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One week in, the ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding, but everything is connected: Only three days later, the civil war in Syria started up again after a de facto four-year truce. In just a few days more the Sunni Muslim fanatics of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, burst out of the northwestern province of Idlib where they had been confined since 2016 and captured Aleppo, Syria’s second-biggest city. The Syrian army has completely withdrawn from Aleppo, and its spokesperson explained that “the multiplicity of battlefronts prompted our armed forces to carry out a redeployment operation aimed at strengthening the defence lines in order to absorb the attack, preserve the lives of civilians and soldiers, and prepare for a counterattack.” “Redeployment” usually means “retreat,” and at last report HTS forces were advancing down the main north-south freeway and nearing the city of Hama, almost halfway to Damascus. This may not be a replay of the western scramble out of Afghanistan and the Taliban victory of 2021, but the future of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is certainly at risk. However, two things are different this time. One is that Assad has the unwavering support of Russia (whose air force is already striking the rebel forces from its bases in Syria). The other is that a large number of Syrians (all Christians, all Shia Muslims and an indeterminate number of Sunni Muslims) prefer even Assad to the rule of the HTS fanatics. It’s no coincidence that the war in Syria restarted just as Hezbollah was defeated in Lebanon, since Lebanon and Syria were part of the same province for most of the last 1,000 years. The French divided them in 1920, ostensibly because there was a big Christian minority in Lebanon but really as part of an imperial strategy of divide-and-rule. One-third of the Lebanese are still Christians, but what drives the country’s politics now is the rivalry between Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims. Each accounts for about a third of the population, but the Shias have dominated Lebanese politics in recent decades because they had their own powerful army, Hezbollah. That army has now suffered a grave defeat. Syria also has a Shia minority, though a much smaller one: between 10 and 15 per cent of the population. However, Shias completely dominate Syrian politics because the French filled the upper ranks of their colonial army with Shias on the same old divide-and-rule principle — and the Shias parlayed that into permanent political dominance over the whole country. For Sunnis in both Lebanon and Syria, the Shias are the main enemy. Once the Israelis had decimated Hezbollah’s forces in Lebanon over the past two months, therefore, it was only natural for Sunni extremists in Syria to have another go at overthrowing their local Shia enemy, the Assad regime. It is far from certain that they will succeed, but HTS has definitely caught the Assad regime with its pants down and is building up a momentum that will be hard to resist. What would happen if Assad and the Shias actually lost power in Syria? It would be a catastrophe for the people of Syria, who would end up living under an Islamist tyranny that would be even more repressive and brutal than the current regime. On the other hand, it could be a boon for the long-suffering Lebanese, whom Hezbollah keeps dragging into wars with Israel that most Lebanese would rather avoid. It would be a disaster for the Islamist (Shia) ayatollahs of Iran. They would lose half of their “Axis of Resistance,” the band of mostly Shia-run allies that protect Iran from direct physical confrontation with Israel. Those allies include Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. Could these serial upheavals end up overthrowing the Iranian regime itself? It’s not impossible, if all the other Shia dominoes fall, one after another. Whatever regime replaced the ayatollahs would also be Shia, because 95 per cent of Iranians follow that branch of Islam, but its policies and allies might be very different. But it is too early to say that any of the dominoes will fall, let alone all of them. It’s just as likely that HTS, successor to al-Qaida and ISIS and now making such rapid progress in Syria, will over-extend itself, and that the Syrian army, Russian air power and quiet support from Egypt and the Arab Gulf states will eventually drive the jihadis back. That would be the least bad outcome, although it is certainly not a good one. If you doubt that, look at the images of HTS fighters moving south. Half of them show men with a single finger pointing to the sky: “There is only one God, and we will impose his rule.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California was under a rare and brief tsunami warning alert Thursday that tested local emergency notification systems after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook part of the state. The National Weather Service canceled its alert after roughly an hour and before the tsunami was expected to arrive. In that hour, some cities and counties ordered evacuations while others relied on social media and text messages to inform people of the warning. Some people headed for higher ground, while others drove to the beach to get a better view. People took to social media to figure out why a warning was issued and then canceled so quickly, and how the NWS determines when to send alerts. Here are answers to more questions. The word for tsunami comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave. It's a series of extremely long waves set in motion when energy from an earthquake causes the ocean floor to suddenly rise or fall, according to the National Weather Service . Since 1800, California's shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis, most of them minor, according to the California Geological Survey. Phones buzzed Thursday when the National Weather Service issued its warning just minutes after the quake struck west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County. It read in part: “You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now.” The National Weather Service Bay Area posted on the social platform X early Friday that the region doesn't get tsunami alerts often and “there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger” about Thursday's event. A warning alert is the most serious of four tsunami alerts, including a watch alert for a possible tsunami and an advisory alert telling people to stay out of the water and away from the shore. The last time California received a warning alert was 2011 when an earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast. Basically, a distant, offshore earthquake or other trigger event gives scientists more time to analyze data and confirm that a large tsunami was generated before sounding a warning. But Thursday’s earthquake was local and close to the coast, forcing a hasty high-level alert in order to give people the maximum time to prepare as tsunami waves can travel very fast, up to 500 mph (800 kph) in the deep ocean, the NWS wrote. “By the time we actually observe it, it may be too late, because it's right there in our back doors,” said Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with NWS Bay Area, on Friday. Scientists used the time Thursday to monitor buoys and get more information on the earthquake itself, he said. They canceled the alert after seeing little sea-level change and determining the quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, he said. “These things happen so infrequently for us, I think it just caught a lot of people off-guard,” he said. Authorities in Eureka, the biggest city in Humboldt County, sent texts and went door-to-door to order businesses in high-risk areas to evacuate, said City Manager Miles Slattery. He said only a small portion of the city was at risk, and Thursday's test run showed evacuees need to work on leaving by foot, rather than by car. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the commuter light-rail system known as BART stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Responses varied as fire and police in Berkeley evacuated certain areas of the city while in San Francisco, officials sent alerts and messages on social media telling residents to stay away from water, beaches, harbors, marina docks, and piers. “Move at least one block inland,” said the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. Emergency personnel in vehicles with public address systems also went to make sure no one was on beaches and other low-lying areas. But some critics said San Francisco should have sounded its loud emergency sirens, which have been off-line since 2019 for repairs. In San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, officials considered but decided against sounding its tsunami warning sirens after receiving more comprehensive information from the NWS that any tsunami would affect coastlines north of the Golden Gate Bridge, said Michelle Durand, a spokesperson for the county. Fire and police cleared the beaches while emergency personnel gathered to monitor the situation, she said, which “prioritized both public safety and the prevention of unnecessary panic.”Gemini Daily Horoscope Today, Dec 03, 2024 predicts exploring new possibilities
The Arizona Cardinals are 6-6 through 12 games, which makes them an average football team. That's much better than the previous two years, which both ended with just four wins. But after two straight frustrating losses, it's not providing much consolation for a franchise that feels as though it should be much better. The latest setback came on Sunday, when the Minnesota Vikings . Arizona never trailed until Sam Darnold threw a 5-yard touchdown pass with 1:18 remaining that proved to be the winning score. It was a mistake-filled performance for the Cardinals, who racked up 10 penalties for 96 yards. That's a big reason they had to settle for five field goals and scored just one touchdown. The Cardinals were leading 19-16 in the fourth quarter and had first-and-goal at the Vikings 5, but Tip Reiman was called for a false start and then quarterback Kyler Murray . The Cardinals kicked a field goal for a 22-16 lead, giving the Vikings the chance they needed to drive for the winning score. Murray threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. “I thought we moved the ball well,” Murray said. “Again, it just comes down to not scoring touchdowns. Get down there and kick field goals and penalties bite us. It’s bad — it’s bad football.” The loss knocked the Cardinals out of first place in the NFC West, though they're still in decent playoff position. A pivotal game against the division-rival Seahawks looms on Sunday. Second-year coach Jonathan Gannon acknowledged the frustration of Sunday's loss, but said they've got to rebound quickly. “They’re disappointed and down, but it’s the NFL,” Gannon said. “They’ve got to put all their energy and focus into tomorrow.” What’s working Arizona's defense blamed itself for not coming up with a stop on the Vikings' winning drive, but the unit played exceptionally well for most of the afternoon. Mack Wilson and L.J. Collier both had two sacks and the Cardinals held Minnesota to just 273 total yards. For a group that looked as if it might be the team's weakness this season, it was another rock solid performance. What needs help The Cardinals aren't a good enough football team to overcome 10 penalties and get a win — particularly on the road. Reiman had a rough day, getting called for three false starts. His false start on the next-to-last offensive drive — coupled with Murray's intentional grounding penalty — proved to be extremely costly. “That was brutal,” Gannon said. “Just got to figure out ways to punch the ball in for touchdowns there, not field goals.” Stock up Rookie Marvin Harrison Jr. had five catches for 60 yards, including an impressive touchdown catch that put the Cardinals up 19-6. It was Harrison's seventh TD reception of the season. The No. 4 overall pick has been a little inconsistent in his first year, but there's little doubt he's a difference-maker for the offense. He's still got a chance to reach 1,000 yards receiving this season if he averages about 80 yards receiving over the final five games. Considering his talent, that's certainly possible. Stock down Gannon was second-guessed for his decision to kick a field goal late in the fourth quarter instead of trying for a touchdown at the Vikings 4 with 3:29 left. Chad Ryland made the 23-yard chip shot for a 22-16 lead, but the Vikings drove the field on the ensuing possession for the winning score. “I trust JG,” Murray said. “I see both sides. Go up six and make them score; trust the defense to go get a stop. Go for it, you don’t get it, they’ve still got to go down and score. If you do get it, you probably put the game away.” Said Gannon: "Yeah, I mean there’s thought about it. Just wanted to go up more than a field goal there. Definitely a decision point that we talked about. So be it.” Injuries The Cardinals came out of the game fairly healthy. Rookie DL Darius Robinson — the No. 27 overall pick — made his NFL debut against the Vikings after missing the first 11 games due to a calf injury. Key number 1,074 — Running back James Conner's total yards from the line of scrimmage this season, including 773 on the ground and 301 in the passing game. Next steps The Cardinals return home for a game against the Seahawks on Sunday. ___ AP NFL: David Brandt, The Associated PressMorgan Rogers’ fourth goal of the season, an Ollie Watkins penalty and Matty Cash’s finish put Villa 3-0 up after 34 minutes. Mikkel Damsgaard pulled one back for Brentford in the second half but the damage had been done as Villa ended their eight-match winless run in all competitions. Emery was relieved to end the unwanted streak but quickly turned his attention to the next fixture against Southampton on Saturday. “We broke a spell of bad results we were having,” the Villa boss said. “We started the first five or 10 minutes not in control of the game but then progressively we controlled. “Today we achieved those three points and it has given us confidence again but even like that