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Alternative finance
Alternative finance refers to financial channels, processes, and instruments that have emerged outside of the traditional finance system, such as regulated banks and capital markets. Examples of alternative financing activities through 'online marketplaces' are reward-based crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, revenue-based financing, online lenders, peer-to-peer consumer and business lending, and invoice trading third party payment platforms.

Alternative finance instruments include cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, SME mini-bond, social impact bond, community shares, private placement and other 'shadow banking' mechanisms. Alternative finance differs to traditional banking or capital market finance through technology-enabled 'disintermediation', which means utilising third party capital by connecting fundraisers directly with funders, in turn, reducing transaction costs and improving market efficiency.

Revenue-based financing
Revenue-based financing (also known as royalty financing or royalty-based financing) is a type of financial capital provided to growing businesses in which investors inject capital (sometimes called an advance) into a business in return for a fixed percentage of ongoing gross revenues (called royalties), with payment increases and decreases based on business revenues, typically measured as monthly revenue.

It is a non-dilutive form of financing, which means that the company's management retains complete independence and control, as there is no equity investment or impact on the company's shareholding. Usually, the returns to the investor continue until the initial capital amount, plus a multiple (also known as a cap) is repaid. Generally, RBF investors expect the loan to be repaid within 1 to 5 years of the initial investment depending on the model and the funded companies.
Haruka Shimazaki
Haruka Shimazaki (島崎 遥香, Shimazaki Haruka; born March 30, 1994) is a Japanese actress, singer, and former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. Her supposed apathetic attitude toward idol fans led to the popularity of the buzzword "salty treatment" (塩対応, shio taiō) in Japanese media. Since graduating from AKB48 in 2016, Shimazaki has worked as an actress, including roles in Hiyokko, Nisekoi, and Tonde Saitama. She also started her own YouTube channel on March 30, 2020.

Tomomi Itano
Tomomi Itano (板野 友美, Itano Tomomi; born July 3, 1991) is a Japanese recording artist, songwriter, dancer, model, and actress. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. In 2011 she debuted solo with a single titled "Dear J", which was followed the same year by "Fui ni" (number 1 in Japan), and later by "10nen Go no Kimi e" (2012) and "1%" (2013).
Allan Shields
John Allan Shields (May 10, 1907 - September 24, 1975) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League for the Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Quakers, New York Americans, Montreal Maroons and Boston Bruins between 1927 and 1938.

Philadelphia Quakers (NHL)
The Philadelphia Quakers were a professional ice hockey team that played only one full season in the National Hockey League (NHL), 1930–31, at the Philadelphia Arena in Philadelphia. They were the successors of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
John Marquis Hopkins
John Marquis Hopkins (27 August 1870 – 3 July 1912) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, representing the electoral districts of Boulder and Beverley. He had previously been mayor of Boulder, and in 1910, he was jailed for five years for uttering, but was released in October 1911.

Western Australian Legislative Assembly
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth.

The Legislative Assembly today has 59 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member electoral districts.  Members are elected using the preferential voting system. As with all other Australian states and territories, voting is compulsory for all Australian citizens over the legal voting age of 18.
Dalton Gooding
Dalton Gooding (born 18 November 1954) is a Western Australian businessman, and from 2002 to 2007 he was the chairman of the West Coast Eagles Australian Football League club. He was also a founding partner of the Chartered Accounting firm Gooding Pervan, which later became DFK Gooding Partners.

A former footballer himself, in the early 1970s Gooding moved from his hometown of Dumbleyung in rural Western Australia to take up a three-year $1000 scholarship offered to him by WAFL club Claremont.  He played nine seasons for the Tigers and represented Western Australia in a game at the 1975 Knockout Carnival.

