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Engineer Suspended For Bronx Building Collapse Blunder: Mayor

NEW YORK CITY — A professional engineer misdiagnosed a structural column as decorative in a Bronx building that partially collapsed this week, city officials said.

The unnamed engineer’s blunder — which was uncovered in a probe into the Morris Heights building’s collapse — prompted his inspection authority to be suspended as building officials seek to permanently revoke it, said Mayor Eric Adams Friday.

“Our initial investigation into this collapse has made clear that the engineer involved has no business assessing the exterior walls of buildings in New York City, and we’re taking action to suspend his ability to do so,” Adams said in a statement.

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The catastrophic partial collapse of 1915 Billingsley Terrace Monday left a gaping hole in the seven-story building’s side, scores of residents without homes and, miraculously, no serious injuries.

City officials and Bronx Attorney General Darcel Clark’s investigators quickly began an investigation into what led to the collapse.
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The building had more than 100 violations, according to city records. Residents lodged nearly 180 complaints, ranging from lack of heat to collapsing walls in apartments, in the past two years, records show.


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Mer Rouge : un destroyer britannique a abattu un "drone d'attaque présumé qui visait la marine marchande"

Nouvelle étincelle en mer Rouge. Le destroyer britannique HMS Diamond a abattu un “drone d’attaque présumé qui visait la marine marchande en mer Rouge” dans la nuit du vendredi 15 décembre au samedi 16 décembre, a annoncé sur X (ex-Twitter) le ministre de la Défense du Royaume-Uni, Grant Shapps. Lors de cette nouvelle attaque présumée, “un missile Sea Viper a été tiré et a permis de détruire la cible”, a précisé Grant Shapps.

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“La récente vague d’attaques illégales représente une menace directe pour le commerce international et la sécurité maritime” dans la zone, a alerté le ministre. Le Royaume-Uni avait annoncé fin novembre l’envoi du navire de guerre HMS Diamond dans le Golfe pour répondre à des “préoccupations croissantes” sur la sécurité des routes commerciales maritimes dans la zone.

Plusieurs missilies et drones abattus

Les tensions s’accentuent en mer Rouge sous la menace des rebelles yéménites Houthis, proches du Hamas et de l’Iran, et qui contrôle une grande partie du Yémen. Les Houtis ont prévenu qu’ils viseraient des navires navigants au large des côtes du Yémen et ayant des liens avec Israël, en riposte à la guerre entre Israël et le mouvement islamiste palestinien Hamas dans la bande de Gaza.

Ces dernières semaines, plusieurs missiles et drones ont été abattus par des navires de guerre américains et français qui patrouillent dans la zone. Vendredi, le géant danois du transport maritime Maersk a ordonné à ses navires de ne plus emprunter le détroit stratégique de Bab al-Mandab “jusqu’à nouvel ordre” après de nouvelles attaques.

WWE Smackdown Ratings Report (10/13): Total viewership and key demo rating, comparison to last year, ten-week averages


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Last Friday night’s (10/13) episode of WWE Smackdown on Fox drew an average of 2.417 million viewers, the highest since Sept. 15. One year ago, the viewership for the Oct. 14, 2022 episode was 2.274 million.

The ten-week average headed into this week was 2.304 million. The prior ten week average one year ago was 2.165 million.

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In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.62 rating, in line with the 0.64, 0.60, and 0.63 rating the prior three weeks. One year ago, the demo rating was 0.54.

The latest ten weeks prior to Friday’s episode averaged a 0.63 rating. One year ago, the same ten-week period averaged a 0.52 rating.

Friday’s episode headlined with L.A. Knight vs. Solo Sikoa, and also featured Cody Rhodes & Jey Uso defending the WWE Tag Team Titles against Austin Theory & Grayson Waller and the return of Roman Reigns.


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Vous avez aimé Dikkenek ? Le réalisateur de la meilleure comédie belge revient au cinéma avec une comédie très drôle !

Avis aux fans de Dikkenek ! Son réalisateur est de retour avec une nouvelle comédie totalement déjantée, Veuillez-nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée, avec Artus, Elsa Zylberstein, Benjamin Tranié…, à voir au cinéma ce mercredi.

De quoi ça parle ?

Sébastien, contrôleur de train consciencieux et professionnel, rêve d’être muté dans le sud de la France. Pour valider sa mutation, il doit effectuer un dernier trajet de routine sous la supervision de Madeleine, une inspectrice légèrement sociopathe qui ne va pas le lâcher.

