In a career of landmarks, Roger Federer set for 1500th match

Federer, who has made the Basel final on all of his last 12 visits, owns ATP titles this season in Dubai, Miami and Halle. Despite not adding to his tally of majors, he still stands at 47-8 for the year, a record bettered only by eternal rival Rafael Nadal, whose triumphs at Roland Garros and the US Open have taken the Spaniard to 19 Grand Slams. Federer made the final at Wimbledon in July where he had two match points before losing to Novak Djokovic in a five-set epic. He revealed on Sunday that his philosophy about those losses has become 'forget them and move on'. However, he added: 'I try to keep the highest possible level always. Sometimes it's the opponent, sometimes it's your own mind or game that goes off the boil. 'And, of course, you work with the right work ethic in practice, with the right concentration and everything. 'Only a few (matches this season) stand out to me that maybe I could have won that I didn't. 'If I look back at my whole career I've had a lot of matches that I could have won that I lost. But also I won much more than I should have or could have.'After Basel, Federer is likely to make his usual last-minute decision on whether to carry on for the Paris Masters, the concluding Masters 1000 event of the season which starts a week on Monday. He has already qualified for the ATP Finals in London from November 10 in what will be his 17th appearance at the money-spinning season finale. 'It's been a solid season. It started well for me. I hope to pick it up for the year-end,' he added. Meanwhile, Federer briefly paused his preparation for Basel to send best wishes to newly-married rival Nadal. Explaining that he was not part of the festivities, the father of four said: 'I was not invited by Rafa, but I had not expected to be. 'I congratulated him and hope he had the best day of his life.' Nadal and longtime girlfriend Xisca Perello were married on Saturday on their home island of Mallorca. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttp://www.cruzroja.es/creforumvolint_en/user/profile/57769.page

We as a nation are practitioners of unspeakable things

Presently, the field was seeded with mustard and cauliflower. It was kites and vultures hovering overhead that caught the stench and blew the cover on the crime.We are the practitioners of unspeakable things.Returning home one evening last month - to a precinct of Gurgaon, the 'millennium city' - I heard the destitute wailing of a man. It came from the belly of a jagged circumference of folks, arranged as though riveted on a snake charmer's tricks. There was, instead, an auto-rickshaw with a shattered windshield. There were two youngsters in shorts and Ts, their limbs gym-toned to envy, their forearms and biceps copiously tattooed. They stood over a man sprawled in the dirt, bleeding. The wails came from him. They were taking turns to pummel him, a burst of fists, then a knock of the knee. One would retreat to a gleaming motorbike parked to one side, wipe his arms and watch. The other would take over. The auto-driver was a bag, a yowling, bleeding bag. Nobody said a word. Nobody moved. This was a spectacle unfolding, cold, focused violence. The boys looked nowhere but at their victim; this is how it is best done, a blood ritual, with singular attention. There was nothing to suggest they would heed or halt. But one of them I was able to persuade to tell me the reason for their gory enactment. He took me to his bike and motioned to a splash of mud. It had rained. There was slush on the roadsides. The auto-driver had driven past with a spray of muck. It had landed on the boys' bike; a few specks had also strayed onto the pillion's shins. Therefore. "Don't mess with these boys," one from the crowd cautioned me, pulling me by the arm, "They are known goondas, they have backing, they will come back and touch you later." Those words: they have backing. They will come back and touch you. The police, if it arrives or acts, will arrive and act later. By then, the boys will have "touched" you.We are the practitioners of unspeakable things.A girl complains of serial sexual abuse by a charlatan who is also a well-connected political thug masquerading as a sanyasi. The thug first takes ill and has himself wheeled into an air-conditioned hospital chamber. From there he manipulates power levers to have the girl arrested for extortion. Her father is warned of consequences if he speaks out. Another young victim of rape. Another thug from the same gang. The girl loses her father, then gets smashed by a truck on a highway, loses her aunt and ends up precariously injured in hospital.Videographed ceremonies are carried out by monsters of their primitive headhunting - fellow humans cursed, humiliated, kicked about, slapped, knived, killed. Those monsters are then either draped in the national flag or garlanded in the name of a Mata whose provenance is at best ambiguous and whose blessings for such savagery have nowhere been explicitly or implicitly cited.Photographs have floated up of a certain Ratan Biswas, his ribs pressed hard against the membranes of his flesh, his skeletal wrist chained to an iron bed, his expression drained of the last dregs of hope. He is in detention in Assam for the alleged crime of not belonging, a prisoner of our collective prejudice. We plan to put many more where we have dumped Ratan, in huge facilities we have designated camps but where our unwanted human beings will be penned like livestock, like cows that have ceased to bear milk or offspring. But we've already created the blueprint for such a human pen, have we not? It is the heaven called Kashmir, where we have driven the clamps on eight million people we call our own. For close to two months now, they have not been allowed the common courtesy of free communication with each other or the outside world. Their movements have been restricted, for the better part frozen. They live razor-wired and bayoneted. They have been stripped of political stature and personal dignity. They have been forbidden expression. They have been forbidden protest. They have been turned into an agency of dictation. They have been told it is bad manners to complain; you're alive, be thankful. They have been interned sans allegation, imprisoned at home or thrown into faraway cells. On occasion, their dare has been brutally pelleted. But nobody has been hit by a bullet above the chest, we have been assured on good authority; what would we do for the lack of such favour? We are told they are happy. The sense of siege is the figment of a "few minds". What is being done is for their best; this persecution will teach them a lesson they long deserved to learn, they will emerge better citizens from it. We love Kashmiris, we should hug each Kashmiri. Conditions apply. Abominable conditions.We are the practitioners of unspeakable things.Last week, two Dalit children were beaten to death by villagers for defecating in the open. Their family had been denied toilet facilities by the panchayat, and so they went out. And paid. We have been told we are already an open-defecation-free nation. But we are routinely told lies. Those kids were done to death. There is another way of looking at how this works. You die defecating, you may also die clearing defecation. Fifty people died trying to clear the waste excreted by our bodies in the first half of this year, consumed by noxious sewer gases, hydrogen sulphide in the main. In 'Swachh Bharat', 740078 households still require manual removal of human filth each day; 182505 families in rural India earn their livelihoods yoked to daily manual scavenging. This nation stinks.Someone just got awarded a high-voltage global honour for a slogan that our filthy reality daily mocks; it must by worn, if at all, as a badge in memory of those who are still dying trying to put away what we daily excrete. That same someone is also sought to be supplanted on this nation as paterfamilias, dislodging the noble one whose 150th anniversary it happens to be today.Happy Birthday Bapu, We remain, Yours ruefully, The Practitioners of Unspeakable Things DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://yarp.com/be70402782da

