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I was 11 or 12 and absolutely delighted, riding it around town in my faux fur white coat and a pair of purple DMs Nell Frizzell Nell Frizzell Wed 28 Dec 2022 12.00 GMT Ihave a relative who is famous – OK, infamous – for their terrible gift-giving. Now, I don’t think that being poor at presents discounts you from being considered a generous, kind, altruistic person. There are many people in this world, I’m sure, who make good meals, listen sympathetically and remember important dates, but when confronted with a range of gifts will scream, fill their knickers and dive headfirst into a skip, only to emerge two hours later with the collected chunks of your present that year. I’m almost certainly one of them. That doesn’t make us bad people. It just makes us a somewhat spicy addition to any big day. One rather memorable Christmas, when I was a large and rather lumpy 10-year-old, this relative gave me a pair of white woollen tights in a size XS. They barely reached my knees. So what, I hear you say. And exactly. So what? Kids grow so fast these days. White is a very flattering and easy-to-wear colour. It’s actually quite nice to look as if you’ve wrapped both legs in a set of poorly fitting bandages and just needed somewhere in the middle to store your bricks. A low-hanging, white woollen gusset that almost cuts off the blood supply to your thighs is a nice present and a nice thought. Don’t let me give the impression of meanness. That wasn’t my only present that year. I was also lucky enough to receive a paperback copy of The Jungle Book with “Sketchley” written across the cover. Because I think it’s actually very nice to know that your Christmas has in some small way helped another person achieve their dry cleaning. And did they stop at two presents? Not on your Nelly. The pièce de résistance, the candle on my stollen, was a large sample jar (they had, I believe, once worked at a hospital) decorated with pictures of sunflowers, done in glass paint. Yum yum yum yum yum. That same year, my mother received something called a potato jar – a jar specifically for storing potatoes. I haven’t seen many since, and that is truly my loss, because this little fella was fairly large, made of terracotta and had a face like a gargoyle on one side. If anything, it made me like potatoes even more. As unlikely as it seems, a year or two later my parents bettered this selection. I woke up on Christmas morning at my grandmother’s house and found the end of a long rope on my bed. I had read enough Greek myths not to just sit on my arse and coil this thing up neatly for another day. This was a quest. And so I followed the rope – all the way along the landing, down the stairs, through the downstairs hallway, past the dog bowls and coat hooks, to the back yard. And there I saw it: a two-tone purple bike. They’d taken the whole thing apart and spray-painted it themselves. Pale violet merging into aubergine. I was absolutely delighted. At the time – I must have been about 11 or 12 – I had a secondhand faux fur white coat and a pair of purple DMs. Riding around town on that thing I must have looked like a moon-faced caucasian female Prince lookalike for the niche under-16s market. But, my God, I felt cool. I have had many much-loved bikes ever since. Like lovers, homes and jobs, they have characterised certain periods of my life. There was the green drop-handled Raleigh that my ex’s dad found while working on someone’s garage. It was designed for a 6ft 3in man and I rode it for years. I rode it to Hastings, despite the derailleur essentially eating itself halfway up a hill covered in Ukip posters. Then there was a sleek racing bike I nicknamed Eric the Red and that saw more action between my thighs during my early 30s than any man. I was riding Eric the Red the day I smashed through the windscreen of an undercover police car – but that is a story for another day. Today, I am riding a black 1970s Raleigh – with a basket and baby seat – that my boyfriend (now my husband) built me as a wedding present. But that two-tone purple Christmas bike, the one that arrived in my life in the perfect way at the perfect moment, was unforgettable. As I confront the thankless task of trying to find something to give my five-year-old this Christmas, I’m tempted to take inspiration from my forefathers. That’s right: a two-tone potato storage unit, decorated with hospital-grade glass paint and stuffed with a pair of XS white cycling shorts. He’ll love it. link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/28/i-got-a-two-tone-purple-bike-pale-violet-and-aubergine-god-i-felt-cool-the-christmas-present-ill-never-forget

