The long sports-filled Thanksgiving weekend is a time when many Americans enjoy gathering with friends and family for good food, good company and hopefully not too much political conversation. Also on the menu — all the NFL and college sports you can handle. Here's a roadmap to one of the biggest sports weekends of the year, with a look at marquee games over the holiday and how to watch. All times are in EST. All odds are by BetMGM Sportsbook. • NFL: There is a triple-header lined up for pro football fans. Chicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m., CBS: Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams and the Bears go against the Lions, who are one of the favorites to reach the Super Bowl in February. Lions favored by 10. New York at Dallas, 4:30 p.m., Fox: The Giants and Cowboys are both suffering through miserable seasons and are now using backup quarterbacks for different reasons. But if Dallas can figure out a way to win, it will still be on the fringe of the playoff race. Cowboys favored by 3 1/2. Miami at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m., NBC/Peacock: The Packers stumbled slightly out of the gate but have won six of their past seven games. They'll need a win against Miami to try to keep pace in the NFC North. Packers favored by 3. • College Football: Memphis at No. 18 Tulane, 7:30 p.m., ESPN. If college football is your jam, this is a good warmup for a big weekend. The Tigers try to ruin the Green Wave’s perfect record in the American Athletic Conference. Tulane is favored by 14. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes works in the pocket against the Carolina Panthers during the first half of Sunday's game in Charlotte, N.C. • NFL: A rare Friday showdown features the league-leading Chiefs. Las Vegas at Kansas City, 3 p.m. Prime Video: The Chiefs and quarterback Patrick Mahomes are 12-point favorites over the Raiders. • College Basketball: Some of the top programs meet in holiday tournaments around the country. Battle 4 Atlantis championship, 5:30 p.m., ESPN: One of the premier early season tournaments, the eight-team field includes No. 3 Gonzaga, No. 14 Indiana and No. 24 Arizona. Rady Children's Invitational, 6 p.m., Fox: It's the championship game for a four-team field that includes No. 13 Purdue and No. 23 Mississippi. • College Football: There is a full slate of college games to dig into. Oregon State at No. 11 Boise State, noon, Fox: The Broncos try to stay in the College Football Playoff hunt when they host the Beavers. Boise State favored by 19 1/2. Oklahoma State at No. 23 Colorado, noon, ABC: The Buffaloes and Coach Prime are still in the hunt for the Big 12 championship game when they host the Cowboys. Colorado favored by 16 1/2. Georgia Tech at No. 6 Georgia, 7:30 p.m., ABC: The Bulldogs are on pace for a spot in the CFP but host what could be a tricky game against rival Georgia Tech. Georgia favored by 19 1/2. • NBA. After taking Thanksgiving off, pro basketball returns. Oklahoma City at Los Angeles Lakers, 10 p.m., ESPN: The Thunder look like one of the best teams in the NBA's Western Conference. They'll host Anthony Davis, LeBron James and the Lakers. Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James dunks during the first half of a Nov. 23 game against the Denver Nuggets in Los Angeles. • College Football. There are more matchups with playoff implications. Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State, noon, Fox: The Wolverines are struggling one season after winning the national title. They could make their fan base a whole lot happier with an upset of the Buckeyes. Ohio State favored by 21. No. 7 Tennessee at Vanderbilt, noon, ABC: The Volunteers are a fairly big favorite and have dominated this series, but the Commodores have been a tough team this season and already have achieved a monumental upset over Alabama. Tennessee favored by 11. No. 16 South Carolina at No. 12 Clemson, noon, ESPN: The Palmetto State rivals are both hanging on the edge of the CFP playoff race. A win — particularly for Clemson — would go a long way toward clinching its spot in the field. Clemson favored by 2 1/2. No. 3 Texas at No. 20 Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m. ABC: The Aggies host their in-state rival for the first time since 2011 after the Longhorns joined the SEC. Texas favored by 5 1/2. Washington at No. 1 Oregon, 7:30 p.m., NBC: The top-ranked Ducks have been one of the nation’s best teams all season. They’ll face the Huskies, who would love a marquee win in coach Jedd Fisch’s first season. Oregon favored by 19 1/2. • NBA: A star-studded clash is part of the league's lineup. Golden State at Phoenix, 9 p.m., NBA TV: Steph Curry and the Warriors are set to face the Suns' Big Three of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. • NFL: It's Sunday, that says it all. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m., CBS: Joe Burrow is having a great season for the Bengals, who are struggling in other areas. They need a win to stay in the playoff race, hosting a Steelers team that's 8-3 and won five of their past six. Bengals favored by 3. Arizona at Minnesota, 1 p.m., Fox: The Cardinals are tied for the top of the NFC West while the Vikings are 9-2 and have been one of the biggest surprises of the season with journeyman Sam Darnold under center. Vikings favored by 3 1/2. Philadelphia at Baltimore, 4:25 p.m., CBS: Two of the league's most electric players will be on the field when Saquon Barkley and the Eagles travel to face Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. Ravens favored by 3. San Francisco at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m. NBC/Peacock: The 49ers try to get back to .500 against the Bills, who have won six straight. Bills favored by 7. • NBA. The best teams in the Eastern Conference meet in a statement game. Boston at Cleveland, 6 p.m., NBA TV: The defending champion Celtics travel to face the Cavs, who won their first 15 games to start the season. • Premier League: English soccer fans have a marquee matchup. Manchester City at Liverpool, 11 a.m., USA Network/Telemundo. The two top teams meet with Manchester City trying to shake off recent struggles. • Auto Racing: The F1 season nears its conclusion. F1 Qatar Grand Prix, 11 a.m., ESPN2 – It's the penultimate race of the season. Max Verstappen already has clinched his fourth consecutive season championship. - Seasons coached: 23 - Years active: 1969-91 - Record: 193-148-1 - Winning percentage: .566 - Championships: 4 Chuck Noll's Pittsburgh Steelers were synonymous with success in the 1970s. Behind his defense, known as the Steel Curtain, and offensive stars, including Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, and Lynn Swann, Noll led the squad to four Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1979. Noll's Steelers remain the lone team to win four Super Bowls in six years, though Andy Reid and Kansas City could equal that mark if they win the Lombardi Trophy this season. Noll was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, two years after retiring. His legacy of coaching success has carried on in Pittsburgh—the club has had only two coaches (Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin) since Noll retired. - Seasons coached: 21 - Years active: 1984-98, 2001-06 - Record: 200-126-1 - Winning percentage: .613 - Championships: 0 As head coach of Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington, and San Diego, Marty Schottenheimer proved a successful leader during the regular season. Notably, he was named Coach of the Year after turning around his 4-12 Chargers team to a 12-4 record in 2004. His teams, however, struggled during the playoffs. Schottheimer went 5-13 in the postseason, and he never made it past the conference championship round. As such, the Pennsylvania-born skipper is the winningest NFL coach never to win a league championship. - Seasons coached: 33 - Years active: 1921-53 - Record: 226-132-22 - Winning percentage: .631 - Championships: 6 An early stalwart of the NFL, Curly Lambeau spent 29 years helming the Green Bay Packers before wrapping up his coaching career with two-year stints with the Chicago Cardinals and Washington. His Packers won titles across three decades, including the league's first three-peat from 1929-31. Notably, he experienced only one losing season during his first 27 years with Green Bay, cementing his legacy of consistent success. Born in Green Bay, Lambeau co-founded the Packers and played halfback on the team from 1919-29. He was elected to the Hall of Fame as a coach and owner in 1963, two years before his death. You may also like: Countries with the most active NFL players - Seasons coached: 29 - Years active: 1960-88 - Record: 250-162-6 - Winning percentage: .607 - Championships: 2 The first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry held the position for his entire 29-year tenure as an NFL coach. The Cowboys were especially dominant in the 1970s when they made five Super Bowls and won the big game twice. Landry was known for coaching strong all-around squads and a unit that earned the nickname the "Doomsday Defense." Between 1966 and 1985, Landry and his Cowboys enjoyed 20 straight seasons with a winning record. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1990. - Seasons coached: 26 - Years active: 1999-present - Record: 267-145-1 - Winning percentage: .648 - Championships: 3 The only active coach in the top 10, Andy Reid has posted successful runs with both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City. After reaching the Super Bowl once in 14 years with the Eagles, Reid ratcheted things up with K.C., winning three titles since 2019. As back-to-back defending champions, Reid and Co. are looking this season to become the first franchise to three-peat in the Super Bowl era and the third to do so in NFL history after the Packers of 1929-31 and '65-67. Time will tell if Reid and his offensive wizardry can lead Kansas City to that feat. - Seasons coached: 40 - Years active: 1920-29, '33-42, '46-55, '58-67 - Record: 318-148-31 - Winning percentage: .682 - Championships: 6 George Halas was the founder and longtime owner of the Chicago Bears and coached the team across four separate stints. Nicknamed "Papa Bear," he built the ballclub into one of the NFL's premier franchises behind players such as Bronko Nagurski and Sid Luckman. Halas also played for the team, competing as a player-coach in the 1920s. The first coach to study opponents via game film, he was once a baseball player and even made 12 appearances as a member of the New York Yankees in 1919. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1963 as both a coach and owner. - Seasons coached: 33 - Years active: 1963-95 - Record: 328-156-6 - Winning percentage: .677 - Championships: 2 The winningest head coach in NFL history is Don Shula, who first coached the Baltimore Colts (losing Super Bowl III to Joe Namath and the New York Jets) for seven years before leading the Miami Dolphins for 26 seasons. With the Fins, Shula won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1972 and 1973, a run that included a 17-0 season—the only perfect campaign in NFL history. He also coached quarterback great Dan Marino in the 1980s and '90s, but the pair made it to a Super Bowl just once. Shula was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997. Story editing by Mike Taylor. Copy editing by Robert Wickwire. Photo selection by Lacy Kerrick. You may also like: The 5 biggest upsets of the 2023-24 NFL regular season Get local news delivered to your inbox!He was with the Indian men’s cricket team when they won the 2011 World Cup. He played a role in the Indian men’s hockey team’s bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics . Now, he has helped Dommaraju Gukesh win the World Chess Championship . Paddy Upton , the mental conditioning coach from South Africa, has indeed played a significant hand in the history of Indian sport and by his admission is “grateful for all the opportunities.” Upton spoke to Boria Majumdar about how Gukesh readied himself mentally for the world championship. Excerpts: Since joining team Gukesh, how did you go about getting him ready mentally for the World Championship match? We’ve been working together for a little more than six months now and we’ve spoken for an hour and a half or so every week. The idea was to make sure that Gukesh was used to every kind of possibility mentally. When you are trailing, for example, how do you make a comeback? How do you deal with such a challenge in the mind? Or when you are leading and your opponent makes a comeback, how can you make sure it doesn’t impact you adversely? How do you identify the best move on the board when you are exhausted? Many had said Gukesh was the favourite. We completely ignored that narrative and were determined to make sure Gukesh trained himself for every kind of fight from Ding. As you saw, he needed every bit of it. 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I was sitting with some (chess) fans and suddenly there was a gasp and people started to leave. So, I asked if something was wrong? Someone said Ding had blundered and Gukesh was on the verge of winning. That happened because Gukesh refused to give up. Kept at it. It was part of the plan. We had planned for such a scenario. If you saw, Gukesh refused to accept the draw in some games and kept pushing. Some people asked why would he do so? The plan was to keep Ding on the board for as long as possible and tire him out. Gukesh is younger and he would be better off the next day. Under pressure, Ding ultimately made a mistake. Anand is right, Gukesh’s attitude makes him stand out. You have spent time with hundreds of elite athletes in the last two decades. How would you rate Gukesh? I have worked with more than 350 elite athletes and I rate Gukesh among the top five. On the lines of a Virat Kohli or a Rahul Dravid. For me, it is not just about being an elite athlete or a medal winner. Every athlete who has won an Olympic medal or a world championship is a great sportsperson. But not everyone is a great champion. Only when you can stay rooted and stay humble even after you win something huge can you be a great champion. It is about how you are as a human being. That’s where Gukesh scores. His press conference after he won can be a lesson in humility and how athletes should conduct themselves. He spoke at length about Ding, credited each one of us and hardly spoke about himself. That’s greatness. You reached Singapore at the end of Game 12. Was it the Ding comeback that prompted it? Not really. We had prepared for such a situation where he (Ding) makes a comeback. I knew Gukesh would be ready for it. I was very confident he’d come back strong after the defeat and make the most of the last two games. We spoke during the final rest day but did not discuss anything special. It was a reset conversation. What all he had done to get there, how he needed to do the same, enjoy the challenge and live every moment of it. I’m very pleased that I took the flight from South Africa to Singapore and was a part of history. What was the celebration like? I don’t know if I told you that I met Gukesh for the first time in my life physically after the match was over. It was strange because I felt I had known him very well. Coming to the celebrations, not much really. About eight of us went for dinner and we just kept talking till about 2am. Gukesh is vegetarian and between all of us not even three beers were consumed! So you can understand. We had basic Thai food but the satisfaction was huge. All of the effort that had been put in had paid of f and Gukesh deserved every accolade that was coming his way. It will surely be a huge moment for Indian sport. (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel )LONDON: The Democratic Party’s defeat in November was the result of, among other things, failed succession planning. An ageing Joe Biden refused to retire after one term; he appointed a vice president who presented a limited threat, having failed to shine in the 2020 primaries; and, when the party elders forced him to withdraw after his catastrophic debate performance, he effectively scuppered the idea of holding a mini-primary by immediately endorsing Kamala Harris. Botched