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The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams on Tuesday to remind players to “clearly” report as eligible receivers after a controversial officiating decision ended Saturday’s Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys game. In the closing seconds of the Week 17 game at AT&T Stadium, a late two-point conversion which would have given Detroit a one-point lead and likely an impressive road victory was wiped away after officials ruled offensive lineman Taylor Decker – who wears No. 68 – was not an eligible receiver when he caught a pass from quarterback Jared Goff. Two more attempts at the two-point conversation were unsuccessful and the Lions would go onto lose 20-19. According to referee Brad Allen in the pool report afterwards, Lions offensive lineman Dan Skipper – who is No. 70 – reported as an eligible receiver, not Decker. Decker told reporters after the game that he had said to Allen that he was reporting as an eligible receiver. The decision left the Lions perplexed, with head coach Dan Campbell explaining to reporters that he had spoken to officials before the game about how the team would line up on the play. “I explained everything pregame to a tee. OK? I did that. 70 reported, 68 didn’t. We threw it to 68. That was the explanation,” a frustrated Campbell On Tuesday, the league sent a video to all teams reminding players about the importance of clearly signposting their eligibility as receivers to officials to avoid such an incident happening in the future. “It is the responsibility of the player to be sure that change in status is clearly communicated to the referee by both a physical signal, with his hands up and down in front of his chest, and to report to the referee his intention to report as an eligible receiver,” NFL senior vice president Walt Anderson said in the video. For the controversial play, Decker is seen approaching referee Allen to report as eligible, but two other offensive lineman – Skipper and Penei Sewell – also approached Allen in an attempt to confuse the Cowboys defense on who would be the eligible receiver. In the video, it shows comparisons between how Skipper – who is circled – takes to the field for the two-point conversion attempt and a similar play in the first quarter of the game. According to NFL ruling, any offensive player numbered 50-79 or 90-99 is permitted to line up as an eligible pass receiver, but the player must immediately report the change in his status to the referee. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/03/sport/nfl-lions-cowboys-eligible-receiver-reminder-spt-intl/index.html

The US, UK and ten other states have warned rebels in Yemen they will face consequences if they continue to attack commercial shipping in the Red Sea. In a joint statement, the group of mainly Western countries called for an immediate end to the attacks. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have declared support for Hamas in the war it launched against Israel in October. Since November, the rebels have attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea more than 20 times. They have used missiles, drones, fast boats and helicopters. They have claimed - often falsely - the ships were linked to Israel. US and British warships in the region have intercepted some missiles but they have resisted attacking targets in Yemen itself. That may be about to change. The group of 12 states - Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the US - issued a formal warning to the Houthis. They called ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea "illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilising" and said there was "no lawful justification for intentionally targeting civilian shipping and naval vessels". They said if the group continued to attack shipping, it would "bear the consequences". That is widely interpreted as a threat of military action against targets in Yemen, including where missiles are stored and launched. The allies called for an "immediate end" to the attacks which, they said, posed a "direct threat to freedom of navigation" in the critical waterway through which almost 15% of global trade passes. The fear is that fuel prices will rise and supply chains will be damaged. The International Chamber of Shipping says 20% of the world's container ships are avoiding the Red Sea and steaming around southern Africa instead. In a debate at the UN Security Council on Wednesday evening, there was unanimous condemnation of the Houthi attacks but there were also warnings against further escalation. The US ambassador to the UN for management and reform, Chris Lu, said the attacks posed "grave implications for maritime security, international shipping and commerce". Iran's role, he added, was "the root of the problem". "Iran has long enabled these attacks by the Houthis," he said. Iran has denied supporting the strikes. Despite this, it is unclear how it may respond if Western air strikes are launched against its Yemeni allies. The Houthis are targeting ships travelling through the Bab al-Mandab Strait - also known as the Gate of Tears - which is a channel 20 miles (32km) wide, and known for being perilous to navigate. The group comes from a sub-sect of the country's Shia Muslim minority, the Zaidis. They take their name from the movement's founder, Hussein al Houthi. They have been fighting a civil war since 2014 against Yemen's government and control both the capital Sana'a and the north of the country, as well as the Red Sea coastline. The government has been backed against the Houthis by a coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67878906

