A team of athletes will represent Bermuda at the Pan American Wushu Championships in San Clara, California, this weekend. The Bermuda Sanshou Association [BSA] have travelled with a team of sanda fighters – Krista Dyer, Ryah Symonds, Che Durham, Cole Durham and Che’ Beane [adults]; Enzi Johnston, Muryah Swan, Geraldine Sidders and Michael Burgess [teens]; […]

[Written by Stephen Wright] Athletes from the Bermuda Sanshou Association [BSA] secured an impressive haul of medals from the Pan American Wushu Championships in San Clara, California, at the weekend. In the sanda discipline, which combines traditional kung fu with modern combat disciplines, Che Beane and Tristan Robinson won gold after securing victories in their […]

A team of nine athletes from Open Mat Bermuda will be hunting for medals at the Pan IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship in Texas. The competition, which runs from tomorrow [November 1] until Sunday, will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Centre and Arena, Fort Worth, Texas. Representing Open Mat – a Brazilian Jui-Jitsu Gym […]

Athletes from Open Mat Bermuda claimed four medals on day one of the Pan IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship in Fort Worth, Texas, yesterday [November 1]. Lonnie Bascome [brown belt] claimed gold in the men’s 162.2Ib category; Reina Maypa [blue belt] won bronze in the women’s 136lb division; and Jason McAlpine [brown belt] secured two bronze […]

Jediah Cumbermack competed in the North American Talent Cup in Savannah, Georgia. Round four of the North America Talent Cup [NATC] produced the closest racing of the season so far, with the top eight riders finishing within .5 second of each other in race one. Race two was even closer, with the top four within […]

Jediah Cumbermack was back in action competing in the final leg of the seven-race Chuckwalla Motorcycle Racing Association [CMVA] series in Desert Centre, California. He competed in the Formula Ultra Lightweight Class where he finished 2nd, clocking a six-lap time of 12:10.977, and he also competed in the Formula Ultra Lightweight Class, where he recorded […]

Jyire Mitchell competed in the Supercross Futures Premier Qualifying Event in East Rutherford, New Jersey. In the qualifying first race, Mitchell crossed the line 5th, he would then finish 8th in the 2nd qualifying race. In the 250SX Futures Class, Mitchell finished 6th in a field of 21 riders. Related Stories Aeziah Divine Reflects On […]

John Kacey competed in the Freetech Motorcycle Endurance race held at the Pembrey Circuit in the UK, a 2.4km technical race track. In the first practice session, Kacey secured a second-place finish with a fastest lap time of 1:31.114. He finished fourth in the second practice session. Kacey did not start the first qualifying race […]

Following his recent victory in a 5K, Ryan Outerbridge has been named the Male Athlete of the Week by the Northeast-10 Conference. The Bermudian runner competes for Franklin Pierce University, and their report said, “The Northeast-10 Conference released its week one honors Tuesday and senior runner Ryan Outerbridge [Paget, Bermuda] earned Male Athlete of the […]

Joseph Cechini and his Mercersburg Academy Men’s Cross Country teammates competed in the Gettysburg Invitational. Cechini finished the Varsity Boy’s 5K in 24th place clocking a time of 17:20.7. Related Stories Prunty Claims Victory At AXA Man On The Run Schindel Competes In OFSAA Championships Sean Trott Reflects On NY Marathon Display Nakeno Creighton Memorial […]

Team Bermuda will compete in the 2024 edition of the Backyard World Team Championship, set to take place on Saturday, October 19. A spokesperson said, “After the successful staging of Backyard Ultra running events in 2022 and 2023, sponsored by Monument Re, Team Bermuda is set to take part in the Backyard World Team Championship […]

Maddy Schindel represented CI Trinity College School Port Hope at the 2024 Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations [OFSAA] cross country championships. The OFSAA cross country championships, renowned as the second-largest race of its kind in North America, brought together top high school runners from across Ontario. Schindel competed in the novice girls’ 4km race, […]

[Updated with video] The Classic Old School Soca Fete was held this weekend, as one of the many events put on for the Carnival festivities. You can view photos from the event below, we will have additional coverage of the festivities all weekend, and you can view all Bernews coverage of the Carnival festivities over the years […]

The Tino Martinez Quartet [TMQ] will hold a Jazz in the Park event at Barr’s Bay Park on June 23 to honour Juneteenth. A spokesperson said, “Don’t worry if you missed the last Jazz in the Park, because you’re in luck. 2024 Best of Bermuda award winner TMQ is hosting their second jazz event in […]

