Daniele Lupo and Alex Ranghieri couldn’t have hoped for a better start for their team. Playing together for the first time, the Italian Olympians showed strength by winning their two initial matches as partners and advanced to the Round of 16 of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour four-star event in Itapema on Thursday. A Rio 2016 Olympic silver medalist, the 30-year-old Lupo decided to join forces with the 34-year-old Ranghieri just a month ago, when his ten-year partnership with Paolo Nicolai came to an end after the two finished fourth at the World Tour Finals in Sardinia. Despite the short time together, the two prepared well enough to be in position to start their partnership with a pair of victories as they defeated Austrians Felix Friedl and Maximilian Trummer 2-0 (21-14, 21-14) and Norwegians Hendrik Mol and Mathias Berntsen also in two sets (21-17, 21-16) to top Pool F. A post shared by Daniele Lupo (@danieledlupo) “I thought we played really well today,” Lupo reacted “We kept a pretty good level during the day The Norwegian team is really strong and we had to play well to beat them The key was focusing on every single point that’s what we’ll have to do to have success as a team.” Two Brazilian teams also started their international trajectories on the right foot as both Alison Cerutti/Gustavo ‘Guto’ Carvalhaes and Evandro Goncalves/Alvaro Filho won their pools in Itapema The host country has as many as four duos guaranteed in the Round of 16 after Andre Loyola/George Wanderley and Vitor Felipe/Renato Andrew did the same and the 28-year-old Guto were solid in their first match keeping Spanish Javier Huerta and Oscar Jimenez under control to secure a 2-0 (21-15 the Brazilians prevailed over the new American duo of Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander also in two sets (21-15 Alison’s former partner Alvaro and 2017 world champion Evandro had an inconsistent debut against Italians Davide Benzi and Carlo Bonifazi The two found their rhythm in the second match of the day and cruised past Russians Maksim Hudyakov and Aleksandr Kramarenko with a straight-set (21-13 The three other international teams that finished at the top of their pools and are qualified for the Round of 16 are Estonia’s Mart Tiisaar/Kusti Nolvak Austria’s Alexander Huber/Christoph Dressler and Sweden’s David Ahman/Jonatan Hellvig The main draw continues for the men on Friday with the conclusion of pool play The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played on Saturday and the medal matches on Sunday All matches are streamed live on Beach Volleyball World’s YouTube channel The FIVB is the governing body responsible for all forms of Volleyball on a global level Working closely with national federations and private enterprises to develop Volleyball as a popular media and entertainment sport FIVB Fédération Internationale de Volleyball Château Les Tourelles Edouard-Sandoz 2-4 1006 Lausanne Switzerland Phone: +41 213 453 535 Fax: +41 213 453 545 Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab) Leave empty if the image is purely decorative Brazil had a successful opening day at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour 4-star event in Itapema on Wednesday as the host country advanced six teams – two men’s and four women’s – to Thursday’s main draw After the conclusion of the qualification tournament the South American nation will have six male and eight female duos in contention at the Meia Praia Beach.  World Tour veterans Oscar Guimaraes and Saymon Barbosa were among the home teams that advanced They defeated Uruguayans Esteban Bailon and Joaquin Gonzalez 2-0 (21-14 21-18) in their opening match and secured their spot after another straight-set (21-19 this one against the English Bello twins Joaquin and Javier “It feels great to play a World Tour event at home again and to have the fans on our side in the most difficult moments,” Oscar commented who have great ball control and had a good serving strategy against us but Saymon came up big with his blocking at the end and that was the difference.” Oscar and Saymon were joined by Rio 2016 Olympian Pedro Solberg and his partner Arthur Lanci who also won both of their matches without dropping sets The Brazilians first downed Germans Momme Lorenz and Lui Wust 22-20 21-12 and then cruised past Argentineans Bautista Amieva and Tomas Capogrosso The host country could have qualified two other men’s teams to the main draw but Arthur Mariano/Adrielson Santos lost to Sergiy Popov/Eduard Reznik 2-0 (21-16 21-17) while Nicolas Capretti/Samuel Oselame fell to Javier Huerta/Oscar Jimenez in three sets (16-21 18-16) and the Ukrainians and Spanish advanced instead The four other male teams that moved on to the main draw were Chile’s Noe Aravena/Vicente Droguett Italy’s Davide Benzi/Carlo Bonifazi and USA’s Chase Budinger/Troy Field