Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features the Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, which is located about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens.
The Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic star-forming regions in our galaxy. It’s a vast cloud of gas and dust stretching roughly 70 light-years across.
Pillars of Creation
What makes it especially famous is a portion of the nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 – an area called the “Pillars of Creation.”
Some of these towering columns of gas are several light-years tall. The towers resemble sculpted fingers reaching out into space. Inside these pillars, new stars are being born as gravity pulls material together into dense cores that eventually ignite nuclear fusion.
The Pillars of Creation are often cited as a poetic example of the cosmic cycle of birth and destruction – where new stars are born even as the surrounding material is slowly destroyed by radiation.
Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula
“This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it,” said ESA.
“The new Hubble image is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations. The cosmic cloud shown here is made of cold hydrogen gas, like the rest of the Eagle Nebula. In such regions of space new stars are born among the collapsing clouds.”
The hot, energetic stars emit intense ultraviolet light and powerful stellar winds that erode and sculpt the surrounding gas. The result is the creation of fantastical structures – like the narrow pillar with a blossoming head featured in the new image.
Light and shadow in the Eagle Nebula
The thick material in the pillar blocks most light, appearing dark and heavy against the backdrop. However, its edges glow where light from the more distant nebula shines through.
The striking colors reflect the chemistry and physics at play: blues signal ionized oxygen, reds indicate glowing hydrogen, and orange shows where starlight has managed to pierce the dust.
A structure under siege
Just out of frame lie the very stars responsible for shaping this dramatic pillar. Their radiation and winds continue to batter the cloud, compressing the gas and potentially triggering the birth of even more stars within.
For now, the pillar holds firm, but this stability is temporary. Over time, the relentless energy from newly formed stars will eventually erode the entire structure.
“While the starry pillar has withstood these forces well so far, cutting an impressive shape against the background, eventually it will be totally eroded by the multitude of new stars that form in the Eagle Nebula,” explained ESA.
Life cycle of the Milky Way
The nebula’s location in the Sagittarius Arm – one of the Milky Way’s major spiral arms – places it in a zone bustling with similar star-forming regions. This highlights the role of the Eagle Nebula in shaping the structure and the future of our galaxy.
Studies of the Eagle Nebula have revealed that the region is rich in young, hot stars – some of which are only a few million years old. These stars are in various stages of development, providing a natural laboratory for astronomers to study stellar life cycles.
Evolution of the Eagle Nebula
Within the Eagle Nebula, there is a variety of stellar processes occurring in close proximity. Some stars are still forming within dense clouds of gas, while others have already matured and begun to emit powerful ultraviolet radiation.
The ongoing interaction between young stars and their environment drives the evolution of the nebula itself.
As newly formed stars heat and disperse the gas and dust around them, they trigger further waves of star formation – or in some cases, halt it altogether.
This feedback loop not only influences the pace of star birth in the Eagle Nebula but also contributes to the broader life cycle of matter within the Milky Way, enriching the galaxy with heavier elements forged in stellar cores.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
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The K-pop supergroup BTS have announced their comeback in the spring of 2026 with an album and world tour.
South Korea’s most lucrative musical act has been on a break since 2022 as its members undertook the mandatory service required of all South Korean men under 30 due to tensions with the nuclear-armed North.
With five members discharged from military service in June, many in the industry have been anticipating their comeback.
“Starting in July … we’re planning to make something massive, so from then (this month), we’ll probably gather together and stay focused on making music,” band leader RM said on their superfan platform Weverse.
“Our group album is officially set to be released next spring,” RM said during a live chat.
“Starting next spring, we’ll of course be going on tour, so please look forward to seeing us all around the globe,” he added.
The band also revealed their plans to head this month to the US, where all seven members will gradually regroup to begin music production and prepare for upcoming performances.
If released in the spring of 2026, their comeback album would be their first in four years since Proof, which was the best-selling album of 2022 in South Korea, with nearly 3.5m copies sold.
Before their mandatory military service, the boy band generated more than 5.5tn won ($4bn) in yearly economic impact, according to the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute.
That accounts for roughly 0.2% of South Korea’s total GDP, according to official data.
BTS holds the record as the most-streamed group on Spotify, and became the first K-pop act to top both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Artist 100 charts in the US.
