Apr 27, 2016 06:34 PM
Zika was in Haiti before exploding in Brazil
http://www.futurity.org/zika-haiti-brazil-1148822/
EXCERPT: The Zika virus was present in Haiti several months before the first cases were identified in Brazil, new research suggests. The finding confirms that the Zika virus was present in the Americas prior to March 2015, when the virus was first identified in Brazil, and suggests that the spread of Zika virus in the Americas was likely more complicated than early theories presumed. “We know that the virus was present in Haiti in December of 2014,” says Glenn Morris, professor of medicine at the University of Florida and director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute. “And, based on molecular studies, it may have been present in Haiti even before that date.” Although the findings suggest that the Zika virus was circulating in the Americas prior to 2015, what remains unclear is exactly what confluence of factors caused the virus to take off in Brazil....
An explosion of misdirected legislation on immigration has failed to tackle cultural integration, and has confused authorities
Immigration: The long and winding road to being British
http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/comment...ng-british
EXCERPT: [...] I have examined the UK's rules on citizenship and immigration, conducting interviews with citizens and migrants across the country.
Two problems stand out. The first is that political reactions have reached a breaking point. Westminster responds to public anxieties about immigration not by engaging with it, but by reacting to it. There has been an explosion of new legislation over the last two decades. Much of it is made ad hoc at the speed of a fire ball. Within months of passing the Immigration Act 2014, the government proposed a new Immigration Bill - partly with the purpose of amending part of an Act they had just enacted into law.
Changes are coming so fast that few can keep afloat with the current law. I found evidence of High Commissions, border agents, and advocates providing inaccurate advice to migrants -which led to much avoidable distress and heavy costs to migrants trying to play by the rules, not to mention deportation orders.
The second problem is that one of the purposes behind many of the rules on naturalisation is designed to ensure - and even promote - integration. Yet the fact is they appear to have the opposite effect....
http://www.futurity.org/zika-haiti-brazil-1148822/
EXCERPT: The Zika virus was present in Haiti several months before the first cases were identified in Brazil, new research suggests. The finding confirms that the Zika virus was present in the Americas prior to March 2015, when the virus was first identified in Brazil, and suggests that the spread of Zika virus in the Americas was likely more complicated than early theories presumed. “We know that the virus was present in Haiti in December of 2014,” says Glenn Morris, professor of medicine at the University of Florida and director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute. “And, based on molecular studies, it may have been present in Haiti even before that date.” Although the findings suggest that the Zika virus was circulating in the Americas prior to 2015, what remains unclear is exactly what confluence of factors caused the virus to take off in Brazil....
An explosion of misdirected legislation on immigration has failed to tackle cultural integration, and has confused authorities
Immigration: The long and winding road to being British
http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/comment...ng-british
EXCERPT: [...] I have examined the UK's rules on citizenship and immigration, conducting interviews with citizens and migrants across the country.
Two problems stand out. The first is that political reactions have reached a breaking point. Westminster responds to public anxieties about immigration not by engaging with it, but by reacting to it. There has been an explosion of new legislation over the last two decades. Much of it is made ad hoc at the speed of a fire ball. Within months of passing the Immigration Act 2014, the government proposed a new Immigration Bill - partly with the purpose of amending part of an Act they had just enacted into law.
Changes are coming so fast that few can keep afloat with the current law. I found evidence of High Commissions, border agents, and advocates providing inaccurate advice to migrants -which led to much avoidable distress and heavy costs to migrants trying to play by the rules, not to mention deportation orders.
The second problem is that one of the purposes behind many of the rules on naturalisation is designed to ensure - and even promote - integration. Yet the fact is they appear to have the opposite effect....