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The media battle heats up: France's presidential hopefuls Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are accused by the Russian and French press of denying access to them. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is criticised for accepting a $400,000 speaking gig in September.
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Marine Le Pen heavily criticized the European Union during her visit with the Hungarian prime minister in Budapest. Viktor Orban praised Le Pen and said she would help renew Europe's political right wing.
10 Feb 2022
Monday's meeting between the Russian and French presidents in Moscow gave rise to a lot of photoshopped content on social media - mostly sufficiently far-fetched so as not to be believable. We take a closer look. We also take a look at some convincing fake news stories that have been doing the rounds about Russia's current tensions with Ukraine and NATO.
1 Apr 2022
There are just 13 days to go before the first round of the French presidential election. In this edition of the show, we see how the president was called a murderer by some supporters of Eric Zemmour at a rally – and how Macron reacted. We also take a closer look at far-right candidate Marine Le Pen's chaotic visit to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.
6 Apr 2022
Papers focus on the tough choices facing presidential candidates Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron as polls show a tighter-than-expected second round run-off with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. French website Mediapart looks at why Ukraine may not be winning the information war outside of the West. Finally, we look at US coverage of Amazon workers in New York making history.
13 Apr 2022
Facing a tougher-than-expected fight for re-election, Emmanuel Macron has hit the campaign trail at last. Since he and far-right nationalist rival Marine Le Pen qualified for the April 24 run-off, the incumbent has seemed eager to go into the field to explain his policies.
19 Apr 2022
No, French President Emmanuel Macron did not say that 60 million African and Middle Eastern refugees would coverge on Europe over the next 20 years and the BBC did not tweet such a quote either. We take a look at the forensics of a fake news story. Plus, a quote from an old interview with defeated French leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is taken out of context.
25 Apr 2022
For the second election in a row, Emmanuel Macron has beaten Marine Le Pen, becoming the first French president to win a second term in 20 years. But most French papers say his victory is one "without glory," as he benefited more from a desire to keep the far right out of office than from widespread support for his policies. We also take a look at international papers' constructive criticism of Macron's re-election and what they think he can do to improve.
24 May 2022
A video claiming that voter fraud targeted far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has gained traction abroad. Users claim that Le Pen voter ballots were destroyed. In fact, unions were denouncing a €9 million loan that Marine Le Pen's RN party (FN at the time) borrowed from a Russia-based bank. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
25 Jun 2022
French politics continues to dominate the papers as Emmanuel Macron desperately seeks an alliance to secure a parliamentary majority. The US Senate finds bipartisan support for new gun possession laws for the first time in 30 years. Organisers of the Miss France beauty pageant introduce radical new changes to shake up the contest. Finally, a man escapes his kidnappers by driving erratically on a highway in order to be stopped by authorities.
25 Jul 2022
Macron is in a unique position to urge his opposite number, Paul Biya, to embrace inclusive peace talks to end the nearly six-year conflict devastating Cameroon's Anglophone regions, writes Rebecca Tinsley.
28 Jul 2022
The French president has kicked off a tour of Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau at a time when French influence in Africa is being called into question in several countries.
6 Nov 2022
A viral video on Twitter claims to show Barack Obama interrupted by 'F' Joe Biden chants from the audience during a democratic rally in Detroit. Former President Obama was interrupted by a heckler during his speech, however, the interruption had nothing to do with President Joe Biden. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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Thailand's tourism bureau estimates nearly 1.5 million fewer visitors from China in 2023 than had originally been expected at the beginning of the year. Changing travel trends and economic problems in China are to blame.
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He's claiming that his remarks were "misinterpreted". The Emirati oil executive leading the COP28 climate conference in Dubai has come out fighting after widespread criticism of his suggestion that there was "no science" indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels was needed to contain global warming.
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Students are among the victims of Nigeria's rampant inflation, as they face tuition fee hikes of over 300 percent. Also, the clock is ticking down towards DR Congo's general elections, in which President Felix Tshisekedi is running for a second term. Plus, Nairobi hosts international talks on the reduction of plastic pollution.
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The year 2023 has been mix-bag and has come with many headwinds as well as positives for the Nigerian economy. For investors looking at Africa’s most populous country what are the opportunities and risk associated in this key market? Steve Alain Lawrence, the Chief Investment Officer at Balfour Capital Group says Nigeria is the final economic frontier, he joins CNBC Africa to explore what the future holds for Nigeria next year.
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BMD option touted for UK frigate
Raytheon has called on the Royal Navy to consider adopting its SM-3 short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile defence (BMD) system, on its future Type 31 frigate.
No official requirement for this exists, and the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) released in November 2015 did not indicate that a sea-based ballistic missile defence system would be required, so Raytheon is looking towards the next SDSR to address this capability gap.
Andy Rhodes, business development lead for missile systems at Raytheon, told an industry technology day on 29 November that the UK MoD should consider this in its 2020 SDSR, which could pave way for integration on the Type 31 by 2023-24.
The vessel is expected to carry the Mark 41 vertical launching system, which can fire Raytheon’s SM-3 interceptor, Rhodes told Shephard. Current planning could also see MBDA’s Sea Ceptor used and there is an aspiration to operate the Raytheon Tomahawk missile from the frigate, he says.
However, industry sources have observed that the role of the frigate is yet to be determined, and at best it is designed to be an affordable and agile vessel. A BMD-capable SM-3 would increase costs.
A radar would also be needed to support the SM-3 on the Type 31, but it would be cumbersome. It may not even be possible to integrate it onto the frigate and might have to be carried by another ship.
But Rhodes insisted that potential aggressor states would find it cheaper to deploy ballistic missiles than traditional for forces and the UK must take this threat seriously, highlighting North Korean capabilities.
