Artificial intelligence and machine learning can drive efficiency and innovation but also raise concerns related to market concentration and potential anti-competitive behaviour, according to CCI chief Ravneet Kaur.
The watchdog CCI, which has the mandate to curb anti-competitive ways and foster fair competition, will soon commission a study to look at all aspects of artificial intelligence (AI).
The request for proposal (RFP) for inviting agencies to conduct the study is expected to be issued in the coming weeks.
In a recent interview with PTI, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) Chairperson Ravneet Kaur said the study will also look at how AI can also be used by the regulator. “The rise of AI and Machine Learning (ML) presents both opportunities and challenges in the context of competition law.
“These technologies can drive efficiency, personalisation and innovation but also raise concerns related to market concentration and potential anti-competitive behaviour,” she said.
Kaur also stressed that the regulator is closely monitoring these developments to ensure that the competition framework remains robust and capable of addressing these new dynamics.
About the study, she said the aim is to explore how AI is reshaping market dynamics, pinpoint challenges AI poses to existing competition law frameworks and formulate policies that address AI’s implications on competition effectively.
The CCI has been taking enforcement actions and advocacy measures, among other activities to tackle anti-competitive practices.
Cities and towns across a swath of upstate New York will have a rare moment in the spotlight on Monday — once they’re shrouded in complete darkness.
A marquee announces a solar eclipse party as part of the town’s celebration of the April 8 solar eclipse in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Communities across the US in the path of totality of the April 8 eclipse are holding festivals and preparing to host a massive influx of visitors to view the rare celestial phenomenon. Total solar eclipse: From skydiving to wine tasting, New York readies for eclipse tourists (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)
For the first time in almost a century, the western and northern parts of New York state will experience a total eclipse. The path of totality — a narrow stretch where the Moon obscures the Sun entirely — tracks across cities and towns including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Jamestown.
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Though the entire event will last for several hours, the main spectacle — when day turns to night — is expected to last only about four minutes. And yet the buildup has been years in the making.
“This is like our Super Bowl or Taylor Swift concert,” said Patrick Kaler, chief executive officer of tourism agency Visit Buffalo Niagara. The first tour group booked an excursion to the area for the event on the heels of a partial solar eclipse in 2017, he said.
While the tourism boom will be brief, it’s a welcome economic jolt for the region, which has been hard-hit by the loss of its industrial base. The manufacturing sector in New York shrank by more than 60% between the 1940s and 2009, according to a report by the state comptroller.
Buffalo will be one of the biggest beneficiaries. The state’s second-biggest city is anticipating as many as a million visitors, according to Common Council Member Joel P. Feroleto. That’s the same as the entire population of Erie County.
More than half of US cities along the eclipse’s path are fully booked for the night of April 7, according to data from AirDNA, a data analytics company, with thousands of Airbnbs in the path of totality slated to reach 100% occupancy. In the Adirondacks and North Country, troopers are telling commuters to brace for traffic jams as long as 12 hours, and other areas are also expecting heavy congestion.
“I’ll be biking to work,” said Tommy Cowan, managing partner of Patrick’s Rooftop, a Buffalo bar.
But even with the hassles, people are excited, Cowan said. His bar, which overlooks the Erie Canal, has sold close to 300 tickets to a solar eclipse viewing party. Each guest will receive a free pair of solar glasses and a menu with a recent add-on: eclipse cocktails.
Resurgence Brewing Co. had a similar idea. The Buffalo-based brewing company released an eclipse-themed draft beer — time-stamped 3:18 p.m., the moment Buffalo will experience totality — that sold out twice as fast as the average seasonal beer.
The company is also hosting an “eclipse bash” that’s expected to turn out thousands, according to Jeff Ware, president of the brewery. Among the guests will be Andy Parker, a local weatherman who will lead discussions about the eclipse.
The rare occurrence has also inspired some less jovial events. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz weighed ordering businesses to close for the eclipse, citing traffic concerns. State lawmakers are requesting a day off, even with a budget deal that’s already days late. And half a dozen inmates are suing after 23 upstate prisons announced plans to lock incarcerated people in their cells during the eclipse, which they say holds religious significance.
Amid the chaos, the only certainty is that no one wants to miss out. Following are some selected events for viewing the eclipse:
NASA at Niagara Falls
There’s no party like a NASA party — well, at least not one celebrating a solar eclipse. The US space agency will be taking over Niagara Falls State Park — “See you on the dark side of the moon,” the park’s website says in a reference to Pink Floyd — through Monday. It will offer a range of stellar-related activities, including programming led by astronauts and scientists, space-themed music performances as well as planetarium shows. Attendees will also be perfectly situated to watch a fireworks display hosted by the Rochester-based grocery chain Wegmans at 8:30 p.m.
Lake Erie Wine Country
Apparently, the celestial event pairs perfectly with a glass of wine. Lake Erie Wine Country, a group of 21 wineries on the shoreline of the Great Lake, is hosting a four-day food and wine tasting that will culminate in a ticket-holders-only event to view the spectacle. The wine region stretches across 50 miles (80 kilometers) and contains almost 30,000 acres of vineyards that line Lake Erie.
Syracuse Mets
Baseball fans can stargaze at something other than their favorite players at the first-ever Total Eclipse of the Park at NBT Bank Stadium in Syracuse. The first 10,000 people through the gate — set to open at 2 p.m. — will receive complimentary eclipse glasses. After the spectacle, fans can stay to watch the Syracuse Mets take on the Worcester Red Sox.
Vintage Train
The A&A Railroad, located about an hour outside of Rochester, is offering a unique train ride that is sure to feel as magical as being aboard the Polar Express. The rare World War II-era diesel train will depart from Arcade Depot at 2 p.m. and chug along before terminating at Curriers Station in time for the totality viewing. Passengers are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets for comfortable gazing.
Adirondacks Hike
The Ausable Chasm, the “Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks,” has five miles of winding hiking trails with scenic views of roaring waterfalls and sandstone canyons. Located exactly in the middle of the path of totality, the hiking ground will house a “solar flats” viewing area for those that want to witness the event amid nature. The $19.95 admission cost covers parking, access to facilities, snacks and viewing glasses.
Skydiving Over Niagara Falls
If being plunged into pitch blackness in midday doesn’t sound thrilling enough, Skydive the Falls is offering adrenaline junkies a chance to plunge from the sky at the same time. The tandem skydiving center is offering a “totality jump” from the highest altitude available in Western New York (up to 13,500 feet) that will be timed, perfectly, with the moment the world goes black.
Taylor Swift made the surprise announcement earlier this year at the Grammy Awards that she will be releasing her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department this year.
And, although Swifties have not yet heard any songs from this record, the anticipation has reached boiling point.
The album is due out in just a couple short weeks, on April 19, 2024, and it is expected to delve into the breakdown of the American singer’s relationship with her ex-fiancé Joe Alwyn.
Most recently, she revealed the name of an exclusive song titled The Bolter on one of her vinyls. She told her live audience at the time: “I needed to make [the album], it was really a lifeline for me, it sort of reminded me why songwriting gets me through life. I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.
“I wanted to show you something tonight because… we’ve got an alternate cover to the Tortured Poets Department that nobody has seen. And there’s an exclusive song on the vinyl called ‘The Bolter.’ So this is called The Bolter Edition.”
There are plenty of different versions of The Tortured Poets Department being released this month, and we have a list of what you need to know:
Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, will be released on Friday, April 19, 2024, and will be available at a number of online retailers.
Leading music retailer hmv has various versions of The Tortured Poets Department available for preorder right now, including CD and two different types of vinyl. Here’s the breakdown:
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Amazon UK also has The Tortured Poets Department available for preorder right now, coming in at just £44.99. With Amazon Prime, you’ll be able to receive your product on the day of release – sometimes before. Here’s the breakdown of links you need:
Taylor’s official store is also stocking The Tortured Poets Department and includes a number of different versions, including CD, cassette tape and clear phantom vinyl. Each of them comes with a bonus track titled The Manuscript. Here’s the link:
Size often comes at the cost of efficiency in the SUV world, but some medium SUVs straddle the middle ground and provide the best of both worlds.
After narrowing the pool to medium SUVs that retain an internal combustion engine, how do they rank for efficiency?
We’ve gathered the data, using claimed combined fuel economy figures provided by manufacturers, to find out.
These are the cars within the medium SUV under $60k category in the VFACTS sales charts published by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).
We’ve also measured based on the variant with the best fuel economy in the range, as some trim or powertrain options may see the figures quoted here increase slightly.
Mitsubishi Outlander
The Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid EV (PHEV) takes top spot on this list with a claimed average fuel consumption figure of 1.5L/100km.
While petrol versions start at $37,740 before on-road costs, more efficient PHEV variants can’t be had for less than $57,290 plus on-roads.
Outlander PHEV models are powered by a plug-in hybrid powertrain consisting of a 2.4-litre four-cylinder petrol engine, twin electric motors and a 20.0kWh lithium-ion battery pack, producing total system outputs of 185kW of power and 450Nm of torque.
If you want to avoid refuelling stops completely, the Outlander PHEV has a claimed pure electric driving range of 84km according to NEDC testing.
All versions are backed by Mitsubishi’s conditional 10-year warranty.
Mitsubishi Outlander
Fuel economy (claimed)
1.5L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
56L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Mitsubishi Outlander MORE: Everything Mitsubishi Outlander
Peugeot 3008
Like Mitsubishi, Peugeot offers the 3008 in both petrol and plug-in hybrid forms, with the latter sitting as the most efficient model in the lineup.
The 3008 GT Sport PHEV is among the most expensive cars in this segment at $82,915 before on-road costs, over $32,000 more than the base model.
In addition to a hybrid powertrain, the flagship gains all-wheel drive. Standard equipment includes a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, 10.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 19-inch alloy wheels and Nappa leather interior trim.
WLTP testing has returned an electric range figure of 59km for the 3008 PHEV.
Peugeot 3008
Fuel economy (claimed)
1.6L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
43L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Peugeot 3008 MORE: Everything Peugeot 3008
MG HS
The MG HS is another member of the petrol-sipping PHEV club, with claimed fuel consumption of 1.7L/100km.
It’s also one of the cheapest plug-in hybrids available, priced from $48,990 drive-away.
Power comes from a 90kW/230Nm electric drive motor fed by by a 16.6kWh lithium-ion battery, paired with a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine. Total system outputs are 189kW of power and 370Nm of torque.
Those wanting to travel fuel free can utilise 63km of pure electric range, which may come in handy as the HS requires 95 octane premium unleaded fuel.
MG HS
Fuel economy (claimed)
1.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
37L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a MG HS MORE: Everything MG HS
Cupra Formentor
Cupra is known as a performance brand, but electrification is ensuring that new models are also efficient, which is exemplified by the Formentor VZe.
The price hike from petrol Formentor models to the PHEV is not as big a jump as other alternatives here – the VZe is available for $64,990 before on-road costs, $13,000 more than the base car.
Power is derived from the combination of a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, an electric motor with 85kW and 330Nm, and a lithium-ion battery with 12.8kWh capacity.
Total system outputs are 180kW and 400Nm.
Electric range is a claimed 58km, while the TSI engine requires premium unleaded petrol.
Cupra Formentor
Fuel economy (claimed)
1.9L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
40L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Cupra Formentor MORE: Everything Cupra Formentor
Toyota RAV4
The RAV4 is a mainstay in this segment and while no PHEV option is available in Australia, Toyota’s hybrid is the most efficient of any closed-circuit hybrid system in this segment.
Several hybrid variants are available, but the GX 2WD Hybrid achieves the best fuel economy with a claimed consumption figure of 4.7L/100km.
That particular version will set you back $42,260 before on-road costs, and is equipped with an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster and 17-inch alloy wheels.
The RAV4 is backed by Toyota’s five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.
Toyota RAV4
Fuel economy (claimed)
4.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
55L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Toyota RAV4 MORE: Everything Toyota RAV4
Kia Sportage
Another closed-circuit hybrid option is the Kia Sportage HEV, which starts at $45,950 before on-road costs.
The HEV is powered by a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine paired with an electric motor for total system outputs of 169kW of power and 350Nm of torque, sent through the front wheels.
Two trim levels are available with the hybrid powertrain, but even the base SX receives a 12.3-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 4.2-inch digital instrument cluster and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Kia covers its lineup with a seven-year, unlimited-kilometre new car warranty.
Kia Sportage
Fuel economy (claimed)
4.9L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
52L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Kia Sportage MORE: Everything Kia Sportage
Honda ZR-V
The 2024 Honda ZR-V starts from $40,200 drive-away, but buyers in the market for an efficient hybrid powertrain will have to stretch to $54,900 drive-away for the top spec e:HEV LX.
You can think of the ZR-V as the middle child in Honda’s SUV range, sitting between the HR-V and CR-V in terms of size and price. It also presents with unique styling.
The flagship e:HEV LX may command top dollar within the range but it comes with all the kit, headlined by a wireless phone charger, heated rear seats and a heated steering wheel.
Honda ZR-V
Fuel economy (claimed)
5.0L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
57L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Honda ZR-V MORE: Everything Honda ZR-V
GWM Haval H6
The GWM Haval H6 is one of the budget options in this segment, with a starting price of $33,990 drive-away.
That will buy you a turbocharged petrol example, but the more frugal hybrid comes in at $42,990 drive-away. The HEV is front-wheel drive only, and has a system output of 179kW and 530Nm.
Aside from sharp pricing, another advantage this Chinese SUV has over its competitors is a 600L boot, which is larger than most rivals in this segment.
Even base hybrid variants are equipped with a 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster and heated front seats.
Haval H6
Fuel economy (claimed)
5.2L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
61L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a GWM Haval H6 MORE: Everything GWM Haval H6
Honda CR-V
As with the ZR-V, the hybrid Honda CR-V sits at the very top of its range, commanding a $59,900 drive-away price tag.
That’s one of the more expensive closed-circuit hybrids in this segment, and this version of the CR-V only seats five.
The CR-V e:HEV RS is powered by a 2.0-litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder petrol engine mated with two electric motors, for total system outputs of 135kW of power and 335Nm of torque.
As well as hybrid power, the flagship e:HEV RS is set apart from other CR-Vs by its black exterior accents and red contrast stitching throughout the interior.
Honda CR-V
Fuel economy (claimed)
5.5L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
57L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Honda CR-V MORE: Everything Honda CR-V
Citroen C5 Aircross
The Citroen C5 Aircross is a rare sight on Australian roads, with just 41 sold in 2023.
Sharing a powerplant with the Peugeot 5008, the C5 Aircross makes identical power and torque outputs, but is smaller in stature with seating for five people only.
With that said, boot space still measures 580L, and you’ll pay nearly $11,000 less for the Citroen.
Standard features include a panoramic sunroof, 10.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and wireless phone charging.
Citroen C5 AirCross
Fuel economy (claimed)
5.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
53L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Citroen C5 Aircross MORE: Everything Citroen C5 Aircross
Nissan X-Trail
Nissan sold 12,861 X-Trails last year, and buyers remain spoilt for choice when it came to variants.
Four trim levels are available, and the X-Trail can be had with front- or all-wheel drive, with five or seven seats, and with naturally aspirated or hybrid four-cylinder powertrains.
Hybrid e-Power versions are the most efficient choice, consuming 6.1L/100km.
The cheapest electric-assisted variant is the five-seat ST-L e-Power with a sticker price of $49,990 plus on-road costs, while the range maxes out with the Ti-L e-Power ($57,690 before on-road costs).
All hybrid powered examples require a minimum of 95 RON premium unleaded fuel.
Nissan X-Trail
Fuel economy (claimed)
6.1L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
55L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Nissan X-Trail MORE: Everything Nissan X-Trail
Hyundai Tucson
You won’t find any hybrid options within the Hyundai Tucson range… yet
Instead, the Korean manufacturer has stuck with diesel power for its medium SUV, opting for a 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine which produces 137kW and 416Nm.
With that said, the 2025 Tucson is set to ditch diesel for hybrid propulsion, so you’ll have to grab one of these quick.
Pricing for the turbo-diesel starts at $46,650 before on-road costs, which in Elite trim brings 18-inch alloy wheels, a 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment system with satellite navigation, heated front seats and a 10-way power driver’s seat.
Hyundai Tucson
Fuel economy (claimed)
6.3L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
54L
Fuel type
Diesel
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Hyundai Tucson MORE: Everything Hyundai Tucson
Skoda Karoq
All Skoda Karoq variants have a good old fashioned petrol engine under the bonnet, consuming 6.5L/100km in 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder guise.
Considering the efficiency on offer, the Karoq’s 50L fuel tank is on the smaller side.
Three versions are available, but the base model sets the bar for efficiency, and is priced at $39,990 drive-away.
Without ticking any options boxes you get a 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, 8.0-inch digital instrument cluster, wireless smartphone mirroring and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Skoda Karoq
Fuel economy (claimed)
6.5L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
50L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Skoda Karoq MORE: Everything Skoda Karoq
Subaru Forester
A new generation of Subaru Forester is on the way, but until then the most frugal model available is the Hybrid which is capable of 6.7L/100km on the combined cycle.
Hybrid variants are powered by a 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine producing 100kW and 196Nm, mated with an electric motor producing 12kW and 66Nm and a lithium-ion battery pack. As you’d expect, the Forester comes with all-wheel drive.
Hybrid pricing kicks off at $44,090 before on-road costs, and tops out at just over $50,000 plus on-roads.
Over the base models, the hybrid gains heated front seats as well as front and side cameras.
Subaru Forester
Fuel economy (claimed)
6.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
48L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Subaru Forester MORE: Everything Subaru Forester
Mazda CX-5
Mazda sold 23,083 examples of the CX-5 in 2023, coming in behind only the Toyota RAV4 and Mitsubishi Outlander for sales volume.
All models utilise petrol power in 2024, the most efficient being the G20 Maxx front-wheel drive base model.
Priced at $36,950 plus on-road costs, the G20 Maxx FWD is powered by a 2.0-litre naturally aspirated four cylinder engine that makes 115kW and 200Nm.
Standard features include a 10.25-inch infotainment system, wireless smartphone mirroring, and a 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster.
Mazda CX-5
Fuel economy (claimed)
6.9L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
56L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Mazda CX-5 MORE: Everything Mazda CX-5
Chery Tiggo 7 Pro
The Chery Tiggo 7 Pro can be had for between $39,990 and $45,990 drive-away.
All variants consume between 7-8L/100km courtesy of a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine producing 137kW of power and 275Nm of torque.
While the front-wheel drive models are more efficient, all-wheel drive examples have a 6L bigger fuel tank.
One area where the Tiggo 7 has no peers is boot space – 626L with the seats up is class-leading.
Chery Tiggo 7 Pro
Fuel economy (claimed)
7.0L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
51L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Chery Tiggo 7 Pro MORE: Everything Chery Tiggo 7 Pro
GWM Haval H6 GT
Compared to the regular H6 Hybrid, the H6 GT prioritises style over efficiency.
Two-wheel drive models consume 7.5L/100km, while that number balloons to 8.4L/100km for four-wheel drive variants.
Power is sourced from a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine producing 150kW of power and 320Nm of torque.
The GT is a more expensive proposition that the regular H6, priced between $40,990 and $46,490 drive-away.
Haval H6 GT
Fuel economy (claimed)
7.5L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
61L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Haval H6 GT MORE: Everything Haval H6 GT
SsangYong Korando
A few factors are going against the SsangYong Korando in the efficiency stakes.
The headline figure is 7.7L/100km, which places the Korando in the bottom three, while 95 RON premium unleaded fuel is required as a minimum when filling up.
At 47L, the fuel tank is also the smallest of the cars on this list without the assistance of an electric motor.
Korando pricing kicks off at $28,990 plus on-road costs, making it the cheapest car in the segment, and the only to come in at under $30,000.
SsangYong Korando
Fuel economy (claimed)
7.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
47L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a SsangYong Korando MORE: Everything SsangYong Korando
Volkswagen Tiguan
The Volkswagen Tiguan also consumes 7.7L/100km, although it has a 58L fuel tank.
Several variants are available including the performance-focused Tiguan R, but the base 110TSI models are the pick of the bunch in terms of efficiency.
Powered by a 1.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine producing 110kW of power and 250Nm of torque, the 110 TSI Life is priced at $43,990 before on-road costs.
The Life comes standard with a 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, a 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster, wireless smartphone mirroring and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Volkswagen Tiguan
Fuel economy (claimed)
7.7L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
58L
Fuel type
95 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Volkswagen Tiguan MORE: Everything Volkswagen Tiguan
Renault Koleos
The Renault Koleos rounds out this list with a claimed average fuel consumption of 8.1L/100km.
That figure is achieved by front-wheel drive variants, which kick off at $37,500 before on-road costs.
Under the bonnet is a 2.5-litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine making 126kW and 226Nm.
Unlike many modern SUVs, the Koleos come standard with a full-size spare wheel.
Renault Koleos
Fuel economy (claimed)
8.1L/100km
Fuel tank capacity
60L
Fuel type
91 RON
BUY: Get in touch with a dealer about a Renault Koleos MORE: Everything Renault Koleos
With the anticipations of a bull run in the crypto market in April, certain altcoins are coming closer to their all-time high levels. Further, with the high potential of a new bull run to set new peaks, investors and whales are on the lookout for these altcoins.
Amidst the plethora of altcoins available in the market, here is Coinpedia’s list of top altcoins that might hit a new all-time high this week. So, let’s have a look at the list and their price charts for potential entry spots.
Kucoin (KCS)
With Kucoin and other exchanges biting into Binance’s market share, the fundamentals are looking strong for the KCS token. Further, prior to the ongoing pullback, the altcoin price hit a new 52-week high at $16, accounting for an almost 300% rise in 190 days.
Leading to a golden crossover in the weekly chart, the altcoin shows an evening star-led drop, erasing 30% market value in just four weeks. However, the downfall comes as a retest of the $10 breakout.
Further, with the recent bounce back, the altcoin survives above the psychological mark and forms a long-tail candle. This increases the likelihood of a bullish turnaround with a post-retest reversal.
Considering the pre-halving craze picks up next week, the KCS price could hit a new all-time high and break above $25. In such a case, the uptrend could drive the altcoin price to $37.67.
Nervos Network (CKB)
With the market cap reaching closer to the billion-dollar mark, the Nervos Network is rising in the altcoins industry. With the massive reversal in the CKB price trend this year, the altcoin is up by 537% and trades at $0.020438.
With the bull run in motion, the crucial EMAs are on the verge of a golden crossover. Further, the long-tail weekly candle sustains above the 50% Fibonacci line and teases a trend continuation.
With the rising anticipations of a bull run in April, the CKB price could surpass the 52-week high at $0.025 and challenge the all-time high at $0.044. Optimistically, the buyers can asset dominance at the psychological mark of $0.050 and hit the 1.618% Fibonacci level at $0.057.
Akash Network (AKT)
With a massive rounding bottom reversal in the weekly chart, the AKT price trend challenges the $6.50 supply zone. However, with the recent supply wave, the altcoin retests the 61.80% Fib level at $3.86.
The retest phase accounts for a 34% downfall in just four weeks, leading to a massive correction and a streak of four bearish candles. Considering the buyers manage to sustain above the 61.80% Fib level, the sideliners are in for the perfect buying the dip opportunity.
With a post-retest reversal and a potential market recovery next week, the AKT price could surpass the $6.50 supply zone. By doing so, the altcoin prepares for a new all-time high, potentially at $9.82.
Conclusion
With high bullish anticipations in April, the upcoming Bitcoin Halving could lead to a massive recovery in the crypto market. Further, the selected altcoins are high-potential candidates as they have a history of high-momentum price jumps. Hence, despite the correction in the short-term, these coins are projected to hit a new all-time high, giving an opportunity to buy the dip for sideline traders.
A 28-year-old Dutch woman is slated to be euthanized next month because of her struggles with mental illness after her psychiatrist said her condition will never improve.
Zoraya ter Beek lives in a nice house in a small Dutch town near the German border with her boyfriend and two cats. Despite being physically healthy, she plans to end her life due to her depression, autism and borderline personality disorder, according to The Free Press.
She once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to finish school or start a career due to her own mental illness. But now, she is tired of living and wishes to end her life.
A tattoo on her upper left arm shows a “tree of life” but “in reverse.”
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Zoraya ter Beek, 28, is slated to be euthanized next month because of her struggles with mental illness after her psychiatrist said her condition will never improve.(iStock)
“Where the tree of life stands for growth and new beginnings, my tree is the opposite,” ter Beek told The Free Press. “It is losing its leaves, it is dying. And once the tree died, the bird flew out of it. I don’t see it as my soul leaving, but more as myself being freed from life.”
Ter Beek’s decision came after her psychiatrist told her that they had tried everything to help her mental health.
“There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better,” she recalled her psychiatrist saying.
After declaring her decision, ter Beek said, “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”
As for how she plans to go out, ter Beek said she would be lying on the couch in the living room, with no music playing. But she has asked her boyfriend to be with her until the end.
TO RAISE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS, NIGERIAN SWIMS LENGTH OF LAGOS’ LONGEST BRIDGE
Zoraya ter Beek plans to end her life due to her depression, autism and borderline personality disorder.(Getty Images)
“The doctor really takes her time,” she said. It is not that they walk in and say: ‘lay down please!’ Most of the time it is first a cup of coffee to settle the nerves and create a soft atmosphere. Then she asks if I am ready. I will take my place on the couch. She will once again ask if I am sure, and she will start up the procedure and wish me a good journey. Or, in my case, a nice nap, because I hate it if people say, ‘Safe journey.’ I’m not going anywhere.”
Next, the doctor will administer a sedative and then a drug to stop ter Beek’s heart.
Following her death, a euthanasia review committee will evaluate ter Beek’s death to ensure the doctor followed “due care criteria” and the Dutch government will declare that her life was lawfully ended.
No funeral will be held following ter Beek’s death. Instead, her boyfriend will scatter her ashes in an area in the woods they chose together, as she wishes to be cremated.
“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek said. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!”
Ter Beek’s decision to end her life came after her psychiatrist told her that they had tried everything to help her mental health.(iStock)
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Ter Beek admitted that she is somewhat afraid of dying because she is unsure of what, if anything, happens after death.
“I’m a little afraid of dying, because it’s the ultimate unknown,” she said. “We don’t really know what’s next — or is there nothing? That’s the scary part.”
The Netherlands in 2001 became the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia. Now, at least eight countries have legalized it. Assisted suicide is also legal in 10 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., and all six states in Australia.
Protestant Theological University healthcare ethics professor Theo Boerin served on a euthanasia review board in the Netherlands from 2005 until 2014. During this time, he told The Free Press, he observed Dutch euthanasia “evolve from death being a last resort to death being a default option.”
Manish Malhotra’s parties are always a star-studded affair, laced with extravaganza and lip-smacking food. The designer hosted a fun bash at his residence recently. And the guest list included the Kapoor sisters — Kareena and Karisma, along with Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora, and Natasha Poonawalla. From the pictures doing the rounds on the celebs’ Insta stories, there remains no doubt that the girl gang had a blast at the designer’s place. Manish Malhotra, as a host, treated his guests to the perfect homemade Indian Thali. And the guests could not stop gushing over the meal.
Malaika Arora took to her Instagram Stories to share a glimpse of the thali and wrote, “too yumm”. It displayed some desi items like a bowl of rice, dal makhani, jeera aloo, a carrot and pea sabzi, bhindi fries, paneer, green saag, and raita. A salad bowl was also kept in the middle. But that was not the end of the culinary marvels. Coupled with these vegetarian dishes there was also delicious chicken curry. The pudina chutney was presumably to be enjoyed with the crispy and golden-brown paranthas.
Sharing a picture on her Instagram stories, Karisma Kapoor wrote, “Fav Thali” and added a “yum”.
Have your tastebuds been triggered by virtually witnessing these food ventures? Then check out the recipes of some of the items that were shown in the thali at Manish Malhotra’s party to give a delectable spin to the dishes.
Kashmiri Paneer Kaliya
For this no-onion and tomato recipe, you need to fry paneer chunks in a pan, heated with mustard oil. Green and black cardamom, cumin seeds, cloves, bay leaves, and green chillies must be stirred with an additional pour of spices and water. Drop the paneer chunks, 1 cup of milk, and saffron, and cook the items well. Check out the recipe here.
Dal Makhani
This Punjabi staple is loved by many in India. Preparing it is easy. All you need to do is add water, salt, and ginger to the dal. After heating butter and oil in a pan, sprinkle some kasoori methi, shahi jeera, tomato puree, sugar, and chilli powder. Stir fry the items, leave for simmering and you are done.Here’s how you canmake it.
Sarso Ka Saag
Another Punjab wonder, Saro Ka Saag can be enjoyed with makki ki roti. Cook saag, water, and salt in a pressure cooker. After squeezing out the saag add ginger with green chilies, till it gets thick. Chopped onions and garam masala can be included to enhance the taste. Read the recipe here.
Tell us your favourite dish in a traditional Indian Thali.
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Outside the Staten Island Ferry terminal in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the wind was howling as broken umbrellas blew across South Street like urban tumbleweeds.
But, inside the former ferry building that houses Cipriani South Street, Tracee Ellis Ross looked right at home standing on a stage welcoming guests to the New Museum’s Spring Gala.
The “black-ish” actress twirled to reveal a sky-blue bodysuit — which looked a little like a swimsuit — under a black-and-blue sleeveless dress.
“I wanted to wear something worthy of the artistic celebration at hand,” she later explained of the outfit, a hand-painted creation by Francesco Risso for Marni.
As the annual spring ritual of courting New York’s patrons kicks into gear, Ms. Ross, the evening’s host, was one of more than 500 artists, philanthropists and other notables from the cultural world who stood and sipped at the event, which honored the artists Mickalene Thomas and George Condo. The night raised $2.1 million for the New Museum, which will be temporarily closed until 2025 for an expansion that will nearly double its exhibition space.
Guests included Leonardo DiCaprio, who slipped in quietly during cocktail hour with his art adviser, Ralph DeLuca, to congratulate Mr. Condo, a friend of his; the photographer Cindy Sherman; and the artist Jeff Koons.
They mingled with museum leaders, among them Max Hollein, the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum; and Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Ms. Thomas, who is known for her large-scale acrylic paintings of Black women in states of leisure, said she was recently inspired by her fellow artists, among them Derrick Adams, Mark Bradford, Lauren Halsey, Simone Leigh and Kehinde Wiley.
All of them are working to “create platforms and experiences that empower communities to make a positive impact on society,” she said.
After cocktails, attendees moved into the Great Hall for a live auction and dinner — burrata with grape tomatoes, and salmon with leek sauce — followed by a musical performance from the singer-songwriter Deon Jones.
After a couple of songs, some attendees began streaming for the exit, while others approached the purple-and-green stage and danced rather than face the rain.
MoMA Black Arts Council Benefit
On Thursday evening, as the rain passed and the sun emerged, art-world fixtures again gathered, this time at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown for a Black Arts Council benefit.
The group, founded in 1993 by Agnes Gund, David Rockefeller Jr. and Akosua Barthwell Evans, helps to acquire pieces by Black artists for the museum. It also supports exhibitions of work by Black artists and facilitates opportunities for Black artists and professionals at MoMA.
“What’s impressed me about the group is the commitment to open up art so that everyone would feel comfortable coming to the museum,” said Dr. Barthwell Evans, adding, “the commitment to not having the museum be a barrier, but welcoming.”
This year’s benefit, which drew about 250 people and raised around $500,000, honored the artist Glenn Ligon and the scholar and lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, who is currently a scholar in residence at MoMA.
In the lobby of the museum, attendees chatted over cocktails. Glenn Lowry, the director of MoMA, greeted the artist Linda Goode Bryant. Ms. Golden stood with Mr. Ligon, near Gayle King, the broadcast journalist, and Scott Rothkopf, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Around 8 p.m., the crowd moved upstairs for a dinner featuring burrata with fennel and halibut with spring vegetables.
“Evenings like this are about celebration, about recognizing how everyone in this room contributes to such an amazing cultural ecosystem here in New York,” Mr. Lowry said during a speech onstage. “Black Arts Council is, of course, integral to the work we do.”
Dinner was followed with a performance by Cautious Clay & the Community — known for dreamy R&B songs — and a dessert buffet with mini doughnuts, banana pudding and confetti cake.
Abecma was found to triple progression-free survival compared to standard regimens with a 51% decline in the risk of disease progression or death in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who were previously administered two or more lines of therapy.
Embassy Office Parks REIT plans to raise ₹2,500 crore via equity through an institutional placement. This money will partly fund its acquisition of an office park in Chennai for ₹1,269 crore.
The REIT has agreed to buy 5 million square feet of an office park, Embassy Splendid TechZone, in Chennai from its sponsor Embassy group. This acquisition will increase the REIT’s total portfolio by 11 per cent to 50.5 msf, making it one of the largest office REITs globally, a release said.
This also marks the REIT’s entry into the Chennai office market, which is seeing good traction.
The acquisition would directly impact its financials, leading to a 2.9 per cent accretion to the FY24 net operating income and distribution per unit. Around 1.4 msf of the asset is completed and 95 per cent of this is occupied and leased to clients such as Wells Fargo and BNY Mellon. The long-term earnings potential of the REIT would be boosted since 1.6 msf is under development, of which 26 per cent is pre-leased, and 2 msf is future development.
The remaining funds would be used to reduce its portfolio leverage to 27 per cent from 30 per cent now. This would provide flexibility for future growth, it said.
Embassy REIT would acquire an economic interest in 61 per cent of the lease revenues and 100 per cent of the asset’s management business. The acquisition value implies a NOI yield of 8.5 per cent for the completed portion and 10 per cent for the development portion, it said. The transaction is being done at a 6.7 per cent discount to the average of two independent valuations.
Earlier, the REIT acquired Embassy TechVillage and Embassy Business Hub in Bengaluru from its sponsor.
GDJE su nestali dani kada je briga za tinejdžersku kožu značila jedino posjedovanje bočice Clearasila za hitne slučajeve? Današnji tinejdžeri koriste proizvode za njegu kože koji zvuče kao inventar u prestižnim trgovinama poput Space NK. Drunk Elephant, Glow Recipe, Sol de Janeiro – ovi skupocjeni brendovi sada su jednako omiljeni među 14-godišnjacima kao i među onima u četrdesetima. Istraživanje koje je prošle jeseni proveo Piper Sandler među 5.690 tinejdžera otkrilo je da su izdaci za proizvode za njegu kože porasli za 19 posto u odnosu na prošlu godinu.
Kreme protiv starenja za mlade
Uzbuđenje oko skupih brendiranih proizvoda gotovo je adolescentni obred prolaska, ali dok su tenisice i torbe uglavnom neutralne po pitanju dobi, vrhunska njega kože često je namijenjena starijoj populaciji s vrlo specifičnim brigu o kompleksiji. Prošli tjedan, vodeći britanski dermatolozi upozorili su da djeca već od 10 godina vrše pritisak na roditelje da im kupuju ove skupe proizvode, koji često sadrže moćne sastojke poput retinola, kiselina ili vitamina C, namijenjene minimiziranju bora i liječenju pigmentacija od godina sunčanja – nešto što ne bi trebala biti briga prosječnog tinejdžera. Zašto su onda proizvodi protiv starenja iznenada stekli kultni status među djecom koja, pa, uopće nisu ostarela?
Dr. Anjali Mahto, konzultantska dermatologinja i osnivačica klinike Self London, primjećuje “definitivno povećanje broja tinejdžera koji dolaze u moju kliniku zabrinuti zbog anti-aginga”. Jedan od razloga za ovu preuranjenu opsjednutost bora “definitivno je potaknut društvenim medijima, posebice TikTokom, gdje se tinejdžeri izlažu influencerima koji prikazuju svoje opsežne, često nepotrebne rutine za njegu kože”.
Influenceri koji potiču
Generacija Alfa, rođena od 2010. nadalje, odrasla je potpuno uronjena u digitalnu kulturu. Njima nije potrebno prelistavati časopise za tinejdžere kako bi došli do upitnih savjeta o ljepoti. Umjesto toga, imaju pristup satima videa “pripremi se sa mnom”, u kojima fotogenični influenceri nanose razne serume na već blistava lica, spominjući moćne aktivne sastojke na način koji ih čini težnjenim.
Tekst se nastavlja ispod oglasa
Međutim, upitno je koliko 90 sekundi doista može pravilno objasniti sve nijanse korištenja sastojka poput retinola, koji može biti blagoslov u borbi protiv akni pod nadzorom dermatologa, ali nije nešto što bi itko, a kamoli 12-godišnjak, trebao početi koristiti bez razmišljanja. Prekomjerna upotreba može dovesti do iritacije, crvenila i povećane osjetljivosti na sunce.
Osim potencijalnih problema s kožom, stručnjake brine i psihološki učinak. “Moj glavni problem ovdje je psihološki učinak,” kaže dr. Mahto. “Ne mislim da to potiče zdrav odnos prema starenju.” Ovo je svakako izvor zabrinutosti i za roditelje. “Standardi ljepote kojima teži generacija moje kćeri jako me brinu,” kaže jedan roditelj.
Kako smo uspjeli stvoriti svijet u kojem djeca koja su tek počela živjeti već razmišljaju o tome kako sačuvati svoju mladost?
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The field for the Kentucky Derby firmed up on Saturday on the last day of major prep races and, despite some doubts, California will have a horse in the race.
Stronghold needed at least a third-place finish to get in the first leg of the Triple Crown but did even better with a stirring stretch drive that propelled the 3-year-old colt to a win by a neck in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby. The win was worth 100 qualifying points.
He had to get by heavy favorite Imagination, trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Frankie Dettori. The 53-year-old Dettori was on a roll Saturday by winning six of his first seven races and combined with Baffert, Imagination looked like a sure thing.
Stronghold, the Sunland Derby winner, showed a determination to get by Imagination and Dettori. It will be the first trip to the Kentucky Derby for both trainer Phil D’Amato and jockey Antonio Fresu. It was Fresu’s first Grade 1 win. Stronghold paid $6.40.
“I was hoping we’d get that track and that trip,” D’Amato said. “It was a nice little speed battle back there and he handled it well. He didn’t really get the easiest trip coming around the turn but luckily he was able to squeeze through a small hole and prove that he can be the best when it comes down to the wire.
“I think this was a great education for him and a nice test that’s he going to need to win a race like the Kentucky Derby.”
Even though Imagination finished second, he is ineligible to run in the Kentucky Derby because he’s trained by Baffert, who is under a two-year ban from Churchill Downs, which was inexplicably lengthened to three years despite no violations. It followed the disqualification of Medina Spirit, who finished first in the 2021 Derby.
E J Won the Cup was third on Saturday, followed by Curlin’s Kaos, Tapalo, Wynstock, Mc Vay and Tessuto. The announced attendance was 32,089.
In what was thought to be the most competitive prep race, the $1-million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, it seemed as if it would never get started as Sierra Leone refused to go in the gate. When the race started, he ran the first half of the 1 1/8-mile race race near the back of the pack. But once he got interested, he blew past the field to win by 1 ½ lengths. Just a Touch finished second. Sierra Leone paid $5.32 to win.
“I think it was just the crowd,” winning jockey Tyler Gaffalione said of the Chad Brown trainee. “We break right in front of them here. Everybody’s lined up against the rail and he was the last horse going in, so I think it just kind of got to him — got him a little nervous.”
The $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct gave both Resilience and longshot Society Man enough points to qualify for the Derby with a one-two finish.
“The second time I rode him, he kind of got shy away from the horses coming out and didn’t want to pass, then all of a sudden everybody passed him at the sixteenth pole,” winning jockey John Velazquez said of the Bill Mott-trained Resilience. “Then I said, ‘maybe blinkers will keep him smart and focused and running’ and it did today, so this is where to do it.”
Velazquez won’t be riding Resilience in Louisville, though, as he is also the jockey for Fierceness, the 13 ½-length winner of the Florida Derby and the presumptive favorite for the Kentucky Derby.
The Wood Memorial winner has not won the Derby since Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000.
Even though most of the field for the Kentucky Derby has been set there are still a few caveats. There is one more race on road to the Derby, the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland next Saturday. It can be used for horses that are just on the bubble of making the field and only need a few points. The race is worth 20-10-6-4-2 qualifying points.
Another unknown is if the suit brought by owner Amr Zedan will allow Baffert horses into the Derby. Zedan is hoping to get a temporary order from the Louisville-based circuit court that would allow Baffert horses to run. Muth, winner of the Arkansas Derby, would be the recipient if the injunction is approved. Baffert is not a plaintiff. There is a procedural motion hearing on Monday.
And finally, there are the injuries and bumps in the road that crop up in the next four weeks. Generally, if a horse is on the bubble and among the top 24 there’s an outside chance of making the field. If in the top 22, chances are usually decent.
There are only 19 spots available in the 20-horse field. The winners of the Japan and Europe Road to the Kentucky Derby are given free passes into the Derby. T O Password won the Japan series and plans to come. The winner of the European circuit,Bracken’s Laugh, is not currently planning to travel to Churchill Downs, according to The Racing Post.
Here are the top 24 horses, with point totals: 1. Sierra Leone (155); 2. Fierceness (136); 3. Catching Freedom (125); 4. Stronghold (125); 5. Resilience (110); 6. Forever Young (100); 7. Endlessly (100); 8. Dornoch (75); 9. Just a Touch (75); 10. Track Phantom (70); 11. West Saratoga (67); 12. Just Steel (65); 13. Honor Marie (65); 14. Domestic Product (60); 15. Catalytic (50); 16. Deterministic (50); 17. Society Man (50); 18. Mystik Dan (46); 19. No More Time (45); 20. T O Password (Japan); 21. Grand Mo the First (40); 22. Common Defense (37); 23. Epic Ride (35); 24. Hades (30).
Meta will begin labeling a wider range of video, audio and image content as “Made with AI” on its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram starting in May to counter manipulated media, according to its official statement.
Meta’s new policy is a response to feedback from its independent Oversight Board, which urged an update to the current policy.
“We are making changes to the way we handle manipulated media based on feedback from the Oversight Board and our policy review process with public opinion surveys and expert consultations,” Meta said.
The labels could be generated through self-disclosure when a user posts content, as a result of advice from fact-checkers, or via Meta detecting invisible markers of AI-made content.
“We will begin labelling a wider range of video, audio and image content as “Made with AI” when we detect industry standard AI image indicators or when people disclose that they’re uploading AI-generated content,” it added.
Meta also underscored the usage of realistic AI-generated tools to create content like audio and photos and its evolution at present.
“In the last four years, and particularly in the last year, people have developed other kinds of realistic AI-generated content like audio and photos, and this technology is quickly evolving. As the Board noted, it’s equally important to address manipulation that shows a person doing something they didn’t do,” it said.
New AI video tools increase worries of deepfakes ahead of elections. Experts worry malicious actors could use AI tools to create deepfakes, confusing and misleading voters in an election year. The video that OpenAI released to unveil its new text-to-video tool, Sora, has to be seen to be believed.
Earlier last month, in a candid conversation with Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the challenges posed by AI and underlined the significance of initially using watermarks on AI-generated content to make users aware and prevent misinformation.
“Addressing the challenges AI presents, I have observed that without proper training, there’s a significant risk of misuse when such powerful technology is placed in unskilled hands. I’ve engaged with leading minds of AI, I suggested that we should start with clear watermarks on AI-generated content to prevent misinformation.
This isn’t to devalue AI creations but to recognise them for what they are,” PM said.
“Data security remains a paramount concern and while India has a legal framework in place,. For instance, I have initiated storing all university certificates in the cloud to reduce costs and fulfil various needs efficiently. Previously, there was a push for stringent compliance requirements. I advocated for simplification, suggesting that data be uploaded to the cloud with shared IDs, enabling us to access necessary information directly. This approach underscores my commitment to leveraging technology not just to enhance services but to significantly improve the ease of living for our citizens,” he added.
Bill Gates also acknowledged the challenges that AI presents and said that the technology is also a huge opportunity.
“It’s early days in AI and I think everyone uses it. On the same day, you’re surprised at how good it is, and you’re also surprised at how bad it is. It’ll do things you think are hard, and then it’ll fail to do some things you think are easy. I started my trip here in Hyderabad, which was a nice occasion because Microsoft is celebrating 25 years in the country, and that’s been such a fantastic experience,” Bill Gates said.
“So I was definitely challenging the team there. Hey, we have to make the accuracy better. And for now, it’s like a Copilot. It helps suggest things. But the final decision about the medicine or the letter you want to write, the final decision, we still have to review that, even though it may make us a bit more creative and a bit more productive. You know, it seems like AI is a huge opportunity, but there are some challenges that come with that,” Gates added.
Present “manipulated media” rules apply only to “videos that are created or altered by AI to make a person appear to say something they didn’t say.” Starting in February, the company began to add “Imagined with AI” labels to photorealistic images made with the Meta AI feature.
The 17th edition of the Indian Premier League which kicked off in late March—an annual men’s Twenty20 cricket league—is attracting both connoisseurs and novices of the game, and many are travelling to support the game across India. According to American Express Travel’s 2024 Global Travel Trends Report, 67% of Millennial and Gen Z respondents (compared to 58% of all respondents) will be interested in travelling for sporting events in 2024. National and international travel operators have reported an increase in demand and cost of airfares, accommodations, and tailored itineraries in the host cities—Chennai, Mohali, Kolkata, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Mumbai, Lucknow, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Delhi.
While the iconic Sawai Mansingh Stadium will be the target destination for visitors heading down to the city for upcoming matches from April 6, there’s much more to look forward to in the city, especially during the off-season.
India’s fan culture certainly brings an atmosphere and a reputation that can’t be compared to too many other nations in cricket. On 29 May 2022, the IPL 2022 final between Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad created a Guinness World Record after being attended by 1,01,566 people. As the game is underway, if you are looking to plan a trip beyond the metropolitan cities, here’s where and how to plan a trip around IPL in 2024.
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Jaipur, Rajasthan
While the iconic Sawai Mansingh Stadium will be the target destination for visitors heading down to the city for upcoming matches from April 6, there’s much more to look forward to in the city, especially during the off-season. Shake off the summer heat with kesar and rabdi kulfi at Pandit Kulfi before going on a shopping spree at Johri Bazar, Tripolia Bazar, and Chameli Market. Unwind with an elevated Rajasthani Thali brunch at Suvarna Mahal or relish a more rustic experience at the village-themed resort of Chowki Dhani. Before heading back in, catch the glittering glow of the Jal Mahal and Hawa Mahal after sundown—but not before a nightcap at Taj Rambagh Palace’s Polo Bar or Narain Niwas Palace Hotel’s Bar Palladio.
Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh
After millions tuned in to watch five of the World Cup 2023 matches held at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium last October, Dharamshala’s reputation among sporting and travel communities is on a booming rise. With two action-packed encounters scheduled on May 5 and 9, sneak in a tour of Bhagsunag Falls, Kangra Fort, St. John Church or if you want to blend in some adventure, a trek to Triund. Want a slow, more immersive experience? Mosy through the town’s many modern and historic cafes, staycation at British-era bungalows like Cuckoo’s Nest or cottage-style luxury at Owl’s Nest and slurp on some state-staple Tibetian Thukpa.
Vizag, Andhra Pradesh
Despite never having a team from the city, Vizag the ‘Jewel of the East Coast,’ has hosted 13 IPL matches in the past, and last Sunday, became the opening location for Delhi Capital’s first home match. Logistical reasoning aside, we can argue the port city’s coastal and cultural charm ‘played’ a key role in making the destination an IPL hotspot. After a busy match day, unwind at Rushikonda Beach where you can’t leave without trying Raju Gaari Dhaba’s prawn fry with rasam rice. The next morning, on a spiritual trail head to Simhachalam Temple, Sri Varahalakshmi Narasimha Swamy Vari Devasthanam and more. Conclude the day with a walk through the Old Book Market, snacking on Punugulu (fritters made with idli dosa batter).
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Apart from boasting a state-of-the-art build and hosting Lucknow Super Giants’s seven home matches, Ekana Cricket Stadium is just 15-20 minutes from the city’s bustling locations like Hazratganj and Gomti Nagar—the perfect excuse for extending your IPL experience before or after the match. Take an extra day (or 3, no we are not kidding) to explore the ancient art of Chikankari at Sangraha and the Kalhath Institute, take in the iconic architecture of Imambaras to the majestic Rumi Darwaza and shop-hop at Aminabad Market and Hazratganj Market. Coming to the best part—visit Bajpai Kachori Bhandar to chomp on a special Poori-Aloo recipe, Tunday Kababi for the legendary kebabs rooted in royal patronage, and dinner at Idrees Biryani for a plateful of Awadhi flavours.
Mullanpur (Mohali district), Chandigarh
Host to the newly-developed Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium, Punjab Kings will be playing all their home games in what the Punjab govt. is calling the next ‘eco and smart city.’ Bank on Mullanpur’s proximity to Ludhiana and Chandigarh to map out a culture and food-centric travel circuit. Arrive in Chandigarh (a day in advance if possible) to take a guided walk around the UNESCO-listed Capitol Complex, Le Corbusier Centre, the Rock Garden, and more. After the match, drive 30 minutes to Ludhiana to tour the Maharaja Ranjit Singh War Museum before heading out to explore street-popular dishes like Dyal Di Hatt’s imarti and digging into Amritsari kulche chole at Kulcha Land in Model Town.
Graceland opened to the public 42 years, just five years after Elvis Presley’s untimely death. Yet it wasn’t until the pandemic happened that virtual tours were offered during lockdown.
For the first time, fans could witness unseen spaces from Aunt Delta’s room behind the kitchen to The King’s other private bathroom upstairs in the racquetball court.
Elvis had the latter erected behind the Memphis mansion in September 1975 for $250,000 – well over the $102,500 Elvis paid for the whole property in 1957.
Fans can walk through the sports building on the tour, including its lounge area which houses the last piano The King played on the morning of his death. However, the first floor isn’t accessible to the public.
Nevertheless, Express.co.uk previously took part in one Graceland virtual tour that was led by archivist Angie Marchese, who we witnessed venturing up there on a livestream.
On the first floor landing was a viewing area for watching games, but also an iPod that plays Elvis singing Unchained Melody throughout the building. That’s the song that Ginger Alden and the star’s cousin Billy Smith remember him singing at the piano in his last ever performance, just hours before he died.
Behind the first door on the left, there is a guest changing room with a couple of showers, a toilet area and gold-plated fixtures in the duel sinks. Also built into the wall are some shelves for storing towels, shoes and other clothes. Further along the corridor, the other door leads to what is the entrance to Elvis’ secret private bathroom.
Directly inside is a greeting or resting area with a couple of leather chairs that Memphis Mafia members would have reclined in. The large space also has a walk-in closet for clothes, towels and even a built-in jacuzzi covered in gold-plated fixtures.
The King’s private sink is cased in gold just like those on his private jet, the Lisa Marie. However, the most impressive part of the bathroom lies further inside this exclusive room.
At the back of the bathroom is Elvis’ private walk-in wet room with a bench and no less than five gold-plated showerheads to fire water at every inch of his body.
If this is how lavish his sports washroom was, just imagine what his ensuite upstairs inside the Graceland mansion must have been like. Whatever the case, the latter has been perfectly preserved just as The King left it in 1977 at the request of his daughter Lisa Marie.
Last year, the large SUV segment in Australia was the fourth largest by sales volume.
Ask a person on the street for an example of a large SUV, and the Toyota LandCruiser and Nissan Patrol might be two names that pop up.
But in its monthly VFACTS sales report, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) lists those as ‘upper large SUVs’, a term you’re unlikely to hear in casual conversation.
The large SUV segment instead covers everything from crossovers like the Subaru Outback and Kia Sorento through to more rugged, body-on-frame off-roaders like the Jeep Wrangler and Isuzu MU-X.
It also includes petrol, diesel, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electric models.
The wider large SUV segment is split in two in VFACTS reporting: there are SUVs with a base price under $80,000, and those with a base price over that cap.
That means the definition covers everything from the circa-$43,000 LDV D90 all the way up to the $364,700 Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT.
With all of those vehicles to choose from, what do the members of the CarExpert team recommend? Given the sheer diversity, most of the team has offered two recommendations: a traditional body-on-frame SUV, and a unibody crossover.
Paul Maric
Definitely the Lexus GX.
While the fad of hybridisation and electrification is there at the moment, you can’t beat the GX for performance punch, excellent off-road ability and never having to think about finding a charger while touring or towing.
It’s the ultimate large luxury SUV that won’t break the bank and comes with all the perks of owning a Lexus. Overtrail would be my pick!
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Josh Nevett
Ford Everest
The sales charts don’t lie.
The Ford Everest makes a lot of sense as a family-hauling, bush-bashing SUV, and in Platinum trim the interior is actually a decent place to spend some time. Even without the luxuries, the Everest is still a safe bet.
Skoda Kodiaq
For an urban runabout, give me a Skoda Kodiaq RS. Skoda’s ‘simply clever’ mantra is apparent right across the range, but especially in its SUVs, and the Kodiaq is no exception.
The Kodiaq RS has just the right amount of performance for everyday driving, loads of practicality in the cabin and all the room a family should really need.
MORE: Buy a Ford Everest MORE: Buy a Skoda Kodiaq
Jack Quick
Subaru Outback
If I had to pick a large SUV I would actually buy in 2024, I know I’d definitely go for the Subaru Outback. I’ve nominated this car before in previous op-eds and I continue to really want to own one.
While the regular atmo 2.5-litre flat-four is an adequate engine that does reach its limits at highway speeds, I think I’d be happy to pay that little bit extra for the more powerful (but thirstier) 2.4-litre turbo flat-four engine in the Outback XT.
Although I understand many large SUV buyers are wanting the flexibility of seven seats, the Subaru Outback has one of the most spacious five-seat cabins out of any new car currently on the market. It genuinely feels like a couch on wheels.
GWM Tank 300
I’m yet to drive the larger seven-seat Tank 500 but in the interim the large body-on-frame SUV I’d buy in 2024 is the GWM Tank 300.
I know it’s a bit of a provocative answer when I could’ve chosen a more established large SUV like the Ford Everest or Toyota Prado, for example, but I was really surprised with how much I liked the Tank 300 when I first sampled the regular petrol version last year.
The 2.0-litre turbo-petrol engine really gets the car moving when asked. It’s also got all the bells and whistles to be a really capable off-road beast.
The premium-pushing interior presentation in the Tank 300 is another key point of selecting this vehicle. It’s crazy to me that you can get a brand new car that looks this luxurious inside for a little over $45k drive-away.
MORE: Buy a Subaru Outback MORE: Buy a GWM Tank 300
James Wong
Audi Q7
I don’t normally lust for SUVs but the idea of one day picking up my kids in a Q7 is pretty sweet.
The understated class, effortless performance and opulent comfort that comes with the Audi Q7 on standard air suspension is very much in line with my tastes.
You get more than enough luxuries in the entry-level 45 TDI, though it’s nowhere near as affordable as it once was – back when I started at CarExpert you could have a Q7 45 TDI from just under $100,000 plus on-road costs, and now it’s blown out to $116,400.
Also keep in mind that while the Q7 is a six-figure family chariot, it shares its bones and a lot of tech with some very boutique metal like the Bentley Bentayga and Lamborghini Urus.
Special mentions to the Volkswagen Touareg, Kia Sorento and Skoda Kodiaq which would also be on my road-biased large SUV shopping list.
Ford Everest
If I needed something a bit more rugged that I’d be willing to tow with regularly or head off the beaten track, I think the Ford Everest would be my top pick.
While there’s a new LandCruiser Prado on the way – and I’m obsessed with the design – it’s still not priced for our market nor have I seen one in person. I’ll reserve my judgement for now then.
In the meantime, the existing Ford Everest, particularly in Platinum V6 form, puts a lot of other body-on-frame 4WD SUVs to shame in terms of technology and refinement. It blurs the lines between monocoque and ladder-frame SUVs very well.
With the no-cost all-terrain tyre option and Premium Towing Pack, you can have a decked-out Everest for about $94,000 in your driveway and should be able to handle anything and everything you and your family might throw at it. Otherwise, a Sport V6 with the same options is about $10,000 cheaper.
My second pick would probably be the Isuzu MU-X which is quite a bit more attainable even in top-spec LS-T trim, though there’s no option for a more powerful six-cylinder engine if that’s what you’re after.
MORE: Buy an Audi Q7 MORE: Buy a Ford Everest
Jordan Mulach
Subaru Outback
I’ve got to follow my colleague Jack on this one, though mainly because the Outback is the least SUV-like SUV. If we’re being honest, it’s a wagon with a bit more ground clearance, which isn’t exactly a bad thing.
In recent years I’ve had to shake my preconceived notions of the Outback being an uncool car, which had been reinforced by my mum owning four of them back to back (all with the 2.5-litre and an automatic transmission).
Now that there’s a proper, grunty turbocharged 2.4 on offer in the XT, the Outback becomes a very entertaining proposition which can easily complete the soccer run.
Lexus GX
Now I’m not in the market for a ladder-frame SUV, but if I had won lotto then I’d be hard pressed to not put the new Lexus GX in my driveway.
It looks mega, has plenty of kit and a twin-turbo V6 which won’t be available in its Prado twin. It also helps that the GX is cheaper than the LX, but looks significantly better (at least to my eye) and has more bang for your buck.
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William Stopford
Ford Everest
Of all the body-on-frame SUVs in this segment, the Everest would be my pick… though I’m very keen to get behind the wheel of a Lexus GX when it arrives here.
It’s not perfect. The interior is far too close to the Ranger which means that, while the infotainment and cameras are top-notch, it’s rather cheap and plasticky.
But the Everest rides exceptionally well for a body-on-frame SUV, and its turbo-diesel V6 is a delight and something rivals like the MU-X and Prado can’t match.
Mazda CX-90
I’ve spoken fondly before of Hyundai’s Palisade and Santa Fe before, particularly the latter in hybrid guise. And if the hypothetical budget extends higher, the BMW X5 is my pick of the large luxury SUVs.
I’m going to split the difference, though, and go with something that has a rear/all-wheel drive platform and inline six-cylinder engines like the BMW, but a price closer to the Hyundais.
