slot ph The Myanmar delegation led by Dr Wah Wah Maung, Eminent Person (EP) of Myanmar for the High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision and Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, attended the 18th Meeting of High-Level Task Force on ASEAN Community’s Post-2025 Vision (18th HLTF-ACV) which was held in Singapore from 19 to 23 November 2024, accompanied by officials from the Department of ASEAN Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Drafting sessions of the high-level representatives were also held on the sideline of the 18th Meeting of HLTF-ACV, and the fourth reading with 97.2 per cent completion of the draft ASEAN Political and Security Community (APSC) Strategic Plan was concluded. The 18th HLTF-ACV Meeting was co-chaired by Eminent Persons (EP) of Lao PDR and Malaysia, as the permanent shepherd Member State, and attended by Eminent Persons, High-Level Representatives and officials from the ASEAN Member States, representatives from Timor-Leste as well as ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General for APSC and officials from the ASEAN Secretariat. At the Meeting, the HLTF-ACV had an interface with the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, and Singapore Institute of International Affairs. The respective stakeholders have offered comments and recommendations to the ASEAN Community Vision 2045. The Meeting exchanged views and shared their insights on the emerging challenges and way forward on the development of the Strategic Plans. During the 18th HLTF-ACV Meeting, Deputy Minister Dr Wah Wah Maung commended the progress of works in developing Strategic Plans for ASEAN Vision 2045 and emphasized the importance of advancing regional integration through strengthening efficiency and effectiveness of institutional mechanisms and improving cross-pillar and cross-sector coordination. The deputy minister also highlighted the importance of prioritization and sequencing ASEAN’s work plans. Given the unique nature of ASEAN, she suggested greater efforts for financial independence of the community to better exercise “ASEAN centrality”. She underscored that youth participation remains a priority for the implementation of ASEAN Vision 2045. She concluded by calling for constructive engagement, greater inclusivity and equal representation in ASEAN meetings. The upcoming 19th HLTF-ACV meeting scheduled in December 2024 will look into further developing the Strategic Plans for their adoption at the 46th ASEAN Summit in May 2025. — MNA

Wild first season in expanded Big 12 comes down to final weekendThe race for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft is heating up, and there have been some big changes at the top over the past two weeks. Thanks to this weekend's results, including the New England Patriots 40-7 loss to Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday, as well as the New York Giants' stunning 45-33 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, the Patriots will now go into Week 18 of the regular season occupying what would be the No. 1 overall spot for the 2025 draft. If the Patriots lose to the Buffalo Bills next week, the top pick in 2025 will belong to them. The Giants' win against the Colts dropped them from the No. 1 spot down to the No. 3 spot, while the Tennessee Titans occupy the No. 2 spot thanks to their loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The team that has taken the biggest slide over the past two weeks, however, is the Las Vegas Raiders thanks to their back-to-back wins over the Jaguars and New Orleans Saints. Those two wins have taken them from a potential No. 1 pick and out of the top-five entirely. After Sunday's game, they were down to the No. 8 overall pick. The rest of the top-10 as of Sunday evening looks like this : 1. New England Patriots (3-13); 2. Tennessee Titans (3-13); 3. New York Giants (3-13); 4. Cleveland Browns (3-12 pending result of game against Miami); 5. Jacksonville Jaguars (4-12); 6. New York Jets (4-12); 7. Carolina Panthers (4-12); 8. Las Vegas Raiders (4-12); 9. Chicago Bears (4-12); 10. New Orleans Saints (5-11). The Patriots win the tiebreaker for the top spot because they have played — by far — the easiest schedule of the three 3-13 teams. The team with lowest strength of schedule picks higher as part of the tiebreaker. If the Patriots do end up securing the top pick, it is going to create some interesting options for the front office. Drake Maye looks to be the team's quarterback of the future, so it could open the door for it to select Colorado dual-threat (and Heisman Trophy winner) Travis Hunter or perhaps trade out of the spot for a bounty of picks from a team in need of a quarterback (Tennessee Titans, New York Giants, Las Vegas Raiders). Colorado's Shedeur Sanders and Miami's Cam Ward figure to be the top quarterback prospects off the board and could still be options for teams like the Titans and Giants in the No. 2 and 3 spots barring any trades. This is also a good time for the important reminder that even though fans care about draft position, the players and coaches on the field do not. They are not going to "tank" for draft position when they are playing for careers and jobs. The players on the 2024 Giants and Raiders rosters do not care about draft position when some of them will be playing for different teams next season. They just want to win every game they play.

By Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald (TNS) MIAMI — As her students finished their online exam, Arlet Lara got up to make a cafe con leche . Her 16-year-old son found her on the kitchen floor. First, he called Dad in a panic. Then 911. “I had a stroke and my life made a 180-degree turn,” Lara told the Miami Herald, recalling the medical scare she experienced in May 2020 in the early months of the COVID pandemic. “The stroke affected my left side of the body,” the North Miami woman and former high school math teacher said. Lara, an avid runner and gym goer, couldn’t even walk. “It was hard,” the 50-year-old mom said. After years of rehabilitation therapy and a foot surgery, Lara can walk again. But she still struggles with moving. This summer, she became the first patient in South Florida to get an implant of a new and only FDA-approved nerve stimulation device designed to help ischemic stroke survivors regain movement in their arms and hands. This first procedure was at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Lara’s rehab was at at the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, part of a partnership between Jackson Health System and UHealth. Every year, thousands in the United States have a stroke , with one occurring every 40 seconds, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The majority of strokes are ischemic, often caused by blood clots that obstruct blood flow to the brain. For survivors, most of whom are left with some level of disability, the Vivistim Paired VNS System, the device implanted in Lara’s chest, could be a game changer in recovery, said Dr. Robert Starke, a UHealth neurosurgeon and interventional neuroradiologist. He also serves as co-director of endovascular neurosurgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, part of Miami-Dade’s public hospital system. Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, right, runs into her rehabilitation neurology physician Dr. Gemayaret Alvarez, before her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms, goes through exercises while her therapist activates the device during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The activation works as positive reinforcement to her muscles when she completes the exercise correctly. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, does an exercise while Neil Batungbakal, rehabilitation therapist, activates the implant with the black trigger during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. The activation works as positive reinforcement to her muscles when she completes the exercise correctly. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA- approved nerve stimulation implant, does an exercise while Neil Batungbakal, rehabilitation therapist, activates the implant with the black trigger during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, right, runs into her rehabilitation neurology physician Dr. Gemayaret Alvarez, before her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The implant is designed to help stroke survivors regain function in their arms. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald/TNS) The Vivistim Paired VNS System is a small pacemaker-like device implanted in the upper chest and neck area. Patients can go home the same day. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the stroke rehabilitation system in 2021 to be used alongside post-ischemic stroke rehabilitation therapy to treat moderate to severe mobility issues in hands and arms. Lara’s occupational therapist can activate the device during rehabilitation sessions to electrically stimulate the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain down to the abdomen and regulates various parts of the body’s nervous system. The electrical stimulation rewires the brain to improve a stroke survivor’s ability to move their arms and hands. Lara also has a magnet she can use to activate the device when she wants to practice at home. Her therapy consists of repetitive tasks, including coloring, pinching cubes and grabbing and releasing cylindrical shapes. After several weeks of rehabilitation therapy with the device, Lara has seen improvement. “Little by little, I’m noticing that my hand is getting stronger. I am already able to brush my teeth with the left hand,” she told the Miami Herald in September. Since then, Lara has finished the initial six-week Vivitism therapy program, and is continuing to use the device in her rehabilitation therapy. She continues to improve and can now eat better with her left hand and can brush her hair with less difficulty, according to her occupational therapist, Neil Batungbakal. Lara learned about the device through an online group for stroke survivors and contacted the company to inquire. She then connected them with her Jackson medical team. Now a year later, the device is available to Jackson patients. So far, four patients have received the implant at Jackson. Related Articles Starke sees the device as an opportunity to help bring survivors one step closer to regaining full mobility. Strokes are a leading cause of disability worldwide. While most stroke survivors can usually recover some function through treatment and rehabilitation, they tend to hit a “major plateau” after the first six months of recovery, he said. Vivistim, when paired with rehabilitation therapy, could change that. Jackson Health said results of a clinical trial published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet in 2021 showed that the device, “when paired with high-repetition, task-specific occupational or physical therapy, helps generate two to three times more hand and arm function for stroke survivors than rehabilitation therapy alone.” The device has even shown to benefit patients 20 years from their original stroke, according to Starke. “So now a lot of these patients that had strokes 10-15 years ago that thought that they would never be able to use their arm in any sort of real functional way are now able to have a real meaningful function, which is pretty tremendous,” Starke said. Vivistim’s vagus-nerve stimulation technology was developed by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Texas