Israel strikes Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital while the WHO chief says he was meters away JERUSALEM (AP) — A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen has targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports. The World Health Organization’s director-general said Thursday's bombardment took place just “meters away” as he was about to board a flight in Sanaa. He says a crew member was hurt. The strikes followed several days of Houthi attacks and launches setting off sirens in Israel. Israel's military says it attacked infrastructure used by the Houthis at the airport in Sanaa, power stations and ports. The Israeli military later said it wasn’t aware that the WHO chief was at the location in Yemen. At least three people were reported killed and dozens injured in the Sanaa airport strike. 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Bob Menendez is asking a federal judge to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges, saying his family would suffer a “tremendous emotional toll” if the New Jersey Democrat was sentenced during his wife's trial. His lawyers told Judge Sidney H. Stein in a letter that Nadine Menendez would face a jury that might find it impossible not to hear about her husband's sentencing if it occurred eight days into her trial. The 70-year-old Menendez was convicted in July of 16 charges, including bribery. His wife, whose trial was postponed when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, faces much of the same evidence as her husband. How the stock market defied expectations again this year, by the numbers NEW YORK (AP) — What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors. U.S. stocks ripped higher and carried the S&P 500 to records as the economy kept growing and the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates. 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Article content With the unfortunate announcement that the provincial government intends to demolish the original Royal Alberta Museum building in Glenora, various proposals have been put forward for salvaging the structure and refitting it for other purposes. One concept which I have not seen, however, is reverting the building to its original use. Upgrades would be restorative rather than structural and far less costly than outright demolition and replacement. But, do we not have a fully functional Royal Alberta Museum downtown? Yes, we do, and a good one. However, looking to the future of the city and province, with continuing population growth, would it not be in line to consider the capital city deserving of a second facility to reveal aspects of our province’s past? Most world metropolises have several. Aside from the excellent but one-dimensional Alberta Aviation Museum (which the city has considered selling off), the governing idea has been to confine all the artifacts that explain Alberta’s history to the people of Edmonton in one venue. Why not ease this burden by transforming the original RAM into a Royal Alberta Museum of Natural and Indigenous History? This would fit well with the open spaces currently surrounding it partially filled with vegetation, the scenic river valley below, and the historic Government House beside it. Parking space would continue to be ample and supplemented by a major bus route and the LRT three blocks away. This would leave the current RAM downtown free to concentrate on revealing the story of the settlement period in Alberta, social, agricultural and industrial, with all cultures represented, including Indigenous. The result would be a fuller overall picture of the story of Alberta. The move would also partially ease the problem of collections storage which plagues all modern museums as well as archives and libraries. Besides, theoretically, both the original and the current RAM were already subjectively sub-divided according to natural and human history, with the humans further sub-divided according to Indigenous and non-Indigneous. Such a move would be costly and involve additional staff, but development could be in stages and spread over time. And, long before complete transformation, the old RAM could resume functionality, with exhibits emerging gradually, the excellent auditorium returning to full use, and the cafeteria open on an as-needed basis. The problem of artifact storage space could be addressed almost immediately. Whatever the fate of the old RAM, what politicians and planners should absolutely keep foremost in mind is the future. If the city and its environs are to soon hold over two million people, is the current RAM suited to adequately reveal the entire story of Alberta to all people, including newcomers and visitors, especially given the absence of a city museum? I would say no, and the time to start planning for future needs is now. The best start would be a consideration of the resources at hand. The main one should surely be the original Provincial Museum and Archives, or at least the main portion of it. David W. Leonard is an historian and archivist employed by the Provincial Museum and Archives as early as 1969, the facility having been opened two years earlier. He was later a senior staff member there for 15 years and eventually inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence.