Dr Ty Douglas performed a song he co-wrote titled ‘Baton in Hand’ in honour of the 1968 Olympic legends Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Harry Edwards at the recent San Francisco Juneteenth Festival and Parade. Dr Douglas, who co-wrote the song with his colleague Dr Wayne Bucknor, was also interviewed and featured on the KBMX […]

Bermuda-based Coralisle Group [CG] has acquired a 100% interest in Massy United Insurance Ltd. of Barbados [United]. A spokesperson said, “United now operates within the Coralisle Group as CG United Insurance Ltd. [CG United]. The acquisition significantly expands CG’s presence across the Caribbean, adding 14 new markets where CG United operates. “These include Anguilla, Antigua & […]

Monument Re announced today that its Isle of Man subsidiary Monument International Life Assurance Company Limited [MILAC] has completed the acquisition of the closed book portfolio of Zurich International Life Limited’s [ZILL] Singapore long term life insurance business. A spokesperson said, “The ZILL Singapore branch portfolio and employees have transferred into the Singapore branch of […]

Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. today announced the completion of Brookfield Reinsurance’s acquisition of Argo in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.1 billion. A spokesperson said, “Under the terms of the transaction, Brookfield Reinsurance acquired all issued and outstanding common shares of Argo at a price of $30 per share. Argo’s common shares have ceased […]

Compre, the Bermuda-domiciled international legacy group, today announces the acquisition of two portfolios of European casualty and motor liabilities from separate undisclosed international insurance groups. A spokesperson said, “All necessary approvals have been granted by Bermudian and European regulators, allowing Compre’s class 3B Bermudian reinsurer Pallas Reinsurance Company Ltd. to reinsure approximately €200m of reserves […]

Arch Insurance North America, part of Arch Capital Group Ltd. announced it has closed the acquisition of the U.S. MidCorp and Entertainment insurance businesses from Allianz originally announced on April 5. A spokesperson said, “Nearly 500 former Allianz MidCorp and Entertainment employees have joined Arch and will provide continuity to clients and brokers as Arch […]

Říjnové kolo soutěže Reflexu Akty X přináší jedinečnou kombinaci krásy a hrůzy – téma Halloween. Fotografové dostali příležitost propojit aktovou fotografii s prvky tajemna a horroru, což vyústilo ve fascinující galerii plnou odlišných přístupů jednotlivých umělců. Snímky říjnového kola odhalují škálu temných vizuálů, kde se krása lidského těla snoubí s ponurou atmosférou Halloweenu.

Na důležitém místě, kde se řeka Ob potkávala s naplánovanou trasou Transsibiřské magistrály, bylo roku 1893 založeno město Novonikolajevsk. Původní vesnice s 685 obyvateli rychle splynula s dynamicky vznikajícím centrem dělníků a přistěhovalců. Tak tomu bylo ale na mnoha místech, kde se Transsibiřská magistrála stavěla. Teprve když bylo v roce 1912 rozhodnuto o tom, že z Novonikolajevska povede odbočka transsibiřské magistrály do Kazachstánu, byla budoucnost města definitivně zajištěna. A zatímco jiná sídla zanikla, Novonikolajevsk přejmenovali na Novosibirsk a dnes je z něj třetí největší město v Rusku. V asijské části Putinovy země jde o město vůbec největší.

Date: November 11, 2024

Location: Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States

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Animalities have returned to Mortal Kombat. Players of the infamous fighting game series can finish a defeated opponent off by transforming into an animal and brutally mauling them death for the first time since 1995's Mortal Kombat 3 with the "Khaos Reigns" update to Mortal Kombat 1.

So, what follows is a list of every Mortal Kombatant's fursonas, basically, from Mortal Kombat 1. Two warnings: In explaining different characters roles, there may be spoilers for the games, and also, extreme, over the top violence and gore is the point of Animalities.

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The government is instructing social media companies what should and shouldn't be allowed to be on the internet, these are the people least competent to judge what is misinformation. Continue reading →

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It’s that time of year again—but what a different year. The Toronto International Film Festival, COVIDVERSE edition, has begun.

The show must go on, though with a slate one-fifth of the usual size.

There are distanced and drive-in screenings, but we are forgoing those entirely in favor of digital screenings. For $19 - $26 a pop, viewers in Canada who grabbed tickets in time can watch on digital devices. Options include Chromecast, so we’ll be hunkering down in front of our home theater setup for a total of 39 films. No TIFF unfolds without technical problems, but this time an entire new set of them awaits!

Many rights holders are sitting on completed films hoping to launch them when normalcy returns to film exhibition. TIFF 2020 titles skew less toward the offbeat genre items that make up my typical must-see list and more to documentary, Canadian and generally serious fare. I did snap up tickets for the three Midnight Madness titles.

