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Koenigsegg Gemera set to make debut at 2020 Salon Prive Concours d'Elegance
The New Koenigsegg Gemera will be making its debut at the upcoming Salon Prive in the surroundings of Blenheim Palace in late September. The Gemera nametag denotes a Swedish term for 'give more' that perfectly compliment the four-seater hypercar with an ability to sprint from 0 – 100 km/h in less than 2 seconds (1.9 seconds).
Although fitted with a 2.0-liter 3-cylinder engine, the Koenigsegg Gemera's powertrain package also comprised of three electric motors. Together, the powertrain offers a combined output of 1700bhp, with an immense 3500Nm of torque. It drives through the patented single-gear Koenigsegg Direct Drive (KDD) transmission, and even features a lightweight 800V battery that enables the Gemera to run purely on electricity for up to 50 kilometers. The powertrain could push another 550 km range on highway cruise in hybrid mode.
As with all Koenigseggs, the newest hypercar is all about lightweight but adhering to worldwide homologation standards. The Gemera is built entirely on carbon fiber from the monocoque to smaller details. This Koenigsegg's got six smart airbags, stability control, traction control, ABS and ADAS 2.5, as well as all-wheel drive, all-wheel steering and all-wheel torque vectoring. The rear seats could be fitted with ISOFIX points too, in case you want to take your kids on a thrill ride.
Koenigsegg CEO and Founder Christian von Koenigsegg said, "The Gemera is a game-changing model for Koenigsegg, and we can't think of anywhere better than Salon Privé to give the car its UK debut. It's grown into an essential event for the motoring world's greatest brands, and we're excited to show off the Gemera to its discerning guests."
The Koenigsegg Gemera will star alongside big Supercar brands like Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Aston Martin, Bugatti and Lotus at the Salon Prive from 23 – 26 September.
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The Sunday Telegraph Issues Apology To Daniel Johns For Brothel Story
Zanda Wilson May. 03, 2020
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The Sunday Telegraph has apologised to Daniel Johns over an article it published in August of 2019. The article included a photograph of the Silverchair frontman and alleged he was exiting notorious Sydney brothel The Kastle.
The offending was written by Amy Harris and the News Corp paper published it as a front-page exclusive. It cited "sources" who claimed that Johns would sometimes spend up to 18 hours a day at the brothel.
In a statement issued at midnight on Sunday, May 3rd, The Daily Telegraph admitted that "the story was wrong" and the paper now "accepts [Johns] has never been there at any other time".
A month after the story was published, Johns issued a statement, denying he had ever visited The Kastle and announcing that he had taken up legal proceedings against the newspaper.
"This false reporting has been very hurtful, humiliating, and damaging to me and my family," wrote Johns in September of 2019.
"It is disappointing that the newspaper has not acknowledged this and apologised despite assertions from both myself, and a representative of the Kastle, that I simply was not, and have never been, there. In fact, I never even knew of its existence."
In its apology, The Daily Telegraph explained that it now understood "Mr Johns was in the area because he had been visiting a friend who lived in the vicinity of The Kastle.
"We retract the story and we wish to extend a genuine and public apology to Mr Johns and his family for the error and the harm caused," it said.
The Kastle's owner, known as Misstress Scarlett, always denied that Johns had ever visited the venue. "We're unsure of the source of this false information," she tweeted last year.
"In our 30 year history, we've never revealed the identity of clients and take privacy very seriously."
In response to the apology, Johns tweeted succinctly; "Now back to the music."
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Fairfield man gets 4-year prison term in fatal Easton crash
By Daniel Tepfer, Staff writer
Published 8:19 pm EDT, Monday, August 31, 2009
BRIDGEPORT -- A Fairfield man was sentenced today to four years in prison after pleading guilty to driving drunk and causing the death last year of another Fairfield man.
Alex Mills, of Andrassy Avenue, Fairfield, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol for the crash in Easton last year that caused the death of 24-year-old Derick Springer of Coburn Street.
He was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Bruce Hudock to seven years, suspended after he serves four years in prison, followed by five years probation.
Assistant State's Attorney Amy Bepko had urged the judge to sentence Mills to a 5-year prison term because of the seriousness of the crime.
The crash took place shortly after midnight May, 10, 2008, as Mills was driving an Audi sedan south on Route 58 in Easton. Springer and two other friends were passengers in the car. Police said Mill lost control of the car, veering into the northbound lane and striking a Nissan sedan nearly head on.
The Audi then caught on fire, and Mills and his two backseat passengers managed to get out on their own. Springer, however, had to be pulled from the wreck by Mills, police said. The driver and three passengers in the Nissan were treated at Bridgeport Hospital for injuries and later released.
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Mills was later found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.۩


Los Angeles Universal Preschool invites the community to support its efforts to increase accessibility to affordable quality preschools by buying tickets to an upcoming Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The game will be played June 13 at Dodger Stadium.
Tickets are now on sale and proceeds from every ticket sold through LAUP will be used to fund high- quality preschool education for 4-year-olds in Los Angeles County, including the Whittier area.
For information or tickets. call 213-416-1284 or e-mail dodgertickets@laup.net.


Samsung Electronics is looking to get back on track after its Galaxy Note7 fiasco. In addition to other business developments concerning a spinoff of its printing division and the appointment of a new board member, the company's leadership addressed the issue of its aborted smartphone in a recent Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders.
The Galaxy Note7 was meant to be a pioneering entry in Samsung's line of flagship devices, being one of the first major smartphones to support iris scanning, which was to be used for a range of purposes including authentication for mobile payments via Samsung Pay. That has all been put on ice after an overheating issue led to the device's total recall, and a still-faulty rerelease led to its discontinuation.
It may be another signal of Samsung's intention to remain focused on iris biometrics for its next Galaxy smartphone, an innovation that will ultimately put it a step ahead of arch-rival Apple, even if it stumbled in trying to do so with the Note7.


