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# Spiro (company)

Spiro (formerly MAuto) is an African electric vehicle (EV) company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 2019 with backing from Gagan Gupta's Equitane Group. The company specializes in electric motorbikes and battery swapping infrastructure. As of 2025, Spiro operates across six African countries: Togo, Benin, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, with a mission to reduce the continent's fossil fuel dependency. The CEO of the company is Kaushik Burman.

## Product

Spiro’s bikes have a range of 75 to 90 km depending on the usage and the model of the motorbike. The EV bikes use batteries that take up to four hours to be charged. Spiro's battery swapping model provides riders with access to swap stations - fast and slow chargers - and home charging options.
Spiro allows its users with no traditional banking access to pay with MTN Mobile Money (MoMo card) in countries like Rwanda.

## History and funding

Founded in 2019, Spiro received initial funding of USD 85 million from Equitane Group, formerly Africa transformation and industrialization fund (ATIF).
In 2022, Spiro launched in Togo and Benin.
In May 2023, Spiro received an investment of USD 63 million from Société Générale, to finance its expansion in Kenya and Uganda. The goal of this funding was to add 15,700 additional motos in those countries. The same year, it extended to Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Nigeria. In Uganda, Spiro partnered with the government to replace its boda bodas - an emission-heavy moto taxi fleet - with electric two-wheelers.
In 2024, Spiro received USD 50 million from African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). In May, Spiro was listed in the Time 100 Most Influential Companies 2024.

## Business model and strategy

In December 2023, the company declared having done five million battery swaps in its 175 swap stations. In August of the same year Spiro launched twin assembly plants in Benin and Togo.
In January 2024 Asset financing company Watu Credit and Spiro Kenya, announced a partnership to enhance access to financing for electric motorbikes in Kenya.
In May 2024, the company declared a fleet of 14,000 electric two-wheelers, and nine million battery swaps in five countries. The same month, the company partnered with Max, a tech platform that democratises access to vehicle ownership. In July the startup overtook its competitor Ampersand, a Kigali based electric motorbike company.
In september 2024, Spiro launched a manufacturing centre on Old Mombasa Road in Nairobi.
In February 2025, Spiro declared having 18,000 bikes in circulation, 11 million battery swaps and 428 million CO₂-free kilometres driven. The company aims at having 2 million bikes in circulation in Africa by 2030.
In 2025, Spiro plans to open two electric vehicle assembly plants in 2025 in Kenya and in Ogun State, Nigeria. In January Spiro entered into a partnership with ZOOMe, an electric mobility firm in Nigeria.
# Rasher

Rasher or Rashers may refer to:
* Rasher (artist), an Irish figurative artist
* Rasher (comics), a British comic strip
* Rasher, a slice of bacon, chiefly used in Hiberno-English
* Rasher, a recurring character in the TV series Blood Drive
* Rashers Tierney, a character on Strumpet City played by David Kelly
* Sebastes miniatus, a fish also known as the vermilion rockfish
* USS Rasher, a former US Navy vessel
# Max Gerl

Max Gerl (born 1992) is an American bass player and jazz musician. Gerl has performed internationally at venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
Gerl grew up in a family of musicians in Dallas, Texas. He first learned the piano and alto saxophone, and switched to the electric bass at the age of eleven under the influence of a Led Zeppelin DVD. He also took double bass lessons starting at the age of 15. After high school, he studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston with John Patitucci, Steve Bailey, James Genus, Victor Bailey, Bruce Gertz, Tia Fuller and Hal Crook.
Gerl moved to New York City in 2017. From there he toured the United States and Europe with pianist Cameron Graves, and participated in the album Seven (2021). In 2019 he moved to Los Angeles, CA. He worked with Dan Kye, Makaya McCraven, James Francies, Stanley Clarke, Tia Fuller, Shaun Martin, Bernard Wright and Chris Cheek.
At the end of 2019, he released his debut album Tbilisi on Dolfin Records with saxophonist Aaron Shaw, pianist Paul Cornish and drummer Mike Mitchell. With Greg Spero's band Spirit Fingers he released Peace in 2020. Sasha Berliner brought him into her group, Tabula Rasa, for the SWR New Jazz Meeting 2021.
Gerl released his first solo album, Max Gerl, on July 28, 2023, with the New York jazz label JMI Recordings, which specializes in analog recording. Max Gerl was produced by bassist Stanley Clarke alongside associate producer Steven Mandel. The album includes five free improvisation tracks. JMI Recordings released Gerl's Max Gerl Trio, featuring Brian Richburg Jr. on drums and Yesseh Furaha-Ali on tenor saxophone in February, 2025.

