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☆ How universities are cracking down on a swell of tension months into student protests over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Soon, dozens more students protesting the monthslong assault on Gaza were arrested at New York and Yale universities. Ash told CNN he was one of 20 students arrested following a sit-in on November 8. The charges were later dropped, according to the Brown Daily Herald, but 41 students arrested the following month in similar circumstances still face charges, which protesters now want dropped. Separately, the referendum on the BDS resolution “did not move forward because of potential conflict with federal and state laws,” the university told CNN in a statement. Police then were aggressive, Agrawal told CNN.

Persons: strode, –, Jordan Vonderhaar, that’s, Zach Greenberg, ” Greenberg, ” “, ”, Dima Khalidi, “, Greenberg, …, Arman Deendar, Rafi Ash, Ash, ” Ash, Richard Vogel, Jack Petocz, Petocz, Vanderbilt, Samson Zhang, Alexander Hall, Pitzer, Mita Banerjee, Banerjee, ” Arrestees, Natascha, Shubh Agrawal, Agrawal, Colleen Mastony, Israel, Grace Hie Yoon, Adam Lehman, who’ve, they’re, ” Lehman, CNN’s Dana, Israel –, Palestine Legal’s Khalidi, ” Khalidi, CNN’s Nicquel Terry Ellis, Chelsea Bailey, Isabel Rosales, Devon Sayers Organizations: CNN, New York’s Columbia University, Yale, University of Texas, University of Southern, Emory University, Boston’s Emerson College, Indiana University, George Washington University and California State Polytechnic, Humboldt, Bloomberg, Getty, Foundation, Rights, ”, White, Palestine, Brown University, Brown Daily Herald, University Public, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Coalition, ” Vanderbilt University, Community, Officer, Barnard College, Harvard University, Boston, Pomona College, Claremont Colleges, Pomona, Pomona College’s, for Justice, ” Claremont Police, Pro, Palestinian, George Washington University, University of Michigan’s, Investment, University of Michigan, Police, New York University, New, Civil Liberties Union, Anadolu Agency, Jewish, Hillel International Locations: New, Gaza, New York, Austin, University of Southern California, Atlanta, Israel, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, Nashville, Florida’s, Southern, Palestine, TAHRIR, “ City, Vietnam

☆ 'Fallout' ending explained: The finale hints at who started the apocalypse and teases a return to a fan-favorite location
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon's '"Fallout" takes place after a nuclear war has ravaged the world. The end of "Fallout" also teases a return to a fan-favorite game in the series. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFrances Turner as Barb Howard in "Fallout." Regardless of what lies ahead for Hank in the "Fallout" series, seeing the futuristic version of Sin City is a tantalizing possibility.

Persons: —, Jonathan Nolan, Lucy MacLean, Ella Purnell, he's, Cooper Howard, Walton, Barb Howard, Frances Turner, Lee Moldaver, Sarita Choudhury, Cooper, Barb, Hank MacLean, Kyle MacLachlan, Rafi Silver, Hank Organizations: Service, Bethesda SoftWorks, Interplay, Tec, RobCo Industries Locations: postapocalyptic America, Vegas . New Vegas, Amazon's, Vegas, Sin

It’s easy to dismiss competitive language, also known as trash talk, as boastful, aggressive and rude. But Rafi Kohan, the author of a recent book on the subject, wants to change your mind about that starting with baseball. Opening day is tomorrow, and in this audio essay, Kohan argues that trash talk would not only bring some sorely needed excitement to the game but also could improve performance and create healthier relationships among sports teams — and maybe even in your own teams and workplaces. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)

Persons: Rafi Kohan, Kohan Organizations: —

☆ Opinion | Hey, Losers! Here’s How to Bring Baseball’s Very Boring Era to an End.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Rafi Kohan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Action in the form of runs scored and stolen bases went up, even as the average time of a nine-inning game went way down — sliced by nearly 25 minutes from the previous season. Additional rule tweaks are in store for the 2024 season, as M.L.B. Which is to say: It’s time to bring back bench jockeying. All that changed in the 1880s, when a ballplayer named Arlie Latham started making a whole lot of noise. As a player, Latham peaked in the 1887 season, in which he batted .316, stole 129 bases and scored 163 runs.

