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Vardy helps Van Nistelrooy to first win with Leicester as Guehi defies the FA with religious messageIt was a fine first win for Ruud van Nistelrooy , and perhaps one final defeat for Julen Lopetegui. Leicester marked Van Nistelrooy’s first match in charge of the team by surging to a 3-1 win over Lopetegui's West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday. Van Nistelrooy, the former Manchester United striker, is back in English soccer this time as a manager, with Leicester taking something of a gamble on the Dutchman after his brief and impressive spell as interim coach at United this season following Erik ten Hag's departure. He faces the tough task of keeping Leicester, one of the top candidates for relegation, in the top division. For that to happen, he’s likely to need goals from Jamie Vardy — and the 37-year-old former England international delivered immediately. Nine years after breaking Van Nistelrooy’s record for scoring in consecutive games, Vardy scored the first goal of the Dutchman’s tenure at Leicester by beating the offside trap and slotting home a finish with less than two minutes gone. Morocco midfielder Bilal El Khannouss supplied the pass for Vardy’s goal and scored himself with a low shot in the 61st minute to make it 2-0. Patson Daka added a third for Leicester in the 90th minute, before a stoppage-time consolation by West Ham substitute Niclas Füllkrug. “We are very happy with the new manager," El Khannouss said of Van Nistelrooy. “He arrived two days ago, and there’s a new dynamic in the group.” Van Nistelrooy praised the “spirit and energy” in his team. “The foundation for us going forward is everyone working their socks off, fighting for every inch and defending together,” he said. “We can look further then, and they did that in an unbelievable way.” This dismal result for West Ham came three days after its 5-2 thrashing at home by Arsenal , which piled more pressure of Lopetegui early in the former Spain and Real Madrid coach's first season with the London club. West Ham's disgruntled traveling fans chanted "You’re getting sacked in the morning” toward Lopetegui during the second half — even if his team dominated large parts of the game but only had one goal to show from 31 shots on goal. Story continues below video “We're very frustrated but in the same way I can say nothing about the players — they fight until the end,” Lopetegui said. "It’s not easy to explain football some days.” West Ham has lost seven of its 14 games so far and is in 14th place in the 20-team league, one spot above Leicester. Crystal Palace won for just the second time in the league this season, beating relegation rival Ipswich 1-0 to pull clear of the bottom three. Jean-Philippe Mateta scored the goal in the 59th minute. Palace’s only other league victory was against Tottenham in October. While Ipswich stayed in next-to-last place, Palace moved three points above the relegation zone. Much of the focus ahead of the game was on the teams’ captains , Sam Morsy of Ipswich and Marc Guehi of Palace, during another round when the Premier League was celebrating LGBTQ+ inclusion in its campaign to promote equality and diversity. For the second straight game, Morsy chose against wearing a rainbow armband issued to the captain of each of the 20 teams in the league. He has made the decision “due to his religious beliefs,” Ipswich says. Guehi did wear the rainbow armband but defied Football Association rules by writing a religious message on the item. The message read “Jesus loves you” — using a heart sign instead of the word “loves.” During the match against Newcastle on Saturday, Guehi wrote “I love Jesus” — and was later contacted by the FA for acting in contravention of its regulations. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerNovember 26, 2024 marks the 75th Constitution Day. The day when the Constituent Assembly, a body representing the then provinces and princely States, concluded its discussions held over a period of two years, 11 months, and 17 days to finalise the foundational document based on which the country had to be governed and adopted the Constitution on November 26, 1949. Though India attained Independence only on August 15, 1947, this Assembly came into being in 1946 itself, following the steps taken by the British to work out the modalities for transfer of power. It met for the first time on December 9, 1946, when Sachidananda Sinha, the oldest parliamentarian in the country who had served as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council between 1910 and 1920, took charge as the temporary chairman. Preliminary business The preliminary business before the Assembly was to elect a permanent president, frame its rules of business, and appoint committees for performance of tasks such as discussing issues of fundamental rights, those related to the Scheduled Castes, and so on. The very next day, the Assembly finalised the procedure for filing nominations and on December 11, 1946, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected its president. On the same day, a 15-member Rules Committee