2024-02-03 02:54:16
Confidences. This January 30, Céline Dion announced the future broadcast on Prime Video of a documentary entitled I am : Céline Dion which will notably evoke the stiff man syndrome once morest which she has been fighting for more than two years. “The last few years have been a big challenge for me, from discovering the illness to learning how to live with it and manage it, without letting it define me. As I get back into my career, I realize how much I missed being able to see my fans“, explained on Instagram the 55-year-old diva who therefore evokes, covertly, a return to the world of music.
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February 3, 2024
Photos that question “a situation, a body, a space” – Libération
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-03 04:28:56
On Saturday March 2 and Sunday March 3, the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac is organizing a new edition of “Ethnology will surprise you!” on the theme of the body. Partner of the event, “Libération” will publish on Monday February 26 a supplement in the daily newspaper and a special file to be found on our site.
Often, he is the man “on the ground”, closest to the subjects he photographs. Camilo León Quijano, born in Colombia and researcher at the University of Aix-Marseille following passing through Bologna, Bordeaux and EHESS in Paris, does not see things differently. At the heart of his approach as an anthropologist, photography is not only a soulful supplement to the field notebook, an illustration. It is a true “complement”, a “means of investigation”, “a form which allows us to understand the city” and to dynamite, in the process, the expected representations. For his thesis work, he chose to “see and hear” Sarcelles “beyond the asphalt”.
“The photos that I offer are not those that we expect from a suburb, with its very codified hegemonic forms, linked to violence and drugs,” continues Camilo León Quijano. The residents immediately caught my attention as a Colombian outsider.” They told him: “We are fed up with miserabilist representations of us as people who have no power of action.” The wide angle lens which brings you close to the group, the black and white which focuses without distracting, the low angle which gives strength to the bodies, the Rugbywomen series reveals on the contrary all “the strength of the commitment of young people players” in training on the pitch at the Nelson-Mandela stadium.
“The strength they deploy on the ground”
The schoolgirls themselves are surprised when they discover the images. They realize “the power” of their bodies, “the force that they deploy on the ground”, going once morest the assignments of public space. “The photo allowed me to confront my gaze and the people in the survey with the representations of the bodies of young women in the city,” explains Camilo León Quijano, for whom “the photographer’s posture nourishes ethnographic reflection.” The work did not in fact stop there. Large prints, measuring three meters by four, were stuck to the walls of the Chantereine college to also question the view of the Sarcellois and leave room for another story, for an otherness.
With photography, Camilo León Quijano also campaigns for “a public anthropology that goes beyond the scope of research and teaching”. “We need to think regarding forms of material sharing of what we do to advance the scientific debate,” he assumes. We have gone through the observational, the phenomenological, the participatory… There is a lack of sharing this knowledge with a large audience from a non-academic world.”
“A good photo is not a beautiful photo”
His beautiful book published by ÉHESS, the City: a photographic anthropology, the publications in the press and the exhibitions that followed show another language regarding the suburbs. “In social sciences, a good photo is not a beautiful photo with perfect white balance, an iconic composition,” he believes. It’s a photo that questions and amplifies the look at a situation, a body, a space.” In Marseille, he is now investigating how the temperature feels in the city. This time, he will be the ethnologist with the camera among the inhabitants of Belsunce.
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Brace for Impact: Powerful Atmospheric River Batters California with Heavy Rains, Flooding, and Damaging Winds
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-01 16:31:18
An area of Bolinas, California, is seen as a Pacific storm known as an “atmospheric river” approaches, bringing heavy rains that might trigger widespread flooding on Jan. 31, 2024. Photo by Carlos Barria/ Reuters
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers drenched California on Thursday, flooding roads and toppling trees while triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for powerful downpours, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Heavy rain and gusty winds that began hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday moved south and arrived in Los Angeles in time to snarl the Thursday morning commute.
The river of rain “will be taking aim at mostly Southern California” on Thursday, weather service forecaster Bob Oravec said.
The Los Angeles and San Diego areas will be in the bullseye for heavy rain on Thursday, “especially for some of the higher elevations where they tend to get most of the rainfall — or the heaviest rainfall — with these atmospheric river events,” he said.
The weather service issued a flood watch into Friday morning for the Bay Area and the Central Coast because of possible flooding of rivers, streams, some roads and areas scarred by previous wildfires.
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Forecasters also said the Central Coast might see waves up to 18 feet (5.4 meters) high on Thursday and Friday.
Service on San Francisco’s cable cars was halted as a safety precaution, and Pacifica, a coastal city in San Mateo County, saw more than an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain in a single hour.
Widespread coastal flooding was reported Wednesday in Humboldt County, said the weather service office in Eureka. Scattered power outages were reported.
In the far south, all of San Diego County was under a flood watch Thursday. Forecasters said some areas might see 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain, with up to 3 inches (nearly 8 centimeters) in the mountains and winds gusty to 40 mph (64 kph) or more.
The storm came a week following heavy rain caused flooding that inundated homes and overturned cars in the county.
The “Pineapple Express” — called that because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii — will be followed by an even more powerful storm on Sunday, forecasters said.
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The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as “a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
An atmospheric river is an area where “the moisture is more confined and the winds are stronger and pushing these higher moisture values on shore,” Oravec said.
“They typically occur ahead of cold fronts across the Pacific,” he said. “And when they interact with the west coast topography, you often get some very heavy rain both along the coastal ranges and also inland through the Sierras.”
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda’s on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There’s absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year,” Whitby said Wednesday.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Models suggest it might intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a bomb cyclone.
