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The assurances of President Macky Sall.

by archyw

Near the villages of Mbodjène, Ndiagambal and Pont Gendarme, President Macky Sall was greeted with red armbands by the farmers who, through this gesture, had invited the Head of State to support them in saving their production.

Grievances which would seem preoccupied by the President of the Republic. Indeed, during his speech in Podor, President Macky Sall promised to bring the most urgent solutions to these demands of the farmers.

“When I came, I met disoriented peasants, producers of onions. I would like to assure them that the government will not let them see their production rot. This year, thanks to the success of our agricultural program, we had a record production of onions. We must regulate the consumption first of small producers, then agri-businesses and finally, since December we have stopped onion imports. But, we must ensure that in the next ten days, small producers can fully sell their production. I will instruct the Minister of Commerce as well as the members of the government to find urgent solutions so that there is no slump in this year’s production ”, reassured the Head of State during his mega meeting which closed the first day of his tour in the Podor department …

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“We are ready to support the club” (Boubacar Ba, representative)

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The leader of “Pikine Ci laa bok”, Thierno Ndom Ba, was the sponsor of the Pikine-Casa match which was held at the Stade Alassane Djigo. His representative during this meeting, the former liberal politician Boubacar Ba, said the wish of the sponsor to support the club so that it achieves its objectives. He also said how proud his principal was to have been made a sponsor of the event …




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solidarity between continental brothers, an obstacle to African union.

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Africa Day is celebrated every May 25. It is the anniversary of the creation of the Organization of the African Union, created in 1963, current African Union since 2002, to defend the cause of Africans.

For this year, CARISM (Committee of Actions and Intersyndical Reflections on Migration) in collaboration with civil society, marked the event by holding a panel at the Bopp center, under the theme “Pan-African in the 21st century. century, our rights, our health, our future. ”
After 58 years of struggle, Africa is still struggling to achieve unity.

Indeed, the subject of racism between brothers from the same continent is particularly debated.
This is also a major obstacle to the realization of African unity.
From this meeting, proposals are expected as solutions to take concrete steps towards African unity.

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Technology

a magnificent representation of the Capital “threatened” by climate change

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Astronaut Thomas Pesquet is familiar with photos taken from the ISS, the International Space Station. Magnificent shots in which he highlights regions of the world. Senegal is in the spotlight this time and its capital Dakar. Seen from the sky, Dakar like a “spur jutting out into the Atlantic” extends all its beauty. Thomas Pesquet said he was captivated by the beauty of Dakar’s sparkle, which blends with the blue of the ocean. “Magnificent geographical position for the sparkling Dakar, beautiful and welcoming”, he comments. But the astronaut regrets the “endangerment of Dakar by climate change with repeated flooding in the rainy season and coastline eaten away by the rising waters”.

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SONS OF PHILADELPHIA : chronique

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SONS OF PHILADELPHIA : chronique

Jérémie Guez adapts Pete Dexter in a film noir to the sad hero. No big surprise, but solid.

Like Michael Roskam, who left for a project in his native Belgium to film the New York of proles and gangsters (brilliant WHEN COMES THE NIGHT), Jérémie Guez went into exile temporarily in the United States, in the city of the Founding Fathers plagued by violence. In SONS OF PHILADELPHIA, clans fight over territory, wage lousy wars until common interests send individual interests tossing around. Peter (Matthias Schoenaerts) and Michael (Joel Kinnaman) are the leading thinkers of local Irish organized crime. When the Italian mafia threatens Michael, the two cousins ​​are naturally divided over the response and the blood ties are shattered. Peter, more silent, darker, sees the memories of the terrible moment when his father (Ryan Philippe) was brutally torn from him come to the surface. Despite the virile and devouring subject, despite the gangster cinema, the hero of SONS OF PHILADELPHIA is a melancholy and unhappy man. This is what interests the director far beyond the codes of the genre. Matthias Schoenaerts does an admirable job of restrained brutality, like a kid on the verge of tears – unlike Joel Kinnaman who, with his more exuberant role, is much less subtle. American cinema set to European time, where Jérémie Guez demonstrates a real mastery of the nuances of contemporary male narrative.

By Jérémie Guez. With Matthias Schoenaerts, Joel Kinnaman, Ryan Philippe. United States / France. 2h. In theaters May 26

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“The increase in funding is normal, but the right arguments must be given …” (Mamadou AMOUZOU, Ministry of Finance)

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The Global Week of Action for Education was for civil society to advocate for actors in need of more funding and investment in the sector.

In this morning’s forum, the Ministry of Finance through its statistician representative, Mamadou Amouzou, considers these demands for more funding in the sector to be legitimate, but also recalls the relevance of having good arguments to find the agreement of the leaders. .

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Health

Ziguinchor / DOYNA marches to denounce the ills of the regional hospital and land disputes.

by archyw

As announced, the civil society platforms united around “Doyna” are thus starting the march to demand better working conditions for the agents of the Ziguinchor regional hospital.