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Director Elia Kazan ‘s “ The Visitors ” was barely noticed when it was released in 1972, and it hasn’t had many opportunities for reappraisal since. While several of Kazan’s other movies that were commercial failures during their initial runs — most notably “Baby Doll,” “ A Face in the Crowd ” and “ Wild River ” — have since been canonized as classics, “The Visitors” remains obscure. That’s a shame, because it’s a fascinating case of Kazan applying his talents to film that initially seems like a major departure, but on deeper examination reveals itself to be a personal and profound work. A new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber provides the perfect opportunity to take a closer look after decades in which “The Visitors” was almost impossible to find (and almost never in watchable transfers — the long out-of-print MGM DVD reduces the entire movie to a murky blob). The story is stark and simple: Years after he testified against his platoon-mates, who raped and murdered a Vietnamese civilian during the war, Bill Schmidt (James Woods in his feature debut) receives a visit from them at his rural home. The motives of the visitors (Steve Railsback and Chico Martinez) are initially unclear to Bill’s wife Patricia Joyce) and father-in-law (Patrick McVey), but it doesn’t take long for their calm politeness to turn to menace and intimidation — or for them to form a disturbing alliance with the macho father-in-law, who clearly despises his daughter’s pacifist son. The movie is essentially a slow tightening of the screws as Kazan — working from a screenplay by his son Chris — creates a steady sense of unease that never quite gives the audience the release one might expect. The stripped-down nature of “The Visitors,” which only has five characters and takes place entirely on the piece of property where Bill lives, returns Kazan to his theatrical roots, though the film is highly cinematic in its rhythms. Kazan and editor Nicholas T. Proferes — doing double duty here as cinematographer too, just as he did on Kazan’s wife Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda” — eschew conventional coverage for long takes that exacerbate the tensions inherent in the premise, and they choose shots that often keep us from seeing what we really want to see. Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between. The result is a truly unsettling — and, for the few people who saw “The Visitors” when it came out, evidently unpleasant — experience made all the more troubling by its moral ambiguity. “The Visitors” was the first American film to seriously address the Vietnam War and its repercussions, and it’s extremely provocative in the questions it raises about where to draw the line when it comes to brutality in wartime and the necessity of turning young men into monsters to fight our wars. Stanley Kubrick would take these ideas and run with them to greater effect in “Full Metal Jacket,” but Kazan was there first. Aside from the content, one of the most shocking things about “The Visitors” is how grimy it is; Kazan, even when he was shooting allegedly vérité movies like “Pinky,” was always a major studio filmmaker with a certain degree of polish, but that polish is completely absent here. That’s because “The Visitors” was shot on 16mm for less than $200,000, money Kazan raised independently in an effort to assist his son Chris. Kazan, in fact, always claimed “The Visitors” was more Chris’ film than his; he wanted to help his son realize his screenwriting ambitions, so he encouraged him to write something they could shoot at Kazan’s own country home in Connecticut with minimal resources. Chris took a real-life incident as his starting point — the same one Brian De Palma would use as the basis for “Casualties of War” 16 years later — and added what he knew about the My Lai massacre into the mix to hypothesize about what the perpetrators of that atrocity might have been like when they got home. Kazan got the idea to collaborate with his son Chris from his wife Barbara; after he saw what she and Proferes did on “Wanda,” he decided to try their guerrilla approach out for himself. He couldn’t have picked a better subject, because instead of straining against its limited resources “The Visitors” is defined by them in artistically productive ways. It’s claustrophobic, grainy, ugly, and sparse — the perfect visual language for the cruelty at its core. Proferes’ camera adeptly alternates between cramped, off-kilter compositions and snowy landscapes in which we see lonely figures in long shot barely able to move. In both cases, the characters are dehumanized in the same way the war has dehumanized them. Kazan may have claimed the movie belonged to his son, but there’s no question that the themes resonated with him. He had, at least as far back as “A Face in the Crowd,” been interested in the evils that could be justified in the name of American values, and it’s impossible not to recall Kazan’s HUAC testimony in the scenes depicting Bill’s guilt over informing on his peers. The film’s connection between class resentment and sexual violence, which emerges when the Railsback character sets his sights on Bill’s wife, is another Kazan trademark, dealt with most effectively and most famously in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” In spite of Kazan’s categorization of “The Visitors” as an impersonal project, he acknowledged that shooting under its tight restrictions — the whole thing was shot at his own country home with a crew of just four people — reinvigorated him to some degree. He said “The Visitors” returned him to “the purity of poverty,” and excitedly talked about making more films using its methodology. Sadly, as film scholars Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio note in their superb audio commentary on the Kino disc, this plan never came to pass. Kazan made only one more film, “The Last Tycoon,” and its auspices as a studio project with big movie stars and glossy production values made it the antithesis of “The Visitors.” Not that the money helped — “Tycoon” was a miserable experience for Kazan and he never made another movie, spending the rest of his life writing novels and a memoir. Perhaps if “The Visitors” had met with any kind of critical or commercial approval, Kazan would have made good on his promise to make more films of its ilk, but in terms of reception, it was an unmitigated disaster. (At least in America — it did find some critical respect in France.) What should have been a new beginning was the beginning of the end for Kazan, but 52 years after the power of “The Visitors” is tough to ignore.Psychedelic drugs, back pain or inability to have sex... what did drive suspect Luigi Mangione to assassinate CEO?
