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NonePakistan has taken several measures to modernize its armed forces, especially the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which will soon boast a fleet of the latest 5th generation J-35 stealth fighter jets, acquired from China. Updated: December 29, 2024 1:02 AM IST By : Pakistan is rapidly advancing its military capabilities in its attempt to outgun India in case of another showdown between the two bitter rivals. In recent years, Pakistan has taken several measures to modernize its armed forces, especially the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which will soon boast a fleet of the latest 5th generation J-35 stealth fighter jets, acquired from China. Reports say that the PAF has inked a deal to acquire 40 J-35 fighter jets, which will be delivered within the next two years. The deal was set in motion in January 2024, when PAF chief Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu had stated that the “foundation for acquiring the J-31 stealth fighter aircraft has already been laid”, and the Chinese-made stealth fighter would join the PAF fleet “in the near future”. Pakistan will have edge over India for over a decade Experts believe Pakistan’s acquisition of the J-35 warplane would give it superiority over the Indian Air Force (IAF) in terms of firepower and aerial supremacy, giving Islamabad a strategic edge over New Delhi over the next decade or more. According to Zia ul Haq Shamsi, a retired PAF officer, the deployment of J-35 fighters can give Pakistan an edge over India for the next 12-14 years. However, some experts consider this period to be limited to around 7-8 years. Let us find out about the capabilities and features of the J-35 stealth fighter jet. Squadron Leader Vijainder K. Thakur (retd), an IAF veteran and military expert, notes that PAF’s acquisition of the J-35 will provide a significant boost to its offensive capabilities, and combined with F-16 and J-10C, the J-35’s land-attack variant would provide Pakistan an edge over India, according to the Eurasian Times. Brendan Mulvaney, the Director at US Air Force’s China Aerospace Studies Institute believes that Pakistan’s move reflects a shift away from Western countries and towards China. However, he asserted that the J-35 effectiveness will also depend on the weapons, sensors and C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) provided by China. India’s push for indigenous 5th gen fighter jets Meanwhile, experts believe that India is at least a decade away from acquiring a 5th-gen stealth combat jet, with its AMCA, unlikely to be inducted in the IAF before 2034. According to the 2024-25 report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, deliveries of India’s indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) fifth-generation fighter jets are expected to start in the next decade. But the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is facing several technical and timeline-related challenges which could push the project timeline further back. Currently, only three nations have operational fifth-generation fighters — US, Russia, and China, so realistically, acquiring the Su-57 Felon or the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet from Russia or United States, are the only two options for India to acquire a 5th-gen aircraft. But, so far, the US has not explicitly stated that it would be open to selling the F-35 to India, because India buys a large amount armaments from Russia, including the S-400 air defense system. How Pakistan is building air superiority despite failing economy? Pakistan is facing a severe financial crisis, heavy debt, and its economy is crumbling, yet the country is rapidly expanding its military prowess, spending frantically on acquiring the latest military technology. According to a World Bank report, Pakistan owes $29 billion to China, and $9.16 billion to Saudi Arabia, with Beijing having a 22% share in Islamabad’s total foreign debt. Experts believe that China, the world’s second largest economy, with a $18.7 trillion GDP, is the reason why Pakistan is able to rapidly build its military power, despite its economy being under severe stress. Beijing and Islamabad share deep military ties, and have often referred to each other as “all-weather allies”, and China is helping to modernize all three wings of Pakistan’s armed forces, especially the Pakistan Air Force. India and Pakistan have been engaged in a race to stay ahead of each other in combat aircraft since the 1950s when the two rival nations started building their air power. J-35 features, capabilities The Shenyang J-35 is a 5th generation, twin-engine stealth multirole combat aircraft manufactured by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC), designed for air superiority and surface strike missions. The J-35 comes in two variants, a land-based variant for the Chinese Army, and a carrier-based variant optimized for catapult-assisted takeoff (CATOBAR) for the Navy. The stealth fighter was unveiled during the Zhuhai Air Show in November this year, and is reportedly a more advanced and “production-ready” iteration of the earlier FC-31 model. Experts say that compared to the the FC-31 or J-31, the J-35 is powered by more powerful WS-19 engines, features a more sophisticated radar system, and improved sensor fusion. The aircraft boasts other advanced features, including improved aerodynamics and stealth capabilities, and a wider range of weapons. Notably, China’s 5th-gen combat plane bears striking similarities with the US-made F-35 Lightning II. 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Shambhu/Ambala The Haryana Police and paramilitary forces on Sunday stopped a group of farmers shortly after they resumed their foot march to Delhi from the Shambhu border in the afternoon, citing prohibitory orders and a lack of requisite permission for the protest, even as farmers alleged that at least seven of them were injured in tear gas shelling from the security forces. The agitating farmers suspended their foot march and said they will announce their next course of action on Monday. A group of 101 farmers set off on a foot march this afternoon but were halted by the multilayer barricade set up by the Haryana security personnel. The Haryana Police initially offered farmers tea and biscuits and even showered flower petals, but as the confrontation escalated, police used tear gas shells and water cannons to disperse the protesters. According to union leaders, seven farmers suffered injuries in the police action compelling both the protesting farmer unions — Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) — to suspend the Delhi chalo march. Of the seven injured farmers, one has been referred to the PGIMER, Chandigarh, after his health deteriorated, according of officials of the Patiala health department. The Friday confrontation had left 15 farmers injured. The situation on Sunday escalated when a few farmers tried to break the iron mesh on the cemented wall-like structure, forcing the Haryana Police to use tear gas shells, water cannons and chemical sprays to disperse the agitating farmers. An official statement on Sunday evening said the administration kept appealing to the protesting farmers to reveal their identities but there