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A changing ChinaIt was a different world in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when Chinese students first began surging overseas. In 2020, the US revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers deemed security risks. In January this year, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in a briefing that “dozens of Chinese nationals, including international students, have been forcibly deported by the US each month.” He decried it as “discriminatory,” urging the US to protect the rights of Chinese students abroad. The Covid yearsThe number of Chinese students in the US plunged during the pandemic and hasn’t rebounded since. “Since the economic sanctions and tech restrictions started in 2018, many (Chinese) students have been sent back home,” one user wrote on Weibo.
Persons: , , Mallie Prytherch, , , Donald Trump’s, ” Prytherch, Trump, Prytherch, Joe Biden, Wang Wenbin, Li Jing, hasn’t, Mirka Martel, Steven Hon, didn’t, Hon, Marianne Craven, they’ve Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Education consultancies, State Department, of International Education, University of Hong Kong’s, Contemporary, Beijing, World Trade Organization, Games, America, Fulbright, Trump, Tsinghua University, CNN, Institute of International Education, Education, , Ivy League Locations: Hong Kong, United States, China, India, America, Contemporary China, , Beijing, cybersecurity, Macau, Weibo, Canada, Australia, American
Indians have become the biggest group of international students in the U.S., surpassing Chinese students this year for the first time in 15 years. New data released by the State Department in conjunction with the Institute of International Education shows that there are now 331,602 Indian international students in the U.S. (a 23% growth from last academic year), compared with 277,398 Chinese international students (a 4.2% decline). South Korea, Canada and Taiwan follow distantly as the next most common countries of origin for international students, with numbers all well under 50,000. Long the most populous at U.S. colleges and universities, Chinese international students have been falling in number every year since the pandemic. Chinese international students typically come with different priorities, Martel and Khanna said.
Persons: , Gaurav Khanna, Mirka Martel, IIE’s, , Khanna, Martel, ” Martel, haven’t, “ We’ve Organizations: State Department, Institute of International Education, U.S, University of California, Pew Research, Indian, Locations: U.S, South Korea, Canada, Taiwan, India, China, Covid, San Diego, “ U.S
These are among the images that France, the organizer of the Paris 2024 Olympics, presented to the world during the opening ceremony last week. The clampdown has made it all the more striking when scenes of gay men and drag queens from the Paris Olympics opening ceremony made it onto Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. On social media site Weibo, the “#Paris opening ceremony is really cool# hashtag has generated more than 600 million views over the past four days. “Those who didn’t stay up late to watch the Olympic opening ceremony tonight missed out big time. #Paris opening ceremony is really cool#The ceremony remained the top trending topic on Weibo for more than 15 hours starting Saturday.
Persons: Xi Jinping, Ken Huang, , Jeremy Goupille, Natacha, Leonardo da Vinci’s, Christian, French, Suen, Aritists, Athena de Martel, ” Suen, Netizens Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Paris, Weibo, Pride House, Paris Olympics, Communist Party, Chinese University of Hong, House, Locations: China, Hong Kong, France, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Weibo
In 2021, Maryland adopted a ten-year Climate Adaptation Resilience Framework aimed at making the state's infrastructure more sustainable by 2030. 2024 Infrastructure Score: 230 out of 425 points (Top States Grade: B) Climate Extremes Index: 62.44% Properties at risk: 100% Renewable Energy: 14% 9. 2024 Infrastructure Score: 235 out of 425 points (Top States Grade: B) Climate Extremes Index: 62.44% Properties at risk: 54% Renewable Energy: 4% 5. 2024 Infrastructure Score: 246 out of 425 points (Top States Score: B+) Climate Extremes Index: 39.82% Properties at risk: 14% Renewable Energy: 5% 4. 2024 Infrastructure Score: 179 out of 425 points (Top States Grade: D+) Climate Extremes Index: 48.6% Properties at risk: 100% Renewable Energy: 6% 1.
