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☆ BMW unveils its latest ‘Art Car,’ courtesy of abstract artist Julie Mehretu
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Designed and engineered in collaboration with the Italian race car manufacturer Dallara, it’s low and wide with an enormous rear wing and a large vertical rudder. For the commission, which marks the 20th BMW Art Car, Mehretu chose to adapt one of her most famous works: The painting “Everywhen,” which is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The first woman to take on a BMW Art Car was South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who in 1991 painted a 525i sedan. In 1996, Holzer covered a BMW Le Mans race car in the words “Protect Me From What I Want,” among other provocative phrases. Esther Mahlangu's 'Art Car' featured the bold colors and geometric patterns used in the traditional arts and crafts of the Southern Ndebele people.

Persons: Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu, Mehretu, ” Mehretu, André, Alexander Calder, Hervé Poulain, Poulain, Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, Esther Mahlangu, Holzer, Esther Mahlangu's, Enes, Goldman Sachs, “, Marian Goodman, I've, ” Julian Kroehl, BMW Mehretu, Madeleine Grynsztejn, ”, Julie, ” Grynsztejn Organizations: CNN, BMW, Pompidou Center, Le, Dallara, Museum of Modern Art, BMW “, CSL, BMW Le, Daytona, Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, MacArthur, US Department of State, of, Pritzker, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Locations: Ethiopian American, Paris, New York City, American, African, Southern, Manhattan, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States, New York

☆ The class of 2024 is facing a tough job market. Here’s who’s hiring, according to LinkedIn
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The class of 2024 is facing a tough job market. Hiring has slowed across the U.S., and entry-level jobs are getting more competitive in the wake of white-collar layoffs. Tai Walker, a senior at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, started her job search in March 2024 and has submitted over 100 applications. Walker says she's researching artificial intelligence and other tech boot camps to broaden her skill set and increase her job prospects. Even though some entry-level jobs have gotten harder to land, industries experiencing staffing shortages like education and construction are still hiring new college grads.

Persons: Tai Walker, Walker, who's, She's, Harry Holzer, Kory Kantenga, Kantenga, —, you've Organizations: William Paterson University, CNBC, Georgetown University, Labor Department, Employers, National Association of Colleges, LinkedIn, Education, Financial, Investment, Tech, Health, Kantenga Locations: U.S, Wayne , New Jersey, Americas

☆ Jenny Holzer Shines New Light in Dark Places
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Nancy Princenthal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Thirty-five years after she first set the Guggenheim’s rotunda ablaze with an electronic text racing along its spiral ramp, Jenny Holzer is reprising the installation, and turning up the heat. “Light Line,” a career-spanning exhibition, presents a newly updated LED sign which, together with other recent work, illuminates changes in political language and its modes of delivery unimaginable in 1989. The targets of the texts Holzer wrote between the late 1970s and 2001 — variously excerpted and re-sequenced for the new sign — range broadly. In the newer, non-electronic work in this exhibition, she keeps a viselike grip on threats to democracy. A Midwesterner by birth, born at midcentury, she is self-deprecating, plain-spoken and armed with a wicked gift for irony.

Persons: Jenny Holzer, Holzer, ” Holzer, “ Locations: ”, Brooklyn, United States, midcentury

☆ What dream job? Gen Z and millennials are being forced to confront a difficult job market.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The unemployment rate rose to 3.9% last month, the highest level in two years. AdvertisementGen Z and millennials entering the job market or in the early stages of their careers are facing a much tougher job market than in recent years, and many are adjusting their expectations for a dream career as the hiring landscape worsens. Despair about the ailing job market looks most acute among recent graduates, or students quickly approaching their graduation dates. AdvertisementOnly 44% of workers under 30 said they were "very satisfied" with their job, according to a 2023 Pew Research study. The job market boomed during the pandemic, with the unemployment rate going from 6.4% at the beginning of 2021 to 3.5% at the end of 2022.

Persons: Z, —, Gen Zers, Harry Holzer, Natasha Bernfeld, Bernfeld, Larry Jackson, he's, they've, Jackson, Emily Bianchi, Bianchi, it's, Georgetown's Holzer, It's, Dua Organizations: Service, Federal Reserve, Challenger, McKinsey & Company, Labor Department, UC Berkeley's, Pew, Emory University Locations: Georgetown, New York, Dua

☆ Wall Street learns an important lesson. Don’t fight the Fed
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

That sudden volatility highlights something that we often write about in Before the Bell: the major mismatch between policymaker and investor expectations for interest rate cuts this year. Federal Reserve officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, have repeatedly said they envision at most three rate cuts in 2024. Wall Street, meanwhile, has ignored those warnings and has opted to practice unflinching optimism instead. It’s not the first time they’ve had to learn an important lesson: Don’t fight the Fed. Bad for the markets, good for the Fed: Markets clearly don’t often take kindly to higher-for-longer interest rates, which can negatively impact earnings and stock prices.