it’s not enough. We have to keep going and think about the next match against Southampton on Saturday. “The message was try to focus on each match, try to forget the table. How we can recover confidence and feel comfortable at home. Today was a fantastic match.” Tyrone Mings returned to the starting line-up in the Premier League for the first time since August 2023. Emery admitted it has been a long road back for the 31-year-old and is pleased to have him back. He added: “Mings played in the Champions league but it’s the first time in the league for a year and three months. “I think he played fantastic – he might be tired tomorrow but will be ready for Saturday again. “It was very, very long, the injury he had. His comeback is fantastic for him and everybody, for the doctor and physio and now he’s training everyday.” Brentford fell to a sixth away defeat from seven games and have picked up only a solitary point on the road this season. They have the best home record in the league, with 19 points from seven matches, but they have the joint worst away record. Bees boss Thomas Frank is confident form will improve on the road. He said: “On numbers we can’t argue we are better at home than away, but on numbers it’s a coincidence. I think two of the seven away games have been bad. “The other games we performed well in big spells. I’m confident at the end of the season we will have some wins away from home.” Frank felt Villa should not have been given a penalty when Ethan Pinnock brought Watkins down. He added: “I want to argue the penalty. I don’t think it is (one). I think Ollie kicked back and hit Ethan, yes there is an arm on the shoulder but threshold and all that – but that’s not the reason we lost.”
Connor Cruise shared some rare glimpses of his personal personal life on social media. The 29-year-old, who is the son of Tom Cruise and his ex-wife Nicole Kidman, usually stays away from spotlights and does not show his personal life on his social media accounts. Connor shared a selfie of himself while playing golf with friends at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, on his Instagram account on Sunday In the photo, Connor and his pals can be seen beaming smiles and giving a thumbs up on camera. The 29-year-old rocked a sporty wear, donning a blue striped polo, a golf cap, a pair of sneakers, one glove, blue-mirrored sunglasses and blue hoodie. It is pertinent to mention that Tom and Nicole adopted Connor in 1995. they also share 31-year-old Becca. Although Connor lives a private life now, he has acted in various films, including Seven Pounds (2007) and Red Down (2012). For those unversed, Tom and Nicole divorced in 2001.
FCI Technologies Limited: Celebrated for Outstanding Achievements and Recognized as a Leading UK IT InnovatorThe three-time Northern Section Division 3A champion Pleasant Valley Vikings will be back on their home field Saturday for another run at returning to the state championship game. The Vikings (9-3), coming off their 48-21 win over Red Bluff, will host the Vanden High Vikings (11-2) on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Asgard Yard for the north state championship. It’ll be the first meeting between the two schools on the football field. The winner will play in a state title game against either Rio Hondo Prep (12-1) or Poway (6-7) the following week. The Vikings are one of four Northern Section teams to earn spots in NorCal title contests. In Division 7A, the Los Molinos Bulldogs (8-5) will travel to play Balboa of San Francisco (7-5) at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at an undetermined site. Harrison Hamre, who had 136 rushing yards in a 37-35 win at Maxwell on Wednesday, is just 22 yards from breaking the Northern Section of 2,926 set by Donovan Switalski of East Nicolaus in 2016. Hamre enters Saturday afternoon’s game with 2,905 yards. In three playoff games, he’s gained 849 yards on 104 carries for 8.16 yards per carry and could become the first 3,000-yard rusher in section history. The winner gets the So-Cal Bowl winner of Panorama (8-6) at Pioneer (9-5). In Division 5–A, Northern section winner Lassen (10-3) will take on American Canyon (11-2) on Saturday at 6 p.m. The winner of that game will get either Selma or Palmdale the following Saturday night. In Division 6–AA, unbeaten Winters (12-0) will host Arcata (12-1) on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The winner of that game will play Irvine’s Portola (8-6) or King Drew (11-3). Tickets for the 2024 CIF Regional Football Championship Bowl Games are available online only through CIF’s ticketing partner GoFan.News of an analyst's price-target hike plus a new round of capital-raising were the sparks that ignited Janux Therapeutics ( JANX 11.65% ) stock on Wednesday. The clinical-stage biotech's share price ended the day nearly 12% higher, and this was on a very good day for the exchange with the S&P 500 rising by 0.6%. Price-target raised, new shares floated Well before market open, Scotiabank pundit George Farmer aggressively raised his price target on Janux, cranking it nearly 50% higher to $62 per share. That doesn't necessarily make him a bull, though, as he maintained his recommendation of sector perform (hold, in other words). According to reports, Farmer wrote that the biotech company's current phase 1 trial of its JANX007 prostate cancer treatment is rather promising so far. That said, the analyst believes Janux hasn't yet honed a sharp competitive edge and isn't yet an attractive enough target for a pharmaceutical company to acquire it. What Janux has done, however, is push to extend its runway with a fresh share issue. After market hours Tuesday, the company said it had launched a $300 million secondary common stock flotation. Certain investors will have the option of purchasing pre-funded warrants instead of shares, and the issue's underwriters are expected to be granted a 30-day option to purchase an additional $45 million worth of shares collectively. A promising future? Janux said it aims to use its proceeds from the share issue "to advance clinical development of its internal product pipeline," in addition to general corporate purposes. The company focuses on cancer treatments, which continues to be a hot area for biotechs, but Farmer makes a good point that Janux hasn't distinguished itself sufficiently. However, it's a relatively young enterprise, and those recent clinical readouts are encouraging.
