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Distracting Europe with internal conflict over supporting Ukrainian refugees could take the focus away from Putin as he looks to offset international pressures.
Migrants seeking passage north sometimes wait for over a year in Tapachula before their claims are processed. They're now sewing their mouths shut in protest.
The former president, who was arrested for drug trafficking charges on Tuesday, oversaw a government that has been called a "narco-dictatorship."
"The Border Patrol agents and the sheriffs are beyond a breaking point," Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents the district, told Newsweek.
Migrants living at the camp told Newsweek about the struggles they faced back home and shared the dreams they hoped to realize in the United States.
The Biden administration has been criticized by both political parties for its inability to curb the number of migrant encounters at the southern border.
"Sometimes the trafficker is afraid to invade the other cartel's territory, so they abandon (the migrants)," Reverend Rosalio Sosa said.
"We have been insisting that the causes that originate these unfortunate events must be addressed," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
A humanitarian group believes the girl was separated from her parents and went missing on the Polish side of the border.
The measure is a part of Operation Lone Star, which Governor Greg Abbott's office states is aimed to combat the "smuggling of people and drugs into Texas."
After waiting for nearly three months, some 30 migrants will have to wait longer for their hearings after two county officials tested positive for COVID-19.
The Crimean Peninsula is considered to be part of Ukraine by many countries around the world, but Russia continues to call it part of its own country.
Belarus Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov said the agreement's suspension is a "temporary measure" and could be resolved "after relations normalize."
Italy welcomed the largest single arrival of migrants on Monday, with a majority suffering from the contagious skin disease.
The El Paso Baptist Association continues to aid migrants with COVID-19 testing, food, shelter and more.
We need some leadership at this moment...Not the quickie deportations that will only exacerbate the problems in Haiti," O'Rourke wrote on Friday.
"I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border," Harris said in her speech Monday. "Do not come. Do not come."
The remarks from the outspoken pastor came after Psaki said the "influx of migrants at the border" was "exacerbated by the Trump administration."
The Biden Administration faced criticism last month when its HHS announced it would be re-using a temporary facility used during the Trump Administration to accommodate up to 700 teenage minors.
Inspectors who had visited Homestead wrote that the "unsanitary condition of the bathroom area and the deafening noise of the fan are clear health hazards."
President Donald Trump on Friday said that he thinks Border Patrol does "a great job" operating its facilities on the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Their very human dignity is under assault, and it's being done in our name," Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker said.
The proposal comes amid reports of dire conditions at border detention centers, with one Buzzfeed article on Thursday quoting the children living who are, by all appearances, living in squalid conditions.
America might want to take a page out of the playbook of Plan Colombia, a model program pioneered under Republican and Democratic administrations that delivered results overseas – and for our own interests at home.
Human rights abuses against migrants by traffickers and detention guards have been well documented in Libya, but new reports suggest the crisis is worsening.
Lovren grew up in Germany, having fled the Bosnian War.

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that's how I feel today!........ work's been a little demanding the last couple of weeks, due to sickness & holidays and I'm shattered. A much needed cupcake fix was needed, so Honeycomb Cupcakes were made... accompanied by a little of Cadbury's finest..
Chocolate Honeycomb Cupcakes
Y 60g Butter, softened
Y 1/4 cup castor sugar
Y 1 tsp vanilla essence
Y 1 egg
Y 3/4 cup self raising flour
Y 1/4 cup milk
Y approx 75g or 1 cup of honeycomb crumbs
Icing ~ Icing sugar, Butter & vanilla essence - mix to required taste. Honeycomb square to decorate.
1. Pre-heat oven to 175' and line a 12 hole muffin pan with cupcake cases.
2. Using a mixer, cream the butter and sugar, then add vanilla and egg. Beat until well combined. Fold in half the flour and milk until mixture is smooth. Repeat with remaining flour and milk and stir until batter is smooth. Either chop or crush honeycomb and stir into batter. Three quarters fill each paper case with batter.
3. Bake for 15-20 minutes, then remove from oven. Leave cakes to cool in the pan for 10min and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
4. Spread icing on cupcakes. Sprinkle the cupcakes with either some leftover honeycomb crumbs or top with with a small chunk of honeycomb.
Eat with Hot Chocolate, topped with whipped cream & honeycomb crumbs..........

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SALT LAKE CITY – He went to Gonzaga basketball camps as a kid.
He sat in the stands at the old Kennel in the prehistoric days, admiring Jim McPhee’s jump shots and Doug Spradley’s grit.
He met his wife watching a Gonzaga game on the big screen at the Park Inn. Let’s repeat that: The Zags, for all purposes, abetted in the set-up that paired him with his future bride, now the mother of his three children.
So what is Kyle Henneberry doing outfitted in a Northwestern T-shirt this weekend?
Keeping the faith – the same way his tribe has kept it for 79 years, waiting for this single payoff.
When the Zags and NCAA Tournament first-timer Northwestern collide today, the Woodinville, Washington, teleradiologist will be a partisan voice in what figures to be a very vocal majority at Vivint Smart Home Arena pulling for the ultimate Cinderella – a distinction Gonzaga relinquished long ago.
“For one day – for a couple hours – my loyalties can’t be split,” he said. “It’s not even a question. Gonzaga goes to the tournament every single year. They win plenty of games. I’m not worried me not cheering for them for two hours will change their trajectory at all.”
But the players in purple, well, they’re walking in his shoes.
Henneberry isn’t just Northwestern, Class of 1997, but a basketball letterman, too. Four years after helping Ferris High School to a runner-up finish at the State 4A Tournament, he scratched one last basketball itch by joining a walk-on tryout for the Wildcats’ team as a senior and making the cut.
“And it ended up being an amazing experience, one of the best times of my life,” he said.
The Wildcats’ record that year: 7-22.
But that’s part of this whole tale, right? A legacy of basketball misery – just 17 winning seasons in the first 78 years the NCAA staged a tournament – birthed this March of ecstasy. You can’t have the hysteria without the hurt.
But for Henneberry, hurt may be overstating it.
“It was a lot of fun,” he insisted. “We lost a lot of games, but players and coaches were invested and no one really got discouraged. It was easy to keep it in perspective. We were at a great school. Everyone has gone on to be successful in life. And you’re trying to compete in the Big Ten as the only private school. There’s a reason it took 79 years to break through.”
Odd thing, though – football was just as downtrodden. But Gary Barnett worked the miracle that took the Wildcats to the Rose Bowl Henneberry’s junior year – he and his father, Mike, himself a Northwestern grad, accompanied the “Purple to Pasadena.”
“It’s funny how often that’s been referenced among us the last two days,” Henneberry said. “It feels like the Rose Bowl.”
Except the Wildcats lost that Rose Bowl. On Thursday, Northwestern won a 68-66 thriller over Vanderbilt for the right to play Gonzaga.
Henneberry’s college basketball thrills were modest. He played scant minutes in just seven games. But he remembers Indiana’s volcanic coach Bobby Knight getting tossed the night the Wildcats were in Bloomington (“That was just perfect”) and an encounter with three-time All-American Mateen Cleaves when Michigan State visited Evanston.
“He picked me up full court like, ‘Who is this chump?’ ” Henneberry recalled. “I mean, I know how to dribble – it’s not like I don’t know how to play. So I just shook him on a move and went past him and the crowd goes, ‘Whooooaaa.’ ”
After collecting his degree in biomedical engineering, Henneberry went to med school at Case Western Reserve and did his residency at the University of Colorado, then spent three years starting his career in Switzerland.
When he and his wife, Katie, returned to the states, a funny thing had happened.
“That was interesting,” he said. “For the first several years when they got good, I kind of had to promote them to friends – ‘We’ve got this really good team from Spokane.’ Now everyone knows and it’s just the opposite. I try to temper expectations – ‘You know, it’s really hard to make it to the Final Four.’ They’re almost too famous.”
And as a No. 1 seed, they’ll be infamous if Northwestern takes them down. Henneberry almost doesn’t let himself imagine it.
“People ask the former players if we’re sad it wasn’t us who broke through,” he said. “Well, sure. But we couldn’t be happier for this group – you know how hard it’s been to stay committed and have faith and no fear. It’s inspirational.”
And so inspired – or just antsy – Henneberry and some other former Wildcat players gathered Friday to work off their nerves the best way they knew how: with a pickup game at a local gym.
You can be sure he wore his Northwestern shirt.
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Disneyland Paris Lumière Light-Up Figurine cheapItem no.465059144721
It's Lumiere come to life, just as he looks in Disney's classic Beauty and the Beast. Our expressive, fully sculptured candlestick figure features flickering LED ''flame'' lights and golden finish. Put his service to the test!
Magic in the details...
- Lumière candelabra figurine
- Superb character detailing
- Candle 'flames' light up and flicker
- On/off switch on base
- Gold-effect finish
- Created for Disneyland Paris and shopDisney
★★★★★''I’ve been wanting lumiere ever since I saw it and finally got one ! It is so realistic and heavy , the light flickers like a real candle ! Very pleased and would highly recommend.'' (6 December 2018)
The bare necessities
- H27 x W19 x D10cm approx.
- Made of resin
- Requires 3x AAA batteries
- Not intended as a toy or children's product

