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( MENAFN - Newsfile Corp) New Plymouth, New Zealand--(Newsfile Corp. - December 23, 2024) - New Zealand energy Corp. (TSXV: NZ) ("NZEC" or the " Company ") is pleased to announce that, further to its 29 October 2024 news release, it has received final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the " Exchange ") regarding the non-arm's length farmout agreement (the " Agreement" ) entered into between the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monumental Energy Corp. (" Monumental ") (TSXV: MNRG). In addition, the applicable consent of the Minister in New Zealand in accordance with the New Zealand Crown Minerals Act 1991 has also been obtained. Pursuant to the Agreement, Monumental is entitled to participate in the repair and workover of two wells, Copper Moki 1 & 2 (" CM 1 & 2 ") in order to restart production. The wells are located in a permitted block in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand in which NZEC holds a 100% interest. In exchange for paying for the workovers, which are estimated to cost approximately NZ$800,000, Monumental will be entitled to 75% of the oil and gas revenue, net of production costs, until its investment is recovered after which it will have a 25% net revenue interest, or royalty, in the permit. Monumental and NZEC expect the workovers will begin in early 2025. On behalf of the Board of Directors Mike Adams, Chief Executive Officer New Zealand Energy Corp. Tel: +64-6-757-4470 New Zealand Energy Corp. Contacts Email: ... Website: Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as such term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Forward-Looking Information: This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. 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WASHINGTON — As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for "exactly what our movement will do" with another crack at the White House. As the blueprint for a hard-right turn in America became a liability during the 2024 campaign, Trump pulled an about-face. He denied knowing anything about the "ridiculous and abysmal" plans written in part by his first-term aides and allies. Now, after being elected the 47th president on Nov. 5, Trump is stocking his second administration with key players in the detailed effort he temporarily shunned. Most notably, Trump has tapped Russell Vought for an encore as director of the Office of Management and Budget; Tom Homan, his former immigration chief, as "border czar;" and immigration hardliner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of policy. Those moves have accelerated criticisms from Democrats who warn that Trump's election hands government reins to movement conservatives who spent years envisioning how to concentrate power in the West Wing and impose a starkly rightward shift across the U.S. government and society. Trump and his aides maintain that he won a mandate to overhaul Washington. But they maintain the specifics are his alone. "President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025," said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt in a statement. "All of President Trumps' Cabinet nominees and appointments are whole-heartedly committed to President Trump's agenda, not the agenda of outside groups." The Office of Management and Budget director, a role Vought held under Trump previously and requires Senate confirmation, prepares a president's proposed budget and is generally responsible for implementing the administration's agenda across agencies. The job is influential, but Vought made clear as author of a Project 2025 chapter on presidential authority that he wants the post to wield more direct power. "The Director must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President's mind," Vought wrote. The OMB, he wrote, "is a President's air-traffic control system" and should be "involved in all aspects of the White House policy process," becoming "powerful enough to override implementing agencies' bureaucracies." Trump said Vought "knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State" — Trump's catch-all for federal bureaucracy — and would help "restore fiscal sanity." The strategy of further concentrating federal authority in the presidency permeates Project 2025's and Trump's campaign proposals. Vought's vision is especially striking when paired with Trump's proposals to dramatically expand the president's control over federal workers and government purse strings — ideas intertwined with the president-elect tapping mega-billionaire Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a "Department of Government Efficiency." Trump in his first term sought to remake the federal civil service by reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers — who have job protection through changes in administration — as political appointees, making them easier to fire and replace with loyalists. Currently, only about 4,000 of the federal government's roughly 2 million workers are political appointees. President Joe Biden rescinded Trump's changes. Trump can now reinstate them. Meanwhile, Musk's and Ramaswamy's sweeping "efficiency" mandates from Trump could turn on an old, defunct constitutional theory that the president — not Congress — is the real gatekeeper of federal spending. In his "Agenda 47," Trump endorsed so-called "impoundment," which holds that when lawmakers pass appropriations bills, they simply set a spending ceiling, but not a floor. The president, the theory holds, can simply decide not to spend money on anything he deems unnecessary. Trump's choice of Vought immediately sparked backlash. "Russ Vought is a farright ideologue who has tried to break the law to give President Trump unilateral authority he does not possess to override the spending decisions of Congress (and) who has and will again fight to give Trump the ability to summarily fire tens of thousands of civil servants," said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat and outgoing Senate Appropriations chairwoman. Trump's protests about Project 2025 always glossed over overlaps in the two agendas. Both want to reimpose Trump-era immigration limits. Project 2025 includes a litany of detailed proposals for various U.S. immigration statutes, executive branch rules and agreements with other countries — reducing the number of refugees, work visa recipients and asylum seekers, for example. Miller is one of Trump's longest-serving advisers and architect of his immigration ideas, including his promise of the largest deportation force in U.S. history. As deputy policy chief, which is not subject to Senate confirmation, Miller would remain in Trump's West Wing inner circle. "America First Legal," Miller's organization founded as an ideological counter to the American Civil Liberties Union, was listed as an advisory group to Project 2025 until Miller asked that the name be removed because of negative attention. Homan, a Project 2025 named contributor, was an acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during Trump's first presidency, playing a key role in what became known as Trump's "family separation policy." John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead the CIA, was previously one of Trump's directors of national intelligence. He is a Project 2025 contributor. The document's chapter on U.S. intelligence was written by Dustin Carmack, Ratcliffe's chief of staff in the first Trump administration. Reflecting Ratcliffe's and Trump's approach, Carmack declared the intelligence establishment too cautious. Ratcliffe, like the chapter attributed to Carmack, is hawkish toward China. Throughout the Project 2025 document, Beijing is framed as a U.S. adversary that cannot be trusted. Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, wrote Project 2025's FCC chapter and is now Trump's pick to chair the panel. 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Back in 2019, Shiza Shahid set out to transform the cookware market forever. According to the Pakistani entrepreneur and social activist, the $23 billion category was “tired” and urgently needed “design and innovation.” And so, she launched Our Place, a brand specializing in aesthetically pleasing, multifunctional, nontoxic cookware. Nearly six years later, the company is a certified hit: It’s a social media sensation (largely because of its sleek designs and multiple color ways) and just recently, the new titanium version of its now-iconic Always Pan was named one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2024. @shiza | Instagram RELATED: Is Enamel Cookware Non-Toxic? Our Top Picks According to Shahid, the key to Our Place’s continued success is its commitment to forward-thinking innovative designs in a great-looking package. “It was very important for us to bring joy and inspiration to the kitchen,” she told Forbes recently. “That’s what beautiful design is—it inspires you. Before Our Place, everything in the kitchen looked the same—black and stainless steel—and was hidden in the back of our cluttered cabinets.” She added: “We say our Always Pan is 10-in-1, but it’s really 11-in-1—enchantment is the eleventh function!” If you want to add a little bit of that enchantment to your kitchen, we’ve picked some of our favorite products from the brand below—from Always Pans to tableware to ovens and more. What is the Our Place pan made of? Our Place offers a wide range of pans and other cookware and bakeware items in a variety of materials. Its classic Always Pan design, for example, features a proprietary long-lasting ceramic non-stick coating called Thermakind, which is entirely free of PFAS. The pan is also available in “heirloom-quality” enameled cast iron , and as of 2024, the ultra-durable Titanium Always Pan Pro is available, too. Our Place BECOME A VEGNEWS VIP : Get exclusive product deals, freebies, and perks galore! 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Why SoundHound AI Stock Skyrocketed Again This WeekNEW YORK (AP) — Brian Thompson led one of the biggest health insurers in the U.S. but was unknown to millions of people his decisions affected. Then Wednesday's targeted fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk thrust the executive and his business into the national spotlight. Thompson, who was 50, had worked at the giant UnitedHealth Group Inc for 20 years and run the insurance arm since 2021 after running its Medicare and retirement business. As CEO, Thompson led a firm that provides health coverage to more than 49 million Americans — more than the population of Spain. United is the largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans, the privately run versions of the U.S. government’s Medicare program for people age 65 and older. The company also