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esports world cup 2024 schedule Exploring the Versatility and Innovations of Nordic MicrocontrollersOrthAlign, Inc. Announces First Cases Using Lantern® Hip; The Next Evolution in Total Hip Replacement Technology.Indian cricket star Nitish Kumar Reddy's dad meets the legendary Sunil Gavaskar at the MCG - and you won't believe what happens next Nitish Kumar Reddy's father met Sunil Gavaskar Had watched his son record his first Test ton By SHAYNE BUGDEN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 02:12 GMT, 30 December 2024 | Updated: 02:12 GMT, 30 December 2024 e-mail View comments Indian cricket star Nitish Kumar Reddy's father has been captured on video bowing and touching the feet of all-time great Sunil Gavaskar in incredibly emotion-charged scenes at the Boxing Day Test. Mutalya Reddy had already had one of the best moments of his life at the MCG as he watched his son record his first Test century in India 's first innings - then he ran into one of the legends of the game behind the scenes. Reddy was accompanied by his wife and two of his other children when he met Gavaskar, who is now commentating for Channel Seven after a stellar playing career that saw him score more than 10,000 runs, captain his country and develop a reputation as one of the greatest opening batters ever. The clip shows Reddy senior taking Gavaskar's hands in his before he drops to his knees, holds his shoes and bows his head to the ground. Gavaskar initially and gently tries to stop him from bowing down, then holds Mutalya's hands and embraces him once he returns to his feet. Bowing before elders and touching their feet is a traditional sign of respect and admiration in India. Nitish Kumar Reddy's father Mutalya (left) is pictured meeting Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar (right) at the MCG during the Boxing Day Test Nitish Kumar Reddy’s family meet the great Sunil Gavaskar @abcsport #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/hUBOghxM2e — Ben Cameron (@BenCameron23) December 29, 2024 Mutalya (left) is pictured with his son, star Indian batter Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored his maiden Test century against Australia at the MCG The uplifting moment bowled over cricket fans - but while the vast majority were left happy by the clip, some criticised Reddy's display. 'Truly heartwarming! A meeting between generations of cricketing excellence—Nitish’s family with the legend Sunil Gavaskar. Moments like these make cricket so special,' one wrote on X. 'Honor & respect true Indian traits...nowadays not seen too often,' another commented. 'What a beautiful family & such a great sporting story. They deserve all they can for the sacrifices they have made for Nitish. Love the respect they show. Shows they are truly grateful,' added another. 'What class and dignity from the family and Sunny. Says so much about this sport in India,' wrote 3AW radio star Neil Mitchell. However, others were not as impressed. 'Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev along with the 83 world cup winning team is on a different pedestal for Cricket India. We love them and treasure them deep in our hearts. BUT to see NKR's father doing that, even out of deepest respect and Gavaskar accepting the same is "thoda nahi" - lots of over the top,' one fan wrote. 'Cricketers are men. Stop treating them like Gods,' another said. Gavaskar became emotional when he discussed Reddy's century after giving the youngster a standing ovation in the commentary booth. 'I'm pretty certain this is going to be the first of many hundreds,' Gavaskar said. 'What a find that this young man has been for Indian cricket. Superb innings, fantastic temperament. Gavaskar (pictured) was obviously touched by Reddy's gesture when they met The former Indian skipper couldn't praise Reddy enough after his first ton (pictured) helped his team turn the tide against the Aussies in Melbourne 'Fantastic stuff, young man. Keep going, keep going!' Reddy's maiden Test ton came from 171 balls, as he reached his milestone under gloomy skies with the threat of rain lingering. The talented 21-year-old was almost left stranded on 99, but No.11 Mohammed Siraj (2no) survived four tense deliveries from Australia captain Pat Cummins to allow him to regain the strike. After India had been still in danger of not reaching the follow-on target of 275 when they began day three on 5-164, Reddy and Washington Sundar took advantage of a flat pitch and a tiring Australian bowling attack. Reddy has been a revelation for India since debuting in the Border-Gavaskar series-opener in Perth. The regular No.8 was India's highest scorer for the series at the time of writing, with 284 runs at an average of 71 to begin his Test career. He is behind only Australian star Travis Head (409) for the most runs by any batter in the series. India Channel Seven Share or comment on this article: Indian cricket star Nitish Kumar Reddy's dad meets the legendary Sunil Gavaskar at the MCG - and you won't believe what happens next e-mail Add comment