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On January 1, Valve ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, which means that users on those older versions of Microsoft's OS will eventually not be able to use the gaming platform. "We expect the Steam client and games on these older operating systems to continue running for some time without updates after January 1st, 2024, but we are unable to guarantee continued functionality after that date," Valve wrote in a post on the Steam support site. It's a bit wild that Steam still supported Windows 7 until the start of 2024. It was a remarkably po[CENSORED]r version of the OS even after the launch of Windows 8, but it also debuted in 2009, which is very, very long in software years. To put that in perspective, when Steam debuted in 2003, the same backwards compatibility would've required it to support, uh, Windows 2.1. Windows is obviously a bit more mature these days, but still—one heck of a run, Windows 7. Microsoft's extended support for enterprise Windows 7 ended in January 2023 (and support for regular editions ended in 2020), which means Steam outlasted Microsoft's own support for the OS by a healthy margin. Valve says that it's making the change now because "core features in Steam rely on an embedded version of Google Chrome, which no longer functions on older versions of Windows." Future Steam updates will require security updates from Windows 10/11."We strongly encourage all Windows 7/8/8.1 users to update sooner rather than later," Valve says. "Computers running these operating systems, when connected to the internet, are susceptible to new malware and other exploits which will not be patched. That malware can cause your PC, Steam and games to perform poorly or crash. That malware can also be used to steal the credentials for your Steam account or other services."Ultimately Valve is speaking to a small portion of the total Steam userbase here. According to the December 2023 hardware survey, .15% of Steam users are currently on Windows 8.1, while only .06% have stuck with Windows 7. Still, with 132 million monthly active users back in 2021, there are likely hundreds of thousands of gamers still rocking old Windows machines. Perhaps this will be the push they need to finally update—though with rumors of Windows 12 on the horizon, there's a brand new excuse to procrastinate just a liiiiitle longer. Wes has been covering games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer team in 2014. Wes plays a little bit of everything, but he'll always jump at the chance to cover emulation and Japanese games. When he's not obsessively optimizing and re-optimizing a tangle of conveyor belts in Satisfactory (it's really becoming a problem), he's probably playing a 20-year-old Final Fantasy or some opaque ASCII roguelike. With a focus on writing and editing features, he seeks out personal stories and in-depth histories from the corners of PC gaming and its niche communities. 50% pizza by volume (deep dish, to be specific). https://www.pcgamer.com/pour-one-out-for-the-late-great-windows-7-steam-has-finally-stopped-supporting-windows-7-8-and-81/

Poco X6 series is confirmed to launch in India on January 11. The lineup is likely to include the Poco X6 and the Poco X6 Pro, succeeding the Poco X5 and Poco X5 Pro. The base Poco X6 is reportedly a rebadged version of the Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G, whereas the Poco X6 Pro is said to be a rebranded Redmi K70E. An earlier leak showed leaked design renders of the models and suggested the colour options and several key specifications of the handsets. Now an online listing of the Poco X6 Pro has hinted at the price, storage configurations and other details of the phone. The folks over at 91Mobiles reportedly spotted the Poco X6 Pro on the Amazon UAE website. As per the website, the Amazon listing showed the phone in a 12GB + 512GB variant priced at AED 1,299 (roughly Rs. 29,500). Meanwhile, an earlier leak had suggested that the Pro model will be available in black, grey, and yellow colour options. According to the alleged listing, the Poco X6 Pro will feature a 6.67-inch 1.5K LTPS display with a refresh rate of 120Hz. It will be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Ultra chipset paired with up to 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB onboard storage. The phone is expected to ship with Android 13-based OS. Nothing CEO Carl Pei's Tweet Suggests Nothing Phone 2a Could Debut Soon For optics, the Poco X6 Pro is listed to carry a triple rear camera unit with a 67-megapixel primary sensor with optical image stabilisation (OIS) support, an 8-megapixel sensor with an ultrawide lens, and a 2-megapixel macro shooter. The phone is said to pack a 5,000mAh battery with 67W wired fast charging support. The Poco X6 Pro is expected to launch alongside the Poco X6. The base model has previously been tipped to carry a Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoC and a 64-megapixel primary sensor, a 13-megapixel sensor with an ultra-wide lens, and a 2-megapixel shooter at the back.OnePlus Nord 3 brings some serious upgrades over its predecessor, including some flagship-grade specifications. We discuss this and more on the latest episode of Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.gadgets360.com/mobiles/news/poco-x6-pro-price-leak-specifications-expected-amazon-uae-listing-india-launch-january-11-4786515#pfrom=desktop-lhs-trending

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weakness in polls among non-White voters is boosting Republican hopes that the GOP is poised to extend its most important political breakthrough of modern times – and potentially to reshape the competition between the two parties along the way. The most consequential political gain for Republicans in recent decades has been their increasing strength among working-class White voters – a process that began under Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 1980s but peaked in recent years under Donald Trump. Once the brawny backbone of the Democrats’ “New Deal” coalition that dominated American politics from the 1930s until the 1960s, White voters without a college degree have become the foundation of the modern GOP. Now some political observers believe working-class minority voters are moving along the same track – and largely for the same reasons. Just as millions of working-class White voters recoiled from Democratic cultural liberalism during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, they argue, working-class Latino and even Black voters are shifting toward the GOP now in rejection of “woke” ideology on issues such as crime, immigration and LGBTQ rights. Such arguments are fueling the increasingly common assertions that Republicans are building a “multiracial populist coalition,” as GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini argues in his copiously researched recent book, “Party of the People.” While “the rightward