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BUT WHAT ABOUT REGULATIONS PRECLUDING IT?
by Sharon Rondeau
Although dated Thursday, Nadler’s subpoena was made public on Friday.
Directly after the presser, Nadler sent a letter to Mueller asking that he appear before the committee “as soon as possible” but “no later than May 23, 2019.”
Democrats, who as the majority now head all committees in the U.S. House of Representatives, are by and large dissatisfied with Barr’s summary letter, produced on March 24, of Mueller’s findings as well as his statements during Thursday’s press conference. Some accused Barr of “protecting” or “being generous to the president” in his explanation of Trump’s purported reactions to the Mueller investigation, which former FBI director James Comey had told Trump early in 2017 did not focus on him personally.
On May 9, 2017, Trump fired Comey on the premise that Comey mishandled the Clinton private server investigation, which the Mueller report suggests was a false predicate for Trump’s decision. In transcripts released over the last several weeks by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA), former top FBI officials are noted to have said that Comey’s firing ignited their desire for the assignment of a special prosecutor, which occurred nine days afterward by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
On the second day of his close-door testimony to members of two congressional committees, former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted that “obstruction of justice” has been discussed in some circles even before Trump fired Comey.
While Rosenstein has been painted as having participated in discussions aimed at removing the president from office in which Baker said he took part, he stood stoically and silently behind Barr on Thursday morning as Barr offered a prelude to the 448-page report released to the public approximately 90 minutes later.
By the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and congressional statute, grand-jury testimony and other classified information is not releasable to the public, and, as Barr noted during the presser, the statute governing the work of a special counsel states that his or her report to the Attorney General is “confidential.”
In his March 24 summary, Barr had said that he and Mueller would be going through the report to redact material necessary to protect investigative sources and methods and grand-jury documentation.
One organization has already sued for the underlying materials Nadler is seeking.
Apparently angry that Mueller found no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy to win the election, Democrats have now turned to Mueller’s open-ended conclusion as to whether or not Trump obstructed justice. Nadler has said that the task of determining whether or not obstruction was committed is now up to Congress.
The regulations governing the hiring of a special counsel can be viewed here.

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Perella Weinberg hires former MS energy banker
NEW YORK, Sept 10
NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners said it hired former Morgan Stanley investment banker Ryan Moss as a partner to provide strategic and financial advice to clients in the natural resources sector.
Moss will divide his time between New York and Dallas, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday. He was most recently a managing director at Morgan Stanley, covering midstream and upstream energy companies.
He will work alongside Perella Weinberg's other partners in the natural resources sector, Michael Dickman and Bob Maguire.


Xiaomi already has the first prototype of its electric vehicle ready and it will be presented in August
After discovering the Xiaomi Self-Driving Test Car , an electric vehicle prototype equipped with all the autonomous driving technology that the Xiaomi Car will have, the company seems to be one step away from showing the world the design of its first electric vehicle .
As we can read through Gizmochina , Xiaomi already has the first prototype of its electric vehicle ready , with next August being the date chosen by the company to show it to the world.
Xiaomi's first electric vehicle would be just around the corner
Just a few weeks ago, Luo Baojun , one of the senior executives related to this ambitious project that Xiaomi has embarked on, announced that the Xiaomi Car will exceed expectations, both in design and performance .
Now, shortly after, the fact has been leaked through the networks that it will be in mid-August when Xiaomi will show the world the prototype of its first electric vehicle , thereby confirming what its design lines will be like.
Remember that Xiaomi plans to launch its first electric vehicle on the market in 2024 , so we still have a long way to go before we can see it on the streets. According to the company, the launch of this will begin with a first phase in which it will try to manufacture around 150,000 vehicles a year .


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Real Wedding | Kahli & Lekako : Elegant Banquet Hall Wedding in Saginaw
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We are excited and happy to help create the wedding invitations of your dreams for your big day! It is amazing that we received the wedding day photos of our customer – Kahli & Lekako, from the Professional Wedding Photographer Chinling .This fantastic wedding was planned in an elegant ballroom. The main color palette for this banquet wedding consists of silver, blush, ivory and navy. Everything there was full of romance and elegance. Now, let’s look back on that happy day via these beautiful photos.
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This navy blue laser cut pocket fold has the perfect amount of sparkle, and the modern style invitation has a mirror backing inside so it really helps the invitation shine! It is really suitable to match with other silver accessories. Defintely, choosing it and you won’t be regretful if your wedding will be held in banquet hall.
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|I am using the original keyboard so the BIOS access problem is not the keyboard. |
Last night I worked on it for a little longer. Here is the recap:
After pressing the power button the hardware will kick on (fans, hard drive, cd-rom, keyboard, mouse, monitor) but after a few seconds of searching for a signal the monitor will hibernate. The light for the hard drive flashes a few times initially but eventually stops and does not resume.
I gave it a few more tries (turning the power off and then back on) and eventually windows loaded normally. I had read somewhere that this was possibly a BIOS issue so I checked for an update, downloaded and restarted. Windows booted normally no problems. Solution!! Not quite.
I ran Windows without any problems for a while even shutting it down & doing a couple restarts and everything appeared to check out. However, this morning when I pressed the power button I ended up with the same problem mentioned earlier (everything starts up but nothing happens).
It almost appears that once the system is loaded it will run fine but I am getting hung up in the boot process.
Again all of my system checks tell me that it is not a hardware problem but I am still not sure. Anyone have any thoughts on system checks that I could run that could give me more info?


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Bake a Sticky Ginger Pudding!
Get creative and bake your own Sticky Ginger Pudding from our show May Contain Food!
Created in 2015, May Contain Food is Protein’s immersive and interactive piece of dance and music theatre about food and eating. From 2016, it turned into a popular duet, May Contain Food – May Contain You, especially made for rural areas and small venues.
As a special treat, we invite you to delight your Christmas cooking with the original recipe of the show’s final pudding designed by Orlando Gough, who composed the music and co-created the show with Luca.
“Sticky ginger pudding was a recipe, like many others, I learned from my mother. No one in our family knew where it had come from; it was, simply, there, in my mother’s own hand-written cook book, very difficult to read, because the ink was fading and the page was overlaid with a mist of ingredients, a palimpsest of all the versions that my mother had cooked. I made the recipe for the first time, chaotically, when I was about five years old, and it is still in my repertoire.”
This recipe will make a cake that serves about 10.
Please share your delicious bakes with us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram!
Bake your own delicious Sticky Ginger Pudding
What you’ll need
For the Pudding:
200g stem ginger
350g plain flour
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 eggs, beaten
150g butter, melted
200g light muscavdo sugar
2 tbsp black treacle
2 heaped tsp grated fresh ginger
For the Butterscotch Sauce:
200g light muscavado sugar
The syrup from the stem ginger
400ml double cream
You will also need:
A mixing bowl
A spoon, a fork
Baking tray or large cake tin (approx. 30cm x 20cm)
Suitable for all ages, although younger children will need supervision
Time guideline: 20 minutes to prep the mixture, 30 minutes to bake, 10 minutes to cool
Heat the oven to 180ºC.
Drain the stem ginger, reserving the syrup. Chop finely.
Mix together the flour, spices, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. Add the rest of the ingredients, and mix thoroughly, adding a little water if the mixture is too stiff.
Butter a baking tray or large cake tin (approx. 30cm x 20cm) and pour in the mixture, so that it makes a thin layer. Test after 30 minutes. (A skewer should come out clean – but not squeaky clean.)
Allow to cool in the tray for 10 minutes.
To make the Butterscotch Sauce:
Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, and bring to the point of boiling, stirring occasionally.
Pour into a jug and serve with the pudding.
Try adding some chopped dried apricots to the pudding mixture.
Or after buttering the baking tray, try putting in a layer of chopped rhubarb (about 750g) before pouring in the pudding mixture.


