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Jarrod Bowen held Antonio’s number nine shirt aloft after scoring the winner in support of the Hammers striker, who is recovering after a horror car crash on Saturday. Boss Julen Lopetegui said: “He is not in his best moment but he kept his humour. It was a special moment for us. “I think we have a lot of reason to win matches but this was one reason more. He’s alive so we are happy.” MA9 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/fXwtdSQWYE — West Ham United (@WestHam) December 9, 2024 West Ham players wore ‘Antonio 9′ shirts while warming up and walking out before kick-off. The shirts will be signed by the players, including Antonio, and auctioned off with the proceeds going to the NHS and Air Ambulances UK. Tomas Soucek headed West Ham into the lead and held up nine fingers to a TV camera. The Czech midfielder told Sky Sports: “He’s been here since I came here. He is really my favourite. I said it would be tough for me to play without him. "He was here since I came and he's really my favourite" Tomáš Souček on dedicating his goal to Michail Antonio ❤️ pic.twitter.com/smNy26wmuX — Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 9, 2024 “I was so scared what was going to happen. It was a really tough week for him, his family and us.” Matt Doherty equalised for Wolves, and boss Gary O’Neil felt they should have had two penalties for fouls on Goncalo Guedes and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, both of which were checked by VAR. But Bowen’s winner – O’Neil believed there was a foul in the build-up – condemned Wolves to a 10th defeat of the season and a third in a row. While under-pressure Lopetegui may have earned a stay of execution, O’Neil’s future as Wolves manager is now in serious doubt. “A lot of things went against us but ultimately we have not found a way to turn the game in our favour,” he said. “But the players showed they are still fighting for me, for the fans and the group. “Where does this leave me? In the same place I was. I’m aware of the noise. But if anyone expected this to be easy – I’m happy to be judged on results but it should be done in context. “Whenever this journey ends with Wolves I’ll be proud of it.” There was an acrimonious end to the match as captains Bowen and Mario Lemina scuffled after the final whistle, with the Wolves midfielder angrily shoving people including one of his own coaches, Shaun Derry. “I just went to shake his hand after the game,” Bowen said. “He didn’t want to shake my hand, two captains together just to say ‘well done’ after the game. “I know it’s difficult when you lose. I’ve been on the end of that situation.” O’Neil added: “Mario is calm now. He’s a passionate guy and something was said that upset him. “The instinct of the staff was to make sure he didn’t get into trouble, but he took some calming down.”
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B.C. Premier David Eby is promising to seek new export opportunities for the province after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all Mexican and Canadian goods. British Columbia exports billions of dollars’ worth of commodities and products – coal and lumber, plastics and machinery – every month, with just over half bound for the United States. It could be worse. Canada as a whole sends three-quarters of its exports to the U.S. B.C. has less exposure to that single market thanks to a long-running policy, embraced by political parties of every stripe, of maintaining a diversified trade portfolio. “We’re going to continue to do our work to expand those trading opportunities,” Mr. Eby told reporters Wednesday. In the 1980s, B.C.’s political leaders set their economic sights on Asia, opening trade offices in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan with the intent of reducing the province’s dependence on its dominant customer to the south. The province has bankrolled countless trade missions and now maintains 19 overseas trade offices. Yet the U.S. has consistently remained its most important trading partner over the past four decades. At best, the diversification strategy has dampened the siren call of the behemoth at its doorstep. “Canada is so privileged to be next door to this giant economic engine of the United States,” noted former B.C. premier Glen Clark in an interview. “We understand the laws there, we understand the language, we understand the people, and it’s very close, so it’s a natural.” But too much dependence on a single market – no matter how big, no matter how easy – comes with risk. Mr. Trump’s tariff threat should be a catalyst for a fresh commitment to cultivate new markets, said Mr. Clark, who led 13 trade missions to China alone during his term as premier, from 1996 to 1999. “Reviving that trade policy, only with different focus on parts of the world, makes a lot of sense as we move forward in this kind of dangerous time.” In 1987, Mike Harcourt, then the NDP opposition leader, stood up in the legislature and endorsed the Social Credit government’s early trade missions. Even as some Socred backbenchers dismissed the trips as “boondoggles,” Mr. Harcourt pressed for a more aggressive strategy. “We support those initiatives, but we’re not bold enough,” he said, insisting that the province needed to establish outposts in China and India. At the time, the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute was demonstrating the ability of the U.S. to cripple the province’s forest sector. That conflict continues today – a textbook example for Canada of how U.S. protectionism can supersede good trade relations. British Columbia’s position as a trade gateway for Pacific Rim countries was already a reality before politicians tried to help. The year Mr. Harcourt was calling for trade offices in China, just 46 per cent of the province’s exports went to the United States. When he became Premier in 1991, Mr. Harcourt took the opportunity to pursue new markets aggressively. “I started talking about Vancouver being, not the last stop