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From the first lines of the Silence of the gods, sixth novel by Algerian writer Yahia Belaskri, one narrator warns: ” I know. In the footsteps of ancestors, where the wedding of the sun and the stone is celebrated, in the shadow of the mountain, vertigo is born. [?] Here is the story of the men who gave birth to me. They abandoned all measure and ignored the impulse of the heart, preferring the darkness of crime to it. “ Here is the reader warned: as the chapters of the book progress – like so many scenes from a play – peace will gradually give way to tragedy.

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The story begins in the small “Village of the Source of the goats”, a quiet village, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city. Life flows there serene, as if out of time. ?The stones rustle and roll at the slightest quiver of the air, the sand moves slowly, grain by grain. “ The men cultivate their plots of land, the women take care of the household and the education of the children. We meet, we find ourselves between families and neighbors, on the village square, at the café, at the grocery store, at the mosque, at school. An administrative delegate manages municipal affairs, an imam shows the right path, a marabout relieves the ailments of women and the village madman utters his prophecies in a language that no one understands.

Barbary and reconciliation

One fine day, for some unexplained reason, the only road leading to the village is cut off by a squad of soldiers sent by the central power. No one being able to derogate from the seigneurial ordinance of “His Excellency the Master, the chief of chefs”, the village finds itself immersed in total isolation, without the slightest access to the outside world. With the authority conferred on him by his stature as a major landowner, Abbas the Faun soon designated his neighbor Abdelkrim as responsible for the community’s misfortune. “If the army closes the road, it must be to punish us, he says. I tell myself that one of us is bringing the curse on the village. “

A period of suspicion and hatred then opens. Joined by partisans, Abbas will never cease to banish the innocent Abdelkrim, to the point of forcing him and all his family into exile. But the wind of violence has not finished blowing on the village and the peak is reached when Baki, the main support of Abdelkrim, then Ziani the Madman are in their turn delivered to the popular vindictiveness. The novelist nevertheless reserves for readers the outcome of a reconciliation after the barbarism.

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As Abbas’s power diminished, that of women grew. Under the leadership of Zohra, the figures of Badra, Setti and Aïcha will gradually assert themselves as the architects of a general redemption. But if the novel evolves in this way, into a feminist allegory of freedom, it will nonetheless have gone through paroxysms of hatred. And although the novelist has chosen to give his story the general tone of a legend, we can easily guess that he evokes here the extremisms which have grieved Algeria and which today affect other countries or territories divided by religious or ethnic prejudices.

A precise and refined language

But Yahia Belaskri, a former journalist who became a poet and novelist during his exile in France, writes above all a book whose style allows us to transcend this immense bruising. The Silence of the Gods offers a magnificent pleasure of reading. We are caught by the elegant slowness of his sentence, charmed by his poems (“Don’t grieve me / show off my wounds / my rout is consumed / my mouth burns with bitterness”) and by its language, as precise as it is refined. One follows the destiny of his various characters by throbbing to the rhythm of their hopes and torments; one is by their side, under the incandescent sun, or in the hostility and coldness of the night. And we finally want to believe, with its heroines, in the advent of a new era.

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?I am from nowhere and from all the places where women and men strive to reduce fear and stop crime, from all places where human kindness is reinvented. This is my home, my only home ?, the narrator concludes magnificently, like the reciter of a tragic epic finally appeased.

The silence of the gods, by Yahia Belaskri, ed. Zulma, 224 pages, 17.50 euros.

Kidi Bebey

Read also Algerian Yahia Belaskri awarded at the Etonnants Voyageurs festival

Barbary and reconciliation

Read also “Two trunks and a pot”, Ananda Devi’s writing lessons

A precise and refined language

Read also “The Book of Elias”, by Chab, a plunge into the terror of Sahelian terrorism

The silence of the gods, by Yahia Belaskri, ed. Zulma, 224 pages, 17.50 euros.

Kidi Bebey

If you are passionate about crossovers of characters and epic stories, moments like this are little jewels that cinema and series give us. Anthony Hopkins He sent a letter via email to the actor Bryan Cranston telling him that he marathoned “Breaking Bad”, and praises him for his portrayal of the character of Walter White.

While this message is not recent, it was put into effect again as it is always a good occasion to tell that this exchange of talents (like from Hannibal Lecter to White) really happened. In fact, it became known in October 2013, after being published on the official Facebook page of Steven Michael Quezada (agent Steven Gomez) and although the post was removed, the medium The Hollyood Reporter confirmed the authenticity of the text and that it was from the pen and handwriting of the actor and Oscar winner for “The Silence of the Innocents” (1991).