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Arthritis Home > Glucosmine
Were you looking for information about Glucosamine? Glucosmine is a common misspelling of glucosamine.
Glucosamine is a dietary supplement most often taken as an arthritis treatment. Although early studies showed the supplement to have anti-arthritis properties, it is no longer entirely clear whether it is indeed effective for treating arthritis. Some people may be more likely to experience problems due to supplements, so you should talk with your healthcare provider before taking any glucosamine products if you have high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, high cholesterol, or any allergies.
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On Thanksgiving Day, more than 45 million turkeys will be prepared in the United States. That is more than 736 million pounds of turkey, roughly the same weight as the Empire State Building. The average person will consume more than 3,000 calories by the end of the day.
One of my favorite meals is that first
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Watch the Low-Code/No-Code Summit on-demand sessions to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiencies by upscaling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.
In what has been a turbulent week for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) workers. As part of the layoffs of 11,000 employees, Meta laid off an entire ML research team focused on infrastructure. At the other end of the industry’s economic spectrum, however, biotech company Sanofi this week signed a $1.2 billion AI drug discovery deal with Insilico Medicine.
The contrasting news shows that while some companies are adjusting to an impending recession, others continue to show signs of growth. That growth was also underlined in a recent State of AI report from Appen, which details the many advances the industry has made this year, including in ML models. It also sheds light on the challenges AI and ML professionals continue to struggle with, including data sourcing and preparation related to model testing and deployment.
In data news, warehouse and multi-home giant Snowflake this week announced updates to its platform to both improve collaboration and improve the economics of the data cloud.
Snowflake wasn’t the only company looking to improve business economics tools this week. MachineFi Lab, a provider of decentralized blockchain platforms, has unveiled a new tool called the “W3bstream” that aims to “disrupt the machine economy,” the company said.
Here’s more of our top 5 tech stories of the week:
- Meta layoffs hit an entire ML research team focused on infrastructureFollowing Wednesday’s layoffs at Meta, which cut 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly shared a message to Meta employees that, for some, was a signal that those working in AI and ML could be spared the brunt of the cuts.
However, a fired Meta researcher tweeted that he and the entire research organization called “Probability”, which focused on applying machine learning to the infrastructure stack, was being cut.
- Why data remains the biggest challenge for machine learning projects
Quality data is at the heart of enterprise AI success. And that is why it remains the main source of challenges for companies looking to adopt ML in their applications and operations.
According to Appen’s latest State of AI report, the industry has made impressive strides in helping companies overcome the barriers to sourcing and preparing their data. But much more needs to be done at various levels, including organizational structure and corporate policy.
- Snowflake Announces Plans to Improve Query Performance and Collaboration
This week, at its annual Snowday event, Snowflake announced improvements to key elements of its platform, such as the elastic performance engine and Snowgrid technology. The move will provide businesses with a faster query experience for improving the overall data cloud economy and streamlined collaboration capabilities.
- Why the metaverse will rely on blockchain frameworks to connect to physical devices
This week, MachineFi Lab – the core developer of IoTeX, a decentralized blockchain platform that enables human-machine interactions – announced the release of W3bstream.
The new tool, it says, is “a blockchain-agnostic infrastructure with the power to disrupt the machine economy where innovation has stalled until now,” according to the company’s press release.
- Sanofi Signs Latest Billion Dollar Deal to Discover AI Drugs
In an era where biopharmaceutical research in drug R&D remains expensive and slow and AI-based drug discovery platforms are growing rapidly, Paris-based pharmaceutical leader Sanofi announced a $1.2 AI drug discovery deal billion with startup Insilico Medicine.
The research collaboration follows several other high-profile announcements of partnerships for AI drug discovery from Sanofi, including with Atomwise in August; a partnership expansion with Exscientia last January; and an equity investment in Owkin a year ago.
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How do we celebrate 20 years of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) without simply wallowing in nostalgia for festivals past?
We went in exactly the opposite direction.
We decided to look to the future by asking twenty former FLEFF guests to ruminate on what new ideas, issues, or subjects were developing, percolating, or unresolved. What were current debates, points of contention, projects, and tectonic shifts that opened them up to think in new ways?
We invited the authors to contribute 1,000 word essays about what they determined to be significant debates and recalibrations in their respective fields. We hope that these short form essays will be shared around the world via social media and listservs and be used in college syllabi and by other festivals and organizations.
Six of the writers are Ithaca College faculty from our business, health, music, screenwriting, theatre, and writing programs. Some are long-term collaborators with FLEFF, while others are new to the festival. The remaining fourteen writers—all former festival guests--represent an international roster of activists, curators, distributors, exhibitors, filmmakers, journalists, nongovernmental organization staffers, novelists, poets, producers, programmers, and scholars.
FLEFF’s tag line – a Different Environment – undergirds how we conceptualized 20 on 20 and motivated our choice of contributors to this 20th anniversary project.
FLEFF is more than a film festival. It programs across a range of arts and intellectual spheres, including concerts, discussions, films, labs, new media, online digital art, performances, readings, rock shows, and video.
Heterogeneity drives the programming and organizational structure of FLEFF. The purpose of a festival is not to produce and mobilize a party line, but to induce and provoke debate, discussion, and unsettlings across difference.
The essays in 20 on 20 pulsate with this heterogeneity.
They probe African cinema, Brazilian film, underground Chinese documentary, the recent resurgence of Latin American film, and the new landscapes of queer cinemas.
They navigate the vast media ecologies of community media, environmentally-engaged new media art, film festivals for water rights, changing platforms for the consumption of entertainment, nonprofit art cinemas, and social media anti-smoking public health campaigns.
They traverse how the arts locate us in the world and with others, looking at books on exile that bring us home, choral music, classical music and its audiences, poetry in Nigeria, and theatre of social change.
They examine conflicts between children’s health and public school, queer and black activism, totalitarian regimes and exiled artists, and women and the workplace..
20 on 20 offers more than a tribute to twenty years of FLEFF.
As we look ahead, we hope these twenty essays circulate emerging ideas, disturb conventional thinking, make new connections, unhinge preconceptions-- and recirculate.
For her collaborative leadership and support of “20 on 20,” we thank Tanya Saunders, Assistant Provost of International Programs and Extended Studies at Ithaca College. For his intellectual fire for all things environmental, we thank Tom Shevory, professor of politics at Ithaca College and longtime codirector of FLEFF. For her sharp, smart, and strategic copyediting that honed every essay (including this one), we thank Jane Banks.


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Trumpcare needs a game changer
Caitlin Owens stayed into the early morning hours at the Ways and Means markup of the Obamacare replacement bills, so you should definitely read her story here. Me? I went to sleep and got up early. Didn't miss a thing. The big question right now is: What would it actually take to stop the hemorrhaging of conservative support?
President Trump met with the leaders of conservative groups yesterday, and they seemed pleased to have face time with him. And House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Greg Walden insists the outreach will make a difference, telling reporters yesterday:
I think when the president of the United States who campaigned on repeal and replace says, 'This is the repeal and replace bill' ... the dynamic changes.
That might be wishful thinking, though. As Jonathan Swan and I reported yesterday, the conservatives want such major changes in the bill that a few more Trump meetings probably aren't going to change anything. They want to get rid of the refundable tax credits and end the Medicaid expansion, and they want more in the bill that would be specifically aimed at cutting people's health care costs. "It's not going to be cosmetic fixes," a Freedom Caucus aide told me.
That was underscored by the statement FreedomWorks president Adam Brandon put out after the Trump meeting. He said his group wants to "get to 'yes' on this bill," but look at the list of objections his group raised and see how easy you think the solutions would be:
- The tax credit
- The continuation of Medicaid expansion (until 2020)
- The possibility that Congress will keep delaying the end date of Medicaid expansion
- The "continuous coverage" provision that would penalize people who don't stay insured
- The "remaining regulations in the bill"
Yes, but: The Trump team may give it a shot: CNN's Jim Acosta reports that the White House might be willing to move up the Medicaid reform start date to 2018 to appease the conservatives.
Nice try: House Speaker Paul Ryan used one of his best arguments at a meeting with House Republicans yesterday: If they don't pass the repeal bill quickly, it will delay their other priorities, like tax reform. That didn't change anything.

