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Washington extends Lukoil sanctions reprieve by three weeks as US, UK grant waivers for Bulgarian operations through 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/washington-extends-lukoil-sanctions-reprieve.html

Wait seriously why is the syncthing-fork repo gone?
#syncthing

Pro Senectute Kanton Züroch schliesst ihr Spitex Angebot
#zurich #Alter #Senioren

Spitex von Pro Senectute Zürich per Ende Jahr eingestellt
Pro Senectute Zürich muss ihren Spitex-Dienst ab Ende 2025 einstellen. Von dem Modell profitieren derzeit 180 Kundinnen und Kunden, um die sich 86 Angestellte kümmern. Geschäftsleiterin Véronique Tischhauser-Ducrot sucht mit Hochdruck nach einer Nachfolgelösung.

Good Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/

UK sanctions Russia's Lukoil and Rosneft, targets shadow fleet (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-expands-russia-sanctions-with-90-new-listings-2025-10-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p145#a251015p145

📢 US-Notenbank senkt Leitzins erstmals in diesem Jahr
Die US-Notenbank hat den Leitzins erstmals im laufenden Jahr gesenkt. Er wurde um einen Viertelpunkt auf die neue Spanne von 4,00 bis 4,25 Prozent heruntergesetzt. US-Präsident Trump hat den unabhängigen Zentralbankchef Powell immer wieder zu kräftigen Zinssenkungen aufgefordert.
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US-Notenbank Fed senkt Leitzins erstmals in diesem Jahr
Seit Dezember hatte die Fed den Leitzins nicht angetastet. Nun senkt die US-Notenbank ihn um einen Viertelprozentpunkt. Die Konjunkturprognose sieht optimistischer aus. Doch der Druck vonseiten des Präsidenten bleibt.

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health

Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells
Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible for destroying infected or abnormal cells. As anxiety severity increased, NK cell levels dropped even further, suggesting a stress-driven weakening of immune defenses.

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500% in the past year and its stock jumped 765% in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/us-san…

Nadeen and her sister need $2,000 to pay their tuition fees to continue studying.
If anyone wants to sponsor their education, this is your chance to gift our world two young dentists.
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#Gaza #Palestine #FediAid

The vOICe vision BCI can in principle also get around the frequency-time uncertainty principle (Heisenberg uncertainty principle) in sound waves, here by exploiting a priori knowledge of the limited set of frequencies used https://www.seeingwithsound.com/freqtime.htm