After Ollie Pope fell cheaply, Ben Stokes strode out and threw the bat for an additional fifty partnership from simply 39 balls, suggesting {that a} declaration might not be distant. Whereas New Zealand have achieved some nice escapes in current reminiscence, not least when the person who now coaches England, Brendon McCullum, helped them to amass 680 for 8 towards India at this floor a decade in the past, and their pitches have a behavior of flattening out, there is no doubt they have been deep within the gap.

One measure of how the day had gone for New Zealand was that their five-man assault managed to bowl zero maidens. One other was that none of their remaining batters confronted greater than Phillips’ 16 balls as they have been steamrollered throughout the morning session.

Atkinson took the plaudits, having turn into the primary man to take a Take a look at hat-trick at Basin Reserve. It was the most recent accolade in a shocking begin to the 26-year-old’s Take a look at profession, lower than six months on from claiming a 12-wicket haul on debut. It made him the seventh participant to file a ten-for, 100 (achieved towards Sri Lanka, in fifth look) and a hat-trick, and in solely his tenth Take a look at – effectively forward of the next-quickest, Irfan Pathan (26 matches).

Each Atkinson and Carse claimed four-fors as New Zealand collapsed inside 45 minutes of the morning session. After Kane Williamson’s 37 on day one, no different New Zealand batter made it to twenty.

They’d resumed their innings with Blundell batting alongside nightwatcher O’Rourke. Blundell formed up properly, solely to be summarily dispatched in Carse’s second over because the bowler produced a magnificence to hit the highest of off. It was virtually an identical to the “no-ball of the century” that nearly did for Williamson on the earlier night, solely this time with none considerations round his entrance foot.

Two balls later, O’Rourke propped ahead hopefully and was trapped plumb in entrance of center. Smith and Phillips briefly instructed a counterattack would possibly materialise with a stand of 29 at greater than a run a ball. However Atkinson discovered additional bounce on a decent line to defeat Smith, who underedged on to his stumps making an attempt to go away.

Then got here the coup de grace, as Atkinson had Henry fending a chest-high bumper to gully after which bluffed Southee by pushing the sphere again then going full and straight on the stumps. Southee reviewed with a forlorn look, ball-tracking confirming it might have hit center and leg – and Atkinson walked off as the primary Englishman to take a Take a look at hat-trick since Moeen Ali at The Oval in 2017.

Alan Gardner is a deputy editor at ESPNcricinfo. @alanroderick

The textual content of right now’s emergency proclamation may be discovered right here.

The Governor has directed state companies and departments to make the most of and make use of state personnel, tools, and services for the efficiency of any and all actions in step with the course of the Workplace of Emergency Providers and the State Emergency Plan. The proclamation moreover authorizes state companies to enter into contracts to rearrange for the procurement of supplies, items, and companies essential to shortly help with the response to and restoration from the impacts of the earthquake, permits fairgrounds and state property for use for sheltering, and permits for the mobilization of CalGuard to help catastrophe reduction.

Valerie Bertinelli would not care what the haters suppose after she posted an image of herself sporting solely underwear on Instagram together with a caption about physique positivity.

The superstar chef and actor, 64, responded to among the critics of her underwear selfie in a subsequent Instagram put up, writing, “To all of you that might sit in judgment of my physique, the picture, and my motive for posting it, I hope you discover a place in your coronary heart to not choose your self as harshly as you choose others.”

“I’ve handled judgment my whole life ranging from once I was a younger lady. It has taken me a very long time to understand that my judgment, with affected person discernment, is the one judgment that counts.”

“I don’t care what you consider my physique. I don’t care what you consider my posting about it,” she continued.

“For the primary time in my life, I like my physique as it’s. It’s not the 20 yr outdated physique that I hated and it truly is a disgrace that I hated that stunning physique. Sure, it was a really totally different physique than the one I now inhabit, but it surely hadn’t but been by means of the journey I wanted to undergo. At the same time as difficult because it’s been and is, I’m grateful for this journey and I wouldn’t commerce this physique for my 20 yr outdated physique any day. Ever.”

She additionally thanked these had been in assist of her earlier message of self-love.

