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The cryptocurrency world is a bit like baseball. Everyone’s swinging for the fences, hoping to hit a home run, but only a few coins actually connect with the right pitch. With the 2025 bull market looming, the game is on, and these five low-cap altcoins are the ones to knock it out of the park: Doge Uprising, Hedera, Monero, Render, and Cosmos.
So, step up to the plate and see what makes these picks stand out, starting with the scrappy underdog making waves before it’s even launched.
It’s rare to find a meme coin with ambition. Rarer still to find one with a fully-fledged narrative, a dose of utility, and a community buzzing before the token even goes live. Doge Uprising ($DUP) might just be the perfect cocktail of hype, substance, and timing.
JANUARY 9TH – $DUP IS COMING
What’s different here? At the heart of Doge Uprising is a futuristic dystopian world where Doge Mechas (yes, mecha robots inspired by Dogecoin) lead a rebellion against a Musk-esque technological overlord. 
Sound ridiculous? That’s the point. It’s so outlandish that it’s captivating, pulling in crypto enthusiasts, NFT collectors, and even anime fans who can’t resist the story’s magnetic pull.

But storytelling isn’t where it ends. Doge Uprising is stacking its deck with tangible features. Most notably, its staking rewards. Offering 50% APY, $DUP gives holders the chance to earn passive income while staying locked into the community’s growth. This isn’t your average pump-and-dump coin. It’s engineered for sustainability.
To help with this long-term ambition, any unsold presale tokens get burned, creating scarcity that could drive demand sky-high when the coin hits the market.
The $DUP presale is the golden window. This is where the magic happens for investors who don’t want to miss the rocket before it takes off. Doge Uprising is shaping up to be a breakout hit in the meme coin renaissance – mark your calendar for January 9th at 7pm UTC to be a part of it.
While Doge Uprising stirs emotions, Hedera (HBAR) appeals to logic. Its enterprise-grade network, capable of handling 10,000 transactions per second with minimal fees, is the stuff of corporate dreams. Backed by giants like Google and IBM, Hedera is becoming the go-to platform for businesses entering the blockchain space.

HBAR’s low environmental impact and scalability have made it a darling of eco-conscious investors. Add to that its adoption across industries like supply chain management and tokenization, and you’ve got a coin that’s quietly laying the groundwork for long-term success.
In an age where surveillance feels omnipresent, Monero (XMR) is the silent hero of crypto. As the top privacy-focused cryptocurrency, Monero ensures transactions are confidential and untraceable. While regulatory scrutiny has tried to stifle it, demand for privacy in finance continues to grow. Its 2.6 billion dollar market cap effectively speaks for itself.
Render (RNDR) is the backbone for creators in the digital age. Its decentralized rendering network allows artists, developers, and designers to harness the power of idle GPUs for high-performance computing. Metaverses and digital experiences are almost guaranteed to become more immersive. With these improvements, Render’s utility will only grow, making it a very strong contender for the Bull Market.

Bridging blockchains is no small feat, but Cosmos (ATOM) is doing just that. Its interoperable architecture enables different blockchains to communicate seamlessly, making it a critical piece of infrastructure for the decentralized future. With ATOM staking providing consistent rewards, this project is as practical as it is visionary. Its market cap is the 49th largest at the time of writing. Its backers, however, fancy ATOM to challenge the top 20.
The ringing in of the new year, combined with a thriving Bull Market, promises crypto holders a wild ride. Low-cap altcoins like presale Doge Uprising, Hedera, Monero, Render, and Cosmos are well-positioned to deliver the kinds of returns that make headlines.
Of these, Doge Uprising shines above its rivals for its creative flair but for its commitment to combining utility with community. Its presale, set to launch soon, offers a chance to get in on the ground floor of what could be the next big thing in meme coins. Will $DUP be the coin to turn your portfolio into a masterpiece? The opportunity is there. Are you ready to seize it?
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Join me for a powerful masterclass on developing a strong mindset with two exceptional guests. First, legendary athletic trainer Tim Grover breaks down what most people misunderstand about success, sharing insights from working with elite athletes like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Then, Harvard professor Amy Cuddy reveals the science behind body language and confidence, including how small changes in posture can dramatically impact our mindset. Finally, behavioral scientist Katy Milkman explains how to overcome procrastination and harness “fresh start” moments for lasting change. Get ready for game-changing wisdom on building unstoppable confidence and achieving your goals.
