Florian Wirtz set for Liverpool medical, Martin Zubimendi's Arsenal delay explained, Manchester United might use Joshua Zirkzee in Victor Osimhen offer.
Florian Wirtz is set for a Liverpool medical after they agreed a deal in principle with Bayer Leverkusen for the 22-year-old Germany midfielder, worth £127m including add-ons. (Fabrizio Romano), external
Arsenal have agreed a fee of about £59m with Real Sociedad for Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi, 26, with the move to be completed after 1 July to help with meeting Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. (AS - in Spanish), external
Manchester United are evaluating an offer for Napoli's Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen, 26, using Netherlands forward Joshua Zirkzee, 24, as part of the deal. (Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian), external
RB Leipzig's 22-year-old Slovenia striker Benjamin Sesko - a reported target for Arsenal - rejected a move to Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal before Tuesday's transfer deadline. (Star)
Uber will trial robotaxis - autonomous cars with no human safety driver at the wheel - in London next spring.
The ride-hailing app will work with the UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm Wayve, which has been testing out the technology on the city's streets with human oversight, in line with current legislation.
The announcement comes after the UK government changed its rules about the driverless cars once again.
It was originally aiming for the tech to come to British roads in 2026, then the date was changed to the second half of 2027.
But it now says it is introducing an accelerated framework for small autonomous "bus and taxi like" commercial services to get them underway earlier.
This chapter is going to be like a lightening round on Success Hacks that you can adjust to fit into your life in a moment’s notice.Of course, there are thousands of habits, daily routines, or “hacks”, which can help you along your journey to success. These are some of my favorites, and you can incorporate them into your life easily, quickly, and with a far greater impact than you might think.
We often get into ruts or routines and we live the same schedule day after day. Sometimes we feel like we’re on a hamster wheel or that we’re just running in place on a treadmill. When this happens,
your creativity, your new ideas, your dreams, your visions, your inventions, don’t get a chance to flourish.
Set aside ten to thirty minutes each day, and just think creatively. Don’t respond to e-mail, don’t read over your to-do list, don’t text, or look at social media. Just think. I do this after I work out in the morning and before my kids wake up. I focus on what’s next for my life. What should I say in my books, what new idea can I share with people today that will have the most power to transform lives, what’s my next TV show going to be? As you allow yourself to exercise your creativity, you’ll get the juices flowing.
I don’t care if you think you’re not creative; you are. If you’re like most people, you don’t give yourself credit for all your innovations. You’ve invented a new relationship, a business, a career, a game you play with your kids, a more efficient way of doing your yard work, a character that makes your spouse laugh. Nothing in life comes to us unless we think of it first. Look around you. That lamp, that chair, that painting. Somebody thought about them first by being creative, and then they became reality. If you forget to take creative time every day, you’re not feeding part of your soul, and you don’t want it to wither. Sometimes I’ll do a whole day of just being creative, where I spend time finding those
things that spark my mind and fire me up and keep me looking forward to that next level of life. All of us have our own definition of creative time. It can be painting, writing, sculpting, inventing, digital design, or 1000 other things that get your creative juices flowing. Whatever it is, schedule the time and do it daily.
Famous for his award-winning underwater films, television shows, and books that gave the world a view of life under the ocean, ecologist Jacques Cousteau was also a talented inventor and dedicated environmental activist.Naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author, researcher . . . you could go on for pages about all of the things Jacques Cousteau did with his remarkable life! Many people outside France don’t know that Costeau was a war hero; he led daring commando operations inside occupied France during World War II. And many may not know that he helped invent the modern aqualung - the SCUBA system that’s used around the world.
Most people remember Jacques Cousteau for his amazing films, television shows, and books about the ocean. On board his ship Calypso, Cousteau and his crew traveled the world to film their documentaries about the life that teems beneath the surface of the water. In the 1950s and 60s, Cousteau’s films marked the first time the majority of people had ever seen footage of undersea life in its natural state. And it was the first time that the general public heard about the dangers of pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction, and other threats to the natural world. Jacques Cousteau is credited with being one of the first popular ecologists, inspiring a whole generation of young people to be more aware of their environment.
His long career (Cousteau lived to age eighty-seven) contained many other amazing achievements: - The first underwater archaeology operation using autonomous diving; - Discovering how porpoises use natural sonar to guide themselves; - Winning the top prize at the world-famous Cannes Film Festival for his documentary The Silent World; Organizing a successful campaign to stop the dumping of nuclear waste in the oceans; and Winning a long list of awards and medals from grateful nations and organizations around the world. Through more than 120 television documentaries and fifty books, Cousteau helped make science and nature popular topics for everyday people, and he left a legacy that carries on his work. The Cousteau Society he founded to protect the environment now has 300,000 members. As rich and famous as he became, Jacques Cousteau always said he was just a man trying to do his bit to help the world. “It takes generosity to discover the whole through others,” he said. “If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”
It is believed that there have been over 1 billion Barbie dolls sold since they
made their appearance back in 1959. Since then, she has become more than a
cult icon, and the brand has expanded into more formats with Barbie herself
appearing in various styles. However, one style and doll that appeared in the 1960s was certainly different, and it included some advice that we would just be completely shocked at if it was aired today.
