Leaderboard

voted

Nice Profile Song bro 👍

voted💫

Voted ❤️

voted

VOTED

Hi all 🙂

voted

Accepted Contact me on discord

Voted You have voted successfully!

@BirSaNN congratulations ❣

UPGRADES: Nick : DeViL_RoOTzZ / gzuz / smeksi Old grade : Moderator / Administrator / Helper New grade : Administrator / Semi-Elder / Moderator Reason : Good activity and loyal good luck keep it up DOWNGRADES; Nick : Javier<3 Old grade : Helper New grade : Player Reason : Not active since many days

Researchers digging in Peru's Ocucaje desert have uncovered the skull of an enormous marine predator thought to be the ancestor of modern whales and dolphins. Four feet long (1.2 meters) and lined with knife-like teeth, the skull appears to be a new species of Basilosaurus — a genus of ferocious marine mammals that lived some 36 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, researchers from the National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima told Reuters. From snout to tail, the creature probably measured about 39 feet (12 meters) long, or about the size of a city bus. For now, researchers are calling this ancient beast the "Ocucaje Predator." It won't be formally named until the team publishes a scientific description of the species in a peer-reviewed journal. "It was a marine monster," Rodolfo Salas, founder and director of the paleontology department at the Museum of Natural History at UNMSM, told Reuters and other media outlets at a news conference on March 17. "When it was searching for its food, it surely did a lot of damage." According to the researchers, the Ocucaje Desert was once the bottom of an ancient ocean. Basilosaurus and its ferocious cousins swam these seas as apex predators from 41 million to 34 million years ago, gliding through the water with bodies that resembled enormous snakes, but with a large pair of flippers near their heads. "Basilosaurus" means "king lizard," and the creature's serpentine skeleton was once mistaken for a marine reptile, according to Smithsonian. Scientists now know that Basilosaurus was a mammal — a fully aquatic cetacean, like the whales and dolphins that would follow it millions of years later. Earlier whale ancestors were mammals who lived on land full-time, then gradually evolved to be semi-aquatic over millions of years, Live Science previously reported. Beginning about 55 million years ago — 10 million years after the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs — whale ancestors finally became fully aquatic, giving rise to the first cetaceans. Today, there are more than 90 species of cetaceans. The Ocucaje desert is abundant in fossils, some dating back more than 42 million years, according to the researchers. Previous excavations have uncovered other early whale ancestors, dolphins, sharks and other creatures of the ancient deep. Source

Fifteen months ago, BMW’s M division celebrated one of its performance car icons with a fast and aggressive-looking special edition: the 626bhp BMW M5 CS. We road tested it in July last year, and it became the only car in 2021 to be awarded a five-star score. Now here we are at the end of 2022 with a sense of déjà vu, as Munich sets out to hit even greater heights with a BMW M4 whose jib is cut in similar – if not identical – style. The BMW M4 CSL marks a celebration of a quite different magnitude: the 50th birthday of BMW M. It is only the third car yet to bear the ‘CSL’ identifier and the first in almost 20 years. So while there have been few BMW CSLs over the decades, this one meets with huge expectations. Not least, perhaps, because this car’s immediate predecessor, the ‘E46’ M3 CSL of 2004, is still regarded as the finest-handling car BMW has yet produced. That the CSL isn’t just another roll-caged, track-intended limited-run special is what ought to make the following pages so fascinating. How has BMW defined what CSL needs to stand for today, as distinct from how it has defined a BMW M4 GTS more recently, for example? Is this just the fastest, lightest, grippiest and most powerful M4 that it can make in 2022? Or has BMW targeted other qualities to make its ultimate mid-sized M car truly stand out? Range at a glance The BMW M3 may once have been a homologation-special coupé, but it has since become an extensive range of models. Among them is a four-door saloon, two-door coupé and convertible, and also now an M3 Touring fast estate option as well as the new CSL special edition. If you’re buying a regular M4, there are the M Carbon, M Pro and Technology packages, or there’s the £11k Ultimate package if you want every option in the brochure. Source

Azim Premji Profile Born: July 24, 1945 Achievements: Chairman of Wipro Technologies; Richest Indian for the past several years; Honored with Padma Bhushan in 2005. Azim Premji is Chairman of Wipro Technologies, one of the largest software companies in India. He is an icon among Indian businessmen and his success story is a source of inspiration to a number of budding entrepreneurs. Born on July 24, 1945, Azim Hashim Premji was studying Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA when due to the sudden demise of his father, he was called upon to handle the family business. Azim Premji took over the reins of family business in 1966 at the age of 21. At the first annual general meeting of the company attended by Azeem Premji, a shareholder doubted Premji's ability to handle business at such a young age and publicly advised him to sell his shareholding and give it to a more mature management. This spurred Azim Premji and made him all the more determined to make Wipro a success story. And the rest is history. When Azim Premji occupied the hot seat, Wipro dealt in hydrogenated cooking fats and later diversified to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products and hydraulic cylinders. Thereafter Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software. Under Azim Premji's leadership Wipro has metamorphosed from a Rs.70 million company in hydrogenated cooking fats to a pioneer in providing integrated business, technology and process solutions on a global delivery platform. Today, Wipro Technologies is the largest independent R&D service provider in the world. Azim Premji has several achievements to his credit. In 2000, Asiaweek magazine, voted Premji among the 20 most powerful men in the world. Azim Premji was among the 50 richest people in the world from 2001 to 2003 listed by Forbes. In April 2004, Times Magazine, rated him among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. He is also the richest Indian for the past several years. In 2005,Government of India honored Azim Premji with Padma Bhushan. Source

