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It’s the go-to dating app for millions of singletons around the world, and now Tinder has revealed that its busiest day for swiping is coming up.

January 2nd is known as Dating Sunday, and is the day that sees the most singletons take to the app on the quest for love.

In particular, Tinder advises that singletons should sign on from 7pm-10pm.

In a blog, Tinder said: ‘Just as midnight on NYE is the time to be on the middle of the dancefloor, watching the fireworks, or snogging your crush, 7-10pm is the slot on Dating Sunday to find a new flame on the app.

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director-general Tim Davie is understood to have warned staff about job cuts after revealing the licence fee freeze will result in a £285million gap in funding.

Tim Davie, 54, reportedly told employees that the licence fee settlement, which will see the fee frozen at £159 for two years, would require the BBC to rethink its operational structure. 

 Nadine Dorries confirmed the licence fee would be frozen for two years, until 2024, after which it will rise in line with inflation for the following four years.

In an internal video conference, Mr Davie told staff that the headcount at the organisation would ‘probably’ get ‘slightly smaller, according to . 

He said: ‘I’m going to be blunt — we’d rather have slightly less people here, but properly funded and in the right place.’

BBC insiders are believed to have interpreted his comments as a warning about redundancies, while staff are said to be ‘upset, frustrated and depressed’.

Mr Davie reportedly said that staff should expect further details in April, when the company’s new financial year begins and the licence fee settlement is introduced. 

It comes after Mr Davie refused to rule out scrapping BBC Four and warned ‘everything’s on the agenda’ after revealing the licence fee freeze will result in a £285million gap in funding for the corporation.

He said the income from the fee by 2027 will be about £4.2billion based on the corporation’s assumptions around inflation and admitted that the settlement ‘will affect our frontline output, there’s no doubt about that’.

Mr Davie was asked whether BBC Four would survive, and said: ‘I’m not going to make specific recommendations now, we are going to take stock, we’ve got the settlement – that gives us certainty now. 

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While being interviewed on a prime-time 7.50am slot on BBC Radio 4’s Today by Nick Robinson, Mr Davie was pressed on the future of BBC Four, BBC Two and Radio Five Live, and said: ‘I think everything’s on the agenda.’

Asked whether ‘channels might go’, he said: ‘Absolutely’. 

Mr Davie added: ‘People, clearly and rightly, are worried about what the £285million cut in terms of two years flat brings, but also, as an organisation, we need to reshape ourselves for a digital age.The media market is moving extremely rapidly.’

Mr Davie said the corporation felt it was being ‘listened to’ but given the licence fee was set by politicians ‘you are in the political swirl’, and he expressed disappointment at the freeze, saying ‘we would have liked to have seen an inflation rise throughout the period’. 

He told the Today programme: ‘Our estimate is, and just to set this clearly for everyone, by the year 2027, the licence fee income will be about £4.2billion based on our assumptions around inflation. 

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The latest , No Time to Die, has an ending unlike that of any other Bond movie that came before it. After five films, Daniel Craig’s days as 007 are over, and we’re deep into speculation about what lies ahead for the . It’s a good time to take stock of how we got to this point.

You may hear referred to as Bond 25, but that’s not quite the whole story. It’s the 25th installment in the Bond franchise from Eon Productions, which dates all the way back to 1962 and the debut of Dr. No, a modestly budgeted film that proved a hit and launched Sean Connery in a career-defining role. But there are also two other, unofficial Bond movies — one of them starring Connery himself. (Plot twists aren’t limited to the individual film scripts, you know.) So that’s 27 in total.

It’s a lot to dig into. The is a pop culture institution, featuring one of the of all time — a suave, stylish secret agent played by six different actors — as well as spectacular stunts, gorgeous locales and arguably the best movie theme music ever. Even if you’ve never seen a Bond movie, you probably know something about : the timeless pose (man in a tux, pistol in hand), the cocktail catchphrase (“vodka martini, shaken not stirred”), the villainous Blofeld, famously lampooned as Dr. Evil.

Over the years, there have been serious phases and silly phases, and Pierce Brosnan gives you a very different Bond from Connery, Craig or Roger Moore. Movie fans have strong feelings about . Now we’re all on the lookout for who’ll be tapped to step into the role as . 