“Dear Mr. Cranston”, begins by addressing Hopkings. “As I wanted to write this email, I got in touch with Jeremy Barber, since we are both represented by UTA (United Talent Agency). A great agency,” he reveals to guarantee the source through which he obtained his contact.

Bryan Cranston como Walter White

“I just finished a marathon of ‘Breaking Bad’ from episode one of the first season to the last eight chapters of the fifth,” he tells her and claims to have downloaded it from Amazon. “It was a total of two weeks of addictive vision”, recognize.

The content of the letter is wonderful in itself, so we share it with you so you can continue reading it in full below:

I had never seen anything like it. Shiny! His performance as Walter White was the best performance I ever saw in my entire life.. I know there is a lot of smoke and sick garbage in the business, and I have somewhat given up hope on everything.

But this work of hers is spectacular, absolutely stunning. What is extraordinary is the sheer power of each one in the entire production. How many were there? Five or six years of work? How the producers – being one of them – the writers, the directors, the cameramen … each department managed to maintain discipline and control from the beginning to the end, was – that word so worn – formidable.

What began as a black comedy descended into a maze of blood, destruction, and hell. It was like a great Jacobin, Shakespearean or Greek tragedy.

If you ever have a chance, could you please convey my admiration to everyone: Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Steven Michael Quezada? Everyone, everyone gave acting master classes. The list is endless.

Thanks. That kind of artwork is exotic and when, once in a while, it happens, as in this epic job, it restores confidence. You and everyone in the cast are the best actors I have ever seen..

That may sound like smoke. But is not. It is almost midnight in Malibu and I feel compelled to write this email.

Congratulations and my deepest respect. You are truly a great, great actor.

Best regards, Tony Hopkins.

In this note:

Bryan Cranston como Walter White

The content of the letter is wonderful in itself, so we share it with you so you can continue reading it in full below:

What began as a black comedy descended into a maze of blood, destruction, and hell. It was like a great Jacobin, Shakespearean or Greek tragedy.

Thanks. That kind of artwork is exotic and when, once in a while, it happens, as in this epic job, it restores confidence. You and everyone in the cast are the best actors I have ever seen..

That may sound like smoke. But is not. It is almost midnight in Malibu and I feel compelled to write this email.

Congratulations and my deepest respect. You are truly a great, great actor.

Best regards, Tony Hopkins.

In this note:

iM Global Partner, which provides distribution, regulatory and other support to independent boutique investment managers, has acquired a minority stake in equity manager Sirios Capital Management, the company confirmed to Institutional Investor.

The investment is the third for iM Global Partner, which was recently renamed from iM Square. The firm has offices in Paris, London and Philadelphia and is backed by Paris-based private equity firm Eurazeo and French asset manager Amundi.

Sirios was co-founded by John Brennan in 1999 and invests in mid- and large cap stocks in long-short and long-only funds.

Philippe Couvrecelle, chairman and CEO of iM Global, tells Institutional Investor that the firm took a stake in Sirios because it wants managers in its stable that can shield investors from stressed markets. Long-short equity funds, originally designed to protect investors in down markets, have struggled as a category for several years as the markets have climbed with little volatility.

?But the coming years will be much more difficult than the previous three years,? says Couvrecelle, who declined to provide the value of the deal. ?Our expectation is to have partners with an investment process adapted for difficult markets.?

[II Deep Dive: iM Square Secures Funding to Buy Stakes in Asset Managers]

iM Global and Boston-based Sirios have been in conversations for a year and a half, but talks accelerated in March when iM Global added a U.S. distribution arm. At the time, it hired Jeffrey Seeley, who earlier in his career was head of distribution at AMG Funds, as chief operating officer for the U.S. and head of distribution.

iM Global looks for mangers with long track records and who will stick with a style through ups and downs. In addition, it wants managers that want to focus solely on investing and can benefit from sales, marketing, and other business-building help.

Sirios?s long-short equity strategy has generated an annualized return of almost 9 percent for 19 years. The U.S. equity market has returned about 5.6 percent over the same time period.

Still, Sirios, which has 28 staffers, is managing just $2.3 billion, down from a peak of about $4 billion in 2015. Its style ? despite good long-term returns ? has been out of favor.

