Female staff alleged company failed to maintain safe workplace, after allegations of sexual assault against pilot
The Canadian airline WestJet has agreed to pay C$4.5m (£2.4m) to settle a decade-long sexual harassment class action lawsuit levelled by its female flight attendants, who alleged the company failed to maintain a safe workplace.
The suit followed allegations by Mandalena Lewis, a former flight attendant, that a pilot had sexually assaulted her and a colleague, but that WestJet kept the pilot flying, thereby putting other employees at risk.
Messi’s father, Jorge, died last week at age of 68
Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longer
Lionel Messi said on Wednesday that he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week. Messi’s father, Jorge, died last week aged 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness.
In a tribute on Instagram, Messi wrote: “I don’t know what I’m going to do without you. I don’t know how to move forward. I only played football and now I have quite a few doubts about whether I’m going to keep doing it for much longer.
As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney
Europe is in an economic crisis that, unlike the eurozone downturn at the beginning of the millennium, cannot be measured in ratings downgrades and borrowing costs. For metrics, try engagement depth and consumer trust instead.
The unedifying spectacle of the European Union’s falling out over the Ceuta crisis looks like the latest symptom of Europe’s shrinking attention economy. When more than 70,000 people crossed over from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta at the start of the month, Rome hastily reintroduced air and sea border checks with Spain for one month; Madrid retaliated with spot-checks on travellers to Italy.
GENÈVE (ANP) - Landen in een gewapend conflict of in een gevoelige geopolitieke situatie die het Eurovisie Songfestival winnen, mogen niet automatisch meer de volgende editie organiseren. Dat heeft de European Broadcasting Union woensdag bekendgemaakt. Tot nu toe was het zo dat de winnaar van het Eurovisie Songfestival het jaar daarna het evenement organiseert. Door de nieuwe regels zou een songfestival in Israël op dit moment niet kunnen vanwege de oorlog in Gaza.
"Als het nodig is, dan kan de EBU een onafhankelijke inschatting laten maken van de veiligheid in de regio", stelt de EBU in de verklaring. Afgelopen editie deden vijf landen, waaronder Nederland, niet mee aan het songfestival omdat Israël wel meedeed.
CATANIA (ANP/RTR) - De belangrijkste luchthaven van Sicilië, bij Catania, blijft langer dicht vanwege de uitbarsting van vulkaan de Etna. Tot zeker donderdag 16.00 uur wordt het vliegverkeer in het oosten van het eiland opgeschort.
De Etna zorgt als meest actieve vulkaan van Europa regelmatig voor verstoringen in het vliegverkeer. Vorige week begon de meest recente uitbarsting, waarbij grote aswolken over de regio heen worden geblazen. De langdurige beperkingen op de luchthaven van Catania zorgen voor extra druk op de andere luchthavens van Sicilië. Het is een van de drukste toeristische periodes voor het Italiaanse eiland.
Volgens de Italiaanse krant La Sicilia reizen duizenden bezoekers naar uitkijkpunten bij de vulkaan om de lavastromen te bekijken. Vooral 's avonds en 's nachts zijn deze goed te zien. Dit brengt ook gevaarlijke situaties met zich mee. De krant schrijft dat twee jongeren op de terugweg in ruw gebied terechtkwamen en moesten worden gered.
Bij de tijdschriften-, tabaks- en ansichtkaartenwinkel annex pakketafwerkplek was een A4 op de deur geplakt. In geprinte letters: ‘Ook hier geen eclipsbrillen’. Ik meende in het woordje ‘ook’ een zekere boosheid te lezen.
