European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde urged European Union leaders on Friday to quickly agree on a recovery package that would pull the economy from a “dramatic fall” or risk a change in sentiment on markets, which were expecting a deal soon. Lagarde addressed EU leaders, meeting by
Source: ECB’s Lagarde urges quick EU recovery plan as economy in “dramatic fall”
MOMENT IN TIME: JUNE 4, 1940
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| British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives a “Victory Salute” Aug. 27, 1941.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Churchill delivers his ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech |
| Never in the history of mankind has such a great speech been heard by so few. Winston Churchill was addressing the House of Commons shortly after the “colossal military disaster” – Churchill’s words – that miraculously ended with the evacuation of more than 330,000 troops from the beaches at Dunkirk, in northern France. But “wars are not won by evacuations,” said the new prime minister, who had the terrible habit (for a politician) of telling it like it is. The speech had two main purposes: to assure Britain’s allies, especially the United States, that the island nation was not on the brink of falling to the Germans, who would soon take Paris, and to steel the British people against the darkness to come. Historians and linguists have noted Churchill’s use of the word “fight” – he uses it seven times in quick succession – with its root in the Old English feohtan, designed to resonate with his people at a deep level. But the British public did not hear it – not in 1940, anyway. The speech was not broadcast, and people who, many years later, recalled being moved by it probably heard a recording that Churchill made some nine years later. –Massimo Commanducci |
 The University of Kentucky faces a complicated balancing act as it considers the risks of reopening its campus for 30,000 students and 18,000 employees. Luke Sharrett for The New York Times |
| Colleges have come rushing forth to announce that they will be inviting students back to campus this fall. But as I’ve spoken to college officials over the past few weeks — usually not for quotation — I’ve been struck by the difference between their public optimism and their private uncertainty. |
| Many university leaders aren’t sure how well on-campus living and in-person classes will work during this pandemic. Some acknowledge it may not work at all. |
| It will require radical changes to the normal campus experience, like canceling many activities, rotating which students can return (to keep dorms from being too full) and continuing to hold classes online (to protect professors). |
| This approach is likely to frustrate students — and it still might not prevent new coronavirus outbreaks. Nearly all distinctive parts of a campus experience, including parties, meals and extracurriculars, revolve around close social contact, often indoors. |
| So what explains the surge of “We’re open!” announcements? Competitive pressure, in part. Many colleges will face serious financial problems if they lose a year of tuition and other revenue. |
| Now professors and administrators have begun publicly criticizing reopening plans: |
| “My suspicion,” Susan Dynarski, a University of Michigan economist, wrote on Twitter, is that “colleges are holding out hope of in-person classes in order to keep up enrollments.” She added: “If they tell the difficult truth now, many students will decide to take a year off,” which “will send college finances into a tailspin.” |
| Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington, noted that the new class of Army recruits at Fort Benning recently suffered a major outbreak, despite universal testing there. |
| “Colleges are deluding themselves,” Michael J. Sorrell, the president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, wrote in The Atlantic. Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychologist, wrote a Times Op-Ed arguing that the reopening plans were “so unrealistically optimistic that they border on delusional.”Many “professors are wary of returning to the classroom, fearful that the health risks may be too high,” Deirdre Fernandes, a Boston Globe reporter, wrote. And Clara Burke of Carnegie Mellon University wrote: “Students can get ‘grab and go’ sandwiches, but do kitchen workers have enough space to protect themselves while making those sandwiches?” |
| There are no easy answers. Telling students to stay home in the fall also has big downsides. And it’s possible that students will do a better job wearing masks and remaining socially distant than skeptics like Steinberg expect. |
| But the path that colleges are choosing comes with big risks. American higher education is about to embark on a highly uncertain experiment. |
The B.C. forests ministry has approved new clearcut logging in habitat for highly endangered northern spotted owls, including in the Fraser Canyon, where biologists sighted the last three spotted owls known to exist in Canada’s wild. The ministry issued more than 300 logging approvals — totalling almost 2,000 hectares — in the spotted owl’s range from October 2018 to May 2020, according to recent maps produced by the Wilderness Committee.The maps show new logging approvals along the southern boundary of Nahatlatch Provincial Park, threatening to fragment one of the largest intact unprotected areas of spotted owl habitat in the province.
Source: B.C. approves 312 new logging clearcuts in habitat of endangered spotted owls | The Narwhal
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The newly published results of a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of diet and exercise as a front-line type 2 diabetes treatment reveal nearly two-thirds of patients achieved complete disease remission after just 12 months of lifestyle interventions.
Source: Diet and exercise reverses diabetes in 61% of patients, new trial reports
An Israeli cabinet minister on Sunday said the government has approved plans to build a new illegal settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights named after US President Donald Trump. Settlements Minister Tzipi Hotovely wrote on Facebook that her ministry will start preparations for Ramat Trump – Hebrew for “Trump Heights” – to house 300 families. The Jewish settlement is currently known as Bruchim and is more than 30 years old and has a population of 10 people.
Source: Israel greenlights illegal ‘Trump’ settlement in Golan Heights | Israel News | Al Jazeera
Browse any of Coulson Aviation’s web pages or social media sites lately and you’ll see a number of jobs available, from Port Alberni right to Australia.“In the last year we’ve been growing very rapidly,” said Britt Coulson, president and COO of Coulson Aviation. “We’ve been hiring a significant number of people.”The Port Alberni-based company has been hiring and training locally as much as possible, and Coulson points out there are still a number of job listings for Port Alberni that have yet to be filled. They look for people with specific skill sets and teach the aviation side of the job as they go, he explained.
Source: PROGRESS 2020: Coulson Aviation keeps growing – Victoria News
AFTER A LONG DAY IN president George Washington’s executive kitchen, chef Hercules hit the streets of Philadelphia with sartorial flair and a keen eye for late-18th century fashion. Atop his head, the enslaved cook wore a voguish tricorn hat. Bright metal buttons held together his blue velvet-collared coat, a pair of shiny buckles dominated his fastidiously polished shoes, and a long watch-chain dangled from the side of his black silken pants.“Thus arrayed, the chief cook invariably passed out the front door,” as Washington’s adopted son, George Washington Parke Custis wrote several decades after his father’s death. A gold-headed cane firmly in hand, Hercules would then proceed up Market Street, which was, in the 1790s, where fashionable people “did most congregate.” There, he drew considerable attention. While strangers gawked, those who knew him bowed, hoping, as he writes, “to receive in return a salute of one of the most polished gentlemen and the veriest dandy of nearly sixty years ago.”
Source: Meet Hercules, One of America’s Early Celebrity Chefs – Gastro Obscura
Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs. Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media – formerly the Press Association – were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month’s time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages.
Source: Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots | Microsoft | The Guardian
