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We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have always had an engineering mentality with strong property rights, there’s also an intense resistance by property owners when it comes to giving up their property rights. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them. – Peter Gleick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> SummaryCompaniesSome cities say peak of COVID infections was last monthToo early to say how many infections are severe-Chinese expertChina embassy in South Korea suspends short-term visasChinese state media criticise Pfizer over Paxlovid priceBEIJING, Jan 10( Reuters) - Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on Tuesday, with officials further downplaying the severity of the outbreak despite international concerns about its scale and impact.A summary by Health Times, a publication managed by Peoples Daily, Peoples Daily, said infections have been declining in the capital Beijing and several Chinese provinces. One official was quoted as saying nearly all the 100 million people in Henan province had already been infected.The virus has been spreading freely in China since a policy U-turn in early December after protests against a zero-COVID regime ruthlessly enforced for three years. China reopened its borders on Sunday, removing the last major restrictions.The frequent lockdowns, relentless testing and various levels of movement curbs since early 2020 have brought the worlds second-largest economy to one of its slowest growth rates in nearly half a century and caused widespread distress.With the virus let loose, China has stopped publishing daily infection tallies and has been reporting five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn, figures that have been disputed by the World Health Organisation.Many Chinese funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least 1 million COVID-related deaths in China this year.On Tuesday, a Health Times compilation of reports from local government officials and health experts across the country, suggested the COVID wave may be past its peak in many regions.Kan Quan, director of the Office of the Henan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control, was cited as saying the infection rate in the central province was nearly 90 % as of Jan. 6. The number of patients at clinics in the province reached a peak on Dec. 19, but the number of severe cases was still high, he said, without giving further details.Yin Yong, acting mayor of Beijing, was cited as saying the capital was also past its peak. Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission in the city of Chongqing said the peak there was reached on Dec. 20. In the province of Jiangsu, the peak was reached on Dec. 22, while in Zheijiang province the first wave of infections has passed smoothly, officials said. Two cities in the southern Guangdong province, Chinas manufacturing heartland, reached their peaks before the end of the year.Separately in the state-run China Daily, a prominent health official said the percentage of severe cases remained unclear.It is still too early to conclude the overall percentage of severe and critical COVID patients in China as different types of hospitals report different numbers, Wang Guiqiang, head of Peking University First Hospitals infectious disease department, was quoted as saying.PFIZER CRITICISMChina has dismissed criticism over its data as politically-motivated attempts to smear its success in handling the pandemic and said any future mutations are likely to be more infectious but cause less severe illness.Testing requirements introduced by several countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and others in response to Chinas COVID outbreak, were called out by foreign ministry as discriminatory.Financial markets see the new curbs as mere inconvenience, with the yuan hitting a nearly five-month high on Tuesday.South Korean and Japanese shop owners, Thai tour bus operators and K-pop groups were among those licking their lips at the prospect of more Chinese tourists.Although Beijing also demands negative COVID test results from people landing in China, officials have threatened retaliation against countries mandating tests for visitors from China.The Chinese embassy in South Korea said on Tuesday it will stop issuing short-term visas for Korean citizens.State media has also taken a swipe at Pfizer Inc( PFE.N) over the price for its COVID treatment Paxlovid.It is not a secret that U.S. capital forces have already accumulated quite a fortune from the world via selling vaccines and drugs, and the U.S. government has been coordinating all along, nationalist tabloid Global Times said in an editorial.Pfizers Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday the company was in discussions with Chinese authorities about a price for Paxlovid, but not over licensing a generic version in China.The abrupt change of course in COVID policies has left Chinas health system unprepared, with many hospitals ill-equipped to handle patients in critical conditions and smaller cities scrambling to secure basic anti-fever drug supplies.Yu Weishi, chairman of Youcare Pharmaceutical Group, told Reuters Li Pan firm boosted output of its anti-fever drugs five-fold to one million boxes a day in the past month.Wang Lili, general manager at another pharmaceutical firm, CR Double Crane, told Reuters that intravenous drips were their most in-demand product.The company has since Jan. 5 done away with weekends to meet demand.We are running 24/7. – Wang Guiqiang	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Among the conservative movement organizations…we have refused to be gas lighted into believing that we are a minority party in America, we actually think that when you look at county commissions, townships, state legislative chambers and the like that we are either equal in size if not superior in number to the opposition party. – Kenneth Blackwell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s undeniable that many of the more controversial members within the Republican conference will be elevated, it potentially presents a challenge for Republicans in swing districts who will often find themselves at odds with a more conservative or populist policy agenda. it is going to put them in positions to make tougher votes. And votes ultimately become ads in campaigns. – Ken Spain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re in the midst of an evolution within the Republican Party and the ascendant wing of the party is demanding a greater say in the way the House majority will govern. – Ken Spain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Voters clearly sent a message to Republicans they don’t like extreme politics: That’s the message, but that’s not the message I saw coming out of last week. – Charlie Dent	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We saw movement in the final analysis, the structure of the new leadership, the ability of policies to be amply considered and dealt with a timely fashion, we couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome. – Kenneth Blackwell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am asking for a new lifeline for people who need to power our economy and re-enter the 21st century with a future that is protected from such extreme risks to human security. – Shehbaz Sharif	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today has truly been a day which gives us great hope, i think the message from the world is clear: the world will stand by those who go through any national calamity. – Hina Rabbani Khar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
With these actions, we want parents around the world to know that safety will always be a cornerstone of our mission, that we are committed to these values, and will continue to prioritize the health, safety and well-being of the infants and preschoolers who utilize our products. – Chuck Scothon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This launch represents the opening of a new era in the British space industry and new partnerships across industry, government, and allies. – Virgin Orbit	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It appears that LauncherOne has suffered an anomaly which will prevent us from making orbit for this mission. – Christopher Relf	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It had been a very bad idea. I ’d had plenty of bad ideas in my twenty-three years, but this one was uniquely ill-conceived. I ’d told Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry that I wanted closure, but I did n’t really. Deep down, I ’d hoped to feel in that tunnel what I ’d felt when JLP [ Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, former private secretary to Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry and Prince William ] gave me the police files — disbelief. Doubt. Instead, that was the night all doubt fell away, i ’d thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead, it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux. – Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He( William) merely gave me the impression that the Other Woman, Camilla, had made an effort, which Nacho Doce/Reuters appreciated, and that was all Nacho Doce/Reuters cared to say. – Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I ’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel. – Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I phoned Willy and Getty Images Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said, i rented Getty Images Kate, plus a silly moustache, and went back to the house. – Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for. – Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They do this [issue a flag ban] to give police a free hand to do whatever it is they want, they know it’s not legal to do this type of stuff - but the point is to create enough repressive measures so people stay silent. – Itamar Ben Gvir/Twitter Israels	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It cannot be that lawbreakers will wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism. – Ben Gvir	Found on CNN 1 year ago
How that could possibly happen? How one – anyone could be that irresponsible? and I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that I mean names of people who helped or, et cetera. … totally irresponsible. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings, the documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning. – Richard Sauber	Found on CNN 1 year ago

