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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Ashlon Jackson scored a career-high 30 points and No. 14 Duke defeated No. 10 Kansas State, 73-62 on Monday, in the semifinals of the Ball Dawgs Classic. The Blue Devils (6-1) overcame an early 11-point deficit behind Jackon’s shooting hand to advance to Wednesday’s championship game against the winner of the game between No. 9 Oklahoma and DePaul.Lifeist Announces Reorganization of the Board of DirectorsHyperloop, the next generation of mass-mobility for people to travel in a faster, safer and greener way, is likely to be operational by 2029. It is an inter-city mode of transport where people can travel between Mumbai and Pune at ultra-high speeds. Pune-based Quintrans Hyperloop is developing individual technologies at a commercial scale for Hyperloop. "While we have prototyped a novel patent pending concrete tube, we have already commercialised the Linear Motor for Hyperloop, this includes a linear motor capable of moving upwards of 1 tonne of payload and developing one of India's first custom track based Linear Motor Controller In-House," Quintrans CEO and Co-Founder Pranay Luniya said. "The next step at our facility is to develop efficient magnetic levitation modules, with similar payload capacities of upwards of one tonne. While developing proof of concepts is important, at Quintrans we're focusing on developing commercial scale technologies that can be integrated to develop Hyperloop as we go along," he said. By 2029, the first commercial track expected to be deployed for a smaller route with Cargo while passenger could take a bit longer. Earlier, Luniya had stated that the technology is being developed to make the infrastructure cost efficient. "Our USP lies around making technology the easiest to implement and efficient to work with. We are targeting a capex of Rs 150 Crore per km, making it less expensive than the current bullet train project between Mumbai-Ahmedabad,” Luniya said. When asked if the ticket rates of Rs 1,000-1,500 between Mumbai-Pune in a hyperloop will not be costly and whether people can afford it, Luniya said, “It is an open estimated amount of ticket price we are looking at. A direct flight between Pune-Mumbai costs Rs 3,000 while the travel in Vande Bharat train costs Rs 750. Hyperloop is the best of both worlds where you can travel between the cities in under 25 minutes, which is faster than an aeroplane, and at a price which is half of that,” he said. In 2019, the Maharashtra government approved Hyperloop One’s plans to develop the world’s first hyperloop system in the state. The project, a joint venture between the Maharashtra government and Virgin Group-promoted Hyperloop One, aimed to connect Pune to Mumbai and reduce the time taken to travel between the two cities from three hours to 25 minutes. Earlier, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) had submitted a letter of intent to Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari in 2017 who offered a huge chunk of land along westerly bypass of Pune connected to the Expressway. The idea was to enable them to run an experiment between Mumbai and Pune as a pilot project.

Even more Canadian passports are in limbo almost one month into the Canada Post strike. In early November, Service Canada put a temporary hold on mailing out passport packages after November 8, 2024. “By holding residential mail several days in advance of a work stoppage, Service Canada has reduced the risk of having any passports held in Canada Post distribution centres,” Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) spokesperson Maja Stefanovska told Daily Hive. Just days after 55,000 employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) , the agency said were already being held. In an update on Wednesday, Stefanovska told Daily Hive that as of December 1, approximately 185,000 passports that were printed and ready to be mailed are being held by Service Canada. In a release on Wednesday, Canada Post said it reviewed the latest offer from the CUPW and “determined that the union’s demands are unaffordable and unsustainable – adding billions of dollars in long-term fixed costs.” “Added up, all the demands in CUPW’s latest offers would cost more than $3 billion over four years, at a time when the postal service is already recording large financial losses,” stated the postal service. “Some of the big-ticket items include wage increases and staffing changes.” The union’s latest from Tuesday said it just wants its members to “have good collective agreements, with their rights protected.” ESDC said the hundreds of thousands of passports on hold will be mailed out once the labour disruption is over and regular mail service resumes. According to Canada Post, once operations resume, all mail and parcels in the postal network will be secured and delivered as quickly as possible on a first-in, first-out basis. However, services may take time to fully return to normal, no matter the length of the disruption. ESDC advises Canadians who have already submitted an application and are in urgent need of a passport to request to pick it up at a Service Canada location. You can do so by contacting the at 1-800-567-6868 or visiting a Service Canada Centre. “Passport offices may not be able to respond to requests on a