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Andy Trust has been exporting fish from Cornwall to continental Europe for 20 years. However, the past seven weeks have given him cause to contemplate shutting down the entire European operation of his fish merchants, Ocean Harvest. "The cost of sending fish into Europe has more than trebled. In an industry that operates on thin profit margins, it could destroy British fishing," he says. It's been seven weeks since the UK completed its departure from the European Union and Boris Johnson's post-Brexit trade deal came into effect. In that time, British exporters have struggled with new trade barriers. In some cases, orders have been slowed down by paperwork; in others, fresh produce has failed to reach its destination in time, forcing it to be destroyed. All of this is a direct result of the UK's policy decision to leave the EU's single market and customs union. For companies who built their businesses on unfettered access to that market, these barriers - put up virtually overnight and with little warning - have had big consequences. And while it could be argued that these companies had years to prepare for Brexit, the post-Brexit trade deal was only agreed on December 24 and came into force on January 1. Under these circumstances, you'd expect a government to be doing everything in its power to help struggling businesses. However, critics fear that the Johnson administration has buried its head in the sand: The Prime Minister has called the difficulties no more than "teething problems." "Only some of the issues we are seeing at present could be legitimately described as 'teething problems,'" says Adam Marshall, director of the British Chambers of Commerce. "Yes, some firms are facing adjustment ... But others are seeing their entire business model up-ended, and their ability to trade successfully undermined." Last weekend, Britain's foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said that he understood some companies were struggling as a result of the sudden change, but that "if you take a 10-year view ... the growth opportunities in the future are going to come from emerging and developing economies around the world. " Which isn't much comfort for businesses that export fresh produce, such as Scotland's fishing industry. "For many businesses, trading with the EU now feels like a high-risk, long-odds gamble," says James Withers, chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, a lobby group. "The trading system is more costly, complex, slower and unreliable. For our European customers who need guarantees of products like salmon arriving at a certain time, reliability is everything." Far from being teething problems, the slower, less reliable trading systems Withers describes are the consequence of new paperwork on things like customs, proof of a product's origin, and sanitary standards. In the case of companies that import parts from Europe before exporting a finished product, the correct paperwork is needed at every stage of the supply chain, leaving British exporters at the mercy of European firms which are also getting their heads around the complex new processes. "Even though impact of FTAs is usually analyzed over a period of time, for a government minister to say we should look at the impact of this deal in 10 years when people are losing jobs and money is a bit tone deaf, especially when you consider that it was down to the government to provide guidance to allow businesses to prepare, "says Anna Jerzewska, founder of Trade and Borders, a consultancy which assists exporters and importers across Europe. If the current situation sounds dire, some believe it will get worse. Withers points out that controls on EU food imports are due to start in April and that stockpiles are being depleted. And when Europe's hospitality businesses emerge from lockdown, demand for food and drink will pick up. "If we can't supply them, our competitors will." Unfortunately for exporters, neither the UK government nor the EU seem in the mood to reopen the deal, after years of painful Brexit negotiations. "Politically, the government made a decision to prioritize regulatory autonomy over economic integration with the EU and the trade deal reflects that - it does little to facilitate trade," says Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Reform. For the time being, these changes have mostly affected those looking to export goods. However, there is also major concern at the long-term impact that Johnson's hard Brexit will have on the UK's services industry. "When we emerge from lockdown and British actors, musicians and people providing professional services start looking at taking jobs in Europe, they will be introduced to a world of visas, work permits and European embassies that they never had to worry about before," says Lowe. One of the biggest fears of a hard Brexit was the impact it would have on the city of London, the world-class financial hub that has been the envy of Europe for decades. While London has not seen the flight of jobs many predicted, billions of euros in share trades have switched to Amsterdam from London since January 1. This doesn't have much of an immediate impact as the work can still be done by staff in London, but if this trend continues, it could undermine Britain's status as the financial capital of Europe and impact future inward investment. It had been known for a long time that financial services were not going to be covered in the trade deal. In some respects, that made life easier for financial firms. "Because it's such a heavily regulated sector, there hasn't been too much disruption or job losses," says Lowe. However, he believes that the impact could come later down the line. "If you're looking to easily sell new financial services across Europe in the future, where do you headquarter yourself: Amsterdam or London? The answer isn't as clear cut as it once was." Many analysts thought that the initial trade deal would smooth the path to some kind of future pact on financial services, but with the UK government being bullish about the merits of its agreement and Brussels making noises about taking London's business, things don't look promising . "There might be closer cooperation, but I doubt it at the moment. What's more concerning is the government's gaslighting. They don't admit that there's a problem; they play it down; they say to wait 10 years. Which one is it? Is it all fine or do we need to wait 10 years? And what are the people currently suffering supposed to do in that time? " says Anand Menon, professor of European politics at King's College London. Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, has refused to answer questions from lawmakers on their concerns about the deal, while the government says it has no plans to publish an impact assessment. Others are pessimistic about the long term, and unsure if the government is unaware or in denial about how bad things could get. "It's entirely possible that 10 years from now, the UK will have pivoted to exporting beyond Europe," says Simon Usherwood, professor of politics at the University of Surrey. "My concern is that it will be as part of an overall reduction in trade, meaning a smaller economy and, ultimately, job losses." Alastair Campbell, who was former Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communication, is less charitable. "It makes my blood boil. I think they are in denial because they cannot handle the consequences of their policies. They are battering some of our greatest industries and trying to distract everyone by picking fake fights and starting culture wars."

