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☆ The 'accidental' politicians: Meet three women risking everything to fight for democracy
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Silvia Amaro | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

That's what one Ukrainian lawmaker said of the wife of the late Alexei Navalny, who vowed to continue her husband's political work fighting for democracy in Russia after he died in a Siberian prison last month. As the first reports of Navalny's death started to emerge, Navalnaya was in Munich at a security conference. Yulia Navalnaya (L) is applauded by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola after addressing the European Parliament on Feb. 28, 2024. "I will continue the work of Alexei Navalny. Belarusian political opposition in exile leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya clutches a folder with a portrait of her husband, jailed opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky, in November, 2023 Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images

Persons: Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny, Kai Pfaffenbach, Navalnaya, Alexei, Roberta Metsola, Frederick Florin, Lisa Yasko, Cristina Quicler, Yasko, Viktor Yanukovych, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Monique Jaques, Aleksandr Lukashenko —, Vladimir Putin, Tsikhanouskaya, Lukashenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Sergei Tikhanovsky, Sean Gallup Organizations: Munich Security, Afp, Getty, European Union, CNBC, Zoom, Corbis, Munich, Conference Locations: Munich, Germany, Russia, Ukrainian, Georgia, Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine, Belarus, Belarusian

“I didn’t even make it home, and you’re telling me that I got traded,” Tapani added, remembering what she told Minnesota GM Natalie Darwitz. The trade became the first to put CBA relocation clauses to the test, while creating some initial confusion among the players involved. Jaques and Cook left their cars behind, unsure of how to get them to their new cities. Cook said PWHL officials have been in contact to help with the challenges of relocation. “They’ve been asking and trying to learn about what we’re going through, so yeah, I think it’ll be different for the next lucky girl that gets traded,” Cook said.

Persons: Susanna Tapani, “, ” Tapani, Natalie Darwitz, Abby Cook, Sophie Jaques —, ” Jaques, PWHL, What’s, Jaques, Cook, they’re, Liz Schepers, Clair DeGeorge, Schepers, “ They’ve, ” Cook, ” Darwitz, Darwitz, Jacques, Lee Stecklein, Danielle Marmer, Marmer, ’ ”, GM Don Sweeney, Tapani, ”, it’s Organizations: hockey, Hockey, Minnesota, Tapani, NHL, Ohio, Boston, NHL's Bruins, GM, ” Locations: Twin Cities, Boston, Minnesota, Finland, Sweden, Russia

Liberty fans have waited 27 seasons for a W.N.B.A. The atmosphere at Barclays Center was electric for New York’s opening postseason game against the Washington Mystics. Those fans were rewarded with a Liberty win, 90-75, behind 29 points from Sabrina Ionescu and 20 from Jonquel Jones. The game started as a tense back-and-forth affair, but the Liberty took a narrow lead into halftime, and they never relinquished it. After the Liberty wrapped up the regular season with a 32-8 record, expectations were high that they could take the championship.

Persons: didn’t, Malala Yousafzai, Billie Jean King, Teresa Weatherspoon, Sabrina Ionescu, Jonquel Jones, Ionescu Organizations: Liberty, Barclays Center, Washington Mystics, Brooklyn Nets, Las Vegas Aces

About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi robe walked into an elevator at Maimonides Park. As the door closed and they began their ascent, the Jedi turned to the others and asked, “So, what planet are you all from?”“Um, Brooklyn,” responded the matriarch of the family. The Jedi proceeded to hum “Mad About Me,” by the Mos Eisley Cantina house band, Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, as if to tell them he was from the planet Tatooine. Out beyond the right-field wall, in the area known as the Backyard, a few hundred others were pounding brews and playing cornhole, blissfully unaware that a baseball game — the event that their ticket said they had paid to see — was about to begin. The two main draws on this particular Saturday were Star Wars Night and the $50 all-you-can-drink deal.

