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Associated Press News | 2015-03-10 19:06:22+00:00 | [] | en | # US military hopes to learn from victim of chimp attack
By Susan Haigh
March 10th, 2015 07:06 PM
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BOSTON (AP) — Charla Nash never served in the military. She was horribly disfigured, not in combat, but in a 2009 attack by a rampaging chimpanzee. The Pentagon, though, is watching her recovery closely.
The U.S. military paid for Nash's full face transplant in 2011, as well as face transplants for a small group of other civilians. The agency is also underwriting Nash's follow-up treatment at a combined cost estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in the hope that some of the things it learns can help young, seriously disfigured soldiers returning from war.
In the coming weeks, for example, Nash will take part in a military-funded experiment in which doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital will try to wean her off the anti-rejection drugs she has been taking since the transplant.
Nash jokes about sometimes feeling like a science project. But the 61-year-old daughter of an Air Force veteran said she gets real satisfaction out of letting the doctors use her for research, and she sees it as an opportunity to help wounded soldiers and "do something good out of all of this bad."
"They asked me, could they? I said, 'Yeah, I'd be thrilled to help out in any way I could,'" said Nash, a former Connecticut resident who now lives on her own in Boston with the help of part-time aides.
Nash lost her nose, lips, eyelids and hands when she was mauled by her employer's 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut. Doctors also had to remove her eyes because of a disease transmitted by the chimp.
She later received new facial features taken from a dead woman. She also underwent a double hand transplant, but it failed when her body rejected the tissue.
Now blind, Nash spends most of her days listening to AM radio and books on tape — lately, "War and Peace" — in her modest, second-story apartment. She also exercises a couple of days a week with a trainer at a gym to build her strength and stay healthy. A GoFundMe account is being set up to help raise money for prosthetic hands, which would not be covered by the Department of Defense.
Her life today is a stark contrast to her younger years, when she was a barrel racer on the rodeo circuit from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Over the years, she also did some horse-jumping, worked on a farm and manned a computer help desk. She was working as a dispatcher for a towing company at the time of the attack.
About every six weeks, Nash undergoes lab tests for the military at Brigham and Women's. She is also subjected to MRIs and CT scans to determine how well her brain is sending signals to her new face. In addition, doctors examine how well the arteries are delivering blood to the transplant.
The military is also interested in such things as any scarring around the mouth and how well her eyelids work.
"It makes sense for us to look at the civilian community and the experiences that are gained through the involvement of non-uniformed people to assess if this is a good solution for the military," said Dr. Brian Pfister, a portfolio manager for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine research program.
About 35 full or partial face transplants have been performed worldwide since the first one was done in France in 2005. The Defense Department estimates 560 soldiers have suffered severe facial wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of those, about 50 or 60 might be candidates for a face transplant, Pfister said.
The Pentagon is providing grants to 14 medical facilities across the U.S. through its hand and face transplantation program. The face and the extremities are the two most frequently injured parts of the body in war.
The new experiment, involving the suspension of anti-rejection drugs, will eventually include other patients, and its findings could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of people, military and civilian alike, doctors said.
The immunosuppression drugs that transplant patients are typically given for the rest of their lives carry such risks as cancer, viral infections and kidney damage. Because of those dangers, many transplants of non-vital body parts, such as thumbs, are not considered worth doing.
But that could change if the drugs don't have to be a lifelong commitment.
"Suddenly, it's not as crazy to think about transplanting individual fingers or an ear," said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who led Nash's transplant surgery team.
Nash will be switched to a different substance, Interleukin-2, which is normally used to treat skin and kidney cancers. The hope is that it will promote growth of good cells that protect the transplant while attacking those that want to reject it.
Pomahac said Nash is doing "remarkably well" and has experienced very few rejection episodes, making her a good candidate for the experiment.
"I think there's an overarching purpose in her life. She really wants to help in whatever way she can," he said. "She's very much a forward-looking woman." |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:38:56+01:00 | [] | en | # Family of Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann return home
By Ruth Bashinsky and Emma James
July 27th, 2023 04:38 PM
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The tearful family of suspected Gilgo serial killer Rex Heuermann has returned home to Long Island nearly two weeks after he was first arrested.
Asa Ellerup and her two children, Victoria, 26, and Christopher, 32, looked solemn as they arrived back at the torn-up property at 10.30am on Thursday, with their family dog.
The family was last seen crossing a Best Buy parking lot after Asa filed for divorce from the suspected murderer.
Suffolk County detectives accompanied them back into their home and were seen leaving less than an hour later.
Asa clutched a black handbag as she entered the home for the first time since Heuermann's arrest, with her daughter carrying a blue water bottle, bag and notebook.
Christopher became emotional as he sat on a bench outside the property in Massapequa Park with his mother, who looked overwhelmed.
He walked outside the home to take the pooch outside before re-entering the property in Massapequa Park. Multiple cats were removed from the property in their absence.
Heuermann, 59, had lived in the property with his wife, stepson, and daughter for more than a decade after buying the home from his mother in 1994.
His wife was at the property when authorities raided it on July 14, with her lawyer saying the family had been 'blindsided' by the murder charges.
Robert Macedonio said: 'Obviously this has been a shocking time for them and a pretty difficult time to comprehend.
'As with any family, it's extremely upsetting and they're totally shocked and caught off guard. The family doesn't want to make any further comment than that.'
He added that police seized the family's passports, computers, phones and iPads as part of the investigation.
Cops finally finished scouring the property for evidence, after digging up the backyard of the property and used ground-penetrating radar to search for any disturbances.
Authorities spent 12 days removing possible evidence from the property, after discovering a soundproof room under the home.
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said cops had found a 'tremendous amount of information' during the search, which included cadaver dogs.
They removed 297 guns from the vault, and warned that authorities have to a 'massive amount of material' to catalogue and analyze which would take some time.
Heuermann was arrested on July 13 outside of his property in Midtown Manhattan and charged with the deaths of sex workers Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Lynn Costello.
Officials say that he is the main suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who was discovered on Gilgo beach in 2010, and anticipate charging him with her killing.
The architect pleaded not guilty to killing the three women, and is next due to appear in court on August 1.
He is also being investigated for the murders of six others whose bodies were found in Gilgo Beach in 2011.
Sources claim that some of the victims may have been killed in the architects home, but law enforcement say they are unable to confirm if this is the case.
Heuermann is accused of killing the women while his family was out of town, with investigators finding his hair and his wife's on the bodies of some of the alleged victims.
He is accused of killing them, before posing them in a specific way and wrapping them in burlap bags which were later found at Gilgo Beach.
Since his bombshell arrest in Manhattan, the once quiet block where the married father lived, has become the scene of a media circus and a popular destination for crime junkies.
Dozens of people from all parts of Long Island and further abroad have been seen stopping to catch a glimpse of the active crime scene, as forensic teams comb the Massapequa Park home for evidence.
But locals say the influx of visitors has made their lives hell, and they're fearful of how much worse it'll get when police conclude their investigation at the property this week.
Mayor Daniel Pearl confirmed that they are looking into purchasing the First avenue home, and would possibly demolish it to discourage ghouls from seeking souvenir photos, or stealing items to sell.
Officers are stationed around the property at all hours to ward off unwanted visitors and property is also under 24-hour video surveillance. Anyone found ogling the home will be issued a $150 summons.
Detectives are now looking into unsolved murders across the country to see if they are linked to Heuermann.
Cops are probing whether he operated in the Atlantic City area, and have been interviewing jailed sex workers who interacted with him.
The investigation now covers four states - Heuermann owns a time-share in Las Vegas and a property in South Carolina - and police are investigating if he could be connected to any unsolved killings there.
Officers executed search warrants at his home in Chester, South Carolina, and recovered a green Chevrolet Avalanche truck they believe is connected to the suspect and one of the murders and transported it back to New York.
Cops in Rock Hill, just 20 miles from where Heuermann bought the wild 18-acre plot of land, where his brother lives, confirmed they are looking anew at the case of Aaliyah Bell Hall who went missing in 2014.
Investigators revealed that they moved to arrest Heuermann over fears that the suspected murderer could strike again.
Cops had Heuermann under surveillance since last year, and had planned to continue to follow him as they built their case.
They decided to make the arrest in the interest of 'public safety,' Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-07 23:09:25+00:00 | [
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"West Africa",
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"Politics"
] | en | # 5 dead, 2 expats, in shooting at restaurant in Mali capital
By Baba Ahmed
March 7th, 2015 11:09 PM
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A masked gunman sprayed bullets in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali's capital early Saturday, killing five people including a French person and a Belgian national, officials and witnesses said.
Al Mourabitoun, or The Sentinels, a northern Mali jihadist group allied with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar. It often receives messages from Malian extremists.
Nine people were wounded including two experts at the U.N. mission, said the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali in a statement. The two are Swiss soldiers and are being flown to Senegal for treatment, said the Swiss Defense Ministry.
Witness Ibrahim Coulibaly described the attack.
"I saw a masked person with a great weapon like a machine gun go up the stairs to the bar and at first I thought it was a joke, but a few second later, I heard a first shot. People started shouting and then came a burst of gunfire. It was then that I realized it was serious. I hid," said Coulibaly.
"Then the hooded man came down the stairs, past the bar, and he saw the Belgian citizen who was getting into his car and he shot him," said Coulibaly. "And then the attacker got in a car and left. He did not talk to anyone, he said nothing."
Another witness, Hamadou Dolo, gave a different account, saying he saw two gunmen run out of the establishment and jump into a car driven by an accomplice.
Mali's president and prime minister visited the scene and called it "a criminal and terrorist act." A government statement said an investigation has been opened and pledged to bring the perpetrators to book.
France and Belgium condemned the attack at La Terrasse, the restaurant and bar in Bamako, and their foreign ministers confirmed the deaths of their nationals.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders denounced a "cowardly act of terror." French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said the Frenchman killed was 31 years old. Fabius said "everything must be done to find those responsible for this crime."
The Belgian killed was a security officer for the European Union, said EU president Donald Tusk. "The European Union will not be intimidated by terrorism, at home or abroad," said Tusk. "We will remain steadfast in support of Mali and its people."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, currently visiting France, called the attack an act of cowardice. "In the end, that only strengthens our resolve to fight terrorism in all of its forms wherever it exists." Kerry said such acts don't intimidate but have the "exact opposite effect."
Two people who were at the scene were questioned to determine what happened, said a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Mali police investigators and French and U.N. police officers visited the scene Saturday.
La Terrasse is in Bamako's Hippodrome neighborhood where many expatriates live is a restaurant, bar and nightclub popular on a Friday night for salsa dancing.
French President Francois Hollande's office said security had immediately been tightened around French facilities. A statement from his office said the French embassy has set up a crisis cell to help expatriates in Bamako.
Hollande spoke with Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to show his support on Saturday. Hollande and the Malian president "decided on common measures to strengthen security in Mali," a statement from the French president's office said without elaborating on measures. They also looked at ways to cooperate in the investigation.
France immediately opened a judicial inquiry, a standard procedure when a citizen is killed which allows French officials to carry out a parallel investigation, according to a judicial official in Paris who spoke on condition of anonymity because she is not authorized to speak on the matter.
The U.N. Security Council, in a press statement issued Saturday, "condemned in the strongest terms" the terrorist attack in Bamako and called on the government of Mali "to swiftly investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice."
French forces led a military operation in early 2013 that largely expelled al-Qaida-linked extremists from a vast area they had controlled in northeastern Mali. The military operation in that region continues, and sporadic combat and clashes take place there. Violence has been rare in Bamako despite the continued upheaval in the north. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:33:24+01:00 | [
"Indonesia"
] | en | # Horrifying moment snake charmer is fatally bitten by his pet cobra
By Eleanor Dye
July 27th, 2023 04:33 PM
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This is the horrifying moment a snake charmer was fatally bitten by his pet cobra while trying to kiss it during a village show in Indonesia.
Abdul Munir, 20, was taunting the killer reptile on the dusty ground near his home in Central Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday afternoon.
He was about to kiss the beast when the enraged reptile reared up and bit him on his nose - sinking a fiery burst of deadly venom into his bloodstream.
Abdul was rushed to the local clinic but the toxins had already paralysed his vital organs and he could not be revived before medics had the chance to send him to a hospital.
The young man was pronounced dead at the Kusuma Wardani Clinic in the village of Jatiharjo.
Adjunct Commissioner Siswanto, Chief of the Panunggalan Sector Police, said: 'The incident occurred at around 4:45 pm. Then it was reported at 7.20 pm.
'We received the report that the victim was bitten on the nose when he was about to kiss the snake's head.
'He became dizzy and fell before local residents evacuated him to a health service. The victim died while being treated at the clinic.'
His family had just arrived to see him before he succumbed to the snake bite around 20 minutes later. His body has now been taken away for religious rites and cremation.
Video footage shows the fatal moment Abdul moved closer to his snake so that the two were face-to-face.
But the snake suddenly lunged for his face in the middle of the show, clinging to his nose with its teeth as he tried to move away.
Police said that Abdul and several friends had made money by performing primitive snake charming shows at different villages in the Grobogan Regency of the archipelago.
The troupe of reptile enthusiasts would collect tips from locals and sell them their wares. However, the deadly hustle was cut short following the death in Pulokulon district.
Abdul's friends told police they would not carry on with their dangerous hobby.
Police chief Siswanto added: 'The victim was in the process of being transferred to a larger hospital better equipped to handle cobra bites when he died.
'We have advised everybody not to continue this kind of activity as it is very dangerous.'
Cobras are one of the world's deadliest snakes. A single bite attacks the nervous system causing paralysis, respiratory failure, and death.
However, cobras will also inflict 'dry bites' without releasing venom if they sense that only a warning is needed to remove a threat. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-31 01:30:10+00:00 | [] | en | # Mexico closes clinic where Australian woman died
March 31st, 2015 01:30 AM
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's medical regulatory agency has closed the operating rooms of a Baja California hospital where a young Australian woman died following cosmetic procedure on her buttocks.
The agency said Monday that the doctor who performed the procedure is under investigation for possible medical negligence. It identified him as Victor Manuel Ramirez Hernandez.
The Del Valle Surgical Hospital In Mexicali Baja California was partly closed and will face fines after it was found to have expired medications, equipment that had not been maintained and other failings.
The commission said the Australian woman died March 20 after undergoing procedures on her buttocks and abdomen, but her name could not be immediately verified by consular offices.
Mexican authorities have suspended 80 plastic surgery and esthetic clinics or offices for violations since late 2012. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:48:16+01:00 | [
"Cost of Living Crisis"
] | en | # Struggling families to get £94 cost of living payments
By Madison Burgess
July 27th, 2023 04:48 PM
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Families who are struggling with the cost of living crisis are due to receive a payment of £94 directly into their bank accounts in the coming days.
The money comes out of a pot of £842 million from the Household Support Fund, administered by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Local councils in England can choose how to share their portion of the fund, so what a resident gets is based on where they live.
Residents will receive either direct bank transfers or vouchers for food and utility services, depending on what your local council has chosen to do.
Eligibility will vary for each area so you can check on your local council's website to find out the criteria.
If you're unsure what your local council is, you can check using the Government's council finder tool by entering your postcode.
Walsall Council will be making direct payments to households in receipt of council tax reduction and also have children included on the claim.
The payment will be £140 per child paid in three instalments during the year - the first payment was made in April and the other two will be made in August and December.
So, if you're eligible, you will be getting a £94 payment by next week.
They are also proposing additional help through Walsall's Local Welfare Provision Scheme and households can make a direct application for support.
The proposed criteria for any award is:
Cornwall Council are using their portion of the fund to provide one-off cash payments to help with the increased cost of living. They are awarding:
What each local council chooses to do will be different, so keep an eye on their website for updates and information.
Eligible residents will get the money paid directly into their bank accounts without having to do anything.
However, if you think you fall into the above criteria you can still apply on the Government website.
The process is different based on which council you fall under and not all of the application windows are open yet so you will need to check your local council's website for all the details. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:55:54+01:00 | [
"Glasgow"
] | en | # Man, 40, to go on trial for killing brother-in-law in shooting spree
By Louis Goss
July 27th, 2023 04:55 PM
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A 40-year-old man is set to stand trial in Glasgow over claims he murdered his brother-in-law in a shooting spree on the Isle of Skye.
Finlay MacDonald is accused of killing father-of-six John MacKinnon, 47, with a shotgun at his home in the village of Teangue on the 10 August last year.
MacDonald is separately charged with the attempted murder of his wife Rowena MacDonald, 33, and two other people the same day.
He is accused of stabbing his wife and killing MacKinnon before travelling 30 miles to the village of Dornie and shooting John Donald MacKenzie, 63, and his wife Fay, 63.
MacDonald, who denies all charges against him, will now face a trial at the High Court in Glasgow on 14 May 2024, following a preliminary hearing today.
Prosecutors claim MacDonald killed Mr MacKinnon by repeatedly shooting him with a shotgun, after having previously shown 'malice and ill will' towards the father-of-six.
MacDonald is earlier alleged to have tried to kill his wife at her home in the village of Tarskavaig.
He is accused of struggling with her and repeatedly stabbing her with a knife, in an attack that caused severe injury, permanent disfigurement, permanent impairment and endangered her life.
Prosecutors allege the offence was aggravated 'by involving abuse of your partner or ex-partner'.
After killing Mr MacKinnon, MacDonald is alleged to have attempted to murder chiropractor John Donald MacKenzie and his wife Fay.
The alleged attacks on the couple - both 63 at the time - happened around 30 miles away at their home in Dornie, Wester Ross.
MacDonald is said to have fired a shotgun at Mrs MacKenzie hitting her on the head and body.
He is then accused of discharging the weapon at her husband striking the man on the body.
Similar to the charge involving his brother-in-law, MacDonald is also said to have directed previous ill-will towards Mr MacKenzie.
MacDonald finally faces an accusation of possessing a shotgun with intent to 'endanger life'.
The indictment states he did attend at and travel between the different properties while armed with the firearm and ammunition.
MacDonald's lawyer Shahid Latif said: 'He pleads not guilty to the charges on the indictment.'
Mr Latif said defence inquiries are on-going, but said he was content for a trial to be fixed.
Along with prosecutor Lisa Gillespie KC, he also asked for a further hearing to take place before then in December this year.
Lord Fairley went on to state: 'I will assign a trial of seven days duration for May 14 in Glasgow.'
Two crowdfunders at the time set-up to help the affected families reportedly raised more than £70,000.
Mr MacKinnon's funeral took place in Sleat on Skye with up to 800 people at the service.
Police Scotland chief constable Iain Livingstone said following the incidents: 'This was a very tragic and extremely concerning incident in a remote part of Scotland.
'It is a very difficult time for John MacKinnon's family.' |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-05 21:57:07+00:00 | [
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"Bashar Assad",
"Benjamin Netanyahu",
"Islamic State group",
"Barack Obama",
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"Dubai",
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"North America",
"John Kerry",
"United Arab Emirates",
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] | en | # Netanyahu's Iran speech gains tacit support in Saudi Arabia
By Aya Batrawy
March 5th, 2015 09:57 PM
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fiery speech this week before the U.S. Congress, in which he argued against an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, has received tacit support from an unlikely quarter -- Saudi Arabia.
The oil-rich Sunni kingdom views Shiite Iran as a regional rival that is perhaps even more menacing than Israel.
That was clear in a string of columns this week published in Saudi state-linked media, which is widely seen as reflecting official views and mainstream thought in the kingdom, and which voiced skepticism of President Barack Obama's efforts to broker a landmark nuclear agreement with Tehran.
"Who could believe that Netanyahu today has taken a better stand than Obama with regard to the Iranian nuclear file?" columnist Ahmed al-Faraj wrote, saying he was quoting a recent remark by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL). The opinion piece in the Saudi-owned al-Jazira newspaper on Monday, a day before the speech, reflects sentiment shared among some in the Gulf.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in the Saudi capital to ease Gulf concerns about the negotiations with Iran, which are aimed at reaching a framework agreement this month and a final deal later this year. Kerry is meeting with the foreign ministers of the Sunni-ruled Gulf states and the new Saudi monarch King Salman.
Like Israel, Saudi Arabia has long viewed Iran as an expansionist power that seeks to dominate the region through local proxies, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip and Shiite militias in Iraq. Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a proxy war in Syria, with the kingdom arming the rebels seeking to topple Iranian-backed President Bashar Assad.
In a column published in Asharq al-Awsat, a daily owned by King Salman's family, Abdulrahman al-Rashed wrote "Iran's fingerprints are everywhere."
"Iran is currently in an offensive state, the likes of which we have not seen in modern history," he wrote.
Netanyahu said as much to Congress, telling lawmakers that Iran is "gobbling up" nations in its "march of conquest, subjugation and terror."
Saudi Arabia is part of the U.S.-led coalition striking the Islamic State group, awkwardly putting it on the same side as Iran, which is battling the extremists through its allied Shiite militias in Iraq and by supporting Assad. The kingdom, like the U.S., has refused to coordinate its efforts with Tehran.
