Structure amid the wilderness: The broadsheet’s place todayAT&T and Verizon were targeted by China-backed hacking group Salt Typhoon, but their networks are now secure, the telecommunications companies said on Saturday in their first acknowledgement of the hacking. Meanwhile, Lumen Technologies, which owns CenturyLink, said on Sunday that it has no evidence of Chinese actors in its network. Verizon said in a statement to The Epoch Times that it has notified “a small number of high-profile customers in government and politics” who were targeted by the hackers. The company said it has contained the threat, and that “an independent and highly respected cyber security firm” had confirmed the containment. “Immediately upon learning of this incident, Verizon took several key actions to protect its customers and its network including partnering with federal law enforcement and national security agencies, industry partners, and private cybersecurity firms,” Verizon’s Chief Legal Officer Vandana Venkatesh said in a statement. “We have not detected threat actor activity in Verizon’s network for some time, and after considerable work addressing this incident, we can report that Verizon has contained the activities associated with this particular incident.” On Saturday, an AT&T spokesperson told Reuters the company detected “no activity by nation-state actors in our networks at this time.” “Based on our current investigation of this attack, the People’s Republic of China targeted a small number of individuals of foreign intelligence interest,” the spokesperson said. While only a few cases of compromised information were identified, AT&T was monitoring and remediating its networks to protect customers’ data and continues to work with authorities to assess and mitigate the threat, the spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Lumen Technologies told The Epoch Times there’s no evidence of Chinese actors in its network. “An independent forensics firm has confirmed Salt Typhoon is no longer in our network. In addition, our federal partners have not shared any information that would suggest otherwise. To date, there is no evidence that customer data was accessed on our network,” the spokesperson said in a statement. Government officials have previously said Salt Typhoon targeted a limited number of high-profile officials and politicians over a long time. Simon said that is “not the case at T-Mobile.” Chinese officials have previously described the allegations as disinformation and said Beijing “firmly opposes and combats cyber attacks and cyber theft in all forms.” On Friday, Neuberger said it’s believed the hackers geolocated a large number of individuals in the Washington DC, Virginia area, and targeted “probably less than 100 on the actual individuals.” Earlier this month, the CISA issued a guidance for “highly targeted” senior government officials and politicians, urging them to “use only end-to-end encrypted communications” and to adopt other measures to mitigate risks posed by Chinese hackers.Aston Villa’s impressive Champions League debut continued as they strengthened their chances of automatic qualification to the last 16 after a 3-2 win at RB Leipzig. Ross Barkley’s 85th-minute winner gave them victory after they had twice squandered the lead in Germany. John McGinn and Jhon Duran goals at the start of each half were cancelled out by Lois Openda and Christoph Baumgartner. But Barkley had the final say less than two minutes after coming off the bench as his deflected effort earned the points which sent his side third in the new Champions League league phase. The top eight automatically qualify for the next stage and with games against Monaco and Celtic to come, Unai Emery’s men are a good bet to avoid the need for a play-off round in their first foray in this competition. Leipzig are out, having lost all six of their games. Villa enjoyed a dream start and were ahead with less than three minutes on the clock. Matty Cash, playing in a more advanced position on the right, crossed for Ollie Watkins, who nodded down into the path of McGinn and the skipper made no mistake from close range. That gave the visitors confidence and they had enough chances in the first 15 minutes to have the game wrapped up. Lucas Digne’s cross from the left was begging to be converted but Watkins could not make contact from close range and then Morgan Rogers shot straight at Leipzig goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi. Then Youri Tielemans found himself with time and space on the edge of the area from Watkins’ tee-up but the Belgium international disappointingly dragged wide. All that good work was undone in the 27th minute, though, as Emiliano Martinez was left red-faced. The Argentinian was too casual waiting to collect Nicolas Seiwald’s long ball and Openda nipped in to get the ball first and tap into an empty net. pic.twitter.com/LGoAMrLkQy — Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) December 10, 2024 Duran was introduced at the break and needed just a couple of minutes to fire a warning when he drilled wide after a loose ball fell to him 14 yards out. But the Colombian got his goal in the 52nd minute, though it was another moment for the goalkeeper to forget. Duran was invited to drive forward and unleashed a 25-yard shot, which was hardly an Exocet, but still was too much for Gulacsi, who barely even jumped. It was his 10th goal of the season and sixth from the bench as he continues his super-sub role. 😍 pic.twitter.com/ZHeVFiYUW9 — Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) December 10, 2024 The striker was not complaining and he thought he had doubled his tally shortly after when he converted Cash’s centre but the provider was ruled offside by VAR. Five minutes later, Villa found themselves pegged back again with a finish of real quality. Openda was sent clear by another long ball and his cross was perfect for Baumgartner to cushion a far-post volley back across goal and into the corner. Digne brought a save out of Gulacsi and then Openda shot straight at Martinez as both sides pushed for a winner. It was Villa who got it as Barkley saw his deflected effort wrong-foot Gulacsi and hit the back of the net.
