Du 30 octobre au 3 novembre, à Paris, c’est tout choco! Le salon du chocolat accueille les gourmands et les curieux Porte de Versailles pour cinq jours autour de ce produit d’exception.

Qu’il soit blanc, noir ou au lait, les Français mangent plus de 7 kg de chocolat par an.

L’édition 2013 du Salon du chocolat de Paris se tient du 30 octobre au 3 novembre 2013 à la Porte de Versailles. Cette année fait encore davantage de place à la gourmandise, puisque l’exposition passe de 12 500 m² à 20 000 m². Le thème de cette édition se résume en une question existentielle : “Pourquoi le chocolat est-il magique ?“

Cet événement mondial est devenu une rencontre incontournable pour tous les accros au chocolat. Le Salon du Chocolat accueille pendant plus de 550 participants, chocolatiers, chefs et chefs pâtissiers, conférenciers et experts du cacao, venus du monde entier.Toutes les informations sur le site :

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L’annonce par Valérie Fourneyron, ministre des Sports, de supprimer l’obligation annuelle de présenter un certificat médical d’aptitude au sport est “une idiotie“, s’insurge Michel Chassang, président de la Confédération des syndicats médicaux français(CSMF). S’il reconnaît que certains examens délivrant le certificat d’aptitude au sport sont inutiles, car faits à la va-vite, il prône leur réhabilitation à travers une consultation annuelle de prévention. Explications.

Certificat médical d'aptitude au sport

Le ministère des Sports envisagerait de mettre fin à l’obligation de passer, chaque année, une

visite médicale d’aptitude à la pratique d’un sport. Sans supprimer cette consultation médicale, il suggère de l’espacer tous les 2 ou 5 ans, en l’absence de pathologie. L’objectif mis en avant par Valérie Fourneyron : faciliter l’accès des jeunes au sport.Révélée par

Europe 1, cette information a suscité un tollé chez les médecins, parmi lesquels le Dr Jean Paul Hamon, président de la fédération des Médecins de France (FMF), et le Dr Michel Chassang.Sur la forme d’abord. Le président de la CSMF déplore que cette décision, qui concerne pourtant la santé publique, soit prise par la ministre des Sports. “On aurait préféré que cela vienne de la ministre de la Santé. On est sur des problèmes de santé publique, ce sont des choses trop sérieuses pour que certains ministres extérieurs à la santé prennent des décisions dans ce domaine“, indique-t-il à Doctissimo.Sur le fond ensuite. La délivrance d’un certificat médical d’aptitude au sport se fait à l’issue d’une visite médicale, “une occasion unique de voir des jeunes à des moments où ils en ont vraiment besoin“, estime le Dr Chassang, évoquant la prévention et la vaccination. “Le certificat sert à faire le point au niveau préventif, à voir si le

sport choisi est adapté à la situation de l’enfant, à dépister d’éventuelles anomalies physiologiques et/ou médicales…“ Et Jean-Paul Hamon de réagir à sont tour, au micro d’Europe 1 : “Une visite annuelle, quand on est adolescent, qu’il y à la croissance, cela nous permet de vérifier le dos, et de voir l’enfant au moins une fois par an. Une visite annuelle ce n’est pas de trop“.S’il reconnaît que certains examens réalisés dans le cadre de la délivrance de ce certificat sont inutiles, car “faits à la va-vite“ ou réclamés pour des activités qui sont assez éloignées d’une réelle pratique sportive (la pétanque, par exemple), le Dr Chassang s’oppose à la décision de supprimer son obligation, dénonçant des motivations qui ne sont pas d’ordre médical. “La finalité est quantitative, pas qualitative. Cette question mérite une analyse plus fine“, estime le médecin qui plaide pour une meilleure organisation de la consultation, qui dépendrait du sport, de l’enfant, de son âge…Le Dr Chassang réfute par ailleurs l’argument selon lequel l’espacement des consultations obligatoires dans le cadre de la délivrance d’un certificat médical d’aptitude au sport ferait faire des économies à la Sécurité sociale. “La plupart des actes sont gratuits et les certificats ne sont théoriquement pas remboursables ; ce n’est donc pas à la charge de la collectivité“.La CSMF avait fait des propositions pour une amélioration des consultations d’aptitude au sport en réunion ministérielle il y a 18 mois de cela, indique le Dr Chassang, mais aucune suite n’avait été donnée. “Nous pensions que c’était tombé à l’eau“. Il faut croire que non. Mais s’ils ne sont “pas contents“ et qu’ils attendent une décision de la ministre de la Santé, les médecins ne semblent pas avoir les moyens de défendre davantage l’organisation actuelle.Amélie Pelletier
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– Interview du Dr Michel Chassang, président de la CSMF, le 3 décembre 2013.
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Le mannequin Edie Campbell a été choisie pour incarner le nouveau parfum Black Opium d’Yves Saint Laurent.