shift” of White- and non-White voters without a college degree toward the GOP in the Trump years “might seem like two discrete, unrelated events …the two groups share a common working-class DNA and their political shifts stem from the same root,” Ruffini writes. A wide array of recent polls shows Biden with an unusually small lead for a Democrat among both Black and Latino voters in a potential 2024 rematch with Trump. But many analysts say it’s less clear that Democrats are facing a lasting structural realignment among those voters – much less a change rooted in a long-term cultural alienation from the party – rather than immediate dissatisfaction with the economy under Biden. “I keep looking for it as well, but you are not seeing as much evidence for a culture war driving any kind of change at this moment,” said Carlos Odio, senior vice president for research at Equis Research, a Democratic polling firm that specializes in Latino voters. “What’s driving Trump and the Republicans is the economy. At the end of the day, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’ over and over again.” If anything, rather than cultural alienation driving working-class non-White voters toward the GOP, continuing resistance in those communities to Republican priorities on many culturally and racially tinged issues may be Democrats’ best hope in 2024 of recapturing non-White voters disenchanted with Biden’s performance and the economy. Despite all the discontent over Biden, almost three-fifths of non-White voters without a college degree agreed that the “Republican Party has been taken over by racists,” in a recent national survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, according to previously unpublished results provided to CNN. The stakes in this struggle are enormous. White voters without a college degree, now the electorate’s most Republican-leaning group, have been steadily shrinking as a share of the total vote at a rate of about 2 to 3 percentage points in each presidential election for decades. To offset that decline, Republicans need to find votes elsewhere. The party is facing resistance among college-educated White voters, many of whom have recoiled from the hard-edged cultural and racial views the party has embraced under Trump. To strategists like Ruffini, the most plausible path for the GOP to remain competitive over time is to grow its vote among non-White voters, especially those without college degrees. “With the Republicans’ strongest group” of White voters without a college degree “shrinking and their weakest set of groups growing, Republicans will need to increase their support levels across all parts of the multiracial populist coalition just to keep pace with where they are today,” Ruffini writes in his engaging new book. All data sources about voting behavior agree that the GOP has improved its performance among minority voters without a college degree over the past decade. For many observers perhaps the most surprising result in the 2020 election was Trump’s improvement among those voters after four years in which he frequently appealed to White racial resentments and pursued militant immigration policies, such as separating children from their parents at the border. The exit polls conducted by Edison Research for a consortium of media organizations including CNN found that Trump’s vote among non-White voters without a college degree increased from just 20% in 2016 to 26% in 2020. Research by Catalist, a Democratic voter targeting firm whose analyses are respected in both parties, found that Trump’s vote among Latino voters without a college degree spiked from 61% in 2016 to 72% in 2020; Trump also enjoyed a modest 3 percentage point gain among Black voters without a college degree over that period, Catalist found. Exactly why Trump made those gains, though, remains a matter of dispute – with important implications for 2024 and beyond. Advocates of the realignment theory argue that Trump’s gains represented an ideological rejection of Democrats among centrist and right-leaning minority voters, prompted partly by their opposition to the calls to “defund the police” in the racial justice protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. They pointed to evidence in exit polls that a much higher percentage of minority voters who identified as conservative voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. But many others, such as Odio, believe Trump’s 2020 non-White improvement was grounded in the belief that he was more qualified to run the economy. Those in this camp believe the key factor for many working-class minority voters was Trump’s determination to quickly reopen the economy after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Somewhat to the surprise of both parties, the movement of non-college-educated minority voters toward the GOP stalled in the 2022 midterm election, even though those voters expressed widespread disenchantment with the economy and Biden’s performance. In Catalist’s analysis, Democrats won a slightly higher percentage of Latinos without a college degree in the 2022 House races than they did in the 2020 presidential contest. Most important for Democrats, Senate incumbents Mark Kelly in Arizona and Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada – probably the two states where Latino voters are most important for the party – also ran slightly better among non-college-educated Latinos than Biden did in their states, according to previously unpublished Catalist results provided to CNN. (The exit polls, differing slightly, showed a small further national gain in 2022 for the GOP among non-White voters without a college degree.) Odio, though, warns that Democrats can only take so much comfort from their 2022 success among minority voters, particularly those without college degrees. The reason, he says, is that the openness toward Trump and the GOP has been most pronounced among economically marginal Latino voters who are largely disconnected from the political system and much less likely to turn out in a midterm than presidential year election. “So much of the dynamism and volatility in the Latino vote is among less frequent voters,” Odio said. “So in important ways, you almost have to clear 2022 out of your mind.” Some Democratic strategists who focus on Black voters believe