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The first day in a new school or job is never easy, especially trying to navigate those awkward meet and greets as you get to know potential new friends. It's even trickier when you're an Olympic gold medal medalist. For snowboarder Chloe Kim, it made starting life at Princeton a very different challenge from the frontside 1080 she pulled on the halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang. "Everyone was kind of staring at me, taking pictures," Kim recently told CNN's Don Riddell. "It was kind of a struggle for me. I just felt like I was never going to be able to adapt and stay because I just felt like everyone was watching me and knew who I was, when I didn't know anyone." If figuring life out at 19 can be daunting, it's equally ambitious to reach the pinnacle of your sport and put it aside to pursue an Ivy League education. Kim says she was delighted to receive her acceptance letter from her de ella "dream school" and the initial trappings of fame soon wore off as she settled into student life. "I thought it was going to be challenging to make friends because of that," Kim acknowledged as she reflected on the transition to Princeton. "But I honestly met some amazing people. And it's funny because a lot of my best friends from school had no idea who I was." 'Present and future of women's snowboarding' In the year of her Olympic triumph, Time Magazine listed Kim in their Time 100: The Most Influential People of 2018, but her rapid ascension de ella to stardom was a surprise to the young woman from Long Beach. "It changed my life quite a bit," Kim admits. "I don't think I expected like so many people to watch, so many people to know or care afterwards; but they did, which was really, really funny for me. "I kind of just expected to go there and compete and then just come back and go back to my normal everyday life. But that wasn't the case." At the 2018 Olympics some commentators described the then 17-year-old Kim as "the present and future of women's snowboarding." She subsequently discovered that when you are front and center of that type of media exposure it can lead to some interesting encounters. "It's so funny because I'll be walking somewhere and there's like someone ... 'Oh my gosh, are you that snowboarder?' says Kim. "I was at the grocery store yesterday and they're like, 'Oh, my God, is that you?' "It's just funny, you know, because I never expected that to happen from snowboarding." Her biggest fans Shortly after her Olympics win, Kim appeared as a guest on NBC's The Tonight Show and was shocked by host Jimmy Fallon, who unveiled a blown-up replica of a Gold Medal Edition box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with her on the cover, smiling and holding her gold medal. When she next visited her parents' house, Kim found they had bought the boxes of cereal in bulk. "I'm pretty sure they bought about 40 of them," Kim says. "Because they were like, this is the best gift to anyone!" Her parents of her, according to Kim, are her biggest fans of her. Originally from South Korea, the story goes that her father de ella, Jong Jin Kim, emigrated to the US in 1982 with only $ 800 in cash, and as his daughter's talent emerged, he gave up his job to help her travel around the globe as she chased her snowboarding dreams. "My dad gave up so much," says the 20-year-old Kim. "He came with so little and he sacrificed everything for me to help me pursue this dream of mine. "If things didn't go well, I might have not been able to continue snowboarding after I was 13 because it was straight up just too expensive for us because we're competing in like Aspen and Vail, Colorado and Switzerland; like we ' re doing all these trips and it's expensive. "My parents put everything into me and my career, I guess, and it worked out, and I'm so thankful every day." 'Never give up' That parental support and sacrifice perhaps helps explains why Kim is so driven to be the best in everything she does. "It's taught me that if you believe in something, then to never give up. I was like seven years old when I started competing in snowboarding, rookie events and stuff, and the fact that they saw that and believed in me and believed that I could become like an Olympian one day is just insane. "The fact that I did it when I was 17 is just even crazier. "There were a lot of struggles along the way, too," she added. "There was a lot of pressure. And so I just think, like even though times get tough, rough sometimes, [it's important] to keep going, to keep pushing. "And they've also taught me that, like, when I have kids of my own one day to just support them in whatever they're passionate about because I love snowboarding and then this happened." Schools out for snowboarding Looking ahead to the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year, student life is on hold as Kim recently returned to the sport she loves, winning her fifth X Games title in January. Her focus is on "getting back in snowboarding shape," and aside from suppressing her craving for sweets, it's a welcome change for someone who, quite noticeably likes to keep busy. "I'm so, so happy and grateful that I've been able to come back and compete again against all of these amazing, talented, hardworking women," said Kim. "It was nice to kind of get out and start competing again." Kim admits that it's a demanding schedule in the countdown to the games and combining