was also constituted for framing the rules of business. The Muslim League, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, abstained from the debates. Deploring it, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan said on December 11, 1946: “We take it that it will only be temporary, for their cooperation is absolutely essential for the success of any Constitution which we may lay down.” On December 13, 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru moved a historic resolution which served as a blueprint for the drafting of the Constitution and became a part of its preamble too. The resolution read: “This Constituent Assembly declares its firm and solemn resolve to proclaim India as an Independent Sovereign Republic and to draw up for her future governance a Constitution.” The resolution, with eight clauses, invited all territories of British India and those outside of it to be a part of the independent sovereign country and guaranteed to all people justice — social, economic and political; equality of status, of opportunity and of freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, and association, subject to law and public morality. Amendments caused discussions The number of amendments proposed led to lengthy discussions. Srikrishna Sinha from Bihar said: “In my opinion, it is really unfortunate that a resolution of such a sacred nature should be subjected to amendments. I purposely call it sacred.” He went on to state: “Sir, the resolution, if carefully analysed, comes to this. It gives a picture of the vision of future India. That India of the future is to be a democratic and decentralised Republic, in which the ultimate sovereignty is to lie with the people and in which fundamental rights are to be safeguarded to minorities inhabiting this land.” Syama Prasad Mookerjee from Bengal said: “The resolution has an importance of its own... I hope, Sir, as we are not framing a Constitution now, as we are only laying down a general outline of the things that we want to do in the future, the House will refuse to listen to narrow technicalities.” The discussions on the resolution could not be wound up before the first session ended on December 23, 1946, because more than 50 members insisted on expressing their views. Though the president suggested conduct of the proceedings during Christmas holidays and even on Sundays, a majority of the members did not agree owing to their preoccupation. The second session was held between January 20 and 25, 1947, when Dr. Prasad took exception to comments made in the British Parliament by Winston Churchill and others on the Constituent Assembly not being representative of all communities. Dr. Prasad said: “Out of a total of 926 members who were to take part in the preliminary session, 210 members attended. These 210 members consisted of 155 Hindus out of a total of 160, 30 Scheduled Caste representatives out of a total of 33, all the five Sikhs, five Indian Christians out of a total of seven, all the five representatives of Backward Tribes, all three Anglo-Indians, all three Parsis, and four Muslims out of 80.” Every community represented He went on to state: “The significant absence is of course that of the representatives of the Muslim League — an absence which we all deeply regret. But it is clear from the figures I have quoted that, with the exception of representatives of the Muslim League, every community in India, whatever the party affiliation of the persons representing that community, was represented in the Assembly; and, therefore, to describe the Assembly as representing ‘Only one major community in India’ or as ‘a body of Hindus’ or as a ‘meeting of Caste Hindus’ is a complete travesty of facts.” Thereafter, the Assembly continued its discussions on the resolution moved by Nehru. Speaking in favour of it, S. Nagappa from Madras said: “This is a resolution, Sir, that gives wide scope for all the communities and classes of this country... I must say, Sir, that equal opportunity means, one day or other, even a Harijan should be the Premier of India.” The resolution was passed on January 23, 1947, with some of the members withdrawing their proposed amendments. Then, Nehru replied: “The first task of this Assembly is to free India through a new Constitution to feed the starving people and clothe the naked masses and to give every Indian fullest opportunity to develop himself according to his capacity. This is certainly a great task.” When the third session took place between April 28 and May 2, 1947, Dr. Prasad told the Assembly that the British government had declared its intention to transfer power to Indians by June 1948. Therefore, he urged the Assembly to proceed with expedition to finalise the Constitution. The fourth session was held between July 14 and July 31, 1947. In the meantime, the British government announced the partition of India on June 3, 1947, and it led to certain changes in the membership of the Assembly. Drafting panel formed The fifth session began on the intervening night between August 14 and 15, 1947, when Nehru delivered his famous ‘Tryst with destiny’ speech. On August 29, 1947, the