“I fought so hard for this role for this very reason,” she said. “I felt like I could carry that torch. I made sure my elf was the most Elf, the most incredible, because I knew this was coming.” Nomvete, too, expected a backlash to her casting, especially as she is also the first female dwarf in a film adaptation of Tolkien’s work. He told the Daily Beast that he is primarily focused on improving representation in the fantasy space....

Publication date: Sep 06, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 3 minutes read • 21 comments Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an announcement and groundbreaking ceremony at the Sen̓áḵSquamish Nation housing development site in Vancouver, Tuesday, September 6, 2022. The federal government is providing a $1.4 billion loan to a Vancouver First Nation to build 3,000 homes on land that was once an ancient village that was burned and expropriated a century ago....

Purpose: To learn or refresh knowledge regarding influenza disease, influenza vaccines and practice considerations. While the complete BCCDC Immunization Competency Course is recommended for all new vaccine providers, this course has been adapted to be a more comprehensive competency course, based on the Immunization Competencies for BC Health Professionals (an adaptation of the Public Health Agency of Canada Immunization Competencies), for new immunizers who will be providing influenza vaccines only....

Un grave accident de la circulation s’est produit ce dimanche 4 septembre sur l’autoroute A9 à Roquemaure. Les sapeurs-pompiers du Gard sont intervenus pour sauver un motard, le seul impliqué dans cet accident, vers 19 heures, dans le sens Orange-Nîmes. D’importants moyens ont été dépêchés sur place pour secourir la victime : une brigade de secours routier composée d’une ambulance, d’un véhicule de désincarcération, d’un véhicule de commandement et d’une équipe médicale du SMUR Orange....

The Gulf states have said their complaint with the streaming service is about content that violates social norms, but Saudi Arabia in the past has also asked for politically sensitive content to be removed. In 2019, Netflix obliged the kingdom by removing an episode of “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj” that mocked the kingdom. Netflix at the time defended its decision as a response to a “valid legal request,” adding that it nevertheless “strongly supports artistic freedom,” according to the Financial Times....

Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 8 during the company’s annual fall product event on Wednesday. The GPS version starts at $399 (£419, AU$629), while the cellular version starts at $499. It will be available on September 16 with pre-orders starting immediately. Apple also announced the rugged Apple Watch Ultra, which starts at $799, and a new version of the more affordable Apple Watch SE, starting at $249 and on pre-order now....

Although Truss, the favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister on Monday, has said he will stick to the government’s fiscal rules on debt, the permanent tax cuts he has promised combined with dire developments in the public finances will make impossibility. Voting in the Tory leadership contest closed at 5pm on Friday after seven weeks of hard-fought debate, in which Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, claimed the Truss economic plan was “a fairy tale” and that extra borrowing would raise further inflation....

You might think so. New, updated booster downloads are released for better protection than the currently released variants. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has withdrawn its COVID-19 quarantine and social distancing recommendations. And more people threw away their masks and returned to pre-pandemic activities. But scientists say no. They predict that the scourge that has already lasted longer than the 1918 flu pandemic will linger long into the future....

Article écrit par Publié le 09/02/2022 22:48 Mis à jour le 09/02/2022 22:48 Temps de lecture : 1 minute. Un événement fantastique. Le décollage de la méga-fusée de la mission Artemis vers la Lune, samedi 3 septembre, pourrait attirer jusqu’à 400 000 personnes, selon les autorités locales. La fusée SLS, pour la mission Artemis 1, est la fusée la plus puissante jamais construite par la NASA. Le décollage est prévu à 14h17....

Le Premier ministre ukrainien Denis Chmygal est en visite dimanche en Allemagne dans l’espoir d’un soutien encore plus fort à la Russie et de tourner la page des récentes tensions entre Kiev et Berlin. L’ambivalence de longue date de l’Allemagne envers Moscou depuis le déclenchement de la guerre il y a six mois, et son manque initial de soutien militaire à Kyiv, ont profondément irrité le gouvernement de Volodymyr Zelensky....

