The incident serves as a stark reminder of the importance of maintaining a high standard of conduct in professional sports. Referees play a crucial role in ensuring fair play and upholding the integrity of the game, and any form of abuse or disrespect towards them cannot be tolerated. The decision to sack the player sends a clear message that such behavior will not be excused or tolerated within the club.
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In the end, the outcome of these matches is uncertain, and anything can happen in the world of football. Real Madrid may emerge victorious and continue their quest for Champions League glory, or they may face adversity and be forced to regroup. Whatever the outcome, one thing is certain: these matches will be a testament to the enduring spirit of competition and the indomitable will of footballers to strive for greatness.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla studio Ubisoft Montreal is reportedly working on a new Animal Crossing-inspired social sim featuring Minecraft-like building elements, with former Gotham Knights creative director Patrick Redding said to be at the reins. That's according to Insider Gaming , which claims the title - currently codenamed Alterra - has been in the works for around 18 months. Alterra is said to have risen from the ashes of an earlier Ubisoft Montreal project, canceled after four years of development, with the two games supposedly sharing a focus on voxel creation. Insider Gaming's source describes Alterra as an "Animal Crossing-inspired social sim" in which players inhabit a home island populated by NPCs known as Matterlings. These Matterlings are "somewhat like Funko Pop figures", sporting large heads and designs blending fictional and real-world creatures, from polar bears to dragons. Alterra's social aspect is reportedly combined with that aforementioned voxel creation element, featuring building mechanics "somewhat similar" to those seen in Minecraft, with players able to fashion items using resources found out in the world beyond their home. Here, it's claimed they'll encounter different biomes containing specific resources and different Matterling types, as well as unique enemies, materials, and more - with one example given being an ice biome, inhabited by snow-ice Matterlings, where players can create objects from snow and ice. It'll apparently be possible to encounter other players out in the world too. Insider Gaming adds Ubisoft veteran Fabien Lhéraud is serving as lead producer on Alterra, and that the project's launch is "likely still a few years away". Ubisoft's release slate is, of course, a bit fuzzy beyond next year's delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows and Anno 117: Pax Romana , although the publisher has confirmed a new Rayman project is currently in the "exploration phase". That's alongside the very long in the works Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Ubisoft's troubled Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, with the latter now targeting a 2026 release . In more recent news, Ubisoft has now launched its first-ever blockchain game , featuring NFT figurines costing up to £50k.
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Traveller and Gypsies say they have 'lost faith' in the police after hordes of children were kicked out of Manchester city centre on Saturday. Those involved told the Manchester Evening News they 'would never trust a policeman again' following the chaotic scenes which saw crowds of children 'pushed' onto trains and forced to leave the city. It came after Greater Manchester Police signed a dispersal order allowing them to turn people away from much of the city centre area. Police have said they were acting on intelligence that groups of people were en route to Manchester on trains 'causing antisocial behaviour'. But those caught up in the response said they were made to feel 'worthless' and have consequently 'lost confidence' in the police. READ MORE: What really happened in town on Saturday afternoon One Traveller told the M.E.N she would 'never trust a policeman again' after her experience. Mary Kate Price, 17, a college student from Wigan , went to the city centre on Saturday with her cousin and elder sister. She said when they arrived at Victoria station at about 1.40pm they were met by a 'ring' of police officers who were putting children and teenagers straight back on trains. They were approached by a female police officer who asked where they were going, then allowed them through. She said they then tried to get into the Arndale through the Exchange Square entrance but were stopped from doing so by a 'big police guy'. "He stood right in front of me and wouldn't let me in. I asked why and he said 