succession is a pervasive problem in human affairs: In autocracies as well as democracies (Russian President Vladimir Putin’s eventual departure will doubtless lead to a bloody power struggle) but also in the private sector as well as the political world. The one “known known” in the business world is that CEOs will eventually have to hand over to a successor. Yet companies repeatedly make a hash of it. In The Life Cycle of a CEO: The Myths and Truths of How Leaders Succeed, Claudius Hildebrand and Robert Stark present striking data on succession failures. Some of the world’s most illustrious companies have had to dump their CEOs after a brief spell at the helm. Leo Apotheker was fired after 11 months as CEO of Hewlett Packard (with a golden parachute of US$7.2 million in cash and US$18 million in company stock) and Bob Chapek was fired after “three years of hell” as CEO of Disney. Tyson Foods replaced four CEOs from 2016 to 2023 while video-gaming retailer GameStop cycled through five CEOs between 2018 and 2023. SACKING THE CEO IS EXPENSIVE A 2019 survey of 222 C-suite executives around the world found that 76 per cent reported that there was not a leader within the company who was ready to take over as CEO and 60 per cent said that the company lacked a succession plan. A 2021 study by David Larcker and Brian Tayan, of Stanford University, revealed that 22 per cent of CEO appointments from 2017 to 2021 were “interim” (placeholders while the boards searched for a permanent successor). Poor succession planning is expensive as well as messy: A study of CEO transitions at the world’s 2,500 largest public companies determined that the average cost of poor succession planning (defined as having to sack the CEO) was US$1.8 billion per company. The most obvious failed transitions are the result of forced departures: The proportion of “resignations under pressure” among S&P 500 companies rose from 7 per cent in 2022 to 16 per cent in 2023. CLINGING ONTO POWER, FAILING TO GROOM A SUCCESSOR But some of the most troublesome are the result of the opposite problem: Relatively successful CEOs who cling onto power and fail to groom a suitable successor. The longer CEOs stay in place, the more fully they inhabit their jobs. It’s not just that they relish all the attention (and money). It’s that they can’t think of themselves as being anything other than the CEO, their every minute scheduled, their every move monitored. Even responsible CEOs can put off thinking about retirement – there is just one more project to finish, one more transformation to oversee, one more cover story to pose for. The less responsible ones subvert the succession process, either consciously or unconsciously, by blocking the search for a successor or undermining possible replacements. The story of Disney’s struggle to find a successor to Bob Iger as CEO is particularly tortured. The company groomed Thomas Staggs for the job, making him COO, only to change its mind, partly at Iger’s urging. Then Iger, who had repeatedly delayed his announced date for retirement, impetuously announced that he was stepping down immediately in February 2020 and persuaded the board to appoint Chapek as his successor despite Chapek’s lack of experience in the company’s core business of developing creative content. Chapek’s condition of employment suggested a problem – he would serve as both CEO and CEO-in-training and, along with his office, Iger would retain creative control as executive chair of the board. TAKING SUCCESSION PLANNING SERIOUSLY What can be done to prevent botched successions? One solution is to put a hard limit on your time in the top job — say 10 years. Yet Adi Ignatius, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, concluded that one of the most notable characteristics of the leaders selected for its annual CEO 100 listing of top performers was their “remarkable longevity,” having held their jobs for an average of 15 years. Hildebrand and Stark argue that the problem with this is that some CEOs are “marathon runners” whose work only comes to fruition after more than a decade in office. They give the example of David Cote, who, as CEO of Honeywell International for 15 years, “achieved one of the most impressive turnarounds of any CEO in the twenty-first century,” fixing a company that was widely deemed to be “unfixable” and increasing its share price by 245 per cent. He was only hitting his stride at the 10-year mark and had a great deal of value-creation left in him. In a world that constantly complains about short-termism, it seems perverse to create an artificial barrier to long-term planning. A more comprehensive solution is to buff up the machinery of succession planning. Require boards to take succession planning much more seriously, for example, by appointing a lead director with responsibility for standing up to the CEO and looking for a successor. Build succession-planning into the core of the company so that there is always a deep bench of talent awaiting. And – this is Hildebrand and Stark’s big idea – encourage CEOs to think of their careers in terms of life cycles, with a beginning, a middle and an end. These are all sensible ideas but far from foolproof. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation of 2002 made boards officially responsible for succession planning, but too many still take their responsibilities remarkably lightly. Most of the board members who appointed Apotheker to his job at Hewlett Packard had not even spoken to him on the phone let alone met him personally. Procter & Gamble and General Electric were both widely praised as America’s most successful talent machines. But Procter & Gamble had to recall AG Lafley after the successor the company had nurtured, Bob McDonald, proved a disappointment and General Electric progressively fell apart after Jack Welch’s departure. Powerful CEOs will almost always be able to outwit their boards if they want to: Boards consist of part-timers who have many, often too many, irons in the fire and inevitably lack the CEO’s grasp of detail. They may also pride themselves on their ability to defy life cycles rather than embrace them: You get to the top by bending the world to your will rather than doing the conventional thing. The growing habit of appointing outgoing CEOs as executive chairs, “to smooth the transition,” something that takes place in 41 per cent of S&P 500 company transitions, may also achieve the opposite effect, making it easier for ex-CEOs to outstay their welcome and second-guess their successors. A USEFUL EXAMPLE FOR FUTURE CEOS A satisfactory solution to the succession problem must consider the human side of the process as well as the institutional side. Boards need to consider the clinginess of the potential CEO when they first make their appointments. Are they well-rounded people with an extensive hinterland? Or are they people who are likely to let the job become the self? They also need to appeal to the vanity of the CEO when it comes to retirement. Do they want to go down in history as somebody who outlived their welcome? Or do they want to leave at the top of their game? Here Joe Biden might be wheeled out as a useful example for future CEOs. Had he decided from the first to serve for only one term, he would be remembered as a successful president who passed important legislation at home and stood up to Russian expansionism abroad. A better president than the flashier Barack Obama might well have been the consensus. He might also have presided over a succession to yet another Democratic president with a carefully run primary season that would have weeded out weak candidates like Harris and selected somebody with a broad appeal. (For all the talk about the profound forces that brought Donald Trump to office, his victory was a relatively narrow one.) But thanks to his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the process of ageing, he will only be remembered as a president who botched the succession and ushered in the second age of Trump. It is a story worth telling to any CEO who shows signs of staying on beyond their sell-by-date. Perhaps Disney could even turn it into a film.