Like the Everest, the CX-90 isn’t perfect. The ride is a bit firm, and the powertrain needs a little smoothing out, though Mazda has shown it’s listening to customers and critics with its recent CX-60 update.
The interior also isn’t quite as nice as the likes of an X5 or Genesis GV80, but it’s cheaper than either. Overall, its combination of poised dynamics, a spacious cabin and good fuel economy is compelling.
As the cryptocurrency market experiences turbulent fluctuations, with Solana (SOL) witnessing an 8% decline and Ethereum (ETH) dipping 2.5%, attention is drawn to the remarkable ascent of Furrever Token (FURR). Despite the overall market downturn, FURR continues to surge forward, setting new milestones with its record-breaking presale. With an ambitious vision to become the next big altcoin, FURR has captured the imagination of investors, offering lucrative returns and fostering a vibrant community. Let’s delve into the latest developments surrounding these three cryptocurrencies and explore the dynamics shaping their respective trajectories.
Solana (SOL) Plunges Over 8% Amid Transaction Crisis: Can It Recover from A 75% Failure Rate?
Solana (SOL), once celebrated for its efficiency and stability, now faces unexpected hurdles, sending shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market. Priced at $170.16, SOL has tumbled over 8% in the past day, signaling a significant setback. The network, usually lauded for its swift transaction processing, now grapples with a staggering 75% failure rate in transactions. Initially observed among meme coin traders on decentralized exchanges, these transaction failures have now impacted regular users, casting a shadow over Solana’s reliability and causing a 5% drop in its price to $174.40.
This unanticipated challenge marks a departure from Solana’s typically robust performance, raising concerns about its long-term viability and eroding investor confidence. As users encounter difficulties transferring funds within the ecosystem, market observers closely monitor key support levels, with $152.46 emerging as a crucial threshold. A failure to find support at this level could intensify downward pressure, potentially driving SOL towards $132 or even $101.
The timing of Solana’s woes amidst broader market turbulence exacerbates concerns among investors, with apprehension permeating the cryptocurrency community. The network’s ability to swiftly address these challenges will be pivotal in restoring investor confidence and facilitating its recovery. As stakeholders await developments, Solana’s future hangs in the balance, underscoring the importance of swift resolution to mitigate further market disruption.
Ethereum (ETH) Is Going Through a Strong Correction: Will It Recover?
In the volatile landscape of the cryptocurrency markets, Ethereum (ETH) finds itself navigating through turbulent waters once again. With its current price hovering around $3,272, experiencing a 2% decline from yesterday, ETH struggles to break through the formidable resistance level at $3,440. The cryptocurrency faces significant hurdles, particularly as it grapples with maintaining support above the crucial $3,250 mark.
On closer inspection of the ETH/USD pair’s hourly chart, a notable breach of the vital upward trend line at $3,300 is observed, signaling potential downside risks should a closure below the $3,250 support zone occur. Despite recent attempts to reclaim ground above $3,300 and $3,320, reminiscent of Bitcoin’s resurgence, Ethereum’s upward momentum falters as bears loom near the $3,440 region.
While a recent high of around $3,443 briefly reignited optimism, a significant break below the key support line at $3,300 led to a retest of the $3,250 level, resulting in a dip to $3,253 as the cryptocurrency strives to consolidate losses. The current price action underscores the challenges Ethereum faces in sustaining upward momentum amidst market uncertainty.
As ETH grapples with these obstacles, investors remain cautious, closely monitoring price movements and technical indicators for potential signals of a trend reversal or further downside. The cryptocurrency’s ability to navigate through these challenges will undoubtedly shape its trajectory in the days to come, offering both opportunities and risks for market participants.
Furrever Token (FURR): Unleashing the Next Big Altcoin Revolution with Record-Breaking Presale Success and Unstoppable Momentum!
Furrever Token (FURR) has been steadily gaining momentum in the cryptocurrency space, positioning itself as a potential contender to become the next big altcoin. With a myriad of factors working in its favor, FURR stands out as a promising asset with the potential for significant growth in the future.
One of the key factors driving FURR’s potential is its unique value proposition within the crypto market. As an innovative project focused on creating a vibrant ecosystem around pet ownership and animal welfare, FURR taps into a niche market with a passionate community of supporters. This niche focus sets FURR apart from other cryptocurrencies and could contribute to its long-term success and adoption.
Moreover, FURR’s record-breaking presale performance, amassing over $660,000 in just a month, underscores the strong investor interest and confidence in the project. The remarkable returns of up to 15X for presale investors further highlight the potential for lucrative gains with FURR. This impressive performance not only reflects the growing investor appetite for FURR but also signals the project’s ability to attract significant capital inflows.
Additionally, FURR boasts a vibrant and engaged community, which plays a pivotal role in driving awareness, adoption, and network effects. The project’s community-driven approach, coupled with its transparent and inclusive governance model, fosters a sense of ownership and participation among stakeholders. This grassroots support could fuel FURR’s growth trajectory and contribute to its emergence as a prominent player in the altcoin market.
Furthermore, FURR’s commitment to transparency, evidenced by measures such as smart contract audits and team token locks, instills trust and confidence among investors. The project’s strategic roadmap, including plans for listing on major exchanges like PancakeSwap, further enhances its visibility and accessibility to a broader audience.
Overall, Furrever Token (FURR) exhibits strong potential to emerge as the next big altcoin in the cryptocurrency landscape. With its unique value proposition, impressive presale performance, passionate community, and commitment to transparency, FURR is well-positioned to carve out its niche and thrive in the competitive crypto market.
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The alarming outbreak of measles and tuberculosis (TB) at migrant shelters in Chicago could easily have been avoided if the illegal migrants had been vaccinated at the border and if they weren’t living in cramped conditions, two medical experts tell Fox News Digital.
Chicago health officials said Wednesday that a “small number” of TB cases were reported at some migrant facilities, following reports of dozens of measles cases at these facilities.
Concerns are quickly growing that these cases will multiply and spread to the general population in the Windy City. There are also fears that similar outbreaks could occur in other sanctuary cities such as New York, Boston and Denver — jurisdictions that are also packing migrants into makeshift shelters and hotels.
Unlike most U.S.-born children who have to follow strict vaccination schedules, migrant students were, up until last month, not required to be vaccinated in order to attend school in Chicago under an exemption for children living in unstable housing, according to reports. In New York City, migrant students were also given waivers at the start of the 2023-2024 school year.
At least two students who tested positive for measles were living at Chicago’s Pilsen migrant shelter, although it is unclear at the time of this publication if they had been vaccinated.
Amid the outbreak, Chicago moved to vaccinate all migrants at its shelters. Fox News Digital reached out to the Chicago Board of Education, the mayor’s office and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) about vaccination procedures and exemptions but did not receive a response.
Nearly 40,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since August 2022, according to the city’s “New Arrivals Situational Awareness Dashboard.” Migrants who are stopped at the border and then released into the general population are rarely medically screened or given vaccines. Legal migrants, like Green Card holders, are required to be vaccinated for a range of inoculations as part of their approval process.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a New York City-based double board-certified doctor, says the outbreaks at the Chicago migrant shelters were easily foreseen.
“To be honest, I’m not surprised. We have open borders with all sorts of people coming in from countries from all over the world bringing in various illnesses, viruses, disease and bacterial infections,” Nesheiwat says.
Tuberculosis under a microscope, left, and a Chicago migrant shelter, right.(Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, right, NIH/NAID/IMAGE.FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, top left, BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, bottom left.)
Measles is a highly contagious and serious airborne disease that can lead to severe complications and even death, especially in children. It is characterized by a fever as high as 105°F and malaise, cough, coryza and conjunctivitis followed by spots and a rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Tuberculosis, meanwhile, is also transmitted in airborne particles and typically affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain.
The measles outbreak at the shelters could easily have been prevented if migrants were given the highly effective measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, Nesheiwat says. However, the tuberculosis vaccine is generally not administered in the U.S. due to its low success rate. Instead, good hygiene and preventing people from living in cramped conditions is the best way to stop tuberculosis from spreading, she explains.
“Tuberculosis is a lung infection and one of the most common lung infections worldwide, it impacts millions of people,” Nesheiwat says.
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a New York City-based double board-certified doctor, and, Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins health policy expert and surgeon, right.(Fox News)
TUBERCULOSIS BREAKS OUT AT CHICAGO MIGRANT SHELTERS FOLLOWING MEASLES CASES
Tuberculosis cases jumped by around 1,300 cases last year to more than 9,600, the highest total in a decade, according to the CDC. As of March 28, there were 97 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S., shattering last year’s 58 cases total.
“You can catch tuberculosis if someone is coughing or sneezing or in close contact, the bacteria from those particles gets into the air and anybody nearby will breathe that in and that’s how they pick it up and that’s how they catch it,” Nesheiwat says. “It’s concerning to those who may have weak immune systems or who have underlying medical problems like asthma, lung disease, heart disease.”
Tuberculosis is not as contagious as COVID, Nesheiwat says, and you would have to be around someone for a long period of time or be in crowded areas like shelters in order to catch it.
“The good news is we have treatment for it, but the not-so-good news is the treatment is for six to 12 months of treatment of multiple antibiotics,” Nesheiwat says. “What’s scary is that there are some strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to the typical antibiotics.”
A measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, which doctors say is very effective at preventing measles. (iStock)
She also raised fears that migrants who are put on these medications may not follow through with the treatment, which could lead to pockets of outbreaks being replicated throughout the country, adding that it’s hard for health officials to keep tabs on their schedule.
Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins health policy expert and surgeon, says conditions at the migrant shelters are now a public health concern given that tuberculosis can convert into a chronic disease with “a constellation of health complications affecting almost every organ system in the body.”
“The reports of the crowding are that it is the worst it’s ever been in recent history. We’re seeing outbreaks in highly susceptible populations that are preventable,” Makary explains. “One of the sort of basics in public health is that when people in a crowded area become sick, they should be separated. They should not be in close contact with others when they have no choice, then that is a recipe for an outbreak.”
“However,” Makary continues, “the amount of time spent in the shelter has decreased, suggesting that people may manifest the infection after their time in the shelter.”
A migrant child running, left and an MMR vaccine, right.(Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, left, Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images, right)
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He said that measles is typically not fatal, but can cause permanent health damage in the children who acquire it.
The MMR vaccine, while highly effective, does not provide instant immunity in the week in which it’s administered, he says.
“So I think their issue in Chicago is they’re discovering cases of measles after the fact,” he explains. “I don’t think there is a significant risk to the public, because most people are vaccinated against measles while tuberculosis requires some kind of direct interaction. But a migrant who is sick not only needs help, but they also need some degree of precaution.”
Nesheiwat says a measles infection can lead to brain inflammation, blindness, deafness and pneumonia.
“You’re protecting against serious, potentially life-threatening, infections or complications,” Nesheiwat says of the MMR vaccine. “There is a high rate of effectiveness with these vaccines, so the outbreak was absolutely preventable.”
Nesheiwat also says she has been giving shots to migrants attending public schools in New York City, where around 180,000 migrants have arrived since 2022. The city’s board of education tells Fox News Digital that students in temporary housing are still not asked for immunization records or immigration status before they enroll in schools, although they are required to follow the CDC’s immunization catch-up requirements.
Migrants wait in a long line overnight hoping to receive a placement in a New York City shelter in December.(Getty Images )
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A CDC report found that about 3% of children entering kindergarten in the 2022–2023 school year were given an exemption in their state — the highest level ever recorded.
With the recent spike in measles and tuberculosis, Nesheiwat says that people should be making sure they are getting their annual physical checkups in order to stay healthy.
“That’s when we listen to your heart and your lungs and check your vital signs,” Nesheiwat says. “And if you’re having any symptoms like prolonged cough or fever, night sweats, chills, weight loss, see your doctor. Don’t put it off, don’t delay because the earlier we can begin treatment, the earlier we can diagnose you and the better the outcomes.”
Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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Creamy ras malai, melt-in-mouth ladoos, or fluffy cakes, just reading about them made you salivate, right? When it comes to sugar, we find ourselves in a tough position to say no to. But this has a scientific reason behind it. Carbohydrates stimulate the release of the feel-good brain chemical called serotonin, and sugar belongs to this category. This is why we find it hard to resist it. But carbs can be consumed in other forms too, like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, etc. We know it is hard to make yourself leave a piece of tasty Sandesh for a piece of fruit. However, in the long run, sugar can have adverse effects on your body.
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In fact, did you know that according to a research study published in the Journal of Nutritional Neuroscience, sugar addiction, withdrawal and cravings are similar to that of drugs of abuse? If you are someone who is looking for ways to immediately stop your sugar cravings, then this article is for you. Read these 5 easy-to-follow steps when you crave sugar next time.
Drinking water can curb your sugar cravings. Photo Credit: iStock
5 Easy To Follow Tips To Stop Yourself Immediately When You Crave Sugar
1. Drink Water
When you crave sugar, chug down a tall glass of water. Often, we can mistake thirst for hunger or sugar cravings. Drinking water can help you curb your sugar cravings and keep yourself hydrated. Drinking water can also distract your mind from the craving itself.
2. Chew Gum
Keep a pack of sugar-free gums handy when you crave something sweet. Chewing gum can help satisfy your craving for sweets without consuming actual sugar. Opt for fun flavours that you like to trick your brain into thinking you are actually having something.
3. Eat a Healthy Snack
Instead of opting for sugary treats, opt for healthier snack options that are nutritious and also satisfy your sweet cravings. For this, you also need to keep a fruit or two handy. For example, the next time you want chocolate, cut yourself a slice of apple or eat a handful of berries. These fruits don’t just contain natural sugars but also provide you with nutrition and fibre.
Pick a healthy snack to satiate your sugar cravings. Photo Credit: iStock
4. Engage In Exercising
The next time you crave something sweet, engage in a physical activity. Take a walk, practice deep breathing exercises, or do a quick workout. Physical activity can help reduce your sugar cravings by releasing endorphins or feel-good hormones. These won’t just improve your mood but also curb your sugar cravings.
5. Practice Mindfulness
Take a moment to pause and tune into your body and emotions. When you crave sugar, ask yourself if you are hungry or if there’s some other reason for your craving like boredom or stress. Practising mindfulness can help you become more in tune with your body and make conscious choices about what you consume.
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Can you suggest any other steps to follow when you crave sugar? Let us know in the comments below!
Sobhita Dhulipala considers herself an outsider — wherever she is.
She grew up in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, making her an outsider in the country’s financial and fashion capital, Mumbai. Her native tongue is Telugu, making her an outsider in predominantly Hindi-speaking Bollywood.
And now, with the release on Friday of the high-octane, Jordan Peele-produced “Monkey Man,” in which she stars alongside Dev Patel, she is again an outsider, thrust into Hollywood’s limelight. In fact, the premiere of the film at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, last month was the first time Ms. Dhulipala, 31, had ever set foot on American soil.
“In India, I’m South Indian,” Ms. Dhulipala, who lives in Mumbai, said in a video interview from her hotel room in Los Angeles. “When I come to America, I’m Indian.”
“It’s amazing that I get to come to this country with a film,” she added. “It’s like I come with an offering.”
That real-life feeling of being an outsider is the undercurrent for many of her onscreen roles. In the Amazon Prime series “Made in Heaven,” Ms. Dhulipala’s character is a low-income nobody who schemes her way into upper-class circles. In “Monkey Man,” she plays Sita, a call girl whose business is the pleasure of powerful but despicable men.
To her, being able to make a career out of playing characters on the margins who defy easy categorization is a point of pride. “Those are really beautifully complex humans,” she said. “To be considered someone who can be trusted with characters like that is really an honor.”
Acting was never Ms. Dhulipala’s career plan. Her family was full of academics, including her mother, who was a middle-school science teacher, so she figured she would do something similar. “I didn’t grow up thinking that I would be an artist or some such — it was such an irresponsible thought,” she said. “Being creative was, like, an indulgent hobby.”
She was studying for a master’s degree in corporate law in Mumbai when she first dipped her toe in entertainment by taking on a hodgepodge of modeling gigs and TV commercials. In 2013, she entered and won the Miss Earth India pageant. As she started landing more jobs, she dropped out of her master’s program and, in 2016, starred in her first Bollywood film, the psychological thriller “Raman Raghav 2.0.” She then starred in several Tollywood films (Telugu films made in southern India) before being cast in “Made in Heaven,” which was released in 2019.
But it was before she was seeing any success in India, even before the release of her first film there, that she auditioned for the role of Sita in “Monkey Man,” she said. It took the team several years to get back to her — she had assumed they had moved on and found someone else — and when the call finally came, in 2019, Mr. Patel told her that he had decided that she would be perfect for the role from the moment he saw her audition.
Ms. Dhulipala said she had been drawn to “Made in Heaven” in part because the show addressed issues — including gay rights, colorism and the caste system — that weren’t typically touched on in mainstream Bollywood hits.
“If something inspires me or there’s some value I can bring to the story, I want to belong with it,” she said.
“Monkey Man” has just the sort of array of lightning rods that attracts Ms. Dhulipala: an enclave of combative transgender women, an anti-establishment sex worker and an anti-police plot. Working with Mr. Patel on his directorial debut could have been a risky move for a Hollywood unknown, but Ms. Dhulipala said the dynamic had felt especially collaborative. “It’s a different kind of relationship altogether,” she said. “There’s trust, fear, vulnerability, and you move as one pack, one team.”
“There’s a certain purity and passion there — working with a first-time filmmaker,” she added. “So I came on board, I jumped on board.”
Granted, in this film, she barely has a few dozen lines of dialogue, and her character would not pass even a generous version of the Bechdel test. (There’s something poetic, she claimed, in portraying “the moments between the words.”)
Her willingness to buck trends spills over into her style choices, too. Early in her career, she recalled being styled by a bunch of people “who probably did not get my vibe so much,” she said. “Because I didn’t really have that much of a voice, I’d just give in.”
“I figured that I don’t have to rely on one person’s vision for me or a stylist’s psyche of what I should look like,” she said. “I can just try things I’m gravitating toward.” A lot of times, her interest in an outfit or look is laced with nostalgia. “I love a sari because maybe that’s my memory of my mother, my teachers in school. There’s a certain grace and dignity, but also sex appeal.”
DietSabya, an influential fashion and celebrity-focused Instagram account that has over 400,000 followers, named Ms. Dhulipala as one of its top picks for best dressed of 2023. Her style is a hit with fans, too. A bodycon dress by Sabyasachi that she wore in the second season of “Made in Heaven” prompted the show’s audience to label it India’s equivalent of “the revenge dress.”
Similarly, in what she said feels like another small act of rebellion, Ms. Dhulipala’s been embracing her natural curly hair. “In India, you’re just constantly wanting to look more homogenous. So everyone’s constantly trying to blow-dry, straighten — I’ve been through that journey as well,” she said. Now, she added: “I’m just like, I like my hair, the texture. Hair is history, right? It’s part of your identity.”
In keeping with her unconventional choices, Ms. Dhulipala has her eye on either sci-fi or more action movies in the future. But in the next film, she wants to do more of the action herself, she said. And perhaps a little more talking, too.
In this Pharmaceutical Executive video interview, Currax Pharmaceuticals, CEO, George Hampton, discusses their drug Contrave and the data they have to show after a 10 years in the weight loss/obesity space.
Embassy Group, the largest shareholder in Indiabulls Real Estate, has invested ₹1,160 crore through a preferential allotment of shares and warrants. Of this, 25 per cent is upfront, and the balance will be invested over 18 months. The floor price of the issuance was Rs 111.51 per share. It has also contributed several assets in Bengaluru and Chennai to Indiabulls at an 8-16 per cent discount to the average of two valuations. The assets include a 31-acre land in North Bengaluru where a project with 93 villas is proposed, a 5 lakh square feet residential project in Whitefield, and a 1.4 msf proposed high rise in Chennai.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
U DANAŠNJE vrijeme pronalaženje kvalitetnog signala za mobitel obično nije prevelik izazov, no i dalje postoje mjesta gdje je teško, pa čak i nemoguće ostvariti dobru povezanost. Nasreću, na tržištu su dostupni uređaji kao što je sat O-Boy, koji vam mogu pomoći ako ostanete bez signala.
Robusni sat otporan je na prašinu, udarce i vodu
Ideja za ovaj sat razvila se uslijed nemilog događaja. Naime, prema službenoj stranici brenda, danski poduzetnik Hadrien Dorchy je 2015. godine surfao kod otoka Cape Verdea kada mu je s daske otpala peraja učinivši povratak na obalu gotovo nemogućim. Dorchy nije imao telefon sa sobom, ali čak i da ga je imao, bio je predaleko od obale da bi mogao uspostaviti poziv.
Srećom, na kraju ga je pokupio jedan brod, ali ga je zastrašujuća situacija natjerala da se zapita kako se ona može izbjeći. Rješenje koje je smislio je O-Boy. Ovaj robusni sat otporan je na prašinu, udarce i vodu, a ima mali digitalni zaslon prekriven gorilla staklom koji pokazuje vrijeme.
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Sigurnosne značajke
Sat ima određene sigurnosne značajke, poput GetMe sustava koji šalje unaprijed napisanu SMS poruku i vaše GPS koordinate osobnim kontaktima, odnosno do njih maksimalno četiri. Nadalje, tu je i RescueMe značajka, koja šalje SOS signal centru za koordinaciju spasilačkih operacija, koji će zatim uputiti spasilački tim.
I na kraju, TrackMe značajka koja šalje GPS lokaciju u unaprijed postavljenim intervalima osobnim kontaktima, odnosno do maksimalno četiri kontakta. Ove se značajke plaćaju na mjesečnoj bazi pa tako GetMe košta od 2.5 eura mjesečno, TrackMe od 5.9 eura mjesečno, a RescueMe od 99.95 eura za period od dva mjeseca.
Za ovaj sat bila je pokrenuta KickStarter kampanja prošlog ljeta, koja je ubrzo ispunila svoj cilj financiranja, odnosno premašila ga. Redovna cijena sata je 399 eura, a trenutno je snižena i iznosi 199.50 eura. Sa službene stranice šalju diljem svijeta, a više o satu možete pogledati ovdje.
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As a Bruins fan and season-ticket holder for UCLA women’s basketball for more than 25 years, I’d like to thank staff writer Ben Bolch for writing a stupid, over-the-line hit piece on the LSU Lady Tigers, thereby providing fuel for Coach Kim Mulkey, who never needs fuel, and her players by comparing LSU vs. UCLA as “dirty debutantes” vs. “milk and cookies.”
Then after UCLA lost he rubbed salt in the wound with his next story. We don’t know what you were trying to achieve, Ben, but with writers like you, who needs enemies. Thanks for nothing.
Faith C’Dealva Laguna Niguel
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In trying to be clever Ben Bolch botched his column. Many male journalists are so out of touch and don’t have a clue about covering the popular surge in women’s sports without being sexist or misogynist. Why hadn’t we heard more about Bolch’s article until this morning after last night’s phenomenal game? Louisiana State University coach Kim Mulkey asked reporters to Google “Dirty Debutantes.” Not only is it the title of a porn movie, it is slang for whores and sluts.
I have called Angel Reese a thug and I regret it. I don’t like her type of play, but I don’t have a right to say that. Period. In the April 1 game with Iowa, Angel Reese put her team on her shoulders and gave it everything, even with an injured ankle. She hugged Caitlin Clark afterward. I was humbled. Reese will rise, and down the line, I hope to see Caitlin and Angel on the same team.
Dana Champion Los Angeles
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LSU coach Kim Mulkey is an indefatigable attention craver, who mistakenly believes the free press should serve as her public relations firm. Nevertheless, Mulkey was right to bash the degrading, divisive and defamatory commentary published in the L.A. Times.
It appears Ben Bolch cut and pasted the hoary narrative embedded in the 1980s football rivalry between Miami and Notre Dame. ESPN memorialized it with a “30 for 30” episode.
I appreciate the skill, tenacity and fire LSU exhibits. Furthermore, I find nothing divisive or dirty about them. Likewise, I appreciate the UCLA team, but I don’t buy that they’re America’s most wholesome team.
UCLA coach Cori Close said she made a huge mistake reposting the column without reading it. “I would never want to promote anything that tears down a group of people in our great game.“
Enough said.
Marc D. Greenwood Opelika, Ala.
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Editor’s note:Ben Bolch and The Times have apologized to the LSU and UCLA basketball teams and readers for the commentary posted on our website that did not meet our editorial standards. We pledge to readers to do a better job serving them moving forward.
With major elections taking place around the world this year, particularly in India, South Korea and the US, a Microsoft Threat Analysis team has warned that China will create and amplify AI-generated content to benefit its interests.
Despite the chances of such content in affecting election results remaining low, China’s increasing experimentation in augmenting memes, videos, and audio will likely continue – and may prove more effective down the line.
According to the tech giant, China is using fake social media accounts to poll voters on what divides them most to sow division and possibly influence the outcome of the US presidential election in its favour.
“China has also increased its use of AI-generated content to further its goals around the world. North Korea has increased its cryptocurrency heists and supply chain attacks to fund and further its military goals and intelligence collection. It has also begun to use AI to make its operations more effective and efficient,” the company said in a blog post.
Deceptive social media accounts by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-affiliated actors have already started to pose contentious questions on controversial US domestic issues to better understand the key issues that divide US voters.
“This could be to gather intelligence and precision on key voting demographics ahead of the US presidential election,” the company warned.
China’s geopolitical priorities remain unchanged but it has doubled down on its targets and increased the sophistication of its influence operations (IO) attacks.
The Taiwanese presidential election in January this year also saw a surge in the use of AI-generated content by China-affiliated cyber criminals.
“This was the first time that Microsoft Threat Intelligence has witnessed a nation-state actor using AI content in attempts to influence a foreign election,” said the team.
Unless something gives in the global airline industry, consumers should expect airfares to increase and planes to be packed. There may be little relief on the horizon. The combination of a rebound in flying — the International Air Transport Association reported on Thursday that world demand in February finally surpassed 2019 levels — and a dearth of new aircraft production means that airlines will be crimped on seat capacity. They will turn to raising airfares to boost revenue and cover the higher costs of operating older planes.
World demand for air travel has surpassed 2019 levels with few new aircraft to accommodate it, which means fares are headed up. (REUTERS)
This is just basic economics: Flight demand is on the rise and supply can’t keep up. Boeing Co. is struggling to increase production and can’t even meet the cap that the Federal Aviation Administration put on the 737 Max in January to force the planemaker to focus more on safety and quality.
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Under the restriction, Boeing can produce up to 38 of its single-aisle workhorse plane each month but has fallen well short of that. Cirium, which gathers data on aircraft, is showing that Boeing conducted test flights on only 13 Max aircraft last month and 11 in February, according to Vertical Research Partners. Reuters reported that production of the 737 Max fell to single digits in March.
Airbus SE, now the biggest of the large airliner manufacturing duopoly, is having fewer production problems but is still constrained by the supply chain. Hundreds of its A320neo aircraft that are already in the hands of airlines will have to be grounded for months to fix a problem with power plants made by RTX Corp.’s Pratt & Whitney unit. About 3,000 of the geared turbofan engines have been recalled.
The desperation among airlines to add more aircraft is reverberating through the leasing market. The monthly rate for the 737 Max 9 has jumped to $315,000 from $305,000 at the beginning of 2020, which is before the pandemic caused flight demand to plummet, Bloomberg News reported based on data from Ishka Global. Airbus’ A321-200 costs $335,000 a month to lease, which is back to pre-pandemic levels. Airlines are also keeping planes longer because they can’t take delivery of all the new ones they have on order with Boeing and Airbus.
It costs more to operate older planes because they require more maintenance. Parts are harder to procure for older models. There’s also a shortage of aircraft mechanics, which means an airplane may be on the ground longer waiting for work to be done. Airlines will undoubtedly be looking to boost airfares to offset these higher costs.
Global demand — measured by revenue per mile flown by passengers — jumped almost 22% in February from a year earlier, IATA said in a news release on Thursday. That put traffic at 5.7% above 2019 levels, making it a “landmark month,” Robert Stallard, an analyst with Vertical Research Partners, wrote in a note. Some airlines had already surpassed their own 2019 levels. Other regions, especially Asia, had lagged on the recovery. The rebound is now picking up worldwide. Asia-Pacific airlines recorded a 53% increase in revenue passenger miles, or RPM, and European carriers logged a 16% increase. RPM for US airlines rose 5.7%, IATA said.
While 2019 was a great year for airlines and makes for a good milestone given how much the industry suffered during the pandemic, that comparison misses all the potential growth over the years since then. This means that passenger growth has some ground to make up, giving this airline rally rather long legs. Of course, a recession could put a damper on airline traffic. But the chatter about an economic downturn has gone silent and all the main global regions are expected to grow.
Passenger demand will continue to be strong, Robert Isom, the chief executive officer of American Airlines Group Inc., said at a JPMorgan Chase conference on March 12. Corporate travel has room to recover, he said.
“Now against that demand backdrop that we feel really good about — and hopefully there’s some additional upside — there’s constraints to supply,’’ Isom said. “The aircraft manufacturers haven’t been able to really deliver on schedule.’’
With crimped supply and growing demand, something’s got to give. And that will most likely be the price consumers pay for a ticket.
Disney’s The Lion King is one of the most popular West End shows of all time, and has grossed more than $1.9 billion at the box office over the past 30 years.
The show, which is based on Disney’s animated film of the same name, follows the journey of Simba taking over the animal kingdom after his father, Mufasa, is murdered.
With music from legendary British pop star Elton John and lyrics from Tim Rice, this production has gone down in history as one of the most iconic productions ever made.
After it debuted in the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, USA, on July 8, 1997, it has travelled the world.
At the moment, Disney’s The Lion King is still playing in London’s Lyceum Theatre, and continues to have up to seven showings a week.
Here’s all the information you need on how to get tickets to Disney’s The Lion King, where it’s playing, who’s in the cast, and more.
Disney’s The Lion King is currently in residence at the Lyceum Theatre in London’s West End.
You can find Lyceum Theatre at 21 Wellington St, London, WC2E 7RQ.
The nearest tube stations to Lyceum Theatre are Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Leicester Square.
Disney’s The Lion King has a massive cast that has evolved and changed over the years.
At the time of writing, Owen Chaponda takes on the meaty role of Simba, while Merryl Ansah plays his love interest, Nala.
Meanwhile, the wise and tragic story of Mufasa is being played out by Shaun Escoffery
Rafiki, the mystical shaman is being brought to life by Thenjiwe Nofemele.
George Asprey takes on the malevolent role of Scar, the evil lion whose lust for power oversees all.
The 2024 Toyota Kluger is now up to $2630 more expensive after the popular large SUV was hit with a price rise across all variants.
Only the Kluger Grande 2WD hasn’t gone up by $2630, but its $2623 price rise is just a few dollars off.
“These changes came into effect on 4 March 2024 due to increased costs and inflationary pressures both here and overseas,” a spokesperson for Toyota Australia told CarExpert.
The Toyota Kluger’s account now opens at $54,420 before on-road costs for the GX 2WD, a $6770 increase on when the current generation model debuted in 2021 – though at the time, the base model was powered by a 3.5-litre V6 rather than a turbocharged 2.4-litre four-cylinder.
The cheapest hybrid Kluger variant is priced from $60,920 before on-roads in GX eFour guise, also a $6770 rise compared to the first iterations of the current-generation SUV.
At the top of the range, the flagship Kluger Grande eFour Hybrid is priced from $82,860 before on-road costs, making it the most expensive variant in the nameplate’s Australian history.
There aren’t any features or specification changes to the Toyota Kluger for 2024, which continues to be offered with three drivetrain combination variants across each of its three grades.
Pricing
2024 Toyota Kluger GX 2WD: $54,420 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger GX AWD: $58,420 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger GX eFour Hybrid AWD: $60,920 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger GXL 2WD: $63,940 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger GXL AWD: $67,940 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger GXL eFour Hybrid AWD: $70,440 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger Grande 2WD: $75,880 (+$2623)
2024 Toyota Kluger Grande AWD: $78,290 (+$2630)
2024 Toyota Kluger Grande eFour Hybrid AWD: $82,860 (+$2630)
All prices are before on-road costs.
Drivetrains
The Toyota Kluger’s non-hybrid versions are powered by a 2.4-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, producing 198kW of power and 420Nm of torque.
This is paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission, which sends drive to either the front wheels or an all-wheel drive system.
The Toyota Kluger Hybrid adopts a naturally aspirated 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine – producing 142kW and 242Nm on its own – to three motor generators, one on the front axle and two on the rear.
Its total system output is 184kW, and drive is sent to all four wheels through a continuously variable transmission (CVT).
Efficiency
The Toyota Kluger variants powered by the 2.4-litre turbocharged non-hybrid engine and with front-wheel drive consume a claimed 8.3L/100km on the combined cycle.
Kluger GX and GXL variants with the 2.4-litre turbocharged non-hybrid engine and all-wheel drive use a claimed 8.5L/100km on the combined cycle, whereas the Grande variant’s claim rises to 8.7L/100km.
All Toyota Kluger Hybrid variants consume a claimed 5.6L/100km on the combined cycle.
Non-hybrid Kluger variants have a 68L fuel tank and require a minimum of 91 octane regular unleaded petrol, while hybrid variants are fitted with a 65L fuel tank and require a minimum of 95 octane premium unleaded petrol.
Dimensions
The Toyota Kluger measures in at 4966mm long, 1930mm wide and 1755mm tall, riding on a 2850mm wheelbase.
Boot space with all three rows of seating upright is quoted as 241L, expanding to 552L with the third row folded and 1150L when the second row is also dropped.
Braked towing capacity for all Toyota Kluger variants is 2000kg, with an unbraked towing capacity of 700kg across the board.
Servicing and Warranty
The 2024 Toyota Kluger is covered by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.
Its engine and driveline can be covered for up to seven years, while the hybrid’s high-voltage battery receives 10 years of coverage – provided you maintain your vehicle within the Toyota dealer network.
Logbook servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km, with the first five visits capped at $265 each.
Safety
The Toyota Kluger earned a five-star ANCAP safety rating in 2021.
It received scores of 90 per cent for adult occupant protection, 88 per cent for child occupant protection, 76 per cent for vulnerable road user protection, and 82 per cent for safety assist.
The 2024 Toyota Kluger is fitted with the following safety equipment as standard:
Seven airbags
Autonomous emergency braking (AEB)
Pedestrian detection (day/night)
Cyclist detection (day)
Junction assist
Blind-spot monitoring
Rear cross-traffic alert
Emergency steering assist
Adaptive cruise control
Lane Trace Assist
Traffic sign recognition
Reversing camera
Front and rear parking sensors
The Grande also receives a surround-view camera.
The entire range also now comes standard with 12 months of complimentary access to Toyota Connected Services. Click here to find out what you can access with this.
Standard Equipment
The Kluger is available in three trim levels.
Kluger GXL
The 2024 Toyota Kluger GX comes standard with the following features:
FuturesAI breaks new ground with its Web3-powered derivatives trading platform, ushering in a borderless era for digital asset trading.
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FuturesAI’s proprietary AI-powered order engine represents a paradigm shift in the world of futures trading. This groundbreaking technology ensures instant execution of futures trades across multiple platforms, currently available on Telegram and soon expanding to Desktop and Discord. By harnessing the power of AI, FuturesAI ensures optimal trade execution, giving traders a competitive edge in the market.
One of the most exciting developments on the horizon for FuturesAI is its upcoming Partner & Referral program. This program will empower users to share the benefits of FuturesAI with their friends and followers while earning a portion of their referral’s trading fees. This innovative initiative not only incentivizes user growth but also fosters a strong and engaged community of traders.
Currently operating on ETH, FuturesAI will soon expand its offerings to include ETH-tokens for futures contracts, alongside withdrawals and deposits in ETH. Furthermore, plans are underway to incorporate Base, SOL, and AVAX within the coming weeks, providing traders with a diverse range of options to explore.
What sets FuturesAI apart is its commitment to empowering traders as stakeholders in the platform’s success. By holding $FAI tokens, traders gain governance rights and a share in the platform’s revenue, creating a collaborative ecosystem where everyone has a stake in the outcome.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza — aka bird flu — in a person who had contact with dairy cows in Texas.
A farmworker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed conjunctivitis last week, and subsequently tested positive for bird flu, the agency said.
The positive bird flu diagnosis came after milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas tested positive for the disease.
The infection follows a 2022 case in Colorado, and is the second person to test positive for the bird flu virus in the U.S.
BIRD FLU PANDEMIC IN FUTURE? EU WARNS OF POTENTIAL SPREAD TO HUMANS DUE TO ‘LACK OF IMMUNE DEFENSE’
A case of bird flu was found in a farmer who had contact with dairy cows.(iStock)
While the CDC said that the current risk these viruses pose to the public remains low, people who are regularly around infected birds, cattle, or other animals are at higher risk of infection and should take appropriate precautions.
Since 1997, more than 900 sporadic human cases of bird flu have been reported in 23 countries.
The CDC said that more than half of the approximately 900 cases resulted in death.
Scientific sampling of eggs in poor condition, analysis of avian influenza in humans, conceptual image(iStock)
While the fatality rate for humans is high, there is a near 100% fatality rate for birds with the disease.
AVIAN INFLUENZA: SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE AND HOW IT AFFECTS BIRDS AND HUMANS
Since 2015–16, bird flu cases in humans have decreased substantially, and only a few sporadic human cases have been reported worldwide since 2022.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu.
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Humans who catch avian influenza typically experience no symptoms to mild symptoms.
Those with severe cases will experience common flu-like symptoms such as cough, headache, shortness of breath, sore throat, fever, chills, fatigue and runny nose.
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Avian influenza is diagnosed through laboratory testing.
People concerned about contracting bird flu can protect themselves by using protective gear, such as gloves and eye protection and washing their hands frequently.
Qualifying people can receive the annual influenza vaccine.
Be it with simple dal chawal or stuffed parathas, just a spoonful of pickle is enough to elevate the flavours of any meal at any time of the day. In India, pickles, known as achaar, are an intrinsic part of the culinary heritage. And the best part is, there is no end to an achar recipe. Each family has their unique way of pickling that is passed on through generations. Bhagyashree shares one recent achar recipe that we came across. The actress took to Instagram to share a video of her mother preparing “Goonde ka achaar”. In the video, Bhagyashree’s mother can be seen filling a spice mix with boiled gum berries. The clip begins with the actress saying, “Mummy’s summer speciality, goonde ka achaar.” Next up, Bhagyashree asks her mother about all the ingredients that she has added to the spice mix. Her mother responds that she has added hing, turmeric, red chilli powder, methi, chane ki dal, kalonji and salt to taste. Once she has filled all the boiled gum berries with the spice mix, she stores it all in a jar and then tops it with hot oil. Voila! Your goonde ka achaar is ready.
Also Read: After Having “Good Simple Food At Home”, Bhagyashree Enjoys Chaat In Jaipur
Photo Credit: Instagram/Bhagyashree
We have pulled together a few pickle recipes that you must try out.
1. Goan Brinjal Pickle (Baingan Ka Achaar)
How would you react, if we told you that you can make a lip-smacking pickle in just 20 minutes? Presenting baingan ka achaar, which is a speciality in Goa, and tastes amazing with dal chawal. Recipe here.
2. Kamal Kakdi Ka Achaar
While this sounds highly complex, it is one of the easiest pickle recipes out there. In addition, it is a powerhouse of nutrition, as it is prepared using lotus stem and carrom seeds. Take a look at the recipe here.
3 Amra Pickle
This is one of the most popular pickle recipes in the Indian household. Desis love to pair it with plain rice and dal. Check out the recipe here.
4. Banarasi Red Chilli Pickle
This has to be one of the most beautiful-looking pickles out there. Prepared by stuffing the red chillies with dry roasted spices, lemon juice and mustard oil. If you love spicy food, then this Banarasi-style red chilli pickle is a must-try. It is spicy, and fiery and makes for the perfect accompaniment for your Indian meals. Click here for the recipe.
5. Kerala-Style Naranga Achaar
This naranga pickle is a traditional lemon pickle recipe from the state of Kerala. Talking about its flavour, this pickle is tangy, and spicy and makes for a delicious accompaniment to pair with meals. Here is your recipe.
Being raised during the Depression, we all learned to be creative with what we had on hand. At Christmas or on my birthday, I always got art supplies, and I was jealous that my siblings got bikes and stuff. I realize now that my parents were fostering my creativity.
An early influence on my becoming an artist was Simon Rodia. My grandmother lived in Watts, and we would walk by the Watts Towers when they were being built. I was fascinated by how he used bottle caps and corn cobs and broken plates — trash, essentially — to make art, to make something beautiful. Then, much later, in the 1960s, I saw the work of Joseph Cornell. He refined the use of found objects and materials and boxes, and I thought, “Wow, I’ve kind of been doing that, too.” I didn’t know it was called assemblage, but it made sense to me and set me in that direction as an artist.
The main challenge, I guess, to being an artist is how to make a living. But being a creative person means you have to find ways to do this. I studied design at U.C.L.A., and after I graduated, I made greeting cards, I made jewelry, I got into printmaking and then sold my prints. I taught art classes in colleges all over the states. My creativity kept evolving with my needs as I got married and bought a house, had my daughters and put them through college. Through it all, I loved making art. It kept me going.
I still want to make art. Sometimes in the morning when I wake up, it’s hard to get out of bed, hard to get back into my body and get it to move. But I do it. Not everyone has a reason to get out of bed, something they love to do and that gives their life meaning. I am so lucky that I have that as part of my life. I don’t really think about my age, unless someone mentions it, though I guess I feel middle-aged — which for me is, like, 50 to 70. It would be kind of neat to live to 100, to have 100 revolutions around the sun. I’m pretty close.
Current and upcoming projects: Completed “Drifting Toward Twilight,” an installation at the Huntington Library in the Bronx; “Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; “Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight” at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland; and completed a newly commissioned artwork for “Paraventi; Folding Screens from the 17th to the 21st Century” at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
Decision to discontinue marketing authorizations for Relyvrio/Albrioza comes as a result of topline results from the Phase III PHOENIX trial in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
LUKSUZNI japanski brend nakita Tasaki udružio se s poznatim japanskim proizvođačem sportske obuće Asicsom kako bi obilježio svoju 70. godišnjicu jedinstvenom suradnjom. Rezultat je niz posebno dizajniranih tenisica Asics GT-2160, koje krase rijetki i cijenjeni Akoya biseri.
Akoya biseri, poznati po svom izvanrednom sjaju i savršenom okruglom obliku, daju ovim tenisicama posebnu vrijednost, ističući ih kao simbol luksuza i elegancije.
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U sklopu kolekcije, ukupno pet varijacija modela GT-2160 bit će dostupno za kupnju, svaka s različitom količinom i rasporedom Akoya bisera. Neki parovi imaju bisere raspoređene na vezicama, dok drugi modeli imaju strane tenisica kompletno prekrivene biserima.
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Spring break turned out to be very productive for the Mater Dei and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame baseball teams.
Mater Dei entered the week with an 8-6 record. Notre Dame was 9-6-1. Both ended up going 4-0 to win prestigious tournament championships.
Mater Dei pulled off the stunner of Friday night, knocking off No. 1-ranked Corona 5-3 in the championship game of the Southern Division of the Boras Classic. The Monarchs trailed 3-0 in the second inning. Sophomore Jackson Campbell was brought in from the bullpen with the bases loaded. He struck out Corona’s two best hitters, Seth Hernandez and Josh Springer, and proceeded to throw scoreless ball for 5 2/3 innings.
Meanwhile, Mater Dei scored two runs in the fourth on a two-run double from Lawson Olmstead and added three runs in the fifth, with Brody Connors supplying an RBI double. Sophomore Ezekiel Lara had three hits for the Monarchs, who won consecutive 11-inning games to reach the final and inflict a rare defeat on Corona (15-2).
Levi Sterling of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.
(Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times)
Notre Dame won the National Classic with a 4-0 win over El Dorado. Texas commit Levi Sterling came through with his best start of the season, striking out eight, walking none and giving up three hits. Jacob Madrid had three hits.
Corona will have a busy two weeks ahead. Next week, the Panthers travel to North Carolina to play in the four-day National High School Baseball Invitational. They return to play a critical three-game Big VIII League series against rival Corona Centennial, starting April 15.
Mater Dei will play Granite Bay, the Northern California champion, in the Boras Classic championship game on April 20 at noon at Santa Clara University.
Huntington Beach 4, Etiwanda 3: John Petrie hit a three-run home run to power the Oilers.
JSerra 10, San Dimas 1: Charlie Caruso had three hits and four RBIs for JSerra.
Crespi 5, La Costa Canyon 4: Sean Sapp hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning to break a 3-3 tie. Diego Velazquez had three hits for Crespi.
Aquinas 8, Maranatha 5: Leadoff hitter Carter Hadnot had three hits and Nathan Christman contributed a home run, single and two RBIs for Aquinas. Jacob Yun had two hits and two RBIs for Maranatha.
La Mirada 6, Oaks Christian 5: Aiden Aguayo hit a two-run walk-off home run in the seventh inning for La Mirada. He finished with three RBIs. Jack Laubacher had two hits, including a home run, for Oaks Christian.
South Hills 14, Ganesha 0: Steven Jimenez had four hits and four RBIs for South Hills.
Santa Margarita 14, Granada Hills 2: Brody Schumaker hit a grand slam during an eight-run first inning and Jake Lavin finished with two hits and four RBIs to lead Santa Margarita in a five-inning win.
Servite 8, Cypress 0: Gustavo Gutierrez threw five scoreless innings and Hayden Woodson had three hits to lead Servite.
Simi Valley 8, Moorpark 1: Danny Pina hit a home run and Landen Adair and Quentin McGahan each had two hits for Simi Valley. Diego Barajas struck out 10 in a complete game.
Royal 7, Oak Park 0: Caden Sramek threw five scoreless innings.
Santa Monica 7, Carson 3: The Vikings improved to 14-3.
El Camino Real 10, Chatsworth 5: Luke Howe contributed three RBIs in a West Valley League win.
Hamilton 6, Palisades 5: Jacole Wilson finished with an RBI double and two-run single for Hamilton.
Feature phones still remain a lifeline for many people in India, but a new survey reveals a dynamic shift in consumer preferences within the country’s mobile phone market.
According to CyberMedia Research (CMR), India is experiencing a surge in digital acceleration, driving a renewed interest in affordable 4G smartphones and even 5G offerings.
The study by CMR, which covered over 2,000 mobile phone users across major Indian cities, found that three in four feature phone users are interested in switching to smartphones, primarily in Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000 price range.
“Consumers are increasingly looking for feature phones with a more premium experience, including features like UPI payments. However, the inherent limitations of these devices are ultimately driving them towards smartphones, especially affordable 4G and 5G models,” says Prabhu Ram, Head of Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CMR.
Furthermore, the research shows that consumers increasingly prefer feature phones with longer battery life (78 per cent), ease of use (74 per cent), affordability (57 per cent) and digital capabilities.
Indians spend an average of three hours every day calling (87 per cent), raising alarms (72 per cent) and texting (62 per cent). A third use apps such as the weather (47 per cent), news (34 per cent) and social media (24 per cent), the research shows.
While users recognized the benefits, they also cited disadvantages of feature phones, such as poor camera quality (62 per cent), lack of advanced apps (56 per cent) and limited internet access (53 per cent), fueling the shift to smartphones, including 5G models.
At home in the New York City suburbs, Oscar Sandoval has lots of friends and an active social life but when it’s time for vacation, he prefers to keep it quiet. Like, literally.
Disconnect to reconnect: Allure of silent travel and its health benefits (Photo by Jonathan Forage on Unsplash)
Sandoval began practicing Zen Buddhism a few years back, and has been on silent retreats to Buddhist monasteries around San Francisco and elsewhere. He’d stroll, sit, do some gardening and generally contemplate life for a week. More recently, he’s done solo backpacking trips across Spain.
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“The internal experience varies from times of very little thinking to periods of many thoughts or songs playing in my head,” he says. “The utter peace and stillness is impossible to put into words.”
Travel journalist Chloe Berge bemoaned the buzzing interruption of a drone while she was hiking the Faroe Islands’ remote coastline during the pandemic. “The world is getting louder, and it’s increasingly harder to escape the noise, even in nature.”
But it’s worth a try, say the travelers who are seeking relief in silence. Or as close as they can get to it.
From serene nature retreats to silent walking, the quest for quietude has become one of modern travel’s latest trends. Conde Nast Traveler said last month it was “the travel trend we’re most obsessed with this year.”
For many, quiet travel goes beyond escaping the cacophony of everyday life while on vacation. It can be a shift toward introspection; a deeper connection with where we are both literally and figuratively.
You might even feel healthier.
In a study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in late 2022, for instance, mindfulness meditation worked as well as a standard drug for treating anxiety.
“Transformative travel’s a trend we’re tracking for growth,” says Alex Hawkins, editor at the trend forecaster and consultancy The Future Laboratory. “It taps into consumers’ desire for self-reflective tourism experiences.”
The “wellness tourism industry,” he says, includes “demand for hyper-personal holidays and health-driven stays.”
PEACEFUL PAMPERING
The company Dark Retreats Oregon offers a five-day “Dark Retreat” in Tidewater, Oregon, as “a great space for self-care” through darkness, digital detox and a healthy diet. Participants can keep the lights off as much as they want during their stay, and can also decide how much they talk to others.
BookRetreats, which urges clients to “Unplug. De-stress. Recharge,” offers silent meditation retreats in Bali, Portugal, Mexico and the Netherlands, and closer to home in North Carolina, Quebec and California.
Finland’s Utula Nature offers a silent stay amidst the pines on Lake Saimaa, about five hours from Helsinki.
SERENE STROLLING
Ditching the phone, zipping your lip, and putting on your comfy hikers; that’s the silent walking trend that’s found thousands of friends on TikTok.
Gordon Hempton is an acoustic ecologist in Washington State also known as The Sound Tracker. He’s spent several decades roaming rainforests, coastlines and deserts looking for interesting and often rare nature sounds — sounds you can’t easily hear when there’s a lot of human-made noise. “I care very deeply about quiet,” he says.
He’s a co-founder of Quiet Parks International, a non-profit created to raise awareness of the benefits for both people and wildlife of less noise. Ecuador’s Zabalo River park was the first to receive quiet park designation – it’s not technically “quiet,” of course: Howler monkeys, birds, insects and the thrum of the river provide a natural soundtrack. But the nearest concentration of human activity is a village of roughly 200 people, about 10 miles away.
There are even a couple of urban areas designated as quiet parks – one just outside the bustling metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital. Another is in Hampstead Heath, about 30 miles from central London. The grassy, 800-acre park inspired C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
Quiet Parks International offers experiences like forest bathing, where you open your senses to the meditative and relaxing elements of a walk in the woods.
For those who can’t get out to nature, the Quiet Parks website has recordings of wildlife and weather in the rainforest; morning in the West Texas desert; and sounds of day and nightfall in northern Alaska.
LOW-KEY LOST
Black Tomato’s got an interesting proposition for you. The avant-garde travel company offers a trip they call Get Lost. You fill out an extensive questionnaire on what you’re expecting from your escape, but you’ll have no idea where you’re going till they get you there. Environment options are Polar, Desert, Coastal, Jungle or Mountain.
You’re given pre-trip prep advice and navigation instruction, and then, at trip time, all the transfers, gear and mapped-out checkpoints you’ll need. Your progress is monitored by a specialist in the chosen environment and by a local guiding support team. You can bail out at any time.
“We’ve sent clients to Iceland and Alaska,” says Black Tomato’s co-founder Tom Marchant. “We sent one solo traveler to Mongolia.” A woman trekked on her own across Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.
Marchant says there’s the challenge of managing the environment, but “it’s also a time to truly disconnect from daily life in an entirely new way.”
Micky Flanagan may have just played arena shows around the UK, but he’s nowhere near done just yet.
The British comedian has just confirmed he’ll be playing a string of theatre shows in just a few weeks’ time.
Beginning in Canterbury, the 61-year-old comic will be hitting eight massive venues across the country to kickstart the summer of comedy.
Titled “If Ever We Needed It…” tour, he’ll be arriving in Oxford, Plymouth, Ipswich, Newcastle, Reading and more from April 19 (that’s just a couple of weeks away).
The star has promised to leave audiences “rolling in the aisles” as he discusses turning 60, seeing the world around him change, and poking fun at himself along the way.
Tickets are out very soon, but there is a big presale kicking off just before then. Here’s what you need to know:
Micky Flanagan tickets will be released on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at 10am.
These tickets will be available from a number of online retailers, including Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Here’s the full breakdown:
LIVE NATION – Buy Micky Flanagan tickets here.
TICKETMASTER – Buy Micky Flanagan tickets here.
These tickets will reportedly be the final chance fans have to see the star this summer, so if you’re keen to laugh at the cockney comic’s routine, get involved as soon as possible.
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It seems like not only are the cheapest cars in Australia not so cheap anymore, but there are also far fewer options at this end of the market.
There are just two micro cars on sale in Australia, and five surviving light cars with a base price under $30,000.
Rewind 10 years ago to April 2014 and there were nine micro cars on sale and 19 light cars with a base price under $25,000.
But let’s go back even further, to a time where boy bands were big and people were worried about Y2K. Yes, it’s time to party like it’s 1999.
UK model shown
In April 1999, the cheapest car in Australia – the Daihatsu Sirion – was $11,990 before on-road costs.
According to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s inflation calculator, $11,990 in 1999 was worth in 2023 – the most recent year available – approximately $23,500. That’s actually more than the current cheapest car in Australia, which is $18,990 drive-away.
Whether wages have kept up with inflation is another matter is outside the scope of this article, as is the cost of living, but looking purely at vehicle prices you can see in 2024 there are still vehicles available for under $23,500.
Here are the five cheapest cars in Australia in April 2024.
MG 3 Core
Price: $18,990 drive-away
It’s Australia’s cheapest car again… for now.
After Kia’s recent Picanto facelift, which saw the Korean city car receive a significant upgrade in safety equipment but also a price rise, the MG 3 took back the crown.
With a recent price cut to $18,990 drive-away, the MG 3 has further cemented its role. With satellite navigation, its price climbs to $19,490 drive-away, while even the flagship Excite is priced at $19,990 drive-away.
Its role as Australia’s cheapest car will be short-lived. MG has said its next-generation MG 3, due here in July, will cost around $5000 more.
All MG 3 models feature a naturally aspirated 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine producing 82kW of power and 150Nm of torque, mated with a four-speed automatic transmission.
It uses 6.7L/100km on the combined cycle, and runs on 91 RON regular unleaded fuel.
There’s no standard autonomous emergency braking, but you do get other features that have become essentially universal (and in some cases mandatory) in the past 25 years in Australia, such as front, front-side and curtain airbags, anti-lock brakes, electronic stability control, a reversing camera and rear parking sensors.
Standard equipment across the range includes an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay, cruise control, remote control central locking, power windows and mirrors, a height-adjustable steering wheel and driver’s seat, air-conditioning, automatic headlights and tyre pressure monitoring.
The Core gets a four-speaker sound system (instead of six like the Excite) and 15-inch alloy wheels instead of 16s, and misses out on satellite navigation.
All MG 3 models are backed by a seven-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty and come with seven years of capped-price servicing.
Intervals are every 12 months or 10,000km, with the first seven services capped at $251, $301, $292, $350, $251, $341 and $251.
MORE: Buy an MG 3 MORE: 2023 MG 3 review
Kia Picanto Sport manual
Price: $17,890 before on-roads ($20,690 drive-away)
Members of the Picanto range take up a few of the spots in the top five cheapest cars list.
The Sport auto is $19,490 before on-roads ($21,690 drive-away), while the flagship GT-Line manual and auto are priced at $19,690 and $21,290 before on-roads ($22,490 and $23,490 drive-away) respectively.
The entire range therefore undercuts the next cheapest vehicles on this list, but where would be the fun of having just two nameplates on a list like this?
A mid-life update, launched last year, brought more standard safety equipment and bolder styling, but saw the turbocharged GT flagship axed.
All Picantos, therefore, now come with a naturally aspirated 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine producing 62kW and 122Nm, mated with either a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmission.
Combined cycle fuel consumption is 5.4L/100km with the manual and 6.0L/100km with the auto, and the Picanto runs on 91 RON regular unleaded fuel.
All Picanto models come standard with autonomous emergency braking, lane-keep assist, Lane Following Assist (lane centring), a reversing camera and rear parking sensors.
They also come with blind-spot assist and rear cross-traffic assist, which will see the vehicle actively intervene to stop you from colliding with another vehicle instead of simply sounding an alert.
There are also alerts to warn you if you’re about to open your door into the path of another vehicle, and to notify you if the vehicle ahead is moving while you’re stopped.
The base Picanto Sport features 14-inch alloy wheels and automatic halogen headlights with automatic high-beam, as well as power-folding exterior mirrors, cruise control, power windows and remote keyless entry.
Inside, there’s an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus a leatherette-wrapped steering wheel and shifter.
Picanto Sport and GT-Line
Stepping up to the GT-Line gets you larger 16-inch alloy wheels, LED headlights and leatherette upholstery, among other niceties.
The Picanto is backed by a seven-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty, and Kia offers seven years of capped-price servicing.
The first seven services, required every 12 months or 15,000km, are capped at $310, $506, $367, $537, $349, $630 and $370.
MORE: Buy a Kia Picanto MORE: 2024 Kia Picanto review
Suzuki Ignis GL manual
Price: $21,490 before on-roads
Ignis GLX pictured
Small car specialist Suzuki’s cheapest model here is the quirky Ignis, a kind of tallboy hatch that’s marketed as an SUV but at just 3.7m long is close to a Picanto in size.
It’s powered by a naturally aspirated 1.2-litre four-cylinder engine with 66kW and 120Nm, mated with a five-speed manual; a continuously variable transmission adds an extra $1000 to the price of the base GL.
The Ignis uses 4.7L/100km on the combined cycle (4.9L/100km with the optional auto) and runs on 91 RON regular unleaded fuel.