Netanyahu's argument that "when it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy," resonates in Riyadh, where the royal family is concerned about a possible U.S.-Iranian rapprochement.
Despite the alignment of interests, Saudis still view Israel as an illegitimate occupier of Arab and Muslim lands, and any kind of open alliance is out of the question.
An editorial in al-Medina newspaper ridiculed Netanyahu's insistence that he had traveled to Washington out of concern for Israel's security and not to boost his prospects ahead of elections later this month. The editorial said it was ironic that he spoke of Israel's need for security despite "hundreds of (Israeli) massacres against Palestinians and Arabs over more than six decades."
An editorial by the al-Sharq newspaper went so far as to suggest that Netanyahu wants to scuttle the deal in order to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons, "which will not be directed toward Israel, but toward the Arabs, so that Iran can see its project through and achieve what Israel could not." But the editorial did note that his assessment that Tehran is expanding was "right."
Saudi columnist Dawoud al-Shiryan wrote in al-Hayat that if Israel was so worried about Iran getting nuclear weapons, "why haven't they stopped it by force as they always do?" |
Fox News | 2024-06-15 00:01:38-04:00 | [
"donald-trump",
"presidential",
"defense"
] | en | # Trump vows to build Israel-style 'Great Iron Dome' over US if re-elected: 'Made in America'
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
June 15th, 2024 12:01 AM
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Former President Trump promised to build a "great" Iron Dome for the U.S. during his birthday rally in Florida, saying that it would be "made in America."
"By next term we will build a great Iron Dome over our country," Trump said at his 78th birthday soirée at Club 47 in West Palm Beach on Friday evening. "We deserve a dome. We deserve it all, made state of the art.
"It's a missile defense shield, and it'll all be made in America," he said. "Jobs, jobs, jobs."
Trump said that Ronald Reagan once rooted for an Iron Dome in the U.S., "but at that time, we didn't have the technology."
"We now have the technology," Trump said.
Trump said his proposed Iron Dome will be made in America and that it will create "beautiful" opportunities for young people.
"It's all going to be made in states," he said. "We're going to have a big, beautiful Iron Dome."
"Great opportunity for young people," Trump said.
Israel's missile defense system, or Iron Dome, is largely funded by the United States.
The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery fired from no more than 43 miles away.
Since its creation in 2011, the Iron Dome has rebuffed and destroyed rockets from Hamas militants, Palestinian forces and Iranian drones and missiles. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:36:58+01:00 | [
"Donald Trump",
"White House",
"January 6"
] | en | # Trump's lawyers meet with Special Counsel ahead of January 6 charges
By Wills Robinson
July 27th, 2023 04:36 PM
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Donald Trump's lawyers have arrived for crunch talks with Special Counsel Jack Smith's office as he braces for an indictment on his bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors on Smith's team met with Todd Blanche and John Laura - lawyers representing Trump - at the Department of Justice on Thursday, NBC News reported.
Smith is investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered with the transition of power after the 2020 election. He is also investigating Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and indicted Trump on 37-counts last month.
Trump confirmed last week that he received a target letter from the Department of Justice confirming he is the focus of the criminal investigation and that he expected to be arrested 'imminently.'
It will be the third set of criminal charges against Trump since he launched his campaign to return to the White House in 2024.
The grand jury looking into January 6 is also still convening and hearing from key witnesses in the case.
Trump has repeatedly slammed the January 6 investigation as a 'witch hunt' and claims it is election interference because he is leading in the polls. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-28 19:56:10+00:00 | [] | en | # Crash victim's father calls for more focus on pilot welfare
By Milos Krivokapic and Frank Jordans
March 28th, 2015 07:56 PM
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SISTERON, France (AP) — The father of one of the victims of this week's plane crash in the French Alps called Saturday for airlines to take greater care over pilots' welfare.
Prosecutors say they believe German co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately slammed the Germanwings aircraft into a mountain, and that he hid an illness from his employers — including a sick note for the day of the crash.
"I believe the airlines should be more transparent and our finest pilots looked after properly," said Philip Bramley, from Hull in northern England. "We put our lives and our children's lives in their hands."
His 28-year-old son, Paul Bramley, was one of 150 people killed in Tuesday's disaster.
Speaking near the site of the crash, Philip Bramley said Lubitz's motive was irrelevant. "What is relevant, is that it should never happen again; my son and everyone on that plane should not be forgotten, ever," he said.
Germanwings, the Lufthansa subsidiary that Lubitz joined in 2013, declined Saturday to comment when asked whether the company was aware of any health problems he might have had. But it said he had passed all required medical check-ups.
Aviation experts say those checks are stringent, but focus mainly on physical health. A pilot's mental state is usually only assessed once, before companies decide whether to admit them to a training program — and even then a determined person could hide a latent problem.
"The test that will get you into a Lufthansa flight training program is a very hard test and this is why most people who get into those pilot classes will train for those tests," said David Hasse, the editor-in-chief of German aviation website airliners.de.
"There are coaching facilities, companies that are specialized in training people on how to pass those tests, and they will also advise you on how to behave in the psychological tests."
Lufthansa said pilots are required to pass an annual medical test overseen by the German Federal Aviation Office, but the company itself doesn't perform checks on its staff and relies on them to report any problems.
German prosecutors, who have been trying to determine what caused Lubitz to take such a devastating decision, met with their French counterparts Saturday to discuss the preliminary findings of their investigation.
Duesseldorf prosecutors say Lubitz hid evidence of an illness from his employers — including a torn-up doctor's note that would have kept him off work the day authorities say he crashed Flight 9525.
Searches conducted at Lubitz's homes in Duesseldorf and in the town of Montabaur turned up documents pointing to "an existing illness and appropriate medical treatment," but no suicide note was found, said Ralf Herrenbrueck, of the Duesseldorf prosecutors' office.
Prosecutors didn't specify what illness Lubitz may have been suffering from, or say whether it was mental or physical. German media have reported that the 27-year-old suffered from depression.
Duesseldorf University Hospital said Friday that Lubitz had been a patient there over the past two months and last went in for a "diagnostic evaluation" on March 10. It declined to provide details, but denied reports it had treated Lubitz for depression.
Colleagues and acquaintances described Lubitz as an affable man in good physical health who was focused on a career as a pilot.
Detlef Adolf, the manager of a local Burger King near Montabaur, said Lubitz worked their temporarily as a teenager and was "reliable and punctual."
Frank Woiton, another Germanwings pilot, said Lubitz told him he wanted to become a long-distance pilot and fly Airbus A380 or Boeing 747 planes. Woiton, who like Lubitz comes from Montabaur, said he met Lubitz for the first time three weeks ago when they flew Duesseldorf to Vienna and back together.
Woiton told German public broadcaster WDR on Friday that Lubitz didn't stand out and appeared like any other colleague. Lubitz "flew well and knew how to handle the plane," he said.
Lubitz also frequented a gliding club near the crash site as a child with his parents, according to Francis Kefer, a member of the club in the town of Sisteron.
Kefer told i-Tele television that Lubitz's family and other members of the gliding club in his hometown of Montabaur came to the region regularly between 1996 and 2003.
The crash site is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) away from the Aero-club de Sisteron glider airfield.
Jean Pierre Revolat, the club's vice-president, said he didn't recall Andreas Lubitz, but said the pilot's family had been friends with a former president of the club.
"As such they were coming here often to fly until the year 2000, 2003. As far as I know, since then we haven't seen that family," he said.
The area, with its numerous peaks and valleys and stunning panoramas, is popular with glider pilots. In the final moments of the Germanwings flight, Lubitz overflew the major turning points for gliders in the region, flying from one peak to another, according to local glider pilots.
The plane shattered into thousands of pieces, and police are toiling to retrieve the remains of the victims and the aircraft from a hard-to-reach Alpine valley near the village of Le Vernet.
A special Mass was held Saturday in the nearby town of Digne-les-Bains to honor the victims and support their families. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:47:23+01:00 | [
"UFOs",
"US Congress",
"Aliens"
] | en | # What was the 'Tic Tac' UFO incident?
By Lauren Haughey
July 27th, 2023 04:47 PM
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UFOs have long captured the public's imagination, but never more so than during yesterday's US congress hearing into claims the American government is covering up its knowledge of alien craft.
On a day that sparked huge interest in the US and across the globe, the landmark panel heard from three key witnesses who shared their encounters with unexplained objects.
Among them was retired US Navy fighter pilot David Fravor, who once again reminded the world about his infamous encounter with a 'Tic Tac' shaped UFO 15 years ago.
'I'd like to say that the tic tac object we engaged in 2004 was far superior to anything that we had at the time, have today or looking to develop in the next 10 years,' he said.
So what exactly was the 'Tic Tac' UFO incident? And could the 'perfectly white, smooth' object with no windows that Fravor saw really have been an alien spaceship? MailOnline takes a look back at everything we know.
What actually happened?
Before we get to Fravor, it's important to mention another former US Navy pilot first.
Chad Underwood was the man who actually shot footage of the 'Tic Tac' UFO in November 2004.
He broke his silence in 2019, detailing for the first time his bizarre experiences while flying over the Pacific.
At the time, Underwood had been taking part in Navy carrier group exercises just off the coast of Mexico.
For around two weeks, their missile cruiser USS Princeton had been tracking a mysterious aircraft on an advanced electronic radar.
Contact with the craft was so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and checked for bugs - but operators continued to track it.
On November 14, then Navy commander Fravor claimed he made visual contact with this object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.
Underwood then also saw the strange object for himself just after Fravor urged him to keep a look out.
The former pilot told New York Magazine: 'So, we go out to where our designated training area is. We're not necessarily looking for something, but the Princeton had a specific object that they wanted us to hunt, for lack of a better word. And all of a sudden, I got this blip on my radar.
'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by "erratic" is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets,' Underwood told the magazine.
'Because, aircraft, whether they're manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.'
Underwood is the one who first coined the description 'Tic Tac' for the white wingless oblong that was captured from his cockpit's in-flight video.
While he dismissed the idea that it was aircraft, a bird or even a weather balloon, he is still unsure whether the object was human or non-human.
The Tic Tac incident caused a sensation in 2017 when the Pentagon confirmed that the footage was actually authentic.
It then resurfaced once again on Wednesday when Fravor joined two other military whistleblowers to speak at a US Congress hearing.
He assured officials that he was not a 'UFO fanatic' and said that the Tic Tac was 'far superior to anything that we had at the time'.
'If we, in fact, have programs that possess this technology, it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this country elected in office to represent what is best for the United States and best for the citizens,' he added.
Fravor described the Tic Tac object as being 'perfectly white, smooth and had no windows,' with 'two little objects that came out of the bottom'.
'I'm not like a UFO fanatic — that's not me. But I will tell you that what we saw with four sets of eyes over five minutes, still, there's nothing we have nothing close to it,' he said.
What else could it have been?
One theory is that it might well have been a radar reflector balloon used to gauge the abilities of enemy air defences.
Launched by a submarine, these specially-designed airborne devices actually date back to 1955, during the days of the Cold War.
It is unclear if such balloons are still used today, but given the covert nature of submarines it's not exactly something that defence chiefs would be shouting from the rooftops about.
The War Zone, an online magazine oriented towards national security and geopolitical coverage and analysis, first came up with the theory.
It said that being able to deploy balloons with radar reflectors while submerged would be a 'highly effective way' of getting a feel for an enemy's air defences.
'By sneaking in or near enemy territory, releasing these devices under the right weather conditions, and raising their low-observable electronic intelligence gathering masts, they could theoretically improve the quality of the intelligence gathered remarkably,' the magazine added.
It concluded that the Tic Tac UFO witnessed by the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group during its training exercise in 2004 could therefore have been 'a bunch of radar reflector and/or electronic warfare payload-carrying balloons'.
What could come of the congress hearing?
Fravor's testimony comes as the US Senate is considering a UFO Disclosure Bill which seeks to make make all information relating to 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (UAPs) public.
If passed, records will be publicly disclosed no later than 25 years after they are created unless the president believes their release would threaten national security. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-22 00:31:30+00:00 | [] | en | # Judge OKs punitive damages in California gender bias case
By Lisa Leff
March 22nd, 2015 12:31 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California trial judge ruled Saturday that a woman suing a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in a high-profile gender bias case may seek punitive damages that could add tens of millions of dollars to the $16 million in lost wages and bonuses she is pursuing.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn denied a request by lawyers for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to have Ellen Pao's demand for unspecified punitive damages thrown out. Pao, the interim CEO of the news and social networking site Reddit, claims she was passed over for a promotion at the firm because she is a woman and then fired in 2012 after she complained.
Kahn said there was enough evidence for the jury considering Pao's lawsuit to conclude that Kleiner Perkins acted with malice, oppression or fraud, which in California is the legal threshold for awarding damages that are designed to punish and deter particularly bad behavior.
"Per this standard, there is sufficient evidence from which a reasonable juror could conclude that Kleiner Perkins engaged in intentional gender discrimination by failing to promote Ms. Pao and terminating her employment," the judge said in the one-paragraph decision.
Kleiner Perkins has denied wrongdoing and says Pao didn't get along with her colleagues and performed poorly after she became a junior partner around 2010.
Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments in the case on Tuesday. Kahn's decision means he will instruct them before they start deliberating that they will need to decide, along with the validity of Pao's underlying sex discrimination claim, is whether she is entitled to punitive damages and if so, how much. Punitive damages often run much higher than the awards designed to compensate plaintiffs for financial losses.
The four-week trial on Pao's lawsuit has spotlighted gender imbalance at elite Silicon Valley investment companies that are stacked with some of the nation's most accomplished graduates who compete aggressively to back the next Google or Amazon. |
Daily Mail | 2024-04-03 11:37:06+01:00 | [
"Dana White",
"UFC"
] | en | # MMA star reveals he's received death threats after BITING his opponent
By Sam Brookes
April 3rd, 2024 11:37 AM
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Brazilian MMA star Igor Severino has revealed he's received online death threats after being disqualified for biting his opponent during a fight last month.
Severino, 20, faced his fellow countryman Andre Lima in a flyweight bout at UFC Vegas 89, but the fight was brought to an abrupt halt in the second round when Severino bit into Lima's bicep while attempting a takedown.
He was swiftly disqualified, and was cut from the UFC by the organisation's president Dana White within hours.
He has received backlash in the days since the incident, and Severino claimed threats had been made to him and his family.
'My social media was flooded with hateful comments, mean messages, people angry at what happened, and also threats,' he told MMA Fighting.
'I started to digest all that and feel bad too. I've made a mistake and I apologise to everyone.
'I'm sad because the internet is so polluted. I've made a mistake and I'm willing to pay for this mistake, recognise this mistake, but I haven't killed anyone, I haven't caused any harm or committed any crime, you know?
'To see people threaten me, threaten my family, makes me really sad and apprehensive, afraid. It leaves me heartbroken.'
Reflecting on the bite itself, Severino was at a loss to explain why it happened.
'There's no plausible explanation [for the bite], right?' he said
'I remember exchanging strikes with him, a close fight, but I was in autopilot mode after that elbow.
'I don't remember anything after that, the things I've said.
'I only started getting back to myself at the hotel, after a long while, and my team showed me the video of what I've done, and there's no explanation.'
Severino was unbeaten before being disqualified against Lima, having won his previous eight fights.
He opened up on the sacrifices he made to make it to the UFC, and still hopes he will get a shot at redemption in the future.
'I left my family as a teenager and spent two years without seeing my parents and my brother, working toward my dream, and managed to get to [Dana White's] Contender [Series] and the UFC,' he explained.
'That was a dream come true, and now it's gone like this. That hurts me inside. I could have a long future in the organization, but I'll own my mistakes and try to come back.
'I hope it's not a long suspension. I want to come back [to the UFC], I still have a lot to show.' |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 19:54:00+00:00 | [
"London",
"Climate change",
"Crime",
"Standard",
"News",
"Just Stop Oil",
"Protests",
"Metropolitan Police Service"
] | en | # Just Stop Oil activists can take part in 'peaceful' protests ahead of their trial
By Telegraph Reporters
December 11th, 2023 07:54 PM
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Judge says 'we are talking about competing rights' as he relaxes bail conditions of group charged after slow march across Waterloo Bridge
A group of Just Stop Oil activists who took part in a slow march across Waterloo Bridge were told they can continue to take part in "peaceful" protests ahead of their trial.
Stephen Simpson, 70, Barbara Lund, 70, David Mitchell, 62, Patrick Walker, 34, Andrew Bellis, 44 and Peter Lillie, 31, joined the demonstration on Waterloo Bridge on Nov 8.
They all denied an offence contrary to the Public Order Act 2023 at Southwark Crown Court on Monday.
According to the charge, the protesters "interfered with the use or operation of a key national infrastructure in England and Wales, namely Waterloo Bridge, intending that act to interfere with the use or operation of such infrastructure or being reckless as to whether it would do so".
The six were told they will not stand trial until 2025.
Judge David Tomlinson said he was prepared to relax earlier bail conditions, preventing five of the six defendants from coming within the M25.
He said the latest condition "does not stop anyone from taking part in a peaceful protest".
"What it stops them from doing is participating in a procession which prevents members of the public from going about their lawful business," he said.
"We are talking about competing rights here and this condition does not stop them protesting; it does, however, stop them from preventing people from going about their lawful business.
"This condition of bail is entirely proportionate to anyone who was given instruction by police.
"It is proportionate to try and stop any of you being accused of any further offences between now and the trial date."
Mr Simpson of Bradford, Ms Lund of Frome, Mr Mitchell of Bristol, Mr Walker of Newport, Mr Bellis of Cheshire and Mr Lillie of Bristol, all denied one count of interfering with the use of a key national infrastructure.
They will return to court for further hearings on Jan 19 and April 12, but their trial is unlikely to be heard until 2025.
The condition does not apply to Simpson because he has been allowed unconditional bail throughout. |
Haberturk | 2024-04-02 13:27:47+03:00 | [
""
] | tr | # Niğde OSB'de yatırım ve istihdam artıyor - Niğde Haberleri
By Habertürk
April 2nd, 2024 01:27 PM
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Devletin sağladığı teşviklerle son dönemde yatırımcıların ilgi gösterdiği Niğde Organize Sanayi Bölgesi (OSB), 6 bin 100 kişilik çalışan gücüyle ülke ekonomisine katkı sağlıyor.
Devletin sağladığı teşviklerle son dönemde yatırımcıların ilgi gösterdiği Niğde Organize Sanayi Bölgesi (OSB), 6 bin 100 kişilik çalışan gücüyle ülke ekonomisine katkı sağlıyor.
Kurulduğu 1986 yılında 112 parsel, 261 hektarlık alanda faaliyet gösteren Niğde OSB'de, bugün 705 hektar alanda 137 parselde 105 firma üretim yapıyor.
Yaklaşık 6 bin 100 kişinin istihdam edildiği Niğde OSB'de 26 parselde de yeni tesisler kuruluyor.
Niğde OSB Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Mustafa Altunbaş, yaptığı yazılı açıklamada, bölgesel ve sektörel teşvik programında yer alan Niğde OSB'de yatırımcıların KDV istisnası, gümrük vergisi muafiyeti, vergi indirimi, sigorta primi işveren hissesi desteği, yatırım yeri tahsisi, faiz desteği gibi avantajlardan yararlandığını belirtti.
OSB'nin, Niğde-Ankara Otoyolu'nun açılması, kentin limana olan yakınlığı, genç nüfusun fazlalığı, deprem riski az olan iller arasında yer alması nedeniyle yatırımcılar için cazibe merkezi haline geldiğini ifade eden Altunbaş, sanayicilere her alanda destek verdiklerini bildirdi.
Altunbaş, Niğde OSB'nin konum açısından ithalat ve ihracata elverişli, ihtisas gümrük bölgesi olmasıyla sanayicilere ciddi ekonomik kazanç sağladığını vurgulayarak, yoğun talep nedeniyle Niğde OSB'nin alanını genişletme çalışmalarının sürdüğünü ifade etti.
Güneş enerjisi sistemi (GES), atık su ve içme suyu arıtma tesisi, elektrik ve doğal gaz dağıtım hatlarıyla her türlü altyapı ve üst yapı çalışmalarıyla sanayicilere destek sağladıklarını belirten Altunbaş, şunları kaydetti:
"6 milyon dolarlık yatırımla 6 megavat kapasiteli güneş enerjisi sistemi OSB'ye yenilenebilir enerji sağlıyor. Ayrıca genişleme alanında çalışmaları devam eden 504 ve 41,7 hektarın yapılaşmaya uygun olmayan bölümlerinde oluşturulacak teknik altyapı alanlarında, Avrupa Birliği'nin Yeşil Mutabakat kapsamında Sınırda Karbon Vergisi Uygulaması'na hazırlanması ve ABD'nin de benzer uygulamalara gidecek olması, kullandığı elektriği yenilenebilir kaynaklardan sağlandığını kanıtlayan firmaların ihracat yapabilecek olması nedeniyle Niğde OSB'deki firmaların tükettikleri elektrik enerjisinin büyük çoğunluğunu karşılamak üzere yaklaşık 60 megavat kapasiteli GES tesisi kurularak yenilenebilir enerjiye ulaşılmasını planlıyoruz."
