Infotainer: September 2018

Sunday, September 30, 2018

When the interviewer asks you how fast you can type

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Talk to your kids about drugs!

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Fake news mars nation's name change vote

For a Balkan country of 2 million people, Macedonia has attracted an impressive roster of VIPs in the last few weeks.

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The Limits of Fashion’s Inclusivity

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Tesla big battery defies skeptics, sends industry bananas over performance. It has given a glimpse of the future, how a grid can be effectively managed with a very high share of wind and solar – not just faster, but also cleaner, smarter and more reliable than the dumb and ageing fossil fuel grid.

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Indians to hit quota for EB-5 visas for 1st time

The EB-5 programme allots green cards to foreign investors in exchange for their investments and an undertaking to create at least 10 American jobs. Investing via a regional centre, which in turn sponsors business projects, is more common than setting up one’s own enterprise.

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Mechanical Binary

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Got to see this beauty yesterday.

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New Pak cast in the mold of the old: India at UN

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How the IMF can manage the global economy better

Institution must strengthen its credibility as a responsive and effective leader – and listen to its members

Imagine a world in which the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund were more client-driven. Ahead of the gathering – this year’s will take place in Indonesia in October – the IMF would solicit from its 189 member countries three key policy issues on which to focus, not only in official discussions but also in the numerous seminars that are held in parallel. The result would be an agenda that responded better to the continued anxiety that a growing number of policymakers – and populations – are feeling.

For much of the decade since the global financial crisis erupted, countries worldwide have been subject to what London Business School’s Hélène Rey and others have called “the global factor”: a set of external influences that countries cannot manage or control but that play an important role in determining key domestic variables. This has generated economic and financial volatility that has complicated internal policy management, fuelled political polarisation, and exacerbated social divisions.

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Indonesian quake, tsunami: Death toll rises to 832

The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi rose to 832 on Sunday, the national disaster mitigation agency said, adding it assessed the affected area to be bigger than initially thought.

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Indian Navy needs minesweeper ships urgently

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Govt did not pick partner in Rafale deal: VK Singh

"It's the company that is making equipment that decides whom to give the offset. So the decision is that of Dassault and for various things they have selected a number of companies, Anil Ambani is one of them," Singh said. Commenting on the pricing issue, he said, the modified deal for fly-away condition aircraft negotiated by the present government is 40 % cheaper.

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Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another

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'Women are watching': Kavanaugh hearing focuses activists' anger

Supreme court drama has brought survivors of sexual assault and political organizers together. The next target is the midterms

The #MeToo movement has landed on the doorstep of one of the most venerated American institutions, the supreme court. In doing so, it has given women even more fuel for the fight.

On Thursday, in offices, bars and classrooms, Americans paused to watch Dr Christine Blasey Ford describe an alleged attempted rape to a Senate committee of 17 men and four women. They watched the man who denies the allegation, Brett Kavanaugh, respond with bristling anger.

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Mommy dearest: a psychiatrist puts Trump on the couch

Dr Justin Frank thinks the president has an erotic attachment to his daughter and a fixation with faeces and dirt

It all begins with the mother.

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Yale students condemn Kavanaugh case as 'symptom of a larger problem'

Students at university with long ties to US power unsurprised by allegations in culture that ‘normalises’ sexual misconduct

Across the Yale campus, outdoor bulletin boards are plastered with the same rain-soaked message: “We believe Dr Christine Blasey Ford.”

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Trump professes love for Kim and hate for Kavanaugh torment in freewheeling speech

President says he and North Korean dictator ‘fell in love’, decries nasty Democrats and believes UN speech drew respect

In an meandering hour-long speech in West Virginia, Donald Trump said he “fell in love” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, while escalating his rhetoric about the supreme court confirmation fight of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Speaking about his relationship with Kim, Trump said “We fell in love.” He added “No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. They were great letters. And then we fell in love.” Trump and Kim met in Singapore this year as part of the president’s attempt to push the North Korean regime to disarm after earlier insulting Kim as “little rocket man”.

