Happy birthday, man! My gift to you on your special day this year is that I’m sending you a wish for each year that you’ve been on this earth for… Well, you’d better get started then because it looks like you’ve got a lot of wishes to make today, my friend @NANO!

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/tesla-semi-long-delayed-electric-hgv-arrive-tonight A production version of the long-delayed Tesla Semi will be shown today in a customer handover ceremony at the firm’s Nevada Gigafactory. The HGV, first shown in prototype form in 2017, is rumoured to be offered with either a 600kWh or 1000kWh battery for 300 and 500-mile ranges respectively. It has completed a 500-mile drive fully laden (at 81,000lbs or 36,741kg), Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed in a recent Twitter post. The rival Daf CF Electric – a European-style cab-forward lorry – is offered with a 315kWh battery, giving a 137-mile range (in tractor configuration). It has a gross combined mass (the maximum weight of the HGV and trailer) of 37,000kg. Musk denied that the Semi uses the more energy-dense 4680 cells on Tesla's recent third-quarter earnings call. “The Semi doesn’t use the 4680s. We're making Model Ys; some of the Model Ys coming out of Giga Texas [factory] are 4680,” said Musk, implying that supply of the cells was being diverted to cars. Tesla has claimed energy consumption below 2kWh per mile for the Semi and the ability to replenish 70% of a charge in just 30 minutes using a Megacharger – the first of which was installed at the Nevada Gigafactory. A tri-motor powertrain – driving the two rear axles – dispatches the 0-60mph sprint in 20sec fully laden or 5.0sec without cargo. Tesla originally stated the Semi would use four motors, and a high-performance model – in the mould of the Model S Plaid – isn't out of the question. Inside, a central seat is flanked by two infotainment displays, each displaying a blindspot camera view for its respective side of the HGV. The left also displays diagnostic data such as speed and charge level, while the right also shows navigation. When the Semi was first shown in prototype form five years ago, slated for a 2019 launch, Tesla said it would be priced between $150,000 and $180,000. However, given the increased cost of vehicle production and supply-chain problems, this cost is likely to have risen significantly. More detailed technical specifications – including the Semi’s official power output, battery capacity and pricing – are expected to be announced at the Nevada delivery event. The Semi’s sudden revival after fading into obscurity – much like the Roadster it was shown alongside in 2017 – is widely speculated to be a response to the Inflation Reduction Act. Signed off by US president Joe Biden in August, this contributes tax credits up to $40,000 for electric commercial vehicles weighing more than 14,000lbs (6350kg). Numerous large companies are known to have placed orders for the truck, including delivery firm UPS and the Canadian division of Walmart. The first units will go to Pepsi. The soft-drinks giant was given $15.4 million (£12.5m) by the California Air Resources Board to order low-emissions commercial vehicles, including 15 Semis, Bloomberg has reported. Musk said on the Q3 earnings call that production is planned to scale up to 50,000 units annually by 2024. Company chair Robyn Denholm recently said Tesla may build 100 by the end of this year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63828971 Rishi Sunak has said it is "completely unacceptable" that people were having their lives disrupted by a "selfish minority" who join illegal protests. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has met with police chief constables to discuss tactics used by some environmental protest groups, such as Just Stop Oil. The prime minister said: "My view is that those who break the law should feel the full force of it." Speaking after the meeting at No 10 he said the police had his support. Ms Braverman and policing minister Chris Philp met with police chiefs on Thursday and were joined by Mr Sunak at the start. The prime minister said the police were already being given new powers to clamp down on illegal protests and would have his full support in acting decisively to end "the misery and disruption" caused to ordinary families. "I've said to them [the police] whatever they need from government they will have in terms of new powers, we're already giving them some, and I want to back them to use them." Is it legal for Just Stop Oil to block roads? Following the talks in Downing Street, police chiefs described the meeting as "constructive". Chief Constable BJ Harrington said the police were "not anti-protest, but we are anti-crime". A statement said: "Police are committed to responding quickly and effectively to activists who deliberately disrupt people's lives through