Persons: who’ve, Arlie Latham, Latham, — Organizations: Major League Baseball

The first video, released Sunday, showed clips of the three hostages – Noa Argamani, Itai Svirsky and another man, whose family have requested his name be withheld - speaking to a camera. The third video, released later Monday, appeared to show the dead bodies of two of the hostages, Itai Svirsky and the other man. ‘Please know that I love you very much’Hamas and other groups took around 240 hostages into Gaza on October 7. Argamani was seen in a video, released by Hamas at the time, being dragged away on a motorbike. According to his family, one of the hostages released in November contacted his sister to let her know he was alive after memorizing her phone number.

Persons: CNN — Israel, ”, Yoav Gallant, – Noa Argamani, Itai Svirsky, Noa Argamani, Argamani, Daniel Hagari, ” Hagari, “, ” Naama Weinberg, Manu Fernandez, Avinatan, Leora, “ Noa, ” Svirsky, Be’eri, Orit, Rafi – Svirsky’s, –, Aviva Sela, Grace Cabrera, Svirsky Organizations: CNN, Monday, Israeli, Hamas, IDF, Nova, Aviva Locations: Gaza, Israel, Tel Aviv

☆ ‘Nothing is moving:’ Families’ anger grows in Israel as hostages mark 100 days in Hamas captivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

A hostage release deal agreed between Israel and Hamas in late November ended after six days, with more than 100 freed. Others are angry at what they see as a failure by the Red Cross to help them. Cohen accused the Red Cross of failing in its mission to protect civilians. He was also critical of the Red Cross, which he accused of failing in its mission to protect civilians. “The countries that support the Red Cross should turn off the tap and tell them there’s no more money,” he said Monday.

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☆ Pakistan speeds up Afghans' repatriation after deadline expires
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Mushtaq Ali | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Those arriving in Afghanistan complained of hardships they had to face to move out of Pakistan and uncertainty over their future. We had very bad situation," said Mohammad Ismael Rafi, 55, who said he lived for 22 years in the southwestern Pakistani border town of Chaman where he had a retail business. Pakistani authorities started rounding up foreigners, most of them Afghans, hours before the deadline. Khan, the official, said 19,744 Afghans had crossed the Torkham border on Thursday, 147,949 in total since the government announced the deadline. More than 35,000 undocumented Afghans have left through another southwestern Pakistani border crossing at Chaman.

Persons: Abdul Nasir Khan, Mohammad Ismael Rafi, Rafi, Sarfraz, Khan, Asif Shahzad, Ariba Shahid, Mohammad Yunus Yawar, Kim Coghill, Nick Macfie Organizations: United Nations, Refugees, Kabul, Reuters, Authorities, Norwegian Refugee Council, Danish Refugee Council, International, Thomson Locations: burqa, Pakistan, UNHCR, Azakhel, Nowshera, PESHAWAR, Afghanistan, Torkham, Khyber, Pakistani, Chaman, Kandahar, Helmand province, Peshawar, U.S, Karachi, Kabul

☆ In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Steven Lee Myers | Sheera Frenkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online. Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States. Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have also joined the fight online, along with extremist groups, like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were previously at odds with Hamas. “It’s just like everyone is involved,” said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. The institute, a nonprofit research organization in London, last week detailed influence campaigns by Iran, Russia and China.

Persons: denigrating, Al, ”, Rafi Mendelsohn, Cyabra, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, “ It’s, Moustafa Ayad Organizations: Hamas, Islamic, Institute for Strategic Locations: Israel, Iran, Russia, China, United States, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Cyabra, Tel Aviv, “, Gaza, Africa, East, Asia, London

Reuters fact-checking unit has identified numerous cases of social media posts using fake images and information about the Israel-Hamas conflict, and others in which confusion rather than deliberate disinformation appears to have heightened tensions. loading* A video of Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking about Ukraine last year was shared this month with fabricated subtitles warning the U.S. not to interfere in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The sheriff’s office said they were "targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis". Marc Owen Jones, a disinformation expert and professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, said there was often a rise in disinformation during conflicts. Clearly they seem directed at different audiences, but the combined effect is to muddy the waters about the truth in the conflict," he said.