of the CPR railway, but the front door to Asia for Canada,” he said in an interview. But today he believes the province’s trade strategy needs an urgent update to prepare for 2025, when Mr. Trump returns to office. B.C.’s Trade Diversification Strategy was updated in 2023, but much has changed since. The value of softwood lumber exports has stagnated and is now rivalled by sales of machinery and equipment. Meanwhile, energy exports – especially coal – are climbing in value. Mr. Trump’s tariff threats aside, global trade relations are also more complex, particularly with China and India. The two countries are host to almost half of B.C.’s international trade offices outside the U.S. David Emerson helped steer Canada toward trade diversification. As deputy finance minister under then-Premier Bill Bennett and deputy minister to Premier Bill Vander Zalm, he crafted B.C.’s Asian Pacific trade strategy and later introduced the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative as the federal Minister of International Trade. He also was the minister who negotiated the one and only settlement on softwood lumber, in 2006. That agreement expired in 2015. Mr. Emerson says this is not a good time for British Columbia – and Canada – to face a strong protectionist leader in the U.S., because the alternatives are limited. “I do believe we need to grow market penetration in markets other than the U.S., but the greatest potential is in markets where we now have terrible relations,” he said. “Today, relations with China and India are a mess, and the great trade diversification strategy has run into serious trouble.” China is B.C.’s second-largest export destination – one that is growing in value. But Canada and China are in the midst of a trade spat. In August, Ottawa announced a 100-per-cent import tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and a 25-per-cent tariff on steel and aluminum products from China, after the U.S. and the European Union introduced similar measures. The following month, Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of rapeseed from Canada. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has signalled he is prepared to reignite trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which could put other trading partners in the crossfire. Canada’s relations with India soured after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last year that there were credible allegations the Indian government had links to the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Canada has since alleged that India’s Home Affairs Minister, Amit Shah, ordered the targeting of Sikh activists in Canada. Both countries have now expelled each other’s top diplomatic officials. Mr. Trump’s rationale for slapping tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports is to punish both countries for lax border security, allowing illegal migrants and illicit drugs to slip through into the U.S. On Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau met with the premiers to strategize and emerged with a promise to strengthen border security by pumping more money into the Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP. Mr. Eby, who advocated for that investment as an answer to Mr. Trump’s complaints, said Canada should put up a united front to take on the U.S. trade threat. But in the meantime, he said, he’ll renew his government’s commitment to diversification. “This was definitely the right direction, obviously, in hindsight, and we do have to redouble those efforts, given the instability south of the border.” The decades of previous efforts have shown, however, that changing those trade patterns will be exceptionally difficult.I am never quite sure about dramatised documentaries. Often I wish they would pick one genre and stick to it because the “acty” bits, which are usually in slow-motion for no reason, can feel like a hammy oversimplification for those lacking the attention span for full-on factual. But Charles Dance, with white Catweazle hair, made a bewitching elderly Michelangelo in Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty (BBC2), addressing his monologues to camera with wild blue eyes. The non-speaking actor bits, though, added little to the party. The subject matter could hardly be sexier: the rivalry between the first three “superstar artists” — Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael — and how they changed western art. Florence in the 15th century, it was said, was the “Silicon Valley of the Renaissance” with the wealthy and the feuding powerful starting to use art as political leverage.
Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich explains the latest on President-elect Donald Trump publicly supporting his nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary on Truth Social and more on 'Special Report.' Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, the first female combat veteran elected to the Senate and a member of the Armed Services Committee, has signaled toward supporting President-elect Trump's nominee for defense secretary. After meeting on Monday for a second time with Pete Hegseth, Ernst wrote in a statement that "as I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources." An Army National Guard officer who deployed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and who until last month was a longtime Fox News host, Hegseth has been the focus of a slew of reports spotlighting a series of drinking and sexual misconduct allegations. Hegseth has denied allegations that he mistreated women and has vowed that he won't drink "a drop of alcohol" if confirmed as defense secretary. A separate report showcased allegations Hegseth mismanaged a veterans nonprofit organization that he once led. TRUMP RALLIES BEHIND HEGSETH BUT INVITES DESANTIS TO ARMY-NAVY GAME Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's nominee for defense secretary, walks with his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, left, to meet with Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, of