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Nikki Glaser reveals what she’d tell Gisele Bündchen after Tom Brady roast jokes
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/nikki-glaser-gisele-bundchen-tom-brady-roast-b2669276.html
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Comedian Nikki Glaser has revealed what she’d say to Gisele Bündchen if they met after she made some brutal jokes about the model’s ex-husband Tom Brady at his roast a few months ago.
Glaser recently reflected on her comments about the NFL alum made during her set on Netflix’s The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, which aired in May. Like many of the famous faces at the roast, the comedian made jokes about Brady’s divorce from Bündchen, who he split from in 2022 after 13 years of marriage. She also quipped about the model’s relationship with her new boyfriend, jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente.
However, Glaser has now shared her regrets about some of the jokes she told during the routine, telling People on Monday (December 23): “I have a feeling that Gisele wasn’t that happy with what I had said.”
She also said that before doing her roast, she was a bit skeptical about mentioning Bündchen, who is now expecting her first child with Valente.
“I mentioned her in a joke, which I did question because she wasn’t there, and it’s like, ‘She’s not asking for this,’” she added. “But then I remembered that she’s the hottest person in the world, and I go, ‘She can probably handle it,’ which, obviously, is a joke.”
Still, she went on to defend the former Victoria’s Secret Angel’s feelings about the roast. “I heard that she maybe wasn’t happy with some jokes. I don’t know if it was mine in particular, but I think that was fair,” she continued.
Glaser, who is set to host the 2025 Golden Globes, also explained that if she ever got in contact with Bündchen, she’d apologize for those jokes.
“I think that comedy is always going to upset someone. And I think if I were her, I would’ve been annoyed too. So I give her that 100 per cent,” Glaser said. “And if I ever met her, I would definitely apologize for hurting her feelings if she was indeed upset about it.”
Glaser went on to note that when she offends someone with one of her jokes, she never tells them to “get over it.”
“I will apologize for jokes I make, because I don’t always get it right. And I try to punch up, not punch down, and just say what everyone’s thinking without really ruining anyone’s life or reputation,” she explained.
During the roast back in May, Glaser made a dig at Brady’s ex and Valente’s career, while discussing the former quarterback’s success.
“Tom Brady. Five-time Super Bowl MVP, most career wins, most career touchdowns,” Glaser quipped during the event. “You have seven rings – well, eight, now that Gisele gave hers back. The only thing dumber than saying yes to this roast was when you said, ‘Hey babe, you should try jiu-jitsu.’”
Brady later reflected on the roast, revealing that some of those jokes impacted his family, including his and Bündchen’s two children: Benjamin, 15, and Vivian, 12. The former New England Patriots star also shares his 17-year-old son, Jack, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.
“I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun,” he said during an appearance on The Pivot Podcast in May. “I didn’t like the way that affected my kids. So it’s the hardest part about, like, the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way, and then all of a sudden you realize, I wouldn’t do that again, because of the way that affected actually the people that I care about most in the world.”
Glaser then addressed the retired football player’s remarks, claiming it was clear Brady “didn’t consider the backlash from his family and how it would affect them” when he agreed to do the show.
“I also think Tom Brady does not do anything without doing his research and knowing exactly what he’s getting into,” Glaser said during an episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna. “It’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider what could have happened because there’s roast footage out there that you can watch and go, ‘They’re gonna go this hard.’”
She continued: “But then, there’s a part of me that thinks that Tom Brady, especially given his career and how much people love him, no one’s ever said a bad thing to him in the past 30 years, so he doesn’t know [that] anyone’s capable of going there.”
| 2024-12-24T00:44:29+03:00
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Burt, the huge Australian crocodile who had a cameo in ‘Crocodile Dundee,’ dies at 90
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-australian-dundee-darwin-american-b2669313.html
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Burt, the huge crocodile that rose to fame with a cameo in the movie “Crocodile Dundee” and continued to impress visitors with his fiery temper and commanding presence, has died.
Burt died over the weekend, the Crocosaurus Cove reptile aquarium in Darwin, Australia, said. He was at least 90 years old.
“Known for his independent nature, Burt was a confirmed bachelor — an attitude he made clear during his earlier years at a crocodile farm,” Crocosaurus Cove wrote in social media posts.
“He wasn’t just a crocodile, he was a force of nature and a reminder of the power and majesty of these incredible creatures. While his personality could be challenging, it was also what made him so memorable and beloved by those who worked with him and the thousands who visited him over the years,” the aquarium wrote.
A saltwater crocodile, Burt was estimated to be more than 5 meters (16 feet) long. He was captured in the 1980s in the Reynolds River and became one of the most well-known crocodiles in the world, according to Crocosaurus Cove.
The 1986 movie stars Paul Hogan as the rugged crocodile hunter Mick Dundee. In the movie, American Sue Charlton, played by actress Linda Kozlowski, goes to fill her canteen in a watering hole when she is attacked by a crocodile before being saved by Dundee.
Burt is briefly shown lunging out of the water.
But the creature shown in more detail as Dundee saves the day is apparently something else. The Internet Movie Database says the movie goofed by depicting an American alligator, which has a blunter snout.
The Australian aquarium where Burt had lived since 2008 features a “Cage of Death” which it says is the nation's only crocodile dive. It said it planned to honor Burt's legacy with a commemorative sign “celebrating his extraordinary life and the stories and interactions he shared throughout his time at the park.”
| 2024-12-24T00:58:54+03:00
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Anti-Israel protesters who wave flags linked to terror groups could be jailed if NY law passes
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/anti-israel-protesters-who-wave-flags-linked-terror-groups-could-jailed-ny-law-passes
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Anti-Israel protesters who wave flags of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah could face jail time in New York should lawmakers pass a proposed bill.
The office of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is a Democrat, confirmed to Fox News that the lawmaker is introducing the bill, known as the Stand Against Flags of Enemy Terrorists Act.
The proposed bill, which the New York Post first reported on, would expand the definition of aggravated harassment in the first degree to include cases where someone displays a symbol of a foreign terrorist organization with the intent to harass, annoy or threaten another person.
Those found guilty could face up to four years in jail.
Hoylman-Sigal is introducing the bill along with New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher, who is also a Democrat.
New York City Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola, a Republican, told "Fox & Friends First" that she hopes the fact that two Democrats are introducing the bill will help persuade liberal lawmakers to vote for the bill.
"We’ve already criminalized burning crosses, swastikas and nooses," Ariola said. "Why not this new wave of how to threaten and terrorize people of a certain religion or ethnicity?"
Ariola said that while groups like the American Civil Liberties Union may challenge the proposed bill on free speech grounds, the flags of terrorist organizations "are messages of hate."
Anti-Israel protests have popped up throughout the U.S. amid Israel's war in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attacks, which killed around 1,200 people.
Last month, anti-Israel protesters were arrested at New York City’s Barnard College after agitators took over a building on campus. A week earlier, violent clashes broke out in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New York City, where agitators chanted, "Zionists go to hell."
| 2025-03-03T21:56:40+03:00
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Shop the new Charlotte Tilbury holiday beauty sets with HUGE savings
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Daily Mail
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Looking to snap up best-selling Charlotte Tilbury beauty favourites for less? With the release of the brand’s new limited-edition holiday sets, you can score up to 30 per cent off everything from the new Plumpgasm gloss to the iconic Magic Water Cream.
Perfect for getting prepped for festive gifting or simply stocking up on your favourite Charlotte Tilbury must-haves for less, these value sets aren’t to be missed – especially the Airbrush Flawless Mini Setting Spray Kit.
When it comes to snapping up your favourite skincare and makeup, taking advantage of seasonal sets is a great way to save money on essentials you’d have bought anyway.
This unmissable collection is certainly no exception. Worth £40 but yours for just £30, the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Mini Setting Spray Kit features two travel sizes of the iconic Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray, perfect for slipping in your bag and taking on the go.
Designed to ensure zero makeup budging for up to 16 hours, the Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray helps to lock in makeup all day, blurring pores and reducing shine to give a flawless 'airbrush' effect.
Loved by over 4000 reviewers who call it ‘perfection’ and rave of how it 'keeps my makeup looking “just applied” and beautiful throughout my 12-hour shifts', this setting spray is a cult favourite the beauty community over – and now you can snap up two travel-sized bottles for just £30.
Whether you’re battling holiday humidity or braving winter rainstorms, this waterproof setting spray can keep makeup in place for 'up to 16 hours' thanks to its natural matte finish - a saviour for weddings, long work days and everything in between.
This is all thanks to the unique formula that features 'Flawless Film Formers', acting as an invisible shield to protect your makeup from melting, fading or settling into fine lines.
That means you can wave goodbye to cakey makeup and hello to a weightless veil every time you spritz, smoothing the skin for an utterly flawless finish.
But the award-winning setting spray doesn’t just hold your makeup in place – you’ll find it also drenches your skin in hydration while blurring pores and smoothing the skin, making it an excellent base for makeup, too, as well as a rejuvenating boost throughout the day.
'Love this for setting my makeup!' wrote one thrilled shopper. 'I've been using this & absolutely LOVE the results. It leaves my skin looking fresh, glowy & my makeup is set once I spray'.
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| 2024-09-26T16:01:34+03:00
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COP28: Little optimism as climate talks start in Bonn
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Deutsche Welle
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https://www.dw.com/en/bonn-climate-conference/a-65822759?maca=en-rss-en-ger-1023-xml-atom
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Climate negotiators are meeting for the first time since governments agreed to set up a fund to pay for damage wrought by the fossil fuels polluting the planet.
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Climate negotiators are meeting for the first time since governments agreed to set up a fund to pay for damage wrought by the fossil fuels polluting the planet.
Diplomats from around the globe will meet in the German city of Bonn this week to hash out plans that are key to global efforts to stop the planet heating and adapt to violent weather.
The little-known talks, which take place each year ahead of the United Nations landmark COP climate summits, lay the groundwork for humanity's response to global warming. Negotiators from across the world will agree on technical details about how to cut pollution, protect people from a hotter and more hostile environment and move money to pay for it. It will clear the way for bigger political fights at the COP28 conference in the United Arab Emirates in November.
The meeting in Bonn gives officials a space both to talk about the outcome of the last climate summit and figure out what is and what's not working in their climate policy, said Alex Scott, a diplomacy expert at the climate think tank E3G in London. "The thing that's different about Bonn is that the politicians aren't there — or very few of them are."
Paying for climate damage, cutting fossil fuel pollution
The Bonn conference is the first time climate diplomats will have come together since COP27 — a tense summit in Egypt late last year where world leaders agreed to set up a fund to pay poor countries for some of the damage wrought by extreme weather. The last-minute deal was a landmark step in rich countries taking responsibility for their carbon pollution.
But many countries were left frustrated by the weak decisions on climate mitigation — actions to cut planet-heating emissions — that came out of the summit.
"We got agreement on the new fund," said Marjo Nummelin, Finland's lead climate negotiator. "But we really do think that that we cannot have another COP where there is no real progress on the mitigation agenda."
Even the fund's future is uncertain. Before any money changes hands, countries will have to agree who will pay, who will get the money, how much will be sent and under which circumstances. Some of the work for that will start in Bonn, but the political arguments will be left until later this year.
"My expectation out of Bonn is that at least we are going to have an informal note," said Juan Carlos Monterrey, a former chief climate negotiator for Panama who now works for Geoversity, an educational charity trying to save wildlife. "And an informal note is literally — as it sounds — just a note with no standing that collects the vision, the positions of the different parties and groups."
For some countries on the front lines of climate change, battling scorching heat waves and watching homes wash away as sea levels rise, fixing those issues on paper is no guarantee of cash.
Rich countries broke a promise made in 2009 to get poor ones $100 billion a year in grants and loans by 2020. Unlike the new fund, which will help countries recover from disasters, this money was supposed to help them cut carbon pollution and adapt to extreme weather.
Some analysts expect they will hit the target in 2023, three years later than planned, though data to check this will only be available in the following years. In any case, scientists have said, the money promised was never enough to begin with.
Negotiators in Bonn will discuss a new climate finance target for after 2025.
Rising emissions a 'death sentence'
The UN will also check progress toward climate goals during the conference in Bonn. Its global stocktake, a two-year review of humanity's response to climate change, will move into its final phase in Bonn this month before being published ahead of COP28 in November.
The review will draw on previous research that has found countries are spewing too much planet-heating gas for world leaders to honor their climate promises, and spending too little money to keep their citizens safe from extreme weather.
"There has to come a point where we reduce emissions, because otherwise for countries like us it's really a death sentence," said Khadeeja Naseem, climate minister for the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean.
"That's just not for the dramatic value," she added. "The Maldives is just a meter above sea level and all of its critical infrastructure is just 100 meters from the shore. We have increasing erosion. Tidal swells in most homes. And we're a geographically dispersed island nation. There is a lot at stake here."
In a bid to stop heat waves getting hotter and coastal floods stronger, world leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F) above pre-industrial temperatures by the end of the century. But their current policies are set to nearly double that temperature increase.
To meet their targets, scientists have said, world leaders must immediately burn less coal, oil and gas — and make deep and rapid cuts to emissions in all sectors. Governments will put forward new and more ambitious action plans at the COP30 conference in 2025, which will take place in the city of Belem near the Amazon rainforest, according to a recent announcement by the Brazilian government.
"For us, it's absolutely critical that there is an international enabling environment that will guide parties to put on the table the most ambitious action," said a Brazilian climate negotiator who agreed to speak to DW under the condition of anonymity. If the gaps in ambition aren't closed by then, and not implemented during this critical decade, "it means that we lost the fight for 1.5 C."
Oil and gas lobbying overshadow COP28
The COP28 climate summit has been criticized because its president, Sultan al-Jaber, is the head of UAE oil company ADNOC. In an open letter published in May, 130 lawmakers from the European Union and United States called for his removal.
"With that appointment, you are just sending the message that the oil industry is in charge," said Monterrey, the former negotiator from Panama. "We are at a higher risk than before of making this process obsolete, because when people see this, what they think is that it's a joke."
Still, some delegates are cautiously optimistic. The UAE plans to increase oil production but has also invested heavily in clean technology.
"They're in a unique position to also push the positives," said Naseem, the negotiator from the Maldives. "I really hope the UAE can play a critical role in pushing for the kinds of transition — and renewable energies and technologies — that can help countries like us to exist longer."
| 2023-06-05T10:27:40.028000+03:00
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Taha Akgül, Paris 2024'te yarı finalde
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Paris 2024 Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda milli güreşçimiz Taha Akgül, serbest stil 125kg çeyrek finalinde Macaristan'dan Daniel Ligeti'yi 8-0 yenerek yarı finale yükseldi.
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Paris 2024 Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda milli güreşçimiz Taha Akgül, serbest stil 125kg çeyrek finalinde Macaristan'dan Daniel Ligeti'yi 8-0 yenerek yarı finale yükseldi.
Milli güreşçi Taha Akgül, Paris 2024 Olimpiyat Oyunları çeyrek final müsabakasında Macaristan'dan Daniel Ligeti ile karşı karşıya geldi.YARI FİNALDE RAKİP İRANLI ZAREMilli güreşçi Taha Akgül, Paris 2024 Olimpiyat Oyunları'nda serbest stil 125 kg çeyrek finalinde Macaristan'dan Daniel Ligeti'yi 8-0 yenerek yarı finale yükseldi.Taha Akgül, 19.15'te başlayacak akşam seansının 3. maçında İran'dan Amir Hossein Zare ile finale biletini alabilmek içi kozlarını paylaşacak.
| 2024-08-09T14:30:14+03:00
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US starts citizenship program for migrant spouses, but some are...
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-13758695/US-starts-citizenship-program-migrant-spouses-left-out.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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MIAMI (AP) - As registration opened Monday for an estimated 500,000 spouses of U.S. citizens to gain legal status without having to first leave the country, Karen and Xavier Chavarria had nothing to celebrate.
Like many others, Karen left the United States voluntarily - in her case, for Nicaragua - as the price of living in the country illegally, planning to accumulate enough time away to be able reenter and reunite with her husband, Xavier, on a path to citizenship.
Joe Biden's offer of a path to citizenship without having to first leave the country for up to 10 years is one of the biggest presidential orders to ease entry for immigrants since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allowed temporary but renewable stays for hundreds of thousands of people who came to the United States as young children with their parents.
To be eligible, spouses must have lived in the United States continuously for 10 years as of June 17, 2024, and been married by then. The Biden administration estimates 500,000 spouses could benefit, plus 50,000 stepchildren of U.S. citizens.
"Without this process, hundreds of thousands of noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens are likely to instead remain in the United States without lawful status, causing these families to live in fear and with uncertainty about their futures," the Homeland Security Department said Monday in a document that details the policy. Forcing spouses to leave the country "is disruptive to the family´s economic and emotional wellbeing."
Spouses who fall outside the prescribed dates and other eligibility criteria face an agonizing choice: leave the country voluntarily for years for the right to reenter or remain in the United States without legal status.
Karen Chavarria returned to Nicaragua in 2017 and reported to a U.S. consulate for an interview as part of her petition to reunite with her husband in the United States. She crossed the border from Mexico in 2002 and applied for legal status after marrying Xavier, 57, who works a building maintenance job in New York and lives in Garfield, New Jersey. They have two children, both U.S. citizens.
Xavier travels at least twice a year to see Karen, 41, and their 12-year-old son, who live in Jinotega, north of Nicaragua´s capital city of Managua. Xavier said he can't live in Nicaragua because he can't find work there, lacks treatment options for diabetes and fears for his safety because his family has been in the political opposition there for years. Their 20-year-old daughter lives in the U.S.
Karen has missed big moments, including her daughter's high school graduation and birthdays. The Biden administration's offer to spouses who chose to remain in the U.S. filled her with despair.
"It is something that we have been fighting for and after so much struggle, to get here without giving ourselves any hope," she said while crying in a video interview from Nicaragua.
It is unclear how many spouses left the U.S. voluntarily. But Eric Lee, an immigration attorney with offices in Michigan and California, said it is a "massive" number. Immigrants and advocacy groups have urged the White House to include them in the new policy.
"The only reason why so many are being punished is because they tried to step out of the shadow, they tried to follow the law," Lee said.
Homeland Security did not respond to questions about whether people who left the country voluntarily will qualify, saying only that they "may be eligible for continued processing abroad."
The department said Monday that 64% of potential beneficiaries are from Mexico and 20% are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. They become eligible to remain in the United States for three years under presidential authority known as parole for a $580 fee, which includes ability to apply for work authorization, a green card and, eventually, citizenship.
People deemed national security or public safety threats and those convicted of what are considered serious crimes, including felonies for driving under the influence, are disqualified, as are those found to belong to a gang.
Juan Enrique Sauceda 47, is biding time in Piedras Negras, Mexico, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. He was deported in 2019 while married to a U.S. citizen and applied to reenter. His wife and two children live in Houston.
"I want to return to the United States because I grew up there, I have my wife, my children, everything," Saucedo said. "I don´t fit in here."
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Spagat reported from San Diego. Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana in Rocklin, California, contributed.
| 2024-08-19T20:53:48+03:00
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El radar más voraz de Sevilla pone 120 multas de tráfico al día
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ABC
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Las denuncias por radares móviles se dispararon casi un 91 por ciento en 2022, según un informe de Automovilistas Europeos Asociados
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Las denuncias por radares móviles se dispararon casi un 91 por ciento en 2022, según un informe de Automovilistas Europeos Asociados
El séptimo radar más multón de España se encuentra en Sevilla, en uno de los tramos con más tráfico de la ciudad, en el punto kilométrico 0,5 de la autovía A-49. Este dispositivo de la Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) dio lugar a 43.768 sanciones durante el pasado año, a razón de casi 120 denuncias al día, según el informe publicado este miércoles por la asociación Automovilistas Europeos Asociados (AEA).
Los radares móviles hicieron su agosto en 2022 en dos provincias andaluzas: Cádiz y Sevilla. En la primera las multas por este tipo de dispositivos aumentaron un 351,6% en los últimos doce meses, hasta alcanza las 65.171, mientras que el radar fijo estuvo detrás de 195.763 denuncias, que suponen un 266% más.
Controles de velocidad
Tráfico también hizo caja en la provincia de Sevilla. Los sistemas móviles de control de la velocidad registraron 40.434 denuncias, casi el doble de las contabilizadas en 2021 (un 91,7% más). Los dispositivos fijos repartidos por las carreteras sevillanas que dependen de la DGT tampoco dieron abasto: están detrás de 205.006 sanciones, que suponen un 58,1% más que el año anterior.
En esta última provincia, el exceso de velocidad concentró 245.440 denuncias de Tráfico. Casi ocho de cada diez multas que se ponen es por este motivo. En la clasificación de infracciones, le siguen no haber pasado la ITV (28.897 expedientes, un 11,4% más), conducir sin el permiso de conducir (5.201) o no llevar puesto el cinturón (5.079).
| 2023-05-24T21:11:01+03:00
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Melania Trump speaks on Capitol Hill for first time in roundtable focused on punishing revenge porn
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/melania-trump-speaks-capitol-hill-first-time-roundtable-focused-punishing-revenge-porn
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First lady Melania Trump spoke on Capitol Hill Monday for the first time since returning to the White House, participating in a roundtable with lawmakers from both chambers of Congress focused on punishing online abuse and revenge pornography.
"I am here with you today with a common goal — to protect our youth from online harm," Melania Trump said Monday. "The widespread presence of abusive behavior in the digital domain affects the daily lives of our children, families and communities."
"Addressing this issue is essential for fostering a safe and supportive environment for our young people," she said. "I hope today’s roundtable builds awareness of the harm caused by nonconsensual intimate imagery and eventually the approval of the Take it Down Act in Congress."
The Take it Down Act is a bill introduced in the Senate by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., that would make it a federal crime to publish, or threaten to publish, nonconsensual intimate imagery, including "digital forgeries" crafted by artificial intelligence. The bill unanimously passed the Senate earlier in 2025, with Cruz saying Monday he believes it will be passed by the House before becoming law.
The law would require penalties of up to three years in prison for sharing nonconsensual intimate images — authentic or AI-generated — involving minors and two years in prison for those images involving adults. It also would require penalties of up to two and a half years in prison for threat offenses involving minors, and one and a half years in prison for threats involving adults.
Trump was joined by California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, alongside Republicans such as Cruz, House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, Reps. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., Kevin Hern, R-Okla.
The bill would require social media companies, like Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and similar platforms, to put procedures in place to remove such content within 48 hours of notice from the victim.
Salazar and Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Penn., introduced the legislation in the House in January. That measure is under consideration in the House Energy and Commerce Committees before consideration on the House floor.
Salazar also spoke during the roundtable, celebrating that the bill would force Big Tech to take down the images within 48 hours with "no more excuses."
"The Take It Down act, finally is sending a very big message to Big Tech that they have to bring down this images, fake images within 48 hours. No more time than that. No more excuses. If not, Big Tech, then we'll be just as guilty as the aggressors."
AI-generated images known as "deepfakes" often involve editing videos or photos of people to make them look like someone else by using artifical intelligence. Deepfakes hit the public’s radar in 2017 after a Reddit user posted realistic-looking pornography of celebrities to the platform, opening the floodgates to users employing AI to make images look more convincing and widely shared in the following years.
"In today's AI-driven world, the threat of privacy breaches is alarmingly high," Melania Trump explained. "As organizations harness the power of our data, the risk of unauthorized access and misuses of personal information escalates. We must prioritize robust security measures and uphold strict ethical standards to protect individual privacy."
Nearly every U.S. state has a law protecting people from nonconsensual intimate image violations, but the laws vary in classification of crime and penalty.
Cruz championed the bill in his remarks, while lamenting how revenge porn and AI-generated explicit images have often victimized young girls.
"If you're a victim of revenge porn or AI-generated explicit imagery, your life changes forever," Cruz said during the roundtable. "Most likely you've been targeted by someone you know, and you're likely struggling to have that material removed from the internet. Disturbingly, many of these victims are teenagers at American high schools who are facing a surge in AI-generated sexual images hundreds of teens, often targeted by their own classmates, are enduring senseless psychological harm."
"The Take It Down Act empowers victims across the entire United States," he continued. "It makes it a felony for these deviants to publish any nonconsensual intimate images, including fake, lifelike pornographic images of real people."
The event Monday is the first where the first lady delivered public remarks since President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Melania Trump was joined on Monday by a 15-year-old girl, Elliston Berry, whose high school peers used AI to create nonconsensual imagery of the young girl and spread them across social media, the first lady explained.
"It’s heartbreaking to witness young teens, especially girls, grappling with the overwhelming challenges posed by malicious online content, like deepfakes," Trump said. "This toxic environment can be severely damaging. We must prioritize their well-being by equipping them with the support and tools necessary to navigate this hostile digital landscape. Every young person deserves a safe online space to express themselves freely, without the looming threat of exploitation or harm."
Berry, a Texas native, told the roundtable she was just 14 years old when she realized in 2023 that "a past Instagram photo with a nude body and my face attached made from AI," was circulating on social media.
"Fear, shock and disgust were just some of the many emotions I felt," Berry said. "I felt responsible and began to blame myself and was ashamed to tell my parents. Despite doing nothing wrong. As I attended school, I was scared of the reactions of someone or someone could could recreate these photos."
"We need to hold big tech accountable to take action," the young woman continued. "I came here today to not only promote this bill, but to fight for the freedom of so many survivors, millions of people, male, female, teenage children, kids all are affected by the rise of this image based sexual abuse. This is unacceptable. The Take It Down act will give a voice to the victims and provide justice."
Another young girl, Francesca Mani of New Jersey, recounted that she also was 14 when she and other peers found deepfake images on themselves online.
"Teenagers might not know all the laws, but they do know when something is wrong," Mani said. "Schools need to take immediate, serious action to ensure that AI exploitation, harassment and deepfake abuse are met with real consequences."
Sharing nonconsensual and AI-generated explicit images on social media and the internet has not just affected young girls, with young boys and adults also facing similar crimes. A woman named Breeze Liu told the roundtable that she worked tirelessly to remove AI-generated images of herself that landed on a pornography site in 2020 when she was 24 years old.
"A friend called to tell me that a video of me was circulating on Pornhub," she said Monday. "At first I thought it was a mistake. I have never even visited Pornhub, but when I clicked the link, I saw my face on a pornographic video. The devastation I felt is indescribable. I was humiliated."
Republican South Carolina state Rep. Brandon Guffey also joined the group of lawmakers and the first lady, recounting how his 17-year-old son committed suicide in 2022 after he was caught up in a sextorition scam.
"I lost my oldest son, Gavin Guffey, to suicide," he shared. "We quickly found out that he was being extorted online. That someone pretending to be a young female at another college requested images to be shared back and forth. And as soon as he shared those images, he took his life. It was an hour and 40 minutes from the time that he was contacted until the time that he took his life."
Johnson thanked "the extraordinary witnesses" on Monday, noting the young women were extremely articulate.
"As the dark side of tech advances, these unspeakable evils become part of the culture, and the laws have to keep up," Johnson said. "We are anxious to put it on the floor in the House and get it to President Trump’s desk for signature."
During the first Trump administration, Melania Trump hosted virtual roundtables on foster care as part of her "Be Best" initiative and focused on strengthening the child welfare system. The "Be Best" initiative also focused on online safety.
"As first lady, my commitment to the ‘Be Best’ initiative underscores the importance of online safety," she said. "In an era where digital interactions are integral to daily life, it is imperative that we safeguard children from mean-spirited and hurtful online behavior."
During her husband's first term as president, she also worked with members of Congress on legislation that secured funding for grants awarded to youth and young adults currently or formerly in foster care to help pay for college, career school or training. The bill ultimately was signed by the president in December 2020.
Trump gave a nod to Democratic Sen. Klobuchar and Republican Sen. Cruz for their bipartisan support of the bill, while remarking she was let down by the lack of additional support from Democrats.
"I must admit, however, I expected to see more Democrat leaders with us here today to address this serious issue," she said. "Surely as adults, we can prioritize America’s children ahead of partisan politics. I urge Congress to prioritize the passage of the Take It Down Act. This legislation is essential for addressing the growing concerns related to online safety, protecting individual rights, and promoting a healthier digital environment."
Rep. Lisa McClain personally thanked her Democratic colleague, Rep. Ro Khanna, for attending the roundtable.
Melania Trump concluded her remarks by calling on Congress to pass the bill to mark a "powerful step toward justice, healing and unity."
"Congress can take an important step toward ensuring accountability and fostering responsible online behavior," she continued. "The Take It Down Act represents a powerful step toward justice, healing and unity."
| 2025-03-03T21:38:15+03:00
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How Prince William is positioning himself as 'the people's Prince'
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13562925/Prince-William-positioning-peoples-Prince-making-sure-hes-seen-Taylor-Swift-Eras-Tour-wants-seen-relatable-royal-like-Princess-Diana-royal-expert-claims.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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Prince William is positioning himself as 'the People's Prince' and wants to be seen as a 'relatable royal like Princess Diana', a royal expert has claimed.
The Prince of Wales, 42, sent royal fans wild on Friday when he was spotted 'dad dancing' along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off at the Eras Tour at Wembley.
The royal's appearance at the sold-out show came just one day after he put on an animated display at England's Euro match against Denmark in Frankfurt.
Speaking to FEMAIL, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said William is 'brilliant' at combining the 'formal and informal' aspects of his role - just like his late mother.
The expert said: 'The monarchy tends to be associated with formal events because of its traditions and its place in our unwritten constitution.
'Yet it is pivotal that royals avoid an image which is too aloof and formal. Diana managed, brilliantly, to carve her own niche with her amazing charitable work and, despite personal unhappiness, she became iconic.
'People felt they could relate to her and, in an unprecedented way, the nation showed this when she died.'
Highlighting how the Prince of Wales appears to be following in his mother's footsteps, Richard continued: 'William has clearly shown that he can combine the formal and informal brilliantly.
'He can both stand in for his father at a D-Day commemoration and visit British troops on the border with Ukraine and also pose for a selfie with two of his children taken by the iconic singer Taylor Swift at Wembley as well as "dad-dancing" to her catchy lyrics during her concert at Wembley Stadium.'
Commenting on the backstage photo with Taylor and his children, the expert said this move will 'rejuvenate his image' among younger royal fans and labelled William the 'people's prince'.
What's more, the expert also stressed how William's love of football also makes him 'more relatable'.
Richard said: 'As President of the FA William, sometimes taking George, lends a supportive presence. Recent official photographs of him have been wonderfully relaxed too.'
Stressing how these more 'informal' public appearances will help William in the long-run, the expert added: If people feel you are a more relatable royal, it is easier to get more serious messages across, as Diana, in her charitable campaigns, clearly showed.'
The late Princess of Wales was famously dubbed 'the people's princess' by former Prime Minister Tony Blair when he delivered a speech paying tribute to the royal outside 10 Downing Street on the day of her tragic death.
During her lifetime, Princess Diana raised awareness of the AIDS epidemic and fighting homelessness was another cause close to her heart. Showcasing her creative side, Diana also delighted Royal Opera House attendants in 1985 when she took to the stage to dance along to Billy Joel's Uptown Girl.
Over the years, Kate Middleton has been called the 'children's princess' by royal fans thanks to her warm way of interacting with youngsters and her 'Early Years' project, which aims to give generations of children the best start in life.
After footage emerged of William's exuberant dancing at the Taylor Swift show, royal fans claimed the selfies with Taylor were 'throwing shade' at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Meghan had reportedly attended a Taylor Swift concert in the same LA arena the previous month, though no selfies with Swift have emerged.
What's more, Taylor is also reported to have 'snubbed a handwritten invite from Meghan Markle' to appear on her Spotify podcast.
The footage of William dancing appeared very different to Harry's demeanour when he and his wife Meghan Markle attended Beyonce's performance at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles last September.
While the Duchess of Sussex appeared to be enjoying the show, Harry appeared dejected and often looking at his phone rather than the stage.
| 2024-06-24T15:00:14+03:00
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Belaruslu kız kardeşlere ne oldu? Aladağlar'daki arama çalışmalarında son durum | Son dakika haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/belaruslu-kiz-kardeslere-ne-oldu-aladaglar-daki-arama-calismalarinda-son-durum-3739381
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"Niğde, Dağcı, Belarus, kız kardeşler"
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Ankara'dan 15 Kasım'da Niğde'deki Aladağlar'a tırmanmak için gelen ve 18 Kasım'da geri dönüş yapmaları gerekirken kendilerinden haber alınamayan Belaruslu iki kız kardeşi arama çalışmaları devam ediyor. JAK ve AFAD ekipleri, Sokullupınar güzergahında Kızılkaya zirvesi ile Emli Vadisi bölgesinde çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Ankara'dan kalkan insanlı keşif uçağı da bölgede tarama çalışması yapıyor.
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Ankara'dan 15 Kasım'da Niğde'deki Aladağlar'a tırmanmak için gelen ve 18 Kasım'da geri dönüş yapmaları gerekirken kendilerinden haber alınamayan Belaruslu iki kız kardeşi arama çalışmaları devam ediyor. JAK ve AFAD ekipleri, Sokullupınar güzergahında Kızılkaya zirvesi ile Emli Vadisi bölgesinde çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Ankara'dan kalkan insanlı keşif uçağı da bölgede tarama çalışması yapıyor.
Niğde'de yer alan Aladağlar'daki Sokullupınar'dan Kızılkaya zirvesine tırmanışa geçtikten sonra kendilerinden haber alınamayan Belarus uyruklu kız kardeşler Valentino ve Mariao İvankova'ya ulaşmak için çalışmalar sabah saatlerinde yeniden başladı.
Niğde Jandarma Arama Kurtarma (JAK) ve AFAD ekipleri, Sokullupınar güzergahında Kızılkaya zirvesi ile Emli Vadisi bölgesinde çalışmalarını sürdürüyor.
KEŞİF UÇAĞI BÖLGEDE TARAMA ÇALIŞMASI YAPIYOR
Ankara'dan kalkan insanlı keşif uçağı da bölgede tarama çalışması yapıyor.
NE OLMUŞTU?
Belaruslu kız kardeşler Valentino ve Mariao İvankova, 15 Kasım'da Ankara'dan Niğde'ye dağcılık faaliyetlerinde bulunmak üzere geldi. 16 Kasım'da Aladağlar'ın Sokullupınar mevkisinden Kızılkaya zirvesine tırmanışa geçen kız kardeşlerden bir daha haber alınamadı.
19 Kasım'da Belarus Konsolosluğu'nun Niğde Valiliği'ne bilgi vermesi üzerine kardeşler için arama kurtarma çalışması başlatıldı.
| 2024-11-20T10:23:11+03:00
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Preocupación en el entorno de Luis Miguel por el debut público de su hijo, Miguel Gallego Arámbula
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/gente/20241211/10192768/preocupacion-entorno-luis-miguel-debut-publico-hijo-miguel-gallego-arambula-mmn.html
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El joven cumplirá 18 años el 1 de enero y planea iniciar una carrera musical
El insólito motivo por el que Luis Miguel ha dinamitado el cumpleaños de una fan en México
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El joven cumplirá 18 años el 1 de enero y planea iniciar una carrera musical
El insólito motivo por el que Luis Miguel ha dinamitado el cumpleaños de una fan en México
Luis Miguel es uno de los cantantes más celebrados y laureados en el amplio panteón de la música hispana. El conocido como Sol de México lleva más de 40 años al pie del cañón, dando conciertos, publicando nuevas canciones y despertando pasiones allá donde va. Sin embargo, pronto su vida podría enfrentarse a un vuelco radical, debido al cumpleaños de una figura muy concreta: su hijo, Miguel Gallego Arámbula.
Nacido de su anterior relación con Aracely Arámbula, el joven está a punto de cumplir 18 años, en pleno tramo final de la gira del cantante. Según la revista Semana, el entorno de Luis Miguel ha mostrado preocupación por los últimos movimientos de Gallego, que se convertirá en personaje público al pasar a ser mayor de edad. Los círculos cercanos temen que sus declaraciones puedan afectar a la carrera de su padre.
Arámbula tiene pensado seguir los pasos del Sol de México al cumplir los 18 el próximo 1 de enero. Según Antonio Pérez Garibay, diputado federal en el estado de Jalisco y padre del piloto de Fórmula 1 Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez, su intención es iniciar una trayectoria en el mundo de la música bajo su hospedaje. “Lo que viene de Luis Miguel y Aracely es muy superior a los dos, viene algo que va a superar a los dos”, aclaraba en una entrevista con la periodista Inés Moreno.
“Viene ‘Micky’ Junior, muy fuerte el próximo año, es su lanzamiento en Europa a nivel mundial y viene algo muy grande, van a estar muy orgullosos, estoy seguro que ‘Micky’ va a superar al papá y a la mamá, cantando, guapísimo”, añadía el político. Garibay también se pronunció sobre un longevo rumor alrededor de Luis Miguel, quien habría prohibido a Aracely Arámbula mostrar a sus hijos en medios hasta que fuera mayor de edad. Según sus palabras, este extremo es falso.
Meses complicados
En otros ámbitos, la pareja formada por Luis Miguel y Paloma Cuevas ha mostrado sus respetos a Silvia Pinal, quien falleció la semana anterior a los 93 años. “Hasta siempre, Silvia. Tu legado será eterno por tu inconmensurable talento, que deja una huella indeleble en el mundo de la cultura. Te recordaremos siempre”, escribía, junto a una fotografía de Silvia de joven, vistiendo al estilo hollywoodiense y acompañada de la Pianno Solo de Ennio Morricone.
Tiempo antes de su fallecimiento, la intérprete solicitó que se abriera un velatorio público en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de Ciudad de México. El objetivo detrás de esta decisión es que todas aquellos que quieran despedirse públicamente de ella puedan hacerlo sin problemas. De igual forma, habría solicitado que el cantante participara en la ceremonia: “Me encantaría que Luis Miguel me cantara, y claro, que no falten los mariachis”.
| 2024-12-11T21:09:28+03:00
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Hatay'da bir yolcu, tartıştığı minibüs şoförünün kulağının bir bölümünü ısırarak kopardı - Hatay Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/hatay-haberleri/35282326-hatayda-bir-yolcu-tartistigi-minibus-soforunun-kulaginin-bir-bolumunu-isirarak-kopardi
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Hatay'ın Erzin ilçesinde bir yolcu, tartıştığı minibüs şoförünün kulağının bir bölümünü ısırarak kopardı.
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Hatay'ın Erzin ilçesinde bir yolcu, tartıştığı minibüs şoförünün kulağının bir bölümünü ısırarak kopardı.
Hatay'ın Erzin ilçesinde bir yolcu, tartıştığı minibüs şoförünün kulağının bir bölümünü ısırarak kopardı.
İlçe garajından Erzin-Adana seferine çıkmaya hazırlanan şoför Şefik V. ile yolcu H.T. arasında ücret tartışması yaşandı.
Tartışmanın kavgaya dönüşmesi üzerine H.T, şoförün kulağını ısırarak bir bölümünü kopardı.
Çevredekilerin ihbarı üzerine olay yerine sağlık ve polis ekipleri sevk edildi.
Kulağının bir bölümü kopan Şefik V, sağlık ekiplerince hastaneye kaldırdı.
Yolcu H.T. ise çıkarıldığı hakimlikçe tutuklandı.
Taraflar arasındaki arbede garajın güvenlik kamerasınca kayda alındı.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Hatay haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Hatay Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2024-07-31T16:31:18+03:00
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Texas lawmaker reveals which 'threatening' migration efforts he would like to slash: 'Our own destruction'
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-lawmaker-reveals-which-threatening-migration-efforts-he-would-like-slash
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FIRST ON FOX: A Texas congressman is moving forward with a push to bar funding to United Nations organizations dealing with mass migration amid a separate push by the Trump administration to crack down on international funding.
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, is reintroducing the No Tax Dollars for the United Nation’s Immigration Invasion Act, which bars federal funding from going to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
It also requires a study be conducted identifying all funding grants to the U.N. agencies, and nongovernmental organizations that received funding under those programs. It would also require the report to identify any funds that should be repaid to the U.S. government.
"It’s time to stop subsidizing our own destruction," Gooden said in a statement. "The United Nations is running a taxpayer-funded operation to funnel illegal immigrants into our country, threatening our sovereignty, security, and the very fabric of our nation. I am working with the Trump administration to end this immediately."
Gooden has been sounding the alarm for years about funding to the U.N. and nonprofits that he believes encourage mass migration to the U.S. It’s an appeal that is being echoed by the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump, on his first day in office, ordered a 90-day funding freeze for foreign aid assistance. Meanwhile, there have been deep cuts made to USAID, which has come under fire from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.
The migration focus comes after a historic border crisis that spanned nearly the entirety of the Biden administration. The Trump administration has deployed the military to the border, cut down the ability of migrants to claim asylum, ended parole policies and launched a mass deportation campaign.
Gooden’s bill comes after he introduced a related bill last month, which would prevent federal contracts and grants being awarded to NGOs unless they certified to the Office of Management and Budget that they are not involved in human trafficking or smuggling. It also would yank tax-exempt status from organizations who knowingly violate federal law.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "For years, nongovernmental organizations have exploited taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal immigration under the guise of ‘humanitarian aid,’" Gooden said in a statement at the time.
| 2025-03-03T22:49:12+03:00
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From leading protests to Olympic heartbreak: Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s remarkable journey
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/india-vinesh-phogat-olympics-2024-wrestling-disqualified-b2593886.html
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"Namita Singh"
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"Internal"
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When Vinesh Phogat walked out at the Champ-de-Mars Arena this week, she was hardly a favourite to qualify for the women’s 50kg freestyle wrestling final. Though regarded as one of the finest wrestlers to emerge from India, she had much to prove given what she had endured on her way to securing a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
From protesting on the streets for months demanding legal action against India’s wrestling federation chief over sexual harassment allegations to challenging social norms by taking up a sport traditionally considered unsuitable for women, Vinesh faced a Herculean’s task.
Coming from the conservative northern state of Haryana, Vinesh and her cousins Geeta Phogat and Babita Phogat overcame social barriers that restricted women to their homes.
Haryana is infamous for preferring boys over girls to the extent that, according to the 2011 census, its sex ratio was 879 women for 1,000 men, way below the national average of 943.
Vinesh was aided along by her uncle Mahavir Singh Phogat, an amateur wrestler and coach who introduced her to the sport early on, as he had his daughters Geeta and Babita.
Geeta would go on to win India’s first gold medal in women’s wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
The coach’s pivotal role in helping his daughters and niece succeed is memorialised in the hit Bollywood film Dangal.
Vinesh started her wrestling journey just as Geeta was establishing herself on the national stage. She would go on to win three Commonwealth golds, a pair of World Championships bronze medals and an Asian Games gold. She was also crowned Asian champion in 2021.
