Korean Archaelogists Unearth Four Millennia-old Wooden Tablets Engraved with Numerous Chinese CharactersAs he walks off the field, head held high, the superstar knows that this is just the beginning of his journey. There will be more challenges to face, more battles to win. But with the love and support of his fans behind him, there is no limit to what he can achieve.
He can fly! Watch this Coastal Carolina wide receiver do a running backflip in full padsBY Joe Berkowitz5 minute read On Wednesday afternoon, billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman appeared to post on Bluesky a plan to destroy the burgeoning social media platform. Though the poster turned out to be an impostor, whoever it was so thoroughly captured the long-winded Ackman's rhetorical style on X, they managed to briefly convince many people—including some high-profile journalists. The fake Ackman account has since been suspended, but there are plenty more just like it. The blue check marks Back when X was just a gleam in Elon Musk's eye, Twitter began verifying accounts in June of 2009. The nascent microblogging site only... Joe Berkowitz
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stc creates lasting contributions in the community by leading the way in sustainable corporate social responsibilityThe global demand and consumption of agricultural crops is increasing at a rapid pace. It is estimated that the global yield needs to increase at an average annual rate of 1.73 percent to sustainably produce food , feed, fibre and bioenergy for 10 billion people in 2050. Globally, agricultural productivity is struggling to keep pace with population growth , highlighting the importance of research into traditional practices as well as new ones. Such improvements require special scientific collaboration. Agronomy Crop Science (or ‘agronomy’) is a multi-disciplinary field which focuses on research and development of plant-based crops. The subject includes scientific knowledge and understanding of the cultivation, management, processing and production of crops. For low income countries especially, crop science enables a deep review of important agricultural issues and challenges to take place. Challenges include resource planning, including resource use that is consistent with sustainable production of food, feed, fibre and fuel. production, processing and marketing of food and non-food products. Henan Agricultural University The crop science discipline has prominent advantages and distinct features in the research about the theory and technology for the coordinated improvement of yields and efficiency of annual double-cropping crops. This approach is being pioneered at Henan Agricultural University . The crop science discipline was initially established in 1912. In 2007, crop science was recognized as a first-level national key discipline. Recent progress has focused on the scientific issues of the interaction between crop growth and development with the environment. For example, by dissecting the genomes of excellent varieties of annual double-cropping crops and innovating research methods in functional genomics, scientists have mined functional genes related to excellent traits such as crop growth and development. Hence, as a science there is considerable focus upon the chemical, physical, and biological relationships of crops and the soils nurturing them. Disease resistant crops Other areas of research include a better understanding of disease resistance and heat tolerance. Another important line of inquiry is nutrient efficiency. Some of these areas feed into environmental sustainability. Crop science can provide improved resource use efficiencies for water, fertilisers and labour, as key components of optimising environmental and economically sustainable food production. Such research provides theoretical guidance and genetic resources for the breeding of new crop varieties that are high-yielding, high-quality, disease-resistant, and stress-tolerant, and offers technical support for improving crop production efficiency. Dr. Tim Sandle is Digital Journal's Editor-at-Large for science news.Tim specializes in science, technology, environmental, business, and health journalism. He is additionally a practising microbiologist; and an author. He is also interested in history, politics and current affairs.As the woman and her grandmother were safely reunited, they shared a new appreciation for life and a deeper bond forged through their shared ordeal. Their story serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. In the face of adversity, they emerged stronger together, a testament to the unbreakable bond between generations.
Across the Atlantic, countries in Northern Europe are also gearing up for the arrival of cold air and snowstorms. Cities like Stockholm, Oslo, and Helsinki are expecting heavy snowfall in the coming days, with temperatures expected to plummet below freezing. Authorities have issued warnings to citizens to ensure they are well-prepared for the wintry weather and to avoid unnecessary travel during the storm.
Word of the elderly man's unconventional entrance into the subway station quickly spread, sparking a conversation about the resilience and ingenuity of the older generation. Rather than being deterred by physical limitations or societal expectations, he had chosen to chart his own path and redefine the boundaries of possibility.