Persons: New York CNN —, Jerome Powell, Dow, It’s, they’ve, Don’t, –, ”, Quincy Krosby, Arnim Holzer, José Torres, Chris Zaccarelli, doesn’t, ” Carl Icahn, Carl Icahn, Icahn, Chris Isidore, JetBlue’s, Samantha Delouya, Lyft, Erin Brewer Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, Federal Reserve, Nasdaq, of Labor Statistics, BLS, Treasury, LPL, Fed, Interactive Brokers, CPI, Independent, Alliance, JetBlue, Spirit Airlines, Analysts Locations: New York, December’s, “, ”

☆ With tipping, wages are 'shifted onto the customer'—here's why we do that in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

While many industries have adopted the practice, tipping is most entrenched in the restaurant industry, where workers rely on gratuities to make up much of their wages. Here's how tipping came to America in the first place, and how it became institutionalized in food services, specifically. But the company that "really institutionalized" tipping, Zagor says, was the Pullman Company, which built and operated railroad cars. But when restaurants were added in 1966, they weren't covered under the typical minimum wage as other industries ultimately were. 'The whole thing is shifted onto the customer'These days, tipping is deeply embedded in the restaurant industry.

Persons: Kerry Segrave's, Stephen Zagor, Zagor, Franklin D, Roosevelt, what's, Harry Holzer, Jena Ellenwood Organizations: Columbia Business School, Employers, Pullman Company, Pullman, Library of Congress, Workers, Companies, Labor, Georgetown University, Brookings Locations: America, Europe, U.S

☆ Facing Rematch With Biden, Trump Stays Focused – on Obama
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +6 min

For former President Donald Trump, all political signs point to a rematch with President Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020 and increasingly has targeted Trump in his campaign ads. "They were interviewing [Orban] two weeks ago, and they said: 'What would you advise President Obama? He should immediately resign and they should replace him with President Trump, who kept the world safe,'" Trump said, implying that his predecessor was still in office. Editorial Cartoons on Donald Trump View All 695 Images"We did it with Obama,” Trump claimed during a speech in Washington, D.C., referring to his winning 2016 campaign against Clinton. You know Obama and Biden,” Trump said, trying to recover.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Trump, Barack Obama, –, Obama, Biden, Harold Holzer, " Holzer, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Minnesota, Viktor Orban, Orban, couldn't, Hillary Clinton, ” Trump, Clinton, “, couldn’t, “ It’s, Barack Hussein Obama, ”, Brian Kilmeade, ” Kilmeade, Guess, Kilmeade, He’s, Barack Obama’s, Obama lunched, Jeffrey Engel, Engel, Michal Cohen, Cohen Organizations: Trump, House, White House, Association, Roosevelt, Public, Hunter College, Republican Party, GOP, Obama, Donald Trump View, Washington , D.C, White, Fox, Fox News, Democratic, Center, Southern Methodist University in, Republican National Convention, Republican Locations: Alexandria, Cortez of New York, New Hampshire, Hungary, United States, Iowa, Washington ,, Israel, Iran, Southern Methodist University in Texas

☆ ‘Mason-Dixon’ Review: The Line That Would Divide America
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Harold Holzer | Edward G. Gray | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Photo: Edwin Remsberg/AlamyCould there be a more opportune moment for an authoritative book on the border crisis? No, not that border, and not today’s crisis, but the dispute that once raged over where Pennsylvania ended and Maryland began. That colonial-era quarrel cooled only when the expanse was surveyed and mapped in the 1760s by the Englishmen Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79). Grab a Copy Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation By Edward G. Gray Harvard University Press 456 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Yet as the historian Edward G. Gray observes in his ambitious and richly detailed “Mason-Dixon,” the survey initially meant to address but one issue: a long-contested border between British territories in America.

