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Hamas called on “all movements, factions, tribal gatherings, and human rights organizations to mobilize massively” to repel the ongoing operation carried out by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank city of Jenin in an official statement on Tuesday.

“We emphasize that the continuation of the PA’s security operation indicates that it is turning a deaf ear to all Palestinian voices calling for its cessation and for the protection of the resistance,” the terror group’s statement read, adding that the PA operation “serves only the occupation army and its futile dreams of ending the resistance in the West Bank.”

The large-scale Jenin operation began earlier in December after Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists stole vehicles belonging to the Palestinian Authority.

Clashes have been since reported between terrorists and PA security forces in the area, with terrorists detonating a car bomb in the vicinity of a police station in Jenin.

Earlier this week, it was reported that the  US had asked Israel to approve the supply of weapons to the PA’s security forces. 

PA kills PIJ brigade commander

The commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Jenin Brigade was reportedly killed after Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces and terrorists exchanged fire on Saturday as the security forces attempted to clear the fighters from the West Bank city of Jenin, according to Israeli and Arab reports.

The commander was named as Yazid Ja’isa.

According to Israeli state broadcaster KAN News, the terrorists reportedly attempted to stop the security forces from entering the refugee camp. 

Walla, Danielle Greyman-Kennard, and Sam Halpern contributed to this report. 

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Nature’s beauty exists in spectrum of colours, from the deep blues of the ocean to the lush greens of forests. Among these, pink stands out with its charm. Exploring pink animals like dolphins and robins reminds us of the incredible diversity and wonder that exists all around us.
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These small, vibrant fish can display beautiful pink hues. They are popular in aquariums and have an aggressive behavior towards other males.
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It is a small, burrowing mammal native to central Argentina and is distinguished by its pale pink shell. It is elusive and rarely seen, which makes it one of the most interesting and unique animals in the world.
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This is recognisable by its pink feathers and spoon-shaped bill, this bird wades in shallow waters to feed. It is a social bird, often found in flocks.
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This small bird from Australia has a bright pink breast. It is found in forests and woodlands, adding a splash of colour to its natural surroundings.
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These sea slugs come in various vibrant shades, including bright pink. They are have striking appearances and detailed patterns on their bodies.
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This insect resembles a pink orchid flower which helps it in its hunting strategy. It is both a master of disguise and a formidable predator.
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These are tiny and camouflaged perfectly with pink coral reefs. These seahorses are incredibly small, measuring just about 2 cm in length.
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This starfish has a vivid pink hue and five arms. It lives in intertidal zones and plays a role in maintaining the marine environment.
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The Amazon river dolphin has a beautiful pink colour, especially the males. They inhabit freshwater rivers and play a crucial role in their ecosystem.
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These amphibians are commonly called “Mexican walking fish,” and have an attractive pink colour. They can regenerate limbs and remain in a juvenile state throughout their life.
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Vermont wins Men's College Cup with OT goal
🍀 Notre Dame rises in WBB Power 37
📈 UConn climbs in MBB Power 37
The College Football Playoff bracket is here. The 12-team bracket was announced on Sunday, Dec. 8. The official 12-team College Football Playoff field and final top 25 rankings were announced Dec. 8. The first round is Dec. 20 and 21.
Oregon is the No. 1 seed, with Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State also getting byes. Below is the bracket, final seeding and complete playoff schedule. 
This bracket uses the committee’s final top 25 rankings on Sunday, Dec. 8. It’s important to note that the top 25 ranking does not always match the seed in the playoff, as the four highest-ranked conference champions receive the top four seeds and byes, no matter where those four teams rank in the top 25. The fifth-highest-ranked conference champion is also in automatically, though that team will not get a bye.
All times Eastern
Friday, Dec. 20
Saturday, Dec. 21
Tuesday, Dec. 31
Wednesday, Jan. 1
Thursday, Jan. 9
Friday, Jan. 10
You can see how these numbers — the seed and the CFP ranking — differ below. The four teams with byes are in bold.
Here are the final CFP top 25 rankings, with teams in the CFP also getting their seeds included at the end.
Boise State, which won the Mountain West Conference championship and has lost to only top-ranked Oregon, is the third-highest-ranked conference champion and thus received a bye into the quarterfinals despite ranking No. 9. Though Arizona State is ranked only No. 12, the Sun Devils are the fourth-highest ranked conference champion — over ACC champ Clemson (No. 16) — and earned the No. 4 seed and the final first-round bye.
There is no re-seeding once the official bracket is revealed on Sunday, Dec. 8.
The four quarterfinal games are not played at the campus sites. Instead, these four games — scheduled on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 — will be played at the Fiesta Bowl, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl and Sugar Bowl. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be assigned one of these bowls in consideration of historic bowl relationships as well as seeding.
The four quarterfinal winners will then meet in the semifinals at either the Orange Bowl or the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10. If the seeds hold, that means (1) would meet (4) and (2) would play (3). The two semifinal winners will then play on Jan. 20 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the national championship.

