https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/governor-recall
Statewide Results
16.7% (3,031 of 18,185) precincts reporting as of September 14, 2021, 8:36 p.m.
Votes %
filler image Yes 2,478,640 32.1%
filler image No 5,238,573 67.9%
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>vote harder
>These numbers were reversed.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/10/200775748/report-upside-down-sensors-toppled-russian-rocket
Upside-Down Sensors Toppled Russian Rocket
https://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html#culprit
By July 9, it is transpired that investigators sifting through the wreckage of the doomed rocket had found critical angular velocity sensors, DUS, installed upside down. Each of those sensors had an arrow that was suppose to point toward the top of the vehicle, however multiple sensors on the failed rocket were pointing downward instead. As a result, the flight control system was receiving wrong information about the position of the rocket and tried to "correct" it, causing the vehicle to swing wildly and, ultimately, crash. The paper trail led to a young technician responsible for the wrong assembly of the hardware, but also raised serious issues of quality control at the Proton's manufacturing plant, at the rocket's testing facility and at the assembly building in Baikonur. It appeared that no visual control of the faulty installation had been conducted, while electrical checks could not detect the problem since all circuits had been working correctly.
On the Proton rocket multiple DUS sensors are clustered into modules called Blocks of Damper Gyroscopes or BDG in Russian. They are designed to provide navigational information to Proton's sophisticated multi-channel flight control system. A total of three BDG modules are mounted on a special platform on the body of the rocket. The evaluation of the recovered platform showed that three BDGs responsible for the pitch movement of the rocket were installed correctly, however all three BDGs responsible for the course (yaw) axis were rotated 180 degrees. Since all three BDGs had been installed incorrectly, the three-channel flight control system could not filter out faulty data by comparing it to correct information coming from the majority of sensors.
The improper installation apparently required some considerable physical effort, which, somehow did not raise any alarm at GKNPTs Khrunichev's assembly plant in Moscow. Investigators immediately looked at already assembled Protons, including those in Baikonur, but did not find such an anomaly.
The BDG modules are developed at the Zvezda enterprise on the Gorodomlya Island and manufactured by PO Korpus in the city of Saratov. Both organizations are divisions of the NPTs AP design bureau, a prime contractor responsible for the flight control system of the Proton rocket and its Block DM-03 upper stage.
By July 13, investigators simulated the improper installation of the DUS angular velocity sensors on the actual hardware. As it turned out, it would be very difficult to do but not impossible. To achieve that personnel would need to use procedures and instruments not certified either by the design documentation or the installation instructions. As a result, the plate holding the sensors sustained damage. Yet, when the hardware recovered from the accident was delivered to GKNPTs Khrunichev, it was discovered that the nature of the damage to the plate had almost exactly matched the simulated version.
The improperly installed sensors apparently caused the rocket to sway from site to side during its vertical liftoff and left the vehicle completely uncontrolled as it attempted to steer itself along the preprogrammed path. According to the flight sequence, the rocket had to roll slightly and pitch in the direction of the flight. The roll maneuver apparently started, however, grossly distorted pitch commands caused steering mechanisms on the engines swing them into extreme positions from one side to another causing chaotic movement of the rocket beginning from the 12th second of the flight. By T+18 seconds, the steering mechanisms could no longer keep up with commands to swing engines from one side to another several times every second.
>The improperly installed sensors apparently caused the rocket to sway from site to side during its vertical liftoff and left the vehicle completely uncontrolled as it attempted to steer itself along the preprogrammed path. According to the flight sequence, the rocket had to roll slightly and pitch in the direction of the flight. The roll maneuver apparently started, however, grossly distorted pitch commands caused steering mechanisms on the engines swing them into extreme positions from one side to another causing chaotic movement of the rocket beginning from the 12th second of the flight. By T+18 seconds, the steering mechanisms could no longer keep up with commands to swing engines from one side to another several times every second.
>Nothing wrong with some Bush
>Newsome just spoke for 3 minutes, and went to bed.
>Back to the prison island it once was.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/technology/elizabeth-holmes-trial-theranos.html
Theranos whistle-blower testifies she was alarmed by company’s blood tests.
Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder, with her husband, Billy Evans, outside the federal courthouse in San Jose, Calif., last week.
Sept. 14, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A key whistle-blower against Theranos, the blood testing start-up that collapsed under scandal in 2018, testified on Tuesday in the fraud trial of the company’s founder, Elizabeth Holmes.
The whistle-blower, Erika Cheung, worked as a lab assistant at Theranos for six months in 2013 and 2014 before reporting lab testing problems at the company to federal agents at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2015. Her first day of testimony revealed to a jury what those following the Theranos saga most likely already knew: The company’s celebrated blood testing technology did not work.
In a crowded courtroom, Ms. Cheung said she had turned down other job offers out of college to join Theranos because she was dazzled by Ms. Holmes’s charisma and inspired by her success as a woman in technology. Ms. Holmes said Theranos’s machines, called Edison, would be able to quickly and cheaply discern whether people had a variety of health ailments using just a few drops of blood.
“She was very articulate and had a strong sense of conviction about her mission,” Ms. Cheung said of Ms. Holmes.
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, stands trial for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 10 counts of wire fraud.
But Ms. Cheung’s excitement faded after she witnessed actions she disagreed with in Theranos’s lab, she said. In some cases, outlier results of the blood tests were deleted to ensure that Theranos’s technology passed quality control tests. Ms. Cheung was also alarmed when she donated her own blood to Theranos and tests on the company’s machines said she had a vitamin D deficiency but traditional tests did not, she testified.
Ms. Cheung, who viewed a menu of around 90 blood tests offered by Theranos, said that despite Ms. Holmes’s promises about the Edison machines, they could process only a handful of the tests listed. The rest had to be done by traditional blood analyzers or sent out to a diagnostic company, she said.
Ultimately, Ms. Cheung resigned over her misgivings about Theranos’s testing services.
“I was uncomfortable processing patient samples,” she said. “I did not think the technology we were using was adequate enough to be engaging in that behavior.”
During Ms. Cheung’s testimony, Ms. Holmes’s lawyers objected to a wide variety of emails and other internal communications submitted by the prosecution as evidence. The two sides sparred over the rules of the arguments that could be used and the relevance of Ms. Cheung’s testimony.
“The C.E.O. is not responsible for every communication that happens within a company,” said Lance Wade, a lawyer representing Ms. Holmes.
John Bostic, a prosecutor and an assistant U.S. attorney, argued that documents showing Theranos’s internal issues were relevant to the case, regardless of whether Ms. Holmes’s name was on them.
Mr. Wade countered that Ms. Cheung had been an entry-level employee and hardly interacted with Ms. Holmes.
“To the best of our knowledge, the interview you just heard was the longest conversation she ever had with our client,” he said.
Through it all, Ms. Holmes sat quietly in a gray blazer and black dress, watching the proceedings from behind a medical mask.
Ms. Cheung’s 2015 letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services outlining problems with Theranos’s testing triggered a surprise inspection by the agency that led the company to close its labs. Tyler Shultz, another young employee in Theranos’s lab, also shared details about the lab problems with The Wall Street Journal, which published exposés of the company. Mr. Shultz is also listed as a potential witness in the trial. (An earlier version of this item misspelled his name as Schultz.)
Since her role in Theranos’s demise, Ms. Cheung has become an advocate for ethics in technology. She has delivered a TED Talk about speaking truth to power and helped found Ethics in Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit that provides ethics training and workshops to start-up founders, workers and investors.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lawyer-for-prince-andrew-vows-hell-fight-sex-coercion-lawsuit/3269800/
Lawyer for Prince Andrew Vows He'll Fight Sex Coercion Lawsuit
In her lawsuit and in interviews, Virginia Giuffre says she traveled to London with Jeffrey Epstein in 2001 and had sex with Andrew, after a night of dancing, at the home of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell
A new attorney for Britain's Prince Andrew said Monday that the royal had not been properly served with a copy of a new lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was coerced into having sex with him at age 17, and that he intends to challenge jurisdiction in the case.