Persons: There's, Jeremy Porter, Maria Lehman, Governor Moore, Sarah L, Voisin, Ming Li, Wes Moore, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key, Kevin Dietsch, Danielle Villasana, Joseph Prezioso, Pennsylvania Al Walker, Audrey, Jeff Swensen, Drew Koch, Zbigniew Bzdak, Aaron Wilson, Joe Biden, Lady Jill Biden, Peter Zay, Winter Storm Lorraine, Anibal Martel, Louisiana Farmer Chad Hanks, Justin Sullivan, John Bel Edwards, Jeff Landry, Lokman Organizations: NOAA National Centers for Environmental, First Street Foundation, U.S, Infrastructure, American Society of Civil Engineers, Companies, CNBC, First, Atmospheric Administration, U.S . Department of Energy, Maryland, Preparedness, Washington Post, University of Maryland Center, Environmental, Gov, Energy, Delaware Contractors, Army Corp of Engineers, Texas, Lone Star State, Climate Center, Georgetown University, The, New, New Hampshire Workers, AFP, Getty, Environmental Protection Agency, University of New, Pennsylvania, Grow, Keystone, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental, Chicago Tribune, The Buckeye State, Mississippi Residents, Anadolu, Connecticut Municipal, Winter, Constitution, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Louisiana, NOAA, Task Force, Republican Gov Locations: U.S, States, , Maryland, Silver, Maryland, Montgomery, Chesapeake, Bethany Beach , Delaware, Delaware, Houston , Texas, , Texas, The Texas, New Hampshire, Nashua , New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire, Grow Pittsburgh, Braddock , Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Midwest, Ohio, Sandusky, Lake Erie, Erie, Mississippi, Rolling, United States, Connecticut, Hartford Area , Connecticut, Kaplan , Louisiana, Louisiana, Jersey, Lodi , New Jersey
As much as half of a town at the heart of a jewel of Canada’s national park system has been destroyed by a pair of wildfires that roared in from two sides, an official said on Thursday. “We don’t know particularly which structures have been damaged and which ones have been destroyed, but that is going to be a significant rebuild,” Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, told a news conference. She struggled to avoid tears describing the beauty of Jasper National Park and the damage to the community that shares its name. Pierre Martel, the director of fire management for Parks Canada, the national parks agency, told a briefing on Thursday afternoon that the “aggressive and fast-moving fire” was still burning in the park. As the fires expanded on Monday evening, about 20,000 tourists and the 5,000 residents of Jasper were evacuated, mostly west to British Columbia.
Persons: , ” Danielle Smith, Pierre Martel, Organizations: Jasper National, Parks Canada Locations: Alberta, Jasper, British Columbia
They immediately established an ambitious, five-year strategic plan to reposition Bombardier, with a focus squarely on its sturdiest leg: the high-flying business jet and ancillary services industry. Deliveries of business and general aviation aircraft last year topped 4,000 for the first time in more than a decade, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association reported in February. Historically, the business jet market has been cyclical, said Noah Poponak, an analyst for Goldman Sachs, "but it's been hyper-cyclical in the past 20 years." Sales of all business jets were healthy leading into 2020 — and then the Covid pandemic hit. Everyone wanted a business jet and was willing to buy whatever was out there, new or used."
Persons: headwinds, Bombardier's, Alain Bellemare, divesting, Éric Martel, Bart Demosky, Demosky, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, CFOs, Noah Poponak, Goldman Sachs, Walter Spracklin, Spracklin Organizations: Bombardier, Boeing, Airbus, General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Challenger, Global, Companies, Honeywell, RBC Capital Markets Locations: Montreal, Warren, Covid
The Harvard professor's research is bankrolled by tech tycoons "pissed off" at academia's dogma. But this boundary-pushing is exactly why he's backed Loeb's research. AdvertisementDesch, the astrophysicist from Arizona University, posted a critique of Loeb's work on arXiv alleging "multiple fatal flaws with the manuscript's arguments." Asked whether he no longer believes in a possible technological origin for the meteor, Loeb said they need to investigate further. As he plans more extravagant expeditions to prove the origin of the interstellar meteor, Loeb likens his critics to crows pecking at the neck of an eagle.
