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From Google to BCCI; here is a look at companies penalised by CCI – CNBCTV18

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Competition Commission of India (CCI), the antitrust watchdog imposed penalties on five tyre manufacturers and a tyre makers' association for indulging in cartelisation on wednesday. The CCI imposed a penalty of Rs 425.53 crore on Apollo Tyres, Rs 622.09 crore on MRF, Rs 252.16 crore on CEAT, Rs 309.95 crore on JK Tyre, and Rs 178.33 crore on Birla Tyres and told them to cease and desist from unfair business practices. It also slapped a fine of Rs 8.4 lakh on Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA). However, this is not the first time that the CCI has taken such a bold step. Here is a look at some popular cases where the watchdog imposed penalties.

The BCCI was slapped with Rs 52.2 crore fine, by the CCI in 2013 for misusing its position. The watchdog found that not only were IPL team ownership agreements unfair but were unjustly in favour of the BCCI. (Image: PTI)

In 2014, the commission slapped a fine of Rs 2,545 crore on 14 car manufacturers for failing to sell spare parts in the open market. The manufacturers that were penalised included Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Hindustan Motors, Mercedes, and Skoda. However, this was not the last time that the watchdog took action against auto giants. Last August, the CCI slapped a fine of Rs 200 crore on Maruti Suzuki over dealer discount policy.

In 2014, the CCI imposed a fine of Rs 1 crore on Google for failure to comply with the directions given by the Director-General seeking information and documents. The order was passed on a reference made by the DG to CCI alleging inter alia non-cooperation by Google. The DG was investigating the information filed by Matrimony.com Private Limited and Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) against Google for alleged abuse of market power. Later in 2018, Google's parent company Alphabet was penalised over Rs 135 crore for search bias.

The CCI imposed a fine of Rs 258 crore in 2015 on Jet Airways, IndiGo, and SpiceJet for cartelisation in fixing fuel surcharge for transporting cargo. (Image: Reuters)

In 2021, the CCI imposed a fine of Rs 6,307.32 crore on top-10 cement companies in the country along with the industry body Cement Manufacturers Association (CMA). The watchdog alleged that the companies worked as cartels, fixed prices, and curbed supply to increase their profit.

In September, the CCI imposed penalties totalling over Rs 873 crore on United Breweries Ltd, Carlsberg India, All India Brewers' Association (AIBA), and 11 individuals for cartelisation in the sale and supply of beer. However, the NCLAT, in December, imposed a stay on the CCI order.

Last December, the CCI suspended the approval for the Amazon-Future deal and also imposed a Rs 202 crore penalty on Amazon. As per the CCI order, which came after the watchdog heard the complaint by Future Coupon seeking revocation of its nod to Amazon's investment, the penalty imposed on Amazon was for providing false information and suppressing material particulars.

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Google is adding an Offers tab to Google Play to help you find deals on games and apps – The Verge

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Google is adding an Offers tab to the Google Play app thats intended to help you find deals on games and apps, the company announced Thursday. Google says the Offers tab will include things like sales on games and in-game items, rewards and bundled offers, discounts on movies and books, and apps offering free trials. The new tab launches this week with a rollout thats underway, and Google says it will be available to more people in the United States, India and Indonesia over the coming weeks, and more countries later in 2022.

The prominent placement of the Offers tab right at the bottom of the app could make it an easy place to check out whenever you check Google Play, and Google is promising that it will add new deals every day. However, the majority of mobile apps are already free, so well have to wait and see if the deals that actually show up end up being worthwhile.

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The Five Biggest Surprises From The History Of Timekeeping – Forbes

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Today is the release date for the UK edition of A Brief History of Timekeeping (the US edition came out last Tuesday), and Ive been doing a lot of publicity interviews on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the most frequent questions Ive been asked in this process is Whats the most surprising thing you learned in researching this book? and that seems like a decent topic for a publication-day post.