dangerous, reckless, and criminal acts." He said the meeting showed a commitment to tackling criminal activism while respecting lawful protest. Earlier Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said Just Stop Oil protesters were being "much less assertive" because their suspected leaders are in custody. He suggested that efforts by officers were having an effect, but admitted some criminal trials might not take place for two years amid delays in the criminal justice system. Speaking at the London Assembly, Sir Mark said he was "absolutely determined" that anything that goes beyond lawful, reasonable protest would be "dealt with robustly". Earlier this week, Jan Goodey - a Just Stop Oil protester - who took part in a protest which saw "mile after mile" of tailbacks on the M25 after climbing up a gantry was jailed for six months. He admitted causing a public nuisance. The 57-year-old had been part of a demonstration which forced authorities to close sections of one of the UK's biggest motorways on 7 November.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63823227 A damning report from a panel of legal experts into accusations that President Cyril Ramaphosa covered up the theft of $4m (£3.3m) in cash from his farm in 2020 has raised uncomfortable questions for South Africa's leader. The panel - headed by a former chief justice - described some of his explanations as "improbable". Mr Ramaphosa has a case to answer, not just to parliament but to all South Africans, critics say. Judging by the fervent reaction from opposition parties, some of whom are calling for him to step down immediately, this scandal has the potential to cost him his job. In a 138-page submission made to the panel, President Ramaphosa denied that there was anything untoward about the money stolen on his private farm, saying it was from the proceeds of buffalo sold for $580,000 in cash to a Sudanese national, Mustafa Mohamed Ibrahim Hazim, in late 2019. However, Mr Hazim has not appeared in public and little is known about him. The panel questioned why the invoice presented to them didn't contain any details that would make him identifiable. There was only his name, no business address or ID number. "I respectfully submit that all of the 'charges' I have been called to answer are without any merit," Mr Ramaphosa wrote, adding that many of the allegations were based on "hearsay". He requested that the matter not be taken any further. But it has not gone away and there is pressure on the president to resign or face impeachment proceedings. It is it hard to miss the irony of the claims and the quagmire the president finds himself in. This is after all the man whose political image and rise to the presidency was built on fighting corruption, which dogged both the governing African National Congress (ANC) and the country as a whole under his predecessor President Jacob Zuma. Call for early elections What then is to be made of Mr Ramphosa's handling of "Farmgate"? His party is feverishly debating how the president should handle the report, party sources have told the BBC. While some want him to adopt a wait-and-see approach, others, presumably from an opposing ANC faction, want him gone to prevent further damage to the party, they say. Disgruntled African National Congress (ANC) members demonstrate together with with former ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus (C-L) as they hold posters reading Ramaphosa Must Go outside the National Recreation Center (Nasrec) in Johannesburg on July 31, 2022 Officially, the president's office has said he will address the report once he has finished studying it. Mr Ramaphosa enjoyed some grace when he assumed power not only from the public but business and civil society - even local media in some ways. He made grand promises of a new dawn for South Africa under his leadership and implored citizens to believe that he could turn things around, that the days of corruption scandals would be a thing of the past. But that grace is now lost. The country's main opposition says that based on this report, the president has been found wanting. The Democratic Alliance announced that it will use parliament's sitting next week to put forward a motion calling for early elections - saying the damning allegations against Mr Ramaphosa show that the ANC must be removed from power. "The report is clear and unambiguous. President Ramaphosa most likely did breach a number of Constitutional provisions and has a case to answer. Impeachment proceedings into his conduct must go ahead, and he will have to offer far better, more comprehensive explanations than we have been given so far," the party said in a statement. The report - made up of three volumes - raises questions around Mr Ramaphosa's written submission: Why did the president have some $580,000 stored inside a sofa? Why was the theft of that money not reported to the police two years