?Now is a good time in the cycle to come back to this kind of strategy. Two to three years from now it will be less attractive,? says Couvrecelle.

That said, Couvrecelle stresses that unlike a private equity firm, iM Global has no plans to sell its stake in five to seven years. ?We will be there for good times and more difficult times,? he says.

iM Global thinks Sirios has about $3 to $4 billion in capacity in its long-short equity strategy and can handle much more in two smaller strategies: a long-only investment and a liquid alternatives fund.

iM Global previously invested in Polen Capital, a global growth manager based in Boca Raton, and Dolan McEniry Capital Management, a Chicago-based U.S. corporate bond manager.

Sirios was co-founded by John Brennan in 1999 and invests in mid- and large cap stocks in long-short and long-only funds.

[II Deep Dive: iM Square Secures Funding to Buy Stakes in Asset Managers]

Sirios?s long-short equity strategy has generated an annualized return of almost 9 percent for 19 years. The U.S. equity market has returned about 5.6 percent over the same time period.

Still, Sirios, which has 28 staffers, is managing just $2.3 billion, down from a peak of about $4 billion in 2015. Its style ? despite good long-term returns ? has been out of favor.

?Now is a good time in the cycle to come back to this kind of strategy. Two to three years from now it will be less attractive,? says Couvrecelle.

iM Global previously invested in Polen Capital, a global growth manager based in Boca Raton, and Dolan McEniry Capital Management, a Chicago-based U.S. corporate bond manager.

Abdallah Hamdok, prime minister sidelined after the military coup in Sudan, must return to his post under an agreement reached with the country’s strongman General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, announced on Sunday November 21 mediators.

“A political agreement has been reached between General Bourhane, Abdallah Hamdok, political forces and civil society organizations for Hamdok’s return to his post and the release of political detainees”said one of the Sudanese mediators, Fadlallah Burma, a leader of the opposition Umma party. A group of Sudanese mediators issued a statement confirming the deal.

This includes the reinstatement of Mr. Hamdok in his functions, the release of the detainees and the return to the political, legal and constitutional consensus that managed the transition period launched after the fall in 2019 of the regime of General Omar Al-Bashir in 2019. , dismissed by the army under pressure from the street.

“The agreement will be officially announced later today, after the signing of the terms of the agreement and the accompanying political declaration”, according to the press release.

General Bourhane, until then inflexible

The military were slow to name the new government they had been promising for weeks after Mr. Hamdok was sidelined, placed under house arrest.

But faced with calls for the return of civil power, General Al-Bourhane had until then remained inflexible. He had reappointed to the head of the highest institution of the transition, the Sovereignty Council, and had renewed all its military or pro-army members and appointed apolitical civilians. General Bourhane, on the other hand, seemed to loosen the grip the day after Wednesday’s murderous day, by re-establishing the country’s Internet connection, cut since he took power on October 25.

In leading a coup on October 25, General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane, head of the army, reshuffled the cards for a shaky transition in Sudan. He arrested almost all civilians in power, put an end to the sacred union formed by civilians and soldiers and declared a state of emergency.

Sudanese demonstrate against the military coup in Khartoum, the country's capital, on November 17, 2021. — Sudanese demonstrate against the military coup in Khartoum, the country’s capital, on November 17, 2021.

Since then, protests against the army calling for the return of civilian power have taken place, mainly in Khartoum, and have often been suppressed. On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators marched in Khartoum-Nord, a suburb of the capital, erected barricades in the streets and set tires on fire, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent. ?No to military power! “, they chanted. Others took to the streets in the east and south of the capital, according to witnesses. About 40 people have died since the October 25 coup, most of them protesters.

Read also Sudan returns to the repressive methods of the old regime

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“The agreement will be officially announced later today, after the signing of the terms of the agreement and the accompanying political declaration”, according to the press release.

General Bourhane, until then inflexible

The military were slow to name the new government they had been promising for weeks after Mr. Hamdok was sidelined, placed under house arrest.

Read also Sudan returns to the repressive methods of the old regime

The World with AFP

Journal Reference:

Harald Desing, Rolf Widmer. Reducing climate risks with fast and complete energy transitions: applying the precautionary principle to the Paris agreement. Environmental Research Letters, 2021; DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac36f9

?Who would board an airplane, if the chance to arrive safely would only be 50 percent?? ask Harald Desing and Rolf Widmer at the very beginning of their publication. On our journey into the future with spaceship Earth, we don?t have the choice of getting on or off. It is therefore all the more astonishing that even with optimistic transition pathways of the IPCC (?Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change?), the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5°C are only around 50 percent.