Pyongyang develops the Soviet Scud-derived Hwasong series of ballistic missiles, and is also developing a 10,000km-range weapon. Iran, meanwhile, has a ‘difficult interpretation of the nuclear deal’, he said and has also acquired North Korean-developed ballistic missiles.
‘The UK needs a long-range interceptor, and there is only one on the market,’ Rhodes says. ‘We need a national solution that doesn’t rely on NATO. The only product available to protect the UK is SM-3.’
However, a future variant of the Aster 30 missile that is already operated on the RN’s Type 45 destroyers called Sea Venom could be used as a BMD weapon. A Block 1 New Technology configuration is being developed by MBDA for France which has a BMD application. The destroyers could be used for BMD as the baseline Aster system is already integrated.
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Cousins Robbie and Stephen Amell have yet to work together on a feature film — and this is the time for that. It started as a short called ‘Code 8’ that the guys completely financed on their own, but now they’re working with fans to launch the full movie! Watch the 10-minute short here!
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Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks: SSE2 in Athlon 64 FX
Another innovation introduced in Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX is the integrated set of SSE2 instructions. Just like in Pentium 4, there is a single set like that here, so it would be really interesting to evaluate how efficient it is. We have already asked this question during our Opteron 144 tests (see our article called ASUS SK8N + AMD Opteron 144: Uniprocessor Workstation on AMD Opteron and NVIDIA nForce3 Professional for details). As you remember, we used BLAS test from ScienceMark 2.0 test set, which allowed us to conclude that SSE2 instructions set in CPUs based on AMD architecture is not so fast, as we would like it to be. Now let’s try to view this problem from a different viewpoint. This time we will take SiSoft Sandra 2003. this test package includes two benchmarks capable of measuring the performance of the SSE2 instructions unit. They are: the well-known Whetstone C 2.0 test rewritten for the SSE2 instructions and the test based on the measurements of time required for Mandelbrot sets calculations. Here are the results for both of them:
As we see, the SSE2 unit of Athlon 64 FX is not that impressive. The performance is quite low here because of the low processor frequency compared with the working frequencies of the Pentium 4 processor, as well as because of the not very successful SSE2 unit implementation. All in all, we can say that SSE2 support is a formal feature of the new AMD processors. AMD engineers seemed not to care that much about high performance of this unit thinking that it was not worth the effort probably. However, AMD has finally managed to catch up with Intel in terms of supported SIMD extensions (here we do not take into account 3DNow!). this situation will probably last for another 2-3 months until Intel finally announces its Prescott CPU, which will boast a few additional SIMD instructions. They will have to do with the translation of the floating point numbers into integers, complex numbers processing and video decoding.


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By Bob Egelko
When Wal-Mart asked the U.S. Supreme Court to scuttle a sex discrimination suit filed on behalf of at least 500,000 female employees, the retailer was represented by a law firm whose labor and employment practice group is co-chaired by Eugene Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia.
It might look like a conflict of interest, but the court’s policies allow it — the same policies, incidentally, that addressed a similar situation during the Bush vs. Gore case more than a decade earlier.
The court heard arguments Tuesday over whether the Wal-Mart suit, which was filed by six women in San Francisco in 2001, can proceed as a class action on behalf of women who have worked for the company since 1998. The justices seemed closely divided, but a majority, including Scalia, appeared to support Wal-Mart’s argument that the suit should lose its class-action status because pay and promotions are decided at the local level rather than at company headquarters.
Weeks earlier, a union-backed group called Wal-Mart Watch had called for Scalia to disqualify himself from the case. The group noted that Eugene Scalia had represented Wal-Mart in other cases and that one of his partners, Theodore Boutrous, argued the Supreme Court case.
Eugene Scalia is a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a law firm based in Los Angeles. Partners share in the income from all the firm’s cases, but when Scalia became a partner in 2003, the firm sent a letter to the court saying that he would not receive any earnings from any cases that reached the Supreme Court.
That was in response to a letter signed in 1993 by seven justices, including Scalia, who had children, spouses or other close relatives who were practicing law or studying to become lawyers. The letter addressed a law that requires federal judges to recuse themselves if a close relative is “acting as a lawyer in the proceeding” or has “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome.”
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Eugene Scalia was also an attorney with the Gibson Dunn firm in 2000, when partner Theodore Olson represented George W. Bush before the Supreme Court in the lawsuit over the presidential election returns in Florida. But Scalia himself was not involved in the case, and his father, covered by the 1993 policy, voted with the 5-4 majority that halted the Florida recount and sent Bush to the White House. Bush later appointed Eugene Scalia as a top lawyer in the Labor Department, a position he held until he returned to the law firm in 2003. He took part in some Labor Department cases that reached the Supreme Court, which required Justice Scalia to step aside.
Justice Scalia was at the center of another recusal controversy in 2004, when he refused to remove himself from a case involving records of an energy task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, the justice’s old friend and hunting companion. Recently, Common Cause has questioned the participation of Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas in last year’s campaign finance decision, noting that both justices had appeared before organizations that later benefited from the ruling.
Some academics are questioning the system that allows individual Supreme Court justices to decide whether to disqualify themselves, without the binding standards and review procedures that apply to other federal judges. In February, more than 100 law professors signed a letter to Congress suggeting legislation that would subject the justices to “mandatory ethical rules” governing recusals.
One who didn’t sign the letter was Monroe Freedman, a Hofstra University law professor and one of the nation’s leading legal ethics scholars. In an interview, he said the justices’ self-policing is a serious problem but he doesn’t see a legislative solution.
“It should remain the decision of the individual justice, even though it’s been abused terribly” by more than one justice, Freedman said. Allowing other justices to review the decision, he said, would lead only to “back-scratching,” in which members of the high court watered down the standards for themselves and for lower courts as well.
