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Portugal’s blushes were spared as they came from behind to earn victory over the Czech Republic in their opening match at Euro 2024. AdvertisementInstead, it was the Czech Republic who took the lead — with yet another strike from outside the box. They dominated the ball and Czech Republic were happy enough with that, but Portugal never really clicked, despite deploying an admirable fluid system. Martinez’s side also had eight corners in the first half but the steely Czech Republic held firm, frustrating their opponents. Saturday, June 22: Turkey (Dortmund), 5pm BST, noon ETWhat next for Czech Republic?

Persons: Portugal’s blushes, Cristiano Ronaldo —, Lukas Provod’s, Robin Hranac, Ronaldo, Diogo Jota, Francisco Conceicao, Roberto Martinez’s, Tim Spiers, Tom Burrows, Sam Lee, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Martinez, Joao Cancelo, Vitinha, Rafael Leao, Diogo Dalot, Cancelo, Portugal’s, Ruben Dias, Pedro Neto, Conceicao —, Turk Organizations: Portugal, Provo, uga, Port Locations: Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, England, PORTUGAL, Hamburg

☆ ‘Passion, performance, poison’: Why this Scottish soccer league is struggling to shake off the specter of religious bigotry
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Police Scotland told CNN it had received no reports regarding fans’ behavior towards Boyle. Paul Devlin/SNS Group/Getty Images“It was a historic problem born of the Catholic-Protestant divide in Scottish society, especially in the West of Scotland. And it became greatly manifest in football,” Scottish sports journalist Graham Spiers told CNN. Historically chants have included anti-Catholic religious bigotry, or vocal support for paramilitary groups like the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Celtic and Rangers fans at the start of the Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Rangers at Celtic Park on September 10, 2016 in Glasgow.

Persons: Martin Boyle, Boyle, ” David Scott, –, ”, Hibernian's Martin Boyle, John Souttar, Paul Devlin, Graham Spiers, It’s, ” Spiers, Spiers, Mark Scott, Scott, Jason Campbell, Mouth’s Scott, “, ‘, ’, ” Scott, Celtic’s, King William III, William of Orange, Frank McAvennie, Chris Woods, Terry Butcher, Chris Cole, don’t, ” Joseph Webster, ” Webster, Jeanette Findlay, ” “, Findlay, Steve Welsh, “ I’ve, I’m Organizations: CNN, Hibernian FC, Scottish, Rangers FC, Northern, ” Hibernian FC, Hibs, Police Scotland, Rangers, Hibernian, Easter, SNS, Scotland, Catholic, – Celtic FC, Irish Republican Army, Ulster Volunteer Force, UVF, “ Rangers, Catholic Hibernian, Midlothian FC, Loyalist, Celtic, Scottish Premier League, Ibrox, ” Authorities, Football, Communications, Crown, Fiscal, Scottish Government, University of Cambridge, ” CNN, Scottish Football Association, CNN Sport, Celtic Park, ” Celtic Locations: Edinburgh, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Scotland’s, Scotland, Scottish, West, Glasgow, “, Findlay

☆ Opinion | Student Activism Over Gaza: Admirable or Ill Informed?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Re “Dear Boomers, the Student Protesters Are Not Idiots,” by Elizabeth Spiers (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, May 17):Ms. Spiers’s characterization of the student protests misses the mark. As a recent college graduate myself, I don’t disagree that college students “are capable of having well thought-out principles,” but the principles underlying these protests are troubling. Ms. Spiers alludes to my generation possessing elevated moral sensibilities due to our experience with mass shootings. If these chants are part of well thought-out principles and not naïveté, then it behooves us to scrutinize the moral framework that informs these principles. Why is it that these protests project outrage toward Israel’s conduct in the war but conveniently elide the horrific details of Oct. 7?

