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UK’s newspaper The Mirror has offered an apology after it erroneously used the photo of another man in its online report about chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

Kwarteng slammed the paper in a Twitter post while sharing a screenshot of the story about him that instead featured a picture of Bernard Mensah, the president of Bank of America.

The image was carried with an incorrect caption saying, “Kwasi Kwarteng said he had to do ‘something different’ with mini-budget.”

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After being pointed out by the chancellor, the newspaper publicly apologised for the “terrible error”, which occurred on the first day of Black History Month.

“This morning a picture in a story about Kwasi Kwarteng was wrongly captioned on the Mirror website. This was a terrible error and we apologise to Mr Kwarteng and all our readers,” it said.

The paper vowed to “redouble” its efforts in fighting racism, and added, “The Mirror has a long history of working against racism and we will redouble our efforts on this.”

However, the paper’s apology found no takers as it was heavily criticised by the Conservative party members for failing to differentiate between the two black men.

Among those to condemn was Ben Obese-Jecty, the chair of the Hornsey and Wood Green Conservatives, who said, “Good to see the Daily Mirror kicking off its coverage of Black History Month with this they-all-look-the-same-don’t-they clanger.

"You'd think, given the coverage he's received this week, that most people in the press would know what Kwasi Kwarteng looked like,"&nbsp;said BBC.

Another person on Twitter said, "Bad from the Mirror, but they corrected their error over two hours before Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted about it."

"Now ask him a question about the economy and he'll go into hiding again."

Kwarteng is the first black chancellor in the UK’s history.

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UK’s newspaper The Mirror has offered an apology after it erroneously used the photo of another man in its online report about chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng slammed the paper in a Twitter post while sharing a screenshot of the story about him that instead featured a picture of Bernard Mensah, the president of Bank of America.

UK’s newspaper The Mirror has offered an apology after it erroneously used the photo of another man in its online report about chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng slammed the paper in a Twitter post while sharing a screenshot of the story about him that instead featured a picture of Bernard Mensah, the president of Bank of America. The image was carried with an incorrect caption saying, “Kwasi Kwarteng said he had to do ‘something different’ with mini-budget.” That isn’t me… @DailyMirror pic.twitter.com/rcxn4VjoNW — Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) October 1, 2022 × After being pointed out by the chancellor, the newspaper publicly apologised for the “terrible error”, which occurred on the first day of Black History Month. “This morning a picture in a story about Kwasi Kwarteng was wrongly captioned on the Mirror website. This was a terrible error and we apologise to Mr Kwarteng and all our readers,” it said. The paper vowed to “redouble” its efforts in fighting racism, and added, “The Mirror has a long history of working against racism and we will redouble our efforts on this.” However, the paper’s apology found no takers as it was heavily criticised by the Conservative party members for failing to differentiate between the two black men. Among those to condemn was Ben Obese-Jecty, the chair of the Hornsey and Wood Green Conservatives, who said, “Good to see the Daily Mirror kicking off its coverage of Black History Month with this they-all-look-the-same-don’t-they clanger. "You'd think, given the coverage he's received this week, that most people in the press would know what Kwasi Kwarteng looked like," said BBC. Another person on Twitter said, "Bad from the Mirror, but they corrected their error over two hours before Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted about it." "Now ask him a question about the economy and he'll go into hiding again." Kwarteng is the first black chancellor in the UK’s history. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE:

UK’s Mirror newspaper apologises for mistaking wrong man for chancellor Kwarteng

A big video panel fell onto a stage during a concert by Hong Kong boyband Mirror, injuring at least two dancers, one of them seriously, and prompting authorities to ban the group from performing pending an investigation.

Dancers hurt as a giant screen falls on stage during a mirror concert in Hong Kong

Two performers sustained injuries at Hong Kong boy band Mirror`s latest concert after one of the large LED video monitors above the stage fell off. The shocking incident occured on Thursday night in Hong Kong, Variety reported.

The two injured performers were dancers for the 12-piece boy band Mirror, who were taking part in a concert series called "MIRROR.WEARE" at the Coliseum, a frequent concert venue that has become known as the mecca of the city`s Canto-pop industry.