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Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Defying expectations Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” ‘Country come to town’ Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” A ‘leader of conscience’ on race and class Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn was Carter’s closest advisor Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Reevaluating his legacy Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. Pilgrimages to Plains The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.
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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, once called a 'pretty good Canadian,' dies at 100Thousands demand lower rents at Barcelona demoNew putting grip, same old Scottie Scheffler. The world's top-ranked golfer shot a blazing 9-under-par 63 on Sunday to repeat at the Hero World Challenge, winning by six shots over South Korea's Tom Kim at Albany Golf Course in Nassau, Bahamas. Scheffler rolled in nine birdie putts, the longest a 49-footer at the par-4 fourth hole, as he finished the week at 25-under-par 263 to win Tiger Woods' exclusive exhibition tournament for the second straight December. He stuck his approach shot at the par-4 18th inside 4 feet and finished up with a birdie. Scheffler completed a banner year in which he won The Players Championship, the Masters, an Olympic gold medal and the Tour Championship. "I think it's been a great year, it's been a fun year," Scheffler said. "I've been fortunate to get some wins and have some really good golf. This was another week when I played really solid and was able to see some nice results from that. Overall it was a pretty, pretty fun year." That said, he wasn't satisfied with his game and debuted a new putting grip that he said was introduced to him by his putting coach, Phil Kenyon. "I think Phil calls it a claw, but he really doesn't even say that," Scheffler said Thursday. "He just says ‘I want you to try a little bit' and he points his hand like that and wherever my hand felt good, that's where we settled. Not trying to think too much about it, trying to keep things simple." Scheffler held the 36-hole lead but was passed by Justin Thomas on Saturday. Thomas had an uneven fourth round for his highest score of the week, a 71 (five birdies, four bogeys), and he finished third at 18 under, seven behind Scheffler and one behind Kim (final-round 68). "It's just disappointing," said Thomas, who hasn't won a tournament of any kind since the 2022 PGA Championship. "I would have liked to put a little more heat obviously on Scottie going in the back nine. You know, I felt like I got a couple bad breaks there on the par 3s, the wind completely died or switched on 5. But I mean, you know, obviously I can't expect to have good things happen when I'm leading by 1 over Scottie and only shooting 1 under on Sunday." Akshay Bhatia (69) placed fourth at 15 under and U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley (71) took fifth at 14 under. Other notable finishes included Sweden's Ludvig Aberg in sixth at 12 under; Patrick Cantlay in 11th at 7 under; Brian Harman in 12th at 6 under; and Australian Jason Day tied for 19th (last) at 1 over with Russell Henley. Woods did not play this week, saying before the tournament his health is "still not there" and he is not "tournament-sharp" at the moment.
