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The NISMO-ified EV crossover has exclusive styling, a retuned chassis, and higher peak output compared to the standard version. We hope it's coming to the U.S. The electric Nissan Ariya SUV has just received a NISMO variant. It earns exclusive styling inside and out, retuned chassis dynamics, and an increased peak output from the electric motors. Nissan says the more powerful version will launch in the spring in Japan, and we're hopeful it will make its way stateside shortly after. The Nissan Ariya is already a more compelling option than the Leaf before it. It's got a livable driving range and a shockingly attractive interior, but what Nissan's new electric SUV has been missing is the fun factor. That, however, may be changing with the just revealed Ariya NISMO, slated for Japan. The Ariya NISMO is based on the brand’s e-4ORCE model, which adds a second electric motor to the rear axle to give it all-wheel-drive and some extra power. From the look of things, there will be two variants, though the specs have not been finalized or announced yet. The base model is called the B6 and generates 362 horsepower and 413 pound-feet of torque, which it draws from its 66.0-kWh battery pack. The more powerful B9 model makes 429 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque from a larger 91.0-kWh battery. We know power is delivered to the pavement via a set of 20-inch wheels, but we don't have specifics on how much faster the NISMO version will be yet. In our testing of an all-wheel-drive 2023 Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE Platinum+ we managed a 5.0-second run to 60 mph. Adequate, sure, but not thrilling. We're hoping the 40-hp bump helps bring that number to something a bit more impressive. The engineers on the NISMO team worked on tuning the power delivery to improve acceleration and the sense of excitement when driving the car. To that end, Nissan added a new NISMO driving mode, which the manufacturer says is all about response. There's also an option for added sounds from the sporty model that are “evocative of Formula E racing,” according to the manufacturer. Additional tuning for chassis components should help make the Ariya more adept on the back roads. Both the inside and outside of the Ariya NISMO have been modified to fit the name. The iconic red accenting makes itself known along the bottom of the car, while the interior is finished in black and red and equipped with chunkier sport buckets up front. The new flagship Ariya is scheduled to go on sale in Japan in the spring. Car and Driver reached out to Nissan to ask about potential availability in the United States but has not heard back. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46363082/nissan-ariya-nismo-revealed/

Conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, the Indian Ocean and other areas also spill over into the realm of cartography. A monument with a map of Mandatory Palestine in the West Bank town of Jenin, April 2022 [File: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP] By Sarah Shamim Published On 15 Jan 2024 Google Earth came into existence in 2005. A year later, it experienced a revolutionary tremor. A Palestinian man from Jenin, Thameen Darby, created the Nakba Layer, mapping Palestinian villages that were destroyed or depo[CENSORED]ted in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The maps showed parts of Palestine that are not even seen in maps created by Palestinian authorities, geographer Linda Quiquivix who researched the Nakba map and maps of Palestine, told Al Jazeera. The Nakba map of 2006 sparked controversy and anger among some Israelis who reported it to their local police for being an “assault on true geography”. But what is true geography? Do the maps we see every day accurately represent borders and spaces? Do maps lie? “Not only is it easy to lie with maps, it is essential,” wrote cartographer Mark Monmoneir in his book, How to Lie with Maps. He showed that condensing complex, three-dimensional spaces onto a two-dimensional sheet of paper is bound to be reductive. Maps are made by people, historically those with power. Hence, they are a projection of how people see the world – projections that are full of preconceived ideas and biases. However, maps are also deliberately skewed to distort people’s perceptions of spaces and issues, he argued. “A good propagandist knows how to shape opinion by mani[CENSORED]ting maps,” wrote Monmoneir. Propaganda maps were po[CENSORED]r during and even before the 20th century when warring nations used cartography to further their war-time agenda, painting the opposing nations as negative caricatures. Different symbols were used on maps: For example, the octopus with its multiple tentacles was used to depict the aggressor. While a British cartographer used the octopus to depict Russia, a French cartographer depicted Winston Churchill as the mollusc. Propaganda maps were also po[CENSORED]r during the Cold War. This Italian political cartoon shows a map of Europe and the Near East at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, with most countries personified as human figures, the major exception being Russia which is a large octopus, followed by Greece as a crab [HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images] French vintage WWI propaganda map from 1917 showing German invasion as giant octopus during the First World War I [Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images] The West’s map hegemony A common template used for world maps today is called the Mercator projection, created by European cartographer Geert de Kremer in 1569. The projection has been criticised for being widely misleading as it significantly distorts proportions. While three Canadas can fit inside Africa, Africa is significantly smaller and less detailed than Canada on the map. Fourteen Greenlands can squeeze into Africa — but on the Mercator map, the Danish territory is shown almost as large as Africa. Alaska looks larger than Mexico, when in reality it is smaller. Europe — not including Russia — seems to be around the same size as South America. In reality, South America is nearly twice as large. And Europe is at the centre of the map, with the Asia-Pacific to the periphery, when Asia is the globe’s most populous continent, the planet’s largest land mass, and today, the world’s economic nerve centre. In the 1800s, the Gall-Peters Projection was introduced, subverting the Eurocentric proportions of the Mercator Projection and sizing landmasses more accurately. However, it wasn’t until the 1970s that the Gall-Peters projection was introduced to a wider audience. And most educational institutions around the world still use the Mercator Projection to teach geography in classrooms. Map wars It isn’t just the Mercator Projection though. In May 2019, former US President Donald Trump signed “nice” on a map of Israel indicating that the occupied Golan Heights belong to Israel, rather than Syrian territory. The Golan Heights were occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War and then effectively annexed in 1981, a move that has not been recognised by the international community. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displays a map of Israel indicating the Golan Heights are inside the state’s borders, signed by US President Donald Trump on May 30, 2019 [File: Thomas Coex/AFP] In November of the same year, the Russian parliament’s lower house announced that Apple Maps would display Crimea as part of Russia when viewed from Russia. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in March 2014, a step that was criticised internationally. Initially, Apple suggested showing Crimea as undefined territory, but it ended up complying with Russia, earning condemnation from Ukrainians. Mashable reported in 2022 that Apple started clearly marking Crimea as part of Ukraine, at least outside of Russia. A man looks at a computer screen in Moscow on March 21, 2014, displaying a map of the Crimean Peninsula with a pop-up window reading: ‘Crimea, Russia’ on the site of Russian internet company Mail.Ru [AFP] Additionally, China uses maritime maps to claim all of the South China Sea. Using a U-shaped line called the nine-dash line, China’s maps declare that the South China Sea — a key maritime trade thoroughfare — belongs entirely to China. This has been a bone of contention between China and Southeast Asian neighbours including Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, which also claim the waters nearest to their coasts. An international tribunal ruled in 2016 that the map does not provide China with legal grounds to claim the sea, but this did not stop the nine-dash line from appearing on a newly released Chinese national map in 2023. India and Pakistan both control parts of Kashmir. After New Delhi revoked the semi-autonomous status of Indian-controlled Kashmir, withdrawing its statehood and carving it into two federally governed territories in 2019, Islamabad hit back — with a map. In 2020, Islamabad unveiled a map that showed all of Kashmir — including the part controlled by India — as belonging to Pakistan. Israel’s current war on Gaza hasn’t been immune to concerns about the use of maps either. Semafor media reported that after the escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas on October 7, Planet Labs, which used to provide crucial satellite imagery, began to restrict and obscure images of Gaza. What do maps like the Nakba map do? Counter-maps challenge dominant mapping that has historically influenced how the world sees the world. They are also called bottom-up maps or resistance maps. The Nakba map is an example. Quiquivix learned about the Nakba map during her attempts to trace the way that Palestinians have been using maps. She started to also see that after the Oslo Accords in 1993, a lot of the Palestinian leadership’s energies went into making maps that were parallel to a state of Israel, leaning towards a “two-state” view of the land. The leadership mapped only the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and not all of Palestine “where the refugees [believe they] still have the right of return, and where there’s also Palestinian citizens of Israel”, she explained. Israel has denied Palestinians who were evicted from their land in 1948, and their descendants, the right to return. This, she said, has led to cartographic erasure of Palestinians. On the other hand, Darby’s Nakba map has villages that Palestinian refugees in exile can use to “show the world where their villages are that were destroyed or occupied to create the State of Israel”. The advent of the internet has equipped locals and communities with platforms to share their own maps, said Quiquivix. “It’s just so much harder for the dominant world to hide its contradictions.” https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/1/15/palestine-to-africa-how-maps-lie-and-some-tell-the

