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Chelsea’s surprise defeat by Fulham meant victory over the Foxes stretched their lead to seven points, with a match in hand, with the halfway point of the campaign fast approaching. But Slot is maintaining his level-headed approach despite the clamour growing around their chances of adding another title to the one won in 2020. Tonight's goalscorers 💪 pic.twitter.com/xn9sfZbVow — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 26, 2024 “If you are in this game for a long time like the players and I am then 20 games before the end you don’t look at it as there are so many challenges ahead of you,” he said after Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones and Mohamed Salah scored to turn around an early deficit following Jordan Ayew’s strike. “Injuries and and a bit of bad luck can happen to any team, it is far too early to be already celebrating – but it is nice for us to be where we are. “I don’t think there was any easy win for us in any of these games; it could have been an easy win against Tottenham but we conceded two and it was then 5-2 – that tells you how difficult it is to win even when you have all your players available. “That is why we have to take it one game at a time. The league table is something of course we are aware of but we always understand how many games there are to go.” Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy felt his side held their own until Salah scored in the 82nd minute. “I think we were in the contest for a result for a long time,” he said. “Three-one was the turning point in the sense the game was done there to get a result. “I think the 60th minute I remember a chanced for Daka to score the equaliser so we were in the game to get a surprising result. “We did well, we did what we could: a good start with the goal but if you speak of a turning point, 3-1 with Salah, the game was done.” Van Nistelrooy left goalkeeper Danny Ward out of the squad after he struggled in the defeat to Wolves and was jeered by his own fans. “The change in goal was one to make and the conversation with Wardy was impressive, the way he was thinking of the team and the club,” added the Dutchman. “I insisted on a conversation and of course it is a private conversation but what I want to share is the person and the professional he is. “I was impressed with that and his willingness for the team and the club to do well. “Really tough what happened for him. We are professionals but human beings as well, when frustration is being directed towards one person that is difficult.”

Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara released a statement Friday slamming the "100% false" media reports that suggested he had thrown his final pass for the Hawkeyes. McNamara has been sidelined since sustaining a concussion during the Oct. 26 win against Northwestern. Backup quarterback Brendan Sullivan has started the last two games for the Hawkeyes (6-4, 4-3 Big Ten) but is out with an ankle injury for Saturday's game at Maryland (4-6, 1-6). Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said earlier this week that Jackson Stratton will be the likely starter against the Terrapins if McNamara is unavailable. McNamara's cloudy status prompted speculation on a podcast this week that he was "not mentally ready to play." The podcast hosts from the Des Moines Register and The Athletic also suggested that McNamara -- who played three years at Michigan (2020-22) before transferring to Iowa -- is not "fit to play quarterback in the Big Ten right now." "We don't want to bury his career yet, but it does seem like that interception against Northwestern was his last snap as a Hawkeye," Leistikow said. McNamara, who passed for 1,017 yards with six touchdowns and five interceptions in eight games this season, released a statement updating his current status. "My status is the same as it's always been -- a proud member of this football team," he said. McNamara said he has not yet been cleared to play. He said he was cleared to practice on Sunday but suffered an "adverse reaction" and was unable to practice this week and therefore unable to travel with the team to Maryland. "I have been working with the University of Iowa doctors and trainers, a concussion specialist focused on vision training, as well as engaging in hyperbaric treatments as frequently as possible," McNamara said. "I have every intention to play versus Nebraska next Friday night and I am confident that my teammates will return from Maryland with a win." Including his time with the Wolverines, McNamara has completed 60.9 percent of his passes for 4,703 yards with 31 touchdowns and 15 interceptions in 34 games. --Field Level MediaSix New York City Shows to See Over the HolidaysThe fall of the regime, when it finally came, came remarkably quickly. On Nov. 29, a full 13 years after the onset of a devastating civil war that challenged the rule of longtime Syrian leader