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Advances in artificial intelligence are leading to medical breakthroughs once thought impossible, including devices that can actually read minds and alter our brains.
Pauzaskie says our brain waves are like encrypted signals and, using artificial intelligence, researchers have identified frequencies for specific words to turn thought to text with 40% accuracy, "Which, give it a few years, we're probably talking 80-90%."
Researchers are now working to reverse the conditions by using electrical stimulation to alter the frequencies or regions of the brain where they originate.
But while medical research facilities are subject to privacy laws, private companies - that are amassing large caches of brain data - are not.
The vast majority of them also don't disclose where the data is stored, how long they keep it, who has access to it, and what happens if there's a security breach...
With companies and countries racing to access, analyze, and alter our brains, Pauzauskie suggests, privacy protections should be a no-brainer, "It's everything that we are.
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Roughly 28,000 residents have been forced to evacuate as the Thompson fire quickly swept across more than 3,500 acres (1,416 hectares) near the city of Oroville, about an hour outside Sacramento, California’s capital.
Ed Fletcher, a public information officer with CalFire said the agency goes to great lengths to ensure firefighters have relief and rest but the already challenging work is only made harder in extreme conditions.
“The combination of events has presented a huge challenge for firefighters,” he said, urging the public to take extra precautions to limit new fire starts that can quickly spread crews thin, especially as temperatures spike.
The California governor, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday to ensure resources are readily available to support response and recovery to the fire.
“This is going to be a severe, prolonged, potentially record-breaking heatwave that may have large impacts for much of California,” said climate scientist Dr Daniel Swain during a broadcast discussion of the heat event on Monday.
The dangerous weather conditions this week will pose health risks to large swaths of the population, forecasters cautioned, in particular to people unable to access cooling.
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Two more Palestinian men, injured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank last week, have told the BBC that Israeli soldiers forced them on to the bonnet of an army jeep and drove them – sometimes at speed – along village roads.Their accounts came days after footage of 23-year-old Mujahid Abadi Balas clinging to the bonnet of what appears to be the same Israeli army jeep sparked international outrage.The BBC has now spoken to two men who allege similar treatment during the operation in Jabariyat, on the outskirts of Jenin, last Saturday.25-year-old Samir Dabaya, now in hospital in Jenin, says he was shot in the back by Israeli forces during the Jabariyat operation, and lay face-down and bleeding for hours, until soldiers came to assess him.
“I was waiting for death.”Samir showed us video footage from a security camera which appears to show him semi-naked, lying on a fast-moving jeep with a number 1 clearly marked on its side.The location seems to match where the operation took place, but there is no date or time visible on the recording.Another Palestinian man, Hesham Isleit, also told the BBC he was shot twice during the operation in Jabariyat and forced onto the same military jeep, marked with the number 1.
I was telling them it was very hot, and they were forcing me to get on – telling me that if I didn’t want to die, I should do it.”We put these allegations to Israel’s army; it said the cases were under review.In response to the original video of Mujahid Abadi Balas last week, the Israeli army said that he was tied to the jeep in “a violation of orders and procedures” and that his case would be investigated.“The conduct of the forces in the video of the incident does not conform to the values of the IDF,” it said in a written response.From his hospital bed, Mujahid told the BBC he hadn’t expected to survive the experience, and was saying his final prayers as he lay on the moving vehicle.He showed the BBC a second video, recorded at some distance, that appears to support his account of being thrown onto the vehicle by Israeli soldiers.
“The soldiers picked me up by my wrists and ankles, and [swung me] right and left, before throwing me in the air.”He says he fell to the ground, was picked up and swung again, before being thrown onto the jeep, and driven to a nearby house.The army said it was in Jabariyat last weekend to arrest wanted suspects, and that during the operation “terrorists opened fire at troops, who responded with live fire”.Hesham said the house that he and Mujahid were in that day belonged to Majd al-Azmi, a neighbour and friend, who was arrested during the operation and remains in Israeli custody.All three men say they were unarmed, and all were quickly released by the army after identity checks.