Persons: Elizabeth Spiers, Spiers, “, Bret Stephens Organizations: Boomers, “

☆ Opinion | What Hillary Clinton Got Wrong About Student Protesters
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Appearing last week on “Morning Joe,” Hillary Clinton lamented what she views as the ignorance of students protesting the war in Gaza. The host, Joe Scarborough, asked her about “the sort of radicalism that has mainstream students getting propaganda, whether it’s from their professors or from the Chinese Communist government through TikTok.” Ms. Clinton was happy to oblige. “I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months,” she said. I’ve also seen and heard the assumptions made about them by some of their elders — administrators, parents and others. In the current panic, the protesters are described as somehow both terribly fragile and such a threat to public safety that they need to be confronted by police officers in riot gear.

Persons: ” Hillary Clinton, Joe Scarborough, Ms, Clinton, “, ”, ” I’ve, I’ve, it’s, Ken Griffin, Bill Ackman, Donald Trump —, —, whiny ”, Mike Lawler, Mr, Lawler, Kaz Daughtry, Rousseau Organizations: Communist, New York, Republican, Columbia University, Columbia, Oxford University Locations: Gaza, TikTok, New, New York, U.S

☆ How Trump’s Failures in New York Are Prelude to His Presidency and Trial - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With jury selection underway in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Lower Manhattan, the former president’s chickens have finally come home to roost. It feels uniquely appropriate that Mr. Trump will have to endure the scrutiny on his old home turf. He rose to fame here, but was never truly accepted by the old money elites he admired. Gossip columnists at his favored tabloids often received tips from Mr. Trump about himself, even about his own sexual escapades, under the pseudonym John Barron. Mr. Trump expressed interest in the presidency starting in the late 1980s, took steps in that direction in 2000 and considered it again in 2012 before being elected in 2016.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, ”, —, John Barron Organizations: Mr, Spy Locations: Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, Queens

☆ How Toxic Gun Culture Begins at Home - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

At least that’s the argument their lawyers made in court before Ms. Crumbley, last month, and Mr. Crumbley, almost two weeks ago, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials. Prosecutors argued that the Crumbleys did not do enough to secure the gun and ignored warning signs that Ethan was planning to use it. After every mass shooting by a teenager at a school, there is an instinct to look to the shooter’s parents to understand what went wrong. His father said the family had a gun safe but the safe’s combination was the default factory setting, 0-0-0. One factor that’s gotten less attention, however, is how the Crumbleys’ attitudes and actions reflect an increasingly insidious gun culture that treats guns as instruments of defiance and rebellion rather than as a means of last resort.

Persons: James, Jennifer Crumbley, Ethan, Sauer, Crumbley, I’ve Organizations: Prosecutors Locations: Michigan

☆ Opinion | The Miseducation of Nikki Haley
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, Nikki Haley assured her potential constituents that she had Black friends, and that she understood the war’s origins. By 1975, the number of private schools in South Carolina grew more than tenfold, enrolling as many as 90 percent of the white children in some majority Black counties. Ms. Haley graduated in 1989 from Orangeburg Preparatory School. Orangeburg was the product of a merger between Wade Hampton and Willington Academy, also segregation academies, the former of which was named after one of the largest slaveholding families in South Carolina. The year Ms. Haley graduated, her high school yearbook featured at most a handful of Black students.

Persons: Nikki Haley, “, Haley, Wade Hampton Organizations: Gov, Education, Orangeburg Preparatory School, Willington Academy, Hampton, Confederate Locations: South Carolina, Brown, Black, Orangeburg

☆ George Santos and the Very Good Reason People Lie About Nonsense - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And I’m not talking just about George Santos. But I am absolutely, definitely talking about George Santos. His lies are so extensive that a very long list of them compiled by New York Magazine under the heading “Here’s Every Single Lie Told by George Santos” may need to be updated by the time you finish reading this essay. New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, said that he had long carried around a photograph of an officer who was killed in the line of duty. Despite being hailed as the city’s “first vegan mayor” — the author of a vegan cookbook!