The first of July marks the anniversary of Ms magazine’s official inaugural issue, which hit newsstands in 1972 and featured Wonder Woman on its cover, towering high above a city. Truthfully, Ms debuted months earlier, on 20 December 1971, as a forty-page insert in New York magazine, where founding editor Gloria Steinem was a staff writer. Suspecting this might be their only shot, its founders packed the issue with stories like The Black Family and Feminism, De-Sexing the English Language, and We Have Had Abortions, a list of 53 well-known American women’s signatures, including Anaïs Nin, Susan Sontag, and Steinem herself. The 300,000 available copies sold out in eight days. The first US magazine founded and operated entirely by women was, naysayers be damned, a success.
The groundbreaking magazine’s history, and its impact on the discourse around second-wave feminism and women’s liberation, is detailed in HBO documentary Dear Ms: A Revolution in Print, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca film festival. Packed with archival footage and interviews with original staff, contributors, and other cultural icons, Dear Ms unfolds across three episodes, each directed by a different film-maker. Salima Koroma, Alice Gu, and Cecilia Aldarondo deftly approach key topics explored by the magazine – domestic violence, workplace harassment, race, sexuality – with care, highlighting the challenges and criticisms that made Ms. a polarizing but galvanizing voice of the women’s movement.
Before Ms launched, the terms “domestic violence” and “sexual harassment” hadn’t yet entered the lexicon. Women’s legal rights were few, and female journalists were often limited to covering fashion and domesticity. But feminist organizations like Redstockings, the National Organization for Women, and New York Radical Women were forming; Steinem, by then an established writer, was reporting on the women’s liberation movement, of which she was a fundamental part. In Part I of the documentary, Koroma’s A Magazine for all Women, Steinem recalls attending a women’s liberation meeting for New York magazine. Archival footage discloses what was shared there, and other meetings like it: “I had to be subservient to some men,” says one woman, “… and I had to forget, very much, what I might have wanted to be if I had any other choice.”
The response to Ms was unsurprising, its perspective so collectively needed. “A lot of these articles could still be relevant,” Steinem muses in Part I. But, says the publication’s first editor, Suzanne Braun Levine, “I don’t think we all were prepared for the response. Letters, letters, letters – floods of letters.” Koroma unveils excerpts of those first letters to the editor, vulnerable and intimate: “How bolstering to find that I am not alone with my dissatisfaction that society had dictated roles for me to graduate from and into.” By the time Ms was in operation, the staff was publishing cover stories on Shirley Chisholm, unpaid domestic labor, and workplace sexual harassment. “Who is it you’re trying to reach?” a journalist asks Steinem in an interview back then. She replies: “Everybody.”
“They tried to be a magazine for all women,” explained Koroma in a recent interview, “and what happens then? You make mistakes, because of the importance of intersectionality.” In an archival audio clip, the writer and activist (and close friend of Steinem’s) Dorothy Pitman Hughes says: “White women have to understand … that sisterhood is almost impossible between us until you’ve understood how you also contribute to my oppression as a Black woman.” Marcia Ann Gillespie, the former editor in chief of Essence and later Ms’s editor in chief, confides to Koroma: “Some of the white women had a one-size-fits-all understanding of what feminism is, that our experiences are all the same. Well, no, they’re not.” Alice Walker, who became an associate editor, shared her own writing and championed others’, like Michele Wallace’s, in the publication’s pages before quitting in 1986, writing about the “swift alienation” she felt due to a lack of diversity.
Wallace recounts her experience as a Ms cover girl, her braids removed, her face caked in make-up. She adds: “I want to critique [Ms], but they were very supportive of me. I don’t know what would’ve become of me if there hadn’t been a Ms magazine.” She left, too. “I was not comfortable with white women speaking for me.” Levine admits, “We made a mistake,” featuring Black writers but having few Black cover stars and no Black founding staff.
“The work still needs to be done; we’re always going to have to rethink things,” Koroma says. It’s a running thread in Dear Ms, one that creates a rich and ultimately loving picture of the magazine. “Ms. is a complex and rich protagonist,” Aldarondo reflected. “If you only talk about the good things and not the shadow, that’s a very one-dimensional portrait. One of the things that makes Ms so interesting and admirable is that they wrestled with things in the pages of the magazine.” For Part III, No Comment (named for Ms’s column that called out misogynistic advertising), Aldarondo chronicles its contentious coverage of pornography, which the staff primarily differentiated from erotica as inherently misogynistic, many of them aligning with the Women Against Pornography movement.
