If there is one food that defines comfort at its best, it has to be Maggi. It’s something we’ve all grown up eating and have fond memories of. Whether in times of sadness or happiness, this snack has always been by our side, and we still can’t get enough of it. Don’t you agree? While classic Maggi is timeless, there are now countless other Maggi recipes out there. Peri Peri Maggi, Cheese Maggi, Schezwan Maggi, and Paneer Maggi are just some examples. Adding to the list, we bring you another delightful version that will win you over with the first bite – Lemon Coriander Maggi. The recipe for this Maggi was shared by the Instagram page @ohcheatday. Also Read: Craving Maggi? Try These 5 Mouth-Watering Recipes That Are Perfect For Lazy Days
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What Makes Lemon Coriander Maggi A Must-Try?
This lemon coriander Maggi is an ideal option for anyone looking to try something different. Easy to make and packed with flavour, this Maggi recipe offers a delightful change from the regular version. Whether you enjoy it for lunch, dinner, or as an evening snack, it is sure to impress with its delicious taste.
How To Make Lemon Coriander Maggi At Home | Lemon Coriander Maggi Recipe
Making lemon coriander maggi at home is incredibly simple. All you need are a few basic ingredients and under 10 minutes of your time. Add chopped coriander leaves, garlic cloves, onions, Maggi masala, soy sauce, hot sauce, red chilli sauce, boiled Maggi water, hot oil, and lemon juice to a pan. Give it a good mix and add the boiled Maggi noodles. Add salt to taste if needed. That’s it-your lemon coriander Maggi is now ready to be savoured!
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3 Tips To Make Perfect Lemon Coriander Maggi:
1. Use Fresh Coriander
Coriander leaves are the key ingredient in this recipe, so make sure the ones you’re using are fresh. This ensures there is no compromise on flavour.
2. Be Generous With Lemon Juice
Lemon is what gives this Maggi its distinct flavour. Be generous while adding it, or it may lack the tangy flavour you’re looking for.
3. Allow The Maggi To Simmer
Let the Maggi noodles simmer with the other ingredients for a few minutes. This will help infuse the flavours better, giving you the perfect results. Also Read: Rasam Maggi: This Delicious Mix Of Spicy Masala And Instant Noodles Is A Must-Try
So, the next time you’re craving Maggi, try making this delicious lemon coriander Maggi. It’s simple, flavourful, and oh-so addictive!
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers leaves the field after an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, in Glendale, Ariz., on Nov. 10.Brynn Anderson/The Associated Press
Three years ago, quarterback Tom Brady was a young 44 coming off his seventh Super Bowl. He could see no end in sight.
“I could literally play until I’m 50 or 55 if I wanted to,” Brady said. “I don’t think I will obviously … my physical body won’t be the problem. I think it’ll just be, I’m just missing too much of life with my family.”
Brady’s body turned out to be a problem. While he was coming to terms with that, the family become one, too. Now 47, he lives and works alone.
Everybody can now agree on two things – Brady had a magnificent NFL career, and that it lasted too long.
This was always going to be the issue with sports’ eternity movement, led by the likes of tennis stars Roger Federer and Serena Williams. It’s going great until it is going terribly, and you move from one state to the other in bang-bang fashion.
Instead of seeing someone strut away at the peak, you get to watch them stagger out of the arena being chased by a pack of children. Federer and Williams were both barely able to cope by the end. Rafael Nadal – who has been standing in the hallway holding his coat for a year and a half – looks even worse than that.
The famous fortysomething athlete, so thick on the ground just a few years ago, is a perishing commodity. The ones who remain aren’t stars. They’re role players with alimony payments.
The last outlier is Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. He turns 40 in six weeks. He had three triple doubles last week.
It’s also November. James plays for a flawed team. The most famous thing he’s done recently is fix it so that his kid, who can’t sing or dance, is starring on Broadway. The end is closer than he or anyone else wants to believe.
It would not be right to include quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the James category. He’s got a similar pedigree and the same sort of hold on public imagination, but Rodgers can’t fake his mojo any more.
Rodgers is the end point of sports’ extreme longevity movement. He’s what happens when everyone buys into Brady’s fiction – that mind can defeat body.
Rodgers turns 41 in a couple of weeks. He’s had a shocking NFL season, statistically and otherwise. The New York Jets were built to his specifications. It turns out that architecture is not his forte.
It’s not that Rodgers is bad. It’s that he’s become average, but he’s still leading a team designed to be piloted by a game-altering superstar. It’s like dropping you or me into a Formula 1 car and wishing us the best of luck at Monaco. It’s going to end in flames.
