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And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard. Delacorte Press, Random House. 2014. Review copy from publisher.
It was because of a boy. Not just any boy, her boyfriend. And the gun he took to school. And what happened. And why.
The Good: "Before Boston, before ASG, Emily had wanted nothing more than to be loved by a boy. When she was fourteen, sixteen, she had watched girls on the cheerleading squad sprout wings with each boyfriend. They became more beautiful, the beauty of confidence. For four months, Emily had it, too."
Emily had it with Paul, a senior. Paul, who took his grandmother's gun to school one day and killed himself.
And now Emily is at boarding school.
Why the setting of 1995? Because what happened with Paul, with Emily, at the school is Emily's secret. Or, not so much secret, as thing she cannot talk about. In today's world of social media and easy Internet access, the "why" of Paul would remain hers but the facts of it would be known.
And why Amherst? Because Emily becomes fascinated with another Emily who lived in Amherst, Emily Dickinson. Emily writes poetry, and it's in these poems that she gradually comes to terms with the boy she loved and what happened.
OK, Spoilers. Sorry, but this is one of the times when I want to talk about those secrets and yes.... for an original read of the book, it is best to discover it on your own.
Paul and Emily's relationship is what the Emily at 14, at 16, had wanted. And at first, Paul is what she wants and she loves him. But as time goes by -- and yes, it's only a handful of months but it's still time -- Emily realizes she wants more. When she gets pregnant, she tells him she's getting an abortion. The scene, later in the book, is heart breaking. At first she tells him it's because her parents say she has to, even though they haven't, until she owns that she doesn't want a baby. And she breaks up with him.
Maybe today Paul's reactions, wanting to marry Emily, being against her having an abortion, would be different than in 1995. Or, given some recent news stories, maybe not.
But And We Stay is about Emily living with, and surviving, what happened: Paul, being in love, not being in love, and how quickly it all happened: the break up, his suicide, her abortion. She is sent to boarding school in part so she doesn't have to go back to the whispers and bad memories of her old high school, but also about giving her a blank slate against which to come to terms with what happened. It is only her memories, her emotions, she has to think about.
It's told in the here and now of Emily at ASG, and so it's not just about Emily coming to terms with her past. It's also about her connecting, despite herself, with those around her. It's about finding her voice through her poetry.
My favorite line in the book is practically the last one: "It does not have to define who Emily is, was, or will be." And this is the heart of the book -- deciding what does, or does not, define us.
Other things that I like: Emily's parents. They do their best for her; she is not "sent away" to boarding school but sent to, for herself, not as punishment. That while the story is told in present tense, it still creates a distance between the reader and Emily, reflecting the distance Emily keeps between herself and the world. The friends she meets at ASG. And that there is no new boy or new romance.
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Canadian researchers have found that the formation of new neurons in the region of the brain that helps in learning and remembering, the hippocampus, could lead to forgetting of old memories due to reorganization of existing brain circuits.
Drs. Paul Frankland and Sheena Josselyn, both from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, argue this reorganization could have the positive effect of clearing old memories, reducing interference and thereby increasing capacity for new learning. These results were presented at the 2013 Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience - Association Canadienne des Neurosciences (CAN-ACN).
Researchers have long known of the phenomenon of infantile amnesia: This refers to the absence of long-term memory of events occurring within the first 2-3 years of life, and little long-term memories for events occurring until about 7 years of age. Studies have shown that though young children can remember events in the short term, these memories do not persist. This new study by Frankland and Josselyn shows that this amnesia is associated with high levels of new neuron production - a process called neurogenesis - in the hippocampus, and that more permanent memory formation is associated with a reduction in neurogenesis.
Dr. Frankland concludes: " Why infantile amnesia exists has long been a mystery. We think our new studies begin to explain why we have no memories from our earliest years."

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The International Launching of the Bi-monthly - article 2
The international launch of the article 2 was successfully held on the 3 April 2002 at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland on the occasion of the 58th Session of the Commission on Human Rights. The event was attended by a number of members of the NGO community, state delegations and the press. The event proceeded with the format of speeches by a panel of speakers and a discussion. The speakers at the launching were: Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Param Cumaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Mr. Eric Sottas, Director of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and Mr. Basil Fernando, Executive Director of the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and the Asian Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). The event was chaired by Mr. Sanjeewa Liyanage, Executive Officer of the ALRC and AHRC. All the speakers congratulated the ALRC for taking the initiative to launch this publication which is on the important theme of implementation of rights.
Dr. Ramcharan pointed out that in the drafiting of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the implementation of rights played a very important part and that the availability of remedies before courts are important to make rights meaningful. He further said that judicial intervention is central in the promotion of human rights and judges bear responsibility to assist the wholesome growth of the society and to contribute to its stability and respect for rights.
Mr. Param Cumaraswamy said that during the last 50 years the international community has concentrated on formulations of human rights norms and standards and the next 50 years must be focussed on the implementation of these norms and standards in each country. He wne on to say that, it is not only the judiciary that bear responsibility for the implementation of rights but the legislature and the executive as well and sometimes the judiciary is prevented from exercising their function by the executive or the legislature. He also said that addressing of these problems is very necessary if the human rights are to be advanced.
Mr. Eric Sottas pointed out that it is a feature of the global development today to weaken the state. When the state is weakened its law enforcement capacity is also weakened. As a result the rule of law is endangered. This global phenomena need to be seriously addressed. This is particularly so regarding the less developed countries. This degeneration of the rule of law affects the fabric of protection of human rights. Thus the strenthening of the protection mechanisms requires the addressing of the fundamental problems affecting the implementation of human rights and the rule of law.
Mr. Basil Fernando said that the “article 2” is launched to highlight one of the central problems facing the human rights protection which is the failure to implement rights. The issue is about the entire aministration of justice including police, prosecution and the judiciary. The police and the prosecution can act in a way to prevent investigations of human rights violations and thus creating the excuse of absence of evidence to justify failure to prosecute. This is becoming a common feature in many countries in Asia. Thus the ratifications of international human rights conventions and even constitutional recognition of rights may not lead to improvement of rights when the justice system is flawed or sabotaged.