The entry-level GL rides on 15-inch steel wheels with wheel covers, while inside there’s a leather-wrapped steering wheel with tilt adjustment, a height-adjustable driver’s seat, air-conditioning, a four-speaker sound system, a 7.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system,
There’s no autonomous emergency braking, but you get front, front-side and curtain airbags and a reversing camera.
Cruise control, power windows, and a rear wiper also feature as standard.
Suzuki backs the Ignis with a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty and offers five years of capped-price servicing.
The first five services are capped at $319, $429, $409, $449 and $349, with intervals of 12 months or 15,000km.
MORE: Buy a Suzuki Ignis MORE: 2023 Suzuki Ignis review
Hyundai Venue manual
Price: $22,500 before on-roads
Hyundai sales really took off in Australia during the run of the second-generation Excel, which started at $13,990 drive-away. Adjusted for inflation, that figure works out to be $27,484, while Hyundai’s current entry-level model – based on a Queensland postcode – rings up at $25,490 drive-away.
Instead of a hatchback body style like the Excel or its Accent or Getz successors, the Hyundai Venue has a boxy body and is marketed as an SUV.
It’s front-wheel drive-only, though, and in Australia comes exclusively with a naturally aspirated 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine producing 90kW of power and 151Nm of torque.
There are three trim levels, but only the base Venue offers a six-speed manual. You can, however, get a six-speed auto for an extra $2000.
The Venue uses 7.0L/100km on the combined cycle with the manual or 7.2L/100km with the auto, and runs on 91 RON regular unleaded fuel.
All Venues come standard with autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection, as well as lane-keep assist, driver attention warning, tyre pressure monitoring, and alerts to advise you the vehicle ahead is driving off and to check if you’ve left anybody in the back seat before locking the car.
There are also front, front-side and curtain airbags and a reversing camera.
Also standard on the base Venue are automatic headlights with automatic high-beam, 15-inch alloy wheels, cruise control and remote central locking.
Inside, there’s an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system with wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, plus a wireless phone charger, four-speaker sound system, tilt and telescopic steering column adjustment, power windows and air-conditioning.
The Venue is backed by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty, and Hyundai offers lifetime capped-price servicing. The first five services are capped at $299, $299, $395, $525 and $299.
MORE: Buy a Hyundai Venue MORE: 2023 Hyundai Venue review
Mazda 2 G15 Pure manual
Price: $22,870 before on-roads
The Mazda 2 is the priciest of this quintet, but it has one of the more comprehensive suites of safety equipment.
Not only is there standard autonomous emergency braking, there’s also blind-spot monitoring, lane-keep assist, and rear cross-traffic alert.
Also unusual for this end of the market are standard automatic LED headlights, which make rural driving safer. Unlike the Picanto, however, the blind-spot and rear cross-traffic systems use alerts only, and don’t steer or brake the vehicle to get you out of strife.
These features are in addition to the obligatory reversing camera, rear parking sensors, and front, front-side and curtain airbags.
While the base G15 Pure grade is offered in either five-door hatch or four-door sedan body styles, you can only get the price-leader six-speed manual transmission in the hatch. The auto costs an extra $2000 if you don’t want to row your own gears.
Under the bonnet is a naturally aspirated 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine with 82kW and 144Nm (81kW and 142Nm in auto models), with an automatic stop/start system.
The manual uses a claimed 5.4L/100km on the combined cycle. That makes it slightly thirstier than the auto, which uses 5.0L/100km. All run on 91 RON regular unleaded fuel.
Standard equipment on the G15 Pure includes 15-inch alloy wheels, rain-sensing wipers, power-folding exterior mirrors, a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter, tilt and telescopic steering wheel adjustment, remote keyless entry, air-conditioning and power windows.
There’s a 7.0-inch infotainment screen with wireless Apple CarPlay and wired Android Auto, as well as DAB+ digital radio and six-speaker sound system.
The Mazda 2 is backed by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty, and Mazda offers five years of capped-price servicing.
Intervals are every 12 months or 15,000km, and the first five services are capped at $334, $526, $396, $526 and $334.
MORE: Buy a Mazda 2 MORE: 2024 Mazda 2 G15 Pure review
Rewind 25 years, and autonomous emergency braking wasn’t yet around in any cars in Australia, let alone mandated on new vehicle introductions.
Air-conditioning wasn’t standard on all new vehicles, while features like power windows and mirrors were still luxuries at the lowest end of the market. Even power steering was missing from some cheapies, and you’d need good luck finding a light car with cruise control.
Even airbags were rare among circa-$15,000 cars.
In 1999, it wasn’t a question of “does this sub-$20,000 car have Apple CarPlay?” but rather “does this have intermittent wipers?”
Here are the cheapest cars in Australia back in April 1999:
Daihatsu Sirion
Price: $11,990 Price adjusted for inflation (2023):$23,555
Daihatsu’s lineup in the late 1990s was in flux. The Charade was on its way out, and would be axed in 2000… only for the name to reappear later on a smaller, cheaper model. The ancient Applause hatch, rugged Rocky and Feroza off-roaders, pint-sized Move, and Pyzar people mover were all killed by the end of the century.
The long-running Charade effectively made way for two vehicles: the smaller, cheaper Sirion in 1998, and the tallboy YRV in 2001.
The frog-faced Sirion was powered by a 1.0-litre three-cylinder engine with just 41kW of power and 88Nm of torque, mated with a five-speed manual or – for $1500 more – a four-speed automatic.
With a claimed 0-100km/h time of 17.7 seconds, it wasn’t quick.
For your meagre outlay though, you got metallic paint, power windows, power mirrors, central locking, dual airbags, a two-speaker sound system with a cassette player, and intermittent wipers. That was a surprisingly full feature list for something this cheap.
Air-conditioning was a $1335 option while anti-lock brakes were an extra $790.
The Sirion was backed by a three-year, 100,000km warranty.
Suzuki Swift Cino 1.3
Price: $12,990 drive-away Price adjusted for inflation: $25,519
Suzuki Swift GP Encore pictured
The ancient Suzuki Swift was on its last legs in 1999. It had arrived in Australia a decade prior, and would finally be ditched for the quirky Ignis in 2000.
For some reason, only North America had received a replacement Swift – also known as the Geo/Chevrolet Metro and, in Canada, as the Pontiac Firefly – back in 1995. It used the same platform but featured entirely new styling, as well as standard dual airbags.
Markets like Europe, Japan and Australia stuck with the old 1989-vintage Swift which, by April 1999 was once again Suzuki’s cheapest model after it axed the $9990 Indian-built Alto a few months prior.
Under the bonnet was a naturally aspirated 1.3-litre four-cylinder engine with 50kW of power and 101Nm of torque, up 10kW and 29Nm on the defunct Alto’s 1.0-litre.
For your money, you got body-coloured bumpers, split/fold rear seats and a cassette player. Power steering was an option along with air-conditioning, and there were no airbags to be seen.
There was a special edition GP Encore offered around this period which was a bit less grim, featuring air-conditioning, alloy wheels, power steering and power windows for $12,385 before on-road costs.
All Suzukis featured a three-year, 60,000km warranty in 1999.
Proton Satria GL 1.5
Price when new: $13,490 drive-away Price adjusted for inflation: $26,501
Proton was a brand that never really seemed to get any traction in Australia, whether it was selling reheated old Mitsubishis like the first Satria, Persona and M21, or in-house designs like the Gen.2.
Arriving here in 1995 with a restyled Lancer called the Wira, the Malaysian brand added a second model in 1997 called the Satria.
This was little more than a Malaysian-built version of the previous-generation Mitsubishi Colt/Mirage that had never been offered here, arriving shortly after that model’s successor was launched in Australia.
Unlike the Wira, styling was essentially unchanged from the Mitsubishi donor vehicle – hardly a bad thing, as the Colt still looked modern by 1997, and it’s not as though Australians had tired of seeing it on our roads.
It had the most generous warranty of any of the cars here at three years or unlimited kilometres, and came with standard air-conditioning, power steering, and a height-adjustable driver’s seat and steering wheel. It didn’t have any airbags, though – only Proton’s M21 coupe would offer one in 1999.
Under the bonnet was a naturally aspirated 1.5-litre four-cylinder engine with 66kW and 126Nm, mated with a five-speed manual; a four-speed auto was a $1000 option. The claimed 0-100km/h time was 13.6 seconds.
The Satria – which was also offered with a larger 1.6-litre and, later, in a hot 1.8-litre GTI model – was Proton’s most successful model in Australia. That’s not saying much as even in 1998, its best year, Proton sold 1920 examples, which saw it outsold by almost all its rivals bar a handful of Daihatsu and Suzuki models and the Volkswagen Polo.
There was a glut of vehicles under $15,000 – 14 different models and 17 variants in total – so we’ve limited this to vehicles priced at $13,990 drive-away in April 1999, of which there were still several.
Ford Festiva Trio 1.3 Hyundai Excel Sprint 1.5 Suzuki Wagon R+ GA 1.0 Toyota Starlet Life 1.3
Price when new: $13,990 drive-away Price adjusted for inflation: $27,484
Suzuki Wagon R+
At a time where Toyota’s most affordable car is only just under the $30,000 mark, where Hyundai no longer sells a light hatch here, and Ford no longer sells any passenger cars beyond the Mustang, this quartet stands out.
Much as the Ignis is one of the cheapest cars on sale today, the Wagon R+ was another quirky, tallboy hatch/wagon that was one of the cheapest cars on sale in 1999, although it was in the process of being phased out by this point.
The Wagon R+ was a modified version of the Wagon R kei car for export markets. Gone was the 658cc engine required to meet Japanese kei regulations, replaced with a 1.0-litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine with 48kW and 81Nm. A five-speed manual was the only transmission.
It measured just 3410mm long, 1575mm wide but 1705mm tall on a 2335mm wheelbase, but this was still 115mm longer, 180mm wider and on a 75mm longer wheelbase than the Japanese-market Wagon R.
Standard equipment was decent, with a driver’s airbag, front power windows, split/fold rear seats and metallic paint. Alloy wheels and air-conditioning were optional.
Hyundai Excel Sprint
The Wagon R+ may have been tiny, but it was a huge flop here. Officially sold here for around two years, just 602 examples were sold – slightly less than even the also unpopular Daihatsu Move.
Far more orthodox were the other $13,990 drive-away cheapies: the Festiva, Excel, and Starlet.
The Excel was enormously popular in the 1990s, offering a little more space than many light cars plus a long warranty (five years or 130,000km).
The 1999 Excel Sprint also featured a gutsy 1.5-litre four producing 77kW and 137Nm, and by this point air-conditioning and power steering had been made standard though a driver’s airbag was optional.
Also standard were intermittent wipers, body-coloured bumpers, remote boot and fuel filler door releases, and a four-speaker sound system with a cassette player.
Ford Festiva Demon special edition pictured
A five-speed manual was standard, with a four-speed auto costing an extra $1758.
The Excel was far and away the best-selling car in its segment, and in 1999 was the fourth best-selling vehicle overall in Australia.
Further down the sales charts were the Japanese Toyota Starlet and Korean Ford Festiva, both of which had a shorter three-year, 100,000km warranty and 1.3-litre four-cylinder engines.
The Festiva’s engine produced 47kW and 100Nm and was mated with a five-speed manual, though a more powerful 1.5-litre was available higher up in the range.
Power steering, a CD player, a remote hatch release, a rear wiper, and a four-speaker sound system were standard, with a driver’s airbag, air-conditioning and a three-speed auto transmission optional.
Toyota Starlet Style 5-dr pictured
The Starlet’s 1.3-litre, the only engine offered in Toyota’s light hatch, produced 55kW and 112Nm and was mated with a five-speed manual.
A driver’s airbag was standard, with a passenger airbag, anti-lock brakes, power mirrors, central locking, power steering and a three-speed auto transmission among the options.
The Starlet was replaced in 1999 by the much more distinctive Echo, while the Festiva expired in 2000 and was replaced by the three-door-only Ka.
In the fiercely competitive arena of altcoins, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) stand as formidable contenders, each vying for the coveted altcoin crown. However, amidst this clash of titans, analysts are turning their attention to a newcomer with promising potential: Furrever Token (FURR). With its innovative approach and captivating charm, Furrever Token has captured the imagination of analysts, who are heralding it as the next big contender in the cryptocurrency industry. As the battle for altcoin supremacy intensifies, all eyes are on Furrever Token to see if it can live up to the lofty expectations set forth by analysts.
Solana (SOL) Analysis: Navigating Market Volatility with 1.5% Decline, Potential for Recovery Amidst 5% Overall Loss
Solana (SOL) is currently priced at around $185, reflecting a 1.5% decline from the previous day, coinciding with a 5% overall loss in the crypto market. Despite a 2.2% decline last week, Solana has demonstrated remarkable growth, surging by 41.9% over the past 30 days and 800% over the last year. Analysts suggest this mid-term decline may be a temporary setback within Solana’s longer-term growth trend.
Anticipating a market recovery ahead of the Bitcoin halving later this month, analysts view the current downturn as a potential buying opportunity. Market analysis indicates Solana (SOL) entering a potential recovery phase, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) dropping below 30, signalling oversold conditions and a potential rebound. The convergence of SOL’s 30-day moving average towards the 200-day moving average suggests the current downtrend may be nearing its bottom.
With a healthy trading volume of around $4.3 billion and ranking as the second most popular altcoin among funds, investor interest in SOL persists. Additionally, whales are seen accumulating SOL amid price declines. Developments such as the Bitcoin halving and Ethereum ETFs are viewed as positive catalysts for market sentiment, further solidifying Solana’s position as a fundamentally sound altcoin.
Solana’s total value locked (TVL) has grown alongside the demand for NFTs and meme coins, which is expected to continue boosting SOL’s price. Considering these factors, Solana’s potential to reach $200 in the coming weeks and potentially $250 during the summer months seems plausible.
Ethereum (ETH) Outlook: Potential for ATH Breakout Amidst Market Volatility
Ethereum (ETH) is currently priced at around $3,341, marking a 1% increase from the previous day. Recent trends show similarities with Bitcoin (BTC), particularly observed on April 2nd when ETH dipped below the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) of $3,414. Additionally, the anticipation surrounding ETF approval has contributed to weakening ETH prices.
Renowned crypto analyst Criptopaul has made bold predictions, suggesting that Ethereum could reach its all-time high (ATH) within the next few days. Highlighting historical data showcasing Ethereum’s outperformance against Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) following previous halving events, Criptopaul anticipates ETH to reach new highs, especially with the upcoming halving event expected around April 19th.
Criptopaul emphasized, “The halving is coming and historically has always been a turning point for an altcoin explosion and reversal of ETH/BTC. Are you ready? Also expecting new ETH ATH within 30 days.”
As of writing, ETH/BTC is trading at 0.05017 BTC ($3,285), marking over a 2% decline in the past 24 hours. Ethereum had reached its ATH of $4,900 in 2021.
Moreover, the trader hinted at potential rallies for other altcoins this month, suggesting a bullish sentiment in the market.
With the 20-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $3,493 turning downwards and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) flirting with oversold territory, ETH’s price could potentially decline to $2,700 with BTC’s slow recovery. Conversely, closing above the 50-day SMA could target prices between $3,679 and $4,000.
In the dynamic world of cryptocurrencies, Furrever Token (FURR) emerges as a potential game-changer, captivating the attention of investors and enthusiasts alike. Positioned as more than just another digital asset, FURR embodies a unique blend of innovation, community engagement, and a whimsical charm that sets it apart from the crowd.
At the core of Furrever Token’s appeal lies its mission to revolutionize the crypto landscape by infusing it with an irresistible dose of cuteness. Departing from the seriousness often associated with blockchain projects, FURR brings a refreshing and light-hearted approach that resonates with users globally. By leveraging the universal appeal of adorable cat imagery, Furrever Token creates an ecosystem that fosters joy, camaraderie, and shared enthusiasm among its community members.
One of the key factors driving Furrever Token’s potential as the next big altcoin sensation is its innovative features and offerings. From transforming everyday transactions into delightful experiences with cute cat-themed stickers and visuals to engaging the community through challenges and rewards, FURR creates a truly immersive and enjoyable crypto experience.
Moreover, Furrever Token’s tokenomics, with its up to 15X return offer and a community-driven approach, further solidifies its position as a promising contender in the crypto space. With a successful presale already underway and significant investor interest, FURR has captured the imagination of many, hinting at the possibility of a groundbreaking journey ahead.
As the crypto market continues to evolve and adapt, Furrever Token stands poised to carve out its niche as the next big altcoin sensation, offering not just financial opportunities but also a delightful journey filled with cute cat-themed adventures and shared moments of joy.
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The Bahwan Cybertech Group announced a scholarship fund of ₹25-lakh to support the students at Ethiraj College for Women on Friday.
The proposed scholarship fund will be dedicated to supporting the academic and sporting aspirations of deserving students, said VM Muralidharan, Chairman, Ethiraj College Trust, and Chief Operating Officer, Bahwan Cybertech Group during the 76th College Day celebrations of Ethiraj College for Women on Friday.
‘Women’s education’
Aravindan Selvaraj, Co-founder and Executive Director of Kauvery Hospitals said: ‘Women’s education is key to ensure dignity in the society.” He also recalled the philanthropic contribution of the visionary founder of the College VL Ethiraj to the social cause of women’s education and empowerment.
From 96 students in 1948, Ethiraj College for Women has grown to over 7,800 students today. It has been granted the “college with potential for excellence” status by UGC and has been re-accredited with an “A+” grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
Ahead of the Monday, April 8th solar eclipse, eye doctors are warning people not to look directly at the sun — which could lead to blindness and permanent eye damage.
“This can happen in less than a second from looking at the sun,” Dr. Matthew Gorski, M.D., an ophthalmologist with Northwell Health on Long Island, New York, told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Another expert echoed those potential dangers.
FOR SOLAR ECLIPSE SAFETY, HERE’S WHAT DRIVERS SHOULD NOT DO ON THE ROAD DURING THE RARE EVENT
“It is very possible that you can wind up with a permanent blind spot from viewing the eclipse without the appropriate protection,” Dr. Avnish Deobhakta, M.D., a vitreoretinal surgeon at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai in New York City, told Fox News Digital.
“The eclipse is a wondrous but also dangerous event,” he said. “And everyone must be vigilant during it.”
“It is very possible that you can wind up with a permanent blind spot from viewing the eclipse without the appropriate protection,” said one expert. Check out the proper preparation ahead of April 8. (Getty Images/iStock)
“The sun’s rays are extremely powerful, and can damage the part of the eye that takes up the light.”
In that case, the damage may be irreversible, Deobhakta warned.
Looking directly at the sun could lead to a rare type of retinal injury called solar retinopathy, experts say.
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One case involved a young woman in her 20s who was viewing the solar eclipse in August 2017, according to a case study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
“The woman viewed the solar rim several times for approximately six seconds without protective glasses and then again for approximately 15 to 20 seconds with a pair of eclipse glasses (unknown manufacturer). The peak obscuration of the sun’s area by the moon was approximately 70%,” the report stated.
Permanent eye damage can happen “in less than a second from looking at the sun,” an optometrist warned.(iStock)
The woman began experiencing blurred and distorted vision and color distortion four hours later.
At the time, doctors at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in New York City diagnosed her with solar retinopathy.
“It can happen in an instant,” Gorski told Fox News Digital during an interview.
“Solar retinopathy is a disease process that occurs when the super strong UV light rays from the sun damage the delicate structures of the retina inside the eye.”
Symptoms include blurry vision, blind spots, distortion, light sensitivity and headaches.
“It is very possible that you can wind up with a permanent blind spot from viewing the eclipse without the appropriate protection.”
In some cases, the symptoms may improve, the ophthalmologist noted.
“The bad news, however, is that oftentimes, the same symptoms can be permanent, including blindness,” Gorski said.
Anyone who develops symptoms should immediately see an eye doctor, he advised.
Dean Cabrera watches the solar eclipse in Washington, D.C., from the National Mall near the National Museum of African American History, on Aug. 21, 2017. (Jack Gruber/USA TODAY/Imagn)
Gorski stressed the importance of following best safety practices when viewing a solar eclipse, and to never look directly at the sun without wearing the proper eye protection.
“The only way to look at the sun is with those special solar eclipse glasses, or viewers, that carry the designation ISO12312-2,” he said.
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It is also important to buy solar eclipse glasses from a reputable vendor and to inspect the glasses for any scratches, damage or holes.
Children require special attention, Gorski cautioned.
A solar eclipse is photographed on Aug. 21, 2017, in Madras, Oregon.(ROB KERR/AFP via Getty Images)
“You have to know your child,” he said. “You have to make sure they are going to be responsible enough to properly wear the solar eclipse glasses … and that the glasses properly fit their faces.”
In general, whether or not there’s an eclipse, it’s never a good idea to look directly at the sun, Gorski told Fox News Digital.
Deobhakta reiterated the importance of purchasing the special ISO 12312-2 standard glasses from a verified vendor.
Parents and caregivers should ensure that children wear the appropriate solar eclipse glasses and that they fit properly, say experts.(iStock)
“Sunglasses that you might get at a store to wear on a regular day do not protect the eyes from the eclipse,” he said.
“The ones you need are much stronger.”
There are other ways to safely view the eclipse, Deobhakta mentioned.
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“One way is to use a method that indirectly looks at the rays via a projection, such as with a pinhole camera,” he said.
Ophthalmologists at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary issued an advisory that offered several safety tips, as included below.
7 safety tips to know ahead of the solar eclipse
1. Do not look directly at the sun or the sun’s rays during the eclipse without proper eye protection.
2. Only special-purpose solar filter sunglasses will protect your eyes.
3. Glasses filters must be up to international safety standards and labeled as “ISO 12312-2” compliant.
4. Be careful of counterfeits often sold online — seek out approved vendors listed by the American Astronomical Society.
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5. Do not use binoculars or special lenses that magnify the eclipse — these can focus the sun’s rays into the retina and cause damage.
6. It is safe to properly use a pinhole camera to view the eclipse.
7. If you record the eclipse on your phone, do not look at the screen while it’s recording and watch the video later.
“Kuch Meetha Hojaye?” Over the ages, we’ve been under the influence that every good news or day has to end on a sweeter note. But as we confront various health issues and observe case studies, many of us have resolved to cut down on sugar entirely. This dilemma leaves us with numerous questions but limited answers: Should we stop consumption completely? Should we indulge only on weekends? Is stevia a good alternative? Let’s dive into solving these questions. Also Read: Is Sugar Really Bad For Your Health? Here’re 5 Facts You Need To Keep In Mind
Before embarking on a journey to cut back on sugar, it’s crucial to consider several essential points that could impact your efforts and potentially lead to increased consumption. Sugar is a nutritional element that significantly influences both our mental and physical health. While natural sugars found in whole foods like fruits and vegetables are acceptable in moderation, excessive consumption of added sugars can have detrimental effects on our well-being. Added sugars, which are incorporated into various processed and packaged foods by food producers to enhance flavour or extend shelf life, are the primary concern. These added sugars come in various forms, including table sugar, beet sugar, honey, agave, high fructose corn syrup, and brown rice syrup. Surprisingly, many foods that we might not associate with sweetness, such as soups, bread, cured meats, and ketchup, also contain added sugars. Also Read: 9 Best Sugar-Free Desserts To Try At Home
High sugar intake has been linked to elevated inflammation, increased triglyceride levels, and higher blood pressure, all of which contribute to an increased risk of heart disease and other metabolic disorders. Additionally, excessive sugar consumption can lead to the accumulation of fat in arteries, resulting in atherosclerosis.
However, reducing sugar intake can be challenging due to its addictive nature. Sugar consumption directly stimulates the brain, causing the production of dopamine, the “feel good” neurotransmitter. In fact, sugar has been shown to have a similar effect on the brain as highly addictive narcotics like cocaine. Frequent consumption of sugary foods and beverages can lead to increased cravings, and cutting back on sugar may result in withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, anxiety, and heightened sugar cravings.
Moreover, individuals may inadvertently develop binge-eating habits as a result of sugar withdrawal. The cycle of sugar dependence and withdrawal can be exacerbated by feelings of guilt, shame, anger, and depression, leading to further overeating of sugary foods in an attempt to alleviate negative emotions.
A healthy diet should have low sugar quantity. Photo Credit: iStock
Here Are 4 tips to combat sugar cravings and excess consumption:
1. Consume additional protein:
Protein-rich foods contain amino acids, which are essential for producing brain chemicals that help curb sugar cravings and promote clearer thinking.
2. Choose fresh fruit snacks:
Fresh fruits contain natural sugars and fibre, making them a healthier alternative to pastries and candy bars.
3. Prioritize sleep:
Adequate sleep helps regulate hunger hormones and reduce cravings for sugary treats.
4. Stay hydrated:
Drinking plenty of water can help combat fatigue and headaches associated with sugar withdrawal.
In addition to these tips, it’s essential to be mindful of your overall diet and lifestyle. While sugar can be consumed as part of a balanced diet, it’s crucial to limit the intake of added sugars found in sweets, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, fizzy drinks, and juices. Instead, focus on incorporating whole, nutrient-dense foods into your diet.
As a sugar substitute, stevia can be a viable option for reducing added sugar consumption while still enjoying sweet flavours. Derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, stevia sweeteners are zero-calorie alternatives that can be used in a variety of foods and beverages. However, it’s essential to consume stevia in moderation and be aware of potential side effects, including diuretic effects and digestive discomfort associated with sugar alcohol.
About the author: Shraddha Bhosale is a Consultant Dietician at Adhikari Lifeline Multispecialty Hospital.
The last episode of “The New Look,” the Apple TV+ series about Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and the birth of post-World War II fashion, aired on April 4. A fictional take on the choices those designers had to make to survive, the show offered its own new look, not just at the origin story of a dress style, but at the actual characters behind the brands. Here, the Styles editor Stella Bugbee and the fashion critic Vanessa Friedman debate the possible repercussions for the two dominant red carpet names.
Vanessa Friedman So my big question, after watching the whole series, is, Will this change how people think about Dior and Chanel? Those brands, after all, bear the names of their founders, and this show is the first time I expect most viewers will have been confronted with the idea of them as real individuals, with many — in the case of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is depicted as a Nazi collaborator, even if a somewhat unintentional one, very many — human frailties. What do you think?
Stella Bugbee It has the potential to personalize these megabrands — for better or worse, since the show is riddled with factual inaccuracies. While pointing to Mademoiselle Chanel’s Nazi past, the show paints her choices as something almost verging on feminism. It’s a tidy bit of propaganda in a way. And as for Monsieur Dior, it takes pains to paint him as a success almost despite himself.
But the best way it humanizes these characters is through the compelling performances of Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche. I was rooting for both of them. And I found that I wanted to know more about each brand, so that seems like a win.
VF Dior comes off as the hero of the series, while Chanel is the villain, even if, as you say, she has a feminist bent, especially when she is confronting the Wertheimers, her backers, about getting a more even split of the proceeds. They ask her how she could use their Jewishness against them, and she asks them if they have ever considered what it is to be a single woman running her own business (a complicated equivalency).
But I did find it notable that the current-day Dior brand supported the series by allowing the filmmakers into their archive so they could see the actual dresses, while Chanel-the-brand was not involved. That said, I was struck by how little actual fashion there was in the series. I wish there had been more of it.
SB Yes! That one brief scene in the Dior atelier dressing room as the models were getting ready for his first show — that energy and glamour and clamor of them applying their own makeup — I wanted more of it.
VF One of the issues the series raises is the perennial: Can you separate the artist from their art? Does it matter if Chanel was a terrible person or Dior was superstitious to an almost debilitating extreme, if what they made changed how we all dress? And yet, because we saw so little of the fashion, the justification for focusing on the people behind the brands seemed less convincing. The only real Chanel clothing we got to see was what Chanel herself was wearing: the pearls, the easy jackets and cocktail dresses. And yet, she was as important a figure when it comes to what we wear as Dior.
At the same time, when I spoke to the creator, Todd A. Kessler (also the director, and a writer and exec producer), he told me he conceived of this series the way he conceived of “The Sopranos,” which was also his brain child — as a human story that just happened to be set in a world we all love to imagine.
SB That’s interesting. To that end, one of my favorite elements of the show (and I have no idea if it is accurate) was the close relationships between Pierre Balmain, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Christian Dior. Their conversations, friendship and rivalry was a treat to see reenacted.
VF And Pierre Cardin! The young Cardin, who got a job at the Dior house, was one of the most engaging, exuberant characters to me. I did think it was funny to see the egotistic Balmain, the confident Balenciaga. Though I missed the other women who were working at the time, like Elsa Schiaparelli and Jeanne Lanvin. I can imagine they might have had a lot of fun with Schiaparelli.
SB Yes! So much fun. Did you like Glenn Close as the Harper’s Bazaar editor Carmel Snow?
VF It was a good reminder of a time when magazine editors could actually make or break a designer. It is probably unimaginable to many today, but she had been sent to Paris to crown the Next Big Thing, and so she did.
SB I loved the scenes between Mrs. Snow and Mlle. Chanel, who looked so much more modern and at ease in her own clothes than Mrs. Snow looked. It made me reconsider Chanel as a casual brand. I know that the brand was born of Chanel’s wanting more ease and movement and pockets and whatnot, but seeing the elegant costumes on Juliette Binoche gave me a new appreciation for that idea. So I guess, to answer your first question: Yes, it humanized the brands for me.
VF She wanted women to be able to ride a bike — an admirable, thoroughly modern, goal.
SB A woman after my own heart, in that regard at least.
VF Dior’s clothes, of course, represented another, much more structured and formal take on fashion, as we see in that last scene. It’s either a perfect endpoint — or a teaser for what is coming next. Mr. Kessler and his producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, told me they had envisioned this as a five-part series that would take Dior and Chanel through the arc of their postwar lives. So Chanel, on to her great second coming, and Dior through his death and the ascension of Yves Saint Laurent. Apple hasn’t announced whether this is actually happening, but it’s a tantalizing idea. And it could jump-start a whole fashion film trend.
SB I, for one, hope they continue this series, not least because I want to see who they cast as Yves Saint Laurent!
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I want to let you in on a secret. The part of a veterinarian’s job that they hate the most isn’t euthanasia. It isn’t dealing with aggressive or overly boisterous, out-of-control dogs. It isn’t trying to examine a sharp-toothed, razor-clawed cat that would like nothing more than to scratch your eyes out and eat your entrails for dinner. It’s not even trying to communicate a complex surgical procedure or medical condition to an owner while their five children under four years old run screaming around the consulting room unrestrained and apparently unnoticed by their oblivious parent, though that last one comes a close second.
The part of a veterinarian’s job they hate the most is talking about money.
We all worked hard, studied hard, and spent hours and hours of our university holidays on practical placements because we love animals, and want to be able to help them any way we can. No vet gets into this job for the money, and if they did, they were clearly misled somewhere along the way! Veterinarians earn, on average, around USD $100,000 per year, putting us at number 86 in salary rankings.1 I’m not suggesting that $100K is a small sum, but considering the amount of technical knowledge, skill, and responsibility involved in the position, the fact that it takes around 8 years of study, with average university loans between $80-200K, believe me, we’re doing it for the love of the animals, not because we’re hoping to get rich!
Sparky, who was brought into my clinic after being hit by a car, receiving some pain relief
Where Does My Money Go?
The majority of veterinary practices are businesses. We aren’t government-funded, and as you all know, healthcare is expensive. The equipment, consumables, drugs, support staff, buildings, utilities, and ongoing training to keep up to date with techniques and information, all cost money. And damn right, your vet deserves to be paid too!
Something that has impacted veterinary charging over the last decade or so is the rise of Veterinary Consolidators, like Mars, who have branched their interests from snacks and chocolate into the world of pet health care. This corporate giant now owns an astounding 3000 veterinary practices worldwide, 37 major pet food companies, including Royal Canin, Iams, Whiskas, and Sheba, 11 veterinary diagnostic companies, and has a controlling interest in major online veterinary pharmacies and suppliers.
What does that mean for pet owners?
It means that your local independent veterinary practice can be bought out by a wealthy company without you knowing a thing about it, because they cleverly keep all the original branding and signage, so that their corporate ownership only appears in the fine print.
It means that on top of all the ordinary expenses faced by a veterinary practice, any profits have to funnel into the pockets of shareholders and board members, who now control the price of your pet’s veterinary care, leaving the vets and support staff to deal with the backlash from increasing prices.
It means that no matter how angry or frustrated you might feel when the cost of veterinary care increases, your vet, even the practice owner, has no control over the prices.
Why are veterinary practices selling to these corporations? Because the competition they have created in the market makes it almost impossible for independent practices to stay afloat.
Sparky after surgery
What’s This Got To Do With Insurance?
Yes – let’s get back on track. Along with everything else, the price of pet insurance has been steadily increasing, which has led many pet owners to make the difficult decision to cancel their policies or switch to a cheaper company, but here are the problems with that decision:
Many of the companies that offer lower premiums will
increase the cost of their cover each year, and whenever a claim is made.
only pay out for certain conditions, and may only pay out a very limited amount per condition.
only cover a condition for 12 months, which is fine if it is a one-off injury or illness, but if it is something that may come back later in life, or be a life-long condition, such as diabetes, a 12-month policy won’t be much help.
If you switch companies, any conditions noted in your pet’s history will not be covered. For example, if your cat had a painful knee when they were 2 years old and then needs surgery on that knee five years later, if you have changed companies in that time, you will not be covered for the surgery.
If you cancel your insurance policy because of affordability, there is very little chance that you will be able to pay for a treatment or surgery that might cost thousands of dollars.
Pet insurance companies typically have a minimum 14 day no-claim period, so if you’re thinking you can just take out a policy when you notice a problem with your pet, it won’t necessarily work.
As a vet, there are obviously some things that I can do for my own pets, although it’s not always easy to detach myself from them to actually do it! But all my pets are covered by pet insurance, because I know that the things that I can’t do are going to be expensive! As you may be aware, I have five cats (and five dogs), so pet insurance is a large expense each month, but it is something that we have committed to paying by taking in these pets. We have opted to not have any of the big television subscriptions, we are extremely frugal when it comes to grocery shopping, and we are regularly buying and selling on Facebook Marketplace (which is great from a sustainable standpoint too). I am very aware that we are in a much better financial situation than many people, but the point I want to make is that if you have a pet, I strongly urge you to see where you might be able to sacrifice a monthly expenditure to make room for pet insurance.
Our cats depend on us to look after them, and by taking them in, we are saying that we are able to provide them with the best care we can, and unfortunately, that care is becoming more expensive. Believe me, I know how frustrating it is to see your pet insurance premiums coming out of your bank account each month, when it’s something you (hopefully) won’t ever use; I estimate that we have spent over $15,000 in insurance for our current group of cats, and have never made a claim! But if something happens to your beloved cat, and you are looking at a veterinary bill of $3000 or more, you will be extremely grateful that you found that $15-20 per month for insurance.
When Sparky was brought into our clinic a couple of years ago after escaping and being hit by a car, we didn’t know if he was going to make it; he needed major surgery to repair his broken pelvis and jaw, with an estimated cost of around $4000. Fortunately, Sparky had a microchip and we were able to get in touch with his owners quickly, and they said the words every vet wants to hear in this situation: “go ahead, he’s insured.”
Sparky 48 hours after surgery – I want to go home!
As vets, we don’t make money from insurance, and the one and only reason we so strongly recommend it to our clients is that, when the worst happens, we want to do everything we can to help get your cat healthy and back home to you. We know that prices are increasing, and we know how much stress that can add to an already difficult situation. Believe me, your vet hates having to talk about money when your cat is in trouble, but you know what we love to hear?
Don’t worry, we’ve got pet insurance.
We hope you never need it, but when something goes wrong, you’ll be glad you do.
In a significant rebound, office space leasing in Hyderabad has gone up by 46 per cent in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2024, at 2 million sq ft as against 1.4 million sq ft in the same quarter last year. This is over one-seventh of the office space absorption (14.4 m sq ft) in nine major cities in the country in the quarter.
The technology sector continues to drive growth in office space leasing with a share of 70 per cent.
Key transactions
Some key transactions included HCL leasing 3.30 lakh sq ft, followed by Table Space which leased 1.96 lakh sq ft and Altsom at 1.40 lakh sq ft, according to real estate consulting firm CBRE South Asia.
“Hyderabad office space take-up was driven by small-sized (less than 50,000 sq. ft.) deals during the quarter. Absorption in the IT segment accounted for 70 per cent of the total space absorbed,” it said.
Bengaluru led office leasing activity, followed by Delhi NCR and Hyderabad. These three cities accounted for 65 per cent of the total office-space absorption registered during the quarter.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
POZNATI američki trgovac Guess objavio je pokretanje novog programa otkupa dionica koji će im omogućiti da otkupi do 200 milijuna dolara svojih redovnih dionica. Izvršni direktor tvrtke Carlos Alberini je izjavio: “Povrat kapitala izravno našim dioničarima visok je prioritet za naš odbor”.
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Prije točno godinu dana, tvrtka je izdala 275 milijuna dolara obveznica s dospijećem 2028. i razmijenila oko 185 milijuna postojećih konvertibilnih obveznica s dospijećem 2024. godine za oko 161.4 milijuna dolara obveznica s dospijećem 2028. U siječnju je Guess izdao 64.8 milijuna dolara obveznica s dospijećem 2028., piše Retail Dive.
“Imamo snažnu kapitalnu strukturu, čvrst dotok gotovine, snažan i raznolik poslovni model te jedinstvenu platformu koja podupire inicijative za rast naše tvrtke”, dodao je Alberini.
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Te inicijative za rast uključuju nedavni dogovor s WHP Globalom. U veljači su Guess i WHP postigli sporazum o preuzimanju trgovca odjećom Rag & Bone. Prema dogovoru, Guess će platiti 56.5 milijuna dolara za stjecanje poslovnih sredstava Rag & Bonea, a obje tvrtke će posjedovati intelektualno vlasništvo brenda. Rag & Bone će djelovati kao neovisni modni brend u portfelju Guessa.
Guess je u ožujku izvijestio da su ukupni prihodi za cijelu godinu porasli za 3% na 2.78 milijardi dolara s 2.69 milijardi dolara godinu dana ranije. Neto dobit za godinu iznosila je 198.2 milijuna dolara, što je porast od 32% u odnosu na godinu ranije. Za američki segment tvrtke, doduše, Guess je rekao da je prodaja pala za 5%.
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Bronny James, the son of LeBron James, announced that he will declare for the 2024 NBA draft. He’ll also enter the transfer portal while maintaining his NCAA eligibility.
“I’ve had a year with some ups and downs but all added to growth for me as a man, student and athlete,” he posted on his Instagram account.
James played 25 games this season for USC, averaging 4.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists.
“Thank you to USC for an amazing Freshman year, and as always thankful for my family, friends, doctors, athletic trainers and fans for their support,” he said in his social media post.
By not signing with an agent, Bronny James maintains the option to rescind both decisions and remain at USC for another season.
USC hired former Arkansas coach Eric Musselman on Thursday to replace Andy Enfield, who recruited James and coached him last year before leaving for SMU.
Reports about Bronny James entering the portal surfaced Wednesday, but LeBron James said they were premature.
“Bronny is his own man and he has some tough decisions to make and when he’s ready to make those decisions, he’ll let us all know,” LeBron James said after the Lakers played Toronto Wednesday. “But as his family, we’re going to support whatever he does.”
LeBron James has long said he hoped to play in the NBA with his son, addressing it on the record as recently as last year’s postseason.
“I was serious and I’m still serious about it,” he said last year during the playoffs. “Obviously I got to continue to keep my body and my mind fresh. I think my mind, most importantly. If my mind goes then my body will just be like, ‘OK, what are we doing?’ So, but, at the end of the day, either if I am or if I’m not, I’ve done what I’ve had to do in this league and my son is going to take his journey.
“And whatever his journey, however his journey lays out, he’s going to do what’s best for him. And as his dad, and his mom, Savannah, and his brother and sister, we’re going to support him in whatever he decides to do. So, just because that’s my aspiration or my goal, doesn’t mean it’s his. And I’m absolutely OK with that.”
LeBron James can become an unrestricted free agent after this season.
Bronny James, a five-star recruit from Sierra Canyon, suffered suffered sudden cardiac arrest on July 24 at USC. He lost consciousness and was later diagnoses with a congenital heart defect. He later underwent surgery before being cleared to return in December.
Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company’s first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation.
The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effective on May 27, according to reports to regional authorities.
The workers were cut from eight offices in Santa Clara, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s not clear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.
The Cupertino, California, company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than they were before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs.
In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.
Amazon announced earlier this week a fresh round of layoffs, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker Electronic Arts said it’s cutting about 5 per cent of its workforce, Sony said its axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, Cisco Systems revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of Snapchat, announced its slashing 10 per cent of its global workforce.
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Eid-ul-Fitr: Explore our curated list of top travel destinations where you can immerse yourself in festive vibes and create cherished memories with loved ones.
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Eid al-Fitr is a joyous and festive occasion that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. It’s a time when friends and family come together to pray, give gifts and eat together. It’s also a great opportunity to spend an entire weekend exploring, relaxing and creating lifelong memories. Check out the best places to go for an enjoyable Eid holiday to make sure your long weekend is one to remember.(Unsplash)
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Male, Maldives: The Maldives is a popular destination due to its beautiful beaches, pristine waters and opulent resorts. Male, the capital of the Maldives, comes alive with celebrations during Eid al-Fitr as residents mark the occasion with lively parades and traditional entertainment. Every night there are fireworks displays and the streets are decked out with lights.(Pixabay)
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Indonesia: Eid al-Fitr is an important holiday in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation. The nation is made up of more than 17,000 islands, each with its own culture and customs. The nation’s diverse population celebrates Eid in different ways, but the custom of ‘mudik’ is widely shared. Mudik is an annual exodus of people from the cities to their hometowns to celebrate Eid with their families. During this time, the roads and airports are packed with travellers, creating a festive atmosphere. (Pixabay)
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Malaysia: Another nation with a large Muslim population that celebrates Eid is Malaysia. Festivities and vibrant street decorations are a familiar feature of Kuala Lumpur, the nation’s capital. Traditional Malay dishes such as lemang (sticky rice cooked in bamboo) and rendang (spicy beef curry) are served to guests while they watch cultural performances and fireworks. (Pexels)
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Egypt: Egypt is home to one of the world’s oldest Islamic civilisations, and Eid is a big deal there. Cairo’s streets are decorated for the occasion with bright lights and fanoos, traditional lanterns. A stunning display is created when the nation’s most famous sites, such as the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza, are illuminated with vibrant lights. As well as enjoying delicious Egyptian food, visitors can watch the magnificent Eid prayers at Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque. (Pixabay)
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Morocco: Morocco’s vibrant culture and rich Islamic history make it a popular Eid holiday destination for Muslims. Cities across the country, such as Casablanca and Marrakech, are known for their vibrant street decorations and festive atmosphere during the holiday. If you’re planning a trip to Morocco soon, try typical Moroccan dishes such as couscous and tagine, a slow-cooked stew, while taking in the sights and sounds of cultural events and fireworks.(Pixabay)
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Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is a popular destination for Muslims during Eid as it is the birthplace of Islam and home to Mecca and Medina, the religion’s two holiest sites. The government organises huge fireworks displays in the capital, Riyadh, which light up the sky and add to the festive atmosphere. Souks and malls offer discounts and promotions, making this the ideal time to indulge in some retail therapy. Jeddah is home to the country’s biggest carnival, with rides, games and street food. (Pixabay)
Charli XCX has continued to grow in popularity over the past ten years, and this year marks a huge achievement for her.
The British star has just confirmed she’ll be playing a string of arena dates in the UK this year, including some massive shows at London’s O2 Arena, Glasgow’s OVO Hydro Arena, and Manchester’s Co-op Live.
The shows, which kick off in November, will follow the release of Charli XCX’s highly anticipated sixth studio album Brat.
The record, which will hit streaming services and store shelves on June 7, 2024, follows her 2022 entry, Crash, which reached number one in the UK album charts.
Tickets for the star’s shows will be released in the coming days, here’s the info you need, including how to gain access to presale tickets.
A rare Holden Commodore SS HDT Group A first owned by Australian racing legend Peter Brock is heading to auction again, almost three years after it fetched more than $1 million after a bidding war.
Listed by Collecting Cars, this 1985 Holden Commodore VK started life as an SS but was soon sent to the Holden Dealer Team’s Port Melbourne workshop to have its Group A modifications made.
The 500 examples built allowed the Commodore to compete in the Australian Touring Car Championship – the forerunner to the V8 Supercars and now Supercars Championships – which was running to international Group A regulations at the time.
While the cap of 500 road cars makes this a rare beast as it is, this example is even more special because it was first owned by Peter Brock, the man who – at the time – had exclusively driven Holdens to his record-breaking eight wins at the Bathurst 500 and later 1000.
Mr Brock extended his tally to nine in 1987, though when this VK Commodore arrived in his driveway he had just won a third straight Bathurst 1000, having swept the Great Race from 1982 to 1984 with co-driver Larry Perkins.
Being delivered to Mr Brock meant that this could only have one chassis number: #005, referencing the #05 he had so famously been known to compete with.
As with all VK HDT Group As, this example is painted in Formula Blue – hence its Blue Meanie nickname – and has its iconic HDT logo headlights, Brock signature front quarter panels, commemorative Bathurst win sticker and racing-inspired aero wheels, front air dam and rear spoiler.
The car is powered by a 4.9-litre (or 304 cubic-inch) Holden V8 engine which produced a claimed 196kW when it was new, driving the rear wheels through a four-speed manual transmission.
This example has completed just under 80,000km, and it’s understood the only modification made is a stainless steel exhaust system.
It’s not the first time chassis #005 has appeared at auction, having sold for $1,057,509 plus fees in May 2021, when it was understood to have been sold to LMCT Plus.
The car was subsequently won in a raffle by the current owner. It was recently listed for auction but it’s not clear if the auction occurred.
Included in the sale is a folder containing documents certifying its heritage as a Brock-owned car, which includes verification from John Harvey, former HDT driver and 1983 Bathurst 1000 winner.
At the time of writing, bidding has reached $90,000. The auction is due to end at 4:30pm AEST on Thursday, April 11.
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In this bull season, several cryptocurrencies are on the radar of investors, with analysts making predictions on crypto projects good for investment. One currency on the lips of many crypto experts and investors is the Bitgert coin. During the dip season, it impressively held its stand despite many coins experiencing degeneration of value. This is why many noticed the impressive nature of Bitgert, and it quickly gained popularity.
Many analysts decided to delve into the Bitgert ecosystem, and observations were made on the impressive uptrend and superb use cases which act as a driving force for Bitgert.
Performance Of Bitgert Coin
Bitgert is one of the few cryptocurrencies experiencing a daily increase in trading volume. Analysis of the coin has shown that it has made a considerable profit difference of over 36,000% since it was first launched. Within this period, it continued giving investors steady profits, experiencing commendable uptrends.
It is, without an atom of doubt, one of the best-performing cryptocurrencies in the market.
As a mid-cap coin, it increases the chances of Bitgert soaring even higher than ever recorded in the future, as demand for it has never slowed down. Many investors see Bitgert as the most suitable ecosystem to get the best blockchain experience due to its high scalability, efficiency, near-zero gas fee, Ethereum compatibility, and many other utilities that are helpful to investors.
Indicators like MACD value have been used to scrutinise the project’s potential for a future uptrend, and all have given positive results because it was determined that Bitgert use cases give it a good chance to grow organically.
Profit Potential From Bitgert
Bitgert is best suited for long-term investment if anyone wants financial freedom. In terms of coin performance, there are very few projects in the cryptocurrency industry that can match the feat attained by Bitgert.
The movement of Bitgert clearly shows that the focus lies on getting to the top amongst other altcoins to hit over 100x for investors soon. The growth potential is undeniable as exponential growth has been recorded. It’s a good option for profitability.
Conclusion
Bitgert is one of the top-rated coins in the crypto space, tipped to have an explosive run based on several analyses conducted on it. It has also given users satisfaction by encouraging seamless use of the space. This has directly improved its potential to experience a considerable uptrend that will benefit investors. It’s still important proper research is conducted to get facts right.
What’s really going on with generative AI and marketing?
We wanted to know, so we went straight to the source and asked.
No surprise, generative AI said a lot is going on — 73% of companies use generative AI in their marketing campaigns, according to Statista. CapGemini says almost 60% of organizations are implementing or exploring the use of generative AI in marketing.
Last week, Accenture announced it’s working with Adobe to develop solutions to “help organizations create personalized content at scale and accelerate the transformation of their content supply chains.” Andreessen Horowitz released research that shocked them about changing attitudes around budgeting and planning for generative AI.
But all that doesn’t really tell us what’s going on with generative AI and marketing. So, instead of refining our prompt, we went to Robert Rose, CMI’s chief strategy advisor, for his take. Read on or watch this video:
Lots of generative AI equals lots of use cases
It can feel like everybody is moving a lot faster with generative AI than you and your brand. But is that the truth?
Well, take a breath. It seems that many use cases exist, but they are not very useful.
An enterprise going to a technology provider with over 500 use cases for the application of any technology is not just useless; it’s counterproductive.
Andreesen Horowitz, better known as A16z, has released research that amazed them — budgets for generative AI are skyrocketing. They found:
Promising results from generative AI experiments prompted enterprises to increase their budget two to five times higher this year than last.
Leaders are reallocating AI investments from last year’s “innovation budgets” into more permanent line items in IT, business units, and research and product development.
Top-down mandates to find and deploy generative AI solutions have been made in the last six months.
OK, let’s take a breath.
A16z is obviously doing some content marketing. It’s made at least 20 generative AI investments, including leading a $400-plus million Series A round for Mistral AI, OpenAI’s European competitor. Of course, A16z evangelizes for generative AI saving the world. They need enterprises to feel the push to spend millions of dollars.
Click on all the headlines, research reports, case studies, etc., and you’ll find a whole lot of “we believe” statements around generative AI: We believe we will spend more. We believe it will save headcount. We believe it will transform the marketing industry. We believe it can save the planet.
Generative AI has a lot of hype people. I don’t mind that. That’s at the heart of great marketing. But marketers who might use generative AI would do well to recall the words of Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights, “Clear hearts, full hearts, can’t lose.”
Don’t believe all the hype
Consider a different hypothesis. Put a pause on all enterprise technology change initiatives.
I see more tech companies, consulting firms, and brands taking an overall slower approach in business. Growth in firms like Accenture and others has slowed quite a bit. Research shows IT-related budgets are also down.
Maybe the real story of generative AI’s integration is much slower.
Over the past six months, I’ve asked my network, clients, training attendees, and colleagues about how they’ve employed generative AI. So far, I have 235 unique use cases for generative AI and content and marketing. Most are creative and interesting. I can see the value. But some of them make me go, “You could do that. But is it that valuable?
As I’ve said, generative AI is not a strategy. It is an amazing, transformational innovation that can be applied to a strategy. In marketing, it’s a new ability to do something that you couldn’t do without huge human effort or something you can now do faster or more efficiently.
Why is that distinction important?
It explains why companies haven’t hurried to make enterprise-wide generative AI applications a priority. They talk like they are in a hurry, but the world doesn’t even know what “enterprise-level generative AI” looks like.
Realize the real lesson is this
Whether you’re a business of 100 or 10,000, generative AI takes time to figure it out. If your organization possesses a change-fatigue mindset or is still grappling with all the changes from the pandemic, nobody will rush to take on the BIG CHANGE project of generative AI.
The lesson is this. If senior leadership pressures you or your team about how generative AI can create efficiency, add capability, or futureproof your competitive advantage in marketing, don’t ask for the budget to acquire all the models so you can build 500 use cases.
Ask senior management for a budget for the change management necessary in marketing and content operations to create a new strategy. Then, you can assess the priorities for generative AI use cases and budget for the technology needed to do that.
Make the case for how you change with technology. Don’t compile a list of all the ways technology will change you.
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With the sports ecosystem evolving in the country, MICA — a B-school in Ahmedabad — on Thursday said it has added a sports business specialisation to its curriculum.
The B-school has renamed one of the most prominent areas, ‘Media and Entertainment Management’ to ‘Media Entertainment and Sports’, which will now offer multiple courses, including sports business, gaming, and e-Sports, to name a few, an official release said.
Dr Shailendra Raj Mehta, President & Director of MICA, said: “The transformation of the Indian sports ecosystem is happening rapidly. Emerging trends such as virtual reality experiences, e-sports, and digital streaming revolutionise how sports is played, consumed, and monetised. MICA’s move to re-orient our specialisation will ensure our students stay ahead of the curve.”
Dr. Githa Heggde, Dean of MICA, Ahmedabad, said the rapidly evolving sports sector in India will need professionals with a comprehensive understanding of sports business models and a diverse skill set, and this approach will not only add value for stakeholders, but unlock numerous professional opportunities for students.
Professor Santosh Kumar Patra, Head, Media Entertainment and Sports Management, said: “Twenty-five per cent of the total business classified under experiential business is primarily driven by sports, gaming, live events, and categories allied to these segments. Sports as a sector is not only growing exponentially in India, but also growing beyond cricket. As a young sports nation and a new experience-driven category of entertainment business, it requires special knowledge and skill to manage the business. Considering the need of the growing industry trends and after getting inputs from multiple stakeholders, including alumni, the advisory committee, and industry leaders, we decided to re-orient our focus to sports business in India”.
The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital, the hospital announced on Wednesday.
Rick Slayman, 62, had end-stage kidney disease before receiving the life-saving transplant on March 16.
The pig kidney was genetically edited to make it more compatible with a human recipient and to eliminate the risk of infection.
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“This moment – leaving the hospital today with one of the cleanest bills of health I’ve had in a long time – is one I wished would come for many years,” Slayman said in a statement.
“Now, it’s a reality and one of the happiest moments of my life.”
Rick Slayman, 62, had end-stage kidney disease before he received the life-saving transplant on March 16.(Courtesy Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital)
“I want to thank everyone at Massachusetts General Hospital who cared for me before and after my historic transplant, especially Dr. [Winifred] Williams, Dr. [Leonardo] Riella, Dr. [Tatsuo] Kawai, and the countless nurses who looked after me every day of my stay,” he continued.
“The care I received was exceptional and I trust [the] physicians of the Mass General Brigham health system with my life.”
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Slayman also said, “I’m excited to resume spending time with my family, friends and loved ones free from the burden of dialysis that has affected my quality of life for many years … My recovery is progressing smoothly and I ask for privacy at this time.”
Slayman received his first kidney transplant from a human donor in 2017.
His organ began failing again in May 2023, when he went on dialysis.
Slayman, sitting down, along with — left to right — Dr. Leo Riella, medical director of kidney transplantation; Dr. Nahel Elias, interim chief, division of transplant surgery; Slayman’s partner, Faren; and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, director, Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance. (Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital)
“The success of this transplant is the culmination of efforts by thousands of scientists and physicians over several decades,” said Tatsuo Kawai, M.D., PhD, director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplant Tolerance at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in a press release following the surgery.
“This moment – leaving the hospital today with one of the cleanest bills of health I’ve had in a long time – is one I wished would come for many years.”
“We are privileged to have played a significant role in this milestone. Our hope is that this transplant approach will offer a lifeline to millions of patients worldwide who are suffering from kidney failure,” he also said.
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Slayman has been a patient at Mass General Transplant Center for 11 years.
The successful surgery marks a “historic milestone” in xenotransplantation, which is the transplant of organs across species, the hospital noted.
Slayman hugs his patient advocate, Susan Klein, before he is discharged.(Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital)
This type of procedure could potentially provide an alternative solution to the global organ shortage.
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More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently on waiting lists for organ transplants — and 17 of those die each day, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
At MGH alone, more than 1,400 patients are currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant.
Slayman with, from left to right, Drs. Elias, Kawai and Riella.(Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital)
Kidneys top the list of the most commonly needed organs, as end-stage kidney disease is expected to increase by anywhere from 29% to 69% by 2030.
MGH previously performed the world’s first human organ transplant, of a kidney, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1954.
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The New York Times recently unveiled its list of the top places to eat in New York City for the year 2024. The 100 Best Restaurants were selected by critic Pete Wells. We were proud to note that four restaurants serving Indian cuisine made it to this prestigious list. One of them was among the top 10. Semma in Greenwich Village occupied the 7th position this year. In 2023, it was ranked 12th overall. Semma is helmed by Chef Vijay Kumar, who hails from Tamil Nadu. The restaurant promises diners an “exploration of heritage Southern Indian cuisine”.
Dhamaka on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has been ranked 54th. It is led by chef and partner Chintan Pandya and restaurateur Roni Mazumdar. Temple Canteen in Queens has been ranked 80th. It is located in the basement of a Hindu temple and serves classic South Indian food like a cafeteria. Hyderabadi Zaiqa in Midtown Manhattan is the final Indian restaurant among the 100 Best in New York City. It is a new entry to the list and is ranked 95th. The establishment specialises in different types of biryani.
In the note that accompanied the list of rankings, critic Pete Wells wrote, “New York is a big city, and I tried to find 100 restaurants that represent its neighbourhoods, its people and the rewards it has in store for hungry, curious eaters. The list is a tour. If you take it, you’ll see all five boroughs and a wide array of cooking and serving styles.” The first three positions on the list are occupied by Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, Blanca and Le Bernardin. You can check out all the rankings here.
About Toshita SahniToshita is fuelled by wordplay, wanderlust, wonderment and Alliteration. When she is not blissfully contemplating her next meal, she enjoys reading novels and roaming around the city.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
KROZ opuštenu šetnju gradom,zavirili smo u ormare prolaznika kako bismo otkrili gdje Hrvati pronalaze svoje omiljene odjevne komade. Razgovarajući s prolaznicima čuli smo nekoliko zanimljivih priča koje pokazuju raznolikost stilova i preferencija u odijevanju.
Prvi mladić kojeg smo susreli istaknuo se svojim potpuno crnim outfitom. Istaknuo je da je prsluk i hlače nabavio u trgovini Zara, dok je majicu i čarape odabrao iz asortimana brenda Adidas. Za obuću je odabrao Nike tenisice, dok na glavi nosi Hard Rock šiltericu, uspomenu iz Praga. Dodao je kako se najugodnije osjeća u kvalitetnim trapericama i potkošulji.