were some “aggressive people” in the group who repeatedly tried to bring down the police barricades by using ropes and iron hooks. Ambala police had earlier said the farmer outfits, which are agitating for a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) and other demands, can march to Delhi only after getting permission from the national capital administration. KMM convener Sarwan Singh Pandher said: “Once again, the entire nation watched how farmers were attacked by Haryana Police officials with tear gas shells and sprays.” “We have called back the ‘jatha’ (group of 101 farmers). Whatever happened today was seen by the whole country. The (Haryana) administration used tactics like offering biscuits, ‘langar’, and showering flower petals. Immediately after showering flowers, they fired teargas shells and rubber bullets at farmers,” Pandher claimed. He said the farmers who sustained injuries included Resham Singh, who was referred to the PGIMER, Chandigarh, Dilbagh Singh, Major Singh and Harbhajan Singh. The farmer leader said that both the unions would hold a joint meeting on Monday to decide the future course of action, and the Delhi Chalo march would remain suspended until then. Ambala admn meets farm leaders On the sideline of the stand-off, a meeting between farm leaders and the Haryana government along with Punjab police officials, was held in Rajpura. The meeting was attended by Patiala range DIG Mandeep Singh Sidhu, Patiala SSP Nanak Singh, Ambala deputy commissioner Parth Gupta and SP Surinder Singh Bhoria. After the meeting, Sidhu said: “The meeting was held in a positive atmosphere. This is a good sign and dialogue between farmers and officials will continue.” “We listened to the farmers’ demands in the meeting and efforts will be made to resolve their issues through talks,” Ambala DC Parth Gupta said. “They (farmers) have asked us to arrange a meeting with the Union government where they could put forward their demands. We will take up their appeal at the appropriate forum so that the issue can be resolved at the earliest,” the DC added. Dallewal’s health deteriorates Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death entered the 13th day on Sunday at the Khanauri border, with farmers claiming that the 67-year-old has lost 8kg weight. The farmers have been camping at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points between Punjab-Haryana since February 13 when their march to Delhi was stopped by security forces. Besides MSP, the farmers are demanding a farm debt waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases (against farmers), and ‘justice’ for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
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Thanksgiving Weekend Sports Guide: Your roadmap to NFL matchups, other games, times, oddsGREEN BAY, Wis. — Josh Jacobs gained 107 yards from scrimmage and scored a touchdown for a sixth straight game as the Green Bay Packers clinched a playoff berth while producing the first shutout of the NFL season, 34-0 over the hapless New Orleans Saints on Monday night. Green Bay (11-4) earned its fifth postseason appearance in six years and recorded its first shutout since beating Seattle 17-0 on Nov. 14, 2021. The Saints (5-10) were blanked for the first time since falling 13-0 to San Francisco on Nov. 27, 2022. New Orleans played without injured quarterback Derek Carr and running back Alvin Kamara. Rookie Spencer Rattler started and went 15 of 30 for 153 yards with an interception and a fumble. Green Bay's margin of victory was its largest since a 55-14 blowout of the Chicago Bears on Nov. 9, 2014. The Packers have won nine of their last 11 games, with their only losses during that stretch coming to the NFC North rival Detroit Lions. They will enter the playoffs as a wild card after being eliminated from NFC North title contention Sunday. Jacobs ran for 69 yards and a 1-yard touchdown on 13 carries. He also caught four passes for 38 yards. Jordan Love went 16 of 28 for 182 yards, including a 2-yard touchdown to Dontayvion Wicks. Chris Brooks and Emanuel Wilson also had 1-yard touchdown runs, and Brandon McManus kicked field goals from 55 and 46 yards. Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs (8) carries against New Orleans Saints linebacker Pete Werner (20) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. Credit: AP/Morry Gash Green Bay's defense made it a miserable night for Rattler while missing four starters because of injuries: linebacker and leading tackler Quay Walker, cornerback Jaire Alexander and safeties Evan Williams and Javon Bullard. Safety Zayne Anderson had an interception in his first career start. The Packers scored touchdowns on each of their first three possessions. Love found Wicks on third-and-goal to cap the game’s opening drive. Wicks’ touchdown was his fifth of the season and first since Oct. 20 against Houston. Jacobs' touchdown capped a 17-play, 96-yard drive that lasted 8:55. It was the Packers’ longest possession of the season in terms of plays and time. The Packers also had a 96-yard march in their 24-19 triumph over the Los Angeles Rams. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Romeo Doubs (87) carries on a first down reception against New Orleans Saints cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry (14) during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. Credit: AP/Matt Ludtke The drive included two fourth-down conversions. Love had a 2-yard sneak on fourth-and-1 from the New Orleans 45 to open the second quarter. Love then threw a 14-yard completion to Tucker Kraft on fourth-and-2 from the 35. Jacobs has rushed for a touchdown in six straight games, putting him one away from the longest such streak in Packers history. Paul Hornung had a touchdown run in seven consecutive games in 1960. Brooks' first career touchdown made it 21-0 with 6:28 left in the second quarter. McManus kicked both of his field goals in the second half. Wilson capped the scoring with 2:41 left on a drive engineered by backup quarterback Malik Willis. Injuries Saints C Erik McCoy left with a elbow injury. Saints LG Lucas Patrick got hurt in the closing minutes. Packers WR Christian Watson hurt a knee. Up next Saints: Host Las Vegas on Sunday. Packers: Visit Minnesota on Sunday.
