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Q: Application of binned maximum likelihood fitting I am doing a data analysis in HEP (first time) about the Higgs boson mass. I have two set of data: MC simulation data and experimental data. For the simulation data, because the number of events in each bin is large, I can perform a Gaussian fit, and it's ok. But for the experimental data (about 500 events), due to the small number of events in each bin, the use of Gaussian is not really suitable. Actually, the mass spectrum includes both signal and background, but I'm just care about the mass interval (115,135) which contains a signal peak corresponding to Higgs mass (125 GeV). How can I perform the binned maximum likelihood fit for this interval to measure the Higgs mass and check the goodness of fit?
Could anyone explain how to do it?
Thank you so much.

A: I presume you want to fit the Higgs  mass bump.
The Higgs measured mass bump shape is a Gaussian due to the process of measurement: the propagation of errors of the momenta of the particles, due to detector error measurements,  for each  individual Higgs.
If one  ran  a Montecarlo with the theoretical width of the standard model Higgs  the bump would still get the order of  GeV width that the measurements  (page 14) give, so only upper limits to the predicted standard model width of 4 MeV can be given.
Thus the  observed width is not the inherent width, so you can use a Gaussian or a Poisson if there are really very few events under the bump.
.Also there will be background events under the Higgs bump which you have to take into account as you fit, by subtracting them ?.
For the true width see an estimate  https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3456

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More Neil Young
April 15, 2006 April 15, 2006 Michael WitthausLeave a comment
Neil Young's new album, "Living With War," was completed in 9 days and should be released very soon. Howie Klein, who has an excellent political blog, had the chance to hear the record yesterday and declared it "beyond belief. I mean it's so great I was jumping out of my skin." He couldn't say much more than that due to an NDA. He added this, however:
Every song is about… you know what (and who). Musically it is so powerful and emotionally it's even more powerful that that!! Many tears while I sat alone with the headset on. Since I already mentioned "Let's Impeach the President," I'll just say a few things about that. It's this great rocker that ends as a gospel song and reads like an indictment. I mean Neil sounds like he's been reading Daily KOS or FireLakeDog! Someone's gotta get this to Henry Waxman! Neil even lays out some evidence in the form of Bush running his mouth on tape.
Will this go down as Neil's greatest album ever? It will be a contender musically. And the impact lyrically could be profound. I'll talk more about that when my period of musical purdah is up next week. If you're walking down the street and someone comes up to you and offers you the opportunity to hear just one song, ask him to play "Flags of Freedom." (Have kleenex handy.)
Here are the lyrics to the title track:
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart and my mind
Don't take no todal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
Try to remember peace
The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That Our flag is still there
I'm living with wat right now.
Got Gnarls Barkley?
April 13, 2006 Michael WitthausLeave a comment
A few things coming out of the U.K. lately indicate that online music is the future. Of course, there's the Beatle announcement, but more interesting is the surprise success of Gnarls Barkley, who achieved a Number One hit through download sales alone:
"Recent successes from Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz and the Arctic Monkeys show how digital can be complementary to physical," said Jamieson. "The lesson of history is that new technology expands the market for music and that is why record companies are so enthusiastically embracing the new digital formats."
The Monkeys broke out via lots of downloads, the Gorillaz aren't even a physical band (although they recently played live in NYC). With all of this in mind, I'm glad iTunes is holding firm to their pricing model.
Protestin' in the Free World
More proof, if any were needed, of Bush's similarities to Nixon. Neil Young has written, not a song, but AN ENTIRE ALBUM about the Bush Crime Family's malfeasance:
SXSW Managing Director Roland Swenson, referring to Young's indelible 1970 protest song "Ohio," said, "Neil, we need a new song." Young must have taken these words to heart, because he's just finished writing and recording—out of the blue—a new album called Life in War, according to filmmaker and Young confidant Jonathan Demme, who describes it as "a brilliant electric assault on Bush and the war in Iraq." The linchpin track, "Impeach the President," features an edited-together Bush rap set to a 100-voice chorus chanting "flip"/"flop." The album, with Young on Old Black, Rick Rosas on bass and Chad Cromwell on drums, took three days to finish. No word on when Reprise will release the album, but the Demme-directed concert film Heart of Gold arrives June 13 on DVD.
All You Need is Cash – Beatles Downloads Coming
According to numerous sources, an effort is underway to remaster the entire Beatles catalog and ultimately make is available for digital download, though it's doubtful iTunes will be allowed to sell the songs:
Neil Aspinall, a former Beatles road manager and managing director of Apple Corps, was a witness in the company's trademark lawsuit against Apple Computer (APPL).
He said that the company was digitally remastering the entire Beatles catalogue, which would pave the way for selling the songs online.
"I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters," he said in a written statement submitted to the High Court in London earlier this month.
"It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc."
A spokeswoman for Apple Corps confirmed Aspinall's statement, and said that the company is preparing to make the Beatles catalogue available through online music services.
A funny twist to all this: It turns out Sir Paul McCartney recently gave video iPods to his tour crew, and betrayed some curiousity about a notorious mash-up of Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles' White Album:
Though the remix was subjected to a cease and desist order by EMI, the move did win Danger Mouse one interested potential fan – Paul McCartney, who listened to the album in his car.
"McCartney remains really interested in what's going on in the creative world," the source explained, "He likes to know what's going on."
This interest in modern music culture also led McCartney to take UK DJ, remixer and musician The Freelance Hellraiser (Roy Kerr) along with him on his tour.
Kerr won fame with a mash-up called "A Stroke of Genius", which combined an instrumental edit of The Strokes' track "Hard To Explain" with Christina Aguilera's pop hit "Genie in A Bottle".
The DJ was given unique access to McCartney's own tracks in order to create remixes to play to the audience before each show.
New Beatles?
I'm a bit dubious about how fresh these so-called "new Beatles" tracks will sound. With three separate double CDs of outtakes already in circulation, not to mention countless bootlegs, what's left that hasn't been heard?
The Beatles are set to release an album of new material this summer to coincide with a show taking place in Las Vegas, featuring the fab four.
Producers of the live show reportedly have access to over 200 hours of recorded material from the band, which will be used to create the new album.
Neil Aspinall (Head of Apple Corps) explains "It involves the creation, by the re-mixing and re-mastering of the Beatles' recorded performances, of completely new music, which will be featured in the show, and which should lead to the release of the show album".
Surviving band members Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and producer Sir George Martin are all involved with the project.
Knopfler and "Em" Harris – Promising duo plans CD, Tour
The David Gilmour tour didn't stop in New England, but Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris will hit Boston this summer in support of their album, "All the Road Running," due to hit stores April 25.
Knopfler is an underrated guitar master who should be canonized with the likes of Clapton, Beck and the horribly overrated Page (it feels trite to use the last-name-only designation in his case). Harris has quietly cast her shadow over much of the last century's important music, beginning with her work with Gram Parsons, and continuing with the amazing Hot Band, the lineup of which reads like a who's who of genre-bending country music.
It's fitting that their new CD took over 7 years to come together. The languid, soothing music both of them make is timeless.
Check out this British write-up for all the details.
Paste Magazine – What A Value!
I buy Paste Magazine every month just for the broad spectrum of music it covers; the writers are first-rate too. But the free discs are alone worth the $7.95 cover price. Usually, there's a CD and a DVD, as is the case this month, chock full of new releases.
The April/May offering is especially tasty, with songs from Americana supergroup the Little Willies (featuring a bouncy Norah Jones piano solo), Teddy Thompson, a more than capable heir to father Richard Thompson's musical throne, jam alchemists Umphrey McGee's, and many more.
That's just the CD – The DVD has vintage clips from Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings. For cutting edge fans, there's the Arcade Fire, the Decembrists (would someone please explain what the hell "chamber pop" means?) and Eels. There's also John Cale, Beth Orton and the hauntingly beautiful Sia.
All tallied up, there's 22 songs on the CD and 26 DVD clips, plus some short films, movie trailers and a couple of specials (including one featuring Rosanne Cash, one of my all-time favorites).
That, dear readers, is a bargain.

