The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer. / And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose / My youth is bent by the same wintry fever¡¦.by Dylan Thomas
star776ted 2020-01-03 (17:18) IP address :31.204.150.74
What is happening on the ground?
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has declared a week-long state of emergency, which started at 08:00 local time on Friday (21:00 GMT on Thursday).
Thousands of people are already fleeing °í¾ßµå°¡¹æ=°í¾ßµå°¡¹æ a vast "tourist leave zone" in NSW, with supplies running low in some cut-off towns. It's been called "the largest relocation out of the region ever".
Kosciusko National Park in the south È«Äá¸íÇ°¼îÇÎ=È«Äá½Ã°è È«Äá¸íÇ°¼îÇÎ È«Äá¸íÇ°Ä¿½ºÅÒ±Þ of NSW, home to the country's highest mainland peaks is also being evacuated and closed.
High temperatures and strong winds are forecast for the weekend, leading to "widespread extreme fire danger".
The state government À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǰ¡¹æ=À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǰ¡¹æ has warned that conditions are likely to be "at least as bad" as New Year's Eve, when hundreds of homes were destroyed.
Iranian33 2020-01-03 (17:16) IP address :31.204.150.74
The Pentagon confirmed he was killed "at the direction of the president".
It comes after reports of a strike À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè=À̹ÌÅ×ÀÌ¼Ç À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǹ̷¯±Þ at Baghdad's international airport, which is said to have killed a number of people.
The death marks a huge escalation which analysts fear could lead to an Iranian response.
Gen Soleimani was a major figure in the Iranian regime. His Quds force reported directly to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and he was hailed as a heroic national figure.
"If Jofra is not available, he will be sorely missed but there is a huge amount of experience, which we feel should be able to get 20 wickets."
Du Plessis plays down quota controversy
Meanwhile, South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis said that batsman Temba Bavuma was fit again but would not return to the team, with Rassie van der Dussen retaining his place after scoring a fifty on debut last week.
The absence of Bavuma, who has a Test average È«Äá¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä«=È«Äá¸íÇ°¹Ì·¯±Þ È«Äá¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä« È«Äá¸íÇ°À̹ÌÅ×ÀÌ¼Ç of 31, means that, for the second match in succession, the hosts are falling short of Cricket South Africa's ethnic quota policy for team selection. Under that policy - intended to help redress imbalances created during South Africa's apartheid era - the team should contain at least two black Africans and four others from the country's mixed-race and Indian communities.
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder speaking to Match of the Day: "Little bit drained - disappointed in our performance tonight, we never laid a glove on them. If there's ever an example of a team doing well and with ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß the desire, that's Liverpool.
"The first balls, second balls, running forward, tackling, defending, being aggressive; they [Liverpool] showed all those qualities. It's a great example for our team. We were off the pace. Maybe the Manchester City game took more out of them than I expected - our goalkeeper kept us in the game. For us to get anything, we would have had to perform really well and we didn't.
"Every time we tried to press they played around us with the quality they have got. All the stuff that gets talked about in academies, with ¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä«=¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä« young coaches - just look at what they did in terms of the basic stuff that gives you an opportunity to play and dominate. That's what they did to us. Not only technically, but tactically, they are a fantastic side. We have been well beaten.
"People talk about us having afternoons and nights like this when we came to the Premier League. We have not had that done to ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® us all season until now so that's a small comfort. But it still hurts, we are still professionals. I believe if we played near our best we could have got something but we weren't anywhere near it."
tak3331ing 2020-01-03 (16:57) IP address :31.204.150.74
Archer, 24, claimed his third five-wicket haul in only his seventh Test with 5-102 from 17 overs in the second innings of the 107-run ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß defeat in the opening match of the series at Centurion.
Root said: "We don't really want to go into a game with him not being 100% and we also don't want to see him potentially miss a lot more cricket through playing him when he's not fit."
England may decide on a spinner and, with Leach out, their choices are Somerset off-spinner Dom Bess or Lancashire leg-spinner Matt ·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ=·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ ·¹Çø®Ä«·¹Çø®Ä« ·¹Çø®Ä«·¹Çø®Ä« Parkinson.
Bess, 22, played two home Tests against Pakistan in 2018, taking three wickets with a best of 3-33 at Headingley, while Parkinson is yet to make his Test debut.
