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☆ How a YouTuber built a media company that's made $800,000 in revenue without ever holding a camera
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Oliver Gilpin proudly says he's built a YouTube media company without ever filming a single video himself. Unlike the majority of YouTubers, who build media companies based on their likeness, Gilpin is creating an educational media brand, Telos, with animated content. Before shifting his focus solely to his own YouTube channels, Gilpin was running a production agency, NowCreatives. Choosing potential sponsors requires balance, and Gilpin is always looking for brands that fit the educational content his company creates. "If the channel makes money, they make money," he said.

Persons: Oliver Gilpin, he's, Gilpin, Richard Branson, " Gilpin Organizations: Telos, YouTube Locations: NowCreatives, MrSpherical

☆ Namibia's Deysel apologises to Dupont for dangerous tackle
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Mitch Phillips | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Dupont suffered the injury in the 46th minute and was forced off the field at the Stade de Marseille on Thursday after a clash of heads in a clumsy tackle. Deysel, whose initial yellow card was quickly upgraded to a red on bunker review, said the collision was accidental. "I would like to extend my best wishes to Antoine Dupont," he told reporters. In relation to Deysel's abuse, World Rugby said on Friday that they would "support Namibia in any way possible to stamp out online hate." At the time, World Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin said: "Rugby is a sport for everyone and we take our responsibility very seriously to make the sport as inclusive, accessible and relevant as possible.

Persons: Namibia's Johan Deysel, Peter Cziborra, Johan Deysel, Antoine Dupont, Dupont, Deysel, Fabien Galthie, Antoine, Deysel's, Alan Gilpin, Hritika Sharma, Nick Said, Mitch Phillips, Gerry Doyle, Ken Ferris Organizations: Rugby Union, Rugby, REUTERS, Rights, France, Rugby World, Stade de Marseille, Namibia, French Rugby Federation, Italy, Ireland, South, World Rugby, Thomson Locations: France, Namibia, Orange, Marseille, Rights MARSEILLE, South Africa, Uruguay, Hyderabad

☆ The Parallel Memoirs of Ruth Simmons and Drew Gilpin Faust - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Simmons was close to her mother and Faust clashed with hers, but neither wanted anything resembling her mother’s lives. Both studied foreign languages, lived abroad for the first time during school, studied the humanities at Ivy League grad schools and entered academia. I’d urge every educator to assign “Up Home” to high school students or incoming college freshmen. “So many people hear coming-of-age or bootstrap stories and think they get it,” Simmons told me. “So often,” she lamented, “people believe that if you are a victim of want that somehow escaping that is all you desire.”

Persons: Simmons, Faust, Anne Moody’s, ”, ” Simmons, — Simmons Organizations: Ivy League grad, New York Locations: Texas, Mississippi

☆ The Making of an Ivy League President: Two Women’s Stories
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Martha Southgate | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

One Black, one white. In 1995, Ruth J. Simmons, the elder of the two, became the first Black president of Smith, one of the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges. But that wasn’t her last first; in 2001, she left Smith to take the helm at Brown University, making history again by virtue of both her race and her gender — the first Black woman to lead an Ivy League institution, which she did until 2012. In 2007, Drew Gilpin Faust was named the first woman president of Harvard University, a post she held until 2018. As the youngest of 12 children, she had a comparatively easier time because she was the baby of the family.

Persons: Drew Gilpin, Ruth J, Simmons, —, Smith, Drew Gilpin Faust, She’s, ”, Read, “, ” Simmons Organizations: Seven, Brown University, Ivy League, M University, Harvard University, American Locations: Texas, East Texas

☆ A son died, his parents tried to sue. How U.S. courts protect Big Pharma
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

His parents soon started exploring a lawsuit against Merck, the developer of the blockbuster asthma and allergy drug, Singulair, along with the manufacturer of the generic version their son took. That meant Merck had written the warning label, with federal approval, on the generic version of Singulair that Nicholas England took. But his parents couldn’t sue Merck, either, because their son had never taken its name-brand version of Singulair. The generic drug manufacturer that made the pills England took, Teva Pharmaceuticals, did not respond to inquiries. Since Merck’s patent on Singulair expired in 2012, major generic drug manufacturers have sold millions of prescriptions under the drug’s scientific name, montelukast.

