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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that’s to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s on all Canadian products entering the U.S., that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in on his social media network referring to the prime minister as After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park.” “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn’t a trolling-free zone for Trump’s adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden’s spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns and launched other stunts to respond to Trump’s taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” ___ Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.Espionage: Two Italian entrepreneurs investigated for obtaining information on behalf of Russia
There is a limit to what can be extrapolated from the survey’s findings, which Sherrill’s campaign shared with stakeholders on Wednesday afternoon. The live phone poll of 800 likely Democratic primary voters — conducted by Global Strategy Group from Nov. 20 to 24 — also found that 38% of likely primary voters were still undecided, suggesting the race is wide open. The poll’s margin of error is 3.5 percentage points under or over. But the ’s results are consistent with a survey conducted by the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which is backing Sherrill, that showed her ahead of Baraka by 12 points. A conducted by a super PAC supporting Baraka found Sherrill leading the Newark mayor by a more modest six points. To test the other candidates’ strength against a fundraising advantage Gottheimer is expected to develop (which would also enable him to communicate more), the pollsters provided half of the respondents with a second positive message about Gottheimer that emphasizes his New Jersey upbringing and specific ways in which he worked to lower costs for the state’s families. After that introduction, Sherrill’s support rose to 32%, Gottheimer’s rose to 18%, Baraka’s rose to 13%, Fulop’s and Spiller’s support rose to 6% each, and Sweeney remains the same. Finally, the poll tested negative messages against all candidates but provided one twice as long about Sherrill. In that scenario, Sherrill retained 30% of support, compared to 15% each for Gottheimer and Baraka, and 5% for Fulop. Meanwhile, Sweeney’s support grew from his original 11% to 14%, and Spiller’s support grew from his original 5% to 7%. Related...
NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday accused Lok Sabha's Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi of 'pushing and shoving' its MPs on Parliament premises and asserted that he does not deserve to be LoP. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan squarely put the blame on Gandhi for the fracas that left two MPs injured. "Rahul Gandhi does not deserve to hold the post of the Leader of Opposition," Chouhan said. Chouhan said that the party was pained at the treatment meted out to its tribal MP from Nagaland, S Phangnon Konya, who alleged in the Rajya Sabha that Gandhi shouted at her after coming in "close proximity" that made her feel uncomfortable during a demonstration outside Parliament's Makar Dwar. "Will physical strength be used in Parliament? Will musclemen and goondas come to Parliament? In which direction is the Congress taking the country's democracy," asked Chouhan, who was flanked by Union minister Piyush Goyal and party MPs Anurag Thakur and Anil Baluni . 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While the rest of the Notre Dame community figures out whether it's worth paying four figures for a ticket to the College Football Playoff first-round home game against Indiana, the men's basketball team continues to figure out how to survive without Markus Burton. Notre Dame (5-5) hosts its next-to-last nonconference game Wednesday night against Dartmouth (4-4), which plays its sixth contest of a seven-game road trip. The Fighting Irish took a promising step -- and snapped a five-game losing streak -- on Saturday by edging Syracuse 69-64 in their ACC opener. "We needed to be in a close game and we needed to win a close game so our guys can build some belief back," head coach Micah Shrewsberry said. "We can't take any steps back on Wednesday." Without Burton -- the stat sheet-stuffing sophomore point guard who injured the medial collateral ligament in his knee Nov. 26 against Rutgers -- the Irish are struggling to find someone to run the offense, as evidenced by their seven assists versus 15 turnovers against Syracuse. At the same time, players are filling the scoring void. Braeden Shrewsberry poured in a career-high-tying 25 points versus the Orange while hitting 6 of 11 3-point attempts. Tae Davis averaged 12.4 points and 7.2 shots per game when Burton was healthy, but he has upped his mean production to 16.6 points and 12.2 shots in the past five games. Micah Shrewsberry, though, prefers