Radically simplified approach

So, we need to do more to increase the chances to arrive in a safe future, the two Empa researchers reasoned. And started doing the math to find the physical limit to accelerating the energy transition. Using a model developed specifically for this purpose in Empa?s ?Technology and Society? research lab, they simplified the global economy into a radical, clear picture: there is a ?fossil engine? that combines all of today?s non-renewable energy systems and converts fossil fuels into electricity. And there is a ?solar machine? that generates electricity from sunlight.

Since the solar potential on the already sealed roofs, facades, parking lots and other infrastructure is sufficient for the turnaround, there is no need for neither greenfield solar farms nor huge wind farms. Clearly, we need to shut down the fossil machine as soon as possible and build and operate the other, solar machine. The construction of the solar machine first and foremost needs energy, which at the beginning of the energy transition can only come from the fossil machine. How can we do that with the lowest possible cumulative emissions? Because the temperature of the atmosphere depends not on current emissions, but on cumulative emissions ? including past emissions.

Full throttle, then brake hard

The two researchers calculated several scenarios and came to a clear conclusion: We would now have to utilize all fossil-fuel power plants to their maximum capacity and put the additional energy thus gained into building up the solar machine. ?Our simulation shows that the fastest possible conversion of the energy sector generates the lowest cumulative CO2 emissions,? says Desing. Paradoxically, this means that fossil emissions increase by up to 40% during the transition, but with the sole purpose of building solar infrastructure. Thus, the energy transition could be completed within five years, resulting in the lowest cumulative emissions. After that, the fossil engine can then be shut down.

But even the fastest possible energy transition still has a 20 percent chance of exceeding the 1.5°C target. We can?t go any lower than that, it?s already too late. And every year that we wait increases this probability further.

Conclusion: Theoretically, it would still be possible to reduce the probability of exceeding the climate target of 1.5°C to below 50% ? but only if we now speed up the energy transition. The research work was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Journal Reference:

Harald Desing, Rolf Widmer. Reducing climate risks with fast and complete energy transitions: applying the precautionary principle to the Paris agreement. Environmental Research Letters, 2021; DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac36f9

Radically simplified approach

Full throttle, then brake hard

Since Breaking Bad ended to date, there has been talk about how its actors did an excellent job behind the scenes. Even Aaron Paul himself praised his time on the series and having worked with actor Bryan Cranston.

February 09, 2021 · 15:49 hs

Talk about Bryan Cranston with his role as Walter White in the crime drama series Breaking Bad, from AMC, It is not possible to stop referring to the fact that due to his impeccable performance, he became a high-level actor in the field of television productions in recent times.

Cranston undoubtedly did an excellent job that has been highly praised by fans of Breaking Bad, and also by critics. It would also be unforgivable to deny that Vicen Gilligan He planned every elaborate detail in a very careful way, which resulted in brilliant work that he demonstrated in the series, until it culminated in 2013.

This, managed that the fans can not imagine another actor other than Cranston, playing Walter White. An exceptional job done by the actor, who until today has not stopped talking about the character.

And it is that, not only Cranston did a careful work with his character; Well, the actor who gave life to Walter’s ally in Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul with his role as Jesse Pinkman, became so ingrained with his character, that he also managed to become another high-level actor.

During an interview, Aaron Paul He said that he almost lost the role during the audition of Breaking Bad, because I wasn’t doing it right. In that moment, he remembered how difficult it was for him to land the role of Pinkman. However, with Gilligan’s help, he struggled to finally get it. Paul imposed a high level of demand on himself to perfectly portray his character as Jesse Pinkman. In this sense, he was pressured to get his best performance during the filming process of Breaking Bad.

Got so immersed Aaron Paul in his character as Jesse Pinkman, that outside the filming set, the actor did not stop being Walter’s ally. This was a situation that began to worry Paul. The method applied by the actor to give his best while filming the scenes, almost destroyed it in real life. But, it was Cranston who came to his rescue.

The actor, who had transformed into Jesse outside of his Breaking Bad; to the point of hanging around the darkest parts of Albuquerque during the wee hours of the morning, in the same world as Jesse Pinkman. He talked and smoked like Jesse, in order to delve into the same emotional world of his character, until the moment when he began to dream like Jesse.