it with Princeton was not going to help her chances of success. "I got a leave of absence," she said. "There's no way I can handle going to school while being a professional snowboarder, especially before the Olympics. "I plan on going back, but right now, I'm a full-time snowboarder and one day I'll be back to being a full-time student. But, yeah, I don't think I can juggle it." Asked whether she believes the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the Winter Olympics in Beijing will go ahead, Kim is staying positive, having emerged from lockdown to compete in recent events made safe by strict protocols. "It's every person's responsibility to be safe," she emphasizes. "And I think all the athletes, especially at the Olympics, will be very respectful and aware of that. "They have to be responsible for their own actions, and, you know, if someone gets it, then they go home, and I don't think any athlete wants to risk that at the Olympics. You wait four years to be there. "So I really think it will be able to happen very smoothly, honestly."

When World Health Organization investigators wrapped up their work examining the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan this month, Chinese officials were clear where they felt the WHO should look next. "(We hope) that following China's example, the US side will act in a positive, science-based and cooperative manner on the origin-tracing issue (and) invite WHO experts in for an origin-tracing study," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said last week. Going even further, Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist at China's Center for Disease Control, said the US should now be "the focus" of global efforts to trace the virus. That Chinese officials should point to the US when discussing the origins of a virus first detected in central China may at first appear confusing to many. But for months now, China has been advancing alternative theories for how the coronavirus first emerged, ones that would obviate any blame officials in Wuhan may bear for not reacting quickly enough to the initial outbreak in that city in late 2019, during which they are accused of dragging their feet as evidence of human-to-human spread became clear and the virus ran rampant. One Chinese theory in particular emerged early on in the pandemic but gained significant traction in recent weeks, as the WHO investigation and new outbreaks of the coronavirus in China renewed attention both internally and externally on the government's alleged failures. In many ways, this theory is the mirror image of a conspiracy about China alleging that the virus might have emerged - either intentionally or by mistake - from a lab in Wuhan focused on researching deadly pathogens. That this did not happen is one of the few definitive statements the WHO team were able to make after their trip to the city this month. "(Our) findings suggest that the laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain introduction of the virus into the human population, and therefore is not a hypothesis that implies to suggest future studies into our work, to support our future work, into the understanding of the origin of the virus, "Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the team, said at a press conference announcing their findings held before the team left China. At the same time, however, Zeng, the Chinese CDC official, was advancing just such a hypothesis, not about the Wuhan lab, but Fort Detrick, a US Army biomedical research laboratory in Maryland. There is no evidence to support this theory. "The US has biological laboratories all over the world," he told a Shanghai-based website, in an interview which linked Fort Detrick, and the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) based there, to research carried out by the notorious Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. "Why does the US have so many laboratories? What is the purpose of this?" Zeng said. "In many things, the US requires others to be open and transparent. In the end, it turns out that the US itself is often the most opaque." The idea that the coronavirus may have emerged from a lab, that the pandemic which ground the world to a halt may have been man-made, is not isolated to China. Many US politicians and conspiracists have pushed the idea that a Chinese lab might have been responsible, while others have posited alternative supposed bioweapon creators, including the US itself. A survey carried out by Pew in April 2020 found that some 30% of Americans believed the virus was created in a lab, with most of those claiming it was created intentionally. Around that time, leading members of then-US President Donald Trump's administration, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attempted to link the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the coronavirus, implying it might have escaped - or even been released - from the lab . This claim was angrily rejected by China and rebuked by leading scientists working on the virus. Following an inspection of the lab itself this month, the WHO team largely dismissed it in a press conference as a possible origin of the Wuhan outbreak. According to a CNN investigation, growing scrutiny of the lab in early 2020, along with criticism of China's initial handling of the pandemic, appears to have prompted the Communist Party's propaganda organs to adopt the Fort Detrick conspiracy as a potential