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☆ The Trials of Aurora: A Colorado City’s Deep Divide Over Policing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Audra D. S. Burch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

I asked him if he thought good policing was possible. “The policing problem is that you have 90 percent good police officers, but that 10 percent or 5 percent, whatever the scientific number is, is enough to taint it. “There have been so many questionable incidents with the police involving Black residents,” Mayes said. Like Black voters across the country who have indicated support for fair policing in national polls, they took pains to explain that they were not against policing itself. “It’s just really hurtful,” Fields told a local radio station when the news broke.

Persons: ” Mayes, ‘, Mayes, —, “, ” Rhonda Fields, ”, Fields, Matthew Green, McClain, “ It’s, ” Fields, you’re Organizations: City Council, Aurora, Colorado’s, Aurora Police Department Locations: Vietnam, Black, America, Aurora

☆ Kool & the Gang’s ‘Wild and Peaceful’ Turns 50
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday hosted a celebration of hip-hop's 50th anniversary with appearances by some of the music genre's pioneers and stars. Common, Jeezy, MC Lyte and Roxanne Shante were among the hip-hop artists invited to join Harris for the party at the vice presidential residence. Harris said hip-hop is “the ultimate American art form” that “shapes every aspect of America’s popular culture.”“Hip-hop culture is American culture,” she told the crowd. Saturday's celebration was a collaboration with Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Live Nation Urban. “This is a hip-hop household!” Emhoff said.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Jeezy, MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, Harris, Clive Campbell, Kool Herc, deejayed, ”, Chuck D, Doug Emhoff, ” Emhoff Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Saturday, CNN Locations: Bronx, New York City

☆ Brazen, original, poetic: hip-hop's mark on fashion continues
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Hip-hop fashion is defined by its brazenness, its originality, its verbal symphony. Earlier this year, the Museum at FIT celebrated hip-hop fashion with an exhibition titled "Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style." After five decades, luxury and fast-fashion brands are collaborating with hip-hop designers instead of just being inspired by them. "Us not asking for permission to work with high fashion designers," Ambrose said. "All these are a result of the influence of hip-hop, hip-hop culture, hip-hop fashion.

Persons: June Ambrose, DJ Kool Herc, Joe Blow, Constance White, Ambrose, Jay, Mariah Carey, Mary J, Blige, White, Virgil Abloh, Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams, Alicia Powell, Richard Chang, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: York, Puma, PTA, Rappers, FIT, Thomson Locations: American, New York's Bronx

☆ Inside Otter University: How Travis Kalanick's sales boot camp for young techies went off the rails
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Meghan Morris | Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

"It seemed like a cool, innovative new company," Lam said. Starting in early 2022, the company poured millions of dollars into an experimental sales boot camp called Otter University. She joined the company in 2020 as Otter's head of sales enablement and helped dream up the idea of a sales boot camp a year later. Two former OtterU employees said that Law and another Otter executive urged managers to join their teams for late-night drinks following team dinners. But the late nights and free-flowing alcohol struck some OtterU employees as inappropriate for the workplace, especially when managers had to deal with hungover teams the next day.

Persons: Brian Lam, messaged, Travis, Lam, Uber, It's, Kalanick, voraciously, they're, Otter, wasn't, salespeople, Cory Epstein, Phoebe Law, Law, people's, –, Kalanick's Uber, Otter's, Kate, Samul Beal, I'd, Beal, didn't, terminations, he'd, OtterU, I'm, grads, Salespeople, Guido Gabrielli, Keith Dunphy, Dunphy, Bram van Staalduinen, Phoebe Law's, Debra Glaser, Jen Zablotny, there's, Ordermark, Burger, Meghan, Darius Organizations: Texas, Otter, Storage Systems, Microsoft, Otter University, Law, Adobe, SAP, Houston, OtterU, hungover, NCR, Google, Brands, Houston Rockets Locations: Korean, Houston, Toronto, LA, Las Vegas, Miami, Seoul, South Korea, Houston ., OtterU, Otter, Canada

☆ Old-School Fans Celebrate Hip-Hop’s 50th
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Alex Vadukul | More About Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The start of hip-hop dates to Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc created continuous break-beats by working two turntables during a party in a rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx. On Friday night, exactly 50 years later, a concert was held at Yankee Stadium — roughly a mile and a half from hip-hop’s birthplace — to honor the occasion, featuring Run-DMC, Slick Rick, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Lil’ Kim and Nas. DJ Kool Herc, 68, also appeared onstage to accept an award. “I prefer old-school hip-hop,” Hetep said. He rapped about positivity, and that’s also what my music is about.”In the edited interviews below, attendees reflected on hip-hop’s 50th.

