HONG KONG - They’ve taken subway rides, loitered at pedestrian crossings and been fed by local residents. But now wild boars have finally gone a step too far for authorities in Hong Kong. Increasing incidents involving the animals, which have long roamed the hills and hiking trails surrounding the bustling metropolis, culminated in one biting a police officer last week. In response, authorities in the Asian financial hub are cracking down. Officials said they launched the boar hunt Wednesday night with an operation that captured and euthanized seven wild boars in an area less than half an hour’s drive from the city center. The decision to use medicine injections for the “humane dispatch” of the animals marks a shift from past policy, which was to capture, neuter and relocate them to remote areas. Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said in a statement that the previous approach had failed to “effectively control the wild pig nuisance.” The number of injuries involving boars has been on the rise in recent years, the statement said, with the animals often wandering into busy urban areas in search of food. Authorities have long warned the animals could pose a physical threat and carry disease, but locals have nonetheless delighted in a number of bizarre boar encounters. In September 2020, a group of four wild boars took a dip in the fountains outside the Bank of China Tower. They have wandered into a police station, a mall and onto the airport tarmac. In June this year, a small boar was seen relaxing on the seats of a subway car, seemingly exhausted after a long journey. The rogue animals are not always peaceful, though. The change in policy comes after a violent encounter last week in which a wild boar knocked down a police officer and bit him on the leg. The boar subsequently plunged to its death from a residential parking garage. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam then spoke out, warning of stiffer penalties for anyone caught feeding boars. “I understand that a lot of Hong Kong people love the wetlands and nature,” she told a news conference this week. "However, we also need to protect public safety." Lam added that there had been about 30 cases of wild boars attacking humans. "We can't simply sit on our hands while things deteriorate," she said. The city is home to about 3,000 wild boars, according to government data, and they are not a protected species. And such incidents are not confined to Hong Kong. Pop superstar Shakira said in September that a pair of wild boars attacked her and snatched her purse de ella while she was walking in a park in Spain with her son de ella. The Italian capital, Rome, has also seen a wild boar invasion that caused a frenzy ahead of local elections earlier this year. LINK: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-launches-wild-boar-hunt-animal-attacks-public-safety-rcna5994

Ford is adding a six-cylinder turbodiesel version of the next Ranger pickup to help attract more high-spending customers in Europe and other global markets. The redesigned midsize Ranger will reach showrooms in early 2023, Ford of Europe said in a statement Wednesday. An electrified option, expected to be a plug-in hybrid, will be available by 2024, the automaker has said. A redesigned front-end structure will "future-proof the Ranger for other propulsion technologies," Ford added. The current Ranger is available with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder diesel in Europe, in several power levels. It is offered in two-door regular cab, two-door four-seat Super Cab and five-seat, four-door double cab versions, for passenger and commercial registrations. The cabin of the new Ranger will be "car-like, using premium soft-touch materials" Ford said. A new focus on technology includes either a 10.1-inch or 12-inch central touch screen, a new digital instrument cluster, as well as the addition of a modem to allow customers to connect to the vehicle via the FordPass smartphone app. The equipment upgrades and higher quality materials reflect the fact that many customers in Europe buy high-spec versions. "The majority of our [Ranger] business is really high end," Hans Schep, Ford of Europe's head of commercial vehicles, said at a Ford capital markets day in May. "You would be surprised at the money customers spend. Not just on the vehicle, but what they bolt on afterwards." In the first quarter, 89 percent of Rangers sold across Europe were five-seat, four-door, double-cab models, Ford said. Of the total, 78 percent were high-spec lifestyle variants such as the Wildtrak and Raptor. Ford dominates the relatively small European pickup market with the Ranger after rivals such as Mitsubishi, Nissan and Renault cut or scaled back models. The current Ranger led the segment at the end of September with a share of 39.9 percent on sales of 45,539 units in Ford's 20 European countries, the automaker said. Its main competitor is the Toyota Hilux. Ford has said the new Ranger will be sold in 180 countries globally. No plans have been announced for the U.S., where the Ranger, revived in 2019, is sold alongside the vastly more successful F-150 full-size pickup, but the company is expected to add the new model at a later date. The new Ranger was designed at Ford’s Product Development Center in Australia. "Our team was focused on one goal - to make this Ranger the toughest and most capable we've ever created," said Graham Pearson, Ranger vehicle program director, said in the statement. The new Ranger is equipped with a body-on-frame ladder chassis, in line with previous generations, but Ford said a hydroformed front end allowed for a wider engine bay to accept the 3.0 V-6 diesel. A 50-mm longer wheelbase pushes the front wheels further forward for better off-road ability, while the track has been widened by 50 mm width to allow larger items to be loaded in the bed, including full-size pallets or sheets of plywood. LINK:https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/ford-europe-adds-v-6-diesel-redesigned-ranger

