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Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti admits signing a centre-back before the end of the transfer window has become a priority after Jarrad Branthwaite sustained an injury in the 3-0 Carabao Cup win over Salford.
With Mason Holgate potentially out until the end of October with a toe injury – although Ancelotti is optimistic the 23-year-old will return sooner – Branthwaite’s ankle problem leaves him with only Michael Keane and Yerry Mina as his two fit senior central defenders.
Even if Branthwaite is not out for too long, Ancelotti wants another option in defence.
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“Holgate is out and Jarrad we don’t know his injury and how bad it is, we have to look tomorrow,” said Ancelotti.
“There is a possibility to find a centre-back and I think we have to.
“The Holgate update is that he doesn’t need the surgery so maybe he can recover earlier than normal but I think we can manage until Mason comes back with three centre-backs no problem.”
The Italian was keen on a loan deal for Chelsea’s Fikayo Tomori but he is also attracting interest from Rennes and Everton’s pursuit has gone somewhat cold.
“I am not talking about players that are not here,” was his response when asked about Tomori.
Keane, Gylfi Sigurdsson and a late Moise Kean penalty set up a third-round tie at Fleetwood and even though they laboured somewhat and took 32 shots – just eight of which were on target – Ancelotti was satisfied with the display of a team showing 10 changes from Sunday’s win at Tottenham.
“The performance was good, the spirit was the most important part of this game, a good attitude, a good sprit and all the team showed this,” he said.
Salford boss Graham Alexander was disappointed the scoreline was not closer.
“I felt we deserved that with the way we played and the work ethic we put into the game and the discipline we showed tactically,” he said.
“They’re an excellent team with quality players and they make you work, but to a man our players put in that work.
“I’m proud of them, they looked really like a team and they can come off that pitch with no regrets.
“We did everything we possibly could to try and get a result, we didn’t take a backwards step and I would like to think the players will take great confidence from the levels they can perform at and if we take that into our league schedules, we’ll win games.”
Less than a day after The Intercept reported that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) received a letter that purportedly details an “incident” involving Trump Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh and “a woman while they were in high school,” Feinstein announced in a statement on Thursday that she has referred the secret document to the FBI.
“I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” Feinstein said. “That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”
“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Il.) told BuzzFeed when asked about the letter.
News that a letter about a judge who is up for a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court has been sent to the FBI “seems like a pretty big deal,” political analyst Matt McDermott noted in response to Feinstein’s statement.
With a final vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination set for next week, rumors regarding the contents of the letter have reportedly been swirling around Capitol Hill in recent days. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have requested to view the document, but Feinstein has refused to give her colleagues access.
According to The Intercept‘s Ryan Grim, “Different sources provided different accounts of the contents of the letter, and some of the sources said they themselves had heard different versions, but the one consistent theme was that it describes an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school.”
“The letter took a circuitous route to Feinstein,” noted Grim, who reported that the document was “relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter and sent it to Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat who represents the area.”
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Sexual assault survivors berated Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Friday morning after it he announced that he would vote Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh out of the Senate Judiciary Committee despite the serious accusations against him and the performance he offered during his testimony on Thursday.
“Senator Flake, do you think that Brett Kavanaugh is telling the truth?” asked one, according to ThinkProgress. “Do you think that he’s able to hold the pain of these countries and prepare it, that is the work of justice, the way that justice work is you recognize harm. You take responsibility for it and then you begin to repair it. You are allowing someone unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions and willing to hold the harm he has done to one woman, actually three women and not repair it. You are allowing someone who is unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions.”
While Flake had entered an elevator, the women held the door open but the Senator repeatedly looked away or down and would not answer their questions or respond to their outrage.
“Look at me when I’m talking to you,” yelled another woman in visible anger. “You’re telling me that my assault doesn’t matter!”