Before I go into the list, though, one important note of background: my training as a professional physicist mostly took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, and the people in the lab next door to mine were literally working on an improved cesium atomic clock. As a result, Im a little jaded when it comes to modern clocks based on quantum physics, just because theyre so familiar to me. That means most of the things that surprised me come from the realm of history.

Anyway, with that out of the way, heres a list of things I found surprising when I began digging into the subject for the course that eventually became the backbone of the book:

IRELAND - NOVEMBER 14: Newgrange Stone Age Passage Tomb (Unesco World Heritage List, 1993), County ... [+] Meath, Ireland. ca 3200 BC. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Precision Timekeeping Is Really Ancient:

I sort of knew this going in, because I always planned to start the story with neolithic solstice markers like Newgrange and Stonehenge. But it was still remarkable to me to learn how long ago a lot of the key elements of astronomical timekeeping were known. The basic idea of making a solstice marker is really simple it just needs a couple of sticks and some patience so its not that surprising that people could manage it thousands of years ago. But lots of other fairly sophisticated bits of science and technology are also thousands of years old. Around 1500 BCE, an Egyptian court official bragged named Amenemhet bragged about inventing a water clock that could keep accurate time through the whole year, which is probably the ancestor of the Karnak clepsydra, whose tapered shape provides a remarkably constant flow rate, and whose seasonal markings reflect a good knowledge of the changing length of the days. The Egyptians were aware of the 1400-year Sothic cycle describing the drift of a 365-day year relative to the seasons (because their civilization lasted long enough to see it, twice), and the Babylonians knew about the Metonic cycle of adding months to keep a lunar calendar in synch with the seasons and the Saros cycle of eclipses for several centuries BCE. Thats a depth of history thats really impressive.

Tablet, Old Babylonian, circa 1800-1600BC. Astronomical Tablet showing the risings and settings of ... [+] Venus. cuneiform script. Dimensions: height: 7.5 cmwidth: 9 cmthickness: 2.8 cmArtist Unknown. (Photo by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Some of the Most Important Innovations Are Anonymous:

We can attach names to some really ancient timekeeping discoveries Amenemhet and his clepsydra, Meton of Athens and the cycle he cribbed from the Babylonians but some much more recent inventors remain anonymous. We have no idea who invented the first mechanical clock, for example verge-and-foliot clocks spring up in medieval Europe, and spread rapidly across the continent, but theres no clear record of their invention, or who was responsible. Similarly, we have no idea who made the first sandglass they just start showing up all over the place. There are scattered claims that one person or another invented these things, but most of those werent written down until centuries later, so theyre doubtful at bet.

UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 18: Oil on canvas painting by Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), showing Graham ... [+] (1673-1751) seated beside a mercury compensating pendulum in an open clock case, c 1710. Following his apprenticeship with London clockmaker Henry Askem, Graham, the inventor of the mercurial pendulum, was considered one of the greatest instrument makers of his day. He made various astronomical instruments, and contributed significantly to the advancement of precision timekeeping. Dimensions (unframed): 1200mm x 960mm. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Increases in Precision Can Be Astonishingly Rapid:

Prior to the 1600s, few clocks had minute hands because most mechanical clocks werent accurate enough for it to be worthwhile they would require re-setting by checking against the sun on a regular basis. When Galileo Galilei was doing experiments on free fall and pendulum motion, and Tycho Brahe was making the astronomical observations that led to our modern understanding of the solar system, they mostly used water clocks as few if any mechanical clocks of the time were up to the task. The first pendulum clock was built in 1657; within 60 years, George Graham and John Harrison in England were making pendulum clocks that compensated for changes in temperature to such a degree that they were good to around one second a month. We see similarly rapid increases in precision with the introduction of quartz clocks in 1930, and atomic clocks in 1955, and arguably with laser-cooled fountain clocks circa 2000 and optical-frequency clocks in the following decade. These are now accurate enough to measure the gravitational influence on time from an altitude change of centimeters. When scientists and engineers get hold of a good new way to keep time, they turn it into a great way to keep time in a hurry.

[UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Multi-face public clock in a ball shaped brass housing in front of the US flag ... [+] in Grand Central Terminal from low perspective framed with two chandelier

Time Zones Are a Corporate Creation:

In the book, I describe the introduction of time zones in the US as happening via a quinessentially American process: introduced by massive corporations acting to pre-empt legislation. The first national system of standardized time zones came in in 1883, replacing a patchwork of local times based on the sun with a system of broad zones based on the boundaries between rail companies. This was largely the work of William Allen, the Secretary of the General Time Convention of the railroad association, who explicitly wrote that the railroads should adopt his standarization scheme because there is little likelihood of any law being adopted in Washington... that would be as universally acceptable to the railway companies. The companies agreed, and signed on to Allens plan, and lobbied state and local governments to synchronize their clocks with railroad time, rather than the other way around. (I wrote more about this a few months ago here.)

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Italian, 12851348), Allegory of Good and Bad Government: Good Government, ... [+] fresco, 1338-9, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sandglasses and Mechanical Clocks Were Invented at the Same Time:

This stands as the single most surprising thing I learned in the process of research for this book. If you look at a sand timer, it seems like an incredibly ancient technology, something that mustve been in use since Egyptian times. In fact, though, the earliest unambiguous reference to a sandglass that we know of is its appearance in a fresco in Siena, Italy, painted in the 1330s. Its just... there in a way that suggests the artist knew it was something the audience would recognize, so they had probably been around for a while, putting the invention sometime in the 1200s. Which is also when the first verge-and-foliot mechanical clocks start popping up in church towers all over Europe.

So, while a sandglass seems like something incredibly old, and ticking mechanical clocks feel relatively modern, theyre actually invented at around the same time. That was really surprising to me, actually the single most surprising fact that I learned in this process. (But again, Im a weirdo physicist who knew a lot about atomic clocks before starting...)

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Meet the NSA spies shaping the future – MIT Technology Review

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Future history

The NSAs Research Directorate is descended from the Black Chamber, the first group of civilian codebreakers in the United States who were tasked with spying on cutting-edge technology, like the telegraph. Existing only from 1919 to 1929, the group decoded over 10,000 messages from a dozen nations, according to James Bamfords 2001 book Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency. In addition to groundbreaking cryptanalytic work, the group succeeded by securing surveillance help from American cable companies like Western Union that could supply the newly minted US spies with sensitive communications to examine.

The Black Chamber was shut down amid scandal when US Secretary of State Henry Stimson found out the group was spying on American allies as well as foes. The incident foreshadowed the 1975 Church Committee, which investigated surveillance abuses by American intelligence agencies, and the 2013 Snowden leaks, which exposed vast electronic surveillance capabilities that triggered a global reckoning.

Just eight months after the Black Chamber was shuttered, the US, faced with the prospect of crippled spying capabilities in the increasingly unstable world of the 1930s, reformed the effort under the Armys Signals Intelligence Service. One of just three people working with the Black Chambers old records, one of the founders of the SIS, which Bamford reports was kept a secret from the State Department, was the mathematician Solomon Kullback.

Kullback was instrumental in breaking both Japanese and German codes before and during World War II, and he later directed the research and development arm of the newly formed National Security Agency. Within a year, that evolved into the directorate as we know it today: a distinct space for research that is not disrupted by the daily work of the agency.

Its important to have a research organization, even in a mission-driven organization, to be thinking beyond a crisis, says Herrera, though he adds that the directorate does dedicate some of its work to the crisis of the day. It runs a program called scientists on call, which allows NSA mission analysts facing technical challenges while interrogating information to ask for help via email, giving them access to hundreds of scientists.

But the lions share of the directorates work is envisioning the technologies that are generations ahead of what we have today. It operates almost like a small, elite technical college, organized around five academic departmentsmath, physics, cyber, computer science, and electrical engineeringeach staffed with 100 to 200 people.