the Armed Services Committee at the Capitol on Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Ernst, a conservative lawmaker first elected to the Senate in 2014, is considered a pivotal vote in the confirmation battle over Hegseth, who in the past has questioned the role of women in combat. The senator is also a survivor of sexual assault who has a strong legislative record of addressing sexual assault and harassment in the military. She said in her statement that "following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon and selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and value of our servicemen and women – based on quality and standards, not quotas – and who will prioritize and strengthen my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks." TRUMP ORBIT RAMPS UP CRITICISM OF ERNST OVER HEGSETH NOMINATION Ernst's office told Fox News on Monday that "the senator has consistently followed the process, which she has said since the beginning, and doing her job as a United States senator." After meeting with Hegseth last week, Ernst said in a social media post that she and Trump's defense secretary nominee had a "frank and thorough" conversation. A day later, when asked in an interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" if she wasn't ready to vote to confirm Hegseth, the senator replied, "I think you are right." Ahead of his second meeting with the senator, Hegseth told Fox News' Aishah Hasnie, "I'm really looking forward to meeting with Sen. Ernst. I appreciate her. I respect her background and her service. She's incredible. And the ongoing conversation has been very fruitful." Over the past few days, a high-profile Trump ally has threatened to fuel a primary challenge against Ernst when she's up for re-election in 2026. "This is the red line. This is not a joke. ... The funding is already being put together. Donors are calling like crazy. Primaries are going to be launched," said Charlie Kirk, an influential conservative activist and radio and TV host who co-founded and steers Turning Point USA. GET TO KNOW DONALD TRUMP'S CABINET: WHO HAS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT PICKED SO FAR? Kirk, on his radio program, warned that "if you support the president’s agenda, you’re good. You’re marked safe from a primary. You go up against Pete Hegseth, the president repeatedly, then don’t be surprised, Joni Ernst, if all of a sudden you have a primary challenge in Iowa." In Iowa, conservative commentator and media personality Steve Deace took to social media and used his radio program to highlight that he would consider launching a primary challenge against Ernst. "Defeating an incumbent US Senator takes high name ID, connections, and funding potential," Deace wrote. "I'm one of the few people in Iowa with all three." Deace, who supported Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in this year's Iowa GOP presidential caucus, said, "I don't want to be a Senator, but I am willing to primary her for the good of the cause if I'm assured I have Trump's support going in. Or I am willing to throw my support and network behind someone else President Trump prefers to primary Joni Ernst instead." Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, a top Trump supporter in the Iowa caucuses, wrote a column on Breitbart urging Hegseth's confirmation. While she didn't mention Ernst by name, Bird took aim at "D.C. politicians" who "think they can ignore the voices of their constituents and entertain smears from the same outlets that have pushed out lies for years." Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/File) David Kochel, a veteran GOP consultant who was a key strategist and early backer of Ernst during her successful 2014 Senate campaign, told Fox News that "Joni Ernst is doing what the Constitution says what her job is, which is advise and consent." "I think that everybody should just give her the space to do her job, and making threats to a combat veteran usually doesn't work out great," Kochel said. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Trump has praised Hegseth in the past few days. "Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News," the president-elect wrote on Friday. But Fox News and other news organizations have reported that Trump is potentially considering nominating DeSantis as defense secretary as a possible replacement should Hegseth's nomination falter. Ernst's name has also come up as a possible replacement. But the senator said last week in an interview with RealClearPolitics that "I am not seeking to be secretary of defense." Fox News' Chad Pergram, Tyler Olson and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.
Stock market today: Wall Street gains ground as it notches a winning week and another Dow record Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, giving the market its fifth gain in a row and notching another record high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Friday. The Dow added 1%, and the Nasdaq composite tacked on 0.2%. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press Nov 22, 2024 1:09 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File) Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, giving the market its fifth gain in a row and notching another record high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% Friday. The Dow added 1%, and the Nasdaq composite tacked on 0.2%. Retailers had some of the biggest gains. Gap soared after reporting quarterly results that easily beat analysts’ estimates. EchoStar fell after DirecTV called off its purchase of that company’s Dish Network unit. European markets closed mostly higher and Asian markets ended mixed. Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market. Crude oil prices gained ground. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Stocks rose on Wall Street in afternoon trading Friday, keeping the market on track for its fifth straight gain. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% and was solidly on track for a weekly gain that will erase most of last week's loss. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 333 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite was essentially flat with a gain of less than 0.1% as of 3:07 p.m. Eastern. Markets have been volatile over the last few weeks, losing ground in the runup to elections in November, then surging following Donald Trump's victory, before falling again. The S&P 500 has been steadily rising throughout this week to within close range of its record. “Overall, market behavior has normalized following an intense few weeks,” said Mark Hackett, chief of investment research at Nationwide, in a statement. Several retailers jumped after giving Wall Street encouraging financial updates. Gap soared 10.8% after handily beating analysts' third-quarter earnings and revenue expectations, while raising its own revenue forecast for the year. Discount retailer Ross Stores rose 1.5% after raising its earnings forecast for the year. EchoStar fell 2.4% after DirecTV called off its purchase of that company's Dish Network unit. Smaller company stocks had some of the biggest gains. The Russell 2000 index rose 1.8%. A majority of stocks in the S&P 500 were gaining ground, but those gains were kept in check by slumps for several big technology companies. Nvidia fell 3.3%. Its pricey valuation makes it among the heaviest influences on whether the broader market gains or loses ground. The company has grown into a nearly $3.6 trillion behemoth because of demand for its chips used in artificial-intelligence technology. Intuit, which makes TurboTax and other accounting software, fell 5.6%. It gave investors a quarterly earnings forecast that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Facebook owner Meta Platforms fell 0.8% following a decision by the Supreme Court to allow a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against the company. It stems from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. European markets closed mostly higher and Asian markets ended mixed. Crude oil prices rose. Treasury yields held relatively steady in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.41% from 4.42% late Thursday. In the crypto market, Bitcoin hovered around $99,000, according to CoinDesk. It has more than doubled this year and first surpassed the $99,000 level on Thursday. Retailers remained a big focus for investors this week amid close scrutiny on consumer spending habits headed into the holiday shopping season. Walmart, the nation's largest retailer, reported a quarter of strong sales and gave investors an encouraging financial forecast. Target, though, reported weaker earnings than analysts' expected and its forecast disappointed Wall Street. Consumer spending has fueled economic growth, despite a persistent squeeze from inflation and high borrowing costs. Inflation has been easing and the Federal Reserve has started trimming its benchmark interest rates. That is likely to help relieve pressure on consumers, but any major shift in spending could prompt the Fed to reassess its path ahead on interest rates. Also, any big reversals on the rate of inflation could curtail spending. Consumer sentiment remains strong, according to the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index. It revised its latest figure for November to 71.8 from an initial reading of 73 earlier this month, though economists expected a slight increase. It's still up from 70.5 in October. The survey also showed that consumers' inflation expectations for the year ahead fell slightly to 2.6%, which is the lowest reading since December of 2020. Wall Street will get another update on how consumers feel when the business group The Conference Board releases its monthly consumer confidence survey on Tuesday. A key inflation update will come on Wednesday when the U.S. releases its October personal consumption expenditures index. The PCE is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation and this will be the last PCE reading prior to the central bank's meeting in December. Damian J. Troise And Alex Veiga, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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Keir Starner will never grow economy if he keeps swelling civil service... workshy are being well paid for mediocrityB.C. Premier David Eby is promising to seek new export opportunities for the province after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all Mexican and Canadian goods. British Columbia exports billions of dollars’ worth of commodities and products – coal and lumber, plastics and machinery – every month, with just over half bound for the United States. It could be worse. Canada as a whole sends three-quarters of its exports to the U.S. B.C. has less exposure to that single market thanks to a long-running policy, embraced by political parties of every stripe, of maintaining a diversified trade portfolio. “We’re going to continue to do our work to expand those trading opportunities,” Mr. Eby told reporters Wednesday. In the 1980s, B.C.’s political leaders set their economic sights on Asia, opening trade offices in Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan with the intent of reducing the province’s dependence on its dominant customer to the south. The province has bankrolled countless trade missions and now maintains 19 overseas trade offices. Yet the U.S. has consistently remained its most important trading partner over the past four decades. At best, the diversification strategy has dampened the siren call of the behemoth at its doorstep. “Canada is so privileged to be next door to this giant economic engine of the United States,” noted former B.C. premier Glen Clark in an interview. “We understand the laws there, we understand the language, we understand the people, and it’s very close, so it’s a natural.” But too much dependence on a single market – no matter how big, no matter how easy – comes with risk. Mr. Trump’s tariff threat should be a catalyst for a fresh commitment to