#Lausanne 2018

[dance-world]

Shale Wagman - First Soloist, Bavarian State Ballet

Shale Wagman trained in Toronto and in Monte Carlo at the Académie Princesse Grace. He has received numerous awards, including the first prize at the Prix de Lausanne, the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation award for artistry in 2018 and the youth American Grand Prix (2014). He was the youngest guest ever invited to perform in a principal role (James in La Sylphide) at the Mariinsky. He has performed in many gala performances, including the International Ballet Festival in St. Petersburg Dance Open (2019) or the Gala de Danza in Los Cabos, Mexico.

His first engagement was with the English National Ballet in London under the direction of Tamara Rojo. He has performed in productions by Derek Deane (Swan Lake), Marco Goecke (Hungarian Dance No.1, created for him), Akram Khan (Dust), Russell Maliphant (Second Breath), Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (Frida), Jean-Christophe Maillot (Nutcracker), Christopher Wheeldon (Cinderella) and Wayne McGregor (Chroma solo).

Since 2015, Shale Wagman has repeatedly choreographed, including works for the Académie Princesse Grace, Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco and the Gala de Danza, Mexico.

He has been engaged by the Bayerisches Staatsballett since spring 2021 and was promoted to first soloist for the 2022-23 season.

Bayerisches Staatsballett Bio

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #221:

It is fairly common for a nation to receive an overall final score of nul points in the Eurovision Song Contest, but it’s less common for multiple nations to receive zero points during the same competition. Out of the total sixty-six Eurovision Song Contests that have been held, twenty-two have had at least one contestant who earned zero points. 

The most contestants receiving nul points in a single contest is four. This happened a total of four times, all in a row, in 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965.

Austria and Norway are tied for most times earning nul points with a total of 4 losses.

The following is a list of the years in which contestants gained zero points and which nations they were from:

1962: Netherlands, Austria, Spain, and Belgium.

1963: Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

1964: Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Portugal, and Germany.

1965: Spain, Finland, Belgium, and Germany.

1966: Italy and Monaco.

1967: Switzerland.

1970: Luxembourg.

1978: Norway.

1981: Norway.

1982: Finland

1983: Spain and Türkiye.

1987: Türkiye.

1988: Austria.

1989: Iceland.

1991: Austria.

1994: Lithuania

1997: Norway and Portugal

1998: Switzerland.

2003: United Kingdom.

2015: Austria and Germany.

2021: United Kingdom.

[Sources]

Turin 2022 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Rotterdam 2021 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Tel Aviv 2019 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Lisbon 2018 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Kyiv 2017 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Stockholm 2016 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Vienna 2015 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Copenhagen 2014 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Malmö 2013 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Baku 2012 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Düsseldorf  2011 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Oslo 2010 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Moscow 2009 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Belgrade 2008 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Helsinki 2007 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Athens 2006 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Kyiv 2005 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Istanbul 2004 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Riga 2003 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Tallinn 2002 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Copenhagen 2001 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Stockholm 2000 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Jerusalem 1999 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Birmingham 1998 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1997 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Oslo 1996 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1995 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1994 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Millstreet 1993 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Malmö  1992 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Rome 1991 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Zagreb 1990 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Lausanne 1989  Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1988 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Brussels 1987 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Bergen 1986 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Gothenberg 1985 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Luxembourg 1984 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Munich 1983 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Harrogate 1982 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1981 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

The Hague 1980 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Jerusalem 1979 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Paris 1978 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

London 1977 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

The Hague 1976 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Stockholm 1975 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Brighton 1974 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Luxembourg 1973 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Edinburgh 1972 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Dublin 1971 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Amsterdam 1970 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Madrid 1969 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

London 1968 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Vienna 1967 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Luxembourg 1966 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Naples 1965 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Copenhagen 1964 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

London 1963 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Luxembourg 1962 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Cannes 1961 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

London 1960 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Cannes 1959 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Hilversum 1958 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv. 