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Niğde haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Niğde Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
## Benzer Haberler |
Le Figaro | 2024-04-03 07:05:48+02:00 | [
"Trisomie 21",
"Actualité",
"actualité France",
"société",
"actualité société",
"société française",
"éducation",
"actualité éducation",
"actualité justice",
"justice",
"faits divers",
"sécurité",
"actualité sécurité",
"immigration",
"violence",
"polémique"
] | fr | # Jérôme Lejeune : ces archives qui attestent sa découverte de la trisomie 21
By Paul Sugy
April 3rd, 2024 07:05 AM
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Trente ans après sa mort, les biographes du célèbre généticien présentent de nouvelles pièces d'archive attestant le rôle majeur joué par le Pr Lejeune dans la découverte de la maladie, malgré des polémiques récentes.
Pour toute épitaphe on lui décerna ces quatre lettres, gravées d'or sur la modeste pierre tombale en granite : «NIKE» - pas la marque de sport bien sûr, mais la déesse grecque de la victoire. Le professeur Jérôme Lejeune est mort au petit matin de Pâques, voici tout juste 30 ans, le 3 avril 1994. Il s'apprêtait à recevoir la communion, en cette fête qui figure, pour le chrétien qu'il était, la victoire de la vie sur la mort. Mais une «victoire» plus personnelle l'a rendu célèbre dans le monde entier : la découverte en 1958 du chromosome surnuméraire responsable de la trisomie 21. On parlait encore de «mongolisme» ; c'est Jérôme Lejeune qui imposera plus tard le nom actuel de cette maladie congénitale. Avec la science, c'est aussi la dignité des personnes porteuses de la maladie qui a fait un bond en avant grâce à sa découverte.
Celle-ci s'inscrit dans une série d'avancées scientifiques qui ont marqué l'histoire de la génétique, et grâce auxquelles les travaux du Pr Lejeune ont pu aboutir. Les premiers chromosomes ont été observés au microscope à la fin du XIXème siècle ; les gènes n'étaient encore qu'un concept abstrait. On a longtemps compté 48 chromosomes sur le caryotype humain - c'est dire si leur observation restait une tâche ardue. Ce n'est qu'en 1956, qu'on établit qu'il n'y a que 46 chromosomes dans l'ADN humain.
À Paris, depuis 1937, le Pr Turpin postulait que le mongolisme est le résultat d'une anomalie chromosomique. Dans le laboratoire clinique de l'hôpital Trousseau où il dirigeait ses recherches, il espérait en avoir enfin le cœur net. À ses côtés depuis 1952, Jérôme Lejeune l'assistait en étudiant notamment les empreintes digitales des patients mongoliens. En 1956, l'arrivée au laboratoire de la jeune cardiologue Marthe Gautier, qui avait appris à Boston les techniques de culture cellulaire, permit de pousser plus loin les investigations génétiques. Le 22 mai 1958, Jérôme Lejeune écrivit dans son carnet d'analyse avoir compté «un chromosome surnuméraire» sur des tissus cellulaires d'enfants «mongolien». Le 26 janvier 1959, cette découverte fut communiquée pour la première fois au monde scientifique dans un article publié par l'Académie des sciences, et signé, dans l'ordre, par Jérôme Lejeune, Marie Gauthier (avec deux fautes d'orthographe qui disparaîtront lors des publications ultérieures) et Raymond Turpin.
Jérôme Lejeune acquit dès lors une renommée grandissante. Il a, depuis, consacré sa vie à poursuivre ses recherches sur la trisomie 21 ; aujourd'hui la Fondation qui porte son nom lève des fonds dans l'espoir de découvrir un jour un traitement à cette maladie. Outre sa carrière scientifique, le Pr Lejeune s'est également engagé contre le diagnostic prénatal (permettant de détecter en cours de grossesse une anomalie génétique sur l'embryon), au nom du respect de la dignité de la vie dès sa conception.
## Polémique posthume
Devenu par conséquent controversé à mesure que la pratique de l'IVG s'est banalisée dans les mœurs, le souvenir du Pr Lejeune a pâti en outre d'une polémique posthume, déclenchée en 2009 par la publication d'une lettre de Marthe Gautier dans la revue Médecine / Sciences de l'Inserm, un demi-siècle après la découverte de la trisomie 21. Dans ce texte, la cosignataire de l'article ayant établi pour la première fois l'existence d'un 47ème chromosome sur le caryotype des porteurs de trisomie 21 expose son sentiment d'avoir été la «découvreuse oubliée».
La scientifique y raconte son parcours, revenant longuement sur le séjour aux États-Unis au cours duquel elle a acquis la technique de culture cellulaire sans laquelle toute observation chromosomique aurait été vaine. Elle décrit la façon dont elle a installé, avec les moyens du bord, un dispositif similaire dans le laboratoire du Pr Turpin (qu'elle appelle «le patron»), éveillant peu à peu l'attention d'un «nouveau venu au laboratoire», le Pr Lejeune, un «stagiaire au CNRS» qu'elle dit n'avoir pas connu auparavant. Selon son récit, une fois obtenues des cellules d'enfants «mongoliens», c'est donc grâce à elle que l'observation du 47ème chromosome fut permise : «J'ai gagné mon pari, celui de réussir seule avec mes laborantines une technique et surtout de mettre en évidence une anomalie».
Pour «attester la présence» du chromosome surnuméraire, qui est plus petit que les autres, et «établir le caryotype», Marthe Gautier «confie les lames à Jérôme Lejeune qui fait faire les photos». Selon elle, le chercheur conserve les clichés sans les lui montrer, puis part six mois en Amérique du Nord pour une série de conférences sur son autre sujet de recherche, les radiations ionisantes. Le Pr Lejeune mentionne alors la découverte de la trisomie 21 lors d'un séminaire en octobre 1958, «comme s'il en était l'auteur», puis publie en urgence un premier article à son retour en France, pour «devancer inélégamment» une équipe anglo-saxonne sur le point de faire la même découverte.
«Je suis consciente de ce qui se dessine sournoisement, mais je n'ai pas assez d'expérience ni d'autorité», interprète rétrospectivement Marthe Gautier, ajoutant : «trop jeune, je ne connais pas les règles du jeu». Elle reconnaît toutefois qu'elle n'aurait de toute façon peu l'intention d'exploiter la découverte : «ma vie professionnelle se construisait ailleurs, vers la clinique» où elle commençait alors, en parallèle, ses consultations en cardiologie.
Ce que Marthe Gautier n'ose encore écrire noir sur blanc, par pudeur, d'autres l'ont vite écrit en toutes lettres en reprenant à leur compte le récit de cette spoliation : dans un monde scientifique encore trop masculin, la place des femmes dans la recherche avait été une nouvelle fois étouffée. Son récit fut repris dans toute la presse, et de nombreux journalistes y ont vu une nouvelle preuve de «l'effet Matilda», du nom d'une militante féministe qui avait dénoncé en son temps l'accaparation par les hommes de la propriété intellectuelle des femmes.
Le récit de Marthe Gautier a inspiré à la romancière Corinne Royer une œuvre mêlant fiction et biographie, Ce qui nous revient (Actes Sud, 2019), rédigée au terme de deux années passées en compagnie de la scientifique, décédée trois ans plus tard en 2022. On s'étonne auprès de l'écrivaine du délai entre la découverte de la trisomie 21, et de la revendication de sa... maternité, par Marthe Gautier. «Il faut se remettre dans le contexte de l'époque : elle n'avait aucun soutien, aucun appui, et elle aurait été mise au ban du monde scientifique» assure Corinne Royer au Figaro. «Marthe Gautier avait le choix entre se taire et poursuivre sa carrière de son côté, ou bien tout sacrifier à son combat pour être reconnue comme la véritable découvreuse de la trisomie 21».
La romancière ajoute que la Fondation Jérôme Lejeune, «extrêmement puissante», exercerait en outre une pression sur la communauté des chercheurs pour ne pas que soit remis en cause le rôle décisif joué par le Pr Lejeune. Et de présenter au Figaro, pour preuve, le courrier adressé par une cardiologue après publication du roman : «mes collègues et moi-même étant au courant de sa découverte de la trisomie 21 étions plein d'admiration pour elle». Une admiration silencieuse, donc, en raison d'une forme d'omerta.
## Une thèse démentie par les archives
Il n'est pas exagéré de supposer que la controverse sur la découverte de la trisomie 21 doit aussi beaucoup aux antagonismes éthiques ou idéologiques entre Marthe Gautier et Jérôme Lejeune. Ce dernier a échoué de peu à l'obtention du Prix Nobel - plusieurs membres du comité ont reconnu ensuite que ses positions sur l'IVG avaient joué contre lui. Or comme c'est chaque fois le cas lorsqu'une découverte majeure est nobélisée, le Pr Lejeune n'aurait probablement pas reçu le Nobel tout seul : Raymond Turpin et Marthe Gautier auraient été primés avec lui. Cette dernière conserve ainsi un grief important contre son ancien collègue.
Mais pour la biographe* du Pr Lejeune, Aude Dugast, membre de la Fondation Lejeune et postulatrice auprès du Vatican de la cause de canonisation du défunt professeur, cette animosité est apparue de nombreuses années plus tard. «Marthe Gautier a attendu la mort du Pr Lejeune et du Pr Turpin pour s'exprimer, alors qu'elle a entretenu au moins jusqu'en 1962, donc trois ans après la découverte, une relation amicale avec Jérôme Lejeune», affirme-t-elle. En effet alors que Marthe Gautier assurait ne pas connaître le Pr Lejeune avant 1958, les lettres qu'elle lui adressait un an plus tôt débutaient déjà en ces termes : «cher ami» ; plus tard en écrivant à sa femme, le Pr Lejeune la décrit encore comme «absolument charmante» avec lui.
Surtout, concernant la découverte elle-même, elle apparaît nettement dans le carnet d'analyse du Pr Lejeune dès mai 1958, réfutant l'idée selon laquelle la découverte aurait été d'abord faite par Marthe Gautier avant que Jérôme Lejeune y soit associé. Il avait lui-même appris à colorer les chromosomes pour les mettre en valeur sur les photographies prises au microscope. La correspondance du Pr Turpin au Pr Lejeune en octobre 1958 montre en outre que c'est bien à lui que le Pr Turpin attribue la découverte.
Tout le temps que dure le voyage du Pr Lejeune en Amérique, Marthe Gautier seule ne parvient pas à retrouver un 47ème chromosome, ce que fait à plusieurs reprises le Pr Lejeune à son retour, permettant ainsi de publier un premier article malgré les scrupules que lui inspire à l'époque sa peur de commettre une erreur en s'empressant de communiquer ses résultats. Enfin, six ans plus tard, lors d'une leçon inaugurale en 1965 pour sa nomination comme professeur de génétique fondamentale, Jérôme Lejeune loue sans détour «l'habileté» et la «ténacité» de Marthe Gautier, sans laquelle la découverte n'aurait pas été possible. Difficile dès lors de maintenir que Jérôme Lejeune aurait «invisibilisé» sa collègue.
L'hypothèse selon laquelle le Pr Lejeune aurait joué un rôle majeur dans cette découverte demeure de loin la plus plausible aux yeux de l'historien et archiviste Bruno Galland, directeur des archives du Rhône et professeur à la Sorbonne, qui a trié les archives de Jérôme Lejeune après sa mort . «Les carnets du Pr Lejeune, et la correspondance privée qu'il entretenait avec son épouse Birthe Lejeune, montrent clairement le rôle primordial qu'il a joué. Ces documents sont d'autant moins susceptibles d'avoir été falsifiés intentionnellement qu'ils n'avaient pas vocation à être rendus publics : ils dévoilent le for interne de Jérôme Lejeune à cette époque», note-t-il.
Davantage qu'une malice de la part de Jérôme Lejeune, la controverse avec Marthe Gautier renseigne d'abord sur la part que les grandes découvertes scientifiques doivent au travail d'équipe, alors que la facilité médiatique ou historique pousse souvent à ne les associer qu'à un seul nom. C'est ce que conclut l'avis du comité d'éthique de l'Inserm, saisi de cette question en 2014 : «De nos jours, les découvertes sont collectives et non plus individuelles». *Jérôme Lejeune. La liberté du savant, Aude Dugast, Artège, 477 p., 22 €. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:32:36+01:00 | [] | en | # What a 'twinkling' star sounds like: 'Eerily fascinating' noise
By Lauren Haughey
July 27th, 2023 04:32 PM
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Twinkling away in deep space, it's hard to imagine that some stars may sound like a 'warped ray gun'.
But state of the art technology suggests that's the case, after scientists created simulations which reveal the 'eerily fascinating' noises for the first time.
Researchers at Northwestern University unveiled what 'twinkling' stars sound like after converting the rippling waves of gas inside stellar cores into sound waves.
You may be surprised to know that these luminous spheres often blast noises like weather sirens and even distant humming in a 'windswept terrain', according to the US team.
'Waves emerging from the core of a large star, for example, make sounds like a warped ray gun, blasting through an alien landscape,' lead author Dr Evan Anders of the study said.
'But the star alters these sounds as the waves reach the star's surface.'
As part of this study, researchers developed the first 3D simulations of what really goes on at the heart of the star.
At the star's core, intense pressure squeezes hydrogen atoms together to form helium atoms and excess energy.
This energy gives rise to heat, which causes clumps of goo-like plasma to rise as if it were inside a lava lamp.
These waves usually then ripple outward to the star's surface where they compress and decompress the star's plasma, causing brightening and dimming of the star's light.
However, Dr Andres claims that other waves also become 'trapped' and continue to bounce around inside the star.
By understanding this, scientists were able to convert the rippling waves of gas into sound waves, enabling people to hear both what the insides of stars and the 'twinkling' should sound like.
Because the waves are outside the range of human hearing, researchers uniformly increased their frequencies to make them audible.
Depending on how large or bright a star is, Dr Anders says the convection produces waves corresponding to different sounds.
He continued: 'For a large star, the ray gun-like pulses shift into a low echo reverberating through an empty room.
'Waves at the surface of a medium-sized star, on the other hand, conjure images of a persistent hum through a windswept terrain.
'And surface waves on a small star sound like a plaintive alert from a weather siren.'
The team even passed songs through different stars to understand whether these masses have the ability to change their tune.
Audio clips from 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' were used to test this, in addition to a recording from 'The Planets' by classical composer Gustav Holst.
He added: 'We were curious how a song would sound if heard as propagated through a star.
'The stars change the music and, correspondingly, change how the waves would look if we saw them as twinkling on the star's surface.'
In another first, the Northwestern team also discovered how much stars should innately shine.
To do this, Dr Anders and his team developed a filter to understand how waves should bounce around inside of a real star.
When the filter was applied, simulations showed how the waves would appear if viewed through a powerful telescope.
Dr Anders said: 'Stars get a little brighter or a little dimmer depending on various things happening dynamically inside the star.
'The twinkling that these waves cause is extremely subtle, and our eyes are not sensitive enough to see it. But powerful future telescopes may be able to detect it.' |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-10 01:10:58+00:00 | [] | en | # Woman: Male colleague at venture firm 'relentless' in affair
By Sudhin Thanawala
March 10th, 2015 01:10 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The woman behind a high-profile gender bias lawsuit against a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified Monday that a male colleague was "relentless" in his pursuit of her and cut her out of email chains and meetings when she broke off their affair.
Plaintiff Ellen Pao appeared calm and composed as she took the witness stand for the first time in the case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The lawsuit has spotlighted gender imbalance at elite Silicon Valley investment companies that are stacked with some of the nation's most accomplished graduates— multiple-degree holders from schools such as Harvard and Stanford who are competing aggressively to back the next Google or Amazon.
But women are grossly underrepresented in the venture capital and technology sectors.
Pao is seeking $16 million in damages after claiming she was passed over for a promotion because she is a woman and then fired in 2012 after she complained.
Kleiner Perkins has denied wrongdoing and says Pao didn't get along with her colleagues and performed poorly after she became a junior partner around 2010.
In her testimony, Pao said she was given a poetry book by a senior partner in 2007 that featured drawings of naked women and poems on topics such as the longings of an older man for younger women. The partner also invited her to dinner one weekend while noting his wife would be out of town, she said.
"I thought it was strange, and it made me uncomfortable," she said.
Pao acknowledged having the affair with a male colleague, but said she broke it off when she learned he had lied that his wife had left him.
She said the colleague later retaliated by shutting her out of emails and meetings.
"He was relentless and eventually told me that his wife had left him," Pao told jurors, explaining why she got into the relationship with him.
When she raised the retaliation issue with management, a senior partner explained how he had met his wife at another company while he was married, and perhaps Pao could have the same outcome with her colleague, she testified.
She said she repeatedly complained that the colleague was retaliating against her but "Kleiner Perkins continued to do nothing."
Pao said it was humiliating not to be invited to an all-male dinner at Vice President Al Gore's apartment and have to explain to executives she ran into that she wouldn't be attending. Pao lived in the same building as Gore.
In another example of bias, she said she felt "very uncomfortable" about a conversation men were having about pornography aboard a private plane. The men were not Kleiner employees, but had been invited by a senior Kleiner manager, who Pao's attorneys say was present but did nothing to stop the conversation.
Kleiner Perkins' attorneys have tried to portray Pao as a chronic complainer who demanded credit for work done by a team, clashed with her colleagues, and twisted facts and circumstances.
Her attorneys were trying Monday to dispute that portrayal and establish their client's credibility and likeability with the jury.
During her testimony, Pao said she had a disagreement with a female colleague, but they improved their communication after spending more time together outside the office, as Kleiner Perkins management had suggested.
Pao also joked at times, noting she was huge in her eighth month of pregnancy and had given birth to a girl who acts like a boy.
She said she was an early backer of Twitter at the firm and helped develop another company that went public.
Steve Hirschfeld, an investigator hired by the firm to look into Pao's bias complaint, testified earlier in the day that she told him that her relationship with the male colleague was not consensual — a contention Hirschfeld did not find truthful.
Kleiner Perkins has said Pao did not complain about the book of poetry when she first received it. The firm also says the book was purchased by the wife of the senior partner who gave it to Pao, and that she has mischaracterized the dinner discussion.
Pao said she wrote a memo to the firm in 2012 saying that women were being treated differently after it seemed that three female junior partners were not going to be promoted.
She had also learned that a female employee claimed she had been sexually harassed, she said.
Hirschfeld said he concluded that Pao did not encounter any discrimination or retaliation at Kleiner Perkins.
Pao was expected to resume her testimony on Tuesday. |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 20:06:00+00:00 | [
"Christmas",
"Standard",
"Turkeys",
"News"
] | en | # 'Aggressive' pet turkey was too much for me - but don't cook her, says owner
By Genevieve Holl-Allen and Max Stephens
December 11th, 2023 08:06 PM
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Paul Griffiths, 53, took in the turkey, called Lurky, four months ago, before having to give her up after he became too 'aggressive'
A man who adopted a pet turkey only to discover it was an untrainable, aggressive thief had to appeal for a new owner to take the animal - and not onto their Christmas dinner table.
Paul Griffiths, 53, took in the turkey, called Lurky, four months ago, along with 17 ducks and three chickens, to live with him and his daughter Ophelia at their farmhouse in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Mr Griffiths, a construction worker, decided to adopt the fowl for Ophelia's mother, Louise, who died from a stroke in April aged 52 and was fondly known to the family as the "crazy chicken lady".
## Bird became 'aggressive'
However, he has now had to give Lurky up after the bird became "aggressive".
Turkey-Lurky would regularly jump onto the kitchen counter to steal food and chase Ms Griffiths around the garden.
"When we first got her she was very friendly, you would be able to literally pick her up," said the 21-year-old.
"So I tried to pick her up once, and then instead of her letting me do that, she basically just pecked my face and I had a massive bruise on my upper lip, she was horrible."
"She would run up to you with her wings out, obviously turkeys are quite big animals, with her wings spread, and try to attack you," she added.
## Adult turkeys can run up to 25 miles per hour
Adult turkeys can grow to larger than ten kilograms and can run up to 25 miles per hour.
Ms Griffiths, who owns a dog-walking business, added that Lurky tried to "pick fights" with the chickens, but that the birds would fly away.
"She would peck anyone, as soon as you step foot in that garden, she was on you," she said.
Lurky became "very aggressive" and "quite dominant in an area that she was in", Ms Griffiths explained. "If you went to her area she would get quite aggressive."
## Muscovy ducks also wreaked havoc
The flock of Muscovy ducks also wreaked havoc on the Griffiths' home, having already destroyed their garden and formed a "barricade" outside the house.
Speaking of the family's decision to take in the fowl, Ms Griffiths said: "It was more of a 'Oh let's get some ducks' and then all of a sudden we had too many ducks and it was just too much."