Rodgers may still appear young, but he can’t help but sound old. The worse it gets, the grumpier Rodgers becomes. It’s never his fault. It’s his idiot teammates or the idiot coach. When the Jets go out and get him new teammates and a new coach, they’re just as bad.
Rodgers continues to fascinate because he is the avatar of a specific type of online discussion. It’s one led by fitness influencers, tech true-believers and unqualified doctors. Their goal is to extend human endurance and life. To feel like you’re 20 when you’re 40 and 40 when you’re 80.
Are they enjoying things now? Absolutely not. That’s the point. They’re in the gym twice a day, guzzling CoQ10, trying to figure out what Mark Zuckerberg is doing right so that they can do the same thing. Once that’s done, they’ll enjoy things later.
Rodgers is their most successful adherent. He’s the kind of guy who goes on darkness retreats and has words of affirmation to hand out for every situation. He’s had just about every material success you can have, and he isn’t anywhere close to satisfied.
He is the spirit animal of the 35-year-old who’s feeling their knees for the first time, and has become concerned they may not live to 150.
At its core, this movement is a rejection of presentism. These are people who eschew the past (when all the bad people were alive) and the right now (which is a hellscape, according to four out of five self-taught historians on the internet).
The future is where it’s at. You’ll finally be happy there.
These Jets (3-7) are the worst team Rodgers has ever led, but according to him things are going great. Not right now maybe. But next year.
This week, Rodgers was asked if he would return for 2025.
“I think so, yeah,” he said.
If he sounds unsure, that’s because he can’t be certain any team wants him. This way, if he doesn’t get what he wants, he can pretend it was his idea all along.
If the aged athlete is going out of fashion, Rodgers is its apple-bottom jeans and the boots with the fur. He’s the look that will soon make stylish people cringe.
Everyone already looks silly here. Rodgers looks silly for deluding himself. The Jets look silly for turning their organization into his footstool. All the other guys on the Jets look silly for bowing and scraping around him. There’s only one way for this is end – one more season, even worse than this one.
In good time, people will remember Rodgers for the player he was in Green Bay. But that’s only when they remember him at all, which will be rarely. It’s not as though people sit around gushing about Steve Young and he won three times as many championships as Rodgers.
If anyone’s getting memorialized from this generation of quarterbacks, it’s Brady – the guy who was first out the door. That must be part of Rodgers’s insistence on remaining.
In the end, Rodgers’s most enduring legacy will be as a great cautionary tale of the age. Someone who could not live in the only time we have – the right now – but chose instead to fixate on what might still be.
What in the wild, wild world of sports is going on here?
Sports and art coming together across America?
These are not typical bedfellows. Their separation begins in middle school. The art kids go one way, the jocks the other.
Sports fans and art lovers can follow their separate tracks through the course of long lives, rarely intersecting. Occasionally around movies. Occasionally around music. Fashion–sneakers–perhaps. But in an unusual occurrence, art museums across the country–enough to represent a trend, not a coincidence–are inviting sports fans into the world of fine art with exhibitions showing how these opposites can attract.
Get In The Game
Through February 18, 2025, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents “Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture,” exploring the powerful—and sometimes contentious—place of athletics in American life. “Get in the Game,” together with six sports-related companion exhibitions, is the museum’s most expansive presentation dedicated to a single subject to date with more than 200 artworks and design objects.
Viewers will discover the sense of community found in depictions of pickup basketball games, minor league baseball teams, neighborhood swimming clubs or a lineup of fellow surfers. Audiences will also encounter artists and designers inspired by athletes advancing conversations about gender, race and identity, as well as artworks responding to the remarkable achievements of sports figures such as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Colin Kaepernick, Diana Nyad, Venus Williams, and Zinedine Zidane. Woven throughout “Get in the Game”will be stunning works of contemporary art and design, interactive installations, and historical videos reconsidering political and cultural issues through the lens of sports, athleticism, competition, and play.
Highlights of “Get in the Game” include moving artworks by artist/athletes Matthew Barney, Rosalyn Drexler, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Savanah Leaf, Mario Ayala, Shaun Leonardo, and Lucy McRae, who have been influenced by their experiences in sports such as football, volleyball, skateboarding, wrestling, tennis, and track.
Museumgoers will be able to play interactive artworks by contemporary artists: Maurizio Cattelan’s 22-person foosball table, Stadium (1991), and Gabriel Orozco’s Ping Pond Table (1998), a four-way ping-pong table with a square pool in place of a net.