I got , so I’m eternally bonded to those movies. But for contemporary audiences, I’m going with a different recommendation for which Bond movie to watch first, and where to go from there.

Start with Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s debut

Daniel Craig’s first outing as James Bond is a terrific spy/action movie, period. It’s heart-poundingly good. But Casino Royale (2006) also did what no previous Bond movie could do: It completely rebooted the franchise, blowing up a formula that many saw as played out, with far-fetched gimmicks and belabored puns, even as it remained a steady box office draw. It’s based on ‘s very first Bond novel and gives us Bond very much as he was introduced to the world. It stays true to that original story in many essential ways (not a hallmark of Bond movies in general) while at the same time updating it for modern audiences attuned to the Jason Bourne and Mission: Impossible movies.

Craig himself delivers all the muscle and menace the character deserves, in keeping with Fleming’s depictions and as measured against Connery, still the standard by which all other Bonds are invariably judged. There’s nothing glib about this Bond, and if he does look good in a tuxedo, you always know there’s a brute inside ready to battle the baddies. You learn right off the bat how he earned his double-0 (license to kill) rating, then it’s off to a spectacular chase and gunfight. That’s just in the first 18 minutes.

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High points, too, for a nasty villain in Mads Mikkelsen’s Le Chiffre, Judi Dench as Bond’s no-nonsense boss M and Eva Green as Bond’s female foil.

Casino Royale also opens the door to the strong series of movies that follow: Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021), which CNET’s Rich Trenholm, in his review, calls an “epic, explosive and emotional swan song.” There’s more than just action across the five-film run: There’s an arc that leads us deeper into Bond’s past and how it drives him in the present day.

Follow up with From Russia With Love / Goldfinger

This whole franchise got going with Connery, so you can’t go wrong starting there. But for now let’s skip the very first movie, Dr. No. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but the two movies that followed are more definitive — they’re often the top two in lists of the best Bond movies. Pick either of these and you’re getting absolutely top-shelf Connery, the man who defined Bond and who was the heart of the franchise when it exploded into a phenomenon.

From Russia With Love (1963) gives you an honest-to-goodness, old-fashioned spy story, with no to speak of and no evil plan to destroy the world. It’s Bond on an intimate scale, a character-driven tale of our spy, the woman sent to seduce him and the assassin (a buff and square-jawed Robert Shaw) assigned to take him down. (It also gives us our first glimpse of Blofeld, the recurring uber-villain.) In the finest Bondian tradition of , this one cozies up to Istanbul and takes a memorable ride on the Orient Express. The fight scene in the train compartment is rightfully a classic.

Then along came Goldfinger (1964), the third movie. This one ratcheted things up and pretty much set the splashy tone for all the movies up till Craig arrived — the outlandish plot (set off a nuke to irradiate the gold at Fort Knox), the over-the-top villain and henchman, the Aston Martin DB-5 sports car tricked out with machine guns and ejector seat, the laser with which Goldfinger memorably threatens 007 (“No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die”). Plus: One of the greatest theme songs of the series.

Connery is dashing, virile, devilish, supremely confident — everything you’d expect from a modern action hero, in part because he was the template.

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Take a deeper dive into Bond

I’d recommend getting a handful of Craig and/or Connery movies under your belt before venturing out more widely. Best to watch the Craig installments in sequence, but the Connerys (like the Moores, Daltons and Brosnans) you can watch in any order. Stick with the five Connery films from the 1960s before looking toward his two comeback efforts. The early movies are very much of their time, of course, so while you might chuckle at the quaintness of the tech, the fashions and the cinematography, you may cringe at some of the ethnic depictions and sexual mores.

By Alexander Cornwell

Jan 13 (Reuters) – Europe’s airport slot rules should not be changed to protect legacy airlines, the head of European low cost carrier Wizz Air said on Thursday, adding that if a company could not operate its slots they should be made available to rivals.

An easing of the “use it or lose it” rule has allowed legacy carriers to preserve airport access during the coronavirus crisis despite a sharp drop in traffic, sparking protests from low-cost rivals keen to expand into once-congested airports.

