ABB FIA Formula E Championship
2023 Jakarta E-Prix
Wikipedia: Season 9 Teams & Drivers Season 9 Calendar
Session Times
Times are in Western Indonesian Time (UTC+7:00)
Friday 2 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 1	15:30 - 16:00	08:30 - 09:00

Saturday 3 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 2	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 1	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 1	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Sunday 4 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 3	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 2	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 2	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Timetable: here

Jakarta International e-Prix Circuit
Jakarta, Indonesia
Circuit Diagram: here
Pitlane Map: here
Length: 2.370 KM (1.473 mi)
Turns: 18
Distance: Race 1: 36 Laps + any additional laps
Race 2: 38 Laps + any additional laps
Attack Mode 8 minutes in combination of 2+6, 4+4, 6+2
Live Streaming & Timing

Official Live Timing: Here
Official YouTube Channel: Here
Official Twitch Channel: Here
Official Facebook Page: Here
Other Streams: Check MotorsportsStreams2 or MotorsportsReplays

Check out the official ABB Formula E Championship TV/Streaming Guide to find out more about coverage in your area.
YouTube Links:
Channel 4 Sports (UK and Ireland):
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzhBJpSY-8 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJYSIuNvKDc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FudePKad-s (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVl_5JKM0A (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3o7626B94 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVNA7LQ-7k (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcrgXpH3zw(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
Official YouTube:
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN5Xg4MT4U (Stream starts 40 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ChZTz4EIc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iwJJnMCzEg (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjmngjvezRw (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDzmHeh33Y (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh2CG8dzcng (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FADqmgP7E(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)

2023 T20 Blast & Charlotte Edwards Cup
ECB Match Centre - T20 Blast - Charlotte Edwards Cup - Central Repository of Scorecards and clips of every boundary and wicket.
Full coverage of every ball of County Cricket and selected Women's Regional Matches on BBC Local Radio - T20 Blast - Charlotte Edwards Cup
T20 Matches in the Blast and Charlotte Edwards Cup start at different times which are listed against them below.
Where available, YouTube live streams are linked against each match below. These can also be found on the county and ECB websites. There's no match on Sky Sports today but Kent/Surrey will only be available on Kent's new PayPerView service KentCricketPlay at a cost of £5.99
BBC Local Radio coverage and YouTube streams should be accessible worldwide.
Double Headers
AT BRISTOL - Weather Forecast
10:30 - Western Storm vs Central Sparks - YouTube - Scorecard
14:30 - Gloucestershire vs Middlesex - YouTube - Scorecard
AT TRENT BRIDGE - Weather Forecast
11:00 - The Blaze vs Sunrisers - YouTube - Scorecard
15:00 - Nottinghamshire vs Lancashire - YouTube - Scorecard
AT HEADINGLY - Weather Forecast
11:30 - Yorkshire vs Derbyshire - YouTube - Scorecard
15:30 - Northern Diamonds vs Southern Vipers - YouTube - Scorecard
Other T20 Blast Matches
14:30 - Durham vs Leicestershire at The Riverside Ground - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
14:30 - Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire at New Road - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
14:30 - Kent vs Surrey at The St Lawrence Ground - KentCricketPlay (£5.99) - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
14:30 - Somerset vs Essex at The County Ground, Taunton - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
14:30 - Sussex vs Glamorgan at The County Cricket Ground, Hove - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
Other Charlotte Edwards Cup Matches
14:30 - Thunder vs South East Stars at Stanley Park - YouTube - Weather Forecast - Scorecard
T20 Blast Standings before today:
North Group

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net RR	Points
1	Worcestershire	4	4	0	+1.345	8
2	Warwickshire	6	4	2	+0.867	8
3	Durham	4	3	1	+1.294	6
4	Lancashire	6	3	3	+0.269	6
5	Nottinghamshire	6	3	3	-0.279	6
6	Derbyshire	5	2	3	-0.417	4
7	Yorkshire	5	2	3	-0.426	4
8	Northamptonshire	5	2	3	-0.692	4
9	Leicestershire	5	0	5	-1.585	0

South Group

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net RR	Points
1	Somerset	5	5	0	+2.475	10
2	Surrey	5	3	2	+1.136	6
3	Hampshire	5	3	2	+0.933	6
4	Glamorgan	4	3	1	+0.240	6
5	Gloucestershire	5	2	3	-0.626	4
6	Essex	3	2	1	-1.427	4
7	Kent	4	1	3	-0.311	2
8	Sussex	4	1	3	-0.919	2
9	Middlesex	5	0	5	-1.994	0

Points: Teams receive 2 points for a win. 1 point for a Tie or No Result. Each team plays 7 of the 8 other teams in their group and 7 away. Top 4 in each group qualify for the Quarter Finals. Quarter Final winners qualify for Finals Day.
Charlotte Edwards Cup Standings before today:

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Net RR	Points
1	The Blaze	5	5	0	+1.478	23
2	Northern Diamonds	5	4	1	+0.351	17
3	Southern Vipers	5	3	2	+0.763	13
4	Thunder	5	2	3	-0.083	9
5	South East Stars	5	2	3	-0.032	8
6	Central Sparks	5	2	3	-0.650	8
7	Western Storm	5	2	3	-0.666	8
8	Sunrisers	5	0	5	-1.119	0

Points: Teams receive 4 points for a win. A bonus point for a win with a run rate of 1.25x that of the opposition. 2 points for a Tie or No Result. Teams play each other team once, home or away. The top three teams advance to Finals Day. The top team advances straight to the Final, whilst the other two teams play off in a semi-final.
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Decarboxylation is a very important step in the process of making a cannabis concentrate. In short and blunt lamens terms decarboxylation is heating of cannabis to activate the appropriate cannabinoids. Heat and cold are the Extraction Technicians best friend, when controlled for. THCa is the naturally occurring form of THC exsisting in raw cannabis form where as THC is not present in raw cannabis. THCa is tetrahydracannabinolic acid, THC being the former word less acid, Tetrahydracannabinol.
The most important reason behind decarbing is the activation of the acid groups of compounds into their psychotropic active forms. While there are medicinal and therapeutic benefits to THCa and other Acid forms of cannabinoids, they are not therapeutic via combustion and can only be used to induce immediate medicinal therpaeutic effect in transdermal absorption, edibles, rso, tinctures etc. Though extended lomg term benefits of THCa have been suggested by studies. THCa is not psychotropic however. Very few psychoactive psychotropic benefits can be experienced from raw cannabis flower prior to decarboxylation.
Decaroxylation is one of the most important steps in cannabis concentrate processing, but is a part of cannabis use regarldess of How it is used. Decarboxylation is the addition of heat to raw cannabis or cannabis flower that has been curred. This torches the cannabis flower and upon reaching its flash point around 315° F approximately, the THCa loose a single carbon atom Carboxyl group 👉 (-COOH) while holding onto a hydrogen atom.
The atomic make up of THCa is 4 Oxygen, 30 Hydrodgen, and 22 Carbon atoms. We can see that decarbing causes the loss of 2 Oxygen atoms, 1 hydrogen, and 1 carbon atom. This is known as carbon dioxide, 1 carbon, di-2 oxide 1 hydrogen atom. Removal of said carboxyl group causes an approximately 12% reduction in THCa and converts to active THC.
This process can happen as I mentioned from combustion of plant material reaching the flash point of THC at approximately 320°F. It can also take place in a much more delicate manner whereby the THCa is converted to THC for use in products which will not undergo combustion. These are your edibles, tinctures, Rick Simpson Oil, topicals etc. These require that the THCa be ran through a decarboxylation process via lab techniques. However, the consumed compound in edibles and RSO is THC.
THCa does not bind to the receptors which are the main parts activating the endocannabinoid system, aka ECS. The ECS is a largely not understood homeostatic process involving the peropheral and nervous systems. THCa has a shape and size that prevents it from binding to CB1 or CB2 receptors. THC however has the key to both receptors.

There is not much study that has been conducted on THCa, largely thanks to the little amount of study done on cannabis. Meaning that which has been done has been on the seemingly most pertinent parts of the plant to understand given its possible recreational and inherent medicnal stance in the western World.

THCa is quite interesting in that studies have shown it to be directly beneficial to the reduction of pain by causing inhibition of COX-1 and Cox-2 enzymes. Both of said enzymes have potential to increase inflimation, pain, & fever. The interesting thing is the usefulness I have heard family and friends speak to, that being the application of topicals. I always wondered how in the world a topical would be beneficial for someone like my aunt, who smoke upwards of an ounce a week and uses pens and dabs. She finds the anti inflammirory and pain relieving properties of topical absorption of THCa extremely beneficial. She suffers a multitude of issues traditionally thought of to be treated by cannabis like gastroporesis, fibromyalgia, and inflimation associated pain.
The medicinal and recreational benefits of THC vs THCa differ darastically. THCa is not psychotropic, or as I often refer to it as psychoactively psychedelic. But has a multitude of medicnal applications through topical transdermal absorption, juicing of cannabis leaves, plant, and flower, rso, and other edibles.
THCa treats neurodegenrative diseases such as alzheimers disease, interesting given that CBD quells seizure activity in certain nerodivergent disorders. THCa is also anit spasmodic, meaning it stops muscele shaking in diseases like Parkinson disease. It also somewhat counterintuitive as an anti proliferative, considering the proliferative nature of sesquiterpenes. Said Anit proliferative attributes making it beneficial in prevention of prostate cancers.
THCa is also anti emetic to treat nausea vomiting etc and induce apetite & aid reduction in nausea. It is also analgesic in nature which means it is a pain killer. Finally like most compounds in cannabis THCa is an antioxidant that protects one from and reverses the damage caused by free radicals.
THC in addition to the plethora of medicinal applications of THCa, we have the medicinal viability of THC. Again none of this is accepted by the FDA and much comes from studies of cannabis from around the world as US peer reviewed research wasn't allowed in the US untill 2022. Atleast NOT RESEARCH without FDA manipulation forcing researchers to use cannabis from the University of Mississippi grown by government contractors to ensure low quality cannabis and sub par quality. This was the product available for study by peer reviewed researchers, ensuring FDAs plausible deniablilty while simultaneously actively controlling ability to produce results other than null. This backing down by the FDA is why we see so many synthetic cannabinoids hitting the market now. We're actually able to study the cannabis actually being used, though the restrictions are still a bit uncalled for.
The benefits of THC actually do differ from THCa. I didn't know this for the longest time. I always thought that THC was simply decarboxylIzed THCa. THC can assist with the treatment of opioid addiction, ya know, the way addicts who've suffered from the disease for years have suggested that the plant helps. For decades individuals on methadone maintainence treatment or another form of medicated assisted Treatment, aka MAT like suboxone, subtuex, or sublicaid which are all partial opioid agonists, save methadone as it is a full agonist. The Marijuana is said to dissuade the desire for reward seeking by allowing a less intense non addictive reward to Be given to the brain via THC.
Studies have actually shown a statistically significant difference in completion of opioid maintainence programs and relapse therein or total relapse correlated to THC use. This use is said to be decreasing desire to activate that 'burnt-in' reward system pathway. Essentially yes it let's the patient get high without axtivating those addictive pathways. This is supported by studies like the one I often discuss regarding injection of Beta Myrcene in Mice. Interestingly a study performed on Beta myrcene outside of cannabis, subcutaneous and intra peritoneal injection of cannabis derived beta myrcene led to analgesia comparable to prescription opiates.
The amazing find imo is that while it produced similar analgesic effects, it took an unknown pathway which caused analgesia but didn't exhibit the addictive properties of opioid Mu receptor activation. The studies insinuate both the application and medicinal viability of myrcene outside and likely within the whole of cannabis. Remember the whole is more than sum of its parts. AS well as the fact that THERE maybe isn't much receptor activation leadiNg to addictive properties, but RATHER, the pathway to the mu receptor causes the addictive properties.
THC has also been shown to have a strong Correlation to increased Metabolic output, which has a multitude of health benefits that most certainly don't abIDE by THE social niceties of todayS society. Cannabis use can produce THC benefit can lessen possibility of diet related obesity. The THC has actually been shown to be correlated with decrease in Body Mass Index as outdated as the BMI is said to be in modern culture. In addition THC has been correlated to A decrease in likliehood of diet associated diabetes.
THC also exhibits the characteristic of encouraging Vasodialation which is how the pressure in the eyes is releived for Glaucoma patients. Vasodiallation is the diallation of blood vessels, aka opening them up. This causes a decrease in blood pressure. However, strains with potent beta myrcene levels can effect the way in which the THC works. When THC is used with Beta caryophyllene in that form, not trans caryophyllene which is the most common form of beta caryophyllene and myrcene together, the THC enhances sedative effects in the potency of the onset brought on by beta caryophyllene sedation enhanced via myrcene.
Myrcene alone causes proliferation of THC across the blood brain n barrier leading to imcreased absorption of THC and increased activation of the CB1 receptors. This increases the psychotropic ability of the cannabis. THC potency can also be controlled with the application of various combinations of terpenes, namely related to beta caryophyllene and beta myrcene.

For example, that intensification of cb1 receptor activity can be quelled using the dietary nature of the dietary cannabinoid Beta Caryophyllene, by ingesting small amounts of black pepper cernals. These are high in Beta caryophyllene and as it is also a dietary cannabinoid meaning it can enter the endocsnnabnoid system througj the stomach and interacts with cannabis compounds active in the ECS. This calms the psychotropic Intensity calming paranoia & anxiety.

What is interesting and leads to deep sometimes heated discussion is that THC is also anxiolytic. Obviously heated given the intensification of THC via myrcene in a sativa lacking beta or trans caryophyllene. THCa is shown in studies in 2017 to be a more effective anti inflammitory than CBD when treating certain gastrointestinal disorders, specifically Irritable bowel syndrome, chrons disease, and ulcerative colitis.
So what does it mean when you see a small amount of THC in the product but higher levels of THCa? That ofcourse is a traditional confirmation of analysis.

First, it is very possible that the confirmation of analysis testing if using gas Chrometography that the THC may be underestimated, making for a more potent product than labeled....though these differences would be so Minute they likely wouldn't be noted by a person using the product. Maybe someone sensitive to THC.

Ever notice how there is typically some level of THC usually below 1% while your THCa tests around 79% or 78%. When testing cannabis products, when using Gas Chrometography the amount of THCa that converts to THC is 70%, but the THCa is not measurable using this method due to the temperature decearboxylizing the THCa to its psychotropic form.
Gas Chrometography combusts the material into a gassesous form and runs this gas through filtration which is able to measure the compound levels. I Showed below a picture diagram showing these systems. Because this is the "decarbed" product meaning heat was applied to convert the tetrahydracannabinolic acid. The THC is all that can be measured using this approach, not the THCa and only 70% of THCa is converted in this process. However knowing that 70% of THCa converts to THC we can sus out the levels of both using this approach.
It is impossible to know what that initial amount of THCa was of which 70% gets converted. Cannabis confirmation of analysis testing is very complex and has many seeming double negatives and odd measuremnet standards. One of these as a good example is less than the limit of quantitation. This means that the compound is present but can't be measured in accurate levels.
Liquid chrometography is a secondary method used to produce the confirmation of analysis you find on most states cannabis Product, atleast for the medicinal cannabis products in my state. Liquid chrometography takes advantage of a universal formula used to determine the amount of THCa that gets converted to THC.
The Universal Mathematical formula is as follows.
THC TOTAL= (%THCa) X 0.877 + (%THC)
If we remember looking back, approximately 12% of THCa is lost in the extraction process, during decarboxylation. That approximates at 0.877 which is equivalent to 87.7%. 87.8 + 12 leaves 99.8%. I am not exactly certain about the .2% leftover. I will update when i do learn ablut this fact. When the carboxyl group is removed and hydrogen atom preserved a 12% reduction occurs in THCa and other active cannabinoids, those exsisiting as an acid naturally like CBGa are converted as well.
This is how the ACTUAL levels are measured in order to understand the real potnecy of the product your using. THCa for example require a temperature exposure of 220° F for 30-45 mins before decarbing begins. The key for some decarbing processes is to manipulate atmospheric pressures to lower the boiling points and flash points of cannabinoid temperatures in order to ensure the partial flashing over (that is decarbing) takes place but doesn't degrade the product. Control of atmospheric pressure is necessary so that terpenes are not evaporated as some terpnenes begin to flash over at right around 100°F. A rotovap is one way this is done for which there is a diagram below as well, showing the liquid bath and erlyn myer flask (flask with bulbous bottom). Or in a VTA wipe decarboxylationprocess. .
THCa decarbs at approximately 220° F and CBDa decarbs at approximately 245°F, exposure time being approximately 90 minutes. To keep terpenes from evaporating it is necessary to extend the length of time one runs decarbozylation process in order to lower the temperature. A chart exsists to show heat vs time and the relative output thereof i included below. According to my research the optimal temperature for THCa decarboxylation is between 252° & 293°F.
If you plan to exsist on the Recreational market as a processor of cannabis or as an individual processing your own cannabis, decarboxylation is absolutely necessary to compete with big indisytry and make cannabis product containing desired terpenes.

 While decarbing can be done ignoring the evaporation of terpenes, which is why there is the issue of adding terpenes in some processing it is best to try to keep these terps especially if competing In a state where medicinal multi million dollar industry is operating.

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Violence continues in Sudan, the cryosphere breaks down, recessions, harvest failures, heat waves, droughts, and floods. Mother Earth has got a terminal case of humans.
Last Week in Collapse: May 28-June 3, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, sad, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse. Try not to overdose on this week’s Doom dose.
This is the 75th newsletter. You can find the May 21-27 edition (which I accidentally labeled the 73rd edition) here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox every Sunday.
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The World Meteorological Congress concluded on Friday, and it released a bunch of reports. The focus this year was on developing early warning systems for wateclimate/weather disasters. Most countries report declining ability to monitor hydrological developments, and almost half of the world’s people lack reliable access to water for at least one month per year, a figure that is expected to grow considerably by 2050.
The WMO also reported on the state of emergency for the cryosphere, those places where ice is formed (and melts). Greenland’s ice has shrunk for 26 consecutive years. Permafrost threatens to release huge quantities of greenhouse gasses over the coming years. Sea levels continue to rise…but you know this already.
Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, has come up with a plan to extend their almost-exhausted water supply: they’re adding salt to the tap water, against WHO recommendations. This causes people to drink less water—but what are the implications for health, and for small-scale agriculture?
Over 20 million tonnes of what was damaged in China by recent rain, not long before it was scheduled to be harvested. Analysts say this will raise grain prices worldwide. The scale of this blight is larger than recent blights. In the U.S. state of Georgia, 90% of the peach harvest was destroyed by abnormally warm weather; in Vermont, a freak cold snap damaged crops, potentially 30% of apples.
6 years. 800 million trees felled in the Amazon rainforest, all to create space for cattle farms. The loss of rainforest is equivalent roughly to two Corsica islands.
Environmental scientists have discovered a hopeful tool to lower CO2: Greenland’s “rock flour,” which is basically rock dust. A recent study claims that it can be scattered on fields to absorb CO2—and also boost wheat and potato yields. International lawyers are also working on the first global plastics pollution treaty that could be passed later next year.
Yet another study claims that Mother Earth is sick, and that most of our safety thresholds have been crossed. The feedback loops have been activated, the diagnosis is terminal. The Nature study lists the 8 Earth System Boundaries: 1) Climate, 2) Functional Integrity, 3) Natural Ecosystem Area, 4) Surface Water, 5) Groundwater, 6) Nitrogen, 7) Phosphorus, and 8) Subglobal Aerosols. (Not to be confused with the 9 Planetary Boundaries.)
Some insurers in California are cutting homeowner insurance because they can’t make a buck betting against wildfires and desertification. Similar risk is expanding in Texas. Summer is coming. A mysterious wildfire in Scotland is growing out of control, and threatens to become the UK’s largest ever.
Record May rainfall in Bermuda. Part of South Africa also saw record rains in May. Strong rains in southern Spain—but the parched soil can’t absorb much of it. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia area had its driest May in recorded history.
Vicious drought and Afghan dams have raised tensions between iran and Afghanistan, where fighting killed a handful of people two weeks ago. In times of scarcity, no group can have enough water; even less if they’re forced to share. Most of the world’s lakes are drying up.
An official in India ordered the draining of two million liters of water from a reservoir……so he could retrieve his phone, which he dropped in the water while taking a selfie. He was suspended. The phone was recovered—but too damaged to function. The water could have irrigated 6 km² of land.
Wildfires grow in Nova Scotia. Millions going hungry in Madagascar. Record temperatures in Japan. Normalized heat waves across Asia with new records in Central Asia & the Caucasus.
Scientists warn of potential tsunamis caused by underwater landslides in Antarctica. New cold records in Australia. Heat waves in North Africa. Increasing reliance on expensive desalination plants in Barcelona as drought and water supplies worsen.
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Türkiye’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, won reelection, and economists believe it portends the further Collapse of the economy. Investment is pulling out, and the lira is expected to continue sinking. “We will be together until the grave,” said Erdoğan at his victory speech.
The UN operation to drain the *FSO Safer* has begun now that technicians have boarded the vessel. 1.1 million barrels of oil aboard the derelict tanker, stranded off the coast of Yemen, will begin being drained next month.
Petrol prices rise in Benin as Nigeria cuts its fuel subsidies; Iran is limiting fuel purchases too. China’s declining birth rate, growing debt, and ongoing international decoupling is threatening its economy. Eurozone inflation continues. Trade-GDP ratios approaching 2008 levels worryingly.
Budapest is facing bankruptcy. Refugees in Tanzania are seeing their rations cut in half as financing falls off. Vicious conditions inside refugee camps in Chad take advantage of Sudanese refugees. Debts grow in Brazil. Complicated problems continue destabilizing the world’s economic equilibrium.
Another Russian missile attack struck Kyiv last week, after allegedly pro-Ukraine Russian volunteer soldiers made an incursion into Russian territory. Wagner Group’s chief continues provoking Russian leadership as infighting appears to grow, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow. Zelensky says Ukraine’s counteroffensive is now ready.
Myanmar’s Civil War has entered its third year, depending on when you claim it began. In the desperation and chaos of prolonged warfare, it is the environment that pays the price. Wood, gold, jade, and other resources are being exploited by government and private actors after the old economic system broke apart.
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62% of Americans agree that the COVID pandemic is over (it’s not), an increase of 14% since February 2023. 56% of Americans admit that they never mask up in public anymore. An updated booster is coming in September to address the XBB.1.16 variant. Masks may go away, but (Long) COVID will stay with us.
The WHO’s treaty to manage future pandemics is being watered down, leaving humanity less prepared for the next pandemic. Although China denies the lab leak origin story, a prominent Chinese scientist claims it is possible. COVID is never going away, and neither is Long COVID.
Cholera is spreading in several refugee camps in Kenya; medical attention comes too small and too late to prevent the spread. In Sudan, where over a million people have been displaced by recent violence, old inequities linger. Over 13M children are in desperate need of humanitarian aid (about half of Sudan’s 46M population are below 18). Their situation has never been more critical.
Experts continue warning about the dangers of AI, and push for regulation, while other actors push to use AI for economic benefits. I am uncertain which field AI will disrupt the most: military, low-skill workers, societal psyche, institutional integrity, creative jobs, politics, financial markets…? What will be the second-order effects, tertiary, etc.?
Tanzania has called an end to its Marburg virus outbreak, about 10 weeks after it declared an emergency. The UK is advising at-risk people to get vaccinated for mpox/monkeypox before their vaccine program ends in August; 10 new cases in the UK were recently reported.
PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals” used across many household objects, are dangerous to your health. You also probably could have guessed that manufacturers knew—and lied about—their safety for decades. A study tracked the use of PFAS (since 1940’s) and the knowledge that they were harmful (since 1990’s). Companies including DuPont settled a case for a little over $1 billion USD for their role in the scheme. The billionaire Sackler family also settled a gigantic case regarding opioids, in which they must pay about $6 billion USD, and forfeit control of the pharmaceutical company they’ve held since 1952. The company (formerly Purdue Pharma) is rebranding (as Knoa). Nobody is going to jail.
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A catastrophic train crash in India killed 280+ people. The crash involved 3 trains, and is India’s deadliest in this century.
Riots in Kosovo. Torture in ~~suspected~~ gangster prisons in El Salvador, with 153 prisoners killed since March. Ongoing protests in Israel over the proposed judicial reform.
Lebanon has been without a President for more than 7 months now—and now target dats have been missed to hold important municipal council elections. Town budgets are falling further into chaos, police are going unpaid, garbage is piling up, and would-be foreign investors and money-lenders are losing the scraps of hope they had for Lebanon’s crippled economy. No one is coming to save them.
Cartel violence is rising on the border of Mexico-Guatemala. Organized non-state armed groups conscript local guys, intimidate people into leaving, blockade towns, and shoot each other in the streets. Several thousand people have been displaced—and others disappeared. Far away, Syria is being welcomed back into the Arab fold—on the condition that it cracks down on the intractable drug epidemic of captagon.
One of Libya’s rival PMs was ousted a couple weeks ago, and now the other PM in the east is striking towns in western Libya with drones, allegedly targeting fuel/human smugglers.
Boko Haram jihadists are infighting in northern Nigeria, but the civilians are paying the price. Guerrilla territorial competition may also bring in more people into regional hostilities. In eastern DRC, violence has displaced over 80,000 people so far this year, and their regional hospitals are overcrowded.
Rumors are emerging that M23 will attack Goma, the sprawling epicenter of East Africa’s refugee situation, where human rights abuses are increasingly common and the local ceasefire is breaking down. Islamic radicals also operate in the region, targeting civilians. About 6 million people across the DRC are believed to be internally displaced, and about half a million around Goma (population: unknown, perhaps 750,000 or twice that). There are also reports of planes sighted which belong to the European mercenary company Agemira.
The Sudanese Civil War is spiraling out of control again, as skirmishes broke the incomplete ceasefire. The Central Statistics Bureau was attacked, hampering official data for various purposes. Over 1,000 people have died so far, crossing an unofficial threshold for an armed conflict to officially become a War. About 2M have fled the fighting. Rockets killed 18 and injured many more at a market in Khartoum, sanctions are being imposed by a few nations, and other countries are wading deeper into the War, complicating the situation and preventing clean avenues to another ceasefire.
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Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-There is rain in Romania, based on this observation. But there’s also corruption, growing labor strikes, inflation, and political difficulties.
-Greenland’s climate is out of whack—and apparently the people don’t seem to care that much, judging from this rare observation from West Greenland.
-Portland, Oregon is still a cross-section of modern America’s Collapse, if this observation can be trusted. Heat, insecurity, overcrowding, loneliness, and crows… Reddit has also been affected by psychological decay, according to the poster.
-People are abandoning climate hope, if you believe this gilded thread and its many gilded comments. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
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2023 Jakarta E-Prix
Wikipedia: Season 9 Teams & Drivers Season 9 Calendar
Session Times
Times are in Western Indonesian Time (UTC+7:00)
Friday 2 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 1	15:30 - 16:00	08:30 - 09:00

Saturday 3 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 2	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 1	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 1	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Sunday 4 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 3	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 2	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 2	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Timetable: here

Jakarta International e-Prix Circuit
Jakarta, Indonesia
Circuit Diagram: here
Pitlane Map: here
Length: 2.370 KM (1.473 mi)
Turns: 18
Distance: Race 1: 36 Laps + any additional laps
Race 2: 38 Laps + any additional laps
Attack Mode 8 minutes in combination of 2+6, 4+4, 6+2
Live Streaming & Timing

Official Live Timing: Here
Official YouTube Channel: Here
Official Twitch Channel: Here
Official Facebook Page: Here
Other Streams: Check MotorsportsStreams2 or MotorsportsReplays

Check out the official ABB Formula E Championship TV/Streaming Guide to find out more about coverage in your area.
YouTube Links:
Channel 4 Sports (UK and Ireland):
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzhBJpSY-8 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJYSIuNvKDc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FudePKad-s (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVl_5JKM0A (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3o7626B94 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVNA7LQ-7k (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcrgXpH3zw(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
Official YouTube:
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN5Xg4MT4U (Stream starts 40 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ChZTz4EIc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iwJJnMCzEg (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjmngjvezRw (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDzmHeh33Y (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh2CG8dzcng (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FADqmgP7E(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)

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Brothers and sisters,
I grew up in the Indian diaspora as an NRI who didn't know too much about Indian politics or India's internal issues to begin with. I was never religious, I always thought of myself as a cultural Hindu. I thought that Hindus were mostly safe in India being a Hindu majority country with Hindu cultural values.
I thought that the Congress Party was a "normal" party. But when I read about the 2011 draft of the Communal Violence Bill and learned about the 2009 Right to Education Act's inapplicability to Christian minority schools (Pramati judgement), I quickly came to the conclusion that the Congress Party and Sonia/Rahul Gandhi are part of a Vatican/Catholic Church/Christian/Western conspiracy against Hindus and Hinduism. When Sonia Gandhi married Rajiv Gandhi, the Catholic Church saw this moment as its "Constantine" moment in India, when it could try to achieve its nefarious goals by controlling the Indian National Congress. Ever wonder why INC is aligned with Christian missionaries? Who did Rahul Gandhi meet first in Bharat Jodo Yatra? A hate mongering Catholic priest named George Ponniah who spewed vile hatred against the Hindus of Tamil Nadu.
See the following article:
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/is-congress-anti-hindu
In particular, I have a deep hatred of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi who are Catholic Christians. They are evil, completely anti-Hindu, and the brainchild of laws like Right to Education Act and the 2011 draft of the Communal Violence Bill. It is painfully obvious that they are Vatican agents who have a deep hatred of Hindus and of Indians. That is why I pray for Sonia and Rahul's downfall each and every day.
Communal Violence Bill - Do all Hindus know that the Congress Party tried to pass a Communal Violence Bill in 2011 that assumed that all Hindus were guilty as default, just by being born as Hindus, while Christians & Muslims could freely attack Hindus without any consequences? Did you know that this plan involved creating a so-called "National Communal Commission" with a "minority" (read Muslim/Christian) majority that could somehow control the Indian armed forces and the police forces to bully and terrorize Hindus? Luckily the BJP under Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, along with Narendra Modi, blocked Congress from passing this anti-Hindu law. BJP and RSS successfully killed this law and then won 2014 in a landslide. Luckily since 2013, the genocidal anti-Hindu Congress Party has been destroyed in the Rajya Sabha and so can never do something like this Communal Violence Bill (CVB) again. Also, India has massive internet penetration now in 2023 compared to back then in 2013 when Congress tried to pass CVB, so if the Italian scum who rule the Congress Party try to pass CVB again they will be exposed and there will be bloody retaliation against them. Variants of the Communal Violence Bill appear in different Congress manifestos under cleverly disguised names and descriptions, but the anti-Hindu intent of the Italian scum is the same. Harsh Mander, who wrote this evil anti-Hindu law with genocidal intent, is still running free instead of being hunted down and punished.
Right to Education Act - We all know how this law discriminates against Hindus running schools while leaving Christian "minority" institutions completely exempt from its horrible requirements like 25% quota, teacher salaries (that are extremely high for no reason), infra requirements like playgrounds etc. Hindus need linguistic minority status or Jain minority status just to escape RTE on their school. This law is so evil and no other country in the world has laws that discriminate against their majority community in education. How dare a Catholic padre who is a filthy pedophile has more rights than a Hindu to run a school without government interference? This was the brainchild of Vatican agent and Catholic terrorist Sonia. People like @ realitycheckind on Twitter have been screaming about RTE since 2014.
Nowadays, wealthy Hindus get around RTE by running linguistic minority or Jain minority schools. In Maharashtra, for instance, the vast majority of Hindu schools owned by politicians or big businessmen switched to linguistic minority status (Hindi/Gujarati/Kannada/Sindhi/Marwadi/Punjabi/Malayalam) or to Jain/Buddhist minority status. For instance, you'll notice that Ambani school in Mumbai is a Gujarati linguistic minority institution, or that Lodha school school in Mumbai is Jain minority, or that Birla school is Marwadi linguistic minority, or that Walsingham school owned by the Mittal family is Hindi linguistic minority. If the top 1% can kill RTE in their schools, why should a mom-pop Hindu family running a school be forced to take in RTE quota freeloaders?
Given how hard it is to politically undo reservation-type laws, the solution to kill the Right to Education Act across the whole of India is to make all Hindu schools across India into Jain minority institutions on paper, throwing out the 25% RTE quota freeloaders who should be kicked out of non-minority private schools. Simply put, nobody has the right to "free" private school education, just because you are part of a particular caste (SC/ST) or community. RTE is also a tool to infiltrate Muslim kids into Hindu owned private schools to achieve the so-called "secularism" that leftists want. If you run a Jain minority institute for instance, you can avoid such "secularism" and "diversity" in your student body and can screen out certain types of students.
This law was so evil and was the reason why so many communities like the Lingayats etc want minority status. Because no other country in the world has laws that make it easier for "minorities" to run schools compared to the majority community. The Jains wanted minority status and got it from the Congress Party in 2014, solely to protect their private schools and colleges from the evil reservation laws that we have and the 93rd constitutional amendment. Nowadays, all wealthy Hindus/corporate India are running Jain minority schools and colleges in the private sector free from any type of caste based reservation. In the future, you will see a movement run by Upper Caste Hindus against reservation in private educational institutions. Pratap Bhanu Mehta (who is really a Jain) knew of the 93rd amendment back in 2005 and successfully got the Jain minority status from the Congress Party. I've seen really top-notch private schools that have linguistic/Jain minority status and are safe from RTE.
Despite this law there, RSS appointees like Priyank Kanoongoo (head of NCPCR - national child rights commission) continue to try to "enforce" RTE on hapless Hindu owned non-minority schools. I have no idea why RSS doesn't have a problem with RTE. If Mr. Modi himself wanted to end RTE, I could guarantee you that this whole "program" would have been shut down on Day 1.
Why should a Hindu school owner be forced to admit 25% "free" education, while a similar school run by a Christian does not have to do so? Is this secularism? If it isn't secular, why aren't Hindus coming on the roads, demanding RTE to be imposed on the schools that those Catholic rapists run?
The True Religion of All Top Congress Leaders (news-flash, Congress is Hindu hating group of individuals plotting against Hindu civilization). While Owaisi is a radical Islamist, people like Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are the biggest threat to Hindus on our planet today.
Rahul Gandhi - Catholic Christian
Catholic Christian like his mother. Pretends to be a Hindu but hates Hindu culture and Hindu traditions. Is more of an Italian Catholic Christian who is more comfortable talking to Catholic padres in a Church. Is most at home in Kerala with a large Catholic population. Uses Muslims as a vote bank but is really aligned with radical Christian forces that are enemies of Hindu civilization. Ran away from a Hindu majority parliamentary constituency to go to a "secular" Wayanad where Abrahamics (Muslims + Christians) are over 60% of the population, knowing that Hindus would punish him electorally.
Sonia Gandhi - Italian Catholic Christian, whose real name is ANTONIO MAINO. How on Earth did the largest opposition party (Indian National Congress) get taken by an Italian Christian woman and a Vatican stooge?
Malikharjun Kharge - Buddhist Ambedkarite Dalit. Also has a hatred for Hindu Dharma, even when Hinduism and Buddhism are both Indian/Indic faiths in our civilization that are mutually compatible with each other. Hindus don't have any problem with Buddhism or Buddhists and even see Buddhism as an "improved" or "enlightened" version of Hinduism, yet the radical Ambedkarite ideology tries to instigate Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes from other Hindu castes when all Hindus across our country are equal and together. Hindus don't have a problem with anybody embracing Buddhism.
Manmohan Singh - Sikh who was the first non-Hindu Prime Minister of India. Under Mr. Manmohan Singh's tenure, the Congress Party tried to pass the Communal Violence Bill (2011 draft) which distinguished between "minorities" and Hindus in criminal law but was luckily blocked by the BJP who killed it. Now Sonia Gandhi could have chosen a Hindu in her Congress Party as the Prime Minister when Congress won in 2004 and 2009. But she deliberately chose a non-Hindu to implement her radical Hindu-hating agenda. A titular figurehead whose daughter was found working for George Soros and who has a Hindu hating agenda as well.
Others - Ambika Soni who is a Christian, Kapil Sibal who also seems to be a Christian and so forth.
It is painfully clear that Congress Party has an agenda against Hindus and Hinduism and that their national leaders are anti-Hindu. So, why does Congress still win in some state elections?
Himachal Pradesh - was very close in 2022. Also, the Congress Party in Himachal Pradesh seems to be led by people who are Hindus. Never saw Hinduphobia YET in Himachal by Himachal Congress.
Chhattisgarh - Suspect that there is a massive conversion of tribals to Christianity, particularly in forests. Would be very dangerous if Baghel wins a 2nd term.
Karnataka - BJP government in Karnataka was corrupt and had poor leaders, with massive anti-incumbency with a 36% vs 43% vote differential. Also, the Kharge factor was there and many Hindu Dalits who would have voted for BJP voted for Cong just because of Kharge's Ambedkarite credentials. If the Congress unit in Karnataka supports Christian missionaries or Muslim terrorist organizations like PFI, it's up to the BJP government at the center to act.
Rajasthan - anti-incumbency in 2018. BJP should win Rajasthan very easily in 2023.
I don't think BJP is favored to win Chhattisgarh but I don't want Congress to ever have more than 3 states (Himachal, Karnataka, Chhatisgarh) by the end of 2023.
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Congress, being a minoritarian party full of radical Muslim + Christian terrorists, should be reduced below 10% of seats in the Rajya Sabha (currently it's at 31/245 or 12.6%).
It is no surprise that Rahul Gandhi called for American/Western intervention in India's democracy to subvert the will of the Hindu majority (see the interview where this treacherous Rahul Gandhi asks American Nicholas Burns to "intervene" in India's internal affairs).
Hatred towards Hindus is Hatred towards India as a whole.
TLDR: Rahul Gandhi should come clean and disclose his real religion (Catholic Christianity). Why should Hindus let somebody who is completely hateful towards us continue to malign us in international forums, insult our people, our country, our government, and our civilizational nation? Go to the Vatican.
What is Congress's Idea of India and What Does it Really Mean? [Differential Laws on the basis of a person's religion, like Right to Education (RTE) and Communal Violence Bill (CVB). Apartheid laws that discriminate against Hindus]
When Rahul Gandhi or some Congress person like Shashi Tharoor (who also seems to be a crypto Catholic Christian) talks about the "Idea of India", they imagine an India where people are subjected to different laws on the basis of faith and where Hindus are 3rd class citizens compared to Abrahamics.
The "Idea of India" people want a world in which Christian schools are exempt from RTE, while Hindu schools suffer RTE; a world where Hindus suffer from a so-called Communal Violence Bill while minorities (Muslims + Christians) terrorize Hindus.
Does this "Idea of India" appeal to you? If you forcefully try to impose Christian or Muslim supremacy on a country with over a billion Hindus, we will retaliate and we will destroy you. In an era where people are connected via telecommunications/Internet and are becoming more literate and technologically savvy, if you do anything against Hindus, we will destroy you. Your fake "Gandhi" surname won't stop us from noticing that you are a Vatican terrorist along with your mother.

Before the pandemic, I went to a dental implant center for crowns. I have soft teeth (which is genetic plus I grew up with well-water & no floured in it) and I needed a lot of crowns. Long story short, they convinced me to crown all of my teeth that weren’t already crowns. They didn’t take insurance and made me a deal of 14k to do the work from start to finish.
At the time I thought it was a reputable place, but after getting some work done that was a bit shoddy, I did some investigating and found a lot of bad reviews. Apparently they have changed name quite a few times. I ended up having my primary dentist fix a lot of their mistakes. I ended up with a partial denture on the top (I was 38 at the time, 41 now) because half of the teeth fell out during the pandemic. Later, I was told they never sealed the crowns properly at the gum line so the tooth rotted and snapped off. Not sure if this was the case or not.
I recently went back there to confront them about this and see what they were willing to do. Long story short they recommend implants in lieu of the plate. They started started two posts on the top. As the dentist was working, I felt a really weird sensation in my nose, he said it was normal. This was on a Friday. Needless to say, when I got home, Mr. he side of my face where the posts were was swollen to twice the size. I called them and they said it was normal. The next day, blood and chunks of bone were coming out of my nose, every time I called, they said it was fine, they made me think I was being a hypochondriac and overreacting. Long story short, they sent me to another one of their offices for X-rays and they told me the dentist went through my sinuses. They wanted me to comeback and have them removed. They acted like it’s no big deal they went through the sinuses.
My question is, is this a big deal? Is this malpractice? Should this have happened? Does it happen all the time as they told me? I’m skeptical to have them work on me anymore, I wasn’t very happy with them in the first place, but thought I could trust the new dentist.
Any input is appreciated!

Hi all. I'm a long time JRPG fan...but I tend to chew on my favorites rather than try a wide variety of them. I like games for the usual reasons: fun storylines, great music, interesting battles/character growth, fun world exploration, etc. I get turned off my too many cutesy tropes, but I can fight through some if the game is otherwise good. I'm OK with both turn-based and active battle and OK with both new and "new to me" old games. I tend not to like western RPGs which I view as gritty to the point of being un-fun and repetitive.
My favorite games are still ye olde FFTactics, Star Ocean 3, FF6-10, Dragon Quest 8 & 11. Yes, they're all 20 years old...except for DQ11, which has the spirit of a 20-yr-old game.
Do I need to try a Tales game? If so, which? I think about it sometimes but I always get turned off at the last minute because they strike me as just a bit too lightweight/trope-y. Same thing with Persona, but I don't get as close to giving it a chance...I like the grand adventures as opposed to the pick the GF games. (Although I'm sure I'll be told there's more to Persona)
Do I need to play Bravely Default or Octopath? I think about it sometimes but they look sort of sterile to me...like old FF without Nobuo or the anything-can-happen fun element. (I liked Triangle Strategy, for the record)
I've played Xenosaga and (recently) -gears: fun storylines, but that gameplay...! Xenoblade looks like it has industry-standard battles as the cost of storyline darkness/depth.
I might give something like Yakuza, Like a Dragon a chance, but given the obvious jokiness I don't really feel like I want to pay full price for it...I'm not sure that's my style. I like "lighthearted" in games that are otherwise rather serious about their themes.
Soo...what should I play? Feel free to recommend something I mentioned...or otherwise. New or old. I'm OK paying for something I'm sure I'll like, but I don't really want to roll the dice on a $50+ game...

ABB FIA Formula E Championship
2023 Jakarta E-Prix
Wikipedia: Season 9 Teams & Drivers Season 9 Calendar
Session Times
Times are in Western Indonesian Time (UTC+7:00)
Friday 2 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 1	15:30 - 16:00	08:30 - 09:00

Saturday 3 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 2	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 1	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 1	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Sunday 4 June 2023

Session	Local	UTC
Practice 3	08:10 - 08:40	01:10 - 01:40
Qualifying 2	10:40 - ~11:55	03:40 - ~04:55
Race 2	15:00 - ~16:00	08:00 - ~09:00

Timetable: here

Jakarta International e-Prix Circuit
Jakarta, Indonesia
Circuit Diagram: here
Pitlane Map: here
Length: 2.370 KM (1.473 mi)
Turns: 18
Distance: Race 1: 36 Laps + any additional laps
Race 2: 38 Laps + any additional laps
Attack Mode 8 minutes in combination of 2+6, 4+4, 6+2
Live Streaming & Timing

Official Live Timing: Here
Official YouTube Channel: Here
Official Twitch Channel: Here
Official Facebook Page: Here
Other Streams: Check MotorsportsStreams2 or MotorsportsReplays

Check out the official ABB Formula E Championship TV/Streaming Guide to find out more about coverage in your area.
YouTube Links:
Channel 4 Sports (UK and Ireland):
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzhBJpSY-8 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJYSIuNvKDc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FudePKad-s (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVl_5JKM0A (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3o7626B94 (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bVNA7LQ-7k (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcrgXpH3zw(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
Official YouTube:
FP1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcN5Xg4MT4U (Stream starts 40 minutes before session)
FP2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ChZTz4EIc (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iwJJnMCzEg (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjmngjvezRw (Stream starts 30 minutes before session)
FP3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDzmHeh33Y (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Qualifying 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh2CG8dzcng (Stream starts 10 minutes before session)
Race 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FADqmgP7E(Stream starts 30 minutes before session)

FT: New Mexico Utd. 0-1 El Paso Locomotive

Scorers: Koshystyn 71'
Assists: Borelli 71'
Discipline: McCue 73', Bruce 83', Herrera 89', Pávkovics 90+7'
Venue: Isotopes Park, Albuquerque, NM
Attendance: 11,247
Competition: USL Championship Western Conference, Matchday 11
Match Official: Matthew Corrigan
TEAM SHEET

New Mexico Utd. (4-1-4-1)
Head Coach: Z. Prince

Starting XI: A. Tambakis (GK); H. Swartz, K. Colonna, K. Ryden, A. Yearwood; J. Portillo; A. Moreno, S. Hamilton, C. Wehan, S. Moar; A. Waggoner
Subs: F. Parker (GK), M. Garvanian, J. Dolling, G. Hurst, J. Sosa, D. Bruce, A. Robles

El Paso Locomotive (4-2-3-1)
Head Coach:

Starting XI: B. Díaz (GK); M. Navarro, E. McCue, B. Pávkovics, E. Borelli; L. Rose, L. Herrera; D. Kostyshyn, R. Zacarias, J. Gómez; L. Solignac
Subs: J. Garcia (GK), L. Moreno, C. Garcia, M. Lyons, E. Sonupe, N. Hinds, D. Abarca
MATCH EVENTS
'0: Kickoff!
45': 1 minute added on.
HT: NMU 0-0 ELP
46': Second half kickoff!
59': NMU substitutions 1/5 & 2/5: G. Hurst comes on for A. Moreno, and J. Dolling replaces A. Waggoner.
65': ELP substitutions 1/5 & 2/5: E. Sonupe and M. Lyons replace R. Zacarias and M. Navarro, respectively.
71': GOAL! Denys Kostyshyn scores a header off a Borelli cross to break the ennui that has been this game. NMU 0-1 ELP
73': E. McCue (ELP) sees the game's first yellow card.
76': NMU substitution 3/5: D. Bruce replaces K. Colonna.
83': D. Bruce (NMU) is shown a yellow card for a "foul" on Borelli.
89': L. Herrera (ELP) is shown a yellow card.
90': 5 minutes added on.
90+2': ELP substitution 3/5: D. Abarca comes in for D. Kostyshyn.
90+5': ELP substitution 4/5: E. Moreno replaces L. Herrera in the game's dying monents.
90+7': B. Pávkovics (ELP) sees a yellow card for timewasting.
FT: NMU 0-1 ELP

Splitting the matches into the daily schedule this round, Monday's matches will go up tomorrow (hopefully this lets me get this stuff up before play finishes for the day). Women's and men's matches are below :

WTA Singles :

Pavlyuchenkova vs Mertens :

After an extended stretch of middling results, Pavlyuchenkova appears to be back in form. She’s been taking the long route to the finish line, requiring third sets in the last two rounds, but wins against Samsonova and Potapova are really high quality stuff. She’ll have a chance at another great win in the next round against Elise Mertens, who is collecting her own Pokedex of big names. Mertens beating Osorio in two was a good sign, but continuing her dominance against Pegula puts her near the peak of her performance results-wise. Generally, I’d like Mertens against Pavlyuchenkova, but I’m not sure how much weight to put into the Pegula win. Jessica really wasn’t at her best, and it seemed like she was fighting off the ball rather than directing it. Pegula hits a very flat ball so if she’s struggling with her timing on clay things can go bad quickly. Mertens played solid but I felt like it was a team effort with Pegula playing poorly to complement Mertens’ play.
Pavlyuchenkova has a more traditional swing production and hits the ball very hard. Mertens is faster, but Pavs has a way of keeping the ball out of her opponent’s strike zone and her weight of shot can be effective against someone like Mertens who is more about skill and accuracy than power. There’s really no way this won’t be close. I’m cheering for Mertens but I think Pavlyuchenkova has gotten through higher quality matches thus far and she might be slightly more experienced at this level. Pavlyuchenkova in 3.

Muchova vs Avanesyan :

This round, I guess unsurprisingly, contains a lot of very solid baseliners. I expected Begu to get to a third set against Muchova, but it was evident early that Muchova’s speed around the court was going to play a major difference. There have been a few matches in the past round where lateral speed (or slight lack thereof) was the deciding factor (Hurkacz/Varillas, Fritz/Cerundolo, Tauson/Avanesyan) and that was the case here. For Muchova, this is a very welcome run at a major event. She’s had some huge almost-results at majors, and her results have suffered a bit afterwards. Here is another chance to make the quarterfinals, and she’s a pretty heavy favorite. But is she?
Avanesyan seemed outmatched early in her match against Tauson, and Clara was able to hit through her a good portion of the time. Avanesyan had trouble defending her serve, and plan B went into effect. Luckily for her, outlasting Tauson worked. Elina dug in and Tauson started to force the issue, making dropshot errors and sending forehands long. The third set was competitive but Tauson’s narrative about her legs being tired had become fairly public, and she was forcing the issue an awful lot. It’s possible, but it’s really tough to come up with a whole set of offense on slow clay. Avanesyan dug in, and to her credit there was a good 30 minute stretch where she actually didn’t miss the court. The result was pressure on Tauson’s serve, and they traded a number of breaks until ultimately Avanesyan got through.
Muchova having proper stamina means she can win where Tauson ran out of gas. I think it’ll be a lot tougher than the -400 pricetag indicates though. Avanesyan has a heavy forehand, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that she barely missed a shot in her last set of tennis. Working against her is the 12 hours she’s spent on court this week, and Muchova possessing a lot of variety in her offense. It’s just a tough opponent to play for the first time, but given what we’ve seen from Elena so far she’s likely to play her best. Muchova in two, with the second set likely being the closer one.

Svitolina vs Kasatkina :

Svitolina played Blinkova a week ago in the finals of Strasbourg. The odds were even for both. It was a blowout. They played again in the third round, which Svitolina coming in at -340. This time, she barely won in a marathon 3-setter. The quick turnaround runback on tour produces some of the wildest deviations in pricing and results, but it seems like Blinkova’s familiarity with Svitolina’s patterns allowed her to make adjustments. She was a bit more aggressive, and seemed to be a half-step ahead of Svitolina during rallies. The question for Svitolina here is how much she has left. Elina is 6-0 against Kasatkina, although none of the matches are within the last 3 seasons. That type of dominance is due to their similarity. Svitolina and Kasatkina are both extremely consistent, and win from making it clear to their opponent that they’re not going to end the rally. Forcing the issue is tough against them because they have great speed and good defensive skill. The big difference is Svitolina hits the ball very hard, and Kasatkina gets through with finesse.
Kasatkina is nearing her best level this week and that makes her a favorite in this matchup for one of the first times ever. She had a very easy match in the third, since Peyton Stearns made a number of errors and seemed to get rattled by the occasion and the scoreboard. She’ll be the fresher player since Svitolina is coming off a title run, but overcoming a player who has always beaten you, and who has an easier time scoring points during neutral rallies can be really difficult. Svitolina’s serve isn’t likely to score a ton of points here, but it’s stronger than Kasatkina’s. This is a bit like the Gauff/Andreeva match to me because I’m a bit more excited to see it play out than I am confident that I know what’s going to happen. Svitolina is Gauff in this one, a bit faster, bringing more power, but not as technically sound with her groundstrokes. Kasatkina is Andreeva, tremendous skill and consistency, but it’ll be hard to end rallies. If Kasatkina wins, I expect it to be in straight sets. Svitolina in 3 is what I’m expecting though.

Stephens vs Sabalenka :

I thought Rakhimova might give Sabelenka a little trouble, but my worry that her old form might return is unfounded, like most worries. Rakhimova went up an early break, but Sabalenka is crushing the ball this week and the slow courts are giving her plenty of time to set up. Having a huge serve is a big boost in this next match, because Stephens is also thriving in these conditions. Sloane doesn’t really play with a sense of urgency, but she’s such a good athlete that she’s able to run down most shots. Putintseva extended rallies and was really effective at working multiple shots and remaining patient until she could employ a dropshot, but overall Stephens was having success while doing less. When she gave up a short ball or was out of position, it felt like Putintseva was under immense pressure to try to end the rally right there. When the same opportunities came for Stephens, she was able to just hit heavy forehands and usually wound up well inside the baseline on the next shot if the ball came back at all. It’s a benefit she won’t have in this matchup, and I’m having a hard time imagining her winning this match.
Stephens’ defensive ability and power will let her play even against Sabalenka in a lot of rallies, but a lot of the points she created against Putintseva won’t be here in this one. Sabalenka having power doesn’t make her any better technically than Putintseva, but it means she doesn’t have to focus as much on depth on these returns. Stephens should be competitive but I think she’ll lose by a break in each set. Sabalenka in 2.

ATP Singles :

Khachanov vs Sonego :

This is going to be really good. Generally, Rublev is regarded as a better player than Khachanov. He has had higher rankings, more titles, and his game is more flashy since his groundstrokes are huge and his noises are notorious. Here though, Khachanov is likely a tougher test for Sonego. Sonego was going uphill against Rublev, but he was the player getting more benefit out of his serve. Rublev earning his points is fine, but against a server it can create some pressure over time. Khachanov’s delivery is at least as good as Sonego’s, so it comes down to which player is more solid from the baseline. For me, that’s Khachanov. He has a better backhand, and his forehand is a bit more about arm & muscle than technique but he hits with a heavy Western grip that works well on clay. Sonego is much more efficient in the frontcourt and his dropshots are tremendous, but he’s going to need a mercurial performance here to win.
These two have split matches on clay, with Khachanov winning the most recent one. They’re obviously not the same players they were in 2019, but both have made similar amounts of improvement so I think there’s a good chance that the Rome 3-setter is a decent data point. Since Kokkinakis was able to win a set and be competitive in the others, I expect that Sonego’s similar serve/forehand combination can make inroads. Khachanov doesn’t deviate from plan A, and periods where his opponent redlines are acceptable to him and his team. I think Sonego will win a set or two, but the quantity of offense he’ll need to come up with against Khachanov may see him come up a bit short. Rublev has bigger groundstrokes, but his lateral movement is poor compared to Khachanov so I think defense beats offense here. Khachanov in 4-5.

Djokovic vs Varillas :

Djokovic needs to be careful here. Varillas has appeared completely overmatched in every single match in this tournament, and that seems to be when he strikes. Hurkacz was ahead early and looking solid, but I didn’t think it would last. Varillas was putting a lot of returns in play, and Hurkacz makes a lot of rally ball errors on his backhand. I’d say he’s up there with Madison Keys for casual swings that sail long. It’s good to remember that most guys his height can’t even come close to his baseline prowess, but for Varillas the slight inability to escape baseline rallies meant he got worn down as the match went on. Varillas moves the ball extremely well and rarely misses. The 3/5 format seems to really suit him, and having better results as majors is a really good thing for a young player on tour. I can guarantee that he’ll be down in the scoreline again against Djokovic. Can he come back?
No. For ADF fans, this was the best chance for him to beat Novak at a major. He played the match of a lifetime, and he didn’t win a set. The best quality matches on tour seem to negate the server’s advantage, and this was no different. Djokovic and ADF combined for 12 breaks across 3 sets, 3 sets which included a 6-2 blowout and still took 3 and a half hours. This was great tennis, and ADF acquitted himself well, but what was clear in this match is that it is extremely difficult to score on Djokovic. Most of the breaks and momentum shifts occurred at changes of ends. The south (if you’re watching TV) side of court Philippe-Chatrier seems to be way more worn at the baseline, and Djokovic and ADF both struggled a bit there in the slightly windy conditions. Something to keep an eye on if you’re betting as there are break markets I suppose.
Varillas is going to treat fans to a gutsy performance, but he’s been winning thus far by outlasting his opponents, and he’s not going to be able to do that here. Add in that those heroic performances mean he’s played 15 sets of tennis already, and he’s likely going to display a lot of heart but quietly be ready to accept the loss also. This is a great moment for an extremely deserving player, but Novak’s level thus far tells me only Musetti/Alcaraz can really compete with him. Djokovic in 3

Alcaraz vs Musetti :

If you have Alcaraz futures, this is going to be a tough sweat. So far this tournament, Alcaraz has looked ridiculous good. I won’t disparage the hard work pros put in, but when you see guys like Alcaraz the mind goes to how good everyone could be if they all took their training to the next level. He has natural gifts of course, and speed can’t be taught, but Carlos has been training harder and playing harder than everyone else on tour for a good 2-3 years now, and it makes it really hard to catch up. You can elevate your game to compete with him, but it becomes the Nadal question of how long you can stay at that level, and what the mental effect is of watching them pull away as you choose between going to a more conservative approach (likely the right choice but equally likely to be a losing effort longterm) or continuing to exert and losing to your own errors. Shapovalov gave us a great show, but his red-line game almost appears to be a fun treat for Alcaraz to play against. The slow conditions are really good for Alcaraz, because he has the ability to generate his own pace and the ultra slippery courts (dry conditions) mean that dynamic movement is a big key.
When I’m done gushing about Alcaraz, there is somehow a legit contender waiting. Lorenzo Musetti flies under the radar for big chunks of the season, but here he is one of the few people who can win the title. His defense is tremendous. He is extremely quick around the court and has great skill and depth on his gets. The part that really gives him a chance here is that he has the ability to infuse power at any time. Alcaraz is a rhythm player, and seeing difference paces leads him into the one aspect of his game (besides the serve) that is still less than optimal at times, decision-making. He is suffering a little bit from success lately, and the bailout dropshot or ornate volley/winner for the crowd is entering his game a bit. Carlos is good enough to get away with it, and he is actually good enough at tennis that he still makes a big percentage of these attempts. So wild that occasional highlight reel shots is considered a leak, but it’s hard to find them with Alcaraz so you take what you can get. Criticizing shot selection almost feels a bit absurd here, because pretty much every player from the Spanish federation has exceptional decision-making on the court.
That paragraph was supposed to be about Musetti, so I’ll try again. Musetti rolled Cam Norrie in round 3, and he won the previous meeting against Alcaraz, a three set thriller in Hamburg. Alcaraz has made improvements, but Musetti should still be able to hang. Physically he’s there. He has a good enough serve, he has enough power, and his one-hand backhand presents an interesting challenge for Alcaraz because most one-handers on the tour aren’t that good at this stage; it’s a shot Carlos doesn’t get to train against much. The slow courts and balls mean both players will have a hard time hitting past the other, and that means we’re going to get treated to what I expect to be the best match of the tournament thus far. I don’t think Alcaraz can win this in straight sets, but Musetti has taken losses this year on clay and Alcaraz has pretty much solved every single problem that has presented itself. Alcaraz in 4-5. If he can win this in straights just hand him the trophy.

Ofner vs Tsitsipas :

Sebastian Ofner is in the top 100. This has been a long long long time coming. If you look at the best performers on the Challenger tour for the past few years, his name is at the top of the list. The other guys like Stricker, Bergs, Sachko, etc have gotten their shots on tour though, while Ofner has mostly grinded away. He’s currently ranked 70 in the live rankings though, which means direct entry into Wimbledon and the USO. Ofner is at his best on clay, but he has a big serve and a great work ethic so there’s a good chance he can rack up more points in the North American hardcourt swing. Ofner will have a tough time continuing his run here, as Tsitsipas is playing great tennis. He’s also fresh after a fairly simple match against Diego Schwartzman. Diego battled as usual, but his lack of a serve meant that Tsitsipas was never really in danger. Ofner presents a tougher challenge since he has a great serve, but he got past Fognini through determination and being the slightly more consistent player. Against Tsitsipas, he’s outgunned in the serving and stamina department, and Tsitsipas has a heavier forehand also. It’s no knock on Ofner, but all his specialties here are eclipsed. This section of the draw is shaping up for this to be one of the best majors in a long long time. Tsitsipas in 3-4.

So, I just finished watching Nick Hodges' video on 1917, which is very good, and which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQpP5mRgsls
This is a post about the things he and his writeresearcher missed. To be clear, I agree with him that 1917 is a very good movie and worth watching (and, I DID add it to my movie collection), but as a specialist, some of the errors are just a bit more hard for me to miss (which does, at times, make it difficult to enjoy WW1 movies the way non-specialists can).
So, things Mr. Hodges missed:

The date (April 6, 1917). I've seen some hints that the original script was set in March, which would make much more sense for what appears on screen. But, the shift in month makes a few parts of the movie rather comical from a historical point of view. Among other things, you have speculation about the next big push coming up. The thing is that the preliminary bombardment for the Battle of Arras would have been going on for two days at this point (it started at 6:30 AM on April 4th). They would have been able to hear it from where they were in the line. (See Capt. Cyril Falls, Military Operations France & Belgium 1917 Volume 1.)
The British trenches have a lot that's wrong. For one thing, you have telephone wire running into the front line trenches. This wasn't done by 1917 - the wire had to be buried to prevent it from being cut by artillery fire, and the Germans had technology that could listen into what was being said over buried telephone wires (which was discovered when they started greeting incoming units by name). So, by 1917 all of the telephones had been pulled out of the British front lines. (See E.E. Priestly, The Signal Service in the European War of 1914 to 1918 (France).) You also have a front-line unit having been in the line long enough to forget what day it was. This also didn't happen. The British were very good about not keeping units in the front lines for more than a few days per month, and most units only spent around 3-4 days in there. After that, they would be rotated out for leave, training, and manual labour in the rear. (See Gordon Corrigan, Mud, Blood and Poppycock for a good discussion of this.)
The entry into the trenches of the 2nd Devons - trenches in movies are almost always wrong and do not have a proper traverse system (I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen them done right, and one was in a Doctor Who episode), but that's not the problem here (well, at least not the one I want to talk about). The problem here is that you have troops entering the trenches within sight of the front lines - this would get them shot. Now, everything in the movie is smaller than the real Western front would have been, since you can't spend an half an hour to an hour watching them walk through trenches just to get to a briefing, but this is particularly bad. The second wave entering the trench to queue up should have been mowed down as they approached.
The attack is all wrong. By 1917 the British weren't using these sorts of human waves anymore. They were, in fact, using a platoon system. And, they would have been advancing behind a creeping barrage (which had become the standard tactic at the time). The irony here is that the military advisor they hired actually DID train the extras to do it properly, and then the director completely disregarded that for the shot - see the comment by Joseph Harris, who WAS one of these extras, in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQpP5mRgsls ). And, for a good source on this, see Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics on the Western Front: The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18.
There is one key point where I think Mr. Hodges is wrong, and that is where he suggests that the attack by the 2nd Devons is inspired by the Battle of Arras - and no, it really wasn't. The Battle of Arras was a major campaign that, among other things, saw the taking of Vimy Ridge by my countrymen in the Canadian Corps. It wasn't an improvised battle. What it was almost certainly inspired by were what were called "straightening the line" attacks. These could be ordered on a field commander's authority, and the point was to take the enemy line and add it to your own (hence, "straightening the line"). This happened a lot during WW1, particularly during battles like the Somme and Passchendaele (and as I recall both Peter Hart and Nick Lloyd have written about this in their respective books, The Somme and Passchendaele: The Lost Victory of World War I, on the subject). Another possible source of inspiration might be the mobile warfare in the last half of 1918, once the German spring offensives had been stopped and the British were driving the Germans back (and, in some cases, outrunning their artillery, and for this see Peter Hart, The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War). But, what you see in the movie really wasn't a thing that happened in 1917 - 1917 was a year of set-piece battles and bite-and-hold tactics.

So, as I said, it's a good movie, albeit with some inaccuracies, and Nick Hodges did a very good video on it. He just missed a couple of things that you wouldn't necessarily know about unless you had spent a decent amount of time steeped in the war.

Background:

Used to be really passionate about being a nurse, got into a program, but my anxiety was so damn high that I failed pharmacology & the clinical exams. I passed the clinical 2nd try, but I failed another class that got me kicked out. I was too anxious & depressed to try for another program.
Graduated with psych bach. Got a mental healthcare job working with kids. The therapists, patients, & my manager really liked me. Said I was the best worker in my job title they’ve had. I hated it. The stress, the lack of support to help my patients, the low pay, terrible hours. Hated it. I know for a fact I don’t want to do mental healthcare ever again.
Tried dental hygiene school because they accepted the my nursing pre-requisites. I did great at exams, stressed, but I managed. Clinical exams… again, was a hot mess. Shaky hands, forgetting simple things, going over the allotted time. It was terrible. I got kicked out. Again, I was pretty damn upset for a long time.
I’m a dental assistant now & the low pay is just not livable. I’m paycheck to paycheck I’m afraid of going to the doctors because I can’t afford it. I’ve been to the ER twice & doctors multiple times for health issues. It’s expensive & I owe so much money. I also owe my cats vet bill, a scan DA program I paid for with care credit, CC debt.

I’m smart. I know I’m smart. I’m just terribly anxious. I’ve done therapy & I’m so much better than what I used to be, but I don’t think my performance anxiety will ever go away. I take forever to learn physical skills & nursing & hygiene were not forgiving in the time I needed to learn. I learn best one on one, not with a teacher giving students 5 min of their time.
I know I like working healthcare. I obviously keep going back to health fields for a reason. Are there any healthcare jobs that someone like me can do?? I’m not afraid of anything studious, but very nervous about physical skills. But at the same time, I need to be moving & not sitting still the entire job like I was in mental healthcare.
Ah, fuck. I’ll even do something tech related except for coding as long as my brain is working towards an achievable goal (mental health was not always achievable in a desired time due to patient situations, for ex, which was stressful). I just have no idea which direction to go. I need someone to literally point at something for me.

I'd just like to see and I'm sure others also what exactly this looks like for a non Zen monk lol living in the western world. If you don't mind being vulnerable or maybe look a little awkward it really doesn't matter does it?
I absolutely love the gateway tapes so far I'm only on the first 1 chapter 2 and I need to relisten about the big conversion box and how to use it & of course the resonant tuning part, yea it makes sense how he explains it, it would just be nice to see a regular person do it so I think I'm doing it right 😭😂

Western dental & orthodontics

2023 Jakarta E-Prix Post Race 2 Discussion

FT: New Mexico Utd. 0-1 El Paso Locomotive

Splitting the matches into the daily schedule this round, Monday's matches will go up tomorrow (hopefully this lets me get this stuff up before play finishes for the day). Women's and men's matches are below :

WTA Singles :

Pavlyuchenkova vs Mertens :

Muchova vs Avanesyan :

Svitolina vs Kasatkina :

Stephens vs Sabalenka :

ATP Singles :

Khachanov vs Sonego :

Djokovic vs Varillas :

Alcaraz vs Musetti :

Ofner vs Tsitsipas :