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Northern California was under a rare and brief tsunami warning alert Thursday that tested local emergency notification systems after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook part of the state. The National Weather Service canceled its alert after roughly an hour and before the tsunami was expected to arrive. In that hour, some cities and counties ordered evacuations while others relied on social media and text messages to inform people of the warning. Some people headed for higher ground, while others drove to the beach to get a better view. People took to social media to figure out why a warning was issued and then canceled so quickly, and how the NWS determines when to send alerts. Here are answers to more questions. What exactly is a tsunami? The word for tsunami comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave. It's a series of extremely long waves set in motion when energy from an earthquake causes the ocean floor to suddenly rise or fall, according to the National Weather Service. How common are they in California? Since 1800, California's shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis, most of them minor, according to the California Geological Survey. Phones buzzed Thursday when the National Weather Service issued its warning just minutes after the quake struck west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County. It read in part: “You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now.” Why was there an alert if there wasn't a large tsunami? The National Weather Service Bay Area posted on the social platform X early Friday that the region doesn't get tsunami alerts often and “there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger” about Thursday's event. A warning alert is the most serious of four tsunami alerts, including a watch alert for a possible tsunami and an advisory alert telling people to stay out of the water and away from the shore. The last time California received a warning alert was 2011 when an earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast. Basically, a distant, offshore earthquake or other trigger event gives scientists more time to analyze data and confirm that a large tsunami was generated before sounding a warning. But Thursday’s earthquake was local and close to the coast, forcing a hasty high-level alert in order to give people the maximum time to prepare as tsunami waves can travel very fast, up to 500 mph (800 kph) in the deep ocean, the NWS wrote. “By the time we actually observe it, it may be too late, because it's right there in our back doors,” said Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with NWS Bay Area, on Friday. Scientists used the time Thursday to monitor buoys and get more information on the earthquake itself, he said. They canceled the alert after seeing little sea-level change and determining the quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, he said. “These things happen so infrequently for us, I think it just caught a lot of people off-guard,” he said. How did Northern California respond? Authorities in Eureka, the biggest city in Humboldt County, sent texts and went door-to-door to order businesses in high-risk areas to evacuate, said City Manager Miles Slattery. He said only a small portion of the city was at risk, and Thursday's test run showed evacuees need to work on leaving by foot, rather than by car. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the commuter light-rail system known as BART stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Responses varied as fire and police in Berkeley evacuated certain areas of the city while in San Francisco, officials sent alerts and messages on social media telling residents to stay away from water, beaches, harbors, marina docks, and piers. “Move at least one block inland,” said the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. Emergency personnel in vehicles with public address systems also went to make sure no one was on beaches and other low-lying areas. But some critics said San Francisco should have sounded its loud emergency sirens, which have been off-line since 2019 for repairs. In San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, officials considered but decided against sounding its tsunami warning sirens after receiving more comprehensive information from the NWS that any tsunami would affect coastlines north of the Golden Gate Bridge, said Michelle Durand, a spokesperson for the county. Fire and police cleared the beaches while emergency personnel gathered to monitor the situation, she said, which “prioritized both public safety and the prevention of unnecessary panic.”In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst Asit Sharma and host Dylan Lewis discuss: NBC's negotiations to extend its broadcast rights to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Why holiday live events are turning into an arms race. The expectations for Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and two predictions on the direction of consumer spending and who will be driving it in future years. Warren Buffett's plans for passing his wealth on to his family and his philanthropic efforts. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . To get started investing, check out our beginner's guide to investing in stocks . A full transcript follows the video. This video was recorded on Nov. 27, 2024. Dylan Lewis: We're digging into the business of buying, selling, and giving. Motley Fool Money starts now. I'm Dylan Lewis and I'm joined over the airwaves by Motley Fool analyst, Asit Sharma. Asit, thanks for joining me the day before Thanksgiving. Asit Sharma: Dylan, I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you and other members right before you all slide into the holiday. Dylan Lewis: It's all about getting together this week. I'm glad we get together, at least virtually one more time before we go hang out with our families. We have a preview of some topics that our listeners can bring to the Thanksgiving table and one way that the world's richest man is going to be paying it forward, very in the spirit of the season. I want to start, though with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. It will be on at tens of millions of households around the country tomorrow morning. Asit, will it be on the TV at your house? Asit Sharma: It probably will, Dylan. It's not something that we consciously tune into every year, but somehow we end up with it either, left of center or in the background. I mean, who doesn't? Dylan Lewis: It's part of the oxygen of Thanksgiving, I think. It's just there for people. A lot of people at Macy's and a lot of people at NBC very happy about that because it means a lot of money for both of them. We saw a headline today that we want to kick around from the Wall Street Journal talking about how execs at both of those companies looking to iron out a deal that will continue the 70 year partnership that's been at play for the next decade. The sticker price that is being reported is that it will cost $60 Million per year to broadcast this event. That is a lot of stuffing, Asit. Asit Sharma: Totally. I think this is indicative of how important live broadcasting is. As we look around the landscape, we've seen money going into live sports content. It's just such a premium over content that's already made as we watch more and more of streaming services. The Wall Street Journal, which had this article as an exclusive, I think, made this point very well, and something else here, too, Dylan, I think this is such a crucial time of the year for companies that want our eyeballs. We're all at home. We're in relaxation mode. Having those rights, being able to be in front of so many millions of eyeballs in critical week in terms of