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JTM exec shares lessons learned over the decades
Core values are fundamental to creating a strong and consistent company culture.
By TROY BLOEDEL
JTM Construction
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Culture and values transcend everything we do at JTM Construction and are what drew me to this company years ago. Here are some of the many lessons I've learned along the way.
A few things to keep in mind as you read: Does your company, regardless of size, have an entrepreneurial spirit? A quick way to check: Do you provide the freedom for your team to innovate and create opportunities for growth, or do you feel handcuffed to "legacy thinking?"
Just because "you've always done it that way" doesn't mean you can't change.
• Value-based leadership and client-focused culture.
Core values are the unchanging principles that guide a company and define its culture. Core values provide the strongest possible foundation for building and expanding a healthy company. Without defining a company's values, it is impossible to create a consistent culture, which we describe as how work gets done, based on core values. Therefore, core values are fundamental to creating a strong and consistent company culture.
Do you know your values? Have you defined them? Does your company act in alignment with your values? Simply stated, do you walk the talk?
Beyond the words themselves, it's important to take the time to define what they mean. Do more than post them on your company's website. Display them at the office and the jobsite. Make sure that your leaders in the office and in the field know your values and what they stand for. Then take the next step: Connect the meaning of each value to the behavior that you expect, and communicate those expectations clearly to your team.
• Culture is measurable.
Culture gets a bad rap. It's defined as a "soft" feature of a company. But culture can empower you. How? By connecting your values to behavior, you're able to measure whether or not team members are connecting to and aligning with your culture.
Why does this matter? Because you want your teams to perform at high levels and be empowered to make the right decisions for your company and your clients. You want consistency in the corporate office and across jobsites. You also want that consistency to remain, even if an individual on a project team leaves the project mid-stream. Done right, you can use the same evaluative measures in your recruitment, hiring and onboarding processes, so your people are steeped in your culture from the outset.
• Consistent culture equals low turnover.
We have low turnover at JTM, and we have team members who are motivated self-starters, engaged in their work and highly productive. Last year we explored some of the reasons why, and we discovered that everything pointed to the attributes of our culture.
It's not just us. Companies with a high degree of relatedness and engagement among employees are more productive, more creative and more profitable. They also have lower turnover. This doesn't happen accidentally. These companies invest heavily in their people!
That makes a real difference. We've all experienced what it's like to have to replace an employee. It's costly in terms of emotional impact, time and money, with most experts estimating that it will cost one-third to one-half of the new hire's salary — on top of their salary — to properly train them and get them up to full speed.
• Acknowledgment when it counts.
How good are you at acknowledging team members, not simply for doing well — that's their job — but when they step up, over and above, or do something meaningful, like picking up the slack seamlessly if another person is out sick, or jumping in to help without being asked if other people on the team are struggling with their workload, or reaching out to a client to get their input in advance of a decision.
This creates a "whole-team" approach, which strengthens relationships, builds trust, increases confidence and strengthens comradery.
Our size gives us the advantage to have leaders deeply involved in the business. Again, regardless of size, this is something that you can implement. Create a site visit matrix, so that you regularly and frequently have executives at jobsites, connecting with your teams in the field, not just so you can acknowledge them whenever appropriate, but so that you can engage them, and make sure that you have your finger on the pulse of each job.
• Inspire. Connect. Allow.
What is leadership? Is it people doing what you want them to do when you're not around? Is it people upholding, even exceeding your company's values? Is it people using their ingenuity to create new rules when it's appropriate?
It's all of the above. That's why training your emerging leaders to think critically and to inspire their teams is so important. You want them to know that each job is important, and that they add to your value proposition in a way that enhances your company and attracts more people to you.
Then connect what each person is doing to the big picture, so whether you're a senior project engineer or a superintendent or a foreman, you understand that your work contributes directly to the success of the project and the company. In fact, it's essential to its success. Everyone plays a role in the greater good.
Finally, allow people the room to grow. Give them a degree of autonomy so that they can continually develop. They don't have to constantly ask for permission because you trust them to lead from your shared values. Promote from within whenever possible, setting up your team members to successfully rise as high as they can go.
1. Acknowledge that culture — how work gets done, based on your core values — matters. It's a settled fact. You can spend five minutes doing an online search to discover the significant difference that promoting a consistent workplace culture makes in terms of productivity, creativity and profitability.
2. Review your values. Do they still serve you and represent you? Revise if necessary and create a set of them if you don't have them.
3. Clearly define values so everyone understands them.
4. Link expected behaviors to each value.
5. Train your leaders how to share this information with their teams.
6. Be consistent in applying cultural standards across the board.
7. Use your values as the basis for everything your company does.
Troy Bloedel is a vice president at JTM Construction, a Seattle-based general contractor. He has 40 years of experience in the industry, first with his grandfather and father building homes, then as a laborer and professional for mechanical and general contractors.
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The World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) currently has no diagnostic codes for chronic pain. To rectify this, the WHO and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) have developed, for the first time, a series of relevant codes for the forthcoming 11th edition (ICD-11). Blair H. Smith contributed to the WHO/IASP Task Force, and to a series of papers presenting the new ICD-11 chronic pain codes, including an overview and a detailed description of the Neuropathic Pain coding. In particular, with other members of NRS Pain, he led the paper describing their relevance for primary care.
Data and Measurement for Chronic Pain Services: a project to inform national pain service improvement, draft progress report. This project was established to address the lack of standardised measurement of chronic pain in Scotland, and of services provided to manage chronic pain. This is an important issue as there is no clear way of measuring the prevalence of chronic pain nationally, understanding the demographics and needs of the patient group, the impact chronic pain has on them, or the effectiveness of any service provision or service improvement initiatives which often presents a problem when funding services and treatments for patients.
The opioid section of SIGN 136 is currently being updated. Anticipated publication date is December 2018. Torrance, N., et al. (2018). "Association of opioid prescribing practices with chronic pain and benzodiazepine co-prescription: a primary care data linkage study." Br J Anaesth 120(6): 1345-1355.
Fallon, Marie, Jane Walker, Lesley Colvin, Aryelly Rodriguez, Gordon Murray, Michael Sharpe, and Edinburgh Pain Assessment and Management Tool Study Group. "Pain Management in Cancer Center Inpatients: A Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate a Systematic Integrated Approach-The Edinburgh Pain Assessment and Management Tool" Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 13 (2018): 1284-1290.
The Management of Chronic Pain in Children and Young People: A National Clinical Guideline: The main guideline summarises available evidence, combined with consensus group agreement on key recommendations and suggested patient pathways. We have followed the methodology of SIGN 136 and hope that this guideline will facilitate the transition to adult services. Our aim is that this will ensure all health professionals are delivering a consistent, evidence-based approach. Research gaps have not been specifically listed, as these are clear from the key recommendations and current level of evidence associated with these.
Management of Chronic Pain in Children and Young People: A National Clinical Guideline.


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Roger Ebert became film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967. He is the only film critic with a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame and was named honorary life member of the Directors' Guild of America. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Screenwriters' Guild, and honorary degrees from the American Film Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1989 he has hosted Ebertfest, a film festival at the Virginia Theater in Champaign-Urbana. From 1975 until 2006 he, Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper co-hosted a weekly movie review program on national TV. He was Lecturer on Film for the University of Chicago extension program from 1970 until 2006, and recorded shot-by-shot commentaries for the DVDs of "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca," "Floating Weeds" and "Dark City," and has written over 20 books.
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Newcastle v Everton
By chicoazul
Had a nice Christmas? Ready to play some cringey half Scottish shitheads? Course you are, and if even if you're not ready it's going to happen anyway, so read on to learn nothing new about anything much.
Firstly a look back on the game before and who needs the Grinch at Christmas when you have Everton? That was a half arsed performance as there's been, with nothing too much about Leicester that should place them at the top of the table, but not taking it away from their either as they worked hard for it and we appreciate that type of stuff.
Just a note on that victory. A highlight for me was the amount of tweets I got post victory to try to remonstrate as they didn't appreciate that I didn't know where they are from or care too much about it. The owner of the site even got complaint emails, rather wonderfully. And then they won and were at top of the league for Christmas. Can you imagine the scenes in our fanbase? We'd be trying to neck everyone instead. What they doing reading Everton sites anyway? Something something about insecure and yo yo club and small time.
It's also kick started the ol' debate of Martinez's suitability in role as leader of Everton. Looking at the January fixture list I reckon this one is going to role for some time yet too. The patience reserves of the fan base were used up with eleven years of Moyes, and now lids are fracking for whatever lays left down there.
I'm merely another online beaut so it's not my place what to think or even to pass too much opinion on it as there's seldom many Evertonians that will change their mind over internet debate. We can only see how it pans out and hope that we see an ace Everton sometime soon in our life as it's been too long.
Two semi finals coming up will be magnified beyond belief, imagine we take a shoeing in them?
That's not forgetting the league which is all over the show this season and just makes the massive missed opportunity even more paining. If you think back to this time last year it was a horrid time so I hope they're planning on preventing another dull festive period. The fact that Newcastle are absolutely gubbins means we should firmly be targeting three points for this, and I don't care that it's away. I don't care that Asprilla once played for them and some Belgian scored a chip when they beat Newcastle five nil one time. They have won nothing for absolute beards and it's firmly because they're a dogshit yo yo club in a one city team so think attendances bestow greatness on them.
The dull weasel voiced teds.
If you're making the unfortunate journey up to the Scottish borders then be prepared for over jovial types who think they're cock of the year (but pretend to be your best mate when out numbered at Goodison) and Stasi type law enforcement.
Their women however are deliciously loose which a definite bonus point and for that we applaud the place. Far preferable to the lash wearing, Ming The Merciless eyebrowed, fanta faced wage sucking nazis of our fair city. Apologies sisters and mother. It does however mean that by virtue of their women being looser moralled that every single one of their mothers has seen a truck load of cock during their time. Every single one on their mars. And all their Nans eventually age into Brian Kilcline lookalikes, at 36 years of age.
But no doubt they'll sing "feed the scousers" for the top banTZ. Or turn up dressed as Bananaman for a match because they're such lads.
You know what? That's being unfair. I continually have a go at Newcastle in my previews and it's shame as as I like them a great deal as people, much more than the majority of the country but sadly that would make for an even duller preview. I just wish they'd tone it down a bit over the footie. It's like a competition to out do each other with displays of "passion" when really it should read "bellwipe behaviour".
Who they going to play? Lots of players who cost big money. To be honest that's not a slant as pretty much all players in the Premier League cost big money. They have that hot young striker Mitrovic up front who struggled as first but we're the type of opposition to get a confidence boost from, we specialise in it in fact. Their boy Cisse – the big furrowing hulk – is out injured for this.
Other notable players are Dutch lad Wijnaldum who will play behind the striker, or maybe on the left, and will be need to be watched as he's a tricky wee thing and is settling into English football slowly but surely. I best mention him otherwise it will put the mockers on us and he'll score, that Perez lad may also play as he's also made an impact on them of late.
Midfield is where we can definitely get to them as it's a bit powder puff. Anita and probably Colback will play there and with all due respect we should be able to out footie them but in fairness we were meant to do similar to Bournemouth, Norwich and Leicester of late and gubbed it. Barkley seems to turn up against these so I hope he notes their middle of their park looking a bit underwhelming.
Defence is usual Newcastle – Coloccini and a collection of misfits. They're usually a bit more sturdier on home soil so I doubt we'll benefit too much, we seldom have an easy win at Newcastle. Elliot will play in goal.
Newcastle like so many Premier League teams (ourselves firmly included) are in a big bunch of teams usually feeding for scraps off the top table and with stand out players from other leagues who are prone to good and bad days in the competitive Premier League. It's not quite a lottery but this season is testament to each team being able to beat another on it's day.
There's a recurring theme in these previews this season in that with the quality in Everton's team that we should have too much for the opposition, yet we find ourselves dead in the middle of the table at Christmas. Maybe that's where we belong this year and that's a reflection of our players, their inexperience and of course the manager.
Festive periods as well as offering threat also offer opportunity so much will depend on the players picked to kick start something, anything that will give us a better second half of season.
Lukaku can't stop scoring which really should be goals that fire us forward but instead you get the feeling that the only thing it's firing is interest in a proven young goal scorer with many top attributes come the end of the season. I seen lids getting proper chocka over some instagram he posted this week where he was dressed like a night out in New Brighton and talking about looking for the next challenge. Herein lies half the problem – in the modern game the players (thanks to that tithead Belgian Bosman) are put so much on a pedestal for their footballing talents that it leads them to believe that anything they say is said with purpose. Many of them spunk out motivational quotes like Archimedes on 80s whizz, yet it's not their intellectual prowess that elevates them over us mere mortals, just that they're better at kicking a ball round a pitch than pretty much everyone else in the country.
It also affects us in that it doesn't matter how much you or I think about Everton to them, or the grand old history or culture around the place. They would jib us off for an extra 20,000 instagram followers and Champions League football.
This isn't likely to change any time soon and there's a good argument to say it's too deeply ingrained when you see how your average nugget speaks about football using the cliches and edgy views of those they follow on TV. For all intents and purposes Premier League football is the new big soap opera of the masses. Or maybe I'm the misplaced dinosaur longing for a game that no longer exists? Not sure how this links into Lukaku so much but my point is that you're best sweating Everton a little less than you used to because you care a lot more than pretty much all the players, those making the decisions at the club and those providing the narration in the media of it all.
You can't sweat Stones, Lukaku et all dropping us in the summer because it's one of a hundred pitfalls in a stinking money washed modern game. Want them to stay? Then do SOMETHING. WIn something. Get Champions League football so they can put it in their twitter bio and tweet something pre match dead poignant about going into battle that has been ripped right out of The Art Of War, a book or concept they have absolutely no idea of. But Joe in Huddersfield is going to absolutely love it and comment on it and then BBC Live Text are going to post Joe's comments and then loads of other people are going to retweet Joe's comments and then someone is going to tweet Joe back and give him "the banter" and Joe will retort and both will go at it while everyone is glued to their Samsung or iPhone or iPad or laptop waiting for a victor to be declared – when both Joe and foe will view it as victory as they gain a thousand followers and their moment in the sun. Joe ends up getting slaps on the back from his mates at making it big and then gets his "legendary tweet" tattooed onto his forearm for eternity, but in Greek writing as that makes it so much more profound.
The players, the fans, them all. It's an oceania of shallow insecure gobshites.
So leave Lukaku in his white suit probably posting an innocent instagram with nothing to do about leaving and excuse my mini meltdown there. This means I have no room to talk about the rest of the team, but you can probably guess it as the personnel don't change and sadly neither do the hard luck stories of late.
One thing though – if you've unfortunately made it this far – before we go balls deep in with this bunch of San Diego vultures, read up a little first so you know how it goes. It's widely reported that there's other options on the table for Everton in terms of being bought out and I think it's prudent to know all the options. Even if we're not shareholders and have no right to know as such.
They do fear your social media momentum – or the traditional Evertonian method of protest of having one of our lids hanging off their speeding bonnet – so you defo count for something. Owners can last 15 years (longer than most marriages) so it's good housekeeping to make sure we don't end up with what very much appear to be leeches. Let's see all the options, because shareholders are always more inclined to take the best offer for them, than the best offer for our lovely Everton. Except obviously it's not ours really but they wrecked our weekends so we can claim some form of squatter rights.
I genuinely don't know where I'm going here so I'll end it.
Maybe these Americans will just buy us out anyway and then close the club down to turn Goodison into a luxury car park. Lukaku can park his Bugatti or whatever he likes there then, so maybe he'll never leave us after all.
Anyway, wake up Everton smash these. Because you so should.


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Hany Shaker
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Hany Shaker, born December 21, 1952 in Cairo) is an Egyptian singer, actor and composer. He has over 461 songs in the hearts of his lovers. His first public appearance was when he sang with Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in "Sora", then he showed up in the movie Sayed Darwish as Sayed darwish when he was young.
Hany Shaker began his musical career at a very early age - learning the piano as a child, when his mother took on the role of agent as well as supervisor of his professional training. After graduation from high school in the early 1970s he started to study music at the prestigious Cairo Conservatoire.
Hany scored his first breakthrough hit in his second year of college in December 1972 with a song written by Mohammed El Mougi, "Heloua ya Dounia (It's a Wonderful Life), which his musical set him off on his musical career.. Although at that time the biggest legends remained at their peak, Umm Kulthum, Farid al-Atrash, Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez they recognized his potential and supported him, so that he was able to become known among all these legends. Until today Hany claims he owes his greatest musical debt to Abdel Halim Hafez, a man who is very remarkable and who continues to exert a considerable huge influence on younger Egyptian and arab musicians even after his death in 1977.
In 1974, Hany was invited to participate in a concert in Lebanon, which turned out to be a huge success.. and ever since then Hany has remained extremely popular among the Lebanese.
From then on Hany produced a number of his early hits "Siboni Aheb" (Let me love), "Kisma w'nasib" (Destiny and fate) and one of his most popular "Kida Bardo Ya Amar" (It's not fair, oh Moon") During the 70's Hany presented two famous Plays "Cinderella" and "Egypt".. and three romantic movies "When love sings", "We live for love" and "I love this and want that".
In the course of his long and successful career, Shaker has proved he is not only a talented singer but also a songwriter of his own material including the whole album of "Albi Maloh" which included 8 Hits in the early 90's.. and songs such as "Ma'ak" and "Katabetli essenin" as well as working with a number of legendary composers including Salah El Sharnoubi, Tarik Akif, Yehia El Mougi, Mohamed Sultan, Baligh Hamdi, Mohamed Elmogi, khaled Elamir, Mounir Mourad, Elias El Rahbani, Ammar Elshereei, Mohamed Diaa Eldeen, Sami Elhefnawi, Hassan Abo Elsuood and Ahmed Shata.
In spite of his love of traditional Egyptian music, Hany also enjoys modern songs which reflect contemporary society. He considers his own musical style a halfway point between tradition and modernity. In the late eighties and in the nineties he started to act through his video clips including:, Lao Ya'ni, Nesyanak Sa'b, Mat Hadidish, Albi Maloh and many others.
He has a repertoire of 29 albums to date:
Baadak Maleesh 2010
Habib Hayaty 2009
Ahla Ellayali 2007
Arabny Leek 2005
Bahebak Ya Ghaly 2003
Bahebak Ana 2001
Garhy Ana 2000
Ya retny 1999
El-Helm El-Gamel 1998
Tekhsary 1997
Leh ManeHlamshi 1996
Wala Kan Beamry 1995
Albi Malo 1994
Kolo Yehoun
Shawer 1991
Aally El-Dehkaiya
Elhob Malosh Kebeer
Maaak
Baasha Dehketak
Hekayet Kol Aasheq
Howa Elli Ekhtar
Teslamly Ouyouno
Ya Retak Maaaia
Men Ghair Leh
Sadainy
Weselna Lefain
Keda bardo ya Amar
La ya Habibi
Aaysheen lel Hob
Aghani Haflet Elopera


Where was I? Ha..Ha..The pink highlighted feets in the photo, blocked by a lady in black.
Enjoyed great chat & laughters with the homestay owner, Mr Kamo about his journey of managing his Kamo Home & life philosophy, 随遇而安, go with the flow.


In this video tutorial we will show you how to create round text in the Photoshop.
Launch the Adobe Photoshop. Go to the "File" menu and choose "New" to create a new document. In the appeared window set the document properties and press the "OK" button. Go to the toolbar and choose the "Ellipse Tool".
Move the mouse while holding the "Shift" key and the left mouse button pressed inside the document area to create a circle. Then select the "Horizontal Type Tool" from the toolbar. Set the tool at the edge of the circle.
Format it with the text panel attributes. Once you have completed the text formatting, go to "Layers" and click on the "Eye" icon to make the layer with circle invisible.
As you can see, the round text has been successfully created.


This year, on 17 June 2019, UNCCD will celebrate its 25th anniversary of the World Day to Combat Desertification, and will use the event as an opportunity to renew its collective commitment to restore the productivity of over 2 billion hectares of degraded land and improve the livelihood of more than 1.3 billion people around the world.
Under the slogan – « Let's grow the future together," UNCCD will celebrate the 25 years of progress made by countries and people in sustainable land management. The Un organization is inviting people around the world to share their plans for celebrating the World Day to Combat Desertification 2019.


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Humans, Characters, Characters from Earth-1,
Allusions to the comics
Church of Blood members
Main antagonists
Clinton Hogue
For his predecessor, also known under the same alias, see Sebastian Blood.
Human Deceased
Universe Information
Home universe
Leader of the Church of Blood
Bodyguard (formerly)
Church of Blood
Unnamed (father)
Unnamed (mother)
Brother Blood
Roark Critchlow
Clinton Hogue (died 2014) was the leader of the Church of Blood and the former bodyguard of the late Sebastian Blood. Sometime after Slade Wilson was imprisoned by A.R.G.U.S., and after Sebastian and Isabel Rochev were killed, Clinton became the new leader of the Church of Blood, taking up the mantle of Brother Blood.[1]
1.2 Taking up the mantle of Brother Blood
5.1 Arrow
5.2.1 Arrow Season 2.5
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Clinton Hogue used to operate in Blüdhaven with an affiliation of thugs called the Renegades.[2] Later on, he worked as Mayor Blood's bodyguard.
After Blood requests that Clinton leave him alone for dinner, Clinton is kidnapped by John Diggle and Felicity Smoak. Clinton is unfazed about the whole situation, until Felicity enters the scene, and starts transferring money from Clinton's off-shore accounts into several charities. As a result, Clinton gives in and reveals the location where Blood is going to be beginning the assault on Starling City.[3]
When Slade Wilson began his attack, Hogue reunited with Blood, who told him that he gave the Mirakuru cure to The Arrow after he realized he made a mistake. Clinton warned that Slade would kill him once he found out, and Sebastian reassured him that he was his insurance policy and so Clinton was made to wait in an adjoining room while Sebastian warned that Mirakuru soldiers could only be killed with headshots. Isabel Rochev entered the room, claiming that Sebastian had betrayed Slade. Although Hogue had a chance to kill Ravanger, he ultimately decided not to, letting Isabel kill Sebastian. When she left, Clinton re-entered the room, picking up Sebastian's Brother Blood mask, having apparently received a sign from his god.[4]
Taking up the mantle of Brother Blood
Sometime after Sebastian's death, Clinton took up the mantle of Brother Blood and began to recruit new initiates.[5] Soon after, he watched the news as a member of the Church, Hoshaw Tolibao, began preaching his devotion to Brother blood from a rooftop, only to be taken down by The Arrow. Clinton insisted that his subordinate, Abel, address him by his given name.[1]
Clinton had an artist draw depictions of John Diggle and Felicity Smoak based on descriptions given by him, hoping to find them. Though taking a bit, eventually she came out with illustrations almost identical to the people themselves.[4] After The Arrow entered St. Walker's Church, where the Church was situated, Brother Blood confronted him, claiming that although Sebastian Blood had died, their "religion" was definitely not the first to be based around resurrection. The Arrow insulted the Church's followers and Brother Blood watched on as they attacked him.[6] However, he and John Diggle eventually escaped, which angered Clinton. He threatened Abel for allowing it to happen, making him beg for mercy.[7] However, eventually Abel captured Felicity Smoak. He entered and began talking to her. She deduced that he obviously wasn't Sebastian Blood, as he had died, but she was still freaked out by the mask. Before they could go on, they were interrupted by a commotion caused by Caleb Green outside the room. He killed Abel before leaving to find Oliver Queen.
Soon after, Hogue took Felicity to an air hangar, where he called and bargained with Oliver, forcing him to exchange himself for Felicity. Felicity, unsure of his identity or motives, questioned Hogue. He revealed himself and hoped that she would be scared. That night, they met with Oliver on the roof of Kord Industries, claiming that he'd have to go with them for Felicity.[8] Once they were in the air, Hogue revealed that it was in fact a setup, but once Oliver threatened to genuinely kill him, the helicopter was redirected. Once they'd arrived, Hogue expressed his belief that Oliver would not win, due to there being four men guarding Felicity.[2] Oliver attempted to threaten Hogue, but he in return tried to take back the gun. He retrieved the gun, but Oliver had taken all of the bullets (though there was one left, unbeknownst to him). He pounced on him and knocked him over.[9] They returned to the helicopter a short while later with Felicity, but Hogue had already made his way back on to it. He attempted to murder Roy and the two were knocked out, hanging only by Roy holding on to the helicopter. Ridding them of Hogue permanently, Roy kicked him in the face, causing Clinton to plummet 10,000 feet to his death.[10]
Clinton was calm, level-headed and composed. However, he was powerless against mental torture, and also had little tolerance for incompetence, as he threatened Abel for his incompetence. Hogue is also a devout theologian and humbly serves an unnamed deity.
High tolerance for pain: Clinton once mentioned to John Diggle that he had taken a beating previously, hinting that Clinton had a high tolerance for pain.
Expert tactician/Leader: Clinton was a capable tactician and leader, he was able to reform the Church of Blood, after the organization was left in chaos.
Brother Blood mask: Clinton wore a skull mask as his villainous alter-ego, Brother Blood, to hide his identity from a good majority of the Church of Blood.
"Seeing Red"
"City of Blood"
Arrow Season 2.5
"Descent"
"Acolyte"
"Ascension"
"Following"
"Awakenings" (mentioned)
"Transitions"
"Gone" (mentioned)
"Assault"
"Assurances"
"Choice"
"Flames"
Clinton's social security number is 306-00-3894.[3]
In the DC comics, first appearing in Animal Man volume 2 #21, Clinton Hogue is the leader of the Splinterfolk and is also an agent of Brother Blood.
Hogue, as Brother Blood, served as the main antagonist of the "Blood arc" of the Arrow: Season 2.5 comics line.
↑ 1.0 1.1 "Acolyte"
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Assurances"
↑ 3.0 3.1 "City of Blood"
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Ascension"
↑ "Descent"
↑ "Following"
↑ "Haunted"
↑ "Assault"
↑ "Choice"
↑ "Flames"
Retrieved from "https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/Clinton_Hogue?oldid=730286"
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Q: Is String.format %d always compatible with BigInteger? With String.format %d and its variants, we can easily format primitive integers and longs. However, does these formatting options work perfectly with BigInteger?
I've made some tests, and they seem to work well, for example:
public class Test6 {
    public static void main(final String args[]) {
        final java.math.BigInteger b = java.math.BigInteger.TEN.pow(999999);
        System.out.println(String.format("%,d", b));
    }
}

But are there any gotchas to watch out for?

A: There is an extensive section in the documentation for format strings.
I suppose the only tricky part could be locale-sensitivity (like what decimal point to use), but that applies for the other numeric types, too.

The following conversions may be applied to BigInteger.
'd'
Requires the output to be formatted as a decimal integer. The localization algorithm is applied.
If the '#' flag is given FormatFlagsConversionMismatchException will be thrown.

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What is the traditional telco model that is in "end game"?
Philip Virgo
Winsafe Ltd
2020 The year of VOIP assisted on-line fraud
Will 2020 be the year that politicians bring the Internet to heel?
How long before the shareholders break up BT? – ComputerWeekly.com
If barely half UK FTTC lines meet definition for ... – ComputerWeekly.com
Will Ofcom break up BT? Probably not - but it must ... – ComputerWeekly.com
I was intrigued by a recent entry in BrokenTelephon3 which talked of "the end game for the traditional telco model". It was followed by comments attacking Ian Grant for confusingly juxtaposing disparate developments, much as I am wont to do myself. The "games" are changing but I was unclear which "model" was coming to an end.
I recently blogged on BT's latest attempt to diversify into content distribution. I am still unclear whether this is driven by greed or fear. Does BT believe it learned something from running the communications operations for the Olympics that will enable it to succeed against Sky. Or does it fear that Liberty-Virgin, Vodafone-C&W, Clan Macquarrie (Arqiva, City Fibre and the other siblings and cousins) and others will invade its "traditional" communications utility markets and cream off its leased line and business revenues (including the carriage of traffic for content publishers and entertainment operations) and it therefore needs to build up direct consumer revenue streams covering more than just the "connection".
The UK communications infrastructure (wayleaves, ducts, poles, cables and switches) has a heterogeneous ownership structure as well a complex set of architectures, let alone technologies. Like the Internet that rests on top of it, it is a network of networks. BT's last attempt to re-engineer those parts of the infrastructure that it manages (albeit does not always own) was interupted by local loop unbundling. It is trying again. BT's great strength in the past was its understanding of how to run build and run complicated communications networks. To date it has been no more successful in its attempts to diversify than other former telcos (like AT&T, Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom etc.). Hence the lack of enthusiasm of City Analysts for its latest attempt to take Sky head on.
There is an interesting political conundrum.
Is the UK is better served by encouraging BT to put more effort into upgrading the UK communications infrastructure – for others to use to make money?
Or should it accept that BT management believes it has learned sufficient to give a better return to shareholders from diversifying into publishing sports content than from further increasing its investment into building and running the high-resilience 21st century communications infrastructure on which society will increasingly depend.
If HMG accepts that BT is going to diversify away from being a communications infrastructure operator, should it give greater encouragement to those who believe it is making a mistake and this is an attractive market to them – even if that means Treasury may have to bail out the pre-privatisation pensioners if BT's diversification attempts fail again.
This is not, however, a winner takes all race. As a private investor I have spread my money over a number of horses running different races on the same course at the same time. I have done quite nicely from buying BT shares shortly before the recent price rise, but suspect I may get a better long term return from the money I put into B4RN at about the same time. I also have shares in Sky and Vodafone.
However, I would really like to be able to invest in more operations like B4RN, because I believe that a mix of local shared infrastructure utilities and global operators may well be a safer and more profitable long term investment than companies fighting for a share of national or regional entertainment budgets. That is, provided the local operators build and run to international, any-to-any, inter-operability standards, thus allowing their subscribers to also access any of the many competing local and global content services. Such an approach also makes it easier for those which fail to be taken over and run by others.
I believe that bringing about and preserving that competitive market should be a prime focus of DCMS and Ofcom and that local authorities should be enabled and encouraged to do whatever is necessary to bring their communities on-line – including via municipal enterprise, mutuals, co-partnerships and co-operatives where this makes economic sense.
Is that an "end game" or a call to revert to the Victorian values and business models which created many of the shared infrastructure networks on which we are still building today. Let us also remember that Capitalism is a Marxist shiboleth. It had no place in The Wealth of Nations and in Victorian times the joint stock company was only one among a wide variety of investment vehicles.


Indianapolis, December 4, 2008 – Indianapolis will be the new home of one of the premier non-partisan medical technology think tanks in the United States. The Medical Technology Leadership Forum (MTLF) is relocating from Minneapolis to Indy. To celebrate the organization's new headquarters location, the group is holding one of their three yearly forums in Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 8 and 9.
The organization was founded in 1996 by a group of medical technology and policy leaders, including former U.S. Senator David F. Durenberger (R-MN), who has led the organization over the last 12 years. The original purpose of the organization was to bring together an influential group of thought leaders – entrepreneurs, physicians, research institutions, health plans, manufacturers, patient organizations and public policy leaders – to promote dialogue and debate about policy issues related to the medical device and medical technology community. The group addresses important topics on the forefront of the industry such as the economics of innovation, evidence-based medicine, combination products, and medical technology regulation and adoption.
Susan Bartlett Foote, Professor at the University of Minnesota, has served as the Director of MTLF along with Chairman of the MTLF Board of Advisors Sen. Durenberger, since its founding. They have spearheaded the leadership of the organization from both Washington D.C. and Minneapolis and are retiring from their leadership roles. In charting the future direction for the organization, the Board of Directors of the MTLF selected Indianapolis as an ideal new location for the group's headquarters. Current plans call for the MTLF to be housed within the Indiana University/Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation campus at the head of the canal in downtown Indianapolis. The MTLF plans to name a new executive director for the organization following the relocation to Indianapolis in December.
As a founding member of the organization, Bloomington-based Cook Group has been instrumental in gathering support to move MTLF's operations to Indy.
"Since its inception, the MTLF has provided a forum for discussion of public policy issues that face our nation and the medical technology industry. Policy makers who have participated in these discussions have used the concepts, resulting in positive action. The wide representation attending our forums – public interest groups, medical practitioners, industry, universities, and research institutes – generate a broad and informed perspective," said Steve Ferguson, Chairman of the Board, Cook Group Inc.
The mission of MTLF is to educate policy makers, other health care leaders, the media and the public about the role of medical technology and the need to sustain technological innovation. Because the industry is ever-changing and is influenced by countless factors, the organization's forums are important outlets, contributing to public policy on a wide range of issues.
BioCrossroads, Indiana's initiative to grow the life sciences, has been coordinating with Cook, Indiana University and the MTLF on the transition of the organization from Minneapolis to Indianapolis.
"Not only is Indiana one of the strongest life sciences regions in the U.S., but our expertise, entrepreneurs and large companies in medical technology – device, orthopedic, diagnostic, and IT – are significant, making Indianapolis an ideal location for this nationally prominent organization," said David Johnson, President and CEO of BioCrossroads. "The MTLF includes an impressive group of U.S.


I'm not sure that there is anything more fun than playing dress up for your wedding, especially when you have a super talented friend who wants to play as well!
Step one: Create a circle that fits comfortably around your head, that is accessible to remove and put back on whenever you would like. You can double up on the wire to make for a more sturdy base crown, or use just one; Either works.
Step two: Cut your first bloom and place it on your crown, in the desired location and direction you would like the flowers going. You can switch up the direction of flowers at any point, if you feel. Using roughly 3 inches of floral wire, use to wrap the bloom tightly around the wire crown to keep in place. You can use your hands or pliers to wrap the wire tight.
Step three: Take your floral tape, and wrap it around the bloom to cover the wire.
Step Four: Continue this same process with more blooms, layering around the wire crown until you form a solid crown of gorgeous flowers.
Be sure to check out the feature over on 100 layer cake!


Dinner is served with views of Chicago's breathtaking skyline and iconic architecture on one of several luxury vessels. Select from one of the specialty cruises year-round, which include live music, craft beer and live entertainment for families and special occasions. Plan to dazzle guests at your next special event with a private party on Lake Michigan. Step on board for some of the most unique sightseeing The Magnificent Mile has to offer, and set sail for an evening to remember.


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Mobile chip firm files $13.8M IPO
By Stephen Nellis / Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 / Comments Off on Mobile chip firm files $13.8M IPO
Santa Barbara-based Resonant has filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $13.8 million and has disclosed a development agreement with Skyworks, a major chip supplier for Apple's iPhone.
The funding round would build on a $7 million private placement that Resonant raised last summer. The company is a spinout of Superconductor Technologies, a firm that was working on materials to transmit electricity more efficiently before it moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas in 2012.
Resonant makes a component called a duplexer, which sits between the analog antenna and digital parts of a mobile phone and selects which frequencies to use for sending and receiving signals. Current duplexers can only handle a set number of frequency bands at a time, which has caused them to take up more space and cost in newer bandwidth-hungry designs.
Resonant's device can be reconfigured to handle different bands, lowering costs and saving space, the company said. Resonant has a development deal with Skyworks, which has a major manufacturing facility in Thousand Oaks and supplies chips to Apple and other mobile phone makers. The terms of the deal give Skyworks the right to the be the first to license Resonant's design.
"We expect to complete work on a production-ready duplexer design before the end of 2014," Resonant said in its filing.
Resonant does not yet have revenue and will go public under so-called "emerging growth company" rules that allow it to disclose less information than larger companies. Superconductor Technologies retains an 18.5 percent stake in the company. Lone Wolf Holdings, a New York-based fund headed by Peter Appel, owns 24.1 percent of the firm. MDB Capital Group is underwriting the deal.
Semtech to cut jobs
Amgen profits hit $5B, beat expectations
Container software firm Anchore raises $20 million
Dubroff: Procore IPO would have big impact on the Central Coast
Report says Procore among top 5 companies likely to have IPO in 2020


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Q: Extract XML value This is my xml message:
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
 xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
 <env:Header>
 <wsa:Action>http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService//OrganizationTreeService/addValueOrganizationTreeNodeResponse</wsa:Action>
 <wsa:MessageID>urn:uuid:d8f54d7e-8319-492a-9e0f-ec48ba2e840c</wsa:MessageID></env:Header><env:Body>
 <ns0:addValueOrganizationTreeNodeResponse xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/types/">
 <ns2:treeNodeId xmlns:ns2="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/types/" xmlns:ns1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/" xmlns:tns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/svc/errors/" xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/svc/types/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="ns0:StringResult">
 <ns0:Value>80CF98290891BB06E053C8B0BB0A2848</ns0:Value></ns2:treeNodeId></ns0:addValueOrganizationTreeNodeResponse>
 </env:Body></env:Envelope>

I need to get the value80CF98290891BB06E053C8B0BB0A2848 from this xml message
I am trying this code to put it in xmltable and then put in in mt custom table
select  y.JobFamilyId
  INTO L_PARENTTRENODEID

 from (select xmltype (P_RESPONSE) xml from dual) t,
     xmltable(
  xmlnamespaces ( 'http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/' as "ns0" ),
  '//ns1:value'
  passing t.xml
  columns
 value varchar2(500) path '/*:value'
 ) x

A: The path you've given for the ns0 namespace is missing the /types from the end - although you've used the wrong URL for the ns0 that is actually in force for Value node anyway; your XPath has ns1:value instead of ns0:Value but either needs to be wildcarded or have the full path; and the columns clause could be simplified to '.':
select x.value
into l_parenttrenodeid
from xmltable(
  xmlnamespaces('http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/svc/types/' as "ns0"),
  '//ns0:Value'
  passing xmltype(p_response)
  columns value varchar2(500) path '.'
) x;

or wilcarded (no NS declaration needed):
select x.value
into l_parenttrenodeid
from xmltable(
  '//*:Value'
  passing xmltype(p_response)
  columns value varchar2(500) path '.'
) x;

or with the full XPath to that node (split here so part goes into the columns clause, for fun and to reduce scrolling), and all namespaces in that path declared - which is confusing as at least one URL is used for multiple names, and at least one name is used for multiple URLs. Fortunately the names don't have to match, they just have to resolve to the right path:
select x.value
into l_parenttrenodeid
from xmltable(
  xmlnamespaces(
    'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' as "env",
    'http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/types/' as "ns1",
    'http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/svc/types/' as "ns2"
  ),
  '/env:Envelope/env:Body/ns1:addValueOrganizationTreeNodeResponse/ns1:treeNodeId'
  passing xmltype(p_response)
  columns value varchar2(500) path 'ns2:Value'
) x;

You could also do with with an XMLQuery() call rather than XMLTable(), as you're only expecting one result:
select xmlquery(
  'declare namespace env = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; (::)
    declare namespace ns1 = "http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/trees/organizationTreeService/types/"; (::)
    declare namespace ns2 = "http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/svc/types/"; (::)
    /env:Envelope/env:Body/ns1:addValueOrganizationTreeNodeResponse/ns1:treeNodeId/ns2:Value/text()'
  passing xmltype(p_response)
  returning content
).getstringval()
into l_parenttrenodeid
from dual;


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Study: Auction Fraud Still Top Cybercrime
By Clare Saliba
Internet auction fraud accounts for 87 percent of all incidents of onlinecrime, according to a new study released Tuesday by eMarketer.
As part of its "ePrivacy & Security Report," eMarketer also found that morethan 34 percent of Internet users have been targeted by a Web-based privacyor security breach. Moreover, the study estimates that the averagefraudulent transaction costs roughly US$600, which outpaces most researchestimates of average online retail spending.
eMarketer said that half of all users falling victim to onlinefraud are in either the Generation X or the baby boomer bracket,two of the most tech-savvy Net populations.
"For most Internet users, the protection of personal information is a realand valid concern," said eMarketer analyst Rob Janes. "Offerings of freeservices and promises of wealth lure participants into binding contracts orunbelievably great deals enticing consumers to buy products that neverarrive or don't meet the quality promised."
Credit Cards Safe?
eMarketer also found that the rate of credit card fraud as a percentage ofall credit card transactions is extremely low. Citing data from Visa andMastercard, the report said 22 million fraudulent creditcard transactions occurred either online or offline in 1999, out of an estimated total of 25 billion transactions.
Despite these figures, eMarketer said that the majority of Internet userswho do not make purchases online are afraid of hidden costs, leery of fraudand question companies' ethics. The report said that consumer fears resultedin roughly $2.8 billion in lost sales in 1999 and could top $18 billion in2002.
Although they spur only a fraction of the complaints for auction fraud, theother categories of online crimes cited by eMarketer were generalmerchandise sales, Internet access services, computer equipment service, andwork-at-home scams.
Net Auctions Up
Recent studies have forecasted that consumer-to-consumer onlineauction sales will spike to over $15 billion from the $3 billion racked upin 1999. eMarketer said that these figures naturally open the door for aconcurrent increase in online criminal activities.
"Given that 16 million unique users may visit eBay in a given month, it's nosurprise that auctions consistently rank as the most fraud-prone onlineactivity," said Janes.
In recent weeks, eBay — which was the 13th most visited Web site accordingto the latest Media Metrix statistics — has taken steps to crack down ondeal scams. At the end of December, the online auction giant said it wouldbegin enforcing a prohibition on offline deals between members, saying that user complaints sparked its decision to take action since buyers who conductbusiness outside of eBay are not protected by the company's insuranceprogram or feedback system.
Under the new policy, sellers who use their eBay connections to conductbusiness offline will first be warned and then suspended from the site.Prohibited conduct includes offering to sell a listed item outside of eBayto avoid paying a listing fee, as well as offering to sell users merchandisesimilar to what they are bidding on at eBay.
Comparing Studies
Several recent studies dovetail with the eMarketer report. A study issued inNovember by the National Consumers League (NCL) found that Internet auctionsgenerate the largest number of online fraud complaints.
Similarly, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission cited auction fraud as the No. 1 online scam, with the number of reported cases mushrooming from 100 to1997 to a whopping 10,000 in 1999.
On a positive note, the NCL said that incidents of fraud in online auctionsmay be decreasing. According to NCL, 79 percent of complaints filed in 2000 were related to auction fraud, as compared to 87 percent in 1999.
More by Clare Saliba
terry seale says:
The above statements are hard to analyse. In one sentence we are told the NUMBER of complaints increased from 100 to 10,000 from '97 to '99 and in the next we are told the PERCENTAGE of complaints about auction fraud went down in 2000 from 1999. The percentage of an exploding number is still an explosion.
As a victim of auction fraud, one can see the same phenomenon that obtains in other crime reporting statistics. The higher the incidence of actual crime, the less of it relatively is reported.
A woman may well report the first incidence of rape and a taxi driver may well report the first armed robbery. But after going through a lengthy and futile reporting rigmarole, no woman will bother reporting the second rape and no taxi driver will bother reporting the second, third and fourth stick-up.
The only crime that gets reported in high crime areas is insured crime, and that is because the insurance company requires a police report number in order to honor a claim. If there is no insurance, there is no crime report.
Crime statistics are based on crime reported, not the actual number of crimes. There is a great deal more crime of all kinds than is reflected in crime report figures. And every policeman knows it.
Terry, I understand what you're saying but disagree a little bit with the examples you provide. I think that if a woman is raped even as much as 3 times, she WILL report it. Yes, the reporting process just may be worse than what she suffered, but I think that women would want to obtain some type of justice, so they would report it.
I think one of the main reasons why Internet auction fraud is not discussed much, studied much, or even given the same "news time" as other cybercrime such as denial of service attacks, etc. is because they target individuals, not major corporations. Another reason is because the victim was not physically harmed so they are not really a "victim." But this is consistent I think with other white-collar crimes (i.e. denial of service), if it does not affect a big-name corporation or millions of people at once, it gets no air time.
It comes down to how many people are affected and what is the damage ($$$). There are a lot of people affected annually, but each is an isolated incident only accounting for approx. $600 in loss each time. What law enforcement agency or news organization is going to jump on that? Not many. Sad but true.
TH LIn says:
I won an 1995 Yamaha scooter from internet auction. scooter receieved is year 1987 instead. The reatiled value for 1995 is $995, and $570 for 1987 for a fully working one. Scooter receieved is
non-working, and many problems were not mentioned in the auction description. The seller offered refund, but the refund is under impossible conditions. The scooter has to be returned back to him within 3 days, and the buyer has to pay the shipping cost (over $100).
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Q: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' error when pulling data from API with discord.py I know theres quite a few of these open but I can't find any that fix my problem, I'm making a Fortnite Statistics Bot with Python for Discord.
I have the main functionality working (!stats  ) But I'm currently trying to add functionality for the argument "lastgame" you can add to the end of the command to see all the stats for the player's last played game.
The reason the main functionality works is because from the API those show as all seperate things and with quotes around value:
7: {key: "Matches Played", value: "83"}
key: "Matches Played"
value: "83"
8: {key: "Wins", value: "0"}
key: "Wins"
value: "0"
9: {key: "Win%", value: "0%"}
key: "Win%"
value: "0%"
10: {key: "Kills", value: "36"}
key: "Kills"
value: "36"
11: {key: "K/d", value: "0.43"}
key: "K/d"
value: "0.43"

As you can see they are all seperate and have quotes around the response, however the recentMatches are all in 1 dropdown most without quotes, if I try to pull anything with quotes (like accountId) it works and responds working with that, but it I select something like kills without quotes it gives me the error in the title.
accountId: "f487380b-750c-4762-a6a6-6fe129895ae2"
dateCollected: "2018-10-20T17:26:40.74"
id: 887912262
kills: 0
matches: 4
minutesPlayed: 4
platform: 3
playlist: "p10"
score: 246
top1: 0
top3: 0
top5: 0
top6: 0
top10: 0
top12: 0
top25: 0

heres my code:
if platform not in ('pc','xbl','psn'):
  await client.send_message(message.channel, 'Usage: ' + COMMAND_PREFIX + 'stats <pc,xbl,psn> <name> lastgame')
  return
else:
  lastgame = fortnite_tracker_api_last(platform,words[2])

  if lastgame:
    laststats = lastgame[0]['accountId']

and I add that to the discord embed
embed.add_field(name="Last Stats", value=laststats + '\n', inline=False)

and if I try that with accountId it works and outputs that as the value. however if I change 'accountId' to something like 'kills' I get the error. I need to have all of these show either with multiple values and embed fields or just 1.
Thanks,
Sean

A: Like the error says, laststats is an integer, and you can not add an int and string together, for example:
>>> 3 + 'foo'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

You can however convert the int to a string, for example by formatting:
embed.add_field(name="Last Stats", value='{}\n'.format(laststats), inline=False)
or by using the str(..) constructor:
embed.add_field(name="Last Stats", value=str(laststats) + '\n', inline=False)
but the above is probably more elegant, if you want to perform more complicated formatting.


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Another document dump in April
I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I've been using Facebook ( and its been using me, and all of its users to sell us to advertisers making Zuckerberg a multibillionaire. And I don't think he pays ant taxes either. But that's another story.) and Twitter.
So, all of the 2017 releases and the April 2018 release are here. It's quite a lot of material. And it takes a lot of time to properly analyze it.
Beware of internet idiots claiming this and that from these documents, especially if they do to provide a RIF number or some document identifier. All of the documents in these releases have been scanned and are in .pdf format.
However, everything released by the JFK Act and the ARRB since 1993 has not been scanned and made available in .pdf format. The Mary Ferrell Foundation has many JFK documents scanned in .pdf format. I strongly suggest you join it.
You have to have spent many years in reading the material of the several, federal investigations plus the work of a legion of private citizens over the past 50 years to be knowledgeable enough to know what the document really says and why it's important.
I'm going through the material.


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Tõstamaa Manor is the pride of Pärnu County, as the many rooms of the post-classicist style mansion have unique ceiling and wall paintings, and in the oldest part of the house, a room under the old chimney has been preserved.
The guided tour provides an overview of the manor and the lives of the landlords and local people through the ages.
We will have a look at the cinema museum in the basement, as well as visit exhibitions on the school life of the Soviet era and the life of Estonian farmers at the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1921, a manor school has been operating in the building, creating an interesting combination of school life and a historic manor house.
A group guide fee of 25 euros is added to the ticket price.


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Judgment Review
by Rory Hutchings on June 20, 2019 at 9:30 AM, EDT
Upon the announcement of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's newest title, Judgment, I wondered how the events in the city of Kamurocho would change since the departure of one of my favorite protagonists: Kazuma Kiryu.
Utilizing mostly similar gameplay as the Yakuza franchise but with new investigation focused mechanics, the return to Kamurocho would be nothing short of an interesting one. Diving into the game, I wondered if Judgment would be able to stand on its own or be a shadow of the previously mentioned game series.
To get this out of the way: I am a long running Yakuza fan and am proud to own all of the games. For years, I have battled with people to explain that it's not a Grand Theft Auto clone as many came to believe. Now, with its spike in popularity I'm nothing but ecstatic to see the series grow and evolve, and be at the forefront of gaming.
Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Platform: PlayStation 4 (Reviewed)
Release Date: June 25th, 2019
Players: 1 Player
Judgment's story is a well woven tale of special interest, yakuza politics, bureaucracy, and murder in a city with a 99.99 percent conviction rate. Enter Takayuki Yagami, a young lawyer who gained instant popularity by getting his latest case acquitted.
Quickly, his fame turned sour as his case was tarnished as the person he was defending committed murder moments after. Shaken by the events taken place, he quits working his lawyer position and begins a new role as a private investigator.
Throughout the story events unfold into the investigation of a serial killer simply known as 'The Mole', and the chains binding Yagami to the past become clearer. The noir inspired tale and its cast of fantastically written characters kept me engaged and at the edge of my seat throughout the game.
While at some points it did feel a bit padded out, at many points things tied together for the overall plot well. Most of the padding came in the form of interacting with the day to day life of the cast. While some of it did not relate to the overarching story, it gave a lot of insight to Yagami and his friends, and had me enjoy them a lot more.
One issue I have is that player choices in the game really did not matter too much. It would of been nice to experience different paths in the story throughout my investigations. Instead, you become focused on one plot without much in the way of variety. It would of been nice to see like say investigating events from a different angle.
Throughout the game you can do a total of 50 side quests and make friends to aid you along the way. Taking a break from the overall serious plot, they can range from catching someone in a moment of infidelity, to tracking down notorious perverts such as the butt grabbing Ass Catchem. I thoroughly enjoyed doing these side events when taking breaks from the main story.
Throughout the game Yagami gains experience to spend in a wide array of upgrades. From harder hitting attacks to assistance with picking locks, each one of them has its place and is seemingly not wasted. Some of them can only be unlocked for purchase after finding skill books or snapping images of QR codes on posters.
The highest level upgrades, however, do become a bit grindy to get but for the most part remain optional if you're not doing a competition run. Some of the most important ones to get are physical attributes such as health, damage, and speed. I also suggest getting the additional dice rolls for the mini VR board game, to assist with one of the best ways to get money.
Along the same lines of the Yakuza games, there is a wide array of side activities to do. From visiting club Sega to playing classics like Space Harrier or Fighting Vipers, going on dates, racing drones, playing darts or even the occasional rounds of Shogi or blackjack, there are many things to unwind on. It wasn't uncommon for me to spend hours doing these side activities.
Oddly, one major staple that fans loved in the Yakuza games does not appear. Karaoke is now absent from the game, which is disappointing as it was one of my favorite quick activities to do. Still, I couldn't help being excited there is a playable House of the Dead-inspired game, Kamuro of the Dead. Even if it replaced one of my favorite mini games, it still was an enjoyable time.
Throughout my time in the city, combat has always been inevitable. Rival gangs, yakuza, and street thugs were often on my tail. Yagami uses two styles of his mostly self-trained fighting style. The first is his Crane style, which is adept at taking out multiple enemies at once using sweeping attacks and acrobatic abilities.
Depending on the strength of the enemies, I'd use Crane style to clean up and focus on a harder enemy. Switching off to Tiger style, Yagami becomes more geared for one-on-one fights that deliver more powerful blows. Utilizing these two combat abilities becomes key quickly as if the fight carries on too long police, can come and arrest you – or you'll deal with harder enemies in the later half of play.
Throughout fights you are able to execute EX moves that deal devastating blows to make quick work of unsuspecting enemies. From watching Yagami throw someone to a wall and kneeing someone in the face, to doing drunken martial arts, they were satisfying to watch even if they got a bit repetitive towards the end of the game. Yagami can also spend his EX meter to enter burst mode, increasing his attack power, while also preventing him from being stunned.
One thing to watch out for is some enemies have Deadly attacks which can turn the tables against you if you're not careful. These attacks damage your health bar, rendering you unable to heal to a specific amount. The only way to cure this affliction is to have a first aid kit on hand, or visit a back alley doctor. They are not cheap and it really forces the player to be aware in combat.
I had one frustrating issue when it came to combat during my playthrough. A few rare times when fighting, when an enemy was against the wall in some of the tight alleys of Kamurocho, they would seemingly slide to another location, interrupting my chain of attacks.
Noticeably, this was not a dodge being done by the NPC, but the game engine placing an enemy to a new location. The couple of game overs I had with the game were purely due to his while dealing with tougher enemies.
The addictive features of the game such as investigation, chasing and tailing, and so on add a good bit a variety to the game. Each one of these features help bring the emphasis that Yagami is a detective to the forefront, and through gameplay helps boost the atmosphere. The major issue is that the appeal of some of these events can wear thin after looking beyond the surface.
The chase down sequences, for example, start off exciting but as the game progresses, it's easy to feel the repetitive nature of automatically running and pressing buttons to dodge on screen obstacles.
Tailing people also can sometimes run on too long, and just boils down to keeping your distance and hiding when needed. While these elements do not detour from the game, they could use some more fleshing out.
Visually, the game looks great and is highly detailed and combined with great character animations, the visual experience stands out. There is a noticeable change when the game switches from in game graphics to full motion video sequences.
However, there is consistency between them that does not make it disrupting to the eye. For those who are wondering, the game noticeably runs at 30 frames per second and has some drops during some sequences in the game, which can become jarring.
Judgment comes with both English and Japanese voice work. While the English dub is well done, I personally have preference to the Japanese dub. The lip syncing on the character models do not match with the English voices and can take away from some of the immersion from the story.
It will come down to the players personal preference on which they use but for myself, I just find the Japanese language with subtitles better – and it simply adds more to the atmosphere.
The musical score to the game fits with the noir motif that the game is built on. Each track nicely ties in cohesively to what is currently going on the screen. From mysterious songs playing in the background to upbeat fighting tracks heavy on bass, I can't recall one that I seemingly disliked. Even the one that I found mostly passable grew on me by the games end.
For people who never played a Yakuza game and wonder if they can jump into Judgment the answer is straightforward. Judgment's story does not have cameos of major characters from Yakuza or plot points that would strongly tie them together. In short it's a good game to jump into without knowing the long history of the turmoil that happened in the Yakuza series.
While I do have a bias for my love of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's and Sega's games, I did enjoy playing Judgment more than quite a few of the mainline Yakuza games.
Judgment has its faults that are hard to ignore, but its deep story, intense combat, and a wide variety of side activities kept me glued to it for days on end. Judgment is a great game that is well worth the attention to Yakuza fans and newcomers alike.
Judgment, Sega
The Verdict: 8.5
Fantastic story And characters
Fun, free flowing combat
Tons of side activities to do
Great balance of serious storytelling with some light hearted comedic moments
Some frame stuttering
Investigation, chase and tailing mechanics can become dull
Rare but frustrating case of a warping enemy in tight quarters combat
No karaoke
About Rory Hutchings
Niche Gamer managing partner, server admin, writer, lifelong gamer and tech enthusiast. Also an all-around programmer.
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Microstructured optical fiber based Fabry–Pérot interferometer as a humidity sensor utilizing chitosan polymeric matrix for breath monitoring
Anand M. Shrivastav, Dinusha S. Gunawardena, Zhengyong Liu, Hwa Yaw Tam
This study reports a method for humidity sensing based on a specialty microstructured optical fiber (MOF). A suspended tri-core MOF was fabricated using the stack and draw technique. A low finesse sensing head was prepared by depositing a chitosan polymer matrix within the holes of the MOF, forming a Fabry-Pérot interferometer as a sensing platform while the chitosan film acts as the sensing material. The use of the probe for real-time breath monitoring was also successfully demonstrated. The probe possessed a maximum sensitivity of 81.05 pm/(%RH) for 90–95%RH range while the linear region of the sensor ranged from 70–95%RH. The temperature cross correlation was also experimented, and a lower influence of external temperature was observed. The probe shows an ultrafast response during human breath monitoring with a rising time and recovery time of 80 ms and 70 ms, respectively.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62887-y
10.1038/s41598-020-62887-y
Shrivastav, A. M., Gunawardena, D. S., Liu, Z., & Tam, H. Y. (2020). Microstructured optical fiber based Fabry–Pérot interferometer as a humidity sensor utilizing chitosan polymeric matrix for breath monitoring. Scientific Reports, 10(1), [6002]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62887-y
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Our new Just Hammer Away! Shape Set was popular today. The corkboard is a little flimsy so I taped it onto a tray for sturdiness. I made the sample cards to give the kids ideas on what can be made with the different wood shapes available, and also reminded them that there are many other possibilities. CC and Enzo both enjoyed the hammering. They initially had a difficult time removing the nails (actually pushpins), but they quickly learned to press the wood piece against another piece to push the nail out enough and allow them to pull the rest of the nail out.
Below is Carissa making a flower and Enzo making a smiley face.
RJ also tried the activity today. He didn't follow any of the sample cards, instead nailed random pieces throughout the corkboard. When it was time to put the activity away he quickly got discouraged when he couldn't remove the nails.
What a fun activity. I think it's great that you give the kids examples to follow.
I wish you would update your blog!! I love the activities!!


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Suspected Cheney kidnapper arrested in Goldendale
The Cheney Police Department has confirmed Donovan Culps has been arrested. The department released the following statement:
"On September 14, 2017 at approximately, 2:13 p.m. Donovan Culps was taken into custody by members of the multi-jurisdictional Yakima Violent Crime Task Force. He was taken into custody in Klickitat County, in the Goldendale, WA area following a short pursuit ending in a collision. There were no injuries and while Donovan Culps was taken into custody the other occupants of the vehicle fled on foot and have not been identified at this time. Detectives from the Cheney Police Department will be responding to Goldendale to conduct follow up in this case. There are no other details at this time."
The Goldendale Police Department released the following statement:
"This morning the Goldendale Police Department received information that 36-year-old Donavon Culps, wanted for Kidnapping 1st Degree and a Federal warrant, was in the Goldendale area. It was later found that Culps was in an apartment in the 500 block of East Main Street. Culps had been identified as one of the people involved in a kidnapping of a marijuana shop employee in the Cheney, Washington area last Sunday. The employee is still missing.
At about 2pm in the afternoon, Culps was taken into custody after he left an apartment in the 500 block of East Main Street and attempted to elude law enforcement with two other occupants in his vehicle. Culps wrecked his vehicle into a tree about 4 blocks away. Culps and two other occupants in the vehicle attempted to flee the scene, but were captured and detained within a couple blocks. At this time it is unknown if the 2 occupants were involved in the incident in Cheney.
The Goldendale Schools were notified of the situation immediately and decided to go into a lockdown until everybody involved was detained.
The investigation is still ongoing and at this time no other information can be released."
Airway Heights Police confirm that the SUV belonging to a Cheney man who was kidnapped at gunpoint from Lucid pot shop has been found in Airway Heights.
Police and forensics teams are on the scene Tuesday afternoon conducting an investigation.
Airway Heights Police Chief Lee Bennett tells KHQ officers responded to a call around 1:15 p.m. of an abandoned vehicle that may have been in the area since 6 a.m. on Monday. Responding officers ran a check of the registration and found out it belonged to 46-year-old Cameron Smith, who was kidnapped Sunday afternoon.
The investigation is in its preliminary stages, so details are slim, but Chief Bennett says no one was found inside or around the vehicle. The area around the SUV has been closed off while forensics teams and detectives conduct a thorough investigation.
Chief Bennett is urging any witnesses in the area of 12th and Craig Road in Airway Heights who may have seen anything to call law enforcement immediately because any small detail may help the investigation.
On Tuesday afternoon, responding officers were canvassing the area to see if any cameras in the area may have picked up anything of interest.
Later Tuesday afternoon, authorities confirmed that Smith's wallet had also been found. A man found the wallet and called Cheney Police. The wallet was found on Little Falls Road on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
(story and photos: KHQ.com)


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ŠKODA electrifies at Geneva Motor Show 2019
ŠKODA electrifies at Geneva Motor Show 2019.
ŠKODA urban SUV, the KAMIQ, and electric crossover-coupe concept, the VISION IV, made their world premiere at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, showing the motoring world what it means to be Driven by Something Different.
One Brand. One Vision iV
The all-new, all electric SUV concept was unveiled to the world at this year's show.
This all-wheel-drive concept boasts a range of 310 miles thanks to its two electric motors – one powering the front axle and one the back.
The VISION iV is a fully-electric, four-door crossover-coupé, the brand's first car built on a modular platform for electric vehicles (MEB). It can reach 62mph from a standing start in just 5.9 seconds; the jump form 50mph to 75mph takes less than four seconds.
The rear of the car features an aerodynamic lip spoiler and the crystalline LED tail lights from a C-shape. The sporty appearance is enhanced by a rear diffuser with a light strip stretching across the entire width. The ŠKODA lettering on the rear is backlit red – a popular feature among show-goers.
Graeme Lambert, Product Affairs Manager, talks us through some of the cool features of the concept SUV.
Meet KAMIQ
It was the first chance for motoring enthusiasts – and potential customers – to get up close and personal with the brand's city SUV which boasts more than twenty Simply Clever features.
It's the first car in its segment to offer the option of clever door-edge protection that deploys automatically when the doors are opened, and the tailgate can be opened and closed at the push of a button. Thanks to its integrated tip-to-close function, it can also be closed by lightly pulling on the open tailgate.
The new SUV is the brand's first model to feature split LED headlights with daytime running lights. The full-LED version also features fog lights with static cornering lights as well as - for the first time in a ŠKODA – dynamic front and rear indicators. The front indicators are divided into individual LEDs.
SCALA Land
The Geneva Motor Show provided the perfect platform for showing off the brand's first model to be based on the Volkswagen Group's MQB platform – the SCALA.
Nearly a month after the first model rolled off the production line in Mladá Boleslav, the SCALA was still turning heads and impressing with its emotive design and stat-of-the-art connectivity.
UK customer will have a choice of two petrol and two diesel engines when the car is launched later this year, with power outputs ranging from 115PS to 150PS. All engines come with turbocharging as well as direct injection and meet the Euro 6d-TEMP emission standards. They will be equipped with start-stop and brake energy recovery technology.
Graeme Lambert, Producer Affair Manager, said of the SCALA: "With the new SCALA we're going to redefine our offering in the family hatch sector. Like the rest of our range the SCALA boasts class-leading levels of practicality and space, safety, efficiency and Simply Clever features but this time adds class-leading connectivity, sharp, modern, distinctive design and a range of personalisation options".
Micromobility and motorsport
The Geneva Motor Show is about more than just cars. It gives us a glimpse into the future of personal mobility too. ŠKODA's 'micromobility' offering came in the form of the KLEMET concept, a nod to the company's bicycle making heritage and named after one of its founders.
The integrated 4kW rear hub motor accelerates the KLEMET to a top speed of 28 mph, and its throttle and brake control are made child's play by the pivoting pedals.
Riders accelerate and brake the KLEMENT by tilting the foot pedals. If the user shifts their weight forwards on the pedal, the KLEMENT's hub motor accelerates. If the pedals pivot backwards, a hydraulic disc brake at the front equipped with ABS is activated, as is regenerative braking at the rear wheel.
The two lithium-ion batteries each feature 52 cells – providing a range of up to 38 miles.
The latest generation of the championship winning FABIA R5 rally car has a section. Of its own where motorsport fans could try their hand behind the wheel with the help of virtual reality.