Oceania and Africa rising in university rankings – The PIE News

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The rankings this yearfound that the dominance ofUS institutions at the highest level is continuing, but acknowledged it is clear that the crown is slipping.

For the first time, continental data reveal that Oceania has overtaken North America to enjoy the distinction of the highest average overall score (based on universities ranked each year since 2018), THE said.

UK and US institutions dominate the top 10 universities worldwide, with the University of Oxford, Harvard University, Stanford, Cambridge and MIT occupying the top five positions.

The average score across Oceania is 51.4, compared with 50.4 in North America, THE said. Last year, both regions scored 50.4.

Institutions in Australia haveincreased by6.4 points over the past six years and are now almost equal to the average US score, the ranking said. The fall in US rankings was put down to a steady drop incitation scores and declines in research and teaching reputation.

Earlier this year,QS World University Rankings 2023 also noted thatAmerican higher education continues to show signs of decline, despiteMIT maintaining its top position.

Of the201 USuniversities ranked by QS, 103saw their position fall, while29 improved.

THE found that, along withOceania rising, Africais on the increase, withZambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mauritius all represented for the first time.

The number ofAfrican countries in the THE ranking has increased fromnine in 2018 to 17 this year. The 12 Nigerian institutions included this year is twice as many as 2021.

It also pointed toSaudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates as improving overall scores ata faster rate than the global average.

You have to run very fast to stand still in the global rankings, said Phil Baty,THEs chief knowledge officer. Losing ground can risk a vicious circle of gradually losing access to global talent and partnerships.

Australias overall success was attributed to its universitiesresearch productivity,very strong international collaboration, lucrative overseas student market and very healthy levels of research funding over the past 15years orso, Baty added.

The QS rankings, released in June, saw Australia retain its five top-50 universities, but suggested it is stagnating, with as many universities improving as declining.

Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson said the latest rankings show thatAustralias universities are continuing to grow in strength and prominence.

Our world-class universities are playing a greater role in our region, and this is reflected in the latest rankings as Oceania finishes top of the class, she said.

With sevenuniversities in the worlds top 100 all members of the Group of Eight and 10 in the top 200, Australia is thejoint-fifth most-represented country in the ranking.

Go8 universities invest $7.2 billion annually into quality research and we receive $1bn annually in research income from industry more than twice the rest of the sector combined,Go8 chief executive Vicki Thomson said.

We are without peer when it comes to research effort and reputation which augers well for the future as we emerge from the Covid crisis and the associated economic challenges.

More Australian universities have gained ground rather than dropped in the rankings

More Australian universities have gained ground rather than dropped in the rankings, which is testament to the overall quality of our higher education sector.

Our higher education sector is a global leader in teaching and research, Jackson added.

This is an outstanding achievement and much-deserved recognition of the role our universities play in a modern economy, especially after the challenges of the last few years.

Seven of the nine German universities in the top 100 are also members ofresearch-intensive university group German U15.

German U15 chairman and president ofJohannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Georg Krausch, said the result underlines the international reputation and the research and teaching strengths of the group.

The unbroken dominance of the financially strong Anglo-American universities and the clear upward trend of the strongly funded Chinese universities show that research and teaching are in direct relation to adequate funding, he said.

Despite the tense budget situation and in view of rising energy prices and high inflation rates, we must not allow ourselves to be left behind when it comes to university financing in an international comparison.

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WWII Ship Sunk In Oceania Shows Up In Dried-Up Californian Lake Officials Have No Idea How It Got There – IFLScience

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Alongside an unnerving number of dead bodies, droughts in the US have brought out a new mystery: how did a boat that sank by an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during World War II end up in a dried-up Californian reservoir?

On Sunday, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest put out a number of social media posts about the boat, discovered while the water was low at Shasta Lake.

"The mystery begins with the painted numbers found on the ramp when the boat was moved," the team wrote of the boat on Facebook. "It is marked '31-17'. This confirms it as a boat assigned to the Attack Transport USS Monrovia."

The ship Monrovia was used as a floating headquarters for general George S. Patton during the invasion of Sicily during World War II. America's 34th President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, served on the ship at that time and in subsequent battles.

"It went on to a further 6 D-Day invasions in the Pacific," Shasta-Trinity National Forest explained on Facebook. "Reportedly it was used in the invasion of Tarawa. It names the crew and states that it sank in shallow water during that invasion."

The ship was later salvaged during the invasion of the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands by the US and sold for scrap in 1969, but nobody is clear how the smaller troop transport boat ended up in the US and at the bottom of a lake. It's possible that whoever bought the scrap metal of the boat attempted to float it, before quickly discovering it was not reservoir-worthy.

The ship, which was actually discovered last fall, is now being preserved ahead of being displayed at a Nebraska museum.

"Any 'restoration' will be done to preserve as much of the integrity of the boat as possible and will hopefully preserve it in a weathered 'combat fatigue' look," the team wrote on Facebook.

"There is more to discover of its history and obviously its time on Shasta Lake, and still the circumstance of its sinking remains a mystery."

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bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup 2022 Australian MotoGP

The bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup ran as a support class for the Australian MotoGP round over the weekend, with round victors up on the podium in front of 40,000 fans, in the same spot the MotoGP race winners would stand shortly thereafter.

Running three races across the weekend, Ryan Larkin banked enough points from his two race wins to finish on the final podium position overall, while Levi Russo finished in second place, equal on points with the inaugural Mick Doohan Trophy winner and top OJC racer of the weekend, Hudson Thompson.

The bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup returns next at The Bend over the 25-27 November weekend, wrapping up the season with Harrison Watts carrying a strong lead on 276 points total into the final, and only a point separating Cameron Rende and Hudson Thompson 251 to 250 in second and third currently, meaning its still anyones game.

Heres the run down from Phillip Island

For Day One of the event, the riders arrived as excited as could be expected but unexpected delays through the morning led to a reduction in run-time for the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup riders for Free Practice one. Several minutes were trimmed from the only practice session of the weekend, and as a result, all 20 riders took to the track without delay.

The first laps set saw Alexander Codey lead the way with a 2:16.132 in a session that was destined for rapid progression as the field came to grips with the conditions.

Marcus Hamod brought that down to a 2:14.338 on lap two, with still plenty of time to find in a session that was already half-over.

Five laps were the most any of the OJC could manage in the 15-minute session, and while the bulk of the field were continuing to improve in sectors one and two; sector three proved the most difficult.

With less than a minute left in the session, a light rain made its way over the circuit. Multiple riders were caught out by the sudden change in adhesion and the session was red flagged with 19 seconds remaining on the clock.

Hamod topped the session, followed closely by Hunter Corney and Bodie Paige.

William Hunt led the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup riders back out onto the circuit for the all-important solitary qualifying session at Phillip Island.

Roughly three precious degrees warmer, the more favourable track conditions were paired with a full-length session on the cards, and a lap record of 2:11.343 set by Levi Russo in February to chase down.

Russo topped the table after the first lap, a 2:14.212 the time to beat out of the gate. Hunter Corner made some rapid gains on the second lap, clocking in a 2:12.619 to lead the field by almost a full second.

Hamod was next to ascend to the top and sit in provisional pole with a slightly faster 2:12.594, while current Cup leader, Harrison Watts, sat in third just 0.050 behind.

With three minutes left in the session, a new challenger emerged as Ryan Larkin set a new fastest time of 2:12.175, while Corney continued improving to move ahead of Hamod.

As the chequered flag ended the session, the final push from Larkin was more than enough to secure pole position. Corney was second 0.389 behind, while Hamod rounded out the front row with a 2:12.594.

The heavens were tempted to rain on the parade of the first of three bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup races, but after a small light band cleared between qualifying and Race One, it was all clear for lights out.

Sam Drane, who started in seventh on the third row, had a fantastic start, moving to second by the end of the first lap, while Cameron Rende took crossed the line in first from fourth.

It was apparently very early in the race, that the traditional trading places game would be on the cards, with numerous leaders over the first two laps. Rende fell to ninth by the end of lap two, while Watts took the lead.

On lap three, Watts looked to build a lead but as they crossed the line, he had fallen to seventh while Rende had returned to battle at the front to dice with Larkin for the lead. Ella McCausland became the unfortunate first to crash at turn ten and did not return to the race.

Lap four saw Marcus Hamod, Alexander Codey and Drane come together in a crash at turn two, dropping the leading group from nine riders to just six. While the trio thankfully returned to their feet, their races were over.

With the field down to 15 with two laps remaining, Larkin brought the pack to the line, managing to hold the lead as the front six crossed in a tight formation.

After a tussle for position throughout the final lap, Larkin played the best hand with the perfect run to the line, edging out Levi Russo by just 0.008 and Rende by 0.012. Watts came home in fourth an agonizing 0.013 behind the podium, missing out on a step for the first time in seven straight races.

Following the completion of Moto2 Free Practice 3, the bLU cRU OJC riders took to the track for what would be an incredible second race.

Cameron Rende was first to jump to the front, working from fourth to first on the first lap, with Harrison Watts, Ryan Larkin, Marcus Hamod and Alexander Codey, all within 0.127s at the line.

The 30,000 strong crowd were treated to lap-after-lap of incredibly tight racing, and a five-wide battle to the line for almost every single lap.

By the end of the third lap, the front group of 12 had broken away from the rest of the field, but within this dozen, it was still anyones race to win as they were split by only 1.233s, with Rende having to battle with almost half the field to try and hold onto first.

Ella McCausland managed to work her way up as high as fourth on lap four and was right in the mix throughout, while Levi Russo had fallen to 12th only to move to fourth on the very next lap.

On lap five, it was Larkin who took the lead with two-to-go as the pack of 12 continued the fight, separated by less than one second as they jostled and toyed with how best to use the precious tow down Gardner Straight.

The final two laps finally saw a crack appear, splitting off the front seven from the pack of twelve, but it was no more than a crack. Hunter Corney led the chasing group that included Hudson Thompson, James Weaver, McCausland and Teerin Fleming.

Up front it was Russo who took the lead from 12th two laps prior into the final lap, thrilling the crowd as the top three of Hamod, Alexander Codey and Russo, were split by 0.009 at the line.

The final lap went to the wire as expected. It was all down to who could set up the best on the exit of turn 10 onto the big sweeping final two corners. Larkin played his cards to perfection to take back-to-back wins, while Rende managed to hold off Russo to take second by five-thousandths of a second.

Notwithstanding the entertaining show the Grand Prix bikes were putting on, the bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup had well and truly put on a memorable race two.

The final race of the weekend for the OJC took to a well rubbered, but cooling track. All eyes were on Ryan Larkin from the outset, with a perfect-points weekend on the cards.

But this is the Oceania Junior Cup, and nothing was a given for the pole sitter- or any other rider for that matter.

From the moment the lights went out at the start, it was clear that the field of 20 were growing in track knowledge and confidence, and while the lap times had dropped by around two seconds from the midday race, the racing had become closer.

Fleming and Andrew were the big movers early in the race, while McCausland and Paige both dropped places in the opening lap.

On lap three, Harrison Watts had taken the lead to start the lap, only to low-side his Yamaha YZF-R15 mid-way through the newly named Miller corner Turn four. Watts managed to pick the bike back up and finish the race to score what could be crucial points come the finale at the Bend next month.

On the next lap, Miller corner became the sight of the big one. Larkin was looking to make a move to line up on the inside of the pack of riders coming into turn four, but just as he made the move, so did Andrew. Larkin made contact with the rear of Andrews YZF-R15 from behind, resulting in a crash that also collected Cameron Rende.

Andrew hit the ground quite awkwardly, resulting in a trip to medical, but thanks to the wonderful protection afforded by his Shark helmet and Ricondi leathers, the likeable and distinctive young man that is Elijah Andrew was cleared the following morning of any serious injury.

The chaos of Miller corner opened the door for a number of extraordinary big moves. Bodie Paige went from 14th to first, Levi Russo made it to second from 13th and Weaver was sizing up the podium along with a rapid Ella McCausland. While McCausland joined the series mid-season, her rapid rise from back marker to contender was noted by many.

But it was the Bodie Paige show for the rest of the race. After capitalising on the chaos of lap four, Paige edged out to a half-second lead coming into the last lap an eternity on a circuit like Phillip Island where the tow can be so powerful.

As the pack rounded the crucial turn 10 one final time, it looked like Paige could be swamped by the trio of Sam Drane, Hudson Thompson and McCausland. But the #74 kept his cool, became one with the bike, and brought it home for the win.

Drane was next just 0.169 behind, while Thompson managed to hold off McCausland to take a critical third place.

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South Asia And Oceania Pea Fiber Consumption Is Expected To Grow By Nearly 2x By 2032 – openPR

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AUSSIE YOUNG GUNS HANDPICKED AS FERRARI ACADEMY WINNERS – Auto Action

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Jack Beeton and Gianmarco Pradel are names to keep an eye on after the Australian teenagers were named as winners of the 2022 Ferrari Driver Academy Asia Pacific and Oceania Selection Program.

The duo were handpicked after standing out from a field of 24 talented teenagers from around Australia and the Asia Pacific region chosen to attend the program at Sepang International Circuit, the home of the Malaysian Formula 1 and MotoGP Grands prix.

Having made it to the programs final six after a series of intense testing both in and out of a Formula 4 car, Beeton and Pradel did enough to impress the collection of judges, which included FDA representatives Marco Matassa and Alessendaro Vantini, and ultimately secured a spot at the World Scouting Finals later this month.

Both Australians will now head to Ferraris home base in Maranello for the finals, where they will go up against some of the best young talents from around the world for a place in the Ferrari Driver Academy.

Young Aussie Jack Beeton analysing data with an engineer on the final day of the FDA Asia Pacific and Oceania Selection Program. Photos: Xoom DImage

For Beeton, the 14-year-old entered the event with little experience in a Formula 4 car, having just graduated from karting where he finished fourth in the 2022 KA4 Junior class.

The preparation saw him complete a number of F4 test sessions around the country, as well as regular visits to Focus Driver for a series of sim sessions.

The young Queenslander was over the moon to be placed in the final two.

It feels absolutely amazing to be selected. I am so grateful and humbled the FDA chose me to participate in the World Finals as a representative from the Asia Pacific, Beeton said.

Coming out of Sepang, I was quite confident because I felt I had exceeded expectations at the camp. I felt like I drove to the best of my ability, so it was really up to Ferrari and whether they liked me or not.

Any one of the six could have made it to the top two and we all deserved to go to the World Finals equally, but I am really thrilled to be one of the two that gets to go.

My expectations for Italy are that it will be an amazing experience no matter what and a great learning opportunity about what it takes to be a F1 driver of course I am hopeful of making the cut.

A big thank you to my parents, the Ferrari Driver Academy, Motorsport Australia, Focus Driver for helping me learn the track on a simulator, AGI Sport for helping with my development and everyone along the way who has supported me to this point.

I am super excited for the FDA World Scouting Finals and I am sure it will bring many opportunities to my career regardless of what the result is.

Australian teen Gianmarco Pradel with an engineer at the 2022 FDA Asia Pacific and Oceania Selection Program. Pic: Zoom DImage

Pradel had more success at a karting level in the lead up the event, securing multiple podiums at a national level in senior X30 and Rotax classes.

The 16-year-old from New South Wales also gained a wealth of experience testing and running in a state-level Formula Race Car in the past 12 months, for which he won two races.

It is a massive privilege to be selected for the World Scouting Finals later this month and it is a huge opportunity for me one that I am both stoked and thankful for getting, Pradel explained.

The fact that I will be going to Italy just a month after I was in Sepang hasnt really sunk in yet and I am still coming to grips with the idea, but I am excited for what will be an amazing experience.

For me, I was just focused on doing my best during the Asia Pacific Finals and leaving everything I had there. I feel I did, and I am satisfied with my efforts.

With that said, I would have been content with just making the top six, but to be selected for the top two and to go to Maranello is an even bigger achievement.

I dont have any expectations now I am just happy to be going and I will just try to keep preparing as much as I can in readiness for the event.

There is a massive list of people to thank for this, including my parents, Rush Performance, AGI Sport, Motorsport Australia and the Ferrari Driver Academy for this incredible opportunity.

A total of 24 drivers were pushed to the limits at the academys Asia, Pacific and Oceania final at the Sepang International Circuit. Photos: Xoom DImage

Marco Matassa was the Head of the Academy, and was pleased to welcome both drivers to the FDA Scouting World Finals, which will feature some of the best young steerers from around the globe.

The FDA Scouting World Finals are very important for us, he said.

Along with our scouting partners, we have chosen six youngsters from four continents and five countries, based solely on their talent, ability and potential, irrespective of their financial situation.

I would like to thank Motorsport Australia for organising the Sepang selection event, thus fully activating our scouting programme after the difficult years of the pandemic.

I cant wait to welcome Jack and Gianmarco here in Maranello when they tackle our evaluation process.

Two Australians were handpicked as the best within the Ferrari Driver Academy Asia Pacific and Oceania Selection Program.Photos: Xoom DImage

Motorsport Australia Director of Motorsport and Commercial Operations Michael Smith praised the two boys for their efforts as they prepare to represent Australia on the world stage.

Gianmarco and Jack showed a mixture of pace and lots of raw potential during the three days at Sepang and I believe they were deserving of being selected for Italy, Smith said.

I have no doubt these two young boys will make their country proud and will have a serious crack at earning a spot in the Ferrari Driver Academy.

As for the other 22 drivers, all attendees were highly professional, passionate and mature throughout the week and anyone could have been selected based on their skills.

I am already looking forward to the 2023 edition and seeing what more this region has to offer.

The Ferrari Driver Academy World Scouting Finals takes place at Maranello on 24-28 October.

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PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market Size reach to 82.50 million USD in 2022-2027 With Impact of domestic and global market Top players: Review by…

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Detailed TOC of Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market Research Report 2022 Professional Edition

1 Report Overview

1.1 Study Scope

1.2 Key Market Segments

1.3 Players Covered: Ranking by PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Revenue

1.4 Market Analysis by Type

1.4.1 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market Size Growth Rate by Type: 2021 VS 2027

1.4.2 Organic Type

1.4.3 Inorganic Type

1.5 Market by Application

1.5.1 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market Share by Application: 2022-2027

1.5.2 PET Film

1.5.3 PET Sheet

1.6 Study Objectives

1.7 Years Considered

1.8 Overview of Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market

1.8.1 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Market Status and Outlook (2016-2027)

1.8.2 North America

1.8.3 East Asia

1.8.4 Europe

1.8.5 South Asia

1.8.6 Southeast Asia

1.8.7 Middle East

1.8.8 Africa

1.8.9 Oceania

1.8.10 South America

1.8.11 Rest of the World

2 Market Competition by Manufacturers

2.1 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Production Capacity Market Share by Manufacturers (2016-2021)

2.2 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Revenue Market Share by Manufacturers (2016-2021)

2.3 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Average Price by Manufacturers (2016-2021)

2.4 Manufacturers PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Production Sites, Area Served, Product Type

3 Sales by Region

3.1 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Sales Volume Market Share by Region (2016-2021)

3.2 Global PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Sales Revenue Market Share by Region (2016-2021)

3.3 North America PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Sales Volume

3.3.1 North America PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Sales Volume Growth Rate (2016-2021)

3.3.2 North America PET Type Antiblock Masterbatch Sales Volume Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2016-2021)

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Being in India more critical than ever: Ericssons Mirtillo | Mint – Mint

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NEW DELHI : Being in India is more critical than ever for Ericsson, Nunzio Mirtillo, head of South East Asia, Oceania and India, said in an interview. The South Asian market, among the top five regions globally for the company, is expected to not only solidify its position but also move at a faster pace, by at least three to four times, in the adoption of 5G compared to other global markets such as the US and Japan.

Mirtillo said Ericsson will scale up investments to manufacture network gear in India to meet local demand, ramp up supply chains, and increase headcount and research and development. He said captive private networks on 5G will drive additional revenue, and the company will create a separate unit to explore deals in India. Edited excerpts:

How is the Indian market looking now with operators speeding up 5G rollouts, perhaps at a faster pace than global peers?

The Indianpopulation has proven to be very willing to use technology and super willing to innovate, which is an environment perfect for 4G or 5G. For example, in India, consumers are more willing to go from 4G to 5G than in other countries where 5G has been launched, two or three times more. With this kind of environment and facts, the operators will accelerate 5G even more because they understand that people appreciate the quality.

At Ericsson, we have always been looking at India as a big market. Earlier, it was a scale market where you needed to be competitive cost-wise with reliable products, and then you could get access to big volumes of India. That was the case till a few years back with GSM and 3G. But nowadays, thats not good enough.

What has changed?

Now, you also need the best possible technology because demand in India is second to none. So, you cant go halfway. India is among the top markets, not only in revenue but in importance, which will require Ericsson to continue to excel in technology and cost.

So, by being successful in India, obviously, we will get revenue from India, and we will get the volumes in India. It will also make us successful as a company beyond India. And that is exactly why for us, its so important more than ever.

What are the distinct factors that make India an attractive market for 5G?

At Ericsson, we have always considered India a big market. For 5G, I dont think its late; its perfect and right on time because now technology is mature, its optimized, and its great cost per quality. We have 22,000 people working for Ericsson in India, where a few thousand are working for India, and the others are working in India for the rest of the world. So, the biggest community of 5G competence maybe is in India, working already for 5G networks. Second, it is a successful country. It is set for innovation. The government is driving an agenda that is music for our ears, as we say internally. Its just the right place to be in.

So, will you be scaling up investments here?

Absolutely, yes. We will continue to scale with our partners. One area is our supply chain and manufacturing, we are doing it with our partnerJabil, and we will continue to scale to ensure that we can serve the demand coming from India. We will continue to invest in local capability in the global centre for R&D.

Whats the impact of component shortage for gear markers like yourself?

That has not affected us because I think we have been planning well. It has never been an easy job to make sure that the supply chain is geared up in the past few years, and it will be the same going forward as well.

How big can the 5G private captive network market be in India for Ericsson?

There will be a great growth market for private networks because 5G is now a technology that is reliable, safe with superb capacity and latency better than good enough to replace all physical problems.

So, we see a big opportunity for many companies in the industry to go mobile rather than keep their own fixed infrastructure. We have created a new unit, called Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions, which takes care of the B2B and B2B2C business when it comes to private network solutions which are based on our acquisition of Cradlepoint, which provides B2B, Plug and Play cloud-based solutions to provide mobile access to SMEs or big companies like RedHat or others. It extends to all (markets), and were exploring India too.

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Humans Have Wiped Out 70% Of Animal Populations Since 1970, Study Finds – Plant Based News

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There has been a huge human-driven loss of species in the last 50 years, new research has found.

The Living Planet Report, which is published every two years by the WWF and Zoological Society of London (ZSL), found that wildlife populations have declined by an average of 69 percent between 1970 and 2018. Two years ago, the figure was at 68 percent. Four years ago, it was 60 percent.

The report says that the total loss is equivalent to losing the human populations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and China.

The staggering rate of decline is a severe warning that the rich biodiversity that sustains all life on our planet is in crisis, putting every species at risk including us, the report states.

The new report is its most comprehensive to date on trends in global biodiversity and the health of our planet.

The authors are urging world leaders to reach an ambitious agreement at this years COP15 biodiversity summit, which takes place in Canada in December.

The climate and nature crisis is not only an environmental issue but an economic, development, security, social, moral and ethical issue too, the report says. Our worlds most vulnerable people, places, and wildlife and those least responsible for the climate and nature crisis are at greatest risk, and already suffering.

The report found that the Caribbean and Latin America including the Amazon have all seen the biggest decline. Wildlife populations have decreased an average of 94 percent in these areas in 48 years.

Speaking about the losses in the Amazon, Mark Wright, Director of Science at WWF, told Plant Based News (PBN), referred to agricultural-related deforestation. We know that the Amazon is critical in our fight against climate change if we lose the Amazon we will lose the climate fight, he said.

The most important decisions about the future of the Amazon will be made by the Brazilian government but its important that other countries, including the UK, ensure that all products, whether food or gold, linked to deforestation are removed from product supply chains.

The report also found that Africa has lost 66 percent, Asia and the Pacific 55 percent, and North America 20 percent. Europe and Central Asia both lost 18 percent.

The report states that land use change is the key driver of biodiversity loss.

At a global level, primarily the declines we are seeing are driven by the loss and fragmentation of habitat driven by the global agricultural system and its expansion into intact habitat converting it to produce food, Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF-UK, told the Guardian.

Another 2021 report published by the UN previously identified agriculture as a primary driver of biodiversity loss. It stated that the world needs to move toward a plant-heavy diet to combat the problem.

Animal agriculture has also previously been found to be responsible for around 91 percent of Amazon deforestation. This is due to the vast amounts of land needed to rear livestock, particularly cattle.

The UN report found that, in order to preserve biodiversity, we need to avoid converting land for agriculture.

Human dietary shifts are essential in order to preserve existing native ecosystems and restore those that have been removed or degraded, it added.

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A 5G-proficient workforce will be in high demand: Nitin Bansal, MD, India & Head Networks, South East Asia, Oceania And India, Ericsson – The…

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Indian companies view 5G as a key enabler of digital transformation, which has become increasingly important since the pandemic accelerated adoption of digital services. Industries like healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, education, and public safety will be the early adopters of 5G, says Nitin Bansal, MD, India & Head Networks, South East Asia, Oceania and India, Ericsson. 5Gs added capacity will be beneficial for both consumers and businesses as data demand and consumption grow, he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in a recent interview. Excerpts:

Tell us about the potential for 5G adoption from an enterprise perspective.5G will be critical for driving Industry 4.0, considering it requires reliable and secure private networks to drive digital transformation of enterprises. We recently got Omdia to do a study on the Indian market with regards to 5G; it shows that more than half (52%) of Indian enterprises want to start using 5G within the next 12 months and a further 31% expect to use 5G by 2024.

As per the study, enterprises in India view 5G as a critical technology enabling their digital transformation. The top ranked benefits of 5G are superior network performance enabling automation and new ways of working. The study highlights that quality of experience rather than price will drive customers to buy 5G, changing the competitive dynamics of Indias telecom market. The top 5G use cases that enterprises identify are enhanced content streaming, real-time video analytics and control of autonomous vehicles and drones.

Which industry will be the early adopters of this new technology?Industries like healthcare, manufacturing, energy and utilities, automotive education, and public safety will be the early adopters of 5G. As per Ericssons 5G Business Compass report, the total 5G-enabled B2B opportunity for Indian operators, across 10 industries, would be $17 billion by 2030. The initial use-case of a private 5G network for any geography will be around gaining operational flexibility and reliability etc.

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The manufacturing sector will rely on 5G for smart manufacturing. In the healthcare sector, wearable devices, secure online consultations, and mission critical applications will improve resource efficiency.

What is the impact of private networks on enterprises?Private networks are the preferred way to power digital transformation by connecting devices, industrial sites, and augmenting workers. They support a diverse set of Industry 4.0 use cases, such as real-time location system (RTLS)/asset tracking, inventory management, building automation, and robotics etc.

Considering the long-term benefits, private networks will help enterprises achieve better scalability, quality, and efficiencies, etc. thereby, making business operations more robust and agile. Some of the global deployments include: Telia in Sweden is building a dedicated local 5G-ready mobile network for mining company Boliden at Aitik, the worlds most efficient open-pit copper mine located in the north of Sweden. Telefnica, Ericsson and Mercedes-Benz are building the worlds first 5G mobile network for automobile production in Germany. Ericssons very own factory in the USA is a 5G smart factory. In India, we have set up a 5G lab with Capgemini in Mumbai where the 5G EP5G solution has been deployed. It will enable industry innovation, experimentation, and deployment of 5G and Edge technologies for clients across industries.

What have been the learnings from Ericssons global deployment experiences?Ericsson has an established global 5G leadership with 130+ live 5G networks. Some of the global use-cases that we are deploying across other markets can be adapted and introduced in India. We are seeing rapid adoption of 5G in markets where it is live. In 2019, we partnered with SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in South Korea to switch on its commercial 5G network in the worlds fastest growing 5G market.

We also partnered with Telstra, Australias largest mobile network provider, to roll out and activate 5G in 10 cities in the same year. Early users were able to experience better network coverage even in the underground and over popular areas while advanced technologies such as AR and VR are being utilised for diverse use cases powered by the speed and low latency of 5G.

What kind of new jobs/roles will be in demand with the introduction of 5G services?Accelerated digitalisation coupled with the launch of 5G services in India will see an increase in employment opportunities across sectors like manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, retail, agriculture. 5G will transform each of these industries with various new applications and technologies like AI/ML, AR/VR, edge computing, network slicing etc. Therefore, professionals with an in-depth understanding of 5G and related technologies are going to be in very high demand.

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Global population hits 8 billion soon, but shrinks by 2100 – Big Think

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Rush hour in Mumbais CSMT station. By centurys end, Indias current population of 1.4 billion may shrink to just 1 billion. (Credit: Bhushan Koyande / Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Humanity is hardly an exclusive club. No secret handshake required. On November 15th, the United Nations predicts that well be adding our eight billionth (living) member.

This is an alarming milestone to some, not just because of the numbers sheer magnitude imagine Londons 90,000-seater Wembley Stadium, squared but also due to the breakneck speed at which weve reached it. After all, it took us all of human history up to 1804 to reach our first billion. And then we needed just 123 years to get to the second one.

That was in 1927. Less than a century on, that figure has now quadrupled. But population growth is no runaway train. The global fertility rate has been dropping since 1964, down from 5 births per woman to just under 2.5 today.

As a result, the speed of population growth has already plateaued. Since 1960 when we achieved our third billion weve added billions at a stable interval, of about one every 12 to 14 years. The UN Population Division projects that those intervals will get longer again after billion number eight, and humanity will hit its peak numerically speaking at least by the end of the century, at just under 11 billion.

The ensuing population crunch will of course cause a bunch of worries and problems of its own. Yet knowing that the curve will eventually tilt downward is a welcome bit of good news. It marks a refreshing change from other, more intractable threats to our continued existence, like climate change, nuclear proliferation, and resource depletion.

All of this serves as a long-winded introduction to a remarkable realization: Instead of preludes to disaster, maps like these may become objects of future curiosity. A century or two from now, our successors, inhabiting a less crowded planet, may study them and marvel, Look how many we once were!

These are not maps in the strictest sense; they are in fact complex pie charts, showing the relationship between populations of individual nations, regions, and continents to each other, and to the whole.

As alternatives to purely territorial maps, they offer surprising insights. A classic example is the fact that Russia, the largest country in the world, has a population considerably smaller than Bangladesh, that comparatively tiny country jammed in between India and the Bay of Bengal. However, as mere snapshots, these charts say nothing about the growth or decrease of the pie and its pieces. Russias population is shrinking, while Bangladeshs is still growing, so the discrepancy between both will continue to increase.

Perhaps more relevant to the geopolitics of the future, India and China now roughly equivalent at about 1.4 billion each will shrink, but at a very different rate. By 2100, the UN predicts there could be as few as 500 million Chinese, while there still would be about one billion Indians.

So, what do these snapshots of global population at the cusp of our eight billionth member tell us?

At a global level, this is an Asian planet. All the other continents combined dont even come close. On its own, Asia (4.7 billion) represents 58% of humanity. Second-placed Africa (1.4 billion) constitutes 17.5%, followed by Europe (750 million, 9%), North America (602 million, 7.5%) and South America (439 million, 5.5%). Oceania at 44 million is barely 0.5%.

This chart makes a neat distinction between North Africa (257 million in total), mostly Muslim and largely Arab, and the ethnically and culturally distinct sub-Saharan part of the continent (1.2 billion in total). Egypt (107 million) dominates the north (and indeed the entire Arab world). Ethiopia (118 million) and Nigeria (218 million) are the population hotspots below the Sahara.

These three are the only countries with populations over 100 million, but as Africa is the continent predicted to have the lions share of future population growth this century, that club is likely to expand. The DR Congo (96 million) is the most likely first candidate.

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Asia is vast, allowing for regional population superpowers like Turkey (86 million) and Iran (87 million) in the Middle East (373 million in total) and Indonesia (280 million) and the Philippines (113 million) in Southeast Asia (686 million in total). But the longest shadows are cast by not-so-neighborly neighbors India and China (both about 1.4 billion). What will happen when, as mentioned above, their population sizes start to diverge toward the end of this century?

Russia (146 million) is Europes most populous nation, but not by as big a margin as China in Asia (or the U.S. in North America). Combined, Germany (84 million) and France (66 million) have more people. Those two countries represent most of Western Europe (198 million in total), as Italy (60 million) and Spain (47 million) dominate Southern Europe (152 million in total), and the UK (69 million) Northern Europe (107 million in total). Added up, these so-called Big Five countries represent 44% of Europes total population and the bulk of its economy.

Representing well over half the continents population, the U.S. (335 million) dominates North America (507 million in total) just as it does on a normal (geographical) map. For once, however, Mexico (132 million) is much larger than Canada (37 million). Guatemala (19 million) has the largest population in Central America (52 million in total), and Haiti (12 million) is the population superpower of the Caribbean (44 million in total), edging out Cuba and the Dominican Republic (both 11 million).

Curiously, this chart of South America looks a bit like the map of South America. Thats because Brazil (216 million) takes up about half the continent, both in terms of area and population. Colombia (54 million) is South Americas second-most populous country, but by a very long margin. Only Argentina (46 million) is in roughly the same league.

Oceania is the least populous continent (44 million, which is about as much as Greater Tokyo). In that little pond, Australia is the biggest fish (26 million, or close to 60% of the total). Second? Not New Zealand (5 million), but Papua New Guinea (9 million). No other Oceanian country or territory has more than a million inhabitants; Fiji (911,000) comes closest.

Do those 8 billion people add up to a world overflowing with humans? Lets correct the navel-gazing so typical of our species and appreciate the wider perspective.

The chart on the left represents the Earths entire biomass (that is, the total weight of all living organisms), which adds up to 545.2 Gt C. (Gt C stands for gigatons of carbon, and 1 gigaton is 1015 grams, 1 billion metric tons, or 2.2 trillion pounds.)

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Most of our planets biomass is made up of plants (450 Gt C, or 82.5%). The second-largest is bacteria (70 Gt C, or 12.8%), followed by fungi (12 Gt C, or 2.2%). Animals (which include us) make up just 2 Gt C (0.2%). The chart on the right isolates the animal kingdom, half of which is made up of arthropods (1 Gt C). The second-largest phylum are fish (0.7 Gt C, or 35%). Humans (0.06 GtC) represent no more than 3% of animal biomass (and 0.01% of total biomass).

Thats less than half compared to all the worlds mollusks. But then again, those mollusks dont all want a car, a fridge, and a million other things all wrapped in plastic.

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Population graphs are here at Visual Capitalist.

Biomass graphs are here at PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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Fiji’s Dr Mitchell to be elected as ANOC President – FBC News

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Fijian medical doctor, Robin Mitchell, is set to be elected as the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees, or ANOC later this week.

Hes been acting on the position since 2018, the current 26th ANOC General Assembly is where the election of the permanent Presidency of the association of 205 National Olympic Committees will conclude.

The Oceania is preparing for the historic election of Dr Mitchell as ANOC President because when the nominations closed earlier this year, he was unopposed meaning he will be elected as President.

Dr Mitchell is also the president of the Oceania National Olympic Committee.

The 74-year-old Mitchell has spent several decades building relationships across diverse countries, regions, and peoples to broker opportunities for training camps for Pacific Island athletes.

He is now embarking on an ambitious ONOC BRISBANE 2032 programme seeking to champion Pacific Islands-led and designed planning for athletes and entourage.

The long-term vision Mitchell has established for Oceania has reaped progressive rewards, but the quiet-spoken doctor is still adamant more needs to be done to improve the condition and opportunities of athletes in the Pacific Islands.

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Team Guam feels the heat in Bahrain | Guam Sports | postguam.com – The Guam Daily Post

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The Guam Mens National Tennis Team lost to No.2-seeded Kuwait in its Davis Cup competition Monday in Isa Town, Bahrain.

Guam is hoping to get promoted out of the Asia/Oceania Group IV to Group III, the Guam Tennis Federation said in a press release. Only the top team advances to Group III.

The other teams in Group B, Guams group, are: Bahrain, Kuwait,Laos and Singapore.

Guams No. 2 singles player, Derek Okuhama lost to Qabazard Essa 6-2, 6-2. Camden Camacho, Guams No. 1 seed, fell to Alabdullah Bader 6-1, 6-1.

In doubles competition, Camacho and Danny Llarenas nearly took out Kuwaits Essa and Bader, but succumbed to the Middle Easterners 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-7 (4).

Kuwait did not mess around, they played their No. 1 and No. 2 in the doubles, too, said Guam National Tennis Federation President and Davis Cup team captain Torgun Smith.

Smith applauded his doubles team for putting up a great fight.

Camacho, a former All-Island champion who played for the Father Duenas Memorial School Friars in the late 2010s, is a standout singles and doubles player for the NCAA Division III George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and was no longer used to intense, 95-degree heat. As the doubles match entered the third set, Camacho began cramping.

In the third set, Guam led 2-1 when the cramps set in. Despite the obvious pain and discomfort, the Guamanians won the next two games. As Guam led 4-1, the Kuwaitis leveled the match at 4-all. The next game, Guam held serve. With Kuwait serving at 4-5, Camacho and Llarenas arrived at match point but lost the game to level the match at 5-all.

Despite the disappointment of losing the match point, Team Guam bounced back.

With a chance to hold serve and go up 6-5, Camacho and Llarenas got off to a sluggish start, losing the first three points Love-40. But the Kuwaitis couldn't break Camachos serve and Guam led 6-5.

If no cramp, we would have taken the third set, Smith said.

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The Fiji womens national 15s team has taken global rugby by storm, especially in their biggest-ever tournament in New Zealand, the womens Rugby World cup.

World Rugby spoke to Fijiana captain Sereima Leweniqila who said her team had nothing to lose.

She could have easily added, and everything to gain; however, in just getting to a Rugby World Cup for the first time, Fijiana have already gained a lot, and in a short space of time.

Remember this is a team that went 10 years without playing, between its second Test in 2006 to its third in 2016.

Even in their own country, womens rugby, at best, was not seen as a priority, and at worst, something not to be encouraged.

Opportunities to play at any level were scarce

But a mind shift around gender equality, supported by a number of initiatives from the Fiji Rugby Union, Oceania Rugby and World Rugby and the work of tireless administrators such as World Rugby Womens Executive Leadership Scholarship recipient Vela Naucukidi, have helped to change outdated perceptions and more girls and women are playing the sport than ever before.

A successful national team is also a big driver for participation and, in Fijiana, those back on the islands now have role models to aspire to.

Likewise, rugby as a whole couldnt wish for better ambassadors than Fijiana, their popularity making them everyones favourite second team at Rugby World Cup 2021.

In the six years since their reintroduction, Fijiana have leapt up the rankings and are now on the verge of breaking into the worlds top 20 for the first time.

Do well in New Zealand and that will certainly be the case.

You do wonder how much further down the line theyd have been if theyd not effectively lost two years worth of development as a team due to COVID-19.

After qualifying for Rugby World Cup via the Oceania Rugby Womens Championship at the end of November 2019, for example, Fiji did not play again until May 2022.

Making history

In the meantime, though, the Fiji womens 7s team continued to cause a stir by winning the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

And then, on the eve of Fijianas return to the Test arena, their development team, the Fijiana Drua, won the prestigious Super W competition in Australia at the first attempt.

The Fijiana Drua took the elite womens competition by storm, finishing an unbeaten campaign with a 32-26 win over four-time holders, the Waratahs, in the final.

That moment and all the other milestones on their remarkable journey to Rugby World Cup 2021 have been captured on film through a brilliant behind-the-scenes documentary, Lets Play.

In episode 1, The rise of Fijiana. How a country that shunned womens rugby went on to conquer Super W and Oceania, viewers get to see what it took for them to go from complete obscurity to being the team on everyones lips.

The next episode picks up this most remarkable of stories by taking you through the teams rigorous Rugby World Cup 2021 preparations and the pain that the players went through pounding the historic sand dunes in Sigatoka.

In the third and final episode, viewers are transported to Suva, the capital of Fiji, where Fijiana play their last game before departing for New Zealand a 24-7 defeat to Canada.

While on paper that result looks nothing special, to only lose by 17 points to a team ranked 18 places higher puts into perspective how far they have come.

And the bad news for their rivals around the world is that they are not done yet.

This journey is like our culture, we believe that nothing is impossible so, yeah, we are ready to get out there, said Leweniqila.

The Fijiana side faces South Africa in its second RWC pool match at 4.45pm today.

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Potential clash could keep All Whites from playing in every international window in 2023 – Stuff

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The All Whites may have to settle for playing in just four of the five international windows in 2023, due to a potential clash with the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament.

A new national team coach to succeed Danny Hay is set to be appointed by Christmas and they will also take charge of the OlyWhites under-23 team, who will be hoping to make it to the Paris Olympics in 2024.

New Zealand Football chief executive Andrew Pragnell said the process of securing matches for the other four windows was underway while September remained up in the air.

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New Zealand Football is chasing matches in Europe for the All Whites in 2023.

There's a chance that that will be the OFC Olympic qualifiers so we will have to make some decisions there as to whether that will be the priority.

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Those qualifiers will be contested by a squad of players born 2001 and onwards, with up to three older players able to be added for the Olympic tournament if they make it.

Four players with All Whites caps fall into that age-group midfielders Matt Garbett, Ben Old and Marko Stamenic and forward Ben Waine though its possible club commitments will keep them from taking part in qualifying.

Otherwise, Pragnell said, 2023 is looking great, with NZ Football actively chasing high-profile friendlies in Europe in June, October and November.

In March ideally we will play at home and we've followed the Uefa [Euro 2024 qualifying] draw really closely.

There are Europe prospects potentially for at least three of the windows.

The qualifiers for Euro 2024 feature seven groups of teams and that means there are teams with byes on each of the 10 matchdays in 2023.

In November 2019, the All Whites played the Republic of Ireland and Lithuania when they had byes for the same reason during Euro 2020 qualifying, losing 3-1 in Dublin and 1-0 in Vilnius.

Organising matches against similar opponents or higher-profile ones would give the new coach a series of big challenges in their first year in the job leading up to the 2026 World Cup in North America.

NZ Footballs ability to secure such fixtures will also be an indication of its level of support for the All Whites, something that became a flashpoint during the latter stages of Hays tenure, the end of which was announced this week following an independent review of the teams 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign.

England, France and Scotland are the most notable of the 14 teams with byes in October, with Belgium, Greece and Norway the most notable teams free in November.

Options will be more limited in June, as four of the 10 teams with byes that month will use the free matchdays to contest the finals of the 2023-23 Uefa Nations League.

Poland, Serbia and Sweden will be the three teams available in the first half of the window, with Azerbaijan, Czech Republic and Montenegro the three available in the second half.

There will be opportunities that could be explored elsewhere if nothing eventuates in Europe, with teams in Asia and North and Central America and the Caribbean also largely free in 2023.

Pragnell said NZ Football had sent offers out to potential opponents for a home match (or matches) in March.

I'll stay optimistic on it and in the event it doesn't eventuate, so be it, but we are going to push really hard to try and get every single window between now and 2026 filled and play at home at least once a year.

The All Whites played their first home match in almost four years in September, losing 2-0 to Australia in front of a 35,000-strong crowd at Eden Park, in what turned out to be Hays last match in charge.

If NZ Football does arrange a home match in March, it will be the first time they have played at home in two consecutive windows since November 2016 and March 2017, when they had World Cup qualifiers against New Caledonia and Fiji.

It will also be just the sixth time a team has visited New Zealand for a friendly since the All Whites last World Cup appearance, in South Africa in 2010.

The mens international windows in 2023 are all nine days long, starting on March 20, June 12, September 4, October 9 and November 13.

New Zealand is set to host at least 46 womens internationals next year, with the Fifa Womens World Cup being held there and in Australia in July and August.

A total of 29 matches will be played during that tournament, with another 13 to be played in and around the final qualifying play-off tournament in February, which features 10 teams chasing three spots.

There are likely to be friendlies for the Football Ferns in the windows starting April 3 and July 10 and there could also be friendlies between World Cup teams on the eve of the tournament.

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Real Viking History and the Imagined White Supremacist Past – Time

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After New Zealand passed new gun laws this week, most automatic and semi-automatic weapons have become outlawed there as of Friday a swift response to the March 15 shootings in Christchurch that left 50 Muslim men, women and children dead at the hands of an alleged white supremacist terrorist. But guns werent the only weapon used by the shooter.

The shootings followed the release of materials some have called a manifesto but that has more accurately been called a media plan. In it are multiple medieval references, several involving medieval Vikings, which these days function as a signal to white supremacists. Along with much else from the European medieval world, the Viking past is part of the far rights standard visual and textual imaginary. That vision of a Viking world depends on contemporary digital and filmic popular culture such as the TV show Vikings and Viking-adjacent video games as well as on academic and historical sources.

But far-right Viking medievalism is not about historical accuracy. Rather, its used to create narratives. So, to resist the medieval narratives that activate violent hate, we must create counternarratives and to do that, we must understand the real Viking past and how it has been weaponized.

The term Viking possibly comes from the Old Norse word vkingr (sea warrior). As Stefan Brink and Neil Prices The Viking World describes, historically, it referred to seafaring groups who traversed the seas, oceans and rivers to raid, trade and colonize around the 10th and 11th centuries. They established settler colonies across the Mediterranean, Caspian, Black, Arctic and North Atlantic seas and waterways, maintaining a presence in regions ranging from present-day Russia and Europe to the Americas. Crucially, they were not homogeneous seafarers as is often imagined; they were multicultural and multiracial. But until recently, scholarly discussions of the Vikings in relation to race and a Global Middle Ages had been sidelined.

So where does the white supremacist vision of Viking genealogy come from?

Despite the fact that real Viking history was multicultural, academic medieval studies have historically been to blame for the upholding of that imaginary past.

In the 19th century, Romantic German nationalism metastasized into the Vlkish movement, which was interested in historical narratives that bolstered a white German nation state. The movement rewrote history, drawing on folklore such as that of Brothers Grimm, medieval epics and a dedication to racial white supremacy. Late 19th and early 20th-century scholars simultaneously drew from and reinforced this racialized imagination of the medieval past. Crucially, Vilhelm Grnbachs multi-volume work Vor Folket i Oldtiden (The Cultures of the Teutons) imagined an ancient Germanic genealogy that ran from Tacitus through the Middle Ages.

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German scholarly work during the eve of the Third Reich then added to this idea, with authors like Gustav Neckel and Bernhard Kummer blaming socialism, Jews and class revolutions for the decline of a Germanic race they saw descending from this Viking past. Another German scholar, Otto Hfler, who based his work on Grnbach, wrote of the Mnnerbunde, which the scholar Stefanie von Schnurbein has described as all-male warrior associations in so-called primitive societies. His take on Mnnerbund would become used as an explanation of the past and current Germanic race, and fueled the idea behind Nazi groups such as the SS and SA.

After World War II, despite the defeat of the Axis powers, these ideas didnt go away. Rather, they saw a resurgence in specific circles, including various far-right neo-pagan groups, like the Scandinavian Nordic Resistance Movement, known for their neo-Nazi violence. Grnbachs multivolume work, translated and available online, and the works of his contemporaries have also influenced current far-right extremists in Europe and North America.

This neo-pagan resurgence intersects with many facets of extremism today, from eco-fascism another term the Christchurch terrorist invoked to groups like the Odinists, who practice a form of white toxic masculinity based on the belief that the barbaric warriors of medieval Northern Europe functioned as a violent warrior comitatus. Odinists follow a neo-pagan medieval Scandinavian religion that is unacknowledged by the official Icelandic pagan religion, satr. The man who is accused of attacking two teenage girls (one in a hijab) and murdering Rick Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche in Portland, Ore., in 2017 has linked himself to the idea of Vinland, the concept of a Viking North America onto which an imaginary Odinist past has been superimposed.

Nor is this use of Old Norse and Viking history limited to specific alt-right subgroups. In fact, it is a generalized social fixture in these circles. For example, when researcher Patrik Hermansson went undercover among the denizens of this world, he attended gatherings where extremists drank mead from a traditional Viking horn and prayed to the Norse god Odin. The Viking past contributes to a medieval toolkit of language, allusion and symbolism used to transmit white supremacist messages.

Communities of color have in the past fought white supremacist medieval narratives at the grassroots by spreading their own counternarratives, from W.E.B. Du Bois creating an African-American vision of the medieval past in Dark Princess to the Asian Americans who pushed back against racist medievalism during the period of Chinese Exclusion. Scholars and historians not just medievalists must also interrogate their disciplines from the inside, setting the record straight about medieval race and the Global Middle Ages.

So far, however, the most widespread, concerted and effective way to fight back against this historical white supremacist Viking genealogy has come not from academics or journalists.

Rather, it has come from Taika Waititi, the indigenous Maori director and writer. His movie Thor: Ragnarok in which Thors hammer, a medieval item regularly brandished by extremists, is destroyed was a multiracial and postcolonial counternarrative to the white Viking narrative circulating through the alt-right digital ecosystem. After decades of building up the violent Viking vision, more such stories will be needed to disrupt this medieval machine.

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Dorothy Kim is an Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Iceland.

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In Sept. 2022, President Joe Biden convened a summit called United We Stand to denounce the venom and violence of white nationalism ahead of the midterm elections. His remarks repeated the theme of his prime-time speech in Philadelphia on Sept. 1, 2022, during which he warned that Americas democratic values are at stake.

We must be honest with each other and with ourselves, Biden said. Too much of whats happening in our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

While that message may resonate among many Democratic voters, its unclear whether it will have any impact on any Republicans whom Biden described as dominated and intimidated by former President Donald Trump or on independent voters who have played decisive roles in electionsand will continue to do so, particularly as their numbers increase.

Its also unclear whether Trump-endorsed candidates can win in general elections, in which they will face opposition not only from members of their own party but also from a broad swath of Democrats and independent voters.

What is clear is that this midterm election cycle has revealed the potency of conspiracy theories that prop up narratives of victimhood and messages of hate across the complex American landscape of white nationalism.

In my book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War on the United States, I detail how the white nationalist narrative of victimhood and particular grievances have gained traction to become ingrained in the present-day Republican Party.

I also examine four key strands of white nationalism that overlap in various configurations: religions, racism, conspiracy theories and anti-government views. Conspiracy theories allow white nationalists to depict a world in which Black and brown people are endangering the livelihoods, social norms and morals of white people.

In general, conspiracy theories are based on the belief that individual circumstances are the result of powerful enemies actively agitating against the interests of a believing individual or group.

Based on the interviews I conducted while researching my book, these particular conspiracy theories are convenient because they justify the shared white nationalist goal of establishing institutions and territory of white people, for white people and by white people. While conspiracy theories are not new and certainly not new to politics, they spread with increasing frequency and speed because of social media.

The great replacement theory is one such baseless belief that is playing a role in the anti-immigration rhetoric that is central to the 2022 strategies of many Republican candidates who are running for seats at all levels of government.

That theory erroneously warns believers of the threat that immigrants and people of color pose to white identity and institutions.

For months on the 2022 campaign trail, Republican Blake Masters, a venture capitalist who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, has portrayed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an elaborate plot by Democrats to dilute the political power of voters born in the United States.

What the left really wants to do is change the demographics of this country, Masters said in a video posted to Twitter last fall.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is another Republican leader who decries what he calls the invasion of the southern border.

Aside from the inflammatory anti-immigration rhetoric, the conspiracy theory currently having the biggest impact on local, state and federal political campaigns across the country is Trumps Big Lie that he won the 2020 election.

Of the 159 endorsements Trump has made for proponents of the Big Lie, 127 of them have won their primaries in 2022. In addition, Republican candidates who align themselves with the Big Lie are also emerging victorious in races for state- and county-level offices whose responsibilities include direct oversight of elections.

On his social media site Truth Social, the former president quotes and spreads conspiracy theories from the quasi-religious QAnon. A major tenet of QAnon is the belief that the Democrats and people regarded as their liberal allies are a nefarious cabal of sexual predators and pedophiles.

Trump is not the only Republican politician who welcomes and spreads such disinformation.

Two of the most prominent politicians who have been linked to supporting QAnon are U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, both of whom have been resoundingly endorsed by Trump.

The blatant use of conspiracy theories for political gain reflects the open embrace of white nationalism in not only the United States but also throughout Sweden, France, Italy and other parts of the world.

In my view, the conspiracy theories that drive the 2022 midterm campaigns reflect the global threat of hate around the world.

Sara Kamali, Professor, Creative Writing, University of California San Diego. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Receives a Neutral Rating Tuesday: Is it Time to Jump Ship? – InvestorsObserver

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) gets a neutral rating from InvestorsObserver Tuesday. The Digital Money asset is down 1.48% to $109.59 while the broader crypto market is down 0.39%.

The Sentiment Score provides a quick, short-term look at the cryptos recent performance. This can be useful for both short-term investors looking to ride a rally and longer-term investors trying to buy the dip.

Bitcoin Cash price is currently below support. With support set around $109.98 and resistance at $111.92, Bitcoin Cash is potentially in volatile territory as selling pushes the crypto's price below recent support.

Bitcoin Cash has traded on low volume recently. This means that today's volume is below its average volume over the past seven days.

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Bitcoin Cash [BCH]: All you need to know before you write off this alt – AMBCrypto News

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Sharing a statistically significant positive correlation with the leading coin Bitcoin [BTC], Bitcoin Cash [BCH] logged a decline in its price in the last week. According to data from the cryptocurrency analytics platform CoinMarketCap, the price per BCH coin fell by 8% in the past seven days.

Data from Santiment showed that the consistent decline in the price of the asset pointed to BCH distribution by investors.

Also, the surge in BCHs trading volume and the lack of a corresponding price rally during intraday trading hours on 13 October hinted at buyers exhaustion. As per CoinMarketCap, BCHs trading volume had rallied by 65% in the last 24 hours.

With the last seven days marked by a decline in BCHs price, buying pressure dropped in the last week on a daily chart. As a result, on 5 October, the assets Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Money Flow Index (MFI) fell below their respective neutral lines to pursue new lows.

At press time, the MFI inched toward the oversold region at 33.41. Following a similar progression, BCHs RSI rested at 41.79 at press time.

As sellers gradually overran the BCH market, a new bear cycle was initiated on 10 October. At press time, the Moving average convergence divergence (MACD) was made of red histogram bars with an intersection of the MACD line (blue) with the trend line (red) in a downtrend.

In addition, a look at the assets On-balance volume (OBV) confirmed that investors have heavily distributed BCH since 9 September. The indicator has since been on a downtrend, and the price has fallen by 15%.

While these key indicators have shown a decline in BCHs accumulation in the last week, a look at the assets Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) revealed a divergence with its price.

In the face of its falling price, BCHs CMF rested above the center line to post a positive value of 0.08. This typically represents a surge in buying pressure which usually precipitates a rally in the price of an asset.

However, as in the current market, a CMF/price divergence occurs when the price of a crypto asset trades at the oversold zone while its CMF continues to rise. This is usually taken as a buy signal, so traders looking to move against the market need to take note of this.

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Altcoin: analysis of Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash – The Cryptonomist

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This is a bit of a difficult period for altcoins.

It is enough to mention that since September, Bitcoins dominance has risen from 36% to 39%, while Ethereums has fallen from 19% to 16%.

A similar trend has occurred before, indeed during a bear market, when the price of Bitcoin tends to fall less than altcoins do. While this is true for Ethereum, it is even more true for other cryptocurrencies that have significantly less common and widespread real-world use.

One of the most successful altcoins during 2021 was Dogecoin (DOGE), currently ranked 10th overall by market capitalization, and 7th if stablecoins are excluded.

In October 2020, which was before the big bullrun of 2021 was triggered, its price was less than $0.003. As a matter of fact, in the case of DOGE, the bullrun was not triggered in November 2020, as it was for Bitcoin, but in January 2021, although as early as December 2020 it was back above $0.003.

It is worth mentioning that the previous high was $0.013 touched in January 2018, so in December 2020 it was still far below this threshold.

Indeed, it didnt manage to get back to the highs at the beginning of January either, because it stopped at $0.010, though it showed that the bullrun had begun for this cryptocurrency as well. At the end of January, there was the first major spike, with the price skyrocketing to $0.040, which is well above the previous all-time highs.

In February there was another spike that took the price to $0.070, while in March it remained steadily below $0.060.

It is important to note that this is also the current level, which is the level touched after the 2021 bubble burst. So this is precisely what should be taken as a reference. This is 360% higher than the level of the 2018 highs.

The curious thing is that after the bursting of the 2017/2018 bubble, the price of Dogecoin lost up to 87% in the subsequent bear market, and then in a very short time managed not only to recover, but to exceed the 2018 highs by 360%. This is a very interesting dynamic that seems to clearly show that there is a large and active community behind Dogecoin.

It is no coincidence that in 2021 Dogecoin was the most searched cryptocurrency in most US states.

Actually, in April 2021 the price of Dogecoin made a new spike that led it to record new all-time highs in May 2021, when it crossed the incredible $0.730 threshold, but that was an isolated pump due almost exclusively to the words of Elon Musk and his appearance on Saturday Night Live in the guise of the Dogefather.

Indeed, as early as the end of May it was back to $0.300, and has never again been able to even approach the $0.700 threshold. Until now it has practically done nothing but fall since 8 May 2021, so much so that the cumulative loss to date is a whopping 92%.

Nevertheless, it is worth pointing out that what happened in April and May 2021 was really a very anomalous, and in some ways unrepeatable, spike, so it would be better to take as a reference the price level touched in March 2021, before that anomalous spike. It is most likely no accident that the current price is perfectly in line with those March 2021 levels.

In light of this, it seems pretty unlikely that the price of Dogecoin could make another spike similar to that of April 2021, so it may struggle enormously to recover that -92% that now separates it from all-time highs.

A somewhat similar but even more resounding path is that taken by Shiba Inu (SHIB).

It now ranks 12th among cryptocurrencies with the largest market capitalization, separated from Dogecoin solely by Polkadot.

SHIBs 2021 spike has been very impressive. Before the bullrun began, its price was 0.00006 millionths of a dollar, or practically insignificant. By May 2021 it had spiked to 35 millionths, a jump of more than +5,000,000%.

Even that spike, as is easy to guess, was something abnormal and currently unrepeatable, so much so that the current price of 10 millionths is below that peak.

Whats more, it made a second spike between October and November, also in 2021, to an all-time high at 86 thousandths. In other words from the May peak to the November peak, it made an additional +145%.

So like for Dogecoin, it is probably not convenient to take the November peak as a reference, but the value of March 2021. The current price of SHIB is 88% lower than the November peak, but only 71% lower than the March peak.

Regarding the success of Shiba Inu, the same argument about Dogecoin applies regarding the community, but without Elon Musk. The fact that it only lost 71% from its March 2021 peak suggests that Shiba Inus community is perhaps as large and active as Dogecoins.

In contrast, for Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, the argument changes, because they are two cryptocurrencies that enjoyed their greatest successes during the previous bullrun, namely that of 2017/2018.

Litecoin has now slipped into 22nd position by market capitalization, and although the all-time high price was recorded in May 2021, at $410, it was not much higher than the previous peak of $360 in December 2017.

On the contrary, after that 2017 peak, the price in the following years fell as low as $30, which is a level not much lower than the current $50.

Hence during 2021 the price of LTC has actually done nothing but return to 2017 levels, and during 2022 it is returning to late 2018 levels. In other words, it seems that this project has exhausted the upward momentum it had during the previous cycle, the one that ended in May 2020 with Bitcoins third halving.

Despite several attempts to revive it, it has really lost a lot of steam and especially a lot of interest from the community that supported it in 2017. It is by far one of the oldest altcoins, and perhaps its time has passed by now, unless it changes.

In the case of LTC, it seems to make perfect sense to take the all-time high of May 2021 as a reference, and given that the accumulated loss since then is 87% the future does not look particularly bright.

For Bitcoin Cash (BCH) the situation looks even worse, because during the 2021 bullrun it failed to approach the all-time high of 2017.

From the $3,700 touched five years ago, the price dropped to $77 in 2018, in a true vertical collapse.

During 2021, it managed to rise again but only to $1,500, less than half of its December 2017 value. The current value of $110 is not far from the 2018 lows, and is an impressive 97% below the all-time highs.

By now it has slipped to 33rd in market capitalization, and the project seems to have no momentum left to try to revive itself. Most likely the incredible spike of 2017, when it went from $300 to $3,700 in just four months, is not only not repeatable, but can also be considered a real anomaly.

Perhaps it is better to take as a reference the high of $1,500 touched in 2021, from which the cumulative loss so far is 92%.

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Cardano: Here’s How Far ADA Has Moved with Glance at Top 15 Cryptos in 2017 – U.Today

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A graphic posted by crypto analyst Lark Davis on the top 15 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization as of Oct.15, 2017, showed Cardano in the far 14th spot with a market capitalization of $779 million. XRP was ranked as the third largest cryptocurrency then, with a $10.17 billion market valuation.

Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash, NEM, Monero, Neoand Bitconnect ranked in 4th to 10th places, respectively. IOTA, Ethereum Classicand Omisego ranked ahead of Cardano in the 11th, 12thand 13th spots, respectively.

Exactly five years later, a great "reshuffle" has been seen. Cardano now ranks as the 8th largest cryptocurrency with a market valuation of $12.69 billion, a nearly 1,500% increase in its market cap from 2017.

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Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash, NEM, Monero, Neoand Bitconnect are nowhere near the top 10. Bitcoin Cash ranks as the 31st largest cryptocurrency.

Litecoin is currently the 20th largest crypto, NEO is the 65th largest, NEM is the 96th largest crypto assetand Bitconnect is nowhere to be found. Bitconnect was an open-source cryptocurrency that was connected to a high-yield investment program, a type of Ponzi scheme.

Due to the founders' exit scam and accompanying legal issues, Bitconnect (BCC) is no longer trading on any legitimate exchanges as Bitconnect collapsed in 2018. In terms of market value, IOTA is presently the 60th-largest cryptocurrency, whereas Ethereum Classic is the 23rd largest.

Cardano started as a federated network with just a few nodes over five years ago. Currently, Cardano has worked across five development themes (Byron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, and Voltaire) with over 3,000 nodes and 6.4 million native tokens. The Vasil upgrade, ushering in the Babbage Era, was triggered on Sept.22.

Presently, Cardanoranks as the third largest proof-of-stake blockchain with a staking market cap of $9.89 billion. However, the ADA price remains undervalued at $0.39 per coin compared to other large blockchains and has often attracted criticism tothe network.

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