Thirteen-year-old Nika Selivanova made a heart shape with both her hands, waving goodbye to her best friend Inna who was pressed up against the glass partition that divided the entrance hall of Kherson's train station from the waiting area. Moments earlier, they'd hugged, tears welling up in their eyes. Inna had kissed Asia, a tan dachshund dog wrapped up in a warm blanket, carried by Nika in her arms. The girls didn't know when they might see each other again. Nika's family was leaving Kherson, not sure of where they would end up eventually. For now, they were heading to the western city of Khmelnytskyi, hoping they would get some help there. The past few days in Kherson had simply been too much for Nika's mother Elena. "Before, they [Russian forces] shelled us seven to 10 times a day, now it's 70-80 times, all day long. It's too scary." Elena said. "I love Ukraine and my dear city. But we have to go." Elena and her three daughters are among more than 400 people who have left Kherson since Christmas Day, after a sharp increase in the intensity of the bombardment of the city by the Russian military. On Tuesday, a hospital maternity ward was shelled. No-one was hurt but it has further escalated fear among people. Elena left by train, in an evacuation facilitated by the Ukrainian government. Hundreds of people are leaving on their own, a queue of cars building up at the checkpoint leading out of Kherson, filled with terrified civilians. Iryna Antonenko was in tears when we walked up to her car to speak to her. 'We can't take it anymore. The shelling is so intense. We stayed this whole time and thought it would pass and that we would be lucky. But a strike hit the house next to ours, and my father's home was also shelled," she said. She planned to travel to Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine where she has family. Just last month, there had been jubilant scenes in Kherson. Taken by Russian forces on the second day of the invasion, the city was liberated on 11 November. Close to the spot where masses had gathered waving Ukrainian flags to celebrate being freed from Russian control, a mortar attack on Christmas Eve left eleven dead, and dozens injured. Among the dead were a social worker, a butcher and a woman selling mobile Sim cards - ordinary people working at or visiting the city's central market. That day, Kherson was hit by mortars 41 times, according to the Ukrainian government. The Russians are firing from the left (east) bank of the Dnipro river, where they withdrew to; the waterway has become a de facto frontline in the south of Ukraine. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64102826

The ministry explained that the hacked personal data were not taken from its digital database. Rabat - The alleged hack that extended to the personal data of nearly 50,000 Moroccan high school students did not take place through the education ministry’s digital database, the ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement report by Morocco’s News Agency (MAP), the ministry explained that students’ personal data “do not belong to the website ‘tawjihi.ma’ affiliated with the ministry.” The ministry said its department in charge of the digital database cross-compared the personal data of students that were hacked with its own database. The analysis concluded that “the data discrepancy between the Ministry’s database and the leaked database is significant, which confirms that this leak is not linked to the Ministry’s platform.” In its statement, the ministry stressed that it will continue to work with all stakeholders to improve the security mechanism guarding students’ personal data stored at the ministry and its affiliated institutions. The statement comes after local media reported that personal data belonging to over 50,000 Moroccan students were found on the dark web for sale. Media reports indicate that online websites offering students free-of-charge tutorials are prime suspects in the hack. In addition, other platforms posing as informative and easy-to-use portals for college applications are also suspected as they naturally require students to present a wide range of personal data. Many fear that these platforms can be targeted or used by hackers for harvesting personal data. link: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/12/353258/moroccos-education-ministry-denies-allegations-of-students-data-hack

Nick Movie: Moonfall Time: Feb 4, 2022 Netflix / Amazon / HBO?: ? Duration of the movie: 2h 10m Trailer:

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Opposition to new housing developments could be curbed if there was more focus on the "heart and soul" of areas, Michael Gove has suggested. The levelling up, housing and communities secretary said too many planning applications were "indifferent" or "insipid". Mr Gove made the comments in the foreword to a report by the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange. He is backing its call for a new school of architecture and urban design. The government has a target of building 300,000 new homes by the middle of the decade. But, Mr Gove previously said the pledge would be "difficult" to deliver in the next year because of the economic slump and rising inflation. Labour's shadow housing secretary Lisa Nandy said: "The thousands of families who saw their dreams of home ownership go up in smoke after the Tories crashed the economy need a real plan for more homes to be built." In the think tank's report, Mr Gove suggested the potential of some public spaces was being squandered as a result of poor design and maintenance. "Places must be at the heart of levelling up but if places themselves have no heart and soul, then levelling up too will falter," he said. "Much of the opposition to new housing developments is often grounded in a fear that the quality of the new buildings and places created will be deficient and therefore detrimental to existing neighbourhoods and properties. "If a general improvement in the standard of design reassures the general public that this will in fact not be the case, then they may be less likely to oppose it." But Mr Gove acknowledged there is "no silver bullet" to solve the housing crisis. What's happened to the government's housebuilding target? The Policy Exchange report calls for the government to back a new "School of Place", arguing if there was "a generally higher quality of architecture and placemaking then this could help diffuse much of the aesthetic opposition to new housing". The school would include architects, planners, designers, engineers and consultants. Earlier this month, the government watered down its housing targets for local councils following the threat of a rebellion from some Conservative MPs. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had been trying to bring in binding targets, but the government now says: "Housing targets remain, but are a starting point, with new flexibilities to reflect local circumstances." link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64099508

Here's 12 amazing (and somewhat disgusting) animal facts. Animals constantly surprise the scientists that research them. With each new study, researchers seem to uncover a never-before-seen survival strategy, physical superpower or mental capability that animals possess. From self-medicating chimps to the snake clitorises, here are 12 stories from 2022 that deepened our understanding of the animal kingdom and its wondrous weirdness. 1. Chimps treat each other's wounds Scientists captured footage of chimpanzees applying crushed bugs to skin wounds on themselves and others in their community. The team thinks the chimps are trying to treat each other's wounds, although the researchers aren't sure what insects the animals used. The bugs may act as antibiotics, antivirals, pain-relievers or inflammation reducers, they theorize. 2. Scientists finally found the snake clitoris Researchers recently described the structure of the snake clitoris for the first time. The forked organ, known as a "hemiclitoris," can be found in at least nine snake species. Although the snake "hemipenis" had previously been studied, no one had described an equivalent structure in female snakes, which led some scientists to speculate that the hemiclitoris had either been reduced to a stunted evolutionary remnant or didn't exist at all. 3. Bees may change the weather Swarming honeybees can produce as much atmospheric electricity as a thunderstorm, a study found. The denser the cloud of bees, the larger the electrical field it can generate. The researchers say it's unlikely that the insects are actually producing lightning storms, but they can still have other effects on the weather. 4. Octopus mom self-destruction As their clutches of eggs near hatching, most octopus moms will abandon their brood and begin to tear themselves apart, even going so far as to eat their own flesh. Recently, scientists discovered the changes that take place in an octopus mom's body that seem to drive her into this frenzy of self-destruction. 5. Dolphins drink each other's pee? Bottlenose dolphins taste-test their peers' pee in order to differentiate the identity of one dolphin from another, a study recently suggested. Dolphins also learn to recognize each other's signature whistles, so by using their senses of taste and hearing together, the marine mammals can quickly recognize friends and spot unfamiliar dolphins in their midst. link: https://www.livescience.com/12-animal-discoveries

Our latest 30-second glimpse at the electrified C8 Corvette may show the benefits of all-wheel drive in the snow. We have seen quite a lot of the upcoming Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray this past month, including what looked like a completely undisguised prototype just last week. While we do not yet have a reveal date for the actual car, and with it any specific information about its hybrid components, we do know that the version we have seen in a recent configurator leak should bear the E-Ray name and a wide body familiar to anyone who has seen the C8 Z06. We do not know where exactly the electric power is being sent just yet, but the latest leaked video gives some hope that, as we heard all the way back in 2020, the power may be going to the front wheels. The video, uploaded by Corvette Nut on YouTube with the conspicuous title "°•``°☆°•~♤°\|♧°•`~\°■•," looks a lot like a leak of an official GM clip. It features a "professional driver, closed course" caption in fine print at the bottom and ends with a Corvette logo, but Corvette Blogger notes that this is actually the older C7-generation variant of the logo. Whether or not the clip is official, the important thing is what it shows: a wide-bodied, camouflaged Corvette drifting through light snow. Does this mean the E-Ray will be getting that rumored all-wheel drive? If you were hoping to show the winter prowess of an all-wheel-drive Corvette, there would be no better way to do it. We still have to wait to see the final car for any real answers, but the sheer number of new looks at the car this week seem to indicate that a finished product could be imminent. link: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42346845/chevy-corvette-e-ray-winter-video/

