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☆ Russian gas will eventually return to Europe as nations 'forgive and forget,' Qatari energy minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

On Friday, Russian energy supplier Gazprom said it would not resume its supply of natural gas to Germany through the key Nord Stream 1 pipeline, blaming a malfunctioning turbine. Hannibal Hanschke | ReutersThe European Union's rejection of Russian energy commodities following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine won't last forever, Qatar's Energy Minister said during an energy conference over the weekend. EU countries have dramatically cut down their imports of Russian energy supplies, imposing sanctions in response to Moscow's brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "But Russian gas is going back, in my view, to Europe," al-Kaabi said. Italy has dramatically reduced its reliance on Russian gas by replacing it with energy sources from alternative producers, such as Algeria.

☆ Why we still like Coterra Energy despite the recent fall in natural gas prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

U.S. natural gas prices rose nearly 4% Thursday to roughly $3.81 per million British thermal units (MMBtu). Thursday's natural gas gains — on top of a 0.88% jump on Wednesday — reverse some of its recent losses. As recently as Dec. 15, U.S. natural gas prices settled at nearly $7 per million British thermal units. Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), by contrast, has generated 11% of its operating revenue from natural gas over the same span. This helps explain why the Club hasn't run for the hills as natural gas prices fell in recent weeks.

☆ An unexpected force may be speeding up glacier melt across the globe: colorful algae blooms
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Now he sees bright pink and red algae blooms every year. Dr. Matt DaveyScientists like Maréchal think these algae blooms are getting larger and more frequent as rising global temperatures melt glaciers worldwide. Glacier algae seems to be booming, but scientists have a lot to learnResearcher Matt Davey samples snow algae at Lagoon Island, Antarctica. Ice algae and snow algae are different types of microorganisms, and different fields of study, but they both affect glaciers. A strip of "blood snow" filled with red algae cuts across a dark bloom of purple algae in Greenland.

☆ G7 looking at Russian oil price cap of $65-70 per barrel - EU diplomat
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Jan Strupczewski | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The company receives crude oil from Russia via the 'Friendship' pipeline. REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeBRUSSELS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Group of Seven nations (G7) is looking at a price cap on Russian sea-borne oil in the range of $65-70 per barrel, a European Union diplomat said on Wednesday. "The G7 apparently is looking at a $65-70 per barrel bandwidth," the diplomat said. The idea of the price cap is to prohibit shipping, insurance and re-insurance companies from handling cargos of Russian crude unless it is sold for no more than the maximum price set by the G7 and its allies. Because the world's key shipping and insurance firms dealing with trade in crude oil are based in G7 countries, such a price cap would make it very difficult for Moscow to sell its oil for a higher price.

☆ The method to Elon Musk's Twitter madness reveals itself
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Matt Weinberger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The theme of last week was chaos and hubris, amid a massive wave of tech layoffs and the turmoil at Twitter under new owner Elon Musk. The method to the Twitter madness emerges. Salesforce insiders say they were set up to fail. Last week, Salesforce laid off workers who it said were underperforming. The jokester behind the popular Jesus Christ account on Twitter tells Insider how Elon Musk's new Twitter Blue got him verified after 14 years on the platform.

☆ 'We will resist the temptation to bottom fish': A 42-year market vet says the tech stocks that dominate the market are still overvalued — and their impending demise will further bring down the rest of
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But according to Bill Smead, a 42-year market vet and the founder and CIO of Smead Capital Management, the group is still overvalued. Smead Capital Management"As you can see, it took years for the tech bubble stocks of 1999 to get interesting. Smead also included a chart on the average valuation of the top 100 tech stocks, which still shows historically elevated levels. Smead Capital Management"Hannibal Lecter said to Clarisse in the movie The Silence of the Lambs, 'Have the lambs stopped screaming?' Smead's views in contextSmead's view that tech stocks are overvalued is shared by some.

☆ Turkey backs Putin gas plan as Nord Stream faces long outage
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin this week proposed Turkey as a base for gas supplies after the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea were damaged last month by blasts. Both Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, connecting Russia and Germany, were damaged last month, spewing out a large amount of gas. With Nord Stream out of service, Miller said that Russia will start "concrete" talks with Turkey next week on proposals to route more gas their way. SECURITY FEARSThe Nord Stream blasts have heightened concerns over energy security in Europe as the conflict rages in Ukraine.

☆ Russia could deliver gas via Nord Stream 1, but not Nord Stream 2 - Germany
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. The spokesperson added, however, that if Russia wanted to resume gas deliveries it could do so via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterAsked if Germany ruled out receiving gas through Nord Stream 2, the spokesperson replied: "Yes." "No gas has come through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline because Russia did not deliver," the spokesperson added at a regular government news conference. "If Russia delivers through Nord Stream 1, there is no embargo against it at the moment.

The EU issues joint bonds for an up-to 800 billion euro ($879 bln) post-COVID recovery fund, on top of 92 billion euros sold for its SURE unemployment scheme. 3/ How would joint issuance be funded? EU officials calling for joint borrowing said it could resemble the SURE work programme. Since October 2020, the EU has raised just 260 billion euros for the recovery fund and SURE. That means recovery fund issuance may end up lower than 800 billion euros without changes to that programme, denting the EU's ambitions of becoming a top borrower.