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Esther Haywood, longtime NAACP leader and ex-state legislator, dead at 84From Christmas stockings to cozy crocheted slippers, something extra special happens when holiday gifts and keepsakes are homemade. During the cozy weekends left before Christmas, there is still a little time left to make handmade holiday gifts from the heart. Technology has made it even simpler. Searching the Internet for “DIY (do it yourself) ornaments” or “DIY Christmas gift ideas” generates hundreds of results, with detailed tutorials often included (candies, cookies, containers, hand-dipped candles, tote bags, earrings and jewelry, gift baskets, homemade jams, snowball bath bomb, bath salt, wind chimes, wreaths). In addition to adding a unique one-of-a-kind touch to a gift, several of the handmade ornament ideas details below can be turned into fun activities with children. Kids' handmade ornaments Supplies for handmade ornaments can be as simple as household items like clothespins, paper, jar lids, flour and salt. Less-common items like fimo clay, wood, felt, yarn, string and/or embroidery thread can be picked up with quip trip to the craft or variety store. A relatively simple recipe for a handmade ornament and a fun memory is a salt dough ornament. Salt dough is a mix of flour, salt and water. Rather than a kiln, only a kitchen oven at 250F is needed to bake salt dough. Because salt is a preservative, the resultant ornament can last years. Dough Ingredients • 4 cups all-purpose flour • 1 cup table salt • 1 and 1⁄2 cups warm water • Optional: polyurethane spray or modge podge Mix flour and salt, then stir with spoon while lowly adding warm water. Switch to using hands as the dough gets thick. Kneed the dough for a few minutes until it is soft and pliable. Note, if the dough is too sticky, add flour. If the dough is too hard, add water. Wrap in plastic wrap or a baggie and let the dough rest for 30 minutes or so. If rolling out, place dough in between two pieces of parchment paper and roll out to 1⁄4” thick and cut out with cookie cutter. You can also shape the dough by hand to make small figurines. Prior to baking, use a toothpick or skewer to cut the holes for the ornament hanger. Bake at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for around 2 hours until it is hard and dry. Decorate after it’s completely cooled. A toy drum ornament is one way to involve children in making ornaments for gifts. Supplies needed include the core from a paper towel roll, paint, colored paper and ribbons. To build the little drum, cut the core of the roll so that it is about 2-inches tall, or the desired drum height. Use the roll to trace the top and bottom out using thick paper. Cut the circles out and glue onto the core. Paint or cover the drum sides with paper and ribbons in a crisscross pattern. Toothpicks can be used to make drumsticks. Another simple-to-make ornament with children is a 3-D star made with toothpicks, a foam ball and spray paint. To make this, poke toothpicks into the foam core in all directions and spray it outside with metallic spray paint. The result is a shiny 3-D star. Popsicle sticks can be used to make Christmas trees, sleds, bases of gingerbread houses and more. Crochet, knit and embroidered gifts If you do not already crochet, knit or macrame, there may not be much time to learn before Christmas. Fortunately, plenty of trocheted, knit, embroidered giftshese types of handmade gifts can be purchased by local artisans, craft fairs, boutiques and online sites like Etsy. Handmade gifts of yarn range from sweaters, stockings, throw pillows, scarves, hats and gloves, oven mitts, coasters, wash clothes and potholders. If you are interested in learning to crochet or knit, YouTube makes it simple to learn, with slow and detailed video of different stiches and patterns to follow. Macrame is another handmade art that has regained popularity. The internet and YouTube offer several video tutorials for how to macrame in general and details for specific knot types. Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more.