the same is true in that community. The swarm of recent polls showing Biden leading Trump only narrowly with Latino and Black voters has prompted a new wave of concern about the party’s position in minority communities. Especially ominous for Democrats is the large share of both Latino and Black voters in multiple polls who say Biden’s economic policies have not helped them and/or say they trust Trump more than Biden to manage the economy. Daron Shaw, a Republican pollster and University of Texas political scientist who co-conducted a recent large national survey of Latino voters for Univision, says that those attitudes mean “there is absolutely an opening” for Trump or another GOP nominee to advance further with non-White voters in 2024. Just as many White working-class voters “felt like the financial crisis of ’08-‘09 left them rudderless [and] eroded their position in American society … both on economic grounds and on cultural grounds, there are voters within the Latino community as well, who feel no one is representing them,” Shaw said during a press call about the Univision poll. The risk to Democrats, Shaw argued, is that some of those working-class Latino voters believe the party is distracted by what he sees as cultural causes, such as LGBTQ rights, and “is not as interested” in their bread-and-butter economic concerns “as they have been” previously. Sergio Garcia-Rios, a University of Texas political scientist who partnered with Shaw on the Univision poll, said the Latinos supporting Trump are drawn to him mostly on economic grounds. “To those who are voting for Trump, they remember that in 2016-’17-‘18 the economy worked better,” he said. “You and I can disagree with them on whether or not that is true. But that’s what they remember.” Several grassroots organizers who work in minority communities told me that their experience in 2022 demonstrated that Democrats can win an economic argument even among minority voters who feel squeezed by the cost of living under Biden. Melissa Morales, founder and president of Somos Votantes, a group that mobilizes Latino voters, said Cortez Masto’s victory last year showed that Democrats can survive discontent about the economy if they convince voters they are pursuing policies to help them make ends meet. The key for Biden, she said, is to show Latinos, “‘Here’s what I am doing to try to make this better. We are creating better jobs, I am working actively to lower prices.’ If Biden can present that to voters, there is still an opening here. The fact that costs are high isn’t the end game – it’s what are you going to do about that that voters are looking for.” Similarly, Matt Morrison – executive director of Working America, a group that politically organizes working-class voters who are not in unions – said the organization’s experience in 2022 showed that there remains “a critical difference” between White and non-White voters without a college degree. In the group’s door-to-door or phone canvassing efforts, he said, they’ve typically had far more success moving working-class Black and Latino voters to support Democratic candidates around an economic message than they have at persuading White voters at similar education and income levels. Even when organizers can win an economic argument with working-class White voters, he said, those voters often still remain dubious of Democrats because they believe the party favors minorities. That second barrier doesn’t exist with voters of color, Morrison said. “When you communicate to Black and brown voters, they are far more likely to come back to Democrats,” Morrison said. “They lack that social glue that makes them say, ‘I am of a different tribe.’” Even so, the depth of discontent about the economy among minority voters is likely to remain a crucial hurdle for Biden. Democrats are accustomed to winning at least 7 in 10 minority voters in presidential elections; even if inflation continues to subside, it seems highly unlikely by Election Day that 7 in 10 minority voters will put more faith in Biden than a Republican to manage the economy. That means if Biden is to match, or even approach, Democrats’ historic performance among minority voters, he’ll need other issues to convert some who are dubious about his economic record. And resistance to the GOP’s priorities on cultural and racially tinged issues probably offers him the best opportunity. Those who assert that minorities are abandoning the Democratic Party on cultural grounds often point to the large share of non-White voters who express broad views about US society more often associated with Republicans. Ruy Teixeira, a longtime Democratic electoral analyst who has become an unflinching critic of the party’s policies on social issues, has noted, for instance, that most Latinos agree with statements asserting the US is the greatest country in the world and reject the idea that racism is embedded in American institutions. “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Democrats’ emphasis on social and democracy issues, while catnip to some socially liberal, educated voters, leaves many working-class and Hispanic voters cold,” writes Teixeira, co-author of the recent book, “Where Have All The Democrats Gone?,” which makes similar arguments as Ruffini. Yet as polling by the Public Religion Research Institute, Univision and other groups show, on many of the actual cultural policies dominating political debate, most minority voters – including most of those without a college degree – align with Democrats, not Republicans. Among non-White voters without a college degree, 57% support legal abortion, 55% back same sex-marriage, and 64% oppose placing barriers at the US border to deter migrants, according to unpublished results from the PRRI’s latest national American Values Survey provided to CNN. (Support for Democratic positions is even greater among non-White voters with a college degree, PRRI found.) Other surveys have found preponderant support among minorities for banning assault weapons and lopsided opposition to ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, as Trump and other GOP candidates have proposed. Maybe most significantly, in PRRI polling, about three-fifths of non-White voters without a college degree agree the GOP has been “taken over by racists,” as do nearly two-thirds of non-White