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Vermont wins Men's College Cup with OT goal
🍀 Notre Dame rises in WBB Power 37
📈 UConn climbs in MBB Power 37
Here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 NCAA DI women’s volleyball tournament, which includes a 64-team field in a single-elimination bracket. Get the bracket, schedule and scores below.
The tournament bracket was revealed during a selection show on Sunday, Dec. 1, that aired on ESPN. Thirty-one teams received automatic qualification, with the remaining 33 teams selected as at-larges by the Division I Women’s Volleyball Committee.
The championship concludes with the national semifinals on Dec. 19 and title match on Dec. 22, both hosted in Louisville.
Click or tap here for the interactive bracket.
Every match can be streamed on ESPN+.
Semifinals (all times Eastern) 
Thursday, Dec. 19
First round
Thursday, Dec. 5
Friday, Dec. 6
Second round 
Friday, Dec. 6
Saturday, Dec. 7
Saturday, Dec. 14
Sunday, Dec. 15

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According to Saylor, that is just sound business, likening it to New York developers who have issued debt for centuries to grow the city’s skyline.
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MicroStrategy chairman Michael Saylor is as invested in Bitcoin as ever, and he is calling the cryptocurrency the “Cyber Manhattan” of the digital age. He recently compared Bitcoin to New York City real estate in a CNBC interview with Money Movers, saying that investing in Bitcoin today is akin to buying Manhattan at any point in the last 300 years. 
Every day is a good day to buy Bitcoin,” he said, pressing that, like real estate in Manhattan, Bitcoin is always a sound investment.
Since 2020, MicroStrategy has been accumulating one of the largest corporate Bitcoin holdings in the world and now totals 439,000 BTC, worth around $46 billion. The company funded those purchases by taking on debt, as real estate developers have done to expand their properties for centuries. 
According to Saylor, that is just sound business, likening it to New York developers who have issued debt for centuries to grow the city’s skyline.
On December 23, MicroStrategy will be inducted into the prestigious Nasdaq-100 Index, yet another milestone for the company. This will also put it in the widely followed Invesco QQQ Trust ETF, bringing even more institutional attention to MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin holdings. 
On Monday, when Bitcoin hit a new record high of $107,162, MicroStrategy’s stock jumped more than 5%, reflecting growing investor confidence in the company’s digital asset strategy.
Saylor’s positive sentiment on Bitcoin has not been without his critics. Some have described MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin strategy as a “Ponzi scheme” because it depends on debt. Saylor dismisses these claims, drawing comparisons between Bitcoin and real estate development in Manhattan. He considers Bitcoin as a long-term stable economic asset, much like the city itself.
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ChainCatcher news, Mask Network founder Suji Yan posted that multiple Pudgy Penguins toy products in a New York store were opened and the QR codes were stolen. The token airdrop led some people to rush into Walmart to steal QR codes that might receive the airdrop. He stated that the crypto community should condemn such behavior.