Jack Knox: Generosity of strangers renews our faith in fellow Victorians We also have different motivations for opening our wallets; for some it’s done with a resentful sense of duty, for others it’s done with joy, or gratitude. Jack Knox Dec 22, 2024 4:07 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Jack Knox. TIMES COLONIST Listen to this article 00:05:19 As we all know, Christmas sucks. Too much commercialization. Too much (or, rather, too little) money. Too much fruitcake (bleh!). Too many fist fights over the last parking space at the mall. Too many Saturday night office parties, followed by the Monday morning summons from HR. Too many craft fairs, whether they be the school-gym variety where you pay $8 for a set of homemade oven mitts knitted from flammable material, or the oh-so-twee affairs where they sell $40 quinoa-based fudge and where you have to avoid eye contact with the anxious-looking vendor desperate to sell his $800 blown-glass garden rakes, and where everybody makes a fuss when you quite justifiably start throwing elbows when it gets too crowded. Most of all: too much stress. This week, pollster Mario Conseco wrote in Business in Vancouver that three in 10 Canadians think this Christmas will be “more stressful than fun.” An Australian psychologist once compared Christmas stress to road rage, and Britain’s Daily Telegraph once reported that one in 20 Britons consider the day more traumatic than a burglary. Why all the pressure? Longtime TC readers will know that I blame Martha Stewart. Christmas was actually kind of fun up until the 1990s when Martha barged in and ruined things by making us feel like it was not only possible but mandatory to have a perfect Christmas, one where nobody gets drunk or burns the turkey or has a mismatched manger scene where one of the wise men is missing its head and baby Jesus has been replaced by a Luke Skywalker figurine. Eventually Martha was sent to jail for this (OK, technically the charges related to stock trading) but by then the damage was done. It’s another prison-based story that gives me pause, though. This one dates back five years, to the time the Times Colonist Christmas Fund received a cheque from a trust account maintained on behalf of inmates at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre — Wilkie, as it’s more commonly known. When we asked, the Public Safety Ministry confirmed that the donation came from an unidentified prisoner. What stood out was the amount of the cheque: $7. That’s a very specific number. It’s not easy to earn money when incarcerated. At the time of the inmate’s donation, the Public Safety Ministry said prisoners could get paid for certain work — cleaning or painting, for example — but that they generally earned only between $1.50 and $6.50 per shift, depending on how much responsibility, experience and skill was required. In other words, it could take a day, or even a few days, to earn $7. There’s a Bible story known as The Widow’s Mite in which Jesus, after watching a succession of rich people donate to the temple treasury, sees a woman add two small coins, or mites. He tells his disciples that, in fact, the poor widow had put in more than all the other donors put together, for while they had all made contributions from their surplus wealth, she had given all she had. For some people, seven bucks might as well be $700. We all have our preferred causes to support, and we all have a different capacity to support them. We also have different motivations for opening our wallets; for some it’s done with a resentful sense of duty, for others it’s done with joy, or gratitude. Last year the Christmas Fund received a donation from a 95-year-old Parksville woman whose contribution was a response to the help she received in 1965 after landing in Victoria as a single mother with little more than three mouths to feed. Another donation came in from a man who, 39 years ago, was helped by the Christmas Fund at a time when he was a struggling single father of two, living in the Cridge centre. “More than the extra food and toys it provided, the generosity of strangers renewed my faith in my fellow Victorians and mankind in general,” he wrote last year. “To me that was the real spirit of Christmas at work.” It turns out that Christmas doesn’t have to suck after all. HOW TO DONATE TO THE CHRISTMAS FUND • Go online to tcchristmasfund.com . That page is linked to CanadaHelps, which is open 24 hours a day and provides an immediate tax receipt. • Use your credit card by phoning 250-995-4438 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. • Cheques should be made out to the Times Colonist Christmas Fund. Drop them at the Times Colonist office in Vic West, 201-655 Tyee Road, Victoria. • Contact Maximum Express for free pickup and delivery of your cheque. Call dispatch at 250-721-3278 or email [email protected] . The Times Colonist Christmas Fund 2024 fundraising campaign has received $871,518.25 as of Saturday. >>> To comment on this article, write a letter to the editor: [email protected] See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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Besides Chanchal Mukherjee , Group General Manager (GGM) of Bridge and Roof Company, two private persons -- Santosh Moharana, Director of Penta A Studio Private Limited and middleman Debadutta Mohapatra -- were also arrested for allegedly bribing Mukherjee, they said. The central probe agency had conducted a trap operation after registering a case against four persons including the three arrested accused. According to the CBI, the accused were allegedly indulging in corrupt and illegal activities in the matter of awarding work orders of the PSU and clearing bills in lieu of undue advantage in the form of bribe. It was alleged that accused Moharana met the group general manager (Mukherjee) at his Bhubaneswar office on December 6 during which the GGM demanded Rs 10 lakh and promised to adjust the said amount in future billings, a CBI spokesperson said. 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TENNIS players born male should only compete with men, Judy Murray has said — risking the wrath of trans rights activists. Wimbledon icon Andy’s mum spoke out after recent controversies over transgender competitors in women’s sport . 1 Judy Murray has said she thinks that those born male should only compete with men Credit: Andrew Barr Judy, 65, explained: “I’m all for inclusivity in sport but we’ve always had categories for a reason, to make it fair and to keep it safe. "And the most obvious categories are men and women .” The tennis coach insisted the two sexes are “physically and emotionally different”. The mother of two added: “I’m more than aware that when children reach puberty, the boys begin to pull away from the girls hugely because they obviously become bigger, stronger and faster. READ MORE TENNIS MUZZ BE CAREFUL Murray tells off Djokovic after spotting him with star of different sport 'I WAS TERRIBLE' Andy Murray delivers brutal verdict on his big tennis return “Usually boys are more competitive too and more robust than girls in general. "Those born male should only compete in male categories. "I feel the same way about our spaces in general.” The former Strictly contestant admitted she will undoubtedly be accused of transphobia, adding “which I’m certainly not”. Most read in Sport FIGHTER MOURNED Tommy Fury's ex-opponent Genadij Krajevskij dies at 37 as tributes pour in NEW BALL GAME Postecoglou told he's not playing 'Kilmarnock or St Mirren' by pundit 'YOU'RE CRAZY' Rangers star's DAD parties with fans during Ross County win CRY BHOY CRY Ex-Celtic star suffers cup final heartbreak as teammates left in TEARS She said: "As soon as you speak out about this you get jumped on by some trans activists who will accuse you of being transphobic, which I’m certainly not. “It does feel to me now as though the tide is turning. Jamie Murray breaks down in tears as he reacts to Andy Murray's retirement in emotional video with wife Kim and mum Judy “I think it’s a challenge for any woman in the public eye to speak about this and in sport it’s usually the old guard who are speaking out about it. “This is because they’ve gained maturity and don’t have anything to lose any more. “They have the accumulated wisdom that comes from experience. “Younger female athletes, understandably, are very cautious about this because of the social media onslaught that can come with it, and how it could affect sponsorship and team funding. “And it doesn’t matter what the topic is: if it’s something that’s considered divisive – and you see this in politics with female politicians – you’re left asking whatever happened to common sense and sensible debate? “What happened to the concept of listening to other people’s opinions and trying to devise fair solutions? Read more on the Scottish Sun 'vicious circle' I live in Scotland's benefits hotspot -I've only worked 4 years of my life SPLIT THE PACK I'm one of the best ever snooker stars but I wouldn't be if I was born later “If you’re a woman, you need to be a very strong personality now to withstand the criticism that comes with speaking out for something you believe in. “It’s really sad.”Women's Top 25 roundup: Alabama heats up, knocks off No. 15 Michigan State