Persons: Avi Loeb, Loeb, , Steven Desch, they're, Loeb's, they've, Charles Hoskinson, that's, Anibal Martel, Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Hawking, Lucas Jackson, Oumuamua, Desch, It's, Meech, Hoskinson, Rather, Lane Turner, James Webb, Bill Diamond, Stenzel, AARO, UAPs, Loeb hasn't, Joe Rogan's, Eugene Jhong, Galileo, ", Frank Laukien, Laukien, Charles Alcock, Seth Shostak, Stephen Wolfram, Richard Branson's, Vera, Rubin, Avi Loeb Loeb, what's, Rob McCallum, Mariana Trench, James Cameron, Avi Loeb Hoskinson, spherules, Harvard's Stein Jacobsen, Loeb didn't, Monica Grady, Patricio Gallardo, it's, Diamond, That's Avi, Adam Glanzman Organizations: Harvard, Service, Arizona State University, Netflix, Galileo, Anadolu Agency, Reuters, University of Hawaii, Boston Globe, James Webb Telescope, NASA, SETI Institute, Pew Research Center, Department of Defense, UAP Department of Defense, Jhong, Bruker Corporation, Smithsonian's, for Astrophysics, MIT, Wolfram Research, Harvard University, Survey, US Space Command, Hoskinson, UK's Open University, University of Chicago, Arizona University, U.S . Government, The Washington, Getty, Loeb, Astronomy, Astrophysics Locations: Lexington , Massachusetts, United States, Getty, Loeb's, New York, Cambridge, Massachussetts, UAPs, Colorado, Chile, Papua New Guinea, 2401.09882, IM1
Those losses ended a nine-trial winning streak for Bayer, shattering investor and company hopes that the worst of the Roundup litigation was over. Her case will help test whether plaintiffs' recent victories were an aberration, or the payoff from favorable court rulings and a shift in plaintiffs' strategy. Plaintiffs' lawyers reject the notion that the evidence about regulators explains their wins. While plaintiffs' lawyers in earlier trials mentioned other chemicals, transcripts of recent closing arguments suggest they have become more prominent. More Roundup trials are expected in 2024.
Persons: Wolfgang Rattay, Kelly Martel, Bayer, Martel, glyphosate, That's, Tom Kline, Jason Itkin, Ernest Caranci, Bart Rankin, Rankin, Brendan Pierson, Alexia Garamfalvi, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Bayer AG, REUTERS, Bayer, U.S, Monsanto, . Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Union, Health, Thomson Locations: Wuppertal, Germany, Philadelphia, Pleas, Pennsylvania, Europe, New York
REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Night-time protests across France over the past few days by ultra-right militants chanting "Islam out of Europe" have been fanned by last week's rioting in Dublin, a French intelligence source and far-right Telegram communications indicate. In messages sent on French far-right Telegram groups, seen by Reuters, videos of the Dublin riots were shared, highlighting what they said was the assailant's Algerian origin and hailing the reaction of the Irish far-right. CALMING TENSIONSOn a visit to Crepol on Monday, government spokesperson Olivier Veran urged calm, saying "we don't respond to violence with violence, we respond with justice. There are about 3,000 violent ultra-right militants identified by the French intelligence services. That number has been stable for the last few years but the national coordination by demonstrators as seen on Saturday is a new phenomenon, the intelligence source said.