Assembly set up a seven-member drafting committee comprising Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar, B.R. Ambedkar, K.M. Munshi, Saiyid Mohamed Saadulla, B.L. Mitter, and D.P. Khaitan. The committee, in turn, elected Dr. Ambedkar as its chairman. Then, B.N. Rau, the Constitutional Adviser to the Assembly, prepared a rough draft of the Constitution for the consideration of the drafting committee. The basic draft consisted of 243 Articles and 13 schedules. However, after it was discussed at length, the first draft consisted of 315 Articles and eight schedules. At the end of the consideration stage, the number of Articles increased to 386 and in its final form, the draft Constitution contained 395 Articles and 8 Schedules. As many as 7,635 amendments to the draft were tabled and 2,473 of them were moved. As for the charge that the Assembly had wasted public money by taking a very long time to finalise the Constitution, Dr. Ambedkar highlighted the time taken by other nations. He said Canada took two years and five months and Australia consumed nine years. “The Constitutions of America, Canada, South Africa and Australia are much smaller than ours. Our Constitution, as I said, contains 395 Articles, while the American has just seven articles, the first four of which are divided into sections which total up to 21, the Canadian has 147, the Australian 128, and the South African 153 sections.” Speaking on November 25, 1949, he said: “The second thing to be remembered is that the makers of the Constitutions of America, Canada, Australia and South Africa did not have to face the problem of amendments. They were passed as moved. On the other hand, this Constituent Assembly had to deal with as many as 2,473 amendments. Having regard to these facts, the charge of dilatoriness seems to me quite unfounded.” Throwing light on the tremendous work done, Dr. Prasad said: “If you consider the population with which this Assembly has had to deal, you will find that it is more than the population of the whole of Europe minus Russia, being 319 millions as against 317 million. The countries of Europe have never been able to join together or coalesce even in a Confederacy, much less under one unitary Government. Here, in spite of the size of the population and the country, we have succeeded in framing a Constitution which covers the whole of it.” Answering the charge that the Assembly had wasted public money, Dr. Prasad said: “The cost too which the Assembly has had to incur during its three years’ existence is not too high when you take into consideration the factors gone into constituting it. I understand that the expenses up to November 22, 1949 come to ₹63,96,729.” After a threadbare discussion of every sentence, word and punctuation in the 395 Articles, the Assembly adopted the Constitution on November 26, 1949, and it came into force on January 26, 1950, with the goosebump-inducing preamble that begins with the words: “We, the people of India...” Published - November 24, 2024 10:43 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp RedditWhich board games are best? Even with technology taking over much of our day-to-day lives, board games still offer quality entertainment that can’t be beaten. Of course, the popular board games of today are a far cry from the games your parents grew up playing. Board games are perfect for encouraging your family to work together or for bringing your group of friends around the table for an evening. If you’d like to start up a weekly game night, let this helpful list of the most popular board games be your guide. Utter Nonsense Ages 8+ This game will have every player rolling in stitches with each ridiculous phrase that’s uttered. Combine crazy accents and hilarious phrases to impress the Nonsense Judge and win the round. The player with the highest number of wins ultimately wins the game, but the true fun of this card game is listening to your fellow players trying to say some of the most entertaining phrases of all time. This game is perfect for game nights or parties. Speak Out Ages 8+ This hilarious game is perfect if you have teenagers or are hosting a party with all adults. To play, you insert a mouthpiece that alters the sound of your speech, making every word sound silly. Set the timer and read one of the phrases on the cards and try to help your teammate guess what you’re saying. Speak Out easily provides hours of fun that even grandparents will love. Escape Room in a Box Ages 13+ What’s the next best thing to trying to break out of a room? Escape Room in a Box, of course. This thrilling, immersive game involves solving 2D and 3D puzzles in order to prevent a mad scientist from turning you and your friends or family into werewolves. Work together to escape your fate and use Amazon Alexa to enhance the experience. Codenames Ages 14+ This fun strategy game is perfect for anyone with teenagers. Form two teams and select a spymaster on each team. Using clues, spymasters try to help their teammates find all 25 of the agents they’re in contact with, hopefully without selecting the other team’s agents or running into the deadly assassin. This innovative