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READ MORE Planning her second wedding, Cindy Chupak thought her first marriage was long behind her. Then her rabbi told her that the divorce would not be final without a “get,” a Jewish divorce certificate. On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the actress Amy Landecker reads “ An Ancient Coda to My 21st-Century Divorce ,” an essay about new beginnings made possible by an old ritual. Ms. Chupak , the author of the 2007 essay, is an Emmy and Golden Globe winning television writer and producer. Ms. Landecker appears, most recently, as Sarah Pfefferman in the Amazon series “Transparent.” Stay tuned after the reading to hear from her, Ms. Chupak and the Modern Love editor Daniel Jones. To read past Modern Love columns, click here . Continue following our fashion and lifestyle coverage on Facebook ( Styles and Modern Love ), Twitter ( Styles , Fashion and Weddings ) and Instagram . Article source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/sportsNews/~3/nYi...

READ MORE Conservative MP Chris Warkentin is upset with how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau characterized opposition parties’ behaviour in the House of Commons to a group of visiting students. In cellphone video of the exchange obtained by CBC News, Trudeau can be heard telling the young people from an Ottawa-area school that they should expect to see differences in the way parties behave in question period. “We try and stay, you know, serious and respectful. They like to shout,” he said of his political foes. “That’s something that happens naturally in opposition.” Warkentin was concerned with how the prime minister characterized the opposition parties, saying it sends the wrong message about politicians who disagree with the Liberal government’s agenda. “What was concerning to me, as a young father who has kids that would be that age, would be that the prime minister would be presenting his party and the opposition par...

READ MORE Canada will take in 40,000 more immigrants in 2021 than it plans to accept this year, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Wednesday. The target for new arrivals in Canada will rise to 350,000, which is nearly one per cent of the country’s population. The figures were announced Wednesday as part of government’s updated multi-year immigration levels plan, which covers the next three years. The target rises annually from 310,000 this year, counting all classes of new arrivals. It’s also a question of gradual increase so our immigration system can be able to process these things. – Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen The vast majority of these newcomers are coming under economic programs designed to address skills shortages and gaps in the labour market. Hussen says economic immigration is badly needed in areas across the country that are short on workers and long on older residents. ‘Hunger for workers is huge’ “In certain regions the h...

READ MORE VdW materials are made of piles of ultra-thin layers held together by weak van der Waals bonds. The success of graphene — vdW’s star material — stimulated scientists to look for other 2D crystals, where layers can be changed, added or removed in order to introduce new physical properties, like magnetism. How do materials become magnetic? You can imagine that each electron in a material acts like a tiny compass with its own north and south poles. The orientation of these “compass needles” determines the magnetization. More specifically, magnetization arises from electrons’ spin (magnetic moment) and depends on temperature. A ferromagnet, like a standard fridge magnet, acquires its magnetic properties below the magnetic transition temperature (Tc, Curie temperature), when all the magnetic moments are aligned, all “compass needles” point in the same direction. Other materials, instead, are antiferromagnetic, meaning that below the t...

READ MORE Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a type of skeletal stem cell in the “resting zone” of the epiphyseal growth plate, which is a special cartilaginous tissue and an important driver for bone growth. Noriaki Ono, U-M assistant professor of dentistry, said that locating skeletal stem cells in the resting zone makes sense because it’s widely believed that stem cells stay quiet until they’re needed. To find the cells, Noriaki and colleagues used fluorescent proteins to mark specific groups of cells in mice and tracked the fate of these cells over time. In this way, they learned how the cells behaved in native conditions throughout the life-cycle, rather than on a petri dish, Noriaki said. The cells they found met the criteria for skeletal stem cells because they do three important things: They become cells that make both cartilage and bone and support blood cell production. This may be only one type of skeletal stem cells, Noriaki sai...

READ MORE In August 2017, Mr. Zinke wrote to his chief of staff expressing interest in his agency’s plans for drone use . “I want to see the drone contract before the award,” he wrote, according to emails released in response to public records requests and highlighted by Center for Western Priorities, a conservation organization. Richard W. Painter, a White house ethics lawyer under George W. Bush who has been critical of the Trump administration, said it struck him as unusual that such a contract would be significant enough to reach Mr. Zinke. “It better be a really important contract to rise to the level of a cabinet secretary,” he said. From the partly redacted email, it is unclear which contract Mr. Zinke had sought. Heather Swift, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, said Mr. Zinke “asked to see the requirements of the request to ensure the description of services and capabilities met the highly-specialized needs of the Department.” S...

READ MORE By then, he was turning his attention to democracy-building in Eastern Europe. Mr. Soros and his foundations supported groups and individuals seeking to bring down Communism, including the Solidarity and Charter 77 movements in Poland and Czechoslovakia. The leaders of both groups would later lead their countries in the post-Communist era. In Hungary, Mr. Soros distributed photocopiers to universities and libraries as a means to fight government censorship, and he paid for dissidents to study in the West. The recipients included a young Mr. Orban, then a liberal activist. After the end of the Cold War, with the Open Society Foundations as his main vehicle, Mr. Soros funded new work for destitute Soviet scientists in Russia, paid for free school breakfasts for Hungarian children and set up a college, the Central European University, that later drew the ire of Mr. Orban’s government. In the United States, where Mr. Soros was granted citizenship in the 1960s, Mr. Soros...