Location: FrancePartners: TotalEnergiesMain activity: renewable diesel productionOther activities: AdBlue® production planned production of low-carbon hydrogenCommissioning: 2019 Built in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues near Marseille the La Mède complex has been undergoing a transformation since 2015 The site is geared towards the energies of the future which are set to drive growth for TotalEnergies and the local region La Mède's conversion reflects our commitment to play an active role in developing renewable energies TotalEnergies has invested €337 million to convert La Mède into a facility focused on the new energies The key ambition behind the project involves converting the refinery into a biorefinery The La Mède complex also features an AdBlue® production unit The site is also home to TotalEnergies' second OLEUM training center and the Masshylia project in partnership with ENGIE to design one of the largest low-carbon hydrogen production facilities in France the La Mède biorefinery has a production capacity of 500,000 metric tons of renewable diesel per year and can process a wide variety of certified sustainable feedstocks used cooking oils and animal fats from the circular economy palm oil has been excluded from the raw materials processed at La Mède A new investment of €70 million was announced in June 2023 with the aim of ramping up the biorefinery's transformation from 2024 This package will help upgrade the site's facilities to process up to 100% used cooking oil and animal fats Diverse biosourced feedstocks with an increasing share of waste and residues Certified vegetable oil (certified rapeseed oil palm oil)Maximum authorization (the environmental operating authorization dated May 16 2018 authorizes TERF to process 450,000 tonnes of crude vegetable oils of all kinds per year): 450,000 tonnes Of which certified palm oilMaximum commitment: 300,000 tonnes Certified waste & residuesMaximum authorization the environmental authorization to operate dated May 16 2018 authorizes TERF to process annually a minimum of 25% of resources from waste or residues (fatty acid distillates used edible oils or category 3 animal fats): 25% Enlarge image 100% of the oils purchased by TotalEnergies for La Mède meet the sustainability criteria set by the European Union. Compliance with the sustainability criteria for oils purchased for the La Mède biorefinery is established by an International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) sustainability certificate based on the mass balance system required by the European Union(1) This certification scheme confirms that every metric ton of oil purchased and processed by TotalEnergies corresponds to one metric ton of oil produced in compliance with the European Union's sustainability criteria This certificate is awarded on the condition of compliance with the criteria of sustainability and traceability of oils throughout the chain AdBlue® is an additive used to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from diesel engines (trucks and passenger vehicles) The AdBlue® production unit at La Mède produces 50,000 metric tons per year A new logistics and storage hub started operations in April 2017 Located in the heart of the Marseille Fos Port the hub boasts a storage capacity of 1.3 million cubic meters and is capable of storing fuels (gasoline and diesel) La Mède hosts TotalEnergies' second OLEUM training center Modeled after the center of the same name at our Flanders facility near Dunkirk this training center for oil and petrochemical industries is one of the world's few such facilities based in a real industrial complex The center is able to train over 2,000 people a year The La Mède OLEUM international training center also provides a demonstration platform to trial digital projects under real operating conditions in TotalEnergies' industrial environment The La Mède solar power plant came on stream in 2017 It is equipped with high-performance cells produced by the Company's affiliate SunPower and has a production capacity of 8 megawatts (MW) enough to meet the electricity needs of a city of 13,000 people are working together at La Mède to develop a process for recovering biorefinery effluent and clay through anaerobic digestion TotalEnergies and ENGIE signed a cooperation agreement to design build and operate the Masshylia green hydrogen production project at La Mède a new renewable hydrogen production project was launched with in partnership with Air Liquide in line with TotalEnergies' ambition to decarbonize the hydrogen consumed by its European refineries by 2030 Air Liquide will build and operate a renewable hydrogen production unit on the La Mède platform With a capacity of 25,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year this unit will recycle co-products from the biorefinery The hydrogen will then be used by the biorefinery to produce biodiesel and Sustainable Air Fuels (SAF) these projects will reduce the La Mède biorefinery's CO2 emissions by 130,000 tons a year (1) see Article 18(1) of Directive 2009/28/EC of April 23 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (2) The La Mède biorefinery produces nearly 10,000 metric tons of waste every year This waste is mainly filtration clay and effluent containing a mixture of up to 20% vegetable oils and animal fats Discover our major biomass/biogas projects Metrics details Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged causing concerns about low public trust in scientists We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking We found variations between and within countries which we explain with individual- and country-level variables While there is no widespread lack of trust in scientists we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists It is therefore important to revisit this narrative and provide robust empirical evidence on whether it is accurate People who feel that their concerns and values are not reflected in the priorities of scientists may therefore doubt the trustworthiness of scientists Empirical evidence is needed to determine how widespread such critical attitudes towards science are across countries and population groups it is unknown how SDO relates to trust in scientists across many countries we investigate what goals people want scientists to prioritize in their work and how this relates to trust we investigate whether people perceive that their desired priorities are tackled by science Total n = 69,527. Country ns range between 312 and 8,014 (see Supplementary Information for a detailed overview) The vertical line denotes the weighted grand mean The horizontal lines indicate means ± standard errors Country-level standard errors range between 0.008 and 0.133 we did not find a clear pattern that scientists are less trusted in Latin American and African countries we did find patterns within specific regions Russia as well as several former Soviet republics and satellite states (such as Kazakhstan) show relatively low trust in scientists Our findings are consistent with these results Other positive correlates of trust in scientists include people’s willingness to rely on scientific advice and thus make themselves vulnerable to scientists the belief that science benefits people like them Standardized country-level effects of political orientation (in a 1 = strongly left-leaning to 5 = strongly right-leaning; in b 1 = strongly liberal to 5 = strongly conservative) on trust in scientists (1 = very low These effects are sums of the grand effect for political orientation across all countries and the random effect within each country; they were estimated with weighted linear multilevel regressions that contained random intercepts and random slopes for political orientation (left–right in a and liberal–conservative in b) across countries These models control for demographic characteristics Two-sided t-tests of the estimates used percentile bootstrapping Countries with significant country-level effects (P < 0.05) are displayed in colours Countries coloured in shades of blue show a positive country-level association of left-leaning (a) or liberal (b) orientation and trust in scientists (that is right-leaning people or conservatives have lower trust) Countries coloured in shades of red show a positive country-level association of right-leaning (a) or conservative (b) orientation and trust in scientists (that is left-leaning people or liberals have lower trust) Countries with non-significant effects are shaded in dark grey Countries with no available data are shaded in light grey a prevalent component of the trust crisis narrative Normative perceptions of scientists in society and policymaking using weighted response probabilities We compared whether people’s expectations match their perceptions of whether scientists actually tackle the following goals: improving public health and developing defence and military technology The grey horizontal lines indicate the discrepancy between perceived research priorities (“Science aims to tackle this goal”; blue) and desired priorities (“Scientists should prioritize this goal”; red) The P values indicate the results of weighted paired-samples two-sided t-tests for significant differences between perceived priorities and desired priorities the more they perceive that scientists’ efforts exceed expectations a higher likelihood that scientists’ perceived efforts exceed people’s expectations is associated with less trust in scientists in the case of developing defence and military technology (that is those who think scientists are too focused on defence and military technology trust science less) expands and strengthens previous work that refutes the narrative of a wide-ranging crisis of trust We expand previous studies by providing a comprehensive dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic and relying on a theoretically informed multidimensional trust measure having high SDO and having science-populist attitudes are correlated with lower trust in scientists our findings support the idea that SDO may play a more fundamental role in undermining trust in scientists more generally Scientists who challenge unjust social hierarchies might increase benevolence perceptions among some groups but would probably further decrease trust among people with SDOs Interventions could be developed to build the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and involve trusted communicators outside of scientific institutions Future research should investigate the size of these distrusting minorities across countries and their characteristics Future studies should also examine whether normative perceptions of science in policymaking shift when specific scientific disciplines or policy issues are mentioned in real-world settings A majority of the public wants scientists to prioritize research on public health and solving energy problems most people believe that scientists are currently not tackling these issues sufficiently and think that defence and military technology are prioritized too much As the perceived benefits of science are strongly correlated with trust in scientists greater consideration of public research priorities by scientists funding agencies and philanthropists presents an important avenue to increase trust science communication efforts could increasingly focus on highlighting ongoing research on public health and solving energy problems to elevate the prominence of this research in the minds of the public Our Many Labs study provides decision makers scientists and the public with large-scale and open public-opinion data on trust in scientists that can help these stakeholders maintain and potentially increase trust in scientists A pretest with n = 401 participants was conducted in the USA in October 2022 and two questions were added to the survey The data from the pretest were not included in the final analyses In total, we measured 111 variables. No identifiable information was collected. In the following, we list the measures relevant for this study. The complete questionnaire (in English) is available via the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/7y2br/ The participants were presented with these components in the order in which they are explained below but the order of questions and items of multi-item scales was randomized The participants were asked to carefully read a consent form (approved under IRB protocol no which included some general information about the study and the anonymity of the data Participants who consented to participating in the study were then asked to indicate their gender (0 = female age and level of education (1 = did not attend school university degree or higher-education diploma)) The first attention check asked the participants to write the number 213 into a comment box. Participants who failed the attention check were redirected to the end of the survey and were not remunerated. See the Supplementary Information for details on how many respondents failed this attention check in the overall sample and across countries The participants were asked how much they perceived that scientific research benefits people like themselves in their country (1 = not at all 5 = very strongly) and which geographic region benefits the most and the least from the work that scientists do (1 = Africa The participants were asked what goals scientists should prioritize (four items; 1 = very low priority 5 = very high priority) and how strongly they believed that science aims to tackle these goals (1 = not at all The participants indicated their level of agreement on whether scientific research methods are the best way to find out if something is true or false (1 = strongly disagree which comprises eight items (1 = strongly disagree The participants indicated their household’s yearly net income (in local currency) their political orientation on a spectrum from liberal to conservative (1 = strongly liberal 99 = I don’t know) and on a spectrum from left-leaning to right-leaning (1 = strongly left-leaning their religiosity (1 = not religious at all and whether they live in a rural or urban area Collaborators were allowed to add questions at the end of the survey Additional questions did not have to be approved by the lead author Participants that completed the survey were remunerated according to the market research company’s local rates All data were collected via online surveys except in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the participants were interviewed face-to-face and their responses were recorded in Qualtrics by the interviewers The collaborators were instructed to work with the market research company Bilendi & respondi where collaborators collected data with MSi We excluded all respondents (n = 213) who completed the survey more than once (for example We removed extreme outlier values for age and household income Age outliers were defined as values smaller than 18 and bigger than 100 Income outliers were defined as values smaller than zero equal to zero or outside five times