counter, a disinformation mirror to deflect criticism both legitimate and groundless. And as attention returned to Wuhan at the start of this year, promotion of this conspiracy has redoubled, with a web of official government accounts, influencers, and state media spreading this disinformation to tens of millions of user online. Angela Xiao Wu, an assistant professor at NYU Steinhardt who has studied efforts at shaping online opinion in China, said it was "surely an effective tactic for the Party-state to direct people's critical attention outwards as a way to channel their fears and frustrations, "though she added many other governments had adopted similar tactics," including the Trump Administration. " CNN's findings, detailed below, match those of a separate investigation published this month by the Associated Press in conjunction with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). Viral conspiracy In the first weeks of the pandemic, Chinese censors tightly controlled speculation about the virus, even that which implicated the US. In January 2020, according to state media, a man in Inner Mongolia was arrested for spreading rumors after a video he made claiming the virus was a US bioweapon was watched almost 14,000 times. This attitude shifted, however, as Chinese authorities faced growing criticism both at home and abroad. In Washington, the Trump administration, flailing in its own domestic response and facing growing case numbers, lashed out at Beijing. In China, anger was growing over the death of Li Wenliang, a Wuhan doctor and whistleblower, who was reprimanded by police for sharing information about the virus, before succumbing to it himself. Throughout March and April, reports in Chinese state media began to focus on Fort Detrick, culminating in an article in the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, calling on the US government to give "clear answers to the world" about the USAMRIID lab. The genesis of the conspiracy, the nugget of truth upon which all the other false claims have been layered, is an incident from 2019, when CDC inspectors briefly halted research at USAMRIID, over safety concerns. At the time, the lab was working on pathogens including Ebola, Zika, and plague. Renewed attention With the WHO team headed to China at the start of this year, so too did global attention refocus on Wuhan and the bat lab. As it did, China's propaganda organs ramped up coverage of USAMRIID, with Hua, the foreign ministry spokeswoman, saying on January 18 that the US "should open the biological lab at Fort Detrick, give more transparency to issues such as its 200+ overseas bio -labs, and invite WHO experts to conduct origin tracing. " A video of Hua, uploaded by the state-backed Beijing News, was viewed almost a million times on Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like service. The clip was then picked up by a number of leading Chinese influencers, with millions of followers between them, many of whom appear to be managed by the same marketing company, according to a CNN examination of posts and user profiles. Today, the video of Hua speaking has been viewed 74 million times, with individual comments on the post receiving hundreds of thousands of upvotes alone, such as one which reads "if MOFA said so, then it can't be unsubstantiated" receiving over 360,000 likes. Wu, the New York University professor, pointed to China's frequent campaigns against "online rumors," which are used both to crack down on disinformation as well as more legitimate criticism of the government. "Calling something 'rumors' infers a powerful authority whose judgment is instituted and enforced," she said. "Reversely, when such an authority advances an official account that is unverifiable, surely its influences on the public are extraordinary." According to analysis of Weibo data, around the time the Hua video was going viral, a "Foreign Ministry" hashtag attracted more than 210,000 posts between January 18 and 25, with 790 million views. In the same period, 229,000 posts using the "Fort Detrick" hashtag were viewed more than 1.48 billion times.

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Nick-ul tau: Cenzura Nume propunere: Designer forum and more. Descriere propunere: I will write in English. I was 8 years in another forum, I helped with designs, both with banners, and with medals for the forum among other things. I come here in order to help this new community. First I would like to create a "Music Expert" project where our members can share music (youtube links), they can share musicians, bio and more. I would like to be in charge of the designers project due to my experience as a designer. (If you want I can show my old creations of medals and banners.) I have seen that some sections are missing and I would like to help create them, in order to attract the attention of our members and that they spend more time in the forum. I'd like to help with a support ticket section on the forum, where members can submit a ticket with whatever help they need and an administrator can view the ticket and resolve it. Also add a BOT for the forum.With a section "Report Center" for those who do not comply with the forum rules. In general I have experience with the invision community admincp so I don't think I have much trouble helping with extensions and more....Any question I will be willing to answer Ce imbunatatiri ar putea aduce comunitatii ELDERS ROMANIA?: Help the forum