"They weren't allowed in the house, they were destroying all the grass and stuff, and it was becoming really muddy," she added.
"They are also very food-oriented animals, they would stand right outside the back door like 24/7 and you wouldn't be able to get outside with all of these ducks.
"It was like a barricade of ducks, it was crazy."
## New owner struggle to retrain Lurky
Feeding all the animals costs between £40 and £50 a month on corn alone, she added.
Experts believe that a new owner would struggle to try to retrain Lurky, or any of the other animals.
Dr Viola Ross-Smith, from The British Trust for Ornithology, told the BBC "that ship has sailed".
She added: "They have a pecking order and maybe Turkey-Lurky thinks he's the top bird in the whole house."
After issuing a Facebook appeal for someone with experience owning birds to rehome Lurky and the ducks, several people came forward.
Ms Griffiths said she would prefer the birds to go "to a different sort of home where they can be used for their eggs and stuff like that".
Lurky, who is estimated to be between two and three years old, was sold along with 11 of the ducks as pets on Saturday.
The family did not wish for Lurky to be cooked and eaten, with Mr Griffiths telling the BBC: "Yes, I eat turkey at Christmas... but not out of the garden." |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) | 2024-06-15 06:00:01.170000+02:00 | [
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"Sterben",
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"Jenseits",
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] | de | # Tabu-Bruch der stärkt: Kunst zum Thema Tod
By Katja Bülow
June 15th, 2024 06:00 AM
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"Leben mit dem Tod" heißt die neue Ausstellung im Rostocker Waldemarhof. Mitten in dem interkulturellen Zentrum, Tür an Tür mit einem Kindergarten, geht es um das Lebensende und alles, was dazu gehört.
Plastiken zum Thema Tod, eine Schautafel über die Wege eines Leichnams in unterschiedlichen Kulturen, Bilder. Die Sozialpädagogin Stefanie Müller vom Künstlerisch Kreativen Treff im Stadtteil sieht sich zufrieden im großen Saal des Waldemarhofs um. Vor einem Jahr hat sie im Berliner Humboldt Forum die Ausstellung "Unendlich" gesehen, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hatte, das Sterben aus der Tabu-Zone zu holen. Nachdem diese sehr erfolgreich war, schmiedete die Rostockerin den Plan, selber etwas Ähnliches auf die Beine zu stellen: "Ich weiß, dass die ganz große Anfragen dazu hatten, sogar weltweit, bis nach Australien. Das war ganz interessant, da war ich auch wirklich begeistert, dass das so weite Kreise zieht und wir haben gedacht, wir fragen auch einen Teil für uns davon an - und das haben wir auch bekommen."
## Kunstwerke, die Kraft geben
Zusätzlich zu den Stücken aus Berlin haben Künstler*innen aus dem Stadtteil Ausstellungsstücke geschaffen - einen Grabstein, auf dem als letzter Wille der Wunsch nach einem legalen Parkplatz eingemeißelt ist, ein Mobile der abgegebenen Löffel, und es gibt eine sogenannte Trauermauer, die Birgit Kobert vom ambulanten Hospiz- und Kinderhospizdienst mitgebracht hat. Sie besteht aus Pappkartons mit Texten, Bildern und Erinnerungsstücken, gestaltet von Trauernden und auch von den ehrenamtlichen Mitarbeiter*innen, die damit ihre Erlebnisse verarbeiten.
"Sie steht normalerweise bei uns im Büro", erzählt Birgit Kobert. "Es gibt auch Kartons, die ich angefertigt habe. Das ist das Schöne: Es gibt Tage, da habe ich das Bedürfnis, mich vor einen gewissen Karton zu stellen, einen Moment Ruhe zu haben, mich an diejenige oder denjenigen zu erinnern. Das gibt mir auch Kraft."
## Was passiert mit der Asche?
Den Tod als einen Teil des Lebens begreifbar zu machen, das ist das zentrale Anliegen der Ausstellungsmacher*innen. Im Vorfeld haben sie auch mit den Vorschulkindern von nebenan gesprochen: "Glaubt ihr eigentlich, dass das normal ist, wenn man stirbt?" Ein Kind meldet sich: "Ja, das ist normal, wenn man alt wird, stirbt man auch irgendwann." Die Kinder kennen sich bestens aus, auch mit dem Thema Beerdigung sind viele schon vertraut: "Da wird man in den Sarg gesteckt und dann wird man unter der Erde einfach begraben." Ein anderes Kind weiß: "Dann ist man zu Asche geworden." Auch wo die Asche dann hinkommt, wissen die Kinder: "Dann macht man das in ein Glas oder einen Topf." Man könne sie auch ins Meer kippen, meldet sich ein weiteres Kind.
## Nicht für alle ist die Ausstellung geeignet
Eine Unbefangenheit, die sich Stefanie Müller auch von Erwachsenen wünschen würde. Wobei schon das Gespräch im Hause gezeigt hat, dass das nicht so einfach ist: "Die Kollegen von Dien Hong meinten beispielsweise: Wir müssen mal sehen, ob wir in eure Ausstellung gehen können. Denn die haben natürlich auch Menschen da, die aus Flüchtlingsgebieten kommen, also damit durchaus sehr deutlich konfrontiert waren. Und es ist gar nicht so klar, ob die sich mit diesem Thema heute und morgen auseinandersetzen können und wollen, weil sie teilweise traumatisiert sind." Die Gesellschaft für Gesundheit und Pädagogik, zu der die Einrichtung gehört, plant für den September eine weitere Veranstaltung, dann zur Suizidprävention.
"Leben mit dem Tod", die Ausstellung ist noch bis zum 20. Juni täglich von 10 bis 17 Uhr im Waldemarhof zu sehen - begleitet von Lesungen, Filmvorführungen und Gesprächsrunden. |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 20:03:00+00:00 | [
"Rishi Sunak",
"Rwanda",
"Opinion",
"Politics",
"Comment",
"News",
"Channel crossing",
"Theresa May",
"Sherelle Jacobs",
"Immigration",
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] | en | # Rwanda isn't the new Brexit. The Tories are imploding over a pointless gimmick
By Sherelle Jacobs
December 11th, 2023 08:03 PM
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It was never going to stop the boats, but it's served to distract the party from talking about anything else
Who would have thought that plunging back into a Brexit-style parliamentary nightmare would be like easing into a soothing, warm bath? And yet, perversely, such seems to be the case for the Tory party as it slides back into its permawar comfort zone. This time, however, the Conservatives are tearing each other to pieces not over the momentous event of Britain's departure from the EU, but over a tokenistic bid to send a few illegal immigrants to Rwanda.
The parallels with the dramatic, painstaking, ridiculous days of Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement are striking: a PM being urged to pull their flagship bill for their own good, No 10 waiting with bated breath as backbench legal eagles pore over the legislative texts, the Wets and Spartans digging their trenches, the elaborately bonkers plots to oust the "May-/Rishibot".
The attempt to make the Rwanda policy into "the new Brexit" is surely a sign that the Conservative Party is suffering from a severe case of pathological nostalgia. As it enters the final stages of its lifecycle, it is, like any human sufferer of the condition, deriving comfort from the act of reliving aspects of its past. With the party besieged by messy mega-crises from all sides – from a collapsing NHS to a stagnant economy, too many Tories seem to have started yearning for simpler days when politics boiled down to a single existential question.
But let's be real: the notion that the Rwanda scheme is the issue that the fate of the Tories and the nation hinges on is downright absurd. Yes, border control is a fundamentally important matter. The popular revolt against a liberal orthodoxy committed to unfettered immigration is bringing into motion a political paradigm shift that will eventually transform not only Britain but the wider West. But ultimately, the Rwanda project was never going to be the answer to any of that.
Given that only a fraction of Channel migrants would be sent to mainland Africa's fourth smallest country, it was hardly ever going to serve as a realistic deterrent. Even No 10 insiders admit that the aim is merely to get a few flights off the ground before election day, temporarily placating voters. But when you consider that the country is in the grips of a dangerous stagnation, the fact that the Tory party should go to war with itself over Rwanda is even more extraordinary.
The Tories could be pulling together to seize on a more straightforward opportunity: to significantly reduce legal immigration. While business lobby groups and the Treasury might grumble, this is something that No 10 can do without being struck down by the courts. Last week, the Government belatedly announced a quite radical plan to toughen visa rules, entailing a drastic increase in the minimum salary requirements for skilled workers, and clamping down on the shortage occupation list, which allows firms to pay foreign workers 20 per cent less than the going rate.
And yet as the party's Rwandagate wars steal headlines, these breakthroughs have already become chip paper.
Some Tories will be convinced that the internal party blood spilling will be worth it. Conservative strategists might hope that with a few Rwanda flights off the ground, they can shrink Labour's lead to 10 points, resulting in a hung Parliament on polling day. But they are in danger of forgetting that, while taking control on immigration is important to the public, it is just one of the issues voters care about. In fact, immigration consistently ranks as the third most important issue, behind the state of the NHS and prospects for the economy.
If anything, it will be the slow-motion collapse of the unaffordable NHS that decides the next election. And yet the Tories, having whipped themselves into a frenzy that Rwanda is the question that will decide their fates, do not seem to have any energy left to dwell on the fact that their entire strategy to shore up healthcare votes has imploded.
The party unapologetically abandoned any attempt at reform in favour of ploughing ever more cash into the system. This has spectacularly backfired. Despite lavishing the NHS with historic spending increases, it has failed on promises as basic as building new hospitals and recruiting more GPs. The fact that Labour, the movement that more than any other fashioned the NHS into an object of civic worship, is now assailing it as a wasteful, bureaucratic monster is as big a tell as any that no party can retain the public's confidence by simply spraying money at it.
The Tories should be exposing the flimsiness of Labour's reform plans, from its lazy attempt to revive New Labour's doomed polyclinics, to its managerial obsession with new hospital league tables. They should be putting their heads together to come up with more serious solutions, whether refashioning the NHS as a hybrid state-private model, or directing money from cash-guzzling hospitals to diagnostic innovation and anti-obesity prevention.
Instead, as Sunak quietly downgrades his pledge to slash waiting lists, his party has nothing to say. Tory campaign planners seem to think that the party can distract Red Wall voters from crumbling local health services by flying a few dozen immigrants to Kigali.
Even harder to forgive is that so many Tories seem more animated by Rwanda than the broader conundrum of Britain's economic decline. Middle income households in Britain are 20 per cent poorer than their equivalents in Germany: it is a travesty that a Conservative government should have no plan for growth beyond a few minor tax cuts.
It is an even bigger scandal that the party has given up on its post-Brexit "Global Britain" vision. There is still an opportunity to salvage the project, centred around solving Britain's productivity puzzle.
The key to doing so is to create an environment that attracts long-term international investment in capital and skills. While persnickety and unglamorous domestic reforms, like overhauling planning, apprenticeships and business taxation are important, leveraging Brexit to reinvent Britain as a life sciences superpower and Europe's AI hub could also play a heroic, complementary role.
Alas the Tories no longer have any interest in grappling with the great challenges that threaten both the nation and the future of conservatism. There is falling on one's sword. Then there is being knocked out with a bottle in a drunken bar fight. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:50:15+01:00 | [
"Wolverhampton Wanderers",
"Premier League",
"Luton Town"
] | en | # Wolves' Ryan Giles closes in on a £5m move to Luton
By Tom Collomosse
July 27th, 2023 04:50 PM
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Ryan Giles was due to have a medical at Luton on Thursday before completing a £5million move to the Premier League newcomers from Wolves.
The 23-year-old, who can play anywhere on the left flank, developed at Molineux but has made only one first-team appearance, instead having seven different loan spells.
But Luton boss Rob Edwards knows Giles well from his time coaching Wolves' youngsters and is confident he can make the step up to the top flight.
Giles spent last season on loan at Middlesbrough and was a key part of the team who reached the play-offs, but Luton's promotion made them the more attractive option.
They have already added Tahith Chong, Mads Andersen, Chiedozie Ogbene and Marvelous Nakamba, as well as Issa Kabore on loan from Manchester City.
Giles would be the latest player to depart Wolves this summer as the club look to recoup significant funds from sales to balance the books.
Ruben Neves' departure to Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal for a club-record £47.5m was the headline departure but Wolves have also sold Nathan Collins to Brentford for £23m, Conor Coady to Wolves for £7.5m and Raul Jimenez to Fulham for £5.5m.
There are likely to be other departures too, with Daniel Podence left out of the travelling squad for the pre-season training camp in Portugal and Jonny Castro Otto and Rayan Ait-Nouri also among the players boss Julen Lopetegui is no longer counting on.
As Lopetegui revealed this week, Wolves chairman Jeff Shi – the representative of owners Fosun Sports Group in Wolverhampton – has put the brakes on summer spending. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-09 21:12:13+00:00 | [] | en | # Hackers attack US reporters for Ethiopian TV service
By Raphael Satter
March 9th, 2015 09:12 PM
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More than a year after researchers revealed an electronic eavesdropping campaign aimed at D.C.-area journalists, the hackers are at it again.
Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab said in a report published Monday that hackers who attacked a U.S. employee of Ethiopian Satellite Television in 2013 have recently launched a new round of attacks using upgraded espionage software.
Citizen Lab, which is based at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, says the hackers used three booby-trapped emails sent out in November and December. The broadcaster's executive director, Neamin Zeleke — one of those targeted by the malicious messages — says it didn't take a genius to figure out the same actors were at work.
"They didn't even bother to change the email address," he said.
Zeleke believes Ethiopia's authoritarian government — one of Africa's top jailers of journalists — is behind the hackers. He said it was part of a broader campaign of "threats, intimidation and cyberattacks" designed to stifle independent reporting outside the country. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 38 journalists have been charged under terrorism laws or the criminal code since 2010 — and 60 have been forced into exile over the same period.
"They want to know who is sending us information," Zeleke said. "They will cut off our oxygen, which is information from inside the country."
Ethiopian officials have previously denied such claims, but Citizen Lab said it linked the spyware to the Ethiopian government, citing internet protocol addresses traced to Ethiopia Telecom, the country's state-run carrier, among other forensic clues.
The electronic messages — which carried suspicious-sounding asides such as "please note I have temporarily changed my email to this one" — may have been clumsy but the espionage software they carried was not. Citizen Lab identified the program as a product of Hacking Team — an Italian company that specializes in spyware geared to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Hacking Team spokesman Eric Rabe did not immediately respond to a written request for comment on the report. The Ethiopian Embassy in Washington did not immediately return messages asking for comment.
FBI spokesman Andrew Ames said the agency was "aware of the reporting" but declined further comment.
Citizen Lab's report: https://citizenlab.org/2015/03/hacking-team-reloaded-us-based-ethiopian-journalists-targeted-spyware/
Hacking Team: http://www.hackingteam.it/ |
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) | 2024-06-15 06:00:00.244000+02:00 | [
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"Norddeutschland",
"Radio"
] | de | # Mehr Unfälle mit Senioren: So steuern Fahrschulen gegen
By Christiane Stauß
June 15th, 2024 06:00 AM
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Die Zahl der Unfälle mit Autofahrern ab 65 Jahren ist gestiegen. Eine Fahrschule in Ahrensburg zeigt, wie sich Senioren wieder fit fürs Autofahren machen lassen können.
Hochkonzentriert steuert Frank Tetzlaff seinen schwarzen Volvo durch die Straßen von Ahrensburg. "Oh ja, das mit dem Schulterblick, das hätte ich jetzt tatsächlich besser machen können", wundert er sich und blickt noch einmal in den Rückspiegel. Der 82-jährige Herr Tetzlaff absolviert heute den "Fahrfitnesscheck" für ältere Verkehrsteilnehmer. Neben ihm: seine Fahrlehrerin Tina Behrend. Sie hat alles, was Herr Tetzlaff heute im Auto macht, genau im Blick.
"Ich bietet dieses Training seit 10 Jahren an. Meine 'Schüler' fahren 45 Minuten mit mir und ihrem eigenen Auto durch die Gegend und ich habe ein Auge auf das, was sie tun." Während der Fahrt unterhalten sich beide. So kann Tina Behrend sehen, ob der Fahrer sich währenddessen vielleicht ablenken lässt oder sich gut konzentrieren kann. Eingreifen kann sie nicht. Denn Doppelpedale vor dem Beifahrersitz, wie bei einem Fahrschulauto, gibt es nicht. Während der Fahrt macht sie dann auch darauf aufmerksam, wenn sie etwas beobachtet, was in dem Moment nicht so gut geklappt hat. So wie der leicht verbesserbare Schulterblick von Herrn Tetzlaff.
## Die Zahl der Unfälle ist gestiegen
Und dass es bei den Senioren nicht immer so gut klappt, das zeigt auch der Verkehrssicherheitsbericht der Polizei Schleswig-Holstein. So hat es in der Altersgruppe der ab 65-Jährigen einen Anstieg bei den Verkehrsunfallbeteiligungen gegeben: Die Zahl der Verkehrsunfälle dieser Autofahrer ist von 5.044 (im Jahr 2022) auf 5.439 (im Jahr 2023) gestiegen. Das sind fast 8 Prozent mehr.
## Eine bislang gute Fahrthistorie
Frank Tetzlaff ist schon lange auf den Straßen unterwegs: 1960 hat er seinen Führerschein gemacht. "Direkt beim ersten Versuch bestanden", lacht der Mann, dem man sein Alter nicht anmerkt. Unfälle habe er auch schon gehabt. "Zwei Kleinere", wie er schmunzelnd sagt. Zwei Unfälle in 64 Jahren: "Ein gute Bilanz", finden Herr Tetzlaff und seine Fahrlehrerin.
Und damit die auch so bleibt, besucht Herr Tetzlaff bereits zum zweiten Mal den Kurs von Tina Behrend.
"Ich mache das freiwillig. Obwohl ich mich bisher beim Fahren nicht unsicher fühle. Aber so ein Auto muss ja auch alle zwei Jahre zum TÜV. Warum sollte man das als Fahrer nicht auch tun." Frank Tetzlaff, Fahrschüler
Außerdem, so erklärt er, fände er es wichtig, wenn auf seine eigene Einschätzung nochmal jemand "geschult-objektives" drüberschaut. So wie eben Tina Behrend.
## "Manche Fahrer brauchen Alternativen"
Und die heißt diese Eigeninitiative mehr als gut. "Im Alter klappt es oft mit der Beweglichkeit nicht mehr so gut. Auch das Halten der Fahrspur funktioniert bei einigen nicht mehr zuverlässig. Das kann man trainieren." Wer etwa seinen Kopf für den Schulterblick nicht mehr so gut drehen könne, der könne etwa seinen ganzen Körper mitdrehen. "Man kann andere Bewegungsabläufe üben und in den Fahralltag einbauen", erklärt sie.
## Wenn es nicht mehr anders geht, sollte Schluss sein
Aber, betont sie, auch das habe natürlich seine Grenzen. Wer zum Beispiel starke Arthrose in den Fingern hat und das Lenkrad nicht mehr umfassen kann oder ein eingeschränktes Gesichtsfeld hat, für den sei das eigenständige Autofahren dann wohl vorbei. 40-45 Senioren machen pro Jahr den Fahrfitnesscheck bei ihr. Diese Zahl habe sich in den vergangenen 10 Jahren auch nicht wirklich verändert, sagt sie. Wohl aber das Alter der Teilnehmer. Tina Behrend hat auch schon 92-Jährige neben sich gehabt.
## Eine Idee für den Umgang mit Älteren im Auto
Doch, wie sollte der Gesetzgeber mit Senioren am Steuer umgehen? Verpflichtende Gesundheitstests ab einem bestimmten Alter? Führerschein weg, ab einem bestimmten Alter? "Nein", sagt das Bundesverkehrsministerium. Staatliche Vorgaben, etwa die Verpflichtung zu einer regelmäßigen Prüfung der Fahrtauglichkeit, gibt es nicht und es gebe "für solche Maßnahmen auch keinen Grund". Auch Tina Behrend, die im Fahrlehrerverband Schleswig-Holstein tätig ist, hat eine klare Haltung.
"Was eine gute Möglichkeit wäre, wäre, dass sich Autofahrer alle fünf Jahre einem Gesundheitscheck unterziehen. So wie Fahrerlehrer, Busfahrer oder auch LKW-Fahrer. Die müssen das ab dem 50. Lebensjahr tun." Tina Behrend, Fahrlehrerverband Schleswig-Holstein
## Überschaubare Kosten für die Sicherheit
Herr Tetzlaff hat nun noch die letzten Minuten und Meter vor sich, um sich selbst und seine Begleiterin wieder sicher abzusetzen. Doch da gibt es plötzliche Komplikationen: Die Straße ist gesperrt, eine Umleitung ausgeschildert; ein leicht unübersichtlicher Schilderwald öffnet sich vor Herr Tetzlaffs Augen. "Ach, das ist für mich gar nicht so das Problem. Viel mehr ist es irritierend, dass ein Reporterteam in meinem Auto sitzt", lacht er. Das Training kostet für ADAC-Mitglieder 75 Euro. 95 Euro wenn man kein Mitglied ist.