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Sitting Kills; This Chair Might Save Us
For most of human history, we had to earn our keep physically: lifting, moving, hunting, planting, harvesting, even working the blue collar factory jobs that built modern society. More than 100 million Americans now work white collar jobs where, as I'm doing at the moment, the only physical exertion is pressing down on a keypad while sitting, an unnatural position for a human in full command of her or his faculties. We first reported on how sitting too long can lead to premature death in 2012 but the news has only gotten worse since. Recent studies have discovered that people who sit too much every day risk an increase in diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, specifically being diagnosed with, or dying of, breast, colon, colorectal, endometrial and ovarian cancers. This writer herniated two discs from sitting and working for too long, necessitating daily physical therapy to combat back pain and sciatica.
"We spend a lot more time sitting behind computers than we used to. Movement is being engineered out of our lives, and the best advice is that we need to sit less and move more," said Deborah Rohm Young, Ph.D., chair of the panel that wrote a new advisory published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation in August 2016. Unfortunately, prolonged sedentary activity cannot be simply offset by getting in exercise. For most of us the best solution is to get up frequently, stretching, even walking to break up sitting. But what if you have to get a lot of desk work done?
Enter Altwork Stations. After more than five years of engineering and a $3-million-dollar investment, these customizable workstations are available to allow heavy computer users to vary their work positions from standing to full reclining. They aren't cheap, but starting at $4,900 each, these work stations are less expensive than back surgery. They began shipping in September:
Walking Emerges as a More Powerful Fix for a Host of Issues
We have long sung the praises of walking, not just on these pages, but in the anti aging documentary, "Reverse Aging Now." Now scientists of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, have released findings that walking for just 2.5 hours a week — only 21 minutes a day — can cut a person's risk of heart disease by 30 percent compared to those who don't exercise. This simple, do anywhere activity also reduces the risk of diabetes and cancer, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, and keep people mentally sharp. In a study of 12,000 people Harvard researchers looked at 32 obesity-promoting genes and learned that the study participants who walked quickly for about an hour a day, the effects of those fat genes were cut in half.
At the University of Exeter a pair of studies found that a 15-minute walk can curb cravings for chocolate and sweet snacks. Any physical activity diminishes the risk of breast cancer, however an American Cancer Society study that examined walking found that women who walked seven or more hours a week had a 14 percent lower risk of breast cancer than those who walked three hours or fewer per week. Walking reduces joint pain by lubricating them and strengthening the muscles that support them. Walking five to six miles a week can even prevent arthritis from forming to begin with. Finally, it boosts the immune system. A study of over 1,000 men and women learned that those who walked at least 20 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, had 43 percent fewer sick days than those who exercised once a week or less. .
Since fall is a great time to walk in the woods, we offer this short video hosted by Carolisa Pomerantz the Associate Producer of the anti aging documentary, "Reverse Aging Now" to inspire you:
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Hello Kitty celebrated turning 35 in London yesterday.
The Japanese brand treated guests to afternoon tea and a fashion show at fancy restaurant Sketch.
Pearl Lowe, Elen Rives and Chloe Madeley were among the celebs at the event.
Creative director Yuko Yamaguchi took to the stage to blow out candles on a huge Hello Kitty cake.
And onlookers were impressed when Yuko drew a large Hello Kitty freehand on stage.
See our exclusive interview with Yuko at the bash, coming soon.
Now's Alison Tay with Hello Kitty Creative Director Yuko Yamaguchi.


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package org.jdbdt.tutorial;

// Java/JDBC API imports
import java.sql.Date;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.List;

//JUnit imports
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

// JDBDT imports
import static org.jdbdt.JDBDT.*;

import org.jdbdt.Conversion;
import org.jdbdt.DB;
import org.jdbdt.DataSet;
import org.jdbdt.Table;

// Static import for user roles
import static org.jdbdt.tutorial.Role.*;

@SuppressWarnings("javadoc")
public abstract class UserDAOTest {

  // JDBDT handle for the database
  static DB theDB;

  // DAO (the SUT)
  static UserDAO theDAO;

  // User table.
  static Table theTable;

  // Fixed date used for test data
  static final Date FIXED_DATE = Date.valueOf("2016-01-01");

  // Data set that we use for populating the table.
  // (we need this as a field so it can be referred to in a few test methods)
  static DataSet theInitialData;

  // Global setup
  protected static
  void globalSetup(String jdbcDriverClass, String databaseURL) throws Throwable {
    // Load JDBC driver class
    Class.forName(jdbcDriverClass);

    // Create database handle
    theDB = database(databaseURL);

    // Create DAO and in turn let it create USERS table
    theDAO = new UserDAO(theDB.getConnection());
    theDAO.createTable();

    // Create table data source.
    theTable = table("USERS")
              .columns("ID",
                       "LOGIN",
                       "NAME",
                       "PASSWORD",
                       "ROLE",
                       "CREATED" )
              .build(theDB);

    // Define data set for populating the database
    theInitialData
      =  builder(theTable)
        .sequence("ID", 0)
        .sequence("PASSWORD", i -> "pass" + i)
        .value("LOGIN", "root")
        .nullValue("NAME")
        .value("CREATED", FIXED_DATE)
        .value("ROLE", ADMIN)
        .generate(1)
        .sequence("LOGIN", "alice", "bob", "charles")
        .sequence("NAME",  "Alice", "Bob", "Charles")
        .value("ROLE", REGULAR)
        .generate(3)
        .sequence("LOGIN", i -> "guest" + i, 1)
        .sequence("NAME",  i -> "Guest User " + i, 1)
        .value("ROLE", GUEST)
        .generate(2)
        .data();
    // dump(theInitialData, System.err);

    // Populate database using the built data set
    populate(theInitialData);

    // Set auto-commit off (to allow for save-points)
    theDB.getConnection().setAutoCommit(false);
  }

  @AfterClass
  public static void globalTeardown() {
    truncate(theTable);
    teardown(theDB, true);
  }

  @Before
  public void saveState() {
    // Set save point
    save(theDB);
  }

  @After
  public void restoreState() {
    // Restore state to save point
    restore(theDB);
  }

  private static final Conversion<User> CONVERSION =
      u -> new Object[] {
        u.getId(),
        u.getLogin(),
        u.getName(),
        u.getPassword(),
        u.getRole().toString(),
        u.getCreated()
      };

  static DataSet toDataSet(User u) {
    return data(theTable, CONVERSION).row(u);
  }

  static User anExistingUser() {
    return new User(0, "root", null, "pass0", Role.ADMIN, FIXED_DATE);
  }

  static User nonExistingUser() {
    return new User(99, "john99", "John Doe 99", "doeit 99", Role.REGULAR, FIXED_DATE);
  }