“Since 7 October, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed – more than 100 of them minors – and every day there are invasions of Palestinian cities.”Jenin has been a particular target for Israeli raids since the 7 October Hamas attacks, with more than 120 Palestinians – civilians and fighters – killed by Israeli soldiers there.But armed men still patrol Jenin camp where fighters backed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad are based, and residents in the town say there’s no sign of the war subsiding.“What the army doesn’t know is that resistance is an idea planted in the heart,” one resident said.
If one is killed, five more will replace him.”During an Israeli operation this week, bombs buried deep in the roads around the camp hit two units as they came in – killing one soldier and wounding 16 others.This battle began long before the Gaza War, but tactics and attitudes here are shifting in its wake, and the behaviour of Israeli troops is under scrutiny in the West Bank too.This is different territory to Gaza, but it’s the same enemies, locked in the same wider war.
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On the malnutrition ward at The Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza, babies only days old and often premature, fight for their lives.
Mothers are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.
Read more:Israel denies there is a famine in GazaStarving children in Gaza dying the 'size of skeletons'Prospects for West Bank are bleak
The Rafah border crossing with Egypt remains closed because the Israel Defence Forces continues to occupy and operate in the land around it.
The plant provides water to the Khan Yunis area and the move is designed to prevent an outbreak of disease during the summer months.
Across Gaza, children queue with their pans, or plastic buckets, patiently waiting for the daily handout of food.
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Despite the ongoing popularity of the Back to the Future trilogy that inspired the self-lacing tech found in the HyperAdapt 1.0 and Air Mags, Nike has announced that it’s “no longer creating new versions of Adapt shoes.” Now, the Adapt BB mobile app used to control the $350 third iteration of Nike’s self-lacing sneakers will disappear from Google Play and the iPhone App Store next month.
Without the app, owners can use the physical buttons on the sneakers to power them on and off, check battery status, tighten or loosen the laces, and save a single preset, but there will be no way to adjust the shoe’s lighting.
The power laces on the Nike Adapt BB basketball shoes, which were worn by athletes like Jayson Tatum and Luka Doncic, were adjustable using buttons on the sneakers themselves or over Bluetooth.
Nike’s decision to retire the app is another reminder of the challenges of designing smart apparel.
Most consumers might be used to the idea of upgrading a smartphone every few years, but an electronic pair of shoes or a smart denim jacket can remain in someone’s wardrobe for decades, long after a company stops selling the product.
It’s not entirely surprising when a company chooses to stop paying for the upkeep and continued development of an app for a product it’s no longer making money on, but that doesn’t take the sting out of losing functionality on your five-year-old kicks.
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It's part of a transition to a recycling system funded and run by brands that produce packaging — including fast-food chains and retailers — by 2026.
Langdon says it's just the first tangible step, but a sign that producers are taking responsibility "and starting to evolve the system in Ontario."
Emily Alfred, waste campaigner for the Toronto Environmental Alliance, said the group thinks it's essential for companies that make packaging to take responsibility for the garbage they produce, and getting cups into the recycling system is a good move.
Alfred worries that making disposable cups recyclable may take the pressure off companies to find better solutions.
For example, in March, the City of Toronto started requiring businesses to accept customers' clean, reusable cups.
Some cities such as Edmonton, Banff, Alta., and Terrebonne and Mascouche, Que, have started requiring businesses to offer reusable cups to dine-in customers.
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Six years after the Manhattan District Attorney's Office began an investigation that resulted in Donald Trump becoming the first former president ever convicted of a crime, the case continues to be beset by extraordinary curveballs.
"That wasn't just a curve, that was a 12-6 breaking ball," said Michael Cohen, Trump's ex-attorney who was a key witness in the case against him, referring to a baseball pitch that befuddles hitters when it sharply drops.
Trump's lawyers indicated in their letter that their motion will focus on evidence introduced at trial that related to social media posts, public statements and witness testimony from his time in office.
Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying or making up stories," Trump wrote in one April 2018 tweet entered into evidence.