to measure progress on a possession-by-possession basis. "Just the toughness," he said. "There have been times when we haven't gotten the key stop. We haven't gotten the bucket when we quite need it. It gets deflating sometimes." Dartmouth knows that feeling. On Sunday, the Big Green took a one-point lead with 4:03 left in overtime at UIC -- and then failed to score on their final six possessions to suffer a 69-68 loss. The Big Green, who haven't posted a winning season since 1998-99, believe whole-heartedly in launching 3-pointers as they take 48 percent of their shots from behind the arc. Senior Cade Haskins (13.6 ppg) has hit a team-high 28 of 68 3-pointers this season, though fellow senior Ryan Cornish stacks up as the team's top scorer (14.3 ppg), passer (3.0 assists per game) and defender (2.3 steals per game). In its only previous game against a power-conference opponent, Dartmouth upset Boston College 88-83 on Nov. 29. --Field Level MediaHelp wanted: Cartwright school district needs more teachersNoneIt was a long and mostly miserable season for Toronto’s veteran reliever Jordan Romano in 2024. He was coming off two All-Star seasons as the Blue Jays closer, had accumulated 95 saves over the previous three seasons, but but as the season trickled through the late spring it became obvious this season wasn’t going to turn out like those other two. He first encountered elbow inflammation issues during spring training, delaying his season start until mid-April. He seemed to pick up where he’d left off in 2023, accumulating four saves in a couple of weeks, but his velocity dropped significantly during a stretch in May and his ERA ballooned to 6.59 before he was finally pulled from action at the end of the month. But before his injury troubles really began to set in on him, there was the memory of the day that he managed his fifth save of the season, coming on May 8 on the road in a day game at Citizens Bank Park. “The place was absolutely sold out,” Romano said Tuesday, recalling the surprise of what even a workday baseball game in South Philadelphia was like. “The atmosphere was electric, and kind of coming off that series, I thought that if I get a chance to play here, I think I’d really enjoy it.” Romano will indeed get that chance, after he was signed Monday to a one-year, $8.5 million contract by Phillies president Dave Dombrowski. While some critics thought the signing was a bit of a gamble with what today is almost like a pocket-change free agent contract, Dombrowski sees in Romano a 31-year-old premier reliever almost back to full health and still in the prime of his career. Before departing the Winter Meetings in Dallas, Dombrowski praised Romano, calling him “one of the best back-end, high-leverage guys in baseball. Our medicals on him have been very good.” On a Zoom call with media members Tuesday, Romano said he was excited to keep progressing in his efforts to recapture his form from a couple of seasons ago. “Last Friday I got off the mound, felt great, mid-90s, for the first bullpen, which i was really excited about,” said Romano. He added that after another few weeks of “deloading” and strength training, he’ll get back to throwing bullpens in January. But he thinks he’s well on his way to full recovery before spring training starts. It was a long road. Romano, 31, would go on IL on June 1, and after another setback during rehab finally underwent elbow surgery in July. His rehab after that didn’t go well, either, and after initial optimism that he’d be returning sometime in August, the call was made to let him continue to rehab while the Blue Jays were quickly playing themselves out of contention. “The whole plan last year was never really to come back at the end of the year. We were just going to take it a little bit ... not even slower, just follow the timeline with that,” said Romano, a native of Markham, Ontario. “I want to get back on track, I’m feeling healthy and good now so I just want to have the one year to get back out there and prove my worth.” Before meeting any of his teammates, Romano can feel comfortable knowing that his manager, Rob Thomson, is a fellow Ontarian. But Thomson isn’t being provincial in his thinking about Romano’s role here – there were no fast promises of giving a closer role to Romano. Thomson doesn’t like to use that “closer” term anyway. Instead, the plan for Romano is to help in “high-leverage” situations, especially since both Jeff Hoffman and Carlos Estevez are currently on the free agency market themselves. The Phillies now have Romano to go with fellow right-hander Orion Kerkering and left-handers Matt Strahm and Jose Alvarado as back-end bullpen weapons. “I’m just kind of going in and wherever I can, help,” Romano said. “If they want me to throw the ninth, you know, I do love closing. I have experience there and I’m happy to do it. But if they need me in other spots, too, I’m happy to do that. “I’m kind of just there to help get big outs wherever they need them.”