  @Test
  public void testNonExistingUserInsertion() throws SQLException {
    User u = nonExistingUser();
    theDAO.insertUser(u);
    assertInserted("DB change", toDataSet(u));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNonExistingUserInsertionVariant() throws SQLException {
    User u = nonExistingUser();
    theDAO.insertUser(u);
    DataSet expected = DataSet.join(theInitialData, toDataSet(u));
    assertState("DB state", expected);
  }

  @Test
  public void testExistingUserInsertion() {
    try {
      User u = anExistingUser();
      theDAO.insertUser(u);
      fail("Expected " + SQLException.class);
    }
    catch (SQLException e) {
      assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
    }
  }

  @Test
  public void testExistingUserDelete() throws SQLException {
    User u = anExistingUser();
    boolean deleted = theDAO.deleteUser(u);
    assertDeleted("DB change", toDataSet(u));
    assertTrue("return value", deleted);
  }

  @Test
  public void testNonExistingUserDelete() throws SQLException {
    User u = nonExistingUser();
    boolean deleted = theDAO.deleteUser(u);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
    assertFalse("return value", deleted);
  }

  @Test
  public void testDeleteAll() throws SQLException {
    int count = theDAO.deleteAllUsers();
    assertEmpty("DB cleaned up", theTable);
    assertEquals("return value", count, theInitialData.size());
  }

  @Test
  public void testExistingUserUpdate() throws SQLException {
    User u = anExistingUser();
    u.setPassword("new pass");
    u.setName("new name");
    boolean updated = theDAO.updateUser(u);
    assertDelta("DB change", toDataSet(anExistingUser()), toDataSet(u));
    assertTrue("return value", updated);
  }

  @Test
  public void testNonExistingUserUpdate() throws SQLException {
    User u = nonExistingUser();
    boolean updated = theDAO.updateUser(u);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
    assertFalse("return value", updated);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetAllUsers() throws SQLException {
    List<User> list = theDAO.getAllUsers();
    DataSet expected = theInitialData;
    DataSet actual = data(theTable, CONVERSION).rows(list);
    assertEquals("User list", expected, actual);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetUsersByRole() throws SQLException {
    List<User> list = theDAO.getUsers(Role.GUEST);
    DataSet expected = DataSet.last(theInitialData, 2);
    DataSet actual = data(theTable, CONVERSION).rows(list);
    assertEquals("Guest user list", expected, actual);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetUserById() throws SQLException {
    User expected = anExistingUser();
    User actual = theDAO.getUser(expected.getId());
    assertEquals("User", expected, actual);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetNonExistingUserById() throws SQLException {
    User result = theDAO.getUser(nonExistingUser().getId());
    assertNull("User", result);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetUserByLogin() throws SQLException {
    User expected = anExistingUser();
    User actual = theDAO.getUser(expected.getLogin());
    assertEquals("User", expected, actual);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

  @Test
  public void testGetNonExistingUserByLogin() throws SQLException {
    User result = theDAO.getUser(nonExistingUser().getLogin());
    assertNull("User", result);
    assertUnchanged("No DB changes", theTable);
  }

}

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fro0m tp-secret military research networks to small home LANs.
rather than just isolated machines.
applcations work and why they are necesary.
FROM TP-SECRET MILITARY RESEARCH NETWORKS TO SMALL HOME LANS.
SECURITY OF THE ENTIRE NETWORK NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED RATHER THAN JUST ISOLATED MACHINES.
USE SECURITY APPLICATIONS, AS WELL AS HOW THE APPLCATIONS WORK AND WHY THEY ARE NECESARY.