Persons: DJ Kool Herc, —, Slick Rick, Snoop Dogg, Lil ’ Kim, Nas, Tupac Shakur, Hetep BarBoy, ” Hetep, “, that’s Organizations: Yankee, ” Locations: Bronx

☆ Was Hip-Hop Really Invented 50 Years Ago?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Dan Charnas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The music world has been gearing up for Aug. 11, which will be widely celebrated as the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. The story goes like this: On that date in 1973, in the rec room of an apartment building on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, a teenager named Cindy Campbell threw a party, charging admission to raise money so that she could buy clothes for the coming school year. This gathering, one of many that her brother Clive would DJ as “Kool Herc,” is counted by many as the birth of the yet-nameless genre, in part because Herc is said to have honed its foundational musical impulse there.

Persons: Cindy Campbell, Clive, Kool Herc, ”, Herc Locations: Sedgwick, Bronx

☆ I quit my $120K finance job and make more money with YouTube videos. I wish I never drank the corporate America Kool-Aid and chased my own dreams sooner.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Aria Yang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Vincent Chan left his $120,000 job in finance and became a full-time YouTuber. His biggest advice for people who want to quit is to have a financial safety net before quitting. So I wanted to get a really good job after graduating college, and finance was one of the careers I looked into. I quit my job in finance, and now I make more money by creating contentI work on a couple things now: I primarily focus on content creation. When the time came for me to quit, my parents noticed that I was making a good amount of money from my creative endeavors.

Persons: Vincent Chan, I've, Aria Yang Organizations: Morning, Financial Times, Street Locations: America

☆ Why U.S. investor Jay Bloom turned down seats on the doomed Titanic submersible
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

June 23 (Reuters) - For a year, Stockton Rush had tried to convince Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom to buy a couple of spots on his company's submersible so Bloom and his son could experience the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of visiting the deep-sea wreck of the Titanic. His son Sean, now 20, had been fascinated by the story of the doomed British passenger liner as a child. But the more Bloom read about the Titan submersible, the more concerned he grew about how safe it was. Bloom said Rush's confidence was unshakable. "He's a good guy, I really liked him, and I think he had good intentions.

Persons: Stockton Rush, Jay Bloom, Bloom, Sean, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman –, Rush, Treat Williams, –, Guillermo Söhnlein, Joseph Ax, Colleen Jenkins, Nick Zieminski Organizations: Stockton, Las, Titan, U.S . Coast Guard, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas, Pakistani

☆ Avoid these 10 confusing phrases at work that 'can make you sound desperate,' say language experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Millennials use workplace jargon the most, while Gen Zers are the most annoyed by it. But, Wilson warns, using too much jargon "can make you sound desperate to belong." Office jargon doesn't just confuse the people you want to impress — it can also exclude or even offend them in some cases. Amidst the office jargon, there are also phrases with culturally insensitive undertones like "low on the totem poll," McCaskill points out. You might not be able to avoid jargon completely, but deferring to simple, clear language — and limiting how often you're using corporate colloquialisms — is the easiest way to sound smarter at work, McCaskill says.

Persons: Andrew McCaskill, Gen Zers, Hope Wilson, Wilson, —, Duolingo, McCaskill Organizations: LinkedIn, Ducks, Harvard Locations: United States, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, U.S

☆ What Greta Lee, Lizzy Caplan and Spike Lee Wore to Party This Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Emma Grillo | Sadiba Hasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday night, luminaries of music and film, dressed in ruffles, sequins and tulle, gathered in Harlem at the Apollo Theater and in SoHo for a Tribeca Film Festival dinner. Uptown, the Apollo hosted its annual Spring Benefit, where musicians and philanthropists celebrated the theater’s 90th year and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Sean Combs accepted awards. The event included performances by Wyclef Jean; Stout; Gladys Knight, and MC Lyte, who were supported by Ray Chew, the music director for the event, and his band. Downtown, on Spring Street, Chanel hosted the 16th annual Tribeca Festival Artists dinner at Balthazar, which honored women artists who contributed original artwork to the festival’s filmmakers. The crowd included Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes and Sofia Coppola.