C’est là que tout déraille : entre un conducteur qui pense conduire un avion de chasse, un collègue très jaloux et des passagers tous plus dingues les uns que les autres, ce qui devait être une formalité va devenir le pire voyage de sa vie…

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Souvenez-vous. C’était en 2006, en pleine Coupe du monde de foot. Une comédie belge sortait, sous le titre intrigant de Dikkenek (une expression belge pour dire “grande gueule”), avec un casting 5 étoiles : Marion Cotillard, François Damiens, Mélanie Laurent, Florence Foresti, Jérémie Rénier…

Petit à petit, à la faveur de diffusions télé, ce film allait devenir culte, dans sa façon de pousser au maximum les curseurs de l’humour et du grand n’importe quoi, à la sauce belge.

Après la comédie Lucky, un peu passée sous les radars, en raison de la crise du Covid (le film est sorti en février 2020…), son réalisateur revient avec un nouvelle comédie, dont le titre interpelle d’emblée : Veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée.

Un titre long, faisant inévitablement référence aux perturbations pouvant avoir cours dans les transports en commun, ici un train.

Presque toute l’intrigue de ce film se situe dans ce train, qui va s’avérer le lieu d’un huis clos délirant, et offrir un boulevard à ses comédiens qui semblent s’être beaucoup amusés à tourner ce film…

En lisant le scénario, j’y ai vu un film à la fois politique et barré qui m’a fait penser à l’univers déjanté des frères Farrelly et d’Adam McKay que j’adore – avec une touche d’absurde dans la folie et le second degré proche de Quentin Dupieux.

J’ai trouvé que c’était un projet qui parle d’aujourd’hui et que ce train, qui réunit une galerie de personnages loufoques et excentriques, était une métaphore du monde actuel“, explique Elsa Zylberstein dans le dossier de presse.

Rarement Elsa Zylberstein s’était montrée sous un jour aussi loufoque, rappelant notamment sa partition délurée dans Tout le monde debout de Franck Dubosc, mais en allant bien plus loin dans le registre de la comédie.

L’énergie qu’elle a déployée pour développer le personnage était extraordinaire. Elle a su s’adapter à toutes les situations et improviser“, explique le réalisateur Olivier van Hoofstadt.

Et d’ajouter : “Elle est franchement ouverte à la folie. Il n’en faut pas beaucoup pour la dégoupiller“. Une grande part a été laissée à l’improvisation, afin que les actrices et acteurs puissent s’approprier le plus possible leur rôle.

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Artus excelle dans ce personnage totalement débordé, avec cette partition qui semble avoir été écrite sur mesure. Tous les personnages secondaires (Benjamin Tranié, Sarah Suco, Jean-Luc Couchard, Philippe Duquesne…) font le sel de cette comédie qui semble sans limite dans son humour.

L’objectif était d’y aller à fond, comme une Audi RS6 de 600 chevaux ! Je voulais foncer jusqu’au point de rupture“, lance Olivier van Hoofstadt.

Il y a des situations, parfaitement assumées, qui n’ont rien de vraisemblable car j’aime bien le côté surréaliste, un peu belge, de cette forme d’humour. Évidemment, il y en aura toujours pour me dire que ce n’est pas crédible, mais, sincèrement, ce n’est pas grave.

Veuillez nous excuser pour la gêne occasionnée sort au cinéma ce mercredi 9 août. Et si l’humour déjanté ne vous a pas suffi, préparez-vous pour le DVD…

Il y aura dans les bonus du DVD des scènes qui dépassent toute limite et que je n’ai pas voulu monter dans le film. Ce qui m’a fait le plus plaisir, c’est que lorsque mon père a vu le film, il m’a dit « c’est un feu d’artifice »”, dixit Olivier van Hoofstadt.

Idalia's GA Aftermath: 1 Dead, 44 Displaced, Thousands Without Power

GEORGIA — A day after Hurricane Idalia tore through southeast and coastal Georgia, resulting in at least one person dying and thousands without power, weather officials told Patch Thursday metro Atlanta should have a calm Labor Day weekend.

Though Friday afternoon has a 20 percent chance for a few pop-up showers and a possible isolated thunderstorm, the weather in the metro will significantly be dry with cooler temperatures the remainder of the week through Monday, said Meredith Wyatt, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Peachtree City office.

“Enjoy the dry conditions,” she said.

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Highs on Thursday will be in the mid-80s while Friday and Saturday temperatures are forecast to be in the low 80s. Temperatures Sunday and Monday should warm up to the upper 80s to low 90s.

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Lows Thursday night through Sunday night are anticipated to be in the low 60s.

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Hurricane Idalia’s Aftermath

After making landfall along the Florida Big Bend as a Category 3 hurricane Wednesday morning, Idalia drenched South Georgia before targeting the Carolinas.