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Trump again calls to buy Greenland after eyeing Canada and the Panama CanalThe Palomar Hotel had just opened in 1929, ready to celebrate the 1930 new year. (Ross Eric Gibson collection) The Town Clock had to stop its tolling so visitors to the new Palomar Hotel could sleep through the night. (Ross Eric Gibson collection). New Year’s parties, dancing and toasting took on different features throughout Santa Cruz County. (Public domain) With the large Scottish population, Ben Lomond celebrated “Hogmanay” for New Year’s. (Ross Eric Gibson collection). Did an angel ring the dead bell in the clock tower on New Year’s, 1930? (Ross Eric Gibson collection) The Palomar Hotel had just opened in 1929, ready to celebrate the 1930 new year. (Ross Eric Gibson collection) New Year’s Eve traditions have been long popular in Santa Cruz, from dancing and feasting, toasting the new year with a drink, a kiss for good luck, and making a racket to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. The Town Clock now stands at Clock Tower Plaza, which has become a focus for our New Year’s traditions. But when the Town Clock was at a different location, it seemed to have had a life of its own on the eve of the Great Depression. Andy Balich wanted the most beautiful hotel in Santa Cruz, back when beauty was an important part of architecture. Groundbreaking for the Palomar Hotel was Dec. 6, 1928, then nine months later, on Sept. 7, 1929, the Palomar Hotel opened to the public. The elegant Spanish art deco masterpiece was designed by Watsonville architect William Weeks, a seven-story building that the Santa Cruz News called “Santa Cruz’s first skyscraper.” The hotel became a hive of events, with a new program every Saturday. Yet visitors who spent the night complained that the Town Clock on the neighboring Odd Fellows Building, tolled round the clock. The Odd Fellows club agreed to let the tolling mechanism run down so it would still tell the time but made it impossible to sound the hour. The Palomar hosted a New Year’s dinner-dance for 300 in its mezzanine ballroom, to a popular jazz band. When midnight came, 1930 was ushered-in with squeaky horns, the clack of spinning noise makers and shouts of “Happy New Year!” Then people heard an odd sound over the din. To the disbelief of many, the dead bell in the town clock tower began to toll, which was bizarre enough in itself, but it tolled 13 times. The question in the local papers was “Who Rang the Bell?” When a woman repeated this question to her friend, her 4-year-old daughter chimed in, “I know, mommy! An angel rang that bell!” “Why do you think that?,” the mother asked. And with a sense of the obvious, the little girl replied, “Well, only an angel could reach so high!” My aunt Gloria Kaas recalled this story. And in fact, an angel did make sense. For after the hotel opened in September, the stock market crashed the economy on Oct. 29, 1929, plunging America into the Great Depression. It would take an angel’s intervention to keep the hotel afloat. In 1933, the $360,000 hotel was sold at auction from the steps of the courthouse for $90,000 to its bondholders. Four months later the leaseholder closed the hotel to sell off its fixtures, but Balich stopped him and became the new 10-year lease holder, eventually becoming the sole owner of his hotel in 1941. Thanks to Balich, his dream survived a rocky start. Over the years, Santa Cruz held special New Year’s Eve parties in its finest buildings. In 1861-62, from the rooftop of the Otto-Trust Brick Building on Front Street, came music from a modern all-saxophone band. This included alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophone, but also a deep contrabass, and the higher soprano and sopranino saxes without a bent bell. People were used to brass bands but not to reed instruments with a loud voice. The Germania was a German-language hotel, first on Front Street, then in a new building called the Santa Cruz Hotel. It featured brass oom-pah bands and beer served from barrels. The Arian Singing Society on the other hand, brought the German classics to life at Arian Hall on Front Street above Soquel Avenue. These became features of German New Year celebrations. The Vienna Beer Gardens was a family friendly venue at the corner of Ocean Street and Soquel Avenue. It had an open-air dancing pavilion, playground equipment in a park setting beside Branciforte Creek, and beer with picnic-style lunches. Our first true luxury hotel was the 1866 Pacific Ocean House at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Plaza Lane. It hosted a ball for 150 of the most respectable people in high fashion finery, dancing to a ballroom orchestra. Meanwhile the castle-like Armory building at Front and Soquel Avenue, was known for years for its New Year’s Masquerade Ball, where one didn’t unmask until midnight. In the 1890s, the Sea Beach Hotel on Beach Hill hosted grand balls to popular dance bands, and the new St. George Hotel hosted a dinner dance in its dining room. The Boardwalk Casino became the largest ballroom and banquet hall in town for New Year’s parties. Fraternal organizations held their own dinner dances for members in their club rooms. Watch Night parties were at homes or in social halls. Historian Ernest Otto recalled from his 1870s childhood, that the parties included popping corn, pulling taffy and playing card games or board games. The Christmas tree would be cut into small branches because for safety reasons, you wouldn’t want a piece sticking out of the fireplace. One by one, people were solicited to toss a branch into the fire to represent something they didn’t want to bring into the new year. They could announce what it was or say it was private. The purpose was to keep the fire burning from sunset to midnight. Some played a memorization game where people sat in a circle and said “I went to Grandmother’s house and gave her ...” and would mention a gift, either practical or fantastical. The next person repeated the line, a new gift and the previous one. Each person had to remember all the previous gifts and was eliminated for forgetting a gift or its order, until there was only one person left who remembered all the gifts. The song “The 12 Days of Christmas” is suspected to have started as a memorization song, once including random absurd gifts invented on the spot to defy memorization. At midnight, all the doors were opened to usher the old year out and the new year in. Everyone went on their porches and sounded horns and cow bells to drive away misfortune. In the distance one could hear the revelry from many different quarters. Factory whistles blared from the town’s three tanneries and mills near Cathcart, plus the depot and Beach Hill. A great clanging came from the 12 churches clustered around Churchside (the junction of Lincoln and Center streets). Some churches held special New Year’s services. Then they would toll their bells, which sometimes took 15 or 20 minutes, as the kids lined up to get their turn ringing the big bell. Up on Mission Hill were heard the bells of Temperance Hall, Holy Cross School, Mission Hill Public School, the Leslie Building firebell, the Catholic boy’s school and Holy Cross Church. Many had a church banquet or potluck after midnight. If you didn’t want to get dressed up to celebrate, you went to the local saloons. Downtown Santa Cruz had its “Famous 55” saloons in a three-block area. These were a sign of prosperity, not for their quality (some were dives, others were gentlemen’s clubs). But the success of the lumber, leather, lime and gunpowder industries meant more workingmen employed, coming to town on weekends to spend their paychecks on provisions, whiskey, gambling and women. Temperance Hall on Mission Hill Grade provided non-alcoholic, family friendly New Year’s entertainment. Soquel had the first Temperance Society in California, founded in 1848, and Santa Cruz developed nearly 10 clubs by the time Temperance Hall was constructed in 1861. Some of the San Lorenzo Valley’s large Scottish population celebrated “Hogmanay.” When the Scotch Presbyterians banned Christmas in Scotland in the 1600s, the Scotts simply moved their Christmas traditions to New Year’s Eve, some of which became American New Year’s traditions. Below Ben Lomond was a 300-acre