game offers a challenging and rewarding time working together. Harry Potter Clue Ages 9+ Excite your kids on game night with this modern twist on a classic. Play as six recognizable Hogwarts characters — Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Ginny or Neville — to solve the mystery behind a fellow student’s disappearance. It’s up to you to figure out who attacked the student, what bewitching spell they used and where it occurred. Watch out for the Dark Mark, moving staircases and secret passages as you travel along in this magical family game. Pandemic Ages 8+ If you’ve ever wanted to save humanity from a deadly outbreak, you’ll love spending an hour playing Pandemic. You and your teammates must fight to contain four deadly diseases threatening the human race. Players must learn to work with their teammates to control outbreak hotspots and treat diseases. Win the game by curing all diseases without wiping out humanity first. Catan Ages 10+ This tactical 60-minute game will push your imagination to its limits as you embark on a journey across Catan. Acquire crucial resources as you travel, build roads, buildings, and cities, and be wary of the ruthless robber and other players halting you on your own road. Through careful trading and clever decisions, you can lead your travelers to victory in this role-playing game of limitless possibilities. Play again and again. Every game is different. Ticket to Ride Ages 8+ Train lovers will enjoy this innovative board game which has won numerous awards. This cross-country train adventure game mimics the concept of traveling around the world in 80 days. Collect train cars and claim railways across the country. Players earn the most points by establishing long train routes and connecting distant cities. Each game takes roughly 30 to 40 minutes to complete, and every adventure is different. 5 Second Rule Ages 10+ This quick-paced game gives each player five seconds to name items on a certain topic. Although the topics are objectively easy —“Name 3 Mountains,” “Name 3 Types of Hats” or “Name 3 Super Heroes,” the pressure of the time crunch is likely to put you on edge. Race the clock and remain composed to win this game. You can even make up your own topics if you prefer. Half the fun is just hearing what other people blurt out, whether it’s relevant to the topic or not. Prices listed reflect time and date of publication and are subject to change. Check out our Daily Deals for the best products at the best prices and sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter full of shopping inspo and sales. BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers. BestReviews and its newspaper partners may earn a commission if you purchase a product through one of our links.
Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is set to begin the new year with a large amount of upgraded equipment. The Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved, Tuesday, Dec. 17, the purchase of 17 Grappler units, 100 body and vehicle cameras and 100 Tasers. The Grappler units and associated equipment comes from an agreement with Stock Enterprises, LLC, and costs $109,343.48, while the cameras and Tasers stem from a 10-year contract with Axon in the amount of $4,911,044. Sheriff Derek Sanders told the commissioners that the department was already awarded the funding and budget authority for the purchase of the Grappler units, but that it must come back before the board to purchase a specific set number of sole source items. He added that TCSO is in the process of securing one final grant for the Grappler units and the cost of grappler units has decreased recently. “We’ve gotten external funding from a couple different sources, three of them being different types of grants and reimbursement programs. The reason the cost went down is because we bought so many of these that they’re actually going to train our county shop staff and some of our deputies on how to install and train them internally,” Sanders said. “So we no longer have to pay the vendor fee, which is a huge deal. The county could even see revenue sources come in as additional agencies are getting more interested in these devices specifically, and as far as I know, we’ll be the only agency in the state that is certified to train and install them.” The Grappler system is a high-speed pursuit alternative to reduce risk to deputies and the community. This equipment allows law enforcement to quickly bring a suspect’s vehicle in a high-speed pursuit to a stop. The equipment is deployed from the front end of the deputy’s vehicle and affixes to the rear tire of the suspect’s vehicle, causing it to become tethered to the patrol vehicle. The patrol vehicle can then have control over the suspect’s vehicle to bring it to a controlled stop. The department also purchased six Grappler units in April with the board’s approval in the amount of $48,662.92. TCSO received notification in May that it would receive $39,550 from the Washington Counties Risk Pool, and it also received a grant from the Department of Commerce to purchase the additional Grappler units. As well, according to a news release