Categories
Sports

WWE SmackDown Tonight, November 15: Bronson Reed Attacks OG Bloodline, Nia Jax Defends WWE Women’s Championship and Other Results From Friday Night SmackDown

The road to WWE Survivor Series: War Games kicked off on Friday Night SmackDown on November 15, with several star wrestlers making their presence felt at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. WWE title holders like Nia Jax, Motor City Machine Guns, and Cody Rhodes were in action in their respective matches and backstage events.  Randy Orton Injury Update: ‘Viper’ Diagnosed with Cervical Cord Neurapraxia, No Return Date Confirmed By WWE.

WWE Women’s United States Championship Contenders Match

Bayley, Candice LeRae, and B-Fab were in the first-round match for the Women’s US Championship contenders match, which was a high-stakes clash, where all participants showcased their high-flying skills on the mat. After several false counts, Bayley managed to roll B-Fab for a clean win.

WWE United States Championship Match

LA Knight went up against Humberto Carrillo in the WWE United States Championship, where the champion got attacked even before the bell rang. However, Knight recovered and smashed Carrillo on the announcer’s table, to get momentum back in his favour. Knight eventually managed to beat Carrillo after connecting the BFT but had himself sneak-attacked by a returning Shinsuke Nakamura. John Cena to Compete in WWE Royal Rumble 2025, Confirms His Last Appearance in the Event (See Video).

The Bloodline Chronicles

Following Solo Sikoa’s call for acknowledgment, The OG Bloodline-led by Roman Reigns makes their way to the ring and gets attacked by Fatu while Solo takes down Sami Zayn. With Roman all alone, Bronson Reed joins Solo and Fatu, and takes out the former undisputed champion, as the new Bloodline fraction makes a strong statement.

WWE World Tag Team Championship Match

Motor City Machine Guns in their first title defence took on The Street Profits, with the latter coming into the contest with a spotless record. MCMG got overwhelmed during most of the match, however, interference from Tommaso Ciampa, caused a disqualification win for Street Profits, meaning MCMG remained as tag champs.

WWE Women’s Championship Match

Action started swiftly with both Nia Jax and Naomi exchanging blows from the get-go. Jax gained an advantage over Naomi with her technical superiority on the mat. During the match, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez attacked women’s tag team champions backstage, which provided Tiffany Stratton a chance to hit Naomi. Bayley takes out Stratton, leaving Jax and Naomi in the ring. Jax picked the victory after hitting his signature move and concluded SmackDown as WWE Women’s Champion.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Nov 16, 2024 03:34 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

Categories
Arts Entertainments

Netflix under fire for casting Israelis in biblical film ‘Mary’

Popular streaming platform Netflix is facing widespread criticism for its decision to cast Israeli actors in lead roles for the upcoming biblical film Mary, which is set to premiere on December 6, ahead of Christmas.

The film, which attempts to reimagine the story of Mary, the mother of Jesus has an Israeli yoga instructor, Noa Cohen playing the titular character.

The cast also includes several other Israeli actors in lead roles, such as Ido Tako, who depicts Joseph, Ori Pfeffer, Mili Avital, Keren Tzur and Hilla Vidor.

Since the release of the trailer of the film, Netflix has been facing severe criticism including calls to boycott the platform for attempting to erase the historical characters’ Palestinian roots while Israel carries out “genocidal attacks” against the birthplace of Jesus.

One person called it “deeply blasphemous” to cast an Israeli as Mary while “Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians, killing some of the oldest Christian populations in the area and destroying their heritage sites.”

“A film about a Palestinian woman played by actors from the settler state that is currently mass slaughtering palestinian women. oh the disgusting audacity,” another social media user wrote.

Categories
Cryptocurrency

NTPC Green IPO to open on November 19, can be subscribed for long term gains: SBI Securities

The Initial Public Offering (IPO) of NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) is set to open on November 19. SBI Securities in its latest report says, given the company’s robust growth potential, analysts recommend subscribing to the IPO at the cut-off price for long-term gains.

“We recommend investors to subscribe to the issue at cut-off price for long term,” said the report. However, it cautioned that NGEL depends on imported solar panels and other components without long-term contracts, making it vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. Timely execution of its contracted projects will be a challenge for the company that could impact its financial performance.