Bashar Assad – and more than four years into a stalemate under which Assad’s dominance seemed all but implacable – thousands of rebel fights launched a shock offensive into Aleppo, the country’s second largest city, where they found minimal resistance from Assad’s military or its Russian allies. Within a week, the insurgents had taken several nearby towns and the strategic city of Hama, where they began releasing hundreds of government prisoners. On Saturday, they took Homs, another strategic city, and began closing in on Damascus, the capital and seat of Assad’s power. By early Sunday, Assad had fled to Moscow, and the rebels who ousted him were recording Instagram videos of themselves as they roamed and looted the ruling family’s palace. “We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” leaders of the group, called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, wrote on WhatsApp. “To the displaced people around the world, Free Syria awaits you.” READ: Inside Syria, the sudden overthrow of Assad prompted a wave of both jubilation and existential uncertainty, leaving millions of residents to wonder what lay ahead for a country shattered by decades of war and oppression even as HTS leaders worked furiously to win international legitimacy and assemble a government. Yet it was also immediately clear that the regime change would have a history-altering impact that extends far beyond the country’s contested borders, even if the full scope and shape of its consequences are likely to unfold only over a period of years or decades. “I tend to see what’s happened in Syria in the past, you know, 10, 12 days as potentially representing the biggest shift in the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East maybe since the Iranian Revolution of 1979,” says Steven Heydemann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chair of the Middle East Studies program at Smith College. “I think it’s going to – or could potentially lead to – significant strategic realignments in the region, and it isn’t entirely clear in these early days how that might shake out.” The ouster amounts to a highly symbolic changing of the international guard: Bashar Assad’s father, Haffez Assad, an air force pilot and member of the country’s Alawite Shia religious minority, assumed Syria’s presidency in 1971 after leading a coup, then consolidated power over three decades by brutally cracking down on dissent – his security forces killed 20,000 people to quell an uprising in Hama – establishing lucrative patronage networks and shrewdly navigating everything from the fall of the Soviet Union to the Gulf War, during which he cooperated with the George H.W. Bush administration. The younger Assad, a London-trained ophthalmologist who took power as a mild-mannered 34-year-old following his father’s death, successfully navigated his own geopolitical alliances, including with Russia and Iran, and proved to be equally ruthless at home. “You’re talking about five decades of rule by a family,” says Osamah Khalil, a Middle East expert and chair of the international relations program at Syracuse University. “There’s a reason they stayed in power for so long.” Now the family’s fall, analysts say, can be thought of as a kind of delayed consequence of the seismic 2011 Arab Spring protests, which also claimed several other long-standing regimes and established autocrats like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. “In some respects, it represents what is likely an end of an era in Middle Eastern politics,” says Eric Fleury, an associate professor of government and international relations at Connecticut College. “For generations you had these kind of secular, Arab nationalist political parties that were sort of representing the vanguard of Arab politics, and Assad was the last one left.” Assad’s downfall, of course, also comes at a particularly sensitive moment for the Middle East, which for months has been teetering on the edge of full-blown regional war. This week – 14 months after Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack and Israel’s subsequent bloody Gaza invasion – long-stalled ceasefire talks between the two sides reportedly quietly resumed . A truce between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has put a tenuous, weeks-long pause on the two enemies’ deadliest war in decades. Iran, facing economic ruin, is once again sparking international anxieties by accelerating uranium enrichment. Sefa Secen Dec. 9, 2024 Especially because so much is unknown about the imminent governance and staying power of HTS – a Sunni Islamist group with previous ties to al-Qaida whose leader now promises tolerance and pluralism – whether Syria’s leadership change might ultimately serve to help or hinder a broader regional peace remains very much an open question, experts say. But it does inject a powerful new element of uncertainty. “Assad’s fall has basically thrown the strategic calculus of quite