Persons: Edwin Remsberg, Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, Mason, Dixon, Edward G, Barnes, Jim Crow, Gray Organizations: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Gray Harvard University Press, Noble, Dixon Locations: Pennsylvania, Maryland, North, America

MARTIGNY, Switzerland, Sept 26 (Reuters) - St. Bernard dogs, one of Switzerland's national symbols that were internationally renowned for helping in alpine rescues, are now saving people in other ways. "The dogs work in hospitals, in nursing homes with senior citizens. They are descendants of Barry I, a St. Bernard credited with saving the lives of more than 40 people on the Great St. Bernard Pass in the early 19th century. "They have a great sense of smell," said Anne Hölzer, in charge of training at Barry Foundation. "It's a very strong symbol of Switzerland," Zollinger said.

Persons: Bernard dogs, Bernard, Andrea Zollinger, Zollinger, Roxy van de Burggravehoeve, Barry, Denis Balibouse, Barry Foundation's, Roxy, Barry I, Napoleon, Anne Hölzer, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Barry Foundation, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Switzerland, Swiss, Martigny, Italy, France, Bernard

☆ Do inflation-proof jobs exist? Experts are 'skeptical'—it all depends 'on the circumstances'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

That's in part because wage growth hasn't been keeping up. According to Bankrate's analysis, however, three industries' wage growth outpaced inflation. That was retail, leisure and hospitality and accommodation and food services. Here's why they fared better than other industries and whether or not experts think, big picture, inflation-proof industries actually exist. But, at that point, workers didn't want to come back to retail, leisure and hospitality and accommodation and food services.

Persons: it's, Sarah Foster, Talent.com, Harry Holzer Organizations: CNBC, Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, Georgetown University, Brookings Locations: U.S

☆ A.I. is on a collision course with white-collar, high-paid jobs — and with unknown impact
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

And it has had various effects on the workplace, by displacing, changing, enhancing or creating jobs, experts said. "It is reaching up from the factory floors into the office spaces where white-collar, higher-paid workers tend to be." About 1 in 5 American workers have 'high exposure' to AIwatch nowwatch nowConversely, 23% of American workers have low exposure to AI, according to the Pew report. The remaining share of jobs — 58% — have varying AI exposure. It will also create new challenges and needs like retraining or reskilling; those may have knock-on effects, like child care needs for disadvantaged workers, Holzer said.

Persons: it's, Rakesh Kochhar, Kochhar, Harry Holzer, Holzer, Gene Kindberg, Hanlon, " Holzer, — Organizations: Pew Research Center, Department of Labor, Occupational Information, Georgetown University, federal Labor Department, Technology, World Bank, Pew Research, Business Locations: U.S

☆ The US economy's brief moment of slowing inequality might be on its way out
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Income inequality has narrowed in the US, with low-wage workers receiving raises during the pandemic. This trend has been tapering off, though labor market competition has benefited wage growth. This was thanks to pre-pandemic minimum wage legislation, coupled with higher raises for lower wage workers in the tumultuous years that followed. Although low-wage workers have slightly narrowed the gap, corporate profits have boomed, allowing those at the very top to stay separated from the rest. In June 2022, low-wage workers saw 7.2% wage growth from the prior year, falling to 6.5% in June 2023.

Persons: It's, David Autor, Ford, Autor, Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr, SJ, Georgetown University's, Holzer, Biden, " Holzer Organizations: Service, National Bureau of Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, MIT Department of Economics, American Bar Association, Public, Georgetown, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public, Federal Reserve Bank of, Economic Policy Institute Locations: Wall, Silicon, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

☆ Out-of-sync U.S. stocks hide market risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Investors expect stocks to move increasingly out of sync as shown by the Cboe 3-Month Implied Correlation Index (.COR3M), which measures the 3-month expected average correlation across the top 50 value-weighted S&P 500 stocks. The last time 3-month implied correlation got this low was in early 2018, just before the February 2018 urge in market volatility dubbed 'Volmageddon.' Much of today's low stock market correlation has to do with the gulf in performance between a handful of mega caps driving the benchmark index higher and the rest of the market. "You have this view in the market that this is a stock picker's market because correlation is low," EAB Investment Group's Holzer said. "Because correlations are so low, index options have gotten incredibly cheap," said Daniel Kirsch, head of options at Piper Sandler said.