We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have always had an engineering mentality with strong property rights, there’s also an intense resistance by property owners when it comes to giving up their property rights.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to let our rivers flow differently, and let the rivers flood a little more and recharge our groundwater in wet seasons, instead of thinking we can control all floods, we have to learn to live with them.

– Peter Gleick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> SummaryCompaniesSome cities say peak of COVID infections was last monthToo early to say how many infections are severe-Chinese expertChina embassy in South Korea suspends short-term visasChinese state media criticise Pfizer over Paxlovid priceBEIJING, Jan 10( Reuters) - Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on Tuesday, with officials further downplaying the severity of the outbreak despite international concerns about its scale and impact.A summary by Health Times, a publication managed by Peoples Daily, Peoples Daily, said infections have been declining in the capital Beijing and several Chinese provinces. One official was quoted as saying nearly all the 100 million people in Henan province had already been infected.The virus has been spreading freely in China since a policy U-turn in early December after protests against a zero-COVID regime ruthlessly enforced for three years. China reopened its borders on Sunday, removing the last major restrictions.The frequent lockdowns, relentless testing and various levels of movement curbs since early 2020 have brought the worlds second-largest economy to one of its slowest growth rates in nearly half a century and caused widespread distress.With the virus let loose, China has stopped publishing daily infection tallies and has been reporting five or fewer deaths a day since the policy U-turn, figures that have been disputed by the World Health Organisation.Many Chinese funeral homes and hospitals say they are overwhelmed, and international health experts predict at least 1 million COVID-related deaths in China this year.On Tuesday, a Health Times compilation of reports from local government officials and health experts across the country, suggested the COVID wave may be past its peak in many regions.Kan Quan, director of the Office of the Henan Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control, was cited as saying the infection rate in the central province was nearly 90 % as of Jan. 6. The number of patients at clinics in the province reached a peak on Dec. 19, but the number of severe cases was still high, he said, without giving further details.Yin Yong, acting mayor of Beijing, was cited as saying the capital was also past its peak. Li Pan, deputy director of the Municipal Health Commission in the city of Chongqing said the peak there was reached on Dec. 20. In the province of Jiangsu, the peak was reached on Dec. 22, while in Zheijiang province the first wave of infections has passed smoothly, officials said. Two cities in the southern Guangdong province, Chinas manufacturing heartland, reached their peaks before the end of the year.Separately in the state-run China Daily, a prominent health official said the percentage of severe cases remained unclear.It is still too early to conclude the overall percentage of severe and critical COVID patients in China as different types of hospitals report different numbers, Wang Guiqiang, head of Peking University First Hospitals infectious disease department, was quoted as saying.PFIZER CRITICISMChina has dismissed criticism over its data as politically-motivated attempts to smear its success in handling the pandemic and said any future mutations are likely to be more infectious but cause less severe illness.Testing requirements introduced by several countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and others in response to Chinas COVID outbreak, were called out by foreign ministry as discriminatory.Financial markets see the new curbs as mere inconvenience, with the yuan hitting a nearly five-month high on Tuesday.South Korean and Japanese shop owners, Thai tour bus operators and K-pop groups were among those licking their lips at the prospect of more Chinese tourists.Although Beijing also demands negative COVID test results from people landing in China, officials have threatened retaliation against countries mandating tests for visitors from China.The Chinese embassy in South Korea said on Tuesday it will stop issuing short-term visas for Korean citizens.State media has also taken a swipe at Pfizer Inc( PFE.N) over the price for its COVID treatment Paxlovid.It is not a secret that U.S. capital forces have already accumulated quite a fortune from the world via selling vaccines and drugs, and the U.S. government has been coordinating all along, nationalist tabloid Global Times said in an editorial.Pfizers Chief Executive Albert Bourla said on Monday the company was in discussions with Chinese authorities about a price for Paxlovid, but not over licensing a generic version in China.The abrupt change of course in COVID policies has left Chinas health system unprepared, with many hospitals ill-equipped to handle patients in critical conditions and smaller cities scrambling to secure basic anti-fever drug supplies.Yu Weishi, chairman of Youcare Pharmaceutical Group, told Reuters Li Pan firm boosted output of its anti-fever drugs five-fold to one million boxes a day in the past month.Wang Lili, general manager at another pharmaceutical firm, CR Double Crane, told Reuters that intravenous drips were their most in-demand product.The company has since Jan. 5 done away with weekends to meet demand.We are running 24/7.