“Leave the slot rules as they used to be prior to the pandemic and the market will sort it out,” Wizz Air CEO Jozsef Varadi told Reuters in an interview in Abu Dhabi.

“We would be able to operate those slots at constrained airports so why are they protected for the benefit of legacy carriers who are incapable of operating them because they are inefficient?”

Varadi said easing the rules was, in a way, “distorting the market” because it protected legacy carriers struggling to fill planes from lower cost rivals that could sell all their seats.

Under European Union airport rules, airlines must use at least 80% of their take-off and landing slots in order to keep them for the following year.

The EU suspended those rules at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, but has started partially restoring them, rekindling concerns over empty flights as the pandemic continues.

Varadi, head of Wizz Air since its inception in 2003, said access to airports should be prioritised as a public interest.

Ireland’s Ryanair this week accused website Lufthansa of exploiting climate concerns to stifle competition after the German carrier complained it had to operate tens of thousands of additional flights to comply with slot rules.(Reporting Alexander Cornwell Editing by Keith Weir and Mark Potter)

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Tottenham and Leicester City have both been rejected by the Premier League in their bids to have their match tomorrow night postponed.

Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers revealed today he has nine players ruled out through Covid-19 and illness.

And Tottenham boss Antonio Conte said he had a ‘big problem’ with his team as Spurs too have had nine players infected. 

The surge of the Omicron Covid variant is wreaking havoc in Premier League dressing rooms, but the league has rejected requests to have further games postponed this week, Sportsmail understands.

‘s fixture at on Tuesday was called off thanks to an outbreak among the visitors’ squad, while Tottenham’s match with  last weekend went the same way.

And with the latest figures showing a record high of 42 positives across the Premier League, others have been in touch to ask for their games to be postponed.

However, those appeals have fallen on deaf ears, with the competition keen to ensure minimal disruption while keeping sporting integrity.

Spurs wanted tomorrow night’s match postponed in order to fulfil their Europa Conference League match with Rennes, which has now been cancelled after UEFA failed to find a date for it.

‘We don’t have fault for what happened. I tell you, we deserve to play this game and to try to have a chance to go to the next round,’ Conte insisted at his press conference on Wednesday.

‘The Premier League didn’t want to postpone the game against Leicester, maybe because we have to play against Burnley and Brighton. We postponed two games before. I can understand, we can understand. On the other hand, I think we deserve to play our chance against Rennes to go to the next group.

‘We don’t find a good solution between UEFA and Premier League, why Tottenham has to pay for this? It’s not fair we have to pay for a situation that isn’t our fault. I understand if we did something wrong but in this way, for the club, the players, the staff, it’s very difficult to understand what’s happening.’ 

Sportsmail revealed on Saturday that UEFA had asked Spurs to move one of their domestic December fixtures in order to fit in the game versus Rennes that was called off last week due to the Covid outbreak that ripped through Conte’s squad.

And it has now emerged that Spurs lodged the request with the Premier League to postpone the game at Leicester at the end of last week to free up a slot to play the European Conference League game against the Ligue 1 side – but the idea was rebuffed.

UEFA are expected to make a decision by the end of the week on the outcome of the Tottenham’s game versus Rennes after confirming the match couldn’t be rearranged in time for the December 31 deadline.

If the governing body rules that Tottenham must forfeit the game, they will be eliminated from European competition this season.

Rodgers also said the Premier League would not consider postponing his side’s game against Tottenham on Thursday despite the ongoing coronavirus issues at the club.

Leicester are without nine players through Covid-19 and other issues and Rodgers said his side had been ‘a big doubt’ to fulfil last Sunday’s fixture against Newcastle, which they won 4-0.

As well as players missing through illness, Rodgers will also be without centre-backs Jonny Evans and Caglar Soyuncu against Spurs, after both picked up injuries in the last match. 

That leaves Rodgers desperately short in that position, with Wesley Fofana and James Justin sidelined with long-term injuries and Daniel Amartey back in training only on Wednesday.

‘Unfortunately for us we were not granted dispensation, which is disappointing,’ said Rodgers. ‘We are a club who have always wanted to support measures.

‘Maybe when you need that support with the extreme situation we were in, we were not able to get that, which was disappointing.