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L’annonce a été officialisée le 6 mai dernier à Paris. La mannequin britannique Edie Campbell a été choisie par Yves Saint Laurent pour être l’ambassadrice de son dernier parfum, Black Opium.Repérée par Lucinda Chambers en 2009, c’est sous l’objectif de Mario Testino que le mannequin commence sa carrière dans l‘édition britannique de Vogue.Pleine de charme et d’attitude rock n roll, Edie Campbell est aussi une tête, puisqu’elle est sortie major de sa promotion à l’Institut Courtauld de l’Université de Londres où elle a étudié l’histoire de l’art.Petite fille de mannequin et fille de styliste, la jeune londonienne fait honneur à l’héritage familial avec une allure légendaire. “C’est un véritable honneur d’être l’ambassadrice du parfum Black Opium. La marque Yves Saint Laurent a une vision de la beauté à la fois moderne et inspirante ; je suis particulièrement fière de représenter l’archétype d’une femme pleine d’audace“, commente Edie Campbell.Réalisée par Daniel Wolf, la campagne TV Black Opium sera diffusée dès cet été.“Edie incarne tous les codes contemporains de la femme Yves Saint Laurent Beauté : élégante, cultivée, pleine d’esprit, c’est un mannequin qui a du style et du caractère. Icône beauté de toute une génération, elle fait désormais partie des ambassadrices de la marque et nous en sommes très fiers“, explique Stephan Bezy, Directeur Général International Yves Saint Laurent.Anaïs Le HenrySource : communiqué de presse Yves Saint Laurent – mai 2014Click Here: Cheap France Rugby Jersey

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) has issued a letter calling Amazon’s protections of warehouse workers in the state “inadequate” and says the company may have broken state whistleblower laws by firing a Staten Island warehouse worker.

“While we continue to investigate, the information so far available to us raises concerns that Amazon’s health and safety measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are so inadequate that they may violate several provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act,” James’s office said in a letter obtained by NPR and dated last week.

Amazon fired worker Christian Smalls in March after he staged a walkout demanding the closure of the Staten Island warehouse after several workers tested positive for the coronavirus.

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Amazon has denied Smalls was fired for organizing the walkout, saying he had been told to self-isolate after exposure to people with the virus and he instead continued coming to work.

In the letter, James calls on Amazon to give Smalls his job back and asks for any internal company communications on worker complaints and organizing dating back to Feb. 1.

“This Office has learned that many workers are fearful about speaking out about their concerns following the termination of Mr. Smalls’ employment,” the letter states. “This is a particularly dangerous message to send during a pandemic, when chilling worker speech about health and safety practices could literally be a matter of life and death.”

In a statement to NPR, an Amazon spokesperson said workers’ rights to protest “do not provide blanket immunity against bad actions, particularly those that endanger the health, well-being or safety of their colleagues.”