Wyatt said damage from Idalia was south of Macon, with winds of 40-45 mph reported in some counties near Macon.

Gov. Brian Kemp and James C. Stallings, director of Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, shared an update Thursday on the state’s recovery response.

Stallings said a person died in Lowndes County after a tree fell on a vehicle. The person’s name is not being released, pending next-of-kin notification.

“We are certainly keeping the family in our thoughts,” Stallings said. “Our hearts go out to that one family in Lowndes County.”

He said two shelters have opened to assist 44 people who were displaced as a result of the storm.

As of late Thursday morning, 77,000 Georgia Power customers were without power and 30,000 Electric Membership Corporation customers had no power, a dwindling number compared to the 277,000 total people who lost power Wednesday.

“With Hurricane Idalia clearing our state, Georgia Power has begun its full-scale damage assessment, along with immediate restoration efforts to restore power to customers. There has been significant damage due to high winds, heavy rain and fallen trees in the hardest hit areas in south and coastal Georgia. Damage assessment marks the first, critical phase of the restoration process. Georgia Power has crews in the field working safely and as quickly as possible to fully assess damage, which will allow us to provide more accurate estimated restoration times by end of day Thursday for the hardest hit areas in the state,” Georgia Power wrote in its latest update.

Idalia lingered in Georgia much longer than in Florida and South Carolina, Stallings said.

“We’ve got a long track of disaster and debris to look into,” he said.

South Georgia authorities reported a slew of downed trees in the area, with Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson posting on Facebook that more than 1,000 trees had come down during the storm Wednesday.

Kemp said he has received text messages stating Valdosta “will not be the same after the cleanup’s done and that it was as bad as anything they’ve ever seen.” The governor called Idalia fast and narrow.

The Valdosta Fire Department posted photos of flooded roadways and submerged vehicles while local authorities warned people to stay home as some streets were impassable.

The Georgia Rural Water Authority were working on outages in Berrien, Lanier, Clinch and Cook counties and providing emergency generator service, Stallings said.

Idalia impacted 32 cell phone towers in Echols, Lowndes, Cook, Clinch and Berrien counties. Since Wednesday, the majority of the towers have been restored.

Stallings said nine state routes remained closed; however, most bridges along the coast have been reopened.

Georgia suffered “significant crop loss” due to the storm, he said.

Kemp said he will travel Friday to South Georgia to further assess damage.

“Our focus, right now, is making sure that we get people’s power back on and making sure that people who may have big trees in their living room have shelter or other places to stay,” he said.

Kemp issued a state of emergency Tuesday in preparation for Idalia. The order is set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Friday.


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"Tout va augmenter" : après les premières mesures économiques de Javier Milei, les Argentins inquiets se pressent aux pompes à essence

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À l’entrée d’une station-service de Buenos Aires, en Argentine, une dizaine d’automobilistes font la queue. Après 20 minutes d’attente, Clara passe enfin à la caisse. “21 700 pesos ! C’est 30% de plus que la dernière fois. C’est de la folie !” “Heureusement, dit Clara, ce plein devrait lui permettre de tenir un bon mois”.

L’augmentation est due à la dévaluation du peso annoncée cette semaine par le gouvernement de Javier Milei.

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AEW wrestlers who previously toured with WWE internationally noticed a big difference


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AEW wrestlers who previously have toured internationally with WWE noticed some big differences in how AEW handled the travel.

One big difference is wrestlers were not picked up at the airport. That’s standard not only on WWE international tours, but New Japan also picks up non-Japan-based wrestlers at the airport when they arrive in Japan. Wrestlers had to fend for themselves, getting rides with Uber.

WWE wrestlers on international tours generally travel together in groups, are given an official itinerary, have arranged rides to get them from the airport to the hotel or arena, and have security assigned to the group.

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Wrestlers noticed a lot of other differences that added up to a less enjoyable travel experience and added stress and delays in getting rested and ready for the show.

C.M. Punk, for one, ended up disoriented after he arrived at the airport and had to ask fans for help getting to Wembley. Haus of Wrestling reported this detail:

[W]hen Punk landed at Heathrow Airport for AEW All In London on Saturday morning, no one from AEW was there to greet him. There was also no car service to take him to his hotel, and when he texted a number he was given by AEW for the driver, it bounced back as being an invalid number. After waiting for a while, Punk chose to buy a train ticket and find his own way to his hotel. We are told that The Tube was fairly busy at the time, Punk got lost, and a few fans who noticed The Second City Saint helped him figure out where he was going. It appears that Punk got into London so close to the actual event because he had taping commitments in Atlanta on Wednesday and wanted to spend Thursday with his wife and dog, Larry, before heading out on Friday and landing on Saturday morning.

