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Man City are not thinking of title chase amid poor form, says Guardiola

admin — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 03:00:06 +0000

LONDON : Manchester City cannot think about winning a fifth consecutive Premier League title, Pep Guardiola said, with the team mired in a run of poor performances.
Guardiola’s side had to settle for a point in a 2-2 league draw with lowly Crystal Palace on Saturday, twice coming back from a goal down and losing Rico Lewis to a red card late in the game, to remain fourth in the standings.
“We take a point. We fought incredible and came back twice. It’s a season to suffer. We’ll see what happens in the last months,” Guardiola said. “We cannot talk about the title race when we lose four games in a row and draw. We’ll try to recover players. We’ll see in the last month.”
Lewis and Erling Haaland scored in the draw that had Guardiola speaking with pride about his players’ resilience with his side still missing a number of key players through injury and illness.
“We have many important players injured – many players with many minutes but the physicality is there – but we were there, and we did everything we could to win, and I am so pleased and proud of the players,” the Spaniard said.
Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake were the latest to join City’s list of absentees, both sidelined after injuries suffered in their 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Wednesday. Phil Foden sat out his second successive game with bronchitis.
The draw, however, felt like a loss in City’s chances of remaining in the title fight.
“With Man City it’s always two points lost,” City midfielder Bernardo Silva said. “One point is better than zero but we’re not happy at the moment. We know our situation with injuries. Coming to Crystal Palace is never easy but we have to do better.
“When I finish a game and I get a point I’m not happy. It’s not the way we built this team, it’s not our standard. We’re in December. We’d like to be in a different position. If we recover our players quickly we can always do it. But right now our concern is a different one.
“If we’re fourth or fifth we have to look at winning the next game. The last month and a half have not been good enough.”

First Alert Forecast: Cold front with scattered showers expected to move in tonight through Thursday

admin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:59:10 +0000

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Mostly dry and stable conditions will prevail through Wednesday, with a wetter trend possible Wednesday night through the second half of the week as a front approaches and moves into the area. Light south to southeast winds will gradually increase as the front nears Wednesday night into Thursday, especially over the western end of the state. The front will stall and begin to diminish over or around Oahu Thursday night into Friday. Breezy north-northeast winds will fill in behind it Thursday and Thursday night over the western end of the state, with a brief return of trades Friday. A second front passing north of the area over the weekend could lead to the trades weakening again.
High Surf Advisory remains posted for most north and west shores. The current NW swell is dropping, another big NW swell is due tomorrow. The current S swell is dropping, another good sized S swell is due over the weekend.
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We’re Economists. Here’s What We Really Think Of Trump’s Plan To ‘Lower’ Grocery Prices.