Beyond fine art, “Get in the Game” features dozens of innovative designs for sports gear, gaming and fashion, from Formula One racecar steering wheels to a 2022 ensemble from Virgil Abloh’s final Louis Vuitton collection. Fans can appreciate the artistry and unforgettable design of Michael Johnson’s gold running shows and Nike’s original Air Jordan basketball shoes. Amateur athletes can also follow the awe-inspiring design evolution and technological advances of surfboards, tennis racquets and football helmets.
Reflecting the evolving field of play, the exhibition integrates meaningful designs from recent years, such as the Cheetah Xceed prosthetic running leg, developed by biomedical engineer Van Phillips (himself an amputee), and the Refugee Nation Flag, designed by artist Yara Said, a Syrian refugee now based in Amsterdam.
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly
George Bellows (American, 1882 – 1925), ‘Club Night,’ 1907. Oil on canvas. 43 x 53 1/8 in. (109.2 x 134.9 cm). National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Hay Collection, 1982.76.1.
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Stick and move at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL where “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing,” represents the largest comprehensive survey of artistic representations of boxing in more than 20 years, featuring paintings, videos, sculptures, and works on paper by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Edward Hopper, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Gary Simmons, Jeffrey Gibson, and Amoako Boafo. The exhibition explores the global sport and its cultural impact through the lens of over 80 artists–including drawings by Muhammad Ali!
Featuring more than 100 artworks from the 1870s through the present day, the Norton’s one-of-a-kind presentation illuminates the connections between boxing and society, while underscoring the rich history of a centuries-old sport and its participants, through all its complexities. The exhibition showcases artworks that lend boxing, and its legends, nuance and intimacy. Within “Strike Fast, Dance Lightly,” the boxer and the act of boxing serve as a metaphor for a wide range of socio-political issues through a series of distinct categories: the body, “in the ring,” the artist as boxer, tools, and ephemera.
The exhibition can be seen through Sunday, March 9, 2025.
A Vision Of Sports
Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum picks up the ball and runs with “Good Sports: The Wisdom & Fun of Fair Play,” an exhibition weaving together art created by global and local visionary artists focused on both sports and play imagery, as well as film, photography, sculpture, fascinating sports medicine factoids, and quotes reflecting the wisdom of sports legends. The museum defines “visionary artists” as, “self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself.”
“Good Sports” brings a wide and creative view of both the history and current state of sports—one full of fun, wisdom, and passion—all to exalt sports as one of humankind’s most fabulous avenues for becoming our best selves. While praising the capacity of sports to impart important ethical lessons of fairness and civility, this exhibition will not ignore the dark underbelly of competition and its potential for corruption: rigging, drugging, greed, gambling, injury, exclusion, and woeful race and gender discrimination.
The exhibition will remain on view through August 31, 2025.
Skate Or Die
J. Grant Brittain is one of the most widely recognized and influential skateboard photographers. In 1987, “The Push,” a photo of Tod Swank, made the cover of Transworld magazine, becoming one of the most recognizable skateboarding photos. The Orlando Museum of Art presents Brittain’s first museum exhibition retrospective offering a chance to see a collection of works from the 1980s which has inspired subsequent generations.
Brittain most prominently captured photos of an 11-year-old Tony Hawk and was instrumental in documenting the formative years of the legendary skateboarder’s career. The two have remained life-long friends.
Poster House in New York, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the global history of posters, presents “Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes” through February 23, 2025. Gen-X sports kids will receive a full-on nostalgia trip through the wildly popular posters that wallpapered the bedrooms of their childhoods.
Jordan–lots of Jordan–Charles Barkley, Andre Agassi, Nike’s roster of celebrity athletes returns to their prime through 60 posters capturing a cultural moment where sports stars ascended to rival rock stars and movie stars for fame, money, and attention, never to go back.
The successful marketing of individual athletes, including through posters like this, with Nike at the forefront of the aesthetics and branding and money, signified a sea change in sports and sports fandom. No longer was the team primary, the player was.
Après Ski
Known as “Ski Town USA,” Steamboat Springs, CO’s art museum presents “Art in Sport: Motion, Emotion, Moments, and Light,” showcasing photography, sculpture, paintings, and prints capturing the drama, passion, and dynamic motion of sports. Shred fresh powder in the morning then explore the intersection of art and sport through the work of prominent local artists as well as those with ties to Steamboat Springs and Colorado.
The presentation opens on December 6, 2024, running through April 12, 2025.
Sport = Art
In a prelude to Art Basel Miami Beach the first week of December, OG4ever gallery presents its latest exhibit, “Sport = Art,” in the heart of Wynwood. Opening on Saturday, November 16th, this showcase reveals the deep connection between athleticism and artistry, paying homage to sports as a testament to physical excellence and cultural expression.
