The holiday

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It's a buyer's market with price falls everywhere from Victoria's Portsea to Sunrise Beach in Queensland.

CBA predicts a cash rate peak of 3.35 per cent to be reached in February 2023. “These areas have come off, just like prices in the cities,” says Robert Millar, a property consultant for more than 35 years. “Buyers are looking for properties that do not require any renovation or maintenance,” Jensen says. ”COVID-19 spurred the sea and tree-changers, but interest rates have taken out first home buyers. “Interest rate rises have begun to bite,” de Bomford says. Connect with Duncan on [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Falling prices do, however, present opportunities for those wanting to buy a seaside property, as a holiday home or full-time residence. “Buyers can’t get enough of really premium seaside property. “There are no longer the ‘refugees’ who fled the cities during COVID-19 for rural and coastal addresses. The timing of a peak in the cash rate is “highly uncertain”, says Tim Lawless, CoreLogic’s head of research. In Victoria’s Portsea, the numbers of buyers and sellers has dropped off in the lead-up to the Christmas sales period, says Liz Jensen, a director of Portsea’s Kay & Burton. In tropical north Queensland, Barbara Wolveridge, a director of Sotheby’s, says demand for luxury property is strong and that flooding in southern states is causing buyers to consider tropical regions.

It's party season! Bring some fun to your next gathering with a savory pie that conceals a cheesy filling of butternut squash and chard.

But doing so means there is a moment of anticipation, of delayed gratification, as the dish is brought to the table. It’s there in the pulling of Christmas crackers or the crumbling of a fortune cookie, to reveal the message or joke inside. Constance Spry did not need to pile what is essentially a salade niçoise into a tomato and put the lid back on it, but the fact that she did brought something special to the table. But you never know, I might well be wearing my butternut squash-colored sweater to hide all the crumbs that will surely fall, as we all tuck in. The thing that those tomatoes have — that all “fun” get-togethers so often have — is that surprise element of “ta-da!” The anticipation, the not knowing what’s inside something, is half the fun. I’ll be thinking of her stuffed tomato as I drape a layer of pastry over the chunks of squash, sautéed leek, chard, rich cream cheese and tangy feta that I’ll be serving to friends and family this holiday season. Of course, this is back in the days of polishing silver and glasses, devising themed menus, trimming flowers to below eye level. All the ways in which pomp and ceremony were injected into a party to make it feel special. On the other hand, it’s easy to feel surrounded, hemmed in even by the advice on how to best navigate it all. There is something, though, about the image of Spry’s needlessly stuffed tomatoes that stays with me. Season the inside. On one hand, we’re expected to kick back and relax — it’s the party season!

We've found words from poets, writers, and sages from the ages to help you cheer, comfort, or inspire your guests this season. For a pitch-perfect toast, simply ...

Make room for what is to come. No matter what you encounter, remember that God’s abounding grace will be covering your every step.”—Reverend TD Jakes Make new mistakes. We’ve found words from poets, writers, and sages from the ages to help you cheer, comfort, or inspire your guests this season. Put down what you no longer need to carry. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may…celebrate!

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There should be no long queues at the Beaumont Bridge during the holiday period. Over Labour Weekend in late October, a faulty traffic signal system ...

The transportation of bulk material to the bridge site should be completed by March next year. All vehicles can use the detour. The operations centre could manually adjust the signals if there were significant traffic flows in one direction.

Over 50 kids and staff were treated with gifts and a chance to watch the game in a suite.

Chicago is in the cross-hairs of a powerful winter storm that could become a “bomb cyclone” — with deep snow, searing winds and an Arctic chill ...

Concerns about illness or inflation aren't stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might.

