Exclusive: Labour Voters Are Most Likely To See Christmas As A Religious Festival  Yahoo News UK
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It’s “year in review” time for most political columnists, so here’s my opinion on 2024, along with a recommendation for 2025.
Opinion: Zero out of ten, would not recommend. If you’re reading this in the year 2525 as you’re preparing to test a time machine and trying to decide what past year to visit, avoid this one.
At the societal level, I can’t think of any major positive events — political or cultural — worth your energy. No Armistice Day, Beatles on Ed Sullivan, or man on the moon moments come to mind (maybe the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, will help with that — it comes out on Christmas Day, after this column goes to press).
The year was equal parts anger, outrage, violence, and boredom.
The US presidential campaign was weird in certain ways, but not in ways that make it uniquely interesting unless dementia, opportunistic ladder-climbing, and the Truth Social equivalent of “mean tweets” happen to be hobbies of yours.
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continued, but they were more “major downer” than “major development” in character. A lot of bodies, not very many moves toward peace or even closure.
And so on, and so forth. It just really hasn’t been a very good year.
I’m not complaining on a PERSONAL level, mind you. I’m happy that my family made it through 2024 without major medical or financial setbacks, and that I started getting a little more adventurous as my golden (grayen?) years approach (to wit, with my nuclear birth family all dead and unable to worry about, or scold, me, I started riding a motorcycle). I hope your year was good as well and suspect it probably went better in inverse relation to the attention you paid to politics and world affairs.
I also wish you and yours a happy, healthy, prosperous holiday season and new year.
Which brings me to my recommendation for helping bring that result about NEXT year.
There oughta be a law.
If you know me at all, you know I don’t say that very often.
But I really think this one could be important. In faux legalese, here’s my proposal:
“No government employee, elected or appointed government official, or candidate for election or appointment to government office, shall make, utter, or issue any public statement relating to those positions between midnight on December 18 of the current year and midnight on January 1 of the next year.”
No speeches. No press conferences. No press releases. No social media posts on “official” accounts. If you want to tell family members “Merry Christmas,” etc., in person, by phone, or on your personal social media accounts, fine. But none of this “my fellow Americans” stuff. When you’re not annoying or enraging your fellow Americans, you’re just boring us. So shut your yappers for a couple of weeks and leave us alone.
I guess that kind of law would run afoul of the First Amendment … but most of the people affected don’t care about the First Amendment anyway, right?
Happy holidays.
Thomas L. Knapp is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.

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by Joey Magidson December 24, 2024, 3:12 am
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, it’s Christmas Eve, so we’re doing something different. One, there aren’t any new releases dropping, so that’s a bit of an issue. Two, it’s the end of the year, so normally the column looks back on the year’s releases. We’ll do that soon, so my solution is to combine this with the Awards Radar Community Question. So, what we want to know today is as follows…what are you watching for Christmas?
Now, I’m not excluding Hanukkah, of course (after all, it’s the holiday I technically celebrate), there are just less options. Eight Crazy Nights is out there, while as a hybrid holiday movie, The Night Before is very solid. So, there’s not a lot of other big films of this ilk available, but these do exist, for what that’s worth. Just take note of that.
For me, I’ve been fairly unconventional with my Christmas related viewings. A recent movie night included Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which if you know, you know. On a more wholesome end of the spectrum, I took in While You Were Sleeping, while the most overt holiday film was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. These are definitely options if you’re a bit bored with the standard film options.
It’s time to hear from all of you. This holiday season, what Christmas flicks are you watching? Are you doing Die Hard? What about It’s a Wonderful Life? There’s always Love Actually as a modern classic, not to mention Elf. Plus, there’s whatever options you’re partial to. All you have to do is let us know, and more importantly, enjoy the viewings!
What are you watching for Christmas? Let us know!

