www.30 jili.com Trump asks Supreme Court to delay law that could ban TikTok in the USMumbai: The Kandivali police in Saturday registered an FIR against six workers of a political party for allegedly demanding extortion from a road construction contractor. The accused have been identified as Lalsingh Rajpurohit, Ganesh Pawar, Pinto Jaiswal, Vikas Gupta, Nilesh Jaiswal, and Suresh Shah. The incident took place on December 27 at 1.30 p.m., when the accused asked the contractor to meet them in their office and threatened him to first give them 5 lakh rupees before starting the work. According to the FIR, the complainant Ashish Malha, 29 resides in Santacruz West works as civil engeer in BSCPL Infrastructure limited company. The company received a contract of cement road oij Irani Wadi 'R' ward. As per the complainant on December 27 at 1.30 p.m. around 20 to 25 workers present in Irani Wadi on Raod no. 3, they beat up companies engineers, Vishwanath Chaurasia and Vineet Singh, with fists and sticks. The complainant also alleged that in February 2024, Vikas Gupta and Nilesh Jaiswal, associates of Lalsingh Rajpurohit, extorted Rs 4 lakh per week from Mahipal Vyas and Trishit Tak, engineers at the sister company of BSCPL Infrastructure, by threatening to kill them. The case was filed under several relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Chelsea’s surprise defeat by Fulham meant victory over the Foxes stretched their lead to seven points, with a match in hand, with the halfway point of the campaign fast approaching. But Slot is maintaining his level-headed approach despite the clamour growing around their chances of adding another title to the one won in 2020. Tonight's goalscorers 💪 — Liverpool FC (@LFC) “If you are in this game for a long time like the players and I am then 20 games before the end you don’t look at it as there are so many challenges ahead of you,” he said after Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones and Mohamed Salah scored to turn around an early deficit following Jordan Ayew’s strike. “Injuries and and a bit of bad luck can happen to any team, it is far too early to be already celebrating – but it is nice for us to be where we are. “I don’t think there was any easy win for us in any of these games; it could have been an easy win against Tottenham but we conceded two and it was then 5-2 – that tells you how difficult it is to win even when you have all your players available. “That is why we have to take it one game at a time. The league table is something of course we are aware of but we always understand how many games there are to go.” Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy felt his side held their own until Salah scored in the 82nd minute. “I think we were in the contest for a result for a long time,” he said. “Three-one was the turning point in the sense the game was done there to get a result. “I think the 60th minute I remember a chanced for Daka to score the equaliser so we were in the game to get a surprising result. “We did well, we did what we could: a good start with the goal but if you speak of a turning point, 3-1 with Salah, the game was done.” Van Nistelrooy left goalkeeper Danny Ward out of the squad after he struggled in the defeat to Wolves and was jeered by his own fans. “The change in goal was one to make and the conversation with Wardy was impressive, the way he was thinking of the team and the club,” added the Dutchman. “I insisted on a conversation and of course it is a private conversation but what I want to share is the person and the professional he is. “I was impressed with that and his willingness for the team and the club to do well. “Really tough what happened for him. We are professionals but human beings as well, when frustration is being directed towards one person that is difficult.”

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Union accused of woke 'language policing' after banning pharmacists from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' By JAMES TOZER Published: 18:05 EST, 26 December 2024 | Updated: 18:09 EST, 26 December 2024 e-mail View comments Pharmacists have been banned from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' – because it may be seen as racist. In what critics are calling woke 'language policing', a union has given staff a list of terms to avoid due to their 'racial undertones'. Other phrases frowned upon include describing a shunned colleague as a 'black sheep', or saying unregulated drugs were bought on the 'black market'. Additionally, pharmacists should avoid referring to the use of coercion or intimidation to obtain treatment as 'blackmail'. The list was compiled by Nav Bhogal, a member of the Pharmacists' Defence Association's BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) network. Entitled 'Addressing racial undertones in the language of pharmacy', he tells colleagues that the words have become 'embedded in our professional vocabulary'. Pharmacists have been banned from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' – because it may be seen as racist. (File image) But they also have 'associations with race, power