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☆ Taiwan scrambles jets as Chinese aircraft cross median line
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

TAIPEI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan scrambled jets on Saturday to warn away 20 Chinese aircraft including 14 that crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, Taiwan's defence ministry said. It also detected 14 Chinese military ships conducting activities around the Taiwan Strait, the ministry said in a statement. Reporting by Meg Shen; editing by Jason NeelyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Grace Panetta | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

☆ Volkswagen China's Shanghai plant resumes production gradually
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

SHANGHAI, April 25 (Reuters) - Volkswagen Group China's (VOWG_p.DE) Shanghai factory has started a gradual resumption to production, it said on Monday. Its factories in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, which it runs in a joint venture with China's FAW Group, continues to ramp up production volumes, it added. Reporting by Brenda Goh Writing by Meg Shen Editing by David GoodmanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet Accessible
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-18 | by ( Meg Miller | Ilaria Parogni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

surfacing The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet AccessibleThree different alt text examples over a blank box. Alt text examples from Wirecutter, The New York Times’s product recommendation service; Alt Text Chrome Extension; and Microsoft Word. Fleet, the tech educator, who is blind, posts on Twitter about alt text and agrees that these efforts are making a difference. Alt Text Reminder, another Twitter bot, notifies followers when they have tweeted an image without alt text. Folkens of CloudSight said that his company is careful not to use racial identifiers in the alt text it generates.

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☆ Doi astronomii spun că au găsit cea mai mare cometă observată vreodată
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Doi astronomi cred că au descoperit cea mai mare cometă observată vreodată de oameni, o cometă a cărui nucleu înghețat are între 100 și 200 km lungime, fiind de câteva ori mai mare decât celebra cometă Hale-Bopp care a fost studiată acum 25 de ani, scrie New York Times, citează hotnews.ro. Dintre toate corpurile cerești, cometele sunt cele mai spectaculoase și majoritatea sunt originare din norul lui Oort, o regiune extrem de îndepărtată. Pentru că au aflat de ea și pentru că știu acum unde să se uite, astronomii o vor putea observa în detaliu în următorii 20 de ani. Cometele sunt corpuri cerești alcătuite din rocă, praf și gheață gazoasă, aflate pe o orbită alungită în jurul Soarelui. Apropiindu-se de Marte, cometele încep să formeze cozi lungi și spectaculoase, uneori de milioane de km.

Persons: Hale, Oort, Bernstein, Pedro Bernardinelli, Gary Bernstein, Neptun, Meg Schwamb Organizations: New York Times, Saturn, Queen’s University Locations: New, Queen’s, Queen’s University Belfast

☆ FENOMEN CIUDAT în Marea Britanie. 50 de miliarde de lire sterline lipsesc și nimeni nu știe exact unde se află
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Un grup de parlamentari britanici a anunțat vineri că aproximativ 50 de miliarde de lire sterline în bancnote "lipsesc" și a solicitat Băncii Centrale a Angliei să investigheze situația. "Banca Angliei trebuie să fie mai preocupată să afle unde sunt cele 50 de miliarde de lire". Banca Angliei a reacționat imediat: "Membrii publicului nu trebuie să explice Băncii motivul pentru care doresc să păstreze bancnote. Spre comparație, în 2000 existau în Marea Britanie 1,5 miliarde de bancnote, cu o valoare totală de 24 de miliarde de lire. Totodată, să încerce să afle unde se află cele 50 de miliarde de lire.

Persons: Meg Hillier, Sarah John, . Organizations: CNN, Banca Angliei, Camera Comunelor, Angliei Locations: Angliei

☆ WATCH: An 86-year-old is one of the last Greek bakers who makes phyllo dough by hand. He turned his kitchen into a tourist attraction.
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-20 | by ( Izabela Cardoso | Fernando Teixeira | Meg Teckman-Fullard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Nicole Kidman Leans Into the Pain
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-05 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

Illustration by Bráulio Amado Talk Nicole Kidman Leans Into the PainIn HBO’s mini-series “The Undoing,” a psychological thriller that premieres Oct. 25, Nicole Kidman plays Grace Fraser, a Manhattan therapist whose impeccably ordered life is suddenly shattered by violence and lust. I don’t know. If there was a choice, I don’t know I would be an actor. But you go, As long as I surrender to what this is, I’m going to have an incredible time. It interests me how the latest role you’ve played is usually the way in which you’re going to be perceived.

