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England will take on Bangladesh on October 10 in the seventh ODI World Cup 2023 match at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium, Dharamshala. Unlike the earlier league matches, England vs Bangladesh Dharamshala ODI is a day match and will start at 10.30 am.It would be the second match of England in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023. England was beaten by New Zealand by 9 wickets (with 82 balls remaining) in curtain raiser ODI at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad on October 5, 2023. The conditions in Dharamsala may favour the English team. The combination of tight dimensions and high altitude may invite England's heavy artillery to unleash their full might. It is also the second match of Bangladesh. In its first match, the team defeated Afghanistan by 6 wickets ((with 92 balls remaining)) on October 7, 2023 in Dharamsala itself. Today will not be the first time that both the teams would be facing each other in World Cup ODI matches. They have met four times earlier.England won their first meeting, in Barbados in 2007, and their most recent in Cardiff four years ago, either side of Bangladesh glory in 2011 and 2015. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels 🚀 Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!"Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt & wk), Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Adil Rashid and Reece Topley. Bangladesh (Probable XI) Tanzid Hasan, Litton Das, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Towhid Hridoy, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mahmudullah/Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam and Mustafizur Rahman. Eng vs Ban match: Weather prediction The weather conditions in Dharamshala are set to be cooler. According to AccuWeather, there is a 65% probability of rain and 19% of thunderstorms in Dharamshala today. The temperature is expected to range between 19 degrees to 17 degrees Celsius and winds are expected to blow at the speed of around 11 km/hr in the east-south-east direction in the day. The possibility of wind gusts with a speed of 28 km/h in the daytime cannot be ruled out. The probability of cloud cover is 29%. Eng vs Ban match today: When, where and how to watch The England vs Bangladesh match will air live on Indian television via Star Sports channels. Indian viewers can also enjoy free live streaming of these matches on the Disney+Hotstar app and website. Social media giant Meta has also partnered with the ICC for World Cup 2023 coverage on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Threads. The match will start at 10.30 am. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels 🚀 Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights!" https://www.livemint.com/sports/cricket-news/eng-vs-ban-icc-world-cup-2023-match-today-when-where-and-how-to-watch-live-streaming-details-11696871383358.html

In Nury Martinez’s first interview since a leaked audio that prompted her resignation from City Hall, the former Los Angeles City Council president said that her comments were not intended to be racist, and that the scandal has left her and her family “completely destroyed.” During the interview with LAist, Martinez said that on the day the audio became public, she had already accepted that the scandal was so huge she would need to step down — and that there was nothing she could say or do to undo the damage. “I knew that there was gonna be consequences, that I needed to pay for this,” Martinez said.LAist journalist Antonia Cereijido, as part of an extensive podcast on Martinez’s life, asked her about her use of the phrase “parece changuito,” which means “like a little monkey.” In the leaked audio, Martinez is heard recounting a story of being with other moms and uses the term to describe the young Black son of then-Councilmember Mike Bonin. “The way I grew up with that word, ‘parece changuito.’ It has nothing to do with skin color. It has more to do with behavior. You’re sort of just playing around,” Martinez said, according to a transcript provided to The Times by LAist. “You’re horsing around. Another word that we use in Spanish, “es travieso” [mischievous], you can’t stay put. It’s a conversation I should not have repeated. And I think that’s an example of a bunch of moms sitting around, you know, being critical of little boys’ behavior. That was my mistake. It was insensitive. It was mean. I never meant to hurt Jacob, and I’m going to have to live with that for the rest of my life, you know?” Martinez said. “I think in Spanish, then I speak in English,” Martinez said. “And so my vocabulary comes from me being an English learner. And I think for me, those words are not meant to hurt anybody, or to sound racist at all. I think it’s just words that I grew up with.”in a private meeting with then-Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, and City Councilmembers Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo. Martinez took a central role in the conversation and made offensive comments about Black people, Indigenous Oaxacans and others.In the interview with LAist, Martinez expressed regret for saying “tan feos’,” or “they’re ugly,” when talking about Oaxacan people who live in Koreatown. “Oh my goodness. That’s another thing that I will never forgive myself for,” Martinez said. “That was just a horrible, insensitive thing to say. I certainly don’t have anything against the Oaxacan community. I feel horrible for having insulted the community.”She also addressed what she said about Dist. Atty. George Gascón: “F— that guy. I’m telling you now, he’s with the Blacks.” “You know, I walked in there really angry and frustrated and it was, it was a mean