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Der Kangchendzönga (་,  Kañcanjaṅghā,  Kañcanjaṅghā, Aussprache in den letzten zwei Fällen Kantschandschanga, daher die englische Schreibweise Kangchenjunga; im deutschen Bergsteigerjargon oft Kantsch genannt) ist mit  der dritthöchste Berg der Erde und zugleich der am östlichsten gelegene Achttausender.

Über seinen Gipfel verläuft die Grenze zwischen Nepal und dem indischen Bundesstaat Sikkim. Seit dem Anschluss des ehemaligen Königreichs Sikkim an die Indische Union im Jahr 1975 ist er der höchste Berg Indiens, noch vor der Nanda Devi.

Bis 1852 glaubte man, der Kangchendzönga sei der höchste Berg der Erde. Erst die Berechnungen der trigonometrischen Vermessung Indiens durch die Briten 1849 bewiesen, dass Mount Everest und K2 noch höher sind und der Kangchendzönga damit der dritthöchste Berg der Erde ist.

Der Kangchendzönga wurde am 25. Mai 1955 durch George Band und Joe Brown erstmals bestiegen. Die Briten ehrten den Glauben der Bewohner Sikkims, die den Gipfel als heiligen Berg verehren, indem sie einige Schritte vor dem eigentlichen Gipfel Halt machten. Viele erfolgreiche Besteigungen hielten sich seither an diese Tradition. Bergsteigerische Schwierigkeiten bieten die letzten Höhenmeter nicht mehr.

Name
Der Name Kangchendzönga stammt aus dem Tibetischen und besteht aus den vier Wörtern (in der Umschrift nach Wylie) gangs "Schnee", chen "groß", mdzod "Schatzkammer" und lnga "fünf", was mit "Die fünf Schatzkammern des großen Schnees" übersetzt werden kann. Damit könnten entweder die fünf höchsten Gipfel oder, nach G. O. Dyhrenfurth, die fünf Hauptgletscher des Berges gemeint sein.

Die Gipfel

Der Kangchendzönga ist der einzige Achttausender, bei dem außer dem Hauptgipfel noch drei weitere Gipfel eine Höhe von mehr als  erreichen. Die (vermutlich) namensgebenden fünf Gipfel des Kangchendzönga sind:

Weitere Berge des Massivs
Vom Hauptgipfel des Kangchendzönga gehen vier lange Bergkämme x-förmig in alle Himmelsrichtungen ab: Nord- und Westgrat beginnen am Hauptgipfel. Nach Südosten verläuft ein nahezu waagerechter Grat über den Mittel- zum Südgipfel, an dem sich Süd- und Ostgrat verzweigen.
 Der Westgrat verläuft auf nepalesischer Seite über Westgipfel und Kangbachen bis zum  hohen Jannu.
 Der Ostgrat endet schließlich am Siniolchu () in Sikkim.
 Der Südgrat verläuft über Kabru Nord (), Kabru Süd () und die bis zu  hohen Rathong-Gipfel. Er bildet die Grenze zwischen Nepal und Indien.
 Die Gipfel des Nordgrates liegen ebenfalls auf der Grenze. Der Nordgrat erstreckt sich über den Nebengipfel Kangchendzönga Nord (), die Twins und den Tent Peak bis zum Jongsong La, einem  hohen Pass an der Grenze zu Tibet.

Besteigungsgeschichte

Im Jahr 1905 leitete Aleister Crowley die erste Expedition, die die Besteigung des Kangchendzönga versuchte. Sie erreichten eine Höhe von etwa . Vier Mitglieder der Gruppe wurden durch eine Lawine getötet. 1929 erreichte eine deutsche Expedition unter der Leitung von Paul Bauer am Nordostgrat eine Höhe von , bevor sie von einem fünf Tage dauernden Sturm zur Umkehr gezwungen wurde. Ein Jahr später fand bereits die zweite deutsche Expedition statt, diesmal unter der Leitung von Günter Dyhrenfurth und Ulrich Wieland. Sie wählte eine Route über die Nordflanke und scheiterte an der schlechten Witterung und einem Schneesturm. 1931 musste eine weitere Expedition unter Leitung von Bauer, die wieder die Route von 1929 versuchte, in einer Höhe von ca.  wegen extremer Lawinengefahr abgebrochen werden. In den folgenden Jahren verschob sich das Interesse des deutschen Expeditionswesens vom Kangchendzönga auf den Nanga Parbat. Insgesamt wurden von 1932 bis 1939 fünf Deutsche Nanga-Parbat-Expeditionen durchgeführt.