cultivate new markets, said Mr. Clark, who led 13 trade missions to China alone during his term as premier, from 1996 to 1999. “Reviving that trade policy, only with different focus on parts of the world, makes a lot of sense as we move forward in this kind of dangerous time.” In 1987, Mike Harcourt, then the NDP opposition leader, stood up in the legislature and endorsed the Social Credit government’s early trade missions. Even as some Socred backbenchers dismissed the trips as “boondoggles,” Mr. Harcourt pressed for a more aggressive strategy. “We support those initiatives, but we’re not bold enough,” he said, insisting that the province needed to establish outposts in China and India. At the time, the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute was demonstrating the ability of the U.S. to cripple the province’s forest sector. That conflict continues today – a textbook example for Canada of how U.S. protectionism can supersede good trade relations. British Columbia’s position as a trade gateway for Pacific Rim countries was already a reality before politicians tried to help. The year Mr. Harcourt was calling for trade offices in China, just 46 per cent of the province’s exports went to the United States. When he became Premier in 1991, Mr. Harcourt took the opportunity to pursue new markets aggressively. “I started talking about Vancouver being, not the last stop of the CPR railway, but the front door to Asia for Canada,” he said in an interview. But today he believes the province’s trade strategy needs an urgent update to prepare for 2025, when Mr. Trump returns to office. B.C.’s Trade Diversification Strategy was updated in 2023, but much has changed since. The value of softwood lumber exports has stagnated and is now rivalled by sales of machinery and equipment. Meanwhile, energy exports – especially coal – are climbing in value. Mr. Trump’s tariff threats aside, global trade relations are also more complex, particularly with China and India. The two countries are host to almost half of B.C.’s international trade offices outside the U.S. David Emerson helped steer Canada toward trade diversification. As deputy finance minister under then-Premier Bill Bennett and deputy minister to Premier Bill Vander Zalm, he crafted B.C.’s Asian Pacific trade strategy and later introduced the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative as the federal Minister of International Trade. He also was the minister who negotiated the one and only settlement on softwood lumber, in 2006. That agreement expired in 2015. Mr. Emerson says this is not a good time for British Columbia – and Canada – to face a strong protectionist leader in the U.S., because the alternatives are limited. “I do believe we need to grow market penetration in markets other than the U.S., but the greatest potential is in markets where we now have terrible relations,” he said. “Today, relations with China and India are a mess, and the great trade diversification strategy has run into serious trouble.” China is B.C.’s second-largest export destination – one that is growing in value. But Canada and China are in the midst of a trade spat. In August, Ottawa announced a 100-per-cent import tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and a 25-per-cent tariff on steel and aluminum products from China, after the U.S. and the European Union introduced similar measures. The following month, Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of rapeseed from Canada. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump has signalled he is prepared to reignite trade tensions between the U.S. and China, which could put other trading partners in the crossfire. Canada’s relations with India soured after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last year that there were credible allegations the Indian government had links to the assassination of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. Canada has since alleged that India’s Home Affairs Minister, Amit Shah, ordered the targeting of Sikh activists in Canada. Both countries have now expelled each other’s top diplomatic officials. Mr. Trump’s rationale for slapping tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports is to punish both countries for lax border security, allowing illegal migrants and illicit drugs to slip through into the U.S. On Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau met with the premiers to strategize and emerged with a promise to strengthen border security by pumping more money into the Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP. Mr. Eby, who advocated for that investment as an answer to Mr. Trump’s complaints, said Canada should put up a united front to take on the U.S. trade threat. But in the meantime, he said, he’ll renew his government’s commitment to diversification. “This was definitely the right direction, obviously, in hindsight, and we do have to redouble those efforts, given the instability south of the border.” The decades of previous efforts have shown, however, that changing those trade patterns will be exceptionally difficult.
England are in early disarray as New Zealand’s fast bowlers put on a clinic to snare four wickets in the first hour of the second Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. Watch NZ vs England three-Test series LIVE on Kayo | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. England’s top four of Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethell and Joe Root are all back in the sheds after Matt Henry and Nathan Smith wreaked havoc with the new ball, and England great David Gower was disgusted on commentary by some of the shots he witnessed. “There’s been some appalling shots,” Gower said of England’s batting in the first hour. “There are times when one is speechless watching England bat.” LIVE SCORES Crawley made a statement of intent early by hitting Tim Southee back over his head for six in the opening over of the game, but was soon enough sent on his way for 17 off 23 balls by a peach from Henry. The