The two performers were rushed to the hospital. One reportedly sustained a head injury, but was in stable condition; the other received a neck injury, and is reportedly in serious condition. The particular incident was captured on camera and the footage has been doing the rounds on the internet, leaving netizens shocked.

The concert series, which began on July 25, was supposed to have a total of 12 shows running through August 5. It was the Canto-pop singing sensation`s debut at the Coliseum. The concert was immediately halted and audiences were asked to leave the venue.

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The Hong Kong government has suspended further concerts at the venue until its stage design and mechanical structures are proven to be safe. Mirror, formed in 2018 and comprised of 12 male singers, emerged from "King Maker," a reality TV show staged by PCCW`s ViuTV.

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Two performers sustained injuries at Hong Kong boy band Mirror`s latest concert after one of the large LED video monitors above the stage fell off. The shocking incident occured on Thursday night in Hong Kong, Variety reported.

Two performers sustained injuries at Hong Kong boy band Mirror`s latest concert after one of the large LED video monitors above the stage fell off. The shocking incident occured on Thursday night in Hong Kong, Variety reported. The two injured performers were dancers for the 12-piece boy band Mirror, who were taking part in a concert series called "MIRROR.WEARE" at the Coliseum, a frequent concert venue that has become known as the mecca of the city`s Canto-pop industry. The two performers were rushed to the hospital. One reportedly sustained a head injury, but was in stable condition; the other received a neck injury, and is reportedly in serious condition. The particular incident was captured on camera and the footage has been doing the rounds on the internet, leaving netizens shocked. The concert series, which began on July 25, was supposed to have a total of 12 shows running through August 5. It was the Canto-pop singing sensation`s debut at the Coliseum. The concert was immediately halted and audiences were asked to leave the venue. #BREAKING: A live performance by Hong Kong boy band Mirror was cut short after a screen fell and struck dancers below, at least 2 injured. pic.twitter.com/cTnLxSNhAt — X-Money (@TheRealXMoney) July 28, 2022 The Hong Kong government has suspended further concerts at the venue until its stage design and mechanical structures are proven to be safe. Mirror, formed in 2018 and comprised of 12 male singers, emerged from "King Maker," a reality TV show staged by PCCW`s ViuTV. Also read: Britney Spears will not have to sit for deposition in ongoing legal battle with her father

Giant LED screen falls on stage during musical concert in Hong Kong, two performers injured

When Lizzie Rothwell, an architect in Philadelphia, sent her son to third grade this fall, she stocked his blue L.L. Bean backpack with pencils, wide-ruled paper — and a portable carbon dioxide monitor.

The device gave her a quick way to assess how much fresh air was flowing through the school. Low levels of CO2 would indicate that it was well ventilated, reducing her son’s odds of catching the coronavirus.

But she quickly discovered that during lunch, CO2 levels in the cafeteria rose to nearly double those recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She shared what she’d learned with the principal and asked if students could eat outside instead.

“He expressed surprise that I had any data at all,” she said.

Rothwell is one of a growing number of parents who are sneaking CO2 monitors into schools in a clandestine effort to make sure their children’s classrooms are safe. Aranet, which makes a monitor popular with parents, says orders have doubled since the new school year began.

Some school systems have made the monitors part of their official pandemic precautions. New York City has distributed the devices to every public school, and the British government has announced plans to do likewise.

But elsewhere, parents are taking matters into their own hands, sneaking in the monitors — which can cost $100 or more — in their children’s backpacks or pants pockets.

Although the devices, which can be set to take readings every few minutes, work best when exposed to the open air, they can generate informative data as long as they are not completely sealed away, said Dr. Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist at the University of Denver who has sent the monitors to school with his children. (He recommended leaving backpacks or pants pockets unzipped, or tucking the monitor into the mesh water-bottle pouch that is now standard on many backpacks.)

Many of these parents have forged a community on Twitter, where they are using the hashtag #CovidCO2 to trade tips about how to smuggle the monitors into the classroom, how to interpret the data they are collecting and how to approach the school with their findings.