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Elizabeth Warren will 'take hard look at running for president' in 2020

After Kavanaugh hearing, senator says it is time for women to ‘fix our government and that includes a woman at the top’

Elizabeth Warren will “take a hard look at running for president” once the midterm elections are done.

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FBI contacts Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez in investigation

Woman who says future supreme court nominee exposed himself to her poised to cooperate but report says third woman will not be contacted

The FBI has contacted Deborah Ramirez, a woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when he was a Yale student, as part of its renewed investigation of the supreme court nominee.

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'I saw myself in Dr Ford's words': protesters tell of Jeff Flake elevator confrontation

After Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher challenged senator, he called for an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh case

The two women who helped alter the course of American legal history by staging an impromptu protest in a Washington elevator have said they were driven by memories of private trauma and inspired by the courage of Dr Christine Blasey Ford.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: New York leaders seek to name building in justice's honor

Amid controversy over Kavanaugh nomination, Brooklyn’s borough president salutes second woman appointed to supreme court

As Washington is gripped by the supreme court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, some New York City leaders are attempting to change the name of a Brooklyn government building to honor a current justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Protesters take on Republican senator over Kavanaugh confirmation

Two women challenged Jeff Flake over his position on the supreme court nominee. Shortly afterward, he apparently changed his mind

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F-35 fighter jet crashes in South Carolina on day $11.5bn deal announced

Pilot ejects safely on day Pentagon heralds new purchase
Plane has stealth technology Trump thinks makes it invisible

An F-35 fighter jet crashed in South Carolina, the US Marine Corps said, in the first such incident to affect the most expensive defence programme in the world.

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Chances are you know a sexual assault survivor. Do you know what to say? | Mandy Len Catron

We are in the midst of a reckoning: survivors of assault are sharing their stories and we need to learn how to respond

I was 19 the first time someone shared her story of being sexually assaulted with me. Over AOL Instant Messenger, a friend from high school said she’d lost her virginity at a party a year earlier. “But,” she added, “it wasn’t what I wanted. I was drunk. He took advantage of me.”

I had no idea what to say. I understood that she was describing a traumatizing experience. I could tell she was still upset. What she was alluding to was terrible, but it was also commonplace. I heard stories of hookups gone bad almost every weekend. I sat frozen at my keyboard. Should I ask for details or would that only make it worse? Should I encourage her to talk to someone – her mom, an adviser, a therapist? It didn’t occur to me that she was talking to someone: me.

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In the elevator video, two rape survivors show how democracy works | Jill Abramson

Anyone needing a lesson in how American democracy should work must watch Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher hold Jeff Flake to account

Truth spoke to power. And the US Senate finally listened.

In the end, after a full day of official Senate hearings, all it took was two gutsy women, Ana Maria Archila and Maria Gallagher, to stop the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. The two women, who said they were survivors of sexual assault, stubbornly refused to let the elevator doors close as Senator Jeff Flake, the critical swing vote on the Senate judiciary committee, was on his way to cast his vote to advance the supreme court nominee.

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What if employees co-owned the business where they work? | Nathan Schneider

A quiet consensus is emerging across the political divide: Bernie Sanders and Paul Ryan both advocate enabling Americans to co-own the businesses where they work

What do Bernie Sanders and Paul Ryan have in common? Mr Ryan recently learned he has some Jewish ancestry, but there is at least one other thing, tucked between their otherwise diametrically opposed visions for the US economy: both advocate enabling more Americans to co-own the businesses where they work.

Mr Ryan has been a longtime co-sponsor of bills supporting employee stock-ownership plans, or ESOPs, through which millions of workers reap the profits they help create, on top of their wages. Mr Sanders, meanwhile, is among those on the left now crafting ambitious bills to promote employee ownership nationwide. Americans seem divided on just about everything, but if the two of them can agree that we should co-own more of the businesses we rely on, maybe the rest of us can too.