Frankfurt am Main 1957 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

Lugano 1956 Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Oeufs

Paul Starosta

Texte de Laurent Vallotton

5 Continents Editions, Milano 2018, 240 pagine, 28,8 x 28,9 cm, ISBN  978-8874398355

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Rotonde, fragili, difficili da manipolare, le uova vengono raramente esposte al grande pubblico. Un vero peccato, poiché i dettagli dei disegni sui loro gusci rivelano bellezze insospettabili. Questi minuscoli disegni, disposti sulle pure linee curve della superficie delle uova, uniscono arabeschi a puntini, macchie, ombre e velature. Le tonalità sono delicate, talvolta semitrasparenti. Opachi o lucidi, porosi o lisci, questi capolavori su conchiglia coniugano caso e necessità con inaspettata inventiva e potenza. Perché questi colori? Perché queste forme? Perché l'uria depone uova così a punta, con disegni e colori estremamente variabili, mentre gufi e civette fanno uova sferiche perfettamente bianche? Perché le uova del tinamo sono lisce e lucide come la porcellana? Raccolta la sfida di questi oggetti perfetti che richiedono luci perfette, il fotografo Paul Starosta si è immerso nella collezione Werner Haller di 30.000 uova conservata presso il Museo di storia naturale di Ginevra. In questo libro trovate il risultato del suo incontro con le uova più belle e magnetiche del mondo.

Paul Starosta est biologiste et photographe. Associant ses deux passions - la nature et la photographie-, il a publié plus de 40 livres sur les plantes et les animaux, qui lui ont valu plusieurs récompenses. La collection "Photo Poche", créée par Robert Delpire, publiée par Actes Sud et qui fait référence dans le monde entier, lui a consacré son numéro 129 en 2010. Laurent Vallotton a obtenu son diplôme de biologiste à l'université de Lausanne en 1993. Son intérêt pour l'environnement date de sa petite enfance au Brésil, mais sa passion pour les oiseaux s'éveille en 1989 quand rencontre l'ornithologue Lionel Maumary, avec lequel il va s'investir dans plusieurs projets ornithologiques, notamment la mise en place d'une station de suivi de la migration dans les Alpes dès 1991, la construction d'une île pouf les oiseaux sur le lac Léman en 2002 et la publication de la bible de l'ornithologie helvétique, Les Oiseaux de Suisse, en 2007. Depuis 2003, il est adjoint scientifique au Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève, où il partage son temps entre la recherche, la gestion des collections et la médiation scientifique.

17/12/22

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[lucaf2019]

Masterclass all'Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne - ECAL, 27 marzo 2018

📷 Anoush Abrar

[lagroupie]

Interview: Mount Koya, "Teien"

Mount Koya après notre interview, à travers mon vieux Nikon.

Six ans après notre première rencontre au Lapin Vert en 2018, Aria des Mount Koya m'a contactée pour me dire que le groupe avait terminé son nouvel album, Teien. Quelques jours plus tard, je me suis rendue dans le local de répétition du groupe à Vevey pour une interview. De quoi prendre des nouvelles du sextet par la même occasion. C'était en avril 2024.

Rejoignez-nous alors que nous parlons du nouvel album et de l'évolution musicale de Mount Koya, de la période post-covid, du soutien de la ville de Vevey aux groupes musicaux et plus encore.

Le nouvel album de Mount Koya, Teien, sortira le 8 novembre sur toutes les plateformes de streaming. Un vernissage est prévu le 16 novembre à l'espace ContreContre à Saint-Maurice.

La dernière fois que nous avons discuté, c’était en 2018. Beaucoup de choses se sont passées depuis!

Kevin: Oui, je me souviens, c’était au Lapin Vert ! Notre premier concert sous Mount Koya.

Tim: Il y a Matthieu et moi qui sommes nouveaux. Je suis arrivé fin 2018.

Antoine: L’un de nos membres, Patrick, est parti et Matthieu l’a remplacé. Cela change la dynamique, parce qu’il le remplace au synthé et plus avec une guitare.

Aria: C’est presque plus équilibré parce qu’avant, nous étions trois guitares, dont une à 12 cordes. Là, il y a deux claviéristes dont Matthieu qui joue des Rhodes, des orgues, et Léo qui fait plus du synthétique.

Matthieu: Du coup, notre dernier album a une vibe différente de ce qui s’est fait jusqu’à présent.

Tim: Je pense aussi que le fait que nous ayons une guitare en moins laisse justement plus de place aux guitares. Il y a donc un côté plus rock.

Antoine: C’est aussi ton style qui amène ça. Avant, je suivais ce que Patrick faisait, car c’est un peu lui qui m’a appris à jouer. Comme Tim est extérieur à cette bulle, il a amène quelque chose de plus rock et je dois m’adapter. C’est intéressant.