Persons: Nicholas England, Nicholas, Merck, ”, Jennifer England, Nicholas’s, ” Merck, Organon, “, George W, Bush, Daniel Troy, Troy, Medtronic, Nicholas England’s, Adam Zimmerman, ” Zimmerman, Jay Lefkowitz, Ellis, shouldn’t, Bayer, drugmaker Wyeth, Phenegran, Jan Gilpin’s, mumbling, ” Gilpin, ” “, hadn’t, Singulair, Gilpin, Stephane Bissonnette, suicidality, Dr, Judith Kramer, Duke, Robert England, Robert said, Kim Beck Organizations: Merck, U.S, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Reuters, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, FDA, Big, Corporate America, Corporations, Administration, ”, New, University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, Norfolk, Union Pacific, Federal Railroad Safety, Pacific, GlaxoSmithKline, Monsanto, Bayer, Parent Locations: Virginia, England, U.S, New York, Kirkland, East Palestine , Ohio, Louisiana, Atlanta, Vermont, Wise , Virginia, Wisconsin

[1/6] Jan Gilpin poses with a bottle of the asthma and allergy drug Singulair, first prescribed to her son when he was three-years-old, at her home in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S., June 21, 2023. That team found in 2015 that the drug’s distribution into the brain was more significant than its label described. Lawsuits filed against Merck cite this 1996 patent as evidence of Merck’s knowledge of the drug’s potential brain impacts. Marschallinger and her colleagues in Austria came away with a different finding when they reviewed Merck’s original research and did some of their own. Marschallinger said it would have been logical for the FDA to require Merck to investigate the brain impacts more thoroughly once reports of mental-health problems emerged.

Persons: Jan Gilpin, Singulair, Brian Snyder, Merck, Julia Marschallinger, Marschallinger, ” Marschallinger, “ It’s, Robin Respaut, Dan Levine, Janet Roberts, Brian Thevenot Organizations: REUTERS, Brian Snyder Companies Merck, Co, FDA, Molecular Regenerative, Singulair, Merck, Thomson Locations: Newton , Massachusetts, U.S, Austria

☆ Kansas farmers abandon wheat fields after extreme drought
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Tom Polansek | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/4] Romulo Lollato, a wheat agronomist for Kansas State University, examines wheat in a field, as part of an annual crop tour, near Clay Center, Kansas, U.S., May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Tom PolansekWICHITA, Kansas, May 22 (Reuters) - Farmers in Kansas, the biggest U.S. producer of wheat used to make bread, are abandoning their crops after a severe drought and damaging cold ravaged farms. Kansas farmers are expected to abandon about 19% of the acres planted last autumn, up from 10% last year and 4% in 2021, according to the report. Soaring prices for hay also pressure wheat farmers not to harvest their fields for grain so they can be fed to cattle, Gilpin said. Kansas farmers are expected to produce just 191.4 million bushels of wheat this year, the smallest since 1963, according to the latest monthly government forecast.

☆ It’s a Nun vs. AI in ‘Mrs. Davis’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( John Jurgensen | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Davis,’ a nun named Simone (played by Betty Gilpin) tries to take down artificial intelligence. Photo: Sophie Kohler/PEACOCKIn the new streaming series “Mrs. Davis,” people all over the world have put their faith in artificial intelligence. A defiant nun wants to crash the system. Arriving as AI infiltrates all corners of real life, the show takes an often zany, genre-flipping approach to some weighty issues looming.

[1/2] Mourners hold a poster during the state funeral of Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe at a national sports stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe, September 14, 2019. Still, some farmers say they will reject the government's $3.5 billion compensation package for being inadequate financially and for paying scant regard to land restitution or restoring property rights. Farmers say the plan was agreed by the Commercial Farmers Union in July 2020 and subsequently revised without adequate consultation. "The offer of bonds represents a very significant reduction in value with a prolonged redemption period," Gilpin, 67, told Reuters. The government was continuing discussions with farmers over appropriate payment methods and time frames, Ncube said.