right-hander was bowled by a nip-backer that was an excellent delivery, but had Gower, who was an old school opening batter, wincing at the lack of a sound forward defence. “It was a good ball, but there is a big gap there,” Gower said of Crawley’s dismissal. Crawley’s opening partner Ben Duckett was gone for a duck, once again caught in the slip cordon as he poked outside off stump with an angled bat to Henry, and New Zealand captain Tom Latham, who won the toss, snaffled an excellent catch low at second slip. The big wicket came next as Smith, in his second Test, found Root’s edge from an attempted back foot punch, and Daryl Mitchell took a one-handed stunner at first slip to send the number one batter in the ICC’s Test rankings on his way for 3. To add further insult, Bethell, who is also playing his second Test match, was caught down the leg side off Smith on the stroke of drinks. The left-hander was a controversial selection for this tour as he has not made a first class hundred, but showed some promise with a lovely straight drive the highlight of his innings before being dismissed for 16. England were 4/43 at the drinks break at the conclusion of the first hour, and in the second phase of the first session, Harry Brook has made a rollicking start to his innings after making a century in Christchurch. He is at the create with England vice-captain Ollie Pope.Regional high-performance curling centre officially launches at Winnipeg's Heather club
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Adam22 says that Kendrick Lamar and his passionate followers remind him of Donald Trump. He explained his reasoning during the latest episode of The Adam22 & Wack100 Show for No Jumper . He suggested that Lamar's fans are just as delusional in their bias as supporters of the incumbent president. "Donald Trump's fanbase is kind of like a cult because no matter what Donald Trump does, they never find fault with it," Adam said. "He could do things that, were they done by the Democrats, everybody would be able to agree that they're wrong. But here's the thing, now we have Kendrick's super fans, who are telling us that, 'actually, buying plays and payola is totally fine.'" Read More: Wack 100 Thinks It's Possible Drake & UMG Are Really In Cahoots Amid Lawsuit LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 30: Adam22 (L) and Drake speak during Drake's Till Death Do Us Part rap battle on October 30, 2021 in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Fans on social media have been having mixed responses to the opinion. "Nah he’s so right, they are hypocrites just like their lord and saviour Kendrick it’s actually insane," one user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote. Another countered: "Drake has always used bots ... please stop posting about this cuck. He is what is wrong with the hip hop community in the first place." Drake accused Universal Music Group of allegedly using bots and payola to artificially boost the success of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" in a legal filing, last month. He also accused the company of defamation. UMG denied all of the allegations as "offensive and untrue." That lawsuit came as Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNX . The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Songs from the project also hold all five of the top spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Check out Adam22's full comments on Kendrick Lamar below. Read More: DJ Akademiks Brings Kendrick Lamar Back Down To Earth After "GNX's" Massive Billboard 200 DebutUK investors put record $3.9 bln in equity funds in November, survey says
Bird watchers don’t stop. They’re always on alert, following a flutter in the air, pondering a feather that fell to the ground and talking about a frenzy at backyard feeders. They traverse mountains, deserts, grasslands, marshes and forests with binoculars strapped around their necks, a worn Sibley guide at their side. But there is one day a year in which tens of thousands of bird enthusiasts go all in, postponing a surgery, skipping a holiday gathering and scouting, sometimes from dawn to dusk, in a large or small part of a specific 15-mile circle. Their mission: to tally the types and numbers of birds they see to contribute to the National Audubon Society’s most powerful community science effort, the Christmas Bird Count. “CBC” for short. And Oregon birders are ready. Oregon has about 47 CBC groups that each spend one day counting birds from Dec. 14 to Jan. 5. The count is a concentration of what people love about birding: gathering useful new information and enjoying fellowship with others fascinated by birds. And like the U.S. Census, the data collected is prized and analyzed, and used to document changes and draw conclusions. The Christmas Bird Count is the world’s largest and longest-running — 125 years so far — bird census. The database has become one of the most important sources for researchers, conservation biologists and wildlife agencies to track the health of avian populations across the Western Hemisphere. While some duck, goose and swan populations are exploding, Christmas Bird Count data, collected by volunteers, has helped prove that the numbers of more than half of all U.S. bird species are dwindling, according to a report by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative. Christmas Bird Count and other consistently compiled data also show that many species are spending the winter much farther north than they did decades ago due to milder temperatures, and for some species, the greater availability of bird feeders. When combined with other information such as the Breeding Bird Survey, the annual Audubon count provides a picture of how the continent’s bird populations have changed over the last century. Birds are indicators of environmental conditions — the canaries in the coal mine — and much more. Physicist Albert Einstein wrote in 1949 that studying migratory birds and carrier pigeons could lead to a deeper understanding of