It is “Citizen Vision” took the initiative of the march and invited the Frapp of Guy Marius Sagna and Y’en a marre represented by Kilifeu.

The platform, by this march and beyond the ills of the hospital, intends to denounce land disputes in other localities in the region.

A memorandum will be returned to the authority at the governance where the march will end.

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Snapchat reaches 500 million monthly users and gets new glasses

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The very popular platform among teens and young adults has seen the number of daily users in India jump 100% over one year during the last five quarters, that is to say since the start of the health crisis, said Evan Spiegel, the boss of the American group, during its annual conference to present its new products.

Around 40% of Snapchat users are now located outside of North America and Europe, but these regions remain crucial for the app.

“In the US, France, UK, Australia and the Netherlands, Snapchat has become an indispensable part of people’s lives. The app has been adopted by 90% of 13-24 year olds and 75 % of 13-34 year olds, “explained Evan Spiegel.

Snapchat had not given monthly figures until now. In its last financial results in April, it had reported 280 million daily users, up 22% year on year.

Nevertheless, Facebook still remains in the lead

The audience of the company which went public in 2017 remains far from that of the sector giant, Facebook: some 3.45 billion people use at least one of its four platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp) every month.

She was also caught up, and left behind, by the dazzling TikTok and its thread of short and rhythmic videos, which claims close to 690 million monthly users worldwide.

But the social network that invented ephemeral “stories”, then copied by several of its competitors, continues to chart its course by focusing mainly on its trademark, augmented reality.

Evan Spiegel unveiled on Thursday new connected glasses, which should allow the use of certain tools of the application and create virtual universes and animations, by viewing them directly in the real world, without going through the smartphone.

They are reserved for content creators, unlike the “Spectacles” eyewear range, marketed to the general public in recent years, without much success.
Its filters and augmented reality tools continue to appeal to many companies, as they allow consumers to “try on” clothes, make-up or accessories from their living room, in simulation via their smartphone.

The inventor of “ephemeral stories” wears more than one color

Snapchat said it has more than 500 partners on its “discovery” platform, a thread where users can find content from press organizations, sports clubs, brands or video games, for example.

The latest is Bumble, a dating application where aspiring lovers will now share, if they wish, “Snap”, these photos or videos with special effects of the application.

The social network touted Thursday the merits of new products and innovations useful for content creators and advertisers.

Distribution chains and restaurants will thus be able to advertise directly in the mapping tool. And influencers will soon be able to receive tips from their fans, an increasingly popular monetization system to pay people who have made content creation on platforms their profession.

“Last year we increased our payments to our creators and partners by over 100%,” said Evan Spiegel.

But Snapchat is struggling to become profitable despite its strong growth. In the first quarter of this year, the group recorded a net loss of $ 286 million, despite revenue up 66% year-on-year, to $ 770 million.

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when the coronavirus becomes chronic disease

by archyw
Some of those infected with Covid-19 develop mild to moderate forms of the disease and are able to recover without the need for hospitalization. The rest are in most cases forced to go to hospital due to pulmonary complications or an increased lack of oxygen. This often requires intensive treatment which is only the beginning of a long recovery. The post-Covid sequelae are therefore not to be neglected, because they occur even in the minimal forms of the infection.

Time passes, but the symptoms remain

Since the first case reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, the Covid-19 does not discriminate according to social background, sex or age. As a result, no one is immune, including young people under 30, athletic and healthy. Months after their recovery, confirmed by a PCR test, they realize several sequelae that upset their daily lives. Despite the fact that people have been able to recover within a week of infection, their health is never fully recovered.

“Based on several studies, a large number of patients continue to suffer from certain sequelae, mainly fatigue, headaches, neuropsychiatric signs, namely problems with concentration, attention, sleep or anxiety,” as well as neurological manifestations in the upper and lower limbs, ”said Tayeb Hamdi, physician and researcher in health policies and systems. According to our interlocutor, fatigue, cough and loss of smell, also known as “post-infectious anosmia” or “post-viral anosmia”, are symptoms to be taken into account.

A life without odor

In addition, a study presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in April 2021 and conducted by Dr. Johannes Frasnelli of the University of Quebec, reveals that as a result of this neurosensory disorder, the sense of smell is one the first functions that we risk losing at the end of the disease and one of the most difficult to recover. Indeed, olfactory functions take up to 5 months to recover to 100%. The aforementioned study was carried out on 813 workers who tested positive five months after their diagnosis in order to assess their sense of taste and smell. It turned out that 580 people suffered from anosmia, of which 297 participants (51%) had not succeeded in fully recovering it during the same period. On a scale of 0 to 10, participants rated their sense of smell as 7 out of 10 after infection, compared to 9 out of 10 before they contracted the disease. Hence the interest of “olfactory training” which is a simple and easy treatment to perform at home, with the aim of recovering lost olfactory capacities. In this regard, it suffices to smell essential oils daily which will allow the brain to reconnect with the sensations triggered by odors.