Dec. 16, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell announced that Thurston County received an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance grant in the amount of $19,809 to purchase two Grappler units to de-escalate high-risk pursuits and prevent unnecessary injury or property damage. TCSO’s new 10-year contract with Axon will alleviate the department’s limitations with its current body and vehicle cameras and Tasers. Bruce Rohrbough, county fleet services manager, told the board that replacement of the cameras addresses ongoing issues with reliability and data management. Sanders said the previous Tasers, the TASER X26 model, were “extremely outdated” and that it is a “one-shot, one-chance Taser.” “If you get in an environment where you attempt to Taser someone who’s fighting and they have a jacket on or thick clothing, it doesn’t allow probes to get through. Your Taser is obsolete at that point. It doesn’t work anymore,” Sanders said. The department will be upgrading to the TASER 10, which has 10 separate darts instead of the one, and the range of the shot is more than double the previous model. Commission Vice Chair Wayne Fournier said the new Tasers also link with the camera system and begin recording when removed from the holster. The board also unanimously approved two resolutions to extend the recruitment incentives programs to attract and hire lateral deputy sheriffs and corrections deputies for TCSO. The policy authorizes TCSO to offer a new lateral hire a $25,000 hiring bonus, paid in installments, and 40 hours of both vacation time and sick leave, upon hire. It also allows the department to award employees 40 hours of incentive leave if they refer, and the office subsequently hires a lateral candidate. The program was absorbed by the agency’s vacancy savings. Sanders called the program “wildly successful,” adding that from 2021-24, TCSO did not hire a lateral deputy sheriff, but it has hired 14 since it went live three months ago. “The easiest way to put it is that when you compare the cost comparisons between an entry level and a lateral deputy sheriff, it’s about $63,000 more expensive to hire a brand new deputy in a 12-month rolling period,” Sanders said. “If you multiply 14 times the $63,000 minus the lateral bonus, which is $25,000, that leaves you with a little over half a million dollars of savings throughout a 12-month rolling period.”Health Headlines: Major Moves and Mandates Unfold
Possibly not since Johnny Watkins in 1975 has an Australian Test cricketer had as embarrassing a day as Marnus Labuschagne’s in Perth on Sunday. A poor man’s bumper barrage, a couple of overs of leg-spin more negative than an opposition leader – at least cricketers get penalised for it – a five-ball innings for three runs to follow a 52-ball innings for two the first time around, and a fatuous review; these were all unworthy of a man who has been a good servant of his team and his country. Marnus Labuschagne departs Perth Stadium on Sunday, taking a review with him after being dismissed lbw. Credit: Getty Images Labuschagne’s ignominy was Australia humiliation writ small. Midway through day three, Australia had let slip a Test match they had all but won half-way through day one by so far that they resorted to the tactics of a harlequin, hoping to achieve by distraction what they could not by application. Only Labuschagne’s desperate review was in character. Australia will lose this match by hundreds of runs, and with it all their emperor’s clothes. The rest of the series will be a dogfight at best. At least it is a series this time, not a cameo. Australia drew criticism from old lags in the commentary box for not being nasty enough in its tactics and disposition. Remembering where such an attitude eventually led in a previous dispensation, that can be safely ignored. That time is past. But undoubtedly, the Australians’ body language was limp. Little things were telling. With run-outs on, the Australians did not hit the stumps. They used to. The much-decorated attack was at least persevering, but lacked a second wind. The Test match was taken away from them by a 22-year-old, who admittedly will be a superstar, and a makeshift in the opening role. We’d better get our heads around the idea of Yashasvi Jaiswal; he’s going to be inside them for a while. One consequence of the openers’ heroics was to gift the struggling Virat Kohli, arriving at 2-275, the most comfortable century of the seven he has now scored against Australia. Whether that emboldens him or deludes him henceforth we will soon see. The Australian team is ageing before our eyes. Yes, it still wins at a good rate, but it also loses carelessly. It was only this year that it lost to the West Indies at the Gabba, that erstwhile fortress. Now it’s going down the gurgler to India in Perth. It’s not the WACA Ground, which once was another of Australia’s locks, but it behaves much like the WACA. And it’s where, because of commercial imperatives, Australia has committed to kicking off home series for the next three years. And if anyone tries to blame the pitch here, see Indian openers, above. Doubtlessly, there