“Initially, to these of you who felt a connection to my prior put up and recognized with what I used to be speaking about, (empowering ourselves to deal with our personal self-acceptance and self-love), thanks and thanks on your kindness. I see you. We’re on this collectively,” she wrote.

The prior day, Bertinelli had mirrored on Instagram on how her physique has modified alongside a selfie of her sporting solely underwear.

“In some unspecified time in the future I’ll speak concerning the insanity my physique has been by means of this yr,” she captioned the picture.

“However proper now each lump bump wrinkle and saggy a part of me simply feels acceptance and easy appreciation to be standing in entrance of a mirror in a lodge rest room in downtown Manhattan prepared to paint my roots late on a Monday evening,” she continued.

A number of celebrities praised Bertinelli’s picture within the feedback. Rosie O’Donnell referred to as the picture “stunning.” Jennifer Love Hewitt wrote, “I like you a lot!” and Kristin Chenoweth commented, “You look nice!”

Bertinelli has opened up about her wrestle with physique acceptance and self-love prior to now. In October 2023, she shared her “earlier than” picture from when she was a weight reduction spokesperson for Jenny Craig.

“Well being isn’t a physique measurement. Well being isn’t the quantity you see on the size. Your value as a human being isn’t dictated by your physique. I believed I used to be fats the final time I wore these garments,” she stated in a now-deleted Instagram video.

“I’ve by no means felt extra stunning, extra at peace, extra mentally and emotionally secure than I do in the present day, and I’m sporting my ‘fats garments,’” she added. “That’s f—ed up.”

The previous Meals Community host has additionally been candid about her psychological well being. Final month, she shared an Instagram video of her hand shaking after an nervousness assault.

“I’ve sat on this put up for a day as a result of it’s extremely susceptible and that’s at all times scary to share. However I’m posting as a result of we’re all out right here doing our greatest having a human expertise and none of us wish to really feel like we’re alone in that,” she started her prolonged caption to the video. 

“So I don’t know in case you can inform from this video (and my coronary heart continues to be beating a bit quickly as I write this) I had a very unhealthy nervousness assault in the present day,” she continued. “I haven’t had one like this in a really, very very long time. Just a few hours in the past, I used to be weeping uncontrollably, and my coronary heart felt prefer it was pounding out of my chest. I couldn’t cease shaking.”

The previous “Sizzling in Cleveland” star additionally lately opened up about how she has been caring for herself within the two years following her divorce. Bertinelli and her ex-husband, monetary planner Tom Vitale, finalized their divorce in 2022.

In an Instagram put up, she celebrated “two years of freedom” and shared her need to be the “greatest, most genuine model” of herself as she entered what she referred to as “this final chapter of my life.”

“I’m studying that till I like myself and settle for myself, all of me, my darkish and lightweight sides, I can by no means give another person the love and emotional vulnerability that they want and deserve,” she wrote. “You need to give it to your self first with the intention to share it.”

Tsunami indicators line the roads of many coastal communities alongside the US West Coast. They mark any “tsunami hazard zone” and infrequently level these within the space to evacuation routes main them to increased floor.

Those that dwell in these tsunami zones are inspired to familiarise themselves with their evacuation routes and have a package prepared for fast evacuation.

California’s emergency companies web site notes a tsunami can hit in as little as 5 to 10 minutes after a big earthquake and generally the primary wave to hit will not be the most important. It notes when you see water draw out from the shoreline and exit to sea shortly, “escape instantly to increased floor or inland”.

The US West Coast is the confluence of plenty of the Earth’s tectonic plates, and tremors are usually not unusual. However a robust 7 magnitude quake is not sometimes seen within the area. Consultants say there are between 10 and 15 earthquakes of this magnitude that hit globally annually.

There have been eight different earthquakes with a 7 magnitude globally this 12 months, in response to knowledge from the US Geological Survey, exterior.

The company says that sometimes there are about 20,000 earthquakes tracked across the globe annually – about 55 per day.

The world has been struck by plenty of main earthquakes, together with a 1994 quake that hit Northridge, within the Los Angeles space, killing dozens of individuals and injuring 1000’s extra, because it wrought billions of {dollars} of injury to properties and infrastructure.

Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the worldwide monetary expertise platform behind TurboTax, Credit score Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, has introduced a collaboration with Adyen, the fintech of selection for most of the world’s main companies, to assist small and mid-market companies (SMBs) extra simply handle digital funds. The 2 firms will initially combine Adyen’s embedded fee providers into Intuit’s enterprise platform by means of QuickBooks On-line (QBO) which allows roughly 2.9 million invoices to be despatched month-to-month within the UK.

Late funds value UK SMBs a median of £22,000 yearly, contributing to 50,000 enterprise closures annually attributable to money circulate points, in response to the Federation of Small Companies and the UK Authorities. With Adyen, Intuit Quickbooks clients will get pleasure from a wider selection of fee choices, and SMBs will obtain their funds quick due to Adyen’s UK banking license and direct connection to the real-time fee rails Sooner Funds Companies (FPS). In keeping with the Workplace of the Small Enterprise Commissioner, if SMBs had been paid on time, this might increase the economic system by an estimated £2.5 billion yearly.

Intuit QuickBooks monetary software program is delivered as a part of Intuit’s enterprise platform. Serving  6.5 million subscribers, QuickBooks helps sole merchants and SMBs develop and run their enterprise multi functional place, together with managing their books, getting paid and managing cashflow. The collaboration with Adyen reinforces Intuit’s wider technique to combine with best-in-class instruments to additional revolutionise how clients expertise your complete Intuit platform and get work carried out. Globally, 100 million clients depend on Intuit merchandise every single day for an entire suite of instruments that lead to extra clients, extra income, decrease bills and fewer work to handle, alongside AI-powered insights that assist gas development.

Intuit QuickBooks UK already integrates with common fee platforms to accommodate a variety of service provider providers that assist scale back fee friction for patrons. By embedding Adyen’s funds capabilities, and regionally authorised Adyen entities for fee providers, Intuit lays the groundwork for integrating broader embedded monetary merchandise into its software program sooner or later. The preliminary integration will present the next advantages:

• Eradicate complexity, acquire perception: Additional automate monetary processes with integration of accounts and payment-enabled invoices to establish income and cashflow positions.
• Supply a number of fee choices to get invoices paid: Supply clients pay-by-bank and card funds strategies by means of Adyen’s fee platform, so clients pays extra simply.
• Error discount: Scale back the danger of errors related to handbook financial institution transfers, by automating the method.
• Simpler accounts receivable monitoring: Obtain an entire and updated image of paid and unpaid invoices for simpler reconciliation and bookkeeping.

Nick Williams, Product Director at Intuit QuickBooks says: “We’re thrilled to group up with Adyen so companies can profit from end-to-end monetary administration on our platform. Adyen’s fee platform is designed to supply a seamless funds expertise for retailers and their clients, and we’re happy to deliver this functionality to our customers, bettering the comfort of cash motion on QuickBooks On-line. We performed a rigorous choice course of and selected Adyen attributable to their quick settlement occasions, complete threat instruments, and market main place.”

Hemmo Bosscher, SVP Platforms & Monetary Companies at Adyen commented: “This collaboration combines Intuit’s top-tier monetary instruments with Adyen’s cutting-edge embedded monetary expertise, empowering SMBs throughout a variety of industries with optimised fee experiences, simplified on a regular basis operations, and new development alternatives. Collectively, we’re equipping SMBs with instruments to thrive in an more and more digital economic system.”

The much-awaited Telugu film Pushpa 2 The Rule is about to hit theatres in just a few hours and the movie has already crossed the $10 million-mark in international advance reserving ticket gross sales. That includes Allu Arjun within the lead position, the movie is a sequel to Pushpa The Rise which stormed Indian field workplace in 2021 and have become an enormous shock hit.

Pushpa 2: The Rule

Sukumar directed Pushpa 2 The Rule which options Arjun alongside Rashmika Mandanna and Fahadh Faasil in lead roles. Jagapathi Babu, Rao Ramesh, Anasuya Bharadwaj and Dhananjaya additionally star within the film set for a worldwide theatrical launch on December 5. Mythri Film Makers and Sukumar Writings have produced the film. Sukumar additionally directed the primary movie within the trilogy (Pushpa The Rise) and has beforehand labored on Arya and Rangasthalam.