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsification of business records for signing off on an effort to cover up reimbursements for a "hush money" payment to an adult film star as he ran for office in 2016.
"In the event that it is set aside, I would expect that the government would move to re-try the case, and exclude the evidence Judge Merchan decides could be in violation of the Supreme Court decision," Klieman said.
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Keir Starmer’s Labour Party — seemingly on the verge of winning a historic majority in the July 4 election — has pledged to leave the current Brexit settlement largely intact.
“I'm afraid the Labour Party doesn't have the right instincts,” said Steve Baker, the longtime ringleader of Tory Euroskeptic lawmakers in parliament, and currently a government minister.
“I don’t think anyone voted Leave because they were not happy that chemicals regulations were the same across Europe,” the opposition’s finance chief, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, told the FT last month.
Margaret Thatcher herself in 1988 complained that she had not spent a decade “throwing back the frontiers of state at home” to see them reimposed by Brussels — arguably lighting the touch-paper for modern British Euroskepticism.
Despite virtually every politician in Britain telling voters they want fewer arrivals, competing economic pressures have pushed ministers to use their absolute control of immigration rules to quietly liberalize.
Guy Verhofstadt, the outspoken ex-prime minister of Belgium who represented the European Parliament in talks between London and Brussels, thinks “Peak Brexit” has already been reached.
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Footage captured from a boat off the Isle of Mull shows a "miracle" white-tailed eagle chick in flight, after it was nursed back to health by two unusually caring parents.In an unprecedented display of extended eagle parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped this year's breeding season to continue to tend to their year-old offspring.
The young, injured eagle finally took to the skies in the autumn, but Dave Sexton described its flight as “wobbly”.
The new footage, captured by wildlife photographer Gary Jones, shows a visible lump in its wing - probably a healed broken bone.
RSPB officer Dave spotted the juvenile this spring - alive and well and in a new nest in an area owned by North West Mull Community Woodland.
The fully-grown chick was being fed fish by its parents, caring behaviour that the eagle expert described as “unprecedented” for the birds.
"I’ve also consulted with other eagle experts at home and abroad, and so far no-one else has reported this kind of extended parenting behaviour for an injured chick.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action.
They’ve reduced his use of a long staircase to board Air Force One in favor of a shorter one, and aides often accompany him when he walks in public to make his stiff gait less noticeable.
While his schedule remains busy, aides have built-in recovery stretches — long weekends or extended stays in Delaware at his Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach homes or at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland — to rest up after a grueling period of travel.
So far only two active members of Congress have called for him to step aside, but there is growing anxiety on Capitol Hill about his ability to do the job and many are anxiously awaiting post-debate polling and waiting to see how he handles his Friday interview on ABC.
Really, only Biden’s personal physician can answer questions about the president’s cognitive fitness — and given the level of public concern, he should do so, said well-known aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
One bad appearance on TV isn’t enough to assess anyone’s cognitive ability, Olshansky stressed, “even for those of us that study aging for a living.” Without more insight, there’s no way to know if the jet lag Biden has cited, or other factors, explain the performance, he said.
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A Canadian prime minister who has outstayed his welcome, persistent inflation, a government bumped and bruised by scandal and a fired-up opposition leader itching for a public showdown.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Trudeau will not attend the Calgary Stampede which starts on Friday – the first time he will miss the festive, politically-charged 10-day celebration in the Conservative heartland since he became leader in 2013.
As in the US, where Democrats are fretting that Joe Biden’s stumbling debate performance and concern over his age, Liberals are worried the once-popular Trudeau could be a liability for heading into the next federal election.
Lori Turnbull, director of Dalhousie University’s school of public administration, says part of Trudeau’s challenges lie in the reality that all parties – and leaders – eventually lose their shine.
And the prime minister, who has led his Liberal party for more than a decade, has repeatedly said he wants to contest his fourth federal election – a national vote that is expected to be rife with mudslinging and personal attacks.
While the he told reporters Wednesday he was personally calling MPs, tensions are clearly mounting within the Liberals, and a growing number fear the unpopular leader could cost them their own seats in parliament.