Persons: I’ve, George Santos, George Santos ”, Santos’s, Eric Adams, ” — Organizations: House, New York Magazine, Yorkers, . New York City’s Locations: New York, . New York

The Camden County Sheriff's Office hired him nine months later. His file shows Aldridge was disciplined for using unnecessary force in February 2014 and May 2017. The department fired Aldridge for his third infraction just three months later. “It's just not worth the risk.”Bessent and other advocates say it’s an example of Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor tolerating unnecessary violence. After one car crashes, body and dash camera video shows Aldridge shouting expletives as he approaches with his gun drawn.

Persons: Buck Aldridge, Leonard Cure, Aldridge, ”, Timothy Bessent Sr, Neill Franklin, they’re, Franklin, “ It's, ” Bessent, Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor, Proctor, Larry Bruce, Jarrett Hobbs, Hobbs, jailers, “ You’ve, Harry Daniels, Christine Newman, Newman, Robert Persse, Louis Dekmar, Dekmar, Mike Spiers, “ Buck Aldridge, Adrienne Browning, “, Cure, That's, Thaddeus Johnson, ” Johnson, expletives, Johnson Organizations: Camden County sheriff's, The Associated Press, Sheriff's Office, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Camden, Camden County’s NAACP, AP, U.S . Marine, Kingsland Police, Police, Maryland State Police, Baltimore Police Department, Camden County Sheriff, International Association of Chiefs, Georgia State University, Criminal Locations: Camden, Georgia, Florida, Camden County’s, Kingsland, Georgia's, Camden County, Hobbs, LaGrange , Georgia, Franklin, Memphis

☆ Opinion | A Tech Billionaire’s Case for Why Tech Billionaires Should Rule the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It takes a certain kind of person to write grandiose manifestoes for public consumption, unafflicted by self-doubt or denuded of self-interest. In this vision, wealthy technologists are not just leaders of their business but keepers of the social order, unencumbered by what Mr. Andreessen labels “enemies”: social responsibility, trust and safety, tech ethics, to name a few. But the real problem with Mr. Andreessen’s manifesto may be not that it’s too outlandish, but that it’s too on-the-nose. In the case of ordinary individuals, however, debt is regarded as not just a financial failure but a moral one. (If you are successful and have paid your student loans off, taking them out in the first place was a good decision.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, ” Organizations: Netscape

☆ Posting About Israel and Palestine Is Not a Moral Obligation - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Sitting with uncertainty is hard, especially when social media has primed us to expect perfect real-time information during traumatic events and to want instantaneous answers and resolution. Knee-jerk social media posts are not what bother me most, though. Instead, it’s the idea that not posting is wrong somehow — that everyone needs to speak, all the time. It implies it’s not OK to have any uncertainty about what’s going on or any kind of moral analysis that does not lend itself to presentation in a social media post. If the destruction of Gaza is not the goal, it is a very real possibility, and that should be equally unacceptable.

Persons: ”, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israel, Manhattan, Gaza

☆ MLB roundup: J.P. Crawford belts slam as M's blast Rangers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Yandy Diaz hit a two-run homer for the Rays, who have clinched the first AL wild-card berth. It was a costly defeat for the Cubs, who have lost four in a row to see their National League wild-card hopes fade. Zach McKinstry blasted a two-run homer, Spencer Torkelson hit a solo homer and Parker Meadows contributed a two-run triple. Wilmer Flores had a solo homer and an RBI single for the Giants. Closer Josh Hader allowed a solo homer in the ninth but regrouped to earn his 33rd save.