The “long Covid” worries

Six out of ten hospitalized patients still suffer from at least one symptom after six months, at least this is what the results of a French study on “Covid longs” show, results published Monday, May 10 in the specialist journal Clinical Microbiology and Infection. The latter indicated that 10 to 15% of patients reported a “long Covid”, the symptoms of which exceed a month. These persist “more frequently in those admitted to intensive care, but, for the time being, we do not know whether it is the disease or the intensive care unit that promotes this persistence”, underlined Jade Ghosn, coordinator of the study and professor in the infectious and tropical diseases department of the Bichat Claude-Bernard AP-HP Hospital. A finding that was confirmed to us by Mr. Hamdi who further affirmed that “the studies remain contradictory because research is still in progress to clearly identify the effects of the virus”, noting that “at the beginning, we believe that these symptoms are due to the isolation and the long time spent in the hospital, far from relatives, or even because of the treatments that the patients were receiving because of the artificial coma necessary to intubate them and benefit from artificial respiration ” , but studies have proven otherwise.

In conclusion, Mr. Hamdi said that the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as all scientific health authorities in the world recommend to take care of these patients correctly so that they resume a normal life. One third of these patients were unable to return to work six months after hospitalization.

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HOUSTON CURTIS: TWO MORE ANECDOTES FROM MOLLY’S GAME WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND TOBEY MAGUIRE

by archyw

I remember a long-term bet with Tobey Maguire. We both wanted to know who would be able to do the most consecutive winning sessions. I was coming out of a series of positive sessions for a gain of three million dollars, so I was pretty confident. We finally agreed to bet $ 25,000 on whoever would be able to win the most sessions out of the next ten.

It was obviously a small bet, but it was more than enough to rekindle our competitive spirit. I remember Molly asking me why I put so much importance on this bet when we were both winning hundreds of thousands of dollars per session. I told him that it was not a question of money but rather of pride. The idea was fair for each to earn the right to laugh at each other for months.

With Tobey, betting was never easy because he always took care to arrange a whole series of small parameters in his favor. For example, he tended to arrive late for the game and leave at a specific time. Me, on the other hand, I showed up even before the first hand and if it turned out that the game was good, I would stay until sunrise or at least as long as I felt capable of winning. . Knowing this, Tobey requested that the calculation of profit or loss be limited to the period in which he was present, so after his arrival and until 11 p.m. at the latest in most cases. He knew I would stay later, so if I happened to be negative at 11 p.m. I would have no escape. I negotiated a bit and got the right to play until midnight if I happened to be in the red at 11pm. On the other hand, he would have the possibility of stopping the counter at 11 p.m. if he wished.

In the first edition of the bet, I won nine sessions in a row and Tobey only eight, which gave me additional loot of $ 25,000 … and the right to chamber it for a short time. We did in fact put it back for the next ten sessions, and this time the race was even closer.

On the 9 p.m. cut, Tobey was positive for $ 200,000. He then decided to let his stack run until 11 p.m. to secure a ninth session in the green out of ten. For my part, I had won eight but this time I was in the red. However, I still had a little time to reverse the trend and get a perfect tie.

Tobey stayed around to try and distract me before the countdown ran out. Luckily for me, a good opportunity finally presented itself around 11:45 pm. I had a pair of eights in hand, hit a set and went from a deficit of $ 125,000 to a gain of $ 48,000 on the session.

I took a break with the intention of leaving it there. A tie suited me very well. Tobey seemed to be taking it pretty well. He shook my hand as he slipped me that it was a shame for each of us to have to leave such a good part prematurely. And while he was saying that, he pointed to my seat to indicate that cards had just been dealt to me at the button.

I sat down, looked at my cards and discovered two great aces. In my mind, the bet was settled. We had just shaken hands and if I were to squander any money now, those losses would not be counted. There were two limpers and then a raise of $ 10,000. I pushed $ 50,000 in front of me. The first of my opponents called, the second folded and the third, this devil of Bob Safi who had the annoying habit of cracking me aces, turned to Tobey: “Hey man, this bet with Houston, how’s it going if he’s involved in a big pot just before midnight and the twelve knocks sound in the middle? “

We agreed that our balance sheets would be calculated on the basis of what we had in front of us, but without including what was in the middle during a stroke. That said, I didn’t think I had to worry because in my mind, midnight had passed. Except it wasn’t. I glanced at my phone and discovered with dismay that it was exactly 11.58pm. Which meant that if Bobby played the clock until midnight, my bet with Tobey would be lost.

Today, looking back, I know exactly what happened that night. Tobey had just stayed in the corner hoping to set me up. He wanted to distract me, hoping that the conditions would end up being right for him. And I fell into the trap like a bruise. Not only did Bob wait until 12:01 am to play the end of the stroke, but he also called my raise. Three hearts appeared on the flop. Bobby hired his stack, which I was only covering with $ 10,000, and I followed him before I saw the fourth heart he was waiting for. I went from a $ 50,000 profit to a six-figure loss … with a bonus of $ 25,000 to pay Tobey. My last memory of this evening is his demonstrative joy as I gazed at the board with annoyance.

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