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Photo: Racing Team Nederland Nyck de Vries is in contention for a possible ABB FIA Formula E Championship seat next season after testing with NIO in Spain earlier this week. The Dutch Formula 2 and FIA World Endurance Championship driver got his first run in a NIO car at Calafat on Monday as the team continues an extensive driver evaluation program. Despite having yet to make his competitive Formula E debut, de Vries has long been involved with the series in a testing capacity. He was one of the original test and development drivers for Spark Technologies in 2014 and 2015 and experienced many days of running with the original prototype Formula E car before its debut in Sept. The 23-year-old at Marrakesh in January. His time in the cockpit was limited due to the team simulating issues with one of Lucas di Grassi’s cars as it chased the inverter problems that it faced earlier in the season.

De Vries is the latest in a list of drivers tested by NIO, with e-racing365 having revealed recently that, have all been invited by the team to drive its development car. In addition to Season Four drivers Oliver Turvey, who ran at Calafat for NIO yesterday, and Luca Filippi, de Vries became the sixth driver to have accrued miles in the car. Sources close to the team state that Turvey is set to remain for a fourth full season while Filippi told e-racing365 in July that he expects to retain his seat for another campaign.

This is despite Turvey having been approached by several other teams in recent months and questions continuing to circulate that Filippi may be dropped from his race role. NIO is also still believed to have Harry Tincknell and Ma Qing Hua on its books as official simulator driver and reserve driver, respectively. Ma replaced Filippi for the Paris E-Prix in April but is not believed to be in contention to make any further appearances for the team.

In a world embracing hate, it’s important to find example of alternatives, of better ways. This week brought a sampling of each; here we begin with hate in the south and then move to Israel for examples of seeking peace and understanding. The hate that the current U.S. Administration has encouraged and emboldened makes me wonder, has it always existed as specifically or at these levels? Have the people we meet in stores, at work, in schools, on the street always carried around with them this degree of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant sentiment, homophobia, misogyny?

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As if human worth were tied to factors one has no control oversighit is awful to witness this kind of anger, stupidity and insecurity. Knowing how it is riled up by those in power with agendas that are not in the interest of all citizens makes it worse. As the sheer number of politicians in the news quoted as slurring others based on these kinds of prejudices rises, my disbelief and shock grows. When leadership demonizes different groups, followers feel free. Prejudice didn’t used to be so public. Add to it the rise of social media as a place that people think it permissible to judge and condemn others instantly, and there’s a powerful outlet that reaches anybody and everybody. And so, we see the face of hate, apparently in Tennessee, in this; they proceeded to not only burn a Talmud and an Israeli flag, but spew hatred for the camera, “We stand for the white race against all of our enemies, particularly the Jew, and all of these symbols represent that enemy.” Where does hate like this come from?

I posited in on this platform a little over a year ago, that “People are insecure. And they don’t want to be. So they look for ways to put others down to puff themselves up.” Yes, insecurity plays a part, but so does filling one’s head with harmful narratives.

And one of the only ways to replace those misconceptions is by getting to know individuals. For better or for worse, it seems that anecdotal evidence plays a larger part in people’s psyches than statistics or scientific proof. And so I’d like to give a round up of three items I read about this week. Promoted by, is a get-together for Israelis and Palestinians to drink coffee and converse in Hebrew and Arabic. The very instance of speaking together in each other’s languages is the beginning of breaking down barriers. One recently took place in Abu Tor just a few days ago. Another group I really love to follow on Facebook,, finds wonderful stories both contemporary and in history, where Jews and Muslims have done great things together.

I do wish they’d credit the story sources, but it isn’t difficult to search for the title and find the source for even more background. A recent post featured a about the Jerusalem-based group. With Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Armenian cooks among them, their desire to work together and promote coexistence is expressed in the events and initiatives they are involved with. Chefs for Peace In July, for instance, which created a course to help Palestinian food manufacturers export their products to Israel.