'We don't let Gypsies on our premises'." Mary Kate said she witnessed police arrest a teenage lad outside the Arndale and force him onto the floor. One teenager says she saw a lad being arrested by police outside the Arndale (Image: Submitted) "He was just standing up for his rights. He didn't touch that police officer. They flung him against the wall." And she says she also saw police officers kettle a group of Travellers, including children as young as nine or 10, on Corporation Street outside the Arndale, resulting in siblings getting separated from each other. She says her phone ran out of battery so she wasn't allowed onto the platforms at Victoria to get a train home and had to ring her brother for a lift, but says she has cousins and friends who were put on trains to Huddersfield and Clitheroe. Mary Kate said her experience had made her lose trust in the police. "It made me feel like we were worthless, like we didn't have a right to be on this planet. Before the police here in Wigan had always treated us with respect, but now I would never trust a policeman again, I wouldn't go to them for help because of the way were were treated." Children were herded onto trains at Manchester Victoria station (Image: Jonny O'Brien) Donna, 38, said she had also lost trust after seeing the way her 15-year-old daughter was treated. She travelled to Manchester from Barnsley with her two daughters, aged 15 and ten and two nieces aged 12 and seven, for a day out Christmas shopping. She told the M.E.N she had parked in the Arndale car park, and enjoyed a day out with the younger children while her teenage daughter explored by herself. She said she texted her daughter at around 6:30pm telling her to meet back at the car - but she received a call from the teenager telling her police wouldn't let them back inside the centre. Donna said she walked to the main entrance to ask officers to let the group in with her. However, she says when she got there, officers refused to listen to her and told the children to 'keep walking'. She added her youngest daughter and 12-year-old niece then walked down the steps to try and meet the 15-year-old, but were not allowed to rejoin her at the door, where they had just come from. Donna claims police officers 'pushed' them back and said: "You're not allowed back in". "I kept saying, they're with me," she told the M.E.N. "I was trying to explain, I'm trying to go home but I'm parked in the Arndale. But they were having none of it." Donna says she was made to exit the building to be reunited with her daughter, and walk in the rain all the way round to the other side of the centre to get back in. "On the way home my teenage daughter said she were scared to stop and speak to her friends," she continued. "She said 'we were literally scared to pick our heads up and speak to the police officers and make eye contact with them." She said she has been left 'concerned' about whether her daughter would now feel able to approach the police for help in a dangerous situation. "If I let her go out in town and she's scared of a police officer, who is she going to go to for support?" she said. "I'm 38 years old, so I'm used to a bit of discrimination in my lifetime. But it's got to the point now I've seen this with my own two eyes, how bad it's getting. Donna said the incident has impacted her daughter's confidence and made her worried about how she might be treated in the future. "We were planning on doing a trip to London for Winter Wonderland, and she's not sure if she wants to do that now," she said. "It has had a big impact on her confidence in the police, and that's what has worried me the most. "My youngest daughter asked - 'why do they do that to us though Mum?'". Assistant chief constable Rick Jackson said in a statement: “We are aware of social media videos circulating, and comments from the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities concerning our policing of a dispersal order in Manchester city centre yesterday. Our priority is always to protect public safety by preventing incidents of violence and disorder. "Due to intelligence of groups causing anti-social behaviour on trains on the way into Manchester and similar reports rising around the city centre, alongside increasing footfall, we issued a dispersal order. This included plans for officers to re-route arriving groups back home. "Shortly after, officers responded to several disturbances in the city centre and intervened in altercations between groups. We understand there are feelings of mistreatment and confusion amongst the groups of people for being turned away yesterday, and we are determined to address these concerns by working closely with the Mayor’s office to engage these communities in Manchester and further afield."