Allu Arjun reprises his position of smuggler Pushpa and Mandanna can be again as his spouse, Srivalli, within the new movie. Devi Sri Prasad has composed the music and Polish Mirosław Kuba Brożek cinematographer has additionally labored on Pushpa The Rule.

Pushpa 2 The Rule: Screenings

Pushpa The Rule will launch worldwide in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Malayalam languages aside from Telugu. A number of paid preview screenings are scheduled a day earlier than the discharge. Simply hours earlier than the preview screenings, producers Mythri Film Makers introduced that Pushpa The Rule has integrated audio description and closed captions to make sure smoot viewing for listening to impaired and imaginative and prescient impaired viewers. The step enlarges the audience for the movie.

A number of theatres within the Indian state of Kerala have additionally introduced “24-hour marathon screenings” for Pushpa 2 The Rule. The movie is releasing throughout greater than 12 thousand screens worldwide.

Pushpa 2 The Rule: Breaking data earlier than launch

In a press assertion, the Indian ticket reserving platform BookMyShow stated that Pushpa The Rule is now the quickest movie to have offered one million tickets on the platform earlier than the discharge. The platform has already offered two million tickets for the movie. COO – Cinemas, BookMyShow Ashish Saksena confirmed that the Sukumar movie has surpassed Kalki 2898 AD, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion and KGF: Chapter 2 on this regard. “Pushpa 2 The Rule is anticipated to make a notable influence on the field workplace and the robust pre-release buzz positions the sequel as a powerful contender to set new data for opening-day and weekend collections this 12 months.”

Pushpa 2 The Rule: Expectations

Pushpa 2 The Rule is anticipated to make an enormous opening of practically $20 million on Thursday, December 5. On condition that the movie crossed the $10 million-mark a day earlier than the discharge, it is probably not such a troublesome activity to breach the mark of $20 million by the point the movie completes its first day on the international ticket home windows.

Field workplace competitors for Pushpa 2 The Rule

The Bollywood movie Chhava was shifted for a later date and averted a conflict with Pushpa 2 The Rule. It was initially slated to hit theatres on December 6, a day after Arjun’s film. The Hindi movie options Vicky Kaushal and can now hit theatres subsequent 12 months on February 14.

Going ahead, Pushpa 2 The Rule has an open window for the following two weeks. There are not any main Indian movies releasing in theatres on December 6 and December 13. Anil Sharma’s Vanvaas and Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Zero Se Restart however neither maintain the allure and potential to make a dent in footfalls for the Telugu film.

Will probably be solely after Atlee’s new movie that includes Varun Dhawan, Child John, releases on December 25 that Pushpa The Rule will face main competitors on the field workplace.

As a part of their collaboration, Intuit and Adyen plan to assist small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in upgrading the administration of digital funds. Initially, the 2 corporations intend to combine Adyen’s Embedded Cost companies into Intuit’s enterprise platform by way of QuickBooks On-line (QBO). The choice to accomplice follows latest knowledge from the Federation of Small Enterprise and the UK Authorities underlining that late funds value UK SMEs roughly GBP 22,000 yearly, in flip resulting in 50,000 shutting down their doorways annually as a result of money circulation difficulties.

Adyen’s collaboration with Intuit comes simply weeks after the corporate partnered with Spendesk to help SMEs in advancing their operations by offering them with embedded monetary companies. Spendesk chosen Adyen for its full-stack BaaS protection throughout a number of markets, aiming to mitigate advanced multi-provider setups. Additionally, by way of Adyen’s UK banking licence, the alliance was set to permit clients to entry the cardboard customisation characteristic they require and combine monetary merchandise past funds.

Wider cost alternative for SMEs

By teaming up with Adyen, Intuit QuickBooks clients are set to profit from extra cost choices, whereas SMEs can obtain their cash extra quickly as a result of Adyen’s UK banking licence and direct connection to the real-time cost rails Sooner Funds Companies (FPS). As well as, the settlement with Adyen superior Intuit’s technique to combine with instruments that may additional enhance how clients expertise the corporate’s platform and conduct their operations.

