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Before You Start 2025, Take Time to Evaluate Your Spiritual Growth
When God created the heavens, the earth, the oceans, the plants and the animals, He took time to assess His creation—and according to Genesis 1, He “saw that it was good” (v. 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, NASB 1995). When He finished the job, He took a day to rest—and set in motion a rhythm of rest for all of us. God didn’t need a break; He was teaching us the importance of rest and quiet trust.
This principle of Sabbath has affected the way I start a new year. When one year ends, I always take time to celebrate the highlights by looking at photos, savoring memories and writing down my best moments. I also mourn my losses. And I carefully consider how I can grow spiritually in the coming year.
We all need to take a deep breath before racing into a new year. This has become a spiritual discipline for me. I relish the memories, smell the flowers I saw on my journey and thank God for the victories. It’s my way of saying, “It is good” before I rush into my next assignment.
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‘Terrorist Attack’: Driver Rams Truck Into New Orleans Crowd, 10 Dead
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The suspect who drove a vehicle at high speed into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was killed after a firefight with police, law enforcement officials told the AP.
The officials were not authorized to discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
Ten people were killed and 30 were injured after the suspect rammed a vehicle at high speed into a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter district at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday along Bourbon Street. 
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Freedom Under Fire on US College Campuses
A new survey of thousands of American college faculty yielded some shocking results on free speech and academic freedom, with nearly 3-in-10 professors stating they feel unable to speak openly over fears about how students, fellow faculty, and administrators might respond.
This is just one of the eyebrow-raising findings in “Silence in the Classroom: The 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report” released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
“While many faculty remain confident in higher education, and few report explicit threats or experiences of discipline for speech, the broader climate reflects that of rampant self-censorship, worry and fear, particularly among faculty in the political minority,” the study’s executive summary reads.
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Cameron Diaz had reached her breaking point. When Annie hit theaters in 2014, it marked her 38th movie in 20 years. “It’s so intense to work at that level and be that public and put yourself out there,” she told pal Gwyneth Paltrow during a 2020 Goop interview. “There’s a lot of energy coming at you at all times.” She decided to take a giant step back from Hollywood to focus on herself and build the family she’d always wanted. In 2015, she married Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden, and the two welcomed daughter Raddix in December 2019 and son Cardinal in March. “Cameron was burnt out,” a source tells Us Weekly in the latest cover story, “and her priorities shifted.”
After an eventful — and personally fulfilling — decade, Diaz is returning to the spotlight. Her new Netflix film, Back in Action, debuts January 17. In it, she and costar Jamie Foxx play married former CIA agents who are pulled back into the world of espionage when their identities are blown. In May, the 52-year-old actress was spotted filming the upcoming Apple TV+ flick Outcome with Keanu Reeves and Matt Bomer in L.A., and she’s set to star in Shrek 5, due out in July 2026. A second source says Diaz’s decision to act again “evolved over time,” adding, “It wasn’t sudden.” In October, she told the audience at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit that “it was just the right time for my family.”

Make no mistake: Her next chapter will be on her terms. “Cameron [is] very selective about future projects,” says the first source. Her priorities are her children and Madden, 45, and their low-key life in Montecito, California. “I’m not defining anything,” Diaz recently told Empire about coming out of retirement. “I’m just open to whatever makes sense for me and my family at any given moment.”
According to the first source, Diaz wasn’t sure if she’d ever make another movie. She’d been burning the candle at both ends for two decades. “[I] looked around and [saw] there were so many parts of my life that I wasn’t touching,” she said on Hart to Heart in 2021. “It wasn’t about disliking the industry; It was about shifting priorities,” the second source says of Diaz’s decision to leave showbiz. Adds the first source: “Having kids was something she always wanted, [but] didn’t feel like she could while working in Hollywood.”
In 2022, Diaz told “Rule Breakers” podcast host Michelle Visage that, during her hiatus, she also “went in and did some really deep, personal healing.” It took years for her to be ready to get back in the swing of things. “Cameron feels like she’s settled now and is in a good place mentally,” says the source. “She has a new outlook on work and the industry as a whole.”
It helped that her first big project involved a reunion with Foxx, with whom she starred in 1999’s Any Given Sunday. “Only you could get me back in action,” she wrote in a June 2022 Instagram post directed at her longtime friend when the movie was first announced. “They were constantly laughing on set,” says the first source, noting that they share a similar sense of humor “and their chemistry is unmatched.” For Diaz, being back in the mix has been fun. “Cameron had some initial nerves,” adds the second source, “but she rediscovered her love for the craft.”
Madden was encouraging throughout the process. “[Benji] was just like, ‘You’ve been supporting us and building the family’ … It’s time for us to support you and let Mommy ascend and do her thing,’” she said in October. Notes the first source: “He cheered her on every step of the way.”