Persons: Sarah Meyssonnier, Jean, Yves Camus, Thomas, Bravo, Camus, Olivier Veran, Gerald Darmanin, Martel, Darmanin, Laurent de Caigny, Layli Foroudi, Juliette Jabkhiro, William Maclean Organizations: French Municipal Police, REUTERS, Rights, Rennes, Grenoble, Telegram, Reuters, France Inter, Thomson Locations: Paris, Villepinte, France, Europe, Dublin, Crepol, Lyon, Ireland
London, UK Reuters —Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny. “This is a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave.”A copy of "Prophet Song" pictured prior to the Booker Prize award ceremony on Sunday. He became the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, the organizers of the competition said. The Northern Irish writer Anna Burns won in 2018. “Prophet Song” is published in the UK by Oneworld which also won the prize in 2015 and 2016 with Marlon James’s “A Brief History of Seven Killings” and Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout.”
Persons: Paul Lynch, Booker, Song ’, Adrian Dennis, Lynch, , ” Lynch, Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel, , Marlon James’s “, Paul Beatty’s “ Organizations: Reuters, Esi, Getty, Sunday Tribune, Northern, Oneworld, Seven Locations: London, Irish, Syria, Ireland, AFP, Northern Irish
LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel 'Prophet Song', the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny. Lynch, who was previously the chief film critic of Ireland’s Sunday Tribune newspaper, said he wanted readers to understand totalitarianism by heightening the dystopia with the intense realism of his writing. He became the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, the organisers of the competition said. The Northern Irish writer Anna Burns won in 2018. 'Prophet Song' is published in the UK by Oneworld which also won the prize in 2015 and 2016 with Marlon James’s 'A Brief History of Seven Killings' and Paul Beatty’s 'The Sellout.'
Persons: Paul Lynch, Booker, Lynch, Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Yann Martel, Marlon James’s, Paul Beatty’s, William Schomberg, Giles Elgood Organizations: Sunday Tribune, Northern, Oneworld, Seven, Thomson Locations: Syria, Ireland, Irish, Northern Irish
“I will play in the Olympics next year,” Durant adamantly said at Phoenix’s media day. Hopefully this will help remind him.”Durant could join six women, all of them Americans, with four Olympic basketball golds. It’s been reasonable to think that USA Basketball will have plenty of experienced options to choose from next year. That pushes the list of realistic candidates for USA Basketball to choose from to about 40 names, at minimum. “I think anytime you’re asked to play for USA Basketball, it’s really hard to say no,” Miami forward and Olympic gold medalist Kevin Love said.
Persons: Kevin Durant, Durant —, , Durant, ” Durant, Bam Adebayo, he’s, DeMar DeRozan, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Jaylen Brown, Donovan Mitchell, Khris Middleton, Julius Randle, Zach LaVine, Aaron Gordon, Fred VanVleet, Brook Lopez, Irving, Draymond Green, , LeBron James, he's, Joel Embiid, ” Embiid, , I’m, that’s, Zion Williamson, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Kuzma, Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, ” Brown, Grant Hill, Sean Ford, Steve Kerr, I’ve, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Tamika Catchings, Sylvia Fowles, Stephen Curry, Atlanta’s Trae Young, you’re, ” Young, It’s, — Durant, Chris Paul, Green, James, it’s, Kevin Love, Brian Mahoney, Dan Gelston, Greg Beacham, Andrew Seligman, Kristie Rieken, Teresa M, Walker, Noah Trister, Brett Martel, Steve Megargee, Kyle Hightower, Beth Harris, Tom Withers, Charles Odum, David Brandt, Pat Graham, ___ Organizations: Olympics, U.S, Dallas, Los Angeles Lakers, Paris Games, USA Basketball, FIBA, World, Team, USA, Paris, men’s, Golden State, Olympic, NBA, AP Sports Locations: France, Cameroon, Paris, Milwaukee, Miami
REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File PhotoMONTREAL, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Canada's Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) on Thursday reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and higher revenue despite supply chain pressures, helped by demand for flying and maintaining private planes. The Montreal-headquartered business jet maker reported a second-quarter profit of $10 million from continuing operations, compared with a loss of $109 million a year earlier. CEO Eric Martel told analysts that despite "pressure points" such as smaller suppliers, the supply chain is improving and will "remain a key area of focus for the foreseeable quarters". Last month, Gulfstream jet maker Textron Inc (TXT.N) raised its full-year profit forecast on strong jet pricing. On a per share basis, quarterly adjusted profit was 72 cents, compared with a loss of 48 cents a year earlier.
