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By James Galloway
Last Updated: 18/07/20 12:24pm
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Max Verstappen spins out on turn twelve during Practice 3 at the Hungarian GP.
Max Verstappen spins out on turn twelve during Practice 3 at the Hungarian GP.
Valtteri Bottas edged out Lewis Hamilton to set the pace in Practice Three at the Hungarian GP, but Sergio Perez finished close behind as Racing Point emerged as Mercedes’ nearest challengers.
Red Bull have been expected to run Mercedes closest this weekend on a track they claimed pole position at last year but they were only the fourth-quickest team in P3 – with Ferrari also unexpectedly ahead of them.
With dry conditions returning after a near-washout for P2 on Friday, Bottas’ best lap of 1:15.437 was just 0.042s quicker than Hamilton’s with a tight pole battle between the team-mates seemingly ahead in qualifying from 2pm.
“That’s where the battle is,” said Sky F1’s Paul Di Resta. “But I’m keen to see what Red Bull do as they clearly overstepped the mark with their mechanical set-up in that session.”
Red Bull used one of their curfew ‘jokers’ to work on the RB16 on Saturday morning as they try to settle on the car’s best set-up but Verstappen finished only sixth with Alex Albon down in 12th. Verstappen also earlier spun at Turn 12.
Instead, Racing Point and Ferrari moved ahead with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc finishing third and fourth respectively.
0:27 Canadian driver Nicholas Latifi spins on turn twelve during P3 at the Hungarian GP.
Canadian driver Nicholas Latifi spins on turn twelve during P3 at the Hungarian GP.
Ferrari’s pace around a circuit that does not place a premium on engine power appears a marked improvement from Austria, where they slipped into the midfield and lost one car in both Q2 sessions over the double header.
But Sebastian Vettel was still 0.8s off the leading pace in eighth place.
Underlining the continued promise of Racing Point, Lance Stroll was fifth fastest, ahead of Verstappen, with Lando Norris the lead McLaren in seventh place.
AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly and Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo rounded out the top 10.
The lives of carless single Black mothers who needed to get children to school and themselves to work were made incredibly difficult by a maddeningly slow MTA bus system in which a 20-minute car commute would stretch to 90 minutes on the bus. With the Red Line canceled, they lost the opportunity for nearly halving their commute times, for gaining a projected 10,000new jobs in Baltimore that Black residents might apply for, and for spurring renewal and transit-oriented development in chronically disinvested Black neighborhoods. Lost, too, was the possibility of reducing air pollution for the city with the poorest air quality and highest rates of pediatric asthma in the state.
The Obama administration’s Department of Transportation opened an investigation on the assertions that appear in the Legal Defense Fund’s complaint and a similar one filed by Baltimore transit activists. But the Trump administration closed the investigation without making any findings. In lieu of an investigation of the joined complaints, it said it would conduct a comprehensive review of Maryland’s transportation programs for compliance with Title VI.
The Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic sought to find out whether the Transportation Department followed through with that investigation. In January of this year, the Clinic filed freedom of information statutory requests with both the Maryland Department of Transportation and the federal Transportation Department. The Trump administration has yet to release any material in response to the Freedom of Information Act request, citing the Covid-19 pandemic for the delay,but this spring, MDOT disclosed a trove of documents and emails that my dedicated research assistant and I recently perused.
Most telling were email communications between U.S. and Maryland officials in 2018. Federal officials had opened a “Corrective Action†and informed MDOT that it had to conduct a comprehensive Title VI analysis of its transportation spending. They rejected MDOT’s initial response, saying it had “simply provided a conclusion that disparate impacts did not exist,†which was insufficient evidence of compliance with Title VI. MDOT tried again; in a subsequent email it claimed that there was no disparate impact violation because “large amounts of both State and federal funded investments in transit and other transportation modes closely correlated with the Census tracts with higher minority population.â€
In its answer, MDOT did not quantify what these “large amounts†were, for what projects or which minority communities allegedly benefited. It referred to funding formulas and maps provided in its previous, rejected explanation and offered a link to a previously published 565-page consolidated report that catalogued where transportation funds were allocated in given years. Those reports do not mention race at all. They were not designed to, and did not, assessracial equity.