'Democracy and freedom': Jimmy Carter's human rights efforts in Latin AmericaRay'Sean Taylor, Ring Malith lead SIU Edwardsville over Ball State 82-69In light of these potential changes, it is important for individuals, businesses, and governments to stay informed and prepared for shifting oil prices. By monitoring market trends, exploring energy-efficient solutions, and implementing strategic measures, we can better navigate the impact of oil price fluctuations on our daily lives and economic activities.
One of the standout features of the Samsung Black Diamond Heat Pump Washer-Dryer is its AI-powered capabilities. By leveraging artificial intelligence, this appliance can automatically optimize its settings based on the type and weight of the laundry load. Through machine learning algorithms, the washer-dryer learns from each cycle and continuously improves its performance, ensuring that your clothes are washed and dried with the utmost care and efficiency.EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Jonathan Greenard was gassed, gasping for breath and gulping some water late in the game on Minnesota's sideline, having chased around Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray to the point of sheer exhaustion after fighting through an illness all week. The Cardinals faced fourth down in those closing seconds on Sunday , trailing by one, and Greenard needed a break. Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell let defensive coordinator Brian Flores see the formation the Cardinals sent out and deftly called timeout. The Vikings badly wanted Greenard, who'd been battling an illness all week, back in the game. “'You ready to go? You ready to go? You ready to go?'” O'Connell asked, smiling later as he reflected on his eagerness and the rarity of using a timeout to give a defensive player a rest. “No doubt, he was going back on the field and going to have a really impactful snap.” Greenard and the rest of the pass rush put enough heat on Murray to force a hurried throw that Shaquill Griffin intercepted to seal a 23-22 comeback victory that stretched Minnesota's winning streak to five. “He’s playing some high-level football. I don’t know where we’re at with postseason accolades, but he should be in the conversation for a number of those,” Flores said. “I feel like I say this every week: We’re lucky to have him.” Greenard is tied for fourth in the NFL with 32 pressures, according to Sportradar tracking. He's also tied for fourth in the league with 10 sacks. “He’s always popping off the tape, no matter what week it is,” teammate Harrison Smith said. “Especially in crunch time.” Those basic statistics only begin to show the impact Greenard has made on the Vikings, who made him their top priority in free agency this year once it was clear Danielle Hunter priced himself out of the plan. Greenard has not only blossomed into one of the league's most effective edge rushers after four injury-limited seasons with Houston, but he has also been a major part of Minnesota's success against the ground attack to the tune of an NFL-leading average allowance of 81.3 rushing yards per game. “The underrated part is just the all-down aspect of the physicality, setting edges, playing blocks and making some plays at or behind the line of scrimmage that set up his chances to then rush the passer,” O'Connell said. “He’s played a ton. We’re trying to be aware of just how much he’s played and see if we can give him some spurts here and there where we can kind of keep his play count where we want it, but at the same time he’s one of our best players. As I like to call him, he’s the closer.” Never was that nickname more evident than against the Cardinals. Pushed wide on his rush by left tackle Paris Johnson Jr., Greenard stabbed at Murray with his left hand to graze just enough of the ball to poke it loose. Murray fell on it to maintain possession, but the sack put the Cardinals in an uphill third-and-13 play. This time, Greenard deftly slid to the inside to keep full vision on one of the NFL’s most elusive quarterbacks. Pressure by Patrick Jones prompted Murray to take off as he barely avoided another sack, and Greenard was in ideal position to minimize the scramble. Once Murray hesitated to try to juke him and approaching cornerback Byron Murphy for more yardage, Greenard caught up and corralled him — inbounds, forcing the Cardinals to burn another timeout — for a 3-yard gain. Afterward, Greenard drew a straight line from those plays back to his offseason training. “If your tongue ain’t on the ground after your workouts, I feel like you’re not doing enough, especially the guys on the quarterbacks,” Greenard said. With the U.S. Bank Stadium crowd roaring, Greenard doubled over and asked to be subbed out. “I just wanted to show that I’m running my tail off to that football. It just so happened that he cut back and I was like, ‘Oh, perfect,'” Greenard said. “That was tough.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL
Another key highlight of China's foreign trade in 2021 has been the diversification of trading partners. While traditional markets such as the United States and the European Union remain essential, China has also expanded its trade relations with emerging economies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This broadening of trade partnerships has not only helped to mitigate risks associated with geopolitical tensions but has also opened up new opportunities for growth and cooperation.