The Senate should consider Supreme Court nominees’ previous conflicts of interest during confirmation hearings, Freedman said. But once a justice is confirmed, he said, “the only remedy that’s going to work is impeachment, and Congress is not going to tie itself up impeaching a justice because he didn’t recuse himself.”
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Centre blocks apps, website of channel linked to banned 'Sikhs For Justice'
The central government has ordered blocking on apps, website, and social media accounts of foreign-based ‘Punjab Politics TV’
The central government has ordered blocking on apps, website, and social media accounts of foreign-based 'Punjab Politics TV' for having close links with the banned pro-Khalistan outfit 'Sikhs For Justice'. The ministry of information and broadcasting said in a statement that the channel was "attempting to use online media to disturb public order" during the Punjab assembly elections.
The ministry stated that the content pushed on digital platforms by the foreign-based channel had the "potential to incite communal disharmony and separatism". It added that the content was "found to be detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of India, security of the State, and public order."
The Sikhs For Justice organisation has been declared unlawful under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. SFJ founder-leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has been declared as an "individual terrorist" under UAPA for promoting secessionism.
"The Government of India remains vigilant and committed to secure the overall information environment in India and thwart any actions having the potential to undermine India's sovereignty and integrity," the information ministry said in the release.
The fear of separatist elements interfering with the democratic process gained traction after former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas levelled damaging allegations against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Vishwas alleged that the AAP national convener was ready to compromise India's sovereignty and integrity to become the chief minister of Punjab, a claim swiftly dismissed by Kejriwal as baseless.


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WICHITA, Kansas– Police are frustrated after learning someone posted cellphone video of the shooting in Old Town instead of coming to them first.
Investigators are hoping that video will eventually lead them to the gunman who killed Kolby Hopkins, 25 and injured six other men.
Cellphone video of the Old Town shooting has been viewed almost 3,000 times since it was first posted on YouTube on Friday.
Police received a tip that the video was online and have since downloaded the video as evidence.
“We have very well trained detectives and video people that can go through that stuff and enhance that,” said Captain Brent Allred, Wichita Police Department. “Maybe add to what’s already out there.”
Police have been pleading with the public for more than a week to speak up if they witnessed the violence in the 100 block of N. Mead, but so far they haven’t had much luck until now.
“I’m still requesting that anyone with information on the video or the shooting itself to please come forward to provide that to us,” said Allred. “We really don’t care how we get it. Let it get into our possession so that detectives can go through that video and clean what they can out of it.”
The dramatic cellphone video captured a crowd of people walking around in the street then you can see there’s a group gathered in the parking lot about to fight.
Moments later you hear the gunshots.
Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams understands that people are afraid to cooperate in fear of retaliations, but argues police are here to protect in order to bring closure to the victim’s families.
“We all have responsibilities and obligations to help those families that have lost a loved one as a result of the violence in particularly Mr. Hopkins’ family” said Police Chief Norman Williams, Wichita Police Department. “They want to know why was their son killed and the six other victims want to know why they were shot randomly in Old Town.”
The Hopkins’ family tells KSN News they have heard about the video.
They say it hurts them to know that there were a lot of people in Old Town that night who saw something, but are still not cooperating with police to help solve the case.
If you have any information, cellphone videos, or photos of the shooting you are encouraged to call police and you can remain anonymous at 316-267-2111.


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A Nigerian lady, Martha Uche has offered to donate her kidney to save the life of Sonia, daughter of Nigeria’s former deputy senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
While mixed reactions have continued to trail over the reports of the arrest, detention and arraignment of the two prominent Nigerians, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice, by the London Metropolitan Police over suspected conspiracy to transport a 15 year old boy named Ukpo Nwamini David to the UK in order to harvest his organs for their child.
Ekweremadu and his wife facilitated David’s entry into the UK to transplant his kidney into their daughter who is suffering from kidney failure.
Daily Trust had reported how the couple were charged with alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child in the United Kingdom.
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The fall television season is here and I have spent the last month or so taking in the new TV programs. I was having a difficult time deciding which show to review first, and then the network “gods” made it easy for me… they’ve already cancelled the first shows!
So today, I’m going to share which television programs are NOT worth a watch.
First up, Lucky 7.
I really wasn’t all that surprised that ABC axed Lucky 7 first. Of all the new shows, it was one that piqued my interest the least.
ABC Summary: Seven coworkers with big dreams put their resources together to buy lottery tickets, and when they win, they find themselves having to re-examine their values and identities in order to appreciate their shared wealth and individual dreams.
The series starred a lot of relatively unknown actors, with no BIG name to fall back on, and the quick trailer airing on ABC didn’t really show all that much. Was it just a drama? Did it have mystery? Was it supposed to be heartwarming? Funny?
Who knows? Obviously ABC didn’t want to give anyone the chance to figure it out because they cancelled it after only two episodes.
Next, we have We Are Men.
CBS Summary: A group of four single guys living in an apartment complex find camaraderie over their woes in love as they take the youngest of the group under their wings.
The sitcom starred: Kal Penn (Kumar from the Harold & Kumar movies and House) as Gil; Jerry O’Connell (from so many of my favorites… Stand by Me, Scream 2, Tomcats, Buying the Cow, and TV’s Crossing Jordan and The Defenders—a show that should have made it, but moving on…) as Stuart; and the great Tony Shalhoub (Wings and Monk) as Frank.
But I guess star power isn’t enough.
Nor was the fact that Jerry O’Connell was shirtless every opportunity he got (I did think this was kind of weird, but what can you do?).
I watched the only two episodes that aired of We Are Men and this comedy did make me laugh. Even out loud at times. But I guess TV audiences don’t want to watch a show about four single men out on the prowl, learning to take back their lives from messy divorces and breakups.