She was on the cusp of making history as her country’s first wrestler to win an Olympic silver, and possibly gold, when fate intervened. When she was weighed on the morning of her final match on Tuesday, she came in about 100g overweight and was instantly disqualified.
“It is with regret that the Indian contingent shares news of the disqualification of Vinesh Phogat from women’s wrestling 50kg class," the Indian Olympic Association said.
Vinesh announced retirement from wrestling on Thursday.
The news of her disqualification evoked an outpouring of sympathy in India, with prime minister Narendra Modi describing her as a "champion among champions” on X.
Many of her compatriots hailed the wrestler as “inspiration”, as much for her fight inside the ring as outside.
Vinesh, 29, was a prominent face of last year’s protests against wrestling federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Along with fellow Olympians Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, she demonstrated on the streets of the capital Delhi to demand action against Mr Singh over sexual assault and intimidation charges, only to be manhandled by police.
They called off the protest after then federal sports minister Anurag Thakur promised a fair investigation but resumed it when Mr Singh was re-elected the federation’s chief.
The wrestlers were assaulted and detained by police when they marched to the new parliament on the day of its inauguration last May.
At the peak of protest, with her career on the line, Vinesh was asked about the source of her courage. “It’s from my mother,” she said.
She recounted her mother’s struggle as a single parent and battle with cancer. “She was about 32 when she became a widow,” Vinesh told The Indian Express.
“I feel sad thinking about it. She struggled for us. In that struggle we didn’t even realise when we grew up. A single woman, she would be taunted by others, how they treated her.
“She didn’t even know where to sit, where to get off. No one supported her. We grew up seeing her struggle. If a single woman like that, illiterate, could fight the society on her own and make us big wrestlers, then we can do it too.
“If we don’t speak out today then all the struggles of my mother would have gone to waste. I won medals, that’s all right, but if we win this battle, she will proudly say, ‘I gave birth to them’. I am proud that my mother showed so much strength and character, I guess that’s in me as well. Even my father was like that. I am also like that.”
In a public voice call on Tuesday, she told her smiling mother that she would win gold.
Two days on, retiring from the sport, she wrote: “Mother, wrestling won, I lost. Forgive me that I broke your dream, but I do not have courage and energy anymore.
“Goodbye wrestling 2001-2024, I will always be indebted to your support. Forgive me.”
| 2024-08-09T14:27:06+03:00
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5 key talking points ahead of England’s clash with New Zealand in Auckland
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/england-steve-borthwick-new-zealand-auckland-all-blacks-b2578629.html
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"Maro Itoje",
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England are aiming to level their series against New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday having lost the first Test 16-15.
Here, the PA news agency examines five talking points heading into a match the All Blacks are strong favourites to win.
Taking a leaf out of the book of his predecessor Eddie Jones, Steve Borthwick has sought to unnerve New Zealand by highlighting the pressure that comes with their remarkable record at Eden Park. It has been 30 years and 48 games since they lost at their Auckland stronghold and Borthwick has questioned how the All Blacks will cope with the expectation of defending that unbeaten run. New Zealand boss Scott Robertson has shrugged off Borthwick’s rare venture into the dark arts of pre-match scheming, declaring, “there’s always pressure, it depends how you use it”.
England wasted a glorious opportunity to triumph on New Zealand soil in the first Test and while that provided their best chance to topple the All Blacks in this series, they showed enough to provide genuine hope for the rematch. New Zealand will be better with their first game since the World Cup final in the bank, but the tourists run out at Eden Park for the final 80 minutes of a mammoth season that began over a year ago. They will empty the tanks knowing that any off-note performances will count against them for selection when the rivals clash again at Twickenham on November 2.
The odds of an England win will have lengthened after George Furbank was ruled out on the eve of the second Test by a back injury. Furbank’s absence robs the team of their most dangerous runner from the series opener in Dunedin and while Freddie Steward is a high-quality replacement, he lacks the dynamism in attack shown by his rival for the jersey. Consistency has been a feature of Steward’s 33 caps but with his most recent game taking place almost two months ago, he must get up to speed as quickly as possible.
The All Blacks’ management will have been ruing the one that got away as they watched Cunningham-South submit his opposite number with a rampaging display in the first Test. Cunningham-South was born in Kent but raised in New Zealand until he returned to the UK in search of his chance. The hard-running 21-year-old is now a fixture in England’s back row and in Dunedin he made light of Finau’s reputation as an enforcer. Another thunderous outing at blindside flanker will tighten his grip on the jersey.
Maro Itoje was close to his destructive best in the first Test and England will need another big shift from their second row colossus. When he is firing, Itoje is the game’s most disruptive defender at the line-out, maul and breakdown and his spoiling contributions are critical if there is to be an upset. Now over the limit of 2,400 minutes game time imposed on England players for each season, he shows no sign of fatigue and is thriving in his role as captain once Jamie George leaves the field.
| 2024-07-12T11:26:55+03:00
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Energie Cottbus gegen 1860: Formstarkes Energie Cottbus bleibt auch vor dem Spiel gegen 1860 auf dem Boden
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Sportschau
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https://www.sportschau.de/regional/rbb/rbb-formstarkes-energie-cottbus-bleibt-auch-vor-dem-spiel-gegen-1860-auf-dem-boden-100.html
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Energie Cottbus zeigt sich gegenüber seinen Gegnern weiter ohne Erbarmen. Mit dem Sieg gegen Aue haben die Lausitzer bereits sieben Spiele in Folge nicht mehr verloren. Nun kommt 1860 München. Von Andreas Friebel
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Energie Cottbus zeigt sich gegenüber seinen Gegnern weiter ohne Erbarmen. Mit dem Sieg gegen Aue haben die Lausitzer bereits sieben Spiele in Folge nicht mehr verloren. Nun kommt 1860 München. Von Andreas Friebel
Die halbe Miete ist drin: Mit 20 Punkten aus elf Spielen ist Fußball-Drittligist Energie Cottbus auf dem besten Weg, den Klassenerhalt in Rekordzeit unter Dach und Fach zu bringen. Spielen die Lausitzer weiter auf diesem Niveau, könnten schon vor der Winterpause die benötigten Zähler eingefahren sein. Seit der Saison 2020/21 hatten Teams mit 41 Punkten den Klassenerhalt sicher. Bis zu dieser magischen Grenze dürfte Trainer Claus-Dieter Wollitz genau das als Saisonziel definieren. Auch wenn die Fans vielleicht jetzt schon von mehr träumen. "Wir freuen uns über den großen Zuspruch und die Anerkennung. Aber ich warne davor, zu euphorisch zu sein und jetzt neue Ziele auszugeben", so Wollitz am Freitagmittag auf der Spieltags-Pressekonferenz. "Das Thema Aufstieg ist für die Mannschaft keins. Wir reden nur darüber, wie wir am Sonntag gewinnen können."
Pyro-Feuerwerk in Aue wird teuer
Die Euphorie schlägt sich auch weiter in den Zuschauerzahlen nieder. Für das Heimspiel am Sonntag gegen 1860 München (Anpfiff 13:30 Uhr) sind bislang rund 11.000 Tickets verkauft, etwa 1.000 davon nach München. Die Cottbuser rechnen deshalb mit etwa 15.000 Zuschauern. Das wäre ein neuer Saisonrekord. Der aktuelle datiert vom ersten Spieltag gegen Bielefeld, als 12.500 Fans kamen. "Mich würde freuen, wenn die Zuschauerzahl so hoch sein würde. Dann könnten wir unsere hohen Geldstrafen bezahlen", sagt Wollitz, für den das Auftreten der eigenen Fans in Aue ein Wermutstropfen in einer sportlich erfolgreichen Woche ist. Insbesondere die Tatsache, dass kurz vor Schluss eine Rakete aus dem Cottbuser Block in Richtung Auer Zuschauer abgeschossen wurde, ärgert den Cheftrainer: "So etwas macht man nicht. Das ist das Unterste vom Untersten. Nun wird nur noch über diese Sache diskutiert und nicht, wie die Mannschaft Fußball spielt." Energie rechnet für das Aue-Spiel mit einer Strafe von etwa 30.000 Euro. Denn zusätzlich brannten zuvor etwa 100 sogenannte Blinker. Jeder einzelne kostet 100 Euro Strafe.
Härtefälle auf der Cottbuser Bank
Was in der allgemeinen sportlichen Euphorie etwas untergeht: Längst nicht alle Spieler aus dem Kader kommen regelmäßig zum Einsatz. Für das Heimspiel gegen München sind bis auf Joshua Putze (Zahn-OP) alle Profis fit. Es dürfen aber nur 20 auf dem Spielberichtsbogen stehen. Maximilian Oesterhelweg ist in dieser Saison noch ohne jede Einsatzminute. Tim Campulka, Jan Shcherbakovski und Romarjo Hajrulla kommen auf zwei Einsätze. Und dann sind da noch die Aufstiegshelden Tobias Hasse, Jonas Hofmann und Axel Borgmann. Wollitz spricht von "Härtefällen", die ihm "schlaflose Nächte bereiten". Doch die drei haben auf ihrer Position harte Konkurrenz und sind derzeit eher Backups. So bitter das für die betroffenen Spieler ist. In der aktuellen Erfolgsphase sind Wechsel aber kaum sinnvoll. "Ich verstehe, dass einige Spieler enttäuscht sind. Aber ich sage ihnen, dass sie weiter dranbleiben müssen. Dann werden sie in dieser Saison auch belohnt", so Wollitz. Vielleicht ergeben sich ja zum Ende der englischen Woche noch ein paar Veränderungen in der Startelf? Mit 1860 München kommt der Tabellen-Zwölfte in die Lausitz. Bislang bleibt der ehemalige Bundesligist hinter den eigenen Erwartungen zurück. Auswärts gab es in dieser Saison erst einen Sieg. "1860 versucht sich immer den Gegner zurechtzulegen, um die eigenen Stärken auszuspielen. Darauf müssen wir uns einstellen. In jedem Fall wollen wie Sonntag gewinnen und dann 23 Punkte haben", so Claus-Dieter Wollitz.
Sendung: rbb|24 Inforadio, 25.10.2024, 19:15 Uhr
| 2024-10-25T19:51:25+03:00
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First popularly elected Black mayor in New England, Thirman Milner, has died at 91
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-black-new-england-hartford-mayor-b2656271.html
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Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, has died, the Connecticut NAACP said on Friday. He was 91.
Milner's death was announced Friday afternoon in a statement on the Instagram page for the Connecticut Conference of the NAACP.
“His tenure was marked by significant strides towards equity, justice, and empowerment for all,” the statement said, adding that memorial arrangements would be forthcoming. The statement did not specify exactly when or where Milner had died.
Milner was the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England. He served as Hartford’s Democratic mayor from 1981 to 1987. He also served as a Connecticut state representative and state senator. He was also a former president and lifetime member of the Greater Hartford NAACP, the organization said.
Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont praised Milner in a statement recognizing his contributions in politics and his civil rights work, which included marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., saying, “he used his influence to enact positive change in Hartford, particularly focusing many of his efforts on the need to ensure that all children – no matter their family’s income level or the neighborhood where they grew up – have access to a quality education that prepares them for success.”
Milner was a descendant of enslaved Black and Native American ancestors, according to a profile of him written by The Associated Press in 2010 upon the release of his memoir “Up from Slavery: A History from Slavery to City Hall in New England.” He was raised by a widowed mother who got by, in part, with help from government assistance.
“The proudest thing in my life was not becoming mayor myself, but the fact that it gave my mother a chance to see her youngest son become mayor of the city where she grew up,” Milner said at the time.
His life experience was informed by his work and those he met along the way, ranging from Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Barack Obama.
| 2024-11-30T01:12:15+03:00
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This sea moss supplement manages weight and stress levels for just $28
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/shopping-us/article-13866197/herbtonics-sea-moss-supplement-amazon.html
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If you haven't yet caught on to the wonders of sea moss, it's time to get up to speed. This is the wellness supplement of the moment — but this viral sensation has actually been touted for centuries for its many nutritional properties.
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Why is sea moss such an "it" supplement right now? That might be obvious once you get to know it on a deeper level. It's packed with essential minerals and nutrients that are often missing from modern diets.
Among those are potassium, which may help regulate blood pressure, and omega-3 fatty acids, known to support cardiovascular health.
The beauty of Herbtonics Sea Moss is that it elevates this natural powerhouse with a blend of 15 ingredients total, each carefully selected to support health and vitality.
You might be familiar with ashwagandha, the herb known for reducing stress levels. Rooted in Ayurvedic tradition, the adaptogen can help you remain calm while boosting overall mood and energy levels.
Paired with turmeric, a spice renowned for its anti-inflammatory properties, this formula both nourishes and supports your physical wellbeing.
Beyond that, this sea moss supplement also aids in detoxification. Ingredients like burdock root, dandelion leaf, and chlorophyll work in harmony to cleanse your system by reducing toxin load.
That, in turn, keeps your skin clearer and even helps improve your digestion — two extra benefits that anyone can appreciate.
For those aiming to maintain a healthy weight, Herbtonics included apple cider vinegar and bladderwrack. Both of these can boost metabolism and help curb cravings that would otherwise throw you off track.
Combined with vitamin C, vitamin D3, and elderberry, this is an immunity-boosting powerhouse that takes a far more comprehensive approach to your health at large than ordinary supplements — and it's super easy to work into your routine.
Finishing the blend is BioPerine black pepper extract, which enhances absorption of nutrients so you can more readily reap all of the goodness packed into each capsule. That means better results, faster!
At just $27.99, the 15-in-1 Herbtonics Sea Moss supplement is more than a worthwhile investment in your long-term health. Feeling your best, after all, starts from the inside out.
| 2024-09-26T15:41:56+03:00
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I bought a wreck of a house which I've done up - now I need tax advice
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-13592103/House-doubled-value-need-capital-gains-tax-advice.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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I'm a retired builder and while taking my granddaughter to university in Northampton I saw a house up for auction.
It was a complete wreck. I had to pay cash of £105,000 as you could not get a mortgage for the property in that state.
I have travelled there every day for over four years doing all the work and slept there as well, and as there is still work to finish I'm living there most of the week.
I own one other property that I bought when I got married.
It's in my name as my wife was too young when we bought it in 1968 for hers to go on the deeds then.
My house in Oxford is worth about £500,000.
The one I'm working is worth around £200,000 or a bit more, and that one is in mine and my wife's names.
Would it be better to get the Oxford property in both our names now too for tax purposes?
Also, can I claim expenses against tax for the property I did up?
SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUT HOW TO ASK HEATHER YOUR TAX QUESTION
Heather Rogers replies: Before I deal with both of your questions, it's worth running through the basic tax rules regarding main residences, the private residence relief that applies when you sell them, and the capital gains tax position on any other properties owned.
PRR is a relief from capital gains tax which would normally be due on the sale of a property.
If your property meets the following criteria, then PRR will usually apply and no capital gains will be payable on any profit made when it is sold.
- You have one property and you have lived there as your main home for the time you have owned it.
- You have not let part of it out, other than having one lodger at a time. If you have more than one lodger at a time, then private residence relief may not be allowable on the whole gain – so bear that in mind if you consider doing this.
However, if you have let your home out because you lived in job-related accommodation, you may still be OK.
- Part of your home has not been used exclusively for business.
- The land including buildings are less than 5,000 square metres (around an acre)
- The property was not bought for profit-making purposes.
If you have doubts on any of the above, get advice from a professional accountant on your situation.
It is also worth remembering that married couples and civil partners can only have one property between them as their main home at any one time.
If you buy a second property and live in that part time, then within two years of that purchase you can nominate which one of the two is your main home.
If you buy a third, you can re-nominate within two years of the purchase of the third which of the three properties is your main home.
More can be found on the gov.uk website about nominating a property as your main residence and private residence relief in general.
If your property does not qualify for PRR in full, then you could have CGT to pay.
Turning now to the house you bought in Oxford when you and your wife married, if this is your and your wife's main residence as a couple, and if it qualifies as so, then PRR would apply to the gain.
However, I would advise that your wife is named on the deeds. Also, if you have not already done so then both you and your wife should make wills.
Being named on the deeds will protect your wife if you were to die first, depending on the provisions contained in your will, or if you don't have a will and die intestate.
There are no capital gains tax implications of putting your wife on the deeds, as asset transfers between husband and wife are exempt.
How the ownership is done, whether as joint tenants (where you both own the property as a whole) or tenants in common (where you both own a specified share) may also depend on your wills and whether a property life interest trust is applicable at all.
I suggest you see a solicitor to help you with the matters above. In a previous column, I explained why I think people should use a solicitor when making a will.
This house is not your main residence, and you have been doing it up, presumably for profit-making purposes.
Unless you are planning on selling your Oxford home and moving into the Northampton house as your home (which I understand is already in joint names) the latter will not qualify for PRR in any way and will be subject to CGT in full on the profit.
However, you can offset the following against any profit made.
- Costs of acquisition, for example stamp duty and solicitor's costs.
- Costs of disposal, for example estate agent fees and solicitor's fees.
- Costs associated with establishing, preserving or defending the title to, or rights over, the asset.
- Enhancement expenditure.
Regarding enhancement expenditure, to qualify for tax relief the following must apply.
- It must have been spent on the asset for the purposes of enhancing its value.
- The improvement must be reflected in the state of the asset at the time of the sale.
On the second point, this means the enhancement must both still be there and acting as an enhancement.
An improvement which has wasted away at the time of sale would not count, nor would an asset which has been removed – for example, an extension that had been put up, not liked and demolished.
Both you and your wife have a £3,000 annual allowance to offset against capital gains tax as well, unless you have made any other disposals in the year in which the property is sold.
More can be found on the gov.uk website on categories of allowable expenditure.
It's worth noting that there is no allowance for the element of the gain which relates to inflation.
In 2008, the indexation allowance, which gave relief for inflation, was abolished for individuals.
At the time, capital gains tax rates matched income tax rates, but the compensation for the loss of the indexation, in effect, was that the rates were lowered considerably.
It is interesting to hear this subject come up again in this election. The Liberal Democrats have mentioned bringing back indexation in their manifesto.
The Conservatives would stick with the status quo. Labour have left out any mention of either in their manifesto.
| 2024-07-03T09:00:52+03:00
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Czechia: Walking in giant footsteps to save iconic shoemaker
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Deutsche Welle
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https://www.dw.com/en/still-for-sale-botas-shoes-made-in-the-czech-republic/a-65629762?maca=en-rss-en-bus-2091-rdf
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Like many smaller European companies, Czechia's Botas was battered by the pandemic and finished off by surging energy costs. But while others went down the tubes, the iconic sports shoemaker found a savior.
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Like many smaller European companies, Czechia's Botas was battered by the pandemic and finished off by surging energy costs. But while others went down the tubes, the iconic sports shoemaker found a savior.
On hearing of Botas' plight, Vaclav Stanek, owner of shoemaker Vasky, launched a drive to raise the necessary funds and buy the company by selling 8,000 pairs of shoes he had in stock. Although the price has not been disclosed, the tens of millions of koruna the deal likely cost was raised in just a week.
The swift rescue was fueled by a powerful cocktail of patriotism and nostalgia for a legendary brand.
Having shod Czechoslovak sports heroes such as Olympic champions Emil Zatopek and Vera Caslavska in the 1950s and 1960s, Botas went on to become a staple across much of the former Eastern bloc.
That meant that as Adidas, Nike and others of their ilk flooded into the Czech market following the fall of communism, they found their footwear labelled "botasky" — still a synonymous term for sneakers in many parts of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
But while 25 years or so ago the Botas factory in the central town of Skutec was turning out 2.5 million pairs of trainers annually, output had slumped to just 10,000 by 2022. And amid the energy price spike, and a severe shortage of skilled staff — a long-term problem in the Czech Republic, which has the EU's lowest unemployment — the company was shuttered at the start of this year.
"I thought I would be alone in feeling so strongly about the brand," Stanek told DW, "but I was happy to find many others shared my vision of saving it."
In Bata's footsteps
The Vasky founder's depth of feeling and determination to save Botas is all the more remarkable for the fact that he wasn't around to experience the brand's glory years. Stanek turned 25 the day after the company closed its doors.
However, he's not exactly a novice in the shoe trade. Vasky has grown rapidly since he launched the company, aged 18 and armed with 30,000 koruna (€1,215; $1,382), as an online trader from his hometown of Zlin in the southeast of the country.
His father, who runs a company making work boots, introduced the boy to shoemaking and helped Vasky take its initial paces. But it's Tomas Bata's footsteps in which Stanek junior insists he is following.
A colossal figure in the Czech Republic, Bata also started young in Zlin. By the time of Czechoslovakia's fabled First Republic years between the world wars, he had already introduced modern conveyer-belt production methods and high-quality, low-priced shoes for working people.
Today, the Bata Corporation is a multinational footwear, apparel and fashion accessories manufacturer, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is one of the world's leading shoemakers by volume, with 150 million pairs of shoes sold annually.
The Zlin that Stanek grew up in was molded by Bata's patriarchal capitalism, with huge swaths of housing and social infrastructure built for the workers at his factory. Similar towns were constructed in several other European states, and even Brazil, India and the United States.
Vasky grew from similarly grand ambitions, its founder asserts, even if it remains a little more modest for now. "Bata showed that you can achieve whatever you want with hard work," said Stanek. "He started at 16 and pursued his vision for the next 40 years."
Seven years since its launch, Vasky operates two production sites and six retail outlets, including a flagship store on Prague's Na Prikope — regularly ranked as one of the world's most expensive retail destinations. Last year, the company's turnover grew to €11.1 million.
When he saw the iconic Botas was in danger of disappearing, Stanek was keen to keep this "legend" of Czech shoemaking alive. "My vision is to preserve and continue the Czech shoemaking tradition. Millions saw the story about our bid to save Botas, and it was that that made the deal happen," he said.
But saving Botas will mean some fundamental, and for some painful, changes. For a start, although some small production operations may yet remain in Skutec, Botas production will largely shift 100 kilometers (62 miles) or so east to the Zlin base. The move will also entail significant investment in new machinery.
For now, the first Botas models to be made under the new ownership can be pre-ordered from the Vasky website. However, it's important that the two brands maintain their identities, so Botas will also need its own e-shop and stores, Stanek said.
Heart and head
At the same time, the entrepreneur remains the design lead, and as he works at updating collections for both Vasky and Botas he's finding it tricky at times to distinguish the two. Maybe, he grimaced, he'll have to relinquish some control and hire specialized designers.
But it's not only design challenges that the purchase of Botas has thrown up. There are also likely to be financial hurdles if the iconic brand's rescue isn't to intrude on the grand ambitions for Vasky.
"It was my heart that started the rescue off. But I soon had to start thinking about the business side," Stanek said. "We don't have unlimited funds."
Yet he was wary when asked if he might consider taking on investors. Having built Vasky from scratch, he admitted he would find it hard to share his "first baby."
That means he hopes to independently fund a potentially pricey real-world future for the company as it outgrows its online roots.
There are already six Vasky stores to be found around the Czech Republic, and up to six more are planned for this year, with the move to bricks-and-mortar playing an important role in boosting annual sales to 150,000 pairs of shoes. "Online sales are important, but customer behavior has not changed so much," insisted Stanek. "People still want to try shoes on before they buy."
With this rapid expansion in mind, he said he's confident that within the next four or five years Vasky will break the 1 million pairs barrier.
And while he's growing the Czech network, like his hero Tomas Bata, Stanek is also eyeing markets further afield.
Bata remains one of the world's largest shoemakers, with production bases in 18 countries and over 5,000 shops in 70 countries. Vasky isn't quite on that level, but, despite the "large resources it would take to do it properly," Stanek hopes to launch in Germany next year.
And that could pave the way for Botas as well.
"I believe it could be a big brand once more," the young shoemaker said. "Output could quickly grow to 10 times the volume seen last year. The brand awareness is huge. Sixty years ago, almost everyone in Czechoslovakia had a pair of Botas."
| 2023-05-19T11:28:34.788000+03:00
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Charles Barkley rips Joel Embiid for sitting out games after massive contract extension
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Charles Barkley tore into Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid Thursday night as the NBA reportedly launched an investigation into his participation in games.
Embiid did not play in the preseason over concerns about his knee and did not play in the team’s first game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s president of basketball operations, Daryl Morey, told ESPN earlier this month he would try to keep Embiid and Paul George out of playing most of the second nights of back-to-backs.
The entirety of the situation around Embiid appeared to have sparked the investigation, ESPN reported.
Barkley sounded off on Embiid during NBA coverage on TNT.
"Man, I don’t have any idea what the Sixers are doing. I don’t think it’s fair," Barkley said. "And I want to get this number right, and this is crazy and bless the kid, No. 1; he just singed for three years, $193 million. Three years, $193 million – to play basketball. We’re not steel workers, we’re not nurses.
"Like people who got like real jobs who have to work 40-50 hours a week. We’re playing basketball, at the most, four days a week. Most of the time, three days a week. He has the best backup in the league in (Andre Drummond). If he would’ve said, ‘I’m going to play 25 minutes on the second night of a back-to-back or Drummond plays.’
"But to come out and say it in advance was stupidity by the Sixers, period."
Injuries plagued Embiid the entirety of his NBA career. He also revealed his Bell’s palsy diagnosis during the playoff series against the New York Knicks last season.
However, he did play at the Paris Olympics for Team USA and was a key part in the team’s gold medal run.
| 2024-10-25T18:38:20+03:00
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West Virginia senator wants NCAA to make clear ‘a women’s locker room is for women only'
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Fox News
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EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice and more than half a dozen GOP senators are seeking clarification from the NCAA on its policy allowing biological males in women’s locker rooms, telling Fox News Digital that the organization needs to make clear that "a women’s locker room is for women only."
Justice, R-W.Va., penned a letter to National Collegiate Athletic Association President Charlie Baker Monday, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital.
Justice, who is a women’s basketball coach at Greenbrier East High School in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and has coached both boys and girls basketball since he was governor of West Virginia, explained to Fox News Digital that he will "always" work to ensure female athletes are protected.
"I’m a coach, and I know the last thing any athlete needs is to be distracted or concerned with their own safety or privacy while in a locker room," Justice told Fox News Digital. "I really believe the NCAA has made the right move following President Trump’s order, but let’s be clear across the board that a women’s locker room is for women only."
Justice added: "I’ll always work to make sure women athletes, like those I coach back in West Virginia, feel safe while changing in locker rooms and competing in athletic events."
The letter Justice sent Monday also was signed by Sens. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Jim Banks, R-Ind., James Risch, R-Idaho, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and James Lankford, R-Okla.
"On February 5, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order--Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports to strengthen Title IX and protect opportunities for biological female athletes to compete in safe and fair sports.' After the Biden-Harris administration's assault on Title IX in its efforts to allow biologically male athletes who identify as female to compete in women's sports, this order came as a sigh of relief to millions of female athletes across the country who desire equal opportunity to engage in competitive athletic," Justice wrote.
Justice said that the NCAA responded to Trump’s order by updating its student-athlete participation policy to block biological male students from participating in women's sports — a move he and his Senate colleagues "commend," but is further encouraging the organization to "take additional steps to protect the safety and privacy of female athletes nationwide."
"The NCAA's new policy makes clear that biological male student-athletes may not compete on a women's team. We could not be more supportive of this essential policy change," Justice said. "The NCAA's policy guarantees that biological male athletes who practice with female athletes will ‘receive all other benefits applicable to student-athletes who are otherwise eligible for practice.’"
Fox News Digital reached out to the NCAA for comment and did not immediately receive a response.
Justice said the NCAA has "an opportunity to clarify that these guarantees do not include access to facilities that would undermine the privacy and safety of female athletes- -such as women's locker rooms or other female-only spaces which the President's order made clear should be protected."
Justice is asking that the NCAA "consider adding language to its policy that explicitly bars biological male athletes from female-only spaces and to consider adopting additional privacy protections for women and girls in sports."
Justice, though, applauded the NCAA’s policy defining "*sex assigned at birth" as the male or female designation that doctors assign to infants at birth, which is marked on birth records.
"Publicly, the NCAA has affirmed that biological male athletes may not compete on a women's team with amended birth certificates or by other documentary means," Justice wrote. "The NCAA's public stance on this issue is commendable, and its policy could go a step further and explicitly state that amended birth certificates are prohibited."
"We stand in support of President Trump's unparallel actions to protect the safety and privacy of female athletes across the country," the letter states. "The NCAA's efforts are likewise respectable, and we look forward to working with you to ensure women and girls have equal opportunity in athletics."
| 2025-03-03T22:11:41+03:00
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Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı ne zaman, saat kaçta ve hangi kanalda? Galatasaray Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/bodrum-fk-galatasaray-maci-ne-zaman-saat-kacta-ve-hangi-kanalda-galatasaray-haberleri-3739369
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Milli maçların bitiminin ardından gözler Süper Lig mücadelerine çevrildi. Bu kapsamda 13. hafta maçında Galatasaray, Bodrum ile deplasmanda karşılaşacak. Ligde 31 puanla yoluna namağlüp devam eden sarı- kırmızılılar, çıktığı 11 maçta 10 galibiyet ve 1 beraberlik elde etti. Öte yandan oynadığı son 5 maçta galibiyet yüzü göremeyen Bodrum 16. sırada yer aldı. Peki, Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı ne zaman, saat kaçta ve hangi kanalda?
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Milli maçların bitiminin ardından gözler Süper Lig mücadelerine çevrildi. Bu kapsamda 13. hafta maçında Galatasaray, Bodrum ile deplasmanda karşılaşacak. Ligde 31 puanla yoluna namağlüp devam eden sarı- kırmızılılar, çıktığı 11 maçta 10 galibiyet ve 1 beraberlik elde etti. Öte yandan oynadığı son 5 maçta galibiyet yüzü göremeyen Bodrum 16. sırada yer aldı. Peki, Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı ne zaman, saat kaçta ve hangi kanalda?
Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı için geri sayım sürüyor. Ligde oynadığı 11 maçta tek puan kaybını Kasımpaşa karşısında yaşayan Galatasaray 31 puanda lider konumda bulunuyor. Okan Buruk'un öğrencileri zorlu deplasman fikstürüne Bodrum galibiyetiyle başlamak istiyor. Öte yandan Volkan Demirel yönetiminde 3. maçına çıkacak Bodrum takımı, Galatasaray karşısında sürpriz arıyor. Futbolseverler maç ile ilgili tüm detayları araştırıyor. Peki, Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı ne zaman ve hangi kanalda? İşte, karşılaşmaya dair detaylar...
BODRUM FK- GALATASARAY MAÇI NE ZAMAN VE HANGİ KANALDA?
Bodrum FK- Galatasaray maçı 23 Kasım Cumartesi günü 19.00'da oynanacak.
Heyecanla beklenen mücadele beİN Sports 1'den naklen yayınlanacak.
GALATASARAY MUHTEMEL 11
Muslera, Kaan, Sanchez, Abdülkerim, Jakobs, Torreira, Sara, Barış, Mertens, Yunus, Osimhen
GALATASARAY'DA BODRUM MESAİSİ
Galatasaray, Trendyol Süper Lig'in 13. haftasında 23 Kasım Cumartesi Sipay Bodrum FK ile deplasmanda karşılaşacağı maçın hazırlıklarını sürdürdü.
Sarı-kırmızılı kulüpten yapılan açıklamaya göre, Florya Metin Oktay Tesisleri'ndeki antrenman teknik direktör Okan Buruk yönetiminde gerçekleştirildi.
Dinamik ısınmayla başlayan idman, iki grup halinde 5’e 2 pas çalışmasıyla devam etti. Futbolcular koşu ve geniş alanda topa sahip olma antrenmanının ardından çift kale maçla çalışmayı tamamladı.
| 2024-11-20T10:23:33+03:00
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The would-be pop star who’s still chasing fame 50 years on
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/review-will-hodgkinson-a-year-with-lawrence/
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Street-Level Superstar, a mesmerising biography of indie singer Lawrence Hayward, asks just when artists should throw in the towel
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Street-Level Superstar, a mesmerising biography of indie singer Lawrence Hayward, asks just when artists should throw in the towel
Fame is the great obsession of our times. To an extent, it always has been, given humankind’s historical focus on heroic figures and high achievers; but in the age of mass, global, instantaneous and all-pervasive communication, it has become an end in itself, accessible to all, and often divorced from merit or achievement.
Yet if Lawrence Hayward is famous for anything, it’s for not being famous. Lawrence, as he prefers to be known, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who has been knocking about the British indie-music scene since the late 1970s, leading the bands Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart (now rechristened Mozart Estate). Having a discography that runs to 23 albums spanning five decades might suggest a figure worthy of appreciation, even if almost no one bought those albums and few critics championed them. Indeed, when the late John Peel ruled the airwaves, he refused to play Lawrence’s record, and returned both copies of the first Felt single to their creator after receiving what Peel called the most “vitriolic and nasty” letter he’d ever read.
Lawrence soldiered on, formulating strict manifestos for artistic, critical and popular success, while bands broke up around him, record companies signed and dropped him, and music magazines downgraded his status from “next big thing” to “has-been” without an intervening period of grace. With Felt, he made some interesting records, sonically and lyrically challenging: the transcendent six-minute single Primitive Painters, featuring Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, is their finest work, and briefly topped the UK independent charts in 1985. But his closest brush with stardom came when Denim’s gimmicky 1997 single Summer Smash was playlisted at Radio 1 the week Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash; EMI withdrew it quietly lest it cause inadvertent offence.
By the end of the 1990s, as Britpop passed him by, former bandmates joined Primal Scream and his oddball contemporary Jarvis Cocker became a household name, Lawrence was left stranded. He struggled with addictions, and a mental-health crisis; he became homeless for several years. Yet he persisted in the conviction that he was destined for great things. His 2005 Go-Kart Mozart album was optimistically, or ironically, titled Tearing Up the Charts. Needless to say, it did no such thing.
In the mesmerising Street-Level Superstar: A Year with Lawrence, the British journalist Will Hodgkinson makes a case for Lawrence being a singular talent with an original lyrical perspective and innate pop instincts, while never going so far as to suggest that his neglect has been undeserved. Rather than attempting a straightforward biography or critical reappraisal, Hodgkinson has gone for something closer, deeper and stranger: he spends a year in the gentle, curious, vainglorious, eccentric and almost monomaniacally self-obsessed company of this unrepentant eternal wannabe.
Now in his early sixties, Lawrence lives alone in straitened circumstances in a council flat, yet he remains committed to his quest for stardom, promoting a Mozart Estate album he seems convinced will be a career-vindicating masterpiece while seeking a gallery prepared to exhibit a giant marble sculpture of his head. During a series of exhausting walks around neighbourhoods in suburban London, Birmingham and Essex that are of interest to Lawrence – walks fuelled by an appallingly unhealthy diet of milky tea and very specific brands of liquorice – Hodgkinson crafts a thoughtful portrait that teases out Lawrence’s self-sabotaging history. It’s a warped, confounding and sometimes perversely amusing tale, littered with incidents in which Lawrence effectively plucks defeat from the jaws of victory, then recontextualises it as victory after all.
Struggle tends to read more interestingly than success: the rise of an artist offers more opportunity for conflict and character insight than years on top. In that respect, the story of Lawrence has an advantage: it’s all before, no after. He challenges, however, the redemptive notion that people learn more from failures than successes. Given his strike rate, by now he should be a veritable Buddha of Loserville, but there’s little wisdom to be found in his existence, endlessly tramping the streets in search of inspiration while dispensing dubious observations about a world from which he has wilfully cut himself off, his daily life hamstrung by anxieties, phobias and outdated concepts of coolness gleaned from treating the 1970s NME and other music papers as if they were religious texts.
The underlying question at which Hodgkinson gently pokes is: what would you be prepared to sacrifice for your art? Is there something heroic about Lawrence’s quest, or is he simply deluded? “I’m a songwriter. It’s what I must do,” is his credo, which is surely admirable. The world is filled with talented people waylaid from their youthful goals, and there’s something about Lawrence’s single-minded persistence that takes the breath away. Yet “pop” is short for “popular”, and Lawrence’s chosen art form appears so defined in his own mind by the acclaim that eludes him that it has become a kind of mania.
I was intrigued by the question of Lawrence’s sanity. It’s evident that he’s deeply neurotic, and has serious obsessive-compulsive issues. Hodgkinson’s probing of his past implies that such characteristics were manifest even when he was a handsome and personable young man, apparently bound for glory. Had Lawrence achieved fame, would these flaws have been celebrated as signs of artistic character? Is it failure that makes him seem so damaged, or have his dashed ambitions calcified into crisis? Is the pursuit of fame dangerous to those who then don’t achieve it?
Hodgkinson doesn’t offer firm conclusions. In fact, he doesn’t even judge: he just lays this strange existence on the line. The mere fact that Street-Level Superstar exists might be taken as proof that Lawrence has indeed fulfilled his teenage dreams. It’s a vindication of sorts, though I don’t imagine it’s going to drive the public to his work; better musicians and artists than him have failed to find success without being defined by the failure. And by the end of the book, even Hodgkinson sounds exhausted and exasperated by his enigmatic, self-obsessed subject. This offbeat biography of a minor British musical talent offers a forensic case-study of our culture’s pathological fascination with fame – and the damage it can wreak.
Street-Level Superstar: A Year with Lawrence is published by Nine Eight Books at £22. To order your copy for £18.99, call 0808 196 6794 or visit Telegraph Books
| 2024-09-07T13:15:00+03:00
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Fahrendes Gepäck: Japan stoppt motorisierte Koffer
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Die Tageszeitung (taz)
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https://taz.de/Fahrendes-Gepaeck/!6027337/
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Besonders asiatische Touristen fahren mit motorisiertem Gepäck etwa in Tokio auf dem Fußweg. Jetzt geht die Polizei dagegen vor.
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Besonders asiatische Touristen fahren mit motorisiertem Gepäck etwa in Tokio auf dem Fußweg. Jetzt geht die Polizei dagegen vor.
TOKIO taz | Die Verkehrspolizei in Japan geht ungewöhnlich rigoros gegen Ausländer und Touristen aus Asien vor, die auf Elektrokoffern sitzend durch die Innenstädte fahren. Eine chinesische Studentin wurde kürzlich als erste Person in Japan wegen unerlaubten Fahrens angezeigt, als sie mit ihrem Koffer auf einem Gehweg in Osaka fuhr. Ihr drohen theoretisch bis zu drei Jahre Gefängnis und 3.000 Euro Geldstrafe.
Der Internationale Flughafen von Osaka rät von einer Nutzung der Koffer ab, nachdem es zu Beschwerden von Reisenden kam. Die mit Elektromotor und Batterie ausgerüsteten Geräte bewegen sich in der Regel auf drei Rädern, lassen sich mit einer ausklappbaren Stange lenken und erreichen ein Tempo von bis zu 13 Kilometer pro Stunde. Ursprünglich wurden sie vor allem für die Nutzung in Flughäfen konzipiert.
Die Polizei forderte die japanischen Einzelhändler für die Elektrokoffer auf, ihre Kunden über die strengen Regeln für solche „motorisierten Fahrräder“ zu informieren. Nach japanischem Verkehrsrecht fallen die Koffer in die Kategorie der Mini-Motorräder, für die ein Nummernschild, Rückspiegel und Blinker vorgeschrieben sind.
Die Fahrer brauchen einen Führerschein, müssen einen Helm tragen und eine Haftpflichtversicherung abschließen. Das Fahren auf Bürgersteigen ist ebenfalls illegal, da die Koffer das maximal erlaubte Tempo von 6 Stundenkilometern überschreiten. Ein Junge aus Indonesien, der sich auf seinem Elektrokoffer durch das Einkaufsviertel von Osaka schlängelte, hörte verblüfft von dem Fahrverbot, in Indonesien dürfe man damit überall fahren.
Vorurteile gegenüber Chinesen?
Japans Gesetzgeber hatte erst vor einem Jahr Elektroroller auf den Straßen zugelassen, danach gab es viele Unfälle. Hierin dürfte ein Grund für die schnelle Reaktion der Polizei liegen, die bei kleineren Verkehrsvergehen ansonsten häufig beide Augen zudrückt. Der andere Grund könnte der wachsende Widerwillen vieler Stadtbewohner gegen die Flut ausländischer Touristen sein, die sich angeblich nicht an die Regeln in Japan halten. Die Empörung auf X über die Kofferfahrer spiegelt daher möglicherweise Vorurteile gegenüber Chinesen wider, die ein Sechstel der monatlich 3 Millionen Besucher in Japan ausmachen.
| 2024-07-31T16:44:00+03:00
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Mido 1,58m y estos son los tres vaqueros de 30 euros con los que consigo parecer más alta y no tengo que cortar el bajo
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/magazine/moda/20250313/10476271/mido-1-58m-son-tres-vaqueros-30-euros-mas-alta-cortar.html
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La 'tiktoker' Carla Gavilán comparte los jeans de Pull&Bear con los que logra alargar visualmente su figura
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La 'tiktoker' Carla Gavilán comparte los jeans de Pull&Bear con los que logra alargar visualmente su figura
Encontrar unos buenos vaqueros puede ser toda una misión imposible. Las chicas bajitas tienen el problema de que la mayoría de pantalones les quedan muy largos, lo que les obliga a acortar el bajo, y a veces consiguen el efecto contrario de lo que buscan, que es una figura mucho más alargada.
Gracias a las redes sociales, muchas usuarias que tienen esta dificultad comparten con sus seguidoras sus últimas compras con las que obtienen este objetivo tan buscado. Una de las tiktokers que ha dado con la clave de parecer mucho más alta y sin tener que cortar el bajo es Carla Gavilán.
“Estos son los vaqueros perfectos para bajitas”, dice la joven, que en los comentarios explica que ella mide 1,58 metros. “Te voy a enseñar tres opciones que no solo sientan increíbles sino que también te suman unos centímetros”, dice al inicio del vídeo Carla, que acumula más de 273.300 seguidores.
La tiktoker muestra tres jeans que ha fichado en Pull&Bear y que tienen un precio de 29,99 euros. El primero de estos modelos tienen al negro como protagonista y son de corte flare, es decir, se ajustan al muslo y tienen el bajo acampanado que “automáticamente hace que visualmente las piernas se vean un poco más largas”.
El segundo y el tercer modelo son de corte wide leg, unos vaqueros que Gavilán asegura que no se los quita y que son sus favoritos. Los primeros jeans que muestran tienen el bajo deshilachado, un detalle que como señala la joven es “clave” porque no solo evita hacer el bajo, sino que el truco está en cortarlo al ras del suelo para alargar la silueta. “No cortes por el tobillo porque se verá más corto”, señala.
El último diseño son unos pantalones en azul claro que tienen la cintura alta que, como apunta Carla, “acorta el torso pero alarga las piernas”. Los tres modelos están disponibles en la tienda online de la firma de Inditex, están confeccionados en tejido de algodón y se pueden comprar en diferentes tonalidades de azul, así como en negro o blanco, para adaptarse a todos los estilos. “Donde hay un buen vaquero, hay un buen look”, concluye la tiktoker.
| 2025-03-13T15:37:21+03:00
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Who is Elissa Slotkin, and why did Dems choose her for the party's rebuttal to Trump speech?