Biomedical Device Center and is being sold commercially by Austin-based MicroTransponder, a company started by university graduates. Similar devices are used to treat epilepsy and depression . For Lara, the device is a new tool to help her recovery journey. “Everything becomes a challenge so we are working with small things every day because I want to get back as many functions as possible,” Lara said. Patients interested in Vivistim should speak with their doctor to check their eligibility. The FDA said patients should make sure to discuss any prior medical history, including concurrent forms of brain stimulation, current diathermy treatment, previous brain surgery, depression, respiratory diseases and disorders such as asthma, and cardiac abnormalities. “Adverse events included but were not limited to dysphonia (difficulty speaking), bruising, falling, general hoarseness, general pain, hoarseness after surgery, low mood, muscle pain, fracture, headache, rash, dizziness, throat irritation, urinary tract infection and fatigue,” the FDA said. MicroTransponder says the device is “covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance with prior authorization on a case-by-case basis.” To learn more about the device, visit vivistim.com. ©2024 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.ASX set to rise, Wall Street hangs near records despite Trump’s tariff talk

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DePaul Prep senior Michael Casper never expected to spend the Saturday before Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family, celebrating a trip to the Class 4A state championship game. The Rams haven’t finished a season with more wins than losses since 2015. They won just four games last year. “I knew we were going to have a great season but coming this far was definitely a stretch,” Casper, a senior defensive lineman, said. The game came down to the final drive. Coal City had the ball and 2:32 seconds to tie or win the game. DePaul Prep’s defense stood strong. The Rams didn’t allow the host Coalers into the red zone and earned a 21-14 win in the Class 4A semifinals. “That was definitely the top moment of my life right there,” Casper said. “I knew all my boys had my back and we could win that football game.” DePaul Prep (10-3) took the lead on a nine-yard touchdown run by Nick Martinez with 6:42 to play. Martinez had 18 carries for 89 yards and two TDs. Coal City (10-3) tied the game twice but never led. “We are all brothers and we got together and put our hearts together,” Casper said. “We knew we had to get it done. We’d been dreaming of this moment for the past three years and the bond is there.” DePaul Prep quarterback Juju Rodriguez was 12-for-15 for 213 yards. He connected with Matthew Osterman for a 28-yard TD with 3:22 left in the third quarter. Osterman had three catches for 79 yards. Senior Braden Peevy caught six passes for 116 yards for the Rams. Landin Benson led Coal City with 33 carries for 183 yards and two TDs. The Rams didn’t allow a big play. The Coalers’ longest run was 14 yards and the longest pass was 21 yards. “We knew their run game was the focus so we tried to nail that down,” Casper said. “That made it tough for them to pass.” DePaul Prep will play the winner of Saturday night’s Mt. Zion vs. Normal U-High semifinal in the Class 4A title game on Friday at ISU’s Hancock Stadium.

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A wild first season of the expanded Big 12 is down to what should be a chaotic final weekend. Through all the upsets, unexpected rises and falls, there are nine teams still in the mix to play in the conference championship game. No. 14 Arizona State and No. 17 Iowa State have the best odds, yet a multitude of scenarios could play out — 256 to be exact. There's even the possibility of an eight-team tie. It may take a mathematician to figure out which teams are in the Dec. 7 game in Arlington, Texas — even for the ones who win. Travis Hunter, Colorado. The Buffaloes' two-way star has excelled on both sides of the field, making him one of the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy. Cam Skattebo, Arizona State. The senior running back can do a little of everything, but excels at punishing would-be tacklers. He's one of the nation's leaders in yards after contact and the focal point of the Sun Devils' offense. Shadeur Sanders, Colorado. If it weren't for Hunter, Sanders might be the Heisman favorite. The son of coach Deion Sanders, Shedeur is fifth nationally with 3,488 yards passing and has been a big part of the Buffaloes' turnaround. DJ Giddens, Kansas State. The Wildcats' running back is one of the nation's most versatile players. He is ninth nationally with 1,271 rushing yards and has added 21 receptions for 258 yards. Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona. The Wildcats have struggled this season, but McMillan has not. He is third nationally with 1,251 receiving yards with seven touchdowns on 78 catches. Jacob Rodriguez, Texas Tech. The Red Raiders' junior linebacker leads the Big 12 with 68 tackles, averaging 10.2 per game. He also has four sacks. Brendan Mott, Kansas State. He's a menace to opposing quarterbacks, leading the Big 12 with 8 1/2 sacks. The Big 12 has nine teams already bowl eligible and two more a win away. The winner of the Big 12 championship game will be in the mix for a College Football Playoff spot. Arizona State, Iowa State, No. 19 BYU, Colorado, Kansas State, Baylor, TCU, Texas Tech and West Virginia have already clinched bowl berths. Kansas and Cincinnati can get into the postseason with wins this weekend. Gus Malzahn, UCF. Despite successes in recruiting, the Knights are 10-14 in two seasons since moving to the Big 12. Maybe not enough to get shown the door this year, but another mediocre season could lead UCF to make a change. Kyle Whittingham, Utah. Whittingham was one of the Pac-12's best coaches, leading the Utes to consecutive conference titles. Utah was expected to contend for the Big 12 title its first year in the league, but enters the final weekend 1-7 in conference play, which could push Whittingham toward retirement since it's doubtful he'd