Claremont Football Club
The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). Its official colours are navy blue and gold. Formed as the "Cottesloe Beach Football Club" in 1906, the club entering the WAFL in 1925 as the "Claremont-Cottesloe Football Club"', changing its name to the present in 1935. Claremont have won 12 senior men's premierships since entering the competition, including most recently the 2011 and 2012 premierships.
Tanarello
44°07′26″N 7°48′53″E﻿ / ﻿44.12392°N 7.81474°E﻿ / 44.12392; 7.81474

The Tanarello is a small river (stream) in Italy that gives rise to—alongside the Negrone—the Tanaro river in Liguria. Rising from springs located on the northern slope of Monte Saccarello in the Ligurian Alps in Piedmont, the Tanarello flows a northerly course into Linguria, before joining the Negrone at Pian Laiardo—between the municipalities of Cosio d'Arroscia and Ormea—to form the Tanaro.

Cosio di Arroscia
Cosio di Arroscia (Ligurian: Coxe, locally Cuxe) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southwest of Genoa and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Imperia.
Lilongwe City West Constituency
Lilongwe City West Constituency is a constituency for the National Assembly of Malawi, located in the Lilongwe District of Malawi's Central Region. It is one of 22 constituencies in Lilongwe District and elects one Member of Parliament through the first past the post system. The constituency is composed of 4 wards, each of which elects councilors to the Lilongwe District. In 2009, the member of parliament who represented the constituency was Edwin Bhagwanji.

Lilongwe District
Lilongwe is a district in the Central Region of Malawi. The capital is Lilongwe.

The district covers an area of 6,159 km2 (2,378 sq mi) and has a population of 1,346,360. Lilongwe was officially declared a township in 1947. Life President Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda declared Lilongwe the capital city of Malawi on January 1, 1975 after a ten-year building period during which many people were forcibly displaced to make way for the new government buildings. Prior to 1975, the capital was the much smaller southern city of Zomba. Lilongwe is located 1,050 metres (3,440 ft) above sea level and has a temperature range between 65–75 °F (18–24 °C).

The airport is very small but quite adequate. It is served by Kenya Airways out of Nairobi, South African Airways, Proflight, Fastjet, Ethiopian Airlines and Malawi Airlines. In 2014 the government of Malawi relaunched its national airline and flies regionally to destinations like Dar es Salaam and Lusaka
Dooky Chase's Restaurant
Dooky Chase's Restaurant is a restaurant in Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans that in the 1950s and 1960s was known as a place for civil rights leaders to safely "meet and strategize."

In 2018, Food & Wine named it one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years. In 2025 the restaurant was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation.

James Beard Foundation
The James Beard Foundation is an American non-profit culinary arts organization based in New York City. It is named after James Beard, a food writer, teacher, and cookbook author. The foundation's programs include guest-chef dinners, scholarships for aspiring culinary students, educational conferences, and industry awards. The foundation develops programs related to American cuisine and the broader culinary industry.

The James Beard Foundation Awards have been described as one of the most prominent awards in the food industry.
The Hanged Man (1974 film)
The Hanged Man is a 1974 American Western television film directed by Michael Caffey and starring Steve Forrest, Cameron Mitchell and Sharon Acker. It premiered on ABC on March 13, 1974, and was intended as a pilot for a possible new series which was never produced.

Sharon Acker
Sharon Eileen Acker (April 2, 1935 – March 16, 2023) was a Canadian film, stage, and television actress and model. She appeared mostly on television in Canada and the United States from 1956 to 1992. She played Della Street, Perry Mason's loyal secretary, in The New Perry Mason opposite Monte Markham. Her film roles include Lucky Jim, Point Blank and Don't Let the Angels Fall.
Brave (graphic novel)
Children's literature portal

Brave is a children's graphic novel written by Svetlana Chmakova. The book is set in the same Berrybrook Middle School as in her preceding  Awkward, but follows a different character, Jensen, who had a minor role in Awkward. The next novel in the Berrybrook series, Crush, will follow the character Jorge, who was introduced in Brave as Jensen's project partner. Olivia which is Jorge’s best friend is also introduced in the story. The fourth book in the series, Diary features a short story featuring Jensen and his friends.