Hollywood attorney Andrew Brettler went on the offensive against Virginia Giuffre, telling a judge in New York that her claim was “baseless, non-viable and potentially unlawful."
Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations in the lawsuit brought by Giuffre, who said that as a teenager living in Florida she was one of many girls and young women sexually abused by the convicted sex offender and millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
In her lawsuit and in interviews, Giuffre says she traveled to London with Epstein in 2001 and had sex with Andrew, after a night of dancing, at the home of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre has said Epstein paid her $15,000, then arranged for her to have two more sexual encounters with the prince in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they choose to come forward publicly, as Giuffre has.
Andrew has denied the allegations, saying in an interview that he doesn’t remember ever meeting Giuffre, though at least one photograph appears to show them together. Andrew has said he was “at a loss to explain” the image, which appears to show his hand on the woman’s side, and suggested it could have been doctored.
Brettler told the judge that the lawsuit against Andrew — who is the Duke of York — is barred by an earlier settlement agreement that remains under seal "releases the duke and others from any and all potential liability.” He added that Andrew intends to ask Britain's High Court to weigh in on the matter.
“We have significant concerns about the propriety of this lawsuit,” said Brettler, whose clients include several celebrities accused of sexual misconduct.
Giuffre previously settled a lawsuit against Maxwell over her allegations. Maxwell is now awaiting trial in the U.S. on charges that she helped recruit young victims for Epstein to abuse. That case does not involve Giuffre or Andrew. Epstein killed himself weeks after his arrest in 2019.
Brettler on Monday made a procedural argument on Andrew's behalf at the first pretrial conference in the case, saying Monday that Giuffre's legal team hadn't taken the proper steps required to start the case, including providing Andrew with a copy of the lawsuit. Attorneys for Giuffre say the documents were handed over to a police officer on duty at the main gates of Andrew’s home in Windsor Great Park on Aug. 27.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan didn't immediately rule on the matter, but told the lawyers whatever bureaucratic hurdles regarding service of the lawsuit would be ultimately resolved and that the case would be litigated.
“I think we are making this a lot more complicated than it really is,” the judge said. “Let’s cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance."
>“I think we are making this a lot more complicated than it really is,” the judge said. “Let’s cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance."
>“I think we are making this a lot more complicated than it really is,” the judge said. “Let’s cut out all the technicalities and get to the substance."
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https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/uk-net-zero-jobs-tuc-b1918625.html
Up to 660,000 jobs at risk if UK fails to cut carbon emissions quickly enough, union says
‘Business as usual’ not an option for manufacturing sector, TUC claims as it calls for greater state investment in green transition.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/spice-girls-channel-4-documentary-b1920183.html
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain – a damning look at the music industry 25 years on
In the first episode of Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain, we see father and son management team Bob and Chris Herbert holding auditions for “a girl version of Take That”. They have a rating system for the applicants, and Chris reads aloud the scorecard of one such hopeful: a 20-year-old Victoria Beckham. “Dancing – six; singing – five; looks – seven, not very good skin; personality – five.”
It’s just one example of the patriarchal behaviour the group come up against in Channel 4’s revealing new three-part documentary, which marks 25 years since the release of the band’s debut album, Spice, and spans from the group’s “manufactured” formation in 1994 to their eventual breakup in 2001.
In that same audition scene, the team’s business manager, Chris Murphy, is asked how to successfully manage an act. “Putting it bluntly,” he says, “what I would do is work ’em.” As far as concerns about mental health and wellbeing go, there are few. It’s a crushing environment, and one unsuccessful candidate from the same audition is brought in by directors Vari Innes and Alice McMahon-Major to recall the harsh realities of the process. “Back then, expectations of women in the music industry – the most important thing was definitely image and sex appeal,” singer Lianne Morgan says.
It’s no wonder that soon after their formation, all five members ran away from the group. Knowing their worth and talent, they are shown taking their careers into their own hands, demanding autonomy and creative control. We see how they interviewed dozens of labels themselves, eventually signing to Virgin with pop impresario Simon Fuller as manager. The deal allowed them to write their own songs, design their own style, and call the shots in an industry where women had little or no say.