The cybersecurity department defends the federal governments national security and the countrys military-industrial base. This is the highest-profile department, and deliberately so. Over the last five years, the previously shadowy NSA has become more vocal and active in cybersecurity. It has launched public advisories and research projects that would once have been anathema for an organization whose existence wasnt even acknowledged until 20 years after its founding.

Now the products of NSA research, like Ghidra, a free, sophisticated reverse engineering tool that helps in the technical dissection of hacking tools, as well as other software, are popular, trusted, and in use around the world. They serve as powerful cybersecurity tools, a recruiting pitch, and a public relations play all wrapped into one.

The physics department, which Herrera once directed, runs dozens of laboratories that conduct most of the work on quantum information sciences, but it has a much wider remit than that. As physical limits in the ability to squeeze more transistors into chips threaten to slow and halt 60 years of predictably rapid computing growth, its physicists are exploring new materials and novel computing architectures to drive the next generation of computing into a less predictable future, exactly the kind of task the directorate was given when it first came into existence.

Meanwhile, the electrical engineering department has been looking closely at the physics and engineering of telecommunications networks since the internet first arose. As well as the issues around 5G, it also tackles every facet of the digital world, from undersea cables to satellite communications.

Some prospects on the horizon dont fit neatly into any particular box. The computer science departments work on artificial intelligence and machine learning, for example, cuts across cybersecurity missions and data analysis work with the mathematicians.

Herrera repeatedly raises the prospect of the directorate needing to develop greater capabilities in and understanding of rapidly advancing fields like synthetic biology. The NSA is hardly alone in this: Chinese military leaders have called biotech a priority for national defense.

Much of the competition in the world now is not military, Herrera says. Military competition is accelerating, but there is also dissemination of other technologies, like synthetic biologies, that are frankly alarming. The role of research is to help the NSA understand what the impact of those technologies will be. How much we actually get involved, I dont know, but these are areas we have to keep an eye on.

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Research Fellow, Quantum Information Processing, Centre For Quantum Technologies job with NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE | 279964 – Times Higher…

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About the Centre for Quantum Technologies

The Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) is a research centre of excellence in Singapore. It brings together physicists, computer scientists and engineers to do basic research on quantum physics and to build devices based on quantum phenomena. Experts in this new discipline of quantum technologies are applying their discoveries in computing, communications, and sensing.

CQT is hosted by the National University of Singapore and also has staff at Nanyang Technological University. With some 180 researchers and students, it offers a friendly and international work environment.

Learn more about CQT atwww.quantumlah.org

Job Description

The successful candidate will work as part of a collaborative programme between the Centre for Quantum Technologies and Oxford University to develop quantum dot-based quantum light sources for distributed photonic networks for future quantum information processing.

Significant experience of quantum optics or spectroscopy of devices, materials, or nanomaterials is essential and should be accompanied with a demonstrable track record of assembling and operating optical set-ups, lasers, APDs, time-resolved spectroscopy, helium flow cryostats, and control software (e.g. Labview). Knowledge of exciton dynamics and material synthesis is an advantage because the appointee will be expected to contribute to sample fabrication. The appointment is for an initial period of one year, renewable subject to performance.

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For enquiries and details about the position, please contact Tristan Farrow atcqttf@nus.edu.sg.

Please include your consent by filling in the NUS Personal Data Consent for Job Applicants.

Employment Type : Full-time

Applications can be submitted via the link below and should contain: the latest CV, and letter of recommendation (if any).

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At NUS, the health and safety of our staff and students is one of our utmost priorities and COVID-vaccination supports our commitment to ensure the safety of our community and to make NUS as safe and welcoming as possible. Many of our roles require significant amount of physical interactions with student / staff / public members. Even for job roles that can be performed remotely, there will be instances where on-campus presence is required.