Perhaps it is true, as MDOT claimed in its emails, that “minority†census tracts were near road projects in outlying areas and ostensibly benefited from those road investments and that the Washington and Baltimore regions, where many “minorities†live, received “large amounts†of transportation funds. It is also possible the alleged “large amounts†do not make up the difference from the cancellation of the Red Line. But we don’t know, because the Trump administration officials accepted MDOT’s answer at face value and closed the corrective action without any explanation of its reasoning.
In other words, the Trump and Hogan administrations never gave a considered response to the Title VI petitioners’ core claim: that in canceling the Red Line and reallocating its funds to other projects, Hogan and Maryland favored white areas to the detriment of Black citizens. The citizens and communities that toiled for more than a decade planning the Red Line, building trust and a multiracial coalition for renewal, deserved a published, reasoned answer that could be reviewed by a federal court to determine if the agency’s logic was arbitrary or evaded the demands of Title VI. There was no opportunity, in short, for any public accountability.
Two years after rescinding the Red Line, Hogan did offer Baltimore a consolation project, $135 million for BaltimoreLink, an ostensibly revamped bus system. It was hardly a substitute, though, for the $2.9 billion unified rail system that was first envisioned in 1965. Though Hogan claimed the new bus system would be “transformative,†angry riders complained that commutes worsened as bus lines were eliminated.
The suspect has been identified as 31-year-old Yves Rausch, and was given the nickname in local media outlets and on social media after he disappeared into the forest after an altercation with police.
On Sunday, police reported that officers were called about a man “dressed in camouflage” carrying a bow and arrow.
Rausch initially cooperated with the officers, before threatening them with a gun and managing to disarm them of their “service weapons” before disappearing into the forest.
“A large force of several hundred emergency services” and helicopters were deployed around the town of Oppenau for the search efforts, authorities said.
Juergen Rieger, the head of the search operation said that Rausch was found sitting in a bush “with four guns visible in front of him”, after a tip-off from two witnesses, Agence France-Presse news agency reported.
Reiger added that Rausch had an ax in his lap, another gun, and there was a letter in front of him, AFP reported.
Friday’s arrest ends a five-day search that gripped the local area. As of Thursday morning local time investigators had received more than 270 clues from the public regarding Rausch’s whereabouts within the forest.
Police have reason to believe that Rausch had “no permanent residence” and potentially lived in the forest.
The tailor finally told Dubey that he was ready to return his money. ( Representational image)
A 46-year-old man has approached the Bhopal police with a complaint that a tailor has stitched his underpants “too shortâ€. The police, however, asked the man- Krishna Kuma Dubey- to move the court to get the issue resolved. Dubey, who was earlier employed as a security guard and used to earn Rs 9,000 per month, lost his job due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown two months ago.
“I am from Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh and I cam to Bhopal for a job in October. Recently, I borrowed Rs 1,00 from a friend and bought different things, including a two metre-long cloth to get two underpants stitched,†Dubey, who lives in Bhim Nagar in Bhopal, said. He paid Rs 190 to the tailor for the job.However, according to him, when he wore th underpants, he found them too short.
“I complained to the tailor, who told me that the cloth was inadequate. I went back to the shop owner, who told me that he had given two metres of cloth,†he added.
The man then approached the police a couple of day back, who asked him to take up the matter to court.
“We asked him to approach the court,†Habibganj police station inspector Rakesh Shrivastava on Saturday said.
However, the tailor finally told Dubey that he was ready to return his money.
An inferno has ravaged the Plastic View informal settlement on the outskirts of Tshwane, leaving dozens homeless.
The location, which mainly houses foreign nationals living in the country’s capital, has very few basic services provided by the government, including water and proper sanitation.
Hundreds are said to have been left destitute by the blaze which occured on Saturday morning.
This comes less than a week after a house in Nellmapius, near the city, fell victim to an inferno which killed three people, including two children.
According to IOL, the victims of the blaze were 59-year-old Ephraim Leshike’s two daughters as well as his infant grandchild.
“When I heard them scream for me in the middle of the night, I rushed out and tried to break in through the door,†he told the publication.