sells individual insurance and administers health-insurance coverage for thousands of employers and state-and federally funded Medicaid programs. The business run by Thompson brought in $281 billion in revenue last year, making it the largest subsidiary of the Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group. His $10.2 million annual pay package, including salary, bonus and stock options awards, made him one of the company's highest-paid executives. The University of Iowa graduate began his career as a certified public accountant at PwC and had little name recognition beyond the health care industry. Even to investors who own its stock, the parent company's face belonged to CEO Andrew Witty, a knighted British triathlete who has testified before Congress. When Thompson did occasionally draw attention, it was because of his role in shaping the way Americans get health care. At an investor meeting last year, he outlined his company's shift to “value-based care,” paying doctors and other caregivers to keep patients healthy rather than focusing on treating them once sick. “Health care should be easier for people,” Thompson said at the time. “We are cognizant of the challenges. But navigating a future through value-based care unlocks a situation where the ... family doesn’t have to make the decisions on their own.” Thompson also drew attention in 2021 when the insurer, like its competitors, was widely criticized for a plan to start denying payment for what it deemed non-critical visits to hospital emergency rooms. “Patients are not medical experts and should not be expected to self-diagnose during what they believe is a medical emergency,” the chief executive of the American Hospital Association wrote in an open letter addressed to Thompson. “Threatening patients with a financial penalty for making the wrong decision could have a chilling effect on seeking emergency care.” United Healthcare responded by delaying rollout of the change. Thompson, who lived in a Minneapolis suburb and was the married father of two sons in high school, was set to speak at an investor meeting in a midtown New York hotel. He was on his own and about to enter the building when he was shot in the back by a masked assailant who fled on foot before pedaling an e-bike into Central Park a few blocks away, the New York Police Department said. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said investigators were looking at Thompson's social media accounts and interviewing employees and family members. “Didn’t seem like he had any issues at all,” Kenny said. "He did not have a security detail.” AP reporters Michael R. Sisak and Steve Karnowski contributed to this report. Murphy reported from Indianapolis.
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Jim Comey , the former head of the FBI whose time was marked by his high-profile investigation of Hillary Clinton, delivered an impassioned message to his old colleagues on Tuesday night — and turned to philosopher Marcus Aurelius to do so. Comey made the remarks in a post on his Instagram account, where he encouraged his former FBI colleagues to resist taking “anyone’s side,” and reminded them: “You will be okay in the long run.” “The water is rough right now and the sea is likely to rage over the next four years, but your children and grandchildren will be proud that you stayed true to the values of your great institution,” Comey wrote. He told them to follow Aurelius' advice, and "be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over." "'It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls around it,'" wrote Comey, quoting the philosopher. His message comes just weeks before Donald Trump is set to make his return to the White House . The Trump-Vance transition team is currently working to install dozens of Trump loyalists into high-profile government positions, many of whom have made alarming threats to go after the incoming president’s political opponents. ALSO READ: Agenda 47: Alarm sounded about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term While he didn’t mention Trump by name, Comey hinted at the simmering political climate in his message. “In just the last few years, you have been called upon to execute court-ordered search warrants in the home closets of prominent politicians across the aisle,” Comey wrote. “In the case of a Democratic senator, you found gold bars taken as bribes; in the case of a Republican former president , you found piles of top secret documents, taken for reasons yet unknown.” It was those investigations that Comey said “predictably” led politicians and their supporters “to decry the alleged partisan bias of the FBI.” He pointed out in his post that the agency’s focus should be “devoted only to finding out what is true” and by design means agents “will have few fans among politicians who have done something they shouldn’t have.” “It will always be that way, although the painful division in modern America has made the lying voices louder and nastier than ever, and social media has unfortunately made them easier for you and your loved ones to hear,” Comey wrote. He added: “But when the liars leave the stage, you will still be at work, trying to find facts in a careful and honest way.”