## Das Fazit: durchweg positiv
Gekonnt parkt Herr Tetzlaff nach der Fahrt sein Gefährt vor der Fahrschule ein und bekommt das Feedback von Tina Behrend. "Ich kann hier bei allen Punkten der Checkliste meinen Haken setzen. Sie haben "stets" die Lichtzeichen und Stoppschilder beachtet. Haben "stets" den Abstand zum Vordermann und zur Seite gehalten und beim Abbiegen keine Kurven geschnitten", resümiert sie.
Frank Tetzlaff geht so aus seiner Auffrischungsfahrt raus, wie er reingegangen ist: Positiv gestimmt. "Ich fühl mich gut, das lief doch prima", meint er. Und: er wird wiederkommen. Im Sommer will er bei einem Theorieseminar mitmachen; sicher ist sicher. |
Tagesspiegel | 2024-04-03 10:58:11+00:00 | [
"Potsdam",
"Kulturförderung",
"Bornstedter Feld",
"Jugend"
] | de | # Circus Montelino: Potsdamer Zirkusprojekt ringt um Finanzierung
By Jana Haase
April 3rd, 2024 10:58 AM
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Der Potsdamer Kinder- und Jugendcircus Montelino ringt um die Finanzierung seiner Sommerprogramme. Dieser Tage informierte der Verein in seinem Newsletter unter dem Betreff "Wir müssen sprechen! – finanzielle Situation im Verein" über Probleme. Aktuell sei nur einer von sechs Fördermittelanträgen für die sechs geplanten und je 10.000 Euro teuren Programme bewilligt. "Das stellt die Frage nach der Durchführbarkeit der Sommerprogramme 2024 und die Frage nach dem Blick in die Zukunft."
Montelino-Geschäftsführer Bileam Tröger bestätigt auf PNN-Anfrage die Situation. Im Verein Montelino trainierten im Schnitt 500 Kinder jede Woche. Die Sommerprogramme, bei denen die Kinder und Jugendliche das Gelernte im Zirkuszelt vorführen, seien im Vereinsleben ein Höhepunkt. Angesichts der schwieriger gewordenen Fördermittelsituation müsse aber über alternative Einnahmequellen und Einsparmöglichkeiten geredet werden.
Anders als in früheren Jahren sei die Finanzierung der Sommerprogramme durch Fördermittel noch nicht sicher. Der Verein setze dabei auf eine Mischung aus Fördermitteln von Bund, Land und Stadt. Das Trainingsangebot und die Feriencamps finanzierten sich dagegen hauptsächlich über Teilnehmerbeiträge. Unberührt von der Projektförderung sind die beiden Kinder- und Jugendtreffs im Bornstedter Feld, für die die Montelino gGmbH als freier Träger Geld von der Stadt bekommt.
Es stünden insgesamt in der Fördermittellandschaft zwar nicht weniger Mittel zur Verfügung, teils sogar deutlich mehr – aber der Bedarf sei stark gestiegen, sagt Tröger und verweist auf den Austausch mit anderen Zirkussen: "Wir sind in der Situation, dass gute Projekte auch eine Ablehnung bekommen." Für Montelino gehe es in diesem Jahr um dieselbe Summe wie 2023.
Man wolle nun im Verein und mit den Eltern eine Diskussion führen. "Wie wollen wir uns aufstellen, wie wichtig sind uns diese Aufführungen?" Man baue darauf, dass die Mitglieder Ideen und Kontakte einbringen. Denkbar sei etwa ein Sponsoring durch Unternehmen.
Die Programme in diesem Sommer werden in jedem Fall wie geplant stattfinden, sagt Tröger. Für das kommende Jahr könne es aber zu Einschnitten kommen, sollte sich die Lage nicht ändern: "Darüber wollen wir frühzeitig ins Gespräch gehen." |
Daily Mail | 2024-06-15 05:11:09+01:00 | [] | en | # I was in a dead end job and had just $900 - now I am a millionaire
By Belinda Cleary
June 15th, 2024 05:11 AM
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A young mum-to-be has revealed how she turned $900 into millions after becoming frustrated with her minimum-wage job and budget lifestyle.
Sydel Sierra, 35, from Perth, chooses between her limited-edition Aston Martin, a Porsche and a Maserati every time she needs to leave the house.
She paid $4.5million cash for her Gold Coast 'family home' and is happy to drop $30,000 on a nice weekend away.
She is also completely debt-free.
But Sydel didn't come from money - and just seven years ago she was 'scraping by' on minimum wage while she ran her parents' martial arts academy.
She was earning $750 a week 'swapping time for money' and budgeted for even the most basic 'luxuries'.
'I pay $3000 a night for a hotel room now when I travel - the old me wouldn't believe it - I would have had to stretch for a whole three week trip,' she told FEMAIL.
The self-made multi-millionaire has kept her down-to-earth personality despite making more money than she ever thought possible.
In 2016 everything changed when she decided to take a huge risk and invest her entire savings in crypto currency.
'I kept hearing about it, so I read up on it and decided to have a go,' she said.
'I saved up $2,000 and I was so scared to invest it,' she admitted.
But one of her investments took off. She had put $900 in and within three months it had turned into $110,000.
'It was unbelievable I had never seen six figures before,' she said.
'I was terrified to manage my own money. I didn't want to make one wrong click and have it all disappear,' she said.
Despite her fears the young woman went from strength-to-strength and admits the gains were sometimes overwhelming.
'I would take $100,000 out to pay for part of my holiday - refresh the page and the investment had gone up by $200,000,' she said.
The young woman went on to 'scrape the cream off the top' off her investments to fund a new 'high-roller' lifestyle - and says it is important to be able to 'hit the cash out' button.
'It's important not to get too emotionally attached to the numbers on the screen - you need to turn them into real money by cashing out,' she said.
'Because then crypto-winter comes and the funds pull back by 90 per cent.'
These 'winters' can feel long and are 'less fun' but Sydel has managed to get through them without sacrificing the finer things - or getting a 'job'.
'There's less shopping sprees and splurging. But once you have been doing it for long enough you get ready for winter - and take enough out to fund your lifestyle before it drops off,' she said.
'Timing is important - people buy at the top and then get cynical. You have to be patient because when the next gold season comes it is better to have some skin in the game than none,' she said.
The young woman has a $4.5million crypto portfolio - but has also used her success in the space to buy investment property including homes, and farmland to diversify her portfolio.
Sydel was so excited when she started making money that she taught her parents how to do it too.
'They walked into the bank and paid off all their debt with a single cheque,' she said.
She said her parents were like many 'middle-class' business owners with a few different debts and mortgages.
She said she could have done it for them but teaching them how to do it felt incredible.
'They are now retired and are doing a lot of travelling,' she said.
The mum-to-be mostly travels or 'lives a holiday lifestyle' on the Gold Coast. She says 'working' is more of a hobby.
'I have written books, run a crypto training program and love public speaking,' she said. 'I just do things that I enjoy when I feel like doing them.'
But she no longer has to 'trade hours for money'.
In fact she often only puts a few hours a month of active effort into her portfolio.
Sydel could have retired after her first year of crypto investing, however decided to do a 'slow fade out' at the academy as it was a family business.
She has helped other people learn to trade and claims the end of 2024 and start of 2025 will be lucrative for people in the industry.
'This comes about every three or four years - I got in before it happened in 2016 and benefited again in 2021,' she said.
She said in 2021 she helped one woman invest who saw great success.
'She put in $4000 and is now worth over $9million,' she said.
Sydel is gearing up for the next gold season and suggests newbies invest some money in a 'safe' option like Ethereum - which won't have the huge financial rewards but will grow over time.
She says to then to pick a more risky 'coin' because sometimes they can bring incredible dividends - like her $900-$110,000 turnaround. |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 19:40:00+00:00 | [
"UK News",
"Christmas",
"Events",
"Standard",
"News"
] | en | # Why turning down an invite might not be the social setback once thought
By Telegraph Reporters
December 11th, 2023 07:40 PM
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A study suggests that people often overestimate the consequences of saying no
Saying no to party invitations might not be as bad as you think, a study has suggested.
According to the findings, which may come as welcome news to those feeling overwhelmed by events and commitments at this time of year, rejecting an invitation might not have the consequences people expect.
Some may consider it rude, but experts suggest people often overestimate the social consequences of saying no.
Julian Givi, an assistant professor at West Virginia University and the study's lead author said: "I was once invited to an event that I absolutely did not want to attend, but I attended anyway because I was nervous that the person who invited me would be upset if I did not, and that appears to be a common experience.
"Our research shows, however, that the negative ramifications of saying no are much less severe than we expect."
More than three-quarters (77 per cent) of people in the study said they had accepted an invitation to an activity they did not want to attend because they were worried about the consequences of declining.
Researchers conducted five experiments, with more than 2,000 people, to investigate if these concerns were justified.
## Anger and disappointment
In one experiment people were asked to read a scenario where they either invited, or were invited by, one of their friends to a dinner on a Saturday night at a local restaurant with a celebrity chef.
Those who were given the invitation were told to imagine they declined because they already had plans during the day and wanted to spend a night at home relaxing.
Those who had been told to imagine giving the invitation were told the reason for their friend declining.
The study found that people who imagined turning down their friend's invitation often believed it would immediately have negative ramifications for their relationship.
They were more likely to say that their friend would feel angry, disappointed and unlikely to invite them to future events than people who imagined being rejected rated themselves.
Dr Givi said: "Across our experiments, we consistently found that invitees overestimate the negative ramifications that arise in the eyes of inviters following an invitation decline.
"People tend to exaggerate the degree to which the person who issued the invitation will focus on the act of the invitee declining the invitation as opposed to the thoughts that passed through their head before they declined."
In another experiment 160 people were recruited to take part in what was called a "couples survey" with their significant other.
Of the couples who took part, 4 per cent had been together for less than six months, 1 per cent six to 12 months, 21 per cent one to five years and 74 per cent had been together for more than five years.
One member of the couple was asked to leave the room, while the other wrote an invitation for an activity they would like to do in the next few weeks.
After reading the invitation, the partner who left was asked to write a rejection that said something along the lines of "I just want to stay at home and relax".
The study found that regardless of how long the couple had been together, the person who rejected the invitation tended to believe their partner would be angrier, or more likely to feel as if the rejection meant they did not care about their partner than they actually did.
## Helps avoid burnout
According to the researchers, the findings show people consistently overestimate how upset someone will be when they decline an invitation, even if they have a longstanding, close relationship.
"While there have been times when I have felt a little upset with someone who declined an invitation, our research gives us quite a bit of good reason to predict people overestimate the negative ramifications for our relationships," said Dr Givi.
He added that people could benefit from turning down invitations when it could help them avoid burnout, as doing so will not necessarily have the major consequences they expect it will.
Dr Givi said: "Burnout is a real thing, especially around the holidays when we are often invited to too many events.
"Don't be afraid to turn down invitations here and there. But, keep in mind that spending time with others is how relationships develop, so don't decline every invitation."
The research is published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. |
Haberturk | 2024-04-02 16:20:33+03:00 | [
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] | tr | # Niğde'de İl Koordinasyon Kurulu Toplantısı yapıldı - Niğde Haberleri
By Habertürk
April 2nd, 2024 04:20 PM
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Niğde İl Koordinasyon Kurulu Toplantısı, Vali Cahit Çelik başkanlığında gerçekleştirildi.
Niğde İl Koordinasyon Kurulu Toplantısı, Vali Cahit Çelik başkanlığında gerçekleştirildi.
Çelik, Valilik Hüdavent Hatun Toplantı Salonu'ndaki programda, 2024'ün ilk 3 ayını değerlendirdi.
Belediye Başkanlığı ve İl Özel İdaresine ait kentte 134 projenin bulunduğunu ve bu projelerden 52'sinin tarım, 36'sının ulaştırma, 20'sinin kamu hizmetleri, 12'sinin eğitim, 9'unun sağlık, 14'ünün enerji ve birinin de kültür turizm sektörüne ait olduğunu söyledi.
Niğde'de yürütülen 134 projenin toplam değerinin 18 milyar 332 milyon 442 bin lira olduğunu, bu projeler için 2 milyar 631 milyon 893 bin lira ödenek ayırdıklarını aktaran Çelik, şöyle konuştu:
"Bu ödeneğin bugün itibarıyla 218 milyon 418 bin lirası harcanmıştır. Harcama miktarına baktığımız zaman toplam proje bedellerinin yüzde 8,30'u civarında. Bundan sonraki süreçte hem mevsim şartlarının iyileşmesi hem de yerel seçimlerin bitmesiyle bu projelerin daha da hızlanmasını bekliyoruz. Alacağımız kararların şimdiden ilimiz için hayırlara vesile olmasını diliyorum."
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Niğde haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Niğde Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
## Benzer Haberler |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-22 02:50:04+00:00 | [
"2015 ICC Cricket World Cup",
"Africa",
"Sports",
"New Zealand",
"Cricket",
"ICC Cricket World Cup",
"South Africa",
"Oceania",
"Events",
"Southern Africa",
"Mens sports",
"Mens cricket"
] | en | # Hesson: New Zealand-South Africa to be "a heck of a show"
By Steve Mcmorran
March 22nd, 2015 02:50 AM
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand coach Mike Hesson says his team's Cricket World Cup semifinal against South Africa on Tuesday will be "a heck of a show."
That ranks as an effusive statement from the quiet, studious Hesson who specializes in casual understatement and takes pains to keep emotions constantly in check. He even struggles to downplay the significance or the potential of Tuesday's match at Eden Park, which shapes as a collision between the hardest hitters and most destructive bowlers in world cricket.
Batsmen have reshaped the way one-day cricket is played in recent times, laying waste to the game's many and most-enduring records. South Africans and New Zealanders have been at the forefront of that revolution.
South Africa captain AB de Villiers, who has the world's fastest one-day international century, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum who has a strike rate at this World Cup of 185.51, and Martin Guptill, who on Saturday against the West Indies produced the second-highest score in 50-overs internationals, the highest in a World Cup and only the fifth double century ODIs. These players and many more will share the stage at Eden Park and even Hesson can't help but be excited.
"It's a one-off game, we're all desperate to be at the big party," he said. "I think we'll both turn up, two sides that are playing good cricket and it's going to be a heck of a show."
Hesson said that after its thrilling pool rounds, after four one-sided but still compelling quarterfinals, the World Cup has come to this ... survival of the fittest.
"I think the best four teams are in the semifinals and I don't think many people could disagree with that," he said. "South Africa on their day are exceptional. (But) you put them under pressure and we'll see what happens.
"They're a good side, very similar to us. They've got a lot of match-winners so if one or two don't play up then you expect the other guys to turn up and put in a match-winning performance."
Hesson says New Zealand and South Africa have no baggage coming into Tuesday's match but it seems unlikley either side can avoid its history. South Africa had never won a knockout match at a Cricket World Cup until it beat Sri Lanka in its quarterfinal and, though that win was emphatic, it hasn't entirely removed the belief that the Proteas are a team that falters in knockout games.
New Zealand has been to the semifinals on six previous occasions but has never gone further, leaving question marks around its ability to progress again. Hesson dismisses those factors and says that in preparing for Tuesday's match, New Zealand will continue to focus on the process rather than the prize.
"As per normal we'll focus on our own job," he said. "We're in a World Cup semifinal and we think we deserve to be there the way we've played.
"It's an opportunity to put in another good show and that's what we'll focus on."
So Hesson faces the bottom line. Can New Zealand win?
"I'm not sure," he said. "We'll have to wait and see.
"We're playing some pretty good cricket but so are South Africa so we'll just prepare as best we can and if we can make it to the big show, so to speak, we give ourselves the best chance, don't we?"
One thing Hesson is sure of, New Zealand is not the side it was when he became coach two years ago and when it languished at the bottom of the world's test and one-day rankings.
"I think something pretty big has happened over the last year or so," he said. "We've gone from nine in the world to four and you only get there because you've got some pretty good players and, as I've said before, we're lucky that we've got a lot of them." |
Le Figaro | 2024-04-03 11:14:19+02:00 | [
"CRS",
"Gendarmerie",
"Actualité",
"actualité France",
"société",
"actualité société",
"société française",
"éducation",
"actualité éducation",
"actualité justice",
"justice",
"faits divers",
"sécurité",
"actualité sécurité",
"immigration",
"violence",
"polémique"
] | fr | # La Cour des comptes invite à rationaliser l'emploi des CRS et gendarmes mobiles
By Jean-Marc Leclerc
April 3rd, 2024 11:14 AM
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Les Sages déplorent que ces unités soient souvent employées pour des missions éloignées du maintien de l'ordre.
La Cour des comptes passe au crible la doctrine et l'emploi des forces mobiles. En clair: les 11.164 CRS et 12.502 gendarmes mobiles à la main du ministre de l'Intérieur, Gérald Darmanin. Leur rôle a été essentiel pour le rétablissement de l'ordre durant les émeutes de l'été 2023.
Dans un rapport rendu public ce mercredi par leur premier président Pierre Moscovici, les «sages de la rue Cambon» saluent l'implication de ces agents, policiers et gendarmes, dans les missions de sécurisation du pays mais aussi de lutte contre l'immigration illégale. Mais ils pointent également quelques déséquilibres et incohérences, dans la lignée de leur précédent rapport de 2017 sur le sujet qui préconisait des réformes.
## «Succession de crises»
«Les recommandations ont été mises à mal par une succession de crises», celle des «gilets jaunes» notamment à l'hiver 2019, a concédé Pierre Moscovici. Le premier président a déploré que ces unités soient souvent employées pour des missions éloignées du maintien de l'ordre. Une police «bouche trou»? Une chose est sûre: malgré les évolutions constatées, «les règles d'emploi n'ont pas changé depuis 2015».
Les coûts de déplacement, de l'hébergement en mission, «souvent à l'hôtel» sont élevés. La Cour constate un quasi-doublement du coût de l'hôtellerie privée depuis 2017 : de 21 millions d'euros à 38 millions en 2022 pour les CRS.
Parmi les lourdeurs administratives évoquées dans le rapport: le principe de «non-sécabilité» des unités qui empêche de les scinder en deux sections et interdit de missionner les effectifs en des points distants. Cela «restreint les possibilités d'emploi», déplore la Cour. De même, précisent ces magistrats, la «réversibilité missionnelle», c'est-à-dire le changement de mission au cours d'un même service, d'une mission de sécurisation vers une mission de maintien de l'ordre, reste «fortement contrainte».
## Appel à la vigilance sur le respect des temps de formation
Si elle salue la création de la CRS 8, cette unité dédiée à la lutte contre la violence urbaine, qui a été calquée pour constituer quatre nouvelles unités du même type, plus souples et réactives que les unités traditionnelles, la Cour met en garde sur la «coexistence sur le long terme d'unités de niveaux opérationnels et de doctrines d'emploi différents au sein des CRS». Elle appelle à la vigilance sur le respect des temps de formation des unités, les besoins opérationnels les obligeant souvent à «renoncer ou écourter des temps annuels de formation, au détriment de leur bon maintien en condition».
Selon ces magistrats, «le nombre de compagnies en formation/entraînement par jour est ainsi passé de 3,1 en 2018 à 2,2 en 2022». Pour ce qui est des gendarmes mobiles, «la durée moyenne entre deux passages d'un même escadron au centre de formation de Saint-Astier est quant à elle passée de 2,5 à presque 4 ans entre 2017 et 2022.» Pour la Cour, cette situation appelle une sanctuarisation des temps de formation.
L'achat de matériel devrait, selon les «sages», être davantage mutualisé entre la police et la gendarmerie. Et la Cour de dénoncer notamment les conditions de l'acquisition du Centaure par la gendarmerie, ce blindé utilisé pour la première fois durant les émeutes de juin 2023. Elle le dit, en tout cas: «Des doutes entourent l'adéquation entre ce matériel, bien plus lourd, armé et coûteux que les matériels dont disposaient la gendarmerie auparavant et l'usage effectif qui en sera fait». |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:46:44+01:00 | [
"Ligue 1",
"Transfer News",
"Saudi Arabia Football",
"Kylian mbappe",
"PSG"
] | en | # PSG midfielder 'Marco Verratti reaches agreement with Al-Hilal'
By Jeorge Bird
July 27th, 2023 04:46 PM
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Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Marco Verratti has reached an agreement with Al-Hilal over a three-year deal.
According to Fabrizio Romano, Verratti is ready to make the move but PSG president Nasser Al Khelaifi has no intention to accept Al-Hilal's current offer of £25m (€30m).
Al-Hilal are set to improve their offer for Verratti soon.
The news regarding Verratti comes after his PSG team-mate Kylian Mbappe turned down a world record move to Al-Hilal.
Mbappe refused to talk to Al-Hilal's delegation regarding a £259million move.
Mbappe and his entourage have no intention of negotiating despite a salary package of over £600million also being promised.