From bronze sculptures made from the actual molds of the hands and feet of soccer legend Pelé to paintings of iconic moments in sports, these international artists share their passion for creating artworks that redefine legendary figures and moments in sports history.
“Sports Artists” To Know
Ernie Barnes, ‘The Devil and Doodazzle Dakins,’ circa 1980. Oil on canvas Sight 27 3/8 x 21 1/8 inches (69.6 x 53.7 cm)
Courtesy Doyle Auctions
Sports fans looking to engage with the fine arts, but not knowing where to begin are advised to start here:
Sports has remained a constant in the life and work of Ernie Barnes (1938-2009). Studying art while playing football at North Carolina Central University, Barnes was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1959. Though injuries limited his NFL playing career to a five seasons, during his tenure, Barnes befriended New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who would become a notable patron, commissioning Barnes to create new works and helping launch the young artist’s first solo exhibition.
Basketball is a favored subject of Barnes, and on November 20, 2024, DoyleAuction House hosts a sale featuring his painting The Devil and Doodazzle Dakins (1980).
Hank Willis Thomas’ social justice art practice routinely calls on sports when demonstrating America’s racial inequalities. Gary Simmons does the same through boxing rings and shoes and gloves.
Former major leaguer Micah Johnson (b. 1990) has been making major waves in contemporary art, particularly in the worlds of digital art and NFTs.
Although they enjoyed the luxury of a six-point buffer zone, Nottingham Forest finished just one place above the relegation zone when the last season ended in May. One of the campaign’s top-tier b@nter clubs, they made an outcast of their captain and club legend Joe Worrall, all the better to free up dressing-room space for at least one of the 4,189 new signings they’d made before it began. In December they sacked their gaffer and replaced him with an apparently beaten managerial docket famously described on a certain podcast not a million miles from here as looking like “a sad Jedi” following his disastrous, short reign at Spurs. They were also docked four points for financial shenanigans and that’s before you get to the very public diatribe questioning the PGMOL’s integrity because one of their video assistant referees happened to be a Luton fan, a Social Media Disgrace that would ultimately cost them £750,000.
Whatever various Forest-supporting prophets of the past currently harrumphing with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight now their team is flying so high might claim, there was no earthly reason for anyone doing season previews in August to think the club owned by Evangelos Marinakis and managed by Nuno Espírito Santo would be any less chaotic this time around. While some so-called experts tipped Forest for relegation at the start of the season, other more prescient soothsayers suggested they might scale the dizzy heights of 15th. It’s still early doors, of course, but in the extremely unlikely event anyone out there thought they might be in third place with more than a quarter of the season played, they wisely kept their counsel for fear of being thought of as completely deranged.
Apart from their one defeat against Fulham, which prompted a flurry of fines and suspensions for the sporting grace with which it was accepted, Forest are otherwise unbeaten, banging in goals for fun and boast the second tightest defence in the league. Much of the credit for Forest’s defensive vigour must go to Nikola Milenkovic, a £12m arrival from Fiorentina whose arrival prompted little more than shoulder-shrugs and Google searches but is already shaping up to be a wonderful deal. While up front few can have expected Chris Wood to be more thoroughbred than cart-horse with his late challenge for the Ballon d’Or.
Elsewhere on the pitch Morgan Gibbs-White has excelled even if his recent spell on the Naughty Step has proved his side have plenty of other star-turns in reserve, while in the absence of Worrall, who is now at Burnley, Ryan Yates (and to a lesser extent Zach Abbott) have continued their side’s quite astonishing record of having a local academy graduate in every matchday squad going back 83 years, a run of – count ‘em – 4,077 games. With speculative talk inevitably and almost certainly prematurely turning to whether this Forest side can “do a Leicester”, one suspects their fans will happily wait until they get another 20-odd points on the board to secure safety before they even entertain the fanciful notion of emulating “that lot” from just up the road.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
The FA had so much control over our money and income … we couldn’t go: ‘Just [eff]ing give us more money’, even though it was really tempting to do that because it was ridiculous what the lads were getting compared to us” – England legend Steph Houghton sits down with Donald McRae to talk about the quest for parity, struggling under Sarina Wiegman, and supporting her husband with MND.
Steph Houghton poses for the Guardian snapper in Manchester. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Re: harsh red cards (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). Back in (I think) 2007, I copped a red while running the line. As a first-team player, we had a linesman roster for the first half of the reserves game and I was on duty. At a corner (my club attacking), the inswinger was easily claimed by the keeper, a good metre inside the field of play. The comically inept referee decided, from his viewpoint at the top of the box, that the ball had crossed the line and awarded another corner. Understandably, the opposition looked at me with bewilderment. Upon explanation that my flag was down and I’d talk to the referee, said official pulled me aside and asked why I didn’t raise my flag for a ball that was clearly out. When I said something to the effect of ‘well … because it wasn’t’, he gave me a yellow for dissent. My instantaneous ‘are you joking?’ earned me an instantaneous second yellow” – Jarrod Prosser.