“The company is substantially dependent on the availability and cost of solar modules, solar cells, wind turbine generators and other materials, components and equipment for its solar, wind and other projects. The company purchases major components such as solar panels, inverters, wind turbines and some components of power evacuation systems directly from a number of domestic and international manufacturers and does not have any long term supply contracts with them,” said the report.

  • Also read: NTPC Green Energy to incur ₹1 lakh crore capex over next 3 years

Investors should also consider risks like a large portion of NGEL’s operational projects (62.2 per cent) is concentrated in Rajasthan, exposing it to regional risks. The company relies heavily on a limited number of power purchasers, which accounted for over 97 per cent of its revenue in recent years.

“The company is dependent for winning competitive bids for renewable energy projects which require extensive research, planning, due diligence and capacity to operate with low operating margins for a sustained period of time. Future growth of the company is significantly dependent on successful execution of contracted and awarded projects. Any cost-overruns or failure to successfully execute projects may adversely impact business, results of operations and financial condition of the company.

“NGEL, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Ltd, is the largest renewable energy public sector enterprise (excluding hydro energy) in terms of operating capacity as of September 2024.

  • Also read: NTPC Green Energy sets IPO price band at ₹102-108 per share

As of September 2024, the company’s operational capacity was 3,220 MW of solar and 100 MW of wind projects. Additionally, it has 13,576 MW of contracted and awarded projects, along with 9,175 MW in the pipeline. The company aims to scale its operational capacity to 19 GW by FY27, reflecting its ambitious growth plans.

NTPC Ltd, a ‘Maharatna’ central public sector enterprise, contributes 24 per cent of India’s total power generation and has committed to increasing its renewable energy capacity to 60 GW by 2032. NGEL is poised to play a significant role in achieving this goal.

NGEL’s projects are geographically diversified, with operations in states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh.

This broad footprint reduces risks related to location-specific generation variability. Additionally, the company’s extensive experience in renewable project development and execution, supported by NTPC’s expertise, strengthens its position in the market. NGEL owns 8,900 acres of freehold land and 45,700 acres of leasehold land, ensuring a solid foundation for future projects.

  • Also read: CleanMax to develop 33 MW RE projects for Equinix data centres

The company enjoys access to low-cost capital due to its strong parentage and operational efficiencies. This is crucial in maintaining profitability in capital-intensive renewable energy projects. Moreover, NGEL’s focus on green hydrogen, green chemicals, and battery energy storage systems aligns with India’s sustainability goals, promising significant growth in the coming years.

At the upper price band of ₹108 per share, NGEL is valued at FY24 EV/EBITDA of 53.4x. Given the company’s robust growth potential, analysts recommend subscribing to the IPO at the cut-off price for long-term gains.

Categories
Digital Marketing

‘The South is a vibrant market for WPP’

The WPP group, which comprises a host of agenciessuch as VML, Ogilvy, Group M, and Burson — spanning creative, media, PR, and digital, among other segments — recently opened its third campus in Chennai. The campus will house WPP’s enterprise IT team to service its global network, as also its largest content production hub. In this interview, CVL Srinivas, Country Manager, WPP, says the South, which contributes 20-24 per cent of total adex in India, is an important market for the group, which will leverage the strengths in these markets. Soon, it will have similar campuses in Bengaluru and Coimbatore. Excerpts:

Why did you set up a Chennai campus?

Chennai is the third WPP campus in India after Mumbai and Gurgaon, and is home to our global enterprise IT team, which is being scaled up. Chennai is also home to our largest content production hub. And the city has been home to our agencies. We felt it was a good opportunity to create a campus there. And, of course, given the potential Chennai offers us, in terms of being a talent hub, especially tech and creative talent, we feel it’s a good time to invest in that market.

When you say enterprise technology, can you expand on that?

The enterprise IT team is located in a centre of excellence for IT and IT support for WPP’s global operations. We have a massive global footprint, with over one lakh employees, so the enterprise IT team in this new campus is really the backbone of global IT support and it will be scaled up.

What about other areas like creative and planning, will that also be in focus in this campus?

To start with, the campus will be occupied by the enterprise IT team. The other part, which is still in the works and set to open sometime next year when we scale up our presence in Chennai, will see other disciplines as well.

Given the way the industry has evolved and with the amount of technology that’s come in, and given the need for skill sets in data today, there are centres like Chennai, Coimbatore, and, of course, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, that are proving to be good destinations for companies like ours to invest in.