As the Ukrainian government worked to restore power and water following recent Russian military strikes, Ukrainians were mourning a Moscow-backed atrocity that began 90 years ago: the Holodomor. The Holodomor, which translates roughly to “death by hunger” in Ukrainian, is also known as the Great Famine. More than 3 million people died over two years as the Soviet government under Josef Stalin confiscated food and grain supplies and deported many Ukrainians. Pope Francis linked the current suffering of Ukrainians to the 1930s man-made famine, describing it Wednesday as “genocide artificially caused by Stalin.” He noted that Saturday marks the 90th anniversary of the start of the famine, which Ukraine commemorates every fourth Saturday of November with a Day of Memory. “Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and let us pray for so many Ukrainians – children, women, elderly, babies – who today are suffering the martyrdom of aggression," Francis said. Ninety years after the atrocity, Russia has "unleashed a full-scale war against us and wants to organize Holodomor 2.0," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said Saturday on Twitter. "The crime must be punished," he said. "The world must hold the aggressor accountable." What is the Holodomor and what caused it? The Holodomor translates roughly to “death by hunger” in Ukrainian. It is how Ukrainians refer to the mass starvation deaths of millions in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The Holodomor was part of a larger famine that swept the Soviet Union as Stalin collectivized the agricultural economy by taking over small farms and prohibiting independent farmers from selling their crops. But specific policy decisions targeting Ukraine intensified the famine there, leading Ukraine and many nations to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. It’s held that Stalin allowed Ukrainians to starve in order to quash Ukrainian resistance to the reorganization of its farms. When did the Holodomor start? The Holodomor took place from the early 1930s. Did Stalin deny the Holodomor? Stalin and the Soviet Union never recognized the Holodomor as a genocide. Discussion of the event was heavily repressed inside the Soviet Union and the USSR undertook a campaign to conceal the atrocity from the rest of the world. As Anne Applebaum reported in the Atlantic, journalists in the Soviet Union were subject to intense censure from Moscow. Western reporters, including New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, a Pulitzer-prize winner, downplayed the situation in Ukraine. “Conditions are bad, but there is no famine,” he infamously wrote in one 1933 story. The present-day Russian government minimizes what happened. In 2017, Russian Spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters that the characterization of the starvation as a genocide “contradicts historical facts.” Last year, Biden released a statement that said the millions of Ukrainians who died were “victims of the brutal policies and deliberate acts of the regime of Joseph Stalin.” “As we remember the pain and the victims of the Holodomor,’ the statement read, “the United States also reaffirms our commitment to the people of Ukraine today and our unwavering support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.” The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed resolutions recognizing the Holodomor as genocide, as have more than 20 U.S. states. The Holodomor Museum lists the U.S. among the 16 states in addition to Ukraine that have recognized the famine as genocide: Australia, Ecuador, Estonia, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, and the Vatican. Some other countries, such as Argentina, Chile and Spain, have condemned it as “an act of extermination.” Why is the Holodomor important? Despite the death of millions resulting from deliberate policy decisions by Stalin's regime, the Holodomor isn’t widely known in the United States. But it is a key part to understanding the deep divisions between Russia and Ukraine. It marks an early and brutal example in what many Ukrainians say is a long history of Moscow’s hostility toward its southwestern neighbor. Russians and Ukrainians are now retracing much of the history that has long been at the core of the tension between the two former Soviet Republics. One of Vladimir Putin’s central justifications for launching a war against Ukrainewas his claims that the two countries constitute one people. Source