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-elissa-slotkin-why-did-dems-choose-her-partys-rebuttal-trump-speech
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Democrats picked freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., who represents a swing state, to give the party's official response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.
"BIG: I’m announcing @SenatorSlotkin will deliver our Democratic response to Trump’s Joint Address. Nothing short of a rising star in our party – she’s dedicated her life to our country. She will layout the fight to tackle the deep challenges we face and chart a path forward," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., revealed on X recently.
Slotkin was elected to an open Senate seat in Michigan, which was also won by Trump in the same election. She wrote on X, "I'm looking forward to speaking directly to the American people next week. The public expects leaders to level with them on what’s actually happening in our country."
"From our economic security to our national security, we’ve got to chart a way forward that improves people’s lives in the country we all love, I look forward to laying that out. Tune in," she previewed.
The senator received a bachelor's degree at Cornell University and a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Slotkin spent much of her career in the national security space, serving three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst alongside the U.S. military. After that, she worked in multiple roles in the Pentagon and White House under two different presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In 2014, Obama nominated Slotkin to serve at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.
She then chose to run for Congress in 2018 in Michigan, where she grew up.
Slotkin managed to defeat a Republican incumbent in a key Michigan swing district. She served several terms as a member of the House of Representatives before choosing to run for Senate to replace former Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
Despite Trump winning the battleground state in 2024, Slotkin pulled out her own win for Democrats, beating the GOP contender Mike Rogers by less than a percentage point.
Since coming to the Senate, she's offered some stark criticism of her party, urging Democrats to get away from identity politics.
"As a moderate Democrat, I think she was an excellent choice," Jim Manley, former senior communications advisor and spokesman for former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic Caucus, told Fox News Digital.
He said the choice of Slotkin would be "especially" good if "Trump just throws red meat to the base while using the kind of unhinged rhetoric that will turn off swing voters."
However, "based on years of experience dealing with these when [I was] working for Sen. Reid, they are usually much more of a hassle than they are ever worth," he added.
Jim Kessler, former senior aide to Schumer, told Fox News Digital he was a fan of Slotkin for the response. "She’s tough, smart and unafraid to ruffle feathers," he said.
"She also comes from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party and that’s important as a signal to voters. I expect she’ll focus on bread and butter issues, because right now the middle class is starting to lose confidence in Trump’s handling of the economy," he continued.
According to Michigan Republican strategist Jason Cabel Roe, Slotkin is "one of the better options Democrats have."
The more "centrist" senator's response comes at a time when Democrats are "in absolute disarray," he said.
"You are seeing, I think, a real tug of war between the more progressive elements of the party and the more traditional elements of the party," Roe added.
Slotkin's office declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
| 2025-03-03T21:59:15+03:00
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Kars'ta sağanak etkili oldu - Kars Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/kars-haberleri/35928553-karsta-saganak-etkili-oldu
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Kars'ın Sarıkamış ilçesinde sağanak yaşamı olumsuz etkiledi.
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Kars'ın Sarıkamış ilçesinde sağanak yaşamı olumsuz etkiledi.
Kars'ın Sarıkamış ilçesinde sağanak yaşamı olumsuz etkiledi.
İlçede akşam saatlerinde etkisini gösteren sağanak nedeniyle cadde ve sokaklarda su birikintileri oluştu.
Bazı vatandaşlar yağışa hazırlıksız yakalandı.
Vatandaşlardan Mehmet Sağlam, AA muhabirine, havaların soğuduğunu belirterek, "Acayip bir yağmur yağdı, yollarda adeta göller oluştu. Yavaş yavaş kışa doğru gidiyoruz. "dedi.
Yağışların bir süre daha bölgede etkisini sürdüreceği öğrenildi.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Kars haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Kars Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
Benzer Haberler
| 2024-10-16T18:18:18+03:00
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Altındağ'da köpek ölümleri: Soruşturma başlatıldı
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NTVTR
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https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/altindagda-kopek-olumleri-sorusturma-baslatildi,9mft3B6n6E670MYn3vvBmA
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Ankara'nın Altındağ ilçesinde bir barınağın yakınlarında ölmüş halde 11 köpek bulundu. Sosyal medyada hayvanseverler tepki gösterirken konuya ilişkin açıklama yapan Altındağ Belediyesi, söz konusu arazinin hayvan mezarlığı olduğunu duyurdu. Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı tarafından ise soruşturma başlatıldı.
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Ankara'nın Altındağ ilçesinde bir barınağın yakınlarında ölmüş halde 11 köpek bulundu. Sosyal medyada hayvanseverler tepki gösterirken konuya ilişkin açıklama yapan Altındağ Belediyesi, söz konusu arazinin hayvan mezarlığı olduğunu duyurdu. Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı tarafından ise soruşturma başlatıldı.
Bazı hayvanseverlerce olaya ilişkin çekilen görüntülerin sosyal medyada yer almasının ardından bir grup, Altındağ Belediyesi Veteriner İşleri Müdürlüğü önünde toplanarak, duruma tepki gösterdi.İlçe Jandarma Komutanlığı ekipleri, bina çevresinde ve ölmüş köpeklerin bulunduğu arazide önlem aldı.
HAYVANSEVERLERDEN TEPKİHayvanseverler adına açıklama yapan Veteriner Hekim Elif Türker, alanda yaptıkları incelemede 11 köpek ölüsüne rastladıklarını söyledi.Duruma tepki gösteren Türker, köpeklerin ölüm nedeninin belirlenmesi için ellerinden geleni yapacaklarını belirtti.
İDDİALAR YALANLANDI
Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi, barınağın Altındağ Belediyesi'ne bağlı olduğunu açıkladı. Altındağ Belediyesi'nde yapılan açıklamada, arazinin ilçede ölen sokak hayvanlarının ve kurban atıklarının gömüldüğü bir hayvan mezarlığı olduğu belirtildi. Katliam yapıldığına dair haberlerin asılsız olduğu vurgulandı.
SORUŞTURMA BAŞLATILDI
Ankara Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı, hayvanların ölü bulunmasına ilişkin soruşturma başlattı.Başsavcılığın yürüttüğü soruşturma kapsamında ifadesi alınan Altındağ Belediyesi Veteriner İşleri Müdürü E.Ç, sahipsiz hayvanlara yönelik çalışmalarının 5199 Sayılı Hayvanları Koruma Kanunu uyarınca yapıldığını belirtti.Olayın sosyal medyada iddia edildiği gibi "hayvan katliamı" olmadığını ifade eden E.Ç, "Hayvanlar, farklı zamanlarda alınmış olup, sadece köpek olmayıp, kedi ve küçükbaş hayvan ölüsü de olay yerinde bulunmaktadır. Ölü hayvanların alındığına dair fotoğraflar elimizde mevcut olup delil olarak dosyaya sunmak istiyorum." şeklinde beyanda bulundu.Geçici bakımevindeki bütün işlemlerin yasalara uygun olduğunu savunan E.Ç, söz konusu hayvanların sahipsiz olduğunu, yapılacak işlemlerin yerel yönetimlerin sorumluluğunda bulunduğunu kaydetti.E.Ç, belediyenin her türlü hayvan ölüsü ve atığını şikayet üzerine alarak usulüne uygun şekilde bertaraf ettiğini belirtti.Soruşturma kapsamında ifade alma ve delil toplama işlemlerinin sürdüğü öğrenildi.
| 2024-08-09T13:26:40+03:00
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51 milyon TL'lik işlem hacimli 'yasa dışı bahis' operasyonunda 9 kişi yakalandı - Kayseri Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/kayseri-haberleri/111433150-51-milyon-tllik-islem-hacimli-yasa-disi-bahis-operasyonunda-9-kisi-yakalandi
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KAYSERİ'de 'bahis ve şans oyunları' düzenleyerek, banka hesaplarında 51 milyon 570 bin 536 TL'lik işlem hacmi olduğu tespit edilen 9 şüpheli, polis tarafından gözaltına alındı.
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KAYSERİ'de 'bahis ve şans oyunları' düzenleyerek, banka hesaplarında 51 milyon 570 bin 536 TL'lik işlem hacmi olduğu tespit edilen 9 şüpheli, polis tarafından gözaltına alındı.
KAYSERİ'de 'bahis ve şans oyunları' düzenleyerek, banka hesaplarında 51 milyon 570 bin 536 TL'lik işlem hacmi olduğu tespit edilen 9 şüpheli, polis tarafından gözaltına alındı.
İl Emniyet Müdürlüğü Siber Suçlarla Mücadele Şube Müdürlüğü ekipleri, 'Futbol ve diğer spor müsabakalarında bahis ve şans oyunları düzenlenmesi hakkında kanuna muhalefet' suçu kapsamında kentte faaliyet yürüten şüphelilerin yakalanmasına yönelik çalışma başlattı. Bu kapsamda belirlenen adreslere eş zamanlı operasyon düzenlendi. Yapılan operasyonda A.T. (19), N.A. (22), H.K.Ç. (22), M.A.E. (22), M.S. (23), H.A. (21), Y.D. (20), A.Ç. (23) ve E.M. (19) yakalandı. Yapılan aramalarda 10 cep telefonu, 15 sim kart, hard disk, flash bellek ve 17 bin 400 TL suçtan elde edilen para ele geçirildi. Şüphelilerin banka hesaplarında yapılan incelemede 51 milyon 570 bin 536 TL işlem hacmi olduğu tespit edildi. Gözaltına alınan 9 şüpheli, polis merkezine götürüldü.
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| 2025-01-29T22:03:05+03:00
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Britain could be brought to its knees by Russian sabotage under the sea
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/20/britain-brought-to-knees-secret-deniable-russian-attacks/
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Almost all – more than 99pc – of the data that moves around the world nowadays travels via undersea cables, and the UK is a major nexus of the worldwide cable network.
We Brits also nowadays import 15pc (and rising) of our electricity via undersea interconnector cables from the Continent, and 40pc of our gas through undersea pipelines from Norway.
We are utterly dependent on seabed infrastructure to keep the lights on, to heat our homes, to power our remaining businesses and to keep the data flowing – the lifeblood of some of our most important industries. Some $10 trillion in financial transfers are handled by the cable system every single day.
Indeed, no less a researcher than Rishi Sunak – before he became prime minister – wrote a paper for the think tank Policy Exchange in 2017, describing the undersea data network as “indispensable and insecure”.
Against this background, then, it is concerning to hear that two data cables broke in the Baltic over the weekend, and that sabotage or “hybrid action” is suspected.
It’s unlikely that anyone in the nations affected – Finland, Germany, Lithuania and Sweden – will notice a problem. The world’s data networks respond almost instantly to this kind of incident, finding alternative routes.
The time when cable breaks do have an impact is when all of a nation’s seaborne links are broken at once. This is relatively common in places like West Africa, where many small nations have only one cable. Until Lithuania’s cable to Gotland is repaired, most of its traffic to the wider world is dependent on its one remaining seaborne link to Sweden.
Normally when a cable breaks there’s no malicious act involved, though often there is incompetence: cables are most commonly damaged by ships’ anchors or fishing gear, despite being marked on nautical charts.
There are more than a hundred cable breaks every year: two in two days in the Baltic could just be bad luck. Sometimes apparent incompetence may be a mask for sinister intent, of course.
But sometimes there’s clear-cut sabotage, as with the rupture of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, though exactly who did that, and how, remain matters of conjecture.
“How” such things can be done is an important question. The Nord Stream sabotage was carried out on sections of pipeline between 70 and 80 metres below the surface. This is too deep for simple diving using compressed air, but more advanced techniques would allow divers wearing self-contained equipment to operate at such depths.
Divers like that would not need any substantial vessel to operate from: a fairly ordinary yacht would do. Such a yacht is not required to have an AIS tracking transponder as larger vessels are, so it need generate no records of its presence in the area afterwards.
So this tells us that any nation with reasonably competent special operations forces could have carried out the Nord Stream sabotage.
But there’s a spectrum of capability when it comes to attacking – or observing or defending – undersea infrastructure, with the first factor to consider being increasing depth. A target much deeper than Nord Stream will call either for divers with heavy surface support facilities or, these days more likely, for a fairly substantial remotely operated vehicle (or underwater unmanned vehicle or submarine drone).
This will mean in turn a fairly substantial support vessel: something along the lines of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s new ship Proteus, acquired specifically for just this kind of work, or a Russian ship such as the Yantar. Yantar was observed just last week hanging around above some important connections in the middle of the Irish Sea, in fact.
This sort of capability, well established with the Russians and new to us, is a bit less common around the world than sabotage divers are. But it’s still not advanced, expensive or difficult: suitable ships and machinery can easily and cheaply be purchased from the offshore industry, as indeed Proteus was.
Ships like this, however, are noticeable. They can turn off their AIS transponders, or falsify the information they transmit, but competent adversaries can track where the ship actually is on radar. Yantar will have been on the radar of British planes and warships throughout her Irish Sea visit. It’s difficult to make a really secret attack from such a platform.
But Yantar belongs to the shadowy Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, aka GUGI – a top-secret organisation allied to, but separate from, the normal Russian navy.
And GUGI has other things too. Earlier this year the specialist submarine A-31, or Losharik, returned to service following a deadly fire in 2019 which killed 14 of her 25-strong crew. The sensitive nature of the submarine’s work is indicated by the rank of those who died: all were officers, and half of them were captains first rank – the officer rank immediately below admiral.
Losharik’s pressure hull is made up of a line of titanium spheres, the shape which best resists pressure. She can reach great depths, and her nuclear propulsion means she can operate without coming to the surface. She’s too small to travel long ocean distances, but she can be carried into action by a larger nuclear submarine mothership from the regular navy.
Losharik or one of her three sister GUGI subs can potentially arrive above a data cable, gas pipeline or power interconnection at almost any depth, without either she or her mothership having come near the surface during the whole journey from Russia. She can then do whatever she wants – and disappear as tracelessly as she came.
The GUGI secret fleet might place timed destruction charges here and there in our waters before departing, perhaps. When the charges went off it would be difficult to say how they got there.
Fortunately it seems probable that the Yantar, in addition to monitoring by planes and warships last week, received some attention below the waves from one of our submarines: we finally have some at sea again, after a lengthy period in which the only sub we could get to sea was the nuclear deterrent one.
But we have just a handful of nuclear attack submarines, and they have many other tasks apart from keeping tabs on GUGI. Our force of anti-submarine frigates is pitifully worn-out, and barely armed.
It was rather sickening to see the aged HMS Iron Duke, visibly not fitted with any surface-to-surface missiles at all, escorting a powerful new Russian warship through the Channel last week. We have only one Proteus, and the RFA’s manpower crisis is so bad now that she probably won’t spend a lot of time at sea.
It’s good that we have recently had a prime minister who was well aware of the importance of undersea infrastructure. It’s sad that he did so little about protecting it, and even sadder that the Navy and the RFA – and defence in general – have now slipped to 16th on the Government’s list of priorities.
Lewis Page is a former Royal Navy diving officer
| 2024-11-20T11:00:00+03:00
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Legendary drug lord Fabio Ochoa is deported to Colombia after spending two decades in US prisons
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-medellin-colombia-pablo-escobar-one-b2669316.html
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One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.
Fabio Ochoa arrived in Bogota’s El Dorado airport on a deportation flight on Monday, wearing a grey sweatshirt and carrying his personal belongings in a plastic bag.
After stepping out of the plane, the former cartel boss was met by immigration officials in bullet proof vests. There were no police on site to detain him — an indication he may not have any pending cases in Colombian courts.
In a brief statement, Colombia’s national immigration agency said Ochoa should be able to enter Colombia “without any problems,” once he is cleared by immigration officers who will check for any outstanding cases against the former drug trafficker.
Ochoa, 67, and his older brothers amassed a fortune when cocaine started flooding the U.S. in the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to U.S. authorities, to the point that in 1987 they were included in the Forbes Magazine’s list of billionaires.
Living in Miami, Ochoa ran a distribution center for the cocaine cartel once headed by Pablo Escobar. Escobar died in a shootout with authorities in Medellin in 1993.
Ochoa was first indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1986 killing of Barry Seal, an American pilot who flew cocaine flights for the Medellin cartel, but became an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Along with his two older brothers, Juan David and Jorge Luis, Ochoa turned himself in to Colombian authorities in the early 1990s under a deal in which they avoided being extradited to the U.S.
The three brothers were released from prison in 1996, but Ochoa was arrested again three years later for drug trafficking and was extradited to the U.S. in 2001 in response to an indictment in Miami naming him and more than 40 people as part of a drug smuggling conspiracy.
He was the only suspect in that group who opted to go to trial, resulting in his conviction and a 30-year sentence. The other defendants got much lighter prison terms because most of them cooperated with the government.
Ochoa’s name has faded from popular memory as Mexican drug traffickers take center stage in the global drug trade.
But the former member of the Medellin cartel was recently depicted in the Netflix series Griselda, where he first fights the plucky businesswoman Griselda Blanco for control of Miami's cocaine market, and then makes an alliance with the drug trafficker, played by Sofia Vergara.
Ochoa is also depicted in the Netflix series Narcos, as the youngest son of an elite Medellin family that is into ranching and horse breeding and cuts a sharp contrast with Escobar, who came from more humble roots.
Richard Gregorie, a retired assistant U.S. attorney who was on the prosecution team that convicted Ochoa, said authorities were never able to seize all of the Ochoa family’s illicit drug proceeds and he expects that the former mafia boss will have a welcome return home.
“He won’t be retiring a poor man, that’s for sure,” Gregorie told The Associated Press earlier this month.
| 2024-12-24T01:01:32+03:00
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson holds onto heptathlon lead after long jump
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/katarina-johnsonthompson-belgian-stade-de-france-matthew-hudsonsmith-team-gb-b2593876.html
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson has retained her lead in the Olympic heptathlon after the long jump at Stade de France.
The Liverpudlian held a 48-point lead over double defending Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam heading into the second and final day of heptathlon action at the Stade de France.
Johnson-Thompson, the reigning world champion, knew she would need a result from her third attempt after the Belgian made 6.41 metres.
She came up just shy with 6.40 on her final try, but it was still enough to retain her position at the top of the table heading into the javelin throw.
Thiam has closed the gap on the Briton, whose lead has narrowed to 45 points after the long jump,
A champion will be crowned after the final event, the 800 metres, taking place this evening.
Johnson-Thompson’s GB team-mate Jade O’Dowda sits 11th after a best long jump effort of 6.33 metres.
Yemi Mary John, Hannah Kelly, Jodie Williams and Lina Nielsen qualified Team GB for Saturday’s women’s 4×400 metres relay final in a season’s best 3:24.72.
They booked the second of three automatic places from a heat absolutely dominated by a season’s best from the American team, who finished more than three seconds ahead of the British quartet.
Ireland are also through after 3:25.05 from Sophie Becker, Phil Healy, Kelly McGrory and Sharlene Mawdsley landed them third in heat two and seventh overall.
Great Britain will also go for gold in the men’s 4×400 metres relay final on Saturday night.
The GB team of Sam Reardon, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Toby Harries and Charlie Dobson were the second-fastest from the two heats in a season’s-best 2:58.88.
Quickest of the bunch were Botswana, thanks in part to a blistering 44.33 first leg from Letsile Tebogo, fresh from his 200 metres gold on Thursday night.
Botswana held an unassailable lead from the start, but Dobson was one of three men who had clawed back considerable distance around the final bend.
The Briton was in a tight battle with Japan’s Kentaro Sato down the final stretch before Christopher Bailey surged to snatch second for the United States.
Hudson-Smith, who claimed individual 400 metres silver for his first Olympic medal on Tuesday, said: “It’s been a hell of a two days, but I’ll find another gear for the final.
“Let’s get that medal, be a double Olympic medallist, and we can win it. We’ve got the team, we’ve got the mentality, we’ve got the coaches in Martyn Rooney and Darren Campbell, so let’s make history.
“We can do anything, we can get the British record, the European record. If we did good we could get the world record, anything is possible. We’ve got the team, we just need to execute and bring it home
“I think honestly for me, the individual medal was more so for my coach and my family, the relay is just for the boys and for myself.”
Max Burgin became the first British man to make an Olympic 800 metres final since Andrew Osagie at London 2012 in a personal best 1:43.50, third-fastest from the semis.
Ben Pattison and Elliot Giles, the latter a late call-up for the injured Jake Wightman, bowed out after their semi-finals.
There was heart-break in the third women’s 100 metres hurdles semi-final for Cindy Sember, who fell at at the third-from-final hurdle.
| 2024-08-09T14:06:15+03:00
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The five signs your partner is going to cheat on you BEFORE it happens
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13779177/five-signs-partner-going-cheat.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490
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You've met a new partner and you're in the first flush of love. But how can you tell if they're really The One or whether, deep down, they don't truly believe in monogamy? Intriguingly, relationship expert Louanne Ward, from Perth, Australia, believes there are ways to predict a likely cheater. Over 20 years as a certified matchmaker, with her own successful agency, she's seen the signs and worked out the patterns that often point to infidelity down the line.
And with one in three Australians admitting in a 2024 survey to either cheating or thinking about cheating, the likelihood of dating a two-timer is higher than you think.
It's by no means a given, but if your partner ticks any of these five boxes, she says be wary: they may well have a roving eye…
1. They've got a high 'body count'
It's not a very woke phrase and some people don't like asking, but the reality is someone who has had many sexual partners, or lots of 'hook-ups' involving sex with no emotional connection, may be more prone to seek variety or struggle with long-term exclusivity.
This doesn't mean they're incapable of commitment, but it could indicate a higher risk. By contrast, someone who's been in a long-term relationship before - with no cheating! – is a safer bet.
To uncover this risk, ask your partner: What's your view of one-night stands?
2. One or both of their parents was unfaithful
It sounds counter-intuitive, but people who grew up in a home where a parent cheated are more likely to view infidelity as an acceptable practice than those who didn't. They’re likely to see it as less harmful and more inevitable because it's been normalised in their formative years.
Chat to your boyfriend or girlfriend about their childhood home and what kind of marriage their parents had, and take note!
Ask your partner these questions: Did infidelity ever occur in your parents' relationship? How did that influence your views on loyalty?
3. They have a history of cheating
Not rocket science, this one, but certainly backed up by science. One US study from 2017 found those who were unfaithful in one relationship had three times the odds of being unfaithful in the next, compared to those who embraced monogamy.
A new love who tells you he cheated in the past, and shrugs it off, should ring alarm bells. And if you were the Other Woman (or man) and they left her (or him) for you, then how surprised can you really be if they do the same to you?
Ask your partner these questions: Have you ever been unfaithful in a relationship? What led to that decision, and how do you feel about it now?
4. They've got an 'avoidant attachment style'
In the mid-20th century, British psychoanalyst John Bowlby identified the 'attachment styles' we learn as infants, that are now seen as key to understanding how people relate to romantic partners.
Avoidantly attached people shun emotional closeness and intimacy, and often struggle with commitment. They often fear that dependence on someone else will lead to disappointment and loss.
If your potential partner often cancels plans, finds it hard to talk about feelings, has ghosted you in the past and then come back (known as 'zombie-ing'), is unempathetic or distrustful of others, they may be avoidantly attached.
A lack of bonding at a deeper level means they don’t feel responsible for the feelings of others – and won't see cheating as the deep betrayal you see it as.
Ask your partner this question: Do you ever feel the need to disconnect and spend periods of time alone for no real reason?
5. They're overly-impulsive
There's nothing wrong with a bit of spontaneity, especially if it's romantic in nature. But that's very different from someone who's at the mercy of their every emotion or takes risky decisions on a whim. If they're prone to outbursts of anger or they overreact to the slightest setback, if they seem to act on impulse and don’t care what people think, then the chances of infidelity rise.
Ask your partner this question: Do you think it's possible to stay sexually attracted to the same person for a long period of time?
To nip infidelity in the bud, draw up a 'relationship agreement'
Seeing one or more of these 'predictors' in a partner doesn’t guarantee they’ll be unfaithful, of course. Instead, view them as red flags and use them to inform your overall perspective on the relationship. Talk to your partner about how you feel and why you think they’re at higher risk of cheating.
Or go one better and ask to draw up a ‘relationship agreement’ that helps both partners feel secure and respected.
An agreement like this is a mutual understanding of what you want the relationship to look like to ensure it's healthy and happy. Think of it as a way to keep your sex life thriving and to manage temptations that might arise elsewhere.
It's not a binding contract, or a set of rules, but a way to help prevent misunderstandings and conflicts by ensuring both partners are on the same page when it comes to fidelity.
Here are some ideas for your relationship agreement.
1. We'll have regular check-ins
We agree to schedule regular discussions about our sexual and emotional needs, especially as life changes – for example, if we have kids or if work becomes stressful. These check-ins will help us stay connected and ensure we're both feeling fulfilled.
2. We'll change up our sex life
We agree that as we grow individually, our needs might change. Let's commit to discussing any new desires that arise, without any judgement. This will stop our sex life becoming repetitive and keep our relationship strong.
3. We won't judge each other's fantasies
What if we create a safe space where we can talk about our fantasies? Just because we discuss them doesn't mean we have to act on them. Sometimes, just talking about them is enough. By having this agreement, we prevent these thoughts from turning into something that could harm our relationship.
4. We'll have 'pre-infidelity discussions'
Let's agree to be open if one of us feels a strong attraction to someone else. We could talk about it before it becomes an issue, which could help prevent infidelity and keep our trust in each other intact.
5. We'll set boundaries when it comes to ex-partners
We could agree on certain boundaries that make us both feel secure - for example how we interact with ex-partners or friends who might pose a temptation. This way, we respect each other's feelings and maintain trust.
| 2024-11-03T19:04:38+03:00
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Save $165 on the Le Creuset round wide oven available in 11 colors
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/shopping-us/article-13877101/le-creuset-round-wide-oven-qvc.html
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What's on the menu? Whatever you crave — including a reduced price on the Le Creuset Signature Round Wide Oven. This legendary kitchen essential is beloved by chefs and home cooks alike for its versatility and striking appearance.
Originally $430, it's now reduced to only $264.98 when you enter WELCOMEQ15 at checkout to snag an extra $15 off your first $35+ QVC order. You'll definitely want to bring home this culinary must-have to experience its superior performance.
The beauty, both inside and out, is all in the details. Featuring a generous 6.75-quart capacity, it's sized just right for everything from simmering a hearty stew to baking a crusty loaf of bread.
With its expansive base, you have the freedom to perform tasks like searing and browning without the annoyance of frustrating crowding typical of smaller pots. No splattering mess or uneven cooking here, whether you're frying up some crispy chicken or braising a melt-in-your-mouth pot roast.
As with other Le Creuset classics, the oven is crafted from durable, enameled cast iron, known for its exceptional heat retention and even distribution — which means absolutely everything you cook will be perfection.
You don't have to worry about seasoning it, either. The enameled surface is ready to use right out of the box (and it prevents unsightly stains, too).
It's equipped with ergonomic knobs and handles, promoting comfort and providing a secure grip whether you're moving it from stovetop to oven or serving straight to the table. (It's so elegant that you may just end up doing that every time!)
Plus, the lid fits snugly to lock in moisture and circulate steam, which means your food always comes out tender, juicy, and packed with flavor every single time.
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We love a piece of easy-care cookware, and this definitely falls under that category. It's dishwasher-safe and resistant to the usual pitfalls — we're looking at you, chips and cracks.
Naturally, the reviews for this gorgeous piece are out of this world, with hundreds raving about how much they love essentially everything about it.
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'Testing it out, I can fit a roast in the center with vegetables to either side – the width makes that more possible than with a standard Dutch oven or roaster,' reports another. 'Perfect for a family or if you entertain guests.'
The bottom line: You don't want to miss the chance to pick up the Le Creuset Signature Round Wide Oven for this discounted price. Remember to enter WELCOMEQ15 at checkout to score your $15 discount!
| 2024-09-26T15:38:49+03:00
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Erdogan's economic woes unlikely to vanish after reelection
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Deutsche Welle
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https://www.dw.com/en/erdogans-economic-woes-unlikely-to-vanish-after-reelection/a-65773058?maca=en-rss-en-bus-2091-rdf
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The Turkish lira has plumbed new depths after the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and inflation remains stubbornly high. Will the Turkish ruler change his unorthodox economic policies now?
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The Turkish lira has plumbed new depths after the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and inflation remains stubbornly high. Will the Turkish ruler change his unorthodox economic policies now?
Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan first came to power some 20 years ago, his country's currency, the lira, has lost about 90% of its value against the US dollar.
When a currency falls that steeply, the result is rampant inflation, especially in a country like Turkey, which needs to buy many goods and raw materials on world markets. Currently, official data show the Turkish inflation rate standing at 44% — significantly lower than the 85% recorded last year. However, observers assume that the unofficial rate is higher.
Poorer households, in particular, are suffering from rising prices because they have to spend a large part of their modest incomes on everyday necessities. According to a study published last year by a Turkish trade union, food prices had almost tripled within a year, and the increases for vegetables were higher still.
Trust in Turkish central bank tarnished
"With increasing political uncertainty and the introduction of an absolute presidential system from 2018, Turkey has entered a severe economic downward spiral," says Erdal Yalcin of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW). And much of the blame for the slump can be laid at the door of Erdogan's "unorthodox" economic and monetary policy, he told DW.
Economic orthodoxy and wisdom have it that central banks raise interest rates to counter excessive inflation. Rate hikes make loans and investments more expensive, the economy and demand cool down and prices start to fall.
But Erdogan has prevented this by compelling the Turkish central bank to lower interest rates even further at a time when inflation was already high and accelerating. What most economists around the world have described as "unorthodox policies" have severely undermined trust in the independence of the Turkish central bank and its ability to stem rising prices.
Erdogan has argued that cheap loans would give businesses more freedom to invest, which in turn would help the Turkish economy.
"The core of the whole problem is that Erdogan continues to indulge in the idea that he can bring inflation down with low interest rates," says Janis Hübner, the emerging market specialist at Germany's DekaBank.
"And since he will continue to exercise control over the central bank, we have to assume that confidence in the lira will not return either and inflation expectations will remain high," Hübner told DW.
Erdogan unorthodox economic policy also includes piling up government debt. According to data published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Turkey's public debt has more than quadrupled in the past five years. Any rise in interest rates would be toxic for financing this rising public debt.
Negligible pandemic damage
Yet Turkey is doing comparatively well in terms of economic growth. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Erdogan's cheap credit and excessive government spending boosted economic activity to 11% in 2021, and last year growth came in at 3% despite the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, notably rising energy costs. Tourism, for example, is back in full swing after the end of travel restrictions.
This year, however, Turkey's economic expansion was stalled by an earthquake in the south of the country in February, which killed more than 50,000 people. Three million people were displaced by the disaster.
Moreover, political and economic uncertainty in the runup to the presidential election caused direct investment, especially from the EU, to dry up. The foreign trade deficit widened as a result and the central bank's foreign exchange reserves have dwindled. In the week before the elections, the Turkish central bank's net reserves reached their lowest level since 2002.
Erdogan's foreign sponsors
The country has apparently received support from wealthy Arab countries in the Gulf region.
Ahead of the election, Erdogan told CNN Turkey that the Turkish economy, as well as its banking and financial system, are "quite strong" partly because friendly states in the Persian Gulf have invested money. For this reason, he was planning to thank his sponsors immediately after reelection, he said, including by heading to these partners first instead of taking the traditional inaugural trips to countries such as Northern Cyprus or Azerbaijan.
Erdogan may also be heading to Moscow very soon to thank Vladimir Putin for a credit deferral to the tune of $24 billion (€22.37 billion) and a huge discount on gas imports from Russia — not to mention $20 billion in project financing for a nuclear power plant Russia will build in southern Turkey.
| 2023-05-30T19:26:55.366000+03:00
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Beim Skaterhockey in Kaarst: Zuschauer bricht zusammen, Eagles-Spiel abgesagt
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Rheinische Post
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https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/rhein-kreis/sport/herzinfarkt-spiel-der-crash-eagles-kaast-abgesagt_aid-114985509
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"David Beineke"
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"DKMS",
"Mannschaften",
"Georg Dietrich Otten",
"Halle"
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Noch vor dem Match des Skaterhockey-Bundesligisten aus Kaarst musste ein Mensch wiederbelebt werden. Gleich mehrere Menschen griffen beherzt ein und wurden zu Lebensrettern.
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Noch vor dem Match des Skaterhockey-Bundesligisten aus Kaarst musste ein Mensch wiederbelebt werden. Gleich mehrere Menschen griffen beherzt ein und wurden zu Lebensrettern.
Kurz vor Beginn der Partie in der Skaterhockey-Bundesliga zwischen den Crash Eagles Kaarst und Duisburg Ducks herrschte helle Aufregung in der Stadtparkhalle, weil ein Vereinsmitglied der Crash Eagles auf der Tribüne zusammengebrochen war. Er erlitt einen Herzinfarkt. Auch dank des schnellen Eingreifens mehrerer Ersthelfer bis zum Eintreffen des Notarztes konnte das Leben des Mannes gerettet werden.
Entwarnung kam schon am Samstagabend. „Gott sei Dank befindet er sich mittlerweile auf dem Wege der Besserung und daher gilt unser großer Dank den Helfern für das beherzte Eingreifen“, so Eagles-Vorsitzender Georg Otten. Die Mannschaften hatten sich warmgemacht und waren in den Kabinen, als sie die Nachricht von dem medizinischen Notfall erreichte. CEK-Spieler Patrick Petau wechselte sich mit einem anwesenden Feuerwehrmann bei der Herzmassage ab und auch Ducks Kapitän Paul Fiedler sowie Felix Wuschech leisteten wichtige Hilfe bis der Notarzt eintraf. In Matthias Wolff war ein Arzt vor Ort, der die Helfer unterstützte. Auch der in der Stadtparkhalle vorhandene Defibrillator kam zum Einsatz. Beide Mannschaften entschieden gemeinsam, dass ein Spiel unter diesen Umständen nicht möglich sei und einigten sich auf eine Neuansetzung. Ein Termin wird noch bekanntgegeben.
Positiv lief die Aktion der Crash Eagles mit der Deutschen Knochenmarkspenderdatei (DKMS) am Wochenende. Viele Menschen, die sich in der Halle aufhielten, ließen sich registrieren und stehen künftig als potenzielle Spender für Blutkrebspatienten zur Verfügung. Zusätzlich wurden alle Einnahmen aus dem Würstchen und Salatverkauf an die DKMS gespendet.
| 2024-06-24T15:39:00+03:00
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Jimmy Johnson retires from FOX Sports after incredible run as NFL analyst
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/sports/jimmy-johnson-retires-from-fox-sports-after-incredible-run-nfl-analyst
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"Ryan Gaydos"
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Jimmy Johnson, an NFL coaching legend and a main figure on "Fox NFL Sunday," announced on Monday he will retire from broadcasting.
Johnson joined FOX Sports in 1994. He joined the network after his time coaching the Miami Dolphins came to an end. He would regularly appear with Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long and later Michael Strahan and Rob Gronkowski to offer pregame, halftime and postgame analysis of NFL games.
The 81-year-old two-time Super Bowl champion head coach revealed on "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" that the 2024 season would be his last.
"I’ve made an extremely difficult decision, I’ve been thinking about it for the last four or five years, and I’ve decided to retire from FOX," he said. "I’m gonna miss it. I’m gonna miss all the guys. It’s been a great run starting back 31 years ago."
FOX Sports CEO Eric Shanks called Johnson’s retirement news "bittersweet."
"Jimmy Johnson was there when ‘FOX NFL SUNDAY’ came on-air for the first time 31 years ago, and since then has been a cherished member of our FOX Sports family, which makes today’s retirement news bittersweet," Shanks said in a statement.
"Jimmy served as an inspiration to generations of football fans with his legendary swagger, one-of-a-kind insight and signature humor. From his motivating pep talks to his unmatched energy over the years, he was our coach who always pushed us to be better. We're incredibly grateful for his contributions in making ‘FOX NFL SUNDAY’ the top pregame show on TV, where we shared countless memorable moments, highlighted by surprising him live on-air with the news he was being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame – an occasion we will never forget.
"Coach will be sincerely missed and we wish him the best as he sets sail into retirement, like only Jimmy Johnson can."
Bradshaw and Long are the only other teammates who have been on the show since its inception in 1994. Pam Oliver joined FOX’s NFL coverage in 1995.
| 2025-03-03T22:01:55+03:00
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Cambridge Sözlüğü yılın kelimesini 'manifest' olarak duyurdu
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/cambridge-sozlugu-yilin-kelimesini-manifest-olarak-duyurdu-3739366
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[
"Habertürk"
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[
"manifest, yılın kelimesi, Cambridge Sözlüğü"
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Cambridge Sözlüğü, geleneksel olarak belirlediği yılın kelimesini duyurdu! 'Yılın kelimesi', şarkıcı Dua Lipa gibi ünlü isimlerin de desteklediği wellness (iyi yaşam) trendinin etkisiyle 'manifest' olarak açıklandı
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Cambridge Sözlüğü, geleneksel olarak belirlediği yılın kelimesini duyurdu! 'Yılın kelimesi', şarkıcı Dua Lipa gibi ünlü isimlerin de desteklediği wellness (iyi yaşam) trendinin etkisiyle 'manifest' olarak açıklandı
Birleşik Krallık'ın en yetkin sözlüklerinden Cambridge Dictionary, her sene olduğu gibi bu sene de yılın kelimesini seçti. Ulusal ve uluslararası gündemin göz önünde bulundurulduğu seçimde 2024'ün kelimesi manifest oldu.
Manifest kelimesinin geleneksel tanımları arasında 'kolayca fark edilen veya açık' ve 'bir şeyi işaretlerle ya da davranışlarla açıkça göstermek' yer alıyordu.
Ancak artık bu kelime, 'istebilen bir şeyi elde etmeyi hayal etmek ve bunu yapmanın gerçekleşme ihtimalini artıracağına inanmak' anlamını içeriyor.
MANİFEST NEDEN SEÇİLDİ?
Cambridge Sözlüğü'nün yayın yöneticisi Wendalyn Nichols, "Manifest bu yıl seçildi çünkü internette bu kelimenin arama oranlarında önemli bir artış yaşandı. 2024 yılındaki olaylar sayesinde medyada kullanımı büyük ölçüde yayıldı ve bu, bir kelimenin anlamlarının zaman içinde nasıl değişebileceğini gösterdi" dedi.
"BÜYÜLÜ DÜŞÜNCE"
Yılın Kelimesi seçilmeden önce üç ana faktör dikkate alındı: Hangi kelime en çok arandı veya aniden popülerleşti? Hangi kelime o yıl yaşananları en iyi yansıttı? Ve bu kelime dil açısından neden ilgi çekici?
Öte yandan Cambridge Üniversitesi'nden Dr. Sander van der Linden, zenginlik, aşk ve güç 'manifest' etmenin bilimsel bir temeli olmadığını ve bunun gerçekçi olmayan beklentilere ve hayal kırıklıklarına yol açabileceği konusunda uyarıda bulunuyor.
Dr. van der Linden, 'manifest etmenin', psikologların 'büyülü düşünce' veya belirli zihinsel ritüellerin çevremizdeki dünyayı değiştirebileceği yanılgısı olarak tanımladığı bir kavram olduğunu ifade etti.
PANDEMİDE BU FİKİR MİLYARLARCA İZLENDİ
Van der Linden, "Olumlu düşünmenin, kendini onaylamanın ve hedef belirlemenin değerine dair güçlü araştırmalar var" dedi ve ekledi:
"Kendinize inanmak, olumlu bir tavır sergilemek, gerçekçi hedefler belirlemek ve çaba göstermek, insanların gerçek dünyada değişim yaratmasını sağlar. Ancak olumlu düşünmenin gücüyle gerçekliği zihinde değiştirmek arasındaki farkı anlamak çok önemli. İlki sağlıklıdır, ikincisi ise sahte bilimdir."
'MANİFEST' YAPAN ÜNLÜLER
Şarkıcı Dua Lipa, bu yıl Glastonbury Festivali'nde baş sanatçı olmayı, daha önce 'manifest' ettiğini söylemişti.
Şarkıcı Billie Eilish, James Bond müziği No Time To Die'ı yazmadan önce kardeşi Finneas ile birlikte, tamamen eğlence Bond filmleri için şarkılar yazdıklarını ve bir gün bu hayalin gerçekleşeceğini hiç düşünmediklerini belirtti.
Oyuncu Tom Holland, Marvel Sinematik Evreni'ndeki rolünü adeta 'manifest' ederek gerçeğe dönüştürdü. 2014 yılında, Örümcek Adam'ı oynamanın bir hayalinin gerçekleşmesi anlamına geleceğini paylaşmıştı ve birkaç yıl sonra gerçekten bu role seçildi.
MANİFEST İÇİN KENDİSİNE ÇEK YAZDI
Jim Carrey de, henüz kariyerinin başlarında bir komedyenken, başarılı bir geleceği adeta 'manifest' etti. Carrey, Oprah Winfrey ile yaptığı bir röportajda ünlü olmadan önce kendisine 10 milyon dolarlık bir çek yazdığını paylaştı ve şöyle dedi:
"Kendime 10 milyon dolarlık bir çek yazdım ve beş yıl süre tanıdım. 1995 Şükran Günü'nden hemen önce, 10 milyon dolar kazanacağımı öğrendim" ifadelerini kullandı.
Carrey, Barbara Walters ile yaptığı bir röportajda, "Her gece Mulholland Drive'a giderdim, yol kenarında oturur, ışıklara bakar ve 'Ben ünlü bir aktörüm. Her yönetmen benimle çalışmak istiyor' derdim. Kollarımı açar ve istediğim şeylerin bana doğru geldiğini hayal ederdim. Orada kalır, tüm bu şeylere sahip olduğuma gerçekten inanana kadar beklerdim" demişti.
2024 yılında başarılarını 'manifest ettiklerini' söyleyen ünlüler arasında ABD'li Olimpiyat jimnastikçisi Simone Biles ve İngiliz futbolcu Ollie Watkins de yer alıyor.
MANİFEST İÇİN HAYALLER GÖRSELLEŞTİRİLİYOR, 'MIŞ GİBİ' YAPILIYOR
'Manifest' yapan sayısız 'YouTuber' ve içerik üreticisinin yanında pek çok kişi de bu terime inanıyor. Zira geçtiğimiz günlerde bir emlakçı videoda, sırf 'manifest' olsun diye insanların satın almayacakları evleri gezdiğini belirtmişti. Bunun yanında hayal panosu da isteklerin ve hedeflerin gerçekleşmesi için sosyal medyada popüler olan bir manifest yöntemi... Burada panoya dilekler ve istekler yapıştırılıyor ve hayaller görselleştiriliyor.
