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An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022

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dw.com - 11.04.2022 Original article ›
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Germany is building the new pipeline that connects the Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal to its natural gas storage tank in record time in the midst of an energy crisis in Europe. The new 26 kilometer pipeline for  the LNG Terminal is being built in a few months when it would have otherwise taken 8 years. See Rani Bhandari, Managing Director of Open Grid Europe talk about the project in this video from DW.com to get a sense of how Germany is moving quickly to address natural gas needs for the winter. Click on Original article to see it.

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Democratic Hopes Rise on Senate Control as Two States Count Votes

  
NYTimes.com - 11.11.2022 Original article ›
Blake Hounshell
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Mail in ballots in the vote for the US Senate in Nevada will pay a crucial role for Democrats to control the Senate. Some reports say Democrats who are running at about 61% in mail in ballots could make it through if they get 55% to give Ms. Cortez Masto the Democrat a seat in the Senate. With Arizona leaning Democrat this would give the Democrats control of the Senate even before the runoff election in the third undecided state of Georgia in December. So close has been the struggle for the US Senate.

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NATO: New challenges for the alliance as Finland and Sweden inch closer to membership? | DW | 12.05.2022

  
DW.COM - 05.12.2022 Original article ›
Priyanka Shankar
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Finland makes the decision to join NATO on May 12, 2022. NATO's land. border will increase from 1215 kilometres or 745 miles to 2600 kilometres. Sweden is expected to join NATO in a paradigm shift as it has been neutral for 200 years. Once Finland joins Sweden would be alone in the Baltic if it did not join NATO. Both Finland and Sweden have integrated their defenses and built up defenses at a time when other European states had not invested in the military. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has welcomed FInland and Sweden joining NATO.

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, J&k LG Manoj Sinha inspect ongoing construction of Zojila tunnel | The Indian Express| Page 1

  
The Indian Express - 04.11.2023 Original article ›
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Asia's longest bidirectional tunnel is between Ganderbal district in Kashmir and Kargil district of Ladakh in India's Himalayan region at a height of 11,500 feet for 14.2 kilometres. Indian Express shows pictures of work on the tunnel which will cut time across the mountains from 3 hours to 20 minutes and connects Leh in Ladakh with Srinagar in J&K providing all weather connectivity. It will be completed months ahead of completion date of 2026. As part of the project 19 tunnels are being constructed at a cost of $3.5 billion.

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Madrid hospital staff walk for hours to relieve colleagues after snow storm

  
The Guardian - 01.10.2021 Original article ›
Ashifa Kassam
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With roads blocked and subways closed after the heaviest snowstorm in 50 years, Madrid healthcare workers walked long distances to work. Many healthcare workers, nurses, medical residents  walked 10 to 20 kilometres to get to work at hospitals.  In Spain the virus has claimed 51,000 lives and cases are at over 2 million. One nurse took 2 hours 28 minutes to walk to work, saying as he crossed fallen trees and 40 centimetres of snow that he decided if he got there it was ok and if he did not he would turn back.

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As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished

  
NYTimes.com - 12.13.2021 Original article ›
Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon, Albert Sun
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This NYT report looks at age 65+ years and the death toll from coronavirus. Recently the deaths among people over 65 and older in US have accelerated. The last 100,000 deaths since September happened over a 11 week period, and is similar to surge last winter. About 87% of people over 65 are vaccinated in the US, yet the deaths among unvaccinated and the breakthrough cases are still happening. Overall about 75% of the 800,000 deaths in the US from the coronavirus have happened for age 65 and over, almost one in a hundred.

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Trump Won New Hampshire, but There Are Warning Signs for November

  
WSJ - 01.24.2024 Original article ›
Aaron Zitner, Dante Chinni, Jack Gillum
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The WSJ looks at Republican voters from the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries. It finds that about 20% of Republican voters will not vote for the former president Mr.Trump. It also finds that about 65% of voters who are Independent did not support Mr. Trump in the 2 primaries. Mr. Biden is seen as losing about 10% of Democratic voters. A look at 2020 shows former president Trump has lost support among Independents and skeptical Republicans by 2024 stemming from disapproval of the uncertainty and chaotic nature of the presidential years 2016-2020.

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Try Hard, but Not That Hard. 85% Is the Magic Number for Productivity.