ST. LOUIS — A 19-year-old woman is asking a federal court to allow her to watch her father's death by injection, despite a Missouri law barring anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution. Kevin Johnson faces execution on Nov. 29 for killing Kirkwood, Missouri, police officer William McEntee in 2005. Johnson's lawyers have appeals pending that seek to spare his life. Meanwhile, Johnson has requested that his daughter, Khorry Ramey, attend the execution, and she wants to be there. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Kansas City. The ACLU's court filing said the law barring under 21 serves no safety purpose and violates Ramey's Constitutional rights. Ramey, in a court declaration, called Johnson "the most important person in my life." "If my father were dying in the hospital, I would sit by his bed holding his hand and praying for him until his death, both as a source of support for him, and as a support for me as a necessary part of my grieving process and for my peace of mind," Ramey said. Johnson, now 37, has been incarcerated since Ramey was two years old. The ACLU said the two have been able to built a bond through visits, phone calls, emails and letters. Last month, she brought her newborn son to the prison to meet his grandfather. ACLU attorney Anthony Rothert said if Ramey can't attend the execution it will cause her "irreparable harm." Meanwhile, Johnson's lawyers have filed appeals seeking to halt the execution. They don't challenge his guilt but claim racism played a role in the decision to seek the death penalty, and in the jury's decision to sentence. Johnson is Black and McEntee was white. Johnson's lawyers also have asked the courts to intervene for other reasons, including a history of mental illness and his age — he was 19 at the time of the crime. Courts have increasingly moved away from sentencing teen offenders to death since the Supreme Court in 2005 banned the execution of offenders who were younger than 18 at the time of their crime. In a court filing last week to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Missouri Attorney General's Office stated there were no grounds for court intervention. "The surviving victims of Johnson's crimes have waited long enough for justice, and every day longer that they must wait is a day they are denied the chance to finally make peace with their loss," the state petition stated. McEntee, a husband and father of three, was among the police officers sent to Johnson's home on July 5, 2005, to serve a warrant for his arrest. Johnson was on probation for assaulting his girlfriend, and police believed he had violated probation. Johnson saw officers arrive and awoke his 12-year-old brother, Joseph "Bam Bam" Long, who ran next door to their grandmother's house. Once there, the boy, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, collapsed and began having a seizure. Johnson testified at trial that McEntee kept his mother from entering the house to aid his brother, who died a short time later at a hospital. Later that evening, McEntee returned to the neighborhood to check on unrelated reports of fireworks being shot off. That's when he encountered Johnson. Johnson pulled a gun and shot the officer. He then approached the wounded, kneeling officer and shot him again, killing him. The execution would be the first of three in the coming months in Missouri. The state plans to execute convicted killers Scott McLaughlin on Jan. 3 and Leonard Taylor on Feb. 7. Sixteen men have been executed in the U.S. this year. Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith had been scheduled to die Thursday for killing a preacher's wife in a murder-for-hire plot, but the execution was halted because state officials couldn't find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs. Source

Alysson Muotri shares how tapping into his inner creative spark fuels his pursuit of science. Alysson Muotri, a professor at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Stem Cell program, pushes the boundaries of neuroscience research. He builds brains for a living, then sends them on missions to outer space. Motivated by curiosity and creativity, his work is advancing scientists’ understanding of brain development and aging. In this episode narrated by Niki Spahich, Iris Kulbatski from The Scientist’s Creative Services Team spoke with Alysson to learn more about what being a scientist means to him. Science Philosophy in a Flash is a series of mini podcasts produced by The Scientist’s Creative Services team. With a focus on the people behind the science, this podcast highlights researchers’ unique outlook on what motivates their pursuit of science and what it means to be a scientist. Source

Nick Movie: Shehzada Time: / Netflix / Amazon / HBO?: - Duration of the movie: / Trailer:

Live Performance Title: SANAM @ YouTube FanFest India 2016 Signer Name: Sanam Live Performance Location: / Official YouTube Link: Your Opinion About the Track (Music Video): 10/10

Musician Name: Bappi Lahiri Birthday / Location: Maharashtra / India Main instrument: Vocal and keyboards Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Film fare award and Mirchi Music awards Best Performance: Yaad Aa Raha Hai, Raat Baaqi Baat Baaqi and I Am A Disco Dancer Other Information: /

Artist:Bappi Lahiri Real Name: Bappi Lahiri Birth Date /Place: Maharashtra / India Age: he aged 69 on 15|02|2022 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Rap, Jazz and pop Awards: Film fare award and Mirchi Music awards Top 3 Songs (Names): Yaad Aa Raha Hai, Raat Baaqi Baat Baaqi and I Am A Disco Dancer Other Information: Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He po[CENSORED]rised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and sang some of his own compositions. He was po[CENSORED]r in the 1980s and 1990s with filmi soundtracks. He also delivered major box office successes in Bengali, Telugu, and Kannada films. His music was well received into the 21st century.

Happy birthday bro

voted💫

Music Title:EMIWAY - NA MAINE JAANA Signer: Bilal Emiway Release Date: 07|04|2015 Official Youtube Link: Informations About The Signer: / Your Opinion About The Track (Music Video): 07/10

Voted.

Considering that everyone has agreed with your suggestion for now the weekly review will be done on the basis of your presence in the server and also make sure all the admins post that your present here Here @DlaXxx @-Sethu @-Ace Ϟ ™ @BirSaNN @E̶l̶s̶y̶d̶e̶o̶n̶ッ NO_MERCY @AHMED ELSAYED @SamiBNZ @hamzakiller @gzuz @DeViL_RoOTzZ @Javier3 @Braonsolja112 The prizes will be updated Soon! The topic is closed for further replies !