Since Smalls’s action, workers at various other Amazon warehouses in other states have organized similar protests and walkouts, demanding the retail giant shut down all facilities with confirmed cases of the virus.

James’s office said in the letter that Smalls filed a complaint with the New York State Department of Health on March 21.

The Hill has reached out to Amazon for comment.

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The Federal Reserve on Monday expanded the range of cities and counties eligible for relief from an emergency coronavirus lending program for local governments after criticism about the facility’s narrow reach.

The central bank said Monday it would open its Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to cities with at least 250,000 residents and counties with at least 500,000. The program was previously limited to cities of 1 million residents or more and counties of at least 2 million, cutting off some of the municipalities hit hardest by COVID-19.

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The Fed on April 9 announced it would purchase $500 billion in debt from city and county governments through the MLF as part of an additional $2.3 trillion in emergency loans. While the Fed was praised by some for its unprecedented effort to aid governments, critics noted that the population thresholds boxed out some cities and counties in desperate need of aid.

Brookings Institution fellow Aaron Klein and senior fellow Camille Busette wrote that even though black Americans make up a disproportionate number of COVID-19 victims, “none of the thirty-five most African American cities in America meets the Fed’s criteria for direct assistance.”

These parameters would exclude the entire metropolitan statistical areas of Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Pittsburgh and Detroit, they wrote.

All six now meet the Fed’s new cutoffs for population, but the central bank also said Monday it would purchase bonds only from local government with high credit ratings, potentially excluding cities and counties with preexisting, longstanding financial troubles.

The Fed also announced it would extend the length of MLF loans, raising the maximum maturation time for the bonds it will purchase to 36 months from 24 months. That gives the local government receiving Fed assistance up to another year to repay the loan.

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The Fed’s expansion of the MLF comes amid an intensifying debate over how much aid the federal government should offer states facing spikes in unemployment claims and plummeting revenue.

Top Washington, D.C., Republicans including Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellOn The Money: Coronavirus exposes scars of Great Recession | House, Senate return next week for next coronavirus relief bill | McConnell state bankruptcy remarks raise questions | Small business coronavirus loan program reopens Overnight Health Care: Trump health official says US will ‘easily’ perform 8M tests in May | White House shifts messaging strategy on coronavirus | Louisiana extends shelter-in-place order while Iowa, Texas and Ohio plan to ease restrictions McConnell: Battle for control of the Senate will be a ‘dogfight’ MORE (R-Ky.) have spoken out against sending money to Democratic-run states after already approving trillions in aid and emergency loans. McConnell went as far as to suggest that states should file for bankruptcy, a legally dubious proposal that provoked backlash from a bipartisan group of governors and lawmakers.

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With most rent and mortgage checks due Friday, progressives are pushing for an immediate moratorium on housing payments to ease the economic burden of the coronavirus pandemic.

The high cost of living in some of the hardest-hit states and cities, coupled with more than 26 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits since mid-March, has highlighted the financial stress facing millions of households each time a new month draws near.

“Nearly one-third of all renters in America could not pay the rent on April 1st — and that number is expected to be even higher this month,” said Rep. Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarSanders asks for donations to reelect members of ‘The Squad’ Omar introduces legislation to cancel rent, mortgage payments during pandemic Iran’s ‘Khashoggi’: Where’s the outrage over the death of Masoud Molavi Vardanjani? MORE (D-Minn.) in a statement to The Hill.

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“We are at risk of a full breakdown of our housing market — including mass displacement and homelessness — if the federal government does not step in immediately,” added Omar, who has introduced a bill requiring a freeze on rent and mortgage payments during the pandemic.

The average monthly housing cost for an American household is nearly $1,500, according to Bank of America. Among renters, 38 percent were considered “rent burdened” as recently as 2015, meaning more than 30 percent of their income went to their landlord, according to the Pew Research Center.