In an episode that opens with unfurling flowers and the words of the delightful porn star, educator, and artist Annie Sprinkle, Aldarondo depicts the violence of the era’s advertising and pornography, and the women who were making – or enjoying – pornography and sex work, proudly and on their own terms. In a response to the 1978 cover story Erotica and Pornography: Do You Know the Difference? Sprinkle and her colleagues, the writers and adult film actors Veronica Vera and Gloria Leonard, led a protest outside the Ms office. The staff hadn’t “invited anyone from our community to come to the table”, says Sprinkle, despite adult film stars’ expertise about an exploitative industry they were choosing to reclaim. “To see these women as fallen women,” says Aldarondo, “completely misses the mark.”
Behind the scenes, the staff themselves were at odds. Former staff writer Lindsy Van Gelder states: “I knew perfectly good feminists who liked porn. Deal with it.” Contending with the marginalization faced by sex workers, Ms ran Mary Kay Blakely’s cover story, Is One Woman’s Sexuality Another Woman’s Pornography? in 1985. The entire issue was a response to activists Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon’s Model Antipornography Law, which framed pornography as a civil rights violation and which Carole S. Vance, the co-founder of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force, describes in Dear Ms as “a toolkit for the rightwing” that ultimately endangered sex workers. Dworkin, says Vance, refused a dialogue; instead, the magazine printed numerous materials, the words of opposing voices, and the law itself to “reflect, not shape” readers’ views, says founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin. The hate mail was swift – including Dworkin’s, once a staff colleague: “I don’t want anything more to do with Ms – ever.”
Gu reveals something far more frightening than hate mail, a horror that didn’t make its way into the film: death threats and bomb threats, which the staff received in response to their most controversial stories. “There was actionable change that happened because of what these women did,” says Gu. “The danger they put themselves in is not to be discounted. I get emotional every time I talk about it … I have benefited largely from the work of these women, and I’m very grateful.”
That actionable change refers to the legislative reforms prompted by Ms’s coverage of domestic violence and workplace harassment. In A Portable Friend, Gu examines the 1975 Men’s Issue, the 1976 Battered Wives Issue, and the 1977 issue on workplace sexual assault. “Back then, there was no terminology if a woman was being hit by her partner at the time,” says Gu. She spotlights heartbreaking archival footage of women sharing their experiences with abuse: “If it’d been a stranger, I would have run away.” Van Gelder herself reflects on the former partner who hit her. “Did you tell anyone?” Gu asks. “Not really.”
In an archival clip, Barbara Mikulski, former Maryland senator and congresswoman, says: “The first legislation I introduced as a congresswoman was to help battered women. I got that idea listening to the problems of battered women and reading about it in Ms” Adds Levine: “We brought it into the daylight. Then there was the opening for battered women’s shelters, for legislation, for a community that reassured and supported women.” The same idea applied to workplace sexual harassment: “If something doesn’t have a name, you can’t build a response,” Levine exclaims. “The minute it had a name, things took off and changed.”
Gloria Steinem and staff. Photograph: Jill Freedman/HBO
Gu shared that while “there’s a little bit of questioning as to whether it was Ms who coined the term [domestic violence], they were certainly the first to bring the term into the public sphere and allow for a discussion”. The Working Women United Institute eventually collaborated with Ms on a speak-out on sexual harassment.
Despite obstacles, the scholar Dr Lisa Coleman, featured in Part I, describes the publication as one “that was learning”.
“It’s easy to be critical at first,” says Koroma, “but after talking to the founders, you realize that these women come from a time when you couldn’t have a bank account. It’s so humbling to talk to the women who were there and who are a large part of the reason why I have what I have now.” Gu noted that the lens of the present day can be a foggy one through which to understand Ms — which, in truth, was “completely radical,” she says. “You weren’t going to read about abortion in Good Housekeeping. You have to plant yourself in the shoes of these women at that time.”
Our elders endured different but no less tumultuous battles than the ones we face now, many of which feel like accelerated, intensified iterations of earlier struggles. “Talk to your moms, to your aunts and grandmas,” Koroma added. Aldarondo agreed: “One of the great pleasures of this project, for all of us, was this intergenerational encounter and getting to hear from our elders. It’s very easy for younger people to simply dismiss what elders are saying. That’s a mistake. I felt like I already understood the issues, and then I learned so much from these women.”