## Discography
### Studio albums
#### Solo albums

| Title | Label | Release date | Personnel | Format |
| Max Gerl | JMI Recordings | July 28, 2023 | Produced by Stanley Clarke. Associate Producer: Steven Mandel | LP, digital |

#### As lead artist

| Title | Label | Release date | Personnel | Format |
| Max Gerl Trio | JMI Recordings | 2025 | Brian Richburg Jr. (drums) and Yesseh Furaha-Ali (tenor saxophone) | LP, digital |
| Hard Pan | JMI Recordings | 2024 | Max Gerl & Mike Mitchell | LP, digital |
| Tbilisi | Dolfin Records | December 10, 2019 | Max Gerl (Acoustic and Electric Bass), Aaron Shaw (Tenor Saxophone), Paul Cornish (Piano), Mike Mitchell (Drums) | CD, digital |

#### As featured

| Title | Label | Release Date | Personnel | Format |
| Seven | Mack Avenue Records | February 19, 2021 | Cameron Graves (piano, vocals). Featuring Max Gerl (bass), Mike Mitchell (drums), Colin Cook (guitar), and Kamasi Washington (tenor saxophone) | LP, CD, digital |
| Peace | | 2020 | Greg Spero + Spirit Fingers (Max Gerl, Mike Mitchell, Dario Chiazzolino) | CD, digital |
# Beme (company)

Beme Inc. (/ˈbiːm/), stylized as beme, was a multimedia company founded by Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat, a vlogger and short filmmaker on YouTube. Beme Inc. was the creator of the mobile app Beme. On November 28, 2016, CNN announced that it would acquire Beme. CNN intended to invest in the company and create a new brand focused on a young audience. The Beme app was officially shut down on January 31, 2017. Beme was merged into CNN Digital Studios on January 25, 2018. Despite this, the Beme News YouTube channel was still active for until the closure in 2019.

## History

In 2014, Beme Inc. was founded by Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat. On July 17, 2015, Beme Inc. released a mobile app called Beme on the iOS App Store. The app enables users to produce unedited 2-to-8-second videos, which are immediately uploaded and shared with the user's subscribers, without the ability to preview the video. On May 2, 2016, Beme was released for Android on the Google Play Store. At TechCrunch, in May 2016, Neistat informed that they had raised a total of US$6M and had 11 full-time employees (10 technical, 1 responsible for social media). He also reported that burn rate was around US $180k per month and that his salary was US$0.

### Acquisition by CNN

On November 28, 2016, CNN announced the acquisition of Beme Inc. for a reported US$25 million. On November 29, 2016, Matt Hackett, co-founder of Beme Inc., announced via an email to its users that the Beme app would be shutting down on January 31, 2017. Since the shutdown of the app, it was announced that CNN intended to use the current talent behind the Beme app to work on a separate start-up endeavor. Beme's current team will retain full creative control of the new project which is scheduled to release in the summer of 2017. Beme has brought on the host of Vsauce 3, Jake Roper, as Head of Production.
On January 25, 2018, Casey Neistat announced on his YouTube channel that he and Beme co-founder Matt Hackett were leaving Beme Inc. and that Beme would be folded into CNN Digital Studios. Neistat would still be credited as an Executive Producer for the show. A YouTube channel titled Beme News made content until August 2019.
# Jan Posthuma

Jan Marcus Posthuma (born 11 June 1963) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul.
After having won the silver medal in 1992, Posthuma won the gold medal in Atlanta (1996) with the Dutch Men's Volleyball National Team by defeating Italy in the final (3–2).