Am 25. Mai 1955 gelang George Band und Joe Brown, Mitglieder einer britischen Expedition unter der Leitung von Charles Evans, auf einer Route durch die Südwestflanke die Erstbesteigung des Hauptgipfels. 10 Tage nach der Erstbesteigung des Makalu war dies die siebte Erstbesteigung eines Achttausenders. Nur einen Tag später standen mit Norman D. Hardie und Antony H. R. Streather zwei weitere Expeditionsmitglieder auf dem Gipfel.

1979 gelang Doug Scott, Peter Boardman und Joe Tasker die erste Besteigung des Hauptgipfels ohne Flaschensauerstoff. Dabei eröffneten sie eine neue Route über den Nordgrat. Vier Jahre später war der Franzose Pierre Béghin der erste, der den Gipfel solo und ohne Flaschensauerstoff erreichte. Am 11. Januar 1986 schafften Jerzy Kukuczka und Krzysztof Wielicki die erste Winterbegehung. Drei Jahre später überschritt eine russische Expedition (u. a. Anatoli Bukrejew) erstmals alle vier Gipfel über , wobei zwei Teams in entgegengesetzter Richtung vorgingen.

In den 1990er Jahren waren vor allem die Besteigungsversuche von Frauen bedeutsam. Bis dahin hatte es keine Frau auf den Gipfel geschafft. Im Jahr 1991 starben die Bergsteigerinnen Marija Frantor und Joze Rozman am Berg, ihre Körper wurden später unterhalb der Gipfelwand gefunden. Im folgenden Jahr kam die zu diesem Zeitpunkt erfolgreichste Bergsteigerin, Wanda Rutkiewicz, ums Leben, nachdem sie es trotz aufziehenden Sturms abgelehnt hatte, abzusteigen. 1998 wurde Ginette Harrison die erste Frau, die den Gipfel erreichen konnte. Ein Jahr später starb sie am Dhaulagiri in einer Lawine. Die zweite Frau auf dem Gipfel war die Österreicherin Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. Sie erreichte diesen gemeinsam mit anderen Bergsteigern, darunter auch Ralf Dujmovits, Norbert Joos und Veikka Gustafsson, am 14. Mai 2006.

Khangchendzonga-Nationalpark
Im indischen Khangchendzonga-Nationalpark, der 1977 gegründet wurde und eine Fläche von 849 Quadratkilometer bedeckt, kommen fünf verschiedene Arten von gebirgsbewohnenden Ziegenartigen vor. Der Park beherbergt Seraue, Gorale, Himalaya-Tahre, Blauschafe und Tibetische Argalis. Der Park wurde 2016 zum UNESCO-Welterbe erklärt.

Weblinks

 Kangchendzönga auf himalaya-info.org
 Ersteigungsgeschichte auf bergfieber.de (private Website)
 Kangchendzönga auf emmet.de (private Website)

Englische Websites
 Kangchendzönga auf www.summitpost.org

Einzelnachweise

Berg im Himalaya
Kangchendzönga Himal
Distrikt Taplejung
Distrikt North Sikkim
Grenze zwischen Indien und Nepal

 Dieser Text basiert auf einer Übersetzung des Artikels :en:Kanchenjunga aus der englischen Wikipedia, Version vom 7. September 2004.


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July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London966 viewsAnswering questions from fans.
Photo: Andrew Duncan
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July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1049 viewsBen poses with fan Andrew Duncan at the NFL-UK Meet & Greet.
Andrew wanted to give those fans that were not in attendance an idea of what transpired at the Meet & Greet between Ben and NFL-UK fans last evening at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London:
Tuesday evening in London, England there was a unique event put on by the NFL to promote the International Series football games that will be played during the regular season at Wembley Stadium.
Twenty six English football fans were invited to attend a meet and greet session with Ben Roethlisberger. The audience wasn't entirely made up of Steelers fans, but as will happen in September when the Steelers play the Vikings, Steeler Nation UK were out in force.
Via the Steeler Nation UK Facebook group, many fans were encouraged to enter their names with NFL UK to ensure Ben was greeted by a friendly audience. Steeler Nation met up in Henrys Bar, Piccadilly, which will be the meeting place for Steeler fans from around the world in September the evening before the Minnesota game.
The proud sight of Steeler fans, dressed in their Ben shirts with their Terrible Towels walking the streets of London to the Grosvenor House Hotel would have a sight for English sore eyes. With a few fans of other NFL teams in the room, twenty UK Steeler fans made their entrance and overwhelmed the event with a sea of black and gold.
Ben appeared and was introduced to the fans by Neil Reynolds, Sky TV presenter. To begin the session, Neil showed a clip of Ben avoiding tackles against a Dallas defense and asked if there was any logic in what Ben was doing as he ran around the field trying to find an open receiver. Ben retorted that the first thing he intended was to try and not get hit!
Saying he recalled the play, Ben continued to explain what happened against "the perfect defense" shown in the clip eventually making a completion to the ever reliable Heath Miller.
Neil suggested the improvising shown in the clip was playground football and Ben agreed, commenting that he grew up playing football in the backyard and playing in the schoolyard, "My competitiveness doesn't allow me to just give up on a play. I can't do it. As coaches know, we live by the sword, we die by the sword."
Ben moved on with his talk by expressing the feelings of coming to London to play football and how excited he was to tell his teammates that, "we're going there because we have fans there. It makes me happy, it'll make the guys happy and I have always said the Steeler fans are the best fans in sports. We're playing for the fans and that's what's exciting. It's not just about making money for the NFL, it's about playing for the fans."
Looking at one of the Terrible Towels the fans were holding, Neil suggested that he shouldn't touch it as he wasn't a Steeler fan. Ben laughed and commented, "You can touch it. But don't disrespect it. Don't step on it. Just don't do anything bad with it."
During the question and answer session with the audience, Ben responded to questions that included his golf enthusiasm, his memories of the first game as a Steeler, the return of Heath Miller and the changing personnel, his favourite and the worst place to play (Baltimore).
Ben then moved to a flip chart to draw Xs and Os for a couple of plays that could happen on the field. Ben first joked that he would draw the whole playbook, before suggesting Pictionary. Addressing the enthralled fans, Ben drew a base play describing each move and option.
He also explained that NFL playbooks change every week and players have four or five days to learn the new plays, the terminology and what everyone is doing. Acknowledging that there could be 210 plays in a game plan, for each game, Ben confirmed he would talk to offensive co-ordinator Todd Haley every Friday and if he didn't like a play he can ask the coach to take it out.
When the Steeler Nation UK flag was unravelled, Ben was very enthused and keen to have his photo taken with it and the fans.
The session ended with Ben having his photo taken individually with each fan.
*Thank you Andrew!
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1375 viewsBen puts on a little game planning seminar.
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London977 viewsFans asked questions of Ben during the Meet & Greet which was held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane.
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1664 views"Ta da!!!!"
Ben poses in front of the Steeler Nation UK banner!
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1027 viewsLook kids! Big Ben....Parliament!
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1600 viewsBIG BENS!
Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis
July 4th, 2013 - Big Ben in Ireland1055 viewsPosing with Dublin Footballer Barry Cahill.
"Great meeting Big Ben today @steelers @usembassydublin" -- Barry @barrycahilldub
July 4th, 2013 - Big Ben in Ireland1609 viewsBen, Ashley and Mr. & Mrs. Rooney pose in front of the Ambassador's residence wishing Steeler Nation a Happy Fourth of July!
Photo: Mr. Lauten, Steelers
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1170 viewsLook kids!! Big Ben...in front of Big Ben!
"London is beautiful and we are excited to grow the Steelers fan base worldwide!" -- Ben
Photo: NFL - UK
July 4th, 2013 - Big Ben in Ireland1414 viewsAn early morning round of interviews with the local Irish media for Ben at the beautiful home of Ambassador Rooney.
Photo: Burt Lauten, Steelers
July 2, 2013 - Big Ben in London1182 viewsBen speaks to the media during a photo-shoot in front of Big Ben.
"I want to pass Terry Bradshaw by getting more Super Bowl wins. That's our expectations in Pittsburgh." -- Ben
Photo: Mr. Burt Lauten, Steelers

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Zoe Meagher · Experience Developer, Museums Victoria
This morning we chat with Creative Arts graduate Zoe Meagher, who has found her dream job as an Experience Developer at the Melbourne Museum.
Bright, resilient and passionate, Zoe charts her trajectory from Scienceworks Customer Service Assistant to her current role, where she is tasked with weaving space, sound and exhibition design together to ensure the Museum's exhibitions are an informing and entertaining experience like no other… and continue to pull more than 1.7 million people off Wikipedia and through their doors each year!
Zoe Meagher works her dream job as an Experience Developer at the Melbourne Museum. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
Zoe with specimens in the Melbourne Museum's test space for the forthcoming exhibition 'Inside Out', for which she is overseeing the experience development. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
Behind the scenes with Zoe, who has worked for Museums Victoria (across their three locations) since 2009. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
Some of Zoe's amazing notes – she's an exceptional illustrator – on a visitor experience test cart she had made to assist with prototyping exhibitions and gaining feedback. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
'When I was studying I didn't know that this was something I could aim for,' says Zoe. 'So I just did the bits and pieces that I wanted to, little by little, and it ended up building into the experience that helped me secure this role.' Pictured is one of her illustrations from a meeting.
Just going about her day-to-day alongside a gigantic polar bear. Earlier she was testing how far in front of the bear a visitor would have to stand to get its whole body in their selfie! Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
Zoe and fellow Experience Developer David Perkins (of Client Liaison music-video fame, they joke!). There are five experience developers at Museums Victoria. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
Zoe describes her role as 'almost like a museum dramaturge', weaving curation as well as audial and visual element of an exhibition together into an overall experience.
Zoe will often cruise around the Museum testing out her audio tour prototypes. Photo – Caitlin Mills for The Design Files.
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'Dive in and find small ways to start doing the things you want to be doing,' – Zoe Meagher.
Zoe Meagher studied a course that doesn't exist anymore, to gain a job that wasn't created until a couple of years ago. The Creative Art graduate's path to Museums Victoria Experience Developer certainly reveals the dynamic state of the current employment landscape.
An ultimate go-getter, and today's imperative: 'a generalist', Zoe is one of five experience developers at the Museum, and she is currently working on its forthcoming exhibition, 'Inside Out'.
As part of the project team, Zoe advocates for the visitor, constantly questioning: what does someone actually experience in an exhibition, why should they care, and what's the best way to communicate the interesting aspects? 'There is always something cool about an object or topic here, it's just about finding the key to unlock that for people, and to communicate it,' she tells, as a 100-year-old taxidermied baby rhinoceros gets wheeled passed, post face-lift.
Today, the 30-year-old schools us on why you shouldn't wait for an invitation or a big break, but pursue what you love bit-by-bit and look widely for experience and inspiration – such as abandoned Melbourne Airport buildings, Australia's first supercomputer, or the recently discovered TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, for example.
The talented performance artist and skilled illustrator modestly acknowledges she's been lucky a LOT, but as we talk, it quickly becomes clear Zoe's incredible work ethic and enthusiasm have been the drivers of her success, rather than any matter of chance.
At the close of our interview, she struggles to distinguish her future goals from her aspirations for the Museum, as intertwined as they are – the ultimate indication that we've really found someone working their dream job!
The most important verb in the get-your-dream-job lexicon is…
Cross-pollinate!
I think it's really important to look for experience and insight outside of the specific field that you think your dream job is in, because you never know what is going to end up being unexpectedly relevant further down the track. When I was attending university, I was also waitressing the whole time and I remember thinking, 'this is never going to be relevant to anything I want to do in the future!'. But being able to work under pressure, learning resilience, and how to talk to anyone came out of that.
What all of your experience adds up to is something that is going to be unique to you.
I landed this job by…
I studied a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Melbourne University, majoring in Visual Media and for my Honours year I wrote on film theory, did some sound design and produced a folio of drawing. It was kind of this Jack-of-all-trades degree, a good mix of theory and practice, but unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore.
Following university, I started working for Museums Victoria in 2009, in a part-time customer service role at Scienceworks – I was looking for a place that I enjoyed being in, and like so many '90s Melbourne kids, I'd had really happy memories their, so it was my pick!
After a couple of years, I moved to customer service at Melbourne Museum, and later into the education and community programs department where I was working on lessons for school groups. Next, I was at the Immigration Museum doing the same work but full-time – so I have the trifecta of working at all three venues! – before taking my current role.
Alongside to all of this, I have continued to work as a performance artist.I really like focussing on little-known historical stories and one project I did, before I started in my role at Melbourne Museum, was actually at the Melbourne Museum with the support of the Next Wave Festival. It was an audio tour and performance about the CSIRAC Computer, which was Australia's first digital computer. Through this, I got to know some people working at the Museum – that's my version of volunteering or interning, making connections and gaining experience.
This position was externally advertised and I was persistent; when I got this job, it wasn't the first time I applied for it. The first time I wasn't ready, but then I tried again. I had also done a performance at an abandoned building at Melbourne Airport not long before my second application, and some people doing similar work at the Museum happened to attend. They were able to see how what I was doing in performance, was relevant to what I could do in this role.
A typical day for me involves…
It's always different and it really varies project to project. Usually I will be across a few different projects at one time, but at the moment I am really focussing on the end of year exhibition: 'Inside Out'.
I have been working on the audio layer, so the curator and I have been doing lots of interviews with subject specialists from both inside and outside of the Museum. Last week we interviewed an Egyptologist, and later that afternoon a tattoo artist from Preston! Tomorrow it's an iconic Australian fashion designer.
Getting to interview and meet all those people is really exciting, and then I go away with the recorded audio and figure out how that will fit into the script for the audio layer of the exhibition. I put a very rough edit into the headphones so I can wander around (looking very strange) and test it to see if it is doing the job that we need it to do for the visitor.
In the afternoon, I usually go and sit down with the curators, designers and the creative director and see how all our respective work is fitting together, if it's weaving together into a story that we can share with the visitors.
The most rewarding part of my job is…
Having conversations with the people that actually visit the museum, because this means I get to understand our finished product!
Also getting to collaborate within this organisation is really rewarding; the unique mix of people who work on each individual aspect of a project, makes each one super inspiring and its own kind of unique beast! It's really interesting to see what can spring out of the unexpected collaborations.
On the other hand, the most challenging aspect is…
…I think, sometimes just answering that basic question of: why should someone care about these things? Because for some of the items we have in the museum, it's not that obvious. The CSIRAC computer is an example; it just does look like a big metal box with a whole heap of wires sticking out of it, and many people will just work straight past it.
The flip side is getting to seek out the story of a particular item, through talking to people who really know and love it – the curators, researchers and scientists in the building. Getting to witness their passion, drawing that out of them and feeling that spark too, before working out a way to convey this to the visitor turns the challenge into another highlight.
The culture of my workplace is…
The people who work here are very passionate about what they do, and they bring a whole lot of love to the Museum. Everyone is very supportive of one another, but people are also supportive of one another's individual aspirations, their interest and passions outside of the Museum. Our workplace culture allows people to have their own lives too.
I continue to do my performance art under my art name, Zoe Mars. Recently, I did a little audio tour and projection for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival in collaboration with a composer. It was about the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, which was identified earlier this year. You could download it and stream it, and it was to scale, taking you on the 40 light-year journey from Earth to the TRAPPIST-1 planets over the course of 15 minutes. I also created these projections that were based on 70s sci-fi illustrations, that was a lot of fun.
I'm always…
…sketching on my iPad during meetings. I find it can be a really helpful to storyboard or draw a diagram that communicates an idea or concept. I was always doing this at school too.
Sometimes I'm doing it so much that it starts to look like I'm not listening, but I am. As I interpret things they just come out the other end of the pencil.
My idea of the perfect workplace is…
I think one that encourages playfulness, calculated risk taking and experimentation, but also one where you get the opportunity to collaborate with lots of different people, I think that is really so valuable.
Practically speaking, a workplace where baked good are plentiful.
And also one where the line between colleagues and friends is a little bit blurry. Here, we'll go out together after work and see theatre or live art shows. And just having that, being able to be friends, makes the workplace much more wonderful.
The best piece of advice I've received is…
…not to wait around for the one big project, or one big opportunity, but instead to dive in and find small ways to start doing the things that you want to be doing. Collectively they will unfold and turn into something bigger.
If you don't, I think there is a danger of always only talking about that big thing that you want to do and never actually getting around to doing it. Then it becomes too intimidating to ever start… 'Just do it,' – some wise words from Shia LaBeouf… and Nike, but this advice actually came from my partner Matthew. He used to work in live art too, and is just one of those people with an excellent work ethic who is always doing things and never hesitating, not waiting for an invitation, just going ahead and trying stuff out.
Over the years, the Museum has…
Well, the job I have now didn't exist three years ago, so that is one big change.
Another one would be the approach to now developing, not just exhibitions or programs, but experiences that mean something beyond delivering information to people.
I am also really pleased to see a big growth in collaboration with people outside of the Museum, as well as making it much more accessible. There have been really beautiful initiatives over the last couple of years, like The Autism-friendly Museum that provides resources for families who have members on the autism spectrum. Another, called I Want To Go To The Museum, makes it easier for people who would otherwise find it difficult to visit, by assisting with transportation, costs, cultural differences… and just making it more open and welcoming for everyone.
In the next five years, I'd like to…
…find ways to work with even more objects that are currently tucked away in storage. Of our 17 million, only around 1% is on show. I know that there are some really excellent supercomputers that are just waiting for someone to come along and love them – I would LOVE to be in it person!…computer history is so so rich, and there is really interesting feminist history with as well. A lot of the early operators and programmers were women, because people thought it was a clerical position, and then as soon as it started to get more prestige a lot of women got pushed out of the industry – I could rant about that for ages!
The work that is happening here is changing all the time, there are always so many interesting things going on, who knows what's going to happen in this place over the next five years. If you had said to me three years ago, 'You'll be able to work with virtual reality by 2017!' There is no way I would have believed you, but that is something that has emerged all of a sudden. The scope for new kinds of technology to affect how we experience museums is really exciting.
I definitely want to continue with my personal art practice. And I want to go and see lots of live art and theatre so I can find ways to incorporate unexpected inspiration from other disciplines into what we do at the Museum!
Melbourne Museum's 'Inside Out' exhibition opens on December 23rd and runs until February 11th. For more information, visit the website, here.
Great story. No luck involved at all with Zoe landing this job. She's clearly very talented and engaged (and engaging) and the Museum is lucky to have her. As Jamila Rizvi writes in her book, women need to expunge this word from our vocabulary when it comes to our careers- hard work and capabilities got you there, not luck!
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Yahoo's bankers warns bidders of revenue decline in 2016
7 Apr 2016352 Views
Internet giant Yahoo's bankers are warning potential bidders that the company's revenues are in free fall
Struggling internet portal Yahoo is understood to have disclosed to first-round bidders that its revenues for 2016 are tipped to drop 15pc and that profits could fall by 20pc.
Two reports from US-based news organisations claim that the company has revealed to potential bidders that the company's revenue and earnings prospects for this year are not looking good.
Re/code's Kara Swisher is understood to have seen the prospectus or "book" that bankers have given to prospective buyers and it reveals a dire situation could be unfolding and shows a company in "serious free fall."
'Yahoo remains one of the biggest properties on the web and it is hard to be able to buy that kind of scale easily'
– KARA SWISHER, RE/CODE
The "book" estimates that revenues are expected to decline from $4.4bn in 2014 and $4.1bn in 2015 to $3.5bn in 2016.
EBITDA is expected to drop from $1.4bn in 2014 and just below $1bn in 2015 to $750m in 2016.
Swisher said that the numbers in the book make confusing reading and that CEO Marissa Mayer is making a big pitch around its Index voice search product for mobile.
Either way, bidders she has spoken to are likely to make some kind of bid because Yahoo is still too big an internet property to ignore.
"While some are scared by the numbers, everyone I spoke to plans to make a bid of some sort, largely because even as financially precarious as it has become, Yahoo remains one of the biggest properties on the web and it is hard to be able to buy that kind of scale easily."
The New York Times, meanwhile, reported that it has spoken to two people close to the bidding who have also seen confidential data that has been shared with bidders and they tip a more conservative decline.
It reports that Yahoo is projecting revenue of $4.4bn this year.
Yahoo started looking for a buyer for its core business in February and has set an initial deadline for initial bids for Monday 11 April.
The company expects to lose about 1,000 employees in 2016, from 10,500 in 2015 to 9,000 by the end of this year.
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Taft: Mind if I tag along? I can explain the medical side of this little mystery better than either of you.
Gibbs: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Taft: No. Maybe. Kind of.
Permalink: No. Maybe. Kind of.
David: What did your bad guy do?
Taft: Killed a young petty officer and stole a bunch of guns, apparently.
Jeanne: Stolen weapons, Tony? Is that why you're here?
Tony: No, Jeanne. It isn't. Look, it never even crossed our minds.
David: Are you saying that this is about your father?
Tony: No. Look, I swear to you, this is about doctors in Africa. It has nothing to do with your father.
Gibbs: How about you? Did it get weird, her and her husband?
Tony: Do you really want to know?
Permalink: Gibbs pretends to be interested.
Catherine: The infamous Agent Gibbs.
Gibbs: Lady, save your breath. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Gibbs: Look, if you want to quit, quit, okay? I don't need you. I don't need your shrink. I don't need whoever would take your place.
Taft: Gibbs, this is Catherine. My wife.
Permalink: Gibbs, this is Catherine. My wife.
Catherine: Look, before he comes back I just want to thank you real quick for being Cyril's friend. We've been through a lot since losing Paul. And I think this sparring you guys do? It's good for him. You're good for him, Gibbs. Very good.
Gibbs: Not as good as he's been for me.
Catherine: Not that you're going to tell him that.
Gibbs: Oh no. His head's already big enough.
Permalink: Oh no. His head's already big enough.
David: I hope you know that, while I'm truly grateful, I'm not giving up Jeanne.
David: I see the way you look at her. Frankly, the way that she looks at you would trouble me a bit if I didn't know your history.
David: I'm her husband. I know everything. Just like I know that when affairs end badly, like yours most certainly did, they have a way of staying under the skin. Whether you want them too or not.
Tony: She's not under my skin, David.
David: It's not your skin I'm worried about.
Permalink: It's not your skin I'm worried about.
Tony: I just want to be really clear that when we came to see you yesterday it had nothing to do with your father.
Jeanne: Okay then so we're good now? Or will you one day find another reason to stop by, and always at the precise moment when I was starting to feel whole again?


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O motor Mercedes-Benz M113 (e o similar M155) é um motor a pistão V8 usado em automóveis, é usado nos anos 2000. Ele foi baseado no similar V6 M112, que foi introduzido em 1998.
Os Mercedes-Benz M113's padrões são construídos em Untertürkheim na Alemanha, enquanto a versão AMG E55 é produzido na fábrica da AMG em Affalterbach na Alemanha. Os M113's tem o bloco do motor em aluminio e o cabeçote de aluminio SOHC possui duas velas por cilindro. Os cilindros são revestidos com silício/alumínio, e o cabeçote tem 3 válvulas por cilindro. Outras características incluem injeção de combustível SFI, bielas fraturadas em aço fojado, comando de válvulas fundido em uma só peça e um coletor de admissão de magnésio.

M113 E43

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On February 14, Nikolas Cruz opened fired into a South Florida High school. 17 are reported dead and many injured in the shooting. Among them was an LDS teen, Alaina Petty.
"We are heartbroken by the loss we feel in the tragedy that unfolded yesterday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Our hearts go out to the families of all impacted by this tragedy, and our prayers are for their comfort and healing. We wish to thank our family, friends, and the community for the love and support demonstrated to our family.
It is important, to sum up, all that Alaina was and meant to her family and friends. Alaina was a vibrant and determined young woman, loved by all who knew her. Alaina loved to serve. She served her community through her participation in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas JROTC program and her countless hours of service as a volunteer for the "Helping Hands" program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Alaina was part of hundreds of volunteers that rushed to the most heavily impacted areas of Florida to clean up and help rebuild the lives of those devastated by Hurricane Irma. Her selfless service brought peace and joy to those that had lost everything during the storm. While we will not have the opportunity to watch her grow up and become the amazing woman we know she would become, we are keeping an eternal perspective. We are grateful for the knowledge that Alaina is a part of our eternal family and that we will reunite with her. This knowledge and unabiding faith in our Heavenly Father's plan gives us comfort during this difficult time.
Another LDS teen, Madeleine Wilford, was also injured in the shooting as well. She had to endure several surgeries and will need a few more in the future.
Throughout the shooting and shortly thereafter, many reached out. Many posted on Facebook for prayers and moments of silence for all the people that had lost lives and were injured.


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Reports of the National Center for Science Education
Evolution accepted by a majority of Americans at last
The level of public acceptance of evolution in the United States is now solidly above the halfway mark, according to a new study based on a series of national public opinion surveys conducted over the last thirty-five years. "From 1985 to 2010, there was a statistical dead heat between acceptance and rejection of evolution," commented lead researcher Jon D. Miller of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. "But acceptance then surged, becoming the majority position in 2016."
In these surveys, American adults in representative national samples were asked whether they accepted, rejected, or didn't know (or weren't sure) about the statement "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." From 1985 to 2007, the respondents were in effect evenly divided between acceptance and rejection of evolution: although acceptance enjoyed a slight lead for all of these years except 1985, its lead was not statistically significant except in 1999.
From 2012 to 2020, however, acceptance of evolution was consistently, and statistically significantly, in the lead — and over the last five years, in the majority. In 2020, the most recent year available, 52% of respondents accepted evolution while only 36% rejected it. The scientific community's level of acceptance of evolution is upward of 98%, according to a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center, so there remains a substantial discrepancy — but the progress is nevertheless encouraging.
What factors are responsible for the increase in the acceptance of evolution? In their study, Miller and his collaborators identified aspects of education — taking college courses in science, having a college degree, and possessing civic science literacy — as the strongest factors promoting the acceptance of evolution. Improvements with regard to these factors — the proportion of Americans with a college degree almost doubled between 1988 and 2018, for example—thus result in improvements in the acceptance of evolution.
A particularly important route for such improvement is through the preparation of public school teachers. A pair of recent studies by researchers at the National Center for Science Education and Pennsylvania State University found, in analyzing data from a nationally representative survey conducted in 2019, that high school biology teachers and middle school science teachers were both more likely to teach evolution as a matter of scientific consensus if they had studied evolution themselves at the college level.
The strongest factor obstructing the acceptance of evolution, according to Miller and his collaborators, is religious fundamentalism, unsurprisingly. For the purposes of the study, religious fundamentalism was measured in terms of belief in a personal God who hears prayers, acceptance of a literal reading of the Bible, self-reported frequency of attendance of religious services during a typical week, self- reported frequency of prayer during a typical week, and agreement with "We depend too much on science and not enough on faith."
In 2019, only 32% of those who scored highest on the scale of religious fundamentalism accepted evolution, as opposed to 54% of the whole sample and 91% of those who scored lowest on the scale. But even those who score highest on the scale of religious fundamentalism are showing a shift toward acceptance of evolution: in 1988, a mere 8% of religious fundamentalists accepted evolution. While their numbers declined slightly in the last decade, approximately 30% of Americans are religious fundamentalists as defined in the study.
Antievolutionism remains a political force. The Republican party often panders to religious fundamentalism, and attitudes toward evolution are politicized as a result. Miller and his collaborators found that 34% of conservative Republicans accepted evolution in 2019, as compared to 83% of liberal Democrats. There is evidence that the politicization is increasing: in 2009, 54% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats accepted human evolution, but by 2013, the ten-point gap widened to a twenty-four-point gap, according to the Pew Research Center.
Miller and his collaborators concluded their study by expressing a degree of optimism for the future. Between "[t]he continued growth of educational attainment among American adults in the twenty-first century" and "changes in the religious profile of Americans" such as the increase of non-religious people and the decrease of inerrantism and related attitudes among religious people, they suggest, "we might expect a moderate rate of growth in the public acceptance of evolution in the United States in the decades ahead."
The study, "Public Acceptance of Evolution in the United States, 1985– 2010," was published in the journal Public Understanding of Science, a peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of the interrelationships between science and the public. Besides Miller, the authors are Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott of the National Center for Science Education, Belén Laspra of the University of Oviedo in Spain, Carmelo Polino of the University of Oviedo and Centro REDES in Argentina, and Mark S. Ackerman and Jordan S. Huffaker of the University of Michigan.
Originally published in Skeptical Inquirer 2021; 45(6):5–6 and reprinted with permission.
Glenn Branch is Deputy Director of NCSE.
branch@ncse.ngo
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