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Families craving trips to somewhere sunny this school half term should be aware of the Covid rules for entry to their chosen destination.
Many countries still impose strict requirements on British travellers due to Omicron, especially for unvaccinated passengers.
But even fully vaccinated passengers need to pay attention to some caveats - for example, Spain and Italy have introduced a new limit on how many days maximum should have passed since your last dose.
This is a roundup of the latest Foreign Office travel advice to Spain, France, Italy and Greece.
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Everyone travelling to Spain must fill in and sign an online Health Control Form.
Britons 12 and over visiting for tourism purposes must be fully vaccinated. This means they must have received both doses of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a one-dose vaccine at least 14 days prior to arrival.
Additionally, if more than 270 have passed since your last dose, you need to show proof of having receiving a booster jab.
Spain will accept the UK’s proof of COVID-19 vaccination record and proof of COVID-19 vaccination issued in the Crown Dependencies. Fully vaccinated children aged 12 to 15 can request an NHS COVID Pass letter for international travel.
Children under the age of 12 years old don't need to show proof of vaccination.
EU citizens, accompanying family members of an EU citizen, residents of Spain, or other exempt categories may present alternative documentation to the vaccine certificate.
Read the detailed advice for travelling to Spain.
Fully vaccinated travellers from the UK must provide:
- a negative PCR or antigen test result taken within 24 hours pre-departure if aged 12 years and over
- a completed ‘sworn statement’ (déclaration sur l’honneur) form self-certifying you’re not suffering from symptoms associated with coronavirus and have not been in contact with confirmed cases in the preceding fortnight
Non fully vaccinated passengers, must, in addition to the above:
- self-isolate on arrival in France for 10 days
- complete an online form with their contact details including the address they will be staying at
- complete an international travel form to prove the reason for essential travel
Before returning to the UK, complete a Certificate to leave Metropolitan France, which specifies exemptions for travel
Unvaccinated under 18s who arrive in France with a vaccinated adult may follow the rules of entry for those who are fully vaccinated.
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Unvaccinated minors aged 12 – 17 who either arrive on their own or are accompanied by unvaccinated adults are subject to the same travel regulations as unvaccinated adults.
Children under 12 are exempt from all Covid restrictions, but must still complete a ‘sworn statement’.
As to how much time must have passed since your last jab to be deemed fully vaccinated, the rules say it is:
- 1 week after the second dose of Pfizer, Moderna, Oxford/AstraZeneca
- 4 weeks after the single and only dose of Johnson & Johnson
- 1 week after the single dose of any of the above vaccines if you have previously tested positive for COVID-19
Read the detailed advice for travelling to France.
Italy will accept the UK’s proof of COVID-19 recovery and vaccination record as the equivalent to a green pass. From 1 February you must have had your final vaccine within 180 days for your vaccination certificate to be valid when visiting Italy.
Fully vaccinated travellers from the UK must:
- fill in a passenger locator form (EU PLF)
- show evidence of a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours or a negative antigen test taken within 24 hours before entering Italy
Those that are not fully vaccinated, in addition to the above, must also:
- notify the local Prevention Department. See COVID-19 regional telephone numbers for the contact details of local Italian health authorities
- travel to their final destination in Italy by private transport only
- remain in self-isolation for 5 days
- take another PCR or lateral flow test at the end of the 5 days’ self-isolation
Children aged 17 and under do not need to quarantine if they are travelling with a fully vaccinated parent and have a negative PCR or lateral flow test. Children aged 5 and under are exempt from testing.
Read the detailed advice for travelling to Italy.
Everyone over the age of 5 needs:
- a completed Passenger Locator Form (PLF) before arrival
- a negative PCR test, taken within 72 hours before arrival, or a negative rapid antigen test taken within 24 hours before arrival
Read the detailed advice for travelling to Greece.
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In the delivery of the 190th Landon Lecture, secretary of state and former U.S. representative for Kansas Mike Pompeo discussed the United State’s tradition of unalienable rights and how the State Department integrates those values into its service within the United States and abroad.
Pompeo’s speech in McCain Auditorium at Kansas State University today at 10:30 a.m. was titled “In Defense of the American Rights Tradition.”
University president Richard Myers opened the lecture, recognizing notable audience members such as former Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum. Myers also noted that Pompeo is the fourth secretary of state to deliver a Landon Lecture at K-State.
When Pompeo took the stage in McCain Auditorium, he addressed the crowd: “Good morning, everyone. How y’all doing?”
The bulk of Pompeo’s speech focused on unalienable rights as defined by the United States’ defining documents and founding fathers. He quoted the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
“In other words, these are rights that were endowed upon us by our creator,” Pompeo said. “They’re part of our nation, and they’re part of who we are as Americans, as human beings. They are independent of anything our government does, and the purpose of government, indeed, is to protect those unalienable rights.”
As an example, Pompeo spoke on Kansas’ stance in the wake of the Civil War. Its conflict over slavery was, in essence, “a fight over unalienable rights.”
He cited Kansas abolitionist editors George Washington Brown and John Speer alongside a quotation from Abraham Lincoln that affirmed the country’s tradition of protecting and fighting for unalienable rights.
“That fight has continued,” Pompeo said. “We are an imperfect nation, to be sure. But we’re lucky — we have unalienable rights as our foundation, our North star.”
Those rights extend outside of the U.S., Pompeo said, as seen in the State Department’s work extending back to the United Nation’s 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“This was the first time ever that America led nations to set a standard for how governments should treat their people,” Pompeo said. “We even fought to protect unalienable rights of the people in nations we had just defeated. This wasn’t American imperialism, but rather American mercy, or grace.”
Although victories concerning human rights have occurred globally, there are still human rights violations worldwide that the State Department attempts to address.
“We owe it to all Americans to uphold this noble tradition of American leadership to secure rights, here at home and abroad,” Pompeo said.
Pompeo said American students lack education on U.S. unalienable rights, and media attempts to “rewrite our history as an unrelenting tale of racism and misogyny, not as a bold and imperfect nation.”
Pompeo’s comments and affirmations to upholding unalienable rights did not escape challenge; in the Q&A session following his speech, K-State faculty members, students and community members questioned Pompeo on a variety of issues, including the suppression of scientists’ work within the State Department, abortion and the internment of Uyghur Muslims in China.
A question posed by Cora Farley, second year student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, addressed immigration: “My question relates to how you talk so strongly about the unalienable rights that America wants to uphold not only here in the states but also throughout the entire world, and yet the Trump administration very strongly opposes people coming here in search of those rights and being able to pursue happiness in countries where they may safe.”
Pompeo said the opposition to immigration is “fundamentally not true,” stating that the U.S. has an obligation to protect American sovereignty and conduct a generous, lawful immigration policy.
“I’ve been to El Salvador, I’ve been to Mexico several times,” Pompeo responded. “These people who are coming across our southern border, they’re putting their lives at risk, the lives of their children. We need a system that welcomes people to come to our country in a way that is lawful and respectful of their human dignity, and it’s what President Trump is aiming to achieve.”
Olivia Rogers, senior in political science and Collegian community co-editor, asked Pompeo how young people can live out the values he spoke on.
Pompeo listed three actions: Know the history of the U.S. and the histories and philosophies that predate it, “work your tail off” and define success on your own terms. He cited his own foreign service officers who define success as taking on a life of public service.
“Everyone here will choose a different path and define success in a different way,” Pompeo said.
At the end of his speech, Pompeo said Americans have the responsibility to protect and promote the tradition of unalienable rights.
“We Americans are the heirs of immortal principles,” Pompeo said.
The next Landon Lecture will take place later this month on Sept. 27. Fortune CEO Alan Murray will give the 191st lecture in the longstanding series.


