#Baldé

[maamria]

im gonna take it very seriously if neither musiala or baldé win the golden boy web award, even tought the journalist golden boy is more important and people just voting for bells, eggs and ham bc they think he looks nice

[olplus]

l’OL officialise le départ de Baldé à Brest O&L

[stadiumgods]

keita balde

[beatrack92]

Vanessa Baldé and Line Schröder 🇩🇪

Hamburg, Germany - January 15, 2022

[vogelmeister]

“Gesprek met jou is een monoloog” she was real for this

[malibuzz]

Mali vs Guinée-Bissau: Match Crucial pour la CAN 2025 - Analyse et Compositions

Ce vendredi 11 octobre 2024, le Mali affronte la Guinée-Bissau au Stade du 26 Mars de Bamako, dans un match crucial pour les qualifications à la Coupe d’Afrique des Nations (CAN) 2025. Ce duel, qui débutera à 21h00 (heure locale), est déterminant pour les deux équipes qui luttent pour une place qualificative dans le groupe I.Le Mali, dirigé par Tom Saintfiet, est actuellement deuxième dans le…

[luegootravez]

Merel Baldé by © Casper Koster

[k-star-holic]

Rain ends up flying 'a house' - Kim Tae-hee and best friend Lee Hyori 'withdrawal of four Cyphers' in support shooting

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

[viandede-porque]

True Ending: Abascal challenges all refereeing decisions and Spartak becomes the champion 

[cognitivejustice]

To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth minerals needed to stabilize the climate: the mountain of electronic waste humanity discards each year. 

Exactly how much of each clean energy metal is there in the laptops, printers, and smart fridges the world discards? Until recently, no one really knew. Data on more obscure metals like neodymium and palladium, which play small but critical roles in established and emerging green energy technologies, has been especially hard to come by.

Now, the United Nations has taken a first step toward filling in these data gaps with the latest installment of its periodic report on e-waste around the world. Released last month, the new Global E-Waste Monitor shows the staggering scale of the e-waste crisis, which reached a new record in 2022 when the world threw out 62 million metric tons of electronics. And for the first time, the report includes a detailed breakdown of the metals present in our electronic garbage, and how often they are being recycled.

“There is very little reporting on the recovery of metals [from e-waste] globally,” lead report author Kees Baldé told Grist. “We felt it was our duty to get more facts on the table.”

[mariacallous]

The phone or computer you’re reading this on may not be long for this world. Maybe you’ll drop it in water, or your dog will make a chew toy of it, or it’ll reach obsolescence. If you can’t repair it and have to discard it, the device will become e-waste, joining an alarmingly large mountain of defunct TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, cameras, routers, electric toothbrushes, headphones. This is “electrical and electronic equipment,” aka EEE—anything with a plug or battery. It’s increasingly out of control.

As economies develop and the consumerist lifestyle spreads around the world, e-waste has turned into a full-blown environmental crisis. People living in high-income countries own, on average, 109 EEE devices per capita, while those in low-income nations have just four. A new UN report finds that in 2022, humanity churned out 137 billion pounds of e-waste—more than 17 pounds for every person on Earth—and recycled less than a quarter of it.

That also represents about $62 billion worth of recoverable materials, like iron, copper, and gold, hitting e-waste landfills each year. At this pace, e-waste will grow by 33 percent by 2030, while the recycling rate could decline to 20 percent. (You can see this growth in the graph below: purple is EEE on the market, black is e-waste, and green is what gets recycled.)

“What was really alarming to me is that the speed at which this is growing is much quicker than the speed that e-waste is properly collected and recycled,” says Kees Baldé, a senior scientific specialist at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and lead author of the report. “We just consume way too much, and we dispose of things way too quickly. We buy things we may not even need, because it's just very cheap. And also these products are not designed to be repaired.”

Humanity has to quickly bump up those recycling rates, the report stresses. In the first pie chart below, you can see the significant amount of metals we could be saving, mostly iron (chemical symbol Fe, in light gray), along with aluminum (Al, in dark gray), copper (Cu), and nickel (Ni). Other EEE metals include zinc, tin, and antimony. Overall, the report found that in 2022, generated e-waste contained 68 billion pounds of metal.