The next fall TV victim is Welcome to the Family.
NBC Summary: Dan and his wife, Caroline, were getting ready for the experience of having their daughter, Molly, move away for college; but then Molly and her boyfriend announce they’re having a baby and suddenly the two very different families have to get used to each other.
I heard from a lot of people that they didn’t really care for the concept of this TV series (teen pregnancy), especially not when I told them that the mother of the teenage girl was pregnant too.
But this sitcom was funny. Laugh-out-loud funny. My guy even watched this one with me, and actually put his handheld video game down to watch uninterrupted. That’s a rare occasion for sitcoms in this house…
Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives) was hilarious. I’ve never seen him in a comedy and his sarcasm and timing were perfect. And as usual, Mary McCormack (The West Wing and In Plain Sight) was also great. Mike O’Malley was also funny, in a role FAR from his character on Justified. But similar to We Are Men, sometimes star power just isn’t enough.
And finally, we have Ironside.
NBC Summary: After having been shot in the line of duty and confined to a wheelchair, determined Detective Robert Ironside leads a custom-tailored team of elite investigators as they take on New York’s most infamous crimes.
This one really shocked and disappointed me. But let me be clear: I hadn’t actually watched the episodes yet, which could be part of the problem, but I did have them all recorded on the DVR and I was looking forward to having a mini-marathon. Now, it’s too late.
People were disappointed with the fact that the TV networks had even chosen to reboot this older television series… and I guess those early criticisms spoke loudly enough for NBC to drop the axe. Shocking, considering shows like Hawaii Five-0 have done just fine for themselves (although it is rumored our favorite 5-0 officers are in trouble since CBS moved the series to Friday nights…).
But what can you do?
Are you shocked by any of these cancellations? Which show/s do you think gets the axe next? I’d love to hear from you!
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JFTV (Junk food TV):It’s not great for us, but we’ll go back for seconds
TBPTV (Twice Baked Potato TV): Part gourmet and delicious, while absolutely horrible for our cholesterol
SSTV (Still Simmering TV): It has potential, but the jury is still out
NIV (NyQuil Induced Viewing): Perfect for that late night television sleep timer
LOTV (Liver&Onions TV): Do we really have to explain? Blech
Inedible TV: Exactly how it sounds…


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Graebert and its partners continue to capitalize on the legacy of the DWG CAD file format. At this year’s Annual Meeting in Berlin, held two weeks ago, partners extolled the virtues of Graebert as both partner and technical resource, while the Berlin company announced even more expansive plans around its Trinity of CAD strategy.
The joint collaboration between Graebert and CST is for the distribution of ARES CAD software in Japan. The steady growth and new ambitions calls for a 50-50 joint-venture to be named “Graebert Japan”.
ARES® Touch is a professional application designed to read, create, modify or annotate technical drawings in the popular DWG format on iPad and iPhone, available from the iOS Store in Japan at the end of October and the rest of the world by the end of November.
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Architosh preps for Graebert’s big Annual Meeting in Berlin next week. Here is what is hot on the agenda for conference discussions and new knowledge.
By providing native apps across all major operating systems—desktop or mobile—including the cloud via the modern browser, Onshape’s CAD partner, the Berlin-based Graebert, aims to give CAD users the world over the most flexible access to their DWG based data.
Service Pack 2 of ARES Commander for Desktop OS platforms is also available as Graebert rolls out updates to its CAD product lines.
Want to see a Sneak Peak at ARES Kudo? Graebert releases a YouTube video showing the new cloud-based DWG CAD solution in preview form.
Germany’s Graebert celebrates 4 years of success in India as it expands its customer footprint at a rapid rate and quadruples its programming and management staff at its Indian headquarters.
Leading DWG-based CAD alternative software is now at version 2016 and is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux distros. And Graebert has much more planned for 2016 including an iOS version for iPad tablets.
Many manufactures across an array of industries from automobiles to AEC need both CAD tools and technical drawing tools for product manuals. However, the tools they currently have may not offer the seamless integration and cost benefits that Corel Corporation believes it can deliver with CorelCAD.
Graebert Inaugurates New Indian Headquarters—Signals Growth in Cross-Platform and Cloud-based CAD in Region
New Headquarter reflects drive to become a major player within India’s CAD market across desktop, mobile and cloud.
Architosh is pleased to present our feature special report on Graebert’s Annual Meeting in Berlin held two weeks ago. The German CAD company specializes in serving the global CAD community via its highly valued ARES native DWG-file based 2/3D CAD technology, a complete solution which OEMs can license, modify and rebrand as their own. The company has a growing array of top-tier partners—both industry stalwarts and emerging starlets—like Onshape.
Coming out of news from last week’s Graebert Annual Event in Berlin, a major CAD company in Germany with massive global reach via its partners, Architosh learned that Japan’s largest AEC firms—true enterprise behemoths—are standardizing around Apple iOS, particularly for its tablets in AEC applications…applications that include CAD such as ARES Touch. As a result, Graebert has announced support of iOS.
Graebert reveals at Annual Meeting how developers can use ARES to easily migrate their desktop CAD applications to Mobile and Cloud; End-users benefit from high synergies by combining advantages of Desktop, Mobile and Cloud to create and modify their DWG files.


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The representatives from PP (Popular Party), PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and Ciudadanos (Citizens) on the Spanish Congress's Board have put the brakes on the creation of the committee driven by PDeCAT (Catalan European Democratic Party) and ERC (Catalan Republican Left) to investigate the police attacks during the 1st October referendum.
Both pro-independence parties announced at the start of this month that they would call for the setting up of such a commission to find out "under what instructions" the attacks were ordered and "what was aimed to do with them". This was indicated by PDeCAT's spokesperson in the Congress, Carles Campuzano, who explained that his intention was nothing more than to have "someone" assume political responsibility for these attacks which were "a completely out-of-place exercise by the [Spanish National] Police and the Civil Guard".