Normally we see 45 films each. We’ll be filling in the gaps with titles already on streaming services. Most years there’s a documentary about film near the start of the fest, so I’ve found one of those. We usually strive to stack up fun, poppier choices on the last Sunday, so I’ve picked out a substitute slate to replicate that. To not be weird, I’ll be putting capsule reviews of those flicks in our weekly Ken and Robin Consume Media feature, not here.

Pandemic Festival tosses our finely-tuned logistical routines, honed over 34 years, out the window. I’m sure you’re all anxious to hear about the profound changes this wreaks on our snack game.   

I’ve drawn up a specific schedule of screening times to keep us on track, with break times marked. Finally we can pause TIFF films for brief naps. We’ll be making a point to go out and speed-walk around the block to mimic the salutary effects of dashing between venues.

And as for the dudes loudly voicing wrong movie opinions while we’re packed, sardine-style, in line-ups at the Lightbox or Scotiabank, well, we’ll just have to imagine what they had to say about opening night:

Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds [US, Werner Herzog & Clive Oppenheimer, 4] Documentary explores the science and mythology of meteor, from Chicxulub to ʻOumuamua. The intersection between scientific discovery and religious awe, central to all of Herzog’s gorgeous, delightful nature docs, rises from subtext to text through the intercession of traditional elders, joyful researchers, and the Jesuit scholar of the Vatican’s heaven stone collection.

Enemies of the State [US, Sonia Kennebeck, 4] Documentary pulls apart a labyrinth of contradictory evidence around Matthew DeHart, an Indiana man who was framed for child pornography by the FBI as part of a Wikleaks espionage case, or created a story of secret files to shield himself either cooked up a Wikileaks-related espionage smokescreen to mask his sex crimes. Invites the viewer to join a filmmaking team as it goes ever deeper down a rabbit hole.

American Hiking Society constantly monitors legislation that could enhance or protect the hiking experience. A new bill, HR 1912 - the Complete America’s Great Trails Act - has the potential to significantly benefit some of the most spectacular trails in America. This proposed legislation would grant a tax credit to private landowners who provide conservation easements to certified National Scenic Trails – resulting in a low-cost incentive for willing landowners to donate easements that would increase trail connectivity. This means that private landowners have a new incentive to allow hikers to pass through their property, and trails get a guaranteed corridor that protects the connectivity and continuity of the hiking experience for years to come!

American Hiking supports HR 1912 and applauds Rep. Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Lummis (R-WY) for introducing this forward-thinking legislation. We also applaud Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Bono-Mack (R-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Trails Caucus, and Reps. Kind (D-WI), Massa (D-NY), McMahon (D-NY), Lance (R-NJ), Polis (D-Co), Boccieri (D-OH), Pierluisi (D-RC-PR), for their original co-sponsorship of this important legislation.

American Hiking advocates for changes in policies that provide our partners with as many tools as possible to protect and manage our nation’s great trails. Thus, we work closely with regional and local organizations that protect, maintain and promote the various elements of America’s National Trails System. We also partner with Congress and the federal land management agencies charged with managing and administering our trail resources.

American Hiking has championed the protection and enhancement of America’s National Trails System since our founding in 1976. Our National Trails System consists of more than 7,000 authorized miles of National Scenic Trails, more than 36,000 miles of National Historic Trail routes, and more than 1,000 registered National Recreation Trails.

Take Action to urge your Representative to co-sponsor HR 1912.

Read the full text of HR 1912, and read the Dear Colleague Letter being circulated by Reps. Connolly and Lummis.

1. Streaks of fire are about to take over Australian skies during the Leonid meteor shower. Here’s how to see them  nbnnews.com.au
2. The Northern Taurid meteor shower could produce fireballs. Here’s how to watch  CNN
3. Northern Taurid meteor shower hits peak activity this week: When and where to watch  USA TODAY
4. Leonid Meteor Shower May Put on a Surprise Show This Week  ScienceAlert
5. Starwatch: Leonid meteor shower returns to skies in November  The Guardian

1. As it happened: Donald Trump ally taunts Kevin Rudd; WiseTech shareholders launch class action  Sydney Morning Herald
2. Ditching Rudd over Trump insults would be ‘worst possible signal’: Turnbull  Sydney Morning Herald
3. Senior Liberal calls for Rudd to be sacked after Trump advisor suggests US ambassador is on thin ice  9News

1. Legitimacy of two Victorian local government elections in question after duplicate votes detected  ABC News
2. Victorian council election results 2024 LIVE updates: Suspected postal vote tampering in council elections  Sydney Morning Herald
3. VEC investigates potential vote tampering in two Melbourne councils  The Age

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This year's Halloween story, written on leaves and serialized daily on my blog, one sentence at a time, is done. Every day in October, I added to it, it reached its last words on Halloween.