As a part of the preliminary integration, the 2 corporations intend to ship a number of advantages, together with minimised complexities and superior insights, a number of cost choices to pay invoices, decreased errors, and optimised accounts receivable monitoring. Representatives from Adyen commented on the announcement, mentioning that the partnership merges Intuit’s monetary instruments with their firm’s embedded monetary expertise to allow SMEs throughout a spread of industries to profit from augmented cost experiences, optimised on a regular basis operations, and extra growth alternatives. Collectively, the 2 organisations intend to centre their efforts on equipping SMEs with the instruments they require to develop within the digital economic system.

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A pink climate warning has been issued by the Met Workplace as Storm Darragh is ready to deliver damaging winds to many components of the UK.

The Met Workplace issued the pink warning, probably the most severe variety, for wind for the coasts of south and west Wales and south-west England from 3am to 11am on Saturday.

Gusts are more likely to attain in extra of 90mph (145km/h) in locations resulting in hazard to life, structural harm to buildings, transport disruption and energy cuts.

An amber warning for wind has additionally been issued for Northern Eire, south-west Scotland and western components of England and Wales, legitimate from 1am to 9pm on Saturday.

Gusts for these areas may attain as much as 80mph (129km/h) and could be sturdy sufficient to deliver timber down with a threat of disruption to move and energy provides.

Together with the winds, heavy rain may deliver areas of flooding, and hill snow in Scotland may be disruptive.

There’s additionally an amber warning for rain for 3am to 6pm on Saturday for south and mid-Wales, with as much as 3.5in (90mm) potential.

Pushpa 2: The Rule—the sequel to one of many largest Indian Telugu-language movies of all time, Pushpa: The Rise—is opening in theaters worldwide this week.

Written and directed by Indian filmmaker Sukumar, the Pushpa movie sequence stars Telugu A-lister Allu Arjun as Pushpa himself, a smuggler-slash-action-hero who, within the first film, takes down unhealthy guys and will get the lady (performed by Rashmika Mandanna). We now have a sense there will likely be much more butt-kicking on this sequel.

Telugu movies, aka Tollywood, is a fast-growing market in India and North America alike. The North American distribution rights for Pushpa 2: The Rule had been reportedly bought for round $7.4 million {dollars}, which might be the largest deal ever for the North American rights for a Telugu-language movie.

Right here’s what it’s essential find out about the place to observe the Pushpa 2: The Rule film, and once we count on to see Pushpa 2: The Rule streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

The place to observe Pushpa 2: The Rule:

For now, Pushpa 2: The Rule will solely be obtainable to observe in a movie show, when it opens in choose theaters in worldwide on Thursday, December 5. Yow will discover a exhibiting close to you through Fandango. Pushpa 2: The Rule just isn’t but obtainable to observe on-line or on streaming.

Is Pushpa 2: The Rule streaming on Netflix or Prime Video?

Pushpa 2: The Rule just isn’t streaming on Netflix or Prime Video proper now. Whereas it’s doable Pushpa 2: The Rule might stream on Netflix sometime, it gained’t be till after the theatrical run and digital launch of the film. Pushpa 2: The Rule just isn’t a Netflix unique—it’s an Indian, Telugu-language movie being distributed in North America by Prathyangira Cinemas and AA Creations.

It is possible for you to to buy Pushpa 2: The Rule on Prime Video ultimately, when the film turns into in the stores and lease on digital. You may additionally ultimately have the ability to stream Pushpa 2: The Rule on Prime Video free with a Prime subscription, as a result of the primary film, Pushpa: The Rise, is presently streaming free on Prime video. Nevertheless, as a result of it isn’t a Prime unique, you’ll seemingly have to attend for the movie to first be in the stores or lease on digital platforms, earlier than it will definitely involves Prime without cost.

When will Pushpa 2: The Rule be streaming free on Amazon Prime?

We don’t know when, if ever, Pushpa 2: The Rule will stream free on Amazon Prime. That mentioned, we will guess. Within the case of the primary film, Pushpa: The Rise, Amazon purchased the digital rights to the movie and commenced streaming on Prime on January 7, 2022, about three weeks after the movie opened in theaters. If Pushpa 2: The Rule follows an identical launch sample, you would possibly see it streaming on Amazon Prime in about three weeks time, across the finish of December 2024 or early January 2025.

