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LIVERPOOL manager Jurgen Klopp is notoriously out-spoken when it comes to fixture congestion, and firmly believes the pile-up is too demanding on players. And he’s already told incoming Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick that he will have ‘no time’ to implement his famed Gegenpressing philosophy. 2 Klopp is firmly against the famous hectic festive periodCredit: PA 2 He has warned Rangnick that it will be hugely difficult to be an instant successCredit: Getty Rangnick has agreed a deal to take up the reigns at Old Trafford after being recruited because he was the OPPOSITE type of manager to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But Klopp has warned it will virtually impossible for him to instil his philosophy before the New Year.Continue Reading

Why some people find it harder to be happy

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Black Salmon The self-help industry is booming, fuelled by research on positive psychology – the scientific study of what makes people flourish. At the same time, the rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm continue to soar worldwide. So are we doomed to be unhappy, despite these advances in psychology? According to an influential article published in Review of General Psychology in 2005, 50% of people’s happiness is determined by their genes, 10% depends on their circumstances and 40% on “intentional activity” (mainly, whether you’re positive or not). This so-called happiness pie put positive-psychology acolytes in the driving seat, allowing them to decide on their happiness trajectory. (Although, the unspoken message is that if you are unhappy, it’s your own fault.)Continue Reading

Sea lion whiskers can move like human fingertips: here's how we found out

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Lachlan Ross / pexels , CC BY-SA Humans have amazing fingertips. They are sensitive and can be moved over objects to feel its softness, texture, size and shape. These movements are both complex, and “task-specific”. This means that you adopt different movements depending on what you want to feel about an object. We squeeze or push objects to judge softness, and feel around the edges of objects to judge size and shape. And if you wanted to feel the texture of an object, you would sweep your fingertips over the surface. Being able to adopt different movement strategies shows that we can precisely control our fingertip movements and draw on our past experiences in order to pay attention to importantContinue Reading

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ARSENAL have got the job done with a routine win over Newcastle. Bukayo Saka scored and then limped off injured before Gabriel Martinelli doubled the Gunners’ lead. JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET A FREE £10 BONUS WITH 100s OF GAMES TO PLAY AND NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED (Ts&Cs apply) And today signals the return of rainbow laces in the Premier League, with the initiative aiming to increase awareness of and embrace all things LGBT. Score: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle TV channel: BT Sport 1 Live stream FREE: BT Sport website and app. If you have a phone contract with EE, you can get three months worth of BT Sport for free. Text SPORT to 150 and you can cancel at any time. ArsenalContinue Reading

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MICHAEL CARRICK will be in the dugout when Manchester United head to Premier League leaders Chelsea. And he has promised any incoming manager that he has left the club in a fine state. The former midfielder, 40, said: “I think that’s one of the biggest things in Ole’s time as manager, creating and building an environment, a backroom staff and a culture within the group that is not obvious to the eye. “You can see we finished well last season but once the results started going, it went pretty quickly, which is a shame because everything can get overshadowed. “It’s still there and the backroom staff and environment has helped me an awful lot this week. “What happens next, it’sContinue Reading

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Lucy Lulu looks the classic ‘thieving each-way’ for a seven-runner Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Wolverhampton tapeta today; only two places on offer but finding another, apart from odds-on chance Papa Don’t Preach, will be nigh impossible. This-type bet was my trademark reason for betting seriously all those years ago! Process of elimination, based on race-timing and nous, yielded tremendously consistent profit before it was possible to get on the journalistic ladder; nowadays, of course, I’m able to help readers make racing pay without a hint of ‘gambling’ which has become a dirty word with the bookmaking profession milking millions out of unsuspecting ‘mug punters!’ 104-rated Papa Don’t Reach, mount of Hollie Doyle, must surely win but Charles Hills’Continue Reading

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Ten months into his presidency, Joe Biden’s poll numbers are, by any measure, lukewarm. According to the latest figures, taken on November 24, only 43% of Americans approve of his performance in office, while a majority think he is not doing a good job. In a week when he announced that he is planning to run for the presidency again in 2024, these are surely not the numbers he is hoping for. There are a number of explanations for Biden’s low approval rating, but some context is useful. While he is recently polling lower than his three Democrat predecessors at this point in their presidency, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were not faced with a pandemic in anContinue Reading

How poorer citizens pay the price of economic change in the UK

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In the 1970s, Britain briefly achieved peak equality. Jean Carlo Emer | Unsplash, FAL Despite the early claims of British prime minister Boris Johnson’s much vaunted plan to cap personal adult social care costs, his government’s new plan – designed to save the Treasury £900 million year – will see only those people with more expensive homes gain. The poorer pensioner still risks losing their home. In response to this plan, Welsh economist Andrew Dilnot, who first came up with the idea of a cap on social care costs, has expressed dissapointment at the changes. Unlike those with higher asset levels, he explained, “the less well-off will not gain any benefit from the cap”. Critics have also pointed out thatContinue Reading

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A lmost six years to the day since the release of the album that turned her into a global megastar, Adele has returned with another one. 30 is, by pretty much all accounts, a triumph. Many listeners have already seized upon the emotional honesty and vulnerability weaved through the album’s verses as proof that Adele’s talents as a lyricist both relatable and sharply personal have been undimmed by the years she spent away. In the process of making the new record, the Tottenham-born artist has drawn upon some of her most trusted collaborators — as well as one or two new faces — to help bring her visions to life. Here’s the lowdown on all the people to share writingContinue Reading

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At least 27 people have drowned in the English Channel attempting to cross in a small boat. There were three children, seven women, one of whom was pregnant, and 17 men. Although a joint search and rescue operation was seemingly launched in the narrow maritime area between the UK and France (which is only 20 miles wide), the highly equipped authorities of both coastal states were not able to intervene in time to save the victims. The British government has responded to these deaths by calling on France to take back anyone who attempts the crossing. Speaking in parliament following the tragedy, Home Secretary Priti Patel placed heavy emphasis on the French government’s responsibility for the tragedy, which she saidContinue Reading