The average round-trip airfare rose 22% to $397 in the second quarter of this year — the most recent period available — according to U.S. The weather added uncertainty to what was expected to be a busy travel season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said coronavirus cases and deaths have increased in recent weeks, and the trio of COVID-19, seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) continues to stress the health care system. Ebenhoch said passengers have the right to ask the airline to book them on a different airline’s flight if there are no options that meet their needs. There was also an uptick in the number of people planning to stay with friends or family instead of at hotels. But consumers need to read the fine print carefully. The heaviest snow is expected in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, according to the National Weather Service, and frigid wind will be fierce across the country’s mid-section. 30 to be the busiest days at U.S. “The system is so large and so encompassing in the U.S., there’s actually about 190 million people currently under some type of winter weather advisory.” airports, with traffic expected to be close to pre-pandemic levels. The Christmas weekend could be the coldest in decades. By Friday, the arctic front is forecast to spread bone-chilling cold as far south as Florida.

A powerful winter storm is expected to blanket a large swath of the United States with bitterly cold weather, heavy snowfall and life-threatening wind ...

flights scheduled between Wednesday and Friday have been canceled, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware. The Arctic front will then arrive, causing wet roadways to freeze and ice to form on power lines. That could drive temperatures to record-breaking lows on the Gulf Coast and in Florida and the eastern United States by Friday, Oravec said. Hundreds of Texans died in February 2021 after wintry storms overburdened the state's grid and millions of customers lost power. Freezing weather and sub-zero wind chills, cold enough to induce frostbite on exposed skin within just a few minutes, are expected as far south as Texas. "That's the kind of changes that are going to be occurring as this front pushes southward: rapid temperature drops, sometimes 50 or more degrees colder than the previous day," Oravec said.

Airlines are closely monitoring the storm and are likely to preemptively cancel flights as the forecast becomes clearer.

Be smart: If your plans are flexible, try to rebook your flight, or hit the road early, to avoid the storm's peak impact Thursday and Friday. Why it matters: The storm is expected to interfere with both passenger travel and cargo transport across a vast stretch of the U.S., Axios' Joann Muller and Andrew Freedman A massive winter storm is expected to hit the heart of the country just in time for the holidays, and even SFO — the nation's

A powerful arctic winter storm will make its way through the US and Canada this week, bringing with it crippling snow and freezing temperatures.

The storm will also bring life-threatening frigid temperatures that are 40 degrees Fahrenheit below average. Chicago's National Weather Service branch has warned of a "significant threat to life for anyone stranded in the storm", as the wind speed is expected to be greater than 88km/h/ The National Weather Service in Brooklyn, New York has called it a once-in-a-generation winter weather event, especially as the storm reaches the Great Lakes region, where its pressure is expected to reach the equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane.

Forecasters say a “bomb cyclone” will tear through much of the U.S. this week and that travelers could face cold, snow and rain. What can you do if your ...

“If you hit a patch of ice and begin to skid, try to stay calm and resist the urge to slam on the brakes,” Ms. [sign up for our weekly Travel Dispatch newsletter](https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/traveldispatch) to receive expert tips on traveling smarter and inspiration for your next vacation. “Instead, look where you want the car to go and steer in that direction.” If your airline is dropping change fees, it may be possible to get on a better flight than what you originally booked. airlines with green check marks](https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-customer-service-dashboard) next to the services they offer when flights are delayed or canceled for reasons that the airline controls, such as staffing. That’s 3.6 million more than the number of people who drove during the holiday season in 2021 and nearly as many as in 2018, when 102.5 million people hit the roads. This is true even if a flight is canceled because of the weather. Keyes said this could be an opportunity to take advantage of the expected chaos. Airlines define what a “significant delay” means though two or three hours for a domestic flight should be a good rule of thumb. What are your options if your flight is delayed or canceled? [Forecasters say](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/us/winter-storm-snow-cold-christmas.html) vast swaths of the Central and Eastern United States could be hit with a blast of Arctic air that could ice runways and freeze roadways. [are predicted](https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd) from the Northwest to the Northeast this week.

People in the US are preparing for some of the coldest weather in recent memory as the Christmas holiday approaches.

Authorities have urged precautions to protect vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and the unhoused, and they warn that power outages could potentially occur. through Hanukkah and into the week of Christmas. “The system is so large and so encompassing in the US, there’s actually about 190m people currently under some type of winter weather advisory.”