Funny thing, though. In conversations with two different friends, I learned that neither of them had realized it was a story. They each thought I was just posting random sentences written on leaves. One of them is an artist, and thinks primarily in visual terms, so I thought at first that was a misunderstanding curious to her. The other, however, is a well-known writer and, what's more important, quite a good one. I have no idea what's going on there.

Long story short, at my behest, my son Sean, put all the photos up on Imgur, subtitled. So, if you didn't realize that they told a story... Or if, somehow, you weren't able to hold all the sentences in your head until the story was complete... Now you can find out what was going on. (The stone angels mark the ends of paragraphs.)

You can find it by clicking on the link here.

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Chantal (56) heeft coeliakie, hoe herken je de ziekte? “Ik kan nooit zomaar brood of koffiekoeken eten, elke kruimel zorgt voor krampen”  Het Laatste Nieuws

1. Peter Vandenbempt neemt praktijk op de korrel die steeds meer aan populariteit wint: "Gewoon geel geven, en een paar keer na elkaar"  Voetbalkrant.com
2. "Je lacht gewoon iedereen uit": Peter Vandenbempt hekelt "blessures bij doelmannen" en komt met oplossing  sporza.be
3. Delanghe onder vuur na acteren tegen RSC Anderlecht: “Lacht iedereen uit”  VoetbalPrimeur.be
4. Alle middelen zijn goed: de 'gouden' truc die Cercle Brugge toepaste tegen RSC Anderlecht krijgt (voorlopig) geen staartje  Voetbalkrant.com
5. Loopje met de sportiviteit, Delanghe faket blessure tegen Anderlecht  VoetbalPrimeur.be

More than once, I think, veteran or (the noun vet) has been nominated  for US>UK Word of the Year. Dru, who nominated it for 2022, felt that it was appearing more often in UK contexts:

The word I’d propose is ‘veteran’ in the US sense of a former soldier. Some may dispute this as a word for this year as many of us have long been aware of it as an American expression, but since the summer of this year, I’ve increasingly heard it used on the BBC and elsewhere to meaning a former member of the UK armed services.

In the UK hitherto, it has just meant ‘old’, possibly slightly distinguished and used of cars etc.

The US abbreviation ‘vet’ causes confusion here as ‘vet’ means a doctor for animals, short for veterinary surgeon.

I considered making it the WotY, but it didn't feel 2022-ish enough. (You'll see why below.) But I put it on my to-be-blogged-about-sooner-rather-than-later list, and here we are! If you don't want to see all (BrE) my workings, scroll down to the TL;DR version.

The ex-soldier sense of veteran wasn't made up by Americans. Since the 1500s, veteran has been an English noun referring first to someone with "long experience in military service or warfare" (Oxford English Dictionary sense 1a) or "an ex-member of the armed forces" (sense 1b). Note the difference there: in the 1a meaning, the person is still probably serving, whereas in the 1b meaning they're retired from service. 

That second (1b) meaning, the OED notes, is "now chiefly North American," though there are UK examples peppered through their timeline of quotations. 

In BrE it is still used for sense 1a, to refer to old-but-still-going things or people. It's sometimes used like that in AmE too, often in relation to theat{er/re}, as in a veteran of stage and screen. The usage that Dru mentioned, veteran car, is particularly BrE. In AmE, you could call such a thing a vintage car (as in BrE too) or an antique car, as shown here in the GloWbE corpus: 

It's tricky to investigate whether the ex-soldier meaning of veteran is going up in BrE usage because how much we talk about veterans varies a lot according to what's going on in the world. But to have a little look-see, I searched for the phrase "war veteran(s)" in Hansard, the record of the UK Parliament. There is almost no usage of the phrase before 1990, then a lot more in 2000–2009. 

Now, maybe some of these are in sense 1a, the 'been serving for a long time' sense. But a peek at the data shows that most of the 2000s examples relate to compensation for Gulf War veterans, so it does seem to be more the ex-soldier meaning. Note that [more AmE] WWI/WWII veterans are usually called First/Second World War veterans in BrE, and there was the Falklands War after that, so it's not that there were no "war veterans" before the 1990s. 