resort called “Rowardennan” (“Enchanted Forest”). It was one of the last to keep the area’s “Hogmanay” celebration, reminiscent of the Christmas Bracebridge Dinner held at Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Lodge. Rowardennan’s rustic ballroom had the look of a Highland’s hunting lodge, with deer and elk heads watching from the walls, and evergreen bunting. A large riverstone fireplace dominated one wall. A boy on a Yule log was ceremoniously carried in to bagpipe music. While drinking a toast, a cup of spirits was poured on the log, which was lit with a piece of the previous year’s log. This fire was not allowed to go out before the new year. The evening began with a banquet. Desert was “New Year’s cakes”: scones (oat cakes), nut and caraway shortbread and black buns. After dinner was a concert of Highland songs and dances, followed by a square dance. The first guest of the new year was a bachelor called the “First Footer,” who arrived at midnight. He brought “wisemen gifts” of a coin, bread and a log, symbolizing prosperity, food and warmth. Some combined these gifts into a log shaped cake with a coin hidden in it. Toasting was usually reserved for Champagne, wine, or brandy. The term “toasting” came from Wassail, an ale-and-sherry punch with cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, plus pieces of toast floating in the bowl to keep the spice sediments down. It was a popular drink for Christmas, New Year’s and Epiphany (12th Night). Stephen and Luigi Martinelli started a Watsonville soda water business in 1861 and in 1865 created non-alcoholic Orange Champagne. Their Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider has become the universal non-alcoholic holiday drink. The longtime mystery of the angel who rang the clock tower bell in 1930 wasn’t solved until about 1970. Whitney Hardware store was in the Odd Fellows Building in 1929, and Rolla, the owner’s son, persuaded the elderly night watchman Thompson to leave the trap door to the tower unlocked on New Year’s Eve. Rolla and Barbara Clay made their way into the belfry and triggered the hammer mechanism by hand which rang the bell, although they lost count and the bell struck 13. So the angels were a couple of kids driving off misfortune with their own clocktower noisemaker, as an excuse to steal a New Year’s kiss.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — First it was Canada , then the Panama Canal . Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland . The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he's picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20. In a Sunday announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark, Trump wrote that, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity." Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn't done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He's also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st U.S. state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.” Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, said Trump tweaking friendly countries harkens back to an aggressive style he used during his days in business. “You ask something unreasonable and it’s more likely you can get something less unreasonable,” said Farnsworth, who is also author of the book “Presidential Communication and Character.” Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large U.S. military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Múte Bourup Egede, suggested that Trump’s latest calls for U.S. control would be as meaningless as those made in his first term. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” he said in a statement. “We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom.” The Danish Prime Minister’s Office said in its own statement that the government is “looking forward to welcoming the new American ambassador. And the Government is looking forward to working with the new administration.” “In a complex security political situation as the one we currently experience, transatlantic cooperation is crucial,” the statement said. It noted that it had no comment on Greenland except for it “not being for sale, but open for cooperation.” Trump canceled a 2019 visit to Denmark after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen, and ultimately came to nothing . He also suggested Sunday that the U.S. is getting “ripped off” at the Panama Canal. “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question,” he said. Panama President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to,” but Trump fired back on his social media site, “We’ll see about that!” The president-elect also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!” The United States built the canal in the early 1900s but relinquished control to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter . The canal depends on reservoirs that were hit by 2023 droughts that forced it to substantially reduce the number of daily slots for crossing ships. With fewer ships, administrators also increased the fees that shippers are charged to reserve slots to use the canal. The Greenland and Panama flareups followed Trump recently posting that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State" and offering an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop surveying surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag. Trudeau suggested that Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the pair met recently at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump's threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. “Canada is not going to become part of the United States, but Trump’s comments are more about leveraging what he says to get concessions from Canada by putting Canada off balance, particularly given the precarious current political environment in Canada,” Farnsworth said. “Maybe claim a win on trade concessions, a tighter border or other things.” He said the situation is similar with Greenland. “What Trump wants is a win," Farnsworth said. "And even if the American flag doesn’t raise over Greenland, Europeans may be more willing to say yes to something else because of the pressure.” Associated Press writers Gary Fields in Washington and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.I raised my hand in the Psychology 101 class, confused by the theory expounded by the professor. He was instructing us about Behaviorism and cited an example of helping a client with a hand-washing obsession by helping him change his behaviors associated with his constant desire to wash his hands. The professor helped him to find other things to do to divert his compulsion to wash his hands. I expressed my concern that since the underlying fear was not dealt with, that the change of behavior would not alleviate that underlying fear and that alternative expressions of the compulsion might arise. I asked the professor what should be done when one compulsion exercise was substituted for another. He responded that at that time he would simply address the new set of compulsive behaviors. While I was somewhat impressed that the professor had discovered a way to ensure repeat business, I was also concerned about the ethics of transferring a client’s obsession to a different set of compulsive behaviors