Persons: Christinne, Eric Martel, Refinitiv, Allison Lampert, Abhijith, Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Jan Harvey Organizations: Bombardier Global, REUTERS, MONTREAL, Bombardier Inc, Gulfstream, Textron Inc, Bombardier, Thomson Locations: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Bengaluru
So the British air force devised an ambitious but complex plan for long-range bomber raids. A daring planBritish troops surrender to Argentine forces in Port Stanley in April 1982. Logistical issuesAn RAF Vulcan bomber at Wideawake airfield on Ascension Island. The military airstrip at Port Stanley after a British air raid in May 1982. AftermathRoyal Marines with the Falkland Islands flag in Port Stanley after the Argentine surrender in June 1982.
Persons: , Rafael WOLLMANN, Sir Michael Beetham, Beetham, Black Buck, Port Stanley, Victor, Martel, Buck, Vulcan, Eduardo Farre, Buck Six, Black Buck Seven, Steve Buckley, Japan's Organizations: Falklands, British, Service, British Royal Air Force, South Atlantic, Getty, RAF, Argentine, Port Stanley, Avro Vulcans, Handley, Avro Vulcan, Royal Air Force, Vulcans, Atlantic, US, Port, Ascension, Argentina's TPS, Vulcan, Harriers, TPS, REUTERS, Royal, Royal Navy Locations: Argentina, South, Falkland, Buenos Aires, British, Argentine, Port Stanley, Port, Ascension, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Iraq, Balkans, Afghanistan
Plane crash in Swiss mountains kills three
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
BERLIN, May 20 (Reuters) - Three people died when their light aircraft crashed on Saturday morning in Switzerland's Ponts-de-Martel area close to the French border, the Swiss police said. The crash occurred around 10:20 in the morning local time (0820 GMT) in a forest near the village of La Combe Dernier in the canton of Neuchâtel, the local police said. Rescue operations proved difficult because the crash occurred on particularly steep terrain, the police said. The cause of the accident was not immediately known, but an investigation has been launched, they added. Reporting by Maria Martinez, Editing by William MacleanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
‘Life of Pi’ Review: Bringing the Sea to Broadway
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Charles Isherwood | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
New YorkYann Martel ’s much-cherished novel “Life of Pi” might appear impossible to bring to the stage, or at least to present herculean challenges. With its fantastical tale of a teenage boy adrift at sea for more than 200 days, his only company an injured zebra, an orangutan and, more dangerously, a hyena and a tiger, the novel would seem to elude the embrace of stagecraft. Film, with its arsenal of special effects, makes a more natural medium for such a book’s translation, and Ang Lee has already made a popular movie version of it.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoMONTREAL, March 23 (Reuters) - Business jet maker Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) on Thursday raised 2025 revenue and free cash flow targets at its investor day, and said it would produce more corporate planes, sending shares up 4.9% in morning trade. Corporate jet makers have reported swelling order backlogs on persistent strong demand for private flying in the U.S. He said Bombardier expects to produce about 150 business jets by 2025, and is targeting more than $9 billion in annual revenue, up from an earlier goal of $7.5 billion. With no announced 2025 capex target and the entry into service of its flagship Global 7500 in 2018, investors and analysts are expected to raise questions over plans for a new jet. Desjardins analyst Benoit Poirier said Bombardier's free cash, revenue and deliveries targets were stronger than expected and deemed the lack of a capex commitment less risky.
