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Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. WASHINGTON — Umbra Space secured a contract extension with the National Reconnaissance Office, the company announced Dec. 4. The California-based startup, which specializes in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, has been working with the agency since 2022 under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements initiative. The extension offers the company continued opportunities to demonstrate its technology and refine its offerings to meet government needs, said Joe Morrison, Umbra’s vice president of remote sensing. The financial terms of the contract were not disclosed. Unlike traditional optical imaging satellites, SAR can penetrate clouds and capture high-resolution images in all weather conditions, day or night. This makes the technology valuable for applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, maritime surveillance and intelligence gathering. Umbra currently operates five spacecraft, with more in production. The company is positioning itself in the government and commercial markets, Morrison noted, developing satellites for its own constellation and for international government clients. Umbra is one of several SAR imaging companies the NRO selected in 2022 for study contracts. Companies’ performance under these cooperative agreements positions them to compete in an upcoming “ Commercial Radar Layer ” program, a multi-year initiative modeled after the agency’s Electro Optical Commercial Layer program, which awarded contracts to three firms in 2022. The NRO, a U.S. intelligence agency responsible for designing, building and operating reconnaissance satellites, has a Commercial Systems Program Office that plays a pivotal role in integrating technology from private industry into national security operations. “The beautiful thing about the NRO is that they’re incredibly meritocratic,” Morrison said. “They don’t reward bluster or marketing. They reward performance.” Morrison credited the NRO’s expertise with helping commercial firms navigate the complex demands of government markets. “If you can go in humbly and ask, ‘What do you need?’ they will tell you exactly what they need to see.” Under the NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements initiative, Umbra is also working with the agency to provide radio frequency (RF) data collected by its SAR satellites that can be used to locate and track electronic emissions.

Prenetics Announces Participation in December Investor ConferencesOn Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he called “an altogether new, unwanted, and potentially empty life.” By 1982, he had such a low profile that Time magazine called him “virtually a non-person, a president who never was.” But Carter would rewrite his legacy by turning to his implacable faith. It was, to him, an enduring source of comfort and inspiration, continuously helping guide him even through the most stunning setbacks — from losing elections to marital woes, an interminable hostage crisis in Iran and health crises in later life. His hometown of Plains wasn’t just Carter’s childhood home — it was his spiritual center. Upon his return after his presidential defeat, Carter, a third-generation Baptist, maintained his lifetime habit — teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church. He made a cross that stood for years above the altar in his wood shop. As an active member, he took his turn cutting the church’s grass. And he applied his love-your-neighbor ethic to his work at the Carter Center. “He is not some pie-in-the-sky Christian. He is a down-to-earth Christian who sees the everyday challenges and applies his faith to practical problems,” said civil rights hero the Rev. Joseph Lowery in an October 2010 interview. “There is no question his commitment to peace is based on faith. His commitment to help the poor, his commitment to housing, you can attribute that to his faith. It was Christ’s challenge to serve the poor and he’s done that. I admire him for that.” In his 1996 book “Living Faith,” Carter wrote openly about problems in his marriage. Getting involved in the church in Plains helped him and his wife work though communication woes. “We found we could communicate through discussions of our religious faith better than we could without it,” he said. When they had problems in their marriage, they would kneel together, pray to God and both would tell their sides of the story. It was as if they used God as the ultimate marriage counselor, according to E. Stanly Godbold, a Carter historian and author of the book, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924 to 1974.” Faith played a role in 1978 when Carter held peace meetings between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Carter believed the common thread of religion helped bring