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Using a stacked difference-in-differences design covering shootings between 1990 and 2025, I compare cohorts at affected universities before and after the shooting with cohorts at matched control universities. I find no detectable effects on time to degree, but undergraduates enrolled at the time of the shooting are 4.2% less likely to pursue further studies. Those who do continue shift toward health: the share of exposed cohorts who later enroll in a health degree rises by 1.3 percentage points (8.8%), and this effect persists among cohorts who enroll after the shooting. Effects on students present during the shooting are consistent with a response to trauma; for later cohorts, I find evidence of sorting, as master’s students with prior healthcare experience become more likely to enroll in affected universities. These results suggest that mass shootings leave institutional and cultural legacies that outlast the students who witnessed them.

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The European Parliament approved its position on a targeted revision of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) by 470 votes to 83, with 108 abstentions. The proposal includes a new European Critical Raw Materials Centre and stronger measures to secure strategic supplies.

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Italy’s Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, welcomed the vote, highlighting provisions to restrict exports of scrap and waste containing permanent magnets and establish a European centre for critical raw materials.

Urso pointed to Italy’s bid to host the first European strategic stockpile of critical raw materials and the recent selection of five Italian projects among the 46 identified by the European Commission under the CRMA’s second call for projects.

Rome wants to establish the European critical raw materials storage centre in Porto Marghera, in the Veneto region. The site is connected to northeastern Italy’s logistics network, making it a potential hub for the strategic storage and management of rare earth elements.

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The Critical Raw Materials Act establishes a series of benchmarks for 2030 to strengthen Europe’s access to materials essential for the clean energy transition.

• 10%: Minimum share of the EU’s annual consumption of strategic raw materials to be extracted domestically.
• 40%: Minimum share to be processed within the EU.
• 25%: Minimum share to be met through recycling.
• 65%: Maximum share of annual EU consumption of any strategic raw material that should come from a single third country.

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The West must work to prevent China and Russia from seizing control of the new maritime route opening up in the Arctic and turning it into a chokepoint on global trade, the European Union’s chief diplomat has warned.

Brussels is due to announce a more muscular approach to asserting Europe’s interests against Beijing and Moscow in the High North.

This updated strategy, to be unveiled on Wednesday, will include a surveillance centre for tracking suspicious shipping activity, support for military-grade ports and airports for the rapid deployment of troops, and a hub for monitoring and repairing subsea data cables in case of sabotage.

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It is designed to counter Sino-Russian efforts to dominate the Arctic Circle. There is particular concern about the Northern Sea Route (NSR) over the top of Russia, which is increasingly becoming a significant alternative to the Suez Canal as the sea ice retreats due to the effects of global warming.

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Western naval strategists suggest that the two hostile powers are extending their military capabilities along the NSR, which largely skirts Russia’s territorial waters and is already starting to be plied by commercial shipping from China and other Pacific states to Europe. During the summer months, the voyages are at least a third faster than the established route through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

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China claims the status of a “near-Arctic” country, despite its northernmost point being on roughly the same latitude as Manchester and Hamburg, and all of its significant commercial ports being more southerly than Turkey. It has begun sending research fleets of icebreakers to the High North and has tried to acquire critical resources on Greenland.

“It’s not an Arctic country, that’s for sure, but we need to understand the Chinese are always very strategic about the steps they are taking, and that’s why I think we need to be very strategic in the Arctic as well,” Kallas said.

“They [and Russia] are actually mapping the region to understand where the possibilities are … This is what they are doing in other waters as well to map the cables, to map the connectivity, so that this is also our vulnerability. It’s clear that this is not only scientific research for the sake of climate change.”

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The EU’s existing Arctic strategy, published in 2021, was primarily concerned with the environmental effects of global warming and pollution.

The updated version is a much more geopolitical statement of intent. It will commit to building up Europe’s icebreaker fleet and allocating €260m for Arctic-capable military technologies such as extreme-weather aircraft and long-range sensors.

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Kallas said “European security is Arctic security” because of trade, energy, communications and military factors, including the vast concentration of Russian nuclear weapons on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland and Norway.

That leaves it reliant on partners that are recalibrating their ties to the bloc. Canada is negotiating an unprecedented “associate membership” of the EU. Iceland voted at the end of August to reject accession talks but indicated that it wished to deepen economic relations.

Norway is similarly perched just outside the EU but gingerly seeking closer alignment. Britain, which among other things provides a base for European Arctic aerial surveillance missions at RAF Lossiemouth, is also gradually drawing nearer.

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Asked about Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the UK could try to reverse Brexit should Labour win the next election, Kallas said most Europeans would welcome Britain back.

“The Brexit process has definitely left scars on many people in Europe, especially those who were part of the negotiations,” she said. “But that said … coming from my own country [Estonia], I can tell you that we were very sad when the UK left because you were our good allies and we really enjoyed working with you there.”

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after further research, fuck apple. even windows somehow has better interoperability with other systems, with making recovery media, virtualization, and just basic, basic shit.

trying with high sierra now.

At this point, they have all been adopted. We kept the one that bonded with our older cat even though he is a little weirdo.

Hope you enjoyed the journey. Obviously there are a thousand more photos but you know how it is.

Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Russian man does not have to return his daughter to her mother in France, even though he took the child to Russia without permission, Kommersant reported.

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The case concerns Veronika Tishkova, a Ukrainian citizen who married Russian citizen Alexey Yermakov in 2018. They lived in Kyiv, where their daughter was born. The couple divorced in 2021, and the child stayed with her mother. Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, Tishkova moved to France with her 3-year-old daughter, while Yermakov remained in Ukraine.

In June 2023, he asked a Kyiv court to order his former wife to bring their daughter to Ukraine every six weeks. The court denied his request.

Yermakov also took legal action against his former wife in France. In April 2024, he consented to the child’s living permanently in France. The following March, he asked for permission to take his daughter on vacation to Turkey and Slovakia, promising the court he would return her in two weeks. He did not. It soon emerged that he had taken the child to Russia.

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In July 2025, Tishkova asked a court in Novosibirsk to order her daughter’s return. During the proceedings, the girl was granted Russian citizenship at her father’s request. The court nevertheless sided with Tishkova and ordered Yermakov to return the child to France under the Hague Convention. Higher courts rejected Yermakov’s appeals.

He then appealed to Russia’s Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor in July 2026. The court found that the girl had adjusted to life in Russia and that moving to France could therefore adversely affect her. It cited an article of the Hague Convention that allows courts to refuse to return a child “if there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm.” The court also said the girl has Russian citizenship and that France is an “unfriendly” country and a member of NATO and the European Union.

Tishkova challenged the ruling, which is now under review by the Supreme Court’s Presidium. Her lawyer, Dmitry Litvinsky, said the Supreme Court had “put its own political interpretation of the situation above the applicable law.” Andrey Targashov, Yermakov’s lawyer, said the court’s position was “in line with international practice.”

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Disclaimer: This is made by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim a known ex IDF unit 8200 spy who is a very shady figure. He has suddenly joined the Palestine cause after defending the genocide for quite a while and has attacked other Palestine activists in an attempt to pedestal himself already.

It would not be surprising if this was made to gain credibility in the Palestine movement. Do not pedestal the maker of this video and always remain hyper vigilant of their work. They might be an ally, but this trick has been done many time. This video stands on its own.

source https://x.com/academic_la/status/2112935971427844389