The musician has been her rock ever since they fell in love in 2014 (they were introduced by Diaz’s friend Nicole Richie, who married Benji’s twin brother, Joel, in 2010). “I saw him walking towards me, and I was like, ‘Huh, he’s hot,’” she said in 2021. “When I saw him — like who he was — that’s what made me really be like, ‘Oh you, you’re special, you’re the guy.’” According to the second source, “Cameron said she knew Benji was different almost immediately. He felt the same. Their connection was instant and natural.”
Their relationship is built on mutual respect and constant communication. “They’re a team,” says the second source. “They’re always lifting each other up and prioritizing each other’s happiness.” Madden stepped up to the plate when Diaz returned to work, helping take care of their two young kids: “Benji’s a very hands-on dad and extremely helpful.” Diaz recently revealed the pair rely heavily on therapy. “[It’s] a big thing in our family,” she told Joel on the December 11 episode of his “Artist Friendly” podcast. “You can’t be in a marriage and have a family if both people are not 100 percent every day.”
The couple will celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary on January 5 by doing something low-key and meaningful. “Cameron and Benji like to keep milestones intimate and personal,” says the second source. In general, they’re not big on industry events or splashy parties. “They like cooking, having movie nights or taking quiet walks,” adds the source. They also spend a good deal of time with Richie and her husband. “They try and get together as one big family often,” shares the first source, adding that Diaz leaned on Richie when it comes to the kids. “She’s helped Cameron with everything she needs.”
Raddix and Cardinal are the center of their universe. “There’s lots of love and laughter at home,” says the second source. The couple bought their six-
bedroom, $13 million Montecito mansion in 2022. “They have privacy there,” says the first source, adding, “They live a very peaceful life. They love the local quaint cafes and the beach [and] a slower pace of life for raising their kids.” As for more children, both sources say they are open but content with two, with the first noting, “They’re incredibly happy with their family.”
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Besides motherhood and her upcoming movies, Diaz has plenty else to keep her busy. She launched her organic wine line, Avaline, in 2020, and it remains a huge focus. “It takes precedence over acting,” says the first source. She’s written two books about health and longevity. “Cameron is passionate about Avaline and she also loves wellness, food and exploring other creative ventures,” says the second source, adding, “Her goal is to pursue projects — whether acting, business or family life — that feel meaningful and authentic.”
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In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preemptive pardons for people who could be at risk of prosecution by the next administration.
One of the top names reportedly mentioned is former chief medical adviser to Biden during COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci’s “crime,” if there is one, was his disingenuous testimony before Congress on “gain-of-function” research.
It might not technically be perjury, but it may have created enough legal exposure for Fauci to consider retaining one of those notoriously high-priced D.C. criminal lawyers. Much of this might have been avoided, but for a worse crime, one that no presidential pardon can fix: the abject failure of America’s science journalists to do their jobs and ask questions.
During the pandemic, Fauci issued important opinions about issues including lockdowns, masking, school closures, vaccines, 6-foot separation and contact tracing. Some of what he said turned out to be correct, some was wrong and some is still controversial, especially about gain of function.
But more importantly, he was never seriously interrogated by science journalists, whose role it was to delve into his opinions. Your average NFL coach gets more probing questions on Sunday afternoon after the game than Fauci got from the news media while millions were becoming ill and hundreds of thousands were dying.
Fauci was not alone in receiving gentle treatment by science journalists. Other members of Biden’s COVID-19 response team including Rochelle Walensky, Xavier Becerra and Vivek Murthy got little pushback from science writers after their public pronouncements.
One notable instance was in the spring of 2021, when Dr. Walensky, then director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contradicted the guidance of her own agency by telling MSNBC, “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick.”
Some journalists basically transcribed this without questioning the obvious discrepancy between her statement and the CDC website, which said vaccines merely reduce the risk of transmission. One might excuse the lack of inquiry as a result of insufficient information available at the time. However, several weeks later when a large COVID-19 outbreak occurred in vaccinated people at a resort in Provincetown, Massachusetts, shattering the myth that vaccinated people could neither acquire nor transmit the virus, no one asked Walensky how she got it so wrong.
But Fauci remained the touchstone of scientific journalism negligence. Science writers didn’t just fail to ask tough questions; they also sat on their hands while the non-science media fawned over him, as deaths were still rising and schoolchildren were still falling behind. There were cover stories on him and obsequious profiles. National Geographic produced an adulatory documentary, but the most fulsome example was a profile in fashion magazine InStyle. There was Fauci by the pool wearing sunglasses and observing, “With all due modesty, I think I’m pretty effective.”
Fauci swam in personal glory while surreptitiously keeping the National Institutes of Health’s role in gain-of-function research away from the public and disparaging the Great Barrington scientists who questioned the lockdown approach.
Meanwhile, the silence from the science media writers was deafening — when they weren’t simply touting the party line.