the two sides together. “At Camp David, for instance, this is one of the main themes of Anwar Sadat, we had so much in common worshipping the same God that we could form a common foundation for peace,” Carter told the AJC in a 1996 interview. READ AN EXCERPT OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER’S BOOK, “ FAITH: A JOURNEY FOR ALL,” WHICH WAS PRINTED IN THE AJC IN 2018. Break with Southern Baptists When Carter was running for president, he was an appealing candidate to Southern Baptists and other evangelicals — a small town guy in the Bible belt, still married to the same woman and the first U.S. presidential candidate who self-identified as a born-again Christian. That terminology was new for swaths of America and resulted in news articles across the nation examining and explaining, often poorly, conservative Christian beliefs. It was also an early sign of the development of the political-religious organizations such as the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority that followed. The evangelical Christian vote helped elect Carter. But in just four years, the most famous face of the Baptist religion was at odds with the increasingly conservative-leaning Southern Baptist Convention. The nation’s largest Protestant denomination also was undergoing its own cultural changes. Through the 1980s, theologically and politically conservative leaders rallied voting members of the convention to sweep out moderates from leadership roles in churches, seminaries and colleges over their theological “liberalism.” Carter’s views on hot-button issues such as supporting women as leaders in the church made him increasingly unpopular among many Southern Baptists and other evangelicals. He later showed support for civil unions, and by 2018 for marriage of same sex couples. But in 1979, many of the conservatives who voted for him the first time deserted him for Ronald Reagan. In 2000, Carter severed ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, saying parts of its “increasingly rigid” doctrines violated the “basic premises of my Christian faith.” Carter went on to play a role in helping start an alternate association for progressive evangelical Black and white churches whose memberships and leaders were more moderate in their thinking and actions, such as installing women into pulpits and key church roles, and focusing on goals such as fighting poverty, and advocating for the environment and social causes. Carter used his weight to get the New Baptist Covenant and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship off the ground. In 2008, he helped bring together 20,000 Baptists representing more than 20 million church members for an Atlanta event designed to bury differences and work together. The tension was deep. The Southern Baptist Convention’s news service, Baptist Press, did not carry a news article about Carter winning the Nobel Peace Prize. “Carter didn’t change,” said Nancy T. Ammerman, a sociologist of religion at Boston University and author of “Baptist Battles.” “The definition of what it meant to be Southern and Baptist changed.” “One of the characteristics of being Baptist is this that you have to make decisions about how your life is going to go,” said Ammerman. “No priest can do it for you. There’s this deep-seated notion of individual freedom and individual accountability, and [that] gave him this fierce ability to be independent that has shaped his personality and career and has given him a strong commitment to democracy, various human rights issues and religious liberty.” An abiding faith Carter’s faith can be traced back to his childhood, a time when Sunday was devoted to church and biblical teachings. In his hometown of Plains, no stores were open on Sunday. Going to a movie theater or even playing cards on Sunday was out of the question. That devotion never faded. Well into his 90s, he was behind the pulpit teaching multiple Sundays every year to classes filled with people from around the nation and world who would drop in to hear the former president. One Sunday, Carter counted 28 nations represented in the pews. He would talk about God and loving your enemies, and then sprinkle stories of traveling around the globe, building houses and eradicating disease. He and Rosalynn would pose for pictures with visitors at the little church, a quintessential Jimmy Carter experience. Even as he contemplated his demise, he looked to his faith for guidance. In “Living Faith,” he wrote: “We can face death with fear, anguish, self-torment and unnecessary distress among those around us. Or, through faith and the promises of God, we can confront the inevitable with courage, equanimity, good humor and peace. Our last few days or months can be spent in a challenging and exhilarating way, seeking to repair relationships and to leave a good or even noble legacy, in an atmosphere of harmony and love.”

