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☆ Carrier, the century-old inventor of the air conditioner, is moving on to the home heat pump
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Andrew Aitchison | In Pictures | Getty ImagesIn case you haven't noticed, heat pumps are hot. But there are other reasons why heat pumps are fast becoming popular with homeowners. All of this is transforming Carrier Global , the nearly 100-year-old manufacturer whose founder, Willis Carrier, invented air conditioning. Heat pumps have a history dating back to 1850s The thermodynamic science behind heat pumps was developed in the 1850s, when the first ones were invented, and they've been used in homes since the 1960s. Heat pumps use electricity to transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space, making the cool space cooler and the warm space warmer.

Persons: CARR, Andrew Aitchison, Willis Carrier, David Gitlin, Carrier, Hakan Yilmaz, Yilmaz, they've, Michael Kretschmer, Sebastian Kowalski, Kretschmer, Tobie Stanger, Dave Lis, Viessmann, Milena Oliveira, Oliveira, Mark Prodan, Prodan, There's Organizations: Carrier Global, United Technologies, Solutions, East Trade Policy, Getty, International Energy Agency ., U.S . Climate Alliance, Consumer, Energy Efficiency, Carrier, M, Energy Star Locations: Gardens , Florida, Saxony, Leipzig, America, U.S, Maine, Michigan, Indian, Connecticut, New York State

☆ Trump is about to get $3 billion richer after deal is approved to take his company public. But it won’t solve his cash crunch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Truth Social owner Trump Media will begin trading Tuesday as the merger closesCNN —Investors have approved a deal on Friday to make Truth Social owner Trump Media a publicly traded company. The new company will be called Trump Media & Technology Group and trade under the ticker DJT, Trump’s initials. Shareholders voted to approve Trump Media’s merger with a blank-check company, following years of legal and regulatory obstacles. Trump will own a dominant stake in a public company, with shares worth more than $3 billion at current market prices. First, experts say the market is drastically overvaluing Trump Media based on the company’s fundamentals.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Trump won’t, ”, Matthew Kennedy, Kennedy, Charles Whitehead, Jonathan Macey, Jay Ritter, Ritter, Whitehead, …, Xavier Kowalski, Schulte Roth, Zabel, ” Banks, ” Whitehead, “, ‘ Organizations: Social, Trump Media, CNN, Digital, Corp, Trump Media & Technology Group, Shareholders, Trump, Renaissance Capital, Cornell Law School, SEC, University of Florida, – Locations: New, Manhattan, ” Yale

☆ 'Survivor' contestants share 17 facts about being on the show that would surprise even the biggest fans
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Meghan Cook | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Eight "Survivor" competitors spoke with Business Insider about their time on the show and shared behind-the-scenes secrets that might surprise even the series's biggest fans. The production team has a set of 'identical' replacement clothesLauren-Ashley Beck and Karishma Patel on "Survivor: Island of the Idols." Beck added that she sometimes said things out loud before remembering that they could be aired on national television. Contestants aren't allowed to directly address the camera crewKellee Kim and Lauren-Ashley Beck on "Survivor: Island of the Idols." But Beck added that after spending weeks with the crew, it's hard to not notice certain things about them.

Persons: —, Lauren, Ashley Beck, Beck, Davie Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker, Elaine Stott, Stott, We're, we're, Patel, Karishma Patel, Janet Carbin, aren't, Carbin, castmates, Malcolm Freberg, Carbin's, Kellee Kim, they're, Tyson Apostol, Dean Kowalski, Tom Laidlaw, Chelsea Walker, Robert Voets, Jeff, doesn't, Andrea Boehlke, Boehlke, David, — Nick Wilson, Nick, Goliath, Dan Rengering, I've, she's Organizations: Service, CBS, Business, Getty, YouTube Locations: Philippines, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Fiji, Tribal, Ponderosa

☆ ‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jesse Green | More About Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Acting Like a Maniac” is not your typical acting class: You have to sign a personal injury waiver to join it. But then Meryl Kowalski, with that double whammy of a theatrical name, isn’t your typical student. Though 75, she’s no cute oldster; Hugo Lockerby, the guru-like teacher with a wandering accent, thinks she may even be a genius. “Scene Partners,” by John J. Caswell Jr., with the transcendent Dianne Wiest as Meryl, is definitely more like whoa. In any case, it’s often impossible to tell whether what we’re watching is Meryl’s life, a film about her life, a dream about the film, a hallucination of the dream, or some other nesting doll of narration.