And now let’s jump into episode 1715 of The School of Greatness! 

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Carla K. Johnson
Associated Press
Published: January 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Carla K. Johnson
Associated Press
With the new year comes Dry January and a new surgeon general’s advisory on alcohol and cancer risk.
Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that.
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“Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,” said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who directs the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
On Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called for updating the existing surgeon general’s health warning label on alcohol-containing beverages to include the risk of cancer. His proposal would require approval from Congress.
What’s the harm in drinking alcohol?
Drinking raises the risk of several types of cancer, including colon, liver, breast and mouth and throat. Alcohol breaks down in the body into a substance called acetaldehyde, which can damage your cells and stop them from repairing themselves. That creates the conditions for cancer to grow.
Thousands of U.S. deaths per year could be prevented if people followed the government’s dietary guidelines, Naimi said.
Those guidelines advise men to limit themselves to two drinks or fewer per day and women to one drink or fewer per day. One drink is the equivalent of about one 12-ounce can of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or a shot of liquor.
According to Murthy’s advisory, there are about 100,000 alcohol-related cancer cases and about 20,000 alcohol-related cancer deaths annually in the United States.
“As you consider whether or how much to drink, keep in mind that less is better when it comes to cancer risk,” Murthy wrote Friday on the social media platform X.
What about moderate drinking?
That idea that moderate drinking has health benefits came from imperfect studies comparing groups of people by how much they drink. Usually, that was measured at one point in time. And none of the studies randomly assigned people to drink or not drink, so they couldn’t prove cause and effect.
People who report drinking moderately tend to have higher levels of education, higher incomes and better access to health care, said Naimi.
“It turns out that when you adjust for those things, the benefits tend to disappear,” he said.
Another problem: Most studies didn’t include younger people. Almost half of the people who die from alcohol-related causes die before the age of 50.
“If you’re studying people who survived into middle age, didn’t quit drinking because of a problem and didn’t become a heavy drinker, that’s a very select group,” Naimi said. “It creates an appearance of a benefit for moderate drinkers that is actually a statistical illusion.”
Other studies challenge the idea that alcohol has benefits. These studies compare people with a gene variant that makes it unpleasant to drink to people without the gene variant. People with the variant tend to drink very little or not at all. One of these studies found people with the gene variant have a lower risk of heart disease — another blow to the idea that alcohol protects people from heart problems.
What do guidelines say?
Guidelines vary a lot from country to country but the overall trend is toward drinking less.
The United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Holland and Australia recently reviewed new evidence and lowered their alcohol consumption recommendations. Ireland will require cancer warning labels on alcohol starting in 2026.
“The scientific consensus has shifted due to the overwhelming evidence linking alcohol to over 200 health conditions, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases and injuries,” said Carina Ferreira-Borges, regional adviser for alcohol at the World Health Organization regional office for Europe.
Naimi served on an advisory committee that wanted to lower the U.S. recommendation for men to one drink per day. That advice was considered and rejected when the federal recommendations came out in 2020.
“The simple message that’s best supported by the evidence is that, if you drink, less is better when it comes to health,” Naimi said. ___
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Critical praise, love from fans, and buckets of cash…what else could these Billion-dollar box office movies have going for them?
By Ben Hathaway
If unadjusted for inflation, 55 films have crossed the $1 billion threshold at the worldwide box office. Many more have come close. Of those 55, there are some true duds, e.g. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Jurassic World Dominion, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. But, sometimes, a movie manages to be both critically appreciated and a major moneymaker for the studio.
What follows are the best of the best when it comes to billion-dollar grossers, unadjusted for inflation, of course. That would make the number of potential candidates warrant a much larger list. However, if a film has been re-released, such as Jurassic Park, those re-release grosses counted towards the total. Furthermore, they’re listed alphabetically, as opposed to a ranking based on the films’ quality or gross (though the grosses have been included and, of course, their quality explained).
All four Avengers movies have cleared $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and it is essentially dealers’ choice which of them is the best. That said, the chances of Avengers: Age of Ultron being the pick is…slim.
But, as far as what feels like a cinematic achievement, it’s certainly 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, and not just because it made an absurd amount of money both stateside and abroad. It’s a film that manages to pack in almost every thread from multiple franchises, yet never feels overstuffed. It’s the Russos’ crowning achievement.
Black Panther is the second and final MCU movie to be featured on this list. It isn’t just one of the best movies of its larger cinematic universe, it’s the most important, hands down.