2024 yılında sözlükte en çok aranan diğer popüler kelimeler şunlardı:
Brat: Özellikle kötü davranan bir çocuk. Kelime, asi kadınları konu alan pop sanatçısı Charli XCX’in aynı adlı albümüyle viral oldu.
Demure: Sessiz veya uslu davranan. Influencer Jools Lebron, kadınlık stereotiplerini alaya alan TikTok videolarında bu kelimeyi hicivsel bir şekilde kullanarak kelimenin aramalarında artışa neden oldu.
Goldilocks: Tam olarak doğru olan bir durumu tanımlamak için kullanılıyor. 2024'ün başlarında Hindistan'ın güçlü büyüme ve ılımlı enflasyon ortamı, ekonomi haberlerinde 'Goldilocks ekonomisi' olarak tanımlandı.
| 2024-11-20T10:31:41+03:00
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5 lecciones de un psicólogo antes de que tu hijo se vaya a la universidad
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/vivo/mamas-y-papas/20240703/9774583/5-lecciones-psicologo-hijo-universidad-pvlv.html
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[
"Alexandra Roiba"
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Aprender a poner límites es una de las enseñanzas más importantes que se deben transmitir a los hijos
Así puedes ayudar a tu hijo a escoger universidad
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Aprender a poner límites es una de las enseñanzas más importantes que se deben transmitir a los hijos
Así puedes ayudar a tu hijo a escoger universidad
Uno de los puntos de inflexión dentro de la crianza de los hijos, y que más nervios suele provocar en los padres, es la etapa universitaria. Al fin y al cabo, durante este periodo los jóvenes comienzan su transición a la vida adulta. Y, sobre todo, deberán lidiar con nuevas responsabilidades, experiencias y personas, lo que los llevará a iniciar un viaje de autoconocimiento. A los consejos para que a los adolescentes les vaya bien en sus estudios también hay que sumar otra serie de recomendaciones más complejas.
Es decir, orientaciones más enfocadas en el punto de vista personal y en su desarrollo como individuos. Se trata de “cómo navegar el viaje de la vida”, tal y como lo describe el psicólogo Steven C. Hayes, quien ha elaborado una serie de consejos que insta a los padres a inculcar en sus hijos, antes de que estos inicien su etapa universitaria.
¿Qué deben inculcar los padres a los hijos antes de ir a la universidad?
Resulta inevitable que los hijos aprendan lecciones por ellos mismos, pero siempre se pueden aportar atajos. A menudo, desde la propia experiencia. Estas son las enseñanzas que el psicólogo recomienda compartir con los hijos previamente a comenzar con la universidad.
| 2024-07-03T10:00:00+03:00
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La feria de la Puríssima de Sant Boi estima crecimiento en visitantes pese a cerrar unas horas por el viento
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/baix-llobregat/20241211/10192562/feria-purissima-sant-boi-estima-crecimiento-visitantes-pese-cerrar-horas-viento.html
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"La Vanguardia"
] |
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Según el Ayuntamiento, la asistencia ha crecido un 5% respecto a los 250.000 visitantes del año pasado
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Según el Ayuntamiento, la asistencia ha crecido un 5% respecto a los 250.000 visitantes del año pasado
La feria de la Puríssima de Sant Boi de Llobregat, uno de las tradiciones más arraigadas en el Baix Llobregat, se llevó a cabo el fin del 6 al 8 de diciembre. El sábado pasado, el temporal de viento obligó a cerrar el recinto ferial por precaución durante buena parte de la tarde. Y aun así, el Ayuntamiento estima que la asistencia durante los tres días es superior a la del año pasado.
Concretamente, la organización calcula un crecimiento del 5% en visitantes respectado al año pasado, cuando asistieron 250.000 personas, según ha asegurado el Ayuntamiento este martes en un comunicado.
Los visitantes le ponen un 8,79 de nota
“Los cálculos se basan en un recuento de la afluencia a la carpa comercial, por donde han pasado más de 35.000 personas en esta edición”, han relatado hablando de un punto concreto de la feria.
Según la encuesta de satisfacción elaborada por la organización, los visitantes le dan una nota de 8,79 a la Puríssima, ligeramente superior a la del año pasado (8,53). Dicha muestra especifica otros datos, como que el 14% de las personas que acudieron lo hacían por segunda vez. También que un 41% de los visitantes son de fuera de Sant Boi, mayoritariamente del Baix Llobregat y de Barcelona.
| 2024-12-11T21:10:07+03:00
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Handball: Füchse-Star Jerry Tollbring fällt nach Kreuzbandriss lange aus
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Sportschau
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https://www.sportschau.de/regional/rbb/rbb-fuechse-star-jerry-tollbring-faellt-nach-kreuzbandriss-lange-aus-100.html
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"sportschau.de"
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Hilfe kommt aus der Jugend
Anfang des Monats hatte das Berliner Team bereits das Karriereende von Ex-Nationalspieler Paul Drux verkraften müssen. Tollbrings Ausfall soll vorerst intern aufgefangen werden. "Nach Pauls verletzungsbedingten Karriereende ist das der nächste Rückschlag für uns. Wir werden es erst einmal aus dem eigenen Nachwuchs mit Jan Grüner kompensieren. Alles Weitere besprechen wir in Ruhe", sagte Füchse-Geschäftsführer Bob Hanning. Der 18-jährige Grüner ist Bestandteil der A-Jugend sowie der zweiten Mannschaft.
Sendung: rbb|24 Inforadio, 25.10.2024, 19:15 Uhr
| 2024-10-25T20:24:05+03:00
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Murdaugh hunting estate buyer says it will look 'completely' different after renovations
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Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/murdaugh-hunting-estate-buyer-says-will-look-completely-different-after-renovations
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[
"Audrey Conklin"
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"crime",
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"southcarolina",
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Defamed South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh's Lowcountry hunting estate in Islandton has been sold to an ambitious new buyer.
Colleton County property records show Alexander Blair paid $1.16 million in May for 48 acres of land on the estate known as Moselle.
"Moselle will be a completely different looking home in a few short months," Blair posted on Facebook, along with photos of renovations currently going on at the four-bed, four-and-a-half bath home.
Blair has posted updates of ongoing construction in the main living area of the home, including a new fireplace and renovated kitchen.
Blair's purchase comes about a year and a half after two local businessmen purchased the Murdaughs' original 1,700-acre estate — including the dog kennels where Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were murdered in July 2021 — for nearly $4 million at an auction, as Realtor.com first reported.
James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley then divided the land and listed the Murdaughs' former hunting getaway home at $1.95 million.
The remaining land still belongs to the two businessmen, according to Realtor.com
"I am a next-door neighbor, with our home about a mile from this house," Godley explained to the real estate website. "We seek a new neighbor to enjoy this gorgeous house and land."
In March 2023, Murdaugh was sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and youngest son near the dog kennels on their hunting estate. He used a shotgun and a rifle to shoot both victims multiple times.
The former South Carolina legal scion appealed the decision on allegations that former Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill, who presided over the infamous double murder trial, tampered with the jury.
Murdaugh would later plead guilty to dozens of financial crimes for defrauding his law firm clients out of an estimated total of about $10 million. He received a 40-year prison sentence for those crimes.
| 2024-10-25T18:09:42+03:00
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Frankfurter Buchmesse: #BookTok sorgt für frischen Wind
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ZDF
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https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/buchmesse-frankfurt-buchbranche-tiktok-junge-leser-100.html
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[
"Stefan Schlösser"
] |
[] |
Ist das Glas nun halbvoll oder halbleer? Wenn man mit den Verantwortlichen vom Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels spricht, dann stellen sie natürlich die guten Zahlen in den Vordergrund. Der Umsatz ist 2023 um 2,8 Prozent gestiegen. Klingt gut. Zwar kein dickes Plus, aber immerhin.
Grund dafür sind aber ausschließlich gestiegene Verkaufspreise. Die Zahl der Menschen, die ein Buch kaufen, ist seit 2019 um fast 13 Prozent auf etwa 25 Millionen geschrumpft. Auch die Zahl der Erstauflagen ist ähnlich stark zurückgegangen. Und wenn man bis ins Jahr 2010 zurückblickt, stellt man fest, dass der Gesamtumsatz der Buchbranche damals sogar etwas höher war als heute: 9,73 Milliarden im Jahr 2010, 9,71 Milliarden im Jahr 2023.
Kinder- und Jugendbücher und Belletristik im Trend
Das heißt: keinerlei Zuwachs in 13 Jahren - trotz massiv gestiegener Preise und hoher Inflation. Es kaufen also weniger Menschen Bücher, aber jene, die noch kaufen, geben mehr Geld dafür aus.
Besonders die Bereiche Belletristik sowie Kinder- und Jugendbücher trugen zu diesem Gesamtumsatz bei. Den größten Teil des Umsatzes machten 2023 aus:Belletristik mit einem Anteil von 35,5 ProzentKinder- und Jugendbücher mit einem Anteil von 18,3 Prozent.
Waren bisher immer die Älteren eine sichere Bank für den Buchmarkt, sind es nun die jungen Leser und Leserinnen, die teilweise die Buchläden stürmen - manchmal im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.
Frankfurter Buchmesse: Zwischen soliden Zahlen und Zukunftssorgen
#BookTok: Büchervermarktung über Social Media
Insbesondere New-Adult-Romane haben einen regelrechten Boom ausgelöst. Sie sprechen junge Erwachsene an, vor allem Frauen, und handeln meist von Verliebtsein, Einsamkeit, Identitätssuche und allem, was beim Übergang von der Jugend ins Erwachsenenalter das Leben ausmacht.
Befeuert wird dieser Trend auf TikTok unter dem Hashtag #BookTok. Hier finden sich unzählige Kurzvideos, in denen Bücher vorgestellt und angepriesen werden. Die Videos werden millionenfach angeklickt. Ein riesiger Lesezirkel: Umfragen zufolge entdeckt über ein Drittel der Leser Bücher über Social Media.
Quasi über Nacht können auf #BookTok besprochene Romane zu Bestsellern werden. Mit ihren farbenfrohen Einbänden und Farbschnitten machen sie sich auch im Bücherregal sehr dekorativ. Es sind mehr als nur Bücher, es sind Sammelobjekte.
Lesekompetenz von jungen Menschen sinkt
Auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse tragen sie diesem Trend Rechnung. In einer neuen Halle sind 8.000 Quadratmeter Ausstellungsfläche nur für dieses Genre reserviert. Ein Trend, der Hoffnung gibt, findet Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, Vorsteherin beim Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels.
Gleichzeitig gibt es viele junge Menschen, die zunehmend Schwierigkeiten mit der Lesekompetenz haben, die überhaupt keinen Zugang mehr zu Büchern haben.
Langfristig könnte das die Nachfrage nach Büchern weiter schwächen. Das sei aber nicht nur ein Problem der Buchbranche, wie Schmidt-Friderichs warnt:
KI übernimmt Assistenzfunktionen
Noch ein Wort zu KI. Künstliche Intelligenz unterstützt schon heute, übernimmt viele Assistenzfunktionen. Zum Beispiel bei der Auflagenplanung oder um eine grobe Übersetzung zu liefern aus einer fremden Sprache, damit sich der Verlag einen ersten Eindruck machen kann.
Karin Schmidt-Friderichs ist aber überzeugt:
Insofern muss die Buchbranche von dieser Seite noch keine große Gefahr befürchten. Zumindest noch nicht - wer will schon voraussagen, was KI bei diesem rasanten Entwicklungstempo in ein paar Jahren zu leisten vermag.
Stefan Schlösser ist Reporter im ZDF-Landesstudio Hessen.
| 2024-10-16T19:13:11.627000+03:00
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Falling commodity prices stoke fear of global recession
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Deutsche Welle
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https://www.dw.com/en/global-recession-could-be-stoked-by-falling-commodity-prices/a-65863457?maca=en-rss-en-bus-2091-rdf
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[
"Jo Harper"
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[
"Business",
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A drop in commodity prices for things like wheat and energy has brought the specter of recession closer, not long after inflationary fears dominated the picture. The global economy seems to be in a state of confusion.
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A drop in commodity prices for things like wheat and energy has brought the specter of recession closer, not long after inflationary fears dominated the picture. The global economy seems to be in a state of confusion.
According to the International Monetary Fund, global food commodity prices rose nearly 40% in the two years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. According to the Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, they hit a record high in May 2022, two months after the Russian attack.
But now commodity prices are expected to fall 21% in 2023 year on year.
Global commodity prices have been on a downward trend for a while, Ayhan Kose, the World Bank's deputy chief economist, notes.
"The commodity price drops are partly due to slower global growth, but they should not be seen as signals for a looming global recession," Kose told DW.
"We expect that the world economy, while feeble, will avoid falling into recession in 2023-24. However, the materialization of severe downside risks could still yield that outcome," he added.
His forecasts assume that banking sector stress in the US and other advanced economies will remain contained.
A drop in the World Bank's commodity price index in the first five months of 2023 reflects a redirection of key commodity exports from Russia and Ukraine, favorable winter weather, and more recently, slowing global economic activity, says Kose.
Burst dam adds to food price volatility
The Food and Agriculture Organization's price index, which tracks the most traded food commodities around the world such as cereals, dairy and vegetable oils, shows that food commodity prices have fallen by 22% over the past year.
Vegetable oil prices have dropped the most, by 48%, reflecting lower prices for palm, soy, rapeseed and sunflower oils.
Ukraine produces almost half the world's sunflower oil and the Russian invasion sent prices up, but as exports have partly recovered they're now falling back.
Cereal prices, such as wheat and maize, have fallen by a quarter from their record-highs of a year ago.
Wheat prices have dropped by 3.5% in the last month. The World Bank notes that the extension of the Black Sea grain deal until July 2023 provides temporary relief. But future renegotiations remain uncertain, posing potential supply limits later this year.
"In addition, the fighting between Russia and Ukraine has led to the destruction of a giant dam raising fresh fears about Black Sea supplies from the war-torn area," Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank, told DW.
The southern Ukraine region where the dam collapsed is home to large agricultural fields and rebuilding the dam will take years, which could hinder Ukraine's ability to handle floods in its breadbasket, said Scott Irwin, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois.
Energy prices up and down
The war in Ukraine had other dramatic economic effects last year. The S&P 500's energy sector was the market's best performer in 2021 and 2022, rising more than 50% in 2022 as Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed up crude prices.
The mood has now changed, with the energy sector down 5% since the start of the year compared with a rise of 8% for the wider market.
Energy prices are projected to decline by 26% this year. The price of Brent crude oil is expected to average $84 (€78) a barrel this year — down 16% from the 2022 average.
European and US natural gas prices are forecast to halve between 2022 and 2023, and coal prices are expected to decrease by 42% in 2023.
On the supply side, the expansion of liquified natural gas (LNG) capacities has helped to mitigate pressures in natural gas markets, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Supply constraints in oil markets could put upward pressure on crude oil prices, with output declines related to export pipeline outage in Iraq, wildfires in Canada, protests in Nigeria and maintenance works in Brazil, as well as OPEC+ production cuts.
Metals prices depend on China
Copper prices touched a six-month low this week as speculators increased short positions.
The recovery in domestic consumption in China has been slower than expected, further contributing to the lower prices of industrial metals.
The construction industry consumed 23% of metals in China in 2022, so weaker growth has negatively impacted demand for steel, aluminum and copper.
Additionally, increased metal supply contributed to lower prices of metals. The largest suppliers like Rio Tinto, Vale and Glencore have increased shipments.
The stability of metal prices in 2023 will depend on the growth of China's manufacturing sector, according to the World Bank.
Inflation worries still continue
Overall, the substantial inflation last year reflected significant increases in energy and food prices, especially following the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After peaking in the second half of 2022, it "will likely decline gradually over the course of 2023 as global growth slows, supply bottlenecks dissipate and commodity prices drift down," Kose said. "As such, a decline in commodity prices will certainly help lower global inflation."
But inflation is projected to remain above target in most advanced economies well into 2024, he notes.
"This means that the decline in commodity prices, by itself, will only be one of several factors that central banks will take into account as they calibrate their fight against price pressures."
| 2023-06-09T12:28:44.788000+03:00
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The key talking points ahead of the second Test between Australia and Wales
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/wales-australia-melbourne-six-nations-welsh-rugby-union-b2578617.html
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Wales will have another chance to try and end their long losing run when they tackle Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.
A week after Australia took the first Test 25-16, Wales will aim to tie the series and claim a first international scalp since the 2023 World Cup.
Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key talking points heading into the game.
It is 21 years since Wales suffered 10 successive Test match defeats – their worst losing run in 143 years of playing international rugby. But they are moving ever-closer to matching that sequence, and it will be nine on the bounce if Australia triumph this weekend. That would represent the longest number of matches without a Test win during head coach Warren Gatland’s association with Wales that began in 2008, ended 11 years later and then resumed ahead of the 2023 Six Nations. Their record against Australia Down Under doesn’t offer hope, either, with 12 defeats in a row and no victory since 1969.
Amid Wales’ prolonged struggle, number eight Wainwright has shone like a beacon through one outstanding display after another. He marked his 50th cap in Sydney last weekend by producing a performance that put him head and shoulder above any of his team-mates – then it all went wrong. Wainwright suffered a hamstring injury during the closing minutes, ruling him out of the tour remainder and potentially serious enough to mean several weeks’ sidelined. There can be little doubt that when it rains, it pours for Wales at the moment. Losing Wainwright is a setback from which they might not recover from.
Australia captain James Slipper has 135 Test caps – 23 more than the entire Wales pack on Saturday. Their combined total is just 112, including only 35 in the back-row where a reshuffled unit sees Taine Plumtree switched to number eight instead of Wainwright and James Botham starting at blindside flanker. Wales encountered problems at scrum and lineout time during the first Test, which are two areas that will require considerable improvement if they are to have any chance of avoiding a 2-0 series defeat. Australia’s forwards are not the most fearsome in world rugby, and Wales must at least gain parity up-front.
James Botham will hope to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather – cricket great Sir Ian Botham – when he features at AAMI Park. It was 38 years ago, barely a five-minute walk away, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground that Sir Ian played a major role in England retaining the Ashes. The 1986 Boxing Day Test saw him take five first-innings wickets as Australia collapsed to 141 all out, and England went on to win by an innings inside three days, giving them a 2-0 series lead with one game left. James will certainly not lack any inspiration, and maybe it will turn out to be another memorable Botham family day.
After the Test match business on their Australia tour concludes this weekend, Wales do not play another international team until Fiji arrive at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium in November. That game launches an autumn schedule also featuring Australia and world champions South Africa, before Wales embark on a testing Six Nations campaign which begins against France in Paris. Their Six Nations record across the past three seasons is abysmal – two wins and 13 defeats – and three of their games next season are away from home. In short, things might get a whole lot worse before they start to get any better.
| 2024-07-12T11:00:31+03:00
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An operation to make safe an area of Co Down following the discovery of a suspected Second World War era bomb could take up to five days, police have said.
The device was found in the Rivenwood area of Newtownards last week.
A large number of homes have been evacuated following the discovery of suspected munitions on Thursday morning just after 11am.
On Monday, the PSNI’s District Commander for Ards and North Down, Superintendent Johnston McDowell, said the sheer size of the bomb means that they have to put in place a 400-metre (1,312ft) cordon.
He said there is a serious risk of death or serious injury to anyone within that area.
The operation is in the mitigation phase to allow for the examination of the device by the military, and a decision will be made later around next steps, including whether the device will be dealt with at the scene or removed, he added.
Mr McDowell said based on similar operations that have taken place, it is estimated the procedure will take around five days, but could take less or more time
“In excess of 400 homes have been affected by this operation which is a significant number of properties,” he said.
“I and partners would like to thank residents for their patience and understanding. I would like to state that if your home hasn’t been attended by police and police haven’t spoken to you directly, it is unlikely that you will be impacted by the clearance operation at this time.
“The operation has now moved into the mitigation phase and work has commenced on establishing protection to nearby properties.
“There is no definite timescale – however, previous operations of this nature have shown that this commonly takes five days before the area is safe to enter.
“A police cordon is in place and road users are advised to continue to avoid the area.
“I appreciate the frustration and disruption this has caused. However, keeping people safe is paramount and we will not take any risks.”
Mr McDowell said a multi-agency support hub, including the local health service Trust, is in place and is liaising closely with residents with vulnerabilities to find more suitable accommodation.
| 2024-08-19T19:29:15+03:00
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Prices start at just $32 on NEW Charlotte Tilbury holiday 2024 gifts
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It's the most wonderful time of the year for Charlotte Tilbury beauty lovers. The legendary makeup artist has unveiled an incredible selection of holiday gifts, all beautifully packaged and ready to gift to the VIPs in your life.
There's something here for everyone, from delightful stocking stuffers to luxurious vanity boxes filled to the brim with Charlotte's beloved Pillow Talk collection. This may be the time to abide by the 'pass the cheer, keep some near' adage — as it's highly unlikely you'll want to miss out on some of these treasures for yourself.
After all, if there's anyone who knows how to do holiday, it's Charlotte Tilbury. The brand delivers on all counts, offering absolutely glamorous gifts decked out in lovely boxes — not to mention cutting-edge formulas that make a visible difference and that can make anyone feel like a pro makeup artist themselves.
What to buy? Shop our editor-picked selections of fragrances, skin care, body products, and more beauty must-haves from Charlotte Tilbury right here.
| 2024-09-26T15:37:20+03:00
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Body Shop rescue deal to save 113 stores
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/07/body-shop-rescue-deal-struck-to-save-113-stores/
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More than 1,000 jobs to survive as administrators reach agreement with consortium over high street cosmetics chain
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More than 1,000 jobs to survive as administrators reach agreement with consortium over high street cosmetics chain
The former boss of Molton Brown is set to take charge of The Body Shop in a rescue deal that will keep 133 branches open.
Administrators at FRP said they had sold The Body Shop to a consortium led by cosmetics tycoon Mike Jatania after weeks of exclusive talks with the entrepreneur.
Charles Denton, the former Molton Brown chief, will become chief executive.
The move is expected to save more than 1,000 jobs, with Mr Jatania’s investment company Aurea understood to have no immediate plans to close any more stores. The Body Shop currently employs 1,300 people.
The new owners may look at finding better locations for current shops in various towns and cities, sources suggested.
The deal follows months of controversy over the cosmetics chain’s dramatic collapse in February, which led to more than 80 shops being closed.
The Body Shop fell into administration shortly after its sale to private equity firm Aurelius in a £207m deal last November. The transaction valued The Body Shop at significantly less than the €1bn (£870m) previous owner Natura paid for the business in 2017.
At the time of the administration, sources alleged that The Body Shop’s finances were in a worse state than expected.
The Telegraph revealed in April that the collapse had been triggered after HSBC withdrew a line of credit and its new private equity buyer failed to secure alternative funding. Aurelius declined to comment at the time.
City sources had suggested that Aurelius was the most likely bidder to buy the business out of administration, at which point it would be shorn of debt. Aurelius was listed as the retailer’s top creditor before its insolvency.
However, the auction attracted several interested parties, including Mr Jatania’s firm Aurea and Gordon Brothers, the turnaround outfit headed up by former Mothercare boss Mark Newton-Jones.
In a statement late on Friday, Aurea said The Body Shop deal was its “largest transaction to date”, although declined to give details on the size of the investment.
It added that the retailer was a “truly iconic brand with highly engaged consumers in over 70 markets around the world”.
Aurea said it would be looking to rebuild the business and “reclaim its global leadership in the ethical beauty sector it pioneered”.
The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by the late Anita Roddick. The business was a trailblazer when it launched, promising to sell natural cosmetics that would not be tested on animals.
Other retailers have since copied its approach of selling ethical cosmetics, including Lush and Rituals.
Mr Jatania said that, under his ownership, The Body Shop would invest in new, innovative products and its stores, while “paying homage to the brand’s ethical and activist positioning.” Mr Jatania will take the role of executive chairman at the company.
The businessman made his fortune buying up unloved cosmetics brands and turning them around. Mr Jatania previously sold the maker of lip balm Lypsyl to rival Li & Fung for almost $200m (£156m) in 2013.
FRP said the new owners had a “long track record of successful retail turnarounds”.
Mr Denton said: “We recognise that revitalising the business will require bold action and a consumer-centric, commercially agile mindset.
“We believe there’s a sustainable future ahead and working closely with the management team we aim to restore the Body Shop’s unique, values-driven, independent spirit.”
Steve Baluchi, a director at FRP, said the new owners “recognise the enormous value of its household name brand and have a clear vision for its future.”
| 2024-09-07T13:28:00+03:00
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Style and simplicity will never go out of fashion in car interiors
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Not a fan of the modern car interior, festooned as it is with touchscreens? Not one, not even two, but three in some of the latest cars.
And the steering wheel, nowadays filled with myriad buttons and switches that not so long ago was the preserve of Formula 1 machinery. Side-impact safety considerations, meanwhile, dictate that the bottom edge of the side windows are nearer shoulder height than they are to your elbow; safe, but claustrophobic.
What happened to individualism and elegance in car interiors? To demonstrate how much has changed, we have delved into the past to select some of the most stylish dashboards. Which is your favourite?
Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W116): 1972-1980
Current Mercedes interiors are pretty glitzy places, but if you want straightforwardness and the sort of build and material quality that feels like it will last forever then the original S-Class is a winner. Okay, so the shiny wood isn’t everyone’s cup of Glühwein but it’s all incredibly well-engineered and constructed; few other car makers produced switches that operated with such satisfying precision. And it’s all finished off with the traditionally huge steering wheel. What’s not to like about this Teutonic masterpiece?
Jaguar XJ (X300): 1994-1997
Jaguar’s range-topping model has always done a nice line in interiors and the generation featured here boasts all of the wood ’n’ leather luxury you could want. A couple of LCD displays are as sophisticated as it got and it even featured a cassette player – none of that touchscreen DAB business here – but it was just what buyers wanted. There’s a richness about it that’s incredibly soothing. If you have to stare at a dashboard for hours on end, this will do very nicely.
Citroën DS: 1955-1975
When the DS appeared in 1955 it couldn’t have looked more space-age if it tried, but things were a bit more restrained inside. Not in a bad way, mind, because we think there’s something charmingly stylish about its dashboard and the details of this particular version are very well executed. The delicate gear lever above the steering column is another lovely touch, but your eye can’t help but be drawn to the single-spoke steering wheel. Quirky, yes, but brilliant all the same.
Rolls-Royce Phantom V: 1959-1968
No one does luxury and craftsmanship quite like Rolls-Royce and if, back in 1965, you’d have treated yourself to the sybaritic Phantom this is the dash you’d have faced. Or perhaps your chauffeur would have. Anyhow, what’s so lovely is that there’s nothing superfluous set into the slab of the finest wood, certainly nothing as flashy as a rev counter. It’s just the minimum of dials and controls, all with the look and feel of impeccable class and quality.
Saab 96: 1960-1980
The Swedish manufacturer has always done understated particularly well and while today’s switch to screens isn’t universally welcomed it was much simpler in the 1960s. I could bang on about “Scandi-minimalist cool” but it’s just the sheer pared-back functionality that makes this dashboard so appealing. Three dials, a few switches, a lovely V’ logo in the centre and that’s it. Neat, clear and with nothing in the way of ostentation. It’s something many other car companies could have learnt from.
Porsche 911 (964 series): 1988-1994
Although this particular dash is from the notably more modern 964 generation, it hadn’t really changed much in years. Quality was superb and it was certainly functional, but a Porsche is all about the driving experience so there was simply no need for anything flashier. But what makes it so timeless is the five-dial instrument pack that provides plenty of information but places the rev counter front and centre. And that’s still the same to this day.
Aston Martin DB5: 1963-1965
It might all look a bit busy but we can’t be alone in thinking that the black and chrome looks absolutely gorgeous. As an owner back in the 1960s there would have been few things more satisfying than surveying all of this as you blasted to the south of France (you’d have led an exciting life, naturally), while how can I not mention that it’s exactly the view James Bond had. We can’t spot any gadgets, though…
Renault 5 Turbo 1: 1980-1983
Sticking the engine in the middle of a supermini might have seemed odd enough, but when it came to the interior, well, it’s all a bit bonkers. From the garish colour scheme to the strange steering wheel, this racy Renault just screams exotic and if that’s not a reason to love it I don’t know what is. Later iterations reverted to a more traditional layout, but we much prefer this rather wilder look. It’s hard to imagine anyone doing this today.
BMW 3-Series (E21): 1975-1983
If you want clarity when it comes to your instruments then a BMW of the 1970s or 80s is simply unbeatable. Never mind that it looks a bit austere because it works beautifully, with every control perfectly placed; you just know that an awful lot of time was spent thinking about the design, while there’s not an ambient lighting strip in sight! And angling the centre console towards the driver only added to the already excellent ergonomics, making things feel that bit sportier.
Austin Mini Mk1: 1959-1967
If you’re wondering why we didn’t use a picture showing the whole dashboard it’s because, well, this is all there is. To call it minimalist is an understatement, but back in 1959, it’s all Mini owners really needed and the fact that even the very latest BMW-produced versions still ape the look shows how right it was. That original circular layout did expand to include water temperature and oil pressure gauges in a slightly more ovoid shape, but if simple is all you want it doesn’t get much better than this.
| 2024-11-20T10:30:00+03:00
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Dervişoğlu'ndan teğmenlerin ihraç talebine tepki | Son dakika haberleri
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https://www.haberturk.com/dervisoglu-ndan-tegmenlerin-ihrac-talebine-tepki-3739397
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İYİ Parti lideri Müsavat Dervişoğlu, TBMM'de partisinin grup toplantısında, Kara Harp Okulu'ndaki mezuniyet töreninin ardından kılıçla yemin eden teğmenler hakkında ihraç istemiyle başlatılan soruşturmaya tepki gösterdi. Dervişoğlu, "Atatürk'ten, cumhuriyetten ala ala bitiremedikleri intikamlarını şimdi de genç teğmenlerimizden almaya kalkışıyorlar. Teğmenlerimiz yalnız değildir. Bizim itibarımız onlardır. Övünç kaynağımız ve gurur vesikamızdır." dedi.
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İYİ Parti lideri Müsavat Dervişoğlu, TBMM'de partisinin grup toplantısında, Kara Harp Okulu'ndaki mezuniyet töreninin ardından kılıçla yemin eden teğmenler hakkında ihraç istemiyle başlatılan soruşturmaya tepki gösterdi. Dervişoğlu, "Atatürk'ten, cumhuriyetten ala ala bitiremedikleri intikamlarını şimdi de genç teğmenlerimizden almaya kalkışıyorlar. Teğmenlerimiz yalnız değildir. Bizim itibarımız onlardır. Övünç kaynağımız ve gurur vesikamızdır." dedi.
İYİ Parti Genel Başkanı Müsavat Dervişoğlu, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi'nde (TBMM), partisinin grup toplantısında konuştu.
Dervişoğlu'nun konuşmasından öne çıkanlar şöyle:
"Devleti devlet yapan şey, can ve mal güvenliğini temin etmektir. Bunu da asli ve sürekli kamu hizmetlerini icra ederek yaparlar. Nedir o hizmetler? Adalet, güvenlik ve dış politikadır. Sağlık, eğitim ve savunmadır. Bu altı görev içerisinde, iki tanesinin başındaki bakanlıkta 'milli' sıfatı bulunur. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı ve Milli Savunma Bakanlığı. Buradaki milli vurgusu, bu hizmetlerin tüm yurt sathında aynı şekilde ve aynı amaçla yapılması gerektiğini vurgular. Yani hepimiz içindir.
BAKAN TEKİN'İN LAİKLİK SÖZLERİNE TEPKİ
Açıktır ki saray kayyımı altındaki Türkiye’de, bu iki bakanlığın ve iki asli kamu hizmetinin sadece ismi milli kalmıştır. Aksi olsaydı bir başıbozuk, Milli Eğitim Bakanı diye atanamaz, diğeri ise, Atatürk ve laik Cumhuriyete bağlılık yemini eden teğmenlerin ihraçlarını akla bile getirilmezdi. Türk nesillerini yok Etmekten sorumlu Bakanın, burada ne zırvaladığını tekrarlamayacağım. Memleketi “-ahır zannetmelerinin sonuçlarıdır bunlar. Erdoğan sebep, Yusuf Tekin sonuçtur. Okullara sabun koyamayan bir kabiliyetsizin böyle büyük büyük laflar etmesi elbette tesadüf değildir. Kendisi, kabinedeki diğer emsalleri gibi kul hakkı yemekten şişmiş, şahsına özel kararnamelerle rektör yapılmış, bugün de oturduğu makam üzerinden Atatürk ve Cumhuriyetten intikam aldığını sanmaktadır. Bu zat, laikliği 'icat edilmiş bir kavram' olarak tanımlıyor, tarihimize mal olmuş İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti'ne saldırıyor. Hezeyanlarına sözde dindarlık kılıfı geçirerek, Saraydaki sahibine ve el etek öptüğü şeyhlerine, katıldığı AK Parti toplantılarında sadakat ispat ediyor.
Kendisi 9’uncu bakandır. Bu bakandan önce 8 bakan görev yapmıştır. Bu 22 yılda, milli olmayan bir Eğitim Bakanı’nın görev süresi 2.4 yıldır. Neredeyse hiçbir bakan, okula yeni başlayan bir çocuğun, dört işlemi öğrendiği süre kadar bile bakanlık görevini icra edememiştir.
AK Parti döneminde kadrolu, sözleşmeli, ücretli öğretmenler gibi unvanların yanına
'atanamayan öğretmen' diye bir unvan daha eklenmiştir. Bu unvan, 'AK Parti'nin torpil parkurundan geçemeyen öğretmen' demektir.
Saray iktidarı gündem değiştirerek, halkın gerçek gündemi olan tabandaki yoksulluğun, tavandakiler tarafından yapılan yolsuzluğun konuşulmasını istemiyor. Gündemi sürekli suni meselelerle dolduruyorlar. Milletimizin en büyük sorunu hayat pahalılığıdır. Bunun da başında yüksek gıda enflasyonu gelmektedir. Bunların karışmayın dediği her şey bizim sorumluluk alanımızdır. Çünkü bu milletin hak ettiği refahı sağlamak bizim boynumuzun borcudur.
"SAĞLIK SİSTEMİ RANT UĞRUNA YERLE BİR EDİLDİ"
Sağlık sistemimiz de ne yazık ki rant uğruna yerle bir edilmiştir. Ancak artık konu sadece rantla açıklanamaz haldedir. Bebeklerimiz para için öldürülmüştür. Aç bırakılmış, işkence edilmiştir.
Maalesef evlatlarımız, bebek katilliğiyle ün salmış bu merhametsiz örgütün mensuplarına, bu canilere emanet edilmiştir. Parası olmayanın ölüme terk edildiği, parası olanın da parasıyla rezil olduğu Hatta yeni doğmuş bebeğini kaybedebildiği bir sistemdir. Üzülerek ifade ediyorum ki,
büyük Türk milletine, çok bilinmeyenli bir denklem içerisinde, aç kalıp, hayatını sürdürmek reva görülüyor.
TEĞMENLERE SORUŞTURMA
Atatürk’ten, Cumhuriyetten ala ala bitiremedikleri intikamlarını şimdi de genç teğmenlerimizden almaya kalkışıyorlar. Teğmenlerimizi ve onların şerefli komutanlarını TSK’dan atma planlarının asıl sebebini bir kere daha anlamış oluyoruz. Çünkü 22 yıldır yıkamadılar. Dört yandan, dört koldan balyozlarla vurdular Ama yine yıkamadılar. Üç genç kadının okul birincisi olduğu bir Türk ordusu gerçeğini yıkamadılar. Teğmenlerimiz yalnız değildir. Bizim itibarımız onlardır. Övünç kaynağımız ve gurur vesikamızdır. Genç teğmenlerin ihracı, Milli Eğitim Bakanının demeçleri, teröristbaşının Meclis kürsüsüne çağırılması, iktidarın kaçakları Türk milletinden üstün tuttuğu yeni bir 'millet sistemi' projesidir."
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Hatay'da çarpışan tır ve otomobilin sürücüleri yaralandı - Hatay Haberleri
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Hatay'ın İskenderun ilçesinde tır ile otomobilin çarpışması sonucu 2 kişi yaralandı .
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Hatay'ın İskenderun ilçesinde tır ile otomobilin çarpışması sonucu 2 kişi yaralandı .
Hatay'ın İskenderun ilçesinde tır ile otomobilin çarpışması sonucu 2 kişi yaralandı .
İskenderun-Payas Otoyolu'nda Ayhan Y. idaresindeki 31 AHG 460 plakalı otomobille sürücüsünün ismi öğrenilemeyen 34 ED 6873 plakalı tır çarpıştı.
Her iki sürücünün yaralandığı kaza sonrası araçlarda yangın çıktı.
İhbar üzerine bölgeye 112 Acil Sağlık, itfaiye ve polis ekipleri sevk edildi.
Yaralılar, gelen ekiplerce hastaneye kaldırıldı.
İtfaiye ekiplerinin müdahalesiyle söndürülen yangında araçlar kullanılamaz hale geldi.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Hatay haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Hatay Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2024-07-31T16:52:24+03:00
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Avukatlar paylaşım yaparken dikkat! Artık reklam sayılacak
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NTVTR
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https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/avukatlar-paylasim-yaparken-dikkat-artik-reklam-sayilacak,4mgFj6x8yUKzpQdKrzrOUw
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"Anadolu Ajansı"
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[
"Haberler",
"Türkiye",
"Avukat"
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Avukatlar, mesleki kimliğiyle ilişkilendirilecek şekilde yaşamları, kazançları, mesleki faaliyetleri hakkında reklam niteliğinde paylaşımlarda da bulunamayacak.
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Avukatlar, mesleki kimliğiyle ilişkilendirilecek şekilde yaşamları, kazançları, mesleki faaliyetleri hakkında reklam niteliğinde paylaşımlarda da bulunamayacak.
Avukatlık mesleğindeki reklam yasağına ilişkin usul ve esasları düzenleyen Türkiye Barolar Birliği Reklam Yasağı Yönetmeliğinde Değişiklik Yapılmasına Dair Yönetmelik, Resmi Gazetede yayımlanarak yürürlüğe girdi.Buna göre, yönetmelik değişikliğiyle reklam yasağına aykırılık halinde uyarı yazısı gönderme usulü kaldırıldı. Reklam yasağına aykırılık halinde avukatlar hakkında resen soruşturma açılarak, ilgiliye savunma istemini de içeren yazı tebliğ edilecek.Avukatlar, çevrim içi mecralarda bedel karşılığı veya bedelsiz olarak bizzat hazırladıkları, hazırlattıkları ya da kendilerine ilişkin olarak hazırlanan içerikleri ön plana çıkaracak iş ve işlemlerde bulunamayacak.İnternet kullanıcılarını kendi sitesine veya kendi sitesinden bir başka siteye yönlendirecek kısa yolları kullanması yasaklanan avukatlar, ayrıca, çevrim içi mecralarda reklam veremeyecek ve alamayacak.
PAYLAŞIMLARA DİKKAT!Avukatlar, mesleki kimliğiyle ilişkilendirilecek şekilde yaşamları, kazançları, mesleki faaliyetleri hakkında reklam niteliğinde paylaşımlarda da bulunamayacak.Yazılı, işitsel, görsel ve çevrim içi iletişim araçlarında, avukat ünvanının kullanıldığı durumlarda ve özel yaşamlarına ilişkin paylaşımlarında avukatların, mesleğin itibarını zedeleyici nitelikte davranışlardan kaçınmaları gerekecek.Avukatlar, sosyal medya ve internet ortamlarında katıldıkları yayınlarda reklam sayılabilecek her türlü davranıştan, mesleğinin itibarını zedeleyici her türlü açıklama ve paylaşımdan kaçınacak. İş elde etme amacıyla ulaşılması herkes için mümkün olan genel ve soyut içerikli bilgiler paylaşmak suretiyle yayın yapamayacak, yazılı veya görsel paylaşımda bulunamayacak.Müvekkil ve müvekkil adaylarıyla yapılacak görüşmelerde de mekan, ortam ve içerik, görüşmenin amacına elverişli, avukatlık mesleğinin saygınlığına yaraşır, reklam yasağını ihlal etmeyecek nitelikte olacak.Söz konusu görüşmelerde gizlilik kuralına uyulacak.
| 2024-08-09T13:24:42+03:00
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Adnan Syed's lawyers seek to reduce his prison sentence
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-supreme-court-maryland-serial-baltimore-b2669321.html
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"Brian Witte"
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"AP",
"Supreme Court",
"Maryland",
"Serial",
"Baltimore",
"Georgetown University",
"Lee"
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Attorneys for Adnan Syed, whose complex legal case was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial," are seeking to have his prison sentence reduced as he awaits further court decisions. Syed was released from prison in 2022 and has remained free ever since, though his court case is ongoing. His lawyers are seeking to reduce his sentence under a Maryland law that allows people who have been imprisoned for at least 20 years for crimes committed when they were minors to seek a change in sentence.
Syed was released when a Baltimore judge overturned his conviction in response to a request from prosecutors who said they found flaws in the evidence. But in August, Maryland's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that reinstated Syed’s conviction while allowing him to remain free pending a new hearing about whether he should have been released.
The court said the victim’s family didn’t receive adequate notice to allow them to attend the original hearing in person.
The defense attorneys' filing on Friday seeks to maintain Syed's freedom until the new hearing.
“This filing is a small step toward ensuring that Adnan’s custody status is stabilized and his freedom is safeguarded,” said Erica Suter, Syed's attorney and an assistant public defender who directs the Innocence Project Clinic at University of Baltimore Law School.
“We maintain his innocence and our mission of proving that hasn’t changed," Suter said in a statement.
She also said Syed's accomplishments and good conduct, both during his incarceration and since release, support reducing his sentence. Since his release, Syed has been working at Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative. His lawyers, including Brian Zavin, who is chief attorney of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender’s Appellate Division, also noted in Friday's filing in Baltimore City Circuit Court that Syed has been caring for his elderly parents since his release and that his father recently died.
The filing also said Syed has cared for his spouse's aging parents.
The Maryland Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling in August came about 11 months after it heard arguments in a case that has been fraught with legal twists and divided court rulings since Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee.
She was found strangled to death and buried in an unmarked grave in 1999. Syed was 17 at the time and was sentenced to life in prison, plus 30 years.
David Sanford, an attorney who represents Lee’s family, said in a statement Monday that “if there is new and compelling evidence to support vacating the conviction of Adnan Syed, we will be the first to call for Mr. Syed’s freedom.”
However, he said the state has not “presented a shred of new, let alone compelling, evidence which would warrant overturning a murder conviction that has withstood appeals for over two decades.”
