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Social media can be a tricky thing. One minute, you think youre uploading the next viral social car video and then next minute you find yourself in cuffs because of it. Thats exactly what happened to an Audi RS6 Avant owner in the UK, who filmed himself, along with a friend in the passenger seat, eclipsing 201 mph on a public motorway. That video did become popular and so popular, in fact, that the police found it. Whoops.

The police saw the video, recognized the stretch of road and the vehicle and found the two 38-year olds who created it. Once found, the driver was arrested and has since been released on bail. The road they were driving on was identified as the M23 between Gatwick and Crawley, which has a speed limit of up to 70 mph, which means the Audi RS6 Avant was traveling at almost three times the legal limit.

What makes this even more intense is that the videos shows the car getting fro 60 mph to about 116 mph in just around five seconds. Thats seriously quick and this was done in the last-gen RS6.

The previous-gen Audi RS6 Avant uses a 4.0 liter twin-turbocharged V8, which can make anywhere between 560 horsepower and 600 horsepower (the video doesnt specify if its the RS6 Performance or not). So its a seriously fast car and one that can easily get you into jail-time speeds, evidently.

To make matters even worse, the driver had just one hand on the steering wheel for much of the video and they were recording it, so their attention was even more divided. That simply cannot happen at 200 mph or people can very easily die. If your car is traveling at 200 mph, its moving at almost 300 feet per second. That means that, at 200 mph, it can cross an American football field in about one second. Thats a huge distance to cover in just one second, which makes the absolute slightest mistake or circumstance chance can be fatal. Theres simply no time to react if anything happens.

We all like watching fast cars blitz down the Autobahn but the famous German highway was designed, and is continuously maintained, with that sort of speed in mind. The M23 in the UK was not designed for 200 mph and no one should drive that quickly on a public road as such. Even if the car is as cool as an Audi RS6 Avant.

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Audi RS6 Avant Driver Gets Arrested for Driving Over 201 MPH in UK - QuattroDaily - Audi Blog, Audi News and Audi Test Drives

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Manabadi AP Inter Result 2020 Released:As per the latest update, BIEAP is all to make the Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Results 2020 on the official website. Currently, Result Data for AP Inter Result 2020 data is being uploaded on the server and soon will be made live through the links given below. Until then students are advised to keep refreshing this page to get the BIEAP Results first.

AP Inter 2nd Year Result 2020 - Direct Link (Result Uploading)

AP Inter 1st Year Result 2020 - Direct Link (Result Uploading)

Students can now check their Manabadi AP Board Inter 1st and 2nd Year results 2020 online. The BIEAP has released the AP Junior and Senior Inter results 2020 online on the official website after the formal announcement. As per the announcement by the Education Minister, the pass percentage in AP 1st year and 2nd Year results 2020 stands at 59 percent and 63 percent respectively. Students will be able to download their AP Inter results 2020 in the online mode only by visiting the official website - bie.ap.gov.in. Keeping the convenience of the students in mind, direct links to AP Board 11th and 12th result 2020 have also been provided below.

The Manabadi AP Intermediate 1st year result 2020 has been declared with subject-wise marks as the Grading system was cancelled. The AP Inter Senior result 2020 has been released with subject-wise grade points for 2nd-year students as the same was followed in their Junior Intermediate results. Students will be able to download their short marks memos from the official website from 15th June 2020 onwards.

Once the AP Board 11 and 12th Result 2020 is published online after the formal announcement today, students will be able to access the same online. It is, thus, important for the students to be familiar with the procedure to access the AP Inter Result 2020. Students must note the AP Intermediate Results 2020 will be available online only. The official website of the Board will have result link on the first page itself. Students will be required click on the AP Inter First/Second Year Result 2020 to check their result. On the web page that appears next, students will need to fill in their details such as roll number, date of birth and other requisite details and submit. The AP 11 and 12th Result 2020 will be displayed on the screen. Students are advised to carefully go through their AP Intermediate Results 2020 and download the same for future admission process. Students must also download a copy of their AP Junior Inter result 2020/ AP Senior Inter result 2020 for future reference.

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Check Manabadi AP Inter 1st Year and 2nd Year Result 2020 Declared, 59% and 63% students pass in 11th and 12th - Jagran Josh

Every day, the ritual is the same. Open the pot with a click, take out a testing strip and put it in the machine. Put a new needle in the lancet and prick my finger. Then I watch as the drop of blood seeps slowly up the strip, until the machine begins to calculate those crucial figures. This is the worst part. It takes only six seconds to register my blood sugar, but those brief moments feel interminable; I breathe slowly through the anxiety. A beep sounds and two figures flash up on the screen. And then theres the moment of elation - or, on a bad day, hours of despair.