“Kupujem u Italiji ili Francuskoj”
Druga gospođa s kojom smo razgovarali otkrila je da obično kupuje odjeću u Italiji ili Francuskoj, ali komade koje je nosila tog dana nabavila je upravo u Zagrebu. Torbu sa zmijskim uzorkom kupila je u trgovini MaxMara, dok su jakna i majica kupljene u Garderobi. Hlače brenda Victoria Beckham nabavljene su iz trgovine Heraldi, dok je cipele naručila preko web trgovine brenda Marsell, izdvajajući ih kao svoj osobni favorit.
Istaknula je da se najugodnije osjeća u opuštenim kombinacijama tijekom dana, dok za večernje prilike voli odabrati elegantnu haljinu ili neki ekscentričan outfit.
Tekst se nastavlja ispod oglasa
“Ono što nose današnji američki reperi”
Drugi mladić kojeg smo susreli pokazao je svoju privrženost oversize komadima, inspiriran stilom današnjih američkih repera. Njegov outfit uključivao je šiltericu iz trgovine Noventa, hoodicu naručenu preko Farfetcha te trenirku i majicu iz Zare. Tenisice su bile nabavljene od resellera, dok je torbicu izabrao iz trgovine H&M.
“Inače trenirka, ali na poslu moram biti tip-top”
Treći dečko otkrio nam je da, iako preferira udobnost trenirki, zbog posla često mora biti dotjeran. Njegov poslovni outfit u koji smo ga zatekli sastojao se od balonera iz Zare, košulje iz Springfielda, hlača iz Pull & Beara te cipela iz Alda. Kao modne dodatke nosio je lančić koji je dobio na poklon te naočale sa stranice Meller.
“Više-manje sve vintage”
Posljednja djevojka koju smo susreli nosila je većinom vintage komade, ili one koje je pronašla u second-hand trgovinama. Njene naušnice su obiteljsko nasljeđe, dok su ogrlice kupljene u jednoj vintage trgovini u Splitu. Tenisice su marke Buffalo, ali ih je dobila kao poklon.
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Michael Cooper, the defensive backbone of one of the most dominant teams in NBA history, has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, according to a pair of social media posts from his “Showtime” Lakers teammates.
Cooper was announced as a finalist for the 2024 class during NBA All-Star weekend in Indianapolis. He was previously a finalist for the class of 2021.
“I don’t even know where to start! I tried to wait until Saturday…but I just can’t hold the news,” Magic Johnson posted on X Thursday night. “I’m so so thrilled that my Showtime running mate and one of my best friends Michael Cooper has been elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame!!
“Coop is the greatest defensive player I’ve ever seen in the NBA — and I would know because I went up against him every single day in practice! His play on the offensive end was strong too. He was an excellent point guard and 3-point shooting threat.”
Jerry West reportedly will also be entering the Hall of Fame, for the third time, as a contributor to the game. The entire 2024 Hall of Fame class will be formally revealed Saturday during the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four.
Cooper played 873 NBA games, all with the Lakers. He won five NBA championships, appeared on eight All-Defensive teams and won the Lakers’ lone Defensive Player of the Year award in 1987.
He averaged 8.9 points, 4.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game during his 12-season NBA career.
The Pasadena High alum played at Pasadena City College before transferring to the University of New Mexico, where he was an All-American and won a Western Athletic Conference championship.
“Congratulations to the Minister of Defense, Michael Cooper — 2024 inductee to the Hall of Fame,” James Worthy posted on X. “WELL DESERVED!”
He joins “Showtime” teammates Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Worthy, Johnson and coach Pat Riley in the Hall of Fame.
He’s the 31st player to wear a Lakers uniform and get elected to the Hall of Fame.
“He was mentally and physically tough, which made him such an amazing teammate. And I can’t forget about our special alley oops, aka the Coop-a-Loop! I loved throwing him those high lobs, which always sent the Forum into a frenzy!” Johnson posted. “I’m so happy for Michael, his wife Yvonne, and his kids for this well-deserved honor and Laker Nation should be ecstatic as well! Cookie and I can’t wait to support Coop at the Hall of Fame ceremony on August 17th.”
Weeks after launching Phone (2a) globally, Nothing is reportedly planning to unveil something new. The London-based technology company has announced that it will reveal something new in its upcoming community update on April 18.
While sharing the information and the date, the company has also shared a teaser poster featuring a frog and a beetle – seen with Ear (2).
Speculation is rife that the company is planning for the launch of Nothing Ear (3), as the company hints at a ‘Play date.’
According to some reports, a new pair of Nothing earbuds appeared on the BIS website recently hinting that the launch is imminent.
In terms of design, the Ear (3) too is expected to carry forward the legacy of transparent design with a stem-style design. The square case will be there and is expected to support wireless charging.
Meanwhile, the Nothing Phone (2a) was recently launched in three RAM and storage variants and is priced at Rs 23,999 for 8GB + 128GB, Rs 25,999 for 8GB/256GB 12GB + 256GB and Rs 27,999 for 8GB + 256GB. There are two colour variants of the device – Black and White.
Nothing Phone (2a) Specs
The Nothing Phone (2a) features a 5,000 mAh battery, which is the biggest in the history of the Nothing lineup. Also, the device supports 45W fast charging.
In terms of camera setup, Phone (2a) has a 50MP dual camera setup at the rear camera. For selfies, the device has a 32MP front camera.
It features a 6.7-inch flexible AMOLED display with a peak brightness of 1,300 nits and a refresh rate of 120Hz. The Nothing Phone (2a) carries forward the unique transparent design with a glyph interface. It runs on Nothing OS 2.5 with Android 14 out of the box.
The last Friday of Ramadan has a special significance for Muslims and is known as Alvida Ramadan, Jamat-Ul-Vida or Alvida Jumma. This day marks one of the most important occasions during the entire month of Ramadan. This year, Ramadan, which began on March 10th with the sighting of the crescent moon in Saudi Arabia, is celebrated worldwide with great fervour and enthusiasm. Ramadan, observed by the Muslim community, is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. During this holy month, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset as an act of worship and devotion. They begin their day with a pre-dawn meal called suhur and break their fast after sunset with dates and water in an event known as iftar. Special dishes are prepared for Iftar and shared with friends and family. (Also read: Alvida 2024 fashion guide: Transitioning your wardrobe to celebrate the last Friday of Ramadan in style )
Embark on a journey of tranquillity and reflection with our curated selection of Alvida 2024 getaways.(Unsplash)
Top Destinations for Alvida 2024
As the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close, it’s time to seek out tranquillity in quiet places that offer the ideal setting for reflection and leisure. These places provide a remarkable sense of calm and renewal, whether your intention is to relax in the lap of nature or spend some alone time. Discover serene locations that are just waiting to give you a break from the physical, emotional, and spiritual stresses of life.
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1. Dharamshala, India: A tranquil haven for reflection and relaxation, Dharamshala is tucked away in the serene Himalayan mountains. Visit the Dalai Lama Temple Complex for spiritual solace, or take a leisurely stroll along Triund’s lovely paths for breathtaking views of the surrounding valleys.
2. Ubud, Bali: For those looking for inner serenity, Ubud is a sanctuary known for its verdant rice terraces and meditative atmosphere. Take yoga and meditation courses, explore historic temples such as the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary, or indulge in traditional Balinese spa treatments while taking in the peace and quiet of the outdoors.
3. Santorini, Greece: Santorini radiates beauty and tranquillity with its breathtaking sunsets and charming villages located on rocks overlooking the Aegean Sea. Take in the picturesque towns of the island, unwind on the immaculate beaches, or sip a bottle of wine as the sun sets.
4. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto, a city well-known for its historic temples, charming tea houses, and serene gardens, offers a peaceful diversion from the bustle of daily life. Experience the tranquility of Zen meditation by visiting well-known temples like Kinkaku-ji and Ryoan-ji, or enjoy a leisurely stroll through the serene Arashiyama Bamboo Grove.
5. Rishikesh, India: Rishikesh, the “Yoga Capital of the World,” is tucked away in the Himalayan foothills and is bordered by the sacred Ganges River. Take a dip in the Ganges’ sacred waters, embark on yoga and meditation retreats, or seek spiritual guidance in ashrams and temples.
After a few months of low-profile free game releases, Amazon Prime Gaming is back with a bang in April 2024. There are lots of benefits available with an Amazon Prime subscription, including next-day (and sometimes same-day) delivery on purchases, video streaming, exclusive deals and lots more. Aside from the obvious benefits, Prime customers can also redeem a number of free video games and exclusive in-game items throughout the month. These games and items are yours to keep even after you quit Amazon Prime, so they’re worth taking advantage of. After an extended weekend due to Easter, Amazon has announced the April free games and rewards for Prime Gaming. The headline free game is Fallout 76, which will be available to subscribers from April 11. Better yet, it’s not just the PC version, but also the Xbox edition via a code.
As you wait for Fallout 76 to join Prime Gaming, Amazon customers can also grab a copy of medieval multiplayer slasher Chivalry 2.
Another high-profile freebie, Amazon Prime subscribers can grab Chivalry 2 from the Epic Games Store by visiting the Prime Gaming page and linking Amazon and Epic accounts.
Inspired by “epic medieval movie battles”, the game sees teams of players battle it out in castle sieges and open warfare with swords, shields, arrows and more.
Faraway 2: Jungle Escape and Black Desert are also available from April 4, followed by Drawn: Trail of Shadows and Faraway 3: Arctic Escape on April 11.
Now, while Fallout 76 is the highest-profile game on the list, there’s another title that is arguably the best.
From April 11, Prime Gaming customers will also be able to download the excellent Demon’s Tilt from the Epic Games Store.
A spritual successor to classic pinball games like Alien Crush and Devil’s Crush, Demon’s Tilt is a fantasy pinball game with shoot-em-up and hack and slash elements.
If you do download Demon’s Tilt and like what you see, then a sequel called Xenotilt is in early access on PC, and is definitely worth checking out.
The month continues with more free games, although nothing on the level of Fallout 76, Chivalry 2 and Demon’s Tilt.
From April 18, subscribers can pick up free copies of Rose Riddle: The Fairy Tale Detective Collector’s Edition and Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space.
This will be followed by Living Legends: Fallen Sky, Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness and Tiny Robots Recharged on April 25.
In terms of in-game items, members can grab content from Pokemon Go, Call of Duty, Overwatch 2 and EA Sports FC 24.
The Kia Sportage has had its best month of sales ever in Australia, with 2114 units registered during March 2024.
With sales up 148.4 per cent compared to March 2023 and up 53.2 per cent up year-to-date, the Sportage ranked 11th overall in VFACTS sales standings and was by far Kia’s top performer.
Kia Australia’s product planning boss, Roland Rivero, credited the launch of the new Sportage Hybrid at least partly for the record result – with 349 units of the electrified SUV registered.
Sportage GT-Line HEV
Questioned about ongoing supply, Mr Rivero told CarExpert there’s definitely “room to move” compared to the supply-stricken Sorento Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid, as well as the upcoming Carnival Hybrid.
“The demand is clearly there [for Sportage Hybrid], and we’re constantly negotiating with the factory to get more units,” Mr Rivero said, opening the door for an increased monthly allocation beyond the originally promised 300/month rate.
It’s likely Kia Australia is able to wrangle more Sportage HEVs thanks to the fact the Korean factory Australia sources its vehicles from doesn’t have to supply Europe and North America with hybrids and plug-in hybrids as with the Sorento.
Europe and the UK instead source their Sportages from Kia Europe’s Slovakian facility.
Last we heard, supply of the Sorento HEV and PHEV, due to launch in facelifted form imminently, will remain limited to around 20 and 10 units respectively per month.
CarExpert is expecting Kia Australia to confirm pricing and specs for the updated range very soon.
In March the Sportage accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the Korean brand’s overall sales, almost double the volume of its second best seller for the month, the Cerato (1193 units, up 182 per cent).
Despite its record-breaking performance, the Sportage couldn’t manage a podium finish in the top-selling mid-sized SUV segment, finishing in fifth behind the Toyota RAV4 (5070), Mitsubishi Outlander (2764), Nissan X-Trail (2161) and Mazda CX-5 (2134).
In the dynamic world of cryptocurrencies, investors constantly seek opportunities that balance stability with the potential for high returns. As Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) continue to solidify their positions as the mainstays of digital finance, offering reliable growth and stability, a new contender emerges with a promise of substantial gains.
The Furrever Token (FURR) enters the scene, not just as another meme coin, but with the ambitious promise of up to 15X returns on presale investments, capturing the attention of speculative investors and meme coin enthusiasts alike. This juxtaposition of established giants and emerging stars provides a comprehensive view of the current cryptocurrency landscape, where traditional investments meet the burgeoning appeal of high-reward tokens.
Bitcoin (BTC) Drops to $64K: Analyzing Support Levels and Market Sentiment Shifts
Bitcoin’s price has recently experienced a correction, dropping by 9% to the $64K level. The digital currency finds support at multiple strong levels, which could prevent further declines caused by selling pressure. A close look at the daily chart shows Bitcoin faced significant selling pressure after breaking the crucial $70K resistance, leading to a sharp 9% fall to the important $64K support level.
Bitcoin now seems to be developing a potential double-top pattern, with the $62K mark acting as the critical neckline. Falling below this could confirm the pattern and lead to a downward move to the vital $59K support zone. However, Bitcoin is supported by several key levels, especially between the 0.5 ($62,181) and 0.618 ($59,444) Fibonacci retracement levels, which might stop the decline and trigger a bullish reversal.
The 4-hour chart analysis indicates increased selling pressure as Bitcoin tried to break past the significant $70K resistance level, leading to a notable downward correction to the expected $64K level. At this juncture, sellers are attempting to push below the sideways wedge’s lower edge. Yet, if buyers step in and stabilize the price near this pivotal point, a rebound to the $70K level may follow.
Should the selling continue and the price falls through the wedge’s lower limit, a further dip to the $62K area seems plausible. Bitcoin’s recent pullback to the $64K mark prompts an evaluation of the futures market’s reaction to this adjustment.
The accompanying chart on Bitcoin funding rates, indicative of the aggressiveness of buyers versus sellers, shows a recent decrease after a spike in early February. This reduction in funding rates, following the price’s corrective moves, indicates a cooling in the futures market from previously high activity levels.
This cooling period is generally positive for long-term market health, reducing the risk of mass liquidations and creating a more stable foundation for growth. This trend suggests a shift towards a more balanced market, potentially easing investor concerns about immediate volatility.
Ethereum’s Resilient Struggle: Analyzing the $3,300 Recovery Amidst Market Resistance and Volume Dynamics
In today’s trading environment, Ethereum (ETH) is navigating a recovery attempt, with its value currently at $3,311.02, amid a 24-hour trading volume of $19,863,658,091. Despite a minor rise of 0.46% recently, Ethereum faces formidable obstacles on its path, particularly after a downturn that breached the $3,420 support level. Now, attempting to reclaim this threshold, Ethereum grapples with resistance, notably under the $3,400 mark and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. The emergence of a pronounced bearish trend line near $3,320 on the hourly chart further complicates its ascent, illustrating the uphill battle Ethereum confronts in seeking momentum.
Amidst market turbulence, Ethereum’s situation is precarious, with immediate resistance at $3,700 and support hovering around $3,200. The heightened trading activity during recent sell-offs signals a bearish market bias, encouraging traders to adopt short positions with eyes on the March 20 lows as a potential target. Technical indicators on the daily chart expose Ethereum’s difficulties against resistance at $3,500 and $3,550, suggesting that surpassing these levels could signify a reversal of the bearish trend. This potential shift could propel Ethereum towards the $3,680 mark and, optimistically, towards the $4,000 to $4,100 range.
Ethereum’s market dynamics do not exist in a vacuum but are influenced by broader cryptocurrency trends and the anticipation of the Bitcoin halving event, introducing heightened volatility and bearish pressures. The drop to $3,205.65, undercutting the critical $3,300 support, has sparked concern, pointing to a possible prolonged downturn. Expert analyst Ali Martinez hints at a potential fall to $2,850, highlighting a significant support zone identified by the accumulation of around 1.64 million ETH between $2,846 and $2,951 by nearly 2 million Ether addresses. This critical juncture underscores the fragile balance Ethereum maintains, with Fibonacci retracement levels marking key supports essential for preventing further decline and the breach of the psychologically important $2,000 threshold.
Furrever Token (FURR) Ascends in the Meme Coin Arena: A Must-Watch at Its $0.00048 Price Point!
Gathering momentum within the cryptocurrency sector, Furrever Token (FURR) is making waves as a potential breakthrough meme coin. FURR sets itself apart with its fresh approach and enticing features, aiming to enchant investors and enthusiasts alike.
A pivotal element behind FURR’s rising star is its distinctive offering. Diverging from conventional digital currencies, FURR capitalizes on the burgeoning meme coin trend, utilizing endearing and whimsical furry animal motifs to weave a compelling community-centric story. This narrative not only cultivates a tight-knit community among its followers but also sparks widespread interest, extending its reach beyond traditional cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
Currently priced at $0.00048, FURR has already made waves with its presale, amassing a substantial amount of capital. The success of FURR’s presale, amassing over $620,000 in less than a month, highlights its ascending trajectory and investor trust. A highly appealing feature of Furrever Token is its potential to deliver up to 15X returns on initial investments made in the presale phase. This financial backing equips the initiative with essential resources to enhance its ecosystem, spurring excitement for its prospective evolution and uptake.
FURR’s forward-looking roadmap and thoughtful collaborations are instrumental in its journey to become a leading meme coin. Its roadmap details plans for ecosystem expansion, the introduction of novel functionalities, and partnerships with key influencers and brands. Through these efforts, FURR aspires to cement its place in the meme coin domain and capture broader market interest.
The token’s community-centric model encourages active involvement and connectivity, nurturing a dynamic environment surrounding FURR. Community members are invited to offer feedback, engage in decision-making processes, and promote the project, cultivating a sense of investment and fidelity among its base.
In summary, Furrever Token (FURR) is on the brink of meme coin fame, bolstered by an engaging story, vigorous community backing, a triumphant presale, and a visionary roadmap. With its distinct charm and bright prospects, FURR is set to captivate both investors and aficionados in the cryptocurrency realm.
Wrapping Up
Navigating the cryptocurrency market requires a blend of strategic investment in stable assets like BTC and ETH, which offer foundational growth and security, alongside calculated risks in high-potential tokens like FURR. While Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to prove their worth as indispensable pillars of the crypto world, the allure of Furrever Token’s promised returns highlights the market’s evolving nature, where innovation and community engagement can lead to remarkable outcomes. As investors diversify their portfolios, the blend of stability and speculative promise embodies the dual quest for security and exponential growth in the ever-unpredictable crypto sphere. In the dance of the giants and the new challengers, balancing the tried and tested with the new and promising becomes the keystone of savvy investment strategies.
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As a kid, you probably learned the phrase, knowledge is power. As a marketer, you prove its validity every day through your content that educates, informs, and inspires your audience.
But knowledge isn’t a static construct.
Perceptions and attitudes change, innovations emerge, and new insights and ideas arrive to shake up everything you thought you knew. (Before 2016, did you know an alternative to “facts” existed?)
To excel in the current conditions and opportunities, make sure these content marketing terms and definitions are part of your knowledge base.
Note: I’ve organized these definitions into best-fit categories, though many span multiple areas.
Strategy terms
Audience
In a marketing context, audiences are targeted, clearly defined groups of individuals and/or organizations that willingly read, listen, view, or otherwise engage with your brand’s content, assuming they will benefit from it.
Pinpointing the target audience(s) your content will serve is one of the three pillars of a winning content strategy. But remember: Content marketing is about building a trusted relationship. Your content should have human resonance and reflect their needs, preferences, and priorities to earn their attention and loyalty.
Definitive resource: The Marketing Mandate: Build Stronger Bonds With Your Audience
Buy-in/business case
A business case captures the organization’s rationale for investing in content as a component of its marketing strategy. Typically delivered to executive management as a document or presentation, it’s a helpful tool for building stakeholder understanding and support to execute the program effectively.
At a minimum, your business case should address:
Why your company needs content marketing
How it can help your organization meet its marketing goals
Budget and resources
Expected outcomes and estimated times to achieve them
Executive management may struggle to understand how content drives the bottom-line business goals. A little education can go a long way toward winning over “content-clueless” business leaders.
Focus your buy-in conversation on the benefits they could gain and support your argument with data and proof-of-concept examples. You can use content to strengthen your pitch. Share relevant e-books, newsletters, and other sources of content industry expertise — the more they consume, the quicker they’ll experience those light-bulb moments of understanding.
Definitive resource: How To Snap Out of Strategic Malaise and Get Inspired for 2024 Content
Content marketing
The Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as “a strategic marketing approach of creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience — with the objective of driving profitable customer action.”
Content marketing can work best when used to complement other business strategies, including:
Account-based marketing
Branded content
Demand generation
Influencer marketing
Product marketing
Search engine optimization
Social media
Public relations
Definitive resource: Content Marketing Basics: How To Start (or Jumpstart) Your Content Practice
Content marketing strategy
Copyblogger defines content marketing strategy as a plan for attracting your ideal customers and moving them through your sales process by publishing and promoting useful content.
However, CMI lays it out more plainly: Your content marketing strategy is your why — why you are creating content (your business goal), whom it will serve (your audience), and how it will be unique (your mission).
Definitive resource: Developing a Content Marketing Strategy
Content strategy
Content strategy operates more broadly than a content marketing strategy. It is a plan for creating, managing, and distributing all content produced and shared across the enterprise — not just the content in a content marketing program or initiative. For example, the content’s development to deliver an optimal user experience would fall under a content strategy, not a content marketing strategy.
Content mission statement
A content mission statement is the centering principle of your brand’s unique content vision. Ideally, this statement reflects your business values, distinguishes your storytelling from competing content, and governs your content team’s creative and strategic decision-making. It includes:
What stories your brand will tell (e.g., topics)
How those stories take shape (e.g., core content formats and platforms)
How your content assets work collectively to create a desirable experience for your audience
Definitive resource: How To Write an Inspiring Content Marketing Mission Statement
Goals
Goals are the business outcomes your content marketing strategy will achieve. While the ultimate goal is profitable action, program goals should be more specific, such as sales growth, budget savings, or greater customer loyalty and brand satisfaction. Goals also must be measurable and include an achievement date.
Definitive resource: 4 Content Marketing Goals That Really Matter to the Business
Personas
A persona is a composite sketch of a target audience’s relevant characteristics based on validated commonalities. It informs your strategic plans for reaching, engaging, and driving your audience to take meaningful action on your content. Without well-researched personas, you can only guess what your audience wants, often reverting to creating content around what you know best (your products and company) instead of what your audience seeks.
Definitive resource: How To Build a Better Audience Persona
Planning and process terms
Channel and media planning
Media planning is the process of deciding where, when, and how often to deliver a message to an audience. The goal is to reach the biggest number of the right audience members with the right message as often as needed to achieve the desired effect (e.g., brand awareness, leads, sales).
Similarly, a channel plan — including social media planning — directs how your brand manages its content on the ever-evolving list of media platforms. It spells out the rationale and expectations for using each channel. Compiling this guidance ensures you don’t waste time and budget on distribution that can’t help your content marketing and business goals.
Definitive resource: How To Choose the Best Distribution Channels for Your Content
Content brief
Often provided to freelancers, consultants, and other outsourced writers assigned to create content, a content brief documents the guidelines and instructions to ensure a properly focused asset that meets the brand’s editorial standards and marketing expectations. A well-constructed brief should include an elevator-pitch description of the assignment, relevant branding details (e.g., tone, voice, and stylistic considerations), key messages, and target audience insights.
Content inventories and audits
Paula Land, author of Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook, says a content inventory is a collection of data about your content. It’s a comprehensive, quantitative list — typically created in a spreadsheet — of all content assets, ideally across all content types, channels, and distribution formats. It enables marketers to make data-based content decisions.
In contrast, as Paula explains, a content audit is a qualitative evaluation of the inventoried content. It helps you see how your content helps (or hinders) your brand’s success. Assess your content against customer needs and business objectives to identify which assets are performing well (and which aren’t.)
Definitive resource: 4 Things To Ignore (and 3 Things To Do) in Your Next Content Audit
Content/editorial plan
A content or editorial plan details the operational, technical, tactical, and team resource decisions involved in executing your content strategy. This outlet helps ensure all the correct elements are in place to produce content efficiently and deliver the best possible experience for your audience.
Ideally, your plan should cover four key areas:
Governance and guidelines around the quality standards, preferred practices, and principles that define and distinguish your brand’s content
Processes and systems, such as the production tasks, workflows and routing practices, and technologies that facilitate the work
Team resources, including the roles and responsibilities and the skills required to fill them or address the gaps
Creative and distribution details, including key focal topics, content types and formats, calls to action, and priority channels and platforms.
Definitive resource: 4-Point Guide To Crafting a Winning Content Plan
Content operations
Content operations are the big-picture view of how all content-related organizational functions coordinate and manage their work. It covers all the components outlined in your content plan, from strategy and creative planning to governance, execution decision-making, measurement, and optimization.
Definitive resource: Don’t Avoid Content Operations; Use This Helpful Framework Now
Editorial calendar
An editorial calendar is a process tool for tracking and orchestrating the tactical execution of the content plan. It provides clear visibility on the critical details of the creative and production workflows, including topics, titles, authors, and images for each asset and the schedule for packaging, publishing, and promoting it.
Definitive resource: Editorial Calendar Tools and Templates To Help You Master Your Content To-Do List
Content workflow
Workflows are sets of tasks a team follows to complete a content asset. In her book Content Strategy for the Web, Kristina Halvorson says a content workflow determines “how content is requested, sourced, created, reviewed, approved, and delivered.”
At a minimum, they should outline critical tasks at each stage of the editorial process. Here’s a simple example:
Outline.
Write.
Review.
Edit.
Approve.
Publish.
Definitive resource: 5 Steps To Build a Content Operations Workflow That Helps Everybody
Creation terms
Copy editing, proofreading, and fact-checking
These editorial techniques ensure the content’s high quality, clarity, and accuracy. Each distinct approach serves a unique purpose.
Copy editing involves reviewing and editing content for mechanical errors or style inconsistencies that might impact quality or readability. Tasks include checking text for grammar, spelling, linguistic, or punctuation issues. A copy editor may also rewrite to fix problems with transitions, wordiness, jargon, and style.
Proofreading allows for scrutinizing the content in its almost-published state to catch any typographical or minor errors missed in editing or created during production.
Definitive resource: Master Content Proofreading and Editing With These Tips
Fact-checking verifies the content’s factual accuracy and sourcing. It ensures the content doesn’t spread disinformation, miscredit or misquote sources, get dinged for plagiarism or copyright infringement, or otherwise risk losing the audience’s trust. The importance of thorough fact-checking can’t be understated, especially when working with generative AI content tools.
Curation
Curation is the assembly, selection, categorization, commentary, and presentation of relevant content. The technique often involves your brand putting its spin on others’ content. It can also be applied to repackaging and repurposing your previously published content.
Definitive resource: 7 More Ways To Curate Content Like a Pro
Generative AI
As defined by IBM Research, generative artificial intelligence uses technologies built on large learning models (LLMs) to generate high-quality text, images, audio, video, and other content formats based on the data the models were trained on. These tools respond in real time to prompts posed in its interface — natural language text instructing the AI engine to perform a specific task.
Brands and tech providers have used this technology in back-end programming and chatbot applications for many years. The public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022 has made generative AI more accessible, affordable, and easy for brands and consumers to use in their content creation efforts.
Distribution and promotion terms
Accessibility
Accessibility involves creating a content experience that anyone can navigate, understand, and use. The term is often used in the context of the user, such as those who may have visual or auditory impairments. It also accounts for audiences who prefer to mute videos and read the captions.
Definitive resource: 5 Ideas To Make Your Content Accessible to All
Calls to action (CTAs)
Calls to action are statements or design elements highlighting actions you want the audience to take after engaging with the content, such as subscribing to your newsletter, attending an event, or exploring other relevant assets and offerings. The best CTAs are simple, straightforward, inviting, and easy to notice.
Channels
Channels are individual content distribution outlets, such as blogs, podcasts, newsletters, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
Formats
A content format refers to how the content is presented for distribution and engagement. It could be the text for a printed book, a digital magazine, or an SMS campaign. It could be the audio for a podcast. It might be the visuals for a video or infographic.
Keywords/key phrases
Keywords or key phrases describe the contents of an asset based on terms people use to search for that topic. They are the building blocks of a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.
Owned media
Owned media distribution platforms operate under your brand’s control. You decide where and how the content appears, how it is accessed, and how it fits in with the audience’s experience. Your website is an example of owned media.
Shared/social media
Shared media, including social media, provides opportunities for marketers to post content, create and listen to conversations, and interact with people. These platforms are ultimately controlled by a third party, which can change its policies and procedures — or cease operations — and change the brand’s access to the audience on that platform.
Definitive resource: Is Social Media Even Worth It Anymore?
Native advertising
Native advertising is a paid third-party promotion format. The brand pays to publish content that matches the form, feel, function, and quality of the publishing outlet’s content.
Branded content
Wikipedia defines branded content as “content funded or outright produced by an advertiser.”Like native advertising, brands partner with relevant publishers that have the trust of their audience, which includes members of the brand’s target audience. This technique takes a more immersive, sensory-driven approach to storytelling, making the experience more entertaining, valuable, and memorable.
Definitive resource: Branded Content: Getting It Right
Paid search
These opportunities typically include relevant pay-per-click ads or other sponsored listings near the top of search engine results pages (SERP).
Influencer marketing
A growing marketing technique (and burgeoning industry on its own), influencer marketing programs enlist the assistance of people who have the ear of your target audience to bring attention to your content.
Content personalization
Personalization involves targeting content to individuals based on one or more of their characteristics — who they are, where they are, when, why, and how they access content, and what device they use to access it. Given the competition for online attention, marketers use this technique to make their content more findable, engaging, and personally resonant to their target audience and existing customers.
Definitive resource: How To Get Your Audience To Give Their Data for Personalized Content
Search engine optimization
SEO is a set of techniques and tactics to get content to rank as highly as possible on search engine results pages. The higher your content ranks, the more likely it is to be clicked on by the searcher.
Search engines continually fine-tune their technologies, algorithms, and ranking factors to provide users with a more satisfying experience. While these changes aren’t always transparent, familiarizing yourself with these SEO-related terms can help you focus your search strategy more precisely and enhance your content’s discoverability:
EEAT: Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, and authoritativeness are the four tenets of Google’s assessment for content quality and value. Aligning your content with these standards can improve your content’s rankings and discovery potential.
Search generative experience: SGE is Google’s latest experimental project and is likely to soon roll out for all searchers. It uses AI technology to provide detailed information snapshots at the top of its search engine results pages (SERPs). It’s designed to answer users’ queries without requiring them to click on links that would take them away from Google’s domain.
Retrieval augmented generation: To compile SGE snapshots, Google uses this AI-driven process to aggregate relevant source materials and serve the most contextually relevant answers to a user’s query.
Definitive resource: Update Your SEO Strategy for the AI Era
Content segmentation
Segmentation refers to categorizing content based on the target audience niche (similar to a buyer persona). Often affecting design, messaging, and presentation, content segmentation can improve engagement, better differentiate your brand from competitors, and improve content marketing’s effectiveness.
Sales terms
Account
Account is a sales target, opportunity, or customer group within the total addressable market.
Account-based marketing (ABM)
ABM is a B2B marketing approach where the brand identifies specific high-value (typically enterprise-level) organizations and creates content that targets employees at that company as a unit rather than individual members of the organization.
Buyers
Buyers are prospects — people who need or have an active interest in purchasing a service or product.
Consumers
In marketing, “consumers” are likely or intended customers for a business. “Buyers” also may be used.
Customers
While buyers and consumers are terms used to indicate interest or intent, customers are the individuals or organizations who have purchased from the business or brand.
Conversion
A conversion occurs when a consumer takes an action your organization designates as meaningful — purchasing a product, registering for an event or a gated asset, subscribing to a blog or newsletter, or joining a social media community — after engaging with the brand’s content.
Demand generation
Demand generation involves targeted, sales-centric marketing programs to drive awareness and interest in a company’s products and services. The greater the demand, the easier it is for sales to nurture that interest to convert.
Definitive resource: Demand Generation: Follow These Content Tips
Ideal customer profile
An ICP describes a targeted buyer (person or company) that most needs and is likely to buy your brand’s solution.
Journey map
This method involves identifying the information and assistance needed at each possible consumer interaction. It helps marketers deliver the most effective content to nurture them toward conversion.
Definitive resource: A 4-Step Customer Journey Map Process for Better Content Results
Lead
A lead is a person or business in your company’s sales or marketing database typically because they engaged with a branded asset or communication platform.
Lead scoring
Scoring is a marketing method of objectively and comparatively evaluating the quality and conversion potential of a prospect based on predetermined sales criteria.
Marketing-qualified lead
MQLs are potential customers whom the marketing team deems worthy of passing along to the sales team.
Sales funnel/funnel stage
The sales funnel defines a customer’s decision-making process from the time they enter the marketplace through the purchase (or decision not to buy). It’s commonly used to determine the most effective outreach approach to nurture conversions. (While marketers may also use funnel stages to define customer decision-making, content marketers are more likely to characterize these stages as progressions in a journey.)
Sales-qualified lead
An SQL occurs when the sales team determines the lead to be an active prospect. These leads are more likely to become customers than MQL.
Total addressable market
TAM refers to the total number of prospective buyers and/or potential revenue opportunities for a product or service.
Measurement terms
A/B testing
This method pits two pieces of content against each other to gauge comparative performance. Also known as split testing, it’s a randomized experiment where two possible version options — two web pages, two subject lines, two design strategies, two content angles, etc. — are presented on equal scale to different viewers.
Analytics
Marketo defines analytics as managing and studying metrics data to determine the ROI of marketing efforts like calls to action, blog posts, channel performance, and thought leadership pieces, as well as to identify opportunities for improvement.
Key performance indicators
KPIs are standard, agreed-on measurements for assessing progress against your goals. KPIs include average conversion rates, number of leads, quality of leads, revenue per new customer, etc.
Metrics
In contrast to KPIs, metrics are the business-as-usual measurements that quantify things that add value, such as page views or likes on a social media post. They don’t focus on the most critical goals. Think of these as the what-needs-to-be-true numbers so the KPIs can be achieved.
Definitive resource: 23 Measurement Definitions Every Content Marketer Should Know
Return on investment
ROI broadly describes the profitable actions and business growth derived from the company’s marketing initiatives. Knowing the expected ROI for content campaigns enables marketers to determine appropriate budget allocations, maximize the efficiency of each expense, and demonstrate the impact to executive stakeholders. However, though it’s (arguably) the most critical measurement of a content program’s effectiveness, it can be difficult to calculate and quantify, let alone prove definitively.
Definitive resource: Why You Struggle To Prove Content ROI — and How To Settle Up (or Down)
Subscribers
In content marketing, subscribers are audience members who provide personal data to receive valuable content ongoing. It’s a core metric to assess content marketing’s value.
Definitive resource: How a Subscribed Audience Can Draw a Crowd for Your Next Content Product
Understanding the language is the first step to success
While this glossary is not a comprehensive list, it should clarify commonly confused or misunderstood industry terms and concepts. If you would like us to add other content marketing constructs, let us know on social.
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has launched the ‘Mobility and Intelligent Transportation’ (MInT) collaborative towards building a global mobility digital infrastructure. Neeraj Mittal, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, virtually launched the Collaborative on Thursday.
Also read:Student innovations for sustainability challenges awarded at IIT-Madras
The initiative is based on the principle of ‘collaborate and compete’ under which the Institute will bring together industry competitors, government agencies and academic innovators and co-create the mobility digital infrastructure (Bharat Multi-Modal Mobility Stack or BM3S) to enable holistic system solutions.
MInT is a global initiative to build mobility digital infrastructure and an R&D portfolio besides developing a skilled workforce to develop breakthrough mobility solutions to realise the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
IIT Madras will anchor the MInT Collaborative with its world-leading technological and human resources in numerous fields. Mobility is a key example where a meeting of diverse minds is essential to finding holistic solutions that enhance positive outcomes while minimising or even eliminating possible negative externalities, says a release.
The White House has declared April 2024 as Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month.
In a proclamation issued on March 29, President Joe Biden acknowledged the “enormous progress” that has been made toward beating cancer in the U.S. while noting that it’s still the second-leading cause of death.
To help prevent cancer, he emphasized the importance of screenings for early detection and outlined programs to make them more accessible.
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“It is important for every American to know that cancer screenings are lifesaving — early detection can make all the difference in beating the disease,” Biden stated.
The president’s proclamation also discussed how adopting healthy lifestyle habits — “like maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing exposure to tobacco smoke” — can prevent certain types of cancers.
“It is important for every American to know that cancer screenings are lifesaving — early detection can make all the difference in beating the disease,” the president said in the announcement.(iStock)
“Studies have shown that over 30% of cancers diagnosed today could be prevented through methods like decreasing environmental and toxic exposures to carcinogens and making lifestyle changes like reducing tobacco use and improving nutrition,” Biden said.
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A third approach the president mentioned is reducing exposure to potentially cancer-causing toxins in the environment.
“I encourage citizens, government agencies, private businesses, nonprofit organizations and other interested groups to join in activities that will increase awareness of what Americans can do to prevent, detect and beat cancer,” Biden wrote.
“We are not just working toward incremental changes — we are looking for quantum leaps forward.”
‘It’s a big deal’
Fox News Digital spoke with Jody Hoyos, CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, about the significance of April being declared Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month.
“It’s a big deal because it gives us the opportunity to share information with people about risk reduction for cancer, as well as cancer screenings,” she said.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s annual early detection survey found that nearly seven out of every 10 adults in the U.S. are behind on at least one routine cancer screening. (iStock)
“We know that early detection saves lives when people have their cancer prevented in its entirety, which is the best-case scenario.”
The next-best scenario, Hoyos said, is that people have their cancer detected early, so they get the best chance at treatment and recovery.
Screenings fall short, survey finds
The Prevent Cancer Foundation’s annual early detection survey found that nearly seven out of every 10 adults in the U.S. are behind on at least one routine cancer screening.
The main reason given for missed screenings is that people simply didn’t know they needed to be screened, Hoyos said.
“We are not just working toward incremental changes — we are looking for quantum leaps forward.”
“That means it’s really important to share information about the screenings people need,” she noted.
There are also different barriers across racial and ethnic groups, Hoyos added.
In the survey, Hispanic adults in the U.S. cited inability to afford the cost of screening as a top reason for skipping them. Black adults reported skepticism in the health care system as a top reason they were not being screened.
“People need to understand the benefits of early detection in order to encourage them to schedule their appointments,” said the CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation.(iStock)
White adults cited the lack of symptoms as to why they were not being screened, Hoyos shared, while Asian adults reported concerns or fear about the cancer screening itself.
“Everyone has different needs and concerns when it comes to navigating a cancer screening,” Hoyos said.
“We want to make sure to provide as much information as we can to help people.”
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“People need to understand the benefits of early detection in order to encourage them to schedule their appointments.”
Family history is another element to consider, she said.
“If there is a family history of cancer, you want to know that so you can talk to your provider about when to start your screening and how often you should be screened,” Hoyos noted.
“Cancer is not just an issue for older people — it affects everyone.”
But if someone doesn’t have a family history, that doesn’t mean they don’t need screenings, she cautioned.
“Some people assume that if they don’t have a family history, they don’t need to worry about it — but most people who get a cancer diagnosis don’t have a family history,” Hoyos said.
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“Only about 5% to 10% of cancers are hereditary.”
Screenings are particularly important as cancer diagnoses are happening at younger ages, the expert added.
The proclamation also noted that adopting healthy lifestyle habits — “like maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing exposure to tobacco smoke” — can prevent certain types of cancers.(iStock)
In some cases, the disease appears well before people reach the recommended screening age.
“Cancer is not just an issue for older people — it affects everyone,” Hoyos emphasized.
“And so we want to make sure people know their bodies and advocate for their health when something is wrong — if you’re getting an answer that doesn’t feel right to you, you should seek a second opinion.”
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Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected].
Dosa might be a South Indian delicacy, but it is loved all over India. The thin-as-a-paper dish is known for its crispy-soft exterior and delectable mashed aloo stuffing inside. There are several types of dosas available, with the most common ones being butter, masala, and rava dosas. But we bet you haven’t heard of this one — chocolate banana dosa. With culinary experiments on the rise thanks to the internet and food vloggers, a video of a street-side vendor preparing dosas with bananas and chocolate as fillings has both bemused and shocked social media users. Shared on Instagram by food vlogger Sukrit Jain, the visual footage began with the street chef pouring a bowl of dosa batter into a tawa. Spreading it uniformly, he spurted dollops of coconut chutney and stirred the batter with a cooking spatula. Now, for the most bizarre part. The cook added square-shaped chocolate chunks, mixed them well, and sprinkled some cheese to enhance the flavour.
If you thought that the experiment was over, you are wrong. The vendor then turned his attention towards peeling a couple of bananas — an ingredient, almost never used to prepare dosas. After placing the bananas on the chocolate-cheese-coated batter, he sliced the fruit into small pieces with the spatula. After cooking for some time, he finally rolled out the mixture, cut the dosa into smaller parts, and served the golden-brown cuisine on a plate. An additional drizzle of chocolate syrup, topped with cherries completed the experiment.
The post not only received multiple views, but the internet population also dropped their opinions on the unique chocolate banana dosa. “Tried this combination in Banaras. Taste is quite decent to my surprise,” wrote one foodie.
“Looks appetising….can be tried,” agreed another.
A person found it similar to a “French desert Crepe”
Strongly opposing the offbeat preparation, an individual remarked, “No. No and no.”
“Aise cook ko narak mein bhi jagah nahi milegi (Cooks like him will not even get a place in hell),” noted a discontent user.
One food enthusiast simply concluded, “Dosa died”.
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Mr. Muschamp called it “a remarkable work of art” reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí.
“Where a conventional design seeks to satisfy the desire for beauty,” he concluded, “Pesce uncovers something closer to the beauty of desire.”
Chiat/Day’s and several other of Mr. Pesce’s interiors have been dismantled over time, their parts turning up at auction. That disturbed design historians, who said the pieces were most meaningful in context.
Mr. Pesce also designed buildings, including an office block in Osaka, Japan, covered in plants; a vacation house in Bahia, Brazil; and two separate playful “holiday houses” in Puglia, Italy, for a married couple. (He made them from polyurethane, one pink, one blue.) Why two? “To stay together with someone is boring,” he explained during the Columbia lecture.
Mr. Pesce’s first marriage, to Milena Vettore, when he was in his late 20s, ended with her death about a year later. In the early 1980s, he married Francesca Lucco, who died in 1997.
In addition to his daughter Milena, from his second marriage, he is survived by a son, Jacopo, also from that marriage; a daughter from another relationship, Fontessa Duncan Pesce; a brother, Claudio; and a companion, Ruth Shuman. He lived on the Upper East Side for decades.
The seemingly endless variety of Mr. Pesce’s works wasn’t accidental. “I believe that the treasure of the world is diversity,” he told the Times style magazine T in 2022. “If we are the same, we cannot talk, because there is nothing to say. But if you and I are different, there’s a lot to exchange.”
Early results have demonstrated that mRNA-3927 has led to a 70% reduction in the relative risk for metabolic decompensation events in patients with propionic acidemia.
The first quarter of 2024 saw a 9 per cent rise in home sales at 86,345 units across top eight cities in India, while office leasing rose 43 per cent to 16.2 million square feet, according to Knight Frank India’s quarterly update on the sector.
India is one of the few sweet spots for the real estate sector, while global conditions are still challenging and it is a slow path to recovery, Knight Frank said in its update.
In India, people are still buying houses in large numbers with sales growth slightly ahead of supply growth. In absolute terms, 93,254 units were launched in the first quarter, a rise of 7 per cent year-on-year.
The office market was driven by demand from global capacity centres (GCCs) which had seen a sudden rebound over the last few months after a muted beginning.
Residential sales
Mumbai witnessed the highest growth during the quarter. According to Knight Frank’s data, 23,743 units were sold in the quarter, a rise of 17 per cent year-on-year. The next two best performing markets were Hyderabad and Pune.
The National Capital Region, the second largest in volume terms after Mumbai, saw a 1 per cent up move in the quarter, while Bengaluru saw a fall of 2 per cent.
On a sequential basis, the sales were almost flat with a downward bias and Mumbai, NCR, Bengaluru, and Pune reported a fall in sales.
With the exception of Mumbai and Kolkata, all other cities saw an increase in residential supply. Chennai saw the highest growth at 89 per cent, while in Ahmedabad the growth was only 1 per cent.
Also read: Mumbai property registrations up 6.8% in March
The increased demand for homes has resulted in inventory depletion at 5.9 quarters to sell compared to 6.7 quarters year ago. The unsold inventory level has however increased due to new launches. It was at 480,420 units at the end of March.
More homes have been sold in the price category of over ₹1 crore. This could be due to a rise in prices. In the year ago quarter, the majority of home sales were in the ₹50 lakh-₹1 crore band.
Prices have increased by 2-13 per cent over one year period, with Hyderabad seeing the most growth and Ahmedabad the least. Sequentially, the rise has been 1-4 per cent, with Mumbai and Ahmedabad not witnessing any change.
Office demand
India may likely end 2024 with record leasing volumes, per Knight Frank India’s Chairman and Managing Director Shishir Baijal.
With the exception of Kolkata and Bengaluru, all other cities reported robust growth in office lease transactions.
Hyderabad witnessed a rise of 261 per cent, while Pune reported a 146 per cent growth in leasing volume. Kolkata saw a fall of 9 per cent and Bengaluru was flat.
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There’s not enough new supply of office coming in and this is reflected in the numbers. In the quarter under review, only 1.2 msf of office stock was completed and this has remained more or less stagnant at this level over the quarters.
The gap in supply and demand has led to buoyancy in office rents. Bengaluru, Mumbai and NCR have seen 4-5 per cent growth in rents. There also has been a marginal reduction in vacancy levels though it is still above 15 per cent.
Likely reduction in interest rates, expected towards the second half of the year, will improve sentiments both in the residential and office markets, the report said.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
KADA ruž za usne postane viralan na TikToku, što se često događa, obično je riječ o proizvodu neke prestižne marke poput Toma Forda ili čak Charlotte Tilburyja. No, ono što je iznenađujuće ovaj put jest da je viralni ruž za usne koji je postao hit na TikToku iz drogerije.
Tekst se nastavlja ispod oglasa
Postoji razlog zašto je ovaj proizvod toliko popularan na TikToku – Revlonov Super Lustrous Glass Shine ruž za usne jednostavno izgleda nevjerojatno na svakome.
TikTokerica @catherine.abreu je opisala ovaj proizvod riječima: “Kad bi sjajilo za usne i ruž za usne imali dijete”. Ovaj opis sugerira da proizvod spaja najbolje karakteristike sjajila i ruža za usne, kombinirajući sjaj, hidrataciju i intenzivnu boju na jedinstven način. Iako nije novi proizvod na tržištu, činjenica da mnogi obožavatelji ističu da ga nose već godinama ukazuje na njegovu trajnu popularnost i vjernost korisnika.
No, Catherine nije jedina koja je oduševljena. Mnoge djevojke su TikToku isprobale različite nijanse Revlon Super Lustrous Glass Shine ruža za usne. Mnoge čak tvrde da ih podsjećaju na daleko skuplje proizvode. “Ljudi, imam toliko ruževa, ali meni ovaj treba”, “Obožavam ove ruževe, koristim ih godinama”,”Ovaj ruž koristim već duže vremena nisam ni znala da je popularan”, “Taman sam ga kupila, obožavam ga”, pisali su neki na društvenim mrežama.
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The Oakland Athletics have a farewell date: Sept. 29, 2024.
After 57 years in Oakland, the team announced Thursday that it would move to Sacramento next year, as an interim home on its way to Las Vegas.
The A’s agreed to a three-year deal to play at the home of the triple-A Sacramento River Cats, with an option for a fourth year if the Las Vegas ballpark is not ready as projected in 2028.
Sutter Health Park in Sacramento has a capacity of 14,014. The A’s have not posted a higher average attendance in Oakland since 2019, as loyal fans had long tired of an ownership that slashed payroll and failed in a two-decade search for a new stadium within the Bay Area.
The A’s and Oakland were unable to reach agreement on a deal to keep the team in the Oakland Coliseum pending a move to Las Vegas, as the Raiders did before they moved from Oakland to Las Vegas.
In November, Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the move to Las Vegas. That would make the A’s the first team in major league history to call four cities home, following Philadelphia, Kansas City and Oakland — and the Sacramento deal would make the A’s the first team to call five cities home.
The five California cities with major league teams next year will be Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Anaheim and Sacramento.
The A’s last scheduled home game this season is Sept. 26 against the Texas Rangers. The A’s then conclude the 2024 season with a weekend series in Seattle.
OnePlus recently added one more device under its popular Nord Series – the OnePlus Nord CE4. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset and 8GB of RAM. With a ROM of up to 256 GB, which is expandable up to 1TB, the smartphone offers enough space for almost everything. Also, this is backed up by a 5,500mAh battery and supports 100W SUPERVOOC charging. According to the company, it can go from 1-100% in 29 minutes. On the front of the device is a 6.7-inch 120Hz Fluid AMOLED display. On the back, it has a 50-megapixel sensor with Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and is accompanied by an 8-megapixel ultrawide sensor. Also, it has a 16-megapixel selfie camera.
The OnePlus Nord CE4 8GB + 128GB variant is available for Rs 24,999 and the 8GB + 256GB variant will be available at Rs 26,999.
If you’re still not sure about buying this device, here are some of the alternatives that you can consider:
Nothing Phone 2a: The Phone 2a is available in three variants 8GB + 128GB, 8GB + 256GB, and 12GB + 256GB. They are priced at Rs Rs 23,999, Rs 25,999, and Rs 27,999 respectively. Transparent design is one of the key highlights of the device. The phone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Pro processor and has a dual camera setup with a 50MP primary sensor.
Poco X6 Pro: The Poco X6 Pro is available in two RAM and storage variants of 8GB + 256GB and 12GB + 512GB. They are priced at Rs 26,999 and Rs 28,999 respectively. It is powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 8300 Ultra chip. The device has a 5,000mAh battery and also supports 67W fast charging.
Realme 12 Pro: The Realme 12 Pro is available in 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB for Rs 25,999 and Rs 26,999. It has a 6.7-inch 120Hz OLED display with a peak brightness of 950nits. Powering the phone is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 and 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging.
Realme 12 Plus: The Realme 12 Plus comes in 8GB + 128GB and 8GB + 256GB for Rs 20,999 and Rs 21,999 respectively. The 6.67-inch AMOLED display offers a refresh rate of 120Hz and peak brightness of 1,200 nits. It is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7050 processor and a 5,000mAh battery with 67W fast charging support. It has a triple-camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary Sony Lyt-600 sensor which is accompanied by an 8-megapixel ultrawide and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. For selfies, it has a 16-megapixel front camera.
Redmi Note 13 Pro: The Redmi Note 13 Pro is available in three variants with a starting price of Rs 25,999. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor and a 5,100mAh battery with 67W fast wired charging.
In Indian culture, festivals are of special significance as they unite people in joy and excitement. Chaitra Navratri stands out among these celebrations, as it is celebrated in every corner of the country. It lasts nine days and is dedicated to honouring the Goddess Durga in all of her incarnations. This year it will be celebrated with much pomp and enthusiasm from April 9 to 27. It is celebrated in a variety of ways to represent the victory of good over evil. With vibrant decorations, upbeat music, and traditional dances, the nation comes to life at this time. For tourists seeking an authentic cultural experience, Navratri provides numerous possibilities to explore and uncover the essence of Indian tradition. (Also read: Chaitra Navratri 2024: Is Chaitra Navratri starting from April 8 or April 9? Know correct date of the Hindu festival )
Dive into India’s vibrant Chaitra Navratri celebrations with our curated itinerary.(Unsplash)
Bernard Corraya, General Manager, Wego shared with HT Lifestyle an itinerary for those who are keen to discover the Chaitra Navratri celebrations held around India.
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1. Gujrat
Navratri is one of the most eagerly awaited festivals in Gujarat. Devotees hold a nine-day fast in honour of Goddess Shakti, which falls on the first nine days of the month Ashwin. When darkness descends, women carry out the ritualistic aarti while glowing diyas adorn earthen pots, or “Garbis” to light the nights. Men and women dressed traditionally join joyfully in these highly esteemed forms of expression, and the air is filled with the contagious energy of Garba dance and Dandiya Raas.
2. West Bengal
Navratri in West Bengal is transformed into the great Durga Puja celebration. Paschim Banga comes alive during the last four days of Navratri, with brilliant colours and bright lights illuminating each and every space. Believers hold dear the notion of Goddess Durga descending from the heavens to her earthly maternal abode, greeted with boundless warmth and affection. In addition, stunning pandals that display life-sized idols of Durga are revered with utmost devotion. Navratri ends on the tenth day with joyous celebrations honouring Durga’s victorious battle against evil.
3. Kolkata
With the fervour of Durga Puja, a major celebration spanning ten wonderful days, Kolkata sets the stage for an incredible show that coincides with Navratri celebrations across the country. The joyous opening honours the beloved Maa Durga, sparking spirits in a way never seen before. Devotees in Kolkata, like others around the country, honour the goddess’s nine divine incarnations: Durga, Klai, Jagdamba, Annapoornadevi, Sarvamangala, Bhairavi, Chandika, Lalita, Bhavani, and Mookambika. Furthermore, dressed in colourful garments, the devotees offer sincere thanks to Goddess Durga, infusing every ceremony with a deep sense of devotion and sincerity.
4. Andhra Pradesh
In Andhra Pradesh, Navratri is celebrated with the brilliant colours of “Bathukamma Panduga” which translates as “Come Alive Mother Goddess”. Goddess Gauri is worshipped on this occasion, and her idol is housed inside the magnificent Bathukamma floral arrangement. Bathukamma Panduga is widely celebrated as the biggest celebration in Andhra Pradesh, especially in the Telangana region, and is considered to be both significant and a sight to behold. Gathering around Bathukamma, women decked out in exquisite gold jewellery and silk sarees pray to goddess Gauri for her good graces.
In India, the festival of Navratri is a huge celebration with a wide range of festivities. Every region of the nation has a unique celebration custom such as Gujarat hosts exciting Garba nights and West Bengal is home to the magnificent Durga Puja. Additionally, Bathukamma is celebrated with lovely flowers in Andhra Pradesh. These festivities provide a vibrant and lively display of India’s rich history and culture.
Palworld has been given a big new update on Xbox consoles and PC via Steam. The latest Palworld update introduces the game’s very first Raid boss, which is something fans have been looking forward to since launch. As you can see from the patch notes further down the page, players can summon Raid Boss Pals by using slabs at the new Summoning Altar. The bosses are powerful Pals that can’t be captured, although you will receive Eggs if you manage to defeat them. There’s even an extreme version of the Raid battles, which are described as incredibly powerful and difficult to defeat. Elsewhere, the April Palworld update adds a variety of new items and abilities, including Training Manuals that can be used to give experience points to Pals. Unfortunately, however, it’s not all good news, because the new update does come with a warning to players experiencing issues with the game.
In a post on X, Palworld developer Pocketpair acknowledged a bug that has been discovered since the launch of the latest update.
According to Pocketpair, some players are experiencing an issue with eggs that can’t be placed in incubators.
“After the v0.2.0.6 update, it has been reported that there is an issue where eggs cannot be placed inside the incubator. We apologise for this inconvenience,” reads a Pocketpair post.
Anybody experiencing this issue has been told that the problem can be resolved simply by rebuilding the incubator.
Needless to say, the latest Palworld update also makes a ton of gameplay tweaks, balance adjustments and bug fixes, which you can see by checking out the patch notes below.
New Content
• Implemented the first Raid Boss
– You can summon Raid Boss Pals by using slabs at the new Summoning Altar
– Raid Boss Pals summoned by slabs are very powerful and can not be captured.
– Work alongside your base Pals to take on these powerful foes.
– Pals Eggs can drop after defeating Raid Boss Pals.
– The “extreme” version of the Raid Boss is incredibly powerful and difficult to defeat
• New “Training Manual” items have been added. These manuals allow you to give experience points to Pals.
• Ancient Technical Manual added. This gives you ancient technology points and can be randomly found inside dungeon chests.
• New “Recovery Meds” items have been added. Using these meds will slowly recover your HP over time.
• New item “Homeward Thundercloud” has been added. When used, this item will instantly move you to your nearest base.
• New item “Ability Glasses” has been added. When equipped, you can see Pal’s stats.
• New stat boosting items have been added: “Power Fruit, Life Fruit, Stout Fruit”. These items will boost Pal’s stats when used.
• Added a new passive “Mercy Hit”. Pals with this passive cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.
• New item “Ring of Mercy” has been added. When wearing this ring, you cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.
• New armour “Multiclimate Undershirt” has been added. Protect yourself against both the heat and the cold with just one slot!
• New building “Electric Egg Incubator” has been added.
– This incubator consumes electricity to automatically adjust the temperature to the optimum temperature for each egg.
• New building “Ore Mining Site” has been added. This mining site allows you to produce ores from the comfort of your base!
Pals
• Kelpsea can now produce Pal Fluids at the ranch
• Dumud can now produce High-Quality Pal Oil at the ranch
• You can now reduce the weight of metal ore while riding Surfent Terra
• Increased the amount of ore dropped while riding Astegon
• You can now raise Pal’s rank to the maximum with a single synthesis using the Pal Essence Condenser.
– (Condensation progress is now accumulated in the individual Pal)
• Negative Pal status will now be resolved after spending some time in the Pal Box
UI
• While aiming a sphere, it will now display how many of the target Pal has already been captured
• You can now check the cooldowns on partner skills for all your Pals on the main screen
• Equipment and item stats are now visible on the technology screen, even if you have not unlocked them first
• The tutorial has been improved and renamed to “Journey”
• You can now show/hide the “Journey” in the game options
• Damage number display size can be changed in the game options.