voters with a degree. By contrast, three-fifths of White voters without a college degree reject that idea. Analysts like Odio believe one reason Trump improved among Latinos in 2020 was that he downplayed the harsh language about immigration he used in 2016 and instead emphasized his economic agenda. But Trump has again moved sharply to the right on immigration, pledging mass deportations, internment camps for migrants, the end of birthright citizenship, and military action against Mexico to fight drug cartels. He’s also refused to rule out reinstating his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border. Latinos in the key states may not yet be aware of Trump’s immigration plans. But Robert P. Jones, president and founder of PRRI, said the group’s polling convinces him that Trump’s agenda on immigration and other cultural issues will ultimately repel some Latino voters otherwise disenchanted with Biden on the economy. “I think we will not know the truth about how much they [Republicans] are overplaying their hand until next summer” if Trump becomes the GOP nominee, Jones said. Some expressions of cultural liberalism – such as the fleeting calls in 2020 to “defund the police” – have clearly rankled working-class minority voters. But Biden never endorsed that idea. And his clearest path to recovering with those voters may be to convince them that the Republican agenda on immigration and other cultural issues threatens their interests and values. Rather than driving further movement toward the GOP among minority voters, in other words, issues such as abortion or immigration may be Biden’s best hope of preventing slippage with those voters. Odio says that in Equis’ polling, the parties are in mirror-image positions with the Latino community. “Among Latinos, Democrats are seen as caring, but there are doubts about their ability to deliver,” he said. “The thought is Republicans might be better at delivering, but there’s an underlying fear they don’t care.” Which side of that equation proves more compelling not only to Latino, but also to Black and other minority working-class voters, will go a long way toward determining whether Biden can win a second term https://edition.cnn.com/politics/joe-biden-minority-voters/index.html

Ram has revealed pricing for the refreshed 2025 Ram 1500 pickup lineup. It starts at $42,270, only an $855 increase from last year, but that's just for the base model with a carryover V-6 engine. The new top-of-the-line Tungsten trim level costs $89,150 to start. The new twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six engine is a $2695 option on lower trims and comes standard in higher trims. The Ram 1500 is entering the 2025 model year with a host of changes—including higher prices. The base price is only up by $855 compared with last year, as a basic Tradesman with a carryover V-6 engine starts at $42,270. But the updated 2025 Ram's most exciting new choices, including the optional twin-turbo inline-six engine and a new fully loaded trim level called Tungsten, carry considerably higher sticker prices. The more basic versions of the 2025 Ram—comprising Tradesman, HFE, Lone Star, and Big Horn trim levels—come with a carryover 305-hp 3.6-liter V-6 with the 48-volt eTorque hybrid system. If you want the new twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-six, you'll pay $2695 extra for the 420-hp standard-output version of these trims. This "Hurricane" engine option comes standard on the higher Laramie ($62,025) and Rebel ($66,190) trim levels. Regardless of trim level, it's the only engine choice if you opt for crew-cab configuration with the longer six-foot-four-inch bedThere's also a high-output version of the 3.0-liter inline-six that offers a whopping 540 horsepower and comes standard on Limited ($77,150) and Longhorn ($77,645) trims. This engine option also comes only with four-wheel drive, while the V-6 and the standard-output inline-six come standard with rear-wheel drive on all models except the off-road-oriented Rebel. And then there's the Tungsten (pictured at top), a new range-topping trim level that starts at an eye-watering $89,150. Naturally, it's offered with the high-output engine and four-wheel drive, and it comes only in the crew-cab configuration with the shorter five-foot-seven-inch bed. The Tungsten comes with all sorts of goodies including a power tailgate, upgraded interior materials, 24-way power front seats with massage, and a 23-speaker audio system. The standard versions of the 2025 Ram 1500 are set to go on sale this quarter. We don't yet have prices for the new plug-in-hybrid option, called Ramcharger, that's coming later on. That variant comes with a 663-hp setup that combines electric motors, a large battery pack, and a V-6 gasoline engine. There's also an electric Ram truck called the Ram 1500 REV that's set to go on sale by the end of the year. These electrified versions will likely carry big price premiums, but we won't find out details until later in the year https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46268151/2025-ram-1500-price/

Invitée sur le plateau du Buzz TV ce mardi 26 septembre 2023, Marine Lorphelin est revenue sur sa participation au concours Miss France. L’occasion pour elle d’évoquer l’évolution du concours, notamment envers les femmes transgenres. Figure majeure du concours Miss France, Marine Lorphelin avait été élue en 2013, avant de se consacrer à sa carrière de médecin. Depuis, la jeune femme est de retour à la télévision en tant que chroniqueuse santé sur France 5, et évoque régulièrement son rapport à l’évolution du concours de beauté phare, dont l’élection est diffusée tous les ans sur TF1. Il y a quelques mois, la jeune femme s’était en effet déjà exprimée au sujet de son rapport à Miss France dans les colonnes de TV Magazine, expliquant d’abord avoir promis à sa grand-mère de participer au concours : « Je voulais vivre autre chose et découvrir un milieu que je ne connaissais pas du tout » avait-elle déclaré avant d’ajouter regretter que le concours avait changé : « J'ai trouvé que c'était assez sain. Je pense que ça a un peu évolué malheureusement et qu'aujourd'hui c'est un peu plus la compétition qu’avant. » avait-elle déclaré. Ce mardi 26 septembre 2023, l’ex-compagne de Christophe Malmezac est à nouveau revenue sur son expérience