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The clip quickly went viral with many declaring online that the exchange, and Flake’s behavior, is representative of the deplorable historical moment that the GOP has ushered forth:
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A crowd-sourced fund to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in 2020 crashed Friday afternoon after traffic spiked and donations surged as she was delivering a speech on the Senate floor explaining why she would join nearly all of her GOP colleagues in voting “yes” on controversial Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
On the campaign funding platform Crowdpac, father and activist Ady Barkan joined forces with advocacy groups Maine People’s Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership to raise pledges for Collins’ not-yet identified Democratic opponent if she supported President Donald Trump’s high court pick. As of at 3:40pm ET Friday, it had raised $2,020,366 in pledges, an increase from the $1,804,551 it had amassed by Wednesday. A week ago, the total was $1,605,182.
While the site crashed, Barkan announced on Twitter that another portal existed to fund Collins’ 2020 opponent:
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Demanding Collins be “a hero” and vote “no,” the campaign declares that her vote would
After more than a 45 minutes of remarks on the chamber floor, however, Collins—who’s faced increased protests from constituents as well as the broader American public—made clear that she would not.
Following her announcement, Mainers for Accountable Leadership and the Maine People’s Alliance said in a joint statement, “Thousands of Mainers wrote, called, visited, protested, begged and pleaded with Susan Collins to do the right thing—to be a hero—and vote no. She ignored them. For years she has claimed to be an independent, a different kind of Republican, but today she shattered that facade forever. Her vote will reverberate long after she has left the Senate.”
“Susan Collins’ legacy will forever be tied to Brett Kavanaugh and we will never let her forget it,” the groups added. “We have raised more than $2 million for her next opponent and we are committed to defeating her in 2020.”
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Thousands of mostly-female city workers began a two-day strike on Tuesday in Glasgow, Scotland, demanding equal pay after living under an unfair pay scale for more than a decade and spending nearly a year negotiating with the city council.
With about 8,000 protesters marching through the city, employees are demanding a long-awaited resolution to talks that began 10 months ago after the Court of Session ruled last year that the city council had set an unfair pay scheme for the city’s workers in food services, custodial work, and home care—paying those in the female-dominated sectors less than those in male-dominated areas.
“The voice of Glasgow’s working women will be heard around the world,” Rhea Wolfson, an organizer with the union GMB Scotland, told the BBC. “After decades of rampant sex discrimination they will tell their employer, ‘Stop the delays. We want justice.'”
The city’s compensation scale was set in 2006, and women working in schools, home care, and other are paid as much as three pounds or nearly four U.S. dollars less than their male counterparts under the plan, according to the Herald. Some women working for the city take home £4,000 or more than $5,000.
Last May, just before the Scottish National Party (SNP) took the helm of the council after years of Labour control, the court’s ruling set off nearly two dozen negotiation meetings between the council and the workers’ unions began, but employees say the talks have gone nowhere.
“Equal pay isn’t a gift from your employer, it’s a right that you fight for.” —Rhea Wolfson, GMB Scotland
“Last year the courts agreed with us that the council’s pay scheme was unequal and invalid and we were sent back to negotiate a new pay scheme and settlement of equal pay claims for thousands of women across Glasgow,” Mandy McDowall, an organizer with the union Unison, told the Herald. “In ten months and 21 meetings of negotiations we have got nowhere. There is no detail on the table that allows us to have confidence that the council will meet the deadline of December that was equally set.”
Primary schools were closed Tuesday and about 6,000 home care clients in the city were without support for the day—but at least one client appeared at the demonstration in solidarity with the employees who have cared for her.
About 600 men who also work for the city—in fields including sanitation, street cleaning, and road construction—also turned out to express support for their female colleagues.
A number of prominent political figures in the U.K. expressed support for the workers, including Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also spoke out in favor of the strike, but rejected the local Labour Party’s sentiments—noting that the party was in control of the city council when it fought against equal pay measures, resulting in last year’s court case and the ongoing negotiations.
“You’ve suffered ten years of discrimination and we need to be clear: the only thing that will remedy this is you taking action,” Wolfson said. “That’s why we’re here today… Equal pay isn’t a gift from your employer, it’s a right that you fight for.”