– (In Raid Boss battles, the damage numbers tend to overlap and it may be difficult to see, so we recommend adjusting the size)
Player
• Items dropped by players after death on a dedicated server can now be picked up by anyone after 24 hours of real-time have passed
• Added a new “sleeping” player emote (edited)
Base Related
• You can now allow/disallow certain work for base Pals at the Monitoring Stand
• Chest filters have been added. Select item types to allow or disallow inside chests
• Crafted items are now transported from crafting facilities. Selecting “allow transport” when crafting will result in Pals transporting those items to chests when finished
• You can now edit your character’s appearance at any time by using the “Antique Dresser”
• Building and building piece placement rules have been relaxed
– You can now connect stairs facing upwards
– Roof pieces can now directly connect to foundations
– Triangular walls can now be connected to stairs
• You can now force a Pal to work and cancel their break by picking them up and throwing them towards a facility
– (Pals recover their SAN while taking a break, so be careful!)
• Fixed assignments remain fixed, even after bad events occur. Previously, some assignments would change due to certain conditions, but now they will remain fixed unless the Pal is placed inside the Pal Box
Balance Adjustment
• Minimum heat and cold resistance have been added to various armour. You will no longer need to take off your heat-resistance armour when it is cold at night in the starting areas!
• Reduce the button press time in the egg incubator
• Change the pattern for Jormuntide Ignis to something more unique
• Added legendary blueprints for some firearms (Dropped from specific enemies)
• Corrected the selling price of diamonds
• In single-player, it is no longer possible to select the initial spawn point for multiplayer
• Blocked the back of the starting area with rocks to prevent players from getting lost or stuck
• The increased attack power multiplier of partner skills that increase the player’s attack power while riding has been uniformly reduced from 2.0 to 1.2
• Eggs now have a small chance to produce Alpha Pals
• Flying and floating Pals are now immune to falling damage
The 2024 Mazda BT-50 has undergone a minor update in its home market of Thailand, but the ute appears to miss out on a number of new features coming for its Isuzu D-Max twin.
Revealed this week in Thailand, the BT-50’s changes appear to be largely cosmetic.
When asked if the updated BT-50 will come here, Mazda Australia has said it “cannot comment on future product plans”.
The updated Thai-market BT-50 gains a number of small exterior tweaks, such as black grille trim across all grades – previously reserved for the flagship SP – and a new lower front bumper.
Inside, there are paddle shifters on certain grades as well as wireless Android Auto, coming after the inclusion of wireless Apple CarPlay.
Unfortunately, that’s where upgrades from the facelifted D-Max end, with the BT-50 forgoing its twin’s USB-C outlets and 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster, instead sticking with a 4.2-inch display.
There’s also no mention of the rear cross-traffic braking system coming to the D-Max in Thailand, though the BT-50 does continue with an alert in these scenarios, alongside other safety features such as autonomous emergency braking, blind-spot monitoring and lane-departure warning, to name a few.
It’s understood there are no changes to the 1.9-litre and 3.0-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engines which currently power the BT-50, and it’s not yet clear whether the updated ute benefits from the updated D-Max’s new rough terrain mode function.
As previously reported, the Mazda BT-50 is remaining on sale in Australia despite being axed in New Zealand.
The decision to remove the ute from sale across the ditch was made following low sales, though it’s far more popular in Australia, outselling the Triton, Navara and Amarok in 2023.
After successfully concluding the Q1 of 2024 on a positive note, the top 10 memecoins have displayed increased selling pressure since the month started, highlighting a strong bearish reversal in the cryptocurrency industry for the memecoin category.
The leader of memecoins, Dogecoin, has recorded a correction of approximately 10% over the past seven days, following which the price of Shiba Inu displayed a similar trend by recording a loss of over 13% in valuation during this time.
Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Analysis:
The DOGE price traded in a consolidated range between $0.146 and $0.188 for about two weeks, following which the bulls lost momentum and recorded a correction of over 35% in valuation. However, the bulls held the price above the support level of $0.122, resulting in a bounce back in the chart.
As the market volatility grew, the bulls jumped 86% before facing rejection at $0.227, after which it traded sideways for a while. After multiple rejections to break out of its resistance, the bulls lost momentum, and since then, the price has been trading under a bearish influence.
TradingView: DOGE/USDT
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) displays a constant decline in the red histogram, indicating weak buying and selling pressure in the crypto industry. Moreover, the averages hint at a high potential for bullish convergence, highlighting a mixed sentiment for the memecoin.
If the market holds the price above the support level of $0.169, the bulls will regain momentum and prepare to test its upper resistance level of $0.206 during the upcoming week. Conversely, if the bears continue to hold power over the bulls, the price will continue bleeding and fall to test its low of $0.146.
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Shiba Inu (SHIB) Price Analysis:
The Shiba Inu price displayed significant price volatility by trading between $0.000030 and $0.000036 for a brief period, after which the bulls failed to hold the price above the support level, resulting in the SHIB price breaking down and recording a correction of 21% in valuation.
After testing its low of $0.0000237, the bulls regained momentum and added approximately 40% before facing rejection at the resistance level of $0.0000330. Since then, the price has been trading under a bearish influence and is hovering close to its level of $0.0000270.
TradingView: SHIB/USDT
The technical indicator, MACD, shows a constant flatline in the chart, highlighting weak buying and selling pressure for the memecoin in the crypto market. Further, the averages show a neutral trend, highlighting uncertainty for Shiba Inu price action during the upcoming week.
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If the market pushes the price above the resistance level of $0.0000270, the bulls will regain momentum and prepare to test its upper resistance level of $0.0000330 in the coming time. However, if the bulls fail to regain momentum, the SHIB price will fall to test its low of $0.000020 this month.
HCL group company and edtech startup GUVI has launched Large Language Model (LLM) features on its platform that helps users from diverse linguistic backgrounds to learn concepts in their ‘colloquial’ language.
The AI-enabled platform has the capability where users can upload course video in English language and get it translated in preferred colloquial language.
It also has features for customised learning meeting specific needs and preferences of learners. As a result, unlike traditional AI models, GUVI will allow users to engage with AI in their native language -even colloquial ones such as ‘Tanglish’ – for a seamless learning experience, says a release.
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GUVI, originally born in IIT-Madras as a platform offering tech education in regional languages, helps students to learn in their mother tongues and also offers specialised IT courses to upskill and make them job ready. It already has over 2.5 million learners and expects the new LLM feature to empower more students from tier-2 and tier-3 locations in technology concepts.
“We recognise the significance of linguistic diversity in education particularly in a country as diverse as India. By leveraging ChatGPT and colloquial data sets, we are ensuring that the AI understands and responds to users in their colloquial language, fostering inclusivity and accessibility in education while celebrating India’s linguistic heritage,” Guvi CEO Arun Prakash said.
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At present, GUVI’s LLM will be available in the following vernacular languages – Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. The company plans to come out with more vernacular languages in the near future. The LLM has been made available for users free of cost in the immediate future, says a release.
As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the potential for a future human pandemic.
On Wednesday, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued an alert noting that “transmission between bird and mammal species has been observed, particularly in fur animal farms, where outbreaks have been reported.”
Although it is rare for infected birds to pass along the virus to humans, the agency warned that new strains could pose a danger in the future.
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“These viruses continue to evolve globally, and with the migration of wild birds, new strains carrying potential mutations for mammalian adaptation could be selected,” the alert stated.
“If avian A (H5N1) influenza viruses acquire the ability to spread efficiently among humans, large‐scale transmission could occur due to the lack of immune defenses against H5 viruses in humans.”
As avian influenza (bird flu) continues to spread among wild birds in the European Union, officials are warning of the potential for a future human pandemic.(iStock)
In other words, humans don’t have immunity against bird flu — which means it could potentially spread quickly.
The flu has been found to spread between birds and mammals, the EFSA noted — “particularly in fur animal farms, where outbreaks have been reported.”
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To prevent the risk of a bird flu pandemic, the agency recommended taking steps to limit exposure and prevent the spread to mammals and humans.
“Key options for actions include enhancing surveillance targeting humans and animals, ensuring access to rapid diagnostics, promoting collaboration between animal and human sectors, and implementing preventive measures such as vaccination,” the EFSA wrote.
“People with close or prolonged, unprotected exposures to infected birds or other animals (including livestock), or to environments contaminated by infected birds or other animals, are at greater risk of infection,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.(iStock)
“Effective communication to different involved target audiences should be emphasized, as well as strengthening veterinary infrastructure, enforcing biosecurity measures at farms, and reducing wildlife contact with domestic animals.”
The agency also called for “careful planning of poultry and fur animal farming,” particularly in locations with large numbers of waterfowl (aquatic birds like ducks and geese).
Human cases in the U.S.
On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a person in Texas tested positive for H5N1 bird flu.
“This person had exposure to dairy cattle in Texas presumed to be infected with HPAI A(H5N1) viruses,” the CDC’s statement said.
CDC WARNS OF INVASIVE BACTERIAL OUTBREAK AMID SPIKE IN CASES AND FATALITY RATES: ‘RARE BUT SEVERE’
“The patient reported eye redness (consistent with conjunctivitis), as their only symptom, and is recovering. The patient was told to isolate and is being treated with an antiviral drug for flu.”
The CDC said this is the second case of a human testing positive for H5N1 in the U.S., after a previous case was observed in Colorado in 2022.
“If avian A (H5N1) influenza viruses acquire the ability to spread efficiently among humans, large‐scale transmission could occur due to the lack of immune defenses against H5 viruses in humans,” the European Food Safety Authority said.(iStock)
“This infection does not change the H5N1 bird flu human health risk assessment for the U.S. general public, which CDC considers to be low,” it added.
“However, people with close or prolonged, unprotected exposures to infected birds or other animals (including livestock), or to environments contaminated by infected birds or other animals, are at greater risk of infection.”
“At present, it does not transmit readily from person to person.”
The CDC said it is “working with state health departments to continue to monitor workers who may have been in contact with infected or potentially infected birds/animals and test those people who develop symptoms.”
Human symptoms can range from mild (e.g., eye infection, upper respiratory symptoms) to severe illness (e.g., pneumonia), according to the CDC.
Infectious diseases expert weighs in
Erica Susky, a Toronto-based medical microbiologist certified in infection control, said she believes there is generally “not a high risk” of human-to-human transmission, given that “the natural reservoir” of H5N1 and other strains of avian influenza is birds and not humans.
“Cases of H5N1 in humans usually occur in people who have had contact with birds (slaughter, de-feathering, butchering or preparing),” she told Fox News Digital.
The EU agency called for “careful planning of poultry and fur animal farming,” particularly in locations with large numbers of waterfowl.(iStock)
While bird flu has a 60% fatality in humans, Susky noted, it rarely occurs.
“At present, it does not transmit readily from person to person,” she said.
The primary concern involves the influenza virus, she said, which is “excellent at mutating and recombining.”
“If there are repeated contacts between species that are the natural reservoir for one type of influenza viral strain — like birds and H5N1 — and humans, the chances of this novel strain adapting to spread in this different species increases,” Susky told Fox News Digital.
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“As there are more cases of H5N1, there are more chances for a crossover event into humans.”
Some of the biggest sources of spread, Susky said, are industrial agriculture and modern cities, where a virus like influenza can pass readily through human and bird populations.
“Currently, birds share influenza strains less often with humans, though that can change — it is how past influenza pandemics have arisen,” she said.
The CDC on Monday announced that a person in Texas tested positive for H5N1 bird flu.(REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo)
To prevent spread, Susky recommended practicing proper infection prevention techniques, which is important not only for bird flu, but also for seasonal influenza.
Those techniques include following proper and frequent hand hygiene before preparing food, eating or touching one’s face, and after using the washroom or coming in contact with animals.
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Other mitigation strategies include receiving the annual influenza vaccine for those who qualify, and not going out among other people while feeling ill.
“The best way to minimize one’s risk of coming in contact with novel influenza strains is to avoid contact with birds and wild animals, if possible,” Susky added.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.
Actor Anya Taylor-Joy has shared glimpses from her secret wedding to her best friend and musician Malcolm McRae on her Instagram handle. The two got married on April 1, 2022, in New Orleans. Amongst the dreamy wedding pictures, what caught our attention was the one-of-its-kind wedding cake. It was not the traditional tiered-white wedding cake as seen at most weddings. The couple chose heart-shaped wedding cakes. Cute, right? Maybe not that cute when you see the hearts looked realistic and “anatomically correct”. There was also a blood-lookalike sauce (could be strawberry or raspberry) under the hearts. Also Read: Malaika Arora Shares Glimpses Of Her “Set Life” And It Includes Drool-Worthy South Indian Dishes
Anya also shared a video on her Instagram Stories in which the couple can be seen crossing arms with each other and taking the first bite of their cakes. Take a look at the couple eating their realistic heart-shaped cakes:
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Anya also shared a picture of the cakes, along with other wedding pictures in an Instagram post. In the caption, she wrote, “Two years ago, on April Fools’, I secretly married my best friend in New Orleans. The magic of that day is ingrained in every cell of my being, forever. Happy second (first) anniversary, my love…you’re the coolest.” Describing the cakes, she added, “N.B. yes, those are anatomically correct heart cakes. Yes, I am the vampire Lestat.”
According to People Magazine, Anya and Malcolm first met at the March 2021 premiere of the Netflix series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’. Following the first secret wedding, the couple also planned a second wedding in October 2023. The grand second wedding celebration was held at the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice. Also Read: Do Not Disturb Masaba Gupta, She Is Having A “Chilla And Boiled Egg Party”
About Jigyasa KakwaniJigyasa finds her solace through writing, a medium she is exploring to make the world more informed and curious with every story published. She is always up for exploring new cuisines, but her heart comes back to the comforting ghar-ka-khana.
Art of Craft is a series about craftspeople whose work rises to the level of art.
When Ayoung An was 8, her parents bought her a violin. She slept with the instrument on the pillow next to her every night.
Two years later, a shop selling musical instruments opened in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, her hometown, and An became a fixture there, pelting the owner with questions. “I think I bothered him a lot,” An, now 32, said.
As a teenager, she decided she would become a violin maker. Eventually, a journey with twists and turns took her to Cremona in northern Italy — a famed hub for violin makers, including masters like Antonio Stradivari, since the 16th century. There, An, a rising star in the violin-making world with international awards under her belt, runs her own workshop.
Set on a quiet cobblestone street, An’s studio is bathed in natural light and filled with books and piles of wood chunks that must air dry for five to 10 years before becoming instruments or risk warping. She shares the two-room studio with her husband, Wangsoo Han, who’s also a violin maker.
On a recent Monday, An was hunched over a thick 20-inch piece of wood held in place by two metal clamps. Pressing her body down for leverage, she scraped the wood with a gouge, removing layers, her hands steady and firm. She was forming a curving neck called a “scroll,” one of the later steps of making a violin or cello. On this day, the violin maker was immersed on a commission for a cello, which shares a similar crafting process.
Violins like An’s, made in the tradition of Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri, require about two months of work and sell for about 16,000 to 17,000 euros, or $17,500 to $18,500. “I can make a violin in three weeks, but I don’t want to,” An said. “This object is very precious to the person purchasing it.”
An was 17 when she hatched her plan to learn the craft: She would move in with an American family in a Chicago suburb so that she could attend a local high school, master English and eventually study at the Chicago School of Violin Making. There were no such schools in Korea at the time. Her parents, distraught about her moving so far away to pursue an uncertain career path, tried to stop her.
“I didn’t eat for days,” An said. Finally, they gave in. “When I said goodbye to my parents at the airport, they were crying,” she said. “I wasn’t. I was too excited.”
Two years after moving to Illinois, she discovered that one of the best known schools for violin makers, the International School of Violin Making, was actually in Cremona. So in 2011, at age 20, she moved to a new country again.
Cremona was home to some of history’s most famous luthiers, makers of stringed instruments: Stradivari; Andrea Amati, considered “the father of the violin”; and the Guarneri family. For the 160 to 200 violin makers in Cremona today, the sound quality of the masters remains the ultimate goal. “The traditional method is not about experimenting,” An said.
Around the studio, small pots of pigment, for varnishing, sat on shelves and tables alongside jars of powders — ground glass and minerals — for polishing. On a wall were dozens of knives, chisels and saws. Also present: dentist’s tools to scratch the instrument for a more antique look.
An is the youngest member of a consortium in Cremona dedicated to upholding violin-making traditions. She is so immersed in the Cremonese method of violin making that, at the suggestion of a mentor, she created an artist’s name, Anna Arietti, to better fit in with Italian culture.
An important moment is when luthiers place their label inside the instrument, called a “baptism.” To make her label, An stamps her ink signature onto a small piece of paper — a browned page from a secondhand book, giving the impression of age. Then, using a traditional homemade mixture of melted bovine skin and rabbit skin as a long-lasting adhesive, she glues the label inside one half of the instrument. She also burns her signature into the instrument with a tiny heated brand.
Afterward, the two halves are sealed together, completing the main body of the instrument. Her Italian artist’s name remains inside, intact as long as the violin is.
“That’s why I wanted to be a violin maker,” An said. “At least one person who plays my violin will remember me 100 or 200 years later.”
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Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
INTERNETSKA trgovina Temu brani se od optužbi njemačkih potrošačkih organizacija koji tvrde da koristi nepoštene prakse. Temu tvrdi da je nepravedno prikazan u negativnom svjetlu, a glasnogovornik tvrtke izjavio je za Heise: “Naša praksa je poštena.”
Nedavno je Savez njemačkih potrošačkih organizacija (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband – vzbv) upozorio Temu i zatražio od njih da se obavežu da će se suzdržati od određenih praksi na internetu. Konkretno, vzbv je kritizirao Temu zbog prikazivanja popusta bez pružanja dodatnih informacija o referentnim cijenama. Glasnogovornik Temua je naglasio: “Pažljivo pregledavamo sve informacije o cijenama koje nam daju naši prodavači kako bismo osigurali točnost i transparentnost za naše kupce.”
Vzbv dalje optužuje Temu za utjecaj na korisnike online platforme putem manipulativnih taktika, poznatih kao “mračni obrasci”, što je ove godine zabranjeno prema Zakonu o digitalnim uslugama EU-a. U odgovoru na to, Temu tvrdi da obavijesti poput “126 ljudi ima ovaj artikl u svojoj košarici” odražavaju stvarne zalihe i aktivnost kupnje. Oni ističu da je svrha ovih obavijesti pomoći potrošačima u donošenju informiranih odluka, a ne manipulirati ili ih prisiljavati. Nadalje, naglašavaju da informirani kupci dovode do veće razine zadovoljstva kupaca i smanjenog broja povrata proizvoda.
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“Nikad ne brišemo negativne recenzije”
Vzbv također izražava sumnju u autentičnost recenzija proizvoda na Temu zbog nedostatka informacija o njima. “Nikada ne brišemo niti potiskujemo negativne recenzije”, tvrdi Temu. “Štoviše, pružamo posebne filtre za njih jer smatramo da mogu pomoći u provjeri trgovaca i potaknuti ih da poboljšaju kvalitetu svojih proizvoda i usluga.”
Kako bi se jasno identificirali dobavljači proizvoda, Temu ističe da je učinio njihove logotipe vidljivijima na web stranici. “Također smo dodali poštanske brojeve za sve dobavljače, uzimajući u obzir preferencije europskih potrošača”, naglašava Temu – čak i ako su dobavljači smješteni u Kini.
Pod potporom kineskog tehnološkog diva PDD Holdings, Temu je prije godinu dana ušao na europsko tržište i postao je najpreuzimanija aplikacija za kupovinu u mnogim zemljama prošle godine.
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Mick Cronin’s first offseason acquisition could find a spot alongside Dylan Andrews in UCLA’s starting backcourt.
The Bruins snagged Louisville’s leading scorer Wednesday after sophomore combo guard Skyy Clark announced on the social platform X that he was headed back to his hometown.
“Home is where the heart is!!” Clark, a native of Los Angeles, wrote atop a photo illustration showing him dribbling a basketball outside Pauley Pavilion and below the Hollywood sign and the words “I’m coming home.”
A gifted shooter who could also help Andrews with ballhandling duties, Clark made 35.3% of his three-pointers last season while averaging 13.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
After starring for Heritage Christian in Northridge as a sophomore and spending his final two high school seasons in Tennessee and Florida, Clark spent his freshman college season at Illinois. He started 12 of the Illini’s first 13 games before leaving the team for personal reasons and entering the transfer portal after the season.
Clark is probably just the first of several transfers the Bruins will bring on board. The team had one open scholarship and an additional one became available Tuesday when freshman guard Ilane Fibleuil, who averaged just 1.0 point in 6.4 minutes per game, entered the transfer portal.
India, which detected over 2 lakh ransomware attacks in 2023, is likely to see similar onslaughts, cyber security firm Kaspersky said on Wednesday.
Kaspersky General Manager for South Asia Jaydeep Singh said researches conducted by the firm have shown that India is consistently among the top 12 targeted countries and territories for Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).
“For three years in a row, file encryption has been the top problem faced by enterprises and organisations worldwide and in India. From the basic ransomware attacks like the Wannacry in 2017, we have reached the era of Ransomware 3.0 where we see triple extortion in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), reselling of data, and public blackmailing.
“This form of attack has a wider impact on the financial and reputation aspect of Indian companies,” Singh said. Kaspersky claims to have detected over 2 lakh ransomware incidents on businesses in the country in 2023.
According to the company, major ransomware groups such as Fonix and LockBit targeted global as well as Indian organisations in various sectors, including manufacturing, retail, agriculture, media, and healthcare.
Singh said amid the evolving threat of ransomware against the IT and OT systems in India, Kaspersky highlights the urgent need for stronger cybersecurity defences through deploying threat intelligence capabilities.
Kaspersky Head of Presales for South Asia Arun Gantayat said, “In the digital landscape of India, where Industry 4.0 converges with traditional manufacturing, the heartbeat of progress lies in the fusion of Threat Intelligence and Industrial Cybersecurity,” Gantayat said.
ANI | | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz, Kannur (kerala) [india]
Due to the rough seas in many coastal areas, beach tourism activities have been halted in Kerala’s Kannur.
Kerala: Beach tourism activities banned in Kannur due to rough seas (File Photo by Twitter/surajkrishna4u)
In the wake of the rough seas, the District Disaster Management Authority has instructed the District Tourism Promotion Council to temporarily ban beach tourism activities at various tourist centres in the district.
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Muzhapilangad floating bridge has been dismantled as per precautionary measures by DPTC and also asked locals to be alerted to be careful if visiting coastal areas.
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), has found that as a result of the low-pressure system moving into the Indian Ocean, very high waves – which reached 11 meters at some places – were created and reached the Kerala coast.
The rough sea causes coastal erosion and high tides and surges in the water level also get experienced.
Strong waves and rough seas wreaked havoc in several coastal parts of Kerala on Sunday flooding houses and roads and damaging boats and fishing equipment.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.
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Ahead of performing at BST Hyde Park this summer, Andrea Bocelli has celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this year with a music special filmed at Lakewood Church in Texas.
The Italian maestro sang a duet of Hallelujah with his 12-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli, alongside the likes of You’ll Never Walk Alone, Pianissimo, The Prayer and I Believe.
He then concluded the Easter music special with a spectacular rendition of John Newton’s Amazing Grace.
For the final performance, the 65-year-old was accompanied by a grand piano, cellos and violins.
Bocelli recently wrote on social media: “It is never too late to rediscover the sense of our inner time: the time for doing good and living well, together. It is a blessed impulse and shall never be time wasted!
“To be reborn, as the Christian holiday reminds us each year, is the manifest miracle of our existence that is renewed every day. Happy Easter to you all!”
GWM has slashed prices of its Ora hatchback, cementing it as Australia’s cheapest electric car – at least for now.
The Chinese brand has announced new nationwide drive-away pricing for the Ora range, which now opens at $35,990drive-away for the Standard Range – down $4000 on the previous price before on-road costs.
Given the Standard Range previously cost up to $42,500 drive-away in Victoria, the actual saving is up to $6510.
The Extended Range has been reduced from $45,990 before on-roads to $40,990 drive-away, while the Ultra and GT have also received $5000 price cuts to bring them to $43,990 and $46,990 drive-away, respectively.
According to GWM’s website, this pricing applies to vehicles ordered and delivered by June 30, 2024.
The company says it has been able to take advantage of favourable exchange rates.
The Ora thus far is GWM’s only electric model here, complementing four hybrid models. GWM says it’s also studying the possibility of bringing plug-in hybrid models here.
Earlier this year, GWM had applied a discount of up to $4000 across Ora models ordered and delivered before March 31, though drive-away pricing still varied from state to state.
The promotion was enough to see it reclaim the title of Australia’s cheapest electric vehicle (EV), a title it had for a short period of time before losing it to the MG 4 in mid-2023 and then later the BYD Dolphin.
With this new nationwide drive-away pricing, the Ora comfortably undercuts both its key rivals.
That’s despite MG rolling out nationwide drive-away pricing of its own in March, bringing the base price of both its MG 4 and ZS EV electric models to $39,990 drive-away.
That was enough to see the MGs become Australia’s cheapest electric cars, at least in most states. The BYD Dolphin still undercuts them in the ACT and Northern Territory, where it’s priced at $39,556 drive-away.
In the first two months of this year, the MG 4 was the best-selling vehicle of this trio with 983 units sold – ahead of the BYD Dolphin (475 sales), and well ahead of the GWM Ora (186 sales).
The Ora features a front-mounted electric motor with 126kW of power and 250Nm of torque.
It’s offered with either a 48kWh lithium iron phosphate or a 63kWh nickel manganese cobalt battery.
WLTP range is 310km in the Standard Range, 420km in the Extended Range and Ultra, and 400km in the GT.
Pricing
2024 GWM Ora Standard Range: $35,990
2024 GWM Ora Extended Range: $40,990
2024 GWM Ora Ultra: $43,990
2024 GWM Ora GT: $46,990
All prices are drive-away.
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WHEN BOB IGER returned to the top job at Disney in November 2022, some anticipated a fairytale ending to the entertainment giant’s troubles. In February last year Nelson Peltz, a feared activist investor, called off a campaign by his hedge fund, Trian Partners, for a shake-up after Mr Iger announced measures to slash costs and otherwise improve Disney’s fortunes.
With the company’s share price languishing, however, Mr Peltz returned to the warpath in October. Blackwells, another activist investor, launched a campaign of its own. Both sought seats on Disney’s board, arguing it had grown too chummy with Mr Iger and failed to find a viable strategy amid the decline of “linear” TV.
Chart: The Economist
On April 3rd both activists’ candidates were rejected by shareholders at Disney’s annual general meeting (AGM), by what the company said was “a substantial margin”. This has handed Mr Iger what he surely hopes is a decisive victory. Investors regained faith in Disney’s boss after an earnings call in February, when he reported that losses in its streaming business, including Disney+, had narrowed sharply in the final quarter of 2023, and trumpeted splashy new initiatives including a partnership with Epic Games, a video-game developer, to incorporate Disney characters into its popular “Fortnite” franchise. The announcement that Disney would increase its dividend by 50% and repurchase $3bn of shares also went down a treat. Its share price jumped by 11% the following day, and has kept climbing since (see chart).
At the AGM Mr Iger declared that Disney has “turned a corner and entered a new, positive era”. Yet such triumphalism is premature, for Mr Iger still has much work to do, in three areas especially. The first is to generate the “double-digit” operating margins in Disney’s streaming business that he has promised investors. That will require a lot more subscribers, to provide economies of scale, which may put Mr Iger in a bind. To stem losses in the business he has jacked up prices, undermining growth. Between the third and fourth quarters of last year the number of subscribers to Disney+ (outside India) shrank by 1.3m.
What is more, over half of the $7.5bn in costs Mr Iger has pledged to slash are to come from Disney’s content budget. That will hardly help the company to grow, and could undermine a second of Mr Iger’s promises—to restore Disney’s creative magic. In his letter to shareholders from 1966, the last before he died, Walt Disney declared a disdain for sequels. Mr Iger, by contrast, is an avid fan. Of the 15 forthcoming films he mentioned in his presentation in February, all bar one were sequels, prequels, spin-offs or remakes. Mr Iger applauded a greater reliance on franchises as a “smart thing”. Results at the box office, however, have been disappointing. Last year Disney lost the top spot for global cinema-ticket sales, to rival Universal, for the first time since 2015. On March 31st it was reported that last year’s Indiana Jones film, a Disney reboot featuring an 80-year-old Harrison Ford, took in $134m less at the box office than it cost to produce.
The third promise Mr Iger must still fulfil is to find a more durable successor than his last pick, whom he then supplanted. Worryingly, three of the four directors on Disney’s succession-planning committee were involved in that bungled process. Already Mr Iger’s two-year contract has been extended until the end of 2026.
If Mr Iger trips up, the interlopers may return. In his remarks at the AGM, Mr Peltz noted that, regardless of the outcome of the vote, he would be “watching the company’s performance”. The veteran activist, too, may be a fan of sequels. ■
In the midst of Bitcoin’s recent downturn, Ethereum (ETH) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) have experienced setbacks, reflecting the broader market trend. However, amidst this turbulence, Furrever Token (FURR) has emerged as a beacon of success, showcasing remarkable resilience and investor confidence. With its presale rapidly approaching the end of its fifth stage, FURR has managed to amass an impressive $600,000 in funding in less than a month. This achievement underscores the growing enthusiasm surrounding FURR and its potential to revolutionize the cryptocurrency space.
Ethereum (ETH) finds itself navigating turbulent waters as the cryptocurrency market experiences significant fluctuations. The recent downturn in Bitcoin’s price has inevitably cast a shadow over ETH, leading to a decline of just over 5% to approximately $3,341. Attempts to breach the $3,650 resistance have proven futile amidst market uncertainties, causing apprehension among investors. Despite efforts to rally, ETH faced a staunch rejection around the $3,550 level, followed by a swift descent to $3,320, testing crucial support.
Nevertheless, the $3,320 support level may serve as a lifeline for ETH, as signs of a recovery emerge, with prices hovering above $3,360. Yet, challenges persist as ETH struggles below the $3,500 mark and the 100-hour Simple Moving Average, highlighting the uphill battle for upward momentum. Immediate resistance stands around $3,400, with significant hurdles at $3,420 and $3,450, the latter capable of propelling prices to higher levels upon breakthrough.
A decisive breach of the $3,650 resistance would mark a significant milestone for Ethereum, potentially paving the way for further gains towards $3,720, albeit requiring a test of $3,880 for sustained upward momentum. Short-term prospects appear dim as failure to surpass the $3,420 resistance could signal further downside, possibly testing support at $3,250 and the critical level of $3,220. A breach of the latter could precipitate a deeper decline towards $3,120 or even $3,040.
Technical indicators corroborate the bearish outlook, with hourly MACD losing momentum in the downside region and hourly RSI below the 50 level, suggesting a continuation of the downtrend. A clear break below the $3,320 support could catalyze additional losses, underscoring the importance of overcoming the $3,420 resistance for a potential market recovery.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) Navigates Turbulent Waters Amidst Market Volatility: Can it Weather the Storm?
In the volatile landscape of the crypto market, Shiba Inu (SHIB) finds itself amidst turbulent tides. Today’s sharp movements have left virtually no coin untouched, and SHIB is no exception. With its current price hovering around $0.00002666, SHIB faces a significant challenge as it approaches a critical support range estimated between $0.000025 and $0.000024.
Historically, this price range holds immense importance for SHIB, often acting as a launchpad for notable price surges. The accumulation of buy orders typically strengthens these support zones, aiding in price stabilization and potential rebounds. Therefore, if SHIB manages to stabilize within this range, there’s potential for a resurgence in value.
However, the journey ahead is fraught with uncertainty. Maintaining a price above $0.000024 is crucial to signal a robust recovery trajectory. Additionally, attention must be paid to the 50 Exponential Moving Average (EMA) intersecting with the $0.000022 level. Any breach of these support levels could lead to further exploration of lower supports around $0.00002, amid psychological thresholds.
While reaching the support level is pivotal, sustaining the recovery hinges on sufficient buyer presence. The broader sentiment in the crypto market, especially the potential price movements of Bitcoin and Ethereum, will significantly influence SHIB’s resurgence potential.As the second-ranked meme coin in the meme coin arena, SHIB’s price action underscores the importance of upcoming developments in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Today’s downturn appears closely tied to movements in Bitcoin, emphasizing the interconnectedness of cryptocurrencies. SHIB’s resilience in the face of adversity remains to be seen as it navigates the stormy seas of market volatility.
Furrever Token (FURR) Skyrockets with Over $600,000 Raised in Under a Month!
Furrever Token (FURR) has swiftly emerged as a beacon of success amidst the crypto market’s tumultuous seas. With its unique approach to blending cuteness with cryptocurrency, FURR has captured the hearts of investors and enthusiasts alike. In just under a month, its presale has garnered an impressive sum exceeding $600,000, showcasing the immense interest and confidence in the project.
At the core of Furrever Token’s appeal lies its mission to revolutionize the crypto space by infusing it with an irresistible dose of charm and whimsy. Unlike traditional blockchain projects, FURR transcends mere utility, offering users a delightful and enjoyable experience centered around adorable cat imagery. With a vision to foster a warm and friendly community, Furrever Token aims to create a vibrant ecosystem where users can share in the joy of cute kitties while engaging in meaningful interactions.
The tokenomics of FURR further underscore its potential for growth and sustainability. With a total token supply of around 9 billion, Furrever Token allocates 65% of tokens to the presale, ensuring widespread distribution and accessibility. Additionally, measures such as locking 10% of tokens allocated for the team demonstrate a commitment to long-term project viability and community trust.
Moreover, FURR’s emphasis on security and compliance adds another layer of assurance for investors. With plans for audits and robust safety measures in place, Furrever Token prioritizes the safety and peace of mind of its users.
As FURR prepares to transition from presale to launch, the project stands at the precipice of a new era in the crypto landscape. With its endearing concept, solid tokenomics, and burgeoning community support, Furrever Token is poised to make waves and leave a lasting pawprint in the world of meme coins.
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The study aggregates and compares referral traffic from a massive dataset from an opt-in panel of people who shared their URLs between January 2023 and January 2024.
The results reveal opportunities for your brand to gain more traffic without requiring a blessing from the Google gods.
Focus on referral traffic to long-tail websites
SparkToro explored two categories of referral traffic:
The 170 most visited sites in the United States
“Long-tail” sites (i.e., all the rest)
Since most of your websites aren’t in the top 170, I’ll stick to the findings about long-tail sites. (Note: Don’t confuse the term “long-tail sites” with “long-tail keywords.” While the phrasing is similar, they aren’t related.)
Keep in mind that SparkToro’s definition of referrals goes beyond clicks on links or ads. It includes any visits that occurred during a browsing session — a period of active use. If someone listened to a brand’s podcast and typed the company’s URL into their browser, for example, the SparkToro research counts that as a referral.
Which sites send referrals to long-tail sites?
Google dominates referrals to long-tail sites, sending 72.48% of all referral traffic. So, making Google the center of your SEO strategy still makes the most sense.
But don’t stop there. If you do, you’ll miss out on lower-competition traffic opportunities.
Consider the next most popular referring sites:
Bing and Microsoft sites (5.20%)
Facebook (3.36%)
Reddit (2.39%)
YouTube (2.18%)
DuckDuckGo (2.06%)
Yahoo (1.99%)
Cisco Duo and Okta (1.01%)
LinkedIn (0.62%)
Amazon (0.48%)
Instagram (0.43%)
Instructure (0.33%)
Pinterest (0.32%)
GitHub (0.29%)
Discord (0.24%)
Wikipedia (0.18%)
Twitch (0.17%)
MSN (0.16%)
Fandom (0.12%)
eBay (0.10%)
OpenAI (0.10%).
But don’t stop there. The SparkToro report details the most generous referral sites for long tails. These domains send the most visitors to the long tail sites per 1,000 unique visitors to their own site. (In contrast, some sites that get a lot of traffic hardly send any referrals to other sites. WikiHow.com, for example, sends only 73 out of 1,000 users to other sites.)
Google remains the top referrer, followed by:
DuckDuckGo
Bing
Yahoo
Facebook
Instructure
Twitter sites
Shopify
Reddit
YouTube
LinkedIn
DeviantArt
Syf
FoxNews
Pinterest
Tumblr
Patreon
GitHub
You can use this data to update your search strategy by focusing on the most relevant referring sites. For example, unless you’re an educational brand, optimizing your content to get linked on Instructure.com wouldn’t offer any value.
Let’s explore some tips to help your content surface in the most generous referral sites.
Optimize for referrals from Bing and Yahoo
Bing doesn’t follow the Google ranking model. (You can test this by putting the same search phrase into both search engines). Its algorithm relies on different factors, or at least different nuances of the same factors.
This Semrush article explains what Bing considers when surfacing content for searchers. Bing doesn’t use semantic search to understand queries. Instead, it uses OpenAI technology to understand the context and user intent. Backlinks, both the quantity and anchor text, matter to Bing. It also favors links from .edu and .gov domains.
Bing emphasizes on-site optimization elements, including title tags, meta descriptions, headings, etc., and prefers exact-match domains. Social media performance also affects rankings.
Optimize for Bing by using those preferences. Focus on using exact keywords, not variations of the keyword, in your content, titles, meta descriptions, etc. Use an OpenAI tool like ChatGPT to assess whether your content hits the mark. (Paste in a copy of your content and ask ChatGPT to identify the keywords.)
These tips also work for discovery in Yahoo, which uses Bing’s search engine.
Get moving with DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a free search engine that protects the privacy of its users. Unlike Google, it doesn’t track a user’s data to deliver a more personalized experience. Its algorithm is simpler, and its results and referral links are more straightforward. It shows ads based on the searcher’s keywords, not their personal data.
Elegant Themes shares several tips to optimize your content for DuckDuckGo:
Add location data to your website.
Claim Apple Maps listings.
Submit your sitemap to multiple search engines.
Location data indicates whether your business is relevant to the searcher’s location based on their device. Ensure your site includes your relevant business addresses. Also, make sure to claim your spot(s) on the Apple Map.
Like Yahoo, DuckDuckGo indexes websites using data from Bing and other search engines, along with its DuckDuckBot crawler.
Don’t forget about Facebook
Last year, Facebook made headlines when it changed its algorithm, causing referral traffic to top news sites to plunge (a 62% drop between August 2022 and August 2023).
Yet Facebook remains a viable source of referral traffic. SparkToro’s research ranks the platform’s referrals per 1,000 unique users higher than any other social media platform.
To make the most of Facebook, share links to your relevant content. Customize the title, description, and thumbnail for your target audience and purpose.
Go all in on OpenAI
Though OpenAI.com — the parent site of ChatGPT — ranks No. 22 on the referral traffic list, the growth of generative AI likely means its impact will be higher in the coming year and beyond.
So, how do you get your site’s links to appear in a ChatGPT reply? I went straight to the source to find out. Here’s some of what ChatGPT shared:
Incorporate relevant keywords naturally into your content.
Develop comprehensive resources, such as guides, tutorials, or in-depth articles.
Include internal links to your other relevant content.
Ask the audience to share and link, as these signals increase the chance of your content being referenced in ChatGPT.
Encourage user engagement through comments, questions, and discussions, as ChatGPT may reference those responses.
You can pare its advice to this — the mantra for all good content marketing: Write quality, in-depth content that provides value to an audience and motivates them to share it with their networks.
Monitor the impact
I’ve only scratched the surface of expansion strategies for your referral traffic strategy. Look closely at the list to see if any of the top referring sites (LinkedIn and YouTube) already relate to your distribution priorities. Double down on the work you’re doing there. If you’re growing a community around your brand, pay attention to Reddit, Discord, and Patreon.
Three months after implementing the changes in your referral strategy, look closely at your site’s analytics. Did your referral sources change in that quarter? Which platforms deliver more traffic than they did three months ago? Does one platform deliver a higher percentage of traffic?
If referral traffic sources haven’t changed significantly, don’t give up. It can take time to move up in rankings and earn links. Wait another six months — if you still don’t see an impact, consider bigger changes.
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The Bengaluru bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has referred the case of embattled edtech Byju’s rights issue to the president of the tribunal owing to a difference of opinion between the members of the Bengaluru bench.
The president of NCLT is now likely to allocate the case to a third member of the NCLT to hear the interim application again. The two-member NCLT benches usually have a judicial and a technical member. Since, the Bengaluru NCLT has just one bench and hence a third member from another bench of the tribunal is expected to be allocated the case.
Also read: Byju’s EGM concludes without objections to increase in share capital
This comes at a time when the company recently concluded its extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to increase the company’s authorised share capital, reported businessline. Byju Raveendran also wrote to the dissenting shareholders to participate in the right issue. However, none of the dissenting investors have participated in the rights issue, post the the 72-hour deadline.
The NCLT Bengaluru bench had earlier refused to stay the EGM but told the edtech firm that any resolution passed can’t be implemented before the next hearing scheduled on April 4.
In February, NCLT directed Byju’s to keep funds received from the rights issue in an escrow account till the disposal of the oppression and mismanagement plea filed by investors –Peak XV Partners, General Atlantic, Prosus.
The tribunal had then directed Byju’s to “consider the extension of the closure date of the right issue so that the rights of the petitioners about the making of applications for shares under their rights entitlement does not get prejudiced.”
Also read: Byju’s offers dissenting investors another opportunity to participate in rights issue
On April 2, Byju’s had let go of nearly 500 employees largely across sales and marketing functions, at a time when it is struggling to raise capital for day-to-day operations, reported businessline.
Recently businessline reported that Byju’s had held back salaries for the second month in a row, awaiting a green signal from NCLT to use funds from the rights issue.
“We are writing to you today with a heavy heart but with a message of hope and reassurance. We regret to inform you that there will again be a delay in the disbursement of salaries,” the management said in an email to employees.
We are hiring a writer on economics, ideally based at first in London. Journalistic experience is not necessary. The ability to write clearly and entertainingly is crucial. So is a thorough understanding of economics and an ability to work with data.
The ideal candidate would have an interest in the economics of innovation and technology, but this is not essential. Regardless of their precise beat, the writer will be expected to produce original and striking journalism that is capable of holding the cover of The Economist, and to contribute to the newspaper’s “Free exchange” column. They will also be expected to appear on podcasts and films.
Applicants should send a CV and a sample article, suitable for publication in The Economist, to: [email protected]. It should be unpublished and no longer than 700 words. Some examples of relevant coverage are listed below. The deadline is May 14th.
Example coverage
Your job is probably safe from artificial intelligence What would humans do in a world of super-AI? How to escape scientific stagnation Is big business really getting too big? China and the West are in a race to foster innovation
During March’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Nvidia set up a hotel room to show off demos of its generative AI-powered technologies. Some are available to try in beta while the more complex ones aren’t ready to implement in games just yet. They all harness generative AI in different ways, ranging from dynamically creating dialogue and responses for nonplayer characters to modernizing graphics in old games. Nvidia’s experiments explore how generative AI might augment tomorrow’s gaming experiences.
Unlike generative AI tools like ChatGPT for text and Midjourney for images, Nvidia’s generative AI technologies are more experiential tools meant to expand a developer’s toolbox.
Read more: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Sets the Bar for Revisiting Old Games
Nvidia’s experiments come at a time of excitement and uncertainty for generative AI. Talk about AI’s impact on the games industry spilled out from scheduled GDC sessions to roundtable discussions to casual conversations. Developers worry about how AI will impact their labor. When I asked Nvidia whether their NPC chat generator could take away work from writers crafting dialogue, a spokesperson pointed out that writers still have to make entire backstories for the generated dialogue to draw from. Developers would have the option to install guardrails for how NPCs act.
It’s hard to predict the impact of Nvidia’s AI offerings, and that’s why the company was at GDC: to gauge developer interest. Nvidia’s experimentations offer developers a different way to build their NPCs, assuming the technology matures and works as predicted. At this point, we can only speculate which game genres would benefit most from such tech, and how it might change gameplay in the future.
Hands-on… or rather, voice-on with generative AI
When I walked into the Nvidia demo space, I saw half a dozen stations, each with a monitor and PC with separate experiences ready to test.
The first was ChatRTX, which lets users personalize a chatbot with their own content. It was revealed in January at CES 2024 and released free to the public in February. It’s only meant to canvas your own files, so an Nvidia spokesperson showed ChatRTX summoning photos of them hiking. Game developers could use it to surface files from asset libraries. Since searches are on the computer, search and document history remain private. The spokesperson suggested other potential uses for players, like generating trash talk in Rocket League on the fly while you play (he was clearly joking).
My next demo showcased NPC technology. In a sample game scenario, I played a private investigator tasked with entering the hotel room of a CEO. I walked up to the bellboy in the lobby. I didn’t enter prompts or sample dialogue. Instead, I talked to the bellboy through a microphone, asking real questions. He answered me with responses generated by Nvidia’s NPC AI tech.
It was a surreal experience, and frankly, I felt put on the spot to physically talk my way through a game. I bluntly asked for my target’s room number; no nuance, no plan. The bellboy responded stiffly, if politely, and told me to inquire with the hotel worker at the desk. When she proved equally buttoned up, I waltzed over to charm the CEO’s right-hand executive who also happened to be in the lobby.
The same Nvidia NEO NPC demo, but note the laptop on the left, which is running the background information for the character, which generative AI draws on to form his responses.
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Since I had a short time with the demo, the Nvidia spokesperson suggested ways my private investigator could get what he needed in the game. There was a spare security badge lying around and I could use it to impersonate an employee, and there was a note written on a napkin behind the bar that could’ve gotten me in the good graces of the bellboy.
While these felt like familiar ways to bypass an objective in a Deus Ex game, I was still stonewalled from the conversations. It required a lot of improv on my part and took more effort than just picking pre-written dialogue options. I wasn’t prepared to think my way out of these situations. It was a valuable challenge to connect me more to the character I’m playing, so it’s one way to further immerse players into a game’s world, but it does take a level of effort that some gamers may not want to spend on their relaxing pastime. Process aside, the game did generate cleverly apt responses to what I said. It almost felt like the characters were listening.
After I successfully (albeit clumsily) got the CEO’s room number, the Nvidia spokesperson broke down how the AI NPCs worked. The tech behind the characters’ responses is called NEO NPC, which Nvidia created in partnership with AI engine creator InWorld and game publisher Ubisoft. They also used another Nvidia technology, called Avatar Cloud Engine to match the characters’ mouths with the generated dialogue.
InWorld created a back-end for each character that referenced an extensive background dossier. It’s the same kind of openness that Dungeons and Dragons or other tabletop RPG systems have had between players and game-running dungeon masters, but this demo showed how video games could get this functionality without needing a person supervising the experience.
Nvidia’s spokesperson, attempting to address the concern over AI in gaming, pointed to the demo as evidence that AI isn’t replacing narrative designers and writers who do different work hashing out an NPC character’s history, hopes, fears and desires that the player can discover and creatively exploit. Designers and writers can tinker with NPC conversational styles to give them guardrails and topics they’re willing to talk about.
Ubisoft’s research and development team used NEO NPC technology to experiment with emotional responses to conversations players have with NPCs.
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More emotions in your AI NPC
The second NPC demo was hosted by Ubisoft and showed how the NEO NPC project could add emotion to characters. I played a freedom fighter-to-be, starting with a conversation opposite and a beanie-wearing grizzled-but-earnest believer vetting my commitment to the cause of overturning a corporate dystopia.
Once again, I leaned into the microphone and talked to the NPC believer who asked me if I was ready for questions. Now with more practice, I embraced the improv aspect of all this and said, “It’s cool with me, daddy-o.” To which the believer, unfazed by my lameness, responded, “Wow, you really are a cool cat. Anyways, what do you want to talk about?”
After a few interactions, I saw my relationship with the believer improve via a progress bar. Ubisoft’s technology analyzed the emotional charge of what I said. If it aligned with the believer’s values and temperament, it would add progress to the relationship bar. If I pleased my NPC friend, perhaps by bragging about my accomplishments or complimenting him, I could reach a higher level and unlock more interesting info, which in real-time conversation terms, means he’d open up about sensitive topics. Winning favor with one person might improve my standing with others in his faction.
While Ubisoft worked with InWorld’s AI models and used Nvidia’s ACE tech to match lip movements to generate audio for the demo, it was the game publisher’s research that added more emotion to NPCs.
“We have defined our own emotions, the character personalities, and we want to tweak the body language of each character so it’s a real character,” said Ubisoft senior data scientist Mélanie Lopez Malet, who led the demo.
For now, Ubisoft only takes into account what you say, not your tone. Ultimately, they don’t want to punish a shy person for not speaking more confidently, nor do they want to demand more performative energy from a player gaming at the end of a long day.
The demo, which Malet insisted was a proof of concept and not an eventual player-facing NPC AI experience, had three sections. After the first, I skipped the second scenario and jumped to the third, which saw my nascent freedom fighter planning a mission with an NPC resistance officer against a dystopian corporation. My goal was to make it past guards and cameras to extract crucial data. How I went about surmounting these obstacles was up to me.
At Malet’s suggestion, I explored the freedom fighter’s HQ to take stock of assets, which inspired me to consider new methods to start the heist. Perhaps instead of ladders to get into the window, we’d use grappling hooks. Then to deal with the guards, we could use tranquilizer darts… and so on.
There were hiccups in my conversations, as befits a proof of concept. At one point, I jumped ahead a couple of steps in the plan and had to be yanked back to finalize the method for the task at hand. The NPC resistance officer didn’t remember what solutions I’d previously pitched. Malet also recalled other demo attendees failing to convince the resistance officer to accept suggestions because their phrasing wasn’t confident or direct enough — what are called “emergent behaviors” in which the NPC interprets something differently than a human would based on subtle phrasing choices.
The left display shows Half-Life 2 running normally, while the right display shows Nvidia’s RTX Remix tech at work. Note the differences in tree branches, textures and lighting.
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Upscaling old games with generative AI
Another generative AI application Nvidia demoed was RTX Remix, which essentially remasters a game for modern graphics using ray tracing and Nvidia’s DLSS technology.
The example Nvidia demoed was the classic game Half-Life 2, which had bleeding-edge graphics when it was released in 2004. Two decades later and the seams certainly show, with angular trees, flat objects and low-resolution textures. With Remix, the game was upscaled to look like it came out a few years ago.
Half-Life 2 with Remix won’t hold a candle to a modern ray-traced game, but it still looks leagues beyond its current resolution. What’s most fascinating is how Remix intelligently adds not just textures but light depth. A tree may have the same simple cylindrical geometry as it originally did, but the texture has added knots and bark divots that the lighting ingeniously curves around, simulating depth on a flat surface.
Likewise, brickwork gains shadows from light sources despite the texture still being flat. An Nvidia engineer even popped into the console settings and tweaked the brick wall’s mortar to appear deeper, and shadows filled the gaps between individual bricks. It was impressive to see a game I remember playing half my lifetime ago get effectively remastered before my eyes.
Nvidia’s demo space outside GDC 2024 showed half a dozen different generative AI-powered enhancements of the gaming experience.
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So what does this promise games?
Nvidia has a few irons in the fire when it comes to using generative AI in gaming, but the most potentially revolutionary is figuring out the next generation of NPCs. Wouldn’t you want NPCs to dynamically respond to players to give them a more organic conversation? Wouldn’t that be better to give players more control over how a scene will progress?
Playing with — really, conversing with — NPCs that dynamically responded to my questions and picked up on my sass was pretty fun. In my Ubisoft demo, I was initially sympathetic to the NPC believer’s anti-corporate past and gained his favor, but then I proclaimed a love for corporations and received a frosty response. Likewise in the next heist scenario, I kept suggesting to end the careful plan by blowing up the wall and jumping out to escape on gliders. “This isn’t a video game,” the NPC resistance fighter crisply responded, and she told me to suggest something more practical.
Physically talking my way through a scene certainly took more effort than clicking dialogue options. It wasn’t just the act of speaking, but burning brainpower to figure out the best way to ask a question and craft it to fit the “role” of the character I was playing. Nvidia shrewdly compared the approach to playing tabletop RPGs, but those are typically group experiences where players get breaks between standing in the spotlight and dictating their actions and questions. Do video game players really want to have full conversations with every NPC they come across?
It’s empowering to have the freedom to needle any NPC to explore their hopes, fears and desires, but letting players dive deep in conversation with any unimportant character they meet could turn NPCs into distraction traps and occlude the game’s main storyline path. Letting players string out their interactions to eventually unearth the info they need means no control over how it’s delivered to players, as Aftermath pointed out, robbing the game of some of its crafted methods and moments, like the sort of controlled cinematic experiences that have made games like The Last of Us and Uncharted so beloved.
Those moments in award-winning older games were skilfully crafted by writers and narrative designers, and given the concern about generative AI, it’s worth being wary of how implementing that tech changes how games are written and designed. The same goes for the voice actors who provided voice samples for the NPCs in these demos to auto-generate their dialogue — Nvidia confirmed that voice actors for these demos were compensated accordingly, but it’s worth wondering how voice acting could change with this technology.
Looming over all these possibilities are the specs required to use generative AI in games. Every demo in the room was running at least an Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU, which each cost at least $999, and others were powered by the RTX 4090, one of the best consumer GPUs the company offers, which starts at $1,599. While Nvidia said that the features demoed in the room could run on the previous 3000-series of GPUs, none of the demo PCs had one to compare, and even those are still pretty pricey.
These features, even upscaling a game as old as Half-Life 2, require high performance. AI processing speed is measured in a metric called tokens, and AI models must process around 20 tokens per second to look seamless. The 4090 computes probably 100 tokens per second, an Nvidia spokesperson told me. It’s hard to imagine a 2000-series GPU or lower managing enough speed to use these features.
Most or all of the features Nvidia had in its demo room are works in progress, and they’ll likely look a lot different once they’re ready to be implemented. It’s intriguing to see what games could be capable of with generative AI, and although it’s clear that these applications won’t work for every game genre (who needs an endlessly-talking NPC in a PVP team shooter, or a puzzle game?), the more technical and back-end uses will likely give developers more tools for years to come.
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Allowing babies to sleep outside their cribs or dedicated solo sleep spaces can have life-threatening risks.
That’s according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was published in the medical journal Pediatrics.
Among infants who died suddenly, 59.5% were sleeping with someone else at the time.
Around 76% were sleeping in an adult bed and 68.2% were sharing a bed with an adult, the study found.
SIDS LINKED TO BRAIN ABNORMALITY THAT INCREASES BABIES’ RISK IN ‘UNSAFE SLEEP CONDITIONS,’ STUDY FINDS
In 68.3% of the deaths, soft bedding was found in the sleeping area.
The researchers looked at more than 7,500 sudden unexpected infant deaths in 23 U.S. states between 2011 and 2020.
Allowing babies to sleep outside their cribs can have life-threatening risks, according to a recent study by the CDC.(iStock)
They evaluated the babies’ sleep environments, demographics and other characteristics.
Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, joined “Fox & Friends” this week to discuss the dangers associated with unsafe sleep habits.
SIDS BREAKTHROUGH? POSSIBLE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME BIOMARKER IDENTIFIED
While it may seem “natural” for a child to be in bed with a parent, especially among those who are new to parenting, these sleep arrangements can have tragic consequences, the doctor warned.
Of the 1,300 to 1,500 cases of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) each year, almost three-quarters of them were associated with a child sleeping in a bed with a parent, he pointed out.
Among the thousands of infants who died in 23 U.S. states between 2011 and 2020, nearly three-quarters of them were sharing a bed with an adult, the study found.(iStock)
“You know why? The surface isn’t firm enough,” he said.
“When you sleep, you have a mattress you want to feel comfortable with — but in the crib, [it should be] a very firm mattress,” he added.
“These are key issues — you don’t want to have your child sleeping on their stomach when they are very young.”
No loose blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, plush toys, crib bumpers or other soft items should be placed in the child’s sleep space, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.(iStock)
Previous studies have shown that SIDS has something to do with the way the baby is exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide, Siegel noted.
“It’s also related to what you do when you’re pregnant,” he said. “You don’t want to be smoking, you don’t want to be drinking alcohol. All of that increases the risk of SIDS.”
It’s safest for babies to sleep on their backs or sides until they are 1 year old, Siegel advised.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared specific guidelines on its website to ensure safe sleeping for babies and young children.
Parents and caregivers should place infants on their backs for sleep in their own dedicated sleep space — a crib, bassinet or portable play yard with a firm, flat mattress and a fitted sheet — with no other people in that same space.
Parents and caregivers should place infants on their backs for sleep in their own dedicated sleep space, experts advise.(iStock)
Infants should not be put to sleep on a couch, an armchair, a swing or a car seat.
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No loose blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, plush toys, crib bumpers or other soft items should be placed in the child’s sleep space.
The AAP also recommends breastfeeding if possible and that parents should avoid smoking to reduce risk.
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There are certain ingredients in our kitchen that have the power to boost our overall health. Including these foods in our daily diet can be beneficial for our body’s overall functioning. But what are these foods? In a recent Instagram video, Muskan Mittal, a Certified Yoga Teacher, shared a simple 3-ingredient laddoo recipe that is easy to make, delicious, and has multiple health benefits. These three healthy ingredients are white sesame seeds, jaggery, and poppy seeds (khaskhas). Combined in laddoos, eating these foods can improve the health of your hair, skin, and eyes. Read on to learn how to make these laddoos and their health benefits in detail, as shared by the yoga expert.
How To Make Healthy 3-Ingredient Laddoo | 3-Ingredient Tasty And Healthy Laddoo Recipe
First, roast sesame and poppy seeds in a pan. Take an equal quantity of both seeds. Add these roasted seeds to a blender along with jaggery as per your taste. Grind the three together, and you will have a powdery mix. You can eat this mix directly or shape it into laddoos. In the comments section, the expert advises making only 100gm for 10 days. Let’s learn the health benefits of eating these laddoos made of white sesame seeds, jaggery, and poppy seeds.
Here Are 6 Health Benefits of Sesame Seeds, Poppy Seeds, And Jaggery Laddoo
The yoga expert has shared the following health benefits in the caption of the video:
1. Hair Health
“The amino acids and antioxidants in sesame seeds help dull hair regain its luster,” the expert writes in the caption. According to Healthline, sesame seeds have antibacterial and antifungal properties that may help prevent or reduce common skin infections on the scalp.