Even when Luigi Mangione was surrounded by people who cared about him, he was isolated by a spinal defect that gave the athletic young man crippling pain and contributed to a jaundiced view of the US healthcare system. Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Credit: nna\josh.hohne Authorities have charged Mangione, 26, with murder in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York and police said on Wednesday they believe the motive was animosity toward the health insurance industry and corporate America. New York police found a three-page, handwritten document on Mangione that expressed disdain for the health business, they’ve said. Mangione foreshadowed that scepticism about the healthcare industry on Reddit in April as he offered advice for getting a doctor to perform spinal surgery. “Tell them you are ‘unable to work’ / do your job,” he wrote. “We live in a capitalist society. I’ve found that the medical industry responds to these key words far more urgently than you describing unbearable pain and how it’s impacting your quality of life.” Mangione’s Reddit posts, under the name mister_cactus, had once linked to his personal programming site and offered numerous matching personal details. Reddit declined to confirm whether the account, which was deactivated this week, belonged to him. Reporters reviewed the posts in an internet archive. A poster depicting Luigi Mangione hangs outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in New York. Credit: AP Nothing in his Reddit posts reviewed by The Washington Post presaged violence. Authorities have not laid out their case for what they think drove Mangione to escalate his frustration with the health system, which is common in the United States, into an allegedly premeditated murder of a prominent executive. Thomas M. Dickey, an attorney for Mangione, didn’t respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Mangione’s arrest has stunned his friends and family, most of whom appeared to have lost touch with him in the last six months. “We all condemn violence of any kind,” said Josiah Ryan, a spokesman for Surfbreak HNL, a co-living community in Honolulu where Mangione lived for six months in 2022. He added: “There’s sadness because he was a person who was well-loved and no one saw this coming.” Ryan said Mangione’s back pain was well-known within the Surfbreak community. “It was a real problem for him, and he had to think about that in a way that most 24-year-old young men living in Hawaii would not have to worry about their health,” Ryan said. Mangione at the police station in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Credit: Pennsylvania State Police/AP Mangione’s struggles with his back pain offer a glimpse into the interior life of a man who outwardly lived a charmed existence – the scion of a wealthy family in Maryland who was valedictorian of his prestigious private school in Baltimore and earned degrees in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. In archived Reddit comments, Mangione doesn’t express anger toward UnitedHealthcare or other health insurers. But the posts chronicle his struggle over the years to deal with back pain that became increasingly debilitating. “From childhood until age 23, my back would always ache if I stood too long, but it wasn’t too bad,” he wrote in February. But as he entered his mid-20s, the pain began to disrupt his life. He once described the sensation of an unstable spine as being able to “feel the bones moving/grinding.” He also struggled with cognitive issues, according to his posts. In a Reddit group focused on brain fog, he wrote, “The people around you probably won’t understand your symptoms – they certainly don’t for me.” By January 2022, Mangione was living at Surfbreak in Hawaii, where a surfing accident exacerbated his spinal condition, according to his Reddit posts and interviews with friends. He had a spinal fusion surgery – a procedure that stabilises the spine with surgical screws – in July 2023, according to his Reddit posts, and he seemed pleased with the results for months afterward. “Haven’t had a bad day since,” he wrote in November 2023. Mangione’s discussion of surgery aligns with an image of an X-ray prominently displayed on his profile for the social media platform X. An orthopedic surgeon who reviewed the image for The Post described it as a “lumbar spine with posterior spinal instrumentation, possible fusion”. It’s a common procedure for people with spondylolisthesis, a condition where a vertebra shifts forward and can cause excruciating pain in the lower back. He found a community on Reddit dedicated to spondylolisthesis, which he described as “my injury” in handwritten notes uploaded to his profile on the book-review site Goodreads in 2019. Mangione regularly offered advice to others, sometimes with an edge of bitterness about the reluctance of the medical profession to provide the care he considered necessary. To persuade doctors reluctant to perform surgery, he suggested an extreme option would be to “fake a foot drop” (difficulty lifting the front part of the foot) “or piss yourself. This is the absolute nuclear option, but there comes a point where it’s just ridiculous that people won’t operate on your broken spine.” His struggles drew empathy from people close to him. Surfbreak’s owner RJ Martin told the New York Times that Mangione “knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn’t possible”. In