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Miss Manners: We aren’t invited to the shower but our co-worker wants gifts from us anyway

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A young colleague is expecting her first child. I am very happy for her, although I feel conflicted about how the celebration has been communicated.Related ArticlesAdvice | Miss Manners: My husband was upset by my request at the restaurant Advice | Miss Manners: Am I really ‘trying too hard to be liked’? Advice | Miss Manners: Please decree that people should not knock on a bathroom door Advice | Miss Manners: They say they’d rather die than live like I do. How should I respond? Advice | Miss Manners: How should I warn my neighbors about months of noise? She invited colleagues to purchase items from her registry by the date of her baby shower — to which there was no invitation. This communication went out via office email. I should add that this colleague’s superior is the head of human resources.Is it appropriate to ask for contributions from people who a...

Dear Abby: I thought I’d get over my husband’s misdeed but it haunts me

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

DEAR ABBY: Two years before he met me, my husband did something I feel was morally repugnant: He solicited a prostitute.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: She decided I can’t be near her children Advice | Dear Abby: The wedding is on hold, but the bride is apparently keeping my money Advice | Dear Abby: When he thought I was dying, he revealed his role in this painful deception Advice | Dear Abby: I don’t want to hear her fantasies about the priest Advice | Dear Abby: She offered no remorse for grabbing the spotlight at the engagement party When he committed this act, he was going through a dark period in his life. He was divorcing a woman who had cheated and left him for another man, raising his young son and dealing with immense feelings of insecurity.He told me all of this while we were dating, and I thought I would eventually get over it.However, almost five years into our relationship, ...

Stock market today: European shares lower after mixed Asian trading as China property shares soar

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

Shares opened mostly lower in Europe and Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday as Chinese benchmarks were lifted by hopes for fresh support for the country’s faltering property market. Germany’s DAX lost 0.5% to 15,695.66 and the CAC 40 in Paris sank 0.9% to 7,186.56. Britain’s FTSE declined 0.9% to 7,371.08.The future for the S&P 500 was down 0.2%, while that for the Dow industrials edged 0.1% lower.Losses in Hong Kong were trimmed by surging prices for heavyweight property companies after a Chinese media report raised hopes for new measures to prop up the real estate sector. The official newspaper Securities Times ran an article urging that restrictions on sales of property in smaller cities be lifted. Such limits have been used to prevent markets from overheating due to speculative buying, but the long slump in the industry justifies a rollback of those precautions, the article said. Chinese real estate developers have been struggling to meet their payment obligations...

El huracán Idalia trajo flamencos a Florida, el este de EE.UU. e incluso Ohio. Los científicos esperan que se queden

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

(CNN) — Cuando piensas en flamencos, las imágenes que te vienen a la mente probablemente sean de pozos de agua africanos, el Caribe, Florida o casi cualquier otro lugar que no sea Waynesville, Ohio.Entonces, cuando Jacob Roalef vio publicaciones en Facebook sobre flamencos en el Parque Estatal Ceasar Creek, cerca de Dayton, la semana pasada, se apresuró a verlos por sí mismo.“Rápidamente agarré mi equipo, le dije a mi esposa y salí por la puerta”, dijo a CNN Roalef, quien dirige recorridos de observación de aves.Cuando llegó allí, vio dos pájaros, un adulto y un juvenil, en el lago.“Los flamencos simplemente estaban pasando el rato y durmiendo aproximadamente a 30 cm de agua cerca de la costa”, dijo Roalef. “Se despertarían y beberían un poco de agua o mirarían hacia arriba si escucharan una gaviota volando”.Un flamenco avistado en Kentucky. (Crédito: Amanda Woods Frazier)Dijo que los pájaros permanecieron allí hasta alrededor de las 6 p.m., cuando un p...

US Secretary of State Blinken arrives in Ukraine on an unannounced visit hours after an overnight Russian missile attack

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — US Secretary of State Blinken arrives in Ukraine on an unannounced visit hours after an overnight Russian missile attack.Source

Leesburg Pet Festival hosts doggy talent show, obstacle course

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley previews The Village at Leesburg's Pet Festival (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Do you have a four-legged friend with special talents who just might rock a doggy obstacle course?Grab a leash and head to The Village at Leesburg’s Pet Festival on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 12 to 4 p.m.“We’re really excited to bring it back this year for the fourth year,” Th...

