Second Spring Senior Bowling League action at the Warwick Lanes saw the game between the Last Pin and Star Lites end 2 – 2, the Drifters defeated the Blue Angels 4 – 0, and the Pinsplitters defeat the New Comers 3 – 1. Men Handicap Game: Alfred Wright 230 Elvin Thomas 222 Gladwin Daniels 222 […]

Second spring senior bowling league action at the Warwick Lanes saw the Drifters​​​ defeat the ​​Islanders​​ 3 – 1​​, the Star Lites​​​ defeat the ​​New Comers 4 – ​0, and the Last Pin defeated the ​​​Pinsplitters 3 – ​1. ​​​​Men Handicap Game: Bubba Daniels ​273 Llewellyn Jones​​ 233 Teddy Swainson​ 212 ​​​​​Handicap Series: Llewellyn Jones​ […]

Second spring senior bowling league action at the Warwick Lanes saw the Pinsplitters fall 4 – 0 to the Blue Angels, the Star Lites defeat the Islanders 3 – 1, and the New Comers defeat the Drifters 3 – 1. Men Handicap Game: Teddy Swainson 250 Michael Vassell 242 Nathan Stevens 235 Handicap Series: Willoughby […]

The second spring senior bowling league at Warwick Lanes delivered another day of intense competition. Men Handicap Game: McNeil Simmons 248 Alpheus Santucci 242 Willoughby Tucker 238 Handicap Series: Alpheus Santucci 651 Elvin Thomas 639 McNeil Simmons 637 Scratch Game: Alpheus Santucci 197 McNeil Simmons 188 Elvin Thomas 169 Michael Vassell 169 & Willoughby Tucker […]

The second spring senior bowling league at Warwick Lanes saw league leaders, the Drifters, solidify their position with a 2.5 – 1.5 victory over the third-placed Blue Angels. In other matches, the second-placed New Comers delivered a decisive 4 – 0 win against the seventh-placed Pinsplitters. The Star Lites, currently in fifth place, secured a […]

Mixed reality gaming may be the motivation kids need to stay active, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.

Expert pitch on smoke dangers from wildfires

1. Climate inequality must take centre stage at COP29  The Conversation
2. Oil and gas are ‘a gift of God’: COP29 leader  The Australian Financial Review
3. COP29 delegates complain about being sidelined in decision making  ABC News
4. This year has been masterclass in human destruction, UN chief tells Cop29  The Guardian

Nieuwe studie bevestigt link tussen eczeem en luchtvervuiling: “Hiermee kunnen we levenskwaliteit van patiënten verhogen”  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. “Al meer dan 20 jaar betaalt ons gezin de prijs voor z'n carrière”: de vrouw van ‘BDW Politiek Beest’ zegt weinig, maar het is er wel boenk op  Het Laatste Nieuws
2. Documentaire over Bart De Wever in première: "Jezelf op groot scherm zien is confronterend, in mijn hoofd ben ik een vrolijke Frans"  VRT.be
3. Weinig elegant camerawerk en slordige overgangen, maar het heeft wel één troef: dit vonden wij van docufilm over De Wever  Het Nieuwsblad
4. ‘De film van Paul Jambers over Bart De Wever of Gladiator 2? De keuze lijkt snel gemaakt’  Knack.be
5. Paul Jambers in het zog van de N-VA-chef: “Bart De Wever weet pas over dertig jaar of alles de moeite waard is geweest”  De Standaard

1. Veel Europese leiders slaan de klimaattop dit jaar over: zijn de hoogdagen van Europa’s groene politiek voorbij?  De Morgen
2. "Olie en gas zijn godsgeschenk”: ambities klimaattop krijgen nieuwe klap na uitspraken president van gastland Azerbeidzjan  Het Laatste Nieuws
3. Hoe pakken we de klimaatcrisis aan? 200 landen zitten er nu over samen  VRT.be
4. Klimaattop COP29 in Bakoe | Het wrange theater in Azerbeidzjan  De Tijd
5. ‘Hoe een mondiale koolstofprijs kan helpen om de klimaatcrisis te bedwingen’  Knack.be

In the latest Candyology 101 podcast, Maria and I tackled a little-celebrated candy bar, the Whatchamacallit. We’re also trying out a new format, which is a little shorter, like a handful of fun size candy bars!

Alas, if Lord Grenley and I had used a little Trojan then, we wouldn't have to feed the little Trojan now

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The news comes a day after confirmation that he will leave the BBC's Match of the Day.

Donald Trump’s policies risk making the US dollar a source of global instability Expert comment LToremark 13 November 2024

Although Trump favours a weaker exchange rate, his policies are likely to have the opposite effect. The risk is that the US dollar could become too strong, which is bad news for the global economy.