ago? Why do the buffalo he says were sold remain on the farm? In Mr Ramaphosa's explanation, a lodge manager at the farm first stored the money in a safe, but later moved it to a sofa in a spare bedroom "inside my private residence, because he thought it was the safest place, as he believed nobody would break into the president's house". The panel believed that explanation needs further scrutiny. The judges' scope was limited to recommending that parliament take action. If MPs decide that an impeachment committee should investigate further and they find the president guilty of serious misconduct, that would set in motion the process for an impeachment vote. Ultimately it will come down to a vote - the motion to impeach needs a two-thirds majority in parliament to pass. While the ANC has the numbers to prevent that from happening, the party is also hugely divided. Those against him may see this as an opportunity to vote with opposition parties to remove him. We are some way from such a vote but in the court of public opinion what has already been established has been damaging. 'Bad for the ANC' Local radio stations and social media have been abuzz with mixed views from South Africans - some believe he's being targeted by his political foes, while others have expressed disappointment and want him gone. "This is very bad for the ANC," political analyst Oscar Van Heerden told Newzroom Afrika. "No organisation wants a leader who is being questioned in this manner. The ANC has to think about political considerations. Is it in our best interest to get rid of our leader at this time? The ANC has to make a call that will stand them in good stead for the 2024 elections." At best this debacle puts Mr Ramphosa's moral standing into question. At worst it suggests an abuse of power and perhaps the constitution - the same constitution he helped draft in the early 1990s. His party, which has defended its leaders through many a scandal in the past, is only compelled to sack him if he is the subject of criminal charges - and he is not. Still, these developments, ahead of an ANC conference this month, where Mr Ramaphosa had seemed to be a shoe-in to be re-elected as party leader, have placed the veteran politician and game farmer in a rather precarious situation.

Musician Name: Luiz Gonzaga Birthday / Location: December 13, 1912 Exu, Pernambuco, Brazil Main instrument: Vocals, accordion, triangle, zabumba Musician Picture: Musician Awards & Nominations: --- Best Performance: -- Other Information: Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (standard orthography 'Luís'; Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈis ɡõˈzaɡɐ]; Exu, December 13, 1912 – Recife, August 2, 1989)[1] was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian po[CENSORED]r music in the twentieth century. He has been credited with having presented the rich universe of Northeastern musical genres to all of Brazil, having po[CENSORED]rized the musical genre baião and has been called a "revolutionary" by Antônio Carlos Jobim.[2] According to Caetano Veloso, he was the first significant cultural event with mass appeal in Brazil.[3] Luiz Gonzaga received the Shell prize for Brazilian Po[CENSORED]r Music in 1984 and was only the fourth artist to receive this prize after Pixinguinha, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Dorival Caymmi. The Luiz Gonzaga Dam was named in his honor.[4][5][6] Gonzaga's son, Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Jr, known as Gonzaguinha (1945–91), was also a noted Brazilian singer and composer.

Artist: Elis Regina Real Name: Elis Regina Carvalho Costa Birth Date /Place: March 17, 1945 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Age: 36 Social status (Single / Married): Married Artist Picture: Musical Genres: Música po[CENSORED]r brasileira, samba, pop, rock, bossa nova Awards: --- Top 3 Songs (Names): como nossos pais, alô alô marciano, madalena Other Information: Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982), known professionally as Elis Regina (Brazilian Portuguese: [eˈlis ʁeˈʒinɐ]), was a Brazilian singer of po[CENSORED]r and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano. She became nationally renowned in 1965 after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes) in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record. She was noted for her vocalization as well as for her interpretation and performances in shows. Her recordings include "Como Nossos Pais" (Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (Ivan Lins), "Casa no Campo" (Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "Águas de Março" (Tom Jobim), "Atrás da Porta" (Chico Buarque and Francis Hime), "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" (Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no Bar" (Milton Nascimento). Her untimely death, at the age of 36, shocked Brazil.