instead of “curing” him of the compulsion, thus removing the need for any acting-out behavior. Lay the axe at the root, not at each successive branch. Hand-washing is not the problem. The fear that created the obsession to get one’s clean hands clean is the problem. Get rid of the compulsion itself and no alternative compulsive behaviors will be the result. In my naïve world I did not understand the economics of symptom treatment. Modern medicine and counseling are mostly paid for by someone other than the client. In most cases, it is some form of insurance or public assistance that covers the cost of treatment. In the profession this is called third-party co-pay. You get treatment and (most often) your insurance company pays for it. You pay premiums to your insurance company for “coverage.” The main goal of the insurance company is to present the highest possible dividend to its stock holders, the people who invest in the stock of the insurance company. If the company does not pay good dividends, then people will invest their money elsewhere and the company’s operating fund will decline, potentially threatening the viability of the business. Underwriters, folks who are educated in economics and cost-management, ultimately decide who will receive benefits and how much. Neither you, your doctor, or your counselor decides how much treatment you will receive, the ones paying the piper will. Your care is not their primary concern, although it is important to them. Return-on-investment to shareholders is their primary concern. Your medical or psychological problem is primarily an economic one to them. Your counselor must convince them of a diagnosis and then, using actuary tables, an underwriter will authorize a certain amount of sessions for payment. After those sessions are completed, the counselor must appeal to the co-pay, and justify the need, for additional sessions. That again, is the decision of an underwriter. The average number of third-party-co-pay authorized sessions for serious psychological diagnosis is somewhere around a dozen. Hypothetically, what may have taken a client a lifetime to develop must be “cured” in a few fifty-minute meetings. The counselor understands that he must so target the “problem” that it can be cured in the equivalent of a day and a half. It is quite easy to understand that the counselor is under duress to achieve counseling success by framing the problem in a such a way that it only requires that much time. It takes much less time to train someone to not wash their hands than it does to delve into an understanding about why they feel compelled to wash clean hands and then to address and remove that fear. The first is behavioral and the second is more traditional psychoanalytical, which has fallen out of vogue not because it is not helpful, but because it is too expensive. This would all be tragic enough if it only applied to medical or psychological maladies, but this approach to improving life has permeated all areas of problem-solving because it is quick and cheap. In the dark, untouched by surface behavioral change is an underlying problem that is growing in intensity because it is hidden from diagnosis and address because the symptomatic behaviors offer it a protective cover. One day, as we see all around us, it will rise from its lair and wreak all manner of destruction because tuberculosis does not ultimately respond to cough medicine. Reach Stephen Parker at fam4evrsp@gmail.com
MORGAN ROGERS was robbed of the last-gasp goal which would have ended Aston Villa’s six-match winless run. But instead, the new England international was denied by ref Jesus Gil Manzano who ruled that Diego Carlos had fouled Juventus keeper Michele Di Gregorio. Rogers netted with virtually the last kick of the match after the Juve gloveman had spilled a Youri Tielemans free-kick. But Spanish referee Manzano, who had enraged Villa Park for much of the night, ended up in danger of sparking a riot. So even matches have now passed since Villa last won a game of football but there is not remotely any sense of the Holte End losing faith in Unai Emery. It is Emery who propelled Villa onto European football’s grandest stage and Emery who will surely still lead them into the Champions League knock-out stage. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL It took a miraculous save from Emi Martinez - newly-crowned as the world’s best goalkeeper for a second successive year - to secure a draw against Juventus. The feline gymnastics of the big Argentinian somehow kept out a second-half header from Francisco Conceicao by the slimmest of margins. And while Lucas Digne had hit the crossbar for Villa with a first-half free-kick, Emery’s side were left grateful for a point as they entertained Italian royalty on a bitter Birmingham night. There is little doubt that Villa will qualify for the knock-outs on their first adventure in Europe’s elite competition for 42 years - it is just a matter of whether they reach the last-16 directly, or whether will need to contest a play-off round. Most read in Champions League FOOTBALL FREE BETS AND SIGN UP DEALS That is the problem with Uefa’s new monstrous group stage - there is precious little jeopardy for most clubs. But for Villa’s supporters, it is still a case of being damned happy just to be here. Villa only managed to halt a four-match losing run in Saturday’s 2-2 home draw with struggling Crystal Palace and the demands of fighting on two major fronts is almost invariably a problem. But despite a frustrating stalemate, Villa are still living the dream. Villa hadn’t won in six matches in all competitions since their last Champions League home clash, against Bologna. But these European nights at Villa Park have held a proper sense of occasion, assaults on the senses - fireworks, giant banners, songs of praise cranked up to full volume. - and Emery’s men have thrived on the theatre of it all. They have been handed home matches against three former champions of Europe - Bayern Munich, Juve and later Celtic. And while this is nothing like the star-spangled Juve side which won here in 1983, with Paolo Rossi, Michel Platini and Zbigniew Boniek - they are club which always carry an aura. Supporters of many clubs might moan about the bloated nature of the new Champions League format, with its skyscraper-tall league table - but not Villa’s. This was the sort of night when Jack Frost nips at brass monkeys although Emi Martinez warmed a few cockles by parading his Yashin Trophy after being voted the world’s No 1 keeper for a second straight year. Most of the early heat was aimed at ref Jesus Gil Manzano - who booked Yori Tielemans and Leon Bailey inside the first 12 minutes while failing to punish the visitors for similar fouls. Juve looked exactly what they are - a side unbeaten in Serie A, but who had contested four goalless draws already this season. The Italians were tight in their parking, neat in their passing and streetwise in their roiling around. Villa did have their moments though - Pau Torres glancing a header wide of the near post from a Boubacar Kamara corner then Watkins having a shoit beaten away by Michele Di Gregorio after a cute Kamara through-ball. From the resulting corner, Matty Cash had a thumping shot blocked but Juve broke rapidly and Timothy Weah - son