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“My landscapes represent fantastical, re-imagined places, which in some sense are a rose-tinted view of the natural world,” says Orlanda Broom.
The artist creates lush, tropical landscapes that take the viewer into a dreamworld. These abstract scenes could be from anywhere in the world: in exotic gardens, at the heart of the jungle, or in our own imaginations. Broom’s works are exceptionally lively, seductive, and radiate with rich colors.
Using layer upon layer of acrylics and resin, the British artist gives her images astonishing depth, which is further enhanced through a very sophisticated use of glitter dust. In the LUMAS pieces, this layered appearance is shown off in an especially impressive way with prints mounted under glossy acrylic glass.
With their circular shape and shimmering, metallic photo paper, these artworks are instantly recognizable. They appear timeless, intoxicating, and enigmatic – like windows to another world.
Orlanda Broom was born in the United Kingdom in 1974. She studied Art and Design at the Cheltenham School of Art in England as well as at the Winchester School of Art in Barcelona. She has worked as an artist ever since earning her master’s degree in 1997. Broom has done commissions for widely-known clients including the Four Seasons hotel in New York. Her work has also appeared in exhibitions in London, Paris, and South Africa. The artist lives and works in Hampshire on the southern coast of England.

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Gregory Property Group has secured detailed planning consent to develop an 11-acre brownfield site less than one mile from Junction 32 of the M62 motorway near Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
The Leeds based developer has announced that it plans to speculatively build 150,100 sq ft of production and distribution space this year on a prominent site located just opposite Pontefract Racecourse.
‘Park 32’ is to offer four new units ranging from 12,000 sq ft up to 82,500 sq ft to suit a variety of occupiers such as trade counter, manufacturing and distribution. The development is in an established location adjacent to Park Side Retail Park which includes Wickes, Currys, PC World, Halfords and McDonald’s. Travis Perkins already occupies a unit within the development.
Barry Gregory of Gregory Property Group said,“There is a clear lack of new, purpose built commercial space within the M62 corridor and the market indicates that demand is outstripping supply. We are confident that speculative build units on this prime site will engender good levels of interest from occupiers.
“The area is already undergoing major improvements with the former Prince of Wales Colliery under development and the vicinity of Junction 32 is attracting significant investment by leading funds”.
The Leeds office of leading property consultancy GVA http://www.gva.co.uk/ has been appointed to market the scheme. Director Rob Oliver said:
“Park 32 is an exciting scheme that will bring much needed production and distribution space to this part of the local market. It’s close proximity to the M62 and A1(M) gives us great confidence that it will be well received and indeed we are in discussions with potential occupiers already. We are offering units of various sizes for the mid-range market with an excellent specification available on a leasehold basis.”
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Michael Medrano: "Life’s too short to pretend you’re not a Swiftie" | My Life In 20
12 January 2021, 16:00 | Updated: 12 January 2021, 16:13
Disco dad Michael Medrano reveals all in My Life In 20.
Remember that time when people used to go out and dance in close proximity with other humans until they were completely drench with sweat? *sigh*
It might feel like 84 years have passed since then but fear not because Michael Medrano is here to help with your withdrawals.
The LA-based songwriter has a thing for late night escapades, fleeting romances and dirty discos. A year ago, Michael's music would have been the perfect accompaniment to these activities but now, in this new context of pandemic lockdown, his rapidly increasing stack of bops is like taking a magic carpet ride in your mind back to the party. Just like a good novel can take you back to any moment in time, Michael Medrano will transport you back to the dance floor in a way few others can.
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Michael has been steadily building a niche and loyal following by documenting his journey on the LA nightlife and WeHo scene. His biggest breakthrough so far came in 2019 with the release of ‘Fluids’, a rambunctious disco-pop jam about shifting sexual preferences. The song was praised for its positive and joyous celebration of fluid sexuality, and it has gone on to gain over 700k streams on Spotify alone. Michael now has over 50,000 monthly listeners (the Medranhoes, as he likes to call them) which is a truly remarkable feat for an independent artist with almost zero playlist support or label.
Michael’s latest single, ‘Sugar’, a collaboration with Dance Yourself Clean, is another slice of pure pop escapism, this time finding Michael teasing the details of a secret affair with a mystery man ("let's keep it sleazy, no strings attached...that's how we do it down in Hollywood"). We'd pay good money for a DJ to play this track on our first night of freedom.
To celebrate the release of 'Sugar', we asked Michael to answer our My Life in 20 questions and we found out all about his teen crush on Twilight's Taylor Lautner, why he's a fully-fledged Swiftie, and his dream dinner party guests. Take it away, Michael...
20) Describe 2020 in a word.
19) What was your favourite album from 2019?
Lover by Taylor Swift. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being blissfully and completely in love. Also, life’s too short to pretend you’re not a Swiftie.
18) What was the most important thing to happen in your life when you were 18?
I decided to take a year off of college right after my Grandma passed away. I think it ended up giving me the clarity that I needed and set the stage for what I’m doing now.
17) Who was your crush at 17?
Taylor Lautner. It’s self-explanatory. 🔥 Also, we had a cardboard cut out of him at my school. Don’t ask why.
16) What can you remember about your 16th birthday?
I grew up in a household that didn’t celebrate holidays or birthdays, so my memory is foggy. I think my friends brought gifts to school though!
15) What did you hate at 15 which you love now?
Ironically, Disco. 🕺🏽💃🏽 Though I don’t think I ever actually hated it ('Forget Me Nots' by Patrice Rushen has been one of my favourite songs since childhood), I just didn’t wanna share a common interest with my dad at the time! 😂
14) What TV show were you obsessed with at 14?
I don’t think I was very into TV back then, I spent most of my time composing music or on YouTube. Probably watching Jenna Marbles or Charlie the Unicorn. 🤷🏽♂
13) 13 is unlucky for some. Do you have anything that you’re superstitious about?
