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Scotsman
7 days ago
- Sport
- Scotsman
Finn Russell to get new Scotland teammate at Bath as high-flyers move fast after injury blow
Gloucester back to join Challenge Cup winners next season Sign up to our Rugby Union newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Chris Harris will swell the Scottish contingent at Bath next season after agreeing to move to the recently crowned European Challenge Cup winners. Harris, 34, is to leave Gloucester after six years to join their West Country rivals where he will link up with fellow Scotland internationals Finn Russell, Cameron Redpath and Josh Bayliss. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He has been signed as injury cover for Ollie Lawrence who faces a long recovery period after undergoing surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon he sustained during England's Six Nations win against Italy in March. Chris Harris has made more than 150 appearances for Gloucester. | Getty Images Harris has made 158 Premiership appearances for Gloucester having joined the club in 2019 from Newcastle Falcons. Capped 46 times by Scotland, he was also a Test Lion on the 2021 tour of South Africa. He has enjoyed a fine season with Gloucester and will now join a club who hope to be crowned Premiership champions next month. 'Bath Rugby is delighted to announce the signing of centre Chris Harris from Gloucester Rugby on a one-year deal,' Bath said in a statement. 'Harris joins on injury dispensation for Lawrence who suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon during England's Six Nations win over Italy in March and will miss the start of next season.' Harris in international wilderness Harris has drifted out of the international picture with Scotland and was last capped in the 84-0 win over Romania at the 2023 Rugby World Cup in Lille. He has remained a first pick for Gloucester and has played 19 games for them this season, 17 as a starter. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'I'm delighted to have the opportunity to join Bath and get to play with some great friends and great talent,' he said. 'The culture translates on the pitch and I'm excited to get started.'
Business Wire
7 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Comcast Advertising's AudienceXpress Introduces Solution to Boost Audience Targeting for Marketers This Upfronts Season
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AudienceXpress, a division of Comcast Advertising that provides market-leading national media solutions, announced the launch of its new offering built for brands and agencies who want to reach new audiences across the premium video ecosystem. AudienceXtn is an incremental reach platform powered by AudienceXpress and Comcast's first-party data to help marketers engage with their most receptive audiences, at the right time and in the right environment. 'With increased fragmentation in the marketplace, agencies and brands need to deterministically find and optimize efficiently against incremental audiences across the linear and digital landscape,' said Chris Harris, Head of Sales at AudienceXpress. 'Built on top of AudienceXpress's automated video media buying platform, AudienceXtn provides an agnostic, full-funnel solution powered by Comcast viewership data to empower brands to engage with their audiences wherever they are consuming content.' 'When we wanted to understand the effectiveness of our live campaign in driving our key metrics, we knew AudienceXpress could be trusted to get us there,' says Andrew Martinson, Senior Marketing Manager, Media and Strategy at H&R Block. 'They continue to deliver full-funnel results with white-glove service that has made them integral to our overall media strategy.' To take advantage of AudienceXtn, AudienceXpress clients can go directly to to input their specific campaign goals, including KPIs and desired audience segment. From there, a dedicated AudienceXpess Sales Executive will work in lockstep to launch their media plans, enabling clients to reach and engage effectively and efficiently with their target audience and optimize at every step. To learn more about AudienceXtn, please visit About AudienceXpress AudienceXpress, a division of Comcast Advertising, is a market-leading managed service media buying platform providing an agnostic approach to agencies and brands looking to engage with audiences across the full multiscreen TV ecosystem. AudienceXpress leverages its proprietary technology to provide buyers with direct access to traditional TV, streaming TV, and digital video platforms—all powered by authenticated first-party viewership data—and empowering marketers to reach their target audiences, no matter how they watch content. For more information, visit
RNZ News
23-05-2025
- General
- RNZ News
Detector dog Iti retires as New Zealand reviews its dog programme for Pacific Island nations
Eight-year-old explosives detector dog Iti in Tonga in 2024. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Lydia Lewis Eight-year-old explosives detector dog Iti is now staring down retirement. Iti is part of New Zealand Police Pacific Detector Dog Programme (PDDP) and has been sniffing out potential bomb threats for years. He was on hand helping to protect Pacific leaders and delegates at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga and even the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa last year. New Zealand provides trained police dogs to the Pacific region. They are sent to Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and the Cook Islands through the PDDP. "[Iti] certainly never lets you down," his handler sergeant Chris Harris told RNZ Pacific. "He loves to work. To replace him will be pretty tough." The government has spent around NZ$3.5 million on the PDDP so far. A spokesperson for MFAT told RNZ Pacific that "phase one of the programme is coming to a close", but that "MFAT and New Zealand Police are currently in discussions over the next phase of support." Pacific leaders in Vavaʻu (an island group in Tonga) for FIFLM 2024 retreat. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Lydia Lewis Dogs that get sent out to the Pacific need to be fit and healthy. In August last year, for example, Iti went from 6 degrees Celsius in cold Auckland weather to 28 degrees in sunny Tonga. He was thrust into work, securing the accommodation Pacific leaders were staying at, checking their motorcades, the routes they were traveling and then even flying to a remote Island for the leaders' retreat and doing the job again. "The transition is difficult," Harris said. "We are only there for a short period of time, so the dogs do not have time to acclimatise to the temperature. "We have to manage their working load, and so it means that we would work him in shorter spells; try and get him into air conditioning to bring his body temperature down." New Zealand Police Dog Iti in Tonga. Photo: RNZ Pacific/Lydia Lewis Working alongside local police, Iti was the centre of attention in Tonga. "He had a bit of a profile long before I got there," Harris said. "They were all in open arms when he arrived, and they were really looking forward to seeing him work. "It was really good. I felt like the Pied Piper at times. I had four or five local police following me around, which was really good. "And if they could see him working in the operational environment and learn something from it, or pick things up that maybe they haven't seen before or done before, then that's great." Sergeant Harris' career spans 32 years: 25 years in the dog section, 17 years as a general purpose dog handler, and currently overseeing the detector dog program in Auckland with Iti by his side. He emphasised the significance of training both dogs and handlers from Pacific countries to enhance regional security. "They come over here and not only are we training the dogs for those teams, but we're training the handlers as well," Harris said. "So when they leave New Zealand, they're going back as a package and getting straight into their business. "They have borders, but they're also a border to Australia and New Zealand. So it's very important that we maintain those relationships and we help them where we can and resource them." "Majority of dogs, if not all, are not desex, so the population of dogs is uncontrollable in Tonga." - TAWS Photo: Supplied With the right attitude, dogs in the Pacific could also take up potentially life-saving work like old hack Iti, Harris said. "If a dog has got a drive and he is got a good nose on him, we can certainly look at them and turn them into very good police dogs," Sergeant Harris said. While there is a "huge" breeding programme in Wellington, it was not that long ago that police relied "heavily" on the public and the community to sell or gift dogs to the police service of New Zealand. "A lot of our German shepherds, and this only goes back 15 or 20 years ago, were gifted dogs that were given to us by members of the public," he said. "They obviously bought them as puppies, and they did not work out at home, and they were offered to the police dogs section". However, they still need to have the right drive and be determined, he said. He added if they meet the criteria, "then they do make, or can make, very good police dogs." "It has been proven over the years. A lot of our dogs came from the streets, and they were very, very good and very, very proven police dogs." "There are hidden gems everywhere." Vavaʻu (an island group in Tonga). Photo: RNZ Pacific/Lydia Lewis
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Anonymous confessions of an air traffic controller: Why travelers should ‘avoid Newark like the plague'
Chaos continues to reign at Newark Liberty International Airport, where, in the last few weeks, there have been hundreds of flight cancellations, diversions, and delays, a handful of ground stoppages, and life-threatening technical glitches. Exhausted and over-extended air traffic controllers say they are working six days a week, 10 hours at a time, to ensure the skies above Newark and the Big Apple remain friendly. The Post's Chris Harris spoke about the ongoing mess at EWR with one of the 13 air traffic controllers who manage flights in and out of Newark from a building more than 80 miles away in Philadelphia. The controller spoke on the condition of anonymity. I've been an air traffic controller since I was 18, and as a flier, I would avoid Newark. Lately, I've been flying out of JFK or LaGuardia, because it's safer, and there've been some crazy-ass delays at Newark. I started telling family and friends last summer to avoid Newark like the plague, because we knew it was going to be bad, we just didn't think it was going to be this bad with all of the technological issues. This is a busy area, with the three major airports and all these satellite airports — it's like a bee's nest. Back in the '60s, two airplanes collided over Brooklyn, killing 134 people on the planes and on the ground. So, the FAA went, 'Hey, you know what? We should put all of these people who control these airports in the same building because it would be safer.' And it was safer. Now, they're like, 'Let's dismantle it.' Five years ago, they decided they were going to move Newark's controllers from Long Island to Philly, and we tried to fight it. Last summer I was essentially forced [to move to Philadelphia]. We had 33 controllers in New York, and only 24 made the move. We are understaffed. In 10 months, instead of having people succeed in Philadelphia, we've had 11 say, 'F–k this, I am not doing this.' So now, we're down to 22. Three more are retiring this summer. Optimally, the FAA says we should have 42 or more, but [the controllers] feel like we should have at least 50. And we're behind in technology. The data link between Philly and New York was never upgraded. They essentially ran an extension cord from New York to Philadelphia. They're going to install something like a Starlink [satellite technology], and it should be up and running by next week. The FAA will do everything and anything to turn a blind eye to the situation. They will promise it's getting better, that things have been fixed, but they can't fix the radar feed [between Long Island and Philadelphia], so we could still lose radar. What we really need is a radar feed between Newark and Philadelphia. Luckily, I haven't had any close calls because of understaffing, but I have been inundated and had to work way harder than I should, and in that situation, I end up having to put in delays and restrictions. I'm used to working with more people. When traffic is at its peak, we handle about 2,000 operations a day. That's about 40 to 44 arrivals per hour at the airport. To be more efficient, Newark needs another runway, on top of the one they're reconstructing now. They have three now, but there should be four. We are a busy airport, but the Atlantas, the Denvers, they have three runways, and can run 160 operations an hour. We just don't have the pavement for that, or room for a fourth runway. One rumor I have heard is that [federal Transportation Secretary] Sean Duffy was extremely interested in moving Newark's air traffic controllers back to New York. I have heard that is what he wants to do, that he's exploring the idea of moving us back. I have no optimism that this will be resolved quickly. I have zero optimism in the current FAA leadership in fixing this problem because they and the union's failed leadership over the years is why we're here now. I'm afraid that the only way the FAA will listen to the controllers and move it back to NY is if EWR has its own disaster, like the recent air collision in Washington, DC.