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Israel-UAE Flight Was Indeed Historic. But These Critical Questions Remain
How do you safeguard Israelis who want to visit sites located a stone's throw from Iran? Can Israeli security personnel carry arms? And, of course, what about annexation?
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An Emirati official prepares to open the door of the El Al airliner carrying a U.S.-Israeli delegation to the UAE, August 31, 2020.Credit: NIR ELIAS / AFP
The visit will be short, only about 24 hours, and there is much work to be done. The delegation includes National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, senior officials from the Shin Bet, the Israel Airports Authority and the foreign, transportation, finance and interior ministries. An advance party of Shin Bet security personnel, logistics and administrative personnel from the Prime Minister's Office and others were already on the ground preparing for the visit. But the small details require for more than 24 hours.
Time is critical. Trump and Netanyahu want to hold the signing ceremony for the Israeli-Emirati agreement on the White House lawn before the U.S. presidential election on November 3. Trump wants to be able to brandish this document before the vote. Ministers I've spoken with have conveyed the impression that the Prime Minister's Office is gunning for a ceremony by Rosh Hashanah, just three weeks away.
Who will take part in the signing ceremony? Knowledgeable sources I've spoken with say Mohammed bin Zayed (popularly known as MBZ), the UAE Crown Prince and de facto ruler, isn't keen to be there and would rather send his foreign minister. Of course, Netanyahu isn't about to let Gabi Ashkenazi represent Israel at a peace ceremony. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who flew to Abu Dhabi with the Israeli delegation, are pressing the crown prince to appear, and it could well happen. Subsequent questions include: How many Arab countries will send representatives to the event, and at what level - foreign ministers or ambassadors to the United States? And, most importantly, will Saudi Arabia have a presence there?
Grandiose gestures and time pressure
The time pressure puts the delegation in a difficult bind. Ideally, representatives of Israel, the U.S. and the Emirates would have agreed privately on all the relevant issues, and only then attend the signing ceremony. This is how it happened with the 1994 peace accord with Jordan and the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO.
The situation this time recalls the 1977-78 peace process with Egypt. Like Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin were, President Donald Trump is a man of grandiose gestures. Sadat traveled to Jerusalem practically overnight, and Begin was quick to welcome him at the Knesset. Only afterwards did they discover that, as with insurance policies or tempting advertisements, it's always a good idea to read the fine print first.
The goal in Abu Dhabi is to divide into working groups by subject, hammer out basic understandings and draft agreements on aviation, visas, tourism, security arrangements, the opening of diplomatic missions, trade, economic cooperation – the list goes on and on, all in a single day of feverish discussions. The problems and hurdles are numerous.
An Emirati reporter on the tarmac as the Israeli and American delegations arrive, Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020.Credit: Noa Landau
Israel has shifted 'from annexation to normalization,' foreign minister says
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With each of its Arab neighbors, Israel has a different 'economic peace'
Here are just a few of the issues on the agenda:
– Whether Saudi Arabia will permit Israeli airlines to fly regularly over its territory.
– Whether the Emirates will agree to sell oil to Israel.
– Solving the headaches for the Shin Bet's security division, like protecting Israeli tourists who wish to visit UAE cities and beaches located practically a stone's throw from Iran, whose agents are everywhere.
– Whether Israeli security guards will be permitted to carry weapons.
However, the biggest nut to crack somehow before the ceremony takes place is the Palestinian issue. The Palestinian Authority is now foolishly boycotting the Emirates (recalling yet again Abba Eban's famous dictum that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity). But even so, it has played an important role here. The prime minister and the right are hoping that peace agreements between Israel and Arab states will make it unnecessary to deal directly with the Palestinians, but that is not so.
Crown Prince Mohammed's official justification for the agreement with Israel is that it prevented Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank. The Emirati ruler said the agreement put an end to annexation, and Trump and Kushner also think annexation is not happening. But Netanyahu, who thinks only of how to please his right-wing settler base, still insisted it was a just a temporary suspension, and that annexation is still on the table. And in so doing, he angered the Emirati rulers, who punished him by postponing an official trip by Israeli functionaries.
U.S. President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner, center, speaking with passengers during a flight on an Israeli El Al plane bound for Abu Dhabi, August 31, 2020.Credit: Nir Elias,AP
How can these contradictory declarations be reconciled?
One source predicted that the crown prince will demand that annexation be taken off the table for at least 10 years, but would ultimately agree to a five-year delay. President Trump and Kushner will call for at least four years – the time frame designated by the Trump plan for negotiations with the Palestinians (eight months of which have already passed). And Netanyahu? Naturally, he will seek to commit to as little time as possible. For him, even two or three months is too long.
On one subject at least, there is already a tacit understanding – the sale of F-35 aircraft to the UAE is a done deal. With each passing day it becomes that much clearer that this was the Emirates' condition for the so-called Abraham Agreement, and if there's one thing Trump is known for, it's his fondness for making deals, and a particular enthusiasm for arms deals.
This will be the first time in Israel's history that the relationship between peace and weaponry is reversed. This is the first time that Israel is signing a peace deal and not receiving an American reward. In the peace agreements with Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians, Israel demanded and received from the United States a "security package" that included military upgrades and financial compensation.
The biggest reward followed the agreement with Egypt. The U.S. funded and built airports, provided guarantees of the oil supply, increased its military aid, signed defense pacts, opened American tenders to Israeli arms companies and supplied vast amounts of advanced weaponry and technology. Israel's reasoning, which America agreed with, was that Israel should be compensated for taking territorial and security risks. Uncle Sam also showered Israel's peace partners with plenty of military gadgetry, but to a much smaller degree.
Moreover, even without peace agreements, Israel has always been opposed to the U.S. selling arms not just to its enemies but also to moderate, pro-Western Arab states. Israel opposed the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-16s to Egypt. Israeli governments did their utmost to sway the American decisions on these deals, enlisting the aid of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, among other efforts. The deals ultimately went through, but with less advanced versions of the aircraft. President Ronald Reagan also taught Israel and AIPAC a memorable lesson. Despite their furious protests, Reagan pushed ahead with the sale of AWACS spy planes to Saudi Arabia.
Since then, and especially in the past decade, AIPAC has been quite mindful of the rules of the game and who is boss. And AIPAC has also been weakened in recent years for various reasons – one of them being the sharp right turn it took in the Netanyahu era, especially since Trump took office, even though most of its leaders and members, like the majority of the American Jewish community, are traditionally Democratic voters. The decision to equate support for Israel with support for Netanyahu and Likud went against AIPAC's traditional stance as a "neutral" organization in American politics and placed it on Trump and the Republicans' side of the field.
By choosing sides, it made room for new forces within U.S. Jewry and ceased to be the sole Jewish player on the American scene. The JStreet lobby arose to its left, and a new organization whose influence is growing has joined the mainstream: the Israel Policy Forum chaired by Levi Strauss heiress Susie Gelman. The forum has close ties with the Israeli organization Commanders for Israel's Security.
National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat, U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and President Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner boarding an El Al jet to fly to Abu Dhabi, Aug. 31, 2020.Credit: NIR ELIAS/ REUTERS
That said, AIPAC's status and influence is still considerable. But from my long acquaintance with the organization, I would bet it also understands that the F-35 deal will go ahead. And let's be honest: While not a desirable deal from Israel's perspective, it won't genuinely endanger Israel's security. Having dozens of stealth aircraft located so close to the Iranian border should worry Iran's leaders more than Israel's.
Israel is also shielded by a law passed twice by Congress mandating that the United States preserve Israel's qualitative military edge. Also, as it has in the past, Israel this time too will presumably find creative ways to ensure that the U.S. downgrades the advanced technology it supplies to an Arab state. For example, Israel could ask that the stealth aircraft be a little less stealthy. Another option well worth considering is to request bunker-busting bombs that penetrate to a depth of 40 meters (the depth of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment site), although the air force currently lacks aircraft that can carry them.
The only problem with the F-35 deal is the way the extremely talented Netanyahu once again fell prey to his worst self-destructive instincts. Unable to overcome his paranoia, narcissism and megalomania, he went behind the cabinet's back, particularly that of his putative partners, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi.
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For example, if this is the original text:

"I am one of those who await the return of Jesus Christ"

and I want to turn it into this format:

"I am an ... of Jesus Christ."

what word can I use to complete the above sentence?

A: The word you want is probably "adventist". With an uppercase "A" it refers to the particular sect (Seventh Day Adventists); with a lowercase "a" it is anyone who believes that Christ will return, and hence is waiting for him to appear.
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Adventist, n.Etymology: (advent n. + -ist suffix.)
A member of any of various Christian sects emphasizing belief in the imminent Second Coming of Christ; spec. a follower of William Miller (1782–1849), who predicted that the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the present world order would take place between 21 March 1843 and 21 March 1844...
1843   Signs of Times 15 Nov. 109/3   Publications have been sent to every English and American Mission in the world... The English Adventists, have also, for the last twenty odd years, been engaged in the same work.
2004   P. de Rosa Fatal Flaw of Christianity ix. 234   Since then, there have always been adventist or millenarian sects who predicted the end of the world and thousand-year reign of the saints.