I’m really obsessed with astrology, if that counts! I don’t know if it’s real, but it’s really fun and sometimes scarily accurate. Sag sun, Taurus moon, Sag rising for anyone interested. 🌙♐🔥
12) If you could live the life of any other person for 12 hours, who would you be?
Ariana Grande. I’d love to know what it feels like to have that kind of impact on the modern world. Also hello, who doesn’t wanna try out that whistle register?!
11) Who was your best friend when you were 11?
Her name is Eva, whom I’ve known since Kindergarten. She was always kind, funny, shockingly grounded as a kid, and always ready to play Mario Kart with me. Thanks for making my childhood so fun, Eva! I miss you dearly.
10) Where do you hope you'll be in ten years time?
I’m hoping I’ll have conquered the world with my music and be branching out into new, exciting creative ventures. I swear, I have years of my career planned out.
9) What was your biggest fear when you were 9?
I used to be really afraid of bees. Funny enough, I got stung by one that year and discovered it wasn’t that bad. Now I love them! #SaveTheBees🐝
8) When you were 8, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I always wanted to be in entertainment. I used to sing everywhere I went and make little movies on my camcorder. Deep down though, I knew I just wanted to be the next Britney and/or Justin.
7) Which of the seven deadly sins are you most guilty of?
Lust. Just listen to my music and you’ll get it. 😅
6) You can invite six people to your dream dinner party, who would you invite?
Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Britney Spears, Beyoncé and Prince. I just wanna feel the energy of six music and fashion icons radiating from the dinner table. Could you imagine the conversations? 😭 Also I know Harry could feed my fish if I asked and I love that 🐠
5) Name five things you can't live without.
My Jeep, my friends, Diet Coke, Sour Patch Kids and obviously some great music.
4) Describe yourself in four words.
Ambitious, impatient, blunt, sexually-liberated 🔥 Does that last count as one word? 😅
3) What are your top three songs of all time?
Wow, this is hard. I’ll go with the top three that impacted me as a kid: 'Baby One More Time' - Britney Spears, 'Heart of Glass' - Blondie, and 'Lovefool' - The Cardigans. These were the first songs I ever remember loving. I used to sing 'Heart of Glass' in my car seat, my mom tells me!
2) Can you love two people at the same time?
1) What or who is your one true love?
People. We need each other and 2020 has taught me that. Always keep your loved ones close to you and treat strangers with kindness, we’re all we’ve got.


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The Hope probe has three most important targets, the very first is to fully grasp the lessen Martian ambiance and its weather conditions and local climate. Yousuf continues, “The second aim is to correlate the reduce atmosphere disorders with the upper atmosphere to reveal how weather conditions adjustments the escape of hydrogen and oxygen. And the last goal that we have is to comprehend the framework and variability of hydrogen and oxygen in the upper ambiance and why Mars is getting rid of them into room.”
The concentration on area for the UAE will come at an significant time as mapping Mars will lead to the perform of not just the information economic system of the UAE, but progress science for the complete environment. “The UAE is essentially investing in area, as investing in the area sector indicates investing in the human capital in direction of a improved upcoming for all,” claims Yousuf.
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Laurel Ruma: From MIT Know-how Overview, I am Laurel Ruma. And this is Enterprise Lab. The present that will help business leaders make perception of new technologies coming out of the lab and into the market.
Our topic today is the Emirates Mars Mission, also known as the Hope Probe. Hope aims to be the initially probe to present a entire photograph of the Martian environment and its levels. The facts gathered by Hope will assistance respond to essential thoughts about the global Martian ambiance and the reduction of hydrogen and oxygen gases into place about the span of a person Martian calendar year.
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My guest now is Maryam Yousuf, who is a facts analyst for the Emirates Mars Mission.
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Maryam: Hi, Laurel. Thank you for owning me.
Laurel: To start with, I want to congratulate you and your workforce. The United Arab Emirates is the fifth place in historical past to attain Mars and only the seventh in the planet to arrive at the orbit of yet another earth. And to prime it all off, the efficiency of the spacecraft is exceeding anticipations. What does this signify for the UAE? And what variety of affect is it owning on the UAE’s aspiring scientists?
Maryam: Thank you for the congratulations. And it can be for absolutely everyone, I think, owning this mission to go to Mars and get the exclusive knowledge that we have. Hope Probe is the eyesight of the late founder of the Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, wherever he envisioned the UAE leading in the sector 1 working day. One particular of the predominant venture targets is producing the science and technological know-how sectors within just the UAE, in terms of capacity creating and forging new pathways for the more youthful generations in investigate and progress in the all-natural sciences domains, as they lay the foundation for any place exploration initiative in the upcoming.
Laurel: That is very inspiring. The UAE’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Place Middle with the intercontinental Mars science local community is defining the goals for the mission. What are individuals aims and how will they even more global aims to comprehend Mars?
Maryam: The Emirates Mars Mission will be the to start with mission to give the full international photograph of the Martian atmosphere. So three scientific aims. The very first aim is to characterize the Martian decrease atmosphere to comprehend the climate dynamic and the world-wide weather conditions map. The next objective is to correlate the decrease atmosphere ailments with the upper atmosphere to clarify how temperature changes the escape of hydrogen and oxygen. And the last aim that we have is to fully grasp the construction and variability of hydrogen and oxygen in the higher environment and why Mars is getting rid of them into room.
Laurel: No modest feats. These are large ambitions, for sure. Hope aims to give the first complete photograph of Mars’ climate and ambiance. Hope’s special 25-degree elliptical orbit enables it to gather details and superior-resolution illustrations or photos of the planet’s environment every 225 hrs or 9.5 days. What knowledge is the Hope Probe collecting? How does it truly obtain it?