and insensitive thing to say, and I didn’t mean anything by it,” Martinez said. Martinez added that she had “absolutely no relationship” with Gascón at the time and suggested the comment reflected her own anger. Protesters were targeting her home over the city’s handling of homelessness and its vaccine mandate. Her relationship with Bonin, a onetime ally, was strained. “Over the 2½ years that I was council president, I just grew more frustrated and angry and pissed off at everything. And that’s what you saw. That’s it,” Martinez said. Martinez also criticized the media. “I have always felt that as a Latina, I have never really been given a fair shake by the media. The coverage of these tapes in and of itself says it all. I think there was a deliberate concerted effort to take snippets of the conversation and put them out to the general public,” she said. Today, she isn’t working, according to LAist, and is trying to manage her household finances. She said her husband is also not working. “What this has done to me and my family has completely destroyed us,” she said. On Friday, De León and Cedillo filed separate lawsuits in Los Angeles County Superior Court saying the recording did permanent harm to their reputations and careers. Both lawsuits allege invasion of privacy and negligence and seek damages. Cedillo’s lawsuit targets the Federation of Labor and two onetime labor staffers. De León’s lawsuit names only the staffers. Los Angeles, CA - October 26: Protestors return to City Hall on Wednesday to demand that no meetings be held until Councilmembers Kevin De Leon and Gil Cedillo have resigned. The council censured both men in an unanimous vote at City Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) CALIFORNIAThe leaked audio scandal marked a stunning downfall for Martinez, the daughter of immigrants from the Mexican state of Zacatecas who joined the council in 2013 after a come-from-behind victory. In the interview published Monday, she describes staying in bed for days. She credits her mother and her church with helping her. Martinez said she had several conversations with then-mayoral candidate Karen Bass in the first 24 hours after news of the secret recording broke. Bass, who was elected mayor weeks later, guessed the scandal would “blow over in about one or two days,” Martinez said. Bonin, reached Monday for comment about Martinez’s interview, said he thought she was essentially saying, “I didn’t mean it, I was having a bad day, or I didn’t do anything wrong.” “I thought she might have gone deeper and more reflective,” Bonin said. Bonin said he hopes that the anniversary of the leaked audio sheds light on society’s treatment of Black children and studies showing that young Black children are subject to more and harsher discipline. A day earlier, the former councilman posted an essay in which he talked about Martinez’s comments about his son’s behavior at a parade. In the leaked audio, Martinez is heard saying the boy needs a “beatdown.” “She was doing what society does to Black children — subjecting them to a different standard, viewing them and treating them as older than they are. It is a widespread phenomenon,” Bonin wrote. “I don’t think she meant to play into that narrative,” Bonin said Monday. “But I hope people can pay attention to how that narrative is used to endanger Black children.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-09/nury-martinez-talks-about-leaked-audio

The Nigerian megastar made history as the first African musician to headline a sold-out stadium show in the US, as well as the UK. Meanwhile, his latest album, I Told Them..., shot into the top 10 in charts across the world. However, according to his mother, Burna Boy has not yet fulfilled his potential. "I admire the diligence, the hard work but he's still a work in progress," Bose Ogulu, who also manages the Afrobeats singer, told the BBC's Nyasha Michelle. "There are many more milestones to attain. We need to not just step down and look at what we've done, but keep doing more." Affectionately dubbed Mama Burna by fans, Ms Ogulu rivals Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner for the title of ultimate "momager". Mama Burna learnt the trade from her own father, who managed late Nigerian icon Fela Kuti. Away from music, she's also an accomplished businesswoman and linguist. "I ran a language school for 18 years. I quickly understood the power of languages and the power of culture," Ms Ogulu, who on Sunday joined the likes of Stormzy, Mohamed Salah and Mo Farah as a Best of Africa award-winner.In order to manage Burna, Ms Ogulu had to step away from the language school - a decision she says she was confident in making. "I have known since he was probably 13 or 14 that he was going to be great at something. I had already seen him in the studio, I had already watched him form a high school band," she said. "From when he was in JSS3, which I think would be Year 9, we started trading studio time for grades. I would say: 'OK, if you make a B or an A in this, I'll pay for studio time during your mid-term'." However, she "wasn't prepared" for Burna Boy to drop out of university in order to pursue his burgeoning music career. She said: "That was my problem, like 'OK you can do this, but you're almost there. How about you just finish this degree programme'. "That's where the African in me came out. Together his father, my father and I sat down and told him the consequences of doing it his way and he was like: 'That's fine'." Burna Boy has since won a Grammy and toured the world with his music, so the gamble has clearly paid off. So where do the mother-son duo go from here? "If we're doing four stadiums, let's do 10," Ms Ogulu said. "There's always a higher level to get to - and that should be our focus." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67030073