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Snapdeal’s loss narrows to Rs 160 crore in FY24Yoon Suk Yeols Presidency JeopardyBig houses and grand spaces leave lots of potential for some strange games. Melanie Cable-Alexander investigates. Driving a Land Rover blindfolded might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but, according to the Duchess of Fife, it can be a hoot. The idea, she explains, is to place two pairs of people in two vehicles and to encourage them to navigate a series of cones set in separate lanes, with one person in each couple at the steering wheel wearing a pair of blacked-out swimming goggles and the other issuing directions. ‘It’s hilarious when a husband-and-wife team is involved,’ she adds. The Duchess and her husband are nothing if not adventurous when it comes to entertainment at their home, Kinnaird Castle in Angus — particularly at Christmas, when the weather is inclement and the castle, by virtue of its sheer size, comes into its own, with games (albeit not the aforementioned Land Rover driving) being transferred from outside to indoors. You can tell that the corridors at Kinnaird are one big playground from the moment you walk into the main entrance hall, which has an air-hockey table right in the middle of it. Tractors, scooters and rollerblades (‘easier on stone than grass’) are given free rein in the long stone downstairs corridors and the top-floor corridor is devoted to crazy golf and bowls (‘the carpet is green, so it made sense’). The old kitchen is the trampoline room and the former staff dining room is for yoga. Best of all is the dedicated (and unheated) games room, created from a two-storey library and a second drawing room that was never rebuilt after a fire 100 years ago. The space houses, among other things, a ‘near enough life-size’ badminton court and a full-length cricket pitch with a strong net ‘to prevent broken windows’. It’s a room that Ben Cowell, director-general of Historic Houses, recalls vividly from his visit to the castle a few years ago. ‘It was cavernous, with the full height of the room reaching up to the rafters as the ceiling had not been replaced,’ he remembers. ‘The Duke explained that they were quite happy for the space to remain as it was because the family played games there.’ It may seem surprising for such grand spaces to be set aside for light-hearted recreation, but it is not unusual, as art historian Kate Retford, professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London, points out in her essay A family home and not... a museum: living with the country-house art collection . ‘Scholarly interest has generally focused on the country-house art collection as a site of display,’ she writes. ‘We less often think of them as elements of a backdrop to the inhabitants reading, sewing, playing music, conversing’ — and, of course, playing games. Prof Retford refers to a painting by Elizabeth Chute of the lower gallery at the National Trust’s The Vyne in Hampshire, dating from 1877. The gallery in question had been converted into a place in which the then owner’s many children could play. Prof Retford writes that in the picture, ‘marble statues, busts and paintings jostle with a rocking horse, a horse on wheels, a net strung up for battledore (or shuttlecock), a train track with a couple of carriages falling off the end and a large variety of tools’. It all sounds not dissimilar to sights met at Kinnaird, suggesting that these big country houses make natural playgrounds, especially their corridors. This point was made by another Duchess, the late Deborah (‘Debo’) Cavendish, who described children roller-skating along the corridors of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, in her book about the house, adding that ‘on a wet day you can walk for hours, be entertained and keep dry’ (she did also say that, less conveniently, ‘a bag put down can be lost for months’ and ‘it is a terrible place to train a puppy’). Etymologically, the word corridor derives in part from the Latin currere , meaning to run, which is a trifle irritating for children when that’s what they are mostly told not to do in them. One of the first times the word appeared in the English language was when the 1st Duchess of Marlborough questioned Sir John Vanbrugh’s design for her new home Blenheim Palace and his unusual distribution of rooms in 1716. The architect explained: ‘The word Corridoor, Madam, is foreign, and signifies in plain English, no more than a passage.’ Later on, the Duchess’s descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, used these same Vanbrugh-designed corridors and rooms to invent a game called The English and the French, which, according to Antonia Kearney, Blenheim’s social historian, ‘resembled a rugby scrum and had only two rules: one, that Churchill was always the General and two, there was no promotion. No prizes for guessing why!’ Churchill’s game is a classic example of H. G. Wells’s belief that country-house corridors could give ‘the men of tomorrow [...] new strength’ and ‘build up a framework of spacious and inspiring ideas in them’, as well as ‘keeping children happy for days’. So inspired was he by life at Easton Glebe, Essex, where he was staying as a tenant of the Countess of Warwick, that he wrote Floor Games , in which he penned these words, in 1911. Two years later, he followed it with Little Wars , which set rules for playing with toy soldiers. Cartoonist Oliver Preston recalls playing real-life soldiers as a child with swords grabbed from the walls at his friend’s house, Arbury Hall in Warwickshire (‘fortunately, they were blunt’) and participating in a version of corridor football at Eton in Berkshire. ‘My house had three floors of narrow, wiggly corridors with fire doors breaking up the passageways. These made excellent goals.’ It was another school, Charterhouse, then in London, that played a version of football in its corridors, which later led to the creation of the offside rule. Mr Preston also remembers a cartoon in Polo magazine of a child riding the family great Dane down a long corridor, swinging a mallet. Country Life’s own Annie Tempest has illustrated an equally unexpected sight — that of a butler riding a Sinclair C5 (Sir Clive Sinclair’s doomed recumbent electric vehicle) along an endless corridor. It was inspired by C5s being ‘a bit of a joke at the time’ and her life at Broughton Hall, her family home in North Yorkshire, now a smart wellness sanctuary run by her brother Roger. The cartoon may have been semi-fictional, but it is not unknown for motorised vehicles to whizz down country-house corridors, as the Duke of Richmond reveals. ‘My grandfather always said he rode his motorcycle in Gordon Castle quite a lot,’ he reminisces. The Duke’s own family home, Goodwood House in West Sussex, doesn’t have many corridors as the rooms open onto each other — although he did once hold Goodwood’s legendary annual cricket match indoors in the ballroom ‘because the weather was so awful, which probably wasn’t the best idea’. At Christmas, everyone plays a version of hide-and-seek across the ground floor in a game devised by the Duke’s grandmother. Spooky games are often a feature of country-house corridors, particularly as the nights draw in. The Countess of Carnarvon makes much of ghostly corridor creepings in her blog about Highclere Castle, Hampshire, and Viscount Hereford says that his father, the 18th Viscount, ‘always encouraged his house guests to embark on a ghost hunt after dinner’ down the corridors of Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire. Growing up at the castle perhaps allowed him to have ‘fond’ rather than petrifying childhood memories of visiting the Drummond family at Megginch Castle in Perthshire, where his friend’s father Humphrey Drummond ‘would encourage us to head down through a secret door to a winding staircase to the dungeon, where a skeleton attached to fishing nylons and chains would leap to life, terrifying us’. Fishing lines were used for a different purpose by Miss Tempest’s father, who wanted to put a stop to corridor creeping of another kind. ‘To prevent us misbehaving when we were in our teens, Dad would put fishing-line trip-wires by the boys’ bedrooms,’ she recalls. Had that happened to the zoologist Desmond Morris, he would have been far less amused, for it was during a spot of corridor creeping when playing sardines at a country-house party in 1949 that he met his future wife. He declared the episode as proof of love at first sight — but the story may have been very different had the pair been sitting next to each other in a Land Rover on the Duchess of Fife’s instructions. Melanie Cable-Alexander is a journalist and editorContinuing their selling spree into November, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have sold Indian equities worth ₹26,533 crore so far this month. This takes the total sell-off by FPIs in 2024 to ₹19,940 crore. In October alone, FPIs sold shares worth a staggering ₹94,017 crore. This came after a September purchase where they bought domestic equities worth ₹57,724 crore. FPI investment pattern in Indian equities The investment pattern of FPIs in Indian equities has been highly volatile this year. In August, they purchased shares worth ₹7,322 crore, down from July's total buying figure of ₹32,359 crore. June witnessed them as net buyers at ₹26,565 crore after being net sellers in April and May, when they sold equities worth ₹8,671 crore and ₹25,586 crore respectively. FIIs and DIIs: A comparative analysis On Friday, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) were net sellers at ₹1,278.37 crore, while Domestic Institutional Investors (DIIs) were net buyers at ₹1,722.15 crore. This stark contrast in the behavior of foreign and domestic investors in the Indian equity market is worth noting. V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Financial Services, has given insights into the current FPI trends. Factors influencing FIIs' ongoing selling spree Vijayakumar credits the continuous selling by FIIs to three key factors: the 'Sell India, Buy China' trade, worries over FY25 earnings, and the 'Trump trade.' He thinks that out of the three, the 'Sell India, Buy China' trade has ended. The Trump trade also seems to be coming to an end as valuations have hit high levels in the US . FII selling in India likely to taper off Vijayakumar predicts the FII selling in India is likely to taper off soon, as the valuations of large-cap stocks are coming down from their previously elevated levels. He also said that FIIs have been buying IT shares, which has been imparting resilience to these stocks. Banking shares have remained resilient despite FII selling mainly due to DII buying.