“The State of Maryland engaged in a charade in 2022: it recycled old evidence and, in the process, bamboozled the trial court and the public into believing that Mr. Syed was likely innocent,” Sanford said, adding that attorneys will confer with the family and present their position in court in the days ahead.
Syed, who is now 43, has maintained his innocence.
Baltimore State's Attorney Ivan Bates is weighing how to proceed given the Maryland Supreme Court's decision.
Syed’s case was chronicled in the “Serial” podcast, which debuted in 2014 and drew millions of listeners who became armchair detectives. The show, hosted by veteran radio producer Sarah Koenig, transformed the true-crime genre as it shattered podcast-streaming and downloading records, revealing little-known evidence and raising new questions about the case.
| 2024-12-24T01:22:43+03:00
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Liechtenstein’s only Paris 2024 Olympian: ‘Andy Murray found me in the village, he wanted my pin’
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/liechtenstein-andy-murray-olympic-village-pins-2024-b2593796.html
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"Lawrence Ostlere"
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"Andy Murray",
"Liechtenstein",
"Paris 2024",
"Internal"
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Pin swapping is big business in the Olympic village. Every country has their own unique little pin and a popular way to pass the time outside training and competition is to collect as many as you can by trading your own.
Andy Murray is an expert. After gathering a hefty collection at his final Games in Paris, Murray began seeking out the rarest pieces which sent him on the hunt for Liechtenstein’s sole athlete: the 20-year-old mountain biker Romano Puntener, one of nearly 15,000 people staying in the 54-hectare Olympic village.
Murray being Murray, he found him. “I was really surprised,” says Puntener. “It was after dinner when me and my mechanic took some bikes and rode through the village, and he saw me. I didn’t expect to meet him on my first evening there at the Olympic Village.
“I was a bit surprised that he asked me for a Liechtenstein pin, because I knew that pin trading is a big thing at the Olympics but I didn’t know that superstars like Andy Murray do that. That was really cool to meet him and talk with him about his last tournament and about my first Olympics, and how it is to be the only athlete from Liechtenstein.”
If pins are Olympic currency, Puntener soon found he was one of the richest men in the village. “To be honest, there were more people asking me about trading pins than me asking others about trading,” he smiles. French Open champion Coco Gauff and his biking idol Nino Schurter were two of his favourite trades.
Puntener carried a tiny Alpine nation on his shoulders in Paris but he was not entirely alone. He traveled in a party of four with a team manager, Liechtenstein’s chef de mission and his bike mechanic, and the Swiss team took him under their wing so he had some company in the village.
In the build-up to the Games he received messages from seemingly all 40,000 people in his homeland. “I’ve become a bit more famous because of the Olympics,” he says. The prime minister, Daniel Risch, came to his race and took him for lunch a few days later, which “was probably one of the coolest things”.
He was the obvious choice for flag bearer. Opening ceremony organisers gave him instructions on exactly where to stand on the boat as it flowed down the Seine and exactly how to hold the pole. Two minutes before the world’s TV cameras zoned in, he was given the signal to start waving. “That was probably the biggest thing I have ever experienced in my life. It was a really big honour.”
The men’s mountain bike race took place in a raucous atmosphere on the outskirts of Paris, mainly because a Frenchman led for most of it. Victor Koretzky was beaten at the very last by Britain’s Tom Pidcock, as Puntener came home six minutes later in 28th place.
His family greeted him at the line. “It just shows that they made a few things right in the past couple of years [because] I wouldn’t have been there without them and without their help,” he says.
Puntener rides on the development programme of Swiss team Thomus-Maxon. He is now preparing for the Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra as he builds towards a professional career in the sport. He got a taste for the Olympics and wants more in Los Angeles in four years’ time.
Puntener departs Paris as a national treasure, and a sackful of pins. “The last time I counted, I had 60 pins. I stuck them all on my accreditation.”
And he takes away a little inspiration, too. “It’s really inspiring to see such big names, like Andy Murray, see that they are just like normal people, and to believe maybe you can become as good as they are one day.”
| 2024-08-09T14:06:34+03:00
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Kinhöfer übt scharfe Kritik an Rüdiger und Real Madrid
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ZDF
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https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/sport/fussball-real-madrid-ruediger-schiedsrichter-kinhoefer-kritik-100.html
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"Ingo Konrad"
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Der ZDF-Schiedsrichter-Experte Thorsten Kinhöfer hat das Verhalten von Antonio Rüdiger im spanischen Pokalfinale am vergangen Wochenende erneut mit scharfen Worten kritisiert.
"Ich habe von Schande gesprochen, weil es für mich eine Schande ist, wenn ein deutscher Nationalspieler solche Worte wählt und dann auch noch ein Eispaket nach dem Schiedsrichter wirft", sagte Kinhöfer in der Champions-League-Sendung des ZDF.
Scharfe Kritik an Real Madrid
Der frühere Bundesliga-Referee wollte aber auch Rüdigers Verein Real Madrid nicht aus der Verantwortung lassen und kritisierte die seit Wochen anhaltenden Attacken des Klubs gegen die Schiedsrichter ebenfalls scharf.
"Sie nennen sich die Königlichen, verhalten sich aber wie in einer Liga, die mehr in auf Kreisliga-Niveau zu suchen ist", sagte Kinhöfer über Real.
Real macht seit Wochen Stimmung gegen Schiedsrichter
Der Verein hatte unter anderem im Februar einen Brief veröffentlicht, in dem sich die Madrilenen als Opfer eines korrupten Schiedsrichterwesens betrachten. Wiederholt wurde im Klub-TV zudem Stimmung gegen Unparteiische gemacht.
Vor dem am Ende skandalösen Pokal-Endspiel gegen den Erzrivalen FC Barcelona beklagte sich Schiedsrichter Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea unter Tränen über den dadurch ausgeübten Druck. Real wiederum reagierte mit einem Boykott aller offiziellen Aktivitäten im Vorfeld des Spiels.
Kinhöfer: "Spieler dürfen im Endeffekt dann alles"
"Wenn ein Verein solch eine Vorgehensweise vorgibt, wissen die Spieler natürlich, wo die Messlatte liegt", kritisierte Kinhöfer. "Die Spieler dürfen im Endeffekt dann fast alles."
Trotzdem hätte sich der Schiedrichter-Experte härtere Konsquenzen für Rüdiger durch den DFB erhofft, der es bei einer Rüge für den Abwehrchef belassen hatte. "Ich hätte mir gewünscht, der DFB würde da andere Konsequenzen ziehen", aber man hat die Entscheidung des Bundestrainers und des Teamschefs zu akzeptieren", erklärte Kinhöfer.
Rüdiger für sechs Spiele gesperrt
Vom spanischen Verband war Rüdiger am Dienstag für sechs Spiele gesperrt worden. Da er sich am gleichen Tag einer überfälligen Knie-Operation unterzog und länger ausfällt, trifft ihn die Sperre sportlich aber nicht besonders.
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| 2025-05-01T01:19:10.141000+03:00
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Eine Bürgerwehr entlarvt Taschendiebe in Barcelona
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Euronews (DE)
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https://de.euronews.com/2024/08/09/eine-burgerwehr-entlarvt-taschendiebe-in-barcelona
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"Euronews"
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"Tourismus",
"Kriminalität",
"Barcelona"
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Die Bürgerwehr Patrulla Ciudadana Barcelona verfolgt Taschendiebe in den U-Bahn-Station.en, macht Foto und Videos von ihnen und stellt sie ins Internet.
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Die Bürgerwehr Patrulla Ciudadana Barcelona verfolgt Taschendiebe in den U-Bahn-Station.en, macht Foto und Videos von ihnen und stellt sie ins Internet.
Wo es Touristen gibt, gibt es auch Taschendiebe. So auch in Barcelona, wo viele Besucher ohne ihre Brieftasche und ihr Mobiltelefon wieder abreisen.
Einige spanische Bürger finden, dass dass die Polizei zu wenig tut und wollen die Sache selbst in die Hand nehmen. Eliana Guerrero von der Bürgerwehr Patrulla Ciudadana Barcelona verfolgt Taschendiebe in der U-Bahn-Station.
"Ich trage diesen Schal, damit die Taschendiebe mich nicht erkennen. Sie erkennen mein Gesicht und sehen meine lockigen Haare schon von weitem", sagt sie. Die Bürgerwehr will Taschendiebe entlarven.
"Wir überwachen die Metrostationen und Busse und wollen die Taschendiebe vor allem öffentlich sichtbar machen. Wir filmen sie und stellen sie auf unsere Social-Media-Kanäle. Das tut ihnen am meisten weh. Die Polizei kann das nicht tun", so Eliana Guerrero.
Den organisierten Dieben würde es am meisten schaden, wenn sie erkannt werden. Das verschen sie zu verhindern. "Das machen wir über unsere Social-Media-Kanäle."
"Ich erkenne Taschendiebe an ihrem Verhalten in der Station. Ich laufe seit sechzehn Jahren durch diese Metrostationen und sehe daher viele bekannte Gesichter."
Laut Eliana Guerrero von der Bürgerwehr hat sich die Situation in Barcelona in den letzten Jahren verschlimmert: Sowohl Diebstähle als auch gewalttätige Raubüberfälle hätten zugenommen.
"Mit dieser Bürgerwehr wollen wir dafür sorgen, dass das Gesetz geändert wird und dass es nicht mehr so einfach ist, eine Brieftasche oder ein Telefon zu stehlen, ohne dass dies Konsequenzen hat. Jetzt können sie deinen Pass, dein Geld und dein Telefon ohne Konsequenzen stehlen."
| 2024-08-09T14:06:28+03:00
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Festival in Neukirchen-Vluyn: Feuer frei für das Dong Open Air
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Rheinische Post
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https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/neukirchen-vluyn/dong-open-air-2024-tickets-parken-line-up-alle-infos-im-ueberblick_aid-115848987
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"Lena Steffens"
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"Mottos",
"Steffens",
"Pyrotechnik",
"Vluyn",
"Neukirchen",
"Verbrechen",
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"Air"
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Vom 11. bis zum 13. Juli treten 28 Bands aus zehn Ländern auf der Halde Norddeutschland auf. Auch „Blind Guardian“ aus Krefeld ist zurück. Welche Neuerungen es sonst noch gibt.
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Vom 11. bis zum 13. Juli treten 28 Bands aus zehn Ländern auf der Halde Norddeutschland auf. Auch „Blind Guardian“ aus Krefeld ist zurück. Welche Neuerungen es sonst noch gibt.
„Blind Guardian“ tritt weltweit auf
Es gibt Pizza und ein besonderes Bier aus Kamp-Lintfort
Sparkasse sorgt für bargeldlose Bezahlung
Bürgermeister betont den Wirtschaftsfaktor
Headliner spielen am späten Abend
„Pyrotechnik ist kein Verbrechen“, könnte eines der Mottos beim diesjährigen Dong Open Air lauten, das der Verein Dong Kultur veranstaltet. Denn: „Wenn ‚In Extremo‘ spielen und dabei Pyrotechnik abfeuern, wird es ordentlich warm“, sagt Sebastian Arnold, Mitorganisator des Festivals und Vorsitzender des Vereins, beim Pressetermin auf der Halde Norddeutschland. Dort werden vom 11. bis zum 13. Juli etwa 5000 Rocker wieder ihre Matten schwenken und mit der Musik mitgehen. Die kommt von 28 Bands aus zehn Ländern; die weiteste Anreise haben „Escuela Grind“ aus den USA, am nächsten an der Halde dran wohnen „Elvellon“ aus Moers.
„Blind Guardian“ tritt weltweit auf
Kapazität Etwa 4800 Tickets sind bereits weg, teilt Sebastian Arnold, Mitorganisator des Dong Open Air, mit. 5000 Personen passen maximal auf das Gelände. Derzeit überlegen die Veranstalter, ob es eine Abendkasse geben soll. Das hängt aber davon ab, ob es bis zum Start des Festivals überhaupt noch Tickets gibt.
Tickets Die Tickets sind in verschiedene Preisstufen unterteilt; die sogenannten Early-Bird-Tickets waren bereits nach einem Tag weg. Derzeit gibt es noch wenige Karten, die „Countdown Tickets“ für 149,99 Euro gibt es unter https://shop2.dongopenair.de.
Zu den Headlinern zählt die Krefelder Band „Blind Guardian“. Die anderen beiden Headliner heißen „Behemoth“ und „In Extremo“. Der Frontmann von „Blind Guardian“, Hans Kürsch, erzählt beim Pressetermin, dass das Dong Open Air sein Lieblingsfestival sei. „Wir fühlen uns sehr geehrt, hier als Nischenband dabei sein zu dürfen“, sagt er. Kürsch und seine Band kommen gerade vom Barcelona Rock Fest, ansonsten spielen sie in Australien oder Amerika. Etwa 100 bis 150 Auftritte im Jahr hat die Band. „Rock am Ring“ war bisher noch nicht dabei, und das aus gutem Grund: „Das Festival ist uns zu kommerziell“, sagt Kürsch. Die Band „Blind Guardian“ mag vor allem die Nähe zu den Fans, wenn sie auf der Bühne stehen, und die simple Kommunikation auf der Bühne.
Bis zu 5000 Fans passen auf das Festival-Gelände auf der Halde Norddeutschland.
Es gibt Pizza und ein besonderes Bier aus Kamp-Lintfort
Die steht auch in diesem Jahr wieder am Haldenrand. Etwa 250 freiwillige Helfer und weitere Techniker sind am Dienstag vor dem Festival schon fleißig damit beschäftigt, in der prallen Sonne die Stände für Essen und Merchandising, Duschen, WCs und Zelte aufzubauen. Auf der einen Seite steht eine Dönerbude, daneben soll es Pizza und ein American Diner sowie thailändisches Essen geben, sagt Arnold. Zudem kreiert die Brauerei Geilings Bräu aus Kamp-Lintfort wieder ein spezielles Bier mit dem Namen „Nestor“, das im Vergleich zum letzten Jahr noch etwas fruchtiger schmecken soll. In diesem Jahr konnten die Besucher in einer Online-Umfrage erstmals über die zu verwendende Aromahopfensorte abstimmen.
Sparkasse sorgt für bargeldlose Bezahlung
Die Sparkasse am Niederrhein sorgt erneut dafür, dass bargeldlose Zahlung auf der Halde größtenteils möglich ist. Dafür stiftet sie sieben EC-Cash-Geräte über ihre Kulturstiftung. „Man kann auch per Apple Pay zahlen, zudem sind verschiedene ausländische Kreditkarten zugelassen“, sagt Bernd Zibell von der Sparkasse am Niederrhein. Bargeld sollten die Besucherinnen und Besucher dennoch mitbringen, da an den Merchandise-Ständen und an den Imbissbuden nur in bar gezahlt werden kann.
Bürgermeister betont den Wirtschaftsfaktor
Bürgermeister Ralf Köpke, ebenfalls am Dienstag auf der Halde, spricht den Wirtschaftsfaktor Festival an. Er sagt, dass die örtlichen Supermärkte in Neukirchen-Vluyn vom Besucheransturm stark profitierten, wenn die Fans dort einkauften. Gleiches ist auch bei größeren Festivals wie „Parookaville“ in Weeze zu beobachten. „Ich freue mich, dass das Dong Open Air seit über 20 Jahren hier auf der Halde stattfinden kann“, sagt Köpke. „Das Charmante ist, dass das Festival von jungen Leuten aus Neukirchen-Vluyn organisiert wird“, meinte er. „Man kennt Neukirchen-Vluyn durch das Dong Open Air.“
Damit sich beim Festival alle wohlfühlen, wird wieder einiges für die Besucherinnen und Besucher getan: Zum zweiten Mal wird Rollstuhlfahrern beim Dong Open Air Unterstützung angeboten. Die Malteser bieten unter [email protected] einen Transportservice auf den Berg hinauf und wieder hinunter an. Das Sanitätshaus Hodey aus Neukirchen-Vluyn hält einen Rollstuhlverleih und einen Reparaturservice auf dem Gipfel bereit.
Headliner spielen am späten Abend
Die Fans erwartet also ein großes, rundes Festivalpaket. Los geht es am Donnerstag, 11. Juli, um 12.25 Uhr mit dem Wacken Metal Battle, bei dem eine Nachwuchsband auftreten wird, die um die Teilnahme am internationalen Finale auf dem norddeutschen Megafestival spielen wird. Um 21.30 Uhr tritt der Headliner auf. Am Freitag, 12. Juli, und Samstag, 13. Juli, spielt die erste Band schon um 11.15 Uhr, der Headliner tritt um 22.15 Uhr auf. Schluss ist je um null Uhr. An jedem Abend nach dem Liveprogramm sorgt DJ Benne für eine After-Show-Party.
Sollte es regnen, liegt vor der Bühne bereits Rindenmulch aus, der die Feuchtigkeit aufnehmen soll, bevor sich der Boden in Matsch verwandelt. Alle weiteren Infos zum Dong Open Air gibt es auch unter www.dongopenair.de/de/info/doa.
| 2024-07-12T10:49:00+03:00
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Eddie McGuire sends three-word message to Channel 7 defectors
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-13894363/Eddie-McGuire-sends-message-Channel-7-defectors-Footy-Classified.html
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"Ollie Lewis"
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"AFL"
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Eddie McGuire has put a positive spin on the footy crisis that has rocked Channel 9 this week after three of its biggest stars quit for Channel 7.
Nine's flagship footy show, Footy Classified, has been decimated after host Craig Hutchinson and star pundits Caroline Wilson and Kane Cornes all jumped ship for the rival network.
McGuire has played a major role in Footy Classified's success. He had created the show in 2007, with his production company JAM TV putting the show together for Nine ever since.
According to News Corp, McGuire did not initially take the mass exodus well, with the former Collingwood president mentioning legal threats during a lunch at the Carbine Club on Tuesday.
But he has since taken a step back and was in a more reflective mood on Thursday, taking inspiration from AFL great Allan Jeans when discussing the situation.
'I'm quite sanguine about it and I wish everyone the best of luck,' he said. 'You get a good offer, go your hardest, I have no issue.
'I love the rough and tumble (of the media game). These days you want people to do great and there are offerings everywhere.
'Let me tell you no-one is losing their mind at JAM TV. We invented it in the first place and we also came up with a show called The Footy Show over the journey.
'As the great Allan Jeans said: 'Crisis creates opportunity'. We've got a number of shows that we're looking for a home and how we freshen up things (on Footy Classified).'
The departing trio appeared for the final time on Footy Classified on Tuesday but there was no mention of their exit on the show, with Hutchinson and Wilson denied a final farewell despite being on the programme for 18 years.
'I think the Grand Final was probably more important,' McGuire said. 'It [the decision to not mention their departures] certainly didn't come from us.'
News Corp claims the order came from the top of Nine, with the director of network sport Brent Williams deeming that mention of their exits would only serve as 'free kicks' for Seven and give them a huge publicity win.
McGuire then referred to Hutchinson, Wilson and Cornes as 'list cloggers' and said that he is on the lookout for the next footy broadcasting superstars.
'End of the season, you get rid of the list-cloggers, and you move the new superstars in,' McGuire said on Channel 9's Today Show.
'And that's what we're doing. The Footy Classified with Caroline Wilson and Craig Hutchison. That started 18 years ago.
'We commissioned it when I was up in Sydney, actually. And it's been fantastic. And it's great that Channel Copycat is just taking something we've done for 18 years and putting it on air.
'So that's OK. While they're doing that, we'll come up with something fresh, new and exciting for next year and do what we always do.'
| 2024-09-26T15:55:17+03:00
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Keskin Belediyesinde zimmet iddiasıyla başlatılan soruşturmada 1 şüpheli daha tutuklandı - Kırıkkale Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/kirikkale-haberleri/36901635-keskin-belediyesinde-zimmet-iddiasiyla-baslatilan-sorusturmada-1-supheli-daha-tutuklandi
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Kırıkkale'nin Keskin Belediyesinde zimmet iddiasıyla yürütülen soruşturmada 1 zanlı daha tutuklandı.
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Kırıkkale'nin Keskin Belediyesinde zimmet iddiasıyla yürütülen soruşturmada 1 zanlı daha tutuklandı.
Kırıkkale'nin Keskin Belediyesinde zimmet iddiasıyla yürütülen soruşturmada 1 zanlı daha tutuklandı.
İl Emniyet Müdürlüğünden yapılan yazılı açıklamaya göre, Kaçakçılık ve Organize Suçlarla Mücadele Şubesi ile Keskin İlçe Emniyet Müdürlüğü ekiplerince Keskin Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı koordinesinde yürütülen çalışma kapsamında K.Y, E.K.Ş, H.Y, İ.B.K, S.K, İ.K, F.C.Ş, S.D. ve E.Ç. gözaltına alındı.
Emniyetteki işlemlerinin ardından adliyeye sevk edilen zanlılardan H.Y, çıkarıldığı hakimlikçe tutuklandı, diğer şüpheliler ise adli kontrolle serbest bırakıldı.
Soruşturma kapsamında daha önce de M.G, A.Ş, T.D, E.C.D, D.Y, B.G. ve H.İ. tutuklanmıştı.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Kırıkkale haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Kırıkkale Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2025-01-29T23:01:06+03:00
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How to find your ‘forever’ winter boots
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/shopping/how-to-find-your-forever-winter-boots/
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Plus: Lisa solves your fashion dilemmas below
Boots should do three things: keep you warm, comfortable and stylish. You decide the order of importance. They can’t do any of those if you get carried away with an idea rather than the reality – for example, falling in love with a pair of cowboy boots when the rest of your wardrobe’s more executive C-suite.
Even more so than a coat, which you take off when you’re inside, boots provide the elusive final piece of an outfit, completing or amplifying the silhouette or vibe you’re looking for. Thinking of culottes or a kilt-type skirt this season? Keep everything else narrow – your top and your boots – for maximum drama and sleekness. Need heels that work with flares and crops? A two-inch block plus a round or almond toe will look modern and clean.
How much should you pay for them? I don’t eat meat or wear leather clothes, but this much I’ve learned: good-quality leather footwear and bags, in the long run, are less wasteful than synthetic as they can be endlessly repaired.
Patent boots, £300, Sezane
When it comes to maintenance, steaming suede or velvet boots and gently brushing them with a rubber brush can work wonders on the pile. If you’ve scuffed your patent boots, I’ve found just the ticket on Amazon. Charles Stewart Patent Magic Patent Leather Scuff Restorer (£7.99) is easy to use and produced excellent, invisible results on a pair that had a gashed heel (I glued the small leather patch back into place first and you can’t see the join). Shield leathers, nubucks and suedes from the coming winter by spraying them with a protector – look for a non-toxic one that doesn’t turn your house into a chemical wasteland. Renapur’s (also available on Amazon) is £14.99.
Heeled ankle boots, £159, Barbour
If, having restored and revived your existing boots, you still want to add to your collection, the main news this winter isn’t a radical new design so much as an ever-increasing range of colours – and many more Caffè Nero shades on offer to go with all the brown clothes. For extra cosiness, Fitflop has shearling insoles (£20) – go up half a size in the boots to allow room.
Suede stretch boots, £549, LK Bennett
The most versatile all-rounders would be a pair of slim knee-highs that could slip under loose trousers but also work with skirts. If you’re a diligent celebrity-style watcher, you’ll know they’re wearing thigh-high boots this season. Sienna Miller caused a minor frenzy when she wore hers to two evening dos in a row. Anne Hathaway and Blake Lively are part of the thigh-high club too. That’s all fine and dandy if you’re into miniskirts or going for a Stevie Nicks meets Kylie Jenner effect, but if you’re more minded to wear a midi or a maxi skirt, thigh-highs are probably de trop and you’ll be paying extra for several inches of leather you don’t need. Strategise your budget carefully. Boots are far too important to be a throwaway buy.
Find your pair of ‘forever’ winter boots...
Faux fur lined boots, £345, Russell & Bromley
Sturlini Leather boots, £335, Toast
Patent leather boots, £349, Penelope Chilvers
Leather woven ankle boots, £385, Loeffler Randall
Leather knee high boots, £570, Aeyde
Lisa wears: Wool blend and flannel jacket, £450, Me + Em; Lambswool bib, £125, OMHU; Pleated skirt, £39.90, Uniqlo : C; Leather boots, £335, Bobbies; Faux leather bag, £35, Marks & Spencer; Sunglasses, £99, Bloobloom; Earrings, £14, Marks & Spencer. Hair and make-up: Oonagh Connor at Joy Goodman, using SWEED Beauty and Living Proof. Styling: Sophie Tobin. Stylist’s Assistant: Hansveni Dave. With thanks to the Chelsea Townhouse and 11 Cadogan Gardens.
Lisa solves your style dilemmas
| 2024-11-20T11:00:00+03:00
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Fluggesellschaft Air New Zealand: Klimaziele fliegen raus
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Die Tageszeitung (taz)
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https://taz.de/Fluggesellschaft-Air-New-Zealand/!6027206/
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"Nanja Boenisch"
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"Luftverkehr",
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Weil es kaum nachhaltige Kraftstoffe und moderne Flugzeuge gibt, streicht die neuseeländische Airline ihre CO2-Ziele. Der Luftfahrt-Umbau holpert.
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Weil es kaum nachhaltige Kraftstoffe und moderne Flugzeuge gibt, streicht die neuseeländische Airline ihre CO2-Ziele. Der Luftfahrt-Umbau holpert.
BERLIN taz | Die Fluggesellschaft Air New Zealand gibt als erste große Airline ihre Klimaziele auf. Es gebe nicht genug moderne, treibstoffsparende Flugzeuge, erklärte das Unternehmen am Dienstag. Außerdem seien nachhaltige Flugkraftstoffe – kurz SAF für Sustainable Aviation Fuels – zu knapp und zu teuer.
Neuseelands nationale Luftverkehrsgesellschaft wollte ihren Ausstoß von Kohlendioxid (CO2) bis 2030 ursprünglich um 28,9 Prozent senken. Neue Flugzeuge sollten dabei helfen – doch die Flugzeugbauer Airbus und Boeing kämpfen mit Produktionsproblemen. Deshalb müssten ältere Maschinen länger im Einsatz bleiben, sagte Greg Foran, Geschäftsführer von Air New Zealand.
SAF seien ein weiterer Hebel, um CO2-Emissionen zu senken. Das Unternehmen könne jedoch nicht beeinflussen, welche Mengen zu welchen Preisen verfügbar sind. Nun wolle sich Air New Zealand neue, kurzfristige Klimaziele setzen. Der Konzern arbeite weiter auf das branchenweite Ziel hin, den Kohlenstoffdioxidausstoß bis 2050 auf null zu senken.
Hoffnung auf E-Kerosin
Fliegen verursacht rund drei Prozent des weltweit emittierten CO2. Die sogenannten Nicht-CO2-Effekte, die vor allem durch Kondensstreifen aus Rußpartikeln aus den Triebwerken entstehen, heizen die Klimakrise noch stärker an. E-Kerosin, eine Variante der SAF, gilt als der am wenigsten klimaschädliche Treibstoff – fast CO2-neutral und weniger rußintensiv.
„Es stimmt, dass es bisher nur wenige und teure SAF gibt“, sagte Jakob Graichen, Luftfahrtexperte am Öko-Institut, der taz. E-Kerosin werde bisher nur in „minimalsten Mengen“ produziert, die den Bedarf des Flugverkehrs nicht decken könnten.
Die EU hat festgelegt, dass Fluggesellschaften ihrem Treibstoff ab 2025 2 Prozent SAF beimischen müssen. 2030 wird der Anteil auf 6 Prozent, 2050 auf 70 Prozent erhöht. Doch auch dadurch werde der nachhaltigere Kraftstoff kaum billiger, schätzt Graichen. Die Herstellung sei zu aufwändig. Regierungen könnten jedoch die Produktion von SAF subventionieren oder fossiles Kerosin verteuern, zum Beispiel durch eine Kerosinsteuer. In Deutschland etwa ist fossiles Kerosin von der Energiesteuer, die für andere Treibstoffe gilt, befreit.
Graichen zufolge braucht es politische Vorgaben, um den Fluggesellschaften den Umstieg auf nachhaltige Kraftstoffe zu ermöglichen. „Aber genau diese Rahmenbedingungen blockieren viele internationale Fluggesellschaften“, sagte der Forscher. Er fürchtet, dass weitere Airlines dem Beispiel Air New Zealands folgen und ihre Klimaziele aufkündigen. „Die Luftfahrtbranche hat sich schon oft Ziele gesetzt, die weit in der Zukunft liegen – und sie gestrichen, wenn sie in Reichweite waren.“
Air New Zealand verspricht, sich für bessere politische Rahmenbedingungen einzusetzen, die die Luftfahrt weniger klimaschädlich machen können.
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| 2024-07-31T13:47:00+03:00
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Más de 230 personas alimentan de manera compulsiva a las palomas de Barcelona
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20241211/10192553/mas-230-personas-alimentan-manera-compulsiva-palomas.html
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El Ayuntamiento trata de frenar un hábito muy perjudicial para estos pájaros
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El Ayuntamiento trata de frenar un hábito muy perjudicial para estos pájaros
El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona trata estos días de convencer a 236 personas de que dejen de alimentar de manera compulsiva a las palomas de la ciudad. El dato es resultado de un estudio municipal realizado este año en función de las quejas vecinales en torno a esta costumbre. El plan Endreça también se encarga de las aves. Hace ya un par de semanas que cuatro equipos de informadores municipales vienen y van por los 40 puntos de la ciudad que más quejas vecinales despertaron las palomas. Hablamos de la plaza Catalunya, el paseo de Sant Joan, el parque de la Ciutadella... Se trata en verdad de una costumbre muy perjudicial para estos pájaros.
Tal y como explican los expertos, esta sobrealimentación supone una degeneración de la especie. Las palomas urbanas que fácilmente encuentran comida por doquier se acomodan y dejan de buscar frutos en los árboles, se habitúan a una dieta mucho más pobre y engordan. Además, en este contexto, los ejemplares más tontos y torpes sobreviven y se reproducen, transmitiendo así una herencia genética que empobrece a la población. Y la sobrealimentación también engorda la colonia, provoca concentraciones de ejemplares exageradas, extremo que facilita el contagio de enfermedades y que encima las estresa.
La población de palomas de la ciudad quintuplica los estándares recomendados
No es la primera vez que la ciudad emprende una iniciativa de este tipo. Los dispensadores de pienso anticonceptivo y los halcones que se dejan volar para que las espanten no son herramientas suficientes para controlar la presencia de estos animales. Hace mucho que Barcelona está sobrepoblada de palomas. En estos momentos suma más de 103.000 ejemplares. La densidad de población de las palomas barcelonesas prácticamente quintupplica a los estándares recomendados. Algunas llegan a repartir más de dos kilos de granos al día. Las consecuencias de esta costumbre no son anecdóticas. Una paloma se sacia con apenas 30 gramos. Los sobrealimentadores pueden doblar o triplicar una colonia en poco tiempo.
Pero el asunto es mucho más delicado de lo que parece. La mayor parte de las personas que alimentan a las palomas de manera compulsiva tienen problemas. Los informadores municipales que estos días contactan con ellas explican que muchas veces esta costumbre oculta carencias emocionales. Muchas de estas personas se sienten tan solas que acaban empatizando con estas aves de una manera desproporcionada. Pero cuando los informadores municipales tratan de hacerles ver que lo que hacen es contraproducente no suelen tomárselo bien, ya sea de una manera u otra. Para ellos este ritual es muy importante. Los servicios sociales del Ayuntamiento están al tanto de la situación.
Y luego están los chavales que almuerzan a la hora del recreo y demás personas que alimentan a las palomas de manera circunstancial. Esta gente reacciona de otra manera, sobre todo cuando los informadores añaden que en esta ciudad no está prohibido alimentar a los animales, pero sí que lo está dejar restos de comida en el espacio público. La sanción es de 600 euros. Otra fuente de sobrealimentación de las palomas son los restos de comida en las terrazas. Muchos de estos animales aguardan en las proximidades de los veladores a que la gente se levante y entonces lanzarse en picado, antes de que aparezca el camarero.
| 2024-12-11T20:34:51+03:00
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Newcastle bucks weekend alleged gang rape: Woman told police of orgy
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13561935/Newcastle-bucks-weekend-gang-rape-orgy-Hawell.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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A woman who says she was gang raped by a group of men celebrating a bucks weekend initially told police she had enjoyed herself and described the encounters as an 'orgy'.
'Miss B' was 18 when she had consensual sex with two members of the party at an Airbnb in the NSW Hunter Valley before she was allegedly sexually assaulted.
Now 20, the woman told a jury on Monday she was not telling the truth when first interviewed by detectives about a fortnight after the alleged gang rapes.
'At first, I was like this is scary but soon I started to enjoy myself,' she told police of the time she spent with the men in an apartment.
'I was never going to speak with police after my experience with the boys as I gave full consent.'
Maurice Hawell, his brother Marius Hawell and their friend Andrew David have pleaded not guilty to a string of charges including aggravated sexual assault.
Three women, Miss A, Miss B, and Miss C, have told police they were subjected to sexual assaults but they cannot identify which men were allegedly responsible.
Miss A and Miss B say they were raped at the same time in an apartment rented for a bucks weekend, while Miss C says she was abused there the next night.
Maurice Hawell, 30, and David, 28, say any sex they had was consensual and deny performing certain acts, while 22-year-old Marius Hawell insists he did not take part in any sexual activity at all.
The three men, all of whom are from Sydney, are facing trial together in Downing Centre District Court on the basis they engaged in a joint criminal enterprise.
The Hawells, David and six other friends booked Airbnb accommodation in Newcastle from Friday, February 25 through to Sunday, February 27, 2022, ahead of Maurice Hawell's wedding.
After meeting members of the group at the Cambridge Hotel in Hunter Street on the Friday night, Miss A and Miss B agreed to go with them to the nearby Parry Street apartment.
Miss A had consensual sex with one of the men, 'Matt', while Miss B had consensual sex in another bedroom with two others the Crowns says were Maurice Hawell and Andrew David.
Miss B has told a jury that when she was finished having sex with Maurice Hawell and David a third man the Crown says was Marius Hawell entered the room and sexually touched her.
Both women have given evidence they were then sexually assaulted by at least two men in the room where Miss A and Matt had previously had consensual intercourse.
They have told the jury the light was turned off and they could not see who was raping them.
Matt is not accused of having committed any wrongdoing at any time and has never been charged with any offence in relation to what happened in the apartment.
When Miss A and Miss B left the apartment they returned to the Cambridge with Matt where they met up with several of their friends who had been at the pub earlier in the evening.
'We said that we had an orgy,' Miss B said on Monday of what she told her friends about what had happened in the apartment.
'I said that and [Miss A] said that. They just started laughing and thinking it was funny.'
Asked why she had described what were now alleged to include rapes as an 'orgy', Miss B said in her mind 'that was just the best way to describe what had happened'.
Miss B said she was contacted by police several weeks after that night and on March 9 made a formal statement.
'I said that I consented,' she told the jury.
Miss B said she did not discuss the events in the Airbnb with anyone else until she had a conversation with her grandmother almost a year later.
'I told her that something had happened to me last February and I told her that it had taken a toll on me,' she said.
'I felt as though I had to talk to somebody about what happened and she was the only person that I felt safe with.'
Miss B's grandmother said Miss B told her she and Miss A had each gone into a separate room with a man - 'she was pretty upset and embarrassed'.
The grandmother said Miss B told her she ended up in the same room as Miss A, the room had gone dark, and Miss A began calling out for Matt.
'I said, "What are you going to do about it?"' the grandmother said. 'She said, "Nan, I just want to forget about it".'
The day after that conversation, Miss B was with her father when her grandmother rang and told him that 'something happened' to his daughter.
'Knowing my daughter I could tell straight away that she'd gone into shutdown and then she started crying,' Miss B's father said.
The father said Miss B told him she had been having sex with a man when 'another two or three guys entered the room'.
'I said to [Miss B], "Did you give consent?" and she said, "Only to the first guy, not to anyone else that came into the room".'
Miss B had been upset her grandmother had breached her confidence but later that day she spoke with her father's partner.
'I told her that I had sex with five males,' Miss B said. 'I said that because thinking in my head there was two men on myself and seeing three on [Miss A] I made an assumption there was five males.'
Miss B's father's partner gave evidence about that conversation.
She said Miss B told her she had engaged in consensual sex with one man, then another man entered the room with whom she had no intention of having intercourse.
Miss B had told her that second man then left, Miss A came in, and three to five males entered the room.
Miss B's father and his partner gave evidence that conversation took place on January 30 last year.
Miss B was later contacted again by police and on March 28 last year made a second formal statement.
She has told the jury she had never discussed with Miss A what had allegedly happened to either of them at the apartment.
Miss B said she had originally told police her alleged rapes were consensual sex because she had not said or done anything to suggest she was not consenting.
Maurice Hawell and David are charged with eight counts of aggravated sexual assault in company and one count each of aggravated sexually touching another person and attempted aggravated sexual assault in company.
Marius Hawell is charged with six counts of aggravated sexual assault in company and one count each of aggravated sexually touching another person and attempted aggravated sexual assault in company.
Miss C is yet to give evidence about what allegedly happened to her.
The trial, before Judge Gina O'Rourke, continues.
| 2024-06-24T16:13:16+03:00
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Fatih Camii imamına saldırıda karar! - Son dakika haberi | Son dakika haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/fatih-camii-imamina-saldirida-karar-son-dakika-haberi-3739391
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İstanbul'da Fatih Camii imamı Galip Usta'ya yönelik bıçaklı saldırıda karar açıklandı. Davada Ömer Salgın adlı saldırgan 22 yıl 9 ay hapis cezasına çarptırıldı
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İstanbul'da Fatih Camii imamı Galip Usta'ya yönelik bıçaklı saldırıda karar açıklandı. Davada Ömer Salgın adlı saldırgan 22 yıl 9 ay hapis cezasına çarptırıldı
Fatih Camii’nde imama ‘hocam bir şey sorabilir miyim’ diyerek bıçakla saldıran, ayırmaya gelen 2 kişinin de yaralanmasına neden olan sanık Ömer Salgın 22 yıl 9 ay hapis cezasına çarptırıldı.
İHA'nın haberine göre ilçede 8 Ocak 2024’de Fatih Camii imamı Galip Usta’ya ‘hocam bir şey sorabilir miyim’ diyerek bıçakla saldırdığı, kendisini ayırmaya çalışan 2 kişinin ise yaralanmasına neden olduğu iddia edilen sanık Ömer Salgın’ın yargılandığı dava karara bağlandı.
İstanbul 35.Ağır Ceza Mahkemesi’nde görülen duruşmaya tutuklu sanık Ömer Salgın Ses ve Görüntü Bilişim Sistemi (SEGBİS) aracılığıyla bağlandı. Taraf avukatları ise duruşma salonunda hazır bulundu.
Mahkemede müşteki avukatları, önceki ifadelerini tekrarladıklarını belirterek sanık Salgın’ın cezalandırılmasını talep etti. Sanık avukatı ise müvekkili hakkında akıl sağlığına ilişkin rapor aldırılmasına yönelik talebi yinelediğini belirterek mahkemeden müvekkilinin beraatını istedi. Duruşmanın biteceği belirtilerek son sözü sorulan sanık Salgın, beraatını talep etti.
22 YIL 9 AY HAPİS CEZASI VERİLDİ
Kararını açıklayan mahkeme, sanık Ömer Salgın’ı müşteki Galip Usta’ya yönelik ‘kişinin yerine getirdiği kamu görevi nedeniyle kasten öldürmeye teşebbüs’ suçundan 16 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırdı. Sanık Salgın’ı müşteki Bilal Erdem’e yönelik ‘silahla kasten yaralama’ suçundan 6 yıl hapis cezasıyla cezalandıran heyet, ‘ruhsatsız silah bulundurma’ suçundan ise 9 ay hapis cezasına hükmetti. Toplamda 22 yıl 9 ay hapis cezasına çarptırılan sanık Salgın’ın tutukluluk halinin de devamına karar verildi. Mahkeme ayrıca, sanık Salgın’ın Yusufcan İslam’a yönelik ‘vücutta kemik kırılmasına veya çıkığına neden olacak şekilde kasten yaralama’ suçunu işlediğine ilişkin kastının bulunmadığı gerekçesiyle beraatına karar verdi.
| 2024-11-20T10:35:07+03:00
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Harris Dickinson toys with ambiguity in ‘Babygirl,’ and keeps a secret from Nicole Kidman
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/harris-dickinson-ap-margaret-qualley-nicole-kidman-ceo-b2669312.html
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"English",
"People",
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"Brooklyn",
"Alfred Hitchcock",
"Leytonstone",
"Christopher Nolan",
"Mike Leigh",
"Ken Loach",
"Joanna Hogg",
"Steve McQueen",
"Cannes",
"London",
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Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama “Babygirl,” as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They’d had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.
“She helped me break the ice a bit,” Dickinson said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as “puckishly audacious” as his character Samuel but in the making of “Babygirl,” he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It’s made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year’s must-sees.
“There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to,” Dickinson said. “We weren’t getting to know each other’s personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn’t veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess.”
His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats”: Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.
Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as Alfred Hitchcock. Cinema was in his life, whether it was Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” films at the local multiplex or venturing into town to see the more social realist films of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach.
“Working class cinema interested me,” he said. “People around me that represented my world.”
Appropriately, his entry into making art started behind the camera, with a comedy web series he made as a kid, which he now describes as “really bad spoofs” of films and shows of the time. But things started to really click when he began acting in the local theater.
“I remember feeling invigorated by it and accepted,” he said. “I felt myself for the first time and felt able to express myself in a way where I didn’t feel vulnerable and I felt alive and ignited by something.”
At around 17, someone suggested that he should give acting a try professionally. He hadn’t even fully understood that it was a career possibility, but he started auditioning. At 20, he was cast in “Beach Rats” and, he said, just “kept going.” Since then, he’s gotten a wide range of opportunities in films both big, including “The King’s Man,” and small. He’s captivated as a male model in Ruben Östlund’s Cannes-winning “Triangle of Sadness,” an estranged father to a 12-year-old in Charlotte Regan’s “Scrapper,” an actor bringing an ex-boyfriend to life in Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II,” the charismatic, tragic wrestler David Von Erich in Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” and a soldier in Steve McQueen’s “Blitz.”
But “Babygirl” would present new challenges and opportunities with a character who’s almost impossible to define.
“He was confusing in a really interesting way. There wasn’t loads of specificity to it, which I enjoyed because it was a bit of a challenge to sort of pinpoint exactly what it was that drove him and made him tick,” Dickinson said. “There was a directness that unlocked a lot for me, like a fearlessness with the way he spoke, or a social unawareness in a way — like not fully realizing what he’s saying is affecting someone in a certain way. But I didn’t make too many rules for him.”
Part of the allure of the film is the ever-shifting power dynamics between the two characters, which could change over the course of a scene.