I do this four times a day, every day, just to keep my baby safe, because Ive been diagnosed with gestational diabetes (GD). The process - as well as the careful planning of every single item of food that passes my lips - will go on until early October, when my second child is due to be born. And then, the moment the placenta is removed - as if it had never happened at all - my body will go back normal.

Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes that only emerges in pregnancy and affects approximately 16 per cent of pregnant women. Hormones excreted by the placenta cause insulin resistance. For most women this just means the baby has time to take energy from her food before it is transported to the mothers cells. But for an unlucky few, insulin resistance is so high that the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin to compensate and blood glucose levels rise too high. These women become diabetic. GD can develop at any stage of pregnancy though is most common in the second or third trimester.

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Those numbers on that little screen dictate the future for me and my unborn baby.

If my blood sugar is under the targets set by my midwife, I can relax. If its too high, I need to know why, so I can be sure it doesnt happen again. Did I eat a little too much wholemeal toast with breakfast? Should I have had just two new potatoes instead of three, with my dinner? If I cant explain it, its time to call the midwife. I may have to start taking medication or even injecting insulin every day. Once Im on medication my birth plans will have to change. I probably wont be allowed to deliver any later than 38 weeks.

That thought of that, and of having to give an injection to myself, scares me a lot - but its a far better prospect than the potential complications for the baby and me if I dont find a way to bring my blood sugar down

When I was first diagnosed with gestational diabetes, late in my first pregnancy in 2017, I was shocked. I had none of the risk factors - such as a high BMI, a family history of diabetes, or suffering from polycystic ovary syndrome - and my midwife had said all my routine blood tests were normal. But I knew something wasnt quite right.

While my new NCT buddies were blooming in their early third trimesters, I felt awful. I was exhausted, nauseous and no amount of water could slake my terrible thirst. Then I started getting daily migraines, with visual disturbances so bad that I had to stop driving. I had my blood pressure checked but that was normal. I went to the optician and, yes, my eyesight had deteriorated - but glasses made no difference and the blind spots kept coming.

One day, after spending most of the morning unable to work, I left my office and went straight to my hospitals Maternity Assessment Unit to be checked over yet again. The consultant who saw me sent me away with a blood sugar monitor and asked me to check my levels regularly and come back in 48 hours. Two days later, she took one look at the readings and sent me for a glucose tolerance test to confirm the diagnosis.

It came back positive. At 33 weeks pregnant, I was diabetic.

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By cruel coincidence, the final diagnosis came on my birthday. No celebratory cake for me! That night I made the mistake of googling gestational diabetes and frightening myself. If GD is detected early and well managed, the risks can be reduced. If not treated - by changes to diet, an increase in exercise and, if necessary, medication or insulin injections - it can cause major complications, including large babies who suffer injuries at birth, babies born with low blood sugar which can cause brain damage, and even full-term stillbirth - though this is rare.

My midwife told me not to worry as I was being carefully looked after, but it was all the motivation I needed to get my diet in check.

Luckily, a quick lesson in nutrition and how carbs work was all I needed to get my blood sugar under control - and with only seven weeks left until birth, I had a relatively easy ride. Gone were the long-promised cake and tea afternoons of pre-baby maternity leave; in came meticulous meal planning, carbohydrate counting and a new set of digital scales to weigh out my tiny portions of wholewheat pasta, new potatoes and brown rice.

All sweet treats were gone, and every carb had to be paired with a high fat or high protein food to help slow down the glucose as it entered my bloodstream. I lived on diet of cheese, eggs, meat and vegetables; it was like an Atkins bootcamp. The thing I missed the most was breakfast cereal, known among diabetic mums as GD kryptonite.

I had my daughter in August 2017. She was a dinky 6lb 2oz, but her blood sugars were stable and she was healthy.

It was me who suffered most after delivery; despite keeping my readings under control, I still developed post-partum pre-eclampsia, a serious condition caused by high blood pressure and linked to GD. But as promised, the diabetes itself disappeared the day I gave birth.

So, when I fell pregnant again, in January this year, I needed no warning. This time I had two risk factors - gestational diabetes in a previous pregnancy and being over the age of 35 - so I went straight to my GP and asked for a testing kit to keep an eye on things at home. By 15 weeks, my numbers were starting to creep up - even though, yet again, I was passing all the official tests.

With so few midwife appointments due to the coronavirus outbreak, its been hard to get taken seriously. But now, at 21 weeks, Im finally under the care of the diabetic team. Im uploading my readings to an app so midwives can keep an eye without seeing my face to face, and using the time saved on commuting in lockdown to try out new low carb recipes to stop the next 18 weeks from getting too tedious in the kitchen. And thats also given me something to keep my mind off the fact that, being pregnant and diabetic, Im high risk for Covid-19 complications.

Four months of summer, and stuck indoors, is a long time to go without ice cream. But at least I know that first 99 with a flake after birth will be well worth the wait.