We have had seven happy, loving years together. But I’m feeling the need for physical comfort My partner and I have been in a loving and happy relationship for seven years. During the past two years three of our parents have either died or been diagnosed with a terminal illness. We remain close but physical contact has become less frequent and meaningful. I find sex a cathartic way to deal with the stresses we have faced, and a way to demonstrate our closeness, but he has understandably become reluctant to be intimate. I feel our need for sex has a different purpose and miss our shared understanding of what closeness means for us. Grief certainly can negatively affect a person’s sexual response and many people find that recovery can take quite some time. Occasionally, bereavement develops into depression, which in itself can shut down sexual interest or functioning. It is unfortunate that you and your partner are having different sexual reactions as you work through loss and try to heal, but recognise that you are simply experiencing different sexual responses to grief and, if possible, share those feelings with each other to feel more heard. Grief counselling could be very helpful. Your bereavement is relatively new, but if healing does not appear to be progressing it will be essential to seek help. At any point in a relationship it is extremely common for sex to hold different meanings for each partner. Take heart – it is reasonable to maintain hope that there will eventually be healing and a resolution of your current sexual issues. Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders. If you would like advice from Pamela on sexual matters, send us a brief description of your concerns to private.lives@theguardian.com (please don’t send attachments). Each week, Pamela chooses one problem to answer, which will be published online. She regrets that she cannot enter into personal correspondence. Submissions are subject to our terms and conditions. Comments on this piece are premoderated to ensure discussion remains on topics raised by the writer. Please be aware there may be a short delay in comments appearing on the site. link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/27/my-partner-and-i-are-both-grieving-sex-might-help-us-cope-but-he-has-lost-interest

When Russia invaded her country, Veronica Ahafonova played piano to drown out the sound of the explosions. We first met the teenager in March when she and her mother were fleeing Kharkiv as refugees, leaving behind everything they knew. They were living in the dark in an overcrowded motel with the curtains shut tight in the hope that Russian bomber planes wouldn't see the building. Like millions of Ukrainian children, Veronica's life changed forever when this war began. Nika, as she likes to be known, told me then that she woke each day amazed that she and her family were still alive: stark words from a 15-year-old. She described rushing to a cramped, cold basement whenever the sirens howled to warn of a Russian attack, and called what she'd been through "very traumatising". Ten months on, Nika is living in the UK and says she's finally able to sleep soundly again. "I needed time to understand that now I'm in a safe place," she said, when we met up recently in England. She's staying with a host family and studying for free at the prestigious Charterhouse school, where she's thriving. She now plays piano only for pleasure. "I don't have air alarms every hour and I don't need to think about what if the next second a bomb is going to be near me," Nika says, although she still jumps when a door slams or there's fireworks. "I don't think it will ever leave me because it's in my mind. But I hope it will." Kharkiv, Nika's hometown, is close to Ukraine's northern border with Russia and was heavily shelled for months until Russian troops were forced out of the region in September. Today, the suburb of Saltyvka is lined with the blackened ruins of giant apartment blocks, but in the city centre the rubble and shattered glass we found in March after multiple missile strikes have been cleared away. Patriotic billboards all over town declare that "Kharkiv is working!" and the metro, where we last saw whole families sleeping on platforms and curled up inside train carriages, is now running again. But residents are coping with a new problem: no electricity, heat or water for many hours at a time, as Russia targets Ukraine's power supply with its missiles in the middle of winter. Only eight of Nika's 28 classmates are still in Kharkiv and they study remotely these days for safety. But their teacher, Maria, never left. She conducts classes online for students scattered all over the country and even abroad. If the power goes, she switches to using the internet from her mobile phone, lights a candle, then carries on. "Russia just doesn't know who we are. We're strong, we'll get through this," Maria tells me, although she becomes tearful talking about the pupils. "I just want to hug them," she admits. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64053061