Kevin: Au niveau de la compo, tu as aussi plutôt composé à la guitare. Même si tu restes l’homme à tout faire (rires).

Et vos vies aujourd’hui?

Aria: Le Covid a réorganisé des choses. Je pense que nous nous concentrons plus sur faire de la musique pour nous-mêmes et notre plaisir plutôt qu’autre chose.

Léo: Durant cette période, nous avons fait de la musique pour le groupe. Nous n’avons pas vraiment pu rencontrer notre public, vu qu’il n’y avait plus de concerts. C’était justement une période de transition et d’expérimentation qui a permis de réorienter notre style et d’ouvrir de nouveaux élans créatifs. Sinon, pour notre vie à Vevey, nous sommes toujours aussi à l’aise dans cette ville qui nous soutient dans nos projets.

Kevin: l’essor culturel est toujours là. C’est très pluridisciplinaire.

Matthieu: Si je devais lancer des fleurs à la ville de Vevey – j’habite Lausanne, et c’est vrai que l’aspect culturel y est moins mis en avant.

Antoine: À chaque fois que nous avions des projets, nous avons été soutenus soit par l’AFM, soit par la ville. Nous avons de la chance de pouvoir être soutenus. Après le Covid, nous avons dû nous remettre sur pied et nous reconcentrer sur ce que nous voulions faire. Comme nous avons reçu ce soutien, nous avons eu le loisir de prendre un à deux ans où nous n’avons pas donné de concert, pour nous concentrer sur notre musique et créer un bel album. Si nous avions dû payer un local à 500 francs par mois à Lausanne, la donne n’aurait pas été la même.

Aria: Pour la suite de 2024, nous avons terminé notre album. Il devrait sortir le 8 novembre. Nous avons un vernissage prévu le 16 novembre, au ContreContre à Saint-Maurice.

Tim: C’est une galerie d’art sous le château.

Parlons de votre nouvel album, Teien. J’ai recherché les kanjis sur Google, et j’ai vu que cela signifiat ‘jardin’, est-ce que c’est juste?

Aria: Oui, ce sont les caractères chinois qui désignent le jardin japonais.

Tim: Nous avons cherché pendant longtemps un concept. L’un de nos précédents disques, Jinrui, parlait de catastrophes naturelles. Celui-ci est sur les jardins.

Antoine: Cela nous a pris trois jours. C’était long (rires).

Matthieu: On voulait ouvrir la porte vers le processus créatif, du coup nous avons choisi le fil rouge des jardins. Nous nous sommes imaginés en train de déambuler dans différents jardins et y trouver un certain état d’esprit. De la sérénité, du confort peut-être. Une musicalité qui nous permettait de nous inspirer pour chaque chanson. Originellement, chaque chanson avait le nom d’un jardin. Maintenant, c’est aux auditeurs de retrouver quelle chanson va avec quel jardin.

Tim: par exemple, pour donner un indice, la chanson Memory se réfère à un cimetière. Nous considérons que le cimetière peut être un jardin. Il y a aussi les jardins de Babylone que nous avons renommé From the River to the Sea en hommage à la Palestine.

Aria: Nous avions aussi envie que les morceaux puissent vivre par eux-mêmes, sans le contexte de l’album. Nous avons fait des albums très contextuels, mais cette fois, nous avons écrit des chansons avec des paroles, plutôt que des morceaux psychés.

J’ai aussi trouvé que cet album était un peu influencé par les années 1960, avec un air de mouvement beatnik, par exemple dans la chanson Eden.

Aria: Depuis que nous travaillons sur cet album, j’ai passé énormément de temps à écouter des tubes.

Tim: Sa playlist est pleine de ‘guilty pleasures’ des années 60. (rires)

Aria: J’ai l’impression que la plupart de ces morceaux sont intemporels. Je m’en suis tout simplement inspiré. Tu as mentionné Eden avant – elle fait très Lou Reed et Iggy Pop. Il y a des références à des groupes qu’on adore écouter éparpillées au fil de l’album. Nous essayons de rendre hommage à la musique qu’on aime.

Tim: Tout l’aspect ‘voix’ vient d’Aria.

Matthieu: Il y a tout l’instrumental qui a été fait dans un premier temps, sous forme de jam qui se rétrécissait petit à petit. Les voix ont été posées après coup.