Allies of Tim Davie fear a mounting list of problems could affect his leadership of the BBC for weeks to come, as Labour continues to press the corporation over its livestreaming of Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance.
Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, is understood to have presented BBC executives with a list of questions about the handling of the event at a meeting on Tuesday. It comes after Bobby Vylan, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, one of the punk-rap duo, led chants of “Death, death to the IDF”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces, on Saturday.
Ministers want to know how the BBC deems an event suitable for a live stream, as well as who has the final say on cutting a feed. Similar questions were also submitted to the broadcaster by the Commons culture select committee.
Davie has come under increased pressure since it emerged he was at the festival on Saturday evening and was informed about the events that unfolded on stage. He decided the performance should not feature in any further BBC coverage, but it remained on the iPlayer service for several hours.
It is understood that there were technical obstacles to removing the content from the platform once it had been broadcast, with no instant way of removing it.
However, those sympathetic to Davie now fear a series of other problems could further destabilise the corporation. Nandy has already turned her fire on the BBC director general, stating that one editorial error was “something that must be gripped. When you have several, it becomes a problem of leadership”.
Bob Vylan frontman, Bobby Vylan, crowd surfs during his performance on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury festival. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
On Wednesday, Channel 4 will broadcast a documentary about the plight of medics in Gaza that was dropped by the BBC, which said showing the film “risked creating a perception of partiality”. The film has significant support among BBC staff.
Meanwhile, a report on the making of another Gaza documentary is expected within weeks. The BBC pulled the programme How to Survive a Warzone in February after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
It is also awaiting the outcome of an inquiry into allegations of inappropriate behaviour by the MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace. While the investigation has been ordered by Banijay UK, MasterChef’s production company, it could have implications for the BBC.
Wallace’s lawyers have said it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.
Sources said the BBC board would also be alarmed at the events at Glastonbury and the backlash since. “The danger is not the optics of this single issue, but the three or four things coming down the road,” said a source. “It’s just whether these things get seen through a leadership prism.”
The viewing numbers of the Bob Vylan performance on the live stream were understood to have been low, with the West Holts stage they appeared on experiencing the lowest demand of all five live streams – though the corporation has not given an exact figure. Nevertheless, clips of the performance were soon widely shared on social media.
There has been significant fallout for the band. Avon and Somerset police are investigating their performance, as well as that of Irish rap group Kneecap, who appeared directly after Bob Vylan and led chants of “Free Palestine”. Kneecap’s set was not livestreamed.
Bob Vylan have had their US visas withdrawn ahead of a planned tour. The band said they had been “targeted for speaking up” over Gaza, adding: “Silence is not an option.”
“Today, a good many people would have you believe a punk band is the number one threat to world peace,” they said in a statement online. “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people.
“[We] are not the story. We are a distraction from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction. The government doesn’t want us to ask why they remain silent in the face of this atrocity? To ask why they aren’t doing more to stop the killing? To feed the starving?”
Sir Ephraim Mirvis, the UK’s chief rabbi, said the event was a “national shame”. He wrote on X: “The airing of vile Jew-hatred at Glastonbury and the BBC’s belated and mishandled response, brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat antisemitism seriously to a new low.
“It should trouble all decent people that now, one need only couch their outright incitement to violence and hatred as edgy political commentary, for ordinary people to not only fail to see it for what it is, but also to cheer it, chant it and celebrate it. Toxic Jew-hatred is a threat to our entire society.”
Lisbon, Portugal, 1 July 2025 – His Highness the Aga Khan and Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank, met today at the Diwan of the Ismaili Imamat in Lisbon, Portugal. Having last met at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC in February 2024, this was their first meeting since His Highness assumed office as the 50th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and Chair of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
They discussed matters of mutual interest, including development priorities in Afghanistan and the wider Central Asia region, Syria, addressing the climate crisis, expanding clean energy in Africa, and job creation.
The World Bank and AKDN have a long history of collaboration and partnership, spanning multiple countries and sectors, including energy, financial services and telecommunications, as well as agribusiness, community development, entrepreneurship, health, microfinance and tourism.
Apple’s iPads come with built-in productivity tools like Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, but if you’d like to explore new ways to maximize productivity and organize your life, there are many apps out there to help you.
Although the iPad started off as a device that could be used to stream content or browse the web on the go, Apple has essentially turned its iPads into computers that can handle a variety of different tasks for personal, work, and school use. As a result, there are numerous apps to help you do things like create a single place to organize your life or help you stay focused on your day-to-day tasks by blocking out distractions.