☆ ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The pilot introduces Simone (Betty Gilpin), a sister in a remote Nevada convent who has a sideline exposing dishonest magicians. Besides leaving her time for her hobby, convent life lets her avoid the reach of an omniscient A.I. Davis” in America, “Mum” in Britain, “Madonna” in Italy and so on — has not given up on Simone. Simone, Mrs. Davis believes deep in her code, is the one person equipped to carry out a mission: to find and destroy the Holy Grail. Simone agrees, hoping the quest will be a means to Mrs. Davis’s unplugging.

☆ ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: A Nun’s Anti-AI Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Magic of the presto-chango variety always depends on distraction, but the distractions are the magic of “Mrs. Davis,” which throughout its exhilarating mix of comedy, action, obscure movie references and gothic-Catholic sleight-of-hand mounts a very plausible and therefore disturbing premise: God isn’t dead. He is just less influential than an algorithm. The algorithm is known as Mrs. Davis—or “Ma’am” in the U.K., or “Madonna” in Rome—and is the all-seeing, all-knowing, not-quite-all-merciful manifestation of artificial intelligence to whom humanity has plighted its troth in this eight-part manifestation of real intelligence from creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof . Mrs. Davis is, was and ever shall be—unless a heretical nun named Simone, aka Lizzie ( Betty Gilpin ), can win the bet she has made with the omniscient formulation that she calls “it” and find the Holy Grail, on which occasion Mrs. Davis has agreed to self-destruct.

☆ ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: A Sci-Fi Nun’s Anti-AI Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Betty Gilpin Photo: PEACOCKMagic of the presto-chango variety always depends on distraction, but the distractions are the magic of “Mrs. Davis,” which throughout its exhilarating mix of comedy, action, obscure movie references and gothic-Catholic sleight-of-hand mounts a very plausible and therefore disturbing premise: God isn’t dead. He is just less influential than an algorithm. Mrs. Davis Begins Thursday, PeacockThe algorithm is known as Mrs. Davis—or “Ma’am” in the U.K., or “Madonna” in Rome—and is the all-seeing, all-knowing, not-quite-all-merciful manifestation of artificial intelligence to whom humanity has plighted its troth in this eight-part manifestation of real intelligence from creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof . Mrs. Davis is, was and ever shall be—unless a heretical nun named Simone, aka Lizzie ( Betty Gilpin ), can win the bet she has made with the omniscient formulation that she calls “it” and find the Holy Grail, on which occasion Mrs. Davis has agreed to self-destruct.

☆ U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust as Plains drought persists
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Julie Ingwersen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CHICAGO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - With planting roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. The drought threatens Kansas, the top winter wheat growing state, and Oklahoma in two ways: discouraging farmers who have not yet planted from trying, while threatening crops already in the ground from developing properly. About two-thirds of wheat in the United States, among the top five global exporters, is grown as a winter crop rather than spring. As a result, Justin Gilpin, chief executive of the Kansas Wheat Commission, expected the number of Kansas wheat acres planted for harvest in 2023 to remain steady with the 7.3 million acres seeded for 2022. A key driver of the drought is the La Nina weather phenomenon, which tends to favor warm and dry conditions in the Plains.

(video) O secvență de la protestele din PMAN a ajuns într-un film american despre lupta împotriva extratereștrilorO secvență de la protestul din PMAN din Chișinău a apărut în filmul The Tomorrow War lansat pe 2 iulie pe platforma Amazon Prime Video. Filmul povestește despre o luptă pierdută împotriva extratereștrilor, iar ca să-i câștigăm în lupta finală, oamenii de știință creează o tehnologie care să permită aducerea soldaților din trecutul nostru. În decembrie 2022, Dan Forester, profesor de biologie și fostul colaborator al Armatei Americane, nu reușește să obțină un loc de muncă la un prestigios centru de cercetare. În timp ce urmărește Cupa Mondială la o petrecere de Crăciun, soldații din anul 2051 ajung să-l avertizeze că omenirea este pe punctul de dispariție din cauza invadatorilor extratereștri. Filmul The Tomorrow War este produs de compania Paramount Pictures, iar în rolurile principale îi regăsim pe Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J. K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin și alții.

Persons: PMAN, Dan, Crăciun, Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J . K . Simmons, Betty Gilpin Organizations: Amazon, Armatei Americane, Paramount Pictures Locations: american, Chișinău

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