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“There will be no second wave. We are in a constant wave ”- Wel.nl

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There will be no second wave of the coronavirus, the German virologist Hendrik Streeck of the University of Bonn suspects. The virus will flare up to a greater or lesser extent, he says to Frankfurter Allgemeine.

“I don’t think there will be a second or a third wave,” it sounds. “I think we are in a constant wave. A wave that goes up and down all the time. ” The weather plays an important role in this, according to the virologist. In the fall, the number of infections will increase again, it is expected.

Streeck advocates an international intervention force. “We see more than ever today the need to strengthen the World Health Organization,” he told the German newspaper. “There should be a WHO emergency team. A unit that can be deployed worldwide against the virus. ”

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they learn from friends how to use tools – Wel.nl

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Dolphins are among the savvy of the animal kingdom. They even use tools to collect food. They just learn the trick from their friends.

It is called ‘shelling’ when dolphins collect fish in the large empty shell of a sea snail. They take the shell to the surface and then shake it empty in their mouth. Dolphins usually learn everything from their mother, but they get this trick from their friends, just like apes can.

“This is an important milestone,” says evolutionary biologist Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich. “It shows that cultural behavior of dolphins is much more like that of great apes than previously thought.”

Twenty years ago it was first observed that dolphins can use tools. Then it became clear that the animals are sliding sea sponge over their snouts to protect themselves when collecting food. This allowed them to search for food in deeper water. But this behavior was passed on from mother to daughter. This is called vertical transmission.

There is also another way of learning, namely from animals in the environment. This is seen as a more complicated learning process and is mainly known from great apes.

Now a team led by ecologist Sonja Wild of the German University of Constance has discovered that dolphins also master this way of learning. Before that, they studied over a thousand dolphins for ten years.

The animals probably developed the trick because of a decrease in fish and an increase in shells. “We can only speculate whether it is the declining fish population that has encouraged dolphins to learn new behaviors,” says Wild. “An abundance of dead sea snail shells may have helped.”

Bron(nen): Science Alert

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“In time, our approach will prove to be the right one” – Wel.nl

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Anders Tegnell, the virologist who came up with the Swedish approach to Corona, does not accept anything. The world thinks that the Swedish model (hardly a lockdown, as much as a meter and a half) has failed: per 100,000 inhabitants, Swedes have died five times more than Danes. But Tegnell says it is way too early is for conclusions: the virus is far from gone. The Swedish approach can be maintained for much longer than what has been done in the Netherlands and other Western countries. Normal life was halted there for two months, while much remained common in Sweden.

Tegnell predicts that the other countries will move from one crisis (and lockdown) to the next. That will destroy the economy and ultimately erode support, he predicts in a podcast. And the Swedish model, on the other hand, can be maintained even if it is going to take a long time.

Tegnell argues that the world is only in the first phase is facing a long and uncertain battle with Covid-19. That’s why the Swedish approach – keeping a large part of society open, but teaching people to keep their distance – is the only realistic way, he says. The lockdowns also come at a price, he says. He mentions domestic violence, loneliness and massive unemployment.

He is looking forward to assessing the differences in approach if all this is ever over.

First he goes on vacation. That will be in Sweden, because other countries have closed the door for Sweden. For fear of contamination.

Bron(nen): Bloomberg

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‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl – Welingelichte Kringen

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  1. ‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl Welingelichte Kringen
  2. Merkel: ‘United Kingdom must live with consequences of Brexit’ RTL Nieuws
  3. ‘British people are concerned about Brexit, majority want to stay in EU’ AD.nl
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‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl – Welingelichte Kringen

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  1. ‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl Welingelichte Kringen
  2. Merkel: ‘United Kingdom must live with consequences of Brexit’ RTL Nieuws
  3. ‘British people are concerned about Brexit, majority want to stay in EU’ AD.nl
  4. British are fed up with Brexit, majority want to stay in EU Telegraaf.nl
  5. British enthusiasm for Brexit is shrinking sharply on BNR Nieuwsradio
  6. View entire story via Google News

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‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl – Welingelichte Kringen

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  1. ‘British are fed up with Brexit, majority wants to stay in EU’ – wel.nl Welingelichte Kringen
  2. Merkel: ‘United Kingdom must live with consequences of Brexit’ RTL Nieuws
  3. ‘British people are concerned about Brexit, majority want to stay in EU’ AD.nl
  4. British are fed up with Brexit, majority want to stay in EU Telegraaf.nl
  5. British enthusiasm for Brexit is shrinking sharply on BNR Nieuwsradio
  6. View entire story via Google News