mind share, I think, is so important for NBC. They are willing to pony up what's essentially a tripling of the annual price 20 million to 60 million. Dylan Lewis: If you're wondering out there, how can they possibly justify tripling the annual price of this deal over time? Well, it turns out NBC sold about 55 million in ads last year against the broadcast. It's not hard to imagine how the folks over at Macy's might work to that $60 million number. What I think is interesting here, is if you put those two together, you say, we're probably operating out about break even, maybe a slight loss with that $60 million sticker figure. This winds up being a subscriber draw for Paramount Plus and some of the streaming products and properties that they have. But if you think about a 10 year deal and the trajectory of ad rates, they are probably going to be making money on the backside of this deal, even if they're taking a slight loss at the beginning of it. Asit Sharma: I like that, Dylan. You and I were chatting before you started taping. I think you were saying you saw it at maybe the middle of the term to the end being pretty lucrative. Who knows? It could be sooner just because of that pressure now to grab attention from people who are available and watching something live. Maybe even in year four, it starts to become lucrative. I think also they've got decades of experience locking in these longer term contracts to look back and say, we can afford to absorb this price increase because, well, 1970-1980 when we thought that we were just going to break even and look how much money we made off of that. This is something that's not only brand share for NBC, but it's so many things. It's also prestige. It's something that you don't want to take lightly to give up to a competitor to walk in and take that deal. There are many reasons why NBC is ponying up, but I think they're doing the right thing. I would do the same in their shoes. Dylan Lewis: I imagine that they have probably had a couple other suitors over at Macy's because we have seen a lot of the streamers hop into the live event space, especially around the holidays. As you noted, Amazon dropped 100 million for the first NFL Black Friday game last year, sold out all of its ad inventory. Netflix paid 150 million annually for broadcast rights to two NFL games on Christmas Day over the next three years. The numbers are getting very large here, Asit. Is there a point where we have to start being concerned about how big these deals are? Asit Sharma: I think for shareholders, you just see this being replayed under different guise, and it becomes a clash between the executives who are feeling the anxiety of getting the rights and the accountants who come in later and say, guys, no more. This is it. This madness has to stop. We have seen this in content production. There was a time when Netflix, Disney , all major competitors, and Amazon was playing this game a little bit, too, just had unlimited budgets for productions. They wanted to grab subscriptions that way. It became unsustainable after a while. Netflix, the biggest spender of them all, even has pulled back and has a much more rational approach to production these days. I think we're going to see this come back down to earth, come back down to reality. The accountants always win in the end because they are trying to protect the interests of shareholders and shareholders, at the end of the day, they want the market share, but they want profits at some point. You got to make some money in this game. Dylan Lewis: Those that are buying ads on these special streams, whether they be the Macy's Day Parade or those Christmas broadcasts, I mentioned looking to drive customers to sites and to stores over the holiday season, and a nice opportunity for us to check in on some of the expectations for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, some of the biggest retail days of the year, Bain and Company estimating that this year spending will hit 75 billion between Friday and Monday of this week. Asit, are you going out to the stores? Asit Sharma: I probably am not, but the only reason is that I've just come back from a trip abroad. I am all spin out and discipline requires that I be rational about this. But I will tell you, Dylan, we budgeted our holiday. We came back, and here's Black Friday right in front of me. You start seeing offers in your inbox, you open your phone. People are showing you enticing stuff that's 30% and 40% off that you've been looking at during the year. I wonder how much Willpower I'll have to resist this week. We'll see. Wait, we can chat about this after the holiday. Dylan Lewis: I will say, I'm getting married in the spring. There are some very specific things for our wedding invites and things like that that we've been waiting for the deals to buy over the weekend. We've been trying to resist the urge to spend on things that we don't need, but there are some targeted things on our list. What strikes me as I look at the estimates, 5% up from 2023 on that holiday period, I think the period is going to be about 8% of holiday sales overall. It doesn't seem like all of these headlines we've seen about the stretched consumer a tighter home budget. Is flowing in or affecting holiday spend at all? Asit Sharma: It's strange to see it, but we begin to look at retailer strategy as such a year long exercise in the years leading up to, for example, Cyber Monday becoming a thing. This was maybe let's take advantage of the moment type of situation for major retailers. Now the planning for next year's Cyber week begins sometimes a year and a half in advance. We're looking at next year, and then we are also looking at inventory for the year after on the retailer side. The strategizing for major names where we shop, the Amazon s, Walmart s Target s and then the Best Buy s, then going down to specialty companies we all shop at, that planning is pretty formalized at this point. What happens is we get discounts we just can't refuse. It's a game. The retailers wait for us to spend. Regardless of what's happening in our personal budgets, we also have items that we're waiting to buy this week. It's so weird, Dylan, I have the same sensation. You think, like, could this really go on? Could this season be bigger than last season? But somehow it seems to because on both sides of the transaction, the parties are waiting through the year for a little bit of spend that they're both expecting. Year after year it grows. I did want to point out, you and I both look at the Adobe report. Adobe puts out their projection each year, and they are looking at an 8% increase for the season which they define as starting at Thanksgiving and going all the way to the end of the year. That is just nuts when you think about as you point out, how stretched we all are, how much inflation has been a factor. But we have this ability to just place our spends during the I'm going to make a prediction. Next year, it's going to slow down. It's got to. Dylan Lewis: That is dangerous because you are recording, Asit, so I will hold you to account on that prediction. I guess I'll