• Name: <HUNT3R> • Time & Date: 07:34 • Screenshot: Here

• Name: <HUNT3R> • Time & Date: 06:12 • Screenshot: Here Here

• Name: <HUNT3R> • Time & Date: 7:30 • Screenshot: Here Here

• Name: <HUNT3R> • Time & Date: 7:21 • Screenshot: Here Here

• Name: <HUNT3R> • Time & Date: 7:00 • Screenshot: Here Here

Achievements: Founder-chairman of Dr Reddy's Group of Companies; Awarded with Padma Shri in 2001. Dr. K. Anji Reddy is a pioneer in the pharmaceutical research in India and is founder-chairman of Dr Reddy's Group of Companies. Dr Kallam Anji Reddy did his B.Sc in Pharmaceuticals and Fine chemicals from Bombay University and subsequently completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, in 1969. Dr. K. Anji Reddy served in PSU Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited from 1969 to 1975. Dr. Reddy was the founder-Managing Director of Uniloids Ltd from 1976 to 1980 and Standard Organics Limited from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, Dr. K. Anji Reddy founded Dr. Reddy's Laboratories and soon the company established new benchmarks in the Indian Pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories transformed Indian bulk drug industry from import-dependent in mid-80s to self-reliant in mid-90s and finally into the export-oriented industry that it is presently. In 1993, Dr. Reddy's became the first company to take up drug discovery research in India and in April 2001 it became the first non-Japanese Asian pharmaceutical company to list on NYSE. By the end of fiscal year 2005, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories was India's second largest pharmaceutical company and the youngest among its peer group. Presently, Dr. Reddy is a serving member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade & Industry, Government of India, and has been nominated to the Board of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER). Dr. K. Anji Reddy is also a philanthropist. He is the founder-Chairman of Dr. Reddy's Foundation for Human & Social Development, a social arm of Dr. Reddy's, which acts as a catalyst of change to achieve sustainable development. Dr. K. Anji Reddy has received many awards and honors. These include Sir PC Ray award (conferred twice, in 1984 and 1992); Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations (FAPA)'s FAPA-Ishidate Award for Pharmaceutical Research in 1998; leading business magazine Business India voted him Businessman of the Year in 2001; CHEMTECH Foundation bestowed on him the Achiever of the Year award in the year 2000 and the 'Hall of Fame' award in 2005, for his Entrepreneurship, Leadership and thrust on Innovation; and in 2001, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Source

Crows are notoriously clever — the songbirds can use tools, understand the concept of zero and follow basic analogies. Now, a new study suggests that their grasp of one complex cognitive principle in particular is better than that of monkeys and comparable to that of small children. Researchers found that crows can distinguish paired elements buried in larger sequences, a cognitive ability known as recursion. Consider the sentence: "The cat the dog chased meowed." Although the sentence is admittedly a grammatical nightmare, most adults would quickly understand that the cat meowed and that the dog chased the cat. This capacity to pair elements like "cat" to "meow" and "dog" to "chase" in a sentence, or any sequence, was once thought to be a uniquely human trait. The new study, however, suggests that crows can do it too. And this latest research builds on previous work demonstrating the existence of recursive reasoning among monkeys. "One of the most distinguishing features of human communicative cognition may turn out not to be that human-specific after all," lead author Diana A. Liao, a postdoctoral candidate at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told Live Science in an email. Grammar isn't the only place where recursion occurs. Our ears can distinguish a musical phrase within a larger piece, and our minds can set aside a mathematical expression embedded between parentheses. Indeed, a 2020 study published in the journal Science Advances(opens in new tab) demonstrated that people can follow recursive patterns even without a formal background in reading and mathematics. In that study, people from isolated Amazonian tribes identified recursive patterns about as well as adults living in the U.S. did. Nonhuman primates also demonstrated an ability to understand recursion; the same study found that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were only slightly inferior to toddlers when it came to distinguishing paired elements, such as opened and closed brackets, from a morass of symbols. The new study, published Nov. 2 in Science Advances(opens in new tab), builds on this work to extend the findings beyond primates. "The study is well-designed and executed, and the results are clear and compelling," said Stephen Ferrigno(opens in new tab), an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author on the 2020 paper. Ferrigno was not involved in the new study. Liao and her colleagues started off by teaching two crows (Corvus corone) to identify the symbols { }, [ ] and < >, rewarding them with treats only when the birds pecked in the order of a center-embedded recursive sequence, such as { ( ) } or ( { } ). It took the birds about a week to learn to peck the symbols in that order, after which the crows sat for their final exams: strings of similar symbols they had not yet seen, such as { } [ ]. Humans, toddlers and monkeys faced with such a test usually understand that if { ( ) } is correct then { [ ] } or [ { } ] is also correct. As for the crows, not only did they perform as well as preschoolers typically do on such tests, they also outperformed monkeys. In the 2020 study, adult humans selected a center-embedded structure between 60% and 90% of the time; children did so 43% of the time; and monkeys, 26% of the time. In the new study, crows selected center-embedded structures about 40% of the time. This result suggests that the ability to identify recursive sequences, often considered a defining feature of language, may have initially evolved for other purposes. "The finding that non-linguistic animals — both monkeys and crows — can represent these complex sequences suggests that this ability may have evolved outside of the language domain," Ferrigno said. It is also possible that recursive logic is a key component of communication, even for crows. "If corvid songbirds can understand and produce recursive structures, they may also use it for vocal communication and managing their intricate social relationships," Liao said. Meanwhile, from a neurobiological perspective, the findings open the door to questions about how non-mammalian brains perform cognitive feats once thought to be beyond the scope of animals that lacked a six-layered neocortex. "Our results suggest that certain brain structures, such as the layered cortex of primates, are not necessary to support recursive understanding," Liao said. "Further research on the neural circuits underlying this ability would be fascinating." Source

