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you bet meaning Young people will have their benefits cut if they do not take up employment or education opportunities under Government plans to tackle worklessness, a minister has confirmed. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will set out details of how she intends to tackle economic inactivity and slash billions of pounds from the costs of welfare, on Tuesday. She has now confirmed her “youth guarantee” policy, which will compel those aged 18 to 21 to be in education or work, would result in sanctions on benefits claimants for those who do not engage. “If people repeatedly refuse to take up the training or work responsibilities, there will be sanctions on their benefits,” Kendall said. Referring to young people specifically, she told Sky News the Government would “transform” opportunities with a “youth guarantee” as part of the reforms, but they would in turn be “required to take them up” – arguing people have a “responsibility” to take up opportunities when offered. Ministers have previously hinted that there would be specific help on offer to vulnerable youths, such as care leavers, who might lack adequate support to access work or training. Kendall, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, have committed to reducing the welfare bill by £3 billion over five years. The Work and Pensions Secretary said she will bring forward her own proposals for how the savings will be made, and refused to rule out previous government plans to tighten the eligibility around who can be signed off work sick which would have seen around 400,000 people lose their current benefit entitlement. During the previous government the Conservatives planned to tighten welfare eligibility so around 400,000 people who are signed off as long-term sick would be assessed as needing to prepare for work by 2028/29. Kendall sidestepped answering questions on Sunday on whether she would retain those plans as part of her own measures. Latest official forecasts published by the Government show the number of people claiming incapacity benefits is expected to climb from around 2.5 million in 2019 to 4.2 million in 2029. It has been suggested the NHS could employ thousands of economically inactive people but No10 poured cold water on the idea, with a source saying they did not recognise the claim. But the Government will this week announce details of its long-awaited employment reforms to overhaul Jobcentres and merge them with the National Careers Service to focus on offering tailored employment support. The upcoming white paper is also expected to include the placement of work coaches in mental health clinics and will rely on increased use of technology, including AI, to make it easier for Jobcentre staff to provide specific support to people who are not in the labour market. The service will also operate on a more regional level to ensure that local jobs markets and industries are supported through tailored careers training, the Government said. The Government said the UK is the only G7 country that has higher levels of economic inactivity now than before the pandemic. Some 2.8 million people out of work due to long-term sickness, almost one and a half million also unemployed, and nearly a million young people neither in education or work. Kendall said the reasons for the increased number of claims are “complex” and that Britain is “an older and also sicker nation”. She suggested some people have “self-diagnosed” mental health problems, but added there is a “genuine problem” with mental illness in the UK. The Department for Work and Pensions will set out further welfare reforms next year which will look at how the disability benefit system works. The disability equality charity Scope said it supported giving disabled people “the same chances and opportunities to work as everyone else” and praised the notion of personalised employment services. But James Taylor, executive director of strategy, criticised the decision to press ahead with benefit cuts which could penalise disabled people. Read Next Replacing PIP cash benefits with vouchers would be wrong, say public “Over the years we have seen the repeated tightening of sanctions and conditionality ramp up misery, which has done little to improve the number of disabled people in work,” he said. “We’d urge the Secretary of State to take a fresh approach to supporting disabled people into work. By spending time listening to their experiences, and understanding the barriers they face that a focus on overall budgets and sanctions won’t solve.” A report, published on Sunday by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), warned almost a quarter of working age adults are reporting a disability or health problem. The CSJ said government plans must include specialist employment support and training opportunities for those with a disability or health problem, alongside policies to improve support for sick and disabled people from employers. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced criticism for his tough rhetoric around benefit claimants as he promised to crack down on those who defraud the welfare system. Writing in the Mail On Sunday, he promised “sweeping changes” and said he would “get to grips with the bulging benefits bill blighting our society”. But he added he would not “call people shirkers or go down the road of division”, and said instead treat them “with dignity and respect”. His comments were, however, met with disappointment from Labour MP Diane Abbott who said it was “sad that Starmer is peddling the benefit scrounger mythology”. Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake said he would be supportive of the Government’s proposals “if the plans are right”. “It’s not just about saving money. It’s also about getting people into work. You know, we, most of us, feel our mental health is better when we’re at work. But there are incentives in the system to leave the place of work, to go on cash benefits, and that’s one of the things I’ve been looking for in these changes Labour are going to make,” he said. .

FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are shutting down CeeDee Lamb with two games remaining after their 2023 All-Pro receiver spent the second half of the season dealing with a sprained right shoulder. The team said Thursday that additional exams revealed enough damage to keep Lamb off the field Sunday at Philadelphia and in the final game at home against Washington. The team said surgery was not expected to be required. Dallas was eliminated from playoff contention a few hours before last weekend’s 26-24 victory over Tampa Bay . The decision on Lamb means the Cowboys will finish the regular season with at least five former Pro Bowlers on injured reserve. Among the others are quarterback Dak Prescott, who was limited to eight games before a season-ending hamstring tear, and right guard Zack Martin. The seven-time All-Pro made it through 10 games before deciding on season-ending ankle surgery. Defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence didn’t playing after Week 4 because of a foot injury, and cornerback Trevon Diggs battled a variety of injuries while playing 11 games before a knee injury ended his season. Lamb initially injured his right shoulder when it hit the turf hard twice in a 27-21 loss at Atlanta on Nov. 3. He kept playing and had at least 100 yards in each of his last two games — both victories — before getting shut down. The 25-year-old Lamb sat out the entire offseason and preseason in a contract dispute after getting career highs in catches (an NFL-best 135), yards receiving (club-record 1,749) and touchdowns (12) in 2023. The holdout finally ended with a $136 million, four-year extension in late August, but neither the Cowboys nor their star receiver could get that production going again this season. Dallas (7-8) is missing the playoffs for the first time since 2020, Lamb’s rookie year. Lamb finishes the season with 101 catches for 1,194 yards and six TDs. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFLASX to drop after tech giants slide in the USWarriors face Pelicans, out to stay perfect in NBA Cup play

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Everyone except you and me is getting ready to bring in the New Year with celebration so let me share quietly some ideas for 2025. Having spent the past two weeks meandering around and searching for inspiration, I have decided that the coming year will be a year of “Greater Risk”. Risk is defined as “a situation involving exposure to danger, harm, or loss”. But it also means “the probability of an event occurring” and “the impact that an event may have”. In 2025 we will witness increased risk in the broadest sense of the word; increased danger, increased probability of that danger occurring, and increased opportunities. This is across the spectrum of geo/local politics and governance and geo/local economics and commerce. “The risk of the risk happening will bring a great risk when it happens”. You might think that sentence is silly but here is a “Chinse proverb” from “The Biography of Dongfang Shuo” written in 200 AD. “If you don’t enter the tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s cub?” The risk of entering the tiger’s den is that there is a high risk that you will suffer for the risk of obtaining a tiger’s cub. The Year of Greater Risk will encompass for us all aspects of risk from Risk Avoidance on to Risk Management and through to seeking out Risk Opportunities. I had previously written that I see 2025 as going to be a year of hard choices, that is having to make difficult decisions in choosing one of the presented options. Black and white, shades of grey, and “the lesser of two evils” are all around us. However, the hard choice/s that I am speaking of is different from choosing mango instead of banana for breakfast. In 2025, this is what I see happening. Two paths lie before me: one easier and one requiring more effort. The easy one is smooth and where I usually travel. The other is more outside my comfort zone but with both leading to the same place. I will pick the path that I usually avoided, replacing the potential for “immediate benefit” with long-term gains. That brings me to my personal strategy for 2025. This should be a year of increased self-sufficiency for all of us. That is not about raising your own chickens. It is about making your own milk tea. Ordering a milk tea delivered by motorcycle is one choice. Going to your kitchen and making it yourself is another option, a better choice for 2025. Anticipating and preparing for greater risk also comes back to my basic “survival” strategy: figure out the worst-case scenario and then