2. Skin Health
The yoga expert shares, “Zinc is an important component of sesame seeds. Zinc is a necessary component in the synthesis of collagen, which strengthens muscle tissue, hair, and skin.” According to a 2011 study published in the journal ‘Pharmacognosy Review,’ sesame oil may protect against damage from UV rays, which can harm your skin.
3. Eye Health
“The zinc and antioxidant content in poppy seeds help to improve vision,” Muskan Mittal writes. According to the American Optometric Association, zinc plays a vital role in bringing vitamin A from the liver to the retina to produce melanin, a protective pigment in the eyes. Also Read: 5 Essential Diet Hacks To Survive The Scorching Heatwave Of 2024
4. Constipation
Sharing another advantage, the yoga expert says that sesame seeds have a higher content of fiber that may be beneficial for good digestion. Poppy seeds are a rich source of insoluble fiber and help strengthen the digestive system and treat constipation effectively.
5. Knee Pain
“Anti-arthritic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects of sesame seeds and sesame seed oil are owing to sesamol, a bioactive substance found in sesame seeds,” according to the expert.
6. Improvement Of Fertility
“Poppy seeds play a pivotal role in boosting female fertility. They are known to remove mucus from the fallopian tubes and aid in achieving pregnancy. They also enhance sexual desire and improve sexual health by boosting libido,” Muskan Mittal shares. A 2019 meta-analysis published in the journal ‘Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology’ found that women who’ve had products derived from poppyseed oil flushed through their fallopian tubes may experience improved fertility. Further research is needed on the same. Also Read: Loose Motion Troubles? Here’s The Secret Ingredient To Restore Your Gut Health
Disclaimer: This content including advice provides generic information only. It is in no way a substitute for qualified medical opinion. Always consult a specialist or your doctor for more information. NDTV does not claim responsibility for this information.
The expression “to give someone their flowers” means to praise a person and show them care.
Beyoncé has taken that literally.
The pop superstar recently sent elaborate all-white floral arrangements, along with personalized notes — some handwritten — to artists she admires, or who she says have inspired her work, including Jack White, SZA and K. Michelle.
As the artists have shared photos of the bouquets on social media, Beyoncé’s fans have shared their excitement and expressed their jealousy as they parsed the list of recipients for clues about what her next musical project might be.
Beyoncé has been known to send surprise, and often monochromatic, floral arrangements for years, but the recent activity has drawn outsize attention since the release last week of “Cowboy Carter,” Act II in an expected trilogy of genre-bending albums.
This week, Jack White, the singer-guitarist and former White Stripes frontman, shared a picture on Instagram of an arrangement that Beyoncé had sent him. Attached was a handwritten note: “Jack, I hope you are well. I just wanted you to know how much you inspired me on this record. Sending you my love, Beyoncé.”
He offered her praise in response. “Much love and respect to you Madam,” he wrote, adding, “Nobody sings like you.” (Fans were quick to speculate that Act III might be a rock album, and hoped Mr. White would be part of it.)
Mr. White’s bouquet, it will come as a surprise to no one, was not cheap.
LaParis Phillips, the owner and creative director of Brooklyn Blooms, identified some of the flowers in the bouquet. They included white ranunculus, white tulips, white agapanthus, white Ornithogalum, white lisianthus, white stock, white wax flowers and Dendrobium orchids.
“A guesstimation based on the type of flowers and with a New York price?” she said. “I would say this is, like, $200.”
She noted that Mr. White’s bouquet was delivered to him in Nashville, and that pricing may be different in that area.
All-white flowers are more typically sent for a wedding or in sympathy after a loss. But Beyoncé appears to favor them. Ms. Phillips speculated that she was going for “a fresh, sort of classic look.”
Last week, Beyoncé sent flowers to Black women in country music as she dived into the genre herself.
Mickey Guyton posted a picture of a bouquet on Instagram and a card from Beyoncé that read: “Mickey, thank you for opening doors for me, queen. Keep shining.”
Stephanie Hopkins, a floral designer at Eva’s Garden Florist in Manhattan, spotted anemones and hydrangeas in Ms. Guyton’s arrangement, and possibly Phalaenopsis orchids. “There might be white roses, but it’s hard to tell,” she said.
“They’re pricey,” she said of the flowers, estimating that the arrangement would cost $250 to $300.
Ms. Hopkins said that although she preferred pops of color, all-white arrangements had a “classic and clean” look. It could also be a smart strategy, she added, because it “doesn’t draw so much attention to each one being different; it’s hard to tell whose are more money.”
K. Michelle, an R&B artist who has been teasing a country album, posted a photo of her bouquet and a note from Beyoncé that read in part, “I know it’s not easy to enter a new space.”
Yes, many people send flowers, but as with everything she does, there is a certain mystique and fastidiousness when Beyoncé does it.
She sends them so often that fans and observers online have started to joke about it. One said that her florist was “buying a third home this year.” Others have voiced jealousy or made mock versions of their own bouquets.
Regardless, it has become part of her lore.
Perhaps the arrangements offer a small glimpse into the life of a pop star who closely guards her privacy. Or maybe it’s just another sign of thoughtfulness and attention to detail by a meticulous Virgo.
It’s also impossible to know how involved Beyoncé herself is.
“I don’t think she thinks about it; I think she has her assistant call the flower shop,” Ms. Phillips said. “Usually when I get calls from a celebrity, that’s what it is. They give me a budget, they pick the colors, the vibe.”
But then again, it’s Beyoncé.
“I think she has more hours in a day than us,” Ms. Hopkins said.
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The Cat Burglar may indeed be an apt description of certain feline propensities. Their ninja-like abilities to stalk, sneak, and silently pounce allow cats to get away with all sorts of mischief. Enter today’s topic: the odd things that cats like.
Growing up, we had a cat named Mr. Kitten. Or Kitten, for short. He started life with a much fancier and more creative name, but we also thought he started life as a girl. When we found out he was a boy, it was obvious he needed a new name, but we’d run out of steam, and names, and nothing stuck, so he became Kitten.
Kitten was a bit of an oddity, even as cats go: he liked to hop into the bathtub with me and walk around in the water, he loved pulling toilet paper from the bathroom and trailing it throughout the house, but his absolute favorite was the beloved oven mitt.
Mr. Kitten & The Oven Mitt
Go to remove something hot from the oven and no oven mitt in sight? Locate the cat, and you had better odds at also locating the mitt. Trying to wash an oven mitt was nigh impossible—he’d pull them out of the hamper, and burble while carrying them around the house. And if you did manage to successfully clean and dry one, chances are that he’d sneak into the basket before it made it back to the kitchen drawer, and he’d be off and running, oven mitt in tow.
But why do cats like these odd items? It’s a mystery. Some suggest that cats may have a certain attachment to such items and that they may experience a mothering instinct, treating these random objects like kittens, herding them throughout the house, and taking care of them.
Tiller’s been fishing again!
Tiller & Her Fish Toys
Tiller started life with a small slice of stuffed pizza and now has a series of stuffed fish toys that she routinely rounds up every night, to leave in various positions: grouped outside the bedroom; clustered at the bottom of the stairs, sometimes placed neatly in my shoes. It was a bit disconcerting the first few times, as I wondered if they were a vague cat threat (more food or you’ll be sleeping with the fishes!); so far, nothing seems to have come of it. Colloquially, when Tiller starts rounding up the fish in the house, we now say she is off “fishing” and leave it at that!
Pancake & Coins
Pancake, by contrast, used to really like coins. If a penny or a nickel fell on the floor, she was on it- batting it around until she could pick it up with her mouth. She’d then run around the house, carrying said coinage in her mouth. As a vet, all I could think was: foreign body! And quickly, that activity was curtailed!
Are There Risks Involved With These Behaviors?
Which leads to the downsides of this odd behavior:
There are some risks. Foreign bodies from ingesting these odd items cats seem to like is a real concern. Some of the more common foreign bodies that fit into this category include:
Hair ties
Coins
Rubber bands
Silicone (e.g. bottle tops, reusable straws)
Pieces of foam shoes (e.g. Crocs, flip flops)
String/yarn
Fishing flies/lures (especially with hooks, that represent a new level of danger!)
Another negative is a potential behavioral aspect. I remember once a colleague saying that even though her dog loved chasing the laser pointer, she refused to use it. Similarly, our university course on behavior echoed this concern. The thinking was that if the cat or dog could never actually catch the red dot, would that lead to ultimate feelings of unresolved frustration? For me, I just always think that the cats enjoy the experience as much as their much more frequent naps, but they burn far more calories in the game of chase, so I’m in the pro-red-dot camp.
Along those lines, I have heard discussion that allowing cats to partially act out these supposed mothering instincts (if that’s what they are doing), is similarly damaging to their psyche if the offspring aren’t actually completing their end of the bargain, and feeding back appropriate physical and emotional stimuli.
Even as a kitten, Tiller was always looking for odd things to play with.
The Story of the Cat Burglar
There’s also the rare risk of reprisal. Enter the discussion I had with a recent law-abiding cat owner, who truly had a cat burglar. I was examining her rather lovely short-haired cat, and complimenting her on what a great cat she was. Yes, said her owner…most of the time! But she’s been stealing things from the neighbors again…. The client went on to explain that her cat had now totaled various food items from the local street, including a few bags of microwavable rice, a few crusts of pizza, and a few days later, an entire slice of pizza.
Apparently, there had even been some neighborhood spousal accusations that some husband was throwing out various food items behind his wife’s back…when really, it was a neighbor’s cat thief at work! (Although I cannot condone illegal activities, I can certainly condone the cat’s choice in pizza!)
You might say that cats are truly odd, at heart, but isn’t that one of the reasons we love them all the more? Perhaps such odd behavior simply fits like a glove (or oven mitt). For me, I let Tiller have her fish, and try not to worry too much about the why as long as she seems happy. Pancake, however, is not allowed her coins. But that’s just my 0.02 on the matter…
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Belize land for sale is an attractive prospect in the minds of many people, whether they are investors or retirees. The government has been actively courting both groups, offering ideal tax conditions and the ability to own property outright. However, any investment comes with risks and it is important to understand those before making a purchase decision.
For example, the country is prone to natural disasters such as hurricanes and tropical storms. These can cause significant damage and impact property values. Additionally, there are certain types of property that cannot be sold in the country. Land zoned under national parks and marine reserves are not eligible for sale, for example. This is one reason why it is so important to get professional help before finalizing a deal.
Another potential risk associated with purchasing Belize Land For Sale is fraud. While it is relatively rare in the country, some unscrupulous individuals do exist who will take advantage of foreign buyers to make a quick buck. This is especially true in new developments where individuals are being rushed through the process with high-pressure sales tactics. In order to avoid falling prey to such scams, it is imperative to get a thorough title search done before handing over any money.
Potential Risks of Buying Belize Land For Sale
In addition, it is important to work with a reputable and knowledgeable realtor or attorney when buying property in Belize. In addition to ensuring that all proper due diligence is performed, these professionals can also provide guidance on the best way to purchase a property. For example, in many cases it makes more sense to purchase property through an IBC (International Business Corporation) rather than as individual owners. This can save time and money during the closing process.
Getting expert help is also vital when it comes to a property inspection. While this is something that should be done before any property is purchased anywhere, it can be even more important when buying land abroad. This is because construction standards tend to be lower in Belize and it is important to make sure that any property you buy is in good condition.
If you are planning to rent out a property while it is not in use, it is also crucial that you put proper security measures in place. This will prevent squatting or vandalism and can help to keep your investment safe and secure. In the case of a rental property, this may also be a requirement from the local municipality to ensure that your investment is protected.
As a general rule, buying land in Belize is less complicated than purchasing property in other countries. However, there are still a number of fees and taxes that must be paid, which can sometimes catch buyers off guard. It is important to have a clear understanding of these fees and taxes before beginning your search, so that you are not surprised when it comes time to make a purchase. It is also a good idea to contact a lender before beginning your search in order to get an idea of the type of loan that may be available.
Samsung Galaxy M55 5G, Galaxy M15 5G launch in India: Samsung is all set to launch two new smartphones under its M Series – the Galaxy M55 5G and Galaxy M15 5G. The company has confirmed the launch date which is April 8. Along with the date, the company has confirmed several specifications about these upcoming smartphones. Let’s have a look at them.
Samsung Galaxy M55, Galaxy M15 5G Design: Both smartphones will come with the signature Galaxy look. While the Galaxy M55 5G will be available in two colours- Light Green and Denim Black, the Galaxy M15 5G will be available in three colours including Celestine Blue, Stone Grey and Blue Topaz.
Samsung Galaxy M55, Galaxy M15 5G Processor: The Galaxy M55 5G is powered by a 4nm-based Snapdragon 7 Gen1 processor and the Galaxy M15 5G is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 6100+.
Samsung Galaxy M55, Galaxy M15 5G Battery and Charging: The Galaxy M55 5G packs in a 5000mAh battery and supports 45W fast charging. The Galaxy M15 5G will come with a massive 6000mAh battery.
Samsung Galaxy M55, Galaxy M15 5G Display: The Galaxy M55 5G features a 6.7-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED Plus display with 120Hz refresh rate. The large display will have 1000 nits of peak brightness. The Galaxy M15 5G features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display for an immersive viewing experience.
Samsung Galaxy M55, Galaxy M15 5G Nightography: Galaxy M55 5G will feature a 50MP (OIS) No Shake Camera. The camera setup also includes a 50MP high-resolution front camera for selfies. The Nightography feature from the flagship series is also being made available with Galaxy M55 5G. Galaxy M55 5G will also feature AI-enhanced features for its camera such as Image Clipper and Object Eraser. Galaxy M15 5G sports a 50MP triple camera setup.
The construction of terminal buildings at Shibpur in North Andaman and Car Nicobar in Nicobar has been completed to enhance inter-island connectivity, with flight operations expected to commence in July, an official said on Monday.
Port Blair: Inter-island flight connectivity to Shibpur, Car Nicobar in Andaman to start in July (File Photo by REUTERS)
A 19-seater fixed-wing aircraft will operate between Port Blair-Shibpur and Port Blair to Car Nicobar, with a private company already chosen as the designated operator for these routes, he added.
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During the celebration of the Airports Authority of India’s 29th foundation day at Veer Savarkar International in Port Blair, airport director Devender Yadav said, “Both these sectors will be connected with Port Blair under UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) schemes, benefiting tourists and enabling exploration of exotic places in North Andaman and Nicobar districts. We anticipate flight operations to begin in July.”
Yadav also mentioned plans for an in-line baggage handling system to streamline passenger processing at Veer Savarkar airport in Port Blair.
“Airports serve as a major catalyst for economic development of a region by aiding both tourism and trade. According to an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) study, every ₹100 spent on air transport contributes to ₹325 worth of benefits and every 100 direct job creation in air transport results in 610 job creation in the region,” Yadav said.
Cultural programmes including flash dance, live music, a poetry competition, and sports tournaments such as volleyball, badminton, table tennis and tug of war were organised by AAI employees and stakeholders during the celebration.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.
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Suzuki is giving its ageing Vitara another facelift, featuring tech and safety upgrades plus some minor visual tweaks.
The Vitara is currently produced exclusively at the Suzuki Magyar plant in Hungary, but it’s unclear if we’ll receive the full gamut of upgrades and when the refreshed crossover will arrive.
We’ve contacted Suzuki Australia to confirm launch timing.
The autonomous emergency braking system, called Dual Sensor Brake Support II, has an expanded detection area and can detect vehicles, motorcycles and pedestrians directly or diagonally ahead of the Vitara.
The updated Vitara also includes a driver monitoring system, using a camera attached to the instrument panel, as well as lane-keep assist.
The adaptive cruise control system uses millimetre-wave radar and a monocular camera, and is linked to a traffic sign recognition system.
Inside, there’s a new 9.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, which features Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
European-market Vitaras also feature Suzuki Connect, allowing owners to monitor their vehicle remotely via a smartphone app.
Externally, the updated Vitara is distinguished visually by a new grille, with chrome strips connecting visually with the headlights and bookending the Suzuki logo.
There’s a restyled front bumper with C-shaped indents incorporating the fog lights, while below the grille is a black trapezial area.
No photos have been released of the rear, though we’d expect the usual facelift fare like new tail light graphics and a restyled bumper.
There’s a new two-tone exterior finish – Sphere Blue Pearl with a Cosmic Black Pearl Metallic roof – plus a new single-tone finish, Titan Dark Grey Pearl Metallic.
European buyers will continue to be offered a choice of a mild-hybrid and “strong hybrid” powertrains, both available with a choice of front- or all-wheel drive.
A 1.4-litre four-cylinder engine with a 48V mild-hybrid system opens the range, producing 95kW of power and 235Nm of torque.
Optional is a 1.5-litre four-cylinder hybrid with 75kW and 138Nm, mated with a 24.6kW/60Nm electric motor, a 140V lithium-ion battery, and a six-speed automated manual transmission.
Suzuki Australia has previously indicated the “strong hybrid” will arrive here late in 2024.
2023 Suzuki Vitara
Currently, the Vitara is offered in Australia with a choice of a naturally aspirated 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine with 86kW and 156Nm or a turbocharged 1.4-litre four with 103kW and 220Nm.
Both are offered with a six-speed automatic transmission, with the 1.6-litre also available with a five-speed manual.
Vitara sales in Australia plunged 35.3 per cent in 2023 to 2016 units. It occupies the same segment as the S-Cross, which at 598 sales was up 66.1 per cent.
The current Vitara entered production back in 2015, arriving in Australia later that year. That means it’s close to celebrating its 10th anniversary, and it remains unclear when a new generation will debut.
The related S-Cross, also produced in Hungary, received a substantial upgrade in 2021 – arriving here late in 2022 – that brought with it new interior and exterior styling and more safety equipment, but saw it retain the same underpinnings.
One of the most chilling moments in America’s post-war relationship with Japan occurred in Detroit in 1982. Two American autoworkers clubbed a Chinese-American man to death, mistaking him for a Japanese citizen they accused of stealing American jobs. A sympathetic judge gave them no more than a slap on the wrist. The verdict reflected a mood that in subsequent years extended to the highest level of government. Fearful of being overtaken by Japan as the world’s economic superpower, America wielded the crowbar. It imposed trade restrictions, sought to pry open Japan’s domestic markets and led international efforts to depreciate the value of the dollar against the yen. Only after Japan’s asset-price bubble burst in the 1990s did America leave it alone.
You would think a new bout of protectionism in America, most recently the bipartisan attempt to block Nippon Steel’s $15bn acquisition of US Steel under the guise of safeguarding American jobs, would elicit a sense of déjà vu in Japan. But it is more complicated than that. In recent years one of the most important strategic partnerships in the world has done a switcheroo. Japan is embracing shareholder-friendly, pro-market reforms that have long been America’s thing. America is adopting the sort of industrial policies and protectionism that once defined Japan. This reveals a lot about the contradictions America faces as it attempts to build global alliances to counter China while pursuing business autarky at home. Japan’s approach makes more sense.
Japan’s transition in just the ten years since Schumpeter lived there in the early 2010s is remarkable—and not only big-picture stuff such as rising interest rates and the surging stockmarket. As Japan struggles to offset the economic headwinds of depopulation, things are changing on the ground, too. Ask an optimist, and several aspects of Japan’s lost decades are fading from view.
Sayonara deflation: not only are prices rising but Japan’s large firms recently agreed to the biggest wage increase in 33 years. Sayonara xenophobia: immigrant employment, though still small by Western standards, is rising. Sayonara cosy capitalism: firms, though still awash with cash, are targeting higher returns, conducting more takeovers and reaping the benefits of shareholder activism. “It’s endogenous. This is the elite of Japan saying if we don’t sweat our assets, we won’t be around,” says Jesper Koll, a veteran Japan-watcher. As usual Warren Buffett, who bought big stakes in Japan’s trading houses in 2020, invested shrewdly.
There are several hisashiburis, or “long time no sees”, too. Japan is once again a trading power, with exports surging for the past three years (thanks in part to a cheap yen). Sales by its most valuable company, Toyota, have risen sharply in America this year; many car buyers favour the firm’s hybrid models over rivals’ electric vehicles (EVs). Japan is enjoying an industrial renaissance, especially in high-tech products such as semiconductors. In February TSMC, the world’s biggest chip manufacturer, opened its first factory in Japan less than two years after construction started. It has suffered big delays trying to do the same in America.
So what does Japan make of America turning Japanese, in the bad old sense? The first blow to trust came in 2017 when Donald Trump withdrew America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty that America, Japan and ten other countries had painstakingly crafted partly to counterbalance China. Mr Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, doubled down on an America-first industrial policy. His Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) discriminated against firms from Japan and other places that lacked a free-trade treaty with America (Japan later signed a critical-minerals deal that provides its EVs with some of the tax incentives they had been denied.) Mr Biden’s opposition to the trans-Pacific steel merger has been a slap in the face. Not only were his protectionist arguments spurious. They came just as lawmakers were proposing to add Japan to a whitelist of strategic allies permitted to bypass America’s strict foreign-investment rules.
Japan’s economy ministry will not go on the warpath against America as the Commerce Department did against Japan in the 1980s. For all its pro-market progress it is no paragon of capitalist virtue, deploying industrial policy to promote clean energy and chipmaking. America’s giant economy is growing fast, so Japan cannot afford to be too huffy. Its firms have pledged to invest billions in America to take advantage of the IRA. As for Nippon Steel, expect it to keep its head down and hope the merger brouhaha blows over after the presidential election in November. If Mr Biden’s pro-jobs stance helps him defeat Mr Trump, a protectionist to the marrow of his bones, Japan will sigh with relief.
Yet the relationship is no longer one-sided. In the past America was not just Japan’s most important export market but also a guarantor of its safety under the US-Japan Security Alliance, a defence treaty. That protection remains vital. But in recent years, as threats from China and North Korea have grown, Japan has taken more of its defence into its own hands. It has decided to spend vastly more on powerful new weapons, such as cruise missiles. Its tech industry is hoping to play a bigger role in the West’s military supply chains. On April 10th Mr Biden and Japan’s prime minister, Kishida Fumio, will reportedly unveil the biggest upgrade to the security pact in decades when they meet at the White House.
The Tokyo consensus
America, for its part, needs Japan not just as a military partner in Asia. As Peter Tasker, another long-time Japan-watcher puts it, Japan is increasingly seen as the “non-China” leader in the region, and America relies on it as an economic counterweight to China. As more Asian countries move into Japan’s orbit, with luck they will emulate its new-found pro-trade pragmatism. That, after all, is the true American way. ■
Recently, the crypto markets experienced a downturn, the total market capitalization has dropped by 7% in two days to $2.62 trillion. Even Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, plummeted from $71,300 to $66000, affecting the top altcoins, with bears starting to dominate the market. Despite this, the market is swirling high on the meme coins.
Ali Martinez, a prominent crypto analyst, has shared interesting insights on the Dog-themed coin Dogecoin, igniting a fresh bull run among investors. Here’s the meme season alert from the analyst.
Will DOGE Hit a New ATH outpassing market sensation DEGEN?
Starting with Dogecoin, Martinez believes that despite the emergence of new meme coins, DOGE remains a crucial player in the crypto space. Drawing parallels to a historic pattern observed from 2018 to 2021, analyst suggests that DOGE could potentially be on the verge of hitting a new ATH.
He explains his views with a historical example, in the past, after the DOGE price ended its consolidation period in 2021, it produced a massive price increase, rising from $0.002 to an AT of $0.70. On a similar note, this time, the DOGE price has consolidated for three years from 2022 to 2024 and the breakout seems to have begun. Therefore, Dogecoin could increase by more than 5,000% to reach a new ATH.
Despite its current price of $0.20 and a recent 6.5% dip, he sees DOGE as an attractive investment option. He also cautions investors not to sway for some shinning coins like Degen which might be a trap and will not stand the market volatility like DOGE. Moreover, Dogecoin’s limitless supply and PoW consensus process make it more secure and resilient than any other meme coin in crypto.
Current analysis of DOGE
While Martinez seems bullish on Doge there is a possibility of a further low in Doge price as per the current market scenario. If Dogecoin manages to break above the resistance level at $0.188, it will touch new highs. However, this could also lead to a test of the next resistance level at $0.206 in the current week. If the price holds steady around this level, it sets the stage for further upward movement, potentially testing the upper resistance level of $0.2275 shortly.
On the other hand, if the bears maintain control of the market, Dogecoin’s price may struggle to sustain its momentum and could fall to test the lower support level of $0.169 over this month. This would indicate a lack of buying interest and a potential shift in sentiment towards the downside.
What do think about DOGE’s current move, a bull or bear run upcoming?
A new drug could potentially alleviate two of the most troublesome effects of menopause.
The drug, called Pool 7, Compound 3 (P7C3), could help reduce bone loss and weight gain in postmenopausal women, according to researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF).
The drug is also being studied as a therapy for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.
IS IT MENOPAUSE? 6 HIDDEN SYMPTOMS WOMEN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NOW
“Current drugs given to prevent post-menopausal bone loss target specific cells or proteins,” lead researcher Melanie Coathup, a UCF biomedical engineer, told Fox News Digital.
“They therefore tend to cause problems after long-term use, or through secondary complications to other unrelated tissues in the body.”
Many women are living with menopause-associated medical challenges that leave them “at a loss” in terms of sustaining and maintaining good health, according to the study’s lead researcher.(iStock)
Results of the study were published in the journal Advanced Science.
Until now, there has not been a safe, long-term treatment for bone loss in women, the researchers claimed in the UCF press release.
Many women are living with menopause-associated medical challenges that leave them “at a loss” as to how to sustain and maintain good health, according to Coathup.
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The researcher said she is often “inundated” with questions from older women who are afraid of breaking a bone and are “desperate for help.”
“There is a significant gap in ways of medically supporting women following menopause — and P7C3 may give hope that a new alternative is on the horizon,” she said.
The new drug was shown to prevent bone loss and maintain a healthy volume of bone post-menopause.(iStock)
In mouse studies, the new drug was shown to prevent bone loss and maintain a healthy volume of bone.
“The bone remained strong — it was more difficult to break with a machine — despite our models having low to no estrogen,” Coathup said in the release.
What is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a condition that causes weak, brittle bones. It is typically caused by overactive cells that absorb too much bone.
In the later stages of the disease, symptoms can include back pain, stooped posture and bone breakage, according to Mayo Clinic.
NATURAL, NON-HORMONAL SOLUTIONS FOR MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
More than 200 million people have osteoporosis, including over 70% of people older than age 80, per the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Females are more susceptible than males.
P7C3 works by inhibiting the activity of bone-absorbing cells.
“There is a significant gap in ways of medically supporting women following menopause.”
The drug has also been found to reduce inflammation and create new, healthy bone tissue.
“Our metabolism declines with age and plays an important role in almost every tissue in the body,” Coathup told Fox News Digital.
“Therefore, a key takeaway is that P7C3 may not only cause fewer unwanted side effects, but may also improve the health of many tissues in addition to bone and fat, potentially including our muscles, memory and cognition.”
Experts recommend that menopausal women build muscle by doing load-bearing exercises.(iStock)
The drug was also found to prevent post-menopausal weight gain by increasing beneficial bacteria in the gut microbiome and boosting fat metabolism.
“Massive whole-body weight gain is common in both humans and rats in postmenopausal osteoporosis and low estrogen,” Coathup noted.
“The finding that P7C3 reduced overall fat deposits and body weight was highly unexpected,” she also said.
‘Promising’ early results
Dr. Kathleen Jordan, chief medical officer of Midi Health in California, was not involved in the study but offered her reaction to what she called a “commendable” study.
“It is exciting that bone health is getting some much-needed research, especially in women where estrogen depletion in menopause makes them extra vulnerable to poor bone health,” she told Fox News Digital.
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Osteoporosis can lead to “fragility fractures,” Jordan warned — referring to “fractures that can result from the minor bumps occurring in daily life and [that] are painful and debilitating.”
While P7C3 could set the stage for more therapies for women, Jordan noted that the drug is still “very early in development and not ready for broad clinical use.”
Strategies to help prevent osteoporosis include doing load-bearing exercises and consuming a diet high in calcium and vitamin D, experts say.(iStock)
“I look forward to the results of future safety and efficacy studies,” she added.
Coathup agreed that much more research is needed, but said the early signs are “very positive.”
“I hope our research brings women hope, albeit cautious hope,” she said. “The results have been incredibly, and surprisingly, promising.”
What women can do now
The UFC researchers also plan to investigate whether the drug can help restore bone mass in women who already have osteoporosis.
In the meantime, Coathup encourages women experiencing menopause to eat a diet high in calcium and Vitamin D, to talk with their doctors as needed, and to build muscle by doing load-bearing exercises, such as walking, jogging, dancing or playing tennis.
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“Following that advice will help women lead healthier lives through menopause and have a greater chance of avoiding bone loss and weight gain,” she said.
Jordan disagreed with the researchers’ claims that there are no effective treatments for bone loss, saying that women should be able to access the solutions that are currently available.
Osteoporosis can lead to “fragility fractures,” a doctor warned — “which are fractures that can result from the minor bumps occurring in daily life and are painful and debilitating.”(iStock)
“Estrogen replacement has long been known to support women’s bone health, reduce the incidence of osteopenia and osteoporosis, and prevent fractures,” she said.
(The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, or USPSTF, “recommends against the use of combined estrogen and progestin for the primary prevention of chronic conditions in postmenopausal persons,” according to its website.)
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In addition to weight-bearing exercise and an optimized diet, bone density screenings are also important, Jordan said — particularly for women who have certain risk factors.
Those factors include having a mother with fractures or bone health struggles, engaging in significant alcohol intake, having diabetes, or regularly using prednisone or other steroids.
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Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected].
Sweet cravings usually come unannounced, be it during the day, evening, or at night. Apart from this, we also find ourselves craving them more during the festive season. Isn’t it? Well, the festival of Navratri is no exception. During this time, many people have to resist their sweet cravings. This is because most of our beloved mithais include ingredients that one must avoid during this nine-day-long fasting period. For example, gulab jamun, jalebi, kheer, halwa, all contain maida or rice, which are strictly exempted from the vrat diet. But don’t lose hope, as there are several other mouth-watering desserts that you can enjoy. Here, we’ll be sharing with you five such desserts that not only taste heavenly but will be ready in just under 30 minutes. Also Read: When Is Chaitra Navratri 2024? Date, Time, Significance And 5 Vrat-Friendly Foods
Vrat-Friendly Desserts: Here Are 5 Delicious Vrat-Friendly Dessert Recipes You Must Try:
1. Sabudana Kheer (Our Recommendation)
Sabudana is one of the most popular and versatile vrat ingredients. You’ll be happy to know that you can use it to make delicious kheer as well. All you need is sabudana, elaichi powder, saffron, milk, and sugar. It is just as smooth and creamy as regular kheer and is something you must definitely try this fasting season. Click here for the complete recipe for Sabudana Kheer.
2. Sabudana Ladoo
If you’re a ladoo lover, these sabudana ladoos will become your go-to during Navratri. The best part? You can make this sweet delight with just three ingredients: sabudana, ghee, and sugar, that’s all! With a dessert that’s so easy to make, is there any reason why you shouldn’t give it a try? We guess not! Try it during fasting and be sure to be amazed. Find the complete recipe for Sabudana Ladoo here.
3. Makhana Kheer
Another mouth-watering variety of kheer that deserves your attention is makhana kheer. In this recipe, roasted makhana (fox nuts) and cashew nuts are boiled in milk instead of rice. The result is this yummy kheer that will satisfy your sweet cravings in no time. Garnish it with sliced pistachios and strands of kesar, and indulge in its goodness. Click here for the complete recipe for Makhana Kheer.
4. Apple Rabdi
Want to try something unique? Look no further than this apple rabdi. At first, the idea of having an apple in your rabdi may sound strange. But trust us, once you try it out, there’s no going back. This rabdi is rich, creamy, and nutty, making it perfect for the festive season. You can relish this rabdi both hot and cold. Find the complete recipe for Apple Rabdi here. Also Read: Chaitra Navratri 2024: 7 Ways To Stay Hydrated – Try These Delicious Drinks
5. Paneer Malpua
Malpua is a popular North Indian dessert, usually prepared during festivals. It is typically made using maida (all-purpose flour) or regular atta, but this paneer version makes it vrat-friendly. It also contains arrowroot, which helps bind all the ingredients together. Soak it well in the sugar syrup and serve it hot to fully savour its taste. Are you excited to try it out? Find the complete recipe for Paneer Malpua here.
Satisfy your sweet cravings during the festival with these quick and easy recipes. Happy Chaitra Navratri 2024!
And now? Wrap dresses occupy a more curious category, like skinny jeans or ankle booties or long cardigans: once a closet staple, now a staple of closet clean-outs. Ms. Sanders may not be able to find them in New York department stores, but they’re readily available in Ohio thrift stores, said Kathleen Martin, who lives in Columbus and makes YouTube videos about thrifting.
“Specifically, I’m seeing the kind you might connote with 2010s business casual,” she said — with slinky fabric and ditsy prints. Sometimes the stores miscategorize them, Ms. Martin added, as robes instead of dresses. In 2020, during the early months of the pandemic, Vogue suggested wearing them as such.
Danielle Vermeer, the chief executive of a thrifting app called Teleport, once found a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress priced at $5 at a secondhand store. The abstract black-and-white print was part leopard, part oil spill. In 2022, she consigned it with the RealReal, which sold the dress for $40 and paid her $12. (A new DVF wrap dress today starts around $378.)
“Post-pandemic,” said Ms. Vermeer, who is 35 and lives in Washington, “I think there’s been more of an openness to try different styles in an office or professional setting. In the 2010s, I was working in offices that were very masculine and very formal, especially my first couple jobs. I would wear wrap dresses or pencil skirts and button downs. That was the uniform. But now, for those in their early 20s, the attire for that sort of office has really shifted.”
Workplaces are more casual, filled with workers more interested in dressing to express their style.
“I still love them because they’re super chic and easy to put on,” Ms. Vermeer said of wrap dresses. The following day, she sent a photo from a Salvation Army in Chicago, where she had come across a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress for $29.99. (“Not my size but it’s in excellent condition,” she said in a text message.) “But I can see for a 23-year-old today that it might seem very ‘Girlboss,’” she said, a moniker for ambitious young women of the 2010s who embraced corporate feminism and fell almost as fast as they rose.
Allison Bornstein, a stylist known for helping people identify their personal style keywords — and who offers FaceTime appointments with people who are, among other things, trying to clean out their closet — had another theory about younger people’s aversion to the style.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
KENDALL JENNER u posljednje vrijeme niže prilično upečatljive modne kombinacije koje privlače pažnju. Tako je prije nekoliko dana predstavila jedno svoje sportsko izdanje i najavila povratak kapri hlača, a sada je pokazala vrlo elegantnu kombinaciju koju je nosila u nedjelju za Uskrs.
Naime, odlučila se za dugačku haljinu boje bjelokosti, a modnu kombinaciju pokazala je na svom Instagram profilu. “Haljina mojih snova”, napisala je. Haljina joj savršeno pristaje i oličenje je staroholivudske elegancije.
Svilena tkanina i baršunaste mašne
Haljina marke Rodarte, izrađena od svilene krep tkanine, ukrašena je detaljima u obliku baršunastih mašni na nabranim rukavima. Kendall je uz haljinu odabrala crne salonke na petu te sunčane naočale. Njezin make-up bio je minimalan, a kosa raspuštena.
“Moja lijepa princeza u svom tajnom vrtu”, napisala joj je Kris Jenner ispod objave. No, osim mamine poruke, nanizali su se i komentari mnogih drugih. “Savršenstvo”, “Ova haljina ti stoji kao salivena”, “Najljepša djevojka ikada”, “Ovo je haljina i iz mojih snova”, “Kao san”, “Lijepa”, samo su neki od njih.
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It’s 7:25 a.m. on Tuesday morning. It’s spring break in Orange County. Most of Nathan Aceves’ Huntington Beach High classmates are probably sleeping, surfing or vacationing. But he’s doing what he loves best — preparing to pitch. He’s going through his long, precise stretching exercises at Mater Dei High before the team’s opener in the Boras Classic while waiting for teammates to show up for the 9 a.m. game.
Aceves, a senior committed to UC Santa Barbara, came through with a top performance, giving up one hit in six innings in Huntington Beach’s 6-0 win over Ganesha. He beat another UC Santa Barbara commit, Gavin Moran, who struck out nine in 4 2/3 innings.
Trent Grindlinger contributed three RBIs, Tony Martinez had a two-run ground-rule triple and Linkin Garcia had a double and single. Huntington Beach (12-4) moves on to play Maranatha in Wednesday’s 3 p.m. quarterfinals at Mater Dei.
Aquinas 5, South Hills 4: Carter Hadnot had three hits and Chase Davidson’s bunt single in the eighth drove in the tiebreaking run. Paul Vasquez hit a two-run home run for South Hills, which had a chance to tie in the eighth but a terrific catch by Gavin Egan ended the game.
Corona 2, La Costa Canyon 1: Freshman Mason Sims threw a complete game for the top-ranked Panthers in their Boras Classic opener, leaving coach Andy Wise to have available his top three pitchers, Ethan Schiefelbein, Seth Hernandez and Sam Burgess, for the next three games. Corona will play Aquinas at JSerra on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
Maranatha 5, San Dimas 4: Gabe Barragan hit a solo home run in the top of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie, and Maranatha got a game-ending double play in the bottom of the eighth to pull out the Boras Classic win. Eric Zdunek hit a two-run home run and Zach Strickland struck out nine in 5 1/3 innings.
La Mirada 4, Rancho Bernardo 0: Walker Calvo threw a four-hit shutout, advancing the Matadores to a 6 p.m. Boras Classic game on Wednesday at Mater Dei.
Etiwanda 1, Carlsbad 0: Al Moreno threw a shutout, giving up two hits, to lift the Eagles into the Boras Classic quarterfinals against Oaks Christian on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at JSerra.
Boras Classic quarterfinals Wednesday: At JSerra: Corona vs. Aquinas, 3 p.m.; Oaks Christian vs. Etiwanda, 6 p.m. At Mater Dei: Maranatha vs. Huntington Beach, 3 p.m.; La Mirada vs. Mater Dei, 6 p.m.
Oaks Christian 6, JSerra 0: Sophomore Jack Laubacher struck out 10 and allowed four hits and no runs in six innings for Oaks Christian. Carson Sheffer finished with three hits.
Mater Dei 4, Crespi 0: Landon Gordon struck out seven in six scoreless innings and Lawson Olmstead hit a three-run home run to lead Mater Dei.
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 6, Arcadia 1: Nate Kugler struck out eight in six innings and Kai Gonzaga contributed three hits in the Knights’ National Classic victory.
El Dorado 11, Columbia River (Wash.) 2: Jake Vanderzee hit a grand slam and Jack Fishel struck out nine in five innings to lead El Dorado.
Servite 4, Mira Costa 0: Toby Kwon gave up one hit in six innings for Servite. Miles Scott and Hayden Woodson each had two hits.
Gahr 7, Covina 3: Matt Sandoval and AJ Gonzalez each had two RBIs for Gahr.
Bishop Amat 9, Desert Oasis 1: Isaiah Hernandez contributed three hits and Aaron Sandlin struck out seven in five innings for Bishop Amat, which plays Servite on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Irvine Valley College in the next round of the National Classic.
West Ranch 4, Cypress 3: Reliever Ricky Sturm came on in the bottom of the seventh to get the final two outs with Cypress having the potential tying and winning runs on base to save West Ranch’s victory. Nolan Stoll had two hits for West Ranch.
Santa Margarita 12, Damien 4: Delmar Perez had a two-run home run and Gavin Spiridonoff contributed a two-run double in the Eagles’ National Classic victory. Cade Townsend struck out seven in four innings.
Granada Hills 10, Coronado 4: Alex Schmidt hit a grand slam and solo home run to lead the Highlanders, who put together a seven-run sixth inning. Justin Barnett finished with two hits and three RBIs.
St. John Bosco 8, Dana Hills 3: Macade Maxwell finished with three hits and two RBIs to lead the Braves.
Calabasas 4, Rio Mesa 3: Nate Castellon, Mason Shulman and Simon Hoffman each had two hits for Calabasas.
Villa Park 3, Harvard-Westlake 2: Justin Tims threw a complete game with four strikeouts and no walks to knock off No. 2-ranked Harvard-Westlake in a nonleague game.
Chaminade 17, Kennedy 6: Carter Bennett had three hits for the Eagles.
Corona Centennial 1, Marina 0: Jaden McNeely and Joseph Malki combined on the shutout for Centennial. Charles Rogers had an RBI double.
In order to give people access to Google Search’s tools that can help them quickly evaluate content online, the company on Tuesday expanded two features — About this image and About this page — to 40 additional languages globally, including Hindi.
“The ‘more about this page’ feature in About this result is now available in 40 additional languages globally including French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese,” Google said in a blogpost.
Google’s ‘About this result’ feature lets users get context about a website before they click through.
In addition, the ‘About this image’ feature gives users a quick way to check the background and context of images they see online.
“These tools can help you get the context you need to feel more confident about what you’re seeing online — whether it’s checking an image or the online source you’re reading,” the tech giant said. Moreover, the company mentioned that its ‘Fact Check Explorer’ tool will help journalists and fact-checkers dig deeper into a topic.
“When you search for a topic, you can easily find fact checks that have been investigated by independent organisations from around the world. And now you can use Fact Check Explorer to find out more about an image,” according to Google.
Journalists and fact-checkers can also use this tool through the Fact Check Tools API, which gives them the ability to show relevant fact-checks for an image on their own websites.
Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India known as the ‘Heart of India’, is renowned for its rich traditions, spiritual heritage and culture. The state is home to many wildlife sanctuaries, forts, intricately carved temples and monuments. MP has something to offer everyone, whether you are a foodie, wildlife enthusiast, arts and culture fan or just a nature lover. Madhya Pradesh is a treat for all types of travellers and attracts a considerable number of visitors from both domestic and international locations. From savouring a delightful breakfast of garam poha and chai at the Chappan market of Indore to spending a blissful evening at the sunset point of historical places of Mandu, here is your complete MP travel guide for a memorable trip and a lifetime of experiences. (Also read: Discovering Bandhavgarh National Park: Where roaring wildlife meets whispers of nature )
Madhya Pradesh is a state where culture, cuisine, and nature converge to enchant travellers.(Unsplash)
Top Places to Visit in Madhya Pradesh
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At Ujjain Mahakal temple witness the awe-inspiring Bhasma Aarti, a ritual of offering ash to the deity. (HT/File Photo)
Khajuraho: Explore Khajuraho, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its magnificent collection of Jain and Hindu temples decorated with intricate carvings and sculptures depicting many facets of life and mythology. Admire the temples of Kandariya Mahadeva, Lakshmana and Vishvanatha for their magnificent architecture and profound spiritual significance.
Ujjain: Soak up the heavenly atmosphere of Ujjain, one of India’s holiest cities. Pay homage to Lord Shiva at the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Temple, where you can also witness the magnificent Bhasma Aarti, a ceremony in which ash is offered to the god. Visit other sacred places such as the Harsiddhi, Kal Bhairav temples etc.
Omkareshwar: Another famous destination for pilgrims honouring Lord Shiva is the Omkareshwar temple, located on an island in the Narmada River. Visit the Jyotirlinga shrine to seek blessings and experience the peaceful atmosphere of this sacred place.
For Foodies:
Poha along with hot adrak chai is one of the most popular breakfast of Madhya Pradesh.
Indore: Explore the gastronomic treasures of Indore, often hailed as the culinary capital of Madhya Pradesh. Explore the vibrant street food market known as Sarafa Bazaar, where hawkers sell a variety of mouth-watering foods such as kebabs, samosas, jalebi and poha.
Malwa Cuisine: Savour the flavours of Malwa cuisine, which is characterised by savoury dishes influenced by Marwari and Rajasthani cooking customs. Try some of the regional specialities like Malpua, Bhutte Ka Kees and Dal Bafla.
For Culture Enthusiasts:
Explore the historic remains of Mandu, a fortified city renowned for its stunning architecture.(Instagram/@mpheartofindia)
Gwalior: Experience Gwalior’s rich cultural heritage – the city is home to exquisite forts, palaces and museums. Take in the breathtaking views of the city from the top of Gwalior Fort, a strong hill fort, the magnificent Man Singh Palace and the Gujari Mahal Archaeological Museum.
Mandu: Step back in time as you explore the ancient ruins of Mandu, a fortified city renowned for its stunning architecture and enchanting mythology. Discover architectural wonders with rich histories and fascinating details such as the Jahaz Mahal, Hindola Mahal and Rupmati’s Pavilion.
Bhopal: Explore Bhopal, a centre of culture where modern influences coexist with traditional arts and crafts. Take a tour of the Bharat Bhavan, a multimodal arts complex that features modern Indian theatre, literature, and art. Discover the native artwork and customs of the tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh by exploring the Tribal Museum.
For Nature Lovers:
For those who love the outdoors, there are many locations to explore, from national parks to beautiful locations. (Shutterstock)
Pachmarhi: Explore the tranquil charm of Pachmarhi, a hill station in the Satpura range surrounded by lush vegetation and cascading waterfalls. Explore places like Dhoopgarh, the highest point in Madhya Pradesh with breathtaking views of the sunrise and sunset, Bee Falls and Pandava Caves.
National Parks: Some of India’s most biodiverse national parks are located in Madhya Pradesh, providing unmatched chances for those who enjoy the outdoors and animals. Every park offers a different ecology that is just waiting to be discovered, from the deep woods of Kanha and Bandhavgarh, which are well-known for their flourishing tiger and other endangered species populations, to the gorgeous vistas of Satpura and Pench, where leopards, wild dogs, and a variety of wildlife walk freely.
For History Buffs:
Explore the historical marvels of Sanchi, home to one of the most important Buddhist sites in India. (Unsplash)
Orchha: Explore Orchha, a medieval town filled with opulent mansions, temples, and cenotaphs, and immerse yourself in history. Discover architectural wonders that exemplify the grandeur of Bundela architecture, such as the Jahangir Mahal, Raj Mahal, and Chaturbhuj Temple.
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters: Discover the prehistoric artistry of the rock shelters of Bhimbetka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its Paleolithic cave paintings. Admire the realistic depictions of hunting scenes, daily activities and rituals that give us a glimpse into past human civilisations.
Sanchi: Discover the ancient treasures of Sanchi, which is home to one of India’s most significant Buddhist sites. Explore the historic monasteries, stupas, and Ashoka Pillar, which were built in the third century BCE and feature stunning examples of Buddhist art and architecture. Then, lose yourself in the serene atmosphere of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, which provides an insight into the rich cultural history of India and Buddhism.
Call of Duty fans are counting down to the start of Season 3 in Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone. According to Activision, Modern Warfare 3 Season 3 has an April 3 release date and a 5pm BST UK launch time for PS4, PS5, Xbox consoles and PC. It’s shaping up to be a fantastic new season, featuring a ton of new gameplay tweaks, maps, modes, rewards and lots more. For Modern Warfare 3 fans, the highlight is the release of six new, remastered and repurposed Core maps throughout the course of the season. This includes 6 Star, Emergency, Growhouse and Tanked on April 3, followed by Grime and Checkpoint as part of the mid-season update, which is likely to drop in May.
The brand new 6 Star battlefield is described as a medium-sized map set in a luxury Dubai skyscraper resort.
Emergency is another brand new map, albeit on a smaller scale to 6 Star. The new map is set in an Arizonan medical facility, “nestled on the summit of a remote mountain range” and above a small town. Fans should expect a fast-paced experience with plenty of kills.
Growhouse is a remastered version of the Sphere map launched during Season 3 of Call of Duty Vanguard. Interestingly, however, Growhouse is no longer an experimental test site, but more of a “backwoods narcotics den nestled in remote foothills”.
Finally, Tanked is a repurposed Warzone map developed by Beenox. It takes place in the Vondel Zoo, specifically in the main Aquarium structure within the point of interest.
Elsewhere, Activision has announced plans to add four new game modes to Modern Warfare 3, although only one will be available at launch.
Classic game mode Capture the Flag will be playable on April 3, followed by the release of classic party mode One in the Chamber, which will drop in the launch window.
Elsewhere, Minefield and Escort will be playable as part of the mid-season update in May.
As part of the launch of the new season, fans can also expect a selection of Perks. The Gunslinger Vest, the Modular Assault Rig, the Compression Carrier, Reinforced Boots, and High-Gain Antenna.
That’s on top of new weapons including FJX Horus Submachine Gun, the MORS Sniper Rifle, and the Gladiator Melee weapon at launch.
Activision explains more: “Close combat was never so quick and painful, with the Gladiator rivalling the Karambit for supreme mobility, handling, and damage potential.
“Cut straight to the bone with haste and ease, but ensure you’re close enough to make your lethal stabs count.”
Finally, fans will be able to purchase the Season 3 Battle Pass, which contains a host of in-game rewards. This includes operators such as Snoop Dogg and Makarov, as well as various cosmetic upgrades for weapons and more.
MG Motor Australia has taken a knife to the prices of its petrol and plug-in hybrid models.
From April 1, 2024, all petrol and hybrid models bar the MG 5 have received a reduction in nationwide drive-away pricing, with the price cuts ranging between $1000 and $6000.
MG qualifies this by saying the price cuts apply to model year 2023 vehicles or, in the case of the MG HS Plus EV plug-in hybrid, model year 2022 vehicles.
The largest price cuts apply to members of the mid-sized HS crossover range, with the Vibe down by $3000, the Excite by $4000, and the Essence by $5000, with both Plus EV plug-in hybrids’ price tags slashed by $5300 and the all-wheel drive Essence X down by $6000.
MG 3 models are all down by $1000 ahead of the launch of a pricier replacement in July, while ZS and ZST models are down by between $1000 and $2500.
In addition to a new MG 3, the Chinese brand will launch a new generation of HS this year.
“MG is putting customers first by ensuring everyone can access a wide range of affordable vehicles thanks to reduced nationwide drive-away pricing on our most popular models,” said MG Motor Australia CEO Peter Ciao.
“Whenever we can pass price reductions like this onto our customers, we will make sure we do.”
The pricing adjustments to petrol and hybrid models follow the introduction on March 22 of nationwide drive-away pricing for all electric MG 4 and ZS EV models.
With both EV ranges now opening at $39,990 drive-away, MG once again has the cheapest EV… at least in some states. The BYD Dolphin still undercuts its electric Chinese rival in the ACT and Northern Territory.
Pricing
MG 3
MG 3 Core (MY23): $18,990 (-$1000)
MG 3 Core with navigation (MY23): $19,490 (-$1000)
In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency trading, Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) have recently experienced a downturn, both dipping by 5% in the span of just 24 hours. However, amidst the market turbulence, a new player has emerged – Furrever Token (FURR). With its unique features and promising outlook, FURR is positioned to be the beacon of hope for investors seeking to recover from recent losses. As ETH and SOL face temporary setbacks, FURR offers a glimmer of opportunity for those looking to turn the tide and capitalize on the potential for growth in the crypto market.
Ethereum’s Uncertain Path: Market Challenges and Regulatory Hurdles Ahead
Ethereum (ETH) currently trades at approximately $3,439, experiencing a notable 5% decline in just 24 hours. While Ethereum saw a remarkable 46% surge in February, its momentum slowed in March with a modest 9% increase, closing at $3,645. Despite optimistic signals from blockchain data, indicating record numbers of Ethereum addresses and positive market sentiment, concerns loom over the approval of spot ETH ETFs. Rumors surrounding the challenges in securing ETF approval have instigated market unease, even as major asset management firms persist in updating their applications, maintaining hope for eventual approval.
Moreover, Ethereum’s dwindling reserves on crypto exchanges, with only 11% of the total ETH supply actively traded, hint at potential scarcity-driven value appreciation in 2024. However, recent reports of outflows from Ethereum funds add to the uncertainty, amplifying doubts about short-term price stability. Additionally, expectations for Ethereum ETF approval sliding toward the end of the year pose a further setback, casting shadows on near-term market optimism.
As Ethereum struggles to breach the $3,600 resistance level, recent price movements indicate a downward trend, with ETH slipping to $3,500. Despite the potential for upward movement towards $3,770 or downward to $3,330, Ethereum faces a challenging landscape amidst regulatory uncertainties and fluctuating investor sentiment.
Solana (SOL) currently trades at approximately $188, experiencing a 4.5% decline in the past 24 hours. Despite recent volatility, SOL showcased a brief surge of 7% over the past week, indicating potential bullish activity within the crypto market.
Throughout March, SOL exhibited notable strength, surging by over 54% and boasting a year-to-date increase of approximately 95%, reflecting significant long-term buying interest. However, SOL faced challenges after reaching a resistance level of $107.77, resulting in a subsequent pullback and range-bound trading between $77.60 and $107.77 for approximately nine weeks.
On a positive note, SOL found support from the Cross EMA 50/200-day, leading to a resurgence in bullish momentum. This resurgence propelled SOL to reclaim the $200 mark for the first time in over 26 months, showcasing a 99.32% increase. However, SOL encountered resistance at $200 and has since traded within a range of $170 to $200, awaiting a breakthrough.
Technical indicators like the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) suggest a potential bullish convergence, hinting at further upside potential for SOL. If SOL maintains support above $200, it could target the $250 resistance level, with a potential run towards $300 in the coming month. Conversely, a trend reversal could lead to a test of support at $170, followed by a potential decline to $140 if bearish pressure persists.
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One of the more exciting trends in marketing is the rise in interest in engaging employees as influencers and content creators.
Recent research from agency giant Ogilvy finds that 89% of C-suite B2B marketers recognize that tapping employees as influencers “holds immense value for their businesses.”
As a result, I see just about everyone rushing to create content to help the business.
That small earthquake you just felt was the collective shudder of marketing practitioners in B2B businesses across the planet. They’re worried about little things like consistency, tone, story, and quality. You know, everything that makes your content and marketing strategy work.
Is it possible to scale your efforts in a way that enables more content creators across the organization without sacrificing the “little” things? I think there is — and the model comes from the entertainment industry.
Think like a movie director
If you ask an actor or screenwriter about their career goals, they’ll almost always say, “But what I really want to do is direct.” This Hollywood trope is so prevalent that someone put it on a T-shirt.
Ironically, the director may participate the least in the creative work. A director’s role isn’t to write, act, play music, edit, or even point a camera. The director’s job is to direct and enable the individual artists’ contributions to the film product.
Yes, some directors do double duty by writing or acting. But the director’s function remains clear: Guide, enable, and manage a team of storytellers to produce a powerful and engaging work.
In a great film, the words, pictures, actors, costumes, music, and editing mesh so completely that removing any of them would pull the piece apart. Transcendent directors do this so successfully that their signature style shines through even when they use different contributors for each project.
Why content teams should direct
B2B content and marketing teams would benefit from embracing the director role.
Take this example from a B2B company I worked with recently. The company’s content leader told me her team — a content studio — had finally earned enough internal respect that it became the go-to team for content and design.
But that achievement came with a frustrating new responsibility. More and more people saw them as a bottleneck preventing the release of more content. While the content leader wanted her team to play a more important role, she grew concerned that the landslide of content requests would lead the team to produce unremarkable content.
She asked me, “How do we become more strategic to the business without adding more headcount? How can we take on more content without sacrificing quality?”
Without a doubt, scalability is the biggest challenge in content marketing. The ability to “create enough content” gets mentioned as one of the top challenges in CMI’s content marketing research year after year. Adding more writers, designers, podcasters, and other skilled staff never solves that challenge.
Here’s the thing: The ability to grow doesn’t lie in the capability to produce enough content.
The ability to grow lies in turning the content strategy team into more than a collection of creators skilled at words or pictures who create content assets.
To scale, the content team must enable every other part of the business to do the same. You need a team that wants to direct.
The content team’s remit must expand into the role of director. That means it:
Sets the standard
Prioritizes the content
Guides and enables the organization to tell a consistent story.
“Now wait just a doggone second,” you say. “How can a team of people all act as a director? Isn’t the director one person?”
Yes, that’s true in the movie business, and it might be true in smaller organizations. But in a larger, more siloed business, the function of the content team must expand to include acting as a movie director.
In this scenario, the team doesn’t exist to create content on demand. It enables the broader organization to develop and integrate its messages into a common voice.
Content team members may do double duty as writers, editors, or designers. But that’s not their primary purpose.
They don’t simply provide words and pictures for a sales professional to copy and paste into a document that gets attached to a customer email.
The content team’s new remit should include guiding, shaping, and developing the sales professional’s ability to deliver their best story. Occasionally, that creator might be someone on the content strategy team. But in most cases, it will be the salesperson working from a common script.
My advice to any content leader looking to scale a team and become more strategic is to buy every content team member a T-shirt that says, “But what we really want to do is direct.”
Then, coach the team to stop acting as an internal content production studio and start directing all enterprise content regardless of who creates it.
Scale to director level with these 6 responsibilities
To facilitate this evolution, you must redefine the team charter to direct others in creating content by setting common standards, guidelines, and playbooks. And the new charter requires the content team to take on new roles, responsibilities, and functions.
I see six primary areas of responsibility for the team. Each balances individual contribution with skills to foster in the broader organization.
What do those responsibilities look like?
This graphic summarizes the six responsibilities and processes the content team should handle.
1. Strategy: Planning and prioritization
A movie director first works with department heads to create a charter, purpose, goals, and focus for the production. Similarly, the content team needs to define a charter for how content will be created, managed, promoted, and measured (in other words, a content plan). What does collaboration look like, and how will it happen? A great director provides a consistent storyboard, shot calendar, timeline, and plan so everybody knows what gets created and when.
Likewise, a content team must help the business set content objectives, distribute resources, and balance priorities and business needs.
2. Creation: Raw creation and management
Once you have prioritization, scheduling, and resource planning under control, the process becomes less linear yet more efficient.
Does that seem confusing? Think of it this way: A movie director might send one team off to shoot what’s called b-roll. (Think establishing shots, crowd shots, or filler shots that establish context.)