Wednesday live hearing could determine how quickly Fulton County election subversion case moves

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

(CNN) — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants, will hold his first hearing Wednesday afternoon amid questions of how soon a trial could begin.In a break with the hearings in federal court and the New York charges against Trump, Wednesday’s 1 p.m. ET hearing will be broadcast.The hearing could provide key insight into how much evidence Fulton County prosecutors have in their case against Trump and his allies who are accused of interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election results to try to flip the state away from Joe Biden.McAfee, in a court filing, said he is interested in having Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecutors provide a “good-faith estimate” for how long it would take to hold a joint trial for all 19 defendants, and how long it would take if the case is divided into subgroups of defendants. Specifically, he wants to know how many...

EU cracks down on 6 Big Tech giants

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

The European Union set tighter curbs on Apple, Amazon, Google owner Alphabet, Meta Platforms, ByteDance and Microsoft by naming them digital “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).Regulators also opened four investigations into Apple’s iMessage service and Microsoft’s Bing, Edge and Advertising businesses after the companies argued that they shouldn’t qualify under the new rules.Companies that operate a “core platform service,” such as Google Search, will have to comply with the DMA by March 2024. The DMA aims to halt Big Tech’s ability to abuse their market power and make it easier for smaller players to operate online. Seven companies had already self-notified the Commission that they met the thresholds for gatekeeper status under the law.Core platform services cover a wide range of companies’ offerings. They can be search engines, social networks, app stores, messaging platforms, virtual assistants, web browsers, operating systems an...

No surprise, Tom Brady returning to Foxboro as the winner

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

Taylor Swift?Bruce Springsteen?Beyoncé?Put them at the bottom of the marquee.After the word “with.”They are pedestrian lounge acts compared to the mega superstar returning to Gillette Stadium this weekend.The “Tom Brady 2023 Victory Tour” opens in Foxboro on Sunday.The Jacksons’ 1984 Victory tour doomed the Sullivan family financially when it owned the Patriots in the Bad Old Days.Brady’s 2023 Victory Tour will fatten Robert Kraft’s wallet. But it carries an incalculable cost.Tom Brady Day marks the end of three-way hostilities between Brady, his former coach and their boss.But this is no cease fire. It’s a capitulation.The deck of the USS Missouri.Yorktown.Appomattox.The “Lost Cause” is over.Brady won.(Social Media Fake Outrage Alert Disclaimer: We’re not alluding to anyone being sympathetic toward, or in line with Imperial Japan, the British Empire, or the Confederacy. It’s about winning and losing.)Brady left New England and went scorched earth through Atlanta and the...

Division 5-6 football players to watch

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:02:00 GMT

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ALIGNMENTEMASS DIVISION 5ApponequetArchbishop WilliamsBishop FenwickBishop StangDanversDedhamDighton-RehobothDover-SherbornDracutFalmouthFoxboroGloucesterGreater LawrenceGreater LowellHanoverMartha’s VineyardMedfieldMedwayNewburyportNortheastNortonOld RochesterPembrokeSaugusShawsheenWatertownWilmingtonDIVISION 6AbingtonArlington CatholicBellinghamCardinal SpellmanDennis-YarmouthEast BridgewaterFairhavenLynnfieldNorth ReadingNorwellPentucket/GeorgetownSt. Mary’sSalemSandwichSeekonkStonehamSwampscottTri-CountyTritonWestonWinthropDIVISION 5-6 DANDY DOZENWill Batten, Sr., RB, 6-0, 165, North Reading: Batten rushed for 872 yards and 15 touchdowns, while catching 23 passes for 454 yards and six scores in helping the Hornets win the Div. 5 state title.Amesbury High’s Henry O’Neill and Maximus Sanchez (25) grab hold of North Reading running back Will Batten during the first quarter of a game last fall. Batten rushed for 15 touchdowns and 872 yards last seaso...