The first time you set eyes on the new Hyundai Ioniq 6, all stretched, swooping lines and Porsche 911-esque rear, you find yourself asking: what were its designers thinking? If 2022-spec Hyundai were a more conservative, boring manufacturer, the Ioniq 6 wouldn’t look anything like it does: it would be a reskinned saloon version of the ultra-successful Ioniq 5 SUV. Heck, they could have just fiddled with the roofline of that car and churned out a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Coupé. Then again, if Hyundai were a more conservative, boring manufacturer, the Ioniq 5 itself wouldn’t look anything like it does. By ignoring its rulebook and convention for that car, the Korean company produced a cutting-edge EV that fundamentally shifted its brand’s market position upwards. So it probably shouldn’t surprise that Hyundai has elected against a safe follow-up that gently reworks that model’s angular, Lancia Deltalike styling, instead throwing out everything bar the ‘parametric pixel’ LED light graphics. So what were its designers thinking? The answer is 0.1x. That was the slogan that Hyundai styling chief Simon Loasby had printed on T-shirts for the team that developed the exterior design for the Ioniq 6. It refers to the drag coefficient target the team set to meet the car’s brief to be the most aerodynamically efficient four-seat, four-door electric saloon possible – a true “electrified streamliner”. They failed. The Ioniq 6 has a Cd of 0.21, above the team’s hugely ambitious target. But Loasby says that “if 0.21 is failure, I don’t mind failing.” It’s still comfortably the slipperiest Hyundai ever designed, and that’s reflected in the reason for that drive for aero efficiency: range. The Ioniq 6 has an official energy efficiency of 4.3mpkWh, which gives it a maximum official range of up to 382 miles. That’s a substantial 67 more than the equivalent Ioniq 5 (which has a Cd of 0.29), despite using the same E-GMP platform, powertrain and 77.4kWh battery. And while UK trim levels and prices haven’t yet been set, the suggestion is that it will be on a par with the equivalent Ioniq 5, which starts at £45,150. More importantly, that range puts the car ahead of the leggiest versions of what Hyundai cites as the Ioniq 6’s two main electric saloon targets: the Polestar 2 (341 miles) and Tesla Model 3 (374 miles). Forget the 1930s-slipstreamer references: that’s the comparison that will be key to shifting lots and lots of Ioniq 6s. The line-up will match that of the Ioniq 5, with a choice of 226bhp rear-motor and 329bhp dual-motor powertrains and 18in or 20in wheels. A 58kWh battery will be offered in some markets but not in the UK (as the overwhelming majority of Ioniq 5 sales are of the Long Range version). That 382-mile range is obviously spec-dependent: to achieve it, you need the RWD Long Range on 18in wheels with the digital door mirrors. Our Korean-spec test car was an AWD Long Range on 20in wheels, which has an official range of 322 miles, thanks to an efficiency of 3.7mpkWh. We actually managed around 4mpkWh on our test route, suggesting that even in AWD form, 300 real-world miles are possible. As with other E-GMP cars, the platform’s 800V electrical architecture allows for charging at rates of up to 350kW, giving a 10-80% charge in 18 minutes. Efficiency benefits aside, the Ioniq 6’s styling won’t hurt its cause. In an EV market struggling with homogenisation, it’s a genuinely different proposition. From the rear, there’s more than a passing resemblance to a digital-age 911, a comparison surely encouraged with the vertical grooves on the dramatic rear spoiler. The bodywork also disguises its size: it’s about 200mm longer than the Ioniq 5, but the roofline is 152mm lower and the wheelbase is marginally shorter, so it’s a surprise when you step inside and find as much room as there is. Presumably because redesigning the interior wouldn’t have an impact on the drag coefficient, there’s a lot more family resemblance with the Ioniq 5 here, but since that car has a classy, clean and upmarket cabin, we’re not exactly complaining. The two 12in digital screens for the infotainment system and your driving information are crisp and clear, and the software works well. New for the Ioniq 6 is an ambient lighting system that offers 4096 colour combinations and the ability to set the lights to change colour as you drive faster. There’s also the new e-ASD system, a “spaceship-like” noise that changes pitch as you accelerate. Most will, of course, set that to ‘off’. Our test car featured the optional ‘digital wing mirrors’ (apparently worth around 0.9 miles to the range), with the screens displaying your rearward views contained on two prominent ‘wing tips’ that fold out from the end of the dashboard. While still not as intuitive as actual mirrors, the screens are better placed than in many other EVs that feature them. The payoff for the Ioniq 6’s slippery body is found from the B-pillar backwards, with that low roofline impacting head room for rear passengers. Hyundai has angled the rear seats so those passengers sit slightly lower, the reward being ample leg room – substantially more than in the Polestar 2 or Model 3. The boot space is decent (Hyundai has yet to give a capacity figure), although access is inhibited by the fact it’s a proper saloon boot. A fastback would have given easier access, but just reading those words would probably have enough impact on the Cd figure to make Hyundai’s designers shudder. Occasionally having to Tetris your suitcases into the boot is a trade-off for having 382 miles of range. It’s one reminder that while range is still important to many, there’s more to a car than how far it will go on a single charge. In inviting comparison with the 2 and Model 3, Hyundai is pitching the Ioniq 6 up against some of the most convincing driver’s EVs on the market. For all the strengths of the Ioniq 5, it’s hampered by a ride that’s a little too floaty and occasional body roll. The Ioniq 6 – with the caveat that we’re driving a Korean-spec model – has clearly been tuned to offer a more engaging ride. It’s firmer, with a bit more edge to it than the Ioniq 5, and definitely feels lighter, yet it still maintains composure when you get onto a rough surface. The steering has a reassuring feel to it and responds well to your instructions, and the car is remarkably easy to place, given its considerable size and long wheelbase. The AWD version offers plenty of power and, as the official 0-62mph time of 5.0sec suggests, it’s easy to access. The system’s delivery is smooth, giving you easy access to the large reserves of torque. If the streamliner bodywork had you mistakenly expecting an electric sports car, you might be left disappointed, but the Ioniq 6 holds its own near the sharp end of the electric saloon class. It’s not as engaging as some of the petrol-powered touring saloons that its long range could tempt buyers over from, and the Model 3 is perhaps a touch more dynamic, but it’s still a pleasurable way to rack up the miles. Hyundai doesn’t expect the Ioniq 6 to be as po[CENSORED]r as the Ioniq 5, because familes who don’t need the extra range are likely to gravitate towards the perceived extra roominess of the SUV. If it’s a similar price to that car, the company might be pleasantly surprised. The Ioniq 6 has all the traits you would want of an electric saloon, being practical, pleasing to drive, well-equipped and (we expect) competitively priced against its rivals. Hyundai’s design team may have failed to meet their 0.1x Cd target, but the Ioniq 6 is a pretty glorious failure. Source