There were superhero movies with a black lead prior to Ryan Coogler’s film, but none of them (Hancock, Blade, Spawn, Catwoman) really gave an underserved audience a character they could truly identify with. Toss in the fact it’s a generally effective and poignant work, and it’s no surprise Black Panther opened strong and then benefitted from phenomenal repeat business across the globe.
If ever there was a massive leap in audience interest from the first film to the second, it’s with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy. To put it into context, 2005’s Batman Begins generated about $207 million domestically and a further $168.5 million overseas. Three years later, The Dark Knight made almost $535 million from domestic screens alone.
Why the major bump? For one, Batman Begins was a well-made and generally well-received movie. Two, word of mouth surrounding Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker flipped all skepticism regarding his casting on its head. Naturally, he’s not the only aspect that makes it the greatest superhero film of all time, but his work is at the very top of the list. Finally, the morbid curiosity generated by Ledger’s death made The Dark Knight even more of a must-see event than it already was.
Surprisingly enough, only two installments of the seven-film Harry Potter franchise crossed $1 billion: the first, and the last. In the case of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, it was an especially considerable accomplishment.
Riding high on the enthusiasm surrounding J. K. Rowling’s source material (the fourth novel had been released the prior year), Sorcerer’s Stone was a flat-out cultural event. It also happens to be a visually stunning and perfectly cast franchise starter that remains a charmer to this day.
The ultimate adventure film, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is as thrilling 30 years later as it was back in the ’90s. The top-grossing movie of its respective year, it made the most of its status as a film that must be seen on the big screen. It’s no wonder the film has been re-released multiple times.
None of the five subsequent installments have come close to capturing the original’s sense of awe and wonder. Even though the special effects look a bit dated in spots, it’s still a movie that grabs your attention and never lets it go.
As engrossing and moving as a fantasy film (or a film of any genre) can get, Peter Jackson’s magnum opus The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King retained the good will and financial viability gained by The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. In terms of critical appreciation, it was also the only installment of the trilogy to nab the Oscar for Best Picture.
Even with a massive runtime, the film sold more tickets than the (also long) previous films. Some may prefer Fellowship, but there’s undoubtedly an argument to be made that the one LOTR film to cross $1 billion was the best of the trilogy.
For the most part, there’s a cap to audience interest in the Bond franchise. But, when one is talked about as a revelation for the IP, they can put other 007 installments’ grosses to shame. This was the case for Skyfall.
Visually stunning, sublimely acted, and equipped with a terrific villain, Skyfall was a cut above for Bond. Even still, it’s fairly surprising the movie did as well as it did, as the comparably terrific Casino Royale only generated $616.5 million and Daniel Craig’s sophomore adventure, Quantum of Solace, received a mixed response at best.
In the modern age of legacy sequels, there are winners and losers. For instance, Twisters was a critical and commercial winner; Zoolander 2 was a critical and commercial loser. Then there was Top Gun: Maverick which, outside of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, stands as the most successful legacy follow-up to date.
For one, Maverick is better than The Force Awakens, which often feels a bit too comfortable to tread familiar ground (though it’s certainly more well-liked on the macro scale than its two sequels); conversely, Maverick feels like the perfect hybridization of nostalgia and moving forward. And, very much against the norm for legacy sequels, it sold more tickets than the original film – in the post-pandemic marketplace, to boot.
The original Toy Story was so good it seemed a tall order to beat it in the quality department. But then Toy Story 3 came along, a movie that was able to bring adults in the audience to tears just as well if not better than the kids sitting next to them.
It made for a genuinely perfect trilogy-capper, to the point it’s almost a shame the franchise continued with Toy Story 4 and Lightyear (we’ll see about Toy Story 5 in 2026). Then again, Toy Story 4 also received a positive critical and commercial reception, even if it wasn’t at quite the level of the third film.
No one expected Zootopia to cross a billion. It was a Disney movie with talking animals, so naturally, expectations weren’t at the bottom of the barrel, but the film’s performance undoubtedly surprised many people.
Though, with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, it became obvious early on that the film was something special. An analysis of prejudice and stereotyping, it’s a film that has as much of an impact on adults as its beautiful animation does on children. It will be interesting to see if the 2025 sequel can measure up to what is one of the very best animated films of the 2010s.
All of these films are available to stream on Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock, Prime Video, and Max.