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Tensions over Israel’s war against Hamas dominated Parliament’s final sitting day before a five-week break.
The four protesters were arrested after draping the words “war crimes” and “genocide” as well as the Palestinian rallying cry “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” for more than an hour over the building’s façade known as the Great Verandah.
“My family did not flee from a war-torn country to come here as refugees for me to remain silent when I see atrocities inflicted on innocent people,” Payman told reporters.
“Witnessing our government’s indifference to the greatest injustice of our times makes me question the direction the party is taking,” she added.
The protesters triggered a security crackdown in Parliament House that prevented many members of the public entering the building.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton demanded to know who allowed protesters into the building and described their message as anti-Semitic.
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He has also worked with just about every blockbuster director out there: Lucas, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, JJ Abrams.
Shah’s stature (he is just under 4ft 2in, or 126cm, according to Guinness World Records), combined with his fearlessness, have helped him find a niche in cinema that has led to an absurdly storied career, not to mention an MBE last month for his services to the film industry.
Thus, Shah found himself in the iconic Superman costume (and a Christopher Reeve mask), winched up high in the air on wires and swung around for several days with his fist extended in front of him.
On Titanic, Shah stunt-doubled for all the children, which meant continuously falling and sliding off decks, being deluged by tons of water in the corridors and basically drowning in myriad ways, all while not being able to swim.
He had a whale of a time in New Zealand, marching through the landscape in his hairy hobbit feet, doing horseback stunts, sword fighting and boating down rivers with Viggo Mortensen (who found it hilarious that Shah couldn’t swim).
He’s done plenty outside cinema, too: television comedy, music videos, working in nightclubs where he met a lot of rock stars: “Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Pink Floyd …”
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Harmonium is the latest project from The Odd Gentlemen, an LA-based studio known for its revival of the Sierra Entertainment point-and-click adventure classic King’s Quest.
Studio founder Matt Korba told The Verge that Harmonium was inspired by theater troupes like Deaf West that incorporate sign language into their productions.
In the opening moments of Harmonium’s demo, for instance, Melody is stuck inside practicing for a recital when her friend stops by to speak to her through her living room window — something only deaf people can do.
Daigle and Korba credited their partners at Xbox and Netflix who encouraged their team to continue down their unique, if complicated, path even though it ran contrary to modern game development sensibilities.
Meanwhile, underneath it all is a vigorous and virulent current of toxicity that seeks to amplify the fringe notion that in order for the video games industry to survive this upheaval, they must appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
I grinned like an idiot when I solved one of Harmonium’s puzzles, matching Melody’s signed descriptions to their correct instruments so I could open a locked door.
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The Crown corporation says it must ramp up spending on existing infrastructure by an additional $200 million a year in order to avoid what it described in a 2022 asset-management report as "accelerated system performance degradation and diminished supply."
The report, presented to the Public Utilities Board as part of its rate application for 2024-25 fiscal year, warned it must start spending the additional funds for "the foreseeable future to sustain an ever-growing and continuously degrading asset base."
"The generation, transmission and distribution system have all reached an age where overall condition has begun to degrade, and declining performance is apparent through common industry metrics," Manitoba Hydro warns in the report.
"The impacts of the failures are growing due to factors that include obsolescence, leading to decreased availability of both spare parts and equipment knowledge and loss of system resilience."
The increased tab for replacing and overhauling existing infrastructure comes in addition to a pending need for Manitoba Hydro to spend billions more on new generating capacity — expected to be wind farms — as well as new transmission lines.
Even though more attention has been placed on Manitoba Hydro's need to generate more capacity, the growing infrastructure deficit remains the same problem for the Crown corporation today as it was when the asset management report was authored in 2022, Powell said Wednesday in a statement.
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Cineworld is drawing up plans to axe dozens of British cinemas as part of a radical restructuring that would also include extensive rent cuts.
Sky News has learnt that the company, which until last year was listed on the London Stock Exchange, is considering closing about a quarter of its roughly-100 British multiplexes.