However that is all hypothesis. Proper now, the film just isn’t on Netflix or Amazon Prime. If you wish to watch the film immediately, you’ll need to see it in a movie show.

It has been an enormous 12 months for large names participating in small-screen espionage, however Black Doves often is the starriest but. This nightmare earlier than Christmas, which stars Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire, provides a festive twist to the spy style, because the eponymous shady organisation of mercenaries discover themselves wrapped up in a conspiracy that’s – as this stuff at all times are – larger than they first assume it’ll be.

With that stellar solid, and its sombre trailers, I had anticipated it to be a straight-faced thriller. In actual fact, what emerges from the carnage that takes place earlier than the opening titles start is pulpy popcorn TV. Knightley performs Helen Webb, a spy who has infiltrated the highest ranges of the British authorities by assuming a false id and marrying a person who would go on to develop into defence secretary. Her place on the coronary heart of the institution offers her ample alternative to joke about how uninteresting Tory wives will be, and to help the Black Doves in passing on state secrets and techniques to the very best bidder. Whishaw is Sam, a delicate set off man (which is a pleasant means of claiming murderer), who kills individuals to order, for giant quantities of cash, however is conflicted about it. And Lancashire – sporting sharp bob, sturdy tailoring, lethal whisper – is Reed, the Black Doves’ icy boss and overlord.

When the Chinese language ambassador to the UK is discovered lifeless of an obvious heroin overdose, and his party-loving daughter goes lacking, it sparks a chaotic chain of occasions which finally ends up tearing via Downing Avenue, gangland London and the federal government companies of assorted nuclear-armed nations, all threatening to go to conflict. Given such a heady cocktail of components, it’s unusual that the sequence comes throughout as a gradual burn to start with – much more so on condition that it’s only six episodes lengthy. However as soon as Helen and Sam get the outdated band again collectively, for one final job and so forth, it finds its toes. The realisation that this isn’t totally critical, and is the truth is pretty arch and cartoony, offers it a carry, and divulges a cheeky character that shores up a few of its extra shaky narrative floor.

Creator Joe Barton can also be chargeable for The Lazarus Challenge and Giri/Haji, and, like each of these sequence, this has a powerful, graphic novel-style aesthetic, typically at the price of a completely coherent plot. However that is the sort of present that it’s greatest to not overthink, as a result of it revels in being so daft and overblown. Black Doves takes place in a neon-lit, noir-ish London the place machine weapons are rife, mass shootings occur on each avenue nook with onlookers barely batting an eyelid, and individuals are steadily blasted to items, leaving gory residue throughout Helen’s face.

It’s filled with unbelievable performances, although I’m not totally satisfied by Knightley’s character. Helen is each unbelievably robust and unbelievably comfortable, a queasy hybrid that doesn’t at all times work if she’s presupposed to be a ruthless killer. The identical goes for Whishaw’s Sam, whose conscience seems solely when handy to the plot. Nevertheless, it’s virtually profligate with its supporting solid and characters. Poor Issues’ Kathryn Hunter is predictably fabulous as Lenny, a tracksuit-wearing energy dealer of kinds, to whom Sam owes a debt, whereas Gabrielle Creevy and Ella Lily Hyland play a youthful, hungrier pair of set off males (the time period is gender impartial, we’re reliably knowledgeable), and make a darkly comedian double act. It’s so informal with cameos that it introduces a number of well-known actors, as if about to usher in important newcomers, earlier than bumping them off rapidly and unceremoniously. This makes it really feel pleasantly reckless.

By episode three, its gleeful extra had gained me over. Inevitably, this may earn comparisons to the opposite large spy reveals of the 12 months. It isn’t as composed or as witty as Sluggish Horses, and never as self-serious as The Day of the Jackal, however in among the many chaos, it finds its personal voice. That voice is garbled at occasions, however greatest to not overthink it. It is a schlocky thriller, stuffed like a turkey with motion, twists and sense of humour. Netflix has already commissioned a second sequence, which could be why the ending feels each protracted and open-ended. Clearly, it’s hedging its bets. But when your concept of festive enjoyable includes weapons, gore and extra white powder than a snowstorm in Lapland, this spy spectacle needs to be on the high of your reward record.