With effect from 15 January 2022, based on Singapores legal requirements, unvaccinated workers will not be able work at the NUS premises. As such, we regret to inform that job applicants need to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated for successful employment with NUS.

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Review Washed Out Sent Gothic Theater Into A Trance – 303 Magazine

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Stepping into the Gothic Theater felt like entering another realm, a dream within our own reality. Washed Outs sold-out crowd of eager and open supporters came to be taken by the signature chillwave monsoon of drum pads, wavey bass and processed vocals. The audience stepped up to the stage and was welcomed into a trance of heavenly visuals and hypnotic rhythm. Right on time, opener Brijean floated onto the stage. The ultra-chill duo comprised of Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart set the tone from the very first tap of Murphys bongos. Quickly, the crowd assumed a collective sway as the two blanketed everyone with soft harmonies and scintillating chimes. The haze of purple light hitting the stage, coupled with the sweet whispers from their latest release with Poolside, Better When Were Close, delivered a uniquely exquisite opener experience.

After years of anticipation, Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr., known by stage name Washed Out, entered the stage. From the jump, Greene delivered a sonic experience which begged you to ask Are we in heaven? He kicked off by the set with Too Late, off his latest album, Purple Noon, released in 2020.

This is the first tour weve done as a band in two or three years so thanks so much for showing up.

It was as if no time had passed since his debut album, High Times, released in 2009. Washed Out displayed the rare ability to impart the inimitable sensation of falling uncontrollably in love or floating carelessly in open water. Switching from keys to drum pad to acoustic guitar, Greene laid it all out on the stage. The trance continued with the track All I Know, and a collective gaze was met by a spectacle of lasers hovering above bobbing heads.

This is the Purpose Noon tour. Were playing a lot of new stuff but were playing some old ones too. This is one I think youmight know.

In response, the crowd was sent into a frenzy with the hit Feel it All Around, known by many as the insanely catchy theme to Portlandia. The energy was palpable with not a single body standing still. For those not dancing their face-off, a more dreamy position was assumed with eyes closed in delight. Despite the already animated current, Greene shouted, Were going to pick up the tempo a little bit, and blasted the crowd with the dance track from Within and Without, Amor Fati. Audience members wore giddy grins as they bounced around, captured by the bright beams backlighting the stage.

As quickly as the show was kicked off, the three-piece band scampered off stage. Shouts from the crowd begged for more and they re-entered for an extended version of Get Lost from Mister Mellow with the words take a hit and get lost emblazoned behind them. Knowing the end was near, the room held a sense of hopeful nostalgia. In the end, the show was rounded out with a classic from their 2011 album Eyes Be Closed. Greene tapped his drums sticks together, gazing out into the crowd with a huge smile, leaving everyone in sweet revelry.

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Hemant Joshi on his new release ‘Girnari Trance’: I have tried to create the fusion between the Indian an – Times of India

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Hemant Joshi who has popular tracks like Ekla Jivishu', 'Dayalu Dwarka Vala', 'Kem Bani Gya Che Bija Na', 'Sorath in Amirat', and 'Shiv Aradhna' amongst many others to his credits, is all set to release a new song 'Girnari Trance' towards the end of February.The makers recently wrapped the shooting and will soon release it on social media platforms. 'Girnari Trance' is a Tandav track sung by Hemant Joshi. The lyrics are written by Mensi Vadher and the music is directed by Hemant Joshi. The DOP team includes Vishal Makwana and Vivek Makwana.To know more about the song and the making, ETimes contacted Hemant, and here is what he shares, "We have finally finished shooting and shall release it without further delay. I hope that the song brings together generations as it has Tandav and trance on the same loop. I have been working on my western classical and this is one such attempt where I have tried to create the fusion between the Indian and western worlds. The beats are something that would keep it going for the audience connecting at different levels. A lot of hard work and research has got us here and we are all set to see this song flourish."Read Also:

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The former cyclists tell how they overcame the hard trance, after their heavy accidents. – The Times Hub

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Colombia and the world are still pending the evolution of the health of the cyclist Egan Bernal, who is admitted to the Clinic of La Sabana, after the accident he suffered last Monday.