Brazil won half of the eight spots in play with the duos of Taiana Lima/Hegeile ‘Hege’ Almeida Andressa Cavalcanti/Vitoria Rodrigues and Barbara Seixas/Carolina Salgado all advancing and Carol moved forward just four days after they won an event of the Brazilian Tour in Itapema on Saturday They have a familiar meeting with compatriots Josi Alves and Carol Goerl and won it in straight sets (21-7 In another meeting that reunited two teams form the same country Germans Leonie Klinke and Sarah Schneider prevailed over Chenoa Christ and Leonie Kortzinger in two sets (21-17 Schneider and Kortzinger were partners for more than two years before they split a few months ago “Playing a German team is always difficult as we know each other really well,” the 24-year-old Klinke said “It will be my first time playing in a main draw of a four-star event and there were a lot of nerves on both sides It was windier today than it was in practice and that made things a little more difficult for both teams but we know we can play better than we did today and hope to do it in the main draw.” The three remaining main draw spots in Itapema went to France’s Aline Chamereau/Clemence Vieira Cyprus’ Daria Gusarova/Erika Nystrom and Denmark’s Sofia Bisgaard/Clara Windeleff Main draw starts for both genders in Itapema on Thursday The semifinals will take place on Saturday while the medal matches are scheduled for Sunday Learn how to describe the purpose of the image (opens in a new tab). 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State Civil Defence reported incidents of rain damage flooding or landslides in the 6 municipalities of Jaraguá do Sul almost 190 people have been displaced from their homes Civil Defence said the severe weather conditions have hindered damage assessments and the numbers of affected and displaced are likely to rise The municipality of Camboriú is among the worst affected areas About 60% of the municipality’s territory is flooded according to data from the Military Fire Brigade and the Secretariat of Civil Protection and Defence As much as 259.3 mm of rain fell in 24 hours to 20 December 2022 More than 200 rescues were carried out by firefighters Around 90 people are staying in emergency shelters Heavy rain also triggered numerous landslides in Morro do Encano and in the neighbourhoods of Tabuleiro and Monte Alegre Two young people died after a landslide buried a house in Jardim Aliança Areas of the state have seen heavy rain and flooding since late November. Two fatalities were reported in early December. As of 04 December, 32 municipalities were affected, 30 of which declared a state of emergency a total of 16,350 people were affected and 1,077 people were displaced Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist.com and reports on flooding news Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour four-star event in Itapema from November 10-14 will mark the end of a busy season for most of the players competing in Brazil the tournament will be the start of a new stage in his career After nine years representing the United States volleyball men’s national team and some of the best teams in the world the 29-year-old Californian will debut a partnership with standout defender Taylor Crabb on the sand A post shared by Beach Volleyball World (@beachvolleyballworld) Sander has had tremendous success in his volleyball career, having won gold at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Cup, bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championships and silver and bronze at the FIVB Volleyball Nations League, as well as countless titles at the club level. According to Crabb, who picked Sander up after the retirement of Jake Gibb, his new partner has what it takes to be an elite player at the beach too. “I think we’re going to do great,” the defender said. “In my mind, he’s a top five volleyball player in the world. He hasn’t played beach in a while but he grew up doing it, so it won’t take him long to get back to where he was. We played each other when we were 15 and he won every beach tournament there was. He’s one of the most athletic players I’ve ever seen on the beach, it’s going to be exciting.” Sander only started practising at the beach after he represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympics and since then has only appeared in a four-man exhibition tournament in Austin, Texas, which he won alongside Crabb, his brother Trevor and Tri Bourne. A post shared by Taylor Sander (@taylorleesander) But he expects the enormous amount of time he spent playing on the beaches of California growing up will quickly put him on track – and also provide the lifestyle he’s looking for at this point of his life it’s not completely strange to me,” Sander told VolleyballMag His partnership with Crabb is one that should prove interesting to watch who were born less than two