Maryam: We have a few devices on board of Hope Probe. Two are researching the reduce environment and a person is studying the higher ambiance. If we communicate about those people that are studying the decrease environment, we have the Emirates Exploration Imager or EXI, which is a digital digital camera that is capable of taking 12-megapixel photos though protecting the radiometric calibration essential for the specific scientific examination. It will capture substantial resolution illustrations or photos of Mars, which is the RGB. And then it will evaluate optical depth of drinking water ice at the range of 305 to 335 nanometers. And it will also evaluate the abundance of ozone at the variety of 245 to 275 nanometers. All this is essentially the ultraviolet bands.
The 2nd instrument, which is the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer or EMIRS, collects its data from the reduce atmosphere. It is an interferometric thermal infrared spectrometer that will give a far better being familiar with of the strength equilibrium in the existing Martian weather by characterizing the point out of the reduce environment and the processes that are driving the world-wide circulation. It’ll measure both equally the area and the atmospheric temperatures, as very well as the optical depths of h2o ice, and dust, and the abundance of drinking water vapor. All of this will be measured from 6 to 40 furthermore micrometers.
For the upper atmosphere, we have the remaining instrument, which is the Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer, which is EMUS. It is a far ultraviolet spectrometer that will measure oxygen and carbon monoxide and the thermosphere, and then it will evaluate the variability of the hydrogen and oxygen and the upper ambiance.
Laurel: That definitely is extensive. It will have a actually superior strategy of a map of Mars from all the things, from the surface area to the atmosphere.
Laurel: As a details analyst on the Mars Probe, what is your occupation like? How do you evaluate so substantially facts, and what are you searching for?
Maryam: For me individually, I only use EMIRS info for now. I basically examine the effects of different ambiance situations to the reduce atmosphere on the out thermo-physical houses, on the Martian surface area. And the thermo-bodily attributes are the qualities that impact the electrical power budget itself.
All the instruments that we have on board of the Hope Probe are designed on heritage data, which usually means we developed the instruments based mostly on the devices applied all through past Mars missions. When it arrives to EMIRS specifically, we can use information from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), which was on board of the Mars World Surveyor and in advance of the start and so on, I utilised to establish my code and versions using TES information. Now I in essence use EMIRS alternatively of TES.
Laurel: Which is rather fascinating. You arrived to the mission by itself as a recent graduate with a track record in biomedical engineering and now you are checking out house details from Mars. How have you been able to use your own analytic expertise to make that changeover?
Maryam: It was very demanding, but I like to challenge myself, and I like to seize any opportunity that is presented to me. So when this possibility was there, I was like, why not? For the reason that all the things that we need to have to know, we can understand it from specialists or we can master it online. I challenged myself by finding out programming, which is Python language, by way of on-line classes and on line sources readily available that we can get our hands on. And then when it arrives to the science, the house science in specific, the Emirates Mars mission was created on a information transfer system. So we have specialists from the United States that monitor the undertaking that we’re performing on. So, I have mentors that teach me about all this awesome space science that relates to Mars as effectively.
Laurel: That is wonderful mainly because this details will basically support the complete world address weather modify. Proper?
Maryam: I would not say there is a known correlation in between earth and Mars. But Mars, billions of many years ago, experienced a very comparable environment to earth. It experienced a heat, soaked, and thick atmosphere that was capable of accommodating life. Now it’s fundamentally dry, cold, and it has a extremely skinny ambiance. When we comprehend the evolution and what is actually now going on to Mars that could possibly aid us in answering inquiries like, what occurred and what could materialize to our personal planet. So yeah, I can’t definitely pinpoint the correlation between equally the planets, but exploring other planets may enable us in knowledge our individual world.
Laurel: That’s a extremely very good place for clarification. Thank you. The Emirates Mars Mission is distinctive, in that the troves of information collected by Hope are getting released to the community. So that signifies any one — me, our listeners, and a lot more importantly, researchers based mostly in much more than 200 universities and investigation institutes globally — can go to the Mission’s web-site and sign up to entry the info. Why is this crucial to the Mission, that all of the knowledge be accessible at this scale?
Maryam: As a team, we have our objectives and hypothesis that we want to attain or validate. And when we share the details with every person, they increase on their know-how and viewpoint to our existing knowing. This contributes to a a lot more awareness-centered financial state and fosters the science community’s abilities as a collective. This move was taken to stimulate the science neighborhood to split the barriers and function alongside one another for the greater excellent.
Laurel: Releasing all of this details in an open way and sharing it is absolutely going to be enjoyable to young scientists and engineers and persons close to the planet who are perhaps looking for distinct varieties of information sets to experiment with. What do you think it means to do this in this sort of a collaborative way?
Maryam: A great deal of issues come from this. If we discuss about the UAE community alone, we do a whole lot of outreach activities below, and we get approached by the youth and even researchers in just the UAE that have utilized the details itself for their possess assignments or analysis. So that is 1 of the program targets is mainly to motivate more people to be involved in the STEM fields and so on. One more matter is when we go to conferences and other individuals will occur to us and they basically want to collaborate, and they want to make a link between their own assignments and our projects and essentially the goals or no matter what we’re observing with the details. For example, it’s possible they had a speculation about it and they want to ensure it by means of our data because we have these exclusive info. So that is really thrilling. And the additional we see people today are into utilizing our data, we essentially want to generate the facts as shortly as we can.
Laurel: To hold that exhilaration heading. Yeah.
Laurel: Just before Hope even arrived at Mars, the probe was gathering precious data. In November 2020, the European spacecraft, BepiColombo, was headed to Mercury. Each BepiColombo and Hope devices were being struggling with just about every other, so experts took the opportunity to evaluate the total of hydrogen in between the two probes. What other unexpected prospects has the mission encountered?
Maryam: A further observation that we haven’t set our mind into is generally with the EMUS instrument. The EMUS instrument is extremely sensitive when it comes to the EUV, the extreme ultraviolet bands. So this mainly allows us to see the discrete Aurora and this is in essence not from our targets. From about 400 observations that we’ve viewed, we saw discrete Aurora additional than 60% of the time. And that was not an expectation that we experienced or one thing any other mission has seen just before. So, yeah, that was enjoyable for us.
