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Its towering smokestacks once puffed out clouds of steam. In gigantic machine rooms, turbines whirled around the clock. In the Soviet era, the Kurakhove Heating and Power Plant gave rise to the town around it in Ukraine’s east, driving the local economy and sustaining the community with wages and heating for homes. “Our plant is the heart of our city,” said Halyna Liubchenko, a retiree whose husband worked his entire career in nearby coal mines that fed the facility. That heart is barely beating now, partly destroyed by artillery.

Persons: ”, Halyna Liubchenko Organizations: Power Locations: Soviet, Ukraine’s, Ukraine’s Donbas

☆ Pregnancy forced me to confront my toxic relationship with alcohol
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Lara Gibson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After knowing I was pregnant I realized all my social events were based around alcohol. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementWhen the two lines flashed up on my pregnancy test three months ago, I knew my life was never going to be the same again. I expected sickness, tiredness, and strange cravings, but one thing I didn't imagine was that pregnancy would force me to confront my toxic relationship with alcohol. It's still early days, but I'm seriously considering keeping up my sobriety long after my pregnancy is over.

Persons: —, I've, I'd, It's, I'm Organizations: Service

☆ A 7-year journey to deliver an asteroid sample to Earth will soon end in Utah
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The cargo van-size spacecraft arrived in orbit around the asteroid Bennu in December 2018, providing detailed views of the spinning top-shaped space rock. Other worldsA training model of the OSIRIS-REx mission's sample return capsule was released from an aircraft in August, simulating the upcoming recovery operations. Keegan Barber/NASAThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will fly by Earth this weekend and drop off its precious sample from Bennu. Watch as the sample capsule is set to plunge through Earth’s atmosphere and land in the Utah desert, with NASA’s live coverage beginning at 10 a.m. As the capsule parachutes down, OSIRIS-REx will keep going, embarking on a new adventure to explore the asteroid Apophis.

Persons: CNN —, REx, NASA’s, Keegan Barber, ”, Deutsches, Monopoly, you’re, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Rice University in Texas, Mechanical, Zimbabwe, Bochum, Iron, Swedish Museum of, Publishing, Andromeda Galaxy, CNN Space, Science Locations: Utah, Dürrnberg, Austria, Austrian, Zambia, Tasmania, Stockholm, Western Australia

☆ Deutsche Bank's chief innovation officer lifts the hood on the German bank's AI strategy as it hires hundreds and runs dozens of pilots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Deutsche Bank is aggressively experimenting with AI capabilities to transform the bank. Then they cut to black before text came into focus to provide intel on Cymbal, a hypothetical corporate client of Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank is aiming to transform the business and work of banking. There's a lot of assumptions," Gil Perez, Deutsche Bank's chief innovation officer, told Insider. The bank will need to compete for in-demand AI tech talent, a market that is only set to heat up.

Persons: Gil Perez, Perez, Tamara Bitticks, Bitticks, There's Organizations: Deutsche Bank, DB, intel, Google, Deutsche, Bankers, Wall, genAI Locations: San Francisco, Washington

☆ To Win Big, Top Tennis Pros Turn to Marshmallows
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Kurt Streeter | More About Kurt Streeter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

I thought I had seen it all on a tennis court until I watched Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open on Monday. No, I’m not talking about the speed and punch of his forehand. I’m talking about his audacious creativity: As Alcaraz worked his way into the net early in the match, Matteo Arnaldi lifted a lob over the Spaniard’s head. Alcaraz is not most pros. A backhand, overhead drop shot winner in front of a packed house at Arthur Ashe Stadium?

Persons: Carlos Alcaraz, I’m, Alcaraz, Matteo Arnaldi, whirled, Arthur Ashe Organizations: U.S

☆ A South African Biographer Brings Winnie and Nelson Back to Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Bongani Kona | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WINNIE AND NELSON: Portrait of a Marriage, by Jonny SteinbergThe South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in 2013, suffering from dementia. Six decades after their relationship began, Jonny Steinberg writes in “Winnie and Nelson,” here she was beside him again. He was a 38-year-old attorney, nearly twice Winnie’s age, and married with three children. She was a social worker and engaged to a part-time office worker who would attempt to take his own life months later when Winnie told him she was going to marry Nelson instead. “Especially one who will live the rest of his life running away from the police and sleeping in the bush.”

Persons: WINNIE, NELSON, Jonny Steinberg, Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela, Mandela, Winnie, Nelson, August Wilson, “, ” Nelson, Columbus Madikizela, ” Organizations: South Locations: ”, Johannesburg

☆ As US military recruitment dips, elite Air Force demo pilots seek to be ‘beacon of excellence’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Haley Britzky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Hampton, Va. CNN —In a small conference room just off a runway at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, some of the US Air Force’s most elite F-16 pilots were gathered. This year marks the team’s 70th anniversary – it was established in 1953, six years after the Air Force split from the Army and became its own service. A US Air Force Thunderbird F-16D Fighting Falcon flies overhead. US Air Force Thunderbird F-16D Fighting Falcons fly in a diamond formation. Anthony Nin Leclerec/US Air ForceBut Grindstaff, like so many throughout the military, said the Air Force seemed like it would provide him a pathway to more opportunities in life.

☆ Hurricanes of Data: The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Porter Fox | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +35 min

The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea Shortly after dawn on Sept. 30, 2021, Richard Jenkins watched a Category 4 hurricane overrun his life’s work. That August, a sister ship, SD 1031, successfully entered Tropical Storm Henri, but only in its early stages. Hurricane research, modeling and forecasting requires many terabytes of data for every square mile the storm passes through, including vitally important sea-level data from inside a storm. The next day, the depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and officially given the name Sam. And four months later, Tropical Storm Megi killed more than 150, wiped out several villages with landslides and displaced more than a million people.

☆ 2 wounded in new Jerusalem attack, Israeli paramedics say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The shooting in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem, near the historic Old City, wounded at least two men, aged 23 and 47, in their upper bodies, paramedics said. Authorities taped off the scene of the attack and emergency vehicles and security forces swarmed the area as helicopters whirled overhead. Saturday’s events raised the possibility of even greater conflagration in one of the bloodiest months in Israel and the occupied West Bank in several years. Security forces fanned out into the gunman’s neighborhood of At-Tur in east Jerusalem and arrested 42 family members, neighbors and others close to him for questioning. The earlier Friday attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank.

☆ How M&M’s is making the most of its spokescandies controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Given the outsize attention, some think M&M’s announcement is a PR stunt to hype its upcoming Super Bowl commercial. M&M’s relatively subtle changes aimed at inclusivity didn’t seem like they were designed to spark much controversy, if any. At the Washington Post, for example, an opinion piece declared “the M&M’S changes aren’t progressive. “In the last year, we’ve made some changes to our beloved spokescandies,” M&M’s said. “The original colorful cast of M&M’s spokescandies are, at present, pursuing other personal passions,” Wesley said.

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