Some school officials have frowned upon these guerrilla air-monitoring efforts, but parents say the devices have armed them with data to advocate for their children.

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“It’s possible that the school district may not be all that happy with this because I think it gives us a window into the fact that they may not actually be treating ventilation as seriously as they should be,” Huffman said.

A Window Into Indoor Air

The coronavirus spreads through tiny, airborne droplets known as aerosols. Improving indoor ventilation reduces the concentration of these aerosols and the risk of infection in an indoor space, but there is no easy way for members of the public to measure the ventilation rate — let alone the accumulation of viral aerosols — in shared spaces.

“Ideally there’d be some machine that cost $100, and it starts beeping if the virus is in the air,” said Jose-Luis Jimenez, an aerosol scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, who is sending a carbon dioxide monitor to school with his son. But in the absence of such a device, he said, “CO2 is something that provides an affordable and very meaningful shortcut.”

Every time we exhale, we expel not just aerosols but also carbon dioxide; the worse the ventilation, the more carbon dioxide builds up in an occupied room.

“If we see the CO2 rising, then that also implies that the concentration of aerosols are rising,” Huffman said. “Even just bringing sensor for a day or two can give you a really interesting and useful window into the world of the ventilation of that space.”

Jeanne Norris, who lives in the St. Louis area, said that she bought her monitor after losing confidence in officials in her son’s school district.

“They just hadn’t been very transparent about their ventilation,” she said. “They say that it’s fine and that they did their own testing, but then they wouldn’t share that data with me.”

Norris and her husband are both science teachers, and so far their data suggest that the ventilation is excellent in both of their classrooms. But CO2 levels in her son’s classroom sometimes surpass 1,300 parts per million. The CDC recommends that indoor carbon dioxide levels remain below 800 ppm.

After she collects more data, she plans to take her findings to school officials and ask them to improve the ventilation. “I’m willing to be creative and brainstorm with them,” she said.

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Some parents have gotten results. When Jeremy Chrysler, of Conway, Arkansas, sent a monitor in with his 13-year-old daughter this fall, the CO2 readings were a sky-high 4,000 ppm.

He brought his findings to district officials, who discovered that two components of the school’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system were not working properly. After the units were fixed, CO2 levels plummeted.

“What my measurements showed was, hey, measuring CO2 can identify problems, and sometimes those problems are easy to fix,” he said.

Although Rothwell has not persuaded her son’s school to move lunch outdoors, the principal has said he is committed to improving the ventilation in the cafeteria, she said.

Results May Vary

“There are some success stories,” said Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego. “Unfortunately I’ve heard more parents rejected.”

After Shanon Kerr, of Waterloo, Ontario, found high CO2 levels in some of her daughter’s school spaces, she asked district officials to monitor indoor air quality throughout the building, even offering up her own CO2 monitor. “They’ve been very dismissive,” she said.

In an email to The New York Times, Loretta Notten, director of education of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, said that follow-up testing in the classrooms Kerr identified revealed that carbon dioxide levels “were within acceptable parameters.”

Air quality testing is done on an as-needed basis, she said: “The Board does not intend on performing ongoing monitoring of carbon dioxide.”

Graham Freeman, the father of two boys in Santa Cruz, California, said his request to send CO2 monitors to school with his sons was denied.

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Kris Munro, superintendent of Santa Cruz City Schools, said she is confident in the ventilation upgrades the district performed last winter and that it would be inappropriate to put individual students in the position of monitoring school air quality.

“It’s our responsibility to assure every space is safe,” she said. “Not just to have individuals coming on campus to find out: Is a specific space safe?”

Freeman has been sending the monitors into school anyway, tucked into the pockets of his sons’ cargo pants. He’s been pleasantly surprised by the readings, which have remained under 700 ppm as long as the classroom doors and windows have been open.

But the monitors did capture a small spike, when CO2 rose above 900 ppm, during a lockdown drill at his son’s middle school, when the teacher closed the classroom door.

So his sons will continue taking the devices to school for the indefinite future. “We’re going to be wearing a lot of REI cargo pants and CO2 monitors in the pockets,” he said.