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Nonehe officially tipped off the holiday season with a nod to the past, with a modern technological twist. To promote its card, the league revived one of the most popular commercials in its history, . Eleven years ago, the NBA . The famous made waves in 2013 by combining the Christmas spirit with the athletic ability of , and . The video featured Durant, Harden, Rose, Nash, and Curry tuned to play a note from the famous every time one of them made a basket. The commercial ends with the dunking the ball to finish off the tune and saying, The original commercial was a huge hit, and the modern version . The past and present come together in Regifted The original due to the difficulty of getting all the participants in one place. To remedy that and to give the video a modern twist, the NBA, advertising agency Translation, and production company Passion Pictures . reunites , Durant, and James with new stars in the lead roles, with cameos from . Commentators Malika Andrews and a bobblehead version of Mike Breen also make brief appearances. The 30-second ad between the Orlando Magic and the Milwaukee Bucks. The original clip and 10-second versions will air in the days leading up to . Technology: You love it or hate it The new version . Some have praised the animation, cast, and stunts impossible for a real person to perform. Others, however, have criticized the league for opting for CGI instead of making the effort . , the NBA will also debut the alternate cast from the video game at the game at noon on the holiday card. There's no doubt that the NBA knows how to get its fans excited, and whether you love it or hate it, won't go unnoticed this season.Markus Harding standing out for Sycamores
Mondays and Tuesdays are dedicated to Zumba, and Wednesdays and Thursdays to pilates and resistance training. This has been Madam Koh Puay Choo’s weekly routine at Lions Befrienders Active Ageing Centre @ Mei Ling in Queenstown for the last eight months. She is nearly 70 years old. Madam Koh is among 30 seniors from the active ageing centre who in November trialled a new mobile app that allows users to sign up for exercise, communal dining, gardening, music lessons and other activities at the centre. She found the app useful and convenient. “Now I don’t have to walk 20 minutes to the centre just to sign up for my exercises,” she said in Mandarin. On Dec 12, Lions Befrienders, a charity that serves seniors through befriending services, active ageing centres and home care services, launched the Our Kampung app at its active ageing centre in Mei Ling Street. Other than signing up for activities, the app also allows users to keep track of their health, interact with a pet avatar, and register for volunteer work. The app, with its intuitive touchscreen navigation, audio messaging and large font sizes, is designed with consideration for seniors who may have visual impairment, motor coordination problems and memory deterioration. Speaking at the launch event, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Social and Family Development Eric Chua said Singapore faces a gap between long life expectancies of over 80 years and healthspans (the years lived in good health) which are 10 years shorter. He said the app is handy for helping seniors stay socially engaged, which is “a huge determinant of good health” for older adults. Lions Befrienders executive director Karen Wee said the app is an extension of the charity’s i-ok @ LB system that began in 2021. Under the system, seniors get an electronic tablet that allows them to press a button to signal that they are fine, and staff can check on them if they are not. Lions Befrienders serves more than 13,000 seniors and operates 10 active ageing centres. The plan is to roll out the Our Kampung app with its full suite of services to 10,000 of these seniors from all 10 centres in the next two to three years. The free app is available in all four official languages. The project’s sponsors include Singapore Pools and port operator PSA. The app was developed by Lions Befrienders’ technology and innovation team, together with development studio WeesWares, which charged the charity a discounted rate. Our Kampung also keeps Lions Befrienders staff updated about the seniors’ well-being, including on their blood pressure and heart rate taken at the centres’ health measurement stations. In addition, it has a pet avatar game where seniors can interact with the avatar of a cat or dog to collect points to redeem prizes from Lions Befrienders’ smart-locker system. Madam Koh tends to her pet avatar cat, playing with it and bathing it whenever she is bored. “It keeps my mind active. It’s better than staring at the four walls when I have nothing to do,” she said. The next phase of app development will allow seniors to take on “microjobs” through the app, such as planning events and putting up handicrafts for sale on the Lions Befrienders’ upcoming e-shop. These jobs are broken down so that four or five seniors do what is ordinarily the job of one person, and the jobs pay the seniors an allowance. Ms Wee cited a scheme by Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities that recruits seniors to take on simple tasks like delivering meals and giving medication reminders to other seniors, and pays them a small allowance of $1 for each task. Mr Chua said the app represents a social service agency – Lions Befrienders – coming together to work with corporates, Singapore Pools and PSA, and with volunteers. “That is how we ought to work together to make sure that in the next lap of Singapore, we can make Singapore work for all of us,” he said.