As Reijn said, “It’s a cautionary tale about what happens when you suppress your own desires.” She was especially in awe of Dickinson's ability to make everything feel improvised and the fact that he could look like a 12-year-old boy in one shot and a confident 45-year-old man in the next.
Since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, the film has led to some surprisingly direct conversations with audiences spanning generations. But that, Dickinson understood, was what Reijn wanted.
“She really wanted to show the ugliness and the awkwardness of these things, of these relationships and sex,” he said. “That sort of fumbly version and the performative version of it is way more interesting, to me at least, than the kind of fantasized, romanticized, sexy thing that we’ve seen a lot.”
Dickinson recently stepped behind the camera again, directing his first feature film under the banner of his newly formed production company. Set against the backdrop of homelessness in London, “Dream Space” is about a drifter trying to assimilate and understand his cyclical behavior.
The film, which wrapped earlier this year, has given him a heightened appreciation for just how many people are indispensable in the making of a film. He’s also started to understand that “acting is just being able to relax.”
“When you’re relaxed, you can do stuff that is truthful,” he said. “That only happens if you’ve got good people around you: The director that creates the good environment. The intimacy coordinator facilitating a safe space. A coworker in Nicole encouraging that kind of bravery and performance with what she’s doing.”
Dickinson did eventually get to the point where he managed to ask Kidman questions about working with Stanley Kubrick and Lars Von Trier. But he also kept one shattering possibility between himself and his director.
“There is a world in which Samuel doesn’t even exist. He’s just a sort of a device or a figment for her own story. And I like that because it kind of means you can take the character into a very unrealistic realm at times and be almost like a deity in the story,” Dickinson said. “We didn’t talk about it with Nicole.”
| 2024-12-24T00:48:27+03:00
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Tibet earthquake kills at least 95
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At least 95 people have been reported dead after a powerful earthquake in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Tremors were also felt in Nepal and as far away as India.
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At least 95 people have been reported dead after a powerful earthquake in China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Tremors were also felt in Nepal and as far away as India.
Dozens of people have been killed after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck in the Himalayas on Tuesday morning, and dozens more injured.
Local Chinese media reported at least 95 fatalities in and around the city of Shigatse in Tibet, while tremors were felt in neighboring Nepal and India.
"A reporter learned from the Tibet Autonomous Region earthquake bureau that people have been killed," the Xinhua state news agency said, listing the Changsuo, Quluo and Cuoguo townships in Dingri County.
"A total of 95 people have been confirmed dead and 130 others injured," the agency added later.
The quake struck at 9:05 a.m. local time (0105 UTC/GMT) and had an epicenter depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). Xinhua revised the magnitude down from an earlier estimation of 6.9.
The US Geological Survey reported the tremor as magnitude 7.1.
Aftershocks reported
By 10 a.m., "multiple aftershocks" had been recorded, the largest measuring 4.4 in magnitude, added Xinhua's reporter.
"Dingri county and its surrounding areas experienced very strong tremors, and many buildings near the epicentre have collapsed," state broadcaster CCTV said.
Around 1,500 emergency workers were already on hand to search for victims and survivors in the rubble, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.
Video footage seen by the Reuters news agency showed damaged buildings and crumbled shop fronts in the larger towns of Xigaze and Lhatse, with debris spilling out onto roads.
A holy city, Xigaze is the seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism, whose spiritual authority is second only to the Dalai Lama.
Tremors felt in Nepal, India
Tremors were felt in Nepal's capital Kathmandu some 400km (250 miles) away, where residents ran from their houses.
"We felt a very strong earthquake but so far we have not received any report of injuries or physical loss," said Anoj Raj Ghimire, chief district officer of Solukhumbu district in Nepal.
"We have mobilized police and other security forces as well as locals to collect information about the damage," he added.
Shudders were also felt in the northern Indian state of Bihar, but officials reported no signs of damage.
Earthquakes are common in the mountainous Himalayan region, but Tuesday's quake was the most powerful recorded within a 200-kilometer radius in the last five years, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
A 7.8-magnitude quake killed some 9,000 people and in Nepal in 2015.
| 2025-01-07T06:32:12.378000+03:00
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What to know about sudden rebel gains in Syria's 13-year war and why it matters
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/syria-ap-bashar-assad-aleppo-washington-b2656278.html
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The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities and an ancient business hub. The push is among the rebels' strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country's borders.
It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal air campaign by Russian warplanes helped Syrian President Bashar Assad retake the northwestern city. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power, within the 70% of Syria under his control.
The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups.
Robert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon this week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance.
Here's a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting:
Why does the fighting at Aleppo matter?
Assad has been at war with opposition forces seeking his overthrow for 13 years, a conflict that's killed an estimated half-million people. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements.
The roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo.
Coming after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria's warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute. Risks include if Islamic State fighters see it as an opening, Lister said.
Ford said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other. -
What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo?
The U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS — as a terrorist organization.
Its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, emerged as the leader of al-Qaida's Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria's war. His fight was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria's opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad's brutal rule untainted by violent extremism.
Golani early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women.
Golani has sought to remake himself in recent years. He renounced his al-Qaida ties in 2016. He's disbanded his religious police force, cracked down on extremist groups in his territory, and portrayed himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years.
What's the history of Aleppo in the war?
At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo is one of the centers of commerce and culture in the Middle East.
Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the war. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions.
In 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year.
The Russian military's entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held.
This year, Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.
| 2024-11-30T01:20:55+03:00
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The full costs of telling people to work from home are only now becoming clear
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/07/full-costs-of-telling-people-to-work-from-home-now-clear/
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PwC’s Orwellian employee tracker is not a power move – it’s an act of desperation
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PwC’s Orwellian employee tracker is not a power move – it’s an act of desperation
In the first rounds of trying to get people back to the office after the pandemic, plenty of companies played hardball. The message was clear: if workers didn’t return to their previous working practices, there would be consequences.
At Facebook, that meant a potential reduction in pay for its American employees if they had moved to a location with cheaper living costs. At Google, it meant plans for salary cuts to reflect the savings employees were making by reducing their travel and commuting costs.
PwC took a different approach.
“We’re in a war for talent, because we’re busy,” Kevin Ellis, the then-UK chairman of the “big four” accounting firm, told The Times in the summer 2021. Rather than penalise employees for working from home, PwC would try to avoid the threat of pay cuts other companies were making. “A lot of other businesses with the same skills that we need are busy,” he told the newspaper. “I think that’s not something to consider at this stage.”
That stage in the process has come and gone. Three years later, PwC is not only mandating its staff spend more hours in the office and face-to-face with clients, it plans to keep track of them too.
This week 26,000 UK workers were issued a notice: from January next year, the firm will start monitoring their working location. The data will be reported back to employees each month.
Even the greatest advocates of office working might find this a bit much. It’s one thing to issue instructions to your workbase. It’s a much bigger, rather Orwellian step to physically track them, seemingly to make sure they’re following orders.
From some angles, this might look like a power move from the firm. But it appears, to me anyway, to be an act of desperation.
Go back to 2021, when PwC was refusing to take the tough approach, and you’ll see the goals were the same: the firm wanted to achieve a hybrid working culture, where its employees came into the office for the majority of the week. Three years later, the carrots apparently haven’t worked. Now they are at risk of over-correcting.
It’s clear from the leaked memo to staff that PwC isn’t quite sure how to market its new policy. The location reports will also be fed to employees’ “in-house career coaches”. So it’s really a magnanimous move, the messaging seems to imply: tracking employees to help with their development. Snooping for their own good.
Really it feels like a hop and a skip away from the party-hats and melon parties in the TV drama Severance: no matter the treats or the favours, overreaches into privacy can rarely be dressed up as much else.
Of course, PwC is entitled to ask its employees to work from the office. It’s welcome to take a hardline approach and insist on it. Its workers can decide if this arrangement still suits them: return to the office if it does, look for other, more flexible employment if it doesn’t.
Yet somehow this rather simple and effective definition of “employment” appears increasingly shaky – and PwC’s new policy seems to highlight what, in part, has gone so wrong.
As much as we would like the impact of the pandemic and successive lockdowns to be behind us, there are myriad hangovers that continue to haunt the UK – and the labour market is no exception. With job vacancies still high and an ever-growing worklessness crisis (with 5.8m working-age people on out-of-work benefits), the issues companies face in simply hiring and retaining workers are still as relevant as ever.
But there seems to be an even more fundamental problem: a breakdown of trust between employers and employees.
The pandemic saw the state get far too involved with private arrangements between firms and employees. It is no surprise that, after years of messaging from politicians to “stay home” (and talk of even bringing in a “right” to do so in the future), plenty of workers still feel like this is a national policy, rather than private decision made at company level, and something to be negotiated with an employer.
The fact that some workers simply won’t return has encouraged some invasive business practices: ones in which adults are treated like children, who need oversight and eyes on them at all times.
It seems highly unlikely that PwC’s new policy is going to improve trust and goodwill between the company and its employees, which raises the question – why go ahead with this policy? When PwC took the light-touch approach three years ago, it made a record-breaking profit of £1.2bn, achieved with the vast majority of its staff working from home. Yet last autumn it was reported that PwC’s growth was lagging behind its competitors in the previous financial year.
Despite growing popularity for the idea that remote working has no impact on productivity – or can even enhance it in some cases – was it simply a matter of time before the post-pandemic years revealed that there are longer-term, negative effects to abandoning shared space to communicate ideas?
It’s worth noting that PwC’s new tracking rule only applies to UK employees. It landed the same week that the Centre for Cities revealed that London is lagging behind other major cities in getting workers back to the office: just 2.7 days are spent, on average, in the workplace, compared to New York’s 3.1 days and Paris’s 3.5 days.
This should make not just companies, but the Government, take pause – and consider what kinds of consequences might develop out of new employment rules or instructions.
If one of the Treasury’s main aims really is to tackle the so-called gender pay gap, for example, the fastest way for a company to make its numbers look better on paper is to hire fewer junior women (which is why so much of that reporting is best described as worse-than-useless). If full employment rights come in from day one, the UK’s number of job vacancies could start falling for all the wrong reasons: like if employers pull job offers and make do with fewer staff.
The command to work from home where possible has had lasting effects on businesses and workers and is producing some rather unexpected, rather invasive, responses. It’s well worth considering, then, what might happen next.
Kate Andrews is economics editor at The Spectator
| 2024-09-07T13:00:00+03:00
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Wimbledon 2024 LIVE: Tennis scores and updates as Novak Djokovic returns after Carlos Alcaraz in semi-finals
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon-2024-live-stream-scores-results-djokovic-b2578458.html
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The Wimbledon’s men’s semi-finals have arrived, as Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz edge closer to a rematch of last year’s final – an instant classic.
Alcaraz triumphed over five intense sets last summer to collect his first trophy in SW19 and his second grand slam overall, and the 21-year-old has since claimed the French Open crown. Meanwhile, Djokovic bounced back by winning his fourth US Open title, and he can tie Roger Federer with a record-equalling eighth Wimbledon trophy if he goes the distance this week.
But standing in each man’s way are Lorenzo Musetti and Daniil Medvedev. Djokovic, 37, will play Italy’s Musetti, 22, who won a thrilling quarter-final against Taylor Fritz, after Djokovic received a walkover when Alex de Minaur sustained an injury. Therefore, today is Djokovic’s first time on court since he lashed out at fans for “booing” him in the fourth round.
Across the draw, Alcaraz will look to repeat his semi-final win against Medvedev from 12 months ago, when the Spaniard left the Russian, 28, outclassed and in awe.
Follow all the latest scores and match updates from Wimbledon below:
| 2024-07-12T11:52:02+03:00
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Kastamonu'da eşini öldüren polis adliyeye sevk edildi - Kastamonu Haberleri
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Kastamonu'da dün eşini öldüren polis adliyeye sevk edildi.
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Kastamonu'da dün eşini öldüren polis adliyeye sevk edildi.
Kastamonu'da dün eşini öldüren polis adliyeye sevk edildi.
Jandarmadaki işlemleri tamamlanan E.T. sağlık kontrolü için Kastamonu Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesine götürüldü.
Burada işlemleri tamamlanan E.T. daha sonra jandarma ekipleri tarafından Kastamonu Adliyesine getirildi.
Dün Saraçlar Mahallesi Ankara Caddesi'ndeki evlerinde Kastamonu Emniyet Müdürlüğünde görevli polis memuru E.T. ile eşi Burçin Sevgi T. arasında tartışma çıkmış, tartışmanın ardından E.T, beylik tabancasıyla eşini vurmuş, Burçin Sevgi T. olay yerinde hayatını kaybetmişti.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Kastamonu haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Kastamonu Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2024-10-16T17:27:46+03:00
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How Princess Charlotte became the coolest member of the royal family
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14012359/princess-charlotte-coolest-member-royal-family-moments.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490
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She may only be nine years old, but Princess Charlotte has already earned a reputation as one of the coolest royals.
The second child and only daughter of the Prince, 42, and Princess of Wales, 42, Charlotte is third in line for the throne and has already won the hearts of royal fans across the country.
With her cheeky yet sassy personality, the young princess has often been seen keeping her brothers in line, playfully cringing at her parents' public displays of affection, and stylishly coordinating outfits with her most fashionable relatives.
The mischievous royal has also been known to struggle to hide her true feelings in her facial expressions - a trait many a royal fans have also compared to Princess Diana.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at the young princess' coolest and cheekiest moments over the last nine years.
Norfolk video - September 2024
In September earlier this year, the Prince and Princess of Wales released an emotional three-minute video revealing the news that Catherine had completed her chemotherapy treatment.
In the clip, the couple were joined by their three children on the beach in their beloved in Norfolk - where the family often stay in their second home, Anmer Hall.
Amongst the touching shots of the family playing and hugging against a gorgeous beach backdrop - royal fans couldn't help but spot one hilarious moment.
While the family sat at the beach on a picnic blanket, William pecked Kate on the cheek as she lay on the floor with Prince George, 11, and Prince Louis, six.
But Charlotte was far from amused by the show of affection between her parents and was spotted pulling a face of complete embarrassment.
Royal fans joked that the young royal's face was full of 'disdain' while other's compared her to her late great grandmother, the Queen.
Taylor Swift concert - July 2024
Charlotte undoubtedly became the most popular of her friends when she met Taylor Swift during the singer's UK leg of her Eras tour.
As the pop princess took over the capital for her Eras tour earlier this summer, the princess, her brother George, and father Prince William, had the chance to not only see the show but sneak a selfie with the pop star.
Joining Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, in a now world famous selfie - Charlotte can be seen beaming with joy alongside Swiftie father and slightly less excited looking brother.
Kitted out in full Swiftie attire, the princess donned a stunning shimmery top for the occasion, with streak of her long blonde tresses woven into adorable plaits.
Charlotte and her father, William, are both considered Swifties in their own right, with the the prince having previously forged a close bond with the singer over their decade-long friendship.
Wimbledon - July 2024
The youngest of the Wales' children, Prince Louis, is known for his colourful expressions during engagements - some of which had landed him in hot water with his older siblings.
But it was Charlotte - often the most composed of the three - having her share of the dramatics at Wimbledon earlier this year.
The princess joined her mother in the Royal Box to watch Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic in the Grand Slam at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London.
During the nail-biting game, Charlotte held back nothing as she winced, beamed and cheered during the fight for the title.
Despite her wearing a pair of £90 pink Ray Ban sunglasses, Charlotte's emotions throughout the game, from her jubilant grins to intrigued glances and awkward shudders, remained crystal clear.
Meanwhile, Kate, 42, held her composed face throughout the game.
Also joining them was Kate's sister, Pippa Middleton, 41, who shared several heartwarming moments with her niece. The pair appear to share a close relationship, as further evidenced by the fact that they appeared to don matching frocks.
Pippa looked effortlessly elegant in a slim-fitting red floral midi dress with ruffled tiers while Charlotte matched her auntie Pippa in a navy-and-white polka dot dress from Guess with ruffled sleeves.
Euros final - July 2024
The princess enjoyed a summer jam-packed with sport this year. After delighting in the drama of Wimbledon's finale during the day, Charlotte was later attentively seated at home for the Euros final.
In an adorable snap uploaded by Kate, the princess and her youngest brother were pictured in matching England football shirts as they closely watched the nail biting game.
The young royals each had names 'Charlotte' and 'Louis' alongside their ages, the numbers nine and six respectively, embossed on the back.
The princess has proven herself to be well-rounded in her interests, finding joy in everything from tennis and football to singing along to Taylor Swift.
The photo, taken by the Princess, was posted from the official Kensington Palace account and signed off from William and Princess Kate.
Trooping the Colour - June 2024
Princess Charlotte appeared to take her role as the older sister very seriously at Trooping the Colour in June as she was spotted telling her younger brother Prince Louis off, not once, but twice during the annual celebration.
The six-year-old Prince was stood on the platform in front of thousands of fans and well-wishers with his arms slightly scrunched ahead of the national anthem.
His older sibling then said: 'Louis put your hands down,' according to lipreader Juliet Sullivan, before she tapped his shoulder to get his attention.
Louis then scrunched up his face before placing his hands down by his side and standing up straight to prepare for the national anthem.
Earlier in the day, the Prince was once again told off by his sister as she ordered him to 'stop' his dancing, whilst standing at a window in the Horse Guards building, so they could watch King Charles inspecting the troops outside.
The sweet sisterly moment led royals fan to liken the young Princess to her great-grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth as they compared it to an occasion when the monarch told off her grandson Prince William in 2016.
A TikTok page even posted a video comparing the two moments with enthusiasts of The Firm saying that Charlotte is the 'new Queen' and that she keeps her siblings grounded as the late Queen Elizabeth once did.
Platinum Jubilee - June 2022
Princess Charlotte also took charge of her two brothers during the celebrations for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee two years ago.
The royal was stood on the Buckingham Palace balcony with her parents the Prince and Princess of Wales and siblings Prince Louis and Prince George.
However, she noticed that her older brother, who is second in line to the throne, had his arms up on the ledge rather than by his side and appeared to be fidgeting.
But younger sister Charlotte was having none of it, appearing to give George an ear full.
Obliging to the demands of his sister, George quickly reshuffled his stance, placing his arms down by his side before standing up straight as the national anthem played.
After Charlotte had a word with George, the late Queen then appeared to turn to him and also say something about him putting his arms down.
The princess appeared to have a double job on her hands during the engagement as she was later spotted telling off her youngest brother, Louis.
The youngest of the Prince and Princess of Wales' children was absent mindedly sucking his fingers when his older sister - just seven at the time - intervened.
She then appears to brandish her fist at her younger brother, perhaps warning him against sucking his fingers again.
At this point, their mother, who was known as the Duchess of Cambridge at the time, swooped in and whispered something to Charlotte.
And it's not the first time the young royal has been seen keeping her brothers in line during engagements.
During the four-day celebration of the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Charlotte, Louis, George, their mother Kate and Camilla rode in a carriage down the Mall, ahead of the Trooping the Colour.
As they family sauntered down the road together, both Charlotte and Louis were spotted eagerly waving at fans.
But the youngest of the Wales' children seemed to get a little carried away at one point and ended up giving his signature 'window wiper' wave.
A peeved looking Charlotte was quite to respond to her brother's mischief, pushing his hand down as she appeared to tell him off.
But his sister doesn't always have control over her disobedient sibling as unbothered by the stern words, Louis almost immediately began waving at the assembled crowds once more.
Sailing regatta - August 2019
When she attended a sailing regatta alongside her mother in 2019, Charlotte's cheeky antics stole the show and earned her dozens of new fans.
The mother and daughter were attending to a sailing regatta in Cowes in the Isle of Wight when the young Charlotte pulled the most unroyal of faces.
As Kate appeared to encourage her daughter to wave at the crowds below, Charlotte had a different plan in mind.
Rather than offering a royal wave, the princess mischievously stuck her tongue out.
Meanwhile, Kate couldn't help but chuckle at the sweet moment and was later commended for her elegant handling of the unexpected response from her daughter.
The hilarious moment is now thought to have been the result of the young princess seeing her grandfather - Kate's father Michael Middleton.
Prince Louis' christening - July 2018
In 2018, the young royal was attending her youngest brother, Louis' christening when she gave the paparazzi a stern telling off.
As the family left the service at Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, paparazzi eagerly waited to snap up pictures of the departing royals.
And while her royal relatives left the church quietly chatting - a mischievous Charlotte gave the press a piece of her mind instead.
Only three at the time, Charlotte sternly told reporters: 'You're not coming!'
Charlotte first appeared in the corridor of the chapel holding onto her father's hands as they walked up to greet the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
Before telling off the paparazzi, an adorable Charlotte was seen pulling a sly few funny faces before formally greeting him formally.
| 2024-11-03T18:19:44+03:00
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Get ready, Donald Trump — in California, Kamala Harris has shown she's a skilled debater
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Los Angeles Times
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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2024-09-07/opinion-newsletter-harris-trump-debate-expectation-opinion
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Good morning. It is Saturday, Sept. 7, and no, this God-awful heat wave in L.A. isn’t over yet. Here’s what’s happening in Opinion.
For the first time in his life, Donald Trump will be on TV without being the center of attention. Most people will be watching the person standing next to him. The eagerly awaited (and nearly canceled) presidential debate between him, the twice-impeached ex-commander in chief, and Kamala Harris, the vice president, is the last single event we can count on to influence this deadlocked election before ballots start being counted Nov. 5.
After nine years of MAGA pageantry, this country knows Donald Trump. It knows far less about Harris, even though she has been vice president since 2021 and, before then, served as a U.S. senator from California, the state’s attorney general and the district attorney of San Francisco. She won her first election in 2003, right when Trump was taping the first season of his career-resuscitating TV show, “The Apprentice.”
So in California, we’ve seen Harris debate as a candidate arguing solely on her own behalf (as opposed to defending Joe Biden in the 2020 vice presidential debate or trying to get a word in edgewise in the Democratic primary debates of 2019). One such debate was in 2010 against then-L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, when she was running for California attorney general; another came in 2016 against then-Rep. Loretta Sanchez, an Orange County Democrat, in the race for an open U.S. Senate seat. (For the record, The Times’ editorial board endorsed Harris in 2016, but not in 2010.)
I re-watched both debates this week, looking for clues on what to expect against Trump on Tuesday. Harris’ 2016 U.S. Senate debate involved an opponent who (to put it charitably) didn’t come across as, well, senatorial. Sanchez infamously ended her closing statement with a “dab,” a heads-down, arms-out gesture that all the cool kids were doing at the time. It capped a performance in which moderators had to raise their voices to remind Sanchez she needed to stop speaking (sound familiar?). Harris, who attacked Sanchez over her absence on key House votes and committee hearings, ably put on a poker face as her opponent rambled.
Her 2010 debate with Cooley was different. Though spirited, their exchange stayed focused on the issues of the day and even veered into borderline wonkish, constitutional questions having to do with prosecutorial discretion. The debate resulted in a gaffe that arguably doomed Cooley: He unashamedly said he would collect his public pension while serving as attorney general, to supplement what he called the “absurdly low” attorney general salary of about $150,000. If people remember anything from the debate, it’s that.
And that’s unfortunate, because the debate provided a clear, substantive contrast between the candidates at a pivotal time for criminal justice reform in California. Cooley and Harris exchanged views on three-strikes sentencing, whether to defend possibly unconstitutional ballot initiatives in federal court, enforcing immigration laws and more. Both pointedly highlighted differences where they existed without sounding petty. If I had made my decision based only on that debate, I would have voted for Harris; ultimately, I voted for Cooley, a Republican whose deft management of the sprawling L.A. County D.A.’s office positioned him well to be attorney general.
With Trump on the stage, no one expects a debate like that Tuesday. What you should expect, based on Harris’ past performances in California, is for one of the candidates to exhibit discipline and poise, and to know when to stand back and let her opponent ruin himself.
This could be Kamala Harris’ Achilles’ heel with crucial undecided voters: Her policy proposals on immigration, housing, corporate taxation and inflation either depart from her previous statements on these issues or are unworkable, writes Lanhee J. Chen, a Republican who advised Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and ran for state controller in 2012.
Californians need electric bill relief. Lawmakers failed to deliver it. Californians pay some of the highest electricity bills in the nation. But that’s not going to change any time soon, the Times editorial board writes: “Months of discussion over a comprehensive package to reduce monthly bills for customers of PG&E, Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric withered into practically nothing by the end of the legislative session last week.”
The list of musicians who have demanded that Trump stop using their songs is incredibly long. ABBA, Adele, even the Village People. Columnist Robin Abcarian counts at least 41 artists who have objected to the former president’s campaign using their music at campaign rallies. Just because the artists complain and threaten to sue, however, doesn’t mean the campaigns must stop using their work — but at least John McCain and Barack Obama were respectful enough to quit playing the music of singers and songwriters who weren’t OK with it.
Take it from a nonbinary professor: Don’t make students state their pronouns on Day One. “When I stand before my class with my mannish body in women’s clothes, students know the score,” writes McGill University law professor Darren Rosenblum. “But I want to make it clear that my classroom is a safe space where people can identify, or not.”
How do we avoid AI-enhanced attempts to manipulate the election? Elon Musk posted an AI-generated audio clip of Kamala Harris saying things she never said. In New Hampshire, a fake Joe Biden voice was used in a robocall. Ann G. Skeet and John P. Pelissero say it’s too late for policy changes to make a difference this election, so voters themselves need to watch for clues that the information they’re consuming was generated by artificial intelligence.
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| 2024-09-07T14:00:17.708000+03:00
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2 rescued after California pier partially collapses due to heavy surf from major Pacific storm
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/santa-cruz-ap-california-pacific-pacific-northwest-b2669320.html
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Two people were rescued when a California pier partially collapsed and fell into the ocean Monday as the state's central coast was pounded by heavy surf from a major storm expected to bring hurricane-force winds to the seas off the Pacific Northwest.
Residents were warned to stay away from low-lying areas near the beaches around the Santa Cruz Wharf, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
“You are risking your life, and those of the people that would need to try and save you by getting in or too close to the water,” the National Weather Service's Bay Area office said on the social platform X.
Lifeguards rescued two people from the water and a third person was able to swim to safety, the Santa Cruz Fire Department said on Instagram. Their conditions were unknown.
Coastal roads in Santa Cruz were closed following the pier's partial collapse, city officials said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's has been briefed and the state's Office of Emergency Services is coordinating with local officials, his office said.
Ocean swells along California's central coast could reach 26 feet (8 meters) as the Pacific storm gains strength through Monday, the weather service said.
“A rapidly developing storm will bring hurricane force winds to the areas well offshore of the Pacific Northwest tonight,” the weather service's Ocean Prediction Center said on X. Winds off Oregon and Washington could peak near 80 mph (130 kph) and seas will build over 30 feet (9.1 meters), forecasters said.
The Santa Cruz Wharf collapse Monday came about a year after the Seacliff State Beach pier just down the coast was battered beyond repair by a heavy winter storm.
| 2024-12-24T01:20:00+03:00
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What your Christmas baubles say about you
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/home/what-your-christmas-baubles-say-about-you/
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If you’ve braved the Christmas shops of our department stores lately, you’ll know that we’re in the midst of bauble mania. There are so many niche ornaments on offer, it’s as if every personal circumstance, taste and whim has been considered.
If you’re a Swiftie, you’ve been seen – Selfridges not only has a new Taylor Swift figurine for your tree but also a “Swiftie” slogan bauble complete with a friendship bracelet hanging loop (currently its bestselling bauble).
You can also deck your tree entirely with the British monarchy and their accessories: miniature busts of Charles, Kate, William and co, corgis galore, the Crown Jewels, even the late Queen’s handbag stuffed with a marmalade sandwich.
Or you can buy the cast of Tchaicovsky’s The Nutcracker, style your tree as an homage to Chanel, or to London icons, to all things kitsch, to foodie trends, drinks trends, fitness trends, and to every iteration of Santa you could possibly think of – Santa in his pants taking a selfie, anyone?
Taylor Swift Christmas decoration, £40, Selfridges
The diversification of baubles means every social stereotype is catered for. So what does your tree say about you?
The minimalist
No one could accuse you of having poor taste – or a sense of humour, for that matter. You insist on decorating your tree only with matte white baubles, made only of porcelain, glass, paper or suchlike (never plastic).
Your tree is not just a case of quality over quantity, but impeccably chosen baubles that cast a certain disdain on the frenzy of frivolity hanging off your neighbours’ spruces.
Yours are refined – maybe Waterford’s origami-inspired crystal collection, maybe Villeroy & Boch’s porcelain pine cones, or if you’re feeling a little wild this year, Liberty’s white glass dove baubles. The only colour emanating from your tree is the glow of your warm white LEDs.
Porcelain pine cone by Villeroy & Boch, £16.63, Amazon
Family members know to wrap gifts for the tree only in white or brown paper. And for the militant minimalist, your decorations are black, not white, so that at first glance your tree looks as spare as a Tadao Ando house. Obviously, only an intellectual few will understand.
The sentimentalist
Bauble blindness is real, and it is a huge problem for those of us with a weakness for nostalgia. This affliction is when you are not aware of the gradual decay of your loveworn decorations. Well, more precisely, you don’t want to see it, because these moth-eared ornaments were made by your children when they were still children, and they remind you of a time when Father Christmas “existed” and wrinkles didn’t, so they get to stay.
And you know exactly what your late grandma would say if you finally binned her old glass baubles that got chipped under your watch, so they stay. There are also the now-lacklustre and snapped gold spray-painted twigs that you collected from the park near your old house and glued into festive shapes; the balding pine cones that the kids stole from some National Trust garden (such fun), and let’s not even mention the sorry state of the crumbling biscuit angels.
The fashionista
You thank your lucky stars that you have arrived on this planet just at a time when it is actually possible to power-dress your tree entirely in fashion-themed baubles. You can even practically dress a tree head-to-toe in Chanel vibes, with a Coco Chanel bauble from Fenwick’s (she’s dressed in signature black and white, of course, and pearls), and ornaments in the style of its iconic quilted leather handbag, two-tone ballet pumps and fur-topped ski boots (variously available at Flying Tiger, Liberty and Selfridges).
Coco Chanel tree decoration, £25, Fenwick
Should any gaps remain in your chi-chi tree (or budget), you cleverly fill them with garlands of pearl strings and logo-ed ribbons from your Bond Street shopping bags. But of course you’re no label slave – why restrict yourself, when there are so many other fashion-y festive baubles available?
Your sunglasses-sporting Miranda Priestly statuette (from Selfridges) gets to preside from on high – it also ensures she is far away from the Ugg boot tribute bauble (from Selfridges), Croc dupes (from Fenwicks) and spangly cowboy boots (available literally everywhere).
The traditionalist
You are really quite exercised about the new-fangled trend for baubles in the shape of air fryers, bubble teas and jade rollers. And rightly so! Why meddle with tradition and make the tree a target for frivolity and gimmicks, you thunder. No, it must look like a Victorian Christmas card – classic glass baubles, orange pomanders and paper angels. It’s not like there is no shortage of choice when it comes to trusted Christmas motifs to hang on your tree; the shops are also full of trad ornaments: nutcrackers, stars, reindeer, robins, pine cones, bows, bells, cinnamon sticks, snowflakes, teddy bears, candy canes and so on.
Metal bells tree decoration, £12, John Lewis
Your December is a tightly orchestrated countdown of traditions and rituals, seeing exactly the same people, eating and drinking exactly the same things, watching exactly the same movies, and of course decorating the tree at exactly the same time each year, with exactly the same things and recalling exactly the same memories. It’s what brings you peace and makes you feel like everything is as good as it’s always been. And don’t we all need a dose of that?
The maximalist
You have a bauble habit – and who can blame you? Every year, you buy a bigger tree to accommodate your expanding collection. At your raucous Christmas parties, you and your tree compete over who’s going to be the most fabulous, and you can’t resist the temptation to theme your events to your decorations, starting with the edibles on offer – because isn’t it amazing that you can replicate your party food provision with tree ornaments? So you’ve got little and large candy floss machines, popcorn makers, bubblegum dispensers, pizzas, Battenberg slices, even pink fondant fancies.
Same goes for the drinks, with pornstar martinis, spicy margs, pina coladas, tequila, beer, champagne, all at the bar and on the tree. Even the soundtrack matches the pop icons dangling incongruously off the branches, with Tay-Tay joining the likes of Mariah Carey, Britney, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Grace Jones, Madonna, and a tattooed Harry Styles in sequins – all, would you believe, available to buy as baubles.
More bauble inspiration
Harry Styles tree decoration, £25, Fenwick
Christmas Angel ornament, £85, Waterford
Felt robin hanging decoration, £5, Marks & Spencer
| 2024-11-20T11:00:00+03:00
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Filipino has won gold twice at the Olympics – but the headlines are all about feud with his mum
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympics-carlos-yulo-philippines-mother-feud-b2593882.html
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Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo won two historic gold medals at the Paris Olympics, but instead of his achievements being celebrated, the focus has been on the feud with his mother.
Yulo became only the second athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the floor event in the men’s artistic gymnastics competition, and followed it up with a second gold in the vault the following day.
But his disagreement with his mother has dominated the coverage. Angelica Poquiz-Yulo reportedly managed her son’s finances and disapproved of his girlfriend, who is a TikTok content creator.
It first emerged after his mother gave an interview to a local radio station the same day as he won his second gold medal, where she denied managing her son’s finances and said she instead deposited his money at a bank in Manila after receiving it on his behalf.
Two days later (6 August), Yulo put out a video on TikTok publicly asking his mother what happened to his prize money because he “never received” the sum, and also saying his girlfriend was not a “red flag” and that his mother was judging her.
In the TikTok video, Yulo said, reported by the BBC: “My message to you Ma, is I hope you heal and move on. I have forgiven you a long time ago. I pray that you are always safe and sound.”
Yulo is set to receive a sum of 20 million peso (£273,000) from the Philippines government and corporate sponsorship is likely to also be substantial.
Poquiz-Yulo then called a press conference the next day in response to the TikTok, and said: “This has reached an alarming level because now, the entire country is waiting for what each of us will say next, when this matter should have been kept private.
“I am not a perfect mother and God knows that you are not a perfect son. There is no perfect family.”
| 2024-08-09T14:26:10+03:00
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Babasını öldüren Döndü'den 'ben şiddete eğilimliyim' paylaşımı - Isparta Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/isparta-haberleri/109033309-babasini-olduren-donduden-ben-siddete-egilimliyim-paylasimi
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ISPARTA'da çıkan tartışmada babası Osman Zeybek'i (49) bıçakla öldüren üniversite öğrencisi Döndü Zeybek'in (20) lisanslı kick boks ve muay thai sporcusu olduğu ortaya çıktı.
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ISPARTA'da çıkan tartışmada babası Osman Zeybek'i (49) bıçakla öldüren üniversite öğrencisi Döndü Zeybek'in (20) lisanslı kick boks ve muay thai sporcusu olduğu ortaya çıktı.
ISPARTA'da çıkan tartışmada babası Osman Zeybek'i (49) bıçakla öldüren üniversite öğrencisi Döndü Zeybek'in (20) lisanslı kick boks ve muay thai sporcusu olduğu ortaya çıktı. Zeybek'in antrenman paylaşımı üzerine yazdığı 'Ben şiddete eğilimliyim' yazısı dikkati çekti.
Olay, 29 Temmuz günü saat 23.30 sıralarında Şarkikaraağaç ilçesine bağlı Salur köyünde meydana geldi. Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi öğrencisi Döndü Zeybek ile babası Osman Zeybek arasında tartışma çıktı. Tartışmanın büyümesi ile Döndü Zeybek, babasını göğüs bölgesinden bıçakladı. Ağır yaralanan Osman Zeybek, götürüldüğü hastanede hayatını kaybetti. Olay sonrası gözaltına alınan Döndü Zeybek, ifadesinde babası ile annesinin yaklaşık 6 yıl önce boşandığını, olay günü 2 kız kardeşi ve annesiyle köyde bir düğüne katıldıklarını ve burada babasının da bulunduğundan bahsetti.
TUTUKLANDI
Düğünde babasının kendisini tehdit eder gibi hareketler yaptığını, sonrasında eve gittiklerini anlatan Döndü Zeybek, evden aldığı ekmek bıçağıyla dışarı çıktığını, evin yakınlarında babasıyla karşılaştığını ve bıçağı sapladığını anlattı. Babasının kendisine daha önce zarar verdiğini öne süren Döndü Zeybek'in psikolojik sorunları olduğu ve intihara kalkıştığından bahsettiği de belirtildi. Döndü Zeybek, ifadesinin ardından sevk edildiği hakimlikçe tutuklanarak Yalvaç T Tipi Kapalı Ceza İnfaz Kurumu'na teslim edildi. Vücudunda iki bıçak darbesi tespit edilen Osman Zeybek, dün ikindi vakti kılınan namazın ardından Salur köyünde toprağa verildi.
'BEN ŞİDDETE EĞİLİMLİYİM'
Şarkikaraağaç ilçesinde Anadolu Lisesi'nden mezun olduktan sonra Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi'nde eğitim hayatına devam eden Döndü Zeybek'in, 2019 yılında Kick Boks Federasyonu'ndan, sonrasında Muay Thai Federasyonu'ndan lisanslı sporcu olduğu ortaya çıktı. Zeybek'in sosyal medyada antrenman paylaşımı üzerine yazdığı 'Ben şiddete eğilimliyim' yazısı dikkati çekti.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Isparta haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Isparta Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2024-07-31T17:17:45+03:00
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Fetullah Gülen'in koruması eski emniyet müdürü yakalandı | Son dakika haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/fetullah-gulen-in-korumasi-eski-emniyet-muduru-yakalandi-3739418
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Kayseri'de FETÖ/PDY'nin gaybubet evlerine düzenlenen operasyonda örgüt elebaşı Fetullah Gülen'in korumalığını da yapan meslekten ihraç emniyet müdürünün de aralarında bulunduğu 9 kişi gözaltına alındı.
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Kayseri'de FETÖ/PDY'nin gaybubet evlerine düzenlenen operasyonda örgüt elebaşı Fetullah Gülen'in korumalığını da yapan meslekten ihraç emniyet müdürünün de aralarında bulunduğu 9 kişi gözaltına alındı.
Kayseri Emniyet Müdürlüğü Terörle Mücadele ve İstihbarat Şube Müdürlüğü ekipleri, FETÖ/PDY’ye yönelik yürütülen soruşturma kapsamında örgütün gaybubet evlerine operasyon düzenledi.
Operasyonda, örgüt elebaşı Fetullah Gülen'in korumalığını da yapan meslekten ihraç emniyet müdürü A.A. (58), yine meslekten ihraç emniyet müdürü Ö.A. (52), ihraç infaz koruma memuru Ö.B. (34), hakkında kesinleşmiş 7,5 yıl hapis cezası bulunan H.K. (42), S.Y. (32), E.T. (42), M.T. (41), İ.D. (54) ve E.Ç. (39) yakalandı.
Gözaltına alınan 9 şüpheli, polis merkezine götürüldü.
| 2024-11-20T11:34:19+03:00
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Probamos el nuevo Opel Grandland Plug-in Hybrid, un SUV híbrido enchufable con una autonomía eléctrica muy interesante
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/motor/vehiculos/coches/20250313/10475497/probamos-nuevo-opel-grandland-plug-in-hybrid-suv-hibrido-enchufable-autonomia-electrica-interesante-tsc.html
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Con etiqueta Cero de la DGT, es el buque insignia de la marca alemana y está disponible desde 39.850 euros
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Con etiqueta Cero de la DGT, es el buque insignia de la marca alemana y está disponible desde 39.850 euros
La segunda generación del Opel Grandland, que cuando salió tenía el nombre de Grandland X, es un SUV familiar de 4,45 metros de longitud. Cuando llegó a nuestro mercado a finales de 2024 lo hizo con versiones de tecnología híbrida ligera de 48 voltios (etiqueta ECO) y eléctrica 100% (etiqueta Cero). Ahora, la marca alemana presenta una nueva alternativa que lo hace especialmente atractivo por su eficiencia en términos energéticos: el Grandland Plug-in Hybrid.
Recordemos que el nuevo Grandland, el modelo que ejerce de punta de lanza del fabricante alemán, comparte plataforma con automóviles del grupo Stellantis como el Peugeot 3008 o el 5008, y con su tamaño se convierte directamente en una interesante opción de coche para toda la familia. Asimismo, el maletero de 550 litros de capacidad puede llegar a los 1.641 litros abatiendo el respaldo de la banqueta trasera. Adicionalmente, en el interior hay diversos huecos y compartimentos para guardar pequeños objetos durante los viajes familiares. Y el conductor disfruta también de una posición elevada, con una excelente visibilidad.
El volante es una de las novedades del interior, de forma achatada en la parte superior e inferior, y con todas las funciones integradas para controlar el sistema de infoentretenimiento. El cuadro de instrumentación es digital de 10 pulgadas, mientras que la pantalla central del sistema de infoentretenimiento, con tecnología de inteligencia artificial, es apaisada de 16 pulgadas. El asiento del conductor está disponible con ventilación y función de masaje.
El diseño deportivo del nuevo SUV alemán incluye el característico Opel Vizor 3D en la parte delantera y el logotipo Blitz (rayo) de la marca iluminado. Un estilo de aire futurista que convence por su dinamismo y proporciones. Se agradece la ausencia de elementos cromados y el trazo limpio de sus formas. Y se incluye en el equipamiento la iluminación Intelli-Lux HD con más de 50.000 elementos LED y la práctica Pixel Box en el interior, un compartimento cerrado con cristal translúcido iluminado para dejar objetos o cargar el smartphone por inducción.
Opel sigue apostando en serio por la electrificación de toda su gama y el nuevo Grandland Plug-in Hybrid es un ejemplo de ello. Buscando la eficiencia y el rendimiento, utiliza un motor 1.6 turbo de gasolina de 150 CV y otro eléctrico de 125 CV, con una potencia total de 195 CV. El sistema híbrido incluye una batería de 17,9 kWh que permite recorrer 87 km en modo totalmente eléctrico. Las prestaciones hablan muy bien del carácter dinámico que el coche puede brindar a su conductor: 220 km/h de velocidad punta y 7,8 segundos para alcanzar los 100 km/h. Además, monta un cambio automático de doble embrague, siete relaciones y levas en el volante. Práctico y eficaz.
En carretera, se agradece el espacio interior disponible para afrontar viajes largos. Las plazas delanteras, por ejemplo, son realmente cómodas, y con asientos concebidos para que los kilómetros pasen sin que la espalda se resienta. Y este SUV tiene también una forma de entregar la potencia muy agradable, suave y sin que notemos la transición entre el motor eléctrico y el de gasolina. Y con una suspensión de acertado compromiso entre confort y eficacia dinámica.
