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Amateur team Quick Boys beat Eredivisie side Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch cup
6 days, 2 hours ago

Amateur team Quick Boys beat Eredivisie side Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch cup

NL Times  

Quick Boys has caused the first upset of the Dutch cup competition, the KNVB Beker, this season. The amateur team from Katwijk beat Fortuna Sittard, the eighth-place team in the highest Dutch division, the Eredivisie, 3-1 at the Sportpart Nieuw Zuid. Quick Boys, the league leaders in the Tweede Divisie, turned the game around in the closing stages of the …

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Unlikely crusade: Are Muslim immigrants joining the anti-LGBTQ right? Yes and no
1 year, 6 months ago

Unlikely crusade: Are Muslim immigrants joining the anti-LGBTQ right? Yes and no

Salon  

Last Tuesday afternoon, in the Canadian capital city of Ottawa, several hundred people gathered outside the headquarters of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for the second time in several days. On social media, prominent anti-LGBTQ accounts like Libs of TikTok have attracted reader comments that the proper response to school Pride displays include "mass shooting," a "woodchipper" or more violence …

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Why you might notice more religious groups at Pride celebrations this year
1 year, 6 months ago

Why you might notice more religious groups at Pride celebrations this year

NPR  

Why you might notice more religious groups at Pride celebrations this year At the Pride Fest in Santa Monica, Calif., six houses of worship — five churches and a synagogue — had booths lined up all in a row. "I think it's really important," she said, "for us to be just as visible so that people know out in the …

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Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday
2 years, 8 months ago

Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday

BBC  

Why seed banks aren't just for doomsday Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Credit: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images) Across the world, strategic seed banks keep safe seeds that could replenish agriculture after a cataclysm. In this first batch alone, the team identified more than 1,600 genes in chickpeas that were new to science In this context, a seed bank's tens-of-thousands of samples, or accessions, …

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Facebook puts Zeewolde data centre plan on hold after protests
2 years, 8 months ago

Facebook puts Zeewolde data centre plan on hold after protests

Dutch News  

Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to stop work on setting up a massive data centre near the Flevoland town of Zeewolde, much to the delight of locals. The dispute over the local council’s green light for the massive data centre took a new twist earlier this month when a political party opposing the project won an absolute majority in …

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Facebook puts Zeewolde data centre plan on hold after protests
2 years, 8 months ago

Facebook puts Zeewolde data centre plan on hold after protests

Dutch News  

Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to stop work on setting up a massive data centre near the Flevoland town of Zeewolde, much to the delight of locals. The dispute over the local council’s green light for the massive data centre took a new twist earlier this month when a political party opposing the project won an absolute majority in …

Centre Meta Massive Data Zeewolde
Facebook parent halts plans for controversial data center in Zeewolde
2 years, 8 months ago

Facebook parent halts plans for controversial data center in Zeewolde

NL Times  

The American tech company Meta will not move forward with its plans for a data center in Zeewolde, Flevoland, for the time being. The data center, which was to be the largest in the Netherlands, initially won the support of the Zeewolde city council. However, opponents to the data center won a majority in the last municipal elections, eviscerating local …

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Facebook data center dealt a blow with Zeewolde election results
2 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data center dealt a blow with Zeewolde election results

NL Times  

Leefbaar Zeewolde, the big winner of the municipal elections in Zeewolde, Flevoland this week, plans to do everything in its power to stop the arrival of a massive data center Facebook parent Meta wants to build in the municipality, party leader Tom Zonneveld said to Omroep Flevoland. "We can at least let the members of the Senate know that Zeewolde …

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Investigation launched into matchfixing in Dutch professional darts
3 years, 9 months ago

Investigation launched into matchfixing in Dutch professional darts

NL Times  

At least six Dutch dart players were approached by match fixers over the past year, NOS reports after speaking with professional dart players and a match fixer. The match fixer told Zonneveld that this would make it even harder to notice that he is losing on purpose, calling it a "win-win situation for both of us". Darter Wesley Harms and …

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