19-year-old had ‘really good two days’ working with Roddick American beats Schmiedlová 6-3, 6-0 in first round American Coco Gauff says working with Andy Roddick on her serve was ‘really cool’ after she won her first-round Australian Open match. Photograph: Andy Cheung/Getty Images Coco Gauff has revealed that she worked with Andy Roddick, the last man from the US to win a singles grand slam title, during the off-season to reconfigure her service motion as she looks to build on last year’s US Open triumph and compete for more major titles. “It was really cool,” Gauff said. “He’s a really chill guy. I met him before but never to that level. I went to Charlotte for two days. It was a really good two days. I think that my serve has improved. I think I just need to continue to trust it and trust all the work that I did in the off-season.” On Monday afternoon, Gauff began her campaign at the Australian Open with a straightforward 6-3, 6-0 win over Anna Karolína Schmiedlová. Gauff’s first serve is one of the biggest in the world and it has long been one of her best weapons but she still has significant room to improve its precision and consistency in addition to her inconsistent second serve. During her time with Roddick and her coach, Brad Gilbert, who previously coached Roddick, they worked on simplifying her motion and she now serves with a more abbreviated and smoother swing. Roddick remains an extremely po[CENSORED]r figure and an astute pundit since his retirement but he has rarely offered his services to players since his retirement. Roddick’s only grand slam title at the 2003 US Open came exactly 20 years before Gauff’s triumph and six months before Gauff was born. “He’s probably one of the best servers in history, and especially on the American side,” Gauff said. “So I don’t think I could have chosen anybody -- or actually, I didn’t really choose, he offered. I don’t think I could have gotten anybody else better to kind of help me with that.” Coco Gauff serves against Anna Karolina Schmiedlova. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters Since losing in the first round of Wimbledon last year, Gauff has been on the best run of her young career, compiling a 30-4 record as she won titles in Cincinnati and Washington in addition to the US Open last year. She picked up where she left off at the start of this season, defending her Auckland title in the first week of the season, and she is now 6-0 to start the year. Gauff will face Caroline Dolehide, a fellow American, in the second round. After her victory, Gauff also joked about her relationships with her younger brothers, Codey and Cameron, and how their ambivalence to her career helps to keep her grounded. “Codey is 16,” she said. “Sometimes he has a sister; sometimes he doesn’t. It depends on when he wants me to exist because he’s in his ‘cool’ phase right now. The youngest one, he’s 10. He doesn’t want to talk for long. He’s on the game or whatever. “Those relationships are incredibly important to me, especially traveling a lot, being by yourself a lot. I’m lucky enough that I can have my parents come with me, and my family sometimes, but it just reminds me that I’m a person, reminds me that my value is more than how I do on the court.” Meanwhile, Marketa Vondrousova, the Wimbledon champion and seventh seed, became the first high profile casualty in Melbourne as she was defeated 6-1, 6-2 by Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine. In the men’s draw, Daniil Medvedev, the third seed, reached the second round with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 1-0 retirement win over Terence Alamane after the French qualifier struggled with cramps in the searing heat. Stefanos Tsitsipas, last year’s finalist, also moved on with a 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 win over Zizou Bergs, a lucky loser. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan/15/coco-gauff-reveals-she-worked-with-andy-roddick-on-serve-before-australian-open

‘The first time I dived successfully, it was as if I was flying’ … Babayan in Vietnam. Photograph: Courtesy of Caroline Babayan Caroline Babayan grew up hundreds of kilometres from the sea, then spent half a century longing to explore it. At 62, she finally took the plunge For Caroline Babayan, the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic was a wake-up call. She was locked down in Oslo, where she has lived for the past 40 years with her wife and children, and found herself thinking about the shape of the years to come. “I asked myself what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,” she says. “I was 62 and I might only have 15 or 20 good years left. I realised that I should do the things that I had wanted to do and not leave it for another day. It was the push I needed.” What she had always wanted to do was dive. Ever since she devoured Jules Verne’s sci-fi classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a 10-year-old, Babayan has harboured a love of the ocean. Despite growing up in landlocked Tehran, 1,200m above sea level, she would dream about living in a glass dome underwater and when her family took her on holidays to the Caspian Sea, she would spend as much time as possible swimming. “It was a fantasy life for me as an only child,” she says. “I lived in my imagination and the ocean was just endless with wonder.” In 2021, after decades spent working in adult education, Babayan enrolled