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Footie fans hit hardest by train strikes as over half happen on Saturdays, ahead of another walkout tomorrow
FOOTIE fans are being hit hardest by militant train strikes as more than half take place on Saturdays.
Manchester City, Spurs and Chelsea fans face more misery to get to games tomorrow as RMT chief Mick Lynch and his union host yet another walkout.
Football fans are being hit the hardest by militant train strikes as more than half take place on Saturdays[/caption]
RMT chief Mick Lynch and his union host yet another walkout tomorrow[/caption]
Five of 11 strike days since June have taken place on Saturdays, hammering sports fans, families on weekend breaks and travellers.
Fans attending five Premiership games this Saturday will have to battle with just one in five trains running.
Pubs, restaurants and other battered hospitality businesses will see their trade take another whack, and NHS staff and shift workers will also face huge disruption to get to work.
Saturday rail numbers have bounced back above pre-Covid levels with around 3.5million journeys a day.
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But strike days have seen numbers drop back to just one million journeys.
A rail industry source urged unions to get back around the table to agree a deal on pay and reforms as soon as possible.
They said: “These strikes continue to disrupt football fans, leisure travellers, shift workers and undermine the many hospitality businesses who struggle with rising costs and reduced footfall and further action by the trade unions will only further damage the railway’s recovery.
“Passengers are equally getting frustrated with the continued strikes; particularly on a Saturday, where people want to be able to enjoy their weekend plans, and the disruption may force people back into their cars.”
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Kate Nicholls, UKHospitality CEO, hit out: “Given Saturday is usually the busiest day of the week for most hospitality venues, another weekend rail strike will be a further blow to businesses in the sector which are already grappling with record staff shortages and facing a tsunami of rising costs.”
A union source said: “RMT is not targeting football fans and we are sorry for any disruption to people’s lives.
“However, railway workers are having their lives disrupted by the threat of losing their jobs and suffering multi-year pay freezes.
“They have no other option but to strike until a negotiated settlement can be found with the railway industry.”
It came as the industry regulator pointed out that striking maintenance rail workers are already paid a fifth more than similar roles.
The Office of Rail and Road said workers demanding double-digit pay hikes are already on salaries 18 per cent.
Andrew Haines, chief executive of Network Rail, the public sector body that employs signal workers and other maintenance staff, said: “As the ORR’s report found, we provide a competitive package in line with market rates to reward and attract the best talent.
“As a public sector body, we balance this with the need to spend public money sensibly.
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Meanwhile, millions of nurses will also vote in their first ever UK-wide strike action.
And emergency 999 call handlers also joined a strike with colleagues from BT in a row over pay.
Need For Speed Game Reveal Teased By EA, Could Happen Very Soon
Electronic Arts is reportedly primed to announce the next Need for Speed game soon. In response to the rumor that the publisher will announce the next entry in its popular racing series this week, the publisher shared the eyes emoji. This is normally used to tease something that may be real.
Tom Henderson for Insider Gaming reported on September 29 that a reveal for the next Need for Speed game, which is rumored to be called Need for Speed Unbound, would happen in the next couple of weeks.
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— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) October 3, 2022
The game will be revealed via a 90-second trailer, the report said, adding that the game’s release date is lined up for December 2, 2022. Music from the rapper A$AP Rocky will reportedly be featured on the unannounced game’s soundtrack. The Insider Gaming report said Need for Speed Unbound will be focused on multiplayer and include a feature called “meetups” where players can sync up to compete in races.
If No More Heroes 4 is to happen, there needs to be a “big fan outcry” says Suda51
No More Heroes 4 could happen, though series creator Suda51 says that fans would have to be really loud about it to get one.
While No More Heroes 3 was meant to be the last entry in the series, Suda51 hasn’t necessarily ruled out another game somewhere down the road, though it sounds like it would be quite a long road if it ever did happen. The director recently spoke with GNN about the most recent game, asking if it’s possible we’ll see Travis Touchdown once more.
“Yes, that’s right, Heroes No More 3 is Travis’ last battle,” Suda said (translations via VGC). “Nobody could say what’s going to happen 10 years from now, and I can’t say either. If there’s a big fan outcry, Travis might be back. Just like Tom Cruise came back as Maverick.”
It’s unclear what will happen in VC in Q4, but it definitely won’t be boring
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NASA just crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see what would happen
A NASA spacecraft slammed into the surface of a distant asteroid at 7:14PM ET on Monday night, the climax of the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
An hour before impact, the target asteroid, Dimorphos, wasn’t even visible in the images from the spacecraft. In some of the early images sent back to Earth, even Dimorphos’ larger companion Didymos, looked like a single speck against a sea of black. The DART spacecraft was moving at 14,000 miles per hour, and details quickly came into view. Viewers on Earth saw the rough surface of Didymos zip by as the spacecraft cruised autonomously towards Dimorphos. Boulders filled the screen just before it went bright red, indicating a loss of signal — DART had reached its final…
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‘What Happened with CentOS Will Not Happen with Rocky Linux’
Development of Rocky Linux began shortly after, in late 2020, Red Hat terminated development of CentOS, a community-based Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that had been in existence since 2004. It is named after Jason Dale “Rocky” McGaugh, a talented programmer involved in CentOS development, who passed away in December 2004 at the age of only 30. Asked what McGaugh might have thought of the OS being named after him, Kurtzer told IT World Canada, “to be honest, he was a shy guy. I don’t know if he would have liked the attention, but at the same token, he was a huge advocate of open source and a big fan of open source.
“Personally, I don’t think he would have liked what happened with CentOS.”
Kurtzer added that “what we are doing with Rocky Linux is really where he would have liked to see the project and open source going. When we named it Rocky Linux, it was a hat tip to him for everything he has done, not only in open source and high-performance computing (HPC), but also with the CentOS project.
“One of the last e-mails that he wrote to the e-mail list was that he was 99 per cent done development of CentOS. It was pretty much ready to go when he passed, but he never saw it released.”
The key for an open-source initiative to grow and flourish, said Kurtzer, lies with registering it as a non-profit organization, which was the case with The cAos Foundation. He has done the same with Rocky Linux.
It’s official name is the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, “backed by an advisory board of trusted individuals and team leads from the Rocky Linux community.”
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