“If you look at this before COVID hit, the country was facing an affordability crisis across markets,” said Chris Vincent, vice president of government and advocacy relations at Habitat for Humanity. “When you couple it with upwards of 25 million unemployed in a very short time, it just exacerbated something that was already very difficult.”

What awaits on the other side of the pandemic, he said, could be “a housing crisis on steroids as compared to what happened in 2008 and 2009,” when the global financial crisis was in full swing after the collapse of the housing market.

Housing activists on Tuesday organized strikes around the country, carrying banners that read “Cancel Rent” and prodding political leaders online with the hashtag #CantPayMay.

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“People aren’t striking because they don’t feel like paying rent. People are striking because they CAN’T pay rent,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezHillicon Valley: Republican senator calls for investigation into Amazon | Warren, Ocasio-Cortez propose big merger freeze during pandemic | Delaware to allow disabled voters to vote online in primary On The Money: White House mulling additional stimulus checks | House delay raises questions about coronavirus relief | Small business program may be near exhaustion Warren, Ocasio-Cortez to propose big merger freeze amid pandemic MORE (D-N.Y.) said in a video in support of protesters Tuesday.

Omar’s bill, which has the support of both co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, would temporarily halt all rental and mortgage payments. It would then set up government funds to reimburse landlords and financial institutions for lost revenue, though it would also require them to agree to stringent restrictions, including a five-year moratorium on rent increases.

But some industry experts warn that aggressive government actions could cause more harm than good.

“We’re completely in support of rent support efforts that are out there, such as direct payments and enhanced unemployment. But that’s different than fundamentally changing the way the mortgage system works,” said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Even though Omar’s bill faces long odds of making it through Congress, Fratantoni said the kind of approach she proposed could throw a wrench in the complex mortgage financial system.

“The system is tied together in ways that aren’t necessarily obvious,” he said. “You can’t just turn off part of the mortgage system without having an effect elsewhere.”

Tomasz Piskorski, a professor of real estate and finance at Columbia Business School, said that while a wave of defaults, foreclosures and evictions could cause problems in the financial system, the blanket approach to the residential market in Omar’s proposal wasn’t the solution.

“I think it’s just too far reaching, too costly, and it might not work quickly enough to provide financial stability,” he said.

In Piskorski’s economic modeling, the worst-case scenario from the pandemic would result in 30 percent of homeowners defaulting on their loans, meaning government support for the other 70 percent would be unnecessary.

Both Piskorski and Fratantoni say the approach taken in the $2.2 trillion emergency relief CARES Act is better. The bipartisan law, which President TrumpDonald John TrumpMeat and poultry industry groups applaud Trump for keeping processing plants open FBI releases documents showing Roger Stone, Julian Assange communications Approval for Trump’s handling of coronavirus drops 10 points: poll MORE signed on March 27, offered homeowners forbearance on mortgage payments, meaning they could put them off if they were affected by the crisis. Evictions were temporarily banned.

Seven percent of mortgages are already in forbearance, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

But while many mortgage service providers have allowed borrowers to tack on the missed payments to the end of their loan period, some lenders are insisting they be paid when the period of forbearance ends.

Policies like those, Piskorski said, could worsen an already bad situation, both for individuals and the financial system.

“If you’re unemployed for six months, how the hell are you going to come up with six months of payments at the end? It won’t happen,” Piskorski said.

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At least 36 people who voted in person or worked at polls in Wisconsin’s election earlier this month have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the state health department. 

“So far, 36 people who tested COVID-19 positive after April 9 have reported that they voted in person or worked the polls on election day,” Jennifer Miller, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, told Politico on Monday. 

It’s unclear if the people got the coronavirus through taking part in the primary, however, as several reported additional possible exposures, Miller told Politico. 

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A spokesperson for the health department was not immediately available for comment.

The health department told The Hill last week that 19 people who had voted in-person or worked at a polling location during Wisconsin’s election earlier this month had tested positive. 