"Brutal" police repression
However, the three Spanish parties agreed to ask for the Catalans to reformulate their request because it presupposes that there was "brutal and disproportionate police repression" that day.
Unidos Podemos (Together We Can), for their part, said that ERC and PDeCAT shouldn't have to redo their text because they believe that requests for the creation of such parliamentary committees often presuppose some fact that they are planned to investigate.
If the Catalan independence supporters do go ahead with editing their proposal and this reaches a vote in the Congress, it seems unlikely to be accepted, as it is unlikely that neither PP, PSOE, nor Ciudadanos will accept to start a commission over the role of the police on 1st October.


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The string quartets by Debussy and Dutilleux are classics of the genre and, in this concert, the Quatuor Psophos’s instinct for the ravishing soundworlds of their French compatriots made for a rewarding experience.
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The predictability of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is examined in initialized climate forecasts extending out to lead times of years. We use initialized retrospective predictions made with coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models that have an internally generated QBO. We demonstrate predictability of the QBO extending more than 3 years into the future, well beyond timescales normally associated with internal atmospheric processes. Correlation scores with observational analyses exceed 0.7 at a lead time of 12 months. We also examine the variation of predictability with season and QBO phase and find that skill is lowest in winter. An assessment of perfect predictability suggests that higher skill may be achievable through improved initialization and climate modeling of the QBO, although this may depend on the realism of gravity wave source parameterizations in the models. Finally, we show that skilful prediction of the QBO itself does not guarantee predictability of the extratropical winter teleconnection that is important for surface winter climate prediction.
The inherent timescale of atmospheric processes is generally considered to be too short to aid climate prediction on seasonal to decadal timescales [e.g., Smith et al., 2012]. However, the tropical stratosphere represents a clear exception to this general rule. Theoretically, the tropical stratosphere has interannual memory [Scott and Haynes, 1998], and zonal wind anomalies can persist for many months. The very large and quasi-regular interannual fluctuations from the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) [Veryard and Ebdon, 1961; Reed et al., 1961] could therefore provide one of the few purely atmospheric sources of climate predictability on seasonal to decadal timescales.
This study makes use of ensembles of seasonal to decadal forecasts to quantify prediction skill of the QBO. The large number of simulated years in these retrospective forecasts poses restrictions in the resolution of the climate model used due to limitations in computing resources. Such forecasts are generally made at climate model resolution of around 1° in the atmosphere. At this resolution, much of the gravity wave spectrum that drives the QBO remains unresolved [Geller et al., 2013]. However, a few climate models, including the models used here, now successfully simulate the QBO through the combined forcing from resolved waves and the parameterization of nonorographic gravity wave momentum fluxes [Scaife et al., 2000; Giorgetta et al., 2002; Scinocca et al., 2008].
Seasonal hindcasts for this study are provided by two systems. We first use output from the UK Met Office (UKMO) Global Seasonal forecast system [Arribas et al., 2011]. We use the fifth generation of this system, GloSea5, which is currently used for operational long-range forecasting. The climate model at the core of the forecast system is the third Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model version 3 (HadGEM3) with atmospheric resolution of 0.83° longitude by 0.55° latitude, 85 quasi-horizontal atmospheric levels, and an upper boundary at 85 km near the mesopause [Walters et al., 2011]. The ocean resolution is 0.25° globally in both latitude and longitude with 75 quasi-horizontal levels [Scaife et al., 2011]. Hindcasts are used for the period 1996 to 2009 with nine members per start date. Members from the same start date differ only by stochastic physics. Initial atmospheric and land surface data are taken from ERA-Interim observational reanalyses, and initial conditions for the global ocean and sea ice concentration are from the Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model data assimilation system. We also use output from the ECMWF System 4 seasonal forecasting system [Molteni et al., 2011]. This uses a T255 resolution spectral model, with a corresponding grid spacing of about 80 km, and 91 levels in the vertical with an upper boundary at 0.01 hPa. Ocean resolution is 1° with meridional refinement to 0.3° near the equator. Initial conditions are taken from ERA-Interim or, for the ocean, from Ocean Reanalysis System (ORAS4) [Balmaseda et al., 2012]. Hindcasts are available from 1981 to 2010, with a 51-member ensemble per start date.
Decadal hindcasts for this study are provided by two systems. The first set is from the UKMO decadal prediction system [Smith et al., 2007, 2010]. We use output from the second generation of this system, DePreSysv2, which also uses the HadGEM3 climate model. The decadal predictions extend out to several years ahead but are run at lower resolution with latitude-longitude spacing of 1.25° latitude by 1.875° longitude and the same 85 model levels extending to 0.01 hPa. The ocean resolution is 1°. The DePreSysv2 hindcasts consist of four-member ensembles starting from 1 November every year from 1960 to 2006. The second set is from the Mittelfristige Klimaprognosen (MiKlip) decadal climate prediction system [Pohlmann et al., 2013]. This is based on the Max-Planck-Institut-Earth System Model (MPI-ESM) coupled climate model [Giorgetta et al., 2013; Stevens et al., 2013; Jungclaus et al., 2013]. The mixed resolution version MPI-ESM-mixed resolution (atmosphere: T63L95, ocean: 0.4degL40) is used here, with five-member ensembles initialized on 1 January every year between 1961 and 2012. The representation of the QBO in this model is discussed in Krismer et al. . Decadal hindcasts are started from a combined atmospheric and oceanic initialization. The atmospheric fields (surface pressure and spectral temperature, vorticity, and divergence) are taken from the reanalyses ERA-40 [Uppala et al., 2005] for the period 1960–1989 and ERA-Interim [Dee et al., 2011] for the period 1990–2012, respectively. The oceanic component is initialized with temperature and salinity anomalies from the oceanic reanalysis ORAS4 [Balmaseda et al., 2012].