They added that the insolvency mechanism employed by the cinema operator was expected to be a restructuring plan rather than a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).
In response to an enquiry, a Cineworld spokesperson said: "We continue to review our options but we don't comment on rumours and speculation."
Sky News reported last month that Cineworld was holding initial talks about a sale with prospective buyers, and that it had then switched to a formal restructuring process.The company is being advised by AlixPartners on the process.Other cinema operators are expected to step in to take over some of Cineworld's sites if a sufficient number landlords refuse to agree to the proposed terms.The company trades from more than 100 sites in Britain, including at the Picturehouse chain, and employs thousands of people, although its public relations adviser has refused to confirm either figure.Cineworld grew under the leadership of the Greidinger family into a global giant of the industry, acquiring chains including Regal in the US in 2018 and the British company of the same name four years earlier.Its multibillion dollar debt mountain led it into crisis, though, and forced the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2022.It delisted from the London Stock Exchange last August, having seen its share price collapse amid fears for its survival.Under the deal struck last year, several billion dollars of debt were exchanged for shares, with a significant sum of new money injected into the company by a group of hedge funds and other investors.Cineworld also operates in central and Eastern Europe, Israel and the US.Since it emerged from bankruptcy protection, Cineworld has appointed a new leadership team, installing Eduardo Acuna, who ran Mexican cinema chain Cinepolis's operations in the Americas, as its chief executive.Eric Foss, a former Pepsi executive, was parachuted in as Cineworld's chairman.
Major summer film releases in Britain include Despicable Me 4, A Quiet Place: Part One, and Alien: Romulus.
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Instead, Mr. Ndefi has taken his family’s supply of anti-malaria nets and sewn them together into a gigantic sieve that he uses to drag the bottom of the swamp ponds, sweeping up all sorts of life: baby catfish, banded tilapia, tiny mouthbrooders, orange fish eggs, water bugs and the occasional green frog.
Across Africa, from the mud flats of Nigeria to the coral reefs off Mozambique, mosquito-net fishing is a growing problem, an unintended consequence of one of the biggest and most celebrated public health campaigns in recent years.
“No one is going to come forward in a survey and say, ‘That thing you’re giving me, we’re not using it properly,’ ” said Seth Faison, a spokesman for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has financed the purchase of 450 million nets.
One of the few detailed studies on the issue showed that in several villages along Lake Tanganyika, an essential body of water shared by four East African nations, 87.2 percent of households used mosquito nets to fish.
Every morning at sunrise in Antongil Bay, along Madagascar’s ruggedly beautiful northern coast, fishing crews drag seines made from mosquito nets through the putty-colored sea.
They work from shore, tugging the nets through shallow waters, precisely where many species spawn, creating another potential problem: the slow, steady destruction of sensitive aquatic breeding grounds.
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]com, was a legitimate open source project that allowed older browsers to handle advanced functions that weren’t natively supported.
On June 25, researchers from security firm Sansec reported that code hosted on the polyfill domain had been changed to redirect users to adult- and gambling-themed websites.
Even then, content delivery networks such as Cloudflare began automatically replacing pollyfill links with domains leading to safe mirror sites.
The findings underscore the power of supply-chain attacks, which can spread malware to thousands or millions of people simply by infecting a common source they all rely on.
“Since the domain was suspended, the supply-chain attack has been halted,” Aidan Holland, a member of the Censys Research Team, wrote in an email.
What’s more, the Internet scan performed by Censys found more than 1.6 million sites linking to one or more domains that were registered by the same entity that owns polyfill[.]io.
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The man in the video is beside himself, a mask of anguish radiating through his bloodied face.“I am an academic doctor,” he says, “I had a good life, but we have a filthy [Hamas] leadership.
Four-fifths of Gaza’s population is displaced, often moving between temporary shelters.And law and order has broken down in places, partly as a result of Israel’s policy of targeting Gaza’s security forces - not just the official Hamas internal security service, but also the community police responsible for street crime.As control has waned, criminal gangs have thrived, looting neighbourhoods and aid convoys; and private security companies - some run by powerful local families - have emerged.
