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The German Environmental Aid criticizes in its service car ranking that many German politicians use climate-damaging combustion engines and plug-in hybrids, while only 90 out of 249 examined service cars are purely electric, which is assessed as a "reverse gear in climate protection." (translated)

Life is unsolvable contradiction. The scene with Odysseus tied to the mast and experiencing the terrible impact of the sirens on him is the greatest, ingenious artistic metaphor and it will never be surpassed. This is the personification of the relationship between men and women. The enormous danger that women represent for men. The Spanish-Jewish philosopher Gratian states that women combine in themselves all possible enemies and dangers for a man, but at the same time they give him the greatest joy, happiness and satisfaction from life. This is identical to the effect of drugs and this is a narcotic experience. Odysseus experiences all the contradictions of the effect of women. He wants to go to the sirens. They are the greatest temptation he has encountered in his life. He experiences the greatest possible mental suffering and at the same time he himself ordered that he be tied to the mast, that his fellow sailors plug their ears and in no case untie him, no matter what happens. Therefore, Ulysses is the first and at the same time the greatest work, which will never be surpassed in artistic mastery and ingenious depiction of life.

AJ Plug (Alexandra Jolanda) wordt gezien als één van de meest indrukwekkende blues-rock ladies die de Nederlandse blues rock en roots scène de laatste jaren heeft voortgebracht. Naast de optredens van haar eigen band tourde AJ Plug dan ook mee in Johan Derksens theatershow, ‘Johan Derksen keeps the Blues Alive’, die in bijna alle theaters in Nederland was te zien. Na het uitbrengen van haar debuut album ‘Let Go Or Be Dragged’ (2014) ging het als een speer met haar carrière. Oktober 2016 brengt ze haar tweede album ‘Chew Chew Chew’ uit die wederom ‘de hemel werd in geprezen’. De carrière van de uit Katwijk aan Zee afkomstige zangeres beland in een sneltreinvaart en ook de tweede cd van de stoere blondine oogst louter jubelende recensies. https://hvdommelen.nl/blues/plug.html

The article discusses the declining competitiveness of the German automotive industry due to the extensive entry of Chinese plug-in hybrids into the European market, with expert Helena Wisbert warning that the glossy times are gone and highlighting the wrong decisions made by German manufacturers. (translated)

Hello everyone, the code for Aracne2 has been on GitHub for a few months now — a modular CMS for editing and publishing TEI corpora. A companion volume, published by FedOA Press, covers its origins, architecture and features in detail. Code (MIT): https://github.com/orazionelson/aracne2 Site and documentation: https://orazionelson.github.io/aracne2/ Volume: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-439-1 The underlying idea is to take a corpus from raw transcription to a citable digital edition without forcing the person editing the text to become a sysadmin as well. In brief: – schema-aware XML editor, with validation per document and across a whole collection; – staged editorial workflow with versioning and a clean split between working copy and published copy; – named entities linked to authority files (Wikidata, VIAF, GeoNames, ORCID, GND and others); – bibliography with BibTeX/CSL-JSON/Zotero import and DOI resolution; – facsimiles and zones for text-image alignment; – XSLT-driven public site generator, with configurable indices and search portals; – LOD and OAI-PMH for harvesting, deposit to Zenodo, Dataverse, Internet Archive and git forges; – audit log and fixity, plus policy pages aimed at projects preparing for a CoreTrustSeal review. Architecturally, there are two distinct data layers: PostgreSQL for platform state (users, roles, plugins, audit), eXist-db for TEI documents, stored natively and queried in XQuery. Python/FastAPI backend, Vue 3 frontend, fully containerised. Every integration is a plugin that mounts without a restart, so a deployment can stay minimal or grow along with the project. The AI side is there but optional and can be switched off: in-editor assistance (explaining validation errors, normalising bibliography, tagging named entities), local RAG over the TEI P5 Guidelines, and a read-only MCP server that lets an external assistant query the corpus. Anyone who cannot or would rather not send their texts to a cloud service can run the whole thing locally with Ollama. Aracne2 is the third iteration of a line of tools that began in 2008 with MaRa, the scripts written to mark up the Angevin Registers, continued with Aracne (2016-2026, built entirely on eXist-db), and arrives at this rewrite. The FedOA Press volume reconstructs that trajectory at length. It is all free: you can download it and try it locally with a handful of commands. Aracne2 is open to experiment and ready to be put to the test on new projects — reports, criticism and proposals are all welcome.

In this article, Astrid Plugge advocates for better accessibility of international train travel for people with disabilities, sharing her frustrations about the bureaucratic obstacles and poor communication of railway companies in Europe, which made it impossible for her family to plan a train trip to Sweden. (translated)

Home batteries can provide a financially attractive solution for consumers when the net metering scheme for solar power ends, but there are significant safety concerns regarding the self-installation of these plug-in models, the placement and ease of use of which do not always guarantee safe handling. (translated)

Oliver Blume, CEO of Volkswagen, has urged the European Union to immediately impose tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) in response to the growing dominance of these vehicles in the European market, which he claims poses a threat to European manufacturers. (translated)

Vi behöver återfå en skola där lärares jobb är att hålla bra lektioner. Det är fullt upp bara det. Om Putte inte pluggar, Lisa skolkar, Nisse mår dåligt - så kan inte lärare tvingas hantera det också. Det stjäl all deras tid och försämrar kärnuppdraget: KLASSUNDERVISNING! #utbildning #skola #lärare

Eine Studie zeigt, dass Plug-in-Hybridautos in Europa im realen Betrieb bis zu fünfmal mehr Kraftstoff verbrauchen als die offiziellen Werte, was auf verschiedene unberücksichtigte Faktoren wie niedrige Temperaturen und Fahrstil zurückzuführen ist. #PlugInHybride #Kraftstoffverbrauch #Klimafreundlichkeit

Oliver Blume, amministratore delegato di Volkswagen, ha chiesto all'Unione Europea di estendere i dazi sulle auto elettriche cinesi anche alle ibride plug-in, poiché i marchi cinesi stanno guadagnando rapidamente quote di mercato in Europa, facendo registrare oltre il 28% di immatricolazioni nel primo semestre del 2026. #Volkswagen #DaziUE #AutoIbride