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Just a few weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term, Meta is shaking up its global affairs team — a crucial body overseeing things like content policy, elections, and its independent oversight board.
Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of Britain and chief of Global Affairs since 2018, announced he would be leaving the company in the new year, replaced by fellow exec Joel Kaplan as president of Meta’s Global Affairs team. Before joining Facebook in 2011, Kaplan worked in Republican politics, notably in the office of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and as deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush.
In a post on his personal Facebook account and later X, Clegg wrote: “My time at the company coincided with a significant resetting of the relationship between ‘big tech’ and the societal pressures manifested in new laws, institutions and norms affecting the sector,” he wrote. “I am simply thrilled that my deputy, Joel Kaplan, will now become Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer… He is quite clearly the right person for the right job at the right time!”
During his time as Vice President of U.S. Public Policy and later Global Public Policy at Facebook, Kaplan was accused of not remaining politically neutral and placating Republican figures with lax content rules, which the company has denied. Kaplan also controversially attended the Senate hearings on sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Big Tech’s leading figures have been courting Trump’s favor over the last year and in the wake of his presidential campaign win, signaling a desire to get in the leader’s (and his tech-connected allies’) good graces despite previous conflicts. In particular, Trump has railed against Meta for its contested moderation policies and has accused the platform, among others, of engaging in a systematic campaign to silence himself and his supporters and skew election results.
In 2021, Trump was suspended from Meta platforms for two years, following his incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The company brought back his account in 2023 on a limited, provisional basis and then fully reinstated his profiles in July 2024, ahead of the U.S. presidential race. Since then, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sidled up to Trump, including a $1 million donation to Trump’s inauguration fund after he was spotted at the President’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Other tech CEOs have voiced their support for the Trump administration, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Meanwhile, Trump has pledged some of his biggest tech allies, including Elon Musk, political access.
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PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) is in discussions with the government about being able to continue copper concentrate exports until its new Manyar smelter returns to full operations, a spokesperson for the miner said on Friday.
The company was allowed to export copper concentrate until the end of December, as its new smelter was then expected to process its mine output domestically.
However, the Manyar smelter is currently shut down after a fire in October.
Repairs are ongoing and a ramp-up to operations is now expected to begin around mid-year, spokesperson Katri Krisnati said.
“This will certainly have an impact on our concentrate storage capacity both at the Amamapare port and at the PTFI smelter, which will be full going forward,” she told Reuters.
“We are currently discussing with the government to sell concentrate that should be refined at the PTFI smelter abroad until the smelter is fully operational,” she added.
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia told reporters the government is considering PTFI’s request and that a decision will be taken in a meeting with President Prabowo Subianto.
Local media reported that PTFI CEO Tony Wenas met with officials of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs on Friday.
News site Kontan reported that ministry official Elen Setiadi said they discussed plans to quickly repair the smelter.
(Reporting by Fransiska Nangoy and Bernadette Christina; Additional reporting by Gayatri Suroyo, editing by John Mair and Jason Neely)

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I recently heard a sermon in which the preacher reflected on his observing a pileated woodpecker and the beauty of the natural world. For him, it was a spiritual experience. It led me to muse about the importance of experiencing nature in our spirituality and overall wellbeing.
Finding spirituality in nature is not new. For example, John Muir, the noted naturalist, preservationist, and author from the late 1800s and early 1900s found God in nature and referred to nature, particularly the Yosemite Valley as his cathedral. “No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”
Aldo Leopold, the father of modern wildlife management wrote about the importance of nature, specifically wild places. The first two sentences in the foreword to his widely read A Sand County Almanac, Leopold wrote “There are some who can live without wild places, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”
It is becoming increasing evident that nature and wild places are more important to us than many of us realize. Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder gained national attention in 2008. The book addresses issues relating to children these days having a lack of experiences with the natural world.
Since its publication, a child’s lack of experiencing nature has been found to be associated with a number of things, including attention difficulties, decreased emotional and physical wellbeing, reduced use of their senses, and a weakened literacy and stewardship of the natural world.
And more recently, Tony Jones’ book The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors (2024), an autobiographical journey from the church to the woods, is generating some interesting discussion about the relationship between faith and the natural world.
We need an occasional reminder of the importance of nature and wild places in our lives, and spending more time in natural or wild places may be beneficial to many.
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Jimmy Butler’s relationship with the Heat appears to have finally run its course  Yahoo Sports
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