Persons: J.P, Crawford, Steven Bisig, Ty France, Josh Rojas, Brock Burke, Trent Thornton, Nathan Eovaldi, Alejandro Kirk, Bo Bichette, Tampa Bay . Brandon Belt, Matt Chapman, Yusei Kikuchi, Yandy Diaz, Aaron Civale, Jose Abreu, Jose Urquidy, Alex Bregman, Gabriel Moreno, Zac Gallen, Carlos Santana, Blake Perkins, William Contreras, Caleb Boushley, Jose Cuas, Nick Pivetta, Garrett Whitlock, Whitlock, Trevor Story, Jordan Westburg's, Ryan Mountcastle's, Tyler Freeman, Bo Naylor, Brayan Rocchio, Cal Quantrill, Emmanuel Clase, Miguel Cabrera, Zach McKinstry, Spencer Torkelson, Parker Meadows, Ryan Jeffers, Max Kepler, Michael A, Taylor, Trevor Larnach, Kyle Farmer, Kody Funderburk, Alan Trejo, Brendan Rodgers, Elehuris Montero, Nolan Jones, Charlie Blackmon, Sean Bouchard, Josh Bell, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm, Huascar Brazoban, Tanner Scott, Endy Rodriguez, Colin Selby, Carter Kieboom, Dominic Smith, Lane Thomas, Keibert Ruiz, Jake Alu, Ozzie Albies, Forrest Wall, Martinez, Kai Correa, Gabe Kapler, Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, Lance Lynn, Wilmer Flores, Keaton Winn, Nick Martinez, Josh Hader, Trent Grisham, Xander Bogaerts, Yoan Moncada, Carlos Perez, Dylan, Nick Martini, Christian Encarnacion, Strand, Louis, Jonathan India, Tyler Stephenson socked, Spencer Steer, Noelvi Marte, Brandon Williamson, Carson Spiers, Carlos Rodon, Maikel Garcia, Salvador Perez, Perez, Kyle Isbel, Jordan Lyles, Aaron Judge, Austin Wells, Mickey Moniak, Davis Daniel, Connie Mack, Chase Silseth, Oakland's Ken Waldichuk Organizations: Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Mobile, American League West, Mariners, Rangers, Houston Astros, Seattle, Blue Jays, Rays, Toronto, Tampa, American League, Astros, Diamondbacks, Arizona, Phoenix, Houston, AL West, National League, Miami, Brewers, Cubs, Milwaukee, Chicago, Red Sox, Orioles, Boston, Baltimore, American League East, Tigers, Cleveland, Detroit, Rockies, Minnesota, Colorado, The American League Central, Twins, Marlins, Pirates, Pittsburgh, League, Nationals, Braves, Washington, National League East, Minnesota Twins, Dodgers, Giants, San Francisco, Padres, White Sox, San Diego, Chicago . White Sox, Reds, Cardinals, Cincinnati, St, Miami Marlins, Royals, Yankees, Kansas City, New, Athletics, Los Angeles, Oakland, Philadelphia A's, of Fame, Angels, Thomson Locations: Seattle , Washington, USA, Texas, Tampa Bay . Brandon, Houston, Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland, Denver, Colorado, Miami, Atlanta, Angeles, San, San Diego, New York, pinstripes, Anaheim , Calif

☆ Luis Rubiales, Donald Trump and the Men Who Double Down - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Like countless other women, I can say from experience that this kind of assault is deeply harmful. Just as we passed each other, he reached out and grabbed both of my breasts, then kept going. For a moment, my brain seemed to reject what had just happened, but my next emotion wasn’t what you might expect. The man had run away, and when I turned, I could see him at the end of the block. I was raped in college, and I rationalized to myself that the assault by the park was relatively trivial in comparison.

Persons: — Locations: New York City

☆ Opinion | Michael Oher and ‘White Savior Syndrome’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “I Understand Why Michael Oher Is Angry,” by Elizabeth Spiers (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 28):I commend this essay about the lawsuit filed by the former football player Michael Oher to end his legal relationship with the Tuohy family. As a white adoptive mother of two Black sons, I found Ms. Spiers’s piece to be the first analysis that got to the heart of what is so important about this situation. She is absolutely correct that “white savior syndrome” is nothing more than white supremacy in softened guise. In addition to the loss of their biological parents, being adopted by white parents deprived my sons of privacy. While young, every time they were seen in the company of their parents, everyone knew that they were adopted, and that their biological parents had been unable to care for them.

