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The Moscow Zoo’s Manul Is a Social Media Star. He Still Can’t Find a Mate.

At least seven countries have declined to provide a mate for Timofei the manul, Russian media reported.

Former Kursk Governor Alexei Smirnov Jailed 14 Years for Defrauding Government

Smirnov, who served as governor between May and December 2024, was found guilty of taking bribes from construction contractors.

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Gasvoorraden in Nederland langzaam weer aangevuld na dieptepunt

GRONINGEN (ANP) - De gasvoorraden in Nederland worden langzaamaan weer aangevuld. Volgens data van gasnetbeheerder Gasunie is de huidige gasvoorraad maandag licht gestegen tot 5,1 procent, na een dieptepunt van 4,5 procent vorige week. Vanaf april mogen energiebedrijven de gasopslagen weer vullen voor de komende winter. De vraag was of dat ging gebeuren vanwege de hoge gasprijs als gevolg van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten.

Afgelopen donderdag vond de eerste vulling plaats. Door onder meer een koude winter was de gasvoorraad tot het laagste niveau in zeker tien jaar gezakt.

Gasunie benadrukte meermaals dat de lage vullingsgraad geen reden tot paniek was. Het gaat om een seizoensvoorraad die voor gebruik in de winter bedoeld is. Daarbij komt er voldoende gas binnen via onder meer leidingen uit Noorwegen en vloeibaar aardgas dat via schepen wordt geïmporteerd.

De gasprijs is sinds het uitbreken van de oorlog flink opgelopen, waardoor het vullen van de voorraden een kostbare operatie kan worden.


Het Katholieke Oostenrijk is royaal het meest antisemitische land van Europa

Oostenrijk registreerde in 2023 veruit de meeste antisemitische incidenten per hoofd van de bevolking in Europa, met 128,9 meldingen per miljoen inwoners, ruim boven landen als Duitsland (43,4) en het Verenigd Koninkrijk (60,9).

Volgens het jaarlijkse Antisemitism Worldwide Report van de Universiteit van Tel Aviv en de Anti-Defamation League gaat het in Oostenrijk om 1.147 voorvallen in 2023, een stijging van bijna 60 procent ten opzichte van 719 incidenten in 2022. De cijfers zijn gebaseerd op meldingen bij de Joodse gemeenschap in Wenen en omvatten scheldpartijen, bedreigingen, vandalisme en geweld, waarbij vooral na de Hamas-aanval op Israël op 7 oktober een scherpe toename werd gemeten. De kaart met incidenten per miljoen inwoners laat zien dat buurlanden als Italië (7,5), Tsjechië (5,2) en Zwitserland (16,7) aanzienlijk lager scoren dan het overwegend katholieke Oostenrijk. Onderzoekers benadrukken dat niet alleen het absolute aantal incidenten, maar juist de hoge dichtheid per inwoner wijst op een hardnekkig antisemitisch klimaat.

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Bay Window

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Bay Window

Melrose House, Archer Street, North Adelaide

Former North Adelaide Hotel

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Former North Adelaide Hotel

Tynte Street, North Adelaide

Established in 1850 as the Commercial Hotel and became the North Adelaide Hotel from 1959 until the late 1990s. Renamed the Daniel O'Connell Hotel, it was given an Irish theme. In 2016 it reverted to the North Adelaide Hotel, and back to the Daniel O'Connell name in 2017. It is now closed. The building survives.

Whinham College

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Whinham College

Whinham College, is a South Australian landmark of learning and nineteenth-century building design. The two-storeyed complex was constructed in 1882, during the colony's boom period, and was designed in Elizabethan style by architect Thomas Frost (1825-1910) with polychrome brickwork, bluestone detailing and a 53-foot clock tower. Construction of these impressive premises cost a total of £6,000, the equivalent of around $976,000 today.
It was founded by John Whinham (1803-1886), a Northumberland-born teacher who immigrated to South Australia in 1852. Having first established a small grammar school in North Adelaide, he expanded to construct Whinham College, which flourished under his and his son Robert's leadership. The new purpose-designed buildings became famous as the most modern and well-equipped second-level school in the colony. But with Robert's untimely death in 1884, the school's fortunes dwindled, though the building remained to be used for educational purposes for decades ahead.
Throughout the years, the location was redeveloped by different purposes — it was Angas College in 1900, then later a war hospital, a brief period as Immanuel College in 1923, and lastly the Lutheran Seminary and Lutheran Church of Australia headquarters. Through all of these changes, the structure continued to be the center of attention as a North Adelaide landmark and witness to the city's history of education.
In 2024, the 1.9-hectare site, including the heritage-listed Whinham College buildings, was sold for more than $50 million. The Lutheran Church relocated to new headquarters on Frome Street and put the sale proceeds into future developments. Plans for the historic site involve apartments and townhouses and multimillion-dollar houses, although the original clock-tower building, being State Heritage Listed, will most likely be preserved.

Euro Hockey League naar de vrouwen van SCHC na winst op Den Bosch

In een spannende, maar kansarme finale kwam het enige doelpunt van Yibbi Jansen, uit een strafcorner. Voor de club uit Bilthoven is het de eerste Europese hoofdprijs in meer dan tien jaar tijd.


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Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor

"It's finally time," writes Phoronix — since "no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support."
"A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately removing Intel 486 CPU support from the Linux kernel."

More details from XDA-Developers:

Authored by Ingo Molnar, the change, titled "x86/cpu: Remove M486/M486SX/ELAN support," begins dismantling Linux's built-in support for the i486, which was first released back in 1989. As the changelog notes, even Linus is keen to cut ties with the architecture: "In the x86 architecture we have various complicated hardware emulation facilities on x86-32 to support ancient 32-bit CPUs that very very few people are using with modern kernels. This compatibility glue is sometimes even causing problems that people spend time to resolve, which time could be spent on other things. As Linus recently remarked: 'I really get the feeling that it's time to leave i486 support behind. There's zero real reason for anybody to waste one second of development effort on this kind of issue'..."

If you're one of the rare few who still keep the decades-old CPU alive, your best bet will be to grab an LTS Linux distro that keeps the older version of Linux for a few more years.

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Blooming day

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