The 23-year-old played two T20 matches ³²ÀÚ·¹ÇÃ=³²ÀÚ·¹Çà in New Zealand in November, taking five wickets.
"All options are on the table at this point," Root said of his XI for Cape Town. "It's a great opportunity for them both to train well and put a case forward and then we'll make a decision."
ho2me3123 2020-01-03 (16:51) IP address :31.204.150.74
Paceman Mark Wood is yet to return to match fitness, while spinner Jack Leach has been ruled out through illness.
Batsman Dom Sibley is expected to be fit after coming down with the sickness bug that has swept through the squad.
Surrey left-hander Burns made his Test debut in ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® November 2018 and has scored 979 runs from his first 15 matches at an average of 33, with six fifties and two centuries.
unfol333ded 2020-01-03 (16:31) IP address :31.204.150.74
There's never a single reason why wildfires escalate and, in the case of Australia, a perfect storm of factors is involved.
The country regularly sees fires but ¸íÇ°ÈĵåƼ=¸íÇ°ÈĵåƼ they are usually centred on bushland while the current blazes are striking forests, which burn hotter and higher so are harder to tackle.
There's plenty to ignite. A programme to create firebreaks - deliberately clearing vegetation to prevent it from catching fire - has unfolded less quickly than hoped. It's slow, labour-intensive work, and expensive too.
On top of all this, a pattern of unusually À̹ÌÅ×À̼Ƿ¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ=À̹ÌÅ×À̼Ƿ¹Çø®Ä« À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǹ̷¯±Þ À̹ÌÅ×À̼Çsa±Þ dry weather over the past three years culminated in the driest spring on record at the end of last year.
That left many areas vulnerable to fire, particularly when 2019 also proved to be Australia's hottest on record - and warmer conditions cause more evaporation, adding to the risk.
'No airs and graces, just hard work'
Sheffield United enjoyed a stellar 2019 of their own, in which they achieved promotion back to England's top division for the first time since 2007 before exceeding expectation to end the year firmly embedded in the top half of the table.
Such has been their form under Chris ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® Wilder only three sides in the country had a superior points-per-game record across 2019 - the current Premier League leaders, the top-flight's reigning champions Manchester City and West Brom, who presently have the joint most points in the Championship.
This is the first time they have suffered È«Äá¸íÇ°=È«Äá¸íÇ° back-to-back defeats under Wilder since the start of last season and they have come at the two toughest grounds to visit in the country - Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and Anfield.
Wilder prepared his team for Thursday night's daunting match with a final practice session on Stanley Park, the public park next to Anfield, which included one moment when a dog joined them and urinated on one of their cones.
"This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world."
The strike comes days after protesters surrounded the US embassy in Baghdad, clashing with US forces at the scene. The Pentagon said ¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä«=¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä« Gen Soleimani approved the attacks on the embassy.
"General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more," the statement said.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis had also been killed in the US attack, blaming an attack by US helicopters.
Reports also suggest that a number of Iraq ¸íÇ°ÈĵåƼ=¸íÇ°ÈĵåƼ militia heads have been detained by US forces in Baghdad, although this is unconfirmed.
hims53345elf 2020-01-03 (16:11) IP address :31.204.150.74
Despite Klopp labelling as "criminal" a festive fixture schedule that has seen his side play six games in 17 days, the German ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® kept his team changes to a minimum.
He did have to make a late alteration, bringing James Milner in for the man he originally drafted in to the side, Naby Keita, who injured himself in the warm-up, but it made little discernable difference.
In fact, Milner was superb as one third of a brilliant midfield unit, along with Jordan Henderson and Georginio Wijnaldum.
Salah scored one, but he would have had more but for the combination of some excellent reflex saves from Dean Henderson and the woodwork - the Egyptian's chipped second-half cross floating past everyone and hitting the inside of the post.
Roberto Firmino went close to his first Anfield goal since March with a curling effort just past the post and should have got it later in the second half, but failed to connect with Trent Alexander-Arnold's low cross from point-blank range.
In the end, though, two was more than ¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® enough to seal another win and move another step closer to their ultimate goal.
Having achieved an 'Invincibles' year, Liverpool still have a long way to go to match the 'Invincibles' season achieved by Arsenal in 2003-04.
However, it would now take an implosion of unprecedented proportions to deny the Reds a first top-flight title in 30 years.