We’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones that are available on the App Store.
Goodnotes
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Goodnotes is one of the most popular iPad apps, and for good reason. The app is great for people who like to write out notes using an Apple Pencil; you can include both handwritten and typed text on one page and add things like images, stickers, and even doodles.
You can create a digital notebook with blank or ruled paper for notes, checklists, planners, and more. The app lets you export entire digital notebooks or specific pages into PDFs and other files.
Goodnotes is also great for drawing and sketching. While it’s not as advanced as some creativity apps like Procreate, Goodnotes is easy to use and perfect for quick sketches or diagrams.
If you’re attending a class or a meeting, you can also record audio notes that are synced to the moment you write. Plus, you can use AI to summarize your notes and help you write.
You can create three digital notebooks for free. If you want unlimited notebooks, you’ll have to pay $9.99 per year or a one-time fee of $29.99.
TickTick
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If you’re not a fan of your iPad’s built-in Reminders app, or you just want a more advanced to-do list and task management app, TickTick might be a good choice. You can use it for both professional and personal tasks.
The app lets you sync tasks across all of your devices and integrate your favorite calendar app. You can create checklists, set recurring tasks, upload attachments to tasks, share task lists to collaborate with others, and more.
If you want to develop a habit, such as meditating before bed, you can set your goals in the app and track your progress. And if you get an email but don’t have time to respond to it, you can turn it into a task to remind yourself not to forget to respond to it.
You can also add tags to your tasks to better manage them, and you can mark tasks based on their priority.
If you want to focus on a specific task, you can turn on the app’s “pomo timer,” which is based on the Pomodoro Technique that breaks work into focused intervals to maximize productivity.
TickTick is free to use, but if you want additional features like the ability to add up to five reminders to a task or more lists and tasks, then you’ll pay $3.99 per month or $35.99 per year.
Forest
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Forest is an interesting app that gamifies productivity while helping the environment. If you’re someone who struggles to stay on a task or are easily distracted, then this app might be good for you.
When you need to focus on something, you can open the app and plant a tree. Your tree will then grow as you focus on and finish your work. If you leave the app before the timer finishes, then your tree will wither and die.
You can set “Allow Lists” for different apps that you’re using to be productive, like an email app or Microsoft Word. The app also lets you track your productivity.
Over time, you create a digital forest that visualizes your productivity. If you’re competitive, you can share your forest with others to see how it compares to theirs. As you stay focused and grow virtual trees, you can earn coins that you can save to help plant actual trees around the world through tree-planting organization Trees for the Future.
Forest costs $3.99 to download, and you can buy in-app boosts to grow your forest and plant real trees faster.
Notion
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Notion is a great app for taking notes, managing tasks and workflows, organizing lists and habits, collaborating with others, and more. Instead of having to go to different apps to manage your calendar, tasks, and notes, you can get all of this done right within Notion.
You can integrate the different apps that you use, like Slack and Dropbox, in order to combine all of your workflows in one place. One of the great things about Notion is its flexibility and customization options. You can customize it to be what you need, whether it’s to organize your personal or work life, your schoolwork, or your passion projects.
If you’re not sure where to start, you can use templates to create things like a travel planner or a product roadmap. Notion also has an AI feature that helps you write and brainstorm ideas. Notion AI can help you get answers about your content and turn large amounts of data into digestible action items.
Notion offers a free plan for personal use. The company also offers an $8 per month Plus plan for small groups and a $15 per month Business plan for companies. You get 20 AI responses for free; after that you pay $10 per member per month.
Crouton
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Sometimes planning what to eat can take up a lot of time, leaving less time for other tasks, so it can be nice to have an app to help with that. Crouton, meant to help make cooking and meal planning easier, is great for organizing recipes and planning grocery lists.
You can import recipes from websites or even scan them from a physical cookbook. So, instead of relying on bookmarked or physical recipes, you can store them together in one place.
You can plan out your meals for the week, and if you get stumped on what to make one day, the app can generate a meal plan for you. Once you have planned your meals for the week, you can create a grocery list that includes all of the ingredients you will need.
Crouton also features an in-app timer, so you don’t have to use a different app when you have time-specific steps of a recipe. Plus, you can share your recipes with others, whether to tell your family what’s for dinner or if you came across a recipe that you know your friend would love.