a text message to The Post , Martin said he was overwhelmed and exhausted and deferred comment to Ryan, his spokesman. Martin found Mangione “to be a really special person,” Ryan said. “He expected to have a lifelong friendship with him.” Mangione’s arrest “was pretty devastating for him”. Marc McCoy, 59, owner of Moped Garage, a store near Surfbreak, said that he sold Mangione a moped and that they had multiple conversations. The Maryland native was eager to talk to McCoy, who has lived in Hawaii for a half-century, about how to fit in and respect the local culture and not be an ugly American stereotype, McCoy said. “He was well-spoken, intelligent, conscientious,” he said. “I’m in complete shock.” Mangione spent some time in Japan this year. A picture posted to X in late February by Japanese professional poker player Jun Obara shows him appearing to enjoy a meal at a Tokyo restaurant with a smiling Mangione and others. “He came in by himself and we talked to him and treated him to a meal and drinks because we wanted him to enjoy Japan,” Obara wrote in a subsequent post this week. “He said he was on vacation from Hawaii.” Most friends and family appear to have lost touch with Mangione since May. That appears to be when he last posted to his accounts on Goodreads and Reddit, where he linked to a video shared by another user in a group for discussing Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Members of the New York police crime scene unit photograph bullets lying on the footpath. Credit: AP His apparently last post on X, formerly Twitter, was a retweet of a podcast episode on how smartphones and social media impact mental health on June 10. June 10 also was the last time Gurwinder Bhogal, a UK-based writer, said he received a message from Mangione, who was seeking advice about curating his social media feeds. The two had struck up a correspondence in April after Mangione subscribed to his Substack publication. They discussed politics, said Bhogal, who recalled him complaining “about how expensive health care in the U.S. was.” In comments circulated to reporters, Bhogal wrote, “Overall, the impression I got of him, besides his curiosity and kindness, was a deep concern for the future of humanity, and a determination to improve himself and the world.” United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson. Credit: AP He added, “He was so polite and thoughtful it was hard to conceive of him murdering someone.” Mangione’s movements in the summer and fall are still not clear. Mangione’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, called the San Francisco police on Nov. 18 and said her son had not been heard from since July, according to local media reports. A source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post that a missing-person report was filed. The San Francisco Police Department declined to comment on the case and referred questions to New York police. An NYPD spokesperson declined to comment on the missing-person report. Washington Post Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here .In conclusion, the rise of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections with a high resistance rate underscores the importance of vigilance and proactive measures in preventing and treating this illness. 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NEW DELHI: EPC solutions provider Solar91 Cleantech on Sunday said it has fixed a price band of Rs 185-195 per equity share for the Rs 106 crore initial share sale, which will hit markets on December 24. The initial public offering (IPO) will close on December 27. The bidding for anchor investors will open for a day on Monday, the company said in a statement. The shares of the company will be listed on the SME platform of BSE. At the upper end of the price band, the company is going to fetch around Rs 106 crore, it added. The proposed IPO is entirely a fresh issue of 54.36 lakh equity shares with a face value of Rs 10 each, according to the red herring prospectus. Proceeds from the IPO will be utilised to meet the expenses for investment in its subsidiary for the development of solar plants as an independent power producer (IPP), meet working capital requirements and cover general corporate purposes. "This IPO marks a new chapter for the company, empowering us to accelerate our growth, expand our IPP portfolio, and continue delivering sustainable, high-quality solar energy solutions to clients across domestic, agricultural, and industrial sectors. "With the growing emphasis on renewable energy in India , we are poised to play a pivotal role in advancing the nation's green energy goals," Solar91 Cleantech's Chairperson and Whole Time Director Saurabh Vyas, said. The Jaipur-headquartered Solar91 was founded in 2015 by four IIT alumni -- Prateek Agrawal, Sandeep Gurnani, Saurabh Vyas and Dhawal Vasavada. The company specialises in providing turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services to commercial and industrial clients across the country. Solar91 Cleantech posted a revenue of Rs 42.77 crore and posted a profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 2.33 crore in FY24. As Of Sep 24, its revenue stood at Rs 50.25 crore and clocked a PAT of Rs 4 crore. Narnolia Financial Services Ltd is the book-running lead manager, while Maashitla Securities Pvt Ltd is the registrar of the issue. Ready to Master Stock Valuation? ET’s Workshop is just around the corner!