At university, my teammate Henry Mance had his name taken for, probably, a typically rustic challenge. ‘Mance … as in romance,’ he helpfully offered the referee. The card was immediately upgraded to a more romantic red” – Paul Reeve.
Send letters to mailto:the.boss@theguardian.com. Today’s letter o’ the day winner is … Jarrod Prosser, who lands a Football Weekly scarf. Terms and conditions for our competitions can be viewed here.
However, not all his customers have had a good dining experience at Fuiyoh! It’s Uncle Roger.
In a Reel uploaded to Instagram on Oct 24, Lukian Wang, the Hong Kong YouTuber behind CookingBoBo, went as far as to call it her “worst dining experience” in Malaysia.
Lukian had made a beeline to the restaurant immediately after touching down at the airport.
“This was the first place I hit up when I arrived in Malaysia. After all, I am a fan and I like fried rice,” she shared.
The restaurant was still closed when Lukian arrived, and she said she waited for around 40 minutes before being seated.
While she scrolled through the online menu, Lukian realised she didn’t have many options to begin with.
“I did not expect more than half the menu to be already sold out,” Lukian explained.
After placing her order, she waited a good 21 minutes before her first item came — a cup of hot lemon tea.
While she praised the cup for being “cute”, she felt that the drink was falsely advertised and did not match the image in the menu.
“I laughed it off at this point but I didn’t realise it was going to get much worse,” she foreshadowed.
Some 50 minutes after being seated, Lukian lamented that her plate of fried rice had still not been served.
After making eye contact with the man who had been queueing in front of her, she noted that he too had not received his food yet.
Finally, after an hour‘s wait, her fried rice arrived.
While she admitted that it “did look good”, Lukian wasn’t satisfied.
When a woman at the next table asked for her opinion about the food, she bluntly told her: “[It’s] probably only the best fried rice right now because I’m so hungry.”
She also told her viewers that the queue outside the restaurant was because of the slow service and not because the place was popular.
“Needless to say, I won’t be coming back,” she said.
AsiaOne has reached out to Lukian for more details.
In the comments, Uncle Roger apologised to Lukian and promised to “do better next time”.
Other netizens also shared their thoughts about Lukian’s experience, with many praising her for her honesty.
One said they were surprised that Lukian had the patience to wait that long as they would have left after 20 minutes.
On the other hand, there were some who shared some reasons why the food took so long to arrive.
One netizen suggested that the restaurant may have faced challenges in sourcing ingredients, while another speculated it could be due to a lack of manpower.
Even for an era of more extreme weather, this autumn has seemingly shifted into yet another gear, especially in a rain-weary Europe where massive and deadly flooding in Spain’s Valencia region is the latest incarnation.
At least 95 people have been killed in flooding that sent cars piling up like flotsam on the beach, while an ocean away much of the United States bakes through a nearly rain-free October that has created a flash drought.
Scientists trying to explain what’s happening, especially with a spate of deadly European downpours, see two likely connections to human-caused climate change. One is that warmer air holds and then dumps more rain. The other is possible changes in the jet stream — the river of air above land that moves weather systems across the globe — that spawn extreme weather.
Several climate scientists and meteorologists said the immediate cause of the flooding is called a cut-off lower pressure storm system that migrated from an unusually wavy and stalled jet stream. That system simply parked over the region and poured rain. This happens often enough that in Spain they call them DANAs, for the Spanish acronym for the system, meteorologists said.
In America, it was a sunny, high-pressure system with no moisture that plunked down like a dome and kept storms away.
“If we’re getting all the dryness, somebody else is getting all the rain,” said Yale Climate Connection meteorologist Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground.
“The same extremely wavy jet stream that is causing the U.S. drought is also responsible for the horrific flooding in eastern Spain,” said climate scientist Jennifer Francis at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Cape Cod. She’s a pioneer in a theory that attributes a wavier and slower-moving jet stream to climate change because the Arctic is warming so much it’s no longer a lot colder than the rest of the planet. That theory is gaining more acceptance, but it’s not fully embraced by the climate science community.
“Attributions are always tricky. Generally speaking, the jet stream, because of the changes we are seeing due to climate change, is having more pronounced undulations,” said Maria Jose Sanz, scientific director of the BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change. These DANAs happen when there are more undulations, often in the winter, she said.
