much wine out there not to be strategic about this. Plus, a theme helps you to tell the story of each wine better—it's the plot line of the night, if you will. Common themes are types of wine, regions they are from, or even price points—really, one can get as creative as they wish. For inspiration, check out local wine shops and see what they do for tastings. Often, they will follow seasonality and group wines in novel ways for their own in-house tastings. Don't let food be an afterthought for the festivities—after all, food can enhance particular qualities of wine and vice versa. There are many rules around what foods to pair with which wines, but consider this simple advice from Alder Yarrow's Vinography : "Stick with eating good food and drinking good wine." Since the focus is on the wines, allow the drinks to determine what food makes sense, but don't overthink it. Food is a supporting character here—at the very least, guests will need something to soak up all the alcohol (unless you are spitting it out). Eating foods that contain a mixture of protein, fats, and carbs when drinking helps increase the rate of alcohol elimination . Whether it's a full meal or heavy hors d'oeuvres, thoughtful noshes are necessary. The bottom line is, however you do it, hosting the ultimate wine tasting should be fun. Wine can feel intimidating to many people, but most wine experts are passionate, inspired folks who want to share what they know and help you find wines you like. So visit your local wine store or winemaker and ask questions. There are good guides specifically concerning how to taste wine. Dig a little, taste a lot, and have fun. It's all research for your next ultimate wine tasting. Story editing by Carren Jao. Additional editing by Kelly Glass. Copy editing by Kristen Wegrzyn. Photo selection by Lacy Kerrick. This story originally appeared on Peerspace and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Minister chairs 10th Qatar-Iran joint economic commissionGiants star WR Malik Nabers (toe) says he's a game-time decision