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KYIV, Ukraine — NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile. escalating the nearly 33-month-old war. The conflict is “entering a decisive phase,” Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday, and “taking on very dramatic dimensions.” Ukraine’s parliament canceled a session as security was tightened following Thursday’s Russian strike on a military facility in the city of Dnipro. In a stark warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said in a nationally televised speech the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was in retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles capable of striking deeper into Russian territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks Friday during a meeting with the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Defense, representatives of the military-industrial complex and developers of missile systems at the Kremlin in Moscow. Putin said Western air defense systems would be powerless to stop the new missile. Ukrainian military officials said the missile that hit Dnipro reached a speed of Mach 11 and carried six nonnuclear warheads, each releasing six submunitions. Speaking Friday to military and weapons industries officials, Putin said Russia will launch production of the Oreshnik. “No one in the world has such weapons,” he said. “Sooner or later, other leading countries will also get them. We are aware that they are under development. “We have this system now,” he added. “And this is important.” Putin said that while it isn’t an intercontinental missile, it’s so powerful that the use of several of them fitted with conventional warheads in one attack could be as devastating as a strike with strategic — or nuclear — weapons. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, head of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, said the Oreshnik could reach targets across Europe and be fitted with nuclear or conventional warheads, echoing Putin’s claim that even with conventional warheads, “the massive use of the weapon would be comparable in effect to the use of nuclear weapons.” In this photo taken from a video released Friday, a Russian serviceman operates at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov kept up Russia's bellicose tone on Friday, blaming “the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries” in supplying weapons to Ukraine to strike Russia. "The Russian side has clearly demonstrated its capabilities, and the contours of further retaliatory actions in the event that our concerns were not taken into account have also been quite clearly outlined," he said. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, widely seen as having the warmest relations with the Kremlin in the European Union, echoed Moscow’s talking points, suggesting the use of U.S.-supplied weapons in Ukraine likely requires direct American involvement. “These are rockets that are fired and then guided to a target via an electronic system, which requires the world’s most advanced technology and satellite communications capability,” Orbán said on state radio. “There is a strong assumption ... that these missiles cannot be guided without the assistance of American personnel.” Orbán cautioned against underestimating Russia’s responses, emphasizing that the country’s recent modifications to its nuclear deployment doctrine should not be dismissed as a “bluff.” “It’s not a trick ... there will be consequences,” he said. Czech Republic's Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky speaks to journalists Friday during a joint news conference with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriiy Sybiha in Kyiv, Ukraine. Separately in Kyiv, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský called Thursday’s missile strike an “escalatory step and an attempt of the Russian dictator to scare the population of Ukraine and to scare the population of Europe.” At a news conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Lipavský also expressed his full support for delivering the necessary additional air defense systems to protect Ukrainian civilians from the “heinous attacks.” He said the Czech Republic will impose no limits on the use of its weapons and equipment given to Ukraine. Three lawmakers from Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, confirmed that Friday's previously scheduled session was called off due to the ongoing threat of Russian missiles targeting government buildings in central Kyiv. In addition, there also was a recommendation to limit the work of all commercial offices and nongovernmental organizations "in that perimeter, and local residents were warned of the increased threat,” said lawmaker Mykyta Poturaiev, who said it's not the first time such a threat has been received. Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said the Oreshnik missile was fired from the Kapustin Yar 4th Missile Test Range in Russia’s Astrakhan region and flew 15 minutes before striking Dnipro. Test launches of a similar missile were conducted in October 2023 and June 2024, the directorate said. The Pentagon confirmed the missile was a new, experimental type of intermediate-range missile based on its RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile. Thursday's attack struck the Pivdenmash plant that built ICBMs when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. The military facility is located about 4 miles southwest of the center of Dnipro, a city of about 1 million that is Ukraine’s fourth-largest and a key hub for military supplies and humanitarian aid, and is home to one of the country’s largest hospitals for treating wounded soldiers from the front before their transfer to Kyiv or abroad. We're all going to die someday. Still, how it happens—and when—can point to a historical moment defined by the scientific advancements and public health programs available at the time to contain disease and prevent accidents. In the early 1900s, America's efforts to improve sanitation, hygiene, and routine vaccinations were still in their infancy. Maternal and infant mortality rates were high, as were contagious diseases that spread between people and animals. Combined with the devastation