admin — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:01:12 +0000

One of Donald Trump’s key campaign promises was to combat perhaps the most painful aspect of inflation: rising grocery costs. Many pundits have cited “egg-flation” as one of the reasons Trump won. But what is the former president-turned-adjudicated felon-turned-president (again)-elect’s actual plan to lower food prices for average Americans?
In the words of the formidable Lucille Bluth from “Arrested Development,” “It’s one banana, Michael, what could it cost? $10?”
And now the answer is … maybe?
We spoke with expert economists about Trump’s “concepts of a plan” while also looking back on what the incoming president has promised so far.
At a September rally in Flint, Michigan, Trump told supporters in his usual hyperbolic style, “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented.” He went on to repeatedly promise tariffs on foreign imports at many of his recent campaign rallies.
The president-elect believes that tariffs, which are essentially import taxes, will cause a boom for American factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit and lower food prices.
These proposed tariffs, according to the economists we spoke with, will indeed have a substantial effect on food prices — but not in the positive way the president-elect hopes.
Trump’s tariff plans have been largely focused on China but could extend to other countries as well, including some of America’s primary suppliers of fruits and vegetables. Trump openly proposed at least a 10% tariff on all imported goods, a 60% import tax on goods from China and a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico.
For example, at a rally in North Carolina, Trump threatened a 25% tariff on Mexico if Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president, fails to stop what he called the “onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country.” In 2021, Mexico supplied almost two-thirds of U.S. vegetable imports and about half of U.S. fruit and tree nut imports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Dietrich Vollrath, professor and chair of economics at the University of Houston, told HuffPost that if the tariff on foreign products is 20% or more, “grocery prices will be demonstrably and persistently higher.”
“If Trump signs an executive order mandating the tariffs on Day 1, then you’ll see this almost immediately. And your diet will get more homogenized and more expensive.”
According to the USDA, Mexico supplies 51% of all the fruit we buy, and 69% of our vegetables are imported — which could mean tariffs imposed on foreign products will translate into prices that are anywhere from 5-20% higher, according to Vollrath. He also believes the rise in prices will be swift. “If Trump signs an executive order mandating the tariffs on Day 1, then you’ll see this almost immediately. And your diet will get more homogenized and more expensive.”
Michael Clemens, professor of economics at George Mason University and a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, anticipates that new tariffs would not increase prices quite as much as Vollrath predicts, but says they’d still result in noticeably higher grocery bills. “Those tariff taxes alone will cause U.S. consumers to pay 1.4-5.1% more for the same items, according to nonpartisan analysis by The Budget Lab at Yale University,” Clemens told HuffPost.
Dr. Luis A. Ribera, a professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, pointed out that tariffs will increase product costs, making groceries more expensive, but also added that if Trump succeeds in removing the income tax, Americans may have more money to spend.
Michael Mezzatesta, a climate activist and economist, estimates that Trump’s proposed tariffs would cause prices to rise by about $3,900 per year for the average U.S. household. “This would represent a 5% income loss for the median-income household. And it would hurt low-income people most, because household purchases make up a larger share of their spending (whereas richer people would be more able to afford these price increases).”
But how will these tariffs impact domestic American producers? Vollrath anticipates domestic producers will adjust to some extent: “Domestic producers are not dumb,” he said. “They can and/or will take advantage to increase their own prices,” knowing demand will increase.
Vollrath warns that the expected tariffs will also mean we’ll be seeing less variety at grocery stores. Consumers will want more affordable options, making imported fruits and vegetables less profitable for stores to stock.
“As you and I lower our demand for them, it will mean rather than seeing 10 varieties of apples to choose from, you might only see 5 or 6.” And things that are out of season in the U.S. will also disappear from the markets.
It’s not just the tariffs that could have sweeping impacts on your grocery bills. There are other factors economists are watching, like Trump’s mass deportation plans.
Tom Homan, the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been tapped to be the Trump administration’s “border czar.” Homan has publicly vowed to “run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
And Trump, at his now-infamous Madison Square Garden rally in New York this past October, stated that “On Day 1,” he plans to launch “the largest deportation program in American history” and have a closed border.
Clemens believes Trump’s mass deportation plan is “massively expensive and cruel, requiring probably hundreds of billions of dollars.” The exact number of undocumented workers in agriculture in the United States is debated, but most agree the numbers exceed 5 million — an estimated 73% of agriculture workers in the United States.
“Think of the situations that occurred during the pandemic when various processing facilities had to shut down; we’d be doing this to ourselves on purpose, but permanently.”
And the impact of these deportations could have a larger bite than Americans can withstand at the grocery store.
Clemens pointed out that the fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products that we produce in the U.S. rely on several million undocumented and H-2A immigrant workers. “Most of those farm workers do not have permanent legal residence in the United States,” and workers on the H-2A Agriculture Temporary Work Program are also at risk of deportation. The temporary visa is one that Project 2025 has proposed phasing out.
Vollrath warned we might lose nearly all production of almonds, olives and raisins, and a massive portion of our “salad” vegetables like lettuce and celery. He also noted that undocumented and immigrant workers staff parts of the meat and dairy supply chain, “meaning that even absent of the tariffs you are looking at substantial price increases if not absolute shortages.”
“Think of the situations that occurred during the pandemic when various processing facilities had to shut down; we’d be doing this to ourselves on purpose, but permanently,” Vollrath added. He said it could cause a “classic supply shock to the U.S. economy.”
By eliminating these workers, supply will be slower, amping up demand. There will be a huge vacuum of available workers who are willing to work for the same wages as immigrant and undocumented workers. These are workers who also largely do not have access to legal representation.
Ribera hesitated to provide estimates for the costs of mass deportation, saying more research needs to be done.
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In the short term, if Trump implements his proposed economic and immigration policies, economists anticipate rising prices and potential shortages — but the long-term impact of a second Trump term, Mezzatesta warns, will be costly as well.
“We should all be alarmed by the Trump administration’s unwillingness to acknowledge the long-term environmental effects of his economic policies. We can only ignore these costs for so long, until they become astronomical – and therefore impossible to ignore.”
Mezzatesta believes that as Trump’s economic policies compound, we will begin to see more extreme weather events, more property damage, more costs to our health care system, and ever-accelerating biodiversity loss.
“Some studies anticipate that the global economic cost of climate change could reach $38 trillion per year within the next 25 years. We can only ignore these consequences for so long — and I worry that Trump will be long gone by the time the rest of us have to pay up.”

