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Why you don’t need a course to understand foreign languages on vacation – Innovations
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-27 06:00:00
With the current temperatures, summer vacation still seems a long way off – but if you want to have a conversation in the local language on Lake Garda or Mallorca, you should start learning grammar and vocabulary now. Or not? After all, providers of apps like Duolingo or Babbel promise that different languages can be learned in a playful way. On the go, on your cell phone while waiting for the bus.
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US Political Tensions: Ukraine Aid and Immigration Policy
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-27 03:30:15
The tone suddenly rose on Friday between Joe Biden and the Republicans over the difficult discussions in Congress on Ukraine and immigration policy, a sign among others of the intensification of the electoral campaign.
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Under pressure from the right, these two subjects are now negotiated together, which endangers deliveries of crucial weapons and equipment for the Ukrainian army.
In the evening, the Democratic president called on conservative parliamentarians not to block a project on immigration already partly negotiated, assuring that if it were adopted, it would be “the most severe and the most severe set of reforms fairer than we have ever had in our country to secure the border.
“He would give me, as president, new emergency authority to close the border when it is overwhelmed,” Joe Biden said in a statement, even assuring that he “would use this power on the same day of entry into force of the law.
“If you are serious regarding the crisis at the border, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it,” added the 81-year-old Democrat, who knows he is politically vulnerable on the subject, and who thus hopes to put the right in trouble.
“Stillborn”
Joe Biden’s statement is a response to the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
The latter warned on Friday that as it stands, any vote on new funding for aid to Ukraine as well as for strengthening the border with Mexico, where a record number of migrants arrive, was “dead- born”.
This comment comes at a time when, according to American media, former president and White House candidate Donald Trump is putting pressure on Republican elected officials to block the budget requests of his rival, Democratic President Joe Biden.
“If the rumors regarding the content of the bill (currently being debated in the Senate, the other chamber of Congress, editor’s note) are true, it would be stillborn before even arriving before the House of Representatives,” assured Mike Johnson in a letter to American congressmen.
This letter is another negative signal on the outcome of the already very complicated negotiations in the American Congress, which is made up of the Senate, currently with a Democratic majority, and the House, dominated by the Republicans.
The American president is calling for a vote on a budget increase of some $100 billion to meet pressing needs, first and foremost aid to Ukraine, of which the United States is the leading supplier of military equipment, and aid to Israel.
Texas
But the parliamentary discussion is now complicated by the acceleration of the campaign before the presidential election in November, which has every chance of pitting Joe Biden and Donald Trump once once more.
The former Republican president made immigration one of his major areas of attack.
While a compromise in the Senate seemed possible, this prospect suddenly receded this week, and the American press sees it as the work of the 77-year-old tycoon, the big favorite in the Republican primary and who retains a strong hold on the party. .
Furthermore, tension does not subside between the federal government and the Republican governor of Texas, who installed barbed wire on the border with Mexico, thus defying Washington’s authority in matters of border policing.
He received the strong support of Donald Trump and many other leaders of the Republican Party.
The last delivery of American military aid to Ukraine was announced on December 27, and the White House has said repeatedly that without a budget extension, there would be no others.
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Cyprien Sarrazin: From Kitzbühel Glory to Garmisch-Partenkirchen Challenge
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2024-01-27 05:05:00
After the rhinestones and glitter of Kitzbühel, where his exceptional double on the Streif made him change dimension, Cyprien Sarrazin finds the calm of a Bavarian resort, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and another historic track of the white circus, the Kandahar .
The stars gathered in the Kitzbühel arrival area by the dozen, like local regular Arnold Schwarzenegger, have left but the Alpine Ski World Cup does not mark a break for Cyprien Sarrazin.
He has barely had time to take six days to recharge his batteries a little, when a new duel with the Swiss Marco Odermatt awaits him. Far from the hustle and bustle of Kitzbühel, which allowed Sarrazin to reveal himself on the most prestigious track of the winter.
Two descents on the Streif, two victories and above all a masterpiece on Saturday, a day of high mass in Austria where the race was watched by three out of four viewers behind their screen (1.36 million).
With this double in the space of 24 hours, Sarrazin entered the pantheon of alpine skiing, alongside big names like his compatriot Luc Alphand (1995), or the Austrian Karl Schranz (1972).
Without a race in the middle of the week, unlike Odermatt, he was able to celebrate his feat with the Swiss on Saturday evening, seen arm in arm, bare torso and drink in hand behind the counter of the bar where the winner of the downhill traditionally pays for his tour.
Duel that fascinates
Relegated to almost a minute, Odermatt consoled himself on Tuesday in a nighttime giant slalom in Schladming, at the cost of a climb from 11th to 1st place between the first and second rounds, and will want to take his revenge on Sarrazin in his favorite speed discipline, super-G.
In Wengen on the Lauberhorn in mid-January, Sarrazin came to venture onto the favorite playground of Odermatt, who has not left the super-G podium in the World Cup for 12 races and the finals at Courchevel/Méribel in March 2022 (seven victories).
This duel between Sarrazin and Odermatt finds itself at the center of attention for the second part of the alpine ski season, while the fight for the general classification has lost its interest, a new big crystal globe being promised to Odermatt following the end premature season due to injury to Austrian Marco Schwarz.
In France, the broadcaster Eurosport is in any case rubbing its hands. On Saturday, the channel recorded “its best audience for alpine skiing since 2015”, with 164,000 viewers on Eurosport 2, and a peak at 350,000 viewers for the passage of Sarrazin.
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the south of Germany, conditions completely different from Wengen or Kitzbühel await skiers. Because following the cold and the icy slopes, a clear warm spell has set in in the Bavarian resort (around 8 degrees), where the start will be given at an altitude of 1,300 meters, arriving at a little less than 800 m.
“We adapt to the outside elements, to the snow. We trained this morning in giants on salty snow, in good conditions, even if completely different from Kitzbühel. There is no training, we do the super-G straight away, it’s part of the job,” explained Sarrazin late Friday followingnoon.
Back to 6 points behind Odermatt in the Downhill World Cup rankings, Sarrazin is 90 points behind the Swiss in super-G, with four races still on the program (each worth 100 points), including the two in Bavaria.
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