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French retail group Les Mousquetaires, the company behind the Intermarché chain, has stayed silent on reports that it is looking to quit the Spanish market.
Les Mousquetaires, which is present in seven European countries outside France, entered Spain in 1988 and runs 53 supermarkets in the country.
However, a report in Spanish newspaper Expansión claimed that Les Mousquetaires had sustained havey losses in Spain in recent years.
The report also claimed that the retailer has signed a deal to sell its stores to local peer Bon Preu.
Les Mousquetaires, however, has refused to be drawn on the reports. “We’re not making any comment on this project,” a spokesperson told just-food today (2 July). “The president [of Les Mousquetaires] has said we cannot say anything about it.”
Les Mousquetaires’ international sales rose 9.5% in 2008 but the company highlighted the performance of its Polish and Belgian operations when it issued the numbers back in January. Group turnover was up 6.4% at EUR34.8bn (US$49bn).
Bon Preu, which could not be reached for immediate comment, saw its sales climb 7.6% in 2008 to EUR475.3m

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India business news headlines 13th March 2019 –
L&T is set to sign a binding deal to buy the stake of V.G. Siddhartha in Mindtree. The deal could trigger a hostile takeover bid, leading to an open offer by L&T to increase its stake in Mindtree to 51%.
IndiGo is reportedly offering jobs to Jet Airways pilots along with compensation for overdue salaries. IndiGo is reported to be facing a shortage of pilots.
The government has reportedly warned Twitter that its executives could face up to 7 years in jail if it fails to remove content and accounts with objectionable and inflammatory content.
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Mahindra CIE Automotive has acquired Aurangabad Electricals for Rs.830 crores, marking its entry into the aluminium die-casting industry. Aurangabad Electricals’ revenue was Rs.651 crore during fy 2017-18.
Walt Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox including Star India could result in loss of around 350 jobs.
Bharti Airtel will lower their direct stake in the Bharti Infratel by more than half of its current stake of 50.33 per cent. Airtel’s unit Nettle Infrastructure Investments will buy around 32 per cent stake in Bharti Infratel by March 18.
Benddit, a sales and marketing solutions platform, has raised US$250,000 in seed funding. Funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand team and marketing initiatives.
Oyo has announced to invest around $200 million in its India and South Asia business during 2019.
RBI shall infuse Rs.12,500 Crores in the system through open market operations.
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SBI has launched a doorstep banking for senior citizens over 70 years, differently abled and infirm customers at a nominal fee of Rs.60-100.
Puig has invested Rs.100 Crores in Kama Ayurveda for its domestic and international expansion. Puig is a family owned, Barcelona based fashion and fragrance business house.
The ban on Boeing 737 Max planes may result in flight cancellations and surge in flight ticket prices over the next few days. As airlines shall try to accommodate passengers of canceled flights, the fresh ticket prices may shoot up
Ruchi soya – Patanjali Ayurved has increased its offer for Ruchi Soya to Rs 4,350 crore from Rs.4100 crores. Adani Wilmar had reportedly offered Rs 4,300 crore in August 2018 but withdrew later citing delayed resolution process.
PNB fraud case – The second charge sheet filed by ED has names of 10 individuals and 17 entities, including members of Nirav Modi’s family. As per the charge sheet, Rs.6,400 crores obtained via letters of the undertaking were diverted to buy real estate and personal property and used for purposes other than stated through layers of overseas dummy companies.
NCLT has warned lenders of RCom that if they do not allow tax refunds to be used to pay Ericsson, RCom could go back into insolvency proceedings.
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Vijay Mallya case – Diageo has claimed that it has bonafide, legal and substantial rights in the shared pledged by Vijay Mallya and his son. ED may oppose the claim.


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We have a new paper out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! In this work, Chamoni, Corvo, and co-workers explore polymer network hydrogels that can be temporarily mechanically reinforced on treatment with a carbodiimide through the formation of anhydride cross-links. Because these materials undergo gel–gel transitions, they exhibit new and unusual behavior. For example, two pieces can be temporarily and repeatedly adhered, with the time of adhesion dependent on the amount of carbodiimide used. Films can also be reversibly patterned with different mechanical properties. This work is part of our long-running collaboration with the Konkolewicz group.
Ben Cubberly and Bianca Addison join group!
Welcome to Ben Cubberly and Bianca Addison, who have joined the group as undergraduate researchers!
New paper in J. Org. Chem.
We have another new paper out in J. Org. Chem.! In this work, Govinda and Will study the effect of different amides installed at the ends of ortho-phenylene oligomers on the conformation. The behavior can be quite complicated, with the amides affecting multiple degrees of freedom along the oligomers. This can be resolved using our recently developed 19F labeling strategy.
New paper in J. Org. Chem.
We have a new paper out in J. Org. Chem.! Suma, Juliana, and Gopi show that it is possible to control the twist sense of o-phenylenes by including chiral phthalimides in the middle of the oligomer. Importantly, it is necessary to include substituents farther along the helix to interact with the chiral groups; otherwise, chiral induction is very poor.
Diamond Browner-Smith joins group
Welcome to Diamond Browner-Smith, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher!
New paper in ChemSystemsChem
We have a new paper out in ChemSystemsChem! Mosharraf, Isuru, and Renu report on the transient formation of crown-ether-based cages, uncovering some interesting templation effects and evidence of cation binding.
Happy trails to Dr. Suma Peddi, who has successfully defended her dissertation!
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Welcome to Kyle Hess and Will Krueger, who have joined the group for the summer as NSF REU students!
Happy trails to Dr. Kate Bradford, who has successfully defended her dissertation and is moving on to bigger and better things!
New paper in Chem. Commun.
A new paper has just come out in Chem. Commun.! This work is a collaboration with the Konkolewicz group. Andrew, Obed (from the Konkolewicz group), Govinda, Viraj, and Kate show that using ortho-phenylenes as crosslinkers in polymer networks gives unusual mechanical properties, namely enhanced energy dissipation, because of the (un)winding of their folding.

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Maserati will introduce the Alfieri as a plug-in hybrid or full-electric model in 2020
Remember the Maserati Alfieri concept from 2014? Well, the company hasn’t given up on the car that bears its founder’s name.
In a conversation with one of the Maserati product planners, Motor News learnt the company plans to introduce the Alfieri as a production model in 2020. However, unlike the concept, it looks likely to be a plug-in hybrid or fully-electric model.
Resurrected … again
Aston Martin is resurrecting the Lagonda brand for the second time after it had a go with the Lagonda Taraf a couple of years ago.
That was a sedan with a big internal combustion engine, but at this week’s Geneva Motor Show the company revealed Lagonda as a new super-luxury electric vehicle brand.
Yes, Lagonda will be all-electric and the company has plugged into the new era with its Vision Concept SUV. It will be one of two models that the company plans to launch worldwide in 2023.
Bentley has followed up the V8 version of the Bentayga with the reveal of a plug-in hybrid version.
Using an electric motor and a new V6 petrol engine, the company claims an electric-only range of 50km and emissions of just 75g/km of CO2. Bentley also says that the battery can be charged in just 2.5 hours. The company says the hybrid version will only be available in selected international markets from late in 2018, so it remains to be seen if it will come to SA.
Actually it’s not Tron, it’s e-Tron, Audi’s electrification brand. We can’t say the company has revealed its new all-electric SUV because it is still covered in camo, but Audi says it will have space for five plus luggage, charge up in just 30 minutes at a 150kW fast-charger and will go on sale in Europe at the end of 2018.
Audi plans to bring it to SA in 2019 and it will be followed by an e-Tron Sportback.
Hyundai has announced a new design direction with the reveal of its latest concept in Geneva.
The company says it is moving to a theme of "Sensuous Sportiness" and showcased it with the reveal of the Le Fil Rouge concept, which we have to say looks remarkably like it was inspired by a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti from 2004. Still, if you want sensuous sportiness then Ferrari is a good place to start.
As night follows day, a higher performance Lamborghini Huracán inevitably means a higher performance Lamborghini Huracán Spyder.
Lamborghini courted controversy in 2017 with the Huracán Performante and its record-smashing Nordschleife lap, but there are fewer doubters now after independent testing.
The Huracán Spyder Performante’s straight-line performance isn’t demonstrably different to the standard car, but Lamborghini promises its cornering pace will be.
It leverages the mid-mounted, 5.2l, naturally aspirated V10 for 470kW of power at 8,000r/min and 600Nm of torque. Lamborghini claims that’s good for a 3.1 second sprint to 100km/h, 0-200km/h in 9.3 seconds and a 325km/h top speed.
The maximum torque doesn’t arrive until 6,500r/min, but Lamborghini counters that 70% of the torque peak is already underfoot at 1,000.
The 1,507kg supercar hangs 57% of its weight over the rear axle and hauls down from 100km/h in just 31.5m.
Japan’s biggest car maker has responded to Europe’s burgeoning diesel crisis by abandoning the fuel.
Toyota Europe CEO South African Johan van Zyl insisted this week that the brand would dump all its diesel-powered passenger cars and crossovers in Europe by the end of 2017.
A statement from the car maker clarified that it would retain diesel power only for its LandCruiser, Prado, Hilux and its light commercials.
Toyota insists fewer than 10% of its cars and crossovers in Europe use diesel power, with its hybrid strategy, expected to take up any shortfalls. More than 40% of Toyota’s European sales were hybrids last year, dominated by the C-HR’s 80% hybrid mix.
The push into crossovers has hurt Toyota’s chances of meeting the EU7 limit of 95g/km of CO2 by 2021, and missing that target will automatically bring huge fines for carmakers.
"The more hybrids we sell, the better our chances," Toyota Europe chairman Didier Leroy insisted. "For us, mild hybrids wouldn’t be a step forward," he said.