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The suffering millions of Yemen find a chance of hope on Capitol Hill | Simon Tisdall

A House resolution and a vote on arms sales in the Senate could affect US backing for the Saudi-led coalition

The civil war in Yemen is one of those obscure conflicts that feels as though it has been going on for ever. In the space of little more than three years, the conflict has become what the UN and aid agencies agree is the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster, with 16,700 civilians killed or wounded, 8.4 million people facing famine, a nation torn apart and an economy destroyed.

The killing of children, hit by missiles and shells smashing into their homes and schools or stricken by disease and malnutrition, has come to symbolise Yemen’s war. The UN’s latest Children and Armed Conflict report found that 1,316 children were killed or maimed in 2017. Just over half died in air attacks by the western-backed, pro-government coalition, and many others at the hands of Houthi rebels.

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The Kavanaugh hearing proves yet again the US hates women | Arwa Mahdawi

Republicans rallying around Kavanaugh shouldn’t expect women to accept that without a fight: patriarchy is on borrowed time

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Did the Kavanaugh hearing just cost US employers $1.76bn?

Distractions at work can lead to lost productivity, which translates into an expense for employers

You can say one thing about Challenger, Gray & Christmas: for a company with such a festive component to their name, they sure know how to ruin a party.

Over the past year or so, the outplacement firm’s researchers have given employers all sorts of reasons to dread any events that rivets the nation. For example, the firm reported that last year’s NCAA tournament and Super Bowl would cost employers $2.3 b n and $3 b n, respectively in lost employee productivity.

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Rory McIlroy in Ryder Cup wobble after being riled by gallery shout

McIlroy’s play suffers following a spectator incident and he and Ian Poulter falter in face of a rejuvenated Americans

On a day when the emotion of the Ryder Cup threatened to boil over it was Rory McIlroy who got into the hottest funk. Things had been going well for the Irishman, who had won his morning fourball with Sergio García and was two up after two holes playing with Ian Poulter in the afternoon against Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth until he appeared to be provoked by a spectator about his putting.

McIlroy’s response after making a tricky 10-footer to make a half on the 3rd was to turn around 180 degrees to face the crowd before bellowing at them: “Who am I? Who am I?” before pointing at his chest, and shouting: “Fucking come on!”

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Sergio García’s rallying display leaves Thomas Bjørn vindicated | Andy Bull

Spaniard justifies Ryder Cup call-up by proving he is a true leader with a day of input on and off the course

Of the hundreds of decisions Thomas Bjørn has had to make since he took on the captaincy two years ago, picking Sergio García was one of the riskiest. Not that Bjørn ever saw it that way. He has been on the same team as García in six Ryder Cups, as a teammate and a vice-captain. Now he was in charge, he knew he wanted him in his team, even if he had to use one of his wildcard picks to do it. The problem was, hardly anyone else seemed to agree with him.

García had been playing some poor stuff this summer, missing the cut in eight of his past 11 tournaments. But Bjørn was not worried about that. Instead it was the criticism that bothered him. To pick García, he has had to leave out men who were in better form, such as Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Matt Wallace. “I know people are going to wonder how much quality Sergio will bring on the course, I believe he will bring plenty but I also know what Sergio brings off the course. He’s right at the centre of it every single time.” García, Bjørn said, is “the one who will stand up in the middle of the room and who the others will listen to. He’s the one who will rally the troops.”

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Struggling Tiger Woods is no match for the magic of Moliwood | Kevin Mitchell

The American’s Ryder Cup losing streak extended to seven, while Tommy Fleetwood became the first ever European to win his first four Ryder Cup matches

Not since the Marshall Plan have the Americans been so generous to Europe. And Tiger Woods has been among the most munificent in this 42nd Ryder Cup.

On Friday, he and Patrick Reed gifted a point to Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood in the opening fourball, 3&1, before he skipped the afternoon foursomes to rest his back. On Saturday, he and Reed gift-wrapped the quiet Italian and his long-haired Southport mate the morning fourball, 4&3. And, as the American team sought to apply a tourniquet to the haemorrhage, the same European combination – Moliwood, as they have become known - were grateful for a 5&4 victory when Woods and the nervous debutant Bryson DeChambeau failed to click in the afternoon foursomes.