ETH Zurich climate scientist Erich Fischer isn’t fully sold about the wavy jet stream theory, but then he ticks off the cut-off low storm systems that have doused and flooded Europe this fall: last week in France, twice in Italy in September and October, flooding in Austria and Czech Republic in September. And then there are the October floods in the Balkans, but Fischer isn’t sure they are quite similar enough. Parts of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic got three months of rain in just five days in September, according to the European climate service Copernicus.
“I’ve only been talking about the ones in autumn. We had a whole series in the Alps causing flash floods during summer,” Fischer said. “Starting with Bavaria, southern Germany in June, and then it was something like six events in Austria and Switzerland in the mountains, extreme thunderstorms, and now this autumn. So in terms of heavy rainfall, it was an extremely unusual stretch.”
He said the systems, especially in Spain, France and Austria, got stuck and “the rain did not move” from the same valleys for hours.
“It’s incredible,” he said.
Even without the potential changes to the jet stream, several scientists said they are sure that basic physics are making storms like this wetter.
It’s a core equation in physics called the Clausius-Clapeyron relation. It says for every degree Celsius the air warms, it can hold 7% more moisture (4% more for every degree Fahrenheit). The world has warmed 1.3 degrees Celsius because of greenhouse gases, so it’s about 9% to 10% heavier rain, at the least, said Imperial College climate scientist Friederike Otto. She helps run World Weather Attribution that checks for human fingerprints in extreme weather, sometimes finding them, sometimes not.
“It is very clear that climate change did play a role,” especially in short bursts like what happened in Valencia, Otto said.
That air holding more moisture may be “just for starters,” meteorologist Masters said. When the moisture condenses it releases heat energy, which goes into the storm, invigorates it, increases its updrafts and allows it to pull even more moisture from a larger area, which could boost rainfall as much as 20%, he said.
“It just kind of feeds and you get a vicious cycle,” he said.
Fischer found a similar storm in the same place in 1957. But this year’s storm, with warmer air stoking it, was much wetter. The 1957 storm dumped around 250 millimeters of rain (10 inches), but this week’s had reports of more than 490 millimeters (19 inches) in just eight hours, Fischer said. There could be rain gauge issues involved, but part of this is the atmosphere holding and dumping more water.
And then you add a toasty Mediterranean sea.
It had its warmest surface temperature on record in mid-August, with a mean temperature of 28.47 Celsius, said Carola Koenig of the Centre for Flood Risk and Resilience at Brunel University of London.
“This facilitates a greater uptake of moisture in the air, resulting in more rain when the atmosphere starts to cool in the autumn,” she said. “As things stand, Spain needs to embrace itself for continued heavy rain for the next few days.”
There may be different ways of counting and attributing climate change and the havoc it wreaks, Otto said, but one thing is for certain: “Burning fossil fuels causes climate change and climate change causes death and destruction.”
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.
As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet.
Earlier this month, Ford installed an automated underground system that uses a solar-powered pump to periodically saturate the roots of his crops, saving “thousands of gallons of water.” Although they may be more costly up front, he sees such climate-friendly investments as a necessary expense — and more affordable than expanding his workforce of two.
It’s “much more efficient,” said Ford. “We’ve tried to figure out ‘How do we do it?’ with the least amount of adding labor.”
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A growing number of companies are bringing automation to agriculture. It could ease the sector’s deepening labor shortage, help farmers manage costs, and protect workers from extreme heat. Automation could also improve yields by bringing greater accuracy to planting, harvesting, and farm management, potentially mitigating some of the challenges of growing food in an ever-warmer world.
But many small farmers and producers across the country aren’t convinced. Barriers to adoption go beyond steep price tags to questions about whether the tools can do the jobs nearly as well as the workers they’d replace. Some of those same workers wonder what this trend might mean for them, and whether machines will lead to exploitation.
On some farms, driverless tractors churn through acres of corn, soybeans, lettuce and more. Such equipment is expensive, and requires mastering new tools, but row crops are fairly easy to automate. Harvesting small, non-uniform and easily damaged fruits like blackberries, or big citruses that take a bit of strength and dexterity to pull off a tree, would be much harder.
That doesn’t deter scientists like Xin Zhang, a biological and agricultural engineer at Mississippi State University. Working with a team at Georgia Institute of Technology, she wants to apply some of the automation techniques surgeons use, and the object recognition power of advanced cameras and computers, to create robotic berry-picking arms that can pluck the fruits without creating a sticky, purple mess.