‘We have tried to keep the training ground open and have people functioning. We were a big doubt for the Newcastle game but for the greater good of the game and fans we played the game. Since then we have picked up a couple more injuries.

‘I am pretty sure there will have been games called off with fewer players unavailable than what we have, but we were not given that privilege to allow players to come back and have a fit squad.

‘It would be nice if there was a bit more clarity. It’s a testing time anyway, so not to be given that support is a little disappointing.’ 

Each request is made on a case by case basis. The impact on the first-team squad is key, although some clubs who do not want matches called off have pointed to the existence of Under-23 squads and the ability to draft youngsters into matchday squads.

Conte also revealed that some of Spurs’ players are back in training following their Covid isolation, but he warned that they are not yet physically ready to play matches without risk of injury.

‘Players are back in training and other players are continuing to be isolated, but also for the players back in training, they need time,’ he said. ‘They need a bit of time to be fit and find again a good physical condition. 

‘When you have Covid, the Covid is not only 10 days. Many times, he brings with it, this virus, a situation that makes your body not so strong. For this reason, you have to go slowly, also because you risk having players injured after Covid.

‘Surely tomorrow I’ll put these players on the bench for 15-20 minutes at the end. They have in their legs 20 or 25 minutes to play with us. 

‘I think is the big problem that we must be [prepared] to face in the future. To bring these players affected by Covid to be fit and avoid injuries. After 10 days you have players available but then you have to pay attention to the way to train, whether the body is ready to work in a good way. You have to pay attention, moderate the training to avoid injuries. This is the big problem, not only for Tottenham but for other clubs with Covid-hit players.’  

Both United and Spurs had to close their training grounds after Covid outbreaks, while it was revealed on Tuesday that players will be forced to report to club training grounds for PCR tests on Day as part of a massively increased screening programme designed to save the festive programme from the threat of an shutdown.

Under new emergency protocols agreed by clubs on Tuesday, players will be asked to take up to nine tests each week – seven lateral flow and two PCR – due to fears about the greater transmissibility of the new variant.

While clubs unanimously agreed to the new testing regime, there are concerns in some quarters about the logistics involved, particularly the decision to make PCR tests mandatory the day before each fixture.

As a result, away teams may have to travel considerable distances while waiting for test results to ensure games can go ahead.

Furthermore, new rules for fans were announced on Wednesday. 

Those attending matches will have to complete a Covid status declaration prior to matchday, along with displaying an NHS Covid pass or proof of a negative test within the last 48 hours. Checks will take place on around 20 per cent of those present.

A statement from the Premier League said: ‘From Wednesday 15 December, all those aged 18 and over attending Premier League matches must complete a COVID status self-declaration via their club’s website ahead of matchday. 

‘This simple online process requires fans to confirm they have a valid NHS COVID pass or negative NHS COVID test within the previous 48 hours.

‘Supporters must be prepared to show their NHS COVID pass or proof of a negative NHS COVID test on arrival at the stadium. Checks will take place at all Premier League grounds. 

‘Fans risk being denied entry if they are unable to show their NHS COVID Pass or proof of a negative NHS COVID test result from within the previous 48 hours, ideally as close to matchday as possible.

‘Fans must wear a face covering while in indoor stadium areas and when travelling to matches on public transport. 

‘Although it is not mandatory within the stadium bowl, supporters are encouraged to wear face coverings in congested areas and in stands to protect themselves and those around them.

‘Supporters must not attend matches if they have any COVID-type symptoms or there is a risk of passing on COVID-19.’

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said: ‘We are doing all we can to keep fans safe and grounds open at full capacity. 

‘The safety of everyone remains our priority and since the start of the season we have been working closely with our clubs, Government and local public health authorities to prepare fans and stadium operations for the introduction of COVID certification.

‘It is really important fans take the time to understand what is required of them when attending Premier League stadiums, which is why we are asking fans to declare their COVID status ahead of a matchday. If you liked this post along with you would like to be given more information about สล็อต PG kindly go to our own web page.  

‘We want everyone to enjoy matches in safe environments and we and our clubs will continue to urge fans to do all they can and follow public health guidance.’