One staff member from an aid organisation operating in Gaza described "absolute chaos at street level" and "a state of anarchy", saying that civilian order had completely broken down as a result of the Israeli policy.Israel’s prime minister has repeatedly vowed to continue the war until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed.But some aid agencies - in both northern and south areas of Gaza - have also reported regular checks on their activities by local Hamas officials, and videos are frequently circulated of unofficial Hamas security forces shooting and beating those caught looting.One well-placed source told the BBC that dozens of people had been killed by Hamas in bloody score-settling with other local groups, after Israeli troops withdrew from one area.Fear of criticising Gaza’s leaders might have lessened, but it hasn’t gone, so it is still hard to accurately gauge, beyond individual testimony, how far support for the group is shifting.Some, like 26-year-old Jihad Talab, still strongly support Hamas.
Displaced from the Zeitoun area of Gaza City with his wife, daughter and mother, and now sheltering in Deir al Balah, he said the group was not responsible for their suffering.“We must support [Hamas] because it’s the one working on the ground, the one who understands the battle - not you or I,” he said.
A regular poll carried out by a West Bank-based think tank, the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, suggests that most people in Gaza still blame Israel and its allies for the war, rather than Hamas.The latest survey in June found that almost two-thirds of Gazan respondents were satisfied with Hamas - a rise of 12 points from December - and that just around half would still prefer Hamas to run Gaza after the war ends, over any other option.These results differ from several accounts given to the BBC, including from a senior Hamas official who privately acknowledged that they were losing support as a result of the war.These glimpses through chinks in the media blockade around Gaza can never give a full assessment of the situation.
International journalists are barred by Israel and Egypt from reporting on the situation there first-hand.What is clear is that Hamas remains very sensitive to public opinion.Strikingly similar messages regularly appear on certain social media platforms to justify its actions, often apparently in response to criticism at home.A source familiar with Hamas told the BBC there was an organised international network to co-ordinate social media messaging for the group.After Israeli families released a video showing the moment female soldiers were kidnapped by Hamas units on 7 October, some in Gaza questioned whether targeting women during war was in line with Islamic teaching.In response, several pro-Hamas social media accounts put out similar messages insisting that soldiers - male or female - were justified military targets, and saying the unit had been involved in shooting Gazan protestors during demonstrations six years ago.Criticism of Hamas is growing sharper, and long-buried divisions over Hamas rule in Gaza are becoming clear.Out of the destruction left by Israel’s battle with Hamas, a new war is emerging: a battle for control of public opinion within Gaza itself.
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Rare bumblebee numbers are rising in Shropshire following a successful project to restore old hay meadows.The National Trust is leading Stepping Stones, an initiative which aims to reconnect isolated patches of wildlife habitat across the Long Mynd and Stiperstones.Jinlye Meadows, on the Long Mynd, is now thriving with wildflowers and insects and as a result, the population of bilberry bumblebees has increased.Volunteers are now being asked to join the project to continue the work across the county.
Yellow rattle seed is a critical plant species for creating meadows, and the Stepping Stones team are inviting people to help collect it from Jinlye in All Stretton on 9 and 10 July between 14:00 - 16:00 BST.The plant slows down the growth of grasses by attaching itself to the root system which makes diverse wildflower species grow.National Trust staff are working with tenant farmer Martyn Bebb, of Mose Farm on the Dudmaston Estate, where wildflower seed was sown a year ago.
The fields are now teeming with wildflowers and pollinating insects.
Mr Bebb said the arable land being worked on at Dudmaston was about 160 acres in size that will be a "mixed mosaic of heathland, acidic grassland and wood pasture, which will benefit a host of wildlife" when complete.
Charlie Bell, project manager for Stepping Stones, said their mission was to go some way to replace the 97% of meadows that have been lost in the UK over the last 100 years.
"This loss has had a devastating impact on the plants and animals that use meadows for shelter, food and places to raise their young.”
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