The scientists have collaborated with farmers for field trials, but Zhang isn’t sure when the machine might be ready for consumers. Although robotic harvesting is not widespread, a smattering of products have hit the market, and can be seen working from Washington’s orchards to Florida’s produce farms.
“I feel like this is the future,” Zhang said.
But where she sees promise, others see problems.
Frank James, executive director of grassroots agriculture group Dakota Rural Action, grew up on a cattle and crop farm in northeastern South Dakota. His family once employed a handful of farmhands, but has had to cut back due, in part, to the lack of available labor. Much of the work is now done by his brother and sister-in-law, while his 80-year-old father occasionally pitches in.
They swear by tractor autosteer, an automated system that communicates with a satellite to help keep the machine on track. But it can’t identify the moisture levels in the fields which can hamstring tools or cause the tractor to get stuck, and requires human oversight to work as it should. The technology also complicates maintenance. For these reasons, he doubts automation will become the “absolute” future of farm work.
“You build a relationship with the land, with the animals, with the place that you’re producing it. And we’re moving away from that,” said James.
Tim Bucher grew up on a farm in Northern California and has worked in agriculture since he was 16. Dealing with weather issues like drought has always been a fact of life for him, but climate change has brought new challenges as temperatures regularly hit triple digits and blankets of smoke ruin entire vineyards.
The toll of climate change compounded by labor challenges inspired him to combine his farming experience with his Silicon Valley engineering and startup background to found AgTonomy in 2021. It works with equipment manufacturers like Doosan Bobcat to make automated tractors and other tools.
Since pilot programs started in 2022, Bucher says the company has been “inundated” with customers, mainly vineyard and orchard growers in California and Washington.
Those who follow the sector say farmers, often skeptical of new technology, will consider automation if it will make their business more profitable and their lives easier. Will Brigham, a dairy and maple farmer in Vermont, sees such tools as solutions to the nation’s agricultural workforce shortage.
“A lot of farmers are struggling with labor,” he said, citing the “high competition” with jobs where “you don’t have to deal with weather.”
Since 2021, Brigham’s family farm has been using Farmblox, an AI-powered farm monitoring and management system that helps them get ahead of issues like leaks in tubing used in maple production. Six months ago, he joined the company as a senior sales engineer to help other farmers embrace technology like it.
Detasseling corn used to be a rite of passage for some young people in the Midwest. Teenagers would wade through seas of corn removing tassels – the bit that looks like a yellow feather duster at the top of each stalk – to prevent unwanted pollination.
Extreme heat, drought and intense rainfall have made this labor-intensive task even harder. And it’s now more often done by migrant farmworkers who sometimes put in 20-hour days to keep up. That’s why Jason Cope, co-founder of farm tech company PowerPollen, thinks it’s essential to mechanize arduous tasks like detasseling. His team created a tool a tractor can use to collect the pollen from male plants without having to remove the tassel. It can then be saved for future crops.
“We can account for climate change by timing pollen perfectly as it’s delivered,” he said. “And it takes a lot of that labor that’s hard to come by out of the equation.”
Erik Nicholson, who previously worked as a farm labor organizer and now runs Semillero de Ideas, a nonprofit focused on farmworkers and technology, said he has heard from farm workers concerned about losing work to automation. Some have also expressed worry about the safety of working alongside autonomous machines but are hesitant to raise issues because they fear losing their jobs. He’d like to see the companies building these machines, and the farm owners using them, put people first.
Luis Jimenez, a New York dairy worker, agrees. He described one farm using technology to monitor cows for sicknesses. Those kinds of tools can sometimes identify infections sooner than a dairy worker or veterinarian.
They also help workers know how the cows are doing, Jimenez said, speaking in Spanish. But they can reduce the number of people needed on farms and put extra pressure on the workers who remain, he said. That pressure is heightened by increasingly automated technology like video cameras used to monitor workers’ productivity.
Automation can be “a tactic, like a strategy, for bosses, so people are afraid and won’t demand their rights,” said Jimenez, who advocates for immigrant farmworkers with the grassroots organization Alianza Agrícola. Robots, after all, “are machines that don’t ask for anything,” he added. “We don’t want to be replaced by machines.”
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Associated Press reporters Amy Taxin in Santa Ana, California, and Dorany Pineda in Los Angeles contributed. Walling reported from Chicago.
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SAO PAULO — It’s a showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice.
The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded with insults, including calling de Moraes a “tyrant” and “a dictator.”
It is the latest chapter in the monthslong feud between the two men over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation. Many in Brazil are waiting and watching to see if either man will blink.
De Moraes’ order is based on Brazilian law requiring foreign companies to have legal representation to operate in the country, according to the Supreme Court’s press office. This ensures someone can be notified of legal decisions and is qualified to take any requisite action.