Imagine how differently things might have gone if science journalists had done their due diligence and questioned the experts as they would a municipal official accused of graft. Would we have avoided 1.2 million COVID deaths?
Doubtful — nature is going to do what nature is going to do — although closer attention earlier on to indoor ventilation in office buildings, nursing homes, meatpacking plants and prisons might have reduced that number. The information was out there; nobody asked.
Had there been more questions about the lockdown approach and social isolation strategy, the resulting excess-death totals from deaths of despair and missed medical care might have been lower. If there had been more questions about school closures and the influence of teachers unions, perhaps children might be catching up sooner today. And we might have a better idea of whether our scientists contributed to reengineering the virus in Wuhan, China, possibly making it more contagious.
Counterfactuals all, but certainly worthy of more journalistic scrutiny than they received.
Dr. Cory Franklin is a retired intensive care physician and the author of “The COVID Diaries 2020-2024: Anatomy of a Contagion As It Happened.” He wrote this column for the Chicago Tribune.
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The Powerball jackpot increased once again when it remained unclaimed after Wednesday’s drawing, but the New Year’s first lotto pull still proved to be lucky for some.
On Wednesday, the jackpot was worth an estimated $181 million, but rose to $200 million with a cash value of $90.7 million after no one won the jackpot.
Last year, the holiday proved very lucky when a Michigan lottery club won the $842 million jackpot to start 2024.
In 2024, the game saw nine winners. Its largest jackpot, which was won in April, went to three players in Oregon − including a cancer survivor. They won a whopping $1.3 billion jackpot.
The last and most recent jackpot of 2024 happened in December when a ticket sold in New York had the winning numbers for a $256 million jackpot, resetting the value of the grand prize.
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The first Powerball draw of 2025 happened shortly after 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, and we have the results below.
Lottery:Lucky ticket sold in California can claim $1.22 billion Mega Millions jackpot
The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing on Jan 1, 2025, are: 6, 12, 28, 35, 66. Powerball: 26
Powerplay: 3X
Winning lottery numbers are sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY network.
No one won the Powerball jackpot or Match 5 + Power Play $2 million prize. But two tickets sold in Arizona and North Carolina won the Match 5 $1 million prize.
To find the full list of previous Powerball winners, click the link to the lottery’s website.
The next drawing will happen on Saturday, Jan. 4th, at 11 p.m. ET.
In order to purchase a $2 Powerball ticket, you’ll have to visit your local convenience store, gas station or grocery store − and in a handful of states, you can purchase tickets online.
To play, you will need to pick six numbers in total to mark on your ticket. Five numbers will be white balls ranging from numbers 1 to 69. The Powerball is red and one number which is between 1 and 26.
If you want to increase your chances of winning, you can add a “Power Play” for $1 which increases the winnings for all non-jackpot prizes. This addition can multiply winnings by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, or 10X.
Players can also ask a cashier for a “Quick Pick” where a cashier will give you computer-generated numbers on a printed Powerball ticket.
Drawings are held on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights. If there’s no jackpot winner, the cash prize will increase by millions.
Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets.
You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Texas, Washington D.C. and West Virginia. The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer.
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In manufacturing, if you ask “why” something failed enough times, you usually find out a person or process was wrong or out of place. That is the current state of vocational education in America.
I have been a shop teacher for 14 years, and the reason I received my first job as a middle-school shop teacher is because nobody else applied. As a certified agriculture instructor, I shouldn’t have received the phone call.
Over the last several years, I have been trying to make changes to our educational system to help close the skills gap. I believe the skills gap is a direct result of the shortage of quality shop teachers. I use the term “shop” because we need old-school, wrench-turning, woodworking and welding classes back in our schools.  These programs have been phased out as teachers retired and been replaced with agriculture or CAD/engineering classes, if they were replaced at all.
Now, I am not discounting the need for those two subjects, but to be clear, as someone who is certified to teach both, there is no substitute for kids getting dirty while in school.  While taking a graduate class, I did a white paper on the status of shop teachers in Missouri. The results are concerning and warrant further investigation.
First, it is important to note that in the United States, we generally have two ways at the K-12 level to get students interested in the trades. We have our high schools that will have an agriculture instructor or a technology education teacher, or both. These classes are available to take from 9th to 12th grade. 
The other way we train our workforce is at vocational technical centers, which are available from 11th to 12th grade.
My paper focused on the qualifications and certifications of technology education (tech-ed) teachers from 2011 to 2021.  While various programs are in place to become a tech ed teacher, one of the most common is a bachelor’s degree program. In Missouri, we have three universities offering this program, one of which I directly created and is less than five years old. The most prominent program only graduated 10 students from 2011-2021, and five of those decided to work in private-sector manufacturing.  