MONTREAL, March 23 (Reuters) - Canadian business jet maker Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) on Thursday raised its 2025 revenue and free cash flow targets at its investor day, capitalizing on strong demand for private flights. Montreal-based Bombardier said in a statement it is now targeting more than $9 billion in annual revenue by 2025, up from an earlier objective for that year of about $7.5 billion. Corporate jet makers have reported swelling order backlogs on persistent strong demand for private flying, especially in the United States, the world's largest market for business aviation. But while demand continues to be strong, supply chain snags and fears of a recession remain headwinds. Chief Executive Eric Martel said previously the company's defense business for special mission business jets could grow to a possible $1 billion in annual revenues.
Dec 21 (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) Chief Executive Eric Martel voiced concerns over Canada's potential plan to buy reconnaissance jets directly from Boeing Co (BA.N) instead of tapping its home-grown aerospace industry through a bidding process. "As President and CEO of Bombardier, I want to publicly share my concern that Canada, which is facing an important choice about the airborne surveillance of its vast borders, may be considering awarding a sole-source contract directly to Boeing." Martel's comments come after a recent media report that Canada was considering a multi-billion dollar purchase of up to a dozen P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Boeing. Martel pushed for Bombardier's jets, saying the Canadian planemaker's Global 6500 aircraft "will be the right-sized solution and will respond to Canada's needs". Reporting by Aishwarya Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'SilvaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
In addition to recession-planning, some companies are expanding their credit lines in response to higher input and inventory costs, corporate bankers said. Term loans are also funded at the outset, unlike credit lines. Photo: Xcel EnergyThe company increased its revolving credit lines primarily because it is expanding and also confronting higher commodity costs, Mr. Johnson said. Xcel doesn’t typically allow its commercial-paper balances to exceed 40% of its total borrowing capacity under its revolving credit lines, Mr. Johnson said. Bombardier in the third quarter closed on a new $300 million, five-year revolving credit facility.
LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize on Monday for his second novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," about a dead war photographer on a mission in the afterlife. Set in 1990 Sri Lanka during the country's civil war, Karunatilaka's story follows gay war photographer and gambler Maali Almeida, who wakes up dead. This year's shortlist of Booker Prize contenders included British author Alan Garner's "Treacle Walker", Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo's "Glory", "Small Things Like These" by Irish writer Claire Keegan, U.S. author Percival Everett's "The Trees" and "Oh William!" "It is an entirely serious philosophical romp that takes the reader to 'the world's dark heart' - the murderous horrors of civil war Sri Lanka," MacGregor added. Past winners of the Booker Prize, which was first awarded in 1969, include Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Yann Martel.
Waymo LLC hired a new finance chief as the autonomous-vehicle company works to boost self-driving capabilities and expand in multiple regions. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet Inc., on Friday said it named Elisa de Martel as chief financial officer. The company’s interim head of finance and its controller have covered the company’s finances while Waymo looked for a permanent CFO, according to a spokeswoman. Two months earlier, Waymo’s biggest competitor— General Motors Co. subsidiary Cruise—began offering driverless rides to the public in San Francisco. Waymo since 2017 also has tested its driverless technology in semitrucks.