months apart in 1992 grew up competing against each other and became good friends when they were 15 After representing the United States together at the 2011 FIVB Junior World Championship with Sander quickly joining the American national team and Crabb moving to the beach following a couple of seasons playing volleyball overseas they’re reunited where they first met and looking for a goal in common – to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics “It’s crazy how things happened for us after that,” Crabb commented “I always thought I’d take the indoor route and later on in my career would come to the beach I had success on the beach faster than I thought and stuck to it while he became a fantastic indoor player It’s always been in my mind that at some point of our careers I’d like to play with him on the beach and it’s always cool when friends can come together later in their lives and achieve a goal of both of their dreams.” It could be a tricky trivia question, several years from now: which team won the most medals during the Tokyo Olympic quad? Most would understandably jump to Americans April Ross and Alix Klineman, the Tokyo gold medallists, or Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan, the world champs. Yet there was another team during the 2017-2021 stretch that nearly out-medalled both of those teams combined: Brazilians Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda ‘Duda’ Lisboa. Theirs was a magnificent partnership, a five-year run that paired one of Brazil’s all-time great blockers in Agatha with the most promising talent in the world in Duda. Before she was even 20, Duda was being recognized by her peers at the world’s best offensive player, best hitter, and most outstanding, as she was named in 2018 and 2019. Duda had the good timing to both learn from and thrive with Agatha, a 38-time FIVB medallist, including a silver at the Rio de Janeiro Games. From Rio to Tokyo, there was no more consistent team. Just twice in 41 tournaments did they finish outside of the top 10, and both of those occurred in 2017. Next month, in Itapema for the final event of the 2021 season, will mark the end of an era for Brazil’s top team. The four-star will be the last tournament Agatha and Duda will play together. Shortly after Tokyo, Rebecca picked up 39-year-old veteran Talita Antunes, a three-time Olympian who has been named in the FIVB Team of the Year on three separate occasions (2013, 2015, 2017). They’ll be a formidable side out team, those two, and likely the No. 2 team in Brazil, behind the newly formed partnership of Duda and Ana Patricia. Miki Ishii has played 46 events on the FIVB Tour; 42 of those have come alongside Megumi Murakami. To see Ishii’s name without being followed by Murakami is just plain weird. But such is the nature of beach volleyball: even the most lasting of partnerships – like Spain’s Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera, or Italy’s Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo – must come to an end. At 31 years old, Mizoe is no rookie, either. She’s been mostly absent from the World Tour scene in the last two years, playing in just three events, and only one in 2021. Itapema will mark the beginning of Japan’s new No. 1 pair. It was only a year ago that Maria Carro was competing in youth events, claiming a fifth in the European Championships with TCU star Daniela Alvarez. Now the 22-year-old has been picked up by Spain’s Angela Lobato. For the past four years, Lobato has partnered with Amaranta Navarro, who always seemed on the cusp of breaking through before falling a little short. Perhaps Lobato, who is 29, will make that breakthrough with the young Carro. A post shared by Maria Elisa Antonelli (@mariaelisaantonelli) When the Brazil federation cut its Olympic qualifying period last November and Maria Antonelli found her and Carol Salgado just outside the mark – this despite them ranking in the top seven teams in the world – Antonelli wasted no time in starting a family competing alongside 6-foot-2 Fernanda Alves who put together a tremendous run with Barbara Seixas narrowly missing the Tokyo Olympics as well Footage shows partially submerged cars navigating flooded streets and Itapema Mayor Alexandre Xepa calling for aid and rescue assistance ShareSaveWatch: Olympic legend leaves parents in her dust at school sports dayThe third-fastest woman in history, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, took part in sports day at her son's school in Jamaica. 