Léo: Elles donnent cet aspect plus ‘populaire’ et moins ‘concept’. Dans nos précédents albums, on chantait à trois ou quatre à l’unisson, avec des harmonies. Il y en a toujours dans cet album, mais je trouve que notre nouvelle direction donne un mélange plus homogène, comme un pot-pourri.

Aria: Cette fois, on a vraiment fait de la place à la voix. On a aussi passé énormément de temps à travailler les textes.

[bighistoryofgastronomy]

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Civitello, Linda. Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People. Hoboken: Wiley, 2007.

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Frankopan, Peter. The Earth Transformed. Londen: Bloomsbury, 2023.

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Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla. ‘’Writing Out of the Kitchen: Carême and the Invention of French Cuisine’’ in Gastronomica, Vol. 3, No. 3. Oakland: University of California Press, 2003.

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Sukapdjo, Amye. ‘’Le Restauration Rapide: An Affront to the Collective Cultural Memory of French Cuisine’’ in The Coastal Review, Vol. 4, No. 1. Statesboro: Georgia Southern University Press, 2013.

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[amaranewsupdate]

Sexual harassment allegations leveled at leading evolutionary biologist

Swiss biologist Laurent Keller, who is no longer employed by the University of Lausanne, denies all claims

On 6 February, the University of Lausanne (UNIL) told staff by email that prominent evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller was no longer employed there. The Swiss university and Keller both declined to explain why, and there is still no official word on the reason. But Science has learned that in the past 2 months, at least three former researchers in Keller’s department submitted accounts to the university of his alleged inappropriate behavior with women scientists and students. The university has arranged for outside lawyers who specialize in sexual harassment to collect the accounts.

The written accounts include allegations that Keller shouted at researchers and called them names while in his office, invaded junior women’s personal space at department social events, made disparaging comments about women’s scientific ability, and made sexual advances to women in his department while chair. One account says Keller made women students uncomfortable at department parties by standing and dancing too close to them and by touching them.

At least one additional former researcher corresponded with the university’s human resources department in January, arranging to give a negative account of Keller’s actions, according to emails seen by Science.

The allegations are not the first against Keller. In 2018, the university passed a case of alleged sexual harassment by Keller to Groupe Impact, a regional government agency that handles claims of bullying and sexual harassment, according to an email sent by an agency employee.

Keller said to Science by email that he was “completely cleared” by Groupe Impact in the 2018 case, and that he denies all the allegations. He pointed to his “track record of successful female Ph.D. students and postdocs,” and said he is unable to comment further because of ­“ongoing ­procedures.” He added: “I also want to stress that I have a very good relationship with the students, technicians or other staff who were working with me until ­February 6 and that there are no complaints by any of them.”

Keller, 62, who studies the social behavior of ants, was president of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology from 2015 to 2017 and sits on the editorial boards of many journals. He chaired the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at UNIL for 20 years, until 2018, and brought in millions of dollars in grants. He was also a member of a panel awarding research grants for the Swiss National Science Foundation, and in 2015, he received the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize, known as the “Swiss Nobel Prize.”

Several researchers who were at UNIL told Science that Keller’s reputation at parties was well-known and long-standing. Chelsea Chisholm, an ecosystem scientist in Canada who was a postdoc in the DEE from 2017 to 2019, says she received repeated warnings, including from a professor, to stay away from Keller at events such as the department Christmas party. As a result, Chisholm says she avoided work social events. This “prevented me from engaging with my colleagues, which was incredibly isolating,” she says. She adds that the department’s toxic work ­environment contributed to her decision to leave academia.

Valentijn Van den Brink, now a data analyst at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency who did his Ph.D. in Keller’s department, remembers intervening after observing Keller standing “way too close” to a junior scientist who was backed up against a table at a 2013 party in the DEE building. Van den Brink stepped in to talk to the woman and suggested to Keller that he leave to get a beer. Keller denies this allegation.

Others who have worked with Keller defend him. Valérie Vogel, now a special education teacher, who did a Ph.D. and postdoc in Keller’s lab from 2002 to 2009, says she never experienced or witnessed any bullying or sexually inappropriate behavior from Keller. She says he went out of his way to help people not just professionally, but also personally. Catherine Berney, now retired, who worked with Keller as a lab technician from 2006 to 2021, says she also never experienced or witnessed inappropriate behaviors. “The strict silence imposed by current University administrators of what misdemeanor Laurent is accused of spurs a lot of rumors and is contrary to a fair evaluation of the case,” Berney wrote in an email to Science.