So when will the Coimbatore and Bengaluru centres come up?

I would say in one to two years.

Does the Chennai campus have a name, like the Mumbai one called Bay 99?

No. It will be called WPP campus only… globally it is so.

How strong is the South as a market for you?

The South is obviously a very strong part of the overall mix and will continue to be so. You have start-ups as well as the more traditional advertisers and, in fact, a lot of them are also extending their brands or getting into new lines of business. And, the South is also a thriving market for cinema, music, entertainment, sports, which are all kind of adjacent to our business, because we overlap in those areas. The other shift in our industry is that earlier you would have teams close to clients… the biggest spenders were in Bombay and Delhi NCR, and we had large teams there… Today, we live in a very different era where most of it is digital and it doesn’t really matter where our teams sit.

What are the key insights driving the South markets for you? Will they grow to be as big as the western and northern markets?

Firstly, if you look at all four states, whether in terms of infrastructure, spends, consumption across different categories and services, it’s always pretty much ahead of the national average. So, to that extent, I would say it’s a very fertile kind of territory for any business… and for the advertising industry as well.

On the one hand, we have the extremely well-established traditional businesses, including some of the large family-owned businesses, which have continued to thrive over decades. The younger generation is coming into senior management positions, diversifying, getting into newer areas and so forth. It combines the best of both worlds, the traditional and a robust way of building a business. And then you have the other end of the spectrum — a very vibrant startup ecosystem in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai. You also have extremely strong retail clients… it includes local regional brands as well, all of whom are kind of leaders in their own territory.

The South is also very interesting for us because of the way the content, movies and the music ecosystem has evolved and the kind of talent that is available there. Coke Studio — one of our largest clients in India… and the kind of talent we have from the South and the kind of songs we’ve been able to create — is an example of how we’re able to leverage the ecosystem, the talent.

How have the Mumbai and Gurgaon campuses panned out as an experiment in co-location?

It’s a global strategy of WPP for the last 6-7 years to get our people and agencies to co-locate in campuses and, today, a majority of the WPP global workforce works out of campuses. I would say it’s worked extremely well because, first and foremost, just getting all our agencies under one roof drives so much more collaboration.

It drives us to stitch together more solutions for our clients because everyone’s sitting together. We have ensured that in all our campuses there’s a lot of collaboration space, where people from different disciplines work jointly for clients. And the other fact is the kind of amenities and other things we have in our campuses, it ensures very good employee engagement. There are all these benefits we have by being in campuses, which is why our plan is to expand into other cities as well. And if you look at our total employee base of around 11,000 in India, roughly 50 per cent work in agencies, servicing clients in India, and 50 per cent work in these CoEs (centres of excellence) and hubs that either service global clients or the global organisation.

How has India grown in revenue terms for WPP?

India continued to be the fastest growing market for WPP for the last several years. In fact, we were not even in the top 10 markets for WPP 7-8 years ago. Today we are firmly in the top five in revenue terms and, the rate at which we are growing, we should, in the not-so-distant future, be in the top three markets for WPP. We’ve had decent growth rates, of course. The US, UK, China, India and Germany would be the top five markets for WPP.

The reason for this is we have an extremely strong roster of clients and some of these client relationships in India go back many decades; and we’ve been able to go deeper and offer many more services and continue to be their lead partner.

Published on November 16, 2024

Categories
Health Fitness

Sedam popularnih namirnica koje trebate manje jesti jer usporavaju metabolizam

MNOGIMA nije nepoznanica da je metabolizam vrlo važan za gubljenje kilograma i cjelokupno zdravlje. Iako na metabolizam utječu čimbenici poput genetike i dobi, prehrana također može biti važna u pravilnom funkcioniranju. Nažalost, mnogi od nas imaju razvijene loše prehrambene navike kojima nesvjesno utječu na usporavanje metabolizma, a time i na debljanje.

Skupina stručnjaka za portal SheFinds izdvojila je nekoliko namirnica koje biste što manje trebali konzumirati kako starite te dala odlične i zdrave alternative u obliku hrane i pića koje možete uključiti u prehranu. 