The country has been experiencing a small fifth wave of COVID, the ministry said. Rabat - Morocco’s Ministry of Health predicted the end of the fifth wave of COVID-19 in the country soon, as the world approaches its third year since the virus took it by storm. The announcement was made during the monthly press briefing by the Ministry of Health, where Coordinator for the ministry’s public health emergency center Mouad Mrabet detailed a decrease of cases over the past few weeks. The official said the spread rate of the virus is now classified as intermediate in seven regions and low in five others, adding that the Omicron virus variant is still the most prominent in the country. He also noted that the number of severe cases and deaths has been decreasing, adding that most were contained to older patients who were also not up-to-date with their vaccinations. Based on that information, Mrabet urged Moroccans to stay vigilant and exercise caution in public and crowded places, stressing the importance of up-to-date vaccinations, especially among the elderly and those with immunodeficiencies. Since the outbreak of the disease in early 2020, Morocco has been in a state of health emergency, with many services and industries shutting down for the protection of public health. Now as the world approaches its third year since the outbreak started, many countries still have some protective measures in place, although life has mostly returned to normalcy. Meanwhile, businesses and individuals are continuing to reel from the economic effects of the crisis. A recent report found that more than 20,000 businesses experienced a reduction in size due to the pandemic. link: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/12/353245/health-ministry-predicts-the-end-of-covid-wave

Nick Movie: The Price We Pay Time: August 28, 2022 Netflix / Amazon / HBO?: ? Duration of the movie: 1 h 26 m Trailer:

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Ninety people crossed the English Channel in two small boats on Christmas Day, the Ministry of Defence said. More than 45,000 migrants have made the perilous crossing from France to England so far this year. In 2021, the figure was far less, at almost 28,500. On 14 December, four people died and 39 others were rescued after a migrant boat ran into difficulties. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has labelled the small boats crisis a priority for his premiership. The 90 people who arrived on Sunday were taken to Western Jet Foil processing centre in Dover, the ministry confirmed. A government spokesperson said: "Nobody should put their lives at risk by taking dangerous and illegal journeys. "We will go further to tackle the gangs driving this, using every tool at our disposal to deter illegal migration and disrupt the business model of people smugglers.'' Earlier this month, Mr Sunak announced a range of measures to tackle the issue including 700 staff for a new unit to monitor small boats crossing the Channel. He also promised more staff to help clear some of the UK's backlog of asylum cases by the end of next year. link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-64094999