in a diving certification course to finally make her dreams of exploring the ocean come true. She took her written theory test and soon began trying out diving equipment in a pool. At first, it was a struggle. “Each body floats differently, so you have to get your weighting right, otherwise you don’t sink properly,” she says. “It can feel really tiresome, like you’re always struggling.” Once her instructors found her correct weighting, she then began diving in open water, but that also brought its challenges. “I started in November and the water in the fjords in Norway was so cold,” she laughs. “I had to wear a drysuit, which was really heavy and uncomfortable – I didn’t enjoy it.” ‘It gave me that feeling of freedom I had imagined as a child’ … Babayan after finishing her training. Photograph: Supplied image Still determined to have a positive experience, a month later Babayan took to warmer waters on a family holiday to Lanzarote and eventually managed her debut dive. “The first time I dived successfully, it was as if I was flying,” she says. “You see fish swimming above you, which is so strange, and it gave me that feeling of freedom I had imagined as a child. I knew then that this is what I wanted to continue doing.” Since that first trip, Babayan, now 65, tries to fit in at least two diving holidays each year and still finds that same sense of adventure each time she sinks into the water. “It’s fascinating seeing all the marine life, but it’s also so calm because the only thing you hear is your own breathing,” she says. “You have to concentrate on your breath, almost like meditation.” One recent trip involved diving in a cave in Sardinia and plunging into a “world within a world”. “The silence was amazing,” she says. It might sound terrifying to some but Babayan makes sure to always dive with an instructor at hand and to not stray much deeper than 20 metres. Diving has remained a solo pursuit. Babayan’s wife hasn’t trained because she wears glasses and contact lenses, while her grandchildren mainly find it amusing that their granny enjoys such an adventure sport. Still, Babayan finds strength in having the experience for herself, no matter her age. “Your age is in other people’s eyes and our bodies are far more resilient than we know,” she says. “I have never encountered any issues or prejudice about being an older diver. I have a medical checkup every two years to keep my certification and as long as that’s OK I will carry on.” She travelled to Hanoi for her most recent diving trip before journeying farther south in Vietnam to explore the South China Sea. “One of the perks of growing older is that you don’t have to worry about what other people might think of you any more,” she says. “Go out and try whatever it is you’ve been waiting to do. Fulfil your dreams!” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/15/a-new-start-after-60-i-learned-to-scuba-dive-and-realised-a-childhood-dream

No technology can yet match the uncanny ability that dogs possess to find their way home Merlin the springer spaniel after making its way home. Photograph: Daniel Horsley/Facebook On New Year’s Day, Merlin, a springer spaniel belonging to Daniel Horsley, ran away from his front garden in Cumbria after appearing to suffer some kind of fit. One hundred people were involved in a search involving drones and thermal-imaging cameras. And, 16 hours later, Merlin found his own way home, quite unharmed. If nothing else, all these helpers united by a lost dog confirmed one thing. Quite simply: animals bring people together. But what no one seemed to realise is this. No human technology yet invented can match the uncanny homing abilities of dogs. A century ago, a collie cross in the US was busy showing the rest of them up. In August 1923, the Brazier family lost Bobbie on their holiday in Indiana; and in February 1924 he was back home with them in Silverton, Oregon. All the evidence indicates he walked the whole way, about 3,000 miles, over six months through the intense winter cold. His endurance alone was formidable. But how did he know where to go? In the book Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition, Robert Charman cites 1965 trials conducted by Dr Bernhard Müller with 75 dogs, all released far from home. Many just got lost – but 26 dogs made it. These animals would point for a while in varying directions, until their heads went up in a peculiarly stiff manner. They then travelled home in a seemingly trance-like state, sometimes bumping into low fences, and notably making their best progress when it was dark. A statue honouring Bobbie the Wonder Dog, at the Oregon Garden in Silverton, Oregon. Photograph: Gina Kelly/Alamy A recent Czech study involving 27 dogs found that one-third of them used the Earth’s north-south magnetic axis as a guide, rather than first scenting or looking for visual cues. Which is perhaps why, in the 1930s, a fox terrier was able to walk every week between his old and new homes in Bedfordshire – despite being completely blind. As far as I know, no dog has ever beaten Bobbie the Wonder Dog’s 3,000-mile expedition. But there are many other extraordinary stories. On Christmas Eve 1973, an alsatian named Barry turned up on his old doorstep in Solingen, Germany, after being lost in southern Italy during a holiday six months before. He had apparently walked 1,200 miles. In April 1949, a pomeranian named Jeep came home to New York, 16 months after he was lost in the Blue Ridge