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BBC: Paris 2024: Canada suspend Beverly Priestman over drone incident
Canada Soccer said it took the action because “over the past 24 hours, additional information has come to our attention regarding previous drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games”.
English-born Priestman, 38, had “voluntarily”withdrew from her side’s opening 2-0 victory over the Kiwis on Thursday, while Jasmine Mander, Priestman’s assistant, was sent home along with “unaccredited analyst” Joseph Lombardi.
On Thursday a French court said Lombardi had been handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to flying a drone in an urban area without a licence.
Well, this is embarrassing…
BBC: Gracehill: Unesco World Heritage status for NI Moravian village
The village was founded 264 years ago and is home to the only complete Moravian settlement in Ireland.
The Moravian Church, one of the earliest Protestant denominations, arrived in the UK and Ireland from Eastern Europe in the early 18th century.
Gracehill continues to have an active Moravian community with its own bishop.
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It becomes the first site in Northern Ireland to be granted cultural World Heritage status.
CBC: Canada men’s soccer team attempted drone spying at Copa America, Canada Soccer CEO says
The CEO of Canada Soccer says the men’s national soccer team “attempted drone usage” during the Copa America tournament that wrapped earlier this month.
Kevin Blue said that it was his understanding it didn’t affect competitive integrity but would not offer details as he spoke with media from Paris on Friday.
Asked whether Jesse Marsch, the head coach of the men’s national team, was aware of possible drone usage at that tournament in the United States, Blue said he was aware after the fact.
It sounds like they are not being entirely forthright.
Guardian: Alberta premier fights tears over Canada wildfires despite climate crisis denial
Last year, Smith trimmed funding to the province’s wildfire response unit. The premier said it would allow for a “more nimble” force to respond quickly to fires, but critics pointed out her decision followed a string of cuts by the United Conservative Party, including scrapping Alberta’s elite aerial fire service team and cutting the number of fire watch towers. The leftwing New Democratic party also cut funding for wildfire services, but cuts under the governing UCP have been deeper.
Smith has spent her tenure as premier casting herself as Ottawa’s greatest foe, focusing her efforts on opposition to Canada’s federal carbon tax, which she argues hurt ordinary Albertans, as well as a nationwide plan to decarbonize the electrical grid.
Guardian: Stephen Reicher: Donald Trump is a misogynistic, billionaire felon. Here’s why Americans can’t stop voting for him
But perhaps the greatest enigma of contemporary politics concerns Donald Trump – a man who elicits messianic fever and revulsion in equal measure. A liar and serial philanderer championed by evangelists; a felon supported by “law and order” enthusiasts; a man who boasts of groping women and yet was elected with a majority of white women voters; a billionaire who likes posing in the golden lift of his New York skyscraper while also posing as the champion of the working class. How on earth does any of this make sense? Yet, at the same time, how can Kamala Harris – if, as is near-certain, she is crowned the Democratic nominee – hope to win in November unless she is able to make sense of it?
The problem is that this is the perspective of outsiders. They presuppose the groups and identities (religion, gender, class) through which people view Trump. They assume, for instance, that women vote as women on the basis of women’s interests rather than explore the perspectives and identities through which Trump’s followers and Trump himself define their interests. That is, how they divide the world into “us” and “them”.
For skilled leaders don’t just represent groups. They play a key part in defining the groups they seek to lead and then in representing themselves as being “of” the group, working for the group and delivering to the group.
CBC: Company halts construction of $2.7B battery project in Loyalist Twp
After breaking ground in 2023, the company building a plant to produce battery components for electric vehicles in a municipality near Kingston, Ont., says it’s delaying construction of the plant citing a slowdown in EV sales.
In a statement to CBC News, Umicore Rechargeable Battery Materials Inc. said Friday that its project in Loyalist Township is impacted by the “significant worsening of the EV market context and the impacts this has on the entire supply chain.”
The project carried a total price tag of up to $2.76 billion and was projected to create 600 jobs in the region back in 2023. According to a news release at the time from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the federal government was slated to invest up to $551.3 million.
The province was to pay up to $424.6 million, but a source familiar with the project said that as of Friday, no provincial money has flowed to Umicore.
I wonder what the real reason is.
NYT: Firefighters From Around the World Headed to Canada to Battle Wildfires
Fast-moving fires may have destroyed as much as half of the picturesque town of Jasper, Alberta, and have ravaged Jasper National Park.
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At a news conference on Thursday, Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, fought back tears when describing the scenic beauty of the town and park. “We don’t know particularly which structures have been damaged and which ones have been destroyed, but that is going to be a significant rebuild,” she said.
Yeah, that’s the same Danielle Smith whose government cut the firefighting budget! The same Danielle Smith who opposes measures to fight climate change. That Danielle Smith.
Over 400 firefighters from as far away as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand were headed to help battle the fires, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement on Thursday.
Electrek: Elon Musk signals reaching limit of Tesla’s HW3 despite self-driving promise
This is fairly clear from the facts that Tesla needs to optimize the code to run on HW3 [Hardware 3] while HW4 seemingly still has a lot of room to grow and that it reversed its plan to have HW4 code lag behind HW3 as it focuses on getting everything running on HW3 first as the people who own these vehicles have been waiting longer.
At this point, it’s highly likely that Tesla will never be able to deliver on its self-driving promise on the HW3 car.
Yahoo Sports: 2024 Paris Olympics: Olympic flag raised upside down during Opening ceremony
Members of the French military raised the flag during the ceremony, but appear to have raised it upside down
There is no truth to the rumour that the flag was prepped by a certain US Supreme Court justice’s wife.
[8-year-old] Donald Trump labeled Kamala Harris ‘a bum’ and joked about mispronouncing her name at a speech in Florida Friday night.
Trump is among many Republicans who have deliberately mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name, …
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And in a 2019 memoir, Harris wrote: ‘[M]y name is pronounced ‘comma-la,’ like the punctuation mark. It means ‘lotus flower,’ which is a symbol of significance in Indian culture.’
via SmartNews
Last Updated: 26.Jul.2024 22:55 EDT