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What went wrong for Buck? How did someone with so much potential end up in such a dire situation? The answer lies in a combination of factors – a toxic mix of unrealistic expectations, unchecked ambition, and a lack of self-awareness. Buck failed to recognize the warning signs of burnout and instead continued to chase elusive goals, unaware that success at any cost was a hollow victory.The consequences of the individual's actions were severe and far-reaching. The classified information they sold compromised national security and endangered the lives of countless individuals, including military personnel and intelligence operatives. The intelligence community was forced to launch a massive investigation to assess the extent of the damage and plug the security breaches caused by the leak of sensitive information.
As the global economy continues to grapple with the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers are exploring innovative strategies to stimulate growth and propel recovery. In this context, the concept of Incremental Policy 2.0 has emerged as a promising mechanism to unleash new economic potential and pave the way for sustained prosperity.It looked like a recipe for disaster. So, when his country's swimmers were being accused of doping earlier this year, one Chinese official cooked up something fast. He blamed it on contaminated noodles. In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for that same drug. The attorney, appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, refused to consider that scenario as he sifted through the evidence. In spelling out his reasoning, lawyer Eric Cottier paid heed to the half-baked nature of the theory. “The Investigator considers this scenario, which he has described in the conditional tense, to be possible, no less, no more,” Cottier wrote. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by The Associated Press via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. “There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie,” said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete. "And all of it is complete fiction.” In April, reporting from the New York Times and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so, did not sanction them. WADA accepted that explanation , did not press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the “no-fault findings,” as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report , Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events — noting that WADA's chief scientist “saw no other solution than to accept it, even if he continued to have doubts about the reality of contamination as described by the Chinese authorities.” But without evidence to support pursuing the case, and with the chance of winning an appeal at almost nil, Cottier determined WADA's “decision not to appeal appears indisputably reasonable.” A mystery remained: How did those traces of TMZ get into the kitchen? Shortly after the doping positives were revealed, the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations held a meeting on April 30 where it heard from the leader of China's agency, Li Zhiquan. Li's presentation was mostly filled with the same talking points that have been delivered throughout the saga — that the positive tests resulted from contamination from the kitchen. But he expanded on one way the kitchen might have become contaminated, harkening to another case in China involving a low-level TMZ positive. A pharmaceutical factory, he explained, had used industrial alcohol in the distillation process for producing TMZ. The industrial alcohol laced with the drug “then entered the market through illegal channels,” he said. The alcohol "was re-used by the perpetrators to process and produce cooking wine, which is an important seasoning used locally to make beef noodles,” Li said. “The contaminated beef noodles were consumed by that athlete, resulting in an extremely low concentration of TMZ in the positive sample. "The wrongdoers involved have been brought to justice.” This new information raised eyebrows among the anti-doping leaders listening to Li's report. So much so that over the next month, several emails ensued to make sure the details about the noodles and wine made their way to WADA lawyers, who could then pass it onto Cottier. Eventually, Li did pass on the information to WADA general counsel Ross Wenzel and, just to be sure, one of the anti-doping leaders forwarded it, as well, according to the emails seen by the AP. All this came with Li's request that the noodles story be kept confidential. Turns out, it made it into Cottier's report, though he took the information with a grain of salt. “Indeed, giving it more attention would have required it to be documented, then scientifically verified and validated,” he wrote. Neither Wenzel nor officials at the Chinese anti-doping agency returned messages from AP asking about the noodles conspiracy and the other athlete who Li suggested had been contaminated by them. Meanwhile, 11 of the swimmers who originally tested positive competed at the Paris Games earlier this year in a meet held under the cloud of the Chinese doping case. Though WADA considers the case closed, Koehler and others point to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. “It gives the appearance that people are just making things up as they go along on this, and hoping the story just goes away," Koehler said. “Which clearly it has not.” AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games