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Blues supporters also sang the name of head coach Maresca during the closing stages of an emphatic success sealed by goals from Axel Disasi, Christopher Nkunku, Noni Madueke, Cole Palmer and substitute Jadon Sancho. Bottom club Southampton briefly levelled through Joe Aribo but were a man down from the 39th minute after captain Jack Stephens was sent off for pulling the hair of Marc Cucurella. Chelsea, who have endured an underwhelming period since Todd Boehly’s consortium bought the club in 2022, climbed above Arsenal and into second place on goal difference, seven points behind leaders Liverpool. “It was a very good feeling, especially because you can see that they are happy, that is our target,” Maresca said of the atmosphere in the away end. “We work every day to keep them happy and tonight was a very good feeling, especially the one that they can see that Chelsea’s back. This is an important thing.” Maresca rotated his squad in Hampshire, making seven changes following Sunday’s impressive 3-0 win over Aston Villa. Following a sloppy start, his side, who stretched their unbeaten run to six top-flight games, could easily have won by more as they hit the woodwork three times, in addition to squandering a host of chances. “I’m very happy with the five we scored,” said the Italian. “I’m not happy with the first 15, 20 minutes, where we struggled. The reason why we struggled is because we prepared the game to press them man to man and the first 15, 20 minutes we were not pressing them man to man. “After 15, 20 minutes we adjust that and the game was much better. For sure we could score more but five goals they are enough.” Southampton manager Russell Martin rued a costly “moment of madness” from skipper Stephens. The defender’s ridiculous red card was the headline mistake of a catalogue of errors from the beleaguered south-coast club as they slipped seven points from safety following an 11th defeat of a dismal season. “I don’t think anyone will be as disappointed as Jack,” Martin said of Stephens, who was sent off for the second time this term after tugging the curls of Cucurella as Saints prepared to take a corner. “I haven’t got to sit down and talk with him about that at all. He will be hurt more than anyone and it’s changed the game for us tonight, which is disappointing. “I think they have to describe it as violent conduct; it’s not violent really but there’s no other explanation for that really. It’s a moment of madness that’s really cost us and Jack.” Southampton repeatedly invited pressure with their risky attempts to play out from defence, with goalkeeper Joe Lumley gifting Chelsea their second goal, scored by Nkunku. While Saints were booed off at full-time, Martin, who was missing a host of key players due to injuries and suspensions, praised the effort of his depleted team. “When they see such a big scoreline and a couple of the goals we concede, I understand it (the jeers),” he said. “It’s football, it’s emotive, people feel so much about it, it’s why it’s such a special sport in this country and so big. “I understand it but I feel really proud of the players tonight, some of the football we played at 11 v 11 was amazing. “For an hour with 10 men we’ve dug in so deep, there were some big performances. I’m proud of them for that and I’m grateful for that because that’s not easy in that circumstance.”None

If given the choice, most dogs would prefer to stay with their grandparents over their owners because of the endless treats. But because they don't have a choice, one dog showed his true feelings in a recent TikTok. Calvin the cavapoo—a mix between a Cavalier King Charles spaniel and a toy poodle —spent the weekend with his grandparents. It only took a few days for Calvin to taste the sweet life: treats, extra food, endless snuggles. He learned that he could do no wrong at his grandparents' house. Realizing his worth, he wanted to make a change when he returned to his home. In the November 13 TikTok video posted under the account @cavapoo.named.cal, Calvin sat with his parents in the living room. A seriousness overcame his demeanor as he readied to address his unfair treatment. His eyes peered into their souls. He had been unimpressed with the spoiledness level his parents had been giving him compared to his grandparents. The text on the video read Calvin's "expectations are higher now." And to show them he meant business, he stomped on the ground. They needed to step up their game or else he would go live with his grandparents. Cal's hilarious reaction amassed 860,700 views, 55,300 likes and 316 comments as of Friday. TikTok users immediately stood up for the injustice Calvin