make plans to survive and thrive in that situation. Even in an urban area, depending on your housing condition, you can have a separate water tank to store a three- or four-day supply. A basic generator is a bargain at less than P5,000 during a prolonged brownout. Seeking out risk with opportunities is also self-sufficiency and “hard choices” outside your comfort zone. My good friend Will Cabangon, President at AAA Southeast Equities, posted on August 1 his second half 2024 stock choices with the following results: PLUS (DigiPlus) up 61 percent, CBC (China Bank) up 60 percent, OGP (OceanaGold) up 7 percent, and APX (Apex Mining) down 20 percent with an equally weighted return of 27 percent. The PSEI during that period was off 2 percent. How much money did you make this year listening to the “experts”? You can make a bucket list of everything that is wrong in the world and the Philippines like one local pundit. Or find opportunities in a risky world and increase your wealth. Your choice. On June 2, 2025, the cycle trend goes into a yearlong uptrend forecasting increased volatility and “risk”. I guarantee that the next 18 months are going to see increased risk. What you do with that risk is your choice. Happy New Year, my friend. E-mail me at mangun@gmail.com. Visit my website at www.mangunonmarkets.com. Follow me on Twitter at @mangunonmarkets. PSE stock-market information and technical analysis tools provided by the COL Financial Group Inc.

Stormont minister Maurice Morrow told an official he would not raise the issue with the Northern Ireland Executive, despite similar measures being considered in England and Wales. A file on planning arrangements for the jubilee celebrations reveals a series of civil service correspondences on how Northern Ireland would mark the occasion. It includes a letter sent on January 11 2001 from an official in the Office of the First Minister/Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) to the Department of Social Development, advising that a committee had been set up in London to consider a programme of celebrations. The correspondence says: “One of the issues the committee is currently considering is the possibility of deregulating liquor licensing laws during the golden jubilee celebrations on the same lines as the arrangements made for the millennium. “It is felt that the golden jubilee bank holiday on Monday 3 June 2002 is likely to be an occasion on which many public houses and similar licensed premises would wish to stay open beyond normal closing time.” The letter said a paper had been prepared on the issue of extending opening hours. It adds: “You will note that paragraph seven of the paper indicates that the devolved administrations ‘would need to consider deregulation separately within their own jurisdictions’. “I thought that you would wish to be aware that this issue is receiving active consideration for England and Wales and to consider whether anything needs to be done for Northern Ireland.” Some months later a “progress report” was sent between officials in OFMDFM, which again raised the issue of licensing laws. It says: “I spoke to Gordon Gibson, DSD, about Terry Smith’s letter of 12 January 2001 about licensing laws: the matter was put to their minister Maurice Morrow (DUP) who indicated that he would not be asking the NIE (Northern Ireland Executive) to approve any change to current licensing laws in NI to allow for either 24 hour opening (as at the millennium) nor a blanket approval for extended opening hours as is being considered in GB. “In both cases, primary legislation would be required here and would necessitate consultation and the minister has ruled out any consultation process.” The correspondence says individual licensees could still apply for an extension to opening hours on an ad hoc basis, adding “there the matter rests”. It goes on: “DSD await further pronouncements from the Home Office and Gibson and I have agreed to notify each other of any developments we become aware of and he will copy me to any (existing) relevant papers. “Ministers may well come under pressure in due course for a relaxation and/or parity with GB.” The document concludes “That’s it so far...making haste slowly?” Emails sent between officials in the department the same month said that lord lieutenants in Northern Ireland had been approached about local events to mark the jubilee. One message says: “Lord lieutenants have not shown any enthusiasm for encouraging GJ celebrations at a local level. “Lady Carswell in particular believes that it would be difficult for LLs to encourage such activities without appearing political.”