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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel voted best Women's Prize for Fiction winner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been voted the best book to have won the Women's Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history
The Nigerian-born author, who won the prize in 2007, was chosen in a public vote from a list of all 25 winners, including Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain and Maggie O'Farrell.
The one-off award marks the anniversary of the prize, formerly known as the Orange Prize and the Bailey's Prize.
More than 8,500 people voted, and were invited to share their thoughts with the prize's digital book club, accessing newly created online reading guides and author interviews.
Half of a Yellow Sun, Ngozi Adichie's haunting novel, originally won the Women's Prize for Fiction (then the Orange Prize) in 2007. Set in Nigeria during the Biafran War, the novel takes its title from the emblem for Biafra, the breakaway state in eastern Nigeria that survived for only three years. As a piece of work, it honours the memory of a war largely forgotten outside Nigeria, except as a synonym for famine.
Her powerful focus on war's impact on civilian life, and the trauma beyond the trenches rightfully made it a winner, and it has received global acclaim since publication.
"My book is not just about people thrown into a war where we watch them die. It is about people who have full lives and how war changes them," she said previously. "I wrote this novel because I wanted to write about love and war, and in particular because I grew up in the shadow of Biafra. Both my grandfathers were killed in the Nigeria-Biafra war, and I wanted to engage with that history in order to start a conversation about the war.:
The novel was also adapted into a film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton in 2013.
"I'm especially moved to be voted 'Winner of Winners' because this is the Prize that first brought a wide readership to my work – and has also introduced me to the work of many talented writers," she said of the win. "
If you've not read it yet, it's an absolute must.
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For a while I suspected Trump was playing some weird game, telling people to stop talking about her clothes and then wearing a jacket that said "I really don't care, do u?" while en route to an immigrant child detention centre. Was she gaslighting us with fashion? Then I wondered if perhaps the problem was that she was just so used to having to be mute around the spray-tanned Stay Puft Marshmallow Man she married that she could not help but try to talk through her clothes. But after jacketgate and what I am calling Belloqgate, I think it's more simple: her stylist is a genius insurrectionist on the inside, working to make the Trumps look even more deranged than they are. There really is no other explanation, and, personally, I salute that stylist. I cannot wait for her SS-inspired wardrobe for her trip to Germany. Start polishing those black boots, Melania!
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The Importance of Shock Resistance Feature on Watches
The Importance of Shock Resistance Feature is designed to protect the balance components of the watch movement. The balance component consists of the balance wheel, balance spring, and balance staff. These components help the watch ticking, so, as you can imagine, any impact on these components will affect the watch's accuracy.
The ISO 1413 is a standard for shock resistance, and a watch must withstand a one-meter drop on a hardwood floor, which most modern movements can easily overcome. Watch brands usually do internal testing for their shock resistance feature. This is usually done with a plastic hammer attached to the end of the pendulum, then swinging it to strike the watch.
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Invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1790, 'pare-chute' is one of the earliest forms of shock resistance. It consists of small steel springs, which hold the endstone and jewel balance out of place to let the jewel hold the balance and provide a space to move. Currently, Breguet uses the latest version of 'pare-chute' in La Tradition watches.
Developed by Swiss engineer Fritz Marti and patented in 1933, Incabloc is the earliest shock resistance system consisting of a single spring to hold the gem mounted in a conical cup. This system will absorb and return the gems to their position if they move.
Marti continued to improve his inventions and eventually developed it into the spring-shaped lute of today. In its heyday, Incabloc was so influential that several watch brands inscribed the feature on their dials.
Incaloc soon became the most common feature on the watch, with more than 500 million units produced in the mid-seventies. Today, Incabloc SA remains the largest independent manufacturer of shock resistance systems. In the decades following Incabloc's invention, competitors emerged with systems based on the same principles.
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Troublesome Reviews & the Reasonable Rebels
We were just talking about Charles Murray and his firm belief that differences among "races" is genetic, as he indicated in his 2014 interview at AEI:
On this score, the roof is about to crash in on those who insist on a purely environmental explanation of all sorts of ethnic differences, not just intelligence. Since the decoding of the genome, it has been securely established that race is not a social construct, evolution continued long after humans left Africa along different paths in different parts of the world, and recent evolution involves cognitive as well as physiological functioning.
The best summary of the evidence is found in the early chapters of Nicholas Wade's recent book, "A Troublesome Inheritance." We're not talking about another 20 years before the purely environmental position is discredited, but probably less than a decade. What happens when a linchpin of political correctness becomes scientifically untenable? It should be interesting to watch. I confess to a problem with schadenfreude.
I looked up the reviews of "A Troublesome Inheritance" and the reviewers were not nearly as impressed as Murray.
...Wade gets into trouble, however, in the latter half of the book, which he describes as more "speculative." A whole chapter is devoted to the subject of Jewish intelligence, in which he argues that the disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes awarded to people of Jewish descent can be traced to the fact that Jewish money-lending in the Middle Ages required levels of literacy and numeracy far beyond those in the general population. That specialization, and the wealth it brought, he argues, conferred upon the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe an evolutionary advantage that became encoded in complex ways in their genes.
There is little solid evidence to support this hypothesis; moreover, the combinations of genes conferring intelligence — if there are any — are unknown. While Wade demonstrates a good deal of mastery over many of the technical issues involved, he strikes a remarkably cavalier note about the obvious social and political unease such research might engender...
Wade is of course referring to the "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" that Ferguson eviscerated.
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...It is not my goal to debunk every scientific flaw in A Troublesome Inheritance, but a couple examples should be sufficient to demonstrate that Wade is not only an unreliable guide through contemporary genomic research, but that science does not support his case.
It is essential to Wade's story that readers reject the widely held belief that humans ceased evolving before the dawn of recorded history. The truth is that "human evolution has been recent, copious and regional."
Wade plants his flag with the first cited fact in the book, with unfortunate (for him) results: "No less than 14% of the human genome, according to one estimate, has changed under this recent evolutionary pressure." He repeats this number twice. But what does it mean? Studies of the human genome have identified traces of selection pressure in patterns of genetic variation. Their results vary, but "if one takes just the regions marked by any two of the scans, then 722 regions, containing some 2,465 genes, have been under pressure of natural selection." That "amounts to 14% of the genome."
His source is a 2009 review article by the geneticist Joshua Akey, but Wade reads it wrong. It is not 14 percent of the genome that is under selection in two studies. Rather, because there are a lot of false positives, 14 percent of regions identified as under selection in any study were also identified in a second study. The number Wade wants—the portion of the genome found in at least two studies to have been under pressure of natural selection—is 8 percent. The error suggests a glib reader cherry-picking statistics without really grasping the science...
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...If Wade could point to genes that give races distinctive social behaviors, we might overlook such shortcomings. But he cannot.
He tries. He tells, for instance, of specific gene variants that reputedly create less trust and more violence in African-Americans and, he says, explain their resistance to modern economic institutions and practices. Alas, the scientific literature he draws on is so uneven and disputed that many geneticists dismiss it outright. Wade also cites a 2008 paper that analyzed the genomes of almost 1,000 people from 51 populations around the globe. That paper found that people from different regions do indeed tend to have distinctive genomes. But Wade errs in saying the paper supports his idea that genetic selection has created races with particular social inclinations.
To begin with, the 2008 study mentions nothing about race. It merely establishes that many of the slight differences between human genomes cluster by geography at many scales, including continents, and that genomes from any given location will most likely be similar, just as two people from a particular place will most likely speak with similar accents.
Second, and far more serious, the paper's authors specifically state that while selection may sometimes create genetic differences between populations, they saw little evidence that selection shaped the small genetic differences they found. In fact, they say the differences can be largely explained by "random drift" — arbitrary changes in genes having little to no effect on people's biology or behavior. All of this directly contradicts Wade's argument. Yet he baldly claims the study as support.
And he does this sort of thing repeatedly: He constantly gathers up long shots, speculations and spurious claims, then declares they add up to substantiate his case.
The result is a deeply flawed, deceptive and dangerous book. Its most pernicious conceit is that it's finally safe to talk of racial genetics because "opposition to racism is now well entrenched." The daily news — a black teenager's killer walks free in Florida; a former Ku Klux Klansman shoots up a Jewish community center; and tearful survivors observe the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, in which 100 days of mass murder rose from ethnic distinctions pressed on the populace by European colonists a century before — says otherwise...
The Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics posted a letter in response and a whole bunch of scientists signed on:
As scientists dedicated to studying genetic variation, we thank David Dobbs for his review of Nicholas Wade's "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" (July 13), and for his description of Wade's misappropriation of research from our field to support arguments about differences among human societies.
As discussed by Dobbs and many others, Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q. test results, political institutions and economic development. We reject Wade's implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork. They do not.
We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade's conjectures.
Steve Sailer of course loved the Wade book and reprinted Charles Murray's own review on his blog, where we get Murray's list of his favorite evolutionary psychology and race science books - my highlights:
In 1998, the biologist E.O. Wilson wrote a book, "Consilience," predicting that the 21st century would see the integration of the social and biological sciences. He is surely right about the long run, but the signs for early progress are not good. "The Bell Curve," which the late Richard J. Herrnstein and I published 20 years ago, should have made it easy for social scientists to acknowledge the role of cognitive ability in shaping class structure. It hasn't. David Geary's "Male/Female," published 16 years ago, should have made it easy for them to acknowledge the different psychological and cognitive profiles of males and females. It hasn't. Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate," published 12 years ago, should have made it easy for them to acknowledge the role of human nature in explaining behavior. It hasn't. Social scientists who associate themselves with any of those viewpoints must still expect professional isolation and stigma.
"A Troublesome Inheritance" poses a different order of threat to the orthodoxy. The evidence in "The Bell Curve," "Male/Female" and "A Blank Slate" was confined to the phenotype—the observed characteristics of human beings—and was therefore vulnerable to attack or at least obfuscation. The discoveries Mr. Wade reports, that genetic variation clusters along racial and ethnic lines and that extensive evolution has continued ever since the exodus from Africa, are based on the genotype, and no one has any scientific reason to doubt their validity.
And yet, as of 2014, true believers in the orthodoxy still dominate the social science departments of the nation's universities. I expect that their resistance to "A Troublesome Inheritance" will be fanatical, because accepting its account will be seen, correctly, as a cataclysmic surrender on some core premises of political correctness. There is no scientific reason for the orthodoxy to win. But it might nonetheless.
And of course the word "orthodoxy" which race science proponents like to use to dismiss any and all criticism of their claims.
A recent article in the Washington Post discusses the similarities between the lingo of defenders of the Confederacy and that of of contemporary race science, called The Reasonable Rebels by Eve Fairbanks.
I had already noted that Bo Winegard, Quillette's primary race science proponent, used the term "Equilitarianism" which he appears to have gotten directly from the White Citizen Council's own Calton Putnam.
And the race science world is very tight-knit - Murray mentions David Geary's Male/Female - Bo Winegard co-wrote the paper using the term Equalitarian with... David Geary.
The Fairbanks piece discusses how similar-sounding are contemporary IDW arguments to those of the supporters of Confederacy. I especially liked this:
All of this is there in the reasonable right: The claim that they are the little people struggling against prevailing winds. The argument that they're the ones championing reason and common sense. The allegation that their interlocutors aren't so much wrong as excessive; they're just trying to think freely and are being tormented. The reliance on hyperbole and slippery slopes to warn about their adversaries' intentions and power. The depiction of their opponents as an "orthodoxy," an epithet the antebellum South loved.
Yep. What were we just saying about Charles Murray using "orthodoxy"? And speaking of Murray...
Many reasonable-right figures find themselves defending the liberties of people to the right of them. Not because they agree with these people, they say, but on principle. Sam Harris, a popular podcast host, has released three lengthy shows about Charles Murray, a political scientist who is often booed at campus speeches and whose 2017 talk at Middlebury College ended when students injured his host. Murray argues that white people test higher than black people on "every known test of cognitive ability" and that these "differences in capacity" predict white people's predominance. Harris repeatedly insists he has no vested interest in Murray's ideas. His only interest in Murray, he claims, rests in his dedication to discussing science and airing controversial views.
But Harris's claim is implausible. Hundreds of scientists produce controversial work in the fields of race, demographics and inequality. Only one, though, is the social scientist nationally notorious for suggesting that white people are innately smarter than people of color. That Harris chooses to invite this one on his show suggests that he is not merely motivated by freedom of speech. It suggests that he is interested in what Murray has to say.
He sure is. And Sam Harris agrees with Murray.
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The Nord N300 5G is a decent budget phone with some minor flaws
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Decent cameras
Fast wired charging
Solid looking display
Weak vibration motor
Only one major software update
The camera doesn't work well in all conditions
The OnePlus Nord N300 5G is a decent budget phone that is good value for money but has a couple of quirks.
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OnePlus' Nord lineup has been growing strong since its introduction in 2020 with good mid-range phones like the Nord N20 5G but now it continues to expand into budget-friendly territory in the US with the Nord N300 5G.
With a MediaTek chipset, simple design and affordable price, does the N300 do enough to tempt you into buying it?
As you'll see, I think it's a mixed bag.
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Like its Nord N20 sibling, the Nord N300 has a fairly slim profile that is relatively easy to hold in one hand. The slight matt texture of the back of the phone also helps to securely hold it in one hand.
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Despite weighing a little heavy on the phone scales at 190g, the Nord N300 doesn't feel too heavy and is fairly well-balanced. This can also be attributed to the plastic frame and plastic back of the phone, which feels good and doesn't scream budget phone.
The phone is only available in a Midnight Jade colourway, which is a fancy way of saying it's black. It would have been nice to see a second colour option available such as blue as we've seen on OnePlus phones before.
The back of the phone has a small camera bump that is barely noticeable but there is a very slight wobble when putting the phone down on a flat surface because of it.
Screen & Speakers
6.56in screen
90Hz LCD
HD+ resolution
The Nord N300 5G has a 6.56-inch LCD HD+ display. Thankfully, OnePlus decided to go with a 90Hz refresh rate that makes navigating the phone much smoother.
The display itself looks good but nothing to be blown away by. Some colours and blacks on the screen don't pop as much as on a phone with an AMOLED display.
Similar to other Nord models, the vibrations and haptics aren't the best in the Nord N300 5G. They could be much stronger but they get the job done for the most part.
The phone also features dual speakers which sound fine, but aren't as full bodied or well rounded as those on more expensive flagship Android phones.
Specs & Performance
MediaTek Dimensity 810 chip
Up to 64GB of internal storage
MicroSD card slot for expandable storage
Powering the Nord N300 5G is the MediaTek Dimensity 810 chip, which has an 8-core CPU and a Mali-G57 MU2 GPU. The phone has 4GB of RAM which seems like the bare minimum in Android phones these days. With the slight laggy nature of the N300, it sort of shows.
Overall, the Dimensity 810 chip gets the job in most cases but there were a few occasions where an app took some time to open such as the Google Play Store.
The Nord N300 5G also marks OnePlus' first phone to launch in the US with a MediaTek chip inside. The company has previously launched phones in India that were powered by MediaTek chips, and the Nord 2T in Europe and the UK.
The Dimensity 810 chip not only brings 5G support but there's also Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 5.
48Mp main sensor
The Nord N300 5G has a two-camera setup on the back with a 48Mp main lens and a 2Mp depth lens.
The main lens was able to capture some good photos. In most cases these photos would be perfectly acceptable to anyone thinking of buying this phone.
This does come with a caveat, in that the Nord N300 5G's main cameras only perform well in well-lit conditions where there's lots of light.
If you're shooting in low light, you can take some decent photos but nothing that'll blow your mind. Shots can be grainy with a lot of noise where detail is lacking.
The camera app does feature a dedicated Night mode but it can be a bit slow and take a few seconds to capture a photo.
For video, the Nord N300 5G can shoot up to 1080p video at 30fps. The quality of the videos shot is good if slightly undersaturated.
On the front, there's a 16Mp selfie camera but it's outright bad. Even in good lighting conditions or during the day with lots of ambient light, selfies look very blown out.
Battery Life & Charging
33W wired charging
Adapter included
Battery life shouldn't be an issue as the Nord N300 5G features a massive 5,000mAh battery that easily lasts all day.
If you do find yourself needing to top up, the Nord N300 5G comes with a 33W SUPERVOOC fast charger in the box. This is decent, but not as fast as many other more expensive Android phones.
Using the included charger, Nord N300 5G got around 26% in 15 minutes and around 50% after 30 minutes of charging. A full 0% to 100% charge took around 90 minutes.
OxygenOS 12
Only one OS update promised
On the software side, the Nord N300 5G is running Android 12 with Oxygen 12 on top. In years past, OxygenOS has changed visually to a look that mimics Samsung's OneUI in many ways.
With OxygenOS 12, the user interface (UI) has a bit of Samsung flavour but also some touches of Oppo's ColorOS. This is no accident, as Oppo and OnePlus are owned by the same company, BBK Group, and share a codebase for their software.
OxygenOS 12 brings a slightly refreshed design language with more bold text and new icons. There's also a customisable dark mode that lets you adjust the shade of black or grey throughout the UI.
Other features of OxygenOS 12 include an improved Zen mode that helps you scale back distracting app use, a similar Work Life Balance mode and new always-on display options for the lockscreen.
For software updates, the Nord N300 5G will only be getting one software update (most likely to OxygenOS 13/Android 13). This software policy is far below the likes of other budget Android phones like Samsung's Galaxy A series which get at least three years of Android updates.
OnePlus hasn't announced when a OxygenOS 13/Android 13 update will arrive to the Nord N300 5G but it looks like it'll be sometime in 2023.
The OnePlus Nord N300 is only available in the US via the American courier T-Mobile and its pre-paid subsidiary, Metro by T-Mobile.
The phone costs $229 USD when buying it outright or in some cases as low as $0 depending on T-Mobile's deals.
With it's price tag, the Nord N300 5G is less than $100 short of its sibling, the Nord N20 5G. There's also the Moto G Power (2022) and the Samsung A13 5G.
The phone is not available in the UK.
Overall, the OnePlus Nord N300 5G is a decent budget phone for a few reasons.
First, it doesn't feel like a cheap phone, the build quality of the phone makes it feel like a more expensive phone.
Second, is that it has great battery life that easily lasts a single day or more and can be charged fairly quickly.
There are a few negatives to the Nord N300 5G like the weak vibration motor and haptics and only one future Android update but overall there aren't many better options at this price in the US phone market.
Android 12 w/ OxygenOS 12
6.56in HD+ LCD 90Hz, 20:9,
6nm MediaTek MT6833P Dimensity 810
4 RAM
64GB UFS 2.2 with microSD card slot
48Mp, f/1.8, main camera with OIS
2Mp, f/2.4 depth
16Mp, f/2.0 front-facing camera
33W fast charging
163.8 x 75.1 x 8mm
Launch colours: Midnight Jade


