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Tomorrow I Leave review – poignant portrait of a care worker sacrificing her home life for her work | Film

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Every four weeks, Maria leaves her small Romanian town and heads to Austria, where she is employed as a care worker for elderly people. Her life is split between borders and constant goodbyes, a transient emotional state vividly captured in Maria Lisa Pichler and Lukas Schöffel’s intimate portrait. In the opening scene, Maria drives along her local roads, pointing out the houses left empty by those who have moved abroad for work opportunities. Under the precarious forces of economy, it seems as if a whole community is gradually evaporating.Structured around Maria’s monthly drives, the film juxtaposes her home life with…

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost. You may end up spending too much time putting the pieces in order.This dilemma is especially relevant to one of the most iconic problems in computer science: finding the shortest path from a specific starting point in a network to every other point. It’s like a souped-up version of a problem you need to…

Savings and CD Rates Are Likely To Fall This Year—Here’s How Far They Could Go

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Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve is expected to trim rates by about half a point by year-end, which could cause savings and certificate of deposit (CD) yields to decline similarly. Even with rates likely to drift down, it’s still smart to move cash to a high-yield savings account—earning 4% to 5%—so inflation doesn’t erode your buying power. The best nationwide CDs let you lock in rates above 4% for months or years, offering guaranteed earnings no matter what the Fed does next. The full article continues below these offers from our partners. Why Savings and CD Rates Are Easing—and How…

Jack Wilshere: Luton Town to name ex-Arsenal and England midfielder as manager

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Former Arsenal and England midfielder Jack Wilshere is set to be announced as manager of League One side Luton Town.The 33-year-old will succeed Matt Bloomfield, who was sacked earlier this month having spent less than a year in charge at Kenilworth Road.It will be Wilshere's first full-time managerial role, taking over a Luton side 11th in the third tier following back-to-back relegations.He beat Leyton Orient boss Richie Wellens to the role. Chris Powell will also join Luton as Wilshere's assistant - the former England left-back has been at Walsall for just two weeks as interim first-team coach after coming in…

MAML

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maml{ project: "MAML" tags: [ "minimal" "readable" ] # A simple nested object spec: { version: 1 author: "Anton Medvedev" } # Array of objects examples: [ { name: "JSON", born: 2001 } { name: "MAML", born: 2025 } ] notes: """ This is a multiline strings. Keeps formatting as-is. """ }Rationale JSON is the most popular data-interchange format. But it isn't a very good configuration language.MAML keeps JSON’s simplicity and adds only the needed bits for a good configuration language:CommentsMultiline stringsOptional commasOptional key quotesMAML is human-readable and easy to parse.What’s the difference between MAML and JSONC/JSON5?Why not Zig-style multiline?Implementations…

Rangers manager: Is Danny Rohl answer after Steven Gerrard snub?

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Bannan's testimony is glowing, but would Rohl be able to do what Martin could not?The German is younger, has managed significantly fewer matches, and does not have as much experience of Rangers or Scotland as the man he would succeed.Would all that undermine his ability to handle the myriad problems the next Rangers boss will face on and off the pitch?"Danny Rohl is 36 years old - you can be as good a coach as you want, but is he going to have the experience of handling all the fires that need to be put out at Rangers at the…

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal | Biography books

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Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, both instantly recognisable and actually read. His plays are performed. His words are quoted. He reclines in effigy on both the Strand and the King’s Road. He even has a commemorative window in Westminster Abbey. But it was not always so.When he died in Paris, in 1900, aged just 46, the obituaries were not generous. There was a feeling of relief that an embarrassing figure had been removed the scene, and a general hope that he and his works would soon be forgotten. The Pall Mall Gazette suggested…

Specialized S-Works Levo 4 Electric Mountain Bike Review: The Best Electric Mountain Bike

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The next ride was on singletrack from my house to Spirit Mountain, Duluth’s downhill lift-accessed park with 24 trails ranging from easy to expert. Lacking a full-face helmet and the landing skills to tackle double-black runs like the one called Calculated Risk, I instead rode Candyland. The machine-built flow trail has some nice high, snaky berms where the bike’s chunky tires kept me upright and stable. I had so much fun tooling around in the bike park, riding up steep inclines like The Puker to get one last flowy downhill ride in, that I had to hurry home for dinner…

Americans Work 8.4 Hours Daily—Here’s How That Compares to the Rest of the World

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Key Takeaways American workers log an average of 1,796 hours annually—465 more hours than Germans and 389 more than Norwegians.The U.S. is the only advanced economy with zero mandated paid vacation—and 23% of American workers get none at all.More hours do not necessarily mean more output, as several European nations with significantly more time off outperform the U.S. in productivity per hour worked. Add it up, and the typical American spends more time working each year than most employees in the developed world. Americans average 8.4 hours of work each weekday, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics—about 1,796 hours…

Billy Vigar: Concrete wall demolished following Chichester City striker’s death

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The Football Association said it would carry out an immediate safety review of perimeter walls at football grounds in the National League after Vigar's death. Former Bath City striker Alex Fletcher retired from football in 2023 after fracturing his skull in a collision with an advertising hoarding in November 2022. The now 26-year-old was placed in a coma after emergency surgery and did not play for 10 months. He has since taken a role in the brain health department within the Professional Footballers' Association and believes Vigar's death was preventable. "This was an entirely preventable situation," Fletcher told BBC Breakfast."It…