the interquartile range of the log-transformed income distribution within each country after the exclusion of values smaller than or equal to zero This led to the removal of the age values of 8 respondents and the removal of the income values of 2,457 respondents (1,365 respondents indicated income values equal to or smaller than zero; 1,092 respondents indicated income values outside five times the interquartile range of the log-transformed income distribution within each country after the exclusion of values equal to or smaller than zero) second and third blocks were scaled by country means and country standard deviations All independent variables in the fourth block were scaled by grand means and grand standard deviations We first tried to fit a model with random intercepts and random effects for all independent variables this model failed to converge with three negative eigenvalues and also had a singular fit—that is some random-effects correlations were close to −1/+1 and some random-effects variances were close to 0 This was probably because the random-effects structure was too complex We therefore simplified the model as follows: to test the effects of the independent variables on trust in scientists we fitted a model that contained random intercepts across countries (but no random effects) and inspected fixed-effects estimates To investigate how the influence of the independent variables varies across countries each of which contained random intercepts across countries and random effects for one particular independent variable This entire procedure was completely in line with our preregistration we confirmed that they would fit the data better than fixed-effects models we inspected intraclass correlations for trust in scientists (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) It showed that a random-intercept null model explaining trust in scientists had a significantly better fit than a fixed-effects null model (χ2 = 6,024.9 which explained the average agreement with the five individual items measuring those perceptions included the rescaled post-stratification weights science-related populist attitudes and sociodemographic variables as independent variables—that is education (binary; 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Edward is a commentator on his own for the semi finals before having a co-host for the final Christer Björkman and Sanna Nielsen have taken on this role This year Edward will be joined in the final by comedian Petra Mede who is known to fans as the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 She currently holds second place for the most amount of Eurovision hosting responsibilities after Katie Boyle who hosted four times in the United Kingdom Petra also hosted Eurovision’s Greatest Hits in 2015 alongside UK commentator Graham Norton “It’s the first time I’ve had the honor of commentating on the Eurovision Song Contest but thankfully it’s not the first time I’ve had the honor of working with Edward KAJ will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with “Bara bada bastu” This will be the first Swedish Eurovision entry to be sung completely in Swedish since 1998 and the first Eurovision entry in Swedish since 2012 KAJ will perform sixth in the first semi-final on May 13 Image Source: Eurovision.tv | Source: Aftonbladet Sweden debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 and has gone on to be one of the contest’s most successful countries The country has won the contest seven times Sweden’s first victory came in 1974 when ABBA won the contest in Brighton with “Waterloo” Sweden has gone on to finish 3rd twice and has won the contest twice Only in 2013 did the country place outside of the top 10 in the final Metrics details Science is integral to society because it can inform individual and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study “Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism” (TISP) The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals’ trust in scientists perceptions of the role of science in society science media use and communication behaviour attitudes to climate change and support for environmental policies political and religious views and demographic characteristics survey materials and psychometric properties of key variables We encourage researchers to use this unique dataset for global comparative analyses on public perceptions of science and its role in society and policy-making Overview of constructs included in the TISP core questionnaire The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the TISP Many Labs project (“Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism”) multidisciplinary consortium of 241 researchers from more than 170 institutions across all continents pre-registered online survey with 88 post-hoc weighted quota samples in 68 countries using the same questionnaire translated into 37 languages The countries cover all inhabited continents and Democratic (WEIRD) societies and represent 31% of all nations worldwide that jointly make up 79% of the global population they focus on public trust in science and attitudes towards scientists’ role in society and policy-making – but do not explore numerous further potentials of the TISP dataset such as analyses of science communication behaviour and climate change attitudes qualitative analyses with responses to open-ended questions and analyses of single countries These studies will provide further evidence on the relationship of science and society – both across multiple and within single countries Such evidence can facilitate recommendations for policy-makers and other stakeholders on how to address societal challenges such as science scepticism and climate change the current article presents the most comprehensive description of the methodological procedures underlying the collection of the TISP dataset Informed consent was obtained from all participants before taking the survey The methodological procedures underlying the collection of the TISP dataset can be found in the sections Design Plan We deviated from the pre-registered procedures as follows: (1) We exceeded the overall target sample size (N = 62,000) as well as the target sample size for some countries (e.g. Germany) thanks to unexpected additional financial resources We did not reach the target sample size in six countries (Albania Uruguay) because local survey panels were too small to recruit enough respondents in all quota groups (2) The TISP survey covered six countries not mentioned in the pre-registration (Botswana Uganda) as additional collaborators joined the TISP consortium after submitting the pre-registration we could not collect data as planned in five countries (Honduras but exceeded the pre-registered number of countries (k = 68) (3) In order to reach our target sample size and accommodate difficulties with obtaining IRB approval translating and programming the survey or reaching quota goals in single counties we extended the data collection period beyond the time span indicated in the preregistration (4) We had to open quotas in 13 countries with very skewed population distributions for age (e.g. few citizens aged 60 + years) to reach target sample sizes (Albania (5) When computing the post-stratification weights via iterative post-stratification (“raking”) we collapsed adjacent age and education strata in single countries This was because some age and education strata were empty or sparsely populated in several countries which makes raking impossible or results in extreme weights when applied to data with sparsely populated strata (see Data pre-processing section) The surveys used crossed quotas for age × gender with balanced target distributions The age quota had five bins: 20% 18-29 years It did not include other genders since available population data indicate substantial country differences in how many people identify with participants who “prefer to self-describe” or “prefer not to say” their gender were not subject to quota requirements (see Measures subsection) The surveys were programmed with the survey software Qualtrics. The .qsf file of the core survey is available at https://osf.io/qd6f3 with the exception of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where trained interviewers conducted face-to-face interviews and recorded responses in Qualtrics as this was the only data collection solution available from Bilendi & respondi The project leads prepared several template files including the TISP guidebook; manuals for data collection and the submission of country datasets to a secure non-commercial cloud storage service; a survey template file (.qsf format) to be imported into Qualtrics; and materials for IRB applications the project leads assisted some collaborators in programming the survey with Qualtrics by hosting video-call workshops validity and comparability across countries Data were collected between 30th November 2022 and 27th August 2023 (see Fig. 3 for an overview of survey periods across countries). The median completion time was 18 minutes (10% winsorised M = 21 min, 10% winsorised SD = 11 min, MAD = 10 min, interquartile range = 14 min). Data collection periods across countries The questionnaire contained 111 variables (see Fig. 2). Data from a few countries missed some variables and items due to negligence or oversight on the part of local collaborators (see Supplementary Table 2 for an overview) this pertains only to a small number of variables in eight countries and therefore only marginally impacts the TISP dataset The complete questionnaires in all 37 languages and the English core questionnaire are available at OSF: https://osf.io/sujpn We recommend that users of the TISP dataset refer to the core questionnaire for the labels and codes of variables because a few local questionnaires contained errors some collaborators used wrong variable and item labels in the local datasets or assigned wrong codes to the response options these errors only concerned the programming back-end of the survey and did not affect questionnaire texts; hence they did not compromise participants’ understanding of the questions The errors were corrected when preparing the final dataset but remain in the Qualtrics exports of the original local questionnaires The core questionnaire contained the components described in the following (see Fig. 2 for all questions and response options) Participants were presented with these components in the order in which they are explained below but the order of questions and items of multi-item scales was randomised Collaborators were allowed to add further measures at the end of the questionnaire in countries where they collected data Response data for these additional measures are not included in the dataset presented in this paper Participants were asked to carefully read a consent form (approved under IRB protocol #IRB22-1046 at Harvard University) which included general information about the study and the anonymity of the data Participants who agreed to participate in the study indicated their gender (female age (years) and education (did not attend school Participants were asked to write the number “213” into a comment box Those who failed the attention check were directed to the end of the survey See the Technical Validation section for exclusion totals by country and overall We added it because in-depth interviews conducted by the Monitor suggested that including a definition improves the reliability of cross-country comparisons Participants were asked how often (never – once or more per day) they had come across information about science in four types of news media in the past twelve months: news articles in printed newspapers or magazines; news shows or documentaries on TV or radio; news articles on news websites or in news apps; videos or podcasts on news websites or in news apps Participants were asked how often (never – once or more per day) they had come across information about science in fictional films or TV series and in fictional books Participants were asked how often (never – once or more per day) they had come across information about science on social media and in instant messaging conversations with friends or family in the past twelve months Participants were asked how often (never – once or more per day) they had come across information about science in museums zoos or public talks and in conversations with friends or family outside the Internet and messaging apps in the past twelve months Participants were asked how often (never – once or more per day) they had communicated about science in four different ways in the past twelve months: having conversations with friends or co-workers about scientific issues; chatting in messaging apps about scientific issues; sharing or commenting on social media posts about scientific issues; attending public rallies or protests related to scientific issues Participants were randomly assigned to one of two open-ended questions One question asked participants who they think benefits the most from science and why The second question asked about their opinion on what makes a scientist trustworthy Participants were asked how much they believe that scientific research benefits people like themselves in their country (not at all – very strongly) and which world region benefits the most and the least from the work that scientists do (Africa Participants were asked how much scientists should prioritise tackling four goals (very low priority – very high priority) and how strongly they believe that science aims to tackle these goals (not at all – very strongly): improve public health; solve energy problems; reduce poverty; develop defence and military technology Information on the psychometric properties of the trustworthiness scale measurement invariance and convergent validity can be found in the Technical Validation section The SciPop Scale asks for the level of agreement with eight statements that capture the four conceptual dimensions of science-related populist attitudes positive conceptions of an ordinary people (“Ordinary people have in common that they trust their common sense in everyday life” and “Ordinary people are of good and honest character”) negative conceptions of an academic elite (“Scientists are only interested in their own advantage” and “Scientists are in cahoots with politicians and businesses”) demands for decision-making sovereignty (“Ordinary people should have influence on the work of scientists” and “Ordinary people should be involved in decisions about the topics scientists research”) and demands for truth-speaking sovereignty (“Ordinary people should trust their life experience more than the recommendations of scientists” and “Our society should rely more on common sense than on scientific studies”) on 5-point Likert scales (strongly disagree – strongly agree) Information on the psychometric properties and measurement performance of the SciPop Scale in the TISP data can be found in the Technical Validation section We integrated a second attention check into