– Wang Guiqiang

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

Among the conservative movement organizations…we have refused to be gas lighted into believing that we are a minority party in America, we actually think that when you look at county commissions, townships, state legislative chambers and the like that we are either equal in size if not superior in number to the opposition party.

– Kenneth Blackwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s undeniable that many of the more controversial members within the Republican conference will be elevated, it potentially presents a challenge for Republicans in swing districts who will often find themselves at odds with a more conservative or populist policy agenda. it is going to put them in positions to make tougher votes. And votes ultimately become ads in campaigns.

– Ken Spain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re in the midst of an evolution within the Republican Party and the ascendant wing of the party is demanding a greater say in the way the House majority will govern.

– Ken Spain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Voters clearly sent a message to Republicans they don’t like extreme politics: That’s the message, but that’s not the message I saw coming out of last week.

– Charlie Dent

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We saw movement in the final analysis, the structure of the new leadership, the ability of policies to be amply considered and dealt with a timely fashion, we couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome.

– Kenneth Blackwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am asking for a new lifeline for people who need to power our economy and re-enter the 21st century with a future that is protected from such extreme risks to human security.

– Shehbaz Sharif

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today has truly been a day which gives us great hope, i think the message from the world is clear: the world will stand by those who go through any national calamity.

– Hina Rabbani Khar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With these actions, we want parents around the world to know that safety will always be a cornerstone of our mission, that we are committed to these values, and will continue to prioritize the health, safety and well-being of the infants and preschoolers who utilize our products.

– Chuck Scothon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This launch represents the opening of a new era in the British space industry and new partnerships across industry, government, and allies.

– Virgin Orbit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It appears that LauncherOne has suffered an anomaly which will prevent us from making orbit for this mission.

– Christopher Relf

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It had been a very bad idea. I ’d had plenty of bad ideas in my twenty-three years, but this one was uniquely ill-conceived. I ’d told Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry that I wanted closure, but I did n’t really. Deep down, I ’d hoped to feel in that tunnel what I ’d felt when JLP [ Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, former private secretary to Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry and Prince William ] gave me the police files — disbelief. Doubt. Instead, that was the night all doubt fell away, i ’d thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead, it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux.

– Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He( William) merely gave me the impression that the Other Woman, Camilla, had made an effort, which Nacho Doce/Reuters appreciated, and that was all Nacho Doce/Reuters cared to say.

– Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel.

– Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I phoned Willy and Getty Images Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said, i rented Getty Images Kate, plus a silly moustache, and went back to the house.

– Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for.

– Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They do this [issue a flag ban] to give police a free hand to do whatever it is they want, they know it’s not legal to do this type of stuff - but the point is to create enough repressive measures so people stay silent.

– Itamar Ben Gvir/Twitter Israels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It cannot be that lawbreakers will wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism.

– Ben Gvir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

How that could possibly happen? How one – anyone could be that irresponsible? and I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods? By that I mean names of people who helped or, et cetera. … totally irresponsible.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings, the documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.

– Richard Sauber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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