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☆ Mikaela Shiffrin: US ski star returns from injury to win record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom season title
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —After six weeks out of the sport, ski star Mikaela Shiffrin made a triumphant return from injury to win a record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom season title in Åre, Sweden, on Sunday. The win ties the American with Lindsey Vonn and Ingemar Stenmark, who both clinched eight crystal globes – the trophy for Alpine skiing World Cup season titles – in a single discipline. Austrian star Marcel Hirscher won eight overall season titles during his career, but not in a single discipline. It was also Shiffrin’s 96th World Cup win of her career, extending the overall record she broke back in 2023. Shiffrin rushed to his side at the hospital and was with him when he woke up from surgery.

Persons: Shiffrin, Lindsey Vonn, Ingemar Stenmark, Marcel Hirscher, ” Shiffrin, Pontus Lundahl, Reuters Shiffrin, Michelle Gisin, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, Kilde, “, ” Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, TT, Agency, Reuters Locations: Åre, Sweden, Austrian, Italy, Croatia, Norwegian, Switzerland

☆ Fighting Through Art: A Kurdish Dancer’s Journey to New York Stages
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Brian Schaefer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Hussein Smko was 9, the American military arrived in his hometown, Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. It was 2003, and Smko, already a survivor of the Kurdish civil war, would chase the American Humvees with other kids. One day a soldier beckoned him over and demonstrated a simple, beguiling gesture: He held out a straight arm then made it ripple like water, a classic hip-hop move. “I thought it was like a big sparkle,” Smko, 30, said in an interview. The dance they were preparing, “On the Nature of Rabbits,” opens Wednesday at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan.

Persons: Hussein Smko, Smko, Pontus Lidberg, ” Organizations: American, Joyce Theater Locations: Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdish, Tarrytown, N.Y, Swedish, Manhattan

☆ Finns could be paid to use electricity tomorrow after a massive energy trade screw up
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

This mistake drove Friday electricity prices down to negative €203 per megawatt-hour. Finns could actually be paid to use electricity on Friday because of the extremely low prices. AdvertisementA jaw-dropping blunder in Finland's electricity market temporarily sent prices into chaos today — and could result in Finns actually being paid to use electricity. As a result, the price of electricity plummeted to negative €203 per megawatt-hour on Nord Pool, the Nordic region's electricity exchange. AdvertisementTheoretically, this could mean some Finns would be paid to consume cheap electricity.

Persons: —, Pontus de Mare, Fingrid, Jäppinen Organizations: Service, Kinect Energy, Svenska, Bloomberg News, day's, Finns, Finnish, Helsingin Sanomat Locations: Finnish, Finns, Finland, Ukraine

Philip Morris (PM.N) increased its bid by more than 9% to 116 Swedish crowns per share and said that the offer was its "best and final price". Philip Morris made an all-cash offer of 106 crowns per share for Stockholm-based Swedish Match in May. By Swedish law, 90% of Swedish Match shareholders need to approve the offer before Nov.4. Pontus Dackmo, CEO of Protean Funds who has 500,000 shares in Swedish Match, said he was still not impressed by the sweetened offer from Philip Morris. The company had earlier said it was expecting EU antitrust approval for its Swedish Match bid in late October.

☆ Întâlnire la graniță, soluția găsită de doi gemeni care locuiesc în Suedia și Novergia pentru a se vedea în pandemie
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-09 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Restricțiile din pandemie nu le-au permis timp de un an să se viziteze acasă, dar Ola și Pontus Berglund au găsit un loc unde pot să discute fără să încalce vreo regulă: un pod care unește Norvegia și Suedia. A trebuit să stau la un metru distanță pe partea mea și el la un metru distanță pe partea lui. Pandemia nu ne-a oprit din a ne vedea și asta e o victorie”, a spus și Pontus. „Fiecare întâlnire a fost ca o petrecere. Pentru că locuiesc singur, a fost foarte important să mă văd cu Ola, altfel aș fi suferit de depresie”, spune Pontus, de pe partea suedeză.

Persons: Pontus Berglund, Ola Locations: Norvegia, Suedia, Ola, Halden, Pontus, norvegian

☆ Un laborator din SUA pregăteşte lansarea unei sonde pentru studierea spaţiului interstelar
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-27 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Un studiu finanţat de agenţia spaţială americană NASA pregăteşte lansarea unei sonde pentru studierea bulei protectoare pe care Soarele o menţine în jurul Sistemului Solar şi explorarea ulterioară a spaţiului interstelar care se întinde dincolo de marginile acesteia, potrivit prezentărilor ştiinţifice efectuate luni, informează AFP, citează Agerpres. Doar două sonde au traversat heliosfera intrând în spaţiul interstelar, Voyager 1 şi Voyager 2, în 2012, respectiv 2018, după o călătorie de câteva decenii. Însă, cele două sonde gemene, care iniţial nu au fost destinate să se angajeze într-o astfel de călătorie, se apropie de finalul parcursului lor. Bateria sa de instrumente va permite studierea mecanismelor ce guvernează heliosfera şi, mai ales, activitatea solară şi mediul interstelar. Echipa APL cuprinde circa 500 de oameni de ştiinţă, ingineri şi pasionaţi de acest domeniu din numeroase ţări, potrivit SciTechDaily.com.

Persons: Elena, Universităţii Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins, Pontus Brandt Organizations: NASA, Voyager Locations: Universităţii

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