For more advice on gestational diabetes, check out the latest information on the NHS website, and the dietary advice provided by Gestational Diabetes UK

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Im pregnant in lockdown, and its not only alcohol thats off the menu cake, chips or pasta could harm my baby - The Independent

One of my teaching colleagues returned to school recently to discover a student who hadnt submitted any work this term due to not logging in and engaging with the lessons. Its students like this who have suffered during remote teaching. In one week in the classroom, this student has since completed seven weeks of missing work because of his teachers daily support and encouragement. He is once again on track to pass the semester.

In staff rooms my colleagues and I discuss the future of teaching and whether, as the coronavirus lockdowns ease, there will be more of a push to teach remotely. This is not just a fear for teachers concerned for their long-term prospects, but something that is being discussed as a potentially positive move.

But we should keep in mind how varied the experiences of students have been during this period.

It is true that some students thrived under remote teaching. These are the students who are highly self-motivated, highly literate and are working above the standard in the classroom. They are the students who require extension and enrichment as they lightly hopscotch through the curriculum.

Learning from home has also been a positive for some students with social anxiety, who were given a reprieve from the struggles of managing multiple interactions in a day and dealing with fraught exchanges with peers. There are also the individual needs students who are also requiring individualised support based on their academic and social skills. These students too might be happy to be at home completing basic literacy and numeracy skills.

The students who generally work at a standard level are a mixed bag. These students all overwhelmingly wanted to return to school either because of the challenges of remote learning or because they miss the social interactions with their peers. This group should have been able to manage remote learning due to their basic literacy, however they have different points of need. Some of them are able to manage the work after an explanation, some of them struggle and remain mute, suffering in silence and the errors only became apparent when their work was submitted for assessment.

In the classroom these students are more easily supported because I can see from their notebooks as I walk around the classroom who is struggling, or the students themselves would be able to understand the task requirements because they had multiple opportunities for instruction through my modelling and then by viewing the notebooks of their desk mates. In individual digital silos, they lost so much support.

Then there are the students who have poor organisation and work skills. They require a teachers constant reminders and face-to-face interactions in order to complete the work they need to pass the subject.

We make the assumption that young people are literate with technology because of their interaction with various platforms and social media, however their basic digital literacy is quite poor when it comes to downloading files, naming files, accessing files from Google Drives or school platforms, saving and uploading files, inserting photos or other media, using formatting functions such as changing the colour of fonts or highlighting. There is the need to provide multiple explanations and demonstrations constantly.

The students who work at lower levels are the ones eager to return to school and who have found remote learning difficult.

Some of these students have been identified as below standard and have been placed on modified programs. Others have low ability due to concentration and their inability to process multiple instructions at once and need a slow, step-by-step instructional model, which remote teaching does not lend itself to. Flicking up and down a digital document disrupts their ability to process the learning task and they get lost and frustrated.

These students are the ones who are already at risk of falling through the cracks in the classroom and are exposed to many intervention strategies, learning programs and engagement programs in order to support them. They succeed because of the school environment that supports them and the relationships they develop with their teachers, and when this is removed from the equation through the digital learning environment they flail and sink.

Now that I have been remote teaching for seven weeks I know one unequivocal and indisputable truth: remote teaching can never replace the face-to-face model for secondary students. These students need schools in order to succeed and develop their academic and interpersonal skills for life.

And I also know that I hate remote teaching. Remote teaching was all of the bad parts of the job the corrections, the administration follow-up, creating digital lessons that werent executed due to internet issues with none of the good the feeling of satisfaction when a lesson was executed well, helping a student with a problem, and the look on my students faces when they achieve an outcome.

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I hated remote teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown. It should never replace the classroom - The Guardian

For most brands, the closure of malls and showrooms meant business had to come to a complete standstill. However, it was this time that taught many of them the importance of pushing out effective and relevant communications, to ensure their connection with their consumers remained intact.

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The COVID-19 outbreak has left an enormous impact on brands across all industries. From a drop in consumer confidence, restricted mobility, and loss of jobs, it has caused a recession like situation with subsiding consumerism. With a top priority to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the employees and communities. At Fujifilm, we have always aimed at creating meaningful advancements and in the last few weeks, we have taken several measures to ensure safety, both internally and externally. At the community level, we have introduced various online workshops for camera enthusiasts and even conducted an interactive INSTAX Doodle Art Contest to help our customers utilize their time and give our business a chance to forge an instant connection with them. This month, we also unveiled Pari Layegi Parivartan; a comic series to spread the much needed self-health awareness amongst mothers and the women in our lives.

While it is still early to predict the quantum of impact at the moment but there will be aftermath on the overall economy and consumption. However, in India with shops re-opening post the relaxation by the government, we are witnessing walk-in from consumers to buy products in non-affected areas. We are hopeful that recovery in demand will happen sooner as we learn to live with the virus and find different ways of marketing.