A Monitor in Every Classroom

There are limitations to the monitoring. Some devices are more reliable than others, and the readings can be skewed by a variety of factors, including where the monitor is placed.

Children can still catch the virus in spaces with low CO2 levels and good ventilation. And high-quality air filters can trap viral aerosols but have no effect on carbon dioxide levels. So in schools that have installed these filters, CO2 readings alone may overestimate the risk of viral transmission.

But even in the absence of the virus, reducing indoor carbon dioxide levels can have benefits. Studies show that even moderately high levels of the gas may muddle thinking and that improving ventilation can boost performance on cognitive tasks.

Of course, many families cannot afford a $100 air quality monitor — and they should not have to, parents and scientists said.

Chrysler, whose CO2 readings prompted his Arkansas district to repair its HVAC system, is now lobbying officials to buy air quality monitors for every classroom in the district.

Pointing to Belgium, which has mandated CO2 monitors in restaurants, gyms and other buildings, Jimenez said he would like all public indoor spaces to provide permanent real-time displays of the carbon dioxide levels: “This is something that we should do permanently in schools but also in all places where we share air.”

When Lizzie Rothwell, an architect in Philadelphia, sent her son to third grade this fall, she stocked his blue L.L. Bean backpack with pencils, wide-ruled paper — and a portable carbon dioxide monitor.