This was the moment when he realized that he was not being like Paul, so he ended up feeling extremely exhausted and lost. In this regard, referring to Cranston, Paul commented in the interview the following:

“Bryan, in season two, I think he realized that I was exhausted one day and left one of the best lessons of my career with me.”

“‘You know Paul, it’s okay that at the end of the day, you take off your wardrobe, wash your makeup and be yourself.’ And I started doing that, it was all a lot easier for me from that day on.”

Since Breaking Bad ended to date, there has been talk about how its actors did an excellent job behind the scenes. Even Aaron Paul himself praised his time on the series and having worked with actor Bryan Cranston.

February 09, 2021 · 15:49 hs

This, managed that the fans can not imagine another actor other than Cranston, playing Walter White. An exceptional job done by the actor, who until today has not stopped talking about the character.

“Bryan, in season two, I think he realized that I was exhausted one day and left one of the best lessons of my career with me.”

“‘You know Paul, it’s okay that at the end of the day, you take off your wardrobe, wash your makeup and be yourself.’ And I started doing that, it was all a lot easier for me from that day on.”

Thirty years after throwing themselves off a cliff together in Ridley Scott’s iconic film Thelma & Louise, actresses Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis will celebrate the film’s anniversary on June 18 with an event to benefit the Los Regional Food Bank. Angeles and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media.

The event, which will take place in a Los Angeles drive-in, will begin with a conversation between the protagonists followed by a screening of the film nominated for six Academy Awards. There, audiences will be able to relive Callie Khouri’s scripted story that has Sarandon and Davis as accidental outlaws accompanied by a cast complete with Harvey Keitel and Brad Pitt.

“The intense reaction that the film generated was very surprising,” Davis recalled according to the specialized site The Hollywood Reporter.

“Thelma and Louise,” he added, “end up driving off a cliff, and still viewers are enthusiastic about their story. It made me realize how few opportunities we give women to come out of a movie feeling inspired and empowered by female characters. It changed everything about how I chose the roles in the future. “

For his part, Sarandon added: “When we were filming thirty years ago, we had no idea what kind of cultural impact it would continue to have for decades.”

?At the time, it was revolutionary to have two women in a movie who were not enemies and were having fun on screen together. I think it has been one of the greatest advances: today there are so many brilliant actresses who make films in which women are not adversaries to each other and have the power to determine their own destiny, “he concluded.

The movie
Thelma and Louise is a 1991 American road movie genre film devised and written by Callie Khouri, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise.

Other interpreters are Harvey Keitel, in the role of a detective who investigates the crimes of the two fugitives; Michael Madsen, as Louise’s boyfriend; Christopher McDonald, as Thelma’s husband; and Brad Pitt (in his first major role in Hollywood), as the thief who cheats on the two women. The film won an Oscar in 1991 for Best Original Screenplay.

The story was on the verge of not seeing the light, since its script aroused a significant mistrust among a good number of producers and directors.â ???? Mainly, it was the subject matter that was difficult for the studios to accept, in particular, the final anthological scene that contrasted with the classic Hollywood happy ending.

Even when it was released, the film generated intense controversy in the United States, basically because it showed two heroines who responded with weapons to sexist violence.â ???? However, the film, located at the intersection of several film genres, is today considered a classic that has come to influence other films and works of art and has become a landmark of the feminist movement.

“The intense reaction that the film generated was very surprising,” Davis recalled according to the specialized site The Hollywood Reporter.

For his part, Sarandon added: “When we were filming thirty years ago, we had no idea what kind of cultural impact it would continue to have for decades.”

The bloody repression in Sudan does not discourage opponents of the putsch. Calls to demonstrate, Sunday, November 21, were launched to demand the return of civil power, despite the announced death toll of 40, according to doctors, during the latest protest movements.

The United States and the African Union condemned this crackdown and called for avoiding recourse “Excessive” to force. The ambassador of Norway, member of the Troika in the maneuver on the Sudanese file with the United States and Great Britain, denounced it a repression “Intolerable”.

In leading a coup on October 25, General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, army chief, reshuffled the cards for a shaky transition in Sudan. He arrested almost all civilians in power, put an end to the sacred union formed by civilians and soldiers and declared a state of emergency. Since then, protests against the army calling for the return of civilian power have taken place mainly in Khartoum and have often been suppressed.