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Suscribe x MercoPress, en Español Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 11:32 UTC The beach resort of Camboriú in the southern Brazilian State of Santa Catarina has been declared under emergency Thursday following heavy rains that flooded that place and others such as Florianópolis First responders have been working around the clock while State authorities also set up shelters as the need for improved drainage systems and flood prevention infrastructure has been highlighted Residents were also advised to exercise extreme caution in flood-prone areas Camboriú Mayor Juliana Pavan declared the emergency after more than 120 millimeters of rainfall were recorded in just a few hours flooding city streets and adjacent roads such as BR-101 Argentine tourists were reported to be arriving en masse for the second half of January as a convenient exchange rate advises against vacationing in their home country about 130 millimeters in the cities of Itajaí Camboriú and Balneário Camboriú More than half the volume expected for the entire month of January,” Santa Catarina Governor Jorginho Mello pointed out According to Camboriús Urban Mobility's Ricardo Pastrana lines were over 26 kilometers long in either direction passing through Porto Belo Pavan's measure triggered the Emergency Disaster Response Plan summoning volunteers to reinforce response actions and crowdfunding campaigns The City Council also announced the opening of three emergency shelters The Response and Action Coordination Group (GRAC) and teams from Civil Defense the Department of Public Works and Public Safety are working together in the area to ensure the safety of the population and tourists especially considering that these climatic phenomena increase the probability of landslides no weather model predicted Thursday's crisis characteristic of maritime circulation rains caught people in Itajaí and Camboriú by surprise Santa Catarina's experimental meteorological station Epagri/Ciram is not capable of detecting this type of weather phenomenon in time Epagri/Ciram's expert Gilsânia Cruz told local media that identifying this type of phenomenon depends on smaller-scale precision models in addition to meteorologists being able to handle new forecasting models Foul weather is expected to continue until at least Saturday Brazil's Civil Defense Department predicted heavy and persistent rains will continue to affect Bombinhas Mello had already made headlines Wednesday when he highlighted that the city of Pomerode known as the most German city in Brazil “stands out for the color of people's skin.” According to Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) The Governor's statement during the opening of the 40th Pomeranian festival was posted on the Santa Catarina State's website on audio and went viral for its alleged “racist” tint which could result in criminal charges against the State's Chief Executive and this accusation doesn't apply to me,” Mello insisted Commenting for this story is now closed.If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page! 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Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience The first edition of the Taça Sul took place from 12 to 13 October 2024 bringing together 149 athletes from the PSG Academy centres in Curitiba the emotion of the supporters and the commitment of the technical and organisational teams made this a unique experience U9 and U10 teams from the participating centres compete against each other putting into practice all the work they had done in training at the Jurerê Sports Centre complex The Taça Sul not only encouraged the development of the athletes on the pitch but also strengthened the links with their families and friends providing a great learning environment for the students in the PSG Academy programme The event was marked by great enthusiasm from players and supporters alike thanks in particular to the presence of Germain The competition ended with a total of 223 goals 1st PLACE – Trindade2nd PLACE – Itapema3rd PLACE – Curitiba 1st PLACE – Itapema2nd PLACE – Curitiba3rd PLACE – Porto Alegre 1st PLACE – Curitiba2nd PLACE – Porto Alegre3rd PLACE – Itapema / Praia Brava Congratulations to all the participants who helped make this first edition unforgettable We would like to thank the teams and centres for their support and commitment The Taça Sul will remain engraved in the students' memories creating unique memories that will stay with them for a long time A longtime evangelist for outdoor and active lifestyles, beach volleyball star Kerri Walsh Jennings knew the national stay-at-home orders would be especially hard on young athletes and others trying to stay fit With her own quest for a sixth Olympics on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic Walsh Jennings held video chats with dozens of volleyball clubs and teams — more than 4,500 people in all the calls convinced her people are struggling to remain active in a world where it's much easier to just binge on TV But there's so many resources out there," she told The Associated Press "There's no excuse to be a slave to your couch And we just want to encourage people to