Persons: Khan Younis, Abu Mustafa, Joe Biden, we’ve, Biden, Farida Khan, Al Jazeera, Jazeera, Vladimir Putin, Pink, Gerald Darmanin, Thierry Breton, Rafi Mendelsohn, Abu Obaidah, Tayyip Erdogan, Marc Owen Jones, Hamad, Stephanie Burnett, Stephen Farrell, Hardik, Abdel Fattah Sherif, Neha Mustafi, Jonathan B Mathew, Nidal, James Mackenzie, Andrew Mills, William Maclean, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Al, Hamas, Reuters, Louvre, Facebook, Meta, YouTube, Israel’s Office, State Attorney, Twitter, Palestine, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Hardik Vyas, Thomson Locations: Gaza, AMSTERDAM, LONDON, Israel, ., Al Jazeera, Ukraine, Guatemala, Israeli, New Zealand, kibbutzes, France, In Illinois, London, Middle, Tehran, Turkey, Qatar, Amsterdam, Bangalore, Jerusalem, Doha

☆ Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix pledges to halve energy emissions by 2028
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Race winner Sergio Perez of Mexico passes his team celebrating during the F1 Grand Prix of Singapore at Marina Bay Street Circuit on October 02, 2022 in SingaporeOrganizers said they will halve energy emissions from the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix by 2028. Singapore GP said last year's event generated 2,372 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, including set up and tear down. Energy use made up 96.1% of total emissions, while the remaining 3.9% came from transport, waste and water. SGP said it aims to use this substitute in half of the circuit park's generators by 2025 and all by 2028. It estimated the switch would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 52%, once fully implemented.

Persons: Sergio Perez, Mexico, Sasha Rafi Organizations: of Singapore, Marina, Circuit, Singapore Organizers, Formula, Prix, Singapore GP Locations: Singapore

☆ At Mrs. Roper Romps, the Caftan Is Queen
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“The way that she is constantly needling Mr. Roper is a takedown of the patriarchy,” Baume said in a phone interview. The ladies got tipsy on the Oh, Stanley, a special cocktail of white rum and grenadine named for one of Mrs. Roper’s frequent hubby-shaming chastisements. Nancy Rafi, a 65-year-old retired event planner who co-organized the Romp, said she wasn’t surprised tickets sold out quickly. For many women of her generation, she said, Mrs. Roper was “a feminist icon.”“I loved Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt,” said Rafi, who is also a practicing witch. “But they were very vanilla to me.” Mrs. Roper, she said, “was a firecracker.”

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☆ Luminary, an AI-generated pop-up restaurant, just opened in Australia. Here's what's on the menu, from bioluminescent calamari to chocolate mousse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A restaurant in Sydney, Australia is hosting an AI-generated pop-up restaurant for a week. Stefanie Wee used ChatGPT and Canva's AI-image generator to create the restaurant's concept. Rafi, a restaurant based in Sydney, Australia, is hosting an AI-generated pop-up restaurant named Luminary this week. Reviews for Luminary have been mixed, with one customer writing that the AI restaurant "restored my faith in humanity." This isn't the first time the dining industry has used AI — be it for a marketing ploy or to make business more efficient.

Persons: Stefanie Wee, it's, Rafi, Applejack, Luminary Wee, ChatGPT, Wee, Luminary Organizations: Morning, Applejack Hospitality Locations: Sydney, Australia, Perth, Luminary

Lawmakers, including Yariv Levin, the Justice Minister, and Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security, at the Knesset in Jerusalem after the vote on Monday. Israel’s nationalist right celebrated a hard-won victory Monday after seven months of struggling to advance the contentious plan to weaken Israel’s judiciary in the face of mounting opposition. Many on Israel’s right say Israel’s Supreme Court is staffed by activist judges who have tied the hands of elected leaders. Right-wing voters commonly say they “vote for the right and get the left” and blame the courts for striking down popular policies. A weakened court would allow Mr. Ben-Gvir to fulfill such campaign promises, he said.

Persons: Yariv Levin, Itamar Ben, Gvir, ”, —, Benjamin Netanyahu —, Rafi Sharbatov, Ben, Arnon Segal, Segal, “, we’ve, Bezalel Smotrich, God’s, Mr, Smotrich, Smotrich’s, Dan Odenheimer, Odenheimer, “ It’s Organizations: of National Security, West Bank, Air Force, West Locations: Jerusalem, Israel’s, Israel, West Bank, Efrat

☆ Opinion | Amazon Prime Day, Walmart Plus Week and the Battle of the Retail Giants
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

I started to realize that Walmart and Amazon don’t have identical strategies because they aren’t going after identical customers. Walmart customers, on average, have lower incomes and are more price sensitive. Amazon customers are willing to pay more for the variety — both from Amazon itself and from the vast array of third-party sellers doing business on Amazon Marketplace. They follow everyday low pricing,” Sikdar said. Mostly it is itself the retailer.”Amazon, in contrast, puts fewer limits on its third-party sellers.