the SciPop Scale It asked participants to select the response option “strongly disagree” Participants who did not select “strongly disagree” were directed to the end of the survey See Technical Validation section for exclusion totals we must consider all groups” (extremely opposed – extremely favour) Participants were asked how much they trust scientists in their country who work on climate change (not at all – very strongly) participants indicated their level of agreement with seven statements about government action on climate change “My government is doing enough to avoid climate change” (strongly disagree – strongly agree) Participants indicated how much they support five environmental policies: raise carbon taxes on gas and fossil fuels or coal; expand infrastructure for public transportation; increase the use of sustainable energy such as wind and solar energy; protect forested and land areas; increase taxes on carbon intense foods (not at all – very much Participants indicated to what extent they believe that climate change has increased the impact of six weather events over the last decades: floods; heatwaves; heavy storms; wildfires; heavy rain; droughts (not at all – very much) They also indicated to what extent they expect that climate change will increase the impact of these events in the future (not at all – very much) Participants indicated their household’s annual net income (in local currency) their political orientation on the liberal-conservative spectrum (strongly liberal – strongly conservative I don’t know) and on the left-right spectrum (strongly left-leaning – strongly right-leaning as well as their religiosity (not religious at all – very strongly religious) and whether they live in a rural or urban area (rural The survey was usually conducted in a widely spoken language and in some multilingual countries such as Switzerland respondents could choose between different national languages Most translations were done by researchers from the countries where the surveys were conducted This allowed us to account for local specificities such as the Japanese custom to indicate income in “man-Yen” Collaborators were instructed to ask for permission from the project leads before making any adjustments that could potentially affect comparability across countries the use of gender-neutral language instead of masculine (pro)nouns in countries like Germany – also had to be approved by the project leads the German translation was used in Germany Collaborators were advised to apply the highest standards when preparing the translations such as back-translations by independent researchers the project leads did not require them to employ external back-translations in order to facilitate the project progress and accommodate limited budgets These measures enabled us to achieve as much semantic invariance as possible across different translations there are still cross-cultural differences in the meaning of key terms like “science” the Polish translation “nauka” also means learning the German translation “Wissenschaft” also includes the humanities and the Japanese translation “科学” may also be associated with technology and engineering we placed a definition of the terms “science” and “scientists” at the beginning of the questionnaire It paraphrased the English meaning of the term which includes the natural sciences but excludes the arts and humanities (see Measures section) We also gave participants examples for “scientific issues” (climate change new technologies) and “public rallies or protests related to scientific issues” (COVID-19 protests March for Science) to facilitate a common understanding of these terms Flow chart of data pre-processing steps All research groups of the TISP consortium submitted the collected data to the project leads including data from participants who did not finish the survey The final TISP dataset was prepared in the following steps we merged all 88 local datasets into a single dataset (ds_full We then excluded the 94,966 respondents who did not complete the survey because they cancelled participation during the survey were filtered out as their gender or age quota were already met or because they did not pass one of the two attention checks we excluded 213 participants who completed the survey more than once despite countermeasures (e.g. We identified these participants by their panel IDs which they had been assigned by the survey companies when entering the survey retained only the first complete record for each duplicate respondent and deleted all subsequent records only highly implausible values of well over 1 billion USD in some countries) This led to the removal of the age values of 8 participants and the removal of the income values of 2,457 participants (1,365 participants indicated income values equal to or less than 0; and 1,092 participants indicated income values outside 5 × the interquartile range) Users who prefer other outlier exclusion criteria or no exclusion at all can adjust the R code to their preferences (file 01_setup.R) and run it on the raw dataset (ds_full) (1) post-stratification weights at country level (2) post-stratification weights at global level and (3) rescaled post-stratification weights for multilevel analyses (see Data Records section for information on when to use which weight) We first stratified each country sample by gender (female/male) age groups (18–29/30–39/40–49/50–59/60+ years) and education levels (none or primary education/secondary education/tertiary education) We originally planned to distinguish a no education and a primary education stratum we had to collapse these into a none or primary education stratum because there were several countries without respondents with no education This was a necessary deviation from the preregistration Some age and education strata were empty or sparsely populated in several countries because collaborators had to relax age quotas or oversampled individuals with tertiary education to reach their target sample size raking is not feasible with empty strata and results in extreme weights when applied to data with sparsely populated strata we collapsed empty or sparsely populated age and education strata with adjacent strata in cases where a stratum contained less than 5% of respondents within a country We had to exclude 2,388 participants before raking: This was either because they had missing values for gender age and education (raking requires participant data for all post-stratification variables) or because they identified with genders other than female or male (the World Population Prospects 2022 do not contain population margins for them) The ds_final dataset including the raked weights therefore contains only N = 69,534 participants whereas the ds_main dataset without weights retains participants for whom raking was not possible and thus contains the complete valid sample of N = 71,922 The repository includes a wiki with detailed instructions for users and contains the following folders: 01_data includes three versions of the TISP dataset and respondent ID data for duplicate checks (./survey-data) demographic data of target populations for computing the post-stratification weights (./population-data) and conversion rates for transforming local currencies to USD (./currency-data) 02_code includes R code for replicating the data pre-processing procedures and the validation analyses (see Technical Validation section) 04_figures includes all figures in high resolution 05_survey-materials includes all survey materials 06_irb-documents includes the official documents certifying ethical approval from the Area Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at Harvard University as well as materials for collaborators in case they needed to seek IRB approval they included only a small subset of variables whereas the TISP dataset contains several more measures They conducted comprehensive descriptive and multivariate analyses to test pre-registered research questions and hypotheses which are far beyond the scope of the current article; we only present an overview of the sample characteristics (see Methods section) and psychometric properties of select measures (see Technical Validation section) It is recommended to use the .rds files where response values are labelled The .csv files are semicolon-delimited and use UTF-8 encoding with a Bit Order Mark (BOM) so they can be imported into Microsoft Excel with correct encoding of non-ASCII characters (missing values coded as “NA”) Open-ended answers (see Methods section) are provided in the languages in which they were recorded so that users of the TISP dataset can analyse raw answers and employ translation software or services of their choice Researchers who wish to conduct statistical analyses that estimate parameters that are representative for target populations in terms of gender, age and education and have correct variances and standard errors should use the analysis-ready dataset. It contains three kinds of post-stratification weights (see Methods section and Fig. 4) WEIGHT_CNTRY: This variable contains the post-stratification weights at country level to be used for weighted analyses with single country samples WEIGHT_GLOBL: This variable contains the post-stratification weights at global level to be used for weighted analyses with the entire analysis-ready dataset We pre-computed a svydesign object of the TISP dataset which can be found in the repository (folder 03_models) or reproduced by users with the R code provided The materials available at the OSF repository also include all survey materials: the TISP core questionnaire in English the Qualtrics file in .qsf format and instructions for collaborators (data collection manual data submission guide and the TISP guidebook) We also share the documents certifying ethical approval from the Area Committee on the Use of Human Subjects at Harvard University as well as template materials prepared for local IRB applications and was designed with an international advisory board of nine experts on public opinion and communication about science the history and sociology of science and survey methods To enhance the invariance of questionnaire performance across countries and languages we drew on cross-checked translations by local collaborators who were native speakers and familiar with the research topic and study context To ensure the integrity of the data collection process the project leads pre-registered sample size rationales and data pre-processing steps before fielding surveys obtained ethical approval from multiple IRBs tutorials and 1-on-1 assistance to collaborators and required all co-authors to sign an ethical agreement was also involved in internal peer review of project outputs An independent data scientist as well as TISP collaborators highly proficient in statistical analyses also reviewed the statistical code for preparing the dataset and verifying its reliability We took three further measures to validate the quality of the TISP dataset as detailed below (1) We conducted a pre-test prior to the main survey to validate the measures used in the questionnaire (2) We inspected if the attention checks had similar performance across countries and confirmed that they filtered demographic groups of respondents known to be less attentive to surveys measurement invariance and convergent validity of all four scales that we adopted from prior research or in the case of the 12-item scale measuring trust in scientists developed for the purpose of the TISP study A pre-test with N = 401 participants was conducted in the United States in October 2022. Average completion time was 14 minutes. The questionnaire was slightly modified to improve the comprehensibility of questions and the survey flow, and two questions were added to the final questionnaire. Pre-test data are not included in the datasets presented in this article, but are available at https://osf.io/wj34h The questionnaire contained two attention checks (see Methods section) 4% of respondents who reached the first attention check did not pass it 24% of participants who reached the second attention check did not pass it This indicates that both attention checks – particularly the second – clearly increased data quality: They filtered numerous respondents who were likely too inattentive to provide meaningful data and might thus have compromised the reliability of the TISP data The attention checks also harmonized data quality across countries and polling companies. This was necessary as respondents from Brazil, India or Türkiye often failed them, whereas participants from Romania, Uruguay or the United Kingdom had much higher baseline attentiveness levels (see Supplementary Table 6) we fitted logistic multilevel regression models with random intercepts across countries which predicted failing with age the three demographic characteristics that were measured before the first attention check and were therefore available for all participants Unstandardised and standardised regression estimates (within-country scaled predictors) show that failing the first attention check was marginally more likely if participants were younger (b = −0.004 p < 0.001) and clearly more likely if they had no tertiary education (b = −0.478 with males being slightly more likely to fail the first attention check than females (b = 0.008 Failing the second attention check was more likely among participants who are male (b = 0.010 with participants who completed tertiary education being more attentive than participants who completed only primary or secondary education (b = −0.295 These results indicate that the attention checks worked well and allowed us to collect similarly informative data across different demographic groups (c) measurement invariance tests via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and (d) convergent validity analyses The 12-item scale measuring perceived trustworthiness of scientists may be aggregated to a single score by computing the arithmetic mean of all response values for each respondent with higher values indicating higher perceived trustworthiness (weighted M = 3.62 range: 1 – 5; see R code for M and SD across countries) the scale shows excellent internal consistency captures the four trustworthiness dimensions rather distinctively exhibits acceptable measurement performance in the global sample but limited invariance across countries and has high convergent validity as we would not want to risk a loss of scale reliability in countries with lower estimates (e.g. we sought to maintain sufficient subscale consistency – which had likely been reduced had we removed items from the scale – so as to accommodate dataset users who wish to analyse single trustworthiness dimensions CFA that tested a model with four latent factors each predicting its three corresponding items Multi-group CFAs yielded slightly worse results (χ² = 12,188 They suggested that we can assume configural invariance for the trustworthiness scale across countries but not metric or scalar invariance (p < 0.001) This