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FabAlley parent raises $1.1 mn from Trifecta in debt funding
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Binu Paul	9 Jan, 2020
Delhi NCR-based High Street Essentials, which owns omni-channel women's fashion brands FabAlley and Indya, has raised approximately $1.1 million (Rs 8 crore) in a debt funding round from Trifecta Capital.
This is Trifecta Capital's second round of debt infusion into the company. It had previously invested Rs 5 crore in the startup in January 2018.
With this round, the company has raised a total of $15 million to date, according to data available with VCCEdge.
In its last funding round, the startup had raised Rs 60 crore in Series B funding from SAIF Partners in December 2018.
Launched in June 2012 by Shivani Poddar and Tanvi Malik, FabAlley is a women's western wear label, which claims to identify global fashion trends and convert them into affordable apparel, jewellery, accessories, shoes and bags for Indian women. The company then launched Indya, an ethnic-fusion brand, in 2016, to address the contemporary Indian wear market. Subsequently in October 2019, the startup unveiled its third brand Zyra, a fashion jewellery brand.
High Street Essentials sells its merchandise through its own website, other online marketplaces and offline through large format retailers such as Lifestyle, Central, Globus and Shoppers Stop. In FY20, it scaled up its retail footprint with 10 new Indya stores and five FabAlley stores. It also operates more than 30 exclusive brand outlets and 350 shops-in-shops across the country.
The company plans to deploy the fresh funds to fuel the offline expansion of its brands, it said in a press statement.
"In the next 12-18 months, we plan to grow our retail presence by increasing our exclusive brand store count to 50 and doubling our shop-in-shops to more than 650. The capital expenditure required to fund this growth is best done through debt, since it reduces the cost of capital and improves return on equity," Malik and Poddar said in a joint statement.
The company reported a 21-time increase in net profit for 2018-19 at Rs 1.3 crore, led by strong sales and lower base effect. It has reported an operating profit of Rs 3.3 crore, its second operating profit in a row. The startup's revenue has doubled year-on-year to Rs 90.3 crore on account of improved distribution, product expansion and platform strengthening.
Nearly all major online vertical fashion businesses have pivoted to an omni-channel model in search of better brand recall, high revenues and improved unit economics.
"Continuing with its omni-channel strategy, the company has doubled-down on the offline segment in the past couple of years. This strategy has reaped rich dividends in the form of stellar growth. They are among those rare startups that have remained profitable even while scaling up rapidly," said Nilesh Kothari, co-founder, Trifecta Capital.
Recent deals in the sector
Fable Street Lifestyle Solutions, a Delhi-based startup that retails premium workwear brand FableStreet, raised about $3 million in a Series A round led by Fireside Ventures last month.
In November, online fashion rental platform Rent It Bae merged with Mumbai-based fashion rental startup Flyrobe to expand its omnichannel footprint.
In the same month, Sensedynamic Fashions India, a Bengaluru-based startup that owns fast-fashion ecommerce startup Styched, raised an undisclosed amount in a seed funding round from angel investors.
In October, Kanvas Consultancy, a Mumbai-based startup that owns the personal styling and ecommerce platform StyleCracker, raised $2 million in a seed round from US-based venture capital fund AMJ Ventures.
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The Nightmare continues the series of DLCs for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's the best among the DLCs that's been released so far, with a little piece of story from Lara's past and a somewhat challenging tomb. Cooperative mode is present, which is a good thing. However, it is a short DLC and nothing groundbreaking.
The hallucination sequence and challenge tomb in The Nightmare give this pack the most character out of all the DLC so far.