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Tennessee plans to execute by electric chair 63-year-old Edmund Zagorski on Thursday night despite concerns from Fred Leuchter that the device, which he built in 1988 and the state last used in 2007, could fail.
“What I’m worried about now is Tennessee’s got an electric chair that’s going to hurt someone or cause problems. And it’s got my name on it,” said Leuchter. “I don’t think it’s going to be humane.”
On Twitter Thursday, anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean—who advocates for completely abolishing capital punishment in the United States—called Tennessee’s plans to use the decades-old chair to kill the inmate “all kinds of wrong.”
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Zagorski, an inmate at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) who was convicted of murdering two men in 1984, initially was set to die by lethal injection last month. However, he chose the electric chair as, in the words of one of his lawyers, “the lesser of two evils,” because of concerns about the drug cocktail that Tennessee uses for injections.
Citing court documents, CNN reported that Zagorski’s attorneys had argued the inmate was forced to make a “terrible choice” between the chair—which, although still “dreadful and grim,” would be “relatively fast,” causing him “excruciating pain for (likely) 15-30 seconds”—and an injection that could cause him to endure 10 to 18 minutes of “utter terror and agony.”
However, Leuchter, a “self-taught execution expert” who also worked on gas chambers, lethal injection machines, and a gallows in at least 27 states, told the Associated Press that he is concerned the chair may fail because of changes that others have made to it. Leuchter has not been allowed to service the device himself as he “is no longer welcome in the prison system,” partly because he promoted himself as an engineer despite lacking a degree or license.
Zagorski’s planned execution is just the latest to draw attention to the drugs used in state-sanctioned killings. Earlier this year, he was one of 32 death row inmates who sued the state over its controversial three-drug cocktail. As the Tennessean outlined in October, when the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled 4-1 that the state could continue using the formula:
Billy Ray Irick, who had been a plaintiff in the case, was executed by lethal injection at RMSI in August. According to Nashville Scene writer Steven Hale, who observed that execution, although Irick was initially unresponsive after the midazolam was administered, he then “jolted and produced what sounded like a cough or a choking noise,” and his “face changed to almost purple,” before he ultimately was pronounced dead.
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Midazolam has been part of multiple botched executions in other states, which has led to heightened controversy and other court battles—including an effort by the pharmaceutical company Alvogen earlier this year to block Nevada from using its drug. Despite claims that use of midazolam is unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 2015 that states could continue to use the drug to kill condemned prisoners.
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Amid fresh warnings from United Nations researchers that there is a closing window to enact the “rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented” societal changes needed to prevent a climate catastrophe, a new study of the global food system underscores the environmental necessity of a massive reduction in meat consumption worldwide.
“Greening the food sector or eating up our planet: this is what is on the menu today.”
—Johan Rockström, PIK
Considering projections that the world’s population could grow to 10 billion by 2050, Options for Keeping the Food System Within Environmental Limits, published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, found that mitigating the climate crisis requires overhauling the current system by shifting toward more plant-based diets, improving technologies and management, and slashing food waste by at least half.
“Feeding a world population of 10 billion is possible, but only if we change the way we eat and the way we produce food,” study co-author Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany told the Guardian. “Greening the food sector or eating up our planet: this is what is on the menu today.”
While environmentalists and experts alike are quick to note that urgently transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is essential to meeting the goals outlined in the Paris climate accord or more ambitious targets, this new study adds to a growing body of research that clearly shows how current meat production and consumption trends significantly contribute to the global climate crisis, particularly through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), livestock are responsible for about 14.5 percent of anthropogenic GHG emissions. In a discussion of the study’s findings, lead author Marco Springmann of the Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food noted that overall food production is responsible for about a quarter of all emissions—making it “a major driver of climate change.”
“Adopting healthy and more plant-based diets globally could reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the food system by more than half.”