## Individual awards

* 1992 FIVB World League "Best Digger"
# Ultra Media & Entertainment

Ultra Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., earlier known as Ultra Distributors, is an Indian Film production company established in the year 1982. It started out in Home Video distribution and gradually forayed into film production and theatrical distribution. It is also engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including post production services and film distribution. Ultra has a library of over 1500 titles of award-winning and blockbuster feature films, TV dramas, animation, music and digital content. The company is into post production services such as scanning, restoration, colorization, 2D to stereoscopic 3D conversion and merchandising.

## Film production

It produced the films Yash released in 1996 and Jalpari, released in 2012.

## Restoration

The company has restored and digitized classic Hindi movie Pyaasa, which was directed by Guru Dutt. As per the report, the original camera negative had come to them from the archives completely melted, with parts damaged or lost. After several clean-ups, they managed to retrieve the actual content from the original camera negative. 45 restoration experts worked for almost 4 months over 2 lakh frames (200,000). The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35 mm optical soundtrack. The company has submitted it for the Venice Film Festival of 2015, where it was released in the Restored Classic section of the festival. Apart from Pyaasa, the company has also restored Raj Kapoor's Chori Chori, Kishore Kumar's Half Ticket and Shammi Kapoor's Dil Tera Deewana.

## Streaming services

The company has also ventured in the OTT space with focus on regional Indian languages. They have launched the app Ultra Jhakaas for exclusive Marathi language content thus becoming one of the early dominant players in the segment. Along with this, they have launched their apps Ultra Play for Hindi language movies & web-series with Ultra Gaane for music videos.

## Subsidiaries

Apart from entertainment business company has also made a strong presence in Soft Toys market in India. Ultra Toys & Gifts Pvt Ltd is a part of the Ultra Media and Entertainment Group, which has manufacturing units at Mumbai & Noida. This company is a licensing partner of British company Smiley World in India. The company launched a over-the-top platform Ultra Jhakaas on 22 March 2023, which provides digital content in Marathi.
# Cottus altaicus

Cottus altaicus is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is endemic to western Siberia in Russia. Its range includes the Irtysh River basin in the Altai region. It reaches a maximum length of 8.1 cm. It was previously considered a subspecies of the alpine bullhead (Cottus poecilopus).
# Emma Oliver

Emma Sophia Oliver, later Emma Sedgewick (née Eburne; 15 August 1819 – 15 March 1885) was a British landscape painter.

## Biography

Oliver was born in London, being the daughter of Mary and William Eburne, a coach-builder from Rathbone Place. In September 1840 she married the painter William Oliver and the couple regularly took painting tours of Britain and Germany. Emma Oliver exhibited watercolours and oil paintings from these tours at the Royal Academy in London, at the British Institution and with the Society of British Artists. In 1849 she was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. William Oliver died in 1853 and his widow remarried in, or around, 1856 a John Sedgewick but continued to exhibit works as Oliver until her death at Great Berkhamsted in 1885. Her later works included Rhine landscapes and scenes of Venice. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of her work.
# HerpMapper

HerpMapper is a cooperative citizen science project designed to gather and share information about reptile and amphibian (herp) observations across the planet. Contributors create records of their herp observations online or via its mobile application. Data are available to HerpMapper Partners – groups who use your recorded observations for research, conservation, and preservation purposes. In addition, the HerpMapper mobile application is used by multiple other herpetological atlas projects, and the Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Program.
HerpMapper's primary goal is to share data with professional conservation and research organizations to better conserve herpetofauna around the world. Because of this, HerpMapper does not share point-location information publicly because of over-collection and poaching concerns. This sets HerpMapper apart from many other citizen-science projects.

## History

HerpMapper.org was officially launched in September 2013. It is currently a volunteer-run organization of professional herpetologists, IT specialists, and field herpers with decades of experience. HerpMapper is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

## Organizational structure

The HerpMapper Advisory Team includes nonprofit organization staff, state agency biologists, university faculty, IT professionals, and field herpers.