The Variety Faith and Spirituality in Entertainment Honors presented by the Coalition for Faith and Media will be celebrated Dec. 4. The honorees are individuals who are supporting the frequently underrepresented theme of faith in entertainment storytelling. This class of 2024 Visionary Awards presented by CFAM represents diverse portrayals of faith and spirituality that are broadly compelling and nuanced. “Bob Marley: One Love” Bob Marley’s fans have long been brought together by joyous songs, but his revolutionary ideas are sometimes overlooked because the music is so uplifting. His son Ziggy Marley says, “In order to better understand Bob’s message you have to look past the legend and see the human being, his struggles, emotionally, spiritually and physically.” The film “Bob Marley: One Love” does just that. It reminds us ofMarley’s courage in pursuit of his mission (dare we call it a vocation?), showing him performing days after an assassination attempt, his painful self-exile to London and the creation of the album “Exodus,” a work of masterpiece. CFAM recognizes this film for shining a light on how Bob Marley’s spiritual beliefs gave him strength, informed his world view and propelled his work for social good through love. Viola Davis and Julius Tennon Founders, JuVee Prods. Davis and Tennon’s relationship began when he invited her to church. They married in 2003 and, in 2011, founded JuVee Prods. “Spirituality and faith are values we hold,” they say. “It is important to us that we always look inward to the humanity of the characters and present who they are within the narrative.” The company’s mission is to upend the idea of “impossible,” empowering a new, inclusive generation of artists, giving established artists a safe place to explore new paths and “subverting classic storytelling with fresh takes.” Among JuVee projects are “Emanuel,” about the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., and the upcoming biopic “Barbara Jordan.” Erica Lipez Executive producer, “We Were the Lucky Ones” Images of “the old country” tend to lean toward the poor, small-town Jews like those in “Fiddler on the Roof,” but European Jewish life before the Holocaust also included sophisticated, urban families. Drawing on Georgia Hunter’s best-selling account of her own family’s struggles during World War II, Lipez and her writing team re-created a vanished world and community in Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones.” The 12 members of the Kurc family, says Lipez, “all have a different relationship to their culture, faith and spirituality.” Over nine years, they’re scattered by war, but at the end, “they miraculously reunite around the Passover table... forever altered, but bound together by love, humanity and the shared rituals of their religion and history.” Arian Moayed Actor, writer, director, philanthropist A nominee for numerous awards, including Tonys (“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” “A Doll’s House”) and Emmys (“Succession”), Moayed stays busy giving back to his adopted home of New York. Born in Iran and raised in the Midwest, he has taught in New York City schools for more than 20 years and is co-founder of Waterwell, a community-organizing and education company in Gotham. He’s been a consistent voice calling for accurate Muslim inclusion and is outspoken about the importance of spirituality in his work. “Spirituality guides all of us toward the collective rather than the individualistic, pushing community over everything else,” he says. “It pushes us to ask big, universal questions that resonate with people of all faiths, people of all backgrounds.” Jessica Matten Actor, writer Matten (“Dark Winds,” “Rez Ball”) has ancestors from two ethnic groups Hollywood has often denigrated: Canada’s First Nations on one side and Chinese on the other. Over her career as an actor and writer, Matten has raised her voice on behalf of Indigenous peoples, taken direct action on their behalf and consistently taken roles that portray them positively. She is a co-founder of Counting Coup Indigenous Film Academy, which trains filmmakers in the Siksika Nation. “It’s beyond a deeply moving spiritual practice in itself to help another soul,” she says. “I am grateful that my portrayals have given me the space to re-enact aspects of what I actually have been doing for the last 20 years of my life ... to help progress the healing of our people for a better future.” Sheryl Lee Ralph Actor, producer, director A beloved figure for both her work and her activism, Ralph has been Emmy nominated three times (winning once) for her role on “Abbott Elementary” as a devoutly Christian kindergarten teacher. “I cherish the opportunity to bring depth, dignity and authenticity to the portrayal of ‘Abbott Elementary’s’ Barbara Howard, a woman of faith, reminding viewers of the strength, resilience, and hope that such a character embodies in everyday life,” Ralph says. She also has manifested love through decades of AIDS activism, from founding the DIVA in 1990, to supporting Project Angel Food, to producing the recent Daytime Emmy-nominated short “Unexpected” about two HIV positive women who become activists. Jay Shetty Author, entrepreneur, podcaster Shetty’s path was always spiritual. As a boy, he spent summers with Hindu monks, and after business school, he spent three years as a monk himself. But his true calling was to merge the teachings he’d absorbed with digital communications. He started with YouTube videos, and in 2019, launched his podcast, “On Purpose With Jay Shetty,” which now boasts more than 35 million monthly downloads. His entrepreneurial projects include House of 1212, a purpose-driven talent and brand agency, and Juni sparkling tea drinks. “It fills me with so much hope that audiences are choosing to watch and listen to deep, meaningful and thoughtful discussions and that we have made mental health a mainstream cultural conversation,” he says.

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As U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher looked ahead to the next Women's World Cup in 2027, she calculated what that would look like at her age. Now 36, she already has a World Cup title and won an Olympic gold medal this year in France. She considered the mental, physical and emotional toll of a new cycle and decided it was time to step away . “Honestly, I think I’ve been somebody that has given everything I’ve had to this team. I don’t do anything halfway. It’s kind of, if you can give 100% to it, then keep going," she said. “With that in mind, I kind of just felt like this was the right time coming off of the Olympics, having the year that we had, entering into a new cycle, a new stage for this team.” Naeher is the latest veteran to announce she's stepping down from the national team as the next generation takes over under coach Emma Hayes. Among those who have wrapped up their soccer careers in the past couple of years include World Cup winners Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Kelley O'Hara and Ali Krieger. Naeher will be with the team for two more matches in the coming week. The Americans play England at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and then the Netherlands in The Hague on Tuesday. Naeher said she's excited about the next generation of goalkeepers. In addition to Naeher, Mandy Haught of the Utah Royals and Phallon Tullis-Joyce of Manchester United are on the roster for the upcoming matches. Other goalkeepers who have been on recent rosters include Casey Murphy and Jane Campbell. “I think the beauty of goalkeeping is that it’s not really a one-size-fits-all kind of position," she said. "The more that you can understand — that's going to be the challenge any young goalkeeper coming up, is really taking the time to understand what your strengths are and make them really, really elite and separate yourself.” Naeher spoke on Wednesday from London after announcing her retirement on social media Monday . Naeher made her senior debut with the national team in 2014 and was a backup to Hope Solo at the 2015 World Cup, which the United States won. She became the team’s regular starter following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and was on the squad that repeated as World Cup winners in 2019. Naeher won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 before the U.S. earned gold this year in Paris. She made a key one-handed save in stoppage time to preserve the Americans’ 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final. For her career, Naeher has appeared 113 games with 110 starts, 88 wins and 68 shutouts. She had four shutouts over the course of the Olympic tournament in France. While she's leaving the national team, she'll play one more year for her club team, the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League. “I hope that I can be remembered as a good teammate, as a competitor, as somebody that was looked on as someone that could be relied upon on the field and supported those players around me,” she said. “I think it’s just been a really special team to be a part of. And I’m very proud of what we have been able to accomplish over the years.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer

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Trump’s tariffs in his first term did little to alter the economy, but this time could be differentImagine trying to upload a school project, but your internet is so slow that it takes hours instead of minutes. That’s what’s happening in Pakistan right now. Why? Because the government is testing a system like China’s “Great Firewall.” This is a kind of internet censorship that blocks certain websites and controls what people can see online. But here’s the thing: does it really work? China started its Great Firewall in 2000, and it’s now one of the strictest internet systems in the world. It doesn’t just block websites—it spies on people’s online activity too. Even Chinese people living in other countries feel the effects of it! Some other governments want to copy this system, but they don’t have the organization or technology that China does. That means their attempts usually end up being messy and frustrating for everyone. Take Pakistan, for example. Back in 2008, they tried to block certain content on YouTube, but they accidentally cut off YouTube for the entire world ! This time, only Pakistanis are facing slow internet and tech problems. Russia has also tried to create a firewall like China’s, but it’s been a disaster. Sometimes, they’ve accidentally shut down major websites for hours or days. Even in China, where this system is the strongest, it’s not perfect. People constantly find ways to get around the rules using tricks and technology. The government has to keep chasing memes, jokes, and clever wordplay people use to share banned ideas. It’s like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole! But there’s a bigger problem: blocking the internet affects people’s lives in huge ways. In China, young people already face tough challenges, like finding jobs and dealing with strict rules. Now, as the government plans to raise the retirement age (the first time since the 1950s), older workers will stay in jobs longer, leaving even fewer opportunities for the young. If they didn’t have to fight so hard against censorship and other barriers, maybe they’d have a better chance to thrive. So, while governments might dream of controlling the internet like China, the reality is complicated—and for ordinary people, it can be a huge pain.Musk wants to slash US government spending by a third, and Ramaswamy wants to cut 75% of the federal workforce. Can they? For months, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been pushing for a department to slash United States government spending. On November 12, President-elect Donald Trump made his wish come true and announced that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur and failed Republican presidential candidate, would lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE appears to be an outside advisory department that will work in conjunction with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a White House office in charge of helping the sitting president craft budget proposals to bring to Congress. Musk gave the department official government credentials on X, the social media platform he owns. “From everything we’ve heard now, what Elon and Vivek are proposing to do would be something similar to what the Office of Management and Budget and GAO [Government Accountability Office] does. OMB serves the president specifically to help manage federal agencies across the executive branch. Anything that goes to the president has to go through OMB first. Anything that comes from the president to other agencies has to go through OMB first,” a former senior Trump administration official who declined to be named told Al Jazeera. Regardless, it would not be an official cabinet position, which would require the formation of a new government agency, which would require congressional approval. The most recent agency to be created was the Department of Homeland Security, which opened its doors in 2003 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. What is DOGE planning to do? Musk has promised to cut $2 trillion, or more than a third, of the US government’s annual budget. He said he wants to cut the number of agencies from 428 to 99 . Last week, he shared on X an old interview with Milton Friedman in which the economist lists the government departments that should be scrapped – agriculture, education, commerce – adding, “Milton Friedman was the best,” a post that is being read as things Musk would like to do. Ramaswamy, who will co-lead the office, said he wants to cut 75 percent of the federal government workforce. The federal government employs roughly 2 million civilians. A 75 percent reduction would mean that 1.5 million people would be out of a job, which, experts said, will strip down a range of services from food stamps to defence spending. To boost the effort, Trump ally and Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been picked to lead a DOGE subcommittee in the House of Representatives, in which she is to outline plans to fire government employees. The subcommittee has yet to be created. Musk has acknowledged that the move would create temporary hardships but said it is for long-term prosperity. “There are a lot of questions that are brought up by his stated goal of streamlining the government and by some of the metrics that he’s put out. [And that’s] before he’s done any of his initial analysis,” Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California, told Al Jazeera. This week, Musk singled out specific government employees, questioning their jobs to his 205 million followers on X, The Wall Street Journal reported, many of whom then followed up with tweets targeting those people. Musk has oversimplified government programmes to make them sound ridiculous and worthy of cuts but has ignored why these programmes exist. He slammed , for instance, research in which the US government spent $4.5m to spray alcoholic rats with bobcat urine. However, this is part of a bigger research study into the relationship between alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder, a common issue among military veterans and one the research is trying to find treatment for. Musk’s willingness to make cuts “just speaks to an arrogance that because you’ve been successful in one domain, that doesn’t mean he can be successful in another domain”, Skeet said. Musk and Ramaswamy argued that Trump will be able to cut government jobs unilaterally under a policy called Schedule F, an executive order that Trump signed during his first term and never went into effect. It would have reclassified civilian civil servants as at will employees who serve at the pleasure of the president, similar to a political appointment like a cabinet secretary. It would strip job protections from these employees. Musk has a long record of firing people who are necessary to key functions of his companies, including during his takeover of Twitter when he laid off half its employees, a move that led to systemic failures across the company. As a result of his decisions, the company is now valued at 80 percent less than when he took it over. Musk has tweeted that DOGE is looking to hire people with high IQs who are willing to work 80 hours a week for no money and will need to buy a subscription to X to apply. Skeet warned that a skeleton staff manning the federal government “will impact how consumers will interact with the government – whether or not airplanes will be safe to fly and cars will be regulated in the correct way and sort of just will people get their tax returns on time”. Musk’s appointment is until July 4, 2026, in conjunction with the country’s 250th birthday, according to a Trump team press release. That is also only a few months before midterm elections. Conflicts of interest Musk’s appointment comes with significant conflicts of interest. He has claimed on X that his businesses were “smothered by bureaucracy” and DOGE would address that. Musk’s businesses have billions of dollars in government contracts. SpaceX alone received $3.8bn in government contracts in the 2024 fiscal year, most of which was work for NASA and the Department of Defense, according to government data. Those contracts include building the propulsion systems NASA uses while another contract is to use Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service provider, to first responders during weather events like the floods in North Carolina. While SpaceX has the lion’s share of government contracts among Musk’s companies, some of his other firms also earn money from the US government, including Tesla. In the 2024 fiscal year, Tesla had $6m of government contracts. NASA and the Department of Commerce are the largest awarding agencies for the electric vehicle giant. “Having somebody who is a beneficiary of government decision-making, you know, in a role to decide which parts of government to streamline, is somebody who is fundamentally conflicted,” Skeet said. Musk’s conflicts of interest do not just stem from federal contracts