"Garlic is good for your health." This is a phrase that has been said for hundreds of years and that you have surely heard. However, much more recent is the understanding by science of how garlic is good for health. To do this, it was necessary to decipher its chemical composition. The compound allicin, for example, inhibits the proliferation of cells that spread colon cancer and is also responsible for the aroma of freshly grated garlic. Luteolin, on the other hand, has properties that help prevent cancer and heart disease, according to some studies. In every food we eat there are tens of thousands of other biochemical structures whose characteristics and potential need to be explored. We are used to hearing about proteins, sugar, fats, calories, vitamins, but approximately 99% of what our food makes up is practically unknown. The vastness to be explored in the set of nutritional factors has been compared to the "dark matter" of the universe, the invisible and little-known substance that permeates space and represents 80% of all matter in the cosmos. The term appeared linked to the food context at the end of 2019, in an article published in the scientific journal Nature, signed by scientists Albert-László Barabási, Giulia Menichetti and Joseph Loscalzo, from the universities of Harvard and Northeastern, in the United States. At the time, the survey cited 26,625 food items cataloged in the largest database of its kind in the world, Canada's FooDB. Today that number is 70,926, and with each discovery the list expands. But the work of the three scientists now includes banks other than FooDB, and their record already exceeds an astronomical 135,000 nutritional components. Only a small fraction (there were 150 in 2019) of this total already has established information such as chemical concentration and its effects. Scientist and study co-author Giulia Menichetti told BBC News Brazil that new discoveries will allow us to understand how the interaction between chemical compounds in food and proteins occurs in the human body. It shows promise for more effective treatments and prevention programs against diseases like cancer. And with a much broader catalog of nutrition information, "it will also be possible to help public health agencies simulate food substitution scenarios," she says. Eating patterns And as the study by Imperial College London points out, there are particularities of the organism and lifestyle of each individual. This myriad of factors may explain the doubts raised by both the scientific community and the general po[CENSORED]tion about food research: studies that argue, for example, that "the egg is healthy" one day, and others that conclude the following week that its daily consumption can lead to the risk of shortening someone's life. "This idea of identifying a certain food associated with a certain disease is an almost impossible mission," says Carlos Augusto Monteiro, professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Sao Paulo and coordinator of the Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health ( NUPENS / USP). Therefore, a current line of research in the science of nutrition is to identify eating patterns that favor or harm health. "Now there is interest in studying eating patterns, because they influence the development of a disease. In a relationship between food and disease, it is very difficult to isolate a specific element. People do not choose food one by one, it is a block, "explains Monteiro. "In a feijoada, for example, you are eating beans, meat, the fat of the preparation, garlic, onion. You cannot separate one thing from the other." The USP professor leads a large study that aims to accompany 200,000 people in Brazil for a minimum period of 10 years. Your eating patterns will be analyzed in association with the risk of developing chronic non-communicable diseases (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, obesity and various types of cancer). Another similar survey, conducted with 100,000 participants between 2009 and 2017 by the University of Paris, and with a contribution from USP, demonstrated the relationship between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and the diseases that affect a large group of people. Modern life For Andrea Pereira, nutritionist in the area of Oncology at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and author of the recently published book "Balance diet - The best anti-cancer diet", "science knows that vegetables, legumes and fruits have many antioxidant factors and this will lead to a greater protection of the organism and the improvement of the immune system ". He explains that "every day cells divide in the wrong way, but not everyone will get cancer. Because the immune system protects you. But a compromised immune system will not work and that is associated with a poor diet, with low fruit intake ". Link: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-59388361