Emails seen by Science indicate that in February, the university’s human resources officials informed those submitting accounts of Keller’s behavior that it would send the accounts to two outside lawyers: Camille Maulini and Clara Schneuwly, who specialize in sexual harassment and “the defense of women’s and feminist causes,” according to the website of their firm, Collectif de Défense. The firm declined to comment.

UNIL spokesperson Géraldine Falbriard declined to comment on why Keller is no longer employed. By law, Swiss employers “are not allowed to communicate the reasons of an end of a working relationship … without the agreement of the employee,” she said. An employee who has been fired may challenge the decision in court, says Swiss labor lawyer David Raedler, who has no knowledge of the Keller case, but spoke to Science about the legal context. Keller declined to comment on whether he was fired from the university and whether he plans to appeal.

A 2022 survey of students and staff at the university reported widespread sexual harassment, including 148 incidents that would be punishable under Swiss criminal law, among them four cases of rape. In June 2021, an external audit found the university and Groupe Impact had mishandled two cases of sexual harassment. The audit, conducted by University of Geneva legal scholar Karine Lempen, says that because of improper procedures, women who reported harassment had no access to information about the investigation, including its outcome. In contrast, it notes, alleged harassers were “able to consult the file, including the non-anonymized interview minutes … and the investigation report was sent to them in its entirety.”

The university announced in November 2021 it would overhaul its sexual harassment procedures, and that its rector, Frédéric Herman, who took office in August 2021, considers sexual harassment very serious.

Falbriard says the changes will include compulsory staff training, better communication about university procedures, and making more and better trained confidantes available for targets or witnesses. A regular public report will anonymously list the number of complainants and sanctions taken against offenders. She says the new procedures and resources will be communicated to the university body in a launch campaign at the end of March.

[dance-world]

Samaël Maurice - photo by Damian Siqueiros

Samaël Maurice started his Ballet training at the age of 9 at École supérieure de ballet du Québec. He participated in the Nutcracker productions of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal for many years and in 2013 and 2014, he performed the role of Fritz. In 2018 at 15 years old, Samaël joined the famous Ellison Ballet school in New York City under the direction of Edward Ellison. Samaël was coached by Edward Ellison and Bat Udval.

In 2021 Samaël was a candidate at Prix de Lausanne that gave him the opportunity to be part of the Janet Parker Junior Company with the Queensland Ballet In Australia, where he danced for the 2022 season.

[savoir-entreprendre]

Les Jeux Olympiques sont le plus grand événement multisport du monde, organisés tous les quatre ans (sauf en cas de circonstances exceptionnelles). Inspirés des Jeux Olympiques de l’Antiquité grecque, les premiers Jeux de l’ère moderne ont eu lieu à Athènes en 1896. Ils sont orchestrés par le Comité International Olympique (CIO), dont le siège est à Lausanne, en Suisse. Quels sports sont au programme des Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 ? Le programme des Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 comprendra 32 sports au total. Plus de 10 000 athlètes venant de plus de 200 nations participeront à 306 épreuves médaillées. Parmi les disciplines, le breaking fera ses débuts après une première apparition remarquée aux Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse de Buenos Aires en 2018. Voici la liste des 32 sports au programme : Sports aquatiques (plongeon, natation marathon, natation artistique, natation, water-polo), Tir à l’arc, Athlétisme, Badminton, Basketball (y compris le basketball 3x3), Boxe, Canoë, Cyclisme (cyclisme sur route, cyclisme sur piste, cyclisme VTT, BMX freestyle, BMX racing), Équitation, Escrime, Football, Golf, Gymnastique (gymnastique artistique, gymnastique rythmique, trampoline), Handball, Hockey sur gazon, Judo, Pentathlon moderne, Aviron, Rugby à 7, Voile, Tir, Skateboard, Escalade, Surf, Tennis de table, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball (y compris le volleyball de plage), Haltérophilie, Lutte. Comment se qualifier pour les Jeux Olympiques ? Pour participer aux Jeux Olympiques, les athlètes doivent être de haut niveau et répondre aux critères de qualification établis par le CIO et les fédérations sportives internationales. Voici comment se qualifier : Normes de performance : Chaque sport a ses propres normes de qualification. Les athlètes doivent atteindre des performances minimales lors de compétitions nationales, continentales ou internationales. Quotas et invitations : Certains sports octroient des quotas aux Comités Nationaux Olympiques (CNO) en fonction des performances individuelles. De plus, des invitations spéciales peuvent être accordées. Restrictions d’âge : Les limites d’âge varient selon les disciplines. Par exemple, les boxeurs doivent avoir entre 18 et 39 ans. En gymnastique, les athlètes doivent atteindre 16 ans l’année des Jeux, sans limite d’âge maximale. En somme, participer aux Jeux Olympiques est le rêve de tout athlète, et cela demande beaucoup de volonté et d’entraînement. Les athlètes doivent se conformer à la Charte olympique et aux règles de leur fédération internationale respective. https://savoirentreprendre.net/?p=14516&feed_id=8992