PSG have put Mbappe up for sale after he refused to extend his contract, which has a year left to run.
Real Madrid are interested in signing Mbappe but PSG don't want to lose him for free next year.
Verratti, meanwhile, has three years left on his contract at PSG.
The midfielder has been at PSG since 2012 and has made 416 appearances for the club. |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 19:48:00+00:00 | [
"Rishi Sunak",
"Rwanda",
"UK News",
"Politics",
"Standard",
"News"
] | en | # One Nation Tory MPs will vote for Sunak's Rwanda bill
December 11th, 2023 07:48 PM
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The Chair of the One Nation Caucus said 'the most important thing at this stage is to support the Bill'
The One Nation group of Tory MPs have said they will vote for Rishi Sunak's Rwanda legislation despite their "concerns".
Damian Green, chair of the One Nation Caucus, said: "We have taken the decision that the most important thing at this stage is to support the Bill despite our real concerns.
"We strongly urge the Government to stand firm against any attempt to amend the Bill in a way that would make it unacceptable to those who believe that support for the rule of law is a basic Conservative principle."
The group represents at least 106 Conservative MPs, with key figures including Alicia Kearns, the chair of the foreign affairs committee.
## Boost ahead of vote on Tuesday
The news will be a boost to Mr Sunak, who has faced pressure from the right of his party ahead of a vote on Tuesday to pull the legislation.
Speaking to reporters outside a One Nation meeting, Mr Green warned that the Government must "stick to its guns" on its proposals.
He said: "We support the Bill unamended, but if anyone brings forward any amendments that breach our international obligations or breach the rule of law, we vote against those amendments at future stages.
"We will vote with the Government tomorrow, but we want the Government to stick to its guns and stick to the text of this Bill."
## 'Government would be best advised to pull the Bill'
Some had speculated that prominent factions such as the European Research Group, led by the former armed forces minister Mark Francois, could back tomorrow's legislation and seek to amend it further down the line.
However, the group's "star chamber" of legal experts said the Bill as it stands "does not go far enough", and members of the group appear to have hardened their stance against it.
Mr Francois told broadcasters on Tuesday afternoon: "The feeling very much in the [ERG] meeting is that the Government would be best advised to pull the Bill and to come up with a revised version that works better than this one which has so many holes in it."
He said the existing Bill would be "quite difficult to amend" and it would be "far better to withdraw the Bill and come up with something which is much better written right from the word go".
David Jones, the deputy chairman of the ERG and a member of its "star chamber", echoed the call and said No10 should "consider a completely new piece of legislation".
## Robert Jenrick: Bill is fundamentally flawed
The news came as Robert Jenrick, who resigned as immigration minister last week, said the bill was "fundamentally flawed" if individuals could appeal against being sent to Rwanda.
He wrote on Twitter: "If individual claims are permitted everyone will make one, the court backlog will balloon, our detention capacity will become overwhelmed within days, people will simply be bailed, and new arrivals will simply abscond.
"The proposed bill is both legally and operationally fundamentally flawed." |
Tagesspiegel | 2024-04-03 11:01:59+00:00 | [
"Gesundheit"
] | de | # Vier Fragen an den Experten: Sollte ich trotz Schmerzen einfach weiterlaufen?
By Jeannette Hagen
April 3rd, 2024 11:01 AM
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Das Mitbringsel aus dem Skiurlaub? Ein Kreuzbandriss. Das Ziehen in der Ferse nach dem Lauftraining? Eine Plantarfasziitis. Der Schmerz in der Hüfte? Möglicherweise eine Zerrung oder Arthrose. Sportverletzungen und -schäden gibt es viele – nicht alle müssen das endgültige Aus für das eigene Bewegungstraining bedeuten. Aber wie reagiert man am besten bei einer akuten Verletzung oder bei kleinen Wehwehchen? Ein Experte gibt Antwort.
Herr Rutkowski, nehmen wir an, ich habe leichte Schmerzen im Fuß, denke aber, irgendwie geht das schon und laufe weiter. Was sagen Sie dazu? Schmerz hat eine Funktion. Der Körper signalisiert damit: Hey, pass auf, da stimmt etwas nicht. Natürlich ist nicht jeder Schmerz so bedürftig, dass man gleich zum Arzt gehen muss. Aber ich sage mal, wenn man seinen Körper ein bisschen kennt – und das ist bei den meisten Sportlern der Fall –, dann sollte man auch entsprechend vernünftig sein und die Signale ernst nehmen.
Gerade Sportler, die ihren Sport sehr ambitioniert betreiben, also sehr ehrgeizig sind, ignorieren Schmerzen häufig. Bei denen heißt es dann: Ich muss auf meine Kilometer kommen! Und dann wird der Schmerz eher ausgeschaltet oder eine Tablette eingeworfen. Für mich ist der kritische Punkt erreicht, wenn ich merke, dass es einfach nicht weggeht. Oder wenn ein neues Problem dazukommt und sich ebenso hartnäckig hält. Spätestens dann sollte ein Arzt aufgesucht werden. Nicht nur, um das Problem zu therapieren, sondern auch um weitere Folgeschäden zu vermeiden.
Nehmen wir zum Beispiel die angesprochene Plantarfasziitis: Wenn ich durch die Schmerzen unrund laufe, kann es sein, dass irgendwann auch eine Schleimbeutelentzündung oder ein Hüft- oder Rückenschmerz dazu kommt. Also bei kleinen Beschwerden kann man dann eher erstmal ein bisschen rumdoktern, so wie es die meisten ja auch machen. Aber wenn der Leidensdruck doch größer wird, empfehle ich, professionelle Hilfe aufzusuchen.
Mal angenommen, ich habe dann im Herbst das Ticket für den Marathon, bin ganz glücklich darüber, merke aber – sagen wir mal im März –, dass die Sehne irgendwie doch zwickt. Oder dass eine Verletzung nicht richtig heilt. Was raten Sie?Da gibt es mehrere Ansätze, natürlich auch wieder sehr individuell zu sehen. Wie groß ist der Leidensdruck? Was hat das Ganze für eine Vorgeschichte, wie lang geht das schon etc. Aber prinzipiell, wenn der Schuh jetzt nicht ganz so drücken sollte, im Sinne von: Ich habe einen Zeitdruck, weil ich einen Lauf habe, kann man durch Ausgleichssport viel erreichen.
Tut mir zum Beispiel das Laufen weh, kann ich Fahrradfahren oder ich kann ins Fitnessstudio gehen. So kann man seine konditionelle Fitness einigermaßen halten, ohne die Schmerzen auslösende Sportart durchzuführen. Also Ausgleichssport wäre eine Möglichkeit, Schwimmen oder die Nutzung eines Crosstrainers.
Bei akuten Sachen kann man mit Salben arbeiten. Das wäre jetzt eher eine seichte Form. Ich kann auch mit Tabletten arbeiten – gerade, wenn es jetzt zwei Wochen vor dem Wettkampf ist, wird der Sportler natürlich auch mal zum Schmerzmittel greifen. Es lässt sich sicher auch mit einer Spritze nachhelfen oder mit Stoßwellen – es gibt diverse Möglichkeiten, um das zu unterstützen.
Und wenn ich mich so richtig verletze? Gibt es eine Art Faustregel, was man tun sollte?Ja, wenn etwas passiert ist, sollte man der sogenannten PECH-Regel folgen. Die gilt bei nahezu allen akuten Verletzungen. Also wenn man sich zum Beispiel einen Muskelfaserriss zuzieht oder umknickt, dann wird man nicht mit Wärme arbeiten, sondern nach der PECH-Regel vorgehen. PECH bedeutet: P für Pause, E für Eis, C für Compression, also Kompression und H für Hochlagern. Die Idee ist, dass wenn es irgendwo einblutet, es nicht weiterbluten kann bzw. wenn es anschwillt, dass die Schwellung sich nicht weiter ausbreitet.
Und je schneller man reagiert, und das ist die zweite Regel, desto besser. Grob über den Daumen bedeutet nämlich jede Stunde der versäumten Ersten Hilfe einen Tag mehr Regenerationszeit. Das klingt ein bisschen nach einer Bauernregel, aber grundsätzlich ist es eine ganz interessante Richtlinie.
Viele fangen mit dem Laufen oder anderen Sportarten erst im höheren Lebensalter an und fordern sich trotzdem richtig heraus. Welche Gefahren bestehen? Es ist wie so oft alles eine Frage der Dosis. Wenn ich das Training langsam aufbaue, kann ich auch in höherem Alter lange Distanzen, also auch einen Marathon laufen. Wer allerdings schon einen vorgeschädigten Bewegungsapparat hat, also zum Beispiel Arthrose im Knie, verlangt seinem Körper einfach zu viel ab und wird die entsprechende Quittung bekommen.
Um beim Laufen zu bleiben; grundsätzlich gehen viele Marathonläufer nicht ausreichend trainiert in einen Lauf. Das sieht man dann ab Kilometer 30 oder 35. Natürlich nicht bei den Spitzenläufern, sondern bei denen, die vier Stunden/plus laufen. Denen knicken die Sprunggelenke und die Knie weg, weil sie nicht stabil genug sind. Wenn es ein einmaliges Geschehen ist, kriegt der Körper das meist noch hin, aber wenn so etwas dann regelmäßig passiert, werden sie sich natürlich auch Probleme züchten. Der Verschleiß etc. ist dann vorprogrammiert, beziehungsweise ein bestehendes Problem kann dann verschlechtert werden. So ein Marathonlauf ist halt eine sehr große Belastung. Da passieren nicht nur akute Unfälle, sondern es entstehen auch irreversibel Schäden. Ein Arthrose-Knie mag es nicht, axial gestaucht zu werden, also die Last direkt von oben zu bekommen.
Am Ende ist der Rat immer: Trainieren Sie vernünftig und hören Sie auf die Zeichen des Körpers. So vermeidet man am besten Verletzungen oder das Fortschreiten von Schäden. |
Daily Mail | 2024-06-15 05:11:30+01:00 | [] | en | # Jeopardy! contestant teacher arrested amid investigation into sex pics
By James Gordon
June 15th, 2024 05:11 AM
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Class ended early for students at a private school in Brooklyn after their teacher was led away in handcuffs on allegations he shared sexualized images on social media.
Winston Nguyen, 37, who taught math at St. Ann's School, a private school in the upmarket Brooklyn Heights area of the borough, had previously participated in the quiz show Jeopardy!.
So far, Nguyen, who has been teaching at the fee-paying $60,000-a-year school since 2020, has not been charged with any offense, but he has found himself in legal jeopardy in the past.
In 2019, Nguyen was jailed on Rikers Island for four months after he stole $300,000 from a 96-year-old blind man and his 92-year-old wife.
Further investigations are taking place into Nguyen's alleged conduct, according to the Kings County District Attorney's Office.
The school confirmed that he is being investigated for 'the dissemination of intimate images via social media.'
'Upon his arrest on Thursday, he was immediately placed on leave by the school and he remains on leave,' a spokesperson explained.
The school's principal, Kenyatte Reid, wrote to parents informing them of the arrest while asking for families who might have any further information regarding Ngyuen's conduct to come forward.
'This incident is very disturbing to all of us. We pride ourselves on our amazing faculty and a learning environment rooted in trust,' Reid wrote.
Seven years ago, Nguyen had another brush with the law and was arrested after he stole $300,000 while working as a home aide for a couple in their 90s.
Nguyen pleaded guilty serving jail time and probation while also being ordered to pay the money back.
Just three years later, Nguyen was teaching at the private school despite administrators being fully aware of his criminal record.
'A nonviolent criminal record may not preclude employment,' the St. Ann's spokeswoman said.
'The school gives a careful and discerning assessment of a job candidate's potential fit with the school
'We are fully cooperating with law enforcement in their efforts, and right now we're focused on helping our students process this news.'
Parents of children at the exclusive school appeared disturbed by Nguyen's arrest and criminal background.
'What does the vetting process look like? What does the background process look like,' one parent wondered to The Daily Beast.
'The idea that this was a person that was close to my children...it's terrifying. I see him as a manipulator and a con man,' the parent added.
Famous Brooklynites who have attended St. Anns in years gone by include Girls creator Lena Dunham, actress Jennifer Connelly, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and Maya Hawk, the daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.
When Nguyen worked as a home health aide he stole almost $300,000 from the elderly couple, Bernard and Florence Stoll, who were both in their 90s.
He was hired in 2009 to assist the blind man and his wife with day-to-day tasks.
He used the cash to pay for expensive ballet tickets, Broadway shows, and trips to Florida with his friends - all on his unsuspecting employer's dime.
He worked for the pair for six years until he was finally arrested after the couple's daughter-in-law found he had stolen from them.
Nguyen would use the couple's bank account and credit cards making $100,000 in purchases and cash withdrawals.
He wrote himself $200,000 in checks and then opened up lines of credit using their information to the tune of $35,000.
He was able to mask the theft by changing the address on the couple's bank statements to his own home address. He then doctored the statements to remove any of the fraudulent purchases.
Any calls from the banks asking about the money were also blocked after Nguyen placed a bar on the couple's phone.
Following the discovery of the theft, Nguyen pleaded not guilty to 32 counts of grand larceny, possession of stolen property and identity theft. |
Daily Mail | 2024-06-15 05:17:47+01:00 | [
"Eddie Hearn"
] | en | # Aussie Liam Paro confident of 'almost impossible' upset
By Josh Alston
June 15th, 2024 05:17 AM
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Unsung Australian Liam Paro is confident he can shock the world and tame one of boxing's biggest beasts Subriel Matias in his home lair.
Queenslander Paro (24-0, 15KOs) will start as the underdog against IBF junior-welterweight champion Matias (20-1, 20KOs) in Manati, Puerto Rico, on Sunday.
Ranked No.5 by the IBF, Paro has the skills and boxing ability to spring a major upset and underlined his quality with eye-caching stoppage wins in his last two fights.
The slick 28-year-old southpaw blasted out highly touted Sydneysider Brock Jarvis inside one round in October 2022 and went on to stop well-regarded American Montana Love in the sixth in San Francisco in December.
An unrelenting pressure fighter, the 32-year-old Matias has shown he can survive early attacks from opponents before using his physicality and strong punching to break them down.
The Puerto Rican was described by promoter Eddie Hearn as the 'boogeyman' of the division, but Paro said he was a 'million per cent' sure he had the game plan and tools to dethrone the champion.
'I'm feeling good. This is it, this is what dreams are made of … I'm ready to get it on,' Paro told broadcaster DAZN after the weigh-in.
'I'm excited to get in there and share the ring with him. He's a tremendous champion, but I believe I've had the right prep to shock the world.
'We've prepped perfect, the right sparring, and I'm ready. This is my time.
'I know what I'm getting into, I'm coming into the lion's den. Full respect to him, but I know it's going to get down and dirty.
'This is the biggest test, so I'm ready for anything.'
Matias, who will be making the second defence of the title he won in February 2023, has notched five straight knockouts since his only professional loss, which he subsequently avenged.
He is fighting In his home country for the first time since November 2019, having had his last six bouts in the United States.
'It's always great to defend your title in front of your people. They know what I'm capable of,' Matias told DAZN.
'I've taken the 0s from lots of fighters,' he added, referring to the first professional loss he inflicted on five of his previous opponents.
Hearn praised Paro for taking the fight in the champion's home country, where he said it was 'almost mission impossible'.
'(Paro) has the skill-set to cause (Matias) problems, he's a crafty southpaw with good feet,' Hearn said.
'He has a good mentality I don't think he's going to be overawed by the occasion.' |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 19:37:00+00:00 | [
"Rwanda",
"Rishi Sunak",
"Migration",
"UK News",
"Politics",
"Bill Cash",
"Standard",
"News",
"Conservative Party"
] | en | # Rwanda Bill: Five key things the Government and Tory rebels disagree on
By Charles Hymas
December 11th, 2023 07:37 PM
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A 'star chamber' of Conservative lawyers does not believe legislation goes far enough but Rishi Sunak has published his own legal advice
Rishi Sunak's emergency Rwanda legislation will fail to get deportation flights regularly in the air without lengthy legal challenges, a "star chamber" of Conservative lawyers has concluded.
The panel, led by Sir Bill Cash, the senior Tory MP, said the Bill provided a "partial and incomplete solution" to the problem of legal challenges being used by illegal migrants to delay or defeat their deportation to Rwanda.
"The Prime Minister may well be right when he claims that this is the 'toughest piece of migration legislation ever put forward by a UK Government', but we do not believe that it goes far enough to deliver the policy as intended," it said.
The legislation declares Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers, and is underpinned by a new treaty whereby the African state has given legally binding assurances to safeguard deported migrants, after the Supreme Court ruled it unsafe. It also aims to limit the scope for legal actions that could prevent deportations.
The panel of four lawyers said the Bill would require "very significant amendments" to comprehensively resolve the flaws they had identified. Their verdict, delivered to the European Research Group of Tory Brexiteer MPs on Monday, came ahead of the crunch first vote on the Bill on Tuesday.
Their judgment is in direct conflict with the Prime Minister's position that the number of successful claims against removal by migrants will be "vanishingly" small.
To support his contention, the Government published its own legal advice which said the "cumulative" effect of its measures would "preclude almost all grounds for individual challenge that could be used to suspend or frustrate removal".
## Individual claims
What the star chamber says:
Section Four of the Bill allows individual claims by migrants against deportation if they can provide compelling evidence that Rwanda would be unsafe for them personally. "Systemic" claims that Rwanda in general is unsafe are barred.
The star chamber said that simply by allowing individual claims, appeals, and injunctions, "the statutory scheme is open to significant levels of legal challenge".
"Experience to date in cases about attempted removal of illegal migrants to Rwanda demonstrates that individual challenges are likely to be numerous, and that they have had a high rate of success," it added.
It said migrants' lawyers had put "significant effort" and "ingenuity'' into making such claims, developing templates and how-to guides. "It must be assumed that this would continue," it said.
"The line between personal and 'general' factors is undefined and untested. In short, clause four and the possibility of challenges on grounds other than safety in Rwanda represent a significant risk to the delivery of the scheme, and that risk could be determinative," it said.
What the Government says:
The legal advice said the route for individual migrants to challenge their removal would be "exceptionally narrow".
It said excluding such claims would mean those unfit to fly such as women in the late stages of pregnancy, or sufferers of very rare medical conditions that Rwanda could not care for, could be removed with no right to judicial scrutiny.
"Completely blocking any court challenges would be a breach of international law and alien to the UK's constitutional tradition of liberty and justice, where even in wartime the UK has maintained access to the courts in order that individuals can uphold their rights and freedoms," it said.
It cited articles two, three and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights which required migrants to be able to challenge in UK courts their removal on the grounds of individual circumstances, and the availability of a legal remedy.
## Threshold for claims
What the star chamber says:
Successful claims against deportation will have to show they faced imminent risk of "serious and irreparable harm" if deported to Rwanda. The star chamber warned this was "much easier to surmount than the words might suggest".
It said it could mean medical statements of mental conditions which were not easy to prove or disprove such as suicidal ideation, political views that could lead to persecution in Rwanda or claims about personal vulnerabilities regarding housing.
Even if only some of the claims succeeded, the number of claims could hit hundreds a day, clogging up the courts and delaying flights, they said. "There is a serious risk that there will be no, or very few, actual removals to Rwanda for months after the Bill comes into force," said the panel.
What the Government says:
The Government legal advice said "almost all grounds" for individual challenge had been removed. These included asylum (accounting for 90 per cent of last year's small boat arrivals) and modern slavery (representing 71 per cent of those detained for removal in 2021).
This left only "very limited scope" for claims where migrants would have to produce "credible evidence" of "real, imminent and foreseeable risk of serious irreversible harm" if removed to Rwanda.
"This is an extremely high bar. You would not be able to simply say you have a mental health condition: you would have to prove, with evidence, that it could not be treated in Rwanda and that not treating it would lead directly to immediate and irreparable deterioration in your health," according to a Government briefing paper for MPs.
To exclude this avenue would remove the Government's ability to defend the scheme in Strasbourg and jeopardise the Rwanda policy as it would "go against Rwanda's own explicit wishes that our partnership with them remains compliant with international law, and likely collapse the scheme".
"Taken as a whole, the limited availability of domestic remedies maintains the constitutional balance between Parliament being able to legislate as it sees necessary, and the powers of our courts to hold the Government to account," it added.
## Strasbourg injunctions
What the star chamber says:
The Bill gives ministers powers to ignore Rule 39 injunctions issued by Strasbourg judges under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and which were used to block the first Rwanda flight in June 2022.
The star chamber said the power to ignore injunctions was discretionary, and would be blocked by the Attorney General Victoria Prentis, who regarded them as "binding" on the Government. It would mean the power could "never be used and is effectively a dead letter," the panel said.
It said instead the Bill should be rewritten to require ministers to ignore Strasbourg injunctions rather than leaving them as a discretionary power.