Crouton offers basic features for free, but if you want unlimited recipes and additional features, there’s a $14.99 yearly subscription.
Freedom
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Freedom is a great app for blocking distractions in order to focus on your work and be more productive. You can start a Freedom session to block distractions across all of your devices for a select amount of time.
You can choose which websites and apps you want to block during that time. So if you’re getting work done on your iPad, but then try to open TikTok on your phone, you won’t be able to and will instead see a green screen.
The app lets you start a session right away, schedule an upcoming one, or set a recurring one. If you know that you need to be free of distractions at a certain time every day, you can set up a Freedom session to start at that specific time each day.
If you’re someone who listens to specific sounds to help you focus, Freedom offers a variety that you can listen to. For example, you can listen to the sounds of a coffee shop in a city like New York or Berlin, the sounds of birds chirping, calming instrumentals, and more.
The app, which costs $3.99 per month, is pretty easy to use and includes a series of different articles that feature tips on how to boost productivity and better understand digital wellness.
Notability
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Notability is a great note-taking app that lets you jot down thoughts, import and annotate textbooks, record audio, and sketch out ideas. The app is useful for both students and professionals, or even hobbyists.
You can choose to take notes with an Apple Pencil, text, or audio. If you’re trying to find something specific, the app lets you search your notes, including handwritten ones and any documents you have uploaded.
Notability also features AI-generated note summaries and the ability to work on two different notes side by side. Plus, you can test your knowledge with personalized quizzes based on the content in your notes.
If you need a place to start, Notability includes a gallery of templates for things like planners, study notes, to-do lists, and more.
Notability is free but offers a $4.99 monthly subscription for access to additional features like math conversion, automatic audio transcription, unlimited notes, and more.
Todoist
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Todoist is a simple and straightforward app that lets you record and organize tasks using natural language. You can add tasks like, “Plan next week’s work every Friday afternoon” or “Do homework every Wednesday at 6 p.m.” to quickly organize and plan your life.
You can sort tasks into “Today,” “Upcoming,” or custom filters to allow you to focus on what currently matters, which means that you only see what’s relevant when you need it.
Todoist can be used for organizing a variety of tasks, whether they’re related to work, personal, education, or management goals and reminders. Plus, you can link Todoist with your calendar, voice assistant, and dozens of other tools such as Outlook, Gmail, and Slack.
In addition to the iPad, you can also access the service from your iPhone and Apple Watch, while also syncing across desktop and all other devices.
Todoist’s basic features are available for free. You can unlock additional features, such as an AI assistant and a calendar layout for $4 per month with Todoist’s “Pro” subscription plan.
Update: This story originally ran September 2024 and and is updated regularly with new information.
The first season of Pokémon Horizons: The Series featured the debut of the Paldea region in the Pokémon animated TV series. Many beloved settings originally introduced in the Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet games, like Cabo Poco and Artazon Gym, shone brightly as a backdrop of the Rising Volt Tacklers’ adventures.
In Pokémon Horizons: Season 2—The Search for Laqua, the journey continues with the animation debut of the stunning land of Kitakami. Fans of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet will recognize several key Paldea and Kitakami locations from the games, while fans of the Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver games will be delighted for a glimpse of jaunty Johto. Here are six locations visited by Liko, Roy, and Dot over the course of Season 2 that you can also find in the video games!
We got a brief glimpse of Naranja Academy in Season 1 after the Brave Olivine first arrived in Paldea. But with Liko, Roy, and Dot enrolling in Tera Training at Naranja Academy, we finally get a deeper dive into the school that plays such a major role in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. Unlike the video games, where the player is enrolled as a full-time student, Liko, Roy, and Dot are temporary additions to the student population. But there’s still plenty of fun to be had at Naranja Academy, especially in the schoolyard, where the real action (battling) happens.
It’s always exciting to catch a glimpse of Pokémon Gym Leaders and their Gyms in the animation after seeing them in the video games, and seeing Cortondo Gym Leader Katy is no exception. Of course, Liko, Roy, and Dot are also drawn to Patisserie Soapberry, the bakery that sells the sweet treats made by Katy. Between the thrill of battling a Gym Leader and the mouthwatering appeal of snacking on expertly made desserts, Cortondo is an undeniably appealing location in the animation and the video games.