“The children could not find the keys from the inside due to the smoke, and they could not escape through the window because of the burglar bars.â€
Ephraim Leshike
On Friday, 10 July in the CBD, a man plunged down from the fifth floor of a building on Maltzan Road while trying to escape a fire.
When the medics arrived, the man was in critical condition, but still alive. However, Netcare’s Shawn Herbst says attempts to resuscitate him failed, and he was soon pronounced dead on the scene.
“Netcare 911 responded to reports in Pretoria. Reports on the scene were that a 49-year-old male had fallen from the fifth floor while trying to escape a fire. Paramedics found the man in a critical state. He was declared deceased on the scene.â€
Heartening news from the Covid-stricken Bachchan household. Both father and son Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan are recovering fast from their mild attack of Coronavirus. Aishwarya and Aaradhya who were shifted to the hospital on Friday evening are also doing very well.
A source close to the family says, “All four are responding well to the treatment. They would like to return home and continue their quarantine there since their presence in the hospital is constantly palpable, with excited fans speaking about and trailing the VVIP guests. No matter how quiet the Bachchans try to be, they are after all who they are.â€
Sources say they will be home at the earliest. “Sometime next week for sure,†says the source.
PESHAWARÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â -Â Â Â Â A delegation, consisting of General Secretary Tourism Promotion Association Corporation Sajjad Awan and representatives of Association of Hotel Owners, called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani here on Friday and apprised him about issues being faced by the hotel and tourism industry in Naran.
The delegation requested for solution to the problems being faced by the hotel and tourism industry in the wake of coronavirus situation.
The representatives said their businesses had been badly affected as tourists’ entry was banned and no tax relaxation was given to people associated with the business.
They said hundreds of people from the hotel and tourism industry had become unemployed due to the virus, adding only one mobile network was providing internet services which was also an issue being faced in Naran.
They said roads inside and leading to the valley were also in bad condition and needed repair and rehabilitation to attract the tourists.
They demanded that quarters concerned should be asked to find solution to their problems.
Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani assured the delegation that these problems would be addressed very soon, saying coronavirus was a pandemic that had affected businesses worldwide.
He said he will bring these issues under discussion with the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa very soon while matters pertaining to the federal government would be addressed on federal level.
Promoting tourism industry, he said was among the top most priority of the government and every possible step would be taken to address issues confronted by this industry.
Exercise bikes have long been a favourite piece of equipment for exercising but now they are becoming hi-tech.
BBC Click’s Lara Lewington put the artificial intelligence bike, CAR.O.L to the test.
The bike makes use of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), based around the concept that two 20-second sprints within an eight-minute gentle cycle are just as good for you as a 45-minute run.
But what is it like to use and how does the workout really feel?
When Ricardo Alvarado went grocery shopping this week, he had a list of items to buy, but he steered clear of anything from Goya Foods. “I was using their beans, but I found a different brand,” he said. “I switched olive oil, too, and I bought my own spices, not theirs.”
A performing artist based in New York City, Alvarado is boycotting Goya Foods. “As long as I’m helping my community, I will do my part. It’s important that we show unity and solidarity.â€
The CEO of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, plunged the company into turmoil last week when he praised President Donald Trump at an event announcing the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative. “We’re all truly blessed, at the same time, to have leader like President Trump who is a builder,†Unanue said. He compared the president to his grandfather, a Spanish immigrant who founded the company in 1936.
News of Unanue’s words spread quickly, and hashtags like #Goyaway and #BoycottGoya trended on social media.
Goya Foods CEO and President Bob Unanue speaks prior to President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order on the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 9, 2020.Jim Watson / AFP – Getty Images
For Alvarado, boycotting Goya Foods is personal. “I know the company employs a lot of Latinos and is very charitable,†he said, “but with everything that is going on with this administration and the border, the family separations and DACA, for Goya to step up and support him [Trump] for his work just blew my mind.â€
“There is so much hate against our communities,†Alvarado said. “And the face of that hate is Trump. I feel like Goya is supporting hate, by supporting Trump.â€
As far back as Cesar Chavez’s boycotts of grapes during the 1970s, consumer campaigns have been a way for Latino communities to amplify their voices. But the Goya episode feels different to many Latinos, because it come at a time when the nation is politically polarized and some Latinos report feeling under siege.