“It’s fascinating how people seek queerness — and where they seek queerness,” Fuller added. Murnau’s “Faust” and “Nosferatu,” such moments of levity keep viewers engaged while they’re soaking up early Hollywood’s rich queer history. “Whether you’re ideologically queer or sexually queer, you might relate to the monster’s narrative, because you, too, have felt ‘outsidered’ or villainized in some way.” Bryan fuller, 'queer for fear' executive producer“The Dracula costume kit is basically drag. So this, to me, is the experience of being a gay man.”As Alaska’s assessment demonstrates, “Queer for Fear” isn’t interested in just exploring how horror has provided a haven for queer creatives. Because of the Hays Code, LGBTQ creators and those, like Hitchcock, who wanted to include those themes had to do so through subtext, which counterintuitively gave birth to some of the most essential queer horror ever made.

☆ Nord Stream operator says three offshore gas pipelines damaged in one day
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Three offshore lines of the Nord Stream gas pipeline system on the bed of the Baltic Sea sustained "unprecedented" damage in one day, Nord Stream AG, the operator of the network, said on Tuesday. The bulletin was published after Sweden's Maritime Authority issued a warning about two leaks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, shortly after a leak on the nearby Nord Stream 2 pipeline was discovered that prompted Denmark to restrict shipping in a five nautical mile radius. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"The destruction that occurred on the same day simultaneously on three strings of the offshore gas pipelines of the Nord Stream system is unprecedented. read moreNord Stream 2, which runs almost in parallel to Nord Stream 1, was built in September 2021 but was never launched as Germany refused to certify it.

☆ Nord Stream AG operator says looking into decline in pressure in Nord Stream 1
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterPipes at the landfall facilities of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File PhotoSept 26 (Reuters) - Nord Stream AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 1 undersea gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, said Monday it was looking into causes of a drop in pressure in the pipeline. "Tonight, dispatchers from the Nord Stream 1 control centre recorded a pressure drop on both branches of the gas pipeline," it said in a statement. "The reasons are being clarified." Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Reuters, Editing by Elaine Monaghan, Editing by Franklin PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

CNN —Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starred Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, where Mildred Ratched – played by Fletcher – reigns as an authoritarian, controlling nurse. In her Oscar speech, Fletcher sweetly thanked her “Cuckoo’s Nest” colleagues and then, using sign language, acknowledged her deaf parents watching at home. Louise Fletcher Wins Best Actress: 1976 Oscars“I want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. The film swept the top five Oscars for 1975 – for Best Picture, director Milos Forman, adapted screenplay, actor Nicholson and actress Fletcher.

Industrial facilities of the PCK oil refinery are pictured in Schwedt/Oder, Germany, May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeWARSAW/BERLIN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Poland will only help supply oil to Germany's PCK Schwedt refinery if Russia's Rosneft (ROSN.MM) is completely removed as a shareholder, Poland's climate ministry said, raising pressure on Germany to completely nationalise the refiner. Germany took control of the Schwedt refinery, which was majority owned by Rosneft Deutschland, last Friday as Berlin strives to shore up energy supplies. It put Rosneft Deutschland under a trusteeship of the German industry regulator but Rosneft still holds 54% of the company's shares. The Schwedt refinery previously received most of its crude from Russia and Berlin is now looking to other countries to supply Schwedt.

☆ German Jan-July gas import costs surge 164% as imports drop 25.5%
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkeFRANKFURT, Sept 21 (Reuters) - German natural gas import costs rose by 164% in the first seven months of 2022 from a year earlier, even though imports were down by 25.5%, official monthly data showed on Wednesday. Gas data also correlates with coal, as both compete in the production of electricity, while also giving clues about demand for mandatory European Union carbon emissions permits. BAFA's statistics, which are published with a two-month delay, showed January-July imports at 2,282,849 terajoules (TJ), or 64.9 billion cubic metres (bcm), compared with 3,065,578 TJ a year earlier. As supply disruptions propelled gas prices to record highs, Germany's import bill increased to 38.3 billion euros ($37.86 billion) in the seven-month period, compared with 14.5 billion euros in the same period of 2021, the data showed.

PARIS/MADRID/BERLIN (Reuters) - European governments outlined new measures on Monday to cope with potential energy shortages this winter and raced to improve energy networks to share power, with Russian gas flows still running at severely reduced rates amid the Ukraine war. German buyers briefly reserved capacity on Monday to receive Russian gas via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, once one of Europe’s major gas supply routes, for the first time since the line was shut three weeks ago. European politicians say that is a pretext and accuse Moscow of using energy as a weapon. Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine, although much reduced, have nevertheless continued. ‘NEVER’While French energy group EDF is racing to repair corrosion-hit nuclear reactors, “exceptional” measures this winter could include localised electricity cuts if the winter is cold and EDF’s plans are delayed, Wargon said.

