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Free three-month courses to help people with health conditions are on offer to islanders in Jersey. Lifestyle Medicine Jersey, a non-profit organisation, said it had launched the courses to help people manage - and sometimes reverse - metabolic syndrome. It is the name for a group of health problems - such as being overweight and having high blood pressure - that can put you at risk of type 2 diabetes or effect heart or blood vessels. Dr Jo Darwood, GP and director at Lifestyle Medicine Jersey, said the courses were "all about prevention and empowerment". She added: "By addressing the root causes of metabolic syndrome, we aim to help people take control of their health, reduce dependence on medication and live longer, healthier lives." It has been funded by a grant from Jersey Community Foundation. Organisers said it provided practical ways to improve health through lifestyle changes such as better nutrition, exercise and stress management. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glkjwpk02o

Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse It was 20:25 on a Monday evening in November 2020 when Caroline Darian got the call that changed everything. On the other end of the phone was her mother, Gisèle Pelicot. "She announced to me that she discovered that morning that [my father] Dominique had been drugging her for about 10 years so that different men could rape her," Darian recalls in an exclusive interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme's Emma Barnett. "At that moment, I lost what was a normal life," says Darian, now 46. "I remember I shouted, I cried, I even insulted him," she says. "It was like an earthquake. A tsunami." Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in jail at the end of a historic three-and-a-half month trial in December. More than four years later, Darian says that her father "should die in prison". Fifty men who Dominique Pelicot recruited online to come rape and sexually assault his unconscious wife Gisèle were also sent to jail. He was caught by police after upskirting in a supermarket, leading investigators to look closer at him. On this seemingly innocuous retired grandfather's laptop and phones, they found thousands of videos and photos of his wife Gisèle, clearly unconscious, being raped by strangers. On top of pushing issues of rape and gender violence into the spotlight, the trial also highlighted the little-known issue of chemical submission - drug-facilitated assault. Caroline Darian has made it her life's struggle to fight chemical submission, which is thought to be under-reported as the majority of victims don't have any recollection of the assaults and may not even realise they were drugged. Darian wants abused women's voices to be heard In the days that followed Gisèle's fateful phone call, Darian and her brothers, Florian and David, travelled to the south of France where their parents had been living to support their mother as she absorbed the news that - as Darian now puts it - her husband was "one of the worst sexual predators of the last 20 or 30 years". Soon afterwards, Darian herself was called in by police - and her world shattered again. She was shown two photos they found on her father's laptop. They showed an unconscious woman lying on a bed, wearing only a T-shirt and underwear. At first, she couldn't tell the woman was her. "I lived a dissociation effect. I had difficulties recognising myself from the start," she says. "Then the police officer said: 'Look, you have the same brown mark on your cheek... it's you.' I looked at those two photos differently then... I was laying on my left side like my mother, in all her pictures." Gisèle Pelicot: How an ordinary woman shook attitudes to rape in France Who is Dominque Pelicot? Pelicot family torn apart Darian says she is convinced her father abused and raped her too - something he has always denied, although he has offered conflicting explanations for the photos. "I know that he drugged me, probably for sexual abuse. But I don't have any evidence," she says. Unlike her mother's case, there is no proof of what Pelicot may have done to Darian. "And that's the case for how many victims? They are not believed because there's no evidence. They're not listened to, not supported," she says. Soon after her father's crimes came to light, Darian wrote a book. I'll Never Call Him Dad Again explores her family's trauma. It also delves deeper into the issue of chemical submission, in which the drugs typically used "come from the family's medicine cabinet". "Painkillers, sedatives. It's medication," Darian says. As is the case for almost half of victims of chemical submission, she knew her abuser: the danger, she says, "is coming from the inside." She says that in the midst of the trauma of finding out she had been raped more than 200 times by different people, her mother Gisèle found it difficult to accept that her husband may have also assaulted their daughter. "For a mum it's difficult to integrate that all in one go," she says. Yet when Gisèle decided to open up the trial to the public and the media so as to expose what had been done to her by her husband and dozens of men, mother and daughter were in agreement: "I knew we went through something... horrible, but that we had to go through it with dignity and strength.. Now, Darian needs to understand how to live knowing she is the daughter of both the torturer and the victim - something she calls "a terrible burden". She is now unable to think back to her childhood with the man she calls Dominique, only occasionally slipping back into the habit of referring to him as her father. "When I look back I don't really remember the father that I thought he was. I look straight to the criminal, the sexual criminal he is," she says. "But I have his DNA and the main reason why I am so engaged for invisible victims is also for me a way to put a real distance with this guy," she tells Emma Barnett. "I am totally different from Dominique." Darian adds she doesn't know whether her father was a "monster," as some have called him. "He knew perfectly well what he did, and he's not sick," she says. "He is a dangerous man. There is no way he can get out. No way." It will be years before Dominique Pelicot, 72, is eligible for parole, so it is possible he will never see his family again. Meanwhile, the Pelicots are rebuilding themselves. Gisèle, Darian said, was exhausted from the trial, but also "recovering... She is doing well". As for Darian, the only question she is interested in now is to raise awareness of chemical submission - and to better educate children on sexual abuse. She derives strength from her husband, her brothers and her 10-year-old - her "lovely son", she says with a smile, her voice full of affection. The events that were unleashed on that November day made her who she is today, Darian says. Now, this woman whose life was wrecked by a tsunami on a November night is trying to only look ahead. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2egdp4egl7o

Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 brings discounts, bank benefits, and other offers on a wide range of consumer electronics, from smartphones and tablets to gaming consoles and televisions. The sale commenced on January 13 and will end on January 19. So, if you're planning to invest in a new gaming console or want to upgrade your existing one, then the Amazon sale is one of the best times to do so. Gaming consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are available at considerably lower prices than their market rates. Additionally, there are offers on top games and gaming accessories too. The Amazon sale currently offers the Xbox Series S 1TB for Rs. 36,999, down from its listed price of Rs. 47,999. The console supports up to 120fps gameplay and has 1TB of SSD storage. Apart from price cuts, the e-commerce platform also offers bank benefits, coupons and no-cost EMI options on products. Buyers can get a 10 percent instant discount up to Rs. 14,000 on SBI card and a 5 percent cashback on Amazon Pay ICICI Bank credit card transactions. Those who do not wish to pay the full amount in one go can take advantage of EMI options. Purchases made during the Great Republic Day Sale 2025 will also unlock bumper rewards worth Rs. 5,000. Amazon Great Republic Day Sale: Best Offers on Games If you already have a console and are on the hunt for great titles, then Amazon has something in store for you as well. First and third-party games for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo are listed with substantial price cuts. Buyers can grab games such as EA Sports FC 25, God of War Ragnarök, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at considerably lower prices than the ones listed on Amazon. Link: https://www.gadgets360.com/games/features/amazon-great-republic-day-sale-2025-best-deals-on-gaming-consoles-controllers-games-xbox-series-s-ps5-nintendo-switch-7478885#pfrom=home-po[CENSORED]r

In an interesting turn of events, perhaps in an effort to increase the pressure on Windows 10 users to upgrade, Microsoft has issued a vague suggestion that the free upgrade to Windows 11 might expire, possibly at the same time support runs out for the older OS. Neowin noticed that Microsoft has penned a blog post which advises Windows 10 users that they need to carefully mull their options considering that support is discontinued on October 14, 2025. And naturally, one of those choices is to upgrade to Windows 11 (another is to pay for an extended program of updates for a year, an option that’s not been available to consumers in the past, just businesses). At any rate, the key point is the title of the post, which is: “Free Upgrade to Windows 11 (For a Limited Time Only).” Now, this is interesting, because as far as we’re aware, Microsoft has never specifically mentioned that the free upgrade to Windows 11 has a time limit on it. One way you could read this title, then, is that there is indeed an expiry date for the offer, which would presumably be when Windows 10 support finishes – which is the hint imparted here, given the subject of the blog post. Analysis: Would Microsoft really do this? The question this throws up is: will Windows 11 no longer be free when Windows 10 hits End of Life? Well, we shouldn’t get carried away here, that’s for sure, as it’s notable that the only mentioned of ‘limited time’ is in the headline, and there’s no reference to this anywhere else in the article. You’d expect it to be clarified somewhere, after all, so perhaps it’s just a throwaway comment of sorts. That said, this feels like some kind of a hint being dropped, and the official stance on the freebie offer, as outlined by Microsoft in the FAQ for the ‘How to get Windows 11’ portal is as follows: “The free upgrade offer does not have a specific end date for eligible systems. However, Microsoft reserves the right to eventually end support for the free offer.” No one has ever taken that second sentence all that seriously, and it’s been regarded as just part of the usual clauses and embellishments that can be added by companies in a ‘just in case’ kind of fashion. However, perhaps Microsoft will actually exercise that right when Windows 10 shuffles off its mortal coil later this year. It’s far from unthinkable. While we can envisage such a future, there remains a pressing concern for Microsoft – Windows 11 adoption has been painfully slow. And ultimately, the software giant still wants people to make the move to Windows 11, so ditching the free offer would work against that. Or, perhaps more to the point, if the freebie upgrade is officially canned come October 2025, Microsoft might still leave loopholes open that allow folks to step up to Windows 11 free of charge. Just as happened with Windows 10 when Microsoft ended the free upgrade there, which was only supposed to be good for a year, but was left available for a long, long time after that period had expired. It’s my feeling this is likely a move by Microsoft to help persuade fence-sitters to get on with it and upgrade to Windows 11, which, to be fair, at this point they should be doing anyway. Overall, I’m not convinced there’s any real teeth to the very vague threat aired here, but I could of course be wrong. Link: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-turns-up-the-heat-on-window-10-diehards-hinting-that-free-upgrade-to-windows-11-could-be-ditched-later-this-year

Our RAM benchmark hierarchy assists you in locating the fastest DDR5 and DDR4 memory kits for your system. People frequently underestimate RAM (Random Access Memory), yet it is among the most vital hardware components. Choosing the appropriate or inappropriate memory kit can significantly influence your system's performance in gaming, productivity, and, if insufficient, overall sluggishness. Remember, consult our Best RAM list for the best memory deals. Companies regularly release new memory kits with different speeds, timings, capacities, and ranks, making sifting through seemingly endless models surprisingly time-consuming. Our RAM benchmark hierarchy aims to provide a simple database that ranks the best memory kits based on pure performance. We use a geometric mean of our memory benchmarking results to keep the ranking objective and discard the intangibles, like aesthetics and overclocking headroom. We've got those details in the individual RAM reviews. Furthermore, we suspect many of you would value performance over anything else. However, the geometric means don't always tell the whole story: If you're looking for performance in a specific workload or gaming, we recommend looking at the full review of the memory kit you have in mind. The score results originate from the geometric mean from our RAM benchmark suite, which consists of scripted and real-world tests. They include Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Lightroom, Cinebench 2024, Corona 12 benchmark, Blender 4.0 benchmark, V-Ray 6 benchmark, 7-Zip compression and decompression, HandBrake x264 and x265 conversion, LuxMark v4, Windows AI inference, and Y-Cruncher. For simplicity, we've separated the memory kits into different categories according to their densities. Then, we ranked the memory kits for each capacity from best to worst for both Intel and AMD systems. The score in our hierarchy might vary somewhat from the geometric mean indicated in the individual review. This difference arises as we aim to deliver results based on the latest and most relevant Intel and AMD platforms. We retest each memory kit to ensure that the metrics in the table are as current as possible. We conduct retests when there are significant updates to either of our testing systems, including new processors, motherboards, graphics cards, or firmware revisions. Memory pricing is very volatile. We've restrained ourselves from providing a price-to-performance value since it only captures the pricing for one static moment, and memory pricing fluctuates far too much. So, while you can see up-to-date pricing in each table below, the performance measurements don't consider the price tag. If you're torn between two specific kits, you can easily compare the choices by calculating the real-time pricing divided by the geometric mean. Ideally, you'll aim for the lowest value, as a lower figure indicates better value for your money. Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ram-benchmark-hierarchy

Cookie Run: Kingdom is expanding its roster and storyline with an exciting update. Two new Cookies, Shadow Milk Cookie and Candy Apple Cookie, are stepping into the spotlight, and Episode 7: Spire of Shadows brings fresh challenges for you to tackle. First up is the Beast Shadow Milk Cookie. He is a powerhouse channelling energy from another realm. His skill, Puppet Show, targets enemies with the lowest HP, inflicting periodic damage and ending with a Grand Finale that hits all enemies. This finale also applies Taint, dealing additional damage. Once defeated, he transforms into the Shadow Form and continues summoning puppets. Alongside Shadow Milk Cookie, you’ll meet Candy Apple Cookie, who uses a giant lollipop to crush enemies. This attack reduces their attack and defence while shattering to grant HP Shields and boost allies' attack. Candy Apple Cookie’s shards further increase the damage enemies take, making him a formidable ally in battle. The new storyline, Spire of Shadows, introduces the Confusion and Distortion mechanics from Stage 7-4. Confusion increases the team’s damage received, while Shadow Milk Cookie and Candy Apple Cookie get stronger. On certain stages, the Domain of Deceit effect will reduce the damage these Cookies take, adding some new layers of strategy in combat. You’ll also join Pure Vanilla Cookie in his journey to the Spire of All Knowledge, unlocking memories and secrets that shape the Cookie World’s fate. Completing this episode unlocks the Bear Jelly Balloon expeditions, allowing you to collect Yeast Ore and increase your Rainbow Pearls in the Trade Harbor. Here’s our Cookie Run: Kingdom tier list featuring the best characters currently available! The Monster Menace event is another addition, where you can clear stages for extra rewards like Soulstones and Beascuits. With the Monster Menace Marathon, completing a certain number of stages grants additional rewards even after the event ends. Hop into the new update by downloading Cookie Run: Kingdom now for free. Visit the official website for more information. Link: https://www.pocketgamer.com/cookie-run-kingdom/jan-15-update/

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