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Sangita Manoj Khairwar, 32, has not slept for two days and has been crying relentlessly. She delivered twins on September 28 but lost them during treatment at the Dr Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded on October 2. “I could not take them in my arms and didnt’ even see their faces… I even sold my mangalsutra for their treatment…,” said the distraught mother who is yet to come to terms with the loss. Sangita’s twins were among the 18 infants who died at the state-run hospital in three days since September 30. A total of 24 people, including 12 infants, died in the 24 hours between Sep 30 and Oct 1 at the tertiary care hospital. Also Read | Bombay HC takes suo motu cognizance of deaths at government hospitals in Nanded, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Sangita, wife of Manoj Khairwar, a farmer from Manmad, was eight months and 22 days pregnant when she delivered their twins at a private hospital in Devloor Naka area on September 28. As the newborns required special care, the doctors advised the parents to take them to a bigger hospital.Not getting an ambulance in time, Sangita’s family rushed the twins in an autorickshaw to a public hospital in Sham Nagar that refused to admit the infants, saying they did not have enough room to accommodate them.Left with no option, the family rushed the infants to Dr Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital the same day. After two days of treatment, the twins died around 3 am and 8 am on Monday, Sangita’s mother Saraswati Nevhal said. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/nanded-mother-lost-twins-hospital-deaths-8969110/?utm_source=Taboola_Recirculation&utm_medium=RC&utm_campaign=IE

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We update this article every Friday. We suggest bookmarking this page and returning often, as we'll continue updating it throughout the year with the most notable new tech and other gadgets of 2023. The world of new tech and gadgets is fast-moving and non-stop. It seems like every month, every week and even every day, something new and exciting gets announced. From hi-fi headphones to the latest Sonos speakers, bookshelf speakers to gorgeous (and huge) TVs, the newest Apple gadgets to noise-canceling wireless earbuds — the sheer volume of new products can be overwhelming. That's why we're aiming to make it just a bit easier. Below, we've rounded up the best new tech and gadgets that been announced thus far in 2023. We'll be regularly updating this post with the coolest new gadgets that you should keep on your radar, so stay tuned for more as the year goes on.

Google didn't have many surprises at its October 4 Made by Google event — the products the company teased ahead of time were the ones that launched at the event itself. Still, there's a reason to be excited for the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel Watch 2, as those new devices are heavily shaped by Google's efforts to tap into the power of artificial intelligence. Each of the three new pieces of hardware introduced today (October 4) puts AI-powered features front and center, whether it's the photo-processing tools added to the Pixel 8 phones or the health monitoring features Google is incorporating into its latest Pixel Watch. But there are some hardware changes of note, too. Both Pixel phones have much brighter displays than before while the Pixel Watch 2 is switching to aluminum from stainless steel as the company looks to make more environmentally sustainable products. Here's a quick recap of the new hardware launched by Google at its fall event. Google Pixel 8: Google's entry-level smartphone costs $699 — a $100 price hike from last year's model as had been rumored. But it's got a new Tensor G3 chip and its ultrawide camera has been update to add a macro camera mode. The 6.2-inch display now has a 120Hz refresh rate. Check out our Google Pixel 8 hub and our Pixel 8 hands-on for more details. Google Pixel 8 Pro: Like the Pixel 8, the Pixel 8 Pro now runs on a Tensor G3 chipset. It also see its ultrawide lens upgraded to a 48MP sensor. It's $100 more than the Pixel 7 Pro, so you'll pay $999 for this phone. Check out our Google Pixel 8 Pro hub and our Pixel 8 Pro hands-on for more details. Google Pixel Watch 2: You'll find a number of health-focused improvements in Google's second smartwatch, including an improved multi-path heart rate sensor as well as stress detection. The watch is lighter than before and a new chip means faster performance. Prices start at $349. Check out our Google Pixel Watch 2 hub and Pixel Watch 2 hands-on for more details. Google had other announcements. Android 14 is appearing on the new Pixel phones, and it's now available for current Pixel phones, too. Google also plans to add its Bard chatbot to the Google Assistant. Read on for a full account of the Made by Google hardware event. HOW TO WATCH THE MADE BY GOOGLE 2023 EVENT The Made by Google live stream is over, but you can catch a replay at the Made by Google channel on YouTube. We've embedded the video below. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/google-pixel-8-launch-live-all-the-google-event-news-as-it-happens