demonstrates high convergent validity of the trustworthiness measure We therefore applied this approach when assessing the psychometric properties and measurement performance of the SciPop Scale in the TISP dataset: First we calculated unweighted arithmetic means of the response values for each of the four 2-item components of the scale (see Methods section) we took the lowest of these four means as an indicator of someone’s overall support for science-related populism (weighted M = 2.32 with higher values indicating stronger support (range: 1 – 5) our validity tests indicate high internal consistency of the SciPop Scale confirm the four-dimensional factor structure demonstrate good performance in the global sample despite somewhat limited measurement invariance and suggest sufficient convergent validity Polychoric parallel analysis confirmed the four-dimensional conceptualisation of the SciPop Scale. Oblique polychoric EFA showed that the eight items formed four plausible factors that correspond with the four conceptual dimensions of science-related populist attitudes (see Supplementary Table 8) Mardia’s test showed that multivariate normality of the SciPop Scale could not be assumed (Mardia skewness = 3,992 so the parallel analysis and the EFA used PA factoring instead of ML factoring An ESEM-based multilevel EFA model had excellent fit (χ² = 1,845 A CFA model with four second-order factors each predicting its two corresponding items and one first-order factor had satisfactory fit (χ² = 1,449 Multi-group CFAs showed similar results (χ² = 3,510 They suggested that we can not assume metric or scalar invariance across countries (p < 0.001) The 3-item scale measuring outspokenness about science may be aggregated to a single score by computing the arithmetic mean of the response values for each respondent with higher values indicating higher outspokenness (weighted M = 3.87 The psychometric tests indicate strong internal consistency mediocre measurement invariance and good convergent validity We confirmed the unidimensionality of the scale using polychoric parallel analysis which showed that all three items load on one common factor Multivariate normality could not be assumed (Mardia skewness = 7,522 so the parallel analyses relied on PA factoring An ESEM-based multilevel EFA model had very good fit (χ² = 232 This is perhaps partly because we had to fix the variance of the latent factor to 1 otherwise the model would have been saturated with df = 0 Multi-group CFAs showed even less ideal results (χ² = 597 They indicated that we can not assume metric or scalar invariance (p < 0.001) The 4-item scale measuring SDO may be aggregated by computing the arithmetic mean of the response values for each respondent with higher values indicating stronger SDO (weighted M = 3.62 The psychometric tests indicate mediocre internal consistency ambiguous results regarding the dimensionality and low measurement invariance This is largely in line with what we find for these countries The parallel analysis and the EFA used PA factoring since multivariate normality could not be assumed (Mardia skewness = 13,278 An ESEM-based multilevel EFA model had bad fit which is likely due to the somewhat ambiguous factor structure and corresponds with the mediocre reliability of the scale (χ² = 7172 The poor fit of the one-factor models is likely a result of the unstable factor structure of the SDO scale in the TISP dataset A two-factor CFA model performs clearly better (χ² = 889 but fitting two-factor multi-group CFAs failed due to Heywood cases and non-identification This is evidence that the SDO scale has sufficient convergent validity The datasets are ready to use with popular statistical software like R (recommended) The OSF repository contains a wiki with information on the content of the folders and further instruction on how to use the files The R code accompanying the datasets (folder 02_code) includes detailed annotations so that users can easily retrace and replicate the data-preprocessing procedures and validation analyses All data as well as the R code, and pre-computed models underlying the analyses described in this article, and Figs. 1–4 in high resolution are available at the Open Science Framework: https://osf.io/5c3qd Owen, R., Macnaghten, P. & Stilgoe, J. 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HydrogenAir Liquide announces new project to supply green hydrogen to TotalEnergiesHydrogen will be used to produce biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel alongside renewable hydrogen being supplied separately by Engie studies trust in science and science-related populism across the globe The two UZH researchers have brought together 241 researchers from 179 institutions to carry out a global survey – a massive undertaking Cologna is an environmental social scientist who specializes in environmental psychology while Mede’s background is in communication science and science communication Their specialist and personal profiles complement each other’s excellently “I enjoy doing project management and coordinating large teams,” says Cologna who is a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum the joint Institute for Advanced Study supported by the University of Zurich ETH Zurich and Zurich University of the Arts who is a senior teaching and research assistant at the UZH Department of Communication and Media Research adds: “I’m more interested in methodical work that is developing the study design and data collection instruments many people said that trust in science was low but there were hardly any global data on the topic The heart of the TISP project consists of a global online survey that Cologna and Mede developed and conducted together with the nine-member advisory board and more than 240 researchers from all around the world Their survey is currently one of the largest available data sets on the topic of public trust in science people’s views on the links between science and politics as well as their opinions about how science-related matters are communicated to the public It includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries The idea for the project began to form during the Covid-19 pandemic “Back then many people said that trust in science was low but there were hardly any global data on the topic,” says Cologna “We wanted to take a closer look.” In addition to the scientific challenges presented by the project the two researchers also made sure to consider the mental health of their team “We always looked after each other and openly discussed any stresses and strains,” says Mede In addition to simply being the right thing to do this approach also proved a crucial part of the project’s success “Of course there were differences of opinion We made a point of taking the time to find solutions that really worked for both sides We often involved the project’s advisory board and the global consortium and asked for their advice,” says Cologna the project was to involve around 30 partner institutions with researchers all over the world wanting to get involved. “We were overwhelmed but it also presented a great logistical challenge,” says Cologna To make sure the international team stayed in touch the researchers compiled various Excel sheets They also set up an internal agreement that governed their cooperation in a way that was transparent and fair for all involved A global research meeting would be the perfect way to conclude this extraordinary project The two UZH postdocs are particularly proud of getting scholars from the Global South involved in their project and their countries are less often the focus of research We didn’t want to reproduce this inequality,” Mede explains While researchers from the West came forward of their own accord Cologna and Mede sometimes struggled to find the right peers in non-Western countries The solution was for the researchers in wealthy countries to support their peers so that the survey could be carried out in countries with limited resources “The solidarity was overwhelming,” says Cologna we received pledges in the five-figure range.” Besides geographical factors the two researchers also made sure that women and early-career researchers were adequately represented Both confirm that including a wide range of perspectives greatly benefited their project The study will soon appear in Nature Human Behaviour while the survey data set will be published and made available in its entirety in Scientific Data Cologna and Mede aim to live up to their goal of conducting socially-oriented transparent and reproducible research in line with the principles of open science they plan to use part of the UZH Postdoc Team Award prize money to continue their support of researchers from economically disadvantaged countries They’d love to meet the whole team in person at a conference one day “We’ve formed many friendships over the years even though most of our interactions have taken place online,” says Cologna And Mede adds: “A global research meeting would be the perfect way to conclude this extraordinary project.” The UZH Postdoc Team Award was introduced in 2022 and awarded for the third time this year The award recognizes interdisciplinary postdoctoral teams for their outstanding and independent scientific achievements with a focus on research projects that stand out for their societal relevance and/or impact funded through a generous donation to the President’s Fund of the UZH Foundation The French space agency CNES has announced a partnership with Spartan Space the Institute of Space Medicine and Physiology (MEDES) and the sporting goods retailer Decathlon to develop a European intra-vehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit Marseille-based startup Spartan Space has been selected by CNES as the project’s prime contractor Teams from the four organizations began discussions for the project in December 2023 at Decathlon’s research and development centre in Lille Development of the spacesuit is currently underway with the delivery of a prototype expected in 2024 represent “an elegant synthesis of expertise and collective innovation.” “With the European ambition to contribute to future space missions with its own crews with its skills and technological know-how wishes to contribute to this growth by notably offering an IVA (Intra-Vehicular Activities) space suit,” Deputy Director of Exploration and Human Flights at CNES Sebastien Barde explained in a statement The CNES IVA spacesuit initiative is being carried out as part of the agency’s Spaceship FR project Spaceship FR was initiated in 2018 as a vehicle to lay the groundwork for future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars in several domains Help European Spaceflight continue to go after stories that are too often overlooked Swedish-US actress and presenter Malin Akerman (L) and Swedish actress and presenter Petra Mede pose for a photo after the first rehearsal for the first semi-final of the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (Getty) The Eurovision 2024 grand final is just around the corner: it will take place on 11 May in Malmö the gorgeous capital of Sweden – the host country of this year’s competition Each year, the host country puts up its own presenters to front the festivities while contestant countries often have their own local hosts as well in the case of the UK’s Graham Norton: hilarious quips In 2022, for example, the contest was held in Turin, Italy, and the presenters from Italy were Alessandro Cattelan, Laura Pausini and Mika For Eurovision 2024, which boasts a wealth of LGBTQ+ acts Sweden has put forward two presenters: Malin Åkerman and Petra Mede Malin Åkerman is an acclaimed Swedish-American actor who has appeared in many well-known movies She received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II in Watchmen. She later spoke about how she felt like she was “out of her league” while making Watchmen and why the experience marked a major turning point for her career at that point She’s also been in some well known US TV shows, for example she earned critical praise for her lead role on ABC sitcom Trophy Wife Åkerman also has a music background as well For a short time in the early 2000s she was the lead vocalist for an alternative rock band called the Petalstones but left to focus on her burgeoning acting career She’s married to UK actor Jack Donnelly who starred in the BBC series Atlantis Jack Donnelly has an impressive Eurovision connection: His mother was the choreographer of Bucks Fizz’s winning dance routine at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with multiple presenter credits to her name who has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in the past: in 2013 and 2016 Mede is certainly musical: she started as a dancer and then briefly worked as a backing singer for Celine Dion before turning her hand to comedy She’s presented Melodifestivalen in the past which is Sweden’s national song contest where the Eurovision entry for the country is chosen In 2015 she and UK comedian and TV presenter Graham Norton hosted the programme Eurovision’s Greatest Hits which was recorded in London and later broadcast in 27 countries around the world In an interview with the official Eurovision 2024 website Malin described Petra as one of the funniest women she’s ever met adding: “We love the craziness and the madness but sometimes me and Malin have to work against that energy otherwise we would just be screaming all the time.” Benjamin Ingrosso is a Swedish singer-songwriter who represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 receiving the maximum 12 points from the juries of eight countries Ingrosso will perform several songs as the interval act in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Malmö. 