will be inquiries, plural; sports administrators never settle for one. They will be pointless if they do not concede that the system has let the team down, at least in part. It’s a system that says one thing and does another. It spruiks the paramountcy of Test cricket, but constructs a program that marginalises it. By and large, the Australians played either no cricket, little cricket or other forms in the lead-up to this series. It’s too hard a game to be taken so lightly. Australian skipper Pat Cummins searches for answers on Sunday as India storms to a total of 6-487 declared.. Credit: AP Captain Pat Cummins said that if anything, he preferred to come into a new series underdone. As an alibi, that sounds all too convenient. India played three Tests. Yes, they lost them all, to New Zealand, but at least it was the right format. Perhaps the way the game has evolved, the Australian summer with the Big Bash League at its heart cannot have any other shape. If so, say so. Don’t patronise us. In a five-Test series, much can change. As veterans Rohit Sharma and perhaps Mohammed Shami return, and noting the bold performances of India’s newcomers, it has its own tricky territory to negotiate, but from a lovely position. Meantime, if you think Jasprit Bumrah has been a frightening proposition in Perth, imagine him with a pink ball under the Adelaide Oval lights. Australia must change, its outlook and perhaps its personnel. Nathan McSweeney has looked all at sea, but it would be grossly unfair to give him only one chance. Nonetheless, Australia must be thinking about how to hit refresh on the Test XI or find itself staring at the spinning wheel of death. Presently, it looks like a certain football team we know that won a premiership recently and is still trying to win the same premiership again. Watkins, by the way, though all at sea with the ball in his one and only Test, made difficult runs and contributed to Australia’s eventual win. News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport sent every Monday. Sign up for our Sport newsletter .
Urodynamic Equipment and Consumables Market Set for Exceptional Growth in the Forecast 2024-2032 12-24-2024 06:42 PM CET | Health & Medicine Press release from: Cognate Insights Urodynamic Equipment and Consumables Market Latest Market Overview The global urodynamic equipment and consumables market is expected to reach USD 1.2 billion by 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5% during the forecast period from 2024 to 2032. The increasing prevalence of urinary disorders, such as incontinence, bladder dysfunction, and prostate issues, is the primary driver for the growth of this market. Additionally, the rising adoption of urodynamic procedures for accurate diagnosis and treatment of urological conditions is further fueling the demand for urodynamic equipment and consumables. Technological advancements, including the development of non-invasive and minimally invasive urodynamic equipment, also contribute to the market's growth trajectory. 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New Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister on Saturday lauded the growing involvement of parents in their children's education, saying "It's encouraging to see parents actively engaging." The Delhi Government organised 'Mega Parents-Teacher Meetings' (Mega PTMs) across all 1,500 governmnet schools. Despite rain, the event witnessed significant parent participation, a statement issued here said. Also Read | Why Is There Controversy Over Dr Manmohan Singh's Cremation at Nigambodh Ghat Instead of Raj Ghat? Where Deceased Prime Ministers of India Have Been Laid to Rest in the Past?. The chief minister visited Sarvodaya Co-ed School in Kalkaji, highlighting the increased confidence among students in Delhi Government schools with many now fluent in English. "Parents are thrilled that the quality of education once limited to top private schools is now available in Delhi Government schools," she said. Also Read | Bank of Baroda Recruitment 2025: Applications Open for 1267 Specialist Officer Posts at bankofbaroda.in, Know Pay Scale, Selection Process and Steps to Apply. Atishi also praised the rising awareness among parents emphasising that collaboration between teachers and parents plays a key role in children's progress, the statement said. Parents attending the PTM expressed their satisfaction with improvements in education and infrastructure in Delhi Government schools, it said. Parent of a Class 10 student said, "Teachers go above and beyond, even helping children after regular school hours." AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, who also attended the Mega PTM, interacted with parents and students and stressed on the importance of parental involvement. "When parents are engaged, children perform better," he said. Students also shared their aspirations with Kejriwal. A Class 12 student, Aashna, who wants to pursue an information technology course, expressed an interest in a career in the stock markets. Aashna's mother said once hesitant in mentioning that their children attended government schools they now take