While CD Projekt Red is sadly moving on from Cyberpunk 2077 to focus on the sequel, meaning we won't be getting any more expansions or significant updates, there's still a wee bit of polishing to do. Update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty arrived in a good state, but there's still some room for improvement, which is what patch 2.01 is focused on, squashing some bugs—including a particularly annoying one that's been around for years—and buffing the game's performance, particularly in Dogtown. Players who encountered the visual bug where the glitchy blue effect that briefly occurs during scripted story moments persists forever have finally been given a reprieve that doesn't require the installation of a mod. These glitches are meant to reinforce the effect of the Relic in V's noggin, which is killing them, but are only meant to last for a few seconds. In some cases, however, after experiencing this during the Automatic Love quest, players have reported it never going away. The bug has been causing problems since launch, three years ago, and our own Wes ran afoul of it when he started playing only recently, which forced him to install a mod to counter it—the only solution at the time. CDPR said it was looking into it, and has thankfully addressed it in the patch. "The distortion effect caused by talking to Johnny and selecting a specific dialogue option at the end of the quest will no longer persist on the screen."Quite a few vanilla bugs have been resolved, but Phantom Liberty has also been given some attention, which means Idris Elba's Solomon Reed won't show up to a party underdressed anymore. This bug was specific to the You Know My Name quest, during which Reed swaps his cool but scruffy look for a sequined party outfit. Very dapper. But during a dialogue sequence with Songbird he's not wearing it—a fashion faux pas that is no longer an issue. In the same quest, V would sometimes get stuck in a sniper's nest, too, which has also been fixed.A variety of performance improvements have also been included, the biggest impact of which should be seen in Dogtown. This is along with "visual fixes for animations, lighting, scenes, VFX, and more". Those of you using Ultra Performance mode should also see improved image quality of DLSS Ray Construction. Beyond bugs and performance fixes, there's something for the modders too: Phantom Liberty support for REDmod has now been added. You can check out the rest of the patch's main improvements on the update page. https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-fixes-the-games-most-frustrating-bug-and-idris-elbas-fashion-faux-pas/

Watkins, who last featured for England in March 2022, continued his impressive start to the season with a hat-trick against Brighton on Saturday. Chelsea forward Raheem Sterling is left out of a fourth successive squad. England play Australia in a friendly on 13 October and Italy in a Euro 2024 qualifier on 17 October. Watkins, 27, said he did not think he could "do any more" to earn a recall after taking his tally to seven goals and three assists in 11 games this season. "Ollie has started the season well, he's hit a bit of scoring form in the last couple of weeks. You have to be careful with that because you can't just go on recency bias with selection," Southgate said. "But he is in good form and obviously coming in on a high and he's been with us before so we know his character, his personality. He is a good guy around the group." West Ham's Jarrod Bowen, called up to the England squad for the first time in May 2022, returns after missing out on September's squad. Bukayo Saka is also included, despite Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta describing the winger's latest injury as "a worry" after he went off with a muscular problem after 34 minutes against Lens on Tuesday. England's perfect Euro 2024 qualifying record was ended by a 1-1 draw with Ukraine in September, which they followed with a 3-1 friendly win over Scotland. Having received their first call-ups to the England squad for September's fixtures, Arsenal striker Eddie Nketiah and Chelsea centre-back Levi Colwill are both named again. Jordan Henderson, picked after leaving Liverpool to join Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq in July, also retains his place in Southgate's squad, as does Manchester United centre-back Harry Maguire. He made his first start of the season in a 3-0 Carabao Cup victory over Crystal Palace on 26 September. England beat Italy 2-1 in Naples on the opening matchday in March and have the opportunity to strengthen their position at the top of Group C. Southgate's side are six points clear, although second-placed Italy have played one game fewer. England squad Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone, Jordan Pickford, Aaron Ramsdale Defenders: Levi Colwill, Lewis Dunk, Marc Guehi, Harry Maguire, John Stones, Fikayo Tomori, Kieran Trippier, Kyle Walker, Trent Alexander-Arnold Midfielders: Jude Bellingham, Conor Gallagher, Jordan Henderson, Kalvin Phillips, Declan Rice Forwards: Jarred Bowen, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Harry Kane, James Maddison, Eddie Nketiah, Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka, Ollie Watkins https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67015044

As they come, the aid effort in the town of Goris is intensifying. On Tuesday night, exhausted families slept in cars as they waited to register their arrival. There has been a renewed scramble to help on Wednesday. Local hotels are full, offering rooms for free, and Armenians are posting on social media, offering housing all over the country to refugees. There's talk of turning a school in Goris into a dormitory until something more permanent can be found. But the authorities are adamant they can cope. One senior official told me it was a matter of principle to help Armenia's "brothers and sisters" from Karabakh. Azerbaijan arrests former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Until this week, Tamara was a nurse in a small town hospital just outside Stepanakert, which Azerbaijanis call Khankendi. When Azerbaijan launched its lightning offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh on 19 September, Tamara