Roy suggests visiting Paldea’s Highest Peak as a method of cheering up Liko, who has suffered a crushing defeat in a Pokémon battle. And to Roy’s credit, Liko is eventually enthralled by the incredible views of the Paldea region…even if the Trainers did have to hike to the summit of Glaseado Mountain to get there. But if you happen to be playing Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet, you can visit Paldea’s Highest Peak via Flying Taxi. In fact, you can reach each of the Ten Sights of Paldea via Flying Taxi, from the sunny Secluded Beach to the intense Fury Falls, as long as you’ve visited them at least once before.
The Rising Volt Tacklers finally arrive in Kitakami, where they find themselves enjoying the magic of a harvest festival at Kitakami Hall. Decked out in festive attire, the Rising Volt Tacklers gleefully embrace everything the festival has to offer, from delicious food stalls to challenging games. Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet players might recognize the colorful celebration, although it happens to be called the Festival of Masks in the video games. Whatever you prefer to call it, Kitakami Hall is a happening destination in both the animation and video games.
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet boast 23 unique biomes with different types of Pokémon appearingin each. The bamboo forest biome occurs in both Paldea and Kitakami, filled with lush vegetation. In the animation, Liko, Roy, and Dot have an intense showdown with Kleavor, who lures the trio into a bamboo thicket to gain the advantage in its battle against them. Kleavor cleverly uses the sound generated within the unique environment to avoid attacks from opposing Pokémon, proving that there’s more to the bamboo biomes than pretty scenery.
After adventuring across Kitakami, the Rising Volt Tacklers find themselves in Olivine City in Johto, which happens to be Ludlow’s hometown. The Brave Olivine is docked beside the iconic Olivine Lighthouse. The striking structure doesn’t play a major role in this episode of the animation, but if you happened to play Pokémon Gold or Pokémon Silver, you might recall that this was where the player first met Jasmine, the Olivine Gym Leader. Jasmine was at the lighthouse caring for an Ampharos named Amphy, who served as the lighthouse’s beacon.
Following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer for dialogue, detained Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders from Lahore have expressed their willingness to engage in political negotiations.
In an open letter addressed to the government, the senior incarcerated leaders proposed a political dialogue to help steer the country out of its ongoing constitutional and political crisis. However, they made it clear that no talks would be possible without prior permission to meet the PTI founder.
The letter, signed by senior PTI figures Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry, and Umar Sarfraz Cheema, emphasised that the country is facing one of its worst political and constitutional crises, and that comprehensive negotiations are the only viable path forward.
The leaders called for dialogue not only at the political level but also involving state institutions to ensure that all stakeholders can move ahead with mutual trust. They stressed that political discussions must begin immediately and should include PTI leaders currently imprisoned in Lahore jails.
A key point raised in the letter is that access to Imran Khan is essential before any negotiation committee can be formed or any decisions finalised. Without the PTI chairman’s guidance, they said, no meaningful or representative dialogue can take place.
The letter further insists that one-time access to Khan would not suffice. Instead, regular consultations must be ensured so that leadership input remains continuous and the negotiation process remains effective and result-oriented.
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The development comes as PM Shehbaz last week extended a formal invitation to the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for direct talks.
According to sources, the exchange reportedly took place just before the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on reserved seats, during a National Assembly session when he approached PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, initiating a brief but meaningful conversation, including a handshake.
The PM was quoted as saying: “Let’s sit and talk — negotiations are the solution to everything. I’ve said this before and I’m saying it again: we must talk.” Barrister Gohar responded succinctly with an optimistic, “InshaAllah” (God willing).
Zara Tindall addresses her hopes for her childrens’ future
Zara Tindall recently tugged at the heartstrings of royal fans via her bittersweet candor, and honest admissions about her children.
In a chat with Bella magazine, the daughter of Princess Anne and mother to three kids admits some of her traits have even managed to peek out through her kids, Mia, 11, Lena, 7 and Lucas 4.
“My personality is coming out in the kids, and there are some parts that you love and some that you don’t like,” she is quoted saying.
Especially since as a parent “every day there is a different dilemma or problem”, although an ‘incredible’ one she admits.
She even shared her hope for her children’s future and added that as a mother one hopes that one can “instil in them the values that you hold and from both of us, what we have learned from our careers and our hard work, dedication, motivations, lessons and respect.”
Near the end, she also acknowledge all the struggles that come with modern day parenting too.
“It is so easy to be distracted from that kind of thing, so we try and work every day to make sure they get the same values that we had,” she added to the outlet all before signing off.