Apple iPhones have been using this paid Google service for free

While the solution is not yet clear, it would be easy to assume that the patch would in some way make it mandatory for the HEIC files to be first converted to JPEG for free users. This would mean iOS users not paying for service would actually end up letting the app use more of the phone's resources to convert and upload the 'lower quality' images. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://www.penninetroutfarmandfishery.co.uk/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/2144699/Default.aspx

NRC: Over 19 lakh lose citizenship

Villagers arrive to check their names in the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) at an NRC center in Buraburi village, in Morigaon district, in the northeastern Indian stat of Assam, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. (Photo: AP) A villager arrives to check his name in the final list of National Register of Citizens (NRC) at an NRC center in Buraburi village, in Morigaon district, in the northeastern Indian stat of Assam, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. (Photo: AP) A person shows his name on a sheet collected from the National Register of Citizens draft center in Mayoung, Assam. (Photo: AP) People standing in long queues in different parts of Assam to get their names listed on the NRC. (Photo: AP) In this August 27, 2019, photo, retired Indian Army officer Mohammad Sanaullah, 53, who was declared an illegal immigrant and detained, shows a photograph of his army unit at his residence in Gauhati, India. (Photo: AP) In this August 28, 2019, photo, Halimun Nessa, 32, stands with her children and displays a photograph of her husband Rahim Ali, who committed suicide the day before his children were to appear in front of a National Register of Citizens tribunal, in Barpeta, in India's northeastern state of Assam. (Photo: AP) In this August 28, 2019, photo, people wait at the Foreigner's Tribunal office in Barpeta, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. (Photo: AP) People holding documents to prove their nationality. (Photo: AP) The fate of thousands of people to be decided tomorrow as the final NRC list is scheduled to be released. (Photo: PTI) Religious leaders and activists form a human chain in solidarity with those affected by the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state of Assam, in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, August 1, 2018. (Photo: AP) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttps://growthhackers.com/members/beanmonsters

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IIM-Ranchi and BIT-Mesra: Twin fests test grey cells

"We had five flagship events and 50 other events. The total prize money on offer is around Rs 1 lakh, it is a grand show," Triparna said. "Flagship events covered paper presentations, coding, making concrete blocks, making and running bots and model-making for school students. She added that some of the ideas floated by school students at Eureka, a model-making contest, were really thought-provoking such as the idea of clearing space of satellite debris presented by two girls, Swapna and Pallavi, of DAV Public School, Hehal. The IIM fest, on the other hand, expectedly had contests related to solutions of problems described in case studies.It also had other interesting events such as Cricket Mandi where contestants had to form the best possible cricket team by recruiting players through auctions, using a fixed amount of virtual money."Our prize money in all was Rs 3.11 lakh for 22 events," said Subham Singh Roy, another IIM-Ranchi student. "One of these on crisis management, titled Encase, offered Rs 35,000, which was won by two teams of IIM-R titled Arbitrageurs and Update Down," he grinned. For visiting B-school students, the contests were great fun as they simulated real-life cases that needed solutions. Asked about the standard of the contests at IIM-Ranchi, Rahulselvan T., a contestant from IIM-Lucknow said they got very interesting cases. "I felt like I was solving a real time sustainability challenge. Contests like these prepare us for the real corporate grind that awaits us," he smiled. Both the fests did not only only have brain-storming, students also enjoyed a host of literary and cultural events. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttps://euro-math-soc.eu/users/kuleenreenss