Because London is a major modern metropolitan city, wrestlers ended up getting to where they needed eventually, and wrestlers who hadn’t experienced WWE’s smooth travel process weren’t thrown off as much as they didn’t have any expectations.


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Athena Discusses The Relationship She Has With Tony Khan

AEW star and current ROH Women’s Champion Athena recently joined Women’s Wrestling Talk to hype her match with Billie Starkz at tonight’s Final Battle pay-per-view, as well as discuss a number of different topics regarding her career. One topic the Fallen Angel spoke about was her relationship with Tony Khan.

 

I have found that I have a very good collaboration with my boss, which is something that I feel like I was missing for a very, very long time. And the fact that he trusts me to make certain calls and a lot of times Billie is just staring at a wall, if you really want to know. Like Billy is just off smiling in a corner somewhere. And Lexy, you know, Lexy is just trying to make sure Billie doesn’t fall down and hurt herself. But between me and TK, it’s a really cool, like coloration that we’ve had with this entire thing; because we’ve taken a lot of risks. I think across the board that are outside my character; that are outside stuff that he normally does, and it’s paid off every step of the way. But that’s just having trust with one another.

Shifting subjects, Athena speaks about the importance of the ROH brand and how happy she’s been to be such an important part of it under Tony Khan.

The beauty of Ring of Honor, Tony has allowed them to showcase themselves. Tony has allowed them to have storylines outside of the main championship. And I think on some level, he is experimenting with what he can and can’t do with the roster. So to me, it’s always been a collaboration with me and TK, it’s always been. I go into the office, hey, we have a conversation, which ends up great. Sometimes we butt heads. But hey, who hasn’t butt heads with their boss before. But 99.9% of the time we come out happier and better and honestly, the storyline has benefited from day one, when he pulled us in the office and said, ‘Hey, there’s something here. I think we’re going to pull the trigger on this. Him allowing me to make certain calls and me allowing him to make certain calls has made this an absolute banger of a feud, has made this an absolute banger of a storyline and it’s brought a lot of eyes to Ring of Honor that I don’t think people were expecting.

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In a separate interview, Athena spoke about the pressures of headlining Final Battle. You can read about that here.

Iran : 11 policiers tués dans une attaque jihadiste

Plusieurs assaillants ont attaqué, jeudi 14 décembre, le siège de la police de la ville de Rask, dans la province du Sistan-Baloutchistan, dans le sud-est de l’Iran. Au moins 11 policiers ont été tués dans l’une des attaques terroristes les plus meurtrières revendiquées par un groupe jihadiste actif dans cette zone frontalière avec le Pakistan et l’Afghanistan. Dans un bref communiqué publié sur sa chaîne Telegram, le groupe jihadiste baloutche Jaïsh al-Adl (“Armée de la Justice” en arabe) a revendiqué l’attaque.

“Lors de l’attaque terroriste, 11 policiers ont été tués et d’autres ont été blessés”, a déclaré à la télévision le vice-gouverneur de cette province frontalière avec le Pakistan et l’Afghanistan. Le procureur de Zahedan, la capitale de la région, a de son côté annoncé que sept policiers avaient été blessés, certains d’entre eux se trouvant dans “un état critique”. Le vice-ministre de l’Intérieur iranien a précisé que les assaillants “n’ont pas réussi à s’échapper de l’autre côté de la frontière”. La région serait désormais “complétement assiégée”, par les forces de l’ordre, a-t-il ajouté. 

Cette région est le théâtre d’effondrements récurrents entre d’un côté les forces de l’ordre, et de l’autre des trafiquants de drogue, rebelles de la minorité baloutche et groupes sunnites radicaux. En juillet, deux policiers ont été tués lors d’une attaque, revendiquée par le groupe jihadiste Jaïsh al-Adl. Formé en 2012 par d’anciens membres d’une organisation sunnite radicale, le mouvement a accusé le commissariat ciblé, jeudi, d’être “l’un des principaux responsables de la tragédie du vendredi sanglant”, en allusion à des violences survenues en septembre 2022. 

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AEW Rampage Ratings Report (8/4): Viewership and key demo rating, plus yearly average and year-ago comparisons


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Last Friday night’s AEW Rampage (8/4) drew 434,000 viewers, up from 324,000 last week and the highest rating since June 30 which drew 450,000. The average viewership this year is 400,000 through 31 weeks. The average viewership through 31 weeks last year was 467,000.

In the key 18-49 demo, it drew a 0.14 rating, up from 0.10 lats week. It was the highest demo rating since Apr. 14. The average demo rating through 31 weeks this year is 0.12.


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