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By accepting this notice and continuing to browse our website you confirm you accept our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman are hosting this year's European singing competition but who are they The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 final is upon us and all eyes are on the 37 acts and countries performing to win those all-important points for their country there are two more stars of the show and they come in the form of the very talented hosts Presenting this year's Eurovision contest in Malmo Petra and Malin have already spoken about how high-energy the contest is after hosting the semi-finals I’ve never experienced an audience like that — the energy was so high It was truly just magical and I know for my family here in Sweden Here we take a closer look at presenters Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman and get to know everything from their ages their careers and exactly why we might already recognise them this is Petra's third time as a presenter and she's already hinted it may be her last she was asked if she would host again to which she replied: "I’m just happy to do this again I think this is the third and last round for me But I’m just pleased people like the manuscript from Edward [af Sillén] and like the jokes and the tone.” She added: "It's such an incredible honour After first hosting it alone and then together with the delightful Måns by my side I am now really looking forward to working with Malin It's going to be a joy to work with her!" First she started her career as a dancer but her career was over before it even started thanks to a back injury aged just 20 She then worked as a backing singer for Celine Dion her real career highlight is when she become a comedian and is most famous for some of her roles in comic shows one from her relationship with ex-partner Mattias Günther Taking on Eurovision presenting duties for the first time you'll mainly recognise Malin from her TV and movie career which has included starring in 27 Dresses The Proposal and Rock of Ages to name but a few Malin was previously wed to Roberto Zincone who she had a son with Talking about her exciting new career venture she said: "It’s different from movie acting of course The only similarity is that you have lines Malin also said the audience's reaction is one of the things she loves the most about hosting the show as it's not something you get when filming a new role See more More TV & Movies Celebrity Big Brother Lifestyle Music Married at First Sight Weather Trust in scientists is at a moderately high level worldwide This is the conclusion of an international team of 241 researchers led by Viktoria Cologna of ETH Zurich and Niels G “Our results show that most people in most countries have a relatively high level of trust in scientists,” says principal investigator Viktoria Cologna “and want them to play an active role in society and politics.” The study found no evidence for the oft-repeated claim of a crisis of trust in science The study is the result of the TISP Many Labs study a collaborative effort that allowed the authors to survey 71,922 people in 68 countries including many under-researched countries in the Global South For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic representative survey data on the populations and regions of the world in which researchers are perceived to be most trustworthy the extent to which they should engage with the public and whether science is prioritizing important research issues the study finds that the majority of the public has a relatively high level of trust in scientists (mean trust level = 3.62 on a scale of 1 = very low trust to 5 = very high trust) The majority of respondents also perceive scientists as qualified (78%) honest (57%) and concerned about people’s well-being (56%). the results also reveal some areas of concern less than half of respondents (42%) believe that scientists pay attention to the views of others “Our results also show that many people in many countries feel that the priorities of science are not always well aligned with their own priorities,” says co-author Niels G “We recommend that scientists take these results seriously and find ways to be more receptive to feedback and open to dialogue with the public.” The findings confirm the results of previous studies that show significant differences between countries and population groups people with right-wing political views in Western countries tend to have less trust in scientists than those with left-wing views This suggests that attitudes toward science tend to polarize along political lines political orientation and trust in scientists were not related A majority of respondents want science to play an active role in society and policy-making 83% of respondents believe that scientists should communicate with the public about science providing an impetus for increased science communication efforts Only a minority (23%) believe that scientists should not actively advocate for specific policies 52% believe that scientists should be more involved in the policy-making process Participants gave high priority to research to improve public health research to develop defense and military technology was given a lower priority participants explicitly believe that science is prioritizing the development of defense and military technology more than they would like highlighting a potential misalignment between public and scientific priorities Cologna V., Mede N. et al. Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries, Nature Human Behaviour. 20 January 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02090-5 Viktoria Cologna and Niels Mede have been awarded the UZH Postdoc Team Award for their outstanding performance exemplary teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration in their research project Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism (TISP) The two researchers brought together 241 scientists from 179 institutions to conduct a global survey In addition to the paper, the authors of the study also developed a web application that allows users to analyze the survey data and compare results across countries For more information on the TISP project, please visit the project website. Memphis Wine Society The new group is all about vino. Norbert Mede enjoys a glass of Antonini Super Tuscan from Italy at The Capital Grille. (Photo: Michael Donahue) 4:00 a.m Subscribe to our newsletter News Opinion Calendar Music Screens Arts+Culture Food+Drink Books Sports Fun Stuff BROCKTON — A Brockton man accused of charging at officers while holding a hatchet, resulting in him being shot by police, has been indicted. Claude S. Mede, 38, was indicted by a Plymouth County grand jury Wednesday on six counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of destruction of property over $1,200. Mede was shot multiple times on Aug. 21, 2019, in downtown Brockton after he "produced a hatchet and wreaked havoc" inside the Isotronics store, at 1 Main St., according to the Plymouth County district attorney's office. Mede initially went into the store that afternoon seeking a cash return for a cellphone he recently purchased using a credit card, store owner Luis Andrade told The Enterprise at the time. The employee wasn't authorized to perform that transaction. “He said, ’Oh, I’ll shoot up this place. You don’t even know, I’ll shoot up this place,” Andrade recalled. An employee then contacted police using a button under the counter, which Mede recognized and grew angrier, Andrade said. Mede then pulled a hatchet out of his waistband and took a swing at the employee's head, Andrade said. Mede shattered multiple display cases, merchandise and a computer monitor in the store, the owner said. He then left the store and was met by police. Witnesses said officers ordered Mede to drop the hatchet. But police say Mede charged at the officers with the hatchet. An officer fired multiple shots at Mede, one of which lodged into the man’s arm. A second officer then shocked him with a Taser. Then-Mayor Moises Rodrigues said at the time that the Brockton police officers involved were Officer Antonio Randolph and Sgt. Mark Reardon. Officer Joe Miranda used his Taser during the incident, Rodrigues said. Mede remained standing, according to Rodrigues, then yanked the wires from the Taser out of his body and continued to move toward police before a third officer shot him again, bringing the man to the ground. Mede was taken by ambulance to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton and later transferred to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for treatment, where he remained hospitalized for weeks. Brockton police charged Mede in a criminal complaint at Brockton District Court on Aug. 23, 2019. Mede will be arraigned on the indictments at a later date in Brockton Superior Court. Assistant District Attorney Alexander Zane is prosecuting the case. Senior reporter Cody Shepard can be reached by email at cshepard@enterprisenews.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @cshepard_ENT. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “Darius the Mede: A Reappraisal” by Steven Anderson has hit the local book market Ali Asghar Salahshour has translated the book into Persian and Qoqnus Publications has published the book The Median Kingdom is one of the governments about which there is not much information in written texts and archaeological evidence no writings of the Medes' rule have been found While the existence of the Medes is clearly proven in Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions as well as classical sources (including Herodotus and Xenophon) all the archaeological evidence discovered from the Median period is based on speculation. The biblical book of Daniel describes a Median king named Darius who sat on the throne of the mighty Medo-Persian Empire at the time when Babylon fell to the armies of the Medes and the Persians (539 BC) Yet Darius the Mede is not a king whom you will read about in a modern history book for mainstream scholarship affirms that there never was such a person as Darius the Mede Evangelical Bible scholars have proposed various solutions to harmonize the book of Daniel with extrabiblical literature but there remains a measure of dissatisfaction with these solutions. This book attempts to break the current scholarly impasse on the issue by arguing for the historicity of the Median king Cyaxares II who is described at length by the Greek historian Xenophon and who closely corresponds to Daniel’s Darius the Mede. The original book was published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in 2014 Try a different filter or a new search keyword a thrilling collage of Eastern European folk music The album’s themes of reunion and renewal are apparent from track one, “Háromszorra Jövök Össze” (Hungarian for “I come together in three parts”). Soothing insect chirps recorded at Mede’s parents’ house form the background for digitally treated vocals a la Forest Swords each line of which is repeated by her sister everything drops away except for a beautiful a cappella harmony made up of Mede’s layered vocals the power of her voice expressing the peace she has found in home especially on tracks that leave her vocals untreated Though she is early in her career, Mede’s musical journey has been a long one. After distancing herself from local folk traditions to immerse herself in electronic production, she has returned to her first cultural touchstones as the foundation for her work. As Mede explains “When I was younger I rebelled against folk music My parents asked if I was going to do folk songs I want to do hip-hop.’” With Szabadság she draws from a panoply of genres to make something entirely her own Eurovision Song Contest host Petra Mede jokes about Eurovision fans being gay Eurovision Song Contest co-host Petra Mede knows exactly what you are: during last night’s semi-final (9 May), she joked that all Eurovision superfans are gay. At this point, it’s a universally acknowledged fact that the Eurovision Song Contest is one of the gayest events of the year Yet the 2024 contest is arguably embracing that fact more than any other year Then there’s the campy antics of the co-hosts: in the first semi-final earlier this week (7 May), co-host Petra Mede grabbed an audience member’s phone, only for the phone to continuously bleep with the sound of the Grindr notification While the moment was evidently a planned skit it was a cheeky nod to the large proportion of gay men watching at home during the second semi-final (9 May) in Malmö Mede continued her commitment to ensuring Eurovision’s gay fans feel seen who represented Norway at the contest three times before his death in 2020; the first time A montage of other songs that received nil points then played with Mede planting her tongue firmly in her cheek as she referenced those who might have heard of all the songs before “Here’s a tribute to some of the magical songs that were too easily dismissed,” she said “And if you at home can sing along to all these songs "and if you sing along to all these songs you know you're a true homosexual"…Thanks for calling me out Eurovision 🤣 The crowd at Sweden’s Malmö Arena then erupted into laughter and cheers, while online, gay fans reacted with joy at finally getting the recognition they deserve. According to the presenter, you're a true homosexual when you know all the Eurovision songs… #oops #Eurovision just calling eurovision fans homosexual oh she ate that idk The Eurovision Song Contest grand final is available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday 11 May at 8pm BST in the UK. Paris - Total has started up production at the La Mède biorefinery in southeastern France with the first batches of biofuel coming off the line It is the final step in converting a former oil refinery into a new energies complex the project represents a capital expenditure of €275 million these new activities have maintained 250 direct jobs at La Mède 65% of the orders to remodel the complex were awarded to local businesses representing 800 jobs and €140 million in revenue Total also invested €5 million in the economic development of the Fos-Etang de Berre region notably by supporting initiatives to create jobs attract industrial projects and support contractors That’s five times as much as a typical revitalization agreement The biorefinery can produce 500,000 tonnes of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) La Mède will produce both biodiesel and biojet fuel for the aviation industry It was specifically designed to process all types of oil As part of an agreement with the Government in May 2018 Total has pledged to process no more than 300,000 tonnes of palm oil per year — less than 50% of the total volume of raw materials needed — and at least 50,000 tonnes of French-grown rapeseed creating another market for domestic agriculture All the oils processed will be certified sustainable to European Union standards as part of its palm oil procurement process Total is taking an extra step by introducing strengthened control of sustainability and respect for Human Rights (see below) “I’d like to thank the teams for all their hard work these last four years to convert our La Mède refinery,” said Bernard Pinatel “Biofuels are fully renewable and an immediately available solution to cut carbon emissions from ground and air transportation When produced from sustainable raw materials they emit over 50% less carbon than fossil fuels Our biorefinery will allow us to make biofuels in France that were previously imported.” Total’s Feedstock Sustainability Commitments 100% of the oils processed at La Mède are certified sustainable to European Union standards As part of its palm oil procurement process Total has added its own tighter controls and auditing of sustainability and respect for human rights to certification Total transparently publishes the list of mills from which its palm oil is sourced on the La Mède complex website for each delivery 1The RSPO label refers to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil an organization created in 2004 by producers manufacturers and NGOs to promote responsible The La Mède Complex: A