Indian captain Rohit Sharma's dismal streak with the bat persisted on the fifth day of the fourth Test match in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, as he continued to struggle for form. This latest setback marked the sixth occasion on which Pat Cummins has removed Rohit in Test cricket, establishing an unenviable record for the most instances of one captain dismissing the opposing captain in the longest format of the game. ALSO READ: IND vs AUS: Virat Kohli's Flop Show Continues In Australia, Faces Flak From Netizens After Subpar Performance In MCG Test The Indian batting stalwart has been under intense scrutiny from both fans and experts alike, with his recent string of underwhelming performances sparking widespread criticism. The latest lacklustre display against Australia only added fuel to the fire, with the chorus of voices calling for his retirement growing louder by the day. Rohit demonstrated uncharacteristic restraint during India's second innings in Melbourne. However, his cautious approach ultimately came to nil, as he fell victim to a spectacular catch by Mitchell Marsh at gully. ALSO READ: IND vs AUS: Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma Fail To Make Amends As India Totters At 33 For 3 At Lunch On Day 5 Captain dismissing an opposition captain most times in Tests 6 - Rohit Sharma by Pat Cummins * 5 - Ted Dexter by Richie Benaud 5 - Sunil Gavaskar by Imran Khan 4 - Gulabrai Ramchand by Richie Benaud 4 - Clive Lloyd by Kapil Dev 4 - Peter May by Richie BenaudDid Artificial Intelligence Influence the 2024 U.S. Elections?Young people will have their benefits cut if they do not take up employment or education opportunities under Government plans to tackle worklessness, a minister has confirmed. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will set out details of how she intends to tackle economic inactivity and slash billions of pounds from the costs of welfare, on Tuesday. She has now confirmed her “youth guarantee” policy, which will compel those aged 18 to 21 to be in education or work, would result in sanctions on benefits claimants for those who do not engage. “If people repeatedly refuse to take up the training or work responsibilities, there will be sanctions on their benefits,” Kendall said. Referring to young people specifically, she told Sky News the Government would “transform” opportunities with a “youth guarantee” as part of the reforms, but they would in turn be “required to take them up” – arguing people have a “responsibility” to take up opportunities when offered. Ministers have previously hinted that there would be specific help on offer to vulnerable youths, such as care leavers, who might lack adequate support to access work or training. Kendall, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, have committed to reducing the welfare bill by £3 billion over five years. The Work and Pensions Secretary said she will bring forward her own proposals for how the savings will be made, and refused to rule out previous government plans to tighten the eligibility around who can be signed off work sick which would have seen around 400,000 people lose their current benefit entitlement. During the previous government the Conservatives planned to tighten welfare eligibility so around 400,000 people who are signed off as long-term sick would be assessed as needing to prepare for work by 2028/29. Kendall sidestepped answering questions on Sunday on whether she would retain those plans as part of her own measures. Latest official forecasts published by the Government show the number of people claiming incapacity benefits is expected to climb from around 2.5 million in 2019 to 4.2 million in 2029. It has been suggested the NHS could employ thousands of economically inactive people but No10 poured cold water on the idea, with a source saying they did not recognise the claim. But the Government will this week announce details of its long-awaited employment reforms to overhaul Jobcentres and merge them with the National Careers Service to focus on offering tailored employment support. The upcoming white paper is also expected to include the placement of work coaches in mental health clinics and will rely on increased use of technology, including AI, to make it easier for Jobcentre staff to provide specific support to people who are not in the labour market. The service will also operate on a more regional level to ensure that local jobs markets and industries are supported through tailored careers training, the Government said. The Government said the UK is the only G7 country that has higher levels of economic inactivity now than before the pandemic. Some 2.8 million people out of work due to long-term sickness, almost one and a half million also unemployed, and nearly a million young people neither in education or work. Kendall said the reasons for the increased number of claims are “complex” and that Britain is “an older and also sicker nation”. She suggested some people have “self-diagnosed” mental health problems, but added there is a “genuine problem” with mental illness in the UK. The Department for Work and Pensions will set out further welfare reforms next year