In addition to assessing prediction skill of the QBO on seasonal to decadal timescales, we also look at the predicted impact on surface winter climate. Numerous studies have identified an apparent extratropical response to the QBO in winter [Ebdon, 1975; Holton and Tan, 1980], and some analyses suggest that the QBO could be a useful important additional source of skill for surface climate predictions [Thompson et al., 2002; Boer and Hamilton, 2008; Folland et al., 2011; Smith et al., 2012]. We therefore also assess whether the influence of the QBO on extratropical surface winter climate is reproduced in initialized seasonal to decadal predictions.
2 Predictability of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
We use the 30 hPa monthly mean zonal wind near the equator as a standard diagnostic of the state of the QBO. Example forecasts of the QBO are shown in Figure 1 for the UKMO DePreSysv2 and MiKlip systems. These example forecasts were initialized in late 1965 and were free running thereafter. Both the amplitude and the period are reasonably represented in these forecasts, and the asymmetry between a strong easterly phase (~−30 ms−1) and a weaker westerly phase (~20 ms−1) is represented, at least in the UKMO DePreSysv2 decadal forecasts.
We now assess predictability of the QBO using retrospective forecasts initialized in the period 1960–2006. The blue lines in Figure 2 show correlation scores for ensemble mean forecasts measured against observational analyses for the UKMO DePreSysv2 and MiKlip decadal forecast systems. The skill of these QBO predictions remains high at very long lead times and is higher than other highly predictable modes of climate variability such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation [Fedorov et al., 2003; Barnston et al., 2012]. Correlation scores exceed 0.8 at prediction times up to 6 months. At 12 months lead time the correlations are still above 0.7, and positive correlations are maintained out to years ahead in both forecast systems (Figure 2), remaining significant out to 4 years ahead in the MiKlip forecasts [c.f. Pohlmann et al., 2013].
A complementary view to these deterministic correlation scores is a probabilistic assessment, for example, of the success and failure rates for predicting the phase of the QBO. Table 1 shows the probability of correct prediction of the sign of the QBO in the first three winters, from the UKMO DePreSysv2, for forecasts started in early November. High scores are shown for the first three winters, with decaying but above climatological probability of correctly predicting the sign of the QBO even in the third winter.
Table 1. Probability of Correct Prediction of the Sign of the Winter QBO From UKMO Decadal Forecastsa
Forecast QBO Phase
aGiven an ensemble mean forecast for QBO easterly or westerly phase in the coming three winters, the probability of this phase occurring in the respective winters is tabulated. Climatological forecasts would give 50% for each phase.
Verification against observational analysis is an important guide to the level of forecast skill that might be achievable with current systems, but what potential is there for higher skill? To answer this question we first use a very simple statistical model of the QBO. Assuming that the QBO is a regular 28 month sinusoidal oscillation, we calculate correlation scores given the initial phase of the oscillation. The initial phase is calculated as 2πn/28 where n is the number of months since the last QBO maximum phase (either E or W). The green lines in Figure 2 demonstrate the high predictability of the QBO based on the above model. This simple method yields skill at least as high as that found in dynamical prediction systems, especially for timescales beyond 1 year, and demonstrates that the QBO is regular enough to have a high degree of inherent predictability.
Observational analyses used to initialize the forecasts inevitably contain errors due to imperfect observations, and the models themselves may contain errors, for example, in the average period of the QBO. We therefore estimate the theoretical maximum level of predictability in each forecast system by replacing the observations with each of the forecast ensemble members and repeating the skill calculation using the ensemble mean of remaining members. The result is shown by the red lines in Figure 2, which indicate that even higher levels of perfect predictability are present for the QBO in these forecast systems, with correlations exceeding 0.8 even 3 years ahead. We can therefore surmise that if initial condition errors and model errors in representing the QBO are reduced, then much higher levels of forecast skill may be achievable. Note, however, that perfect predictability estimates like this only have a bearing on actual forecasts to the extent that models are realistic. The QBO in these climate models is partly driven by a constant source of parameterized gravity waves from the lower atmosphere. The filtering of upward propagating waves by winds as they pass through the troposphere and lower stratosphere introduces significant variability in the wave fluxes of momentum arriving at the QBO in both models and observations [Warner et al., 2005; Ern and Preusse, 2009]. Unpredictable variations in the sources of gravity waves from the troposphere, not currently represented in the forecast systems used here, may reduce the predictability of the QBO in practice. It could therefore be that perfect predictability scores here overestimate the scope for improvement.
3 Sensitivity to the Seasonal Cycle and QBO Phase
The forecasts examined so far included all years, with the QBO phase during initialization ranging from strong easterly to strong westerly. However, the QBO exhibits asymmetries between the easterly and westerly phases. In particular, the westerly phase is weaker in amplitude but propagates more rapidly down through the atmosphere than the easterly phase [Dunkerton, 1991] and these features can be reproduced in climate model simulations of the QBO [Scaife et al., 2002; Giorgetta et al., 2006]. How do these asymmetries affect the predictability of the QBO? To answer this question we split the forecasts used in Figure 2 into an east and a west category, depending on the phase of the QBO at the start of the forecast. Given the approximate reversal of QBO phase 1 year later, this means that westerly phases at the start of the forecasts are indicative of easterly QBO in the coming year, and vice versa. Both MiKlip and UKMO forecasts showed a hint of differences in skill over the following years depending on this initial phase (not shown), but while impending easterly phases showed slightly lower skill, differences were small and were not examined further.