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Famous for high-end comedy and 50-flavours-of-wings nights, Hecklers is flying high after 17 years in the business.
“We’re known for our professional comedy night on Saturdays and our wings nights with 50 flavours on Sundays and Wednesdays,” says co-owner Aaron McGeough, who runs Hecklers with partner Derek Tusche, and silent partner Colin Lefebvre in Lloydminster. 
“Sticking at it every day and trying to get a little bit better every day, every week, every month, every year is key,” McGeough says. “We’re then a neighbourhood pub the other days of the week, with lots of locals and regulars from the area.”
I witnessed Saturday night comedy with Chicago’s Kevin Bozeman headlining and enjoyed a feast of comedic talent. Known locally and nationally for comedy, Hecklers attracts comedians from all over the world, including those who have appeared on The Tonight Show.
“We’ve just built relationships with comedians over time and they get better and we get better,” McGeough says.
“We’re lucky to get the best comedians in the country, for sure. And because there’s no Yuk Yuks in town here, we get our pick of the Yuk Yuks and independent litter.”
“The headliner will do 45 minutes, the middle guy 20-25 and the host 10 minutes off the top. We also sneak in a 5-6-minute guest spot,” McGeough says.
Beyond comedy, McGeough says Hecklers, which also has music bingo and trivia nights during the week, stands out with its focus on excellent service and execution.
“We also try to be friendly and on time consistently. And we offer pretty reasonable pricing. We’re a place you can go when you’re coming after work or for your 40th birthday party. So we cater to all sorts of people.”
“We’ve just built relationships with comedians over time and they get better and we get better,”
McGeough, now 42, was just 25 when he and his partners bought Fat Tuesdays and turned it into Hecklers in 2007. He said it wasn’t their intention to have a comedy bar at the outset.
“We started more as a sports bar, then tried live music and comedy to expand our range. The comedy just kind of took off.”
While today, you can see a variety of different comedy shows in Victoria, back then Hecklers was the only bar doing it.
“Plus Victoria’s a nice place to visit. So it’s not like we’re convincing comedians to go to Fort McMurray. We get lots of guys in from Seattle and people in from LA and New York and all over Canada, and it really is an excellent product for basically the price of a movie.”
In the beginning, McGeough was doing a bit of everything until they got some traction.
“We started out pretty young and didn’t start with a lot of money. So I was bartending and serving and closing and cooking and whatever needed to be done. And as you get a bit busier you have a bit more time and you hire a few more people. It’s like the first time you plan a Superbowl party, there’s a lot more work than the 15th time.
“So that’s just been the plan. Try and be better next Saturday than we were this Saturday. And do that for ever and ever. People know that I used to get in a cab and ask for Hecklers and they’d say ‘Where is that?’ And now people just know.”
Tusche was approached about running Fat Tuesdays and got the opinion of his then work colleague at Moxie’s, McGeough. Enchanted by the new flat-screen TVs, the pair looked into buying the place – four weeks later owned a pub.
“I was young and we didn’t know what we were doing as owners. We’d both been general managers of pubs before. So there were a lot of details and hard lessons we learned over the years. And then, somewhere around year seven, things started to get easier.
“Now, today, I’m lucky that I have young kids now and I didn’t have them back then. We opened in late October of 2007 and in 2008 I think Derek and I worked every day, no exceptions. There wasn’t money for a bunch of staff – and we weren’t that busy. So we had four or five people working here and now we have like 35. It’s a different world than back then.
“But it’s nice to get here. And it was mostly just sheer determination and luck. The right timing and a lot of things going our way. We found comedy at the right time – and deciding to do 50 flavours of wings was big,” McGeough recalls.
“Plus we’ve had a lot of great staff over the years. We have probably 15 people who’ve been here longer than the pandemic. A lot of really good servers and bartenders and cooks/chefs. We’ve built a really good team. And time has been the key. It’s a well-oiled machine now, but it took a lot of tinkering and a lot of time.”
Manager Carolann Young has been instrumental in developing the Hecklers cocktail menu. I sampled the Cellar Sour on her recommendation. And it slipped down smoothly – a very tasty blend of Lot 40 rye, Creme de Cassis, blueberry bitters, egg white and simple syrup.
On the food menu there’s every kind of chicken wing, from hot & special sauces and barbecue sauces to dry rubs, plus an extensive range of starters, salads, burgers, sandwiches and main courses. I sampled the sublime Slow-roasted Beef Dip Sandwich, featuring roasted beef, horseradish mayo, onion rings, Swiss cheese, au jus dip, fries and Caesar Salad.
“We’re affordable,” says McGeough. “Our burger’s not $24 (they start at $13.99). You can get a beer, a daily lager for under $6 ($5.50). Meanwhile, wings on Sundays are $8 and will only go up to $9 next year.”
Also looking ahead, “we’ll make minor changes, and we have new managers, so it will always be evolving. But we’ll also keep doing what works so well,” McGeough adds.
“It starts with being the kind of place that Derek and I would like to go to and then working back from there. And we’re definitely now a place we’d like to go to.”
Hecklers
123 Gorge Rd. East, Victoria
250-381-1312
hecklers.ca
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