a few governments in the region into a Cuisinart and pushed pulse,” says Heydemann. “And what emerges from that – it isn’t clear yet.” There are, however, major immediate geopolitical takeaways. Assad’s defeat also doubles as a defeat for Iran, a Shia nation that has recently been struggling with domestic crises and weakened by its war with Israel. For decades an Assad-run Syria had been the Iranian regime’s closest ally, with Iran serving as the Assad government’s principal sponsor. Iran has also depended on Assad’s cooperation to move weapons across Syrian territory to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now the Assad government’s collapse might actually provide Iran some financial benefit – because Iran will no longer be on the hook to subsidize it – but it also presents Iran with a new potential threat and further diminishes its influence. “What you’ve seen is a real weakening of Hamas. You’ve seen Hezbollah has been downgraded,” says Khalil. “And now you have kind of this key geographic link between Iran, Iraq and Lebanon [that’s also] gone. So from that perspective it’s a big blow to Iran. It’s a big blow to the quote, unquote ‘resistance axis.’” It’s also a blow to Russia and President Vladimir Putin, another longtime Assad backer, whose decision in 2015 to carry out airstrikes on behalf of a then-struggling Syrian regime ended up both turning the tide of the war and emboldening the Russian leader. Turkey, on the other hand, emerges as a clear winner: For more than a decade, as millions of Syrian refugees poured across their country’s northern border and reshaped daily life across Turkey, Recep Erdogan, Turkey’s hard-line Islamist leader – who has long sought to expand his country’s influence in the Muslim world – served as a key backer of Syrian opposition groups, including with military arms and training. Assad’s fall positions him as Syria’s most important foreign leader. “This is their moment,” says Fleury. “Whether or not they capitalize on it is different, but this is the best opportunity they’ve had to expand their influence in a very long time.” Israel is already taking action. Beginning on Sunday, the day Assad fled, the country’s air force began a series of hundreds of strikes on the military infrastructure the regime left behind. By Tuesday, Israel, which says it’s worried about the resources falling into the hands of Islamist extremists, had destroyed the entire Syrian navy and most of its weapons stockpiles. It’s a strategy that some analysts say could backfire, by effectively guaranteeing hostile relations with Syria’s new government even as Israel benefits from Iran’s diminished capabilities. Another possibility is that the Syrian regime change sparks a new conflict with Israel in the contested Golan Heights, the birthplace of Syria’s new leader, or that it gives rise to new internal Syrian violence that escalates into conflicts involving Iran or Iraq. “This could get very messy very quick,” says Khalil. It also could get messy for the next American president. Over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that “Syria is a mess” and the U.S. “SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.” But some 900 American troops are already stationed in Syria on counterterrorism missions, and new chaos in the country could also bring another refugee crisis, threats to Israel or strategic openings for Iran. Staying out of it may not be an option for long.

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Too early to celebrate – Arne Slot keeps leaders Liverpool focusedEarly Childhood Education Degree: A Gateway to a Rewarding CareerEL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert missed Wednesday’s practice with thigh and ankle injuries. Herbert said the ankle injury is a sprained ankle and the thigh injury is a contusion. Both injuries are to his left leg. He suffered both of them in Sunday night’s loss at the Kansas City Chiefs — the ankle in the first quarter and the thigh late in the second quarter. Advertisement Herbert said the sprained ankle is the “main reason” he missed Wednesday’s practice. He said he did not know if it is a high or low ankle sprain. Herbert played through a right high ankle sprain earlier this season. When asked about practicing Thursday, Herbert said, “It really is day by day.” The Chargers host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. “It’s how you feel,” Herbert said. “If I wake up tomorrow and I go check in with the trainers and I say, ‘Hey, I feel like I can run,’ I’m sure they’re going to be pretty patient with me, understanding that we got to make sure that we ramp up and pass all these checkpoint to be good.” Herbert said neither he nor the training staff thought he could provide his teammates with “full-speed reps” in Wednesday’s practice. “We were all on the same page with that,” Herbert said. Herbert said he suffered the ankle injury on a third down on the opening offensive series