but also agencies either investigating or sanctioning him and his businesses. As the co-head of this new agency, he would be in charge of coming up with financial policy decisions that could impact their future funding. One agency where Musk faces fines and investigations is the National Labor Relations Board, which investigates allegations of union busting and workforce harm. Musk faced complaints for his actions in the overhaul of Twitter, including lawsuits from employees he fired. Musk also faces a complaint lodged by the United Auto Workers union after his interview with then-candidate Trump in which the two joked about firing striking workers. That case is still open. The National Transportation Safety Board has pending investigations against Tesla on its self-driving cars, which have been involved in crashes, including one that killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2023. Musk also has conflicts with the Department of Justice (DOJ), which has been trying to access all data and records pertaining to Trump’s X account as recently as last month as it investigates Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by his supporters. Before the November elections, Musk was also accused of breaking federal election laws by the DOJ for a $1m daily giveaway conducted by his political action committee. In recent days, Senate Democrats have raised concerns about Musk’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as 2022 and his sustained connections with high-level Russian officials, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. They have asked the DOJ to determine if Musk should be barred from future involvement in space contracts. There are other areas of potential conflicts. During President Joe Biden’s administration, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded Starlink an $885m contract to provide access to rural America, but it was later revoked because the FCC didn’t think Starlink could provide the service. Musk slammed the decision as politically biased. Now Trump has picked Musk ally Brenden Carr to lead the commission. Carr is the top Republican on the FCC, who disagreed with the decision to deny Starlink the contract. He also wrote the chapter on the FCC in the conservative policy playbook for a second Trump term, Project 2025. The Securities and Exchange Commission is also a thorn in Musk’s side. As recently as September, the agency planned to sanction him for not showing up to testify for a second time over his acquisition of Twitter and rejected his proposal to pay a $2,923 fine for missing the deposition. But arguably, Musk’s conflicts of interest are neither unique to him nor are they new to Washington. Last year, an investigative report from the outlet Insider found that 78 members of Congress had not properly disclosed personal financial trades, which is required by law. The law is meant to combat issues like insider trading. Musk did not say whether he would divest before joining the government or serve as an outside adviser. He also did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for clarification. At the same time, some of Trump’s policies might also negatively impact Musk. “From everything that President Trump has said, it sounds like he will be very tough on China, which will then serve Elon Musk poorly. He gets a lot of his materials that he needs for his different companies from China,” the former senior Trump administration official who spoke to Al Jazeera said. Tesla, for example, reportedly gets roughly 40 percent of its materials from China. Trump’s proposed tariffs on the country could be as high as 60 percent. In case the tariffs do kick in, “I don’t think it’s all necessarily going to be good for Elon as an adviser,” the official added. Can Musk actually serve? Given all of these factors, can Musk actually serve as head of DOGE under his current arrangements with Tesla, X and SpaceX? Ethics experts suggested they should be disqualifying. “What’s happening here is problematic. Elon Musk has built-in obvious conflicts of interest because the companies that he is associated with have relationships with the very government that he is now going to come in and try to make more efficient,” Skeet said. Legal experts, however, said it’s a bit more of an open question. Advisory committees whether for a federal agency or the president fall under a specific law that requires they make public their actions and meetings so the public can participate, explained Kedric Payne, vice president, general counsel and senior director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center. But “it’s not clear that [DOGE] will fall under those transparency requirements of the law that applies to most advisory committees,” he said. That law is called the Federal Advisory Committee Act and requires that nongovernmental experts who provide federal agencies with advice publicly disclose their recommendations. Musk said on X he would do that. “In most situations where an official has a conflict of interest, there is a rule that can be enforced to stop that conflict of interest. In this situation, it is not clear yet whether or not there are any rules that could prohibit these conflicts,” Payne said. But with few specifics on how DOGE will be set up, there’s not a lot that can be said about the legal options, Payne pointed out. The Trump transition team, which did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment, has publicly said it is compliant with all laws.

Nov. 25 marked the start of Charity Fraud Awareness Week. Secretary of State Tre Hargett reminds all Tennesseans of resources available through his office to ensure they can give generously to their favorite charity while avoiding scams. “The holiday season sparks the giving spirit in many Tennesseans,” Hargett said. “Unfortunately, some individuals out there with bad intentions target this generosity. We encourage donors to be educated consumers with their gifts, so they can have the most impact supporting those in need.” According to national data, Tennesseans are among some of the most generous givers to charitable causes. To help them avoid becoming a victim of a charity scam or fraudulent transaction and maximize the impact of their gifts, the Secretary of State’s Division of Business and Charitable Organizations has created a series of Wise Giving Tips. These suggested guidelines encourage Tennesseans to research an organization to ensure an entity is registered with the state through the Secretary of State’s website at sos.tn.gov/charities . Citizens should also resist pressure to give on the spot, and ask questions about an organization’s specific mission, and who will benefit from their donation. They should also verify the source of the donation request made, and avoid relying on social media, blogs, or web reviews as information about an organization. Should a citizen donate through an app or website, they are also encouraged to make sure their information goes directly to the organization. Other tips include asking for a receipt and whether a contribution is tax-deductible, paying close attention to the name of a nonprofit organization, and inquiring how much money is kept by the fundraiser, and how much goes to the nonprofit. Donors should also refrain from giving cash and use a check or credit card to create a record of their transactions. For additional Wise Giving Tips, go to sos.tn.gov/charities/guides/easy-steps-to-wise-giving . You can also call the Division of Business and Charitable Organizations at (615) 741-2555 with additional questions, or to report possible suspicious activity.Trump’s tariffs in his first term did little to alter the economy, but this time could be differentDid you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Kate Hoey was reacting to comments from the CEO of the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland , Conal Heatley, in an interview with the News Letter. Mr Heatley had said that one of the reasons he wanted to drop the flag as the official emblem of Team NI was because it had been placed on the homes of ethnic minority people as part of a bid to force them out, and “that is not something we want to be associated with”. Advertisement Advertisement He said that the flag is offensive to “a considerable section of the community”, and had prepared to discuss a replacement for the Ulster Banner at the body’s AGM on Wednesday night. Baroness Hoey is an independent member of the Lords who had served as the Labour government’s minister for sports from 1999 to 2001. Reacting to Mr Heatley, she said: “The comments by the chief executive of the Commonwealth Games Northern Ireland were insulting to the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland who see the Ulster Banner as the flag to rally round in many sporting events. "We all shared in Rory McIlroy’s gesture of draping himself in the flag when winning a major golfing championship and the Northern Ireland football team celebrations with the flag in achieving qualification for the Euros. Advertisement Advertisement "There will always be a tiny minority who disgrace the flag