have to have you on the Wednesday Show again next year. Looking at that Adobe report, I think one of the things that jumped out to me, they have an intense focus on digital channels with what they look at. No surprise paid search is the main driver of sales on the e-commerce side. It makes up about a quarter of all sales but the channel that is fastest growing in digital is a little bit surprising to me. It is affiliates and partners, which makes up 17% of digital sales. Do you know what fits into that category Asit? Asit Sharma: Tell me. Dylan Lewis: Influencers. I feel like we are slowly seeing the creep of the parasocial relationship, the attachment that people have to influencers and this sales channel that is new and is being explored. I feel like if you're looking for indications on retailers that are maybe a little bit ahead of the game or are skating to where the puck is, this is something that's very visible for consumers and people that are online. It's a spot to pay attention to. Asit Sharma: I think it is. It's so weird because you used the term parasocial, which, for those of you who don't know, for those of you who read books and don't spend time online. Dylan Lewis: We talking out there. Asit Sharma: A parasocial relationship is where you start to identify with a public figure and maybe even feel that you know them on some level and maybe in the back of your mind, maybe feel that they know you as well. This is a very human impulse. There's nothing that strange about it. It's been there throughout history. It's just elevated now in a digital world, but I think even with a parasocial relationship that we may develop with different celebrities, at the end of the day, so much of this is transactional. An influencer, someone you follow, let's say, on Instagram, who you love to see their content and their suggestions, actually, you're giving them something. You're giving them your time and your attention. They are also taking something, they're telling you what to buy. They're getting compensated. The retailer's getting compensated. No matter how much we try to fool ourselves in some way, and I'm not denigrating influencers. I think there are lots of influencers out there who impart things that their followers really love and enjoy and gain from but I am saying, you're absolutely right. This is money. This is transaction. This is commerce and we should watch where this puck is going. It is fascinating to see the trends that we've all paid attention to. There's more e-commerce over digital channels. We said this a few years ago. Now there's more going toward mobile devices. This is a trend that I think is very interesting because it shows the human brain is wired for connection, and you can do a lot with that. I don't mean to sound cynical here as we're headed into what's going to be I hope a wonderful holiday season for everyone, but just as major companies who make devices and apps got very savvy at exploiting our attention spans, I think the best influencers really know which buttons to press to get our attention and to get us to buy things. The most successful of them, I think, are going to have very lucrative careers, I don't think this end anytime soon. Dylan Lewis: You made a prediction a little while ago about the general direction of spend. I will make one on this category. Asit Sharma: We are locking down the next year's Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We're going to revisit these predictions. Dylan Lewis: That's right. My prediction is that I think we will continue to see this sales channel expand for a lot of major retailers. I think we will see much more intentional influencer strategies and I would not be surprised in the coming years to see specific management commentary about those strategies over time because as we see them grow, they're going to become more and more relevant. I think the people who can harness that are probably going to see some rewards in the form of holiday spend, Asit. Asit Sharma: Very much so, last point on this one. Just like we see things like prompt engineers gaining prominence in our society and making money, just building a prompt for AI, I think that the ability to identify an influencer in his or her or their early stages before they have huge audiences is going to be very important to corporations, and they will hire that talent. The people who can find the next big influencer before they get big and blow up is something that marketing organizations and retailers will place a premium when they talk to their executive hiring coaches and firms. 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But I think what I was really struck by reading the letter is he is 94. We have for a long time speculated about the future of Buffett, the future of Berkshire , and pairing this with his recent annual letter, I think we see him more and more coming to terms with his own mortality. Asit Sharma: I think so, Dylan. There are references to Father Time. He expresses gratitude for, having made it this far and acknowledges that maybe that's a function of some luck. In fact, the letter talks about his luck in just being born at the time he was being born and being a male in this society, so many things that contributed to him being able to have the success he's had. But here we have a reflection, as all of us do, as we reach the end, we reflect on life. We reflect on our legacies, many of us and the choices that we made and Buffett shows here that he's one of the wealthiest people on the planet, but he's no different at the end of it, you can't take it with you when you go. I love that this letter, which purports to talk about the choices for his charitable foundation is also a reflection on his career and the choices that he's made about money in many places. Dylan Lewis: We are a money show, and so I will hit the money side of it so that we can get a little bit more into the softer and more holiday oriented themes that pop up there. He lays out his plan for giving away essentially 99.5% of his wealth. He will do that by converting 1,600 a shares of Berkshire into 2.4 million B shares, a reminder, those are voting shares and non voting shares there, and those will go to four different family foundations, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G Buffett Foundation, and the Novo Foundation. He is really putting the future of his wealth and the places that it will go to in the hands of his children. Asit Sharma: Yes, and it's not without a lot of thought and foresight. This letter makes it clear that he's spent a lot of time contemplating on whether his children are the right vessels to distribute that wealth. He talks about how they've each managed teams of people, started small with managing a little bit of philanthropic money, and they've grown into the roles. Then he also says something so interesting, which is, hey, look, I'm past 90, and my kids are no spring chickens either. He has three kids, and they are all either approaching their 70s or in their early 70s. He names some unnamed successors. He says there are three people who can take over the reins from my kids. But