White House urges Ukraine to draft troops as young as 18 to quickly increase its military size

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:00:20 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is urging Ukraine to quickly increase the size of its military by drafting more troops and revamping its mobilization laws to allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.
A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18 from the current age of 25 to help expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.
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The official said “the pure math” of Ukraine’s situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight. Currently Ukraine is not mobilizing or training enough soldiers to replace its battlefield losses while keeping pace with Russia’s growing military, the official added.
The White House has pushed more than $56 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s February 2022 invasion and expects to send billions more to Kyiv before Biden leaves office in less than months.
But with time running out, the Biden White House is also sharpening its viewpoint that Ukraine has the weaponry it needs and now must dramatically increase its troop levels if it’s going to stay in the fight with Russia.
The official said the Ukrainians believe they need about 160,000 additional troops, but the U.S. administration believes they probably will need more than that.
More than 1 million Ukrainians are now in uniform, including the National Guard and other units.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been hearing concerns from allies in other Western capitals as well that Ukraine has a troop level problem and not an arms problem, according to European officials who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomatic conversations.
The European allies have stressed that the lack of depth means that it may soon become untenable for Ukraine to continue to operate in Russia’s Kursk border region. The situation in Kursk has become further complicated by the arrival of thousands of North Korean troops, who have come to help Moscow try to claw back the land seized in a Ukrainian incursion this year.
The stepped-up push on Ukraine to strengthen its fighting ranks comes as Ukraine braces for President-elect Donald Trump to take office on Jan. 20. The Republican said he would bring about a swift end to the war and has raised uncertainty about whether his administration would continue the vital U.S. military support for Ukraine.
“There are no easy answers to Ukraine’s serious manpower shortage, but lowering the draft age would help,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “These are obviously difficult decisions for a government and society that has already endured so much due to Russia’s invasion.”
Ukraine has taken steps to broaden the pool of draft-eligible men, but the efforts have only scratched the surface against a much larger Russian military.
In April, Ukraine’s parliament passed a series of laws, including one lowering its draft-eligible age for men from 27 to 25, aimed at broadening the universe of men who could be called on to join the grinding war.
Those laws also did away with some draft exemptions and created an online registry for recruits. They were expected to add about 50,000 troops, far short of what Zelenskyy said at the time was needed.
Zelenskyy has consistently stated that he has no plans to lower the mobilization age. A senior Ukrainian official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Ukraine does not have enough equipment to match the scale of its ongoing mobilization efforts.
The official said Ukrainian officials see the push to the lower the draft age as part of an effort by some Western partners to deflect attention from their own delays in providing equipment or belated decisions. The official cited as an example the delay in giving Ukraine permission to use longer-range weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory.
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The Ukrainians do not see lowering the draft age to recruit more soldiers as a substitute for countering Russia’s advantage in equipment and weaponry, the official said.
Conscription has been a sensitive matter in Ukraine throughout the war. Russia’s own problems with adequate troop levels and planning early in the war prevented Moscow from taking full advantage of its edge. But the tide has shifted and the U.S. says the Ukrainian shortage can no longer be overlooked.
Some Ukrainians have expressed worry that further lowering the minimum conscription age and taking more young adults out of the workforce could backfire by further harming the war-ravaged economy.
The senior Biden administration official added that the administration believes that Ukraine can also optimize its current force by more aggressively dealing with soldiers who desert or go absent without leave.
AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller and AP writer Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv contributed to this report.

They’re baaaack! Volunteers have returned to nonprofits, after the pandemic tanked participation