Q) It is imperative to stay connected with your consumers through a crisis situation. How have you done that since the lockdown?

As a brand, we encourage our consumers to stay safe and adopt social distancing guidelines and hence, we have also started a service of providing product demos at their doorstep. We are even organising health check-ups across rural in India, especially in remote areas with our advanced diagnosis technologies and associating with various hospitals to drive awareness around early detection of breast cancer. We are motivating people to stay strong and hope this pandemic ends soon with the minimum possible harm.

There is no denying that these are stressful times and COVID-19 impact has changed the face of many industries. With most of the consumers now at home practicing social distancing, the amount of time they spend online has radically increased. Social media platforms have now become the primary means of communication for brands, consumers and the government as well.

At Fujifilm, we are following a similar approach and are using social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to disseminate valuable messages to our consumers. Building on our customer experience, we recently virtually launched our flagship camera, the X-T4. We were the first ones to modify our product launch strategy in the camera industry keeping in mind our community first approach, especially during these times. As in the end, it is all about adapting your product offerings, marketing language, and availability according to the business environment.

Q) As the leader of the organization, what has your priority been these past few weeks? How are you preparing to face the post-Covid world?

At Fujifilm India, we are adapting our offerings to the current times while testing new content online to identify future sales and consumption patterns. In conclusion, a delightful experience will ensure customers stay hooked. We will remain consistent with who we are as a customer-first company. We are evaluating trends and data daily and constantly seek and listen to customer feedback to ensure were providing the experience and value they want and need.

The Covid-19 has led to a paradigm shift in the consumer behavior. While some of these changes are no doubt temporary, some will be permanent. As the community moves beyond the survival mode, the digital-adoption momentum is likely to carry forward and become permanent. This inflection point will be primarily shaped by two major shifts in customer behavior - the reluctance to mingle in crowded public places and higher propensity for digital adoption.

Marketers across industries are trying to redesign their business models and the imaging solutions industry is no exception. Consumers are likely to opt for online shopping even after the outbreak ends, and this change will be seen in the imaging industry as well.

With our major business focus in healthcare sector, the health, hygiene and safety measures of people have been our utmost priority in todays COVID world.The demand for online health content has been growing steadily for years. A positive by-product of the global pandemic has resulted in greater awareness of healthcare and the steps we can all take to safeguard our families and ourselves. From handwashing to exercising and eating healthy at home to prioritizing mental health, consumers are more engaged in healthcare issues than ever. To get smarter on health issues and guide decisions, consumers are turning to healthcare providers first as COVID elevates our collective esteem for doctors and hospitals on the front lines. We have seen an upward trend in self-diagnosis measures, where consumers want to be more aware of the health issues theyre tackling.

Fujifilms mission to Never Stop transforming themselves and the World, focuses on how the company is leveraging its advanced and unique technologies (AI, IOT, IT solutions ) to create value from innovation and contribute to solving real-world challenges.Our effort is on offering healthcare solutions through AI and IoT solutions in remote areas by supporting radiologists with their imaging workflow and providing quality healthcare services and solutions for Indian people.

With rising numbers of customers on the digital bandwagon, we are revisiting our approaches and making them more tech-savvy. Small but handy initiatives such as uploading the product manual online, price comparisons and detailing the features of our innovative technologies are few such strategies we are adopting. Social media platforms, websites and e-commerce have become the one stop shop for all our imaging technologies.

Q) The advent of smartphones with good cameras has made everyone a good photographer now. How are you as a brand trying to stay relevant?

The photography industry is changing dynamically with each passing year. New applications, mobile apps and printing technology are redefining the ways consumers experience images. The rise in consumption of smartphones with great quality cameras have made people think about the need and importance of owning a digital camera. In fact, the growing trend of capturing moments and sharing further on their social media handles has motivated individuals to click more pictures with cameras that deliver better image and color quality. Hence, leading to an increased adoption of digital and mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses.

Q) What have your key learnings from this lockdown experience been?

At Fujifilm, we believe that we should take this as a chance to evolve, upgrade and be resilient to change. The key aspect to remember is that we are not the only ones fronting the problem and thereby we should Never Stop hoping for a better tomorrow. We have already stridden well with time and going forward we should keep pacing with determination and precautions. While we are embracing a never seen before and lasting impact of Covid-19, it is important for all of us to stay positive and strong for each other.

Q) Do you think you will be able to get back on track in terms of business targets once the lockdown is called off? How does the rest of the year look?

With the Covid-19, the first quarter of the financial year has been challenging for us. However, as a brand, we have tried to ensure that we are in touch with our customers regularly. Though the consumers mindset, attitude and behavior are always changing but the present epidemic may change them significantly and for a near future. We at Fujifilm are working towards newer strategies to navigate through these difficult times.

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