El motor -y sus 190 CV- ofrece asimismo una buena respuesta en cualquier situación, pudiendo resolver con seguridad adelantamientos o incorporaciones a vías principales. Y si queremos disfrutar de su carácter dinámico, en tramos de curvas, la dirección proporciona un tacto muy solvente para que el coche vaya siempre por la trazada que el conductor decida.
Otro aspecto destacable es la buena insonorización de todo el habitáculo, lo que permite viajes relajados a todos los ocupantes. Y, especialmente en ciudad, la suavidad que proporciona el modo 100% eléctrico de 0 emisiones.
Muy interesante, como comentamos, resulta la posibilidad de recorrer cada día unos 60-70 km en modo 100% eléctrico. La cifra homologada es de 87 km, que no es difícil de alcanzar si circulamos por entornos urbanos y haciendo uso de la retención para recuperar energía.
El Grandland PHEV incorpora sistemas avanzados de asistencia al conductor como el control de crucero automático con Stop & Go, el reconocimiento extendido de señales de tráfico y la cámara Intelli-Vision de 360 grados. Además, como ya hemos apuntado, la innovadora iluminación Intelli-Lux HD que cuenta con más de 50.000 píxeles y que garantiza una visibilidad óptima en cualquier situación.
Y podremos llevar a cabo una recarga completa de la batería en unas 3 horas, en caso de disponer de un punto para enchufar de 7,4 kWh de potencia. El Opel Grandland PHEV está a la venta desde 39.850 euros con el acabado Edition. Y, como tope de gama, se sitúa la variante más equipada, de nombre GS, que cuesta 43.490 euros.
| 2025-03-13T15:17:27+03:00
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Pariser Vorstädte: Frustration über Kluft zwischen Armut und Goldmedaillen
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Euronews (DE)
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https://de.euronews.com/2024/08/09/pariser-vorstadte-frustration-uber-kluft-zwischen-armut-und-goldmedaillen
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[
"Euronews"
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"Paris",
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Eigentlich sollte ein großer Teil der Athleten-Wohnungen nach den Spielen in Sozialwohnungen umgewandelt werden. Aber die Pläne wurden geändert.
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Eigentlich sollte ein großer Teil der Athleten-Wohnungen nach den Spielen in Sozialwohnungen umgewandelt werden. Aber die Pläne wurden geändert.
In den Vorstädten im Norden und Osten von Paris lebt mehr als ein Viertel der Bevölkerung unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Hier befinden aber auch die Stadien und Schwimmbäder für die Olympischen Spiele. Die Bewohner kommen nur selten zu den Wettkämpfen, sie können sich die Tickets nicht leisten.
Die Sportwettkämpfe werden an fünf Orten in den Banlieues ausgetragen, darunter das Stade de France, das größte Stadion Frankreichs, das sich in Saint-Denis befindet. Die Trainingsstätten sind an elf Orten in den Vororten.
Das olympische Dorf befindet sich in Seine-Saint-Denis - ebenfalls ein Vorort. Tausende neue Wohnungen, in denen derzeit die Athleten untergebracht sind, sind bald für die Bewohner vorgesehen, aber die Zahl wurde stark reduziert, sagt Bewohner Hamid Ouidir, der auch in der Bürgerversammlung engagiert ist.
"Es wurde versprochen, dass 40 % der Wohnungen in Saint-Denis zu Sozialwohnungen werden. Dieser Anteil wurde auf 20 % reduziert. 80 Prozent werden zu Eigentumswohnungen, deren Preise extrem hoch sind. Für die Bewohner hier ist das unerschwinglich", so Ouidir.
Einige Vorstädte versuchen, die Kluft zwischen der Armut der Bewohner und den nur wenige Kilometer entfernten Goldmedaillen zu überbrücken - so wie hier in Tremblay-en-France. Sie richten Fanzonen ein, bieten kostenlosen Sport und andere Aktivitäten an und übertragen die Spiele live.
"Viele Einwohner können sich keine Eintrittskarten für die Spiele leisten. Wir wollen Frustrationen darüber verhindern. Hier können sie die Spiele wirklich erleben", sagt Michel Bodart, Stadtrat von Tremblay-en-France.
Aber es gibt auch Proteste, wie zum Beispiel in der Banlieue Saint-Denis. Ein spezielles Bürgerkomitee hat mehrmals gegen die Bauarbeiten für die Olympischen Spiele protestiert. So wurde zum Beispiel eine neue Straße in der Stadt gebaut, die auch als Einfahrt zur Autobahn A86 dient. Die Busse zum Olympischen Dorf fahren hier hin und her. Nach den Spielen wird auch der reguläre Verkehr diese Straße nutzen.
Die neue Straße hat sechs Fahrspuren und führt direkt an zwei Schulen vorbei. Diese Schulen mit Kindern im Alter von 3 bis 12 Jahren sind nun vollständig in ein Dreieck aus Straßen und Autobahnen eingezwängt.
| 2024-08-09T11:20:12+03:00
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El Ayuntamiento de Badalona subvenciona el apuntalamiento de los edificios de la calle Canigó
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La Vanguardia
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelones-nord/20241211/10192597/ayuntamiento-badalona-subvenciona-apuntalamiento-edificios-calle-canigo.html
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"Fede Cedó"
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El Consistorio ha terminado los proyectos para la reforma estructural de los 16 bloques de viviendas afectadas por el siniestro en el que fallecieron tres vecinos
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El Consistorio ha terminado los proyectos para la reforma estructural de los 16 bloques de viviendas afectadas por el siniestro en el que fallecieron tres vecinos
El Ayuntamiento de Badalona (Barcelonès Nord) ha habilitado una partida económica para subvencionar la instalación de los puntales que se colocaron en los pisos afectados por la crisis acaecida a partir del derrumbe de parte de un edificio en la calle Canigó el pasado 6 de febrero, así como la redacción de los proyectos de rehabilitación estructural que están recibiendo los propietarios que los necesitan.
La partida económica servirá para hacer frente –mediante subvenciones que tendrán que pedir las comunidades de vecinos- a los gastos urgentes derivados de la emergencia por el derrumbe de uno de los edificios y que afectaron a muchas de las viviendas del entorno. Ante tales circunstancias excepcionales y urgentes, el Ayuntamiento ha buscado esta fórmula para que los vecinos no tengan que enfrentarse a este gasto.
Por otro lado, el Ayuntamiento entregará mañana jueves los proyectos de reforma estructural de catorce bloques de viviendas correspondientes a las comunidades de propietarios de la calle Canigó números 1, 3, 5, 11, 13 y 15 y, de la calle de Ausiàs March de los números 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 y 119, en el barrio del Raval.
Con la entrega de los proyectos para la reforma estructural de los 14 bloques de viviendas, el gobierno de Badalona asegura que “se sigue cumpliendo con el compromiso de facilitar a las comunidades de vecinos afectadas por el siniestro toda la documentación necesaria para que puedan escoger la empresa que lleve a cabo las obras definitivas de rehabilitación”. Cabe recordar que el pasado mes de julio el Ayuntamiento ya entregó los proyectos para la reforma estructural de sus edificios a los vecinos de los números 7 y 9 de la calle Canigó.
Además, el Ayuntamiento ha puesto en contacto a los propietarios de las fincas afectadas con el Gremi de Constructors para proporcionar la relación con las diversas empresas especializadas para el tipo de obra a realizar. Los vecinos también dispusieron de un servicio de asistencia jurídica gratuita, mediante convenio entre el Ayuntamiento, el Col·legi d'Advocats y la Diputació de Barcelona, para llevar a cabo las reclamaciones ante las compañías de seguros de aquellos a quienes les cubran los daños estructurales.
El segundo teniente de alcaldía y concejal del Ámbito de Territorio del Ayuntamiento de Badalona, Daniel Gracia, ha señalado que este nuevo paso “es una muestra más de que este Ayuntamiento ha puesto todos sus recursos humanos y materiales para apoyar a los vecinos desde el inicio de esta tragedia”. En este sentido, ha recordado que “hemos atendido la emergencia de los vecinos desalojados, encargando todas las inspecciones en los edificios afectados, encargándose de los apuntalamientos provisionales que fueron necesarios y, ahora, facilitando una línea de ayudas para que los vecinos no tengan que pagar los gastos que se ocasionaron de urgencia”. Por último Gracia, ha vuelto a hacer un llamamiento a la Generalitat, con quien ha hablado en varias ocasiones, “para abrir una línea de ayudas para los vecinos que deben asumir las obras de rehabilitación de sus viviendas”.
| 2024-12-11T20:31:03+03:00
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United star did NOT want to speak to Ten Hag, claims Gullit
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13894621/Man-United-star-speak-Erik-ten-Hag-FC-Twente-draw-Ruud-Gullit.html
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"Will Pickworth"
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"Europa League"
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Ruud Gullit has claimed one Manchester United star didn't want to speak to Erik ten Hag during their underwhelming draw with FC Twente.
The Red Devils were held 1-1 by their Dutch opponents after Sam Lammers cancelled out Christian Eriksen's opener.
It was a disappointing start to United's Europa League campaign, with Ten Hag hugely critical of his side following the game, accusing them of 'complacency'.
In an attempt to turn the tide in the clash, Ten Hag introduced Kobbie Mainoo, Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Mason Mount off the bench.
However, Gullit felt one of the substitutes didn't want to engage with the Dutchman before coming on.
‘He wanted to have a meeting with Garnacho, but he (Garnacho) didn’t feel like it at all,’ Gullit told Dutch outlet Ziggo Sport.
‘Garnacho was preparing to come on and Ten Hag kept talking to him.
‘You can just see it when a player thinks: “Leave me alone, man!”.’
Garnacho replaced Amad Diallo after the intense briefing from his manager, but United conceded almost immediately.
Yet, despite his claims, Gullit - who managed both Chelsea and Newcastle in the 1990s - insisted he understood Ten Hag's stance, although he was critical of United's display.
‘As a coach, you also see things happening that just don’t go well,’ he added. ‘I also saw [Ruud] van Nistelrooy constantly in the picture.
'He wasn’t happy. Even Casemiro got involved. You could see that things just weren’t going well.’
He continued: ‘Am I shocked by the football? No, because I see this every week. I think Twente played sensibly.
'That is also the criticism of Ten Hag, that there is nothing recognisable (about United's style of play).
'I feel bad for him, because I also want him to succeed. But he brings it on himself.
‘You could see that they (Twente) gained a bit more confidence after a cautious start to the match.
‘At some point you have to give them a little test and they did that well.’
United's draw leaves them 10th in the new 36-team League Stage of the Europa League.
They return to action on Sunday when United host Tottenham, before Ten Hag's side take on Porto in their second Europa League match next Thursday.
| 2024-09-26T16:08:01+03:00
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Bakan Ersoy: Eylül ayında çok değerli eserler Türkiye'ye gelecek
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NTVTR
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https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/bakan-ersoy-eylul-ayinda-cok-degerli-eserler-turkiyeye-gelecek,7YJUiWjNjEe-nDlXEmUTAA
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"Kültür Ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Nuri Ersoy",
"N-Life Gezi",
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"N-Life",
"Tarihi Eser",
"Turizm"
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Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Ersoy, 2018'den bu yana Türkiye'nin nitelikli turist hedeflediğini ve bu alanda büyük başarılar katettiğini söyledi.
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Kültür ve Turizm Bakanı Mehmet Ersoy, 2018'den bu yana Türkiye'nin nitelikli turist hedeflediğini ve bu alanda büyük başarılar katettiğini söyledi.
Now Haber'de Merve Yıldırım'ın sunduğu "Çalar Saat" programına konuk olan Ersoy, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) grafikleri eşliğinde önceki yılların ve bu senenin turizm rakamlarına ilişkin bilgiler verdi.Turizm gelirlerinde dolar bazında kişi başı gecelik harcamada hızlı bir artış olduğunu dile getiren Ersoy, "Bu rakamın 2024'ün ilk altı ayında 73 dolarlardan 98 dolara geldiğini görüyoruz. Yıl sonu hedefimiz 103 dolar. Veriler, buna yakın bir rakamda yıl sonunu kapatacağımızı gösteriyor." ifadesini kullandı.Ersoy, Türkiye'nin Covid-19 sonrası normalleşme döneminde en hızlı toparlanan ülkelerden biri olduğuna dikkati çekerek, "Kişi başı gecelik gelirdeki olumlu etkinin toplam gelire yansımasını görüyorsunuz. 2019'da toplam turizm gelirinde bir rekor kırmıştık. 2022 ve 2023'te de rekor kırdık, bundan sonra hep rekor kararak gideceğiz demiştik. Geçen sene 56 milyar dolar hedefimiz vardı, 55,9 milyar dolarla kapattık. Yani aslında hedefe uygun bir şekilde geçen seneyi kapatmayı başardık, yine bir rekor kırıldı. Bu seneki hedefimiz 60 milyar dolar." bilgisini verdi.Turizm gelirlerindeki artışı 2019'da Turizm Geliştirme Ajansı'nın kurulması ve pazar çeşitliliğinin arttırılmasına bağlayan Ersoy, Türkiye'nin tanıtılması konusunda "Devletten değil, devletle beraber" stratejisinin uygulandığını belirtti."GECE MÜZECİLİĞİ TURİZM GELİRİNİN TABANA YAYILMASI İÇİN ÖNEMLİ"Ersoy, turizmi çeşitlendirmek için bu yıl başlatılan gece müzeciliği uygulamasına ilişkin ise şunları söyledi:"Ziyaretçiler özellikle Antalya bölgesinde her şey dahil kampanyasından dolayı otellerde kalıyor. Bunun yanı sıra yazın çok sıcak oluyor, 40-45 derece bazen gündüz 50 dereceyi görüyorlar. Tabii turist doğal olarak havuzun başından, denizin başından dışarıya çıkıp esnafı görmüyor, gitmiyor ve oradaki arkeolojik noktaları gezmiyor. Onlar da önemli değerler, cazibe noktaları. O yüzden bu sene böyle bir pilot proje başlattık. Efes'te, Hierapolis'te, Galata Kulesi'nde ve diğer birkaç noktada bu pilot projeyi başlattık. Şimdi uygulamayı görüyoruz.
Uygulamadaki düzenlemelerin tekrar ayarlarını yapıp geliştireceğiz. Şu an 15 Haziran ile 15 Eylül arasında, yani havaların çok sıcak olduğu dönemde projeyi çalıştırmak çok mantıklı gözüküyor, 21.30'a kadar girişleri serbest bırakıyoruz, 22.30'a kadar açıyoruz. Bu alanları çok iyi aydınlattık. Ziyaretçilerimiz gün batımından sonra müzelere gelmeye devam ediyorlar. Arkeolojik noktaları gezdikten sonra öncesinde veya sonrasında da esnafla buluşma fırsatı buluyorlar. Turizm gelirinin tabana yayılması stratejisi bağlamında gece müzeciliği çok etkili oldu."Türkiye genelindeki arkeolojik kazı çalışmalarında büyük ilerleme sağlandığının altını çizen Ersoy, kazı başkanlığı sayısının 2018'den bu yana 147'den 247'ye yükseldiğini, kazı başkanlıklarına kaynak aktarımlarının 36 milyon liradan 1,2 milyar liraya çıktığını kaydetti.Bakan Ersoy, bu yıl sonuna kadar kazı başkanlıklarına aktarılan bütçe miktarının 6 milyar lirayı bulmasını öngördüklerini söyledi."EYLÜL AYINDA ÇOK DEĞERLİ ESERLER TÜRKİYE'YE GELECEK"Tarihi eser kaçakçılığıyla mücadeleye ilişkin Ersoy, 2002'den bu yana yaklaşık 12 bin 800 tarihi eserin yurt dışından Türkiye'ye getirildiğini belirterek, "Bunların yüzde 60'lık bir kısmı, 8 bine yakını son 6 yılda ülkemize getirilmiş olanlar. Biz tarihi eser kaçakçılığında da stratejik bir değişikliğe gittik. Orası bir daireydi, biz daire başkanlığı seviyesine getirdik, rütbeleri yükselttik. Ayrıca oradaki uzman eleman sayısını üç katına çıkarttık." dedi.Yüksek rütbeli ekiplerin karşı ülkede de aynı rütbedeki insanlarla muhatap olduklarını böylece süreçlerin daha hızlı ilerlediğini vurgulayan Ersoy, şunları kaydetti:"İkinci aşamada da uluslararası iade protokolü sayısını arttırdık. Şu anda 12 ülkeye çıktı, birçok ülkeyi de protokol yapması için zorluyoruz. Uluslararası iade protokolü sayesinde, normalde 8-10 yıl süren hukuki süreçler 7-8 ayda bitiyor. Milyonlarca dolar tutacak olan hukuki süreç harcamaları birkaç yüz bin dolarla bitiyor. Süreci çok hızlandırdık, meyvelerini toplamaya başladık. Şimdi ülkesini vermeyeyim ama eylül ayında çok değerli eserler ülkemize gelmeye başlayacak.""BU COĞRAFYADA YAŞIYORSANIZ KRİZ OLACAK"Bakan Ersoy, Instagram'a getirilen erişim yasağının turizme etkilerine yönelik soruya, "Görüşmeler devam ediyor, karşılıklı anlayışa ihtiyacımız var. Hızlı bir şekilde çözülür diye düşünüyorum. Biz her yerde olumlu haber olsun isteriz. Ne kadar olumlu haber bizim için o kadar faydalı." ifadeleriyle cevap verdi.Pazar ve sezon çeşitliliğinin, bölgedeki olası krizlerin turizme olumsuz etkilerini hafifletme konusunda önemli olduğunu kaydeden Ersoy, "Bu coğrafyada yaşıyorsanız geçmişte de krizlerle karşılaştınız, günümüzde de krizler olacak ve maalesef gelecekte de olacak. Önemli olan sektörlerinizi buna bağışıklık kazanmış hale getirmektir." değerlendirmesinde bulundu.Ersoy, geçen yılki 6 Şubat depremleri sonrası hasar gören kültür varlıklarının onarılması ve yeniden inşasına ilişkin ise, "Yaklaşık 2,5 milyar liralık bir bütçe ile Hatay Müzesi yeniden yapılandırılıyor. İnşallah onu da 2025 sonuna kadar tamamlayıp açmak istiyoruz. Bunun dışında Antakya'da kamu binaları dışında vatandaşa ve özel sektöre ait olan binalar da var. Bunların da yeniden inşası gerekiyor. Orada da bir hibe programı başlattık.
Hibe desteklerimizde proje desteğini 5 katına, yatırım desteğini 10 katına çıkarttık. Şu ana kadar hibe programına 1300'ün üzerinde başvuru var, 78'i hariç tamamı onaylandı. Hepsinin çalışmaları başladı. Tamamına yakın proje onayları çıktı. Uygulama destekleri açılmaya başlandı." bilgisini paylaştı."PASAPORTLARDA YETERİNCE SAYFA VAR"Yurt dışı çıkışları için harç pulu ücretinin artırılması, pasaport sayfalarının az olmasına yönelik şikayetlere de değinen Ersoy, "Pasaportlar için benim tavsiyem şöyle, çıkış yaparken 'Kaşe vurmayın' derseniz vurmuyorlar. Aklınızda olsun. Yurt dışı polisi de vurmuyor, çıkarken de vurmayabilirsiniz. Sistemden okuttuğu zaman siz uyarırsanız kaşeyi vurmadan geçersiniz. Yani pasaportlarda yeterince sayfa var aslında." ifadesini kullandı.Schengen vizesi başvurularındaki sıkıntılara ilişkin soru üzerine Ersoy, vize konusunun bütün dünyada büyük bir sorun olduğunu belirterek, "Özellikle Covid-19'dan sonra. Çok ciddi bir gecikmiş talep kayması da oldu. Ülkeler bununla ilgili birçok başvuru sistemlerini özelleştiriyorlar, geliştiriyorlar. İnşallah kısa bir şekilde çözülür.
Dışişleri Bakanlığı yoğun bir temas içinde. Ülke bazında konuşuyorlar en çok talebin olduğu ülkelerle ilgili. Mesela Yunanistan bir adım attı. Bu, ülke için de faydalı oluyor. Bizden turist akışında ciddi bir artış oldu. Ne kadar pratikleşirse, ne kadar kolaylaşırsa Türkiye'den turist akışında da o kadar ciddi bir artış olur." diye konuştu.
| 2024-08-09T13:36:00+03:00
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‘You are not alone,’ Keir Starmer declares in Christmas message to nation
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-christmas-message-2024-b2669158.html
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"Millie Cooke"
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"Keir Starmer",
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Sir Keir Starmer has delivered his Christmas message to the nation, saying his “thoughts are with all those who are lonely” over the festive season.
The prime minister also said he will be “hoping for peace” over the Christmas period, amid increasing instability in the Middle East, as well as thanking NHS workers and the Armed Forces.
In a message delivered on Christmas eve, the prime minister said he will be “looking towards a better, brighter future for every person”.
It comes as the government maintains its ‘Plan for Change’ will improve living standards, despite the latest growth figures showing the economy flatlined in the third quarter of the year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) had previously estimated 0.1 per cent growth between July and September of this year, but it has since revised this down to 0.0 - an even weaker estimate that what was expected in the final quarter of the Conservatives’ tenure.
The figures will come as a fresh blow for Sir Keir’s government, which has put economic growth at the heart of its mission.
Sir Keir said its important to “remind ourselves what’s really important” over Christmas - pointing to family, friendship and “being there for one another” in more difficult times.
“This Christmas, people will be travelling up and down the country. Heading home, visiting relatives and loved ones to celebrate together the hope and joy of this special season”, the prime minister said.
“It’s a time to remind ourselves what’s really important. Family. Friendship. And fellowship between all people. Being there for one another – in these celebrations, as well as the more difficult times.”
He added: “I’d like especially to thank those who will spend their Christmas serving others this year. In our NHS and emergency services, our Armed Forces and the churches and charities that will welcome every person this Christmas.
“Because I know that this is not an easy time for everyone, and my thoughts are with all those who are lonely this Christmas. Having a tough time, missing a loved one. You are not alone.
“Because as Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Christmas story reminds all of us to reach out to one another. To care for one another. And to look after those around us.”
The prime minister said he will be “hoping for peace, particularly in the Middle East as the birthplace of the Christmas story.”
He added: “I’ll be looking towards a better, brighter future for every person and celebrating the joy and wonder that Christmas brings. So, from my family to yours, I hope you have a very merry Christmas.”
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also delivered a Christmas message, saying the period is “a time for us to support all of those people who need our assistance”.
“That’s one of the best things about Christmas, that it isn’t just about all of the things that we love and want to do, but thinking about other people”, she said.
Alluding to the Conservative Party’s historic election wipeout, she added: “I think that Christmas is a time for us to reflect on all that’s happened in the year.
“Sometimes we have amazing years. Sometimes, like when I lost my dad, we have difficult years and we’re commiserating, but we do it together.”
| 2024-12-24T01:28:12+03:00
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Rachel Reeves’s blundering Budget has put Britain on the road to ruin
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/stamp-duty/rachel-reeves-blundering-budget-britain-road-ruin/
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[
"Brian Monteith"
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[
"Rachel Reeves",
"Comment",
"Property",
"Better Life Comment",
"Stamp duty",
"Tax rises",
"Money"
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As surely as dawn rose on another week, yet another example has come to light about the harm done to the British economy by the Chancellor’s first Budget.
This time it was the failure to clarify, in the long run-up to her Budget, what taxpayers could expect with the rates of stamp duty that caused purchases to be withheld and tax revenues to fall.
Research by estate agents, Knight Frank, established there was a shortfall of 142 property sales worth over £5m between March and October, equating to a shortfall of £140.3m in anticipated stamp duty revenue.
As with any tax, when you get so big a share of the revenue from a small number of the taxpayers paying it, any behavioural changes can have a big impact.
This appears to be what has happened – taxpayers fearing the worst due to Rachel Reeves’s silence on her intentions stopped buying and revenues fell away.
Given that domestic property transactions often operate in a chain, disrupting one part of the chain has an impact on the process elsewhere, ensuring inefficiency across the property market, lower sales, suppressed prices – especially for properties that might cross a tax threshold – and poor tax revenues.
Owners cannot sell because customers decline to buy, causing others to not complete a transaction, rippling through the chain, causing havoc, slowing down the process and running up professional fees for vendors and buyers without any productive result to show for it. Is it any wonder stamp duty is hated so much?
Stamp duty did not start out as a costly tax. It was introduced in 1694, during the reign of William and Mary, before Great Britain was even a political entity to help fund the war with France. Essentially, it was a charge by the state for stamping and recording legal papers of a conveyance of property.
Later in 1765, it was the attempt to enforce the Stamp Act in the British colonies of America that resulted in the American War of independence, so it has a lot to answer for. And in 1808, stamp duty shifted from a flat fee irrespective of the value of the transaction to a percentage of the purchase. That was pretty much how it remained.
A single 1pc of stamp duty above a threshold existed from 1984 to 1997, when the tax affected just 607,000 purchasers and raised £675m a year. However, Labour chancellor Gordon Brown introduced two new thresholds and rates – 1.5 and 2pc – and higher rates were raised to 3 and 4pc by 2000. Within a decade, it was raising £4bn in revenue.
Like so many of Labour’s tax increases since the beginning of this millennium, rather than reverse them, the Conservatives doubled down – making stamp duty even more of a burden.
Tory chancellor George Osborne increased the top rate to 12pc in 2014, then introduced a 3pc surcharge on second home purchases the following year. Today, its successor named stamp duty land tax in 2003, brings in £15.3bn in revenue in England alone – with Scotland and Wales levying and collecting their own rates separately.
In the recent Conservative leadership election, James Cleverly was the only aspirant who made a specific commitment about taxation beyond trying to reduce it, arguing he would abolish stamp duty, were he to become leader.
Cleverly believed it would remove distortions and blockages, allowing more movement in the housing market. It received a popular public response, but the parliamentary Tory party eschews winning ways these days and eliminated him from the leadership race.
Taxes on transactions are the worst type of tax, because their effect is to prevent otherwise economically beneficial transactions from occurring – inhibiting the economic growth the Prime Minister and Chancellor say they wish to encourage.
The two most prominent transaction taxes are stamp duty and capital gains tax and both are, of course, voluntary in that if you don’t need to sell a house or shares you will not do so if the tax is too high.
Stamp duty thus prevents people from moving house. It can be seen as a tax on people who change their job for one in another town or city, or a growing family that would like more rooms for their children, or an elderly couple downsizing to a property easier to heat and maintain.
A comparative analysis of various taxes by the Australian Treasury found its housing transactions tax was the most economically costly of all its major levies, imposing a $0.80 (£0.41) welfare cost for every $1 raised in tax, over and above the $1 loss to those paying the tax burden. This is consistent with other research on similar taxes across the developed world.
In the end, after scaremongering buyers into halting purchases, Reeves left the standard rates alone but increased the higher rate on second homes from 3pc to 5pc for exchanges agreed from October 31. Her poor communication hurt the economy and inevitably cost us all money.
If Reeves had a different job, say, maybe working in the customer complaints department of a big mortgage provider, she would know from personal protestations that stamp duty throws sand in the gears of the housing market.
Politicians make out they, better than anyone, know how things work, how people think and can put such intuition to our benefit by solving problems.
It is difficult to fathom what exactly Reeves actually learned at her time in the Bank of England and HBOS, but by her actions, I can only surmise it was not practical experience or unique insights – for she has thus far been a calamity.
Tax revenues have varied beyond expectations in all directions and are now chaotic and unpredictable thanks to a failure to communicate her true intentions. Either our Chancellor is completely out of her depth – and knows not which way to turn – or she does know what she is doing, and stubbornly carries on regardless of the damage she is wreaking.
Being incompetent or dogmatically ideological, or possibly both, Reeves is on course to ruin the country and cost Labour its future democratic legitimacy.
The Chancellor had better learn from her mistakes quickly as her next Budget will need to focus on correcting her own errors rather than those of her predecessors.
| 2024-11-20T11:00:00+03:00
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Konzert in Rheinberg-Wallach: Ahoi-Sause mit Seemannsliedern und frischem Matjes
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Rheinische Post
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https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/rheinberg/rheinberg-mgv-borth-chor-da-capo-und-akkordeonorchester-veen-musizierten-in-wallach_aid-114969565
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Der Männergesangverein (MGV) Borth, der gemischte Chor Da Capo und das Akkordeonorchester Veen haben gemeinsam im und am Wallacher Gemeindehaus gesungen und musiziert. Die Stimmung war top.
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Der Männergesangverein (MGV) Borth, der gemischte Chor Da Capo und das Akkordeonorchester Veen haben gemeinsam im und am Wallacher Gemeindehaus gesungen und musiziert. Die Stimmung war top.
Eine gelungene Premiere erlebte die Ahoi-Sause im Wallacher Gemeindehaus am Sonntagnachmittag. Das mehrstündige Programm wurde zum leichten Genuss. Während im Gemeindehaus das Publikum an langen Tischen bei Kaffee und Kuchen sich an den verschiedenen musikalischen Darbietungen erfreute, kamen auch die Gäste draußen unter den Sonnenschirmen auf ihre Kosten. Drei musikalische Botschafter begeisterten: das Akkordeon-Orchester Veen unter der Leitung von Steffi van Bebber, der Männergesangverein Borth (MGV) und der gemischte Chor Da Capo. Die Idee, einen solchen sommerlichen Nachmittag mit musikalischer Brise zu gestalten, brachte MGV-Dirigent Dennis Kittner mit. Beide Chöre proben im Gemeindehaus Wallach. Da Capo steht unter der Leitung von Barbara Kleintges-Topoll.
Das Angebot „umsonst, drinnen und draußen“ bekam in der Planungsphase schnell Profil, wie Dennis Kittner erklärte. Bei vorherigen konzertanten Treffen habe sich der MGV auf ein musikalisches Thema, wie etwa beliebte Opernmelodien, verständigt. Gemeinsam mit dem Chor Da Capo und dem Akkordeon-Orchester einzuladen habe dabei immer mehr an Charme gewonnen. „Wir sind nach ganz volkstümlichen Aspekten für unser erstes sommerliches Treffen vorgegangen. Was passt besser zu der Matjeszeit als Seemannslieder“, beschreibt Dirigent Knitter.
Der Name Ahoi-Sause fand sich ebenfalls schnell und ist an die kultige prickelnde Ahoj-Brause mit dem Ahoj-Matrosen angelehnt. Bei der Programmgestaltung ging es den Initiatoren auch darum, das Publikum zum Mitsingen zu animieren. „Wir haben dazu Liederzettel erstellt“, ergänzt Frank Maruhn vom MGV-Vorstand. „Zu unserer Ahoi-Sause haben wir alle örtlichen Vereine eingeladen. Unser Motto ist von Vereinen für Vereine“, so der erste Vorsitzende.
Gemeinsam sangen die Chöre Klassiker wie „Wenn die bunten Fahnen wehen“, „La Paloma“ oder Hans Albers’ Reeperbahn-Ohrwurm. Der Da Capo-Chor, erkennbar an den roten Halstüchern, stimmte den „Wellerman“ an, während der MGV mit blauen Halstüchern die Liebe im Hafen besang.
Entsprechend maritim gab sich das Gemeindehaus in der Deko. Zu Kaffee und Kuchen gehörte bei der Ahoi-Sause ebenfalls ein Fischwagen mit Lachsburger, Kibbeling, Bratfisch und Matjes. Gegen Ende der Veranstaltung verabschiedete sich der bisherige MGV-Dirigent Dennis Kittner aus beruflichen Gründen. Er ist Strafrichter und hat in der Vergangenheit mehrere Chöre geleitet. Sein Nachfolger ist Norbert Schmitz aus Aachen.
| 2024-06-24T15:45:00+03:00
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Harvey Weinstein to remain locked up in New York while awaiting...
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-13758507/Harvey-Weinstein-remain-locked-New-York-awaiting-rape-retrial.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan, prosecutors have confirmed.
It comes as the former movie mogul made a brief court appearance related to California’s request to extradite him there.
But after the New York case is complete, he will return to California to serve his pending 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction there first, Queens district attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement.
“Today, defendant Harvey Weinstein was formally arraigned on a governor’s warrant issued by Governor Kathy Hochul, who exercised her authority for him to remain in New York state until his case in New York county is adjudicated,” Ms Katz said.
“He will serve the California sentence first, as it is now his primary sentence.”
Weinstein, who has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anyone, was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 while already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.
His 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out this spring by the state’s top court, which ruled that the judge in the original trial unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that were not part of the case.
The retrial in Manhattan is tentatively scheduled for November.
The 72-year-old Weinstein, with one hand cuffed to his wheelchair and another grasping a book and a magazine, appeared in Queens criminal court for less than five minutes on Monday as his lawyers agreed that he will remain at the nearby Rikers Island jail complex.
Weinstein has returned there after being hospitalised last month for health problems including Covid-19 and pneumonia in both lungs.
The extradition matter has been taking place in Queens, rather than Manhattan, court due to its proximity to Rikers Island.
Prosecutors in Manhattan said last month that they aim to bring new sexual assault charges against Weinstein but have not given more details, nor a timeline for bringing the potential new charges.
Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala suggested at the time that prosecutors’ talk of new accusers raised questions about the strength of their current case.
| 2024-08-19T19:29:29+03:00
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Safranbolu'da Kalealtı Eğitim ve Kent Tarihi Müzesi açılacak - Karabük Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/karabuk-haberleri/35282662-safranboluda-kalealti-egitim-ve-kent-tarihi-muzesi-acilacak
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Vali Mustafa Yavuz, Safranbolu ilçesinde yapılan Kalealtı Eğitim ve Kent Tarihi Müzesi projesinin son aşamasına gelindiğini bildirdi.
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Vali Mustafa Yavuz, Safranbolu ilçesinde yapılan Kalealtı Eğitim ve Kent Tarihi Müzesi projesinin son aşamasına gelindiğini bildirdi.
Vali Mustafa Yavuz, Safranbolu ilçesinde yapılan Kalealtı Eğitim ve Kent Tarihi Müzesi projesinin son aşamasına gelindiğini bildirdi.
Vali Yavuz, yaptığı açıklamada, müzenin eğitim ve öğretim geleneklerini geçmişten günümüze belgeleme adına önemli bir adım olacağını belirtti.
Müzenin Karabük'ün eğitim ve öğretim tarihine ışık tutacağını aktaran Yavuz, geçmiş dönemlerde bölgenin eğitim, tarih ve sosyoekonomik yaşamına dair çeşitli kullanım objelerini bir araya getirerek geçmişi gelecek nesillere aktarmayı hedeflediklerini kaydetti.
Yavuz, müzenin oluşturulması sürecinde her aşamanın dikkatle planlandığını vurgulayarak, "Projeyle geçmişimizi korumak, gelecek nesillere aktarmak ve kültürel mirasımızı daha geniş kitlelere ulaştırmak gibi önemli bir görev üstleniyoruz. Bu müze, sadece geçmişimizi anlamamızı sağlamakla kalmayacak, aynı zamanda eğitim ve öğretim anlayışımızın nasıl bir değişim geçirdiğini göstererek geleceğe daha bilinçli adımlar atmamıza yardımcı olacak. Projenin hayata geçirilmesinde emeği geçen herkese teşekkür ederim." ifadelerini kullandı.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Karabük haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Karabük Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
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| 2024-07-31T17:11:50+03:00
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Battersea rescue dogs needing homes head to Highgrove for footstool photoshoot
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/camilla-battersea-harper-alan-carr-windsor-castle-b2656282.html
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"Graduates",
"London",
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Rescue animals from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home took part in a festive photoshoot at the King and Queen’s country estate Highgrove.
Percy, Darcie, Elspeth, Harper, Missy and Shadow, who are all looking for new homes in time for Christmas, were invited to Gloucestershire, travelling from the charity’s Old Windsor Centre.
They posed on a new range of bespoke footstools, crafted and upholstered using recycled curtains from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle by students and community groups working with Charles’s charity The King’s Foundation.
Camilla, who is patron of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, recently said a sad farewell to one of her own beloved Battersea rescue dogs, Beth, a 13-year-old jack russell terrier, who had to be put down due to illness.
Camilla adopted Beth in 2011 when she was a three-month-old unwanted puppy, and another jack russell, Bluebell, in 2012 after she was found wandering alone in a London park with a painful skin condition.
The King reportedly told TV presenters Alan Carr and Amanda Holden at the Royal Variety Show last week that he and the Queen would be looking at getting a new dog.
Asked whether the Queen might be tempted by any of the visiting dogs, a royal source said: “While it’s a little too soon for Her Majesty to start deciding on a new friend for Bluebell, she remains a great supporter of all the work that Battersea Dogs and Cats home does in finding loving homes for all their rescue pets – not just for Christmas but forever.”
Kaye Mughal, centre manager in Windsor, said: “It was a special day bringing some of our dogs from Battersea’s Old Windsor Centre to Highgrove Gardens.
“They enjoyed the day out, experiencing visiting a new place and getting into the festive spirit.
“They also enjoyed testing out some of the unique footstools and have officially given them their approval.”
The six dogs – Percy, a sweet four-year-old white bichon cross; Darcie, a playful three-month-old black Labrador puppy; Elspeth, an energetic and sociable one-year-old brown cocker spaniel; Harper, an intelligent and gentle three-year-old jack russell terrier; Missy, an inquisitive three-year-old black English cocker spaniel; and Shadow – a shy three-legged, four-year-old grey deerhound lurcher who loves walks – are all hoping to be rehomed.
Those interested should contact Battersea Dogs and Cats Home via battersea.org.uk for more information
The footstool project follows the success of the King’s Foundation’s luxury kimonos, which were made from old royal curtains last year at the suggestion of the King, and auctioned to support the foundation.
Vast swathes of rich fabrics, which are believed to have dressed the windows in family and private rooms during the late Queen’s reign, were lying unused in storage after being collected during clear-outs over the decades.
The material spanned more than 40 years of royal curtain design, dating as far back as the 1950s and up to the 1990s, with much of it inspired by nature with floral or large leaf patterns, and a number of pieces from the 1980s including some denim.
Bespoke patchworks, using delft blue floral, vintage rose and teal, and rich damask burnt orange fabric left over from the kimono project, were made for the stools and combined with Harris Tweed by the King’s Foundation’s Sewing Bee group at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The fabrics were then sent to specialist education workshops at Highgrove Gardens, where students of the Metiers D’Art Fellowship – a collaborative course offered by foundation and Chanel in partnership with le19M – completed the upholstery and fitted it to eight handcrafted footstools.
The wooden stools themselves were made by graduates at the Snowdon School of Furniture.
The school’s 16-week Create programme trains a small cohort on the Highgrove estate on all aspects of the use of sustainable wood.
Simon Sadinsky, executive director of education for The King’s Foundation, said: “The footstools are a very special project as it’s the first time we have created items that represent a collaboration between two of our educational sites, Dumfries House and Highgrove Gardens, across three of our educational programmes.”
He added: “What has made it even more wonderful is being able to welcome some four-legged friends from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to mark the start of another magical festive auction – we hope this will in turn help to find them new homes.”
The project highlights the foundation’s commitment to sustainability by using upcycled and natural materials.
The eight pieces of furniture, with suggested starting prices of £250 per item, will be auctioned online to support The King’s Foundation at uk.givergy.com/KingsFoundationFootstoolAuction/ from November 29 until December 16.
The King’s Foundation is the custodian of Highgrove Gardens and runs education workshops onsite for traditional and endangered crafts such as millinery and embroidery.
| 2024-11-30T01:30:00+03:00
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İspanya düzensiz göçmenlerin oturum ve çalışma izni almalarına kolaylık getirdi | Dış Haberler
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/ispanya-dan-yabancilara-calisma-ve-oturum-iznine-kolaylik-3739377
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İspanya'da hükümet, düzensiz göçmenlerin oturum ve çalışma izni almalarına kolaylık getiren düzenlemeyi kabul etti. Böylece İspanya, üç yılda 900 bin düzensiz göçmene oturum ve çalışma izni vermeyi hedefliyor. Yeni düzenlemeyle iş arama ve geçici iş vizeleri 3 aydan 1 yıla çıkarılırken, geçici ikametten sonra uzun dönem ikamet için ülkeyi terk edip yeni vize ile geri gelme zorunluğu da kalktı
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İspanya'da hükümet, düzensiz göçmenlerin oturum ve çalışma izni almalarına kolaylık getiren düzenlemeyi kabul etti. Böylece İspanya, üç yılda 900 bin düzensiz göçmene oturum ve çalışma izni vermeyi hedefliyor. Yeni düzenlemeyle iş arama ve geçici iş vizeleri 3 aydan 1 yıla çıkarılırken, geçici ikametten sonra uzun dönem ikamet için ülkeyi terk edip yeni vize ile geri gelme zorunluğu da kalktı
İspanya'da azınlık sol koalisyon hükümeti, üç yılda 900 bin düzensiz göçmene oturum ve çalışma izni verilmesini kolaylaştıran düzenlemeyi kabul etti.
Bakanlar Kurulunda onaylanan ve Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandıktan sonra 6 ay içinde yürürlüğe girmesi öngörülen Yabancı Yasası'ndaki yeni düzenlemeye göre, ülkede yaşayan düzensiz göçmenlerin oturma ve çalışma izni alma şartları kolaylaştırılıyor.
"EN KAPSAMLI VE EN İDDİALI DÜZENLEMEYİ YAPTIK"
Katılım, Sosyal Güvenlik ve Göç Bakanı Elma Saiz, yaptığı açıklamada, yeni düzenlemeyle ülkede mevcut durumdaki yabancı işçilerin kalmalarının sağlanması, yeni işçilerin cezbedilmesi ve kayıt dışı ekonominin azaltmasının amaçlandığını belirterek, "13 yıldır yürürlükte olan Yabancı Yasası'nda en kapsamlı ve en iddialı düzenlemeyi yaptık." dedi.
"YILDA 250 BİN İLA 300 BİN YABANCI İŞÇİYE İHTİYACIMIZ VAR"
İspanya'nın sosyal ve ekonomik refahını koruyabilmek için yılda 250 ila 300 bin yabancı işçiye ihtiyacı olduğunu kaydeden Saiz, "Oturum ve çalışma izinlerinde prosedürler basitleştirildi, mükerrerlikler kaldırıldı ve daha fazla hukuki dayanaklara tabi tutuldu. Bu düzenleme, mafyayla mücadelenin yanı sıra dolandırıcılık ve hak ihlallerine karşı önlem alma bakımında önemli bir adım olacaktır." şeklinde konuştu.
3 YILDA 900 BİN KİŞİNİN ÇALIŞMA VE OTURUM İZNİ ALMASI ÖNGÖRÜLÜYOR
Saiz, yapılan düzenlemeyle gelecek 3 yılda 900 bin kişinin çalışma ve oturum izni almasının öngörüldüğünü , bu zamana kadar düzensiz göçmenlerin oturum izni alabilmeleri için gerekli olan 3 yıllık sürenin de 2 yıla indirildiğini kaydetti.