had been receiving with his owners. Newsweek reached out to @cavapoo.named.ca via email for additional comment. "The little stomp to indicate he was finally 'putting his foot down!'" commented a viewer. Another added: "Calvin ain't having it!!! He said level up!" Other owners know firsthand how dogs come home unimpressed after being with their grandparents: "Omg same I pick up my doodle and he's like, 'Wait I got to do whatever I wanted all night with grandma.'" Someone else pointed out: "And they come back a lil chunkier bc the grandparents think you're starving them." The owner responded: "Exactly! My mom said, 'You sure you are feeding him correctly?' Like ma'am he's fine." However, one cannot necessarily blame grandparents for always spoiling their human or furry grandchildren. An article from Scientific Origin reported that the bond between grandparents and grandchildren is rooted in emotional fulfillment, psychological rewards and social dynamics. The connection allows them to have unconditional love without the direct stress of parenting. Grandparents might also see their grandbabies as a "reward for successfully raising children." They feel accomplished seeing their children grow into adults and start their own families. Plus, grandparents typically have more time on their hands versus when they were raising their children. This gives them an opportunity to make up for lost time they might've felt they lost with their own children. Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? Send them to life@newsweek.com with some details about your best friend and they could appear in our Pet of the Week lineup.

Liverpool boss Arne Slot will run the rule over his three South American stars ahead of a pivotal week in his team’s season. Alexis Mac Allister, Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez have undergone gruelling flights back home to represent Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay respectively during the International break. And Slot admits he will be taking no chances with his selection with games against Real Madrid and Manchester City following the trip to Southampton. Diaz played 180 minutes for Colombia as they lost back-to-back World Cup qualifiers against Nunez’s Uruguay and Ecuador. Nunez featured for 90 minutes in that tie after being substituted at half-time in the 1-1 draw with Brazil. Mac Allister featured for 89 minutes of Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Peru after being substituted after 64 minutes when the world champions lost to Paraguay. Slot said: "I will particularly keep an eye on the players that have come back from South America - and that is not only Macca. It’s also Darwin and Lucho. "You have to keep an eye on them, especially the ones who played twice for 90 minutes. You see how they are doing, how fit they are, you talk to them a bit more about how they feel - more than I do with the ones who played in Europe." Slot has been able to welcome back Harvey Elliott, who is back in training ahead of the trip to Southampton following two months out with a foot injury. "Harvey is training with us again so that’s the positive thing, he has been out for many weeks but he is on the training ground again with the team. So, that’s a positive thing for him,” said the head coach on Friday. “But that is different than being on the top of your game immediately again. So we have to give him time for this as well, but I am very fortunate that he is back, especially with the amount of games coming up in the upcoming two, three or four months." Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold , Federico Chiesa and Diogo Jota are out of the Southampton clash, though captain Virgil van Dijk is available for selection despite missing the Netherlands' Nations League game against Bosnia and Hezegovina on Tuesday. Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. Sky has slashed the price of its Sky Sports, Sky Stream, Sky TV and Netflix bundle in an unbeatable new deal that saves £240 and includes 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more.Madhushree Ghosh launched a supper club to help build community by sharing food — and ideas.Memorable quotes by former President Jimmy Carter