Just as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, an artic front in the Midwest and and record-breaking cold temperatures along the Gulf Coast and in the ...

The eastern 2/3 of the country will be impacted by a strong low pressure and associated arctic cold front through the holiday weekend. [thousands of canceled, or delayed, flights](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/27/1139327883/flights-delayed-canceled-holiday-travel-thanksgiving) and [skyrocketing airfares. [numbers not seen since before the pandemic,](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/24/1139147054/this-years-holiday-travel-season-is-going-to-be-as-chaotic-as-pre-pandemic-level) with nearly 113 million people expected to travel at least 50 miles from home this holiday season, [according to the American Automobile Association. Extreme cold, heavy snow, damaging winds, and even heavy rainfall with flooding are all likely. Heavy snowfall and wind gusts could lead to tree damage and power outages near the Great Lakes. ](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1131903418/holiday-flights-pricey-packed-book-now-fares-rise)A handful of airlines already are [rebooking flights](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144628846/airlines-holiday-travel-winter-weather-storm) for customers as the weather makes travel more difficult — and potentially deadly.

Extremely cold arctic air is expected to plunge southward and impact much of the country through Hanukkah and into the week of Christmas, December 22–26, ...

A series of systems moving onshore in the Pacific Northwest will lead to several rounds of heavy precipitation this holiday weekend. The intensity of the cold would pose a significant danger to anyone who becomes stranded in blizzard conditions. Sub-zero to single-digit temperatures are likely across the central Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Midsouth. [winter weather safety tips](https://www.weather.gov/safety/winter) and resources to stay safe before, during and after a winter storm. Rapid and significant temperature decreases associated with this system raises the potential for the flash freezing of bridges and roadways. Treacherous winter conditions associated with a strong winter storm will pose challenges for some holiday travelers.

An arctic blast and bomb cyclone will push through most of the US this week, and that's bound to bring disruptions for holiday travelers.

"Studies show that the first flights of the day are more likely to leave on time and arrive on time." Packing light and carrying on is a great way to save money and have peace of mind that your luggage will make it to your destination with you," Klee said. "The best way to ensure all luggage arrives safely to a traveler's destination is to not check a bag. Airlines have ramped up hiring, reduced capacity and built in reserves and buffers to improve performance, the organization said. "The number one thing, and I cannot stress this enough, is that you must get to the airport early and well before your flight time," said Thakkar. the visibility is too low" to land, Bangs said. "Most Northern-tier airports are geared up to handle snow, but there is no easy way to conquer widespread ice." That huge winter storm, what the National Weather Service is calling a ["once in a generation type event,"](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/weather/christmas-arctic-winter-storm-wednesday-wxn/index.html) is delivering deadly cold, possible blizzards and a proverbial lump of coal in our travel stockings. Keyes said December 22 and December 23 are typically the busiest travel days leading into Christmas. US air travelers had a decent run of it over the July Fourth, Labor Day and Thanksgiving holidays with largely favorable weather conditions. (CNN) —Winter certainly is arriving with a bang in the United States. Scott Keyes, founder of discount travel site [Scott's Cheap Flights](https://scottscheapflights.com/), told CNN this week that "our luck might have finally run out."

As the Christmas countdown ticks closer, travelers are scrambling, heeding advice to reconsider their holiday travel plans as winter weather brings the ...

"If your travel plans are flexible and you believe that weather impacts them, go ahead and try to make the changes if you can now. Even when my parents came to pick me up it was hard to move around at all. I was supposed to leave tomorrow,” said Scott.

Concerns about illness or inflation aren't stopping Americans from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. But a massive winter storm might. Forecasters predict an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds from Thursday to ...