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The Florida Lottery offers several draw games for those hoping to win one of the available jackpots. Here’s a look at the winning numbers for games played on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024
22-42-44-57-64, Powerball: 18, Power Play: 2
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16-49-62-63-68, Powerball: 10
09-25-35-41-45, Cash Ball: 03
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Midday: 01-03-06-14-25
Evening: 03-04-05-15-26
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Morning: 10
Matinee: 15
Afternoon: 05
Evening: 05
Late Night: 06
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Midday: 2-6, FB: 2
Evening: 4-7, FB: 7
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Midday: 2-7-3, FB: 2
Evening: 0-0-6, FB: 7
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Midday: 2-3-2-0, FB: 2
Evening: 9-5-8-3, FB: 7
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Midday: 2-4-8-7-3, FB: 2
Evening: 1-8-5-6-0, FB: 7
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Man Finds Bear In Living Room As Japan Relaxes Laws On Shooting Animals  NDTV
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Over 300 artists have signed a letter in support of the archive's efforts to preserve 78 rpm records
BY Kaelen BellPublished Dec 9, 2024
Tegan and Sara have joined over 300 other artists — Kathleen Hanna, Julia Holter, Cloud Nothings, Mary Lattimore and Open Mike Eagle among them — who have signed an open letter supporting the Internet Archive as it faces a $621 million USD copyright infringement lawsuit over its efforts to preserve 78 rpm records.
The letter was created by the digital advocacy group Fight for the Future, and it states that the signatories “wholeheartedly oppose” the lawsuit, which they say benefits “shareholder profits” more than artists.
It continues: “We don’t believe that the Internet Archive should be destroyed in our name. The biggest players of our industry clearly need better ideas for supporting us, the artists, and in this letter we are offering them.”
The lawsuit originally appeared last year, put forth by a handful of major music rights holders, led by Universal Music Group and Sony Music. Their suit claimed that the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project — an effort to digitize hundreds of thousands of obsolete shellac discs produced between the 1890s and early 1950s — was actually just the “wholesale theft of generations of music,” and that the project’s goal of “preservation and research” was just a “smokescreen.”
So far, 400,000 recordings have been digitized, and you can listen to them through the Great 78 Project. However, the lawsuit is focused on a particular collection of around 4,000 recordings, mostly by legendary artists like Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald. The maximum penalty sits at $150,000 per infringing incident, which means the lawsuit could potentially be worth over $621 million.
In a statement provided to Rolling Stone, Amanda Palmer said:
It’s an ironic gut punch to musicians and audiences alike to see that the Internet Archive could be destroyed in the name of protecting musicians. For decades, the Internet Archive has had the backs of creators of all kinds when no one else was there to protect us, making sure that old recordings, live shows, websites like MTV News, and diverse information and culture from all over the world had a place where they’d never, ever be erased, carving out a haven where all that creativity and storytelling was recognized as a critically valuable contribution to an important historic archive.
Other artists who signed the letter include Deerhoof, DIIV, Eve 6, Real Estate, Kimya Dawson, Speedy Ortiz, Spencer Tweedy, Ted Leo, Anjimile and more. 
The full letter, and everyone who signed it, can be seen here.
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Coin Master free spins and coin links for today (December 24, 2024)  Sportskeeda
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Gatwick Airport is expected to experience its busiest festive season since the pandemic, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
The West Sussex airport is anticipating Sunday will be its busiest day, with 769 flights.
On Christmas Day it will be open and operating with an expected 228 flights.
Nick Williams, head of passenger operations, said Christmas was a "busy time" and staff were "working hard to deliver the best possible experience for passengers".
The most popular Christmas long-haul destinations this year from Gatwick are Dubai, Shanghai and Cancun, with Geneva, Barcelona and Milan the most popular short-haul.
Last December almost 11 million passengers jetted off from UK airports for the festive season, according to the UK CAA.
Gatwick was one of the busiest of those airports.
A total of 1,635,732 passengers travelled through it in December 2023.
A Gatwick spokesperson said its top tips for travelling over the festive period included:
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The airport reopened on Monday, a day after its runway closed when a plane was damaged in a "hard landing".
The number of people travelling to the island for the event remains below the levels seen in 2019.
Pictures appear to the show a plane with its nose touching the runway after a wheel collapse.
Some 14 million drivers are expected to hit the road in the last weekend before Christmas, according to the RAC.
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How to (Gently) Set Boundaries During the Holidays  The New York Times
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