Slatkiši

Slatkiši dolaze u mnogim oblicima i okusima, poput voćnih gumenih bombona ili čokoladnih pralina, ali mogu uzrokovati nagli porast šećera u krvi što dovodi do povećane proizvodnje inzulina. To može usporiti metabolizam i dovesti do nakupljanja masti.

Nutricionistica Mary Sabat objašnjava da slatkiši često sadrže velike količine šećera i umjetnih sastojaka, ali vrlo malo vlakana. “Bez dovoljno vlakana, crijevna mikroflora može postati neuravnotežena što može uzrokovati probavne probleme, upale i sporiji metabolizam.”

Jogurt s okusom

Iako se često reklamiraju kao zdrava i praktična užina, jogurti s dodanim šećerima i umjetnim aromama mogu negativno utjecati na metabolizam. Visoki sadržaj šećera može potaknuti otpornost na inzulin i poremetiti metaboličke procese. Nutricionistica Lisa Richards predlaže da birate običan grčki jogurt bez dodanih šećera te ga zasladite prirodnim dodacima poput svježeg voća ili meda.

Bijeli kruh

Bijeli kruh, napravljen od rafiniranog brašna, povezan je s usporavanjem metabolizma jer sadrži visoki glikemijski indeks koji potiče porast inzulina. Rafiniranje uklanja vlakna i esencijalne hranjive tvari, čime bijeli kruh postaje nutritivno siromašan.

Nutricionistica Krutika Nanavati preporučuje kruh od proklijalih žitarica ili alternativnih brašna, poput bademovog ili kvinojinog, jer sadrže više hranjivih tvari i podržavaju zdrav metabolizam, prenosi SheFinds.

Muffini

Mnogi kupovni muffini, bez obzira na okus, sadrže velike količine rafiniranog šećera, procesiranog brašna i nezdravih masti. Sve te tvari mogu uzrokovati nagle promjene u razini šećera u krvi, što dugoročno usporava metabolizam. Nutricionistica Lisa Andrews upozorava da neki muffini sadrže više od 350 kalorija po komadu, što ih čini kalorijskom bombom bez dovoljno hranjivih tvari.

Keksi

Keksi puni rafiniranih šećera i nezdravih masti mogu pridonijeti otpornosti na inzulin i sporijem metabolizmu. Dijetetičarka Valeria Dolbel ističe da keksi, pite i kolači “sadrže mnogo kalorija iz dodanog šećera te pružaju malo ili nimalo hranjive vrijednosti”.

Procesirano meso

Prerađeni mesni proizvodi, poput kobasica i salama, bogati su zasićenim mastima i aditivima što može uzrokovati upalu i usporavanje metabolizma. Nutricionistica Mary Sabat preporučuje svježe voće, orašaste plodove i grčki jogurt kao zdravije alternative.

Žitarice s puno šećera

Popularne kao opcija za doručak, slatke žitarice često sadrže velike količine šećera i rafiniranih ugljikohidrata što može usporiti metabolizam i dovesti do povećanja tjelesne mase. Nutricionist Jesse Feder savjetuje odabir zobene kaše, grčkog jogurta s voćem ili žitarica od cjelovitih žitarica s malo dodanih šećera kao zdravije opcije.

Namirnice i pića koja ubrzavaju metabolizam

Kako biste što više pomogli svom metabolizmu, a time i tijelu, stručnjaci savjetuju da češće konzumirate određene vrste hrane i pića. 

Zobene pahuljice: Bogate su vlaknima koja potiču probavu i produžuju osjećaj sitosti, dok njihova probava zahtijeva više energije, što doprinosi ubrzanju metabolizma.

Tofu: Niskokalorični izvor proteina koji pomaže u regulaciji metabolizma i potiče sagorijevanje masti. Može se dodati u smoothieje za dodatnu kremastu teksturu.

Jaja: Bogata su proteinima koji zahtijevaju više energije za probavu, čime potiču metabolizam. Također povećavaju osjećaj sitosti, smanjujući potrebu za prejedanjem.

Zeleni čaj: Jedna od popularnijih vrsta čaja koji sadrži kofein i katehine poput EGCG-a, koji pomažu u sagorijevanju masti i povećanju energetske potrošnje. Redovita konzumacija može doprinijeti bržem metabolizmu i boljoj kontroli tjelesne mase.

Znate li nešto više o temi ili želite prijaviti grešku u tekstu? Kliknite ovdje.

Ovo je