This kind of filming can happen at any time (not just when it’s needed) because everything is planned. The director describes what’s required but doesn’t have to provide it or even be present when these scenes are filmed.
Likewise, a great content manager might lead (but not create) content captured by someone in account services. The content team can remix the assets the account services staff captures into case studies, marketing pieces, advertising, or thought leadership.
The person in account services knows what to do because the content team member provided a complete “shot list,” set of interview questions, etc.
All this planning, scheduling, and architecting allows more people to create raw content — the components of many content experiences.
3. Production: Asset assembly and packaging
A centralized method of organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling allows for a detailed bill of materials for the designers, production artists, and other creative teams who will put the assets together for the finished experiences. Filmmakers make great use of technology to organize, approve, and move raw content elements into finished pieces.
Content strategy teams can do the same. I see successful teams using digital asset management and calendaring/collaboration tools to organize raw content elements into a “single source of the truth” for assembling customer experiences.
When all the elements come together, it becomes faster and easier for anyone creating content to know what’s available and approved and how it can be made available to broader audiences across the organization. Decisions can be made to direct people to share the content in their own words or exactly as requested.
It allows internal and external teams to maintain consistency, creativity, and quality when working from a consistent supply of raw content.
4. Merchandising: Scheduling and distribution
Most companies mistakenly equate the number of content assets with the number of digital assets. They waste time having to “undo” digital assets to retrieve content for repurposing.
In a film, a product asset manager plays a critical role. They ensure every asset (film, audio, video, photos, and so on) gets tagged and routed to the artists who need to create content with it.
Likewise, a great content team ensures both raw content and the resulting digital assets are easily findable, routed correctly, and available for reuse, repurposing, and activation.
5. Activation: Publishing and promotion
The movie director’s job doesn’t stop when the film is “in the can.”
While the studios typically handle a film’s distribution and promotion, directors often have creative input into the marketing, trailer preview, and even release date.
For example, Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan’s strong commitment to IMAX film and cameras means IMAX theaters get prioritized for his movies.
Likewise, great content teams work to ensure a strategic marketing effort to promote the content. For example, the team shouldn’t stop producing a thought leadership presentation. It should also create a how-to-deliver guide so the sales teams, executives, and other employees can use the presentation to its fullest potential.
6. Measurement: Insight and improvement
This final responsibility may seem, at first, to be the furthest from the film metaphor. Content should be evaluated on how well it was activated, promoted, and used to benefit the business. That responsibility usually lies within whichever business function was responsible for distributing and using the content created.
You might be surprised to learn how much technology and data are used in film productions to create more efficient scheduling, creation, and post-production efforts.
Similarly, the content team should analyze data to find ways to create a more efficient content creation, management, production, and distribution process.
Content strategy as artful, efficient production
These six areas of responsibility form the core of a content operation that can empower many people to create, distribute, and leverage content at scale. The content team acting as director sets standards, develops playbooks, molds the scripts, chooses the lenses, fosters the talent, guides the process, and helps structure the output.
Like movie, television, or stage directors, your content team may sometimes serve as the storyteller. But it should always enable people throughout the organization to tell the business’ stories.
By directing enterprise content, your team can influence the vision, words, story, and experience to deliver a business strategy poised for box office success.
It’s your story. Tell it well.
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Embattled edtech major Byju’s has handed pink slips to nearly 500 people without serving them notice period, or without putting them on a performance improvement plan (PIP), according to the sources.
Some employees have alleged that the company’s human resource executive informed them that the company had decided to terminate employment immediately.
“The HR went on to initiate the exit process immediately and I was informed that my last working day was that very day,” said one the employees who spoke to businessline.
Also read: Byju’s EGM concludes without objections to increase in share capital
This restructuring is part of the exercise announced in October 2023 by India CEO Arjun Mohan upon his appointment.
Byju’s spokesperson confirmed the development.
“We are in the final stages of a business restructuring exercise announced in October 2023 to simplify operating structures, reduce the cost base, and better cash flow management. As you are also aware, we are going through an extraordinary situation in the company because of the ongoing litigation with four foreign investors, where every employee and the ecosystem is going through tremendous stress, given the present circumstances,” said the spokesperson
“We regret the unfortunate situation the company has been forced into. Still, it is something that we will put behind us soon with majority investor support for the $200 million rights issue. We request everyone’s understanding of the individual and collective stress on the system, which might be prompting some unforeseen situations for the departing employees,” the spokesperson added.
Byju’s woes
On Monday, Byju’s had decided to hold off its staff salaries for the second month in a row as it awaits the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order to use funds from the proceeds of the rights issue.
The company said it is following a parallel line of credit to ensure that employee salaries are disbursed by April 8.
This is the second time Byju’s has faced the same problem, as it had held back February salaries and later paid a part of the dues to employees in mid-March. The company is yet to pay the remaining February salaries to its staff.
Recently, the company concluded its extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to increase authorised share capital with no objections raised on the resolutions discussed, reported businessline.
Also read: Byju’s offers dissenting investors another opportunity to participate in rights issue
Earlier, on March 29, Raveendran, in a letter to shareholders, said that in response to the postal ballot announced on March 7, the company received more than 50 per cent of votes in favour of increasing the authorised share capital.
The voting process for the resolutions discussed in the meeting will go on till April 6. Meanwhile, the next hearing for the plea filed by investors in the NCLT is scheduled for April 4.
Microsoft has been adding artificial intelligence to nearly all its products, from Bing search to PowerPoint. Now it’s testing AI for customer support on its Xbox.
“We are testing an Xbox Support Virtual Agent, an internal prototype of an animated character that can query Xbox Support topics with voice or text,” Haiyan Zhang, general manager of Gaming AI at Xbox, told CNET in an emailed statement.
The animated character would take information from existing Xbox Support pages to provide answers to questions players ask, Microsoft says.
The chatbot could also process refunds for games, according to an earlier report by The Verge.
Microsoft has eagerly adopted AI
The move marks another way Microsoft is incorporating AI into its product offerings. Building a chatbot that’s designed to do more than merely answer questions expands well past the initial Copilot generative AI technologies Microsoft added to its Bing search engine and Office products, off the back of its investment and partnership with OpenAI.
Microsoft has hinted at these types of products before, though. CEO Satya Nadella has described using a voice-enabled AI to help people fill out forms, and the company has also demonstrated technologies that quickly summarize information from press releases, financial filings or meeting transcripts.
The tech giant has made AI such a central aspect of its products that it’s added a dedicated AI Copilot button to keyboard layouts, the first change since Microsoft introduced the Windows key in 1994.
Read more: AI Chatbots Are Here to Stay. Learn How They Can Work for You
Microsoft hasn’t said when its Xbox AI will launch, though the company is planning upgrades to its video game console and services soon. The company said it unintentionally leaked a presentation describing its upcoming “Brooklin” Xbox last year. The new device, which is reportedly discless, would sport a cylindrical design rather than the boxy design of the Xbox Series X (which has been made fun of in memes as looking like a refrigerator).
AI tech may help Microsoft’s Xbox stand apart from Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro video game console, which is rumored to be coming out sometime this year. Apple is also reportedly looking to AI and planning its own AI enhancements for the iPhone, which may be announced as early as this summer during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Editors’ note: CNET is using an AI engine to help create some stories. For more, see this post.
Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an exam will be done while the patient is unconscious, the federal government said Monday.
New guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services now requires consent for breast, pelvic, prostate and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” performed by medical students, nurse practitioners or physician assistants.
The department’s release said the guidance was issued to “reiterate and provide clarity” regarding hospital consent requirements. Federal regulations previously mentioned obtaining consent for “important tasks” related to surgeries, and did not provide the level of detail about medical students.
If hospitals don’t obtain explicit consent, they may be ineligible for participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and also may be subject to fines and investigations if they violate patient privacy laws, Office of Civil Rights director Melanie Fontes Rainer said.
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Doctors and medical students sometimes perform exams of sensitive areas for training purposes when a patient is under anesthesia. At least 20 states have passed laws requiring a patient’s consent.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and other top health officials criticized these exams happening without explicit consent in a letter sent to teaching hospitals and medical schools Monday. The letter said hospitals need to set “clear guidelines to ensure providers and trainees performing these examinations first obtain and document informed consent.”
A new guidance from the federal government says hospitals must obtain written consent from patients before conducting pelvic exams.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
It’s difficult to say how often these exams take place, experts said, or how often patients understand what they’re consenting to when they sign forms before surgery giving broad consent for a range of procedures.
The letter is a “critical leap forward in protecting patients and medical residents,” Scott Berkowitz, founder and president of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, said in a statement.
“It’s a shocking problem with a very simple solution — hospitals need to ask for consent clearly and explicitly,” he said.
Alexandra Fountaine, a medical student at Ohio University who testified in front of a state House committee against the practice, was skeptical that the letter would result in “actual policy or real change.” But, she added, it made her feel more protected and respected.
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“Something like that happening is my biggest fear,” she said. “As women we’re all afraid of being violated on a daily basis … but when we’re put in very vulnerable positions, like being anesthetized, I think that’s especially terrifying.”
In 2018, Sashi Cheliah made history by becoming the first Indian-origin contestant to win MasterChef Australia. The Singapore-born chef with Indian roots has a fascinating origin story. Before rising to global fame, he used to work for the police and provided high-profile protection as part of a special force. On the show, he enchanted judges and audiences, breaking records with his aromatic creations. He went on to open restaurants in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Chennai. His Indian establishment, the Pandan Club, shines a spotlight on the niche delicacies of Peranakan cuisine.
Chef Sashi was in the country recently for a series of pop-up experiences. We caught up with him at the St. Regis in Mumbai, where he curated a special meal as part of a collaboration between World On A Plate and Johnnie Walker Blue Label. We feasted on Corn Custard, Parsnip Moilee, Whiskey-infused Apple Crumble, and more, as we sipped on signature cocktails. Our candid conversation with him made the evening a truly memorable one.
Excerpts From NDTV Food’s Interview With Chef Sashi Cheliah:
1. Did you grow up in a foodie family?
Growing up in Singapore, we were introduced to different cuisines at a very young age. One can find Malay, Chinese, Indian, and other cultures there. For instance, our daily meals at home would include simple dal with Chinese stir-fried vegetables or Malay sambal. My mother used to run a cafe. That was also a big influence on me.
2. Before you decided to go on MasterChef Australia, what was your relationship with food?
Eating! (He laughs) I have always enjoyed travelling and savouring food. Thankfully, my wife and my kids love that too. We like to try new restaurants in town. We like to go and try something different every day. When we moved to Australia, we were craving food that was close to what we used to have in Singapore. We didn’t get the kind of authentic food we wanted outside. So, we started making it at home. Eating out in Australia was also too expensive. We began cooking at home, and that became a habit. We started inviting friends and colleagues over for meals. Eventually, it grew bigger and bigger. And one day, it translated into me going on MasterChef Australia.
3. It has now been more than 5 years since you won MasterChef Australia. Looking back, what has been your biggest takeaway from your journey since then?
It’s been all about learning. What we did on the show is not even one per cent of what I’m doing at the moment. There has been a lot of learning over the past 5 years. What we cook on the show is usually only for the three judges or sometimes for a larger group as part of a team challenge. All those are fixed menus. When you come outside, you are cooking for people with different dietary preferences…Running a restaurant or service means you need to pay attention to prep, techniques, equipment, planning, management decisions, customers, etc. All these factors are involved. Over the past few years, I have learned a lot through running my own restaurant and doing pop-ups. I’m still learning.
Parsnip moilee by Chef Sashi. Photo Credit: Toshita Sahni
4. You are known to draw influences from different cuisines while cooking. What’s a challenge you face when having such diverse inspirations?
Controlling myself, I think. I can go a little overboard sometimes. Whenever I do that, I now go back to the theory that ‘less is more’. I believe I imbibed that from Gordon Ramsay. I’m quite used to serving large quantities. He showed me how to control aspects like that. I learned to keep it simple, focus on 2-3 ingredients, extract the maximum flavours out of those elements, make a single ingredient the hero, and ensure I don’t overpower it by adding too much of another. At the same time, keeping the dish flavorful is crucial to me. However beautiful a plate of food may look, it is the flavor that entices you to return to try it again and again.
5. How do you balance authenticity and innovation while curating a dish?
Flavours, definitely. Creativity is important, but you must not take away too much from the authenticity of a dish. Authentic flavours are unique. In the name of creativity, you should not destroy or remove authentic flavours. Keeping it authentic in terms of flavors, but presenting it in a slightly different manner is something I really enjoy. For instance, the Rogan Josh on the menu today doesn’t resemble the usual appearance of the dish on a plate. I have given it my own twist by making a jus with herb oil and cooking the lamb sous vide.
6. How do you stay creative and continue to push boundaries in your cooking?
When I started my culinary journey, I was full of enthusiasm and creativity. I was able to pump out menu after menu. Then the Covid-19 pandemic struck, and everything shut down. I lost touch with my creative side and became more of a businessperson. To rekindle my creative spark, I went back to the show (MasterChef Australia series 14: Fans & Favorites). I made some of the best dishes of my life. It put me back to a spot where I’m able to think out of the box.
Whenever I face problems like a creative block, I try to go somewhere else to get inspiration. Travelling helps me in this regard. I really love doing pop-ups. When I travel to different parts of the world countries, I get inspiration from many cuisines. I’m not referring to fine-dining restaurants. I go down onto the streets and relish simple street food. I get inspired by vendors who create one dish that has been perfected over 20-30 years. They are people who are committed to the craft.
7. What excites you about cooking and the culinary world in 2024?
The new projects I’m working on are quite exciting. I’m setting up a new restaurant in Melbourne. I am an adrenaline junkie. I need my dopamine. Thus, every time I’m part of a service, it excites me. As does any new project that throws various challenges at me. I don’t fret if a dish goes wrong and needs to be rectified quickly. Anything that is stressful excites me! I need that to get my brain going. Additionally, I find it fascinating to discover initiatives that aim to reduce food waste. I’m very conscious of food wastage. For instance, today, we have tried our best to make the most of the ingredients, retaining even the vegetable peels. So if anyone is adopting a new approach in this space, I’ll be excited to try it.
8. What’s a change you would like to see in kitchens by 2025?
By 2025, it’s very hard. Many issues have been present for decades. Some kitchens still have a culture of yelling, throwing, and swearing. I’m not saying it’s wrong or that it doesn’t work. It’s just that I don’t like that kind of setting. I prefer my kitchen to have minimum noise and that people maintain silence. Everyone should know each other and work collaboratively. There must be coordinated, synchronized movements. If you can have such a setup, cooking and service will be more like a form of art rather than chaos. I would also like to see younger chefs getting the opportunity to be more involved in various roles. They come with a lot of creativity and fresh ideas.
9. What advice would you give to budding self-taught chefs?
I would advise them to learn their basics. Although I never underwent basic training at a culinary school, I was lucky to win a show and learn from people who know their trade very well. But not everybody has that chance. If you’re a self-taught chef who wants to be a part of the industry, don’t neglect your basics. Those skills are extremely important, so make sure you go and learn them from somewhere or someone.
10. What are you looking forward to the most on this trip to India? Which are your favourite Indian dishes?
Eating as much food as I can! It’s what I plan to do whenever I get the time during this trip. The first thing we did before coming to the hotel from the airport was stop at a vada pav place. Later, we visited many old and new restaurants, from Trishna to Veronica’s. I also enjoyed Irani chai and bun maska at a streetside spot.
Every destination in India is so distinctive that it’s hard to choose. If I go to Madurai, Jigarthanda is a must-have. I’ve never tasted anything like it anywhere else in the world. It’s cold and beautifully soothing in the hot weather. If I come to Mumbai, it’s vada pav that I cannot resist. I also love having chaat in Mumbai and Delhi. Its refreshing combination of yoghurt, tamarind, and mint is so comforting! When I go to Kerala, I relish the wide variety of seafood with a nice glass of toddy. Chennai has a vibrant biryani culture. But what I especially love is the set meals.
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Guilty pleasure food? Any kind of dessert. I’ve got a massive sweet tooth, and they are the ultimate guilty pleasure – don’t tell my wife.
Favourite midnight snack? Nuts
Food you hated as a child but love now? I don’t hate any food item. I simply enjoy eating.
A dish you struggled to make? Desserts, in general, and pastries, specifically. I didn’t have the background and experience of making them. You need to have patience and a delicate hand to prepare them. I don’t have that. If anything takes more than 90 minutes, I get impatient.
Top food destination on your bucket list? Turkey
Your favourite cuisine while dining out? Thai food
A food trend you find overrated? Farm-to-table
A kitchen gadget you cannot live without? A food processor
If you were a dessert, what would you be? A dark chocolate mousse
What would you have been if not a chef? I would still be doing what I used to enjoy doing: policing.
Yezha, my dad’s old dog, was missing one leg and all her teeth. Weeks before my son and I visited them in Warsaw, she stopped eating. My dad never let my childhood dog in the house. Yet, for Yezha, he’d fry naleśniki crêpes in butter and feed her the cheese filling when it cooled. He’d buy cabbage rolls at the grocery store, and we’d cheer when bites of meat stuffing made it past her gums. “Good Yezha,” we’d coo. My dad, twice divorced, grew up poor under communism. Wasting food was unthinkable. But he’d do anything to keep her alive. — Milena Nigam
Passing the Mantle
It was an endearing detail when we bought our Los Angeles home: “Jack,” “Eva” and “1977” carved into the mantle above the fireplace. Years later, an email arrived: “My family owned your house. I had a few questions,” wrote Carl, who wanted to surprise his wife, Iris, with the mantle her grandfather carved. (Her grandparents, Jack and Eva, would host friends in the den, now our living room.) As a romance author, I was wooed by the grand gesture. We arranged an exchange. The mantle now hangs in their Florida home, ready for Iris and Carl to add their names. — Jennifer Chen
Disappearing Without Explanation
Did I want her, or did I want to be her? My evangelical upbringing demanded the latter. We met in college. She was brilliant, beautiful, a patient chemistry tutor and instant friend. When she graduated, I visited her at her new apartment. We shared a bed. She slept; I fidgeted as the truth sank into my bones. Terrified, I disappeared from her life without explanation. Years later, I apologized but withheld any reason. She forgave quickly, gently — knowingly? Now a proud queer woman, I wish I could tell her I’m grateful for the role she played in my self-discovery. — Abbey Driscoll
Diamonds in the Gravel
When she was 4, my daughter experienced the death of her grandfather, babysitter and dog. Life, she quickly learned, could be heartbreaking. Soon after, she began collecting rocks, hiding them in her shoes at daycare to show me later. She thought she’d found diamonds, but it was only gravel. Maybe I shouldn’t have done this, but I bought a bag of tumbled stones to plant around the yard. She found every tiger’s eye, green agate and red jasper. With each, she’d rush inside, sweaty-palmed, offering it to me. And I’d confirm, repeatedly, what she had discovered: Life is also beautiful. — Charlotte Pence
Sunteck Realty Ltd has leased out a commercial building in Mumbai’s business district, Bandra Kurla Complex, to Bennet, Coleman & Co for 29 years to generate rent revenue of over ₹2000 crore.
The Mumbai-based real estate developer’s premium commercial building Sunteck Icon has a built-up area of two lakh square feet, and the monthly rent is ₹300 per square feet, the company said in a statement. This works out to an annual rent of ₹72 crore.
About a year back the company had leased out another building in the same area to edtech firm UpGrad. This was also for 29 years, generating similar rent revenue for the developer.
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The two buildings together will generate steady annuity income for the developer, Sunteck Realty said.
The Mumbai-centric realtor has around eight commercial assets in its portfolio of which one is in Goa.
In its third quarter results presentation, the company projected annual rental income of ₹70 crore in the current fiscal year and forecast that to growth to ₹320 crore in FY27.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
S DOLASKOM proljeća vrijeme je za unapređenje vašeg doma novim detaljima i dekoracijama. Sinsay donosi širok izbor proljetnih noviteta za dom koji će dodati svježinu i živost proljeća u vaš prostor. Evo nekoliko naših omiljenih komada koji će osvježiti vaš dom.
Dnevni boravak
Pronašli smo prekrasne dekorativne jastučiće i pokrivače koji će osvježiti izgled vašeg kauča ili fotelje, dodajući udobnost i boju u prostoriju. Također, Sinsay nudi raznolik izbor ukrasnih detalja poput vaza, svijećnjaka i slika koje će upotpuniti estetiku vašeg dnevnog boravka. Za organizaciju i praktičnost možete pronaći košare za odlaganje raznih sitnica ili police za knjige i dekorativne predmete.
Tekst se nastavlja ispod oglasa
Kuhinja
U ponudi također imaju izvanredne staklene čaše koje su idealne za razna pića, poput kave, koktela, hladnih ili toplih napitaka.
Kupaonica
U ponudi Sinsaya pronašli smo prekrasne držače za četkice i sapun, kao i dozatore koji će dodati eleganciju i praktičnost vašoj kupaonici. Dostupni su u različitim dizajnima, bojama i materijalima.
OnePlus has added one more smartphone under the Nord Series – the OnePlus Nord CE4 at a starting price of Rs 24,999. The OnePlus Nord CE4 will go on sale on April 4, 2024 from 12 PM onwards. OnePlus Nord CE4 is available in two colours Dark Chrome and Celadon Marble. The OnePlus Nord CE4 8+128 variant will be available for Rs 24,999 and the 8+256 variant will be available at Rs 26,999.
OnePlus Nord CE4 is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset and 8GB of RAM. OnePlus Nord CE4 has a ROM of up to 256 GB, which is expandable up to 1TB.
The smartphone is backed up by a 5,500mAh battery, the largest that OnePlus has ever installed on a phone, which supports 100W SUPERVOOC charging and can go from 1-100% in 29 minutes.
On the front of the device is a 6.7 inch (17.02cm) 120Hz Fluid AMOLED display with a 20.1:9 aspect ratio.
Around the back of the phone, you’ll find a camera system with the Sony LYT-600 at its centre, a 50-megapixel sensor with Optical Image Stabilisation as well as an 8-megapixel ultrawide sensor and, upfront, a 16-megapixel selfie camera.
OxygenOS 14 on board, and more to come
OnePlus Nord CE4 is also one of the first phones to support OxygenOS 14 out of the box.
New features in OxygenOS 14 include:
● File Dock, which allows for global information collection, content analysis, and information sharing to the dock or other applications simply through gestures, helping users achieve one-stop information collection and sharing.
● Auto Pixelate 2.0, which keeps personal information, is also safer than ever. Auto Pixelate automatically detects sensitive information in photos and blurs them, meaning that killer selfie doesn’t have to disclose a crucial piece of personal information.
● Smart Cutout, which allows users to identify individual subjects in photos for quicker and easier retouching, as well as making it easier than ever to share photos.
Devlok Manali, a groundbreaking cultural endeavor developed through a pioneering Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model with the Himachal Pradesh Government, is a newly launched cultural theme park. Situated along the picturesque banks of the Beas River in the enchanting town of Manali, this one-of-a-kind cultural theme park is set to change cultural tourism in the state by offering an extraordinary fusion of tradition, luxury, and entertainment.
Maya Digital Media and Himachal Pradesh Government collaborate on Devlok Manali, a unique cultural theme park promoting sustainable tourism.
The collaboration between Maya Digital Media and the Himachal Pradesh Government signifies a shared commitment to promoting sustainable tourism and preserving the rich cultural heritage of the state. Through this partnership, Maya Digital Media aims to set a new standard for collaborative ventures aimed at fostering economic growth while safeguarding the natural and cultural treasures of Himachal Pradesh. (Also read: Madhya Pradesh travel guide: Discover top destinations for every traveller’s bucket list )
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Devlok Manali invites visitors to embark on a journey of discovery, enrichment, and entertainment amidst the majestic Himalayan mountains. This unique Cultural Theme Park features a diverse array of attractions and amenities tailored to cater to every visitor’s interests and preferences.
At the heart of Devlok Manali lies a luxury boutique resort- Ezzenza Swarg By The Beas, offering guests unparalleled luxury accommodations and panoramic views of lush green fairways and the River Beas. Guests can rejuvenate their body and mind at ARK The Ayurvedic Spa, offering holistic treatments inspired by ancient Indian traditions. Adventure-seekers can find camaraderie at the MySpace Express Alaya- Backpackers Retreat Hostel, while cultural enthusiasts can explore Himachal’s rich heritage through traditional arts and crafts at the Alankaar -Handicrafts Zone.
Culinary enthusiasts can indulge in a gastronomic adventure at Kachnar, the park’s fine dining restaurant, where traditional Himachali delicacies, authentic street food, and a fusion of Indian, Oriental, and Continental cuisines await.
For those seeking an immersive cultural experience, Him-Katha – the Entertainment Zone boasts state-of-the-art hi-tech shows such as Flyover Himachal & Spirit of Himachal. Meanwhile, Rang-Lok’s Open Arena Theatre mesmerizes audiences with vibrant performances showcasing Himachal’s rich cultural heritage, including traditional music, dance, martial arts, and acrobatics.
Furthermore, the park features a scenic 9-hole golf course, providing enthusiasts of all skill levels with the opportunity to tee off against the stunning backdrop of the Himalayas. Deepa Sahi, a filmmaker and leader in new media technologies in India, who is also the Promoter of Maya Digital Media, stated that their vision is to position India on the global map as the number one cultural tourism destination in the world, given its rich and diverse cultural heritage.
“Ketan Mehta, the acclaimed filmmaker and Promoter of Maya Digital Media, said, ‘The company’s vision is to establish premier cultural tourist destinations across India through a PPP model with state governments.’ He further highlighted that Devlok Manali is poised to offer a captivating array of experiences that nourish the spirit, aiming to elevate Indian tourism to a prominent position on the global stage.”
The resort guarantees unforgettable memories for every guest, as the saying goes, “A lifetime is not enough to explore the marvels of Himachal Pradesh.”
Following his iconic Easter lockdown performance from Milan, Andrea Bocelli celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this year with a music special from Lakewood Church in Texas.
The 65-year-old sang the likes of You’ll Never Walk Alone, Pianissimo, The Prayer, I Believe and concluded with John Newton’s Amazing Grace.
He also invited his 12-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli, fresh from her movie debut in Cabrini, on stage to sing with him.
The family members, who collaborated with son and brother Matteo Bocelli on a Christmas album a couple of years ago, performed Leonardo Cohen’s Hallelujah together.
This is the track that was Virginia’s professional debut with her father on guitar when she was just 8-years-old.
The 2024 Subaru Outback has undergone a $1000 price rise across all grades of the lifted wagon, while minor changes have been to its options list.
Subaru Australia says “increased costs associated with the production and logistics supply chain” have led to the Outback’s $1000 price increase. The lineup’s account now opens from $43,690 before on-road costs in base trim.
The turbocharged Outback is now priced from $53,190 before on-road costs in Sport XT guise, while the flagship XT Touring is hit with a $56,990 price tag – just $1000 shy of the most expensive Outback sold in Australia, the 2014 3.6R Premium.
There are only minor tweaks to the Outback for 2024, with a tan interior trim joining the Touring grade’s options list for a $590 premium, in addition to the axing of the model’s Storm Grey Metallic finish – which has been replaced by Cashmere Gold Opal.
Subaru also claims it has made improvements to certain frequently-used buttons in the Outback’s cabin, such as the Auto Vehicle Hold and Auto Stop Start on/off functions which are now accessible via shortcuts on the infotainment screen.
The 2024 Subaru Outback is now available to order.
Pricing
The Outback has been hit by a $1000 price rise across the board.
2024 Subaru Outback AWD: $43,690 (+$1000)
2024 Subaru Outback AWD Sport: $48,190 (+$1000)
2024 Subaru Outback AWD Touring: $51,990 (+$1000)
2024 Subaru Outback AWD Sport XT: $53,190 (+$1000)
The Subaru Outback is offered with a choice of two petrol engines: a naturally-aspirated 2.5-litre four-cylinder, and a turbocharged 2.4-litre four-cylinder.
The naturally aspirated 2.5-litre offering produces 138kW of power and 245Nm of torque, while the turbocharged 2.4-litre develops 183kW of power and 350Nm of torque.
Both engines are mated to a continuously-variable automatic transmission (CVT) and an all-wheel drive system.
Fuel Economy
Subaru claims combined fuel economy figures of 7.3L/100km for the naturally aspirated Outback, and 9.0L/100km for the turbocharged XT.
All variants are equipped with a 63 litre fuel tank, though while the 2.5-litre engine can handle 91 RON regular unleaded, the turbocharged drivetrain requires 95 RON premium unleaded or higher.
Dimensions
The 2024 Subaru Outback measures 4870mm long, 1875mm wide, and 1670mm tall (or 1675mm with fixed roof rails), riding on a 2745mm wheelbase.
Boot space is quoted as 522L with the rear seats in place, and 1267L with them folded.
Braked towing capacity in the XT is 2400kg, up from 2000kg in the non-turbo Outback.
Servicing and Warranty
Scheduled servicing is required every 12 months or 12,500km in the Outback, and Subaru offers five years of capped-price servicing.
The Subaru Outback is covered by the brand’s five-year, unlimited-kilometre warranty.
Three years of servicing using a prepaid service plan will set you back $1387.25 in the naturally aspirated model, while five will set you back $2674.64.
The XT Turbo is, unusually, cheaper to maintain over five years. Three years of servicing will set you back $1406.57, while five is priced at $2646.17.
Safety
The Subaru Outback has a five-star ANCAP safety rating, based on testing conducted in 2021.
It received an adult occupant protection score of 88 per cent, a child occupant protection score of 91 per cent, a vulnerable road user protection score of 84 per cent, and a safety assist score of 96 per cent.
Standard safety equipment includes:
AEB (forward and reverse) with pedestrian/cyclist/junction assist
Autonomous emergency steering
Blind-spot monitoring
Rear cross-traffic alert
Driver attention monitoring
Lane departure warning
Lane-keep assist
Traffic sign recognition
Standard Equipment
Outback Touring XT interior
The base Outback AWD gets:
11.6-inch vertical touchscreen infotainment system
Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto (new)
4.2-inch trip computer
DAB+ digital radio
Cloth upholstery
Body-coloured mirrors
Roof rails with integrated cross bars
Grey 18-inch alloy wheels
Dual-zone climate control
Paddle shifters
Six-speaker sound system
Four cargo hooks in the boot
Automatic windscreen wipers
Auto-dimming rear-view mirror
The Sport and Sport XT add:
Water repellent sports seat trim
Heated front seats
Heated rear outboard seats
Front- and side-view cameras
Black exterior highlights
Hands-free power tailgate
Satellite navigation
Dark metallic 18-inch alloy wheels
The Touring and Touring XT drop the black exterior highlights but gain:
Nine-speaker Harman Kardon sound system with CD player
Nappa leather upholstery
Ventilated front seats
Manually-adjustable driver’s seat thigh support extender
Electric sunroof
Heated steering wheel
Silver roof rails with integrated cross bars
Gloss finish 18-inch alloy wheels
Black interior (standard), or Black/Ivory (no-cost option) or Tan ($590)
Colours
The Outback is available in the following colours:
The total cryptocurrency market cap slipped by around 5 percent to hover about $2.6 trillion on the second day of April. With about seventeen days to the fourth Bitcoin (BTC) halving, more investors are positioning their crypto portfolios for the best returns.
Moreover, the macro crypto bull run takes the entire industry, with some sectors, led by meme coins, outshining the rest.
Heavy Crypto Bearish Cloud Ahead
The cryptocurrency industry has gained over $1 trillion in the past few months following the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States. However, short-term crypto traders rush to take profits and distribute their portfolios for maximum gains.
As market intelligence platform Santiment noted earlier, more crypto traders have been taking shelter in the stablecoins industry recently in anticipation of buying a possible dip.
Consequently, the cryptocurrency market is expected to be on the receiving end in the coming few days before the halving impact gets noticed.
ETH Price Action
According to an Ethereum price analysis by a popular crypto analyst, Ali Martinez, ETH price will drop as much as $2,850 in the near term. The crypto analyst noted that about 2 million Ether addresses purchased around 1.64 million Ethers between $2,846 and $2,951.
Meanwhile, the daily Fibonacci Retracement shows that Ether’s price against the US dollar must hold onto the support range between $3,193 and $3,298 in the coming days to invalidate a possible capitulation below $2k.
World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated on April 2 each year, and 2024 marks the 17th annual celebration.
One in 36 children and 1 in 45 adults in the United States have autism, according to Autism Speaks.
On April 2, you can mark the occasion by spreading awareness, showing your support by wearing blue and educating yourself about autism.
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Below is more information about World Autism Awareness Day and how you can show your support this year.
What is World Autism Awareness Day?
Why do we celebrate World Autism Awareness Day?
How do people celebrate World Autism Awareness Day?
Why is World Autism Awareness Day on April 2?
What is the symbol and color for autism?
1. What is World Autism Awareness Day?
World Autism Awareness Day is a day focused on “sharing stories and providing opportunities to increase understanding and acceptance of people with autism, fostering worldwide support,” according to the Autism Speaks website.
Autism Speaks is an organization that plays a huge role in World Autism Awareness Day and spreading awareness about autism.(Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)
The Autism Speaks organization spends the entire month of April sharing stories and helping to increase acceptance of people who live with autism.
2. Why do we celebrate World Autism Awareness Day?
World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated around the globe to spread awareness about autism and those who live with it.
Autism, according to Autism Speaks, “refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication.”
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The day is about learning more about autism and how the conditions and challenges affect individuals.
Many national landmarks across the globe, including the Empire State Building in New York City, light up blue for World Autism Awareness Day.(Noam Galai/Getty Images for Autism Speaks)
3. How do people celebrate World Autism Awareness Day?
There are numerous ways to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day.
You can add to your knowledge of autism by doing a deep dive into its history and building your overall knowledge.
There is a diverse collection of books to read about autism, including those written by people living with the disorder.
Autism Speaks provides a long list of recommended books on their website. Below are a few of their recommendations.
“The Reason I Jump” by Naoki Higashida
“Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism” by Temple Grandin
“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon
“In a Different Key: The Story of Autism” by John Donvan and Caren Zucker
“How to Speak Dolphin” by Ginny Rorby
“All Birds Have Anxiety” by Kathy Hoopmann
“Born on a Blue Day” Daniel Tammet
In addition to books, there have been many shows made featuring those with autism and how they live their lives. One example of this is the Netflix reality show “Love on the Spectrum,” which follows people with autism through their dating lives.
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Another thing that you can do is help spread awareness. You can do this by donating to charities, attending events related to autism, participating in a fundraiser or using your voice to raise awareness yourself. Social media is a powerful way to educate people about a topic.
Use your platform to share more information on the disorder, how to properly and patiently interact with autistic individuals, support families and more.
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You can also wear blue clothing and accessories, the color associated with autism.
4. Why is World Autism Awareness Day on April 2?
World Autism Awareness Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, according to NationalToday.com. Since then, it has been celebrated worldwide on April 2.
A puzzle piece is one popular symbol that has been associated with autism.(iStock)
5. What is the symbol and color for autism?
The color associated with autism is blue.
This color is a calming and accepting color, according to the Place for Children with Autism. Autism Speaks has its “Light It Up Blue” campaign each year that encourages people to wear the color to spread awareness about autism.
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The symbol for autism is a puzzle piece. Like the color blue, this symbol was made popular within the autism community by the Autism Speaks organization.
Although there is no official symbol, the puzzle piece remains the most popular. Other symbols that have become popular through the years are the butterfly and the infinity symbol.
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Gone are the days of settling for mundane soft drinks or saccharine fruit concoctions. Today, we find ourselves amidst a fascinating transformation in the realm of non-alcoholic drinks, where intricate and innovative flavour profiles take centre stage, captivating palates far and wide. This shift has given rise to a wave of experimental bar menus that treat non-alcoholic libations with the same reverence as their spirited counterparts.
The Rise of 0 ABV Beverages
The surge in popularity of 0 ABV drinks is more than just a reaction to a growing emphasis on well-being; it’s emblematic of a conscientious imbibing movement akin to Dry January. Consumers are now embracing this trend wholeheartedly, craving refined tastes and premium options in their beverage selections. These beverages also offer an inclusive alternative for social gatherings, ensuring that everyone can partake in the conviviality without feeling excluded.
Redefining Non-Alcoholic Mixology
Venture into any bar these days, and you’re likely to encounter a dedicated “mocktail” menu. However, I take issue with the term “mock.” Instead, I advocate for the craft of non-alcoholic mixology. While some bartenders relish the freedom of concocting zero-proof delights sans any blueprint, others find joy in reimagining beloved classics like the Negroni or Cosmopolitan without the booze. While sweet flavours in 0 ABV drinks have been thoroughly explored, savoury notes remain largely uncharted territory. This realisation has sparked interest in traditional Indian flavours, often overlooked in the world of innovative beverages, finally stepping into the limelight. Embracing ingredients like rasam, mutton soup, or turmeric water may seem unconventional, but they promise to elevate the drinking experience in unexpected ways.
Looking ahead, the potential for savoury cocktails to redefine mixology boundaries is immense. Similarly, there’s an untapped opportunity to incorporate Indian sweets. While Western desserts have long dominated cocktail culture, integrating flavours like halwa or laddoos adds a nostalgic twist and a touch of local charm. Clarification techniques are also making their mark in the 0 ABV scene, offering a glimpse into the sophisticated world of non-alcoholic mixology. While these drinks may lack the boldness of their alcoholic counterparts, clarification can lend a smoother texture, especially when paired with sharp ingredients like ginger or various roots and spices.
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How To Make 0 ABV Drink At Home
Rather than mimicking liquors, 0 ABV beverages should be crafted to hold their complexity, maturity, and uniqueness. Crafting one involves several key steps, but don’t be fooled: it is quite simple. One can conveniently use produce in and around their homes. Here’s my take on a simple 0 ABV beverage. 1. Base: Start with an easy fruit or vegetable base. It could be anything ranging from pineapple juice in your fridge to coconut water from your local vendor. 2. Herbal elements: For a refreshing take, you can use herbs like holy basil, rosemary or even thyme to elevate the flavour profile of your base. 3. Spices: An Indian household always has access to spices. Add coriander seeds, pepper or even fenugreek for a sharp punch. 4. Muddle and mix well. 5. Don’t forget the fizz: You can add some soda or ginger ale for a well-rounded aftertaste. Voila! As the landscape of non-alcoholic beverages continues to evolve, the future holds a tantalizing array of choices and experiences. Whether it’s exploring savoury flavours or reinventing traditional Indian ingredients, the beverage industry is poised for a flavorful revolution. This trajectory not only reflects shifting consumer preferences but also underscores the boundless creativity within the realm of mindful mixology. Cheers to a tasteful journey ahead!
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And though she is not the only style-forward coach in the game — Dawn Staley of South Carolina, Adia Barnes of the University of Arizona, and Sydney Carter, the director of player development for the University of Texas are lauded for their image-making flair — Ms. Mulkey is the most extreme. She has been compared to a Who from Dr. Seuss’s Whoville, Ric Flair of WrestleMania and a flamingo. (Well, she has been called a “rare bird.”)
Whether you consider her looks merely “eccentric,” as Ms. Bordonaro does, or straight from “the Las Vegas clown section,” as Tom Broecker, the costume designer of “Saturday Night Live,” does, it may matter less than the fact that you consider them at all.
“She’s making a statement about her individuality and determination to be herself, no matter what,” Ms. Gibbs of Power Plays said. “It has become something people look out for, and she’s leaning in.”
Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle
Ms. Mulkey’s penchant for outré dress began to emerge during her 21 years at Baylor, in which she led her team to three national championships. During that time, she also courted controversy with comments dismissing the university’s sexual misconduct scandal and her treatment of her star player, Brittney Griner, who has talked publicly about being told to stay in the closet by her coach and to cover her tattoos. (Later, Ms. Mulkey did not speak up when Ms. Griner was imprisoned in Russia in 2022.) Still, her style was a lot more “normal, for want of a better word,” Ms. Gibbs said.
It was during L.S.U.’s run to the N.C.A.A. trophy last year that Ms. Mulkey vaulted from basketball fame to national fame, thanks in part to her penchant for sequins, feathers and lurid color combinations. She wore a black and white sequined polka-dot pantsuit, a Kelly green and hot pink plaid jacket with pink feathers on the sleeves, a rose-pink jacket with enormous … well, roses, on the sleeves and, for the final game, an allover sequined tiger-stripe pantsuit. (The tiger is the L.S.U. mascot.) Riding in the celebration parade afterward, she chose a purple sequined jacket with more tigers.
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As many as 443 infrastructure projects, each entailing an investment of ₹150 crore or above, were hit by a cost overrun of more than ₹4.92 lakh crore in February 2024, an official report stated.
According to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), which monitors infrastructure projects worth ₹150 crore and above, out of 1,902 projects, 443 reported cost overruns and 764 projects were delayed.
“Total original cost of implementation of the 1,902 projects was ₹27,08,030.44 crore, and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be ₹32,00,507.55 crore, which reflects overall cost overruns of ₹4,92,477.11 crore (18.19 per cent of original cost),” the Ministry’s latest report for February 2024 said.
According to the report, the expenditure incurred on these projects till February 2024 is ₹16,76,739 crore, which is 52.39 per cent of the anticipated cost of the projects.
“However, the number of delayed projects decreases to 568 if the delay is calculated on the basis of the latest schedule of completion,” it added.
Further, it said that for 389 projects, neither the year of commissioning nor the tentative gestation period has been reported.
Out of the 764 delayed projects, 188 have overall delays in the range of 1-12 months, 185 have been delayed for 13-24 months, 275 projects for 25-60 months, and 116 projects have been delayed for more than 60 months.
The average time overrun in these 764 delayed projects is 36.27 months.
Reasons for time overrun, as reported by project implementing agencies, include delay in land acquisition, obtaining forest and environment clearances, and lack of infrastructure support and linkages.
Delays in tie-up for project financing, finalisation of detailed engineering, change in scope, tendering, ordering and equipment supply, and law and order problems are among other reasons.
The report also cited state-wise lockdowns due to Covid-19 (imposed in 2020 and 2021) as a reason for the delay in implementation of these projects.
“It has also been observed that project executing agencies are not reporting revised cost estimates and commissioning schedules for many projects, which suggests that time/cost overrun figures are under-reported,” it added.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
SVAKE godine Apple nas iznenađuje inovacijama u svojim iPhone modelima – ažurirani procesor, kamere, dizajn i značajke. No, jedna stvar uvijek privlači posebnu pažnju, izbor novih boja. Ovogodišnja najavljena boja možda će posebno zračiti retro štihom.
Prema izvještaju koji je procurio s Weibo platforme, ShrimpApplePro, koji je već pokazao preciznost u predviđanju boja iPhonea, najavio je detalje o najnovijoj završnoj obradi koja dolazi na iPhoneu 16 Pro. Prema tim informacijama, Apple će predstaviti ružičastu boju koja nas vraća u dane iPhonea 7.
Tekst se nastavlja ispod oglasa
Unatoč velikoj popularnosti, više nisu predstavljeni novi modeli u toj boji
Ružičasto zlato je nekad bilo rezervirano za ekskluzivne Apple Watch modele, no Apple je donio ovu boju i na iPhone 6S, a kasnije i na modele iPhone SE i iPhone 7. Brzo je postala jedna od najtraženijih boja u Appleovoj ponudi, no unatoč popularnosti, više nisu predstavljeni novi modeli u toj boji
I dok se o novim bojama šuška, postoje i detalji o promjenama u postojećim bojama. Blue Titanium na iPhoneu 15 Pro će biti zamijenjen novom bojom, dok će Natural Titanium doživjeti promjenu u sivoj nijansi. Black Titanium će se vjerojatno približiti Space Black nijansi koju smo vidjeli na iPhoneu 14 Pro, što bi moglo odgovarati M3 Pro i Max MacBooku Pro, piše Macworld.
Čini se da Apple priprema iznenađenja ne samo u hardverskim inovacijama već i u estetskom aspektu. Hoće li nova ružičasta boja postati sljedeći hit među ljubiteljima iPhonea, tek ćemo vidjeti.
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Taiwan is reassessing its tourism goals in light of challenges in cross-strait travel, with Tourism Administration Director-General Chou Yung-hui expressing concerns over a potential shortfall of 2 million foreign visitor arrivals this year, Central News Agency (CNA) reported. Chou indicated that if China persists in its ban on group tourist visits to Taiwan, the tourism target may need to be adjusted downward to 10 million. Full recovery to pre-COVID-19 levels of 12 million visitors is not expected until 2025, according to Chou’s remarks to reporters.
Taiwan sees tourism recovery, plans to expand Taiwan Pass for locals(Unsplash)
Taiwan has urged China to exhibit “goodwill” in both tourism and political spheres, hinting that such gestures could prompt Taiwan to reconsider its own ban on tour groups traveling to China, which was slated to lift in June, according to CNA. Last month, Taiwan reversed its decision to lift the three-year ban on group tourists bound for China, citing hostility from Beijing and the lack of Chinese tourist groups visiting Taiwan. (Also read: Akasa Air begins international flights: Mumbai-Doha route inaugurated, more destinations planned )
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Despite the setbacks, Taiwan has seen a significant recovery in tourism, with nearly 1.9 million visitors recorded as of March 15, representing an 85 percent rebound compared to the same pre-pandemic period in 2019. Notably, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau remain the top destinations for visitors to Taiwan.
Chou also announced plans to expand the Taiwan Pass, originally designed for foreign visitors, to include local tourists. This pass, priced at New Taiwan dollar 2,500 (USD80), offers three days of unlimited travel on the country’s high-speed rail network, selected metro lines, and tour bus services. Additionally, cruise liner services will be incorporated into the pass. The pass is slated for launch on June 1, although the final price has yet to be determined, according to Chou, CNA reported.
The Beatles wrote countless incredible songs, but what is Paul McCartney’s favourite of all the tracks he penned?
Now in the latest podcast episode of McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, the 81-year-old has shared exactly which one.
Macca confessed: “I’m often asked what my favourite song I’ve ever written is, and I don’t ever really want to I can’t answer it, but if pushed, I would go to Here, There, and Everywhere.”
The music legend penned the love ballad credited to Lennon-McCartney for The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver and it turns out he wrote it just as John Lennon was waking up one morning.
McCartney shared: “I remember writing this song while waiting for John one day. I would go out to his house for a writing session, and he wasn’t always up. So I would often have 20 minutes, half an hour while someone told him I was here, and he would get up.
“I remember sitting out by his swimming pool in his house in Weybridge, which is a golf suburb of London. I had my guitar because I was ready for the writing session. So we sat out and started something.. it just went quite nice and smoothly.
“So by the time I came to write with John, by the time he deemed to get up and have his coffee, I would have something to go on.”
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics is an iHeartPodcast and can be listened to here.
The Kia Tasman ute’s interior has been spied again in the lead up to the highly-anticipated model’s reveal.
In a video uploaded to YouTube by South Korean channel HealerTV – shared by The Korean Car Blog – images show the Tasman will adopt a unique interior design, with its rugged, blocky styling reflecting what we’ve seen of the dual-cab’s boxy exterior.
There appears to be utilitarian-style door handles, black headlining and A-pillar grab handles, while the front seats reflect those seen in other recent Kia models, with a mesh headrest, and half leather and cloth upholstery.
Previous images have shown a traditional T-bar gear shifter mounted in the centre console, alongside switches to change between the ute’s two- and four-wheel drive modes.
At the back, the second row carries on the same design, while the hard backs of the front seats provides extra storage space for rear passengers.
The Korean Car Blog has previously reported the Kia Tasman will be powered by the familiar 2.2-litre CRDi turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine which is also found in the Sorento.
While a hybrid option will reportedly follow, Kia’s electric ute is expected to be based on an entirely new platform.
The Kia Tasman has been benchmarked against the likes of the Ford Ranger Raptor – despite not being planned to be offered with a powertrain to rival the performance dual-cab – and is expected to have a braked towing capacity of 3500kg.
Expect the Kia Tasman to reach Australian showrooms in 2025.
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In the latest crypto recap, Ethereum (ETH) maintains its position around $3,600 amidst growing speculation surrounding the potential approval of an ETF. Meanwhile, Shiba Inu (SHIB) exhibits stability in its price movement, holding steady in the volatile crypto market. Notably, Furrever Token (FURR) has emerged as a standout performer, raising an impressive $570,000 in its presale phase in less than a month. This significant achievement underscores the overwhelming enthusiasm and support surrounding FURR, highlighting its potential to disrupt the crypto landscape with its unique approach and promising returns.
Amidst Ethereum’s current price of approximately $3,609, reflecting a 1.5% increase from yesterday, a fascinating trend has emerged, hinting at potential long-term implications for the cryptocurrency’s value.
The surge in whale transactions, particularly among large Ethereum holders, has captured the attention of analysts and investors alike, sparking discussions about Ethereum’s future price trajectory.
In recent weeks, Ethereum’s blockchain has witnessed a notable uptick in whale transactions, characterized by significant transfers of ETH exceeding $100,000. This trend has prompted speculation among analysts regarding its implications for Ethereum’s price movements in the long run.
Crypto analyst Ali pointed out that despite recent corrections in Ethereum’s price, the increase in whale transactions suggests a bullish sentiment toward future price movements of ETH.
Historically, whale activity has been closely linked to significant price shifts, often signaling institutional interest or accumulation. Therefore, the current surge in whale transactions could be interpreted as a positive sign for Ethereum, indicating underlying confidence in its potential despite short-term fluctuations in price.
Shiba Inu (SHIB) currently trades at approximately $0.00003034, marking a nearly 1% decline from yesterday’s figures as the meme coin continues to tread sideways in the market.
Today witnessed a significant drop in the price of Shiba Inu (SHIB), the undisputed number two in terms of volume among meme coins. Investors seeking reasons behind this decline have pointed to recent large whale sell-offs as a possible cause. Additionally, SHIB’s price plummeted to as low as $0.00003036 during the day, marking a decline of over 6% from its peak.
According to a tweet by Whale Alert, a Shiba Inu whale transferred over 1.4 trillion SHIB tokens to exchanges today. Specifically, 1.407 trillion SHIB tokens were moved from an unknown wallet address to KuCoin, one of the most sensational crypto exchanges in recent times. This transaction amounted to a value of $43.50 million.
While there’s no definitive evidence of a sale yet, there’s speculation that the SHIB tokens transferred to KuCoin were intended for selling. Amidst all this, the Shiba Inu community appears to be apprehensive due to such a massive transaction. Some SHIB investors fear that such a large transfer could lead to a price decline.
Furthermore, these transaction speculations have sparked discussions, as Shiba Inu whales haven’t made any other significant transactions in the past 24 hours and have remained relatively quiet lately. Nonetheless, analysts seem to maintain ambitious price targets for Shiba Inu, with $0.01 still on the horizon.
Shiba Inu’s current struggle against the significant resistance level at $0.000032 is well-documented. A potential breakthrough above this level could pave the way for a rise towards $0.00004, laying the groundwork for a potential move towards the coveted $0.01 mark in the future.
Furrever Token (FURR) has swiftly risen to prominence in the crypto sphere, gathering over $570,000 in investments within a remarkably short timeframe during its presale phase. This rapid success can be attributed to a confluence of factors that have propelled FURR to the forefront of the market.
One key aspect contributing to Furrever Token’s success is its innovative and captivating concept. By infusing the crypto landscape with an irresistible dose of cuteness through adorable cat imagery, FURR has carved out a niche that sets it apart from traditional blockchain projects. This unique approach not only captivates users but also fosters a sense of emotional connection, resonating deeply with a wide audience.
Moreover, FURR prioritizes community engagement as a cornerstone of its strategy. Through a series of engaging initiatives, including challenges, launches, and interactive growth campaigns, Furrever Token cultivates a vibrant and tightly-knit community. This active participation not only fuels enthusiasm but also fosters a sense of shared ownership and joy among users, further driving the project’s success.
The overwhelming response to FURR’s presale underscores the strong investor confidence in the project’s vision and potential. Garnering over $570,000 in investments is a testament to the trust and belief that investors have placed in Furrever Token’s team and future prospects. This successful fundraising effort provides a solid foundation for FURR to execute its roadmap and realize its vision effectively.
Additionally, FURR prioritizes transparency and security, essential elements that instill trust and confidence among investors. With a meticulously audited smart contract and a commitment to maintaining a secure and compliant platform, Furrever Token ensures a safe environment for users to participate in and contribute to its ecosystem.
Furthermore, the buzz surrounding FURR continues to grow, fueled by its unique concept, successful presale, and active community engagement. As more investors take notice of its potential for significant returns and captivating user experience, Furrever Token gains momentum and attracts further interest from the crypto community.
In summary, Furrever Token’s success during the presale can be attributed to its innovative concept, strong community engagement, successful fundraising efforts, commitment to transparency and security, and the hype and momentum it has generated within the crypto space. The presence of a single official Telegram channel boasting over 3000 active members further solidifies FURR’s position as a project with a strong and dedicated community backing. As FURR continues to develop and expand its ecosystem, it remains poised for further growth and success in the future.
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An invasive bacterial infection is on the rise in the U.S., according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Cases of meningococcal disease, mainly caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis, reached 422 last year, the highest annual number of cases reported since 2014, the agency stated in the alert.
So far this year, 143 cases have been reported to the CDC (as of March 25), which is 62 more than the number reported at the same time last year.
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The invasive strain that is causing most of the cases — serogroup Y ST-1466 — primarily affects adults between ages 30 and 60 (65% of cases), the CDC said in its report. Also affected are Black or African American people (63%) and people with HIV (15%), the CDC said.
This strain also appears to have a higher fatality rate than strains from previous years.
An invasive bacterial infection is on the rise in the U.S., according to an alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(iStock)
Of 94 patients, 17 of them died from the infection, which is a fatality rate of 18%.
Between 2017 and 2021, the fatality rate was 11%.
The typical fatality rate ranges from 10% to 15%, even with antibiotic treatment, per the CDC.
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One in five survivors can experience long-term disabilities such as deafness, brain damage, limb loss or other nervous system problems.
“I think this is a concern, especially because of the steep rise in cases all of a sudden and because this particular strain has had a higher case fatality than in previous increases of this disease,” Dr. Barbara Bawer, a primary care physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, told Fox News Digital.
Symptoms of meningococcal disease
Described by the CDC as a “rare but severe illness,” meningococcal disease most commonly causes symptoms of meningitis, including fever, stiff neck, headache, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or altered mental status.
Meningococcal disease most commonly causes symptoms of meningitis, including fever, stiff neck, headache, nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light or altered mental status.(iStock)
It can also cause meningococcal bloodstream infection, which is marked by fever and chills, vomiting, fatigue, vomiting, cold hands and feet, severe aches and pains, diarrhea, rapid breathing or a dark purple rash, the CDC notes.
Transmission and treatment
Meningitis infections can spread though close contact with someone who has meningococcal disease, Bawer noted — “generally, through things like coughing or kissing, but it can also spread by being in the same household or room for extended periods of time with an individual who is infected.”
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Those who have symptoms of the disease should see their primary care physician immediately, according to the doctor.
As symptoms tend to progress quickly and can be life-threatening, it is essential that the patient receives antibiotics immediately.
“It can become fatal or dangerous within hours for any individual.”
“It can become fatal or dangerous very quickly — within hours — for any individual, especially if antibiotics are not initiated in a timely manner,” Bawer warned. “Even with antibiotics, meningitis can be fatal.”
She added, “This is often due to misdiagnosis, because meningitis can mimic many other illnesses.”
Infection prevention
Most cases of meningococcal disease worldwide are caused by six variations of the Neisseria meningitidis bacteria — A, B, C, W, X and Y.
In the U.S., the most common variations are B, C, W and Y.
There are vaccines available to protect against types A, C, W and Y (the MenACWY vaccine) and type B (MenB vaccine), according to the CDC.
Those who have symptoms of meningococcal disease should see their primary care physician immediately, doctors advise.(iStock)
“MenACWY vaccines are routinely recommended for adolescents and for people with other risk factors or underlying medical conditions, including HIV,” the CDC stated in the alert.
To reduce risk, Bawer recommends that people get vaccinated with the current meningitis vaccine as recommended by the CDC and avoid being in very closed-in spaces with others as much as possible.
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“If you know of someone who has meningitis in your household or you’ve come in contact with their oral secretions (i.e., you kissed them), then you should get preventative antibiotics,” the doctor told Fox News Digital.
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This is even more important for those who are immune-compromised or who are on medications that decrease the immune system, Bawer added.
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As I entered the hallowed halls of Bukhara at ITC Maurya, I couldn’t shake the feeling of stepping into a living time capsule. Here stood a restaurant that wasn’t just about serving food; it was about preserving a culinary legacy that had endured for 45 years. And today, as Bukhara celebrated its milestone anniversary, I surrendered to the irresistible allure of its culinary legacy, diving into a feast that left my senses reeling with delight. The scent of spices hung thick in the air, mingling with the unmistakable aroma of tandoor-fired delights. It was a sensory overload, a tantalising preview of the feast that awaited me within. But before I could dive into the culinary delights, I found myself captivated by Bukhara’s ambience.
Nestled amidst stone walls and adorned with the vintage elegance of log-top tables, Bukhara exuded an ageless charm that spoke of tradition and heritage. The earthy tones, wooden accents, and traditional decor elements transported me to a bygone era, where every meal was a celebration of culture and community. But enough about the decor – let’s talk about the real star of the show: the food. And oh, what a feast it was. From the iconic Sikandari Raan, Seekh Kebab, Machli Tikka to the melt-in-your-mouth Dal Bukhara that had been simmering away for hours – each dish was a testament to the culinary mastery that had defined this restaurant for over four decades.
And then there was the Naan Bukhara – a legend in its own right. Baked in a dedicated tandoor and meant for sharing, it embodied the spirit of communal feasting, bringing people together in a celebration of food and fellowship.