Laurel: Speaking of other observations, the Hope Probe has designed a amount of them, correct? With the Martian atmospheric phenomenon, which include discrete aurora on Mars’ nightside, extraordinary concentrations of oxygen and carbon monoxide, and under no circumstances-in advance of witnessed images of Martian dust storms. When you see this data and the photos appear in, which just one of these, or maybe there are other events, has triggered anyone to sit up and say, “Wow, that is from Mars. No one’s ever found that ahead of. And we are the initial types.”
Maryam: I would have to converse about myself on this just one. Personally, I find dust storms extremely intriguing. 1, simply because I are living in a nation that has a tropical desert atmosphere, which usually means dust storms are quite prevalent right here. Every single time it becomes quite dusty right here, I ponder if it is really the same point that’s happening on Mars environment or not. But if I talk about the group, I can notify you that we see all observations of value and influence.
Laurel: Oh, I am positive. How is the accomplishment of Hope fueling other room exploration initiatives by the UAE? Mainly because this has been productive, what else is doable?
Maryam: The Emirates Mars Mission is just the commencing of checking out the frontiers of space. Hope Probe is the gateway to place exploration in the UAE. So currently the UAE is functioning on multiple initiatives in the place sector, these kinds of as the UAE Astronaut plan, which prepares Emirate astronauts for scientific area exploration missions. And the new Emirati interplanetary mission, which involves an expedition to the orbit of Venus followed by an exploration of the asteroid belt, which is over and above Mars. And then in addition, we have the Emirates Lunar Mission that is launching Rashid rover by the conclude of this calendar year. So that’s genuinely fascinating for us. The UAE is mainly investing in house, as investing in the room sector means investing in the human money in direction of a improved long term for all.
Laurel: Maryam, thank you extremely a lot for becoming a member of us currently on Enterprise Lab.
Maryam: Thank you for possessing me.
Laurel: That was Maryam Yousef, a knowledge analyst for the Emirates Mars Mission, who I spoke with from Cambridge, Massachusetts, the house of MIT and MIT Engineering Overview, overlooking the Charles River.
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People in the US who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors, except in certain circumstances, according to new guidance from the CDC. This news is a game changer, and some states and businesses are already reconsidering their mask policies in response. However, experts say there’s still a long road ahead for those who haven’t been vaccinated, and questions remain for people with compromised immune systems or households with unvaccinated children or other members. Meanwhile, the fate of the Tokyo Olympic Games is still in the air. A doctor’s union in Japan has urged the government to cancel this summer’s competitions, citing the country’s low vaccination rate.
The state trial for the three former Minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd has been postponed until next March so a federal trial can take place first. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao all have pleaded not guilty to two state charges. A federal grand jury last week indicted all of the officers, including Derek Chauvin, in connection with Floyd’s death, alleging they violated his constitutional rights. Meantime, the Supreme Court is tackling a different case that could provide more guidance on the legal doctrine of qualified immunity that shields law enforcement from some liability. The case was brought by the parents of Nicholas Gilbert, who say their son died in police custody in St. Louis after officers put their weight on his back as he was shackled facedown.
The Biden administration is looking to identify vulnerable migrant families in Mexico and admit them to the US instead of expelling them under a Trump-era border policy known as Title 42. The policy was enacted at the start of the pandemic, and critics say it puts migrants and asylum-seekers in harm’s way, exposing them to potentially dangerous conditions in Mexico. Because of Title 42, many migrant families have opted to separate from their children, since the rule does not apply to minors. Two large emergency intake sites in Texas that have sheltered unaccompanied children during this year’s influx of arrivals will close by early June, marking some of the first closures as the number of kids in border facilities drops.
China is conflicted over the US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. At a forum of Central Asian leaders this week, China’s foreign minister said Beijing supports the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. But a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry earlier had criticized the decision, calling it abrupt and saying it will lead to instability. China supported the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, even though it typically dislikes foreign intervention. However, Afghanistan under Taliban rule had become a source of instability on China’s border. Now, China is facing two possibilities: The US withdrawal could mean greater Chinese military engagement in the region, or it could once again plunge Afghanistan into war and chaos, leaving China off-balance.
A top House Foreign Affairs Committee member is calling on the Biden administration to enact sanctions in response to the ongoing human rights abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. A CNN investigation found that soldiers from neighboring Eritrea were blocking critical humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians, sometimes even disguising themselves in old Ethiopian military uniforms. Thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military operation in November against the region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Both Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have been accused of enacting mass killings and widespread sexual violence.
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Hi, I am Lauro Vanderborght. This is episode seven of Digita’s Solid Tech Talks. Up to now, we explained how interoperable data exchange is possible within the Solid ecosystem. In this episode, we will give an overview of how data can be exchanged securely, completely under the control of the user. In the next episodes, we will further explain all the details.
Let’s start by discussing the different components that consider data exchange. We have a user who has data to be stored in the decentralized Solid ecosystem. To do this, the user needs a Solid pod. This does not have to be a personal pod. It could be a public pod, business pod, school pod, whatever. To interact with the data, the user can choose different applications. These applications don’t need to have a link with the pod upfront: they could be linked dynamically, however, the user chooses. All these interactions between applications and pods happen over the network. So we have users, pods, applications, and the network.
Now, what are the elements of secure access? We start with the basics: we need to make sure that all interactions over the network are secure. Then, every agent -- so users and applications -- needs to be verified: its identity needs to be authenticated. Finally, every interaction needs to be checked, to make sure that the interaction is permitted: the agent is authorized to do that type of interaction. Describing which agent is allowed which type of interaction is called access control.
To create a secure network, we make use of the more secure version of the HTTP protocol, conveniently called HTTP Secure, or HTTPS. HTTP requests are not encrypted, so they could easily be intercepted by anyone who uses the same network. HTTPS requests are encrypted using Transport Layer Security or TLS, so their content cannot be viewed or changed by people using the same network.