Not only did ankylosaurs like "Zuul" use their tails as weapons against potential predators, but they also used them to battle their peers. Equipped with massive tails studded with spikes, ankylosaurs were heavily armored herbivores that could do real damage in a fight. Paleontologists once thought that these tank-like dinosaurs used their tail clubs solely to fight off predators, but a new study published Dec. 6 in the journal Biology Letters(opens in new tab) reveals that they also bashed each other in a show of dominance. For the investigation, a team of North American paleontologists examined Zuul crurivastator(opens in new tab) (named after the fictional monster of the same name in the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters"), the most complete fossilized ankylosaur known whose remains are on display at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada. Its species name, Crurivastator, Latin for "destroyer of shins," was inspired by the fearsome club at the end of its 10-foot-long (3 meter) tail. Measuring 20 feet long (6 m) and weighing 5,500 pounds (2,500 kg), the 76 million-year-old specimen from the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago) contains several broken spikes along its flanks. Sections of fossilized skin on its flanks also show that Zuul's side wounds healed while the dinosaur was still alive. Related: Belly up: Why ankylosaurs are always found upside down "The fossilized skin preservation over top of the damaged bony plates blew me away — seeing the healing reflected in the soft tissue is something really special about Zuul," David Evans(opens in new tab), the study's co-author and Temerty Chair and curator of vertebrate paleontology at ROM, told Live Science in an email. He added, "We have all the bony armor plates and spikes still covered in fossilized skin, completely preserved over its entire body. Zuul gives us a remarkable picture of what these animals looked like when they were alive. Seeing where the damaged armor occurred relative to the undamaged normal armor meant we could study the pattern of pathology across the entire body. For years, scientists believed that ankylosaurs only used their "sledgehammer-like" tails to swat away predators, including one of the most infamous killers in the dinosaur kingdom: Tyrannosaurus rex. This is true, however the injuries inflicted on Zuul add another "piece to the puzzle" and serve as an example of sexual selection similar to antlers on deer or horns on antelopes, according to a statement. "Biological structures like this often served a number of different functions, and survival is key," Evans said. "We grew up thinking that the iconic tail clubs of these armored dinosaurs evolved to fend off predators, namely the tyrannosaurs, with the assumption that these were sluggish animals that lived their adult lives in relative solitude. Our new model of combat-driven tail club evolution not only overturns this anti-predator dogma, but also paints ankylosaurs as more socially complex animals, battling with other members of their species for dominance over territory or to impress mates — as suggested for other plant eating dinosaurs." He added, "This idea of jousting ankylosaurs transforms them from the dinosaurian battle tanks to the dinosaurian knights in shining armor." link: https://www.livescience.com/jousting-ankylosaurus-spiky-clublike-tails

We drove for miles and miles. Here are some of our favorite adventures of the year. Some might say that all we do here is road-trip. Not true! Sometimes we do testing, and if it just so happens that there are some good roads between the offices and the proving grounds, well, it would be a crime not to explore them. It is true that inherent in driving cars for review is the traveling of many miles, but even so, some trips and cars feel more special than others. In 2022, we racked up miles and turned ‘em into wordcount. Some trips became travel guides to cool car destinations like Palm Springs and Colorado. Others were ways of testing gear like radar detectors—not that any of us would ever require such a thing—or long-term cars. Our favorites though were trips that made us rethink a road, or a car; trips that introduced us to new places and new people, adventures we’re still thinking about. Chase the Rainbow Road trips can be solo or group activities, but there’s something extra fun about hitting the tarmac with a buddy. In June, associate newes editor, Caleb Miller and social media editor Michael Aaron got behind the wheel of a 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 Touring and drove to Toronto to attend Rare Shades 6, an annual car show for Paint to Sample and other unusually colored Porsches. When asked for comment, Aaron simply replied, “Check the Car and Driver Instagram.” Driving Queen When driving a 420-hp '64 Volvo P1800 is only the second-greatest part of your journey, you know you’ve won the road-trip lottery. We drove the Cyan Racing restomod Volvo through the golden hills of California to find . . . Sweden? In the 1900s, Kingsburg, California, went from a Wild West hideout to the largest concentration of Swedish immigrants in the state. Today it still highlights its cultural heritage, and the townspeople were thrilled to host the Volvo and send us home full of Swedish pancakes. The Luxury Liner Sometimes we just had to move a car, and ourselves, from one place to another—not for a story, just for efficiency. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t be enjoyable, as when senior editor, Drew Dorian traversed Florida in a Bentley Continental GT. “Things don’t get scenic until you’re south of Homestead, where Miami’s suburban sprawl ends and swampy marshland begins. Here, you become acquainted with the area’s only major road: Highway 1. This band of pavement runs through almost all of the Florida Keys, and along its roadside, you’ll see a mix of high-end resorts sharing property lines with charming 1950s-era roadside motels. The late summer sun was scorching and prevented us from dropping the Bentley’s top. But at night it was cool enough to enjoy open-top motoring and the area’s dark skies were a vision of stars, especially when crossing the famed Seven Mile Bridge, which connects Knights Key and Little Duck Key with nothing but ocean on either side. The trip would have been as easy had we been in a Chevy, but the natural beauty of the Florida Keys and the ultimate luxury of a Bentley convertible was a far better match.” Indeed, we suffer for the work. link: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g42311665/car-and-driver-best-road-trips-of-2022/