## Data Access

Data are made freely available to professional conservation and research organizations. Data are made available via real-time online access or via one-time data transfers.
# Sukari mine

The Sukari mine or Alsukari mine (Arabic: السكري Al-Sukkari, Egyptian pronunciation: El-Sokkari) is a gold mine located in the Nubian Desert/Eastern Desert, 25km from Marsa Alam, on the Red Sea, in Egypt. The Sukari mine is Egypt's first modern gold mine.
Egypt was known in the ancient world as being a source of gold, and one of the earliest available maps shows a gold mine at this location.
Today. Sukari is a combination of an open-pit mine mine and an underground mine. The site is supplied by a 30km-long pipeline bringing water from the Red Sea.

## History

The $265-million project began gold production in 2009 with 850 workers.

## Archaeology

In 2025, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of an ancient gold processing complex at Sukari, dating to the Third Intermediate Period. Due to ongoing mining operations, the site was relocated to a safer area. The complex features grinding and crushing stations, filtration basins, and clay furnaces used for gold smelting.
Close to the site, a residential district housed workers, with structures spanning the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Islamic periods. Excavations yielded 628 ostraca inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek, alongside bronze coins, terracotta figurines, and stone statuettes of Bastet and Harpocrates.
# Ctenisodes

Ctenisodes is a genus of ant-loving beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about 14 described species in Ctenisodes.

## Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Ctenisodes:
* Ctenisodes abruptus (Casey, 1894)
* Ctenisodes cinderella (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes consobrinus (LeConte, 1849)
* Ctenisodes floridanus (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes georgianus (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes granicollis (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes impressipennis (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes iowensis (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes lacustris (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes ocularis (Casey, 1894)
* Ctenisodes piceus (LeConte, 1849)
* Ctenisodes pulvereus (LeConte, 1851)
* Ctenisodes saginatus (Casey, 1897)
* Ctenisodes zimmermanni (LeConte, 1849)
# Borunbabur Bondhu

Borunbabur Bondhu is a 2019 Bengali-language Indian drama film directed by Anik Dutta for Surinder Films. The film is based on a Bengali story Chhad written by Ramapada Chowdhury. It is the story of an old man, whose life faces an upheaval after people come to know that a VVIP who was once his friend, is coming for a visit. The film stars Soumitra Chatterjee in the role of an elderly man with supporting cast of Madhabi Mukhopadhyay, Paran Bandopadhyay, Ritwick Chakraborty, Arpita Chatterjee, Sreelekha Mitra, Kaushik Sen and Bidipta Chakraborty.
The film was screened at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in 2019, the Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai in March 2020, and the Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, Ohio on 21 October 2020.

## Cast

* Soumitra Chatterjee
* Madhabi Mukherjee
* Paran Bandyopadhyay
* Ritwick Chakraborty
* Kaushik Sen
* Sreelekha Mitra
* Debolina Dutta
* Arpita Chatterjee

## Release

The film premiered at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in 2019, and released to theatres on 10 January 2020.

## Reception

The film received critical acclaim. In Anandabazar Patrika, Urmimala Basu called this film "a must watch movie" and praised its direction, screenplay, ensemble cast, music and cinematography. In The Times of India, Debolina Sen called this film "a rare gem" and praised its direction, screenplay and ensemble cast. In Film Companion, Sankhayan Ghosh called this film "surprisingly political" and praised its screenplay.

## Awards

* WBFJA Award for Best Film
* WBFJA Award for Best Director- Anik Dutta
* WBFJA Award for Best Supporting Actor- Paran Bandyopadhyay
* WBFJA Award for Best Editor- Arghyakamal Mitra
* Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021 for Best Director - Anik Dutta
* Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021 for Best Film
* Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021 for Best Dialogue - Anik Dutta and Utsav Mukherjee
# Proteales

Proteales is an order of flowering plants consisting of three (or four) families. The Proteales have been recognized by almost all taxonomists.
The representatives of the Proteales can be very different from each other due to their very early divergence. They possess seeds with little or no endosperm. The ovules are often atropic.
The oldest fossils of Proteales are of the nelumbonaceous genus Notocyamus from the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous of Brazil, 126–121 Ma (million years ago). According to molecular clock calculations, the lineage that led to Proteales split from other plants about 128 Ma or 125 Ma.