President-elect Donald Trump has a dollar problem. In recent months he has shown a clear preference for a weaker exchange rate to support the competitiveness of US exports and help reduce the US trade deficit. And yet, as the market has sensed since the US election, the much more likely outcome is that his policies end up strengthening the greenback. The risk is that the US dollar – which is expensive already – becomes more obviously overvalued, and this could increase the risk of global financial instability. 

The dollar has been on a rollercoaster ride in the past few decades. From 2002 until 2011, for example, the dollar weakened by around 30 per cent in inflation-adjusted, trade-weighted terms, according to BIS data. Yet in the years since 2011, the dollar has strengthened and is now at a more appreciated level than at any time since 1985.

What shapes this rollercoaster, broadly speaking, is the global balance of economic vitality: when the US economy gains momentum relative to the rest of the world, the dollar tends to strengthen; and vice versa. 

After China joined the WTO in 2001, the balance of economic vitality shifted decisively away from the US, in favour of China and other emerging economies. This was the decade of the commodity boom: the longest, biggest peacetime increase in commodity prices in nearly 200 years during which a sustained surge in China’s economy supported GDP growth across the developing world. The dollar weakened as a result.

But after 2011, a combination of factors – including the eurozone crisis and its aftermath, together with the sagging of the Chinese economy – tipped the balance of economic vitality back in favour of the US. The dollar strengthened once again.

And since both the European and Chinese economies remain very fragile, the balance of economic vitality seems likely to keep favouring the US dollar.

Two more considerations also point to a stronger US dollar under a second Trump administration.

The first is the exchange rate implications of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports. When the US imposes tariffs on a trading partner, the foreign exchange market tends to sell that trading partner’s currency, forcing it to weaken to offset the dollar-price increase induced by the tariff. This helps explain why the Chinese renminbi depreciated by some 10 per cent in 2018 after Trump began imposing trade restrictions on China in January of that year. 

More widespread tariffs on a whole range of US trading partners should therefore strengthen the dollar more broadly.

A stronger dollar should also result from the macroeconomic framework Trump seems likely to deliver. He will certainly want to extend his 2017 tax cuts beyond 2025 when they are currently due to expire, so a more sustained loosening of US fiscal policy seems likely. Since boosting the US economy will create inflationary pressure, the market will expect interest rates to end up higher than they might otherwise be. The resulting combination of looser fiscal and tighter monetary policy tends to be a stronger currency.

The dollar probably has a fair amount of room to keep going up, since it is not obviously overvalued just yet. The US current account deficit – the broadest measure of a country’s trade deficit, and a rough but useful measure of financial vulnerability – was a little over 3 per cent of GDP last year. 

This is around half the level it reached in 2006, just before the 2008 global financial crisis, meaning the risks arising from an overvalued dollar may be for the latter part of Trump’s second presidency.

A strengthening dollar is also not great news for the rest of the world economy. A strong dollar tends to depress global trade growth, restrict developing countries’ access to international capital markets, and make it more difficult for countries whose currencies will be weakening to keep inflation under control.

If and when the dollar becomes unsustainably expensive, a further problem will present itself: how to deal with an overvalued currency without risking a lot of financial dislocation.

This problem last occurred in early 1985, when the dollar was universally reckoned to be dangerously dear. At that time the US was able to call on trading partners who depended on the US security umbrella – the UK, Germany, France and Japan – to negotiate the ‘Plaza Accord’, which coordinated a series of interventions in the foreign exchange market that allowed the dollar to decline in a measured way.  

It is virtually unimaginable that something similar could be negotiated today, not least because Chinese policymakers believe that the post-Plaza strengthening of the yen in the late 1980s led to an economic disaster for Japan. Beijing will not play ball.

Without much scope for a negotiated decline in the dollar, more chaotic alternatives seem likely. 

One is that the market decides suddenly that it no longer has an appetite for expensive dollar-denominated assets, and this might lead to a messy adjustment in the foreign exchange market. 

The church in Russia is facing a new threat-HIV/AIDS. OM Russia works in rehab-centres to show God's love and compassion.

OM Russia had a great kick-off to the STM summer season by serving in a camp for children with disabilities to hear about Christ.

In 1988, it became evident to leadership that OM needed to respond to the hundreds of millions of poor and marginalised in India, specifically the Dalit-Bahujan people, or ‘untouchables’.

Bringing justice for the oppressed is the mandate given to every Christian, says Natasha Shoultz, working among sex workers in Prague.