The 2:10 p.m. showing for Disney’s newly released "Moana 2" last Sunday was only a few minutes into the previews at Medford’s Tinseltown when Central Point resident Danny Moreno shifted his focus from enjoying a movie with his wife and grandson to responding to a cry for help. Moreno, a retired fire captain from North Carolina, rushed to the aid of 6-year-old Grants Pass resident Mosaia Hannah. The girl, who suffers from a heart condition called SVT, had gone suddenly unconscious and went face down on the theater floor. The condition causes a sudden fluctuation in heart rate. “They were doing previews of other movies of all the other movies they usually do. It had just started into it. We were at the bottom, towards the first step. All of a sudden we hear, ‘Does anybody here know CPR?’” Moreno told the Rogue Valley Times last week. With 30-plus years of fire and EMS experience, Morena found himself running up the flight of theater steps without taking time to process what might be happening. “Being who I am with fire and EMS experience, I jumped up and ran there to try to help,” he said. The girl, known as “Mosie” to friends and family, had visited the Medford theater last Sunday to watch the "Moana" sequel as a group. Mosie was unresponsive, with her lips turning blue, when Moreno reached her side. The girl’s mom, Allison Hannah, said she and a group of friends had been planning for weeks to get together with their kids to watch the movie. Hannah was getting the group of kids set up in their seats with snacks and drinks when her daughter went into distress. Mosie Williams, far right, and friends before "Moana 2" showing last Sunday. The 6-year-old had a medical emergency and was rescued by retired fire captain Danny Moreno of Central Point. “We keep an eye on the SVT, it makes her sometimes have a rapid heartbeat. When it beats too fast, she’s usually really good about communicating that it’s happening. She didn’t say anything this time,” said the mom. “We got all our snacks and our popcorn, took some pictures of the kids and walked into the theater. We had six kids with us, so I was putting everyone in their seat and heard a friend behind me say, ‘Oh, Mosie, watch out, you’re taking up the walkway.’ I turned around and my daughter was lying face down on the ground.” Hannah said the same thing happened three years ago, when her daughter’s heart began to race, and she went suddenly unconscious. “We didn’t even know she had a heart condition that time. What saved her life that time was a sheriff who responded within three minutes,” Hannah added. Even faster than the 911 call — this time — was the retired fire captain just a few rows away. Hannah and one of her friends had attempted some CPR compressions but were concerned at the lack of response, save for a tiny cough. “When our other friend yelled out, ‘Does anybody know CPR?’ People started rushing towards us.” Hannah said Moreno leaped over several rows of seats to reach her daughter. “I remember he just said, ‘I know what to do. It’s OK.’ I grabbed my daughter and shoved her into his arms and he took off with her to the bottom of the stairs,” Hannah said. While the series of events from Mosaia going into distress and until emergency responders arrived at Tinseltown took minutes, Hannah said it felt “like an eternity” before her daughter was loaded into an ambulance. Moreno stayed with her throughout the ordeal, until Mosie was loaded into the ambulance. Hannah said Mosaia was released back home last Sunday night with no apparent ill effects of her ordeal, save for being upset that she missed the movie. 6-year-old Mosie Williams. Long term, Hannah said Mosaia is waiting for a procedure that would correct her rapid heart beating issues. She has to weigh 60 pounds for the procedure, the mom said, though “she’s a string bean” and weighs just 47 currently. Hannah took to social media to find and thank Moreno for stepping in to help. The two families connected and had dinner together at Kaleidoscope on Friday. Hannah said she was grateful for the timing of everything, and that Moreno and his family attended the same movie showing as hers. “It was terrifying and the worst thing ever but everything happened so perfectly ... God, fate, anything you wanna call it, Danny was a literal angel who was in exactly the right place at the right time. I was obviously just really freaked out and panicked and probably in shock,” she said. “Until it was all over, I thought he was an EMT, because he stayed with us the