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As Springmann wrote, the team of 23 researchers from across the world found that “adopting healthy and more plant-based diets globally could reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the food system by more than half, and also reduce other environmental impacts, such as those from fertilizer application and the use of cropland and freshwater, by a tenth to a quarter.”
To accomplish the global community’s climate goals, the team concluded that, as the Guardian outlined, “the average world citizen needs to eat 75 percent less beef, 90 percent less pork, and half the number of eggs, while tripling consumption of beans and pulses and quadrupling nuts and seeds.” Perhaps the greatest barrier to such dramatic dietary changes is convincing farmers and consumers to alter their choices.
“When it comes to diets, comprehensive policy and business approaches are essential to make dietary changes towards healthy and more plant-based diets possible and attractive for a large number of people,” Springmann explained. “Important aspects include school and workplace programs, economic incentives and labeling, and aligning national dietary guidelines with the current scientific evidence on healthy eating and the environmental impacts of our diet.”
For the study, researchers examined not only how the global food system contributes to global warming through GHG emissions, but also how cropland use, exploitation of groundwater resources, and agricultural runoff from the application of nitrogen and phosphorus could decrease biodiversity, limit freshwater availability, and lead to dead zones in coastal oceans.
“No single solution is enough to avoid crossing planetary boundaries,” Springmann emphasized. “But when the solutions are implemented together, our research indicates that it may be possible to feed the growing population sustainably.”
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At the tail end of a year full of egregious data mining scandals and privacy violations by corporate giants like Facebook, Google, and Equifax—behavior that went virtually unpunished in the United States—Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced a bill on Thursday that would dramatically strengthen internet privacy protections and hit executives who violate the rules with up to 20 years in prison.
“My bill creates radical transparency for consumers, gives them new tools to control their information, and backs it up with tough rules with real teeth to punish companies that abuse Americans’ most private information.”
—Sen. Ron Wyden”Today’s economy is a giant vacuum for your personal information—everything you read, everywhere you go, everything you buy, and everyone you talk to is sucked up in a corporation’s database. But individual Americans know far too little about how their data is collected, how it’s used and how it’s shared,” Wyden said in a statement.
“It’s time for some sunshine on this shadowy network of information sharing,” the Oregon senator added. “My bill creates radical transparency for consumers, gives them new tools to control their information, and backs it up with tough rules with real teeth to punish companies that abuse Americans’ most private information.”
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Titled the Consumer Data Protection Act (pdf), Wyden’s legislation aims to fill a void left by the federal government’s failure to confront the new and complex threats facing consumers in the internet age.
The government, Wyden notes, has failed to prevent consumers’ sensitive information from being “sold and monetized without their knowledge” and refused to empower internet users to “control companies’ use and sharing of their data.”
According to a summary (pdf) of the new bill released by Wyden’s office on Thursday, the legislation would:
- Establish minimum privacy and cybersecurity standards;
- Issue steep fines (up to four percent of annual revenue), on the first offense for companies and 10-20 year criminal penalties for senior executives;
- Create a national Do Not Track system that lets consumers stop third-party companies from tracking them on the web by sharing data, selling data, or targeting advertisements based on their personal information. It permits companies to charge consumers who want to use their products and services, but don’t want their information monetized;
- Give consumers a way to review what personal information a company has about them, learn with whom it has been shared or sold, and to challenge inaccuracies in it;
- Hire 175 more staff to police the largely unregulated market for private data;
- Require companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.
While Wyden’s legislation is likely to run up against strong opposition from tech giants and the lawmakers who do their bidding, consumer advocacy groups applauded the new bill as a crucial first step in the right direction.
“We’re very pleased to see the bill recognize that there are non-economic impacts to privacy violations and that those should be policed vigorously,” Gaurav Laroia, an attorney with Free Press, told Motherboard. “People want additional protections. The constant drumbeat of data breaches and people’s rightful concerns over companies using that information to manipulate them has created an opening to get these important protections through.”
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A poll released as Americans cast their ballots in the midterm elections on Tuesday shows that more than half of the country believes Election Day should be made a national holiday—a likely partial solution to a number of problems that plague the voting system.