And if the airline cancels the flight, consumers have the right to a full refund, not just credits for future travel. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said coronavirus cases and deaths have increased in recent weeks, and the trio of COVID-19, seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, continues to stress the health care system. The average round-trip airfare rose 22% to $397 in the second quarter of this year — the most recent period available — according to U.S. Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, said fee waivers give airline passengers valuable time ahead of a storm to figure out alternate days and routes. Blancq had to take a bus to Logan from his seasonal job in New Hampshire and was unsure of the storm’s path. The weather added uncertainty to what was expected to be a busy travel season. In Montana, several ski areas announced closures Wednesday and Thursday due to the extremely cold temperatures and sustained winds. Kelli Larkin arrived Wednesday from Florida for a holiday trip to New York. Schools were also closed due to the cold. Greyhound canceled bus service on 25 routes for Wednesday and Thursday, including service from Las Vegas to Denver, Denver to St. Earlier this week, those two airports said they had 350 pieces of snow removal equipment and 400,000 gallons of pavement de-icing fluid on hand for the storm. The Christmas weekend could be the coldest in decades.

Life-threatening blizzards and bone-chilling winds are forecast across much of the United States over the next few days, threatening chaos for millions ...

Paul, Chicago and Denver. [wind](https://phys.org/tags/wind/) gusts of over 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour and snow will result in blizzard conditions from the northern and central Plains to the Great Lakes, creating "extremely dangerous [travel](https://phys.org/tags/travel/) conditions for both drivers and [air travel](https://phys.org/tags/air+travel/)." The National Weather Service (NWS) warned on Wednesday that a powerful winter storm would produce "a multitude of weather hazards" across the northern, central and eastern parts of the country.

The NBC10 First Alert Weather Team is issuing a FIRST ALERT from noon Thursday through Saturday night for a powerful storm that will bring several forms of.

This storm system will be impacted most of the East Coast and Upper Midwest with disruptive wind, rain, blizzard conditions, and dangerous cold. The most intense and painful cold will be felt Friday night into Saturday morning with wind-chills -5 F in the City to -15F in the Poconos. In addition to icy spots from the re-freeze, a band of gusty snow showers is possible with briefly low visibility Friday afternoon. Another huge element of the storm that we need to prepare for is the temperature freefall on Friday. The strongest winds look to take place late Thursday night and again on Friday. This same storm will plow its way across the country arriving in our area Thursday morning.

Forecasters predict​​ an onslaught of heavy snow, ice, flooding and powerful winds from Thursday to Saturday in a broad swath of the country.

And if the airline cancels the flight, consumers have the right to a full refund, not just credits for future travel. The average round-trip airfare rose 22% to $397 in the second quarter of this year — the most recent period available — according to U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said coronavirus cases and deaths have increased in recent weeks, and the trio of COVID-19, seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, continues to stress the health care system. Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, said fee waivers give airline passengers valuable time ahead of a storm to figure out alternate days and routes. Blancq had to take a bus to Logan from his seasonal job in New Hampshire and was unsure of the storm's path. The weather added uncertainty to what was expected to be a busy travel season. In Montana, several ski areas announced closures Wednesday and Thursday due to the extremely cold temperatures and sustained winds. Kelli Larkin arrived Wednesday from Florida for a holiday trip to New York. Greyhound canceled bus service on 25 routes for Wednesday and Thursday, including service from Las Vegas to Denver, Denver to St. Schools were also closed due to the cold. [stopping Americans](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winter-storm-travel-disruptions/) from hitting the roads and airports this holiday season. Earlier this week, those two airports said they had 350 pieces of snow removal equipment and 400,000 gallons of pavement de-icing fluid on hand for the storm.

Brock Purdy and offensive linemen Alfredo Gutierrez and Nick Zakelj handed out Christmas cards to 49ers teammates on Tuesday.

But most of the time, the group simply eats at the team facility. The 49ers' design team got involved and the image was born. For the team’s Halloween party, Purdy and Zakelj dressed up as Dr.

