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An American who had been scheduled to appear as a star witness at the trial in Paris of an Islamic State operative was hospitalized Thursday in the French capital, casting doubt on whether he would still be able to testify about his role in the dramatic capture of the gunman that averted a possible mass slaughter aboard a high-speed train.
Spencer Stone’s lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, wouldn’t give details about what is ailing the former U.S. airman, citing medical privacy. He said Stone would not testify as planned on Thursday afternoon.
“I know that he is hospitalized. I don’t know why. I don’t know how he is,” de Montbrial said.
“The only thing I’m certain of is that he is not in a state to testify today. We are going to regroup this evening to gauge whether he can be heard tomorrow morning or afternoon.”
Stone, then a 23-year-old, was among passengers who helped subdue gunman Ayoub El Khazzani aboard the Amsterdam to Paris train in 2015.
Their heroics during the drama on Aug. 21, 2015, inspired Clint Eastwood to direct a Hollywood re-enactment: “The 15:17 to Paris.”
El Khazzani, a 31-year-old Moroccan, is on trial with three suspected accomplices. He risks life in prison if convicted of attempted terrorist murder.
El Khazzani boarded the train in Brussels armed with a Kalashnikov, nine clips with 30 rounds each, an automatic pistol and a cutter, according to investigators. Once aboard the train, El Khazzani lingered in a restroom between cars and then emerged bare-chested with his weapons.
One of the witnesses scheduled to testify on Thursday afternoon is Mark Moogalian, a French-American who wrestled the Kalashnikov off El Khazzani — before being shot himself by a pistol.
Stone has said he was coming out of a deep sleep when the gunman appeared. He and Alek Skarlatos, then a 22-year-old U.S. National Guardsman recently back from Afghanistan, snapped into action, tackling the gunman.
Stone, whose hand was injured by the cutter, is also credited with saving Moogalian, whose neck was squirting blood.
Pour l’un, c’est 94,5 % d’efficacité ; pour l’autre, c’est 90 %. Aux yeux du grand public, seuls ces deux chiffres comptent tant ils sont porteurs d’espoir dans la lutte contre le Covid-19. Mais pour la recherche médicale, les très prometteurs candidats-vaccins de la société américaine Moderna et de BioNTech, la start-up allemande associée au géant américain Pfizer, représentent aussi une percée majeure pour une technologie jugée prometteuse depuis longtemps mais qui n’a encore jamais prouvé son efficacité chez les humains.
La pire crise sanitaire depuis plus d’un siècle pourrait devenir le baptême du feu des thérapies à base d’ARN messager (ARNm) synthétique. C’est cette technique, en développement depuis les années 1970 sous l’impulsion de la chercheuse d’origine hongroise Katalin Karikó, qui a été utilisée par Moderna et BioNTech/Pfizer pour mettre au point leurs réponses au Covid-19.
C’est le message qui compte
Cette technique est très différente de celle utilisée pour les vaccins traditionnels, comme ceux contre la grippe par exemple. D’habitude, on injecte des bouts du virus inactivé ou une de ses protéines afin de déclencher une réaction du système immunitaire qui va se défendre en fabriquant des anticorps, protégeant ainsi la personne contre la maladie.
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Mais avec les vaccins de Moderna et BioNTech/Pfizer, “on n’injecte pas une protéine du Sars-CoV-2, mais un message qui va diriger la synthèse d’une de ses protéines dans le corps”, explique Bertrand Séraphin, directeur de recherche à l’Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC) du CNRS, contacté par France 24. L’ARN messager est en effet un vecteur qui transporte des informations jusqu’aux cellules afin de leur dire quelle protéine fabriquer. Dans le corps, “chaque gène va faire un ARN messager différent pour une protéine spécifique. C’est le dogme central de la biologie moléculaire”, résume ce spécialiste.
Les chercheurs de Moderna et BioNTech ont reproduit ce schéma en laboratoire à partir du génome du Sars-CoV-2. Ils y ont identifié une protéine du virus qui les intéressait, ont fabriqué un ARN messager doté des informations nécessaires, l’ont compacté dans une molécule qui ira transmettre ses ordres aux cellules après l’administration du vaccin. Avec cette technique, c’est le corps lui-même qui, au final, fabrique le petit bout de virus contre lequel il va ensuite développer des anticorps.
Si l’un des deux vaccins confirme son efficacité pour protéger la population contre le Covid-19, ce pourrait être le début d’une révolution thérapeutique qui va bien au-delà de cette pandémie. Jusqu’à présent, développer un vaccin contre un nouveau virus était un processus fastidieux et long qui nécessitait de recréer en laboratoire une protéine du virus ou un virus inactivé, “ce qui est compliqué car chaque cas est différent”, souligne Bertrand Séraphin.