of the game. On the play, Herbert escaped pressure up the middle and took off scrambling. He deked to his left before cutting right into the open field. Herbert broke a tackle, then was dragged down by Chiefs defensive lineman Mike Danna . Danna wrapped Herbert up by that left ankle, and it twisted awkwardly as Danna made the tackle. Herbert did not miss a play after the ankle injury. He said the training staff re-taped his ankle on the outside of his cleat with spatting tape. He returned for the next series. Felt comfortable going back out there,” Herbert said. Herbert said he was experiencing some pain while warming up throwing on the sideline. He said he felt the pain when “rotating and kind of stepping through the throw.” “It was difficult to play with,” Herbert said. Herbert added that the Chargers limited the playbook over the remainder of the game. “I didn’t feel great running out of the pocket,” Herbert said. “But it was just one of those things that you have to battle through.” Advertisement On a third down late in the first half, Herbert escaped pressure to his right. He then threw downfield to receiver Quentin Johnston along the right sideline. After the throw, Herbert took a shot from linebacker Nick Bolton , who made contact with Herbert’s left leg. That is when he sustained the thigh contusion. Herbert left the game for a play because of the contusion. He said this missed play was not related to the sprained ankle. Herbert returned for the next series and finished the game. Taylor Heinicke replaced Herbert for the one play. Heinicke scrambled for 12 yards. Heinicke was taking snaps from the starting offensive line during the period of Wednesday’s practice open to media. These are just the latest ailments in what has been an injury-riddled season for Herbert. He missed three weeks of training camp with a plantar fascia injury. He sustained the right high ankle sprain in a Week 2 win over the Carolina Panthers . He finished that game but was in a walking boot in the locker room afterwards. Herbert started the next week at the Pittsburgh Steelers , but he was knocked out of the game in the third quarter after taking a hit. Heinicke replaced him. Herbert started the next week at the Chiefs, but he was far from 100 percent. Offensive coordinator Greg Roman said last week that Herbert “could barely move” in that game. Herbert said this ankle injury is “probably not as severe” as the sprain earlier this season. “It’s definitely painful enough to be able to miss a practice,” Herbert said. “But I felt like I’ve been able to move around a little bit better this week than I did after Carolina where I was put into a boot and had difficulty walking. But I think we’re farther along this week.” Over the past few weeks, Herbert has been wearing a sleeve on his left leg. He said Wednesday that he has been dealing with swelling in his left knee. He called the knee swelling a “separate injury” from the ankle sprain and the thigh contusion. Advertisement “You’re just doing everything you can to compress it, keep it warm,” Herbert said. Herbert has dealt with significant injuries in his football career. He broke his femur in high school. He battled through fractured rib cartilage for nearly the entire 2022 season, an injury he also suffered at Arrowhead Stadium. Herbert also tore his left labrum late in that season, which required surgery in the offseason. “It could always be the ribs. It could always be a femur,” Herbert said, while knocking on the wooden lectern in the news conference room. “This is nothing compared to that.” The hallway outside the visiting locker room at Arrowhead is rather narrow. After suffering the fractured rib cartilage in 2022, Herbert got imaging taken in the X-ray room. When he emerged, he walked gingerly down that hallway to the bus. It was a similar scene Sunday night, with two injuries to his left leg. Herbert walked down that hallway with a noticeable limp. A lot of limping in Kansas City. “It’s a long walk, too,” Herbert joked. Herbert brought some levity several times in his Wednesday news conference. When he was asked to confirm that this ankle injury is on a different leg than the early-season high ankle sprain, Herbert said, “Yup, got both of them covered.” Smiling through some pain. “To fight through this, it’s part of the game,” Herbert said. “I think that’s one of the things that has made this locker room so special, is all those guys are so tough.” Required reading (Photo: Cooper Neill / Getty Images)SEOUL, South Korea , Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Spaid, an emerging leader in the Geospatial AI sector, will attend CES early next year, 2025, to unveil the foundational solutions behind its CES 2025 Innovation Award-winning "AI2RE: Image to 3D Geospatial AI Metaverse" and showcase a demo of the "OpenAI-Integrated Geospatial Information Platform," which is scheduled for release in 2025. 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