Persons: Bráulio Amado, Nicole Kidman, Grace Fraser, Grace —, we’ve, Kidman, “ I’ve, ” Kidman, “, Celeste, Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, Photofest Celeste, Grace, I’ve, Stanley Kubrick, I’d, I’m, I’ll, Hugh Grant, ’ ’ Niko Tavernise, “ Tenet, ”, gosh, Masha, Nicole, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pacino, Kubrick, You’ve, Tom Cruise, Stanley, wasn’t torturous, Madison Eginton, ’, you’re, It’s, who’s, Stoicism, There’s, you’ve, Kennedy Miller, Aaron Eckhart, David Giesbrecht, —, You’re, bode, Dogville ”, Lars von Trier, Virginia Woolf, Julianne Moore, Stephen Daldry, ” Liane Moriarty, “ I’ll, Grace of Monaco, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Baz Luhrmann, “ Nicole, you’ll, Sabrina Lantos, “ We’re, ” It’s, we’re, Philip Roth, Philip, Jane Campion, Jane, Susanna Moore, Meg Ryan, don’t, she’d, Robert Eggers, Ryan Pfluger, David Marchese, Ilhan Omar, Mark Cuban, Padma Lakshmi Organizations: HBO, Warner Bros, stoicism, Lionsgate, Everett, Miramax Films, Paramount Pictures, Hollywood, Annapurna, Miramax, New York Times, New York Times Magazine Locations: Manhattan, “, HBO’s, Vietnam, Australia, Moulin Rouge, Sweden, Virginia, Ireland

Și inițial existau monede de 1 și 5 lei. O-zoneO-zone a transformat pop-cultura care exista în Moldova, și a făcut un cântec în română să fie fredonat în orice colț al lumii. Se vindeau peste tot, și erau prezente la orice ceremonie, de la zi de naștere până la Paștele Blajinilor la cimitir. Profesorii îl aveau pentru a scrie și a corecta lucrările cu roși, elevii îl aveau pentru a sublinia lucruri cu diferite culori. Companiile locale au început să le producă la greu, apoi fix cum a apărut trendul, așa și a dispărut.

Persons: Pesmeții, Zdob, Zdub, Boonika, Cleopatra Stratan, Ghiță Pavel Stratan, Cleopatra, Chuck Norria, Van Damme, Andrei Porubin, Moldovei, Vanessa, Meg, Frații Irina, Anatol Bivol Organizations: Forțelor Democratice, School, Eurovision Moldova, Eurovision, MTV, Radio NOVA Radio NOVA, Sunset Beach, TVR, Dallas, Pokemon Locations: Moldova, maia, Cocoș, Yupi Yupi, Chișinău, doba, Van, Dallas, Alondra, cafe, mail.md, Republicii Moldova

☆ THE HP ROLLER COASTER: 5 Big Mistakes, 5 Lucky Breaks In A Disastrous Decade
▼ + stars: | 2013-01-11 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

HP CEO Meg Whitman AP2012 was full of stock-crushing news for HP, from layoffs to writedowns to its strange mess with Autonomy. AdvertisementAdvertisementA new, in-depth story in Businessweek documents all the missteps that sent the company's shares down 70 percent since August 2010, erasing $68 billion in shareholder equity. But, as Businessweek reporters Ashlee Vance and Aaron Ricadela point out, the company didn't get here in one year. And amid all the errors and missteps, there have been some bright spots—good decisions and fundamental strengths that give hope for a turnaround.

Persons: Meg Whitman, Ashlee Vance, Aaron Ricadela Organizations: HP

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