Persons: Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Sean Combs, Wyclef Jean, Stout, Gladys Knight, MC Lyte, Ray Chew, Derrick Jones, ”, DJ Kool, Chanel, Balthazar, Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Tracee Ellis Ross, Brendan Fraser, Katie Holmes, Sofia Coppola Organizations: Apollo, Tribeca, Downtown Locations: Harlem, SoHo

☆ Where to go this summer: A dozen destination ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Marnie Hunter | Jane Levere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Peru"Peruvians are welcoming travelers back with open arms," says travel one travel expert. And perhaps most importantly, the city offers excellent value, in part because it will be the winter/low season there during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer. It’s home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including megalithic temples that date to the 4th millennium BC. Although summer is the rainy season, Gellis says showers are often brief and intermittent. AlbaniaAlbania is a Mediterranean gem that’s likely to be less crowded this summer than Greece and Croatia, says Joao Donadel, another EMBARK Beyond travel advisor.

☆ Leaked audio and emails reveal how leaders at flying car startup Kittyhawk scrambled to execute orders when Larry Page returned, and told workers to 'drink the Kool-Aid'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Google cofounder Larry Page took back control of his flying-car company Kittyhawk last year. One employee told Anderson it would take three weeks to get ahold of one particular component they needed. "When I told [Larry] three weeks, he was not sympathetic and immediately told me I was wrong," Anderson said. I don't know that you're wrong, but Larry Page tells me you're wrong. "Please ignore Doug's email," Thrun responded in a follow-up email to the company.

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Say goodbye to the US car market as we know it, TikTok will pay for AR filters, and YouTubers share how they make money
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm taking a few days off to watch my best friend graduate with their PhD. (Don't worry, my colleagues in London will be bringing you your daily dose of tech news while I'm away.) Pharmacy startup TruePill is searching for its panacea. Employees told to "drink the Kool-Aid" at Larry Page's startup. Current and former employees told Insider about the recent turmoil.

☆ The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I admit: I never entirely drank the Karl Lagerfeld Kool-Aid. I was not one of those critics (and there were some) who would clutch their breast, shriek “genius!” and swoon after every show. Sure, that tweed sweatsuit made that model look like a Real Housewife — but everyone was looking at the double-C branded pasta on the faux megamart shelf instead! Once I got spoken to by the Chanel press office for not fully “understanding” Lagerfeld’s vision. He didn’t give the world a new silhouette, or an expression of identity, the way Coco Chanel herself did, with the bouclé suit, or Christian Dior, with the New Look, or Saint Laurent, with Le Smoking, the tuxedo suit for women.

☆ Kraft Heinz Reports First-Quarter Sales Lifted by Higher Prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Dean Seal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kraft Heinz, maker of Kool-Aid and Jell-O, raised prices last year in a response to more expensive commodities and supply-chain challenges. Photo: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg NewsKraft Heinz ’s higher prices once again lifted its revenue but ate into sales volumes during the most recently completed quarter as sticker shock sets in for grocery shoppers. The Pittsburgh-based maker of Kool-Aid and Jell-O said revenue climbed 7.3% to $6.49 billion in the first three months of the year, driven by higher costs for consumers that offset a decline in volumes and unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations. Analysts had been expecting $6.39 billion, according to FactSet.

☆ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 inductees are…
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced their 2023 class of inductees. In the performer category the group includes Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and The Spinners. DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray will be the recipients of the Musical Influence Award, while Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Bernie Taupin have been selected to receive the Musical Excellence Award. The inductes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are selected because the have “created music whose originality, impact, and influence has changed the course of rock & roll,” according to the organization. Ticket sale information will be announced at a later date.

☆ Opinion | Read This Before Shopping for Your Bud Light Replacement Beer
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Matthew Walther | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In the words of a television spot from 1979: “It’s not city beer. Rather than acknowledge Bud Light’s place in a faceless globalized chain of ownership, advertisements for the beer attempt to underscore its supposedly distinctive American and working-class character. Some years ago a series of advertisements featured the Bud Knight, a character who figured in faux-medieval settings alongside a royal personage known as the Dilly Dilly King. In one spot, the king enters a tavern and orders “Bud Lights for everyone,” eliciting cries of approval from the assembled crowd. The implication is that Bud Light is for ordinary decent people who just want to have a good time with their friends, not smug effete connoisseurs.

☆ Stay away from viral #WaterTok trend, says Harvard nutritionist: 'This is not real hydration'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

These sweet, brightly-colored concoctions are advertised as ways for people to drink more water and hit their hydration goals. There's only one problem: calling these drinks water isn't really accurate. [Flavored water] really isn't that different from drinking Kool Aid. Dr. Uma Naidoo"In all honesty, water is water," Says Dr. Uma Naidoo, a Harvard trained nutritional psychiatrist and author of "This Is Your Brain on Food." [The current trend] really isn't that different from drinking Kool Aid."

☆ Elon Musk says Twitter is using a Wikipedia list to help decide which news organizations are labeled 'government-funded media'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk says Twitter is relying on Wikipedia to help decide which news outlets to label "government-funded media." It recently labeled NPR "state-affiliated media," a move Musk later said might have been wrong, before changing it to "government-funded media." Elon Musk told as much to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn, and Twitter's Help Center page about government and state-affiliated media labels confirmed the policy. Twitter recently slapped a "state-affiliated media" label on NPR's Twitter account. Musk reportedly later admitted adding the "state-affiliated media" label to NPR's account might have been a mistake.

☆ Gen Z, Millennials Are Now As Sick and Tired of Their Jobs As Boomers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Young workers may not possess the experience or wisdom of their older colleagues. When Gartner asked people what was preventing them from going into the office, Gen Zers were more likely than other generations to cite social anxiety. Pollak, the consultant, told me about a client who complained that their Gen Z employees were "abusing" the company's vacation policy. But these are the very people who can help young workers feel more seen and motivated in their jobs. My suggestions are targeted to shore up engagement among young workers, but they'd actually be good for everyone.

☆ I Visited Miami After the Stock Market Crash, Crypto Bubble Pop
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

And if any city is the city where you can see just how remarkably things have shifted, it's also Miami. If the draw in the 1920s was imaginary land, Miami's bubble in the 2020s was driven by imaginary money — crypto. The newcomers — and the crypto kids, especially — believed they could master Miami as easily as they had mastered the markets. The new Miami money party started to run out of libations. "There were a lot of true believers in the Miami crypto scene.

☆ I got my first TV writing job at 55. It was hard being the oldest person in the room — but I'm glad I never gave up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Writing what he knew and making personal connections ultimately led to his first TV job at age 55. I've been working towards a TV writing job for a few years, but I've always wanted to write for the screen. I got the job sort of out of the blueThe way I got my first writing job was through a 20-year-old relationship. She was really, really complimentary. As we were taking the class, they were going around the room and each person said what scared them the most about being a TV writer.

☆ Nike is doubling down on litigation in a fierce battle to protect its patents and trademarks. Here's every brand it has sued in recent years.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Matthew Kish | Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Nike's also suing companies that sell sneakers that resemble Dunks, Jordans, and Air Force 1s. In recent months, Nike's presence in courtrooms has become more visible, with headline-grabbing lawsuits against Lululemon, Bape, StockX, Warren Lotas, Kool Kiy, and others. Several of the lawsuits now before a judge relate to Nike's enforcement of those patents, including interactive fitness technology. While trademarks protect words and phrases like "Nike" and "Just do it," trade dress protects silhouettes and appearances, like the outline of a Coca-Cola bottle or the shape of an iPhone. The company has another four applications pending,Here's a rundown of some of the company's most recent lawsuits, starting with the most recent.

☆ Nike slammed as 'dictatorial' and called a 'trademark troll' as legal battle with streetwear brand heats up
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most of the cases have settled, but Kool Kiy's combative response suggests its lawsuit won't end soon. In its lawsuit, Nike claimed Kool Kiy and business partners violated Nike's "trade dress" protections for the Air Jordan 1 and Dunk. NikeNike has filed at least eight lawsuits in which it argued for trade dress protection since 2019. In order to get trade dress protection, the appearance of a product must be distinctive and nonfunctional. Kool Kiy's attorneys argued Nike is seeking trade dress protection for functional parts of basketball sneakers.

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