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Just a few hundred meters from the Egyptian border, Yedidya Harush stands a top of a sand dune overlooking what less than a decade ago was a vast, inhospitable, empty expanse, stretching as far as the eye can see. The silence is almost deafening, penetrated only by the wind and the sound of gunfire and explosions, testimony to the fighting taking place not far away on the northwestern tip of the Sinai Peninsula between Egyptian forces and local Bedouins loyal to ISIS.
Pointing to the communities of Bnei Netzarim, Naveh and Shlomit, Harush confidently states that within a few years some 10,000 people will live in the three communities in the area known as the Halutza Sands.
Given the uncongenial surroundings, one could be forgiven for being a little sceptical, but Harish has this to say: “If you would have gone to Tel Aviv a hundred years ago when it was all was just sand and someone would have told you that one day it would be a big city, you would have thought they were crazy.”
The 29 year-old came to Halutza in 2009 from Atzmona in Gush Katif, four years after the disengagement, Ariel Sharon’s 2005 pullout of all 8,000 Israeli citizens in the Gaza Strip.
The communities however were initially conceived years before the disengagement, after Ehud Barak had tried to include the Halutza Sands in a land swap with the Palestinian Authority in 2001 – the Palestinian Authority turned down the offer and Yasser Arafat was reported to have called it “a place of death” where nothing can grow.
Kibbutzim opposed to the idea set up a plan for a belt of communities running some 50 kilometers from Kerem Shalom, located near Israel’s tri-partite border with Gaza and Sinai, down the Egyptian border to Kadesh Barnea.
After the pull out from Gaza, the Netzarim community initially moved to the town of Ariel in Samaria. But soon enough city life became stifling for some, their green fingers started to itch and they decided they wanted to return to agricultural life.
The government allocated land for the three communities and after moving to mobile homes in nearby Yevul and Yated in 2009, 15 families moved down to Bnei Netzarim in 2009. Today there are 130 families each in the agricultural communities of Bnei Netzarim and Naveh and 50 in Shlomit, an urban community.
“We are just like the first pioneers, who came [to the Land of Israel] overcame all the challenges and succeeded against all odds,” says Harush.
One of the challenges faced by the Halutza Sands residents is how to grow agricultural produce on arid desert soil and in searing heat. The answer is hot houses, where farmers like Yedidya Hochman, who came to the area from Jerusalem’s Old City have succeeded in growing everything from staple crops like potatoes, carrots and onions to more exotic varieties such as etrogs, the yellow citron fruit used as one of the four species on the Sukkot holiday, and even pineapples.
Hochman who moonlights as head of the Bnei Netzarim council says that when the first families came to Bnei Netzarim there was literally nothing, just desolate sand that had never been farmed.
To help the next generation of farmers, Hochman set up with the help of the Jewish National Fund a young farmers program that helps them overcome the fact that they have to build up their farms from scratch at a massive investment and sometimes, as was the case for him, without any prior agricultural knowledge.
But the arid desert land isn’t the only challenge faced by the residents of Halutza: the nearest places of employment are at least an hour away, as is Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, where several of the residents of Shlomit study as part of the community’s student program.
The program gives participants a generous stipend and allows them to pursue academic studies together with Torah study in the evenings. Yoni Sleiter, 26, joined the program from Nof Ayalon near Latrun. He recently completed a BA in psychology at Ben Gurion and is now continuing to a Masters and Phd in organizational psychology at Bar Ilan University, some two-and-a-half hours away. Married with two children, Yoni has lived in Shlomit for the past three years since visiting family for the weekend and becoming hooked.
“I think the quality of life here makes up for all the difficulties,” he says. “You wake up in the morning and you see the smiles on the children’s’ faces and that gives you the strength to go on. But it isn’t easy we are living in the middle of nowhere.”
Harush, the JNF liaison to Halutza, says the student program will help create the human capital required to bring jobs and opportunities to the isolated community.
“We want to attract small hi-tech companies, light industry, business people who want to build businesses here both for ideological reasons and for economic reasons as they get various incentives to come here and we have quality people here who can work in those jobs, he says. “I believe it will happen, that’s why we launched our student program. If we want to attract industry we have to bring the right people.”
For Harush, people like Yoni Sleiter and Yedidya Hochman are 21st Century pioneers who confound the belief that young people today are only interested in modern comforts and aren’t willing to make sacrifices.
“People say that we’re in a post-Zionist era,” he says. “When they say that I tell them, if you want to see Zionism alive and kicking, come see for yourself in Halutza. Zionism is alive and kicking here in Halutza.”


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How does the Reverse Mortgage process work?Reverse Mortgages like any other mortgage is usually a loan that has been offered by a lender to a borrower with the borrower’s home acting as security. Traditional mortgages required that the homeowner uses their income in several monthly installments to pay off the loan. However, with the reverse mortgage, your loan balance will grow over time because the borrower isn’t making any monthly mortgage installments. Therefore, when you take up a reverse mortgage, you will not be required to pay off the loan unless you sell your home, move out, or pass away. This means that life expectancy plays a major role in the calculation, and eventually how much the borrower will get. This means the older you are, the more equity you have in your home and the lower the mortgage loan balance you will expect to receive.
How Reverse Mortgages WorkMost people in the Unites States are known to purchase their homes through mortgages. This usually means that the borrower went out and looked for a leader, made several monthly instalments reduce the balance owed to build steadily the equity in the homes they now own. Over time, the debt that you owed the lender decreased while your home equity increased, and you owned your home outright when your mortgage was paid up in full. However, the reverse mortgage doesn’t work the same way as a normal home mortgage, as the name suggests, it’s the opposite of the normal mortgage you took to own your home. In this particular case, you will not be making any monthly payments to your lender as you might expect. There is a twist, now, your lender will be making payments to you instead, but based on a certain percentage of the value of the home that you own. You will have the choice of getting cash in a lump sum or get your money in the line of credit, a regular cash advance, or a mix of these options. You will need to understand that as the loan you borrowed progress, the equity of your home equity decreases. In case you move out of the house, or fall ill and pass away, your lender will be entitled to recover the money that you owe them, which means they get to sell your home.
Getting a Reverse MortgageThere are several different types of reverse mortgages available to US citizens. However, the HECM or Home Equity Conversion Mortgages is the most commonly preferred choice to most seniors. These particular reverse mortgages are usually issued out by private banks and will be insured by the FHA or Federal Housing Administration. They are also guaranteed by the US Federal government. They have no particular income limitations or medical requirements, and there are no limitations whatsoever on how they can be spent by the borrower. The only drawback to this reverse mortgage is that there is a maximum loan amount that you can get, and currently, it is mapped at $625,500. In case you need more information on the reverse mortgage process, you can contact “America Reverse” and get your Free No Obligation Informational Guide. To qualify for a reverse mortgage you need to fit the following criteria:
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- The home you will use to get the mortgage needs to be your primary residence.
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- The borrower should be able to sort out all any ongoing charges on the property like taxes, insurance and ownership association fees.
- You will need to take part in a free consumer information session that is normally offered by an HUD Approved Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Counselor.
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The Government is going to approve this Monday in the Council of Ministers the transposition of three European directives for the fight against fraud and counterfeiting of means of payment other than cash, against market abuse as well as on the exchange of information on criminal records in the European Union. The most relevant thing is that the new regulations facilitate the fight against cybercrime and penalize the fraudulent use of new means of payment, that is, from the use of payment applications through mobile phones to the use of currencies. virtual currencies, so that the focus is also on cryptocurrencies.
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Cybercrime has exploded in our country. According to the VIII Report on Cybercrime in Spain 2020, prepared by the Ministry of the Interior, cybercrime has increased its weight within the overall criminality to 16.3% of all criminal offenses, compared to 4.6% they represented in 2016. Last year 287,963 alleged criminal acts related to information and communication technologies were registered, which represents an increase of 31.9% compared to 2019. Of the total known cybercrimes in 2020, 89.6% They were scams through computer frauds (scams), followed at a long distance by threats and coercion on the Internet, which only represented 4.9%.
Faced with this avalanche of scams, the Ministry of Justice adapts the Spanish regulations to the European framework with the transposition of three directives through a Draft Law- Two of these directives will involve modifications of the Penal Code in areas of economic crime. The objective is to adapt the regulation to new forms of crime and to contribute to the harmonization of the legal systems of the different EU states.
The first directive that is transposed is 2019/713, which is fundamentally an instrument for the fight against cybercrime, especially that which refers to digital fraud, with special attention to the fraudulent use of new means of payment. These new means of payment include the use of payment applications through mobile phones, electronic wallets or the use of virtual currencies or cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
Although cryptocurrencies have been included, sources familiar with the measure explain that these digital currencies “are not officially recognized as such in our country, nor in the EU, although there are people who use them, as they could use jewelry or anything else as a means. of unofficial payment. The Directive expressly says that it only applies to virtual currencies that are used as a means of payment, considering the possibility that in the future the States will issue or officially recognize them through their national banks or competent authorities. “.
As for the means of payment, you just have to take into account how online payments have grown to verify the need for this regulation. Electronic commerce already accounts for 7.4% of total commerce, when 10 years ago they only reached 0.7%, according to the CNMC. In 2020, 51.6 billion euros were spent on electronic commerce, 5.8% more than the previous year. A lot of money moves with these new payment formulas, you just have to see the dimension that tools such as the Bizum application have adopted, the most accepted by Spanish banks: 18 million users. Since its launch in 2016, more than 684 million operations have already been carried out that have moved more than 34.3 billion euros, according to those responsible for the application.
With this measure, the Government seeks to strengthen the fight against crimes related to fraud and counterfeiting, a new crime with a significant cross-border dimension that is accentuated by its digital nature, which requires a common response at the European level. The reform mainly affects arts. 248 and 399 bis of the Penal Code where an adaptation of the wording of the rates to these new means of payment is made, as well as the introduction of some new more specific criminal modalities required by the Directive itself.
Another of the European directives that are transposed is 2014/57, on criminal sanctions applicable to market abuse. This Directive aims to fight against economic corruption and, more specifically, against anti-competitive practices. It punishes the abuse of the market that occurs through the use of privileged information, this is what is known as “insider trading”, a practice that threatens the transparency and security of financial markets.
To fully comply with the provisions of this Directive, the Executive must carry out a reform of the Criminal Code in its article 285, in order to equalize the penalties provided for all those who make use of privileged information, regardless of whether they have a certain position or exercise a certain profession, that is, the penalties are equated above, disappearing the reduction for the so-called secondary “insider” of section 5 of article 285.
Finally, the transposition of the European Directive 2019/884 regarding the exchange of information on third-country nationals and the European Criminal Record Information System (ECRIS) is also carried out. With the transposition of this Directive, it is intended to take a further step in the development of the European information exchange system for the prosecution of transnational crime.
The objective is to promote and expedite legal cooperation between countries in the fight against crime, since it facilitates the exchange between the authorities of the States of information extracted from criminal records. The transposition of this Directive does not imply a reform in the Penal Code, but it does imply a reform of the law that currently regulates the exchange of information on criminal records in the European Union.