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https://www.topgear.com/car-news/top-gear-advice/whats-best-ev-battery-fans Obviously on the face of things more battery means more range – stands to reason that more electricity will power your e-motor for a greater distance. Although there’s also an inescapable negative exponential link between battery and range. That is, you don’t get the same value from adding more cells to an already obese collection. The same amount that gets you a few extra miles early on will barely struggle to drag you a few metres once you’ve got many hundreds of kilos of the things sloshing around underneath the floor. Once you get solidly past 100kWh of battery you’ll need something ridiculous like a Hummer to cart that lot around. Which is why the ridiculous new GMC Hummer comes with a 213kWh battery. Of course, you’d need a massive battery and gigantic e-motor just to get a Hummer-sized EV to move at all, not so much a chicken and egg situation as a snake trying to eat itself. Just for context, that battery weighs in at over 1,200kg, which is more than the Alpine A110 that Top Gear currently has sitting in its long-term test garage. But obviously it’s the Hummer that’s the green option. What a time to be alive. At some point, hopefully before someone looks at the Hummer EV and thinks that it’s a good idea worth stealing, the car industry is going to have to move past its obsession with battery packs so large they generate their own gravity fields and focus instead on efficiency. Sadly for GMC, it seems like it has lost this battle before the opening shots have been fired at it, because building a Hummer comes with certain expectations. And so through a series of its own bad choices the firm finds itself making a moderate fuss about the extra engineering it has been forced to come up with just to make the Hummer a halfway viable proposition on things like roads. Take the “crab walk” function that makes the Hummer EV a “master of manoeuvrability”, according to GMC. A turning circle of 10.8 metres is indeed a delightful achievement, but that’s thanks to the hard work of a no doubt sizeable team of engineers who have come up with a beefy solution that involves all four giant wheels being able to steer in various directions (left and right). Now, the other, lighter, solution is simply to get a smaller car. Something more appropriate. But if you start off with the premise of needing a huge SUV of many tonnes and turning it electric it’s going to be tough. It’s hard though to imagine a scenario in which a Hummer is indeed the sensible choice. There are better off-roaders, more luxurious SUVs and louder statements you could make. It would be much better for US soldiers if they were ferried around in Chrysler Voyagers. Or anything that sits more than four people. And who can trundle around with 11,500lb ft of torque on tap when there are people in the world who have no torques? The one virtue I can see with the Hummer is that it will charge other electric vehicles at a rate of 6kW. You could park one on every street and get people to pay to charge their own cars off it, a genuine humanitarian service.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63796832 Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus. According to the company's website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, 23 November. Twitter had previously reported suspending more than 11,000 accounts for Covid misinformation as of September this year. BBC News has approached Twitter for comment. Its other policies on false information remain on Twitter's website, without a similar notice saying they will no longer be enforced. Under its Covid-specific policy, Twitter operated a "five-strike system" for accounts posting "demonstrably false or misleading" content that may "lead to significant risk of harm" - such as exposure to Covid or damage to public health systems. No action would be taken against accounts tweeting disinformation once. But repeat offenders could be suspended for a matter of hours, days - or even indefinitely, if they received five strikes against their account. Though he says the Covid reporting system on Twitter was never perfect, Dr Stephen Griffin of The University of Leeds School of Medicine says it was reassuring to know that many thousands of accounts spreading disinformation had been removed since 2020. 'Amnesty begins' Now, some of those who fell foul of the rules are returning to the website. For example, Twitter has reinstated the personal account of US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, banned in January. Millions of users voted for the reinstatement of suspended accounts in a Twitter poll, causing boss Elon Musk to tweet: "The people have spoken... amnesty begins next week." The Tesla chief executive has vowed to make Twitter a hub for free speech online following his $44bn (£37bn) purchase. 