Persons: Meryl Kowalski, Hugo Lockerby, John J, Caswell Jr, Dianne Wiest Locations: Soviet Union, Meryl’s

☆ Family in ‘Take Care of Maya’ Documentary Is Awarded $261 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Christine Hauser | More About Christine Hauser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A jury in Florida ordered a hospital to pay $261 million in damages to a family after the parents were accused of abusing their daughter and barred from seeing her during months of treatment. Their story was chronicled in the Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya.”Jurors in Florida’s 12th Judicial Circuit in Sarasota County found against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, court documents issued Thursday show, ordering $211 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages for false imprisonment, battery, medical negligence and other charges. Damages were awarded for infliction of emotional distress on the daughter in question, Maya Kowalski, and her mother, Beata Kowalski, who died by suicide in 2017. Maya’s father, Jack Kowalski, was named as a plaintiff in the case representing Maya and his wife’s estate, court documents showed. “For the first time, I feel like I got justice,” Maya Kowalski, now 17, said in a statement to reporters outside of the courtroom after the decision.

Persons: Johns, Maya Kowalski, Beata Kowalski, Maya’s, Jack Kowalski, ” Maya Kowalski Organizations: Netflix, Johns Hopkins, Children’s Locations: Florida, Florida’s, Sarasota County, St . Petersburg

☆ Sextortion investigation: 2 Nigerian men accused of running a global ring linked to a teen's suicide have been extradited to US, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Alleged members of a global sextortion operation that targeted more than 100 victims and led to the death of a 17-year-old boy were extradited to the United States on Sunday to face federal criminal charges, authorities said. That charge stems from an alleged online encounter that investigators say resulted in the death of 17-year-old Jordan DeMay, who died by suicide after falling victim to a sextortion scam. According to prosecutors, Samuel Ogoshi used a hacked social media account to make contact with DeMay while pretending to be a young woman. DeMay paid Ogoshi $300, but Ogoshi demanded more, authorities said. The alleged sextortion ring was disrupted by tracking victim payments through financial entities, Kowalski said.

Persons: CNN —, Samuel Ogoshi, Samson Ogoshi, Mark Totten, Jordan DeMay, Ezekiel Ejehem Robert, DeMay, Ogoshi, ” Totten, “, ”, Devin Kowalski, Kowalski, Totten Organizations: CNN, FBI, Nigeria’s, Financial, Federal Locations: United States, Lagos, Nigeria, Michigan, Southeast Asia

☆ In the spotlight: London hosts Olivier Awards for theatre
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Paul Mescal arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party after the 95th Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 12, 2023. The London theatre community will gather at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual ceremony, named after the famed British actor Laurence Olivier and which celebrates the best productions in the capital. These include nods for best entertainment or comedy play, choreography, directing, costume design and music, as well as a best actress nomination for Mei Mac, who plays younger sibling, four-year-old Mei. Paul Mescal, who was nominated at this year's Oscars, has been recognised in the best actor category for playing Stanley Kowalski in a revival of Tennessee Williams' “A Streetcar Named Desire”. "Killing Eve" star Comer is up for best actress in one-woman play "Prima Facie", in which she portrays a barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault before herself being assaulted.

☆ 'My Neighbour Totoro,' Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer win at Olivier awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Jodie Comer poses with the award for Best Actress for "Prima Facie" accompanied by Paul Mescal at the Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Britain, April 2, 2023. It won best entertainment or comedy play as well as the director, set, lighting, sound and costume design category prizes. It won best revival, best actor for Paul Mescal for his role as Stanley Kowalski and best actress in a supporting role for Anjana Vasan, for her portrayal of Stella. "Killing Eve" star Jodie Comer won best actress in one-woman play "Prima Facie," in which she portrays a barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault before herself being assaulted. won best musical revival and best actor in a musical for Arthur Darvill.