treated wounded Karabakh fighters and dealt with the dead. "It was scary, there were many injured," she tells me. "Burns. People were hunting for their missing, they couldn't find their children. It was so hard and such a shock for us." Even though Azerbaijan is insisting Armenians can stay in the region they have reclaimed, Tamara didn't dare test that promise. As soon as the route to Armenia reopened after a blockade imposed by Azerbaijan for the past ten months, she and her family packed their lives into a small Soviet-era jeep and began the slow journey across the border. That's when Tamara remembered a young man she had treated in hospital in the previous war, three years ago, and called him. Now she's staying in Goris with his family, who are happy to repay a debt. "It was really hard to get here, it was scary," Tamara says. "But we prayed, we really prayed… Then God helped us." The soldier she helped, then a conscript, now lives in Yerevan. His mother tells me he's recovered physically, although some of the shrapnel that hit him lodged in his head. But he struggles psychologically to cope with what he saw. She mentions the death of many of her son's friends, also young soldiers. That's the context to this refugee crisis. Years of fighting, spilled blood and deep enmity. It's a similar story in Azerbaijan: hundreds of thousands of Azeris were once displaced from the same disputed strip of land. Many soldiers were killed. There's a lot of history. I tried to talk to ethnic Armenians, now refugees, who fought to defend Nagorno-Karabakh - this month or in wars past. No one wanted to comment in public. One man told me that's because he is ashamed at this defeat, after so many years fighting for the right to live on that land. Everyone I've met thinks they've abandoned the enclave for good. "It feels like everyone is leaving Karabakh now," says Sveta, a woman in her late 60s who has left with two generations of her family. A child's bike is perched on their roof rack, next to big blankets they were given in an aid pack. "I can't stop crying. We've left everything behind. Not only one house - four. Everything." Someone has found the family a room, another four hours' drive away, but they've already spent almost two days on the road and are exhausted. There are minibuses on standby, ready to take people on to temporary housing in other towns and villages. One is full of frail looking pensioners, evacuated from their care home. Many have to be carried by volunteers as they are transferred between buses. There are now food tents and aid handouts in the main square, not far from the stone town church. Some of the produce comes from the local authorities, a lot is donated. "We didn't know what to do and we wanted to help," Maria tells me. She is one of a group of teenage school girls chopping fruit and handing out coffee. "And the arrivals just don't stop," she says. So many people have arrived in Goris now, the authorities are opening a second hub two hours down the road in Vayk. Vehicles full of people are still streaming in, through the mountains of Karabakh. One man had driven all the way in a bright yellow big digger, the scoop filled with his belongings tied down with rope. As the refugees approach, men standing by the roadside wave free sandwiches and drinks, which they then thrust through the car windows. Some take it, hungry and grateful, and drive on. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66937303

If you're fed up with Windows, Linux, or macOS, you'll want to know if there's a great alternative desktop operating system that's worth using. While there are no absolute definitive answers here – everyone's use case is different, after all – we've discovered ten distinct examples that fall outside the usual bounds. Our list even includes a few true outsiders, independent operating systems built from the ground up which serve mainly to prove just how difficult it is to create an entire functioning OS without a large number of brains working on it. Everything here can be tested reasonably within a virtual machine, so if something grabs your interest don't hesitate to download and give it a try. https://www.techradar.com/news/best-alternative-operating-systems

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If you're picking up a new Microsoft Surface laptop, you could now indulge in a bit of retro gaming while waiting for Windows to finish crawling through the interminable setup and updates process. Here's hoping it comes to the DIY Windows installation, too. It will certainly be something to do while setting up a new office test rig. As spotted by The Verge, Microsoft has seemingly added a cute game to the setup procedure in Windows 11. Not content with showing you endless screens about how much better your life will be with the operating system, it now seems you can just ignore it all and aim for a high score instead. The game in question has actually been around in the Edge browser since 2020. Just type edge://surf into the address bar and away you go. For me, it brought back memories of Horace Goes Skiing on the Sinclair Spectrum, though less ancient folks might think it's more akin to SkiFree (part of Microsoft's Entertainment Pack 3, released for Windows 3.0 in 1991).Surf is surprisingly good fun, though. Sure it's just an endless scrolling dodge-the-obstacle game, but the animations are ridiculously cute, and it supports keyboard, mouse, touchscreens, and even gamepads for the controls. The browser version has three different play modes too, but it's not clear if the Windows installation one offers the same.Mini-games hidden in software, or even other games, isn't something new, of course. When Namco ported its Ridge Racer arcade game to the original PlayStation, it