The state health department announced new tracing mechanisms to track Wisconsin residents who may have been exposed to COVID-19 during the election just days after the April 7 election. 

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) tried to block in-person voting and hold the entire election by mail, but Republican legislators refused the request. 

The Supreme court overturned Evers’s executive order to postpone in-person voting until June. The order also held that Wisconsin could not accept absentee ballots postmarked after its voting day. 

As of Monday, the Wisconsin health department reported a statewide total of 6,081 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 281 deaths.

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A farmer in Iowa says he had to ordered his staff to terminate 7,500 pig pregnancies as a number of farmers across the country struggle to sell livestock amid a drop in demand for meat during the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.

The farmer, Al Van Beek, told the international news agency that the move to terminate the pregnancies was a difficult decision for him.

“We have nowhere to go with the pigs,” he told the outlet. “What are we going to do?”

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As more farmers run out of places to sell their livestock and crops, Van Beek told Reuters he had to pay more than four times the cost it usually takes for him to have pigs transported for slaughter.

The Iowa farmer said he used to have the animals taken to a plant run by Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, S.D. But after the pork producer closed that plant, he said he had to have to animals transported to another plant further away in Illinois. 

Another Iowa farmer in Iowa, Dean Meyer, also told Reuters his farm has had to euthanize some of their smallest piglets and others in order to adjust to the current needs of the market.

“Packers are backed up every day, more and more,” he said.

Around the country, more farmers have also reported having to euthanize their livestock or plow over their crops as a number of food processing plants and restaurants have closed or seen a dramatic drop in business amid the pandemic.

A pair of dairy farmers from Wisconsin told the news agency that they even received death threats after they had to throw out milk.

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“They say, ‘How dare you throw away food when so many people are hungry?’” one farmer told Reuters. “They don’t know how farming works. This makes me sick, too.”

Over the weekend, a Tyson Foods board chairman John Tyson said in a full-page ad published in the New York Times that “the food supply chain is breaking” during the pandemic. He also said that “millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, usually half a million pigs are slaughtered daily in the U.S. for consumption. However, as some slaughterhouses have temporarily closed amid the pandemic, that figure has lowered to roughly 105,000 per day.

In order to adjust to the changing pork industry amid the pandemic, the Journal reports that some hog farmers have even mulled creating what the paper referred to as “temporary euthanasia sites” for their livestock.

Chinese scientists said this week that they believe the novel coronavirus will not be eradicated, predicting that the disease could possibly return periodically like the flu.   

A group of Chinese viral and medical researchers told reporters in Beijing on Monday that the virus will likely not disappear like SARS because it can infect asymptomatic carriers, Bloomberg News reported, so people can spread the virus without experiencing symptoms like a fever and cough.

The researchers said Chinese health officials are still confirming dozens of asymptomatic carriers every day, the news outlet reported.  

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“This is very likely to be an epidemic that co-exists with humans for a long time, becomes seasonal and is sustained within human bodies,” Jin Qi, director of the Institute of Pathogen Biology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said.

Health officials and leaders worldwide have projected that the virus is unlikely to be completely eliminated, despite lockdowns, stay-at-home orders and other measures being enforced around the world.

The Chinese experts said Monday that they have found no evidence that the virus’s spread will slow during the summer as temperatures continue to rise in the northern hemisphere, according to Bloomberg.

“The virus is heat sensitive, but that’s when it’s exposed to 56 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes and the weather is never going to get that hot,” Wang Guiqiang, head of the infectious diseases department of Peking University First Hospital, said. “So globally, even during the summer, the chance of cases going down significantly is small.”

William Bryan, under secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters last week that coronavirus deteriorates faster when subjected to higher temperatures and humidity, but he warned that “it would be irresponsible for us to say that we feel the summer is going to totally kill the virus … that is not the case.”

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“We need to be prepared that since it will be unlikely to be completely eradicated from the planet that as we get into next season we may see the beginning of a resurgence,” Fauci told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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