Having a secure network does not mean servers should not be cautious of malicious requests: the actual content and HTTP headers of a request are checked by Solid pod servers to make sure that no invalid interactions are tried to test the security of the server.
The remaining elements are identity, authentication, and authorization via access control. Because we are in the Solid ecosystem, each of these elements could be decentralized: distributed across different servers.
Agents need a digital identity. You now typically have a different digital identity for each application, which means you have to create an account for every application. Within the Solid ecosystem, a single identity can be used across all applications and pods. An identity is another type of resource, so, it is again a URL. This specific type of URL is called a WebID, which dereferences RDF data that contains profile information.
To authenticate, agents need to validate their identity. Given Solid’s distributed nature, this can be done via a separate component, the Identity Provider. Agents can register themselves a WebID at an identity provider, and then use that identity provider to authenticate themselves.
If you know about OpenID Connect or OAuth 2.0, you might have heard about identity providers before: there are applications that allow you to ‘sign in with Google’, which means that Google is the identity provider for that application. In fact, Solid is extending these standards for identification and authentication, in the standard Solid-OpenId Connect, or Solid-OIDC. The big difference is that existing standards require applications to create a trust relationship with identity providers. This means that applications supporting OpenID can only present users with a predetermined set of identity providers: the advent of a new identity provider requires the vendor of the application to create a new trust relationship and update its application. In Solid-OIDC, no link needs to pre-exist between applications and identity providers. Agents have full control over which identity provider they want to use.
Finally, each interaction between an agent and a pod needs to be authorized: agents should only be able to interact with a pod in ways they are permitted to. For example, your friends are able to see your family pictures but not your latest paycheck, and your boss is able to update certain professional data but is not able to see your family pictures. These permissions are described as an access control policy. Each resource within a pod can have an auxiliary resource with such an access control policy. This means that the user can very precisely describe which data gets shared, and with who.
Outside of the Solid ecosystem, applications are pretty much bound to specific servers. This means that these servers could use cross-origin protection to make sure that requests to the server only happen from a specific list of application sources. In fact, this protection is enabled by default in HTTP. Because Solid applications by design are not bound to specific servers, Solid pods disable this protection using Cross-origin Resource Sharing or CORS, indicating that cross-origin requests are allowed via HTTP response headers. Instead, the access control policy makes sure that unpermitted applications cannot interact with the Solid pod.
In the next videos, we’ll dive into the actual identity, authentication, and authorization flows. See you soon.


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As the pandemic hits the supply chain, Toyota cuts its annual production target
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Due to the return of Covid-19 cases in Asia and the deepening of the semiconductor crisis, Toyota lowered its production forecast for this year.
The world’s largest automaker warned that as chip shortages in Southeast Asia worsened, supply disruptions and forced factories to close, they need to cut annual production by 3%.
Less than a month after the Japanese company said It is cutting Due to supply chain issues, global production this month was reduced by 40%.
Toyota has closed factories around the world because parts cannot reach its factories, while Peugeot in Europe and Ford and General Motors in the United States have reduced their shifts due to semiconductor supply restrictions.
The Japanese group said it will reduce production of 70,000 vehicles and 330,000 vehicles in September and October, respectively.
It expects to produce 9 million vehicles by the end of the fiscal year in March, instead of the 9.3 million previously predicted. In August, it said it would reduce production by 360,000 vehicles in September.
“Although our factories and suppliers are adopting thorough quarantine and vaccination measures to deal with the pandemic in Southeast Asia, the spread of Covid-19 infection is still unpredictable and it is difficult to maintain operations due to local lockdowns,” the company said in a statement. The statement said.
Natural disasters and the coronavirus have exacerbated supply constraints, with a large portion of semiconductors being manufactured in Asia.
Analysts said that the production cuts stemmed from the suspension of work in Malaysia’s factories producing brake system chips and Vietnam’s factories producing automotive wiring harness semiconductors.
Toyota said that since the warning issued earlier in August, another component supplier in Malaysia has reported a new cluster of Covid cases.
Toyota’s head of global procurement, Kazunari Kumakura, said that although the company is scrambling to find alternative auto parts, it has become increasingly difficult to fill the supply gap.
It is only in recent months that Japanese automakers, especially Toyota, have gotten rid of their worst shortages due to their huge chip inventories and supply chain management skills honed in past natural disasters.
But even their supply chain is facing severe pressure from insufficient inventory levels.
Jefferies analyst Takaki Nakanishi said: “Although the Malaysian semi-chip factory has resumed operations, the utilization rate and delivery time did not lead to the rapid recovery envisaged on August 19, which is the reason for the additional production cuts.”
The brokerage estimated that the turbulence related to the pandemic will be resolved in October, and the global chip shortage will ease next year.
in a Recent interview In an interview with the Financial Times, Hidetoshi Shibata, CEO of Japanese chip manufacturer Renesas Electronics, said that there are signs that some automakers are beginning to “double and triple reservations” for next year to increase inventory levels, which will cause more changes. Large gap between supply and demand.
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“Cars are almost like another layer of clothing you wear when you go out into the world” – Leslie Kendall, curator at Peterson Museum.
This statement is not so great if you’re cash-strapped and driving a beater. Fortunately, some of the most iconic vehicles have left an indelible impression on fashion by the masters of couture. Sometimes they worked, and other times… well, think Zoolander’s Derelicte collection! Alas, from rock and roll to the runway, here are a bunch of times a set-of-wheels inspired the stitch.
PIERRE CARDIN'S 1972 JAVELIN COLLECTION
Aficionados of vintage rejoice. In 1972, fashion designer Pierre Cardin teamed up with American Motors Corporation (AMC) to design the interiors of the Javelin. It featured a six-stripe pattern in colours that matched the exterior: Trans Am Red, Snow White, Stardust Silver, Diamond Blue, Wild Plum and the limited Midnight Black. We know, the names of the colours mean nothing to you, but they sound so pretty, don’t they!?
