That behavior, coupled with their ability to reproduce rapidly without a mate, gives them an advantage over predators, McCay said. The glossy worms can be either gray or brown, with a smooth cream or white collar that wraps entirely around part of their bodies.

When touched, they thrash from side to side, jump, and may even slither back and forth like a snake.

"A smaller increase than that agreed at preceding meetings was warranted given that the cash rate had been increased substantially in a short period of time and the full effect of that increase lay ahead," the minutes said.

The sports marketing film, which made its world premiere at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March, tells the story of how Nike, a fledgling athletic shoe company in the early 1980s, was able to pull off a Michael Jordan endorsement deal.

While Jim Chalmers said it was too early to tell how much damage the floods would do to the federal budget and the economy more broadly, he said the disaster would be factored into the budget's inflation projections.

NFL owners converged in New York on Monday for their quarterly meeting, where players' health and safety were expected to be among a wide variety of topics discussed. (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York Editing by Toby Davis and Lincoln Feast)

Matt Damon has had his hands full in recent weeks shooting his latest film, The Instigators, while promoting the biographical sports drama Air, that was directed and co-stars his old buddy Ben Affleck.

Timothy McCay, a biology and environmental studies professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. But their existence went largely unnoticed - or perhaps underreported - until the past decade, when ecologists flagged them as problematic, according to Dr.

Rising interest rates have added 35 per cent to the average monthly mortgage repayment, with Canstar's Steve Mickenbecker urging mortgage holders to stress-test their own budgets and consider refinancing before the financial stresses get worse.

"It's important that borrowers do something now rather than wait until they are desperate, as the options they have now may dry up if they delay action until their situation is dire," Mr Mickenbecker said.

McCay, whose research focuses on understanding how the worms invade intact forests, and their effect on forest biodiversity, cautions that "gardeners should do what they can to avoid spreading jumping worms to new areas." Because the worms typically move into forests from nearby gardens, he said, control in home and community gardens is necessary to slow their invasion into natural habitats.

"The risk remains for another hike in February and we are mindful of the ongoing shifting into firmly restrictive territory and outsized rate hikes by much of the global central banking community," they said.

Comedian Jan Boehmermann reported in his late night TV programme ten days ago that the council had since 2020 counted among its members Berlin-based Protelion GmbH, previously known as Infotecs, a subsidiary of a Russian company founded by an ex-KGB employee.

Arne Schoenbohm came under scrutiny in recent weeks after a satire TV show highlighted his ties with a cybersecurity consultancy which counted as a member a German subsidiary of a Russian firm founded by a former KGB employee.

The NFL already has a stranglehold on Thanksgiving broadcasts, with its annual lineup of Thursday games as common as turkey on the table in households across the United States for the annual American holiday.

Although their annual life cycle ends in winter, Asian jumping worm cocoons survive to spawn a new generation in spring.

Their tiny eggs are nearly impossible to notice in soil or mulch, but adult worms, which range from 3 to 8 inches long, are easy to spot close to the soil surface and can often be seen moving under mulch or leaf litter, McCay said.

"Thanksgiving is synonymous with football and we're excited to give our fans another day of NFL action during this holiday weekend," NFL Media Chief Operating Officer Hans Schroeder said in a statement.

Jen - best known for her role as feisty Mercedes McQueen in the Channel 4 show - commanded attention in a form-fitting green dress with a daring thigh-high split as she greeted onlookers inside the exclusive Soho venue.

13, 2020, image provided by Kaleigh Gale shows a captured Asian jumping worm in Portland, Conn. The species is distinguished from other earthworms by the presence of a creamy gray or white band encircling its body.

But McCay said picking them out by hand and dropping them into containers of vinegar will reduce their numbers. He knows of one gardener in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, who removed 51,000 worms that way in 2021.

If a north-south divide really does exist, it was well in evidence on Monday as the Yorkshire based Emmerdale battled cockney soap EastEnders for the lion's share of accolades at the 2022 Inside Soap Awards.

Inspect the soil clinging to plant roots and in the ground surrounding them. In addition, McCay advises, do not dispose of waste from infected gardens into nearby forests, and share only plants that have been repotted after their roots have been cleaned of clinging soil. Keep an eye out for the worms´ castings, a tell-tale sign of their presence.