Persons: ”, Mos Eisley, Figrin D’an, cornhole Organizations: Brooklyn Cyclones Locations: Um, Brooklyn

Khadija Rmichi’s path to the Women’s World Cup started on a bicycle. Rmichi, a goalkeeper, grew up in Khouribga, a mining city in central Morocco. She was frequently drawn instead to the soccer played by boys in the streets. “It was considered shameful to play with boys,” Rmichi, now 33, said in an interview in April. He told Rmichi that if she could find enough girls to form a team, he would train them.

Persons: ” Rmichi, “, Rmichi Locations: Khouribga, Morocco

☆ This Isn't What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed to Look Like - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +25 min

Things have been difficult for her family, she says, but one thing she isn’t worried about: a midlife crisis, looming just over the horizon. One of our questions was about whether they had experienced a midlife crisis and how they would define the term. Many people said they felt they couldn’t be having a midlife crisis, because there was no bourgeois numbness to rebel against. “Who has midlife crisis money?”The traditional midlife crisis, as presented in popular culture, at least, unfolds amid suburban ennui. We just increase our Lexapro.”Was the midlife crisis ever even real?

☆ New San Francisco clubhouse represents a milestone moment for executive women in tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Executive women platform Chief opened a new clubhouse in San Francisco this week. ‘Sense that this is a first'On the opposite coast, a counterpart executive clubhouse just opened in San Francisco and it holds great meaning beyond its four walls. Chief's San Francisco clubhouse includes a full-service bar. A month after the San Francisco Chief club's opening, women say they already see it as a milestone moment that represents more than just a new building. “It’s interesting coming full-circle and it feels long overdue.”Executive women platform Chief opened a new clubhouse in San Francisco this week.

☆ Tomm Reviews: „Noul OSHO nu este doar despre fițe, dar și despre mâncare bună”
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Ultima vizită a fost „memorabilă”, am mâncat atunci un tenderloin steak și kare de vițel, care au fost absolut dezgustătoare, la fel ca atitudinea chelnerului. Recent, am văzut pe pagina de Instagram a localului că a fost schimbat designul sălii principale, noul look fiind semnat de Evghenii Arutin, un nume cunoscut în oraș. Supa servită la OSHO a fost abia călduță, nu avea textura cremoasă la care mă așteptam. Chelnerul mi-a recomandat să încerc un desert nou care nu a fost introdus deocamdată în meniu. Acest material a fost scris de către Tomm Reviews.

Persons: Tomm Blanaru, Reviews, Sergiu, Serghei Mihalachi Organizations: Facebook Tomm Locations: Tomm, Chișinău

☆ Cultura europeană a secolului al 18-lea, redată printr-o expoziţie de carte organizată la Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-24 | by ( ) tvrmoldova.md time to read: +2 min

24.10.2020 19:45 Sursa foto:TVR Moldova Vizualizari:Cultura europeană a secolului al 18-lea, redată printr-o expoziţie de carte organizată la Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii MoldovaÎn cadrul Zilelor Europene ale Patrimoniului, este redată cultura europeană a secolului al 18-lea printr-o expoziţie de carte organizată la Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova. Secţia "Carte veche şi rară" găzduieşte 15 exemplare valoroase din ediţii deosebit de rare ale autorilor celebri precum: Voltaire, Rousseau sau Dimitrie Cantemir. Cartea a făcut parte şi din colecţiile primei biblioteci deschise la Chişinău în anul 1832”, a spus VERONICA COSOVAN, şef, Secţia "Carte veche şi rară", BNRM. Un loc aparte din cele trei ale expoziţiei este dedicat acestora, întrucât operele savanţilor au stimulat o revoluţie în ştiinţele exacte”, a precizat VERONICA COSOVAN, şef, Secţia "Carte veche şi rară", BNRM. Cărţile rare pot fi văzute de bibliofili până la sfârşitul lunii octombrie”, a spus VERONICA COSOVAN, şef, Secţia "Carte veche şi rară", BNRM.

Persons: Voltaire, Rousseau, Dimitrie Cantemir, lea, Jean Jaques Rousseau, VERONICA, - lea Organizations: Biblioteca Naţională, BNRM Locations: Republicii Moldova, Chişinău, şef, expoziţie, Berlin

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