dynamics, and negativity' which 'can be harmful'. The intervention on the website of the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) – the trade union for pharmacists – comes amid anger at the spread of 'woke' language guides. Earlier this year the British Red Cross was accused of having been 'hijacked by political extremists' after issuing an 'inclusive' language guide clamping down on phrases such as 'ladies and gentlemen'. Meanwhile NHS trusts have told midwives to use the term 'chest milk' as an alternative to breast milk and 'birthing parents' rather than 'mothers'. Free Speech Union leader Toby Young (pictured) said it was just 'performative virtue signalling' Slamming Mr Bhogal's guide, Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said: 'Penalising old white men for using racially insensitive language doesn't improve the lives of poor black people one iota. It's just performative virtue signalling.' The guide lists terms which – according to Mr Bhogal – associate 'black' with 'something negative or forbidden', and 'white' with 'something positive or permissible'. NHS Share or comment on this article: Union accused of woke 'language policing' after banning pharmacists from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' e-mail Add commentColby Rogers made 6 of 9 3-pointers and scored 28 points as host Memphis defeated No. 16 Ole Miss 87-70 on Saturday afternoon. Rogers fouled out and finished one 3-pointer and one point short of his career-highs in both categories and Memphis never trailed. PJ Haggerty added 17 points, Dain Dainja had 16 and Moussa Cisse, an Ole Miss transfer who's in his second stint with the Tigers (10-3), had 13 points and 11 rebounds. Sean Pedulla scored 13, Jaylen Murray had 12 and Malik Dia added 11 to lead the Rebels (11-2), who had won their last five games. Memphis scored the first five points of the second half to increase its lead to 43-36. Pedulla made a layup for Ole Miss' first points, but Nicholas Jourdain made consecutive field goals to push the lead to nine. Mikeal Brown-Jones made two free throws for the Rebels before Haggerty made a 3-pointer and Cisse added a tip-in for a 52-40 lead. Pedulla made a jumper before Brown-Jones was ejected for committing a Flagrant 2 foul. Haggerty made both of the technical free throws and Rogers added two 3-pointers to push the lead to 16. Ole Miss got within 11 points four times, but couldn't get any closer until Matthew Murrell's dunk trimmed the lead to 76-67 with five minutes remaining. Rogers answered with a 3-pointer and Dainja added two field goals to increase the lead to 16. Murray made a free throw, but the Rebels didn't make a field goal during the final 5:32. The Tigers scored the first four points of the game and Haggerty had four as they opened a 9-2 lead. The Rebels made consecutive field goals before Memphis scored eight straight points for a 17-6 lead. Eduardo Klafke made a 3-pointer to end the run, but Rogers' 3-pointer helped the Tigers increase the lead to 27-14. Ole Miss scored the next seven points before Cisse's basket ended the run. The Rebels closed within four points four times Brown-Jones made two free throws to trim the lead to 38-36 at halftime. --Field Level MediaYoungest cancer patient treated with Nanoknife is cancer-free

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Sinn Féin councillor Caroline Dwane Stanley has resigned from the party ‘due to it not being a safe place’, she believes. The wife of former party TD Brian who is now an Independent deputy issued a statement tonight on her official Facebook page. The Laois councillor said she resigned from Sinn Féin with immediate effect. She continued: ‘In my 27 years of membership, I worked diligently to advance the objectives of the party. I met and worked with some great republicans on that journey and will always cherish those memories. ‘I have given this careful consideration and reflection over the recent past and decided to resign my membership of Sinn Féin.’ Ms Dwane Stanley added that given how the party leadership dealt with the ‘controversy that arose in July and related matters since then including outright attacks on both me personally and my family by some local party members, I have come to the conclusion that Laois Sinn Féin is not a safe place to be. ‘I had hoped that the party at leadership level would have made the effort to engage with me directly and give some support and assistance to me to try and deal with these matters. However, no contact has been made by the leadership with me over the past 5 months.’ Now an Independent councillor she noted that while the party has always prided itself on the values of equality and in particular supports for women in politics, ‘in my case this has proven to be a fallacy.’ ‘With this in mind I have decided that the time is right for me to draw a line on 2024 and resign, look to the future and embrace what I hope will be a better political future in the time ahead. ‘I will continue in my role as an independent republican councillor providing vigorous and effective representation for the Portlaoise/Abbeyleix Municipal District,’ she concluded.

AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor will make its grand appearance at CES 2025, but new leaks tease the 16-core, 32-thread X3D beast on CPU-Z, check it out: The upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor will have the same clock speeds as their non-X3D counterparts, but with some additional stacks of L3 cache through AMD's in-house 3D V-Cache technology. The flagship AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor will feature 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 power, with CPU clocks of up to 5.65GHz (5650MHz) in its engineering sample (ES) form. AMD's new powerhouse Ryzen 9 9950X3D will also retain the same 170W TDP rating that the Ryzen 9 9950X has, but with much more case: 96MB + 32MB for a total of 128MB of L3 cache. This is an additional 64MB of L3 cache for the 9950X3D over the 9950X, so it'll be interesting to see the adoption of this new processor (gamers will want to buy the 9800X3D). AMD will have two Core Complex Dies (CCDs) with each of the CCDs housing 8 cores of Zen 5 + 32MB of dedicated L3 cache (two CCDs = 2 x 32MB L3 cache = 64MB additional L3 cache in total). Meanwhile, one of them will feature an additional 64MB of L3 cache chiplet underneath the CCD to provide 128MB L3 cache, and 144MB of cache coupled with the L2 cache. Unlike previous generations of X3D processors, placing the L3 cache chiplet underneath the CCD allows the cores to be in direct contact with the IHS for improved cooling, which in turrn, allows the CPU to retain the core clocks while unlocking the path for overclocking the Ryzen 9 9950X3D... not long to wait now, with the reveal at CES 2025 early next year.Article content Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says the two ridings covering the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo region have some of the party’s lowest membership numbers. In an end of the year interview, Nenshi conceded this shows the NDP has a weak local presence. People can expect to see Nenshi at plenty of town halls, fairs, rodeos and other community events across rural Alberta. Nenshi said he regrets the Lethbridge West byelection kept much of his attention on southern Alberta. The new year will include visits north, including the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo region. “It’s fair to say the NDP has not always shown up everywhere in communities of every size,” he said. “We probably increased our membership by five to 10 times in Fort McMurray, but it was a very small number to start.” In Fort McMurray’s two provincial ridings, the NDP peaked in 2015 when both candidates won just more than 30 per cent. The party ran aggressive byelection campaigns in 2018 and 2022 . But the NDP barely ran any local campaign in the 2023 election . The NDP finished second with 24.5 per cent in Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche and 19.7 per cent in Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, while the UCP won 73.57 per cent and 67.7 per cent respectively. With the exception of some orange islands in Lethbridge West–which the party recently retained in a byelection earlier this month–and Banff-Kananaskis–which the NDP narrowly won from the UCP in the last provincial election–rural Alberta remains a deep shade of UCP blue. “We have a lot to say to people outside Calgary and Edmonton,” said Nenshi. Nenshi says the same concerns have been repeated to him during trips across Alberta: life is too expensive, more local health care workers and resources are needed, the schools need more funding, and more work needs to be done with improving safety and fighting crime. He accused the UCP of being in no rush to fix these problems. “The UCP takes rural Alberta voters for granted. They assume they are always going to vote for them and since they’re always going to vote for them, there’s no need to actually do anything for them,” said Nenshi. “People are really starting to see there are alternatives, that it is possible to do better than to elect a backbench UCP MLA who sits there like a trained seal collecting their salary, and actually elect someone who can make real positive change to make the community better.” Nenshi has visited the region in the past, and says he had positive relationships with former mayors Melissa Blake and Don Scott. Many students he taught at Mount Royal University’s business school also came to work in the oilsands. It was also as Calgary’s mayor where he met leaders in Canada’s oil and gas industry. He praised former premier Rachel Notley for lobbying for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which Nenshi called “the single most consequential thing that any premier has done for the Alberta economy in some time.” “You don’t get to be mayor of Calgary without really, really knowing the oil and gas industry in the oilsands very, very well,” he said. Nenshi also dismissed comments made by the UCP that he is a supporter of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and insisted the Alberta NDP has plenty of independence from their federal counterpart. Since he was elected leader of the party last June, Nenshi says he has spoken with Trudeau and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre more than NDP Leader Jaghmeet Singh. He also points to his experience as Calgary’s mayor in getting funding for different programs from prime ministers Trudeau and Stephen Harper, as well as six premiers from three different political parties. “This is going to be a big challenge for Danielle Smith. She makes so much of her entire image on fighting with Justin Trudeau. It’s almost certain that Justin Trudeau will not be the prime minister in a few months and Premier Smith has nothing else in her quiver,” he said. “When she has a Conservative prime minister, guess what? Alberta’s not automatically getting everything we need. We still need a government that can negotiate deals for Alberta. With that prime minister, she’s shown no ability to negotiate deals.” A priority for Nenshi will be winning a seat in the Alberta legislature. Nenshi has said he wants to represent a seat in