Persons: Watson, Eric Youngstrom, Rafi Mohammed, ” Mohammed, Vrinda Kadiyali, Cornell’s, Prasad Vana, Sikdar, Walmart’s, ” Sikdar, Giles Hooker Organizations: Walmart, Amazon, Onramp, Profit, Amazon Marketplace, Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania Locations: Cambridge, Amazon, Tuck

☆ Pakistan central bank may hike rates another 200 bps to unlock IMF funds
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Ariba Shahid | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KARACHI, PAKISTAN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s central bank is widely expected to raise its key policy rate by 200 basis points in an off-cycle meeting on Thursday as it struggles to unlock critical funding from the IMF, a Reuters poll showed. All sixteen economists and market watchers surveyed said there would be a hike -- 14 of them predicted 200 basis points (bps), while two expected 250 bps. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has raised rates by 725 bps since January 2022. In its last policy meeting in January, the bank raised the key rate by 100 bps to 17%, citing inflationary pressure. He said the market had already incorporated a 200 bps hike in the last treasury bill auction where the government accepted bids with yields more than 200 bps higher than the policy rate.

☆ I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week, and I ping-ponged between euphoria and the depths of despair
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Sophie Kleeman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

My research found that Pelosi eats ice cream for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch, pasta, and chocolate. Chocolate ice cream for breakfast, rich and creamy pasta, and lots of snacking chocolate. She claims she does not exercise; her daughter once arrived home to find her mother eating chocolate ice cream while using a stationary bike. I save the ice cream for later to avoid a massive sugar crash and start out with a cup of black tea instead. However, I don't want to slack off after the ice cream episode, so I slather it on.

☆ Hackers post email addresses linked to 200 million Twitter accounts, security researchers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Email addresses linked to more than 200 million Twitter profiles are currently circulating on underground hacker forums, security experts say. The apparent data leak could expose the real-life identities of anonymous Twitter users and make it easier for criminals to hijack Twitter accounts, the experts warned, or even victims’ accounts on other websites. The trove of leaked records also includes Twitter users’ names, account handles, follower numbers and the dates the accounts were created, according to forum listings reviewed by security researchers and shared with CNN. Troy Hunt, a security researcher, said Thursday that his analysis of the data “found 211,524,284 unique email addresses” that had been leaked. The account data could also be valuable to hackers who can use the information as part of password-reset attempts and account takeovers.

Last month, it unveiled plans to spin off its Canadian oil sands assets into a new publicly traded company, which surprised many industry watchers. McCrea expects the recent trend of takeovers of private Canadian oil companies by larger companies to continue rather than the IPO route. The last time a new Canadian energy listing appeared on the TSX was in January when Calgary-based Kiwetinohk Energy Corp (KEC.TO) shares started trading. read moreNow, energy stocks have become a refuge for investors facing a sell-off in high growth sectors. Some energy investors welcomed the idea of more Canadian oil and gas listings.

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▼ + stars: | 2019-01-21 | by ( ) noutati.md time to read: +2 min

Ieri, 20 ianuarie, a avut loc premiera sezonului 9 al show-ului ”Vocea Ucrainei”. Artistul a primit oferta de colaborare în septembrie anul trecut și a acceptat fără ezitări. Filmările audițiilor pe nevăzute au avut loc în decembrie, iar ieri, 20 ianuarie, a fost difuzată prima emisiune. După asta, mi-am format stilul meu și totul a devenit mai simplu.” a declarat artistul pentru Afisha.mdInterpretul basarabean este entuziasmat de noul său proiect și este încântat să descopere talente care să-l inspire. Este deținătorul a numeroase premii internaționale din industria muzicală, printre care Echo Awards și MTV Video Music Awards.

Persons: basarabean Dan Balan, Vladimir Zavadiuk, . Artistul, Tina Karoli, Afisha.md, Dan Balan, Veaceslav Cretov, Mohammed Rafi, Dan Bălan, Rihanna, Dan Balan Organizations: ., Echo, MTV Video Music Awards, Potap, Monatik Locations: Ucrainei, basarabean, Potap, Ucraina, Moldova, Tei

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