Read also Sudan returns to the repressive methods of the old regime

A burnt down police station

Pro-democracy activists called on social networks to demonstrate en masse on Sunday, November 21, against the coup with the hashtag “The Million March on November 21”. And the Association of Sudanese Professionals (APS), one of the spearheads of the popular revolt of 2019 which pushed the army to oust General Omar Al-Bashir after 30 years of rule, called on the Sudanese to maintain the pressure for a return of civil power.

On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators marched in Khartoum North, a suburb of the capital, erected barricades in the streets and set tires on fire. “No to military power”chanted the demonstrators. Others took to the streets in the east and south of the capital, according to witnesses. A police station was set on fire in the area. Protesters and law enforcement accused each other of being behind the incident.

Read also In Sudan, the city of Bahri mourns its martyrs

Wednesday November 17 was the deadliest day since the coup d’état with the deaths of sixteen people, most of them in Khartoum-North, a suburb linked to the capital by a bridge over the Nile, according to a union of pro-democracy doctors. One of them succumbed to her injuries on Saturday. “A 16-year-old boy shot in the head and leg on November 17 is a martyr”, the union said in a statement. His death brings the number of people, including teenagers, killed in protests since October 25 to 40. The vast majority are protesters.

Police say they never opened fire on the protesters. She only identifies one dead and 30 injured among them due, according to her, to tear gas, against 89 injured police officers. Authorities said in a statement on Saturday that an investigation would be launched into the killed protesters. In Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, demonstrators denounced the crackdown, chanting: “Down with military power”.

General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane inflexible

After the worsening of the violence, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday “Deeply concerned” repression and urged the military to allow peaceful protests, reiterating the need to “Restore the civilian-led transition”.

Read also Antony Blinken in Africa to turn the page on the Trump years

The African Union, which suspended Sudan, also condemned “In the strongest terms” Wednesday’s crackdown and called for “Democratic transition”, according to a statement on Saturday. For its part, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded the release of reporters arrested while covering the protests, including Ali Farsab, who the organization said was beaten and shot on Wednesday.

Faced with calls for the return of civil power, General Bourhane remains inflexible. He renamed himself at the head of the highest institution of the transition, the Sovereignty Council, and renewed all its military or pro-army members and appointed apolitical civilians. The military, on the other hand, is slow to appoint a new government that they had been promising for weeks after Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok was sidelined, placed under house arrest.

For Norwegian Ambassador Therese Loken Gheziel, the world fed “High hopes” in Sudan, which were showered by the coup.

The World with AFP

Read also Sudan returns to the repressive methods of the old regime

A burnt down police station

Read also In Sudan, the city of Bahri mourns its martyrs

General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane inflexible

Read also Antony Blinken in Africa to turn the page on the Trump years

For Norwegian Ambassador Therese Loken Gheziel, the world fed “High hopes” in Sudan, which were showered by the coup.

The World with AFP

Journal Reference:

Yair Margalit, Yu-Kun Lu, Furkan Ça?r? Top, Wolfgang Ketterle. Pauli blocking of light scattering in degenerate fermions. Science, 2021; 374 (6570): 976 DOI: 10.1126/science.abi6153

Now, MIT physicists have observed the Pauli exclusion principle, or Pauli blocking, in a completely new way: They?ve found that the effect can suppress how a cloud of atoms scatters light.

Normally, when photons of light penetrate a cloud of atoms, the particles can ping off each other like billiard balls, scattering photons in every direction to radiate light, and thus make the cloud visible. However, the MIT team observed that when atoms are supercooled and ultrasqueezed, the Pauli effect kicks in and the particles effectively have less room to scatter light. The photons instead stream through, without being scattered.

In their experiments, the physicists observed this effect in a cloud of lithium atoms. As they were made colder and more dense, the atoms scattered less light and became progressively dimmer. The researchers suspect that if they could push the conditions further, to temperatures of absolute zero, the cloud would become entirely invisible.

The team?s results, reported in Science, represent the first observation of Pauli blocking?s effect on light-scattering by atoms. This effect was predicted 30 years ago but not observed until now.

?Pauli blocking in general has been proven, and is absolutely essential for the stability of the world around us,? says Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. Arthur Professor of Physics at MIT. ?What we?ve observed is one very special and simple form of Pauli blocking, which is that it prevents an atom from what all atoms would naturally do: scatter light. This is the first clear observation that this effect exists, and it shows a new phenomenon in physics.?