of two World Wars—and the Spanish Flu pandemic in between—the leading causes of death changed significantly after this period. So, too, did the way we diagnose and control the spread of disease. Starting with reforms as part of Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s, massive-scale, federal interventions in the U.S. eventually helped stave off disease transmission. It took comprehensive government programs and the establishment of state and local health agencies to educate the public on preventing disease transmission. Seemingly simple behavioral shifts, such as handwashing, were critical in thwarting the spread of germs, much like discoveries in medicine, such as vaccines, and increased access to deliver them across geographies. Over the course of the 20th century, life expectancy increased by 56% and is estimated to keep increasing slightly, according to an annual summary of vital statistics published by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2000. Death Records examined data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to see how the leading causes of death in America have evolved over time and to pinpoint how some major mortality trends have dropped off. According to a report published in the journal Annual Review of Public Health in 2000, pneumonia was the leading cause of death in the early 1900s, accounting for nearly 1 in 4 deaths. By the time World War I ended in 1918, during which people and animals were housed together for long periods, a new virus emerged: the Spanish Flu. Originating in a bird before spreading to humans, the virus killed 10 times as many Americans as the war. Many died of secondary pneumonia after the initial infection. Pneumonia deaths eventually plummeted throughout the century, partly prevented by increased flu vaccine uptake rates in high-risk groups, particularly older people. Per the CDC, tuberculosis was a close second leading cause of death, killing 194 of every 10,000 people in 1900, mainly concentrated in dense urban areas where the infection could more easily spread. Eventually, public health interventions led to drastic declines in mortality from the disease, such as public education, reducing crowded housing, quarantining people with active disease, improving hygiene, and using antibiotics. Once the death rates lagged, so did the public health infrastructure built to control the disease, leading to a resurgence in the mid-1980s. Diarrhea was the third leading cause of death in 1900, surging every summer among children before the impacts of the pathogen died out in 1930. Adopting water filtration, better nutrition, and improved refrigeration were all associated with its decline. In the 1940s and 1950s, polio outbreaks killed or paralyzed upward of half a million people worldwide every year. Even at its peak, polio wasn't a leading cause of death, it was a much-feared one, particularly among parents of young children, some of whom kept them from crowded public places and interacting with other children. By 1955, when Jonah Salk discovered the polio vaccine, the U.S. had ended the "golden age of medicine." During this period, the causes of mortality shifted dramatically as scientists worldwide began to collaborate on infectious disease control, surgical techniques, vaccines, and other drugs. From the 1950s onward, once quick-spreading deadly contagions weren't prematurely killing American residents en masse, scientists also began to understand better how to diagnose and treat these diseases. As a result, Americans were living longer lives and instead succumbing to noncommunicable diseases, or NCDs. The risk of chronic diseases increased with age and, in some cases, was exacerbated by unhealthy lifestyles. Cancer and heart disease shot up across the century, increasing 90-fold from 1900 to 1998, according to CDC data. Following the post-Spanish Flu years, heart disease killed more Americans than any other cause, peaking in the 1960s and contributing to 1 in 3 deaths. Cigarette smoking rates peaked at the same time, a major risk factor for heart disease. Obesity rates also rose, creating another risk factor for heart disease and many types of cancers. This coincides with the introduction of ultra-processed foods into diets, which plays a more significant role in larger waistlines than the increasing predominance of sedentary work and lifestyles. In the early 1970s, deaths from heart disease began to fall as more Americans prevented and managed their risk factors, like quitting smoking or taking blood pressure medicine. However, the disease remains the biggest killer of Americans. Cancer remains the second leading cause of death and rates still indicate an upward trajectory over time. Only a few types of cancer are detected early by screening, and some treatments for aggressive cancers like glioblastoma—the most common type of brain cancer—have also stalled, unable to improve prognosis much over time. In recent years, early-onset cancers, those diagnosed before age 50 or sometimes even earlier, have seen a drastic rise among younger Americans. While highly processed foods and sedentary lifestyles may contribute to rising rates, a spike in cancer rates among otherwise healthy young individuals has baffled some medical professionals. This follows the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020. At its peak, high transmission rates made the virus the third leading cause of death in America. It's often compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918, though COVID-19 had a far larger global impact, spurring international collaborations among scientists who developed a vaccine in an unprecedented time. Public policy around issues of safety and access also influences causes of death, particularly—and tragically—among young Americans. Gun control measures in the U.S. are far less stringent than in peer nations; compared to other nations, however, the U.S. leads in gun violence. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens (around 2 in 3 are homicides, and 1 in 3 are suicides), and deaths from opioids remain a leading cause of death among younger people. Globally, the leading causes of death mirror differences in social and geographic factors. NCDs are primarily associated with socio-economic status and comprise 7 out of 10 leading causes of death, 85% of those occurring in low- and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization. However, one of the best health measures is life expectancy at birth. People in the U.S. have been living longer lives since 2000, except for a slight dip in longevity due to COVID-19. According to the most recent CDC estimates, Americans' life expectancy is 77.5 years on average and is expected to increase slightly in the coming decades. Story editing by Alizah Salario. Additional editing by Kelly Glass. Copy editing by Paris Close. Photo selection by Lacy Kerrick. This story originally appeared on Death Records and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Distinguishing between humans and machines online has become more important than ever. Over the past years, the digital world has seen a proliferation of AI-fueled deepfake impersonations, bots and Sybil attacks, in which a single entity creates many false identities to gain influence. An increasing number of companies are trying to come up with solutions relying on blockchain technology. One of the more well-known projects is , previously known as Worldcoin, which scans irises to confirm their users are human. But the space is seeing more and more competitors relying on biometrics to prove people are real – including . “There are definitely a bunch of companies that are trying to solve the whole Proof of Personhood problem,” the company’s founder Terence Kwok told Biometric Update in an interview earlier this month. “We’re lucky to be one of the few that have started launching, building a user base and joined the market.” The company in October, allowing users and developers to get their first taste of the platform and receive some free cryptocurrency. The project has so far signed up over a million people – moving quickly to catch up with World Network which currently has 15 million users, including 7 million verified through its Orb iris-scanning technology. For now, the company is allowing mobile app pre-enrollment with a phone camera that captures palm prints. The full enrolment will involve scanning both palm prints and palm veins using specialized devices to avoid faking or spoofing. The Hong Kong-based firm is working with several manufacturers on palm-scanning hardware but the industrial design and the electrical engineering is done in-house, adds Kwok. The founder has the media that its first batch of devices should start rolling out between December and February. In 2025, the company plans to launch a personal enrolment device that can be plugged into a smartphone. “Everything is in-house built, from the app all the way to the algorithms on the back for biometrics, as well as the encryption,” says Kwok. The launch of the mainnet is expected over the next couple of months while Humanity Protocol is also planning to release its own app. Meanwhile, Humanity Protocol is also developing different use cases through partnerships with other companies, both the crypto space and the traditional world, according to Kwok. “In the blockchain world, Proof of Personhood is super important,” he says. Proof of Personhood (PoP), sometimes called Proof of Humanity (PoH), ensures that users are real human beings through identity verification that doesn’t rely on a central authority. Verifying that someone is a real person prevents abusing online systems. But Humanity Protocol has plans that go beyond and it’s looking to bring its product to the offline space. “We’re building a full credential ecosystem,” says Kwok. “So it’s not just proof of person, it’s also potentially allowing people to prove their age, prove their nationality, prove where they went to school, where they work.” The company has some serious names behind it. The platform was co-created by the co-founder of blockchain company , Sandeep Nailwal, and Yat Siu, the founder of Hong Kong’s unicorn Animoca Brands. The company, which offers digital property rights to video gamers through blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has also been and Kwok is hoping to become a part of their infrastructure. Kwok himself founded the first unicorn from Hong Kong, a tourism startup called Tink Labs which eventually went bankrupt. The startup was funded by backers such as Softbank and Sinovation Ventures, a VC fund headed by the former chief of Google China, Kaifu Lee. The Humanity Protocol project, which in February this year, announced a valuation of in May. But Humanity Protocol still has some catching up to do with the likes of World Network. Kwok says he doesn’t necessarily view other Proof-of-Personhood projects as competitors: Multiple systems can exist for different use cases, he notes. Companies like his owe a lot to World Network for paving the way and educating regulators worldwide about privacy-preserving self-sovereign identity. “I think in a lot of markets, this is welcomed,” says Kwok. “And then some of the other places, we’ll have to engage and figure out how to expand.” | | | | | | | | |

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