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CFP Director 'Furious' About Leak of SMU Selection Over Alabama Before Bracket RevealPACS Investors Have Opportunity to Lead PACS Group Inc. Securities Fraud LawsuitSouth Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol authorised the military to fire their weapons if needed to enter parliament during his failed bid to impose martial law, according to a prosecutor's report. The background: On 3 December, as MPs rushed to parliament to vote down Yoon's martial law declaration, heavily armed troops stormed the building, scaling fences, smashing windows and landing by helicopter. New allegations have now emerged in a 10-page summary from a prosecution indictment report, which was provided to the media. That report said Yoon vowed on 3 December to declare martial law three times if necessary. According to the report, Yoon told the chief of the capital defence command, Lee Jin-woo, that military forces could shoot if necessary to enter the National Assembly. The key quotes: "Have you still not got in? What are you doing? Break down the door and drag them out, even if it means shooting," Yoon told Lee, according to the report. Yoon also allegedly told the head of the Defense Counterintelligence Command, General Kwak Jong-keun, to "quickly get inside" the National Assembly since the quorum for the martial law declaration to be lifted had not been met. What else to know: Yoon's lawyer Yoon Kab-keun dismissed the prosecutors' report, saying it was "a one-sided account that neither corresponds to objective circumstances nor common sense". Yoon was stripped of his duties by the National Assembly this month , and is under investigation for his short-lived attempt to scrap civilian rule, which plunged the country into political turmoil and led to his impeachment. South Korea's Constitutional Court held its first preliminary hearing on the validity of Yoon's impeachment on Friday. Yoon and a number of senior officials face a separate criminal investigation for potential charges of insurrection, abuse of authority and obstructing people from exercising their rights. What happens next: The Constitutional Court will hold a second hearing next week to review whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him permanently from office. It has 180 days to reach a decision. The court will also decide the fate of Yoon's replacement, Han Duck-soo, who was impeached Friday over his refusal to complete Yoon's impeachment process and bring him to justice. Read more: How South Korea's martial law chaos unfolded, and what could happen nextNo. 5 Alabama has a reputation as 3-point gunners, but it's defense and rebounding that have become a focus as the Tide welcome South Dakota State to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to end the 2024 calendar year. Alabama (10-2) is frequently thought of as an offensive 3-point shooting free-for-all program, but Nate Oats' 2024-25 squad has thrived largely on the basis of inside play. The Tide are shooting 62.2 percent on their two-point attempts and grab 45 rebounds per game, each figure placing the team among the national leaders in those categories. Alabama does still shoot an average of 31 3-point shots per game, again one of the nation's highest totals. But so far, Alabama's 31.2 percent connection rate is very ordinary. But connecting inside and owning the glass has held benefits for Alabama. Meanwhile, defense has concerned Oats, particularly coming off a 97-90 win over North Dakota on Dec. 18. Oats issued warnings about players losing spots in the rotation if defensive execution didn't improve. Alabama passed the first post-North Dakota test in an 81-54 win over Kent State on Sunday. "We did make a big point of emphasis on defense, especially after that debacle up in North Dakota," said Oats after the Kent State victory. "It was a much better defensive effort, so it will be a lot better Christmas break for us." Alabama won the rebounding battle over Kent State 60-40, although Oats contended that the Tide "gave up too many second-chance points." Alabama made 72 percent of its two-point attempts even as just 9 of 35 3-point attempts connected. Alabama has battled personnel uncertainty early in the season. An Achilles injury ended the season of guard Latrell Wrightsell Jr. just as transfer Chris Youngblood was preparing to return from an ankle injury. The Tide have 11 players averaging double-digit minutes and eight averaging 7.4 points per game or better, led by super senior guard Mark Sears with 17.8 ppg. Super senior forward Grant Nelson remains a key player, leading the Tide with 8.7 rebounds per game while adding 12.8 ppg. Meanwhile, South Dakota State (9-5) will pin its upset hopes largely on Aussie transfer Oscar Cluff. A 6-foot-11 senior who transferred in from Washington State, Cluff has averaged 16.6 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. Cluff is connecting on 71.4 percent of his shot attempts. He's also shooting 79.2 percent at the foul line and has stabilized a young Jackrabbits team with four freshmen among the top seven scorers. "Oscar's just built the right way," said coach Eric Henderson. "We have probably played through the post more than any other team in the country the last five years and we just felt like we needed a big man that had some experience and boy does he ever." Cluff had a streak of five straight double-doubles, but that ended in recent losses to Nevada and Colorado. The Jackrabbits won 87-72 over Chadron State in their last game on Dec. 19. --Field Level Media