Ketterle?s co-authors are lead author and former MIT postdoc Yair Margalit, graduate student Yukun Lu, and Furkan Top PhD ?20. The team is affiliated with the MIT Physics Department, the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and MIT?s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE).

A light kick

When Ketterle came to MIT as a postdoc 30 years ago, his mentor, David Pritchard, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, made a prediction that Pauli blocking would suppress the way certain atoms known as fermions scatter light.

His idea, broadly speaking, was that if atoms were frozen to a near standstill and squeezed into a tight enough space, the atoms would behave like electrons in packed energy shells, with no room to shift their velocity, or position. If photons of light were to stream in, they wouldn?t be able to scatter off and illuminate the atoms.

?An atom can only scatter a photon if it can absorb the force of its kick, by moving to another chair,? explains Ketterle, invoking the arena seating analogy. ?If all other chairs are occupied, it no longer has the ability to absorb the kick and scatter the photon. So, the atom becomes transparent.?

?This phenomenon had never been observed before, because people were not able to generate clouds that were cold and dense enough,? Ketterle adds.

?Controlling the atomic world?

In recent years, physicists including those in Ketterle?s group have developed magnetic and laser-based techniques to bring atoms down to ultracold temperatures. The limiting factor, he says, was density.

?If the density is not high enough, an atom can still scatter light by jumping over a few chairs until it finds some room,? Ketterle says. ?That was the bottleneck.?

In their new study, he and his colleagues used techniques they developed previously to first freeze a cloud of fermions ? in this case, a special isotope of lithium atom, which has three electrons, three protons, and three neutrons. They froze a cloud of lithium atoms down to 20 microkelvins, which is about 1/100,000 the temperature of interstellar space.

?We then used a tightly focused laser to squeeze the ultracold atoms to record densities, which reached about a quadrillion atoms per cubic centimeter,? Lu explains.

The researchers then shone another laser beam into the cloud, which they carefully calibrated so that its photons would not heat up the ultracold atoms or alter their density as the light passed through. Finally, they used a lens and camera to capture and count the photons that managed to scatter away.

?We?re actually counting a few hundred photons, which is really amazing,? Margalit says. ?A photon is such a little amount of light, but our equipment is so sensitive that we can see them as a small blob of light on the camera.?

At progressively colder temperatures and higher densities, the atoms scattered less and less light, just as Pritchard?s theory predicted. At their coldest, at around 20 microkelvin, the atoms were 38 percent dimmer, meaning they scattered 38 percent less light than less cold, less dense atoms.

?This regime of ultracold and very dense clouds has other effects that could possibly deceive us,? Margalit says. ?So, we spent a few good months sifting through and putting aside these effects, to get the clearest measurement.?

Now that the team has observed Pauli blocking can indeed affect an atom?s ability to scatter light, Ketterle says this fundamental knowledge may be used to develop light-suppressing materials, for instance to preserve data in quantum computers.

?Whenever we control the quantum world, like in quantum computers, light scattering is a problem, and means that information is leaking out of your quantum computer,? he muses. ?This is one way to suppress light scattering, and we are contributing to the general theme of controlling the atomic world.?

This research was funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. Related work by a team from the University of Colorado appears in the same issue of Science.

Journal Reference:

Yair Margalit, Yu-Kun Lu, Furkan Ça?r? Top, Wolfgang Ketterle. Pauli blocking of light scattering in degenerate fermions. Science, 2021; 374 (6570): 976 DOI: 10.1126/science.abi6153

Now, MIT physicists have observed the Pauli exclusion principle, or Pauli blocking, in a completely new way: They?ve found that the effect can suppress how a cloud of atoms scatters light.

The team?s results, reported in Science, represent the first observation of Pauli blocking?s effect on light-scattering by atoms. This effect was predicted 30 years ago but not observed until now.

A light kick

?This phenomenon had never been observed before, because people were not able to generate clouds that were cold and dense enough,? Ketterle adds.

?Controlling the atomic world?

?If the density is not high enough, an atom can still scatter light by jumping over a few chairs until it finds some room,? Ketterle says. ?That was the bottleneck.?

?We then used a tightly focused laser to squeeze the ultracold atoms to record densities, which reached about a quadrillion atoms per cubic centimeter,? Lu explains.

This research was funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. Related work by a team from the University of Colorado appears in the same issue of Science.