basically, this is something that's been in the works for a long time and there's an effort here to explain it to shareholders and whoever else is reading that this isn't some sort of nepotism and he's just handing the keys over to his kids without them having been to driving school. This is something that they want to do. They have the experience now, and he has a lot of faith that they will execute his desires and his wife's desires as they dole out this money, and it's a lot of money, Dylan. They have to disburse billions for the next several years. It seems like it would be easy, but we know that the opposite is true. Dylan Lewis: As is often the case when it comes to a Warren Buffett letter or interview, there is the tangible takeaway for Berkshire shareholders. Then there are the insights and advice that I think almost anyone can take and bring to the way that they look at money, the way that they look at the people around them. There was a piece of financial planning advice in there that I want to highlight because I know a lot of people will be getting together with loved ones over the next couple days. Maybe this isn't the most appropriate Thanksgiving dinner table conversation, but if you find yourself with some time with the people you love, I want to give this quote some airtime. He writes, when your children are mature, have them read your will before you sign it. Be sure each child understands both the logic for your decisions and the responsibilities they will encounter upon your death. Asit, I don't have children, but you do. I'm curious reading this as a parent, what did you think? Asit Sharma: I thought it was golden advice, Dylan. Talking about money is one of the hardest things to do. You and I talk about money every day but the serious conversations are the ones we tend to keep to the end when we should be talking about them along the way and having frequent conversations with the ones we love. One of the things that Buffett brings up here is that if you don't really talk to your kids about what you're leaving them, there's no way to answer back if they have a question at the end. If they feel that one sibling got more and they don't understand it. He says perceived slights from childhood can come right back. There can be misunderstandings and you really don't want to leave that for a kid who has a question and you can't answer back. I thought that was such sound advice. Leave aside all the rest. It's just common sense. Tell your kids what you're going to do, then they can discuss with you and maybe make suggestions. He says, be receptive. They may have some advice for you to do things a bit differently, and there's nothing wrong with that. He had that relationship with his father, but the fact that money is so sensitive and it's emotional, Dylan, it's not abstract. It's an abstraction, but there's something very real about money that can affect the way that we think and feel about past events if we get a transfer of assets from someone we love. I thought that was just amazing advice, and it was stated in a very pithy manner. As always, anything you read by Warren Buffett just doesn't have a superfluous word in it. As a writer myself, I'm just always insanely jealous to see how he can communicate so many things with so few words. Dylan Lewis: It's like just seeing that person who's good at everything. He's better at managing money than us. He's better at writing than us. It just doesn't seem to matter, Asit. He has us across the board. Asit Sharma: True. What did you think of that, Dylan? Perhaps in the future, you'll have kids. Was there anything in that advice that stood out to you that made you reflect on maybe your future actions? Dylan Lewis: I think, for me, being the child in this dynamic or in this hypothetical, it was a good reminder that I have some ideas about what I think my parents value and what I think their wishes would be, but that I need to clarify them. We've had bits and pieces conversations over the years when it's come to the way that they want things to be handled. I'm kind of in the lucky, unlucky position of being an only child and so I don't have to worry about having two other siblings, like the Buffett children, but that comes with its own set of problems as well. I think for me, it's just a golden reminder. Take advantage of the time that you have with people while they're alive, make sure that you can do your best to live out their wishes. If there's anything that might get in the way of that, try to clear that air as soon as you can. Asit Sharma: I agree. That's a lot of great wisdom as we're headed out toward the Holiday weekend. I have just a piece of practical advice. For anyone listening, if you're thinking that you need to have this conversation either with your kids or your parents, use Warren as your entry point. Just say, hey, I read this great piece by Warren Buffett. This paragraph made it seem so logical. We don't have to do it now during Thanksgiving, but maybe in a few months, we can talk about these things and just show them even that piece that you read is, I think, maybe as a conversation opener for many people. Dylan Lewis: That is the perfect advice to head into the Thanksgiving weekend. Asit, thank you so much for joining me today. Now go enjoy some time with your family. Asit Sharma: Same with you, Dylan. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful to be able to do Motley Fool Money with you, and I hope you have an awesome Thanksgiving, as well. Dylan Lewis: Listeners, we are thankful for all of the time that you spend with us listening to the show, writing to the show, sharing the show with the people that you love. I'm going to bring us home today with some final words from Warren Buffett's letter that felt true to the spirit of Thanksgiving and what I hope people have in their minds as they're spending time with family this weekend: We shared a view that equal opportunity should begin at birth and extreme look at me lifestyles of living should be legal, but not admirable. As a family, we have had everything we needed or simply liked, but we have not sought enjoyment from the fact that others have craved what we had. It also has been a particular pleasure to me that so many early Berkshire shareholders have independently arrived at a similar view. They have saved, lived well, taken good care of their families, and by extended compounding of their savings, passed along large, sometimes huge sums of money back into society. Their claim checks are being widely distributed to others less lucky. Listeners, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving wherever you are and whoever you're lucky enough to be spending it with, and thank you for spending your time with us. We'll be off tomorrow for the holiday and for the weekend, but we'll have our usual annual Thanksgiving radio show special on Friday. As always, people on the program may have interest in the stocks they talk about, and Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against Snow pick sell anything based solely on what you hear. All personal finance content follows Motley Fool editorial standards, and it's not approved by advertisers. Motley Fool only picks products and personally recommend to friends like you. I'm Dylan Lewis. Thanks for listening. We'll see you soon.WACO — With a tall task to try and eliminate the No. 1 ranked South Oak Cliff in the area round, Huntsville came up short against last year's state runner-up. 