E-waste is a complex thing to break down: A washing machine is made of totally different components than a TV. And even for product categories, not only do different brands use different manufacturing processes, but even different models within those brands vary significantly. A new washing machine has way more sensors and other electronics than one built 30 years ago.

Complicating matters even further, e-waste can contain hazardous materials, like cobalt, flame retardants, and lead. The report found that each year, improperly processed e-waste releases more than 125,000 pounds of mercury alone, imperiling the health of humans and other animals. “Electronic waste is an extremely complex waste stream,” says Vanessa Gray, head of the Environment and Emergency Telecommunications Division at the UN’s International Telecommunication Union and an author of the report. “You have a lot of value in electronic waste, but you also have a lot of toxic materials that are dangerous to the environment.”

That makes recycling e-waste a dangerous occupation. In low- and middle-income countries, informal e-waste recyclers might go door-to-door collecting the stuff. To extract valuable metals, they melt down components without proper safety equipment, poisoning themselves and the environment. The new report notes that in total, 7.3 billion pounds of e-waste is shipped uncontrolled globally, meaning its ultimate management is unknown and likely not done in an environmentally friendly way. Of that, high-income countries shipped 1.8 billion pounds to low- and middle-income countries in 2022, swamping them with dangerous materials.

High-income countries have some of this informal recycling, but they also have formal facilities where e-waste is sorted and safely broken down. Europe, for example, has fairly high formal e-waste recycling rates, at about 43 percent. But globally, recycling is happening nowhere near enough to keep up with the year-over-year growth of the waste. Instead of properly mining EEE for metals, humanity keeps mining more ore out of the ground.

Still, the report found that even the small amount of e-waste that currently gets recycled avoided the mining of 2 trillion pounds of ore for virgin metal in 2022. (It takes a lot of ore to produce a little bit of metal.) The more metals we can recycle from e-waste, the less mining we’ll need to support the proliferation of gadgets. That would in turn avoid the greenhouse gases from such mining operations, plus losses of biodiversity.

The complexity of e-waste, though, makes it expensive to process. As the chart above shows, even an ambitious scenario of a formal e-waste collection rate in 2030 is 44 percent. “There is no business case for companies to just collect e-waste and to make a profit out of this in a sustainable manner,” says Baldé. “They can only survive if there is legislation in place which is also compensating them.”

The report notes that 81 countries have e-waste policies on the books, and of those, 67 have provisions regarding extended producer responsibility, or EPR. This involves fees paid by manufacturers of EEE that would go toward e-waste management.

Of course, people could also stop throwing so many devices away in the first place, something right-to-repair advocates have spent years fighting for. Batteries, for instance, lose capacity after a certain number of charge cycles. If a phone can’t hold a charge all day anymore, customers should be able to swap in a new battery. “Manufacturers shouldn't be able to put artificial limitations on that ability,” says Elizabeth Chamberlain, director of sustainability at iFixit, which provides repair guides and tools. That includes limiting access to parts and documentation. “Repair is a harm-reduction strategy. It's not the be-all-end-all solution, but it's one of many things we need to do as a global society to slow down the rate at which we're demanding things of the planet.”

At the core of the e-waste crisis is the demand: A growing human population needs phones to communicate and fridges to keep food safe and heat pumps to stay comfortable indoors. So first and foremost we need high-quality products that don’t immediately break down, but also the right to repair when they do. And what absolutely can’t be fixed needs to move through a safe, robust e-waste recycling system. “We are consuming so much,” says Baldé, “we cannot really recycle our way out of the problem.”

[olplus]

l'attaquant de l'OL Mama Baldé file à Brest L'Équipe

[paulzizkaphoto]

"Glacial Stage" // Ace skater and friend Elladj Baldé is used to having ice under his feet, but being completely surrounded by ice was a new experience. ❄️ It was a privilege for me to be able to capture it this week, inside one of our local glaciers in the Canadian Rockies! — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/UZpjyvL

[cant-get-no-worse]

Tonight’s conclusion: 

We shouldn’t sell Ansu Fati just yet. Find a way to keep him, lower his wages, loan him, give him a year to grow. He’s still weak in his game but the spark is there.

La Masia fucking rocks.

Espanyol getting relegated LMFAO.

Someone change this damned medical staff. Injuries upon injuries, this cannot keep happening if we want to get back to European competition.

Tell Xavi to get a LB for the mercato because no way on Earth am I relying on Alonso if Baldé gets hurt.