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Frustrated by skeptics, doctors rename chronic fatigue syndrome
by James Marroquin
Posted 2/16/15, 08:30 am
Laura Hillenbrand has been mostly confined indoors since becoming sick with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) more than 25 years ago. The author of the bestselling books Seabiscuit and Unbroken enjoyed a healthy childhood until she suddenly became exhausted in her second year of college. After returning to her mother’s home in Maryland, Hillenbrand visited several doctors who told her the illness was not real. She explained to The New York Times, “When almost everyone in your world is looking down on you and condemning you for bad behavior, it’s very hard not to let that point of view envelop you. … I just began to feel such deep shame, because I was the target of so much contempt.”
According to a recently released Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on CFS, Hillenbrand’s experience reflects that of the 836,000-2.5 million Americans living with the condition. Health professionals often treat patients as if their condition is not serious or even a figment of their imagination. The report proposed changing the name of the disease to “systemic exertion intolerance syndrome (SEID).” The new name “really describes much more directly the key feature of the illness, which is the inability to tolerate both physical and cognitive exertion,” co-author Dr. Peter Rowe said.
The change in nomenclature also aims to move away from the stigma of the name “chronic fatigue syndrome,” chosen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1988. “Everybody’s had some experience of fatigue, but there is so much more (to the condition) than that,” Rowe said. “Patients with CFS are typically unable to perform their normal activities, and as many as one-fourth are homebound or bedridden,” according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The IOM report also establishes simplified criteria for the syndrome. To be diagnosed, patients must have six months of exhaustion after mental or physical exertion, unrefreshing sleep, and a substantial decrease in their ability to function at pre-illness levels. They must also experience either cognitive impairment or the inability to stand upright for more than a short period.
The cause of SEID remains unknown. Symptoms may be triggered by an infection or a preceding event such as anesthesia, physical trauma, or immunization. No known cure or prescription drug has been developed for the condition. The CDC recommends that patients with SEID work with their doctors to address symptoms and effectively manage daily activities.
For Laura Hillenbrand, her physical limitations have come to contribute to her distinctive writing style. For instance, vertigo prevents her from reading library microfiche of old newspapers during research. Instead, Hillenbrand buys vintage newspapers off the internet and leisurely reads them like she would the morning paper. In this way, she becomes absorbed in the historical period she is writing about, skillfully evoking that world for her readers.
James is a graduate of the WORLD Journalism Institute's mid-career course.

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Business in Cameroon | Selected as the provisional successful bidder for the construction of the Ntui-Mankim road section (96.7 km), the Chinese company Sinohydro is currently the subject of disagreements between members of the Arbitration Commission of the Ministry of Public Contracts (Minmap). The meetings were convened by the Minister of Public Contracts Ibrahim TALBA MALLA to rule as a last resort on two unfavorable opinions (of the Central Road Procurement Control Commission-CCCM-TR) contested by the Ministry of Public Works (MINTP).
According to our sources, on January 8, 2021, the Minister of Public Contracts had to suspend the works of the Arbitration Commission because of fierce arguments between members f the said commission. While some of the members agreed with the unfavorable opinion of the CCCM-TR, others were questioning such decision to eliminate the Chinese company from the process.
To disqualify the Chinese company, the CCCM-TR explained that its financial offer was higher than the budget set for lot 2B “Ndjolè-Mankim”. Indeed, it explained, while the provisional all taxes included budget set by the tender documents is XAF24.26 billion, Sinohydro made an all-taxes-included financial offer of XAF28.29 billion, which is more than XAF4.5 billion higher than the provisional budget.
It added that on lot 2A “Ntui-Ndjolè”, the environmentalist presented by Sinohydro is not compliant with the provisions of the tender documents. The said environmentalist has never been involved in a project of this scale and does not have the experience required by the tender document, which is an eliminatory criterion according to the CCCM-TR.
“If Cameroon selects Sinohydro despite all the shortcomings observed, the main financial backer [the African Development Bank namely] could withdraw from the project and the other companies that submitted their offers could sue Cameroon,” a member of the commission commented.
The Minister of Public Works’ disagreement
But the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, does not agree with such decision. Before the case was brought to the Arbitration Commission of the Ministry of Public Contracts, he previously referred the matter to the CCCM-TR.
Indeed, on December 11, 2020, he sent a letter to the CCCM-TR concerning the resumption of works on the Ntui-Mankim section.
In the letter, he acknowledged receipt of the letter by which the CCCM-TR was notifying him of its unfavorable opinion concerning the proposal to award the contract to THE Chinese company. He then explained that the reasons stated by the CCCM-TR were not specific enough and though they were supposed to be based on a report concluded on November 11, 2020, by CCCM-TR expert Yos Guillaume, it is far from the conclusion made by the said expert.
“The CCCM-TR expert’s report leads to the same proposal as the one transmitted to you. So, there is clearly a contradiction between the conclusions of your Commission and the expert’s report […] in view of the foregoing and in application of the provisions of Article 179 of the Market Code. I am sending you the bid analysis report for a new diligent examination,” he wrote.
Because of the Minister of Public Works and the CCCM-TR’s divergent conclusions, the Arbitration Commission was asked to rule. And under Article 19 of Cameroon’s Public Procurement Code, after disagreements, only the Minister of Public Procurement can award the contract through mechanisms that preserve fairness and transparency.
Pending the outcome of this case, it should be recalled that Sinohydro was selected as the provisional winner of the contract to build the road section connecting the Central region to the North in 2016. As the road section is not yet built, the two regions, which are large agriculture and animal farming regions, are still isolated.