whole time, asking my daughter questions to get her mind off of things, just keeping her calm.” Medford fire Chief Eric Thompson, who said crews arrived to find Mosie calm and ready for transport, said Moreno’s efforts likely brought a better outcome. “Globally, when you look at these kind of incidents, anytime we can have a good Samaritan engage the way that he did, it helps the outcome. What this good Samaritan did kind of helped eliminate the need for first responders ... and really that was the best thing that could have happened for that little girl,” Thompson said. “For there to be good Samaritans that have the courage and heart to help people, that’s what we want for our community. ... This gentleman, he’s retired. He could’ve called 911. He didn’t have to engage, but all those years of training and community service, you can’t shut that off," Thompson said. "Some of that stuff never leaves us. He was a community servant as a professional ... once a community servant always a community servant.” Mosie Williams, bottom middle, and her family with retired fire captain Danny Moreno, top left, and his wife, Hope Moreno, far left. Moreno, who has been around the fire service since he was 10 years old and first joined as a volunteer at 16, shied from social media users referring to him as a hero. “I more consider myself just someone with training who is in the right place in the right time. Just a situation where God put me in the right place at the right time to be able to help someone,” he said. “A hero would be someone without prior training to do what I did. My brothers and sisters in law enforcement and the fire service or the military, when we do it, we’re just doing what we have the training to do.” Moreno said the patient in need being a child tugged on his heart strings a little harder, noting, "I’ve got a passion for the work I’ve one and for helping people, but I’ve got a big a passion when it comes to kids,” he said. “I’ve done CPR on many children in my 30-plus years and it's always been the hardest. ... You just get in the mode to help but knowing it’s a child it pushes you even more. ... I’m just happy and blessed that the true hero of everything was God and he was there and present and that it all turned out OK for Mosie.”'Far too soon:' Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger killed by avalanche in SwitzerlandSources: Yanks get Fried for $218M, record for LHPWhich kids’ ski boots are best? Your child’s ski boots can impact their overall skiing experience and may even undermine their love for the sport if they find the boots awkward fitting and uncomfortable. In addition to comfort, the ability to retain warmth and be breathable are important qualities your kid’s ski boot should have. If your child is ready to hit the slopes and you’re looking for the ideal pair of boots, ensure you choose one that provides comfort and inspires confidence, such as our top pick, Fischer Junior/Kids RC4 60 Thermoshape Alpine On/Off-Piste Ski Boots . What to know before you buy kids’ ski boots Type There are several types of ski boots for kids, such as rear-entry and front-entry designs as well as performance and adjustable boot options. Rear-entry boots allow your child to slip in their feet from the back, while front entry includes a tongue that opens forward and allows the child to slide in their foot from the top. Another type is performance boots, which are made for older kids who want a better performance from their footwear. The adjustable ski boot is another option, and it is a great choice for kids who grow out of their footwear quickly. Size It’s easy to think your child’s boots are too small because they feel stiff and tight, but some boots are designed to be stiff. To avoid making a mistake with the sizing, take your child with you to the ski shop to get them sized. You can speak to a ski technician to learn more about the fit process. Let your child try on the boot with the liner while wearing socks. If the liner is tight, then the boots may be too small. Level of experience If your child is just starting with skiing and is only confident skiing on green runs, they are considered a beginner. Their category is intermediate if they can ski confidently on the blue square terrains. However, they are advanced if they can ski anything on the mountain. Kids’ ski boots usually come with ratings depending on their experience level. The boots with a lower flex rating are designed for beginners and are comfortable to wear but deliver