What does the One Love armband mean? And what’s a leap second? (11 questions)

Leap seconds are adjustments occasionally made to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on Jun. 30 or Dec. 31 to accommodate a slowdown in the Earth’s rotation. After being introduced in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been added to the UTC, with the last occurring in 2016.

Will the leap second be retired?

At its 27th General Conference on Nov. 18, 2022, BIPM, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, passed a resolution to stop adding leap seconds by 2035. Alternatives include allowing the discrepancy between Earth’s rotation and atomic time to build up to one minute, requiring adjustments every 50 to 100 years.

In 2020, The Dutch Football Association launched One Love in The Netherlands with a statement inviting everyone to become part of the football family. Colors in the heart logo symbolize pride in heritage, racial identity, gender identity, and sexual orientation of all people. According to the Royal Dutch Football Association, the message stressed that football unites millions of people worldwide from all places in society.

Was the One Love armband banned in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar?

The captains of Belgium, Denmark, Germany, England, France, Norway, Wales, Sweden, and Switzerland joined the Dutch initiative in September 2022 to wear the One Love armband in their upcoming matches. A FIFA message was issued hours before the first players with the armbands were due to take the field in the 2022 World Cup, warning that the referees would immediately show them yellow cards – two of which would result in expulsion.

Why did FIFA ban the One Love armband?

The Qatari government has faced criticism since it was awarded the World Cup hosting rights in 2010 for its treatment of low-paid migrant workers, suppression of free speech, and criminalization of homosexuality. To prove the point, FIFA banned the One Love campaign for being perceived as a symbol of disapproval with the host country and defiance of FIFA. National teams knew that when coming into the tournament, they might have to pay a fine for wearing off-uniform bands, but they would not risk playing without captains.

In support of mass protests at home, Iran’s World Cup team refused to sing their national anthem before the game on Nov. 21, 2022. Iranian protests have been raging since Mahsa Amini’s death after her arrest for not wearing a hijab in September, demanding the fall of the Shia Muslim theocracy.

The Saudi Arabians stunned Argentina at the 2022 World Cup, becoming the first non-European team to do so since Cameroon in 1990. Saudi Arabia – ranked 51st in the world – defeated Argentina 2:1 on Nov. 22 in what is Lionel Messi’s likely final World Cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Manchester United immediately, the Premier League club announced on Nov. 22, 2022. The decision comes after the 37-year-old said he had “no respect for the manager” in a controversial interview with Talk TV’s Piers Morgan. Having left United in 2010 to join Real Madrid, Ronaldo returned to the Old Trafford club in Aug. 2021. Currently, Ronaldo is in Qatar with Portugal as they attempt to win their first World Cup.

US National Park Service’s Sean Tevebaugh took this picture (or rather a time-lapse video) in November 2022 at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

What am I seeing?

On the horizon, green and pink-tinged aurora waves are seen below flits of light marking shooting stars and satellites of the Leonid meteor shower. Pine trees frame the scene, with snow-covered mountains low on the horizon.

So Help Me God is the autobiography of former US Vice President Mike Pence, published on Nov. 15, 2022.

After Elon Musk announced that his newly acquired company had restored Kanye West’s Twitter account, the rapper returned to the platform on Nov. 20, 2022. In October 2022, Twitter moderators blocked Ye’s page because of his antisemitic tweets. After confirming Twitter unblocked him, Ye tweeted: “Shalom : ).”

Is Ye still on Twitter?

By Dec. 1, West’s account was suspended after the troubled rapper tweeted an image of a Nazi swastika inside the Jewish Star of David. The indefinite suspension happened the same day Ye appeared on Infowars’ conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones’s podcast, during which he said, “I like Hitler.”

Bob Iger, who brought Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel to Disney, replaced his successor Bob Chapek on Nov. 21, 2022. Iger held the position of Disney’s CEO for 15 years before handing it over to Chapek in 2020. Earlier this month, Disney’s quarterly financial performance fell short of expectations on Wall Street. Disney shares have fallen 40% in 2022.

The character Ironheart, portrayed by Dominique Thorne, broke her iron suit in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will star in a six-episode television series titled “Ironheart,” to premiere on Disney+ in fall 2023.

Netflix’s 2022 series Wednesday follows the teenage daughter of the Addams Family (Jenna Ortega) as she attends Nevermore Academy, a school for society’s outsiders where her parents met. Ortega and the series were nominated for the 2023 Emmy Awards.

Fun Facts: The Academy’s “dorm mom,” Marilyn Thornhill, who, unlike other students and teachers at Nevermore Academy, lacks any special abilities or powers (or so it seems…), is played by Christina Ricci, who portrayed a 10-year-old Wednesday Addams in the 1990s Addams Family films.