If you are a fan of Chipotle restaurant's Beef Barbacoa, then you will love this easy-to-make recipe to enjoy in your tacos, burritos, or even served over rice. Traditionally barbacoa is slow roasted meat over an open fire. In this recipe, we will also provide easy-to-make slow-cooker (crock pot) directions. This Beef Barbacoa recipe has a wonderful heat that slowly sneaks up on your taste buds! My son-in-law, who loves spicy foods, gave this recipe a big thumbs ups. This barbacoa beef will go well with our Cilantro Lime Rice. For this recipe, I have provided both slow cooker and Instant Pot pressure cooker instructions.
Barbacoa style of cooking found its way to Mexico which was further developed by the Chichimeca Indians of Northern Mexico. With their method, they would dig a hole in the ground and build a fire pit. In the pit they would place volcanic rocks over the fire to help distribute the heat. The meat is salted, then wrapped in leaves from the maguey cactus plant (also known as agave), and placed on top of the hot rocks. The leaves are then covered with dirt to trap the heat. Slowly the meat will cook underground for several hours in a hot, steamy, oven-like environment. The results of this slow cooking process makes the meat fall off the bone tender and moist. This method of cooking is very similar to the Hawaiian technique of building an underground imu oven to slow cook pork.
Moles or Salsas were used as the sauces to accompany the meat which would be considered the first barbeque sauces.
For many Mexican families, the process of cooking barbacoa is like a religious ceremony. Due to the long cooking times and setup, barbacoa is usually cooked for special occasions and fiestas. When Mexican's think of barbacoa, they are reminded of happy family and community celebrations. Today, barbacoa is often found at Roadside stands or small open restaurants all over Mexico and the flavors will vary by regions. "In the far north, cow head predominates. In the area around Monterray, goat is preferred. Pig is served in the Yucatan, and sheep in Hildago." The region of Texcoco, which is east of Mexico City is known as the home of barbacoa.
* Can substitute 1/4 cup lime juice.
*** Canned chipotle chili's in adobe sauce can be found in Hispanic section of grocery store.
Trim any excess fat off the beef chuck roast. Cut into large 4-inch chunks and rub salt into cut roast pieces.
In large skillet over medium-high heat, add enough olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Once the oil has been heated up, add the beef roast chunks and brown on all sides. Remove from pan and place browned beef in the bottom of the preheated slow cooker.
While beef is browning, using your blender add vinegar, garlic, cumin, oregano, cloves, cinnamon, pepper, lime juice, chicken broth, chipotle chiles, and adobe sauce. Cover blender with lid and blend until ingredients are pureed into a sauce. Add salt to taste.
Important Tip: Chipotle chiles and adobe sauce are very spicy. Start slowly by blending in just 2 to 3 chipotle chiles and 1 tablespoon of adobe sauce and then taste to test the spiciness. Add more chipotle chiles and adobe sauce if you want to increase the spicy flavor. If sauce gets too spicy, add additional chicken broth or water, 1/4 cup at a time, to reduce the heat.) Pour the sauce over the top of the beef chunks and add bay leaves.
Cover with lid and cook on high heat for 4 to 5 hours or low heat for 8 to 10 hours. Beef is done when it is "fall apart" tender and can be easily shredded with fork.
Using two forks, shred the beef and stir together until combined with sauce.
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Remove the lid from the pressure cooker and select the Saute button and adjust to high heat setting. After the inner pot has heated up, add the olive oil to coat the bottom of the pot. Once the oil has been heated up, add the beef roast chunks and brown on all sides.
Important Tip: Chipotle chiles and adobe sauce are very spicy. Start slowly by blending in just 2 to 3 chipotle chiles and 1 tablespoon of adobe sauce and then taste to test the spiciness. Add more chipotle chiles and adobe sauce if you want to increase the spicy flavor. If sauce gets too spicy, add additional chicken broth or water, 1/4 cup at a time, to reduce the heat.) Once the beef has been browned on all sides, pour the sauce over the top of the beef chunks and add bay leaves.
Cover with pressure cooker lid and seal to close. Adjust the pressure valve to Sealing to make sure the pressure will be locked in. Next select the Manual button and make sure it is set to high pressure. Set the cooking time to 60 minutes. Once the cooking time is finished allow for a Natural Pressure Release (usually takes 15-20 minutes) Open the lid to check the beef. Beef is done when it is "fall apart" tender and can be easily shredded with fork. Note: If the beef has not yet reached the desired tenderness, cover with the pressure cooker lid again and seal closed. Adjust the pressure valve to Sealing and select the Manual button at high pressure and cook for an additional 10 minutes. When the cooking time is finished, Quick release the pressure, open the lid and check the meat again. Repeat this step if necessary.


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Hearing deficits of young Americans have diminished. At least this is what a study recently published in Jama Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery has demonstrated. Data indicated that among young people in the age range 2 -19 hearing-related disturbances decreased 7.3% between 2007 - 2010. This improvement is directly Read More.
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Q: a is undefined - google maps markers Could you please help me out with the error I get.
Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

and here is the JSON file:
     {
    "pins": {
        "pin": {
            "name": "Sofia Bike Rental",
            "latitude": "42.692821",
            "longitude": "23.328738",
            "contact": "www.sofiabikerental.com",
            "type": "rent"
        },
        "pin": {
            "name": "Sofia Rent Center",
            "latitude": "42.6674952",
            "longitude": "23.2857399",
            "contact": "www.sofiarentcenter.com",
            "type": "rent"
        },
        "pin": {
            "name": "Drag Zone",
            "latitude": "42.6700007",
            "longitude": "23.2928839",
            "contact": "www.velomania-bg.com",
            "type": "service"
        },
        "pin": {
            "name": "True Riders",
            "latitude": "42.682068",
            "longitude": "23.322313",
            "contact": "www.trueriders.bg",
            "type": "service"
        },
        "pin": {
            "name": "NDK",
            "latitude": "42.685882",
            "longitude": "23.318138",
            "type": "parking"
        },
        "pin": {
            "name": "Sofia municipality",
            "latitude": "42.696701",
            "longitude": "23.332965",
            "type": "parking"
        }
    }
}

I am receiving a is undefined all the time. I am trying to  add these markers on the map and make a infoBox for them, could you please advie me how to proceed.
Thank you in advance for your help.

A: *

*you've obviously mixed up the libraries, the method addMarker is available in jquery.ui.map ....so use this library instead of the library from http://gmap.nurtext.de

*the JSON doesn't have a pin-property, the name of the property is pins.
But although your JSON is valid, it will not create the expected result. Property-names have to be unique, the pins-property of the returned JSON will only contain a single pin-property. You may validate the JSON at http://jsonlint.com/ and you will see that the result is:
{
"pins": {
    "pin": {
        "name": "Sofia municipality",
        "latitude": "42.696701",
        "longitude": "23.332965",
        "type": "parking"
    }
}
}

The content of your JSON-file should be:
{
    "pins": [
      {
            "name": "Sofia Bike Rental",
            "latitude": "42.692821",
            "longitude": "23.328738",
            "contact": "www.sofiabikerental.com",
            "type": "rent"
        },
         {
            "name": "Sofia Rent Center",
            "latitude": "42.6674952",
            "longitude": "23.2857399",
            "contact": "www.sofiarentcenter.com",
            "type": "rent"
        },
         {
            "name": "Drag Zone",
            "latitude": "42.6700007",
            "longitude": "23.2928839",
            "contact": "www.velomania-bg.com",
            "type": "service"
        },
         {
            "name": "True Riders",
            "latitude": "42.682068",
            "longitude": "23.322313",
            "contact": "www.trueriders.bg",
            "type": "service"
        },
        {
            "name": "NDK",
            "latitude": "42.685882",
            "longitude": "23.318138",
            "type": "parking"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sofia municipality",
            "latitude": "42.696701",
            "longitude": "23.332965",
            "type": "parking"
        }
]
}

...then you be able to draw the markers by looping over data.pins.
Additionally:
When you use the jquery.ui.map you may simply create the map via :
$('#map_canvas').gmap();

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/doktormolle/t5cfgjdu/


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