A different tool, Hansard at Huddersfield, takes us up to 2021, and there we can see that this use of veteran appears to have stabilized, rather than continuing to increase. But in Covid Times, it's likely that there was just less debate about ex-servicepeople in Parliament—so we can't make too much of that stability. It could be increasing in comparison to other ways of talking about ex-servicepeople. 

What about vet?

I've written about vet before—in fact it was my 2008 UK>US Word of the Year. But in that case it was a verb (as in to vet a candidate). Now I want to just look at the noun—or nouns.

Vet can be short for (more AmE) veterinarian/(BrE) veterinary surgeon. You take your pet to the vet. It rhymes and everything.  Let's call that vet1. The OED has examples going back to 1862, and marks it as "chiefly British", which, as we're going to see, might not be the best way to describe it. 

In AmE since the 1840s, vet has been used as a shortened form of veteran. Let's call that vet2.

In AmE, where both are used, context is usually enough to tell the difference between vet1 and vet2. You take your dog to the vet1. People study at vet1 school. But a Vietnam vet is probably a vet2 and not a Vietnamese vet1. 

Both vets are well-used in AmE. I used english-corpora.org to take a 100-sentence sample of the noun vet from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Of the 100, 57 definitely referred to the animal doctor, 23 referred to former soldiers, 3 referred stage or other veterans, and 6 were neither of these nouns (1 verb, some acronyms, a typo, and a Dutch word). That leaves 11 where I couldn't tell in the very brief window of text which vet it was; it referred to a person who'd been introduced earlier in the text. Had I had the full text, I assume there would be close to zero ambiguous cases—but even with a very short window of context, it was usually easy to tell. (For some examples, see below. Click to enlarge.) In any case, note that the majority refer to the animal doctor. I had a quick peek in the Corpus of Historical American English, and the phrase "to the vet" (as in I took my dog...) is there since the 1940s, increasing in use each decade. 

While the singular was usually the animal doctor in AmE, in the plural, vets, it's more likely to refer to former soldiers, since they are more often discussed as a class than veterinarians are. 

So, as is often the case for homonyms, context usually tells us which thing we mean.

Is the use of vet2 increasing in BrE? Well, probably some, but it's harder to find good evidence for it. There are scattered uses of war vets in Hansard since the 1960s, but it's probably too new and informal to be used in parliamentary talk. When I was researching it as a possible Word of the Year, I looked at samples from the News on the Web corpus, and found 5 examples (of 100 vet) in 2011 and seven in 2022 (the highest years were 2019 at 11 and 2020 at 20, but there were only 3 in 2021). My small sample size could have skewed things (but it was as much as I could give time for). A lot of the UK examples I looked at were about American vets, in which case the UK news source could have been quoting an American person or possibly publishing text from a wire service, possibly originally written by an AmE speaker. So, as I say, it's not simple to spot the truly BrE usage. 

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Poor Mayor Pete just can't seem to catch a break on the internet. The presidential candidate from South Bend, Indiana tweeted a photo of himself walking down a hallway on Saturday with the caption, "On my way back to Iowa. It's phase 4. Let's do this." The tweet has been catching a fair amount of flack for appearing to be staged. 

Here are some of Twitter's most amusing reaction memes and tweets!

Conspiracy theory purveyor Infowars and most of its assets are set to go on the auction block Wednesday, with Alex Jones waiting to see if he will be allowed to stay or if he will get kicked off its online platforms. The private auction is being held as part of Jones' personal bankruptcy, which…

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows.

The roll, pitch and yaw of an object relative to another is complex to compute. We use 3D complex number to compute them which makes the computation easier and more intuitive. Roll, pitch and yaw are angles of orientation of an object in space and the conversion of these angles among different reference frames is...

The apparent non‑gravitational acceleration the extra-solar-system ‘Oumuamua exhibits is puzzling. We find that when the position and velocity of the Sun is correctly set in computing the predicted orbit, ‘Oumuamua’s trajectory can be explained with gravity and we have reproduced the unexpected gap by computation. We also propose to search for new extra-solar-system high speed...

Here's a nice, heart-warming moment to help restore your faith in humanity.

At IWA Midsouth's "Big Ass Christmas Bash" last week in Indiana, wrestler Ace Perry had a surprise for his number one fan Amanda.

The high school junior who has autism, has been to every one of his matches and has even reached out to him on Facebook.

So when he asked her if she would go to prom with him, she was – of course – ecstatic.

Born in the Czech Republic in 1904, Vilma Grünwald was 39 years old when she wrote a final letter to her husband, Kurt. They had been held at Auschwitz with their two sons for 7 months, separated for much of their ordeal following a stint in a “family camp” that was soon dismantled by the