LUANDA, Angola (AP) — President Joe Biden's long-delayed trip to Africa had many of the hallmarks of a traditional state visit: There was a 12-shot cannon salute. A series of warm handshakes with Angolan President João Lourenço. Celebratory music. Photo opportunities. But another issue overshadowed the visit. When reporters tried to question the president about why he gave his son Hunter a far-reaching pardon after repeatedly saying he would not do so, Biden tried to brush aside the questions. He gestured toward Lourenço and laughed, declaring, “Welcome to America.” Biden saluted Lourenço for his efforts to bolster stronger U.S. relations, declared that Africa and its booming youth population would shape the world's future and even indulged his love of trains by championing a major railway project that his administration says could change the way the entire continent does business. Some takeaways from the president's visit: Biden offered the joke about America before his meeting with Lourenço, and he answered a question on Tuesday about the political situation in South Korea, saying only that he'd not been briefed — something that was rectified moments later when advisers filled him in on what was happening as the motorcade sped away from a site where he'd given a speech. Other than that, Biden went the entire trip, which began Sunday night and included two brief stopovers in Cape Verde in addition to Angola, dodging reporters. He did similar during last month's six-day visit to South America . Since Biden announced his pardon decision shortly before climbing aboard Air Force One bound for Africa, it fell to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to spend nearly half an hour offering long and awkward answers to uncomfortable questions aboard the aircraft hours later. Biden said in a statement explaining the pardon that, while he believed in the justice system, he also felt that politics had infected the cases against his son and “enough was enough.” Jean-Pierre maintained that he wasn't trying to have it both ways. “I don’t think it’s a contradiction,” she said. “Two things could be true. You can believe in the Department of Justice system, and you could also believe that the process was infected politically.” She also bristled when it was suggested that such complaints about the Department of Justice smacked of President-elect Donald Trump's promises to dismantle the “deep state” of federal bureaucrats that he's said for years are out to unfairly undermine him and fellow top Republicans. During his meeting with Lourenço at the presidential palace, Biden said, “The United States is all in on Africa,” and extolled how strong Angolan relations were with Washington. His administration has invested billions in Angola, with the centerpiece being promoting the Lobito Corridor, a vast project to revitalize supply chains by refurbishing 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) of train lines in Angola, Zambia and Congo. Given where Angola was barely a generation ago, the alliance is in many ways remarkable. An oil-rich nation on Africa's southwest coast, Angola achieved independence from Portugal in 1975, but spent subsequent years embroiled in civil war, which often featured proxy fighting between U.S.-backed forces and those allied with the Soviet Union. Even today, the country's red and black flag features a yellow machete and half-cog, an insignia resembling the Soviet hammer and sickle. But Biden leaves office on Jan. 20, and Lourenço, like many leaders of African nations, has already begun suggesting that he's looking toward a Trump-dominated future. Biden administration officials say they're hopeful Trump and top Republicans will continue a business-friendly approach to investing in Africa that includes continuing to support the Lobito Corridor. Biden lauded Lourenço for helping boost his country's relationship with the United States, and he said the youth of Africa would change the world. He also visited the country’s national slavery museum, stressing how Angola and the United States — which were once linked by the horrors of enslaved human beings, now could increasingly be linked by economic opportunity. But if Biden came to Angola hoping to cement his foreign policy legacy in this country and throughout Africa, it will actually fall to Trump — the man he beat in the 2020 election and spent much of 2024 running against before bowing out of the race in July — to see it through.
Union Assurance GWP increases by 16%, pays Rs. 5.6 Bn claimsSir Donald Bradman feared a second Kerry Packer breakaway venture in the 1980s and did not blame Australian cricketers for taking big money to play in apartheid South Africa. He was no fan of Paul Keating, admired Queen Elizabeth II, and took some of his greatest pleasure late in life from watching Shane Warne in action. These insights and many more are contained in a collection of more than 20 letters penned by Bradman to an English friend, the entertainer Peter Brough, and tucked away in the National Library of Australia. Sir Donald Bradman wrote letters late in life almost as prolifically as he’d made runs in his younger years. Credit: Fairfax Media Written between 1984 and 1998, the letters capture Bradman’s complicated relationship with fame and his often trenchant views on sport and politics at home and abroad. Peter Brough was an English entertainer, specialising in a ventriloquist act that was popular on radio during the 1950s in the UK. Bradman met Peter Brough through his father Arthur during tours of England