Democrats will retain control of the U.S. Senate after incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., prevailed in a nail-biting race against Republican challenger Adam Laxalt. The nation's first Latina senator, Cortez Masto was widely regarded as the Senate's most vulnerable incumbent Democrat, with national Republicans identifying her seat as the party's best chance to flip. But with her seat secured, Democrats are guaranteed control of Congress' upper chamber no matter the outcome of a run-off race in Georgia between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote. Democrats poured resources into Nevada's Senate race at the 11th hour, including by sending one of their most persuasive surrogates, former President Barack Obama, to campaign there. In Nevada, Obama delivered the same key message he shared in other battleground states in the weeks before the election: "Democracy is on the ballot." A former one-term state attorney general, Laxalt focused his campaign on inflation and the economy, placing the blame on Cortez Masto and President Joe Biden. Cortez Masto made reproductive health care central to her bid for a second term after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade this summer. Money matters With control of the Senate at stake, the race attracted huge amounts of cash. Cortez Masto had raised $58.5 million and spent $48.3 million by mid-October, according to her latest report with the Federal Election Commission. Laxalt reported $15.8 million and spending $12.6 million in the same period. But the campaigns' fundraising was overshadowed by $126.5 million in outside spending, according to OpenSecrets.org, with much of that total coming in the form of opposition to one candidate or the other. Source