Persons: Dow, Arnim Holzer, Group's Holzer, Jack Ablin, Ablin, Kris Sidial, Sidial, Daniel Kirsch, Piper Sandler, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed, Megan Davies, Nick Zieminski Organizations: YORK, Dow Jones, EAB Investment, UBS, U.S . Federal, Cresset, Ambrus, Thomson

☆ BMW taps abstract artist Julie Mehretu to paint its latest Art Car
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Now, Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu, known for her work in abstract painting, has been chosen to create the company’s next Art Car. The first BMW Art Car was painted in 1975 by the American sculptor Alexander Calder after French racing driver Hervé Poulain brought the idea to BMW. The first woman to take on a BMW Art Car was South African artist Esther Mahlangu, who in 1991 painted a 525i sedan. Esther Mahlangu's Art Car featured the bold colors and geometric patterns used in the traditional arts and crafts of the Southern Ndebele people. Enes Kucevic/BMWMehretu’s will be the 20th BMW Art Car.

Persons: Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu, Alexander Calder, Hervé Poulain, Poulain, Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Warhol, Esther Mahlangu, Holzer, Esther Mahlangu's, Enes, Marian Goodman, Josefina Santos, BMW Mehretu, Madeleine Grynsztejn, ”, Julie, ” Grynsztejn, ” Mehretu, I've, ” Julian Kroehl, City’s Solomon R, hasn’t, Mehretu, “ Organizations: CNN, BMW, Ethiopian, Le, CSL, BMW Le, Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, MacArthur, US Department of State, of, Pritzker, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Daytona, Guggenheim Museum Locations: Ethiopian American, American, African, Southern, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, United States, New York, Daytona Beach , Florida, New

☆ Gary Vaynerchuk compares the rise of AI like ChatGPT to the way the internet revolutionized work: 'AI is coming for our jobs and that's ok'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Gary Vaynerchuk predicts that AI software like ChatGPT will eliminate many jobs. He's optimistic about workers' ability to rally and adapt to AI, or create new roles. That's been true to an extent about previous types of automation, but AI looks likely to impact a broader demographic of workers. Like Vaynerchuk points out, there's some reason to be optimistic long-term about the job shake ups technology can cause. But Vaynerchuk is more convinced that AI represents the status quo for automation.

☆ Meet All the 2022 WSJ. Magazine Innovators
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Magazine celebrated eight trailblazing talents at its annual Innovator Awards, held November 2 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. See below to read each honoree’s inspiring story—featuring: Anitta, Jeanne Gang, José Andrés for World Central Kitchen, Maya Rudolph, Jenny Holzer, Anthony Vaccarello, Margot Robbie and Jony Ive. You can find videos about each of the Innovators here, and a recap of the awards gala here.

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☆ VIOPark – место, в котором выращиваются абсолютно чистые растения
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-09 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +1 min

Мы нашли ответ на этот вопрос в Новоаненском районе, где познакомились с уникальной экологической плантации VIOPark, созданная холдингом Daac-Hermes и компанией Viorica. В VIOPark-е выращиваются десятки разных культур, которые крупнейший производитель парфюмерно-косметической продукции Молдовы «Viorica Cosmetic» использует в качестве сырья для производства своей косметики. Проект был разработан и реализован при поддержке Зеппа Хольцера (Sepp Holzer) – международного эксперта по экологическому земледелию, признанного мировым лидеров в области пермакультуры. Практически дикие условия и полное отсутствие химикатов позволяют достигнуть невероятный результат – высокое содержание в травах активных веществ и полезных фитокомпонентов. VIOPark находится примерно 60 км к западу от Кишинева, в экологически чистом регионе Республики Молдова рядом с селом Варница района Анений Ной.

Persons: Зепп Хольцер, Анений Ной Locations: Новоаненский район, Молдова, Кишинев, Республика Молдова, Варница район, Днестр

În perioada sovietică a activat la depozitul de îngrășăminte și produse chimice din Bălți, de unde erau ulterior aprovizionate colhozurile. Iar în urma unei intoxicații grave a întregii familii cu cartofi noi, Ion Cazacu a realizat că lucrurile nu merg bine în agricultura tradițională. Și a decis să crească chiar el produse sănătoase pentru familia sa. Principiile grădinăritului sănătos de la Ion CazacuStructura solului formează masa organică , rădăcinile și vietățile din sol cu reacțiile de fertilizare. , rădăcinile și vietățile din sol cu reacțiile de fertilizare.

Persons: Sepp Holzer, Ion Cazacu, Ivan Ovsinskii, Ivan OVsinskii, muribund Organizations: Universitatea Agrară, Stat Locations: Moldova, Țările de Jos, Olanda, Bălți, Grinăuți, Ocnița

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