[apacbusinesstimes]

Adrien Jorge: The Innovator of ‘Proplseller’ Real Estate Company in Singapore

The real estate market in Singapore comprises a diverse range of property types which includes commercial, residential, hospitality, and industrial sectors. Each of these caters to the needs of residential and business properties. It is a small island in Southeast Asia that has fewer or restricted resources of land, hence needs plans and regulatory measures to meet the requirements. Singapore attracted investors and has now become a center for global investing in real estate.

The residential sector of the real estate market in Singapore by 2024 is estimated to be valued at around US$ 1.5tn and the annual growth rate from 2024 to 2028  is projected to be 3.73%. This sector also has a larger contribution to the nation’s economy in the year 2022 the gross domestic product was 17.68 billion Singapore dollars. In this article, we are discussing the company that has established its strong existence in real estate and also about the founder Adrien Jorge who is the mastermind behind this success and his entrepreneurial journey 

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Adrien Jorge: Founder & CEO

Adrien Jorge is a Singaporean entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO tech-based real estate company called Propseller, it was established in the year 2018. Mr. Adrien completed his Bachelor of Science degree in political economy from HEC Lausanne and attained a Master of Science in Management from ESSEC Business School. After his graduation, he worked as an associate consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants for a year. Later he started as a business development manager at Groupon, he was promoted and also served as a general manager. 

Adrien had come from a family background where half of them were property agents and that was his initial interest, he also noticed the lack of professionalism in SEA. With this realization along with his business experience and knowledge, he decided to start a business. Before launching his website, he met several agents to learn how to operate a business that had similar operational styles as in the 60’s. Later in the launch, the company encountered 3 leads and one among them wanted to invest, late after a week the revenue was generated for the company.

The challenge encountered was raising funds, investors who had an interest in investing before covid 19, were no longer wanted to invest in other businesses, and that had impacted him post covid 19. He started the company with the mission to offer owners of the property a better solution to sell and rent their property.

About Propseller 

Propseller is a Singapore company that is a tech-based real estate agency that aims to provide help in achieving the most current values for your property. They offer you to sell, buy, or rent the property in the most reliable and trustworthy way. They rely on three main things data, transparency, and quality. They will analyze 20+ data checkpoints before assigning you an agent for the right guidance. The pricing and the split are shown to the customers directly without hiding and the major point is the quality assurance for the money paid.

When it comes to charging money and fees, they focus on providing a reasonable price and will charge less than 1% whereas the standard in Singapore is 2%. What differentiates Propeller’s is the use of technology where you can see the status and sales process on your dashboard which helps you monitor 24/7, and access offers anywhere in real-time. They have separate logins and displays for buyers, sellers, and landlords which makes it easy to operate and analyze.

With the utilization of technology, one can see the unique property with cinematic video and reach 100 million buyers. Customers can sell at a higher price and within an average duration of 36 days. In 2023 Popseller was ranked as the top 10th company in Singapore’s fastest-growing companies 2014 by the Straits Times and Statista.

Mr. Adrien with his dedication and business strategy has made Propseller the best property agent service in Singapore. He has made an analysis and rethought the way to modernize selling properties with technology and a strong dedicated team.