Pinocchio is one of those classic stories that we know almost literally, regardless of age and generation to which we belong. And in that sense, perhaps we owe a lot to the iconic animated adaptation that Disney released in 1940.

Well, as several will surely recall, the Mickey Mouse studio is targeting a live-action for this iconic character with everything and Tom Hanks on board the project. And what do they believe? We already have more details about this delivery.

This time we will make a recap of what we know so far of said movie.

Pinocchio. Photo: Disney.

There is already an idea of ??when the film opens

Disney It constantly has a catalog full of projects and with the arrival of its streaming platform two years ago, things get more fierce. And among all the many feature films he’s working on, Pinocchio’s live-action is one of the most anticipated.

Although the tape has been in the studio’s sights for a while, The truth is that until just in 2020 specific details of the project were given. And since then, little by little we have been scratching at the information. Luckily, we have a major update on the release of this movie.

According to what it reports Collider, the live-action of Pinocchio will be released mid-late 2022. So that you have certainty of what we tell you, the matter is like this: it was the financial director of Disney, Christine McCarthy, who revealed in a recent Q&A that the film will hit Disney + between July and September next year.

Tom Hanks could play Geppetto in live action 'Pinocchio'

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This information was later confirmed on Disney Plus Day on November 12, where the company of the famous mouse indicated that it will be until autumn of next year when we can see this production that sincerely promises a lot. Excitement to the thousand!

The live-action retelling of #Pinocchio, starring Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Luke Evans and the voices of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Keegan-Michael Key and Lorraine Bracco, directed by Robert Zemeckis is coming Fall 2022 to #DisneyPlus. ?#DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/kdK5fKrMfX

? Disney+ (@disneyplus) November 12, 2021

Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and those involved

Once again, Disney is throwing the house out the window not only with a film that – for better or for worse – looks striking. And yes, we know: there are many people who do not have much confidence in live-action … but we can say that at least Pinocchio’s, has enough things to trust.

Until now, it is confirmed that Robert Zemeckis (the mere grouper that brought us Back To The Future, El expreso polar and who won the Oscar for Forrest Gump) is directing the movie. Furthermore, the filmmaker has decided that Tom Hanks -An old collaborator of hers almost always- is the one who makes her of Geppetto this time.

Everything we know about the live-action of 'Pinocchio' with Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks. Foto: Getty.

And it’s not just Hanks who’s ready to star. The young man Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (who has already worked in major productions such as The Haunting Of Bly Manor de Netflix y Flora & Ulysses Disney) will give voice to beloved Pinocchio.

The other confirmed staff members are Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket in a voice role, Cynthia Erivo as the Blue Fairy, Keegan Michael-Kay as the Honored John, Luke Evans as the man who commands the Isle of Games and Lorraine. Braco like Sofía La Gaviota, a character that has been created especially for this adaptation.

Now, it is already known that the film will premiere between July and September of next year, but we will be attentive to Disney + Day on November 12, because more details could be given. So abused.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Foto: Getty.

And the adaptation of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocho’?

Ah, of course we cannot stay without mentioning this other project related to the history of Pinocchio. Guillermo Del Toro placeholder image He is also giving time to his own adaptation, which at the end of 2018 was supposedly being canceled, but in 2020 it was resumed.

Of this, it is known that it will be a work of the Mexican filmmaker for Netflix, it will be made in a stop-motion animation format and out there, big names in the cast sound like Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz y Cate Blanchett. Solid cast, right?

Here in the following article we leave you more details about this.

This is the cast of ‘Pinocchio’, Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion film

This time we will make a recap of what we know so far of said movie.

Pinocchio. Photo: Disney.

There is already an idea of ??when the film opens

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The live-action retelling of #Pinocchio, starring Tom Hanks, Cynthia Erivo, Luke Evans and the voices of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Keegan-Michael Key and Lorraine Bracco, directed by Robert Zemeckis is coming Fall 2022 to #DisneyPlus. ?#DisneyPlusDay pic.twitter.com/kdK5fKrMfX

? Disney+ (@disneyplus) November 12, 2021

Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and those involved

Tom Hanks. Foto: Getty.

Now, it is already known that the film will premiere between July and September of next year, but we will be attentive to Disney + Day on November 12, because more details could be given. So abused.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Foto: Getty.

And the adaptation of Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocho’?

Here in the following article we leave you more details about this.

This is the cast of ‘Pinocchio’, Guillermo del Toro’s stop motion film