in the 1930s, and the younger men struck up a friendship that continued through correspondence over many years. Peter Brough died in 1999, Bradman in 2001. The letters were donated to the NLA by Peter Brough’s family. ‘The cricket world has been in a ferment’ In the winter of 1985, Bradman held grave concerns for the future of the game amid the loss of 14 top Australian players to “rebel” tours of South Africa. There were parallel revelations that Kerry Packer was signing up players himself to protect his investment in the game in Australia. Former Australian captain Kim Hughes (left) at the Wanderers Ground in Johannesburg in 1985 while playing on a rebel tour of South Africa organised by Ali Bacher. Credit: AP There was no Packer breakaway: the terms he had agreed with Bradman in 1979 were too generous for that. And it was economic sanctions, rather than the sporting kind, that brought a swift end to apartheid in the late 1980s. Bradman was buoyed by South Africa’s readmission. ‘Keating is a disaster’ Bradman’s conservative political views are no secret, and an affection for the UK and its monarchy remained strong right through his life. In May 1986, he was a guest of Queen Elizabeth II for lunch on the royal yacht Britannia during a tour of Australia. There was admiration, too, for Britain’s long-serving prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who resigned from office in 1991 after more than a decade in charge. Bradman contrasted democracy in Britain and Australia with the recent assassination of India’s former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in May of that year. The USSR collapsed later that same year, a moment Bradman marked with acclamation. A couple of years later, Paul Keating was re-elected as Australia’s prime minister, but in December 1993 the South Australian Labor government paid the price for the State Bank collapse. Paul Keating’s reign as prime minister was not enjoyed by Sir Donald Bradman. Credit: Fairfax The republic remained an issue for Bradman, especially when viewed through the lens of personal problems for so many members of the royal family in the 1990s. The price of fame In the 1980s and ’90s, Bradman’s profile rose as a much-venerated figure in Australia and around the world. While appreciative of so much love, Bradman also felt constrained by the attention, and the demands it placed on his time and letter writing. Gary Sweet as a defiant Bradman in Bodyline opposed to England paceman Harold Larwood and captain Douglas Jardine. Credit: Bodyline The TV miniseries Bodyline was broadcast in 1985, starring Gary Sweet as Bradman. The man himself gave a mixed review. The bicentenary of European settlement took Bradman and his wife Jessie to Sydney in early 1988, where a celebratory Test match was played. A few months later, Bradman confessed to seeking refuge away from the spotlight: “I prefer to be far away from crowds and publicity. My 80th birthday is coming up in August and I have already arranged to go away from Adelaide for a week to dodge all the fuss.” Attention ramped up further in 1996, when Bradman sat down with Ray Martin for a televised interview to raise funds for the Bradman Museum in Bowral. Around the same time, John Howard’s election as prime minister put an avowed “cricket tragic” in the lodge, who often cited Bradman as a hero. In 1998, Bradman confided further to Brough about the price of his fame. On Warne In the interview with Martin, Bradman spoke of how the best cricket anyone could possibly watch was that of an aggressive batsman versus an over-the-wrist leg-spinner. By May 1991, it had been nearly 30 years since the retirement of Richie Benaud, and Bradman despaired of seeing another wrist-spinner of top quality. “The great tragedy of modern cricket is the demise of the slow leg-spinner,” he wrote. “Primarily it seems to be due to the one-day games in which ‘economy’ is the only thing that matters. Shane Warne in full flight. Credit: Dallas Kilponen “You don’t have to get the other fellow out, you only have to stop him scoring runs, and of course young leg-spinners when learning their trade, are always a bit expensive.” Shane Warne was by that time making his start in first-class cricket, and made his debut for Australia in January 1992. In early 1993, Bradman had started to pay attention. That prediction proved prescient. England’s troubles in the late 1980s and early 1990s are another theme of Bradman’s letters, but in this case they are balanced by what he was seeing from Warne. “Poor old England is in a bad way – rather than sack [captain Graham] Gooch I think they should have sacked the selectors,” he wrote during the 1993 Ashes series. “There must be better players in the county ranks than some of those selected. “Still it must be lauded that our fellows have played well and I have been excited to see a young leg-spinner turning the ball more than anyone since [Chuck] Fleetwood-Smith. And he has been economical as well. Time we got away from the endless stream of fast bowlers.” Shane Warne set the 1993 Ashes series alight. Credit: Reuters Eighteen months later, Bradman was ready to afford Warne the highest possible praise, though he was still just 25 years old and had more than a decade of Test cricket ahead of him. “Shane Warne is bowling brilliantly and causing all sorts of trouble,” he wrote in November 1994. “Excepting [Bill] O’Reilly, Warne