which will look at how the disability benefit system works. The disability equality charity Scope said it supported giving disabled people “the same chances and opportunities to work as everyone else” and praised the notion of personalised employment services. But James Taylor, executive director of strategy, criticised the decision to press ahead with benefit cuts which could penalise disabled people. Read Next Replacing PIP cash benefits with vouchers would be wrong, say public “Over the years we have seen the repeated tightening of sanctions and conditionality ramp up misery, which has done little to improve the number of disabled people in work,” he said. “We’d urge the Secretary of State to take a fresh approach to supporting disabled people into work. By spending time listening to their experiences, and understanding the barriers they face that a focus on overall budgets and sanctions won’t solve.” A report, published on Sunday by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), warned almost a quarter of working age adults are reporting a disability or health problem. The CSJ said government plans must include specialist employment support and training opportunities for those with a disability or health problem, alongside policies to improve support for sick and disabled people from employers. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced criticism for his tough rhetoric around benefit claimants as he promised to crack down on those who defraud the welfare system. Writing in the Mail On Sunday, he promised “sweeping changes” and said he would “get to grips with the bulging benefits bill blighting our society”. But he added he would not “call people shirkers or go down the road of division”, and said instead treat them “with dignity and respect”. His comments were, however, met with disappointment from Labour MP Diane Abbott who said it was “sad that Starmer is peddling the benefit scrounger mythology”. Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake said he would be supportive of the Government’s proposals “if the plans are right”. “It’s not just about saving money. It’s also about getting people into work. You know, we, most of us, feel our mental health is better when we’re at work. But there are incentives in the system to leave the place of work, to go on cash benefits, and that’s one of the things I’ve been looking for in these changes Labour are going to make,” he said. .

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When the MLS playoffs began late last month, everyone who follows Inter Miami assumed coach Tata Martino would be preparing his team for the conference semifinals this week. Instead, the runner up for MLS Coach of the Year was in the Chase Stadium interview room on Friday morning announcing his resignation two weeks after the team’s shocking first-round playoff exit. Martino said he wanted to diffuse rumors and stress that he is leaving strictly for personal reasons, that he must return to his hometown of Rosario, Argentina, and that his decision was made before the first playoff game in late-October. He said not even his coaching staff knew of his decision at the time as he did not want it to be a distraction. He informed Lionel Messi, managing owner Jorge Mas, and President of Football Operations Raul Sanllehi last Saturday and told the rest of the players on Wednesday, after they returned from the FIFA break. Martino has no plans to coach another club in the immediate future, saying he cannot take on another job in early 2025 because he needs to focus on personal matters in Rosario. Mas said his conversation with Martino ended at 11 a.m. last Saturday, the search for a new coach began “at 11:01” and that the club had selected a new coach by Wednesday, are finalizing contract details and “will be announcing a new coach for Inter Miami in the upcoming days.” Javier Mascherano, an Argentine national team legend and former teammate of Messi’s, is the leading candidate to replace Martino, according to a few league sources. Media reports from Argentina say it is a done deal. Mas would not confirm or deny the Mascherano rumors but said that the new coach will have a winning history at the highest level as a player or coach, have familiarity with Messi and the other team stars, and will be well-suited to lead Miami’s elite players as well as its young players. “We have a very unique situation at Inter Miami where we have the best player in the world on our team, accompanied by generational talents like Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, accompanied by academy kids like Benja Cremaschi, Noah Allen, Ian Fray, David Ruiz, who have played significant minutes, and also young budding stars like Facundo Farias, Toto Aviles, Diego Gomez, Fede Redondo, so it will take a manager to play the attacking style we want to play with that combination of players,” Mas said. Mascherano, the 40-year-old ex-Barcelona defensive midfielder, has been coaching Argentina’s U-20 team the past three years and coached Argentina in the 2024 Paris Olympics. He has a storied playing career but has never coached a club team and has no experience in MLS, which is quite different from other