Awkward (graphic novel)
Children's literature portal

Awkward is a 2015 children's graphic novel written by Svetlana Chmakova. The book tells the story of Penelope "Peppi" Torres, a new student at Berrybrook Middle School, whose first encounter with a boy from the science club leads to much awkwardness between them, and their sparring clubs.
My Cousin from Warsaw (film)
My Cousin from Warsaw (French: Ma cousine de Varsovie) is a 1931 French-German comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Elvire Popesco, André Roanne and Madeleine Lambert. The film's screenplay was adapted by Henri-Georges Clouzot. A separate German-language version was also made.

The film's art direction was by Julius von Borsody.

Elvira Popescu
Elvira Popescu (Romanian pronunciation: [elˈvira poˈpesku]; in French, Elvire Popesco; 10 May 1894 – 11 December 1993) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director. During the 1930s and 1940s, she starred in a number of French comedy films.
Arinaitwe Rugyendo
Arinaitwe Rugyendo, also known Deo Rugyendo or D. Rugyendo Arinaitwe, is a Ugandan Author, Journalist, STEM Educator and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Research Finds News and co-founder of Red Pepper (newspaper) founded on 19 June 2001, Uganda's first English tabloid newspaper. He is also the founder of e2 Young Engineers Uganda. Arinaitwe has held various positions such as a cab reporter, bureau chief, managing editor, and digital media editor at renowned publications like Daily Monitor and Red Pepper (newspaper). He was awarded the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellowship and the Crans Montana Future Leaders' Award in 2013 as a "new leader of the future " in Switzerland.  He was also awarded with the African Young Social and Development Entrepreneur Pap Award 2017.

Daily Monitor
The Daily Monitor is an independent daily newspaper in Uganda. Launched in 1992 as The Monitor, it established itself as a leading voice critical of the government and is one of the two largest national newspapers, alongside the state-owned New Vision.

The paper is published by Monitor Publications Limited, which is majority-owned by the Nairobi-based Nation Media Group (NMG).
Jolly O Gymkhana (film)
Jolly O Gymkhana (transl. Let's be jolly together) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language black comedy film written and directed by Sakthi Chidambaram, starring Prabhu Deva in the lead role, playing the role of a corpse, alongside Madonna Sebastian as the female lead. The film also stars Abhirami, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley, Robo Shankar, John Vijay, Sai Dheena, Madhusudhan Rao and Yashika Aannand in pivotal roles. The film is bankrolled by Rajendra M Rajan and Punitha Rajan for Transindia Media & Entertainment Private Limited. The film has music composed by Ashwin Vinayagamoorthy, editing by Ramar, and cinematography by MC Ganesh Chandra. The title is inspired by the song of the same name from Beast (2022).

Jolly O Gymkhana got released in theatres on 22 November 2024.

Madonna Sebastian
Madonna Sebastian (01 October 1991) is an Indian actress and Singer who primarily works in Tamil and Malayalam films. She made her acting debut with the 2015 Malayalam film Premam, and Tamil debut with Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum (2016), and in Telugu with Premam (2016) and in Kannada with Kotigobba 3 (2021).

She has appeared in successful films such as Premam (2015), King Liar (2016), Kavan (2017), Pa. Pandi (2017), Iblis (2018), Virus (2019), Brother's Day (2019), Kotigobba 3 (2021), Shyam Singha Roy (2021), Padmini (2023) and Leo (2023).
Diana (band)
DIANA is a Canadian synthpop band, consisting of Carmen Elle (vocals), Joseph Shabason (keyboards) and Kieran Adams (drums). Their debut album Perpetual Surrender was a longlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize. It was followed by their second album Familiar Touch in November 2016.

Austra (band)
Austra is a Canadian electronic music band from Toronto, founded in 2009 by composer, singer-songwriter, and producer Katie Stelmanis. Stelmanis is the only permanent member of the project, with a rotating live band that has included Maya Postepski (drums), Dorian Wolf (bass, Moog), and Ryan Wonsiak (keyboards). It previously also featured the twin backing singers Sari and Romy Lightman of Tasseomancy. The band has released five studio albums—Feel It Break (2011), Olympia (2013), Future Politics (2017), Hirudin (2020) and Chin Up Buttercup (2025).
Ahmad Jassim
Ahmad Jassim Mohammed (Arabic: أَحْمَد جَاسِم مُحَمَّد; born 4 May 1960) is an Iraqi former football goalkeeper who played for Iraq in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Ahmad Jassim started his career with Al-Zawraa, then played for Al-Rasheed, Al-Naft and Al-Talaba. He was called up by Brazilian coach Evaristo de Macedo into Iraq’s World Cup squad as an understudy to both Raad Hammoudi of Al-Shorta and Al-Jaish’s veteran keeper Fatah Nsaief.

Fatah Nsaief
Abdul-Fatah Nsaief Jassim (also Nussaif, born 2 February 1951) is a former Iraqi football goalkeeper who spent the bulk of his career for Al-Jaish and was a national team vice-captain, usually deputising for fellow custodian Raad Hammoudi. He represented Iraq at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Stepan Leidtorp
Stepan Leidtorp (born 21 July 1902 in Kaiu Parish, Harrien County) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of V Riigikogu. He was a member of the Riigikogu since 25 January 1935. He replaced Hans Martinson.

Hans Martinson
Hans Martinson (26 August 1872 in Vana-Vändra Parish (now Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish), Kreis Pernau – 25 January 1935 in Rapla) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the III, IV, and V Riigikogu. He was originally elected as a member of the Estonian Workers' Party, but during the III Riigikogu he switched to the Estonian Socialist Workers' Party, which he represented thereafter.
Abkhazian Dze
Abkhazian Dze (Ӡ ӡ; italics: Ӡ ӡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is used in Abkhaz where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate /dz/, pronounced like ⟨ds⟩ in "pods".

It is also used in a 2007 alphabet for the Uilta language, where it represents [d͡ʒ~ɟ] (j as in jam or g as in argue). It was also used in one 1937 proposal (not adopted) for the Karelian language.

The letter looks very similar in shape to Latin Ezh (Ʒ, ʒ), as well as to numeral 3, but in some fonts the uppercase form of the Abkhazian Dze has no descender or has a shortened tail.

This letter is similar to the Cyrillic letter Dze, representing the same sound.

Voiced alveolar affricate
A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth. There are several types of median affricates with significant perceptual differences:

A voiced alveolar sibilant affricate [d͡z] is the most common type, similar to the ds in English lads.

A voiced alveolar non-sibilant affricate [dð̠] – or [dð͇], using the alveolar diacritic from the Extended IPA, – is found, for example, in some dialects of English and Italian.

A voiced retracted alveolar sibilant affricate [d͡z̺] or [d̠͡z̠].
Now or Never (Tela album)
Now or Never is the second studio album by American rapper Tela. It was released on October 6, 1998, through Rap-A-Lot Records. Recording sessions took place at House Of Blues in Memphis and at Hippie House in Houston. Production was handled by Tela himself, together with DJ Jus Borne, Jazze Pha, Neal Jones, BJB, SMK and Sam Sneed. It features guest appearances from the Hoodlumz, Big Zach, Do or Die, Jazze Pha, Scarface, Too $hort and Max Julien. The album peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200 and number 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Scarface (rapper)
Brad Terrence Jordan (born November 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an American rapper and record producer, notable for his solo career and as a member of the Geto Boys, a hip-hop group from Houston, Texas. Raised in the city's South Acres (Crestmont Park) neighborhood, he has been ranked by The Source as one of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time, while About.com ranked him in the top ten of its "50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987–2007)" list.
Knotty Ash
Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward, historically in Lancashire. The population at the 2001 Census was 13,200, increasing to 13,312 at the 2011 Census. Knotty Ash is well known as the home of comedian Sir Ken Dodd, who often mentioned it in his act.

Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council, formerly the Liverpool Corporation is the local authority for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. Liverpool has had a local authority since 1207, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority since 2014.

The council has been under Labour majority control since 2010. It meets at Liverpool Town Hall and has its main offices at the Cunard Building.
J. Ruiz station
J. Ruiz station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) system in San Juan. The station is named from its location on J. Ruiz Street.

J. Ruiz station is the fifth station for trains headed to Antipolo and the ninth station for trains headed to Recto. It is the only station in San Juan and is close to the borders of Quezon City before entering Manila.

It is named after Juan Ruiz, a Katipunero who took part in the siege of El Polvorin, where the Pinaglabanan Shrine is located. Opened on April 5, 2004, the station was part of the Phase II development of LRT-2 together with the Betty Go-Belmonte, Gilmore, V. Mapa, Pureza and Legarda stations.

Pureza station
Pureza station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) system in Santa Mesa, Manila. It is named because of its location near Pureza Street. The name originated from the Spanish word for "purity".

The station is the third station for trains headed to Antipolo and the eleventh station for trains headed to Recto.
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Nicole Victoria "Duke" Aunapu Mann (born June 27, 1977) is a Native American test pilot and NASA astronaut. She is an F/A-18 Hornet pilot and a graduate of the US Naval Academy, Stanford University, and the US Naval Test Pilot School. She has over 2,500 flight hours in 25 types of aircraft and 200 carrier landings, and has flown 47 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mann completed astronaut training in 2015 and was assigned in August 2018 to Boe-CFT, the first crewed test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, but subsequently reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5, becoming the first female commander of a NASA Commercial Crew Program launch.

Her first spaceflight launched in October 2022 and made her the first Native American woman in space. She stayed in space for months, and on January 20, 2023, she became the first Native American woman to go on a spacewalk, which she went on with Koichi Wakata.

Koichi Wakata
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一, Wakata Kōichi; born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and an astronaut working for Axiom Space. Wakata retired from JAXA in 2024 after a career in spaceflight spanning nearly two decades. He logged over 500 days in space across five missions: three aboard the Space Shuttle, one on the Soyuz, and one on the Crew Dragon. His missions included three long-duration stays on the International Space Station (ISS) and two short-duration flights—one to the ISS and one aboard the Space Shuttle. Notably, during Expedition 39, he became the first Japanese commander of the ISS.
Vivo Por Elena
Vivo por Elena (English: I Live for Elena) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa in 1998. The telenovela has been repeated several times on different channels since its original airing.

On Monday, April 6, 1998, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Vivo Por Elena weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Desencuentro. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, September 11, 1998, with Camila replacing it the following Monday.

In the United States, it was first broadcast on Univision from July 13, 1998, through December 30, 1998, weekdays at 8:00pm Eastern/7:00pm Central, replacing Esmeralda. The last episode was aired on December 30, 1998, with La usurpadora replacing it the following Monday.

Victoria Ruffo and Saúl Lisazo starred as protagonists, Cecilia Gabriela is a co-protagonist, while Ana Patricia Rojo, Sebastián Ligarde, Jean Duverger, Pablo Montero and Julieta Bracho starred as antagonists.

Esmeralda (Mexican TV series)
Esmeralda is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía for Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of the famous 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of the same name, written by Delia Fiallo.

It stars Leticia Calderón, Fernando Colunga, Enrique Lizalde, Laura Zapata, Salvador Pineda and Ignacio López Tarso.

On Monday, May 5, 1997, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Esmeralda weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Mujer, casos de la vida real. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, November 14, 1997 with Desencuentro replacing it the following Monday.

It was the first collaboration between Fernando Colunga and Juan Pablo Gamboa, who would both later work in La usurpadora (1998), which is also a production of Mejia.

In the United States, it was first broadcast on Univision from December 15, 1997 to July 9, 1998.

In 1998 it was named Best Telenovela of the Year by the TVyNovelas Awards.