## Families

Within the classification system of Rolf Dahlgren, the Proteales were in the superorder Proteiflorae, also called Proteanae; The APG II system (of 2003) also recognizes this order, placing it in the clade Eudicots, with the following circumscription:
* order Proteales
   * family Nelumbonaceae
   * family Proteaceae [+ family Platanaceae]
with "+ ..." = optionally separate family (that may be split off from the preceding family).
The APG III system of 2009 followed this same approach, but favored the narrower circumscription of the three families, firmly recognizing three families in Proteales: Nelumbonaceae, Platanaceae, and Proteaceae. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, however, suggests the addition of Sabiaceae, which the APG III system did not place in any order in the eudicots, would be sensible.
The APG IV system of 2016 added family Sabiaceae to the order.
Well-known members of the Proteales include the proteas of South Africa, the banksia and macadamia of Australia, the planetree, and the sacred lotus. The origins of the order are clearly ancient, with evidence of diversification in the mid-Cretaceous, roughly over 100 million years ago. Of notable interest is the family's modern distribution; the Proteaceae is predominantly a Southern Hemisphere family, while the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae are Northern Hemisphere plants.

## Classification

The current APG IV classification represents a slight change from the APG I system of 1998, which firmly did accept family Platanaceae as being separate from the order. Under APG IV, this is the current circumscription of the order:
* order Proteales
   * family Nelumbonaceae
   * family Platanaceae
   * family Proteaceae
   * family Sabiaceae

### Cronquist

The Cronquist system of 1981 recognized such an order and placed it in subclass Rosidae in class Magnoliopsida [=dicotyledons]. It used this circumscription:
* order Proteales
   * family Elaeagnaceae
   * family Proteaceae

### Dahlgren; Thorne; Engler; and Wettstein

The Dahlgren system and Thorne system (1992) recognized such an order and placed it in superorder Proteanae in subclass Magnoliidae [=dicotyledons]. The Engler system, in its update of 1964, also recognized this order and placed it in subclass Archichlamydeae of class Dicotyledoneae. The Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, recognized this order and placed it in the Monochlamydeae in subclass Choripetalae of class Dicotyledones. These systems used the following circumscription:
* order Proteales
   * family Proteaceae
# Eva Meijer

Eva Meijer (born 1980) is a Dutch philosopher, writer, visual artist and singer-songwriter.

## Work

Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns. Meijer published twenty books and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers. They are a member of the Multispecies Collective, a multispecies art collective, and De Vereniging ter Bevordering van Troost (The Association for the Promotion of Consolation), an art collective focused on healing and developing new practices of care. Meijer is co-chair of the Dutch Study Group for Animal Philosophy. At the University of Amsterdam, Meijer organized the Long Covid+ Conversations (2024-2025), an online lecture series about long covid and other postviral conditions, aimed at creating philosophical knowledge and fostering solidarity.
Bird Cottage creates a fictional life for the British naturalist and musician Gwendolen Howard, based on the little that is known of her. Howard studied birds in Sussex. In Animal Languages' and in When Animals Speak, Meijer argues that animals have been speaking to humans all along, if only we would recognise it, and that humans should learn to understand what they are telling us, for their protection and ours.

## Books published in English

* Bird Cottage. London: Pushkin, 2018, ISBN 978-1782273936. 2019, ISBN 9781782273950. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett.
* Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World. London/New York: Penguin Random House, 2020. ISBN 9780262044035. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.
* When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1479863136.
* The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression. London: Pushkin, 2021. ISBN 9781782275992. Translated from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett
* Multispecies Dialogues. Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. ISBN 9789048564415. Available Open Access here.
* Multispecies Assemblies. Vermont: VINE Press, 2025.
Forthcoming:
* Sea Now. Bath: Pereine Press, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo.
* Maybe is another Word for Hope. London: The Philosopher, 2025. Translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
A full list of publications can be accessed on Meijer's website. Academic publications can be found via Orcid.