Facility for the Energies of Tomorrow weirdest and cringiest hosts were chosen to present in the past But who were the best Eurovision hosts of the 2010s? That’s the question we posed to y’all some months back we can reveal that Eurovision 2016’s Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw are your favourites by a landslide Sweden rolled out Petra Mede once again — she’d already hosted Eurovision 2013 and 2015’s Greatest Hits anniversary show This time she was joined by the 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw It was more of the same from Petra and she was definitely aided by Måns and his charismatic smile performing one of the most memorable interval acts ever Their satirical love song to Eurovision “Love That’s a massive 43.18% of all votes cast Petra Mede is back once more in second place with 534 of you voting for her first stint as a Eurovision presenter in 2013 though Eric Saade provided green room coverage during the grand final actress and all-round genius had just her cue cards for help and gave Europe a flawless performance She even gave the audience a brilliantly funny song about Sweden before the voting started The top three is completed by the German trio of Anke Engelke TV presenter Judith Rakers and all-round entertainer Stefan Raab took the reigns to deliver a show worthy of Düsseldorf’s massive Espirit Arena Raab showed off his talents for singing and playing on his electric guitar This included performing a rockabilly version of the previous year’s winning song “Satellite” fireman’s lifts and paraphrasing the Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall speech (classic) were also on show as these three presenters certainly made it an entertaining year Judith and Stefan picked up 390 votes or 9.71% of all votes cast Vote in all of our Eurovision polls. Padraig contributed this report from Ireland. Follow him on Twitter at @JustPadraig. And while you're at it, like our Facebook page to stay up-to-date with the latest Eurovision news and gossip No surprise to see their year completing the top 5 I would have put 2010 in 6th place because they were competent and I kinda like Nadia 7th place for Denmark: competent but nothing special for me I feel like they were trying too much to make it funny but it wasn’t at all I felt like they’d received a death threat if they didn’t do their job… Read more » She did a good job on what was a horrible voting It goes wrong from the very start with the Austrian spokeswoman forgetting that points are not announced in performance order anymore She was the spokesperson in 1980 too but oddly gets the order right then Frank Naef snaps at Doireann for going too fast (she isn’t) She said later in interview she couldn’t barely see the scoreboard and was struggling to keep track of… Read more » 2014 and 2017 underrated and clearly better than 2018 I don’t get the hate towards the Austrians The Azeri trio looked like they never appeared on camera before I can see a lot of comments actually hating them They might been bland but not “horrible” You complain every year about EVERYTHING about Sweden and still you place us 1 and 2 haha fans are the worst hypocritites EVER In the future only love and no hate then thanks it’s just giving credit were credit is due We can criticize favorable treatment given to Sweden (which is very different from hating Sweden) and still vote for Swedish hosts in a poll if we think they were good at their job And that hurts you in the televote department But I wouldn’t say it’s Sweden’s fault I think the juries sort of voting for Sweden on autopilot because Sweden usually doesn’t send bad songs But in the process many other good songs get ignored because they come from “weaker” countries Normal people dont remember what a country came the year before so im not worried ok so you ONLY vote against some special countries because they take ESC serious I don’t think fans hate on Sweden but they are bored Bored of always seeing “perfection” until 2015 fans were impressed by Swedish skills & stuff (Måns was a well deserved winner) Europe needed something else but Sweden continued to serve the same “perfection” in 2017 2019 and it would have been the case in 2020 (Frans was the only one a bit different) The job of the juries is to credit the quality so it’s normal to see Sweden in their top 3 every year but it’s also normal to see… Read more » What makes the Swedish songs appeal to the juries – very safe and polished pop songs – is usually less appealing to the average viewer It’s working on the jurors because they have a more traditional perception of what Eurovision is and should be but contemporarily produced and well staged It taps to the jurors fondness of kitsch and anthems but it wraps it in a modern package which enables them to vote for it without feeling old-fashioned a Swedish person who is involved in the selection of the Swedish entry The earliest they were ever placed in the first half of the final was song #9 The earliest they were ever placed in the second half of the final was song #20 and they usually got a late slot in the semis No other country gets this preferential treatment I think it’s based on betting odds and such though And Sweden has for the last 5 years at least always been ranked in top 5 prior to the competition I think they put all those higher ranking songs in more favorable starting positions so nothing out of the ordinary that Sweden is as well It has nothing to do with Bjorkman being Swedish Ironic how the hate on Sweden is big in here and still we are 1 and 2 haha Ok Petra and Måns were great and that’s why they are first But i would like to see the norwegian trio higher they did a good job if we consider that hosting wasn’t such a big thing for the fans back then (I think) Maybe they’ve just been forgotten since it was 10 years ago I think Assi may have overdone it in the flirting department Una I even felt uncomfortable for Miki that evening My mother (almost 80) voted for Miki; not sure if she liked the song and/or she thought he was hot The people who did his staging and clothing really let him down We had better join the queue – behind Assi and my mother Wouldn’t know about the staging but I think that slightly “dishevelled” look may have been deliberate appeal to certain demographic I think the Ben Dolic team may have been going down the same road I do not like Bar because of her tax evasion which I think is inexcusable and in my opinion should have prevented her from being allowed to host for her country It’s really all I remember besides the uncomfortable flirting Well I believe Jewish women (which I am) have the prerogative of using this acronym people who are supposed to be example for children Ronaldo) and the world somehow survived that If they can continue playing football and be idolized That song and Albert was Poland’s best choice by far for this year’s canceled contest Allegedly Miki knew all about it in advance but it did not look like that It was during one of the semis (snigger) when the Big 6 were wheeled out Assi and Miki – sound like characters from a Carry On film including the photo was scripted and REHEARSED with MIki It was probably written for Assi because he has a Spanish husband If Miky felt uncomfortable with this whole thing they would change it Actually that was one of the reasons Israel has toned down the role of the hosts in the “entertainment” department but there was fear that the Israeli humor won’t be translated well to 40+ different nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HXJ7M70kA There’s nothing to agree or disagree with The warm-up lady on the night should have done the show But still much less painful than the 2015 ones They looked like they didn’t even know themselves why they got chosen for this Guy in Green Room seemed like he was presenting a political discussion The Green Room guy was probably dragging them down lots of the others were unmemorable though 🙁 Im surprised the Austrian robots werent last Overview Meet the team Press Write for us Input your search keywords and press Enter The hilarious moment was caught on live TV If the Eurovision Song Contest wasn’t already for the gays this audience member just took it to the next level thanks to their Grindr notifications being caught on live TV. During 8 May’s rehearsals for the 68th song contest – which were live-broadcasted, by the way – co-host Petra Mede borrowed someone’s phone in the crowd to demonstrate the official Eurovision app when a certain dating app got in the way Mede, who is co-hosting Eurovision 2024 alongside actor Malin Akerman from Malmö, Sweden, was hilariously interrupted by notifications from the audience member’s Grindr app. Clearly, the person looking for a hook-up wasn’t aware their potential match was on live TV, because messages kept popping off over, and over, and over. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BBC iPlayer (@bbciplayer) Mede didn’t quite get the memo at first, as fellow audience members started laughing in recognition of that little ping sound they were all too familiar with. “I don’t know what that was, but anyway, download this Eurovision app,” Mede said, remaining professional. She then spoke to the audience member, adding: “I’ll just give you the phone back.” As the notifications kept going off, Mede joked: “It seems like you’re having a wonderful week here in Malmo.” The clip quickly went viral online, with the queer community commenting: “Miss Grindr will shame you she dgaf.” “Crying real tears rn at her ‘oh okay I will just give you the phone back'”, another said. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Grindr (@grindr) Grindr even took to their official socials to react to the Eurovision moment “We all want to know what those messages said at gayvision,” they captioned the image of parodied Grindr message bubbles “Warming up that throat for a duet?” “I’ll make you sing a high note…” some fans on X (formerly Twitter) took to the social media platform believing the moment was a planned bit Very funny but not unplanned,” one person wrote The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final is available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday 11 May at 8 pm GMT in the UK you can watch the final on SBS at 5 am AEST on Sunday 12 May and later that morning on SBS On Demand. A new theory about the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian empire A team of scientists has solved a millennium-old mystery: what caused the sudden collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire the most powerful civilization of its time Spanning an area that included Iran and Syria and from western Iraq to the Mediterranean and Egypt the Assyrian empire was larger than any before and lasted for 300 years (911 to 609 BCE) was attacked by a combined army of Babylonians and Medes the city and most of the territory were never reoccupied “It was as if the Roman Empire collapsed and there was no Rome thereafter,” says Harvey Weiss a professor of Near Eastern archeology and environmental studies “The speed and the completeness of the collapse has been referred to as a historical scandal.” Weiss was part of a research collaboration that has identified an underlying cause of the empire’s decline: a megadrought that spanned decades By studying stalagmites from a cave in northeast Iraq the team tracked the region’s climate over more than 2,000 years Oxygen isotopes in the stalagmites revealed changes in precipitation and temperature; uranium deposits recorded the passage of time no one knew climate change had a role in the empire’s collapse But Assyrian agriculture—predominantly cereal-based—relied on precipitation intense drought would have radically destabilized the empire “What lessons can we learn from this?” Weiss asks “The ancient situations were unavoidable and disastrous The modern situations are anthropogenic—and avoidable.” Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Georgia best Running Backs in Football at Savannah High School 2009 at Memorial Health University Medical Center.""Give thanks to the Lord for He is good; His love endures forever.; Psalm 118:1Mede was known as one of the best running backs in Savannah He was like lightening on the football field and unforgettable memories into the lives of his family and friends Each quarter of Mede's life was filled with memorable moments that mirrored the excitement and thrills he would bring on the football field.1st Quarter: Mede Paik Lewis was born on February 14 Korea to Charles Lewis and the late Ho Cha Lewis.2nd Quarter: In 1989 the Lewis family moved to Savannah where Mede attended Shuman Middle School and started his football career with the Omar Cobras Mede ran track and played football at Savannah High School He excelled in football as the star running back Mede was honored as WTOC's Player of the Week He helped lead his team into the second round of the state Class AAAA PLAYOFFS IN 1993 Mede was also the recipient of many prestigious awards such as the 1993 Georgia Guardian Athlete of the Week and the Mike Finocchiaro Football Award This award is given annually to Savannah's top football player.3rd Quarter: On October 8 Mede became the proud father of his oldest daughter because well known is Savannah as a ""A Jack of All Trades."" He was a one stop shop He was a loving father and never met a stranger Mede would make you smile when you were feeling down He had a big heart.4th Quarter: Mede made his transition on Friday Mede leaves his memories to be cherished by his proud father Medena Bartley and Moiya Lewis; a loving sister and Emerson Lewis; a paternal grandmother; Mildren Lewis of Robinson TX; a maternal grandmother 2009 from 12:00 noon - 8:00pm at the funeral home Mede will lie in state the day of the service from 9:00am until hour of service Georgia.Please sign our Guest Book on lin at www.adamsfuneralservicesinc.com This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors In May, Petra Mede will host the Eurovision Song Contest for the third time. She’s currently busy rehearsing from Stockholm — via Zoom — with her co-host Malin Åkerman In between sessions with the Hollywood actress and director and scriptwriter Edward af Sillén Petra found some time to sit down with me to discuss her plans for Malmö and the incredible career that got her there We discuss the new show number “We Just Love Eurovision Too Much,” how different co-hosts elicit different energy from her and how tiny mistakes from past editions are giving her even more confidence for Eurovision 2024 Yet what lingers the most for me isn’t Eurovision It’s a portrait of a complex woman who A back injury ended her life as a ballerina Petra knew the solution was in her and found a way to persevere We’ve been enjoying the results ever since — and we get to do it again in May Petra Mede understands that humour is a central part of the song contest the thing that Måns and I did was making fun of Eurovision in the Eurovision — and the fans really liked that,” she says “We can be mocking a little bit and at the same time loving the show And I think it’s fun to do that.” was “Love Love Peace Peace,” perhaps the most iconic Eurovision interval of all time It highlighted the wackery on show at Eurovision in a loving way and fans went wild “Every Eurovision is a new Eurovision But I can tell you that there will be a show number I will be singing and dancing a little bit The show number is called ‘We Just Love Eurovision Too Much.’ The theme is that we Swedes are just too much in love with Eurovision and we apologise for winning all the time Winning is one thing — and struggling is something else entirely She devoted much of her early life to ballet even enrolling in the prestigious Balettakademien in Stockholm But just as her star was rising she suffered a back injury that forced her to retire early She now divides her life into three periods: the one where she was dancing the one where she was on extended sick leave because of the complications with her back where she lives and thrives as a comedian and presenter What’s her advice to people who are struggling to overcome similar challenges No matter what people tell you — the doctors or the physicians your friends — nobody should ever take the hope from anybody.” ‘Your back will never get better and you’ll never work again.’ If I had believed them maybe I wouldn’t have come back “If you don’t have a job or you’re on sick leave don’t lose the self-esteem no matter how they treat you You’re always worth more than you think.” 01:35 Did you have to think twice about hosting for a third time 02:11 “I like to be a little bit of a diva” 03:00 On shooting up through the floor at Eurovision 2013 03:45 On her relationship with Malin Åkerman 05:45 Do different co-hosts bring out different sides of you 07:50 Where are you at with preparations for Eurovision 2024 09:00 What’s the most difficult segment of Eurovision to host 10:15 Did you make any mistakes previously while hosting 12:06 Eurovision is evolving — will your hosting change too 13:50 On “Love Love Peace Peace” and its sequel “We Just Love Eurovision Too Much” 15:40 Petra discusses her early life as a ballerina — and the back injury that changed her life forever 17:35 Does your ballet background help you in your current career 18:11 What advice do you have for people picking themselves up from a challenge did you imagine you’d achieve all of this William Lee Adams is the founder and editor-in-chief of wiwibloggs. His memoir “Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision” is available now. You can follow him on Instagram @williamleeadams and Twitter @willyleeadams In this times we need a friend like Petra to relax and laugh 2013 -‘Ding Dong indeed!’ (After Finland) Super excited for Petra hosting once again Love her personality and her effortless way of hosting and mixing in humor She deserves to be in Eurovision Hall of Fame replay…“ This woman is „funny and exciting“ as the dial tone bore off go drool over the swiss freakshow Nemo As much as i am looking forward to the songs im also looking forward to welcoming back Petra so good to see her back and thank you W for asking very good questions I don’t think I have watched her shows and i don’t know how she’s going to be on stage but I bet she will be wonderful I still remember how genius Petra was during the voting she was improvising when connecting to the various juries for the results and she was soo damn funny great villain role she played in Rampage opposite to daddies Dwayne Johnson She’s the only reason I might just watch this year’s edition of ESC Input your search keywords and press Enter. 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POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra Search The texture is more enriched and the expressiveness of the characters has deepened She has also expanded her clientele which now includes commissions for publications such as Medium collaborated on zines and participated in group exhibitions Risograph-printed book published by the Amsterdam-based María tells It’s Nice That how the creative process “was really difficult in the beginning because of the limitation of only three colours” The illustrator designed the book so the reader experiences the story free of preconceptions about the narrative Satori is about “a perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present of the current moment in time.” Karate is a collaborative project with Hugo Espacio creating a zine around the martial art The entire process from idea conception to printing lasted only two months but these time restrictions demanded narrative clarity which focused the collaborative process the zine “follows the search of a Kata” in an allegorical sense “Kata” is a Japanese word which describes the detailed pattern of movement practiced in Karate either solo or in pairs The visual aesthetic is influenced by Japanese aestheticism with it’s sequential storyboard layout and flat The minimal use of shadows and colours stylistically refers to traditional Japanese block prints and the pair utilise the style to recreate the authentic atmosphere of Karate’s historical context In other projects including the publications Cenit María continues to optimise on the textures of Risograph printing The simplification of colour and line enhance the illustrator’s interest in “how human interactions shape landscapes and atmospheres” The illustrations also showcase an increased attentiveness to bodily movements evoking the layout of a comic to create movement across the page With a growing confidence in the use of bold colour that intensifies each illustration’s atmosphere María’s practice continues to expand through the medium of publications Further Info@mariamedem Jynann Ong Jynann joined It’s Nice That as an editorial assistant in August 2018 after graduating from The Glasgow School of Art’s Communication Design degree In March 2019 she became a staff writer and in June 2021 Fancy a bit of It's Nice That in your inbox Sign up to our newsletters and we'll keep you in the loop with everything good going on in the creative world Instagram TikTok LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Pinterest About Careers at It’s Nice That Privacy Policy Insights Residence Creative Lives in Progress If You Could Jobs © It’s Nice That 2024 · Nice Face Logo © It’s Nice That @mariamedem Since we last wrote about María Medem’s illustration practice last year, her work has progressed in leaps and bounds A single printed page is the stage for the Budapest-based printmakers funny characters and illustrated stories The newly-launched Hamburg gallery Raum für Illustration has collected more than 500 zines from 25 countries showing the breadth of talent in self-publishing About Contact Advertising Opportunities Newsletters Insights + Opinion Creatives + Projects Advice + Resources Culture + Lifestyle Nicer Tuesdays The View From... 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Nigeria with offices in 36 states of Nigeria the Federal Capital Territory and around the world It is Nigeria’s most authoritative news media available on all platforms for the political professional and diplomatic elite and broader middle classes while serving as the meeting point of new ideas culture and technology for the aspirationals and millennials The newspaper is a public trust dedicated to the pursuit of truth and reason covering a range of issues from breaking news to politics sports and community to the crossroads of people and society You can email us at: hello@thisdaylive.com or visit our contact us page Runner-up in the Prix d’Amérique and winner of the Prix de France and the Prix de Paris Ampia Mede SM is the queen of harness racing trotting in France No one would ever have expected a similar climb in relation to the Italian female from Ganymede towards the Olympus of international trot Ampia Mede SM proved to be an interesting mare with a good ability to compete in valid categories and also to know how to behave well in some trials of the classic circuit with some placements in classical contexts nothing about her hinted that a fighting spirit was hidden in her that one day would have led her to make her some of the main French trot races consecrating herself as the queen of France Wanting to dwell on the genealogical picture of Ampia Mede Sm it is necessary to start from her father The last twenty years have not always smiled at Ganymede who has perhaps not enjoyed the trust from breeders that he undoubtedly deserved Ganymede in fact despite having proved to be a good dad even if in truth he rarely expresses himself with some points and Ampia Mede SM is one of these he had the misfortune of having throughout his career as a stallion the heavy shadow of other sires from the great international specific weight: above all it is possible to mention Varenne If we want to look at the imprint that Ganymede has given to Italian breeding for example in addition to Ampia Mede SM it is also possible to mention Moses Rob as his excellent son but we can also mention Looney Tunes Tessy d’Ete just to make a few names and if these examples can be valid for the Italian territory for French breeding instead it is possible to name other names above all: Djion As for Ganymede’s competitive career for the colors of Daniel Wildenstein and the training of Jean Pierre Dubois it is useful to remember that he was a classic winner at the highest level with the successes of the Prix Atlantique and Oslo Grand Prix The Ampia Mede SM female line starts from far away and reaches Sweden or rather it can be said that it begins with Olympia L a daughter of USA’s Florida Pro that Sandro Moscati breeder of Ampia Mede SM bought in 1995 from an owner of Stig Johansson Having finalized the purchase of Olympia L Sandro Moscati did not insert her directly into her breeding but for about eight months he kept her in training giving Olympia L the opportunity to do well also in the Italian tracks was able to give Sandro Moscati the best of herself when she entered the stud farm: for Sandro Moscati One of the best was Free Dream SM who had to abandon his racing career very soon due to an injury which however allowed him to win in some good level races: Criterium Veneto Maschio Angioino and Premio Marche winning a total of about 145,000 euros Some daughters of Olympia L were also important for the breeding of Sandro Moscati in particular a daughter of Supergill gave life to Cup Olimpia SM who in her competitive career collected little in fact she totaled 19,000 euros in sums won but he has been able to make a great impact on breeding she in turn is the mother of Polimpia Slide SM a daughter of Yankee Slide who in her competitive career recorded a record of 1.14.5 numbers therefore rather superfluous but from which Ampia Mede SM comes a daughter of Frosty Hanover (Star’s Pride) who Tore Larsson bought in Denmark She is not a champion in running in fact her competitive career has counted a number of victories that at most can be counted in the fingers of two hands however she has been able to exalt herself in the race she was presented to Tibur and a female was born who was given the name of Attila L a mare with a practically non-existent competitive career but she was immediately served with Crowntron (Speedy Crown) giving birth to Queen L a mare who was not able to exalt herself in the breed but instead capable of consecrating herself as a true champion in the breed Stig Johansson established a special feeling with her by understanding the mare’s racing attitudes and managing her accordingly A harmony that brought great results with the victory in the Derby which consecrated her one of the best females of her generation and which gave some “headaches” to her owner Tore Larsson who after the race found himself having to face the intentions of the trainer according to which the mare could have left the competitive career to devote herself to the activity of mare Tore Larsson did not want to hear about withdrawing the mare to the stud farm and the intuition to continue her competitive career proved the owner right: among the elderly Queen L manifested herself as one of the strongest females in Europe finding the Vincennes track is her ally: in fact she won two editions of the Prix de Belgique one edition of the France and for once also the Prix d’Amérique Returning to the protagonist of this article career winner of 1,293,096 euros and holder of a record of 1.09.7 according to reports from the Italian press the intention of her trainer Fabrice Souloy is that of giving the mare a well-deserved period of rest then resuming her competitive preparation which should not see her protagonist of the next Elitloppet 2023 to focus her attention on the Prix René Balliere which will be held in June in Vincennes The ambitious goal is to do everything in the best possible way to try to win the Prix d’Amerique in 2024 by Filippo Lago Harnesslink.com is the only harness racing website dedicated to covering news and events in the Standardbred Industry world-wide © 2024 Harnesslink | All Rights Reserved | NV © 2024 Harnesslink | All Rights Reserved | NV TEHRAN—Archaeologists have found new traces of the Mede people during their recent excavations conducted in western Iran A team of archaeologists has found adobe bricks while they dug experimental trenches to propose legal boundaries for an ancient site situated in the Pa-Qaleh area of Sahneh county in Kermanshah province were carved by the team led by archaeologist Hamid Haririan The discovery of adobe bricks is of high importance as it underlines the presence of Mede people here “In a previous excavation conducted three kilometers from the site a statue of a Mede girl was excavated,” the official said Those sites will be turned into open-air museums to boost tourism Medes were one of the Indo-European people who entered northeastern Iran probably as early as the 17th century BC and settled in the plateau land that came to be known as Media generally corresponding to the modern regions of Azarbaijan Media first appears in the texts of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (858–824 BC) in which peoples of the land of “Mada” are recorded Although Herodotus credits “Deioces son of Phraortes” (probably c 715) with the creation of the Median kingdom and the founding of its capital city at Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) it was probably not before 625 BC that Cyaxares succeeded in uniting into a kingdom the many Iranian-speaking Median tribes The victors divided the Assyrian provinces among themselves with the Median king taking over a large part of Iran Britannica says in many respects the internal organization of the Median empire probably resembled that of Assyria Few identifiable “Median” objects have been found but the Medes apparently favored rich ornamentation and also received a strong artistic influence from Assyria Since no Median written documents of any kind have ever been uncovered their spiritual and economic life is also a matter of conjecture By the