and much more - get the low-down on the advancements being made throughout the game when F1® 25 launches on May 30 for PlayStation®5 LIDAR has helped make trees and foliage better match the species with new additions such as cherry blossom trees added to Suzuka other improvements have been made to several other circuits in the game These include track surface shader improvements with more pronounced tyre and lock up marks as well as physical changes based on other collected real-world data bumps that were present on Silverstone for F1® 24 such as those on the Wellington straight and before Turn 1 have been smoothed out to better match the real-world surface you’ll be able to experience some of your favourite races in a unique way and the Red Bull Ring in a reverse track layout Enjoy these once-familiar circuits in Grand Prix or add them to My Team and Driver Career from your second season onwards This isn’t a case of just turning the cars around on the starting grid On top of computer-controlled (AI) drivers needing to be retrained you’ll notice that every detail in a typical Grand Prix has been adapted for racing in reverse This includes subtle changes you may not even think about such as brake boards Pitlanes in particular required special attention Now that you’ll now be entering from the exit be sure to take care when merging on-track after making a stop with the optimal racing line differing when racing in reverse you’ll see that track surface wear lines and how drying lines form in the wet will have changed too We look forward to seeing what you think of these new-look circuits we’re delighted to introduce our brand-new Decal Editor for F1® 25 Customisable liveries now start with a base pattern that you’ll be able to personalise with sponsor decals sponsor placements have been locked to a number of fixed positions on the car with design variants unlockable throughout the game Driver numbers are getting a visual overhaul New fonts and colours allow additional personality to shine through in your design when creating liveries for My Team and F1® World You can even choose to have a different style of number on different parts of your car These are more detailed base patterns for your car built around the visual identity of the many fictional title sponsors in the game By using the Decal Editor to add more sponsor decals you can create a car that wouldn’t look out of place on the real-life grid these title sponsors affect income potential which in turn affects team size and spending Building a relationship over time with a single sponsor can unlock additional rewards Learn more about the changes coming to My Team and Driver Career by clicking here special edition liveries that are added to the game will now be applied to the car they represent rather than the F1® World car When you select a 2025 team to drive as in Driver Career you’ll be able to choose an applicable special livery an emerging PC-exclusive innovation called Path Tracing is being introduced Expanding on Ray Tracing technology and available as a new “Ultra Max” option in the graphics settings including that from indirect lighting and multiple reflections and colours dynamically shift as they would in real-life whether you’re racing under the thousands of lights in Bahrain or navigating the castle section on Baku at sunset If you have a PC capable of experiencing it Path Tracing is the most realistic simulation of light on track that we’ve ever delivered tonemapping and light balancing improvements create a more dramatic effect across all types of weather with a better representation of different cloud coverage changes Other multi-platform changes have been made such as new image filters and HDR support in Photo Mode F1® World has had some exciting updates too First up is a brand-new collaborative mode: Invitationals These are special multiplayer events that open up throughout F1® World share access to the event with your friends and work together to complete the objective Some Invitationals will be more difficult than others with rewards that scale based on the challenges at hand We’ve also made some changes to promote teamwork and encourage respectful racing Through an updated Driver of the Day system accomplishments such as Cleanest Driver and Most Overtakes will be highlighted An upgraded audio experience throughout the game will bring you even closer to the action Qualifying now benefits from real-world driver dialogue over the radio alongside drivers occasionally addressing race engineers you may encounter some entirely new radio audio sequences We’ve more than doubled our pool of real driver voice lines since F1® 24 so be sure to keep an ear out for some familiar voices Naomi Schiff has joined our roster of experts who feature throughout the game Her talent adds to the largest number of commentary and cutscene voiceovers to-date helping to make every race weekend feel just like a real-life broadcast Through a combination of rigorous internal tests and feedback gathered from the EA SPORTS F1® community a number of changes have been made to how cars feel in F1® 25 Here is a summary of some of the changes you may notice when compared to F1® 24 racing against the AI drivers should feel as thrilling and exciting as it does when watching the real-life sport Following trials in pre-release testing with highly-skilled players resulted in some incredible racing action the team tuned the AI to better reflect their overtaking capabilities with one another and when racing players such as AI now being more likely to pull off defensive manoeuvres when protecting a position the AI will make better tactical decisions as to when to deploy DRS (Drag Reduction System) and ERS With countless racing scenarios and over 100 difficulty levels to accommodate for there's a lot of work that goes into AI We hope the changes made for this year unlock more realistic and dynamic racing moments between you and these 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All photos by Richard Ross from his series Juvenile in Justice NY who focuses on issues of incarceration and immigration A recent graduate of the Stony Brook University MA programme in philosophy Edited bySally Davies SaveSYNDICATE THIS ESSAYEmailSavePostShareI’ve been haunted for some time by an expression in The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus that goes: ‘After a certain age each man has the face he deserves.’ The idea makes me instinctively scan all the faces that I’ve seen in my life so far who smoked weed all day and told us stories about the Watts neighbourhood in Los Angeles who once showed me and my brother where the police shot him in the ass when he was fleeing arrest a class clown against whom I had my first street fight and who died a few years ago in a drug deal gone wrong their subtlety and nuance fading in my memory such that only the most intense aspects remain examining the new shackles – wrist to wrist The cuffs couldn’t feel more foreign on your body It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve been cuffed before each time you get the feeling they don’t fit right The juvenile facility we’re destined for is in Fort Worth; when the bus hits the highway the neons from the roadside restaurants can be seen all at once They’re all slightly different versions of the same thing – sports bars fast-food chains – yet they look so inviting from the vantage of someone in chains I quietly resolve to go to all of them when I get out I want to know what people in there are bullshitting about It’s funny to appreciate a city from a jail bus because it’s that very city that’s sending you away And I mean all of it is sending you away – from the disciplinarians that fancy themselves educators to the bullshit jobs that treat you like a crook from the first day to the police who menace you everywhere you go The city taught me the survival mechanisms it would ultimately punish me for My earliest memories of my late father are his lessons in how to fight and sexually assaulted by his first foster parent and he knew what it would take to survive it He’d teach me what to do when facing multiple people (line up and get your back to a wall) when someone has a knife (wrap your jacket around your arm and don’t fight close) or if they pull a gun on you (rush at them immediately) I used each of these lessons before I got to age 16 My brother Austin and I would sometimes box all night in front of the blue light of classic fights on TV in the morphine wasteland of his mind in the months before he died he’d pass me in the hallway of our duplex that he called ‘the rathole’ bring his fists tight to his ears and do a little Muhammad Ali shuffle I wonder what the sight of the city is summoning up for my fellow offenders who have also turned their stone faces to the window a lot of people are surprised to see so many faces they know in there Maybe you don’t know these folks directly – they’re from two blocks over or the cousin of someone you knew from school detention Prison actually feels a lot like school: students and inmates walk single-file on the right teachers and correctional officers (COs) move freely along the left Like when you’d walk into school and submit to metal detectors locker searches and police sweeps of the classrooms one brave student would ask to go to the bathroom and run down the hallway beating on doors and hollering that a search was coming The room comes to life as kids try to stuff weed lighters and knives down the front of their pants Even those with nothing to hide would pantomime the actions to pretend to be having these problems as well Because of a series of riots and a few stabbings my high school instituted an ID policy for all students Surveillance by security guards added to the inmate feeling They’d rack you up and report you to the assistant principals who’d pull the security tapes and make you agree in writing that you did wrong We never forgot the presence of the cameras or pile into the bathroom and man the doors to slug it out in a free period Or people would crowd around the vending machine before kicking it in and grabbing all the gum and Gatorade with only violent outbursts to break up the boredom These days I’ve got no patience for middle-class white kids who get all worked up about injustice in an abstract register I’d spend the night at a black friend’s house and see that there was a qualitative gap between being poor and being black and poor – and not because they had less than my family but because they were able to negotiate despair with much more grace and poise than us not because Mister Jeb down the street would say vile things about black people but because my black friends sang louder in church and laughed harder at the macabre truth of a system stacked against them For years I’d watch as every authority figure – from teachers police and COs – came down harder on my black and brown homeboys Children are not ignorantly going through the motions we know who wears the same clothes every day who is constantly asking for change to buy cookies If you walk into any grade school in the US I guarantee that the children there have a lucid understanding and working taxonomy of the haves and have-nots I promise also that this taxonomy maps onto whom the teachers treat as lost causes and who has a real shot at going to college These are the two institutions available to many young people in the US today: university or jails We arrive at the juvenile detention centre on Kimbo Road in Fort Worth just after sundown I can feel my chest tightening; adrenaline is coursing through my body So dark and so quiet that every noise jars me: the gate slamming behind us the pressure release of the bus doors as they open They ring out as single sensations freed from context the driver declares: ‘Nobody move a muscle The booking bench at a youth detention facility We’re led in single file from the bus to the building I can hardly see for the flood of fluorescent light and white walls It reminds me of every emergency room I’ve ever been in: blinding light when I had my teeth knocked out blinding light when I broke both of my hands in a fight They sling you this way and that: an entire masculine performance to demonstrate who’s in charge I could see the other inmates trying to make sense of this new light The shock was wearing off as our backs hit the wall for a line-up The prison officers started reading off everyone’s charges out loud I was facing a double felony: organised crime the other two mysteriously had misdemeanours it was like a wire pulled so tight behind my eyes that I thought it was going to snap I was clenching my jaw at the thought of catching them on the outside as soon as I could The pigs are already setting the tone in the line-up and sling you this way and that while you’re still cuffed This entire masculine performance is supposed to demonstrate who’s in charge though it’s seen by inmates as ridiculous and clownish One CO keeps mushing my head into the wall while searching my naked body you learn early that the state will put its hands on you deprive you of food and then smack your hand when you steal and in every possible way punish you for the ways in which it has failed you The first cell you sit in at Kimbo isn’t your house but a temporary cell you’re held in while you’re being processed The inside of the cell has two plastic school chairs and a drain in the centre of the linoleum floor New inmates are in the Aquarium for up to a day or two A 12-year-old juvenile in his windowless cell at Harrison County Juvenile Detention Center in Biloxi There is currently a lawsuit against MSS that forced it to reduce the center’s population An 8:1 inmate to staff ratio must now be maintained My cellmate and I haven’t looked each other in the face or spoken for the past five hours I can’t make out anything of what he’s saying because he’s speaking so low and trying to hear commotion a few cells over But here is this motherfucker with his rocking and muttering There’s no way to share a space that tight without so much as a ‘hello’ ending in fists my celly in the Aquarium is occupying my attention because I’m excruciatingly bored but those events exist as lightening-like fissures in the slow cyclone of fatigued tedium Every tiny human interaction is invaluable as a means of breaking up the monotony of the unending hours – even eating the vile-ass food which plops in your dog bowl and at least lets you think about it for a while and you get to think about hating him or beating the pride out of him for a little while Or your eyes search the cell over and over looking for some catalyst for imagination or memory to fill the empty expanse of time It would only take one aberration in the texture of the ground or glass to give you a reason to reflect but most of the time you won’t find anything different to what you already know What was raw power and frustration is now the depleted motions of a 16-year-old child at the end of his rope I have no idea how many hours we’ve been in the Aquarium together or even when I’ll get out of this godforsaken cell I feel sick to my stomach from the slop we ate however long ago Homeboy is still rocking; then he yells out: ‘Man … Fuck Fuck this!’ and shoots up so quick that his chair bangs the glass behind him I hit my feet just as fast and instinctively put my fists up to my ears He’s screaming at the top of his lungs and it’s ringing my ears in the tight space He turns and picks up his chair by its legs so I grab mine too and put my back in the corner and after all this time I still haven’t seen his face My guy faces the side of the glass where the guards move back and forth periodically Over and over he swings the chair into the wall The chair is breaking with each blow and cutting up his hands such that blood and plastic are cast in every direction My own grip is loosening as I watch the outburst chin deep in my chest and tears welling up behind my eyes what was raw power and frustration is now the sad and depleted motions of a 16-year-old child at the end of his rope His voice is gone and his screaming has become a low and only the seat of the chair remains in his grasp I remember thinking that we won’t all fit in here – but then they are standing on us The cell extraction entails body-slamming the two of us I begin to protest that I haven’t done anything Lying on the floor with my ankles tied to my wrists who’s turned his head in the opposite direction I just want my mom.’ He says this with the same persistence as his rocking before I can’t remember if the guards said anything back The metal is digging so deep into my body that I feel like it’s going to slice through me We’re conveyed past the main block to the segregation cells as the other inmates begin to beat their palms on the walls of their houses drowned out by the screams of other boys cheering – that’s what the experience of masculinity means to me We are crying for our mamas as we’re carried off into the callous chants of those who have strategically dulled such emotions it’s common slang for a fight to start with: ‘You tryna’ look at it?’ Walking past someone’s cell it’s considered extremely offensive to eyeball it Lock eyes with any man in a poor neighbourhood without acknowledging him I never looked at my celly back in the Aquarium because I didn’t want to fight I didn’t want to look at him because I didn’t want to see myself: rocking It’s no wonder we men pioneer this fragile yet somehow metaphysical sense of ‘respect’ None of us look at each other long enough to really see Rumours have been floating about who got what time I get out of Kimbo and enter a new phase of incarceration: parole Life on parole is as lonely as anything can be in the free world I report in to my condescending parole officer daily only to be lectured and admonished for a lifestyle that was endemic to my neighbourhood and I have to do innumerable hours of ‘community service’ where I’m barked at like I’m still locked up Considering I was booked on charges of organised crime these stipulations mean I won’t see my friends – my ‘gang members’ – for quite some time Rumours have been floating around about who got what time we’re just listening to music and chopping it up about the usual bullshit – which dude is pussy A person walks in front of the parked car with a kid We break into nervous laughter; we can’t tell if it’s a woman or a man because he’s wearing a cast and can ask the person to sign it so we can check the name We watch L get out and hand the person a sharpie and asks L if he wants her birth name or her current name we all stop laughing and are confused and quiet together and teaches us a lot about how to think and talk about it I understand toxic masculinity as a symptom of a larger violence a kind of survival mechanism for people who are acutely aware of the contingency of their own life It would take someone much smarter than me to explain why hooks is right about this but what I can say is that she is right about me and my childhood I ended up going back to county jail a dozen times over the next few years My homeboy would lend me money for my girlfriend’s abortion and six months later he needed me to bail him out It wasn’t until I decided to skip town and go to community college that I managed to break the cycle of arrests A myriad of new problems would inevitably crop up: identity crises My heart was so heavy from living the way I’d done before I’d shuffle through people’s faces that I’d ran up on or gone after disappointed to learn that I’d been caught stealing clothes from a menswear house for a date it felt like all the men in my life had been preparing me for a war that was never going to happen we’d stick our chest out and say: ‘What do you know about the struggle?’ If we got jumped and robbed we’d look at people like: ‘What do you know about pain?’ One of our family members would die or go to prison and it would just make us more outwardly aggressive Turning pain into pride might release some pressure in the meantime This kind of masculinity makes you an idiot incapable of holding on to any form of vulnerability for longer than a moment I think inside we’re all beating the chairs against the Aquarium cell of our minds I’ve always felt a lived negotiation between two worlds: the world of north Texas poverty sincerity and sun; and the world of academia More of my friends went to prison than to university Almost all of them for crimes related to poverty: robbing drug dealers racking up warrants because they couldn’t pay their tickets acting out when they were drinking away their suffering Each of them in prison writing to their mamas Reaching out of their cells to make even a superficial connection feel disrespected by low-paid and dehumanising jobs Most people don’t understand what jails and prisons do to your psyche the kind of subjectivity such torture-houses will produce you dream about the free world – dinner at a diner or your mom’s house an old friendship from the playground – only to have your dream-work infiltrated by COs My younger brother once told me he’d dream about having sex but when he’d turn to his dream woman in bed he’d realise she was lying on a concrete bunk finding himself in his cell with a CO trying to fix a broken sink And then he’d wake up in a full sweat in his segregation cell and I’ve been working as a community organiser Some of the older men coming home from 30 or 40 years in prison are talking to me within 10 minutes of being dropped off in the free world I met a man whose hands were so swollen and stiff he couldn’t write his own name He had just come home on life parole after three decades inside No one had asked him how he was feeling in such a long time telling me how to spell his name and where to find him EmailSavePostShareSYNDICATE THIS ESSAYSaveessay The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. 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Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Olaf Scholz stands in front of a turbine of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline last year Last week Germany announced that after the government statistics agency revised its recent GDP figures it was clear that the country was in recession In recent history it has tended to hold up well as the global economy softened relative to some of Europe’s weaker economies But this time it seems that Germany is leading the pack into recession This is because the recession that is currently looming over Europe is fundamentally different from previous iterations The coming recession is no simple turning of the business cycle it could be the beginning of the deindustrialisation of the European economy which no longer has access to cheap Russian energy Since chatter about deindustrialisation started last year there has been much confusion on the matter Some appeared to think that deindustrialisation would mean the instantaneous closure of energy-starved European factories and mass layoffs Others assumed that the crisis was over because energy futures prices have fallen in recent months Deindustrialisation is not something that happens overnight it is a gradual process whereby European industry becomes less competitive on the global market as higher energy costs are passed through in the form of higher prices We saw something similar happen in Britain in the 1990s as many factories shut down and few reopened But the potential deindustrialisation of Europe will probably be more rapid than the British example since Europe is relying heavily on Qatari LNG imports for their energy supplies Quantifying the impact of deindustrialisation at this early stage is quite difficult and a clear picture will only emerge in retrospect. But there are already some very notable trends in the data. The German services sector is booming while the manufacturing sector is cratering This divergence explains why the German economy is currently experiencing only a very shallow or even “technical” recession the current contraction we are seeing in Germany’s manufacturing sector relative to its services sector is associated with a much larger downturn — something along the lines of what followed the 2008 financial crisis Today we are seeing a very large relative contraction in the manufacturing sector that cannot be explained by the relatively modest weakening of the economy Put differently: the current manufacturing crunch in Germany is not primarily being driven by Germany’s slack economy This means that something else is to blame and that something is likely the high energy prices putting enormous pressure on German manufacturing German and European deindustrialisation is not yet certain the Europeans turn once again to Russia for their energy needs If the current trajectory is followed for the next five to 10 years it seems fairly certain that Germany and Europe will deindustrialise to a significant extent Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional and the author of The Reformation in Economics Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" Please click here to view our media pack for more information on advertising and partnership opportunities with UnHerd.  My NewsSign Out Sign InCreate your free profileSections news Alerts It depends on what you mean by "solar system": The findings reported Thursday in the journal Science have convinced even the skeptics that the car-sized spacecraft has gone beyond the heliosphere the huge bubble of electrically charged particles emanating from the sun But the edge of the heliosphere is not the same as the edge of the solar system Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said he listened closely to what the Voyager team was saying about the latest findings "The thing I was really pushing against was the idea that this has 'left the solar system,' which they were careful not to say," he told NBC News "They were saying that it's left the heliosphere." That's more than a third of the way to the next star over "It's a very fine point, and many people don't realize the Oort Cloud is in interstellar space and it's considered part of the solar system," Veronica McGregor, JPL's news chief, wrote during a Reddit AMA chat session and we tried to make it clear in interviews None of our materials say we've exited the solar system." Outside the solar bubbleUntil a little more than a year ago scientists were in agreement that Earth's most distant spacecraft was traveling through a far-out region where the electrically charged particles continued to sweep outward Voyager detected a dramatic change: The intensity of the particles coming from the sun dropped off and the intensity of particles coming in from outside the solar bubble increased That led some scientists to declare this April that Voyager was "outside the normal heliosphere." JPL's Ed Stone chief scientist for the 36-year-long Voyager mission agreed that the craft was in a transitional zone "It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space," he said at the time Voyager's team members stuck to that view in June, and again in August even though other scientists insisted that the probe had crossed into the interstellar medium What's different this time is that yet another team of astronomers led by the University of Iowa's Don Gurnett made some clever measurements of plasma effects on the spacecraft Breaking throughThe astronomers tracked a particularly strong storm of charged particles that blasted out from the sun last year and set the plasma around Voyager oscillating in late April and May The oscillations from the spacecraft's plasma wave instrument were analyzed leading the team to conclude that the density of electrons surrounding Voyager had risen from the wimpy level associated with the outer edges of the heliosphere to a level about 40 times denser That's in line with what would be expected if Voyager had broken through into interstellar space Gurnett and his colleagues used other measurements to trace Voyager's readings backward and concluded that the density must have changed in August 2012 — just about the time that the intensity readings changed as well That would put the edge of the heliosphere at about 11.3 billion miles (18.2 billion kilometers Stone was finally convinced: "Now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind's historic leap into interstellar space," he said in a NASA news release "The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them But we can now answer the question we've all been asking — 'Are we there yet?' Yes Some still disagree. Two University of Michigan astrophysicists, George Gloecker and Lennard Fisk, argue that the density measurements could be explained by phenomena occurring inside the heliosphere. Gloecker told Science News that better readings from Voyager 2 a sister probe that isn't yet as far out as Voyager 1 could settle the matter in the next two or three years a member of the Voyager team from Johns Hopkins University acknowledges that some of the puzzle pieces still don't fit into place: For example why hasn't there been a change in the orientation of the magnetic field through which Voyager is traveling And why hasn't the cosmic ray flux evened out in all directions Both those phenomena were expected to occur when Voyager crossed over into interstellar space "Initially we thought things were simple," Krimigis told NBC News and we thought it was going to be flat and boring But we found out that things were anything but simple I can tell you there are still some surprises coming that we haven't published yet." None of us will be alive when Voyager 1 breaks through the far side of the Oort Cloud — but even though the spacecraft is a long way from the limit of the solar system Krimigis says Voyager's transition is still well worth celebrating "It's like the first Sputnik that went beyond Earth's atmosphere going from the atmosphere of the sun to the atmosphere of the galaxy The only difference is the altitude: 600 miles for Sputnik as opposed to an altitude of 11.3 billion miles." In addition to Gurnett, the authors of "In Situ Observations of Interstellar Plasma with Voyager 1" include W.S By Adam Vaughan Rain is falling in Greenland even in winter National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Rain is becoming more common across Greenland’s ice sheet and it may be playing an important role in rising sea levels Greenland’s 1.7 million-square-kilometre ice sheet contains enough fresh water to flood coastal cities around the world. Warm air over the sheet is causing it to melt, but new work reveals that rainfall is also causing more melting than previously thought An analysis of satellite and weather station records suggests that around 300 melt events in Greenland between 1979 and 2012 were linked to rainfall rain-associated melting became twice as frequent in summer Rain now seems to account for 28 per cent of the ice sheet’s melt The analysis highlights an under-monitored area says Robin Smith at the University of Reading “It tells us that we need to pay more attention to all the processes Nicholas Barrand at the University of Birmingham says rainfall could have “profound effects” on the density of Greenland’s snowpack where meltwater goes and the total amount of meltwater that runs off the sheet into the sea “Each of these make up the Greenland ice sheet’s contribution to global sea level rise and will require close monitoring in the coming years,” he says It is becoming more common in Greenland due to higher temperatures more of Greenland’s ice sheet becomes covered in ice instead of snow this ice reflects less of the sun’s energy Greenland’s melt season has run between May and August but rainfall means melting is now happening in winter too “The rain events are extremely important because they are one of the only triggers for melting in winter,” says Marco Tedesco of Columbia University in New York the team acknowledge that the period they studied was particularly warm Natural variability means the decades between 1979 and 2012 were hotter than average on top of the long-term trend of global warming so are not necessarily a good guide to future melting Jason Box at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland says that if the period had extended to 2017, the trend wouldn’t have been so strong. That’s because 2012, which saw intense melting in Greenland was the end of a string of years with increasing temperatures Rainfall’s role in Greenland’s melting ice sheet has ramifications not just for sea level rises but for undertaking vital climate science too Liz Thomas of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge is heading to Greenland this summer to drill ice cores to study signs of previous climate change new evidence of rain in the winter and increased melting is alarming Surface meltwater will percolate through the ice and potentially wash away the valuable climate proxies contained in ice cores,” she says The Cryosphere DOI: 10.5194/tc-13-815-2019 TikTokers are taking an old joke online and pretending a Scottish delicacy is in fact a mythical creature that lives in the mountainside Since a TikTok account titled Haggis Wildlife Foundation popped up four days ago they've received over 1.4 million views across 18 videos an obsolete British coin equivalent to around $0.14 Their most popular video, which received over 643,000 views shows an old-fashioned photo of a man posing with an animal they claim is a haggis continued the illusion and claimed they had personally seen the animal knew family members who used to breed them or had worked with conservation efforts to introduce more into the wild and the commitment to the joke appears to be paying off "I'm confused I thought haggis was sheep's stomach or something like that," one viewer wrote in a comment that received over 630 likes "Omg I actually thought this was real… you almost got me," another comment read to those who are clearly in on the joke and are fully aware that no such wild haggis exists and it is in fact a traditional Scottish dish For more stories like this, check out coverage from Insider's Digital Culture team here. Owusu joins KCRW’s Chris Douridas to talk the album’s roots and developing his sound as well as deliver an exclusive live performance that goes straight for the jugular KCRW: Your song “Don’t Need You” has got this great release Talk about the release that must come from writing a song like that Genesis Owusu: “I feel like sonically that song is probably the best example of that release ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ was totally a project of catharsis to me rather than a singles-driven type of project I've had to adapt to the era of singles and playlisting and stuff like that But I'm really grateful that I've been able to make this and that it's been so well received.” What were some albums that did that for you “Two big ones that jump out straight away are ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ by Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ came out when I was in 12th grade and I studied that harder than anything I studied in school So I've always been inspired by things like that.” Can you take us through the thoughts behind the “black dog” references on the album “I went into the album knowing essentially what I wanted to talk about to a degree say things that I wasn't saying in conversation The two things I wanted to get off my chest my two most weighty problems that I was experiencing at the time I've heard of the ‘black dog’ as a euphemism for depression I'd realize I've been called the black dog as a racial slur And I thought this one phrase was really interesting in encompassing both of the things that I originally wanted to talk about they became more than just static concepts And I started writing them as characters with their own personalities That became much more exciting to me from a creative writing perspective but also a lot more liberating for me in creating the sonics of an album because now I've got this character as the internal black dog And this character is trying to seduce you as depression may feel like in some certain aspects Now I can create songs that sound fun and upbeat The external black dog is very straight to the point and now I can create songs that sound aggressive and in-your-face So the creation of these two black dogs as characters was really sonically liberating.” You were born in Ghana and you moved to Australia when you were two years old. Your older brother Citizen Kay is also a celebrated musician and rapper in Australian What does your family think about your careers “I definitely don't think that when my dad decided to move to Australia He is the type to send me articles about me that I haven't seen already sending me a Hungarian radio station who's reviewing ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ that I'd never heard of.” Your brother was some years ahead of you working in the world of rap What was it like coming up behind him as a younger brother and forging your own identity because my brother was already a musician and being a younger brother of five years everyone kind of expects you to be in your brother's shadow His name is Kojo and they used to call me ‘Mini Kojo.’ Like no But he had hijacked our family home’s study and made it his own studio Everyone in the house had to hear what he was making and he was making beats one day and finally got me when I was walking past the study rap to this beat.’ He'd been wearing me down for months prior to this I'll take it.’ I put it on my little mp3 player I was listening to it in a public bathroom We became a little duo known as the Ansah Brothers We still make music together here and there aside from the type of music that he makes I feel like it's really just exciting for me to not stay in the same place to try and jump out of things as quickly as possible and see what happens and experiment which I feel like you could probably hear on the album too.” Anne Litt shares her take on the week in KCRW music Donate by midnight tomorrow and your $100 becomes $200 for KCRW thanks to a $10,000 match by music legend Moby DOuble dollars Get the latest from KCRW in your inbox 3x a week. markets were thrown into turmoil after Prime Minister Theresa May faced the biggest challenge to her leadership since she took office Uber uses driver ratings to create an average rating for each driver And if a driver's rating slips below a certain amount left to either try other ridesharing services or change their job Uber's San Francisco office sent a guide to all of its drivers in 2014 that explained how the driver-rating system works and how drivers can improve their scores.  The document says that 4.6 is the important number when it comes to driver ratings If a driver's rating is 4.6 or lower then Uber is going to start considering kicking that driver off the system.  This chart shows the distribution between the different driver ratings: The 2014 document says that only 2-3% of drivers are in the danger zone below a 4.6 average rating It also says that "deactivating the accounts of the drivers who provide consistently poor experiences ensures that Uber continues to be known for quality." Uber drivers (or "partners," as they're known) are sent an email newsletter every week by Uber which covers fares If a rider is underperforming it includes a line of red text to let them know that their average rating is low This diagram is also included to remind drivers to keep their rating high The driver rating isn't the only statistic that Uber tracks It also looks at something called the "Acceptance rate." When a rider requests a trip through Uber the nearest driver gets a "ping" telling them that someone wants a ride They have 15 seconds to tap on the screen of their phone and accept the ping The percentage of pings accepted is the acceptance rate Uber tells drivers that they should keep above an 80% acceptance rate It includes the statistic in the weekly email that is sent out to drivers: The Uber guide to the driver ranking system also includes information on what causes riders to leave low ratings.  Here's a chart created by Uber that shows the most frequent complaints that Uber customers have (the annotations are Uber's own): Uber says that it takes a lot for a driver to receive a one-star rating and 5% of trips are rated three stars or lower The leading causes of one-star ratings are fights or harassment a problem that Uber has repeatedly struggled with There's a common myth shared amongst Uber drivers that their ratings actually get worse during the busiest times They think working late nights over the weekends will result in the worst ratings It offers up this chart as proof that late-nights actually give better ratings: The most useful part of the Uber guide for its drivers will probably be the advice on how to maintain a high score own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK View all partners Millions of children in England risk contracting potentially fatal diseases as vaccination rates continue to fall for the second year running deputy chief executive of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence about 3m children and adolescents may have missed their mumps It is not possible to vaccinate every child in the country. At any given time, some children will be too young and a very small number will have allergies or other conditions that make vaccination unacceptably risky. However, if a sufficient proportion of the population are vaccinated, a disease cannot spread and everyone is protected. This is known as “herd immunity” The World Health Organisation (WHO) considers that a 95% uptake is necessary to achieve this protection Low vaccination rates are a particularly English problem: Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland all achieve the WHO target particularly in economically deprived urban areas the national rates are 2-3% below WHO recommended levels particularly those with high levels of deprivation and minority ethnic populations This creates a high risk of outbreaks of serious childhood diseases The decline in vaccination rates is often attributed to parental resistance provoked in the late 1990s by the now-discredited claim made by Andrew Wakefield of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism the comparisons between the different nations within the UK suggest a more complex picture we should consider whether they have easy access to child health advice and vaccination services If they are not aware of the benefits and cannot get to the places where vaccines are available we should not be surprised if their children are not vaccinated Although the UK has a single framework of principles and funding for the NHS each component nation chooses how to organise their delivery Wales and Northern Ireland have had less reorganisation than England so they have been able to focus on providing rather than reforming their services Staffing shortages remained in the urban areas where low vaccination rates are found The lack of support for reaching out to parents contributes to the low uptake Some minorities have distinctive medical traditions These beliefs are often dismissed as irrational or primitive by health professionals – a poor foundation for persuading parents of the benefits of change Recent migrants may simply not understand how the health system works and what is available to them All these problems are familiar to health visitors whose interpersonal skills can make an impact provided that caseloads allow enough time to engage parents There are a small number of “new age” parents whose preferences for alternative medicine could probably be accommodated without compromising herd immunity Of more concern is the emerging group of affluent parents who are opting out because they believe they can micromanage all risks to their children. This group has not been studied in the UK, but recent work in California found that where there is a critical mass of parents who think this way in a school catchment refusal rates are high because the parents believe that the minimal risks from vaccination need not be accepted They can insulate their children from the “others” who carry infectious disease Their children do not share school classrooms public transport or public leisure facilities with children from poorer backgrounds Their children’s social contacts are carefully supervised so that they only mix with other children from a similar background whose parents think in the same way They seem to be the forerunners of the “helicopter parents” who hover over their children at university and even into first employment We may need to relearn the lessons that drove public health reform in 19th-century Britain: infectious diseases are a potential threat to everyone No one can buy protection on an individual basis “One of the first large foreign investors to place its trust in the Hungarian economy following the 1990 regime change was Suzuki,” shared Robert Esik CEO of the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) “We value this trust and continue to strengthen our relationships with our Japanese friends There are 184 Japanese companies active in Hungary today that employ over 30,000 people They are collectively  the seventh-largest investor in Hungary in terms of volume In addition to Hungary’s strong automotive and electronics industries key sectors within the country’s diverse economy have been established and continue to grow “Japanese investment has led to some of the most advanced technologies reaching the Hungarian market and these have fast-tracked the automation of our manufacturing processes and boosted our industrial competitiveness,” Esik explained “We recognize the excellent work ethic and admirable corporate culture that Japanese companies have imparted on the local business community.” • Toray Group’s battery-separator film facility • GS Yuasa’s first overseas lithium-ion battery plant • Seiren’s first European synthetic leather car seat cover factory According to the International Monetary Fund Hungary’s projected growth rate for real gross domestic product in 2021 is 7.6% we have successfully managed the pandemic from an economic standpoint and today Hungary is in a position to offer investors a stable and swiftly recovering economy,” Esik said “In addition to our successful vaccination strategy our economic policy to financially support and incentivize companies that are committed to increasing investments and maintaining their workforce has contributed to our economic recovery.” Hungary’s 9% corporate tax rate is the lowest in the European Union The government has also reduced the tax burden on the gross salaries paid by employers from 28.5% in 2016 to 17% in 2021 HIPA supports Japanese investors throughout the entire process,” Esik noted “Our Japanese friends have proved themselves to be reliable partners and have contributed to the development of the Hungarian economy We look forward to continuing our close cooperation.” www.hipa.hu Sponsored contents planned and edited by JT Media Enterprise Division Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself if you're also on a mission to get the healthiest version of your hair it could be where you're going seriously wrong there's plenty of dos and don'ts to scrub up on these days.  a hair expert has revealed that skipping breakfast could be preventing you from achieving the healthiest version of your hair.  you should "never skip breakfast if you want great hair" with the morning meal providing crucial vitamins and nutrients that your hair needs to flourish.  Anabel also recommends eating "protein four times a week for breakfast too" adding that "it really is the most important meal of the day for hair".  Highlighting that brekky is our bodies' first chance of the day to soak up much-needed nutrition "Breakfast serves as the first opportunity to supply essential nutrients to our bodies after an overnight fast and proteins are vital for healthy hair growth Skipping breakfast can deprive our hair follicles of these nutrients Anabel also adds that protein is vital for our tresses Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news expert advice on styling and beauty trends and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered "A protein-rich breakfast is essential for providing the amino acids necessary for hair growth and repair Skipping breakfast can result in inadequate protein intake more brittle hair that is prone to breakage," she explains adding that as iron deficiency can be a common cause of hair loss breakfast can be  an "excellent opportunity to incorporate iron-rich foods like fortified cereals treating ourselves to some morning deliciousness is something that can reduce stress too apparently - and that's always good for both looking and feeling better "Breakfast can contribute to stress reduction which is important for preventing hair loss we may experience increased stress levels due to hunger "Stress-induced hair loss is a common issue that can be mitigated by regular beauty and lifestyle. Caitlin started on local papers and titles such as Cosmopolitan Reveal and Take a Break while studying for her Multimedia Journalism degree She also worked in Fashion PR as a Press Assistant for Arcadia's Topshop before becoming a part of the Now team WhatToWatch and woman&home to her writing repertoire before moving on to her current role.  This is a secure area and requires you to be logged in to the Members’ Zone My organisation has an SMMT membership and I have an account My organisation has an
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