but that is no reason to change its use in the Commonwealth Games. “The Republic of Ireland has chosen not to be one of the 56 independent countries of the Commonwealth, yet those athletes in Northern Ireland who choose to compete for Ireland in the Olympics are still able to compete for Northern Ireland in the Commonwealth Games. "I have yet to hear of any past eligible team members refuse a place because of the Ulster Banner flag. Rather the opposite: there is great enthusiasm to represent Northern Ireland in every Commonwealth Games from every sport. “Mr Heatley would be better spending his time ensuring that everyone in Northern Ireland has the right to choose who to compete for, as currently in many sports there is no option to compete for the British team at the Olympics unless moving to GB, because of the all-Ireland governing bodies of the sports. Advertisement Advertisement "I know of tennis clubs in Northern Ireland who would prefer to be affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association in Britain rather than, or as well as, Tennis Ireland, but cannot because it is an all-Ireland governing body.” Mr Heatley said he did not wish to respond to Baroness Hoey. Making similar comments earlier on Wednesday was the leader of the DUP, Gavin Robinson. Speaking on Good Morning Ulster, he too had been asked about Mr Heatley’s remarks on racism and the flag. Advertisement Advertisement "I think that last comment was an appalling comment to make. Remember, there'd been a protest in front of City Hall during the summer on race issues, and a gentleman was holding an Irish tricolour, yet I don't hear such political commentary in that direction. "I think in Northern Ireland we've recognised over many years that sport unites people. And yet here we have somebody who's charged wth encouraging success through sport engaging in politics in the most unhelpful way. "I don't think this is a good initiaitive on his part. I don't think this assists in sport, nor does it assist in bringing people together, when this chief executive appears to believe it's his role to pick scabs on identity. "There are people in Northern Ireland who have the proud ability to showcase their talent be it for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games, Team GB in the Olympics, or Team Ireland – and they do that without any thought whatsoever about constitutional politics. "He should leave it to politicians.” Advertisement Advertisement In his News Letter interview, published on Wednesday, Mr Heatley had been asked if he was planning to drop the Ulster Banner because of an upsurge in requests to do so. "There's always been chatter,” he said. "I'm trying to choose my words very carefully. "The Ulster Banner of late, and I'm sure people would be very aware of that, has been misappropriated by a small number of people. "And I refer to newcomers. We've had newcomers, NHS staff, chased out of their homes by having the Ulster Banner put on their windows. That is not something we want to be associated with. "And that's been part of the thought process where we need to be looking and saying 'How can we have something that is inclusive? How can we invite these people to take part in our sports and our clubs if that's the imagery that's around it?’" Advertisement Advertisement Mr Heatley told BBC News NI today that his organisation had received some “threatening and abusive language on social media” over the past couple of days since news of his flag plans had emerged. “For the safety of staff and the public who may be using the office, we have decided to keep it closed for the next few days and have reported those to the police,” he said.

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Hafnia Limited, a leading product tanker company with a diversified and modern fleet of over 130 vessels, today announced results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024. 1 Based on weighted average number of shares as at 30 September 2024 2 Excluding a one-off item amounting to USD 7.4 million in Q3 2023 3 See Non-IFRS Measures section below 4 NAV is calculated using the fair value of Hafnia’s owned vessels. Mikael Skov, CEO of Hafnia, commented: After a strong second quarter, the product tanker market softened seasonally in the third quarter, due to refinery maintenance, lower refinery margins, and increased cannibalization from the crude sector. Despite these challenges, Hafnia has continued to perform well, delivering solid earnings. I am pleased to announce that we achieved a net profit of USD 215.6 million in Q3, bringing our year-to-date net profit to USD 694.4 million – the best nine-month performance in our company’s history. Our adjacent fee-generating business segments have also performed strongly, contributing USD 7.8 million to our overall results. At the end of the third quarter, our net asset value (NAV)1 reached approximately USD 4.6 billion, reflecting the increased market value of our vessels and strong operating cashflows, which equates to an NAV per share of about USD 9.07 (NOK 95.24). Our net Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratio decreased to 19.1% at the end of the quarter. This allowed us to reach a new milestone in our dividend policy, and we are pleased to announce a dividend payout ratio of 90% for the quarter. For the quarter, we will distribute USD 194.1 million or USD 0.3790 per share in dividends. On October 1, 2024, we successfully completed the redomiciliation of Hafnia Limited from Bermuda to Singapore. As Hafnia Limited is a Singapore tax resident post-redomiciliation, no Singapore withholding taxes will be imposed on dividend distributions to all shareholders. There is, therefore, no change in the dividend treatment resulting from the redomiciliation. Hafnia’s Board has authorized management to initiate a share buyback program of up to USD 100 million, from December 2, 2024, to January 27, 2025, subject to market conditions. Authorization will be reviewed on a quarterly basis. We will disclose the structure of the program and details of any buyback as it occurs. The amount utilized for this buyback program will be deducted before declaring dividends for Q4 2024. This ensures the combined total of dividends and share buybacks aligns to our payout ratio under our dividend policy, reflecting our dedication to shareholder value while also ensuring strategic flexibility. While market conditions softened slightly due to competition from the crude sector, Q3 trade volumes and earnings remained above last year’s levels, driven by strong global oil demand and increased tonne-miles from refinery dislocations. Looking ahead, seasonal strengthening in the crude sector, coupled with the technical challenges of transporting products on crude carriers, is expected to reduce this cannibalization. Additionally, seasonal demand increases and geopolitical tensions will further support product demand and tonne-miles. As of November 18, 2024, 71% of the Q4 earning days are covered at an average of USD 24,004 per day, and 9% is covered at USD 24,089 per day for 2025. We continue to enhance our technological capabilities and are optimistic about our strategic investment in Complexio Foundational AI to advance data automation. Complexio’s ‘bottom-up’ approach first ingests companies’ unstructured and structured data and then, via its multi-modal framework – currently leveraging eight Large Language Models (LLMs) – maps this data into a comprehensive landscape. With ongoing advancements in prediction and reasoning, this detailed understanding enables the automation of recurring processes such as chartering, ship clearance, finance management, and contract negotiation. These continuous R&D improvements, combined with expanding partnerships with industry leaders like Marfin, CTM, Sogemm, BW Epic Kosan, and Alassia Newships, reinforce Hafnia’s position at the forefront of technological innovation. NAV is calculated using the fair value of Hafnia’s owned vessels. At the end of the quarter, Hafnia’s fleet consisted of 115 owned vessels1 and 15 chartered-in vessels. The Group’s total fleet includes 10 LR2s, 34 LR1s (including three bareboat-chartered in and four time-chartered in), 62 MRs of which nine are IMO II (including two bareboat chartered in and 11 time-chartered in), and 24 Handy vessels of which 18 are IMO II (including seven bareboat-chartered in). The average estimated broker value of the owned fleet1 was USD 4,914 million, of which the LR2 vessels had a broker value of USD 649 million2, the LR1 fleet had a broker value of USD 1,288 million2, the MR fleet had a broker value of USD 2,059 million3 and the Handy vessels had a broker value of USD 918 million4. The unencumbered vessels had a broker value of USD 475 million5. The chartered-in fleet had a right-of-use asset book value of USD 19.5 million with a corresponding lease liability of USD 22.3 million. In the third quarter of 2024, the Clean Petroleum Products (CPP) trade remained robust, despite a 6% drop in tonne-miles since Q2. High cargo volumes and tonne-miles remain at historical average highs, primarily driven by geopolitical tensions. These tensions have led to more vessels rerouting away from the Suez Canal toward the Cape of Good Hope. Global oil demand also remained firm in the third quarter, driven by growth in advanced economies. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global oil demand increased by 1.1 million barrels per day in the third quarter, driven by global gasoil deliveries, despite a contraction in overall Chinese demand. Furthermore, global oil demand for 2024 remains firm at an average of 102.8 million barrels per day, an increase of 0.9 million barrels from 2023. Despite steady demand, product tanker rates were under pressure in the last part of Q3, mainly due to increased competition from the crude sector. With a seasonally weak crude market, some crude tankers – despite high conversion costs – shifted to carrying refined products. During the quarter, Suezmax and VLCC tankers transported more diesel shipments from the Middle East to Europe, a trade typically handled by LR2s. As winter approaches, both crude and product markets are expected to strengthen seasonally. Technical challenges and reduced commercial incentives for using crude carriers to carry refined products limit cannibalization, as shown in recent daily loading data, and this drives forward tightness in supply versus demand for the clean products segments. For the first time in history, the product markets will experience a full winter period where seasonal increases in Atlantic demand, partly serviced by the Eastern hemisphere, will exclusively have to route via the Cape of Good Hope rather than Suez. Additionally, improving refinery margins and gradually increasing distances between refineries and end consumers support a strong outlook for earnings in the product sector. On the supply side, the orderbook-to-fleet ratio is approximately 20% for deliveries through 2028 as of November 2024. However, a growing number of tankers over 20 years old are likely scrapping candidates. These older vessels, with lower utilization rates and frequent involvement in “dark trades”, effectively reduce available tonnage and increase demand for the existing fleet. Furthermore, LR2s comprise over 50% of the new tonnage expected in the next few years, and historically, 70% of LR2 capacity has been absorbed into the dirty petroleum products trade. This is further supported by aged Panamax, Aframax, and large crude tanker fleets where newbuild order books are limited compared to the clean segments. Applying 70% dirty products trading for LR2 newbuild capacity reduces the clean products book-to-fleet ratio to 13%. As a result, the overall supply balance is expected to remain manageable in the coming years. Looking ahead, the product tanker market outlook is positive. Demand is expected to remain strong, supported by longer transport distances and refinery dislocation. With winter’s seasonal factors and reduced cannibalization from crude tankers, the market is set to benefit from a high-rate environment for product tankers. This will however be impacted if there is normalization of trade through the Red Sea, or further addition of new tonnage. Hafnia will pay a quarterly dividend of USD 0.3790 per share. The record date will be December 6, 2024. For shares registered in the Euronext VPS Oslo Stock Exchange, dividends will be distributed in NOK with an ex-dividend date of December 5, 2024 and payment date on, or about, December 17, 2024. For shares registered in the Depository Trust Company, the ex-dividend date will be December 6, 2024 with a payment date on, or about, December 12, 2024. Source: Hafnia LimitedCongressional bicameral team pushes for insurance, pharmaceutical reformTrump’s tariffs in his first term did little to alter the economy, but this time could be different

French lawmakers on Wednesday voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier after just three months in office, a historic move which hurled the country further into political uncertainty. For the first time in over sixty years, the National Assembly lower house toppled the incumbent government, approving a no-confidence motion that had been proposed by the hard left but which crucially was backed by the far-right headed by Marine Le Pen. Barnier's rapid ejection from office comes after snap parliamentary elections this summer which resulted in a hung parliament with no party having an overall majority and the far-right holding the key to the government's survival. President Emmanuel Macron now has the difficult task of picking a viable successor with over two years of his presidential term left. He is to address the nation at 1900 GMT on Thursday, the Elysee said. Earlier in the day, Macron is to receive Barnier at 0900 GMT who will submit the resignation of the government. The National Assembly debated a motion brought by the hard left in a standoff over next year's austerity budget, after the prime minister on Monday forced through a social security financing bill without a vote. With the support of the far-right, a majority of 331 MPs in the 577-member chamber voted to oust the government. - 'Calling on Macron to go' - Macron flew back into Paris just ahead of the vote after wrapping up his three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia, an apparent world away from the domestic crisis. He strolled earlier Wednesday through the desert sands of the Al-Ula oasis, an iconic tourist project of the kingdom, marvelling at ancient landmarks. After landing, he headed direct to the Elysee Palace. "We are now calling on Macron to go," Mathilde Panot, the head of the parliamentary faction of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party told reporters, urging "early presidential elections" to solve the deepening political crisis. But taking care not to crow over the fall of the government, Le Pen said in a television interview that her party -- once a new premier is appointed -- "would let them work" and help create a "budget that is acceptable for everyone". Laurent Wauquiez, the head of right-wing deputies in parliament, said the far-right and hard-left bore the responsibility for a no-confidence vote that would "plunge the country into instability". - 'His failure' - Macron on Tuesday had rejected calls to resign, saying such a scenario amounted to "political fiction". With markets nervous and France bracing for public-sector strikes against the threat of cutbacks, action that will shut schools and hit air and rail traffic, there is a growing sense of crisis. The unions have called for civil servants, including teachers and air traffic controllers, to strike on Thursday over separate cost-cutting measures proposed by their respective ministries this autumn. Meanwhile, Macron is due to host a major international event Saturday, with the reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral after the 2019 fire, with guests including Donald Trump on his first foreign trip since he was elected to be the next US president. "His failure," was left-wing daily Liberation's front-page headline, with a picture of Macron, whose term runs until 2027. - 'Shattered strategy' - In an editorial, Le Monde said Le Pen's move risked upsetting her own supporters, such as retirees and business leaders, by toppling the government. "In the space of a few minutes, she shattered the strategy of normalisation she had consistently pursued," the daily said. Some observers have suggested that Le Pen, 56, is seeking to bring down Macron before his term ends by ousting Barnier. Le Pen is embroiled in a high-profile embezzlement trial. If found guilty in March, she could be blocked from participating in France's next presidential election. But if Macron stepped down soon, an election would have to be called within a month, potentially ahead of the verdict in her trial. Candidates for the post of premier are few, but loyalist Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Macron's centrist ally Francois Bayrou are possible contenders. On the left, Macron could turn to former Socialist premier and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, a contender in September. Macron is minded to appoint the new premier rapidly, several sources told AFP. It was the first successful no-confidence vote since a defeat for Georges Pompidou's government in 1962, when Charles de Gaulle was president. The lifespan of Barnier's government is also the shortest of any administration since the Fifth Republic began in 1958. bur-jh-sjw/rlp Originally published as French government falls in historic no-confidence vote Breaking News Don't miss out on the headlines from Breaking News. Followed categories will be added to My News. More related stories Breaking News ‘No guard rails’: State’s vow on drug reform One state has moved to tackle a “pervasive” issue at a major health summit, with promises there will be “no guard rails” placed on those trying to address problems with drug reforms. Read more Hockey Olympic great calls time on career A five-time Olympian has made his final appearance for the Kookaburras after announcing his international retirement. 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