dans Miss France. En effet, alors qu’elle est en pleine promotion de son nouveau livre intitulé En pleine forme : mes conseils santé pour être bien dans son corps et dans sa tête, publié à la fin du mois d’août dernier, Marine Lorphelin était invitée sur le plateau du Buzz TV. Pour l’occasion, la jeune femme n’a pas hésité à s’exprimer sur le concours de beauté : « Je sais l’attachement des Français envers le concours. Ça fait partie du patrimoine presque, Miss France, donc j’espère qu’il pourra perdurer tout en continuant d’évoluer » a-t-elle d’abord déclaré. L’animateur du Buzz TV a alors interrogé la chroniqueuse sur le sujet des femmes transgenres dans la compétition : « Pour vous, une femme qui n’est pas née femme mais qui l’est devenue, a le même droit de concourir dans ce concours ? » a-t-il lancé. Une question à laquelle Marine Lorphelin a très rapidement répondu : « Tout à fait ! Ce qu’on demande aux jeunes femmes qui se présentent à Miss France, c’est d’être des femmes civilement. D’avoir un acte civil féminin » a-t-elle déclaré. Le journaliste Damien Canivez, a ensuite souligné qu’en effet, « il y aurait pu avoir des femmes transgenres sans qu’on le sache puisque c’est l’état civil (qui importe, N.D.L.R) » a-t-il conclu https://actu.voici.fr/news-people/des-femmes-transgenres-sans-quon-le-sache-a-miss-france-marine-lorphelin-donne-son-avis-766927?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=FR_Liberation_Liberation.fr&utm_content=« Des+femmes+transgenres+sans+qu’on+le+sache »+à+Miss+France+%3F+Marine+&utm_campaign=pmo_voi_article_desktop_desktop_test_geoloc&dicbo=v4-siVLlGL-1079626013

Da Nang, VietnamIn this central Vietnamese city of 1.2 million people, almost every inch of land has been gobbled up by developers. Towering hotels line a miles-long white sand beach. But one prime piece of real estate remains mostly untouched: the mountainous and forested tip of the city’s peninsula. It is a 6,400-acre nature reserve called Son Tra, or, as it’s also known, “Monkey Mountain.” The reserve, which is also home to a military base, is a last refuge for the red-shanked douc, a critically endangered langur that numbers only about 2,000 animals in Son Tra. On a recent visit, conservationist Hoang Van Chuong quickly spotted several brightly colored, long-tailed monkeys high in the treetops. “It’s hard to hide with those features,” chuckled Chuong, development director for the local nonprofit GreenViet. Preoccupied with some late afternoon leaf snacking, the animals didn’t seem too bothered by our presence. But the doucs have good reason to fear humans. Long hunted both for meat and medicine, they have lost much of their native forest habitat, which once extended across the region. Driven into tiny jungle enclaves, they’re today found only in a few pockets of Laos and in two isolated po[CENSORED]tions in Vietnam, the largest of which clings on here in Son Tra. The doucs are among the many species that have suffered huge declines because of habitat fragmentation, which studies show is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss globally, and especially in Southeast Asia. Urban growth is a major contributor to the problem. City po[CENSORED]tions worldwide are poised to increase by 2.5 billion over the coming 30 years, tripling the global footprint of cities. Experts warn that animals unable to adapt to urban settings may be pushed into ever-smaller, isolated spots. (Read about a new monkey species hiding in plain sight in Southeast Asia.) “Species that require relatively large, intact areas of wildland,” like the red-shanked doucs, "will be lost, [while] native and introduced species that thrive in cities may take their place,” says Rohan Simkin, an ecologist at Yale University, who studies impacts of urban expansion on wildlife. He and other researchers say there are likely many more urban “avoiders”—species unable to adapt to urban environments—than urban “adapters,” though no major studies have been conducted to confirm this. Our peninsula, our monkeys Douc is an old Vietnamese name thought to mean monkey. In addition to the red-shanked douc, there are two other douc species in Southeast Asia, also critically endangered: the black-shanked and gray-shanked douc. Some deforestation can be traced back to the Vietnam War, when forests were sprayed with the toxic defoliant known as Agent Orange. As the Vietnamese government’s focus remained squarely on growing its economy in the years following the war, wildlife protection received scant attentio As recently as a decade ago, few people in Da Nang even knew the doucs existed in Son Tra, according to Larry Ulibarri, an anthropologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene, who wrote his doctoral thesis on the species. When Ulibarri showed photos of the animals to local officials, he was told “those primates are in Africa, not here.” But recognition of the doucs began to grow when GreenViet, which was formed in 2014, and other conservationists started organizing photo exhibits, school visits, and other outreach programs. “People realized, this is our peninsula and these are our monkeys … and asked, what can we do to protect them?” says Chuong. Local hotels began asking for photos of the langurs that they could display in their lobbies. Plans unveiled by developers in 2016 to build several seaside resorts inside the reserve led to a public outcry. Campaigners collected 10,000 signatures protesting the project, an unusual display of public opposition in Vietnam. When national leaders joined the call, the project was scrapped. “The reason why Son Tra has not been developed is because the monkeys [are there],” says Ulrike Streicher, a German veterinarian who spearheaded the early outreach efforts. Though Son Tra’s military staff has intercepted poachers, hunting is no longer considered a major threat in the reserve. Globally, around half of all original forests have disappeared, with the loss most acutely felt in tropical forests that house at least half of the world’s species. In addition to urban growth, agricultural expansion and logging are major drivers of forest loss in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Sometimes that loss occurs rapidly, but more often it can be incremental, especially in protected areas. Species that can adapt to and even thrive in