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Panaya and Tritusa Join Forces to Enhance SAP Testing in AustraliaWASHINGTON — The National Park Service is seeing a surge in private support bigger than anytime in its 108-year history, as it also faces a maintenance backlog of more than $23 billion, made worse this fall by hurricane damage to its most popular location. Three years after setting a goal of raising $1 billion, the Park Service’s official charitable partner, the National Park Foundation, is almost there, having raised $840 million since 2021, the foundation’s outgoing president and CEO Will Shafroth said. That fundraising under the Campaign for National Parks is in addition to efforts of park partners across the country — such as the Trust for Public Land, American Battlefield Trust, Conservation Legacy and the Student Conservation Association — that collectively want to raise another $3.5 billion. Visits to national parks rose from about 275 million in 2010 to 325 million last year. Shafroth said many of these visitors, inspired by the beauty of places like Yellowstone National Park, say the parks and staff have “created an amazing experience for me and my family. I want to give back.” Hundreds of thousands more give back by volunteering, whether rebuilding trails, clearing trash, serving as docents or organizing special events. “National parks experienced substantially increased public interest over the past two years,” according to the 2024 Park Partners Report commissioned by the foundation. There are now at least 470 partner groups, many of them “Friends” organizations that coordinate volunteer work with superintendents of individual parks. That community provided nearly 1 million volunteer hours in the park system last year, the equivalent of 122,500 days or 471 full-time employees, according to the report. One of those groups is Friends of the Smokies, which has about 2,000 members who volunteer for projects in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, the most popular of the 63 national parks with 13.3 million visitors in 2023. The park, which stretches over 816 square miles, sustained extensive damage from Hurricane Helene in late September, and many roads and trails are still closed to the public, said Dana Soehn, president of Friends of the Smokies. But the group is eager to get to work when the Park Service completes its assessments and makes restoration plans, she said. “We stand at the ready to really push and raise funds,” Soehn said. “The public-private partnership in helping meet these challenging times is something that’s critically needed. Our organization is able to provide $2 million to $4 million of funding each year to help support the national park.” Funding needs The private funding goes a long way to help the cash-strapped National Park Service, with an operating budget of $3.3 billion in fiscal 2024, which supports about 20,000 full-time employees. The Senate’s Interior-Environment Appropriations bill would provide $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025, as the Biden administration requested, but the House version would cut the funding to $3.1 billion. The Great American Outdoors Act passed by Congress in 2020 provided up to $1.3 billion per year for five years through 2025 to help reduce $23.3 billion in deferred maintenance projects. Private donations won’t do much to reduce the maintenance backlog because most people aren’t interested in funding infrastructure projects like roads and bridges that are the government’s responsibility, Shafroth said. “We’re never going to be very effective at convincing donors to pay for pothole repair and water systems and things like that,” he said. “So we really need to focus on the things that are resonant to donors and also are a high need for the parks.” When Lilly Endowment Inc. announced a $100 million contribution in August, Shafroth’s foundation said the funds would go toward four priorities: creating environmental stewardship opportunities for young people, protecting fragile ecosystems and diverse species in the parks, developing new technologies to improve visitor experiences, and providing “a more comprehensive historical narrative” about national parks and the communities around them. Many donors to the park system, especially corporate givers, are also motivated by the knowledge that public lands used for recreation are an economic driver. Outdoor recreation generates $1.2 trillion in annual economic activity and supports 5 million jobs, according to a report released in November by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable using data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. The ORR is a coalition of more than 110,000 businesses in the sector. The Interior Department reported last year that visitor spending in communities near national parks totals more than $50 billion a year, supporting nearly 400,000 jobs. Other legislation Advocates for the parks are urging Congress to rev up this economic engine by passing a package of bills that would overhaul how public land agencies distribute passes and permits, encourage technology to improve visitor experiences, restore campgrounds and address housing shortages near outdoor recreation areas, among other things. The House passed the legislation sponsored by Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., in April by voice vote under suspension of the rules. Dozens of groups are urging the Senate to pass the measure in the lame-duck session. “Despite the profound and widespread benefits that parks and outdoor recreation offer, they are chronically underfunded with many systems facing a significant backlog of capital improvement projects,” more than 50 organizations said in a Nov. 12 letter to Senate leaders urging them to prioritize the legislation. Aside from their economic importance, Shafroth noted that national parks play a role in uniting Americans. “You know, our country just feels so divided in so many ways, especially politically,” he said. “It feels like those divisions just dissolve when people enter a national park. They’re just citizens of the United States. They’re just lovers of the outdoors, appreciators of America’s story.” Shafroth announced this fall that he plans to step aside as president and CEO of the National Park Foundation and turn over the reins to Park Service veteran Jeff Reinbold, most recently the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington. The pair will work together on the transition in December and January, then Shafroth said he plans to develop a new program at the foundation addressing issues facing the park system, including climate change, housing shortages near parks and development of new technologies.
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