Biting wind and heavy snow are expected across 17 states this week, sending temperatures plummeting as low as minus 30 F in some areas.

this week could lead to frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes. The region could see another blast of snow and ice on Thursday. "Low visibility will create even more dangerous travel conditions on top of snow covered roadways," the NWS says. Frostbite is another risk for those trying to brave the cold, the NWS says. For the eastern U.S., heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday could result in snow or sleet in the Appalachian states on Thursday. The Cascades mountains in Washington state are likely to see the heaviest snowfall on Tuesday, but nearby lowlands in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming could see a foot of snow, according to the NWS.

A powerful winter blizzard is expected to paralyze much of the U.S. with heavy snow, high winds, and freezing temperatures.

[FlightAware](https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/). Are You Protected?](https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/is-your-business-protected-from-natural-disasters/438810) [winter blizzard](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/weather) will hit a large portion of the U.S. But as of Wednesday night, 200 million people were under extreme weather alerts as the storm moved eastward toward the Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes. Described as a "bomb cyclone," the storm will bring heavy snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures, disrupting travel plans for millions of Americans. [Christmas](https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/christmas) out.

Here are movies that tackle some of the tough stuff behind the holidays with intelligence and wit. By Jeremy Adam Smith, Steven Barnes, Shanna B. Tiayon | ...

The message is that people do, in fact, change, but that change is really, really difficult to accomplish, and none of our self-improvement makes suffering and death go away. Through the course of what seems like more than a decade, he is only present and aware of his experiences on Christmas. There’s a lot of truth in Spirited, it seems to me, and despite the movie’s zippy, feel-good vibe, some of its truths are actually quite hard. Spirited starts with a question: “Do people really change?” The rest of the movie explores the answer, in some very entertaining ways. It’s the story of a closeted lesbian (MacKenzie Davis) who brings her girlfriend (Kristen Stewart) home for Christmas, where they have to pretend to be straight with politically and culturally conservative parents. In addition to women being too often valued for only their looks, there’s a lot of bad behavior on the part of men that is never punished and is sometimes even rewarded. It is a holiday movie, but one that is well outside of the American paradigm. Well…Love, Actually is as much a romantic comedy as a Christmas movie, and most of its nine distinct storylines peddle some of the rom-com genre’s most sexist, heterosexist tropes. It’s all so sweet that no one in their right mind, it seems to me, could argue with its message, which is that the followers of Jesus Christ have a responsibility to lift others up and to make everyone feel welcome, no matter how much they’re struggling. To lift his spirits and give him a purpose, his friends put him in charge of a school play—but that doesn’t go as well as anyone hopes. In retrospect, the ’80s and ’90s were a strange time for Christmas movies. At the start of the movie, George is contemplating suicide—until an angel helps him to see his life in a new way.

After your 20th Elf viewing, don't you think it's time for a little change?

[his 1985 review](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/invasion-usa-1985). has morphed into a cult classic, escorted safely through history by Chuck Norris [with a big gun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RU22xHga0). Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) take a decade, from college in Chicago to adulthood in New York City, to find out the truth as to whether men and women can be “just friends.” In their case, maybe not, but they can certainly love hard and long, in bookstores, and on the Upper West Side, and under white lights at a New Year’s party. [Batman: Arkham Origins](https://kotaku.com/batman-arkham-origins-the-kotaku-review-1451970358). For this reason, it can prove an abstruse watch if you lack some familiarity with the story, and though I can hardly perform addition and subtraction, I was thankful for the first time in my life that I learned to read Middle English in college. government is awesome and rugged, b) American men are awesome and rugged, c) explosions. But since then, either out of finding comfort in careless, simple politics or the undeniable razzle dazzle of a good explosion, [of which there are many](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D69WiRoMBo) in this movie, Invasion U.S.A. does the ‘80s action movie thing, the Predator, Blue Thunder, First Blood thing, and makes its three crucial elements a) the U.S. Jack Frost (1998) Better Watch Out, on the other hand, is a holiday horror through-and-through. I wouldn’t mind never seeing Elf again (though part of me will always want to know what Even so, I wouldn’t pass up a snuggly Christmastime screening of You’ve Got Mail if the situation was sufficiently dire.