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WSJ - 09.11.2023 Original article ›
Rachel Feintzeig
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The wisdom of trying hard but not too hard. Productivity declines when trying too hard. It helps for the mind to get rest and come back to the task refreshed, which means push yourself but only so much and continue to work at it steadily. There is no such thing as achieving 100%, it could mean the goals set were not ambitious enough or that the goals were too hard acting as a demotivating influence. Also minutae or stuff that is not that important can creep into that extra 15% to get to 100%. 

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The U.S. Cities With the Most Cutting-Edge Tech Workers

  
WSJ - 10.23.2023 Original article ›
Kevin Mc Allister
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The Burning Glass Institute Tech Cities rankings are based on Cutting Edge Skill workers in the area and on Momentum rankings. Both are shown here in this WSJ report. Seattle Tacoma ranks at the top in the cutting edge skill workers in the US. Cutting edge skills are related to cloud and serverless computing, machine learning, AI architecture and cybersecurity operations. In midsize cities Pro-Urem Utah and Salt Lake City, Ann Arbor Michigan, Rochester New York, Pittsburgh and Kansas City. Seattle has the largest concentration of tech workers about 13% of the US total.

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New Delhi Chokes as Annual Curse of Pollution Returns With a Vengeance

  
NYTimes.com - 11.04.2023 Original article ›
Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar
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Burning of stubble from the rice harvest to clear land for the next year's cultivation in the Punjab creates 25% of the pollution over New Delhi. Automobile pollution adds more pollutants. This toxic mix of pollutants is trapped by the cooler air during the winter over much of northern India. At one point the pollution index reached 643 in New Delhi, by comparison it was hard to breather with an index of 116 from the wildfires in Canada's northern region that sent smoke all the way into Washington D.C. 

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India's Covid vaccine landscape: Here is a look at leading candidates

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The Economic Times - 07.22.2020 Original article ›
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Serum Institute in India's vaccine developed with Oxford University is a leading one of the 6 candidates in India for coronavirus vaccine. It is expected to be ready by September. ICMR also has a vaccine that could be ready by India's Independence Day of August 15. One of the vaccines is for the elderly. Serum Institute has the advantage of being one of the leading manufacturers of vaccines in the world. India makes 60% of the world's vaccines giving it much experience in manufacturing that is needed today.

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As Hundreds of Churches Sit Empty, Some Become Malls and Restaurants

  
NYTimes.com - 08.04.2024 Original article ›
Ellen Rosen
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Eileen Lindner, author of a yearbook on American and Canadian churches, says 100,000 Protestant churches in the US will close by 2030. In the 1940's 76 percent of Americans were affiliated with some church, by 2020 that had declined to 47%. The result is a growing number of churches lacking young people. A large number of young people are not affiliated with any church and church attendance dropped during the covid pandemic. NYT looks at what happens when church space is repurposed for restaurants, hotels, theaters, office space, retail space, mixed use developments, affordable housing.

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Harris and Walz hold Las Vegas rally as pair build on renewed 2024 enthusiasm

  
The Guardian - 08.10.2024 Original article ›
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Harris-Walz campaign in Arizona and Nevada August 10, 2024. Harris gains the support of the Culinary Workers union with 60,000 members. 

League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac), the oldest Latino civil rights group, which usually stays neutral stepped in to endorse the Democratic ticket.

“The politics of hate-mongering and scapegoating Latinos and immigrants must be stopped,” said Domingo Garcia, chairman of Lulac Adelante Pac, in a statement.

“Latinos understand how much is at stake in this election, for not only our community but our democracy.”

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Missed Bond Payment in Xinjiang Stirs Chinese Debt Fears

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WSJ - 08.14.2018 Original article ›
Chao Deng
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A local government vehicle in China, Sixth Division of XPCC fails to make a bond payment in August 2018. This is the first such instance of failure to make a bond payment for a local government vehicle in 2018. Economists estimate China's total debt at 242% of GDP in 2017, and government efforts to tighten liquidity and reduce support for overextended local government investment vehicles.

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Explained | When will the Common University Entrance Test admission process begin? 

  
The Hindu - 03.26.2022 Original article ›
Jaideep Deo Bhanj & Priscilla Jebaraj
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The CUET, Common University Entrance Test will provide a uniform test for all parts of the country. It is now required for all 45 Central Universities to admit undergraduate students. The computer based test offered in July each year will be conducted by the National Testing Agency based on the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabus for Class 12. It will replace institution specific exams.