X’s refusal to appoint a legal representative would be particularly problematic ahead of Brazil’s October municipal elections, with a churn of fake news expected, said Luca Belli, coordinator of the Technology and Society Center at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Rio de Janeiro. Takedown orders are common during campaigns, and not having someone to receive legal notices would make timely compliance impossible.
“Until last week, 10 days ago, there was an office here, so this problem didn’t exist. Now there’s nothing. Look at the example of Telegram: Telegram doesn’t have an office here, it has about 50 employees in the whole world. But it has a legal representative,” Belli, who is also a professor at the university’s law school, told The Associated Press.
Any Brazilian judge has the authority to enforce compliance with decisions. Such measures can range from lenient actions like fines to more severe penalties, such as suspension, said Carlos Affonso Souza, a lawyer and director of the Institute for Technology and Society, a Rio-based think tank.
Lone Brazilian judges shut down Meta’s WhatsApp, the nation’s most widely used messaging app, several times in 2015 and 2016 due to the company’s refusal to comply with police requests for user data. In 2022, de Moraes threatened the messaging app Telegram with a nationwide shutdown, arguing it had repeatedly ignored Brazilian authorities’ requests to block profiles and provide information. He ordered Telegram to appoint a local representative; the company ultimately complied and stayed online.
Affonso Souza added that an individual judge’s ruling to shut down a platform with so many users would likely be assessed at a later date by the Supreme Court’s full bench.
De Moraes would first notify the nation’s telecommunications regulator, Anatel, who would then instruct operators — including Musk’s own Starlink internet service provider — to suspend users’ access to X. That includes preventing the resolution of X’s website — the term for conversion of a domain name to an IP address — and blocking access to the IP address of X’s servers from inside Brazilian territory, according to Belli.
Given that operators are aware of the widely publicized standoff and their obligation to comply with an order from de Moraes, plus the fact doing so isn’t complicated, X could be offline in Brazil as early as 12 hours after receiving their instructions, Belli said.
Since X is widely accessed via mobile phones, de Moraes is also likely to notify major app stores to stop offering X in Brazil, said Affonso Souza. Another possible — but highly controversial — step would be prohibiting access with virtual private networks ( VPNs) and imposing fines on those who use them to access X, he added.
X and its former incarnation, Twitter, are banned in several countries — mostly authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.
China banned X when it was still called Twitter back in 2009, along with Facebook. In Russia, authorities expanded their crackdown on dissent and free media after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. They have blocked multiple independent Russian-language media outlets critical of the Kremlin, and cut access to Twitter, which later became X, as well as Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.
In 2009, Twitter became an essential communications tool in Iran after the country’s government cracked down on traditional media after a disputed presidential election. Tech-savvy Iranians took to Twitter to organize protests. The government subsequently banned the platform, along with Facebook.
Other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended X before, usually to quell dissent and unrest. Twitter was banned in Egypt after the Arab Spring uprisings, which some dubbed the “Twitter revolution,” but it has since been restored.
Brazil is a key market for X and other platforms. Some 40 million Brazilians, roughly one-fifth of the population, access X at least once per month, according to the market research group Emarketer. Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist,” has claimed de Moraes’ actions amount to censorship and rallied support from Brazil’s political right. He has also said that he wants his platform to be a “global town square” where information flows freely. The loss of the Brazilian market — the world’s fourth-biggest democracy — would make achieving this goal more difficult.
Brazil is also a potentially huge growth market for Musk’s satellite company, Starlink, given its vast territory and spotty internet service in far-flung areas.
Late Thursday afternoon, Starlink said on X that de Moraes this week froze its finances, preventing it from doing any transactions in the country where it has more than 250,000 customers.
“This order is based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied — unconstitutionally — against X. It was issued in secret and without affording Starlink any of the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution of Brazil. We intend to address the matter legally,” Starlink said in its statement.
Musk replied to people sharing the earlier reports of the freeze, adding his own insults directed at de Moraes.
“This guy @Alexandre is an outright criminal of the worst kind, masquerading as a judge,” he wrote.
De Moraes’ defenders have said his actions have been lawful, supported by most of the court’s full bench and have served to protect democracy at a time in which it is imperiled.
In April, de Moraes included Musk as a target in an ongoing investigation over the dissemination of fake news and opened a separate investigation into the executive for alleged obstruction.
X said Thursday in a statement that it expects its service to be shutdown in Brazil.
“Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders,” it said. “To our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech.”
It also said de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court “are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him.”
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Biller reported from Rio and Ortutay from Oakland, California.