CADILLAC CORSET (1989) BY THIERRY MUGLER
In 1989, Mugler had a stroke of genius and released his Cadillac corset which has been donned by many over the years, including Naomi Campbell in a 1989 issue of Vogue Italia. The sexy sass is Mugler at his best and the optional black gloves with red tail-light detail take it up a notch. Broom broom indeed!
MOTORCYCLE BUSTIER (1992) BY THIERRY MUGLER
Technically a bike but what is a missing pair of wheels among fashionistas? Anyone too young to have seen it stalking through George Michael’s Too Funky video clip would have caught it on bodacious Beyoncé’s I Am… Sasha Fierce album. Resplendent with side mirrors, handbrakes, handles for resting, and a quilted derriere for sitting, this leather-fringed motorcycle bustier is the epitome of biker grrrl! If it’s good enough for Beyoncé….
"TRAILER TRASH" HANDBAGS BY CARS (2001) BY JOHN GALLIANO FOR DIOR
John Galliano designed the controversial and wildly successful Trailer Park collection for Dior in 2001, glorifying “the status symbols of an invisible class” with accessories that were a blend of Cadillac and Fender guitars. The bags, which were part of the Trailer Trash range, featured miniature steering wheels to fasten the strap to bags, tiny taillights, perforated tuck-and-roll upholstery, door handles and reflectors. The 1947 license plate adorning the bags, was a link to the year Dior opened his Avenue Montaigne boutique. We’re not sure if this is très chic or très ick.
PRET-A-PORTER STREETKA (2004) BY BRUCE OLDFIELD
Possibly the only car-inspired dress actually constructed by the car maker, the Streetka dress was a collaboration between designer Bruce Oldfield and Ford to raise money for charity and awareness for the Thunderbirds movie. Oldfield incorporated 85 car parts including the pink fiberglass corset, a chocker made from the car’s clock, and a peek-a-boo skirt made from the mesh of the front grille plus cable ties. We’re pretty sure Jennifer Mirrson and Selena Gomez wore something similar, once, minus the cables.
AMERICAN DREAM American Dream WEARABLE ART BY SARAH THOMAS
Kiwi and Timaru artist Sarah Thomas took out the 2009 World Wearable Art competition with her wearable 1950s Cadillac costume. Created from vinyl, leather, papier-mâché, builders foam and plastic, this dress features a perky bustle, ‘chromium’ conical breastplate and matching winged helmet and a detached steering wheel for impact – how could you go wrong? Fancy dress party anyone?
PRADA SPRING/SUMMER 2012 SHOES STYLED ON CLASSIC CARS
Miuccia Prada’s Spring/Summer 2012 shoe collection was inspired by classic American cars. The campaign featured models atop vintage cars at a 1950s-style American gas station. The hot rod-heels were designed using flames, spoilers, wings, taillights, patent vinyl and chrome, perfectly capturing the 1950s, an era when the automobile changed the face of American culture. Hashtag, love!
GIVENCHY SPRING 2014 MENSWEAR FEATURING TRANSFORMERS
Men already identify their car affiliations with branded shirts, hats and muscle car graphics, but Givenchy’s creative director, Ricardo Tisci, took it to a whole new fashion level in 2014. Officially titled Nerd African, the extensive use of those car/robot graphics on the clothes and the models’ faces is 100 per cent Transformer – it would seem Optimus Prime can transform himself into more than a Fire Engine.
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Through the first three quarters of their opening game of the State Class C Boys Basketball Tournament on Thursday, Fort Benton struggled to score. They trailed by five to Froid-Lake heading to the fourth quarter, so they needed to dig deep to come back.
And the Longhorns did just that as they went on a 21-9 run over the fourth quarter and overtime to win, 46-39, at Lockwood High School in Billings.
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New York Giants premiere wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. said Tuesday after the Giants loss to the Minnesota Vikings that he’s “not having fun” playing football anymore. “Football is my sanctuary,” Beckham told ESPN. “It’s where I go to escape. It’s where I’m most happy. I’m not having fun anymore.” Beckham’s comments come after the Vikings shut down the young receiver and seemed to get into his head a bit as Beckham’s emotions became a factor.
Beckham earned an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after getting into the face of Vikings defensive back Xavier Rhodes. “It’s always, it’s just my fault. That’s all I look at it as, it’s my fault. Whatever you want to call it,” he told the Associated Press after the game. “I just have to understand if I sneeze the wrong way, it’ll be a flag, it’ll be a fine. If I tie my shoe the wrong way, it might be a fine or a flag. It is what it is. You have to understand that.”


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The news item concerned a conference of army commanders and president Vladimir Putin about their country's readiness to launch a war in the face of missile defence shield being proposed by NATO.
The Kremlin fears the shield could eventually become capable of shooting its nuclear missiles out of the sky and so weakening the strength of its nuke force.
But the document reveals a nuclear submarine weapons system under the water involving lethal torpedoes.
The paper being held by a military chief, meeting at theDefence Industry Sector Conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi yesterday, is titled "Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6".
It details a nuclear submarine launched weapon that if primed with a nuclear warhead could cause wide spread destruction and radioactive contamination of key enemy coastal areas.
But it is unclear whether the leak occurred accidentally on purpose – as a propaganda message that Russia is still able to launch nuclear strikes at the West despite NATO's missile shield.
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“We are talking about development of new types of weapons.”Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation
This comes amid rising tensions over Russia's role in the brutal Syrian civil war and the furore over allegations that its athletes cheated in the 2012 London Olympics and face bans in the games in Rio next year.
During the meeting Russia announced plans it is to counter NATO’s US-led missile defence program by deploying new strike weapons.
Mr Putin said: "References to the Iranian and the North Korean nuclear missile threat just have served to cover up the true plans, and their true task is to neutralize nuclear potential of other nuclear powers – Russia in particular."
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The rise of automated media buying and selling and greater attention to data analytics of all sorts continue to be relatively removed from the human-centered process of actually making the
creative. Sure, there is a lot of talk about creatives better understanding the data and what it reveals about audience, adjusting messaging accordingly, etc. And of course there is always the dynamic
ad creation wing. But when it comes to actually applying algorithms to the core choices in the messaging itself, that part of the process has stayed well outside the reach of the new machines.