is the best slow leg-spinner we’ve produced, better even than [Clarrie] Grimmett and that is very high praise.” An eye for talent Bradman’s eye was always open for the admiration of great players, but it was his assessments of young, promising cricketers that stand out most. In the summer of 1985-86, he picked out arguably the two finest Australian cricketers to debut in an otherwise grim season: lithe left-armer Bruce Reid and a young all-rounder called Steve Waugh. He also supported the decision to install Tim Zoehrer as Australian wicketkeeper ahead of Wayne Phillips. Paceman Bruce Reid and all-rounder Steve Waugh caught Bradman’s eye. By November 1989, Australia’s cricket fortunes were on the upswing, and as a spectator at Adelaide Oval, Bradman saw a young Darren Lehmann hammer a double century in the Sheffield Shield. He also watched on television as Martin Crowe sculpted a century of his own in the Perth Test. In the winter of 1991, Bradman was discerning the first signs of decline for the great West Indian team, even though they had beaten Australia at home earlier in the year. He also rated the performance of Mark Taylor, while being awed by the strokeplay of a young Mark Waugh. “Though we lost the rubber in West Indies I don’t think the gods were on our side and I would back us to beat them next time,” Bradman wrote. “We now have a super left-hand opener in Taylor and Mark Waugh is all class, better than his brother Steve who did so well on our last tour of England.” The following year in Sri Lanka, Border broke a century drought that lasted four summers, raising a pithy reaction from Bradman. Ricky Ponting batting for Australia at 21. Credit: Vince Caligiuri In the spring of 1995, Bradman saw Ricky Ponting play a “beautiful innings” up close and tagged him a “future Test prospect”. The following summer, Bradman observed the decline of the once great West Indian team. There were more tough times that summer and afterwards for Taylor, in the midst of a long form slump that very nearly cost him the Australian captaincy. Bradman rated Taylor a better captain than Border, and was understanding of why he had been retained. A century in Birmingham saved Taylor’s tenure, and he went on the lead the team until January 1999. Running the game As time ticked by, Bradman felt himself growing more distant from the game and its administration. He resigned from his committee posts with the South Australian Cricket Association in 1986, lamenting the coarsening of international sport. This is not to say that Bradman did not retain strong opinions. During the 1980s, England took a fearful battering from the West Indies, and many English followers bemoaned a lack of oversight from umpires about short-pitched bowling. Brough was one of them, and got a succinct reply. Umpires were still a topic of discussion in 1992, particularly around the World Cup held that year in Australia and New Zealand. Bradman was staunchly in favour of each country retaining the right to have home umpires. News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport sent every Monday. Sign up for our Sport newsletter . Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article Donald Bradman Cricket Australia Shane Warne Kerry Packer Ricky Ponting Allan Border More... Daniel Brettig is The Age's chief cricket writer and the author of several books on cricket. Connect via Twitter . 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The 26-year-old’s performance has since fallen off as he became a liability with the bat each of the last two years. Despite the lack of recent production, Gimenez is operating under the comfort of a long-term deal. He is signed through 2029 and there is a team option for 2030. The Venezuelan will earn $10.5 million (U.S.) each of the next two years before his salary skyrockets to more than $23 million from 2027-29. That’s a lot of money for a guy who is coming off a season in which he hit .252 with a lowly .298 on-base percentage while his .638 OPS was significantly below average. Almost all the value he provided this season was on defence, where he possesses one of the game’s better gloves. In other words, he might be considered the Daulton Varsho of the infield. Gimenez spent most of his career with the Guardians at second base, but he’s also played 83 games at shortstop and 10 games at third. 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Exclusive Events and Parties Family-Friendly Celebrations Planning Your Visit Safety Measures Conclusion Dubai's Winter City Expo 2024 and New Year's Eve in Dubai 2025 celebrations offer a unique blend of cultural experiences, entertainment, and luxury. Whether you're exploring the winter-themed attractions at the Expo or witnessing the city's iconic fireworks displays, Dubai provides an unforgettable setting to conclude the year and usher in new beginnings. Follow Dubai weeklys [ https://dubaiweeklys.com/ ] to explore more about Dubai Media Contact Company Name: Dubai Weeklys Contact Person: Andrew Jackson Email:Send Email [ https://www.abnewswire.com/email_contact_us.php?pr=dubai-weeklys-unveils-highlights-of-winter-city-expo-2024-and-new-years-eve-2025 ] City: Dubai Country: United Arab Emirates Website: https://dubaiweeklys.com/ This release was published on openPR.Up 332%, this iconic UK share has really surprised me!
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