The “Boycott Goya†movement, some Latinos say, is more about taking a stand against the president’s bigotry than about punishing a once-beloved brand.
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Valerie Halsema, a teacher in Los Angeles, said that she relates to both sides of the Goya issue. “I support the boycott, but I also support his [Unanue’s] right to say what he wants. If he wants to say that, go for it,” said Halsema, “but anytime you take a stance, there are consequences, and I’m not sure he was ready for it.â€
Halsema noted that “where I would draw the line is death threats, harassment and people trying to totally shut someone down.†The idea of the boycott is a good one, she believes, because “Donald Trump has not exactly been a champion of people of color. He’s been so divisive. I would say I support the boycott — and free speech.â€
That led to pro-Goya tweets from Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump that have kept the controversy brewing.
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So far, Unanue is standing by his words. In an interview on “Fox and Friends†last week, he likened the backlash to “suppression of speech.†Speaking on “The Ingraham Angle,†he said: “We have the opportunity to either do well, or to destroy. And let’s do well.â€
Host Laura Ingraham asked Unanue if he planned on apologizing for standing with Trump, and he replied: “Hell, no. Hell, no.â€
Goya Foods has, in a sense, participated in a boycott itself, when the company led other corporations in withdrawing support for the Puerto Rican Day Parade in 2017. That year, parade organizers were honoring Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera, whose sentence for seditious conspiracy was commuted by President Barack Obama.
Several national Latino advocacy groups have weighed in on Unanue’s recent remarks. In a statement Friday, the Hispanic Federation called the comments “both painful and insulting.†The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) called Unanue’s words “insensitive, calloused and disrespectful to the workers and consumers who buy Goya Foods products.â€
“This is not a party issue”
For Melinda Colón Cox, president of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, the decision to issue a statement regarding Goya Foods was complicated by the fact the company is based in her state, and the organization likely has some members with strong ties to the company.
“When an issue like this arises, we take it very seriously and we do our best to look at the full perspective of views based on the available facts,†Colón Cox said.
Among other factors, her members considered that Trump has a history of making disparaging remarks about Latinos and that Goya Foods prides itself on being part of the Hispanic community and consumer culture.
“It is undeniable that Goya is known for its charity and philanthropic efforts,†Colón Cox said, “yet Mr. Unanue’s remarks led to pain, hurt, and anger for a very large sector of the Latino community.â€
Colón Cox’s group is nonpartisan, with members holding diverse political views. “This is not a party issue,†she said. Although she personally is supporting the boycott, her group is not endorsing it.
Colón Cox hopes that Unanue and Goya Foods can heal the anger among some Latinos by reflecting on the reasons behind the boycott. “Words are powerful and they impact how a company is perceived by the public.†Along with other measures, she believes that a statement from Goya acknowledging the boycott itself and why it is happening would be a start in helping to rebuild community trust.
Not a decision “taken lightly”
Maria De Moya, an associate professor of communications at DePaul University in Chicago, was surprised by Unanue’s remarks. “I feel that Goya has been a brand that has always done a good job at celebrating immigrants and Latino culture, everything that this administration seems against.â€
Any CEO is entitled to his or her political views, De Moya explained, but when an executive is speaking on behalf of a brand, they owe it to the company, to investors and to their employees to represent the brand in the best way.
“Giving passionate, public praise to President Trump, and then not backing down from the backlash, does not strike me as wise,” she said.
De Moya added that a boycott does not have to cripple or bankrupt a company to be considered successful. Consumer boycotts can have the cumulative effect of subjecting a company to greater scrutiny in the press.
“A boycott can also be successful simply by getting information out there about the company’s values,” she said. “While there are Latinos who support Trump who will continue to buy Goya, there are certain customers the company will probably never get back.â€
In New York, Ricardo Alvarado said his decision to boycott Goya Foods was not one he took lightly. “I’ll be honest, it hurt me, coming from Goya. It hit home for me in a hard way.â€
“We made Goya, we made them. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexican Americans — we made that company,†he said. For Alvarado, it doesn’t matter if others do not continue the boycott, or if it eventually dies out. “I have made my decision. I will keep my word; I am done with them.â€
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The tailor finally told Dubey that he was ready to return his money. ( Representational image)