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KDA has also established offices in Minneapolis and Mogadishu. "Now you have a system in place on the ground that will deliver those things to people in need," Ibrahim said in an interview earlier this month. "This will be significant in terms of people helping their loved ones back in Somalia, but also for Somali-Canadians who want to do business in Somalia." Why Somali Canadians are footing more of the bill for the climate crisis in Africa When civil war broke out in 1991, Somalia's postal system collapsed. Attempts to revive it have been hindered by the lack of a robust road system typically used to generate addresses, Ibrahim said. That's where KDA comes in. Users simply download the app to claim an address that is navigable via Google or Apple maps. The address is finalized by a team that visits the home to verify the identity of residents. 'Game-changer' Ibrahim expects KDA's system to transform life in Somalia. He said the platform can help governments register voters and collect taxes which would improve service delivery and infrastructure, while the collection of census data could pinpoint where resources should be distributed, and fine-tune emergency responses. Jibril Ibrahim says KDA's platform is designed to transform governance, security and the economy in Somalia while increasing opportunities for Somali-Canadians to do business abroad. (Submitted by Jibril Ibrahim) Establishing the system would also usher in a wave of new opportunities for entrepreneurs and job-seekers, according to Ibrahim, in areas including e-commerce, finance, transportation, deliveries, logistics and telecommunications. "This will be a game-changer in terms of how business is done in Somalia and the rest of the East African countries as well," Ibrahim said, adding that KDA has developed similar systems for neighbouring countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and South Sudan. An increase in personal wealth and government services has another advantage: a reduced reliance on money sent from abroad, meaning it could dramatically reduce the financial burden on members of the Somali diaspora worldwide. 'Gold mine' of opportunity The Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce says KDA's venture highlights how Alberta is well-positioned to capitalize on business opportunities in Africa given the province's rapidly growing population of African heritage. "They know the potential, opportunities and environment — the needs and pain points," said Kemi Bolatito-Bello, head of the chamber's Edmonton chapter. "Opportunities in Africa are a gold mine because the advancement of technology is still very, very small. It's a very green space for those that want to go in early and invest." Bolatito-Bello herself has founded two businesses in Edmonton since immigrating from Nigeria with her family in 2015. Her latest venture, Scooly — an AI global immigration marketplace that connects students and immigrants to legal visa experts — was developed with the Alberta Catalyzer, a program for tech entrepreneurs. Kemi Bolatito-Bello described the business opportunities in Africa as a gold mine and win-win scenario for Canadians and Africans alike. (Submitted by Scooly) Bolatito-Bello praised the efforts of the Alberta government to attract investment and open up the province to international opportunity, while investing heavily in the technology sector. She hopes to see the province increase representation on the ground in Africa, to maximize business opportunities. She also wants the government to invest more in private companies so they don't move elsewhere to access funding to expand. 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Hyderabad: City police commissioner CV Anand has announced plans for the replacement and maintenance of CCTV cameras across Hyderabad in 2025. Addressing media after releasing the Hyderabad City Police annual report- 2024 at the Integrated Command Control Centre (ICCC) at Banjara Hills on Sunday, December 22, he said that most CCTV cameras installed 6-7 years ago have become defunct and needed either repairing or replacement. “As per the Telangana Public Safety Act, the installation of new CCTV connectivity is a top priority of the police department, as crime detection and the maintenance of law and order depend on it,” he said. He noted that the installation of CCTV cameras would be done by a specialised wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). Recalling the special drive held by the police in 2014 and 2015, when shopkeepers, communities, and others were encouraged to install CCTV cameras in their areas, the Hyderabad police commissioner stated that 6 lakh shops had installed CCTV cameras at that time. “This was part of the 10,000 cameras installed across the city, along with an additional 3,500 under the Nirbhaya project,” he said. He, however, stated that presently people weren’t showing interest in installing the CCTV cameras at their own expense, as they wanted the government to do that. The senior police officer pointed out that out of all the CCTV cameras installed across the country, 60 per cent were present in Telangana.People in Milton Keynes helped by employability scheme