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While it’s easy to get lost in the latest headlines, now is a good time to take action so that your retirement savings are working as hard as possible for you. By following this checklist, you can improve your investment options, lower your fees, reduce future taxes, and better organize your finances for long-term security. Have a retirement plan ‘reunion’ When financial planners start working with clients, one of the first things we request are the latest statements from all their investment accounts. Some clients easily provide updated reports, while others struggle to track them down. Even after working with us for years, some clients still remember an old account they forgot about. A former colleague called this the “weed garden” — small, forgotten accounts acquired over a series of career moves. With average job tenure perhaps shorter than ever, you don’t need to be that old to have a weed garden. These accounts are rarely monitored and may be invested in archaic, high-cost funds. Years from now those accounts may be completely forgotten. If you have multiple accounts scattered across various employers or financial institutions, now is the time to gather up those statements. This may require a little digging into your work history, but once you have those statements, you’re ready to take the next step. Consider consolidating your accounts While everyone’s financial situation is unique, in general there is little reason have more than a few retirement accounts. If you’re working for an employer with a retirement plan, you’ll want to keep that account open as you’re contributing to them and hopefully receiving an employer match. What about your older accounts? Taking a step back, know that while there are many varieties of retirement accounts, most of them fall into one of two camps — pre-tax and tax-free. In most cases your pre-tax retirement account balances can be moved directly without paying any tax into a traditional IRA or your current retirement plan. The same is true for your tax-free retirement accounts (also called Roth accounts) that may be rolled into a Roth IRA or retirement plan. With both pre-tax and tax-free accounts, you need to contact the investment company of the old plan that you want to move. Your current retirement plan could be a good target for those funds if it has several low-cost diversified investment choices. If you want more investment choices or work with a financial adviser that manages your accounts, you may favor a traditional IRA (pre-tax) or Roth IRA (tax-free). Inherited accounts are not as easy to consolidate, make sure you consult a professional before moving them. Make the right tax election — for most, that’s a Roth When we look at tax rates over the last few decades, you can see they are currently historically low. Unless you’re earning a high income now (above the 24% federal tax bracket), think about directing your retirement savings into tax-free accounts (Roth) rather than pre-tax. In doing so, you’re electing to pay taxes at low rates now to get tax-free investment growth and distributions later when you need the money. Are your investments still the right fit? Retirement accounts change over time with investment options being added and dropped. Look at your retirement accounts. Are they invested in low-cost investment funds? If you have holdings in high-cost investments, know why you’re making this choice as there’s a correlation with low costs and investment performance. It’s also a good time to reassess the risk level in your portfolio. Given the stock market’s strong performance recently, your asset allocation might have shifted, becoming more aggressive than intended. Consider rebalancing your portfolio to bring it back in line with your original investment strategy. If you’re not sure how to invest your retirement funds, a good starting point can be a target retirement fund with the year closest to your projected retirement date. Older workers can boost their contributions In 2025, a new benefit for workers aged 60 to 63 will go into effect under the Secure 2.0 Act. These workers will be able to contribute an additional $3,750 to their 401(k) for a total contribution limit of $34,750 (compared to $23,500 for those under 50, and $31,000 for those 50 and over). If you’re nearing retirement age, this “Super Catch-Up” provision can be a valuable opportunity to boost your retirement savings in the final years before retirement. David Gardner is a certified financial planner and is admitted to practice before the IRS. He recently retired from an independent investment advisory firm and continues to write about financial topics. As financial planning is only possible after knowing the client, the column is not intended to be personal financial or tax advice. Data presented is believed to be accurate at the time of writing.When night falls in the Australian Outback, the hunt begins. The prey: kangaroos roaming – hopping – in the wild. Rifle shots ring out, killing them by the millions, including hundreds of thousands of female roos, some with tiny joeys in their pouches. This is the stark reality explored in the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Chasing Roo , directed by two-time Oscar nominee Skye Fitzgerald ( Hunger Ward , Lifeboat ). “I wanted to do something about this ascendancy that we assume over animals, writ large,” Fitzgerald tells Deadline. “I thought, what better way to do it than through the lens of this lovable animal, the kangaroo, the national symbol of Australia. And when I learned that the culling of kangaroos in Australia is the largest commercial killing of