“I just don’t understand why they are so mean.” Those were the words Lizette Trujillo heard from her son Daniel, who came home from school one day when he was 8, unsettled that a young classmate was being bullied. Trujillo seized on the chance for a life lesson on empathy versus sympathy. But Daniel, who is transgender, responded like a wise soul: “Mom, I think God made me this way on purpose: So I can be empathetic and teach empathy.” Seven years later, Trujillo still carries that moment close at a time of raging noise from conservative corners over rights of transgender and non-binary youths – even for something as basic as health care. “What we are missing in this world,” Trujillo said, “is empathy.” “I just don’t understand why they are so mean.” Those were the words Lizette Trujillo heard from her son Daniel, who came home from school one day when he was 8, unsettled that a young classmate was being bullied. Trujillo seized on the chance for a life lesson on empathy versus sympathy. But Daniel, who is transgender, responded like a wise soul: “Mom, I think God made me this way on purpose: So I can be empathetic and teach empathy.” Seven years later, Trujillo still carries that moment close at a time of raging noise from conservative corners over rights of transgender and non-binary youths – even for something as basic as health care. “What we are missing in this world,” Trujillo said, “is empathy.” In 2022, at least 15 states have restricted access to gender-affirming care or considered laws that would do so, according to the Williams Institute. Some of the bills carry penalties for health care providers and even families. A rule approved this month by Florida’s medical boards, at the urging of GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, would bar transgender people under 18 from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria. Last spring, Trujillo's home state of Arizona restricted access to gender-affirming care for minors. The bias that Daniel, now 15, faces “is through his state lawmakers trying to legislate him out of the state and out of existence through their policies,” she said. “So many stories are being told around” gender-affirming health care, she said. ”What’s not being told is why this is up for debate at this large scale. ‘How do you debate the lives of kids who are happy?’ Lawmakers pushing bills that target young people do not represent the majority of the country, said Jen Grosshandler, co-founder and executive director of the GenderCool Project, a youth-led group that works to replace misinformed opinions with real experiences of transgender and nonbinary youths. Most people have no desire to interfere with parenting of others, particularly when it comes to a child’s physical and mental well-being, she said. “Should trans kids be able to have care or not have care? Most people in the U.S. don’t care about this conversation,” Grosshandler said. “So why in the world is this conversation even happening?” Lawmakers are using their political power to “whip up nonsense about families raising good, solid kids,” she said. “It’s not a debate. How do you debate the lives of kids who are happy, doing well in school, volunteering in their community, learning multiple musical instruments, going to college and building amazing lives?” Trujillo says some legislators "don’t care about the health care of our children. They are trying to make this a wedge issue to win elections.” What does gender-affirming care look like? Gender-affirming care is a term for medical care that is “highly individualized,” said Dr. Kellan Baker, executive director of the Whitman-Walker Institute. “There is no set way to go through gender affirmation. Everyone’s needs are different.” There can be social transitions such as changing a haircut, using different pronouns or wearing different clothes, he said. Medical care, which can include hormone therapy, can be crucial, he said. Puberty delaying medications, which are reversible, Baker said, allow youths time to explore their identity “free of a ticking clock.” Backers of bills to restrict care often say they are saving young people from regret later in life. Says Baker: “The entire point is to prevent regret by giving them time. Not doing that is particularly cruel.” Major medical associations – from the American Medical Association to the American Psychiatric Association – agree, lining up in support of gender-affirming care and against bills that criminalize it in recent years. NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL TYPE OF CARE: What to know about gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary communities Mental health toll of restricting or banning care is big For young people who already feel vulnerable, even talk of harmful bills can be damaging on a physical level, Baker said, raising stress levels, taxing cardiovascular systems, producing inflammatory responses. And the mental toll is heavy: “You literally are seeing people in power in society talking about whether you deserve access to the basic building blocks of who you are trying to become,” he said. Gender-affirming care is “not provided on a whim as it might be portrayed sometimes,” said Kasey Suffredini, vice president of advocacy and government affairs for the Trevor Project, which provides crisis and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ people under 25. Withholding care is “dangerous” in many ways, he said, pointing to higher rates of depression, anxiety and even thoughts of suicide. Statistics bear out those concerns in recent Trevor Project polls: • 93% of transgender and nonbinary youths said they have worried about transgender people being denied access to gender-affirming care because of state or local laws. • 85% of trans and nonbinary youths say recent debates about state laws restricting their rights have negatively impacted their mental health. • Proposed bills that would ban doctors from prescribing gender-affirming medical care make 73% of transgender and nonbinary youths feel angry, 57% sad, 47% stressed, 40% scared. “This is a moment where we need to slow down and use a little more common sense,” Suffredini said. “Medical decisions are better made by doctors, not politicians. The care is well established and supported.” NATIONAL SURVEY:Many young adults now identify as transgender or nonbinary Transgender kids thriving in their communities Daniel, a high school freshman, is one of GenderCool’s 20 “champions” – faces of a movement that illustrates how trans and non-binary youths are continuing to flourish. He plays drums and guitar, enjoys Minecraft, creates stop-motion movies and “loves to build things and tell stories,” Trujillo said. “My kid is very thoughtful, kind and funny.” In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation offering legal refuge for transgender youths fleeing harmful bills in conservative states, such as those banning or restricting medical care. “I often tell people who ask ‘why don’t we just move’ that it is not normal in the United States of America that a family should have to flee to a safer state,” Trujillo said. Daniel lives “a full life and is loved and affirmed,” she said. “We’d lose more than we’d gain if we had to leave” Arizona. FAMILIES SEEK REFUGE:As state laws target transgender children, families flee and become 'political refugees' Grosshandler is the mother of four children, including Chazzie, 16, “a happy, kind and confident kid and leader in our town and community” who “happens to be trans.” The family is fortunate to be living in a state, Illinois, where elected officials believe in basic human rights, she said. They all share meals together several times a week, Grosshandler said, and conversations often revolve around the importance of kindness and navigating life in ways that help not hurt people. “We talk about these angry folks” behind bills that target transgender youths, she said. “What is their dinner table like?” Source

