2023-12-11 09:10:44
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2023-11-20 02:27:08
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The Nature Conservancy has announced the winners of its 2023 photo contest. The jury selected the best wildlife photographs from photographers from 191 countries.
Photos of the winners are in the AiF photo gallery.
The winner of the main prize was Litaushki Tibor for his underwater photograph of a newt and its eggs.
In the “People and Nature” category, the list of winners was topped by Michael Hegy’s photograph “Breakfast on Balloons.”
Hermis Haridas is the winner of the special jury prize with the photograph “Whisper of Dawn”: the silhouette of a hoopoe against the background of the rising sun.
Photographer Rafael Alves topped the Climate category with Stuck: 33-year-old Euridica Castro holds her nephew Otavio in the window as her son Aquiles plays in rising rivers in Anama, Brazil.
The best image in the Freshwater category was “Dry Fish Pond”: a dry pond in Hong Kong, holes dug by fish during spawning.
In second place in this category is Alan Taylor with his “Cool Drink”: an animal drinks from the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA.
First place, aerial photography: life inside the yellow fields, a small settlement in the city of Swidnica, Poland, surrounded by rapeseed fields.
Russell Laman, “Phantoms Move” – winner of the category “Underwater Life”.
Esteban Rezkall’s “Gang of Rangiroa” won best photograph in the Oceans category, featuring dolphins playing in the waves with a passing ship.
First place, birds: a common sandbill builds a nest in the marshes of Biebrza National Park in Poland.
The winner of the Earth category is September snow through the eyes of Allesandro Carboni, Sound and Vision.
Emirates Team New Zealand’s Te Rehutai concludes successful sailing and testing program in Barcelona
America’s Cup: Te Rehutai signs off Barcelona in style
by Emirates Team New Zealand 29 Oct 19:56 PDT
30 October 2023
Emirates Team New Zealand – AC75 – Day 54 – Barcelona – October 24, 2023 © Ugo Fonolla / America’s Cup
Emirates Team New Zealand’s intense four month sailing block in Barcelona has wound up with the America’s Cup winning boat Te Rehutai signing off its scheduled sailing and testing program for the 37th America’s Cup.
A moment of reflection for the team as all focus starts turning towards ‘Boat 3’ which is currently in construction in New Zealand and will be used to defend the America’s Cup in Barcelona in just under one year’s time.
The team were reflective on what has been achieved with Te Rehutai since its launch in November 2020, where it was commissioned and then developed into the 36th America’s Cup winning boat in March 2021 before transitioning into a highly effective ‘workhorse’ and development tool for the 37th America’s Cup testing program.
“Te Rehutai has been amazing to us; we have really put her through the paces.” Explains Emirates Team New Zealand Coach Ray Davies. “A couple of years ago, people wouldn’t have thought what we are now doing was doable in foiling boats, but now we’re sailing around in two metre swells in Barcelona. It’s really, awesome.”
Skipper Peter Burling has been on the helm of Te Rehutai every day since its launch and was sentimental on the final day sailing. “You know, never say never, but it’ll probably be the last time we ever sail Te Rehutai. It’s been an amazing tool for us this campaign to help see things in full scale. The last couple of days we’ve found things incredibly challenging on board but have really enjoyed the time out there sailing and trying to figure out how to get around the course on those kind of sea states.”
Sea states that the team were eager to test itself in, as the weather conditions coincided with the window of the America’s Cup match in October next year and could easily be those which the 37th America’s Cup could be decided in.
“The last two days have been unbelievably epic actually,” said trimmer Blair Tuke. “Good conditions to push us as a crew and Te Rehutai stood up to the challenge once again. The team’s stepped on a long way since the last campaign already, so it’s an exciting year we’ve got ahead of us.”
Thoughts reflected by Shore Crew Manager Sean Regan, “She’s now done so many more sailing days beyond what our expectations were and given us such an amazing platform to build on for our boat three design. In our campaign it’s a critical point. We’re going to get excited about our new boat and see where that takes us.”