2px presentational grey line Criticisms the platform has been slow to act on false or unproven health claims are nothing new. Even when Twitter did introduce an option to report misleading posts in the summer of 2021 - something it now seems to be rowing back on - I heard from dozens of people who said the process was unclear and the option didn't always seem to be available. But the site did seem to be trying to get a grip on some of its most potentially harmful posts, removing more than 10,000 accounts - like Dr Robert Malone, whose message Covid vaccines are ineffective or very dangerous is contradicted by the overwhelming weight of evidence. Now the direction at Twitter HQ is changing, the question is whether these accounts will return or new ones will be emboldened to share incorrect information, that could influence the decisions people make about their health.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63756621 Squeals of delight from young children fill the air as they enjoy the thrills of the Ferris wheel, bumper cars and a small rollercoaster at an amusement park in central Kabul. Their fathers sit on the rides with them, or look on, taking photos - rare moments of joy in Afghanistan where the news is often so bleak. But mothers are now denied the right to share in the memories the children here are making. Women are banned from visiting parks in Kabul by the hardline ruling Taliban. When we visit, dozens of members of the group are enjoying the rides. But the closest women, including us, can get to the park is a restaurant overlooking it. Women were also recently barred from swimming pools and gyms in the capital. It's expected the rules will be extended across the country. As the Taliban further limit what they can do, Afghan women and girls fear what could come next. Some say these moves don't affect most of the country, because for a majority of the people right now, an evening out is a luxury they cannot afford. For many Afghan girls, though, it's not about the scale of the impact, but the symbolism of the move - and what it reveals about the intent of the Taliban since they seized power in August 2021. "Every day, as girls in Afghanistan, we wake up to new restrictions. It's like we are just sitting and waiting for the next one," one female student says. She's not being named to protect her. "I was lucky I finished secondary school before the Taliban came. But I'm scared now that universities might also be closed for women. My dreams will be over." She recently took the university entrance exam and was disappointed to find that the subject she wanted to study - journalism - was no longer available for women, part of another set of restrictions the Taliban recently imposed. "I can't describe how hard it is. Sometimes you feel like screaming loudly," the student says, frustration evident in her voice. "I feel hopeless." With spaces for women shrinking in Afghanistan, some are trying to find ways to counter the Taliban's clampdown. Activist Laila Basim has co-founded a library for women. It has thousands of books in different languages on diverse subjects. "With this we want to show the Taliban that Afghan women won't stay silent and our second goal is to expand the culture of reading books among women, particularly those girls who are deprived of education," she says. Who are the Taliban? She's determined to raise her voice against the men running her country, and has participated in multiple protests since last year. "We are not afraid of death or that the Taliban will threaten our families. What we are terrified of, is being omitted from society," she says. She sees the increasing restrictions on women as worrying and sad. "It makes me so upset to think of all the freedoms we have lost. The people of other countries are exploring Mars, and here we are still fighting for such basic rights," she says. A few weeks ago, women's rights activist Zarifa Yaghoubi and three others were detained. Despite multiple calls for their release from the UN and others, there has been no response from the Taliban. Last week, 12 people including three women were flogged in front of thousands of onlookers at a football stadium in Afghanistan. With each move, the Taliban's current rule increasingly resembles their regime from the 1990s. "The current policies of the Taliban are the same as 20 years ago. We're trying to tell them that's not acceptable in the 21st Century," says Laila Basim. A short drive from the library is the office of the Taliban's morality police, its vice and virtue ministry, another place where Afghan women aren't allowed. "We have kept a box at the gate where women can drop their complaints. Our director goes to the gate to meet women out of respect for them," spokesman Mohammad Akif Muhajer says. He defends the decision to ban women from parks, saying Islamic Sharia law was not being followed. "For 15 months we gave our sisters the opportunity to enjoy going to parks. We had told women to follow the practice of wearing the hijab [headscarf] but some were not doing that. We had separate days for men and women to go to the park but that was not being observed," he says. When asked why they were clamping down on those protesting for women's rights, Mohammad Akif Muhajer says: "In every country anyone raising a voice against government orders is arrested. In some countries, they have even been killed. "We have not done that. But naturally, if someone raises their voice against the national interest, they will be silenced."

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