a land-based animal in the world, I thought this is the way, this is how I want to tell this story.” The film begins with a scene in the interior of a darkened truck, where lifeless kangaroos hang from hooks. “That shot was from where they load the roos in at the end of a hunt, and then they’re stored in that refrigerated box for up to a week before another truck comes around to collect them and bring them to the abattoir where they’re processed,” Fitzgerald explains. “That’s a weekly event where that truck comes around. We witnessed a number of those times — the transferring of the carcasses from that refrigerator box to the truck. And it’s sobering.” Kangaroo meat is processed into pet food, and the animals’ hides are turned into leather goods – jackets, purses, hats, gloves, and even soccer cleats. The meat is also consumed by humans, packaged in grocery stores as steaks, in minced form like ground beef, and as sausages – known as “kanga bangas.” “When you see the commercialization of a body, that distance between that package of protein in the supermarket and where it came from is completely evaporated, and it makes you think on a fundamental level about what you’re doing to another creature on this planet,” the director observes. “I mean, what gives us the right to eat another creature’s body? We have these hands and this brain, I guess, but I wanted in the film, not explicitly, but to sort of implicitly question and confront that.” Fitzgerald has been a vegetarian for various stretches in his life. But he doesn’t approach his subject from a doctrinaire perspective. “One of my intents with the film was to try to create a story that created empathy for both the hunted as well as the hunters,” he says. “I felt like it was really important to not immediately just demonize and tell the audience how to feel about this because it’s far more complex than that.” The film spends time with caregivers at Western QLD Wildlife Rehabilitation who rescue orphaned joeys, wallabies and other creatures. But it also follows a father and his teenage son – David “Cujo” Coulton and Darby Coulton – who hunt kangaroos and feral pigs in the vicinity of tiny Aramac, Queensland, a dusty outpost of about 200 people where there are few ways to make a living. “One of my intents was to sort of embrace the cognitive dissonance involved in the kangaroo harvest,” Fitzgerald says. “Cujo, the primary shooter with his son Darby, he worships the kangaroo — he said this multiple times. He has a tattoo of a kangaroo on his torso, and he says really clearly that this is the animal which has allowed him to raise his family and that he loves them. And yet at the same time, he kills hundreds of them every year.” Fitzgerald adds, “These competing realities of economically downtrodden communities that rely on the kangaroo harvest to make a living are in coexistence with these carer communities... that raise the juveniles that are orphaned. They’re both equally true and authentic. I wanted that cognitive dissonance to be at play in the film rather than provide an easy out or an answer for the audience.” The Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water in 2024 estimated the kangaroo population in five of Australia’s six states at 35.3 million. It authorized a cull of almost 5 million roos, or 14 percent of the population. The government calls that hunting figure “sustainable,” but whether that’s an accurate assessment or a sop to ranching interests remains a matter of dispute. “The government’s in a tough spot. The grazers — those who own most of the land and raise the sheep and cows — have a pretty strong set of rhetoric, and they use terms like ‘Roos are in plague proportions,’ that’s a phrase you hear a lot,” Fitzgerald notes. “The grazers have so much political power that they’ve convinced the government that the roos are in plague proportions because they don’t want the roos to compete for grass, grazeland and water with their sheep and cattle, which aren’t even indigenous animals, because they’re much more profitable, the cattle and sheep. So, they’ve built up this set of rhetoric over a long period of time, which has sort of been canonized now in the political speak. That’s really what’s at play here.” The ethical question of whether it’s proper to kill so many kangaroos extends beyond Australia to countries that import kangaroo products, including the United States. In 2021, the U.S. Congress voted down the Kangaroo Protection Act, which would have banned the sale and importation of such products (California has banned those imports since 1971). Meanwhile, the culling continues, with a discernible impact on kangaroos. The film notes the remaining roo population is shrinking – not in numbers necessarily, but in size of individual animals. There’s a simple explanation why, Fitzgerald says: hunters train their gunsights on the largest roos; the bigger the roo, the more money it will yield at harvest. “As they kill off the alpha males,” the filmmaker says, “it’s actually changing the gene pool so that as the alpha males are killed, it’s the juveniles who are reproducing, which is making smaller sizes for the kangaroos.” Fitzgerald shot footage in slaughterhouses where kangaroos are processed but ultimately chose to leave that out of the documentary. Still, there are plenty of bracing images in Chasing Roo . “Instead of intellectualizing the issue,” he says his purpose was to “bring the viewer into this world that’s so hard to access... I wanted to do it in a way where it sort of hit you in the gut where you bear witness, literally, to how we as human beings treat animals.”

