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Minor smoke damage and no injuries reported at synagogue in Harrow, after spate of similar incidents in recent weeks
An attempted arson attack has been reported at a north-west London synagogue, after a spate of similar incidents.
The incident at Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow on Saturday night caused minor smoke damage to an internal room but no injuries or significant structural damage, according to the Community Security Trust, which monitors antisemitism and provides protection for Jewish communities in the UK.
Continue reading...From passionate romantasy novels to premium television dramas, culture is bringing the agency, desires and interior lives of women to the fore. It’s proving good for business, but is this a permanent revolution?
Do you voraciously read the pages of steamy romantasy bestsellers by Sarah J Maas or Rebecca Yarros? Or flood your group chat with breathless recaps of the latest goings-on in TV series such as Heated Rivalry or Bridgerton? Or even immerse yourself in the divisive and challenging cinematic worlds of Emerald Fennell? If so, you surely can’t have failed to notice that in pop culture, the female gaze – storytelling that highlights the meandering, textured, sublimely messy inner worlds and wants of women – is enjoying an explosion.
On TV, you can see it everywhere, in the interior lives and desires taken up by Big Little Lies, Sirens or Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington’s Little Fires Everywhere. Romantasy harbours it in the shape of powerful maidens and sex in fae (fairy) realms, while Fennell’s Wuthering Heights and Promising Young Woman are marketed with the promise of converting women’s experiences into dark beauty on the big screen.
Continue reading...All good? Busy day? Small talk is a social good with a bad reputation. We dread it, but it’s vital for human connection
Hi there, how’re you? How’s it going? You alright? All good?
As any Briton knows, none of these questions is an inquiry into your emotional state, the material conditions of your life or your opinion on anything. Respond positively – “all good so far, touch wood” is nice – then move on to the purpose of the interaction: “I’m returning an Amazon package?”
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Alright, I guess it’s time to turn our attention to today’s action. There has been a lot written about Manchester City v Arsenal and it’s good stuff (I’ll be sharing some shortly), but I’d like to hear from you on how you think this goes down.
Fire over your thoughts to matchday.live@guardian.co.uk and I’ll get them in the blog. Here’s LukakusFirstTouch to start us off:
Continue reading...The prime minister’s leadership is still in the spotlight after Mandelson was appointed US ambassador after he failed security vetting
Keir Starmer would have withdrawn Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to the US if he had known he had not passed security vetting, Liz Kendall said, even if it was close to Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Kendall told Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One that Starmer would have rescinded the job offer if he had been told – regardless of the timing ahead of Trump taking up the Presidency.
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Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large pieces of software that would come about."
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk. Zip drives also had major performance benefits, with read speeds that could average 1.4MB/s, as opposed to the comparatively sluggish 16kB/s speeds of a traditional floppy disk, as well as a seek time of around 28ms seconds, whereas a floppy disk averaged 200ms. Zip drives weren't quite as fast as desktop HDDs, but for portable storage, this was a huge step forward...
[I]n 1998, Iomega introduced the Zip 250 disks, which increased the capacity to 250MB, and, already in the new millennium, we got the Zip 750, which took that further to 750MB... It was an appealing enough proposition that big computer manufacturers like Dell started including a Zip drive in some of their PCs. Even Apple included Zip drives in some of its Power Macintosh models from the mid-to-late 90s. However, things started to shift towards the end of the decade as other portable formats rose to prominence, most notably CDs and USB flash drives.
Despite their initial success, it didn't take long for users to start noticing a major drawback of Zip drives: many times, they would just fail. It wasn't necessarily related to age or any particular misuse of the disks, it just happened. It was a big enough phenomenon that it became known as the "click of death", and once it happened, your drive was gone. The problem was estimated by Iomega to affect around 0.5% of Zip drives, but while that sounds like a small number, when you sell products by the thousands, it becomes fairly widespread. It was a big enough issue that, in September 1998, a class action lawsuit was filed against Iomega for the common problems. Some of the complaints in that lawsuit were eventually dismissed by the court of Delaware, but others were not, and once the public became aware of the problems with Zip drives, it was hard for the brand to make a comeback.
It didn't help that this happened around the same time as formats such as CDs were becoming more popular... And eventually, USB flash drives became the most popular way to carry data around since they were smaller and offered much faster speeds... Eventually, after seeing its profits plummet by the mid-2000s, Iomega was sold to a company called EMC in 2008, and in 2013, EMC and Lenovo formed a joint venture that took over Iomega's business and removed all of the Iomega branding from its products.
The article does note that "as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates for navigation databases." Are there any Slashdot readers who still remember their own Zip drive experiences?
Share your memories in the comments of that once-so-trendy storage technology from the 1990s...
Floppy disks also felt quite fragile, and while we got "superfloppy" formats that were physically larger and had more capacity, those were pretty unwieldy as portable storage. Enter 1994, when a company called Iomega introduced its variant of a "superfloppy", the Zip drive... [T]he initial capacity introduced in 1994 reached a whopping 100MB, which was huge number when put up against the traditional floppy disk. Zip drives also had major performance benefits, with read speeds that could average 1.4MB/s, as opposed to the comparatively sluggish 16kB/s speeds of a traditional floppy disk, as well as a seek time of around 28ms seconds, whereas a floppy disk averaged 200ms. Zip drives weren't quite as fast as desktop HDDs, but for portable storage, this was a huge step forward...
[I]n 1998, Iomega introduced the Zip 250 disks, which increased the capacity to 250MB, and, already in the new millennium, we got the Zip 750, which took that further to 750MB... It was an appealing enough proposition that big computer manufacturers like Dell started including a Zip drive in some of their PCs. Even Apple included Zip drives in some of its Power Macintosh models from the mid-to-late 90s. However, things started to shift towards the end of the decade as other portable formats rose to prominence, most notably CDs and USB flash drives.
Despite their initial success, it didn't take long for users to start noticing a major drawback of Zip drives: many times, they would just fail. It wasn't necessarily related to age or any particular misuse of the disks, it just happened. It was a big enough phenomenon that it became known as the "click of death", and once it happened, your drive was gone. The problem was estimated by Iomega to affect around 0.5% of Zip drives, but while that sounds like a small number, when you sell products by the thousands, it becomes fairly widespread. It was a big enough issue that, in September 1998, a class action lawsuit was filed against Iomega for the common problems. Some of the complaints in that lawsuit were eventually dismissed by the court of Delaware, but others were not, and once the public became aware of the problems with Zip drives, it was hard for the brand to make a comeback.
It didn't help that this happened around the same time as formats such as CDs were becoming more popular... And eventually, USB flash drives became the most popular way to carry data around since they were smaller and offered much faster speeds... Eventually, after seeing its profits plummet by the mid-2000s, Iomega was sold to a company called EMC in 2008, and in 2013, EMC and Lenovo formed a joint venture that took over Iomega's business and removed all of the Iomega branding from its products.
The article does note that "as late as 2014, some aviation companies were still using Zip drives to distribute updates for navigation databases." Are there any Slashdot readers who still remember their own Zip drive experiences?
Share your memories in the comments of that once-so-trendy storage technology from the 1990s...
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
MAASTRICHT (ANP) - De afscheidnemende koersdirecteur Leo van Vliet heeft de zestigste editie van de Amstel Gold Race voor mannen in gang gebracht. De 70-jarige oud-wielrenner zwaaide in Maastricht even na 11.10 uur voor een dertigste en laatste keer met de vlag voor de officiële start van de enige Nederlandse wielerklassieker. De vrouwen vertrokken al een uur eerder voor hun twaalfde editie.
De vrouwen rijden 158 kilometer door het zuiden van Limburg, met tegen 14.00 uur de finish in Berg en Terblijt. Mischa Bredewold is de titelverdedigster, Lorena Wiebes en Demi Vollering zijn de belangrijkste kanshebbers. Ook oud-winnaressen Anna van der Breggen, Marianne Vos en Kasia Niewiadoma uit Polen doen mee.
In de mannenkoers over 257 kilometer is de Belg Remco Evenepoel de grote favoriet. De Deen Mattias Skjelmose, die vorig jaar de sprint won van Tadej Pogacar en Evenepoel, hoopt zijn titel te prolongeren. Wereldkampioen Pogacar is er dit jaar niet bij, evenals oud-winnaar Mathieu van der Poel.
In het koelvak zien ze er identiek uit: witte bollen in bleek vocht, soms zelfs in bijna dezelfde verpakking. Toch kost de ene mozzarella drie keer zoveel als de andere. Hoe kan dat?
Een deel van de verklaring zit in de herkomst van de melk. Mozzarella van koemelk uit anonieme megastallen is nu eenmaal goedkoper dan buffelmozzarella van kleine boeren met hogere voeder‑ en energiekosten. Certificering, dierenwelzijn en arbeidsomstandigheden worden steeds vaker meegerekend in de prijs.
Daarbovenop komt de kracht van het label. AOP‑ en DOP‑stempels, regionale benamingen en Italiaanse vlaggen op de verpakking laten consumenten meer betalen, ook als het productiewerk deels verplaatst is naar lagelonenregio’s. Marketing en merkopbouw zijn bij kaas al bijna zo belangrijk als bij wijn.
En dan is er nog de supermarkt zelf. Huismerken worden vaak onder scherpe voorwaarden ingekocht, terwijl premiummerken extra marge opleveren. De prijs vertelt dus niet alleen iets over de melk, maar ook over logistiek, marketing en machtsverhoudingen in de voedselketen.
De vraag blijft: proef je dat verschil echt terug op je pizza of in je caprese, of betaal je vooral voor een verhaal op het etiket? Als je een snob bent moet je natuurlijk de duurste nemen. Maar anders kan je eens proberen hoe het goedkoopst smaakt.
Jan Roos, showman, ondernemer in het hoogste segment van de frituurbranche, patriot. Van z'n bed gelicht door Het Systeem wegens letterlijk z'n minst racistische grap ooit namelijk over dat PowNed-verslaggevers (!) van Ameland (!) gejaagd moesten worden. Uit z'n huis getrokken terwijl z'n kind boven lag te slapen, zonder de tenlastelegging te weten meerdere keren van voertuig gewisseld en uit eindelijk in een politiecel te Leeuwarden beland terwijl het persbericht over zijn arrestatie al de voorpagina's had gevonden. Vervolgens werd de zaak na maanden stilte ineens onder heel vreemde voorwaarden geseponeerd, en in deze EXCLUSIVE kondigt Jan dus aan dat hij het OM gaat aanklagen voor een vergoeding van zijn advocatenkosten en een schadevergoeding. Afijn, in deze aflevering doet Jan dus voor het eerst in detail zijn verhaal omdat hij voorheen de rechtsgang niet wilde hinderen andere media nooit ook maar enige interesse in zijn verhaal hebben getoond. Maar wij zijn geen andere media.
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