☆ European gas buyers show brief interest in shuttered Nord Stream gas
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. Early on Monday, requests for gas - known as nominations - had emerged to ship gas via the German pipelines which connect Nord Stream 1 to end users. Nominations were visible on the websites of the German pipelines connecting Nord Stream 1 to end users, while the website of the Nord Stream 1 operator showed no nomination requests as of early Monday. Nord Stream 1 is by far the biggest Russian gas pipeline to Europe, carrying up to 59.2 billion cubic metres of gas per year. Buyers for the NEL gas pipeline nominated 14,291,845 kwh/h of gas during the same time period, based on data from NEL.

☆ Kremlin says Russia is reliable gas supplier, blames Europe for problems
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022. read moreThursday's flows were back at 40% capacity, Nord Stream figures showed. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia remains "a very important and indispensable part of European energy security". He rebuffed accusations by some Western politicians, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Russia was using energy supplies to "blackmail" Europe. He said that because of sanctions imposed by the European Union, Nord Stream 1 faced challenges in equipment maintenance.

Persons: Hannibal Hanschke, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, Putin, Ursula von der Leyen, Peskov, David Goodman, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS, Gazprom, Moscow, Siemens Energy, European, European Union, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Lubmin, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Russian, Canada, Nord

☆ Aventură, istorie și ficțiune. Vezi ce cărți citește Alex, un copil de 10 ani
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-13 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Corespondentă Din Liceu | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

După o vreme, când ajunge la gimnaziu, băiatul recitește jurnalul și îl completează cu amintiri din trecut. Astfel, trebuie să lupte împreună împotriva unor pirați foarte periculoși și a unui rival fără scrupule, ghidați de niște indici care îi vor ajuta să dezlege misterul celor întâmplate cu părinții lor. În roman apare și Huckleberry Finn, un prieten de-al lui Tom, sclavul negru Jim, precum și Joe Indianul, un răufăcător căutat de autorități. Savantul este însoțit de nepotul sau Axel și de o călăuză pe nume Hans. Aceștia pătrund în lumea subterană prin craterul unui vulcan stins și înaintează tot mai mult spre centrul Pământului.

Persons: Alex, Alex . Cuore, James Patterson, Bick, Beck, Tommy, Storm, Kidd, Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, Sid, Mary, Polly, Hannibal, Huckleberry Finn, Tom, Jim, Joe Indianul, Autorul, Împăratul, William Golding, Jules Verne, Otto Lidenbrock, Axel, Hans, Aceștia Locations: american St . Petersburg, Mississippi, Missouri, Pacificului

☆ Cine ar putea să-l înlocuiască pe Johnny Depp în „Fantastic Beasts 3”
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-14 | by ( Sensmedia Srl | Ia Legătura Cu Autorul | ) tv8.md time to read: +2 min

Actorul danez Mads Mikkelsen se prefigurează ca înlocuitor al lui Johnny Depp în rolul tenebrosului vrăjitor Gellert Grindelwald în viitorul lungmetraj din franciza „Fantastic Beasts 3” (Animale fantastice 3), relatează ziarul spaniol La Vanguardia în ediţia online, citat de Agerpres. Tabloidul criticase totodată distribuirea starului hollywoodian în franciza cinematografică „Fantastic Beasts”. Deşi a părăsit franciza, Johnny Depp va primi integral onorariul de 10 milioane de dolari pe care urma să-l încaseze interpretând rolul lui Grindelwald. Potrivit publicaţiilor Variety şi Deadline, David Yates, regizorul viitorului film „Fantastic Beasts 3”, îl vrea pe Mikkelsen în rolul vrăjitorului Grindelwald. Deocamdată, filmările la „Fantastic Beasts 3” continuă în Marea Britanie cu Eddie Redmayne şi Jude Law în fruntea distribuţiei şi cu data de lansare pe marile ecrane prevăzută pentru vara anului 2022.

Persons: Mads, Johnny Depp, vrăjitor, Amber, Deşi, Grindelwald, Depp, Harry Potter . Mikkelsen, Hannibal, Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, David Yates, Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law Organizations: Sun, de Film Europene Locations: Vanguardia, Amber Heard, Londra, Britanie

Un artist a criptat într-o imagine 25 cele mai populare seriale TV. Testează-ți atenția și memoriaLeonid Khan a creat o imagine în care îmbină 25 cele mai populare seriale TV pe care fiecare dintre noi cu siguranță le-a privit. Iar dacă nu ai avut răbdare să-ți aduci aminte denumirile serialelor pe care le-ai privit, vezi mai jos răspunsurile corecte. Twin Peaks: tort din vișină și o „ceașcă de cafea a dracului de bună”. True Detective: o cană și un om mic, pe care Rustin Cole le-a confecționat din resturi de conservă în timpul unui interviu.

Persons: Leonid Khan, Monicăi Geller, Sheldon Cooper, Jude Law, Michael Scott, Cole, Fox Mulder, Sherlock, Holmes, Ted Mosby, Robin, Joyce, Walter White, Hannibal, Will Graham, Grigorie House Locations: Winchester, contactarea, Albuquerque

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