With Easter Sunday falling on April 20 next year, customers shared their confusion on social media after finding chocolate eggs and hot cross buns already for sale in shops including Morrisons, Tesco and Asda. One user, @Jingle1991, shared an image of Malteser Bunnies in Sainsbury’s on Christmas Eve and pointed out: “Jesus hasn’t even been born yet.” Meanwhile, Gary Evans from Margate shared a shot of Creme Eggs on display in Morrisons in Margate on Boxing Day. “I just think its crazy that everything is so superficial and meaninglessly commercial... (there’s) something quite frantic about it,” the 66-year-old told the PA news agency. No Shame.Morrisons.Easter eggs.Boxing Day. December 26th.Peace on Earth pic.twitter.com/slGoIjOpRq — Gary Evans (@GaryEva04679693) December 26, 2024 Joseph Robinson found Easter confectionary including Cadbury Mini Eggs, and themed Kit-Kat and Kinder Surprise products at his local Morrisons in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday evening. “It’s funny, as they’ve not even managed to shift the Christmas chocolates off the shelves yet and they’re already stocking for Easter,” the 35-year-old admin support worker told PA. “I wish that Supermarkets weren’t so blatantly consumerist-driven and would actually allow customers and staff a time to decompress during the Christmas period.” @Morrisons It's not even a full 2025 and you're already stocking for easter.Kindly get in the bin pic.twitter.com/kLS7DGSRXt — Joseph (@stokegoblin) December 27, 2024 Asked if he was tempted to make a purchase, Mr Robinson added: “As a vegan it holds no appeal to me!” Mike Chalmers, a devout Christian from Chippenham, Wiltshire, was slightly less critical after spotting a display entitled: “Celebrate this Easter with Cadbury.” Easter is for life, not just for Christmas(Photo today in Morrisons!) pic.twitter.com/VmdJ31La9r — Mike Chalmers (@realMChalmers) December 27, 2024 “Christmas and Easter are the two centrepoints of the Christian good news story so it’s no bad thing to see the connections,” the 44-year-old said. “It’s about more than shapes of chocolate though!” Marketing consultant Andrew Wallis admitted he was surprised to see Easter eggs in the Co-op in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, but added it also illustrates “forward-thinking” from big businesses. Christmas isn’t even over, and Easter eggs are already on the shelves. Say what you want about it—but big brands don’t wait. They plan ahead and act fast. Are you doing the same? Your future self will thank you pic.twitter.com/Sl9qd7sOGS — andrewwallis (@andrewwallis) December 27, 2024 “It made me reflect on how big brands are always thinking ahead and planning early,” the 54-year-old from the Isle of Man, who provides marketing advice to the fitness industry, told PA. “My message to retailers would be: while planning ahead is important, it’s also essential to be mindful of consumer sentiment. “Some might feel it’s too early for seasonal products like this but others might see it as a sign of forward-thinking. “Striking the right balance is key to keeping customers happy.”
November 22, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by Chen Na, Chinese Academy of Sciences Recently, a research team led by Professor Jiang Changlong at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a new donor-acceptor (D-A) type fluorescent dye called AFL. This dye changes its fluorescence color and intensity depending on solvent polarity and temperature, making it useful for quick visual monitoring. The research findings were published in Advanced Functional Materials . D-A fluorescent dyes are important for sensors because they can detect specific molecules or environmental changes. However, many current D-A dyes face issues like fluorescence quenching under certain conditions. This new AFL, developed by the HFIPS researchers, shows different fluorescence responses depending on solvent polarity. In highly polar solvents, AFL's fluorescence emission shifts, allowing for the detection of solvent polarity. The team also created a composite material , AFL@TA, by combining AFL with tetradecanoic acid (TA). This composite changes fluorescence intensity based on temperature and viscosity. As temperature increases, the viscosity decreases, leading to lower fluorescence intensity. AFL@TA composite films, which are flexible and stable, were also developed as a potential temperature sensor. These films showed a clear linear relationship between temperature and fluorescence intensity, making them useful for real-time visual temperature detection in various conditions. This research opens up new possibilities for D-A fluorescent sensing materials and expands their applications in visual sensing technology. More information: Anqi Liu et al, Donor–Acceptor Type Solvatochromic Flavonoid Materials Fluorphores for Polarity Sensing and Real‐Time Temperature Monitoring, Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202415250 Journal information: Advanced Functional Materials Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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