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies regarding 30 percent of California’s water is only regarding half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
A winter storm warning was in effect through Friday morning for nearly a 300-mile (483-kilometer) stretch of the Sierra from north of Lake Tahoe to south of Yosemite National Park, said the weather service office in Reno, Nevada. Snow might fall at rates up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) per hour in some areas, with winds gusting up to 100 mph (160 kph), forecasters said.
Associated Press journalists Nic Coury in Capitola, California; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; and Donna Warder in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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China’s M503 Route Cancellation: Political and Military Tensions with Taiwan
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-02-02 19:52:52
2024-02-03 03:52 United Daily News Editorial The Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that it will cancel the flight offset measures for the M503 route from north to south starting from February 1, and will enable…
The Civil Aviation Administration of China recently announced that it will cancel the north-to-south flight offset of the M503 channel and enable three connected routes to fly from west to east. This move will double my country’s aviation identification pressure on military aircraft and civil aviation on the other side. In response, the Tsai government fired three shots in a row: the Mainland Affairs Council denounced this as an improper attempt to use civil aviation to package Taiwan’s politics and military affairs, and it should be stopped immediately; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs severely condemned it and asked China to immediately negotiate with our country; the Civil Aviation Administration We deeply regret and solemnly protest. The rhetoric was so loud that it was red in the face, but it did nothing to alleviate the situation. It only proved that the Tsai government had lost the ability to communicate and negotiate with the other side of the Taiwan Strait.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China’s new measures on the M503 waterway have only one intention: to take back the goodwill towards Taiwan. The flight offset of the M503 channel is a consensus reached during the cross-strait peacetime in March 2015 during the term of the Malaysian government. The Communist Party of China agreed that the actual flight of the channel will be “shifted six miles westward” to the mainland and adopt a single direction from north to south. For navigation, Xiamen and other three routes are temporarily not in use. In other words, moving the waterway six miles westward is the CCP’s respect for the “central line of the Taiwan Strait”, and stopping the west-to-east flight channel is an expression of goodwill for cross-strait peace. Today, the Tsai administration has stalemate cross-strait relations, and Beijing will take back the goodwill it once had; as for what kind of aviation recognition pressure Taiwan will bear, it is not within its scope of consideration.
In fact, similar situations include the recent cancellation of ECFA preferential tariff projects, the sudden blockage of agricultural and fishery products exported to mainland China, and even the removal of friendly countries in Central and South America and the South Pacific. The goodwill and courtesy that our country received when the two sides of the Taiwan Strait coexisted peacefully. After the change in cross-Strait relations, the other side of the Taiwan Strait believed that the basis of mutual goodwill no longer existed, so these goodwill or courtesy were gradually withdrawn. Of course, the Tsai administration can accuse the CCP of having “ulterior motives” for these measures, but it should also think regarding it: Why were all the benefits that the previous administration worked so hard to win in its hands? Why can’t he benefit the people, but he continues to make them suffer because of his governance?
Why does the Mainland Affairs Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Civil Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Transport need to come out to criticize the issue of the M503 route? There is no other reason. The entire government has lost all channels of communication and dialogue with the other side of the Taiwan Strait. By resorting to scolding, it can at least direct people’s anger to the other side of the Taiwan Strait and shift the responsibility to the CCP for unreasonable suppression, forgetting that this is the result of the Tsai’s government’s incompetence and dereliction of duty. The Mainland Affairs Council, which is responsible for cross-strait affairs, has been inactive for many years. While receiving a high salary, it is only responsible for shouting and protesting. Is it worthy of its position? What is even more ridiculous is that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs often crosses the border to join the anti-China rhetoric, but forgets that it is constantly losing ground on the diplomatic front. In particular, it requires the CCP to “immediately negotiate with our country” and conducts diplomacy with a commanding attitude. What major event has it achieved?
The Tsai government attributes the change in the operation mode of the M503 route to the political and military oppression of the Chinese Communist Party. Although the excuse is simple, it ignores the huge actual transportation needs of the cities on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, and even ignores how difficult it was for the cross-strait goodwill to obtain this agreement during the Ma administration. The fact is that the M503 route was approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the CCP’s self-restriction is its good intention; it canceled the self-restriction and did not violate ICAO regulations. No matter how dissatisfied the Tsai government is, it has nowhere to appeal.
During her eight years in office, Tsai Ing-wen has fully enjoyed the legacy of cross-strait peace left by the Ma government, including the ECFA, the sale of agricultural and fishery products to the mainland, the diversion of waterways, and exchanges between mainlanders and tourists. However, the Tsai government enjoyed it, cursed it, and squandered it. It seemed that all its assets so far were regarding to be exhausted, and only then did it realize that all the channels and tools for communication and negotiation in its hands were gone. So, where will it go next?
After the election, Qiu Yiren, known as the “number one strategist of the Democratic Progressive Party”, was invited by the Nikkei to have a paper discussion with American, Chinese and Japanese scholars. He pointed out that because the Democratic Progressive Party does not recognize the 1992 Consensus, it is actually difficult to dialogue with the mainland. The Lai regime will inevitably have to compromise with the Kuomintang in the future. Herein lies the problem: the DPP is unable to dialogue with the CCP, and has repeatedly used confrontational methods to meet the other party’s measures. I am afraid that the difficulties between the two sides will never have a chance to be solved. Under Tsai Ing-wen’s full power, this dilemma may be able to be concealed; when Lai Ching-te, who is in power in the minority, comes to power, if he cannot seek reconciliation and appoint new people, he will only lead the country down the road of embarrassment.
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