The former foreign secretary beat her rival Rishi Sunak to win the Conservative leadership race on Monday and will replace Boris Johnson in Number 10. Number 10 keys exchange hands – Politics Hub live updates In a break with tradition, Ms Truss travelled to Balmoral, where the Queen is on holiday, for her formal appointment. It was thought to be best for the Queen, 96, not to travel back to London due to her intermittent mobility issues....

Truss, who will be appointed by the Queen today, is set to curb the cost of natural gas used for electricity and heating. This would effectively commit the taxpayer to paying Britain’s energy bills beyond a certain level to stop widespread hardship and bankruptcies. The freeze will apply to both households and businesses. Pubs and restaurants have been told they face financial ruin because they have no protection against rising energy prices....

05.09.2022 18:53 Die Menschen in Deutschland kaufen weniger Autos. Im August blieb die Zahl der Neuzulassungen auf niedrigem Niveau. Der deutsche Automarkt befürchtet für dieses Jahr die schlechtesten Verkaufszahlen seit drei Jahrzehnten. Autos verkaufen sich weiterhin relativ günstig. Nach Angaben der Federal Motor Carrier Administration wurden im August 199.200 Autos neu zugelassen. Das waren zwar 3 Prozent mehr als im August des Vorjahres, der ebenfalls schwach war, aber der Kalender erlaubte auch einen zusätzlichen Verkaufstag....

Show only key events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature This result checks the recent momentum built by Erik ten Hag, as well as putting Manchester United at the back of Group E. Only the group winners automatically go through to the knockout stages, with the runners-up playing a cash-strapped club from the Champions League. The other group game saw Serif beat Omonia Nicosia 3-0. Thanks for reading this MBM on an official night at Old Trafford....

The blaze, called the Mill Fire, was burning with a “dangerous rate of spread” in Siskiyou County, according to an update posted by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as CalFire. Hundreds of homes were in danger. Susan Koopman, an employee with CalFire’s Siskiyou County unit, said in a phone call that the fire had burned at least 500 acres. A temporary evacuation center was opened at the fairgrounds in Yreka....

Flückiger behauptet nach einem Dopingtest, unschuldig zu sein Knapp drei Wochen nach einer positiven A-Probe meldete sich Mountainbiker Mathias Flückiger zum ersten Mal zu Wort. Er behauptet: “Ich habe Zeranol nicht wissentlich eingenommen.” 1/6 Mathias Flückiger spricht erstmals nach seiner positiven A-Probe. Mountainbike-Star Mathias Flückiger meldet sich erstmals zu Wort, seit Mitte August bekannt wurde, dass er positiv auf Doping getestet wurde. „Ich habe Zeranol nicht bewusst eingenommen“, sagte der 33-Jährige....

Les premières interventions ont été réalisées en Europe avec les nouveaux instruments Supermicro PISA, Italie, 8 septembre 2022 /PRNewswire/ —Microinstruments médicaux, Inc. (MMI), Microinstruments médicaux, Inc. (MMI), une société de robotique dédiée à l’amélioration des résultats cliniques pour les patients subissant une microchirurgie, a annoncé aujourd’hui la sortie des nouveaux instruments Supermicro NanoWrist à utiliser avec le système chirurgical Symani, développés spécifiquement pour relever les défis de la microchirurgie. Le nouveau porte-aiguille et extenseur Supermicro a récemment été utilisé dans des procédures cliniques à Zurich, Florence et Salzbourg, avec de bons résultats pour les patients....

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Union flags will be flown at half-mast at royal residences, government buildings and military establishments, and books of condolence will be opened at British embassies around the world. King Charles III and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, will return to London after spending Thursday night with their family at Balmoral, where the Queen died. On Friday he is expected to meet Liz Truss and help formalize the funeral arrangements....

According to initial government estimates, the rain and flooding have caused $10bn (£8.7bn) in damage. “The scale of the disaster is enormous and requires a massive humanitarian response for 33 million people. Therefore, I appeal to my fellow Pakistanis, the Pakistani expatriate and the international community to help Pakistan in this hour of need,” Federal Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told a press conference. Many officials and experts have blamed the unusual monsoon rains and floods on climate change, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” into the deadly crisis....