less on performance. Those with a higher rating are usually less comfortable but provide better performance. What to look for in a quality kids’ ski boot Ease of use Some children may end up abandoning skiing because they’d rather be doing something else other than constantly taking their boots on and off. Front-entry and rear-entry ski boots are easy to wear, so choose either of these options for a fussy child. Slip resistance Your child’s boots should grip the floor properly to minimize their chance of falling when skiing. This feature is known as slip resistance and is often determined by the type of material used to fabricate the outsole of the boots. Generally, slip-resistant soles are textured and made of rubber. Waterproofing Waterproof ski boots are made of nonporous materials and can keep your child’s feet dry even when submerged in water. There are water-resistant boots designed to repel water, but these won’t prevent your child’s feet from getting wet in heavy rain or snow. How much you can expect to spend on kids’ ski boots Most kids’ ski boots cost $25-$40. Some expensive options are made with high-quality waterproof material, costing up to $60. Kids’ ski boot FAQ How do you know if your child’s ski boots are the right size? A. Ski boots have a different sizing for shoes, called Mondo sizing, which measures the inside of the foot. To get the right size for your child, use a tape measure to measure the length of their feet, then check the size chart to get the correct size. What ski boots should you choose for a child just learning to ski? A. If your child is just starting with skiing, choose a pair of boots that can easily flex, like front-entry ski boots. What’s the best kids’ ski boot to buy? Top kids’ ski boot Fischer Junior/Kids RC4 60 Thermoshape Alpine On/Off-Piste Ski Boots What you need to know: These ski boots are an excellent choice for beginner skiers thanks to their soft flex design and thermoformable technology. What you’ll love: These Soma-Tec boots are designed to enable maximum control and prevent the ankle and knee joints from twisting when skiing. They also include a micro-adjustable buckle system for quick and easy adjustment. They feature a thermoformable boot liner designed to give an adapted fit. What you should consider: Some users mentioned that the sizing isn’t accurate. Top kids’ ski boot for the money Salomon T3 RT Ski Boots What you need to know: These ski boots come in three unique colors and are suitable for both boys and girls. What you’ll love: These boots are made with polyurethane, which gives them unique durability. They are also easy to put on or off and include micro-adjustments in the buckle to ensure a custom fit. What you should consider: They might run small for children with big feet. Worth checking out Rossignol Comp J4 Ski Boots Kid’s What you need to know: These ski boots are designed with comfort in mind thanks to their comfort liners and unique diagonal buckles. What you’ll love: They include liners that are made with soft materials and designed to give optimal comfort and all-day cushioning. They also feature diagonal buckles that offer a more natural foot wrapping and excellent heel support. What you should consider: The buckles are made of thin metal wire, which might not be very durable. Prices listed reflect time and date of publication and are subject to change. Check out our Daily Deals for the best products at the best prices and sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter full of shopping inspo and sales. 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Epilepsy Treatment Market 2034: Clinical Trials, EMA, PDMA, FDA Approvals, Medication, and Companies DelveInsightTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a $2.38 per share dividend for the first quarter of 2025. The dividend will be paid on March 7, 2025 , to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on February 14, 2025 . About Amgen Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers innovative medicines to help millions of patients in their fight against some of the world's toughest diseases. More than 40 years ago, Amgen helped to establish the biotechnology industry and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what's known today. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline that builds on its existing portfolio of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, inflammatory diseases and rare diseases. 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