When Lizzie Rothwell, an architect in Philadelphia, sent her son to third grade this fall, she stocked his blue L.L. Bean backpack with pencils, wide-ruled paper — and a portable carbon dioxide monitor. The device gave her a quick way to assess how much fresh air was flowing through the school. Low levels of CO2 would indicate that it was well ventilated, reducing her son’s odds of catching the coronavirus. But she quickly discovered that during lunch, CO2 levels in the cafeteria rose to nearly double those recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She shared what she’d learned with the principal and asked if students could eat outside instead. “He expressed surprise that I had any data at all,” she said. Rothwell is one of a growing number of parents who are sneaking CO2 monitors into schools in a clandestine effort to make sure their children’s classrooms are safe. Aranet, which makes a monitor popular with parents, says orders have doubled since the new school year began. Some school systems have made the monitors part of their official pandemic precautions. New York City has distributed the devices to every public school, and the British government has announced plans to do likewise. But elsewhere, parents are taking matters into their own hands, sneaking in the monitors — which can cost $100 or more — in their children’s backpacks or pants pockets. Although the devices, which can be set to take readings every few minutes, work best when exposed to the open air, they can generate informative data as long as they are not completely sealed away, said Dr. Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist at the University of Denver who has sent the monitors to school with his children. (He recommended leaving backpacks or pants pockets unzipped, or tucking the monitor into the mesh water-bottle pouch that is now standard on many backpacks.) Many of these parents have forged a community on Twitter, where they are using the hashtag #CovidCO2 to trade tips about how to smuggle the monitors into the classroom, how to interpret the data they are collecting and how to approach the school with their findings. Some school officials have frowned upon these guerrilla air-monitoring efforts, but parents say the devices have armed them with data to advocate for their children. Also read | Jeff Bezos shares an old article predicting Amazon's failure, Elon Musk replies “It’s possible that the school district may not be all that happy with this because I think it gives us a window into the fact that they may not actually be treating ventilation as seriously as they should be,” Huffman said. A Window Into Indoor Air The coronavirus spreads through tiny, airborne droplets known as aerosols. Improving indoor ventilation reduces the concentration of these aerosols and the risk of infection in an indoor space, but there is no easy way for members of the public to measure the ventilation rate — let alone the accumulation of viral aerosols — in shared spaces. “Ideally there’d be some machine that cost $100, and it starts beeping if the virus is in the air,” said Jose-Luis Jimenez, an aerosol scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, who is sending a carbon dioxide monitor to school with his son. But in the absence of such a device, he said, “CO2 is something that provides an affordable and very meaningful shortcut.” Every time we exhale, we expel not just aerosols but also carbon dioxide; the worse the ventilation, the more carbon dioxide builds up in an occupied room. “If we see the CO2 rising, then that also implies that the concentration of aerosols are rising,” Huffman said. “Even just bringing sensor for a day or two can give you a really interesting and useful window into the world of the ventilation of that space.” Jeanne Norris, who lives in the St. Louis area, said that she bought her monitor after losing confidence in officials in her son’s school district. “They just hadn’t been very transparent about their ventilation,” she said. “They say that it’s fine and that they did their own testing, but then they wouldn’t share that data with me.” Norris and her husband are both science teachers, and so far their data suggest that the ventilation is excellent in both of their classrooms. But CO2 levels in her son’s classroom sometimes surpass 1,300 parts per million. The CDC recommends that indoor carbon dioxide levels remain below 800 ppm. After she collects more data, she plans to take her findings to school officials and ask them to improve the ventilation. “I’m willing to be creative and brainstorm with them,” she said. Also read | Some parents have gotten results. When Jeremy Chrysler, of Conway, Arkansas, sent a monitor in with his 13-year-old daughter this fall, the CO2 readings were a sky-high 4,000 ppm. He brought his findings to district officials, who discovered that two components of the school’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system were not working properly. After the units were fixed, CO2 levels plummeted. “What my measurements showed was, hey, measuring CO2 can identify problems, and sometimes those problems are easy to fix,” he said. Although Rothwell has not persuaded her son’s school to move lunch outdoors, the principal has said he is committed to improving the ventilation in the cafeteria, she said. Results May Vary “There are some success stories,” said Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego. “Unfortunately I’ve heard more parents rejected.” After Shanon Kerr, of Waterloo, Ontario, found high CO2 levels in some of her daughter’s school spaces, she asked district officials to monitor indoor air quality throughout the building, even offering up her own CO2 monitor. “They’ve been very dismissive,” she said. In an email to The New York Times, Loretta Notten, director of education of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, said that follow-up testing in the classrooms Kerr identified revealed that carbon dioxide levels “were within acceptable parameters.” Air quality testing is done on an as-needed basis, she said: “The Board does not intend on performing ongoing monitoring of carbon dioxide.” Graham Freeman, the father of two boys in Santa Cruz, California, said his request to send CO2 monitors to school with his sons was denied. Also read | Richest 1 per cent of Americans now own more wealth than the entire middle class Kris Munro, superintendent of Santa Cruz City Schools, said she is confident in the ventilation upgrades the district performed last winter and that it would be inappropriate to put individual students in the position of monitoring school air quality. “It’s our responsibility to assure every space is safe,” she said. “Not just to have individuals coming on campus to find out: Is a specific space safe?” Freeman has been sending the monitors into school anyway, tucked into the pockets of his sons’ cargo pants. He’s been pleasantly surprised by the readings, which have remained under 700 ppm as long as the classroom doors and windows have been open. But the monitors did capture a small spike, when CO2 rose above 900 ppm, during a lockdown drill at his son’s middle school, when the teacher closed the classroom door. So his sons will continue taking the devices to school for the indefinite future. “We’re going to be wearing a lot of REI cargo pants and CO2 monitors in the pockets,” he said. A Monitor in Every Classroom There are limitations to the monitoring. Some devices are more reliable than others, and the readings can be skewed by a variety of factors, including where the monitor is placed. Children can still catch the virus in spaces with low CO2 levels and good ventilation. And high-quality air filters can trap viral aerosols but have no effect on carbon dioxide levels. So in schools that have installed these filters, CO2 readings alone may overestimate the risk of viral transmission. But even in the absence of the virus, reducing indoor carbon dioxide levels can have benefits. Studies show that even moderately high levels of the gas may muddle thinking and that improving ventilation can boost performance on cognitive tasks. Of course, many families cannot afford a $100 air quality monitor — and they should not have to, parents and scientists said. Chrysler, whose CO2 readings prompted his Arkansas district to repair its HVAC system, is now lobbying officials to buy air quality monitors for every classroom in the district. Pointing to Belgium, which has mandated CO2 monitors in restaurants, gyms and other buildings, Jimenez said he would like all public indoor spaces to provide permanent real-time displays of the carbon dioxide levels: “This is something that we should do permanently in schools but also in all places where we share air.”

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