As President Macron said in his speech on November 24: “The system of travel exemption forms will stay in place [for the first stage of deconfinement], as that is what has allowed us to get good results.”
This first stage of deconfinement will last until December 15, meaning travel exemption forms will be required for all journeys outside the home until this date at the earliest. In some circumstances, people will also need to carry supporting documents to justify journeys, such as cartes vitales, proof of address, or even tickets for events.
As non-essential shops reopen, and exercise is permitted within a 20km radius for up to three hours, we look at the extra documentation that will be required to leave the house.
What papers do I need to go to work?
As before, if you are leaving the house to go to work you will need a travel exemption form, a completed justification form from your employer, and some form of identification, such as a passport, ID card or carte vitale.
You should also carry proof of address, such as a quittance de loyer (proof of rent payments), gas or electricity bill, or taxe d’habitation bill, with your name on it.
What papers do I need to leave the house for family reasons?
In addition to a travel exemption form, you will need to provide some proof that the person you are going to help is a family member. This could be a birth certificate, or livret de famille, for example.
If you are running an errand, such as getting medicine for a family member, you should carry a copy of the prescription with their name on it.
Prime Minister Jean Castex also indicated that travel tickets could be used as a form of proof in a speech discussing previous curfew rules on October 15. He said people taking a train should show their travel tickets if they were asked by police. Family members travelling to a train station to collect a family member should show a copy ticket of the person travelling.
What papers do I need to leave the house for health reasons?
It is permitted to leave the house to attend medical appointments that cannot be carried out via video consultation.
In this case you must travel with a travel exemption form and proof of your appointment such as SMS confirmation, as should anyone who needs to travel with you.
If you are going to the pharmacy, a prescription with your name on it will be accepted as proof.
What papers do I need to go to school, or take someone to school?
As well as a travel exemption form you will need a completed justification form from the school, or from the Mairie if you are going to a crèche.
In order to sit an exam you will need to provide the letter informing you of the time and place of your exam.
Minors under the age of 18 do not need to carry travel exemption forms unless they are travelling alone.
What papers do I need to go to move house, or do a property viewing?
You can move house during confinement, with a maximum of six people allowed to help you.
You and any helpers should carry travel exemption forms and documentation such as proof of sale or a tenancy agreement.
Property viewings will be allowed from November 28. The prime minister will confirm whether estate agents will reopen in a speech today (November 26).
What papers do I need for cultural activities?
Cinemas, theatres and museums should reopen from December 15. It is not yet known whether travel exemption forms will be required for journeys after this date, but evening curfew measures from 21:00–05:00 will be reintroduced.
The President said in his speech: “Cinemas, theatres and museums can reopen, with health protocols in place, and a timestamp system in place to allow performances at the end of the day.”
This suggests that tickets with the time written on them can be used as justification for being outside in curfew hours.
Culture Minister Roselyn Bachelot has also said that, when theatres reopen, performances will be able to go on until 21:00.
The travel exemption form is available to print and download here (in French). There is an English version available and also an easy-read version with pictograms. There is also a digital version available via the TousAntiCovid smartphone app.
Instead, we can acknowledge that when one part of our life improves, it radiates out to everything else. When we achieve something, we are better equipped for the future. Life tends to gradually get better as we keep working on it; it only gets worse if we accomplish something then shut down because we are afraid of our own power.This happens because of downplaying. We unconsciously try to downplay the magnitude of our successes and achievements because there are two aspects to success that are in direct opposition to our fundamental needs to feel as though we still have a lot left to do and to be liked by others. The idea of having “made it” makes us afraid that we are reaching the pinnacle and therefore will fall off of it. If we acknowledge that we’ve arrived, what goals remain? It is a feeling akin to death, so we instead find another measure to work toward.Sometimes I feel relaxed about the drought; I picture myself going on long walks, knitting, reading novels and generally leading the life of a person who has never had to worry about money. Then I remember I really do have to worry about money.
I don’t know what to write because I do not feel connected to anything at the moment. I worry I would be cheating editors out of money by writing about politics, given that what they usually pay for is at least a degree of insider knowledge. The only contact I have had with members of Parliament in the past month is when one MP messaged me to say he had found one of my tweets funny. I have no insider knowledge anymore. Maybe I should take the money anyway.
Though so many of us long for the moment when we feel as though we have finally arrived and achieved the measures of success we so deeply desire, we often receive them only to then feel as though they aren’t that great, impressive, or that they don’t make us feel as good as we thought they would.
Am I a journalist or the story? Gonzo style blurs the boundaries by default. I don’t mind being a character in my own work, but I don’t want to be mere spectacle either. Some sideshow act, a professional damsel in distress.