But you knew that couldn’t last long. “We found that the ability to say something in 110 characters can be math-defined,” says Assaf Baciu, SVP of operations, Persado. “With machine learning you can find the best way to make the content of the message for that user.”
The company takes a simple 100 to 300 character call-to-action from marketers and runs it through its algorithms and the database where Baciu says the company has hundreds of thousands of ways to say simple CTAs like “click here” or “for more info.” It is a combination of natural language processing, machine learning and algorithms working on the message. The algorithms analyze five variables for each message: emotion, features, call to action, style and structure. Different ways of filling these variables can be aimed at different types of emotions. The system can generate up to 16 million different versions of the message.
Then the system takes aim at the specific KPI the company is trying to drive, generating 16 to 32 different ways of expressing the message that convey both positive and negative emotions and different features. “For each element in the, ad we have tagged parts of speech and suggested things to put into the variables,” Baciu says. “We can show recommended options for the elements, always semantically distant from one another and with positive and negative emotions.”
The testing platform then gets responses from users that informs the algorithms that can be used to predict the success of different messages according to different KPIs. Part of what makes all of this work is having an online direct-response channel that allows for quick feedback. It works like a “mathematically driven focus group that helps understand what drives people to buy,” he says. The idea is that this sort of analysis of messaging and effectiveness not only can help optimize ad campaigns but inform overall strategies.
For a U.S. mobile operator, for instance, the company was targeting upgrades to smart phones. The medium was email. It used its so-called Marketing Language Engineering to generate more than 262,000 message variations in order to run tests. The end result was subject line phrasing like “put the world at your fingertips with the smart phone” and “stay connected in a whole new way.” The messages seem as if they could be generated by any marketing creative, but the company says its machine-generated solution resulted in a 200% increase in click-throughs on this email and a 115% increase in smart phone upgrades.
Baciu says that the system can also help delineate the emotional appeals to different groups for multiple kinds of target messaging. For instance, in working with a dating site, the aim was to upsell members a product that put the user photo on top of listings. “We found the best message for the group as a whole but then found different responses coming from women and men,” he says. “Women are reacting to a concept called flattery. You put your picture on top and meet someone like you. It uses a part of speech that flatters. But for men that lowered responses. Men wanted immediacy, to meet someone this week, [a factor] that was negative for women.”
Baciu emphasizes that this is not a real-time system, in that it takes considerable energy and time to generate many variables and run the tests. The company gets the best combination that works in the moment, observes it, and then iterates in the next wave of messaging.
This is the next area that technology will inform, the company is betting. “A lot of companies have invested in targeting but haven’t invested in what they say about products,” Baciu argues. “We have the technology, algorithms and direct-response channels to do better than guessing.”


Turns out the single guy car list was too domesticated, so I enlisted the help of my good friend, Money, to help come up with 5 of the most decadent vehicles on the planet. To paraphrase Johnny Drama,“You can’t roll chicks in a Volt, bro,” so these choices represent the pinnacle of engineering, the most intricate craftsmanship the most badass cars, etc. They’re the best cars money can buy and owning one means you’ll be able to walk into a party like that guy from the Heineken commercial, every time.
Maserati GranTurismo MC
Italian car designer Pininfarina designed Maserati’s super sports coupe with a racetrack mindset, allowing for 4.7 liters of V8 power pushing out 444 HP and 376 lb.-ft. of torque- perfect for dodging international arms dealers. Rolling up to the casino in the MC, Maserati’s newest, guarantees world class style without wrinkling the tux. With a distinguished yet stimulating appeal- this Maserati goes 186- the brand’s fastest production car manages to display its refined Italian curves whether in motion or simply standing still.
Best car for Bruce Wayne types who live social by day and adventurous after dusk
This bull is dangerous in the wrong hands- with a 691 HP mid-mounted V12 charging horns forward at up to 217 MPH, Aventador will reach 60 MPG in 2.9 seconds. This recently released auto messiah is cool enough for Bruce Wayne and when it again becomes obtainable- even with a $380,000 plus tag backorders have made this Batmobile a golden goose commodity- look forward to a vehicle that can compete with (and beat) and out-intimidate just about anything else on the market.
Best car for the person who literally has everything
Ariel Atom 500 V8
It’s not your typical super car – after 3 years of development this Atom will be rolled out to a total of 25 lucky souls, so you can be sure that this Christmas stocking gift will be personalized to your expectations. The brand, known for forgoing bulky annoyances like doors and roofs, boasts a power to weight ratio previously relegated to race cars with the Atom 500 V8. That translates to speeds in excess of 200 MPH and the Sadev 6 paddle airshift system allows for 2.3 second 0-60 acceleration, putting Atom 500 at the top of production car acceleration.
SSC Ultimate Aero
The Ultimate Aero is capable of 1,287 bhp and 1,112 lb.-ft. of torque- yes, really- which allows for 2.78 seconds 0-60 and a top tested speed of 257 MPH, though the projected top speed sits at 273 MPG. There’s a challenge to all the drivers out there- hit that mark. The Ultimate Aero is fitted with 2 Recaro racing seats, so it’s OK to take your date with you as you attempt land speed records. And for all the fans of American muscle, SSC is North American based, so when the 550 HP of your Shelby GT get old, hop into this spacecraft for good old fashioned terror.
Best car for the understated connoisseur
Audi R8 Spyder
Is it possible to call the R8 Spyder overlooked? Not normally, though it’s dangerously close to practical on this list. The 5.2 liter V10 Spyder will achieve a pedestrian 4 second 0-60 time, but its 525 HP are enough to make one feel all tingly inside. Plus, aside from the GranTurismo the Audi R8 can actually be driven on a daily basis, providing funds are in the upper tier. Though luggage space may cause concern, you certainly can’t complain about those pretty lines. Finding love is a certainty in the R8; getting a girlfriend is another problem.


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