The QBO forecasts examined so far covered the winter period and were from November or January initializations. Given the enhanced stalling, especially in winter during the easterly phase of the QBO, there may also be a seasonal dependence of QBO forecast skill. To test this we use seasonal forecasts initialized at different times of year. Correlation scores for QBO winds for forecasts that started in each season are shown in Figure 3 using all phases of the QBO. It is apparent that forecasts for the winter season in both forecast systems are less skilful than those for spring or autumn. Similar to the dependence of skill on QBO phase, this seasonal cycle in forecast skill is consistent with irregular downward propagation of the QBO, limiting predictability in this season. This effect can also be seen by the rapidly declining skill of forecasts that started in November and August as they approach winter. This seasonal dependence also has consequences when comparing the skill in different forecast systems. Comparison of QBO skill in different systems need to be done from the same start date as in Figure 3 rather than from different start dates (e.g., MiKlip and UKMO in Figure 2).
4 Teleconnections to Boreal Winter Surface Climate
Evidence of possible impacts of the QBO at the surface is long known [e.g., Ebdon, 1975]. Moreover, despite the large amount of interannual variability in surface winter climate, recent estimates of QBO teleconnections appear to remain significant [Boer and Hamilton, 2008]. Enhanced sea level pressure gradients and stronger, northward shifted tropospheric jets occur under westerly QBO compared to easterly QBO conditions. While there has been some success in reproducing this surface teleconnection to the QBO in climate models [Hamilton, 1998; Pascoe et al., 2005; Yamashita et al., 2011], this is not generally the case and it is therefore important to continue to test climate prediction systems for their ability to reproduce the QBO signal in surface winter climate.
The surface winter signal from the QBO in observational analyses is shown in Figure 4a as the mean difference in winter sea level pressure between easterly and westerly cases (E-W). Higher than normal pressure over the Arctic and lower than normal pressure over the midlatitudes, particularly in the Atlantic storm track region, indicate a more negative North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic Oscillation in the easterly than the westerly QBO phase. The amplitude of this effect is several hPa, a sizeable fraction of the year-to-year variability itself (not shown). The QBO therefore appears to shift the sea level pressure by a significant proportion of the interannual standard deviation and could contribute to winter seasonal forecast skill [e.g., Boer and Hamilton, 2008; Marshall and Scaife, 2009; Fereday et al., 2012].
The performance of the decadal and seasonal forecasts described above in reproducing the observed QBO surface teleconnection is shown in Figure 4. The UKMO decadal hindcasts cover the same period as the observed analysis but show only small and statistically insignificant differences in surface climate between the E and W phases of the QBO. MIKLIP decadal and ECMWF seasonal forecasts show some signature of the teleconnection, but it is very weak. UKMO seasonal forecasts show high pressure at high latitudes and low pressure at midlatitudes in the easterly minus westerly QBO composite. The sign and basic pattern of the teleconnection appears to be reproduced in these forecasts, with high pressure over the Arctic and lower pressure at midlatitudes, albeit with weaker than observed amplitude.
We have quantified levels of predictability of the QBO in initialized climate predictions on seasonal to decadal timescales. High levels of predictability were found in retrospective forecasts with correlations exceeding 0.7 at a lead time of 1 year. This basic result is insensitive to the details of the prediction system. We also find some sensitivity of the forecast skill to both the season and phase of the QBO at the start of the forecast. Forecasts leading into winter and starting in the westerly phase show the lowest subsequent skill. It would be interesting to extend this analysis to forecasts beginning in other calendar months to fully characterize the seasonal dependence of QBO prediction skill. There are also hints at potentially significant improvement from idealized estimates of predictability. However, these “perfect predictability” estimates may be different in models with a QBO that does not rely on parameterized gravity waves [e.g., Kawatani et al., 2010] and it is not yet known whether including variability in gravity wave sources would make predictions less skilful by adding unpredictable variability or more skilful, for example, by improving the seasonal cycle in gravity waves [e.g., Krebsbach and Preusse, 2013]. Finally, despite success in predicting the QBO itself, only certain aspects of the QBO teleconnections to the surface climate are represented in many model forecasts as weak North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic Oscillation-like pressure patterns. Further work is needed to robustly reproduce what appear to be sizeable QBO effects on surface winter climate in seasonal to decadal climate predictions.
This work was supported by the Joint DECC/Defra Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme (GA01101). This study was also supported by the EU project SPECS funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Research Programme under the grant agreement 308378. It was also supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) project MiKlip. The MiKlip simulations were performed at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ). We thank Marco Giorgetta for helpful comments and discussions. MPB was supported by a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant of the European Union (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG 618796 Atlantic Climate).
The Editor thanks two anonymous reviewers for their assistance in evaluating this paper.

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Indictment: Guards smuggled millions of eggs from PA
Fourteen people were indicted Thursday for smuggling millions of eggs and other products from the Palestinian Authority into Israel through the Shomron Crossing, Ynet has learned.
Some of the smugglers served as security guards at the Shomron checkpoint in the West Bank.
According to the indictment, which was filed with the Petah Tikva District Court, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank assisted the smugglers in illegally transporting dozens of trucks containing eggs and other goods to Israel.
Seventy-two of these trucks, which transported more than 10 million eggs, entered Israel without being subjected to a security check, the indictment said. According to the prosecution, some of the eggs are believed to be tainted with various diseases such as salmonella.
To increase their profits, the prosecution claimed, the smugglers accepted and handed out bribes, forged documents and committed acts that may cause the spread of disease. They were also charged with violating the Money Laundering Prohibition Law. According to the indictment, the smuggling network pocketed some NIS 9 million ($2.2M) from the illicit activity.