Gerechtigkeit zu den Unterdrückten zu bringen ist ein Auftrag für jeden Christen, sagt Natasha Shoultz, die unter Frauen in Prostitution in Prag arbeitet.

A look back at our recent coverage, as net neutrality vanishes — temporarily we hope — into the dustbin of history

The index was designed to quantify the specific vulnerabilities faced by countries, especially small island developing states

MANILA, Philippines — No police nor any politician helped Alice Guo escape the Philippine jurisdiction, at least according to the internal investigation conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP). Sen. Francis Tolentino, who was speaking on behalf of the PNP as the agency’s budget sponsor, bared the matter during the Senate’s marathon plenary debates on the 2025 funding. Prior to Tolentino’s disclosure, opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros asked what was the result of the “internal investigation” conducted by the country’s police force. READ: Alice Guo says someone ‘initiated’ her escape “There was an investigation and the result was that no member […]...

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The request requires the approval of ICC judges, but their decision has been delayed, partly because of several rounds of legal filings by Israel that have challenged the court's jurisdiction.

Washington warned Israel last month that military aid could be limited until progress was made. It did so based on Memorandum 20, which links such aid to humanitarian actions.

"The lack of protective structures and the disparity between Arab and Jewish localities...forces Arab residents to live in a state of constant peril," said IDI's Lital Piller

The members of the House debated the role of lack of integration, antisemitism within the Muslim population, and failure of authority in a discussion about the attacks.

Numerous security forces surrounded Dayr Qadis and are currently searching the area for the terrorist, the military announced. 

The United States is now seeking an enforcement mechanism that would ensure that the only armed body in that area would be the Lebanese Army.

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2. How the Supreme Court clamped down on ‘bulldozer’ demolition drives | Explained  The Hindu
3. Akhilsh Yadav`s `Parked In Garage` Jab At Yogi Govt After SC`s Bulldozer Verdict  Zee News
4. SC parked bulldozer in garage forever: Akhilesh Yadav  Hindustan Times
5. What's the message from Supreme Court's order on bulldozer action? Experts debate  India Today

Experience interactive storytelling at Vroooom, the virtual reality film festival presented by Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad and Annapurna College of Film and Media

<p>On 25 September&nbsp;2024, the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (SBR,&nbsp;<i>Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia</i>) shared its position&nbsp;and consensus&nbsp;on the interchangeability between reference products and biosimilars, a topic of great importance for clinical practice, especially in light of recent regulatory developments by&nbsp;Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency, ANVISA (<i>Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária</i>)&nbsp;and other international authorities.&nbsp;</p>

NEW DELHI — A toxic haze enveloped India's national capital on the morning of Nov 13 as temperatures dropped and pollution surged, reducing visibility in some parts and prompting a warning from airport authorities that flights may be affected. Delhi overtook Pakistan's Lahore as the world's most polluted city in Swiss group IQAir's live rankings, with an air quality index (AQI) score of more than 1,000, considered "hazardous", but India's pollution authority said the AQI was around 350. Officials were not immediately available to explain the variation. Vehicles drive on a highway on a polluted smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, Nov 7, 2024. PHOTO: Reuters file The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the pollution had reduced visibility to 100 metres in some places by around 8am local time.

COLOMBO — Chanu Nimesha is contesting Sri Lanka's parliamentary election on Thursday (Nov 14) as the first openly transgender candidate, hoping to forge a more inclusive and tolerant political culture on the South Asian island. Transgender people are estimated to make up about one per cent of Sri Lanka's 22 million people, according to Equal Ground, a local civil society group. They frequently face social rejection, lack legal protection and have almost no representation in political parties. Nimesha, who is contesting from Kegalle — about 80km east of Colombo — said she was the first transgender person to run for a seat in the 225-strong parliament and that her message of social justice had been well received. "I'm not concerned about winning or losing," she said, sitting in her one-bedroom flat. "But it is important for me to be present in this space, to be seen, to inspire others like me. I want to help everyone, not just my community."

NEW DELHI — Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of elections to counter wider worries about inflation and the lack of jobs, analysts say. A greater turnout of women voters in the past decade has reversed a trend of men easily outnumbering women. Political parties have competed to attract them, even as inflation hit a 14-month peak in October and unemployment stays high, at 8.9 per cent. Regional governments run by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and the opposition are offering or planning such efforts to lure about a fifth of India's estimated 670 million women, the economic research division of Axis Bank says. "This is a substantial burden on the exchequer," its chief economist, Neelkanth Mishra, said in a report. "Where is the funding coming from? Some from higher deficits." Budgeted deficits for the current fiscal year for nearly all Indian states unveiling handouts for women were higher than five years ago, with many cutting capital expenditure to fund the populist measures.

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