It did not happen. I kept walking until I reached Soho. Soho didn’t help either. Instead, I threw myself into a vague project two friends and I have started discussing. As far as I can tell, they are treating it as a potentially interesting long shot which they can ponder when they get a moment away from their full-time job. I, meanwhile, have been approaching it with the intensity of someone told they must invent time travel in a week in order to save humanity.
I have considered approaching more editors and tweeting more about being open to commissions, but I worry about the fine line between bravado and desperation. Someone who clearly really wants to have sex with you is good; someone who clearly really wants to have sex with you or anyone or two pillows sellotaped to one another is not. I worry the same goes for writing.
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These exhibitions serve a purpose. Yet modern activism so often consists of only exhibition: petty drama by bit players while the forces that mobilize these small people build and crest unabated. JD loses his job, but far right xenophobia and rage continue to permeate the American consciousness. The Overton Window relentlessly shifts.
The same problem marred and perhaps doomed Portland’s protests this summer as well. A police station’s glass doors shatter during a direct action, but the police unions that protect cops from anything resembling accountability remain very much intact. “Windows can be repaired,” activists often say when taken to task for property damage, but isn’t that also an argument against the efficacy of breaking them? With your brick you demand justice, but the nature of that demand presupposes the existence of the very system that will continue to produce injustice long after the window is repaired.Likewise, when we are around other people, we do not stand firmly in our pride because we are taught it is a bad thing (and when done in an unhealthy way, it is). What we are sensing is the feeling of being “better than” others because we have achieved something. This makes us uncomfortable because we know it’s both untrue and unkind.When we downplay our own successes in life, we are either trying to make ourselves seem less impressive so others do not feel threatened and therefore like us more, or we are trying to avoid the sense that we have “made it,” because we are afraid of peaking.
It is hard to explain but I am both incredibly stressed and incredibly relaxed about money. I know I’m in a dicey financial situation but purchases no longer feel real; I make them without thinking about the impact they will have on the aforementioned dicey financial situation. In the past fortnight I bought a big cactus for £35 and a big ceramic pot to put the big cactus in for £21. It was both irresponsible and inconsequential, depending on the mood I’m in.
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In 2012, Nicole Russell’s mother became a foster parent to a four-year-old girl who suffered from severe night terrors, something not uncommon for children dealing with the foster system or homelessness. Witnessing the experience of her little sister gave Russell a radical idea.
The systemic dangers America faces have seldom been larger than they are now. A wave of exponential, uncontrolled COVID crashes down upon us. Hot on its heels comes the mental hazards of social isolation and the material catastrophe of widespread economic crisis. Evictions. Job loss. Hunger. Physical, mental, and emotional impoverishment. All the while, the effects of climate change slither, slow and enormous, onto the stage.
I am aware that I should make the most of the flexibility freelancing gives me, so I have been thinking about what to write about that isn’t politics. I am furious I don’t have a live-in partner, children or pets — not because they would keep me company, but because I could milk them for content. I eye my plants suspiciously. Could I write about them? Could I write about my lamp? Could I write about the myriad of ailments I have diagnosed myself with? Like a funny list?
The reality is that we are able to acknowledge and appreciate other people’s diverse accomplishments and talents while still being happy about our own. Instead of shrugging off a compliment, we can respond by saying: “Thank you, I worked very hard, and I’m happy to be here.”
If the fear is that we are “peaking” too soon, we have to reform our idea of progress. We do not get better, only to get worse again. We do not achieve one thing, only to lose it and return to what we were before. That instinct is a self-sabotaging behavior, one that wants to keep us within our old comfort zone.
I like reporting because it is fundamentally quite lazy; you just have to find an interesting topic then find some people to tell you about it. I don’t mind the idea of more personal writing but I don’t know how to go about it. Should I write about my insomnia? The fact that my bathtub is too small? It would be easier if things were happening to me.
“The thought of half a million children navigating the foster care system who might not have a teddy bear to hold on to or a parent to run to in the next room just didn’t sit right with me,” Russell told ZORA. In partnership with her mom, she started the Precious Dreams Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children cope with fear and anxiety in healthy ways. “The number one tool that we promote is journaling. If a child doesn’t have someone to talk to, they can use that journal to express those emotions or thoughts onto paper at night but it can also help them with just processing how they’re feeling with things changing from day to day.”
I have been doing a lot of budgeting; in a way, arranging and rearranging the little lumps of money I have and will receive from the state feels more like my job than my job does. Should this £75 go towards my 2022 holiday fund? Complement my salary in May 2021 when the Treasury stops funding my life? Be used to make my flat a little bit nicer, given how much time I spend there now? I guess I’ll have to take the afternoon off to think about it. I just can’t take these decisions lightly.
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