Mountains 1,000 miles away. In 2016, a collie called Pero also went missing in Cumbria. He had recently been sent from his home farm in Wales to help with sheep-herding near Cockermouth. Two weeks later he was back at his old farm in Penrhyn-coch, 240 miles away. As a general rule, dogs tend to return to their owners, while cats tend to return to their old homes. But in 2020, Cleo, a four-year-old retriever-collie cross, decided to leave her owners and head back to her old house. She went missing from Olathe in Kansas on 12 July, and a few days later was found at her former house in Lawson, Missouri, almost 60 miles away. Her microchip meant that the home’s new owners could identify her and reunite her with her family. Perhaps the most incredible adventure of all is the first world war tale of the Irish terrier Prince. In August 1914, Pte James Brown was mobilised for Armentières in France. On 27 September, Prince went missing from home in west London – as Brown’s wife wrote in a letter he received at the end of November. Brown replied: “I am sorry you have not found Prince; and you are never likely to while he is over here with me.” Prince became the regiment’s beloved mascot, wearing his own khaki jacket and sometimes riding on horseback. He killed countless trench rats, hitting a record of 137 in one day. He and his owner both survived the war. Some dogs may track their previous homes, as was the case with Cleo. But Prince clearly tracked his owner, being notably far more devoted (whisper this) to James Brown than to his wife. He found him 200 miles away, in a place he had never been to before. And he is not the only animal to have done it. In the 1950s, a persian cat named Sugar followed her owners from California to their new home in Oklahoma, travelling about 1,000 miles across one year. Perhaps we will fully understand the exact science of these uncanny adventures some day. But, for now, the most accurate and plausible answer to how they all did it is simply: love. Richard Sugg is an author and historian. His latest novel is Kali the Wonder Dog (2023) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/merlin-spaniel-humans-dogs-home

Turkish court releases player, pending trial, after he displayed bandage reading ‘100 days. 07/10’ while celebrating scoring a goal. Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation against Sagiv Jehezkel on charges of 'inciting people to hatred and hostility' over his gesture [Anadolu] 15 Jan 2024 A Turkish court has released pending trial an Israeli footballer who was detained after displaying a message apparently marking 100 days since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7. Sagiv Jehezkel, 28, displayed a bandage on his wrist reading “100 days. 07/10” next to the Star of David after scoring a goal for Antalyaspor against Trabzonspor during a match on Sunday. Turkish authorities called the Antalyaspor club’s player for questioning after the incident and charged him with “openly inciting the public to hatred and hostility”, according to Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc. In a post on X, Tunc said Jehezkel had engaged in “an ugly gesture in support of the Israeli massacre in Gaza”. “We will continue to support the oppressed Palestinians,” he added, denouncing what he described as an ongoing “genocide” in Gaza. NTV television reported that a private plane had been sent from Israel on Monday to pick up Jehezkel and his family so that they could return home. In testimony to the police, Jehezkel said he “did not intend to provoke anyone”. “I am not a pro-war person,” the private DHA news agency reported him as saying. Jehezkel, capped eight times by the Israeli national team, celebrated scoring a goal against Trabsonspor by displaying the message on the bandage, believed to be a reference to Israel’s 100 days of war in Gaza and the captives held by Hamas in the coastal enclave. On October 7, the Palestinian group launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing about 1,140 people and abducting 250 others, according to Israeli authorities. Since then, a brutal Israeli military campaign has killed at least 24,100 Palestinians and wounded 60,834 others, while thousands of others remain trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, Antalyaspor said it had suspended Jehezkel, accusing him of having “acted against the values of our country”. The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) added: “We condemn the completely unacceptable behaviour of footballer Sagiv Jehezkel during the match between Antalyaspor and Trabzonspor played today (…) and find Antalyaspor’s decision to exclude the player from its team appropriate.” Jehezkel’s brief detention also sparked outrage in Israel. “Shame on you, Turkish government,” former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet wrote on X. Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a longtime supporter of the Palestinian cause, has repeatedly described Israel as a “terrorist state” and Hamas as a “group of liberators”. In a separate incident, Istanbul’s top-flight side Basaksehir said it was launching a disciplinary investigation into another Israeli player, Eden Karzev, for reposting a social media message about the hostages, reading: “Bring Them Home Now”. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/15/turkey-frees-israeli-footballer-detained-over-october-7-reference-in-match

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