What the Government says:
The Government has refused to disclose the Attorney General's legal advice but maintains the clause gives ministers – and they alone – the power to decide whether the UK will comply with an interim measure. The Bill also makes clear that a UK court must not have regard to any Rule 39 injunctions.
Rishi Sunak has said he "will not allow foreign courts to block the flights". Ministers are also negotiating reforms of the Rule 39 process to limit their application to "exceptional circumstances", give them a right to present their case and to challenge rulings.
## Disapplying the Human Rights Act
What the star chamber says:
The Bill exempts asylum claims from nearly all parts of the Human Rights Act but fails to exclude two sections, under which the emergency legislation could be ruled incompatible with the ECHR, said the star chamber.
It warned that if UK courts declared the law incompatible, it would make it increasingly difficult for the Government to "maintain its posture" that the Bill was in line with the UK's international obligations.
What the Government says:
The Government said retaining the two parts of the Act meant Parliament and ministers could choose how to respond to an adverse court judgment. Neither would have any effect on the ability to get flights off the ground.
"The principle that Parliament and the Government should be able to address any determination by the courts of incompatibility, rather than primary legislation being quashed by the courts, is part of the fundamental basis of our constitution," the Government said. |
Le Figaro | 2024-04-03 12:22:00+02:00 | [
"attentats",
"France",
"sécurité",
"Actualité",
"actualité France",
"société",
"actualité société",
"société française",
"éducation",
"actualité éducation",
"actualité justice",
"justice",
"faits divers",
"actualité sécurité",
"immigration",
"violence",
"polémique"
] | fr | # «Aucun attentat n'a été déjoué» le week-end de Pâques, affirme l'entourage de Thevenot, corrigeant ses propos
By Le Figaro Avec Afp
April 3rd, 2024 12:22 PM
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La porte-parole du gouvernement Prisca Thévenot a déclaré ce mercredi au sortir du Conseil des ministres qu'une tentative d'attentat avait été déjouée pendant le week-end de Pâques.
Une affirmation suivie d'un rétropédalage accéléré. Juste après la déclaration de la porte-parole du gouvernement Prisca Thévenot, selon laquelle une «tentative de passage à l'acte» a été déjouée pendant le week-end de Pâques, son entourage a rectifié auprès de l'AFP, affirmant qu'«aucun attentat n'a été déjoué ce week-end».
Vantant la «mobilisation» des forces de l'ordre renforcée en France à la suite de l'attentat djihadiste de Moscou, Prisca Thévenot n'avait pas donné davantage d'informations. «Lors de son point presse, la porte-parole du gouvernement faisait référence aux propos du ministère de l'Interieur et des Outre-mer de ce week-end qui a annoncé l'arrestation d'un individu début mars qui voulait s'en prendre à des lieux de culte», a finalement précisé son entourage.
## 45 attentats déjoués depuis 2017
«Car oui, il y a des tentatives de passages à l'acte et grâce à la mobilisation de ces hommes et de ces femmes au quotidien, nous pouvons éviter des drames», avait salué la porte-parole. Le dispositif Vigipirate a été relevé le 24 mars à son niveau maximal, «urgence attentat», après l'attaque meurtrière contre une salle de concert près de la capitale russe revendiquée par le groupe État islamique et qui a fait au moins 144 morts.
«Le ministre de l'Intérieur (Gérald Darmanin) avait annoncé que les 4530 établissements de culte, lieux de culte, allaient avoir une vigilance particulière avec 13.500 forces de l'ordre déployées partout sur le territoire» pour protéger les offices religieux pendant les fêtes de Pâques, a déclaré Prisca Thévenot en rendant compte du Conseil des ministres.
Prisca Thévenot a rappelé que «45 attentats» avaient été «déjoués depuis 2017», selon le bilan du gouvernement. Le premier ministre Gabriel Attal avait déjà affirmé la semaine dernière, avant le week-end de Pâques, que deux projets d'attentat avaient été «déjoués» en France depuis le début de l'année. |
Haberturk | 2024-04-02 17:43:36+03:00 | [
""
] | tr | # İYİ Parti, Ordu'da 455 sandığa itiraz etti - Ordu Haberleri
By Habertürk
April 2nd, 2024 05:43 PM
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İYİ Parti Ordu Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan Adayı Enver Yılmaz, 19 ilçede toplam 455 sandığa itiraz ettiklerini açıkladı.
İYİ Parti Ordu Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan Adayı Enver Yılmaz, 19 ilçede toplam 455 sandığa itiraz ettiklerini açıkladı. Oylarının çalındığını iddia eden Yılmaz, "İYİ Parti ve Enver Yılmaz yazan bütün oy pusulalarına çift dikiş mühür vurmak suretiyle oyları iptal ettiler" dedi.
İYİ Parti Ordu Büyükşehir Belediye Başkan Adayı Enver Yılmaz, Seçim Koordinasyon Merkezi'nde seçim sonuçlarına ilişkin açıklamalarda bulundu. 19 ilçede 455 sandığa itiraz ettiklerini belirten Yılmaz, "2 bin 240 sandıktan toplam 455 sandığa yönelik itirazlarımızı bugün saat 15.00 itibarıyla gerçekleştirdik. 1 sandıkta ortalama 250 seçmenimizin olduğunu hesap edersek toplam 114 bin seçmenin iradesini ortaya koyacak doğru sonucun alınması için 19 ilçede itirazlarımızı yapmış olduk. Elimizdeki delillerle birlikte yapmış olduğumuz itirazlarımızın Yüksek Seçim Kurulu tarafından özellikle ve öncelikle ciddiye alınacağına inanıyoruz" diye konuştu.
'RESMEN SANDIKTA GASP OLUŞTURULDU'
Yılmaz, açıklamasında, "Tam bir hukuk garabetinin olduğunu, özellikle 5 ilçede sandıkların erken açılmak suretiyle ve sandık başkanı dışında hiçbir personelinin kalmaması suretiyle resmen bir gasp oluşturuldu. Bu gaspa karşılık biz delillerimizle hukuki sürecimizi mahkemelere ve YSK'ya bildirdik. Saat 14.15'te açılmış bir tutanak. Halbuki saat 16.00'dan önce açıklanamaz. 133 oy başka partiye, Enver Yılmaz ve İYİ Parti'ye sıfır oy. Halbuki çetelede bizim aldığımız 49 oy yazdığı halde tutanağa yansıtılmamış bilinçli bir şekilde. Biliyorsunuz 3 oy pusulası var. Büyükşehir tutanaklarında hiç oy çıkmadı denilmiş, halbuki ilçe belediye seçimlerinde 26 oy, meclis seçimlerinde 22 oy demek suretiyle Büyükşehir'i sırf tutanaklara yansıtmamak için ilçe belediyesi ve meclis üyeliklerindeki evrakı unutmuşlar. 201 geçerli oyun 51'i geçerli sayılmış. 201 oyun 39'u geçersiz sayılmış. 201 oyun 43'ü geçersiz sayılmış. 237 oyun 141'i geçersiz sayılmış ve bunun yanında da sadece tutanakta iki imza var. Halbuki yasa 4 imza altındaki tutanakların geçersiz olduğunu ve pusulanın işleme alınmayacağını söylüyor. Bunun yanında yine 231 geçerli oyun 47'si geçersiz. Elimizde yüzlerce var bundan" ifadelerini kullandı.
'93 BİN 992 GEÇERSİZ OY VAR'
"Bizim oylarımızı geçersiz kılmak için diğer siyasi partilerin pusulalarının üzerine basım yapıldı" iddiasında bulunan Yılmaz, konuşmasını şöyle sürdürdü:
"Katılım 2019 seçimlerinden daha az olmasına rağmen 16 bin 820 geçersiz oy var. Türkiye ortalamasının üzerinde daha fazla bir geçersiz oy Ordu'da maalesef kullanılmış oldu. 93 bin 992 geçersiz oy var. Bu geçersiz oylar Akkuş'ta, Ünye'de, Çatalpınar'da ve Kumru'da yoğunlaşıyor. Korgan ile Kumru ilçesinin sosyolojisi, insan yapısı, siyasi dengeleri birebir olmasına rağmen ben birisinde 6 bin öndeyim, diğerinde 6 bin gerideyim. Bu olmaz. Kırsal yoğunluğu dikkate aldığımızda Kumru ilçesi az önce örnekleriyle bahsetmeye çalıştığım senaryoya uygun bir zemini hayata geçirdiler. Ne yaptılar? Sandıkları erken kapattılar. İkinci ne yaptılar? Tam iftar saatinde sandık başkanları, sandık kurulu üyelerini gönderdiler. Sonra ne olduysa ondan sonra oldu. Saat 19.00'dan gece 23.00'e kadar hiçbir TV kanalında, ajanslarda Ordu ile ilgili giriş yapılmadı. Saat 19.00'da yüzde 10 öndeyken, saat gece 23.00 olduğunda bir baktık ki başa baş ve daha sonra geriye düştük. Yüksek Seçim Kurulu'ndan süreci objektif olarak takip edemedik. Bunun yanında ajanslar sağlıklı bilgi geçişi yapamadı. Çünkü bilgi geçemediler. Bizim elimizde şu anda ıslak imzalı tutanakların yüzde 98'i hazır. 'Talebimiz nedir?' Seçim kurullarının sandıkta kazandığımız seçimi Orduluların iradesinin gerçeğe yansıtılması. Biz adalet istiyoruz. Bu adaleti gerçekleştirecek olan hakimlerimize de güvendiğimizi, güvenmek istediğimizi özellikle belirtiyoruz. Ordululardan ne bekliyoruz? Bugün itibarıyla itirazlarımızı yaptık. Bu itirazlar 2 günlük hukuki sürece tabi. Sonra İl Seçim Kurulu, sonra Yüksek Seçim Kurulu takvimine bağlı olacak. Lütfen bütün ilçelerimiz sandık kurulu sayımlara tekrar başladığı andan itibaren hemşerilerimiz adliyelerin önüne gitsinler. Ordu Barosu'nu göreve davet ediyorum. Fikri, zikri, görüşü ne olursa olsun bir hak gasbı, bir usulsüzlük, bir adaletsizlik var. O adaletsizliği giderecek meslektaşlarımızı sürece müdahil olmaya davet ediyorum."
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Ordu haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Ordu Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
## Benzer Haberler |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 20:00:00+00:00 | [
"Celtic FC",
"Scottish recipes",
"UK News",
"Politics",
"Standard",
"News",
"Apple",
"Scotland",
"Europe"
] | en | # Scottish Parliament refuses FoI request over Michael Matheson's £11,000 data bill
By Simon Johnson
December 11th, 2023 08:00 PM
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The Telegraph told Health Secretary's right to privacy trumps taxpayers' interests
Holyrood's "secretive" authorities have refused to publish details of their dealings with Michael Matheson over the £11,000 roaming charges bill he charged the taxpayer because it would breach his rights.
The Scottish Parliament rejected a series of Freedom of Information requests by The Telegraph about its communications with the SNP Health Secretary over the bill he racked up on holiday in Morocco last Christmas.
It admitted it held some of the information requested, including key discussions over its decision to allow Mr Matheson to use the public purse to fund the bill rather than finding the money from his own pocket.
Holyrood also confirmed that it held documents assessing whether the usage by Mr Matheson of his parliamentary iPad was consistent with his claim at the time that the roaming charges related solely to parliamentary business.
But the Scottish Parliament refused to hand over the information, saying the public interest in disclosure would be "overridden by the rights of Mr Matheson MSP whose personal data fall within scope of the request".
The parliament also claimed that making the information public would "prejudice substantially" any investigation by its ruling corporate body, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) into the scandal, which is due to report back in the new year.
There was a "real risk" that disclosing the information "could restrict the willingness of individuals to cooperate with an investigation of this nature", it told The Telegraph.
The parliament also argued that it would be "damaging" for the information to be released "in circumstances where it is expected that the investigation process will be conducted confidentially".
Holyrood allowed Mr Matheson to use his taxpayer-funded expenses to fund £3,000 of the bill and provided the £7,935.74 balance from its own budget.
The Health Secretary paid back the money from his own pocket on Nov 10, two days after The Telegraph disclosed the bill. His annual salary is £118,511.
In a statement to MSPs, he claimed he had only found out on Nov 9 that his sons had used the iPad as an internet hotspot to watch football matches.
## False story to media
But it later emerged he had falsely told the media on Nov 13 that nobody else had used the device and there was no personal use.
Neither the Falkirk West MSP nor the parliament have explained how they thought he had run up the bill on constituency business.
The roaming charges were made on Jan 2, the day of the Old Firm match between Rangers and Celtic, but this was a public holiday.
Stephen Kerr, a Scottish Tory MSP, said: "The public will rightly conclude the Scottish Parliament is being secretive but the public has a right to know.
"Michael Matheson's reputation for truth telling has already gone up in flames and with it the credibility of Humza Yousaf and the SNP Government.
"But it shouldn't be forgotten that the Scottish Parliament agreed to pay his £11,000 iPad data bill and the longer this sorry story goes on the more the reputation of the Scottish Parliament itself is being besmirched."
In its reply to The Telegraph, the Scottish Parliament said: "The SPCB is required to conduct its investigation independently against the backdrop of a high degree of political sensitivity.
"As a matter of due process, there is a need to ensure that there is, and is seen to be, a fair and impartial investigation into these matters that respects the rights of the member subject to the investigation.
"The SPCB's investigations are being conducted confidentially to preserve the fairness and integrity of the process." It said releasing some of the information about his roaming charges would breach data protection rules.
## Series of exemptions
The Scottish Parliament also refused to release the documents by using a series of exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act.
They included one that dealt with "prejudice to a public authority function to ascertain whether a person is responsible for conduct which is improper". It also argued that publishing the information would harm "the effective conduct of public affairs".
Rejecting a request for details of its communications with EE, the mobile provider that billed the parliament for the charges, it argued this would damage its "commercial interests".
Releasing further details of EE's charges would mean commercial pricing information could be released into the public domain", the parliament argued.
Although it admitted its contract with EE had expired, it said there remained "a few legacy voice and data connections" that meant the information was still commercially sensitive.
The SNP said it was a matter for the Scottish Parliament and for Mr Kerr to take up with Jackson Carlaw, the Tory member of the SPCB. |
Daily Mail | 2024-06-15 05:10:36+01:00 | [] | en | # Marlon Wayans hits back at trolls after show of support for LGBTQ+
By Kevin Kayhart
June 15th, 2024 05:10 AM
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Marlon Wayans is standing his ground after after he shared his support for the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month.
And given that he's the father of a trans child, the In Living Color alum's support for the community comes from a place close to his heart and home.
So it makes perfect sense he would stand up and defend himself from online bashers following his initial post on Friday where he shared pictures from his recent Pride-themed photoshoot he did with photographer Parrish Lewis.
'Happy PRIDE to all my LGBTQ+ peoples. Did a photo shoot with the great photographer @parrish_lewis dope pic,' he captioned the first image showing him sitting with a rainbow flag draped over his shoulder. 'P.S. I'm STRAIGHT… well, according to my child CISGENDER male. I just love and support my peoples,' he clarified before promoting that his comedy special Good Grief is now out on Prime Video.
Sadly, his initial post elicited scores of people to post hateful and bigoted comments, but let it be known there appeared to be even more people who showed support for Wayans, his son, and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.
There were a number of people who used religion as their reasoning for criticizing Wayans.
'Just bcuz society is for this doesn't mean it's right,' another faith-based person argued. 'The Bible speaks of this in the end times. You can still love your child and not be for this movement.'
Another user shot back, 'You can love the child but not SUPPORT a child behavior ….just my belief Queen.'
As part of the conversation an apparent LGBTQ+ community supporter argued, 'It's not a behavior. It's who they are. So you know more than them?'
The hateful replies didn't deter Wayans. In fact, they only inspired him to share more photos from the shoot.
'Yeah and just for the HATE MONGERS … I'm posting ANOTHER,' he captioned a second image showing him draped with the flag while sitting amongst a bunch of colorful balls.
'As a father of a child in the LGBTQ+ community I show my support. Zero f**ks what people think. If i lost you… GOOD! Your hateful a** never loved me in the first place,' he explained. 'How can you love anyone when you're too busy judging. Some of y'all funny. I'm a troll. I'll post all day.'
Wayans was met with a swell of support in the comments, including from niece Chaunte Wayans, who wrote, 'This is dope! Thank you for always supporting & letting me wear your clothes!'
Janelle Monae chimed in, 'Thank you!! Happy Pride to us!' while Tiffany Haddish and Mehcad Brooks both reacted with rainbow and rainbow flag emojis.
To hammer home his point, Wayans posted a third photo in the conversation, only this time he flashed a scary face while holding up a rainbow mask that he held up to cover part of his face.
'You mad?! I can do this s**t ALL DAY… but instead I think I'll do it ALL MONTH,' he proclaimed. 'HAPPY PRIDE Love and Laughter will always drown hate.'
He ended with another shameless promotion, writing, GOOD GRIEF on @primevideo NOW.'
About two hours later the Requiem For A Dream star shared another image of himself with the rainbow mask, as he flashes another look with his head tilted.
'Do i look like I really give a f**k?! Happy PRIDD month. Especially to all the hateful dudes out there mad because I'm supporting family and friends,' he wrote, adding, 'For people to be that homophobic wreaks of repressed feelings/desires. Bruh, don't live like that. Come on out. Be you. That's what PRIDE is all about… acceptance. I swear i got soooo many more pics.'
Wayans had a slew of people come to his defense and show support for the LGBTQ+ community.
'A lot of you men a really showing your insecurity and homophobia in these comments. He did a photo shoot, his child is apart of the community, he's an ally, what's the problem?' one person argued.
Another critic posted: 'I always wondered how him and his brother played a [gay person] in movies so we'll now I know.' which garnered a simple but to the point reaction: 'He supports his kid wtf is the problem???'
Another Wayans supporter declared: ''Y'all better quit hating. That middle finger is cocked and loaded for you all. (Pause).'
One specific Instagram user shared some words of wisdom after taking in much of the war of words, writing, 'People want love and support, but hate when others support OTHERS! Make that make sense.'
Several people professing to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community shared their thanks to Wayans for supporting them as human beings.
Just last year, Wayans opened up about embracing his trans child, Kai, during an interview with The Breakfast Club.
'I just want my kids to be free," Wayans said at the time. "I want them to be free in spirit, free in thought, free to be themselves. The more you know yourself, the more you can govern yourself, the more you live your truth, the happier your existence.'
Wayans shares his kids Kai and Shawn with his ex-partner Angela Zackery, with whom he was in a relationship from 1992 to 2013.
He also has a young one-year-old daughter Axl, who he co-parents with ex-girlfriend Brittany Moreland. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-05 15:58:26+00:00 | [
"Skeleton",
"Eastern Europe",
"Mens skeleton",
"Martins Dukurs",
"Sports",
"Alexander Tretiakov",
"Mens sports",
"Western Europe",
"Germany",
"Europe",
"Latvia"
] | en | # Martins Dukurs of Latvia leads skeleton worlds after 2 runs
March 5th, 2015 03:58 PM
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WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) — Martins Dukurs of Latvia took a narrow lead over Olympic gold medalist Alexander Tretiakov of Russia at the halfway stage of the skeleton world championship.
Dukurs was .17 seconds ahead of defending world champion Tretiakov after Thursday's two runs. Dukurs is the silver medalist from the 2010 and 2014 Olympics.
Dukurs' brother Tomass was in third place, .69 seconds behind the pace.
The final two runs are on Friday.
Christopher Grotheer, German teammate Axel Jungk and Nikita Tregubov of Russia, three leading juniors, were fourth to sixth, respectively. |
Daily Mail | 2023-07-27 16:43:14+01:00 | [
"Julen Lopetegui",
"Bruno Lage",
"AC Milan",
"Wolverhampton Wanderers"
] | en | # AC Milan set to unveil Tony Roberts as new goalkeeping coach this week
By Tom Collomosse
July 27th, 2023 04:43 PM
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AC Milan are due to unveil Tony Roberts as their new goalkeeping coach by the end of the week with his appointment thought to be welcomed by France star Mike Maignan.
Wolves confirmed on July 22 that Roberts, the former Wales international, would leave the club for a role in Europe and his appointment by Milan is set to be confirmed in the next 24 hours.
Roberts has followed Milan's current No 1 Maignan closely over a number of seasons, from Maignan's days as in the Paris St Germain youth system, and it is believed Maignan was enthusiastic when he heard Roberts' name was on Milan's shortlist.
Roberts is hugely respected within the game and had spent the last two seasons at Wolves, initially as part of Bruno Lage's backroom team before also assisting current boss Julen Lopetegui.
Speaking on July 22, sporting director Matt Hobbs said: 'Tony will certainly be missed, but it's an unbelievable opportunity that he has received so we'd never stand in his way.
'He's been up front and honest about the contact has had, and it's a great chance for him and he goes with our full support.
'Tony's built the best goalkeeping department we've ever had at the club, in terms of the coaching available to the boys. We've done a lot of recruitment in the academy through Harry [Hooman] and his team.