popped Galaxian into the loading screens, allowing you to blast away a few aliens while the console got everything ready.What's not clear at the moment is whether Surf is now part of every new Windows 11 installation. It may well just be for Microsoft's own PCs but there's no reason why it couldn't add it in retrospectively, as part of a general update, so when you do your next OS reinstallation you can do a spot of surfing. Maybe that's something else Rufus will be able to do, as well as nixing the need for a Microsoft account, or TPM 2.0. It wasn't that long ago when Windows had loads of games in it to keep you entertained (i.e. totally distracted from your work) but since Windows 7, they've all been pretty much stripped out. Hopefully, the inclusion of Surf in the setup process is a sign that Microsoft has seen the error of its ways and more are on their way. Can I have Minesweeper back, at the very least? https://www.pcgamer.com/banish-the-tedium-of-setting-up-windows-with-a-built-in-while-you-wait-retro-game-courtesy-of-microsoft/

The Government has until Friday to present next year's Budget Law and the opposition has already focused on who will present said text: the Budget Director, Javiera Martínez. From Chile Vamos they have not yet fully decided whether or not they are going to condition the budget debate on Martínez's continuity in her position; However – under reservation – they admit that she is in the focus of attention, due to the “instilled suspicion” regarding the Agreements case, particularly for having promoted the change in bureaucratic criteria for the allocation of funds in the Regional Governments. Even though there is no direct link with said case, for the opposition, the head of the Dipres will have to clear up the doubts that circulate around her this Friday. Furthermore, they maintain that the support of Minister Marcel, when he described her as “the best Budget director we have ever had,” now weighs on Martínez, and it is the head of the Treasury himself who is risking her political capital. On Friday, the 2024 Budget Law proposed by the Government will enter Congress and the event places the opposition's spotlight on the Budget Director, Javiera Martínez. The engineer, who is one of the founders of the Democratic Revolution, has been one of the flanks that the right has exploited after the outbreak of the Covenants case and the revelation of a more flexible bureaucracy made in 2023. Although many of the cases investigated were prior to this change in criteria, the opposition insists that the presentation of the budget will be key to determining the offensive against Martínez, although – for now – “it is ruled out,” said the general secretary of the UDI. , María José Hoffmann. On Monday morning, at the UDI headquarters, the party leadership, together with a group of parliamentarians, announced that they had hired a team of lawyers to strengthen parliamentary work in terms of oversight of the proposed Law of Budget, “not only in the Government's priorities but also in the execution of spending,” Hoffmann pointed out. And the general secretary of the union revealed that "from the UDI there is distrust, mainly in the Budget Directorate (Dipres), due to the events that we have seen", referring to the multiple cases that are investigated in foundations and Regional Governments. The main concern that exists in the opposition falls on Javiera Martínez and the Budget Law that she presents on Friday. Representative Marlene Pérez, from the UDI bench, stated in the same instance that “it is complex to sit down to discuss a Budget Law with a Budget Director who is being questioned and who was the one who opened the key to the Regional Governments, and that from there all the irregularities that we have known until today started.” This is because Martínez was responsible for making the bureaucracy more flexible in direct transfers to foundations to receive money from Regional Governments. However, this information was already clarified in August by the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, who explained – in the 'Mesa Central' program on Channel 13 – that these changes “are subsequent to the cases that are being investigated. In other words, one could hardly say that the modifications of the 2023 Budget are responsible for things that happened in 2022.” At that time, Minister Marcel also risked his political capital to support Martínez: “I have known all the Budget directors since the return of democracy, she is probably the best Budget director we have had, due to her knowledge.” , for their dedication and for their honesty. And I want to tell you that that comparison includes all Budget directors, including myself.” https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2023/09/27/directora-de-presupuestos-en-la-mira/

'They seemed primed to take over': How the Great Dying doomed the 'beast tooth' and set the stage for the dawn of the dinosaurs "Much as we can only wonder today what knowledge was lost in the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria, we can also ponder what sort of magnificent creatures born of the Cambrian explosion were lost." Inostrancevia is a genus from the extinct group Theriodontia that appeared during the Middle Permian. (Image credit: Stocktrek Images/Getty Images) The excerpt below is taken from "Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis" (Hachette Book Group, 2023), by Michael Mann. It looks at how climate change following the Cambrian explosion caused the biggest mass extinction on Earth — dooming the creatures set to dominate and set the stage for dinosaurs to The mechanisms that can freeze the planet, as was the case with Snowball Earth can also lead to inhospitably hot climates, when enough carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere. Arguably the greatest extinction event of all time — called the Great Dying — appears to have resulted, at least in part, from a massive heat-inducing release of carbon into the atmosphere 250 million years ago. Is this ancient event a possible analog for a sixth, human-caused, climate-change-driven mass extinction today? In answering this question, we will at times work our way through some details of the science, but the payoff is that we will see not just that scientists are able to unravel such mysteries, but how they do it. In the late Proterozoic eon, around 550 million years ago, Earth had thawed out from a series of major glaciations, perhaps even global snowball conditions. The end of the Proterozoic marked the beginning of a brand new era — the Paleozoic, which extended from around 540 million to 251 million years ago. The first period of the Paleozoic — the Cambrian — saw a remarkable explosion in the diversity of life, known, appropriately, as the Cambrian explosion. Most of the life that exists today emerged during the first 10 million years of that period, including the first complex multicellular life and familiar groups such as mollusks and crustaceans. xn77m3MBTMpP8EfST2q797.jpg The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which formed around 600 million years ago. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Among the reasons for this remarkable diversification was a sustained rise in oxygen from photosynthetic life. Higher levels of oxygen allowed for more diverse, multicellular organisms because they require oxygen in high enough concentrations that it can reach interior cells. The stratospheric ozone layer, which had developed during the Neoproterozoic era (1 billion to 538 million years ago), protected animals from the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays and helped po[CENSORED]te the land. Some researchers even argue for a possible "bottleneck" effect, where the few life-forms that survived the Neoproterozoic ice ages (Snowball Earth or not) were able to rapidly fill emerging niches as Earth thawed. Related: 'Once again, innovation and proliferation ended with catastrophe': The environmental disaster of plants taking over the world A major glacial event occurred at the end of the following period of the Paleozoic, the Ordovician, around 450 million years ago, as chemical weathering outpaced the volcanic emissions of gas and atmospheric CO2 levels dropped. The resulting cooling caused a buildup in ice mass on the large South Pole–centered supercontinent of Gondwana. Sea levels dropped. Much of the coastal habitat that had been home to primitive mollusks and crustaceans disappeared. Some of the creatures scraped by, but about half of all existing genuses perished. Much as we can only wonder today what knowledge was lost in the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria, we can also ponder what sort of magnificent creatures born of the Cambrian explosion were lost. Welcome to the first of the widely recognized global mass extinction events. It will hardly be the last we encounter. The most well-known extinction event ended the reign of the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago. But the deadliest extinction event took place at the end of the Permian period, roughly 250 million years ago. It is referred to in the scientific community as the Permian-Triassic (or P-T for short) extinction, but because an estimated 90% of all Permian species disappeared from the face of the planet, it has earned a nickname: the Great Dying. Marine organisms were hit especially hard, with 96% of species perishing. Gone were the trilobites so familiar to amateur fossil collectors everywhere — primitive arthropods that were the distant ancestors of the modern horseshoe crab. Having survived the earlier Ordovician extinction event, their own nearly 300-million-year moment had come to an end. The ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which formed around 600 million years ago. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Among the reasons for this remarkable diversification was a sustained rise in oxygen from photosynthetic life. Higher levels of oxygen allowed for more diverse, multicellular organisms because they require oxygen in high enough concentrations that it can reach interior cells. The stratospheric ozone layer, which had developed during the Neoproterozoic era (1 billion to 538 million years ago), protected animals from the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays and helped po[CENSORED]te the land. Some researchers even argue for a possible "bottleneck" effect, where the few life-forms that survived the Neoproterozoic ice ages (Snowball Earth or not) were able to rapidly fill emerging niches as Earth thawed. Related: 'Once again, innovation and proliferation ended with catastrophe': The environmental disaster of plants taking over the world A major glacial event occurred at the end of the following period of the Paleozoic, the Ordovician, around 450 million years ago, as chemical weathering outpaced the volcanic emissions of gas and atmospheric CO2 levels dropped. The resulting cooling caused a buildup in ice mass on the large South Pole–centered supercontinent of Gondwana. Sea levels dropped. Much of the coastal habitat that had been home to primitive mollusks and crustaceans disappeared. Some of the creatures scraped by, but about half of all existing genuses perished. Much as we can only wonder today what knowledge was lost in the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria, we can also ponder what sort of magnificent creatures born of the Cambrian explosion were lost. Welcome to the first of the widely recognized global mass extinction