do that." Through her volleyball and lifestyle platform p1440 Walsh Jennings put together an online program mixing skills The four-week pilot called "The Fundamentals" sold out in six days with 250 men p1440 is gearing up for two " Virtual Summer Camps " that offer the chance to "Train with an Olympian" — one focused on fundamentals and a more intense version called "Unleashed." Campers will have access to Walsh Jennings; her husband beach volleyball pro Casey Jennings; UCLA beach volleyball coach and 2004 Olympian Stein Metzger; and trainer Tommy Knox "The materials were put together fast but the wisdom and the knowledge is literally 30 years of my life," Walsh Jennings said "The fundamental philosophy is 'doing things right.' And it's going to meet you where you are," she said an athlete working to go to my sixth Olympics A 9-year-old who is just getting started in the game Campers will receive videos by email every weekday with their exercises for the day -- they can also log onto Walsh Jennings' p1440 website and we want people to be felt and heard," Walsh Jennings said it's very engaging and it's still very connected And so we don't want to minimize that part of it." Twelve-year-old Phia Neilson said the Fundamentals camp helped her grow as a volleyball player but it was the journaling that was a highlight One entry included a drawing of a girl playing volleyball a quote from actor Will Smith and "3 ways to Optimize": "Go to bed earlier start a food log and raise my energy level." "I like that I am learning to be more patient with myself to stay positive and to never give up," she wrote There are wide lessons to be learned from the controversy over the origins of the enigmatic Cretaceous lacustrine carbonate reservoirs of offshore Brazil Figure 1: Location of Santos and Campos Basins Much of the interest in Brazil’s autumn bid rounds will again be on the Santos and Campos Basins with their lacustrine carbonate reservoirs (Figure 1) In the Santos Basin over 30 discoveries have been made in such reservoirs since the Tupi (now Lula) discovery in 2006 with combined recoverable reserves estimated at >30 Bboe in the Cretaceous (Aptian) Barra Velha Formation (known as the ‘Microbialite’) Discoveries have also been made in the adjacent Campos Basin where the same unit is known as the Macabu Formation The Barra Velha Formation can reach thicknesses of over 550m with some wells producing in excess of 28,000 bopd It occurs beneath a cover of marine salt (the Ariri) and represents a later rift-to-sag interval of South Atlantic opening Deeper in the section are the mainly Barremian coquina (shelly limestone) reservoirs of the Itapema Formation well documented from the Campos Basin where they constitute the Coqueiros The Barra Velha and its correlatives represent a lake system that covered an area of at least 335,000 km2: a similar size to the present-day Caspian Sea While debate continues over the origins of the coquina reservoirs the main controversy relates to the Barra Velha and its equivalents The implications of the different interpretations for this unit are quite fundamental in terms of both exploration strategies and reservoir modelling which was clearly associated with relatively deep lakes during active rifting the Barra Velha was deposited during the latter stages of rifting but shows clear evidence of syn-depositional control on stratal patterns Localized deformation continued through the later ‘sag’ phase Figure 2a: Main components of the Barra Velha reservoirs: Calcite shrubs with inter-shrub porosity (blue) and some mouldic porosity within the shrubs Figure 2b: Main components of the Barra Velha reservoirs: Same image under cross-polarized light with distinctive sweeping extinction patterns reflecting the fibrous microstructure Figure 2c: Main components of the Barra Velha reservoirs: Spherulites set in a talc-stevensite matrix within which are dolomite crystals and elongate bridge-like dolomites Figure 2d: Main components of the Barra Velha reservoirs: Spherulites with pore spaces after the dissolution of the stevensite; the internal structure of the spherulites is clearly seen in cross-polarized light The Barra Velha carbonates are very simple in their composition They consist of just two main primary components (Figure 2): millimeter to centimeter-sized crystalline fibrous calcitic shrub-like structures resembling features found in present-day abiotic travertines (thermal spring deposits); and millimeter-sized spherulites made of fibrous calcite resulting in much reduced reservoir quality they can be porous and constitute the most widespread reservoir facies the in-situ examples can also be non-reservoir if the carbonate features occur within magnesium-silicate matrices (talc-stevensite) What is unique about these reservoirs is that some of the clays which initially formed as gels precipitated out of the lake waters and were deposited on the lake floor later dissolved to produce a previously unrecorded type of mouldic porosity some microbial carbonates occur but represent very little of the formation in terms of thickness Although many academic researchers have interpreted the spherulites as probably microbial in origin to date no actual evidence has been presented to justify that conclusion Finely laminated carbonate muds formed as thin units during deepening events in the lakes caused by increased run-off bringing in fresher waters as indicated by fish and invertebrate remains In deeper parts of the lakes somewhat different laminites There are meter-scale cyclic packages with thin fish-bearing laminites overlain by in situ shrub units (Figure 3) These have been interpreted as reflecting freshening and deepening of the shallow lakes by run-off to produce the laminites a view supported by geochemical studies using C and O stable isotope analyses as well as thermodynamic modeling The occurrence of what was originally stevensite suggests the pH of these alkaline lakes likely exceeded 10 and the surprising rarity of microbial carbonates implies that the pH may have been even higher during the evaporation phases Figure 3: Shallow lake geological model for the Barra Velha Formation based on a tilt-block setting On the gentler dip slopes localized wave-dominated shorefaces developed with possible spit complexes Coarser sediments accumulated on the scarp slopes Meter-scale cycles developed locally as the shallow lakes expanded with increased rainfall when the carbonates and magnesium-silicates formed Mound-like features occasionally developed in Santos Basin (Based on multiple sources including Barnett et al. Why should the Barra Velha and its equivalents be so unique when there are many carbonate-bearing rift successions in the geological record The extreme thinning of crust during the opening of the South Atlantic may have led to exhumation of the mantle creating hydrothermal conditions linked to serpentinization although there is no geochemical evidence for elevated temperatures in the lakes and 87Sr/86Sr data does not indicate a significant input from the alteration of the mantle or ocean basalts More intriguing is the possibility that the extreme alkalinity in the lakes was due to high CO2 input The current controversy over the Barra Velha Formation involves two distinct interpretations The first was the ‘top-down’ microbialite-platform model This uses seismic data to identify high relief platforms with seemingly hundreds of meters of relief which have been compared to present-day and older marine carbonate platforms The attribution of the Barra Velha carbonates to a microbial origin has led to some companies making direct analogies with the high relief Carboniferous marine microbial platforms of the Pre-Caspian basin in Kazakhstan where marine carbonate platforms are differentiated into margins (commonly the preferred targets for exploration) and protected interior facies Some companies have developed reservoir models based on this concept but there are no analogs for the key rock types in the Barra Velha and there is currently little evidence for the carbonates being largely microbial The alternative ‘bottom-up model’ for the Barra Velha was based on the recognition that no viable analogs have been identified The strategy was to start by understanding the basic components making the reservoir rock and assessing them using basic science such as establishing the chemical conditions in which the unusual mineral suite formed combined with integrating crystal growth data multiple interpretations were deliberately sought modified and rejected as more data allowed a clearer understanding of the chemical environment Only once the fundamental controls were understood the main conclusion being that the Barra Velha formed in shallow lakes was the seismic data evaluated; without information on lacustrine carbonate seismic facies or marine analogs the seismic-first approach was considered unjustified running de-risking workflows on the seismic features also showed little likelihood that they were analogous to marine carbonate build-ups Many high relief features were subsequently interpreted as reflecting post-Barra Velha a package in the uppermost 30m of the formation characterized by a series of prominent spikes on the gamma log The carbonates in this interval contain a series of very distinctive cycles including all the typical Barra Velha rock types as well as clear microbial carbonates and reliable water depth indicators proving a very shallow water origin correlatable for 180km across the Santos Basin were affected by hundreds of meters of differential local displacement prior to the main phase of salt deposition (Figure 4) Figure 4: West-east correlation across the Santos Basin showing the unit at the top