Metropola Montreal din provincia canadiană Quebec a doborât recordul absolut de temperatură pentru data de 25 decembrie, cu 13,6 grade Celsius, în timp ce mercurul din termometre a depăşit valoarea de 16 grade Celsius în sudul regiunii, relatează AFP. "Recordul anterior era de 11,7 grade, din 1964; am atins 13,6 în Montreal în această dimineaţă, la ora 8:00", a declarat vineri meteorologul Dominic Martel pentru AFP. Este vorba despre un record absolut pentru 25 decembrie, de la înregistrarea datelor meteorologice, în urmă cu "aproximativ 150 de ani", a spus el.Sudul Quebec, la graniţa cu Statele Unite, a cunoscut temperaturi şi mai ridicate, precum 16,4 grade Celsius în Frelighsburg. Însă, datele meteorologice din această regiune au început să fie înregistrate în urmă cu doar aproximativ cincisprezece ani, aşadar "un record pentru această staţie nu are o mare valoare ştiinţifică", a notat Martel.Anul acesta este al treilea "Crăciun verde" - fără zăpadă - consecutiv, în regiunea Montreal.Această temperatură record se explică printr-un "flux tropical, de aer cald şi umed, care s-a deplasat pe toată coasta de est din Florida şi a ajuns la noi", a explicat Dominic Martel. Este un "sistem costier neobişnuit", a adăugat specialistul.Metropola Quebec, obişnuită cu ierni aspre şi înzăpezite, a depăşit recordul de temperatură negativă pentru o zi de Crăciun în 1980, când au fost înregistrate minus 32,4 grade Celsius.În timp ce sudul Quebec şi provincia vecină New Brunswick au doborât recorduri de căldură vineri, restul Canadei a cunoscut un "Crăciun alb", cu temperaturi cuprinse între minus 1 grad Celsius în Toronto (centru) şi minus 25 de grade Celsius în Whitehorse, în teritoriul Yukon (nord-vest).
Persons: Dominic Martel, AFP, Dominic Martel ., Crăciun, Celsius Locations: Montreal, canadiană Quebec, Quebec, graniţa, Statele Unite, Florida, New Brunswick, Canadei, Toronto, Yukon
(video) Top 100 cele mai bune filme regizate de femei. Lista a fost realizată de 368 de experți din 84 de țăriÎn fiecare an, BBC, cu ajutorul a sute de experți în cinematografie, realizează topuri cu filme. „Top 100 cele mai bune filme străine”, „Top cele mai bune 100 de filme din toate timpurile”, „Top 100 cele mai bune filme ale secolului XXI”. Pornind de la această idee, jurnaliștii BBC și-au pus drept scop ca în acest an să descopere 100 cele mai bune filme regizate de femei. The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)87.
Persons: Lista, experți, Pornind, în, directori, academicieni, femei, Lisa Cholodenko, Joanna Hogg, Sofia Coppola, Mészáros, Anna, Chantal Akerman, Deren, Andrea Arnold, Julia Ducournau, Claire Denis, Amy Heckerling, Agnès Varda, Tlatli, Haifaa Al, Mansour, Jason, Shirley Clarke, Nora Ephron, Ana Lily Amirpour, Penny Marshall, Lois Weber, Makhmalbaf, Céline Sciamma, Sciamma, Kelly Reichardt, Enyedi, Agnieszka Holland, Germaine Dulac, Niki Caro, Kasi Lemmons, Margarethe von Trotta, Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay, Debra Granik, Chloe Zhao, Marie Antoinette, Kathryn Bigelow, Marguerite Duras, Kira Muratova, Susan Seidelman, Jennifer Kent, Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins, Jane Campion, Lucrecia Martel, Alice Rohrwacher, Barbara Kopple, Ida Lupino, Mira Nair, Leni Riefenstahl, Honey, Prince Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, Capernaum, Nadine Labaki, Kimberly Peirce, Jennie Livingston, Wendy, Lucy, Lilly Wachowski, Morvern Callar, Porter, Liliana Cavani, Le Bonheur, Selma, Sarah Polley, Farrokhzad, Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig, Kevin, Winter’s Bone, Sally Potter, Mary Harron, Lina Wertmüller, Wanda, Barbara Loden, Larisa Shepitko, Julie Dash, Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade, Chytilová, Beau Travail, Jeanne Dielman Organizations: BBC, filme, Times, Apple, Europa, League, Bright, Salaam, du Locations: femei, Rezultatul, jos, Agnes, Seattle, Meek’s, Kasi, Harlan County, USA, Salaam Bombay, Paris
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