The doll in question was Slumber Party Barbie, and if you were a lucky
enough girl to receive this version, then you would have also been given a
surprise book that titled ‘How to Lose Weight.’ Now, that in itself is
shocking enough when you consider the age range of the market that it was
being aimed at, but one of the tips in particular goes beyond shocking.
So, what is the tip? Surprisingly enough, they gave the tip to the girls who
wanted to lose weight and read the book, that they should simply not eat.
Plain and simple. If you want to lose weight, then avoid food.
To be honest, should you be taking weight loss advice from a plastic doll?
Bonus
The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
Every time you lick a stamp, you are consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
It is estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
Super motivation is much more difficult to achieve when we are held back mentally by bad habits. Trying to move toward the life we want while dragging along our bad habits was described in the Scottish rock group Del Amitri's song lyrics, "It's like driving with the brakes on, it's like swimming with your boots on..." But here's the catch: Bad habits simply cannot be broken. Nor can they be gotten rid of. Ask the millions who continue to try. They always end up, in the words of Richard Brautigan, "trying to shovel mercury with a pitchfork," because our bad habits exist for good reasons. They're there to do something for us, even if that something ends up being self-destructive. Down deep, even a bad habit is trying to make us operate better. People who smoke are trying, even through their addiction, to do something beneficial perhaps to breathe deeply and relax. Such breathing is needed to balance stress, so their smoking is a way in which they are trying to make themselves better. Bad habits are like that they are based on a perceived benefit.
That's why they're so hard to just "get rid of." That's why habits must be respected and understood before they can be transformed. What created the habit must be built upon, not killed. We must go to the beneficial impulse that drives the habit, and then expand on that to make the habit grow from something bad into something good. Let's take drinking as an example. I've known people who used to be drunk all the time who are now sober all the time. How did they do it? Couldn't we just say that they just got rid of their drinking habit? Not really. Because, without exception, the recovered people I know
replaced their drinking with something else. Taking all of one's courage, relaxation, and spirituality from a bottle of alcohol is a very damaging habit. But to simply eliminate it leads to even worse problems: shakes, DTs, fear, dread, paranoia. A total void. People who join Alcoholics Anonymous, however, replace their "false courage" once found in a bottle of alcohol with real courage found in the meeting rooms of AA. The completely artificial sense of spirituality formerly found in a tumbler of spirits is replaced by the true and deeply personal spirituality found in working the 12-step program of enlightenment. The superficial but highly emotional relationships the alcoholic had made in his favorite bars are replaced by real friendships. Replacement is powerful because it works, and where bad habits are concerned it's the only thing that works.
I've known people who quit smoking without intending to. They took up running, or some form of regular aerobic exercise, and soon the breathing and relaxation they were getting from the exercise made the smoking feel bad to their bodies. They quit smoking because they had introduced a replacement. People who diet have the same experience. It isn't staying away from fattening food that works—it's introducing a regular diet of delicious, healthy food that works. It's replacement. Subconsciously you don't think your bad habits are bad! And that's because they're filling a perceived need. So the way to strengthen yourself is to identify the need and honor it. Honor the need by replacing the current habit with one that is healthier and more effective. Replace one habit, and soon you'll be motivated to replace another.
We return now to the discussion of the third step of the procedure you must follow in developing Initiative and Leadership. This step takes us back for a review of the principle of organized effort, as described in Lesson One and Lesson Two. You have already learned that no one can accomplish enduring results of a far-reaching nature without the aid and Cooperation of others.
And you have learned that when two or more persons ally themselves in any undertaking, in a spirit of harmony and understanding, each person in the alliance thereby multiplies his or her own powers of achievement. Nowhere is this principle more in evidence than it is in an industry or business in which there is perfect teamwork between the employer and the employees. Wherever you find this teamwork you find prosperity and goodwill on both sides. Without it, prosperity suffers.