Jarvis Moss, Jonas Sirtautas lead Radford past Bucknell 74-70 in OTMANCHESTER, England : Although Kevin De Bruyne's return to Manchester City's starting lineup was key to a 3-0 Premier League victory over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday that ended their winless run, manager Pep Guardiola warned that he needs to look after his midfielder. The oft-injured Belgian was brilliant in scoring one goal, helping set up another, and taking or creating most of City's shots in his first start in more than two months, guiding City to their first victory since late October. "We'll see how he recovers after a long time injured," Guardiola told reporters. "The reality is he played few games last season and this season." The gruelling December schedule compounds the concern, with City heading to Crystal Palace on Saturday. "Three days, three days - we'll see how does (De Bruyne) feel through this," Guardiola said. City's win lifted the champions to fourth in the league table, still nine points adrift of leaders Liverpool. It also ended the worst string of results in Guardiola's glittering managerial career - seven consecutive games without a win, including six defeats. "We needed it," said Guardiola. "The club and the players, everyone needed to win. After what happened in the past we were not relaxed until the referee's whistle at the end." The victory might have come at a cost, however, as defender Nathan Ake was forced off late in the game holding his hamstring, an injury that saw him sidelined for five weeks earlier this season. "Nathan doesn't look good. We will see tomorrow," Guardiola said. "He could not continue and we will see in three days what will happen. I am sad for Nathan." An injury also kept Manuel Akanji out for the second half, although the manager said his is not as serious. "We'd love to have Manu and Nathan and two defensive midfielders. They are fantastic human beings and fantastic players," Guardiola said. Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo said City were definitely more dangerous with De Bruyne on the pitch. "It's very difficult (to stop De Bruyne), very difficult because of the quality," he said, "And it's not only Kevin de Bruyne, their quality all over the pitch, in the wide areas, it's very difficult to individually control these kind of players. "No one ever doubts the quality of City players and their manager, so we know that we had a hard task ahead of us. But honestly, we went for it. We lose, okay, that can happen in football, but we challenged ourselves and that can reflect on the next games I hope."

Marquette vs. Iowa State LIVE STREAM (12/5/24): How to watch, time, TV channel for men’s college basketballStock market today: Tech stocks and AI pull Wall Street to more recordsEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — With Tommy DeVito still dealing with a sore forearm, Drew Lock will make his second straight start at quarterback for the Giants when New York plays host to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. Coach Brian Daboll announced the decision on Wednesday, saying Lock showed some good things against Dallas in a loss on Thanksgiving and he will get all the snaps with the first team. “I think the reps help a ton," Lock said Wednesday. ”I’d say anybody in this position would say the same thing. Getting back out there, letting them hear your cadence, letting them hear you calling it in the huddle, rhythm and timing with the receivers, even rhythm and timing for me with my feet on certain plays, whatever we’ve got up this week, it helps tremendously." Lock was 21 of 32 for 178 yards and an interception that was returned for a touchdown against Dallas. "He ran for a career-high 57 yards, scoring on an 8-yard run and setting up Tyrone Tracy’s short TD run with a 28-yard scramble. DeVito was hurt in his first start after replacing Daniel Jones for the game against Tampa Bay on Nov. 24. He missed the Dallas game and was limited at practice Wednesday. Daboll said it remains to be seen whether he can be the backup Sunday at MetLife Stadium, where the Giants (2-10) are winless in six home games. If he can't go, the recently signed Tim Boyle would be the backup against the Saints (4-8). The Giants have had three different starters at quarterback in the past three games. Story continues below video “It’s professional football,” said Lock, who started against Dallas without any practice because of the short turnaround before that game. “You expect roller coasters here and there. But, just excited to be able to go out and play one more time and get to practice with these guys, let them feel my energy a little bit.” Lock, who was signed as a free agent in the offseason, was Jones' backup for the first 10 games. When Daboll benched Jones after a 2-8 start, he jumped DeVito ahead of Lock because the New Jersey product sparked the team to a three-game winning streak with Jones and then backup Tyrod Taylor hurt last season. DeVito hurt his right foreman late in a 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers, and Lock got his chance. New York is dealing with several injuries this week. Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (elbow) and rookie tight end Theo Johnson (foot surgery) were placed on injured reserve on Monday. Defensive tackle Rakeem Nunez-Roches (neck/shoulder), left tackle Jermaine Eluemunor (quad), right tackle Evan Neal (hip), inside linebacker Bobby Okereke (back) and cornerback Deonte Banks (rib) are all considered week to week. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl

Zain Esports racks up another year of success, impressive growth in gamers, viewers and social media fansAUGUSTA, Maine — The 132nd Legislature met Wednesday in Augusta to swear in members and elect the Democratic-nominated constitutional officers, a largely ceremonial day that followed drama surrounding how Republicans selected their attorney general nominee. The swearing-in process ahead of legislative business beginning in January came a day after the final recount of a Nov. 5 election race concluded. Democrats, who have controlled the State House and governor’s office since 2018, saw their majorities narrow to a 76-73 advantage in the House, with two independents, and to a 20-15 edge in the Senate. The Legislature voted Wednesday for Attorney General Aaron Frey to continue in the role he has held since 2018, after Democrats nominated him by secret ballot Tuesday over challenger Maeghan Maloney, the district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties. Rep. Joe Perry, D-Bangor, will become the Maine state treasurer after beating House Majority Leader Mo Terry, D-Gorham. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap did not face Democratic challengers for the positions they have held since 2021. Each chamber has new Democratic leadership after House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, and Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, were termed out. Members elected former House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, to once again hold the gavel in the lower chamber and elected Assistant Senate Majority Leader Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick, to lead the upper chamber. House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham, R-Winter Harbor, and Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart, R-Presque Isle, will continue in their leadership roles. Republicans nominated former Maine Attorney General Bill Schneider, who served from 2011 to 2013, to compete for Frey’s position but did not have the numbers to elect him. The closed-door nomination process featured some drama after the Maine Republican Party initially said in a Nov. 26 news release that Bobby Charles, a Wayne native who served as assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs under former President George W. Bush, would be the party’s attorney general pick. But several Republican lawmakers said the party overstepped by publishing that news release last month. Maine Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment. Charles, who is mulling a run for governor in 2026, said during a Wednesday morning interview on WVOM he did not know what happened behind the scenes, adding it was “above my pay grade” and he had “a feeling it has to do with personalities or something.” “I was told people were shocked,” Charles said. “But you know what, it’s really not my call.” Faulkingham said Schneider, a Durham resident and Army veteran who previously was a state lawmaker, assistant U.S. attorney and district court judge, was “the better candidate here.” “They both have a good resume, but Bobby’s is in D.C. and Schneider’s is here in Maine,” Faulkingham said by text message Wednesday. Bellows beat the Republican nominee for secretary of state, Sawin Millett, a longtime lawmaker and former state commissioner from Waterford who earlier this year finished his final term in the Legislature that he was first elected to in 1968. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, noted 36 members are “brand new” to the Legislature while speaking to incoming legislators Tuesday evening during a banquet and reception at the Augusta Civic Center. The Legislature has members ranging in age from 25 to 79. Mills mentioned a range of issues the Legislature will likely tackle ahead of a statutory end date of June 18, 2025, such as housing , rising property taxes and health care . Mills reiterated she plans on proposing a state budget in the coming weeks “that is lean and that maintains, to the greatest extent possible, commitments the Legislature has already made.” “As you consider my budget proposal and other legislation before you,” Mills said, “I urge you to keep the long-term fiscal stability of our state as a high priority.” More articles from the BDN

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