leagues around the world in everything from schedule to salary structure. Asked how involved Messi was in the coaching search, Mas said: “I spoke to Leo, and he gave his input. Familiarity with Leo and the other stars is an advantage in every aspect. I want Leo to feel comfortable with the new coach, but Raul and I spearheaded the search. “This is not our first coaching search. I have been involved in interviewing some of the world’s best coaches since 2019. We have more experience now. We know exactly what we want. That’s why we were able to accomplish this search in five days. ... This is not the first time I spoke to this individual. We came close [to hiring him] in 2020, and he has been following our team and the league closely.” Mas added that while MLS experience would be a plus, it is not a necessary criteria for the incoming coach, and then repeated that the main attributes they were looking for were a coach who could manage a locker room of stars and youngsters. “We want to thank Tata Martino and appreciate everything he has given this club for the past year and a half,” Mas said. “His fingerprints and success will always be part of our history.” Mas pointed out that the team, under Martino, lifted the Leagues Cup trophy in the summer of 2023, made the final of the U.S. Open Cup, won the 2024 Supporters’ Shield and broke the league’s points record. Martino, 62, led Inter Miami to a league-record 74 points, which also earned the team the Supporters’ Shield for best regular season record. The team scored a league-high 79 goals. Miami, with a star-studded roster including Argentine icon Messi and three of his former Barcelona teammates, fell short of expectations with a first-round exit from the MLS Playoffs after losing the best 2-of-3 series to Atlanta United. Martino had a year remaining on his contract. He joined Inter Miami in July 2023 upon Messi’s arrival and was a natural choice to get the job as he led Atlanta United to the 2018 MLS Cup title in that club’s second season, had coached in two World Cups with Paraguay and Mexico, reached three Copa America finals and, vitally important, coached Messi at FC Barcelona and with the Argentine national team. Martino replaced Phil Neville and took over a team that was in last place in the Eastern Conference with a 5-13-0 record just past the midway point of the season. With the addition of Messi, Busquets and Alba, Martino led the team to the 2023 Leagues Cup title later that summer. Upon announcing his decision on Friday, Martino took time to thank team ownership and management and lamented that he couldn’t continue being part of the club’s growth next season. “It has been a very satisfactory year and a half, I am grateful for the opportunity, and although we ended the season on a sour note, and fell short of what we wanted to accomplish, we had a lot of success and I would have liked very much to have continued being part of this club,” Martino said. “I am happy we transformed this club from one that struggled to make the playoffs to the one that won the Leagues Cup, won Supporters’ Shield, and had the best record in history.” Martino was asked how his players reacted to the news. “It’s clear when you leave a job so abruptly, especially when there aren’t any apparent reasons, it hard to expect people to understand,” Martino said. “There are many coaches out there who would love this job. People would say, `This guy is crazy, working in this team, living in this place, working in this league and he’s leaving where everyone wants to be.’ I have had moments like this in my career. Things happen, and you have to leave. I appreciate that the players respected my decision and the club will go on.” Asked what the team was missing during the playoff series with Atlanta, he replied that Atlanta goalkeeper Brad Guzan was decisive in all three games, that Inter Miami played well and was in position to win all three games, and there were some intangibles and moments that went against Miami. “I know someone from the outside hears that and thinks I am not being self-critical, which is not true. I am. People will debate if we should have played four in back or five, but if I had to do it again, I would line up the same way. In hindsight, it is easy to debate, and everyone has a right to their opinion.” Mas also addressed the futures of Suarez, whose contract expires in December, and Alba, who has an option for next season, and dismissed rumors that sporting director Chris Henderson was headed to another club. “I think Luis Suarez has been an amazing addition to our team and our league,” Mas said. “What he did this year was spectacular. Jordi Alba, my personal opinion is he had the best season of any left back on MLS history and I don’t think it’s close. We’re going to continue to have the best team we can. There are no budget limitations, we will continue to bring top players from all over the world ... and use every single roster mechanism we can.” ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit miamiherald.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Holyhead parcel backlog: An Post says 16,000 parcels still to be delivered as additional air freight capacity secured