The NHS must do “much better” at preventing flu outbreaks, Energy Secretary Ed Davey said.
He insisted badly insulated homes were only one factor behind the “disgrace” of high winter deaths.
“Excess winter deaths” in England and Wales soared 29% last year to 31,000, with 1,582 people dying every single day during the coldest March in decades.
But Mr Davey told MPs that helping keep down energy bills and making houses more efficient was by no means the only action Government needed to take.
“It is a disgrace but we need to understand why that has been caused,” he said - pointing to a “very dangerous combination” of a long and severe worldwide bout of flu plus a very late cold spell.


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The first Honda Civic Type-R models have rolled off the assembly line at Honda’s European manufacturing facility in Swindon, United Kingdom.
Appropriately, the first three models to arrive are painted in red, white, and blue – the colours of the UK flag where Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) operates. In March, it was announced that HUM will be the global production hub for the next-generation Honda Civic with production of the European-market CR-V transferring there from Canada as well. £200 million has been further invested into the plant to allow this, bringing total invest up to £2.2 billion since 1985.
Soichiro Takizawa, Managing Director at HUM, thanked the staff for their hard work and commented: “The new Civic Type R is an imperative model for Honda, representing our racing spirit and demonstrating our commitment to innovation and passion. We are extremely proud to be the only manufacturer of the Civic Type R in the world. Our high standards have earned us this privilege and this is testament to the continued commitment of our Associates.”
The all-new Honda Civic Type R is the company’s most extreme hot hatch to date. Powered by a new 2.0-litre VTEC turbocharged engine developing 305hp and 400Nm of torque, the ‘Race car for the road’ features an advanced suspension system and a new +R track mode, with a top speed of 269 km/h.


Io, Europa’s young brother is installed
This summer, the second telescope of the SPECULOOS project was successfully installed by Liege astronomers at the European Southern Observatory of Paranal, in the Atacama desert of Chile. Its name is Io, and it joins Europa, the first telescope of the project installed earlier this year. They will soon be joined by two other telescopes, Callisto and Ganymede. Together, these four telescopes will form the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory which will scout the sky from early 2018 for potentially habitable exoplanets similar to the ones of the famous TRAPPIST-1 star, revealed by Michaël Gillon and his team on february 2017. The SPECULOOS is a project led by ULiege and done in collaboration with several foreign institutions. For more information, please see here.


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JACKDAWS PRESENTS EXCITING NEW PROGRAMME OF EVENTS FOR 14-15 SEASON
Jackdaws Music Education Trust is delighted to present its latest programme of weekend music courses.
The season commences in October 2014 and sees residential courses offered with tutors such as Graham Fitch and Philip Fowke on piano, Evelyn Tubb and Rosa Mannnion on voice as well as ensemble courses and much more. Jackdaws’ series of taster Day Courses also return offering a wonderful introduction to new areas of music making as well as a famous Jackdaws lunch.
Jackdaws is also delighted to welcome some new tutors: Anna Stegmann, contemporary recorder Professor at the Royal Academy is taking a joint course with resident recorder tutor Pamela Thorby; celebrated soprano, Mary Plazas leads the Opera Workshop for singers of all ability; renowned singers Sarah Leonard and Stephen Varcoe are leading an English Song weekend and the extraordinary piano teacher Penelope Roskell is coming to Jackdaws for the first time.
“I am so delighted that such eminent professional musicians continue to support the work we do to include musicians from all backgrounds in accessing the best teaching and being inspired by discovering new repertoire and techniques. Often being a musician can be a solitary experience, so we are thrilled to be able to enable our tutors and our participants in coming together to bring music to life whilst spending time in our picturesque and inspiring location.” – Saffron van Zwanenberg, Jackdaws Artistic Director
Alongside all of these wonderful opportunities Jackdaws will also be continuing to be at the forefront of music education for children and young people in Somerset, championing classical music and musicians and promoting a classical method of teaching and learning to support and enable young people to fulfil their musical aspirations.


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The Jaguar Rescue Center is a great place, not only to be able to observe many species of animals but also to support their survival, so I decided to share my experience with you.
My son and his friend were visiting me from Switzerland for two weeks, so I was trying to take them to different places on a coast to coast journey. We were on the Caribbean side of the country so we decided to visit the Jaguar Rescue Center.
This is a great place, not only to be able to observe many species of animals but also to support their survival, so I decided to share my experience with you.
This incredible place is a temporary or permanent home for ill, injured and orphaned animals. The place provides shelter, food, love, veterinary services, and basic care in comfortable cages, something without the animals couldn´t survive in the rainforest or in the sea.
Also, you will be able to see a lot of animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and small primates, the place is called “The Jaguar” because this animal represents the most hunted endangered animal in the Americas. It’s a symbol of nature that suffers from a great threat of extinction.
That morning we woke up early... wow, I was so excited !!
A song was playing loudly while getting ready for breakfast so music was also a little help for waking up the boys!
We had a delicious and very traditional breakfast with a twist... Swiss cheese Yummy!
We were staying at the Suizo Loco Lodge & Resort in Cahuita (which means the Crazy Swiss man and really, its owner is a funny crazy Swiss guy who is a great host)!
This cosy lodge is located just 30 minutes away from the Sanctuary in Puerto Viejo so you`d better be there 20 or 30 minutes before the tour starts. Visits are limited and just twice a day: 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
On our way, I was thinking that sometimes I forget how beautiful the Caribbean Coast is. Impetus ocean to our right came along the whole drive on a nice sunny day! Finally, we arrived at 09:10 a.m. Perfect timing!
It was easy to find a parking place pretty close to the entrance. The place seems crowded, cultural diversity is amazing for a small place like this.
We lined up to buy the tickets. At this time, it´s funny to hear all the different languages from many people around the world. Knowing this, the Center offers the chance to choose the language of your preference during the tour when you purchase the ticket that costs 20 USD per person. This fee helps and supports the center and its maintenance.
We waited at the coffee shop as we were told until they called us. Everything was so organized, the coffee shop is also very nice and it is always open so you can come anytime to enjoy great fresh-baked pastries and cookies for good prices. While you are enjoying this delicious bakery you are also helping the Center even if you are not doing the tour.
Suddenly, a tall guy gets close to the tables and starts announcing in a loud voice and many languages that we are ready to go. The whole crowd walks to the other entrance just 2 minutes away and again we lined up for our visit that was about to start!
The guides separated us according to our languages, so many groups were formed. We enrolled in the German one, a group of 16 people, attended by a very nice German Volunteer Guide.
In the first cage, there was a big Jaguar giving us our Welcome, however, he didn´t bother to look at us.
Another beautiful example of the good job the center is doing is the baby sloths nursery with the volunteers doing the work of surrogates moms. This especially touched me because I learned there that the special pace of this species provoked a sad but natural detachment from their mothers if a baby falls from a high tree. The mother takes so long to get down that she may never find it again. Taking care of the tiny infants shows how dedicated they are to the cause of feeding and watching over a slow-motion sweet ball of hair moving from one place to another and playing in the hammocks going up and down. It really inspires tenderness, they are so helpless that they can be an easy target for predators, animals and humans, so it is good to see some of them safe and happy right there.
Then we passed to see the toucans and parrots. I really heard one saying HOLA to us! It was amazing! They told us that sometimes the parrots have to be sent away to erase sounds or words they have learned.
Trails are clean and we walk under a nice shadow all the time. We also saw deer, caimans, and monkeys. Fortunately, the animals here are not looking hurt or stressed at all... and all of them have a story. Some have been rescued from someone who had them as pets, sometimes for profit or just for pure cruelty.
But here at the Rescue Center the natural environment, big cages, food and tons of love of the people who work here as volunteers, give them a second chance to have a good life.
I highly recommend the visit. You can be able to see lots of animals in just one place and at the same time, you are helping them to survive. It is not a zoo but a place where many animals have an opportunity to live and be loved.
You will even get tempted to come back and volunteer... what a great way to help!
Not too much, just natural bug spray, sneakers, light clothes because it is pretty humid, a positive aura and a good attitude!
If you are on the Caribbean Side of the country, don´t hesitate to come and visit this incredible place, you won´t regret it!
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