physical processes not yet known, and musician Paul McCartney said birdwatching in the countryside removed him from “the normal stream of life.” For many bird enthusiasts, the count is a winter ritual, cherished time with relatives and close friends who take satisfaction adding to an important scientific project the National Audubon Society launched in 1900 to discourage people from shooting birds for sport. And environmentally conscious Oregon, with public lands and opportunities to explore nature, is welcoming to birders and people who just can’t help to notice what’s flying around, said Ashland bird expert Pepper Trail. Trail, a retired ornithologist who worked 23 years at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensic Laboratory in Ashland, has been covering the Kelly Slough part of the Medford count circle since 2000. Before the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River was removed in 2009, he and his friend, the late Mike Uhtoff, would paddle a canoe across the river and into the flooded slough. Trail and Uhtoff’s son, Chris, continued the physically taxing tradition. On Medford’s Christmas Bird Count day, Trail seems more like an Indiana Jones character than a mild-mannered biologist. He hikes, battles overgrown blackberries — he’s bringing a machete this year — and makes sure he’s in position to record as many as 20,000 robins and starlings flying out of their roost before day break and returning at dusk. Trail and Chris Uhtoff are also tracking waterfowl in ponds, birds feeding on pyracantha berries and other action on publicly accessed Lower Table Rock and remote land protected by the Nature Conservancy. “People are devoted to spending a cold winter day counting birds because it’s a great tradition” for personal and scientific reasons, said Trail, 71. He remembers his first official Christmas count with his dad, Paris Trail, in the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in upstate New York. He was 9. Participants don’t have to be an expert or have a professional degree to contribute to the Audubon’s international database. People of all ages volunteer to record the birds they see out their home window, called feeder watchers, or tromp through all types of terrain as field observers. Last year, 72,129 CBC field observers and 11,057 feeder watchers in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and Pacific Islands tallied close to 41 million birds representing about 2,380 species, according to the National Audubon Society. Also last year, 43 new circles were established. Each year, the effort and geographic coverage of the bird count increases and yet there are overall declines in the total birds counted, according to Audubon. “Even small changes like avoiding pesticides and plastics, drinking bird-friendly coffee, planting native plants around our homes, and making our windows bird-safe can have meaningful and significant impacts for our bird populations,” Audubon experts said. Cold noses and hot cocoa June O’Connor was a toddler riding in a baby carrier on her dad’s back when she experienced her first Christmas Bird Count. Now, the 6-year-old competes with her sisters — Madelyn, 12, Lily, 10, and Eleanor, 3 — to spot as many birds as she can. Rory and Emily O’Connor’s family, who live in the tiny city of Hines in eastern Oregon’s High Desert, will join flocks of other kids watching the skies of Burns and Hines on Dec. 13 during the fifth annual Christmas Bird Count for Kids & Families (CBC4Kids) organized through the Harney County Library . The next day is Burn’s official Christmas Bird Count. Like a scavenger hunt, kids participating in the CBC4Kids are given a map to bird-rich parks and front yards, and pictures of common birds. After fueling up on hot cocoa and chocolate-covered donuts with sprinkles at the library, they venture off with borrowed binoculars and “eagle eyes,” said Emily O’Connor. Hours later, they return to the library to share their bird sighting list, enjoy story time, crafts and a bird book giveaway, and eat pizza. “The CBC tends to be less thrilling for our girls because you’re supposed to stay in one spot and count the birds you can see,” said O’Connor. “We might only see two chickadees.” But if the family can walk or drive around, they can practice their skills of estimating the large number of starlings, doves and quails in the area, as well as possibly spotting a rare winter bird like an evening grosbeak. “It’s always really exciting to the girls if we see something different like a flicker or a hawk,” O’Connor said, “and that leads to yelling and screaming. Our birding trips are not very quiet.” The girls will most definitely see short-legged California quail with a distinctive feathered topknot that looks like something created for a Pixar movie and sounds like squeaky dog toy. At the last count, Burns volunteers reported seeing 4,629 California quails. Emily O’Connor, who has a degree in ecology, and Rory, who is a rangeland research ecologist for Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Station, said paying attention to birds makes their daughters more observant of their surroundings, and they feel good learning about wildlife and contributing to a citizen science effort. Isabelle Fleuraud, Harney County Library’s Youth Services coordinator and a birdwatching hobbyist, said children quickly realize that nature is everywhere. “You can just look out a window and walk down your street,” said Fleuraud, who started the CBC4Kids five years ago with Teresa Wicks, a biologist with the Bird Alliance of Oregon, and Janelle Wicks, director of Friends of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , the 190,000-acre home to more than 340 species of birds and known as the “Gem of the Pacific Flyway.” Wicks said studies show being in a wildlife area multiple times or watching birds in the backyard can enhance children’s mental health and school grades. Kids learn patience, and improve focus abilities while paying attention to details, like a bird’s distinguishing