disturbed landscapes or urban environments tend to have wide-ranging diets and an ability to quickly solve problems, like finding a place to sleep in a busy city. Many are small-bodied animals, like mice and rats, but they also include deer and medium-size predators, such as North America’s coyotes. (Read how wild animals are adapting to city life in surprisingly savvy ways.) But there are likely many more animals that are unable to make those adaptations. One example is the endangered Florida panther, which is highly threatened by urbanization, with only around 200 individuals remaining in the wild. The big cat needs sprawling territories to survive and find other individuals with which to mate. The red-shanked douc has similar needs. One family of doucs, which normally ranges from four to 15 individuals, likely requires at least 30 acres of forest habitat, according to Chuong. If living space is too limited, animals may end up inbreeding, resulting in lineages that are less robust and genetically viable On the encouraging side, red-shanked doucs have a relatively flexible diet, feeding primarily on buds and young leaves, but also eating flowers, fruits, seeds, and bark. Colorful costume In Son Tra, ecotourism has begun to connect people with their native wildlife. GreenViet, for instance, organizes daily monkey-viewing tours for the public. Because the doucs are not naturally curious animals and generally stay high in the trees, eating their own food, the risk of them being habituated to humans is considered small. With their extravagant appearance, which have earned them the erroneous nickname “costumed ape,” they are, however, a sight to behold. “Many people tell us that seeing the doucs is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says Võ Hồ Quế Anh, who leads the GreenViet tours. The organization says it has so far reached about 30,000 people through its educational outreach programs. The work appears to be paying off. Greenviet’s census of the Son Tra douc po[CENSORED]tion in 2017 registered around 1,300 individuals. A new survey, yet to be published, suggests the number has grown to more than 2,000. “It shows that it’s possible to protect” the doucs, says Chuong, “if we keep Son Tra pristine.” Stefan Lovgren is a frequent contributor to National Geographic and covers the Mekong River as part of the USAID project “Wonders of the Mekong.” He is the co-author of Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/monkey-mountain-red-shanked-doucs-vietnam

Ian Westbrook, Beesotted podcast, external What an unfestive Christmas for Brentford. Two defeats, seven goals conceded, two scored and zero points. The numerous injuries have caught up with us. Being forced to play midfielders at full-back can only work for so long, and missing both Ivan Toney and Bryan Mbeumo is unsustainable. A lack of confidence has also started to show. Heads went down when we fell 2-1 behind at Crystal Palace and nobody was vocally rallying team-mates. Despite five successive Premier League defeats and seven in eight games, Thomas Frank is under no pressure. Quite rightly, nobody is calling for his head and he is still one of the Premier League’s most secure managers. Frank has worked miracles with a threadbare squad to get 19 points at halfway. However, he now needs some help in the transfer window with some experienced signings – permanent or on loan. After a similar run in 2021-22, Christian Eriksen arrived and that, coupled with some key players returning from injury, ensured we comfortably stayed up. Ivan Toney now plays the Eriksen role with the return from his ban, but I believe more bodies are needed. The Bees rarely sign players in January and Frank said last week that while the priority is a full-back, we may only bring in one other player. That is a gamble on Toney hitting the ground running, and more importantly not being sold this month, and the other injured players returning. It may well pay off, but while I do think we will stay up, it would be awful if we didn’t because of inactivity this window. Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton believes Brentford "will end up in a relegation battle" if they sell striker Ivan Toney during the January transfer window. England international Toney will be free to return to action later this month once he has completed an eight-month suspension for breaching betting regulations, but he has been linked with a move away from Brentford. Toney scored 32 goals in the Bees' first two seasons in the Premier League but they have struggled without him and a number of injured first-team players this term, with Thomas Frank's side currently four points above the relegation zone. Sutton told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club: "If Brentford want to stay in the Premier League, they have to keep Ivan Toney or do everything possible [to keep him]. They've had a phenomenal couple of seasons under Thomas Frank but they're scrapping at this moment in time. "It's five on the spin that they've lost, that's a bit of a disaster for them. But they'll end up in a relegation battle if they get rid of Ivan Toney." We asked you what transfer business you want to see Brentford do in January. Here are some of your answers: Jimmy: Thomas Frank has got to be backed in January. A full-back is needed at least to fill the void left by Rico Henry's long-term injury. Keeping Ivan Toney is crucial as well. If anyone can drag the club out of this dismal run of form it's him. Colin: Changes needed. We need a proper right-back. Been watching Coventry City recently they have the best attacking full-back I’ve seen in years. He has a great engine. Thomas Frank should go and get Milan van Ewijk, then find a left-back and go back to 4-4-2 - which he first started with - and get everyone playing as a team. Forget playing out and across from the back. Andy: Keeping Toney a must, as much about having an extra body in the squad as anything else with Bryan Mbeumo out long term and Yoane Wissa at Afcon. Keane Lewis-Potter and Neal Maupay just don't offer enough threat. A versatile full-back is a must too. We have been playing with wingers and midfielders in there because of injuries - and it shows! Bobby: Returns from injuries more important than signings. Having Kristoffer Ajer, Aaron Hickey, Josh Dasilva, Kevin Schade