first-come, first-served basis due to a high volume of requests and are therefore contacting clients based on the date of travel or need,” explained Stefanovska. For anyone requesting a transfer, the pickup date is arranged based on their travel date or need. ESDC says the pickup could even be arranged for the same day for urgent situations. “If the processing time for the application is now outside service standard, Canadians can request a file transfer at no additional fee,” said Stefanovska. “If the application is still within service standard, Canadians will need to pay the fees for a file transfer ($45) and standard pick up service ($20).” According to the agency, as of December 1, there have been requests for about 6,500 passports to be transferred for pick-up at a Service Canada office. This includes requests for passports being held due to the Canada Post strike and for other reasons. Canadians travelling in more than six weeks can visit a Service Canada Centre that offers 20-business-day service, or a scheduled outreach site to submit their application.ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Senate Republicans recommended on Friday that the state write laws banning transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college sports, setting the stage for action in the 2025 legislative session. The vote by a committee that was studying the issue is hardly a surprise. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones — a possible Republican contender for governor in 2026 — announced almost identical goals at the panel's first meeting in August . It’s an issue that’s already been addressed in Georgia. Legislators in 2022 empowered the Georgia High School Association to regulate transgender students' participation in sports. The association, which regulates sports and activities for all public schools and some private schools, then banned transgender boys and girls from playing on the school sports teams matching their gender identity. Jones and others argue that doesn't go far enough and that lawmakers themselves need to act. It's a sign Republicans believe there is more political gain in fears about transgender women playing women’s sports or using women’s bathrooms. At least 26 mostly Republican states have passed laws or rules to restrict transgender girls from participating high school sports and, in some cases, transgender women from college sports , according to the Movement Advancement Project, a gay rights group. In Georgia, additional action appears more likely now after House Speaker Jon Burns and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, have voiced support for further legislation. Jeff Graham, executive director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Georgia Equality, said his group is playing defense, concerned about the possibility of other bills that could further restrict gender-affirming care or ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity. “We’re expecting that it’ll be at least what we saw in 2023 and 2024, with the number of bills and more than likely laws,” Graham told reporters Friday. But Burns, from Newington, has said he's not interested in other bills dealing with transgender people besides those dealing with girls' and women's sports. Republican State Sen. Greg Dolezal, of Cumming, who led the Senate study committee, said Friday that he, too, is not interested in a broader bill regulating bathroom usage, although his committee recommended that schools that host sporting events require athletes to use locker rooms based on their assigned sex at birth. Dolezal said senators would seek to write legislation that regulated public schools and colleges, as well as private institutions that compete against public schools and colleges. The committee also recommends that people be able to sue or file grievances if schools break the rules, and that state money be withheld from schools that break the rules. Supporters of more action have focused on the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, swam for the University of Pennsylvania and won the 500-meter freestyle . The NCAA has since revised its policy on transgender women’s participation, saying it will follow the rules of respective athletics federations. World Aquatics, the swimming governing body, banned transgender women who have been through male puberty from competing in women’s races. That means Thomas wouldn’t be allowed to swim in NCAA events today. “My basic contention that this is a solution in search of a problem remains,” Graham said. He said he fears that many people who oppose laws that seek to restrict transgender people will be afraid to testify and lobby at the Georgia Capitol, citing assault charges against a man accused of shaking U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in a Capitol office building in Washington, D.C. Dolezal repeatedly tried to turn down the emotional temperature of the issue on Friday. “I think that there’s a group of people that wants to be respected and I think that they deserve respect,” Dolezal told reporters. “But I also think that you can be respectful, but also recognize that in the sporting arena, fairness and competition is important.”Georgia Republicans recommend further law to restrict transgender women's participation in sports

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