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Ask Amy: Household chores become a high-stakes game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Dear Amy: My husband and I have a bright, high-functioning 16-year-old daughter.I have been teaching her how to perform basic household chores (I do the same with our 12-year-old son), and some basic cooking and cleaning skills in order to have some help at home, but mainly so that our kids will understand that everyone in the family pitches in, and that it’s important to have some life-skills. I am a stay-at-home parent and a busy volunteer at their school.At first I thought our daughter didn’t understand some of these basic instructions, which I had shown her and then written down. She just couldn’t seem to get things right. She used floor cleaner on the stove, left wet paper towels on the wooden dining room table, damaging it, and a few other mess-ups like “forgetting” to put wet laundry in the dryer, but leaving it on the floor, instead.Then I overheard her bragging to her cousin that she was purposely messing up in order to get me to back off.I am furious. My husband thinks she...

Natural population decrease in most EU regions in 2021

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

Between 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU’s population decreased by 265 257 people. This reduction could be attributed to natural population changes (more deaths than births), as net migration plus adjustment remained positive (more people entered the EU rather than left it). In addition, the pandemic played a role.In 2021, the EU’s crude rate of natural population change was -2.7 per 1,000 people. At the NUTS 3 level, 980 regions out of 1,164, for which data are available, had a negative rate of natural population change (represented by the gold tones in the map), 173 regions registered a positive rate and 11 regions saw no change (same number of births as deaths), both represented in green-blue tones on the map.In 2021, every NUTS 3 region of Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Portugal and Romania registered a negative crude rate of natural population change. In Czechia, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia’s cases, almost...

EU and international community, including media, urged to 'wake up' to 'genocide' in Sudan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

The conflict in Sudan has been branded as "genocide" but is something that the West remains "indifferent" too, a conference in Brussels was told.The event, at the city's press club on 23 November, heard that "hundreds" of innocent people are being killed on a daily basis but the international community has remained relatively "silent" in its condemnation of the atrocities. The EU and Europe may yet regret such alleged "indifference" if the fighting spills over into neighbouring states and sparks another wave of migration to the EU, the debate heard.Sudan is in north-east Africa and is one of the largest countries on the continent, covering 1.9 million square kilometres and recent fighting has swiftly escalated in different parts of the country with more than 400 civilians dying, according to the World Health Organization. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, RSF, a Sudanese-Arab militia, is blamed for more than 50 days of attacks on the city’s majority ethnic Afric...

Review: ‘Maestro’ leaves Bernstein’s greatest notes unplayed

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

By Jake Coyle | Associated PressBradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein’s very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre. How each side of Bernstein’s existence interacts with the other is the tension and harmony of “Maestro.” Which is authentic? Which a performance?Resolving those dichotomies is, thankfully, not the aim of Cooper’s admirably ambitious if performative drama about the musical conscience of 20th century America. Bernstein’s polymorphous life was spread between his family life and a string of male lovers, just as it was between conducting and the solitary toil of composing. “Maestro” resists neat conclusions about any facet of an expansively contradictory life.“If you carry around both personalities, I suppose that means you become a schizophrenic and that...

Horoscopes Nov. 24, 2023: Sarah Hyland, tune in to what’s trending

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Sarah Hyland, 33; Katherine Heigl, 45; Colin Hanks, 46; Pete Best, 82.Happy Birthday: Push forward, compensate for lost time and refuse to let anyone slow you down. Take the initiative to do things your way this year. An aggressive, hands-on attitude will help you reach your target. Strive to make professional and personal improvements. Pick up more skills, tune in to what’s trending and control the dialogue to ensure you receive and pass along information based on facts. Express your feelings. Your numbers are 4, 12, 18, 25, 31, 38, 47.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Invest in yourself and the things you enjoy doing most. Refuse to let anyone railroad you into heading in a direction that benefits them more than you. Learn from the experience and recognize that doing your own thing is OK. Share your feelings. 3 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): A change you encounter will lead to an unexpected opportunity. Go the distance, and you’ll discover someth...

South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius granted parole 10 years after killing his girlfriend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

FILE - Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after his sentencing proceedings. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)(AP/Themba Hadebe) FILE - Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after his sentencing proceedings. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was co...

Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole and will be released from prison on Jan. 5

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole and will be released from prison on Jan. 5.Source

H World Group: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

SHANGHAI (AP) — SHANGHAI (AP) — H World Group Limited (HTHT) on Friday reported profit of $183 million in its third quarter.On a per-share basis, the Shanghai-based company said it had net income of 56 cents.The hotel operator posted revenue of $861 million in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on HTHT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/HTHTSource

Música compuesta en los campos de concentración de Auschwitz sonará por primera vez tras ser restaurada

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

(CNN) — La próxima semana se interpretarán por primera vez fragmentos de partituras musicales descubiertas en Auschwitz tras haber sido minuciosamente restauradas por un compositor.Leo Geyer, de 31 años y director de orquesta, dijo que tropezó con la colección de manuscritos musicales por accidente durante una visita a Auschwitz en 2015.Geyer visitaba el antiguo campo de concentración nazi tras recibir el encargo de componer una partitura musical en memoria de Martin Gilbert, historiador británico y experto en el Holocausto fallecido en febrero de ese año.Geyer, que no es judío, viajó a Polonia para “hacerse una idea de la gravedad” del trabajo de Gilbert. Allí se reunió con un archivero del Museo Conmemorativo de Auschwitz-Birkenau, quien le comentó que tenían restos de partituras musicales arregladas y tocadas por las orquestas del campo.Así era Auschwitz, el infame campo de concentración del Holocausto naziUna actuación orquestal en Auschwitz. (Crédito: The Ausc...

Greatest of The Games: 6 of the most memorable meetings between Ohio State and Michigan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:52 GMT

If it is Michigan-Ohio State it is most likely a huge game.No rivalry has produced more games matching Associated Press ranked teams (No. 49 on Saturday), top-10 matchups (26) and top-five games (13).The Game is filled with lore and legends and thrilling performances.Even before the second-ranked Buckeyes and third-ranked Wolverines kick off Saturday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the 119th meeting will be historic.Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will not be on the sideline as he serves the final game of a suspension handed down by the Big Ten for an alleged in-person scouting and sign-stealing scheme that is under investigation by the NCAA.The animosity between the heated rivals has probably never been higher and the stakes are massive with Big Ten and national championship implications. One day it will make the list of the six most memorable Ohio State-Michigan games (in chronological order).THE SNOW BOWLA winter storm swept through Columbus, Ohio, covering the field with snow and dropped te...