Uber Freight says it is investigating a "data security incident" days after the Helix extortion group listed the company on its data leak site on August 6. Helix claims to have stolen nearly 1 million files from mailboxes, OneDrive accounts, the accounts receivable department, and other repositories. An Uber Freight spokesperson told The Register that the incident was under investigation but had not disrupted the company's daily operations. "We are investigating a data security incident involving unauthorized access to a portion of Uber Freight's systems and repositories. The incident was identified, contained, and remediated, and we promptly engaged federal law enforcement. "There has been no impact to Uber Freight's business operations, which continue in the normal course without disruption. Our systems are secure and fully operational." Uber Freight is the ubiquitous ride-sharing company's lesser-known logistics arm, which describes itself as "one of North America's largest managed transportation and multimodal capacity networks." Its website claims that it manages 18 million shipments carrying more than $17 billion worth of goods each year. The Register did not download the files Helix released in stages, and Uber Freight neither confirmed nor denied that the material was authentic. Helix is one of several recently established extortion brands linked by researchers to infrastructure associated with BlackFile, which retired its name in May. According to Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Helix shares infrastructure with the Pink, Redact, and Falcon brands. Google tracks the wider cluster of activity as UNC6671. Operators associated with UNC6671 often use vishing to gain an initial foothold, posing as IT helpdesk staff overseeing mandatory security migrations, Google said. They contact employees on their personal phones and use device code phishing to obtain credentials and authenticated sessions before siphoning data from cloud services such as Microsoft 365. They have also targeted Okta identity infrastructure. Researchers believe the UNC6671-linked brands have recently shifted toward organizations in higher-value sectors. Since June, they have favored technology, transportation, and hospitality targets after focusing on manufacturing, real estate, healthcare, and insurance during April and May. Why multiple brands emerged after BlackFile shut down is unclear. GTIG said the strategy could "compartmentalize operations, hide overall breach volumes, and isolate any negotiation fallout," although other plausible explanations exist. Internal disagreements over matters such as handling finances and operational security could have led to the fragmentation of UNC6671, GTIG speculated. The core members may also be looking to retain control over the intrusion and data theft aspects of the attack, while outsourcing negotiations and extortion. The different groups may also just be using the same commoditized phishing tools. ®
Nieuws uit het verkeer! De Nederlander heeft een nieuwe nummer 1 ergernis op de weg, zo blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Bumperkleven is het nieuwe geen richting aangeven, zo luidt de conclusie. Daarnaast ergert u zich aan medeweggebruikers die bellen/appen/Facebooken/Grindren achter het stuur, onnodig links rijden, files en zo nog veel meer zeer terechte doch een tikje politiek correcte ergernissen. Omdat we ook benieuwd zijn hoe het met uw ervaringen zit, doen wij ook ff een rondje gruwelijke, politiek incorrecte ergernissen. Poll na de breek!
Justine le Clercq Terwijl half Nederland met de caravan zigeunertje aan het spelen is op een brandende Franse camping, lopen hier onze echte zigeuners te smeken of ze er alsjeblieft een paar woonwagens bij mogen krijgen. Justine le Clercq We zijn weer massaal vertrokken naar mooie ruim opgezette campings in binnen- en buitenland. Heerlijk die vrijheid! Lekker de natuur om je heen. En al die vertrouwde gezichten van vorig jaar weer ontmoeten bij de barbecue. De echte zigeuners, die we zo niet meer noemen, dat zijn de Roma, de Sinti en de Reizigers. Beter gezegd, woonwagenbewoners. Hun levenswijze moeten ze stap voor stap inleveren. Eerst moest men stoppen met rondtrekken. Daarna moest men op grote locaties bij elkaar wonen. Daarna moest men juist weer op kleine locaties wonen (uit elkaar getrokken families). Toen moesten de woonwagenlocaties verdwijnen. En uiteindelijk moest de woonwagenbewoner gewoon een huis nemen. Over Nederlandse woonwagenbeleid de afgelopen decennia kan ik kort zijn: die woonwagenbewoners moeten normaal doen. Hoe doe je normaal? Normaal doen is de kern van het echte Nederlanderschap en wie niet normaal doet, kan rekenen op alle varianten van uitsluiting, discriminatie, repressie en wurgende bestuurlijke besluitvorming. Wij normale Nederlanders weten nu eenmaal beter dan […]
Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space.
Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field and cause geomagnetic storms, which are when we see some of the most brilliant auroras. But they also disrupt or damage our communications systems, power grids, GPS, and satellites, and researchers want to further understand how the sun builds up its magnetic energy so we better know how to guard against its massive fits of activity. They’ve also been trying to figure out why the sun’s corona, or atmosphere, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
Thanks to the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which has pride of place at the National Solar Observatory on Maui, Hawaii, the highest-resolution image of the sun ever captured has revealed unique features that may give solar scientists some insight into how this magnetic energy builds.
Rippling forms that physicists call Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability (KHI) demonstrate the effect of two fluids flowing past each other at different velocities. It’s a phenomenon named for the two scientists who observed it for the first time around 1870, and it can be seen in clouds, ocean waves, and the atmospheres of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn.
The Inouye telescope, the most powerful of its kind, was able to capture features smaller than 12 miles across, providing insights that remained hidden in earlier photos. The details may illuminate part of a solar process that scientists refer to as “flux braiding,” because the way the sun’s magnetic field lines move around one another result in a plaited effect. But the tension builds and builds before eventually breaking, which is when we see flares and similar events. The swirls of KHI may have something to do with how these twists happen in the first place.
“This could solve this biggest mystery of the last half a century for solar physics and astrophysics,” team scientist Dr. David Kuridze told The Guardian. “When you have this instability in the system, it is very easy to cascade the energy into smaller scales. And at some point, it just dissipates as a heat. This could make hot coronas, hot outer atmospheres of the sun and similar stars.”
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