One of the defendants, according to the indictment, is Shai Moshe of the Egg and Poultry Board. Moshe and the checkpoint security guards took part in the operation despite being aware of the health and security related dangers it posed to Israel.
The indictment said the smuggled eggs were embedded with phony stamps of approval. Moshe, according to the prosecution, also helped the smugglers gain exclusivity in the "fake egg" market.
According to suspicions, the ringleaders contacted Palestinian coop owners who raised the chickens without supervision and in deplorable sanitary conditions.
Police suspect that the smuggling ring conspired with Palestinian poultry farmers to smuggle the eggs to Israel and place them among eggs meant for Israel's markets, including the major supermarket chains.
For this purpose the farmers forged stamps from Israel after which the eggs were loaded on to trucks and sent on their way.
The main problem – getting through the Israeli security checkpoints near Ariel was overcome by bribing guards to turn a blind eye to the trucks. The security guards would time the trucks arrivals with their shifts and let the trucks through, and then the suppliers would mix the Palestinian eggs together with the kosher Israeli eggs and send them off to the markets.
"The defendants transported the eggs in trucks that could have been carrying weapons or terrorists – without subjecting them to a security check," the prosecution said in its request to keep the suspects in custody until the conclusion of the legal proceedings.
"The evidence shows that the eggs were kept under improper conditions. Some of them were kept in unrefrigerated containers for days. Despite this, they were marketed to the general public – thus increasing the risk for the spread of salmonella, which can cause death," it claimed.


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Imiquimod is a topical immune response modifier with potent antiviral and antitumor effects. It induces an immune-mediated response, demonstrated by changes in the lymphocytic infiltrate and locally produced cytokines.1,2
Report of a Case
A man in his 80s presented with a keratotic, erythematous, and partially eroded plaque on the vertex of the scalp measuring 14 × 22 mm (Figure, A). He had a medical history of multiple actinic keratoses and epidermal neoplasms on sun-exposed areas and comorbidities including arterial hypertension and diabetes type 2. Clinical examination of the lesion on the scalp revealed a degree of induration; no locoregional lymphadenopathies nor further skin lesions were identified.
A, Growing and eroded skin lesion on the scalp of a man in his 80s; the photograph shows an erythematous, eroded, and partially keratotic plaque on a background of actinic changes of the skin. B, Histopathologic findings of a punch biopsy specimen taken from the excoriated plaque on the scalp (hematoxylin-eosin, original magnification ×20). The image shows the presence of a dense infiltrate of atypical lymphocytes in the upper dermis; collections of lymphocytes resembling Pautrier microabscesses are seen in the epidermis.
Based on the clinical features, a clinical diagnosis of hypertrophic actinic keratosis was favored, and the patient was treated with imiquimod, 5%, cream applied once daily, 5 d/wk. After 4 weeks of treatment, the lesion appeared reduced in size but still moderately hypertrophic, excoriated, and inflamed. Because squamous cell carcinoma with early infiltration could not be completely ruled out, a punch biopsy was performed, and the patient was asked to continue the therapy for a further 4 weeks.
Rather surprisingly, histologic analysis showed very little epidermal change. Instead, a dense polymorphous infiltrate of atypical lymphocytes with cerebriform nuclei in the upper dermis with an intraepidermal collection of neutrophils was noted. Focally there were collections of cells resembling Pautrier microabscesses. Immunohistochemical staining revealed the lymphoid cell infiltrate to be positive for CD3, CD4, CD5, and CD7 and negative for CD56 and Epstein-Barr virus–encoded small RNA). A significant amount of CD8 and CD30 small and large T cells were also identified (Figure, B). The overall histopathologic findings were fully consistent with mycosis fungoides.
However, analysis with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) gene rearrangement showed no evidence of monoclonal T-cell receptor expansion. Six weeks later, the lesion appeared clinically regressed. During the subsequent 18 months of clinical follow-up, the patient developed further actinic and bowenoid keratoses on sun-exposed areas of his body but no skin eruptions suggestive of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and no lymphadenopathies. His scalp, in particular, remains clear of any further lesions.
Topical imiquimod is an active imidazoquinoline immunomodulator agent currently indicated as nonablative treatment for superficial basal cell carcinomas, actinic keratoses, and genital warts.3 Imiquimod, 5%, in cream has also shown efficacy against many other tumor entities and primary cutaneous lymphomas such as mycoses fungoides.4-6 The basic mechanism of its action is explained by the production and release of proinflammatory cytokines leading to the activation of antigen-presenting cells and induction of apoptosis, but several secondary effects on the molecular and cellular level may also be explained.1-3
In the present case, we found a discrepancy between the clinical picture of hypertrophic actinic keratosis and the histopathologic findings of mycosis fungoides. We believe that the topical application of imiquimod, 5%, in cream may have induced the histologic picture observed and then promoted the resolution of what was originally an actinic keratosis. Our hypothesis was supported by the clinical features of the skin lesion treated with imiquimod, the patient’s history of severe actinic skin damage, and the absence of monoclonal T-cell receptor expansion found by PCR analysis.
In conclusion, we hypothesize that imiquimod, 5%, for treatment of actinic keratoses or epithelial skin neoplasms could induce histopathologic changes mimicking mycosis fungoides, and this phenomenon may represent a potential diagnostic pitfall for the dermatopathologist.
Corresponding Author: Davide Altamura, MD, Department of Dermatology, The Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust, Hamstel Road, Harlow, Essex CM20 1QX, England (firstname.lastname@example.org).
Published Online: August 13, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2014.929.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Altamura D, Simonacci F, Hirbod T, Arkoumani E, Verdolini R. Histologic Features Mimicking Mycosis Fungoides Induced by Imiquimod, 5%: A Potential Pitfall for Dermatopathologists. JAMA Dermatol. 2014;150(11):1236–1237. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2014.929
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