After several days the uncertainty continues, his followers hope that the Tour champion of France in 2019 and current winner of the Giro d'Italia is in good health and overcomes this difficult situation.

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We have no doubt that hard times are coming, that Bernal's battle to get ahead is much more demanding than a full season. The corridor is playing it all, there is no tomorrow. It is known that he lives a complicated present and that the first objective is for the human Egan Bernal to get ahead physically and medically, because the cycling Egan Bernal can wait.

On roasted Monday, around 10:01 in the morning, at km 33 of the Bogot-Tunja road, Bernal was riding his time trial bike and crashed into the back of a bus, which stopped to drop off a passenger. .

He was transferred by ambulance to the Clnica de la Sabana and presented the following injuries: mild head trauma, non-displaced cervical spine fracture, perforation of the lung with the presence of air and bleeding in the thoracic cavity, fracture of the t5 and t6 thoracic vertebrae. and fracture of the femur and the right patella.

As the hours and days passed, Bernal showed improvement, he was gradually awakened and it was confirmed that he had mobility in all four extremities, something that reassured.

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However, the race has not ended for him, until now he is in the prologue, of a complicated test, the most difficult of his 25 years of life.

There have been several cyclists who have had similar or stronger accidents than those of the Cundinamarca cyclist. Some have recovered and have returned to the road, others have not, they have hung up their bicycles.

EL TIEMPO spoke with two of them, the Spaniards Joseba Beloki and Pedro Horrillo, who went to the ground, hit rock bottom, but they recovered and came 'back to life'.

Beloki and Horrillo are a light, a guide in this situation of uncertainty and they tell how they got out of the tunnel, how they overcame that competition that Bernal, the best Colombian cyclist of the moment, has reached.

From the road to the hospital

On July 14, 2003, the ninth stage of the Tour de France was held between Bourg d'Oisans and Gap of 184 km, and the world was able see live the fall of Beloki, who left a curve, was dispatched down the ravine and remained on the asphalt.

He was urgently evacuated. The Eleven team runner was taken to the hospital and there the doctors confirmed a fracture of the head of the femur, the elbow and the wrist of the right arm. He was second in the general, only 40 seconds separated him from the leader, the American, Lance Armstrong, but that remained in history, because the multiple fractures took him out of the option of winning the test, in which he finished second once and two more from third.

These are very difficult moments that one lives. Today I think that in these cases the best thing is to put one in the real situation, Beloki told EL TIEMPO.

And he added: You wake up and what you want is to know when he's going to ride a bike again and that's not it, the first thing is to know if you look good. It is ideal not to create false expectations to put that recovery plan to work, which must go hand in hand with the physical.

Beloki was late coming back. Eight months of hard work and sacrifice passed. They were days of great pain and of becoming aware that he could get ahead.

The key is to have a clear objective. The first is that he has to fight through several mountain stages, flat, others with fans. Want to be a cyclist again? He can do it, he is a young boy, who has a lot ahead of him, but who has to look good, first for his daily life, said the former runner.

For him, the situations are different. He says that he could not be the same as before for several reasons, and that the main one was that the accident was in a race, fighting for the maximum goal of winning the Tour, the best competition in the world, and he could not overcome that.

Egan has a lot going for him, he was close to having injuries that are not even worth talking about, he got away, he's alive and that for him should be the most important thing.

I was risking my race, I lost the chance to fight for the Tour. It was months of hard work to get back and I never recovered well. Egan has a lot going for him, he was close to having injuries that are not even worth talking about, he got away, he is alive and that for him should be the most important thing, said Beloki.

For the podium of the Vuelta a Espaa in 2022 (he was third) there is another fundamental part at the moment: the people around Bernal.