Calgary or Edmonton, which is why he did not run in the recent Lethbridge West byelection. Notley has resigned her Edmonton-Strathcona seat, which will be vacant on Dec. 30. “To me, there really is a certain nice thing about a guy who’s known as being from Calgary getting to know Edmonton a lot better. Ultimately, that is a decision for the members of the party in that riding,” he said. “I’ll have a conversation with them about whether they’d like to have me as a candidate there and I’m sure that we’ll have a lot more to say about that very early in the new year.” Get the news and events of Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo in your inbox every Friday morning by signing up for our newsletter . vmcdermott@postmedia.comNEW YORK — “Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make “Glicked” — or even “Babyratu” — happen. The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office. And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, “Saw Patrol” ). This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation “Wicked” opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic “Gladiator II.” Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: “Wickiator,” “Wadiator,” “Gladwick” and even the eyebrow raising “Gladicked” have all been suggested. “'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more,” actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of “Gladiator II” this week. “I think we should all band around ‘Glicked.’ It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it.” As with “Barbenheimer," as reductive as it might seem, “Glicked” also has the male/female divide that make the fan art extra silly. One is pink and bright and awash in sparkles, tulle, Broadway bangers and brand tie-ins; The other is all sweat and sand, blood and bulging muscles. Both films topped Fandango’s most anticipated holiday movie survey, where 65% of respondents said that they were interested in the “Glicked” double feature. Theaters big and small are also pulling out the stops with movie-themed tie-ins. B&B Theaters will have Roman guards tearing tickets at some locations and Maximus popcorn tubs. Marcus Theaters is doing Oz photo ops and friendship bracelet-making. Alamo Drafthouse is leaning into the singalong aspect (beware, though, not all theaters are embracing this) and the punny drinks like “Defying Gravi-Tea.” “Rather than it being in competition, I think they’re in conversation,” “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal said. “This industry needs a shot in the arm. Those films gave it last year. We hope to do it this year.” And the hope is that audiences will flock to theaters to be part of this moment as well. It's a sorely needed influx of could-be blockbusters into a marketplace that's still at an 11% deficit from last year and down 27.2% from 2019, according to data from Comscore. “Competition is good for the marketplace. It’s good for consumers,” said Michael O'Leary, the president and CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners. “Having two great movies coming out at the same time is simply a multiplier effect.” “Glicked” is currently tracking for a combined North American debut in the $165 million range, with “Wicked” forecast to earn around $100 million (up from the $80 million estimates a few weeks ago) and “Gladiator II” pegged for the $65 million range. “Barbenheimer” shattered its projections last July. Going into that weekend, “Barbie” had been pegged for $90 million and “Oppenheimer” around $40 million. Ultimately, they brought in a combined $244 million in that first outing, and nearly $2.4 billion by the end of their runs. It’s possible “Glicked” will exceed expectations, too. And it has the advantage of another behemoth coming close behind: “Moana 2,” which opens just five days later on the Wednesday before the Thanksgiving holiday. “Glickedana” triple feature anyone? “These are 10 important days,” O'Leary said. “It’s going to show the moviegoing audience that there’s a lot of compelling stuff out there for them to see.” There are infinite caveats to the imperfect comparison to “Barbenheimer,” as well. “Wicked” is a “Part One.” Musicals carry their own baggage with moviegoers, even those based on wildly successful productions (ahem, “Cats”). “Gladiator II” got a head start and opened internationally last weekend. In fact, in the U.K. it played alongside “Paddington in Peru,” where that double was pegged “Gladdington.” “Gladiator” reviews, while positive, are a little more divided than the others. And neither directors Ridley Scott nor Jon M. Chu has the built-in box office cache that Christopher Nolan’s name alone carries at the moment. The new films also cost more than “Barbie” ($145 million) and “Oppenheimer” ($100 million). According to reports, “Gladiator II” had a $250 million price tag; “Wicked” reportedly cost $150 million to produce (and that does not include the cost of the second film, due next year). The narrative, though, has shifted away from “who will win the weekend.” Earlier this year, Chu told The Associated Press that he loves that this is a moment where “we can root for all movies all the time.” Close behind are a bevy of Christmas releases with double feature potential, but those feel a little more niche. There’s the remake of “Nosferatu,” the Nicole Kidman kink pic “Babygirl” and the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.” The internet can’t even seem to decide on its angle for that batch of contenders, and none exactly screams blockbuster. Sometimes the joy is just in the game, however. Some are sticking with the one-name mashup (“Babyratu”); others are suggesting that the fact that two of the movies feature real-life exes (Timothée Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp) is enough reason for a double feature. And getting people talking is half the battle. When in doubt, or lacking a catchy name, there’s always the default: “This is my Barbenheimer.” ___ Associated Press journalist John Carucci and Film Writer Jake Coyle contributed reporting.

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