Cooperation is said to be the most important word in the English language. It plays an important part in the affairs of the home, in the relationship of men and women, parents and children. It plays an important part in the affairs of state. So important is this principle of Cooperation that no leader can become powerful or last long who does not understand and apply it in their Leadership. Lack of Cooperation has destroyed more business enterprises than have all other causes combined. In my twenty-five years of active business experience and observation, I have witnessed the destruction of
all manner of business enterprises because of dissension and lack of application of this principle of Cooperation. In the practice of law I have observed the destruction of homes, and divorce cases without
end, as a result of the lack of Cooperation between man and wife.
In the study of the histories of nations it becomes alarmingly obvious that lack of cooperative effort has been a curse to the human race throughout the ages. Turn back the pages of these histories and study them and you will learn a lesson in Cooperation that will impress itself indelibly on your mind for ages and ages to come. You are paying, and your children and your children's children will continue to pay for the cost of waging wars, because nations have not yet learned that a part of the world cannot suffer without damage and suffering to the whole world.
This same rule applies, with telling effect, in the conduct of modern business and industry. When any industry becomes disorganized and torn asunder by strikes and other forms of disagreement, both the
employers and employees suffer irreparable loss. But the damage does not stop here; this loss becomes a burden to the public and takes on the form of higher prices and scarcity of the necessities of life. In the
final analysis it becomes obvious that the evils of government and of industry have grown out of lack of Cooperation.
For some people, out of place artifacts (objects found in contexts that are out of sync with the accepted chronology of human history) seriously question what we think we know about the world and its history. Some argue that these discoveries offer persuasive evidence that in remote antiquity, mankind was significantly more advanced than we could ever imagine. They insist that at various times in prehistory we have reached a high level of civilization, only for it to be subsequently destroyed, without a trace, by natural or manmade catastrophes.
The evidence for such hypothetical ancient civilizations consists mainly of what appear to be fossilized human footprints, such as those discovered in the 1880s at the summit of Big Hill in the Cumberland Mountains in Jackson County, Kentucky (The American Antiquarian, January 1885), and apparently manmade objects enclosed in pieces of coal or rock. The Coso Artifact is such an example.On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell (coowners of the LM&V Rockhounds Gem and Gift Shop in Olancha, southern California) were out in the Coso Mountains looking for interesting mineral specimens, particularly geodes (hollow, usually spheroid rocks with crystals lining the inside wall, cmmonly around 500,000 years old) for their collection.
At lunchtime, after they had been collecting rocks, close to the top of a 4,265
foot peak, overlooking the dry bed of Owens Lake, they put their specimens in the rock sack and headed home.The next day, while attempting to cut through one of the finds that appeared to be a geode, Mikesell severely damaged a practically new diamond saw. Finally, when the nodule was opened, he found a thick circular section of white porcelain material, in the center of which was a 2 millimeter rod of bright metal. This metal proved to be magnetic. The porcelain cylinder was itself enclosed by a hexagonal sheath of decomposing copper and another unidentifiable substance.
The discoverers noticed other strange qualities about the stone. Its outer layer
was encrusted with bits of fossil shell, hardened clay, and pebbles, and more
surprisingly, two nonmagnetic metal objects which looked similar to a nail and a washer. Puzzled by the find, the group began showing it to friends and
associates, though little record remains now of original examinations of the
object. One of the discoverers, Virginia Maxey, said that a geologist who
examined the object gave its age, based on the fossils encrusted in its shell, as at least 500,000 years old. However, this unnamed geologist has never been traced and the conclusion was never published. But if these conclusions could be supported, then the implications are clear.
If the Coso Artifact is a genuine example of unknown technology from millennia before the accepted emergence of Homo sapiens, then obviously it would turn accepted thought about the past of the human species on its head.
The only other person known to have physically inspected the artifact was
creationist Ron Calais, who was allowed to take photographs of the nodule in
both X ray and normal light. The X ray of the upper end of the object revealed that the metallic shaft was attached to what looked similar to some kind of tiny spring. This led to the object being categorized as some type of electrical mechanism. Paul Willis, publisher of paranormal magazine INFO Journal, examined the X rays of the mysterious artifact and concluded that it could be "the remains of a corroded piece of metal with threads," and noted the similarity between the object and a modern spark plug. In 1963, the artifact was apparently displayed for three months at the Eastern California Museum in Independence. The spring 1969 issue of INFO Journal stated that Wallace Lane, one of theoriginal discoverers of the object, was then its owner, and that it was on display
in his home. Lane steadfastly refused permission for anyone to examine it, but
was reportedly offering to sell it for $25,000. Some time after 1969, the Coso
Artifact seems to have disappeared. In September 1999, a national search
undertaken to trace any of the original discoverers proved unsuccessful. It seems likely that by then Lane had died and the whereabouts of Mikesell were unknown. To this day, Virginia Maxey, who is known to be still living, refuses to comment publicly about the artifact, the location of which remains unknown.