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Five talking points from European World Cup qualifiers - France 24

  
France 24 - 03.31.2021 Original article ›
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In an unbelievable result Germany loses to North Macedonia 2-1 and fall into third place in their group in European Cup Qualifiers. Coach Joachim Loew ends a 15 year stint for Germany in 2021. Christiano Renaldo of Portugal scores a goal with the ball going past the finishing line, which is not allowed because of a lack of VAR goalline technology at the stadium, in a game against Serbia. 

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Scotland becomes first country to offer free period products | DW | 24.11.2020

  
DW.COM - 11.24.2020 Original article ›
Timothy Jones
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For the first time we hear of "period poverty" in advanced European countries. Scotland charities say there is "period poverty" in Britain as the pandemic hurts incomes across Scotland. Women and girls not having money to buy sanitary products needed during menstruation. The Scottish parliament passes a Period Products Bill to ensure all women have free sanitary products, the legislation costing about 10 million pounds.

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We’ll take years to recover from crisis, predicts Rolls-Royce

  
The Times - 12.12.2020 Original article ›
Robert Lea, Industrial Editor
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Aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce says two thirds of its engines remain idle. Its cash burn for 2020 is 4.2 billion pounds. Rolls Royce supplies engines for the 787 Boeing Dreamliner and Airbus 350 aircraft. Its sales are normally 15 billion pounds. CEO Warren East says the company is going through its "darkest hour" and will not be seeing the beginning of the end till the middle of 2021.

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Johnson and Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is 66% effective

  
The Times - 01.29.2021 Original article ›
Tom Whipple, Science Editor | Kat Lay, Health Editor
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Johnson and Johnson vaccine is 66% effective in a single shot, a 44,000 trial study has shown. Remarkably it is 85% effective in serious illness and prevents all deaths 28 days after it is given. It is also shown to be as effective in serious illness and deaths in South Africa and 57% effective overall. The South African variant was a cause for concern in the second wave in 2021.

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Israel Edges Toward Snap Elections as Netanyahu Struggles to Form Government

  
WSJ - 05.28.2019 Original article ›
Felicia Schwartz
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Prime minister Netanyahu of Israel says he will call snap elections if secular and religious parties in his centre right alliance do not come together to form a new government. Likud lacks the 61 seats for a majority in parliament resulting in negotiations with other religious and secular parties that back Netanyahu. Mr. Lieberman one of the secular party leaders says the ultra orthodox must serve in the military with other Israelis.

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Angela Merkel fears economic crisis is being underestimated in EU

  
The Guardian - 06.19.2020 Original article ›
Daniel Boffey
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Germany's chancellor gives her support to French president Macron's call for agreement before the summer holidays on a 750 billion euro rescue package. Merkel told 27 leaders of EU countries Europe faces "very, very difficult times" and even said that she was not sure the gravity of the situation was truly understood. The value of the economies of some states could drop by 10% in 2020.

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Japan’s Economy in Deep Hole After Second-Quarter Plunge

  
WSJ - 08.17.2020 Original article ›
Megumi Fujikawa
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Japan's GDP fell by 7.8% in the second quarter of 2020 compared with previous quarter. By comparison for U.S. economy GDP was down 9.5% for that quarter. In Japan the increase in the national sales tax from 8% to 10% in October 2019 had already caused a contraction in the economy. It is uncertain how much the second wave of the pandemic will affect the economic recovery.

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Global Oil Demand Shrinks, Hit by Coronavirus, IEA Says

  
WSJ - 02.13.2020 Original article ›
David Hodari
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Global oil demand is expected to shrink in first quarter 2020, for the first time in 10 years, according to the International Energy Agency. China made up three fourths of growth in oil demand in 2019. The border closures, flight cancellations, and factory closures, are affecting Chinese oil consumption as a result of the coronavirus. China's growth in first quarter is expected to be 3-4% than a year earlier.

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World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea

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NYTimes.com - 11.25.2024 Original article ›
Hiroko Tabuchi
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Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans.  The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled. All the rest ends up on landfills, gets incinerated causing more pollution, or ends up on our coastlines and in the land contaminating it.

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‘Make in India’ in defence neither isolationist nor meant for India alone, says Rajnath Singh

  
The Hindu - 01.09.2023 Original article ›
The Hindu Bureau
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The 14th edition of Aero India from Feb 13-17, 2023 with 80 countries participating. India has increased defense exports 8 times over 5 years. During G-20 meetings in India the country will showcase 3 D's - Democracy, Development and Diversity, says Rajnath Singh.

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