Persons: Michael Oher, Elizabeth Spiers, Oher, “, —

☆ Opinion | I Have a Pretty Good Idea Why Michael Oher Is Angry
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It’s the story of Michael Oher, a young Black athlete who moves in with a white family, the Tuohys, and goes on to play for Ole Miss and in the N.F.L. I was adopted, as Mr. Oher believed himself to have been. And I’m a former equity analyst who’s a fan of Michael Lewis, the author of the book on which the movie was based. Those stereotypes, and the possibility that there is another very different way to tell his story, are at the center of the lawsuit Mr. Oher recently filed. Mr. Oher, now 37 and retired from the N.F.L., is suing the Tuohys because he claims they misled him to believe that the legal conservatorship they held over him was essentially the same as adoption.

Persons: Michael Oher, Oher, who’s, Michael Lewis, —, Black Organizations: Ole Miss, Auburn Locations: Alabama

☆ Barbenheimer Memes Are an Art Form All Their Own - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Did the world need Arizona Iced Tea-branded Adidas sneakers marketed for 99 cents? Did they attract so many potential buyers that the New York Police Department had to shut the sale down at the pop-up store selling them? The “Barbie” marketing team absolutely understands this, and the absurd brand-collaboration drops have spread with the speed of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. There’s a real-world Barbie dream house on Airbnb, Barbie Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Barbie rugs and a Barbie Xbox. Surprisingly, there is no Barbie Pepto Bismol, which seems like a natural fit in terms of existing I.P.

Persons: Robert Oppenheimer, Taylor Swift, Barbie, There’s, Oppenheimer, Barbie ”, “ Oppenheimer, launders Organizations: “ Raiders, Adidas, New York Police Department Locations: Arizona, London

☆ On ‘Succession,’ Striving Is The Worst Insult of All - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The Roy children’s individual ambitions are sometimes risible, but we’re never asked to question why they would be ambitious in the first place. What’s not acceptable, within the moral logic of the show, is the ambition of those characters who were not born into money and power but want to achieve them. In an episode midway through the final season, Tom admits to Shiv that he cares about these things. I do.” He tells her, “If you think that’s shallow, why don’t you throw out all of your stuff for love? “You’re a hick,” she says, “your whole family is striving and parochial.” Striving — that’s the biggest insult of them all.

☆ Opinion | The Drug That Saves Lives Even if It’s Never Used
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Although the drug has no major adverse effects, until later this year, New York State requires people to get some training before they can administer it. Dr. Avery, the vice chair for addiction psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, had conducted many such trainings, and in his office that day he got right to it. Still, the drug has yet to become a standard part of the public’s tool kit. Dr. Avery, whose research is in negative attitudes toward addiction, says it’s because legal and regulatory issues were only part of the problem. It shapes the language we use to talk about addiction and the responses we think are appropriate.

☆ Here's how EV batteries can be given a second life
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Sydney Boyo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

China also accounts for over 70% of global EV battery production capacity, meaning the U.S. is heavily dependent on imports of batteries and battery minerals. It estimates that the lifetime of an EV battery is around 12 to 15 years in moderate climates. The company now has over 400 employees and offers what it calls a "one-stop solution" for used and faulty EV batteries. The company wouldn't disclose the number of battery packs it's capable of storing but said it handles on average 15 thousand battery packs and modules per month. "When I think about the future of EV battery recycling specifically, I see it as an increasingly competitive space," Malloy said.

The American EV market is small in comparison to operations in China and Europe. In 2021, the U.S. accounted for less than 10% of new global EV registrations, while China accounted for 50% and Europe 35%. China also accounts for 70% of the world's global EV battery production capacity, meaning that the U.S. is heavily dependent on imports of battery minerals. However, a number of companies are currently working on ways to recycle lithium-ion batteries including Spiers New Technologies, or SNT which focuses on remanufacturing, refurbishing, repurposing and recycling EV batteries. With the demand for critical minerals such as graphite, lithium and cobalt expected to increase by 2050, extending the life of an EV battery can be an important step to reduce the need for mining.

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