Here, food wasn’t just about sustenance – it was about connection. And so, I embraced the tradition of eating with my hands, feeling a deeper connection to each dish as I savoured its flavours without the barrier of cutlery. As I sat back, sated and content, I couldn’t help but marvel at how the menu had remained unchanged over the years, a testament to its timelessness and enduring appeal. And it wasn’t just the food – even the concept of the chequered apron had become a beloved tradition among patrons, symbolising the immersive dining experience that Bukhara offered. It is clear that this is more than just a restaurant – it is a cultural institution. So here’s to 45 years of culinary excellence, of preserving tradition in a rapidly changing world, and of bringing people together through the simple joy of good food. Bukhara, you have left an indelible mark on my palate – and my heart. Where: ITC Maurya, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi Price for two: Rs 8,000 (approximately) without alcohol
About Shubham BhatnagarYou can often find Shubham at a small authentic Chinese or Italian restaurant sampling exotic foods and sipping a glass of wine, but he will wolf down a plate of piping hot samosas with equal gusto. However, his love for homemade food trumps all.
It began as ideas, good and bad, often do: in a bar.
My soccer club — a group of mostly middle-aged dads in suburban New Jersey — was enjoying its weekly post-match pint when we began talking about how fun it would be to play against a similar team in Mexico City, where several of our players grew up. The idea gradually gained momentum until, suddenly, one day last December, we were buying airplane tickets.
But let me back up: A few years ago, I moved to Madison, N.J., after decades in New York City. I knew no one there outside of my family. Busy with work and getting my daughter settled, I didn’t have much time to think about socializing. As an introvert who works from home, that was never going to be easy. As a 50-something, I’d met my closest friends decades earlier. Did I even need new ones?
What I did want to do was bring my soccer habit with me from the city. Eventually, via my neighbor Andrea, who was born in Italy, I found a regular pickup game. The first match was enjoyable and the group seemed affable, so I kept showing up.
Mostly expats, my new teammates ranged in age and background, and I enjoyed being exposed to their perspectives. The youngest, Jorge, an elementary schoolteacher originally from Colombia, was not quite half my age, and we joked about my adopting him.
As we got to know one another better, we became more like a team — complete with jerseys with our custom “Madison Soccer and Beers” logo — and ouractivities started to expand. We’d gather for a cookout or go mountain biking; we even tried paintball. Soon, I was telling the guys how lucky I felt to have found them, and they were saying equally sappy stuff.
After a few months, I began to realize my hunger to play soccer wasn’t entirely about the game. I was looking for connection. But as the trip to Mexico loomed, I began to have a few doubts: I was the oldest guy by some 10 years — would I be able to keep up? Did I really want to share an Airbnb with 14 others? And would I get roasted for my extreme sleep routine: eye mask, mouth tape, wall of white noise?
What if it turned out I didn’t actually like the guys that much? What if they didn’t like me?
“All relationships require risk,” Jeffrey Hall, a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas, told me when I went poking around for data on men and friendship. “You always risk being uncomfortable with someone, or getting too close to them. If we become so risk-averse in getting to know each other, we lose out on opportunities for greater intimacy.”
In a study that Dr. Hall conducted, it took subjects 40 to 60 hours spent together to describe themselves as casual friends, and more to become “good” or “close” friends. That sort of time is relatively easy to find for young adults. But for older guys like me, Dr. Hall noted, “it’s not developmentally typical to be spending a ton of time with your friends, without partners, without children.”
How, then, to cultivate friendships? One pathway, he told me, is to find a “group of people who share a common interest, who will show up week after week to share a hobby.” You may not click equally with everyone, but you’re stocking the pond of potentially deeper friendships.
In my research, I learned that men are feeling the effects of the “friendship recession” harder than women are. And there is some evidence from the travel industry that women travel more than men. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that a guys trip was juvenile or might devolve into a re-creation of “The Hangover.”
Taking a trip with the boys (or playing soccer at all, for that matter) suddenly struck me as trivial. But Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University who specializes in studying loneliness, told me that being more socially connected has clear health benefits, and not just on the soccer field.
“The more you feel supported by your social network,” Dr. Holt-Lunstad said, “the lower your blood pressure, the lower your resting heart rate.” And that includes casual friendships. “We get different kinds of needs and goals fulfilled from different kinds of relationships,” she said.
And so, Mexico.
As it happened, the trip, arranged with great care by Alberto (whose family still lives in Mexico City), was a success. We strolled through the city’s streets and museums, ate enormous lunches, sang with mariachis in the gondolas in the canals of Xochimilco, cheered for wrestlers at the lucha libre and roamed the ancient site of Teotihuacan.
We played our soccer game at the spiffy training site of Cruz Azul, a professional club, (thanks to our well-connected teammate Victor), and joined our opponents afterward in a lavish barbacoa feast. We gave each other nicknames (Shaun, one of two U.S.-born guys on the trip, was dubbed “Tío Sam” — Uncle Sam — for his light gray hair and goatee).
Were there times I longed to change the music, or retreat back to a quiet hotel room? For sure. But packing 15 of us into an Airbnb — or our rolling disco of a van, steadfastly driven by Alberto’s uncle Jesús — created a sort of forced intimacy, as well as a need to adapt. Even the moments of inconvenience, like a brief power outage at the Airbnb, added to the fun.
By some metrics — lack of sleep, overconsumption of food and alcohol — the trip was the unhealthiest thing I’ve done in ages. But few things have left me feeling better.
At one point, Iñaky, a native Spaniard who runs a construction company, said a friend had seen photos he was posting online and asked, “What, are you on a bachelor party or something?” No, we weren’t marking anyone’s transition to a new stage of life. We were simply celebrating our own deepening friendship.
Hi, I’m Christopher! Read my introduction to learn more about me and my silly Russian Blue cat, Olga.
Cats have a reputation for being more mysterious and spiritual than other animals, and while I’m amazed by their actions and respect their cunning minds, I don’t think they’re psychic or telepathic. I’m cynical about spiritualism, but I admit that cats and their owners engage in unspoken communication.
Felines aren’t telepathic in a science fiction sense; they can’t move objects with their minds or force birds to fly into brick walls, but they’re talented at anticipating our actions from our body language. If Olga were genuinely telepathic, I would lock up my cutlery and keep her food in a safe.
Sorry Christopher, these are my jeans now.
The Breakfast and Dinner Bells
When Olga is hungry, which is most of the time, she employs various methods to get my attention. In the morning, she’ll whine if I hit the snooze button on my alarm since she knows I’m delaying her breakfast. Then, she’ll jump on the bathroom sink and play hockey with my contact case, and if I’m still asleep, she’ll lick my head.
I don’t feed Olga until I finish working in the evening, but she sends psychic messages a few hours before dinnertime. She sits next to my desk, stares intently, and tries to look neglected. I’m unsure where she learned to use “puppy dog eyes” to beg for food, but she’s mastered it.
If I make eye contact, she grunts and walks toward the kitchen. I usually ignore her, but if I wait too long, she’ll scream and find something on the kitchen table to knock on the floor. She knows my routine when I’m signing off at work and listens for the sounds I make when turning off my computer and moving my squeaky chair.
If she hears this when she’s in the litter box, she’ll bolt out of it prematurely and return after she’s fed.
I can tear up the couch and the scratching pad at the same time. I’m gifted.
Playing Games
Sometimes, Olga will run over to me if I stare at her too long, and I guess she thinks my stare is an invitation to play. She’ll hunch up her back, fluff out her fur, and hop in my direction like an overgrown rabbit. If I approach her, she’ll hit me in the leg and run away. She wants me to chase her or throw a paper ball she can bat around.
She isn’t fond of playing alone and can tell when my attention isn’t focused on her during a game. Like many lazy owners, I’ve tried watching TV or reading while playing with her, but she walks away irritated and usually takes a nap.
Although cats aren’t psychic, they’re incredibly skilled at reading our faces and emotions. I feel safer knowing that Olga isn’t telepathic and is incapable of attacking me by moving sharp objects with her mind.
Cats like following a routine for several reasons, but one rarely discussed is that it helps them anticipate their owners’ actions. Olga listens for the sounds of me waking up or finishing work and knows I’m about to leave when I pick up my wallet and keys or change clothes.
Properties registered in Mumbai rose over 6.8 per cent on year to a little over 14,000 units in March on sustained demand for homes, according to data by the Government of Maharashtra.
The properties registered were up 16.6 per cent on month. Of the total properties registered 80 per cent were residential units.
Also read: Demand for luxury homes surges in Mumbai’s Pali Hill
However, the revenue collected, at ₹1,114 crore, saw a dip on year on a higher base from last year when stamp duty collected was higher due to the Central government limiting tax deduction on capital gains from the sale of residential properties after March. The revenue was higher compared to February. Currently, the stamp duty rates are 6 per cent for male buyers and 5 per cent for women buyers.
The registrations also include those that are redeveloped and according to property consultant Knight Frank, redevelopment transactions would be around 6 per cent of the total.
Data analytics from Knight Frank showed that medium sized houses in the range of 500 to 1,000 square feet were most in demand at 43 per cent of the total, while the share of larger houses of 1,000-2,000 square feet saw an uptick at 12 per cent compared to 8 per cent in January. There has been a rising propensity for larger homes over the months.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
TUDOR je nedavno postao službeni partner Inter Miami FC-a, kluba čiji je suvlasnik nogometna ikona David Beckham. Ova suradnja nije iznenađenje s obzirom na to da Beckham već od 2017. godine surađuje kao ambasador brenda Tudor.
Uz ovu uzbudljivu najavu, Tudor je otkrio novo ograničeno izdanje kronografa Black Bay s prepoznatljivom ružičastom bojom, koja je postala simbol Inter Miamija.
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S dolaskom nogometnih zvijezda poput Lionela Messija, Luisa Suáreza i Gonzala Higuaína u klub, ružičasta boja postala je prepoznatljiva oznaka Inter Miamija diljem svijeta. Kroz ovaj ugovor, Tudorov logotip bit će istaknut oko stadiona Inter Miamija, zajedno sa satovima s oznakom Tudor.
Igrači Inter Miamija bit će prvi koji će nositi ovaj ekskluzivni sat
Novi Black Bay Chrono dolazi u ružičastom izdanju, zadržavajući svoj prepoznatljivi militaristički dizajn. Ružičasta nijansa pruža zanimljiv kontrast crnim brojčanicima i okviru od anodiziranog aluminija. Sat pokreće mehanizam Manufacture Calibre MT5813, a kućište od 41 mm izrađeno je od nehrđajućeg čelika 315L.
Savršeno se uklapa i narukvica s pet karika i T-fit kopčom. Igrači Inter Miamija bit će prvi koji će nositi ovaj ekskluzivni sat, a javnosti će biti dostupan u ograničenim količinama početkom travnja.
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OnePlus Nord CE4 launch today: OnePlus is all set to introduce a mid-range 5G smartphone in India – the OnePlus Nord CE4.
OnePlus Nord CE4 launch date in India: Confirmed Specs
The company has confirmed some of the specs of the smartphones. According to OnePlus, the Nord CE4 will be equipped with octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chip.
According to the company, Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chip enhances a 15 per cent boost in CPU performance along with a 50 per cent boost in GPU performance, and a 20 per cent boost in power saving.
OnePlus Nord CE4 Colour Variants
The OnePlus Nord CE4 is available in two colour variants – Dark Chrome and Celadon Marble.
OnePlus Nord CE4 Camera
In terms of camera, the smartphone will have a dual camera setup with a ring LED flashlight.
According to the image shared by the company, the smartphone will have flat sides.
Reports suggest that the smartphone will have a primary camera of 50MP and it will be accompanied by an 8MP camera. For selfies, the smartphone is expected to come with a 16MP camera on the front. It may come with a 6.7-inch AMOLED screen.
In terms of price, the device is expected to be priced at around Rs 25,000.
Meanwhile, the company has witnessed a growth of 33 per cent YoY in 2023.
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking – but it’s a virtue some members of society are still learning.
It’s a jungle out there when it comes to selling a car privately, but if you exercise common sense, trust your gut – and some rock-solid paperwork – you’ll be in for a breezy experience. One so good you’ll want to sell a car all over again.
Here are are 12 tips to making sure your private selling experience is as pleasant, safe and secure as possible.
Trust your instincts from the start
We humans are hard-wired to detect anything dodgy. If anything feels off at any point, sense-check with somebody you trust. Chances are, your instincts are right. Anything that sounds too good to be true, probably is.
Cover your number plates in the ad
As well as being able to identify you and where you live, blurring your plates prevents ‘plate cloning’ – where a dodgy person on the internet with the same make, model and colour of your car, copies your plate and puts it on their car for nefarious purposes such as driving on tollways, racking up fines and undertaking other criminal activity.
You won’t know your number plate has been ‘cloned’ until the letterbox starts choking with fines. If you don’t know how to hide your number plate in your ad’s photos, watch some YouTube videos which will guide you.
Watch out for scams during the enquiry process
Scammers might contact you via your advertisement. Don’t click on any links at all – ever.
It might be a phishing attempt to get your personal information, install malware on your computer or worse, get access to your online banking log-in details.
Further to that, never transfer money to a buyer under any circumstances, unless it’s simply returning their deposit. Common scams include making an offer for more than you’re asking and wanting to ship the car overseas. Or someone is in debt, and has a friend, and a convoluted way to buy the car off you. Avoid stuff like this.
Try to sell the car to someone genuine who lives locally and you get a good feeling about – even if you have to lower the price to attract this kind of person.
Many scammers aren’t interested in your car at all – but they are interested in your identity. Stealing it, that is.
Try to keep yourself as anonymous as possible when fielding early enquiries – and consider making a new Gmail or Yahoo address just for taking messages about your car. Don’t give out a home phone number. You don’t need to exchange mobile numbers with a buyer until you’re wanting to call them to arrange an inspection and test drive.
Invite the best-sounding people to inspect the car first
If you get a lot of enquiries – and if you follow all our tips, you should! – you should gravitate towards the people who seem the most legitimate.
That’s not an invitation to discriminate, but it does mean giving preference to people in your local area who’ve put even the smallest amount of effort into their enquiry, reply promptly and seem respectful and polite.
Give lower preference to enquiries from interstate and avoid any from overseas. Also, there are plenty of time-wasters out there, and you will get enquiries from dreamers and tyre-kickers – try to weed them out early. Your time is valuable.
Speak on the phone before arranging an inspection and test drive to further cement the gut instinct and gauge how serious they are. Ignore “low-ballers” – people offering you way below your price. They’re hunting for vulnerable sellers who need to shift the car urgently.
Important: before they come to see the car, ask the buyer if they have a driver’s licence (you’d be surprised). If they don’t, you can ask them to get a customer service number or similar from your state or territory’s transport department. This requires them to prove their identity.
Also, avoid dealing with “middle men”. This is a red flag and common scam tactic. Deal directly with potential buyers only.
Meet in public during the day
For the initial inspection and test drive, try to meet at a large, busy service station, or a shopping centre carpark – somewhere someone might come to your assistance if you need it. Tell a family or friend where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing.
If you want to crank the protect to the next level, you could meet the buyer and complete the inspection and test drive at a police station. If the buyer asks you to pick them up somewhere and then drop them off, decline. Conduct the business in the one place.
It can be unnerving meeting a total stranger in a carpark somewhere, and often they’ll bring along another person to help them check the car over. If that freaks you out, consider having another person with you when a potential buyer comes to check out the car. Let the buyer know beforehand that you won’t be alone.
Never invite a total stranger to inspect a car where you live. If you can’t avoid it, don’t let them come inside. They could be window-shopping only to return later with a torch and a stocking over their head.
Get key details before a test drive
Grab the driver’s licence and take a quick photo of the front and back with your phone (or just write down all the details). Check that it hasn’t expired.
Check that your insurer covers test drives
Many insurers will cover “unlisted” drivers in the case of an accident and simply charge a higher excess. But it’s worth checking. Call your insurer and ask.
Be prepared to walk away at any moment
Keep in mind that cars have been stolen by ‘interested buyers’ before. It’s extremely rare, so don’t stress too much, but be aware.
During the test drive, the thief will pull over to ‘check something’ and ask you to get out. If that ever happens to you, do what they say. Your safety is way more important than the car. Use common sense.
Use secure methods for accepting payment
You can read our guide for accepting payment from a buyer here, but in summary: never hand over the keys until you can see the cash in your bank account.
If you’ve decided you want to be paid via electronic funds transfer (EFT), tell the seller you can’t give them the car until the funds have cleared. It takes a bit of trust on their part, but if they’re a decent person, they’ll understand.
If they don’t, you can explore other options such as an in-branch bank transfer or a bank cheque. Never accept unusual payment methods such as Western Union, PayPal, cryptocurrency or, say, iTunes gift cards. Use your common sense.
Keep a paper trail for any transactions whatsoever
If you want to take a deposit from the buyer, write up a receipt, print two copies and get both yourself and the buyer to sign both. Likewise when the vehicle is sold, complete a proper Bill of Sale or proof of purchase.
We’ve included a comprehensive example in our article about documentation you need to sell your vehicle. If you want to crank the security up a step further, get a Justice of the Peace to sign yours and the buyer’s Bill of Sale.
Complete a “notice of disposal” immediately
Once you’ve received the money and given the car to the buyer, let your local transport government authority know immediately that you’ve ‘disposed’ of the car. This helps cover you if the new owner racks up thousands of dollars in speeding fines or similar.
Read our guide to documentation when selling a car here, as it varies depending on your state and territory.
Do the right thing by the buyer, as well
While a buyer should understand they’re purchasing a vehicle “as is” – meaning it’s on them to complete their due diligence before committing – you should still disclose whether the vehicle is a repaired write-off, any outstanding mechanical items that need attention, and especially if the car is encumbered (you are still paying off the loan).
This can limit your liability down the road if anything goes awry. But also, remember to be polite, respond promptly, be reliable and punctual. If you’re a good person to the buyer, chances are they’ll be a good person to you. Everybody is happy.
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With the increasing number of web3 technologies taking up the market, fraudsters and hackers have also taken up the opportunity to exploit this. The latest study by Immunefi has monitored the first quarter of 2024 cryptocurrency losses and revealed the crypto sector’s growth pattern as well as alarming directions.
Overview of losses
The $100 billion in funds was locked in web3 protocols as of March 2024 providing a strong enough motive for black hat hackers. Immunefi’s analysis shows that the crypto industry lost $336,311,217 in Q1 2024.
Its significant 23.1% drop compared to the same period in the previous year intimates us that the security measures are beginning to work but also there exists the underlying problem of vulnerabilities.
Major exploits and losses
One of the most eminent losses was those from two particular hacks, OrbitBridge and Munchables, which together accounted for $144,480,000, roughly 43% of the total losses in Q1 2024. Orbit Bridge, which is the bridging protocol of the Orbit Chain cross-chain project was exploited on the 1st of January, 2024 in an $81 million attack.
On the other hand, Munchables, an NFT game on the Ethereum layer 2 system called Blast was exploited on the 26th of March losing full access to its contract that enabled the withdrawal of the game’s assets worth a staggering $62M.
Hacking remains a trend
Further, the report probed into the hacks/fraud phenomena, and the fact emerged therefrom that hacks remained the dominant cause of losses, contributing 95.6% of the overall losses with 4.4% of losses arising from fraud. Of particular note, all of the vulnerabilities were in DeFi and none of them were from Cefi.
Ethereum once again dominates
From the perspective of the blockchains that have suffered security breaches, Ethereum occupies the top position, with 33 incidents, accounting for 51% of total losses for all the networks. BNB Chain was in the second position at the time of these incidents with 14 cases, compromising 22% of the losses. Out of all the exploits Arbitrum had, according to this analysis, 6 incidents accounted for a 9.2% loss.
Despite the huge losses, several cases have successfully got back stolen funds amounting to $73,885,000 in seven cases. This number, which represents 22 percent of the total losses in Q1 2024, highlights the necessity for rapid and coordinated measures to prevent security breaches.
Looking ahead
Although overall losses have been observed to decline, one can argue that the security level has not significantly risen overcoming the threat of private key stealing among others. In the process of shaping the crypto arena, it becomes imperative for key market players to stay vigilant and proactive to reinforce security when possible.
Time-restricted eating, a common weight-loss strategy often known as intermittent fasting, has been linked to a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular death.
In a study published by the American Heart Association (AHA), a group of 20,000 adults who followed an eight-hour time-restricted eating schedule were found to have a 91% higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to those who spread out their meals across 12 to 16 hours.
The findings were presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention│Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Scientific Sessions last week in Chicago, although the study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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Here are more details.
What is time-restricted eating?
There are several types of intermittent fasting — but they all follow the same concept of alternating between fasting and eating.
With a time-restricted approach, the dieter only eats during a certain window.
Previous studies have found that time-restricted eating can improve key measures related to heart health, including blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels, the AHA noted in a press release.(iStock)
For example, with the 16/8 method, the person fasts for 16 hours and then can eat within an eight-hour span, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Other versions involve fasting for a full 24 hours once or twice per week — or only consuming limited calories on fasting days.
TIME-RESTRICTED EATING NO MORE BENEFICIAL THAN CALORIC RESTRICTION IN OBESE PATIENTS, STUDY SAYS
Previous studies have found that time-restricted eating can improve key measures related to heart health, including blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels, the AHA noted in a press release.
“Restricting daily eating time to a short period, such as eight hours per day, has gained popularity in recent years as a way to lose weight and improve heart health,” said senior study author Victor Wenze Zhong, PhD, a professor and chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China, in the release.
“However, the long-term health effects of time-restricted eating, including the risk of death from any cause or cardiovascular disease, are unknown.”
What are the study details?
Researchers from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China, analyzed information from the annual 2003-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).
They compared it to causes of death logged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) between 2003 and December 2019.
In a new study published by the American Heart Association (AHA), a group of 20,000 adults who followed an eight-hour time-restricted eating schedule were found to have a 91% higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to those who spread out their meals across 12 to 16 hours.(iStock)
People who ate all daily food in a window of less than eight hours had the highest (91%) risk of cardiovascular death, followed by those who ate in a window of between eight and 10 hours (a 66% risk).
The higher risk of heart-related deaths was also seen in those who had existing heart disease or cancer, the release stated.
FASTING COULD REDUCE SIGNS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, STUDIES SUGGEST: ‘PROFOUND EFFECTS‘
“Even though this type of diet has been popular due to its potential short-term benefits, our research clearly shows that, compared with a typical eating time range of 12 to 16 hours per day, a shorter eating duration was not associated with living longer,” Zhong said in the release.
Researchers followed the participants for an average of eight years, with some followed for as long as 17 years.
The average age of the participants was 49.
Researchers followed them for an average of eight years, with some followed for as long as 17 years.
What are the study’s limitations?
Dr. Lou Vadlamani — a cardiologist and founder of VitalSolution, an Ohio-based company that offers cardiovascular and anesthesiology services to hospitals nationwide — was not involved in the study but offered his insights on the findings.
“As with all studies, the devil is in the details,” he said. “While this study provides some fuel for discussion and encourages further studies, it is far from conclusive.”
The fasting habits were based on just two days of recorded eating habits, Vadlamani noted — and it hinged on the recollections of the participants.
“There was no documentation of what the participants ate while they weren’t fasting or what their activity levels were.” Also, the timing of the fasting — whether it was done during the daytime or nighttime — was not clear.(iStock)
“There was no documentation of what the participants ate while they weren’t fasting or what their activity levels were,” he noted.
The timing of the fasting — whether it was daytime or nighttime — was also not clear.
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“To conclusively say with any confidence that fasting has a direct impact in rates of heart attack would be a stretch,” the cardiologist said.
“It certainly raises a lot of questions and supports the need for a more comprehensive study, since intermittent fasting has become so common.”
Registered dietitian Lauren Harris-Pincus, author of “The Everything Easy Pre-Diabetes Cookbook,” cautioned that this research has not yet been fully published and peer-reviewed — which means a complete analysis of its findings is “premature.”
“There seems to be an important change between the short-term benefits of the time-restricted diet and the long-term risks.”
She was also not involved in the study.
“While this may suggest a correlation between intermittent fasting and death from cardiovascular disease, that does not prove causation,” the New Jersey-based expert told Fox News Digital.
“There seems to be an important distinction between the short-term benefits of the time-restricted diet and the long-term risks.”
She added, “The conclusions counteract the positive benefits of time-restricted eating in a body of previous research, plus the data was based on self-reported dietary records at a few points in time.”
Anyone with medical conditions should speak to their physician or registered dietitian before starting a restrictive diet, experts said. (iStock)
It’s not known whether the participants continued time-restricted eating for the duration of the study period, Harris-Pincus pointed out. And self-reported food intake can be affected by memory lapses or unintentional inaccuracies.
“It also did not evaluate additional lifestyle factors that play a role in overall health,” she said.
Anyone with medical conditions should speak to their physician or registered dietitian before starting any restrictive diet, Harris-Pincus recommended.
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She added, “Intermittent fasting is not appropriate for people with a history of disordered eating or active eating disorder, those with hypoglycemia or Type 1 diabetes on insulin, children under 18, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and more.”
Despite the limitations, Tanya Freirich, a registered dietitian nutritionist in North Carolina who works as The Lupus Dietitian, said the study is a “very important addition” to the current data on time-restricted eating.
“Additionally, while we don’t learn the details of the participants’ diet in the study, what you eat is incredibly important as well.”
“In the past, there have been many benefits noted with time-restricted eating; however, this study is perfect proof that more is not always better,” Freirich, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital.
“There seems to be an important distinction between the short-term benefits of the time-restricted diet and the long-term risks.”
The study reinforces the importance of receiving personalized nutrition advice, according to Freirich.
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“For people on certain medications or for people who have difficulty maintaining stable blood sugar, blood pressure, or hydration, time-restricted eating may be too difficult to maintain and detrimental to their health,” she cautioned.
“Additionally, while we don’t learn the details of the participants’ diet in the study, what you eat is incredibly important as well.”
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In light of this new research available, Freirich advised that people following a time-restricted eating pattern check in with their doctor and assess their cardiovascular health.
Fox News Digital reached out to the American Heart Association and the study researchers for additional comments.
Have you been waking up with an irritated stomach every morning? Does bloating, indigestion, and heartburn keep you low for the rest of the day? Do your digestion issues aggravate at night, even after eating healthy? If you answered yes, then this article might help you detect the underlying problem. You read that right. During our research, we came across some expert-recommended tips that describe how one basic change in your lifestyle can help fix all your digestion and metabolism-related issues. Wonder what that is? According to nutritionist Lovneet Batra, it is your dinner timing.
How Dinner Time Is Linked To Digestion? When Is The Right Time To Eat Dinner?
Nutritionist Lovneet Batra explains, “You can never fix your digestion without fixing your meal timings.” According to her, when you eat is as important as what you eat. In fact, she says that problems like bloating, constipation, etc., increase when your body doesn’t understand when to eat the food.
This brings us to the next question – what is the right time to eat dinner? Nutritionist Lovneet Batra says that the ideal situation is to eat your meal at least three hours before your sleep. “If you are looking for a quick fix to your digestion issues, I would suggest starting with one basic change – fix your meal timings and know what is the right time for you to eat dinner.”
Also Read: Meal Guide 101: How To Plan Your Weekly Meals For Stress-Free Cooking
5 Reasons Why You Should Fix Your Dinner Timings:
1. Improves your digestive health:
Eating your daily meals at a fixed time gradually helps lower the signs of bloating, gas, and discomfort, improving overall gut health.
2. Increases nutrient absorption ability:
Having dinner at least three hours before hitting the bed gives your body enough time to digest the food, enhancing its nutrient absorption abilities. In other words, it ensures that your body can efficiently utilize vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients while your body rests.
3. Aids gut health:
According to the expert, an early dinner supports a healthy gut by promoting the growth of good bacteria in the gut and “reducing the risk of digestive disturbances such as dysbiosis”. For the unversed, dysbiosis in your gut occurs when the food remains in the digestive tract for an extended period.
4. Regulates bowel movement:
Eating your dinner well in advance gives the food enough time to move through the digestive system, further regulating bowel movement.
5. Reduces the risk of acid reflux:
An early dinner is known to allow the stomach more time to empty its contents before hitting the bed and resting your body. This further minimizes the chance of stomach acid flowing back into the esophagus, causing discomfort or irritation.
New York City welcomed a hint of spring, with a bit of warm sun that turned this year’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival into a rousing success.
Fifth Avenue was filled with magnificent hat wearers, sauntering up and down 5th Avenue with charm and excitement that rivaled children who might be scouring parks for Easter egg hunts. A recurring cast of milliners and costumed spectators trading nods with the more casual participants — who found creative ways to create their own grand impressions — was a particular delight to see.
Prestige Estates Projects has entered into a deal with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Kotak AIF to invest ₹2,001 crore in residential projects with a gross revenue potential of ₹18,000 crore across four major cities in the country.
The Bengaluru-based realtor has been spreading its wings across the country, and in just three of its launches, has met with spectacular success in Mumbai, the biggest real estate market in India in value terms.
Also read: Prestige Estates launches residential project in Whitefield, Bengaluru
The company said in an exchange filing that the deal with ADIA and Kotak AIF was part of its organic growth strategy and it would be developing early-stage residential projects. “These funds will fuel the development of greenfield residential projects across the cities of Bengaluru, Mumbai, Goa, and NCR,” said Venkat K Narayana, Group CEO of Prestige Group, adding that the deal was an outcome of the increasing demand for housing and the consolidation in the sector.
The deal was a mark of the confidence that institutional investors reposed in the company, Chairman and Managing Director Irfan Razack said.
Pri kreiranju rubrike Index Shopping nastojimo izdvajati odlične proizvode koji se i nama sviđaju te odlične akcije i popuste. Ne objavljujemo proizvode koje i sami ne bismo kupili ili smatramo da njihova promocija nije u skladu s profesionalnim standardima. Neki proizvodi u rubrici Index Shopping mogu biti sponzorirani.
OVU su subotu mnogi Zagrepčani iskoristili lijepo vrijeme za izlazak u centar grada, uživajući u kavi, ali i, izgleda, u kupnji cvijeća. Mnoge Zagrepčanke prošetale su u proljetnim kombinacijama, a gotovo sve su imale najljepši “modni” dodatak – buket.
Neutralna kombinacija i ružičasti tulipani
Prva mlada djevojka odlučila se za neutralnu modnu kombinaciju koja se sastojala od topa i tajica bež nijanse te sakoa bijele boje. Tu su i mini torbica te tenisice. Ova kombinacija je prilično ležerna i mladenačka. Njezin izbor cvijeća bio je buket nježno ružičastih tulipana.
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Ružičasti sako i narančasti tulipani
Druga djevojka odlučila je unijeti boju u svoju modnu kombinaciju, i to ružičastu. Tako je kombinirala sako u toj nijansi sa svijetloplavim trapericama i bijelim tenisicama čije su vezice bile u boji. I ona je u rukama nosila tulipane, ali narančaste boje.
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Dolčevita, traperice i košarica s cvijećem
Siva dolčevita i traperice nepogrešiv su odabir. Osim toga, kaubojske čizme odličan su odabir obuće koja je udobna za hodanje, ali i estetski privlačna. Košarica s cvijećem je neodoljiva i vjerujemo da prekrasno miriše.
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Šilterice, sakoi i šareni buketi
Dvije prijateljice također su u rukama imale bukete proljetnog cvijeća. Osim toga, njihove kombinacije dijele i nekoliko drugih sličnih detalja – šilterice i sakoe. Pored toga, jedna djevojka odlučila se za sportsku varijantu s tajicama i tenisicama, dok je druga odabrala nešto sređeniju varijantu te je kombinirala traper suknju s čizmama.
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Shohei Ohtani led the American League in home runs last season. He has yet to hit his first home run for his new team. Nonetheless, the Dodgers lead the major leagues in home runs.
The Dodgers hit more home runs than any major league team besides the Atlanta Braves last season. Out: J.D. Martinez and David Peralta, who combined for 40 home runs last season. In: Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández, who combined for 70.
“I think we have more slug,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
The Dodgers certainly slugged the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, with two punches that turned what would have been a sloppy and dispiriting defeat into a dramatic 5-4 victory at Dodger Stadium.
The Dodgers were five outs from defeat, five outs from a .500 start to perhaps the most anticipated season in team history, when Hernández and Max Muncy homered in the eighth inning.
Hernández is tied for second in the majors with three home runs, one behind teammate Mookie Betts. His solo home run cut the Dodgers’ deficit to 4-3. After Chris Taylor walked — for the third consecutive plate appearance — Muncy hit a 420-foot home run to deliver the tying and winning runs.
Muncy turned toward the Dodgers dugout in animated celebration, then turned back around to trot around the bases.
On the day after the Dodgers’ sluggers rallied from three runs down to tie, they rallied from four runs down to win.
“They definitely keep you in the game,” Dodgers starting pitcher Gavin Stone said, “no matter how many runs you give up. It’s going to be fun to watch.”
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1.Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a ground-rule double in the sixth inning Saturday.2.Teoscar Hernández celebrates after hitting a solo home run for the Dodgers in the eighth inning.3.Dodgers starting pitcher Gavin Stone delivers during the fifth inning.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Reliever Nabil Crismatt, in his Dodgers debut, earned his first major league victory in two years. Daniel Hudson, who suffered season-ending knee injuries in each of his last two years, recorded the save for the Dodgers.
The sloppiness the Dodgers exhibited Sunday could be cause for concern.
In the fifth inning, Stone was unable to field a dribbler past the mound, and the ball went for an infield single, and first baseman Freddie Freeman was unable to catch a pop foul that landed near his feet.
In the sixth inning, with the Cardinals already up 2-0, Stone walked the leadoff batter, and the Dodgers removed him after 85 pitches. Reliever Alex Vesia walked two more, then hit a batter to force home a run. Catcher Austin Barnes committed interference on what would have been a third strike to Paul Goldschmidt, and the Cardinals scored another run for a 4-0 lead.
The Dodgers’ come-from-behind victory was special to Muncy, who came off the bench to deliver the winning hit. Muncy noted the Dodgers wore down the Cardinals to the point where St. Louis had to use its top left-handed reliever Friday and Saturday, and so he did not pitch Sunday.
“That made it a little bit of an easier at bat for me,” Muncy said. “It’s just something that kind of goes unnoticed to a lot of people, but it’s something we take a lot of pride around here.”
Muncy said he still was not 100% after contracting a virus and losing nine pounds as the Dodgers prepared for their season-opening series in South Korea.
“I think a lot of the team right now is feeling pretty sick just from those long flights,” he said, “and getting back home and the weather that we’ve had. It’s been a little unusual for L.A., but you just have to battle through it.”
St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Brendan Donovan, left, and shortstop Masyn Winn can’t catch a blooper hit by Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes in the fifth inning Sunday.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The battle was won Sunday, which prompted Hernández to consider whether he had ever played on a team with so much power. He could think of only one: the 2021 Toronto Blue Jays, led by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with 48 home runs and Marcus Semien with 45. Hernandez hit 32, Bo Bichette hit 29, and George Springer hit 22.
“And there was another guy, but I forget right now,” Hernandez said. There were so many guys. Randal Grichuk hit 22 too, and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit 21.
The Dodgers could be like that.
“It’s been fun to be here,” Hernandez said, “and be part of this team.”
Samsung has announced the rollout of Galaxy AI features on more Galaxy flagship devices. The rollout has started and will be available across the Galaxy S23 series, S23 FE, Z Fold5, Z Flip5 and Tab S9 series. According to the company, the update elevates the standard of users’ mobile AI experience.
With the roll out of the Galaxy AI features, users of Galaxy S23 series, S23 FE, Z Fold5, Z Flip5 and Tab S9 series will now be able to take advantage of several features including Circle to Search, Live Translate and Note Assist amongst others.
– Circle to Search with Google generates Google search results when you simply circle, highlight or tap any image on your display.
– Live Translate produces two-way, real-time voice and text translations of phone calls, making it easier to book reservations while traveling or chat with your grandparents in their native language.
– Note Assist can create AI-generated summaries, pre-formatted templates and cover pages. Chat Assist can help perfect conversational tones by generating context-aware suggestions to ensure communication sounds as it was intended.
Interpreter can instantly translate live conversations through a user-friendly split-screen view, allowing people standing opposite each other to read a text translation of what the other person is saying. Transcript Assist uses AI and Speech-to-Text technology to transcribe, summarize and even translate voice recordings. Browsing Assist helps you stay up to speed on what is happening around the world while saving time by generating concise summaries of news articles or web pages.
Generative Edit gives you even more creative freedom to resize position and align objects even after the photo is taken. Edit Suggestion gives you your own personal photo editor that uses AI to suggest perfectly suitable tweaks for each photo.
The record-breaking GTA 6 trailer ends with confirmation that the game will launch at some point in 2025. Until recently, there was speculation that Grand Theft Auto 6 would have a February 2025 release date on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, something that would make sense given the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic (if it launched on Valentine’s Day, that is). In the past week, however, conflicting reports have emerged about a potential delay. It all started with a Kotaku report that suggested development of Grand Theft Auto 6 was “falling behind” and that the game may end up being pushed back until 2026. This has since been debunked, with multiple sources claiming that the original report was overblown and that GTA 6 is still on track for 2025.
Indeed, according to industry insider Mike Straw, the suggestion of a delay is “pure conjecture” at this point in time.
“Saying this again since people are still running with it: I’ve reached out to multiple sources and was told the game was “on schedule” and that any suggestion of a delay at this point in development is “pure conjecture”,” Straw tweets.
While the most recent reports are great news for impatient Grand Theft Auto fans, a significant delay does kind of feel inevitable.
More things can go wrong when developing a game the size of Grand Theft Auto 6, and Rockstar will be keen to avoid the kind of reputational damage suffered by studios like CD Projekt with Cyberpunk 2077.
Working conditions are also under the spotlight more than ever before, which means Rockstar Games probably can’t rely on the majority of staff members working seven days a week during extended “crunch” periods in the run up to launch.
According to some reports, the company is struggling to make staff come into the office for a minimum of five days a week, which could lead to timing issues further down the line.
Ultrimately, the most important thing is for Rockstar Games to release GTA 6 when it’s good and ready.
Nobody wants a buggy mess of a game, even if it means Rockstar is forced to delay the Grand Theft Auto 6 release date.
Hopefully we’ll still see Grand Theft Auto 6 in 2025, but if it does get pushed back, then we’ve waited this long, so I suppose we can wait just a little bit longer.
A man seen on camera being thrown dramatically from a vehicle rolling over on a beach has reportedly survived the ordeal.
Arab Times reports the incident, involving a Toyota FJ Cruiser, occurred near Abu Al-Hasaniya beach in Kuwait.
Video shared on social media shows the vehicle swerving recklessly on a beach, before flipping multiple times.
Shocking video shows the moment a 4WD loses control and rolls multiple times on Abu Al Hasaniya Beach in Kuwait, with the vehicle’s 34-year-old driver miraculously walking away from the wreckage with minor injuries. pic.twitter.com/bvPNSpVNtv
The driver is seen being ejected from the vehicle and landing in the water.
But he gets up almost immediately and appears to walk away to a group of people on the beach without any difficulty.
Authorities in the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Governorate have reportedly seized the damaged vehicle, which ended up being swept into the sea and had to be recovered by the fire department.
The cryptocurrency landscape is a rapidly evolving domain where fortunes can change overnight, and innovations continually reshape investor perspectives and market dynamics. At the forefront of this transformation are notable cryptocurrencies such as Shiba Inu (SHIB), Ethereum (ETH), and the emergent Furrever Token (FURR), each carving out its niche and signaling shifts in the broader digital currency ecosystem. From SHIB’s remarkable price surge predictions to Ethereum’s insightful whale transaction indicators and FURR’s disruptive entry with its presale success, these developments encapsulate the vibrant essence of the crypto market. As investors navigate through the highs and lows, these tokens offer a glimpse into the multifaceted world of cryptocurrency investing, from meme-driven surges to strategic whale movements, and the allure of innovative concepts like Furrever Token.
ChatGPT Predicts Shiba Inu Price Could Hit $0.10!
As Bitcoin staged an impressive rally back to the $65,000 mark, leading the charge in the cryptocurrency market’s upward trend, the meme coin Shiba Inu has also been gaining significant momentum. Last month, it witnessed a remarkable surge of 221% and an astonishing increase of 191.5% over the past year, indicating that the bull run for SHIB is picking up speed.
Several SHIB price forecasts anticipate a potential rise beyond the $0.001 mark, suggesting a widespread market sentiment in favor of a substantial jump in the value of the meme coin. This optimistic outlook has sparked excitement within the Shiba Inu community, eagerly awaiting the cryptocurrency’s future price movements.
This month, SHIB’s price experienced a sharp increase, reaching a peak of $0.00004567 before a brief pullback. Despite the retracement, Shiba Inu has still managed an impressive monthly return of 220%, with its current market price trading at $0.00003086.
Furthermore, Fibonacci retracement levels suggest that the bull run could potentially reach the psychological mark of $0.00010, attracting the attention of investors and traders closely monitoring Shiba Inu’s price movements.
Adding to the long-term optimism about Shiba Inu’s price potential, the latest predictions by ChatGPT take into account various factors, including the upcoming Bitcoin halving, broader market trends, and other relevant considerations. Analyzing Shiba Inu’s monthly price trends with Fibonacci levels, ChatGPT forecasts that the meme coin could reach $0.0010427 by 2024, with a 10 cent price being a possibility by 2025.
Despite the optimistic forecasts and the current bullish trend, it is crucial for investors to approach the cryptocurrency market with caution. Known for its volatility and unpredictable nature, the crypto market, especially meme coins, often experiences sudden price fluctuations driven by market sentiment and speculation.
Unexpected Long-Term Price Indicator for Ethereum Surfaces Amid Price Decline
With Ethereum undergoing a slight decrease in price, a significant pattern has emerged, suggesting implications for the digital currency’s long-term value. A noticeable increase in transactions by large Ethereum holders, known as whales, has caught the attention of both analysts and investors as a possible predictor of Ethereum’s future price direction.
The Ethereum network has recently seen a spike in whale transactions, defined as substantial transfers of ETH typically exceeding $100,000, carried out by entities with significant cryptocurrency holdings. This trend of increased whale transactions on the Ethereum network is interpreted by some as a sign of the cryptocurrency’s future price movements.
Some crypto analysts point out that, despite Ethereum’s recent price adjustments, the escalation in whale transactions signals a positive outlook for ETH’s upcoming price trends. Whale activities have historically correlated with major price shifts, often indicating institutional interest or the accumulation phase. Therefore, the current increase in whale transactions might be seen as an optimistic sign for Ethereum, reflecting confidence in its future despite the present price fluctuations.
In related news, a notable event saw 420,000 ETH moving to exchanges, as Ethereum’s price slightly fell by 0.25% in the last 24 hours to $3,545. Additionally, Ethereum developers recently addressed the missing block incident in their latest ACDE call, a bi-weekly discussion focused on the execution layer (EL) of Ethereum. On March 27, an unusual rise in missing blocks was observed, where typically 2% to 4% of blocks are missed every 30 minutes on Ethereum, but the rate surged to over 14% in a few hours amid a high volume of blob transactions, with blob prices increasing more than tenfold.
Ethereum developer Terrence Tsao reported that the missing block issue was promptly resolved after the Bloxroute team adjusted their MEV relay. The exact cause of the Bloxroute relay’s problem is still being investigated, but a solution is underway and will be shared along with a detailed analysis of the incident soon. Moreover, Ethereum developers have greenlit two retrospective Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) for the forthcoming Prague/Electra upgrade: EIP 7610 and 7523.
Furrever Token (FURR) Stands Tall Amid Market Chaos: Prospects of Up to 15X Profits!
In a climate marked by financial instability, Furrever Token (FURR) shines through as a beacon of potential, drawing in investors with its innovative and captivating take on the cryptocurrency domain.
FURR’s groundbreaking idea seeks to transform the cryptocurrency landscape by infusing it with a charming dose of cuteness, moving away from the traditional seriousness that typifies blockchain ventures. This strategy has struck a chord with investors eager for a departure from the norm, presenting a novel and engaging experience that leverages the widespread love for adorable kittens.
The allure of FURR is significantly bolstered by its presale success, having garnered upwards of $561,000, showcasing strong momentum in a time of general market hesitance. Having completed half of its presale stages with aspirations to reach a $1 million target, FURR’s fundraising achievements signal strong investor faith in its vision and future.
Moreover, the enticing Tokenomics of FURR offers the tantalizing possibility of up to 15X returns, presenting an appealing prospect for earning substantial profits amidst the fluctuating market. The token’s accessible price point at $0.000396 further enhances its attractiveness, providing a cost-effective avenue for investors to capitalize on its anticipated growth.
Enhancing investor convenience, FURR supports diverse payment methods including USDT (BEP-20), broadening its reach. Its plans to debut on a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) like PancakeSwap affirm FURR’s dedication to decentralization and fostering a community-led expansion, ensuring fairness for all stakeholders.
Amidst the whirlwind of market instability, Furrever Token offers a unique blend of whimsy and potential profit, establishing a community and joy-centered crypto ecosystem that beckons investors with its inventive concept and promising financial returns. As conventional meme coins face challenges in sustaining interest, FURR presents itself as an attractive investment avenue, merging enjoyment with the chance for notable gains.
Wrapping Up
As we conclude, it’s evident that the crypto market remains a fertile ground for both speculative ventures and strategic investments. Shiba Inu, with its potential for significant gains, Ethereum’s solid indicators of institutional interest, and Furrever Token’s unique market proposition, underscore the diversity and potential within the cryptocurrency space. However, amid the prospects of high returns lies the inherent volatility and unpredictability of the market. Investors are reminded of the critical need for due diligence, informed decision-making, and a balanced approach to risk. As the narrative around these tokens unfolds, their journey offers valuable insights into the evolving dynamics of the cryptocurrency market, encouraging both caution and optimism in the pursuit of digital asset investments.
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Fox News Digital publishes an array of health pieces all week long to keep you in the know on a range of wellness topics: health care access, innovative surgeries, cancer research, mental health trends and more — plus, personal stories of people and families overcoming great obstacles.
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Woman ‘shakes off’ brain surgery with Taylor Swift songs
A New Jersey woman stayed awake during her brain surgery — and sang Taylor Swift songs to help doctors gauge her cognitive function. Selena Campione, 36, shared her story with Fox News Digital. Click here to get the story.
Center, Taylor Swift is shown performing in Glendale, Arizona, on March 12, 2023; on either side, Selena Campione is shown during her brain surgery on Jan. 31, 2024. For part of the operation, she sang Swift songs so that doctors could gauge her brain functioning. (Hackensack Meridian Health; John Medina/Getty Images)
Health care is ‘overwhelmingly complex’ for seniors
Adults tend to need more medical care as they age, but coordinating that care can be stressful and strenuous for seniors. Doctors discussed the health care challenges older adults face — and what needs to change to improve the situation. Click here to get the story.
Adults tend to need more medical care as they age, but coordinating that care can be stressful and strenuous for seniors. Here’s what to know.(iStock)
Should busy doctors use ChatGPT as ‘assistants’?
It’s happening more often — busy physicians are turning to chatbots for help in summarizing medical reports. Experts weighed the benefits and the risks of using AI in the health care space. Click here to get the story.
AI responses, such as those from ChatGPT, were found to be 70% shorter than real physicians’ responses in a new study.(iStock)
Intermittent fasting could have unexpected effects
Time-restricted eating has been linked to a higher risk of heart-related death in a new study. The researchers and cardiologists offer their insights on the surprising connection. Click here to get the story.
Previous studies have found that time-restricted eating can improve key measures related to heart health, including blood pressure, blood glucose and cholesterol levels, the AHA noted in a press release.(iStock)
Cancer and Princess Kate: What to know about screenings
Kate Middleton’s announcement of a cancer diagnosis has sparked an outpouring of support — and concerns about the uptick of cases among younger adults. Here’s what to know about the recommended cancer screenings for early detection. Click here to get the story.
“We hope that you will understand that, as a family, we now need some time, space and privacy while I complete my treatment,” Middleton said in her announcement on Friday.(The Prince and Princess of Wales Twitter)
Cold therapy under hot scrutiny in new study
The benefits of cold plunging and other ice therapies have been called into question by a new study. The researchers plus cold therapy experts reacted to the findings. Click here to get the story.
Cold therapy has been a popular health trend in recent years, but a new review suggests it might not live up to the hype. Still, others disagree with that.(iStock)
Smokers at high risk of heart attacks
People who smoke marijuana daily face a significantly higher risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study found. Get the details on the effects of frequent cannabis use. Click here to get the story.
Daily weed smoking could cause complications for heart health, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.(PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images; iStock)
Drug overdoses hit record high
Drug overdoses reached a new high last year in the U.S., according to a new CDC report. Find out what groups were most affected — and what addiction experts think about the surge. Click here to get the story.
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At-home abortions are on the rise
Since 2020, the prevalence of medication abortions — triggered by what’s known as the abortion pill — has risen 10%. Women’s health experts detailed the possible reasons for the increase. Click here to get the story.
A medication abortion typically costs around $800, according to the Planned Parenthood website, but some health insurance policies may cover it. (iStock)
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Feel like eating something delicious and too tired to cook? Well, you can always order something online at the click of a button. What? Did you order your last meal from outside too? Yes, you might as well cook something at home. For confusing hungry moments like these, we are here with a delicious pasta recipe that can be prepared in 10 minutes. To make this recipe, make sure you have a stock of some pasta, veggies, sauces, and spices to quickly whip up this dish. What’s more, this recipe can be prepared in a single pot, perfect for those who are messy cooks or do the dishes themselves.
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How To Make One Pot Pasta In 5 Easy Steps | One-Pot Pasta Recipe In 10 Minutes
1. Veggies
First, wash and chop all the veggies you want to include in your pasta. Some delicious options to choose from include onions, carrots, capsicum, bell peppers, corn, mushrooms, and zucchini. You can choose the veggies based on your preferences and availability. Once the veggies are ready, heat oil in a pan and add the veggies to it.
2. Spices
The next step is adding the spices. Gather all the spices you want in your pasta. Salt is a must. Other spices you can add to enhance the taste include black pepper, chilli flakes, peri-peri masala, and oregano. You can adjust the amount of the spices based on the quantity of your pasta. Also Read: Kitchen Hack: 5 Easy Ways To Add Leftover Pasta Water To Your Cooking
3. Sauces
The third step is your sauces. Since we are making a quick, one-pot pasta, we will not be boiling fresh tomatoes and then turning them into a puree. Instead, this recipe uses pre-made or store-bought sauces based on your preferences. Add pizza pasta sauce, mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, and tandoori sauce.
4. Add The Pasta
The pasta will be cooked directly in the sauce in this one-pot recipe. Add penne pasta, water, and cover. Let it cook for 10 minutes or more as required for the pasta to cook. Also Read: Want A New Kind Of White Sauce Pasta? Try This Creamy Cauliflower Pasta
5. Final Touch
When the pasta is almost ready, add chopped cheese cubes, cheese slices, or cheese spread. You can also add chopped green chillies if you like. Mix it all well for one minute and your tasty and quick one-pot pasta is ready! Garnish with grated cheese and oregano. Click here for the full one-pot pasta recipe.
Try this quick pasta recipe when craving something delicious at home.
At a private fund-raising reception last year, the president of the United States introduced himself this way: “My name is Joe Biden. I’m a friend of Esther Coopersmith’s.”
Mrs. Coopersmith’s name has been a calling card in Washington for seven decades. As one of the longest-reigning hostesses, best-connected diplomats and top fund-raisers in the nation’s capital, she greased the machinery that helped keep political, diplomatic and journalistic circles spinning; a place at her dinner tables, which sat 75, (with room for many more elsewhere and outside) provided access to networks of money, influence and power across cultural and political divides.
Among her many matches, she introduced Bill Clinton, who was then the governor of Arkansas, to Boris Yeltsin on a trip to Moscow. She introduced Jehan Sadat, the wife of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, to Aliza Begin, the wife of Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, before the Camp David peace accords. Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the longtime Soviet ambassador to the United States, had his first Thanksgiving at her table.
“People need a place out of the public spotlight to meet and talk,” she told The New York Times in 1987.
Mrs. Coopersmith, who had multiple affiliations with the United Nations but who also reveled in her role as a freelancing citizen diplomat, died on Tuesday at her home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington. She was 94.
The cause was cancer, said Janet Pitt, her longtime chief of staff. Rather than seek treatment that might have only postponed the inevitable and made her miserable, Ms. Pitt said, Mrs. Coopersmith “wanted to live her life.”
Mrs. Coopersmith at a reception at her Washington home with President Biden in October 2023.Credit…Janet Pitt
The last public event Mrs. Coopersmith attended was the Gridiron dinner in mid-March. That annual political roast was one of her favorite outings, Ms. Pitt said, because she could bring dignitaries from other countries and show them “how we could poke fun at our politicians and our government and live to tell about it the next day.”
President Biden said in a statement after Mrs. Coopersmith’s death that she was one of his “early boosters” when he was 29 and ran for the Senate in 1972. “Her belief in me,” he said, “meant the world.”
Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, said in a statement, “For all my years in politics, I have been in awe of her.” In an obituary published on Legacy.com, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called her “the indomitable doyenne of Washington.”
Mrs. Coopersmith grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and caught the politics bug while listening to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats on the radio. She moved to Washington in the early 1950s, landed a lobbying job and quickly parlayed her skills — personal warmth, self-confidence, smarts about people — into fund-raising.
Mrs. Coopersmith was fascinated by power and the alchemy that it produced. As she told The Times in 1987:
“I do it because I love the activity, the excitement, I love to mix people up, I love sharing my home. In New York if you have a lot of money you can buy your way into anything. Here it is power that counts — what your position is or could be. It is wonderful to watch power and how power affects people, how they run with it, how they adjust to it.”
While bipartisan in her pursuits, she was a Democrat at heart and over the years raised millions of dollars for the party’s candidates. By 1958, she was rubbing shoulders with the likes of former President Harry S. Truman, who scribbled on a photo of the two of them, “Kindest regards to an able and efficient Democrat from one who knows!”
Such mementos accumulated and in time occupied nearly every square inch of space in Mrs. Coopersmith’s four-story brick mansion. They included signed photos of decades of Washington players and international personages and a telegram from Mr. Carter thanking her for introducing Mrs. Sadat and Mrs. Begin and helping to get the peace accords off the ground. She later introduced Mrs. Sadat to Richard Berendzen, president of American University, who then hired Mrs. Sadat to teach.
Mrs. Coopersmith donated some of her treasure trove to the newly minted National Museum of American Diplomacy in Washington. To help promote the museum, she held a discussion at her home last year featuring Debora Cahn, the creator and showrunner of the popular Netflix series “The Diplomat,” starring Keri Russell, and Elizabeth Jones, a longtime foreign service officer and one of the figures on whom Ms. Russell’s character was based.
During the discussion, Ms. Cahn paid homage to the importance of personal relationships in geopolitics: “In a crisis, you can pick up the phone and call somebody who you sat next to at Esther Coopersmith’s and didn’t think it was a good seating choice in the beginning, but by dessert it seemed like you had a lot in common.”
Mrs. Coopersmith was proud of the sometimes unconventional pairings at her dinner table. In 1990, she seated an Israeli diplomat next to an emissary of Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq; shortly thereafter, Iraq invaded Kuwait and started the Persian Gulf war.
“It’s my home, and I can do whatever I want,” she told The Jerusalem Post in 1993. “They didn’t talk much, but as far as I was concerned, it was a start.”
She was born Esther Lipsen on Jan. 18, 1930, in Des Moines. Her family soon moved to the small town of Mazomanie, Wis., which is just northwest of Madison in the southern part of the state and at the time had a population of 891. Esther’s father, Morris, who came from Belarus, was a cattle rancher. Her mother, Pauline, who was born in Romania, managed the household of five children. They were the only Jewish family there.
By the age of 8, Esther was hooked on politics, thanks to F.D.R. By 12, she was raising money for the Red Cross.
She attended the University of Denver and later the University of Wisconsin. In 1952, she went to a rally for Senator Estes Kefauver, a Democrat from Tennessee who was running for president. Leaving college behind without graduating, she helped Mr. Kefauver win the Wisconsin primary; after he lost the nomination to Adlai Stevenson, she helped organize for Mr. Stevenson.
Esther Coopersmith, center, with Bess and Harry S. Truman to her right in an undated photo.Credit…Estate of Esther Coopersmith
She decided that the real power was in Washington and moved there at Mr. Kefauver’s suggestion. She refused to learn to type, to avoid being stereotyped as a secretary, and she eventually got a job as a lobbyist for the Federation for Railway Progress.
She married Jack Coopersmith, a real estate developer, in 1954, and they settled in Potomac, Md., where she began hosting dinners, buffets and book signings and organizing events. A decade later, she was staging Texas-style fund-raising barbecues for President Lyndon B. Johnson all over the country.
She soon branched out to philanthropy, raising money for service organizations and helping to save Washington’s Union Station from the wrecking ball. She threw an intimate dinner for Barbra Streisand in 2015 the night before Ms. Streisand lobbied on Capitol Hill for the Women’s Heart Alliance.Mr. Coopersmith died at 80 in 1991. Soon thereafter, Mrs. Coopersmith moved to Washington, where she overhauled the Kalorama house, not far from Embassy Row, with the help of a White House decorator.
She is survived by three sons, Jonathan, Jeffrey and Ronald; a daughter, Connie Coopersmith; a sister, Rita Rabinowitz; and eight grandchildren.
Over the years, Mrs. Coopersmith was given several quasi-official roles, most of them involving the United Nations. She served as a public member of the United States delegation to the U.N. under President Carter from 1979 to 1980; the position, also once held by Eleanor Roosevelt and Paul Newman, entails representing the United States on committees, attending debates in the General Assembly and showing up at receptions given by member nations.
President Ronald Reagan sent Mrs. Coopersmith to important U.N. conferences. She received the U.N. Peace Prize in 1984. President Clinton named her as a U.S. observer at UNESCO. In 2009, UNESCO named her a goodwill ambassador.
The posts gave her diplomatic cache, but she especially enjoyed practicing her own brand of soft diplomacy, defined by her own protocol, in the political kaleidoscope that is Washington.
“I don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t play cards and don’t belong to a country club,” she told The Times in 1978. “Politics is my vice.”
In this week’s episode, in recognition of international women’s month, Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs has compiled audio clips from interviews with female KOLs that she’s been fortunate enough to speak with over this past month for content across a few of our brands.
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