be fired. Neal Brown, West Virginia. The Mountaineers' coach was in a precarious spot at the end of last season and West Virginia hasn't lived up to expectations this season. The Mountaineers are eligible to go to a bowl game for the second straight season, but Brown could be on the hot seat even after signing a contract extension before the season. Josiah Trotter, West Virginia. The redshirt freshman is the latest Trotter to have success at the linebacker position, following the footsteps of his father, former Philadelphia Eagles player Jeremiah Trotter, and brother Jeremiah Trotter Jr., a current Eagles linebacker. Sam Leavitt, Arizona State. The Michigan State transfer has been just what the Sun Devils' needed: an agile quarterback who extends plays with his legs and rarely makes bad decisions. Bryson Washington, Baylor. The Bears' running back has rushed for 812 yards — 196 against TCU — and 10 TDs. TCU has the Big 12's highest rated 2025 recruiting class with six four-star players among 26 commitments, according to the 247 Sports composite. Receiver Terry Shelton of Carrollton, Texas, is the highest-rated recruit at 71st nationally. Baylor is next with five five-star players among its 20 commitments, including running back Michael Turner, rated 13th at his position out of North Richland Hills, Texas. Texas Tech is ranked seventh in the Big 12, but has four four-star recruits. Get local news delivered to your inbox!NoneRent Payment Integration with Home Automation: Seamless Living Expenses

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Price Target Raised to $102.00MINNEAPOLIS — Malik Monk had 27 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, De'Aaron Fox added 26 points, eight assists and eight rebounds, and the Sacramento Kings rode a gritty performance underneath both baskets to a 115-104 victory against the scuffling Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. Monk and Fox combined to outscore the Timberwolves 17-2 over the final five minutes. Domantas Sabonis had 27 points and 12 rebounds as Sacramento snapped a four-game losing streak. Led by Sabonis, Sacramento outscored Minnesota 64-36 in the paint. The Kings also had 12 offensive rebounds to four for the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards led Minnesota with 29 points but went 9 for 24 from the field. After reaching the 2024 Western Conference finals and starting 6-3 this season, the Wolves have lost four in a row and seven of nine. Takeaways Kings: Monk appears to have fully recovered from the right ankle sprain that kept him out of seven games. The 2023-24 Sixth Man of the Year finalist made back-to-back 3-pointers with less than four minutes remaining as Sacramento erased a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter. Timberwolves: Even with Mike Conley back in the lineup after missing three games with a toe sprain, Minnesota continues to struggle with chemistry. The Karl-Anthony Towns trade haul of Julius Randle (21 points, nine rebounds) and Donte DiVincenzo (five points) has yielded mixed results as they attempt to gel with Edwards, Rudy Gobert and the rest of the Timberwolves' core. Key moment Jae Crowder, a 12-year NBA veteran who signed with the Kings earlier Wednesday, started in his first game since the 2024 playoffs with Milwaukee. His 3 at the first-quarter buzzer cut an early Wolves lead to 33-31; Crowder pointed at the home team's bench before joining his new teammates for the break. Sacramento Kings guard De'Aaron Fox (5) elevates to shoot against Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert (27) while Kings center Alex Len, right, looks on during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, in Minneapolis. Credit: AP/Ellen Schmidt Key stat Edwards made his first four 3s and had 14 points in the first nine minutes. He entered Wednesday leading the NBA with 4.8 made 3s per game. Up next Both teams have NBA Cup group play games Friday night: Sacramento at Portland, and Minnesota at home against the Los Angeles Clippers.Microchip Technology Unusual Options ActivityBy David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it has approved a license for T-Mobile and Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink unit to provide supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas. The license marks the first time the FCC has authorized a satellite operator collaborating with a wireless carrier to provide supplemental telecommunications coverage from space on some flexible-use spectrum bands allocated to terrestrial service. The partnership aims to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas and eliminate “dead zones.” T-Mobile and SpaceX announced a partnership in 2022 and in January the first set of satellites supporting the partnership was launched into low-Earth orbit with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. “The FCC is actively promoting competition in the space economy by supporting more partnerships between terrestrial mobile carriers and satellite operators to deliver on a single network future that will put an end to mobile dead zones,” said FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel. The satellites have direct-to-cell technology to work with T-Mobile’s network to expand coverage. T-Mobile said this year that over 500,000 square miles (1.3 million square km) of the United States are unreachable by towers because of the terrain, land-use restrictions and other factors. In March, the FCC established a new regulatory framework for supplemental coverage from space to extend the reach of wireless networks to remote areas while preserving high service quality in 4G and 5G networks and preventing harmful interference. While this is the first partnership that has received agency approval, other companies have pending applications for review before the FCC. Last month, the FCC allowed SpaceX and T-Mobile to enable Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cellphones in areas of North Carolina hit hard by Hurricane Helene. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Rod Nickel) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. 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