Visit More : https://apacbusinesstimes.com/adrien-jorge-the-innovator-of-proplseller-real-estate-company-in-singapore/

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Nanotweezers accelerate phage therapy

27.02.24 - Scientists at EPFL have developed a game-changing technique that uses light to manipulate and identify individual bacteriophages without the need for chemical labels or bioreceptors, potentially accelerating and revolutionizing phage-based therapies that can treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. With antibiotic resistance looming as a formidable threat to our health, scientists are on a constant quest for alternative ways to treat bacterial infections. As more and more bacterial strains outsmart drugs we have been relying on for decades, a possible alternative solution may be found in bacteriophages, which are viruses that prey on bacteria. Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages to combat bacterial infections, is gaining attraction as a viable alternative to traditional antibiotics. But there is a catch: finding the right phage for a given infection is like searching for a needle in a haystack, while current methods involve cumbersome culturing, time-consuming assays. Now, scientists at EPFL, in collaboration with the CEA Grenoble and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) have developed on-chip “nanotweezers” that can trap and manipulate individual bacteria and virions (the infectious form of a virus) using a minimal amount of optical power. The study, led by Nicolas Villa and Enrico Tartari in the group of Romuald Houdré at EPFL, is published in the journal Small. The nanotweezers are a type of “optical tweezers”, scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and manipulate microscopic (e.g. virions) and even sub-microscopic objects like atoms in three dimensions. The light creates a gradient force that attracts the particles towards a high-intensity focal point, effectively "holding" them in place without physical contact. Optical tweezers were first invented in 1986 by the physicist Arthur Ashkin who worked out the principles behind them in the late 1960’s. Ashkin’s technological innovation won him the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, and optical tweezers remain an intense field of research. There are different types of optical tweezers. For example, free-space optical tweezers can manipulate an object in an open environment such as air or liquid without any without any physical barriers or structures guiding the light. But in this study, the researchers built nanotweezers embedded in optofluidic device that integrates optical and fluidic technologies on a single chip. The chip contains silicon-based photonic crystal cavities — the nanotweezers, which are essentially tiny traps that gently nudge the phages into position using a light-generated force field. The system allowed the researchers to precisely control single bacteria and single virions and acquire information about the trapped microorganisms in real-time. What sets this approach apart is that it can distinguish between different types of phages without using any chemical labels or surface bioreceptors, which can be time-consuming and sometimes ineffective. Instead, the nanotweezers distinguish between phages by “reading” the unique changes each particle causes in the light’s properties. The label-free method can significantly accelerate the selection of therapeutic phages, promising faster turnaround for potential phage-based treatments. The research also has implications beyond phage therapy. Being able to manipulate and study single virions in real time opens up new avenues in microbiological research, offering scientists a powerful tool for rapid testing and experimentation. This could lead to a deeper understanding of viruses and their interactions with hosts, which is invaluable in the ongoing battle against infectious diseases. Nik Papageorgiou http://actu.epfl.ch/news/nanotweezers-accelerate-phage-therapy (Source of the original content)

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On this day in Wikipedia: Tuesday, 5th December

Welcome, 欢迎 (huānyíng), bienvenido, mirë se vjen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 5th December through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

5th December 2022 🗓️ : Death - Kirstie Alley Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer (b. 1951) "Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, she starred as the lead in the sitcom Veronica's..."

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5th December 2017 🗓️ : Event - International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics. "The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern (Summer,..."

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5th December 2013 🗓️ : Event - 2013 Sanaa attack Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others. "The 2013 Sana'a attack occurred on 5 December 2013 when a series of bomb and mass shooting gun attacks killed at least 56 people and wounded 162 at the Yemeni Defense Ministry in Sana'a, Yemen. Yemeni military investigators say 12 militants, mostly Saudi nationals, were responsible for the attack..."

5th December 1973 🗓️ : Birth - Luboš Motl Luboš Motl, Czech physicist and academic "Luboš Motl (Czech pronunciation: [ˈluboʃ ˈmotl̩]; born 5 December 1973) is a Czech physicist and blogger. He was an assistant professor in physics at Harvard University from 2004 to 2007. His scientific publications were focused on string theory. He is currently a visiting scholar at Rutgers in high..."

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Jan Rybář

5th December 1922 🗓️ : Birth - Don Robertson (songwriter) Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015) "Donald Irwin Robertson (December 5, 1922 – March 16, 2015) was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956 (peaking at..."

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5th December 1822 🗓️ : Birth - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College (d. 1907) "Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a..."

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5th December 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) "December 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 6 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For December 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 22...."

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Palestine

Anvers

Copenhague

Trains recouverts de message et de couleurs palestiniennes.

E Macron face à une manifestation à Lausanne.

Guillaume Meurice

"Netanyahou nazi".

La droite exulte de rage contre lui!