Yeni düzenleme ile ayrıca iş arama ve geçici iş vizeleri 3 aydan 1 yıla çıkarılırken, geçici ikametten sonra uzun dönem ikamet için ülkeyi terk edip yeni vize ile geri gelme zorunluğu da kalktı. Öğrenci vizesi olanlara da haftada 30 saate kadar çalışma izni verilecek.
ÇALIŞMA ÇAĞINDAKİ NÜFUSUN ARTIŞI YAVAŞLAYACAK
İspanya ekonomisi, özellik Latin Amerika'dan gelen göçmen dalgasıyla kısmen teknoloji ve hizmet sektörlerindeki işgücü açığını kapatıyor ve bu sayede AB'de en hızlı büyüyen ekonomi. Gayri safi yurtiçi hasıla, bir yıl öncesine göre üçüncü çeyrekte yüzde 3,4 arttı.
Fitch Ratings son yaptığı açıklamada, İspanya'da 2024-2028 yılları arasında çalışma çağındaki nüfus artışın yavaşlamasının beklendiğini bildirdi.
El Pais gazetesinin Ekim ayında gerçekleştirdiği bir ankete göre, İspanyolların yüzde 57'si "çok fazla" göç olduğuna inanıyor, yüzde 54'ü ise göçmenlerin oranının İspanya'daki göçmenlerin sayısının resmi kayıtlardan daha yüksek olduğunu düşünüyor.
*Haberin görselli ShutterStock tarafından servis edilmiştir. Temsilidir.
| 2024-11-20T10:29:55+03:00
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Ehemaliger Dorfsheriff aus Rheurdt: Letzter Auftritt für Klaus Lesch mit seinem Vogel Adacus
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Rheinische Post
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https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/neukirchen-vluyn/rheurdt-letzter-auftritt-fuer-klaus-lesch-in-kita-fliegenpilz_aid-116063589
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Jahrelang hat der „Rheurdter Dorfsheriff“ mit einem Kuscheltier Kindergärten und Schulen besucht, um den Kleinen Verkehrssicherheit näherzubringen. Am 17. Mai war allerdings sein letzter Besuch in der Kita Fliegenpilz. Die Gemeinde erinnert sich zurück.
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Jahrelang hat der „Rheurdter Dorfsheriff“ mit einem Kuscheltier Kindergärten und Schulen besucht, um den Kleinen Verkehrssicherheit näherzubringen. Am 17. Mai war allerdings sein letzter Besuch in der Kita Fliegenpilz. Die Gemeinde erinnert sich zurück.
Viele Kinder kennen den kleinen, geschnäbelten Vogel Adacus – und das nicht nur in Rheurdt. Das Stofftier gehört zu Klaus Lesch, besser bekannt als der „Rheurdter Dorfsheriff“. Jahrelang ging Lesch mit Adacus in Kindergärten und Schulen, um mit den Kindergärten sicheres Verhalten im Straßenverkehr zu üben. Innerhalb eines vom ADAC angebotenen Verkehrssicherheitsprogramms wurde vor allem das Überqueren von Straßen mithilfe eines Teppich-Zebrastreifens geübt, etwa in der Rheurdter Kita Fliegenpilz. Am 17. Mai besuchte Lesch die Kita aber zum letzten Mal. Für seinen jahrelangen Einsatz dankte ihm die Gemeinde Rheurdt und schickte ihn in seinen „wohlverdienten, nun doch endlich anstehenden Ruhestand“.
Eigentlich ist der „Rheurdter Dorfsheriff“ aber schon vor 20 Jahren in Pension gegangen. Der Geldener war während seiner Berufszeit auf mehreren Wachen im Kreis Kleve als Polizeibeamter tätig. Als er sich dann in den Ruhestand verabschiedete, merkte er jedoch schnell, dass ihn zu viel Ruhe ziemlich unruhig machte. Daher widmete sich Lesch einigen ehrenamtlichen Aufgaben, unter anderem dem Training für sicheres Verhalten im Straßenverkehr mit Adacus.
Innerhalb der 45-minütigen Mitmach-Veranstaltung, die die Vorschulkinder spielerisch an die Rolle als Fußgängerinnen und Fußgänger im Straßenverkehr heranführt, wurden unterschiedliche Situationen an Verkehrsampeln und am Zebrastreifen geübt. Die Kinder lernten, die Verhaltensweisen der verschiedenen Verkehrsteilnehmer zu erkennen und worauf es beim Überqueren einer Straße ankommt. Zum Abschluss nahmen die Vorschulkinder stolz ihre Urkunden entgegen, die sie als echte Straßenverkehrskenner auswiesen. Darüber hinaus erhielten sie je ein Malbuch zum Thema „Kind und Straßenverkehr“.
Danach wurde Lesch in der Rheurdter Kita mit einem großen Dankeschön verabschiedet. Die Gemeinde wünscht ihm weiterhin einen guten und erholsamen Ruhestand.
| 2024-07-11T17:25:40+03:00
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Künstliche Intelligenz: Firmen und Bürger immer offener
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ZDF
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https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/ki-umfrage-akzeptanz-anwendungen-wirtschaft-buerger-100.html
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"Mischa Ehrhardt"
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Bei Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) scheiden sich die Geister: Bei den einen herrscht Goldgräberstimmung. Denn KI verspricht Zukunftschancen und ökonomisches Potenzial.
Bei anderen herrscht Skepsis vor. Zum einen gibt es Sorgen um die Sicherheit von KI. Auch die Frage, inwieweit man den Ergebnissen der Maschinen trauen kann, spielt in diese Sorgen mit hinein.
Drei Viertel der Befragten sehen KI als Chance
Im vergangenen Jahr hat sich dabei die Waage weiter in Richtung der Befürworter des Einsatzes von KI-Technologien verschoben - sowohl bei Unternehmen als auch bei den Bürgern und Bürgerinnen. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse von zwei Umfragen, die der Digitalverband Bitkom an diesem Mittwoch veröffentlicht hat: Drei Viertel der Befragten sehen demnach KI eher als Chance, ein Viertel sieht KI dagegen als ein Risiko. Bitkom-Präsident Ralf Wintergerst sagt:
Unter Verbrauchern gaben vier von zehn Befragten an, sie hätten Anwendungen wie ChatGPT oder Google Gemini zumindest schon einmal ausprobiert.
Jedes fünfte Unternehmen setzt KI ein
In Firmen spielen KI-Anwendungen eine immer größere Rolle: Mehr als die Hälfte der Unternehmen gibt an, sich mit KI zu beschäftigen. Jedes fünfte Unternehmen setzt die Technologie bereits ein.
Verbrauchern bekannt sind vor allem Spielarten von generativer KI. Damit gemeint sind Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz, die aus geschriebenem Text, Audios, Bildern oder Videos neue Inhalte erzeugen.
Pionier und prominentestes Beispiel ist der Chatbot ChatGPT. Diesem Modell können Nutzer in natürlicher Sprache Fragen stellen oder Anweisungen geben. Die KI erzeugt daraufhin fließende Texte. Allerdings werfen diese generativen KI viele Fragen auf.
Generative KI: "Größter Datenklau der Geschichte"
Zum einen ist oft nicht ersichtlich, auf Basis welcher Quellen sie zu ihren Ergebnissen kommen. So kann es auch geschehen, dass die KI unwahre oder falsche Ergebnisse liefert. Noch grundlegender aber betreffen die Systeme generativer KI auch elementare Fragen des Urheberrechts.
"Wenn wir mit generativen Künstlichen Intelligenzen arbeiten, Texte und Bildwelten erstellen: Die Fähigkeiten dieser Systeme basieren auf dem größten Datenklau der Geschichte", sagte etwa Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, die Vorsteherin des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels zur Eröffnung der Bücherschau in Frankfurt.
Wie viel Regulierung braucht KI?
Hintergrund dieser Kritik ist, dass die Algorithmen generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz wie ChatGPT im Internet trainiert worden sind - und zwar auf Basis dort vorhandener Daten. Diese Daten aber haben reale Menschen zur Verfügung gestellt, sei es in Form von Texten, Bildern oder Videos.
Beim Digitalverband Bitkom sieht man das naturgemäß etwas anders. "Wir sehen die Vorteile von Künstlicher Intelligenz, wir sehen aber auch deren Schattenseiten", sagte Bitkom-Präsident Ralf Wintergerst.
Weniger Regulierung für größere KI-Erfolge weltweit?
Die müsse dann aber global gemeinschaftlich geschehen. Wintergerst hält das aber für unrealistisch, weil führende Nationen in der KI-Technologie - allen voran die USA und China - ihre Industrien schützen und ihren Vorsprung verteidigen wollten.
Um den Vorsprung aus europäischer oder deutscher Perspektive kleiner zu machen und Anschluss halten zu können, plädiert der Digitalverband für eine weniger strenge Regulierung von KI-Technologien.
Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft müssten gemeinsam dafür sorgen, dass Deutschland bei KI eine weltweite Führungsrolle erreiche; und zwar sowohl bei Forschung und Entwicklung als auch bei Anwendungen im Markt.
| 2024-10-16T18:46:11.095000+03:00
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My son is 19 like Cruz Beckham - I don't want him dating older women
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Daily Mail
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14016141/Son-Cruz-Beckham-horrified-dating-older-woman.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490
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[
"Raj Gill"
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"Cruz Beckham",
"Glasgow"
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In my friend group a handful of our sons turned 19 this year, and a hot topic of conversation has been the relationship between 19-year-old Cruz Beckham and 29- year-old Jackie Apostel.
We've all wondered how we would feel in Victoria's shoes and if we would react as the Beckhams have, with no outward sign that they deem the relationship inappropriate.
Instead, they have chosen to keep their son and his Brazilian girlfriend close, hoping it's just a 'Mrs Robinson' phase.
David is reportedly relaxed about the situation, believing its every young boy's dream to be with an older, experienced woman.
In our group, however, the general opinion is that it is an inappropriate age gap relationship and if any one of our boys rocked up with Jackie we wouldn't be pleased.
Girls mature faster than boys. A 19-year-old boy is still at the stage where he is finding himself, and I am not certain that the influence of a woman ten years his senior is the appropriate thing.
And what if the tables were turned? Would David be equally thrilled if his only daughter Harper once she turned 19 was dating a man ten years her senior?
I doubt that very much. In general we tend to be far more over protective with our daughters than our sons.
Cruz is too young to know his own mind, and if he thinks Jackie is the love of his life, I doubt he is thinking straight. This is likely to be the first in a long line of affairs of the heart for him.
One telltale sign that all is not what it seems in the Beckham world is that neither David nor Victoria have acknowledged Jackie's existence on the various social media platforms that the pair of them regularly update. This is a sure sign that they hope that this relationship will not last the course.
Nineteen is too young, and can be quite a confusing time. A child has barely just left school and might be entering the work world or pursuing higher education.
It's time to be hanging about with one's peers, others who are going through the same things. It can be a confusing time, all of a sudden you have to adult. It's a time when you are entering the real world.
I have a 19-year-old son and a 21-year-old daughter. My son, Jeevan left school at 18 and started university.
That in itself was a massive upheaval.
Gone were the cushty days of school; he was ferried back and forth from school by us or a member of the family.
He was driven around to all of his after school clubs; we kept a close eye on his school work. And then everything changed.
He had to decide what was to come next, further education or entering the working world, even that is a tough decision.
How is he supposed to know at age 18, what he wants to do for the rest of his life?
He chose further education, the next decision was in what subject. This took months of research and soul searching. What was it that he could see himself doing for the rest of his life?
Eventually he decided on civil engineering, but even that took up copious amounts of research and advice seeking from others who had graduated from the course.
Jeevan is lucky that his friends circle are all his age, they are all having similar experiences and can rely on each other if they should face difficulties, because they have a better understanding of the situations that 19 year olds can get themselves into.
Jeevan took the summer to show us that he can be responsible and as a result had a not too bumpy ride into adulthood.
He set himself several goals: get a summer job, join the gym, get a driving licence etc, and he achieved every single one of these goals. He wanted to prove that he was ready to take control of his life and that he was ready to embark on adulthood.
So if at this point he met someone ten years his senior I doubt very much that we would be accepting.
He has taken the summer to lay the foundations of being an adult, there's a lot more hard work to be done. His focus has to be on himself and finding himself, growing as a young man.
My husband and I are the same age, and we share the same interests, grew up in similar backgrounds.
We get each other's cultural references; we have so much in common, because it is an age-appropriate relationship.
I wonder how integrated Cruz is in Jackie's world. It must feel strange for him, hanging about with her friends if they are all in their late 20s, what does he find to talk about with them?
I also wonder would Jacqui even consider dating him, if he wasn't a Beckham. Surely that star appeal was a strong attraction.
Let's face it, she was FROW at Paris Fashion week, she most recently spent time with the Beckhams in Miami, none of which would happen if she went out with a regular lad.
It's also strange that she is Victoria's doppelganger and the fact that she leans into that and massively plays on it is kind of disturbing.
| 2024-11-03T20:00:23+03:00
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Bill Clinton admitted to hospital with fever
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The Independent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-clinton-hospital-fever-age-b2669331.html
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"Josh Marcus"
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"Bill Clinton",
"Washington",
"Internal"
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was admitted to a Washington-area hospital on Monday.
“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Clinton’s deputy chief of staff Angel Ureña wrote on X. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving.”
“The former president will be fine,” a source close to Clinton told NBC News. “He developed a fever and wanted to be checked out. He is awake and alert.”
Clinton, 78, was at home in Washington when he was taken to the hospital, CNN reports.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated with new information.
| 2024-12-24T01:46:27+03:00
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Vorfall auf Golfplatz: Trump: „Am liebsten hätte ich den letzten Putt versenkt“
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Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
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https://www.mz.de/deutschland-und-welt/politik/trump-am-liebsten-hatte-ich-den-letzten-putt-versenkt-3917453
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[
"dpa"
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"#USWahl2024"
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Donald Trump scheint einem Attentatsversuch knapp entgangen zu sein. Nun schildert er den dramatischen Moment - und sagt, er hätte seine Golfpartie auch nach den Schüssen am liebsten zu Ende gespielt.
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Donald Trump scheint einem Attentatsversuch knapp entgangen zu sein. Nun schildert er den dramatischen Moment - und sagt, er hätte seine Golfpartie auch nach den Schüssen am liebsten zu Ende gespielt.
Washington - Der republikanische US-Präsidentschaftskandidat Donald Trump hätte eigenen Worten zufolge trotz des mutmaßlich versuchten Attentats auf ihn am liebsten noch das Golf-Match gegen seine Kontrahenten zu Ende gespielt. „Am liebsten hätte ich den letzten Putt versenkt, aber wir haben beschlossen, dass wir hier verschwinden müssen“, sagte der 78-Jährige laut Berichten bei einem Gespräch auf der Plattform X Spaces. Er lobte den Secret Service, eine Zeugin und die Strafverfolgungsbehörden für ihr schnelles Handeln während des Vorfalls am Sonntagnachmittag (Ortszeit), bei dem Personenschützer auf den bewaffneten Verdächtigen geschossen hatten.
Trump spielte gerade mit Freunden Golf in seinem Club in West Palm Beach im Bundesstaat Florida, als ein Personenschützer des Secret Service einen Gewehrlauf aus dem mit Büschen umpflanzten Zaun des Golfplatzes ragen sah. Daraufhin eröffneten Beamte nach Polizeiangaben zügig das Feuer. Der nur wenige hundert Meter von Trump entfernte Verdächtige gab demnach keinen Schuss ab. Er flüchtete in einem Auto und wurde kurze Zeit später auf einer Autobahn in der Nähe festgenommen.
Zunächst sei alles sehr friedlich gewesen, schilderte Trump seine Wahrnehmung. „Plötzlich hörten wir Schüsse, die in die Luft geschossen wurden.“ Der Secret Service habe sofort gewusst, dass es Kugeln gewesen seien. „Es stand außer Frage, dass wir den Golf-Kurs verlassen würden.“ Eine Zeugin habe das Auto des Verdächtigen fotografiert, auch dadurch habe der Wagen lokalisiert werden können. „Die Zivilistin hat phänomenale Arbeit geleistet“, sagte Trump, der auch den Secret Service lobte - sie hätten den Mann hinter Gitter gebracht. „Hoffentlich wird er dort für eine lange Zeit bleiben. Eine gefährliche Person, eine sehr, sehr gefährliche Person.“
Trump spielt am Wochenende häufiger Golf in einem seiner Clubs. Am Sonntagnachmittag spielte der frühere US-Präsident, der im November zum zweiten Mal für die Republikaner ins Weiße Haus einziehen will, mit dem Immobilieninvestor und Parteispender Steve Witkoff.
| 2024-09-17T06:53:00+03:00
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Pimlico Plumbers founder to sell £12m penthouse as he flees Britain ahead of tax raid
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The Telegraph
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/07/pimlico-plumbers-founder-sells-penthouse-flees-britain-tax/
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"Lucy Burton"
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"Selling property",
"Labour Party",
"The Budget",
"Business",
"Standard",
"Inheritance tax",
"Tax rises"
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Charlie Mullins ready to have ‘no assets in the UK’ ahead of looming Budget tax rises
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Charlie Mullins ready to have ‘no assets in the UK’ ahead of looming Budget tax rises
Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins has put his £12m London penthouse up for sale as he prepares to flee the UK to avoid a Labour tax raid.
The Pimlico Plumbers founder, who bought the luxury flat with his windfall from the £145m sale of his business in 2021, said he is ready to have “no assets in the UK whatsoever”.
Mr Mullins has hired an agent to find a buyer for his apartment – which neighbours a property owned by Tom Jones and has its own bar – as he looks to instead pour his cash into Spain and Dubai.
He said: “I’ll have no investments here, no bank account here. It’s all in the process now. I think my last tax bill is January and that’s me done.”
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned that she will have to make “difficult decisions” in her first Budget in order to fix the nation’s finances. Sir Keir Starmer said last month that those with the “broadest shoulders” would carry the heaviest burden, triggering fears of a tax raid on the rich.
Mr Mullins said he was putting his flat up for sale because of concerns that Labour will raise death taxes. He said: “I’m selling my property because of the inheritance tax. It’s a £12m property – if I lose £6m, I’m brown bread. Family would go mad.”
The entrepreneur instead plans to put his money into properties in Spain, among other investments.
Mr Mullins, a former Tory donor who now backs Reform UK, said: “Anybody that’s wealthy can jump ship whenever they want, and they will do.”
Ceri Vokes, a partner at law firm Withers Worldwide, said last week that a number of her wealthiest clients were moving overseas.
“People with hundreds of millions of pounds [are leaving] because changes can be more impactful for them,” she said, adding that Italy, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland were among the most popular destinations.
Mr Mullins’ comments come just weeks before he opens a new London plumbing business, WeFix, after a non-compete clause with Pimlico’s new owners ends on Monday.
The new venture is pitched as “the Harrods of the handyman world”. While Mr Mullins is the founder and chairman of WeFix, he is not on the payroll and is not the owner, with all the money coming from his children’s family trust. His eldest son Scott will be chief executive, while his eldest grandson Ashley will be managing director.
Seventy-one-year-old Mr Mullins said: “If I’d have known Labour was going to get in, I wouldn’t have opened up here. I would have gone to Dubai. But it was too far down the road. W started [planning for] this two years ago. If we get too much setback with Labour, we’ll move to Dubai.”
Mr Mullins, a long-time critic of working from home, said he was concerned about the Government’s plans to overhaul workers’ rights.
The package is expected to include full employment rights from day one on the job, meaning employers can be taken to tribunals much earlier, and flexible working as a default.
Mr Mullins said he feared the changes would position employers as “the enemy” and could backfire by putting companies off hiring new people.
“You can’t have an employee running the business,” he said. “If I have to go down the working from home route then we’ll close the business down.”
If job applicants “start talking about unions, working from home [or] four days a week” in an interview then “they’re not the people we’re looking for,” Mr Mullins said. Staff at WeFix will instead be offered a share of the profits after more than a year’s service.
A self-styled plumber to the rich and famous, Mr Mullins grew up in poverty on the Rockingham Estate in London’s Elephant and Castle and left school at 15 with no qualifications.
He started Pimlico Plumbers from the basement of an estate agent in Pimlico in 1979, selling it three years ago for £145m to Neighborly, a home services outfit owned by US private equity giant KKR. He had a 90pc stake in the business, with the rest owned by his son.
| 2024-09-07T14:00:00+03:00
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Mersin'de pamuk yüklü tırda çıkan yangın söndürüldü - Mersin Haberleri
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Haberturk
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https://www.haberturk.com/mersin-haberleri/36900978-mersinde-pamuk-yuklu-tirda-cikan-yangin-sonduruldu
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"Habertürk"
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Mersin'in Tarsus ilçesinde pamuk yüklü tırda çıkan yangın itfaiye ekiplerince söndürüldü.
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Mersin'in Tarsus ilçesinde pamuk yüklü tırda çıkan yangın itfaiye ekiplerince söndürüldü.
Mersin'in Tarsus ilçesinde pamuk yüklü tırda çıkan yangın itfaiye ekiplerince söndürüldü.
Alınan bilgiye göre, H.B. idaresindeki plakası henüz öğrenilemeyen pamuk yüklü tırın dorse bölümü, Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep (TAG) Otoyolu Tarsus Batı Gişeleri yakınlarında alev aldı.
Yangını fark eden sürücü, tırı güvenlik şeridine çekerek itfaiyeye haber verdi.
Bölgeye gelen Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi itfaiye ekiplerinin müdahalesiyle yangın söndürüldü.
Yangında tırda hasar oluştu.
Anadolu Ajansı ve DHA tarafından geçilen tüm Mersin haberleri, bu bölümde Haberturk.com editörlerinin hiçbir editoryal müdahalesi olmadan otomatik olarak ajans kanallarından geldiği şekliyle yer almaktadır. Mersin Haberleri alanında yer alan haberlerin hepsinin hukuki muhatabı haberi geçen ajanslardır.
Benzer Haberler
| 2025-01-29T21:36:51+03:00
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Gesetzeslücke bei Immobiliengeschäften: Kaputtes Geschäftsmodell
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Die Tageszeitung (taz)
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https://taz.de/Gesetzesluecke-bei-Immobiliengeschaeften/!6024059/
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"Celine Schäfer"
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[
"Wohnungspolitik",
"Wohnungsnot",
"Immobilienspekulation",
"GNS",
"Reportage und Recherche",
"Gesellschaft",
"Feed",
"taz",
"tageszeitung"
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Ein marodes Haus in Gelsenkirchen wird zu einem überteuerten Preis zwangsversteigert. Wie man mit Schrottimmobilien Profit macht.
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Ein marodes Haus in Gelsenkirchen wird zu einem überteuerten Preis zwangsversteigert. Wie man mit Schrottimmobilien Profit macht.
Wuchtig erhebt sich die Engelsburg über der Schalker Meile. Ein großes Eckhaus im Stil der Gründerzeit, Stuck ziert die Fassade, die Fenster sind meterhoch. Vergangenes Jahr kamen Maler, sie sollten das Haus blau-weiß streichen. Fertig wurden sie nie, es soll Streit gegeben haben über die Entlohnung. Unter der dünnen Farbschicht schimmert deshalb an manchen Stellen noch immer ein schmuddeliges Gelb hervor.
Manche Gelsenkirchener nennen die Engelsburg deshalb „gelbes Haus“, andere sagen „blaues Haus“. Im Rathaus, im Ordnungsamt und im nordrhein-westfälischen Landtag sagen sie: Schrottimmobilie. So werden Häuser genannt, die seit Jahren, seit Jahrzehnten verrotten. Deren Türen immer offen stehen, weil die Schlösser kaputt sind. Durch die im Herbst der Wind zieht, weil Fenster zersprungen und nie ersetzt worden sind. In denen es keinen Strom gibt und schmutziges Wasser aus den Duschköpfen tropft.
In Gelsenkirchen gibt es nach Angaben der Stadt rund 500 solcher Problemimmobilien. Sie sehen von außen oft so aus, als stünden sie leer. Oft sind sie aber bewohnt. Auch eine Hälfte der Engelsburg ist vermietet. An zwei Roma-Familien, sagen sowohl Nachbarn, Mitarbeiter der Stadt als auch Lokalpolitiker. Mit diesen Familien als Mieter lassen sich lukrative Geschäfte machen.
Das Prinzip Schrottimmoblie funktioniert so: Bei einer Zwangsversteigerung bieten Investoren viel Geld für ein heruntergekommenes Objekt. So verdrängen sie Mitbieter und sichern sich die Häuser, sie bekommen den sogenannten Zuschlag. Direkt nach der Zwangsversteigerung kassieren die neuen Eigentümer der Schrottimmobilien hohe Mieten von Menschen, die auf dem regulären Wohnungsmarkt keine Chance haben.
Zugleich, und das ist der Trick, zahlen die Investoren oft nur einen Bruchteil des eigentlich vereinbarten Kaufpreises. Sie streichen also hohe Mieteinnahmen bei einem niedrigen Kaufpreis ein. Möglich macht das eine Gesetzeslücke.
Im Februar 2023 kam die Engelsburg unter den Hammer. Der Eigentümer hatte seine Kredite nicht bedient, schließlich wurde die Zwangsversteigerung der beiden Haushälften Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 124 und 126 angeordnet. Die GGW, eine Wohnungsgesellschaft der Stadt Gelsenkirchen, bot mit – und ging leer aus. Den Zuschlag erhielt die Vermietungsgesellschaft BBS 1 UG, ein Unternehmen mit Sitz in Erkrath, das erst zwei Wochen vor der Zwangsversteigerung gegründet worden war.
Für insgesamt 751.000 Euro ersteigerte der Geschäftsführer Sajad Soleymanmanesh die Engelsburg. Ein Gutachter hatte den Wert der größeren Haushälfte im Vorfeld auf rund 385.000 Euro geschätzt. Die kleinere Hälfte sollte für lediglich einen symbolischen Euro verkauft werden, so baufällig war sie laut Gutachten.
Soleymanmanesh kündigte nach der Zwangsversteigerung an, das Gebäude aufwendig zu sanieren und renovieren, „um dann die einzelnen Wohnungen zu vermieten“. Dies berichtete die Regionalzeitung WAZ. Ein Abriss der maroden Hälfte kam für Soleymanmanesh nicht in Frage. „Die Bausubstanz ist besser, als es das Gutachten darstellt. Sie ist sehr solide in solchen alten Häusern“, wird Soleymanmanesh zitiert. Er habe ein „Faible für ältere Gebäude“.
Sajad Soleymanmanesh führt diverse Unternehmen, darunter die Vermietungsgesellschaft BBS 2 UG. Mit diesem Unternehmen hatte er bereits zwei Wochen vor der Zwangsversteigerung der Engelsburg eine stark sanierungsbedürftige Immobilie ersteigert. Das Haus steht ebenfalls auf der Schalker Meile. Dass Soleymanmanesh die Häuser über zwei verschiedene Unternehmen laufen lässt, könnte wirtschaftliche Gründe haben: Wenn die BBS 2 insolvent gehen würde, könnte er mit der BBS 1 weiter Geld verdienen.
Ein Vormittag im Juli im Gelsenkirchener Stadtteil Schalke, oder „auf Schalke“, wie man hier sagt. Es regnet in Strömen, das Wasser steht zentimetertief auf der Kurt-Schumacher-Straße. Frauen in langen Röcken und mit locker gebundenen Kopftüchern eilen mit Kindern im Schlepptau über den Bürgersteig zur Straßenbahn. Im Eingang des Kiosks im Erdgeschoss der Engelsburg versteckt sich ein Mann vor dem Regen und trinkt Bier.
Mit der Engelsburg ist, abgesehen vom blauen Anstrich, seit der Zwangsversteigerung nicht viel passiert. Das Haus sieht immer noch ungepflegt aus, viele Fenster sind provisorisch mit Plastikfolie abgedichtet, die Klingeln am Hauseingang sind defekt, im Flur stapelt sich der Müll. In der unbewohnten Haushälfte steht ein Laden leer, in den man von draußen hineinsehen kann. Dutzende Autoreifen und ein Einkaufskorb stehen darin. Früher wurden hier offenbar Pornofilme gedreht, an der Eingangstür klebt ein Schild aus dieser Zeit: „Webcam Chat Filmstudios – Casting House – Zutritt ab 18 Jahre“.
Dass Sajad Soleymanmanesh die Engelsburg längst nicht so umfassend renoviert hat, wie er es im vergangenen Jahr angekündigt hat, mag daran liegen, dass das nie sein Plan war. Das Geschäftsmodell des 39-Jährigen ist offenbar ein anderes: Soleymanmanesh hat die Engelsburg zwar auf dem Papier für 751.000 Euro ersteigert – bisher aber nur zehn Prozent des geschätzten Verkehrswertes bezahlt, also 38.500 Euro. Das geht aus Unterlagen beim Amtsgericht hervor, die die taz einsehen konnte. Denn nach dem Gesetz über die Zwangsversteigerung und die Zwangsverwaltung (ZVG)gehört eine Immobilie, die zwangsversteigert wird, sofort demjenigen, der den Zuschlag erhält. Er muss zunächst lediglich eine Sicherheitsleistung von zehn Prozent des Kaufpreises zahlen.
Theoretisch hätte Soleymanmanesh den restlichen Betrag innerhalb einer rund zweimonatigen Frist zahlen müssen, die er aber verstreichen ließ. Doch erst wenn der frühere Eigentümer der Engelsburg sein Geld einklagen würde, könnte Soleymanmanesh belangt werden. Doch jener hat sich bisher nicht gemeldet. Warum? Möglich ist, dass sich Käufer und Verkäufer kennen und gemeinsam profitieren von dem Deal. Ein lokaler Abgeordneter, der sich mit Wohnungspolitik befasst, sagt, er wolle im Fall der Engelsburg nicht mit Namen zitiert werden. Aber er habe eine ähnliche Masche bereits in Gelsenkirchen und anderen Städten im Ruhrgebiet erlebt.
Was sagen die Bewohner der Engelsburg? Die Haustür zum bewohnten Teil der Engelsburg steht offen, das Schloss scheint defekt zu sein. Im Flur stehen Spielsachen, Kinderwagen und viele Zimmerpflanzen, sattgrün und gepflegt, wie ein kleiner Vorgarten. Aus den oberen Stockwerken schallt Kinderlachen.
Als die Reporterin bei den Wohnungen im ersten und zweiten Stock klingelt, öffnet niemand. Schließlich kommt ein großer, bärtiger Mann langsam die Treppe hinauf – und fordert barsch auf, das Haus sofort zu verlassen. Er sei Mieter, seine Frau sei in der Wohnung und „sei der deutschen Sprache nicht mächtig“. Er selbst spricht perfekt Deutsch. Die Situation wirkt bedrohlich.
Wenn von Schrott- oder Problemimmobilien und ihren Bewohnern die Rede ist, steht oft eine ethnische Minderheit im Vordergrund: die Roma. Rund 100.000 Roma sollen mittlerweile in Nordrhein-Westfalen wohnen. Viele von ihnen leben in Häusern, in denen sonst niemand wohnen will. So auch in der Engelsburg.
Das liege mitunter an antiziganistischer Diskriminierung durch Vermieter und Behörden, sagt Roman Franz, Vorsitzender des Landesverbandes Deutscher Sinti und Roma NRW. Franz leitet in Düsseldorf eine soziale Beratungsstelle für Sinti und Roma. Das Problem, dass diese häufig in Schrottimmobilien leben, sei ihm „sehr bekannt“.
Wenn Roma-Familien in solche Häuser ziehen, dauert es meist nicht lange, bis sich Unmut in der Nachbarschaft regt. Von Müll in Hauseingängen, Schrott auf der Straße und lauten Kindern ist dann die Rede. Dass es solche Probleme gibt, streitet Franz nicht ab – er sieht hier aber vor allem die Behörden in der Verantwortung, die sich trotz jahrelanger Migration ausländischer Roma nach Deutschland kaum um deren Integration und eine Perspektive auf dem Arbeitsmarkt bemühen würden.
Roman Franz selbst ist Sinto. Sein Vater wurde in der Nazizeit in ein Konzentrationslager deportiert, doch er überlebte – und gründete den Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen der Sinti und Roma, den sein Sohn heute leitet. Aus dessen Sicht sollten Behörden seinen Verband, aber auch andere Interessenvertretungen der Sinti und Roma stärker in ihre Arbeit einbeziehen. Gerade auch dann, wenn es um die Wohnsituation der Roma geht. Auf Schalke zahlen Mieter von Wohnungen aktuell 8,26 Euro pro Quadratmeter. Franz fürchtet, dass die Familien in der Engelsburg eine überdurchschnittlich hohe Miete zahlen.
In der Engelsburg gibt es neben den Roma-Familien noch weitere Mieter. Zum Beispiel die Besitzerin des Kiosks im Erdgeschoss, die zwar mit der Reporterin redet, aber ihren Namen nicht in der Zeitung lesen will. Vor 17 Jahren hat sie ihren Laden hier im Gelsenkirchener Norden eröffnet. Die Kioskbesitzerin ist in ihren Sechzigern, bald will sie in Rente gehen.
Sie habe schon einige Vermieter hier erlebt, sagt sie, öffentlich über sie sprechen möchte sie allerdings nicht – sie wolle schließlich keinen Ärger. Über das Leben hier auf Schalke, in der Engelsburg, darüber redet sie gern. Viele Alkoholiker gebe es. Und natürlich „die Bulgaren und die Rumänen“, sagt die Kioskfrau, die kauften auch gerne bei ihr ein: aber eher keinen Alkohol, sondern Zigaretten und manchmal Limo für die Kinder. Auch die Stimmung im Haus ist gut, findet sie. „Die sind alle nett, das ist ein gutes Miteinander hier“, sagt die Frau und zuckt mit den Schultern. „Da kann man wirklich nichts gegen sagen.“
Man würde Sajad Soleymanmanesh gern selbst befragen, wo doch niemand in der Kurt-Schumacher-Straße über ihn reden will. Man wüsste gern, ob er überhaupt noch vorhat, die gesamten 751.000 Euro irgendwann zu bezahlen. Und welche Mieter eigentlich seine Zielgruppe sind.
Eine Interviewanfrage der taz sowie einen ausführlichen Fragenkatalog lässt Soleymanmanesh unbeantwortet. Auf Instagram postet er derweil Videos von einer Reise nach Venedig. Er posiert auf Jetskis und auf Baugerüsten. „Gewinner haben keine Angst davor, zu verlieren“, schreibt er unter eines seiner Fotos.
In der Politik weiß man, dass die Engelsburg kein Einzelfall ist. In einer Broschüre des Ministeriums für Heimat, Kommunales, Bau und Gleichstellung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen ist bereits 2019 von „skrupellosen Eigentümern“ die Rede, denen es „das Handwerk zu legen“ gelte.
Es gebe Investoren, die Problemimmobilien aus Zwangsversteigerungen kauften, die Sicherheitsleistung von zehn Prozent hinterlegten, sofort die Wohnungen vermieteten und die Miete in bar kassierten. Manchmal würden die Investoren ihren Mietern sogar Minijobs vermitteln, damit diese dazu berechtigt sind, Kindergeld zu beziehen, hieß es in der Broschüre. Damals bekamen Menschen aus dem EU-Ausland nur Kindergeld, wenn sie erwerbstätig sind. Heute ist das anders, mittlerweile haben auch EU-Bürger ohne Job Anspruch auf Kindergeld.
Möglicherweise können Menschen wie Sajad Soleymanmanesh bald keine Schrotthäuser auf Zwangsversteigerungen kaufen und sie vermieten, ohne den vollen Preis bezahlen zu müssen. Zumindest könnte dieses Geschäftsmodell ihnen bald erschwert werden. Denn im Frühjahr dieses Jahres hat der Bundestag einen Gesetzesentwurf der Ampelkoalition verabschiedet, der zu einem neuen Umgang mit Schrottimmobilien und Zwangsversteigerungen führen soll.
Kommunen sollen demnach beantragen können, die Immobilien gerichtlich verwalten zu lassen. Die Mieten würden dann erst mal nicht an die Käufer gezahlt werden, sondern an einen gerichtlich bestellten Verwalter – so lange, bis der Ersteigerer den vollen Preis bezahlt hat. „Skrupellose Geschäftsleute ersteigern Problemhäuser, quartieren unter teils erbärmlichen Bedingungen Menschen mit Migrationsbezug dort ein und quetschen damit die Immobilien aus wie eine Zitrone – ohne den geschuldeten Preis zu bezahlen“, heißt es von Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann (FDP), der selbst aus Gelsenkirchen stammt. „Dabei machen sie sich das Recht der Zwangsversteigerung zunutze. Wir wollen dieser üblen Masche einen Riegel vorschieben.“
In einer Stellungnahme des Bundesrats – dieses Gesetz ist in der Länderkammer nicht zustimmungspflichtig – heißt es, die Gesetzesänderung könne sich nachteilig auf die „im Zwangsversteigerungsverfahren zu erzielenden Preise und damit auf Schuldner und Gläubiger auswirken“, wenn Gemeinden so früh eingreifen dürften. Einige interessierte Käufer könnten davon absehen, an den Versteigerungen teilzunehmen.
Die Länderkammer bezeichnet die Gesetzesänderung sogar als „Systembruch“, weil sie ordnungsrechtliche und städtebaupolitische Zwecke verfolge: „Dies ist dem grundsätzlichen Anliegen des ZVG, einen gerechten Interessenausgleich zwischen Schuldnern und Gläubigern herzustellen, grundsätzlich fremd“. Der Bundesrat schlägt vor, das Gesetz nur in solchen Bundesländern einzuführen, in denen es häufig zum Missbrauch von Zwangsversteigerungsverfahren kommt. Nach der Sommerpause, im September, soll die Gesetzesänderung im Bundestag beschlossen werden.
„Straßenbildprägende Bebauung“
Hätte die GGW, die Wohnungsgesellschaft der Stadt Gelsenkirchen, die Engelsburg damals ersteigert, hätte sie das Gebäudeensemble gern erhalten – wegen der „baujahrstypischen und straßenbildprägenden Eckbebauung“. Abhängig sei das natürlich vom Zustand der Engelsburg. Auch ein Abriss wäre denkbar gewesen, heißt es bei der Stadt. An Wohnraum – ob der vorhandene bezahlbar ist, ist eine andere Frage – mangelt es in Gelsenkirchen nicht: Die Stadt kommt auf eine Leerstandsquote von 5,3 Prozent.
Nur wenige Meter von der Engelsburg entfernt, auf der anderen Straßenseite, standen auch mal zwei Problemimmobilien: die Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 113 und 115. Auch sie sollten zwangsversteigert werden, im Februar 2020 war das. Und auch hier befürchtete die Stadt Gelsenkirchen, dass das Haus „von Käufern mit möglicherweise dubiosem Geschäftsmodell erworben“ werden könnte. Die Wohnungsbaugesellschaft GGW bekam frühzeitig Wind davon, dass das Haus verkauft werden sollte, und nahm deshalb im Auftrag der Stadt Kontakt mit den Gläubigern des Versteigerungsverfahrens und dem Eigentümer auf – und konnte so die Versteigerung abwenden.
| 2024-07-31T13:59:00+03:00
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Britain is falling apart – but Keir Starmer is nowhere to be seen
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It’s getting increasingly difficult to imagine a man more out of his depth, more tone deaf and more downright away with the fairies when it comes to the business of running Britain.
This week it was clearer than ever that Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t have a clue how the people of this country feel, what their priorities are and why so many of them have turned on him after less than five months in office.
His attendance at a G20 summit in Brazil when the biggest protest yet against his government’s policies took place a stone’s throw from Downing Street was perhaps his greatest “wrong place at the wrong time” manoeuvre yet. And all to cosy up to President Xi of China – who was so impressed with what Starmer said to him he immediately ordered the imprisonment of dozens of lawyers, journalists, professors and activists in Hong Kong for the crime of subversion.
The question on the lips of my listeners and viewers this week was “What on earth is the Prime Minister thinking. And what does he think he’s doing?”
After his ludicrous appearance on the back of a French military jeep last week he thought it wise to release pictures of him working hard on a private jet flight to Rio, decked out in Lord Alli style smart casual dress, and staring intently into his reading material.
This was his fifteenth foreign trip since winning the election in July – and while he may think his globe trotting antics are promoting him as an international statesman, the results would suggest something rather different.
Instead he looks for all the world like a politician on the run, hunting desperately for any international distraction to keep him away from the UK where things are going from bad to worse. With growth over the last three months to September limping in at 0.1 percent we are now dangerously close to recession.
Just a few weeks on from the Budget the economy is in disarray. Big business warned this week of job losses and higher prices, the farmers are on the march all over the country – up in arms at the ludicrous new inheritance tax on families – and pensioners abandoned without their winter fuel allowance sat shivering in their homes as the first snows of winter fell across the land.
In truth, Britain is going down the pan, and this Labour government is driving it there with Captain Keir at the helm of an ever sinking ship.
His approval ratings continue to dive-bomb, the lies coming out of government are now reaching ludicrous proportions and his seemingly wilful failure to understand the concerns and the cares of the people is off the scale.
Only yesterday he was asked if he sympathised with people who had concerns about Russia’s threats to retaliate against Ukrainian missile strikes with a nuclear response. Starmer seemed incapable of anything but a robotic response – as if he has no feel for the job, no communication skills at all. He could only muster a rather pathetic message that we must stand by the people of Ukraine. No mention of the people of Britain.
Similarly in Brazil he made much of wanting to build a rapport with China. He might be better served building a rapport with his own people.
On the day thousands for them travelled to London in buses, on trains, and driving in tractors he thought it would be a good time to say his first job was on a farm, picking up stones from a field when he was 14. “My whole family live in the country,” he offered. “It’s in my DNA.”
Britain responded with a heavy sigh. The Prime Minister tells lies so frequently now that we have come to switch off when he talks. Why believe a man who said he would cap energy prices, why believe a man who told farmers he would not be raising their taxes, and why listen to the architect of the removal of £300 for winter fuel to the most vulnerable in our society?
On his first trip to Washington DC he returned with a spring in his step and declared that Joe Biden had never been in better health and was absolutely not standing down as the Democrats candidate. Only days later Biden did exactly that.
Two-tier, free gear, insincere, not here Keir is fast becoming the grim reaper of international politics. After he visited Germany, the government collapsed. When he arrived in Budapest no European leaders wanted to shake his hand. And now he’s desperately trying to get back into the good books of President elect Donald Trump and his new partner in crime Elon Musk.
It’s all gone horribly wrong for Starmer. But we are the unfortunate recipients of his weekly disasters. It can’t go on like this. And neither can he.
Mike Graham is the host of Morning Glory, every weekday morning on Talk from 6am-10am
| 2024-11-20T11:30:00+03:00
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