Fifty-four percent of respondents to the survey, taken by Hill.TV and HarrisX, say workers should be given the day off on Election Day, allowing them far more time to vote, saving them from having to leave their polling places without voting due to long lines and issues with voting machines, and potentially changing the United States’ generally low election turnout for the better.
On social media, a number of politicians and political observers voiced support for the idea.
At least 12 states were reporting broken or faulty voting machines on Tuesday, including New York, Georgia, and Arizona. As a result, voters in some states were given provisional ballots—which are not always counted—while others were forced to leave polling places without voting.
Reports on social media showed that voters in New York, Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania were among those who had to leave due to voting machine issues.
Extremely long waits were also reported in Georgia, where the Republican candidate for governor, Brian Kemp, is also the Secretary of State and is responsible for overseeing the state’s elections. At 5:00pm on Tuesday, five Georgia voters filed an emergency lawsuit seeking to stop him from exercising any further power over the state’s elections.
“Allowing one of the candidates to not just preside over their own election but misuse their office to give them an unfair advantage is just anti-democratic and unlawful,” said Bryan L. Sells, an attorney representing the voters, in a statement.
In Snellville, Georgia, the state had evidently not provided a polling location with power cords for the voting machines, leaving voters with no way to cast their ballots after the machines’ batteries ran out.
Both reports drew ire from critics who in recent weeks have decried a number of voter suppression efforts by Kemp’s office—including the attempted closure of polling places in majority-black areas and an attempt to disenfranchise 53,000 mostly-black voters for clerical errors on voting forms.
Voters in Georgia also reported that they had been turned away at the polls despite presenting photo IDs that are ostensibly accepted forms of identification for voters in the state.
Reports of difficulties casting votes are common on Election Day in the U.S.—and stand as incontrovertible evidence, critics say, that the country’s democratic system is broken.
The reports also intensified demands that the U.S. should demonstrate the same respect for the democratic process that countries including Mexico and France do—by ensuring that voters can make their voices heard without having to worry about getting to work.
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After meeting with “men’s rights” groups and scrapping an Obama-era guidance for how colleges and universities should handle sexual harassment and assault allegations last year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is reportedly set to release new rules that will “bolster the due process rights of the accused.”
“This is horrific,” declared Planned Parenthood. “[DeVos] is determined to make it harder than ever for survivors of sexual assault to seek justice on campus.”
“The new rules would reduce liability for universities, tighten the definition of sexual harassment, and allow schools to use a higher standard in evaluating claims of sexual harassment and assault,” reported the Washington Post. “The most significant change would guarantee the accused the right to cross-examine their accusers, though it would have to be conducted by advisers or attorneys for the people involved, rather than by the person accused of misconduct.”
While the Obama guidance defined sexual harassment as “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” unnamed sources told the newspaper that DeVos’ proposal describes it as “unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it denies a person access to the school’s education program or activity.”
The new rules supposedly strongly resemble a draft leaked earlier this year. As the Post detailed:
With the proposal “set for release before Thanksgiving, possibly this week,” according to the Post, some expressed concern that the timing could be a strategic ploy to stay off the public’s radar and avoid criticism. Sabrina Joy Stevens wrote for the National Women’s Law Center on Wednesday:
In addition to Stevens’ call to action—”We can’t let them get away with this,” she concluded—the Post article provoked immediate outrage on social media, with critics tweeting: “Re-victimizing the victims seems to be the plan here. Horrible.” “Shame on you, Betsy DeVos.” “[DeVos] is an enemy to women. #BelieveSurvivors.” And simply, “WTF?”
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon tweeted that if President Donald Trump—who has been accused of harassing and assaulting multiple women—and DeVos “actually cared about the well-being of survivors, this is the last thing they would do. We should be empowering survivors to speak up, not stifling them.”
DeVos’ proposal “encourages victim blaming and blatantly ignores the painful stories of #MeToo,” said Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California. “It takes us backward.”
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