admin — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:03:34 +0000

From local students completing community service requirements to remote workers giving time at a Hoboken pantry, nonprofit volunteers across Hudson County and the nation have come back after the coronavirus pandemic.
A new survey from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3%, or 75.8 million people in the U.S., volunteered with a nonprofit between September 2022 and September 2023. A snapshot, yes, but nonprofit organizations in Hudson County have seen the increases and felt the difference.
“In post-COVID or late stages of COVID world we saw more people working remote and working hybrid, which allowed them more freedom to volunteer; and we have a lot of different time opportunities at our nonprofit,” said Jennifer Manzetti, director of operations and programs for the Hoboken Community Center (HCC), speaking about its food and hygiene pantry.
Volunteer numbers at HCC hit an all-time high of 615 this year, officials say.
The coronavirus public health shutdowns tanked participation by almost 7% to 23.2% in 2021, the last time the survey was conducted. It is not a full return to pre-pandemic rates of volunteerism.
Residents in tightly packed Hudson County have become more interested in engaging in outdoor volunteer activities in the wake of the pandemic, says Sam Pesin, president of the Friends of Liberty State Park, which is involved in Hudson River shore cleanups and other volunteer activities.
Pesin said he’s been told the volunteer programs at the park run through the state Department of Environmental Protection are equal to and surpassing the pre-pandemic numbers.
“The fact that we went from a point in this country where we were telling people, ‘Don’t come, our doors are closed,’ — the fact that that did not lead to a flatline or lead to a gradual increase, but to see more than 5% jump is pretty impressive,” said AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith.
The survey on volunteering and civic life, conducted by the U.S. Census every two years, asks respondents if they volunteered at a nonprofit. It also asks if they informally helped friends, family
The free labor volunteers provide to nonprofits fuels a huge range of services across every kind of community in the U.S., with the survey estimating the value of a volunteer hour at $33.49, far more than the minimum wage in any state or major U.S. city.
The survey also reveals differences in volunteer participation between states, with a handful like Utah and Vermont at the top with more than 40% participation and a couple of states like Rhode Island and Nevada dropping below 20% participation at the bottom. New Jersey’s formal volunteer rate was 25.7%.
People in the Census’ New York-Jersey City-Newark metropolitan area are volunteering at a 25% rate, three points higher the pre-pandemic rate of 22% in 2019, AmeriCorps stats show.
The website and smartphone app Charity Quest, created by Hoboken resident Frank DiCola, is helping fuel those numbers.
Launched in June, 2020, Charity Quest is a free portal for both volunteers and charities that has grown from a couple nonprofits, HCC and the Hoboken Shelter, to approximately 50 organizations in North Jersey that range from soup kitchens and food pantries to recycling and environmental groups.
“For volunteers, it’s a great way to find out what’s available and when it is available,” said DiCola, a software engineer, game designer and part of the leadership team at Hoboken Community Center.
Compared to other adults, people between the ages of 45 and 54 volunteered at the highest rates overall, the survey found, and more women volunteered than men, continuing a long-term trend.
People with higher incomes reported volunteering with a nonprofit at higher rates than people with lower incomes. Many more people, or 54.3% of people in the U.S., help out informally, which could include anything from babysitting for a family member to lending a tool to a neighbor.
A little more than half of the 15,000 volunteers at New York-based Crisis Text Line in 2023 were 18 to 25 years old, said CEO Dena Trujillo. Overall, the survey found 22.6% of a similar age group reported volunteering for a nonprofit.
Crisis Text Line acts like “mental health emergency room,” Trujillo said, with volunteers responding to people in crisis by text 24 hours a day.
Trujillo said besides finding purpose in immediately helping people who are in crisis, volunteers report that they feel more equipped to support their family and friends and to deescalate and manage situations in their own lives after completing the training.
“When I look at young people, quite frankly, I think the issue is that the volunteering has to match what is relevant to that young person’s life,” she said, with many seeing mental health and well-being as urgent issues.
For the first time this year, the volunteerism survey asked people to report if their volunteering took place at least in part virtually and 18% of volunteers said it had. While it’s not possible to compare to previous years yet, Smith sees the embrace of virtual volunteering as a way to make more volunteer opportunities available to more people.
Another strategy organizations can use to find more volunteers is to draw from the communities they serve. The Federal Hill House in Providence, Rhode Island, runs early childcare programs, a senior center and a large food pantry. Executive Director Kimberly Fernandez said often the older people who help take care of babies in the morning will stay for lunch and an exercise class in the afternoon.
“Part of the volunteering that happens here is also part of the programming, right? So we don’t try to divide: ‘You are the service recipient and you’re the volunteer service provider,’” she said.
The spike in volunteerism comes as more people are finding it tougher to stretch their paychecks.
“We’ve seen a steady increase in the food-insecure community and we have seen the need grow outside of Hoboken, too, as people learn of our pantry,” Manzetti said.
“Rising rents and inflation are winning. We are seeing more working poor, people who have jobs, but are still struggling to make ends meet. People are going back to work, but they are still struggling.”
Shari Weiss Shanks, executive director of a nonprofit in Lincoln, Nebraska that repairs used bikes and gives them away, says that no matter the charity, there are a lot of different roles people can play depending on their interests.
“The one thing I would say about about volunteering is if you are angry or you aren’t finding a purpose or a cause, go volunteer for a nonprofit,” she said. “It will change your life.”

Amazon releases early Black Friday deals: Our favourites

admin — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:01:01 +0000

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Although Black Friday isn’t technically until Nov. 29, Amazon is kicking off its savings early. Beginning on Nov. 21, Canadians can take advantage of a full week of early Black Friday Deals on top tech, home, beauty, fashion and more.

While everyone will be able to shop these deals, Amazon Prime members can enjoy more than 20 million items available with free Prime shipping, with select items even available for free Same-Day or One-Day delivery – sign up for a membership if you haven’t already. New members receive a free trial, after which a monthly membership costs $9.99 (an annual plan is also available for $99).

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