New York Post
17-05-2025
- New York Post
An Air Traffic Controller Speaks: 'Avoid Newark like the plague'
Chaos continues to reign at Newark Liberty International Airport, where, in the last few weeks, there have been hundreds of flight cancellations, diversions, and delays, a handful of ground stoppages, and life-threatening technical glitches. Exhausted and over-extended air traffic controllers say they are working six days a week, 10 hours at a time, to ensure the skies above Newark and the Big Apple remain friendly. The Post's Chris Harris spoke about the ongoing mess at EWR with one of the 13 air traffic controllers who manage flights in and out of Newark from a building more than 80 miles away in Philadelphia. The controller spoke on the condition of anonymity. I've been an air traffic controller since I was 18, and as a flier, I would avoid Newark. Lately, I've been flying out of JFK or LaGuardia, because it's safer, and there've been some crazy-ass delays at Newark. I started telling family and friends last summer to avoid Newark like the plague, because we knew it was going to be bad, we just didn't think it was going to be this bad with all of the technological issues. 3 An air traffic control told friends and family to avoid Newark 'like the plague.' REUTERS This is a busy area, with the three major airports and all these satellite airports — it's like a bee's nest. Back in the '60s, two airplanes collided over Brooklyn, killing 134 people on the planes and on the ground. So, the FAA went, 'Hey, you know what? We should put all of these people who control these airports in the same building because it would be safer.' And it was safer. Now, they're like, 'Let's dismantle it.' Five years ago, they decided they were going to move Newark's controllers from Long Island to Philly, and we tried to fight it. Last summer I was essentially forced [to move to Philadelphia]. We had 33 controllers in New York, and only 24 made the move. We are understaffed. In 10 months, instead of having people succeed in Philadelphia, we've had 11 say, 'F–k this, I am not doing this.' So now, we're down to 22. Three more are retiring this summer. Optimally, the FAA says we should have 42 or more, but [the controllers] feel like we should have at least 50. 3 Travelers at Newark Airport have encountered delays and headaches. REUTERS And we're behind in technology. The data link between Philly and New York was never upgraded. They essentially ran an extension cord from New York to Philadelphia. They're going to install something like a Starlink [satellite technology], and it should be up and running by next week. The FAA will do everything and anything to turn a blind eye to the situation. They will promise it's getting better, that things have been fixed, but they can't fix the radar feed [between Long Island and Philadelphia], so we could still lose radar. What we really need is a radar feed between Newark and Philadelphia. Luckily, I haven't had any close calls because of understaffing, but I have been inundated and had to work way harder than I should, and in that situation, I end up having to put in delays and restrictions. I'm used to working with more people. When traffic is at its peak, we handle about 2,000 operations a day. That's about 40 to 44 arrivals per hour at the airport. 3 Air traffic controllers in Newark are understaffed, one said. Jack Forbes / NY Post Design To be more efficient, Newark needs another runway, on top of the one they're reconstructing now. They have three now, but there should be four. We are a busy airport, but the Atlantas, the Denvers, they have three runways, and can run 160 operations an hour. We just don't have the pavement for that, or room for a fourth runway. One rumor I have heard is that [federal Transportation Secretary] Sean Duffy was extremely interested in moving Newark's air traffic controllers back to New York. I have heard that is what he wants to do, that he's exploring the idea of moving us back. I have no optimism that this will be resolved quickly. I have zero optimism in the current FAA leadership in fixing this problem because they and the union's failed leadership over the years is why we're here now. I'm afraid that the only way the FAA will listen to the controllers and move it back to NY is if EWR has its own disaster, like the recent air collision in Washington, DC.