'The best thing I can say about Tony is what he's leaving behind and the work he's put in should make this change relatively seamless. Of course, Julen is disappointed, but understands why Tony wants to take the opportunity.' |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 19:20:00+00:00 | [
"RFU",
"Gallagher Premiership",
"Rugby Union",
"Sport",
"Standard"
] | en | # Premiership clubs to face squad limits under new regulations to cut costs
By Daniel Schofield
December 11th, 2023 07:20 PM
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Exclusive: Professional Game Partnership proposal would reduce senior squads to 35 players plus 12 more from the academy
Maximum squad sizes will be imposed upon Premiership clubs as part of the new Professional Game Partnership with the Rugby Football Union, Telegraph Sport can reveal.
While discussions are continuing, the leading proposal will limit clubs to a maximum senior squad of 35 players with a further 12 players in a 'transition' group from their academy.
Capping the number of senior and academy players a club can carry was understood to be a key recommendation of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport advisers, Ralph Rimmer and Chris Pilling, who were appointed last summer by the government to create a more sustainable league after the loss of three Premiership clubs to administration last season.
The reduction from 13 to 10 teams means that there is no longer an overlap with the regular international windows so there is less need for teams to carry bloated squads to compensate for club v country clashes. The purpose of imposing an upper limit is designed to not only control costs but to encourage teams to put more faith in their academy players rather than relying on journeymen to fill holes. Young English players' lack of game time has been cited as a key concern by Bill Sweeney, the RFU chief executive, heading into the PGP negotiations with the Premiership which are unlikely to conclude this year.
While some clubs who have traditionally carried small squads such as Sale Sharks and Northampton Saints would be unaffected by such a change, teams such as Bath, who have a total of 73 senior and academy players, and Harlequins, who have 47 senior players, would need to make significant cuts in the coming seasons.
"You need to hit that sweet spot," a source close to the negotiations said. "You don't want your squad to be too small where players are playing too much but you don't want your squad to be too big where players never play. There are squads of 70 and there will be 10-15 players in that who play less than five games a season. That just does not help anyone."
The transition group would have its own salary cap while clubs would carry a further "rookie" class for Under-20 and Under-19 up to a maximum of 15 players.
The controversial development of Premiership 2 in the place of the Championship and streamlining numbers within academies together with the introduction of a draft system are also means to ensure younger players receive more game time. There is a recognition that certain clubs benefit disproportionately from the current academy catchment system which leads to them hoarding talented young players with only the narrowest path to regular first-team rugby which is the single most critical ingredient to their development.
"Clubs need to identify the prospects who are really likely to break through," the source added. "Also if you restrict those numbers then it allows other clubs to pick up some of those other talents who would otherwise be stockpiled. We would not want a load of young fly-halves to be queued up behind Marcus Smith at Harlequins because he will be there for the foreseeable future and they simply will not be playing." |
Tagesspiegel | 2024-04-03 10:56:17+00:00 | [
"Ernährung",
"Geschichte",
"Landwirtschaft",
"Anthropologie"
] | de | # Legen und legen lassen: Frühester Nachweis von Haushühnern als Eierlieferanten
By Walter Willems and Dpa
April 3rd, 2024 10:56 AM
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Wann Rinder, Schafe oder Schweine domestiziert wurden, ist weitgehend geklärt. Bei Hühnern sorgt diese Frage unter Fachleuten seit Jahren für Streit. Ein Grund für die Unklarheit ist auch, dass sich deren Knochen nicht lange halten und weil das Haushuhn (Gallus gallus domesticus) für verschiedene Zwecke genutzt wurde: für Rituale, zur Unterhaltung, für Fleisch, Federn und auch zur Versorgung mit Eiern.
Zumindest die Haltung von Hühnern als zuverlässige Lieferanten von Eiern reicht mindestens 2400 Jahre zurück. Das schließt eine Forschungsgruppe um Carli Peters vom Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie in Jena aus der Analyse von zwölf archäologischen Fundstätten in Zentralasien.
## Eier auf der Seidenstraße
Diese Nutzung habe sich damals rapide entlang der Seidenstraße zum östlichen Mittelmeerraum und dann nach Europa verbreitet, schreibt die Gruppe im Fachjournal "Nature Communications".
Wann und wo das Haushuhn domestiziert wurde, ist heftig umstritten. Das liegt auch daran, dass Vogelknochen und Fragmente von Eierschalen oft irrtümlich Hühnern zugeschrieben wurden, obwohl sie von anderen Tieren stammten, wie die Gruppe schreibt. Auch viele Datierungen erwiesen sich demnach als unzuverlässig oder falsch.
Allgemeine Einigkeit besteht aber darin, dass das Haushuhn wohl vom in Südasien heimischen Bankivahuhn (Gallus gallus) abstammt – dessen Lebensraum sich von Thailand bis Indien erstreckte –, möglicherweise aber auch von einem anderen Vertreter der Kammhühner (Gallus).
## Nicht nur zur natürlichen Brutsaison
Die Gruppe um Peters untersuchte nun ein Dutzend Fundstätten in Zentralasien entlang der Seidenstraße. Der älteste Nachweis für Hühner als Eierlieferanten stammt aus Bash Tepa nahe der Stadt Bukhara in Usbekistan und geht auf etwa 400 vor Christus zurück. Eindeutig als Haushuhn-Eier identifiziert wurden die Schalenfragmente anhand von Rückständen typischer Proteine. Und dass diese Hühner nicht nur saisonal Eier legten, schließt die Studie aus der schieren Anzahl der Schalenfragmente.
Zwar ist unklar, über welche Zeiträume im Jahr und insgesamt wie viele Eier diese frühen Haushühner lieferten. Aber: Auf die wilden Vorläufer, die nur einmal im Jahr bis zu sechs Eier legten, können diese Mengen nicht zurückgehen. "Dies ist der früheste Nachweis für den Verlust des saisonalen Eierlegens, der bisher in archäologischen Aufzeichnungen gefunden wurde", wird Studienleiter Robert Spengler in einer Mitteilung des Instituts zitiert.
Ab dem 4. Jahrhundert vor Christus fand das Team Schalen-Bruchstücke von Hühnereiern in großer Menge an allen in der Studie untersuchten archäologischen Orten, nicht aber an älteren archäologischen Stätten. Daraus schließt die Gruppe, dass sich Hühner mit dem Vorzug, über längere Zeit Eier zu legen, entlang der Seidenstraße rapide verbreiteten.
Generell jedoch seien Ursprung und Verbreitung von Haushühnern eine der rätselhaftesten Fragen in Bezug auf domestizierte Tiere überhaupt, stellte die Gruppe fest. Rinder, Ziegen und Schafe wurden vor etwa 10.000 Jahren domestiziert. Einigen Studien zufolge erfolgte dieser Schritt bei Hühnern vor mehr als 9000 Jahren – wahlweise in Burma, Indien, Thailand oder China.
Andere Untersuchungen gehen davon aus, dass die Tiere erst vor grob 3500 Jahren in Thailand domestiziert wurden. Manchen Theorien zufolge seien Hühner zunächst für rituelle Zwecke oder für Wettkämpfe gehalten worden, heißt es. So gibt es auf griechischer Keramik aus der Zeit um 620 vor Christus detaillierte Bilder von Hähnen in Kampfszenen. |
Daily Mail | 2024-06-15 04:50:58+01:00 | [
"Los Angeles"
] | en | # Upscale Los Angeles neighborhood removes 'homophobic' no U-turn signs
By Mitchell Goodbar
June 15th, 2024 04:50 AM
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City council members gathered this week in a posh LA neighborhood to remove 'No U-turn' signs that they say were a part of the area's homophobic history.
In 1997, signs that conveyed messages like, 'No cruising. No U-turns. Midnight to 6 am,' were posted throughout the Silver Lake neighborhood in an effort to curtail hookups among gay men.
On Monday, city leaders were joined by local LGBTQ+ individuals when they removed the final few 'No U-Turn' and 'No Cruising' signs.
In a statement, LA Councilmember Nithya Raman, who spearheaded the effort, said, 'Los Angeles has a rich history of welcoming the LGBTQIA+ community, but there has also been real and present homophobia- which at times has been inscribed into the city's physical spaces, as with these no-U-turn signs.'
When the signs were posted in the late '90s, gay men depended on printed guidebooks that offered the names of public places where they could connect with other queer individuals, sometimes for love and sex.
Along with several other locations, Silver Lake and West Hollywood, where similar signs were posted and taken down, loomed large in the homosexual community.
After the signs were removed, Councilman Higo Soto-Martinez wrote on X.com:
'This type of homophobia persisted in Silver Lake 30 years after the Black Cat protests,' he said, referring to one of the earliest examples in the US of a public protest against police brutality toward LGBT people.
Councilman Soto-Martinez continued: 'The physical remnants of that bigotry remained on our streets until yesterday, when we joined @nithyavraman to finally take the signs down.'
The LA Times, however, reported that some people present at the signs' removal were bemused and surprised to hear about the neighborhood's homophobic past 'particularly because the neighborhood was simultaneously a stronghold of queer resistance and resilience.'
Pickle, West Hollywood's inaugural 'drag queen laureate,' who spoke at the removal ceremony, said that she was unfamiliar with the signs.
'I was unaware of those signs and never would have found [them].'
Pickle added that the signs were an 'insidious' strain of discrimination that he and other people 'didn't have context for.'
Maebe A. Girl, a Silver Lake councilmember who was the first drag queen elected to public office in the US, made similar remarks, speaking of her ignorance of the signs.
'I was also surprised that these U-turn signs were still up, and at first, they seem a little... "Oh, ok, it's just a no U-turn sign,"' Girl said.
She continued: 'But when you learn the history of [the signs], you realize that these were used to profile gay people.'
'It's so important that we have these removed,' Girl added.
After a successful vote by the Silver Lake Council, the first 'No Cruising' signs were taken down in 2011.
The remaining 'No U-turn' and other related signs were left standing and nearly forgotten.
Then Silver Lake resident Donovan Daughtry alerted the city council to the issue after listening to a podcast concerning the neighborhood's queer history.
Although satisfied with the outcome, Councilman Soto-Martinez believes that more needs to be done to safeguard these types of places.
'I would completely agree that we need to do more to protect these spaces,' he said, before adding: 'It's not just unique to Los Angeles...we're all sort of facing the same very serious challenges.'
Albert LeBarron, who operates a gay bar in the area, reflected on the old complaints against queer people in the neighborhood.
'People driving around all night with the radios playing Madonna was probably not conducive to a quiet neighborhood like Silver Lake and the rowdiness inside the bars sometimes spilled outside,' he told the LA Times.
'But in all honesty, a lot of us are people walking or driving or kind of hanging out because they had nowhere else to go.' |
The Telegraph | 2023-12-11 20:00:00+00:00 | [
"#metoo",
"Madonna",
"Pop music",
"Women",
"Lifestyle",
"Comment",
"Music",
"Life",
"US content",
"Feminism"
] | en | # Forgive me for doubting, Madonna: you are still a sister in arms
By Maggie Alderson
December 11th, 2023 08:00 PM
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I thought she had betrayed us, but the the real traitor was me – for believing the misogynistic propaganda that she's a silly old woman
I owe one Ms Madonna Louise Ciccone a big apology. I had dismissed her and declared her irrelevant. A traitor even. And I was wrong. So wrong.
After adoring her in my twenties and thirties – seeing her at Wembley in 1987 – I had no interest in shelling out bundles of cash this time around, to see the now 65-year-old "Queen of Pop" on her latest "Celebration Tour".
I'd seen the video of her tripping on a stupid cloak and falling off a stage. I'd seen her muttoning it up in the kind of corsets she'd made iconic in her prime. I'd seen the wrinkled-old-hands covered with gloves, which she adopted at a much younger age than Karl Lagerfeld did.
Worst of all I'd seen the Wildenstein plastic surgery – and I took it personally.
Looking at those pictures of the polyester pillow lips and wipe-clean cheek implants, I felt betrayed.
Born just one year before me she was a trailblazer for showing how a woman can own and control her success. Which was particularly impressive in an industry where so many young women are egregiously exploited and manipulated – some by their own fathers, hello Britney, hello Amy.
In stark contrast even to Taylor Swift, she's always kept a tight grip on her creative and management processes. Alongside being a constantly evolving, boundary-pushing artistic genius.
For all those reasons, I always thought Madonna was going to be the one to show my generation of women how to grow old with cool style. Instead, she seemed to be going down the Hollywood Boulevard route, but in public.
Apparently so desperate to retain the male gaze in later life she seemed to have mutilated herself in the deluded pursuit of youthful appearance. Far from looking young, she looked grotesque in those pictures.
I felt betrayed, because – born a year apart – we kind of grew up together and I'd thought we were sisters in arms in the more nuanced second-wave resistance to the patriarchy. So, it was bewildering when she seemed to have gone over to the other side, lip implants first.
Especially from a woman who collects artworks by Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer.
But on Tuesday night I went – almost accidentally, a friend had a spare ticket, so I pulled myself off the sofa and strolled along – to Madonna's show at the O2.
I left feeling I might have been to the greatest concert of my life. (And I saw Blondie at the Marquee in 1977.)
Now I'm wondering if those plastic surgery pictures that upset me so much had actually been photoshopped.
Seeing her in real life, while she does have a forehead and cheeks as smooth as a crash helmet, she doesn't have one of those weird American plastic flange faces, as she appears to in the infamous shots. She still looks like Madonna. With a slightly Barbie-doll finish admittedly, but still our Mads.
And in the context of her show, her surgically and chemically adjusted features didn't seem jarring at all. It's showbiz. All part of the razzle dazzle.
Because far more than just a creator of timelessly brilliant pop songs – and wow, did they stand up to scrutiny on Tuesday night – Madonna has always been a performer.
Just as in her 40-year oeuvre of iconic music videos, on stage she's a creator and a curator of visual astonishments.
The whole theatrical spectacle of the Celebration show, compered by a larger-than-life drag queen (RuPaul's Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen) wearing an oversized version of her Marie-Antoinette costume, was about chimeric artifice.
Everything on her stage was fluid, from the expressions of her own sexuality to the gender of her dancers. At one point they were all nearly naked and some that you might have thought were men had breasts and some you might have thought were women, didn't.
At one point Madonna snogs one of them with commitment. Gender mutable and completely irrelevant – and everything much more interesting for it.
Later in the show species also becomes fluid as she turns into an alien, in a skintight faceted metallic Versace-does-Barbarella catsuit, her image transposed onto a fantastical Avatar-esque distant planet landscape on the giant back screen.
She sang that entire song on a raised platform lying down, which I thought was pure genius for an artiste more than eligible for a London transport travel pass.
She does a lot of her amazing dancing in the show with a company young enough to be her grandchildren, so seamlessly factoring in a few rest periods for the older star was very smart.
For the same reason, she wears a knee support throughout the show, even with the skimpiest Gaultier corset costume. There's no sad attempt to conceal it, instead she proudly owns it: I'm 65 years old, I've been dancing all my life, one of my knees gives me jip. Have you seen my upper arms…?
And it's that combination of strength, fearlessness and sheer pragmatism, with sublime style and artistry that makes me admire her just as much now, as I did forty years ago.
Towards the end of the show phrases appear on the big screen, Jenny Holzer style. "NO FEAR" said one, which was more than apparent to everyone watching – and "TO AGE IS A SIN" was another.
Tears filled my wrinkled and presbyopic 64-year-old eyes as I read that (happy it was in large print). Those five short words summed it all up.
In our culture women now have equal rights in law, MeToo has done its bit and women occupy many significant senior roles. We've had two women prime ministers in this country (well, one and a half…). But still those words are true – for women, to age is still a sin.
Standing there watching my contemporary entrance 20,000 people – the vast majority of them much younger than me – once again it was Madonna kicking back at the rules and changing the status quo through sheer talent and bravura – and no fear.
Which made me think, as I got ecstatically into the groove with the young women on either side of me, the traitor wasn't Madonna, for having plastic surgery – but me, for believing the propaganda that she was ridiculous and laughable and irrelevant for having done so; a silly old woman.
When, in fact, Madonna Louise Ciccone chose to have some facial adjustments for one reason and one reason alone – because she wanted to.
And for continuing to live by only her rules, the Queen of Pop remains not only relevant, but a trailblazer for all women who don't want to be told what to do. She's still my sister in arms. Except, her arms are so much better than mine. |
Associated Press News | 2015-03-27 18:10:39+00:00 | [
"Professional football",
"National Football League",
"Football",
"Michael Sam",
"Texas",
"Sports",
"United States",
"NFL football",
"North America",
"Dallas",
"Gays and lesbians"
] | en | # Michael Sam: Gay NFL players have reached out to him
By The Associated Press
March 27th, 2015 06:10 PM
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DALLAS (AP) — Michael Sam says there are "a lot" of gay players in the NFL and some have reached out to him.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Sam gave a speech Thursday at the Dallas Holocaust Museum and took questions from the audience.
Sam said: "I'm just saying there is a lot of us." He added he'd never out a player who confided in him, but "there's some famous people."
Sam came out before last year's NFL draft. The defensive end from Missouri was selected in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams and cut in training camp. The Dallas Cowboys signed him to their practice squad but released him in October.
He's currently a free agent.
Sam revealed he's not talked to his father since Michael Sam Sr. criticized his son's sexuality shortly after he came out. |
Le Figaro | 2024-04-03 07:40:00+02:00 | [
"justice",
"Actualité",
"actualité France",
"société",
"actualité société",
"société française",
"éducation",
"actualité éducation",
"actualité justice",
"faits divers",
"sécurité",
"actualité sécurité",
"immigration",
"violence",
"polémique"
] | fr | # Plus des trois quarts des plaintes pour violences sexuelles classées sans suite par la justice, selon une étude
By Le Figaro Avec Afp
April 3rd, 2024 07:40 AM
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Entre 2012 et 2021, ces violences ont représenté environ un million d'affaires, soit 4% de l'ensemble des affaires pénales terminées sur la période, selon une étude de l'Institut des politiques publiques.
Essentiellement au préjudice de femmes, le nombre de violences sexuelles et conjugales dénoncées n'a jamais été aussi important mais l'écrasante majorité des signalements sont classés sans suite faute de preuves, note une étude publiée mercredi. Entre 2012 et 2021, ces violences ont représenté environ un million d'affaires, soit 4% de l'ensemble des affaires pénales terminées sur la période, selon cette étude de l'Institut des politiques publiques (IPP).
Les faits de harcèlement en particulier sont de plus en plus dénoncés, même s'ils ne représentent que 4% des affaires (un tiers concerne des violences sexuelles dont 62% sont des agressions sexuelles, surtout sur mineurs), selon des données tirées du système Cassiopée utilisé pour la saisie, l'enregistrement et le traitement des dossiers de justice pénale.
Cette hausse coïncide avec le contexte de la vague #MeToo en 2017, du Grenelle des violences conjugales deux ans plus tard et la diffusion de nombreuses circulaires à destination des magistrats, souligne l'auteur de l'étude, Maëlle Stricot.
## 86% des plaintes pour violences sexuelles classées sans suite
Mais comme pour la plupart des infractions pénales, le taux de classement sans suite des plaintes par le parquet est considérable entre 2012 et 2021 : 86% pour les violences sexuelles, 72% pour les violences conjugales. Le motif n'est cependant pas nécessairement lié au fait que l'auteur soit inconnu mais du manque de preuves et au fait que ces violences soient, selon les magistrats, «insuffisamment caractérisées». Cette décision de classement concerne notamment plus d'une affaire de viol sur deux reçues par les parquets, selon l'étude.
Alors que les pouvoirs publics encouragent les victimes à porter plainte, «le traitement judiciaire qui s'ensuit constitue un enjeu majeur des politiques publiques», souligne Maëlle Stricot. Seuls 14% de suspects impliqués dans des affaires de violences sexuelles sont jugés et parmi eux 13% sont reconnus coupables (27% pour les auteurs de violences conjugales).
L'étude souligne par ailleurs que si le taux de classement sans suite a baissé entre 2016 et 2020 pour les violences conjugales, il a au contraire grimpé pour les violences sexuelles. Cela pourrait s'expliquer par une hausse de signalements d'incidents qui sont anciens, et par conséquent plus compliqués à prouver donc à poursuivre, suggère l'étude. Ce constat pose également la question des moyens humains et financiers ainsi que des formations pour faire face à la hausse des plaintes.
L'étude illustre en outre une réponse pénale plus sévère pour les auteurs de violences conjugales, avec des peines passant de 5,4 mois en moyenne en 2012 à 8 mois en 2021. Cette aggravation des sanctions peut être attribuée, selon l'autrice, à des procédures rapides telles que les comparutions immédiates, «généralement associées à des peines plus lourdes». Pour les affaires de harcèlement sexuel, les peines prononcées sont en moyenne de 6,8 mois, de 19,6 mois pour les agressions sexuelles et de 29,6 mois pour les viols. |
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