New Advancements in Monopolar RF, IPL and Aqua-dermabrasion Facials Fill a Void in the Marketplace MELVILLE, N.Y. , Dec. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At October's Inner Circle Invitational in Boca Raton , Cartessa Aesthetics introduced three new technologies to the nearly 400 aesthetic providers in attendance. The third annual exclusive event is an opportunity for Cartessa to give providers first-looks at new products, advanced trainings and business best-practices. In the spotlight this year were three unique devices – Everesse, Prisma, and SKNLAB - offering practitioners new modality combinations, more comfortable treatments and opportunities to expedite revenue. Everesse is a new entrant in the Monopolar RF space that overcomes the shortcomings of legacy technologies, namely patient discomfort. The new 6.78MHz Monopolar RF device, manufactured by South Korean company Classys, has several design features that make it more comfortable for lifting and tightening of the skin. Prisma is the first IPL plus electro-muscle stimulation (EMS) and radiofrequency (RF) technology, and it's also the first IPL system that Cartessa has selected for its portfolio. Manufactured by DEKA, Prisma offers the best in IPL advancements and the ability to go beyond discoloration to treat the other leading signs of aging, inelasticity and reduction in muscle tone. "While we know IPL is a cornerstone treatment for our providers, we waited for a device that offered the absolute best in IPL versatility and comfort. PRISMA met our standards and with the added modalities, is positioned to redefine 'photofacials' as the market knows them," shared Gabe Lubin , Cartessa Founder and CEO. Lastly, with the introduction of SKNLAB , Cartessa is filling a void in aqua-dermabrasion space for those providers interested in integrating energy modalities into their non-invasive facial protocols. SKNLAB offers aqua-delivery of paraceutical solutions plus five energy modalities. Practitioners can easily customize treatments based on patient need using SKNLAB's pre-programmed, comprehensive facial matrices or leverage the various handpieces a la carte. Cartessa's adaptive business model makes it possible to launch the volume of products it has in 2024. "I don't know of another aesthetic company that can continue to introduce new technologies at this rate," added Lubin. "Seeing the response to these devices on their own and in combination with other technologies is extremely exciting. We know we are giving our customers something unique to elevate their patients' outcomes and propel their businesses forward – we plan to continue to do so as long as we are presented with breakthrough innovations." For those providers looking to add Everesse, Prisma or SKNLAB to their practice or wanting to learn more, please reach out to a Cartessa representative. Now is a great time to take advantage of end-of-year tax incentives and treat patients to something new in 2025. About Cartessa Aesthetics: Cartessa Aesthetics is a leading North American aesthetic company focused on cutting-edge technology and industry leading customer support. Thanks to an independent business model and established relationships with top global manufacturers, Cartessa's product portfolio offers true competitive advantages for practices and patients across every aesthetics category. Customers benefit from expertly vetted devices and end-to-end support to maximize the clinical outcomes and returns of their investment. SOURCE Cartessa AestheticsThe speculation over has come to an end. Universal revealed Monday that Nolan will adapt , the epic poem from Homer that follows Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan war. “ ’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology,” said the studio. “The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.” Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron star in the feature. Nolan has delved with period pieces before, including best piture winner , which told the story of the creation of the Atomic Bomb, and , an adaptation of Christopher Priest’s novel centering on two rival magicians amid the backdrop of 1890s London. But is a marked change of pace for the filmmaker. Homer’s epic poem dates back to the 8th century BC and tells of gods, goddesses and monsters — the type of material foreign to Nolan’s work so far. Still, the filmmaker has dealt with plenty of fantastical material, including making Batman believable for post-9/11 audiences, and bringing realism to sci-fi notions such as shared dreams in and intergalactic travel in . Nolan began his year winning his first Oscars in his decades-long career thanks to , which netted him statues for best picture and best director. Nolan ended it with another honor, officially being knighted by King Charles in a ceremony last week. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter