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Air pollution in India's capital Delhi has soared to extremely severe levels, choking residents and engulfing the city in thick smog.
Monitors recorded pollution levels of 1,500 at 15:00 IST (10:30 BST), according to tech company IQAir - 15 times the level the Word Health Organization (WHO) considers satisfactory for breathing.
The toxic air has disrupted flight services, and had already prompted authorities to shut schools and ban construction work in the city.
It comes just weeks after Lahore, in neighbouring Pakistan, also recorded pollution levels above 1,000.
And experts warn that the situation could get worse in Delhi in the coming days, saying more severe measures may be needed to combat the city's pollution problem.
According to the WHO, air with Air Quality Index (AQI) values above 300 are considered to be hazardous for health.
India's pollution control authority has classified the air in Delhi as "severe plus", after the city passed 450 according to its measurements on Monday morning.
As well as shutting schools and banning construction work, the city has also banned the entry of non-essential trucks into Delhi and has asked all offices to ask 50% of their staff to work from home.
Last week, the government banned all activities that involve the use of coal and firewood, as well as diesel generator use for non-emergency services.Every year, Delhi, India's northern states and parts of Pakistan battle hazardous air during the winter months of October to January due to plummeting temperatures, smoke, dust, low wind speed, vehicular emissions and crop stubble burning.
And every year, the government imposes pollution control measures during these months.
Yet, Delhi's pollution problem hasn't gone away.
On Monday, Delhi's Chief Minister Atishi said that all of northern India was experiencing a "medical emergency" due to stubble burning continuing unchecked across the country, particularly in the neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
She accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of not taking steps to curb the practice despite the problem intensifying over the past five years.
The BJP, in turn, has blamed Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for not being able to put a check to pollution in the city.
Meanwhile, Delhi's residents continue to gasp for air.
"Woke up with a itchy, painful throat.. even two air purifiers are not making the AQI breathable indoors. Children are breathing in gas chamber," one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
Another user called for a "peaceful mass protest on the streets". "The air we breathe is lethally toxic," he wrote.
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The debate between 58-year-old adult boxer #Michael Tyson and 27-year-old young boxer #Jack_Joseph_Paul has captured the hearts of the world starting at 5:00 pm today in Arlington, Texas.
More than 200 million and 80 million people are expected to watch the debate, which will be broadcast live on Netflix.
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The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese.[18] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Stylistic analysis has indicated the manuscript may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.[1][2] While the origins, authorship, and purpose of the manuscript are still debated, hypotheses range from a script for a natural language or constructed language, an unread code, cypher, or other form of cryptography, or perhaps a hoax, reference work (i.e. folkloric index or compendium), glossolalia[19] or work of fiction (e.g. science fantasy or mythopoeia, meta fiction, speculative fiction) currently lacking the translation(s) and context needed to both properly entertain or eliminate any of these possibilities.
Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the “Voynich Manuscript,” the world’s most mysterious book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript appears and disappears throughout history, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The book’s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. For the first time, this facsimile, complete with elaborate folding sections, allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind “Voynichese” text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths.
Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript—named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912—are still being debated as vigorously as its puzzling drawings and undeciphered text. Described as a magical or scientific text, nearly every page contains botanical, figurative, and scientific drawings of a provincial but lively character, drawn in ink with vibrant washes in various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red.
Based on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript fall into six sections: 1) botanicals containing drawings of 113 unidentified plant species; 2) astronomical and astrological drawings including astral charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, Zodiac symbols such as fish (Pisces), a bull (Taurus), and an archer (Sagittarius), nude females emerging from pipes or chimneys, and courtly figures; 3) a biological section containing a myriad of drawings of miniature female nudes, most with swelled abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules; 4) an elaborate array of nine cosmological medallions, many drawn across several folded folios and depicting possible geographical forms; 5) pharmaceutical drawings of over 100 different species of medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green, and 6) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.
Refence
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300217230/the-voynich-manuscript
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One of the innovations at this year's Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service.
Germany's Volocopter promised its electric-powered, two-seater aircraft, the VoloCity, would be ferrying passengers around the city.
It never happened. Instead the company ran demonstration flights.
While missing that deadline was embarrassing, behind the scenes a more serious issue was playing out - Volocopter was urgently trying to raise fresh investment to keep the firm going.
Talks to borrow €100m (£83m; $106m) from the government failed in April.
Now hopes are pinned on China's Geely, which is in talks to take an 85% stake in Volocopter in return for $95m of funding, according to a Bloomberg report. The deal could mean that any future manufacturing would be moved to China.
Volocopter is one of dozens of companies around the world developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) aircraft.
Their machines promise the flexibility of a helicopter, but without the cost, noise and emissions.
However, faced with the massive cost of getting such novel aircraft approved by regulators and then building up manufacturing capabilities, some investors are bailing out.The company has made progress. After completing a programme of remote-controlled testing, it began carrying out piloted tests earlier this year. Initially, these were carried out with the aircraft tethered to the ground. In early November, it carried out its first untethered take-off and landing.
But there have also been serious setbacks. In August last year, a remotely-piloted prototype was badly damaged when it crashed during testing at Cotswold Airport, after a propeller blade fell off.
In May one of its key partners, the engineering giant Rolls Royce pulled out of a deal to supply electric motors for the aircraft.
Ambitions remain sky high. Vertical Aerospace says it will deliver 150 aircraft to its customers by the end of the decade. By then, it also expects to be capable of producing 200 units a year, and to be breaking even in cash terms.
Yet financial strains have been intensifying. Mr Fitzpatrick invested an extra $25m into the company in March. But a further $25m, due in August if alternative investment could not be found, has not been paid. As of September, Vertical had $57.4m on hand – but it expects to burn through nearly double that over the coming year.
Hopes for the future appear to be pinned on doing a deal with the American financier Jason Mudrick, who is already a major creditor through his firm Mudrick Capital Management.He has offered to invest $75m into the business – and has warned the board of Vertical that rejecting his plan would inevitably lead to insolvency proceedings. But the move has been resisted by Mr Fitzpatrick, who would lose control of the company he founded.
Sources close to the talks insist an agreement is now very close. The company believes if a deal can be done, it will unlock further fundraising opportunities.Amid the turbulence, one European project is quietly on track, says Bjorn Fehrm who has a background in aeronautical engineering and piloted combat jets for the Swedish Air Force. He now works for aerospace consultancy Leeham.
He says that the EVTOL project underway at Airbus is likely to survive.
Called the CityAirbus NextGen, the four-seater aircraft has eight propellers and a range of 80km.
"This is a technology project for their engineers, and they've got the money, and they've got the know how," says Mr Fehrm.
Elsewhere in the world, other well funded start-ups stand a good change of getting their aircraft into production. That would include Joby and Archer in the US.
Once the aircraft are being produced, the next challenge will be to see if there's a profitable market for them.
The first routes are likely to be between airports and city centres. But will they make money?
"The biggest problem area when it comes to the cost of operation is the pilot and the batteries. You need to change the batteries a couple of times per year,"
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The digital economy is an economy that uses modern technology, especially the Internet, data and digital messages to grow the economy, increase productivity and services and sales are done digitally
In the digital economy, two people don’t need to be physically present to produce or sell something. Using technology, you can produce, sell and buy things from different places.
In the digital economy, digital information is coordinated to provide high-quality services for trade, financial services and devices such as telephone, Wi-Fi, internet and others.
Digitization:- means the digitalization of routine tasks that were previously done physically. In digitization, eliminating/reducing the use of paper and office is doing things through electronic devices.
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“The ability to perform well begins with taking responsibility for all the things that happen to and on your life.” Brian Tracy
“Most of us don’t want freedom, because freedom requires responsibility; and many of us are afraid to take responsibility.” Sigmund Freud
Only one person is responsible for your life, and that person is you! Not your boss, not your spouse, not your parents, not your friends, not your customers, not the economy, not the weather. You are your own head! If we stop blaming other people for all the things that happen in our lives, everything will start to change! Taking responsibility for your life means leading your own life and being the lead actor in your life.
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Expand sources of income
Diversifying income sources
"Getting out of the slavery of financial deficit requires a struggle to strengthen additional sources of income.
"If you don't have freedom economically, you can't have freedom politically or in your mind.
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In the journey of #economic struggle, the first weapon young people should arm themselves with is I CAN
Factors of economic growth
Are crucial in the.
1. Change yourself
2. Have a vision and live with a plan
3. Strengthen a culture of good work
4. Expand sources of income
5. Develop strong saving habits
6. Reduce unnecessary expenses
7. Avoid getting into bad debt
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The digital economy is an economy that uses modern technology, especially the Internet, data and digital messages to grow the economy, increase productivity and services and sales are done digitally
In the digital economy, two people don’t need to be physically present to produce or sell something. Using technology, you can produce, sell and buy things from different places.
In the digital economy, digital information is coordinated to provide high-quality services for trade, financial services and devices such as telephone, Wi-Fi, internet and others.
Digitization:- means the digitalization of routine tasks that were previously done physically. In digitization, eliminating/reducing the use of paper and office is doing things through electronic devices.