of the Barra Velha Formation known as ‘Lula’s Fingers’ Its thickness varies from 20.8 to 28.5m (mean 24.3m) within which 9 gamma-defined cycles (mean thickness 2.7m) can be identified These comprise shallowingupwards cycles defined by basal laminites These cycles are well sampled and the facies are very similar in all wells and include a range of unequivocally shallow water sediments Even though these cycles were deposited at comparable water depths they are now separated by over 1 km of vertical relief the highly unusual composition of the lacustrine carbonate reservoirs in the South Atlantic are especially challenging Interpreting these reservoirs has presented a challenge to the accepted wisdom based on marine carbonate analogs and has required a bottom-up approach relying on first understanding the chemistry of extreme lake environments which were heavily influenced by highly thinned crust and the effects of the mantle and then seeking a wider range of explanations for the seismic features Resolving this controversy has huge implications for future exploration and development programs in the wider region Henk KombrinkHenk.Kombrink@geoexpro.com+44 77 8899 2374 Sales DirectorIngvild Ryggen CarstensSales Enquiries+47 974 69 090 Brazil was fifth on the list of countries with the most reports of pages distributing child sexual abuse content as per a report by the InHope international network the country saw notifications multiply and moved from 27th place to the current position InHope uses data from 55 online crime hotlines which has worked in partnership with the Federal Prosecution Service since 2006 Of the more than 50 thousand pages reported in Brazil 10,823 were passed on to hotlines and authorities in other countries apparently because they involved victims of other nationalities The figure also includes pages associated with crimes that seem not to have taken place in Brazil “Another 38,051 pages with signs of child sexual abuse were forwarded to the hotlines with the help of automated and proactive detection tools under the Discover project totaling 48,874 different pages shared by SaferNet Brasil with other InHope member hotlines in 2024,” SaferNet stated 1,155 pages hosted in Brazil were also detected—equivalent to 0.05 percent of all pages with child sexual abuse material identified worldwide These pages are said to have been examined by the federal prosecutors Safernet maintains the National Complaints Center in partnership with Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Service and a helpline for victims of online violence Neymar The doctors are confident of the forward’s on-schedule rehabilitation after he suffered an ACL injury against Uruguay on international duty there is more good news for the Neymar family The father of the Al Hilal star has decided to invest $122 million in a project with many players looking to expand their portfolios in different domains As the beautiful game becomes more demanding players and their families are seeking greener pastures before age catches up According to reports, Neymar’s father has decided to put money into a real estate project The investment made is rumored to be $122 million The father of the Al Hilal star made the investment under his company NR Sports the company has invested in a project that is being planned in Itapema The construction on the land for the property has already started It is expected to finish in the year of 2028 The property will have full access to a private beach The mega-money deal on a real estate project is not the only big deal the family has made The Al Hilal star also made a big investment after completing his move to the Saudi Pro League side this summer transfer window After completing his move to Al Hilal from Paris Saint Germain this summer, Neymar decided to invest in equestrian sports He became the sponsor of the Brazil dressage team The team will travel all over the world and represent the country on the global stage The NR sports company also has investments in the NFT of Neymar that were launched by the player himself in 2022 The move to make investments in different industries will certainly benefit the Brazilian David Beckham is one of the biggest examples of soccer players investing in the right way Neymar Jr of Brazil enters the airport for the team s departure to the Qatar World Cup at Caselle Airportl Picture credit should read: Jonathan Moscrop/Sportimage EDITORIAL USE ONLY games or single club/league/player publications He also has various other investments that have helped him earn big profits after his soccer career Watch this story: Jimmy Butler Approves $120,000,000 Richer ‘Friend’ Neymar Jr’s Multi-Million Saudi League Deal EssentiallySports is a digital-first sports media house that surfaces the best stories on America's favorite sports 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