color, markings, size, shape, calls, songs and behaviors. “They can also grow a sense of stewardship for nature and place, foster an understanding of the connections between birds and habitat, and how changes in weather and climate can change bird communities,” Wicks said. Learning that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs and having another outdoor activity in winter also makes the Christmas Bird Count and CBC4Kids fun for people of all ages, she said. Oregon’s bird status On Christmas Bird Count days, Oregonians look on the coast for loons, puffins and gulls, and scour the sagebrush steppe of eastern Oregon for sage grouses, prairie falcons and golden eagles. Southern Oregon’s Klamath Basin draws crowds to see bald eagles, rough-legged hawks and hundreds of tundra swans, and Sauvie Island west of Portland is the winter vacation spot for the northernmost sandhill cranes, said bird expert and author Harry Fuller , who lives in Salem. Oregon’s big claim to fame: Christmas Bird Count reports of a great gray owl, “one of the most elusive species in the Lower 48,” said Fuller, who has participated in Christmas counts across the state. His latest book is “Birding Harney County.” In 2010, when Fuller was an Ashland resident, he co-founded that city’s Christmas Bird Count with John Bullock to include spotted owls, Clark’s nutcrackers, mountain bluebirds and other species not found below 2,000 feet. Dawn Villaescusa of Seven Capes Bird Alliance in Lincoln City sees lots of out-of-towners pitching in at her area’s bird count, a bucket-list experience for serious birders seeking a variety of sea, lake, river, wetland, farm and forest habitats. “I know people who use their vacation time to travel to as many CBCs as they can and change family gatherings to other days,” said Villaescusa. She hosts people at her home, which has bird decor and nature art by science illustrator Nora Sherwood and a great egret painted on tiles by Wendy Thompson . Villaescusa also displays a carved Peregrine falcon she purchased at the Coastal Carvers’ Artistry in Wood Show at the Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Villaescusa hasn’t yet met internationally famous birdwatchers like “The Backyard Bird Chronicles” author Amy Tan or Christian Cooper , who wrote “Better Living Through Birding,” but at her area’s Audubon count this year, she expects to see plenty of visiting Pacific Northwest bird stars. She quickly names authors Alan Contreras , who wrote “A History of Oregon Ornithology: From Territorial Days to the Rise of Birding,” Dave Irons, who wrote “American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Oregon,” and Cameron Cox, who co-wrote “Peterson Reference Guide To Seawatching: Eastern Waterbirds in Flight.” One of the largest and oldest Christmas counts in the world is organized by Portland’s Bird Alliance of Oregon . With about 350 participants — second only to Canada’s Edmonton with 535 participants and Victoria’s 405 last year — Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Joe Liebezeit spreads volunteers to cover urban to rural habitats . “We want to make these community science events as inclusive as possible,” said Liebezeit, 56, who started birding as a kid in New Jersey. He organizes the Christmas count for Bird Alliance of Oregon while serving as its assistant director of statewide conservation. The call for help goes out on the Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Facebook page, with almost 110,000 followers, other social media and emails. New birders can be helpful recording the data as experienced birders call out what they see, he said. “It’s a great way for new birders to get experience in a fun way.” Most volunteers dedicate a full day; some like Liebezeit start with the pre-dawn owl survey. But volunteers can also go out in the morning when birds are most active and be home for lunch. Liebezeit said his job is advocating for bird protection and working to get conservation legislation passed, but he still looks forward to the annual count. “It’s important for me to get back in the field,” he said, “because that’s where I first became interested in helping birds and wildlife.” Since starting in 1926, the Portland group has been collecting data, like all of the Christmas count teams, the old-fashioned way: People record what they saw in a notebook and fill out a form that lists specific names of waterfowl, raptors and falcons, owls, woodpeckers and other birds common in their area. The list is submitted to a Portland area leader, who brings the information to an evening get together. In “round-robin fashion,” said Liebezeit, everyone tells how many they saw of more than 100 species spotted that day. There are always surprises during the count day like a MacGillivray’s warbler or Western tanager, notable missing regulars like a Greater White-fronted goose, and jokesters who report a jet as a “silver-sided gas hog.” In the end, the compiler creates a spreadsheet that is sent to the National Audubon Society, and the volunteers, muddy and exhausted, head home. History and reach 1900: Ornithologist Frank Chapman and two dozen other conservationists initiated a Christmas Bird Census of counting birds to replace the “side hunt” competition to see how many wild birds could be shot on Christmas Day. 1918: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 was passed that protects migratory birds and their habitats. 1970s-1980s: Researchers began to recognize the potential value of the Christmas Bird Count as a data set, especially when combined with the results of the Breeding Bird Survey, which started in the mid-1960s. 1997: The interactive website “BirdSource” where people submit their bird sightings was created by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. Since 2000, all Christmas Bird Count results have been entered into the online database. — Janet Eastman covers design and trends. Reach her at 503-294-4072, jeastman@oregonian.com and follow her on X @janeteastmanMacquarie Asset Management launches Outlook 2025