Busquets & Alba got the farewell they deserved. 

Piqué, Busquets & Alba gone, the open Nou being restaured - a golden era is closing.

Leo Messi’s story with Barcelona cannot be finished yet. He is such an integral part of the club that his absence is a whole persona in itself. Get his ass back to conquer more titles, guide the youngsters that need it, and wrap it up properly.

Wonderful video tribute for the Camp Nou I’ll be bawling my eyes out rewatching ten times over.

Open Camp Nou has the most beautiful aerial pictures of our tifos - Infinite Iniesta, Xavi, God Save the King, Ready to Color Europe, Visca el Barca, blaugrana.

Viva la Vida is the unofficial anthem of that club.

A new era is on the horizon and it is beautiful;

Visca Barça y Visca Catalunya.

[rikeijo]

Today's translation #503

Yuri!!! on ICE Staff book, Yamamoto Sayo's page

Part 3.

Tomáš Verner, Czech Republic, "Sexy and I know it" 2014, World EX

Exhibition, he performed at World Championship in 2014, just at the right time, before he retired. He appeared with Afro-hair and a headband with "Japan" written on it, accompanied by Kim Lucine dressed up as Mario and Elladj Baldé in a student costume... The impact of that instantly destroyed the sad atmosphere created by his imminent retirement. In the middle of the performance, he pulled off his short pants and only a pair of gold underwear was left on the lower part of his body. We will never forget the emotions the audience at the venue felt after his wonderful SP at that competition... and Tomáš sprawled on the ice.

At the Opening Gala of World Synchronized Skating Championships in 2014, he skated in a pair of shorts accompanied by 10 men in dressing gowns. The cover of this staff book was inspired by this version of this program.

Florent Amodio, France, "Memories of Sorbal", 2013 European EX

Skater with a unique sense of rhythm, representing France. In the first minute of the program, he pulls off his shirt, and performs an exquisite step sequence wearing a tank top. In the end, he finishes with an upright spin, after which he pulls off his top and shows off his naked torso... The audience, in awe, gave him a standing ovation. He's actually naked [only torso] only at the very end of the program, but it's a program, in which the "undressing" part is especially memorable.

<It's possible that in the movie, some Russian or European skaters will show us this kind of exhibition program!!! ...That's the result of our research!! It really is?!>

Yamamoto Sayo

[signanothername]

Hello! Skit Anon here, and may I just say AJSGSBEMSKS MY HEART😭🥹❤️!!! Ngl, thought I killed you, BUT IM SO HAPPY YOU LIKED IT AND OMG I CANT STOP LOOKING AT IT IMMA CRY 💙🖤💙 And AHHH the small details drive me nuts! From HT square boxes to Baldés round ones, Blurr, just Blurr 💜, ALSO that fact that before Blades walked in HT was starting at Blurr getting wasted, THAT HURTS 😭

Also, also, I have a lot of Dadtide scenes in my head that I would like to share, and I wanted to ask if that’s ok because I really don’t want you to feel like you have to draw them. Idk if that sounded awkward, I’m sorry if it did 🥲

Hiii anon glad to see you like ittt dhhdhd 😭❤️🌷✨

AND AAAAH THANKS FOR NOTICING THESE LIL DETAILS CHJVVJVJ

I really love to put them in and I don’t really expect people to notice them but when they do it always puts a smile on my face and I’m especially SO happy you actually picked up on the Hightide looking at Blurr detail, it’s one of the more obscure details that I genuinely didn’t think people are gonna even know about yet here you are pointing it out EEEEEEEE

And aww Anon dw! Plz do share your thoughts it’s an absolute delight to read through them! They genuinely make me happy so plz do keep sharing! :D

And dw about making me feel like i have to draw them, i drew that scene cause I genuinely wanted to not cause I felt forced <3333

So yep! Feel free to send as many scenes as you want, and I’d probably draw some of them gdhdhdh but I promise that I would never force myself to actually draw any of them if I don’t want to or if I don’t have the energy, but i’d still absolutely love to read all the scenes in your head (and probably ramble about them if I don’t end up drawing them zhhxhxh) <3333

(And you’re not awkward, Thank you actually for being really considerate and worrying that i might feel forced, that’s really kind of you ❤️❤️❤️🌷✨)

Here’s a quick hug