Your environment has to understand it. In this case you have to support it with sincerity, not invent other things. That is important, that his people know how to direct him, it is that one must feel supported by all those who are close, it is the only way that one gets up from those accidents, he concluded.

Daz in a coma

Horrillo had some tough days. He was in a coma for 12 days, following the crash on the eighth stage of the 2009 Giro d'Italia, when he went off the road and into an 80-meter abyss.

They took him out on a stretcher, which was tied to a rope that pulled the helicopter, who took him urgently to a hospital in Bergamo.

The doctors intubated him, because the injuries warranted it: head trauma, multiple fractures of the ribs and vertebrae, of the knee and femur, and a pneumothorax that required drainage after his splintered bones punctured his lungs.

Today, He says that he wants to erase those hard moments, but he can't. He says that he has followed step by step what has happened with Egan Bernal, whom he knows by the way, because he has seen him train in the Basque Country in Spain.

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Horrillo knows what the Colombian cyclist is going through, but based on his experience and what he knows about Bernal, he is optimistic that he will succeed.

Egan's path is hard, difficult, complicated, with a lot of sacrifice, but it is nothing different from what he found in his job, that is cycling, he said.

And he added: You have to change the chip and understand that all the sacrifices he has made are training for the great test that lies ahead. His most difficult moment is now and I am convinced that he will give one hundred percent.

Horrillo did not compete again. He recovered, they almost amputated his leg and the doctors informed him that he was going to be in a wheelchair.

It is that these experiences help one to mature. They tell me that he could not walk again and two months later he was getting me out of the wheelchair. Each organism and injuries, even if they are the same, are different. Egan has several of the ones I had, but if I was able to stand up, he can too, but I want to make it clear that the road is very long, he said.

Horrillo is in favor of Bernal taking things calmly, not despairing. Because, he says, right now he wants to run out and get on his bike and win the Tour again.

You have to lower your threshold of anxiety, because what you want is to be yourself again and you have to control that.

I think it will look good, because the body of a high-performance athlete like his is the instrument of work, it reaches unforeseen limits, because a normal person cannot do it. They were going to amputate my leg, I was in a coma for 12 days, my body was not capable of withstanding an amputation. I had a double pneumothorax, the response of the lungs was dilated, that was serious. In that case it was complicated, but I came out, Egan can do it, said Horrillo.

Currently, he is 47 years old, has ridden two Tour de France, three Giros d'Italia and eight Vueltas a Espaa, and believes that haste is Bernal's worst enemy today.

There is no need to speed up any process, efforts in this type of process are not good advisers. You have to go step by step, you have to balance each step you take. I am optimistic. You cannot be pressured, neither by the media nor personally. You have to calm down and be aware of what you have and how to get out of it. You have to lower your anxiety threshold, because what you want is to be yourself again and you have to control that, the rush is not very good, said Horrillo, who works for one of the sponsors of the race at the Tour.

he agrees with Beloki on the subject of the environment, he warns that it is extremely important that those close to him help him all the time.

You have to have a proper perspective, because the recovery line must be ascending, not descending. You have to live day by day, because sometimes you work intensely and everything can fall apart. He is in the best team in the world, he cannot be better aired, that will help him, as will his family, he specified.

Both pray for the recovery of the Colombian and from Spain they sent him positive messages, those that they received when they were in similar circumstances, in a bed and in the midst of pain and sadness for what happened.

Lisandro RengifoJournalist for EL TIEMPO@lisandroabel

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Ben Bhmer & Rob Moose release stunning EP ‘The Apparitions’ – We Rave You

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In 2021, Anjunadeep favourite Ben Bhmer embarked on an emotional and stunning journey in the form of his latest album Begin Again. Written from a dark and hard time in his life, it allowed him to reflect and ultimately take fans on an incredible journey through the most emotional side of uplifting and relaxing trance soundscapes. Now, Ben Bhmer takes four of the top favourites out of the 11-track body of work and reimagines them in a beautiful way alongside composer and producer,Rob Moose, onThe Apparitions EP.