and Mbeumo back ASAP would be a start. Toney is a bonus. Could do with a full-back or two (on loan would be fine). No need to panic buy, but we should have signed a long-term Toney replacement in the summer Kev: Not selling Ivan would do! We asked you for your thoughts after Crystal Palace and Brentford locked horns in the Premier League. Here are some of the top comments: Crystal Palace fans Simon: A win is welcome but it changes little. We will lose Ayew, a key player, to Afcon and we already have injuries, as well as the squad having gaping holes in key areas. We will need to recruit as well as giving fringe players a chance because, so far, it seems many aren't trusted. We need surgery in the summer, not just sticking plasters in January. Ian: Finally we had both Eze and Olise playing well together and, with Mateta finally getting a run of games and showing his quality, we cruised this game. Time to start looking up. Gavin: The stadium was stunned by conceding so early, but somehow not surprised, based upon previous results. However, the Brentford goal seemed to galvanise Palace into taking control. In short, despite a shaky last 10 minutes, Palace controlled both boxes, with Olise absolutely outstanding. Mike: Much-needed three points but Parish must not use this as an excuse not get his wallet out in the coming transfer window. We are still woefully short of Premier League quality players. We need at least a defender, attacking midfielder and quality striker! Brentford fans Sam: Another performance where we were way off the pace. Thomas Frank forced to pick too many players out of position and nothing to offer off the bench when we go down. Ghoddos vs Olise was a massacre - how Frank let it last the full 90 minutes was beyond me. Janet: Starting to get very, very nervy. Need Toney back desperately - it's never been more important to keep him at the club! Peter: When will Frank understand that being brave is not being reckless. You can't build from the back when the defenders have no confidence on the ball. He has to go back to the basics and start again. There is no team at present, just individuals looking for a way to avoid the ball. Gwot: Poor, poor, poor. That's all I can say https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/brentford

Donald Trump has appealed the decision by Maine's top election official to remove him from the ballot in the 2024 presidential election. Mr Trump, the current Republican frontrunner, asked that a state court overturn the move by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. Ms Bellows has previously defended her decision by saying she has a "sacred obligation" to uphold the law. The former US president has also been removed from the ballot in Colorado. Mr Trump was removed from the Maine and Colorado ballots by challenges that cited the US constitution's insurrection clause and his alleged incitement of the 2021 US Capitol riot. The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution bans anyone whom has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" from holding federal office. In Monday's court filing regarding the Maine decision, Mr Trump's attorneys write that Ms Bellows - a Democrat - was a "biased decision maker" without the legal authority to remove him from the ballot. What is the 14th Amendment? Voter panel: What it means that Trump got kicked off the ballot Additionally, the filing accuses Ms Bellows of making "multiple errors of law" and acting "in an arbitrary and capricious manner". "President Trump will be illegally excluded from the ballot as a result of the Secretary's actions," the filing says. Ms Bellows, a former state senator and executive director of Maine's American Civil Liberties Union, was elected to serve as Maine's Secretary of State in December 2020. A group of current and former state lawmakers challenged Mr Trump's place on the ballot, which Maine law required Ms Bellows to rule on. Several lawsuits in other states - such as Michigan and Minnesota - that are similar to the Maine objection have been rejected in court. The US Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue raised in Maine and Colorado, which will not take effect until the legal challenges are settled. A ruling by the court on Mr Trump's eligibility would be applied nationwide. David Janovksy, a senior policy analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, an independent watchdog, said that "whichever way the Supreme Court rules is the best outcome". "The fact that we now have two states in Colorado and Maine that have made this determination against the backdrop of other states that have declined to go that far means that if there was ever a case for the Supreme Court to resolve, this would be it," he said. "Time is of the essence now that we're in an election year," Mr Janovsky added In an interview with the BBC last week, Ms Bellows defended her actions and said she hoped that the matter would ultimately be settled by the Supreme Court. She said that she was "mindful" that no other secretary of state in US history had removed a presidential candidate due to the insurrection clause. "But I'm also mindful that no presidential candidate has, ever before, engaged in insurrection," Ms Bellows said. She also denied that her decision was in any way politically motivated, instead arguing that it was "thorough and based on the rule of law". Both Mr Trump and his campaign have repeatedly decried the rulings from Maine and Colorado as politically motivated and intended to harm his chances of winning the 2024 election. In addition to the legal wrangling over his eligibility in the election, Mr Trump is facing trials in federal court and in Georgia stemming from his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. He has not been charged with inciting insurrection in either of the two cases. In a separate case on Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington DC ruled that part of a lawsuit against Mr Trump stemming from the death of a police officer at the 6 January riot can go ahead. In the lawsuit, Sandra Garza - the wife of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick - sued Mr Trump and two participants in the riot over his death. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67869363

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