victory in 550 of the Persian chief Cyrus II the Great over his suzerain the Medes were made subject to the Persians they retained a prominent position; in honor and war and their court ceremonial was adopted by the new sovereigns who in the summer months resided in Ecbatana overseeing the management of the resort's operations Steeped in the beauty of the Northern California coast Heritage House Resort & Spa blends ocean side beauty with luxurious hospitality and accommodations Norbert Mede is a 30 year award-winning veteran of the hospitality industry from his early days of starting a party staffing company and a brewpub tour company to his extensive hotel General Manager and culinary experience in lifestyle working tirelessly to improve the guest experience through leading exceptional people and creating amazing products Norbert is a consummate industry professional with a passion for contributing to the creation of an environmental sustainability spiritually fulfilling and socially just world Norbert Mede grew up in Northern California and attended Golden Gate University in San Francisco Restaurant and Institutional Management program in 1991 Norbert moved to Newport Rhode Island to manage the highly acclaimed Cliffside Inn Doubletree Hotels and Silver Cloud Inns in the Pacific Northwest before embarking on a four-year stint as a chef in Washington State Norbert served as President of the Snohomish County Lodging Association Treasurer of the Snohomish County Visitors Bureau served on the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee for Lynnwood and taught hospitality courses at Highline Community College in Des Moines Norbert purchased the Jamestown Hotel in California's Gold Country Norbert owned and managed the 11-room historic boutique hotel and restaurant until 2005 Norbert also served as president of the Tuolumne Country Bed and Breakfast Association during this period Norbert returned to his roots in San Francisco to take over as General Manager of the Stanyan Park Hotel where he resided until 2008 when he was hired by Greystone Hotels to assume the reigns of the Hotel Griffon Norbert was named 'General Manager of the Year' by Luxe Hotels Worldwide as recognition of his commitment to providing an exceptional guest experience Norbert joined the acclaimed Dunton Hot Springs and Dunton River Camp in Colorado as General Manager Dunton Hot Springs was a part of the Relais & Chateaux an international network of exclusive resorts and hotels Norbert started his own consulting and management company focusing on providing exceptional guest experiences through unique programs creating well designed and appealing products and providing superior service Norbert served as Senior Vice President of Pivot Agency a multiple tiered sports marketing and travel company where he led the Travel division serving professional sports team with their travel programs from contract negotiations through on the ground logistics to final invoicing and billing Norbert's passion for the environment and for the health and welfare of his employees has led to establishment of his Green teams at the properties promoting environmental policies and awareness as well as the health and fitness programs seeking to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of his employees Wesley Mortgage LLC has appointed three new executives to key positions in the company Steve Medes has joined the company as president The three had previously worked together at Franklin American Mortgage Co “Tennessee is more than a key market for us John and Brian are hometown mortgage industry veterans who have proven they have what it takes to build a thriving mortgage company in Middle Tennessee and beyond They have deep roots in the Nashville community that we can leverage to build on the groundwork we’ve laid and take us to the next level.” Medes had served as executive vice president of the retail division of Franklin American Mortgage prior to its acquisition by Citizens Bank in 2018 he served as the executive vice president of mortgage at Commonwealth Bank & Trust Page comes to Wesley Mortgage from FirstBank where he served as vice president of product and innovation He had previously spent nearly 18 years in the retail division at Franklin American Mortgage brings more than 20 years of industry experience to his role as head of sales including 15 years at Franklin American Mortgage Brian and I are excited to be a part of the Wesley team,” comments Medes “It’s not often you get the opportunity to become part of a company that already has such great brand recognition We can apply the efficient processes that help consumers reach their end goal of financial and personal security that we’ve honed over the years in addition to leveraging the great relationships we have both in Middle Tennessee and nationally to make Wesley Financial a force in mortgage lending.” Wesley Mortgage is currently licensed in Kentucky South Carolina and North Carolina with plans to expand to all 50 states Medievalists.net This paper examines the role of Lady Mede in Langland’s Piers the Plowman Lady Mede’s role is complicated by her being a sexually commodified object in Langland’s text Her relationship and the exchange of mede – a mercantile connotation demonstrates that she has a double meaning in the text There is a semantic debate over the definition of mede; its meaning and has exclusive and opposed definitions Mede involves a gift bestowed for goods or services The granting of titles can help maintain social order and loyalty among vassals yet it can also be used as bribery Allergorical representation of mede in the text – other characters in the book use Lady Mede for their own ends and as a medium of exchange It represents an ability to purchase items to circumvent legal and proper parameters – the morality of the exchange does not come from the mede itself Her importance in the text is focused on how she is used This relation reduces her agency because she is used as a means to an end ‘a tool for no purpose beyond the job for which she is made’ Lady Mede as a sexual commodity is used by others as a means of exchange She adopts a new tactic to regain some agency by speaking for herself – she seizes control of her sexually commodified state by using the same tactics others Lady Mede provides a series of examples where mede is used for positive social stability and trade; she advocates herself as the medium of exchange Her arguements prove so effective that they are better than Conscience’s the full impact of her agency is debateable because it is almost completely refuted after she gives her argument The king is swayed by the counter argument made by Conscience that all mede is socially disruptive and then dismisses Lady Mede she is able to provde a sample of female agency in the text This text highlights the inversion of gender roles – a woman with agency involved in economic activity Lady Mede also represented a growing trend for middle class women to be involved in land ownership/purchase Alice Perrers is often invoked as the image of Lady Mede because she did many of the things Lady Mede did By Lady Mede co-opting in this process of exchange it becomes a problem in that it inverts the established social order We've created a Patreon for Medievalists.net as we want to transition to a more community-funded model We aim to be the leading content provider about all things medieval podcast and Youtube page offers news and resources about the Middle Ages We hope that are our audience wants to support us so that we can further develop our podcast and remove the advertising on our platforms This will also allow our fans to get more involved in what content we do produce Seafood served straight forward with fresh vegetables is Chef Mede's approach at Catch many of the best restaurants are located in hotels This has not been the tradition in the U.S. especially in Santa Monica with its collection of luxury hotels located close to the city's famous Farmers' Markets There are a lot of advantages for a restaurant in a hotel shared parking and sometimes assistance with the rent Catch is in the iconic Casa del Mar Hotel at 1910 Ocean Way in Santa Monica What a great location: Unparalleled view of the Pacific Ocean from every table and close to the many activities in Downtown After a period of negative reviews on the Internet during most of 2012 and on the way to becoming one of the premier seafood restaurants in the city by the sea In July of 2012 the kitchen was turned over to chef Sven Mede His credentials are worthy of the position as he has worked in a number of world class restaurants including some time as sous-chef at Charlie Trotter's famous restaurant in Chicago the restaurant took on a whole new atmosphere and menu straightforward preparations without much complexity or sauces His signature dishes include Hawaiian big-eye tuna crudo with preserved carrots and crispy ginger and Japanese yellowtail crudo with shaved radish the grilled Spanish octopus with smoked potatoes Moving away from the ever-present Japanese influence and Spanish touch there is the typical French steamed mussels served in the traditional cast iron pot with saffron cream This is one of the favorite dishes in the south of France A nice selection of the common local fish is on the menu As befits a restaurant looking out over a sand beach That's a good thing because on the first Sunday of every month they serve an eat-with-your-hands multi-course prix fixe menu of shellfish favorites You wouldn't want to order that in your new tux It's difficult for a hotel restaurant to create an image because it is there partly to serve a wide variety of guests as well as the outside clients For that reason there is often a wide selection of different foods on the menu in addition to the specialties mentioned above in the main dining room they serve sushi (as well as small plate menus) in the adjacent lounge A few times when I've been there live music was offered and there was a nice crowd really enjoying it — as I did I think it's a good idea that they don't serve sushi in the main dining room since I can't help but think that it's a mistake to try to compete with all the Japanese run sushi houses in Santa Monica Until they offer free parking and make that known There are several Internet-posted experiences that suggest that sometimes the service is just awful I assume that management is working on that as it seems to be the major negative challenge facing the reputation of the restaurant as is the case in almost every hotel restaurant On the one hand the selection is excellent; just about any type of wine one would want can be found on the list But the prices are marked up to an unreasonable level forcing most couples to order by the glass The wait-staff is not trained in wine so they are of little or no help There is a particularly good selection of sparkling wines which is wonderful for a seafood restaurant with a few raw fish selections just to pick an example from the six on the list And why are the Rhone and Spanish wines linked together The Crozes Hermitage Domaine des Lises 2010 which should cost about $10 wholesale since it sells retail at $20 which sells (just because of the name) for $115 on the list should cost about $32 and be listed for about $85 the central price point for the red wines is $85 and $60 for the whites The central price point for the wines by the glass is $14 So now that they have the menu and kitchen under improvement the next step is to start offering some good bottles of wine in the $30 to $40 range When they get their first Michelin star they can go back to overpricing this is an up-and-coming restaurant (in a very competitive area) and I predict continuing improvement And for lunch or a sunset dinner overlooking the ocean the food and wine critic for the Santa Monica Daily Press is a wine buyer and consultant to a number of national and international food and wine companies He can be reached at mervynhecht@yahoo.com Note: This discovery has since been revealed to be a modern inscription, and its identification has been retracted by the Israel Antiquities Authority. See our follow-up article and podcast on the subject here and here visitors Yakov Ashkenazi and his friend Eylon Levy stumbled across a pottery sherd with an inscription etched across it After reporting it to the Israel Antiquities Authority (iaa) and following research of the sherd by epigrapher Dr Haggai Misgav (Hebrew University) and Saar Ganor (iaa) the potsherd inscription—known as an ostracon—was revealed to be the first-ever inscription found in Israel bearing the name of the famed Persian king It is also one of the oldest Persian administrative inscriptions ever found in Israel The 2,500-year-old Aramaic inscription reads “Year 24 of Darius,” thus dating it to 498/7 b.c.e Darius the Great (who ruled from 522 to 486 b.c.e.) is not the famed ruler of the same name in Daniel 6 (Darius the Mede); he is the Darius mentioned several times throughout the book of Ezra who was favorable to the Jews in their reconstruction efforts of the temple Darius the Great is also the father of Xerxes (rendered as “Ahasuerus,” or “Achashverosh,” in the Bible) who was the famous Persian king of the book of Esther—thus making this Darius Esther’s father-in-law Ezra 5-6 takes place entirely during the early years of Darius’s reign. It records how the prophets Haggai and Zechariah encouraged Zerubbabel to continue working on the temple after work had been halted. Seeing this renewed effort, the Persian governor Tattenai (whose existence has been proven outside the Bible) wrote to Darius informing him of the work of the returned Jews Darius subsequently issued a new decree that demanded nobody should stop the work “Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place,” wrote Darius to Tattenai (Ezra 6:7) The temple was finally completed in the sixth year of Darius 18 years before this recently discovered ostracon was inscribed Tel Lachish is an important site located roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Jerusalem. It was regarded as Judah’s “second city” after Jerusalem during the time of the biblical monarchy and continued to function as an important site through the ensuing Persian period A British archaeological expedition to the site in the 1930s discovered an “elaborate administrative building from the Persian period built on top of the podium of the destroyed palace-fort of the Judean kings,” researchers Ganor and Misgav noted in a statement to the press The large residence included “elaborate halls and courtyards with a majestic columned portico entrance in Persian style.” was populated during this fifth century b.c.e The new inscription will be published in the Israel Antiquities Authority journal ‘Atiqot, Vol. 110: “The Ancient Written Wor(l)d.” For more on the subject of Esther and other biblical Persian-period discoveries, see our articles “Nehemiah: A Man and a Momentous Wall,” and “The Dead Sea Scrolls Don’t Include the Book of Esther—or Do They?”