As the seasons change in Barcelona, from a long Mediterranean summer to shorter winter days, Te Rehutai will remain in Barcelona while the wider team is now heading back to springtime in Auckland to maximise its time on the water with its AC40 testing and development program before heading to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for the second Preliminary Regatta, in one month’s time.
The construction team are working around the clock to hit their deadlines for the launch of ‘boat three’ in 2024.
The last word for Emirates Team New Zealand COO Kevin Shoebridge: “Our sailing block has come to an end here in Barcelona before we start sailing again next year here. We’ll leave Te Rehutai here in Barcelona, you never know. But it has been an absolute workhorse for us, we have had some great sailing on that boat, some great results but it is time to move on.”
2023-10-30 07:33:52
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Korean scientists have announced new consequences of the coronavirus. According to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, viral illness can lead to autoimmune diseases.
The team analyzed data from 355 thousand men and women who had previously been diagnosed with COVID-19. This sample was then compared with six million patients who did not have the disease. It turned out that subjects with coronavirus were 12-74 percent more likely to develop various types of alopecia, three times more likely to develop vasculitis, 68 percent more likely to develop Crohn’s disease, and 59 percent more likely to develop sarcoidosis.
Experts suggest that the reason for this is the body’s production of interferons, which cause inflammation. In turn, the inflammatory response can stimulate the formation of autoantibodies against organs, muscles or nerves of the body, especially if the patient has a predisposition to this disease in the first place.
Notably, unvaccinated participants were at greater risk for certain autoimmune diseases, including alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, and Crohn’s disease.
In July, Rospotrebnadzor employee Natalya Pshenichnaya said that coronavirus can provoke the development of pathologies to which the body is initially predisposed.
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2023-10-16 10:49:16
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America’s Cup: Coca-Cola joins the 37th America’s Cup
by America’s Cup Media 6 Oct 06:42 PDT
7 October 2023
Grant Dalton, CEO of the 37th America’s Cup, and Francesc Cosano, General Manager of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Iberia © Emirates Team NZ
On Friday morning, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners signed an agreement at its Martorelles (Barcelona) plant, through which the company becomes a sponsor of the 37th America’s Cup – the world’s oldest and most important nautical event to be held in Barcelona in 2024. This alliance makes Coca-Cola the Global Soft Drinks Partner of the 37th edition of the America’s Cup.
Coca-Cola has always been present in the most important sporting events in the world, in different disciplines. Beyond sports sponsorship, the company now partners with this competition to develop initiatives within the framework of its sustainability strategy. In this sense, during the regatta months, Coca-Cola will promote the use of returnable glass as a more sustainable and reusable container. In addition, it will also promote beach cleaning actions through its ‘Mares Circulares’ program, which began in 2018 and has already managed to recover more than 1,800 tons of waste in Spain.
The agreement also consolidates and reaffirms Coca-Cola’s relationship with Barcelona, a key city for the group at an international level, which has one of the largest production plants in Europe (located in Martorelles) and which saw the birth of the first Coca-Cola bottle in Spain in 1953, from the factory located on Almogàvers Street.
The signing of the agreement brought together Grant Dalton, CEO of the 37th America’s Cup, and Francesc Cosano, General Manager of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Iberia. When signing the agreement, both executives highlighted the economic and social impact that the competition will have on the city, the region, and the country, with the involvement of citizens and local entities, and the importance of sustainability in the management of an event of this magnitude.
Francesc Cosano, General Manager of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Iberia, highlighted the importance of partnering with the world’s most important nautical competition and pointed out that “this agreement allows us to reinforce our commitment with Barcelona, supporting the local economy and making a positive impact on the Catalan society”.
For his part, Grant Dalton, CEO of 37th America’s Cup, said, “We are especially proud to have such an iconic international brand joining the 37th America’s Cup in such an iconic city, but driven so emphatically at a local level by an organization like Coca-Cola here in Barcelona.”
“Like AC37, it is clearly very important for them to leave a positive legacy of the event economically and in terms of sustainability, so it is great to have them onboard working with us towards such a positive ambition for the 37th America’s Cup and Barcelona.”
2023-10-07 06:52:52
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