Selecting the tracks Home with JONAH, Slow Wave with Gordi, Beyond Beliefs, and Erase with lau.ra to take on this new journey, this is where classical and trance mix perfectly. With trance already not being too far from some of the same elements that is found within classical music, this is the two genres combined at their best.

I first discovered Rob through his work with Phoebe Bridgers on her Copycat Killer EP and instantly knew I wanted to work with him one day. That day came sooner than I thought. When we started the project neither of us were sure on how it would all come together or what form it would take, but I couldnt be happier with the end result! It is so special to hear such a unique take on my music and I hope you enjoy listening to it. says Ben Bhmer via Instagram

Wanting you to stop and take in every detail sounding through your speakers,The Apparitions EP is more than successful in taking fans on a spiritual journey where they can take a moment out of their busy schedules to stop, breathe, and reflect. With all tracks certainly being tear-jerkers, there wont be a dry eye in the house once this is put on. Not losing the magic of the originals but rather adding to them and building upon them, these are another set of tracks that are sure to become beloved within his fanbase.

Talking about the overall structure of the EP, Rob Moose stated:

I loved getting to work with Ben and the featured singers on this project. In the beginning, we werent sure what shape our collaboration would take, and almost as a lark, I tried muting all the album stems and building the entire structure with just strings. To my delight, Ben liked this approach, and I went deep with all the stems, studying FX artifacts and minute timings to try to translate electronic sounds onto a body of strings without losing the magical idiosyncrasies of the original work. I hope that the EP feels familiar to fans of the album, but pulls their ears and their hearts in unexpected directions.

The Apparitions EP is out now via Anjunadeep.

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Cinema hypnosis: is this the answer to noisy post-lockdown audiences? – The Guardian

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Name: Hypnotic cinema.

Age: New for 2022.

Appearance: Just like a film.

But, in this case a piece of film-making so mesmerising and incantatory that it leaves viewers in a kind of trance? No, just a regular film. They hypnotise you before it starts.

Where? In Sweden.

At every film? For now, the policy is only in place before some films at this years Gteborg film festival.

What happens? Audiences are treated to a preliminary session with a hypnotist, the aptly named Fredrik Praesto, who stands in front of a projection of a large spinning spiral.

Are you sure this isnt a film? I think Ive seen it. Im sure. After about 20 minutes of relaxation exercises, everyone closes their eyes for a countdown. Once theyre under, they open their eyes, and the film starts. Afterwards theres another quick countdown to lift the spell.

Why do they do this? To experiment with the film experience, to challenge our ideas about how to watch a film, said Jonas Holmberg, the director of the festival.

Oh. I thought maybe it was to stop people using their phones. Audience members did report higher levels of concentration, so maybe they were less prone to that sort of distraction.

I mean, anything to stop the constant talking and all the laughing in the wrong places. Thats not a bad idea perhaps hypnosis could be deployed more widely as a way of controlling unruly audiences.

I guess people have forgotten how to behave in public since Covid forced a two-year break from going out. Well, there have been a few recent incidents. A studio audience member was criticised for shrieking maniacally during a recent broadcast of Dancing on Ice.

Annoying, but its not exactly Turandot, is it? And, just before Christmas, the singer Beverley Knight was complaining about rowdy drunks repeatedly spoiling performances of her West End show The Drifters Girl. My advice is to stay your ass at home, she said.

But, can hypnosis really calm drunkards intent on wrecking an evening of musical theatre? Its got to be worth a try, dont you think?

Im worried they might include a hypnotic suggestion to stop me bringing my own Maltesers from home. As long as you dont eat them too loudly, no one will know.

Do say: I really enjoyed The Matrix Resurrections. Somebody snap me out of it, for pitys sake.

Dont say: Your eyelids are getting heavy. Your limbs are like lead weights. So stay your ass home.

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