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LUKOIL will suspend 20% of drilling in Western Siberia :: Business :: RBC

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Contractors working on land projects in Western Siberia and Komi are notified of the suspension of contracts, but are asked to retain staff to resume work in November. An interlocutor close to one of LUKOIL’s major contractors believes that it will be impossible to fully maintain the number of employees. According to him, the reduction may amount to at least 30% of the staff, and for individual projects up to 100%, if the oil companies do not pay for downtime. He hopes there will be compensations, especially if the government agrees on the support of oilfield services companies.

Fedun compared the OPEC + agreement with the Brest Peace

Amid falling world oil prices – from $ 72 per barrel in early January to $ 25 – LUKOIL decided in March to cut spending by $ 1.5 billion (about 20%), co-owner and president of the company Vagit Alekperov told reporters. But then he emphasized that the reduction does not apply to those projects that are directly related to the provision of geological exploration and oil production.

After the largest oil producers agreed on April 12, under the OPEC + deal, a record reduction in production by 9.7 million barrels. per day (about 20% for the alliance) since May 1, due to a drop in demand caused by coronavirus, Russian oil companies are forced to proportionally reduce production: in accordance with this transaction, Russia should reduce production by 18% (1.8 million barrels). ) – up to 8.5 million barrels. per day.

Urals became more expensive than North Sea oil

Photo: Eric Gay / AP

Under the new agreement, OPEC + LUKOIL will reduce oil production by 18% – by more than 40 thousand tons per day, Alekperov said. “And I think that we and all other companies will fulfill this amount, which was brought to us by the Ministry of Energy,” he said (quoted by Interfax).

“For the oil industry, this is (a reduction in production in Russia to 8.5 million barrels per day. – RBC) just a shock! ” – said in an interview with RBC Vice President and another co-owner of LUKOIL Leonid Fedun. “I understand all the engineers and technologists who work selflessly in the wells. For them, shutting a well is scary. And then this will happen in large numbers. We will have to drastically reduce drilling, repairs, and most likely, we will have to close the low-efficient oil well fund, ”he pointed out.

Alekperov and Fedun expect that after the start of the OPEC + agreement, the price of oil will rise to $ 30 per barrel.

RBC sent a request for plans to reduce drilling and exploration to Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz.

What other risks are there due to reduced production

LUKOIL, before the coronavirus pandemic, was planning in 2020 to increase investments in exploration by one and a half times – up to 66 billion rubles, said Vice President of the company Ilya Mandrik in December 2019. Funds were supposed to go including drilling, both in Russia and on the shelf of Mexico.

Fedun – RBC: “Without the OPEC + deal, we would have to reduce production to 50%”

Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC

Now the company can not only reduce drilling, but also close a number of fields in Komi at the LUKOIL-Ukhtaneftegas fields, Reuters wrote April 23, citing a source familiar with the company’s plans. However, LUKOIL then told the agency that it did not plan to close its oil producing enterprises, considering options for reducing production volumes “with the least impact on economic indicators.”

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Pdf pirated newspapers and books on Telegram, seizures – Politics

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Thousands of magazines, newspapers and books would have been unlawfully disseminated through at least 17 Telegram channels. This is the hypothesis of the Bari Public Prosecutor’s Office that has ordered an urgent preventive seizure, being carried out by the Guardia di Finanza, for crimes of money laundering, receiving stolen goods, abusive access to an IT or telematic system, theft and violation of the copyright law.

The provision concerns people in the process of identification who, “in competition with each other – explains the Prosecutor – by entering the computer systems of numerous publishing companies of magazines, newspapers and books protected by security measures, have stolen thousands of Pdf files of the aforementioned assets protected by copyright by illegally pouring them onto numerous channels of the instant messaging platform called Telegram, thus allowing a widespread as well as abusive free-to-air distribution of thousands of magazines, newspapers and books “.

The investigation, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Roberto Rossi, was initiated after the complaint by the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers (Fieg) on ​​this phenomenon of digital piracy presented on 10 April to the Authority for Communications Guarantees (Agcom). “The investigations – adds the Prosecutor of Bari – continue to reconstruct the illicit turnover and identify the perpetrators of the crime as well as the criminal liability of the companies involved”.

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