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Europe take Ryder Cup stranglehold and leave USA needing a new miracle

• Europe dominate day two to take 10-6 lead into Sunday singles
• Fleetwood and Molinari make history by winning four in a row

The extent of Europe’s stranglehold on the Ryder Cup is such that terminology referring to miracles is used when discussing the last time a lead such as this was overturned. A United States side apparently united as never before needs individual skill to retrieve this situation. How poetic.

Thomas Bjørn and his fearless team will take an advantage of 10-6 into Sunday’s singles session. The same margin applied overnight Saturday into Sunday – in the US’s favour – at Medinah in 2012, when José María Olazábal oversaw a recovery for the ages. Europe led 10-6 after two days at Brookline in 1999, before the US roared back. These, however, are the notable exceptions; it would be a major surprise if Europe do not reclaim the cup from here.

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Trump kicks off pre-midterms tour with West Virginia rally

President backs opponent of senator key to supreme court vote
Tennessee, Mississippi, Minnesota and Kansas are next

Donald Trump will on Saturday kick off a week of rallies in five friendly states, seeking to shore up support ahead of the midterm elections as the fate of his pick to fill a supreme court vacancy remains unclear.

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Jerry Brown signs California law banning gun sales to most under 21

Governor signs law on rifles and other types of guns
Law enforcement, military, licensed hunters are exempt

Most people under 21 will not be able to buy guns in California starting next year, under a law Governor Jerry Brown announced signing on Friday.

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Why are Republicans ramming Brett Kavanaugh on to the supreme court?

Mitch McConnell has made it clear: Dr Christine Blasey Ford does not matter. This is about shaping the judiciary for years to come

They blocked Barack Obama’s pick for the supreme court. They threw in their lot with Donald Trump, a political neophyte and TV celebrity facing multiple sexual harassment allegations. It is entirely unsurprising that the Republican party seems ready to ram through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

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Woman accuses Washington state lawmaker of rape after seeing Ford testimony

Republican state senator Joe Fain denies allegation of committing sexual assault 11 years ago

A woman has accused a Washington state lawmaker of raping her 11 years ago, saying she was inspired to speak out as she watched the televised allegations against supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The lawmaker has denied the claim.

Candace Faber said in a tweet that Republican state senator Joe Fain sexually assaulted her in 2007 the night she graduated from Georgetown University in Washington DC. He was not in office at the time at the time of the alleged assault.

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Petro-Y2K bug? If oil price touches Rs 100/litre, pumps will strike zero

Dispensing units have been automated and the daily price changes are effected in them from the central server of the oil marketing company (OMC) that supplies fuel to bunks. Once the server sends a three-digit price figure, DUs will either stop functioning or display zero rupees plus paise.

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Caretaker Rohit impresses with his captaincy

Rohit Sharma has inspired confidence and provided stability in the team. This from a man who was overlooked in the last six Tests - despite having the highest grade of central contract - is commendable to say the least. Is he ready for the top post? "Now that we have won, I must be ready. Whenever the opportunity comes, I'll be ready,” he says.

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Justice Chandrachud: A poster boy for liberals

The 58-year-old judge earned glowing praise with epithets like “the shining star of SC” and “liberal lion”. Considering the spate of recent judgments on Aadhaar and Sabarimala to Bhima Koregaon and Section 377 where he has spoken up for fundamental rights and in defence of dissent, it’s not surprising that he’s emerged as the poster boy for liberals.

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MP: Chemical that could kill 4-5 million seized

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence with the help of a team of scientists busted an illegal laboratory in Indore and recovered 9 kg of a deadly synthetic opioid, fentanyl, that could have potentially killed 4-5 million people. It was run by a local businessman and a “US-hating” PhD “scholar chemist”.

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Blind women to detect breast cancer

Nine blind women have been trained in Delhi as “medical tactile examiners” for carrying out intensive manual checks. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in India. It’s incidence rate is about 24 per 100,000 population. Early detection is key to successful cure and treatment of the dreaded disease.

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