-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Donald Trump 's love of the Village People is well-documented , as is the group's pushback against tracks like "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho Man" being played at Trump rallies. The disco group's co-founder Victor Willis walked back that opposition on Thursday during a visit to Fox News. Willis told the hosts of "Fox & Friends First" that he relented on his years-long opposition to Trump's use of their hits after seeing how much "joy to the American people" the song brought during events. “I decided to allow the president-elect’s continued use of 'Y.M.C.A.' because he seems to genuinely, genuinely like the song,” he said. “So I decided to contact BMI and told them not to terminate his political use license because he seemed to be bringing so much joy to the American people with his use of 'Y.M.C.A.'" Related "Completely misguided": Village People singer denies "Y.M.C.A." is a gay anthem; defends Trump use Trump's usage of the track and jerky, two-fisted dance became a trend among Republican TikTok users celebrating his Election Day victory. While speaking to Fox, Willis noted that the track had seen a significant spike in airplay in recent weeks. The song topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart for the week of November 17. The grateful singer initially balked at the idea of playing Trump's inauguration for fear of an implied endorsement on Thursday, but he refused to rule out the move entirely. “The president-elect has done so much for 'Y.M.C.A'. and brought so much joy to so many people, the song has actually gone back to number one," Willis said. "So, if he were to ask the Village People to perform the song live for him, we’d have to seriously consider it.” Watch Willis' comments below via Fox News: Read more about Donald Trump Trump wanted to build an anti-#MeToo Cabinet — but it's backfiring badly Yes, Trump can wield CIA, FBI for his own ends Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail MORE FROM Alex Galbraith Advertisement:

I’ve built a portfolio of around 20 top UK shares inside a self-invested personal pension (SIPP). That seems the right amount for diversification purposes but what if I was only limited to five? Which ones would I save? The easiest option would be to hang on to my winners and sell my losers, but there’s an argument for doing the opposite. For example, shares in spirits giant have plunged but could stage a strong recovery once consumers feel better off. The flipside is that I’m worried about reports that younger people drink less. So which FTSE 100 stocks should I sell? On the other hand, shares in private equity specialist are up 64.17% over one year and 170.28% over two. But 3i is highly dependent on one single portfolio holding, European discount retailer , which distorts the figures. In practice, I’d take my loss on Diageo and profit on 3i (happily the latter far outweighs the former) and move on. There’s one stock I wouldn’t sell. Paper and packaging retailer (LSE: SWR) has given me a bumpy ride but things are looking up. I bought the Ireland-based company to benefit from a resurgence in e-commerce as the cost-of-living crisis eased and consumers started spending again. I didn’t know it was about to create the world’s largest cardboard box maker by merging with US operator WestRock. Markets decided the board had overpaid, and my shares slumped. But the benefits of the merger are starting to reveal themselves. Q3 results showed a net loss of $150m but that was mostly down to $500m of merger costs, while total net sales jumped by $2,915m to $7,671m. CEO Tony Smurfit said the tie-up should deliver benefits at least equal to his stated synergy target of $400m. I reckon the share price has further to go The Smurfit WestRock share price is up 23.51% over one month and 22.54% over one year, and I think there’s more to come. The group also gives me US exposure. I’d also hold on to my shares in , which I bought as a portfolio building block. I’m frustrated by accusations of motor finance mis-selling (why always Lloyds?) but don’t feel this is the time to sell. And I’d keep . Just a few weeks ago this was bombing along and giving me a 7% yield too. Now its shares have plunged due to fears that interest rates will stay higher for longer, keeping mortgage rates high and house prices down. I think it will recover, given time. Oil giant is my most recent share price stock purchase , despite the long-term threat of the energy transition. Plus I’d also keep wealth manager , which gives me . This means saying goodbye to , which may have peaked after a stellar run, consumer goods plodder , struggling miner and defence manufacturer . I wonder which I’d regret selling most? Given the state of today’s world, probably BAE. In reality, I’ll hang on to them all. Five stocks is too small for a balanced portfolio. I’ll continue to spread my risk with 20!Cellectar Biosciences Provides Strategic Update on Clinical Development, Pipeline Programs and ...Carrick's upbeat verdict on Middlesbrough's Leeds loss & 'loads of good things' claimAspen Technology stock hits 52-week high at $249.94

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IMC Campus held its annual graduation ceremony recently (14) at BMICH, Colombo in affiliation with the IIC University of Technology. The Chief Guest was Prof. G.A.Sanjeewanie Ginigaddara (Former Vice Chancellor of Rajarata University. Also present were Dr. Kavya Jayakody (Founder/Director of IMC Campus), Dr. Engineer. Priyantha Morapitiya (Senior Lecturer), Dr. Pradeep Edward (Director/General Manager of Hemas Capital Hospital), Dr Dhanushka Wickramarathne (Head of Business Development, International Relations, Climate & Geospatial Engineering of CESL) and Dr. Keerthi Nawarathne (Deputy Director General of Sri Lanka Institute of Advance Technological Education). Over 160 students were awarded their Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral Studies by the dignitaries present. The ceremony organization led by Dr. Amal Wijenayaka (Head of Academics), Sarala Udadewaarachchi (Center Manager) and Pragashene Sivalingam (Executive Administration).