events. It will hardly be the last we encounter. The most well-known extinction event ended the reign of the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago. But the deadliest extinction event took place at the end of the Permian period, roughly 250 million years ago. It is referred to in the scientific community as the Permian-Triassic (or P-T for short) extinction, but because an estimated 90% of all Permian species disappeared from the face of the planet, it has earned a nickname: the Great Dying. Marine organisms were hit especially hard, with 96% of species perishing. Gone were the trilobites so familiar to amateur fossil collectors everywhere — primitive arthropods that were the distant ancestors of the modern horseshoe crab. Having survived the earlier Ordovician extinction event, their own nearly 300-million-year moment had come to an end. 7bVJ7DdT6ZhkMD3EymDHAD.jpg A giant dragonfly from the Carboniferous period that was wiped out in the Great Dying mass extinction. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Not only were the vast majority of marine invertebrates gone, but so were the earliest fish species. On land, more than two thirds of amphibian and reptile species and nearly one third of insect species were wiped out. Another iconic species, a giant dragonfly called Meganeuropsis with a nearly three-foot (0.9 meter) wingspan that is often included in artist depictions of the Carboniferous period — and to this day still haunts my nightmares — was now gone. The P-T extinction event wiped out many of the groups that had dominated life on land, freeing up ecological niches to be filled by new organisms, including reptiles such as crocodiles and the earliest dinosaurs. Once again, there were both winners and losers. Who won and who lost, in this case, came down to geology and geochemical weathering cycles. Midway through the Paleozoic, around 420 million years ago, we saw the emergence of plants with roots, stems, and leaves, which as we now know helped accelerate chemical weathering by producing acids that dissolve rock, helping cycle water from the soil back into the atmosphere. This may have led to a slow, steady decrease in atmospheric CO2 levels through the late Paleozoic. The spread of these vascular plants, however, also led to a new source of organic matter that could be buried on land or carried off in rivers for ocean burial. Increased burial of organic matter causes rising atmospheric oxygen levels because that organic matter is the product of photosynthesis, which splits up oxygen and carbon atoms. The carbon, once buried, is no longer available to cannibalize the liberated oxygen. In the Paleozoic, oxygen concentrations climbed as high as 35% (almost twice the current concentration of 21%). Those high oxygen levels favored synapsids, creatures with a high metabolism, featuring a single hole in each side of their skull that led to improved jaw function. They were part of a diverse group of four-legged terrestrial animals, including carnivores, insectivores, and herbivores, that first arose in the late Carboniferous and would evolve into the group we today know as mammals. 2LEjenGtccrCFCQj6uoq9a.jpg Skull of a Rubidgeinae, an extinct subfamily of gorgonopsid therapsids. (Image credit: RMDobson/Getty Images) By the early Permian, they were the dominant terrestrial species. By the mid-Permian, another group of proto-mammals — the possibly warm-blooded, somewhat rodent-like therapsids — emerged and became the new dominant species. By the late Permian, they may have even developed fur. One group, known as Theriodontia (Latin for "beast tooth"), displayed a number of evolutionary innovations: A shift in the bones supporting the jaw allowed the jaw to open wider, and may have aided hearing as well. The skull and teeth became larger, the teeth more specialized, and the jaw more powerful. They seemed primed to take over. But it was not to be. Everything changed at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Levels of CO2 spiked. That led to massive warming. Plate tectonics by now had brought all the continents together into a single giant continent — Pangea — straddled across the equator. It was already difficult for maritime moisture to penetrate deep into the center of the continent. Rapid greenhouse warming made it even hotter and drier, according both to climate model simulations of the end of the Permian and analyses of the fossil river deposits from Pangean floodplains. The sudden drying would have led to the massive die-off of the tenuous, moisture-dependent forests that had arisen over the course of the Paleozoic. That meant less burial of organic matter on land, assisted perhaps by decreased carbon export to the deep oceans due to a collapsing marine food web. Atmospheric oxygen levels appear to have dropped precipitously as a result, reaching concentrations as low as 15% at the P-T boundary. QbmyTv3qHnoRAe5huHvHCF-970-80.jpg.webp Plummeting oxygen levels helped dinosaurs become the dominant group on Earth. (Image credit: Roger Harris/SPL/Getty Images) The drop in oxygen was a further contributor to the mass die-off. The combination of greenhouse warming and low oxygen would have led to widespread hypoxia — a state where organisms simply cannot take in enough oxygen to support metabolism. That's where the dinosaurs come in. The proto-mammals that had come to dominance during the Permian — the synapsids and therapsids — had thrived off high oxygen levels. But as oxygen concentrations dropped, they were now poorly suited to their environment. https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/they-seemed-primed-to-take-over-how-the-great-dying-doomed-the-beast-tooth-and-set-the-stage-for-the-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs