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April 11, 2022
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcN3WfBjF_u/
How 18-year-old Olivia Seltzer turned The Cramm, her Gen Z newsletter, into a book
The California teen dives deeper into the issues facing her peers with 'Cramm This Book,' out Feb. 15.
https://www.dailynews.com/2022/02/09/how-18-year-old-olivia-seltzer-turned-the-cramm-her-gen-z-newsletter-into-a-book/
On election night in 2016, a then 12-year-old Olivia Seltzer sat with her parents, glued to the television and waiting to find out who would be the next president of the United States. She didn’t have much interest in politics before and admits she naively thought all of the world’s biggest problems had already been solved.
But being from a Jewish family and attending middle school in Santa Barbara where many of her peers were the children and grandchildren of immigrants, she and her friends had more recently began talking about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks and shared their fears over undocumented loved ones suddenly being deported since it was all over the news. The main issue, she said, was that she and her young friends didn’t have any historical context as to why these things were happening, or still happening. They weren’t being taught about it in public school and mainstream news media outlets certainly weren’t catering to Generation Z viewership.
In January 2017, Seltzer decided she wanted to do her own research and break down the latest headlines for Gen Z in a daily newsletter she’d call The Cramm. She took the money she had received for her 13th birthday and bought the domain name thecramm.com and began delivering the news to her followers in smaller, more easily digestible bits. That newsletter now has over 2.5 million subscribers in 113 countries across six continents. She’s still waiting for her first subscriber in Antarctica.
“Simply put, you can’t change the world unless you know about it,” she said during a recent phone interview from her Santa Barbara home. Seltzer just turned 18, graduated high school and though she’s still weighing her options for college, she said she was accepted to Harvard University. Her first book, “Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF is Going On in the World Today,” a meatier version of her newsletter with a slew of current topics and the history behind them, will be published Feb. 15.
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The Cramm spoke with young people from Ukraine and Poland about Russia's war on Ukraine and how it's
affected them. Here’s part 1.https://www.instagram.com/p/CcN3WfBjF_u/
https://www.thecramm.com/about.html
The Story
You can't change the world unless you know about it. It's that simple.
We'll flat out say it: the same-old news is boring, whatever it happens to be that you start your morning with. We couldn't stand reading or watching the news, but there were things we needed to know. After all, we couldn't rule the world if we didn't know what was happening in it. Our generation - we're the ones that are going to be changing things, and we wanted to be a big part of that. Other people like us did, too. Every day, during break, we would discuss the latest. All our news came from word-of-mouth, so our conversations, as you can imagine, were not very deep.
We had to fix this problem. We needed a quick, fun way to know what was what. A fresh, cool way for can't-yet and first-time voters to get in the know-how, fast. A tongue-in-cheek way to start our AM with laughter, knowledge, and a cup o' cramm.
Thus, The Cramm was born.
Delivered to your inbox every AM, The Cramm offers our generation's perspective on the latest happenings. It's short and straight to the point - while still not lacking in humor - delivering everything you need to know each day, in one text or email. The best part? It's all completely written by a teen who knows the feeling of trudging through boring-old newspaper articles.
- The Cramm Fam
SIGN UP
https://www.thecramm.com/sign-up.html
The Story
You can't change the world unless you know about it. It's that simple.
We'll flat out say it: the same-old news is boring, whatever it happens to be that you start your morning with. We couldn't stand reading or watching the news, but there were things we needed to know. After all, we couldn't rule the world if we didn't know what was happening in it. Our generation - we're the ones that are going to be changing things, and we wanted to be a big part of that. Other people like us did, too. Every day, during break, we would discuss the latest. All our news came from word-of-mouth, so our conversations, as you can imagine, were not very deep.
We had to fix this problem. We needed a quick, fun way to know what was what. A fresh, cool way for can't-yet and first-time voters to get in the know-how, fast. A tongue-in-cheek way to start our AM with laughter, knowledge, and a cup o' cramm.
Thus, The Cramm was born.
Delivered to your inbox every AM, The Cramm offers our generation's perspective on the latest happenings. It's short and straight to the point - while still not lacking in humor - delivering everything you need to know each day, in one text or email. The best part? It's all completely written by a teen who knows the feeling of trudging through boring-old newspaper articles.
- The Cramm Fam
SIGN UP
https://www.thecramm.com/sign-up.html
How 18-year-old Olivia Seltzer turned The Cramm, her Gen Z newsletter, into a book
The California teen dives deeper into the issues facing her peers with 'Cramm This Book,' out Feb. 15.
https://www.dailynews.com/2022/02/09/how-18-year-old-olivia-seltzer-turned-the-cramm-her-gen-z-newsletter-into-a-book/
On election night in 2016, a then 12-year-old Olivia Seltzer sat with her parents, glued to the television and waiting to find out who would be the next president of the United States. She didn’t have much interest in politics before and admits she naively thought all of the world’s biggest problems had already been solved.
But being from a Jewish family and attending middle school in Santa Barbara where many of her peers were the children and grandchildren of immigrants, she and her friends had more recently began talking about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks and shared their fears over undocumented loved ones suddenly being deported since it was all over the news. The main issue, she said, was that she and her young friends didn’t have any historical context as to why these things were happening, or still happening. They weren’t being taught about it in public school and mainstream news media outlets certainly weren’t catering to Generation Z viewership.
In January 2017, Seltzer decided she wanted to do her own research and break down the latest headlines for Gen Z in a daily newsletter she’d call The Cramm. She took the money she had received for her 13th birthday and bought the domain name thecramm.com and began delivering the news to her followers in smaller, more easily digestible bits. That newsletter now has over 2.5 million subscribers in 113 countries across six continents. She’s still waiting for her first subscriber in Antarctica.
“Simply put, you can’t change the world unless you know about it,” she said during a recent phone interview from her Santa Barbara home. Seltzer just turned 18, graduated high school and though she’s still weighing her options for college, she said she was accepted to Harvard University. Her first book, “Cramm This Book: So You Know WTF is Going On in the World Today,” a meatier version of her newsletter with a slew of current topics and the history behind them, will be published Feb. 15.
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April 11, 2022
Ukraine, NATO and a Zeitenwende
(my add: Zeitenwende means a watershed event, a turn in the times, the change of an era. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz used the term to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a February 28th special address to the Bundestag)
Russia has upended the old rules-based order, Paul Mason writes. Europe needs to shape a new one.
https://socialeurope.eu/ukraine-nato-and-a-zeitenwende
While western capitals scramble to send supplies of arms, munitions and aid to Ukraine, the strategic choices looming over the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are becoming clearer. NATO’s ‘strategic concept’—a 12-year-old guidance document—is due to be upgraded at a summit in Madrid in June. Yet few of the foreign ministers meeting at the alliance headquarters in Brussels last week wanted to be frank about the choices they face.
Much, of course, depends on the final outcome of the war. Realistic scenarios range from operational defeat of the Russian forces, leading to a frozen conflict in the Donbas and the armed neutrality of Ukraine, to partition—with in the Russian-controlled zone a regime of ‘de-Ukrainisation’, massacres and forced population movements, as the west looks on helplessly.
The variables include what happens to western public opinion. Will Sweden and Finland join NATO? Will, more immediately, Emmanuel Macron defeat the Putin-sympathetic Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election? And will the United States presidency remain in the hands of politicians committed to the NATO project?
All these questions are in doubt. But if the answer is ‘yes’ in each case there is an opportunity to make big changes in military spending, posture, force structure and technology—with a clear pathway outlined before Madrid.
No more rules........
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April 11, 2022
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220411-macron-wins-27-85-percent-in-french-first-round-vote-le-pen-23-15-percent
The results will allow both to advance to a run-off, while far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon got 21.95 percent, knocking him out of the race.
Mélenchon's electorate will be key to determining how Macron and Le Pen will fare in the second round on 24 April.
Opinion polls carried out on Sunday night suggested a tight second round between Macron and Le Pen.
Among the nine other candidates only one scored above five percent, the political newcomer far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour, who obtained 7.07 percent and has called on his voters to support Le Pen.
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Macron wins 27.85 percent in French first round vote, Le Pen 23.15 percent
Emmanuel Macron won 27.85 percent of votes in the first round of France's presidential election, while far-right leader Marine Le Pen scored 23.15 percent, according to final results from the Interior Ministry Monday.https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220411-macron-wins-27-85-percent-in-french-first-round-vote-le-pen-23-15-percent
The results will allow both to advance to a run-off, while far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon got 21.95 percent, knocking him out of the race.
Mélenchon's electorate will be key to determining how Macron and Le Pen will fare in the second round on 24 April.
Opinion polls carried out on Sunday night suggested a tight second round between Macron and Le Pen.
Among the nine other candidates only one scored above five percent, the political newcomer far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour, who obtained 7.07 percent and has called on his voters to support Le Pen.
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April 11, 2022
https://www.thelocal.se/20220407/sweden-to-set-worlds-first-consumption-based-emissions-target/
The committee responsible for setting Sweden’s environmental goals on Thursday presented its proposals for what goals Sweden should set for greenhouse has emissions linked to the country’s consumption. “No other country in the world has done what we have done,” Emma Nohrén, chair of the climate goals committee, said at a press conference announcing the goals. “There has been a pioneering sprit.”
About 60 percent of the emissions caused by people living in Sweden are released in other countries producing goods to be consumed in Sweden, meaning Sweden’s production-based emissions goals, like those of other countries, arguably misrepresent Sweden’s impact.
In a press statement, the government said that as well as the 2045 consumption emissions target, the committee has suggested setting targets for the climate impact of its exports, include emissions from flights and cargo ships in its long-term national climate goals, and aim to include emissions from internal flights in its target for domestic transport by 2030. The committee also proposes that emissions from goods and services ordered by the public sector should decline at a faster rate than those of the rest of the country.
Amanda Palmstierna, an MP for the Green Party who sits on the committee, said it was positive that the new goals had the backing of all seven of Sweden’s parliamentary parties. “It’s important that all the parties are backing this proposal so that it can become implemented,” she said. “Significant action is required now. We have so little time, as we saw in the IPCC report which came out on Monday.”
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Sweden to set world's first consumption-based emissions target
Sweden's political parties have unanimously backed the world's first consumption-based emissions target, with the country aiming to hit net zero by 2045.https://www.thelocal.se/20220407/sweden-to-set-worlds-first-consumption-based-emissions-target/
The committee responsible for setting Sweden’s environmental goals on Thursday presented its proposals for what goals Sweden should set for greenhouse has emissions linked to the country’s consumption. “No other country in the world has done what we have done,” Emma Nohrén, chair of the climate goals committee, said at a press conference announcing the goals. “There has been a pioneering sprit.”
About 60 percent of the emissions caused by people living in Sweden are released in other countries producing goods to be consumed in Sweden, meaning Sweden’s production-based emissions goals, like those of other countries, arguably misrepresent Sweden’s impact.
In a press statement, the government said that as well as the 2045 consumption emissions target, the committee has suggested setting targets for the climate impact of its exports, include emissions from flights and cargo ships in its long-term national climate goals, and aim to include emissions from internal flights in its target for domestic transport by 2030. The committee also proposes that emissions from goods and services ordered by the public sector should decline at a faster rate than those of the rest of the country.
Amanda Palmstierna, an MP for the Green Party who sits on the committee, said it was positive that the new goals had the backing of all seven of Sweden’s parliamentary parties. “It’s important that all the parties are backing this proposal so that it can become implemented,” she said. “Significant action is required now. We have so little time, as we saw in the IPCC report which came out on Monday.”
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April 11, 2022
Label: Warp Records – WARP LP 90
Format:
2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: UK
Released: 3 Sept 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Left Field
The Other People Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe (Full LP, 2001, Downtempo, Left Field)
Label: Warp Records – WARP LP 90
Format:
2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: UK
Released: 3 Sept 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Left Field
April 11, 2022
Label: Minimal Detroit Audio – mda.002
Format:
2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Released: April 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Ambient, Deep House, Techno
JORDAN GCZ - MY BRAIN's BRAIN (MINIMAL DETROIT TECHNO) - SIDE A (2022)
Label: Minimal Detroit Audio – mda.002
Format:
2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album
Country: US
Released: April 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Ambient, Deep House, Techno
The long-awaited debut album from one of techno's most beloved improvisers is a weightless trip through the cosmos.
https://ra.co/reviews/34794
Jordan Czamanski and Terrence Dixon feel like kindred spirits. Across their long and varied careers, both have remained dedicated to coaxing understated (and often strange) dance music from their arsenal of machines. Thanks to some matchmaking from Antal, the two began working together in 2019 in an almost wordless jam session that resulted in an EP, Outnumbered. It's easy to see the fit—the A-side is vintage Detroit techno (Czamanski is a Midwesterner by birth, after all) while the flip is all pulsing synths beamed in from the outer reaches of the cosmos. As part of their ongoing collaboration, Czamanski is now releasing his debut LP on Dixon's Minimal Detroit Audio. My Brain's Brain wanders further into the stratosphere with gravity free ambient and jazz improvisation folding themselves into the Israeli's brand of analogue house and techno.
As should be clear from the William Gibson and Star Wars references in the track titles, this is an album that wears its sci-fi references on its (literal) sleeve. While there are plenty of drums, they're usually secondary to the dense stereo fields of eerie synth bleeps that evoke the cold austerity of deep space. These are classic techno tropes, sure, but there's also something theatrical about how he deploys them—"Alienation Ditty," for example, is closer to Fantasia than Blade Runner. Things get even campier with the Rhodes Fender line buried deep in "It's Chinatown," and the delectable guitar picking on "One Note Ain't Always Enough" (something we haven't heard Czamanski do since Juju & Jordash's Sis-Boom-Bah!). Although Czamanski can occasionally project cranky uncle vibes—just listen to the tirade about "economies of hands-in-the-air" dance music in this podcast—My Brain's Brain is a reminder of how fun the fringes of the galaxy can sound.
Czamanski's taste for melodic noodling goes back to his jazz roots. In a recent interview, he tried to describe the new LP's genre and got stumped—"I mean, to me it’s all techno, it’s all house, it’s all jazz." As both a trained jazz pianist and half of, as Andrew Ryce memorably put it, "techno's most popular jam band," Czamanski has always drawn his own Venn Diagram, but his releases as Jordan GCZ have tended to be straight-up club tracks (even the 15-minute "Fission Transmission" eventually earns a kick drum). As anyone keeping up with his prolific streams on YouTube may have clocked, however, Czamanski hasn't really been thinking about the club lately. Good luck to anyone who tries to play the album's centerpiece, "Who Spiked The Cantina Band?" out—it's full-on free jazz made with synthesizers. The DJ-friendly tracks have a few unexpected twists, too. The slinky, modulated bassline and angelic chords on "Terrace House Love" are deep house crowd pleasers, but the twisting arpeggio may be a bit too too eerie for the open air crowd.
The same is true of the record's grooviest track, "Science Funk." That staggered snare and hi-hat pattern are moreish, but the flute crescendo that ends the track—think Fred P remixing Kenny G—is probably not to everyone's taste. Both "Bah Bah Rhodes" and the album's sole techno track, "Mining The Moon," play it a bit straighter, but Czamanski has no problem dropping the drums out and bringing them back only sporadically to end the song. Czamanski has released plenty of LPs over the course of his two-decade career, though always as a collaborator, while releasing one-off solo 12-inches on his Off Minor label as breaks between major projects with a rotating cast of characters, from Shawn Rudiman to his longtime sparring partners David Moufang and Gal Aner. Lockdown changed all of that for Czamanski, forcing him to spend more time in his studio alone, recording, by his telling, hundreds of tracks. My Brain's Brain is a welcome portrait of Czamanski slowing things down and leaving behind the laws of earthly physics.
https://ra.co/reviews/34794
Jordan Czamanski and Terrence Dixon feel like kindred spirits. Across their long and varied careers, both have remained dedicated to coaxing understated (and often strange) dance music from their arsenal of machines. Thanks to some matchmaking from Antal, the two began working together in 2019 in an almost wordless jam session that resulted in an EP, Outnumbered. It's easy to see the fit—the A-side is vintage Detroit techno (Czamanski is a Midwesterner by birth, after all) while the flip is all pulsing synths beamed in from the outer reaches of the cosmos. As part of their ongoing collaboration, Czamanski is now releasing his debut LP on Dixon's Minimal Detroit Audio. My Brain's Brain wanders further into the stratosphere with gravity free ambient and jazz improvisation folding themselves into the Israeli's brand of analogue house and techno.
As should be clear from the William Gibson and Star Wars references in the track titles, this is an album that wears its sci-fi references on its (literal) sleeve. While there are plenty of drums, they're usually secondary to the dense stereo fields of eerie synth bleeps that evoke the cold austerity of deep space. These are classic techno tropes, sure, but there's also something theatrical about how he deploys them—"Alienation Ditty," for example, is closer to Fantasia than Blade Runner. Things get even campier with the Rhodes Fender line buried deep in "It's Chinatown," and the delectable guitar picking on "One Note Ain't Always Enough" (something we haven't heard Czamanski do since Juju & Jordash's Sis-Boom-Bah!). Although Czamanski can occasionally project cranky uncle vibes—just listen to the tirade about "economies of hands-in-the-air" dance music in this podcast—My Brain's Brain is a reminder of how fun the fringes of the galaxy can sound.
Czamanski's taste for melodic noodling goes back to his jazz roots. In a recent interview, he tried to describe the new LP's genre and got stumped—"I mean, to me it’s all techno, it’s all house, it’s all jazz." As both a trained jazz pianist and half of, as Andrew Ryce memorably put it, "techno's most popular jam band," Czamanski has always drawn his own Venn Diagram, but his releases as Jordan GCZ have tended to be straight-up club tracks (even the 15-minute "Fission Transmission" eventually earns a kick drum). As anyone keeping up with his prolific streams on YouTube may have clocked, however, Czamanski hasn't really been thinking about the club lately. Good luck to anyone who tries to play the album's centerpiece, "Who Spiked The Cantina Band?" out—it's full-on free jazz made with synthesizers. The DJ-friendly tracks have a few unexpected twists, too. The slinky, modulated bassline and angelic chords on "Terrace House Love" are deep house crowd pleasers, but the twisting arpeggio may be a bit too too eerie for the open air crowd.
The same is true of the record's grooviest track, "Science Funk." That staggered snare and hi-hat pattern are moreish, but the flute crescendo that ends the track—think Fred P remixing Kenny G—is probably not to everyone's taste. Both "Bah Bah Rhodes" and the album's sole techno track, "Mining The Moon," play it a bit straighter, but Czamanski has no problem dropping the drums out and bringing them back only sporadically to end the song. Czamanski has released plenty of LPs over the course of his two-decade career, though always as a collaborator, while releasing one-off solo 12-inches on his Off Minor label as breaks between major projects with a rotating cast of characters, from Shawn Rudiman to his longtime sparring partners David Moufang and Gal Aner. Lockdown changed all of that for Czamanski, forcing him to spend more time in his studio alone, recording, by his telling, hundreds of tracks. My Brain's Brain is a welcome portrait of Czamanski slowing things down and leaving behind the laws of earthly physics.
April 10, 2022
Nyamko Sabuni has announced that she is resigning as leader of the troubled Liberal Party, shortly after she was widely condemned for appearing to say she would flee to Norway if Sweden was attacked.
https://www.thelocal.se/20220408/nyamko-sabuni-resigns-as-leader-of-swedens-troubled-liberal-party/
Nyamko Sabuni arrives at the press conference to announce her resignation. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
“I am who I am with all the strengths and weaknesses,” she said at a press conference announcing her resignation. “In June, 2019, the party chose the whole me, but the whole me is not what is now needed. The whole me and the discussion over the whole me is overshadowing what is most important.” Johan Pehrson, Sabuni’s current deputy, will take over as the new leader. The resignation came after she faced strong criticism because of a YouTube video released by the Liberal Party which shows Sabuni discussing the security situation with Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson.
In it she talks about the advantages of living out in the countryside, particularly in her home region in Värmland, in the event of a war. “If there’s a war, we have Skillingmark in Värmland, where we can find our own food and water. If it gets any worse, then we’ll drive over to Norway,” she said in the video.
(Swedish)
After the clip went viral, Sabuni defended it in an interview with Dagens Nyheter as a “light-hearted conversation where we were fantasising about where we would most want to be [in the case of a war].” she said. Swedish Radio’s political commentator Tomas Ramberg said that he didn’t think that the decision had been long planned in advance, but did not think it was in response to the reaction from the clip either.
Since taking over as leader of the party in June, 2019, Sabuni has pulled the party back into the right-wing opposition, breaking off the January Agreement under which the Liberal Party and Centre Party supported a Social Democrat prime minister. She has at the same time upset many in her party by deciding that it will back a right-wing government that is dependent on the support of the far-Right Sweden Democrats. Perhaps the main reason for her departure, however, is the poor polling figures the party has had under her leadership, which now put it just over two percent, well below the four percent needed to enter the parliament.
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Nyamko Sabuni resigns as head of Sweden's Liberal Party(said she'd flee to Norway if we're attacked)
my add, the Liberal Party (aka L) is a neoliberal (they push for free markets and privatisation, plus semi-austerity (in the Swedish sense) budgets, whether quasi or full stop) centre-right (centre right in the EU sense, many 'L' members would be considered mainstream moderate, moderate conservative, or centrist Dem types in the US) party who 4 months ago said they would pull out (Sabuni was the driving force behind that) of a coalition with the centre left (Social Democrats aka S) and the other centre right neoliberal party, (the Centre Party aka C) and said they would support the far right nationalist Sweden Democrats Party aka SDNyamko Sabuni has announced that she is resigning as leader of the troubled Liberal Party, shortly after she was widely condemned for appearing to say she would flee to Norway if Sweden was attacked.
https://www.thelocal.se/20220408/nyamko-sabuni-resigns-as-leader-of-swedens-troubled-liberal-party/
Nyamko Sabuni arrives at the press conference to announce her resignation. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
“I am who I am with all the strengths and weaknesses,” she said at a press conference announcing her resignation. “In June, 2019, the party chose the whole me, but the whole me is not what is now needed. The whole me and the discussion over the whole me is overshadowing what is most important.” Johan Pehrson, Sabuni’s current deputy, will take over as the new leader. The resignation came after she faced strong criticism because of a YouTube video released by the Liberal Party which shows Sabuni discussing the security situation with Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson.
In it she talks about the advantages of living out in the countryside, particularly in her home region in Värmland, in the event of a war. “If there’s a war, we have Skillingmark in Värmland, where we can find our own food and water. If it gets any worse, then we’ll drive over to Norway,” she said in the video.
(Swedish)
After the clip went viral, Sabuni defended it in an interview with Dagens Nyheter as a “light-hearted conversation where we were fantasising about where we would most want to be [in the case of a war].” she said. Swedish Radio’s political commentator Tomas Ramberg said that he didn’t think that the decision had been long planned in advance, but did not think it was in response to the reaction from the clip either.
Since taking over as leader of the party in June, 2019, Sabuni has pulled the party back into the right-wing opposition, breaking off the January Agreement under which the Liberal Party and Centre Party supported a Social Democrat prime minister. She has at the same time upset many in her party by deciding that it will back a right-wing government that is dependent on the support of the far-Right Sweden Democrats. Perhaps the main reason for her departure, however, is the poor polling figures the party has had under her leadership, which now put it just over two percent, well below the four percent needed to enter the parliament.
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April 10, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/10/world/ukraine-russia-war-news
Worshippers attend a special mass celebrating the Palm Sunday holiday in central Lviv, Ukraine. Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
Civilians in eastern Ukraine rushed to evacuate at the urging of local officials as Russian forces massed in the region and struck residential areas there on Sunday.
U.S. military officials said Sunday that they expect Russian troops to carry out a major offensive from the city of Izium to Dnipro, a central city that is considered a strategic target in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which encompasses two breakaway enclaves controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Across one of those enclaves, the Donetsk, a fleet of volunteer bus drivers was helping to evacuate residents before an anticipated onslaught by Russian forces.
More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since Feb. 24, according to the United Nations. Russian troops have escalated their attacks against civilian areas in Ukraine in recent days, including a rocket attack on a train station on Friday that killed more than 50 people who were trying to flee the east of the country. A barrage of Russian strikes hit the airport in Dnipro, wounding five Ukrainian rescue workers, a local official reported Sunday.
As Ukrainian leaders and Western allies warned that the risk of civilian casualties was growing, Britain announced on Saturday that it would supply Ukrainian forces with missiles that can target aircraft, tanks and even ships, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an unannounced visit to Kyiv. Analysts say anti-ship missiles would be a notable addition to Ukrainian forces, which have struggled against Russian ships operating off Ukraine’s coast.
Here are some other major developments:
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Ukrainians Rush to Flee as Russian Troops Mass in the East
U.S. military officials said they expect Russia to carry out a major offensive from the city of Izium to Dnipro, a strategic target in eastern Ukraine. At a train station where dozens were killed in a missile strike on Friday, one survivor said, “The town is dead now.”https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/10/world/ukraine-russia-war-news
Worshippers attend a special mass celebrating the Palm Sunday holiday in central Lviv, Ukraine. Credit...Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
Civilians in eastern Ukraine rushed to evacuate at the urging of local officials as Russian forces massed in the region and struck residential areas there on Sunday.
U.S. military officials said Sunday that they expect Russian troops to carry out a major offensive from the city of Izium to Dnipro, a central city that is considered a strategic target in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which encompasses two breakaway enclaves controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Across one of those enclaves, the Donetsk, a fleet of volunteer bus drivers was helping to evacuate residents before an anticipated onslaught by Russian forces.
More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since Feb. 24, according to the United Nations. Russian troops have escalated their attacks against civilian areas in Ukraine in recent days, including a rocket attack on a train station on Friday that killed more than 50 people who were trying to flee the east of the country. A barrage of Russian strikes hit the airport in Dnipro, wounding five Ukrainian rescue workers, a local official reported Sunday.
As Ukrainian leaders and Western allies warned that the risk of civilian casualties was growing, Britain announced on Saturday that it would supply Ukrainian forces with missiles that can target aircraft, tanks and even ships, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an unannounced visit to Kyiv. Analysts say anti-ship missiles would be a notable addition to Ukrainian forces, which have struggled against Russian ships operating off Ukraine’s coast.
Here are some other major developments:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/upshot/wordle-bot-introduction.html
What is it?
WordleBot is a tool that will take your completed Wordle and analyze it for you. It will give you overall scores for luck and skill on a scale from 0 to 99 and tell you at each turn what, if anything, you could have done differently — if solving Wordles in as few steps as possible is your goal.
How do I use it?
It’s very easy. First, play Wordle. Then visit the Wordle Companion, ideally using the same device and web browser.
How does it work (short version please)?
Every Wordle game starts with one of 2,309 possible solutions as the hidden word. At each turn, WordleBot chooses the word that will allow it to solve the game in as few steps as possible, assuming any of the remaining solutions are equally likely. It keeps doing this until only one solution remains — the right answer.
Why did you make it?
Months ago, before The New York Times bought Wordle, we, like many others, began wondering about the best starting word. It seemed like a straightforward mathematical question — yet every person who approached the problem seemed to come up with a different answer.
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Introducing WordleBot, the Upshot's Daily Wordle Companion
It will tell you how skillful or lucky you were, and it could help improve your results.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/upshot/wordle-bot-introduction.html
What is it?
WordleBot is a tool that will take your completed Wordle and analyze it for you. It will give you overall scores for luck and skill on a scale from 0 to 99 and tell you at each turn what, if anything, you could have done differently — if solving Wordles in as few steps as possible is your goal.
How do I use it?
It’s very easy. First, play Wordle. Then visit the Wordle Companion, ideally using the same device and web browser.
How does it work (short version please)?
Every Wordle game starts with one of 2,309 possible solutions as the hidden word. At each turn, WordleBot chooses the word that will allow it to solve the game in as few steps as possible, assuming any of the remaining solutions are equally likely. It keeps doing this until only one solution remains — the right answer.
Why did you make it?
Months ago, before The New York Times bought Wordle, we, like many others, began wondering about the best starting word. It seemed like a straightforward mathematical question — yet every person who approached the problem seemed to come up with a different answer.
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April 10, 2022
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Country: Germany
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Label: Ernst – none
Format:
CD, Compilation
Country: Germany
Released: 1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Techno, Minimal, Experimental
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