In Greek mythology, Orpheus descends to the underworld and persuades Hades to allow him to take his dead wife, Eurydice, back to the realm of the living. Hades agrees, but tells Orpheus that he must not look back until he has exited the underworld. Despite the warning, Orpheus glances behind him on his way out to check whether Eurydice is indeed following him—and loses her forever. The story hints at a dark side to curiosity, a drive to seek certain kinds of knowledge even when doing so is risky—and even if the information serves no practical purpose at the time. In fact, the way people pursue information they’re curious about can resemble the drive to attain more tangible rewards such as food—a parallel that hasn’t been lost on scientists. To investigate the apparent similarity between curiosity and hunger, researchers led by Kou Murayama of the University of Reading in the UK recently devised an experiment to compare how the brain processes desires for food and knowledge, and the risks people are willing to take to satisfy those desires. Beginning in 2016, the team recruited 32 volunteers and instructed them not to eat for at least two hours before coming into the lab. After they arrived, the volunteers’ fingers were hooked up to electrodes that could deliver a weak current, and researchers calibrated the level of electricity to what each participant reported was uncomfortable, but not painful. Then, still hooked up to the electrodes, the volunteers were asked to gamble: they viewed either a photo of a food item or a video of a magician performing a trick, followed by a visual depiction of their odds of “winning” that round (which ranged from 1:6 to 5:6). If they accepted the gamble and won, based on a random, computer-generated outcome, they’d receive tokens that gave them a better chance of getting the pictured food or the explanation for the magic trick at the end of the experiment. If they lost, they’d instead get tokens that increased their chances of getting an electric shock at the end of their session. On being presented with their odds of winning, participants reported how desirable they found either the food or the explanation of the magic trick, and whether they were willing to accept the gamble. Not surprisingly, the chances of winning and the desirability that participants assigned the food or magic reveal each correlated with their likelihood of accepting the gamble. But the category of the reward—food or satiated curiosity—was not a statistically significant predictor of participants’ decisions. Behaviorally, at least, the drives were similar in how they affected the participants’ risk-taking. The research team suspected that the neural processes underlying the risk-taking would also be similar for the two types of motivation. “There is a body of literature suggesting that, as far as the neurobiological mechanisms [go], they seem to be similar to a certain extent,” says cognitive neuroscientist Johnny King Lau, a postdoc at the University of Reading and the study’s first author. To test this hypothesis for their risk-taking scenario, the researchers ran an experiment similar to the first, this time with a different set of subjects making their decisions inside an MRI machine as their brains were scanned. The patterns of blood flow revealed by the scan indicated that the brain regions involved in the two motivations were indeed the same. When participants viewed either the food or the curiosity-inducing stimulus—which, in this functional MRI (fMRI) experiment, could be either a magic trick or a trivia question—a region deep in the brain called the nucleus accumbens became more active, particularly if they rated the food or solution as highly desirable. If the subjects then decided to accept the gamble, three areas known to be involved in reward processing—the nucleus accumbens, the bilateral caudate nucleus, and the ventral tegmental area—lit up more than they did if participants decided not to take the chance. The experiment showed that curiosity, like the desire for tangible reward, induces people to take risks, “and it seems to have [a] very similar underlying mechanism in the brain,” Lau says. “This study is particularly interesting because it investigates how curiosity can act as a motivational drive,” says Andrew Lutas, a neuroscientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies neural circuitry in rodents and was not involved in the work. The fact that similar brain regions are involved in both hunger and curiosity means that discoveries made in animals about food-related reward circuits in the brain are also likely to be relevant to curiosity and other drives that are difficult to study in model organisms, he adds. Researchers have typically measured human curiosity by asking subjects how much money they’d pay for a piece of information, or having them tell researchers how desirable the information was to them, notes Ming Hsu, a neuroeconomist at the University of California, Berkeley, who also was not involved in the study. “To show this with electric shock I thought was very creative, very novel,” he says. “And it really, I think, underscores the point of just how valuable curiosity is that people are not just willing to pay, say, a few cents for it, but [are] also willing to take the risk” of an electric shock. While the research team’s fMRI scans implicate the same brain regions in processing hunger and curiosity, the images don’t have the resolution to identify the specific circuitry involved, Hsu notes, so a question for future studies will be “whether the same neurons are firing the same way with respect to curiosity and food.” Another unanswered question, he says, is what makes some facts uninteresting to people, while other tidbits—say, celebrity gossip—are irresistible to many. “We can measure the amount of curiosity that people express,” he says. “But what we don’t know is, why are people curious about some information but not others?” Source

Artist: Lata Mangeshkar Real Name: Lata Mangeshkar Birth Date /Place: 28|09|1929 / British,India Age: 6 February 2022 (aged 92) Social status (Single / Married): Single Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Filmi Classical Ghazals , Sufi , Bhajans , Folk , Gurbani ,Bengali Music , Dangdut Awards: Legion of Honour, France's highest order , Bharat ratna and padma bhushan Top 3 Songs (Names): Tujhe Dekha To, Tere Bina Jiya Jaye Naa and Humko Humise Chura Lu Other Information: She was the recipient of three National Film Awards, 15 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards, two Filmfare Special Awards, the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and many more. In 1974, she was one of the first Indian playback singers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. Her last recorded song was "Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti ki" released on 30 March 2019 as a tribute to the Indian Army and the Nation.

Musician Name: Lata Mangeshkar Birthday / Location: 28|09|1929 / British,India Main instrument: Vocals Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: Legion of Honour, France's highest order , Bharat ratna and padma bhushan Best Performance: Tujhe Dekha To, Tere Bina Jiya Jaye Naa and Humko Humise Chura Lu Other Information: /

Nick Movie: An action Hero Time: 02|12|2022 Netflix / Amazon / HBO?:- Duration of the movie:/ Trailer:

★Nickname: UZBEK_aslonov_04 ★CSBD username: @UZBEK_aslonov_04 ★Rank: Administrator ★Please make sure to read the rules and make sure to respect them ( Admin Rules ) ( Player Rules )