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, Redmi Note 8 next sale on October 22 on Amazon, Mi.com

Xiaomi will increase availability of the phones to more offline retail stores later on. The highlight of the Redmi Note 8 series is the quad-camera setup or the four camera setup at the back. The Redmi Note 8 Pro runs the MediaTek G90T processor, and has a 64MP main camera at the back, while the Redmi Note 8 comes with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor and has a 48MP main camera. Both phones come with 18W fast-charging support and the fast charger is included inside the box. Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro review: This one packs some major upgrades The Redmi Note 8 has a starting price of Rs 9,999 for 4GB RAM+64GB storage option, while the 6GB RAM and 128GB version costs Rs 12,999. The Redmi Note 8 Pro starts at Rs 14,999 for 6GB RAM+64GB storage, Rs 15,999 for the 6GB RAM +128GB version and Rs 17,999 for 8GB RAM + 128GB storage. As part of the sale offers, Amazon is offering 10 per cent instant discount on Citi Bank and Axis Bank debit and credit cards along with EMI offer. There is also 10 per cent instant discount on the RuPay cards on Amazon India. Redmi Note 8 Pro and Redmi Note 8 also come with Double Data offer from Airtel. All Airtel prepaid customers will be eligible for this. The offer is eligible for recharges of Rs 249 and Rs 349 and valid for first 10 recharges or first 10 months whichever is earlier. The Rs 249 prepaid charge will give customers 4GB data per day instead of the regular 2GB data per day. The Rs 349 prepaid recharge will get customers 6GB of data per day instead of 3GB data per day. The offer can only be claimed once per handset, according to the terms and conditions. The Redmi Note 8 Pro has an Aura design with a 3D curved back. It sports a 6.53-inch display at Full HD+ display with 2340 x 1080 pixels and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Redmi Note 8 Pro has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on the front and back. The display is HDR ready. Xiaomi is introducing new colours with this phone: Halo white, Gamma Green and Shadow Black. The Redmi Note 8 Pro has a 64MP main camera, 8MP ultrawide-angle lens, 2MP macro lens and 2MP depth sensor for improvements to portrait. The front camera is 20MP. The phone runs MediaTek Helio G90T, which is designed for gaming and also comes with Liquid cooling to keep cool. Redmi Note 8 Pro comes in only 6GB or 8GB RAM with 64GB or 128GB. The phone has a dedicated microSD slot along with two SIM slots and maximum storage supported is 512GB. Redmi Note 8 Pro also has IP52 rating for dust and water-resistance. The phone has a bigger 4,500mAh battery with 18W fast charging via USB Type-C. The Redmi Note 8 Pro runs MIUI 10 based on Android 9 Pie. Redmi Note 8 has a 6.3-inch dot notch display with full HD+ resolution. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor and comes with 4GB RAM+64GB storage option and 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. The Redmi Note 8 also has an Aura design, and comes in Space Black, Neptune Blue and Moonlight White. It has P2i coating for water resistance. The Redmi Note 8 has a 48MP primary camera and an 8MP ultra-wide, 2MP macro camera and 2MP depth camera. The Redmi Note 8's camera is arranged vertically on the left edge, one under the other unlike the Redmi Note 8 Pro where the module is placed bang in the centre. Redmi Note 8 also comes with a dedicated microSD slot with 512GB support and dual SIM slots. The phone has a 4,000mAh battery and supports 18w fast charging. It uses a USB Type-C port at the bottom. It also runs MIUI 10 based on Android Pie or Android 9. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttps://justpaste.it/5yhac

Men on crash diet may have poor seminal fluid quality

They studied the impact on offspring in four conditions: when the sperm was from a dad with a poor diet, when the seminal fluid was when both were, and when neither was. They found that the heart health of offspring was negatively impacted when there was a mismatch between the sperm and seminal fluid, meaning that one was from a poor dietary dad and the other from a dad with a normal diet, or vice versa. Men on crash diets may be affected, as the quality of seminal fluid changes quickly, while sperm only changes after a few months, meaning that there might be a mismatch in the first few months of a diet, and this time may coincide with when they are trying to conceive. These findings may have also implications for couples using assistive reproductive technologies such as IVF because IVF uses only the sperm, and this might result in a mismatch between the quality of sperm and seminal fluid. "It is important that we understand how and why paternal diet impacts on the offspring, so we can suggest preventative measures for couples who are trying to conceive, such as dietary recommendations," said Adam Watkins, senior author on the study. ... DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Deccan Chroniclehttp://krachelart.com/UserProfile/tabid/43/userId/174686/Default.aspx