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King ‘frustrated’ about speed of cancer recovery and is ‘pushing’ staff to be able to return to duties, says Peter Phillips | UK News

King ‘frustrated’ about speed of cancer recovery and is ‘pushing’ staff to be able to return to duties, says Peter Phillips | UK News

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The King is “frustrated” about the speed of his cancer recovery and is “pushing” staff and doctors to be able to return to duties, according to his nephew, Peter Phillips. However, Mr Phillips – the son of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal – says the monarch is in “good spirits” and remains “pragmatic”. He made the comments during a trip to Australia where he took part in a rare televised interview, in which he praised his mother’s “work ethic” and described his family’s “huge affinity” with the country. Image: Peter Phillips. File pic: PA Speaking about the King’s recovery, he told Sky News Australia: “I think ultimately he’s hugely frustrated. “He’s frustrated that he can’t get on and do everything that he wants to be able to do. “He is very pragmatic, he understands that there’s a period of time that he really needs to focus on himself. “But at the same time he is always pushing his staff and everybody – his doctors and nurses – to be able to say ‘actually can I …

Pushing Buttons: Nintendo is making a new Mario movie – and I have an idea to make it better than the last one | Games

Pushing Buttons: Nintendo is making a new Mario movie – and I have an idea to make it better than the last one | Games

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With classic oblivious timing, Nintendo chose 10 March – or Mar10 day, as the company likes to style it – to announce that it is working with Illumination Studios on another Mario movie, even though it was the Oscars that day and absolutely nobody was paying attention. Last year’s Mario movie was a smash hit, grossing $1bn and finally ending the long era of the cursed video game film adaptation once and for all, so it’s not surprising that another one is in the works for April 2026. What is surprising is that it’s not necessarily going to be a direct sequel. Co-directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and writer Matthew Fogel will return, but neither Nintendo nor Illumination committed to calling the new film a sequel. In a video broadcast announcing “a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros”, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto (that’s Mario’s dad) said: “This time, we’re thinking about broadening Mario’s world further, and it’ll have a bright and fun story.” Despite its runaway popularity, the Mario movie …

‘Sew Torn’ review: ‘Pushing Daisies’ meets ‘Run Lola Run’

‘Sew Torn’ review: ‘Pushing Daisies’ meets ‘Run Lola Run’

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Cozy crime is a subgenre in which intriguing tales of murder boast a jaunty aesthetic that’s irreverently twee. Think Only Murders in the Building, with its foolhardy amateur sleuths alternately investigating homicide and bickering over their podcast’s production. Think Pushing Daisies, a candy-colored mystery series about a lovelorn pie-maker who can literally raise the dead to solve their murders. Think Sew Torn.  Written and directed by Freddy Macdonald, this inventive indie crime comedy begins with a drug deal gone violently wrong, before stitching together a multi-thread tale of an unlikely criminal mastermind: a mild-mannered mobile seamstress played by Eve Connolly (Vikings).  What’s Sew Torn about? Sew Torn is set in a picturesque village high in the mountains, where a pleasant business district boasts quaint shops. One such shop is owned by seamstress Barbara Duggen (Connolly), who offers custom embroideries alongside alterations. Further out, vibrant green pastures dotted with cows stretch to a mighty concrete bridge overlooking a misty valley, reaching even farther to stately homes, where a wealthy bride-to-be (a hilariously harsh Caroline Goodall) is …

Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy

Inside Registered Agents Inc., the Shadowy Firm Pushing the Limits of Business Privacy

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Since 2008, Dan Keen has grown his business from a small company serving customers in the Pacific Northwest to a major national player in what’s known as the corporate formation industry. The company and its competitors offer the ability to incorporate a business in the state of a customer’s choosing and receive mail and legal notices. Keen started the company after running a tree trimming and landscaping business. Former employees said Keen worked tirelessly to build the business, often sending emails at all hours of the night. “Dan put in a lot of effort, he worked nonstop,” says Matt MacKenzie, who worked as a legal compliance specialist for more than 11 years and was one of the company’s earliest employees. When the company was a small upstart, Keen regularly listed his name on the formation documents of the company and its various subsidiaries in states across America. “It wasn’t until down the road a couple years later, where he started wanting to use full-on fake names and take his name off all the corporate paperwork …

A Disturbing Trend: Pushing Religious Chaplains on Public Schools

A Disturbing Trend: Pushing Religious Chaplains on Public Schools

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As Public Schools Week comes to a close, draw your attention to a disturbing trend: across the United States, the push to install religious chaplains in public schools has been growing at an alarming pace. As of today, legislatures in thirteen states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah have introduced bills to allow religious chaplains to serve as school counselors or volunteers in schools; Texas already has a law in place to allow chaplains in schools since it passed SB 763 in Summer 2023. Proponents of these types of bills claim that they want to fill a profound gap in the number of school counselors available to students. The American School Counselor Association recommends there be one school counselor per 250 students, and according to data on its website, only two states in the U.S. have an adequate number of counselors in place. Even under the guise of wanting to provide increased access to in-school counseling and mental health services to students, unqualified, unlicensed religious leaders …

Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat

Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat

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Humanity’s superpower is sweating—but rising heat could be our kryptonite, and an average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels could bring regular, fatal heat waves to large parts of the planet, says Tom Matthews, a senior lecturer in environmental geography at King’s College London. “We have evolved to cope with the most extreme heat and humidity the planet can throw at us,” he explains. But when our core temperature gets to about 42 degrees Celsius (around 107.5 degrees Fahrenheit), people face heat stroke and probable death as the body strains to keep cool and the heart works harder, inducing heart attacks. Matthews cites an example from his home country, the UK. In the summer of 2022, the UK broke its high temperature record, surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The country saw nearly 60,000 deaths associated with the extreme heat—about the same number killed in England and Wales from Covid during 2020. “At 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the likes of Lagos, Karachi, [and] Shanghai start to experience heat waves exceeding …

Anti-migrant, pro-Boris, anti-care worker: the Tories are pushing panic buttons that no longer work | Owen Jones

Anti-migrant, pro-Boris, anti-care worker: the Tories are pushing panic buttons that no longer work | Owen Jones

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Finally, we have a government prepared to stand up to that under-scrutinised bane of British society: care workers. Our home secretary, James Cleverly, has gleefully announced an order banning overseas care workers from bringing “dependants” to the UK. Some naysayers may question the wisdom here, what with the national shortage of care workers, and with foreign staff in particular subject to gruesome exploitation, with some being paid effectively as little as £5 an hour and charged thousands of pounds in unexpected fees. I hear that, but you can’t put a price on being able to gaze into the eyes of an overworked, underpaid care worker as they tend to your loved one’s needs, knowing vast oceans separate them from their own beloved. Spite, alas, does not pay the bills, and here lies the fatal flaw in the government’s strategy. Last week, the Sunday Telegraph’s editor penned a grief-stricken piece headlined “For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished”. Apologies for sounding unsympathetic about someone clearly in a right …

Former Kinderland Sunshine Place preschool teacher given conditional warning for pushing child

Former Kinderland Sunshine Place preschool teacher given conditional warning for pushing child

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SINGAPORE: A former educator at Kinderland @ Sunshine Place has been given a 12-month conditional warning by the police following investigations into a video that showed her pushing a child.  Kinderland was fined S$5,000 for the incident at the Sunshine Place branch, which is in Choa Chu Kang. Its licence tenure has also been shortened from 36 to six months, said the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) on Tuesday (Feb 20).  The teacher, previously identified as educator C by Kinderland, was seen “forcefully pushing” a three-year-old child in April 2022.  Investigations were launched after footage of the incident surfaced in August 2023 and she was subsequently suspended by the school and arrested. CNA has contacted the police for more information, including the reasons behind the conditional warning. This incident followed a separate case where another teacher allegedly ill-treated children at Kinderland’s Woodlands Mart preschool.  The 33-year-old woman was also arrested and later charged with one count of ill-treament of a child or young person. The court case is ongoing.  Kinderland was also fined S$5,000 for …

Hungary Snubs U.S. Senators Pushing for Sweden’s Entry Into NATO

Hungary Snubs U.S. Senators Pushing for Sweden’s Entry Into NATO

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Hungary, the last holdout blocking Sweden’s entry into NATO, thumbed its nose over the weekend at the United States, declining to meet with a bipartisan delegation of senators who had come to press the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban to swiftly approve the Nordic nation’s entry into the military alliance. The snub, which Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, described on Sunday as “strange and concerning,” represented the latest effort by Mr. Orban, a stalwart champion of national sovereignty, to show he will not submit to outside pressure over NATO’s long-stalled expansion. Despite having only 10 million people and accounting for only 1 percent of the European Union’s economic output, Hungary under Mr. Orban has made defiance of more powerful countries its guiding philosophy. “Hungary before all else,” Mr. Orban said on Saturday at the end of a state of the nation address in which he said Europe’s policy of supporting Ukraine had “failed spectacularly.” Legislators from Mr. Orban’s governing Fidesz party and government ministers all declined to meet with the visiting American senators, …