pride in the education their children are receiving. Manish Sisodia, senior AAP leader wrote about the event in a post on X, saying, "The changes happening in education are not just about buildings but also about touching hearts and dreams." (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A 0.99% ) ( BRK.B 0.95% ) about 60 years ago. At the time the business was in decline and the purchase seemed like folly. But today, Berkshire Hathaway is worth more than $1 trillion. And it reached this height thanks to Buffett smartly reinvesting the company's cash over the decades. Given his impressive track record, I steadily study Buffett's mentality to improve my own investing skills. My office is littered with highlighted and underlined copies of his annual letters to shareholders as well as worn-out books on Buffett. Suffice it to say I'm a student and a fan. On Nov. 14, Berkshire Hathaway released its quarterly stock holdings to the public. Normally I'm intrigued by the investing decisions. But this time, the company sold Ulta Beauty ( ULTA -0.12% ) and Floor & Decor ( FND 4.65% ) . And I think those moves are mistakes. I have high respect for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway , so I don't say this flippantly. But I believe shares of Ulta Beauty and Floor & Decor are poised to outperform the S&P 500 over the next five years. And that's why I humbly disagree with Berkshire's decisions to sell. 1. Ulta Beauty With more than 1,400 locations already, Ulta Beauty is a large retail chain for cosmetics , which suggests future growth opportunities are limited. This is reflected in management's guidance for 2024, which implies a slight pullback in net sales as same-store sales modestly drop. This lackluster growth has investors souring on the stock. Growth is certainly important. But there are other paths to strong stock performance and Ulta Beauty has what it takes. For starters, the company is strongly profitable even in slower times for business. It expects an operating margin of close to 13% this year and it expects to keep it above 12% long term. With profits, Ulta Beauty is repurchasing shares -- it just authorized a $3 billion buyback plan in October. And reducing the share count can boost its earnings per share (EPS) at a much faster rate than revenue. In fact, management expects double-digit EPS growth from here. Double-digit EPS growth can be enough to boost Ulta Beauty stock at a faster rate than the S&P 500. Moreover, I believe there's little risk with this investment. Cosmetic spending is extremely resilient. And the stock trades at its third lowest price-to-earnings (P/E) valuation ever, mitigating downside risk if profits keep climbing. ULTA PE Ratio data by YCharts 2. Floor & Decor Floor & Decor stock has dropped 30% from its all-time high. And the short story is the home-improvement market is contracting, impacting the company's sales. Its same-store sales are expected to drop about 8% year over year in 2024. But I don't think it's a problem to worry about right now. As the chart below shows, sales growth largely mirrors existing U.S. home sales. US Existing Home Sales data by YCharts I'm not an eternal optimist here. To the contrary, if home sales were to pick up and Floor & Decor's sales still remained challenged, that would be a time for serious concern. But I believe fears are premature. The housing market is cyclical and should eventually pick back up, boosting Floor & Decor when that happens. With only 241 locations at the end of the third quarter of 2024, Floor & Decor has plenty of room for expansion. In fact, management is targeting 500 locations long term. In 2024 it's opening 30 new stores total, 20 of which it had already opened prior to the end of Q3. And in 2025 it expects to open 25 more -- a slower pace than usual, acknowledging the soft housing market. During this lean time, Floor & Decor's management is maintaining profitability by cutting expenses where it can. Granted, its profit margin through the first three quarters of 2024 is only 4.7% -- it's been as high as 9% in recent years. But these profits mean that the company is still getting stronger financially, setting it up well for when the housing market recovers. I'm not sure when the housing market will recover and neither is Floor & Decor's management. But given the usual ebb and flow in the housing market, I expect a recovery within the next five years. And when that happens, I would expect sales to bounce back and profit margins to rise to more historical levels. And this will almost certainly translate to a strong performance for the stock. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold Ulta Beauty stock and Floor & Decor stock and the holding company is known for making great investing decisions. But if you're looking to outperform the S&P 500 over the next five years, I believe both Ulta Beauty and Floor & Decor provide low-risk chances to do just that. For this reason, I humbly disagree with the decision to sell and believe both stocks are good ones to buy today.Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
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