of Ballon d’Or winner George - blazed over Martinez’s crossbar. Torres was booked for a late one on Weah but the biggest roar of the first half arrived when Manzano finally cautioned a Juve player - Pierre Kalulu for fouling Watkins on the edge of the area. Lucas Digne curled the free-kick against the crossbar but after the break, Juve began to take a grip on proceedings. The away supporters were howling for a penalty after Torres handled in the box but Manzano and his VAR were unimpressed. Soon, a Teun Koppmeiners corner found its way to the back post where Conceicao’s downward looked certain to have broken the deadlock - until you remembered the identity of Villa’s goalkeeper. Martinez bent his body backwards at an improbable angle and, with a big right hand, scooped the ball to safety. Goal-line technology footage showed that the Argentinian had completed his task with millimetres to spare Conceicao header at far post Martinez bent his body and scooped off line Koppmeiners, sparking another chorus of ‘Emi Martinez, the world’s number one’. Heartened by their escape, Villa got on the front foot and Bailey cut-back for John McGinn, whose shot was scrambled off the line. With 13 minutes remaining, Emery sent for Jhon Duran - the sub who can’t spell his own first name but cannot stop scoring from the bench. READ MORE SUN STORIES Not this time, though. After Rogers was denied late on, Villa head to Chelsea on Sunday with a tough task on their hands not to extend that winless run to eight.
The documentary War Game films a simulation of a military coup after a disputed presidential election. The 2024 election ended decisively in favor of Donald Trump , who will take office in January. Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber filmed the scenario designed by Vet Voice Foundation CEO Janessa Goldbeck in which a fictional president, not then-candidate Joe Biden, deals with the contested election. Goldbeck said at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event that even though the 2024 election was not contested like the 2020 election, experts in both political parties remain concerned about future violence. “Veterans are particularly targeted for recruitment into extermist groups because of our cross-partisan appeal on both sides of the aisle,” Goldbeck said. “The No. 1 threat to safety and security of Americans for the last several years identified by the Department of Homeland Security has been domestic extremists, with an emphasis on right wing Christian nationalism. I think it’s very important that, even though we are a nonpartisan organization, to be able to call out things that exist.” Retired Marine Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman also consulted on the scenario and appears in the film. At Contenders, Vindman expressed concern to Deadline’s Matthew Carey that reservists could be weaponized by future presidents. He added that scenarios like Goldbeck’s war game help the military and government “figure out where the weaknesses and the strengths are.” RELATED: The 2025 Oscars: Everything We Know So Far About The Nominations, Ceremony, Date & Host “I think what we realized is that there is a vulnerability with extermists within the ranks,” Vindman added. “It’s our duty and obligation as folks that focus on veterans and defense issues and national securiy to examine these issues and figure out where the vulnerabilities are and how to harden ourselves against those challenges.” Gerber and Moss filmed the scenario on January 6, 2023, the two-year anniversary of the Capital riot. Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock plays fictional President John Hotham. Retired Army Officer Wesley Clark, former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones are among actors in the scenario. Gerber hopes Bullock’s portrayal of a president who considers reasonable options sets a positive example for future leaders. “Folks can then realize what a reasoned, rational president is capable of in terms of listening, in terms of process,” Gerber said. “Democracy is a process at the end of the day. It’s not just about results. It’s a process. I think our film is a rallying cry for reasoned leadership.” RELATED: 2024-25 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Grammys, Tonys, Guilds & More The Insurrection Act becomes a focal point of Hotham’s response. The 1807 law empowers a president to deploy the military and National Guard in the event of an insurrection, on the state or federal level. Goldbeck said exploring the Insurrection Act makes War Game relevant to any future administration. “We wanted to design an exercise that really got to the heart of what that authority is for a president to have and use, what it would mean if members of the military engaged in political conflict or political violence,” Goldbeck said. Moss said he and Gerber were pointed to Goldebck’s exercises by three former generals sharing an article about past war games in the Washington Post . The generals wanted Moss and Gerber to investigate extremism in the military. The filmmakers agreed that the war game provided a way to discuss fraught political issues. RELATED: Contenders Documentary — Deadline’s Complete Coverage “We’re a little traumatized by our political discourse,” Moss said. “This approach, Janessa’s exercise, the participation of people across political spectrum was really inviting to me and I hope inviting to audiences. It’s playful in form. It’s also really serious but I think it gives us some critical distance to think about these profound questions, the erosion of norms, the military and its relationship to our civil political leadership.” Check back Monday for the panel video.
Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms. In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about South Florida’s Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of lynchings , how segregation still shapes the landscape and how grassroots activists mobilized the Civil Rights Movement to upend generations of oppression. “You need to know how it happened before so you can decide how you want it to happen again,” she told her students as they sat as their desks, the morning light illuminating historic photographs on the walls. >> AROUND THE COUNTRY: National coverage from WVTM 13 Florida students are giving up their Saturday mornings to learn about African American history at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach and in similar programs at community centers across the state. Many are supported by Black churches, which for generations have helped forge the cultural and political identity of their parishioners. Since Faith in Florida developed its own Black history toolkit last year, more than 400 congregations have pledged to teach the lessons, the advocacy group says. Florida has required public schools to teach African American history for the past 30 years, but many families no longer trust the state’s education system to adequately address the subject. By the state’s own metrics, just a dozen Florida school districts have demonstrated excellence at teaching Black history, by providing evidence that they are incorporating the content into lessons throughout the school year and getting buy-in from the school board and community partners. >> WVTM 13 ON-THE-GO: Download our app for free School district officials across Florida told The Associated Press that they are still following the state mandate to teach about the experience of enslavement, abolition and the “vital contributions of African Americans to build and strengthen American society.” But a common complaint from students and parents is that the instruction seems limited to heroic figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and rarely extends beyond each February’s Black History Month . When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings. “We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,” Williams said. Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her. “It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,” Addah said. “And most people don’t know what they did.” State lawmakers unanimously approved the African American history requirement in 1994 at a time of atonement over Florida’s history. Historians commissioned by the state had just published an official report on the deadly attack on the town of Rosewood in 1923, when a white mob razed the majority-Black community and drove out its residents. When the Florida Legislature approved financial compensation for Rosewood’s survivors and descendants in 1994, it was seen as a national model for reparations . >> FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube “There was a moment of enlightenment in Florida, those decades ago. There really was,” said Marvin Dunn, who has authored multiple books on Black Floridians. “But that was short-lived.” Three decades later, the teaching of African American history remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, inadequate in the eyes of some advocates, and is under fire by the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has championed efforts to restrict how race , history and discrimination can be talked about in the state’s public schools . DeSantis has led attacks on “wokeness” in education that rallied conservatives nationwide, including President-elect Donald Trump . In 2022, the governor signed a law restricting certain race-based conversations in schools and businesses and prohibits teaching that members of one ethnic group should feel guilt or bear responsibility for actions taken by previous generations. Last year, DeSantis’ administration blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American Studies from being taught in Florida, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate. A spokesperson for the College Board, which oversees Advanced Placement courses, told the AP they are not aware of any public schools in Florida currently offering the African American Studies class. It’s also not listed in the state’s current course directory. Representatives for the Florida Department of Education and the state’s African American History Task Force did not respond to requests for comment from the AP. “People who are interested in advancing African diaspora history can’t rely on schools to do that,” said Tameka Bradley Hobbs, manager of Broward County’s African-American Research Library and Cultural Center. “I think it’s even more clear now that there needs to be a level of self-reliance and self-determination when it comes to passing on the history and heritage of our ancestors.” Last year, only 30 of Florida’s 67 traditional school districts offered at least one standalone course on African American history or humanities, according to state data. While not required by state law, having a dedicated Black history class is a measure of how districts are following the state mandate. Florida’s large urban districts are far more likely to offer the classes, compared to small rural districts, some of which have fewer than 2,000 students. Even in districts that have staff dedicated to teaching Black history, some teachers are afraid of violating state law, according to Brian Knowles, who oversees African American, Holocaust and Latino studies for the Palm Beach County school district. “There’s so many other districts and so many kids that we’re missing because we’re tiptoeing around what is essentially American history,” Knowles said. Frustration over the restrictions that teachers face pushed Renee O’Connor to take a sabbatical last year from her job teaching Black history at Miami Norland Senior High School in the majority-Black city of Miami Gardens. Now, she is back in the classroom, but she also has been helping community groups develop their own Black history programs outside of the public school system. “I wish, obviously, all kids were able to take an African American history class,” O’Connor said, “but you have to pivot if it’s not happening in schools.”Soon, a new year will be upon us. As an American history geek, I know I’ll be spending much of 2025 thinking about 2026 — specifically, the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. A quarter-millennium seems like a good point to stop, look around, and assess. I wonder what our Founding Fathers would think of our progress? If the brilliant, and cantankerous, John Adams was resurrected, and happened upon a copy of The Baltimore Sun, I think he would be surprised, then alarmed, and then proud to learn that we elected a Black man to be president — twice. The election of Donald Trump would probably inspire some disappointment, given all that Adams risked to help establish this nation. But, I think the greatest shock of all would probably be the level of immigration. President John Adams was a supporter of the , a law that more than doubled the number of years an immigrant needed to wait before applying for U.S. citizenship. Adams and his contemporaries believed a longer gestation period gave immigrants more time to appreciate what it means to be American. One can argue a similar point today. Immigration is one of the ways America renews itself. The injection of new blood and cultures helps to keep us young and vital — . But, since the 1970s, the United States has experienced the of immigration in its history, mostly from India and Latin America. people have arrived since the beginning of the Biden administration alone. According to recent estimates, one out of every 10 people in the United States today was born somewhere else. That means millions of people in this country have no connection to any of the defining events of the nation’s past, even recent events, like the Civil Rights Movement. This is important because the children of that wave are now adults and moving into positions of power. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump’s appointees to the new Department of Government Efficiency, are an immigrant, and the child of immigrants, respectively. During the presidential campaign, I would listen to Ramaswamy’s about the sacrifices and principles of our nation’s founders and cringe. I thought to myself, how can Ramaswamy have anything but an academic understanding of the sacrifices of the founders of this nation? His ancestors arrived long after the historical events we point to as touchstones of our “Americanness”: the Civil Rights Movement, the Civil War and the American Revolution. For many of us, these events aren’t academic, they’re visceral. The American Revolution, for example, was a traumatic experience that had no guarantee of success. It was a crap shoot. Everyone who openly supported the revolution was signing their own death warrant. The fact that we won at all, was luck. We could very easily have lost that war, and all the people we revere today — Washington, Adams, Jefferson — would be hanged. speak about how trauma can be passed down through generations. If that is true, everyone today who is a descendant of the people who lived in those times bears the scars of that conflict. Consider the Civil War, a struggle that almost tore this nation apart. To this day, it is the bloodiest, deadliest war Americans have ever fought. It decimated our Southern states — which have only in fully recovered. And, there are places in the South today where you can still feel the effects of that war — where people still have yet to dig themselves out of the that conflict created. And, the Civil Rights Movement — which was only 60 years ago — was, in many ways, a consequence of unresolved issues of the Civil War. In the 1960s, people of every shade and background threw themselves into the streets and demanded that leaders deliver on unfulfilled promises made a century before. That movement colored everything that followed. Sadly, there are Americans walking the streets today with no knowledge of the sacrifices that were made to secure the freedoms they take for granted. Our Founding Fathers were not infallible. As they established this country, they made many mistakes along the way. For centuries, the people (and the descendants of the people) who made those mistakes have been trying to correct them. That’s what the Civil War was about, and the Civil Rights Movement. The current debates around affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion are examples of that effort. Many Americans have a visceral connection to these issues because of their historical connection to underlying events. For Black Americans in particular, the consequences of those events are etched on our DNA and flow through our veins. In the run-up to our 250th anniversary, there will be a lot of talk about unresolved issues, unanswered questions, and whether we’ve lived up to the ideals set by our founders. For the first time in our history, a significant portion of our population will have no blood, or experiential, connection to the key historical events that define us. Yet, many of those same people will be in positions to influence the decisions on these questions. The price of American citizenship is the burden of stewardship — stewardship of this nation’s conscience, to be exact. Recent immigrants, and their children, have been spared the weight of that burden, but they’ve enjoyed the benefits. In the coming year, as we all debate important questions about this nation’s past and future, all of us, including our newest Americans, need to acknowledge the contributions of those who came before and honor their sacrifices.Under the patronage HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad al-Thani, the 16th edition of the Qatar International Falcons and Hunting Festival (Marmi 2025) is set to begin on January 1. Organised by Al Gannas Qatari Society, the festival will run until February 1 in Sabkha Marmi in Sealine Area, with support from the Social and Sports Activities Support Fund (Daam). Marmi Festival chairman Mutaib al-Qahtani has announced that the event will kick off this year with the Haddad Al Tahadi Championship. This competition is dedicated to young Shaheen falcons and involves releasing a homing pigeon and the falcon, with the winning prizes awarded to the falcon that captures or corners the pigeon. Winners receive a prize of QR100,000 and qualify for the final to compete for a Lexus car. The Haddad Al Tahadi Championship will span three days, from Wednesday to Friday, with one group competing each day. On January 4, qualifiers for the Saluki Race will take place. The Talaa Championship will commence on January 5, for Groups 1-5. This competition tests a falcon's vision and hunting instincts, with bustard birds placed 2km away. The falcon that spots, chases, and catches the prey first advances to the finals. The Talaa Championship will run on January 5-10, with five groups competing each morning. Meanwhile, the Haddad Al Tahadi qualifiers for Groups 4-9 will take place in the evenings during the same period, followed by evening matches for Groups 10-13 on January 11-14. Al-Qahtani also announced that the Daw Local Championship, measuring falcon speed over a 400m distance, will begin on January 15, with the Shaheen Falcons category. Qualifiers for various categories will follow, concluding with the final matches on January 18. Concurrently, the evening sessions will feature the Haddad Al Tahadi Championship for Groups 14-16, along with the Saluki Race final on January 18. The Haddad Al Tahadi Championship will resume on January 19 for Groups 17-18 on January 20, with the Daw Local final held on January 21. The international Daw final for all categories will follow on January 22, with registration open until January 17. From January 23-25, additional Haddad Al Tahadi matches and other key events, such as the Falconer of the Future competition for ages 11-15, will take place. This event tests young participants in a 200m Daw race under specific falcon size criteria. The Haddad Al Tahadi Championship for Groups 21-23 will run on January 26-28, with the final match on January 31. The festival will conclude on February 1 with the Mazayen Championship, an international contest for the most beautiful falcons.
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Apple has taken the step of halting the sale of its iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and iPhone SE (3rd generation) in 29 countries, Northern Ireland. As such, this decision conforms to a recent European Union regulation on the adoption of the USB-C charging standard by all electronic devices, including smartphones before 28th of December, 2024. ET Year-end Special Reads Take That: The gamechanger weapon's India acquired in 2024 10 big-bang policy moves Modi government made in 2024 How governments tried to rein in the social media beast The mandate has the goal of decreasing electronic debris, and of homogenizing charging ports, which Apple contested, claiming it. Even though resistance, Apple moved to USB-C with the debut of the iPhone 15 series as well as with other products - such as iPads and AirPods. Due to this, the previous generations of iPhone models that used the Lightning connector may no longer meet the requirements of the EU regulations and have beenremoved from the market in the EU states, Switzerland, and Northern Ireland. Also Read : Magnus Carlsen Walks Out of World Rapid and Blitz Championships Over Jeans Dispute While Apple has removed these models from its official store, third-party retailers may still sell remaining stocks in some regions, such as Amazon Spain. However, this is expected to be a temporary solution. The discontinuation also coincides with reports of declining iPhone SE sales as anticipation builds for a new model in Spring 2025. Beyond Europe, the directive's impact remains limited for now, with other nations unlikely to implement similar legislation before the iPhone 14 is naturally phased out later this year. 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