Chile voted for the extremes in the first round of the elections and the right-wing José Antonio Kast and the left-wing Gabriel Boric will contest a polarized ballot for the country's presidency. With 99.98% of the tables scrutinized in the elections held this Sunday, Kast, from the radical right, and Boric, the leftist candidate, were the ones who added the most votes and will play the presidency of the country on December 19. Kast, a 55-year-old lawyer, married and father of 9 children and who shows sympathy with the de facto government of Augusto Pinochet, added 27.91% of support, for 25.82% of Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader who seeks to be the youngest president in the history of Chile. This result constitutes the narrowest difference in the last two decades between the first two majorities in the first round. While Boric and Kast are separated by 2.09 percentage points, in the 1999 elections Ricardo Lagos had an advantage of only 0.44% over Joaquín Lavín. The liberal FrancoParisi, a candidate who did not set foot in Chile throughout the campaign, gave the surprise and was third with 12.80%. The votes of his supporters may be key in the second round to tip the balance towards Kast or Boric. Link: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-59369625

The United States government announced on Tuesday that it will release 50 million barrels of oil from its "strategic reserves" to face the increase in the price of gasoline, which is affecting the pocket of citizens. This is a concerted move that is not limited to the United States. The Joe Biden government managed to persuade other large economies such as China, Japan, the United Kingdom, India and South Korea to also release part of their strategic reserves and thus help increase supply in the oil market. During the last year and a half, the flow of oil has been restricted by the effects of an agreement between the OPEC countries and other major producers such as Russia that have sought to keep the market under control in order to prop up prices. The United States has tried in vain to convince OPEC members about the advisability of increasing the supply of oil in a more accelerated way to respond to the recovery of the world economy after the impact of the pandemic, but these producers have opted for a gradual and limited increase. That the White House now decides to resort to strategic reserves to deal with this type of situation is an unprecedented measure that, in addition, may generate tensions with the OPEC countries, according to analysts. An emergency resource The SPR was created in 1975 after the economic crisis caused by the oil embargo that Arab countries imposed on Western governments for their support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. This measure caused crude oil prices to quadruple by 1974 and generated fuel shortage problems in the United States. From that moment on, the United States established this strategic reserve to protect itself from the fluctuations of the world oil market and from any possible interruption in supply. Although other large consumers of crude oil also adopted similar measures, the US SPR is the largest in the world and currently consists of some 620 million barrels that are stored in a system of caves dug in saline rock that extend from Baton Rouge (Louisiana) to Freeport (Texas). In the past, the United States has resorted to SPR in emergency circumstances such as during the 1991 Gulf War or after suffering the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which affected much of the oil infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Also in other specific emergencies it has "lent" part of its crude to some refineries to allow them to operate while a specific supply problem in the market is being corrected. Link: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-59397457

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Musician Name: Claudio Arrau Birthday / Location: February 7, 1903, Chillán (Chile) Main instrument: Piano Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Chilean National Art Award (1983) - Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1990) Best Performance: 1 in D minor Other Information: was a Chilean pianist known worldwide for his profound interpretations of a repertoire that ranged from baroque music to works of contemporary music. He is considered the most outstanding pianist of the 20th century, thanks to his performances praised by the public and critics of the time.

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