☆ See inside a facility that freezes people and pets after they die and stores their preserved remains upside down in cryostat chambers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Then, the goal is to remove as much heat from the body as possible in order to preserve it. Kowalski said the specialist will attach an automatic CPR device to the body to keep blood flowing, and then it is placed in an ice bath to cool down. An automatic CPR machine is attached to a body while on standby. Cryonics Institute

☆ With TV prices down 17%, Black Friday shoppers may find ‘excellent deals’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Why TV prices are falling amid broader inflationAverage TV prices fell by almost 17% in October 2022 compared with the same month in 2021, according to the consumer price index. They're an outlier at a time when stubbornly high inflation led prices to climb steeply for a broad basket of consumer products. Manufacturers had cranked up production to historic highs to meet consumer demand — and retailers now have a glut of TVs, Kowalski said. Black Friday and Cyber Monday TV dealsRetailers have long used TV deals to draw in shoppers on Black Friday — the Friday after Thanksgiving and the traditional start to the holiday shopping season. watch nowSome Black Friday deals from retailers such as Best Buy have been jaw-dropping, especially for some well-known brands, said Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with DealNews.

CNN —A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. The most common side effects reported in the trial participants were low white blood cells and lymph cells, rash and headache. Without insulin, blood sugar can build up in the bloodstream and break down the body’s own fat and muscle. With Tzield, doctors would screen individual family members of people with type 1 diabetes to see whether they have those specific antibodies. As of 2019, about 1.9 million people have type 1 diabetes in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association, including 244,000 children and adolescents.

☆ Climate change is the biggest issue facing our planet. A public-private partnership is helping address it with zero-carbon tech.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Vertiv With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

So, how can data centers provide more computing power while reducing their carbon footprint? "The RISE partnership will help us see the bigger picture of sustainability," he said. "We are creating greenhouses and vertical farming to reuse the heat and analyzing the data from medium-sized data centers." Other areas for improvement in data centers' environmental performance include making hardware and software more energy efficient, said Tor. Vertiv and RISE are also members of the E2P2 Tech Consortium, leading low-carbon fuel cell development to power data centers.

☆ How the warehouse boom devoured America's workforce
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

It all happened so fast, we never got a chance to ask the most fundamental question: Is the sudden and dramatic shift to warehouse work a good thing? Has the explosion in warehouse jobs, taken as a whole, left us better off than before? As my colleague Katherine Long outlines in her story about musculoskeletal disorders, warehouse work is dangerous. "Warehouse workers," he says, "are the assembly-line workers of contemporary capitalism." That experience has given him hope that warehouse jobs, like their assembly-line predecessors, could wind up being a source of both personal pride and economic advancement.

☆ Space tech startups fall out of VC orbit
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Akash Sriram | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 18 (Reuters) - Space technology startups are being forced to limit their sky-high ambitions, as their venture-capital backers turn to safer bets due to the current economic turmoil, VC firm Space Capital said. Investments in space technology companies, which collect, process and analyze space-related data, have fallen 80% in the third quarter to about $1 billion from nearly $5 billion in the year-earlier period, Space Capital said in a report. VC investment volume in space companies fell 44%, compared with a broader market decline of 31%, it added. VC firms "are looking to reduce their exposure to capital intensive companies with low or long-term profitability models," Space Capital's managing partner, Chad Anderson, told Reuters. Many investors who explored aerospace last year have backed away, said William Kowalski, co-founder of Atomos Space, which makes spacecraft that help satellites maneuver in space.

☆ How former Amazon execs built their own successful startups by adopting famous aspects of the retailer's culture, from writing super-short pitches to measuring meeting costs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Below are three Amazon business tactics former execs used — from writing press releases for products that haven't been built yet to tallying the cost of meetings — that helped them launch their own successful companies. Ko Umeno, founder and CEO, Globalive, said he used these types of documents to win adtech clients including ID5, Browsi, and Acorn-i. Umeno said the process for writing Amazon-style documents requires rigorous research, and Umeno's clients thought his Amazon-style pitch was unique and packed with information. "I was quite happy that I worked at Amazon and learned how to write this stuff," he said. Walker used the strategy to determine what challenges clients have with Amazon, which guides what services the firm offers.

☆ 'Survivor' players reveal what it's really like to compete on the show
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-11 | by ( Meghan Cook | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +30 min

Former "Survivor" players told Insider what competing on the reality series is really like. Sleeping arrangements are rougher than viewers might thinkTom Laidlaw and Elaine Stott at camp on "Survivor: Island of the Idols." For more details, read 'Survivor' players reveal how the show chooses their only outfit and what it's like wearing it for up to 39 days. For more details, read 'Survivor' players break down 5 moments they wished aired on the show and 4 they're relieved didn't. For more details, read 'Survivor' players reveal what it was like getting their periods on the island.

Persons: —, Tyson Apostol, Apostol, Goliath, Davie Rickenbacker, he'd, Rickenbacker, Russell Swan, Malcolm Freberg, Andrea Boehlke, Jeff Probst, Probst, Elaine Stott, Stott, Jeff, Greg Gayne, Freberg, that's Mark Burnett, Tom Laidlaw, Lauren, Ashley Beck, Beck, We'd, Karishma Patel, Patel, Parvati, You've, — Beck, Kellee Kim, Noura Salman, he's, Boehlke, that's, Eddie Fox, she's, Tommy Sheehan, Dean Kowalski, Dan Spilo, Jamal Shipman, Shipman, Elaine, they're, vaginas, Aaron Meredith, Monica Culpepper, Gervase Peterson, doesn't, Apostol didn't, I've, Kim, David, Gabby Pascuzzi, Christian Hubicki, Nick Wilson Organizations: Service, CBS, FILA, Getty, Ivy League Locations: Philippines, There's, Fiji, didn't

☆ Regizorii români Radu Jude și Radu Ciorniciuc, premiați la Festivalul internațional de film de la Sofia
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-22 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Regizorii români Radu Jude și Radu Ciorniciuc, premiați la Festivalul internațional de film de la SofiaRegizorii români Radu Jude şi Radu Ciorniciuc au fost premiaţi în cadrul celei de-a 25-a ediţii a Festivalul internaţional de film de la Sofia, care a acordat premiile sâmbătă seara la o ceremonie la Palatul Naţional al Culturii. Filmul „Tipografic Majuscul” al regizorului Radu Jude a primit Premiul Uniunii Criticilor de Film din Bulgaria pentru cel mai bun film din competiţia balcanică. Premiul pentru cel mai bun documentar a fost acordat de un juriu internaţional coproducţiei „Acasă, My Home” (România-Germania), în regia lui Radu Ciorniciuc. Marele Premiu al competiţiei internaţionale a festivalului de film de la Sofia a revenit thrillerului brazilian de science fiction „The Pink Cloud”, scris şi regizat de Iuli Gerbase. Premiul pentru cel mai bun regizor a fost acordat cineastului chinez Zhou Ziyang, pentru filmul său „Wuhai”.

Persons: Radu Jude, Radu, american Lech Kowalski, Tue Steen Muller, producătoarea, producătoarea britanică Natasha Dack, Doron, Aida, Alexander Nanau, Iuli, Zhou Ziyang Organizations: Film, AGERPRES Locations: Sofia, Bulgaria, balcanică, Balcani, România, Germania, american, producătoarea britanică, Bosnia, Herţegovina, Austria, Olanda, Polonia, Franţa, Norvegia, Turcia, Bosniei - Herzegovina

Ungaria și Polonia au criticat dur acordul provizoriu convenit ieri între Parlamentul European şi Consiliul UE care condiționarea fondurilor europene de așa numitul ”stat de drept”. Guvernele ungar şi polonez au criticat acordul provizoriu între Parlamentul European şi Consiliul UE care urmează să condiționeze fondurile de așa numitul stat de drept. Varşovia şi Budapesta au avertizat însă că-şi vor folosi dreptul de veto pentru blocarea bugetului UE în valoare de peste 1.000 de miliarde de euro dacă se menține această condiționare menită să afecteze suveranitatea statelor. Dar ambasadorul german la UE Michael Clauss, spune că mecanismul prevăzut "va contribui la protejarea bugetului de încălcări ale statului de drept care să ducă la o utilizare neadecvată a fondurilor". Este vorba despre anvelopa totală a bugetului, de 1.074 de miliarde de euro, pe care PE doreşte să o crească pentru a consolida programe europene considerate esenţiale.

Persons: Eurodeputaţii, ., reacţionat Judit Varga, Janusz Kowalski, UE Michael Clauss, Dacian Organizations: Parlamentul, BRUXELLES, UE, Parlamentului European, Europeană, Facebook, Europe Locations: Ungaria, Polonia, Germania, UE, . Germania, Bruxelles, Varşovia, Budapesta, Ungariei, polonez, german

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