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The advice came from Kent Police via a Facebook post, urging residents to hold on to waste until refuse collection day or take a trip to the tip, instead of leaving boxes that advertise expensive items outside their home. As part of their ‘Kent Against Burglary’ campaign, the police reminded people on their website that burglaries typically rise in autumn and winter, with dark nights and homes filled with Christmas gifts providing additional attraction to burglars. Burglars, often opportunist by nature, will prey on open windows, unlocked doors, or visible valuables, particularly during weekdays in daylight hours when households may…

The native BLUR token has also seen positive price movements. 2024 is only a few days away and we already have many highly anticipated blockchain projects in the works. Even though it is the holidays, crypto lovers are still engaging with these projects and many of them seem very promising. Take Blast, a layer-2 blockchain that is being launched by the creators of Blur. The blockchain will not be fully live until February 2024 but has already reported an impressive $1.1 billion in deposits. Blast Makes a Splash According to publicly available data, users have deposited $1 billion worth of wrapped…

The spatial distribution, proper motion, and parallax distributions of the members of NGC 6940 and sample sources determined using the ML-MOC algorithm. Credit: Panthi and Vaidya, 2023 Using the AstroSat spacecraft, astronomers from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India, have investigated a nearby open cluster NGC 6940. Results of the observational campaign, published December 21 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the properties and stellar populations of this cluster. Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of a few tens to a few hundred stars loosely gravitationally bound…

The weather forecaster predicted “potential impacts for much of the UK” amid winds up to 80 mph.  People travelling home after Christmas celebrations with loved ones have been affected by the storm with heavy rain and winds causing delays to road, rail, air and ferry transport. Train operator LNER, which runs services between London and Scotland on the East Coast Main Line, advised customers not to travel due to the weather. Storm Gerrit giving a dull and wet day for most of the UK.Check out the day’s extremes below ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/swwJtTxKHz — Met Office (@metoffice) December 28, 2023 Customers stranded by the…

Sharing is caring! Share Tweet Pin Bookmark Email Bam bam chicken is a delicious chicken salad that is served cold and make a great drinking snack. This is bam bam chicken, a recipe that is centuries of years old and often called bang bang chicken. I call it bam bam chicken because bang bang chicken means something completely different to people these days. Bang bang chicken is nowadays a deep fried dish in the west.  This recipe is much lighter but equally as delicious. What is bam bam chicken? Don’t get this recipe mixed up with the Chinese/American dish often…

Location : The A27 westbound between the junctions with the A285 Chichester and the A259 Chichester East. Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 12:45 and 13:00 on 28 December 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 10 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

The festive season brings joy and celebration, but it also brings an increased amount of waste. From excess food to packaging and outdated technology, the Christmas period can have a significant environmental impact. However, several UK startups are taking innovative approaches to reduce this waste. Let’s take a look…   Olio: Tackling Food Waste     Tackling the issue of food waste, Olio is an app that connects community members and local businesses to share excess food. This becomes especially relevant during Christmas, a time of abundant food and inevitable over-eating. Through Olio, surplus festive food which might otherwise be…

Police and fire crews were called to the scene after Storm Gerrit swept across the country Source link

PancakeSwap put forward a proposal to reduce the maximum supply of its native CAKE token from 750 million to 450 million. One of the unique things about the crypto industry is the fact that many major projects operate as decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). As such, their users get a say in the decisions made by these organizations and can have their voices heard. A recent example of this was with the decentralized crypto exchange PancakeSwap. The DEX recently put forward a proposal to reduce the supply of the popular CAKE token by 300 million units. This was a resounding success…

Calotes wangi. Credit: Huang et al A new iguana joins Asia’s rich reptile fauna, officially described as new to science in the open-access journal ZooKeys. “From 2009 to 2022, we conducted a series of field surveys in South China and collected a number of specimens of the Calotes versicolor species complex, and found that the population of what we thought was Calotes versicolor in South China and Northern Vietnam was a new undescribed species and two subspecies,” says Yong Huang, whose team described the new species. Wang’s garden lizard (Calotes wangi) is less than 9 cm long, and one of…