We had 428 technical programs in the state of Missouri during that period. The demand for teachers far outpaces the supply. In 2011, we had 325 traditionally certified teachers in classes, and in 2021 we had 156.
In the next 13 years, all of these teachers will be eligible for retirement. I can promise you that many will retire at first eligibility. So, who is signing up to teach these classes? 
This answer should concern you. In Missouri, once you are certified to teach any subject, all you have to do is take a written exam in the new subject area you would like to teach. If you pass that exam, you are now certified to teach that subject. That’s right—you can go to college for music education and even if your welds look like rolled out Play-Doh, you can teach tech ed at the high school.
VOTEC’s instructors must have some industry experience to become an instructor, but the missing component we need is technically skilled middle and high school teachers who can introduce machining, welding, electricity and woodworking to students before they pick a career path at the VOTEC. You can’t get kids excited about something they haven’t tried out. It is kind of like sushi in that respect.
Currently, in Missouri, 71% of our technical education programs at the middle- and high-school levels are being taught by teachers with a math or science degree. Now don’t get me wrong, without these teachers, these schools may have shut down the program altogether. Knowing that these teachers need professional development in the skilled trades, there are curriculum programs that can be purchased that emphasize the math and sciences through CAD and robotics.
Again, while these are worthwhile subjects, I feel they neglect the real-world problem-solving process of woodworking, metal fabrication and wrench-turning. These subjects neglect kids who don’t do well in technical settings and don’t expose our students to heavy and dangerous machinery that they may find in the industry. School administrators are risk-averse, and in the past have had a negative view of the trades. Between them and the counselors, our programs are often filled with kids who are very underprepared. It’s hard to make a machinist out of a kid who can’t read a ruler.
So how do we fix this system? As mentioned, I created a tech-ed program. While I was working at a community college as a manufacturing instructor, our school was approached by a neighboring university about creating a partnership. They were open to ideas, and I pitched the idea of developing a transfer program in which my students who had welding, machine tools, robotics, etc. would graduate with a two-year technical degree and then transfer to the university and earn their bachelor’s degree in technical education.  
In my opinion, this is the best way of creating competent teachers who will have the hands-on skills that the community college provides.
Ideally, having a teacher who has industry expertise would be a great asset to the classroom. However, these individuals are hard to find. Who wants to leave their 401K and earn a third of the amount they were making in industry for a profession that is underappreciated?
It took my state several years to approve the tech-ed program after it was first denied. Their logic was that a community college didn’t have enough depth of knowledge in our classes and the state lacked oversight of the curriculum. I pointed out that there probably wasn’t a person in their government building that would know a good weld from a bad one, and we had an advisory board to give us relevant feedback. Still, we had to table the idea until some pressure from outside groups and another community college submitting the same proposal brought its approval. 
To improve our skilled workforce, we have to think outside the box on how we certify teachers and fund programs. We need to create seamless, affordable pathways for these graduates to become teachers. Teachers are getting paid in crumbs, so why put them further in debt? Industry can step in, provide professional development as needed and assist local  technical instructors by serving on a advisory committee. A teacher with a math background may not know how to properly align a table saw rip fence. Through these partnerships, industry can help shape that classroom and what that teacher teaches.
In regards to program funding, you might be surprised to learn that woodshop class is not considered career and technical education by our state or the federally funded Perkins program. This means that even if a school wanted to start a woodshop program, those funds would need to come from industry donors, grants and school coffers. I accepted a job (and pay cut) to work at my daughter’s school as their new shop teacher four years ago. I have created enough partnerships in my rural community that we are flush with wood. I have been updating equipment through grantwriting and taken more woodworking classes to up my skills. But to be clear, not all schools have the same community support. This is where IndustryWeek readers can pitch in.
It will take pressure from outside groups for state leaders to examine their policies inhibiting technical education. Politicians don’t like learning about policy; they want to cut ribbons on new buildings. It doesn’t matter how many buildings and machines you provide. If you don’t have the right person in that building, the program will fail. You must be the squeaky wheel for teachers.
Your companies pay the taxes that keep schools open. You have to take an active role and be on school advisory boards to ensure these programs are kept up to date. I could easily write another article on establishing advisory boards and how to support new teachers, but for now, I hope to generate conversations that you can have with your peers to help propel technical education in your state.
Allan Sharrock is an industrial technology teacher at Westran High School in Huntsville, Missouri, and coordinates the apprenticeship program at Moberly Community College, helping local manufacturers find and train talent. His career in the trades started in high school, where he attended a technical center for welding. He later joined the Missouri National Guard and earned honors in their welding program. Along with an agriculture education degree, Sharrock is certified in Lean Six Sigma and has a master’s degree in education leadership and policy analysis. 

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Aquarists Make A Splash With Marine Animals During SEA LIFE Aquariums’ Annual ‘Count And Clean’  Yahoo Lifestyle UK
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